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Paul Merson
Football Expert & Columnist @PaulMerse
Paul Merson's Premier League predictions - Week 4
Soccer Saturday pundit tips the results of the weekend's action
Last Updated: 13/09/13 12:51pm
Liverpool are still well short of being title contenders, but they've done well so far. They just need to do what Everton did a few years ago when they finished in the top four and got into the Champions League. They did that by scoring the first goal in a lot of football matches and then they defended and worked from there - and that's what Liverpool have done in the first three games. They've been very good at sitting back and defending a lead, but if they don't get that first goal I don't know what they're going to do. If they score first against almost anybody I don't see them losing too many games because they'll rarely let in two goals. However, I do see them losing if they concede early.
Swansea are one of those team who will test them. Brendan Rodgers is trying to get his Liverpool team playing the same way as Swansea and that isn't happening for me at the moment; they gave the ball away far too cheaply against Man United. His players are still getting used to the patient style and I think this will be a draw - and that's a good result for Liverpool because this is a hard place to go.
Southampton v West Ham (3.30pm, Sun, Sky Sports 1 HD)
West Ham will go to Southampton and try to stifle them because they're very short of options going forward. I watched their game against Stoke and they never looked like scoring. Sam Allardyce will turn up at St Mary's looking for a draw, but I don't see how Southampton will fail to make a chance and I expect them to win.
As it's a Super Sunday game, Rickie Lambert will have an extra day to recover after playing two games for England and I expect him to start up front because he's one of their best players. I have been a bit disappointed in Southampton so far because I expected good things from them after spending a bit of money over the summer. They bought three big players, which is the way to do it rather than buying bits and pieces, and I think they'll be comfortable this season - and in this game.
Everton v Chelsea (5pm, Sat, Sky Sports 1 HD)
A lot of players involved in this game will have gone away on international duty and that is a bit of a leveller. Everton are getting used to playing the Roberto "pass, pass, pass" Martinez way, but they've gone three games without a win and could go into the bottom three if they lose this. I expect Gareth Barry and James McCarthy to play, but they'll try to get the ball down and pass it around and when you do that you take chances.
So I'll just go for Chelsea to win 1-0 because they'll get opportunities and I think they have the class to do it. You hear people saying that Chelsea will be the team to beat this year and that the Premier League is theirs to win, but they're still a centre-forward short in my view. They've got too many Number 10's and I don't think they have a world-class centre-forward. I thought Samuel Eto'o was past his best a long time ago and I don't see that buy at all.
Aston Villa v Newcastle
Aston Villa seem to struggle at home and I just don't think they're that good at Villa Park. It seems that when they need to push a game and go for it they can't do it. In their home game against Liverpool they didn't really look like doing anything, but when they go away from home they are a very good counter-attacking team.
They'll want Newcastle to come onto them, but I can't see that happening and both teams will be trying to play on the counter-attack. That's why I think this will be a draw. I would probably have gone for 0-0, but with Christian Benteke playing I expect to see goals in the game.
Fulham v West Brom
This will be a hard game for both teams. West Brom are struggling and haven't scored a goal yet, but Victor Anichebe is a good signing and I think they'll be alright. I know they're bottom of the table now, but I can't see them being in trouble for too much of the season.
Fulham got a good result at Sunderland on the opening day, but have lost both of their Premier League matches since then and they need a result. I don't think there's much between these two teams and I think it will finish as a draw.
Hull v Cardiff
It's early in the season, but this is a six-pointer. I think Hull will probably win it because they've got the advantage of being at home and they did really well at the Etihad the other week, even though they lost the game 2-0. They got a good result against Norwich and the way they play makes them very hard to beat. I think they'll nick a goal and play for a 1-0.
Cardiff have done well in their home games, but I don't see many goals in the matches this week because there's so much pressure on the teams early in the season. It will ignite soon, but I don't see it just yet.
Man Utd v Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace had a big win against Sunderland in their last game. As a promoted team, you need to get off the mark before the international break or else before you know it you'll be seven or eight games into the season and you'll be staring at relegation without a win to your name. They'll know the pressure is all on Man United, who haven't scored in two successive games for the first time in six years, and they'll try to frustrate them.
But I expect Man United to win this. It's a nice game for them after the international break and it's a good one for Marouane Fellaini to make his debut. You'd rather play your first game against a promoted side and it should be pretty comfortable.
Stoke v Man City
I watched Stoke against West Ham on Soccer Saturday and I thought they were brilliant, passing the ball about nicely, so I'm backing them to go away from this game with a draw. I say that because Man City are really struggling for defenders and I fear for them in the centre-half position.
Also, this is the first game after the international break and Man City probably had 90 per cent of their players away with their countries and that can make a real difference. Stoke are strong at home and I'm tipping a draw.
Sunderland v Arsenal
I don't see anything but an Arsenal win here. Sunderland are struggling, they've got no kickers like Lee Cattermole in the team and it's a nice place for Arsenal to go and play their football. If you take away the great result against Newcastle last season, Paolo Di Canio's record hasn't been great and they need to get a result quickly - but I just don't think this is the game.
Mesut Ozil's arrival gives Arsene Wenger a decision to make. Who doesn't play? I expect Ozil to play as a number 10 off the frontman with Theo Walcott buzzing around on the right. For me, they look a better team with Mathieu Flamini in midfield making tackles and you can't drop Aaron Ramsey, who's playing the best football of his life. For me, it's out of Jack Wilshere and Santi Cazorla and I don't know who you drop. If you look at Wilshere's numbers - 25 games, 0 goals, 3 assists last season - then you've got to go for Cazorla. It'll be interesting to see what Wenger does, and it wouldn't surprise me if he leaves Ozil on the bench for this game - but I wouldn't do that.
Tottenham v Norwich
The entertaining football at Tottenham is long gone and I think there's a little bit of Jose Mourinho rubbing off on Andre Villas-Boas these days. They will be very difficult to beat and we've seen in the three games they've played so far that they haven't made many chances. They've won two games 1-0 with penalties and haven't made the opposition goalkeepers work very hard.
But at the other end, Hugo Lloris hasn't had much to do and that tells you how they're setting up this season. They will be hard to beat and I think this will be a tight game. I expect Spurs to just nick it.

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Letter: Paterson What Are You Waiting For?
Spitzer's attack against BUFNY included his replacing the organization's board with five new members, all of them Republicans from Nassau and Suffolk County.
[Op-Ed: Open Letter]
Governor David Paterson
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
August 19, 2008
Dear Governor Paterson,
I am writing to ask that you immediately rectify an injustice stemming from Eliot Spitzer's unwarranted destruction of the Black United Fund of New York when he served as attorney general.
Spitzer's attack against BUFNY included his replacing the organization's board with five new members, all of them Republicans from Nassau and Suffolk County. They included Lance D. Clark, Esq., Bettye A. Easley, Delores C. Kershaw and William Davis. The fifth new member, Briding Newell, replaced me as chief executive officer, even though I had committed no crime and was never accused of one.
While I and other former board members were banished from the organization, the new board kept a 2002 Dodge Caravan van that BUFNY had leased. Yet they failed to pay the leasing fees for over two years. As a result, the leasing company, Magnum Leasing Corp, repossessed the van. The company sued BUFNY and me, as the organization's top official at the time the lease was originated. Since it appears that BUFNY no longer exists, I am held liable for the lease payments. There is now a judgment against me for $8,000, a copy of which is enclosed.
Since this situation grew out of the actions of a New York State official, I am calling on you and Attorney General Cuomo to correct it. This unfair judgment has caused me much inconvenience and could result in great financial harm.
Thank you for your immediate attention to this serious matter.
Kermit Eady
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Four Tigers to Try Out For USA Volleyball This Weekend
COLUMBIA - Four Mizzou volleyball players will make the trek to Colorado Springs, Colo., this weekend to try out for the US Women's National Team, US Women's National A2 Program and the US Women's Junior National Team. The tryouts will take place Feb. 20-22, 2013, in Sports Center II at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo. The four Tigers making the trip will be two-time All-American outside hitter Lisa Henning, All-SEC setter Molly Kreklow, All-SEC middle blocker Whitney Little and freshman Regan Peltier.
Henning, a third team All-American as both a sophomore and junior, was one of 25 right side hitters to earn an invitation to the try outs and one of just four SEC opposites. Kreklow, an All-SEC, All-Big 12 and AVCA Central Region Freshman of the Year in 2010, is one of 48 setters selected to the tryouts and one of just four SEC setters chosen. Little, coming off of a school-record and All-SEC season, will compete for a spot against 56 other middle blockers as well. Little reset the Mizzou single season record with 139 blocks last season and led the team in hitting. Peltier is coming off of her first season with the Tigers and is one if 59 outside hitters vying for spots on the team.


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Twenty known or suspected terrorists were not correctly listed on the government's consolidated watch list, preventing their records from being available to the nation's front-line screening agents, according to a U.S. Justice Department report.
Agents at border crossings, officials reviewing visa applications and police making traffic stops were among those who did not get correct terrorist records, according to the report released Thursday.
The consolidated watch list combines more than a dozen federal agency terrorist watch lists.
The report did not say, and officials refused to comment on, whether any of the 20 incorrect listings had allowed a terrorist suspect to enter the United States, apply for entry or avoid arrest within the country.
But one Justice Department official stressed the vast majority of "stop and detain" encounters stemming from questions related to the watch list do not result in an arrest.
The report comes on the same day al Qaeda's media production company announced that Osama bin Laden is about to appear in a new video. Watch breaking news that bin Laden intends to 'give a message to the American people' »
The terrorist watch group IntelCenter said Thursday it expected the video to be released within 72 hours -- just days before the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Justice Department inspector general's report examined the performance of the Terrorist Screening Center, which maintains the consolidated watch list database used by all government agencies. Despite improvements in the two years since the original review of the center, the new report cites serious shortcomings.
"It is critical that the TSC further improve the quality of its watch list data because of the consequences of inaccurate or missing information," said Inspector General Glenn Fine.
"Inaccurate, incomplete, and obsolete watch list information can increase the risk of not identifying known or suspected terrorists, and it can also increase the risk that innocent persons will be stopped or detained."
The Terrorist Screening Center was established in 2003 to bring order to the flurry of separate agency watch lists that quickly developed after 9/11. The FBI is the prime administrator of the center.
The report said the center was properly conducting reviews of complaints filed by people seeking redress from negative experiences they believed were the result of the watch list screening.
The report said the reviews identified records for people whose names should not have been on the watch list, and some watch list records were found to be inaccurate or incomplete.
As of April 2007, the terrorist watch list, which consolidated more than a dozen federal agency terror lists, contained 700,000 records, and the database continues to increase by an average of more than 20,000 records each month, the report states.
"Given this growth and the TSC's weak quality assurance process, we believe the TSC is underestimating the time required to sufficiently review all watch list records for accuracy," the report said.
That finding casts doubt on whether the Terrorist Screening Center will be able to keep its projected schedule to review all watch list records by the end of 2007.
The inspector general's investigators examined 105 watch list records subject to "routine" review, and found that 38 percent of the records contained errors or inconsistencies.
The report also found that the number of duplicate records in the database has "significantly increased since our last review."
Despite continuing problems, the inspector general made clear the centralized watch list operation is performing better than it was in 2005, when his investigative team conducted its first examination of the center.
In a brief written statement responding to the inspector general's 106-page report, the Terrorist Screening Center did not mention the criticisms. It chose to highlight the "significant improvements" cited -- including improved data, better staffing and proper complaint redress procedures.
"The report issued today found that the TSC 'has enhanced its efforts to ensure the quality of watch list data, has increased staff assigned to data quality management, and has developed a process and a separate office to address complaints filed by persons seeking relief from adverse effects related to terrorist watch list screening,' " the statement read.
The center said it concurs with all 18 recommendations the inspector general made and "has already taken action or is taking actions to implement every one of them." E-mail to a friend
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Decorative Arts
The WAG began collecting in the field of decorative arts in the 1950s when it accepted a collection of objects, the bequest of Melanie Bolton-Hill.
Since then, the Gallery has amassed over 4,000 objects in ceramic, glass, metal, and textile, which document and exemplify the aesthetics, techniques, and social import of the decorative arts from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Like painting and sculpture, objects of ceramic, glass, and metal are valuable social documents of their time. Beyond their obvious strong aesthetic qualities, these objects had intimate connections to the daily life of their owners, and to social custom, contemporary taste, class distinction, and fashion.
The strength of the decorative arts collection lies in its holdings of 18th and 19th English ceramics, one of the finest collections in the country. Over 1,500 objects tell the story of the development of the British potteries, the discovery of the porcelain formula, as well as the influence of Chinese patterns on European production.
- Longton Hall
- Chelsea Porcelain
- Bow Porcelain Works
- Vauxhall China Works
- Worcester
- Thomas Whieldon, in the style of
- Worcester
- Chamberlain
- Spode
- Derby
- Rockingham China Works; Brameld & Co.
- Wedgwood
- Minton
- Minton
- Minton
- G.W. Turner & Sons
- William De Morgan
- Della Robbia Pottery
- James Macintyre & Co. Ltd.
- Ruskin Pottery
- Minton
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- Worcester Royal Porcelain Co.
- Ruskin Pottery
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
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In my previous blog entry SQL*Plus error logging – New feature release 11.1, in my comments I stated an issue SPERRORLOG - Issue with Rollback. Whenever ROLLBACK is issued in the session, the feature fails to log the errors. Thanks to Jacek Gebal for his blog "Oracle Thoughts". I was really impressed by the workaround.
Let's look at the issue.
One of the most important things that a developer does apart from just code development is, debugging. Isn't it? Yes, debugging the code to fix the errors that are raised. But, in order to actually debug, we need to first capture them somewhere. As of now, any application has it's own user defined error logging table(s).
Imagine, if the tool is rich enough to automatically capture the errors. It is very much possible now with the new SQL*PLus release 11.1
The concept of an adaptive plan is that execution of a statement can start with one plan, and (during execution) switch to another. A pretty amazing capability. No need to run the statement to completion and try again: correct it in flight.
I was at the Connecticut Oracle User Group re-launch meeting last week, talking about some of the 12c new features that I specially like: those related to what I call "the self-learning database".
Why does the CBO get it wrong? Often because it has insufficient information. No matter how often you analyze your tables, if your queries use multi-column predicates, the CBO will mis-calculate the cardinalities. You have to understand your data, and create extended statistics to correlate the columns. How many people do this? Hardly any. Not a problem any more: release 12c can do this for you. If you configure it appropriately.
Oracle Pipelined Table Functions
Basically, when you would like a PLSQL (or java or c) routine to be the «source»
of data -- instead of a table -- you would use a pipelined function.
PIPELINED functions will operate like a table.
virtual columns in 11g
Oracle has supported stored expressions for many years, in views and function-based indexes. Most commonly, views enable us to store and modularise computations and expressions based on their underlying tables' columns. In more recent versions (since around the 8i timeframe), we have been able to index expressions using function-based indexes. Now, with the release of 11g, Oracle enables us to store expressions directly in the base tables themselves as virtual columns.
A necessary part of a cluster is the cluster interconnect: the private network between the cluster nodes. This component is critical for both reliability and scalability, and configuring it for fault tolerance and capacity is a matter of burning importance for the DBA and his System Administrator (not to mention the end users). One question is, should this be managed by the operating system or by Oracle?
Finding islands are classic problems in PL/SQL. The basic concept is that you have some sort of numbers, like these: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26. The islands problem involves identifying ranges of existing values. For these numbers, the solution will be as follows:
first_island_element last_island_element
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5 6
8 10
15 15
20 23
25 26
Finding gaps is classic problem in PL/SQL. The basic concept is that you have some sort of numbers (like these: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26), where there's supposed to be a fixed interval between the entries, but some entries could be missing. The gaps problem involves identifying the ranges of missing values in the sequence. For these numbers, the solution will be as follows:
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First, run the following code, to create tab1 table:
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Hi there.
On the 23rd of december, my sister and I went to our moms house. The visit was fun, and we met their new dog, Bella. Yes, as in Bella Swan Cullen.
Anyway, we did something that I wasn't expecting that day. Gift exchange. I didn't expect it, well, because I really wasn't expecting anything for christmas, and my want list was very short.
My sister recieved a stocking with candy; pop rocks, a kitkat chunky and a flake, Candy from india,
The abyss in my
Heart is never ending
Engulfing all which falls in
Retruning, nevermore to the
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Denying my soul the release of its bonds,
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Harm. All i cause is harm,
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The Ministry of National Defense could be contravening a legislative directive if it does not request that the US government perform an open competition bidding process for suppliers involved in upgrading its fleet of 146 F-16A/Bs.
In a meeting on Oct. 12 attended by legislators from the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Minister of National Defense Kao Hua-chu (高華柱) and a representative from the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, the legislature stipulated that to ensure the proper use of government public resources, the ministry's Letter of Agreement for the upgrade package for the F-16A/Bs "shall not specify any supplier and shall request the US team to perform open competition."
Despite this directive, the ministry appears to have only one supplier in mind — Lockheed Martin Corp — and does not seem to have asked the US to facilitate competitive bids for avionics and weapons systems integration.
This comes as Lockheed Martin is locked in competition with BAE Systems over a program for avionics upgrades and weapons systems integration for 135 KF-16C/Ds for the South Korean air force (ROKAF) worth about US$1 billion.
Representatives from the defense industry describe the program for the ROKAF as "almost identical" to that for Taiwan's F-16s, which will come at an estimated cost of US$5.3 billion. Not included in the US$1 billion price tag for South Korea is the acquisition of active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, which is part of the upgrade programs for both South Korea and Taiwan.
Lockheed Martin, the maker of the F-16, told Defense News it was unconcerned by the BAE bid and denies the two upgrade plans are identical, adding that the firm has a unique experience in integrating AESA radar.
"We have integrated AESA radars into all of our current fighter programs: the F-16 [Block 60], the F-22 and the F-35," which gives Lockheed a "baseline knowledge of the aircraft and the experience to ensure that the job is done right and within the cost and schedule that our customer demands," a Lockheed official told Defense News.
The AN/APG-80 AESA radar used on the F-16 Block 60, also known as the F-16E/F Fighting Falcon, differs from the types proposed for Taiwan's F-16s — Raytheon Corp's Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar (RACR) or Northrop Grumman Corp's Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR).
At the heart of the systems integration is the operational flight program, of which two are currently in service in the US Air Force (USAF): Lockheed's M-Tape, which uses a modular mission computer built by Raytheon using Lockheed software, and BAE's SCU-Tape, which uses BAE's fire control computer.
The SCU-Tape, which relies on Ethernet connectivity for the fire control system, passed full USAF operational tests and evaluation in April last year and has been installed on about 270 F-16s in the USAF, BAE says.
The company says Ethernet connectivity is faster and the future for all the traffic involved in on-flight systems.
Lockheed is believed to have offered an Ethernet alternative for the Taiwanese air force, although this would likely involve additional development costs and delivery delays for Taiwan.
BAE Systems International Taiwan president Ralf Persson told the Taipei Times yesterday that the key point is that Taiwan stands to benefit from an open competition bid for systems integration and that regardless of who won the bid, having more than one provider compete for the contract would bring down prices and maximize the value of the investment.


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Many people have asked me how the Kara Walker exhibition was deinstalled and what happens to the works after they are taken down. Now that the exhibition is down and we had a chance to witness the process, the act of removing the works from the walls is actually very interesting. Of course the framed works are handled like any other, crated and shipped; the paper silhouettes, however, were handled very differently.
First, I guess it should be noted how those works that were directly on the walls were installed. The process begins with Kara Walker creating the original works, made of construction paper. From those originals, meticulous templates are created so that those silouhettes can be recreated for every new installation. The finished construction paper cut outs are affixed to the wall using wax as an adhesive. For those that were in the advertising industry a few decades ago, this process might be familiar. The paper is coated in the wax adhesive and then is burnished to the wall using a little elbow grease. There are quite a few benefits to this kind of adhesive process. For one, the adhesion is not permanent until the burnishing step, allowing the individual elements of a piece to be adjusted. The mess is minimal and there isn't that awful smell of other adhesives.
Once an exhibition is over and the works must come down, the paper silhouettes are quite literally ripped from the walls. The process of removing them destroys the paper material. Even if the crew was meticulously careful in the process, the paper is far too delicate and would be not be able to be recovered completely anyway. Once the works are removed from the walls, the installation staff has to take the destruction process one step further. They then tear up each individual piece beyond recognition witnessed by the registrarial staff. As counterintuitive as it sounds, it is important to destroy them to prevent a secondary market for these exhibition editions of the works.
This act of official destruction is so foreign to the art world. There are only a few artists' works in the world to which this happens, but when it does it is jarring. As you saw a few weeks ago, we posted the video of SFMOMA removing their Sol Le Witt from their lobby. It and the Kara Walker exhibition got me thinking of other artists whose works are destroyed intentionally and then reinstalled in another location. This kind of situation doesn't apply to every artist whose works are intentionally destroyed. I thought about the destruction of works by artists like Banksy or other street artists, but then those works are not made to be reinstalled exactly in other locations (are they?). Other site specific installations by artists are often destroyed when removed, but then since they are site specific, the reinstallation isn't a factor.
Give us your thoughts on this or other works like this in the comments.


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|Marcia Maloney of the
California Mayflower Society
Next, I attended two Blogger Summits, both hosted by Thomas again. The first was aimed at beginners, with a panel made up of Randy Seaver, Lisa Louise Cooke, and Amy Coffin. After some initial technical difficulties (no table, no microphones!) Thomas demonstrated how easy it was to start a blog using Blogger.com and then took comments from the panel and questions from the audience on issues such as copyright, prompts, widgets and the genealogical blogging community. This hour was well attended and the room was packed.
The second hour and panel discussion was less well attended, but I think anyone who thought the discussion would be "over their head" was missing out on more great discussion. The panel was made up of Dick Eastman, Elyse Doerflinger, Kathryn Doyle and Joan Miller, all bloggers representing commercial and non-commercially based blogs, as well as one society blog. Thomas posed some very interesting questions for discussion, such as "What is the view of vendors towards bloggers?" and "Are bloggers viewed as legitimate vehicles for information?" Copyright issues were a popular question, and the seasoned bloggers were able to give lots of advice to new or non-bloggers. I'm sad that this discussion was not videotaped, because it would have made a great inclusion on the Geneabloggers.com website!I have more name dropping! I met up with Ruth Himan, but she had to leave Jamboree early and we didn't have long to visit with each other. Also, I finally met up with Elizabeth O'Neal and Susi Pentico. My Mayflower cousins, Marcia Maloney, Dottie Wilson and Erica Hahn were dressed as Pilgrims at the California Mayflower booth, so I got a bunch of good photos. I had time to eat a quick sandwich with Marcia (she is a Putnam cousin, and a member of NH Mayflower as well as in the Orange County Colony) and get ready for a full afternoon of lectures.
Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo


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Darwin's mockingbirds DNA research may help species recovery
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research could help protect the future of a rare bird in the Galapagos Islands that was an inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, scientists report in a paper published in the Royal Society Journal Biology Letters today.
DNA analysis has revealed the genetic structure of 2 small remaining populations of Floreana mockingbird (Mimus trifasciatus) and of some historic specimens held by the Natural History Museum and the California Academy of Sciences, including the 2 birds collected by Charles Darwin and Captain Robert FitzRoy in 1835.
They found that the population on one of the islands, called Champion, is small and inbred, and has unique genetic information not found in the larger Gardner-by-Floreana island population, but crucially, present on Floreana island in 1835.
Birds from both islets should be used to reintroduce a single, mixed population on Floreana, where the bird went extinct in the 1800s, the authors conclude.
Dr Karen James, genetics expert at the Natural History Museum said, 'Though Darwin knew nothing of DNA, the specimens he and FitzRoy collected have, after 170 years of safe-keeping in collections, yielded genetic clues to suggest a path for conservation of this critically endangered and historically important species'.
The research is timely as we are near the end of a year of anniversary celebrations of Charles Darwin's scientific ideas and their impact.
Scientists believe this research can help with plans to reintroduce the bird to Floreana Island, as part of a larger recovery plan for the whole island being developed by the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands and Galapagos National Park Service.
Innovative genetic modelling was carried out by the team, led by the University of Zurich and including the University of Reading, the Natural History Museum and Princeton University.
They discovered that the populations living on the small satellite islands of Champion and Gardner-by-Floreana do not have long independent evolutionary histories.
In fact, they split from each other perhaps as recently as Darwin's visit and probably as the result of the extinction of the Floreana population - a bridge between the two.
When Darwin visited the Galapagos archipelago in 1835 aboard HMS Beagle, he was struck by the differences between closely similar birds on separate islands. These differences eventually led him to question the stability of species.
Just half a century after Darwin's visit, the Floreana mockingbird had become extinct on the island as a result of introduced predators and habitat alteration following human settlement.
Today it is one of the rarest birds in the world. Fewer than 500 individuals survive on the two tiny, satellite islands of Gardner-by-Floreana and Champion and the species is considered at risk of extinction.
Dr James concludes, 'This project highlights the value of historic specimens and it's exciting to think that they are telling us which birds should form the basis of a reintroduction programme so that future visitors can enjoy the wildlife of these unique islands as Darwin himself did'.
More information: rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Freshman Ema Boateng's first goal on Meredith Field at Harder Stadium proved to be a big one as the forward provided the game-tying strike in the second half against No. 12 UCLA to help No. 3 UC Santa Barbara remain undefeated. The Gauchos and Bruins settled for a 1-1 tie in front of the FOX Soccer Channel cameras and a crowd of 7,542 on Friday evening.
With the draw, UCSB now stands at 5-0-2 on the season with both of its ties coming against Pac-12 programs. UCLA is now 4-1-2 on the year.
Boateng's goal helped the Gauchos climb back into the game after the Bruins made the most out of their first shot on-goal in the 11th minute. Joe Sofia took a throw-in on the right side of the field and sent the ball to Fernando Monge, who headed it in from the far post beating Gaucho goalkeeper Austin Mansker, who was helping on the nearside.
UCSB had several opportunities at an equalizer in the first half as it out-shot UCLA, 10-4 in the period. The Gauchos' best chances were a pair of headers: the first from eight-yards out by Dom Sarle in the fourth minute, which was cleared on the left post, and the second was a soft header by Goffin Boyoko in the 26th minute that was easily collected by Bruin goalkeeper Earl Edwards.
It was just over 67 minutes into the game that the Gauchos were finally able to break down the Bruin defense. Fifi Baiden started the play by feeding the ball to Boateng near the midfield line. The speedy freshman beat three defenders on the fastbreak as he cut towards the left side of the field. As Edwards came off his line, Boateng shot the ball to the far side of the goal for his second strike of the season.
Though the Gauchos earned three corner kicks in the final 10 minutes of regulation, they were unable to capitalize on their set pieces and the game was forced into overtime.
In the waning minutes of the first overtime period, there was a trio of plays that looked as though they could result in the game's golden goal. With 3:03 on the clock, Ryan Hollingshead passed the ball through two Gaucho defenders to Reed Williams. As Mansker dove for the ball, Williams took a shot at the wide-open Gaucho goal but it went far right of the post.
Just over a minute later, a nearly identical situation played out on the Gauchos' offensive end as Nic Ryan slipped the ball through a couple UCLA defenders to Boateng, who got an open look at the goal before simultaneously being called offsides and shooting just left of the goal.
With just five seconds remaining in the period, Max Estrada got a point blank shot off, but the ball sailed high and the teams were forced into a second overtime period.
In the final overtime period, neither team recorded a shot as they settled for a tie for the third time in their last eight meetings.
The Gauchos led in shots (18-10), shots-on-goal (4-1) and corner kicks (8-1). Boateng, Dion Acoff, Charlie Miller and UCLA's Monge each had three shots in the match.
Mansker made one save for the Gauchos while Edwards had three for the Bruins.
The match marked the end of the Gauchos' six-match multiple goal-scoring streak. The last time they were limited to just one goal was the 2011 NCAA Tournament match-up with Creighton.
The Gauchos will remain at home for a Sunday match-up with Harvard at noon at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. The match is a part of a doubleheader with the UCSB women's team. To purchase tickets, stop by the Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus, call (805) 893-UCSB or click here.


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ASTM focuses on frac sand standards.
A newly formed ASTM international subcommittee will address the growing need for consensus standards in the field of hydraulic fracturing. Subcommittee D18.26 on Hydraulic Fracturing, which is part of ASTM Committee D18 on Soil and Rock, will bring together a diverse range of stakeholders to collaborate on the development of standards that promote best practices in hydraulic fracturing operations and serve as a steward of environmental resources.
With the boom In hydraulic fracturing operations comes increasing concerns in the public and private sector for safety in site infrastructure and well construction, as well as the potential downstream impact on water, land and air resources.
To provide best practices for hydraulic fracturing, diverse stakeholders are coming together to develop standards that will cover:
* Background site investigation and permitting.
* well Installation and borehole Integrity testing.
* Engineering and drilling techniques.
* Management and disposal of drilling fluids.
* Groundwater monitoring and remediation.
* Reinjection of produced well fluids.
* Permanent well abandonment and data reporting.
"As the oil and gas industry looks to tap into the vast energy resources in shale formations across the U.S., the surge in hydraulic fracturing activity is expected to continue for years to come." said Kenneth R. Bell, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, corporate manager of geotechnical and hydraulic engineering services at Bechtel Corp., and vice chairman of ASTM Committee D18. "New standards developed by D18.26 will help direct the work of the industry so that these operations can be performed to accepted best practices and oil and gas can be recovered in a safe and secure manner."
The efforts of Subcommittee D18.26 will be undertaken by the broad cross-section of stakeholders who are joining forces in the open and consensus-driven ASTM process to collaborate on the development of critical standards and achieve mutually beneficial goals. D18.26 will draw its membership from all sides and points of view relative to the hydraulic fracturing Issue, Including representatives from the oil and gas industry, environmental groups, engineering firms, federal regulators, state and local governments, permitting bodies and academia.
"ASTM is the ideal forum for this effort, a true neutral ground where all interested parties can have their voice heard and shape the direction of future standards for hydraulic fracturing," said Dr. John T. Germaine, Ph.D. of the department of civil and environmental engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, vice chairman of committee D18, and the leader of the task group that formed D18.26. "By participating on this subcommittee, stakeholders can freely air out issues and collaborate on standards that are fair and reasonable, provide guidance for all involved, and serve as the watchdog for the needs of the environment."
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Nietzsche writes in Beyond God and Evil of the 'new philosophers' future atheists who will reject all metaphysical notions, commanders and lawgivers who will live outside the herd concept of morality and have the strength, the will to power, to create their own values.
These new philosophers will say yes to life, yes even to the idea of eternal return because their experiments, their values will justify all of human existence.
With such ideas Nietzsche allows us to ask an amazing question, perhaps the most important question ever asked. The question is this: what undertaking might these new philosophers fabricate for mankind? What non-metaphysical project might these new philosophers give to mankind?
Remember the project would have to be so grand it would retrospectively make the entire history of human suffering worth it.
To put it another way: What shall we do for the next 10,000 years?
Answers on a postcard.
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I think the difference between the Star Trek future and socialism is that the Federation doesn't need to tax everyone and redistribute the wealth to the poor in order to supply their needs. Instead, scientific advances have made energy, food, and other necessities so easily obtainable and plentiful as to be essentially limitless and free to all. So I think it's not so much a political situation as a technological one.
Just ran across this article, Should We Rejoice A Post-Work Future?, from The Daily Beast which might give us much to think about as regards living in a world without having to work.
I really don't mind work much, but having to shut a contracting business down recently, did expose me back to the 'cluster f--k' of a job search. Atleast this time, after being self directed for the better part of 6 years, I'll be ok.
The poor fellow in the vid. My wife watched the vid also, I guess she also had a similar experience, but without the 'distruction of company property', melt down. My favorite movie from the late 90's 'Office Space', has a similar melt down, but with three people taking the offending copy machine and distructively 'disassembling' it in a large field with lots of appropriate hand tools. I think I have matured past thinking of distroying any property. It just costs too much, and I just hate adding to anything like ugliness. Anyway, why distroy the twisted machine when it can be sent to a third world country to be burned or recycled, meeting its just reward...LOL
commanders and lawgivers who will live outside the herd concept of morality and have the strength, the will to power, to create their own values.
This is already the case. However, those who have political, economic, and military power don't tend to be moral paragons. They tend to be selfish, and more than willing to sacrifice the lives of others for nothing more than their own comfort, or a few digits in their bank accounts.
These new philosophers will say yes to life, yes even to the idea of eternal return because their experiments, their values will justify all of human existence.
The great thinkers of history have always been voices howling in the wilderness. Those who have had any kind of impact regarding improving conditions for the masses have had their lives ended early. Considering the widening gap between the haves and have-nots, and the casual attitude toward top-down violence across cultural lines, I don't see any social renaissance on the horizon.
To put it another way: What shall we do for the next 10,000 years?
Most likely, continue consuming the world's natural resources at an alarming rate, continue poisoning our skies and waterways, continue killing each other off in the pursuit of tribal superiority, all with the occasional bright spot in the realms of science and art.
I'm hoping for a high-protein, no-fat, pepperjack cheese. Sounds like a step in the right direction.
RE: "What shall we do for the next 10,000 years?" - I can't speak for anyone else, but I expect to spend the greater part of it, dead --
Yes I expect that the term 'we' is a little fuzzy...
I will be with the Baby Jesus in Heaven for all Eternity.....:P
I heard this before. I think it could be rather dull, you know baby Jesus looking at you, you looking at baby Jesus, nothing much to talk about. He never crys, never has a fit, just a little to much like a still born, but hay it takes all kinds...
@ Obfuskation ,
I'm hoping for a high-protein, no-fat, pepperjack cheese. Sounds like a step in the right direction.
And I'm just waiting for my Soylent Green order to arrive from Amazon.com. :D
What shall we do for the next 10,000 years?
Well, if we, humans, don't wipe us out of the face of the planet, we might learn that we must stop destroying the planet and killing each other, and start to change the way we live, and how our society works...
Maybe in this period of 10.000 years we can get rid of the present day religions. But i doubt that religion would cease to exist because humans tend to think and want to believe that there has to be more then here an when someone gives them something to believe in, that at least at first impression seems to be what they are looking for, they will immediately grab it. Hopefully, religion might be something of the minority. But that will only be possible if everyone gets a decent education, on all aspects
@Brazillian Atheist - speaking of everyone getting a decent education, remember the little 15-year old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousef, who was shot in the head because she had been told no girls in school, but she chose to go anyway? There is a petition out, at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/malalahopenew/?aXQmmeb, in an attempt to get a million signatures from around the world, to try to get the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan to offer education to all of Pakistan's girls.
I've been watching it closely, and of all the countries from which people have signed it, there have been more Brazilians than any other country - you guys down there rock! No wonder you're from Porto Alegre!
If you haven't signed it yet, please do, and that goes for anyone else too - we're almost there!


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Batman has been the subject of plenty of cartoons over the years. There have been cartoons based on the comics, cartoons based on the movies, so why not cartoons based on a Batman video game? Speaking to GI.biz at the Games Convention last week, Traveller's Tales producer Rich Earl revealed that a TV show based on their latest Lego project is indeed in the works. The show is being produced by a separate studio in the states, using TT's assets to bring classic Batman characters to life.
"My understanding is that they will use the engine, the Maya files where the characters come to life, but they'll be creating animated... I think it's a 20-minute cartoon. I'm personally quite intrigued to see how it comes out. Lego, every time they've had a new brand out, they've done some CGI stuff as well, but I think this will be quite different."
This would be a perfect opportunity to bring Adam West back into the Batman fold, as I can't see Batman: The Animated Series lead Kevin Conroy's voice coming out of Lego Batman's little round head. 20-minute Lego Batman cartoon in works [GI.biz]


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So, who remembers the Bill Simmons cartoons? Launched, what, a year ago now, the
three one-minute tidbits of the life of The Sports Guy were almost universally derided, first by readers, then, ultimately, by Simmons himself. (He called them "a mistake on a lot of levels.")
Well, guess what? The cartoons were just nominated for a Sports Emmy. Yep. In the category of "Outstanding Achievement In Content For Non-Traditional Delivery Platform." Other nominees include ESPN.com's "Off Mikes" and "E Ticket: The Wizard At 95." Honestly? At this rate, that guy below who rapped the Eagles song should be up for one next year.
The other major category? Outstanding Sports Personality: Sports Event Analysts. The nominees? Joe Morgan, Tim McCarver, Troy Aikman, John Madden and Johnny Miller. The Sports Emmys, ladies and gentlemen!
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Police in Georgia said a 1-year-old child died Saturday in a shooting that may have been carried out by his 3-year-old brother.
An adult left the gun in the same room as the children in a house in McDonough and one of brothers grabbed the firearm, described as a .45 caliber handgun, NBC station WXIA in Atlanta reported.
"There were adults in the room at the time but the adults were not paying attention … they did not actually see the incident occur," said Lt. Mike Ireland of Henry Country police department.
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Do you want to make your own?
Here's what you will need:
Mason Jar (I used a wide mouth pint jar)
Sharpie or pen
Hole Punch (The one I have is for scrapbooking, but it cuts through metal and leather. I think it is called a crop-a-dile. I use it all the time for various things.)
1/4" Rubber Grommets (I bought mine here) I am sure you can find them at the hardware store too.
Now punch a hole in the top where you marked.
It doesn't have to be exact. It just needs to be large enough so that the grommet can be squeezed through that hole. You also don't want the hole too big or the grommet will move around too much.


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SUPERIOR, Wis. (Blugolds.com) — With at least a share of the conference title and a first round bye in the NCHA tournament already wrapped up, the UW-Eau Claire men's hockey team needed a win or a tie over UW-Superior to take the title outright and prevent St. Norbert from earning a share of the championship.
The Blugolds (19-4-2, 14-3-1 NCHA) did just that with a 4-1 win over the Yellowjackets (11-12-2, 6-10-2 NCHA) Saturday night on the road in the final regular season game. A night after they were shutout by the College of St. Scholastica (Minn.), the Blugolds got out to a lead against the Yellowjackets.
Friday night the Blugolds were hurt by two goals late in the first period. But on this night, they used that to their advantage. Jordan Singer (Sr.-Lino Lakes, Minn./Centennial) scored a power-play goal with just 13 seconds remaining in the period for the 1-0 lead.
In the second period, it was Singer again who scored his team leading, 18th goal of the season for a 2-0 lead. But the Yellowjackets weren't about to let the Blugolds go quietly. At 17:01 of the second period, UW-Superior cut the lead in half and the Blugolds led 2-1 heading into the second intermission.
Early in the third period, Andrew Wilcox (Sr.-Rochester, Minn./Century) gave the Blugolds a little breathing room with assists by Daniel Olszewski (Jr.-Janesville, Wis./Craig) and Derek Knetter (Fr.-Wausau, Wis./West).
At 16:27, Ethan Nauman (Fr.-Mosinee, Wis./Mosinee) put the exclamation point on the game with an assist to Isaiah Bennis (Sr.-Eau Claire, Wis./Memorial).
Brandon Stephenson (Sr.-Saline, Mich./Saline) made 27 saves to pick up his 17th win of the season. But despite the final score, the Blugolds were outshot 28-16, but they made the best of their chances.
The Blugolds were 1-for-5 on the power-play while the Yellowjackets were 0-for-3 on the man advantage.
The Blugolds become the first team beside St. Norbert to win the NCHA regular season championship since 2008-09, when the Yellowjackets took the honors. It is also the first NCHA championship for UW-Eau Claire in the final year of the conference's existence.
Next season, UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stout, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Superior and UW-River Falls will break off to play in the more traditional WIAC conference.
The win tonight also gave the team the school's single-season wins record. The most wins the Blugolds had acheived prior to this season's current total of 19 was 18 during the 1989-90 school year, a season the team played 34 total games.
The Blugolds will now wait for the results of the quarterfinal action in the NCHA tournament to find out their opponent for the semifinals. They will host the semifinal game at Hobbs Ice Center, Saturday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m.


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President Obama had a meeting with his full cabinet for the first time since the election. He said turnover has been low during his first term because people have done good jobs. He also voiced support for Susan Rice at the United Nations. (Nov. 28)
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In the "The Godfather," Don Corleone advises, "Never let anyone outside the family know what you're thinking." Apparently, many who never saw the movie have been keeping a big secret – even from loved ones.
A recent survey found that about of half of British adults have lied about seeing a classic film to avoid embarrassment. No 1 on the list: "The Godfather" trilogy, The Telegraph reports.
No. 2 is "Dirty Dancing" – a guilty pleasure you'd think just as many would lie and say they haven't seen.
While we also learned in "The Godfather," that it's not personal, it's business, Robert DeNiro's feelings might be somewhat hurt by the survey: three of his movies – "The Godfather, Part II," "Taxi Driver" and "Goodfellas," made the liars' Top 10 list.
The survey, by Orange, a UK broadband company that offers movie ticket promotions, found that men were the bigger fibbers, with 58 percent admitting to lying about having seen classics such as "Gone With the Wind," "Citizen Kane" and "It's a Wonderful Life," compared to 38 percent of women.
The British media, not surprisingly, is having some fun with the results. The BBC posted an online CliffNotes-type guide to some of the most lied-about flicks, offering plot points, buzzwords and famous quotes like, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
Which might be how some feel about the survey.
Still, we'd like to make an offer you can't refuse: use the comments below to confess what movies you've lied about seeing. After making your anonymous admission, atone by ordering up the movies on Netflix, so you never again have to fake your way through a conversation about the meaning of "Rosebud."
It might be appropriate to start with "The Shawshank Redemption" (No. 3 on the list).
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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Got these in a box of jewelry for $5. I just think that they are extremely attractive, great examples of Taxco silversmithing. I got good money for them, and they went to someone who was writing a book on Taxco jewelry. If I was a woman and could wear earrings, I would've kept them.. So pretty!


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This guide isn't how to set stuff up, its a general debugging guide plus a few reminders for me if it ever breaks.
So, the setup is simple.
Problem is they aren't playing nicely together.
The first step was to get the dammed things working in isolation. I started with dovecot. Virtualmin's automatic installation/configuration didn't quite work and left a few configuration issues that
I was going to post this up in KOC as a suggestion on how to fix sabotage however, as some people mentioned that rocco may not be too receptive to suggestions of this nature (I'm guessing he gets a lot of them) I figured I'd take a slightly more generalised approach and go into how to design an algorithm for an online game using kings of chaos as an example where needed.
So, how should you go about desiging an algorithm for sabotage (or any feature for that matter)?
I start sabbing lacn, sending some poetry of forms along with it.
Message 1:
To: zelous
My spies have entered your armory,
They didn't cause too much harm, did they?
Ensuring your shields
break down in the field,
I guess that is payback for your barbary.
no reply
Message 2: (a variation on the above)
To: JHC_fs
my spies have entered your armory
intent on destroying your weaponry
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A recent conversation with someone about the election of members of the pirate party to the European parliament had them taking the stance that the only reason I thought it was a good thing was that I wanted to download music for free and that I wouldn't like it if people were depriving me of an income by 'pirating' software I had written.
My response to this wasn't as coherent as it should have been but essentially boiled down to the fact that software I write falls into two categories;
A problem that plagues meny a game owner is that of how to detect multiple accounts and how to distinguish between players that are seperate and in the same house and those that are genuinely cheating.
In foe, i've always kept good logs of practically every method of figuring out if an account is run by the same person - I'm not going into specifics, but i dont just rely on ip address information. The problem has always been - how to aggregate this information to create an automated
A few recent nights out have been ruined by DJ's in clubs that fail really badly at beat matching tracks - it really grates when a new track is mixed in a quater of a beat early/late.
I was convinced that this wasn't really a hard thing to do - with a bit of practice i was able to match stuff up however, being a programmer came to the better conclusion that it shouldn't be too hard to write a program to do it automatically.
Dispite PHP being my usual language of choice,
Using includes
When writing a normal pure html page, you quite often have somethings which appear on every page in your site menus, header images etc. Now, what if you want to change one of these things, say you add a new page in and want to add a new link on the menu. In order to do so, you would have to edit every single page on your site to put the new link in. This is very time consuming, not to mention that fact that you may not quite get it the same on every page.
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It has recently come to my attention that people are unable to place proper bans and ignores so end up complaining to opers when people continue to dodge their woefully lacking bans. So i'm writing a quick referance guide on how to place proper bans.
First off, lets look at the irc hostmask. This is a string that identifies a user. the easiest way to see this string is the whois command. the first line of output will look something like this:
Carnage is firstname.lastname@example.com
Carnage is firstname.lastname@example.com
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To those who haven't already heard it will come as disapointing news that the private torrent site oink has been closed down. The raid took place a few days ago during which the servers were siezed by dutch police. Enough people have already bloged about how this is a waste of police time etc so i'm not going to bother with that angle, however no-one has yet thought about all the data about oinks users that could well be in the hands of the nefarious riaa.
Oink, like meny other private
found something that amused me during my browsing of the internet. The pirate bay, well known digital fredom activists (i think they also do torrents or something like that) are in the process of setting up a website titled the International Federation of Pirates Interests. might be well worth a look when they are done. For now the site is at www.ifpi.com
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Ok... week 2 of a new term should be about going out and drinking slightly less than you did in week 1 as you have some lectures and thisng to attend... this year however we have a bunch of important interviews for placements next year... As they are so important, i compiled an amusing list of things NOT to do during an interview.
1. Inform the interviewer that you have just lost the game. (explain the game rules* if he gives you an odd look)
2. Interview the interviewer.
Minor rant i've been meaning to post to the programming forum for a while but never got arround to it... The following example is based on some code i was asked to review for security a while back I still can't believe anyone would do something like this and cannot understand why they can't see the problem with it.
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But this was not the first time the younger Hull hit a scoring milestone. As a St. Louis Blues player nine years earlier, he scored 50 goals in 49 games. He became just the fifth player in NHL history to do the 50/50, tying as third fastest ever. This achievement put Hull in an elite group of superstar players alongside Wayne Gretzky, Maurice Richard, Mike Bossy and Mario Lemieux.
Despite his father's impressive career, Brett was not always seen as being destined for hockey stardom. He began playing junior hockey in Penticton, in the BCJHL. This was only a Tier II junior team, one level below major junior hockey. In those days, Hull weighed 220 pounds and was nicknamed Pickle. Despite his size, he scored 105 goals in 56 games and won a scholarship to the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
In 1984 the Calgary Flames drafted Hull 117th overall after just two years in college, and he spent the next couple of seasons splitting his playing time between Calgary and their minor league team in Moncton. In Moncton, Hull finished third in league scoring and was name the AHL's Rookie-of-the-Year.
In 1988 the Flames traded Hull to St. Louis. In his first season, he scored 41 goals and captured the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy. 1990-91 marked the first of Hull's three consecutive 70-plus goal seasons, which included a career high 86 goals in 1990-91 which earned him the Lester B. Pearson Trophy and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's Most Valuable Player.
After eleven seasons in St. Louis, Hull signed with the Dallas Stars in the summer of 1998. He had said he wanted to play for the Chicago Blackhawks, his father's team, but the Stars made him an offer he just could not pass up. Despite the big contract, the move to the Stars took some pressure off Hull. A perennially strong team, the Stars had never played quite as well on the ice as their name suggested. When Hull joined their ranks, they went on to win the Stanley Cup in 1999, with Hull scoring the winning goal in triple overtime.
Long-time Flyers' goalie Ron Hextall once summed up the opposition's take on Hull: ""When he comes in on the wing, he's got an awful lot of speed. If you give him a hole, he hits it."" And for his part, Hull has always had a pretty clear idea of what he has been paid to do. Possessed of a mean slapshot and a solid frame, Hull has had a decided knack for finding the back of the net throughout his career.
Early in the 1999-2000 season, Hull scored his 600th goal, thus ensuring he and father Bobby were the first and only father-son combination to reach that remarkable plateau. After three seasons in Dallas, Hull signed as a free agent with the Detroit Red Wings prior to 2001-02 season and went on to capture his second Stanley Cup later that spring.
Hull surpassed the 700-goal mark and 1,300-point mark in 2002-03 and shows no signs of slowing down. After three seasons in Detroit, Hull went on to sign as a free agent with the Phoenix Coyotes in the summer of 2004 and following a lock out year in 2004-05, would play a mere five games with the club before announcing his retirement from the game.
On the international stage Hull has represented the United States at the Winter Olympics (1998 and 2002), the 1996 World Cup, the 1991 Canada Cup and the 1986 World Championships.
In his illustrious NHL career, Brett Hull scored 741 goals, 650 assists and 1,391 points.
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Scot Harden has enjoyed a nearly 40-year career as one of the world's top off-road racers and compiled a set of records that few can match.
He has raced in North and South America, Europe, and Africa, earning titles and building a reputation as a world-class racer. A short list of his major titles includes: two-time Baja 1000 overall winner; three-time overall Baja 500 winner; three-time overall SCORE Champion; four-time overall Best in the Desert Champion; three-time International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) medalist (Gold: Italy, 1981; Silver: France, 1980; Bronze: Czechoslovakia, 1982); winner of the 1987 Djerba 500 Rally Tunisia; Total Challenge Performance winner of the 1987 Rally de Atlas Morocco; 1982 AMA National Reliability Series Open Champion and 1994 AMA National Enduro Vet Class Champion.
Harden started his career in 1973 as a factory rider with Husqvarna and raced with the team until 1986. During this time he earned many of his Baja and international wins, served with the 1982 U.S. ISDE Trophy Team, and won nearly 100 regional desert races.
In 1988 he began working with KTM USA as Western Region Sales Manager and Desert/Off-Road Racing Manager. That same year he raced in the 1,900 mile Incas Rally Peru, where he finished in third-place overall and first among U.S. riders, and in the 2,500 mile Rallye de Atlas in Morocco, finishing second overall and first among U.S. riders.
In 1996 he entered the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, earning sixth-place overall and Rookie of the Year honors. From 1997 to 2000 he took overall wins in the Elsinore Grand Prix Legends class.
Harden served as team manager and a rider for the 2004 and 2005 U.S. Red Bull KTM Dakar Rally teams. In the 2005 Dakar Rally (at age 48) he finished 17th out of 250 motorcycle competitors. He has also helped develop the careers of other off-road champions, including Dan Smith, Danny Hamel, Russ Pearson, and Chris Blais, who finished third in the 2007 Dakar Rally.
Harden has held numerous executive level management positions within the motorcycle industry with Husqvarna, KTM, BMW and most recently Zero Motorcycles. He has served as a board member for the Off Road Business Association (ORBA), which works to preserve access to public lands and serves on the Motorcycle Industry Council's (MIC) Electric Motorcycle Task Force. He is the 1998 recipient of the Hazel Kolb Brighter Image Award as well as the 2014 AMA Bessie Stringfield Award based on his continued promotion of the sport of motorcycling on a national level. In 1998 he was named one of the top 10 riders in the history of the sport by Dirt Rider magazine.
Scot is currently leading the development of electric motorcycles in his position as Vice President of Global Marketing for Zero Motorcycles. He is also the President and Founder of Harden Offroad, a rider training, event promotion and product development company that serves the offroad community. Both his sons, Brent and Brock are accomplished racers in their own right. Scot is married to Kristi Harden, who for over 40 years has been his partner and wife and has played a huge role in him achieving his status as a Hall of Famer.


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AS A JUNIOR IN 2012-13: SINGLES: Made his first singles appearance against UC Irvine … tallied three singles appearances on the season, including two in the No. 5 position … DOUBLES: Made his NCAA debut in a doubles match against Saint Mary's at the No. 3 position, teaming with Tomasz Soltyka … played with Logan Chun against Furman as well.
HIGH SCHOOL: Received the WCAL Doubles Team of the Year award after going undefeated in league play as a senior in 2010 ... WCAL honorable mention as a junior ... voted most inspirational player on team after senior season ... team took fifth in the Corona del Mar National Invitational Tournament in 2010 and reached Northern California and CCS Finals in 2009 ... coached by Tyler Hansbrough.
PERSONAL: From Cupertino, Calif. ... graduated from Bellarmine College Prep in 2010 ... son of Vic and Denise Menon ... has a younger brother, Grant ... enjoys following baseball, spending time with friends and traveling. He will be majoring in Management.
Why he chose Santa Clara?: "I chose Santa Clara because of its highly-regarded business school, the excellent faculty and because of the unbeatable California weather."


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Today I'm completing the job I started Saturday — washing windows and waging intense chemical warfare against the Invasion of the Spiders. I'm not sure why there are SO MANY spiders hatching this year, but they're really freaking me out.
Back to the garden…
California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum foliolosum, California Buckwheat grows in the chaparral in very dry hot conditions. Small animals and birds use it for cover.
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Baby Plums
The first strawberry of the season!
Lemon Verbena
It smells exactly like Lemon Pledge
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Rosebuds, of course!
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"All About You" got my vote.
Pushing Myself
Digging Up The Rock
I've Been Here Before
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All About You
"All About You" got my vote.
Pushing Myself..
yeah...well...Jamie fan that I am... LOL!
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Hard Work is Overrated
I know what you're thinking...
"Arun, despite your devilish good looks, witty personality, and snappy dance moves, you've finally gone off the deep end."
Rest assured, I went off the deep end a long time ago, but I'm happy you appreciate the "ass-shimmy-of-wonder" that I recently added to my dance repertoire.
But to the point at hand, if you give me a few paragraphs, I think I can convince you that the idea of "the harder you work, the bigger the reward" is actually not only counterproductive, it's also flat out wrong (stop shaking your head at me, and keep reading).
Somehow, the idea of hard work has actually become glorified. A lot of people wear it as a badge of honor. "I work hard and bust my ass everyday!" While working long, hard hours is admirable to the extent that someone is enduring something difficult to attain something greater, it usually gets a disproportionate amount of credit for success.
The truth is, hard work is one small part of this greater thing that we all want. Things like timing, luck, talent, and "working smart" play equally huge roles. And if you work smart, then your odds of hitting the jackpot with timing and luck increase as well. The thing is, people don't like to acknowledge the timing and luck part of the equation because it deflects the credit of accomplishment away from them.
But if we say, "I made it where I am because of a LOT of hard work" the credit belongs entirely to us which feels good.
There are a lot of blue collar workers out there that work tremendously long, hard, physically, and mentally exhausting hours, that by a lot of people's standards would not be considered "successful."
They're neither wealthy nor happy.
There are people working far harder than us that, through lack of talent, luck, or knowledge, have not been able to escape the grind of life.
Lets look at example of someone....oh, I don't know...ME (shocking, I know).
I would love to sit here and say, "Blog readers of the world! I am where I am today because I worked harder than anyone else I knew! Revel in my awesomeness!"
As good as that would feel, it's not the truth. But you can still free to do some "Arun Reveling."
I am where I am because of some hard work, but really, its the combination of luck & timing, and seizing some fortuitous opportunities.
The truth is, I am NOT a particularly hard worker. But what I am good at is figuring out what I have to do to deliver results that at least meet, but hopefully exceed expectations.
We tend to admire people who work really hard because we know how difficult it is and how much it sucks to do it. So, when we finally work hard, we want some doggone recognition! But is there any worse feeling than busting your ass only to receive NO credit or reward? It's the reason many people are unhappy with their jobs. Most people feel like they are under-paid, and under-appreciated at work despite their hard work.
To boot, most of us actually overestimate how hard we're actually working. Again this is because people usually don't like work, so two hours of working hard, mentally feels like 10 hours of work.
Similarly, it feels amazing when you really work hard and something amazing happens as a result. I lost a lot of weight when I was younger, and believe me, I busted my soft yet jelly-like booty in the gym so when I finally attained buns of steel (thank you Suzanne Somers Thigh Master), it felt so great that the credit was entirely mine.
Then there's the aspects we can't control. I like playing basketball, but even if I train everyday and work really hard, its pretty unlikely that I'll ever be able to dunk (I've pretty much maximized my "Indian athletic dunking potential" and I can barely touch the rim).
Similarly, I don't care how much weight she loses, how much surgery she gets, or how long she works on her runway walk, Rosie O'Donnell will never be a super model.
But, if I truly I wanted to become a professional basketball player (which despite the way I utterly dominate people at such athletic games as H.O.R.S.E and P.I.G. will still never happen), I might "work smart" and focus on improving my passing and shooting skills, rather than killing myself trying to jump higher (the phrase should be, "White men AND Brown men can't jump").
Ok. So I think I've made a decent point that hard work does not always result in success or happiness. I think I've also been fairly convincing that hard work is not the only answer to achieving your goals, because if all you focus on is hard work, you're not utilizing other, more efficient resources to reaching the goal. Then by the time you get there, you'll be unhappy and overworked which defeats the purpose of even achieving the goal in the first place.
Because the ultimate goal is to feel good, right?
So how do we use all of these other parts of "Arun's success equation of awesomeness" to minimize the amount of needless hard work we're doing? Well, one thing we all struggle with is the urge to procrastinate.
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It's that I don't like having to bust my ass and work super hard with deadline ready to smash me in the face (and anyone who knows me, knows how much I treasure my face). I leisurely studied and finished assignments because I started early and didn't procrastinate. If there was one piece of advice I'd give to someone in order to avoid working hard, it's to not procrastinate.
Another thing is identifying your talents/interests. When I was an Engineer, work seemed really hard. I HATED having to sit down and calculate some weird systems reliability prediction or create a logistics outline. I didn't like it, it didn't come naturally to me, and I never looked forward to work which made even regular work seem like hard work.
An 8 hour day at work consisted of 2 or 3 hours of actual work which felt like 12 hours of work. It's the reason I would spend hours doing ultra productive things like chasing a bee around the office.
These days, I provide marketing expertise to companies which I find incredibly enjoyable. I love being creative, developing new ideas, and working with people. Marketing and working with people is something that comes much more naturally for me which makes it fun to work. It also means that I don't have to grind on certain problems like I did when I was an engineer because now I'm in a profession that aligns much better with my talents and answers to problems come very quickly and easily to me.
I actually like work and mornings go by super fast.
So it's not that you shouldn't work hard, especially if you're enjoying work. The point is that hard work is waaay overvalued in terms of the results it delivers, and you shouldn't have to bust ass at something you're not enjoying at the expense of overall well-being. It defeats the purpose of making life enjoyable. The journey should be just as enjoyable as the reward, and if it isn't, think about how to get the same results without grinding, and don't feel bad about not killing yourself everyday.
Ok, now stop slacking and get back to work.


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that story about Koeman telling Geri he was shit last summer was about right then
What was that? Never heard it
He'll be like a new signing
The only way he'll end up back here is if we fuck up our summer recruitment and we don't have much better to call on.
Doesn't want to return according to Italian press:http://www.clickliverpool.com/sport/everton-fc/everton-fc-transfers/17185-deulofeu-doesnt-want-everton-fc-return/
Don't fuckin blame the lad Koemanez has the man management skills of Geoffrey Hardacre..
He's fucking shite. Nothing to do with man management. He wants to be a flair player that trots around the pitch without a defensive care in the world but he creates the square route of fuck all while doing it. He's not found a manager yet he's overly keen on him. Let's see if Milan even want to sign him and let's see if he plays after they've spent a couple of hundred million on other players Doesn't entertain coming back. Koeman doesn't want him but but he'll have absolutely no say anyway unless Barca sign him
.............do you mean Bradley Hardacre ?
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BETHLEHEM, Pa., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Particle Sciences, Inc. today announced the appointment of Deepak Tiwari, PhD to the position of Director, Formulation and Process Development. Dr. Tiwari, who holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from St. John's University, joins Particle Sciences following more than 18 years' experience in pharmaceutical development roles. Most recently, he served as Director, Pharmaceutical Development at Agennix Inc. Prior to that, Dr. Tiwari held senior positions at Baxter and Bayer. His areas of expertise include formulation development, clinical trial materials manufacturing, and commercial scale manufacturing of drug products. He has been integral to over 20 regulatory submissions worldwide and 7 marketed drug products. Dr. Mark Mitchnick, Particle Sciences' CEO, notes that, "Deepak brings a wealth of experience to the Particle Sciences team. His deep later stage development experience nicely compliments Particle Sciences business. Additionally, Deepak has been involved in a wide variety of dosage forms including sterile products for both small and large biologic molecules, and this too parallels Particle Sciences' client base."
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Google offers clearer search labels after EU probe
Google has agreed to alter its search results in the light of a European investigation into whether it unfairly promoted its own services.
The firm said that it will more clearly label results from YouTube, Google Maps and its other sites.
It also agreed to display links to rivals close to where it displayed its own services on its results page.
EU regulators are asking for feedback and have proposed that the concessions be tested for a month.
If the European Commission accepts them, they will become legally binding for the next five years.
As part of the agreement, Google will clearly separate promoted links from other web search results as well as displaying links to three specialised search rivals "close to its own services in a place that is clearly visible to users".
"The objective of this process is to try to see if we can achieve a settled outcome in this antitrust investigation," said Commission spokesman Antoine Colombani.
But the Microsoft-backed lobby group Initiative for a Competitive Marketplace (Icomp) was not convinced the changes went far enough.
"It is clear that mere labelling is not any kind of solution to the competition concerns that have been identified. Google should implement the same ranking policy to all websites," it said.
It added it would comment further once it had fully evaluated the proposals.
Dominant in Europe
Other concessions being offered by Google include:
- To offer all websites the option to opt out from the use of all their content in Google's search services, while ensuring that any opt-out does not "unduly" affect the sites' ranking in its general results
- To offer specialised search sites which focus on product search or local search the option to mark certain categories of information so that they are not indexed or used by Google
- To no longer include in its agreements with publishers any written or unwritten obligations that would require them to source online search advertisements exclusively from Google
- To no longer restrict advertisers from running search advertising campaigns across rival ad platforms
An earlier US Federal Trade Commission investigation into how Google displayed links to its services concluded there was no competition issue.
Explaining why it took a different view the Commission said: "Bing and Yahoo represent a substantial alternative to Google in web searches in the USA; their combined market share is around 30%. In contrast, Google has been holding market shares well above 90% in most European countries."
"The way Google presents its web search results therefore has a much more significant impact on users and on the competitive process in Europe than it does in the USA."


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Capital One Cup: Sunderland, Tottenham, Manchester City and Chelsea all triumph
Sunderland began life after Paolo Di Canio with a comfortable win over Peterborough as Tottenham thrashed Aston Villa.
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There were also third round victories for Chelsea, Southampton, West Ham, Fulham, Hull City, Norwich, Leicester and Burnley on a busy night of cup football.
Sunderland caretaker boss Kevin Ball oversaw a 2-0 victory at home to Peterborough thanks to goals from Emanuele Giaccherini and Valentin Roberge, with the recalled Lee Cattermole excellent in midfield.
Chelsea enjoyed a routine 2-0 success at Swindon as Jose Mourinho turned to a number of the fringe players in his star-studded squad, with Juan Mata setting up Fernando Torres before substitute Ramires, on for the injured Marco van Ginkel, struck again before the interval.
Manchester City destroyed Wigan 5-0 in a repeat of last season's FA Cup final with Edin Dzeko opening the scoring before the floodgates opened with Stevan Jovetic bagging a second-half brace and Yaya Toure and Jesus Navas also on target.
Tottenham continued their impressive start to the season with a 4-0 romp away to Aston Villa as Jermain Defoe scored twice, with Paulinho finding the net and Nacer Chadli opening his account for the north London side.
Fulham came from behind to inflict Everton's first defeat of the season under new manager Roberto Martinez as Dimitar Berbatov and Darren Bent secured a 2-1 success following Steven Naismith's opener.
Gary Hooper rescued Norwich from a Capital One Cup exit at the hands of Watford as his extra-time winner capped a remarkable comeback. Javier Acuna and Marco Faraoni looked to have the Hornets on course for round four before substitute Josh Murphy reduced the deadlock with 13 minutes to go and Hooper levelled with almost the final kick of the initial 90 minutes.
Southampton made 11 changes to their team from the victory at Liverpool but still had enough to see off League One outfit Bristol City with Gaston Ramirez on target in the 15th minute and Jos Hooiveld completing the scoring seven minutes from time.
Ricardo Vaz Te hit a dramatic late winner for West Ham as they edged out Cardiff in a five-goal thriller at Upton Park after Craig Noone and Peter Odemwingie had cancelled out early efforts from Ravel Morrison and Matt Jarvis for the hosts.
Hull City overcame Championship side Huddersfield at the KC Stadium with Nick Proschwitz scoring the only goal of the game in the 59th minute.
Leicester staged a late revival to dump out midlands rivals Derby at the King Power Stadium as Danny Drinkwater and Anthony Knockaert struck in the final 12 minutes after Chris Martin had put the Rams in front.
Danny Ings' brace saw Burnley come from behind to defeat Nottingham Forest at Turf Moor with Matt Derbyshire having given the visitors the lead.