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Trade Deadline can be tense time in clubhouse
By Carrie Muskat and Rowan Kavner / MLB.com
Players have asked Cubs manager Dale Sveum for updates.
"Ninety percent of the time there's no substance to all the things that are talked about," Sveum said.
He pointed out how the 10-player deal between the Astros and Blue Jays surprised a lot of people. However, when the Cubs were pursuing Matt Garza, that was leading the rumor mill for about two months.
"That's the 10 percent," Sveum said, laughing.
Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer knows it's a tense time in the clubhouse.
"You don't want to be a seller," Hoyer said. "All the guys on your team sit there and look over their shoulder. I think everyone exhales after the Deadline for that reason. I think every player on that field has been part of some rumor at some point this year, even Starlin [Castro] for a while -- that rumor was out there, which was unfounded."
Dempster to Dodgers rumors cooling off
ST. LOUIS -- Most of the scouts at Busch Stadium to watch Ryan Dempster on Friday stayed to watch Matt Garza on Saturday to see if he might be a better fit before the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline.
On Saturday, FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal tweeted that the Dodgers are "very unlikely" to get Dempster now because they prefer not to trade their better prospects for a rental player. Dempster will be a free agent after this season. Garza, who is under team control through 2013, may be a more logical target.
Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer wouldn't talk specifically about any of the rumors. Hoyer did say Saturday he's kept Dempster up to date about discussions. The right-hander has 10 years in the big leagues and five with the Cubs, so he can veto any deal.
The Dodgers haven't given up, but the tone of rumors cooled noticeably Saturday. Even manager Don Mattingly seemed to be preparing himself for the deal to fall apart.
"Other teams have agendas to build or rebuild, and to put two teams together to make a deal is not as easy as it sounds," Mattingly told reporters in New York, including MLB.com's Ken Gurnick. "But if we're in position to pick up somebody that can help, we're going to do it."
The Dodgers reportedly are refusing to deal pitching prospect Zack Lee because Dempster would essentially be a two-month rental. The Dodgers invested $5.25 million to sign Lee in 2010. If the Dodgers trade Lee, it would more likely be for a player they could control beyond this year who won't be a free agent until 2015.
Was Hoyer disappointed that the Cubs haven't made a deal yet?
"It's July 21, and [baseball] had the first couple real trades in the last 24 hours with the big [10-player] trade between Houston and Toronto and the trade with Brett Myers," Hoyer said. "We were saying, sometimes it takes a deal to break the ice. Maybe that'll break things loose -- who knows? Usually things don't happen early."
If Dempster did leave, the Cubs would talk to him about returning next season.
"I would never close the door on that at all," Hoyer said. "You look at his track record as a starter with the Cubs, even with the hiccup last year, he still threw 200 innings. He's a leader in the clubhouse and a terrific guy to have around. It's fun to see a guy like that bounce back after a terrible year. We'd never close the door on him at all. He's a guy who's always welcome in a Cubs uniform for sure."
Cramping in right triceps cuts Garza's start short
ST. LOUIS -- When pitcher Matt Garza was pulled from Saturday's 12-0 loss to the Cardinals after three innings, at least half of the 43,424 at Busch Stadium, and probably most folks linked into baseball's rumor mill, thought the Cubs had made a trade.
Instead, the problem was cramping in Garza's right triceps. His next start would be Friday at Wrigley Field, and he was to be re-evaluated on Sunday.
"It started getting a little tight in warmups for the third inning," Garza said. "I figured it would loosen up. I went through that [third] inning and felt all right. The first fastball to [Rafael] Furcal didn't feel normal, but I just kept going and got out of the inning.
"I came down and went straight to the cage and tried to make a couple throws, and it just started cramping. I went straight to [pitching coach Chris Bosio] and said, 'Have you ever had this before? Have you ever dealt with this?' He made the call and said it was not worth the risk."
Garza had thrown three shutout innings against the Cardinals, giving up two hits and walking two. The injury was not related to a wild double play in the Cardinals' third.
He underwent X-rays as a precaution, and they were negative. The right-hander was making his 18th start.
The cramping was not believed to have been caused by dehydration. Garza said he'd been drinking water for two days to prepare for the start. He hasn't felt this kind of discomfort before.
"Anything to do with your elbow area as a pitcher, you get nervous," he said. "I'm still young, and I wanted to take the precautions, so I said something. Usually, I wouldn't say anything, and I'd try to go out there and muscle up."
There were scouts from the Dodgers, Yankees, Angels, Royals and Pirates at Busch Stadium to watch Garza. They must have checked their cellphones to see if someone had made a deal.
"If that's what [people] thought, it's going to take a lot more to pull me out of a game than a trade," Garza said. "They're going to have to wait until I'm done."
He could be dealt by the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline but he also could be a key part of what the Cubs are trying to do, general manager Jed Hoyer said.
"We've said that all along," Hoyer said before Saturday's game. "He's a really good pitcher. We need more guys like him in the organization, not fewer. We've been very consistent with that all along. He's a guy who can certainly help the team win, not just this year, but next year and for a long time."
It's a tough decision.
"There's always a case when you're dealing with a young starting pitcher who's a horse, who can dominate a game, who has the stuff and all that [to keep him]," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "Those are the million dollar questions that an organization has to deal with. Sometimes it's like gambling when you do trade guys like that. The gamble is the guys you get in return can fill that role, too. You might get one, two, three guys who can be productive Major League players."
Garza, whose wife is expecting the couple's fourth child soon, has a short wish list.
"All I want to do is play ball," he said. "And I didn't get to do that today and I'm just [ticked] off and frustrated."
Bank fondly remembers time spent with Santo
ST. LOUIS -- There isn't a day that goes by that Cubs traveling secretary Jimmy Bank doesn't miss his friend, Ron Santo, who on Sunday will be inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame.
Santo passed away one year before he was elected into Cooperstown, but on Sunday, his family and Cubs fans will celebrate the enshrinement.
Bank and Santo were together for 18 years with the Cubs, and they had dinner nearly every night on the road together. They also were very entertaining. Bank often would be sitting right behind Santo on the bus, or immediately next to him at an Italian restaurant, and call him. And it would take some time for Santo to figure out it was Bank on the line.
"We go into a city like this, where we spent so much time," Bank said of St. Louis, "and the bus driver here who we've had for years was one of two or three bus drivers who, when Ronnie passed away, called me and said, 'Hey, we're going to miss hearing you guys on the bus.'"
To Cubs fans, Santo was a great third baseman or a passionate broadcaster, sharing the team's highs and lows on WGN Radio. To Bank, he was a buddy.
"I didn't think of Ronnie as the ballplayer, the broadcaster," Bank said Saturday. "He was a friend who we had a lot of fun with. As I've told many people, I miss my friend. Ronnie was as good-hearted as anybody. He was fun, loyal, funny, even when he wanted to be funny. He was funnier when he didn't want to be. I don't have to even say this, but the Cubs were such a passion to him."
Santo was devoted to his fans, many of whom went to Cooperstown to watch the ceremony Sunday.
"I'd say, 'Hey, Ronnie, let's go, we've got to get on the bus,' and he'd say, 'No, I'm signing. These are Cubs fans,'" Bank said. "I was fortunate that I knew him for the person that he was. The millions of fans who knew him as a player and broadcaster were very fortunate to know him, too."
AS Roma set for soccer match at Wrigley
CHICAGO -- United States National Team soccer player and new AS Roma midfielder Michael Bradley is familiar with Chicago. Wrigley Field is another story.
Bradley, who lived around the Windy City as a teenager while his father coached the Chicago Fire, had never been to the stadium. Sunday, he'll get to play at Wrigley Field in the international "Friendly at the Confines" match between Italy's AS Roma and Poland's Zaglebie Lubin at 2:30 p.m. CT.
"This is special for me," Bradley said. "Even if you took the Chicago and Wrigley Field part out of it, to be able to step on the field with Roma is something extremely special to begin with.
"You throw in the fact that we're playing here in Chicago at Wrigley Field. This is actually my first time here. Lived here for four, five years, never made it to the stadium. It should be a great afternoon for everybody."
Bradley signed a four-year deal with Roma on Sunday.
"This is the biggest opportunity of my career," Bradley said. "To come to a club like Roma with the passion, the history, the tradition of the club, it doesn't get any better than this. I'm going to give everything I have to show everybody -- the fans, the players, the coaches -- that I'm a guy who can help the team."
The match is the first in Roma's U.S. Tour, which will also feature stops in Boston and New York. Wrigley Field hasn't hosted a soccer match since 1984, when the Chicago Sting played the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Roma forward Francesco Totti said stepping foot on American soil was a culture shock.
"It's a different culture, a different lifestyle that you can see as soon as you set foot in the country," Totti said through a translator. "People are different. Their attitude is different. It's a positive experience."
He also said with new American ownership of Roma, he's entertained the idea of spending the tail end of his playing career in America.
Chief executive officer Mark Pannes said his long-term vision is turning Roma into the most popular club for American soccer fans.
"People go to Rome as one of the big events in their life," Pannes said. "The idea that we can turn around and bring Rome out to the rest of the world is a great opportunity.
"When we invested in this club, the idea wasn't to buy a European football club. The idea was there's a club in a city like Rome ... a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take it and build. Rome's like New York City in the sense that a winning team in Rome is just at a different level than most teams in most cities around the world."
Pannes said Roma made a deal to be the club in residence at Disney for the next seven years, bringing the entire first squad to practice and play in Florida every winter.
"When you can partner with the greatest family entertainment brand in the world, that's a pretty fantastic platform to then start to market across the U.S.," he said. "It also makes us authentic in the U.S."
Cubs fans should be able to relate with Roma fans, who share a similar passion for their respective team, according to Pannes.
"To bring the world game back to Wrigley is a tremendous opportunity for us," Pannes said. "We're honored to be here. The Cubs have been outstanding in the way they've welcomed us. The facility looks tremendous. It's just going to be a great day tomorrow. We have an unbelievable opponent that we're going to play that taps into the vibrant Polish community in the city of Chicago."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter@CarrieMuskat. Rowan Kavner 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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Kansas City police mum on fatal shootings, assault
Two women and one man were shot to death Tuesday afternoon, and two others were in critical condition Wednesday.
Two women and one man were shot to death Tuesday afternoon, and two others were in critical condition Wednesday.
A Topeka man accused of shooting a man at a central Topeka gas station in July has been bound over for trial.
Since last November, "Minecraft" has spun off into one of publishing's most successful franchises.
Netflix Inc. has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution to run the television series "Gotham" worldwide following…
Hundreds of pets die each year when they are left in closed cars that rapidly become deadly on hot days.
Kansas First News spoke to security experts about the most recent security breaches.
Behind those Big Macs and Whoppers is a hidden drama over corporate control.
A pilot website, called Kanstarter, is scheduled to be operational later this month.
United says service failed to meet revenue and passenger forecasts.
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As the celebrity photo-hacking scandal has made clear, privacy isn't what it used to be.
The Pittsburg Police Department says it is looking for vandals who damaged several fiberglass footballs.
State officials are investigating the death of a 4-month-old girl at a foster home in a Wichita suburb.
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Lingering questions about Michael Brown could be answered Wednesday when a judge considers two media requests to release any possible juveni…
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Revealed: new Mercedes E-Class
German taxi drivers of the future, rejoice! Meet the new Mercedes E-Class, revealed here spruced, nipped, facelifted and ready for 2013.
OK, so the 'German taxi' jibe was a little strong, but there's no faulting the current E-Class and its tussle with the BMW 5-Series for class honours. And just because minicabbists like it, doesn't mean you shouldn't.
And there's more to like now with the new E-Class. Specifically, that front end that's had a thorough going over, bringing in the 'four-headlamp' design favoured by its predecessor into the new-generation Mercedes family 'face'. Smart, isn't it?They're partial LEDs too (with full LEDs an option), and sit aside a new radiator grille, front bumper design, new bonnet and front wings. Very tidy indeed. There's mild surgery at the back too, with sharper two-tone tail-lights and a new rear bumper.
The cabin hasn't been changed wholesale, but benefits from a two-part trim available in wood or aluminium, a three-tube instrument cluster, a new air-vent design and a new analogue clock. OK, they're not exactly reinventing the bratwurst, but with subtle revisions to the centre console and steering wheel, everything looks…neat. Luggsurious.
Merc has also upgraded its four-pot petrol; it now gets spray-guided direct injection (like in the V6s and V8s), along with exhaust-gas recirculation and which helps it emit just 135g/km of CO2. There's two versions of this 2.0-litre petrol: either 184bhp or 211bhp in the E200 and E250, respectively.
Diesel highlights include the 60.1mpg E220 CDI with 170bhp, and the rather lovely E300 Hybrid, using an electric motor to achieve 69mpg. We rather liked this engine. They sit with four suspension configurations (comfort, sport, AMG and air suspension), together with an electromechanical direct steer rack. Got it?
What Mercedes is proud of most with this new E however, is the safety. The new E-Class debuts a few of the next S-Class's systems, somewhat stealing the march on its tech-laden brother. You get a multi-purpose camera mounted around the rear-view mirror that provides a 3D view up to 50m ahead of the car. These images are then sent to the Merc's various software monkeys to keep you out of trouble. Know what this means? The new E-Class actually has spatial awareness.
There's a collision prevention assist system fitted as standard that works on the brakes, there's attention assist to stop you from dozing off, a system that centres the car in the lane, the 'pre-safe' pedestrian detection and rear-end collision prevention system, and of course, traffic sign assist amongst other stuff. Though if you need help reading traffic signs, you really should think about jumping in a taxi instead…
Prices to be confirmed. Let us know what you think of the new Mercedes E-Class below.
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Open Source Databases Mini-conf
What typically used to be known as the MySQL Miniconf, or the PostgreSQL Miniconf, shall now be known as the Open Source Databases Mini-conf. It will be the first of its kind at linux.conf.au, largely owing to the fact that there has been an explosion in the database world.
MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. PostgreSQL is said to be the world's most advanced open source database. Then we have SQLite, which is popular in the embedded scene. And we have JavaDB/Apache Derby that's popular in the Java scene. More importantly, we've also got new upcoming databases like CouchDB, and if you're into the "cloud" scene, there's SimpleDB and so on. Databases, are *big*.
I propose 2 days for this mini-conf.
Previous MySQL miniconfs had anywhere between 80-100 attendees, and when the Postgresql miniconf ran, it had about the same number. I expect a good 150 attendees, maybe more, for really popular talks.
We will require a projector. It would be great if we could also get video recording done.
This mini-conf will be co-run, in terms of getting the CfP by Stewart Smith and Colin Charles. It should be noted that both of us work in the Database Group at Sun Microsystems, so have a vested interest in Postgresql, MySQL and JavaDB/Apache Derby. We will also hone in on the skills of the likes of Josh Berkus with regards to PostgreSQL. This miniconf is bound to have a "team" for the CfP.


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A British ship carrying $210 million worth of silver when it was sunk by a German U-Boat has been found three miles deep in the sea off of Ireland.
Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration found the wreck of the SS Gairsoppa, which was loaded with 240 tons of silver, iron and tea when it left India bound for Liverpool in December, 1940. Weather conditions separated the ship from its military convoy and the ship, running low on fuel, tried to make it to Galway before a torpedo from a German submarine struck its hull 300 miles southwest of the Irish harbor on Feb. 17, 1941, according to the Telegraph,
Only one of the 85 crewmembers survived to make it to shore.
Odyssey Marine sought the wreck under a contract with Great Britain that gives the salvage company 80 percent of the profits.
"We were fortunate to find the shipwreck sitting upright, with the holds open and easily accessible," Greg Stemm, CEO of Odyssey, told the paper. "This should enable to us to unload cargo through the hatches, as would happen with a ship alongside a cargo terminal."
Odyssey is expected to begin recovering the treasure in the spring.
The Financial Times reported that the hoard is worth $210 million at current silver prices, which had risen dramatically this year before a sharp drop last week.
Odyssey was also responsible for the discovery of the wreck of HMS Victory, a powerful warship which sank in the English Channel in 1744.


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China to spend $30 billion on water conservation in 2011
The Chinese government is expected to spend about 200 billion yuan ($30.10 billion) on water conservation projects in 2011, a tenth more than in 2010, the state-run China Daily reported on Saturday.
Priority will be given to improving irrigation to ensure grain security and projects to combat drought and floods, the newspaper said.
It cited Water Resources Minister Chen Lei as telling a government meeting that some of the investment would come from a 10 percent levy on income earned from the leasing of land. The newspaper did not elaborate.
Other funds would go toward renovating water supply infrastructure for main agriculture regions and ensuring safe drinking water for 60 million rural people, the newspaper added.
"Over the next 10 years, Chen said he hopes the country can double its current average annual investment in water conservation construction," it said.
The government has invested about 700 billion yuan on water conservation over the past five years, the newspaper said.
Chen Xiwen, director of the central government's rural work leading group who advises top leaders on rural policy, said the government would specifically target water conservation next year because of worry about grain production, it said.
While grain production will rise to 546.4 million tons this year, up by 15.6 million tons on last year, there are worries about next year's harvest because of natural disasters, which could push up food prices, Chen Xiwen added.
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Conde Nast Eliminates Whimsy Budget (Updated)
Yesterday we told you that McKinsey-driven Conde Nast was firing all of its receptionists. A blow to the company's editorial glamor, yes. But the dragnet has also seized the New Yorker's whimsical, overqualified "jack of all trades!" [UPDATE: Maybe not!]
The latest purge will cost 13 Conde receptionists their jobs, according to John Koblin. The most famous of those, Keith Kelly reports: The New Yorker's "guy who is absurdly overqualified to be a receptionist". [Or not—See update below].
The most eyebrow-raising of the cuts was The New Yorker's jack-of-all-trades, Charles Stanley Ledbetter, who had been praised in book forwards as a beloved figure by The New Yorker Editor-in-Chief David Remnick.
A 20-year veteran, Ledbetter had been a curator of The New Yorker Gallery, and had worked on several book projects, including the humor book collection "Fierce Pajamas" and a collection of business cartoons from the weekly magazine.
The New Yorker, of course, could not simply have some underling there answering phones; they had a Renaissance man for whom signing for packages was just a way to fill the time when he wasn't plotting a new (invitation-only) art exhibition in the magazine's lobby. The Village Voice described Ledbetter (pictured) in a 2001 profile:
Like so many on the edit staff at The New Yorker, C.S. Ledbetter is not content to simply do his job, which ranges from reading unsolicited manuscripts to working the phones. Fiction writing and pastels are two genres Ledbetter has turned his hand to in the past. But in his latest bid for immortality, The New Yorker's underground cult leader has turned the reception area, on the 20th floor of 4 Times Square, into an art gallery, decorating it as if it were his own home.
Ledbetter even wrote a letter to us once. Ah well; C.S., you were meant for bigger things. Conde is a little low-rent for you now, anyhow. You all see what's happening here, don't you? Conde is turning into Hearst: a once-mighty and glamorous company where the expense accounts were no object, being painfully transformed into just another cost-cutting paper-pusher. (No offense, Hearst). The new greeter in the lobby of the New Yorker, and every other Conde mag: "A phone."
[Pic: Paula Gillen]
UPDATE: The New Yorker's PR person tells us that although the magazine is losing a receptionist, it is not losing Ledbetter; they're keeping him on staff by moving him into an editorial position. Specific details are still being worked out. So, whimsy lives! Receptionists, however, still do not.


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ronnewmexico wrote:One who as elderly really removed all desire for sex is the exception not the norm.
I have attended to the last years of my father who passed in his nineties, at various homes for the elderly and finally in hospice care. That is simply not my experience.
If I do find one.... a partially realized person I will find and I will prostrate before them.
So I find your response initial claim and retort of no merit. I in fact resemble it to something I stepped upon this morning when I went out to check on the dogs.
It is a hypothetical gossip type thing mentioned of no real value.
Refute me...I order you to, or you do not....and suffer consquence, and perceived loss.
Thank you for such a considered response.
Firstly, I did not say that the elderly had voluntarily given up desirous attachment - I had actually agreed with you, but also noted that I had met some who felt liberated once that desire had disappeared, as well as the ability. I have worked in hospitals and know many olde people - your experience is no more or less valid.
You liken my response to something you trod on when you went out to check on the dogs. If you meant that you trod on a beautiful pearl then I accept the compliment.
I note that you are frequently insulting to members here, as I have ecxamined your posts. Please desist from this or I will edit or delete your offensive remarks.


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Journalist Louis Theroux was given extraordinary access to the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, going to their church and homes in Topeka, Kansas and talking to members of the organization and produced two fascinating documentaries for the BBC. The first appeared in 2007 and was called The Most Hated Family in America and I wrote about it here. The follow-up was in 2011 and was called The Most Hated Family IN CRISIS and I wrote about it here. Those posts also give links to the two documentaries.
I learned a lot of what I know about the WBC from those shows, such as who makes it up (they are mostly members of one large extended family descended from the 13 children of patriarch Fred Phelps), how they get money for their activities (a lot of family members are well-educated high achievers, many of them lawyers, and they run a successful law practice and give a lot of their earnings to the church), and how they arrive at their worldview (Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper are the main sources and enforcers of their doctrine).
What I found most fascinating about the two documentaries were Theroux's conversations with the children in the Phelps clan who looked and acted for the most part like any other young people. They were cheerful, playful, and fun-loving, charming and attractive right up until he got them talking about gays and sin and then they, even the very young, would start saying the most appalling things and you wondered what the hell was going on in their minds. The Phelps clan bought up a block of houses in the city and created a compound in which all the back yards form one contiguous area, like a small park, and you can get a glimpse of the compound and a different side of the young people if you watch a minute of this clip from the 2011 documentary, starting at the 10:25 mark.
In the first documentary, the church members were confident that they were in the right and that they would grow while in the second you could see doubt and uncertainty within its ranks. It was clear that the church was under stress with defections of their young sapping the energy of the organization. As I wrote back in 2011,
Now they seem just sad and pathetic, an older group trying to keep up the momentum but not having the sharpness and edge they had before and largely going through the motions. There was an air of weariness and resignation and I got the sense that the aging church was on the ropes. The parents of the defecting children maintained a façade that it is good when apostates leave and that they did not care that they had lost all contact with their own children but it was unconvincing, except for a couple of true believers. It was also clear that they are worried that even more children will defect as they reach adulthood and discover the appeal of modernity via the contacts that they make on the internet, promising a freedom that is too alluring to resist compared to the tight embrace of the church.
Two days ago came word that two young women whom I recalled from the 2011 documentary had defected from the church in November and are trying to make a new life for themselves in New York. What makes this most damaging is that the two are Megan (27) and Grace Phelps-Roper (19), daughters of Phelps-Roper, who is effectively the leader of the group now that her father Fred is 84 and in decline. The two women have put out a joint statement here.
It is interesting to go back to this clip from 2011 where Theroux talks with Grace under the watchful eyes of some other members of the family.
Their mother has responded to the defections with a defiant statement which, once you strip away the biblical ranting, says that one has to expect that some will fall by the wayside. She says "The New Testament is full of people that started right, but then fell away… Christ also said those of your own household would be put a variance with one another" and she quotes 1 John 2:19 ("They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.") to argue that those who leave were never true believers anyway.
This is not the first of Phelps-Roper's children to defect. Her son Josh left in 2003 (as did her brother Nate over three decades ago) but one gets the sense from the documentaries that the women are the backbone of the church, its real strength despite its misogynistic views, and the two latest defections will be harder to take. Cavan Sieczkowski discusses other defections.
What causd Megan and Grace to leave the church can be read here but it is a familiar and hopeful tale of how modernity and ease of communication can break through the barriers of closed societies. The Westboro family could create what was effectively a commune within the city in which they spent most of their time with each other and thus put their children in an echo chamber, but these days the internet can break through the walls that shelter narrow-minded thinking and bring fresh air to anyone who has a phone.


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About Wallace Coulter: A Legacy of Spirit & Vision
Wallace H. Coulter as a young man
Wallace H. Coulter is described as brilliant, compassionate, eccentric, playful, and humble. A complex man, Coulter left a clear legacy – he focused his intense energy and sharp intellect on making contributions to humanity through science, in the process building a company that regularly broke new ground in clinical diagnostics, medical equipment, and biomedical research.
Clarkson University's former trustee, whose name now graces the School of Engineering, would have fit in well at Clarkson as a student.
"Wallace Coulter saw a common thread between his own work ethic and ingenuity, and those same characteristics in Clarkson students," says Clarkson Emertius President Denny Brown. "Looking at the ambitious and idealistic young faces among our students, Coulter saw future scientists and inventors dedicated to bettering the human condition."
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1913, Coulter was always fascinated by electronics and enjoyed tinkering. He studied briefly at Westminster College in Missouri, then attended Georgia Tech for electrical engineering. The economic constraints of the Depression sent him into the workforce, however, where he continued to pursue his interest in electronics, first with a position as a radio station engineer-announcer, then as a sales and service engineer with General Electric X-Ray, covering Manila, Singapore, Shanghai and the nearby islands. His early adventures in the Far East shaped his global perspectives, appreciation for diversity and working knowledge of hospital laboratories. Later positions included electronic development for Press Wireless and Raytheon Manufacturing Company.
The Coulter Principle
In 1948 while working for Mittleman Electronics in Chicago, Coulter set up a private enterprise in his basement laboratory. The experimentation that took place there led to his invention of the Coulter Principle, a dramatic breakthrough that provided a methodology for counting, measuring and evaluating microscopic particles suspended in fluid.
An early model of the Coulter Counter
The Coulter Counter
He and his younger brother Joseph developed the Coulter Counter instrument for the purpose of counting blood cells, constructed on the basis of the Coulter Principle. After Wallace received a patent for the Coulter Principle in 1953, the brothers began commercial production of Coulter Counters, initially building them one at a time in the basement.
Prior to the Coulter Counter, if a doctor wanted to evaluate a patient's blood count, a lab technician would have to prepare a slide from the patient's blood, look at it through a microscope, and manually count the blood cells. This was not only time consuming but prone to inaccuracy. The Coulter Counter increased the number of cells counted by a factor of 100 times, proportionately increasing the accuracy of the result. With the advent of the Coulter Counter, physicians could obtain a fast, affordable and accurate reading of the blood components – today the most commonly performed medical test, the Complete Blood Count (CBC).
Coulter Corporation
The invention of the Coulter Principle and the development of instrumentation to accomplish the measurement of colloidal particles launched Coulter Corporation. Coulter was also intensely interested in the characteristics of cells, and did pioneering work in the development of monoclonal antibodies for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, lymphoma and leukemia and for the early detection of AIDS. The capability of the Coulter technology reached beyond medical uses; any industry needing to characterize particles in a fluid suspension found the technology beneficial – from chemical manufacturers to food processors.
Coulter Corporation established its headquarters in Miami, Florida, in 1961, and over the next 35 years grew to be one of the largest private diagnostic companies in the world with over 5,500 employees and 80,000 installations on six continents. The company developed entire families of instruments, reagents and controls, not just in hematology, but also in cytometry, industrial fine particle counting, and other lab instrumentation. In 1997, a year before Wallace Coulter's death, Coulter Corporation was acquired by Beckman Instruments and is now known as Beckman-Coulter, Inc.
Not A Typical CEO
Wallace Coulter was tremendously successful as a businessman; yet he didn't fit the stereotype of a CEO.
|Those who knew Wallace Coulter speak of him with genuine fondness and respect.
Part of it was the hat. He always wore a battered canvas fishing hat. But the larger part was his character. Those who knew Wallace Coulter speak of him with genuine fondness and respect. He surrounded himself with a highly diverse team of talented men and women representing many ethnic backgrounds and global perspectives at all levels of the company.
He loaned money to employees who were trying to buy a new home or facing family illness, and he didn't expect to be repaid. He chastised employees for saying "I" instead of "we," pointing out that all accomplishments were the result of team efforts. He encouraged employees to strive to do their best, to overcome personal difficulties, and to reach to higher levels. He avoided the spotlight for himself, played practical jokes, and always flew coach. Never married, Coulter lived modestly and directed profits back into the company, providing funding in particular for research and development.
"Wallace Coulter was a remarkable man – always curious, always engaged," recalls Egon Matijevic´, Victor K. LaMer Chair of Chemistry at Clarkson. "It's unusual for a CEO to stay so closely connected to research and to be so familiar with the details of research." Coulter was known for encouraging his researchers to take risks and explore new possibilities.
Curiosity and Adventure
Coulter never lost his youthful curiosity and was an avid reader. It was this desire to explore and discover that led him to his first international adventure, working for General Electric X-Ray in Asia. This experience led him to later develop the Coulter Corporation into a multinational company long before global business operations were a standard.
Early adventures in the Far East also influenced Wallace Coulter's two personal passions outside of business: an appreciation of Asian artifacts and an interest in exotic tropical fruit. During his travels, he collected jade carvings in a variety of styles and selected fruit seedlings for his farm in Florida. On his farm he grew 50 varieties of mangoes and gained satisfaction from continually striving to develop a better tasting fruit.
Coulter's success derived from his expansive intellect, never-ending curiosity, and a creative approach to problem-solving. "In addition," says Clarkson Provost Anthony G. Collins, "his ability to combine scientific inquiry with business acumen enabled him to take his discoveries and turn them into products that truly benefited people. Wallace Coulter was able to take ideas through engineering, manufacturing, and marketing to bring them to life."
Coulter set high standards for himself, but he also believed that every one of his employees had the capacity to achieve great things. "If we all came up to our best," he said, "we would be unbeatable." It's a legacy that Clarkson students should be proud to embrace.


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As a starter I have no formal instruction in programming, my background is mathematics. While doing some browsing on the subject of generating x distinct random ints from 0 to y (with y>=x of course) I took a look in the FAQ and in Prelude's Corner about the subject. In the Prelude's Corner entry the second to last example (the part included here) really confuses me.
This (correct me if I'm wrong) generates a random int between 0 and n-1. Prelude states that the idea is to split the range of random function into buckets of equal size (Is this actually equal or just as near equal as is possible without adding extra code to worry about a few small values? by extreme example if RAND_MAX happened to be 2,would the one bucket be of length 1 and the other of length 2 to split the values 0,1,2 as evenly as possible?). Am I missing something when I think the following implementation of the nrand function is just as good but shorter and without the need for a loop:Code:int nrand ( int n ) { int r; int bucket_size = RAND_MAX / n; if ( n <= 0 || n > RAND_MAX ) return 0; do { r = std::rand() / bucket_size; } while ( r >= n ); return r; }
---Code:int nrand (int n) { if ( n <= 0 || n > RAND_MAX ) return 0; return (int)(((double)std::rand() * n) / ((double)RAND_MAX +1)); }


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Let him walk
Resign him and keep him long term
Resign him and trade him January 2013 with Amare
I'm obviously mad late on this, but I wish the kid well.
I hold NO remorse towards Jeremy, wish he was here, but wish your ass away.
He gave us what we needed at the right time('asstoni era) in order to get some Wins.
But this is now, we are here, embrace our boys...don't blame the kid. He did what ANY player SHOULD have done in his situation...CASH IN.
If anything, curse that bitch Morey who did a number on our FO by reworking the contract AFTER we boldly claimed we'd match anything.
@ClydeFacts "When one of his ladys asked clyde why he doesnt text he said if you dont get the message by now a phone aint gonna help." Except for Kate. Wobble Wobble!
why are people still voting on the poll after the fact?
Jeremy Lin tweeted Carmelo after he signed with Houston, here's the tweet:
"signed with Rockets, thanks for your support, good luck with your fat ridicul-ass"
prediction: Jeremy Lin's presence in Houston will boost the China market to such a degree,
that when he eventually stinks up the Toyota Center in Houston, he'll end up playing in China,
maybe even with Starbelly!
no hard feeling Jemmy-Lin!
I think Im officially over the Linsanity. While I was furious at first, honestly this is probably for the best. If it didn't work out then we would have been screwed.
Personally I think he has the potential to live up to that contract and more, but he has to be the leader of the offense. With Carmelo it wouldn't happen, and shouldn't because Carmelo is clearly way way better than him.
The only thing that Im still upset about is not that he is gone but that the replacement is crap. Felton stinks. His shooting percentage stinks and he is mentally weak. But hopefully it is only for this year, and maybe next year we can pull a sign and trade or something for a better PG like Brandon Jennings or ANYONE other than felton, I would have preferred.
LMAO this guy is a real douche but he's sarcastic as hell and I love it
@FisolaNYDN Just spotted new Knicks point guard Pablo Prigioni marching with Argentina. And yes, he looks better than 85 percent
Hey, you (and the others who are shocked about the number
of posts in this thread) have been pretty darn generous about
adding to the total. So, thank you, thank you for keeping this
thread, and Jeremy Lin's memory alive.
P.S. Unless they were meant to be sarcastic, some of your
responses were very sweet. ♥♥♥
I've decided I can't stay away forever, so I'll drop in now and
then after visiting the Rocket's forum.
P.S.S. I hope you found your sense of humour, Mr. Metrocard!
If you read this, I guess I was able to make you stop scrolling.
"Winner of the coveted "Chink in the Armor" award!"
Just FYI, in case someone brings it up again, the argument about MSG stock dropping because is now moot. MSG stock yesterday (07/27) closed at $36.06 and is slowly trending upwards again.
I only bring this up because some of us, including me in a couple of my posts, brought the point up, erroneously, that the luxury tax from matching the Rocket's offer was offset by the money lost from MSG stock price dropping.
The market fluctuates constantly and it doesn't make sense on a one or two week period to judge the overall health of a company. What can be argued is the potential revenue from Lin merchandise and advertising could have offset the luxury tax.
In addition, the fact that he cost the Knicks 0 dollars in terms of cap space and could have been traded before the 3rd year, still inclines me towards wanting to keep him.
What's done is done but I just wanted to share this since people are still having this debate over whether it was the right decision.


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This month, Tektronix announced a $75,000 donation to engineering programs at Oregon State University. This donation is earmarked to fund hands-on engineering projects for the University's Creative Collaboratory (modeled after the MIT lab), SAE vehicle teams, and solar car challenge (see Figure). I had the opportunity to ask Dr. Kevin J. Ilcisin, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Tektronix, about the companys commitment to assist with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and how that might fit into the future of engineering.
EET: What is Tek's history of supporting STEM education through donations?
Ilcisin: Tektronix has a long history of supporting all levels of education from junior high schools through to graduate programs. We are committed to helping inspire young students interest in mathematics, computers and physics through hands-on experience with state-of-the-art electronic solutions. For example, Tektronix annually hosts the Beaverton School Districts annual science fair and provides volunteers to review science projects for students from kindergarten through high school.
The Tektronix Education Support Program (TESP) is a company initiative to foster interest in physics and electronics within the local community, other regions of the country and around the globe. The TESP initiative also manages ongoing donations to several universities including Arizona State University, Montana State University, Oregon State University, Portland State University, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Washington as well as Jiao Tong University in China.
For example, in 2008 we donated oscilloscopes to 22 Oregon area high schools. The oscilloscopes are used in electronics, engineering and physics classes as well as used to support Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs at many of the schools. The donation allowed the schools to add more complex experiments to science lab curricula. In 2010, Tektronix, together with our sister company Fluke Corporation, announced a $100,000 donation to DeVry University for a five-year scholarship program. Under the program, $20,000 will be awarded each year in $1,000 scholarships to 20 students, each in the name of Tektronix and Fluke. In 2011, Tektronix donated an oscilloscope to Portland Public Schools ACCESS Academy, a 1st through 8th grade program that serves Talented and Gifted Students from Portland and nearby communities. The scope will be used by science teacher Alfonso Garcia to teach physics and electronics concepts to seventh and eighth graders. Furthermore, several students are planning to use the oscilloscope in programming projects they will create for the school science fair, with guidance from a Tektronix engineer.
In May of 2011, Tektronix, Fluke and Keithley joined the Higher Engineering Education Alliance Program (HEEAP) with a $300,000 donation of laboratory test equipment and cash scholarships for faculty training. The goal is to help provide increased opportunities for engineering students to obtain practical, hands-on experience using electrical and electronic testing and measurement in manufacturing and research and development applications. HEEAP works closely with Vietnams Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and leadership at partner universities and technical colleges to implement programs and broad infrastructure that supports faculty training, curricula development and hands-on student learning experiences. In February last year, Tektronix donated equipment to Washington State University (WSU) Vancouver which included 24 AFG3011 arbitrary/function generators, a RSA3408B real-time spectrum analyzer, a DPO70404C oscilloscope, five DPO2024 oscilloscopes, a MSO3054 mixed signal oscilloscope, two Keithley 4200-SCS semiconductor parameter analyzers, and three Fluke 87V True-rms multimeters. In addition, WSU Vancouver purchased 19 more DPO2024 oscilloscopes along with 60 PWS2000 Series DC power supplies, including supporting accessories and other equipment.
In April of 2013 Tektronix donated a TDS1000B to Beaverton High School which will be used by science, physics and engineering students to complete a number of advanced research projects and for general lab use.
Just this month (May 2013) we made a donation totaling $75,000 to fund three advanced laboratory and engineering programs at Oregon State University. The donations continue the decades-long partnership between Tektronix and OSU. The funded initiatives here include the Creative Collaboratory (modeled after the MIT media lab), where the Oregon State Collaboratory enables teams of engineering students to develop working prototypes of new electrical systems. It also assists the SAE Vehicle Teams. The OSU undergraduate and graduate students participating in this program design and build vehicles to compete in student competitions around the world. It also supports the Solar Car Challenge through the OSU Solar Vehicle Team. Using funding from Tektronix, the team will be able to purchase new solar cells to upgrade its solar array in order to compete in the Formula Sun Grand Prix to be held October 2013 in Irvine, CA .
new solar cells to upgrade its solar array in order to compete in the Formula Sun Grand Prix
to be held October 2013 in Irvine, CA.
Why do you think it is valuable to support high school STEM education?
Whether it is our local high school or colleges in Oregon, the US, or the world, we believe that growth and quality of life is enhanced by an increase in the number of scientists and engineers who are addressing the worlds great problems. Tektronix has had and will continue to have an ongoing commitment to support future generations of engineers through STEM programs at every level; these are the individuals who one day will design, develop electronic solutions around the world. High School specifically is a time when young students are exposed to potential career paths. We believe that the earlier we can help inculcate a passion for science and technology, the more likely students will pursue these fields when they enter college.
Do you offer any curricular support with the instruments?
We provide several different educator kits and resources. For example, every TBS1000 model includes an education resource CD filled with tools to help students master the use of an oscilloscope. The education resource CD includes two student labs and instructor's guides, and two primers. The Introduction to Oscilloscopes student lab and instructor's guide explains the basics of oscilloscope operation complete with hands-on exercises for students. The Introduction to Oscilloscope Probes student lab and instructor's guide explains the fundamentals of probing and how probes can affect measurement quality. The two primers included are the most popular and widely-used from Tektronix - the XYZs of Oscilloscopes and ABCs of Probes.


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Melamine (pronounced /ˈmɛləmiːn/ ( listen)) is an organic base and a trimer of cyanamide, with a 1,3,5-triazine skeleton. Like cyanamide, it contains 66% nitrogen by mass and, if mixed with resins, has fire retardant properties due to its release of nitrogen gas when burned or charred, and has several other industrial uses. Melamine is also a metabolite of cyromazine, a pesticide. It is formed in the body of mammals who have ingested cyromazine. It has been reported that cyromazine can also be converted to melamine in plants.
Melamine combines with cyanuric acid to form melamine cyanurate, which has been implicated as a contaminant in Chinese exported proteins.
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hey, i'm a newbie, and by newbie meaning i've just downloaded my first compiler. i downloaded the Bloodshed Dev C++ (which i hear is a really good one) but i'm having a problem with it. i open up a new Console Applicatio, put in the sample code they gave:
and clicked Execute-Compile. then hit Execute-Run. when i do that, a message comes up saying "project is not compiled" that's all the tutorial i was looking at told me to do, is there's something i'm missing. also, after i hit Execute-Compile, in the small table at the bottom of the window is says "Line: 2, File: C:\Dev-Cpp\... Message: unable to run program file" any help is appreciated, as i would really like to get past this very first step of learning C++Code:#include <iostream.h> int main() { cout<<"The Compiler Works"; return 0; }


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Hey guys. Well, I'm done trying with the guy from lit class. We have lit together again this semester, same teacher. I tried to sit next to where he's been sitting since school started two or three weeks ago. I saw him and smiled and he did too, but he went to a different table. I was so disappointed. I went over to my regular seat, hid behind my hair (traditional Bella-like), and just started crying for several minutes. I felt pathetic, but I couldn't help it. I eventually stopped, and picked up my pen to write down our notes, and focused on the lecture. I'm not nearly as upset as I was last week, but I still have a tiny twinge of disappointment. Oh well. He didn't answer his Facebook preference anyway, and that's a dead give away right there. I always fall for the gay ones. I have no problem with them, it just gets frustrating after a while. Aren't there any straight ones left?
Apparantly one.
Yesterday I got my hair cut, and it's got layers, framed around/towards my face. It has a swoop of a bang to the left side, wavy, and it's barely just below my shoulders. I had such long hair before, but I love the way it is now too. Anywho. Today there was a really, really hot older guy who we've always acknowledged each other but never really spoken to each other. He sat down on the bench in the hallway and I had my bag beside him and I was coming back from the bathroom. I'd left my bag on the bench he had just sat down at and had to reach and get my bag because he was sitting in on it, and he smiled and apologized. I smiled too and said he was fine. Later when I got on my (5 hour!!!!!!!) break, I went to the library, and he was studying at a table. I sat my stuff down, trying not to disturb him, and a few minutes later he got up to leave because he had to get to his next class. He was like, "Do you need the table?" or something. I said I was fine, I was just setting my stuff down to get lunch. And he said, smiling and winking at me, "Well, you have it now." I smiled, more than likely blushing which I think he may have liked (or not *shrug*) and said, "Thanks." So stupid, but oh well. Not to mention I'm wearing a low-cut blouse and I was bending over to dig into my backpack for my lunchbox, and I'm very heavily chested for my age (something I'm very self-concious about). I should've been more careful, but part of me still wonders about that... And the thought of THAT makes me blush a little too. Eeeeeek!!!!!!!!! So yeah, you can tell I've not dated much at all. I saw him in the hallway when I was going into Lit and we smiled at each other but that was it. He's not in any of my classes, I just see him in the hallway. I was texting one of my friends being very racy, but I couldn't help it, he's that good looking. Haha. But then again, every time I think a guy likes me or was flirting with me I've been wrong just because I hardly have any experience in that area and don't know how to read it. So maybe I'm just imagining it after all. :/
Sorry I didn't give any advice this time. I'm too tired right now to go back and read all of the previous posts. Again, sorry. I'll try to get to it when I've got more energy.


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Old english is virtually unusable, it had a completely different alphabet. The next best thing would be Middle English. To help I would do some research on the writer Chaucer who was of that era.
Example of Chaucer's writing:
Middle English - This frere bosteth that he knoweth helle, And God it woot, that it is litel wonder
Translation - This friar boasts that he knows hell, And God knows that it is little wonder
If thats too much, then I'd go with the Early Modern English style of Shakespear, which is a little easier to understand.


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Superman-inspired ape wins our design a gorilla competition
PUBLISHED: 06:30 03 December 2012
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a Super-gorilla!
From the Daily Planet to the Norwich Evening News and EDP – Clark Kent and his superhero alter-ego were the inspiration for the winner of our competition to design a gorilla sculpture for a city exhibition next summer. The Go Go Gorillas! trail will see an estimated 50 specially-designed gorillas displayed in Norwich to raise funds for the children and young people's charity Break and the wildlife protection group Born Free Foundation.
And reader Sally Adams's idea for a Superman-themed gorilla is among the designs that will feature in the trail after she was chosen as the winner of our competition which had more than 200 entries.
"I can't believe I have won. I'm really happy." said 49-year-old Sally, a fine art graduate from Kirby Bedon, near Norwich, who spent about two hours creating her design. "The gorilla made me think of the 'missing link' between man and ape, and the Evening News and EDP makes me think of roving reporter Clark Kent, the alter-ego of Superman, so I linked them all up just as the Evening News and EDP is inseparably linked to Norwich!"
Sally has been involved with art projects nearly all her life, and between 1991 and 1994 studied at what is now Norwich University College of the Arts. She graduated with a fine arts sculpture degree and also has an NVQ level three in arts development and teaching and a National Diploma in art and design. Martin Green, Break fundraising officer and manager of the Go Go Gorillas! project for the charity, said: "Sally's design is amazing. It's really creative and connects well with the Norwich Evening News and EDP.
"The Evening News and EDP made a good choice in choosing the winning design – it will look fantastic on the gorilla."
Artist Jenny Leonard, 29 and from Norwich, will recreate Sally's design on one of the gorilla sculptures.
From today until January 14 people will be able to watch some of the artists decorating the gorilla sculptures at work in Norwich's Castle Mall.
About 25 organisations have so far so far signed-up to sponsor a gorilla for the trail but there is still time for other organisations to get involved. Break hope there will be about 50 gorillas in the trail next summer. For more information visit www.gogogorillas.co.uk
Are you involved in a new art project in the city? Call reporter Emma Knights on 01603 772428 or email firstname.lastname@example.com


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Confidence growing as Cubs near .500 mark
By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com
CHICAGO -- The Cubs are 30-25 since May 26, the fourth-best record in the National League, and they've done that despite losing some key players such as Scott Feldman, Matt Garza and, most recently, Alfonso Soriano. Last year, Chicago lost 101 games. What would it mean to finish .500 this year?
"Well, I mean, it's a number," manager Dale Sveum said. "It's a goal that you want to have, but it's not a goal that we want to have with this organization because I think those kind of things hold things back, too. 'Oh, as long as we get to .500, yipee' -- but you're still going home like everybody else who's not in the playoffs."
The Cubs are coming off a sweep of the defending World Series champion Giants, and a 6-4 West Coast trip.
"We picked up some good pieces," closer Kevin Gregg said. "We were able to get [Matt] Guerrier and Pedro Strop in the bullpen, which is obviously a big help. ... We're coming together as a unit in the bullpen, which has helped. The rotation, I think, was strong right from Day 1, so that wasn't a question.
"It's big to lose Sori, he was a presence in the lineup for us," Gregg said. "But we've got a lot of young talent. You see that in Junior Lake. We're just putting pieces together. We have a lot of talented pieces now [and] it's just how we can put them together."
The West Coast swing definitely helped the mood in the Cubs clubhouse.
"It's more than a road trip," Gregg said. "But that's momentum for us to continue going down the stretch here, continue to play good baseball. Obviously, we played well in that whole road trip. And we've got to go from there, just baby steps."
Determined Arrieta to make Cubs debut Tuesday
CHICAGO -- Jake Arrieta has put the Minor Leagues behind him, and plans on staying with the Cubs after Tuesday's start.
Arrieta, acquired from the Orioles on July 2 in the Scott Feldman deal, will make his Cubs debut in the second game of a doubleheader against the Brewers.
"I think it's a very good change for me," Arrieta said Monday.
He had three stints with the Orioles this season, going 1-2 with a 7.23 ERA in five starts. The right-hander was Baltimore's Opening Day starter in 2012.
"It was almost like a weight off my shoulders, really," he said of the deal. "I felt like I was able to do a lot of good things over there, but there were some things that kept me from being able to do it on a consistent basis. My time there was great, and I wouldn't change it for the world. There came the point where they felt a move needed to be made to better their team and better this team as well.
"I've got a lot to offer," he said. "I feel I'm a guy who can go out there and be a bulldog and pitch deep in games, and I know I can do it on a consistent basis so it's just a matter of finally going out there and doing it."
The problem this season has been not pitching on a consistent schedule. He's shuttled between the big league team and the Minors, and he has been in the bullpen. As he said, his routine was thrown out of whack.
"I need to get out there every five days and continue to battle," he said. "I think my career is as a starter, and I'm going to show I can keep it that way."
Arrieta tuned up for Tuesday's game by pitching for Triple-A Iowa. As of now, he's in the rotation Tuesday, and that's it.
"I think the performance will do the speaking, that will determine whether I stay here or go back to Iowa," he said. "I don't plan on going back. I plan on making it tough for them to decide and just go from there. I just think first and foremost, it's great to be here. First time in Wrigley, and as soon as I walked up those [dugout] steps, I got some chills. It's a park that I've heard about and knew a lot about as a kid. It's just special. I'm thankful for this opportunity."
Lake makes Wrigley debut after sizzling start
CHICAGO -- When Junior Lake arrived at Wrigley Field for his first home game on Monday, his gear was stowed in a prime space. Lake was given Alfonso Soriano's locker in the Cubs' clubhouse.
Lake has been in Chicago before but never played at Wrigley until Monday. The young outfielder opened his stint with the Cubs on fire, with 15 hits in his first 30 at-bats, but is 0-for-13 since an infield single in the sixth last Thursday. Manager Dale Sveum said the Cubs aren't worried.
"No, we're not going to panic over an 0-for-13 [stretch]," Sveum said. "He had to face [Tim] Lincecum, [Madison] Bumgarner and [Matt] Cain, so you're facing Cy Young's and guys that have done a lot of good things in their careers.
"Those are the things that, for a kid like him with the ability that he has, is the experience we talked about," Sveum said. "That's why you want some guys to be here a little bit earlier sometimes to get that taste and see Major League pitching on an everyday basis sometimes and have to make those adjustments."
With the departure of Soriano via trade, Lake has taken over in left field and will start in center against left-handed pitchers. Outfielder Brian Bogusevic is rehabbing in Mesa, Ariz., from a strained left hamstring. Will Lake stay the remainder of the season? Sveum said there's been no discussion about sending Lake back to Triple-A Iowa.
"As far as I'm concerned, he's going to be in there pretty much every day unless I feel he needs a day off," Sveum said.
Trade rumors swirl around Gregg, Schierholtz
CHICAGO -- The Trade Deadline can't come soon enough for the Cubs' Kevin Gregg and Nate Schierholtz. The two have been rumored to be headed elsewhere for most of the month.
Gregg said Monday that he has "no idea" as to what will happen.
"You're going to see a lot of movement over the next couple days, and I'll just wait and see," he said. "And if I happen to see Theo [Epstein, president of baseball operations], I'll just ask him what's going on."
Gregg is checking the transactions wire to see what moves teams make.
"I like to see how organizations think, what they need, what they're willing to give up for certain guys," he said. "It's fun. It's kind of a shuffle -- who's doing what to make that last push."
If he's traded, Gregg said he would consider coming back to the Cubs.
"We'll see where we're at at the end of the year and I'm sure I'll have a conversation with Theo after the year if I do get dealt," Gregg said. "I like it here. I've really enjoyed my time here in Chicago. I like the organization, I like the coaching staff, I like the players. If you're happy with everything, it's a good place for you."
Schierholtz is happy with the Cubs, too, but also an attractive option for a team needing a left-handed bat and solid corner outfielder.
"It's always a good thing, I think, to be in trade rumors or have the possibility to be traded," Schierholtz said of the positive talk, "but like I said, I'm happy here and I want to be part of the future here."
Extra bases
• The Cubs held a moment of silence on Monday for former Cubs pitcher Frank Castillo, who died Sunday in a swimming accident at Bartlett Lake in Arizona. He was 44.
The Cubs drafted Castillo in 1987, and he pitched for the team from 1991-97, compiling a 47-62 record and 4.29 ERA in 166 games (161 starts). He spent last year as a pitching coach for the Cubs' Rookie League team.
• Javier Baez hit two home runs, but it wasn't enough as Double-A Tennessee lost 8-5 to Birmingham on Sunday. He hit a two-run homer in the first and a two-run shot in the ninth. After batting .274 with 17 home runs at Class A Daytona this year, Baez now is batting .232 with 10 home runs with the Double-A Smokies.
• C.J. Edwards had quite a debut Sunday for Class A Daytona. He struck out the first seven batters he faced, and finished with eight strikeouts over five scoreless innings, giving up one hit and walking one in a 2-1 win over Palm Beach. The Cubs acquired Edwards in the Garza deal with the Rangers.
• Brett Jackson, the Cubs' No. 1 pick in the 2009 Draft, has joined the Double-A Tennessee roster. Jackson, 24, began the season at Triple-A Iowa, but has been slowed by a turf toe injury and problems with his right calf. In 61 games with Iowa, he batted .223 (48-for-215) with seven doubles, three triples, six home runs and 23 RBIs. He spent part of the 2010 and '11 seasons with the Smokies.
• Scott Baker, rehabbing from Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, gave up two runs, one earned, on three hits and two walks over 3 1/3 innings for Class A Daytona in a rehab start on Monday. Baker struck out two and served up a solo home run in the fourth.
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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and then a newfd= accept...
several clients can connect several times, trade messages and shutdown (after closing newfd)
the problem is that if the same client stays alive and makes more then 5 connect close cyles i get a error on the 6th connect
does the 5 in listen mean i can only connect 5 times with each client?
i have a printf in the server so that each time a newfd is created i get it´s number. when it´s closed by the client, i close it also in the server. close does not return -1, and the number of the closed fd is the same as newfd.
i imagine this can be hard to understand without code, but it´s a big program...
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The Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research component of the Department of Justice, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that outlines a framework for cooperation and collaboration in the social, behavioral, and forensic sciences.
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Utley wins his third Silver Slugger as the best offensive second baseman in the National League.
Utley wins third straight Silver Slugger
Second baseman led position in average, homers, RBIs
By Ken Mandel / MLB.com
And another Phillies player win another award. Nice win, Chase.
PHILADELPHIA — Earning a third straight Silver Slugger Award simply further validates what is already known about the Phillies' Chase Utley: He's among the best second basemen in baseball.
Utley has continued to gain respect. The Silver Slugger may pale in comparison to the ring he earned for helping the Phillies win their first World Series championship since 1980, and the second in the franchise's 125-year history. However, the award, announced Thursday, represents offensive excellence at a position traditionally known for defense, and affirms that Utley is as good as it gets among his peers.
As a member of the World Series champions, Utley pounded a career-high 33 homers and drove in 104 RBIs, one fewer than his career best. Despite nagging injuries that dogged him for most of the second half, Utley played in 159 games. Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia won the award in the American League.
The other National League winners were catcher Brian McCann (Braves), first baseman Albert Pujols (Cardinals), third baseman David Wright (Mets), shortstop Hanley Ramirez (Marlins), outfielders Ryan Ludwick (Cardinals), Ryan Braun (Brewers) and Matt Holliday (traded from the Rockies to the A's on Tuesday) and pitcher Carlos Zambrano (Cubs).
Although quiet in the NL Division Series and World Series, Utley hit .353 in the NL Championship Series against the Dodgers.
The 29-year-old led NL second basemen in hits (177), runs (113), RBIs (104), on-base percentage (.380), slugging percentage (.583) and extra-base hits (78). His 33 homers were the highest total for a second baseman in the Majors, and the lefty swinger totaled 100 RBIs for the fourth straight season.
|2008 Silver Sluggers
|Joe Mauer, MIN
|Justin Morneau, MIN
|Dustin Pedroia, BOS
|Alex Rodriguez, NYY
|Derek Jeter, NYY
|Josh Hamilton, TEX
|Carlos Quentin, CWS
|Grady Sizemore, CLE
|Aubrey Huff, BAL
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|Chase Utley, PHI
|David Wright, NYM
|Hanley Ramirez, FLA
|Ryan Braun, MIL
|Matt Holliday, COL
|Ryan Ludwick, STL
|Carlos Zambrano, CHC
Utley has being doing this for a while. The three-time All-Star has more homers (112), RBIs (404), hits (702) and runs scored (433) than any other second baseman over the past four seasons.
"He's a special player," manager Charlie Manuel said, during the season. "I never worry about him [when he's not hitting], because I know he's always going to come out of it."
Louisville Slugger's Silver Slugger Award winners were determined by a vote of Major League Baseball coaches and managers who vote for the players they felt were the best offensive producers at each position in each league. Selections are based on a combination of offensive statistics, including batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage, as well as the coaches' and managers' general impressions of a player's overall offensive value.
Managers and coaches couldn't vote for players on their own team.
The specially designed Silver Slugger will be presented to each player by a representative of the Hillerich & Bradsby Co., makers of Louisville Slugger, the official bat of Major League Baseball, in a ceremony early in the 2009 season. The trophy is three feet tall and bears the engraved name of the winner and his Silver Slugger teammates in his respective league.
The Silver Slugger Award was instituted by H&B in 1980 as a natural extension of the Silver Bat Award, which is, as its name indicates, a silver-plated bat presented by Louisville Slugger to the batting champions in the AL and NL. This year's Silver Bat Award winners were Atlanta's Chipper Jones, who hit .364 to win the NL batting title, and Minnesota's Joe Mauer, who hit .328 to claim the AL honor.
"I can't say enough about Ut," Manuel said, after Utley batted .352 in April. "When I start talking about Chase, you could probably come back a year later, and I could still be talking. He's that good, and you can never say enough about him."
A notable omission to the list of Silver Slugger winners was first baseman Ryan Howard, who led the Major Leagues with 48 home runs and 148 RBIs. That award went to Pujols, and could be a harbinger for Monday's NL Most Valuable Player announcement. (H/T Phillies.com)
And Utley shows once again that he is just as good with the bat as he is with the glove. Once again, nice going, Chase.


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Where would the Leafs be without Kessel?
Leafs forward Phil Kessel is stopped on a break by Coyotes goalie Mike Smith on Tuesday night. (AFP)
Forget for a moment the fresh and yet-to-be-determined injuries to forwards Mikhail Grabovski and Clarke MacArthur and ask yourself this: Where would the Maple Leafs be this morning if it weren't for the handiwork of Phil Kessel?
It may have often been ugly Tuesday night at a dead Air Canada Centre, but the Leafs still managed to salvage a shootout-loss point to the Phoenix Coyotes.
A couple of big glove saves late by Ben Scrivens roused the 19,522 in attendance from their slumber but the real signs of life were provided by Kessel. The biggest, of course, was the power-play goal 4:41 into the third to force the extra period, but as has been the case so often this season, every time No. 81 got the puck there was ample reason to pay attention.
The goal was Kessel's 13th of the season in the team's 18th game, a noteworthy stat when compared to last year's 32-goal effort. Thanks to a couple of prolonged slumps, he didn't reach that mark until Christmas was all wrapped up, in Game 35 which was played on Dec. 28.
"He's such a gifted player, he makes things happen," said Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf, who thought his team showed something by grinding out a point despite the stumble-start that was in part his own doing.
"When he has the puck on his stick, he's an exciting player to watch and to play with. If he gets a step, he's gone. I think you saw it again tonight. He's got that extra gear. He's a special player and he's got that special speed."
Yes, they call him Phil the Thrill for a reason and there is probably no need to remind Coyotes defenceman David Schlemko, who twice in the first period alone was left swatting at air three strides into another Kessel rush. Each time Kessel got in alone on Coyotes goaltender Mike Smith, but each time was denied.
Add in a missed shootout attempt and the evening could have been even more special for the guy who still finds himself atop the NHL scoring race as the season inches towards the quarter mark.
In fact, the Kessel line continues to be the only thing holding the team together offensively at the moment. In the past five games Kessel, Tyler Bozak and Joffrey Lupul are the only Leafs forwards to score.
On Tuesday, they needed defenceman Mike Komisarek's first goal in more than a year to get the scoring started as the group up front continues its November dormancy.
Remember at the start of the season when coach Ron Wilson contested the notion of which threesome constituted his team's top line? He's not protesting any more.
In fact, it took a hair over five minutes on Tuesday for Wilson to break up the Grabovski-MacArthur-Nikolai Kulemin line.
How bad was it? The guy who take MacArthur's spot was Matt Frattin, a hard-working young rookie but a player who has yet to record his first NHL goal.
"They were minus-two on their first two shifts," Wilson said. "I wanted to try to generate something."
MacArthur is clearly frustrated, Kulemin is clearly snakebitten and Grabovski has tended to skate around looking good but really going nowhere. Kulemin registered an assist on Kessel's goal, but has no goals in his past 11 and just two points in his past seven. Grabovski and MacArthur, meanwhile, each have zero points in their past five and now may find themselves on the injury report.
So once again it was Kessel (who led all skaters with six shots on net) to the rescue. As is his way, though, afterwards the ones he wanted to talk most about were the ones that got away.
"I just made an okay move," Kessel said of the failed shootout attempt. "I just didn't get it up and the goalie made a good save. I had a couple good chances. You've got to bury those."