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HAMPTON, Va.- Always one of the top athletes in the 2012 class, Justin Anderson showed signs of a skill game that will push him up the rankings and make him an impact player at Maryland. And Anderson wasn't the only prospect who made an impression on Saturday at Session 01 of the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League.
Justin Anderson (2012, Boo Williams)- Simply put, Anderson has the physique and athleticism of a NBA player. The question has been will he develop the skill set and feel for the game to realize this potential. On Saturday Anderson took a big step in that direction. He looked comfortable shooting the ball from well beyond the three-point line. He finished with creativity around the rim. And he made shots in the midrange. The proper focus and intensity was there on the defensive end.
Maryland fans should be excited about Anderson putting Terrapins uniform. He is the type of player with the talent and passion for the game that Coach Gary Williams can turn into a productive force.
Anthony Bennett (2012, CIA Bounce)
Speaking of a passion for the game, Bennett is a force on the court who doesn't back away from a challenge. His specialty is making plays in traffic, and he can also step out and knock down shots and be effective on the perimeter. Think of a more athletic version of Michigan State's Draymond Green, and you have a vision of Bennett.
A host of schools are pursuing Bennett, but he listed offers from Connecticut, Xavier, Washington, Oregon, Kentucky, Florida, Arizona and Florida State. Bennett hasn't taken any visits yet, but Connecticut, Xavier, Florida and Arizona are at the top of the list of schools he wants to visit.
D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera (2012, Spiece)
Smith-Rivera was at the top of his form when we watched him Saturday. His strength and quick burst get him wherever he wants to get on the court. A power guard with a gift for scoring and beating his man with his strength, Rivera-Smith had his shot falling from a variety of areas on the court.
Matt Jones (2013, Team Texas Titans)
Already pegged a four-star prospect by Rivals.com, Jones has that wiry length, athleticism and scoring ability as a shooting guard that everyone is currently comparing to Jeremy Lamb.
Jones has offers from Texas, Texas A&M and Baylor. He is also listing Kansas and Washington.
J-Mychal Reese (2012, Houston Hoops)
It appears that Reese has found a comfort level with his game after years of trying to live up to unreasonable hype from early in his career. He plays with a reassuring comfort with the ball as a scorer and ballhandler, and he has the quickness to be disruptive on defense.
Kansas sits at the top of Reese's school list, and he expects to visit the school soon. Also on his list are Baylor, Louisville, Memphis, LSU, Oklahoma and Oregon. Every school but Louisville has offered.
Aaron Gordon (2013, Oakland Soldiers)
Gordon continues to be one of the most impressive performers at the event. His ability to make plays all over the court and his constant motor are impressive.
As for his recruitment, Gordon said that Washington stands out and that he loves Coach Romar. Arizona and Kansas follow on the list. Also he listed New Mexico and Stanford.
Steve Taylor (2012, Mack Irvin Fire)
He is long and athletic, and Taylor is shooting the ball at a high level. He is a promising prospect poised to move up the rankings.
DePaul, Northwestern, Ohio, Marquette have offered and Illinois is showing interest.
Anthony January (2012, ICP)
At 6-foot-6, January is an athletic wing who passed the ball extremely well off his dribble penetration. Didn't look like a shooter, but he was quite athletic on the boards. As a general impression, January's game made me think of Solomon Hill of Arizona.
Shannon Hale (2013, Tennessee Travelers)
Hale, an Alabama commit, doesn't come across as a power player, but he finished well against contact on Saturday.
Jevon Thomas (2012, Metro Hawks)
A St. John's point guard commit, Thomas carved up the CIA Bounce defense in the open court and finished off his speedy bursts with timely and accurate passes.
Omar Calhoun (2012, New York Gauchos)
The physical wing scorer listed North Carolina (no offer), Pittsburgh, Louisville, St. John's, Rutgers, Seton Hall, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Villanova, Vanderbilt and Connecticut (no offer).
Jarmal Reid (2012, Southern Kings)
Reid listed offers from Alabama, Georgia, West Virginia, Charlotte, Nebraska, Wake Forest, Florida and Auburn. West Virginia is his leader at the moment.


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Physicists push 26 terabits per second down a laserbeam
Physicists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have clocked a new record for extreme download speeds, pushing an incredible 26 terabits of data per second through a single laser beam.
26 terabits is roughly 3,300 gigabytes, which is the equivalent of about 132 Blu-Ray discs or 700 DVDs. The team beat out its own record, set when it achieved a download speed of 10 terabits per second in 2010.
Researchers have certainly gone faster before: Japanese physicists have whizzed 100 terabits per second down an optical fibre. But they used over 300 lasers, which would make infrastructure and power costs impossibly high if it were rolled out commercially.
Instead, KIT's Jürg Leuthold wants to achieve incredible speeds with just a single laser. To achieve this feat, Leuthold used the orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing principle (OFDM) to send, receive and process high-bit-rate data in a real-time manner.
Here's how it works, in the simplest explanation possible in 50 words.
On one end, a laser beam generates about 325 optical frequencies (as in subtly different colours of light), which are woven together into a single laser beam. On the other end, a receiver reverses the process and reads the different frequencies, and the times they arrive, to decode the data.
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Great post. Impressive developments. Now we need to find better ways for green data centers as well. More downloads means more servers too.
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Sefko: For Nelson and the Mavericks, there's no big secret to overseas scouting
BARCELONA, Spain — To qualify as an international scout for the Mavericks, you might think there are all sorts of credentials you need.
After all, it's a lofty and competitive job.
But really, one of the main prerequisites isn't all that difficult to obtain, according to Donnie Nelson.
"You have to be able to order food and drinks or curse in at least three languages," the president of basketball operations said.
It doesn't hurt if you can schmooze with the best of them and own a humble attitude toward foreign lands and people.
All 32 NBA teams have extensive international scouting departments now. But it wasn't always that way. The Mavericks, thanks to Nelson's relationship with the Lithuanian national team and basketball federations across the globe, were one of the first to fully tap into the worldwide market when it came to recruiting basketball players.
To this date, they have unearthed the single greatest international player who never had the benefit of attending an American university.
Not that Dirk Nowitzki is the only fish they've pulled from foreign territory, just the biggest.
Following in the footsteps of Drazen Petrovic, Arvydas Sabonis and Sarunas Marciulionis — and paving the way for Pau Gasol, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, among others — Nowitzki was on the Mavericks' radar because they saw the value of international scouting before most other NBA teams did.
Developing a rapport with Czech or French or Spanish or German coaches is not necessarily an art form. It just requires a little time and humility.
One common language
Nelson, whose passport runs out of space for stamps on a regular basis, could write a book on how to open doors when basketball is about the only language you have in common with your new friends.
"What we do when we go to these different lands or meet people here who come from somewhere else, we just shake people's hands and make people feel safe," Nelson said. "It's just about making people feel comfortable. I'm Charlie Brown.
"Some people show up and say, 'I'm from the NBA, bow down there or kiss my ring here.'
"We just show up and go drinking with the coaches, and if it's 3 a.m., we break out the napkins and the salt and pepper shakers, draw up some plays and we don't care if we're talking Spanglish or what. We'll talk basketball in whatever language we can communicate in."
It's called befriending people. And when you can do that, you can have a chance to make inroads with people of different languages or different cultures. It's become second nature to Nelson.
"It's being the antithesis of the ugly American," he said. "It's going into their house and eating their food and hanging out with them and becoming interested and asking questions about their culture and not trying to come in and say, 'Oh, we're from the greatest country in the history of the world and we invented basketball and this is the way you should do things.'"
And it's been an important element of NBA life for more than 20 years.
Dream Team's impact
When the Dream Team competed in the Olympics in 1992, the basketball world needed that. It was the only way that leaders in the sport around the globe could learn how to grow their games locally.
The unification of the talent level in the game has come so far worldwide that now, the NBA needs international basketball more than vice versa. There will be as many as 90 foreign-born players in the league this season. That's an average of three per team.
"The global game has had a massive impact on our game," said Rick Carlisle, who coached Petrovic in New Jersey, Sabonis in Portland and Sarunas Jasikevicius in Indiana before Nowitzki. "As we prepare for this game [Tuesday against FC Barcelona Regal], this is like playing an NBA team. They got three players who have been in the NBA and three or four others who will be.
"It's beautiful the way the game has progressed worldwide. A trip like this highlights it even more."
Added Mavs athletic trainer Casey Smith, who has led the USA Basketball medical staff in international play for a decade: "Baseball has guys from the Caribbean and Asia, but in the NBA, there are players from every continent. And guys like the Gasols and Tony Parker and Manu, they've won at every level and they are in the top group of players in our league."
Which is why international scouting has gone from zero, in the old days, to a multi-person responsibility for every NBA team.
The Mavericks recently hired longtime international guru Tony Ronzone to aid in their worldwide search for more talent.
It's yet another reason NBA teams make trips like the one the Mavericks will close out on Tuesday.
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Physically, I'm back in the office after a holiday vacation and a trip to Washington, DC for the annual Joint Meetings of the AMS and MAA. I gave a fun talk about some of the courses I taught at Harvard using the Moore Method style.
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"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen)
"The institution of writing and reading serious novels is like a grand old Middle American city gutted and drained by superhighways. Ringing the depressed inner city of serious work are prosperous clonal suburbs of mass entertainments: techno and legal thrillers, novels of sex and vampires, of murder and mysticism." (Jonathan Franzen)
"To serve the reader a fruitcake that you wouldn't eat yourself, to build the reader an uncomfortable house you wouldn't want to live in: this violates what seems to me the categorical imperative for any fiction writer. This is the ultimate breach of Contract." (Jonathan Franzen)
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has been jailed for 18 weeks after trolling pages set up on social networks for girls who have died.
Sean Duffy, of Reading, Berkshire, posted negative comments on social
networking site pages in remembrance of girls who
have died, such as Worcester teenager Natasha MacBryde who killed herself by
throwing her body under a train due to bullying reports the BBC.
Duffy targeted the bereaved relatives of the deceased, which were people he did
not know. Duffy would send hurtful emails or post provocative posts on sites
like Facebook and YouTube in hopes of prompting emotionally loaded responses.
In MacBryde's case, he called her a "slut" in one of his posts. He
also posted a video on YouTube called "Tasha the Tank Engine," which
depicted the children's character Thomas the Tank Engine with MacBryde's face
on it.
Duffy pleaded guilty on two counts of sending a communication of an offensive
or indecent nature. The charges were related to the Facebook and YouTube posts
about MacBryde. Duffy has been jailed for 18 weeks.
The case places a spotlight on cyberbullying
and trolling, which have become increasingly problematic in recent years as
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fans of Apple, in order to provoke a response."
"Misuse of Internet sites can destroy teachers' confidence and professional
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I think you will find that it's a lot of what you've been looking for in a Perl object system. Then realize that a lot of people will be thinking the same as you. That will answer your question.
If you feel it could/will work long term (which I do) then there is a good shot many other will also. If you don't like it then at least you know you don't like it and who cares if lots of others do.
In the end it is your choice if you want to depend on Moose or not, however as to the question of if Moose is a fad, I can only give you some facts and you can decide for yourself.
Moose has hung on longer than the Inside-Out Objects fad, but not long enough to hit 0.65 or be "done", they're still trying to plug some performance gaps and come up with something that's useful in all cases.
If Moose can meet the performance needs of all operating environments, I think it will stick. If it continues to be something that you have to avoid under certain situations, then it becomes of a nice-to-have that's only usable in some environments... which takes it somewhat into fad territory.
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"An interest followed with exaggerated zeal," so the answer is "yes." It may or may not be worth using, but it is definitely a fad.
It's not important whether it is a fad or not, but whether it does what you need (or will do by the time you need it.)
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ECORSE, Mich. - Ecorse Police are looking for whoever is behind a deadly shooting that involved more than 35 shots being fired.
The Ecorse Police Department received multiple 911 calls about the shooting that happened around 3:30 a.m. Sunday on the 3700-block of 12th Street.
There were multiple victims in the shooting incident. A 22-year-old woman was shot at least once, according to the Ecorse Police Department. She was taken to a local hospital and died. A 38-year-old man was also shot. He was undergoing surgery Sunday morning. His condition is unknown at this time. A 30-year-old was also injured.
The incident started with an altercation at a night club in Detroit, according to preliminary investigations. Police believe that someone from that incident drove to a "Social Club" in Ecorse. That person was then apparently followed to 12th street in Ecorse where more than 35 shots were fired.
If you have any information, you're asked to call the Ecorse Police Department at (313) 381-0900.
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TEA Announces the New Cobra Boom Arm Headset
Cobra is a new, modular boom arm headset from TV Equipment which provides the user with personal choice and the flexibility to reconfigure the equipment to suite a specific type of mission. No tools are required and configuration changes can be made in a matter of seconds. The system components are fully ruggedised to withstand extreme environments and human factor considerations have resulted in a light weight design combined with long term comfort.
The headset has both the boom mic and earphone mounted on flexible arms which are fully adjustable. The close-coupled supra aural type earphone stands off from your ear which provides greater comfort and, as the ear is not covered, monitoring of ambient noise is maximized. The boom mic can be positioned for best noise cancellation.
Cobra's extremely low profile accommodates the most close fitting ballistic infantry helmet. It's available with an assortment of mics and phones to compliment your radio.
Three different types of headset attachment are offered - and are achieved in seconds without tools. The most popular is a fully adjustable headstrap which fits around the head and is made with a combination of soft cotton and mesh materials for comfort and ventilation. It can be worn on bare heads or under helmets and provides a stable platform during strenuous activity. An adjustable overhead spring headband is widely used in HQs and command centers. Finally, a helmet clip can be supplied to attach the headset to the side of the helmet.
A variety of press to talk (PTT) switches are offered. For SWAT applications, the popular "D" switch provides the best economy. Alternatively, you might select the single or dual radio Pressel PTTs which accommodate instant reconfiguration of the headset in the field without tools. The Pressels are provided in slim, moulded polyurethane switch-boxes which are fully waterproof and house the PTT switch and integral clothing clip. For applications that require one person to operate two radios, a dual Pressel switch can be substituted which allows the selection of either radio. Both radios are monitored simultaneously.
An optional respirator mic can be installed using the "T" connector.
Long weapon PTT switches - Many tactical users - especially snipers, need a PTT switch in user's hand - several different styles are offered.
But...Cobra is also a handset. Remove the headband or headstrap and plug the headset into the single Pressel and you have a compact mil-style handset.
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Clarksville aims to take first conference title in 12 years
By Quinton Bagley Sports Editor
They watched in awe as their brothers, cousins and neighbors were greeted with a hero's welcome. Although they were only 5 years old, they knew there was something special about the Clarksville Panthers winning a conference championship. It was an image that would drive them for the next 12 years.
Fast forward to the present, and those 5-year-old boys are now seniors, preparing to accomplish the feat they witnessed more than a decade ago. With 17 returning starters from last season's 7-4, AAAA playoff team, coach Michael Banning and the Panthers are thinking conference crown.
Banning said despite the excruciating heat suffocating the Arkansas River Valley in recent weeks, Clarksville had some really good practices.
"Things have been going really good," Banning said. "We have 63 players out this season. We have 21 seniors, 20 juniors and 22 sophomores. We feel like we have a great group of guys."
Despite a mid-season slump, the Panthers ended the season tied for second in the 4AAAA. Banning said success, coupled with drive and determination, has the team thinking bigger and better in 2007.
"The way we ended our season was very typical. We had a very young team, and with that you get inconsistency. We were shut out by Farmington and Booneville in consecutive weeks," Banning said. "We knew we were going to have to win conference games to make the playoffs. We slipped by Clinton and came from behind to beat Dardanelle, and we made the playoffs.
"We worked really hard during the off-season. We had a lot of players that went to camps. This team and coaching staff was motivated by last season's successes and failures."
With a rise in heat-related deaths among athletes in the past several years, many teams are taking every precaution to keep athletes safe. Banning said plenty of water and using the months of June and July to get accustomed to the heat has allowed the Panthers to stay safe.
"We've had a full summer. In June, we practiced every Thursday and ended the month with a team camp in Springdale. That allowed us to evaluate and create depth," Banning said. "We started running in July so we could get acclimated to the heat. We make sure the players get plenty of water. We have had a few cases of heat exhaustion, but we monitor all the players really close."
With such a large group of seniors, Banning said there he was really pleased with the leadership they have shown so far.
"These seniors are hungry to win a championship," Banning said. "The juniors and sophomores were very good in junior high. This team has become dedicated to win a championship."
Banning said one of his goals for the team during two-a-day practices was to eliminate individuality and built team unity.
"The biggest issue our team is facing is relationships. Right now, we got to make sure we believe in one another and love one another,'" Banning said. "We have got to make sure this is about one heartbeat as a team and not individuals. On our board in the locker room we have 'amazing things can happen when we all have a common goal.' That is what we live by."
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Wacha impresses Molina, Matheny in shutout outing
By Jenifer Langosch / MLB.com
PORT ST. LUCIE -- The compliment came unsolicited from Yadier Molina, who, after catching only three of Michael Wacha's five Grapefruit League innings, offered a bold assessment on Wednesday.
"I think that guy, right now, can pitch in the big leagues," Molina said of Wacha, the team's first-round selection from last year's First-Year Player Draft. "That's the way I look at it. He has great stuff. He has a great presence on the mound. He has great command, a great attitude."
Molina is only the latest in a growing list of evaluators who have been highly impressed by Wacha, a right-hander with a pro resume that includes only 21 Minor League innings.
"That is quite a compliment," said Wacha, when told of Molina's evaluation. "I trust him behind the plate. I don't shake off when he's calling pitches back there. I felt confident throwing anything I wanted in any count."
As a first-time participant in big league camp, Wacha followed a scoreless two-inning debut with three shutout innings against many Mets regulars on Wednesday.
His efficiency and strike-zone command positioned him to become the first Cardinals pitcher to finish three innings in a game this spring. After striking out three in Saturday's game, Wacha fanned five on Wednesday. He's allowed a combined two hits and no walks in five innings.
"We had heard a lot and absolutely wanted to see it for ourselves. He's done a nice job," manager Mike Matheny said. "Michael has been the same guy for two outings, and he's done well."
Wacha has shown an advanced changeup and fastball movement that when paired with mid-90s velocity has given hitters trouble. His curveball is a work in progress, though he got a called third strike with one on Wednesday. The fact that he is beginning to throw that curveball deeper in counts is, alone, progress.
"The fastball is what I love," Molina said. "The fastball is great. He commands it and can throw strikes with it. That's a plus. And with the changeup, it's a good pitch for a strikeout pitch."
While Wacha has been among the Cardinals' most impressive performers so far this spring, he's still not pitching to win a Major League rotation spot out of camp. That said, the impression he leaves now won't be forgotten midseason if a need does arrive on the big league team.
That was the case last year with Trevor Rosenthal, who, after shining in spring, earned a summer callup from Double-A to assume a bullpen role.
"The Rosenthal comparison, to me, really fits in that he's just doing the little things right," Matheny said. "[Wacha] is going about it how you would design for a young player coming in here. He's doing his extra work. He seems to have a plan. He's not doing eye-wash work trying to make us all look at him. He's got a maturity to him, and regardless of however many innings he has as a pro, he has a [good] disposition. That's a good compliment to him and the people that have invested in him in the past."
Lynn pleased with command in spring debut
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- The new-look Lance Lynn made his first Grapefruit League appearance on Wednesday and spoke afterward about being encouraged with both how he felt and his ability to command the strikezone.
Down about 40 pounds since the last time he faced hitters, Lynn threw 20 of his 27 pitches against the Mets for strikes. He allowed four hits -- including a two-run homer -- but also struck out three. It was the first of what is expected to be six spring starts for Lynn, who is penciled in to be the team's No. 4 starter this season.
"You always just want to go out there and make sure you feel good getting out of the first one," Lynn said. "For me, it was just throwing strikes with all my pitches. I wasn't worried about striking anyone out on a certain pitch. I just wanted to throw in the strike zone. That's a good one to build off of."
Though Lynn is still building up arm strength -- as all pitchers are doing at this point in spring -- he suggested that the weight loss could have been behind a discernible difference he felt regarding his endurance.
"Today it was easy throwing strikes," Lynn said. "It was easy just to throw. I didn't feel like I was trying at all. I don't know if it was because of that [weight loss] or that it was two innings and I threw only 27 pitches. But everything felt easy and it was working. That's somewhere to build off of."
Adams prepared when opportunities arise
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Though the Cardinals' roster situation doesn't necessarily work in his favor, first baseman Matt Adams arrived in camp having done all he could to position himself for success.
His dedication to a revised workout program this winter helped Adams slim down. His decision to have a minor procedure late last summer eliminated the right elbow discomfort that he dealt with for much of the 2012 season. And while it's still way too early in the spring to jump to conclusions, Adams has started out strong.
With another two hard-hit singles in four at-bats on Wednesday, Adams moves to 5-for-10 in Grapefruit League play. The soreness in his left knee that kept him out for two games appears to be a non-issue now.
"The timing, everything feels good," said Adams, who served as the team's designated hitter against the Mets in the team's 12-4 win. "Basically when you miss days, it's the timing. The swing stays with you, but the timing kind of goes away. But that felt good the past two days."
Adams has resumed taking ground balls, which would suggest that he's close to being able to play the field again, too.
Regardless of what Adams does this spring, though, he may not be able to crack a roster that is already saturated with first basemen. Allen Craig will start at that spot for the Cardinals, and the team will carry Matt Carpenter and Ty Wigginton on the bench as backups. With the Cardinals having to also keep a backup catcher, middle infielder and center fielder, it's hard to see a fit for Adams.
If the roster composition didn't work against him, Adams would seemingly be ready for the jump. He hit his way through Triple-A pitching last season, finishing with a .329 average, 22 doubles, 18 homers and 50 RBIs in 67 games. That's not to say, though, that Adams doesn't see room for improvement, even at that level.
"There's stuff that I need to get better at: plate discipline -- just making sure I'm swinging at strikes -- and my defense has to get better to be a starter in the big leagues," Adams said. "I've got some things to work on, but wherever they put me, I'll be ready."
Worth noting
• Seth Maness, the Cardinals' Minor League pitcher of the year last season, will start for the Cardinals in Thursday's "B" game against the Marlins on Thursday. That game is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. CT, and will be played on one of the practice fields on the St. Louis side of the Roger Dean Stadium complex.
• Craig and Rafael Furcal were the only two position players not to make the trip to Port St. Lucie on Wednesday. Neither has made an appearance on defense yet, though Craig (right shoulder soreness) appears to be close to being cleared.
As for Furcal, though he told reporters on Tuesday that he may be ready to play the field as early as this weekend, the Cardinals are making no such guarantees.
"I'm glad that's the way he's thinking," Matheny said. "It really depends, for me, more on what the medical side is saying."
• In writing out a lineup that featured many regulars on Wednesday, Matheny slotted Jon Jay into the leadoff spot and Carlos Beltran behind him in the No. 2 hole. Could that be evidence of the way Matheny is leaning in terms of lineup construction for the regular season? Well, he hasn't committed just yet.
"The lineup is going to be bouncing around quite a bit this year, too, as we've been talking about giving guys days off," Matheny said. "We're going to have different characters that pop into the equation."
• The Cardinals announced on Wednesday that Fox Sports Midwest is scheduled to televise 150 regular-season games in 2013. That number could increase by two if the team's Aug. 11 and Sept. 22 contests are not picked up by national networks. The other 10 games have already been selected to be shown on either ESPN or FOX.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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|From Terycho Chata
|Through route Sadek. Beautiful climb, be careful close to the top because rocks are not solid
|Posted Jul 16, 2010 10:27 am
|Screwed up
Date Climbed: Jun 19, 2010
|After few attempts earlier this year finally reached the top with Igor (Igi).
Misleaded the route in the fog and ended up just below the summit of Wyzni Barani Zwornik (2500 m). Got back to the base of West face and hiked up by the normal route. Very bad visibility (fog), heavy rain showers, nasty snow in the couloirs, wet rocks on the ridge.
|Posted Jun 20, 2010 9:25 am
|winter ascent
Date Climbed: Apr 20, 2009
|nice snow climbing..a little fog on the top
Climbed with Natalia.
|Posted Apr 22, 2009 2:07 pm
|Shines of sunset on the top
Date Climbed: May 19, 2007
|Quick ascent and descend during may afternoon
|Posted Apr 18, 2009 5:57 pm
|A superb traverse in snowy September
Date Climbed: Sep 23, 2007
|Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:06 am
|Normal route from Teryho Chata throught Baranie Sedlo
Date Climbed: May 19, 2007
|Nice and only 2 hours route. Fast descent in the good snow.
|Posted Jul 18, 2007 7:11 pm
|From Chata pri Zelenom Plese via Baranie Sedlo
Date Climbed: Dec 16, 2006
|There were very good snow and weather conditions and it was very shiny day. I really enjoyed this trip.
|Posted Dec 18, 2006 12:49 pm
|Tomek Lodowy
|From Teryho Chata via Baranie Sedlo Pass
Date Climbed: Apr 9, 2006
|Wonderful trip in excellent weather, we started about 6am from Smokovec...leaving skis just above Baranie Sedlo Pass and then by the ridge to the summit (one risky traverse of steep, snowy couloir)...breathtaking High Tatra panorama from the top .
After descent to the saddle we walked down to wide snow slopes and began to ski down the whole length of the valley to Smokovec . What a gorgeous day it was !
|Posted May 22, 2006 10:12 pm
|From Teryho Chata via Baranie Sedlo
Date Climbed: May 13, 2006
|It was very nice snowy climbing in a little bit cloudy weather.
|Posted May 17, 2006 11:01 am
|Route Climbed: From Chata pri Zelenom Plese via Baranie Sedlo Date Climbed: 2005 Aug
|In the fog it was difficult to find the Baranie sedlo, although we had crossed it few months before in winter conditions. At that time we abandoned the summit attemp due to deep snow. From the Baranie sedlo I prefer the ridge variant.
|Posted Nov 9, 2005 4:25 am
|Route Climbed: From Chata pri Zelenom Plese to Teryho Chata via Baranie Sedlo Date Climbed: august 2002
|Realy nice view :)
|Posted Nov 3, 2005 12:15 pm
|Tomek Lodowy
|Route Climbed: From Zelene Pleso Lake and Velka Zmrzla Valley (Dzika ,Wild Valley) Date Climbed: 23rd August 2001
|Wonderful ascent ,brilliant golden morning at Zelene Pleso ...unfortunately rather foggy on the summit (reached at 10:28 am) a bit problematic in a steep and narrow couloir under Barania Pass and a few moments of disorientation on the ridge...descent the same way ,great impressions !
|Posted Oct 27, 2005 8:20 pm


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Yum!...I luvz me some sea bugs.
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Steam pot, 1/2 quart vinegar, put layer in, dose with Old Bay, Wye River or such seasoning, add layers and season. get boiling-steaming 15-20 min. Put bowel of butter in the top to melt last 5 min.
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Remove the shell and clean out crab, then add butter to both sides of the crab body, I use a spoon, add spices you like, lemon pepper, garlic ect.. I usually cook a couple dozen using my outside grill, you can remove the claws and steam as usual, the male crabs have the most meat. Awsome
Soft Crabs. I'd tell you how my wife cooks em but then I'd have to kill you.
At least before she kil't me.
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Soft Crabs. I'd tell you how my wife cooks em but then I'd have to kill you.
At least before she kil't me.
You cant do that!, its against the forum cooking rules....you gotta tell us.
We boil blue crabs just the same as crawfish. I personally don't care for 'em though. It's way too much effort for such little meat. Too much like work.
Never have done blue crab ..... I would take dungenous over anything including king crab or lobster.
I pop the shell , clean out crab of lungs and crap, rinse, and break in two. Boil water in big pot with about 1/3 to 1/2 cup of sugar depending on how many crabs I'm cooking. Throw crabs in and cook for 5 minutes. Pull out and serve with butter heated by candle. Thats it for me ....... I don't want old bay or any other seasonings ........ I like the taste of dungenous as it is without changing it anymore them what the butter does.
Don't see blue crab ever sold around here but will try it if I ever see it.
oh and its 5 minutes cooking them here being ya only get ones precooked being a long way from fresh crab .
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We boil blue crabs just the same as crawfish. I personally don't care for 'em though. It's way too much effort for such little meat. Too much like work.
1 Crab, 1 Beer. I understand, point of diminishing returns....
Had em once while on the East coast. Didn't care for em, but I'm spoiled. Eat lots of dungeness, red rock, tanner and of course king here. Dungy probably my favorite.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday gave the military one year to make progress on an epidemic of sexual assault or face potential tougher reforms, hours after Congress sent a sweeping defense bill for his signature that cracks down on the crime in its ranks.
Obama said the military has "an urgent obligation" to support victims and punish perpetrators as he directed military leaders to review their efforts to prevent and respond to the crime, including improvements to the military justice system. He said he wants Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to report back to him by Dec. 1, 2014.
"If I do not see the kind of progress I expect, then we will consider additional reforms that may be required to eliminate this crime from our military ranks and protect our brave service members who stand guard for us every day at home and around the world," Obama said in a statement provided to The Associated Press.
Obama didn't specify what other reforms he would consider in the statement, his first remarks in response to the sexual assault legislation. The Senate is still debating a contentious proposal from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., that would take away authority for prosecuting accused attackers from military commanders. The White House says Obama hasn't taken a position on the bill and remains open to all ideas for reform but that he supports the thrust of the reforms passed by the Senate in late-night session Thursday and wants to give them time to work.
The Senate voted 84-15 for the $632.8 billion bill that covers combat pay, new ships, aircraft and military bases. Drawing the greatest attention were the provisions cracking down on perpetrators of sexual assault and rape.
The Pentagon estimates that 26,000 members of the military may have been sexually assaulted last year, though thousands were afraid to come forward for fear of inaction or retribution. The scandal united Democrats and Republicans, House and Senate in a concerted effort to change the Uniform Code of Military Justice, with Senate women leading the fight.
"Today represents a huge win for victims of sexual assault, and for justice in America's armed forces, but this is no finish line," said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., one of seven women on the Armed Services Committee who pushed for the changes. "In the months and years ahead, vigilance will be required to ensure that these historic reforms are implemented forcefully and effectively."
The legislation would strip military commanders of their ability to overturn jury convictions, require a civilian review if a commander declines to prosecute a case and require that any individual convicted of sexual assault face a dishonorable discharge or dismissal. The bill also would provide victims with legal counsel, eliminate the statute of limitations for courts-martial in rape and sexual assault cases, and criminalize retaliation against victims who report a sexual assault. The legislation also would change the military's Article 32 proceedings to limit intrusive questioning of victims, making it more similar to a grand jury.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said the legislation "will help encourage victims to come forward to seek justice, and it will help ensure that perpetrators are held accountable for their crimes."
The sexual assault provisions are part of a larger measure that would also provide $552.1 billion for the regular military budget and $80.7 billion for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations, a reflection of deficit-driven efforts to trim spending and the drawdown in a conflict lasting more than a decade.
The bill would give Obama additional flexibility to move detainees out of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to foreign countries, but it stops well short of the administration's goal of closing the detention facility and bans detainee transfers to the United States.
The legislation also would cover combat pay and other benefits, authorize funds for the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria and provide money to study the feasibility of establishing a missile defense site on the East Coast.
The sexual assault measures came after a contentious hearing earlier this year, when senators dressed down senior military leaders and insisted that sexual assault in the military had cost the services the trust and respect of the American people as well as the nation's men and women in uniform.
Dempsey and the beribboned four-star chiefs of the service branches conceded in an extraordinary hearing in June that they had faltered in dealing with sexual assault. One said assaults were "like a cancer" in the military.
Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, especially Gillibrand and McCaskill, grilled the chiefs about whether the military's mostly male leadership understands differences between relatively minor sexual offenses and serious crimes that deserve swift and decisive justice.
"Not every single commander necessarily wants women in the force. Not every single commander believes what a sexual assault is. Not every single commander can distinguish between a slap on the ass and a rape because they merge all of these crimes together," Gillibrand said.
In his statement Friday, Obama called sexual assault in the military a "corrosive problem, which is a violation of the values our armed forces stand for, destroys trust among our troops, and undermines our readiness."
"As commander in chief, I've made it clear that these crimes have no place in the greatest military on earth," Obama said. "Since then, our armed forces have moved ahead with a broad range of initiatives, including reforms to the military justice system, improving and expanding prevention programs, and enhancing support for victims. Yet, so long as our women and men in uniform face the insider threat of sexual assault, we have an urgent obligation to do more to support victims and hold perpetrators accountable for their crimes, as appropriate under the military justice system."
Presidential aides said the White House will be working with the Pentagon to develop a set of benchmarks so that the military's review will be rigorous enough to bring about change. They said the review will include all the efforts underway to address the problem, including training and prevention programs and the way the justice system deters the problem and supports victims.
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text: Mark C. 1,981 Report post Posted January 15, 2013 If you have an older electric preferably one with a kilnsetter (cone turns it off) then this is an easy way to go.With this setup all one does is put cone in sitter and turn all kiln switches to high-if you have a timer set it to whatever hours you normally do. The timer is a last emergency shut off in all applications.Then dial in how many hours you want before the kiln will be on full on-the controller will ramp it up to whatever you set it and the cone sitter will tun it off-This controller will ramp up the kiln for you from about 1hour to 10 hours-that means in 1 or 10 or whatever you dial the dial for the kiln. The kiln will be on full in that amount of time. No more turning kiln up-If the load is damp dial in 6 hours or more if its a glaze set it for 1-3 hours and then it will be on full. This takes out the always going out to turn it up steps-the cone setter still turns kiln off and if you have a timer that still works as a back up. You still need to check that it all turned off as any prudent potter would. First if you are handy as and electrician than this is no big deal but if you are not I suggest buying the components and hire a pro toinstall them. Here's the install You will need to know your kiln amp draw-its stated on the side plate or control box. In this case I have a skutt 1227 and it draws 48amps which means I will need at least a 60 amp contactor switch. I bought a 75 amp You will need a large electrical box –find one at a junk yard or an electrical contractors bone pile-cost should be next to free-make sure its at least 5 inches deep and 12-15 inches long-and 8 inches wide -it can have stuff like switches etc inside as you will remove all that till its an empty shell. If it has holes that are open (knock outs) you will fill the ones with covers when you are done so there are no large holes in box. This box needs to hold the automate controller and the contactor switch as well as 4 large #6 copper wires. You will need to cut the front out to mount the auto mate controller. This will require metal skills. I painted mine and have used it for about 20+ years now.Mine is mounted outside in a huge covered area. These units will make some noise when they click on and off unless you use the mercury switch.You will need a definite purpose contactor 2 pole open type(Grainger's item #2CR99 this one is 75amps) or (grangers item#5B098 60 amp) the75 amp is 172$ the 60 amp is less $. Make sure the coil voltage is for 220v as all the ones I referenced are. I have burned out a few of these so I'm now going to use the 75amp one installed today. You want a larger amp switch than what you draw so it can hold up over time-This time I'm going with a one that has lots of extra amps so it will last more than 10 years.I have burned up a 50 amp and a 60 amp. I should of bought a mercury one years ago but now I cannot in my state. Now I'm in a state that will not allow a mercury switch but if I could get one (all states but 6 allow these) I would use a mercury displacement contactor they are silent (no loud clicking) and last almost forever. That Grainger # is6A864 for a 60 amp unit and costs about 130$. This is the best way to go but alas I live in California and mercury switches are outlawed. You will bring into the large box the two leads and a ground from the main panel and from the contactor you will have the leads going out to the kiln. You will need to buy a fireright automate 11 kiln controller-this item is 70$ and you can find them here-this is a great deal PS I have no association with this company-I have used a controller of theirs for 20 years si I know they work well. http://www.fireright.com/automate2.html You will need some #12 wire and some crimp on terminal ends all this is hardware store stuff. To make the jumper leads. About 4-6 feet will do. Follow directions on the automate 11 controller paper work as far as wiring. You will have to know how to read a wiring diagram. When done you have a Simi automatic kiln that now only needs to be checked at turn off. Misc including above items is under 300$ or less if you have some of this. My safety warning is this job is really best for one who is good with electricity and should not be attempted by a novice. If any of this sounds Greek to you buy the stuff and let a licensed electrician put it all together. Mark </div> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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ByPeter Wehner
So first ISIS was a "JV team," according to President Barack Obama, who now describes it as a "cancer." But in either case, the president informed us Thursday, "We don't have a strategy yet" to deal with it.
And really, what's the rush? The Islamic State is only the best-armed, best-funded terrorist group on earth. It "controls a volume of resources and territory unmatched in the history of extremist organizations," as the Council on Foreign Relations Defense in Depth blog put it.[wsj-responsive-more-in tag="Think Tank" category="" ]
Mr. Obama's secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, says ISIS is "beyond anything we have ever seen." So why should anyone expect the commander-in-chief to have a strategy to deal with such a threat?
It appears the reason the president doesn't have a strategy isn't because he is, as he was early this year, playing down and mocking the ISIS threat; it's that he is completely at a loss over what to do about the Islamic State. He is at odds with many of his own top advisers on what needs to be done tactically, let alone strategically.
As The Daily Beast's Josh Rogan reports:
Those inside the administration advocating for going after ISIS in both Iraq and Syria were sorely disappointed [by what the president said Thursday] – and lamented their boss's lack of urgency in rooting out a threat that only days before was being described in near-apocalyptic terms.
"Senior strategists in the U.S. government have been working hard all week to gather multiple options that the president had asked for to strike ISIS in Syria. There was a deep rooted belief among many — especially among military circles — that the ISIS threat can't be kicked down the road, that it needs to be confronted now, and in a holistic way," said one Obama administration official who works on Middle East issues. "This press conference is going to lead to even more doubt by those that thought that this White House was ready to take meaningful action against ISIS across the board."
Then there's this:
"One has to wonder what sort of signal this administration is sending to ISIS by using tough rhetoric on one hand and then contravening what top officials just said," said a former Pentagon official who served in Iraq. "It's not just demoralizing to those who want to stop ISIS in its tracks, but ISIS is just going to act with greater impunity now if they believe they got a free pass. Every single ISIS leader was watching that."
Indeed they were. "We don't have a strategy yet" are words that will haunt the president, at least for a time, until he (hopefully) settles on a strategy that actually works.
Mr. Obama was utterly candid in what he said; but his candor was terribly unwise. Mr. Obama is now back in his most comfortable role, describing events rather than shaping them. We've never in our history had a president who has such a strange psychological distance from struggles in which America is engaged.
Peter Wehner is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He served in the last three Republican administrations and blogs regularly for Commentary magazine. He is on Twitter: @Peter_Wehner


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ARLINGTON — The death of a man whose body was found in an apartment fire in Smokey Point in February has been ruled an accident.
Joshua J. Misner, 23, of Arlington, died from burns and smoke inhalation, according to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office.
The fire was reported about 2:45 p.m. Feb. 4 in the 3200 block of Smokey Point Drive.
Arlington police are wrapping up their investigation, detective Sgt. Dan Cone said Friday.
The cause of the fire also is being investigated by the county fire marshal's office.


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Oops! Being lazy with the new iPad.
I can understand. Typing on a smart phone, especially one without a tactile interface, isn't easy.
Just found this thread! We watch this show too. And like the rest of you, i HATE Dave with a passion. He is such an asshole, it isn't funny. That "yeeeeeeup" that he does. I can't believe no one has hired a crew just to beat the shit out of him. I can't stand his smug attitude and how he bids up a locker when he isn't even interested in it for himself, just to make other people have to pay more for it. I hope karma takes a big bite out of his ass someday.
See, that's why I don't understand why he would agree to go on a reality show such as this. In nearly every episode, they blatantly advertise the name and location of his store (as well as the couple's store). With as many nutjobs as there are out there, it wouldn't take much for one lone crazy to see him, think "He needs to take a dirt nap" and show up at the guy's store. Sure, they may not use last names in the show, but they do on their website and in promotional materials.
If we can have insane astronauts who will wear diapers and travel across the country to confront their lover's rival with a gun, we're at the stage where people need to protect themselves. Instead, Dave is basically saying "I'm an ass. Bring it on." I just hope no one answers his challenge.
You'd be surprised. I used to run a storage place back in the '80s. Not so much framed artwork, but other collectibles? Oh yeah.
Of course, we'd also get assholes who would store dishes that still had food on them.
I hear ya. I don't think any normal person would be that way on television. I'm sure he has some big goons with him at all times (he certainly has enough employees at his place), and he is so smug he probably thinks he is untouchable. He really is such an ass.
He is also probably getting a LOT more foot traffic in his store what with all the free advertising the show does for him.
I think he's such an arrogant asshole that he think's he's untouchable. I don't want to see anyone make him take a dirt nap obviously, but I can't say I'd feel all that bad if I saw a news headline someday that somebody gave him a good ass kicking. Of course he's such an arrogant asshole that one ass beating probably wouldn't faze him. And they do show his full name on the show.
I like this concept of this show, but I'm not sure how much longer I can continue to watch because I literally can't stand that guy that much. This is not one of these "guys you love to hate" things that make you tune in each week. His presence on the show makes it damn near unwatchable iMHO.
The most recent episode was okay and the "Yeeeuppppp" guy wasn't in it as much, sort of. I do really like the old "collector" guy and suspect in the most recent episode all of the records he found would fetch him a better price on eBay or Craig's List instead of selling them to a record store that has to buy the disks from him and then turn around and sell them for a profit.
Those records would probably get him a really get price from collectors on eBay.
I like this show though I do wonder how "real" it is but that's true of almost all these reality shows.
I'm drawing a blank but there's another program on with 2 guys who buy storage lockers too but I can't remember what it's called only that one of them looks like the Big Show only a little shorter.
After watching this week's episode, more and more I'm feeling this totally contrived/staged. So you have these auctions in Las Vegas, and these 4 same guys go from LA to Vegas for these auctions, with the same auction company conducting auction. Just seems staged to me. Maybe not so much the actual bidding, but it seems they (the producers) are setting it up to make sure these 4 guys are going up against each other.
Well, I guess that's the "price" you pay for having a reality show with a "cast." So it seems a bit "natural" for the same auction company and bidders to show up for remote auctions. The bidding part, what's in them, etc. isn't likely to be set-up (and IIUC, cannot be due to the rules/laws of reality shows of this nature) but yeah the where/when of the auctions certainly seems set-up.
Well it didn't seem that unusual for them to be at the same auctions when they were in the LA area, but clearly the production company set up these Vegas auctions. As for who bids what, I have no reason to suspect that's not real. I have to say I'm a little suspicious of the actual contents of the storage lockers though, but that's probably just paranoia on my part. I guess it's hard for me to believe people are going to let $17,000 of jewelry get away for the price of their storage unit rent.
Hey, it could have been more contrived, they could've tried unloading their stuff at the pawn shop featured in "Pawn Stars."
As for finding the cache of jewelery in the abandoned locker. It's Vegas. Shit happens, I guess.
I did like the bit at the very end showing all of them at the Blackjack table, seemingly, having a good time and enjoying each other's company. Sort of makes it look like "behind the scenes" they're on fairly friendly terms. Sort of like Worf's similar realization in the Klingon bar partying with his opposition in battle.
Yeah that final scene just added to the contrived nature of the whole episode. More and more I'm wondering if this isn't fake from beginning to scratch. In this episode they had Jarrod (sp?) confronting Dave the asshole, and it felt like a planned moment.
This show definitely doesn't have the feel of a show like Deadliest Catch. Sure I know those guys mug for the camera and do shit that maybe they wouldn't do if the cameras weren't there, but at the end of the day, that show mostly feels authentic to me.
I wonder when we'll see the rest of this? At the bottom of the screen, it showed "Day One" and they said something about it being either four or five days for the marathon, so there's going to be more of this, right?
Think about if you were a guy in Vegas who does these auction things for a living (or as a side job), and you've been doing this for awhile now, and all of sudden one day you go down to your auction and here this "production" is going on with these guys and their antics. That would have to be very annoying.
these people are too much of a "what people like to see on tv based on that formula they created in the 50's" for this show to not be scripted, I don't care too much about the characters, I'm more interested in what treasures they find
In one video I replied to I kind of pissed off Dan the other day when he said the buyers are really good people. I replied back they look pretty shady and seedy to me. They look like the type of men if someone look at them the wrong way they would whip out a knife and gut them. I'm sure some of them are selling social security cards, old licenses, and birth certificate found in the storage lockers for a hundred bucks each. Its a pretty good show
I love Brandi. I don't think she's a bitch. I think she's a brilliant hottie who has held back because she's a rack and a pretty face, and her husband is a moron (go with your gut, dude, but your gut's WRONG!). It's been a trip watching her intelligence emerge from behind her tits.
She wouldn't come off as bitchy at all if she wasn't married to a moron. A man with the same intelligence as she actually has would make a great partner for her, and she'd have come into her own long ago.
I did like how Brandon got back at Dave and Darrell, though. But Dave STILL came out on top. The man has luck; if he's always had this kind of luck, it's not so surprising he thinks it's actually "skill" and he's arrogant.
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HAYWARD — A hotly debated power plant may be violating its pollution limits and needs to fix the problem as soon as possible, air quality regulators say.
Russell City Energy Center's cooling tower is putting out almost 10 times the allowed amount of water droplets that could contain particulate matter, its operator's own tests show, according to a complaint filed by the staff of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
Calpine, which owns Russell City, has been violating its permit since it began operating the power plant in August, the complaint says.
The power plant near the San Mateo Bridge was built over the objections of many residents, who called it an eyesore and polluter, but lawsuits to stop its construction were unsuccessful. The 619-megawatt natural-gas facility began operating in August and produces enough energy to power 600,000 homes.
Calpine said Tuesday that its own tests found that water droplets from the tower exceeded the permitted level, but the particulate matter in the droplets is within the allowed level. It blames the cooling tower emissions on "design or construction defects," according the air district complaint. The company is requesting temporary relief from enforcement until it can comply with emission limits.
The air district is trying to determine how much particulate matter is in the water droplets coming from the cooling tower. Under Russell City's permit, it was estimated the tower would emit up to 52.6 pounds of particulate matter each day. Calpine's testing showed the water droplets escaping from the tower is almost 10 times higher than the permit limit, "suggesting that the excess particulate matter emissions may be substantial," according to the air district complaint.
Calpine notified area and state regulators when it found the higher droplet rate, a spokesman said. "We are actively working on addressing this issue at Russell City, and we remain committed to operating our facilities within their permitted emission levels," said Brett Kerr.
Even though the tower appears to exceed its allowed limits, total particulates from the plant are still lower than the limit set in its license, said Matthew Layton of the state Energy Commission. Emissions also come from turbines, an emergency generator and other areas, he said.
"What it's emitting is a very small amount," he said.
The district's board will take up matter at its March 13 hearing, which starts at 9 a.m. at 939 Ellis St., San Francisco.
Calpine also will be meeting with state Energy Commission staff members, said Christopher Marxen, the agency's compliance office manager. The state agency could fine Calpine if the problem persists or the company is found negligent, but the focus is on fixing the problem, he said.
"We plan to work with the owners' representatives to get them back into compliance," he said.
Contact Rebecca Parr at 510-293-2473 or follow her at Twitter.com/rdparr1.


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 9:43 AM
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Suspect sought in downtown Palo Alto robbery
Original post made on May 15, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 9:43 AM
Comments (23)
a resident of Fairmeadow
on May 15, 2013 at 10:04 am
It is really a shame that the City of Palo Alto has yet to see the value of surveillance cameras in the downtown area.
Hopefullly, come the next Council election--rather than talking about more parks, concerned citizens might start asking about how the Police are doing, relative to dealing with crime in our City.
This Council seems oblivious to the matter. Let's hope the next set of candidates are not so beholded to special intersts, and are more representative of the residents, and businesses that depend on Palo Alto's being safe for people to visit, and work in.
a resident of Downtown North
on May 15, 2013 at 10:50 am
I don't think I'd wait until the next morning to report a robbery. Anyone else??
a resident of University South
on May 15, 2013 at 11:20 am
This is a really good argument for more police presence on-foot, walking around downtown, talking to anyone they happen to see waiting in an alley to see what they're up to. And, of course, knowing whom to track down if they hear about something like this, because they know their community when they walk around it more regularly.
a resident of Meadow Park
on May 15, 2013 at 11:43 am
How pathetic are those yellow bellied hoods becoming? He does not even have the courage to show face let alone the factor he has to attack a female from the rear and pull her hair. Here is another example of how these moronic hoods earn their living, but hopefully he shall be caught and dealt with accordingly. No lean punishment for this hood. Please!!
a resident of Crescent Park
on May 15, 2013 at 12:08 pm
Barbara- that was my first thought as well. Why did she wait til morning? Regardless surveillance camera should be placed downtown for this very reason.
a resident of Palo Verde
on May 15, 2013 at 1:12 pm
I'd like to see a list, say the past two years worth, of crimes in Palo Alto, how many were solved, whether there was a conviction, and whether any penalty was paid or served. Is our problem a low probability of identifying a perpetrator, a low probability of any jail time, or a low awareness among criminals that there's any downside to their behavior?
To consider a surveillance camera solution, even if it was politically workable, has anyone suggested how many thousands of cameras are necessary, where exactly they'd be placed and pointed, the pixel resolution and frame rate, how long the data would be stored? To get adequate coverage the place would have to look like a casino.
There's more than a dozen cameras at the El Camino/Page Mill intersection, and none to my knowledge are capable of resolving a license plate or a person's face.
a resident of Southgate
on May 15, 2013 at 2:27 pm
the universe consciousnes allows events to sneak through no matter how many cameras. we are in a shifting dream ,not a solid reality that we think. just like dreams change, ''real reality'' also shifts magically like a dream. it is not a linear cause and effect reality that is believed. we are entering a shifting reality. the drem is ephemeral. you cant prove it isnt. things happen but there is no direction or predestination.
a resident of St. Claire Gardens
on May 15, 2013 at 2:39 pm
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a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on May 15, 2013 at 5:14 pm
@musical - Why not start with 10 cameras? Or 1 camera? Why is it necessary to have thousands? How about a modest proposal of cameras at the entrances of all the city parking structures. Then go from there.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 15, 2013 at 6:11 pm
I agree, contact police ASAP if you are the victim or witness a crime. Time is of the essence.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on May 15, 2013 at 6:39 pm
So many "lesser" cities and communities are using surveillance cameras, and. Any are not even in Sillycon Valley? For Palo Alto not to use this is,ple technology shows lassitude, apathy, and ignorance....another tarnishing of the pal Alto brand.
a resident of Community Center
on May 15, 2013 at 8:08 pm
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a resident of Palo Verde
on May 15, 2013 at 10:52 pm
@MrR, how would those data be applicable to the robbery in question? I'd guess Lane 12 would be covered by the 1415th through 1442nd cameras we install. We then might identify a suspect, still be looking for him, need a trial if we ever catch him, and need a jail if we ever convict him. I'm not saying it's impossible. There are already thousands of cameras downtown walking around in people's pockets. We've become inured to lenses on us up and down every aisle in the drug store, but the next step to every sidewalk in the city could be a little creepy. Count the cameras on a VTA bus if you ever ride one. Any idea how many thousands of cameras in their inventory? They have 450 buses and 100 light rail.
a resident of Midtown
on May 15, 2013 at 11:28 pm
We live in a very safe city. It's getting safer all the time. This isn't Disneyland. If you're worried about our welfare, don't drive while distracted. We don't need more government surveillance.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on May 16, 2013 at 8:53 am
The poor young woman was simply walking to her car after work! it is shameful that a high-tech city like Palo Alto, the birthplace of Silicon Valley, does not have one single dingle surveillance camera in its downtown district!
a resident of Fairmeadow
on May 16, 2013 at 9:11 am
> We live in a very safe city. It's getting safer all the time.
For the most part, this is true. Data filed with the DoJ/FBI (which is eventually available on-line) shows that virtually all of the crime types tracked by DoJ have declined by about 30%, over the past twenty-five years—with the exception of murder, the occurrences of which seem to stay about the same (0-3/year). Property crimes, however, do spike from time-to-time.
Unfortunately, the Palo Alto police does not publish its "closure rates"—the number of cases actually solved per year. Public information requests tend to suggest that the Palo Alto Police close about 15% of the non-murder cases. Since most murders are committed in the home, or by people who know the victims, here in Palo Alto—the Police have managed to solve most of those cases. There are a few unsolved murders, still on the books, however.
The issue of surveillance cameras continues to stymie people in this town. The use of these cameras is too complicated to deal with effectively in this forum. However, let's not forget that it was surveillance cameras, as well as personal cameras (cell phones, etc) that helped the authorities identify the Boston Bombers. The police/Feds were able to actually see the Bombers drop a backpack in one instance. While this was an optimum situation, and it's rare that the Authorities are able to record a crime-in-progress, it's not that hard to consider that the cameras might very well record a "perp" wandering around looking for a target, as well as exiting the area after a crime has been committed. Witnesses might very well be able to identify the "perp" from the videos, and images extracted from the digital stream in order to distribute to the public, and other agencies, looking for help in identifying the person(s) involved in a given assault/robbery.
The FBI is in the process of creating a Facial Identification system that local police should be able to use to (hopefully) identify people thought to have been involved in crimes where witnesses are involved. Why shouldn't our town be able to utilize this national crime-fighting capability that we have helped pay for with our taxes?
It wouldn't take that many cameras to cover most of downtown.
a resident of Palo Verde
on May 16, 2013 at 10:15 am
Five avenues Homer to Lytton, nine streets Alma to Cowper, comes to about 5 linear miles, or 10 miles of sidewalk counting both sides. Do you want continuous facial recognition resolution or just enough cameras to follow a body from intersection to intersection? A thousand cameras would give you 50-foot spacing. Can you recognize somebody on video 50 feet away?
>> "The use of these cameras is too complicated to deal with effectively in this forum."
I think we could at least outline the technical scope of the problem so that people don't develop unfair expectations.
a resident of Midtown
on May 16, 2013 at 12:02 pm
You are ignoring the obvious rebuttal to your argument. Freedom comes at a price. We send our children to fight and die for it. The least we can do is tolerate a small amount of violence when your alternative is to practically gut our freedom.
The "I don't have anything to hide, so..." argument is irrelevant. Our society progresses, in part, by tolerating deviance.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 16, 2013 at 6:03 pm
> You are ignoring the obvious rebuttal to your argument.
I'm not ignoring anything, nor can the claim that surveillance cameras be helpful in indentifying criminals be rebutted. I said that this was a complicated issued, and it was difficult to discuss in a venue such as this. That's what I meant.
Certainly people are aware that the Boston Bombers were identified by pictures taken from "surveillance" cameras. So far, given the Authorities have not provided much information as to which pictures they actually used to come up with the two relatively clear pictures of the brothers, so it's totally possible that those pictures were obtained from sources other than the building mounted cameras.
Just today (or yesterday) the *perp* who shot up the Mother's Day Parade in New Orleans was captured, in part from the suveillance pictures that were available to police. Since there were easily a thousand people in the crowd, it's hard to believe that someone didn't recognize this man--so many the surveillance pictures weren't all that valuable.
The London Subway Bombings were solved because of surveillance recordings. Did you ever look the pictures that the London/Metro Police were able to produce from their cameras?
In these cases, what "price" do you think that the people paid in order to allow the police to be able to catch the "perps". In fact, Palo Alto Police often resort to the surveillance cameras of commercial entities to attempt to indentify "perps". There is no public information as to the number of cases solved this way, but if one were to collect all of the press releases for various crimes that have been solved, one would see that surveillance camerss have been utilized where they exist.
Many people use vague claims about "paying a price" in order to be a little safer. Well, that's try, I suppose. Some people pay by serving in the military--to keep American safe. Others pay taxes to support the military, and local/regtional policing. Sooner, or later, all of this comes to a hefty price tag.
Don't think I am ignoring anything--just haven't decided to spend a long time writing up the issues for the limited, and frequently edited, space available to posters.
At some point, it's said that the East German Secret Police hired about half of the population of to spy on the other half. That's a pretty hefty price to pay to maintain an authoritarian state. That's not what I am suggesting.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on May 17, 2013 at 8:17 am
> I think we could at least outline the technical scope of the problem
I don't think the technical scope of installing cameras, themselves, is that complicated, although selecting the equipment might be more difficult today, than in the past, since there are more choices for police departments to consider.
While there are technical issues, as I see it, the more difficult problems are operational, political, and legal. There are some police departments that have claimed that the crime rates have not been deterred by the installation of these cameras; the LAPD (if memory serves) at one point claimed that up to 40% of the cameras were out-of-service—thereby producing nothing of value. This particular problem could have been foreseen, and cameras chosen that have internal/external, diagnostics—producing alerts to the police that a service call was needed. It would seem, however, that the LAPD didn't purchase this sort of equipment.
In order for a network of deployed equipment to be of use—it has to be very reliable, weatherized, and ruggedized--to resist casual tampering and vandalism. This equipment needs to be serviced immediately, when that service is needed. The police either need to budget for an outside organization to do the installation/maintenance, or they would need to obtain these services from an inter-City department, such as Public Works, which might not see maintenance on these units with the same sense of urgency that the Police would.
One of the problems that needs to be considered is how to obtain meaningful pictures. Many building-mounted, or pole-mounted cameras produce pictures that do not provide clear access to people's, making recognition of "persons of interest" difficult. So, adding to the technical choices for the police is the need to find cameras that can be mounted in ways that provide clearer facial images. This easily could require a certain amount of R&D—which small police departments don't always seem to be willing to fund.
So far, other than the issue of finding "NextGen" cameras, nothing particularly difficult has been suggested. The problems occur after the cameras are in use—what to do with the recordings, how long to save the recordings, who should be able to access the recordings, to what extent is the City responsible for improper use of the recordings, and so on? Most of these issues have not been openly discussed here in Palo Alto—outside of the scope of the digital cameras on Taser weapons.
In one case, a person who was "Tased" claims that the recordings of the incident where he was involved were edited. While the police denied the charge, questions were raised by this incident that have never been addressed by the Palo Alto police—such as:
1) Who is in charge of the Taser recordings?
2) How long are these recordings maintained?
3) What security exists to thwart police editing of the recordings?
4) How can the public gain access to these recordings?
These same questions are on the table for any surveillance cameras that might be deployed locally. These are not "rocket science" questions to answer. Other towns have managed to deploy surveillance cameras—so these towns probably have answers to these questions that work. Sadly, our town doesn't seem to have done much thinking about the implications of these sorts of technologies, relative to the police department.
Facial recognition systems are now on-line that offer the police the ability to use the recordings to identify people through the use of stored images, and software that came compare these images. False positives have been the bug-a-boo of these systems for almost a decade. However, developers of these systems continue to make progress, and soon the FBI will have a nationwide system that police should be able to use to help them identify people from images that their surveillance systems collect.
There are many Palo Altans, I think, who still believe that surveillance cameras require people sitting in front of monitors to review recordings in order to use the recordings. While people can review the recordings, there is now software that can locate all green cars with a blue drivers (given the appropriate images). Police would than only have to review those sections of the recordings there possible information of value would be found. Getting people to understand the advances in vision systems technology will not be an easy job for people who believe more in "trees", than technology.
Obviously, this all costs money—and requires a tech savvy police department, City Council, and also a tech savvy population—which I don't think we have here in Palo Alto.
There are other issues, but those identified here are enough to answer the poster's request.
a resident of Palo Verde
on May 17, 2013 at 2:30 pm
Thanks Wayne for the lengthy response on surveillance cameras. Yes nothing can happen without solving the political objections and agreeing to acceptable policies for use of such data. The Boston case and other examples are compelling, though the "price of safety" is a contentious debate.
Regarding downtown street robberies, I still believe it would take a ridiculous investment and amount of maintenance for surveillance cameras to put a dent in the problem. Banks and liquor stores still get robbed in spite of cameras, cameras which are up close and personal, not like the street cameras we'd end up with on some distant light pole.
Maybe the best solution for those wanting such protection is to wear your own surveillance camera.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on May 18, 2013 at 8:22 am
> Maybe the best solution for those wanting such protection
> is to wear your own surveillance camera.
This is a real possibility--particularly with Google soon to be marketing its "Glass" product. This particular camera is worn in an clearly visible way--so it's not hard to believe that other products will come along that will be smaller, worn in less obvious ways, and not so easily removed by a "perp".
I would not be surprised to see these sorts of items on the market within three-four years.
a resident of Palo Verde
on May 20, 2013 at 10:09 am
Note that without his consent it is illegal in California to record audio of a person robbing you. Video is okay. Has to do with reasonable expectations of privacy.
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