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Most shops open by 09:00 or 10.00 and they usually close around 18:00. Supermarkets and DIY-shops often have broader opening hours, opening around 8.30 and closing only at 20.00 or 22.00. Traditionally, most shops are closed on Sundays, or only open on a few Sundays a year (known as "koopzondagen"). Legislative changes have allowed municipalities to make their own decisions on the number of koopzondagen, or Sundays on which shops are allowed to open. As a result, most of the shops in the centres of large cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Maastricht etc.) are now open every Sunday , typically from 12:00 until 17:00 or 18:00. An increasing number of smaller cities, and especially the ones where tourism is a major economic factor, is following this trend. Unfortunately, the situation differs per location. Most smaller cities allow at least a supermarket to be open every Sunday, most have multiple Sunday openings per year, and some open every Sunday. Some smaller shops are closed on Monday mornings, or even close for an extra day in the week.
The Netherlands is a good place to buy flowers . Flower bulbs are most suited to bring home, and can be purchased at tourist shops, garden centres and DIY stores throughout the year. Keep in mind that bulbs and their planting times depend on seasons, and tulip bulbs are typically unavailable from late winter to late summer. Fresh flowers can be bought from florists, or pre-packaged in most supermarkets. Also bear in mind that although it is not a problem taking bulbs and flowers out of the country, you may be severely restricted in bringing them back to your own country.
The country is also famous for its wooden shoes (clogs). Nowadays almost no one, except for some farmers in the countryside and some fishermen in Volendam and Urk, wear them. Wearing wooden shoes in public outside the countryside will earn you quite a few strange looks from the locals. If you do try them on, the famous "wooden shoes" are surprisingly comfortable, and very useful in any rural setting. Think of them as all-terrain footwear; easy to put on for a walk in the garden, field or on a dirt road. If you live in a rural area at home, consider taking a pair of these with you if you can. Avoid the kitschy tourist shops at Schiphol and Amsterdam's Damrak, and instead look for a regular vendor which can usually be found in towns and villages in rural areas. The northern province of Friesland has a lot of stores selling wooden shoes, often adorned with the bright colors of the Frisian flag.
The likelihood of the Rockets, a 36.2% three-point shooting team, missing 26 threes in a row is .00084% or a 1 in 118757 chance.
— Eric Sidewater (@SixersScience)
The Rockets have always beaten the odds.
Minutes before tipoff…. GO ROCKETS!!!!
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz)
We knew Ted Cruz had something to do with this!
The rockets were clearly distracted by NRA sellout Ted Cruz's shining smile.
— Matt Deitsch (@MattxRed)
That smile blinded the 3-point shooters of the Rockets.
The Rockets in total missed 27 threes in a row before PJTucker finally made that one??? It's really a shame they're having to play this Game 7 without CP3 on the floor.
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless)
More often than not, the real reason why the Rockets went into an offensive funk. Then again, they have managed to do this in the thrid-quarter all series long.
James harden literally shot the warriors back in the game.
— Jay2thegreat (@Bongslaw211)
Let's not forget about Trevor Ariza, who couldn't hit the Gulf of Mexico even if he was standing on Seawall Boulevard.
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— The Ringer (@ringer)
This tweet speaks for itself.
— Fred Katz (@FredKatz)
When PJ Tucker hit that 3-pointer to end the streak, all of Texas rejoiced.
The Celtics last night from three: 7/39The Rockets tonight from three: 6/39
— Justin Jett (@JustinJett_)
Watching the Rockets offense was like watching Saw. In fact, they should make a Saw movie out of this horrific shooting performance by Houston.
D'Antoni: "Alright guys lets go out there in the second half and let's hit these shots"
— GC (@gachorpenning)
The Rockets in the second half the last two games.
In the end, that shooting streak doomed the Rockets and they dropped Game 7 to Golden State 101-92. Just a few made shots and things could have been very different.
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Election of new Director General must signal new era for FAO
The election of a Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) must kick start a new era for the organization if it is to play a leading role in the fight against high and volatile food prices and growing hunger, said Oxfam today. The FAO's 37th biennial conference takes place in Rome from 25 June – 2 July.
Ministers and high level representatives from 191 member states will elect a new Director General on Sunday to replace Jacques Diouf, who is standing down at the end of 2011 after 18 years at the helm. Candidates include Franz Fischler from Austria, José Graziano da Silva from Brazil, Indroyono Soesilo from Indonesia, Mohammad Saeid Noori Naeini from Iran, Abdul Latif Rashid from Iraq and Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé from Spain.
The conference will also discuss the role of women in agriculture, the ongoing reform of the FAO and the budget for 2012-13. The FAO will also announce the eradication of the cattle disease, Rinderpest.
The FAO is currently undergoing a major reform process. Years of underinvestment and marginalisation by the international community and disagreements between member states have weakened its role and reduced its capacity to fulfil its distinctive mandate. The FAO provides information, knowledge and advice to governments and the international community on tackling food insecurity, supporting agriculture and managing natural resources.
Luca Chinotti, policy advisor for Oxfam's GROW campaign, which is calling for action to end hunger today and tomorrow, said: "This conference must signal a fresh start for the FAO. The new Director General must build consensus amongst member states around a vision for a new agriculture future which puts small scale producers in developing countries – who offer the greatest potential to increase yields and tackle hunger – at its heart. He must be an effective administrator who will complete much needed reforms at the FAO and he must be a strong leader who will champion action on hunger and malnutrition internationally".
"Member states must turn the page on the last few years of infighting and underinvestment and ensure the FAO has the resources and the political support it needs to fulfil its mandate to eradicate hunger."
The meeting is being held amidst growing concern over high and volatile food prices, growing hunger, flat-lining agricultural yields and the prospect that dwindling natural resources and increasingly severe climate change impacts will make feeding the world harder still in the years to come.
"The FAO has a crucial role to play in fixing our broken food system and ensuring everybody has enough to eat today and tomorrow. With close to 1 billion hungry people today and millions more set to join their ranks as natural resources dwindle and climate change takes effect the knowledge and expertise which the organisation provides is needed more than ever", said Chinotti.
Oxfam and WOCAN (Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management) are also calling on the new Director General to champion the needs of women producers who produce much of the world's food but face a daily struggle against discrimination. If women producers had the same rights to land, resources and opportunities as men, it is estimated that they could feed themselves, their families, and up to 150 million additional people. Jeannette Gurung, Executive Director of WOCAN said: "We are hopeful that the new Director General will position the FAO as a frontrunner with regard to women in agriculture. Women farmers and entrepreneurs are key to achieving sustainable development and food security. The FAO can help to realize their potential by strengthening their leadership and capacity. This will certainly contribute to a positive direction for agriculture that is long-lasting."
For more information on Oxfam's GROW campaign see: www.oxfam.org/grow
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Aymeric Rousseau manages the Vehicle Modeling and Control Section at Argonne National Laboratory.
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Jason Harper
Jason Harper's research is focused on the development and validation of plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) charging and smart grid communication codes and standards.
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Matthew Mahalik's work focuses on the design, implementation and application of computer modeling tools which are used extensively by Argonne and other domestic and international organizations for
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Forrest Jehlik
Forrest Jehlik is currently an engineer with the Center for Transportation Research. He leads a Green Racing program to promote adoption of renewable fuels and advanced technology's through motorsports that may be transferred to production based vehicles.
|February 13, 2012
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Introduction: First Nations/Métis populations develop diabetes earlier and at higher rates than other Canadians. The Canadian diabetes risk questionnaire (CANRISK) was developed as a diabetes screening tool for Canadians aged 40 years or over. The primary aim of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of the existing CANRISK tool and risk scores in detecting dysglycemia in First Nations/Métis participants, including among those under the age of 40. A secondary aim was to determine whether alternative waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI) cut-off points improved the predictive ability of logistic regression models using CANRISK variables to predict dysglycemia.Introduction:
Methods: Information from a self-administered CANRISK questionnaire, anthropometric measurements, and results of a standard oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) were collected from First Nations and Métis participants (n = 1479). Sensitivity and specificity of CANRISK scores using published risk score cut-off points were calculated. Logistic regression was conducted with alternative ethnicity-specific BMI and WC cut-off points to predict dysglycemia using CANRISK variables.Methods:
Results: Compared with OGTT results, using a CANRISK score cut-off point of 33, the sensitivity and specificity of CANRISK was 68% and 63% among individuals aged 40 or over; it was 27% and 87%, respectively among those under 40. Using a lower cut-off point of 21, the sensitivity for individuals under 40 improved to 77% with a specificity of 44%. Though specificity at this threshold was low, the higher level of sensitivity reflects the importance of the identification of high risk individuals in this population. Despite altered cut-off points of BMI and WC, logistic regression models demonstrated similar predictive ability.Results:
Conclusion: CANRISK functioned well as a preliminary step for diabetes screening in a broad age range of First Nations and Métis in Canada, with an adjusted CANRISK cut-off point for individuals under 40, and with no incremental improvement from using alternative BMI/WC cut-off points.Conclusion:
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From the 2011 National Household Survey, 4.3% of the Canadian population identified themselves as Aboriginal (First Nations, Inuit, or Métis), with 28% aged 14 years or under and 18.2% aged 15 to 24 years Footnote 1 . Studies have demonstrated that the Canadian Aboriginal population is at a higher risk for developing diabetes due to many factors including lifestyle, environmental and genetic. Footnote 2
Britain's Kennel Club declared the corgi, that most English of dog breeds, might be at risk of disappearing in the U.K. The little herders are still going strong in the United States, but there are many canine types whose numbers have dwindled. Here's a list of current and recent "vulnerable breeds" provided by Britain's Kennel Club.
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It's hard to imagine that this police favorite ever dwindled in popularity, but back in 2013, the Kennel Club registered only 51 bloodhounds. The breed is now thought to be doing fine.
This tiny body needs a lot of exercise and stimulation. Sadly, new registrations have fluctuated betweenonly56 to 108 in recent years.
This well-coifed breed is thought to be named after a character in a novel. Only 105 were registered in 2013.
Sure, it looks like a small horse, but this big breed is relatively tiny in number these days.
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Many other terrier breeds owe their existence to this ancestor, though Britain's Kennel Club says yearly registrations for the smooth fox terrier only number around 120.
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Considered vulnerable only a few years ago, this gorgeous dog was originally bred to hunt gamebirds.
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Only 82 of these pretty dogs were registered by the Kennel Club in 2013, but determined breeders have kept the setters from going extinct so far.
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One of the oldest of the spaniels, it is said to have a clown-like nature. Current registrations are only around 100 yearly.
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This very tall dog is said to be at risk because of a "bottleneck" in the gene pool.
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It's been described as an "unfashionable" breed, but not so endangered as some others in the terrier family.
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As the Astros prepared to take the field for their first game following the All-Star break, manager Brad Mills looked at freshly-minted hitting coach and franchise legend Jeff Bagwell. Mills had just one thing to say to Bagwell.
"I told him I hoped it didn't take him as long to get his first win as it did me," Mills said with a smile. "I wouldn't wish that on anybody."
Mills was hired last winter to replace Cecil Cooper, who was fired with 13 games left in a 2009 season that saw the Astros finish 74-88 and in fifth place in the National League Central. It marked Mills' first chance to manage at the major-league level after spending the previous six seasons as the Red Sox bench coach under Terry Francona. And Mills couldn't have gotten off to a worst start. The Astros lost their first eight games, getting outscored 44-14. That put them six games out in the division before Mills finally notched his first victory.
It would only be natural for Mills to have questioned himself and worry that his team might give up on him and the season before it had barely started. However, he was pleasant surprised by how his players reacted.
"It was tough," Mills said. "You get so anxious to get that first win under your belt, not just as a manager but as a team. When it doesn't come for a more than a week, it can get frustrating. The great thing about it, though, is that our guys never got down. They kept battling hard every night and believing good things would happen. And they've been that way all season."
The Astros haven't been world-beaters by any means. While they have gone 38-47 since the 0-8 start, they still have the fifth-worst record in the major leagues, their 38-55 mark sitting behind the Orioles (30-63), Pirates (33-60), Diamondbacks (36-58), and Mariners (36-58).
However, Mills is a glass-half-full guy. He is relentlessly positive while showing the same trait as Francona, his mentor and close friend. In addition to their time together with the Red Sox, Mills was also Francona's bench coach for four seasons with the Phillies from 1997-2000, and their relationship dates back to their playing days both at the University of Arizona and with the Expos in the 1980s.
"There is no question that being around Terry Francona for so many years rubbed off on me," Mills said. "I'm an optimistic person by nature, and Terry is as positive of a person as you'll find. Managing in Philadelphia and Boston can be tough because there can be so many distractions, but Terry always kept a positive atmosphere and the players responded to that. I know that style of managing works because I've seen it work."
That is not to say Mills is delusional. He realizes the Astros have a long way to go to return to respectability as they are 28thin the major leagues in runs scored (3.54 a game), 25thin runs allowed (4.92) and last among the 30 teams with a .662 Defensive Efficiency. Bagwell was brought in at the break to replace Sean Berry to address the offense, but simply put, Houston is bad in all phases of the game.
"We have played better as the season has gone on, and I like the guys have kept after it and kept working," Mills said. "That being said, there is accountability here, too. Our players understand that being this far under .500 isn't acceptable and they realize that we have to play better or changes are going to be made."
The biggest question surrounding the Astros is if big changes will be made between now and the July 31 non-waiver trading deadline. The Astros seem to be a team in desperate need of off-loading high-salaried veterans so it can begin a youth movement. The three most logical players to trade are first baseman Lance Berkman, left fielder Carlos Lee, and right-hander Roy Oswalt. General manager Ed Wade is noncommittal about whether he will make any major moves. It also seems likely that Berkman is the only one of three who is very attractive to other clubs because his contract expires at the end of the year, while Oswalt is signed through 2011 and Lee is signed through 2012.
"You have to be mindful of the fact that this is the time of year where there are some opportunities that present themselves to change the face of your club and, hopefully in the process, improve your club," Wade said. "You also have to be prepared to go forward with the club you have right now. There are no guarantees that the club changes in any fashion, much less dramatically."
Mills, for his part, plans to take things as they come while Wade decides whether to blow up the roster.
"We're facing it like everybody we have here is going to be here for the rest of the season," Mills said. "We'll go to the war with the players who are here today and go from there. There is really no other way to handle it."
Considering the Yankees came so close to trading for Mariners left-hander Cliff Lee earlier this month, it would stand to reason they are back in the market for a starter now that lefty Andy Pettitte will miss at least a month with a strained groin. However, GM Brian Cashman says that the Yankees will fill the rotation hole internally with Sergio Mitre.
"I would just say that Cliff Lee was a special case," Cashman said. "We are getting Andy Pettitte back, and this is exactly what Sergio Mitre is here for. He'd be in most other teams' starting rotations, and he will get the chance to fill that spot until Andy comes back."
The Yankees plan to make a run at Lee as a free agent in the off-season and thus have little interest in Oswalt because he is signed through next year. Other starting pitchers who have been linked to the Yankees include the Indians' Fausto Carmona, the Diamondbacks' Dan Haren, the Astros' Brett Myers, and Cubs left-hander Ted Lilly. Yet, Cashman said he is not close to making a move for a starter or any other help.
"Right now it's pretty quiet, but it's still early," Cashman said. "There have been conversations with teams, but I don't see them leading to anything right now."
While White Sox GM Ken Williams can usually be counted on to make a big trade at the deadline, he sounds like a man who won't be wheeling and dealing this year. He said he does not see any obvious fits for his club on the market, even though the White Sox are going with rookie Daniel Hudson in their rotation now that Jake Peavy is out for the season.
"What we view as potential help … there's only a small group of players," Williams said. "And even with that, we all still have to have the conversation amongst ourselves and we kind of do it on a daily basis this time of year amongst ourselves what we're looking at the right fit. The right fit, both skill-set wise, fit in the lineup or fit, whether it be a bullpen piece, a starter piece. Is it the right fit? Are you going to gain exponentially by making that move in lieu of staying with what you have? And I'm very mindful of how this team has banded together and overcome a mountain of hurdles to get to where they want to get right now, so I think you have to be very cognizant of doing something that isn't exponentially better and making sure it's not disruptive at the same time."
Jed Hoyer inherited manager Bud Black when he replaced Kevin Towers as the Padres' GM at the end of last season. In Hoyer's mind, it was quite a great inheritance, which is why Hoyer extended Black's contract for three years through the 2013 season on Monday. The contract also includes club options for 2014 and 2015. Black had only been under contact through this season.
"My faith in Bud goes beyond wins and losses," Hoyer said, though mindful that the Padres are the surprise leaders in the NL West. "Buddy's a great guy as well as manager."
Meanwhile, Black has built an outstanding relationship with Hoyer, observing, "We enjoy working together. When Jed took the job, he came to me and said he had no one out there that he had in mind to be his manager, so let's just move forward, and we have.'"
Meanwhile, Dodgers manager Joe Torre's contact expires at the end of this season. The 70-year-old says he has yet to decide if he will continue his career or retire to an advisory position in the Dodgers' front office. While Torre is still deciding about his future, he is thankful that health will not impact his choice.
"When I see people my age not as active as I am, it makes me feel like whatever I'm doing is heading in the right direction," he said. "I resent the fact that some days I'm more tired than other days and remind myself that I'm a little older. But I'm active, I feel good, and I still have the energy to do everything I did 10 years ago. I don't think that will be a factor, that it will change between now and next month or September."
The Pirates seems to be going backward, if that is possible for a franchise that has already set a major North American team sports record with 17 consecutive losing seasons. The Pirates are 27 games under .500 and in position to possibly catch the once seemingly uncatchable Orioles for the worst record in the majors.
Yet Pirates ownership is showing either extraordinary patience or complete apathy. No one has yet paid with their job this season, though the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported last weekend that upper management is starting to doubt that John Russell is the long-term answer as manager.
Russell and GM Neal Huntington are signed through next season, secretly given one-year contract extensions last October that were not revealed by club president Frank Coonelly until June, when reports first surfaced that the Pirates were thinking of changing managers. The continuing reports that Russell might be on the verge of being fired bother Huntington, who says he has no plans of making a change, thought most people familiar with the Pirates' situation say Coonelly will ultimately make that decision.
"When you hide behind imaginary sources that aren't going to go on the record, you can say anything you want," Huntington said. "Ultimately, the responsibility comes back to me, and it always will. The ultimate evaluation is, 'Are we getting better?' And there will come a time when wins and losses are the ultimate tool of judging the major-league staff. We're not there yet. The looking for somebody to take the fall, to have the finger pointed at them, that's not what I'm about."
MLB Rumors & Rumblings: Triple-A Iowa manager and franchise icon Ryne Sandberg is the overwhelming favorite to replace Cubs manager Lou Piniella, who is retiring at the end of the season, but bench coach Alan Trammell and broadcaster Bob Brenly, both former major-league skippers, will also get consideraton. … The Phillies are in hot pursuit of trading for a starting pitcher to take Kyle Kendrick's place in the rotation, and Oswalt is reportedly one of their targets along with Haren, the Orioles' Jeremy Guthrie, and the Athletics' Ben Sheets. The Phillies are expected to clear payroll space by trading right fielder Jayson Werth, who is eligible for free agency at the end of the season, and then replacing him with top prospect Domonic Brown. … The Twins are increasing left-handed reliever Brian Duensing's pitch count to get him ready to move into the rotation, and have also zeroed in on Lilly and Sheets in trade talks. … The Mets still have interest in Lilly and Myers, but are said to be turning their attention to Indians right-hander Jake Westbrook. … The Cardinals are making a stealth bid to bring back Haren via trade. … The Dodgers have added Pirates left-hander Paul Maholm to their list of trade targets. … The Red Sox aren't expected to make any big trades, but are trying to acquire left-handed reliever Scott Downs from the Blue Jays. … The Cubs are considering releasing starter Carlos Silva and moving left-handed reliever Sean Marshall into the rotation. … The Reds plan to work out reliever Jason Isringhausen, who has been out of baseball since being released by the Rays last year in spring training, while the Royals, Yankees, and Cardinals also have interest. … The Tigers will likely platoon left-handed hitting Don Kelly and right-handed hitting Ryan Raburn at third base while Brandon Inge is on the disabled list, though they reportedly have their eye on the Orioles' Ty Wigginton as a trade candidate. … The Tigers are also interested in Blue Jays catcher John Buck and Athletics reliever Michael Wuertz. … Nationals manager Jim Riggleman is considering going with a three-man rotation in the middle infield, with Cristian Guzman shuttling between shortstop and second base, depending on if either rookie shortstop Ian Desmond or second baseman Adam Kennedy is not in the lineup. …Indians manager Manny Acta said he will decide between Jason Donald, who had been filling for injured shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, or Jayson Nix as his starting second baseman later this week, with Donald headed to Triple-A Columbus if Nix is the choice. … In a never-ending quest to find some use for Oliver Perez, the Mets plan to use the left-hander strictly as a match-up reliever against left-handed hitters, quite a narrow role for a pitcher making $12 million this season. … Ben Francisco has been getting the majority of starts in left field in recent weeks when the Phillies have faced left-handed pitchers, but manager Charlie Manuel insists that Raul Ibanez has not been reduced to a platoon player. … The Diamondbacks plan to limit left-hander Ian Kennedy's innings to 185 in his first full major-league season, and he is currently at 116 1/3.
Scouts' takes on various major-leaguers:
Red Sox reliever Michael Bowden: "I think it was a smart move by the Red Sox to move the kid to relief. It gives them a fresh arm for the stretch run and he's better suited to pitching out of the bullpen in the long run."
Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro: "He's really starting to settle down in the field and at the plate. He's a nice little player and he's got a bright future."
Nationals first baseman Adam Dunn: "Everyone always wants to talk about what this guy doesn't do—make consistent contact. But he hits home runs, draws walks, and would help a contender down the stretch."
Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar: "He seems rejuvenated since the Braves traded him. He's got a spring in his step, and he's driving the ball, which is something he didn't do the entire first half in Atlanta.
Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder: "If I'm the Brewers, I trade him right now because his value will never be higher. I really believe, because of his conditioning, when he starts to go downhill that the slide will be rapid."
Braves third baseman Chipper Jones: "Ever since he talked about retiring, it seems like his bat speed picked up. I have no idea if it's just a coincidence, but it's like he's trying to convince himself that he's not done."
Marlins reliever Jose Veras: "He has always been a tease because he has a power arm, but has never gotten hitters out consistently. But he's pitching as well now as I've ever seen him in his career, so maybe he's a late bloomer."
Three series to watch with probable pitching matchups (all times Eastern):
Angels (51-45) at Rangers (55-39), Thursday-Sunday July 22-25
Jered Weaver vs. Cliff Lee, 8:05 p.m.; Joe Saunders vs. C.J. Wilson, 8:05 p.m.; Ervin Santana vs. Scott Feldman, 8:05 p.m.; Sean O'Sullivan vs. Tommy Hunter, 8:05 p.m.
Mets (49-45) at Dodgers (49-45), Thursday-Sunday July 22-25
Hisanori Takahashi vs. Hiroki Kuroda, 10:10 p.m.; Johan Santana vs. Vicente Padilla, 10:10 p.m.; Mike Pelfrey vs. James McDonald, 4:10 p.m.; R.A. Dickey vs. Clayton Kershaw, 4:10 p.m.
Rockies (51-42) at Phillies (48-45), Friday-Monday July 23-26
Aaron Cook vs. Roy Halladay, 7:05 p.m.; Ubaldo Jimenez vs. Andrew Carpenter, 4:10 p.m.; Jeff Francis vs. Jamie Moyer, 1:35 p.m.; Jason Hammel vs. Joe Blanton, 1:05 p.m.


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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - Feb. 1, 2013) - Cosmos, the UK's largest independent tour operator, has reported a stronger than forecast start to the peaks sales campaign, with sales across brands significantly ahead of forecast and prior year.
Hugh Morgan, MD of The Monarch Travel Group said, "We have had an excellent start to our peaks campaign. We went out with a very clear message for our package holidays of low deposits, great value for money and ATOL bonding, and consumers have responded to this.
There are undoubtedly more consumers buying in peaks this year versus last year when the Queen's Jubilee, European Football Championship and of course, Olympics encouraged some travellers to hold off buying. In a package market that is showing 1% growth for summer '13, we are significantly outperforming. In fact, we had our best ever sales day on 5th January, with sales for that week up 30% year on year and this week sees sales up by 50%" Morgan continued, "Our marketing message has been strong and it is delivering exactly what we intended; higher consumer recognition of the brand at a time when we have launched our most comprehensive range of holidays, with an increased flying programme and unrivalled flexibility".
Monarch Travel Group's other trade brands, Avro and somewhere2stay, have also fared well in early season sales, with passenger numbers again exceeding expectations. Morgan commented, "Sales in our dynamic packaging brands are also very strong. Monarch Airlines has gone into new bases at Leeds Bradford and East Midlands airports, and has increased its aircraft numbers for summer '13. That has allowed us to offer more flight seats to the trade through Avro, and we've taken additional bed stock into somewhere2stay to support the increased flying programme - it's all adding up to be a very positive story".
For more information about the great deals on offer from Cosmos Holidays, visit http://www.cosmos.co.uk/offers/holidays/summer-2013-cheap-holidays.
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Cosmos Holidays, Avro and Somewhere2stay.com form the tour operating and holidays division of The Monarch Group, a leading UK-based travel Group which also comprises Monarch Airlines and Monarch Aircraft Engineering. The Group has a turnover of approximately £1 billion, offers airline capacity of over 8 million sector seats, has tour operating passenger volumes of some 815,000 customers, and employs 3,000 staff.
Cosmos Holidays is the UK's largest independent tour operator and has been providing great value fully-bonded holidays for over 50 years making it one of the most established travel companies in the UK travel sector. Cosmos Holidays offers a flexible choice of holidays from mainstream to specialist including beach, multi-centre, tour and stay, cruise and city breaks in up to 65 destinations worldwide. Its range of holidays includes Villas with Pools, Goa and the Indian Ocean, Mexico, the Caribbean, Florida, the Mediterranean, Egypt and North Africa.
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Introduced as a response to the success of Japanese pickups at the start of the 1980s, the Chevrolet S-10 quickly became a prime competitor in the compact pickup truck segment. Affordable and highly configurable, it was an everyman's truck, meeting the needs of anyone who didn't need the towing and payload capacities of a full-size pickup.
During the S-10's 23-year lifespan, there were two generations. Most used-vehicle shoppers will be looking at the second generation. Alas, we were never particularly impressed with this S-10, finding it to be inferior to competing small trucks from Dodge, Ford, Nissan and Toyota.
Most Recent Chevrolet S-10
The second-generation Chevrolet S-10 was produced from 1994-2004. It was offered in regular, extended and (later on) crew cab bodies with short and long beds. The Sportside bed arrived in 1996 along with the optional three-door access cab. The ZR2 package was available on regular-cab short-bed models (it was available with the extended cab in 1995), as was an SS package that included a high-output V6, sport suspension and alloy wheels.
The boulder-crawling ZR2 package added some machismo to the S-10 that the regular and LS versions lacked. ZR2 S-10s featured larger off-road tires, tougher suspension components and standard four-wheel drive.
The S-10 extended cab model was offered with a third-door access panel on the driver side that aided loading cargo, pets or an unfortunate passenger into the rear compartment with its fold-down jump seat. This third door tended to rattle on broken pavement, though.
The 1994-'97 S-10 featured a standard 2.2-liter four-cylinder engine on rear-wheel-drive models that made 118 horsepower. Optional with 2WD and standard with 4WD was a 165-hp 4.3-liter V6. The high-output V6 put out 195 hp. These V6s were upgraded in 1996 to provide more horsepower and torque. Transmission choices included a five-speed manual or a four-speed automatic.
Safety was never a point worthy of applause for the Chevrolet S-10, and the early years of this generation were light on safety equipment. Rear antilock brakes were standard, but four-wheel ABS was optional on four-cylinder models and standard with the V6. (All S-10s had four-wheel ABS after 1996.) A driver airbag became available in 1995, but there was no passenger protection until the 1998 update. For this reason, and the shabby interior, we'd steer clear of these early second-generation S-10s.
This S-10 underwent a midlife freshening for '98 that saw more aggressive front styling and an improved interior with dual airbags. The S-10 Xtreme that debuted in 1999 was the street-oriented counterpart to the ZR2. It was offered only in rear-wheel drive with a 2-inch-lower ride height. It also added a body-color grille and bumpers, full ground effects with wheel flares, the sport suspension and 16-inch aluminum wheels. The only other major change for this S-10's run was 2001's new four-door crew cab model with five-passenger capacity.
The Chevy S-10 was loaded with value and versatility for the compact pickup truck buyer, but we were never thrilled with it. The revised interior featured good ergonomics, but the materials were low rent, and the driver sat low, facing a tall steering wheel and dash. The S-10's tendency to squeak and rattle didn't provide the feeling of brawny quality we'd like from a pickup. Nor did lousy crash test scores provide the feeling of invincibility one expects from a pickup. In a comparison test we conducted for 2001, the S-10 finished fifth out of five trucks. Production soldiered on until 2004, at which point Chevy replaced the S-10 with the all-new Colorado.
Previous Chevrolet S-10 Models
The original Chevy S-10 was built from 1982-'93. This S-10 was also available in extended and regular cab styles, with the latter available in two wheelbases. It, too, was available with four- and six-cylinder engines, although the 2.5-liter four-banger made only 105 horsepower.
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If you were running windows N.T/2000
Had a infrared keyboard and mouse,
What insecurities are there??
All i could imagine is capturing "Keystrokes"
Any other things there to look out for??
If you were running windows N.T/2000
Had a infrared keyboard and mouse,
What insecurities are there??
Considering infra red needs a line of sight, ie: the 2 devices communicating via infra red must be able to "see" each other i'd say you should be ok - keep an eye open for anybody pointing an infra red device in your direction!!
other than the IRDA problem with MS products, its secure.
there is a patch for it, if you are that unsure of using it info.
just go there and go to the bulletin section for the patch.
Like Pete said..it is line of sight, so someone would have to be awfully close.
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A lab technician may have mishandled critical DNA evidence in over 800 rape cases between 2001 and 2011, The New York Times reported Friday.
Supervisors at the medical examiner's office have found 26 cases to date in which the technician failed to detect the DNA evidence when some actually existed.
In seven of the cases, full DNA profiles were developed, and in one the new profile matched a convicted offender's sample, leading to an indictment a decade after the evidence was collected.
In two other instances, the new DNA evidence was linked to people already convicted or under suspicion.
"This is the first time we've had anything like this," said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office which employs 48 technicians who conduct preliminary tests on rape kits that contain saliva, semen or blood collected from assailants.
The office handles about 1,500 sexual assault cases a year.
The review found that the technician sometimes overlooked stains, while at other times she identified stains but then made errors in the chemical test used to detect semen and reported not finding anything.
Dr.Mechthild Prinz, director of forensic biology at the medical examiner's office, told the Times that the technician's errors involved reporting false negatives, not false positives.
"We do know that nobody was wrongfully convicted," she said.
The office has not finished reviewing 412 cases out of 843 it intends to review.
The technician was not identified. She resigned in November 2011 after working there for nine years.


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Emma_85 wrote:I also practiced a bit of modern Greek with the help of a Greek friend and a teach-yourself-Greek book. So if you just want to get a feel for the alphabet and all that I can really recommend going through a teach yourself modern Greek book (and at least modern Greek is actually useful, unlike ancient Greek ).
Carola wrote:So all the letters are the same in both ancient and modern Greek?
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Cherry introduces "RealKey" technology to increase key responsiveness
Cherry RealKey technology is a new type of keyboard controller that eliminates debounce lag. The first product using this will be the MX Board 6.0
Cherry RealKey technology is a new type of keyboard controller that eliminates debounce lag. The first product using this will be the MX Board 6.0
The KBP V80 is the Tenkeyless mechanical keyboard which is a followup to the V60 Mini. Has a unique dual-LED feature, which allows color combinations
KBParadise have released a special version of the V60 Mini Mechanical Keyboard, using Matias Quiet Click switches. How do they compare to Cherry MX?
Noctua have announced three new medium-sized 9cm coolers to their lineup; the NH-U9S, NH-D9L, and NH-D9DX i4 3U. They are all based on the NF-A9 PWM fan
With a radical design, the Cougar 700M mouse going to turn heads. But is it a great gaming mouse? Find out in our review!
AMD has responded to the new GeForce graphics cards, dropping the price of high end Radeons substantially. Which one is the better choice now?
Corsair has introduced a new look for their "gaming" mice and keyboards. However, potential customers aren't exactly happy with the change…
Hundreds of people are reporting severely slow read speeds on Samsung 840 drives – this shouldn't ever happen so it appears to be a bug Samsung needs to fix
Specs for a $199 laptop running Windows 8 have appeared, and it's pretty interesting. It uses AMD's Mullins tablet APU, and looks pretty fast for the price
The RISC-V is an open source CPU that can already outperform the ARM Cortex A5 while beating it in both size and power efficiency. Worth checking out!
Someone has destroyed their pre-release Haswell-E CPU to see what kind of TIM is being used. Like previous Extreme models, it uses solder; this is good news
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two men have pleaded guilty in Las Vegas to making a misbranded pesticide that claimed to kill HIV, bird flu and salmonella in air ducts but was highly diluted.
President Richard Papaleo and manager Michael Stanovich of Air Care Indoor Quality Specialists pleaded guilty Monday to selling the unapproved product and lying to federal agents about it.
An investigation began after the maker of the pesticide Sporicidin complained to the Environmental Protection Agency. Undercover agents say they bought Air Care's version of the pesticide, and found that it was diluted to one-tenth the original strength even though the label claimed it was full strength.
Authorities say Air Care sold more than 6,300 gallons of fake Sporicidin between 2005 and 2010.
The crimes are punishable by a fine and prison time.
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Kahlua glazed sweet potatoes
Simple and tasty side dish
Kahlua glazed sweet potatoes
Simple and tasty side dish
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Kahlua Glazed Sweet Potatoes from Chef Charles Connell
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Serves 6 people
- 4 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and diced into 2 inch pieces
- ½ cup kahlua
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons melted butter
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium size bowl combine brown sugar, kahlua, butter, salt and pepper. Add diced sweet potatoes and toss until well coated. Pour mixture into a baking dish and bake for 30 minutes or until done, stirring once during baking to evenly glaze potatoes. Serve immediately.


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Below is the text I wrote with direction for the film which is also below, that was shown during "Architectural Playgrounds" and "Cross Currents" at the Barbican Galleries, and at PolyPly2: Testing Built Up Areas. The artist who crafted the film, Ilona Dorota Sagar, invited me to the barbican in December for a walk around the project, in order to discuss, as we walked, our ideas about, and feelings toward the complex. For me the place drips with personal sentiment and nostalgia from memories of spending time there as a kid, visiting and staying with friends who lived in one of the blocks. Many of the corners in that sprawling place take me back to a state of mind where things, places and forms were alive with alot more potential excitement than they are now (breaking and entering, pouring water and throwing impromptu flying-contraptions from various high-places, wading through ponds and comandeering whole floors of empty parking seemed the 'obvious' reasoning and purpose behind the barbican's complexities), and the feeling is particularly pronounced at the architectural scale there, since the spaces and forms which that childish level of playfulness had the luck to be set free amongst were so unusual, so un-london. For Ilona the place had an other-worldly grandeur and theatricality which she found inherently cinematic, dripping with utopian scenography in an otherwise grittily down-to-earth city of pragmatic urbanism, always suspicious of idealising. The text and film evolved from that, with Ilona collaborating further with a dance troupe and a narrator to bring body and life to the space and words.
Degrees Of Enclosure
These places know what has happened. These columns carry within them a certainty that is as great as the number of stones and pebbles out of which they were made.
It might be the creeping strata of concrete sediment in which everything has happened. The constant, weighty pressure that has been accumulating pieces, debris from whatever has passed through it and broken into action against its walls, carrying it along and pressing it into itself.
The miracle of life breathes in from other places, where someone else's voice, some other place's whistling wind and mechanical grinding fall together, and are caught here, eddying around each other, by pressing folds of architecture. They catch and mix, and deepen as they reflect through the grottoes of aggregate and cement, and the further they travel from their origin, the more the beams and corridors begin to provide mouths for them, speaking their faint echoes from between themselves.
If you listen there is the reflection of a song that ricochets endlessly, and faintly; and if you find yourself watching here, you are also being watched. What you are doing here has been predetermined, and what you are seeing is for your eyes alone.
There is a choreography between the sky and the deep basement, and between what has come before and what is definitely coming after. Along and under, through and between here there is a mile long, and fifty metre deep performance that is playing itself out with measured slowness.
There are roles that require the duration of industrially refined bronze, and of bricks fired at 1800degrees, roles that speak of permanence and age and heat, of deep passions and embedded energies that play themselves out over millennia, imperceptibly.
There are roles filled by carpets and cedar parquet, that explain the script by the sound they make as they are walked over, gently revealing a narrative of passing stories and intents that softly moves the plot forward, event by event, day by day.
There are roles that only last one act, never to be repeated, and are made of painted MDF, chipboard and veneer. They attach themselves to the brick and the stone, covering them up, and shouting their lines over them with bravura colours and graphical banners, only to be torn down and taken away as quickly as they came.
Then of course there are the walk-in roles, the extras who make the sounds and add the movement, the characters for whom the performance is put on, and without whom the epic choreography would grind to a halt. Their parts have been predetermined, and it is for each one of them that the bronze, the brass, the brick, the concrete, the parquet and the carpet are always waiting for, waiting to talk to, and perform with.
It is all whispers from elsewhere that this place speaks to you; all frozen, embedded stories of actions that it is storing underneath you; and all performances of a slowness that can only be architectural that it asks you to take part in. It is always asking to be talked to, walked through, watched and taken time over, always slowly, and always in a deep nostalgia that comes from knowing that it has become unobtainable in its very presence.
It is all winding nowheres that go everywhere, and which look down through inexplicable holes and staircases on somewhere elses, whilst looking up at mountainous brown deposits, of unfathomable proportions, held up in the air for unknowable purposes, and across at vast plateaus of tiled pavements sliding over and into each other.
This is a surreal play on the city, a magical story about space which was somehow never meant to come real: each cliff of sandblasted concrete is a chapter about some monstrous character with a bizarre but tender tale, and each passageway that leads nowhere has a secret world to which it leads, if only one would know the three secret words.
It is all mystifying sophistry, abstruse ramblings rendered into a concrete world that somehow, through some series of unbelievably fortuitous events, no doubt as strange as the place they resulted in, was created in a city that demands its every inch to fulfil a practical purpose. Somehow, in this great city of emphatic clarity and clear purpose, lies an abundant and vast grotto of equivocal ambiguities, and imaginative digressions.
Artist: Ilona Dorota Sagar
Narrator: Joel Sams
Dancers: Georgina Hay, Aneta Hymka, Elizabeth Streeter, Elaine Thomas
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Informed land-use decisions require information about California's geologic and seismic hazards. Most local governments and many state agencies lack expertise or information about such hazards and, therefore, must rely on the California Geological Survey to provide such information. Emergency response officials require geologic hazards information to effectively and efficiently plan for future geologic events and develop response activities to such disasters.
The purpose of the Regional Geologic and Hazards Mapping Program is to identify, in space and time, where significant geologic and seismic hazards exist or are likely to exist so that informed land use and emergency response planning decisions can be made. These decisions will reduce or mitigate the dangers to life, property and public safety resulting from such hazards.
Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning ActStudies of faults result in estimates of maximum earthquake magnitudes and long-term slip rates that are the basic input for seismic hazard calculations. Consensus values are compiled by CGS in cooperation with USGS. Faults that represent a hazard of surface rupture are included in Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zones.
Probabilistic Seismic Hazards AssessmentSeismic hazards are calculated considering consensus values for earthquake rates based on earthquake history, fault slip rates, and site soil types. The seismic hazard information is combined considering the potential for earthquakes on all seismic sources, and the level of ground shaking that would be caused by those earthquakes. The result is expressed as the level of ground shaking (expressed as a percentage of gravity) that on average occurs every 500 years. These statewide estimates of seismic hazards can then be used to estimate the potential of future earthquake losses.
Historical Earthquakes (and Earthquake Catalogs)Studies of historic earthquakes provide basic background for projecting future seismic hazards and losses. A map of historic earthquakes of greater than Magnitude 5.5 and earthquake catalogs. Lists of significant California earthquakes and earthquake anniversaries are available here.
Regional Geologic MappingCGS's Regional Geologic Mapping Project maps and compiles the geology of the state at various scales with the objective of developing a statewide geologic map database. Collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey under STATEMAP and SCAMP augments this project.
Landslides, Caltrans Corridor MappingThe Caltrans Highway Corridor Mapping project began in 2000, and maps existing landslides and potential slope instabilities along the major interstate highways that slice through California's mountainous areas.
Loss EstimationEstimating damage done from future earthquakes.
Hospital/School/Environmental ReviewsCGS reviews a number of environmental documents and provides comments relating to geologic hazards and issues that apply directly to assessing the potential impacts of land-use modification. As part of this process, CGS provides site reviews on consulting reports in geology, seismology, and geotechnical engineering for public school and hospital construction.
Mineral Hazards ProjectThe Mineral Hazards Project provides maps, technical information and advice, and monitors activities about minerals-related environmental and public health issues such as naturally occurring heavy metals, asbestos, mercury and radon. Staff are involved in a CalFed funded project to provide information on natural sources of mercury as well as mercury from historic mercury mining activities in the Cache Creek watershed in the Coast Ranges north of San Francisco. As a follow-up to recommendations of the State Air Resources Board (ARB) Asbestos Task Force, staff prepared a statewide map of potential asbestos host rocks. Staff also completed a pilot project to identify areas more likely to contain naturally occurring asbestos (NOA) in western El Dorado County, that serves as a model for NOA studies in other areas of the state. The Project is entering into an interagency agreement with Caltrans, to provide information on NOA occurrence for use in highway construction and maintenance projects throughout the state. Staff will also develop information on NOA for use in training of Caltrans staff. Staff are working with DHS to develop a statewide map and database on radon occurrence, and have completed studies in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties to identify source rocks and soils associated with radon detected in homes and commercial buildings. Staff also completed studies of radon occurrence in schools in various areas of the state. The Project is also under contract with the U.S. Geological Survey to provide up-dated information on certain precious- and base-metal mines throughout the state for use in mineral resource as well as environmental studies.


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Commercial insurance prices in aggregate increased by 6% during the third quarter of 2012. This marked the seventh consecutive quarter that aggregate prices for all commercial lines rose, according to the new Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS). The survey, conducted by Towers Watson, a global professional services company, compared price levels on policies underwritten during the third quarter of 2012 to those charged for the same coverage during the third quarter of 2011.
The largest price increases year over year included workers compensation, now approaching double digits, and employment practices liability, followed closely by commercial property, where price increases have moderated somewhat since last quarter. Increases have accelerated for each of the remaining surveyed standard commercial lines since the second quarter. Within standard commercial lines, midmarket and large accounts saw the largest increases this quarter. Specialty lines prices also continue to increase, but not as rapidly.
"In the current environment, underpricing of current business could seriously harm net income," said Tom Hettinger, Property & Casualty sales and practice leader for the Americas, Towers Watson. "Declining reserve releases, combined with insufficient investment income, have put enormous pressure on earnings. Pricing discipline, as a result, is even more important — and underwriting results really need to perform well for the foreseeable future."
Loss costs reported by participating carriers pointed to an improvement of more than 3% in loss ratios to date for accident-year 2012, relative to the same period in 2011, as earned price increases more than offset reported claim cost inflation. If this level is maintained through year-end and as losses develop, it will indicate a reversal from the estimated 4% deterioration between 2010 and 2011.
About CLIPS CLIPS data are based on both new and renewal business figures obtained directly from carriers underwriting the business. This particular survey compared prices charged on policies underwritten during the third quarter of 2012 to the prices charged for the same coverage during the same quarter in 2011. For the most recent survey, data were contributed by 39 participating insurers representing approximately 20% of the U.S. commercial insurance market (excluding state workers compensation funds).
CLIPS participants represent a cross section of U.S. property & casualty insurers that includes many of both the top 10 commercial lines companies and the top 25 insurance groups in the U.S. Measurement of both pricing changes and loss ratio changes also sets CLIPS apart from other studies. Participation in CLIPS has been strong, as carriers believe it provides a more accurate picture of price changes, and find it useful in setting assumptions for product pricing and estimating claim liabilities.
About Towers Watson Towers Watson (NYSE, NASDAQ: TW) is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management. The company offers solutions in the areas of benefits, talent management, rewards, and risk and capital management. Towers Watson has 14,000 associates around the world and is located on the web at www.towerswatson.com.
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Bobby James will be making his second consecutive appearance at the Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, after being inducted last year as a member of the 1987 NCCAA National Championship Baseball team. He's no stranger to Hall of Fame inductions, as he is also a member of the Wythe County (Va.) Sports Hall of Fame.
In addition to posting a .374 batting average on the 1987 National Championship team, James hit .504 during his sophomore campaign in 1986, which was good for 4th in the NAIA, and notched a .350 average during his senior season of 1988. Led by James' offensive output, which included 13 home runs, the 1988 team repeated as NCCAA National Champions, and James earned NCCAA First Team All-American honors.
James married Teresa (Umberger), also a 1988 King graduate; the two have three children. Bobby works as a claims representative for State Farm Insurance in Vinton, Va., and is a volunteer football coach at Fort Chiswell High School. Teresa has taught middle school in Washington County and Roanoke County for 23 years, and is currently the head of the English department at William Byrd Middle School.


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It Seems That Kristen Stewart Will Be in the Snow White Sequel After All
And she's "so excited."
A Snow White and the Huntsman sequel will likely feature Kristen Stewart as Snow White, potential on-set weirdness and all. Despite earlier reports that any second film would likely take place without her (thanks to that whole Rupert Sanders thing), the actress obliquely confirmed her involvement in a recent interview. Stewart told Indiewire the sequel is now a "strong possibility," that "it's gonna be fucking amazing," and she's "so excited" for it. Her minders prevented her from saying more, but she did seem to reveal something in her response to a question about whether any good ideas for her character's development had been discussed: "Oh my God. Fuck, yeah. Absolutely. And we've got a really amazing… [Smiles] So, yeah. It's all good. [Laughs]." You know that awkward moment when you have to stop yourself from referring to your director when discussing an upcoming project with him? No? Well, you're not K-Stew. (To be fair, it's not clear whether Sanders would even stay on for another Snow White, but that's not going to stop any kind of speculation about anything.)


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"These are mega-farm operations, these are huge landowners," said the congressman, noting that the operations were not 400- or 500-acre farms, but 40,000 to 80,000-acre farms.
Smith's comments were typical of the wildly inaccurate and misleading statements that have been made in both Houses of Congress and in the national media since the Environmental Working Group (EWG) obtained farm payment records from USDA through the Freedom of Information Act and put them on the World Wide Web.
Farm organizations were bracing themselves for another round of such statements after the EWG updated its Web site with payment records from 2001 on March 27.
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Lab 1: Modeling classical planning domains
the lab introduction page before you
The introduction contains important information that is common to all labs.
Any updates or changes we make in the instructions for this lab during the course will be announced here.
The aim of the first two labs is:
- To practice modelling planning problems using a formal language that can be understood by an automated planner, and
- To give a feeling for the capabilities and limitations of today's domain-independent planning technology.
You will do this by using a classical fragment of PDDL to model a UAV logistics domain that will initially be quite simple and later be gradually extended, in this lab as well as future labs. You will then test your PDDL domain specifications on a number of problem instances using a set of well-known classical planners developed by various research groups around the world.
Because we want to be able to test using a wide variety of planners, we will focus on the STRIPS level of expressivity in PDDL. In other words, we will not yet begin to use negative preconditions, negative goals, conditional effects, or similar extensions. Many planners do support some extensions, but few planners support exactly the same ones, and they often have limitations or bugs. To avoid trouble, use the STRIPS level of expressivity, at least in the beginning. This will be sufficient for all the modeling tasks in labs 1-3.
Most likely, you will start working with this lab before we go through the different planning techniques that are used in current classical planners. If this is the case, detailed descriptions of certain planners may not make much sense. But don't worry: The main point of this lab is to understand how planning domains are modeled and how current planners perform.
Writing a Report
After you finish all parts of this lab, you will hand in the domain and problem files you generate, as well as a short report on your results as discussed in each exercise below. There is no minimum (or maximum) page count for this report, and you do not need to write a long introduction or be extremely formal. Simply write a clear and comprehensible report on the results we ask for. Please include any suggestions you may have for improving the lab or the instructions – we want your feedback!
The report can be handed in as a simple text file or as a PDF document (no Word or OpenOffice documents, please).
Lab 1.1: Emergency Services Logistics, Initial Version
In the emergency services logistics domain, a number of persons at known locations have been injured. Your task is to deliver crates containing emergency supplies to each person.
The initial version of the domain will be as follows:
- Each injured person is at a specific location.
- Each crate is at a specific location and has a specific content such as food or medicine. Note that it might be tempting to introduce predicates such as (is-food-crate ?c) and (is-medicine-crate ?c) to model the contents of crates. But then the domain has to be changed if a new crate type is introduced (water, different types of medicine, ...). Instead you must deal with crate contents in a generic way, so that new contents can easily be introduced in the problem instance.
- Each person either has or does not have a crate with a specific content. That is, you must keep track of whether they have food or not, whether they have medicine or not, and so on.
- There can be more than one person at any given location, and therefore it isn't sufficient to keep track of where a crate is in order to know which people have been given crates!
- Initially all crates are located at a single location that we may call the depot. There are no injured people at the depot.
- The goal should be that certain people have crates with certain contents. Some people might not need crates, some people might need both food and medicine, and so on. This means that you have to deliver some or all of the crates at the depot. Note that people don't care exactly which crate they get, so the goal should not be (for example) that person1 has crate5, merely that person1 has a crate of food.
- A single helicopter, initially located at the depot, is available to deliver crates. It can fly directly between arbitrary locations (there is no "roadmap" with specific connections that must be taken). Since we want to be able to expand this domain for multiple helicopters in the future, we use a separate type for helicopters, which currently happens to have a single member in all your problem instances.
- The helicopter can pick up a single crate, if it is at the same location as the crate. It can then fly to another location with the crate. Finally, it can deliver a crate to a specific person who is at the same location. Doing this will result in three distinct actions in a plan.
You should do the following:
Model the domain in the STRIPS level of PDDL, and manually construct two small problem instances: One with only a single person and a single crate, and one with two people and three crates.
- Avoid using negative preconditions (and goals), which some planners do not handle correctly, or you may run into trouble later. Avoid other extensions as well. Further motivation: At the top of this page.
- There is a PDDL mode for Emacs that can be of some help (see instructions in the introduction).
Make sure you have read the instructions about running planners.
Run the domain and problem instances through the FF planner and possibly the "parser" tool to ensure they are correctly specified. Make sure you get a reasonable plan from FF. (The reason we use FF here is that its parser is generally quite robust and gives reasonable error messages.)
Begin writing your report. For lab 1.1, please tell us whether you had any specific difficulties in modeling the problem domain or getting FF to generate a plan.
When you have done this and verified that the domain works properly, you should ask a lab assistant (during a scheduled lab) to take a look at your domain to verify that the model you developed appears reasonable. Don't miss this step, or you may find later that you spend twice as much time as necessary on future labs because your model has a flaw or is unnecessarily complicated! (Of course you may continue working if no lab assistant is available right now, but make sure you ask as soon as possible.)
Lab 1.2: Early State Of The Art Planners
Now, as part of a small demonstration of how planning performance has changed over the years, we'll move a little bit backwards in time and use the planner IPP, Interference Progression Planner. This planner is based on GraphPlan, which will be discussed during the lectures, and won the more expressive ADL track (but not the less expressive STRIPS track) of the 1998 International Planning Competition.
You should do the following:
Run the two problems you created earlier through IPP according to the IPP instructions. How much time does this take? (Note that IPP has some special requirements for type specifications, which is noted in the IPP instructions linked above.)
Continue creating larger problems and running them through IPP. How large problems can IPP solve within a one-minute time limit? What happens when you increase the number of crates that are not necessary for the problem? What happens when you increase the number of people that need crates? Discuss your findings briefly in your report for lab 1.
You generated the first couple of problem instances manually, in order to better understand what is needed. At this point, you may choose to continue in the same way or to use and extend a problem generator skeleton written in Python. To use this generator, you download it, place it together with your domains and problem instances for lab 1.2, and call:
python ./generate.py -u 1 -l 50 -p 3 -c 101 -g 4
...if you want (for example) 1 UAV, 50 locations, 3 people, 101 crates and 4 actual goals (crates that need to be delivered). If the skeleton won't run, try doing "unsetenv PYTHONHOME" first ("unset PYTHONHOME" if you use the Bash shell).
The intention is that we provide a partial implementation that you can finish according to your particular domain model, so initially part of the generator is missing and needs to be filled in.
Lab 1.3: Current State of the Art Planners
At this point we'll return to "modern" days and consider a number of state of the art sequential satisficing (non-optimal) planners from the International Planning Competition in 2014. Here you must be aware of the rules of the competition, which rewards the highest plan quality that a planner can reach within a time limit of 30 minutes. For this reason, many (but not all) of the planners do not terminate when the first plan is found, but continue searching for the full 30 minutes in the hope of finding a better plan ("anytime" planning). Some of the planners also generate a great deal of output inbetween plans, which means you need to pipe the output through a tool such as "more" or "less" if you want to have a chance to see the plans that are generated. This is discussed in more detail in the planner instructions.
For this exercise we want you to use at least three of the 2014 planners. Report the result, the exercise details follow soon, also in the case the planner does not work as expected. If you cannot get valid plans from three of the 2014 planners it is ok to fall back on the most robust planners from 2011. The following three have worked well previous years:
lama-2011, a heuristic search planner based on landmarks; the winner of the sequential satisficing competition in 2011.
yahsp2, another heuristic forward-chaining search planner.
madagascar-p, based on satisfiability checking rather than heuristic forward-chaining search.
You should do the following:
Run the largest problem you created earlier through the selected planners according to the planner instructions. How much time does it take before the first solution is generated? (If you encounter problems, please talk to your lab assistant rather than spending hours trying to resolve them yourself.)
Continue creating larger problems and running them through the planners. How large problems can they solve within a one-minute time limit? Discuss your findings briefly in your report for lab 1.
Finishing and handing in the results
When you have finished the lab, you should once again ask a lab assistant to take a look at your final domain to briefly check whether the model you developed appears reasonable.
When you hand in your results:
- Create a single ZIP file, named fffll111-fffll222-lab1.zip where fffll111 and fffll222 are your login names (assuming you are working in pairs).
- The ZIP file should contain in all domain files, problem files and problem generators you have created or modified, clearly named. It should also contain the report as a simple text file or as a PDF document (no Word or OpenOffice documents, please).
- Send the ZIP file by e-mail to Mikael Nilsson.
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