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The announcement was made by Sens. Mark Pryor and John Boozman and Republican Reps. Rick Crawford, Steve Womack and Mike Ross.
The grants range from $33,800 to repair the runway and taxiway lighting systems at Harrell Filed Airport in Camden to $495,000 to replace the apron and install a vertical/visual guidance system at Baxter County Airport in Mountain Home.
"Local airports are a vital resource for Arkansas communities, helping attract economic development and giving residents more convenient travel options," said Pryor, a Democrat. "These federal funds will allow our airports to make important upgrades and additions so they can better serve residents and travelers."
Boozman, a Republican, called the airports vital to developing the economy in the state.
"Improvements to these facilities with federal dollars is an investment that will provide opportunities for future private sector job growth," Boozman said.
The remaining grants include $90,000 to install security fencing at Z. M. Jack Stell Field in Crossett; $387,000 to repair the runway at Hope Municipal Airport; and $355,419 to repair runway lighting and install taxiway lighting at the Searcy County Airport in Marshall.
There is also $150,000 for a vertical/visual guidance system and drainage improvements at John E. Miller Field Airport in Melbourne; $281,770 to repair and expand the apron at Piggott Municipal Airport; $153,000 for a vertical/visual guidance system and to install an automatic weather observing system that will improve at Springdale Municipal Airport; and $171,000 to repair the runway and taxiway at Stuttgart Municipal Airport.

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Patient Deaths in Hospitals Cost Nearly $20 Billion
AHRQ News and Numbers, November 4, 2009
One of every three people who died in 2007 in the United States was in the hospital for treatment at the time of death, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The cost of their hospital stays was about $20 billion.
The Federal agency's analysis of 765,651 hospital patient deaths in 2007 found that the average cost of hospital stays in which patients died was $26,035, versus an average of $9,447 for patients who were discharged alive. The costs were higher for patients who died because their hospitals stays were longer than those of patients who lived (8.8 days vs. 4.5 days).
The study also found that:
- Medicare patients accounted for 67 percent of in-hospital deaths and $12 billion in hospital costs, while privately insured patients accounted for 20 percent of deaths and $4 billion. Medicaid patients accounted for 2 percent of deaths and $2.4 billion, and uninsured patients, 3 percent and $630 million.
- The average cost for each Medicaid patient who died was $38,939—roughly $15,000 more than the average cost of a Medicare or uninsured patient who died, and about $10,000 more than a privately insured patient who died.
- About 12 percent of patients who died had been admitted for an elective procedure or other non-urgent reason and 72 percent were emergency admissions. Roughly 7 percent of patients who died were admitted for accidents or intentional injury and about 2 percent were newborn infants.
- Septicemia, a life-threatening blood infection, was the major cause of death, accounting for 15 percent of all deaths, followed by respiratory failure (8 percent); stroke (6 percent); pneumonia (5 percent); heart attack (5 percent); and congestive heart failure (4 percent). Other leading causes of death included cancer, aspiration pneumonia, and kidney failure.
This AHRQ News and Numbers is based on data in The Costs of End-of-Life Hospitalizations, 2007. The report uses statistics from the 2007 Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a database of hospital inpatient stays that is nationally representative of inpatient stays in all short-term, non-Federal hospitals. The data are drawn from hospitals that comprise 90 percent of all discharges in the United States and include all patients, regardless of insurance type, as well as the uninsured.
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White Mountains (NH/ME) > Mount Willard > Climber's Log
Mount Willard Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Ice Climb
Date Climbed: Dec 23, 2016
|Ice climb up Lower and Upper Hitchcock, then hiked the rest to the summit for a spectacular view of Crawford Notch before hiking out via the Mount Willard trail.
|Posted Dec 29, 2016 12:09 am
|Hitchcock Gully
Date Climbed: Mar 12, 2015
|Nice March ascent. Conditions were good on the entire route.
|Posted Mar 13, 2015 11:28 pm
|Did with EastKing
Date Climbed: Dec 28, 2003
|This was a very fun summit. My favorite winter hike in New Hampshire.
|Posted Dec 29, 2014 4:06 pm
|4 peak day
Date Climbed: Mar 9, 2012
|Pleasant little peak - winter wonderland scenes all along the trail, good views at the top. Pretty crowded on a Saturday.
|Posted Mar 14, 2012 12:11 am
|Easy Snowshoe Hike
Date Climbed: Mar 17, 2011
|Gorgeous day, very few people on the trail, awesome views for an easy hike up.
|Posted Apr 10, 2011 1:03 pm
|Great Hike
|Clear and beautiful
|Posted Feb 9, 2010 1:54 pm
|Fun lil mountain
Date Climbed: Nov 9, 2009
|What a great lil mountain. As someone said at the top "Great reward for minimal effort." Will to try in the snow
|Posted Nov 15, 2009 8:38 pm
|What a view
Date Climbed: Mar 16, 2009
|Easy winter climb with a fantastic view of crawford notch. Great climb if you have a couple free hours.
|Posted Mar 18, 2009 10:03 am
|After Christmas hike
Date Climbed: Dec 26, 2007
|Wonderful snowshoe to work off all that we had eatent the previous day.
|Posted Nov 22, 2008 9:35 pm
|Every Winter a must climb
|Every winter my partner and I climb most of these routes. One of my favs is up Cinema, bushwack left thru the trees and top out on Cauliflower Gully. Or, bushwack right and climb the second pitch of Hitchcock. Had a nasty screamer on Geat Madness back in 06.
|Posted Aug 12, 2008 3:44 pm
|Seth Maciejowski
|Hitchcock Gully
|Climbed Hitchcock once to the summit and then rapped back down the Gully. Another time we climbed lower Hitchcock and then climbed the "Cleft" on the right to the top. Never topped out the face via a rock route. I've only gone up to the Tree Ledge on Across the Universe.
7-09 Finally linked Across the Universe into End of the Universe to the top. A very good 8 pitch route with only a half a pitch of loosey goosey at the top. Also linked cinema into Cauliflower last winter for another good linky...
|Posted May 2, 2006 6:18 pm
|Route Climbed: Gully on East Face
Date Climbed: Mar 9, 2006
|Climbed up a gully on the East face in 5 pitches. My first technical climb of a mountain. Made our way through the woods to the overlook. It was quite stormy and it began to snow just as we started walking down the Mt Willard trail. Great climb!
|Posted Mar 18, 2006 5:02 am
|Route Climbed: Mt. Willard Trail Date Climbed: 12/28/03, 1/1/02
|Both times were the same; Clear day in the 30's with views to die for.
|Posted Jan 31, 2004 6:13 pm


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Be The Change: A win, win, win with Project CLIMB
Professor empowers children with different abilities, their parents, as well as tomorrow's teachers
By Colleen Dixon
Project CLIMB, Children Learning to Improve Movement Behaviors, is a 10-week program that gives children with disabilities one-on-one attention and assistance from JMU's Adapted Physical Education program students.
JMU is well known for its community outreach projects. Tom Moran, assistant professor of kinesiology, is striving to increase JMU's interaction with the community by meeting the needs of children and adults with disabilities in sports and recreation. Several programs he has devised since coming to JMU two years ago not only give his teacher education students experience working with young children with disabilities, but they also provide a vital service to parents whose children do not have access to many sports programs in the Harrisonburg and Rockingham County area.
Project CLIMB, Children Learning to Improve Movement Behaviors, is a 10-week program that gives children with disabilities one-on-one attention and assistance from JMU's Adapted Physical Education program students. As each child has specific needs and challenges, students must develop an individualized program of learning that focuses on developing motor skills. As the program progresses, the students work in pairs and then with small groups of children.
"I knew going through the undergraduate teacher preparation program that the hands on experience was essential to helping me not only feel adequate to work with children of disabilities, but also to create that interest and that passion. Until students get the hands-on experience outside of the classroom, it really doesn't mean anything. It's nice when I'm lecturing on autism and someone pipes up and asks, 'Is that what my student has and is that why he starts getting overwhelmed when we're in a certain situation?' It makes the content just that much richer for my teacher education students."
Creative environment provides multitude of experiences
Moran developed Project CLIMB by putting together parts of other adaptive learning programs he had observed. "The year prior to my coming to JMU, I was able to visit some of these places. … I was able to observe these programs and blend my ideas to develop Project CLIMB. Some programs do just one on one the whole time for 10 weeks. [Other universities don't] assign teachers to a specific child; they work with somebody different throughout the hour they're there. I liked the idea of one-on-one [attention], because students get to see the growth of the student across the program. At the same time, I don't want them to only gain experience with a child with Down's syndrome, or a child with cerebral palsy. I wanted to create an environment where they can get multiple experiences. That's where I came up with the progression of one-on-one, then pairs, then small groups. By the end of the program they'll have opportunities across different settings, and also working with different students. It's really the best of both worlds."
John Parks ('09) enjoyed the program for the instant feedback and that the program improved his teaching ability. "Dr. Moran impressed me with the way he was able to get us comfortable with working with kids with disabilities, something a lot of us had never done before," says Parks. "It can be intimidating, but he gave us the tools to break down any barriers and get us able to give the kids a quality experience."
Parents say the program not only improves the skill levels of their kids but also improves their self-confidence and self-esteem.
A service to the community
"We're able to provide a service in the community," says Moran. "Children who, unfortunately, didn't have a program when everyone else was joining Little League or Youth Soccer now have their own program that they can call their own and take ownership of."
Parents are excited about the opportunities opening for their children. "I get a lot of good feedback from the parents not only about improving the skill levels of their kids, but also about how it improves their self-confidence and self-esteem," says Moran." Some of the kids have now gone on to join other programs in the community. They come back and say, 'I didn't even think they would join project CLIMB, and now they're coming home and saying, "Can I join a baseball team? Can I get involved in a different program?"' So we're starting to see some self-actualization come out of it and some improved self-image. Children who have been through the Project CLIMB program go from thinking "I can't do these things," or getting frustrated, so saying, "Well, what can I do next?"
Parents have told Moran that they want the children to learn how to ride a bike or how to swim, or continue to work on their motor skills so they can throw and catch in the backyard. "The spinoff of this program is we've been able to create is a community-based adapted physical education program that, hopefully, we'll be able to bring under the JMU umbrella," says Moran. "We're able to provide either one-on-one or small-group instruction for children with disabilities through the academic year, and some during the summer." On a donation basis, parents can sign up for various programs.
Moran adds, "We have a mechanism where we can continue to provide services year-round. In 2009 we created, as an offshoot to Project CLIMB — the Helping Hands program, where instructors can assist children or adults with disabilities in the community." Examples he gives are an adult who wants to go to a local gym and work out or a child who wants to sign up for a self-defense class at Boys and Girls Club. Now parents can sign up for those community programs, and we'll provide an instructor who can accompany them and provide one-on-one support within the larger group setting, as a mechanism to get the kids out into the community."
With Project CLIMB as the initial program, Moran's desire is to continue to provide more programming. "What can we do, within our resources, to continue to provide services? We just need financial support to keep it going. That's always the case," he says.
Project CLIMB is meeting the needs of JMU students by giving them hands-on experience in education and filling a need for these programs in the community.
Hands-on education for JMU students
Shannon Dougherty ('10, '11M), a kinesiology major in physical and health education teacher education, has been involved in several programs Moran coordinates. "Dr. Moran has really helped me get into working with children with disabilities. … All the kids are so loving and appreciative and all their parents are the same way," she says. "They are grateful that there is something the kids can do other than just going to school and coming home. These parents go above and beyond most parents with jobs and doing so much for their kids."
Because there have not been many outlets in the Shenandoah Valley for children with disabilities to participate in physical activities, parents are excited that opportunities are opening for their children. Moran says, "And our students embrace it and really want to work with the kids and take them to the next level. I think even the parents realize that it's more than 'I just bring my kid here and they have some fun for an hour.' They realize there are some real goals behind it. Each one of my students takes that personally." The students want to make sure they are improving upon something, whether it's skill level or self-confidence, self-esteem.
Project CLIMB was a separate program for two years, but this year will be offered as part of the Overcoming Barriers Project. Funded by a grant to run a Physical Activity and Nutrition Mentoring Program for individuals with disabilities, Overcoming Barriers offers three eight-week programs. Besides Project CLIMB, parents will be able to enroll their children in an aquatics class or an individual sports/recreational activities program. The pool at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community is the venue for the aquatics activities. The sports/recreational activities program allows individuals to choose from several outdoor activities: golf, personal training, bike riding, hiking, tennis and the Helping Hands program.
Moran says these programs are a good part of reaching out to the community. "I always look at is as serving two purposes," he says. "I'm meeting the needs of my students by giving them hands-on experience in education, but we're also filling a need for these programs in the community."


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Nip/Tuck: The Complete Third Season (DVD)
Ryan Murphy
6-Disc box set - Operating Room Packaging
He - or is it she? - slices, they stitch. He maims, they heal. Plastic surgeons Sean McNamara and Christian Troy have vowed to make whole the victims of the elusive, mysterious serial slasher called the Carver. But mending the rifts in their own families and careers will require much more than their famed technical skills.
Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon return for a sensational Season 3 filled with eroticism, suspense and medical challenges ranging from a daring facial transplant to a 650-pound woman whose skin has fused with her sofa. There's a new doctor on staff, too: Dr. Quentin Costa, a tango expert and perhaps an expert at dissecting the practice for his own ends. Plus: Julia launches a new career, troubled Matt falls in with skinheads and the Carver turns out to be.... Sorry, our lips are sealed. Watch and find out.
Product Details
- Starring: Julian McMahon, Dylan Walsh, John Hensley, Roma Maffia, Joely Richardson
- Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
- Language: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
- Number of Discs: 6
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: Warner Bros.
- Release Date: 08/29/2006
- Run Time: 723 minutes
- Catalogue #: 76277
Special Features
- Severed Parts Unaired Scenes
- Chasing The Carver
- The Perfect Look: Set Design


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Teammates excited to share history
Giants celebrate after Bonds passes Babe with 715th homer
By Ryan Quinn / MLB.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- After the Giants' 6-3 loss against the Rockies on Sunday, the number 715 stood on the Giants scoreboard for hours. The Giants' clubhouse had a champagne celebration and exhaled a sigh of relief. "We're glad that it's over," manager Felipe Alou said of Barry Bonds' 715th homer to pass Babe Ruth for second on the all-time list. "I know that the teammates had a little bit of a celebration. They didn't win the game, but it was wonderful that everybody had their picture taken and stuff like that. "But it's over and, like I said before, we need a lot of home runs now. People don't have to count them anymore, but we need a few to win some ballgames." Steve Finley, who was on first base when Bonds hit the homer, said that the atmosphere around the Giants will be much different without the media circus surrounding the home run chase. "[It will be a] little strange not having anybody around," Finley said. "We will be able to walk to the clubhouse in a straight line now instead of having to zig and zag. Bonds' milestone homer came on a 3-2 pitch from Byung-Hyun Kim to center field in the fourth inning. After the 445-foot blast, play was stopped as Bonds had two curtain calls and two banners were unveiled by the Giants scoreboard. The one on the left had a picture of Bonds, and Hank Aaron was on the right with the number 755. "Well, I'm glad for Barry," Alou said. "When he hit it, I knew it was gone. Actually, before the pitch even got in, I knew it was going to be gone." But even with the standing ovations from the 42,935 at AT&T Park and the unveiling of the number 715 on the left-field wall, Alou said he sensed something different after the homer compared to No. 714. "It looked like there was a lack of interest for 715 [compared to] 714," Alou said. "Even here, we didn't feel the same way. "I think after 714, [the pitchers] were making it possible. [The Rockies] walked him a lot in the past and they were pitching to him." Finley, on the other hand, didn't feel the same way. "There's been a lot of electricity in the air in each game leading up to 715," Finley said. "I'm glad he got a chance to hit the homer in front of the hometown fans. I'm really excited to be a part of it. It's fun to be a part of history in the game." The 41-year-old Finley also said that Bonds was feeling confident before Sunday's game. "When we were in the batting cage before the game, [Bonds] said that if [Kim] leaves one in there, it's going to be gone, and he lived up to his words," Finley said. "Kim made one mistake and he made him pay for it." Jamey Wright, who got his fourth loss of the season in the game, said that the event would be a great fish tale in the future.
Ryan Quinn is an associate reporter for MLB.com This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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#RSL Tweets of the Day (@RealSaltLake)
Portland win means #RSL will likely need to beat Timbers Saturday at JELD-WEN for real shot at West, Shield. Timbers at Chivas in finale
Final: Portland 1, Seattle 0. Timbers take the Western Conference lead from RSL. Huge, huge, huge match at JELD-WEN in six days.
Watch @OriginalWinger go 1 v 1 with @RealSaltLake defender @natborchers in the Crossbar Challenge here: http://tinyurl.com/omuvpma
3pts & 1st place clinched in the Hex. Blessed to be apart of this group. #USMNT #USA #Brazil2014
QUE GOLAZOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! turn off the lights at the Azteca and LEGGOOOO!!! #HappyBoy
ABC4: Real Sports Live- RSL 4 Big Things - October 13, 2013
ABC4: Real Sports Live – Crossbar Challenge with Nat Borchers
MLSsoccer.com: Highlights: Portland Timbers vs Seattle Sounders
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MLSsoccer.com: Highlights: D.C. United vs Philadelphia Union
MLSsoccer.com: Highlights: Montreal Impact vs New England Revolution
MLSsoccer.com: MLS Goal Timeline (October 12-13, 2013): Watch all the goals from Week 33 weekend action
Real Salt Lake News & Notes
RealSaltLake.com: International Recap: Saborio starts in Costa Rica loss; Rimando, Beckerman sit in US win
RealSaltLake.com: Mansally suspended one game by MLS Disciplinary Committee
The Salt Lake Tribune: Parity takes center stage in Major League Soccer
The Salt Lake Tribune: Mansally suspended, fined by MLS Disciplinary Committee
Goal.com: Meola's MLS GK Power Rankings: Rimando leads heading into final stretch
For the Fans, by the Fans
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MLS, Other News & Notes
MLSsoccer.com: Kick Off: Did Will Johnson play the role of instigator vs. Seattle Sounders?
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MLSsoccer.com: This is the monkey off Jack's back: McInerney ends goal slump to rescue Philadelphia Union
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Pro Soccer Talk: Major League Soccer Week in Review: Round 33
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Pro Soccer Talk: Report: MLS will adopt European schedule in 2014… Would August-May work?
Pro Soccer Talk: This year or next: Talking Landon Donovan's injury and passing Jeff Cunningham
Pro Soccer Talk: Jurgen Klinsmann says Brad Guzan has earned a U.S. start; he most certainly has
Goal.com: Jack McInerney ends epic scoreless streak
SI.com: Three thoughts on the U.S.'s World Cup qualifier victory over Jamaica
Soccer by Ives: USMNT send four players back to their clubs, bring in Fire's Johnson


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E1 doesn't matter: One-state reality is here
Those who think that E1 is the nail in the coffin of the two-state 'solution' are willfully blind to the fact that a one-state outcome is already on the ground and that the Zionist militias started building it before there ever was an Israel. I know this is a little late. The big brouhaha about E1 was, what, a few weeks ago? I wasn't paying that much attention because, as someone who spends a lot of time traveling between Jerusalem and the West Bank--and noticing the one unequal state already on the ground--I didn't quite get the fuss about E1.…Read More... | 44 Comments


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LHC@Home 1.0 has historically been a very intermittent project that crunches data for the Large Hadron Collider. http://lhcathome.cern.ch/
Our previous thread can be found here. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=43875
Searching back through the forum it appears we've had a team here since 2004. We're currently in 31st place.
LHC@Home 1.0 can go many, many months without work. But since this spring there has been work available from time to time. As an example of how intermittent LHC@Home 1.0 can be I have had it selected on all my BOINC clients since Oct 07. It looks like today I might actually make it to 25,000 cobbles.
The last couple of days LHC@Home 1.0 has had work. So, if you'd like to catch some of these elusive and rare work units give LHC@Home 1.0 a try.
edit - Sir Whizbang brought it to my attention there are two LHC@Home 1.0 Ars Teams. The first is here http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/team ... eamid=4410 with just over 4000 points. The 2nd is here http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/team ... ?teamid=94 with just short of 1 Million points. Might I suggest we all join the 2nd one.
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There's two Ars teams?
Whizbang wrote:
There's two Ars teams?
Sir Whizbang, Thank you for catching that. I've updated the top post. Hopefully that will take care of any confusion there may have been.
I would also like to welcome Sir Whizbang and MechWarrior to the festivities.
Agent GleanerC /out
This is indeed the correct team:
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/team ... ?teamid=94
The other one should be abandoned. The name should be updated to just: "Ars Technica" though since it's a BOINC project. Hopefully Biggles can do that.
Things spun up in the last hour or so. A spattering of workunits have now collided with my boxes. First work in about 4 weeks.
Happy Crunching!
Agent GleanerC /out
Don't know what you're talking about the name being wrong...
Damnit, missed the work. Serves me right for fiddling with my cache in anticipation of WCG dumpage next week.
Biggles 266 wrote:
Don't know what you're talking about the name being wrong...
Ha, you changed it. Cool
A few of the elusive LHC work units have escaped into the wild. With all my traps set I've been catching one about every other day since the 30th. I've got my 7 day points average all the way up to 8 now.
Watch out!
Agent GleanerC /out
I've been capturing a few myself. Gleaner, at this rate I'll pass you up in only nine months or so! I'm comin' for ya
Whizbang wrote:
Gleaner, at this rate I'll pass you up in only nine months or so! I'm comin' for ya
None Shall Pass
Agent GleanerC /out
Are there any WU out and about from LHC? I've just put it into BOINC, and not getting anything....
Same with SETI.....
JTD121 wrote:
Are there any WU out and about from LHC? I've just put it into BOINC, and not getting anything....
Same with SETI.....
This project rarely has work. We keep hearing promising of "Real Soon Now®," but we haven't seen a consistent string of WUs for several years. They'll throw a few thousand WUs out and there will be a quick scramble to download the work. The recent work has normally only lasted 10 - 15 sec per WU, so it doesn't last long. I keep it on priority of 1000 and always running, but have only managed a few hundred points over the last year.
SETI has undergone a server migration and I haven't been following the status of that, but it has had regularly scheduled outages Mon - Thurs (I think?) every week for quite some time. That may change with the new servers, but I wouldn't expect too much.
There might be some work in/around January, until the end of 2012. And just delay the year-long upgrade. We shall see what CERN and others decide.
Today LHC@home 2.0 was launched and has a beta application called Test4Theory. There's only 1000 accounts available at the moment I believe and it only lauched a few hours ago, so move fast if you want one. That said, there might be reasons to avoid it as there is a prerequisite of having VirtualBox installed as the project actually runs in a custom virtual machine. This obviously takes up a few GB of disk space.
I've got it installing and will let you know how I get on.
Nice to see LHC coming back to life.
Test4theory is opening up for new volunteers!
We've recovered from the initial tsunami of volunteer support last month – thanks, everyone, for your enthusiasm and patience! So now Test4Theory is opening gradually to new volunteers using invitation codes.
If you want to test the project, please, sign up for an invite!
If the number of requests remains very high, we won't be able to accommodate everyone, so we'll be picking users randomly each week and sending them invitation codes – an invitation lottery. Thus, if you want to try the project and help debugging it sign up and good luck! 8 Sep 2011 8:07:54 UTC
That new registration thing has a surprising issue: if you go to "view previous responses" after entering your email, you get a list of some people's e-mail addresses. Probably just the first responders, but that shouldn't happen...
LHC has work available today. So, get'm while they're hot.
Actually this last two months LHC has been sending out work in significant, yet still sporatic, amounts. The team has made good progress moving up two spots in the overall standings. I just pretty much leave this one always in work fetch mode and try to catch'm when they come around.
Agent GleanerC /out
Actually this last two months LHC has been sending out work in significant, yet still sporatic, amounts. The team has made good progress moving up two spots in the overall standings. I just pretty much leave this one always in work fetch mode and try to catch'm when they come around.
As a point of clarification, this information pertains to project sixtrack under LHC@home(1.0).
Project Test4Theory under firstname.lastname@example.com (noted by Biggles above) has maintained a pool of work in excess of demand for the past several months, even though it is still in a test phase. T4T is now fully open to new members http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/
Now that Ars has two active LHC@home teams, http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/team_display.php?teamid=94 and http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/team_display.php?teamid=69, I suggest we mention which team we're talking about in our posts.
I got some work on this (sixtrack) the past few days. It rarely has any, so now might be a good time to try grab some if you're trying to move up the ranks a little!
LHC@Home has been handing out a large number of WUs for the last several days. There is currently about 15800 WUs available and they have been refilling the queues. Get 'em while you can!
Congrats to whizbang for taking the #1 spot on the team!
Just to add, in case anyone was avoiding this, WUs have been rollin' here for weeks. You can pretty much get as much as you can handle. That wasn't true 2 months ago.
It's been great - I've been trying to get to 100K for years but when there was a lot of work, I didn't have the hardware. After I had the hardware there was never the work. Now there's both!
Is anything up with the test4theory group? I'm trying to join the team with my new i5 2500K setup but the team isn't showing a join button when I attempt to join it.


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This is IMHO a beautiful story of a clueless question... so clueless that I felt compelled to coin a term like "XWTFITL Problem" to describe it, later spawning an interesting discussion which in turn eventually caused something to end up in a Synopsis, specifically S12.
If you follow the first link at PerlMonks above, you will find that the user asked:
(I include this for completeness, but it may be skipped)
What I want to do is to store a LoL-path (HoH,AoA,HoA..) and then use it to access the real thing.
Let me give you one example (pseudo code):
%map = (
typeA => {key1}[3]{key2},
typeB => {key3},
typeC => [1]{key4},
and then depending on the type I want to access different element of the LoL. i.e. again pseudo code
$lol->{$map{typeA}} <==> $lol->{key1}[3]{key2}
$lol->{$map{typeB}} <==> $lol->{key3}
$lol->{$map{typeB}} <==> $lol->[1]{key4}
do u have some idea how can i do something like this.
If you didnt understood my question fully, tell me I will try to 'invent'
;) more examples
Now, can you make sense of this question? Most of us couldn't at first, though we guessed it may have to do with easy access to complex data structures and so we suggested modules like Data::Diver, Data::Walker, Data::Dref and Data::Match.
On a second thought some of use including myself realized that the OP wanted to know if there were the possibility of having what he called a "LoL-path" and I a "dereferencing chain" (none complained, so I suppose it was clear enough) as a standalone entity. Of course the poster was concerned with pragmatics, that is, with saving some typing and hopefully have more terse code to work with. In this sense both the above mentioned modules and some other provided solutions must have constituted a mostly definitive answer.
However, notwithstanding the fact that cheap and solid enough solutions exist I'm much concerned with programming languages concepts a.k.a. "philosophy" so I wondered about the "Real Thing", of course not in the context of Perl 5 but in Perl 6's: this is the spawned new thread.
To put it briefly, also in the new thread most answers were along the lines of: just use a closure! This, both for 5 and 6, with the minor difference that the latter's syntax was sexier. Thus somewhat they bypassed my "philosophical" question. (There was also an entry additionally mentioning composition with a role.) Indeed $Larry put the final word to it: I underlined that what I wanted to know if there was any provision for "the tail of the animal without the animal existing as a beast itself" and his reply was the one pasted hereafter.
We made it really easy to write closures and deref them in Perl 6 so that people would not feel the need to invent special syntax for deferred evaluation. So basically, you use curlies to delimit any kind of "tail without the animal", and calling a closure is how you add the animal back in. And closures have the advantage of taking additional arguments if you want multiple degrees of "animal" freedom in your locator. S12 is now clarified to indicate that
$object.$methodname()is able to call into a closure as well as into a named method. Thanks.
To paraphrase with my own words: you can have the tail of the animal wrapped up in an extremely thin pellicle.
What's instructive of this, apart the pleasure of having indirectly helped with a tiny contribution, is that what $Larry himself wrote in a previous PerlMonks thread is once again confirmed: namely that Perl's Philosophy, for any revision number, is centered around Pragmatics or that, in some sense, it's Pragmatics that matters and not Philosophy. To quote from that post:
Seriously, what makes Perl Perl? If someone decides I'm ugly and beats my face to a pulp, and later I get a face transplant, am I still me? If my bones rot and are replaced with synthetics, at what point am I a different person? Syntax is just skin. Semantics are just bones. Neither is the soul of Perl, which rests in the realm of pragmatics.
(The emphasis was added by me.)
To finish, as I did in PM, I'm reporting hereafter too the relevant part of the S12:
The variable may contain either the name of a method or a closure object. In the latter case the closure is called with the object as its first argument, so that a closure may be used to abstract a "navigational" path through a data structure without specifying the root of the path till later.
$locator = -> $root, $x, $y { $root.<foo>[$x]<bar>{$y}[3] }
$obj.$locator(42,"baz") # $obj<foo>[42]<bar><baz>[3]
$locator = {
.<here> }
$obj.$locator # $obj<here>


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For several days my pc began to behave very slowly. For a day or two Outlook would suddenly stop downloading new messages, saying that another application has locked the .pst file.
Yesterday I suddenly saw a ZA message (I have ZA Extreme Security installed) saying that it had found a virus during a scan and asked me to close all applications so that it could apply advanced disinfection, after which a reboot would be required. I okayed it, and no reboot resulted. The file seemed to be associated with the Uniblue registry booster.
I was suspicious, and prepared for a full system scan. I tried to update the signature files, but ZA was unable to do so. I started the full scan anyway. About 17% of the way through it stopped in a very similar manner, but with a different file. In both cases it mentioned Launcher.exe . The error message was "Malware has been detected that requires advanced disinfection to be properly treated. If run, the system will be automatically restarted after completio. Please close any open documents. Do you want to allow this." In the first case (previous paragraph), I clicked "yes". In the second, I clicked "no". In both cases, it proceeded anyway, and then the scan continued after treatment.
Another notice was common to these two instances: "The application or DLL [path name] is not a valid Windows image. Please check against your installation diskette." In one case the identified path was C:\Documents and Settings\Bill\Application Data\Uniblue\Registry Booster\_temp\ub.exe and the other was C:\WINDOWS\system32\mstm13.dl .
In one case the identified infection was Trojan-FakeAV.Win32.RegBoster.a . [The misspelling of Booster was in the identified on-screen message.]
My full system scan is still running (it takes about 15 hours). What's next?
BTW: I tried to run Malwarebytes, which I have used multiple times in the past. I received an error message: "The application or DLL C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\mbabm.exe is not a valid Win32 application."


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OCEAN CITY – Extreme heat paired up with extreme sports last weekend as top athletes battled it out in the Pantech Open of the Dew Tour in Ocean City.
Saturday's winner of the skate bowl was Pedro Barros, and of the BMX Park competition, Kyle Baldock.
Barros, 16, proved his young talent over bowl veterans Bucky Lasek and Andy MacDonald.
"I feel really good about winning. It always gets you a little more excited and a little happier," said Barros. "Just being in the finals like this with everyone killing it so much creates energy that only this contest can come close to. It's incredible."
Baldock, 20, is the first rookie to win a BMX Park final, beating Dennis Enarson and the competition's oldest rider and course designer, Ryan Nyquist.
"All I wanted to do was make it in this year, and to win is unbelievable. I did it for the people at home who've always had my back — my mom, I give this to my brother. He passed away and this is for him. This is for everyone," said Baldock after his win.
Sunday's winner of skate vert was Baltimore's own Bucky Lasek, and the BMX Vert champion was Jamie Bestwick.
Lasek, 38, won his 10th Dew Tour vert final, just cutting out big name skaters, Pierre-Luc Gagnon and Shaun White.
"Words can't explain how I feel right now. I went all last year without a win. To come back this year to win the first stop, the Pantech Open, in my home state of Maryland, is unbelievable," said Lasek after the victory. "I am very blessed to have the friends, family, and sponsors that have backed me for so many years, keeping me skating and pushing the level of my skating."
Bestwick, 40, has taken first in year-end Dew cup standing in BMX Vert the last six years in a row, and with his win in Ocean City he is working on his seventh. Bestwick claimed his victory over Chad Kagy and Simon Tabron.
"I want to thank the fans here in Ocean City who really made this event great. The energy was electric and it was so much fun riding for this crowd, and so exciting to witness the level of riding that the field has brought to the table," said Bestwick. "After watching the riding tonight, the road to the Dew Tour Championships is bound to be one of the best yet."
The Pantech Open in Ocean City last weekend was the Dew Tour's first stop out of four in the event's seventh year. The four major multi-sport events span across the country with a cumulative points system, and more than $2 million in event and bonus purses are awarded at the tour's end based on overall standings.


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Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival 2012
Tennessee's massive four-day festival kicks off this week and Yahoo! Music is there covering all the music madness! Check out shots from the buzziest bands to the biggest headliners lighting up the stages at Bonnaroo. We'll be updating the gallery as the festival progresses, so come back often!


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Russellville's Department of Public Works, using contracted crews, has worked diligently to complete three projects the city plans to dedicate in the very near future. South Detroit and South Glenwood Avenues and Prairie Creek have all seen improvements completed for the public to use. These improvements not only improved access and usability, but scenery.
As many residents know, Prairie Creek was in desperate need of de-mucking. But not anymore.
Public Works used Bowden Specialties to help with the removal of dead and overgrown vegetation from the stream. This overgrowth "caused slow drainage and the city was concerned about the growing problem with flooding," said Michael Oakes, director of city engineering and Public Works.
According to Oakes, the project's primary focus was "to get the water out of the City Mall parking lot." There were also several desirable side effects.
Oakes said the project came in way under budget. The original estimate for acceptable bids was around the $100,000 mark, but Oakes said all but one of the bids were in that range or higher. Bowden Specialties bid the job at $51,000, which saved the city a considerable sum of money.
The Prairie Creek "stream is clean and flowing well," Oakes said Thursday.
He said that when talking with others about the final product, all have commented about the renewed beauty of the area and that it "was not a bad-looking stream." Public Works and Bowden crews have cleared the waterway from State Highway 7 to Phoenix Avenue.
South Glenwood Avenue is one of two streets with significant work completed.
That project was done from 8th Street to 2nd Street. The most significant change is the replacement of two 90-degree turns at 2nd Street with a smooth curve. "The continual flow of traffic, plus improved drainage, on South Glenwood Avenue will ease travel for residents and commercial vehicles," Oakes said.
South Detroit Avenue has also seen improvement. Enhanced safety for students and parents who drop their children off at Oakland Heights Elementary School was one goal.
Easy access is what residents can expect from this renewed, modernized street, Oakes said. The project opened a pathway between 19th and 11th Streets. This will allow traffic to move with increased flow and may reduce frustration for early morning and afternoon drivers. There are new sections of sidewalk in place where the walkway was broken and crumbling.
"We are proud of these projects," Oakes said.
Residents should also expect increased property values as a result of improved drainage, resurfaced streets, safer, more attractive sidewalks, and modern transit routes, he said.


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Last month, Creative drew the ire of many Zen owners with
the release of a firmware update that disabled FM radio
recording. Although no one that heavily used the feature was likely to
download and install the firmware update, Creative also announced that future
players would also have FM recording removed.
The RIAA was of course cited as the main reason behind the
move by Creative as the organization has become quite litigation-happy in
recent years.
Apparently, Creative has had a change of heart and has
released a new
firmware update which re-enables FM recording on its Zen Vision: M player.
A single line in the readme file of firmware version 1.60.01 reads "Adds FM recording (for players with current
firmware version 1.50.02 or 1.51.02)."
There was no reason cited for adding FM recording back into
the fold, but Zen Vision: M users can consider themselves safe... for now.


text: Sittin' In with the Big Band, Vol. 2 is more than a fun play-along. This book and CD combination features ten big-band charts written at the medium difficulty level for players with some experience. It provides an opportunity to play along with a professional jazz ensemble and improve playing skills. As students play along and listen to the outstanding players in the band, they will learn about blend, style, phrasing, tone, dynamics, technique, articulation, time, and playing in tune. Performance tips and suggestions are included in each book. Solo improvisation opportunities exist for each instrument as well. Titles include: Alianza; Get It On; Greensleeves; Jump; La Suerte de los Tontos; On Green Dolphin Street; The Red Door; Secret Love; Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise and Trofeo de Bolos.


text: Sadly, the quirky Element will, most likely, get totalled by insurance. Now we're looking at options for a car for my wife. She wants a manual if possible, something smaller with better fuel mileage. After all, we have the van for hauling stuff. Requirements: - manual if possible - if right car comes along and it's AT, then is going to be automatic - different- some personality required - better fuel mileage than the Element given that is going to be a daily driver (future commute is only 10km). Now if we could get an Element with a diesel engine... Price: - TBD - looking at used cars with less than 40k km Ok, the TDI is my choice, I hope that if she gets to test drive one will like it. The Volvo C30 is her choice, based on looks, never drove one. Looking at '09-'12 models. The GTI is something we both like. Looking at '10-'12 models. Also thought of a Fit, but she is not sure she likes it. She likes the Soul as well, they're like a mini Element, but gas mileage is not great in those, and the interior is not on par with the first 3 models. Any cons to these models? Don't know much about the Volvo C30, internet searches seem to be favourable. Had many diesels in the past, although I am not familiar with the current 2.0 TDI. Is there a car that we missed? thanks, Ko


text: Wall Street Set To Rebound From Losses; Bank Earnings, Data Loom 4/16/2012 6:32 AM ET Sentiment on Wall Street seems to have improved slightly on Monday despite several risk events looming ahead. The recent pullback by the major averages may bring in traders, who look to capitalize on the oversold levels of the markets. The European debt travails are haunting markets, with Spain being touted as the next casualty. The debt offerings by Spain over the next two days may serve as litmus tests to ascertain the fiscal health of the nation. Commodities are mostly weaker, while the dollar is seeing mixed sentiment.Traders may stay tuned to the U.S. retail sales report for March, the results of the New York Federal Reserve's manufacturing survey for April and the results of the National Association of Home Builders' housing market index for April. Additionally, earnings news from financial firms such as Citigroup (C) and M&T Bank (MTB) and other companies may also give direction to the markets.As of 6:30 am ET, the Dow futures are rising 30 points, the S&P 500 futures are adding 3.75 points and the Nasdaq 100 futures are moving up 7.50 points.U.S. stocks extended their retreat in the week ended April 13th, as global growth concerns and latent concerns about the debt situation in Europe kept sentiment subdued.The re-emergence of economic fears may force traders direct their unwavering focus on the unfolding week's key economic events. The Commerce Department's retail sales report for March, the results of the manufacturing surveys of the New York and Philadelphia Federal Reserves, the Federal Reserve's industrial production report for March and the weekly jobless claims report are among the closely watched reports of the week.A few housing readings such as the National Association of Home Builders' housing market index for April, the housing starts report for March and the National Association of Realtors' existing home sales report for March may also provide clarity on the economic outlook. The Commerce Department's business inventories report for February, the Conference Board's leading economic indicators index for March, a couple of Fed speeches and announcements concerning the Treasury auctions of 2-year, 5-year and 7-year notes round up the economic events of the week.On the economic front, the Commerce Department is set to release its retail sales report for March at 8:30 am ET. Economists expect a 0.3 percent increase in retail sales and a 0.6 percent gain in retail sales, excluding autos.The results of the New York Federal Reserve's empire state manufacturing survey are slated to be released at 8:30 am ET. The headline general business conditions index for April is expected to come in at 18 compared to 20.21 in the previous month.The Treasury Department is due to release a report on the flows of financial instruments into and out of the U.S. for February at 9 am ET.The Commerce Department is scheduled to release its business inventories report for February at 10 am ET. The report is expected to show a 0.6 percent increase in business inventories for the month.Additionally, the National Association of Home Builders is scheduled to release the results of its April survey on homebuilders' confidence at 10 am ET. The consensus estimates call for the index to increase to 29 from 28 in the previous month.Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Sandra Pianalto and St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard are scheduled to make public appearances at 12:30 pm and 3:30 pm ET, respectively.In corporate news, Mattel (MAT) reported first quarter net income of 2 cents per share, including 4 cents per share in charges, compared to earnings of 5 cents per share last year, while sales fell 2 percent to $951.9 million. The results missed estimates.SunPower (SPWR) said its cost reduction initiatives are on track. Towards these initiatives, the company expects to record pre-tax GAAP restructuring charges of $51 million to $69 million and also indicated that $47 million to $63 million will be recorded in the second quarter of 2012.Procter & Gamble (PG) announced a 7 percent increase in its quarterly dividend to $0.562 per share on its common stock. The Nasdaq OMX Group announced that Texas Instruments (TXN) would replace First Solar (FSLR) in the Nasdaq 100 Index before the start of trading on April 23rd. Asian stocks closed mostly lower, with traders in the region reacting the steep losses experienced by Wall Street stocks last Friday. Risk aversion prevailed, as Spanish bond yields continued to surge and caution prevailed ahead of some key U.S. economic data and earnings.Japan's Nikkei 225 average closed down 167.35 points or 1.74 percent at 9,471, weighed down by a stronger yen that exerted downward pressure on export stocks. Australia's All Ordinaries closed 21.70 points or 0.49 percent lower at 4,383 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index closed at 20,611, down 90.40 points or 0.44 percent.China widened the daily trading band that it had fixed for the USD/CNY exchange range to 1 percent from 0.5 percent, which is seen by economists as a small step towards moving towards a floating exchange range and fully convertible currency. by RTT Staff WriterFor comments and feedback: email@example.com News A Rundown of Dravet Syndrome Drugs In The Pipeline New Drugs approved in December 10 Biotech Stocks You Should Watch In January


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"The Great Lakes-Midwest economic region is the world's fifth largest economy by Gross Domestic Product, and nearly 100 million people live within 500 miles of each other," said LaHood (pictured at left). "The Department of Transportation's investment of more than $1 billion in the region's high speed rail service will reduce trip times and save travelers money, resulting in reduced congestion for the region and making the Midwest a better place to start a business and create jobs."
The project will extend construction along the St. Louis-Chicago rail route north to Joliet, Ill., allowing for 110-mph service along nearly 70% of the line. DOT says travel time will be reduced by more than one hour, and notes Amrak ridership between the two cities has increased 137% in the past five years.
LaHood said the route will also benefit from next-generation American-made trains, funded as part of a previously announced $782 million grant intended to promote domestic manufacturing. .


text: Recently 5th grade students at Berlin Intermediate School visited Junior Achievement's "JA BizTown," located in Owings Mills. Students were able to become business operators, taxpayers and lawmakers in a hands-on learning laboratory. Maury Izzett was elected the mayor of Biz Town by her classmates. Above, Alex Ingersoll, Gabe Kim and Jimmy Englishmen were all design engineers, and their job was to instruct the manufacturing engineers in the production of flashlights.


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Not every game you buy this year has to be a AAA blockbuster title. Some of 2K Games biggest mobile titles are receiving a discount as part of the 2K Holiday sale. Celebrating the holidays, a number of 2K mobile games are on sale until January 2, 2013. Games like NBA 2K13 and Borderlands Legends are even part of the deal.
Below is the full list of discounted games, available for iOS devices:
Borderlands Legends – $0.99 on iPhone and iPad
- Tons of Borderlands weapons and loot on the go.
Carnival Games – $.99 on iPhone Vol 1 and Vol 2
- Over 10 carnival style mini-games to choose from.
Civ Rev – $0.99 on iPhone and iPad
- One of the best strategy games available on iOS.
Pirates – $0.99 on iPhone and iPad
- A great re-imagining of the Sid Meier classic strategy game.
NBA 2K13 – $2.99 for iPhone and iPad
- Enter the new dynasty with the awarding winning NBA 2K franchise on your mobile device.
NHL 2K11 – $0.99 on iPhone and iPad
- The only NHL simulation game on iOS.


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Jets are going to end up settling for a 1st and a mid-round pick and Revis is going to end up settling for a nice contract but not he won't be the highest paid defensive player in history.
Sherman kept it quick-witted, while Revis comes back with over-rationalization and sounds like he's trying too hard. He shouldn't have sweated this guy... took him serious, gave him validation. LOL
Everybody thought Devin McCourty was the next big CB after his rookie year, and he ended up failing so badly there that they moved him to Safety. Let's see if Sherman can keep it up for a few more years before he starts shooting his mouth off about being the best in the game.
Your complaining is exaggerated, and comes across as over the top for somebody in their early 20's.
We all want a Superbowl, there isn't a fan here that doesn't, but your over-dramatization and ripping of the team is often baseless, this thread exposes that.
Here's a short phone interview with Sherman on NFL32 discussing the twitter war.
Seems that Revis is the one who set it off today.
Sherman attempting to use stats to "prove" he is better than Revis is just laughable.
More interceptions? Jeez....that's the level of insight you expect from some of our Madden-obsessed posters, not from a professional NFL CB.
Hard to rack up ints when QBs are terrified to throw in your zipcode. Clearly, QBs aren't quite so terrified of Sherman just yet.
Call me after 5 years of shutting elite WRs out of the game, otherwise shut up.
Twitter is an issue. Just not as big as the others I listed. This thread is about his Twitter war which is why I discussed it here. And if you don't think players on Twitter has become a nuisance for these teams then you are the dumb one.
And I don't care how great he is. I root for the jersey. I don't worship players.
Ok, first of all this is not 2007-2008 anymore. When we drafted Revis it was a response to the Patriots because they had just finished trading for Randy Moss. Our division does not feature as many top notch wide receivers that need to be shutdown in order to win. We didn't go 6-10 last year because we were missing Revis even though Kyle Wilson sucked. We would have had the same record anyway because there are problems with the rest of the team that need to be addressed.
The NFL has moved to more of a spread passing attack utilizing 4-5 WR passing offenses (Packers, Saints, Patriots, etc.) and offenses don't feature as many superstar wide receivers that need to be shutdown as much (with Calvin Johnson and AJ Green being exceptions). A shutdown corner is overkill in an area we don't need that much. Our division won't be won by keeping Revis is my point. We need to fix other areas of the team before even having a shot at winning a division and going beyond that.


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There are many, many hotels in the area. It is close to Ohare airport. Do a web search on Rosemont Horizon and many will come up.
The weather is guessing that the temps will be around 30 and sunny on Fri/Sat and cloudy on Sun.
If you like pizza, there is a Giordano's just down the road from the bike show.
Have a good time. I am attending on Sunday.
I plan on being there Saturday also, and would like to meet any other members who might be there. Maybe near the MOA booth, noonish? How say ye?
F.O.G.Rider, Rounder #6,
BMWRA Wisconsin Region Rep
MOA Biergarten co-chair
Nevertheless, there has always been a shuttle from the CTA parking to the convention center if you don't care to walk.
Props to Countryside for providing a commercial BMW presence at the show.
And I hope I am not out of line pointing out that the Chicago Region will again have a booth at the show that is worth a visit. (Disclaiimer: I'm currently president of the Chicago Region.)
Hank Barta
K1200RS, R100R/Velorex 700
Beautiful Sunny Winfield, IL
I'll be sure to poke my head in there, too.
F.O.G.Rider, Rounder #6,
BMWRA Wisconsin Region Rep
MOA Biergarten co-chair
I am so ready for this show, It will be my first, We booked the hotel months ago across the street and haven't had a good pizza in months. As stated above about mostly cruisers, I hope that is the case so I can walk up and talk to the vendors that really care about riders and not chrome. We will see you guys at the MOA booth and It would be nice if I could pick up some BMW apparel like shirts and hats that doesn't say GS or RR.
Its nice to see the twisted throttle is bringing 12gs with their stuff on it.I want to check out 12gs with trax boxes on it since i'm undecided on my luggage option.
Well I had a change of mind this morning, so I won't be going afterall. No big reason, just didn't feel like riding 8-9 hours each way in my truck. And they are saying a snow / ice mix is headed this way?......{IF} they know ??
I just got home from the show and want to say "Thanks" to BMW of Countryside for for being a vendor there. Walter (from the service dept.) was very patient and helpful answering questions about the 1600 GTL.
I took the road less traveled, now I don't know where the heck I am!
Glad you could get in the booth, I tried a few times and just gave up, I got over to the the place they had hats and tee's to buy some and after a couple people jumped in front of me, I just gave up. It was great to see them there but disappointed to see such a small space and unable to get in to see anything. My son got to set on a lot of bikes and decide what kind he wanted to try out in the future so it wasn't a bad show.


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All of these culminate in a strong desire here in the U.S. to reduce reliance
on foreign oil. The U.S. Department of Energy is hoping to do its part by
sponsoring a $20M
USD prize for LED lighting research to lower the consumer energy
load. Now the Department of Transportation (DOT) is pushing to launch a
similar initiative for airline biofuels.
The airline industry is facing insolvency due to the soaring cost of fuel,
which has been shown to hit America particularly hard to the nation's obesity
(a 2004 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study indicated that Americans
increasing weight led to a rise
in fuel cost of $275M USD in the year 2000 alone).
Some private efforts, such as billionaire Richard Bransen's efforts with Virgin
Airlines, have wet
their feet a bit with biofuels or other oil alternatives like hydrogen, but
little progress has been made. The DOT, along with the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), is granting
$500,000 to the X Prize Foundation to create a new prize for developing
alternative fuels or technologies.
The foundation hopes the final prize will amount to over $10 million once it
can secure a private sponsor. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary
Peters announced the move Thursday, stating, "It will be a competition
that everyone wins, because a breakthrough in alternative jet fuels is a
potential game-changer that could bring lower airline fuel costs, greater U.S.
energy independence, and cleaner air."
The new prize corresponds with the FAA's new Next Generation air traffic
modernization program, "NextGen". The growth program hopes to
double air traffic by 2025, while keeping carbon emissions constant, by
adopting new fuels or more
efficient designs.
The move has been long coming. The X Prize Foundation has been in talks
with the DOT and FAA since the 90s. After analyzing industry
alternatives, the DOT and FAA finally decided that the X Prize was the best way
to stimulate development. The grant is among the first from a government
organization to the X Prize Foundation.
Over the next 14 months ,the X Prize Foundation will set up the aviation prize
rules based on input from a panel of industry experts. It will also try
to secure private sponsors. It hopes to launch the competition by 2011
and find a winner by 2016.
Jason Morgan, senior director of prize development at the X Prize Foundation
states about the new prize, "With all the discussion about global warming,
the increasing cost of oil, and the increasing congestion everyone's feeling at
the airport, we need to do something dramatic about it and we think it's the
contest model."
The X Prize Foundation is a nonprofit group. It currently has many prizes
seeking to advance humanity, including the $10 million Archon X Prize for
Genomics, the $30
million Google Lunar X Prize, and the $10 million Progressive Insurance
Automotive X Prize for energy-efficient vehicles.
The Department of Energy previously granted $3.5M USD to the Progressive
Insurance Automotive X Prize.


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ABC News/Washington Post Poll, December 1999 (ICPSR 2902)
Principal Investigator(s): ABC News; The Washington Post
This poll, fielded December 12-15, 1999, is part of a continuing series of monthly polls that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked for their opinions of President Bill Clinton and his handling of the presidency, as well as their views on the upcoming November 7, 2000, presidential election and the current presidential primary/caucus season. Respondents were asked how much attention they had paid to the 2000 presidential race and whether they intended to vote in the election. Given a choice among Vice President Al Gore, former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley, Texas governor George W. Bush, and Arizona senator John McCain, those queried were asked for whom they would vote. Their views were also sought on the most important issues of this presidential election and which candidate was best suited to handle issues such as education, the economy, taxes, Social Security/Medicare, campaign finance reform, international affairs, and health care. Respondents were asked if the following statements applied to Bradley, Bush, Gore, or McCain: typical politician, understands the average American, strong leader, experienced enough to be president, would bring needed change to Washington, DC, knowledgeable of world affairs, could be trusted in a crisis, has a clear idea of where to lead the nation, and says what he thinks regardless of what is popular. Respondents were asked for whom they would vote in a Democratic primary or caucus, given a choice between Gore and Bradley, and for whom they would vote in a Republican primary or caucus, given a choice among Bush, publisher Steve Forbes, McCain, radio talk show host Alan Keyes, Family Research Council president Gary Bauer, and Utah senator Orrin Hatch. Additional topics focused on whether the amount of money that people could contribute to political parties should be limited, whether the people of New Hampshire had too much influence in determining who wins the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, whether Bradley's irregular heartbeat for which he took medication was considered serious by the American people, and which candidate would best handle campaign finance reform, taxes, and balancing the federal budget. Background information on respondents includes age, gender, education, political party, political orientation, Hispanic descent, voter registration and participation history, military service, and family income.
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ABC News/The Washington Post. ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL, DECEMBER 1999. ICPSR version. Horsham, PA: Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch [producer], 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02902.v1
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Subject Terms: Bradley, Bill, Bush, George W., campaign finance reform, Clinton Administration (1993-2001), Clinton, Bill, economic conditions, foreign policy, Gore, Al, health care, McCain, John, Medicare, political candidates, political issues, presidency, presidential elections, presidential performance, public opinion, social issues, Social Security, taxes, voter attitudes, voting behavior
Geographic Coverage: United States
- 1999-12-12--1999-12-15
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Original ICPSR Release: 2001-03-26
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358 Teaching of Vocal Music in the Secondary School (0.5)
This course focuses on the many aspects involved in coordinating and teaching a secondary choral program. It includes discussions on extra-curricular activities, grading and record keeping, curriculum, repertoire and program planning, professional development, and other pertinent and related topics. Students gain practical knowledge and skills necessary to successfully manage a vocal music program. Prerequisite: Education 330. Offered annually in the fall semester.


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Weird But True is based on the hugely popular magazine page of quirky, fun facts that many readers of National Geographic Kids magazine turn to first. Why? Well did you know that...
All of the facts in this handy book will amaze friends and family: Animals Superpowers, Chills and Thrills, Eat or Be Eaten, Mini and Mega, Wild and Crazy, and much, much more. Adjacent pages for such facts present a one-paragraph explanation of how that fact is possible or why it is so.
Wacky facts, fascinating information, and lively art combine in this easy-to-browse, casual reference book that is sure to give young readers hours of fun.
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I just adjusted my handlebars by loosening the 4 bolts that hold the bars in place and rotated them "forward" which had the effect of raising the bars and moving them towards the front of the bike. Following this, I thought I'd adjust my front brake lever and clutch lever positions, i.e., the bar adjustment tipped them both downward and I'd like to rotate them back into the same relative position as before. Clear as mud?
Problem is, I can't seem to do this. What's the process?


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Just a number: Man shoots his age
Golf scores, like age, are relative. A par 72, for example, is a relatively good score. But for a 78-year-old golfer, it borders on the phenomenal.
Russ Reynolds shot his age twice last week on the 6,078-yard South Course at Moss Creek. The first time marked the 200th round he has scored less than his age.
Reynolds shot a 72 on March 1 while playing with Rick Bates, Paul Ammeen and Paul Kruzelock. He beat his age for the 201st time March 3 with a 73 while playing with Dave Watson and Tony Kremer.
Reynolds joined the informal "age shooter" fraternity with a round of 67 when he was 68 years old.
"You come to realize it when you're coming up on the last hole and you're five under and you know that you need to make a par to shoot under your age. The pressure builds up," he said. "That's probably the best round I ever shot in my life."
Reynolds is a native of Rockport, Mass., and lived most of his life in Newburyport, Mass., before retiring to Moss Creek.
"I started playing golf when I was about 22 or 23. I've been playing a good 50 years," he said.
"This is my home now. I still go back in the summer and play a little up there," he said.
Reynolds plays "five or six times" a week. "I play other courses, but mostly here" at Moss Creek, he said.
The Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Plantation is probably the local favorite "but I don't get to play it too often," he said.
Reynolds said his handicap is "trending 6" right now but is usually at 8. He played to a 1 handicap when he was 65.
"I told my playing partners last week, 'Well I finally got to 200 and it only took 10 years.' And one of the guys said, 'No, it took you 78 years,'" Reynolds said.
"It's not really a great feat. It just tells you that you're getting old," he said. "So it's a plus-minus deal."
It's estimated that only about 2 percent of all golfers ever shoot their age, but it's not unusual for those who do it to accomplish the feat multiple times.
An "age shooter" must play on a course of at least 6,000 yards, according to Golf Digest.
Frank Bailey of Abilene, Texas, shot his age 2,623 times from age 71 until age 96, according to Brent Kelley of About.com. Bailey was surpassed in 2006 by T. Edison Smith of Moorhead, Minn.
Smith was a multiple-sport athlete, coach, professor and athletic administrator at Minnesota State University. When he died on Dec. 15, 2011, at age 95, he had shot lower than his age 3,359 times.
Walter Morgan, then 61, shot a 60 in the AT&T Canada Senior Open in 2002 for the professional golf tour record, according to Kelley's research.
Sam Snead holds the PGA Tour record. In 1979, at age 67, Snead shot a 67 at the Quad Cities Open and the next day fired a 66, according to Kelley.


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Herrmann's addition gives Gardenhire options
By Kevin Massoth / MLB.com
MILWUAKEE -- The Twins promoted catcher Chris Herrmann on Sunday to take the roster spot of outfielder Wilkin Ramirez, who was placed on the seven-day disabled list with a concussion.
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said adding Herrmann provided options for defensive substitutions or pinch-running situations late in the games.
"It makes it easier to put [Ryan] Doumit out in the outfield ... and not worry about not having a third catcher to pinch-run for him," Gardenhire said. "This just makes it a little easier having a guy as versatile as [Herrmann], because you can do all those things."
Herrmann was hitting .238 with five doubles, 12 RBIs, 16 walks and 17 runs scored in 43 games at Rochester. He hit safely in six of his final seven games.
The left-handed hitter was a sixth-round Draft pick of the Twins out of the University of Miami in 2009 and made his Major League debut and appeared in seven games for Minnesota last season.
Ramirez switches stance on concussion
MILWAUKEE -- Twins outfielder Wilkin Ramirez had a bit of apologizing to do Monday.
On Sunday, Ramirez was upset with manager Ron Gardenhire for placing him on the seven-day disabled list after team doctors said he had sustained a concussion. But after throwing up on the airplane ride to Milwaukee, Ramirez realized he made a mistake.
The Twins called up catcher Chris Herrmann from Triple-A Rochester to take Ramirez's roster spot.
"I guess the doctor was right," said Ramirez, who vomited once about 20 minutes into the plane ride. "I started to throw up and feel weird. Right now I don't feel very good. I have a headache, last night, too."
According to Gardenhire, team doctors sent paperwork in on Sunday showing that Ramirez had failed concussion tests, even though the outfielder felt fine.
"I got yelled at; everybody got yelled at," Gardenhire said. "But when he got sick on the airplane, he realized the doctor was right. Shocker."
Ramirez, who will have more tests Monday, said he would watch the Twins open their two-game series with the Brewers from the dugout at Miller Park but would not do any baseball-related activities.
It was the outfielder's second concussion, the first coming at just 12 years old while in the Dominican Republic. Ramirez said he and his brother, Rafael, were playing baseball when a fight broke out and a rock hit him in the back of the head. Ramirez was hospitalized for a month.
"I feel it in my stomach and a headache," Ramirez said. "I think I have to apologize for what I said yesterday, because I thought I was fine. That's why he's a doctor."
Years after time in Minnesota, Gomez coming into own
MILWAUKEE -- Carlos Gomez was batting third for the Brewers on Monday, a prime place to show his former manager he had developed into the sort of impact player Ron Gardenhire had always envisioned.
Gomez delivered the second multihomer game of his career -- both in the span of three games -- but the Brewers fell to the Twins, 6-3 at Miller Park. Gomez was not in the mood to celebrate his ninth and 10th home runs of the season.
"You don't enjoy it when things are going like this," Gomez said.
Gardenhire managed Gomez in Minnesota in 2008 and 2009, and "managed" is the proper term, the way Gardenhire tells it. Four years later, Gomez is one of the National League's top early-season hitters, fifth in the league with a .326 batting average and ninth with a .943 OPS entering Monday.
"I thought we sent him right on his way," Gardenhire said. "I thought he learned a lot with us. Gomez was a lot of fun. I think everybody knew it from the time he was with the Mets, how much talent he had, if he could ever harness it and calm himself down enough.
"You never want to take away a guy playing the game with the enthusiasm that he plays it with, but some of the things he had to clean up. It sounds like he has. He got down to understanding what he's about as a player, and with all the ability that's a dangerous thing. He can do some damage. He can swing it, he's got a cannon, he can run. He's got all the tools. It's just a matter of harnessing it all and putting it to work in the right way."
Gomez batted .248 with a .293 on-base percentage in his two seasons with the Twins before that team traded him to the Brewers for shortstop J.J. Hardy. It was not until 2012 that Gomez began to get the most of his raw ability, resulting in a career-best .305 on-base percentage last year and a three-year contract extension this spring.
In Minnesota, the Twins tried to help Gomez harness his energy.
"I didn't agree with it, but they thought it was best for me at the time," Gomez said. "I still have respect for the manager, the coaches. Every time I see them, I tip my cap. Ron always talked to me like a son. It's fun and exciting to always play against your ex-teammates."
Four years ago, "he was loose cannon, No. 1," Gardenhire said. "I liked how he used to fake bunt. He'd tell us he was going to draw the guy in, the third baseman in. The third baseman was already in for the bunt. We said, 'Go-Go, you don't need to fake bunt and draw him in, he's already standing in there.' So then he would fake bunt, fake swing, fake bunt, all on one pitch. That's what we loved about him."
Aware that Gomez gets amped-up to play the Twins, Brewers manager Ron Roenicke spent some time Monday mulling where to place him in the lineup. Roenicke's hand was forced when Ryan Braun was sidelined by a right thumb injury and third baseman Aramis Ramirez needed the day to rest his balky right knee.
"Carlos doesn't have bad feelings toward that club," Roenicke said. "It's, 'Hey, I want to show them how far I've come."
Is there more to come?
"If there's more than what he's doing right now," Roenicke said. "You're talking about a superstar. He's playing great. Defense is good, he's stealing bases for us. The offensive part has been the biggest improvement, obviously. Everybody knew the other stuff was there, but it was the discipline at the plate, trying to be consistent. Now, whether he can do this the whole year, I don't know. He's a way tougher out now than he's ever been."
Worth noting
• Trevor Plouffe is expected to return from the seven-day concussion list for Wednesday's game against the Brewers in Minnesota.
Kevin Massoth is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.