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Feb. 16
Search effort
10:41 p.m. — 3300 block of Bayou Sound. Suspicious Person. A man called police after his teenage son called him to report that a man who used to do landscaping work for them had come by their house and tried to get someone to come to the door before leaving the property on his bicycle. The man said that he did not want the landscaper coming near his home because of his history of drug use. Police checked to make sure the teen and his sister were OK and searched the area for the man but were unable to find him.
Open-door policy
11:15 p.m. — 400 block of GMD. Security Check. Dispatch located a business' key holder after police found its door unlocked.
Feb. 17
Catch our drift?
1:21 a.m. — Off the Key. Unsecured Boat. A Bradenton Beach patrol unit contacted police about an adrift sailboat that had become lodged against the Longboat Pass Bridge. Police contacted a Coast Guard officer, who advised that a marine unit would investigate further.
House hunting?
9:36 a.m. — 1100 block of GMD. Suspicious Person. Police were unable to locate a suspicious person, described as a man on a bicycle checking out houses.
Property found
12:58 p.m. — 500 block of Bay Isles Parkway. Property Found. A grocery-store employee turned in an Amazon Kindle she found in the store.
Fliers don't fly here
2:40 p.m. — 5900 block of Emerald Harbor Drive. Soliciting. Police received a report of a full-sized truck throwing fliers into driveways but were unable to locate the solicitors. Police picked up a flier and called the number listed to inform the company that soliciting is illegal on Longboat Key.
Source of the sound
10:04 p.m. — 4300 block of Falmouth Drive. Noise Disturbance. Police responded to a report of loud noise and found that the sound was coming from a company that was cleaning up a large water leak that damaged several condominium units.
Feb. 18
Dog discovered
2:08 p.m. — 400 block of Firehouse Court. Dog Found. A man found a dog wandering through his neighborhood and put the animal in his backyard. The man told police he would keep the dog for a while before contacting an animal shelter.
Car break-in
3:47 p.m. — 3400 block of GMD. Larceny From Vehicle. A woman said that she returned to her vehicle from the beach and found that her side window had been broken and her purse was taken. Police found that the window appeared to be punched or pried open with a small tool and dusted the vehicle for fingerprints.
Moving day
9:20 a.m. — 500 block of Halyard Lane. Code Enforcement. A man wanted to be sure that the owner of a motor home parked in a driveway near his property was aware of a town ordinance limiting parking for motor homes. The man wanted police to note that it was day one of the vehicle's parking time. The motor home owner's wife told police she knew about the ordinance and said that arrangements had already been made for the vehicle's storage.
Feb. 19
Hose down
11:30 a.m. — 200 block of N. Shore Road. Suspicious Circumstance. An anonymous caller reported that three youths were using his hose to cleanup after going to the beach. The group apologized and agreed to stay off of private property.
'Candid Camera': abandoned gas station edition
2 p.m. — 6900 block of GMD. Suspicious Circumstance. A man reported that two males were taking pictures of a possibly underage female wearing "provocative" clothing at an abandoned gas station. The female told police that she had asked her friends to take pictures of her for personal use. Police found that all subjects were of age and properly clothed.
Familiar face
2:39 p.m. — 500 block of Bay Isles Parkway. Larceny. A manager reported that a man entered a store and took a Foster's beer without paying. The man left the store before police arrived. Police reviewed camera evidence, realized they had encountered the man earlier that morning and issued a capias request.
Feb. 20
Time to call it a night
12:05 a.m. — 600 block of Cedar St. Noise Disturbance. Police received two separate complaints of loud people in a swimming pool. A woman who said she was renting a vacation unit apologized for the noise and said that she and her guest would go inside.
Abandoned bicycle
5:05 p.m. — 3300 block of Harbourside Drive. Property Found. Police took a bicycle reported as abandoned into evidence but were unable to find any record of it being stolen.


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Different types of meditation may include different features to help you meditate. These may vary depending on whose guidance you follow or who's teaching a class. Some of the most common features in meditation include:
Focused attention. Focusing your attention is generally one of the most important elements of meditation.
Focusing your attention is what helps free your mind from the many distractions that cause stress and worry. You can focus your attention on such things as a specific object, an image, a mantra, or even your breathing.
A quiet setting. If you're a beginner, practicing meditation may be easier if you're in a quiet spot with few distractions, including no television, radios or cellphones.
As you get more skilled at meditation, you may be able to do it anywhere, especially in high-stress situations where you benefit the most from meditation, such as a traffic jam, a stressful work meeting or a long line at the grocery store.
Don't let the thought of meditating the "right" way add to your stress. If you choose to, you can attend special meditation centers or group classes led by trained instructors. But you can also practice meditation easily on your own.
And you can make meditation as formal or informal as you like, however it suits your lifestyle and situation. Some people build meditation into their daily routine. For example, they may start and end each day with an hour of meditation. But all you really need is a few minutes of quality time for meditation.
Here are some ways you can practice meditation on your own, whenever you choose:
Breathe deeply. This technique is good for beginners because breathing is a natural function.
Focus all your attention on your breathing. Concentrate on feeling and listening as you inhale and exhale through your nostrils. Breathe deeply and slowly. When your attention wanders, gently return your focus to your breathing.
Scan your body. When using this technique, focus attention on different parts of your body. Become aware of your body's various sensations, whether that's pain, tension, warmth or relaxation.
Combine body scanning with breathing exercises and imagine breathing heat or relaxation into and out of different parts of your body.
Walk and meditate. Combining a walk with meditation is an efficient and healthy way to relax. You can use this technique anywhere you're walking, such as in a tranquil forest, on a city sidewalk or at the mall.
When you use this method, slow down your walking pace so that you can focus on each movement of your legs or feet. Don't focus on a particular destination. Concentrate on your legs and feet, repeating action words in your mind such as "lifting," "moving" and "placing" as you lift each foot, move your leg forward and place your foot on the ground.
Engage in prayer. Prayer is the best known and most widely practiced example of meditation. Spoken and written prayers are found in most faith traditions.
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Read and reflect. Many people report that they benefit from reading poems or sacred texts, and taking a few moments to quietly reflect on their meaning.
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Don't judge your meditation skills, which may only increase your stress. Meditation takes practice.
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To understand the function of nanoscale materials we need to dip our toes into a discussion of quantum physics. One of the key precepts of quantum physics is that particles and energy waves called photons (like light) can only have distinct amounts of energy, as opposed to having any value of energy along a continuum. The differences between the energy states are called quanta. Quantum physics also tells us that fundamental particles, such as electrons or quarks, have a spin state, described as up or down. Spinning particles exist in pairs, one with up spin and one with down. It's as though the nanoscale world is digital rather than analog. The most spectacular, everyday manifestation of quantum physics is the rainbow. The hot hydrogen and helium atoms in the sun give off photons of light of precise and specific energy values characteristic of their atomic structure. When refracted by raindrops we see these photons of light arrayed in the colors of the rainbow.
Other aspects of quantum physics are much harder to both understand and explain. Perhaps the most exotic is quantum entanglement, which stumped even Albert Einstein. Quantum entanglement works as follows: let electrons A and B be a spin pair with A spinning up and B spinning down. If energy is applied to A to flip its spin to down, B will immediately flip its spin to up. The amazing part of this process is that B's spin will flip sooner than the time it would take for light to travel from A to B. This was at odds with Einstein's view that no information or energy in the universe could travel faster than the speed of light. The mechanism responsible for quantum entanglement remains a mystery to this day.
The appeal of nanotechnology stems from the fact that the physical and chemical properties of materials less than 100 nanometers exhibit behavior based on quantum physics that are not apparent in larger objects. For example, at the nanometer scale copper turns from opaque to transparent, aluminum becomes flammable (even explosive), and carbon atoms can be assembled into nanotubes which are 100 times stronger than steel while having only one sixth of its weight. These changes in properties, of which we are only in our infancy of discovering, are what drive the interest in nanoscale devices.
While quantum physics calculations had long suggested that potentially useful, even revolutionary, devices could be made at the nanoscale level, construction of them was not really possible until the invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) in 1981. The STM works on another fascinating principle in quantum physics called quantum tunneling which, for the sake of brevity and to spare myself the challenge, I will leave unexplained. The beauty of the invention of the STM was the ability to image materials at the nanoscale level so you can see the individual atoms. Without this ability you could not "see" the nanomaterials you were attempting to construct.
With the STM in hand, research and entrepreneurship in nanotechnology took off. Current applications of nanomaterials include titanium dioxide particles in your sunscreen which are dramatically better at blocking UV rays compared to larger titanium dioxide particles, and the silver, bacteria-killing nanotubes which have been added to Band-Aids® to promote healing and socks to cut down on foot odor. You might think that silver is a rather expensive material to use for something as mundane as foot odor control. However, since the effectiveness of the silver nanotubes is directly dependent on their extraordinarily small size, a minute amount goes a long way. We'll touch on silver nanotubes again later.
The potential for new inventions based on nanotechnology is hard to exaggerate. I like to think of it this way. Since the origin of our species millions of years ago, we have been utilizing the macro-scale (>100 nm) materials available to us on Earth to spectacular effect. Think rockets, iPads®, artificial joints and Cheez Whiz®. But with the advent of nanomaterials and their surprising and unique properties, it's almost as though we have an entire new planet of materials to work with.
There are far too many potential applications of nanotechnology to include a comprehensive review, so here are several that I find intriguing.
- Nanoscale devices may result in dramatically improved solar cells. An improvement of solar cell efficiency from the current level of 20% to 40-50% would transform global electricity production.
- Quantum computers based on instantaneous quantum entanglement could result in machines that make today's supercomputers look like the Model T.
- Nano-robots could be launched in the upper atmosphere to rebuild the ozone layer.
- Nanotechnology could provide dramatic improvements in fighting cancer. One approach I find promising is the construction of gold, chemoactive agent containing that have receptors which can bind to cancer cells. With this approach, chemotherapy could be delivered directly to tumors while sparing patients the ravages of having these toxic drugs coursing through their entire bodies.
Unfortunately, the same properties that make nanomaterials attractive, their small size and physical and chemical reactivity, make them potentially dangerous. Remember the socks with the silver, antibacterial nanotubes? When you run them through the laundry, some of the tubes wash off and enter local water-ways where they kill beneficial bacteria. The production and use of nanomaterials also presents significant respiratory risks. We already know that inhaling particulates from coal mining, smoking, or asbestos can cause lung cancer. Breathing in tiny, chemically-active nanoparticles would likely be far worse, a concern which is supported by laboratory studies with mice.
In the final analysis, nanotechnology shares the same characteristics as most new scientific developments, the potential to result in both great benefit and significant harm. Our challenge as a society will be to utilize them responsibly. Undoubtedly, we will make some mistakes along the way, but in the end the results are likely to amaze.
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BERLIN- Stephen Decatur's varsity volleyball team breezed through its opening match in the state Class 3A-East region playoffs, sweeping visiting Northeast of Anne Arundel County in three games to advance to the region semifinals.
The Seahawks entered Monday's Class 3A-East quarterfinal as the number-four seed in the region and took on fifth-seeded Northeast at home. Decatur finished the regular season with a 13-2 mark and narrowly missed a Bayside Conference championship, falling to powerhouse North Caroline in three tough games last week.
However, the state playoffs represent a fresh start for the Seahawks and they made it look relatively easy in the first match of the Class 3A-East region tournament. In the first game, the Seahawks jumped out to a quick early 21-7 lead and cruised to the 25-8 win. The second game followed a similar pattern with Decatur executing in all phases to win 25-14. Finally, the Seahawks ended any hope for a Northeast rally with a precision 25-10 dismantling of the Eagles in the third and final game.


text: Same here. I do a lot of hand washing as I'm a knitter, and I'd much rather take the time to wash items myself than trust them to anyone else (especially my husband, who's a master at shrinking my size 16 hand knits to a size that wouldn't fit the cats). The only item in the house I can think of that truly needs dry cleaning is my husband's suit, which he wears to weddings and funerals. In the past few years we've been to one wedding and one funeral, so the suit is yet to be dry cleaned. Personally I'd never take shirts in to be dry cleaned. Ironing is compatible with so many other activities (telly, radio, audio books, chatting with my husband/kids) that I can't justify spending money on something I can do myself. I'm fussy about my laundry, so I iron a lot, though it's not something I really enjoy. I'm just anal and can't stand wrinkled or creased clothing.


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McCutchen experimenting with new delivery
By Paul Casella / MLB.com
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Following right-hander Daniel McCutchen's most recent outing last Thursday, the coaching staff approached him with an intriguing idea -- revamp his entire delivery.
Instead of the traditional over-the-top throwing motion he has used his entire career, they wanted the 30-year-old reliever to drop his arm slot lower. McCutchen, a non-roster invite, tested out the delivery -- an almost three-quarters style motion -- for the first time in Tuesday's intrasquad game.
He hit one batter, walked another and threw a wild pitch, but that's almost to be expected when debuting a new delivery designed to produce more movement on his pitches.
"I tried it out and I like it so far," McCutchen said. "I'm getting a lot of movement on the ball. It feels pretty natural. I'm still in the early stages of it, but we talked about it and I said I'd give it a try. I've been excited about it so far."
The move is a surprise of sorts, considering McCutchen had turned in three consecutive scoreless appearances to start the spring before allowing five runs on seven hits in 1 2/3 innings last Thursday.
He's also proven to be a capable reliever at times throughout his career. In 2011, McCutchen spent the entire season in the Majors, going 5-3 with a 3.72 ERA in 73 appearances for the Pirates. He returned to Triple-A Indianapolis last season, but turned in a solid 2.89 ERA to go along with a 7-2 record in 37 outings.
"It's not like I'm struggling and have to make a change," McCutchen said. "But it's just something that I really think can take me up to the next level where I can stop being the fringe Triple-A/big league guy. That's what everyone in Triple-A wants to have -- a solidified spot in the big leagues. We'll see if this can be my niche."
McCutchen plans to continue developing the revamped delivery Thursday in a bullpen session and -- assuming all goes well -- could put it on display in game action as soon as this weekend. The final decision on when he'll take the mound in a Grapefruit League game will come from pitching coach Rick Adair.
"He's got great make-up, that's obvious," manager Buck Showalter said. "He's kind of like R.A. Dickey [developing the knuckleball] -- he's looking for a new weapon, a new toy so to speak. And he's got all of the attributes you look for in a guy that can do that."
Wada taking next step in rehab
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Left-hander Tsuyoshi Wada, after tossing another encouraging bullpen session on Thursday, will now move on to more pitching-related activities as he continues his extensive rehab from Tommy John surgery last May.
Or, as manager Buck Showalter put it, he's ready to "progress to baseball functionability."
"It's exciting watching him throw," Showalter said. "It's a lot of work on his part. Now we move on to the next part of it and that's the baseball part of it -- locating his pitches, spinning the ball.
"Now it's about 'I'm working on something that helps me get people out,' as opposed to 'Am I healthy?'"
Wada, signed to a two-year, $8.15 million deal last offseason, made just one appearance at Triple-A Norfolk in 2012 before elbow issues abruptly ended his debut season. The 30-year-old had previously pitched professionally in Japan, totaling a 57-37 record with a 2.94 ERA in five seasons with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks.
With Wada's latest progressions, the Orioles remain hopeful the southpaw will be able to return by the end of May.
"It's exciting for everybody," Showalter said. "He can help us."
Worth noting
• Prior to Thursday's game, the Orioles trimmed their Spring Training roster, re-assigning catcher Jose Gil and infielder Niuman Romero to Minor League camp.
With the moves, the Orioles have 51 players remaining in camp.
Gil, who spent all of last season in the Yankees' farm system, went hitless in 10 at-bats this spring. The backstop hit .213 with six homers and 32 RBIs with the Double-A Trenton Thunder last season.
As for Niuman, he returns to the Minors after collecting a respectable four hits in 11 at-bats this spring for a .364 average. Niuman signed with the Orioles this offseason after hitting .300 with nine homers and 67 RBIs in 135 games with the Erie SeaWolves, Detroit's Double-A affiliate.
Paul Casella is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @paul_casella. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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keep talkin
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Going to have to miss todays Tech day My wife and daughter have different plans for my B'day and I can't turn down my daughter.
Have a great time and be sure to take some photos!
By the time I decamped at 2:30, Marcin had donated his not insignificant mechanical skills to three bikes, valves were checked, a shock was replaced and a Honda was up on the lift having both sprockets replaced and a new chain installed.
Marcin - I owe you again!
Thanks, Beemer01
here few pics
curt instaling his side panel back on the bike after shock installation
few bikes show up
Maybe I won't miss the next TECH DAY...
Which is this Saturday!
Sorry I could not make this one though, Marcin, you did good.
I was thinking to do tech day like this first weekend of the month but in some casess we will move it to a later time.I hope the last one turn out ok for evryone.We had riders from MOA,ADV,Sport-Touring and NITRO riding forums with al kind of bikes.
here a list of who show up:
Beemer(Brian) ->R11.5GS
Lefty(Martin) ->Triumph Sprint
Chappy(Scott)->Honda VFR
Mr Jay->Triumph Speed Triple
Merle O'Broham->Suzuki V storm
and me Y2K
I need opinions
1. if 11am will work ?
2. saturday or sunday?
3. what you think we need to improve?
ride safe ...........................y2k
OK, whoa!
Martin bought another Sprint?!!!!!
I thought he retired from riding?
But I could start earlier in the morning!
The guys over on ADV gave me some other things to look at to explain that left cylinder rattle -
Anyone riding this Sunday???


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I'm always forgetting the syntax to make "for" loops in Bash. I guess it serves me right for using foreach most of my UNIX life instead. Anyhow, I know I will have to come back here to find it, so I thought I would write put up this quick example with the hope that it will be useful to others as well.
for i in $(seq 1 100); do echo -n "file${i} "; touch file${i} 2>&1; done
The the above for loop will create 100 files (called file1, file2, etc.).


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Per Schefter:
Packers are signing QB Matt Flynn.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 12, 2013
Look for the Packers to place Seneca Wallace on IR or release him with an injury settlement. And make no mistake, the Packers and McCarthy are very impressed with Scott Tolzien. He will be the starter against the New York Giants and will most likely start until Aaron Rodgers is ready to return. Flynn is insurance in case Tolzien falters or (God forbid) gets hurt in Sunday's game.
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By Jay Jaffe
As worthy of a national holiday to celebrate our emergence from a long winter nightmare as it may be, Opening Day is just one day on the baseball schedule, marking the first game that counts in a string of 162 before the playoffs start. Nonetheless, it's a milepost of which players, teams, media and fans are all aware, a snapshot in time that's recorded for posterity. With that date just over a week away (!!!), there's no shortage of players who are racing against the clock to be ready, but who may wind up on the disabled list instead, as well as plenty whom we already know will miss their team's opener but will be back on the diamond at some point in the not-too-distant future.
What follows is a pretty fair All-Star squad of players either definitively out of commission for Opening Day or in jeopardy of winding up on the outside looking in. It's by no means a comprehensive rundown of every absence; some positions are more decimated than others. I'll round up some of the remaining players in a post at a future date.
Catcher: Brian McCann, Braves (out). After slumping to .230/.300/.399 last year, the six-time All-Star underwent offseason surgery on his right shoulder to repair his torn labrum and remove a cyst. He hasn't appeared in a spring game but has been taking batting practice, and things are said to be going well. Nonetheless, he'll start the year on the disabled list, and the Braves have targeted April 16 — exactly six months since his surgery — for his return. In the meantime, Gerald Laird will take over as starting catcher, while 26-year-old Evan Gattis, who spent four years away from baseball battling drug and depression problems, is making a strong bid to stick as his backup.
First Base: Mark Teixeira, Yankees (out). Earlier this month, Teixera was diagnosed with a wrist strain that knocked him off the Team USA World Baseball Classic squad and was supposed to keep him out of action for eight to 10 weeks, into mid-May. Since then, new information has come to light, and it's not good: Teixeira's injury is actually a partially torn tendon sheath, which could hold him out of action into June. While the tendon itself is stable, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman conceded that there's only a 70 percent chance he recovers without surgery; going under the knife would likely cost him the entire season. With numerous other injuries, the Yankees haven't figured out exactly how they'll cover first base; Kevin Youkilis, Juan Rivera and Dan Johnson are the primary candidates to see time there.
Second Base: Daniel Murphy, Mets (doubtful). Murphy suffered an intercostal strain while taking batting practice on Feb. 18. After receiving a cortisone shot, he progressed as far as playing in a minor league exhibition last Friday, but was subsequently scratched from a follow-up game and has been limited to just a few swings since then. If he doesn't return to game action this weekend, manager Terry Collins said that he'll start the season on the disabled list. With backup Justin Turner nursing an ankle sprain, and possibly needed to cover third base if he's healthy and David Wright isn't ready, Jordany Valdespin is the mostly likely starter at the keystone come April 1.
Third Base: Chase Headley, Padres (out). Wright, the Blue Jays' Brett Lawrie and the Giants' Pablo Sandoval alll retain shots at being ready for Opening Day, but Headley will start the year on the DL due to a fracture in the tip of his left thumb, which he suffered while sliding into second base this past weekend. He's expected to be out four to six weeks, putting his return in mid-to-late April, though he won't need surgery. Logan Forsythe is the most likely candidate to take over in his absence, with Jedd Gyorko and Alexi Amarista also in the mix. Manager Bud Black appears to be losing his mind with the possible permutations:
"If Gyroko makes the team and if Logan makes the team and if (Alexi) Amarista makes the team, there's a scenario that on a given night Amarista might play second and Gyorko might play third. And there might be a scenario where Logan plays third and Gyorko plays second. And there's a scenario where Gyorko plays second and Logan plays third. And there's a scenario where Amarista plays second and Gyorko plays third."
Yup, that should about cover it.
Shortstop: Hanley Ramirez, Dodgers (out). After jamming his thumb while diving for a ball in the World Baseball Classic championship game on Tuesday, Ramirez was diagnosed with a torn ligament in his right thumb. He'll undergo surgery that will sideline him for eight to 10 weeks, and it appears that his absence could even scuttle plans for him to play shortstop; because of his extended stint alongside former teammate Jose Reyes on the Dominican Republic WBC team, he has spent most of this spring at third base. The Dodgers initially planned to use Ramirez at short, with late-season breakout Luis Cruz at the hot corner, but Cruz or former prospect Dee Gordon may instead cover short, with Jerry Hairston Jr., Juan Uribe and/or Nick Punto filling in at third.
Leftfield: Logan Morrison, Marlins (out). After slumping to .230/.308/.399 in 93 games last year, Morrison underwent surgery in September to repair a torn patellar tendon in his right knee, an injury that had lingered since May. He is now hitting off a tee and barring a setback, he could begin a rehab assignment around April 15 and be back with the Marlins around May 1. Casey Kotchman is on track to take over in Morrison's absence.
Centerfield: Curtis Granderson, Yankees (out). Granderson suffered a fractured left forearm during his first plate appearance of the Grapefruit League season, which will knock him out until early May. Furthermore, it appears as though his absence will prevent the Yankees from going forward with a plan to shift him from centerfield to leftfield, where he has played just 22 games during his major league career. Brett Gardner will cover the middle pasture in his absence, with Rivera, mid-spring pickups Brennan Boesch and Ben Francisco, and rookies Melky Mesa and Zoilo Almonte in the mix to handle leftfield
Rightfield: Cody Ross, Diamondbacks (doubtful). Since leaving a March 3 Cactus League game with a calf strain, Ross has been slow to recover; he wasn't able to run on a treadmill or take batting practice until this past Tuesday. It's possible he could get into a simulated game or minor league exhibition that would allow him to face live pitching without having to run the bases or play defense, but his window to be ready by Opening Day may have closed. Even if he can't show sufficient grit to accelerate his recovery, the Diamonbacks are well covered, because rookie Adam Eaton has secured the centerfield job, which makes fourth outfielder and former Gold Glove winner Gerardo Parra available to cover rightfield.
Designated Hitter: David Ortiz, Red Sox (out). Limited to just one game after July 16 due to a strained Achilles tendon in his right foot, Otiz suffered a setback a couple of weeks ago due to inflammation in both heels. He has taken swings in a batting cage in each of the past three days, but there's no timetable for him to resume running or return to game activity. He'll likely start the year on the disabled list and eye a return sometime in mid-to-late April. In the meantime, the Sox are giving strong consideration to promoting top prospect Jackie Bradley Jr. to play left or centerfield, with Jonny Gomes handling DH duties. If they don't want to add Bradley to the 40-man roster or start his service clock, they could opt to use Daniel Nava in left.
Starting Pitcher: Johan Santana, Mets (out). After ending last season on the disabled list and taking most of the winter off, Santana came to camp in no shape to begin his normal throwing regimen, let alone participate in the World Baseball Classic as he had hoped. When the Mets ordered him to take things slowly lest he risk further shoulder fatigue, he threw a minor fit as well as what the New York Daily News termed "an impromptu and angry bullpen session." Though he's said to have smoothed things over with the brass, he hasn't thrown from a mound since then, and it's a given that he'll start the year on the disabled list. On Thursday, Collins named Jon Niese as the Mets' Opening Day starter. Jeremy Hefner is the likely replacement in Santana's absence, joining Niese, Matt Harvey, Dillon Gee and hopefully Shaun Marcum in the rotation, though the latter received a cortisone injection due to shoulder impingement earlier this week, and could be scratched as well.Closer: Ryan Madson, Angels (out). Ernesto Frieri Scott Downs


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This one gives nothing really. Perhaps kishi just wanted to show how fast a fast learner obito can be.
In a way, he's just like naruto. Awakening skills, because of emotions.
Kakashi is not an uchiha, and he doesn't have enough chakra back then to use it. He might even probably die, just by activating it. Think about it. He wasn't prepared at that time for that MS to be awakened.
Obito jumped from 2 tamoe to MS. I guess, seeing his love one die and the fact that his "best" friend was the one who killed her gave him two LVL ups right away. Cool.
But like I said, this chapter doesn't give us much, so i give a 2/5.


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Title: Something along the lines of "Hermione at the Burrow".
Era: Errr... Don't remember. During the summer before some year...
Category: Hermione/Ron romance, I think.
General Plot: Well, it read it a long time ago but I do remember Hermione came to stay at the burrow, flirtingflirtingflirting, lovelovelove, Uh-oh there's death eaters! and then I think at one point Ron wanted to ask Hermione it marry him.
Author: I have no idea.
I read this story a long time ago, probably about three years ago. I don't know if it's been deleted or what, all I know is I was an avid reader before I got distracted and now I can't find it.


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Discussion in 'Doctor Who' started by StCoop, Jul 21, 2013.
Cool! Hopefully it leaks.
As gets pointed out every year when people start whinging about Comic Con, BBC America pays for everything so no it doesn't cost License Payers anything.
This video contains content from BBC Worldwide, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.
Yeah, hot fucking shit, huh?
Yeah, we can't have people from the UK watching a trailer for a show in the UK, made in the UK to be broadcast in the UK.
I like how you cut out the daily mail bit at the end to make sure nobody could tell I was joking...
Do you actually WORK for the Daily Mail with those selective quoting skills?
A show paid for by the people of the UK too.
Except, I don't think this is going to be a Dalek story. I suspect Daleks will only be featured in a flashback scene to explain the John Hurt Doctor's backstory.
TBH I'd rather they'd kept the Daleks for the Xmas show this year, since December 27th is *their* 50th anniversary...
Who says they can't do both? If they are only used in flashback in the 50th, that frees up the Christmas special to be a proper Dalek story. And hell, the marketing alone. "This Christmas on BBC One: Daleks, regeneration, new Doctor. Doctor Who: Holiday of the Daleks, Christmas Day on BBC One."
I agree with that. My only thought is that Moffat really should've just gotten McGann to play the role (if he was willing) rather than create a new "Doctor".
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Again, what makes it a certainty that the Ninth Doctor had just regenerated in "Rose"?
He comments on his face as if it's the first time he's seen it. I don't see how that could be taken as anything other than confirmation that he'd recently regenerated.
What, you've never commented on your appearance in the mirror after getting a hair cut or losing weight? Or checked out yourself in the mirror after meeting someone cute?
In short, there are lots of reasons why the Doctor would remark upon his appearance in the mirror that have nothing to do with regeneration.
Commenting on his face doesn't necessarily mean he had just regenerated. I thought he was just getting used to his face, but given his demeanour, it really does seem to me that the Ninth Doctor had been around for a while.
Not to mention the fact that Rose is his only companion that we see. Yet there are pictures of him after the Titanic, at the Kennedy assassination, etc. Rose is not in any of those pictures. Unless we are to believe that he blew up the store, tracked down Rose's apartment, then went off and had a whole bunch of adventures then went, "Oh yeah, I have to go back and take care of that whole Nestene thing," he had to have had those adventures pre-Rose, IMHO.
Indeed, but in the specific context of that scene, the implication is obvious. RTD leaves it ambiguous intentionally, but there's only one sensible interpretation why the writer would include that bit of business there.
This is likely coming down from Moffat himself
We're not getting a trailer. At all.
He could easily have been running around with a Guilt trip, beng propelled from one adventure to the next for 100 years in his Eccelston body, before slowing down enough to look in a mirror shortly after meeting Rose. With the Guilt he was carrying, the very last thing he would want to do is look in a mirror and see his face staring back at him (Wether it be the face that committed the attrocities of his shame or not)
I doubt that was RTD's "sensible interpretation," though, as RTD intended the ninth Doctor as the Time War Doctor, and you can't square that with the Doctor have a post-regeneration moment in "Rose."
Makes sense to me.
Also, it makes sense that he'd be running through time for a while (not sure if that'd be a hundred years or so, but certainly a couple of decades - drop in the water for him), but that before Rose he wouldn't stop to even look at himself wouldn't be that much of a reach.
And people really do seem to forget about all the Ninth Doctor pictures, images and what not, and all of whom clearly showcase him alone, without a companion in sight.
Anyway, never bought into the Ninth-Doctor-was-newly-regenerated-in-"Rose" thing, and unless the 50th anniversary special changes that, probably won't will.
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Location: Bee Research LaboratoryTitle: Concurrent infestations by Aethina tumida and Varroa destructor alters thermoregulation in Apis mellifera winter clusters Author
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Citation: Schaefer, M., Ritter, W., Pettis, J.S., Hartel, S., Neumann, P. 2011. Concurrent infestations by Aethina tumida and Varroa destructor alters thermoregulation in Apis mellifera winter clusters. Apidologie. 104(3):476-482. Interpretive Summary: Honey bee hives face a major test in survival as they try to live through the winter in colder regions of the world; they must maintain a stable temperature in the cluster of bees in order to survive. Here we tested to see if two pests, the parasitic Varroa mite and the small hive beetle might act alone or in combination to impact the bees' ability to maintain a constant temperature in the winter. Both pests overwinter in honeybee colonies. Here we show that combined infestations with Varroa mites and small hive beetles results in higher temperature fluctuations in the winter cluster, whereas infestations with one pest alone had no significant effect on the temperatures. Our research indicates that when both pests are present in the winter, colonies may have difficulty maintaining a stable temperature and this instability could lead to winter colony losses. This information will help refine future studies and can be useful for beekeepers to improve winter colony management.
Technical Abstract: The small hive beetle, Aethina tumida, and the ectoparasitic mite, Varroa destructor, are parasites of the honeybee, Apis mellifera. Both parasites overwinter in honeybee colonies. The efficacy of thermoregulation might be reduced in beetle and mite infested clusters, due to altered activity of host workers. Here we show that combined infestations with V. destructor and A. tumida result in higher thermal maxima in the winter cluster cores, whereas infestations with one parasite alone had no significant effect on thermoregulation. No differences in infestation rates with A. tumida were found between colonies with or without V. destructor. Likewise, no differences in mite/bee ratios were found between colonies with or without A. tumida and between the peripheries and the cluster cores. Our data indicate that an altered thermoregulation of heavily infested V. destructor colonies in combination with A. tumida infestation might be another factor contributing to winter losses of honeybee colonies.


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[May 16, 2014]
The city of Lincoln and the county of Logan have many things to be
proud of, among them and high on that list are its Abraham Lincoln
and Route 66 heritage.
Over the years, Route 66 has not lost its appeal to world
travelers. People come from far and wide to make the trip from
Chicago to California via the Mother Road. While Route 66 lost its
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popular eatery stands sold. To date, no one is saying what type of
business it will be, but that the building will be demolished and
some new business will take its place.
The Tropics was originally owned by Vince Schwenohoa, the son of
Logan County's famous, if not infamous Coonhound Johnny. Schwenohoa
brought the Tiki style lounge and restaurant to Lincoln in memory of
time he spent in the military when he was stationed in Hawaii and
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from Chicago to Saint Louis. The development of Interstate-55
skirted around the cities of Lincoln, Atlanta and Elkhart. As a
result, business fell off for places such as the Tropics, the Palm's
Grill and Pig Hip restaurants. Also contributing to the decline of
favored local hotspots, new fast food eateries went up near
interstate exits.
People traveling were in a hurry and seldom did they take the time
to go into a city, when everything they needed stood within a few
hundred yards of the interstate. Because of this restaurants such
as the Tropics and full service gas stations came to rely on local
patronage only, and often times that was not enough to keep them
Due to its local popularity, the Tropics held on for a lot longer
than many others. However, the time finally came when it was no
longer affordable to keep the doors open. The restaurant, which
opened its doors in the 1950's changed hands several times before
finally closing completely in the early 2000's.
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The building had stood vacant and for sale over a decade, but
the property sold recently.
Mayor Keith Snyder learned that the former owners wished to do
something to preserve the landmark Tropics neon sign.
The children of the Lew and Bev Johnson family agreed to donate the
sign to the city with the stipulation it had to be removed from the
property. The city graciously accepted their gift.
Crews were on the scene shortly after 9 a.m. on Wednesday to begin
the tedious task of taking the sign down from its two-post pedestal
for relocation to temporary shelter for safe keeping.
Several members of the Johnson family including their daughter and
two sons were on hand Wednesday when the sign came down. It was
clearly an emotional moment for all of them.
its glory days the sign was covered in neon and lit up the night sky
drawing patrons in to a friendly Tiki party atmosphere inside.
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draws tourists into the community and that traffic supports the
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dollar figure that can be spent on the Tropics sign. O'Donohue said
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former glory is going to be an expensive venture.
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Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by JoeZhang, Mar 3, 2008.
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hm.... Eve Myles and Charlotte Church vs Edith Bowman, Ashley Jensen, Gail Porter and Carol Krkwood ...
Eve Myles beats them all hands down (although before the unfortunate hair loss for Gail Porter, she was hot!)
Interesting conundrum. Because Worf saved Jadiza, Ezri gets a command but he couldn't. If he didn't, Jadzia still would have died, it'd just be a lot sooner, but he'd get a command. No wonder he's snippy.
You know what's funny? I just re-read the beginning of these posts, and almost have to laugh at some of the absurd comments, and yet realize one hint of irony: Amazon got it right! Their description for Gods of Night was spot-on. I really had thought that the Columbia picture blurb was just filler, but I guess I was wrong...don't matter...the story freakin' rocked! But it's funny how anxiety filled we were months ago...
Well, yes and no. It didn't contain any factual inaccuracies, but its emphasis was misleading. And yeah, it was amazing to me how many erroneous assumptions people made on the basis of that description. Although people make just as many erroneous assumptions based on accurate blurbs.
^ True that... when you read it after you've been awake for awhile, the words do make sense... I see where you're coming from. And it must have been hard for the beta-readers (yourself among them, right?), and Dave not to say anything even when people were going off the deep end in making these erroneous assumptions? Well, prophetic statements ring true. Kirsten said to us that she'd be surprised if we didn't go totally nuts when the book came out, and with the generally positive acclaim, I guess all us readers are enjoying crow while you guys enjoy...well, whatever it is you choose to enjoy.
All of which is always entertaining
You really should have put thought into your choice of Scottish fillies...
For me WH Smiths or Borders is more of a last resort. I prefer to get them cheaper from eBay UK if they happen to be available.
The WH Smiths around here have no Star Trek at all, and haven't done for several years now. Borders and Waterstones have a modest amount.
I get mine from Amazon UK or the Amazon Marketplace depending on how long I'm willing to wait.
Only go into the book stores to browse and jog my memory.
Waterstones here in Leeds had loads of them yesterday - all the way up to the newest ones. Didn't look in Borders, but it's usually well stocked.
Must be a lot of trekkies up there. My part of London has almost nothing, and the West End has slightly more
It did raise a good point. I think Worf shouldn't worry though. After Destiny I have a feeling Starfleet's going to need good Commanders.
I loved this bit in the excerpt:
"rich with the charnel perfume of scorched flesh and spilled blood"
Gory scene in sickbay or Dr. Ree's favorite restaurant?
i did. i like all 4 of those. hush yur mouth
Why can't it be both?
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I'm a newbie at posting, though a lurker for many years. Big fan of the TNG relaunch and very much interested in what the authors have been doing with Jean-Luc Picard since Death In Winter.
First off, I want to thank the authors - Bennett, Mack, and Beyer – come to mind, who continually post in the face of sometimes withering reactions from some readers. I know of no other forum that enables such a wonderful give-and-take between writers and readers as this one. It's a wonderful and rare opportunity to actually discuss an author's work with the author. If I was a writer I doubt that I would be so brave. So hats off to you all. I suppose that the common denominator is that we are all fans of Startrek (in its various guises).
So, having got the congratulations out of the way, here's the reason for my post: I've now read Destiny: Gods of Night, but while waiting for it I re-read all the other TNG relaunch books and I see a common theme re: Picard and the Borg and how that appears to be playing out in the trilogy, so far.
In BD, we've got several scenes that seem to prefigure the trilogy: "destiny" being one of them, with Picard thinking: Why? Why was he still here when so many others who were just as worthy as he had passed on before him?
Well, maybe it just hadn't been his time yet.
"Destiny." The word floated back to him, unbidden. If "his time" was something that could generally be pinpointed, then he'd been wrong. No matter what he did, he really was part of some grand game, a mere piece to be played rather than a player.
And the scene earlier where Janeway states in her log:
"…I have to see it for myself. Have to see the cube that so daunting, so commanding, so…formidable that Jean-Luc Picard was willing to throw away his entire Starfleet career. See with my own eyes the site of the final battle where Picard risked his ship, his life, his very soull.
Do the Borg have souls?
What an odd question….
Still if there is a soul, what becomes of it once one is assimilated? Is it transmuted, polluted? Is it stolen away, never to return? Doubtful. Seven of Nine and Picard have been there and returned. Although perhaps – she looked thoughtful – perhaps that's the question that follows them, although I doubt they'd ever articulate it."
Then there's Janeway considering whether to bring J-LP to a court-martial hearing: Then we come to the question of state of mind. Picard insisted that he was connected to the Borg hive mind and simply 'knew' that the Borg were active and in the process of creating a new queen. The argument could be made that his 'compulsion' to get to the Borg as quickly as possible was biologically based, and thus he was functioning under diminished responsibility. Or maybe…
Once again she lapsed into silence, but before the computer could prompt her, she said so softly that it was almost inaudible,…maybe he was just trying to save his soul."
And of course there's THAT strange moment in BD on Vulcan with - Lady Q? – Soco, Perrin's friend – "This one," she said [meaning Picard], "has the aura of doom upon him. … I am saying that there is an event of doom that is impending, and he will not be able to stave it off, try as he might. Nothing he does can change that." Almost as an afterthought, she turned her gaze to Picard and sounded slightly apologetic as she said: "I am sorry for your loss. For what you have suffered and what will be coming."
And the final page of the GTTS: "For a moment, Picard had dared to hope. He and Beverly had started their family. And less than a month later, the Borg began their blitzkrieg into Federation space.
You should've known. You've always known."
So, here's my question: to what degree did David Mack's outline for the Destiny trilogy impact upon the writing of Christopher Bennett and Peter David?
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ReRAM Is Memory Focus at IEDM
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Advanced memory research is focused on ReRAM, MRAM, and vertically stacked memory, to judge from the advance program of the International Electron Devices Meeting 2013. However, there is at least one NAND paper due to be presented that could grab attention.
Research papers on novel forms of nonvolatile memory, grouped under the term resistance RAM (ReRAM), will dominate the memory topic at this year's International Electron Devices Meeting, set to take place at the Washington Hilton Hotel Dec. 7 to 9.
Whereas in previous years IEDM featured a great many papers on flash memory and DRAM devices, both these categories are conspicuous by their near absence from the advance program for the 2013 IEDM.
The change to a focus on ReRAM, magnetic RAM, and 3D memory research reflects the conventional wisdom that NAND and NOR flash memory will not scale far beyond 20 nm and that other nonvolatile memory structures must be found, explored, and understood.
IEDM 2013 does include numerous papers on phase-change memory, a form of resistance memory that has made it to commercial production with a 1 Gbit component implemented in a 45 nm process by Micron Technology. However, these papers mainly take the form of modeling and reliability studies, or detail the introduction of complexity to deal with pre-existing limitations of the technology.
However, there is one NAND flash memory presentation that is likely to be well attended. The Session 3.6 paper, written by engineers from SK Hynix is on NAND flash memory cells made using a process with minimum geometry at about 14 to 16 nm and using an air-gap between bitlines to reduce bitline-to-bitline interference. The abstract of the paper states that the use of the air-gap reduces bitline crosstalk to the level of the company's 2Y process generation and reduces the effect of process variation on threshold voltage. The result is a mid-1Xnm MLC NAND flash memory with "superior manufacturability and acceptable reliability," the abstract claims.
While IEDM is an academic research conference, this result supports the likelihood that the industry will continue to scale NAND flash to about 15 nm geometry before jumping back to coarser and easier to manufacture processes for 3D-NAND memories. (See: Intel outlines 3-D NAND transition.)


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Hawksworth draws parallels to Wainwright
Highly rated prospect struggles, climbs ladder to success
By Matthew Leach / MLB.com
Cardinals at a glance2009 record: 91-71
2008 record: 86-76
NL Central champs
• McClellan: Hometown boy
• Cards: Shaking off walk-off
• Ludwick: Dream fulfilled
• Hawksworth: On way up
• Ryan: Playing it cool
• Pujols: Ready for fun stuff
• Wainwright: Proud, durable
• Holliday: Kids' play
• Pujols: Triple Crown?
• La Russa: 14th postseason
• Carpenter: Heart of staff
• Pujols: Eschewing rest
• Holliday: A perfect fit
• Carpenter: Ready to go
• La Russa: Getting proactive
• Wainwright: Apt pupil
• Pujols: His place in history?
• Pujols: The evolution
• Holliday: Offensive spark
• La Russa: Controls fate
• Pujols: MVP No. 3?
• Wainwright: Mr. Consistent
• La Russa: Winning cures all
• Carpenter: A go Game 1
• Holliday: Big impact
• Wainwright: Cy in cards?
Hawksworth hasn't had the kind of impact that Wainwright did in 2006, and he won't be closing games in the playoffs like Wainwright did. But as for how he got on the Cardinals' playoff roster, it's easy to see the similarities.
Both were highly rated prospects early in their career, and both struggled a bit on the way up the ladder. When they arrived in the Majors, both started out as the last man in the bullpen but pitched well enough to receive higher and higher profile assignments.
It's been a breakout year for Hawksworth. He posted a 6.09 ERA at Triple-A Memphis last year, and it was an open question how much longer he'd even be on the Cardinals' radar. But his persistence finally paid off. Hawksworth was in his eighth Minor League season when he finally got the call to the Majors.
"I never really questioned my stuff," he said. "It's just that the results weren't there. It gets to a point where you pretty much have to take things upon yourself and change your approach and your work ethic.
"I tried to do that from Day 1 in spring on, not stop, whether it's here or Memphis. Just keep the same routine and same approach on the mound, and it's helped."
No one is saying that Hawksworth is going to become a front-of-the-rotation starter like Wainwright. But he has some of the same traits, most notably an unflappability that has served him very well as a rookie. The hope is that it will suit him even more now that he's on his first playoff roster.
Eschewing Experience
|Playoff appearances
|Playoff innings
|Mitchell Boggs
|Ryan Franklin
|Blake Hawksworth
|Kyle Lohse
|13 1/3
|Kyle McClellan
|Trever Miller
|Jason Motte
|Dennys Reyes
|John Smoltz
"I see a lot of myself in him," Wainwright said. "He's attacking the hitter now. He wasn't doing that last year. His swagger on the mound is a 180 difference than it was. So I'm proud of him, where he's come from. And he battled through it and he's battled through injuries to be where he's at. It's awesome."
At the start of Spring Training, Hawksworth was a long shot even to see any significant time with the big league club this year. But he pitched superbly in the spring, catching the eye of the field staff. When he earned his first promotion to the Majors, he seized the opportunity. Now he's on the playoff roster, hoping to contribute to a deep October run.
"People can look at how this whole thing has kind of gone down and be a little surprised to see where I was this time last year, to now," Hawksworth said. "But I just feel blessed to be a part of it, and I'm ready for this whole thing to kick off. No more meetings and talk and media, let's go play."
Matthew Leach is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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'The Happiness Project' is an album by Charles Spearin, Canadian musician and co-founder of Broken Social Scene. I'm a fan of his music and only just found out that that he is Buddhist! The following is the excerpt from his myspace profile. I highly recommend that you check out the samples of the tunes. It is a kind of free form, experimental music which may not be everyone's cup of tea but I think it is worth a listen as it really captures something quite special. It has a kind of mindful quality--a quality of attentiveness and compassion that one doesn't usually find in popular music. It is, for me anyway, achingly beautiful.
About The Happiness Project
These are my neighbours. My wife and I have two little kids and live in a multi-cultural neighbourhood in downtown Toronto. In the hot summer months all the kids in the neighbourhood play outside together and everyone is out on their porch enjoying each other's company, telling stories and sharing thoughts. A year or so ago I began inviting some of them over to the house for a casual interview vaguely centered around the subject of happiness. In some cases we never broached the subject directly but none-the-less my friends began to call it my "Happiness Project".
After each interview I would listen back to the recording for moments that were interesting in both meaning and melody. By meaning I mean the thoughts expressed, by melody I mean the cadence and inflection that give the voice a sing-song quality. It has always been interesting to me how we use sounds to convey concepts. Normally, we don't pay any attention to the movement of our lips and tounge, and the rising and falling of our voices as we toss our thoughts back and forth to each other. We just talk and listen. The only time we pay attention to these qualities is in song. (Just as when we read we don't pay attention to the curl and swing of the letters as though they were little drawings.)
Meaning seems to be our hunger but we should still try to taste our food. I wanted to see if I could blur the line between speaking and singing - life and art? - and write music based on these accidental melodies. So I had some musician friends play, as close as they could, these neighbourhood melodies on different instruments (Mrs. Morris on the tenor saxophone, Marisa on the harp, my daughter Ondine on the violin, etc.) and then I arranged them as though they were songs.
All of the melodies on this album are the melodies of every day life.
- Charles Spearin, founding member of Broken Social Scene and Do Make Say Think
Source: http://www.myspace.com/charlesspearin
Be happy,About Charles Spearin
Charles Spearin is a multi-instrumentalist who has been an active and influential member of Canada's independent music community since the mid 1990's. He is primarily known as a founding member of the instrumental post-rock ensemble Do Make Say Think and an original member of the indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene. Spearin's most recent work - his first solo album - innocently titled 'The Happiness Project' centers around recorded conversations with his downtown neighbours and plays with the cadence of their voices as though they were songs.
The inspiration behind this new project comes partly from his love of music and fascination with sound and partly from his experience and education in Buddhism. Charles was raised with a blind, Buddhist father and, before the birth of his own two children and subsequent familial responsibilities, dedicated much of his time to studying Buddhist philosophy and practicing meditation (including annual retreats in meditation centers, monasteries and solitary cabin-retreats).
Buddhist practice puts emphasis on analyzing the nature of one's own awareness and experience through study, contemplation and meditation, and often includes long periods of silence and reflection. Returning home to ordinary life and ordinary conversation after extended periods of quiet is what brought Spearin's attention to what would be the focus of this new album: The natural, unselfconscious, music of speech. By replicating the rising and falling of the recorded voices on different instruments Spearin, in true Buddhist form, attempts to illuminate some of the beauty of ordinary life.
Source: http://www.happiness-project.ca/index.php


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When it was learned that New York City First Responders were not invited to the 10th Anniversary Memorial Ceremonies at the World Trade Center, many people were surprised. Their exclusion opened old wounds for those Ground Zero rescuers—the forgotten witnesses.
One such firefighter was Sean Francis Hickey, one of the first on the scene. Hickey, a retired FDNY Ladder 144 Firefighter, now lives in California. In a recent exclusive interview, Hickey recalled his personal experience with the event that would forever change our world.
"I awoke on my first day of vacation in Bayside, New York City and took an early morning stretch. I said, 'What a beautiful day.' My brother Bert called and told me we were attacked. Attacked! I turned on the TV and saw the smoldering building—the first one hit. I said, 'goodbye,' and 'I love you.' to my wife and children, but when I said goodbye to my firefighter brother, it was another thing altogether. I knew it could be the last day for both of us. My brother was trained in terrorism fire tactics. He knew the possibility of biological and chemical devices, and knew there could be much more than just fires. I rushed to my fire house in Queens, and was told to drive to Shea Stadium to be bused to the World Trade Center. I was in a bus with eight guys with a police escort to 11th Avenue, ten to twelve blocks to Westside Highway."
Hickey then turned the inside of his left arm, showing how he identified himself in case of the worst. "I took some photos of the guys on the bus, and then with a marker pen, wrote my name 'Hickey' on my arm. When the lieutenant heard the guys laughing, he told them to do the same. We all knew we may die that day."
When Hickey's group arrived at the World Financial Center, they entered the WFC3 to get to the Command Center where Chief of Department Commissioner William Feehan had set up under the catwalk between the Twin Towers on Westside Highway. "By the time we started the search both buildings were down. Street sidewalks were makeshift morgues," said Hickey. Their mission was to find Feehan. Sean Hickey knew the 71-year old Chief—he was a neighbor and had been with the department over forty years. When they entered the building, Chief Tori told Hickey to stay within shouting distance because they knew the city-issued handy-talkie radios did not work at close range.
The group of nine firefighters, on a mission to find Feehan, passed through steel doors and descended four stories down the stairs to the garage, feeling for each step in the pitch dark. Water from broken sprinkler systems and main pipes was flooding the basement. There was a real fear that the water could be electrically charged from exposed wires. The firemen had no respirators or radios, but were protected in knee-high rubber boots. In higher water they could be electrocuted. Hickey, thinking the water was only ankle-deep, stepped off the five-foot high loading dock into waist-high water. Fortunately, the water was not electrically charged. Others followed.
As they waded through the pitch-dark garage, Hickey discovered the bodies of fallen comrades—dead firefighters. "I stood there, just me and God," Hickey remembered. The other firefighters followed Hickey's flashlight and waded towards him. They climbed over piles of smoking twisted metal and debris, once a towering building. "Sean, we were the first ones out," a firefighter friend, Mark Klinger, later told him.
Hickey knew so many others who perished that awful day. "Father Mychal Judge was among the first to die, one of the first brought out—the chaplain was my friend. Chiefs Bill Feehan and Peter Ganci had also died when the 110-story South Tower fell."
"A HERO IS A SANDWICH"Some historical accounts have been sanitized, stressing healing, hope and forgiveness. Journalists were given tips on "9-11 Healing and Remembrance Programs," being told to mitigate eye-witness accounts; to not state the number of dead, thus whitewashing much of the truth by avoiding graphic images.
Sean Hickey showed me Ground Zero photos. They are not "media" images, but what was seen through the eyes of a firefighter who was there. "The other firefighters who had beaten us to the Twin Towers were already dead; our group in the garage miraculously survived. We got out of the building and climbed over the hot smoking rubble, thirty feet high, strewn with the dead, pieces of people. Nothing was recognizable. It was a field of grey dust, ash and smoldering debris—surreal, like being on the moon. I was overwhelmed. I got on my knees and prayed for all those who had died."
For the rest of the day, seventeen straight hours, the only people Sean and his team found were dead firemen—many crushed under the rigs they drove when the towers came down. The rescue team found no one to rescue. They carried buckets roaming over the site, finding dismembered body parts. Hickey was close friends with twenty-seven firefighter brothers who died that day. They were friends from Queens and The Bronx—none of them were ever found.
He and his rescue team came upon Fire Department bunker gear under a crushed truck telling him it belonged to a Fire Captain. He decided not to read the name on the captain's bunker coat when he saw the man's condition. He did not want to know the name of the broken man that will haunt his memory. Hickey pulled the body from under the heavy steel beams and with the help of other rescuers, passed the captain's body from one to another, as respectfully as they could under the circumstances, to carry the body out of the area. One rescuer became physically sick—the only normalcy of the day. Every firefighter brother carried from Ground Zero adds to the loss, pain and collective memory of endless, exhausting hours.
Even though the nerve jacket was torn from Hickey's shoulder, he slammed the bone back into place and continued the rescue—spurred on by pure adrenalin. The firefighters breathed in the towers' toxic fumes, dust and residue of airborne poisons. As they breathed in the noxious mixture, their throats and lungs burned and their dry mouths became filled with grey, flying ash.
When the firefighter rescuers finally got to drink water, all the poisons were swallowed. "It was impossible not to inhale the debris with every breath," explained Hickey, "everything I saw was coated with layers of fine dust which was all that was left of the towers and everything in it; pulverized remains of buildings, furniture…people. The dust was so thick, we could not see very well and had to pick our way blindly through everything to search for survivors."
Through the eeriness of a grey field of death, a surreal vision interrupted Hickey as he searched the rubble. "The only contact with a living civilian that day was a Middle Eastern shopkeeper, dressed in typical robe and head garb; he was crying and carrying water to survivors—there were none…"
I told Sean Hickey that he is a hero, to which he laughed and replied, "A hero is a sandwich," as he broke the somberness of the moment with typical Irish humor.
Sean Hickey was forced into early retirement. Today, at only fifty, he is divorced and disabled. His right arm jerked from the shoulder socket at Ground Zero is atrophying; diagnosed as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and the spine casing is stripped. His lungs have multiple tumors; tissue samples show deposits of carcinogens—benzene, glass, fiberglass, lead, insulation, Freon, asbestos and human remains. Doctors have said many First Responders have "lungs like fish tanks," lined with glass. Hickey said that a high percentage of the 9/11 responders are divorced. Large numbers have either committed or attempted suicide. Many, given legal drugs, are now hooked. Hickey recounted how life became so difficult, that at one point he tried to end his life. My heart broke that a vital young man would have to endure so much. And there are many more Sean Hickey backstories; hopefully they end as well.
When he received the "settlement," being a stubborn, Bronx-born proud Irishman and not wanting to profit from 9/11, Hickey paid all his family's bills, paid off his children's college tuition and gave a brand-new Lexus to a young stranger who lost his legs in a roadside bomb blast in Iraq.
Sean Hickey has designed his own therapy program; he builds shadowboxes—each one a unique work of art using bits of steel and found objects from the North Tower, things significant from that long day in the pit. He welds firefighter figures, like old-fashioned toy soldiers, and places them in the framed diorama, as if telling a story on a small stage. "I put my emotions into my art. Art is my therapy. I never sell my shadowbox creations, I donate them. Four of my art pieces are exhibited at FDNY HQ at 9 Metrotech in Brooklyn. One contains the medal I received from New York City for being one of the first rescuers at the scene. Each art piece I create peels away another layer of grief—I have many more to make…"
Sean Hickey, badge number 2886, FDNY, does not sign his works of art, per se. He places a thumbprint of blood somewhere in the shadow-box; his signature to be inside forever. It is Hickey's reminder that he collected the DNA of so many people at Ground Zero. It was all he could collect. There was nothing else left.


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ive been playing a computer game for a good while now (years, in fact), and every so often i run into a small cheat/hack program that allows you to do various little things that you wouldnt normally be able to do. these programs seem to be written by average joes (you can tell that by reading their readme files), and they are usually fairly simple.
ive always wondered, how do you go about writing one of those. i assume it has to send functions to the game itself, and ive ran emulators for the game and know a little of the scripting language used, but how would i go about writing a program that does something within the game. if i used game functions in my code, it wouldnt compile because the function wouldnt be recognized. also, i havent a clue how to send information into another program.
anyone have any idea how this is done?


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It was a game of few chances and many substitutions as the Premier League sides settled for a share of the spoils in Baltimore, with Aaron Lennon coming closest to a goal
Both sides lined up with a blend of experience and youth, notably employing an academy graduate each up front in Adam Morgan, scorer of Liverpool's solitary goal in the 1-1 draw with Toronto and Harry Kane, leading the attack for Spurs in Jermain Defoe's absence due to a family bereavement.
The two teams traded half-chances in the opening five minutes as firstly Gareth Bale picked off a loose pass from kick-off but saw his shot blocked for a corner, before Stewart Downing's dangerous cross from the right just drifted wide of Brad Friedel's far post.
The tempo of the game in the early stages owed somewhat to the sweltering conditions in the M&T Bank Stadium and looked a far cry from the speed of the Premier League.
After 15 minutes of gentle jousting, Tottenham fashioned the first genuine chance as Gylfi Sigurdsson took charge of some promising play on the right to thread a through ball to Kane. His touch, turn and shot showed good intuition but the 18-year-old's low drive zipped just beyond Brad Jones' far post.
There followed a worrying moment for Andre Villas-Boas as Charlie Adam tripped Bale on the halfway line leading to lengthy treatment for the Welshman. It would have served as a reminder of the tackle that ended the winger's season in 2011 but fortunately, in this case, he was able to run it off.
Liverpool had created a decent chance through Jonjo Shelvey but in the 27th minute had their first clear cut opportunity as Jay Spearing clipped a 20-yard pass over the Spurs defence for Morgan to latch onto. The youngster timed his run to stay onside, bore down on goal and fired a left-footed shot toward the near post only for Friedel to turn it behind for a corner.
Tottenham retaliated and carved out their best chance yet as Bale's cross from the left saw Kane get the slightest of touches on the ball, thereby diverting it into Aaron Lennon's path. But the winger struggled to fully commit himself to the finish, tapping the ball onto the post with an empty net in front of him.
And Bale ended the half with another good cross, this time met by Sigurdsson but well held by Jones.
The break saw both coaches make a raft of substitutions, with Bale succumbing to injury and making way for Andros Townsend while Brendan Rodgers rotated his team, introducing Raheem Sterling and Nathan Eccleston in attacking positions.
It had an immediate effect and the pace of the new forward-line gave William Gallas and Younes Kaboul something else to worry about. But it was Martin Skrtel who recognised an opportunity, striding out of defence before shooting from 20 yards, drawing a save from Friedel.
By the hour mark, the substitute benches were utilised again, as Rodgers handed Fabio Borini his debut as well as welcoming Lucas Leiva into midfield. Steven Gerrard also entered the fray.
For Spurs, Tom Huddlestone entered the field and made an immediate impact, caressing a 30 yard pass over the top of the Liverpool defence for the galloping Gallas, but he was foiled by Peter Gulacsi.
By the 80th minute there hadn't been a further chance of note and even when Kane was presented with a chance from a 25-yard free-kick, his effort was hit well over the bar.
Liverpool did find some joy down their right flank with Sterling up against the out-of-position Sebastian Bassong and although he found a way in behind the Cameroon international, the 17-year-old's final ball just lacked the precision needed to find the waiting Borini.
It was as close as Rodgers' team came to breaking the deadlock and would prove to be the last good chance of the game.
The match marks the final game of Liverpool's US tour as they begin their Europa League campaign against FC Gomel of Belarus on Thursday. Tottenham conclude their trip with a match against New York Red Bulls early on Wednesday morning.