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ShanghaiTech University's School of Life Science and Technology held its 4th Annual Forum – Frontier of Cell Biology (FoCB2016) on December 16-17th. About 400 researchers from leading academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies gathered at the two-day event to present and discuss cutting-edge progress in the field of cell biology.
ShanghaiTech University Vice President and Provost Professor Yin Jie delivered the opening remarks. He proudly introduced the dramatic progress that ShanghaiTech University has achieved since it was founded three and a half years ago. School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) Dean Professor Lin Haifan briefly introduced SLST before thanking the organizing committee and volunteers and welcoming all the participants.
22 speakers from local and national wide institutions including ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Institute of Physics, Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, Fudan University, East China Normal University, as well as Soochow University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, Peking University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Nankai University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, shared their latest research progress in molecular cell biology, systems cell biology, medical cell biology, physical cell biology and developmental cell biology.
The forum also invited two winning teams from iGEM (the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition). These SLST undergraduate student teams had just won Gold and a Silver Medals in the international competition.
43 poster presenters introduced their research to the audience during the poster session along with the performance of a volunteer mini orchestra made up of ShanghaiTech undergraduate students. 12 Best Poster Award winners were selected by onsite voting to give flash talks on the second day.
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Double Dragon, from Japan Technos Corporation (apparently rebadged by Taito in the USA), is a standard two-player cooperative (simultaneous) 2-way scrolling (in some places, 4-way scrolling) side-on beat'em up game. The object of the game is to rescue your girlfriend; if both players survive to the end of the game, then before the game will end, one player has to beat up the other, which is a nice touch of realism.
The game runs on two 6809 processors and a Hitachi 63701. Music is provided by a Yamaha YM2151 FM synthesizer and a YM3012. At the time of writing (1998) there were several people working on emulators, including "Calb" of SNES emulator fame, but there are technical problems with emulating the game. The 63701 is an MC6301 code-compatible microcontroller in a very large package with lots of pins (apparently, it has 56-odd I/O lines), and 8K of internal PROM. Emulating the game may require reading out this PROM area, and I'm still not sure if it's even possible. Since my original review, I know that cloned Double Dragon ROMs have been emulated, and I think that's as close as we're likely to get.
Double Dragon uses a horizontal low-res monitor, one or two 8-way joysticks with three buttons, and it has a standard JAMMA pinout. DIP switch settings are as below:
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Frank Inn, who helped train Lassie and Rhubarb the cat, and on his own discovered and made actors of Arnold the pig on ''Green Acres,'' the 500 or so animals on ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' and his greatest star, Benji, the cuddly movie dog, died on July 27 in Sylmar, Calif. He was 86.
He died in the nursing home where he had lived in recent months, his daughter Kathleen Hees said.
Mr. Inn may have been television's greatest animal star maker. In the early 1950's, he trained his first big star, Cleo, the basset hound on ''The People's Choice'' who appeared with the actor Jackie Cooper. He followed up with Tramp, the mutt on ''My Three Sons,'' and Higgins, the canine star of ''Petticoat Junction,'' and also trained animals for shows like ''I Love Lucy,'' ''Ozzie and Harriet,'' ''The Addams Family'' and ''Barnaby Jones.''
At his peak, he worked a menagerie of around 1,000 animals, tended by 30 trainers, many of whom went on to train their own animal celebrities. Among them were Karl Lewis Miller, trainer of Babe the pig; Steve Martin, the handler of Gidget the taco-hawking Chihuahua; and Gary Gero, whose animals were seen in the recent remakes of ''Dr. Dolittle'' and ''101 Dalmatians.''
From mynah birds to skunks, Mr. Inn had everything beastly a studio might order. And if he didn't have it, he improvised: his Hereford bull looked just like the needed buffalo after a makeup artist's magic.
Elias Franklin Freeman was born on May 8, 1916, in Camby, Ind. He grew up in Mooresville, Ind., where his father was a Quaker minister and ran a flower shop and nursery. In an article he wrote in Full Gospel Business Men's Voice, Mr. Inn recalled working on a farm as a young man and being fired when he was seen helping the plow horses lie down and relax.Continue reading the main story
He headed west, not least because he was tired of spending so much of his time at his father's church services, he said in the article. He rode freight cars on his journey and took odd jobs, including that of circus clown. With the new life came a new name. Family members are not sure why he chose Frank Inn.
He got a job at a stable in Culver City, Calif. When a horse ran away with a rider, he grabbed the reins and kept it from running onto a busy highway. The grateful man worked for MGM and gave him a job at the studio sweeping streets, among other things, for $29.10 a week.
In the mid-1930's, he was injured in a car accident, and was taken to the hospital. A doctor pronounced him dead and sent him to the morgue. A group of embalming students was about to go to work on him when he moved slightly.
Though he was saved, Mr. Inn was far from recovered. A friend took him in during his long convalescence and got him a dog for company, which he named Jeep. When he almost fell over on his wheelchair reaching for Jeep, the dog barked. He found he could get a bark thereafter by simply raising his hand. He had trained his first animal, finding a natural talent in the process.
''He had an almost telepathic communication with animals,'' his daughter said. ''He could tell them to do things just by talking to them like a human. It used to be kind of eerie to me.''
When he returned to MGM, he was watching Henry East, a legendary trainer of animals, repeatedly fail to get a dog to climb up a flight of stairs, enter a bedroom, jump into bed, crawl under the covers, stick his head from the other end of the covers and bark. Mr. Inn said he had a dog that could do it and brought Jeep.
That led, in the late 1930's, to his first training jobs, including work with the dogs that appeared in the ''Blondie'' movie series.
Mr. East introduced Mr. Inn to the Weatherwaxes, the well-known family of animal trainers. He watched Frank Weatherwax work with Toto on ''The Wizard of Oz,'' and offered helpful suggestions. The Weatherwaxes hired him, and for 14 years he worked with Rudd Weatherwax, training Lassie after Lassie. On trips to locations for ''Lassie Come Home'' (1943), he rode in the boxcar with the dog.
Mr. Inn soon began to work on his own, and in 1952, won the first of his 40 Patsy awards, given by the American Humane Association, for ''Rhubarb,'' the movie about the yellow-striped cat he trained.
At his peak, he had more than 1,000 animals, including 100 dogs, 200 cats, farm animals and jungle animals. He had a mountain lion, bears, snakes, raccoons, chimpanzees and, according to his daughter, ''things that smelled really bad.''
His crowning success was Benji, who starred in four feature films and assorted television shows. Mr. Inn rescued him from the Burbank Animal Shelter in 1960, and he starred in ''Petticoat Junction.'' He was then called Higgins, but in the show's script he was never more than ''dog.'' Each week, for seven years, the dog was called on to do something new, Mr. Inn said. ''Which made that dog about the smartest that ever was, in my book,'' he said.
The dog came out of retirement to make the original ''Benji'' movie, which was released in 1974. He died in 1978 at 19, and his offspring carried on.
Mr. Inn was aghast when the director of ''Benji,'' Joe Camp, suggested a big funeral with plenty of publicity.
''Joe, you're out of your head,'' he said in an interview with New Times, a Los Angeles newspaper, in 2000. ''The trainer buried Lassie in a pet cemetery and didn't call it Lassie. He didn't call it Lassie until seven or eight Lassies had died.''
Mr. Inn was married to the former Juanita Heard for 50 years, until her death in 1996. In addition to Ms. Hees of Chico, Calif., he is survived by another daughter, Lori Grajeda, who also lives in Chico; his brother Robert of Indianapolis; and his sisters Ernestine Bray and Inezrose Bailey, both of Mooresville, Ind.
Mr. Inn, who often gave dogs to disabled people, wrote poems, including some pondering whether Jesus had a dog. He got almost all his dogs and cats from shelters, which an award citation from the American Humane Association said inspired one million more canine adoptions.
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Like circular arcs, helical arcs are not limited to ±360°. Moves of up to 4,096 helical twists in either direction can be started with one call to this function. Since each of the three axes specified in the vector space needs to work in syncronization to create a helix, the trajectory is generated on the board and is calculated on the fly.
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Making Seattle Dance
Kent Stowell Talks about Seattle Dance Project 3
by Dean Speer and Francis Timlin
Published February, 2010
Choreographer and founding artistic director of Pacific Northwest Ballet, Kent Stowell, was asked by the directors of Seattle Dance Project to make a new dance creation for their upcoming "Project 3" which was unveiled at the end of January, 2010.
We sat down with Stowell to talk about choreography, his own process, and what to look forward to seeing onstage.
What is the Genesis of your new piece?
The piece is different from everything else [on Seattle Dance Project's program] – it's on pointe. Co-artistic directors Julie [Tobiason] and Tim [Lynch] thought they needed a short pas de deux. The process is a bit analogous to cooking bread – all the elements such as temperature, the weather need to be in alignment and it needs to be done often in order to have a proper sense of it. I felt out of shape at first.
The dancers are Joseph Anderson and Michele Curtis who said she was happy to be dancing on pointe again. I've never directly choreographed on either before, even though Joe was in our company. The hard part is working with unfamiliar clay and making the process – and ultimately the product – mutually interesting. Both Michele and Joe were real troopers and a pleasure to work with.
What is the music?
It's by William Bolcom, who has an artistic sensibility similar to mine – he uses a lot of Americana and feels an affinity for musical theatre. Today's choreographers have the advantage of a far more varied dance environment; my generation turned to the movies. The ballet tradition has been very influential in the rehearsal ethos... in film, the final version is there forever; on stage this is not so – which can be a good thing.
Today, there are so many young people working on craft and taking opportunities to find expression and expand and present the art form. It's great to see all these people out there tackling it. Ballet is the foundation for most of them and it's the ballet institutions that have formed these opportunities – through workshop performances, informal showings, choreography showcases, and the like. Many are interested in creating and inventing the new, yet I recall one bit of Balanchine's wisdom – that he was happy with piqué arabesque. The challenge is how to make the old steps new and fresh.
That's true. There's piqué arabesque, and then there's piqué arabesque.
One way is when ballet is new to an audience. "Swan Lake" was once completely out of fashion. Reinventing it helped to rebuild the audience for it. Directors discovered it was another tool in the chest that helped to strengthen the foundation of their companies.
Today's choreographers work more like movie directors – movies are a springboard. Think about what movies can do – how they make your mind work differently. These choreographers think outside the box – like the way they have no reservations about using pastiche sound scores. It can be more like performance art: a different way to look at theatre. It opens up lots of different ways to look at structure.
I once asked a well-known contemporary ballet choreographer if he were to make a ballet to no music, what would it look like? I was trying to ferret out what he felt his choreographic DNA or imprint might look like. Do you have a sense of what your creative "voice" looks like?
It looks more like breakfast than dinner! Breakfast is my favorite meal – it's straightforward. Dinner has lots of opportunities for richness and texture. My ballets were created to attract and expand our audience – I did what needed to be done for the future of our institution.
How is the process different for you this time?
It's interesting to be working without the large institutional support structure. I proudly note that, during our tenure, PNB did more than almost any company in terms of creativity and growth of repertory: presenting the work of 107 choreographers, many of whom created their ballets on our dancers. We started with virtually nothing and, over time, developed to compete with the major national companies. Almost unbelievably, back in 1981, PNB was one of only two companies in the U.S. to present a full-length "Swan Lake." The other was David Blair's 1960's production for ABT. Now many companies have a production but, clearly, PNB was a leader in growing beyond regional expectations.
Entrusting major commissions to a choreographer is a big risk. I mean, to whom would you give a million dollars? That's the kind of number – and more – that today's ballets cost to put on. The
integrity of the work and the relationships with the artists are the foundation. I believe the gene for artistic integrity is one that I inherited from Balanchine.
The working relationship of creative artists is a bit like a romantic one – a commitment is required. Some dancers never get there because of their own insecurities. The reason other dancers have a lot of new work created for them (e.g. Suzanne Farrell, Deborah Hadley, Jonathan Porretta and many other PNB dancers, as well as Michele Curtis and Joseph Anderson) is that they have a great willingness to extend themselves and to try new things.
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text: auto workers Economists: Looming trade wars will hurt workers in US and Canada By Steve Carmody • Jun 19, 2018 steve carmody / Michigan Radio Economists are making dire predictions about the potential effect of a trade war on the domestic auto industry. Workers go on strike at GM assembly plant in Ontario By Tracy Samilton • Sep 18, 2017 GM Canada More than 2,700 union workers at GM's CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ontario walked off the job early Monday morning. The plant builds GM's best-selling crossover, the Chevy Equinox. GM also builds the Equinox in Mexico. "Cut Loose" explores former autoworkers' stories, struggles in changing economy By Stateside Staff • Sep 2, 2015 flickr user John Lloyd / http://michrad.io/1LXrdJM We may be several years past the Great Recession, but the shockwave of pain and job loss of those years is still being felt in many homes around the country. That's especially true for autoworkers. Since the mid-20th century, those well-paid jobs on the auto assembly lines built not only cars and trucks, but the American middle class as well. Today, entry-level jobs in auto plants pay around $16 an hour. But many unlucky autoworkers have seen their jobs go away, never to return. UAW leader wants one health plan for all employees By Rebecca Kruth • Jun 18, 2015 Rebecca Kruth The president of the UAW Thursday said the union is considering ways to cut health care costs for members. Dennis Williams told reporters in Detroit the union is considering a health care pool that would put its nearly 140,000 active workers under a single plan. GM accused of ignoring unsafe factories in foreign countries By Steve Carmody • Sep 8, 2014 Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio General Motors is being accused of not caring about the working conditions in its plants in Columbia and India. About two dozen protesters plan to hound GM CEO Mary Barra at events tied to this week's auto technology conference in Detroit. Paige Shell-Spurling is organizing the protests. She says GM is ignoring problems with unsafe factories that have left dozens of workers seriously injured. The chances you will lose your job to a robot are growing By Stateside Staff & Michigan Radio Newsroom • May 8, 2014 user: Vanillase / Wikimedia Commons Listen Listening... / 10:18 A recent Oxford University report estimates that robots could replace nearly half of the current U.S. workforce. The report found that office administrators, sales personnel, and those in the service industry are among those at risk of losing their jobs to robots. Robots have become common in many workplaces since General Motors installed the first robot at a plant in New Jersey in 1961 ("Unimate," as it was called, could weld and move parts that weighed up to 500 pounds). So can humans keep up, or at least keep ahead of the technology that is changing the workforce? These are especially important questions here in Michigan, with its historic ties to the auto industry that makes up about 40% of the global supply of industrial robots. Stephen Spurr, Chair of the Department of Economics and professor at Wayne State University, joined us today to explore the possibilities (You can listen to our interview with Spurr above.) Keeping An Eye On Chrysler By Jack Lessenberry • Oct 21, 2011 There was a fair amount of anxiety in automotive circles over the new contracts hammered out between the United Auto Workers union and Ford and General Motors. GM remains the largest Detroit automaker, and this was the first post-bankruptcy contract. The pact didn't give workers as much as some had hoped for, and it did nothing to eliminate the new two-tier wage system that many old-time union members especially hate. Auto Talks: Far From Over By Jack Lessenberry • Sep 20, 2011 There's a great deal of celebration going on over the fact that General Motors and the United Auto Workers union have reached tentative agreement on a new, four-year contract. In the old days, what this would have meant was speedy ratification, followed by a similar settlement with Chrysler within perhaps two weeks, and then Ford maybe a month later. That was the era of pretty much one-size-fits all pattern bargaining agreements. But that was before the near-death and the resurrection of Chrysler and GM, and it's now a different world. I spent some time yesterday with one of the best industry analysts around -- Kristin Dziczek, who heads the labor and industry group at CAR, the non-profit Center for Automotive Research based in Ann Arbor. Dziczek knows the management spokesmen and the economists, and has friends and relatives who are in the UAW. She eats, breathes, and sleeps this stuff. A look back: UAW, Detroit auto workers and labor relations By Jennifer White • Jul 27, 2011 Screenshot from UAW website / www.uaw.org Once again Michigan Radio's political analyst Jack Lessenberry unleashes his knowledge of Michigan history. This time we get a historical perspective about negotiations between the United Auto Workers and Detroit automakers. Contract talks have already started between the UAW and General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. But these talks are a little different this time around. Historical: Union power, past and present (audio) By Mercedes Mejia • Jun 3, 2011 Seventy years ago, Ford Motor Company recognized the UAW. Ford was the last major automaker to recognize the union, and that decision marked the starting point of the union's "Golden Age." In this interview, Michigan Radio's Jenn White talks with Jack Lessenberry, Michigan Radio's political analyst about unions past and present. And what lessons can be learned from those "golden years." Listen Listening... / In 1941, the UAW signed contracts with General Motors and Chrysler, but Henry Ford remained opposed to unionization. After several days of strikes Ford gave in and soon after the first contracts took effect. Auto worker for a day By Tracy Samilton • Mar 31, 2011 Hundreds of auto workers will be assembling Chevy Sonics and Buick Veranos at GM's plant in Orion Township in just a few months. Every one of those workers will go through a simulated work environment training exercise before getting anywhere near a real car. The power tools and the bolts are real, but the cars and parts are made of wood. GM recently invited a group of auto journalists to take part in the exercise, to get a taste of what building a car is like. The press is divided up into teams. Team 3's leader is Sabrina Wills, a member of UAW Local 602. She instructs us how to do the work, with each step meticulously standardized. "Once the line starts moving, if the line moves at a normal pace, you're gonna find yourself in the hole," she says. Joanne Muller of Forbes asks, "So what do we do then?" Wills: "You're gonna pull for help. Pull your andon cord." Team 3 will install the headlights, taillights, and bumpers. Wills says dropping a nut is par for the course when you're new to the job. But the cardinal sin is dropping a part. In real life, that means it's scrap. She drops a part on the cement floor to make a point. The sound reverberates through the big factory. "You're gonna hear the part hit the floor. So don't try to hide it under the line, because we don't wanna put that broken headlight on a car." As we wait for the line to start, Joanne Muller – who, by the way, has red hair – brings up that classic "I Love Lucy" episode. The one where Ethel and Lucy fall behind on the assembly line in a chocolate factory.


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1. Detroit Tigers
Notable Additions: OF Torii Hunter
Notables Losses: RP Jose Valverde, OF Delmon Young
This is very much the same team that came back and bit the White Sox in the butt at the end of last season. They lost one below-average outfielder and picked up a still above average one who should continue to succeed late in his career. The Tigers also let go of their erratic closer and will most likely have a closer by committee with candidates Bruce Rondon and Phil Coke among others vying for the job. Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera along with his partner in crime Prince Fielder will once again be counted on to lead the team's run production, but they will also have Victor Martinez return to the lineup in 2013 and he will make this team that much more dangerous. Not to mention that if Austin Jackson and Andy Dirks build off their success in 2012 as well… Jesus the Tigers are scary. And Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Doug Fister, and Anibal Sanchez, too. I'll just stop. They are going to win the division, they are too good.
2.Cleveland Indians
Notable Additions: OF Michael Bourn, OF Drew Stubbs, OF Nick Swisher, SP Brett Myers, MGR Terry Francona, SS Mike Aviles, C/1B Yan Gomes, SP Trevor Bauer, 1B Mark Reynolds, SP Daisuke Matsuzaka, 1B/DH Jason Giambi
Notable Losses: OF Shin Soo-Choo, RP Tony Sipp, SS Jason Donald, RP Roberto Hernandez (Fausto Carmona), 1B/DH Travis Hafner, OF Grady Sizemore, 3B Jack Hanahan, UTIL Brent Lillibridge
The Indians are a highly improved team in 2013. They have men who can hit at every position, power, speed, and on-base percentage. In fact, I think their lineup rivals Detroit's in terms of scariness; and it's not because their players can take you deep at will, but instead because they can win in so many different ways. Mark Reynolds, Jason Kipnis, and Nick Swisher can take you deep. Michael Bourn, Michael Brantley, and Drew Stubbs can run wild on the base paths, and Asdrubal Cabrera can continue to dazzle with his glove. The main sticking point to this team is their starting rotation. Justin Masterson is their ace, which really says something about A.) how bad this staff is, and B) how badly Ubaldo Jimenez had regressed from his days with the Rockies. If Masterson can pitch like the ace he is supposed to be, allegedly and Jimenez can return to his glory days with Colorado the Indians should be in good shape. Brett Myers will eat innings, Trevor Bauer should be up in the majors by mid-season, and Scott Kazmir has really impressed in Spring Training. Not to mention the Tribe really doesn't need that great of a starting staff because their bullpen is one of the best in the American League with Vinny Pestano being one of the best guys for holds in the league and Chris Perez being the best closer in the division.
3. Chicago White Sox
Notable Additions: RP Matt Lindstrom, UTIL Jeff Keppinger, 3B Conor Gillaspie
Notable Losses: 3B Kevin Youkilis, C AJ Pierzynski, UTIL Orlando Hudson, SP Francisco Liriano, RP Brett Myers, SP Philip Humber
The White Sox lost a lot of key players from the 2012 almost champion team. AJ Pierzynski clubbed a career high twenty-two home runs in 2012 and that will be sorely missed in the 2013 version of the White Sox. Tyler Flowers has been the named the anointed one to replace all-time favorite Pierzynski. He probably won't come close to AJ's numbers in his first year, but he can be expected to produce at least fifteen home runs and drive in at least seventy runs on a year to year basis. Kevin Youkilis also left the team for the "Evil Empire" New York Yankees, and the Sox will most likely fill that hole with a platoon of Brent Morel and Jeff Keppinger. Hopefully Morel can turn into the hitter he was projected to become in the minors so that the Sox can have a consistency at the position, which has been unstable since the great Joe Crede left. Overall, the Sox lineup is starting to age as slugger Paul Konerko begins to head down the road to retirement. Adam Dunn is still a good power hitter and should be able to contribute to the offense and Alex Rios is still a wild card as far as consistent production goes. The 2013 lineup wont be the most offensively potent, however if there is one thing the Sox have always been able to do, its pitch. Ace, Chris Sale, was extended to five year deal, and will hopefully continue his prior dominance. Jake Peavy extended his contract with the team for two more seasons and should continue his mad-dog attitude on the mound. John Danks is returning from injury and is expected to be a big contributor as well. Not to mention Gavin Floyd will be back on the mound, barring he doesn't get flipped at the deadline; and in addition Jose Quintana is looking to rebound from a poor second half performance and pitch the Sox to playoff contention in 2013. The baby bullpen will begin their sophomore season this year as well. Veterans like Matt Thornton, Jesse Crain, and Matt Lindstrom will be expected to lead the group of talented relievers including Nate Jones, Addison Reed, and Dylan Axelrod. The young bullpen did well in 2012, and will hopefully continue to be consistent in 2013. The Sox don't look that good on paper, but they didn't look good last year either; and the best thing is that the front office has shown willingness to make moves if the Sox are in contention, as evidenced by the Youkilis and Myers moves. They will give the Tigers & Indians problems and may compete for a wild card spot.
4. Kansas City Royals
Notable Additions: SP James Shields, SP Ervin Santana, SP Wade Davis, INF Elliot Johnson
Notable Losses: RHP Jeremy Jeffress, RHP Vin Mazzaro, OF Wil Myers, RHP Jake Odorizzi, C Brayan Pena, RHP Joakim Soria, RHP Blake Wood
If you haven't had the chance to as of lately please say good-bye to the days of the Royals being absolute pushovers in the AL Central. Though I have them finishing in fourth place, the Royals will be highly competitive in 2013. Their lineup will feature young fixtures Eric Hosmer, Alex Gordon, Bill Butler, and Salvador Perez. Those four players are part of the Royals core of players who will begin to reek havoc upon the Central for years to come. The Royals did well down the stretch last year, despite not having the best pitching out there. Well GM Dayton Moore did something about that this winter, trading for starters James Shields and Wade Davis from the Tampa Bay Rays, and signing Ervin Santana in free agency. Not to mention they have mainstays Bruce Chen and Jeremy Guthrie returning to the rotation as well. The Royals will also have a very good bullpen which will feature Greg Holland, Aaron Crow, Luke Hochevar, and Kelvin Herrera. The Royals look good this year, but I can see them putting everything together yet. They will battle with the White Sox for third place but ultimately lose out.
5. Minnesota Twins
Notable Additions: SP Rich Harden, SP Mike Pelfrey, SP Kevin Correia, SP Vance Worley
Notable Losses: OF Denard Span, OF Ben Revere, SP Scott Baker, INF Alexi Casilla, RP Matt Capps
The Twins will be your resident celler dweller this year. They traded away their best two outfielders this offseason, and have no offensive weapons aside from Joe Mauer and Josh Willingham (barring Justin Morneau has a great rebound season). The pitching staff is improved from last years as Scott Diamond will get some veteran help from the likes of Correia, Worley, and Pelfrey. There really isn't much to say about this team as they seem to be drained of talent at the major league level. However Aaron Hicks is currently an exciting player to watch as he may win their center field job out of Spring Training without playing a game above AA. Also keep your eye on Miguel Sano, an exciting young shortstop with power, and Bryan Buxton who is a powerful outfielder. This team will finish last, but Terry Ryan is working to change that.
White Sox Extend Ace Pitcher, Sale, for Five Years, $60 Million
The White Sox have reached an agreement to sign Chris Sale to a 5 year, $60 million dollar contract Thursday afternoon. The contract will lock up Sale through his arbitration years beginning in 2014 and will also cover his first free agent year. The White Sox now have three pitchers locked up for at least the next two years who should be critical to the team's success in Jake Peavy, John Danks, and Sale. This deal is an outstanding one for the Pale Hose as it locks up a young arm who pitched to sixth place in Cy Young voting in his first year as a starter, and also looks to be the team ace, for an annual value of $12 million a year. To put that in perspective, Justin Verlander will make $20 million in 2013, Jered Weaver will make $16 million, and Felix Hernandez will make $19 million. In fact, the only starting pitcher who finished above Sale in Cy Young balloting last year, the winner himself, David Price is the only one of the group who will make less than Sale in 2013 and it is the end of a team friendly 6 year deal he signed in 2007, and Price is in for a big raise this offseason.
Sale is a key piece for the future of the White Sox organization and I as well as every other White Sox fan should praise general manager Rick Hahn for taking the initiative to re-sign the pitcher who will attempt the carry the White Sox to a division crown for years to come.


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When to See A Counselor, Doctor or Psychologist
by: Scott Wardell
Sometimes it's a difficult decision to make. You may be asking, "Does my child need to see a counselor or a doctor." This article will help you make that decision. There's a difference between all of these professional services that these individuals provide. The differences are listed below.
School Counselor
Your child's teacher(s) request that you speak with a school counselor.
Your child is receiving failing grades.
Your child continually reports that he or she is unhappy in school.
Your child is not willing to talk to you.
You see a big change in your child's behavior and academic performance.
There is a death in the family. This may include a pet.
You are concerned that your child is using drugs or chemicals.
You are concerned that your child is hanging around other children who are getting into trouble.
A family change, divorce that may affect school performance.
Psychologist or Clinic Counselor (Outside of School)
Your child talks, writes notes or you feel may try to hurt him or herself.
Your child runs away from home.
Your child continues to show anger or withdrawal behavior
Your child continues to challenge your authority at home and breaks rules that place the child in unsafe situations. (Examples: steals, uses physical force (hits), and continually lies)
A family change or death that may about an on-going emotional reaction.
Your child continually has sibling rivalries that do not end after you implement sibling rivalr strategies for change.
Medical Doctor or Psychiatrist
Your child attempts suicide.
Your child overdoses or misuses chemicals or drugs.
Your child is cutting or demonstrating self-injuring behaviors.
Your child continually reports that he or she is ill when you feel the child is well.
Your child has an eating disorder (bulimia or anorexia).
Your child has any physical or emotional signs that you feel are unusual.
Scott Wardell is a school counselor and created ScottCounseling.com to provide parents with 100's of free parenting articles to assist parents with their parenting skills.


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The Coffee TableSeasons One, Two and Three of my epic sci-fi web series, The Coffee Table, are live on the internet! Enjoy 35 short episodes about a family who discover their coffee table is an ancient alien artifact that sends their house shooting through the void – with them inside it, of course. It's a bit like "Doctor Who meets The Greatest American Hero." More »
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CHERUB: The Vampire With Bunny SlippersCHERUB is a slapstick parody of Joss Whedon's ANGEL, an Internet video series about the adventures of Cherub, the vampire with bunny slippers, and his gang at Cherub Investigations - the aspiring actress Charity Case, the arcane expert Jasper Windham-Hill, the muscle man Roger Pipebomb, and the inter-dimensional traveler Barney. More »
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Lillian Fuchs, a renowned violist, composer, teacher and keeper of musical tradition, died yesterday morning at the Actors Fund Nursing Home in Englewood, N.J. She was 91.
Lillian Fuchs Stein was "one of the best string players in America," Harold C. Schonberg wrote in The New York Times in 1962, and she went on to become one of the most respected string teachers in the world. She taught from 1962 to 1991 at the Manhattan School of Music, from 1964 to 1990 at the Aspen Music Festival and School, and from 1971 to 1993 at the Juilliard School, where she was an emeritus member of the faculty until her death.
Ms. Fuchs was born in 1903 in New York. She took up the piano at an early age, and she and her brother Joseph were taught violin by their father.
"I just developed quietly because nobody paid any attention to me even in my family," she told The Strad magazine in 1986. "They were always fussing over Joseph. I didn't mind at all. I was delighted to be left alone."
She studied violin with the noted Franz Kneisel at the New York Institute of Musical Art, now the Juilliard School, and graduated with highest honors in 1924.Continue reading the main story
Ms. Fuchs made her New York debut on the violin in 1926, but soon shifted her concentration to viola. She collaborated often in performance with her brother Joseph and her other brother, Harry, a cellist. She played in a number of chamber groups, notably the Perole String Quartet and the Musicians Guild, and appeared as a soloist with major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Casals Festival Orchestra.
Ms. Fuchs was the first violist to perform and record the six Bach suites written for solo cello. "The measure of an artist is the silence he or she can inspire," Ross Parmenter wrote in The Times in 1948 of her performance of the Sixth Suite. "The silence for her performance was so intense that someone rattling cellophane in the back of the hall was an irritation to almost the whole audience."
Ms. Fuchs was an important teacher of chamber performance as well as of the viola. Her first pupil, she said in the 1986 Strad article, was "this boy from the West Coast": Isaac Stern. She also taught Pinchas Zukerman, and encouraged him to play viola as well as violin.
As a composer, she won several awards during her student years, and later wrote mainly for the viola.
Ms. Fuchs's husband, Ludwig Stein, died in 1992. She is survived by her brother Joseph; her daughters, Barbara Stein Mallow, a cellist, of Leonia, N.J., and Carol Stein Amado, a violinist, of Merion, Pa., and four grandchildren.
Services are to be held on Sunday afternoon at the Riverside Memorial Chapel, Amsterdam Avenue and 76th Street, Manhattan.
Because of an editing error, an obituary on Saturday about the violist and teacher Lillian Fuchs misstated the day of her death. She died on Thursday, not Friday.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for parts of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois.
Temperatures are expected to reach into the upper 90s in some areas Monday, with heat indices soaring to 116 degrees because of high humidity.
Strong storms are also forecast for parts of the Midwest and Ohio Valley.
Forecasters say there could be a strong tornado or two, along with large hail, as storms begin to form later Monday in eastern Iowa and northwestern and central Illinois.
Illinois and Indiana already have had a squall line go through Monday. Forecasters say additional storms could hit the two states, along with other parts of the Corn Belt and western Kentucky.


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Organisers of this year's Pet Show to be held at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire have confirmed their Charity partners and we're delighted to announce that we've been selected as the official partner for 'The Stables' section of the show.
With tickets now on sale, we're preparing for what is set to be one date in the diary not to be missed. Taking place on 20-21 July at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire and with more varieties of animals, exhibitors and displays than any other multi-pet related event in the UK, the show is expecting to attract 20,000 visitors at its debut outing.
The Stables Hall is a zone that will showcase everything equine, combining a delightful shopping experience with an exciting programme of activity including dressage shows, 'how to' sessions and 'ask the experts'.
The British Horse Society will be very involved giving advice on horse ownership and encouraging people to start riding with our mechanical horse in the equestrian zone.
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For a while, I've wondered how I'm going to finishingly touch my dining room. It has a lot of great things going on, including my grandmother's (on my dad's side) china on display in the built in (arranged my my mom and my brother). But there's also, as you see here, a giant empty expanse of wall that is crying out for decoration.
|Waaaaaaaaaaaaah! it says.
Why do we scream at each other?
Alone in a world that's so cold.
|See the empty wall?
Can you hear it crying out?
|I'm a huge ten foot expanse of empty!
Somebody, DO SOMETHING!
Maybe it's just too demanding.
So, I've been looking around for something to be the finishing touch this wall needs. The wall is huge-- a little over 9 1/2 feet long. Because there is a window at the other end of the dining room, I had originally thought an oversized mirror might be great. Isn't that a thing they say on the design shows? That it's good to have a mirror opposite a window, because it increases the feel of light in the room?
I found this mirror on Overstock, and pinned it to Pinterest, and thought about it often.
|Can you, my darling? Can you picture this?
The description calls it silver, but I think it's actually more gold. Either way, I really like the idea of something metallic, and it's a good size-- about three feet in diameter. I like that it's kind of the mid-century sunburst mirror, without being exactly that. You know? I feel like everyone in LA* is as interested as I am in mid-century design, and so we all run around paying 8 zillion dollars for this mirror--
--so I liked that my Overstock mirror was not exactly this thing everyone has. I also liked that it was not a zillion dollars.
(*Or, maybe it's beyond LA, and is already passe-- this 2011 blog post from Centsational Girl goes into the various forms the surburst mirror takes these days, and asks readers to vote on whether they are 'timeless' or 'trendy.' The vote was an almost even split, with timeless just edging out trendy.)
But then, somehow, I decided no to a mirror. I imagined friends seated around the table at a dinner party, and it seemed awkward for everyone to be catching glimpses of themselves chowing down. I also imagined that there had to be a way to spend less than the $150 that my Overstock mirror would cost (though admittedly, I think that's a pretty good price). I started to explore the idea of printing poster-size versions of pictures I've taken of LA, and then hanging those on the crying wall. After looking at Costco's photo services, I decided to keep it easy and print out a two-foot by three-foot poster at Walgreens, and throw it in a frame from Aaron Brothers. The result was, in total, about $60 cheaper than the Overstock mirror, and now looks like this:
I have to admit-- I think the Overstock mirror would have been cuter. If I were on an HGTV show, they would have put the mirror up. But, I also have to admit-- I am not, as the kids say, mad at the way this turned out. I printed out this one picture as a test run, to see how the image would look when blown up to this size. Since that seems to have turned out fine, I'm now thinking about printing out two more of my LA pictures (probably two feet square each), and putting one on either side of this picture.
I think my wall has stopped crying. I like it for now. Then again, I don't know that I'll keep it this way forever. I think maybe I'm just like my mother when it comes to these things. We're never satisfied.


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Imagine Aquaponics Consulting for Green Phoenix Farms
Several months ago, Imagine Aquaponics was contracted to create a 3D plumbing design for a project by Green Phoenix Farms in Texas. Believe it or not, this is a "personal system" for a client of Green Phoenix!
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The severity of symptoms experienced by XLHers varies greatly from patient to patient. Some are active into their old age, but others have mobility challenges beginning generally somewhere between early- and mid-adulthood.
Depending on the person's choice of career, those challenges can affect the ability to work. For those XLHers, it may be worth consulting an attorney who has experience with representing patients before the Social Security Administration (in the U.S., or the relevant governmental entity elsewhere). You're not likely to find one who has ever heard of XLH, but look for someone who has experience with presenting fairly complicated medical cases, possibly including other rare diseases.
Alternatively, the Social Security website has a LOT of information, much of it intended to be used and understood by non-lawyers. The main page for disability benefits is here: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pgm/disability.htm
There's also a comprehensive set of Frequently Asked Questions and answers: https://faq.ssa.gov/link/portal/34011/34019/ArticleFolder/273/Disability
The Social Security Administration also has a resource called the Blue Book, which lists conditions it may consider in determining disability, and which can be found at their website The explanation is, in essence, that if an applicant has one of these conditions and isn't working, then it's pretty much assumed that the person is disabled.
XLH isn't one of the specific conditions that leads to a semi-automatic finding of disability, but that just means that the applicant needs to provide more proof of disability. Here's how they explain it:
[T]he presence of an impairment that meets the criteria in the Listing of Impairments (or that is of equal severity) is usually sufficient to establish that an individual who is not working is disabled. However, the absence of a listing-level impairment does not mean the individual is not disabled. Rather, it merely requires the adjudicator to move on to the next step of the process and apply other rules in order to resolve the issue of disability.The Blue Book is broken into sections based on biological systems, like endocrine and bones. Since XLH can affect the whole body, it may be difficult to pinpoint symptoms to a specific section of the Blue Book. For instance, there's a mention of parathyroid abnormalities (in the endocrine section of the Blue Book), but it doesn't list anything about low phosphorus, just osteoporosis, cataracts, kidney problems and excitable nerves. http://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/9.00-Endocrine-Adult.htm
A lot of XLH issues fall under the musculoskeletal section, but there's no specific mention of osteomalacia (the adult version of rickets): http://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/9.00-Endocrine-Adult.htm
There's also a section on "congenital disorders that affect multiple body systems," which would seem to apply to XLH, but it's not mentioned by name there.
NOTE: This posting is not intended as legal advice. You should consult with a qualified legal professional in your jurisdiction if you have questions about filing for disability.


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NEBRASKA CITY – A new K9 unit is joining the Nebraska City police force.
Mack, a 120-pound Belgian Malinois, will be the first K9 on the force since the passing of Jordy in 2016.
Mack arrived in Nebraska City Tuesday night from Shallow Creek Kennels in Sharpsville, Penn.
He will be completing 13 weeks of training at a K9 camp starting in early September.
The training that Mack and his handler, Officer Brennon Flash, will receive includes drug detection, tracking, detention work, suspect apprehension and evidence recovery. Once this training is complete, Mack will join Officer Flash as a full-time member of the force.
Wenton Bickell Foundation has provided the funds for the purchase of the dog. Additional donations are being accepted for care and upkeep.


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Noticing, grammar, skill disparity, and making connections
I'd like to reflect on the post-play activities that I've been doing in class recently. There is a lot to unpack, but I think it is important to get this down in writing. In this post I will be giving an overview of what "post-play" currently looks like with the Kotoba Rollers framework, providing rationales for why I've taken this route and informal observations of it in action.
Post-play activities overview
- Record the audio of the game session
- Each member transcribes a specific section of that audio for homework (decided by themselves)
The following class:
- As a group, go through the transcription and correct English mistakes (as best as they can) and translate any Japanese into English (again, as best as they can)
- Complete a grammar exercise to target common errors (as chosen by me)
- Relate the grammar exercise to the game in order to see how the grammar could be used as part of gameplay (coming up again the following week).
So let's dig into this in more detail.
Self-transcription as a way of noticing
I'm not the first person to look at this topic, and in fact I was introduced to the concept of self-transcription by blog member Jonathan (see deHaan, Johnson, Yoshimura & Kondo, 2012; Mennim, 2012 for examples). But why self-transcription all of a sudden? Well…
When playing a game, we are often so wrapped up in the experience that we may forget what we said, what was said by others, and if that player opposite us purposely chose a Minion of Mordred to go on Quest 3, failing the quest and ultimately dooming the game for the Loyal Servants of Arthur (see Resistance: Avalon). This is what is known as flow as introduced by Hungarian psychologist Csikszentmihalyi (1990). Or, as Queen sang about 'having a good time.'
We've probably experienced this state even as native speaker, which is why the literature on simulations and gaming has called for a debriefing session after play in order for learning to actually occur. In other words, it's theorized that reflection on what occurred is where real learning takes place. Which makes sense right? Being caught up in the moment to moment of game play does not allow us much head room (or more scientifically: cognitive capacity) to think about what is occurring on a level such as 'Did I just use the wrong verb here? Should I have said 取る instead of もらう?' No, we just want be as fluent as possible, get our message across and communicate effectively. Thus, during play we do not have the ability to truly notice our mistakes (as used in an SLA/TBLT sense of the word).
Anyway, I'm detailing this post a little with the above. Back on track:
In summary, students need a post-play stage to reflect on what occurred during the game to notice where communication broke down, where they spoke Japanese (thus noticing what English skills they are missing). As part of this, and from a TBLT approach, a post-play activity that forces students to focus on accurate language use is considered beneficial. This is why I am currently experimenting with post-play self-transcription and grammar focused activities.
Self-transcription Activity 1
Practically, students are told to complete their transcription on a Google Spreadsheet that I set up for them before class. Here is an example (names obfuscated). Then, during the next class students spend approximately 45 minutes looking at the document, working in pairs or as a group to:
- correct English mistakes
- translate Japanese utterances into English
Upon completing this section, their 'reflection' still isn't finished. Not by a long shot. The goal of the class is not only to reflect on their previous play session, but to prepare them to play the game again, hopefully with more tools to get the job done (i.e. an improved interlanguage and more words, phrases, grammatical knowledge, and hopefully more communicative competency).
Self-transcription Activity 2: common errors
As per the title, the next phase is to scrutinize their English errors and Japanese usage to find the most common culprits. For example, they may notice that they never use the word 'will' to signpost an action they are going to do (as is very common from my experiences), they will write this down on their post-play worksheet.
GRAMMAR: <person> will <action>
USAGE: I will move here.
The same goes for common Japanese expressions that they used:
GRAMMAR: Can I…
USAGE: Can I take this token?
My thinking behind this activity is: after going through their transcription, correcting errors and translating Japanese utterances, a distillation of common errors should help cut out further occurrences in future playthroughs, and considerably reduce errors. Consider the 80/20 principal.
With this way of thinking we can assume that roughly 80% of errors come from 20% of causes. In other words, there is probably a commonality between a large portion of the errors made, relating to only a few grammar issues (for instance: the lack of articles could up 50% of the errors).
Grammar instruction
Students need explicit grammar instruction (or so I thought, more on this soon). The literature on TBLT and SLA in general posits that implicit (unconscious) an explicit (conscious) grammar learning is essential in developing language skills (see Long, 2014 for a discussion on implicit vs explicit learning).
Here is how I am approaching it with Kotoba Rollers.
I'm a big fan of the book "Essential Grammar in Use." It has clear explanations and activities to practice using the target grammar. As such, I have created some worksheets which emulate the format. I bring a number of different worksheets to class based on their observed needs and students choose which of them they want to complete. They work in pairs, and groups make sure that collectively they do all of the different worksheets (i.e. Group 1 Pair 1 do Worksheet 1, Group 1 Pair 2 do Worksheet 2, etc.).
Fairly straightforward, right? Choose a relevant grammar activity and complete it in pairs. Fine.
I'm not familiar with the way they are taught grammar in their "reading and writing" class (which is taught by a native Japanese teacher), but I'm fairly certain that they have no choice regarding what grammar they study, deem important for their needs, or its applicability to an upcoming lesson that is scheduled. However, I digress...
But this is where I want to stop just a moment and talk about my observations.
The worksheet, similar to the Essential Grammar in Use book, has the grammar explanation on one side, and some questions to test their knowledge on the other. I expected students to read through the explanation, acquiring new knowledge about the construct, and then attempt the questions. My assumption here is based on the fact that they are not using such grammar constructs in their utterances during gameplay, and thus the need to provide this new knowledge. However, what actually happened on the whole can described in this conversation between me and a male student (in English and Japanese):
- Me: OK, so read about the grammar point and answer the questions on the back of the worksheet.
- Student: Leave it to me! I don't need to look at the explanation!
- Me: Are you sure?
- Student: No problem!
To which he set off doing the exercises with his partner. They probably only made reference to the grammar explanation once during the whole 20 minute period that they worked on the questions. Thus, there is a huge disparity in my students grammatical knowledge, reading and writing skills, and speaking skill. In other words, their knowledge of English far outweighs their functional ability or communicative competence in English. I had assumed that they didn't know how to form If_, then _ will_ (first conditional) sentences, but they completed the exercise questions without too much of a problem. Observing such helped me realize where the focus of my class should be: on bringing that knowledge to the forefront and turning it into communicative competency.
Of course, this student may be more proficient than some of his peers. Other students may learn a lot from the grammar worksheets. Or, at least, refresh their memories regarding usage. Thus, I still think this stage is beneficial for interlanguage development.
So, let's bring this full circle:
Connecting grammar exercises to gameplay
Upon finishing the grammar worksheet, I asked students to take 5 or 10 minutes to brainstorm how they could possibly use the grammar point during their upcoming play session. For example, the grammar X should Y or I don't think X should Y could be used very effectively in The Resistance: Avalon:
I don't think you should choose X for this quest!
They write their brainstorming ideas down on their post-play worksheet, which can then be referenced during the next play session.
I'm very happy with the way the framework is shaping up now, and I hope to collect some useful data to show the effectiveness of self-transcription.
In summary then, my current methodology is comprised of the following:
- get students to self-transcribe,
- notice their English mistakes and Japanese usage,
- find common errors,
- complete a worksheet of their choosing to help them understand that grammar point in more detail,
- apply their acquired knowledge from the grammar worksheet to the following play session.
As always, thanks for reading this far. Comments are welcome. I leave you with a picture of Dead of Winter: The Long Night, which I played last week and highly recommend (in fact, don't buy the base game, because this is all you really need)!
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deHaan, J., Johnson, N. H., Yoshimura, N., & Kondo, T. (2012). Wiki and digital video use in strategic interaction-based experiential EFL learning. CALICO Journal, 29(2), 249-268.
Long, M. (2014). Second language acquisition and task-based language teaching. John Wiley & Sons.
Mennim, P. (2012). Learner negotiation of L2 form in transcription exercises. ELT Journal, 66(1), 52–61.


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