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Malignant sinus tumors are rare. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common type of cancer found in the paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity. Other malignancies may also be found, such as:
A rare type of polyp called an inverted papilloma usually is found on one side of the nose and can become malignant.
Sinus tumors are often diagnosed late because early symptoms are similar to those found in people diagnosed with acute and chronic sinusitis.
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Floods, as a general rule, really aren't that funny around here anymore.
We've been there, done that.
But then, floods, as a general rule, don't usually involve comics Steve Carell and Wanda Sykes. We're more used to Michael Brown and company, who are, indeed, laughable, but for entirely different reasons. Turns out that casting change -- plus nearly two years of post-Katrina healing, and the whole fiction-vs.-reality thing -- makes a world of difference in the wholesome but still hilarious Noah knockoff "Evan Almighty," opening today.
Technically "Evan Almighty" is a sequel to 2003's "Bruce Almighty," but it's really more of a spinoff. The only characters of note to make return appearances are the elegant Morgan Freeman, as perhaps the best celluloid God since George Burns, and Steve Carell, who had a minor but memorable role as a babbling newsman in "Bruce."
Here, Carell gets to helm the ship, as his Humvee-driving newsman is elected to Congress on a promise to "change the world." What he doesn't realize is that God has every intention of holding him to that promise, directing him to build an ark -- a truly impressive set piece -- big enough to hold two of every animal.
The combination of religion and comedy can be tricky territory, but director Tom Shadyac handles things sensitively. The only people likely to be offended by "Evan Almighty" are those who have moral objections to nose play or bird poop.
But with help from Carell and Sykes in particular, Shadyac proves that tameness doesn't necessarily equal lameness. Particularly for the first hour, "Evan Almighty" is filled with family-friendly laughs as Carell resists his higher calling and deals with a legion of doubting Thomases.
Fans of Carell in particular will be entertained, as Shadyac lets him cut loose with his distinctive brand of humor, including sly shout-outs to Carell's previous work on "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "The Daily Show." Sykes also steals more than her share of scenes as Rita, an aide to Carell's freshman congressman. (If "Bruce Almighty" begat "Evan Almighty," the smart money's on "Evan Almighty" begetting "Rita Almighty.")
The cast also includes part-time New Orleans resident John Goodman ("Monsters, Inc.") as the villainous Congressman Long -- Chuck, not Huey or Earl -- who is at times befuddled and annoyed by Evan's newfound Noahness.
"Evan Almighty" isn't all silliness, though. There are morality lessons, such as planetary stewardship and the importance of faith, family and simple kindness. (There are no Hurricane Katrina jokes, even when the movie's epic flood overtakes the nation's capital. A symbolic statement? You decide.)
The script tends to be sloppy and predictable. Things also get saccharine after a while and preachy when it's time for the movie to deliver its message.
But that can all be easily overlooked. To forgive is divine, after all. And those who can forgive the flaws of "Evan Almighty" will be rewarded with what is ultimately an entertaining family film.
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What doesn't: Things get a touch saccharine at times, as well as a little preachy.
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The Arts Management major and minor allows students to study the organizational aspects of arts and cultural delivery systems. Arts Management focuses on both the administration of not-for-profit arts and cultural organizations as well as the interaction between arts and contemporary society. The philosophy of the program is grounded in community settings and the curriculum is centered around three focus areas: management and organizational skills; interdisciplinary arts literacy; and practical experience. Students with Arts Management majors and minors can find employment in museums, theatrical organizations, symphonies, arts councils and historical societies, and are also prepared to work within their communities to support and promote the arts in educational, business and civic settings.
Majors supplement classroom study in funding and financial management, working with a board of directors, public awareness, audience development and advocacy with an internship or practicum which provides practical experience with a community arts organization or on-campus visual or performing arts activities. Minors have the option of completing an internship or choosing additional coursework or practicum which expands their experience and arts management knowledge. A minimum 3.0 GPA is required for internship placement for both majors and minors.
The Arts Management major is often combined with disciplinary minors or double majors in Art, Music, Theatre, History or English, among others.
Students may study abroad or at other campuses in the United States through UW-Green Bay's participation in international exchange programs and National Student Exchange. Travel courses are another option for obtaining academic credits and completing requirements. For more information, contact the Office of International Education at (920) 465-2413 or see http://www.uwgb.edu/international/.


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Regardless of the outcome, Punk's reign is the sixth longest in the 50-year history of that title, and combined with his first 2011 reign, Punk ranks 10th in total days as WWE champion. To understand how much of a feat that is in this day and age, consider the length of title reigns in the other five active WWE titles:
• The WWE World championship has changed hands five times since Survivor Series 2011 and nine times overall in 2011 alone. Triple-H and Batista are the only two men to hold the World title for even half as many consecutive days as Punk has held the WWE title.
• Since Punk's reign began, the Intercontinental and U.S. championships have changed hands a combined 11 times. And in WWE history, only one man has held either one of these titles longer than Punk has: The Honky Tonk Man. If you count the NWA/WCW version of the U.S. title, that number jumps to a whopping two, thanks to Lex Luger's 500-plus day reign in 1989-90.
• The WWE tag team championship has changed hands three times since Survivor Series 2011. The only reign that exceeded Punk's belongs to Demolition, who enjoyed a 478-day run between WrestleMania 4 and July 1989.
• The Divas title has changed hands four times since November 2011, and outside of the Fabulous Moolah's 28-year stranglehold on the title, only three women (Trish Stratus, Sensational Sherri, and Rockin' Robin) have held either the Women's or Divas title longer than Punk had held the WWE title.


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You can go home again: Resources for returning Catholics
Awakening Faith
In this small-group program, inactive Catholics meet for six sessions and discuss essays on topics such as spirituality, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, God's mercy, the Mass, and the church. The meetings also consist of prayer, reflection, and faith-sharing.
Cost: Parish manual is $40, group leader guide is $16, and participant booklets are $8-$10 depending on quantity.
Catholics Come Home
In correlation with the TV commercials, the Catholics Come Home website provides resources for returning Catholics, parishes that are running welcoming programs, and even people who are not Catholic.
Cost: The cost depends on how much advertising time is purchased on TV networks, in addition to whatever programs parishes plan in response to the ads.
Catholics Returning Home
Catholics Returning Home is a six-week series where participants meet in small groups with other returning Catholics and also active Catholics. Participants are supported emotionally and also review the basics of Catholicism.
Cost: "Inviting Catholics Home" manual is $15. Other books and a DVD are also available to purchase at various prices.
The longest-running program for returning Catholics, Landings was developed by the Paulist Fathers 20 years ago. It is an 8-10 week small-group program where active Catholics join and welcome returning Catholics to share and explore faith together. The sessions feature time for faith discussion as well as catechesis.
Cost: $70 for 10 participant books, $15 for the facilitator's guide, $10 for the coordinator's guide. Other books and a DVD can also be purchased.
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Beginning in the 8th century B.C.E., Greek settlers established new homes in Sicily. This island proved to be extremely productive in terms of both agriculture and trade. It thus became one of the wealthiest and most powerful areas of the Greek world. At the same time as the Greeks of the mainland celebrated their victory over the Persians, those of Sicily were victorious against the Carthaginians.
Because the initial colonies were founded before the emergence of large-scale architecture and sculpture in the homeland, the Sicilian Greeks developed their own distinctive traditions. Their temples were larger and often more innovative than those of the mainland and their sculpture, limited by the lack of marble, relied on other materials and techniques. This lecture explores the artistic traditions of Sicily, discussing how they were different from, yet drew upon, those elsewhere. With the conquest of Syracuse by Rome in 212 B.C.E., the Sicilian Greeks lost their independence but their rich heritage lived on through a new power.
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Jenna Elfman, who only became a mom a couple years ago, will try motherhood on TV.
The former "Dharma & Greg" star has been cast in the CBS comedy pilot "Accidentally on Purpose," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The CBS Paramount- and BermanBraun-produced project centers on a San Francisco movie critic Billie (Elfman) who has a fling with a younger man and finds herself "accidentally" with child. She then must deal with the unconventional family that comes from her actions.
Elfman next appears in the indie romantic comedy "Love Hurts."
In other CBS news, Jason Clarke has been tapped as the lead for the network's drama pilot about a team of federal prosecutors in Manhattan's U.S. Attorney's office.
Clarke's role is the section chief who oversees a group of four lawyers and some paralegals in their various overlapping cases.
Clarke is best known as Tommy from Showtime's "Brotherhood" and will star in Universal Pictures' historical American gangster flick "Public Enemies," due out this summer.
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He says, "The thing was just growing the wrong way... and the guy, Mickey O' Keefe, who played himself in The Fighter, his daughter-in-law, thank God, is a podiatrist (and she) came and cut half my toenail off."
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Paul Castonia has found a home at Plymouth State. After moving around the college football world for 15 years and gaining experience at all levels, Castonia is now in his 16th year at Plymouth State in 2018 and has re-established the Panthers as one of the top programs in New England small college football.
Castonia has coached the Panthers through the final season in the Freedom Football Conference, two years of being a Division III Independent, seven years in the New England Football Conference, and most recently helped usher Plymouth State in as a member of the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) in 2013.
The Joe Yukica Chapter of the National Football Foundation recognized Castonia's impact on New England college football, presenting him with the Andy Mooradian Award for Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football in 2015 and he was named the MASCAC Champion's Choice Coach of the Year in 2016.
PSU enjoyed four straight winning seasons under Castonia from 2007-10, including three straight post-season berths from 2007-09. Plymouth State captured the New England Football Conference championship in 2008 and competed in the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament.
Castonia turned the program around after joining the Panthers in 2003. Inheriting a team that was winless in 2002, he was 9-29 in his first four years before guiding the team to four straight winning seasons with a combined record of 33-10 and three straight post-season berths. Castonia has a combined record of 59-82 at Plymouth State and a 60-111 head coaching record.
The Panthers posted a 9-1 record in 2007 and a championship victory in the ECAC North Atlantic Bowl. They followed that with a 10-2 mark in 2008, including the Bogan Division title (7-0), the NEFC Championship and a berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament. Castonia led the Panthers to an 8-3 record in 2009 with a third straight post-season berth in the ECAC Northeast Bowl.
Castonia was named NEFC Boyd Division Coach of the Year in 2007 and New England Division II/III Coach of the Year in 2008. They were well-deserved honors for a coach who had long paid his dues with previous stints at Divisions 1-A, 1-AA, 2 and 3.
When Castonia arrived in 2003 as the 11th head coach in the program's history, he brought experience from previous coaching stops at the University of Rhode Island, University of Maryland, Hartwick College, Ferrum College, the University of Massachusetts Boston and Bryant University.
The Panthers have shown progress every season since Castonia arrived, and have built a solid foundation for success. But Coach Castonia is about more than wins and losses. While the Panthers no doubt aim to having a winning program year in and year out, being good students and quality citizens are equally as important.
"We recruit young men who want to graduate, and who are willing to work hard to be successful in the classroom and on the football field," says Castonia, a 1986 graduate of Trinity College (Conn.) who earned a Master's degree from the University of Rhode Island in 1989. "We try to put them in a position to succeed both as students and as football players."
Castonia says the biggest rewards for him don't come on Saturdays in the fall, but on graduation day in the spring.
"It's very gratifying when a guy graduates and is excited about pursuing his chosen career," says Castonia, "and he is using the habits and lessons he learned and developed on the football field in those endeavors."
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Like the name of the battle itself, the title of Nathaniel Philbrick's Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution is a bit misleading. Just as his Mayflower covered more than the Pilgrims' ship, his newest book is about more than the bloody confrontation at Breed's Hill on June 17, 1775. He tells the story of the Revolution in and around Boston from the time of the tea party through the British evacuation in 1776.
In Bunker Hill, Philbrick's gift for narrative serves him well when there's some sort of action going on. The chapters on the war's first day, on the titular battle, and the siege of Boston are where this book shines, although the best modern account of Lexington and Concord remains David Hackett Fischer's masterful Paul Revere's Ride. It's fitting that Hollywood has already taken an interest in this book, which is cinematic in its vivid characterizations, gripping battle passages, and rapid pacing.
The earlier chapters, which deal with the political maneuvering that led up to the shooting war, are not as strong. Perhaps this is because it puts Philbrick out of his element. He first catapulted to popular acclaim with a gripping account of the sinking of the whaleship Essex, he's at its best when he describes the experiences of men in deadly and dramatic circumstances. Or perhaps this is simply due to the nature of popular narrative history itself, a genre in which character and action often take precedence over analysis.
Philbrick's bibliography is extensive; he has read widely in the secondary literature on the Revolution in New England. One of his contributions is to emphasize the role of Dr. Joseph Warren, whose critical place in the colonial protest movement is familiar to historians but less so to average readers. Philbrick suggests that Warren's death at Bunker Hill—he arrived on the battleground to fight as a common soldier even though the Provincial Congress had appointed him a major general—cost the Patriots one of their more able leaders, and he notes several points at which they might have benefited from his presence had he survived.
Ultimately, this is a good work of popular history. If you're new to the Revolution, or if you're a more seasoned history buff looking for a refresher before setting off on a summer trip to Boston's Freedom Trail, you'll find Philbrick an informed and engaging guide.


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And Brett Hull is what? American then?Per wrote: Either way, we are splitting hairs. When the Olympic tournament starts, Steen will be wearing yellow and blue.
Thus he is a Swedish player, and suggesting anything else is just silly.
I never suggested he wasn't a Swedish player, just that he is Canadian born, and therefore a Canadian.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) Mike Piatkowski tossed two touchdowns and Drake locked up a share of the Pioneer Football League title with a 32-29 victory at Jacksonville Saturday.
The conference title is the second straight for the Bulldogs (8-3, 7-1), and marks the first time Drake has won consecutive league championships since 1931.
Jacksonville (7-4, 5-3) overcame a 17-5 halftime deficit in the third quarter on Andre Addison's 50-yard interception return for a touchdown and a 32-yard TD pass from Trevius Folston to D'Andre Randle.
Dylan Lynch's 40-yard field goal put the Dolphins up 22-17, but Gary Scott scored on a 1-yard run and Joey Orlando caught a 13-yard TD pass from Piatkowski as Drake regained the lead.
Piatkowski was 25-of-34 passing for 277 yards.
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Three locals to receive National Turkey Federation awards
By LESLIE MIELKE
POCATELLO — Two Boy Scouts and a Snake River senior will be honored tonight at the National Wild Turkey Federation local chapter's annual fundraising dinner.
In the past three years, 1,225 hybrid oak and crabapple trees have been planted on the Snake River south of Blackfoot down to Preston, said Ed Bullock, president of the Southeast Idaho National Wild Turkey Federation. Ten Boy Scouts' Eagle projects have also been completed by planting a number of these trees,
"The trees provide winter habitat enhancement for turkeys, birds, deer and whitetail deer," Bullock said. "This habitat also helps to conserve our hunting heritage in Idaho."
Bullock hopes more trees will be planted and more Eagle projects completed this summer.
"We hope the total number of trees planted reaches 2,000," he said.
"The Scouts who do these projects are just fantastic people," Bullock said. "It makes you feel good about the future of this country."
Last summer, Boy Scouts Colby Keppner and Nick Lemon spent months preparing for their Eagle Scout projects.
Colby said he spent 235 hours on his project.
"There was a lot of organizing," said 13-year-old Colby. "I called a lot of people to help."
Twenty people helped Colby plant 75 hybrid oak and crabapple trees north of the Tilden Bridge along the Snake River bottoms in Bingham County.
Colby and his helpers tended the new shoots by watering them once every two weeks. Colby also put the trees on a GPS grid.
"Dennis Pratt donated the wood chips that were put around the trees," Colby said. "The wood chips help the trees suck all the moisture around it to the roots."
Colby finished his Eagle project last August. He is working on his swimming merit badge, the last badge he needs to complete his Eagle project.
Fourteen-year-old Nick Lemon planted 90 hybrid oak and crabapple trees along the Snake River bottoms south of the American Market in Thomas.
"I spent more time organizing it than it took me to carry out the project," Nick said. "It was hard to get enough donations of bark for 90 trees."
Nick said he called every tree service in the phone book. Professional Tree Service in Pocatello donated bark for NIck's project.
"I learned how to be a leader," Nick said. "I got better talking on a phone."
Nick worked over 150 hours on his Eagle project. He completed his project in November.
"The trees are helping wildlife around here; trees help wildlife thrive," NIck said.
About his project, Nick said, "It was a good experience; it was pretty fun."
Nick is with Boy Scout Troop 262 from Blackfoot.
Snake River High School senior Aubrey Kofford will also be honored at tonight's Wild Turkey dinner. Kofford will receive a $500 scholarship.
"I found out about the scholarship because the daughter of my dad's friend received a similar scholarship two years ago," Kofford said.
To qualify, Kofford wrote an essay about why hunting is important to her and her family. She joined the federation and sent a photo of herself and a copy of her hunting license to the local chapter of the Wild Turkey Federation.
"I've been hunting since I was 12," she said. She uses a .243 rifle.
Kofford and her dad hunt pheasants, ducks, geese and deer.
Kofford plans to attend Utah State University and go into nursing.
Doors open at 5:30 at the Red Lion Inn in Pocatello for tonight's National Wild Turkey Federation annual fundraiser. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. Cost per plate is $25 per person.
To join the federation, membership costs are $55 per person per year.
"We are always looking for help," said Bullock.


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One of the most intriguing companies to materialize this fall is Ning. It's co-founded by Marc Andreessen of Netscape fame. As their site defines it in "What is Ning?":
Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for people to build and run social applications. Social "apps" are web applications that enable anyone to match, transact, and communicate with other people. Our goal with Ning is to see what happens when you open things up and make it easy to create, share, and discover new social apps. These might include for any city, your own take on Craigslist...for any passion, your own take on Match.com...for any interest, your own take on Zagat...for any event, your own take on Flickr...for any school, your own take on the Facebook...
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Fog has too long shrouded the mission of and money connected to the schooner Amistad, built at Mystic Seaport with state funds and designed to tell the story of Connecticut's role in freeing Africans once held captive aboard.
Now leased to a maritime education institution in Maine, questions have surfaced about how this group took over from the original organization, Amistad America, which lost its tax-exempt status after failing to file tax returns for three years. In addition, plans are underway for the ship to sail to Puerto Rico in August for the filming of an NBC series about the infamous Blackbeard - but nobody is saying how much money will change hands and into whose pockets the revenue will go.
Never mind that the 18th century pirate had nothing to do with Amistad, whose captives took control of the ship in 1839 and eventually were freed after a trial in New Haven and U.S. Supreme Court ruling two years later.
The Amistad concerns finally appeared on the radar of state authorities last week after revelations about its finances and mission were first reported by Day columnist David Collins.
Both state Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, and state Sen. Andrew Maynard, D-Stonington, are now demanding to know how Amistad America spent the $8 million in state funds earmarked for the vessel's construction, maintenance, programming and operation.
This newspaper is pleased that legislators are finally seeking such answers, but we are nonetheless troubled by the question: What took them so long?
We also must learn more details about why Greg Belanger, executive director of Amistad America, failed to file tax returns for his nonprofit organization for three years, and what kind of a deal he struck with the Ocean Classroom Foundation, the Maine group now using the ship to teach sailing.
Why should Connecticut continue to pay for its upkeep and operation if Amistad won't be sailing to various ports from Stonington to Greenwich, inviting the public aboard for tours and giving lectures to school groups?
Amistad is a magnificent vessel, and thousands of spectators crowded the banks of the Mystic River and the river itself, in kayaks, canoes and power boats, when it was launched in 2000. The schooner spent the next several years sailing Connecticut waters and around the country to tell its inspiring story.
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Image via WikipediaI have been reading about the East India Company and I have so far found no reference to Robert Adams. I found a reference to a William Adams. Mr. Adams was an Englishman who had been acting as a pilot for the Dutch fleet, and settled in Japan around 1600. He became a marine architect to the Shogun, taken a Japanese wife while still having a wife and family in England. He wrote that Japan was an Indies of money and there is here much silver and gold which would serve their turnes in other places and that Japan would be a good market for broadcloth. According to the book, The East India Company Trade and Conquest from 1600 by Anthony Wild, there is a remarkable account that survives of John Saris of England and William Adams' trip through Japan and their attempt to set up a East India factory. After much conflict, the English factory started to thrive after 1620, but with the death of Adams and the Dutch alliance falling apart, the East India Company pulled out in 1623.
I am only putting this out here for speculation.
First: The name of Adams. I don't know how much of a common name Adams was in England at that time, but to have two Adams men as Captains. I didn't see anyone else that had the same last name except if they were brothers or children.
Second: William Adams is a pilot for a Dutch fleet in 1600. Robert Adams is a Captain with the Virginia Company. Could they be brothers or could Robert be his son.
Third: Williams Adams left a wife and family in England.
Fourth: Robert Adams joins the East India Company in 1616. Could there be a correlation between William Adams helping the East India Company and Robert joining the Company.
Fifth: Also there is another coincidence. Robert Adams emigrates to Jamestown in 1622.
Also about Robert Adams, The Captain of the Blessing and other ships.
He knew Ralph Hamor the Captain and Ralph Hamor's son emigrated to Jamestown
Robert Adams was from Limehouse and so was Christopher Newport. Christopher Newport was the Captain of the Sarah Constant in 1607.
He was well acquainted with many of the founders of Jamestown.
Most English families named their first son after their fathers and then the second son after themselves. So Robert Adams would be the second son of Robert Adams the Captain.
The laws of progeniture required that the first son received the inheritance and the other sons had to make their way in the world. So it would make sense for Robert Adams the son to emigrate to Jamestown.
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Just an additional point. When you'll go further down into MJD's brilliant Higher Order Perl, you'll find out that he warns about problems about recursion (paragraph 1.8, "Where Recursion Blows"), in which he revisits the Fibonacci and Partition problems for larger Fibonacci numbers or larger collections of treasures) and that, later in the book, he is spending quite a bit of time on methods to get rid of recursion (especially Chapter 5, "From Recursion To Iterators, but not only there).
Recursion is a beautiful model not only when you have a predefined tree structure (such as the directory walk example), but also when a problem is very complicated, you often need to reduce it to a collection of smaller or simpler problems, and possibly again and again, until the individual problems become (almost) trivial (this is what divide and conquer algorithms are about). As an example, some of the efficient sort algorithms just do that, although their actual implementation may well have no recursive call at all. You may also want to use recursion if you want to generate all subsets of a set, or combinations or permutations. This may seem to be maths, but it is quite commonly necessary in software engineering. Many of the Operational Research problems also often fall into the category of candidates for recursion.
In brief, recursion gives you a very powerful tool to modeling complex problems, especially when you want to make sure that you have examined absolutely all possibilities. The downside is that, sometimes, recursion will let you visit each possibility a number of times, possibly a huge number of times (there are some ways around that to a certain extent, one of them being caching, which MJD examines in some depth, but not always). So, sometimes you use recursion to better understand the problem and how to solve it, but then change it to iteration or something else when is comes to actual implementation. In such cases, recursion can be thought of as a prototype.
Reading further MJD's book, you will also find out that even for directory walk, recursion is not necessarily the best solution, the reason being that recursion is very good at depth-first traversing of the directory tree; but sometimes you need to traverse the tree in breadth-first order (or some other order), and then, recursion becomes very unpractical to use.
Keep reading this excellent book. I really did not have any problem with recursion when I first read it, but I learned an awful lot of other things from it, and there are other with which I am still fighting after having read them three times. There are some chapters that I will probably read for the fourth time, because I haven't fully understood their full implications and I still have quite a but to learn for them.
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Yes, yes, I know. By reviewing the HD20 today, I've now looked at three projectors in a row, without a TV in sight. Apologies if this has aggravated anyone. But honestly, as I noted in my previous review of Sony's VPL-HW15, there are simply so many hot projectors coming out this month that if I don't clear my decks of a few now, I'll end up doing six, seven, eight, maybe even 10 in a row at some point before Christmas.
Also, I'm bound to say that if the quality of some of the models I've seen recently is anything to go by, if you're not currently thinking of buying a projector, maybe you should!
Anyway, with a solemn promise that the next review I do will definitely be a telly, let's get down to business with Optoma's HD20.
It takes all of one nanosecond to uncover its main appeal. For with an inc VAT price of just ÂŁ899.95, it really is extraordinarily cheap for what promises to be a genuine home cinema (as opposed to PC data) projector. A glance at its spec sheet reveals that it even sports a Full HD DLP chipset, for heaven's sake.
This doesn't make it the first Full HD projector to break the ÂŁ1,000 price barrier (Vivitek did the same thing only last week with its H1080FD). But I can tell you now that the HD20 is easily the best.
Not that this is particularly obvious from the HD20's exterior, mind you. For while the design is reasonably cute in its gloss white finish and perky curved front end, the build quality reeks of plastic, and a large grille sat right next to the lens leaks a really quite alarming amount of light. Light which, of course, is thus not making it through to the lens and screen, and which is instead polluting the darkness of your room, potentially reducing the picture's contrast.
That's not my only bone of contention with the HD20's bodywork either. For you don't have to be sat especially close to it to notice that its cooling fans and DLP colour wheel really make a heck of a racket if you've got the lamp's 'Bright' output option selected.
Thankfully, turning the Bright lamp option off reduces the running noise considerably, leaving just a high-pitched whirr that's not too hard to live with. Though I should add that the level of brightness lost when you don't have the lamp running at maximum is quite considerable; to the point where it probably won't be a realistic option if there's any degree of ambient light around in the room you're using the HD20 in.
As well as letting a lot of light out, moreover, the grille next to the lens pumps out a serious amount of heat. I guess this shouldn't become too much of an issue if you've got the projector sat on a coffee table in front of you, but if you've got it positioned somewhere close behind you, you're likely to get slowly cooked. Especially, again, if you prefer to use the Bright lamp mode.
And still I'm not done grumbling about the HD20's design. For I was also disappointed to find no optical image shift to help get the image correctly positioned on my screen, and precious little flexibility when it comes to angling the projector. This could force people who want to position the projector behind their seating position to adopt the venerable and really rather rubbish 'propping the projector's rear end up on magazines' technique, with the onboard image-distorting Keystone correction then having to be used to get the edges of the image straight.
I got mine about two weeks ago but only got around to installing the screen etc last weekend (what with my pesky sister's wedding getting in the way - bah!). But it was worth the wait - awesome! Yeah its not perfect - but I for one am done with spending multiple 1000s on Av gear. But for Ł900 plus about 75pence per movie (based on useful lamp life) this is a must buy for anyone who has dreamt of having a `proper` cinema :) Now just need to get a Bluray player so I can watch some more up-to-date HiDef stuff (only my poor old Tosh HD-DVD to play with at the mo).
Was'nt the infocus x10 the first full HD DLP for less than a grand?
Budget PJ's is certainly something Optoma are good at. I've had my Optima HD65 for about 18 months now, only cost about Ł430 from Dixons. Not a 1080p, but still produces great images. Now looking on EBay looks like I could sell it for more than I bought if for.. :), so the question is would the Extra resolution be worth an extra Ł500, I beleive both of these are Darkchip 2, so I assume blacks would be about the same.
this seems to be exactly the same as the hd200x which sells for Ł799 on amazon and play saving an extra Ł100.
@ betelgeus In the UK the HD20 has a 3 yr ThemeScene warranty where the 200X has a 1yr. The HD20 is white the HD200x is black, the HD20 has a 500:1CR and 1700Lumen where the HD200X has 350:1CR and 1500Lumen.
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Moving Toward Mastery: Completing the Square (Day 1)
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Objective: SWBAT understand what mastery entails when it comes to completing the square.
Big Idea: There are uses for completing the square: first, as it relates to vertex form and graphing parabolas, and second as it relates to solving quadratic equations. Today, we'll get at both.
Today's opener is on the first slide of the lesson notes, and it's just like the opener from two days ago, with one important difference. The process of defining variables for width and length, writing an equation for each constraint, and then using substitution to come up with the equation
is all the same. I circulate and coach kids a little bit to make sure they can get that far before I start any whole-class discussions. I want students to have time to play with this problem on their own, and to see for themselves why it's just a bit more difficult than the last one.
What is different is that the solutions to this problem are not whole numbers. As a result, it's hard to solve this problem by guess and check, which means that the algebraic solution will gain some traction. Furthermore, once we commit to an algebraic solution, we'll need to use a method other than factoring to solve the resulting quadratic equation.
Mini-Lesson: Completing the Square
Like I did on Tuesday, I ask everyone's permission to use the variable x in place of l for length, because it feels a little easier. Then we set the right side of the equation equal to zero. Now we've got:
x^2 + 4x - 23 = 0
I scan the room to see if everyone is with me, and then I post the second slide of the lesson notes, with the function
f(x) = x^2 + 4x - 23
"Let's take a closer look at this quadratic function," I say. I proceed to model the method for completing the square to find roots, and the resulting notes look like this. The mini-lesson hits all students at a different point in their learning. Some have very little practice completing the square, and others are getting pretty good at it. My goal is to give everyone a straightforward example to keep in their notes, and then to be able to decide whether or not the strategy yields a reasonable solution.
I ask, "Who can give an approximate value for the square root of 27?" We recognize that it has to be in between 5 and 6, and probably a little closer to 5 than 6. "Can we suppose that it's approximately 5.2?" I ask, usually at the urging of a few confident students. With that decision made, we can see that the roots of the function are ~3.2 and ~-7.2, with the positive number the one that we'll use for length, which, we remember is what x represents. "So if the length is about 3.2, then what's the width?" I ask. Returning to the original problem, we see that the width must be four longer than the length, so that would be about 7.2. Finally, I ask what the area of this rectangle would then have to be, and kids are quick to find that the product of 3.2 and 7.2 is 23.04. "Is that close enough to the area we were trying to get?" I ask. It's satisfying to see a few skeptical students admit that, indeed, this does make sense. Together, we recognize that it feels good when the results of using a new tool make sense.
I should also note that sometimes I'll squeeze in a little mention of simplest radical form. I certainly don't try to pile this on if I see that a class is struggling, but if I'm prompted by students who have come across this idea in their own work, I'll take a moment to show that root 27 can also be written as 3 root 3.
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Today, the tone of this Quadratic Functions unit shifts from "mid-unit" where we're seeing new concepts, to "end of unit" where everyone pursues mastery of as much as they can in a short amount of time.
I frame the work of the next few days by providing a quick review of where we stand:
- Yesterday in the computer lab, everyone made a different amount of progress on solving quadratic equations. "You practiced factoring, completing the square, and maybe even using the quadratic formula," I say.
- "Before that, we spent several days investigating the different features of the graphs of quadratic functions."
- "So now, the last new learning target of this unit is SLT 6.5, which is about solving quadratic equations." I point to the learning target on the back wall. "But notice that you've already seen a lot of this! Factoring to find roots is SLT 6.2, and completing the square is SLT 6.3. The quadratic formula is the new part, and if you get there, that's great!"
- "Many of you still need to master 6.3, so that's what I recommend that most of you do today. As you work, we'll look for more and more ways that everything is connected!"
As part of this framing, I return any completed and graded work I've got from the last few days:
Some students still have to finish up on some of this work. The third slide of the lesson notes lists options for what kids should get done, and I say that everyone can work on whatever they'd like. As the name of this lesson suggests, however, most students will end up working on completing the square. That's my focus for this lesson write-up, but the reality may be that there's a great variety of what's going on.
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The thing about completing the square is that there's just so much to say about it! There are interesting connections to be made, important skills, and curious revelations to be had about how quadratic functions work. The purpose of Mastery Assignment for SLT 6.3 is to give everyone a chance to practice and to see as much of the interesting stuff as possible. I provide an overview of the assignment and my expectations in this narrative video.
As kids get to work, I'll revisit the opener and make some distinctions between completing the square to rewrite an expression in vertex form and completing the square to solve an equation and reveal the roots. I note in the video that as students continue with the assignment, I may start them at different points depending on which entry point feels more approachable to each kid.
As with many of the assignments that I've shared in last few lessons, I expect this one to take more than a day. I want to provide students with a space where anything can happen, and I try to help kids recognize their role in figuring out what they should do each day. If it turns out that we focus on solving equations today and then graphing tomorrow, that's great. As with the opener, we might talk about simplest radical form, but again, if that's an overwhelming addition right now, it can wait.
Snapshot of a Cool Conversation
Sometimes, a student's misconception about what they're doing when they complete the square can reveal a really neat understanding and provide a place to dig deeper. As she worked on #16 from this assignment, one student got to the point of having root 5 on the right hand side of her solution, and then she got stuck. She asked, "If root 5 is one of the roots, then what's the other?" I was excited to get to clarify for her that that's not the root - it's the distance from the axis of symmetry to each root. That was all I had to say for her to know what to do next, and her satisfaction stemmed from being able to think not only about solving this equation but also in considering the whole function that it represents.
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With a little more than ten minutes left in class, I interrupt the workshop to say we have a check in quiz about the graphs of quadratic functions. I tell everyone that they'll pick up right where they're leaving off tomorrow, and I encourage them to see what else they can get done for homework tonight.
The quiz is different from what we've done recently, because it provides graphs of parabolas and asks students to write equations for each. I tell students that as they work, they should refer to some of the work that was returned earlier today. The Gallery Walk and Five Point Graphs were opportunities to sketch graphs from equations, and this is the reverse of that. It's a bit oversimplified, because the leading coefficient is 1 for all of these functions, but I want the focus to be on how well kids can use the features of these graphs - roots, vertex, axis of symmetry, and y-intercept - more than on how quickly each parabola grows.
For kids, this quiz is that it's such a confidence booster! They realize that right now, just as they're getting into some deep, difficult work, that they've learned a lot. What would have been mysterious a few weeks ago makes a lot of sense now, as kids have a pretty good grasp on the structures revealed by the graphs and function rules of quadratics. That's exciting stuff, and it encourages everyone to keep learning more.
For me, this quiz will produce a treasure trove of information about what each student knows. Here are some examples of what I see:
- This student starts off by recording all the details she knows about the first two graphs, before realizing that the roots are really all she needs on the next two. On the back however, she runs into a limitation of this method on #7, which doesn't have nice integer roots and on #8, which doesn't have roots at all. In addressing this, I'll applaud her on her use of the roots, and then help her to identify other options for writing equations when that approach falls short.
- Similarly, here's a student who can identify the roots, but is unable to use them to write a function rule. We'll need to review how the factored form of a quadratic expression reveals the roots, and then how, by multiplying binomials, we can get a rule in standard form.
- On the other side of the coin, this student is able to use everything but the roots. Note the correct answers to #7 and #8, which to me imply that this student understands the role of the axis of symmetry and y-intercept, but that without that information on #'s 5 and 6, this student struggles.
- There are also some quick fixes: this student has the tough stuff right, but forgot to include the x^2 term, while this student needs a quick reminder that an equation must have an equal sign showing that "this equals that".
We will kick off tomorrow's class by debriefing on this quiz before diving back into the work. As kids work, I'll pull them aside individually or in small groups to address what I saw on their quizzes.


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ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. - Authorities say two people are dead after an apparent murder and suicide at the upscale Barnsley Gardens resort northwest of Atlanta.
Bartow County sheriff's Sgt. Jonathan Rogers tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that deputies responded to the resort in the Adairsville area. They found a female clerk who had been shot. She was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Rogers said deputies discovered that a man suspected of shooting her fled into nearby woods and refused to come out.
He said they searched the area and eventually found the suspected gunman, who had died from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Names of the people involved were not released this morning.
Rogers said there are no other suspects involved, and the shootings are considered to be "family violence-related."


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To be sure we're all on the same page, you can visit our SEO Chat review of Google sitemaps here. This is mostly a recap for seasoned webmasters who constantly use the service, but worth checking out for anyone trying to decide if it is worth their time.
For those who want the quick and dirty news, here it is. Jill Lindenbaum from the Google Sitemaps crew sent SEO Chat the following list of improvements to the service. This is the basic rundown, and we'll start talking about the improvements in a bit more depth on the following pages.
- Updated interface based on user feedback
- New verification method
- Indexing snapshot, including:
- If site is in the index
- When the Googlebot last accessed the home page
- If some pages of the site are partially indexed
- If the home page is currently inaccessible
- If Googlebot has encountered a large number of errors when trying to crawl the site
- Notification of violations of the webmaster guidelines
- Re-inclusion request form
- Spam report
- New webmaster help center
This is obviously more than just a minor makeover. Some of these things are new and some were available elsewhere before, but it seems Google is working to make Sitemaps a webmaster hub. They are pulling all the resources you need to manage your Google presence under the Sitemaps umbrella.
So keep reading, and take a quick look at these new tools and the new layout.
{mospagebreak title=Welcome to The New Sitemaps}
You will probably notice differences in Google Sitemaps as soon as you log in. Instead of having separate tabs for your current sites and to add sites, Google has put everything onto the front page. It's faster to use, and somehow Google made a page with more on it feel cleaner and less cluttered.
All the links that used to occupy the top space moved down to the bottom or to more relevant places. The "Tools" link seems like the only unnecessary thing here. It just targets the four links at the bottom and doesn't seem to work in Opera.
Those links at the bottom, you may notice, have some additions too. "Download this table" is nothing new, as it is the same as the old "Download as .csv file." The next link, as the name would suggest, offers more options for downloading data.
Google has also been so kind as to give fast and convenient locations for the links to their spam reporting tool and re-inclusion request form. These tools were around, but you had to find them separately before. Pulling them into the webmaster tools offered by Sitemaps was a great idea.
The spam report is pretty straight forward. Just copy the query, the URL, and the offenses. The list of offenses shows how routine it is for Google to work on getting rid of specific problems, and they also say that they will investigate every spam claim. Google is definitely on the right track with his one.
The re-inclusion request lets you select the removed site from a dropdown menu of your sitemaps. Then you check off the three boxes to say (1) I know I was wrong, (2) I will mend my ways, and (3) I know what you want me to do now. Beneath all this you can write Google an apology letter.
{mospagebreak title=New Sitemaps Layout and Info}
When inside the details for one of your sites, you'll see a huge layout change here. The whole tab and table setup is renovated to be more navigable.
So what is all this new stuff here? Most of it is pretty familiar. Let's take a look.
The layout obviously flopped things around a bit. There is a Diagnostic tab up front, full of our very basic stats, significant errors, and also including the nice robots.txt validator. The Statistics tab and Sitemaps tab are basically the same, but the navigation has a sidebar now instead of two headers.
The Indexing summary tells us if our site is in the Google index and when your last crawl was. Whether or not the site is in the index is easy to find out (query site:www.seochat.com/), but this makes it immediately obvious. It's nice to know when Googlebot last stopped by to update the index, but I would be equally interested in when it is coming back. Providing an estimated time until the next crawl could give webmasters a sign of their significance in the engine's algorithm.
Potential indexing problems tells us that SEO Chat is only partially indexed. I was at first a little confused as to what this meant. I clicked on the little question mark to the right, and Google told me:
The Google index contains two types of pages: fully indexed and partially indexed pages. A site that's listed by its URL and appears without a cached copy and a detailed title is partially indexed. When a site is partially indexed, it's because our robots were unable to completely review its content during a recent crawl.
It goes on to say that the site can try more optimization to be far more easily crawled, but it's really a limitation of Googlebot at the moment. SEO Chat could remove some titles, html, and script, but it's probably not worth the effort since the site is really pretty thoroughly indexed already.
Other things can turn up in the indexing problems, such as if your home page is currently inaccessible.
You can also see right on this first page that Google has encountered at least 10 HTTP errors, thanks to the error notifier. Considering that SEO Chat recently changed its URL generating script, this is lower than I expected.
Finally, Google gives us a few links to the new help center. This section is improved since last time I looked at Google Sitemaps.
{mospagebreak title=Prepare to Be Helped}
As you may have already noticed on the few screens I showed, there is a link for everything. Practically every piece of indexing information, error message, and statistic has a link with it. Oftentimes this link will send you to a relevant page in Webmaster Help Center. Staying ahead of questions will make Sitemaps better for the less savvy site owner or SEO.
Besides all the handy topical links, Sitemaps also has a whole help directory that you can find here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters.
The help center is now more detailed. It has not just the help you might need in Google Sitemaps, but also answers to general webmaster questions, third party scripts that go with Sitemaps (such as a plug-in for vBulletin among many other things), and information on Googlebot.
Along with the new support, they also provide a new way to verify sites. You can still place the randomly generated HTML file in you site's root directory like before, but now they also permit using a special meta tag for verification. You can find more information here.
I definitely like the new layout and better help support. In an internet that is increasingly dependent upon Google rank, it makes a webmaster's job a little easier. There are a few things that would still be nice to see down the line for sitemaps.
With the indexing stats, it would be very nice to see a site's crawling frequency. Watching the date that Google last crawled the site can give us a clue over time, but I'd much rather see an estimated time for he the next Googlebot crawl and a crawl priority. That would provide more of an idea of how much fresh content Google is identifying, and webmasters can watch Google's crawling preferences changing.
Having more query stats would also be generous of Google. Like I mentioned a month ago, I can see what terms people use to find SEO Chat, but I can't tell what pages are the most successful. Having a way to indicate searchers' clickthrough ratio of the top search queries the site appears for would have search advertisers singing praise of Google. That would make all our jobs easier; it would encourage people to make helpful SERPs rather than high-ranking ones. It would also let us compare the clickthrough for organic listings and PPC ones. Valuable comparisons between organic and PPC, of course, may also be a reason why Google would not be excited about this feature.
Overall, though, Google has made their service a helpful tool for any site manager. Like I said at the end of the last article on Sitemaps, if you don't already use it, you should.


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Putting your cursor over the stream site number on the map below will generate a picture of the site (if available). Clicking on the site number will take you down the page to a table of sites with locations, parameters and frequency of analysis. Below the table is a legend defining the abbreviations used in the table.
Guadalupe River Basin Surface Water Quality Monitoring ProgramGBRA Monitoring Locations
Guadalupe River Basin Surface Water Quality Monitoring ProgramTCEQ Monitoring Locations
Guadalupe River Basin Surface Water Quality Monitoring ProgramWimberley Valley Watershed Monitoring Locations
** The ability to look up data for a specific Station ID on the TCEQ website is no longer available. However, by using the TCEQ link above, it is possible to download text files for a segment; so if you know the segment, you can scroll down to it and select it for downloading. The data download query requires a great deal of knowledge of not only converting and combining text files, but also for understanding and looking up the codes in the Data Management Reference Guide.
The C symbol represents the following parameters and their TCEQ codes: 00010, Temperature, Water (Centigrade); 00094 Conductivity, Field (mmhos/cm @ 25C); 00300 Oxygen, Dissolved (mg/L); 00400 pH (standard units); 00631 Nitrate/Nitrite-Nitrogen (mg/L as N); 00665 Total Phosphorus (mg/L as P); 00530 Solids, Total Suspended (mg/L); 82079 Turbidity (NTU); 00945 Sulfate (mg/L); 00940 Chloride (mg/L); 32211 Chlorophyll-a (mg/L); 00900 Total Hardness (mg/L); and 31648 E. coli (#/100 mL).
The F symbol means that a flow measurement will be provided. When possible, this information will be derived from U.S. Geological stream gages; at some sites, the proximity of a hydroelectric generating facility allows the calculation of flow based upon power generated; at the remainder of the sites field measurements will be made by GBRA Lab personnel or UGRA personnel.
The M symbol denotes metals. All M samples will be collected by the GBRA. The dissolved metals to be analyzed for are 01106 Aluminum (mg/L as Al); 01090 Zinc (mg/L as Zn); 01000 Arsenic (mg/L as As); 00915 Calcium (mg/L as Ca); 01025 Cadmium (mg/L as Cd); 00925 Magnesium (mg/L as Mg); 46570 Hardness, calc, (mg/L as CaCO3); 01005 Barium (mg/L as Ba); 01030 Chromium (mg/L as Cr); 01040 Copper (mg/L as Cu); 01046 Iron (mg/L as Fe); 01049 Lead (mg/L as Pb); 01056 Manganese (mg/L as Mn); 01065 Nickel (mg/L as Ni); 01060 Molybdenum (mg/L as Mo); 01145 Selenium (mg/L as Se); 71890 Mercury, total (mg/L as Hg); and 01075 Silver (mg/L as Ag).
AC means Aquatic Commun-Habitat.
RN means Routine Nekton.
N/A means not active. The station is not being monitored.
RB means Routine Benthics.
FT means Fish Tissue.
BAC means TSWQS Bacteria sampling.
O means organics in water.
D024 means dissolved oxygen measurements over a 24 hour period.
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Palliative care consultants in the hospital may include:
We speak with the family to understand their feelings about the patient's illness and other concerns—spiritual, psychosocial, and financial. We see the patient regularly and continue to work closely with the patient's care team during hospitalization. If needed, we may also arrange for continuing care upon discharge.
By managing symptoms, answering questions, and offering practical support, our team contributes to the patient's comfort, whether or not complete recovery is expected. By easing difficulties and reducing suffering, the UPMC Palliative and Supportive Institute helps patients and their family members to maintain dignity and a higher quality of life during hospitalization.
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DUNEDIN, Fla. – Enter the Toronto Blue Jays' spring training clubhouse, turn right and you'll find Darren Oliver. It's a good place to start if you want to learn about the team or baseball itself.
At age 42, the relief pitcher is gearing up for his 20th major-league season.
"He's been around for so long. He's seen it all, he's done it all," said Toronto closer Casey Janssen. "He's been an unbelievable sounding board for questions. I mean nobody has it figured out. He's still learning every day as well but he's been through a heck of a lot more than we have.
"Whether it's on the field or off the field, he's been there, done that," added fellow reliever Sergio Santos.
No wonder when Oliver agreed in mid-January to come back for a second season with Toronto, the 29-year-old Santos and 31-year-old Janssen started texting each other.
"We were just so excited, knowing that we have such a big piece in our bullpen coming back," said Santos.
Oliver is entering his second year with the Blue Jays after previous stints with Texas (three times), St. Louis, Boston, Colorado, the New York Mets and Los Angeles Angels.
In 2012, the veteran left-hander went 3-4 with a 2.06 earned-run average, 52 strikeouts and 14 walks over 56.2 innings while setting up Janssen, who took over the closer's role after Santos was injured early on.
After the Jays exercised a US$3-million option for 2013, Oliver took his time mulling over his future. His agent reportedly asked for a renegotiated contract although Oliver distanced himself from that stance.
Oliver has no regrets about coming back, although he admits spring training gets old after 20 years. The season itself can also be a grind mentally.
But asked if it still beats working for a living, he doesn't miss a beat.
"Absolutely … . There could be a lot of other worse things I could be doing for a living so I'm definitely not complaining," he said.
One factor in his decision to return was Toronto's remake of its roster.
"Winning. It's always about winning," said Oliver. "No question about that."
Oliver, the son of former major league infielder Bob Oliver, says he expects his role with the Jays to remain the same. "Setting up my boy, Casey."
His family — he's married with two kids — calls Texas home but will join him in the summer in Toronto once school is out.
He likes Toronto, calling it a clean city with a lot of good restaurants, and he prefers the summer in the Ontario capital over the searing heat of Texas.
Oliver says it's also easy to blend in in Toronto and live a normal life.
"Nobody really pays attention," he said. "Maybe every now and then but for the most part not really.
"Just throw a hat on and just walk around town and go get some lunch, grab a movie or something. It's not really that bad."
Oliver says good health, good teams and good coaches have helped keep him in the game so long. He's also paid attention, studying opposition batters.
"There's really no magic explanation why I've stayed around so long," he said.
But Oliver does say he knows his body and understands his mechanics.
"He repeats his delivery very well," Janssen said. "He has a good feel for not only his game but also the hitters he's facing. And he knows his strengths and pitches to his strengths."
"It's just a natural ability to throw the baseball where he wants to," added 28-year-old Toronto starter Brandon Morrow. "That's what's got him this far.
"You watch him work and he's not trying to overpower anybody. He's just trying to hit his spot, keep the ball on the ground. He's figured out that works and what works for him."
Jays manager John Gibbons — starting his second stint at the Toronto helm — is at a loss for an explanation for Oliver's longevity, other than the pitcher keeps delivering.
"He's got a simple delivery, great mechanics, that kind of thing," Gibbons said. "And his role, he's thriving in that role.
"Guys like that, they're rare. It's hard to figure out what it is."
Asked what he will expect when he sends Oliver out, the 50-year-old Gibbons paused and said "Get the hitter out."
"I mean he's done it his whole career, and just from watching in BP (batting practice) and throwing on the side there's still a lot in there. He's one of the most reliable guys in baseball. And we're glad we have him back. That would have been a big hole without him, no doubt."
Oliver, who will turn 43 in October, says he has no plans past this season, at least at this stage.
"Right now I'd say no," he said when asked if he will pitch in 2014. "But things change just like they did last year."
In 716 career games, including 229 starts, he has a 115-94 record with a 4.53 ERA.
As for further down the line, Oliver says he could well stay in baseball although he insists there is "probably a very good chance I won't be a coach when I'm done playing."
"They've got to be at the field so early, and being away from my family again like that wouldn't be fair to them. Maybe when my kids graduate from high school."
But he has not shortage of contacts or experience.
"I'm sure there'll be probably something for me to do in somebody's organization, maybe front office or something like that," he said.
Oliver's kids are 10 and 12.
"They'll be teenagers pretty soon, one of them," he said. "Hey, how about that? Teenagers and (I'm) still playing baseball. Crazy."