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Home automation, or home control as it's also called, is constantly changing. And like most technologies, it improves with age. It gets smarter, less expensive and easier to use each year. We'd be remiss not to mention some of the improvements and enhancements destined to hit the marketplace—and your home—in the very near future. From 1 to 10, in no particular order, here are the hot topics.
1. Snazzy Controls
Operating your home's lights, thermostats and A/V gear from a touch-sensitive control panel can be fairly boring, unless your panel's got some snazzy graphics to keep you engaged and entertained. Yes, programming your thermostats to setback automatically can actually be fun.
Home automation manufacturers are making it simpler for home systems installers to add fancy features to touchpanels by including multimedia platforms like Flash, Java and Guifx into their software. Often with a point and click, home systems installers can dress up the panels with animation, unique buttons and colorful backgrounds. They can give the touchpanel the same look and feel of an iPhone, where gestures like finger swipes set an automation scene into motion or "pinching" the screen zooms in a surveillance camera. "This is the kind of stuff that gives automation a real wow factor," says Jeff Singer, communications director for home automation manufacturer Crestron. "By in large, home systems installers aren't graphic artists. Now they can be, by just downloading objects from Flash right into their touchpanel designs."
Most manufacturers believe that the wow shouldn't stop at the touchpanel. Within their programming software, they've given home systems installers the tools to easily import that same graphic layout into other interfaces. The interface resizes itself automatically to fit the screen, be it that of a TV, keypad, remote control or iPad.
Will spiced-up graphics drive up the cost of the user interface? Not as much as you think, and you have Apple and its reasonably priced iPad to thank for that, says Susan Cashen, vice president of marketing for Control4. "Consumers' expectations are much higher than they were a few years ago," she notes. "They want sophistication at a good price." With its Flash-based programming software and $899 price tag, Control4's new InfinityEdge touchpanel is inching closer the to the $500 benchmark set by the iPad.
Cost no concern? Savant Systems has perhaps the most entertaining interface of all. Its Touch TV products function both as full-fledged high-definition televisions and home control interfaces. Without interrupting the TV program, a user can tap the screen to bring up a menu of control options, from which commands to lights, thermostats, security devices and more can be launched.
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2. Not Your Father's Remote … or TV or Telephone
For years, companies like Remote Technologies Inc. (RTI), Universal Remote Control (URC) and Philips Pronto have focused on manufacturing handheld remotes for operating A/V systems and home theater components. While these companies are still great sources for traditional clickers, they've broadened their scope to include complete home automation systems. "Operating things is what we do and we want to control everything," says URC CTO Eric Johnson. So much so, that the company recently changed its name from Universal Remote Control to just URC.
To facilitate the transition from clicker to complete home control, most manufacturers have developed wireless control hubs ($150 to $1,000) that deliver signals from the remote control to the other systems. These hubs, in turn, deliver feedback to the screen of the remote or touchpanel. They've also developed technology partnerships with third-party manufacturers. Through these partnerships, the manufacturers collectively develop two-way modules and drivers that allow their respective devices to seamlessly communicate, ultimately forming a network of devices that can be controlled via brand of handheld remote or touchpanel.
"Through the creation of these modules we've done all of the heavy lifting for the home systems installer," says RTI VP of sales and marketing Pete Baker. "He no longer has to write his own scripts and codes to get products to intercommunicate." For consumers, this results in a system that's simpler to install and therefore more affordable. And, one that can operate everything from thermostats and lights to irrigation systems and pool controls.
Now that RTI, URC and Philips Pronto have become legitimate automation manufacturers, they've had to broaden their own product portfolios to include touchpanels. "We currently have more touchpanels than we do handheld remotes," says Baker. As he explains, the larger screen of a touchpanel is more suitable than the small screen of a handheld remote for operating lots of subsystems.
You'll also find automation popping up in devices like A/V receivers, cable boxes and telephones. Sony, for example, employs a feature called Quick Click in some of its receivers, which when configured allows the receiver to operate lights in addition to typical A/V gear. The built-in screen of Panasonic's KX-NT400 IP network telephone, meanwhile, can be an interface for operating a Control4 automation system.
3. Falling Prices
The remote control manufacturers aren't the only ones focusing on affordable home control solutions. It's a common theme across the industry. But nowhere is it more obvious than from high-end companies like Crestron, Elan Home Systems and AMX. They continue to add affordable solutions. "It's a natural maturation of the technology," says Singer. "Automation has evolved to the point where it's no longer perceived to be a luxury." Adds Elan CTO Bob Farinelli: "There's enough awareness and demand from consumers now that it's time to cater to the mass market. Scaling down has become essential in order to compete with folks [like RTI, URC and Pronto] who are heading in the same direction."
Crestron's Prodigy and Elan's g! systems are inching closer to that pricing sweet spot. They cost considerably less than the company's high-end systems, but still offer many of the same features, albeit on a smaller scale. For example, the Prodigy can distribute six audio and video signals to six zones, compared with the dozens of sources and zones handled by the Crestron's high-end offerings. And instead of 10-inch color touchpanels, 4- and 6-inch touchpanels are offered with Prodigy.
Paring down processing power is one way Elan is cutting costs. Like others, the company has made its g! system easier and quicker for custom integrators to program and install. As a result, consumers will pay less than they have in the past for labor. "We have developed canned templates that custom integrators can use when designing touchpanel graphics," says Farinelli. "They can design and install a full system in a lot less time than with a highly customizable, expensive home automation system."
Elan Home Systems' new g! system shows how automation is becoming more mainstream.
4. Broader Distribution
As manufacturers continue to streamline and simplify their systems, expect to see design and installation services through a wider variety of channels. In addition to the classic custom electronics professionals, you'll be able to buy automation from security dealers, electric utilities and cable companies.
This trend is not completely new, as companies like HAI have been selling through security dealers for years. However, "it's a shift that will gain momentum in the next 12 to 24 months," says Greg Roberts, vice president of marketing for iControl Networks. His company happens to be spearheading the big distribution push, as biggies like ADT have invested in its ConnectedLife system, a web-based technology designed to be integrated into alarm panels, cable boxes and other mass-market devices.
Available via ADT's new Pulse system, consumers will get the standard features of an alarm system, plus the ability to control a home's lights, thermostats, surveillance cameras and other devices via any web-based controller—at an entry level price of $399, plus around $45 for monitoring.
"Home control is a natural extension for us," says Don Boerema, chief marketing officer for ADT North America. Plus, the market conditions are ripe to go mass market, he adds. "In the past, home automation systems were made up of disparate products. Now those products can be fully integrated. Before, all systems had to be wired into a house, now there are wireless solutions. Systems used to be expensive, now they're affordable."
5. Energy Management Makes Its Move
Home automation has rarely been a hot button for consumers. Usually they're looking for something else, like a home theater, and that's okay. Home theater is, and continues to be, a great way for consumers to segue into full-blown automation, and many manufacturers offer home theater control systems that can be expanded to include the control of lights, thermostats and other devices.
There's a new Trojan horse, though, and that's energy management. As utilities continue to roll out smart grids and look for ways to curb production, and homeowners grow increasingly more energy-conscious, home automation seems the likely solution. "It may be that you can live without high-def video around the house, but when your utilities are running $500 a month, it's time to do something about it," says Farinelli.
One of the places manufacturers are starting is at the thermostat. (Studies show that due to the complexity, most homeowners never take the time to program their thermostats, which completely negates their purpose. Per an edict from the EPA, programmable thermostats can no longer be sold as Energy Star-certified devices.)
An automation system can greatly simplify the task of programming thermostats, as well as other energy-hungry devices. Many manufacturers, including Elan, have developed straightforward scheduling programs, accessible on touchpanels, which allow consumers to set up daily adjustments for their thermostats.
URC and Control4 have taken it a step further by integrating energy monitoring features into their systems. Homeowners can see, right on the screen of a user interface, real-time energy usage in kilowatts and dollars spent, for example. They can key in on the main energy guzzlers and pattern their behavior accordingly.
Companies like AMX (pictured), Control4 and URC have integrated energy monitoring features into their systems.
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—Sarah Fischer JD'13, intern for Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler JD '76 in U.S. District Court
Each summer, more than 100 first-year Suffolk Law students work alongside judges in courthouses all over New England through Suffolk Law's First-Year Summer Internship Program (FYSIP).
Applications for first-year day and second-year evening students are available in January; the application deadline is in late January. Students can look for details on Symplicity or contact Margaret Talmers, associate director for judicial clerkships and internships.
One of the driving forces behind the success of the program is the eagerness of area judges to be involved. It helps that Suffolk Law has so many graduates who are active judges—140 in Massachusetts and more than 220 total across the country, as of 2013.
Jessica Gonzalez JD'16 interned for Brookline District Court Judge Mary Dacey White JD'78 during the summer of 2014.
"It's pretty amazing to witness different trials, see the lawyers in action and their different styles. You really learn what you should do in court and what not to do," Gonzalez says. "Sometimes the cases can be very intense. We see how the judge deals with it, and afterward she talks with us about how she's going to rule."
In one case, Gonzalez and her fellow clerks watched closing arguments, then helped write the decision.
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Suffolk Law graduate Sarah Fischer JD '13 interned for Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler JD '76 in U.S. District Court.
"This is something everyone should do their first year," Fischer says. "You see law, and lawyers, in practice." She spent time both in the courtroom and conducting research. "The research and writing experience was invaluable," explains Fischer. (Read more about Suffolk Law students' experiences as judicial interns.)
Fischer says Judge Bowler was actively involved with mentoring Suffolk interns, taking time to teach and explain things, and really getting to know the interns in her court.
"I heard Judge Bowler address a group of students once, and she told us how Suffolk supported her throughout her career, and that it would support us as well," Fischer remembers.
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on Mon 3/16 9:08 ET
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Week 3 Matches
Friday, Mar 20
PHI - DAL 7 pm ET
Saturday, Mar 21
NER - MON 3 pm ET
COL - NYC 4 pm ET
ORL - VAN 7:30 pm ET
SKC - POR 8:30 pm ET
LAG - HOU 10:30 pm ET
Sunday, Mar 22
RNY - DCU 5 pm ET
SJE - CHI 7 pm ET
Idle: CMB, RSL, SEA, TOR
Four teams idle this week. Next week many players
will be gone to play for their national teams.
Here are the 10 players whose fee rose the most
over the last week:
Villarreal, Jose
Mears, Tyrone
Barnes, Giles
Hernandez, Moises
Schuler, Chris
Seitz, Chris
Findley, Robbie
Sarkodie, Kofi
Cheyrou, Benoit
Opara, Ike
Here are the 10 players whose fee decreased the
most over the last week (in order from smallest to
largest. Birnbaum decreased the most at 41):
Franklin, Sean
Hamid, Bill
DeLeon, Nick
Kemp, Taylor
Boswell, Bobby
Piatti, Ignacio
Kitchen, Perry
Collin, Aur�lien
Kennedy, Dan
Birnbaum, Steve
from Weirder Bremen
on Mon 3/16 9:29 ET
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This could be a good time to pick up DC players.
Their fees all seemed to take a hit this last week.
from Shaolin Mystigods
on Mon 3/16 17:57 ET
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Yes, and there is some payback to see about in
Harrison NJ
from Stormin Union
on Mon 3/16 19:01 ET
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Gotta love the rivalry matchups from Stormin Union
on Tue 3/17 21:29 ET
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Chance of snow in philly this Friday, what is this Alaska? from Stormin Union
on Tue 3/17 21:34 ET
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Luis, that groundhog who lives in your half of the state keeps
predicting long winters and it's really getting old.
from C�nicas AC
on Wed 3/18 14:07 ET
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Norm, my often voiced and very negative opinion of Punxsutawney
Phil is well known in this area. I have been proposing for years to
have that rectal orifice becoming the next hamburger challenge at
Clearfield's Denny's Beer. Particularly as he systematically predicts
another long winter when we are buried in the snow. Not a nice
(Incidentally I first discovered Denny's accidentally, precisely while
looking for somewhere - with food and beer - to stop in the middle
of a very nasty blizzard)
from C�nicas AC
on Wed 3/18 14:32 ET
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And now, time for the first episode of the new season of "C�nicas
completely erroneous predictions." (insert your sponsorship
PHI - DAL: Tough one. Dallas has only got one goal (and not
many chances against in two games). My main concern would be
the three goals that Philly got last weekend, but I like their
attack. So I predict that Dallas will regress to the mean in their
defense and a high-scoring issue that can go either way. Call me
crazy, but if things go that way, I give a slight edge to Philly.
NER - MON: Ngyen is back, NER has much more talent than that
and, come on, a team coached by Jay Heaps cannot have
forgotten how to defend. NER 2-0.
COL - NYC: You know I like what Colorado have been doing
these past few years: building slowly but surely. Still, after the
defense changes they still need to gel. Probably as much an
"expansion team" in that sense as NYC, and I really liked what I
saw from the latter in the first two games. Villa and Kreis? NYC
wins this one easy.
ORL - VAN: Oh boy. I think Orlando will be better away than
home, and Vancouver is a tough, very conservative cookie away,
but if there is a good chance of getting the first win home, it will
not be much better than this one.
SKC - POR: I like POR, but you know SKC will eventually get
their... ehr... sheep together. They will win this one, but will not
be easy.
LAG - HOU: Houston are in the middle of one of their usual slow
starts, and LA, even without LD, are IMHO an improved version
of themselves. Clean sheet and clear win for LA.
RNY - DCU: DCU, of course. Not the slightest of doubts for this
SJE - CHI: The last couple of years I kept having the same
impression about SJE that I had about Columbus before their
championship in Schelotto's times: that roster can do way better
than that. They may be back this season. But, specially, I think
Chicago may become that team that make anybody playing
against them look like the six-titles-in-a-year Barcelona. SJE
scores a bunch.
from Shaolin Mystigods
on Wed 3/18 15:01 ET
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My goodness, did you have to sign a medical waiver
to get into Denny's Beer Barrel???
But they serve Bell's and Great Lakes on tap, so
what time is good?
from Dynamo Silver Spring
on Wed 3/18 16:21 ET
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We can get Bell's and Great Lakes here Dave, no need to travel. from C�nicas AC
on Wed 3/18 16:43 ET
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Great Lakes??? I cannot believe you have brought a Cleveland beer
into the conversation. What's wrong with you two? Didn't you see
Yuengling in the menu?
from Stormin Union
on Wed 3/18 20:40 ET
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Bell's is an awesome brewery, most of my favorites are local
(Yards, Troegs, Victory, DFH) but the one exception is Bell's.
Their Oberon ale is great and also think their porter is one of
the best out there. Since the winter is apparently continuing for
a few more months in philly (as Luis mentioned, the curse of
the groundhog, apparently he is a feisty one too since I heard
that he bit his handler after giving the most recent prediction)
I'm delaying getting spring beers and sticking with stouts and
porters for now until spring arrives in July.
from Dynamo Silver Spring
on Thu 3/19 15:06 ET
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I still don't think Hopslam is worth the money they charge for a six pack.
Great Lakes beers are far superior to Yuengling, which in turn is far better than other mass-market American lagers.
from Stormin Union
on Fri 3/20 7:39 ET
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No snow so far today in philly but some expected later this
morning, hopefully it won't interfere with the game tonight but
planning to be there.
from Weirder Bremen
on Fri 3/20 8:59 ET
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Go Steelers!
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Senior officials from the Attorney-General's Department seemed quite pleased that spending on the royal commission into child sex abuse came in under budget.
But when news emerged on Wednesday that the savings were channelled into another public inquiry - probing a botched home insulation scheme - it stirred high-level outcry.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the Abbott government had broken a promise by cutting funding to the royal commission.
The Australian Greens labelled the decision as "unjustifiable".
Attorney-General George Brandis said the criticism was misleading and had the head of his department make a statement.
"There should be no suggestion that funding was taken away from the child abuse royal commission that it needed, or without its knowledge," Roger Wilkins told a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Wednesday.
The department recouped $6.7 million of unspent funds it had budgeted in 2013/14 for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
There was an "underspend" of $4 million on capital fit-out works, and $2.7 million set aside for legal expenses and witness support was also not needed.
"Money that has been appropriated and would otherwise ... not have been used," Mr Wilkins said.
"It was not a case of removing funding from an existing need and leaving that need under resourced."
The $6.7 million formed the department's one-third contribution to the $20 million budget for the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program, shared with the departments of industry and environment.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott denied his government was short-changing royal commissions.
The inquiry into child sex abuse was shaping up to be the best funded in Australian history, with about $377 million budgeted until 2016, he said.
The home insulation royal commission is due to come in $4 million below its $20 million budget, Senator Brandis said.
That includes footing a pricey legal bill for counsel representing past politicians.
The hearing was told former prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard and past Labor ministers Lindsay Tanner, Peter Garrett and Mark Arbib between them enlisted three QCs, two SCs and two junior counsel at the taxpayer's expense under the provisions of the royal commission.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama said Wednesday victims of Hurricane Sandy will "get all the help you need" and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said "we will get up."
The megastorm killed at least 70 people in the United States, including 24 in New York City alone, The New York Times reported, after leaving a like number dead in the Caribbean. Property damage could be as high as $20 billion throughout the Northeast, catastrophe-risk modeling firm EQECAT said.
Speaking in Brigantine, N.J., after a tour of damage caused by the massive storm, Obama said: "We are here for you and we will not forget. We will follow up to make sure that you get all the help you need until you rebuild."
Christie thanked Obama for his "personal concern" for New Jersey and said, "We will get up and we will get this thing rebuilt."
Christie said New Jersey's "challenge now is to get back to normalcy," and he once again expressed gratitude to Obama for the administration's response to the disaster.
"I'm pleased to report that he has sprung into action immediately ... while we were riding in the car together," Christie said of the president.
Obama's tour of the Garden State came as the storm headed toward Canada.
At least 6.2 million customers were without power Wednesday -- down from an estimated 8 million late Tuesday -- and more than 18,000 flights had been canceled since Sandy first started moving along the East Coast, after causing at least 67 deaths in the Caribbean.
Repair crews were reporting progress Wednesday in restoring electrical service to hundreds of thousands in West Virginia, but Kanawha County Manager Jennifer Sayre said in a release it might take until Sunday to get all service restored, The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette reported.
By Wednesday morning, the number of Appalachian Power customers without service was about 118,000 -- down from almost 126,000 Tuesday night, the power company said.
In the northern part of West Virginia, First Energy said 100,725 of its customers were without electricity Wednesday morning, down from almost 110,000 Tuesday night -- but more service disruptions were reported later Wednesday because of new snow accumulations.
First Energy said power would not be fully restored until next week.
Dominion Virginia Power said Wednesday it has restored service to more than 90 percent of its 205,000 Northern Virginia customers affected by the storm, and -- with a few exceptions -- full restoration is expected by Thursday night.
During a conference call with reporters Wednesday, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the federal response to the disaster is intended to "get resources where they are needed as fast as possible without delays."
"We're asking everyone to be patient as we work with all speed we can to ... restore the necessities of life to areas affected by this storm," she said.
Red Cross Senior Vice President of Disaster Services Charley Shimanski said the organization's needs come down to two main items: blood and money. He said the storm has caused cancellation of large numbers of blood drives, putting a great strain on supplies, and he noted that providing shelter, food and other services in storm-damaged areas is very expensive.
In New York City, the state Metropolitan Transportation Authority restarted limited suburban commuter-rail service Wednesday and will resume limited subway service Thursday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
Significant sections of the largest U.S. mass-transit system remained disabled.
Commuter-rail service was available on the Metro-North Commuter Railroad to the northern suburbs in New York and Connecticut and the Long Island Rail Road, between Manhattan and the length of Long Island. Limited subway service was to be restored between Manhattan and Brooklyn, Cuomo said.
Newark Liberty International and Kennedy International airports resumed operations, but many airlines still operated on a limited basis, said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the New York-area airports. LaGuardia Airport remained closed after suffering damage.
Stewart International Airport, 55 miles north of the city, also was open with limited service, the Port Authority said.
Philadelphia International Airport officials said operations were resuming Wednesday.
Amtrak said Wednesday it will provide modified Northeast Regional service beginning Thursday between Boston and New Haven, Conn., and between Newark, N.J., and points south. Amtrak said it will also operate shuttle service trains between Springfield, Mass., and New Haven, Keystone Service trains between Harrisburg, Pa., and Philadelphia, and Downeaster service trains between Boston and Portland, Maine, along with additional overnight services to and from the Northeast.
The announcement said Amtrak plans to restore modified service into and out of New York City Friday.
But no Northeast Regional service is planned between Newark and New Haven and no Acela Express service will be available for the length of the Northeast Corridor Thursday.
A huge fire burned on Mantoloking Island off the New Jersey shore, where flames could be seen shooting directly out of the sand, WABC-TV, New York, reported.
New Jersey authorities believe a gas main explosion may be the cause of the fire that spread quickly across the island, destroying several homes, the report said.
Firefighters could not reach the blaze due to storm damage on the roads leading to the island.
Neighborhoods in New Jersey were still deluged with water as Obama surveyed damage by helicopter and met with victims of the storm with Christie.
Obama, Christie and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate took an aerial tour aboard the presidential helicopter Marine One of New Jersey areas damaged by the storm and then went to Brigantine, an island northeast of Atlantic City -- where the president told residents gathered at a community center Christie "is working overtime to make sure that as soon as possible everybody can get back to normal."
Christie told the audience it is "really important to have the president of the United States acknowledge all the suffering that's going on here in New Jersey and I appreciate it very much. We're going to work together to make sure we get ourselves through this crisis and get everything back to normal. Thank you for coming, sir."
Christie -- the keynote speaker at this year's Republican National Convention and a harsh critic of the president at times -- is drawing some criticism from conservatives and other fellow Republicans for his effusive praise of Obama's handling of the storm response.
NBC News reported Christie said he would ask Obama to direct the Army Corps of Engineers to look into rebuilding beaches to protect towns, but he said "it won't be the same because some of the iconic things are washed into the ocean."
Much of the famed Boardwalk in Atlantic City was destroyed and the resort city for gambling and conventions was all but submerged.
The U.S. Navy Wednesday sent three helicopter carrier ships -- the USS Wasp, USS Carter Hall and USS Mesa Verde -- to the New Jersey and New York coasts, NBC reported. The ships are to function as landing platforms for military and civilian agency helicopters if needed, officials said.
The National Weather Service's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center said in its 11 a.m. EDT advisory winds, rain and snowfall were diminishing, and gale warnings were in effect for portions of the Great Lakes. Winds were expected to diminish, but coastal flooding along portions of the Great Lakes was possible, forecasters said.
Rather than identifying a location for the center of the storm, forecasters said multiple centers of circulation associated with the storm were across the lower Great Lakes.
Flood watches and warnings were posted across New England and flood warnings were in effect for portions of the northern mid-Atlantic region.
Winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories were in effect along the central Appalachians, and the mountains of West Virginia into western Maryland and southwest Pennsylvania were likely to get another 2 to 4 inches of snow. West Virginia has already had 3 feet of snow and at least 2 feet of snow has fallen in parts of Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.
New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center was evacuating 500 patients Wednesday because of problems keeping the building powered.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital said Wednesday it has resumed performing surgical procedures and its emergency departments and dialysis centers are fully operational.
The hospital said it is still receiving patients from other area hospitals.
Obama signed federal emergency declarations for 10 states and the District of Columbia and spoke with 20 governors and mayors on a conference call.
New York financial markets resumed trading Wednesday even though much of the city was without electricity.
At least 80 homes caught fire and burned in a Queens neighborhood.
New York's subway system suffered the most devastating damage from floodwaters in the system's 108-year history, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota said Tuesday. The New York Harbor saltwater that gushed into subway tunnels may have corroded signal and switching systems, he said.
He said service would not be fully restored for at least four or five days.
New York buses began running again Tuesday afternoon and Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered a ride-sharing program for taxis.
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut reopened many closed roads and bridges.
New York police executed several daring air rescues, dropping lifelines to rescue at least six people, including a child, the Times reported.
Police said there haven't been any signs of looting or other indications of crimes of opportunity taking place because of the storm, the Times said.
During an evening news conference Tuesday, Bloomberg said more police would be part of overnight shifts in the parts of the city still in darkness.
"This is the calm after the storm," one police officer told the Times.
Dangerous surf conditions were expected from Florida to New England for the next couple of days.


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The Jackson County Sheriff's Department is asking for volunteers to help distribute fliers Saturday, Aug. 24, in an effort to locate a missing Ruch woman.
Stephanie Anne Warner, 43, was last seen on the Fourth of July, authorities say. News videos show Warner marching in Ashland's Independence Day parade on behalf of the Jackson County Fuel Committee. The brown-eyed, red-haired, 5-feet-2-inch, 135-pound woman was wearing black pants and a pink tank top at the event.
Detective Eric Henderson said Warner's neighbors, friends and boyfriend, Lennie Ames, have all been questioned in an effort to find the missing woman. Detectives and search-and-rescue crews have repeatedly searched Warner's home and surrounding area to no avail, Henderson said. (Correction: Ames' name has been corrected.)
"There is no indication she left the area," Henderson said. "There has been no activity with her bank account, and we have had her vehicle at the sheriff's office since July 9."
Now the Sheriff's Department is partnering with the fuel committee, local churches and Warner's friends and family to ask volunteers to help distribute fliers throughout Jackson County, he said.
Leads have been few in the missing-person case, and Henderson hopes Saturday's flier distribution will bring new information.
"We've had just a few, small, handful of tips," Henderson said. "All have been followed up on."
Warner's family, who live in Louisiana, called to report her disappearance. Her mother stated it was unlike her daughter to go without contact. Warner's family created the flier that will be distributed in a further attempt to located the missing woman, he said.
The flier states Warner typically wears a small, metal cross necklace fashioned of nails and bronze wire strung on a long black cord. Her tattoos include a green peacock on her left thigh, a woman's face in profile with a large butterfly in her hair on her right thigh, and a pink flowered vine with an owl sitting on it on her right ankle, Henderson said.
Warner was "a very active volunteer" with the Jackson County Fuel Committee, Henderson said.
"It's not like her to miss any Saturdays," he said.
Henderson said gathering her friends and colleagues, along with other volunteers, might lead to information that will help locate Warner.
"It's a good way to keep her name out there, and to get the community together to help try to find her," Henderson said.
If interested in helping, meet at the Jackson County Fuel Committee lot at the corner of Eagle Mill Road and South Valley View Road in Ashland at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Anyone with information about Warner's disappearance is asked to call the sheriff's tip line at 541-774-8333 or email email@example.com.
Reach reporter Sanne Specht at 541-776-4497 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sheriff seeks public's help finding missing woman
The Jackson County Sheriff's Department is asking for volunteers to help distribute fliers Saturday, Aug. 24, in an effort to locate a missing Ruch woman.


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For a while now, I've suspected that the execution plan the SQL Server 2005 query optimizer typically chooses for a common query pattern is suboptimal, but until recently I never bothered to try and prove it. Not long ago, though, I managed to confirm that my suspicions were correct. I'll describe my findings and recommend a course of action to optimize the default suboptimal plan. And in the sidebar "More Fun With Execution Plans," I discuss another interesting example of optimizer behavior.
Suboptimal Plan for an ORDER BY Query
The query pattern I refer to occurs when you request to sort rows from a table based on a column on which you have a nonclustered, noncovering index. For example, suppose you have a table T1 with columns col1 (INT), col2 (INT), and filler (CHAR(200)). The table has a large number of rows (say 1,000,000). You have a clustered index on col1 and a nonclustered index on col2. Examine the following query, and try to think of an optimal execution plan for it:
SELECT * FROM dbo.T1 ORDER BY col2;
There are more than two possible execution plans for this query, but these two are the most straightforward:
- Perform a full table scan (unordered clustered index scan), then sort the rows by col2 (call this plan Table Scan Plus Sort).
- Perform an ordered nonclustered index scan of the leaf of the index on col2, and look up each data row by performing a seek operation in the clustered index for each row (call this plan Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups).
For large tables (with hundreds of thousands or millions of rows), the optimizer opts for Table Scan Plus Sort by default, whereas I propose that Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups is more optimal. Maybe the costing algorithms that the SQL Server 2005 optimizer uses for this query type rely here on relics from older systems.
In terms of logical reads alone, of course, Table Scan Plus Sort involves many fewer logical reads than Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups. For this example, let's assume that table T1 resides on 25,000 pages (in the clustered index's leaf) and that the number of pages in the nonclustered index on col2 is 2000. Both the clustered and nonclustered indexes have three levels in the balanced trees.
With Table Scan Plus Sort, the number of logical reads is 25,000. With Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups, 2000 logical reads are required to fully scan the leaf level of the nonclustered index, plus 1,000,000 × 3 logical reads for the lookups. In total, you get more than 3,000,000 logical reads for Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups. So in terms of logical reads alone, obviously Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups involves many more than Table Scan Plus Sort.
However, sorting a large number of rows can be very expensive. Table Scan Plus Sort needs to sort as many rows as the number of rows in the table, whereas Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups involves no sorting at all because the nonclustered index on col2 is scanned in order. The cost of each lookup is constant (three reads), whereas the cost of sorting isn't linear—that is, in terms of algorithmic complexity, sorting is n log(n). Even worse, if the table is too big, so that there's not enough memory for the sort operation, SQL Server will have to spill rows to disk to manage the sort operation; in this case, sorting becomes substantially more expensive.
Before I present a benchmark proving this point, run the code in Listing 1 to create the table T1 in the testdb database and populate it with 1,000,000 rows. The code first creates a helper function called fn_nums that returns a result set with a sequence of a requested number of integers. The code then uses this function to populate T1 with the requested number of rows (1,000,000).
Now request the estimated execution plan for the following query:
SELECT * FROM dbo.T1 ORDER BY col2;
You'll get the execution plan that Figure 1 shows: Table Scan Plus Sort.
To measure this plan's performance, in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), go to Tools, Options, SQL Server, Query results, Results to grid, and select the Discard results after execution check box; doing so eliminates the time it takes to generate the output. Then in a new query window, run the following code:
USE testdb; DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS; SELECT * FROM dbo.T1 ORDER BY col2;
On my test system, this query took more than two minutes to run (the runtime in seconds is displayed at the bottom-right corner of SSMS).
Forcing an Optimal Plan
To test the performance of the desired plan (Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups), I wanted to force SQL Server to use the nonclustered index. Initially I thought that doing so would be simple—just specify an index hint. But the task proved to be more complicated than I expected.
Here's the index hint that I added to the query:
SELECT * FROM dbo.T1 WITH (index = idx_nc_col2) ORDER BY col2;
To my surprise, instead of getting Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups, I got the execution plan that Figure 2 shows. I didn't expect this plan, but after I analyzed it, I understood what was going on. First, the leaf level of the nonclustered index is fully scanned but without reliance on order (Ordered = False). The rows returned from this scan are then sorted based on the clustering keys (i.e., first sort operator in the plan). The reason for this sort is to optimize the lookups for the data rows (Clustered Index Seek operator). If you think about it, SQL Server fetches data rows that reside in the same data page by using the Clustered Index Seek operator consecutively. After all data rows are fetched, the rows are sorted based on their col2 values (i.e., second sort operator in the plan).
Interesting as it might be, this plan is still less efficient than the one I want: Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups. The problem I faced at that point was that by using a simple index hint, I could force the optimizer to use the nonclustered index, but not in the manner in which I wanted it to be used (namely, ordered scan followed by lookups).
Originally I thought that my only option to force the optimizer to use the desired plan was to use a new query hint in SQL Server 2005 called USE PLAN. This hint lets you provide an XML value containing a complete execution plan that you want SQL Server to run. But apparently there's a much simpler option—to use the FASTFIRSTROW query hint. This hint tells the optimizer that you want a plan that will return the first row as quickly as possible. The default plan that the optimizer chooses when no hints are specified has to first finish sorting the data before it can return the first row. Therefore, it can take some time before SQL Server can return the first row. By using an ordered scan of the nonclustered index, SQL Server can return the first row almost instantly. So although the optimizer estimates that in terms of throughput (total runtime) Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups is less efficient than Table Scan Plus Sort, doubtless the former is faster in terms of response time (first row returned). Thus, by specifying the hint, as in the following query, you get the desired plan, which Figure 3 shows.
SELECT * FROM dbo.T1 WITH (FASTFIRSTROW) ORDER BY col2;
This query ran for about 20 seconds on my test system—several times faster than with the default plan (Table Scan Plus Sort).
Trust Your Intuition
I ran a benchmark testing the two plans using table sizes ranging from 100,000 rows to 1,000,000 rows in steps of 100,000 rows. Web Figure 4, shows the benchmark results. You can see that in all cases, Ordered Index Scan Plus Lookups (forced with the FASTFIRSTROW hint) is substantially faster than Table Scan Plus Sort.
This exercise was an important lesson for me. Trust your intuition, and when you suspect that a plan that the optimizer produces isn't optimal, benchmark to check whether your suspicions are correct. I'm not saying that it's common to get suboptimal plans in trivial cases, but it's good to know that when you do find such a plan you have tools to deal with it. In such cases, it's important to report the problem to Microsoft, as I did.


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Minor injuries reported in Wapakoneta crash
An accident involving two vehicles occurred on the state Route 67 construction site around 3:20 p.m. on Friday.
Two minor injuries were reported, and the Ohio State Highway Patrol is still investigating damages.
One of the drivers was driving West bound on state Route 67 and turned, failing to yield to another driver traveling East bound.
Trooper Tim Wenger said both drivers were conscious when taken to the hospital, and no major injuries are expected.
The Wapakoneta Fire and EMS responded to the crash.


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If the keg is unused for a while does it lose co2 pressure?Is there any oxidation risk as co2 escapes (if possible) and is replaced by air?
Can you post a pic or link to the regulator you have? I'm not sure if you mean it's a dual-body model or if you're talking about the high- and low-pressure gauges. At any rate, this is how to set a regulator:
When the shutoff is open and the keg is pressurized, should the gauge for the keg pressure stay at ~12 psi (or whatever it was set to)?
If you had the regulator valve (the one to the keg) open, and accidentally allowed pressure to rise up to say 40 psi or something, what is the effect on the beer?
It takes roughly 7-10 days to carbonate the beer using only head pressure. A few seconds (or hours) won't matter.
Once I have vented out the air from a freshly filled keg, I set the pressure at serving pressure and leave it for a week. Normally that does the trick. If I'm in a hurry I bump the pressure to 15-20 and leave it 24 hrs then drop to serving.This is the easy peasy house brew way for me but when you get into proper carb volumes per style it's another ball game out of my low tech home brew league


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WASHINGTON, April 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:CYCC) (Nasdaq:CYCCP) ("Cyclacel" or the "Company") today announced that the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) highlighted data at a press conference in Washington, D.C. from a clinical trial evaluating a novel combination regimen of two of the Company's orally available, experimental drugs, sapacitabine and seliciclib. The trial enrolled patients with an incurable form of cancer associated with BRCA defects in the patients' genome. The press conference was held yesterday on the occasion of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2013 which opened here this weekend.
"We are pleased to have our data with sapacitabine and seliciclib selected by the AACR's Annual Meeting Program Committee," said Spiro Rombotis, Cyclacel's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Our novel, all-oral, combination of two Cyclacel drugs fits the theme of this year's AACR: 'Personalizing Cancer Care Through Discovery Science'. This recognition of the importance of our work attests to the quality of Cyclacel's scientists and pipeline. Together with our late-stage clinical trial of sapacitabine in elderly patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia, these promising data in patients with solid tumors suggest the emergence of a personalized medicine strategy for Cyclacel in an area of high unmet medical need."
The press conference highlighted a small number of data presentations selected from approximately 6,000 scientific presentations at the conference by investigators from around the globe. Among the selected data, AACR previewed promising results of the sapacitabine and seliciclib regimen. The regimen was used to treat patients with incurable BRCA-deficient cancers. There are no drugs yet approved specifically for this patient population.
At the press conference the principal investigator of the study, Geoffrey Shapiro, M.D., Director, Early Drug Development Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, announced that when given sequentially, sapacitabine and seliciclib, worked together to induce durable partial responses and prolonged stable disease in patients who carry a BRCA mutation. The complete data will be formally presented by Dr. Shapiro during the scientific session of the AACR on Tuesday, April 9, at 2 pm Eastern.
About Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Cyclacel is a biopharmaceutical company developing oral therapies that target the various phases of cell cycle control for the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. Sapacitabine, Cyclacel's most advanced product candidate, is the subject of SEAMLESS, a Phase 3 trial being conducted under an SPA with the FDA as front-line treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in the elderly, and other studies for myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and solid tumors including breast, lung, ovarian and pancreatic cancer. Cyclacel's strategy is to build a diversified biopharmaceutical business focused in hematology and oncology based on a development pipeline of novel drug candidates. Please visit www.cyclacel.com for additional information.
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My main purpose is to learn Greek for the purpose of Biblical studies. I would like to not only read the New testament but the Septuagint as well. Also the Histories surrounding the Biblical periods that directly relate to Biblical study.
I know after the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities the world of the Hebrews fell under the Greek influence with Alexander the great and his generals. Is there enough Greek literature that would cover ancient history like the divided kingdom, captivity, kings of Persia - Assyria -and Babylon like Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Cyrus, Xerxes, as well as others?
As for between the Testament times are there manuscripts in Greek that discusses the Maccabean revolts and the cultures of those times as well as the diaspora of the Hebrew people.
I know by the time of the New Testament the world had come to speak Koine for which the NT was written but my main Question concerns itself around the time I would spend learning Pharr and some attic before moving to my main interest in koine.
As for Text I already have purchased Pharr's (revised) "Homeric Greek - a book for beginners" as well as J. Gresham Machen's "New Testament Greek for Beginners"- and a workbook on the same, also I have a BAGD, Thayer's Lexicon, Cunliff's "A lexicon of Homeric Dialect", Loeb's (Iliad books 1&2, Odyssey books 1&2, Herodotus books 1,2,3,&4), Athenaze book 1 as well as a smattering of vocabulary occurrences, and an enchiridion or two, Nestle-Aland "Novum Testamentum Graece" 27th Ed., and the United Bible Societies "The Greek New Testament" 2nd Ed..
If it were Bible only then I already have an answer, however, i do not know what other material is out there in older dialects that would behoove me with Pharr's or even attic prose.
Any suggestions with my aims and what I have on hand (besides what Testkit offers). Thank you.


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Skarn wrote:I tested and re-tested different pet teams until I found one that was very reliable and not subject to much RNG. This Tournament is a BIG step-up in difficulty from any of the single trainers. Simply because you have to fight seven in a row. It's a much bigger time investment and it rewards that.
If I find a pet in my list that would work well against a particular trainer, I just level it! You can easily level 2-3 pets a day against the Pandaria trainers. Since you have all week to beat each Tournament set, you can catch and level an entire team from scratch, assuming you've got the four Celestials already figured out.
It is definitely NOT designed for any random pet group to run in and one-shot it every week. I have found it a LOT of fun. There are obviously many different strats out there, but I know mine are very reliable. Problem with mine is there might be a few hard to get pets in there... Anyway, if anyone has trouble with my strats, I'd be happy to help you refine them or find a substitute pet.
If anyone needs help, feel free to hit me up at Skarn#1884. Good luck all!
Ebil wrote:But on teams like the one for Chi-Chi I still have problems (which I know is on the user end ) or times where rng just really is not in my favor, how can a pet dodge for two round *cries* .
Dweller wrote:Also, let's talk about something else: There's no way to save teams of pets, and the long list of pets (even with sorting options or the ability to search them by name) takes even more time to go through. It's making the whole process feel more tedious than enjoyable.
Azrile wrote:Every fight so far has had a ´secret´ pet or two that makes them trivial and they aren´t usually what you expect.
Snails on Chi Chi
Foxes on Xu
Raptors on Zao
Greg Grell on Yula
For the first 3, you only need 2 pets, for the last one, with a little luck, Greg Grell solos it, but if he doesn´t you can use anything for the kill shot.
These fights go from impossible to trivial very quickly.
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Just visited my grandson, eight months old, and got to thinking about spoiling him someday, and investing in the Jr drag program. In the past they did not interest me in the least, time to go to the concession stand, amazing how things can change isn't it? Anyway I was wondering about the rules as far as age requirements, type of car required, motor requirements, etc. I have seen an occasional non rail type car there but these days they all seem to be rails. Also, I notice in the for sale forum, they are quite expensive, which in my estimation, somewhat limits the participation. Anyway, is there any other type car allowed to race, say an x-go cart, that is set up to race oval track? Looking forward to the day, when I can pose with him in the winners circle, what a day...novice
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U have 7 years and 4 months too get him a Jr dragster.. Yes it needs to be a half scale rail. U don't have to spend a fortune to get started but is jus like racing a big car. It's never gonna be fast enough. Who knows what the rules will be in 7 years. Hit me up via text if u have more questions. Number in signature.
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Java 1A Practical Class
Much of the investigation into the Game of Life and other cellular automata considers patterns with particular properties such as infinite growth or oscillatory behavior. For this exercise you will write another implementation of TinyLife called LoopingLife. LoopingLife should determine if the pattern of cells found at generation t has been seen before at, say, generation t-n, thus detecting a loop or repeating pattern.
Since the game world is finite, all starting configurations will necessarily repeat at some point (they may stabilize to a static configuration which is simply a loop with period 1). The period of the loop in the Game of Life may be quite large, so in this tick you will search for a loop within at most 100 generations before giving up.
Begin by taking a copy of
TinyLife.java and
PackedLong.java files which you produced for Tick 2 and move them to a new package called
uk.ac.cam.crsid.tick2star. Delete the
play method and replace it with a method called
findLoop which should have the same method prototype (recall from Workbook 2 that a method prototype describes the number and the types of the arguments and return types or a method). Our search algorithm will proceed by keeping a record of all the worlds which we have previously generated. When generation t of the world is calculated, you will need to check the history of all previous worlds to see if the grid pattern associated with the current generation has been seen before; if the pattern has occurred previously (at, say, generation t-n) then we have found a loop of period n.
You should store the history of previous generations in a Java array. You will explore Java arrays in more detail next week, but for now you only need to know that an array of
long of length n has the capacity to store n values of type
long. The first element of the array is at index 0 and the final element is at index n-1.
To create a new array of type
long of length 100 you should write:
long[] myArray = new long[100];
Every element of an array of primitive values is initialized to a default value—for a
long array the default value is
0L. To retrieve or update the value stored at position
i in an array you use square brackets. For example
long value = myArray[i]; //retrieve the value stored at position i myArray[i] = 1000L; //store the value 1000 at position i myArray[i]++; //increment the value stored at position i
You should now implement the body of the
findLoop method. Your implementation should use an array of type
long to store the history of up to 100 generations. Your program should record a history of generations into the array and print out the string "i to j" if a loop is found between generation i and j. One way to print out a message of this form is:
System.out.println(i + " to " + j);
(In this code snippet Java will convert the two integers
i and
j to strings automatically and concatenates the three strings together for you before sending the final string to the terminal for display.)
If no loops are found after 100 generations you should print "No loops found". Once you are satisfied with your program you should put it in a jar file named
crsid-tick2star.jar and submit it to
firstname.lastname@example.com. Your jar file should contain the following files and directories:
META-INF/ META-INF/MANIFEST.MF uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick2star/LoopingLife.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick2star/LoopingLife.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick2star/PackedLong.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick2star/PackedLong.class
You should set the entry point of the jar file so that the following works:
crsid@machine:~> java -jar crsid-tick2star.jar 0x1824428181422418 0 to 4 crsid@machine:~>
(The previous example is a loop with a periodicity of 5. The longest oscillation the Lecturers know about within an 8-by-8 world has a periodicity of 32. If you find a longer loop, let us know. Or, if you can prove why loops of greater periodicity are not possible we would be even more interested!)


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From Jeannine Gailey's blog:
My new hairstylist had recently visited Chile with friends, one of whom offered to take her on a tour of Pablo Neruda's homes. We talked about how important poetry was to the culture there. Then she said, "ARE there any American poets?" And I said, "Yes, but they're all in hiding at universities."
This conversation led me to think that maybe all those studies showing people just aren't aware of contemporary poetry are right on. Perhaps poets should join an American Idol tour or something. Or we should create a show called "So You Think You Can Write..." My dream judging panel would be Louise Gluck or Margaret Atwood (for the strict one) Denise Duhamel (the bubbly one) and maybe Bob Hicok (the one who has the feel-good factor but says things that make very little sense.)
Would you watch that show?
This reminded me of something I heard yesterday while I was listening to one of the Academy of American Poets (podcast) on my iPod. I know, I am so unhip in the world. But nonetheless, I'm well read.
Anyway, this poetcast was Sharon Olds talking about Muriel Rukeyser. Sharon said that Muriel told her when she was a student that no one *wanted* to read poetry--Sharon said that Muriel said it to enthusiastically that it sounded optimistic! Muriel continued, saying that what poets need to do is to write the poem that the reader *can't* put down, write something that won't allow someone to shut the book.
Are we writing poems that are compelling to read? What makes a poem one that you can't put down?
For me, I find myself putting down poems where the poet is too self-conscious or poems that I feel are too calculating. As much as I love Tony Hoagland, there are a few poems where I feel as a reader I'm just being manipulated--he knows his talent and his skill and I am the girl in the bar he is trying to work his magic on. I don't want the clever pick-up line, I want the gaze in crowd that makes me feel as if I'm the only one in the room.
Hoagland's early work in Sweet Ruin does this. He was a younger poet at the time. He didn't have the following, the fans, the groupies, now in certain ways, he's become a caricature of himself. Even the photo on his newest book, the one where he looks like the nutty professor, suggests this self-conscious image, this I'm-the-whole-package idea.
And know that I say with a little hesitation because Hoagland is one of my favorites and I think he's one of the poets that can reach out to a wider audience.
And mostly, his poems are ones that I can't put down, but occasionally there's a poem that becomes the creepy stranger who feels he knows me well enough to tell me about his eczema, who occasionally comes up with the cheesy line: If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I together.


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Aspects of the mouth-watering Eee Keyboard have been mysterious since we first heard about it at the beginning of this year. Now that the FCC has had a go at the device and has released its documents, we have sweet description in full. "Several of the documents hidden from our anxious eyes during the FCC filing have now gone public. Not only can you visually inspect its innards, the feds have also laid bare the full spec sheet for the ASUS Eee Keyboard model EK1542. Beneath the 5-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touch panel (with stylus) we'll be getting Windows XP Home running on an Intel Atom N270, 945GSE / ICH7-M chipset with Broadcom AV-VD905 video decoder, 1GB of DDR2 memory, either 16GB or 32GB of flash storage, 4-hour battery, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, HDMI and VGA outputs, integrated stereo speakers and mic, 3x USB, headphone and mic jacks, and external WiFi / UWB antenna. The Eee Keyboard's on-board Ultra-Wideband (UWB) throws 720p content to your TV within a 5-meter range (10-meters for non-video transmissions) via a UWB receiver packing 2x USB ports, another mini-USB port, audio out, and HDMI. You can even connect to two external monitors at the same time using UWB and either VGA or HDMI cable. Now all we need is a final date and price... ASUS?"


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1950 Pittsburgh Pirates Team-Signed Ball with Honus Wagner
Starting Bid - $300, Sold For - $940
Official National League (Frick) ball signed in blue ink by the following twenty-seven members of the Pittsburgh Pirates: Wagner (coach, sweet spot), Kiner (sweet spot), Queen, Law, Strickland, Schenz, Murtaugh, Holt (coach), Werle, Westlake, Rojek, Chambers, Macdonald, Coogan, Beard, Posedel (coach), Levy (coach), Lombardi, Bell, Meyer (Mgr.), Riddle (coach, on ball label), Phillips, Fernandez, Main, Mueller, Castiglione, and Walsh. Signatures range from "7" to "10," averaging "8." 1950 was Wagner's penultimate season with the Pirates. The legendary "Flying Dutchman" probably spent more time in a Pittsburgh Pirates uniform than anyone else before or since. After a long and successful eighteen-year playing career in Pittsburgh (1900-1917), Wagner rejoined the club as a coach in 1930. Extremely popular with both the players and fans, Wagner was a fixture on the Pirates bench for twenty-two years before retiring in 1951 at the age of seventy-seven. Wagner is considered by many to be the greatest shortstop in history, and was one of the first five inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. He passed away in 1955. All of the manufacturer's stampings remain clearly legible and the ball is in Excellent to Mint condition. This is a particularly exceptional Pirates team ball dating from the end of Wagner's illustrious baseball career, with Wagner's signature beautifully displayed on the sweet spot. LOA from James Spence/JSA. Reserve $300. Estimate $500/$1,000. SOLD FOR $940
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17" LEXUS IS220 ALL SPACE SAVER WHEEL & TYRE KIT "Alloy Wheel"
- Brand: space saver
- Wheel size: 17
- Tyre size: 125/80 17
- Part code: R726D
- Fitment issues: no known issues
- Suitable for: IS220 ALL
17" LEXUS IS220 ALL SPACE SAVER WHEEL & TYRE KIT "Alloy Wheel"
Thanks for looking at our Space saver wheel and tyre offering.
A little bit about what you will get.
The kit contains Alloy Wheel, Tyre Jack & Wheel Brace also; it is supplied with a nice bag to keep it all together.
Answers to a couple of questions, which keep popping up.
Q: I have 19" wheels and you only offer a 17" wheel this will not fit.
A: Yes, The wheel will fit and not affect the way the vehicle drive, but why is this? I have 19" wheels and you offering a 17", in simple terms the overall Diameter remains the same or is within the 2.5% bigger or smaller limit. This is the same for all makes & models excluding some performance vehicles, for example, Audi RS Q5 due to its large brakes.
Q: I only need the wheel and tyre as I have the Jack & Wheel brace can you supply me just these?
A: Sorry we can only buy the full kit as offered and are unable to separate.


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Displaying Trophies: Finding a Spot for The Mounted Fish
I realize this post is not for everyone, but I've been trying to figure out how to incorporate a 4 foot mounted swordfish into my decor. Let me be clear though — I inherited it. Just like the giant mounted tarantula and mako shark, both of which were also passed down. But since I'm clueless on where to hang it without it looking like, say, a fish out of water, I decided I needed a little inspiration.
So where oh where should my fish hang? Living room, bedroom, bathroom? I can't seem to commit to any of the rooms shown in the gallery above, mainly because I'm not sure I want it to take center stage in a frequently used space (a feat hard to avoid with a trophy fish of this size). Perhaps a transition room such as the the hallway or stairwell?
Or I could just stick with a silly chalk fish, as seen in Jaclyn & Brian's Bright, Bold & Boisterous Home...
Images: 1. Nesting Place; 2. Kelly's Craftsman Comfort House Tour;
3-5. The Blue House.


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Chard Hogan
Comedy just silly enough to make you think! Funny things said by a funny guy. Self-deprecating, high energy and hilarious laugh out loud comedy. Stand-up comedy the right way ... with punch lines.
Chard grew up as a theater actor. However, it was 1989 when Chard started his stand up comedy career in Seattle, Washington. Chard was also a well known main stage performer with the Seattle branch of the world renown Improv organization Theater Sports and Unexpected Productions. He performed regularly in Seattle until he left the city in 1992 to begin his career as a stand-up comic. Chard and his career took off from Seattle in his 1975 VW Bus. He began touring the country with his good friend, fellow comic and future roommate, Mitch Hedberg. Mitch and Chard traveled to 33 states in about ten weeks. In 1994 Mitch Hedberg, Jana Johnson and Chard Hogan moved Pacifica California just outside of San Francisco. Chard's career eventually brought him to Hollywood in 1996.
In 2007 Chard recorded his first Stand-up Comedy CD. "Chard Remains" was recorded in Seattle at Chard's home club, The Comedy Underground. The CD includes a bonus track at the end of the show. The track is a song called Rebel Bird, which was written, performed and produced by VAL MYERS' comedy punk band Avant Tarde. (Chard was a part time member of this band and plays the bird in the song.) The CD comes with a six page booklet that provides bonus material, pictures and tributes to Val Myers, the late Kelly Moran and the late Mitch Hedberg.
Chard played a supporting role in the Mitch Hedberg film, "Los Enchiladas." Chard also had a supporting role in the Ian Harris film, "It Burns When I Laugh" which is currently featured on NETFLIX and has a rating of 4 out of 5 stars. More information can always be found on www.chardhogan.com. Chard would like to remind everyone of the existence of frogs and cheese.
Chard Hogan's Upcoming Shows
Chard Hogan is Known For
|It Burns When I Laugh
|Ian Harris Film
|Los Enchiladas
|Mitch Hedberg's Film


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Getting to the heart of the matter, it's one thing to agree that going forward we're not going to use the swastika in maps; it's quite another to say that we have to go back and re-do maps that already have them.
CC is an ever-evolving place. It's counter-productive to think that every time a decision is made we should go back and re-do things that were done under old rules. I hear this same argument come up over and over again whenever CC has a new policy. Just move on.