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An Offseason Like No Other
I'm still a relative newbie to this sport. I went to my first Indy Car race here in Nashville in 2002. I was excited that Alex Barron won, strictly because I thought he was cute. I went to my first Indy 500 in 2004. I took my oldest son Eric, and we went with George and his daughter. George did his best to make sure Eric had a good time and Eric got hooked on the sport. Because Eric was hooked, I sort of got hooked myself.
It was pouring down rain and a tornado was heading straight for the track as we left that day. I had no idea that our lives would eventually get so eaten up by this sport. All I cared about was getting dry and getting home. But that day, Eric became a Tony Kanaan fan. It helped that Kanaan won the Nashville race that summer and then the championship that fall.
In fact, he became a fan of the whole Andretti-Green team. He is now the proud owner of die-cast models of every car on the AGR team that year with autographs of all four drivers that he hunted down over the next couple of years. That would be Tony Kanaan, Dario Franchitti, Bryan Herta and yes, Dan Wheldon. He also has the matching Palms poker chips that are also autographed. Other than Kanaan, Wheldon was probably Eric's favorite driver on the team. He bought a Klein Tools cap (I wouldn't let a 14 year-old wear anything with Jim Beam on it) and several other pieces of Wheldon merchandise.
By the time we returned to Indy in 2005, Eric and I were well-versed with everything Indy Car. George made sure of that. Even though Kanaan didn't win the race, Eric was thrilled to see Dan Wheldon win it. I didn't think it possible but Wheldon was closing in on Kanaan's sacred spot as Eric's favorite driver.
Many seasons have come and gone since that first Indy 500 we went to in 2004. As with most kids, the offseason held little interest for Eric and I thought every year, that he had completely lost interest in Indy Cars. But each May when Indy rolled around, you couldn't be around George and have a conversation about anything that wasn't Indy. It rubbed off on Eric and his interest quickly returned.
The 14 year-old kid we took in 2004 will turn 22 next spring. The kid who used to line up all of his die-cast cars in front of the TV for every race, now has his own apartment across town and a full-time job. He still watches the races, but somehow I don't see him getting his cars out in front of his roommates.
He was watching the Las Vegas race when the accident happened. He immediately texted me, before we knew the final outcome. We talked later on. Eric doesn't show emotions that often and tried not to that day. But something sounded different. Suddenly, he sounded like the 14 year-old that had just seen his first Indy.
Like Eric, I'm new to death in racing. George always said it would happen again, but you tend to ignore such talk. With this having happened at the end of the season, we all have to dwell on it for almost six months.
But this offseason was already going to be different. For the first time since I've followed racing, there will be new cars next year. The cars that ran this year were the same cars we saw back in 2004. I know George isn't wild about the looks of the new car, but I actually like it. It's different. But as we all know, George hates change.
I don't know anything about the engines except that Honda has been the only engine around for years. I know when we were at our first Indy, Chevrolet and Toyota were there too. I know there is a lot of testing going on with the new cars and new engines. I don't ever remember this much activity just before Thanksgiving.
With new cars and new engines, this already promised to be a crazy offseason. With the Dan Wheldon tragedy, it became almost surreal.
Along those lines, I do want to mention one thing that I'm in complete agreement with George on. The flack that Randy Bernard has taken over the Las Vegas crash is ridiculous. I know the subject has been beaten to death, but this is my first time on here in a while. The other day, someone actually accused George of being Randy Bernard's brother-in-law and a butt-kisser because George usually takes his side.
As I posted on here, I was sitting there the day George interviewed Randy Bernard. George was very cordial and respectful, because Randy Bernard treated him like he was the most important person he was going to see all day. The George I know does NOT kiss butt. He just knows that Randy Bernard is the right man for the job, wants him to succeed and believes he will. There have been several times that I have read George disagree with something Randy had done, but he thinks he has done a fabulous job and so do I. OK,,,that's enough of that rant.
Compared with George's time spent following Indy Car and most of his readers, I don't know that following this sport for only eight seasons counts for much. But as long as I've been around the sport, with the new cars, new engines, new teams and old drivers with new teams along with the odd circumstances surrounding the end of the season, this looks like it will be an offseason like no other.
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Nice column, Susan.
I don't always agree with George, but I do agree with him about Randy! At first I was very sceptical: never saw an IndyCar race, didn't know much about racing and was coming from some cowboy rodeo "sport"? I was so wrong; Randy has done so much in two short years to help restore IndyCar's prominence.
This off-season already has such a strange flavour to it. Even the drivers are commenting on it. I know they are all concerned about the teething problems with the new DW12 and everyone wants and needs time to learn and fine tune the new car before March. The loss of Dan Wheldon has spread a kind of melancolea over not just the drivers, but the teams and even some of the sponsors closest to the sport.
Lest we forget Silly Season's Musical Chairs has started now too! Lots of talented free agents available, new teams trying to start up and established teams with holes to plug. Sponsor $$ are tight, so we may see another Kanaanian situation with some good drivers.
Good to see you posting again, Susan!
I think one of the big things about this offseason is that we have a level of complexity that's been missing in years past. We have the intrigue of three engine manufacturers, teams jockeying for the right deal, and a higher potential car count than anyone once thought likely. It's just more fun having 26-30 potential full-time seats than hoping you can limp to 24 FT entries.
Losing Dan has been exceedingly terrible, but if there's anything positive that's come out of it, it's been that most of the IndyCar community has really pulled together. I think it was a wake-up call in a lot of ways, and helps you remember the sort of things that are important.
No, not everything is roses and sunshine—we're still waiting on that schedule, after all!—but I'm fired up this silly season. There's so much to find out, so much news, and more chances for our favorite drivers to secure rides. Randy Bernard is out there fighting every single day, and I'm optimistic we're going in the right direction. Progress is never a uniform thing, but I'm excited about what the offseason and 2012 looks to bring.
Excellent post as alwyas Susan. You and George compliment each other very nicely with your differening writing styles. It's always good to read your perspective.


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Yesterday I presented a full paper on a new method and research prototype that describes our thinking on the strategic technical direction of the Lotus Forms document format and processing model. The paper is now available from the ACM Digital Library and is entitled "A REST Protocol and Composite Format for Interactive Web Documents". If you have one, use your institutional access to the ACM Digital Library. For IBMers, you can get access using KnowledgeGate.
As you may know, the document format for Lotus Forms is called XFDL, and it has grown and changed many times in the last 15 years to become more and more comformant to open standards. Once upon a time, back in the 1990's, XFDL was not even an XML format. Currently, the XFDL format is an XML vocabulary that describes a high precision multipage layout for an interactive Web 2.0 application, and XFDL incorporates other standards including XForms, XML Schema and XML Signatures to express dynamic behaviors, business rules, client-side data validation, web service access, and digital signature security.
This open standards transition has represented an important and substantial evolution of the Lotus Forms document format and processing model over time, and this new paper on "Interactive Web Documents" articulates the next step in the evolution of Lotus Forms. As with any strategic operation, it is the kind of thing that plays out over years in the product line, but I am used to that, and I am very excited by our progress.
Under this "interactive web document" transition, the multipage capabilities of Lotus Forms would be offered using multiple HTML or XHTML web pages aggregated using the ODF packaging format. The XForms capability would be offered on the client-side using the Ubiquity XForms processor. Many of the fine-grain features that add significant business value to XFDL would be implemented using javascript or small stateless web service calls as appropriate. For example, the full power of the ICU for access to locale-specific information would be accessed via a web service. As well, the XML signature functionality would be offered almost entirely via a server-side signing engine (except for the final client-side private key operation to generate a value for the dsig:SignatureValue element).
The initially empty interactive web document template would describe the web application. To initiate a business process, the template is instantiated, becoming an interactive web document capable of holding XML data and file attachments provided by end-user participants and machine agents in the business process. The instantiation sets up a REST service keyed by a unique ID to the instantiated document, and simple GETs, PUTs and DELETEs are used to access and update the resources in the composite document. In particular, XForms submissions are used to synchronize data and change pages within the interactive web document. When a user completes their work on the document, it is the edit token, not the whole document that is passed along through the business process. In this way, the interactive web document and its REST interaction session become the central artifacts over which the entire business process operates, with document serialization only being required to transmit the interactive web document (i.e. the web application combined with its current state) across enterprise domain boundaries.
This is the general idea, and the paper contains numerous additional technical explanations and markup examples. It should be clear from this description, though, that this next evolutionary step will enable Lotus Forms to more easily adapt to and incorporate emerging Web 2.0 technologies, via its page basis in HTML and XHTML, and it will provide a quantum leap in performance of the Webform Server by avoiding a single large XML DOM for large forms applications, by offloading XForms processing to the client-side, and by avoiding serialize/parse operations during the course of the business process.

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9:00 am) Teens Sunny & Cold
Yes that distance is correct course was short. Very frustrating
when you pay to run a 5k and they can't get the distance right.
I ran okay and better than my first 5k here a month ago or so
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Leedy's Roseroot (Rhodiola integrifolia ssp. leedyi)
This information is taken from Biological Report #42 of the Minnesota Natural Heritage and Nongame Wildlife Programs, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources; prepared in cooperation with the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service.
Status: Threatened
What is Leedy's Roseroot and Where Does It Occur?
Leedy's roseroot is a cliffside wildflower, found today in only six locations in two widely separated states. Four populations of several thousand plants each are found in Fillmore and Olmstead Counties, Minnesota. The other two are in upstate New York, a large population on the shores of Seneca Lake and a single plant at Watkins Glen.
Species whose populations are so widely separated from each other geographically are known as "disjunct" species. In the case of Leedy's roseroot, not only are the two centers of population geographically distant from each other, but the subspecies is disjunct from the main species, which occurs in the western mountains. This pattern of distribution suggests that Leedy's roseroot is a glacial relict - a plant that was more widespread at the end of the last glaciation but which has since become isolated because of the loss of appropriate habitat in intervening areas as the climate has warmed.
Why Be Concerned About Leedy's Roseroot?
For many people the beauty of a plant growing in its natural habitat and the moral issue of whether people have the right to destroy any species are sufficient reasons for concern about rare species.
Like all native species, Leedy's roseroot has a specific niche in the ecosystem and a unique relationship to other plants and animals with which it lives. In the case of Leedy's roseroot, these relationships to other organisms remain unknown because they have never been investigated.
Leedy's roseroot is found only in Minnesota and New York. Several related subspecies are found in the western mountains.
In addition to each species' inherent value as a member of the ecosystem it also has a unique genetic and chemical composition. This genetic information has unknown potential value for human use. For example, two little-known plants have recently made news because of their medicinal value. Rosy periwinkle, a Madagascar wildflower, contains compounds that are the best-known treatment for childhood leukemia. The Pacific yew, an understory tree of ancient forests in the Pacific Northwest, was recently discovered to contain the chemical toxol, which is the best hope for treatment of ovarian cancer. Had either of these species become extinct, these treatments would never have been discovered. Although Leedy's roseroot is not known today to possess properties useful to humans, loss of the species would eliminate forever the opportunity for future research that could discover potential uses.
What Does Leedy's Roseroot Look Like?
Leedy's roseroot is a perennial member of the stonecrop (orpine) family. Plants in this family, which includes the common jade plant, have waxy leaves that enable them to tolerate periods of water stress. A large number of Sedum species are cultivated plants of Eurasian origin, often used in rock gardens. Many of these species have escaped into the wild, some of them becoming more common than native species.
Unlike the more widely known ornamental species, Leedy's roseroot has a more elongate, leafy stem. The closely-packed leaves arise directly from the main stem and are smooth, with irregularly toothed to toothless edges. Although they are succulent, they can appear quite limp in dry weather. Male and female flowers are borne on separate plants. The small 4- to 5-petaled flowers are arranged in dense heads at the end of the leafy stem. They vary in color from dark red to occasional yellow or oranges.
The two other species of Sedum seen in Minnesota are both escaped from cultivation. Both have perfect flowers (with both stamens and pistils). Sedum acre, or wallpepper, has much smaller leaves and yellow. Sedum purpureum, or live-forever, has more widely-spaced, coarsely toothed bluish-grey to purple leaves and a much more open head of purple flowers.
Along with these two escaped species, a third non-native, sedum sarmentosum, is commonly seen in the wild in New York. It has perfect yellow flowers with the leaves mostly in whorls of three.
Of the four native New York species, only Sedum ternatum (Mountain stonecrop) is common. It has perfect white flowers and although the green leaves are in whorls of three at the base of the stem they become more crowded near the tops of flowering plants.
Two additional native species are on the New York rare species list: Sedum rosea and sedum telephoides. Sedum rosea, or Roseroot, is a dioecious species similar to Leedy's roseroot. In the past the two have at times been treated as varieties of the same species but are now known to differ genetically. Petals of Sedum rosea have a tendency to be smaller and more yellow than those of Leedy's roseroot. The flowers of Sedum telephoides are pale pink to peach color.
In What Sort of Places Does Leedy's Roseroot Grow?
In both New York and Minnesota, Leedy's roseroot grows on cool cliffs. New York populations occur on cliffs along the west shore of Seneca Lake.
Minnesota populations occur on a special habitat called a "maderate" cliff, characterized by the the presence of cracks in the rocks, extending from the cliff face to cold underground caves. Roseroot seems to prefer areas where cool air from the caves comes to the cliff surface through these cracks. Often the caves connect above ground and uphill with sinkholes.
In both New York and Minnesota these cliffs support a variety of other rare species, including Whitlow grass (Draba arabisans), a wild member of the mustard family. In Minnesota the cliffs also harbor two newly discovered rare snails of the genus Novisuccinea, believed to be dependent on the cool local habitat.
The majority of Leedy's roseroot populations occur on privately-owned land. Only two of the six populations occur on public land, one in Watkins Glen State Park, New York and one in Whitewater Wildlife Management Area, Minnesota.
It is possible to view the plants through binoculars from the public waters of Seneca Lake or the base of the cliff at Whitewater Wildlife Management Area. Wildflower enthusiasts should always remember to respect private property rights in their search for new plants to photograph and enjoy.
What Activities Threaten Leedy's Roseroot?
Leedy's roseroot is a species whose rarity is caused more by its history, the special conditions of its unique cliffside habitat, and the infrequency of that habitat in the landscape; than by direct habitat destruction.
Despite the fact that Leedy's roseroot has probably been rare for thousands of years, increased human activities could degrade its habitat. Unlike species with a wider range of preferred living conditions, it has nowhere else to go if its cliffside habitat is destroyed.
Although the steepness of the cliffs protect Leedy's roseroot from most direct impacts, surface runoff from disturbed lands can dislodge plants or bury them during heavy rains and spring thaws. This impact is enhanced in areas where soil disturbance occurs at the top of the cliffs.
New York populations occur downhill from a number of lakeside homes. Tree cutting uphill of the plants, staircases and pipes to the lakeshore, and clearance of vegetation on the cliffs could have a negative impact on the plants.
In Minnesota ground water contamination or changes in ground water hydrology are the greatest threats to Leedy's roseroot. Such changes could occur through misapplication of pesticides or synthetic fertilizers to nearby uplands or by use of sinkholes as dump sites. Groundwater flow regimes are poorly understood and it is unclear how close these activities would need to be to adversely affect the plants. At one Minnesota site erosion of a nearby trail has created a gully several feet deep.
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Listen, I'm looking forward to the amped-up tech-of-tomorrow in the next Ghost Recon as much as anybody. But the upcoming installment of the tactical action game is currently sporting one of the stupidest tag lines in recent memory: "Only the Dead Fight Fair."
Worse yet, Ubisoft gets a former Navy SEAL to utter it in this first promo video for Future Soldier. Glimpses of the optical camo are offered along with environments and mission goals, too, but it all seems more laughable with that tagline running through your head.


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After a week of buzzing academic work in the University, the II Congress of Modern Languages is over. It was a successful reunion of international participants and speakers who, with their intellectual stimulation, made that activity a memorable one.
Megatotoro and I had to prepare a speech and a workshop. The former was on gender issues and criticism. The latter aimed at teaching colleagues how to use GNU/Linux & FOSS to solve common problems involving technology... nothing fancy, as both of us are plain users, not computer gurus.
The Speech
As I commented previously, Megatotoro and I gave a speech on masculinity in the Japanese film Shall We DANSU?. Since the presentation was made using mainly open source software (which includes programs we had never used before), I consider that it is relevant to post my after thoughts about that particular activity. Apparently, the audience liked the speech and I know that part of its success was due to the fact that we could rely on software that not only acted as expected but also displayed the information beautifully. Basically, the speech consisted of a Prezi presentation running on Wine (waiting to be summoned, on desktop # 2) complemented by some clips taken from the movie via Avidemux, which were opened as a playlist in Kaffeine (hidden, sitting on desktop #4). We used my netbook (running Mandriva 2010 Spring) and we started with nothing on desktop # 1. As we moved to desktop #2 for the presentation, the change of the cube got the attention of the audience, that was probably expecting a traditional PowerPoint slide show. Prezi might not be as fancy as Open Office.org transitions, but its novelty did catch the participants' eyes... and then we switched from desktop # 2 to #4 to display the clips. This was easily done thanks to KDE Kwin's cube.
The result: many positive comments after the speech was over. One of them was particularly meaningful for us, as it came from an intellectual giant who was a former professor of ours, a woman whose incisive criticism made us question lots of gender/literary/social paradigms as we coursed undergraduate and graduate school.
I wish I could say that our argumentation was effective...but I know that much of the success of this talk comes from the technological delivery. I feel happy because I can trust my OS. Linux has never betrayed me in public.
The Workshop on Technology
All I can say is that it was heartwarming to see the reception that this workshop had. We made 25 Mandriva CDs, 25 SimplyMepis CDs and some bootable flashdrives. Yes, we were prepared to work with 25 people, expected no more than 10, and ended up working with 28 participants, who were very happy because we gave them the CDs and the flashdrives as a present.
Someone told me that several people were sad because they could not register for the workshop. This activity was also successful.
I'd love to get into the details, ... except that Magatotoro already did it.
A blog to compile what I have learned (and what I am learning) about Mandriva (and GNU/Linux in general) since 2009, when I migrated. Current distros I'm using: OpenMandriva Lx 3.1 /3.0 Mageia 6, PCLinuxOS 2017.03, Fedora Workstation 27 (KDE spin), PicarOS, Pisi Linux 1, Elive beta, and AntiX 13.
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Intellectual work, speeches, and Linux
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Both the lecture and the workshop were very interesting experiences, right? As you said, having so many participants attending the latter was indeed heartwarming. By the way, I'm waiting for your post on Gdeskcal and gnome-python-gtksourceview (the Mandriva way!) :PResponderEliminar
Yes, they were good. Who would have thought?ResponderEliminar
I promise I'll get to Gdeskcal as soon as I can trace my steps back to the process :-P
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Dear Sam.
Well I got 2 letters today and Pa got a post card. It is awful hot hear today. I never mind the heat till I get home because it is so cool in the shop. Every body is fine and Mary is over with us again. Molly is going to move tomorrow. I am glad you had a little change of senery. Seeing the country down there is something you will never forget.
I got your little souvernier and will always keep it. Madge is about the same. What she needs is a good long rest and I don't think she will ever get well unless she gets one. She trys to do too much. I am sitting in the window while writing this watching the sights and believe me there is some sights going by.
There was a big forest fire in Canada and it made yesterday and today 2 yellow days. Everything you looked at was yellow. Napolean is just the same and still does the errands for his mother. Speaking of Maine I wish I was on my way down there now. Those were the happy days.
You are having your vacation now and are enjoying yourself play soldier. Well play the game good and come home soon. Pa just got home from a trip to Provincetown so I must get him something to eat. Wishing this finds you well I must close.
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: Hello Harry,: Am addressing this to you but anyone, please reply.: I am eating mostly rice and homemade chicken broth,: a pear and some turkey breast. Also some wheat free corn cereal or rice cereal. Can't tolerate anything else without having D. Am taking fiber capsules, 4 a day and 1/2 lotronex occasionally (not every day, only when I need it). Small bowel-X-rays were normal with some thickening of some of the bowel folds, probably due to my celiac problem. I still wake up around 4:00 A.M. with stomach pains and they last till after I've gone to the bathroom. I think the doctor wanted to rule out intestinal lymphoma which can sometimes happen with celiac. I think they think I'm crazy but I'm going to insist on a colonoscopy (had one two years ago) and anything else that needs to be done.: Any suggestions? In the meantime, I'm pretty depressed.: Elisa
Hi Elisa,I hope the psyllium caps are helping your D...Diarrhea alone is enough to depress anybody.You just can't feel very good about life when it revolves around when is your next episode going to happen. As you know celiac can be very difficult to deal with and if not properly treated can lead to some very serious problems. Malabsorption becomes a extemely serious problem, even if you have a good adequate diet----the loss of vits, minerals and nutrients/calories can result in malnutrition. Diarrhea just makes the problem worse. Digestion is really messed up and food intolerances/ sensitivities can readily appear. It is essiential that you have doctors that really understand your problems. Don't let them brush you off. Many people go for a long time without being properly diagnosed and some come to a diagnosis from a board like this or something they have heard or read. Ask Angie??? And don't hesitate to change doctors to find ONE that will listen to you and treat you illness properly.Don't be surprised if tests like colonoscopy is normal. When I lived in San Francisco, I saw 15 doctors during 2 years before I found a decent Doctor. One time I had a candida infection/ Gastritis as a result of 45 days on antibiotics and had to call a doc I knew in South Carolina to phone a drug store in CA for some medicine. So, I am familiar with frustration and incompetence.I have become very proactive to say the least.
The pain you are having can be caused by lack of Calcium, Magnesium and potassium as I have already posted a few times.It's probably caused by cramps or spasms Try eating some yogurt before going to bed.It has calcium and potassium and take some amount of mag. aspartate. Try blackstrap molasses--which is high in B vitamins iron.It helps the mood swings.God Bless---Harry
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Consensus Report
Review of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plan Health Inspection Service Response to Petitions to Reclassify the Light Brown Apple Moth as a Non-Actionable Pest: A Letter Report (2009)Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
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The light brown apple moth, a native of Australia discovered in California in 2006, is a moth that eats many kinds of plants. In 2007 in a pre-emptive effort against potential damage the moth might cause, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) classified the moth as an "actionable quarantine-significant pest" and implemented a program of quarantine restrictions and eradication. However, several petitions were submitted by members of the public seeking to reclassify the moth as a non-actionable pest against which no action should be taken.
This letter report from the National Research Council evaluates APHIS response to those petitions. The committee determined that APHIS' response did meet the minimal requirements to support its classification of the light brown apple moth as a quarantine-significant pest; however, the response was imprecise in its references to the scientific literature on the moth and unclear in its economic analysis. Additionally, APHIS missed an opportunity to share relevant information, explain its decisions, and reduce public concerns surrounding measures taken to control the light brown apple moth.
Key Messages
- APHIS has not taken advantage of the opportunity to explain and justify its actions and meet its obligations under the Administrative Procedure Act by publishing the LBAM regulations for comment in the Federal Register.
- Economic data number of crops, yield impacts, native and endangered species, and trade implications are not evaluated consistently; some estimates are probabilistic, others are point estimates. Many limitations and assumptions used to estimate environmental and economic impacts are neither explicitly acknowledged nor explained.
- Limiting the scope of the Response has not aided APHIS and may have exacerbated public concerns about the eradication effort.
- The biological data presented in the Response to support the invasive nature of LBAM, its history in California, and its potential geographic distribution in the United States are problematic and in some cases not based on sound, rigorous science.
- Under the IPPC, there are criteria for defining quarantine pest, but they are qualitative, rather than quantitative, biological, and economic criteria. Given the definitions of these criteria, APHIS justified its decision within its broad regulatory discretion, meeting the minimal standard, but has not communicated its justification in a scientifically rigorous way or with sufficient clarity.
- Use of scientifically imprecise terminology confuses the debate and undermines credibility.


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The title of Sunday's second season finale of "Hung" is "The Luckiest Kid in Detroit," which might be a stab at irony – and not only because of the Motor City's well-documented woes.
Luck seems to be in short supply for all concerned on the HBO show, particularly for the strapping, forty-something main character Ray Drecker, whose defining physical attribute gives the program its sardonic title.
The good news for Ray is that the most recent episode ended with him apparently winning back his disillusioned, social-climbing ex-wife from her increasingly bitter dermatologist husband.
The bad news is that the already financially slammed Ray just lost his job as a teacher and coach at the high school where he once was a teenage sports hero. The even worse news is that his secret life as a male prostitute is on the verge of being exposed, thanks largely to his bickering novice pimps.
While Ray (Thomas Jane) is struggling through of one TV's most compelling and comic mid-life crises, the series is only getting better with age.
What began as primarily a strong, dark, satiric look at the changing measure of manhood amid a diminished American Dream has grown in quality and scope – perhaps because Season Two has been as much about the women as the men.
There's Tanya, the failed-poet-turned-pimp whose decline has extended to tricking a middle-aged woman into paying for the services of Ray's unwitting, sweet buddy, who genuinely loves the wealthy widow. Tanya also has assumed a secret life of her own, taking on an old-school pimp as her mentor and lover.
Charlie (played with a smart subtly by Lennie James) has advised his pupil to whack her rival co-pimp Lenore (Rebecca Creskoff), a slick friend-for-hire for rich ladies who appears likely to reveal Ray's moonlighting gig to his ex-wife, Jessica (Anne Heche), out of spite.
Meanwhile, Ray's teenage daughter, Darby (Sianoa Smit-McPhee) is left to battle body-image issues alone with nary a good role model to be found as she tries to navigate her way to womanhood.
The fine writing and the performances – particularly by Jane Adams as the increasingly unhinged Tanya – offers characters worth watching, if not always worth caring about, as they're pushed to alternately comic and sad acts of desperation amid tough times.
While Season One played up the premise of the unlikely prostitute, Season Two has focused more on the consequences and unintended victims of bad decisions – much of which presumably will be laid bare on Sunday night.
There may not be a lot of luck going around in Ray Drecker's corner of Detroit. But we'll be watching the finale, feeling fortunate in the knowledge that the show will be back for at least one more season, giving us more to get hung up on.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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MIDWAY UM Church women hosts a �New to You� sale from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 28 at the fellowship hall, 370 Stella Road in Stella with purses, jewelry, scarves and more.
MIDWAY UM Church women hosts a �New to You� sale from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 28 at the fellowship hall, 370 Stella Road in Stella with purses, jewelry, scarves and more.
ABUNDANT Life Christian Academy sponsors a golf tournament fundraiser at 1 p.m. Sept. 28 at Rock Creek Country Club. Cost $70 per person. Call 910-340-2297.
BLOOMING Hill Male Chorus celebrates its 9th anniversary at 6 p.m. Oct. 12 at 784 Francktown Road in Richlands. Information call 910-265-1853.
POLITICS/RELIGION workshop presented by Unitarian Coastal Fellowship from 1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 28 at Morehead City Train Depot. Information at ucfnc.org.
OUR LADY of Good Counsel Catholic Church offers free music lessons for at-risk youth from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturdays at 1922-A Lejeune Blvd. Visit fefrocks.org.
WEAPONS of the World conference at 10 a.m. Sept. 28 at Little Zion AME Zion Church, Sneads Ferry with the Revs. Patricia Oliver-Smith and Joel Churchwell. Call 910-327-1221.
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The local business community members who represent you on the RAC are:
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2009-10 Conference Primers: #4 – Big 12Posted by rtmsf on November 4th, 2009
Patrick Sellars is the RTC correspondent for the Big 12 Conference.
Predicted Order of Finish:
- Kansas (15-1)
- Texas (14-2)
- Oklahoma (11-5)
- Kansas State (10-6)
- Missouri (9-7)
- Texas A&M (8-8)
- Oklahoma State (8-8)
- Iowa State (7-9)
- Baylor (5-11)
- Texas Tech (4-12)
- Nebraska (3-13)
- Colorado (2-14)
All Conference Team:
- Sherron Collins (G), Kansas
- Willie Warren (G) Oklahoma
- Craig Brackins (F) Iowa State
- Damion James (F), Texas
- Cole Aldrich (C), Kansas
6th Man. James Anderson (G) Oklahoma State
Impact Newcomer. Xavier Henry (G), Kansas
- KU Dominance. Of the 13 years that the Big 12 has held a conference tournament, Kansas has won the crown six times, which is the most of any Big 12 school. Kansas has been deemed the regular season conference champion nine times in those 13 years, sharing the title in three of those times. Every time Kansas has shared the title the Jayhawks were the two-seed in the conference tournament.
- Two At the Top. It's very possible that Texas and Kansas could share the Big 12 title this season. Texas' toughest conference games are Kansas (in Austin), then Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Kansas State on the road. The Longhorns seem to have the advantage over the Jayhawks when it comes to an easier conference schedule, but with KU bringing back all of its talent and adding one of the top freshman in the nation, I still believe that Kansas will stay atop the conference alone.
- Where are the Tigers. Where do you rank the Missouri Tigers in the Big 12 this season? After being picked seventh by the coaches in last year's preseason poll, the Tigers finished third and won the Big 12 Tournament en route to an Elite Eight appearance. Mike Anderson will continue to play his "Fastest Forty Minutes" style, and behind leadership from senior guard JT Tiller (Co-Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year in 2009), and sophomore guard Kim English, it's hard to determine where Mizzou will be at the end of the season. Anderson has put together a very athletic lineup, which should be able to play to his coaching style, but their lack of experience and a consistent scorer could hurt them.
- X-Factor. Freshman phenom Xavier Henry could be the key to Kansas' hopes of a second national title in just three seasons. A late decider, Henry could very well be one of the most productive freshmen in the NCAA this season. He is surrounded by unbelievable talent that will hog most of the attention from opposing defenses, which should open up many scoring opportunities for Henry.


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"It is hard to imagine that an instrument weighing only 2 oz. could make ripples in the water industry."� – Jessica Moorman associate editor for Water Quality Products.
Did you know that one of the most important things you can do for your health is to regularly check the quality of your water supply? Too many times we think that just because the water looks clean means that it is clean. Sadly, that is not the case. Many waterborne particles are not visible to the naked eye, meaning you could be ingesting harmful toxins without knowing it. This is why utilizing a water test meter is critical. Of all the choices available for water quality analysis, we suggest HM Digital. They provide premier, high quality water test TDS meters.
TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) is anything in the water you can't see other than pure H2O. This could include any salt, metal and/or minerals. The lower the TDS level, the purer the water. HM Digital provides accuracy in TDS testing and offers great features for affordable prices. According to Charles Lee, Managing Director for HM Digital, Inc.:
"HM Digital strives to provide higher quality products at more affordable prices. All of HM Digital's instruments, pack in more features and specifications than the competition, yet are available at the same or better price. The company's industry-leading warranties solidify the brand as the first choice in instrumentation."
With that said, there is little doubt why HM Digital is the choice for you when it comes to testing your water, whether it is for your pool, spa, or everyday drinking water.
The HM TDS-3 Meter with Carrying Case features little maintenance and convenient features such as a large, easy-to-read LCD Display and an auto off function to conserve battery life. Suitable for residential and commercial use, this HM Digital Meter provides accurate results of the waterborne contaminants that may be lurking in your water supply. Use this meter to:
- Check the performance of your water filter
- Confirm that your drinking water is at a healthy, safe TDS level
- Measure TDS levels for other applications such as residential RO applications
A vinyl carrying case with a belt clip and a three year limited warranty is included with the purchase of the HM TDS-3 Meter.
The HM Digital PH-200 Meter is a highly accurate, professional-grade digital pH and temperature meter. The HM PH200 can be used for pH testing, water purification applications, pools, spas, wine or coffee applications and more. This accurate and useful meter has a one year factory warranty and comes with one 7.0 PH buffer.
The HM Digital PH Buffer is economically priced, lightweight and has an indefinite shelf life. Preparation directions are included on the bottle for your convenience. Three packets of 4.0 pH, 6 packets of 7.0 pH and 3 packets of 10.01 pH are included upon purchase.
The HM Digital PTDS-4TM Pocket Size TDS Meter is a hand held digital water quality tester which is used to test the amount of total dissolved solids (TDS) and other impurities in water. This pocket size HM Digital water test TDS meter is the smallest and lightest TDS meter available on the market. Its uses range from testing the water quality of pools/spas to your drinking water at home. The housing of this HM Digital water quality tester is water-resistant and has a low-battery indicator.
If you do not regularly check your water quality, you could be doing your body a huge disservice. The quality of the water you drink is just as vital to your life as water itself. Remember, the best way to benefit from water is to draw from a clean source of water.
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- McLaren news
MP4-28 'the best we've ever made' - Button
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McLaren confident it can iron out errors with MP4-28
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McLaren's MP4-28 is unveiled
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Jenson Button has described McLaren's MP4-28 as "the best [car] we've ever made" after its launch on Thursday.
The new car was unveiled at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking by Button and his new team-mate Sergio Perez. Button won three races in 2012 but was unable to challenge for the championship as reliability problems undermined the pace of the MP4-27. Button said that McLaren has worked hard to eradicate those issues and that he's eager to start testing the car at Jerez next week.
"We were extremely strong throughout the whole of the 2012 season, but, for one reason or another, we couldn't quite pull it all together to challenge for the championships," Button said. "That's something we want to address for 2013. I've seen just how closely everybody has been working together on this car, and I think we've got the basis for a very strong season.
"We'll be working extremely hard during the pre-season to ensure we go to the first race with bulletproof reliability. Operationally, too, I think we've learned and developed from last year, and that will help us run a much smoother and stronger campaign.
"This year's car is the best we've ever made - I know the engineers have left absolutely no stone unturned in wringing every ounce of performance from every available area. I cannot wait to get behind the wheel and attempt to carry forward the incredible legacy that lives beneath the skin of every single man and woman who works at McLaren."


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Analysis: Shinseki exit breaks Obama's crisis mold
WASHINGTON (AP) — This was not in the Barack Obama playbook.
The resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki on Friday did not follow the usual arc of a crisis in the Obama administration.
Obama prefers to not get sucked into a drama and cede in the heat of the moment. He'd rather send in fixers and have the bloodletting occur in due course.
Shinseki, however, tendered his resignation at the height of a political clamor for his departure and as revelations of systemic delays in veterans' patient care mounted daily. Shinseki left even before the review Obama had ordered of the department's problems was completed.
For Obama, there was little doubt that his decision to let Shinseki go was painful.
"He is a very good man," Obama said of the former four-star Army general and Vietnam veteran. "I don't just mean he's an accomplished man. I don't just mean that he's been an outstanding soldier. He's a good person who's done exemplary work on our behalf."
In this crisis, it became clear to the White House that the solution to the problems identified in news accounts and in a damning report from the VA's inspector general were endemic and would take time to turn around, let alone correct.
That's what set it apart the spectacularly bad launch of healthcare.gov.
Kathleen Sebelius stayed on as head of the Department of Health and Human Services until April, seven months after that fumbling start. But that was a website problem caused by poorly designed technology. It was fixable in the short-term and in the end sign-ups exceeded projections.
The path for Shinseki's exit was laid a week ago when Obama told reporters that if Shinseki "does not think he can do a good job on this and if he thinks he has let our veterans down, then I'm sure that he is not going to be interested in continuing to serve."
On Wednesday, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough notified Obama of the scathing inspector general's report as Obama flew back on Air Force One from West Point, New York, where he had just delivered a foreign policy address.
The VA inspector general's report and a preliminary review by Shinseki himself depicted the problems as widespread. The inspector general's report offered another troubling observation: The issues went back nearly a decade, before Obama's presidency.
That's hardly a comfort for Obama and his beleaguered White House.
Obama served on the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee that reviewed those inspector general studies. He ran for president in 2008 with a promise to improve the delivery of benefits for veterans. His wife has made helping veterans and their families a priority. Last week, Obama called the care of veterans "one of the causes of my presidency."
What's more, as Obama brings more than a decade of wars to an end, he has made a point of telling returning soldiers that they deserve the care and benefits of a grateful nation. Those returning servicemen and women, many with physical or mental wounds, have put additional strains on the VA's health care system.
The inspector general, examining the troubled VA health care system in Phoenix, found that about 1,700 veterans in need of care were "at risk of being lost or forgotten" after being kept off an official waiting list. That came after allegations that as many as 40 veterans may have died while awaiting care at the agency's Phoenix facilities.
For a president who lists veterans as a priority, that suggests a massive failure.
Beyond that, the crisis draws attention to another Obama priority — health care. It raises further doubts about the government's ability to deliver on the president's principal legislative achievement.
Shinseki's exit hardly resolves those lingering problems. But it does let the White House, for the moment, turn a page, manage a crisis and quiet an election-year din.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Jim Kuhnhenn covers the White House for The Associated Press
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Save the date for Webinar Wednesdays!
In 2014, the American Anthropological Association will host a monthly webinar series on the third Wednesday of the month on a variety of topics to engage anthropologists.
The first webinar topic is professional development and career building for anthropologists outside of the academy. Dr. Riall Nolan of Purdue University will lead this first webinar and share tips on CV writing, job searching, interviewing and much more.
This webinar will be of particular interest to advanced graduate students, those who have recently earned their PhD and those seeking practicing anthropology careers.
The webinar is free; however, registration is required at: https://aaanetevents.webex.com/aaanetevents/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=663078462
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TEXGED – Crawfish Project
Summary of the Crawfish Project
Crawfish project was funded by United States of America, The International Development Agency (AID) and Supreme Council of the Egyptian Universities in Cairo in 1997 and completed in October 1998. The project has been funded for $50,000 in collaboration with Ain Shams University, Egypt. The pictures in this text show the visiting experience for the Egyptian Scientists accompanied by American Scientists to Louisiana State University, USA and the development of crawfish nets that used in USA and its processing for food . Also, the Egyptian Scientists visited the crawfish farms.
The main idea of the project is to develop a scientific computational model to determine the time of spread of the populations and the size of Procambarus calarcii (i.e. Crawfish) populations in the River Nile in Egypt. The crawfish's of Procambarus calarcii is an exotic species to the River Nile environment. The Egyptians consider crawfish species as a pest to their River Nile environment. Further, the fishermen are suffering from this exotic species because it causes many sever problems to their catch of fishes from the River Nile by reduction of the catches from other native fishes that the Egyptians are adapted to eat. In this respect the Egyptian ere not adapted to eat the crawfish as a supply of food.
The above pictures were taken in Egypt when American PI Visited Egypt in visiting the collected samples sites in Egypt in 1998.
Because of the increase of the crawfish populations in the River Nile because the suitable habitat in the River to increase its population, the Egyptians tolerated to eat this creature as a source of food and as the result the population of this species has increase in the river to cause severe environmental problem in the river in addition to the damages to the levees and other constructions on the rivers. The Egyptian scientists collected samples about the ecological parameters such as water velocity, salinity, pH, and other ecological parameters, in addition to samples of crawfish populations from several stations on the river. Then these data were incorporated in developing an ecological computational model developed by the American scientist at TEXGED Center, Prairie view A&M University. Further, the ecological computational model was incorporated in Geographical Information System (GIS) and used to predict the extended spread of crawfish populations in River Nile in Egypt and how long of time that it takes the crawfish populations to spread from Northern of Egypt to Upper Egypt near the borders of Sudan. The major added knowledge of this project can be summarized as follows:
- The Population density and biomass of the newly introduced Procambarus calarcii investigated in four selected stations in Egypt.
- It was found that this have been affected by the prevailing environmental factors such as water temperature, dissolved oxygen and pH of the water of the water streams and canals in the studied areas.
- The biological factors such as benthos and zooplankton biodiversity have also affected the crawfish distribution.
- Application of the GIS spatial analysis incorporated with developed analytical and populations of crawfish computational model showed that density of the crawfish currently occupying most of the lower Egypt canals especially in the Middle of Delta and is being expanded outwards of Delta and growing spreading the crawfish towards Upper Egypt.
- Further studies on crawfish in Egypt are needed to confirm the model's prediction.
The above findings were published in the Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries. The citation of these findings is as follow:
Shakir, S.H. and Ibrahim, A. (1998). Population dynamics and distribution of the newly introduced crawfish Procambarus calarcii in Egypt using Geographic Information System (GIS). Vol. 2, No. 4.537-551.


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The greatest running gag in "Get Him to the Greek" involves the terribly tacky furry walls in the Aldous Snow's rock star Vegas hotel suite. While it turns into a long-running theme in the movie, even inspiring the film's musical closing number, the whole concept was a happy, unscripted accident.
"It was one of those awesome serendipitous things that you pray happens on a movie," writer/director Nicholas Stoller tells PopcornBiz, as the film was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on Tuesday.
It all started when his production designer Jan Roelfs decided to pimp out the fake Vegas hotel room by adding walls and walls of terrible fake fur.
"Jan is very Dutch and very cool and he wears very cool black suits," says Stoller. "He kept telling me that her was going to make the suite look very stupid. Like that was his thing. So he put up these fur walls."
"It was pretty amazing."
Stoller points out that the fur was very, very fake.
"No animals were harmed," he says. "But it was so artificial I am sure we used a lot of petroleum in the fur. It seemed highly flamable."
During the fight scene in the hotel suite, Stoller needed to keep Jonah Hill in the scene and in a place where all characters could check in with him. So he kept Hill's character, who was tripping out on drugs, petting the fake wall. This led to every actor, from Russell Brand to Sean Combs, working with the wall.
"When we were shooting, all the actors were improv-ing off the furry walls, and we were all throwing in jokes," says Stoller. "It was awesome."
The scene worked so well in audience testing that Stoller decided to have Snow pay rock star homage with a "Furry Wall" song at the end of the movie. This scene was shot in reshoots after the principle filming was done.
Naturally, there are plenty of furry wall extras in the DVD and Blu-Ray which never made it into the film.


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Topic Page: stroboscope
(strŏb'Әskōp), optical instrument for making a moving object appear to be slowed down or stationary. This effect is created by interrupting the observer's view so that the object is seen only at regularly spaced intervals rather than continuously. In its simplest form the stroboscope is a rotating disk; along its edge are evenly spaced holes through which the moving object is observed. If the object's motion is cyclic, the speed of the disk can be synchronized with it so that the object always appears in the same position when viewed through one of the holes. During the time that a solid area is blocking the line of sight, the persistence of vision enables the eye to retain the image previously seen, while the object moves to the same or a similar position by the time the next hole is in front of the eye. The effect is thus one of a stationary object.
If the stroboscope is not quite synchronized with the object's motion, the object will appear to move slowly either backward or forward, depending upon whether the stroboscope's rotation is too fast or too slow. For more accurate observation a flashing light (stroboscopic light) is used instead of a disk. When used in conjunction with a camera a stroboscopic light can also be used to study motion that is not cyclic, e.g., a speeding bullet; the resulting photograph shows a series of still images whose separations are proportional to the object's speed.
The stroboscope was invented and improved upon by H. E. Edgerton starting in 1931. It has various uses in scientific research, teaching, and industry, where it is used to study stresses on parts of machines while in motion.


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May 10 Handy Hint:
Train wheels pack bunker
We made a silage packer from 10 old iron train wheels. It works very well when packing our corn silage and haylage bunkers. The total weight of the packer is about 9,000 pounds. It brings more packing weight, more stability, and it packs about 10 feet of width at a time.
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I'm using the NHD‐0420CW‐AB3 and I'm having an issue with the display and I want to see if it's something I accidentally programmed or if it's a hardware issue. The eight column in each row cannot be printed to. When I attempt to push a character to that position the display freaks out.


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Chef Hosan Raj Giri
Maharani – Queen of Indian Flavour
A young, yet dynamic element of the Royal Cliff team is Chef Hosan. He hails from Nepal where he has worked for an impressive variety of hotels and restaurants. Chef Hosan's pleasure is to liven up each dish with his personal flair. Determined and in-touch with clients; he is the ideal addition to Maharani, Pattaya's best Indian restaurants


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$K$ a field, $A\subset K$ a subring, $M\subset K$ an $A$-submodule. Define $$(A:_{K}M):= \lbrace s\in K|sM\subset A\rbrace$$ Then it is easy to see that
$$M\subset A\Longleftrightarrow A\subset (A:_{K}M),$$
$$A\subset M\Longrightarrow (A:_{K}M)\subset A$$
But I couldn't show the reverse implication of the second. It is true if $M$ is invertible, and I'm guessing that it is true only if $M$ is invertible. Any ideas?


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You can only set up Thunderbird with an Office 365 from GoDaddy using IMAP or POP. Thunderbird does not support Exchange-based email like Office 365. Because of this, it's not recommended to set up Office 365 in Thunderbird.
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- To set up Thunderbird with your Office 365 email, you'll need your Find my Office 365 IMAP or POP settings. Then set up your Office 365 account in Thunderbird, using those server settings.


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Join Xia Blanche in Studio 2047 for a kids Comics Book Art Class, for ages 6-14, to learn drawing techniques used in making comic books! Every Saturday for one hour at 11:00 AM in Studio 2047 at Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment. Each class is $15. All materials will be provided.


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TOLUCA, Mexico (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday sharply criticized the Venezuelan government for arresting protesters and urged the government to focus on the "legitimate grievances" of its people.
At a news conference concluding a North American summit, Obama did not mince words in reacting to Venezuela's expulsion this week of three U.S. diplomats accused of recruiting students to lead protests in Caracas.
Instead of "making up false accusations" against U.S. diplomats, the Venezuelan government should focus on the "legitimate grievances of the Venezuelan government," Obama said.
He called on the Caracas government to release protesters it had detained and engage in a real dialogue. "All parties have an obligation to work together," he said.
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This mirrorless dslr got so much negative reviews because of its slow Auto focus, no viewfinder and no inbuilt flash.
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I Am Rich Comes to Android (Finally!)
As we established before, the Google Android Marketplace doesn't have quite as strict a vetting process as the iTunes App Store. It's something of a mixed blessing: On one side, you get some cool apps like Tether Wi-Fi, which lets people user their phone as portable modems--a big no-no in the world of the iPhone. But then, there are those other apps that were pulled from the store based on, let's just say, "quality concerns."
I am Rich is arguably the best known app to get pulled from the App Store by Apple. In its original iteration, the program displayed a spinning red jewel--all for the low price of $999.99. That was the joke. It didn't do anything--well, beyond offering you an outlet with which to recklessly spend your hard-earned money. Apple didn't really get the joke. Neither did a small handful of people who accidentally purchase the worthless app. It was soon pulled from the App Store.
Now it's back--albeit in a slightly cheaper form--in the Android store. The red jewel can now be yours for the low, low price of $200. I'm pretty sure this is the first signpost of the inflation that economists have been warning against.


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A 13th-Floor Condo? No Such Luck
Although most people don't believe the myth of unlucky 13, less than 5% of residential condo buildings in Manhattan and Brooklyn have a designated 13th floor. Sanette Tanaka and Pete Culliney, City Realty Director of Research and Analytics, join Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images.
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Renowned for her elastic contralto and jazz scat vocal gymnastics, singer Phoebe Snow was born Phoebe Laub on July 17, 1952, in New York City. During her childhood in Teaneck, NJ, she initially studied piano, but switched to the guitar in her teens, writing poetry that gradually mutated into her first songs. Overcoming her stage fright, Snow began playing Greenwich Village clubs in the early '70s, honing an eclectic set that spotlighted both folk and pop sounds as well as jazz, blues, and even torch songs.
After signing to Leon Russell's Shelter label, Snow issued her self-titled debut LP in 1974; on the strength of her Top Five smash "Poetry Man," the album itself rose to the number four position. A tour with Paul Simon followed, along with an appearance on his hit "Gone at Last"; after returning to the studio, Snow emerged in 1976 with Second Childhood, another highly successful effort that, like its predecessor, achieved gold-selling status. Despite a flurry of records throughout the latter half of the decade, including 1977's It Looks Like Snow, 1977's Never Letting Go, and 1978's Against the Grain, Snow receded from view as the 1980s dawned, and following the release of 1981's Rock Away, she did not record again for eight years.
Upon signing to Elektra, Snow resurfaced in 1989 with Something Real, followed by a series of New York club appearances as a member of ex-Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen's all-star New York Rock and Soul Revue. Apart from lending her voice to a number of radio and television advertisements, Snow again fell silent in subsequent years, although in 1994 she appeared at Woodstock with a gospel group additionally comprised of Mavis Staples, CeCe Peniston, and Thelma Houston. Three albums were recorded and released during the late '90s and the 2000s: 1998's I Can't Complain, 2003's Natural Wonder, and 2008's Live in Woodstock. After suffering a brain hemorrhage in 2010, Snow passed away in April of the following year. ~ Jason Ankeny
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – The pitchers that assembled for the Perfect Game Pitcher/Catcher Indoor Showcase held here in early February prompted scouts to fill their notebooks with words of praise like "polished" and "statement outing" and "physically imposing."
Top prospects like highly ranked and highly regarded left-hander Jake Brentz and right-handers Clinton Hollon, Devin Williams, Andrew Dunlap and Alex Lange had the large gathering of scouts salivating, as did a senior right-hander from Muscatine (Iowa) High School whose performance prompted a PG scout to pen the words "draftable performance."
Fast-forward two months. Derek Burkamper, the aforementioned Muscatine righty, was sitting in the stands at Veterans Memorial Stadium Sunday afternoon waiting to head down to Perfect Game Field and take his turn pitching at the PG Spring Top Prospect Showcase. Burkamper, a University of Nebraska signee, was at the showcase with a single purpose.
"I'm preparing for the draft," he said. "I've been talking to my family all about it; I've been committed to Nebraska and I've signed my national letter of intent with (the Cornhuskers) but you've got to keep two dogs in one race. You've got to keep both dogs going and hope for the best."
Burkamper's name won't be found on too many draft boards listing potential early round picks, but that is changing. His stock has risen right along with his velocity in just about every outing he's made since pitching at the 2012 PG Pitcher/Catcher Indoor Showcase when his fastball topped-out at 87 mph.
He touched 88 mph while helping Iowa Select Black to the semifinal round at the PG/EvoShield National Championship (Upperclass) in Goodyear, Ariz., last September, and one week later reached 89 while pitching for Iowa Select Black at the PG WWBA Kernels Foundation Championship at Veterans Memorial Stadium.
After pitching for the Reds Midwest Scout Team at the PG WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Fla., in late October, Burkamper began an offseason conditioning program that added about 15 pounds to his 6-foot, 2-inch frame, bringing his weight up to about 185 pounds from the 170 listed in fall of 2012.
The results continued to impress as he touched 91 mph at the 2013 PG Pitcher/Catcher Indoor Showcase in February, and he topped-out at 92 – and sat at 89-92 – during his Sunday afternoon outing at the Spring Top.
With Brentz, who is from Ballwin, Mo., and fellow standout left-handers A.J. Puk from Cedar Rapids and Max Knutson from Arden Hills, Minn., among the others who pitched on Sunday, Burkamper was pumped-up throwing in front of a throng of very interested onlookers.
"These events bring a bunch of scouts and a bunch of college coaches in, and just being here helps out tremendously," he said, while giving a nod to other highly regarded pitchers at the Spring Top. "It makes everything more competitive; playing with the best you develop better as a player yourself. I just have to keep working hard on the outside stuff, like sticking around in the weight room and getting stronger, and hopefully everything pans out and it shows on the field."
Perfect Game's scouting report noted that Burkamper "looked good on the mound (Sunday) having his fastball sit at 89-92mph with his curveball at 77mph and his changeup at 81mph. Burkamper has a good quick arm action, throws downhill, has riding life on his fastball and a good feel for his curveball which has late bite."
After the PG P/C Indoor in February, Burkamper joined Brentz, Hollon, Williams, Dunlap, Lange and others on the pitcher's Top Prospect list from the event. It was in that listing that the PG scout mentioned the "draftable performance" while also noting that Burkamper's "improvement since the fall was eye-opening" and that "scouts are going to have to bear down on him this spring."
He is ranked the No. 259 national prospect in the class of 2013 and No. 2 in the state of Iowa behind Puk, who has signed with Florida as a two-way player and is projected to be an early round draft pick. The Spring Top was Burkamper's 16th PG event since August, 2011, and his 11th in the last 14 months. That includes two seasons in the PG Iowa Spring Wood Bat League and one in the Iowa Fall League.
One of his more memorable experiences was playing at the PG/EvoShield National Championship in 100-degree desert heat back in September. He was part of a pitching staff that included lefty Benjamin Miller from Clive, Iowa, a fellow Nebraska signee who is Iowa's No. 3-ranked prospect in the 2013 class, and right-hander Keaton McKinney from Ankeny, Iowa, an Arkansas commit who is the state's top-ranked prospect in the class of 2014.
"It's been awesome," Burkamper said of his experiences. "I've got to travel to places I'd never been to just to play baseball, so it's just been awesome. Baseball has always been my sport. I played basketball off to the side for awhile but these last couple of years I quit basketball to focus on this because I knew this is what I wanted to do for a long time."
Burkamper made his commitment to Nebraska early in the recruiting process, and said the program was a pretty easy sell. When asked what led to his decision to become a Cornhusker, he answered with a rhetorical question of his own:
"Do you know who the coaches are? 'Darin Erstad', that pretty much says it all right there. I wanted to stick around in the Midwest area and I felt Nebraska was the best choice for that."
Depending on what happens with the draft and any additional opportunities it may offer, Burkamper will be playing his final season of high school ball for the Muscatine Muskies this summer. He is coming off a junior season in 2012 when he earned Iowa Class 4A (big school) first-team all-state recognition after finishing 8-5 with a 1.17 ERA and 119 strikeouts and just 28 walks in 83 2/3 innings.
After pitching at the PG/EvoShield National Championship in September, Burkamper said, "The high school season is a lot of fun, but here the competition is just a lot (stronger)." While waiting to pitch Sunday afternoon, he began to view his final season of prep ball in a slightly different light while considering what he can do to help the Muskies improve on their 26-12 record in 2012 and advance to the state tournament under head coach Bob Leech.
"I have great high school coaches who care about me and they've helped me progress," Burkamper said. "I love high school baseball and I'm going to miss it. This is my last year and hopefully we can make it to state and hopefully we can win it all."


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Thursday Links
- Higher deficits and debt mean we must confront entitlements and re-think the way government insurance creates perverse incentives that increase our dependence.
- Higher gas prices have nothing to do with Wall Street speculators.
- Higher polemics against limited government aren't going to restore our fiscal sanity.
- Higher taxes on soda will have little, if any, effect on our waistlines.
- Please join us one week from tomorrow, on Friday, April 29 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern for a special sneak preview of Free or Equal, a documentary from Free to Choose Media. In this one-hour film, Cato Senior Fellow Johan Norberg retraces Milton Friedman's steps from the trailblazing 1980 documentary Free to Choose to see how economic liberalization has transformed societies around the world. Norberg will introduce Free and Equal, and will answer questions following the screening. Complimentary registration is required of all attendees by noon Eastern on Thursday, April 28. Until then, please enjoy this preview:
And don't miss Milton Friedman's 1988 essay in the Cato Policy Report, "Using the Market for Social Development," an excellent primer to some of the topics addressed in the two films.


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Deputy shoots man with machete
Victim was also carrying Bible under his arm
A man carrying a machete and acting erratically was fatally shot Saturday by a Flagler County sheriff's deputy.
Authorities said the incident started when they received a call about 4:25 p.m. on Brownstone Lake in Palm Coast.
Flagler County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debra Johnson said the deputy, later identified as Joseph Dailey, was forced to shoot 32-year-old Troy Gordon, who had become violent toward his family earlier in the day.
Officials said the Gordon was described as having mental issues.
In addition to carrying the machete, investigators said Gordon was carrying a Bible under his arm and told his family "it was the end for him."
Investigators said Gordon approached Deputy Brandon Fiveash and threatened him. Fiveash used a Taser to try and stop Gordon, but that did not stop him, police said.
The deputy who fired the fatal shot was not hurt, but officials said Fiveash suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating because a deputy was involved.


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Dec. 12, 2009
BOSTON, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's indoor track and field team turned in a record-breaking performance in their second and final meet before the fall semester break at the Harvard Open at Gordon Track Saturday. No team scores were recorded at the meet.
Freshman Kaylin Miranda (Brighton, MA/O'Bryant HS) posted a provisional NCAA qualifying mark with the second best long jump in UMD history, finishing third overall at 22 -9. Freshman Paul Grafov (Dartmouth, MA/Dartmouth HS) ran the second fastest 500 meters in school history, qualifying for the Open New England Championships by finishing third in 1:06.21. Sophomore Hymlaire Lamisere (Newton, MA/Newton North HS/Iona) set a school record when he finished 12th in the 60 meter dash in 7.21 seconds, sophomore Brian McArdle (Winchester, MA/Winchester HS) finished 10th with the second fastest 60 meter time in school history (8.81 seconds) and junior Nick Deininger (North Attleboro, MA/North Attleboro HS) posted the third best time at UMD when he finished 13th in 8.91 seconds. Sophomore Robert Yarbough's (Fall River, MA/Durfee HS) sixth place effort in the shot put (46-5 ½) was the third best throw in school history, and junior Steve Burke (Norwell, MA/Norwell HS) won his 3000 meter heat in 8:58.72, and just missed qualifying for the New England Championships.
For the women, junior Linee Mello-Frost (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) broke her own 60 meter hurdle school record when she finished sixth in 9.63 seconds after running 9.51 in the trials, freshman Jillian Van Ness (Agawam, MA/Agawam HS) broke the school record in the 60 meter dash when she finished 13th in 8.22 seconds, sophomore Patience Noah (Framingham, MA/Keefe Tech) broke her own record in the triple jump when she finished sixth in the triple jump in 35 feet, 1 ¾ inches and qualified for the New England Division III Championships, sophomore Caitlin McGarigal (Shutesbury, MA/Amherst-Pelham Regional HS) finished fifth at 5000 meters in 18:40.13 and qualified for he New England and ECAC Championships, and junior Jermai Harrison (Brockton, MA/Brockton HS) was seventh in the shot put with a toss of 38-5 ½.
"We have had two good meets in December," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "We're really pleased with where we are right now, which is evidenced by the number of people who have qualified so far. We are starting to show more depth and quality than we have in the past, and I'm looking forward to picking up again in January."
The Corsairs will take time off for the holidays, returning to action January 15th at the Sorlien Invitational at the University of Rhode Island.