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Yesterday, the UK's wildest wildcat oil company, Cairn Energy, received the news it has been waiting for when the Greenland Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum (BMP) gave final permission for the company to start its 2011 Arctic drilling programme in Baffin Bay over the coming months.
This announcement in itself isn't particularly surprising – Greenland's desire to become a global oil powerhouse is well documented, and I suspect that a relatively small company like Cairn wouldn't be spending hundreds of millions of euros hiring two huge drilling vessels, assorted support ships, anchor handling tugs, ice management craft and transferring them all the way across the North Atlantic unless it was pretty sure of getting an official green light.
What did raise some eyebrows was that Cairn wasn't given permission to drill at all 10 of the sites they wanted to drill at this season. They can only drill in seven areas and no official reason was given to explain why, though the BMP was quick to point out that it would be undertaking stricter monitoring of drilling operations this year. That's all well and good, but until we see a fully completed oil spill response plan explaining precisely how Cairn plans to successfully cap a leak a mile below a frozen sea surface covered by meters of ice, forgive me if I don't break open the '34 Pol Roger just yet.
After all, in its own Environmental Impact Assessment for this year, the company admitted it had no idea how a spill would impact the region in the winter, saying that all its "spill scenarios were simulated within the proposed drilling window, corresponding to the ice-free period." This is particularly worrying given that a Canadian company specialising in oil spills concluded that "there is really no solution or method today that we're aware of that can actually recover [spilt] oil from the Arctic."
The Arctic is one of the last frontiers of environmental protection. This fragile and unique environment is under threat from climate change and oil exploration.
Even more of a surprise was that this news comes at exactly the same time as major international oil companies have started the application process for new drilling elsewhere in the Arctic, and just as scientists have published even gloomier warnings about the rate of temperature rise and ice melt in the region.
Over in Alaska, Shell has started submitting applications to open up to 10 new exploratory oil wells next year, 4 in the Beaufort Sea and a further 6 in the Chukchi Sea. Though the US Environmental Protection Agency effectively stymied Shell's drilling programme this year, the Anglo-Dutch giant has nailed its colours firmly to the polar mast. It is "very cautiously optimistic" about getting hold of the estimated 25bn barrels of oil off Alaska, and has already it has spent a staggering $3.5bn in the state.
All this news comes hot on the heels of further scientific research into just how bad climate change is affecting the region. A study by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme found that the quickening rate of climate change in the Arctic could cause global sea levels to rise by up to 1.6m by the end of the century. Because the rate of warming is so rapid, with the last six years being the warmest on record, the Arctic Ocean could become ice-free within 30 or 40 years, much sooner than experts previously warned.
The starting gun for race for the High North has been fired just as scientists are telling us the future of the frozen Arctic is looking increasingly bleak.
With this in mind, later this week all eyes will be on the Arctic Council, which is meeting in Nuuk, Greenland. Attendees, including US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, are set to hammer out a deal to open up the region to future development. It doesn't look good. Even though the Arctic is undergoing dramatic changes due to climate change, pollution and ocean acidification, the Arctic Council has done almost nothing to protect this fragile region.
Talking won't save the Arctic. Instead we need to see measures to defend the region from oil drilling, destructive fishing and shipping.
So is it all doom and gloom? Not just yet.
We have a choice. We can still change course, go beyond oil and protect the Arctic, but only if we can force the foot-dragging corporations and the politicians who back them to embrace measures that can curb our dependence on oil.
A keen ornithologist who has worked on many Greenpeace issues, Ben is head of the Arctic oil campaign. He lives in London and watches a lot of Arsenal matches.
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It is chocking how stupid and shortterm some politician and company are. In there hunt for money they doesn't even think 10 years ahead so much less t...
It is chocking how stupid and shortterm some politician and company are. In there hunt for money they doesn't even think 10 years ahead so much less to other next generation. As Greenpease so right pointed out, what will happen if oil start to leak under thick ice.
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I have seen up close the pollution,Damage and the sheer amount of toxic gasses that are released into the atmosphere from drilling companies.
I have seen up close the pollution,Damage and the sheer amount of toxic gasses that are released into the atmosphere from drilling companies.
They have no idea the knock on effect energy companies will have when they start their projects.
If they damage the Arctic the planet will have it's revenge on the human race.
More action must be taken to stop this.
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please stop try digging under things under your feet. It's the place you rely on. Please try alternative from the sources above your head.
Let t...
please stop try digging under things under your feet. It's the place you rely on. Please try alternative from the sources above your head.
Let the scientist and technicians shows their talent that really are blessings for us and the earth we live.
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Quand donc cessera ce ... "progrès" qui est en train de détruire la planète et qui tue ses habitants à petits feux...
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Stop doing stupid thing against animals and humans just for money
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in the name of man and greed
the human race keeps committing
more misdeeds
all are watched by our creator
who will pull the pl...
in the name of man and greed
the human race keeps committing
more misdeeds
all are watched by our creator
who will pull the plug,
sooner or later:(
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når man starter et olieboring, og det sviner, og hvem går det ud over??? -Dyrelivet-+ den smukke natur. og hvis ulykke sker, kan vi ikke være bekendt at miste så mange dyr med olie og lidelse på deres tøj ( fjerdragt-pels), at hvis man holder af naturen, så er dyrelivet mere vigtigt end penge, = alt ødelagt = 2milioner år, at få det op at stå, hvem ville rejse på ferie til et visen og dyre fattig LAND ????-vi skal bruge hjernen i venstra side og ikke i den lille penge lap i højre side.------ DEM der har olie, giv dem en kop kaffe, og bliv venner med dem, -krig er der nok af =oliepenge, HVORFOR IKKE DELE DER, og klap dem på skuldren, EJEREN af olien, har jo skrabet til sig, så fattige er bleven fattigere, og de rige-rigerere, DENNE afgørelse, ville også ske i det nordlige, og KINA som danmark er bleven venner med-uh, de tager den store sko på, for at komme ind!!!---giv agts
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Is spin our ultimate weapon? Is an SLA infested attack the way to go? Jeeshan Mirza dwells on the significance of spin bowling in the context of Bangladesh cricket and whether a spin-heavy attack is indeed what we need to conquer the world.
Time for a Spinner Hunt
by Jeeshan Mirza
Published: 12th July, 2012
In economics, the theory of comparative advantage explains a country should specialize in making and exporting goods and services that it can produce most efficiently. In a way this idea can also apply to sports like cricket. Every cricketing nation seems to have the ability to unearth talent in certain areas much more easily than others. India has the ability to produce run scoring machines, Pakistan unearths skillful swing bowlers with ease, South Africa is known for their world class all-rounders and fielders, while Australia has always been good with genuine fast bowlers. Bangladesh too seems to have the ability to produce a category of players with ease - slow left arm spinners (SLA's).
Spin In World Cricket
If there is something missing in world cricket at the moment, it has to be the lack of world class spinners. Warne, Muralitharan, Kumble, have left a huge vacuum which their countries are finding very hard to fill. Australia has lost a lot of its edge since the retirement of Warne and MacGill. Even with the best coaching facilities and domestic cricket structure they haven't been able to come up with anyone worthy of replacing Warne. Australia selectors will admit this is one of the team's major weaknesses. Muralitharan played a huge role in Sri Lanka's emergence in world cricket. Exit Murali, and they too have been struggling in this department. India has been shuffling several spinners and is yet to come up with someone who has cemented a place in the side (Read Akash Chopras Excellent Article on "India's Bare Spin Cupboard"). South Africa never had much luck in this department. In recent times a lot of rules have changed, game formats have changed - all making life difficult for spinners. Yet they still play a key role in the success of many teams. England can thank Graeme Swann for a lot of their success in recent years in all formats of the game. Despite boasting so many quality fast bowers, Pakistan still prefers to use 3 spinners in Test and limited over cricket. West Indies is capitalizing on the skills of Sunil Narine. Nathan Lyon and Imran Tahir offer fresh hope to Australia and South Africa. Even New Zealand has been known to field two spinners in seam friendly wickets.
Fortunately for Bangladesh, we have a large pool of spin bowlers (Mostly SLA's)-most of whom are untapped and undeveloped. Given the dearth of quality spinners in world cricket, many leading cricket teams would probably not mind taking and grooming some of our guys (Think about it, Xavier Doherty is Australia's main ODI spinner, but would he get a chance in the Bangladeshi team ahead of Shakib, Razzak, Sunny's.) So it must be asked what are we doing with such talent?
Spin in Bangladeshi Cricket
Spinners have played a key role in Bangladeshi cricket in all formats of the game. In Test cricket, 53% of all our dismissals have been by spinners (most by SLA's). Close to 50% of all wickets taken in ODI's are taken by spinners (again most by SLA's). Out of 4 bowlers who have taken over 100 wickets in ODI's 3 are SLA's. Spinners also enjoy better economy rates and often strike rates. In the inaugural edition of BPL, our spinners dominated the wicket chart against many experienced world class bowlers. Five of the top ten wicket takers in BPL were our SLA's.
Despite the success of spinners, we are often guilty of picking or prioritizing pacers ahead of spinners. Consider Asia Cup 2012, where we picked Shahadat Hossain in the final despite his struggle in previous matches. Had we picked Elias Sunny (fresh from his success in BPL) perhaps he would have given us 10 overs, probably at 30-40 runs less than Shahadat. And that could very well have been the difference. Now I am not saying our spinners are world class and they should be picked ahead of our pace bowlers. All I am suggesting is statistics wise our spinners have higher likelihood of success in comparison to a general pace bowler. Also our pace bowlers fall well short in terms of skill and physical ability in comparison to pacers in other countries. So while they excel in our domestic circuit, they struggle when introduced in the international arena. In contrast our spinners have less difficulty making an impact. Recall how guys like Saqlain Sajib and the Sunny's were giving enough of trouble to quality batsmen in BPL.
BCB and we the fans have always been more fascinated with pace. Every nation finds it sexy to have a bowler or two capable of bowling in excess of 140 kph. We have held nationwide pace hunts, recruited fast bowling coaches, sent our young quicks to academies abroad. A lot effort has been made but with very little success. Why? Some people blame it on work ethic and physical fitness of our players, some blame it on flat wickets, and some blame the lack of quality coaches, some say it is because we lack a pace academy like many countries have. I am not going to debate the reasons. All I am implying is perhaps it is time to take a lesson from economics and divert some resources towards the development of spinners.
SLA, SLA SLA. Is It A Good Thing?
In 2007, Bangladesh probably fielded its best ever bowling attack. This was definitely a reason why we also progressed in the World Cup. Rafique, Razzak and Shakib formed an effective partnership which strangled and choked the opposition. Each of these bowlers had distinct strengths which they utilized to the fullest extent to making our bowling for once formidable. It wasn't devastating spin, it was clever, crafty, accurate bowling which halted and frustrated the oppositions resulting in both forced and unforced dismissals. That was the last time we played three SLA's. After that we preferred bowling 2 SLA's with part time off spinners, or 2 SLA's with three pacers. We tried numerous bowlers, numerous combinations yet our attack has never been as strong as it was in 2007.
Why do we produce so many SLA's? A lot can be attributed to Mohammad Rafique, one of Bangladesh's first cricketing icons. Shakib Al Hasan is now continuing Rafique's legacy by inspiring a new generation of young prospects. The nature of the wickets and the batsmen in Bangladesh have also played a role. Bangladeshi wickets have always been known for slow, low bounce and little turn. So a spinner is better off keeping it straight and flat rather than giving it air. A former Bangladesh coach Gordon Greenside had always said a major problem with our batsmen is their tendency to play with the bottom hand. This usually results in a lot of them playing across the line and getting caught in front as a result. We also have quite a lot of right handers in comparison to left handed batsmen. Combine these two facts, and you get a perfect environment for SLA's to prosper in.
It is good that we produce so many SLA's. That's our comparative advantage and we must capitalize on it. But our attack can become even stronger if we can develop a few quality off spinners and leg spinners as well. It is definitely something for the selectors and management to ponder about.
2 VS 3 Spinners
Should we field 2 or 3 specialist spinners? This is probably something our selectors and team management debate about all the time. It obviously would depend on the strategy, opposition and type of wicket. At home it is always better to have more spinners. Against a team like New Zealand or Zimbabwe or South Africa it is always best to field three specialist spinners in most wickets. We often get stuck with the mindset that fielding three pace bowlers is always the best option in Australia or South Africa. But think about it, can our medium fast bowlers extract anything special out of Australian wickets, and can they do anything to threaten the batsmen? Often a part timer Aussie all-rounder will be able to generate more pace and bounce than our frontline bowlers. Harsh, but that is the reality. Our mindset prevents us from picking three spinners who perhaps have higher likelihood of success than our pace bowlers.
Is it a good idea to field three slow SLA bowlers? Many think our attack will become one dimensional. It worked for us in the past, and it could work for us again. The key is the variation each of the bowlers offer. Rafique, Shakib, and Razzak had different styles and strengths.
The Road Ahead
Maybe it is time for one of the big Telcos to sponsor a nationwide spinner hunt. Perhaps they can bring our national heroes like Shakib, Rafique, Razzak and international stars like Murali and Kumble to all cricket centers of the country and identify the best spin prospects. One thing is for sure, the campaign will yield more spin talent than bowlers who can bowl in excess of 140kph. Fast bowling is not something you can develop overnight and with no infrastructure. MRF Pace Academy was set up in India in the late 1980's. Only recently India has been able to unearth genuine fast bowlers. Spin seems to come more naturally to us. In the short term we have a higher probability of unearthing spin talent than fast bowling sensations.
Perhaps it is also time for us to look beyond SLA's just to add some variety and spice to our bowling attack. This too cannot be achieved overnight. We do not have off spin and leg spin legends to inspire the youngsters either.
The mindset must also be changed. Due to the nature of our wickets, T20s and so on our spinners just try to keep it flat and wicket to wicket. They must be taught to beat the batsmen with flight, turn and variation. Our spinners often wait for batsmen to make mistakes. World class bowlers like Swann, Ajmal force the batsmen to make mistakes.
A lot of experts have suggested we change our wickets to develop our batsmen and fast bowling. This will help spinners as well. Harder wickets will help spinners generate more bounce and turn. There will be other ways to dismiss batsmen than trapping them in front!
A Pakistani leg spin legend once said, "A leg spinner is like a tree. You can't expect it to give you food and shade straight away. You must nurture it, protect it and eventually it will yield what you are looking for." Now this applies to any type of cricketer, but a lot more specifically to spinners because it is a difficult art to master. Unfortunately we lack the means to nurture our pool of spinners. Through Mushtaq Ahmed's coaching and mentoring Graeme Swann has become one of the best spinners in the world. All our current spinners will praise former fielding and spin bowling coach Mohammad Salahuddin for the work he has done. Since his resignation, this position has been vacant. There is some positive news with the board approaching Saqlain Mushtaq to take over the role on a temporary basis. It is a start, but we must aim to get someone on a full time basis not only to work with the national team spinners, but also those in the pipeline - even perhaps run a spin academy.
Spin bowling can make a big difference for Bangladesh whether in T20, ODI or Test Cricket. It is time for BCB to take it a bit more seriously. Think how Muralitharan made the Sri Lankan bowling attack so menacing all by himself in the early 1990's. Time for us to unearth our own Murali. There is plenty of talent out there - BCB has to adopt the right strategies to find and get the best out of them.
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The storm also caused rare reports of hail throughout the day and a light dusting of snow on Bay Area peaks. Mount Hamilton in San Jose received three inches of snow.
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text: Comedian Jerry Seinfeld rolled his 1967 Fiat "BTM" this weekend after the brakes of the classic car failed on him. Apparently, after the brake failure, Seinfeld tried the emergency brake in East Hampton, NY, but it seems even that couldn't quite do the job, forcing Seinfeld to swerve in order to avoid flying into an intersection, thus rolling the car. We're told Seinfeld's OK. The '67 Fiat "BTM" (Yeah, so what's up with a Fiat "BTM," anyway? That's what the AP's claiming it is — and we've no idea what Fiat the man half behind a show about nothing owns) however, was not. Seinfeld's not be charged in the incident which is being attributed to mechanical failure. (Hat tip to Michael!) [via CNN]


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So, in 2006, Virginian senate candidate George Allen made a pretty-racist comment about an Indian, camera-toting rep from his rival's campaign, calling him "Macaca" and "welcoming" him to America. Like an asshole! Media outrage popped—as did a Wiki-war.
Allen denied "macaca" was an actual slur, and that he'd just conjured it up. But the very next day after Macacagate spread, Slate notes, an entry for the word appeared where none had been before:
Macaca (also spelled Macaque) is a dismissive epithet used by Francophone colonials in Africa for native populations of North and Subsaharan Africans, similar to the British "wog", or US "gook" or "haji". Macaca is also a coded word used in the White Power Movement to refer to people of African descent.
The "citation needed" slap-fight began immediately, edit upon edit, Wiki scholars digging deep into the most obscure sources to try to justify this from-thin-air etymology, and no clear consensus. At the moment, the entry begins thusly:
Macaca is a pejorative epithet used by francophone colonialists in Central Africa's Belgian Congo for the native population. It may be derived from the name of the genus comprising macaque monkeys. The word macaque has also been used as a racial slur. The macaque's genus name, Macaca, is a latinization of the Bantu (Kongo) ma-kako, meaning "monkey".
The citations are pretty out of left field—which brings up a weighty question. Wikipedia is often the first place we turn to settle a dispute—such as whether macaca is an actual, historically-grounded racial slur or just the ambiguously racist gibberish of some guy. So who gets to decide? A bunch of anonymous editors on Wikipedia. [Slate]


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My beautiful wife spent the majority of the day cleaning up the devastation that our spawn have wreaked on our home. Her mood was justifiably off kilter. We literally could no see the floor in the game room upstairs and their rooms were not much better. They can create a mess faster than you can clean it up and we have had a very difficult time convincing them that toys should be put away after being played with.
I went up stairs to help for a few minutes while the kids were playing on the swings. After a few minutes I peeked out the window to check on them. I saw Reagan and Madison flinging handfuls of sand into the air. "That's not good" I thought.
So I went down stairs and outside to find Reagan gleefully dumping handfuls of sand on to Jordan's head and back. All three of them were covered from head to toe in the very fine black grit that is my back yard and shrieking with joy.
"REAGAN... WHAT made you think this was a good idea?" I asked. She flashed me a smile through all that grime, shrugged her shoulders and said, "I don't know..." She glanced down, slowly let the sand run through her fingers, glanced back up with a twinkle in her eye, smiled a little bigger and reached down to scoop up some more. I narrowed my eyes, inhaled through my teeth and let out a big sigh as Reagan dumped the sand down the front of her shirt and patted it.
"Stop...All of you come here right now." They all bounced over and cranked their little necks to look up at me, without an ounce of remorse.
"Do you know that Mom would be ABSOLUTELY furious if she saw you right now? She has been cleaning up your mess ALL day."
"Oh..." They all said in unison.
I figured that if Kari came down at that moment one of two things would happen: A) Her eyes would have gotten really wide. She would have gritted her teeth, raised her right hand in a tightly balled fist with her index finger extended, and then her head would have exploded from the sudden change in blood pressure. Or b) Her jaw would have dropped open for about two seconds while she took in the sight. Then her hands would have balled into fists as she set her teeth and flexed her jaw muscles. Her brow would furrow and we would be burned to a crisp by the laser stink-eye beams that would have shot from her eyes as we tried to flee for our lives.
Neither option sounded good to me. I like my wife and didn't want her head to explode and I didn't want me or my kids to perish in flames.
"Take your clothes off right now." I told them, "Go into my bathroom right now before Mom sees you. DO NOT touch ANYTHING. GO."
"We're naked!" They giggled and skipped off to rub their hands on the bathroom walls while I took their clothes to the laundry room.
I got to the bathroom in time to see Reagan bent over with a hand on each cheek, head on the floor, to give Jordan the best possible view, while Madison wiped her face on the clean towels.
I made some sort of guttural grunting sound. Not really sure where it came from... I turned on the shower and herded them inside.
After a good deal of scrubbing I got most of the sand out of their hair. I toweled them off and sent them to get jammies. I saw Kari walk by as we exited the bathroom and thought I saw her right eyebrow arch up a fraction of an inch, but she said nothing.


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It was an apology more than 35 years in the making made possible by Facebook.
Michael Goodman confessed online that he held up Claude Soffel and took his bus pass from him outside the Museum of Natural History in the 1970s, BBC News reported.
After reading a post about the closure of H&H Bagels on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Michael Goodman recognized Soffel's name on the comment thread and reached out to him with the heartfelt apology.
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"You may not remember this (about 1976 or '77) but a long long time ago ... trying to look like a tough guy ... I walked up to you and mugged you for your bus pass," Goodman said in a Facebook comment directed to Soffel.
"I have never forgotten the incident or your name," Goodman wrote. "Finally I can say I'm very sorry."
Soffel accepted the apology in a response.
"Clearly you're a bigger man today," Soffel wrote to Goodman. "I recognize your name now as well. So, apology accepted. So let us now, jointly put this in its proper place, behind us."
The interaction between Goodman and Soffel was a hit with members of the Facebook group that the two connected on, especially as the story continued to be picked up by multiple media outlets. The group, NYC 89th Street Soldiers & Sailors Monument Alumni – 1970s, was created for people to get reacquainted with others who grew up on 89th St & Broadway from the 1960s to 1980s, according to the group page.
Goodman, who now lives in Hilo, Hawaii, wrote that he felt "peace on this subject" and even "joy."
The two continued to comment back and forth about the increased media exposure and an interview each had with a New York Post reporter.
"She mentioned you'd take me out for a beer if only you were in NY," Soffel told Goodman. "Hmmm, how's the weather in Hilo?"
Goodman happily obliged, going as far as to say Soffel was a "friend" and a "hero."
"Anytime your [sic] in my neck of the woods come check out the Big Island & there will be a cold one waiting," he wrote.


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The following are outrageously precious things said by those involved in the Sex and the City movie about the Sex and the City movie:
That sort of wanton lust, it's just not at the surface of their skin anymore. What's important to me is that Carrie isn't frivolous and silly, that there is sophistication to her. She's making a serious attempt at making grown-up decisions about love and about life choices
— Sarah Jessica Parker
32-year-olds go out and get drunk and sleep with inappropriate men in bars downtown. And 42-year-old girls maybe don't. Today they're out in front of the library getting married. That would've never happened in the 32-year-old New York.
— Michael Patrick King, screenwriter and director
I missed the whole thing. I missed the fictional people. I missed the real people. I missed the crew and the day-to-day of shooting the series.
— Cynthia Nixon <<blockquote>For me the whole movie is the streets. Because that's where all the promise and potential is. That's the romance. That's the hope. That's where single women walk out the door every day, and they just don't know what is two steps away. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I sometimes get blamed for the meatpacking district, yes. And I'm sorry. But it can be nice on certain nights. And it can be awful on other nights. Like New York, you know?
— Michael Patrick King.
That is all. You may vomit a little in your mouth and return to your work now.
More 'Sex,' and the City Is Happy About It [NYT]


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A fatal wrong-way crash killed two people and closed down Interstate 30 at Beach Street early Monday morning.
The crash closed all eastbound lanes the freeway just before the Beach Street exit and forced drivers to exit the freeway and detour around the crash using Lancaster Street or other options.
Signal flares lit up the early morning darkness for miles as Fort Worth police investigated the scene.
The latest news from around North Texas.
According to the police department, drivers began calling 911 around Oakland Boulevard to report a driver in a black sedan traveling the wrong way, driving westbound on the eastbound lanes of I-30 at Beach. One caller reports the driver had been speeding at an estimated 100 miles and hour. Police are investigating that report and determining how fast the driver was traveling when they collided with the other vehicle, a white, two-door coupe, near Beach Street.
The crash killed both Billy Gonzales,30, and Wright Dunyell, 41, both of Forth Worth.
Lanes of the freeway were re-opened at 5:59 a.m. Monday, but investigators were still working portions of the scene to identify the parties invovled.
Fast Five Live's Keaton Fox (@KeatonFoxNBC5) shows the scene via Vine:
FWPD: Double fatality accident due to wrong way driver. I30 EB @ Beach. @nbcdfw vine.co/v/b1YAuUw0I3P — Keaton Fox (@KeatonFoxNBC5) February 4, 2013
Previously, in March 2011, a wrong-way crash near that same exchange killed a truck driver and caused a massive fire that scorched two lanes of I-30 at Beach so severely that Texas Department of Transportation had to shut down the area for months to repair.
NBC 5's Greg Janda contributed to an earlier version of this story.


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De Higgs Boson Verwarring (GEEKchic comic)
Rotterdam-based comic artist Kenny Rubenis has self-published several mini-comics since 2005. These include 'Prins Banaan', 'Wraak van de suikerspin', 'Casino & boerenwit' and 'Cullum Tales'. His webcomic 'Kenny's not zo amazingly boring comic' ran until 2007 and was nominated for a Clickie in the category Best Epic Webcomic by the Clickburg Foundation in 2007.
Balthazar Poeski (2009)
He was Jean-Marc van Tol's assistant for many years on his work for Eppo, MYX and TV show 'De Wereld Draait Door'. Van Tol's publishing house Catulus published Kenny's solo comic 'Balthazar Poeski' in 2009.
He joined forces with Aimée de Jongh in 2011 and has published mini-comics like 'Robin & Flip', 'Dating for Geeks' and the so-called 'GEEKchic' series under the Amazing & Uncanny Comics imprint since then. His comic strip 'Dating for Geeks' is published in free daily newspaper Sp!ts from January 2014, and in Metro from October of that year. Book collections appear at Strip2000.
Op een onzekere avond (submission to Benelux Comics Contest, published in Zone 5300 in 2011)


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There's a new Ethernet in town called 10GbE, and its blazing fast. Benchmark Reviews recently gave you the inside scoop on the newest 10GbE networking hardware, and I mentioned that the first thing I did was to hook up a 10GbE NAS. Plain old Gigabit Ethernet has been holding back mid-range NAS servers for a while now. With 10GbE starting to enter the mainstream, QNAP is now making their 10GbE-capable storage products more affordable. The QNAP TS-870U-RP Turbo NAS is part of a new model line that trades off some CPU power and a couple of build features in order to lower the cost of entry. With eight 3.5" drive bays available there is a potential for 32TB of drive space, and the Intel Celeron CPU, with 32nm Sandy Bridge architecture, has enough horsepower to make file transfers fly by. It also has two x8 PCIe slots for 10GbE NICs and these make a huge difference in real-world performance. Take a closer look with us, at the current value leader in NAS speed demons.
The cell phone and Ethernet are 40 years old this year and both are omnipresent in our digital lives. Like many elements of today's consumer tech, Ethernet was developed at XEROX PARC and then commercialized elsewhere. Ethernet came to the PC in 1982, with a bandwidth cap of 10 Megabits per second; most consumers and small businesses are now operating at 1Gb/s speeds. That will change soon to 10Gb/s, if the NETGEAR XS708E 10GbE Switch is any indication. Its eight RJ-45 ports are designed to interface with common Cat 6 wiring, and it also has one SFP+ port to handle fiber optic connections. Benchmark Reviews brings you an inside look at a break-out offering in the NETGEAR ProSAFE Plus Switch line, which brings 10GbE connectivity down to the masses.
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Data Rot! Every time a compact disk gives up the ghost and you some files, you've experienced it. All digital storage technologies are susceptible to data rot, AKA bit rot. Benchmark Reviews recently highlighted reliability issues that SSD users are experiencing; their flash memory failures have been an eye-opening experience for consumers. We all know how a hard drive "crashes", but we're not so clear on how electrons disappear. Large data centers have been acutely aware of this problem, and the industry devised ways of eliminating it. Now, Infortrend is making that technology available to consumers, with their new EonNAS series. The key to data integrity is in the ZFS file system, that's part of the Sun-based OS installed in the EonNAS 1100. Plus, it performs data deduplication on the fly! Read on to find out more...
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Welcome to Enniscrone, Co.Sligo
A stop on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way, snuggled into the Sligo Coastline lies the seaside town of Enniscrone, the perfect choice for your getaway; whether it's a family holiday, a weekend away with your other half or to simply escape the hustle & bustle.
The breath taking landscape and coastal scenery of Enniscrone will captivate and remain in your heart long after you have returned to the everyday world. Steeped in culture, Enniscrone offers visitors an authentic Irish holiday experience.
Explore our renowned 5km beach; discover some of Enniscrones hidden gems; take a GPS enabled guided audio walk of the town and learn about the history; enjoy a horseback ride on the beach, relax after an eventful day by having a seaweed bath, the possibilities are endless.
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Originally posted here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/276167/fixed-point-theorem-on-graphs
I have a graph $G=(V,E)$ where to each vertex $v$ I have associated a value, $\hat{v}$ (ie I have a "network" in the terminology here http://snap.stanford.edu/snap/index.html ).
Let $\phi : \hat{V} \rightarrow \hat{V}$ be the function which takes the value associated to each node and replaces it with median of the values of the adjacent nodes.
Empirically, iterating $\phi$ converges. Why?
edit: The graph is large and follows this model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barab%C3%A1si%E2%80%93Albert_model . Also, for ~1% of nodes, $\phi$ is the identity. There is some related work here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~zhuxj/pub/CMU-CALD-02-107.pdf
edit: Looks like I can just replace the $P(j \rightarrow i)$ in the label propagation paper with $P(j \rightarrow i) = 1\; if \; \text{j is the median, }0 \text{ else}$, then I can copy their convergence result.
edit: Wait, no. If I do that then P changes each step so it's not a direct copy...


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Sitting in my second packed room of the Grace Hopper conference! Considering we're still before "official" launch time, I can't believe how many women are here and how packed every session is! Here in my first session in the PhD series, I'm excited to see three PhD students present their research.
An n-gram Based Approach to the Classification of Web Pages by Genre: Jane E Mason, Dalhousie University:
Mason is looking for a novel approach to doing classification of web sites by actual genre - not just keywords. For example, searching for a health condition and only showing you information pages instead of pages by drug manufacturers attempting to sell you something.
Mason chose to use n-grams, because they are relatively insensitive to spelling errors, are language independent, and relatively easy to program. She combines these and then processes them with the Keselj Distance Function, which is apparently "simple", but it has been awhile since I've been in Differential Equations :-)
Mason and her team have been looking at how to let some web pages have multiple genres, which means that some pages end up with no genre - noise! While it's easy for a human to identify a nonsense/useless web page, I think it's pretty cool to get a computer to do this for you, so you won't even see it in the search results!
Ant Colony Optimization: Theory, Algorithms and Applications: Sameena Shah, Institute of Technology Delhi:
I've never heard of this type of optimization, so this was very interesting for me. Shah chose to study this area of optimization because ants don't have centralized coordination and they make great decisions based only on local information. She sees this as a great method to apply to distributed computing. Now, how do we get computers to leave pheromones on the path of least resistance?
Other than the lack of pheromones, another problem she had to solve is that ants don't always find the shortest path - if enough ants have taken a longer path before the short path is discovered, all of the ants in the colony will use the longer path and ignore the short path. Obviously, she doesn't want that short coming in her algorithm :-)
Shah does have a slide in her presentation which shows the statistical "solution", but it's a much more complicated formula than I ever saw in my intro to statistics course at Purdue. :)
Using Layout Information to Enhance Security on the Web: Terri Oda, Carlton Univeristy:
Ms Oda is a woman after my own heart, starting her presentation with a xkcd comic :-)
She starts her talk out talking about different types of security, like secure networks between companies. Oda tells us about how the threat models are no longer obvious: those seemingly innocuous applications in facebook that have access to your private chats on the site and private emails, websites that don't properly protect passwords, and malicious users on the same forums. Her talk moved onto the types of threats she's actually trying to protect you against: cross-site scripting and previously good sites that have gone bad.
She makes an excellent point that most (all?) web pages are done by web designers (aka artists), NOT web security experts and with all their deadlines and basic functionality bugs, there is no time to even think about security. Is it any wonder we have so many attacks and vulnerabilities out there?
but how can we solve this? Schedules will never have enough padding and most people designing web sites did not receive a BS degree from Purdue (where we were told over & over again that security must be designed in from the beginning, not as an add-on)
She's looking at using heuristics to correctly identify different elements on a page so that it's visually evident which components on the page are from the site you're visiting or being served from an external site (like an ad). I can't wait to see how her research turns out, and how much she can protect the user with a simple browser add-on!


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MOBBED – 9:00PM (FOX) It says a lot about our country that we consider this a terrible economy and yet Howie Mandel manages to remain gainfully employed. After "Deal Or No Deal" and the immortal "Howie Do It" comes this new show in Howie's trilogy, combining the awkwardness of "Candid Camera" with the fun of flash mobography. Everyone loves a flash mob, do they not? One minute, you're out getting groceries. The next, BAM! A thousand people are blocking your way back to your car with an impromptu rendition of "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart." It's like a miracle. A hugely inconvenient miracle. ANTICIPATION: MOBBY!
AMERICAN IDOL – 8:00PM (FOX) Another singer gets the boot, but first… you'll have to sit through performances from Jamie Foxx, Fantasia, and will.i.am. Maybe they'll all sing TOGETHER, and it'll be a radical interpretation of Eddie Murphy's "Party All The Time." You know it's right up their alley. ANTICIPATION: MY GIRL WANTS TO PARTY ALL THE TIME PARTY ALL THE TIME PARTY ALL THE TIME!
MLB OPENING DAY – All Day (ESPN) Baseball season has arrived, so ditch work and catch a tripleheader on ESPN starting at 1PM, wrapping up with the World Champion Giants taking on the archrival Dodgers at 8PM. Only 161 more games left! ANTICIPATION: BEER!
CSI – 9PM (CBS) In the spirit of Opening Day, the CSI's bet on whether they can "hit for the cycle" in a single evening – working a homicide, suicide, accidental death, and a natural death. And will Catherine's dismemberment streak hit 50 straight? That's record territory. ANTICIPATION: DEATH!


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WOO HOO! I'm so excited about this new food lover's tour that I had to steal a quote from my 2-year old nephew, who says "woo hoo" nowadays for everything that excites him. Since I'm gushing much like a 2-year old who can't hold this any longer, I think "WOO HOO" is perfect.
I've put together a food lover's feast in Provence, the place I've called home for the last two summers. This is a week-long vacation (8 days/7 nights) and it has me so excited because it encompasses all the flavors and beauty of Provence that make this region so tasty and special - its markets, its food, its wine, its quaint and colorful villages & towns and its seaside spots with the blue blue Mediterranean as a backdrop.
The food, the markets and villages of Provence are the focus of this vacation. We'll have guided visits to three of the best markets in the region; three market-to-table cooking classes where we'll create seasonal dishes with ingredients straight from the market; we'll make guided visits with tastings to a pastry shop and cheese shop. Wine is a big part of this vacation, with wine included at each meal. There will be a wine lesson and visit to a winery in the Cotes du Rhone. We'll enjoy bouillabaisse in the city that created it. We'll dine in the best restaurants in Provence. Yes, this is a food lover's feast in Provence and more!
We'll explore the history, culture, and beauty of the region and meet local purveyors of the region's delicacies. We'll have a local expert with us on all our explorations and walks as we visit Avignon, Arles, villages of the Luberon and our home base for the tour, Aix-en-Provence. I'll be your tour leader and culinary instructor the entire time on this small-group tour (maximum 10 people per group). I have personally and carefully selected all the restaurants, markets, shops, towns and villages to ensure that this is the best food & wine feast in Provence.
Below are a few photos of what we'll see and experience along with more details. All details, itinerary, and booking information are on the Markets & Villages Culinary Vacation page. I hope you'll join me, there are two tour date options, as we eat our way through Provence!
What's included in this vacation ~
- Three full-meal market-to-table cooking classes ~ All are hands-on in a small group setting
- All lunches and dinners in some of the best restaurants in Provence, wine included with meals
- Welcome Champagne reception and dinner
- Guided visit to 3 Provencal markets
- Guided walking tours of Aix-en-Provence, Avignon, and Arles
- Visits to the Luberon Valley, hilltop Provencal villages, Cassis, and Sanary-sur-Mer
- Winery visit and tasting
- Guided boat tour of the Calanques
- Pastry shop visit and tasting
- Fromagerie visit and tasting
- Transfer to and from either the Marseille airport or the Aix-en-Provence TGV station on arrival and departure days
- Transportation to and from Aix-en-Provence for all the tour excursions
- Cook in Provence recipe book
- Cook in Provence apron and welcome gift bag
- Food Lover's Guide to Provence booklet
*Airfare, accommodations, transportation to and from Aix-en-Provence before and after the tour, meals not specified above, and travel insurance are not included.
NOTE: Although accommodations are not included, I can help you find and make lodging arrangements to fit your individual travel style and needs.
Rotonde Fountain in Aix-en-Provence
Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence
Seaside Village of Sanary-sur-Mer
Olive and olive oil shop in a Provencal village
Calanques near Cassis
Courtyard Garden at L'Espace Van Gogh in Arles
Ready to book your tour and savor Provence?
Dates and Details ~
Vacation Dates:
- June 28 - July 5, 2015 (Itinerary may include visit to famous Provence lavendar field)
- July 26 - August 2, 2015 (Itinerary will include visit to famous Provence lavendar fields)
Price: $2,850 per person
Maximum Group Size: 10 people
Tour Alum Discount: Receive $200 off this tour if you've already taken a tour with Food Lover's Odyssey
Full itinerary and all the details are here: Markets & Villages of Provence Culinary Vacation page.
How to book ~
Email me at: chefkathyayer [at] yahoo[dot]com. I'll send you the booking form. You will need to pay the deposit and fill out the booking form to book and secure your space.
Book your spot today and you'll be on your way to a fabulous food-lover's vacation in Provence.
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The San Francisco Giants signed Aubrey Huff to a one-year contract, a move that probably didn't set off any alarm bells at your dinner table. After all, what does the signing of a veteran first baseman to a team 3,000 miles away from the Bronx have to do with with the price of peanuts at Yankee Stadium? More than you might think, dear reader.
San Francisco was seen as one of the few potential landing spots for erstwhile Yankee left fielder Johnny Damon and Huff's signing makes it very difficult to see how that could still come to fruition. They've got Huff and Pablo Sandoval, the Panda, at the infield corners and they signed Mark DeRosa earlier this offseason. He looks set for left field, which means there's no spot for Damon in the city by the bay.
Other potential suitors like St. Louis, Texas and Atlanta have made other moves to fill their needs in the lineup while Damon sits by and waits for a multi-year deal close to the $13 million he made last year. There doesn't seem to be any chance of such a deal coming to fruition which means two things. One, Damon should probably have a serious discussion with Scott Boras and, two, it is getting harder to see another round of negotiations between Damon and the Yankees.
The Yankees have said they are right up against the payroll limit, something Joel Sherman of the New York Postreiterates on Tuesday, but they are in the market for another outfielder. Xavier Nady, Rocco Baldelli and Reed Johnson would satisfy that need, but they aren't as good as Damon and they don't have any of the place in Yankee lore that Damon earned with his World Series double steal last November.
We don't doubt that Brian Cashman was given a firm number by Hal Steinbrenner when it came to the budget. If the G.M. went to the owner and said that they could have Johnson for $2 - 3 million or Damon for $6 million for 2010, though, would that number really remain firm? The gut feeling is that it wouldn't and that the marginal rise in payroll would be more than offset by the rise in production Damon would offer to the offense.
We'll see what happens, but there may still be a pinstriped uniform for Damon.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City and is a contributor to FanHouse.com and ProFootballTalk.com in addition to his duties for NBCNewYork.com.


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I had approximate the same problem. My OS4.1FE is not run by a HD. But I SWAP not deleted and reinstalled.
In my case an old version of SLB was the problem. After I installed the version "slb_v2,29036 bytes Ver.1.19" from the CD with Partition Wizard on the HD, everything went well.
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If you want to view the changes that have been done to the SAP Customer Master, use the menu path Environment -> Field Changes. The system will list the fields that have been changed as follows. This concept applies to SAP Material Master also. So this post applies to both SAP SD Training students as well as SAP MM Training students.
If you want to view all the changed values at one, click on "All Changes" and the system will display the list of all the Old and new values for the field.
If you want to see the exact time and the user id who has done the specific changes, just double click on the change.
Though this is not a typical interview question, all SAP Training students should know this.
Question 1 : For SAP Customer Master 1400, give the list of changes that happened on 09.11.1994
Question 2 : On 10.10.96, the SAP Customer Master 1400 was changed . What is the old Recon Account and What is the new Recon Account ?
Question 3 : On 08.02.99, the SAP Customer Master 1400's City was changed. Give the User id who has done this change ?


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About six months ago, Phyllis Lombardi called a friend and former Suffolk Times colleague to ask for a ride to Best Buy so she could replace her broken computer.
She was nearing the end of a long battle with cancer, but Phyllis told her friend Meg Marcus that she mostly needed the new computer to continue writing her column. Even as her health deteriorated, she managed to file several pieces in advance. Only two had not yet been published when she died last week. (more…)


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Impact of the Arab Human Development Reports
"The Arab Human Development Reports have become a strategic blueprint for UNDP programming in the
Arab States region, informing development projects that are rooted in the region's priorities,
capacities, and objectives."
Amat Al Alim Alsoswa Regional Director, UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States Read more
The Arab Human Development Report series has become a milestone in the broader debate over the
development reform agenda in the Arab region, with AHDR recommendations increasingly reflected in
development programming at the national and regional levels. The first Arab Human Development
Report (AHDR) 2002, Creating Opportunities for Future Generations, defined three deficits impeding
the human development of the Arab region:
I. Knowledge
II. Freedoms and
III. Women's rights
"Without a strong and growing contemporary knowledge base of their own, Arab countries will be
absorbed into the international knowledge society as passive consumers of other countries' proprietary
knowledge, technology and services."
Arab Human Development Report 2003
The AHDR series identified knowledge as a cornerstone of human development: a means of expanding people's capabilities and a tool for overcoming human poverty.
Towards this goal, UNDP has launched a number of regional programmes:
- to promote information and communication technology for development (ICTD http://www.ictdar.org),
- to enhance educational quality assurance [http://www.arabtimss-undp.org ] at the primary, secondary and higher education levels, and to support longer-term capacity building in the region through the establishment of regional mechanisms.
"Governance in Arab countries is undergoing a process of reform. We hope that these Reports will
help to plant the seeds of good governance in the region by inspiring a society-wide process of
creative thinking, innovation and collective work in which all dynamic societal forces in Arab
countries will take part."
Arab Human Development Report 2004
The Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (POGAR) works to advance four pillars of good
governance practice:
(1) Rule of Law; [http://www.arab-niaba.org, http://www.arabruleoflaw.org ]
(2) Transparency and Accountability;
(3) Participation; and [gender and citizenship, http://www.arabparliaments.org/ ]
(4) Human Rights. [http://www.arabhumanrights.org/en/]
POGAR's activities range from capacity building and knowledge generation to policy advice and dialogue, creating strategic partnerships among government officials, civil society organizations, academics and donor agencies.
In response to AHDR 2002, POGAR constructed comprehensive legal databases [http://www.arablegalportal.org] in Arabic (Egypt, Iraq, Arab banking laws); translated, commissioned and published several studies on governance-related issues; and launched its own website (http://www.undp-pogar.org), which provides resources on governance reform in Arab countries.
"This Report calls for the temporary adoption of the principle of affirmative action or positive
discrimination in expanding the participation of women to all fields of human activity in every Arab
society according to the particular circumstances of each."
Arab Human Development Report (2005)
The Regional initiatives to advance women's empowerment include:
Center for Arab Women Training and Research (CAWTAR http://www.cawtar.org) - Based in Tunis, CAWTAR is an independent regional institution that promotes gender equality in the Arab World through research, training, networking and advocacy. Originally supported as a joint project of UNDP, Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND http://www.agfund.org ), and later the World Bank, CAWTAR has produced Arab Women Development Reports (AWDRs) since 2001. The AWDRs are a series of thematic periodical reports whose primary objective is to address the knowledge gap in gender-related research in the Arab region.
HIV/AIDS Regional Programme in the Arab States (HARPAS http://www.harpas.org ) - Based in Cairo, HARPAS works to heighten awareness and to build commitment and leadership in the regional response to HIV/AIDS. In May 2006, HARPAS launched a Regional Women Religious Leaders Forum in Cairo, Egypt that culminated in the Tripoli Declaration. The Declaration commits religious communities to advocate for an end to discrimination, and to protect women and children infected, and affected, by the HIV virus.


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Gisele Bundchen doesn't really want a new law mandating breastfeeding – she was just sayin.'
The Brazilian supermodel and new mom wrote Monday on her blog that her comments in a Harper's Bazaar UK interview about the importance of breastfeeding were more personal opinion than policy prescription.
In the interview, Bundchen reportedly said she could not understand why some American moms "think they don't have to breastfeed" and choose formula.
U.S. & World
"I think there should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months," Bundchen said, a position that rankled critics in the blogosphere.
Within hours of excerpts from the interview hitting the web, Bundchen attempted to pacify critics by writing on her blog Monday that she realized some things are "not black and white" and she was "not here to judge."
"My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law," she wrote. "It comes from my passion and beliefs about children. Becoming a new mom has brought a lot of questions, I feel like I am in a constant search for answers on what might be the best for my child."
Bundchen, who is married to NFL quarterback Tom Brady and gave birth to son Benjamin last December, went on to say that she was sure if she " would just be sitting talking about my experiences with other mothers, we would just be sharing opinions."
"I understand that everyone has their own experience and opinions and I am not here to judge," she said. "I think as mothers we are all just trying our best."


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Arkansas Seeks Second Straight Win Against Tigers
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas will attempt to climb back into the Southeastern Conference race when it hosts Missouri on Tuesday night.
The Razorbacks (13-6, 2-4 SEC) have won 25 of their last 26 games in Bud Walton Arena, and they are coming off a win over Auburn on Saturday night.
Junior Ky Madden had a career-high 24 points in the win for Arkansas, which leads the SEC with an average of 82.9 points per game. Saturday's win helped snap a stretch of four losses in five games.
Missouri, which defeated South Carolina at home on Saturday, is led by junior guard Jabari Brown's 19.5 points per game.
Arkansas coach Mike Anderson left the Tigers (15-4, 3-3) to join the Razorbacks following the 2010-11 season.


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Captain Robert Wineski had the game-winning single in the bottom of the 10th inning (OAC).
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Harvard baseball team opened the 2013 season, the first under Bill Decker, with a split Friday afternoon. Senior captain Robert Wineski's RBI single with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning lifted the Harvard baseball team past Bucknell, 2-1,in the Crimson's season opener at Davenport Field. In the nightcap, Harvard outhit No. 19 Virginia in the nightcap, but fell, 3-0.
The Crimson (1-1) was able to take advantage of timely hitting and a pair of strong pitching performances by Matt Doyle and Baron Davis in the opener. Doyle, who started the game, went 5.2 innings and allowed just three hits and one walk while striking out four, and Davis gave up just two walks, two hits and one unearned run in 4.1 innings to pick up the win in the first game under new Joseph J. O'Donnell '67 Head Coach for Harvard Baseball Bill Decker.
Brandon Kregel collected two hits, including a triple, and scored both runs to pace the offense. Wineski added a pair of singles, while Ethan Ferreira and Mike Martin both doubled for a Crimson offense that pounded out nine hits on the afternoon.
Through the first five innings, neither team threatened as both Doyle and Bucknell starting pitcher Bryson Hough were able to shut down the opposing offenses.
In the sixth, Bucknell had its best chance to take the lead as it loaded the bases on a hit by pitch, single and walk with two outs; however, Davis got the Bison's Greg Wasikowski to ground into a fielder's choice to escape the jam without any damage.
Harvard finally broke through in the bottom of the frame. Kregel singled through the left side of the infield to begin the inning before advancing to second on a Nick Saathoff walk. Ferreira followed with his double to right field to plate Kregel and put runners at second and third with no outs. Hough was able to prevent any further damage, getting a ground out, fielder's choice and fly out to leave the two men stranded.
The score would remain tied until the top of the eighth when Bucknell was able to take advantage of a Crimson miscue and manufacture a run. Travis Clark reached on a throwing error to start the inning and advanced to second on a single. He moved to third on sacrifice bunt before a sacrifice fly to center field evened up the score at one.
Both teams went quietly in the ninth to send the game to extras.
Bucknell had an opportunity to take the lead in the 10th inning following Clark's one-out double to the gap in left center, but Doyle was able to work his way out of trouble again with a pop out to third and a fly out to right to set the stage for Wineski's heroics.
In the home half of the inning, Kregel ripped a 1-2 pitch into right field that he turned into a triple to put the winning run 90 feet away with nobody out. Following a strike out, Ferreira was intentionally walked before a ground out to short put men at second and third with two away. Wineski then bounced an 0-2 offering right back up the middle to plate Kregel and win the game.
Riding the momentum of the afternoon victory, Harvard outhit No. 19 Virginia, 7-5, in the tail end of the doubleheader. Three of those hits were off of the Cavaliers' ace Brandon Waddell, who went six innings and struck out seven. DJ Link and Carlton Bailey each had two hits for Harvard, which was doomed by leaving eight runners on base. Bailey also picked up the Crimson's first steal of the year in the second game.
On the mound, Sam Dodge started and went six strong innings, giving up three runs on five hits with four strikeouts. Matt Sanders and Jordan Haviland each kept the Crimson in the game with an inning of unblemished work.
Harvard is expected to throw junior right-hander Peter Kaplan in tomorrow's rematch against Virginia. The Cavaliers will counter with lefty Nathan Kirby at 3 p.m., before the Crimson meets Bucknell again Sunday at 11 a.m.


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