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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- Magne Fivelstad has been turning it up a notch. He hopes his Barry University men's basketball team follows suit.
Barry (9-11, 3-8 Sunshine State Conference) plays at Lynn (11-10, 3-8) at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Boca Raton. Both teams are seeking better seeds in the postseason conference tournament. That means both teams are desperate for wins over the last three weeks of the season.
Barry's men's game follows the women's game, which begins at 5:30 p.m. in the de Hornle Center.
"We're two teams that are in the same position who have underachieved," Fivelstad said. "We just got to go out and win games."
Fivelstad is shooting 67.8 percent over his last six games. He made his first two career three-pointers and scored a career-high 18 points at No. 29 Saint Leo Saturday. But all of that means nothing if the Buccaneers aren't winning. Currently, Barry is mired in a three-game losing skid, matching its longest lull of the season.
The Buccaneers lost the first game to Lynn this season in Miami Shores, 71-66. That didn't sit well with the Bucs.
"It makes us even more hungry for a a win," Fivelstad said. "Lynn is a team that plays with great energy, and we have to match that."
Fivelstad made his debut on Lynn's court in the Courtyard by Marriott Holiday Classic, where the Buccaneers won two games during the high point of the season. Since that time, Barry has gone 4-8 to fall two games below the .500 mark. Now he and the Bucs are going back to the court where they tasted victory twice this season.
A win over the Fighting Knights would set up nicely for a two-game stretch at home beginning 7:30 p.m. Saturday night when the Buccaneers host Eckerd.
Barry's alumni basketball game is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday at Health & Sports Center.
Watch the Lynn game by clicking HERE. Follow the game via LIVE STATS.
LAST TIME OUT: Barry fell, 65-52, on the road to No. 29 Saint Leo ... Filip Toric had 12 pts, 12 reb ... Magne Fivelstad had career-best 18 pts.
SERIES RECORD: Barry is 17-23 all-time against Lynn ... The Fighting Knights won the first meeting between the two teams this year ... Barry's last win at Lynn during the regular season was Feb. 25, 2009 (W 55-50).
EYES ON OPPONENT: The Fighting Knights are coming off a road win at Tampa Saturday to end a three-game losing skid ... Shamel Akins leads the Knights in scoring (10.6) ... Kaleb Clyburn is averaging 9.8 ppg ... Slobodan Miljanic is averaging 9.5 ppg and 5.0 reb ... Pavle Raickovic is averaging 9.6 ppg and 6.5 reb.
FIGHTING UPHILL CLIMB: Barry and Lynn are tied for ninth in the SSC ... Both are battling to get out of the conference basement ... The eighth and ninth place teams play the first round game at the SSC Tournament in Kissimmee, Fla., March 6 at Silver Spurs Arena.
FREE THROW FORUM: Lynn leads the conference in free throw shooting at 75.1 percent ... Barry is fourth at 72.9.
McCOY's STREAK SNAPPED AT 18: Barry Sr. G Justin McCoy had his double figures streak snapped at 18 straight games Saturday at Saint Leo.
TORIC TIME: Barry Sr. F Filip Toric has scored in double figures in five straight games ... He has recorded three straight double-doubles ... He ranks second in the SSC in rebounds (7.5) with a career-high of 14 boards at NAIA nationally-ranked St. Thomas earlier this season ... He leads the SSC in defensive rebounds (6.1).
RAYMONVIL MILESTONE MARK: Barry Sr. G Vladimir Raymonvil sank his 100th career free throw at Barry last week ... He ranks second all-time in school history in free throw percentage (.820) in his four years with the Bucs ... Brent Williams (1991-93) owns the top spot at 82.4 percent ... Raymonvil is 100-for-122 all-time at the stripe.
BERGEN BUCKET MAKER: Soph. F Magne Fivelstad (Bergen, Norway) is shooting 67.8 percent from the field over his last six games ... Fivelstad is 21 of 31 from the floor in that stretch ... He scored a career-best 18 points at Saint Leo Saturday, hitting his first two career three-pointers.


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A small item of local TV news framed Jonnie Peacock's rousing victory in the 100metres for amputees.
It was from ITV Anglia, 13 years ago: the kind of 90-second early-evening item about quiet courage that soon gives way to an excitably delivered weather forecast or a 'funny' closing yarn about a cat.
In the clip, easily found on the web, a cherubic lad of six is hopping around his classroom, the stump of his right leg bandaged below the knee.
One of the beauties of the Paralympics is that everyone has a story. Everyone is a story. Yet rarely can you access filmic evidence of the mishap of birth or life that preceded the athletic career.
Moments after viewing the short film of Peacock's childhood trauma - a result of meningitis - I watched him raise his chin to acknowledge the chants of 80,000 spectators, hush them back down with his hands and then blast down the Olympic Stadium 100m track with a force and rhythm that will always glow in the memory.....Picture: PA


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Reviving a Fata Morgana?
Over the course of the past decade, professing one's faith in the two-state solution has become something of a creed in European politics. Politicians recited this creed like a mantra whenever the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict arose. Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, and foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, spoke out in favour of the principle in their speeches on the region.
Only the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, they argued, would guarantee the permanent, safe existence of the Jewish state and the free self-determination of the Palestinians.
But while German and European politicians were paying lip service to the concept, the two-state solution increasingly began to lose support in the Middle East itself. It has all but disappeared from the Israeli discourse on the situation. Moreover, soon after its election, the new Israeli government officially distanced itself from the vision of a Palestinian state, the establishment of which all previous governments had worked hard to prevent.
The nail in the coffin of the two-state solution?
Palestinians have quite simply lost faith in the belief that the two states will ever become reality. The Palestinian doctor and politician Mustafa Barghouthi told the American television channel CBS that his heart still wanted to believe in it, but his head told him that there was no longer any hope of an independent, viable Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel. "Because of the settlements," says Barghouthi, "these settlers are destroying any prospect of peace for both peoples, a prospect that existed when two states were still a possibility."
Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem and a Palestinian peace activist, wrote an article for the American Newsweek in September 2008 in which he warned that support for the two-state solution was dwindling in Palestinian society:
"Yet the 15 years of negotiations that have followed have produced little," he wrote. "The lack of progress, as well as the unmistakably expansionist reality on the ground and the growth in popularity of Hamas, have left little room for anyone seeking a positive future for Palestine."
Nusseibeh concluded that what remains is the revival of the old idea of a binational, secular, democratic state in which Jewish and Arab citizens could live side by side.
Barack Obama wants the two-state solution
Now, however, the new American president, Barack Obama, has put the two-state solution back on the agenda. The Israeli peace activist Jeff Halper is torn between hope and scepticism. Halper, a US-born professor of ethnology and co-founder of the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, is optimistic that the peace process can now once again be turned around and put back on track, among other things because Obama considers the matter a high priority.
Halper believes that for the new leadership in Washington, resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a prerequisite for the country's reconciliation with the Arab-Muslim world. "A few years ago, James Baker said that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the epicentre of the instability that rocks the entire Muslim world," says the peace activist.
Moreover, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Immanuel, himself of Israeli origin, has declared that the USA can only address the issue of the threat of Iranian nuclear armament once the conflict in the Middle East is settled.
Despite these positive developments, he emphasises, one must not be naïve and one should not expect progress to be overly swift. "We peace activists have to be alert and examine the American peace plan very closely," advises Halper. The reason being that he is afraid that Obama might feel obliged to keep the promise made by his predecessor, George Bush, not to insist on the clearing of the large Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The West Bank, perforated like a Swiss cheese
Halper removes a map from his briefcase. "Do you see this map?" he says, unfolding it and spreading it out. "This is the only existing map of the settlement blocks. I drew it up myself. The Israeli public has never seen a map of the settlement blocks. And yet the settlement blocks are a key element in Israel's plan for the future."
The map shows the West Bank, perforated like a Swiss cheese. Hundreds of settlements are scattered around the territory that it was hoped would one day become a Palestinian state. Several large settlement blocks have carved up the territory and make it impossible for the Palestinians in the West Bank to move around freely or even spread out.
"The settlement blocks have divided the West Bank into three cantons: the North, the Centre and the South," explains Halper. "In these areas, the Palestinians can hold a majority of the territory, perhaps 80 per cent. But it is not a coherent stretch of land. A state like that would not be able to survive."
Israel, he believes, would like to create so-called "Bantustans" in the West Bank, small isolated Palestinian enclaves where the Palestinians would live like the black population in South Africa during the Apartheid regime. The Palestinians and Israeli peace activists hope that Obama understands this and will try to explore new avenues that would lead to a viable two-state solution. Before it is too late.
Bettina Marx
© Deutsche Welle 2009
Bettina Marx has been the ARD's Middle East correspondent for many years.
Interview with Sari Nusseibeh
"Human Values Unite, Religious Values Divide!"
The prominent Palestinian professor of philosophy Sari Nusseibeh appeals for pragmatic solutions of the Middle East conflict – especially for the refugee problem. An interview by Mohanan Hamed and Adham Manasreh
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Turning Away from Simplistic Dualism
US President Obama has extended his hand to the Islamic world and offered it a "new partnership in mutual respect". In doing so, he is heralding the dawn of a truly new age and confirming a definitive break with the Bush era, says Loay Mudhoon
The Obama Administration's Middle Eastern Policy
In Search of a New Strategic Imperative
According to the political scientist Thomas Jäger, a fundamental re-orientation of American policy on the Middle East under President Obama is highly unlikely. The key factor for the USA's activities in the Middle East will be whether American foreign policy receives a new framework for law and order beyond the "War on Terror"


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The Pioneer DDJ-SB Entry-Level Serato Controller
Take a look for yourself: the Official Pioneer taster video below shows off some of the DDJ-SB's exciting new features.
Features of the DDJ-SB
Those familiar with Pioneer products, will be pleased to know that the DDJ-SB is a similar package to the DDJ-SX/SR . As well as offering software loops, samples, FX and Hot Cues, the DDJ-SB also comes with a free copy of Serato DJ Intro software for home DJs. This music mixing software is a popular choice for new and accomplished DJs and offers all the tips and tricks you'll need to improve your mixing skills.
The DDJ-SB also comes with tactile performance controls, eight performance pads, 2 jog wheels and manual high/low pass filters.
Filter Fade
As demonstrated in the video above, the DDJ-SB now comes with a Filter Fade. This new feature allows you the DJ to create slick smooth mixes with seamless transitions between tracks. The addition of the filter fade cuts the time spent on transitions, enabling you to spend more time on being creative behind the decks.
The DDJ-SB has dedicated controls for all the bundled Serato DJ Intro software's features including loops, four Hot Cues and four samples. Plus the DDJ-SB has two FX units per channel,
with six FX to choose from, the parameters of which can be controlled using one Level/Depth dial.
DJs can also purchase the full version of Serato DJ for intuitive control of even more cue points, samples and loops – plus advanced features including Slip Mode, recording mixes, and FX Powered by iZotope.
Industry first: Filter Fade enables DJs to do more than just mix
Tactile controls add a fun, physical element to performing
The DDJ-SB's layout mirrors Serato DJ Intro and Serato DJ interface, so getting hands on with the controller's tactile buttons and dials soon becomes second nature. Highlights include: Performance Pads: four rubber pads enable DJs to trigger Hot Cue, Auto Loop, Manual Loop and Sampler – while a further four give immediate access to Play, Cue, Sync and Shift functions.
Low-latency jog wheels:
two 112-mm aluminium jog wheels are highly responsive for precision scratching. Manual filters on each channel: independent low/high pass filter dials for each channel are inherited from the premium DDJ-SX and DDJ-SR controllers.
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The DDJ-SB is USB powered, so DJs simply connect the controller to their PC or laptop using the provided USB cable – there is no need for additional connections.
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The latest in Pioneer's range of professional controllers for Serato DJ, the DDJ-SB is constructed from premium materials and audio circuitry. The robust build ensures durability, while the distinctive styling and aluminium jog wheel deliver a professional feel.
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How effective is your PR program? Is your brand reaching the right audience? Is your message resonating? Organizations might understand the importance of measuring their overall share of voice but many fail to audit their PR efforts due to lack of understanding of what the anatomy of an audit should look like. If you're investing in PR efforts, PR pros need to understand the key elements needed to be as effective as possible in assessing their efforts and creating a powerful PR strategy. I chose this topic because it's near and dear to my heart. Having managed global agencies for the past 10 years, I've come to understand why auditing is a must – not only to demonstrate the power of PR but to understand the gaps that exist so you can align your communication strategy with your organizational strategy. You can't improve or strengthen your efforts without having visibility into the disconnects. Today, with the vast amount of automated tools out there, it's important for PR pros to understand the difference between what these tools can do and doing a real assessment that demonstrates true share of voice in the market.
While researching this topic, I found an interesting tidbit in a recent in a blog by Katie Paine's (@KDPaine) The Measurement Standard. In the blog, she sites a paper written by measurement maven Louis C. Williams titled, "Framing Communications Audits to Create Positive Outcomes for Organizations," by Louis C. Williams. He states: "Few public relations techniques are as mysterious as communication audits. Although the use of them is fairly well known in the industry, seldom has any research been done to determine their ultimate (or, even, their preliminary) value to an organization. Yet organizations continue to spend many dollars on them, hoping they will improve the way communication is conducted within and for the organization."
Today, the value lies in developing a more sophisticated approach and understanding how an audit might benefit your organization's strategy, timing, methodology and value expectations. This means aligning your PR goals with organizational objectives. By adopting a consistent auditing process, companies can achieve true visibility into whether their PR efforts are paying off and how they need to adjust. To gain better insight into this process, I turned to my colleague and friend Linda Vandevrede, president and founder of VandeVrede Public Relations, LLC, contributing blogger for Valley PR Blog and PR sensation based in Phoenix.
According to Linda, the purpose of an audit is to take an evaluation of the current public relations process and determine how that maps against the company's objectives. It will tell you if you're using the correct strategies and vehicles to reach your goals. She states that the process of an audit is useful because it may unearth issues with something as basic as your messages, and you may decide that you need to tweak your messages rather than your vehicles. You may even discover that something as simple as your product nomenclature is confusing reporters and customers. It is a valuable tool for unearthing the disconnects that may exist in your PR program.
- Social media monitoring and PR tools are a dime a dozen. How should organizations approach a PR audit?
The ideal audit includes the face-to-face and/or phone interviews in order to obtain qualitative insights, and the use of social media monitoring tools for quantitative data.
- Is PR auditing right for every organization? Why is PR auditing important to an organization when you can simply measure impressions from a monitoring tool?
The problem with a monitoring tool is that you can't always dig down into the whys and wherefores of a particular impression. To supplement automated tools, it's useful to have conversations in real time with the various audience segments to better understand how they are thinking, as well as to probe for deeper insights. Any company can benefit from a PR audit, regardless of its industry. Particularly in this age of PR 2.0 and conversations, it's important to understand what people think about you and what is being said about you.
- How does a PR audit affect your organization's share of voice in the market?
I have found that many companies think they know what their share of voice is, and what their key messages are, only to learn from the audit that the perceptions are very different. Having a complete PR audit with a written analysis helps you implement customized strategies and tactics knowing that they are based on sound, hard data and not just a gut feeling. It helps management budget dollars where they are most needed and most effective.
- Let's break it down – what are the key steps, or checklist items, to obtain a comprehensive PR audit?
Here is a loose set of steps for a comprehensive PR audit:
- Buy-in from management, so they understand why it is being conducted
- A personal tour of the company or facilities to get a feel for the "culture"
- Compilation of all the various PR materials, including Web and hardcopy, any and all clippings, summary of events that have occurred to date such as open houses, etc.
- Formal facilitation meeting conducted with key personnel – these usually take a half-day to a whole day, and review key questions from corporate goals to competitive positioning.
- Separate select phone interviews with subject matter experts from the company and related personnel, and influencers (media, customers) for 360-degree feedback. The influencers' feedback must be anonymous, i.e. any publication of their comments must not be attributed to the original source when included in the final analysis.
- Written analysis based on the formal audit, interviews and review materials, with recommended strategies going forward. The time elapsed between #1 and #6 usually ranges from 6-8 weeks, depending on how responsive the customers and media are to requests for interviews.
- Formal presentation of the results, with follow-up meetings if needed.
- How can organizations make their PR audit results actionable and make it mean something?
This is often the weakest point of an audit. One team for whom I did an audit wanted to hire me to ensure they had someone to execute on the plan. This is where it really relies on the in-house PR point of contact to ensure upfront that management understands the reason for the audit, and understands that there will be follow-up activities. That point of contact needs to converse frequently with management and update them on the before and after scenarios to prove the value of the audit. Sometimes it helps to bring back in the professional who conducted the audit as an outside force to facilitate.
- How often should you do a PR audit? Should you outsource or do it in-house?
Audits are helpful every few years, or when there is a major change in an organization, such as a merger or acquisition. They can be performed successfully in-house, but the value of bringing in an outside person or agency is that you then free up the PR contacts to focus on their core responsibilities, as audits are time-consuming. By using an outside person, you also ensure that no one thinks the PR contact has an ax to grind, and many of the target audiences, such as bloggers, customers and reporters, are able to speak more freely and honestly with an outside contact. They will paint situations and opinions in much more glowing terms when speaking to a company representative.
Other Resources:
Convince and Convert: 4 Ways to Increase Share of Voice
PRSA: Best Practices for PR Measurement in a Difficult Economy
For more information on PR auditing, you can contact Linda at firstname.lastname@example.com


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About 10 years ago, in sweet, magical Barcelona, Spain, I was walking down the bustling and heavily touristed La Rambla when about six guys in their late teens or early 20s, clustered on the side of the pedestrian way, hollered something at me.
My Spanish is moderate at best, so I made some marginal attempt to beg their pardon in Spanish, which immediately outed me as an English speaker and possibly as an American.
The six of them sprung up with large smiles, saying in rough English that they wanted a photo with me. They clustered around me as one draped an arm around my shoulder and, curiously, raised his leg onto my lower back. Another did the same from the other side and a couple of them crowded in behind me.
They smiled and oozed enthusiasm, but instinct told me I was about to get my pocket picked. At the risk of upsetting my new Spanish friends, I pushed them away, hard, barked a curt "no" and walked away.
I explained the scenario recently to Robert Siciliano, a personal-security expert, and he agreed that, yes, I was more than likely a target for a theft, albeit good-naturedly. Then again, that's how much of the world's milder forms of crime work: You're goaded into distraction and dropping your guard, then, poof, the wallet is gone.
The good news was that I got away unscathed. The bad news is that Americans make for some of the most convenient crime targets while traveling abroad.
That fact has been accepted as gospel for years, but after noting that my travel-writing colleague Rick Steves stated as much in a recent column, I wondered two things: Are we really such ripe victims and, more important, why?
Siciliano, who has written four books about personal security, didn't hesitate in explaining.
"We stick out," he said. "We're boisterous in so many awful ways, and that brings unwanted signals. Those signals say, 'Come and get me.'"
Siciliano said our common shortcomings include failure to educate ourselves in languages other than English; not researching local customs and the cities where we travel; wearing clothing that identifies us as foreigners (English words and baseball caps mostly); and an assumption that it can't happen to us, coupled with an uncertainty about how to react when it does.
"We have a certain arrogance about us that's known worldwide," Siciliano said. "We think we're so smart, and sometimes it's the brightest guy the room who is the easiest to scam because he thinks he's so smart."
I told Siciliano that what he described sounded like a syndrome rooted in the notion of "American exceptionalism," which amounts to a belief that our country is singularly unique and often is coupled with a belief in our superiority.
"Capital Y, capital E, capital S," Siciliano said.
What happened to me in Barcelona was attempted only, he said, because it works, often with Americans. Part of our disadvantage comes from those types of crimes being relatively rare here. Yes, we have more than our share of violence and muggings, but crime rooted in distraction and coordination is less common. That said, Americans living in big cities are more conditioned to be wary of strangers, which might be what helped me in Barcelona.
John Rendeiro, vice president of global security and intelligence for International SOS, said Americans aren't necessarily more vulnerable to crime than other travelers, but we might be at increased risk because we are unaware of how pickpockets and scams tend to work, he added.
While Rendeiro was boarding a train in Madrid several years ago, he said, a well-dressed older man asked if a coin on the floor of the train was Rendeiro's. Rendeiro was immediately suspicious that it might be the opening shot of a distraction crime. Sure enough, a hand quickly reached into the train car as the doors were about to close and into his front pocket, where he was carrying his wallet.
Rendeiro said he had his hand on the wallet on the outside of the pants, which was enough to thwart the attempt.
"If my hand hadn't been on it, he would have had it," he said.
Rendeiro had an advantage from a lifetime of travel, which included 21 years at the State Department. Offers of assistance, a request for (or offer of) directions and requests to take a photo may all not be what they appear. Then again, odds are they indeed are innocuous exchanges. The key is to be aware and prepared for any possibility.
"Any time you leave your home environment, you won't have the cultural awareness you have at home," Rendeiro said. "When people get close to you, and they're good at what they do, your wallet can be gone before you have any idea."
All this isn't to diminish the joys of travel. The point is this: Travel with humility and an open mind. Accept friendliness, but if an internal alarm rings, listen to it. Be confident, be aware and make an effort to blend in with locals.
"I don't worry about anything when I'm traveling," Siciliano said. "I am aware, I am alert and I know my options. I know what I'm getting myself into, and I'm confident in myself and my abilities."
I'm right there with him, and that is one reason I'd gladly get on a plane for Barcelona tomorrow.
Defensive tips
Keep essentials — credit cards, ID and cash — in a front, not back, pocket.
Wear purses over the shoulder beneath a coat.
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it is too good to go public with... i had it up for about 5 minutes, i hope nobody saw it.
I was just reading some discussions on slashdot, and i think i came up with the perfect solution to spam! I will work out the details shortly, but i think i've got the solution, and it should work for the next 10 years at least. (because all systems can be deceived eventually)
I sent in an application for the darpa grand challenge. I seem to work best when I have a deadline. i'm going to make lots of deadlines for myself. I removed my whole website and replaced it with a progress report. I have thought a lot about what i want to do, and my previous projects have prepared me a little for the complexities of the task, but i think i might be in over my head. I wrote a whole list of things i want to take into account, then i spent 3 hours fleshing out an overall control flowchart. it might work, but then again the nitty gritty has a way of tripping me up. we'll see
I was thinking about an ai program i want to write, and I realised that every single person on this planet that can write is a cyborg. part of your mind has become fixed to something outside you. I then extrapolated this to programming... programmers design systems to make desisions automatically. the programmer/program group is a kind of symbiotic inteligence. without the program the programmer is less... and tasks must be done manually. Without the programmer, the program doesn't exits at all.
My webserver is a part of me. it is like a mouth through which I can speak.
My webpages and notebooks are a part of me. they are like my memorys that i want to think about.
My robots are a part of me. they are like limbs i can use to work.
I would not be complete without the things I make, and should i loose them, they will live in me.
I love technology.
I have set up an ftp server in my house! I can host my own files now! A link on my website points to a folder with a video of the robot arm I built! more videos to come as this is just a start. unfortunately the file is in WMV format, but i'll try to use mpegs instead. I also set up an apache server and am testing it out.
I just got back from the MURC competition on the 18th of jan. the robot i built for the competition... "Sharp Tooth"... lost both of the 1 on 1 fights, and was knocked out fast in 12 pound rumble #2 , but i did have a wonderfull time meeting all the builders and seeing all the awesome robots.
I got a few comments about my unique weapon, it is a spinning disk powered spike that fires automatically when a robot is in the path of the weapon. it has the advantages of both kinds of weapons... high speed spinning power storage, and a directed penetrating output for all the force instead of a glancing blow. unfortunately it didn't work all that well. steering was a problem, and the arena floor was slippery, i was going for car style drive and steering, but it didn't work very well. next time i will do 2 wheel differential steering.
I did a lot of work on my robot at Jerome Miles's house. he really helped me out a bunch. His robot named "It Doesn't Matter" won a rumble and he got a trophy. I had a great time, the whole thing was awesome.
An update about the robot arm i built: It was SWEET! all the little kids loved it, all the adults were facinated. it was a total success! everyone that has seen it has thought it was amazing, as soon as I can figure out how to set up a linux server i will have some videos of the arm, and the competition to show all y''all!
I have over the past few day built a master/slave arm set. the master is 4 100k potentometers mounted on a frame to fit my arm, and wired into a joystick port. 2 pots in the shoulder give elevation, and rotation. 1 pot for the elbow. and one for the gripper. 4 sevos make up the arm, 1 coresponding directly to each potentometer, and making an arm that is roughly the same dimensions as my arm, and has nearly the same degree of freedom, though it is somewhat weak.
the interface is an ifi robotics issac16 setup, the operator interface takes joysticks as input, and gives a wireless link to the robot controller. the robot controller is a basic stamp 2 or something, and has 8 PWM outputs.
I am planning to use it to hand out candy for halloween.
I have finaly built a small remote controled robot with a griping arm. You can see details and pictures on my website. will most likely build a better chasis in the next few days.
I have been doing some research on computer vision systems and have a few ideas about how to use a digital camera to navigate and map an environment by overlapping pictures.
Made a small rc bot from 2 servos I modified(wheels), and one normal servo(verticle arm). I used a model plane remote and reciever I had sitting around to control it.
Got an ifi robotics controler and have done some design work on a continuously variable transmision for a battlebot
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Future rosy for special needs dog
BORN deaf and blind in one eye, Red Kelpie Ruby Rose's future looked bleak when she was surrendered to the RSPCA's Tweed Heads Adoption Centre last year.
Instead her new owners are not only embracing her special needs - they are teaching her to surf.
Ruby's eye was removed by the centre because of a medical condition.
And a University of Queensland hearing specialist confirmed she was completely deaf because of damaged nerves between her ear and brain.
Regardless, Gavin and Sally Smith fell in love with Ruby Rose when they saw her on the RSPCA Adopt a Pet website.
Mrs Smith said she had a feeling about Ruby and thought she was lucky to have made it so far, given her special needs.
"We just knew she was right for us and she has settled in perfectly with our two children and older Border Collie cross Kelpie, Mia."
The Smiths want Ruby to be an example of how positive an experience adopting a disabled pet can be.
"People are surprised that we knew Ruby Rose was deaf and blind when we adopted her.
"She is a very happy and extremely loyal dog.
"We just did lots of research and it helped that we had experience with breeding dogs.
"You can't be a lazy dog owner," she said.
Adoption Centre staff and Ruby had some help learning hand signals from experienced deaf dog trainer, Robyn Adair.
The Smith family also had to learn to communicate with Ruby Rose through hand signals.
They speak to her so she can learn to read facial expressions and use lights to get her attention in the dark.
Ruby Rose even became a learning tool with the Smith's two sons when she was taken to school to teach four-year-olds about bullying and being different.
"Ruby Rose did a great job," Mrs Smith said.
"All the kids were giving her thumbs up (a good dog sign).
"The children were fascinated with her and loved learning about her special needs."
Ruby Rose enjoys a lot of normal dog activities including sleeping, going for long runs with friends and other dogs, playing frisbee and has enjoyed starting surfing lessons.
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A few months ago I was conducting interviews for a Production DBA position that we were creating, and an interesting thing happened...I ran into a candidate who was much like me a few years earlier. Unfortunately neither of us qualified. Here are some lessons from that experience...
Perhaps I should provide a little background for new readers. I have been a database application developer since about 1988 ranging from Info on minicomputers to Advanced Revelation and on to Oracle. I started using SQL Server in 1999 on version 7.0. I have a lot of experience in both the UI and database areas of development. I can hold my own when it comes to the responsibilities of being a Development DBA. A few years ago when I was doing a lot of contract work, I started looking for jobs with the title DBA in them. One of my great frustrations was running into interviewers who, I thought at the time, were inflexible and unwilling to give me a chance to prove myself. At the time, I figured that I was a fast learner and had done a lot of different things with SQL Server, so there shouldn't be much I couldn't handle or figure out (and hey, I always had my friends at SQLTeam to back me up, right?)
So as I was saying, a few months ago while I was conducting interviews, I ran into a guy who was just like I had been. He had good credentials for database development, was a great guy to talk to, and I had no doubt that he could learn things quickly. He was looking for someone to give him a chance. And right then I realized that I was thankful for the past interviewers who would not give me a shot.
Sound crazy? Well, if you have been reading carefully and you understand the terms, you know the problem. This guy (as I had been) was a good candidate for a Development DBA position, but I was seeking a candidate for a Production DBA position. While both are called DBA they have very different responsibilities. Basically the Development DBA supports the application development lifecycle and is generally focused on things such as normalization, naming conventions, constraints and keys, stored procedures and effectiveness overall. A Production DBA on the other hand supports the application after it has been deployed into the live (or production) systems. He or she is often focused on performance, efficiency, and reliability; including backups, replication strategies, serialization, locking and blocking. A Development DBA deals with the pressures of development deadlines, while a Production DBA deals with the pressures of C-Level executives screaming that every second it takes to fix a problem is costing the company umpteen millions of dollars.
So sometimes when you are out there interviewing, as frustrating as it can be at times, you need remember that the interviewer just might really know what he's looking for and you may not be the right fit. In our case, we needed an experienced Production DBA and were not willing to let a guy learn how to do his job on our time. We had an occasionally recurring nightmare that completely locked-up one of our mission critical databases causing about 50% of the company to come to a grinding halt. We already had two highly skilled, but development-focused SQL guys on the team who could read Books Online. We needed something different.
The good news for that candidate was that I recognized this while we were conducting the phone interview and I was able to help him see that I wasn't just being a jerk, but rather that I needed specific skills he did not have. So take a look at what your skills are, and either search for the jobs that fit you, or if you don't have the skills for the job that you want, go learn them as best you can. Maybe somebody is looking for a junior DBA that can join their team and grow into the position they want.
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Scottsville, take back the night
The sky over downtown Scottsville is studded with stars? [Cover story, "Flooded with money, Scottsville surfaces" January 9, 2003](http://www.readthehook.com/92914/cover-story-river-city-scottsvilles-awa...).
Wowie zowie, Scottsvillians, did you know that only one-third of Americans live in a place where they can see the Milky Way on a cloudless night? (CNN.com, March 29, 2002: "Dark skies are an endangered species.")
When you revamp the downtown area, I hope you'll use shielded lights– fixtures that direct the light downward. For more information on intelligent lighting, go to www.darksky.org, and www.qualityoutdoorlighting.com.
And, while I've got your attention, if anyone reading this has one of those porch lights that is more likely to blind people with their brilliance than illuminate anything on the ground, I hope you'll consider replacing it with more sensible fixtures that cast the light downward, where it's needed.
If you have floodlights on your house, for God's sake turn them off.
Charlottesville could reclaim its view of the Milky Way if the street lights were retrofitted with shields, and if homeowners would install shielded exterior lights and use only floodlights that are activated by motion sensors.
Even though maintaining (or reclaiming) our night skies would help out the astronomers, making it happen isn't rocket science: Use shielded fixtures for necessary lights, and turn the other ones off. Then, voila: instant Milky Way.
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Sitting down in the yellow "taksi" at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport and seeing the welcoming grin of the unshaven driver who greeted me with "Merhaba" (hello), I just blurted out, "Cok guzel."
I forgot I remembered the phrase. It just came to me - like a baby shouts for joy.
I was back and it was "beautiful" indeed.
I went through a decadelong period of annual visits, but it has been years since I wished a Turk "merhaba," that local aloha.
My first hours in Turkey were filled with déjà vu moments like no travel homecoming I've ever had.
The "taksi" turned off the highway and into the tangled lanes of the tourist "green zone" (just below the Blue Mosque with all the tourist-friendly businesses still lined up with a "Yes, Mister" readiness).
As most tourists do, I visited the famous mosque. Stepping out of my shoes and into the vast turquoise (a colour early French travellers took home - as the "colour of the Turks") interior of the not-quite-rightly-named Blue Mosque, something was missing.
Yes ... gone was the smell of so many sweaty socks, knees, palms and foreheads soaked into the ancient carpet upon which worshippers did their quite physical prayer workouts. Sure enough, the Blue Mosque has a fresh new carpet with a subtle design that keeps worshippers organized the way that lined paper tames letters.
Prayer let out and a crush of locals headed out the door. The only way to get any personal space was to look up. And that breathtaking scene played again for me - hardpumping seagulls powering through the humid air in a black sky coming into the light as they cross in front of floodlit minarets.
Walking down to the Golden Horn bay and Istanbul's churning waterfront, I missed the old Galata Bridge - so rusted with life's struggles. But the vivid street life - boys casting their lines, old men sucking on water pipes, sesame rings filling cloudy glass carts - has retaken the new bridge. In Turkey, I have more personal rituals than in other countries.
I cap my days with a bowl of sutlac. That's rice pudding with a sprinkle of cinnamon - still served in a square and shiny stainless steel bowl with a matching spoon not much bigger than a gelato sampler.
And I challenge a local to a game of backgammon - still a feature in restaurants, tea
houses and cafés. Boards no longer smell of tobacco with the softer wood inlays worn deeper than the hard wood. And now the dice are plastic with obedient dots rather than the handmade "bones" of the 20th century with dots that didn't line up.
When I spun the dice and paused ... a bystander moved for me. If you don't move immediately, locals move for you. There's one right way ... and everybody knows it.
Today in Turkey, the people, like those dots, line up better.
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Allophrynidae Savage, 1973
Allophrynidae Savage, 1973, in Vial (ed.), Evol. Biol. Anurans: 354. Type genus: Allophryne Gaige, 1926. Nomen nudum.
Allophrynidae Goin, Goin, and Zug, 1978, Intr. Herpetol., Ed. 3: 240. Type genus: Allophryne Gaige, 1926.
Allophryninae — Dubois, 1983, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 52: 274; Dubois, 1986 "1985", Alytes, 4: 94-96.
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Tukeit Hill Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36).
Non-montane southern Venezuela, through Guyana, Surinam, and Surinam to central Brazil (Rondonia, Amapa, Pará, Amazonas, northern Mato Grosso, and Roraima), and possibly into adjacent Bolivia; expected in adjacent eastern Colombia.
Allophrynidae was included tentatively in Hylidae by Lynch and Freeman, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 493-502, and Duellman, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 42: 10. Savage, 1973, in Vial (ed.), Evol. Biol. Anurans: 354, considered this species to form a monotypic family, Allophrynidae, the taxon inadvertently not diagnosed in that paper. Dubois, 1983, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 52:272, considered Allophryninae to be a subfamily of Bufonidae, following Laurent, 1980 "1979", Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 104: 406, who considered Allophryne a bufonid, but neither presented evidence to support this arrangement. Fabrezi and Langone, 2000, Cuad. Herpetol., 14: 47-59, subsequently discussed the morphological evidence supporting a bufonid relationship. Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 770, placed Allophrynidae alternatively as (1) the sister taxon of Centrolenidae; (2) the sister taxon of Centrolenidae plus Hylidae; or (3) the sister taxon of Hylidae. Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 510, considered Allophryne to be a "toothless Centrolenella", a suggestion supported by the DNA sequence data of Austin, Lougheed, Tanner, Chek, Bogart, and Boag, 2002, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 134: 335-346. Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297:, reported on systematic literature, included Allophrynidae (containing only Allophryne) as the sister subfamily of a coordinate Centroleninae (Centrolenidae of this catalogue). Guayasamin and Trueb, 2007, Zootaxa, 1447: 27-45, also recognized that Allophryne is the sister taxon of the traditional Centrolenidae, and continued the recognition of the monotypic family, Allophrynidae, an arrangement followed here because most of those working on relationships within centrolenids prefer that arrangement. See comment under Centrolenidae. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the sister-taxon relationship of Allophrynidae and Centrolenidae. See Savage, 1986, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 99: 42-45, and Dubois, 1986 "1985", Alytes, 4: 94-96, for nomenclatural discussions. See accounts by Hoogmoed, 1969, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 44: 75-81, and Caldwell and Hoogmoed, 1998, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 666: 1-3. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 4, reported on range, conservation status, and distribution for Venezuela. Vitt and Caldwell, 2013, Herpetology, 4th Ed., provided a summary of life history, diagnosis, and taxonomy. Schmid, Steinlein, Feichtinger, and Bogart, 2014, Cytogenet. Genome Res., 142: 268–285, reported on chromosome banding in Allophrynidae and Centrolenidae.
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Scientists don't know what is going on beneath Fremont, Calif., and finding the answer could be helpful to tens of thousands of people.
For 130 years, the southern end of the Hayward Fault in Fremont has moved at double the rate of the fault's northern portion, with the west side of the fault moving northwest relative to the east side of the fault.
This higher rate of movement in the southern end suggests that rocks are being "piled up" on the west side of the fault and stretched to the breaking point on the east side, said Roger Bilham, a professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder. On the east side of the fault near Fremont, for example, the stretching has created a topographic "dip," causing a pond to form.
This fault movement should have resulted in an earthquake -- nature's version of stretching a rubber band until it snaps -- but it hasn't happened.
"As a result of the abrupt change in slip rate along the fault, the cumulative strain on each side of the fault is 200 microstrain, a value that typically leads to an earthquake," said Bilham, who has operated instruments in the area for the past four years. "Either an earthquake is overdue or we're missing an important understanding of the mechanics of the fault."
The answer is significant because the Hayward Fault runs along the east side of San Francisco Bay for some 50 miles near an urban population of 2.5 million. A quake estimated at magnitude 7.0 occurred on the fault in 1868.
Bilham presented his findings May 28 at the spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Baltimore.
Since the 1868 quake, the northern 80 percent of the Hayward Fault has moved at a rate of about one-fifth inch per year, Bilham said. But the southern end in Fremont has moved about one-third inch per year, a rate almost double that of the remainder of the fault.
When movement on the southern end of the fault is calculated over the 130 years since the last big quake shook the region, the amount of geologic strain is impressive -- perhaps enough for a magnitude 6 earthquake to occur in the near future, he said. The U.S. Geological Survey has estimated a 23 percent to 28 percent probability of a magnitude 7 quake in the area in the next 30 years.
Understanding fault mechanics in an urban area is difficult unless deformation is so concentrated that it causes "visible offsets" to sidewalks and buildings, Bilham said. The area where movement rapidly increases along the fault occurs along a three-quarter mile section in south Fremont.
"If these observations are accurate this means that a lot of elastic energy is stored in a very small region, and we might expect an earthquake soon," Bilham said. "We're not sure whether the strain is concentrated beneath part of Fremont or spread over a wider area."
If the strain is stored more widely, the measurements would support the approach of the magnitude 7 earthquake that has been forecast, he said. Further research is needed to find out the volume of rock involved.
Bilham's work is funded by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Pam_abl provides another layer of security against brute-force SSH password guessing. It allows you to set a maximum number of unsuccessful login attempts within a given time period, after which a host and/or user is blacklisted. Once a host/user is blacklisted, all authentication attempts will fail even if the correct password is given. Hosts/users which stop attempting to login for a specified period of time will be removed from the blacklist.
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Install the pam_abl PKGBUILD from the AUR using Makepkg.
Add pam_abl to the PAM auth stack
/etc/pam.d/sshd as root in your editor of choice. Add the following line above all other lines:
auth required pam_abl.so config=/etc/security/pam_abl.conf
Assuming you haven't made any other modifications, your
/etc/pam.d/sshd should now look like this:
#%PAM-1.0 #auth required pam_securetty.so #Disable remote root auth required pam_abl.so config=/etc/security/pam_abl.conf auth required pam_unix.so auth required pam_env.so account required pam_nologin.so account required pam_unix.so account required pam_time.so password required pam_unix.so session required pam_unix_session.so session required pam_limits.so
Create pam_abl.conf
/etc/security/pam_abl.conf as root using your editor of choice.
A sample
/etc/security/pam_abl.conf is as follows:
# /etc/security/pam_abl.conf db_home=/var/lib/abl/ host_db=/var/lib/abl/hosts.db host_purge=7d host_rule=*:10/1h user_db=/var/lib/abl/users.db user_purge=7d user_rule=!root:10/1h
The paths given in
host_db and
user_db specify where the blacklists should be stored. Typical paths are
/var/lib/abl/hosts.db and
/var/lib/abl/users.db, respectively.
The values given in
host_purge and
user_purge specify the time period before hosts/users are removed from the blacklist. Values are specifed as
<number><suffix> where suffix can be any of
h, or
d for units of seconds, minutes, hours or days, respectively.
The rules specified in
host_rule and
user_rule are specified as
<user> is a list of user names separated by |s. The special user name
* matches all users, and prefixing a user by a
! matches all users except the one named.
<attempts> is the number of attempts allowed before a user/host is blacklisted, and
specifies the period in which the attempts must occur. The same time suffixes as described above also apply to
For example, the rule
*:10/1h specifies that for any user, ten failed login attempts within an hour will get the host blacklisted. The rule
!root:10/1h specifies that for any user except root, ten failed login attempts within an hour will get the user blacklisted, regardless of the host the attempts are coming from.
Multiple conditions can be given to the same set of users using comma separation:
Multiple rules can be specified using space separation:
user_rule=!root:10/1h root:25/1h
If you only want pam_abl to blacklist one of users or hosts, simply omit the appropriate lines from
Create the blacklist databases
As root, create the directory for the database (assuming you specified the recommended path above):
# mkdir /var/lib/abl
As root, run the pam_abl utility to initialize the databases:
# pam_abl
That's it! Pam_abl should now be working. Since PAM is not a daemon, nothing needs to be restarted for these changes to take effect. It's strongly recommended to verify that pam_abl is working by purposely getting a remote host blacklisted. Don't worry though! For directions on how to manually remove a host or user from the blacklist, see below.
Managing the blacklist databases
Check blacklisted hosts/users
As root, simply run:
# pam_abl
# pam_abl -p
Manually removed a host or user from the blacklist
As root, simply run:
# pam_abl -w -U <user>
# pam_abl -w -H <host>
Using * as a wildcard to match multiple hosts/users is allowed in both of the above commands.
Manually add a host or user to the blacklist
As root, simply run:
# pam_abl -f -U <user>
# pam_abl -f -H <host>
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Like virtually all linux utilities, a manpage is available to see all options:
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DARPA is ramping up a program that aims to produce wireless, implantable "neuroprosthetic" devices that can help military service members and veterans overcome memory problems caused by traumatic brain injury (TBI) or other diseases.
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DARPA also has a cooperative agreement Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop an implantable neural device for the UCLA effort.
The teams aim to test wireless, fully implantable neural-interface medical devices that can serve as neuroprosthetics, technology that can bridge gaps that interfere with the ability "to encode new memories or retrieve old ones."
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Around the world you see the use of nanotechnology that use radio frequency and scalar waves to access the memory, control emotion and affect the mental capacities and interfere with the body functions without external connection. I think the military technology of this intelligent division is the state of the art of this technology.
This is exciting news for those whose lives are compromised as the result of TBI and other disorders or diseases. In my therapy practice I work not only with TBI clients, but also, individuals recovering from surgery for the removal of brain tumors and chronic disorders of the nervous system. Some have cancer; some do not;either way, the work is very intense and usually rewarding. A new client died about ten days ago, he had had surgery for the removal of cancerous tumors about a year ago, then began having seizures, since this is my specialty, I hoped we might be able to stabilize him. Unfortunately, it was not to be. God speed with your work...
As a TBI survivor, post eight years now and having had the experience of memory loss, this is wonderful news!
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Darth Vader Manages Rock Band!
Yes, you read it right. The Dark Lord Of Sith, Darth Vader himself - or should we say David Prowse, the actor who played Vader in the three classic Star Wars films - is now managing the UK heavy rock band Losing Sun!
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Rising British Rock/Metal Talent 'Losing Sun' Join The Darkside With The Appointment Of New Intergalactic Manager.
Dave Prowse, the dark lord himself (a.k.a., Darth Vader from a small trio of movies from the 70s) has put ridding the world of rebel scum aside to concentrate on more pressing matters – proper gritty rock and roll(!) by taking full hold of the management reins of the popular Welsh quartet 'Losing Sun'.
With the finishing touches being put to the band's second full length album, 'Perspective', and a UK tour with Californian metallers 'Anemic' at the start of 2008, Prowse couldn't have chosen a more exciting time to put his powers to good use.
"I had seen the band perform on several occasions when they went out as a support group to some of the more famous US and UK bands" comments Prowse. "The audiences at their performances were wildly enthusiastic and had only come to see them - leaving before the main group came on. I have been a music fan for years, going from big band jazz, trad jazz, modern and progressive. The musicianship of the group is on a par or better than anything I've heard and I asked the group if I could come on board to help in a management/promotion/publicity capacity. You can't get a better 'hook' than to have the one and only Darth Vader on your team."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Two members of the MIT baseball squad have been honored for their achievements on the diamond and in the classroom this season. Senior Ricardo Perez (Vienna, Va.) and sophomore Hayden Cornwell (Newport Beach, Calif.) were selected to the Capital One Academic All-District baseball team the College Sports Information Directors of America has announced.
MIT's first baseman, Perez is among the team leaders in batting average, extra base hits and RBI. He leads the team and is third in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference with three triples. Currently hitting .282 on the season, he has recorded 10 multi-hit and six multi-RBI games this season for the Engineers.
A starter in right field, Cornwell has emerged as one of the top offense threats in the NEWMAC this season. Hitting a team-best .367, he also leads the team in hits (44), doubles (12) and RBI (28), ranking among the top-10 in the NEWMAC in each of those categories. The owner of a 10-game hitting streak earlier this season, he has gone hitless in back-to-back games just once all season.


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Thoughts on the craft of family history and genealogy, and random reflections on some of the things that flash like stars across Memory's mirror. Oh, yeah...books and archives, too!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
And Still I Write
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Beautiful post. I love the last line- "I write to raise the dead".ReplyDelete
Wow, great post. I would say that you captured the feelings of a lot of us family historians out here. Although we like to write and research there is something inside us that tells us we have to write these stories so we can 'raise the dead.' What a joy to read - thanks.ReplyDelete
Just keep writing and I'll keep reading.ReplyDelete
I'm suffering from jet lag, reading this at 4:00 AM, trying to get rid of a headache. This post is so powerful and captures my feelings exactly. I, too, feel compelled to tell the stories of my ancestors. Names and dates alone hold no fascination for me. Who were these people? That's what I want to know. Thanks for a great middle-of-the-night read.ReplyDelete
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The relentlessly sane Michael Tomasky shows why the next silly Washington crisis is manufactured, synthetic baloney.
Regular readers may have noticed my lack of concern with the fiscal cliff. A resumption of the Clinton tax rates wouldn't have been catastrophic–after all, the economy boomed under those rates in the 90s. And now we have the Republicans again threatening…di. sas.ter. Bankruptcy! A government shutdown! I'd guess that the public will see this as further evidence of the GOP's lack of seriousness, and so will the business community.
In the summer of 2011, when the debt ceiling last threatened to devour Cleveland, the value of US treasury bonds actually strengthened. The rest of the world didn't believe that we were going to default on our bills. Our credit was still good. As it will be.
This doesn't mean that the President shouldn't work on the long-term deficit problem, especially a dysfunctional health care system. There are ways to make Medicare less expensive and better. I've written about these before. Senators like Ron Wyden(D) and Bob Corker (R) plus Reps. like Jim Cooper (D) and, yes, Paul Ryan (R) could develop a plan that will move us gradually toward a Medicare system that trends away from fee-for-service medicine. The data gleaned from electronic record-keeping will point doctors and hospitals toward the most cost-effective practices. This could save a lot of money–and eventually lead to a seamless system that includes Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare.
There are other steps the President needs to take to reform, and streamline, the federal bureaucracy. If he's smart, he'll make this part of his legacy. But these reforms need to be undertaken thoughtfully, without the foolishness of imagined cliffs and ceilings. That is the way a great country–one that is definitely not headed toward disaster–would do it. It is time to start ignoring the hog-callers who think, or pretend to think, that there are such things as cliffs, or ceilings, in the bright American future.


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INDIANAPOLIS (Dec. 2, 2010) – Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita announced today this Sunday's recount commission meeting will be streamed live via a web portal located on the office's website – www.sos.in.gov/.
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D2 is acting up. Maybe battery dying??
I have the original D2, purchased in March 2008. It's worked fine 'til very recently. About 1 week ago, I noticed I had trouble trying to shut it off. Pushing the on-off switch seemed to work but then the D2 would start up again. It was difficult to shut off but I finally succeeded. Now things have worsened. I can't even use it because it keeps restarting over and over. Does this mean the battery is shot (which means I have to mail it in to Cowon to put in a new battery)? Or is something else wrong with my D2??
Just before this problem started, I had a corrupt music flac file on the D2. Only the first third of the file would play and then the D2 would just turn black and shut off due to some failure. I transferred all the flac files from my 16 GB card, deleted the bad flac file, and then transferred back to the 16 GB card all the flac music files. This seemed to work but then, at some point, the recent weird shutdown and start problems began. I don't know if the older bad-flac-file was the cause of the newer shutdown-start problems.
What could be wrong? What's the solution?
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Tony Abbott concedes he made life difficult for Joe Hockey when he was putting together his first budget.
In a new biography, Hockey - Not Your Average Joe, the federal treasurer confesses the budget was much softer than he would have liked.
He wanted to make changes to pensions earlier and wanted the deficit levy threshold to be lower to snare more taxpayers.
However, the prime minister, with one eye firmly on the reaction of voters, wanted a more cautious approach.
Mr Abbott told an invitation-only party after Mr Hockey handed down the May budget that this was "Joe's budget".
"My contribution has been to make your life harder than it would otherwise be by making a whole series of pre-election commitments that you've had to delicately tiptoe around," Mr Abbott told his treasurer and those in attendance.
Mr Abbott went on to say that while he had a long way to go to measure up to former prime minister John Howard, Mr Hockey had proved he was a worthy successor to long-standing Liberal treasurer Peter Costello.
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The prime minster's chief of staff, Peta Credlin, told the book's author, Madonna King, that Mr Abbott and Mr Hockey were keen not to fall into a Howard-Costello-style leadership rivalry.
Ms Credlin said the treasurer was a contender as a future prime minister.
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At the book launch in Sydney on Thursday, Mr Hockey said there were things in the book that he wished were not said, and the timing of its release was not ideal.
"But they're said. I in no way apologise for the book," he said.
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said the book showed how out of touch with the Australian people Mr Hockey and the government were.
"All we know is ... if he gets his way in future budgets, he'll go even further," Mr Bowen told reporters in Sydney.