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Race Control's wall of monitors
When fans watch a Champ Car race on TV or from the grandstands
their focus is on the constant heated action on the track where drivers and teams
push the limit to gain any advantage. Many times the action gets a bit too hot and
that's when drivers step over the fine line between aggression and
over-aggression. What the fans don't see is the team of people in Champ Car Race
Control who are responsible for overseeing every aspect of the race, including the
difficult decisions of interpreting and implementing Champ Car's rulebook.
They are the ones who are really on the hot seat....literally.
With all the criticism heaped on the Champ Car race officials these
days, I welcomed the opportunity to watch the Grand Prix of Monterey Champ Car
race at Laguna Seca from Race Control on the top floor of the Pagoda. This was an
incredible experience and gave me a better perspective on what race officials
really do and how they really make the calls.
I arrived about 15 minutes before the start engines command was to
be given and observed the dozen or so men and women already settling in their
respective Race Control stations. Surrounded by some 40 computer monitors and TV
screens the place actually resembles a mini NASA Mission Control in Houston.
After a few moments of gazing at all the sophisticated technology
utilized in Race Control, John Lopes, Champ Car's Executive VP of Operations,
introduced me to the team of people who were about to take control of all aspects
of the race for the next two hours.
Race Control Personnel
Chris Kneifel, Competition and Race Director - Kneifel, a former driver, is
essentially the Commander-In-Chief of Race Control and ultimately responsible for
all final decisions other than judgmental officiating which is overseen by the
Champ Car Stewards.
Champ Car Race Stewards - The Champ Car Stewards are led by
Director of Operations John Anderson, a long-time motorsports veteran and
former manager of Pac West. Beaux Barfield (a former driver who provides
rulebook expertise) and Derek Higgins (the instant replay steward) are both
former drivers. They review all potential infractions and make all decisions
regarding on-track violations. The Stewards coordinate with the Race Director
(Kneifel) in communicating and enforcing the rules.
Paul Leyton - His job is the main liaison between Race
Control and the officials and teams on pit road. He is the "Voice of Channel 1".
Paul also coordinates the minute-to-minute sequencing of the event from Race
Control, from the singing of the National Anthem, to Gentleman Start Your Engines
and on to the Checkered Flag and podium ceremonies. Paul has an earpiece in each
ear. In one ear is Channel 1 and in the other is his radio communication with the
Pit Lane Officials. With two radios going at one time and with the chatter in Race
Control, Paul is a multi-tasker of the first order.
Jim Swintal - is Clerk of the Course and controls the
starter and marshals around the track. The actual start of the race, i.e. the
go/no-go is the decision of the starter, not Race Control, but pretty much
everything else the starter does is at the direction of Jim Swintal. Jim also
controls a bell in Race Control. He rings it when there is an on-track incident
during the race to alert everyone in Race Control. Jim is in direct contact with
dozens of course observers via a landline. For non-U.S. events, Jim is accompanied
by a translator who translates for Jim back and forth in the language of the local
observers. Jim was brought into Race Control, after years of service as CART's
starter, due to his experience. Jim coordinates with the local SCCA representative
who assists him with SCCA volunteer observers.
Some may think that "ringing a bell" may be an antiquated form of
communication in our computer driven technological age. Considering the frenzied
activity during the race, with each member of Race Control consumed with a
specific task under extreme pressure, when the bell rings it shatters their focus
and gains the immediate attention of the entire team to the current on-track
incident, instead of relying on the silence of a computer generated e-mail. A
laser pointer from the Stewards further focuses the room on whatever television
monitor the incident is shown on.
Tara Sillert - is a data analyst and tracks everything
electronically around the track. She explained to me that Timing and Scoring runs
on a UPS and backup generator and most communications is done with battery
operated walkie-talkie radios. Therefore, in the event of loss of power they could
still operate, but if power was out for an extended period the race would
eventually have to be red-flagged. Among other things (as will be discussed
later), she reports when one car passes another illegally under the caution, the
result of the start audit and closing speeds of the leader to lapped traffic.
Lee Dykstra - is the Technology Director for Champ Car but during the
race supports Tara Sillert with electronics/data analysis. Lee also monitors
compliance with pit stop and tire related rules during the race.
Joann Jensen - is the safety dispatcher and liaison with all
on-track safety vehicles including the Champ Car safety team, ambulances and other
vehicles. She "talks the Safety Team around the track" and serves as the eyes of
the team who are often blind to oncoming traffic and circumstances impacting their
efforts on the circuit. She also works with local safety to coordinate ambulance,
tow truck, crane and security dispatch.
Shawn Racette - is the pace car dispatcher for the beginning
of the race. He has direct communication with the pace car driver and tells her
when to go and how to position the pace car in front of the leader during
cautions. Shawn hands over his dispatch duties to a pace car driver once they
arrive in race control following their pre-race parade activities. Shawn then
heads to the paddock to assist in post race activities.
Gail Truess - a pace car driver herself, is the pace car
coordinator with other pace car drivers on a race by race basis. Once Shawn Racette dispatches the pace car it is Gail's job to carry on all further
communication including taking specific directives from the Race Director, such as
when to go on-track, when to speed up and slow down, and the one lap to go signal.
Today's pace car driver was Allison Altzman, with Sara Senske the right seat pace
car driver, known as "the hand". There are a total of eight women pace car drivers
and they all take turns driving the pace car, rotating duties within Race Control
and giving thrilling pace car rides for key guests throughout the weekend.
Bob Pirtle - When he's not serving as a Reverend for
Champ Car, he interfaces with the TV production truck from Race Control during the
race. Since Race Control sees and hears more of the race than television does, this is
Race Control's way of promoting television on the flow of the event and on events
in-progress. This makes for a stronger television presentation. When a driver is
reported off track, for example, he alerts the TV production crew to get some
cameras on the action. Bob often takes his cue from Lopes, who decides what key
information is important for the television producers to know.
The core group of individuals are the same for all races. Other
race organizations, such as Formula One, rotate people in and out depending on
venue. For consistency this team runs all Champ Car sanctioned races throughout
the year.
Review Procedures
Some of
the computer screens the Race Stewards have to review
The Intellex monitor
After all the introductions, Derek Higgins went over all the
electronic gizmos that he, Barfield and Anderson (Race Stewards) have at their
fingertips. The heart of that is the Intellex switch that allows them to switch
between cameras at will. They can stop-action, run slow motion, and do replays.
"We would love to have more onboard cameras, preferably one on each car. That
would help us better review each incident," said Higgins.
Race Control continually records all TV feeds onto massive hard
drives so they can review an incident before assessing a penalty either during or
after the race. While the TV production truck does its own recording, Race Control
itself also does theirs so they do not have to wait on the TV crew to review an
When an incident occurs and a potential penalty may be assessed,
Barfield can talk directly to the race team manager for that driver and advise
them about the potential penalty. By comparison, Formula One does it by email down
to the team in the pits and it is a one-way communication only - protests must
wait until after the race. Champ Car has a much better system. If the team
disagrees, the Race Stewards proceed to describe to them what Race Control has
witnessed on the video replay and why they believe a penalty is warranted.
The goal is to allow both the team and Race Control to air their
side of the incident during the race and take appropriate action during the race
instead of a post-race assessment whenever possible. The team can still decide to
protest, in which case a team representative would come to Race Control after the
race to review the video themselves.
The Race
No sooner does the green flag drop......the bell clangs.....and all hell breaks
loose on lap 1 with no less than four separate incidents around the track.
Immediately I am surrounded by chatter. Everyone in Race Control is talking to
their direct contacts, literally hundreds of people all around the track. I feel
like I'm at the Tower of Babel. Michel Jourdain has a flat tire and heads for the
pits, probably as a result of contact; then immediately Haberfeld spins in Turn 4
and continues but throws debris on the track, Tagliani has a flat tire and a
corner worker radios in that there is an accident in the corkscrew involving the
Mi-Jack car of Justin Wilson being punted from behind by the Corona car of Rodolfo
Lavin. Wilson has suspension damage and limps back to the pits. The incidents are
immediately reviewed on replay but no penalties are assessed.
Lap 2 under yellow and race leader Bourdais is reported to have a
flat tire by one of the corner workers and is pitting after a coming together with
Tracy. A review of the replay by the Race Stewards revealed that Tracy's front
wing appeared to have clipped Bourdais' rear tire in Turn 2, but it is deemed a
racing incident, not intentional, and no penalty is assessed.
The race goes green again. Soon thereafter, a corner worker radios
in that there is contact wheel banging between two cars (I missed which cars were
involved). It is reviewed and ruled not intentional.
Lap 8 and Dominguez is off in Turn 4. A full course caution is
called. The race leader passes the pace car that is just exiting the pits. Kneifel
screams at Gail, "Tell the pace car driver to go faster and pass the leader." He
repeats the order with a sense of urgency. At this point, Race Control is blind
and relying on information from its corner workers since the television cameras
have not captured the incident. Lopes yells, "Tell TV to get a camera on that
incident." Bob Pirtle religiously relays the message.
"Reorder problem," Tara yells out. Her software reveals that one
car has passed another car after the caution flew. Paul Leyton instructs the race
team to get their driver to fall back where he belongs. Lee Dykstra explains that
there are nine timing lines placed at key locations around the track such as at
pit entrance and exit to accurately determine the correct running order and to
detect illegal passes under caution. The Pit Lane Officials relay the instruction
and the team complies. The Race Director indicates green next time by and everyone
in the room relays the information to their radio contacts. Television is notified
to come back from commercial knowing that the green flag will fall within a short
Mazzacane is
still in the car on the steep corkscrew as safety workers remove
him from the 'kitty litter.'
The race goes green again. Not long thereafter the
bell 'clangs' again on Lap 11. Once again all hell breaks loose. Turn 8, Mazzacane
spins in the corkscrew and a few seconds later Nelson Philippe spins in Turn 2 all
by himself. Chris Kneifel explains to me that he waited until the last car was
past pit-in to throw the full course yellow so no one gained an unfair advantage
by pitting one-lap earlier than everyone else.
The race goes green again and we are near the halfway
point. Tara has one computer window open and is already calculating whether this
will be a timed race or not. (TV needs to know in order to package its broadcast
and the competitors are waiting for word.) Lee Dykstra helps her by reviewing some
of the historical data for this event to determine how many cautions the race
usually has and how long the race runs.
It's getting mighty hot in Race Control and by this
time I'm thinking, "man these people are really on the hot seat." Ironically, the
air conditioner has been turned off because it was interfering with the
walkie-talkie radios, which was making the room uncomfortably warm. In the
intensity of Race Control I am the only one who seems to notice the heat rise.
Just another day at the office in Champ Car Race Control.
By this time I had to return to the media center to
prepare my race reports. I came away with a far greater appreciation for the
difficult job Race Control has, and the technology they have at their disposal to
ensure that the race is properly run and all incidents are given a reasonable and
fair review before any penalty is assessed.
This same Race Control team turns the track around
after the race and serves the same roles for the Toyota Atlantics, Formula BMW USA
and Trans-Am races. It makes for an extremely busy event, twelve hours per day.
My personal conclusion - Monday morning quarterbacking is easy compared to the
actual job performed by Race Control. The intensity of the continuous on-track
action and how to fairly judge aggressive driving as opposed to over aggression,
and avoidable incidents, are extremely subjective judgments and difficult to
measure. Clearly Race Control has more information (visual, audio, observer,
replay, timing) than the teams or the media, regarding what is happening on-track.
To seek a fair and impartial balance is what Race
Control tries to do each and every week. The balance is between 'micro management
of the chrome horn bullies' and 'let them race.'
I'm glad I don't have their job..
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WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. (AP) -- Merck & Co. said Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration awarded breakthrough therapy status to its cancer therapy lambrolizumab, which could speed up development of the drug.
Merck said the drug received breakthrough status as a treatment for advanced melanoma. Merck recently started a mid-stage clinical trial of lambrolizumab and said it is also studying the drug as a treatment for other types of cancer. The company said the drug is designed to use the immune system to fight cancer.
The FDA created the breakthrough therapy program in 2012 as a way to speed up the approval process for drugs that could be significant improvements in the treatment of serious or life-threatening diseases from what's currently on the market.
Shares of Merck lost 50 cents to $48.13 in afternoon trading.


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In Haiti, funerals become eulogies for a nation
LEOGANE, Haiti -- Two separate funeral bands file past one another in concurrent ceremonies for the different set of mourners, whose wails pierce through white tents crammed with family and friends for the final viewing of the departed lying in open caskets.
The scene depicts yet another day of tragedy in this quake-ravaged town, just south of the capital, where no building seems to have been spared in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck on Jan. 12.
The tents where the wake and funeral Mass were held were at the site of the St. Rose de Lima Catholic Church. The building is now a collapsed sanctuary of memories.
"Everything's not right. Everything is not right," said Beliotte Sterle, 52, who was paying respects to his deceased aunt. He has been to at least six funerals since Jan. 12.
"There are so many, that sometimes I just don't go," he said. "People just can't take it."
Sterle's aunt, Conserve Jéoboham 82, died Feb. 17 of a heart attack, following one of many continuing aftershocks. Lying in the second tent was Mardi Révélia, 84.
Cause of her death: unclear.
The funerals of these strangers were the third I witnessed as a reporter on this particular day. A fourth funeral -- on the previ-ous day -- was for one of my own family members.
My cousin, Hérard Aneas, died Feb. 25. He, too, collapsed within four hours of an after-shock, said his only daughter Heraldine, a nurse.
Heraldine said Hérard's heart finally gave out as she unsuccessfully attempted to give him CPR in the back seat of the car as she and her brothers raced with him to a hospital after midnight.
Two months after Haiti's greatest disaster, funerals have become the new norm in a post-quake Haiti, where only weeks ago the dead were piled up on the side of roads and then tossed into mass graves.
Multiple funerals, two and three at a time, are taking place here daily. They are happening within what's left of centuries-old churches, in courtyards strewn with piles of rubble, and underneath tarps pitched like cathedrals around wooden frames.
"Before the quake, death was a family event." said Dr. Alix Lassegue, who runs the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, which houses the capital's only public morgue. "Now, everybody knows."
Statistically the number of deaths is not any higher today than it was before the quake, Lassegue said. But the perception of increased deaths is real and Jan. 12 has become the explanation for everything. Because death is so prevalent here, no one ever dies of natural causes in the minds of Haitians.
In order to cope with so many deaths, people need to assign blame.
That was true for my family as well.
I first learned of Hérard's death in an e-mail that jolted me out of bed in disbelief.
Until that moment, I had been a member of an elite club -- those with family in the capital who managed to escape death in the Jan. 12 quake.
Then came the phone call confirming my new status as a member of a majority: people here who have lost at least one person they love.
Hérard was my mother's oldest nephew, the one who stands out in my childhood memories of life in Haiti, and the one who just two months ago allowed me to finally breathe a sigh of relief when I asked, "Eske tout moun vivan?"
"Yes, we are all alive," he said over the telephone from Carrefour, near the quake's epicenter.
In a country where most people live on less than $2 a day, my cousin had done well as a taxi driver. He had successfully raised six children, five of whom are professionals with decent jobs but lousy salaries. The sixth is disabled.
But his accomplishments are not what the priest presiding over the memorial service touched on in one of the few Catholic churches still standing in Carrefour. Instead, Hérard's funeral -- and that of the stranger being memorialized alongside him -- became a eulogy for the nation, a place where suffering and misery reign, and where people have fallen deeper into despair in the perceived absence of leadership, the priest hinted.
As a journalist, I had spent weeks on the ground reporting about the aftermath of the quake, living with the anxiety of the ongoing aftershocks while personally in awe of the Haitian resilience. I had seen more corpses than I ever care to and listened to children and siblings of the dead talk about their heartbreaking search for closure in wakes with no bodies to bury, no funerals to attend. I thought I understood their pain.
But I really didn't -- until I heard my own mother's wail.
"You cannot bury him like that, like someone who doesn't have family," my mother cried in Creole after my cousin Jean Romel "RoRo'' Aneas initially explained that his father's funeral would be held in haste the next day. She demanded to be able to fly in from Miami and take part in a "proper'' burial.
Hérard was her favorite nephew, and quake or no quake, she didn't want him to be discarded as just another nameless, faceless victim. In the end, she prevailed.
But tens of thousands of other families can't say the same. Even as three new mass grave sites are dug in Titanyen -- a sprawling area outside the capital named the "little nothing'' -- for those still buried underneath the rubble, the fact is we'll never truly know how many people died directly and indirectly as a result of this tragedy. There is no registry of the dead.
"At least this one got a funeral," a mourner at my cousin's funeral mumbled as she passed the family before the service.
She was among hundreds who had crowded the Notre Dame du Mont Carmel church in hard-hit Carrefour. Many didn't know him, but they came, I suspect, because they needed to mourn, they needed to cry, for their own loss in a nation of many losses.
With just over half of the 1.2 million people who lost homes in the quake still in need of shelter, the disaster-filled rainy season looming and people still without aid, there is no real sense of when the despair will once again transform into hope.
"Because of the quake, there is a lot of anxiety, a lot of stress because the situation is still not resolved," Lassegue said. "People don't have enough tents, people do not receive enough food and water -- if you could have taken a picture one week or two weeks after, you would see the picture has not changed."
But the tears here are not just for the dead. They are also for the living.
"I am crying for what has arrived," Joseline Marhone-Pierre, a physician who lost her home in the quake and now sleeps on the floor of a make-shift clinic in a church yard of Saint-Louis Roi de France, told me. "I'm looking at my reality and I don't see tomorrow."
The morning before my visit to Leogane, Marhone-Pierre and a team of volunteer doctors, many Cuban Americans from Miami, were saving lives. On the other side of the church yard, mourners were bidding farewell to another life.
"It's not what I lost that makes me feel bad," she said, her eyes welling with tears. ''When I see people come here -- and at times we have to treat them for as long as two months or overnight -- I look at them and I have more pain for their suffering than my own."
"I never thought I would live this," she said.
Like Marhone-Pierre, neither did I.


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Souter tells White House that he'll retire from Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice David Souter has advised the White House that he plans to retire, according to published news reports.
The retirement of the 69-year-old Souter will give President Barack Obama his first opportunity to put a stamp on the nine-member court, which remains closely divided between its conservative and liberal wings.
Souter, though appointed 19 years ago by Republican George H.W. Bush, has generally fallen into the more liberal camp. An appellate court judge who wasn't well known nationally at the time of his Supreme Court appointment, Souter has remained personally enigmatic even as he tried to underscore his own personal sympathies.
"Whatever court we are in, whatever we are doing, whether we are on a trial court or an appellate court, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected," Souter said at his 1990 Senate confirmation hearing. "Some human life is going to be changed in some way by what we do."
NPR reported late Thursday that Souter planned to retire at the end of the court's 2008-2009 term, which expires when the last opinions are issued at the end of June. Supreme Court and White House officials couldn't be reached late Thursday to confirm the report.
The decision immediately casts light on who Obama might nominate. With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who recently underwent cancer surgery, currently the only woman on the court, considerable speculation has circulated over the possibility that Obama will appoint another woman.
Potential candidates commonly mentioned include Sonia Sotomayor, who's on the New York-based Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Elena Kagan, the former dean of the Harvard Law School and newly confirmed as Obama's solicitor general, also has been frequently cited as a potential court nominee, as has former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan.
Souter, a bookish Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Law School graduate, has never hidden his preference for his native New Hampshire over the A-list social life of the nation's capital. Rumors of a pending retirement have circulated annually for the past several years, and accelerated this year because he had not yet completed hiring his clerks for the court's next term, which starts in October.
Souter was in the majority in 66 percent of the court's divided opinions last term, according to statistics compiled by Scotusblog. Although this sounds high, it put him near the bottom of all justices.
Although not generally renowned as a writer of far-reaching opinions, nor as a literary stylist, Souter has placed his mark on the law. Last term, for instance, he wrote the majority opinion in a closely watched case dismissing as excessive a multibillion-dollar fine levied against Exxon for a 1989 oil spill in Alaska.
Souter, an only child raised in rural New Hampshire, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and from Harvard Law School. His longtime political mentor was former Republican Sen. Warren Rudman, who'd preceded Souter as New Hampshire's attorney general and then helped him land positions on the state's Supreme Court and ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court.
Modest in demeanor, Souter can be persistent during the court's oral arguments, pressing home questions until he gets an answer and occasionally showing flashes of impatience.
He's known for his own conservative lifestyle, reportedly favoring fountain pens and shunning cell phones and television, and he's been among the staunchest opponents of allowing live television coverage of the court's oral arguments.
"I can tell you the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body," Souter once said, famously.
Supreme Court slashes punitive award in Exxon Valdez
Are measures to honor crime victims more than symbolic?
Ginsburg's cancer prompts talk of who's next on Supreme Court


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Okay, now the fun begins. Girls getting date cards, other girls getting pissy because they didn't get a date card, and yet other girls going topless. Wait. What? Read on, dear reading people.
The first one-on-one date went to Clare! She's a real cutie patootie with a good personality. The producers and other T.V. people rented snow machines to turn a little corner of L.A. into a winter wonderland for the couple. Clare and JPab sledded down a hill. Or was that a toboggan? Shit, I don't know. I'm from Texas, people! Then they ice skated, which Clare was not very good at, but she laughed and had a great time with it. Afterwards, that lucky gal got to give Juan a back rub in the hot tub. Then she talked about her dad dying, which really should have been a mood killer, but they ended up cuddling in the hot tub after that. Good date, overall, and she got the date rose and some very hot kisses. Toward the end, they had a private concert by Josh Krajcik, whose smoky voice lent a very romantic air to the night. I'm thrilled they didn't start the year off with another damn helicopter ride; however, they did keep alive the hot tub cliche'. But.....I'm willing to let it slide, because ummmm, Juan Pablo without a shirt. That's all.
In The Meantime, Back At The Mansion
|I have a feeling we are going to be seeing a lot of this black box this season.
Lucy the "free spirit" (what exactly is the salary for a "free spirit?") was hanging out with the girls....with her girls hanging out. Yep, just standing in a hot tub with a swim bottom and no top. All the other girls were sitting, and I kept thinking, "Sit down already, ya free spirit chica! You look awkward." It's like she was trying to show off. Well, at least the girl knows how to get camera time. She will definitely be invited to the next Bachelor Pad, if that show is still in the works.
Next to get an individual date was Kat. They boarded a private jet, but JPabs wouldn't tell her where they were going. In an interview, she speculated that maybe they would go to New York City, "where it's, like, romantic; it's private; it's just the two of us." I had to rewind that to make sure she really made that statement about the most populated city in the U.S. Over 8 million people live there, dear, and there's more than 27,000 people per square mile. {Sigh} So, Juan and Kat get dressed up in neon flashing clothes and accessories and land in Salt Lake City. Kat's outfit was totally adorable (totes adorbs?), by the way. They were at the Electric Run, which is like a dancing 5K. This was by far the coolest Bachelor date EVER, even though thinking about 5K usually makes me slightly nauseous. At the end of the run, they got up onstage and danced together, and Juan gave her the rose.
Group Date
The girls are having a photo shoot with some cute shelter dogs. They actually showed footage of one dog trying to hump another, and of dogs peeing and dropping a deuce. Gee, thanks, ABC. I was trying to eat Nutter Butters over here! Anyhoo, the girls got dressed up to kind of match the dogs they would be shooting with. Everything was going swimmingly, until Elise and Andi were given just a sign to wear. Otherwise, they were to be nude, and this was understandably freaking them out. Elise went to talk to the director, and he told her that it's not about what she's wearing, it's about helping a good cause. Ummmm, then give them some clothes to wear, since a naked woman IN NO WAY will make people want to adopt a dog any more than a girl in a swimsuit. It can make you lose your job, but that's not important to Mr. Big-Time Director. Elise got smart and traded costumes with Lucy, who was very nice about the whole thing, since she likes being naked anyway. Andi was still stuck with being nude, but Juan Pablo told her he was going to do it with her. And not in a creepy way either. He was being really comforting and sweet. So, Andi, Juan, and Lucy posed nude with a dog. Boy, I tell you, I really feel like adopting a dog after seeing that...NOT! I would, however, adopt Juan Pabloooo.
The after-party included a rooftop and lots of couches, as per Bachelor Rules and Regulations. Cassandra told JP that she has a son who is almost 2, and he seemed excited about it. Renee wanted a kiss, but didn't get one. Victoria had way too much wine, and Nikki quietly told her she needed to tone it down. Vic was insisting she was sober, while simultaneously slurring and weaving a bit. She eventually went cuckoo pants and started running all over the hotel in a drunken rant. The Bachelor staff put her in a room to sleep it off, and JP gently sent her home the next morning. Oh, and Kelly got the group date rose.
Rose Ceremony
Here are the Week 2 survivors:
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Could Eva Longoria Be Learning A Striptease For An Upcoming Storyline On 'Desperate Housewives?'
Step aside, Teri Hatcher! You're not the only one showing off your body on a pole anymore!
Eva Longoria first showed off her pole dancing skills on the series premiere of Lopez Tonight in 2009, but HollywoodLife.com has learned exclusively the 36-year-old actress is brushing up her skills this summer for an upcoming storyline on Desperate Housewives!
"Eva has been taking one-on-one sessions at S Factor in Los Angeles," a source tells us. "She's getting busy because her character has some pole dancing, striptease scenes on Desperate Housewives this season."
Eva's co-star and good friend, Teri Hatcher, has been vocal about her appreciation for Sheila Kelley's S Factor workout, so it's no surprise she'd want to train there.
Season eight of ABC's hit show premieres Sept. 25 — and we can't wait to see what kind of moves Gabby puts out there. Who do YOU think will be the recipient of her striptease? Sound off below!


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Veterinarian Reviewed on June 19, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
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Menthol is an organic compound that is extracted from peppermint and other mints. It is synthetically made and it has a waxy, crystal like appearance in its natural state. It remains solid in room temperature and melts slightly above room temperature.
There are many uses for menthol and the most common one is its use as a local anesthetic and to relieve minor throat irritation and provide relief in upper respiratory infections.
The special biological property of menthol to trigger a cold feeling on the surface of the skin as well as a cool sensation when inhaled or eaten is one of menthol's unique capabilities.
History and Origin
Menthol is a well known organic compound and has been used in many industries all around the world. The peppermint essential oil, where menthol is extracted, is where menthol derives its special pungent but refreshing aroma and flavor. It has many health benefits making it widely used everywhere.
Ancient Uses
Menthol was nonexistent during ancient times but the plant where menthol is derived, peppermint, has been used by many ancient cultures in treating symptoms of colds, cough and upper respiratory illnesses. Chewing leaves unlocks the refreshing aroma of peppermint making it an effective treatment for bad breath and sore throat. It was also used as a poultice for wounds, boils, burns and cuts.
Modern Uses
During modern times the benefits of menthol has been used in many therapies. Menthol is known to relieve sore throat and cough. Menthol drops and some cough medicines have menthol ingredients that can effectively stop dry cough and irritating cough. There are also menthol drops and lozenges that can easily relieve sore throat and dry itchy throat.
As a topical analgesic, menthol is very effective in relieving both itchiness and muscle pain, aches and muscle cramps. Menthol is a main ingredient in creams and emollients used for these purposes. Balms made of menthol are also great in relieving tension headaches, as a rub to treat nausea and vomiting and to counter vertigo.
As a decongestant, menthol is a main ingredient of cough preparations to relive nasal congestion. It is also a common ingredient in toothpastes and mouthwashes to treat bad breath; menthol also has astringent and antibacterial properties that inhibit bacterial growth in the oral cavity.
Menthol is also an effective topical analgesic and is a main ingredient in preparations to relieve muscle cramps, lessen pain from sprains and skin irritation and headaches as well. Painful sunburn can also be treated with salves made of menthol.
Side Effects
Menthol has a very low toxicity level when accidentally ingested. It is important though not to use mentholated creams and balms on very young children or infants since it may cause fainting. There are no reported side effects of menthol and it is considered safe by many governing bodies. Menthol can be used even when pregnant and breastfeeding. If you want to use preparations that contain menthol for your illness or ailment, consult your doctor first before using any such medication. Never self medicate especially with herbal remedies before first talking with a herbalist or naturopathic doctor.
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AMERICUS, Ga. – It took extra innings, but the No. 26 Georgia College baseball team (12-4, 5-2 PBC) got past Georgia Southwestern State University 8-6 Saturday afternoon on the road.
The Hurricanes led 6-5 going into the ninth, where the Bobcats manufactured a run using a walk, single and a fielder's choice. After GSW went 1-2-3 in the ninth, the Bobcats took the lead in the top of the tenth, as second baseman Brandon Benson (Loganville, Ga.) doubled home Mike McGraw (Newnan, Ga.) who led with a single. Three batters later, first baseman Clay Ardeeser (Loganville, Ga.) supplied an insurance run by plating Benson on a single.
Reliever Jordan Modine (Ft. Pierce, Fla.) threw four scoreless innings to get the win (2-0), scattering two hits and a walk with a strikeout. Zach Smith (0-1) took the loss for the Hurricanes.
Benson finished 2-for-3, scoring three runs and driving in just the one while owning a double and triple. Ardeeser had a weekend in a day with a 5-for-6 effort, driving in two and scoring another.
Shortstop Daniel Bick (Alpharetta, Ga.) was 3-for-5 with two stolen bases and an RBI, while leftfielder Ryan Sabalaskey (Carol Stream, Ill.) drove in three with two hits and a run from the leadoff spot. McGraw was 2-for-5 with a pair of runs scored.
The Bobcats are back in action tomorrow, March 9 at 1 p.m., finishing the series at GSW in doubleheader action.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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Sorting data is an important step in gathering data together for aggregation and reporting purposes.
Most Clojure sort algorithms you'll find on the web assume you can fit all the items to sort into the memory of a single JVM instance. For example, many merge sorts will use
partition to split the data set into 2 halves.
Where I work we frequently have to deal with large volumes of data where the data sets we deal with are far too large for these algos. Instead we have to find alternatives.
Here's our approach to sorting large data. Although we did spend some time researching the problem, there's bound to be more better algorithms out there. Please let me know if you find one!
Divide and conquer
To sort a large dataset we break it into smaller 'bite-sized' chunks which we can sort in memory, and write these sorted chunks to disk. Then we can run a lazy merge sort against these chunks. Although we currently run this on one node the nature of merge sort is that it can scale-out recursively and is compatible with map-reduce. In production use we've found that even on a single node huge datasets need a small degree of recursion just to avoid having too many chunks and running out of file handles. However, we'll ignore recursion for the purposes of this discussion (we can always add it later).
A simple merge-sort function
First, let me print our merge-sort function minus the requisite doc-strings and comments.
(defn merge-sort
([^java.util.Comparator comp colls]
(letfn [(next-item [[_ colls]]
(if (nil? colls)
[:end nil]
(let [[[yield & p] & q]
(sort-by first comp colls)]
[yield (if p (cons p q) q)])))]
(->> colls
(vector :begin)
(iterate next-item)
(drop 1)
(map first)
(take-while (partial not= :end)))))
(merge-sort compare colls)))
Firstly, note the main function overload takes 2 arguments. The first is the Java comparator we'll use to sort the data, the second is a collection of sorted sequences. These sequences don't have to be in memory, they are lazy and their elements can be read in as we need them (from disk, network, etc.). However, we do assume the sequences have already been sorted with the same Java comparator given in the first argument. At the lowest level of recursion these sequences will be small enough to be sortable in memory and written out to disk – this is fairly trivial so we won't cover it here.
We define a function called
next-item which takes the collection sequences and returns a pair:
- the first value is the next result in the merge-sorted sequence. This is called the yield.
- the second value is the same collection of sequences we started with minus the yielded value. This is called the remainder and is used to calculate the next result.
Here's the next-item function (first draft) :-
(fn [colls]
(let [[[yield & p] & q]
(sort-by first comp colls)]
[yield (cons p q))]))
The first job of the function is to sort the collections of sequences by their first values.
(sort-by first comp colls)
comp is just the Java comparator that dictates the order of the sort.
Now we destructure. Since the item we want is the first item of the first sequence, we destructure like this :-
[[yield & p] & q]
yieldis the item we are saying is the next item in the merged sorted sequence.
pis the rest of the sequence which contained
qis the collection of all the other sequences.
(A nice 'by-product' of the
sort-by is that
q is already sorted. Even if the contents of
p demand that we sort again, it won't be an expensive operation. In fact, my own tests have shown that little or no performance improvement can be made by avoiding the use of Java's sort by moving the head collection down the list – Java's sort is very efficient for sets that are either 'already sorted' or 'almost sorted'.)
Now we need to form our pair…
The first item is
yield. That's easy.
The second item is the collection of sequences with
yield removed. That's
p joined onto the head of
q, so we use
(cons p q)
Remember that
q is a collection of sequences sorted by 'first item'. We don't know that
(cons p q) is sorted according to first item. It's likely that the next result is in
p or in
(first q). However, we defer this sort operation to the next iteration, because re-sorting is the first thing we do in each iteration.
By the way, if
p is nil then
p is exhausted and we'll just take
q, hence this tweak :-
(if p (cons p q) q)
Putting this altogether, our final
next-item function is as follows :-
(fn [colls]
(let [[[yield & p] & q]
(sort-by first comp colls)]
[yield (if p (cons p q) q)]]))
Repeat as necessary
Each time we run the
next-item function we'll get the next result in our merged sorted sequence. Sounds like another job for Clojure's
iterate function!
next-item function needs to be amend slightly so that it can work iteratively – it needs to accept the same kind of structure that it produces. We amend the function signature so it can take a pair as the argument, and we destructure to ignore the first item and label the second.
(fn [[_ colls]]
(let [[[yield & p] & q]
(sort-by first comp colls)]
[yield (if p (cons p q) q)]])
We'll just have to initiate the iteration with a fake pair.
[:begin colls]
And we'll have to ensure the iteration can tell the caller when to stop.
[:end nil]
Let's build that 'stop' into our function :-
(next-item [[_ colls]]
(if (nil? colls) [:end nil]
(let [[[yield & p] & q]
(sort-by first comp colls)]
[yield (if p (cons p q) q)])))
Now the inner function is finished let's move onto the main body of the merge-sort function.
(->> colls
(vector :begin)
(iterate next-item)
(drop 1)
(map first)
(take-while (partial not= :end))
We start by taking the
colls argument and apply the
->> threading operator to it. This means that the result of each step will be added as the last argument of the next step.
(->> colls
... )
As we discussed earlier, we have to compose the first 'fake' pair to get the first iteration to work.
(vector :begin)
This creates
[:begin colls]. We should remember this is also the first item that
iterate will yield so we'll have to drop it later.
Now let's run our next-item function (infinitely)
(iterate next-item)
We don't want the first 'fake' result – it was just to help the iterate function, let's drop it :-
(drop 1)
We're only interested in the yield values (the first in each pair) :-
(map first)
And we need to continue until the stop marker :-
(take-while (partial not= :end))
Finally we overload the merge-sort function to use a default comparator where it isn't specified.
Let's define a function that can create n collections of m size populated with random numbers.
user> (defn make-colls [n m]
(for [i (range n)]
(for [j (range m)]
(rand-int 1000000)))))
Let's evaluate now so this structure in in memory and its creation doesn't affect our merge-sort performance measurements.
user> (def colls (make-colls 100 20000))
Let's test it to ensure that it's working. We expect the first collection to be sorted.
user> (take 10 (first colls))
(15 33 88 94 114 119 148 164 189 190)
However, when we merge sort, the numbers from all the collections are merged so we get a less rapidly incrementing sequence of numbers.
user> (take 10 (merge-sort colls))
(1 1 1 2 2 5 6 7 7 8)
Actually merge-sorting is quite useful
Sort algorithms are often used as a learning guide, especially for functional languages. But how useful is sorting for tackling business problems?
It turns out we use merge-sort in multiple places in our Clojure system. The first use was for grouping of risk data so it can be collated on a trade-by-trade basis. Then we decided to rewrite an old Java-based scheduler that was expensive to maintain. We now have a lazy scheduler (we call it 'Chime') that uses this lazy merge-sort to merge together multiple schedules of repeating tasks into a single schedule. I'll discuss more about Chime in a future post.


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Trumbull building departures temper a slight improvement in Fairfield County vacancy levels
The Fairfield County office market followed up a strong first quarter with a mixed bag of results during the second quarter, and northern Fairfield County showed some impressive results.
The overall vacancy rate dropped to 16.3 percent during the quarter, 0.2 percentage points lower than the rate recorded in the prior year and quarter, according to RHYS Commercial, a Stamford commercial real estate firm.
The eastern submarket, which includes Bridgeport, Fairfield, Shelton, Stratford and Trumbull, saw the strongest improvement in vacancy levels on a quarterly basis, dropping by 1.2 percentage points to finish at 12 percent. But the data is tempered by news that availability rates are on the rise in that area, called the eastern submarket.
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Big chunk of vacancies
Despite only accounting for 18.1 percent of overall available office space, the eastern submarket accounted for 85.6 percent of the market's 422,534-square-foot increase in vacancies during the quarter, according to RHYS.
The 2.06 million square feet of office space available in the eastern submarket at the end of the quarter was a 21.3 percent increase quarter-to-quarter and an 18.7 percent increase year-over year.
Two large spaces came onto the market in this area with United Healthcare's decision to downsize and vacate a 252,948-square-foot building at Riverview Corporate Campus in Trumbull to move to Shelton, according to RHYS.
Shelton was the winner again at Trumbull's expense when Unilever announced it was vacating a 102,388-square-foot building at 55 Merritt Boulevard and moving to a smaller space at 3 Corporate Drive.
"I wouldn't say the eastern submarket had a good quarter. The entire two buildings in Trumbull are available for lease," said Eric Griffin, director of research and financial analysis at RHYS.
The average rental rate across the county was $34.16 in the quarter, 2.1 percent more than a year ago.
Class A over lesser buildings
Robert Scinto, chairman of Shelton-based R.D. Scinto, owner of office properties in much of eastern Fairfield County, voiced concern about the stumbling regional office market, attributing some of the blame on government leadership on the national level.
"The country has to go in a different direction. We need new direction quickly," said Scinto, adding that his properties are doing well, despite his concerns about the federal policies. "I'm over 99 percent rented. We had a good second quarter."
Because landlords are luring prospective tenants with deals, there is more interest in Class A office space, he said, at the expense of landlords who control lesser properties.
"People are upgrading and getting into better buildings at the same prices," Scinto said.
He suggested that some office properties might be razed for new development or converted into other uses.
Like Scinto, Matthew Keefe, president and owner of H.K. Group, a Westport-based commercial real estate firm, is tepid about the region's office market.
"We really don't see any signs of robust growth," said Keefe, who has seen some landlords convert their office buildings into medical office uses. "In Westport and Norwalk, we're seeing a very mild tightening up of some vacant space. But the meat-and-potato 5,000- to 10,000-square-foot tenant isn't around yet. The market is still soft."
Bridgewater staying
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Westport's office market got a reprieve late last month when hedge fund giant Bridgewater Associates, which leases 1 Glendinning Place and also rents space at the Nyala Farms office complex, announced that it was not moving to Harbor Point in Stamford.
At the same time, Building and Land Technology, developer of the 80-acre Harbor Point project, finalized its purchase of the five-building, 53-acre Nyala office park for $130 million.
"Nyala Farms is about like an island in itself," Keefe said, adding that Bridgewater's decision to remain at its Westport locations has a good psychological impact on the community. "I don't think it has a large effect on 35,000-square-foot office buildings in Westport."
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Northern Fairfield County saw another strong quarter, with the vacancy level dropping by 0.6 percent points over the quarter and 1.9 percentage points over the year to finish the quarter at 16.4 percent.
Southern Fairfield County had the highest vacancy rate across the county at 19.7 percent, slightly higher than the previous quarter but unchanged on a yearly basis.
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The improved vacancy levels in some areas gave Griffin reason for long-term optimism.
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Two weeks ago, Beaumont Independent School District Taylor Career and Technology Center Principal Thomas Amons was accused of closing the district's Adult Cosmetology program because he thought a prospective student might be gay. Cequana Clark, the program's instructor since 2009, made those allegations even though, according to her, it ultimately cost her the job she loved.
"(Amons) told me he would rather shut down the program altogether than to have 'riff-raff' like that in the program," Clark told The Examiner. "The next day, he shut down the program."
Comment was sought from Amons immediately following news of the program's closure, and calls were made to other district personnel seeking BISD's side of the story – but no word was immediately forthcoming. In the days following the program's closure, however, the district released two statements saying a budget issue prompted the end of adult cosmetology after classes had already resumed for the fall.
Citizens and some BISD board members wanted more than the words of the administration, however. Official requests for information followed public outcries demanding to see proof of BISD's claims, but none has been produced as of yet.
"We've gotten nothing – not communication, nothing," BISD trustee Mike Neil said. According to Neil, he's requested information from the district to show a budget concern was what really prompted the hasty program closure. "They think they tell a nice story and it's the end of it. But I don't think this is going to just go away that easy."
Fellow trustee Tom Neild says he, too, was unhappy with the information, or lack thereof, coming from BISD administration.
"I have received zero," Neild said, adding that he has asked many times for information used in deciding to close the Taylor Center's Adult Cosmetology program. "Our constituents are demanding proof; they don't want a smoke and mirrors game. I don't think it's being unreasonable at all."
Neild said the fact that it is taking so long to disseminate information that should already be available doesn't bode well.
"The only legitimate excuse is that the information hasn't been compiled yet, and wasn't done when the decision was made to close the program," he said. "I still don't have a clear understanding as to how and why the decision was made to terminate and reopen. It's still an unresolved issue to me.
"We got people suing us for not getting out information. When you take a long time to produce documents, it creates suspicion and greatly reduces your credibility."
When asked for his take on what really happened to BISD's Adult Cosmetology program at the Taylor Center, Neild said he would give the same answer he gives the many constituents asking the same question.
"What I tell them is that 'I cannot give you a clear, honest answer because the information I'm looking for has been not given to me to be able to give that answer,'" he said. "When I respond to something, I like to be able to have support for that in my back pocket – and I don't have that here."


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President Barack Obama swept into office in 2009 with the strongest electoral mandate in a generation, majorities in both houses of Congress and promises of dramatic change in Washington.
But that was no guarantee of success.
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Four years later, many pledges from his campaign and early presidency remain unfulfilled — some stalled, others seemingly put off indefinitely. A few, Obama just doesn't bother to mention anymore.
( Also on POLITICO: Full coverage of presidential debate at Hofstra University)
Obama enacted a landmark health care law, financial regulatory reform and a stimulus measure. But he himself has acknowledged falling short on goals ranging from slashing the deficit to overhauling immigration to closing the prison at Guantánamo.
Mitt Romney has tried to capitalize on many of the biggest unfulfilled promises, including by going after Obama during their first debate for failing on deficit reduction. The Republican nominee has another opportunity to press Obama Tuesday night at the second presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y. But some unmet goals, such as failing to shutter Gitmo, don't offer easy political points for Romney because he either favors the status quo or isn't offering specifics himself.
The White House argues that Obama's overall record of accomplishments is impressive, even robust, particularly given the economic meltdown he inherited nearly four years ago.
( Also on POLITICO: 5 things to watch at the debate)
"Taking office at the depths of the worst economic downturn in generations, the president's policies helped America avoid another Great Depression and rescued the domestic auto industry, protecting one million American jobs," White House principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest said. "In addition, he followed through on campaign promises to end the war in Iraq, take the fight to Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, take out bin Laden, end 'don't ask, don't tell,' enact Wall Street reform so that big banks don't write their own rules and pass historic health care reform that will cut costs and expand access for millions of Americans."
Here is POLITICO's look at five of the biggest items on Obama's to-do list that never came to pass:
Cutting the deficit in half
"Today, I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office." — Obama, Feb. 23, 2009
During the first presidential debate, Romney jumped on this promise. "You said you'd cut the deficit in half. It's now four years later. … We still show trillion-dollar deficits every year. That doesn't get the job done," he said.
When Obama took office, the Congressional Budget Office projected a deficit of $1.2 trillion that year. He made his cut-in-half pledge just six days after signing a $787 billion stimulus bill that increased the deficit even further. In fact, the promise was in some part a sop to conservative Democrats who voted for the stimulus but were nervous that the country could be headed to budgetary oblivion.
"There's no question the president made the promise and did not deliver on his promise," former Comptroller General David Walker said.
Obama says the reason he's fallen short is simple: The economic downturn was far worse than anyone first thought, driving up the cost of public assistance programs and lowering tax revenue.
"The recession turned out to be a lot deeper than any of us realized," he told Atlanta's WAGA-TV in February. "The die had been cast, but a lot of us didn't understand at that point how bad it was going to get."
Indeed, estimates of job losses and economic contraction became more severe in the months following Obama's promise. A few days after Obama spoke, the government estimated the economy shrank at a rate of 6.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008. In August 2009, the rate became 8.9 percent — the worst single-quarter decline in more than 50 years.
Walker, who now runs a fiscal-responsibility group called the Comeback America Initiative, concedes the economy has been "slower in recovery" than many expected but faults Obama for a stimulus plan that was "not properly designed, not effectively implemented, oversold and underdelivered." He also says the president moved too slowly on his deficit-reduction pledge.
Under pressure from Republicans after a "grand bargain" failed, Obama finally put forward a plan to curb the deficit in September 2011. But it's vague about reining in entitlements. The proposal has languished amid disagreements over the pace of cuts and GOP resistance to new tax revenue.


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August 27, 2009
Dear Beading Daily Community:
Thank you for your tremendous interest and feedback to our announcement last week about our community's first earring swap. We are deeply sorry for any confusion and frustration we caused about the process and rules, in particular the $5 handling fee that was incorrectly called an "entry fee." In the past, Interweave swaps (such as the ATC swaps done in the quilting group) have required fees to pay for the handling of entries, such as the hiring of temporary staffing, to help process the thousands of projects that must be opened, repackaged, and exchanged.
However, nothing is more important to us than making this a positive and fun experience for all of the Beading Daily community—and in this economy as easy on the pocketbook as possible—so we are happy to announce that we are removing the handling fee for this swap. If you already sent us a check, it will be returned to you. The only item you need to send in addition to your earrings is the self-addressed-stamped-envelope (SASE).
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