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This Date In Royals History – September 23, 1977
The 1977 Royals are considered by many to be the best team in club history and its hard to argue with 102 wins. In fact that team rattled off a Royals record 16-game winning streak from August 31 through September 15, and then after that one loss went on to post eight more consecutive wins for good measure (How about a 24-1 stretch?…Incredible).
On Friday, September 23, 1977 – the 21st win in that run – the Royals clinch their second American League Western Division title with a 7-3 win at Anahaeim. Dennis Leonard picked up his 19th win that night striking out 13 Angels in a five-hit complete game (Naturally a complete game – as Leo set a Royals record with 21 that year…you read that right 21).
The hitting star that night was right-fielder Al Cowens who went 3-5 with three doubles and five RBI. Cowens would go on to finish second in the 1977 American League MVP voting behind Rod Carew of the Minnesota Twins.
Just A Bit More: Al Cowens career with the Royals is really quite remarkable when looking back at it years later. Not only did he make a run at the 1977 AL MVP Award, but was named the Royals Player of the Year and won a Gold Glove to top it all off. Not bad for a player taken in the 75th round during Kansas City's 1969 June Draft. Now that's a real 'diamond in the rough' for that first Royals Scouting Department.
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Thirty-two years on from the release of Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town, his resurgent cred with the alternative crowd is rooted not in that record, but rather Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad, his two exceptionally stark acoustic records chronicling the decline of the American working classes post-Vietnam. In fact there are plenty who maintain that Nebraska is his only good record. Which is funny, because some of those people probably worked for NME in 1978, the year the then punk obsessed mag made Darkness... its album of the year.
Why the fall out of fashion? You can point to the bombast and ubiquity of Born in the USA, but really a lot of it was down to the NME's Julie Burchill, who absolutely demolished The Boss's 1980 double album The River, with a vehement review – ('great music for people who've wasted their youth to sit around drinking beer and wasting the rest of their lives to') - that more or less served time on the UK music press's love affair with the man. In retrospect some of her words seems unfair (anyone who doesn't like the title track is basically a monster), but in a Britain where punk's sneering echoes still resounded deafeningly and the likes of Joy Division and PiL had just had hit records, Springsteen must have seemed like a bit of a pranny coming out with songs like 'Sherry Darling' and 'Crush on You'. I mean, I'm sure there were kids who liked 'Hungry Heart' and 'Death Disco' equally at the time, but they must have been exceptionally mixed up people.
Anyway, it's within that context that it's interesting to frame The Promise, because one of the most fascinating things about this double CD of quality offcuts from the Darkness... sessions is how deliberate it reveals the parent album's hard, lean, bleak tone to have been. Due to protracted legal wranglings, Springsteen spent the three years between Born to Run and Darkness... unable to release music; rather than take up a hobby or get a job or whatever, him and the E Street Band simply went into the studio and recorded a shedload of material until such point as they were allowed to release some of it. But where the ten songs that went onto the immaculate Darkness... are pessimistic, stripped down, and – in the case of 'Adam Raised a Cain' and 'Streets of Fire' – possessed of a blue collar fury to rival punk's art school nihilism, The Promise demonstrates that he'd in no way abandoned the romance, optimism and expansive dreamer's anthems of Born to Run. He'd just chosen not to release them. To be honest, that was a pretty good decision: Darkness on the Edge of Town feels like a '78 record; The Promise has more of a '58 vibe. It's old fashioned, somewhat corny, would not have been beloved by Burchill, and is most certainly not the ideal starting point for the curious Springsteen novice.
For a double set of studio discards it's also excellent, though how longstanding fans take it will likely vary. If you think Born to Run and before was his peak, you'll probably go nuts for a double CD cut from similar musical cloth, if lacking quite the same gravitas and epic sweep. If Nebraska or Born in the USA or even Darkness... itself are yer faves, you're liable to find all 22 tracks of The Promise a little gloopy in one sitting. Even so, that's 22 new(ish) Springsteen songs of top notch craftsmanship, with no bloopers and a handful of genuine gems.
Said gems, then include 'Racing in the Street ('78)', a monumental full band version of Darkness...'s piano dirge centrepiece. It's possessed of so much rough power and musical force that you can kind of see why it was shelved for the more introspective take: its pyre-like crescendo of squalling harmonica, surging guitars and epic drummage slightly steamrollers the bitter pathos of the last few verses ("She stares off alone into the night/With the eyes of one who hates for just being born"). But if you can see why Springsteen dropped it, it's a jawdropping opener, and one of the only two songs here that really successfully combine Darkness...'s bleakness with Born to Run's widescreen vistas. That other song is 'The Promise' itself: long the holy grail of unreleased Springsteen tracks (though he put out a rerecorded version in 1999), one guesses he left it on the backburner on grounds of it being yet another song about a working class car aficionado with shattered dreams, but for all that it is a genuinely superbly wrought example of said song. And then there's 'Because the Night': sure, the Patti Smith Group's is the definitive, weightier version but Springsteen's own, more throwaway take is still great fun, and sits well on the record, for all its familiarity.
And then there are 19 more songs, which I'm not going to go into at length, but for starters you've got your echoey, Fifties-style balladry ('Fire', later a hit for the Pointer Sisters), ecstatic doo wop dizziness ('Ain't Good Enough For You'), soaring, brassy celebrations of being alive ('Gotta Get That Feeling'), melodramatic, rinky-dink pop ('Outside Looking In') and schmaltzily uplifting Spector-ish torch songs ('Someday (We'll Be Together)'). Nothing feels unfinished, sketchy, or b-side ish, and as individual tracks, there's a lot to love here. That said, if you're going to characterise the record as a whole, it does kind of come across as an enjoyable exercise in writing pre-Beatles pop and ballads, rather than anything possessed of the emotional fire and lyrical incisiveness of Springsteen's best records. That he had the judgement to leave this stuff off Darkness on the Edge of Town probably says almost as much about his talents as the music itself. But keep your sense of perspective and remember that The Promise really is an offcuts record, and you'll find it's a staggeringly good one.
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Here's a question I routinely ask myself: Why am I doing exactly what it is I'm doing? Recently, the activity I've been questioning involves running the 4DX test made available by IDEXX. (The "4" in the name refers to the number of diseases for which it tests: heartworm, Lyme, Ehrlichia canis and anaplasmosis. The first of these is spread via mosquitoes, the other three by ticks.)
I've never owned a veterinary clinic, so I've never been The Decider; when debating the "what needs to be done on a routine visit" question, someone above my pay grade has set the rules. I'd like to say that the decisions all have sound scientific and medical reasoning; alas, I cannot. (Even at the most august of institutions, I've been asked to give vaccinations for economic rather than medical reasons.)
Preventing disease is good, and tests help us detect diseases. Therefore, tests are a good thing, right? Were it that simple! Mass screening, like mass vaccination, is rarely an unqualified good. Remember, screening means checking clinically healthy animals for markers of a disease, and positive results lead to further confirmatory tests. When we test a sick animal for diseases that may cause a particular constellation of symptoms, we're not screening—we're diagnosing.
So when is it appropriate to screen? First, the disease in question needs to be significant—unlike, say, strep throat, a common childhood infection caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes. Children go to the doctor every year for checkups, but they are not routinely screened for the presence of strep bacteria because we don't see strep throat as a serious disease. The possibility of complications doesn't warrant the cost of testing every asymptomatic child.
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Second, there needs to be a significant Detectable Preclinical Phase (DPCP), a period of time between the initial infection and the point at which symptoms appear, which allows us to intervene before the clinical phase starts. The classic in canine medicine is heartworm disease; we can detect the disease from a drop of blood and then treat positive cases before the dog becomes overtly ill.
Third, the screening test should be easy, noninvasive and inexpensive; for humans, the classic is blood-pressure screening.
Fourth, the test has to be accurate; false positives are not benign false alarms—they are followed by confirmatory diagnostics, worry and, often, unnecessary treatment.
The real bugaboo lies in what is called the Positive Predictive Value (PPV) of a test, or how likely it is that a positive result really is positive. Roughly speaking, PPV is a real-world measure that varies depending on how common a disease is. Sensitivity and specificity are laboratory values, a comparison of the test in question with a "gold standard" test. Tests like the 4DX are marketed by IDEXX based on sensitivity and specificity, not on the PPV.
Back to our 4DX: What is its PPV? To know that, we would need to know how prevalent ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis are. Their occurrence varies by region, and in general, we don't know. Nor do we know how often infection actually results in disease. We do know that these diseases are uncommon, if not rare, in most of the country, which lowers the test's PPV. Moreover, in cases that do occur, most are acute and therefore don't have a significant detectable preclinical phase—if the dog is infected, he will exhibit signs long before the next annual visit. In short, we have a test that, at best, shows whether a dog may have been exposed to these diseases, not whether or not he actually has them.
It should be clear that regular screening for any acute onset disease, including acute onset Lyme disease, is not necessary, and may even be counterproductive. As to whether chronic Lyme disease is actually a recognizable clinical entity in the dog: Well, the profession may need to reassess this. There is growing evidence in human medicine that "late Lyme," or a chronic form of the disease, is far less prevalent than previously thought. While dogs are not people, there is no reason at this point to think it's different for them.
Unfortunately, many vets treat or order additional diagnostics based on a positive test. This is often inappropriate. In the words of noted veterinary immunologist Ronald Schultz, "Treat the dog, not the test." In the mind of many practitioners, a test that creates more doubts and questions than it resolves is worse than neutral.
If you want your dog tested for heartworm, and not for Lyme, ehrlichiosis, or anaplasmosis, that should be your right. Should we be on the lookout for these diseases? Absolutely. But whether or not veterinary clients should have to pay for this surveillance with tests of unproven value is a debatable matter. And as long as your veterinarian is selling the test, he is hardly an unbiased party.
Author disclosures: First, I have owned a small (i.e., not enough for anyone to care if I use my proxy votes) number of IDEXX shares for years. Second, IDEXX has been generous, assisting me with research that I hope will benefit both people and dogs in developing nations. Finally, my ownership of IDEXX shares reflects the fact that I believe their science is sound. This article concerns what marketing departments and veterinarians choose to do with the tools scientists provide.


text: Yet, don't expect any finger pointing to take place."That's all you can try to do is stay together," linebacker Daryl Washington said. "You don't want to do that finger pointing and saying 'well they need to pick it up, we need to pick it up.'"We gotta just stick together and stay together as a team. We're a team before anything. We win and we lose as a team."Washington was also mighty generous when saying that perhaps the defense could have done more in Sunday's loss. He alone had 11 combined tackles, with one interception and one pass defended. "We left some plays out there on the defensive side of the ball as well," he said. "We could've made some stops at the end when they got the field goal going into halftime and it would've been a 13-16 game."Washington did acknowledge that the defense is playing at a high level right now, and when you force your opponent to give up the ball six times, you normally come away with a win. "When you play like that you kind of think that nine times out of 10, you're gonna win the game," he said. "I think that's the most frustrating thing that when you do play well on the defensive side of the ball like we did against a good offense and you don't come out with the win, it's just difficult, it's frustrating." The Arizona Cardinals go back to the drawing board again this week as they come off a 23-19 loss to the Falcons in Atlanta. It was their sixth consecutive defeat and it came despite an incredible performance by the defense. Arizona forced six Atlanta turnovers Sunday with five Matt Ryan interceptions and one Jason Snelling fumble. On the other side of the ball, the offense was 2-for-16 on third down and recorded only 178 yards of total offense. The defense repeatedly put the offense in good field position, and repeatedly the offense failed to capitalize. Derrick Hall satisfied with D-backs' buying and selling 0 Comments Share The 5: Takeaways from the Coyotes' introduction of Alex Meruelo Top Stories Former Cardinals kicker Phil Dawson retires The Falcons' Matt Ryan became the first quarterback since Green Bay's Bart Starr in 1967 to win a game despite throwing five interceptions and zero touchdowns, a statistic that has made the rounds over the last day or so.Washington and the rest of the Cardinals' defense is not taking the bait that the media and other analysts are putting out there; they instead will continue to shoulder some of the blame for the losses and still feel they have room to improve."You try to figure out what can you do better next time to build momentum," Washington said. "Defensively as a team we played pretty well, they just made more plays than we did." – / 18 Grace expects Greinke trade to have emotional impact


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US State Department workers were horrified by WikiLeaks' publication of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables leaked by soldier Bradley Manning, an agency official testified Thursday at his sentencing.
Elizabeth Dibble didn't give any evidence in open court of how the largest leak of classified information in the country's history damaged US foreign relations, but she did testify in a session closed to the public to protect classified information.
Dibble was the No 2 official in the agency's bureau of near-eastern affairs when WikiLeaks began publishing the cables on its website in late 2010.
Manning was convicted earlier this week. The sentencing hearing is to determine how long he will be in prison for leaking the cables, plus more than 470,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and some battlefield video, while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq.
Manning faces up to 136 years in prison following his conviction on 20 counts, including Espionage Act violations, theft and computer fraud. He has said he leaked the material to expose wrongdoing by the military and US diplomats.
Dibble said people in her office reacted with "horror and disbelief that our diplomatic communications had been released and were revealed on public websites for the world to see."
She was called to testify specifically about the impact of the leaks in Iran, Lebanon and Libya.
A May 2011 report by the State Department's inspector general's office said the WikiLeaks disclosures contained more information from embassies in Dibble's region than any other. The impact on US relations with those countries was immediate and, in some cases, profound, the report said.
"The US ambassador in Tripoli was quickly recalled after a particularly strong reaction from the Libyan government," the report said.
Then secretary of state Hillary Clinton said in November 2010 that the leaks endangered people's lives, threatened national security and undermined US diplomatic efforts.
Manning's lawyers maintain the leaks did little or no harm.
Dibble said she disagreed with the sentiments expressed by then-defense secretary Robert Gates in December 2010: "I've heard the impact of these releases on our foreign policy described as a meltdown, as a game-changer and so on. I think those descriptions are fairly significantly overwrought."


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Twilight: my favourite wolf
Hell-OH Alex Meraz. He plays Paul in New Moon – here he is photographed on the weekend in Vancouver. Hot. SO hot. Alex was overheard telling people that he'll be the "bad wolf" in the movie. Bad is good. Bad works for me.
Also attached – Taylor Lautner and his flawless skin (how is skin like this possible???) enjoyed a beautiful sunny break in the day. Vancouver is spectacular when it's not raining. Just… it rains a LOT. Anyway, Taylor and Kristen were running lines all weekend, prepping to begin shooting in earnest this week. Robert Pattinson was running lines on Sunday too for a few hours. He has however for the most part shut himself in when not working out, apparently hasn't ventured out much, prefers to be alone, politely declines invitations to go out, either getting into character or perhaps frightened by the loser twi-hards who've descended upon Vancouver to hunt him down? Twilight is boosting tourism!
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Goals: 1 (twice, most recent, Stanford, 2/24/13)
Points: 1 (twice, most recent, Stanford, 2/24/13)
Ground balls: 1 (Virginia, 4/3/11)
Draw controls: 2 (three times, most recent Cornell, 3/2/12)
Caused turnovers: 1 (Marquette, 3/19/13)
Junior · 2013
Played in five games ... Scored a goal at Stanford (Feb. 24) ... Had two draw controls at Cornell (March 2) ... Collected a ground ball against Penn (March 9) ... Caused a turnover at Marquette (March 19).
Sophomore · 2012
Won one draw control versus Boston College ... Registered two draw controls in win against Yale ... Won two draws in win versus Stanford ... Won one draw control against Syracuse ... Had one draw control versus Virginia.
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Played in nine games for the Crimson, starting against No. 7 Virginia … Won a draw control and collected a ground ball.
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Four-year starter in lacrosse … Captained team as a senior … Named Rookie of the Year as a freshman and team MVP the next three seasons … Named to the Kentucky Girl's Lacrosse Coaches Association All-Star team and the Kentucky Girl's Lacrosse Association All-State team as a sophomore and junior … Earned honorable mention All-America honors as a sophomore and junior … Two-time Academic All-American … Selected for the National Tournament on Great Lakes Regional Team … Received the team's Golden Net Award as a senior … Team won the state championship in 2009 … Valedictorian … Member of the National Honor Society … National Merit Finalist … National AP Scholar … Given the Principal's Leadership Award as a senior … Three-year member of the math team and the academic team … KJAS first place botany … Won the Xerox Award for Innovation and Information Technology … Served as secretary of the Beta club as a junior and vice president as a senior … Finished third in the Senior High School Division for AAA Safety Poster design … Congressional Silver Medal for attaining goals in volunteerism, personal fitness, personal development and exploration … Co-found and creative leader for oSnapplications which is an iPhone application that gives college tours.


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Scratch - A Great Way To Teach Children Programming
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Some time ago a colleague pointed Scratch out to me. It's a programming environment for children. When I was a kid I kind of learnt programming from the Elsevier Monographs my Dad had on his bookshelf. He (who's probably going to read this) gave them to me for safekeeping some time ago. So I count HIM as my first bad influence. :-) But he did insist on STRUCTURED programming, so maybe he's a GOOD... [More]


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6 Years... Where has the time gone?0 comments Posted by Kari at 08:15
6 years ago today I took my wife to Women's Hospital in Houston to hold her hand while she underwent an amniotic decompression. It was going to relieve the pressure on the smaller of the twins that she was carrying in her belly and allow her to remain pregnant. We had done it before. (Do you like how I throw "we" out there like I'm getting stuck in the stomach with a 12 inch needle too?) We knew what to expect. We would watch on the ultrasound screen as the doctor drained the excess fluid, Kari would have some contractions, they would give her medication to stop the labor and 6-8 hours later we would go home. Kari was up on the exam table covered from neck to knees in what looks like blue paper towels. Her swollen belly exposed and prepped with iodine. The doctor was hovering over her, intently watching a video screen as the nurse maneuvered the ultrasound prob. He was poised with an enormous needle in his right hand, held straight up, elbow bent. His left hand poking a prodding my wife's abdomen, searching for the best area to start the procedure. The room was dark and the tension on my wife's face highlighted by the glow from the ultrasound monitor. It seemed to be taking him much longer than usual to pick the right spot. Instead of inserting the needle he mumbled some techno latin speak at the nurse. He put the needle away and turned to us. "They need to come out." He explained that baby "A" has too much fluid around her heart. It has been working so hard trying to pump all that blood that the other baby wasn't getting. "If we don't take her out we could lose her. And if we lose one, the other won't last long." Within an hour I was holding my wife's hand in the operating room. Watching my twins being born. I barely had a chance to glimpse them as they were whisked away by nurses to be put on ventilators. Up to that day I was sure that they would survive, but seeing them born and seeing them on the ventilators destroyed my confidence. Jordan especially scared me. She was so small, 1 pound 12 ounces. I could have nearly encircled her head with my thumb and forefinger. So pale. Trying so hard to breath. I was terrified. Madison was only slightly bigger and although she looked better to me, she was in worse shape than her sister. Even today just typing this, remembering it, makes it difficult to breath. That is how the adventure really began. When I get home from a trip and watch them run to greet me, flitting across the room on their toes they seem to move without actually touching the ground, flinging themselves into my arms and squeezing my neck so hard that it hurts a little, I feel blessed. Happy Birthday! My sweet little angles!


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The Blue Angels headed back into the wild blue yonder a year after budget cuts grounded the Navy's famous daredevil fliers.
The aerobatics team performed its first 2014 show on Saturday at the Naval Air Facility in El Centro, about 100 miles east of San Diego.
The Blue Angels normally do about three dozen shows annually but got into the air only twice last year.
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That was a disappointment not only to aviation fans, but to small communities in outlying areas that count on the tourist dollars they attract.
The Angels' commanding officer, Thomas Frosch, tells the Imperial Valley Press his team spent much of its downtime practicing for this year's full slate of shows.


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Watch out, LinkedIn. Facebook is getting in your space.
The social network announced Wednesday that it's launching an app to help users find jobs.
The app, as of Wednesday afternoon, included 1.7 million job listings, in areas including IT/Software Development, Science/Engineering/R&D and Security/Protective Services.
Users can search the jobs database by keyword and location.
The app includes job listings from Monster.com, Work4Labs, BranchOut and the DirectEmployers Association.
"This makes sense for Facebook," said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research. "They haven't done anything like this before, but it's a natural fit for them. People use their network already to find jobs."
According to a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, 50% of employers use Facebook during the hiring process. Employers use social networking sites to screen the profiles of potential employees, checking posts, pictures and video for information ranging from how hard they might party to what they might have said online about previous employers.
Among social networks, LinkedIn is the one generally used by people looking for jobs or business contacts. Gottheil said the network does a solid job of connecting businesses and potential employees, and Facebook's move into this area will be a challenge.
LinkedIn has such a solid position among job hunters that it would take a lot for Facebook to unseat it, he added.
"Facebook's latest move is more of a public service, basically putting a job bank on Facebook, where users can see it," said Gottheil. "LinkedIn is all about jobs. That's the first place people look, and it's where they post almost entirely job-related information. Facebook has a long way to go before it begins to impinge on that space."
Facebook's jobs app is part of the company's Social Jobs Partnership initiative, which was formed in the fall of 2011 in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Labor and several other labor organizations.
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Keira Knightley says that being called anorexic over the years has taken a toll.
"The anorexic stuff — It's always going to have an impact, so I think it did hit pretty hard," the 27-year-old actress told Allure magazine in the December issue, according to E! Online. "Because you go, oh, maybe that's right! I knew I wasn't anorexic, but maybe my body is somehow not right." (Knightley won nearly $6,000 in libel damages after suing Daily Mail for saying that she suffered from anorexia in 2007.)
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Although Knightley says that she's comfortable with her thin frame, one thing she's not OK with is the way her body is PhotoShopped on movie posters. "They always pencil in my boobs," the actress tells Allure magazine. "I was only angry when they were really droopy ... For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these really strange, droopy t--s. I thought, well if you're going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts."
Although Knightley, 27, appears on the cover and in the magazine in various states of undress, she says has limits for her roles. "I'm quite rigorous about what gets exposed," she said. "No bottom half! I don't mind exposing my t--s because they're so small — people really aren't that interested!"
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The following two decision problems seem to be open:
Given a polynomial equation in two variables with integer coefficients, determine whether there are any integer solutions. (The two-variable case of Hilbert's Tenth Problem)
Given a real algebraic number $r$ and given integers $B,N > 0$, determine whether the inequalities $|rx-y| < \frac{1}{x^{1+1/N}}$, $0 < x < B$ are solvable in integers $x$ and $y$. (This is the problem of the effective Roth bound -- Roth proved that for any algebraic $r$ and for any $N > 0 $, inequality $|rx-y| < \frac{1}{x^{1+1/N}}$ has only finitely many solutions in positive integers $x,y$.)
Now I heard once that an effective algorithm for the Roth bound would yield an effective algorithm for the two variable case of Hilbert's Tenth Problem. I can begin to imagine that this might be true for norm-form equations, following the treatment in Schmidt's books, but the general case seems quite opaque.
Can anyone suggest any references along these lines? Also, does anyone know of surveys summarizing what has been done to-date on the of the decidability of the two-variable case of Hilbert's Tenth Problem? Finally, does anyone know any interesting "plausibility arguments" for or against decidability?


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The recall affects 215,000 Sonata midsize sedans from the 2006 to 2010 model years and 24,000 Azera full-size sedans from 2006 to 2011.
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U.S. Paralympics finally get TV coverage on American soil
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Last month, the International Paralympic Committee gave a gift to the U.S. when it announced its detailed plans to provide online coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
That seemed the only outlet for Americans to watch the Paralympics for the first time in decades — no, history.
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America saw its first glimpse of a Paralympic athlete compete on TV when South Africa's Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee, ran the 400 meters.
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The London Paralympics will be held from Aug. 29 to Sept. 9.
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Shortly after courageous Senators, fed up with obstruction, changed Senate rules to allow a simple majority to end a filibuster, AFJ President Nan Aron wrote this in The Huffington Post:
Clearly, going forward, the Republicans will be in no mood to be cooperative and will almost certainly use every tactic they can think of to throw a wrench into the process.
The change in rules already has benefitted the American people. Two highly-qualified judges have been named to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and a host of well-qualified executive branch nominees have been confirmed.
But Nan Aron's prediction has proven accurate.
With the filibuster unavailable to thwart judicial nominees on the Senate floor, Senate Republicans have doubled down, turning to the Senate Judiciary Committee—and arcane procedural rules—to continue their partisan obstruction. Rather than acting in the nation's best interest, or at least evincing a modicum of concern over the record-high number of judicial vacancies that plague our federal justice system, the Senate Republicans are trying to grind the confirmation process to a halt. For purely partisan reasons—which is to say, for spite, and nothing more—Senate Republicans are trying to make the Senate Judiciary Committee the place where judicial nominations—all judicial nominations—go to die.
Last week, Republicans invoked a little known and rarely enforced Senate rule to cancel the committee's executive session, where 15 judicial nominees were set to have votes and move to the floor. A few weeks before that, Republican committee members blocked another executive meeting by not showing up, thereby preventing a quorum.
And today, Republicans used procedural tactics to prevent a confirmation hearing for five consensus district court nominees, one of whom would fill a judicial emergency. All of these nominees have approval from their home state Senators, including Republican Senators in Maine and Kansas, but that doesn't matter. Just as we saw with Republican opposition to President Obama's nominees for the D.C. Circuit, individual merit—that is, the question of whether these nominees would make good judges—is entirely beside the point. This is payback time for Senate Republicans, and if it comes at the expense of Americans waiting to stand up for their rights in court, so be it. Senator Patrick Leahy—the Chair of the committee—has called this behavior a "Republican shutdown of the Judiciary Committee," and observed that it "is consistent with the obstruction we have witnessed over the last five years" that has "led to record high vacancies in federal courts throughout the country."
Meanwhile, preventing the committee from conducting regular business, though extraordinary, is not the only means of Republican obstruction. Even if the committee had held today's hearing, it would have excluded a number of nominees who are still waiting (and waiting) for "blue slips" from home state Senators.
In keeping with Senate tradition, Senator Leahy will not schedule a hearing unless a nominee's home-state senators give approval via "blue slips." That's why there was no nominee for a circuit court of appeals scheduled for today's hearing. Eleventh Circuit nominee Robin Rosenbaum is set to move forward but the committee is still waiting, inexplicably, for Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio to give his assent. (Rubio's stalling on Rosenbaum is especially egregious because the Eleventh Circuit currently has four judicial emergencies, and another nominee, Jill Pryor, has been waiting for blue slips from the Georgia Senate delegation since February of 2012. Recall how, during the D.C. Circuit debate, Republicans kept saying more attention should be paid to judicial emergencies.)
Also missing from today's schedule were five nominees to the District of Arizona, all of whom would fill longstanding judicial emergencies. Republican Senator Jeff Flake has withheld his blue slips on this entire slate of nominees, and his reason for doing so seems to be in flux. On December 8, his staff told that the Wall Street Journal that his review of the nominees was not yet complete. But less than a week later, on December 14, he told the Arizona Republic that he's waiting for President Obama to name a sixth nominee—to fill the state's final judicial vacancy—before he lets the first five have a hearing. The judicial vacancies in Arizona represent a crisis that worsens by the day, and there is simply no reason, with five pending nominees who have all been approved by Flake's fellow Arizona Republican, Senator John McCain, for it to persist any longer.
By abusing the filibuster on nominations, the Senate Republicans left the majority no alternative but to change Senate rules. Thus far, Senator Leahy has shown great fidelity to the blue slip tradition. But he has also cautioned Republicans that blind, indiscriminate obstruction cannot be used to dismantle our democratic processes.
As Nan Aron wrote last month:
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Is Cody Simpson Joining 'Dancing With the Stars'?
Rumor has it that Cody Simpson will be joining the cast of 'Dancing With the Stars' for the show's 18th season. According to E! News, sources spilled that the 17-year-old Australian cutie is "in talks" to join the dancing competition.
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After Microsoft's database of publicly accessible Wi-Fi locations was exposed, they've heeded the criticisms and decided to make the information a bit less accessible.
According to CNET's Declan McCullagh, Microsoft tweaked the Live.com location services API so that it no longer allows someone to enter in a MAC address and receive a precise geographical location. Furthermore, Cnet got Windows Phone program manager to issue the following statement:
This change adds improved filtering to validate each request so that the service will no longer return an inferred position when a single Media Access Control address is submitted. While it was not possible to use the service to track a roaming mobile phone or laptop using its MAC address prior to this change, Microsoft is keenly aware of the sensitivity around all privacy issues, especially those surrounding geolocation...
GREAT, except that CNET totally found the service tracking roaming devices. Microsoft better hope they don't end up in the same shitstorm Google did. [Cnet via Slashdot]
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What's looming on "The Event's" horizon?
NBC's serialized sci-fi thriller has quickly claimed the title of TV's most intrigue-laced new series, doling out plot twists with a burgeoning cast of characters and "Lost"-ian style revelatory flashbacks. And now that the show's been picked up for a full 22-episode season, executive producer Evan Katz promises a lot more big "events" up ahead.
"The show's designed so that every season ends with a big event, so I can say that there's a tremendously big event at the end of Season One,' Katz teased, noting that "The Event's" seemingly disparate plotlines "will start to come together about midway through the season."
Katz said a wealth of inventive fan speculation about the true nature of the show's extraterrestrial contingent has yet to hit the bulls-eye. "I would say there is a surprise – a big surprise – coming about who they really are. But I don't think anyone's really hit on it yet – exactly, anyway."
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Part of that path involves tweaks to the show's complicated – and sometime confusing – multi-viewpoint flashback sequences. "Multiple-point flashbacks in more than one story line I think was frustrating," Katz said, "so you'll see this coming week Blake Sterling gets the same treatment that Simon Lee got in the last original airing. We're going to use them really to enhance character and we are going to use them when they can enhance character, but we're not religiously slaving to a certain number of flashbacks in every episode in multiple storylines."


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A biofuel that will be produced commercially in Minnesota is turning out to have major advantages over ethanol, especially for engines that can't burn that fuel at higher concentrations.
Scientists who have studied isobutanol, an alcohol fuel made from corn and soon to be manufactured in Luverne, Minn., say it can be easily blended with gasoline at up to 16 percent, packs more energy than ethanol and doesn't appear to damage the engines of older cars, boats and lawn equipment.
"Isobutanol is a good fuel, and a lot of engines can burn it without problems," said James Szybist, a researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee who has tested the fuel.
Most gasoline sold in the United States is 10 percent ethanol, or E10. Urged on by the ethanol industry, the federal government this month registered the first companies to sell E15, or 15 percent ethanol.
But E15 has struggled to gain widespread acceptance, partly because, unlike E10, it is not approved for engines in pre-2001 cars, and any motorcycles, boats, off-road vehicles, lawn mowers or other power equipment. Using E15 in these engines, even by mistake, could cause damage and void warranties.
The marine engine industry, which has reported boat engine damage from E15, says its continuing tests of isobutanol-gasoline blends have found no similar problems.
"This could be the fuel of the future," said John McKnight, director of environmental and safety compliance for the National Marine Manufacturers Association, a trade group for the recreational boating industry.
At Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, researchers who tested motor vehicle engines in a lab concluded that isobutanol "may prove to be a more attractive alternative than ethanol due to fuel characteristics that closely resemble gasoline," according to paper presented at a 2009 industry conference.
Small engine manufacturers also saw no red flags with isobutanol in testing last year at Briggs & Stratton. "It shows great promise if they can bring it market in a meaningful way," said Kris Kiser, president and CEO of the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, an industry trade group, who diplomatically added: "I am not here to bash ethanol."
Gevo, an Englewood, Colo.-based biofuels company, is spending $40 million to convert a Luverne ethanol plant into the nation's first commercial-scale corn-to-isobutanol plant. It is set to open in June.
Without really trying, the new biofuel has landed in the middle of the debate over adopting E15 as the nation's standard motor fuel.
"We typically don't pick winners and losers," said Thomas Wallner, a scientist at the Argonne lab whose findings about isobutanol have been mostly positive. "It is a very loaded topic."
Isobutanol's pluses are that it doesn't absorb water like ethanol, isn't known to cause corrosion, doesn't evaporate as easily and has more energy than ethanol though still has 17 percent less than gasoline, according to researchers. It mixes so well with gasoline that it can be sent through pipelines.
On the other hand, isobutanol has slightly lower octane, which means it needs to be blended with gasoline having a higher anti-knock rating. That alone represents an obstacle to getting the new biofuel to pumps.
Wendy Clark, a scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., said 90 percent of the gasoline sold in the United States is refined for mixing with ethanol. "It is not the right blendstock for butanol," said Clark, who is working with industry officials on specifications to address that issue.
Yet another problem, at least in Minnesota, is a state law that specifies only ethanol can be blended with gasoline. Gevo has been unsuccessful in getting legislators to change the law, which may mean the fuel will first be sold at gas stations in other states, most of which have no such mandate.
From the beginning, Gevo has said it hoped to sell isobutanol to chemical makers to make other products. For example, Gevo recently announced a deal with Coca-Cola Co. that would use isobutanol to create another chemical, paraxylene, for pop bottles derived from plant materials.
Gevo President and Chief Operating Officer Chris Ryan said the company also intends to sell isobutanol as fuel. The plant in Luverne will produce 18 million gallons of isobutanol annually.
With the boating industry showing interest, Ryan said the company made a deal with a marine fuels distributor to offer a gasoline-isobutanol blend at marinas. He said such sales are not barred by Minnesota's ethanol-preference law, which applies only to road vehicles.
One big challenge is whether Gevo's biofuel can compete against ethanol on price. Ryan said isobutanol likely will cost more to make than ethanol, but the gasoline needed to mix with it can be produced using less-expensive fractions of crude oil.
"What that means is that a fuel manufacturer would be able to make that base gasoline at a lower cost, blend butanol on top of it, which on a per-gallon basis would be a higher cost than ethanol, and sell their butanol-gasoline at the same price," Ryan said.
For motorists, and the ethanol industry, none of these changes will happen right away. Robert Wisner, a biofuels economist at Iowa State University, said it could take two or three years before it's clear whether more ethanol plants, like Luverne's, are better off converting to isobutanol.
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Nick Folk was one of the heroes of the 2013 New York Jets.
That says something about the Jets, but it also speaks to Folk's consistency under pressure. On Friday, the Jets made sure Folk didn't leave town by placing the franchise tag on him.
The team announced the tag for Folk, noting his 91.7 percent accuracy on field goals in 2013. Folk hit his first 23 field goals last season, including three game-winners. Folk hit all three attempts over 50 yards and showed a knack for accuracy in tough conditions.
The franchise tag for kickers is $3.556 million, per NFL Media's Albert Breer. That's a fair number, and a one-year contract is preferable at a position where accuracy can come and go each season. The Jets aren't that far removed from believing they were one kicker away from a title. (Mike Nugent, anyone?) Now kicker is the least of their concerns.
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NBC's reality competition series "Fashion Star" launches its second season this spring featuring celebrity mentors Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos, and television presenter and Glamour Magazine's fashion editor-at-large Louise Roe as host. Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue return to the show, with specialty fashion retailer Express joining as the third buyer this season. "Fashion Star" will give 12 eager young designers the chance to win a multi-million dollar prize of launching their original collections in three of the nation's largest fashion retailers.
Each week, the contestants are given a challenge to design clothing with a certain look, feel and function. Working with their designated team, the mentors offer insight and advice to contestants as they design their creations, shop for materials and oversee the production of their garments. The culmination of their efforts comes with an exhilarating fashion show during which they display their work to the three buyers: Caprice Willard of Macy's, Terron E. Schaefer of Saks Fifth Avenue and Erika DeSalvatore of Express.
In the show's most ambitious and dramatic twist, the buyers make on-the-spot decisions to purchase and carry the designs exclusively in their stores - pledging thousands of dollars in orders and often going head-to-head to bid on an item. Those designs become available immediately after the broadcast both online and in select stores the next day. What viewers see on TV that night will be on the streets and in stores in the blink of an eye - and with just a single trip down the runway, "Fashion Star" can change the lives and fortunes of these aspiring designers forever. Each week, one of the designers is eliminated.
From New York and Los Angeles to Dallas and Austin, the designers featured on the show include a talented and inspired group of young professionals, many of whom have held jobs with major design houses and come to the competition having sold their own lines to major retail outlets. Fashion is a highly competitive and fluid business, however, and the contestants will be challenged to take their "brand" to the next level. All the contestants will be put to the test to see how they react in a variety of real-world scenarios to determine who has the vision and desire to build a fashion empire and achieve his or her dream.
In the end, one designer will successfully combine fashion and business to become the next "Fashion Star" and will receive the prize of a lifetime - $3,000,000 in orders for capsule collections in Macy's, Saks Fifth Avenue and Express stores.
"Fashion Star" recently won Best Branded Format at the FRAPA Format Awards at MIPCOM. The series was nominated for a precedent-setting three awards at the annual convention including Best Competition Reality Format, Best Brand-Driven Format and Best Multi-Platform Format. "Fashion Star" also took home Best Social Commerce or Marketing Program at the 2012 Social TV Awards.
The "Fashion Star" format was developed by Ben Silverman of Electus (NBC's "The Biggest Loser," "The Office" and "The Tudors"), Rick Ringbakk of Emmy Award-winning 5x5 Media ("Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution") and E.J. Johnston and James Deutch of EJD Productions.
The show is executive-produced by Elle Macpherson, Ben Silverman of Electus, Jane Lipsitz and Dan Cutforth of Magical Elves, Rick Ringbakk of 5x5 Media and EJ Johnston and James Deutch of EJD Productions. Electus International will retain all international distribution rights.


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The Newtown shooting is prompting a lot of talk about gun control.It's also getting people talk about something that typically receives much less attention: The state of access to mental health care in America.
A mother's harrowing blog post about living with her violently disturbed child is going viral on Facebook.
The whole post is worth reading, and it already has 355 877 comments.
A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books. His 7 and 9 year old siblings knew the safety plan—they ran to the car and locked the doors before I even asked them to. I managed to get the knife from Michael, then methodically collected all the sharp objects in the house into a single Tupperware container that now travels with me. Through it all, he continued to scream insults at me and threaten to kill or hurt me.
That conflict ended with three burly police officers and a paramedic wrestling my son onto a gurney for an expensive ambulance ride to the local emergency room. The mental hospital didn't have any beds that day, and Michael calmed down nicely in the ER, so they sent us home with a prescription for Zyprexa and a follow-up visit with a local pediatric psychiatrist.We still don't know what's wrong with Michael. Autism spectrum, ADHD, Oppositional Defiant or Intermittent Explosive Disorder have all been tossed around at various meetings with probation officers and social workers and counselors and teachers and school administrators. He's been on a slew of antipsychotic and mood altering pharmaceuticals, a Russian novel of behavioural plans. Nothing seems to work.
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Hopefully that assures you that I have nothing to do with any of this...
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...I'll assume the following wasn't actually for me. If it was I think you've got your wires crossed.
How about instead of being a bitch on twitter, you get on forum say what's really on your mind? I'm sorry my comments effect your personal life. Maybe it's time to stop taking the internet so serious.
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