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Saturday night in a nine-inning struggle with UAB the Lady Bisons didn't have just one hero. There were several to pick from.
The Lady Bisons jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first three innings. UAB scored a run in the fifth and then struck for five in the seventh to take a 6-5 lead. The Lady Bisons scored a run in the bottom of the inning to send the game into extra innings.
The Lady Bisons also celebrated winning their 50th game, the most ever by a Lady Bisons softball team. Coach Kristin Ryman was drenched after the team dumped a cooler of water on her.
In the ninth, with two outs and runners on second and third Caroline Mason singled down the left field line to bring home Mitchell with the game-winning run. Mason finished with three hits even though she was replaced briefly by Breanna Thurman, tying her season high. She gets the award as hero No. 1.
"My high school coach always told me that the big, round, yellow thing is what you have to focus on and that is what I did," Mason, a sophomore right fielder, said. "I tried not to think about it being a pressure situation. I've always been taught to relax in situations like that, breath and pray. Tensing up doesn't do anything to help you."
Mason, the eighth hitter in the lineup, missed several games with an injury. She credits coach Kristin Ryman with helping rebuild her confidence.
"Caroline overall had good at bats," Ryman said. "When we get hits like that from the bottom of the order it is a plus. She wants to be in there when the game is on the line.
"When you watch her she is not necessarily a No. 8 hitter. But she is there for us because she has been working her way back from a slower start than she had last year."
The Lady Bisons will need a lot of heroes Sunday as well when they have a rematch with Alabama, the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Lady Bisons lost to them 5-2 Saturday. The game is scheduled for 1:30 at the Alabama Softball Complex. If the Lady Bisons win, a second game will be played at 4 p.m.
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Kiihnl pitched into the seventh inning. In the sixth she pitched out of a bases-loaded jam. But in the seventh she walked the first batter she faced in that inning and then gave up a single.
Lady Bisons coach Kristin Ryman decided to bring in Alaina Jacobson in relief. Earlier in the day Jacobson had pitched three scoreless innings in the 5-2 loss to top-seeded Alabama.
But against UAB Jacobson walked the first batter she faced, gave up a single to the next hitter and then hit the third batter she faced. Four runs scored before Kiihnl returned to the game. She was able to strike out the first batter she faced, but a throwing error by Kellie Sirus allowed the go ahead run to score. Sirus then redeemed herself making an outstanding play on a hard hit ground ball to end the inning.
Kiihnl, a sophomore, literally made her pitch for hero No. 2. She stayed in the game and earned the win, raising her record to 33-4. But it wasn't easy for Kiihnl. She threw 159 pitches in the game, 113 of them for strikeouts. She needed a hydration break after she returned to the game due to a cramp in her pitching hand.
"I asked to be taken out," Kiihnl said. "My hand was sweating. I couldn't grip the ball. I had a towel but it wasn't helping me any. I was getting a little tired."
Ryman trusted Kiihnl's judgment when she asked to be pulled from the game. She also had trust in Kiihnl when she asked her to go back into the game.
"Whitney knows herself enough to know when she's hit that wall," Ryman said. "We all thought it was a good opportunity to put Alaina in to close the door.
"Obviously, things didn't work out as we planned. They hit Alaina will and got back into it. We looked at Whitney and said, `Whit, we need you to go back.' She looked at me and just grabbed her glove and went back out there and gutted it out. She gave us everything she had."
Shortstop Courtney Billington, also a sophomore, connected for five hits, a team season single game high. Billington, who hit her 18th double, and center fielder Lauren Dortwegt had been tied for the single game high with four hits. Billington also had a game-high three runs batted in. She gets the fourth hero award.
"For me it is just about staying relaxed, not thinking too much and just being confident in myself and my team," Billington said. "This was definitely not the way we wanted the game to go. We had to stay strong."
The fifth and final hero, though all of the Lady Bisons were heroes on some level, is sophomore catcher Mollie Mitchell who slammed a two-run homer to center field in the third inning.
"So many of the sophomores stepped up huge with the big plays and big hits when we needed them," Ryman said. "That is going to pay big dividends in the future."
Also in double figures in hits were Kellie Sirus and Lauren Dortwegt who each had two hits. The Lady Bisons finished with 15 for the game, two short of their season high.
Ryman admits she didn't think the Lady Bisons had the game won after three innings, but she didn't see an extra innings game developing.
"We didn't think we already had the game won, but the way things started, realistically, we thought we had done enough," Ryman said. "We tried to keep pounding away.
"I'm impressed the way UAB came back and made it into a game late. We have tremendous respect for UAB. I think our fatigue started showing late in the game and obviously into extra innings. I'm incredibly proud of the way we fought and never gave in when we might have just turned it in and been done."
The Lady Bisons are 50-12. UAB finished the season with a 37-22 record.
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Oracle's comparatively recent stewardship of the Java language and platform came with additional family members, including the Solaris operating system. Just previewed at the company's OpenWorld event running in line with what is now JavaOne, Solaris 11 has unsurprisingly been billed as extremely cloud-compliant, optimized for both Oracle and third-party applications, and exists now as a core component of Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance.
Oracle details an "early adopter" release, which is a feature-complete preview of Solaris 11 for registered programmers, and says that developers are using this release to begin final qualification of their applications on the upcoming OS. With what Oracle describes as the "proven parallel capabilities" of Solaris, version 11 has been presented with a new software provisioning and maintenance infrastructure, designed for cloud and large enterprise deployments.
Offering a chance to deploy new data center software images across thousands of machines, Oracle says that Solaris 11 is the "first and only fully virtualized operating system" — and that it provides built-in virtualization services that allow developers and DBAs to maximize system, network, and data resources in their data centers with zero virtualization overhead.
The Oracle Solaris discussion board has listed a link to information about developing applications for and on Solaris, which can be found in the Solaris Developer Center forums. Deeper technical details are offered, in addition to what is said to be improved Java-based application performance, availability, security, and manageability through jointly engineered improvements such as optimized memory management, I/O enhancements, integrated resource management, and crypto off-load.


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Helping a new type of rural enterprise that can support a transition towards a green, diversified rural economy. Coillte Sláintiúil provides services to protect, rejuvenate and replace native woodlands.
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EAFRD funding enabled the Monemvasia Winery to relocate to meet growing demand for Monemvasia-Malvasia wine.
An initiative to sensitise companies in the Northern Eifel region to the problem of management succession at an early stage.
An investment project that allowed a company to fill the gap in the local supply chain for wood chips in the north-west of Ireland.
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SILTA supports entrepreneurship among young people by providing a cooperative structure through which they can grow their business ideas and receive training, mentoring and peer support.
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John Hadley
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Died: 14 February 1744 in East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
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John Hadley's mother was Katherine Fitzjames and his father was George Hadley. Both parents were from leading families, with his father having an estate at Enfield Chase near East Barnet, Hertfordshire which is now in London. George Hadley became high sheriff of Hertfordshire when John was nine years old. John was the second of his parents' six children having an older sister and two younger brothers George and Henry. John was five years older than Henry and three years older than George. No records survive to show how and where he was educated but certainly he must have acquired a high level of expertise in mechanics, and optics as well as mathematics.
Hadley was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 21 March 1717 and he attained high office in the Society when he was elected Vice President on 12 February 1728. Although he had no need to earn a living, he did devote considerable time to looking after the family estates and also served the local community as governor of Barnet grammar school from 1720. His father died in 1729 and, as the eldest son, Hadley inherited the estate near East Barnet as well as other land owned by the family. This certainly put in in an exceptionally good financial position and enabled him to pursue his scientific interests. On 6 June 1734 he married Elizabeth Hodges who herself was wealthy. They had one child, a son John born in 1738.
We have indicated above that Hadley had a financial position which enabled him to devote both time and money to science. We must now look at his achievements in this area. He built, in collaboration with his brothers George and Henry, the first effective Newtonian reflecting telescope during the years 1719 to 1720. It had a 6 inch mirror and proved a very useful instrument. It was tested by Hadley and also by Halley, the astronomer royal, in 1721 and Halley reported to the Royal Society (see for example [2]) that the telescope:-
... shows the limbs of the planets with a greater degree of distinctness than other sort of telescopes do, in which particular ... it excels even the great telescope at Wanstead.Bradley also tested the telescope, comparing it with the refractor at Wanstead, and found it an excellent instrument which produced as good results as much larger refracting telescopes which, because of their size, were much more unwieldy to use. He built a Gregorian reflector in 1726. It was due to him that reflecting telescopes of sufficient accuracy and power to be useful in astronomy were developed.
At this time one of the major problems which many scientists attacked was that of determining longitude at sea. The shipwreck of the fleet under the command of Sir Cloudesley Shovell on the Scilly Islands in 1707 led to Parliament putting up a large amount of money for any method to find longitude at sea to within one degree. This motivated Hadley to tackle the problem and in 1730 he invented the reflecting octant which measured the altitude of the sun or of a star. The construction of the octant was, as his telescope had been, undertaken jointly by Hadley together with his brothers George and Henry. In 1731 Hadley showed his new quadrant to theRoyal Society and published a description in his paper Description of a new instrument for taking angles which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Hadley wrote in the paper:-
The instrument is designed to be of use where the motion of the objects, or any circumstance occasioning an unsteadiness in the common Instruments renders the observations difficult or uncertain.In 1734 he showed a new version of the instrument, with an added bubble-level, to the Royal Society. It was used to determine position at sea. Edmund Stone wrote:-
Mr Hadley tells us, that upon trial of one of these instruments, three observations made at sea of the distance between two stars with a brass octant of this kind differed from Mr Flamsteed's at land, only about a minute.Hadley published A description of a new instrument for taking the latitude or other altitude at sea (1734). His design evolved into that of a sextant. A magnifying glass was added to read the scale, a telescopic sight was added with cross-wires to divide the field of view. The arc was extended from an octant to a sextant and a stout handle was added at the back of the instrument.
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Royals looking forward to upcoming FanFest
Two-day event making debut at Kansas City Convention Center's Bartle Hall
KANSAS CITY -- You don't have to don a top hat and tails -- a ballcap and Royals shirt will do -- but be advised that the Royals are taking the party downtown this year.
For the first time, the Royals FanFest will be in downtown Kansas City, Mo., specifically at the Kansas City Convention Center's Bartle Hall.
That's a switch from the Overland Park Convention Center on the Kansas side of the metropolitan area.
"We started Royals FanFest in January 2008, and the Overland Park Convention Center was our first and only venue for the five FanFests we've held," said Toby Cook, Royals vice president of community affairs and publicity. "We loved the facility but finally busted the seams of the place in 2013 with an enormous response from Royals fans. We're expecting an even bigger turnout this year, and the Kansas City Convention Center is huge. Bartle Hall hosts big-time shows throughout the year, and there will be plenty of room for fans to maneuver between autograph stations and attractions. Beyond that, we felt like it was just time to take this show downtown."
After skipping the FanFest during the All-Star Game year of 2012 and trying a one-day format in 2013, this year's event will cover two days -- Friday and Saturday at, don't forget, Bartle Hall.
Downtown parking will be a consideration, of course, and Cook points out there are many parking options close to the KC Convention Center. The cost of parking varies according to location and operators reserve the right to change rates for specific events.
For specific directions, the Royals have made available a parking map button on the web site FAQ.
The biggest draw for the FanFest, of course, is the opportunity for fans to feast their eyes on many of the Royals' current players. At last count, nearly 25 players on the 2014 roster were planning to attend. For an up-to-date list this week, click here.
At various times, autograph stages will be set up around the convention center.
In a special event at 1:30 p.m. CT on Saturday at the main stage, the Royals Player of the Year, Eric Hosmer, and Pitcher of the Year, Greg Holland, will be in the spotlight. The Special Achievement Award winner, James Shields, will be recognized in absentia. Shields is scheduled to be at FanFest on Friday but has to be in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Saturday night to be honored by the Ted Williams Museum.
Many Royals alumni are also scheduled to participate, along with general manager Dayton Moore and manager Ned Yost.
There will be interactive games for all ages, from pitching to hitting to stealing bases.
The new Royals Authentics store at Kauffman Stadium will be combined with the Royals Majestic Team Store to sell merchandise at the event.
The hours for all fans on Friday will be from 2 to 9 p.m. CT, and on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
There is also exclusive access both days for season-ticket holders, from noon to 2 p.m. on Friday, and from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Ticket prices for one day are: Adult advance, $13; adult day of sale, $15; youth advance, $7; youth day of sale, $9. Prices for two days are: Adult advance, $19; adult day of sale, $23; youth advance, $10; youth day of sale, $13. (Youth prices are for children 6-17. Children 5 and under will be admitted free.)
Fans can obtain FanFest tickets at royals.com/fanfest, by calling 816-504-4040 or by visiting the Kauffman Stadium Box Office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Thursday. Then sales shift to the Convention Center.
Select proceeds from the FanFest are used to support Royals Charities which will hold silent auctions of memorabilia in conjunction with the MLB Players Alumni Association. In addition, a FanFest version of the 50/50 Raffle will be held to benefit Royals Charities.


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Do you think things would have played out differently for Sylvan and Claudie had they been men?
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I kept wondering about this as I read the book. Would the opportunities for Sylvan and Claudie been more varied and diverse? Would they have been able to make their own lives -- especially Sylvan? To her credit, Claudie does manage pretty well without a man but I think she might have had more choices even if she were a black man than a black woman.
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I don't think so. They are from different worlds, different walks of life which made a big difference in Brownsburg. One of them was an employer and had money, and the other one was an employee and did not have money. They needed each other in a sense, but they were both loners by nature.
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That's certainly true, Terri! yet a part of me wonders what would have happened to Sylvan if she had been born a man? Would she have been "sold off" as a liability? Would her life be so controlled and manipulated? Even in a small town like Brownsburg, I think she would have had more opportunities to break free as it were, if she had been a man. Claudie's situation is complicated by race. I am not sure she would have had that many more opportunities as a black man than as a black woman. In fact, I suspect she probably "got away" with more precisely because she was a black woman. Did anybody else think so?
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Jerry Reinsdorf: "Yeah, it was a tough call because we've really taken a chance and stuck our necks out. If this team bombs and we draw 2.2 million people next year, we are going to lose a lot of money. So, we are betting that we are going to be good."
more Reinsdorf: "Last year was a difficult year. We weren't as good as we thought we could be. Our attendance (2.2 million) was down. Financially, it came out OK. Thinking about this year, we had to make a decision for the long term: Were we better off to try to get better, or were we better off to use this as a rebuilding year? That's the thing that took us a long time to make up our minds."
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Around 50,000 delegates from around the world are attending the UN's biggest meeting ever in Rio. The aim of the Rio +20 Sustainability Summit is to lift billions of the world's poorest people out of poverty without exhausting the planet's resources. But economic woes are keeping expectations low.
Dr Aimé Nianogo, Director of IUCN's Regional Office for West and Central Africa (Programme Afrique Centrale et Occidentale), has been following the negotiations, particularly focusing on the government delegations from his region .
As we enter the "big three days" from tomorrow, with more than a hundred government leaders due to arrive, it seems that the mood amongst delegates from West and Central Africa is becoming impatient.
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Ankleshwar is a city in the Bharuch district of Gujarat. It is 10 km from Bharuch. It is known for its industrial township called GIDC. It has also held an office of ONGC – Oil and Natural gas Corporation Limited. The city has over 1000chemical plants that produce pesticides, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and paints. It has a population of over 80,000 with a very high literacy rate both among men and women.
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NavratriMahotsav, International Kite festival on 14th January, Holi, Diwali, BhadraPurnima Fair during August and September, ShamlajiMelo during November, VathnaMela in November and TrineteshwarMahadev Fair during September.
Guajarati is the primary language spoken. However, English and Hindi are understood.
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Kids' favourite The Beano is getting a revamp. The DC Thompson-published comic has had its print edition redesigned and has launched a brand-new website they're calling the 'Ultimate Feed of Awesome'.
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JDO defines ways of querying objects persisted into the datastore. It provides its own object-based query language (JDOQL). JDOQL is designed as the Java developers way of having the power of SQL queries, yet retaining the Java object relationship that exist in their application model. A typical JDOQL query may be created in several ways. Here's an example expressed in the 3 supported ways
Single-String JDOQL : Query q = pm.newQuery( "SELECT FROM mydomain.Person WHERE lastName == \"Jones\" && " + "age < age_limit PARAMETERS int age_limit"); List<Person> results = (List<Person>)q.execute(20); Declarative JDOQL : Query q = pm.newQuery(Person.class); q.setFilter("lastName == \"Jones\" && age < age_limit"); q.declareParameters("int age_limit"); List<Person> results = (List<Person>)q.execute(20); Typesafe JDOQL (DataNucleus) : TypesafeQuery<Person> tq = pm.newTypesafeQuery(Person.class); QPerson cand = QPerson.candidate(); List<Person> results = tq.filter(cand.lastName.eq("Jones").and(cand.age.lt(tq.intParameter("age_limit")))) .setParameter("age_limit", "20").executeList();
So here in our example we select all "Person" objects with surname of "Jones" and where the persons age is below 20. The language is intuitive for Java developers, and is intended as their interface to accessing the persisted data model. As can be seen above, the query is made up of distinct parts. The class being selected (the SELECT clause in SQL), the filter (which equates to the WHERE clause in SQL), together with any sorting (the ORDER BY clause in SQL), etc.
In JDOQL you access fields/properties in the query by referring to the field/bean name. For example, if you are querying a class called Product and it has a field "price", then you access it like this
Query query = pm.newQuery(Product.class); query.setFilter("price < 150.0");
In addition to the persistent fields, you can also access "public static final" fields of any class. You can do this as follows
Query query = pm.newQuery(Product.class, "taxPercent < mydomain.Product.TAX_BAND_A");
So this will find all products that include a tax percentage less than some "BAND A" level. Where you are using "public static final" fields you can either fully-qualify the class name or you can include it in the "imports" section of the query (see later).
JDOQL supports the following literals: IntegerLiteral, FloatingPointLiteral, BooleanLiteral, CharacterLiteral, StringLiteral, and NullLiteral.
The following list describes the operator precedence in JDOQL.
The concatenation operator(+) concatenates a String to either another String or Number. Concatenations of String or Numbers to null results in null.
JDOQL allows control over whether objects found by a query are locked during that transaction so that other transactions can't update them in the meantime. To do this you would do
Query q = pm.newQuery(...); q.setSerializeRead(true);
You can also specify this for all queries for all PMs using a PMF property datanucleus.SerializeRead . In addition you can perform this on a per-transaction basis by doing
If the datastore in use doesn't support locking of objects then this will do nothing
In some situations you may have a map of parameters keyed by their name, yet the query in question doesn't need all parameters. Normal JDO execution would throw an exception here since they are inconsistent with the query. You can omit this check by setting
q.addExtension("datanucleus.query.ignoreParameterCountCheck", "true");
JDOQL allows the Java keyword instanceof so you can compare objects against a class.
Let's take an example. We have a class A that has a field "b" of type B and B has subclasses B1, B2, B3. Clearly the field "b" of A can be of type B, B1, B2, B3 etc, and we want to find all objects of type A that have the field "b" that is of type B2. We do it like this
Declarative JDOQL : Query query = pm.newQuery(A.class); query.setFilter("b instanceof mydomain.B2"); List results = (List)query.execute(); Single-String JDOQL : Query query = pm.newQuery("SELECT FROM mydomain.A WHERE b instanceof mydomain.B2"); List results = (List)query.execute();
If you want to delete instances of a candidate using a query, you simply define the query candidate/filter in the normal way, and then instead of calling query.execute() you call query.deletePersistentAll() . Like this
Query query = pm.newQuery("SELECT FROM mydomain.A WHERE this.value < 50"); Long number = (Long)query.deletePersistentAll();
The value returned is the number of instances that were deleted. Note that this will perform any cascade deletes that are defined for these instances. In addition, all instances in memory will reflect this deletion.
DataNucleus provides an extension to allow bulk deletion. This differs from the "Deletion by Query" above in that it simply goes straight to the datastore and performs a bulk delete, leaving it to the datastore referential integrity to handle relationships. To enable "bulk delete" you need the persistence property datanucleus.query.jdoql.allowAll set to true . You then perform "bulk delete" like this
Query query = pm.newQuery("DELETE FROM mydomain.A WHERE this.value < 50"); Long number = (Long)query.execute();
Again, the number returned is the number of records deleted.
DataNucleus provides an extension to allow bulk update. This allows you to do bulk updates direct to the datastore without having to load objects into memory etc. To enable "bulk update" you need the persistence property datanucleus.query.jdoql.allowAll set to true . You then perform "bulk update" like this
Query query = pm.newQuery("UPDATE mydomain.A SET this.value=this.value-5.0 WHERE this.value > 100"); Long number = (Long)query.execute();
Again, the number returned is the number of records updated.


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Monday was the first day since 1986 that the stock of Silicon Graphics Inc., better known as SGI, has not been traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Its recent delisting is just the latest chapter of a long, painful story that analysts say is loaded with lessons for other companies. However, company executives say SGI's customer base remains loyal and its technology base is strong enough to sustain it, albeit in narrow vertical markets.


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COLUMBUS – Will Bruin scored the first Houston goal and assisted on the 81st minute-equalizer by Brian Ching to counter a pair of goals by Eddie Gaven as the Dynamo tied the Crew 2-2 at Crew Stadium on Saturday.
The Dynamo survived a late onslaught to move to 2-1-2 with two games remaining on their season-opening road swing before christening BBVA Compass Stadium on May 12 vs. D.C. United.
Columbus (2-3-1) ended a two-game losing streak but could not secure the three points, despite a thundering blast from Gaven in the 74th minute that looked like it would stand up as an emphatic game-winner.
Instead the last laugh went to Bruin and Ching, who hooked up in the waning minutes to give the Dynamo their second consecutive draw.
The Crew, however, nearly salvaged the win in the 89th minute, but Houston goalkeeper Tally Hall made two point-blank saves on striker Olman Vargas before defender Andre Hainault cleared an attempt off the goal line by Aaron Schonfeld.
After a sleepy first half, Bruin started the scoring in the 58th minute. After Crew goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum tipped a shot from Ching over the bar to set up a corner kick, Bruin nodded home Adam Moffat's in-swinging ball with the back of his head for his second goal in as many games.
The Crew tied the score four minutes later on a strange sequence that began with a goal kick from Gruenebaum to Milovan Mirosevic for a flick that Hainault knocked back to teammate Geoff Cameron. He pushed the ball back to Hall, who tried to clear it with his head but instead put the ball to Gaven.
Gaven hit a soft shot toward goal that Hainault got a foot to as he tried to steer it away from the Crew's Emilio Rentería, but the scrappy goal was good enough to pull the Crew even.
Gaven's second goal was easily the finish of the night, and helped the Crew star break out of an early-season scoring drought. Second-half substitute Schonfeld chested a ball down just outside the box to an onrushing Gaven, who one-timed a left-footed shot past a helpless Hall and into the back of the net.
But then came another moment to shine for Bruin, who found space on the right side of the box and placed a perfect pass between Crew defenders Chad Marshall and Sebastian Miranda that enabled Ching to run onto the ball for the redirect. The goal was the first of the season for veteran striker.
Houston welcomed back Moffat [the former Crew midfielder] from a one-game suspension for a reckless challenge March 23 against Seattle, but Brad Davis missed his second straight game because of a left calf strain. Midfielder Colin Clark missed the game while he served the second of a three-game suspension.
Houston return to action at D.C. United on April 28, while the Crew host Vancouver the same day.
Houston Dynamo (2-1-2) vs. Columbus Crew (2-3-1)
April 21, 2012 – Crew Stadium, Columbus, Ohio - Attendance: 10,479
Scoring Summary:
HOU - Will Bruin 2 (Adam Moffat) 59
CLB – Eddie Gaven 1 (63)
CLB – Eddie Gaven 2 (Aaron Schoenfeld, Nemanja Vukovic) 74
HOU – Brian Ching 1 (Will Bruin) 81
Houston Dynamo – Tally Hall; Andre Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Geoff Cameron, Jermaine Taylor; Je-Vaughn Watson (Calen Carr 79), Adam Moffat, Luiz Camargo, Corey Ashe (Macoumba Kandji 89); Brian Ching (Cam Weaver 84), Will Bruin
Substitutes not used: Tyler Deric, Nathan Sturgis, Kofi Sarkodie, Alex Dixon
Columbus Crew – Andy Gruenebaum; Sebastian Miranda, Josh Williams, Chad Marshall, Nemanja Vukovic (Shaun Francis 83); Tony Tchani (Ethan Finlay 72), Danny O'Rourke, Milovan Mirosevic, Eddie Gaven; Emilio Renteria (Aaron Schoenfeld 67), Olman Vargas
Substitutes not used: Matt Lampson, Cole Grossman, Eric Gehrig, Kirk Urso
Misconduct Summary CLB – Tony Tchani (caution) 17, HOU – Andre Hainault (caution) 55
Referee: Chris Penso
Assistants: Jeff Muschik, Frank Anderson
Fourth official: Fotis Bazakos


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What is Erythema Multiforme?
What causes Erythema Multiforme?
Who gets Erythema Multiforme?
How does the herpes simplex virus cause disease?
What are the common findings?
How is Erythema Multiforme diagnosed?
How is Erythema Multiforme treated?
What are the complications?
How can Erythema Multiforme be prevented?
What research is being done?
by William L. Weston, M.D.
Professor of Dermatology
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Erythema Multiforme is an uncommon, self-limited symmetrical skin rash with target lesions that begins abruptly and heals in 7 to 14 days.
For most people, a herpes simplex virus infection causes Erythema Multiforme, such as an infection of the lip (i.e., a cold sore). Occasionally, Erythema Multiforme is caused by a herpes simplex virus infection of the genitals. Rarely, other viruses will cause it.
Erythema Multiforme most commonly occurs in adolescents and, sometimes, in school age children.
After growing at the site of a cold sore, the herpes simplex virus will travel through the bloodstream to the skin and then grow in the skin cells. The target lesions associated with Erythema Multiforme are the body's attempt to eliminate the virus. People who are especially susceptible to the herpes simplex virus have difficulty clearing it from their skin.
The target lesion on the skin is the most common manifestation of Erythema Multiforme. Each target lesion has at least two zones of color change that resemble an archery target. The center of the target lesion always has some skin damage, such as a scab or a blister.
A herpes simplex virus infection on the lip (i.e., a cold sore) often precedes the appearance of the target lesion(s) by one to seven days. Sometimes, though, the preceding herpes simplex virus infection does not cause cold sores, and it is called a "subclinical infection." Erythema Multiforme recurs in most people, but not necessarily after each cold sore.
Most physicians diagnose Erythema Multiforme from the target lesions on the skin. However, Erythema Multiforme is frequently overdiagnosed, as large hives are often confused for it. Large hives have normal skin in the center; Erythema Multiforme has damaged skin in the center. Large hives often are accompanied by swelling of the hands and feet; but, Erythema Multiforme is not accompanied by such swelling. Large hives will clear up with antihistamines; but, Erythema Multiforme will not clear up with such treatment.
There is not an effective treatment at the time of the attack of Erythema Multiforme. If individuals experience an attack of Erythema Multiforme every three months or less, a preventative treatment with an oral antiherpes virus agent, such as Zovirax, Valvir, or Famvir, is effective.
If untreated, the target lesions on the skin will heal within two weeks. Steroid treatments may prolong an attack of Erythema Multiforme. Healing usually occurs without scarring of the skin.
Prevention of those factors that precipitate cold sores can be helpful. For example, sunscreen use is beneficial because sun exposure may activate the herpes simplex virus that causes Erythema Multiforme.
Studies are currently being conducted to examine how the body eliminates the herpes simplex virus. These studies will aid in understanding why individuals who are susceptible to the herpes simplex virus cannot effectively eliminate it despite immune responses that are normal.
About the Author
Dr. Weston is a Professor of Pediatrics and Dermatology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Chair of the Department of Dermatology. His scientific and clinical interests include Cutaneous immunology, Cutaneous virology, and Pediatric Dermatology.
Dr. Weston is the primary author of the Color Textbook of Pediatric Dermatology (Weston, Lane, Morelli; Mosby, Inc.) which is used by clinicians worldwide and is published in 4 languages.
He created the Genetic Skin Disorders clinic at the University of Colorado in 1998.
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Tooling Article
Robotics Boost Welding Productivity
Among the stamped, welded and assembled components manufactured at Pioneer Tool & Die, a privately-held stamping facility in Akron, OH, are air-ride suspensions. Owner and CEO Walter Remen understands well that the company's future relies on investigating new technologies to keep production in step with customer demands. Fitting the bill: robotic arc welding.
To exceed cycle-time targets, Lincoln worked with Pioneer Tool & Die to enhance the standard System 20 with a Power Wave 455M power source, paired with a Power Feed 10R wire drive. Also included is extra input/output capacity to handle the Pioneer-designed automated clamping setups.
Designed for small to medium-sized parts, the standard System 20 features a Fanuc servo-drive 58-in. two sided turntable positioner. Each work zone can handle weldments weighing as much as 600 lb.; the turntable can index in 2 sec.
Pulsed-Arc Welding
For its System 20 cell, the Pioneer Tool & Die engineering team worked with Lincoln Electric to settle on pulsed gas-metal-arc welding (GMAW-P) as the process of choice. The use of Lincoln's RapidArc pulsed mode of weldmetal transfer, notes the engineering team, helps to minimize spatter and improve cycle times for completed parts.
The RapidArc program, compared to traditional pulsed-wave shapes, delivers a very tight arc length, say Lincoln officials, as well as higher travel speeds and a lower heat input. The program features a short-circuit response, which occurs with a high travel speed and tight arc length.
Selection of the most appropriate RapidArc program depends on the welding wire required for the task at hand at Pioneer. The firm uses wire diameters of 0.045 and 0.052 in. to meet all of its robotic and hard-automation requirements. The wire of choice: Lincoln Electric SuperArc L-59 (AWS ER70S-6) packaged in 500-lb. Accu-Pak boxes. The faces of the required fillet welds are consistently flat to slightly convex, with repeatable weld penetration and sidewall fusion.
A key to decreasing cycle times is the use of Lincoln Electric's Fast Start feature, a welding program that turns on the power source and locates the exact point of the start of the weld before there is contact with the part. This feature alone has accounted for a 6-sec. reduction in cycle time for Pioneer's welded assemblies.
Results of the use of the RapidArc program, according to the Pioneer team: an increase in productivity on the robotic System 20 by as much as 50 percent over previous welding operations.
Hard Automation
The successful use of the RapidArc process with its robotic-welding cell led the Pioneer team to try the process on one of its 10 dual-torch hard-automated welding systems. Known at Pioneer Tool & Die as box-welder systems, these setups use two welding arcs to fabricate the cylindrically shaped pistons used in air-ride suspension assemblies. The finished welds typically are circumferential and simultaneously deposited in the 2F horizontal position.
Using the RapidArc program on the box-welder system resulted in a 30-percent decrease in arc time, significantly reduced spatter and decreased distortion, reports the Pioneer engineering team. The flexibility of the GMAW-P process and the hard-automation box-welder systems is demonstrated in one particular station where welding occurs simultaneously with one torch in the 2F horizontal welding position and the other torch positioned 180 deg. a and in the 4F overhead welding position.
Faster Switching
The latest box-welder system outfitted with the RapidArc process uses Lincoln Electric's new Power Wave S350, a multiprocess, compact, inverter-based power source that operates at 120 kHz, reportedly making it the fastest-switching welding inverter power source available. Among its features is use of PowerConnect technology that allows the unit to automatically adjust to input power from 200 to 600V, 50 or 60 Hz, single or three phase.Also new to the box-welder setup is Pioneer's first use of a human-machine interface (HMI) controller for programming the motion of the servo-driven turntable and for welding-arc initiation. MF
Information provided by the Lincoln Electric Automation Division, Cleveland, OH: 216/481-8100; www.lincolnelectric.com.
See also: Lincoln Electric Co.
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Today's Speak-Up on Kotaku comes courtesy of revered commenter JesusChrist, who believes the "more upcoming exclusives" argument to determine which is the superior console is not a valid one . Let us pray.
Why do people need to use the "more upcoming exclusives" argument when debating why their console is better? Have we forgotten that it's all about personal choice? While a bigger amount of upcoming exclusives IS a nice incentive for somebody brand new to gaming, for the rest of us who have gamed for years it shouldn't even be considered an attack on another console.
Let's put it this way. The grand majority of releases are multiplatform. And a lot of the times, a multiplatform game ends up being the really successful one. We're far enough into our gaming lives that we have already chosen our favorite exclusives, so why switch to the other console if the other console won't give me the option of playing my favorite exclusive?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that yes. The PS3 has a great upcoming selection of exclusives that puts the 360 to shame in the ratio alone. But why would I switch, when if I did I would no longer be able to play Halo or Gears of War? Hell, even Alan Wake got some Jesus lovin'.
And no I'm not saying that the above mentioned games are the best of the best and put everything else to shame, I'm just saying that for the same reason I keep buying Nintendo consoles SOLELY to play with the same characters over and over again due to love for them I'm not even considering switching my 360 due to my love for these games. And nobody else should ever consider exclusive amounts for a reason why a console is better, if that one special game you love is in your current one.
Now own all current consoles, and problem solved. You won't miss any great games.
I guess that what I'm trying to say is..... I'm better than you. I deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. Nya nya nya nya nya nya.
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Glyphosate-resistant waterhemp wrestled its way into Pat and Karl Duncanson's fields several years ago, defying their best efforts to keep the weed at bay.
"For us, the aha moment was last year in soybeans when we saw all the classic signs of weed resistance," Pat says.
The south-central Minnesota farmers are eager to try the new Enlist Weed Control System, featuring Enlist Duo herbicide, to whip resistant waterhemp and other weeds. But an announcement from Dow AgroSciences today indicates that they and other U.S. farmers will have to wait until 2014 to use the system in their fields.
Damon Palmer, U.S. commercial leader for the Enlist System, says the decision to modify launch plans is due to slower-than-anticipated regulatory processes.
"Regulatory approvals proceed at their own pace, and we're at a point now where farmers need certainty as they make planting decisions," Palmer says.
"We're continuing all of our launch activities for 2013. We're committed to delivering Enlist to the farm gate," Palmer adds, noting the company expects full regulatory approval within the next several months.
Duncanson says he is anxious to have a new herbicide tool available so he can rotate away from the products he currently uses for weed control.
"I want to preserve all of these products for years to come, and having Enlist available will allow us to do that," says Duncanson, who farms near Mapleton, Minn.
Duncanson now anticipates using an available preemergence herbicide with residual for early season weed control in soybeans. Plus, because waterhemp flushes multiple times during the growing season, he anticipates making at least one post-emergence herbicide application as well.
"Most of the conventional products will not give us the kind of control we had been accustomed to. They just aren't quite as effective as the older history of Roundup was or what the promise of Enlist sounds like it will be for us," Duncanson says.
Palmer says a broad range of field experience plots and on-farm technical plots have been planned for farmers to tour and review this summer.
Some highlights of what Dow AgroSciences has planned for 2013 include:
Newly created Dow AgroSciences Technology Centers planned to showcase Enlist system, Enlist 360 learning series
Five technology centers dedicated to Enlist and the Enlist 360 learning series are planned for the Midwest and the South. Growers, retailers and seed sellers can take part in interactive, field-based training designed to familiarize them with all aspects of the Enlist technology, from product performance to application and best management practices.
Local and on-farm experience plots to offer learning exchange for Dow, farmers and retailers
Dow AgroSciences intends to offer more than 100 small Enlist plots at seed company and retailer locations across the Corn Belt. Additionally, plans are underway to allow evaluation of the Enlist system on-farm, providing farmers an opportunity to manage the technology and observe control of tough weed species on their farm.
Increases in seed production and chemistry supply in anticipation of approvals will help meet high demand
Dow AgroSciences plans to ramp up seed production and its supply of Enlist Duo herbicide with Colex-D Technology to support the anticipated launch. The company expects all approvals will be in place for sale in late 2013 and will be ready for a robust ramp-up of Enlist corn in a broad geography and hybrid portfolio for 2014.
Meanwhile, new research presented by university researchers and Dow AgroSciences at the North Central Weed Science Society annual meeting in December 2012 and at other academic meetings continues to affirm the technical strength and field performance of Enlist.
"We have conducted field research trials over the past several years evaluating the Enlist Weed Control System concepts on our most problematic weed species such as glyphosate-resistant waterhemp and horseweed (also known as marestail)," says Bryan Young, weed scientist at Southern Illinois University. "The approach of combining multiple herbicide modes of action, a sound residual herbicide at planting, and effective herbicide mixtures for in-season postemergence applications has proven to be quite effective."
Respected regulatory agencies outside of the U.S., including Canada and Japan, have made regulatory decisions in support of the Enlist technology.
"Dow AgroSciences stands ready to help farmers meet the weed control challenges they're facing," Palmer says. "We are committed to introducing this technology responsibly and sustaining it for the long term."
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maxmax had een nieuw logo ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit44 ontwerpen ingezonden door26 freelance designers.
We run a small Belgian one-page portal for the travel industry : http://www.lastminutespotter.be and are looking for a new logo and corporate identity. A new website will be developed (background color of the new website is not determined yet, so you must not keep the red background).
Elke week nieuwe aanbiedingen
Desired Color Scheme:
We rely on your good taste
Accepted File Formats:
jpg/gif, psd, illustrator files, png
Our business : Every week we publish a list of lastminute deals from different travelagents. Those offers are handpicked and re-written so our readers get the finest deals. We offer city breaks, resorts and hotels, ski weekends, vacation homes, airline tickets, ... Our website does not sell holidays itself. We only link to the websites of our partner travelagents where customers can book their stay. In fact, we "spot" the best deals for our readers.
Take a look at http://www.lastminutespotter.be
Our website is called : "LastminuteSpotter.be" (we like the capital letters L and S).
Tagline : "Elke week nieuwe aanbiedingen" (which is Dutch for "New offers every week").
The work must be all 100% original, and I will want a full transfer of all Intellectual Property rights with payment. Winner can use the work in his/her portfolio.
I'll give feedback as often as possible. I reserve the right not to pick a winner if no designs meet the description.
Thank you,
Bekijk hoe een ontwerpwedstrijd werkt of leer meer over logo ontwerpdiensten.


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On the first day of spring, the Air Canada Centre had a definite playoff dance feel to it.
And the home side Maple Leafs just might be invited to the real thing in three weeks, not merely wildcard wallflowers, but in the thick of frantic Atlantic's battle for third spot.
The optimism sprouted from a 4-2 over the Boston Bruins on Monday, closing the gap to one point between the teams, the second night the Leafs have banked something from a tight game against a team ahead in the standings and for the sixth time the past seven nights, Frederik Andersen has been productive in goal. Unlike Saturday against Chicago, the Leafs' 15th overtime loss, they broke a 1-1 tie and got the whole enchalada in regulation.
"A great way to come out in the third period and take it to them," Andersen said. "We keep playing to the end and get (the go-ahead goal) with two minutes left (a Tyler Bozak power play).
"We haven't really had it go our way when it gets down to those last minutes and overtime. It definitely feels good to be on the winning side, especially against a big team like this in a big game. We were on the right side of a four-point swing and now we have a chance of catching them. We'll see, there's a lot of hockey to be played."
Eleven games to be exact, with a day off before facing another tough test in Columbus. But in terms of a late season education, the past month has been invaluable for a young Leafs' team.
"We've done a really good job this year, finding ways to get points and grinding," head coach Mike Babcock said. "Sometimes we don't get the two we want, but we found a way to get points against a good team with really high-end players with good experience who can hurt you and have been in a lot of these situations. We haven't been in many and we did a good job."
After Bozak put them ahead with 1:57 to play, William Nylander and Nazem Kadri added empty netters. Dominic Moore, in the box when Bozak scored, added a late goal. The Leafs cleared 80 points for the first time in three years and now lead the New York Islanders by three points in the wildcard race.
Andersen was once more heavily involved, with his fourth straight win against Boston this season to complete the first Toronto sweep of the Bs since the teams were reunited in the same division in 1998. He stopped 31 shots to improve to 8-0 versus the Bs in his career.
"Hands down, Freddy's been the catalyst for us from Day One," Kadri said. "In order for us to make this push, we'll need him to stay strong and he's done nothing but that for us."
"This was massive, especially to do it in the fashion that we did. They played a pretty solid road game and had the penalty at the end. That's a little bit deflating for them. But that's how it's going to go the last 11 games. One or two mistakes could cost you the game, so you won't see too much open ice. When you get the chance, you have to capitalize. That's what good teams do."
Toronto survived the Bruins' best efforts at forechecking, transition and another 11 wins by Patrice Bergeron in the circle in the first 13 draws he took over 40 minutes.
Tuukka Rask, 15-4-2 against the Leafs coming in, was also equal to the task when the Leafs made things happen with their own cycle, speed, shot blocks and active sticks. He made an amazing save on Bozak just before the late goal and stopped a flurry before Morgan Rielly tied it 1-1 during 4-on-4 play early on.
The Leafs' constant vow to 'start on time' and not have to rely so much on Andersen faced an immediate challenge when the clock refused to run at the opening face-off and was stuck at 20:00 and acted up throughout the first two periods before it was finally shut down and re-started for the third.
"It was actually a lot of fun," Andersen said. "You don't think about the time, you just play. It's like when you're a kid, you just play until it gets dark and waiting for the (street) lights to come on."
"Thankfully there weren't any dangerous plays with guys playing past the buzzer," observed winger James van Riemsdyk, who matched his career high of 31 assists during the game..
After a somewhat tentative start by both teams, old Leaf – Bruin nastiness began to build. Brad Marchand showed why he's fighting for the Art Ross Trophy, getting his 80th point with a nice spin move in the Leaf zone to create space. That allowed David Backes a short side goal past two screening defencemen.
On the Leafs' goal, no Bruin picked up Rielly lurking in from the blue line. Mitch Marner found him and though Rielly seemed to lose the puck in mid deke, it still squirted through Rask for his sixth goal. For Marner it was his 39th assist, one behind Gus Bodnar's rookie record from 1943-44.
Nikita Zaitsev fell into the Marchand shift disturber trap after a couple of exchanges with the super pest, flattening him after a whistle. Even Leo Komarov, who specializes in such skullduggery for the Leafs, was antagonized by Marchand at times. Soshnikov was trying to do the same, though the littlest Leaf was squashed a couple of times by the by 6-foot-9 Zdeno Chara.
Toronto has a day off before back to back home games against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday and the New Jersey Devils on Thursday.


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Nearly seven months ago, CPJ published its first in-depth report on press freedom in the United States, concluding that the Obama administration's aggressive prosecution of leakers of classified information, broad surveillance programs, and moves to stem the routine disclosure of information to the press meant that the president had fallen far short of his campaign promise to have the most open government in U.S. history. What's changed since? A quick survey of recent events suggests not much.
That is not to say that things have been dull. National security reporters have likely been as under-slept in recent months as they were in the initial period after the Edward Snowden revelations came to light in June 2013. Media outlets around the world have continued to publish a stream of scoops based on the leaked documents. The public, Congress, and the Obama administration have maintained an impassioned debate on the balance between privacy and security. Despite CPJ's efforts to engage the administration on some of these issues, the only response received so far was a White House spokesman's statement to Politico that "from the day he took office, the President committed his Administration to work towards unprecedented openness in government." Two months later, however, in light of mounting criticism from the White House press corps on restrictions to covering official activities, press secretary Jay Carney told reporters, "We're going to work on finding ways to be responsive and provide more access."
Yet the events of the last few weeks illustrate how, despite pledged reforms to surveillance policies, the administration's professed desire to be more transparent on national security-related issues remains mostly unrealized. On April 21, Steven Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, published a blog post pointing to a previously unnoticed intelligence directive signed in late March. The directive, signed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, bars any communication between intelligence community officials and a member of the media without express permission. The prohibition extends to all "intelligence-related information, including intelligence sources, methods, activities, and judgments," and makes no distinction between classified and unclassified information.
Shawn Turner, Clapper's spokesman, told the Guardian that the directive "merely consolidates at a higher level existing policies within the various intelligence agencies." Indeed, the policy comes as no surprise in light of revelations last year by the McClatchy newspapers' Washington bureau of the Insider Threat Program, which requires all federal employees to help prevent unauthorized disclosures of information by monitoring the behavior of their colleagues. Yet, as Aftergood writes, "There is no particular reason to think that routine interactions between intelligence agency employees and reporters--especially on unclassified matters--pose any kind of threat to national security, or that limiting them will offer any benefit. However, the new policy is likely to be effective in reducing the quality, independence, and critical content of intelligence-related information that is available to the press and the public."
Journalists covering the 9/11 military tribunals and detention center at Guantánamo Bay have long faced the restrictions and challenges of trying to report on highly sensitive cases. Limitations have included a prohibition on cameras in the courtroom, a 40-second delay in hearing trial testimony, and recently, a ban on publishing the daily tally of detainees on hunger strike, according to news reports. Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg, who has closely covered the prosecutions, writes that what has always been a tightly controlled process has recently become even more restricted. In a video published in late April, a team of Herald journalists reported a series of new, inscrutable rules forbidding the filming of seemingly innocuous scenes like the ferry crossing to the naval base and a PowerPoint presentation given by public affairs officers (though audio was allowed). The resulting report is an almost surreal, absurdist montage of giant lizards, truncated soldier torsos, and disjoined marching feet--with very little information about conditions at the detention center. The reporters were particularly frustrated when a Google image search later unearthed far more identifiable images of soldiers at the base, publicly displayed on official websites, than they had been allowed to film.
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But one long-fought battle on transparency was won by journalists when a federal appeals court ruled on April 21 that the government must comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request brought by two New York Times' reporters and the American Civil Liberties Union. Reversing an earlier decision, the court ordered the release of parts of a classified Justice Department memorandum that provided the administration's legal justification for using drone strikes to kill U.S. citizens. The message to the administration was significant, Amy Davidson wrote in the New Yorker, in that it signaled "the government gets to have secrets, but it doesn't get to have secret laws."
The government's reluctance to publish the memo was in line with the administration's general attitude to FOIA requests, as revealed by an Associated Press study in March that found the government refused more requests in 2013 than in previous years. The aversion to releasing information was shared across agencies, but national security in particular was cited to "withhold information a record 8,496 times--a 57 percent increase over a year earlier and more than double Obama's first year." If the government does decide to disclose information it is relentless in its efforts to control the message. When F.D.A officials gave journalists an advance outline of new agency guidelines last month, the scoop came with a caveat forbidding reporters from seeking comment from outside sources about the material before the public release, ensuring that the first round of coverage would only report the official narrative.
In a climate where government agencies are hardly forthcoming, it is not surprising that journalists depend on whistleblowers and leakers for sensitive information. Yet in the past six months, the administration has sentenced another leaker to jail (13 months) under the Espionage Act and has refused to withdraw its subpoena seeking to compel New York Times journalist James Risen to testify about his source in a separate leak case. On April 25, the DOJ filed a brief urging the Supreme Court not to accept Risen's appeal and argued against the concept of a reporter's privilege to protect his or her sources. The 1972 Supreme Court decision in Branzburg v. Hayes (once described by a Federal Appeals Court judge as "clear as mud"), in the department's view, "left no doubt that it rejected any first Amendment claim in the criminal context in order to ensure that society's interest in law enforcement could be vindicated...Nothing has changed since Branzburg that would justify revising the longstanding common-law rule that reporters have no privilege to refuse to provide direct evidence of criminal wrongdoing by confidential sources." The DOJ referenced its recent revision of department guidelines on issuing subpoenas to the press and legislative efforts to enshrine the reporter's privilege, but noted the "uniquely federal interest in preventing the unlawful disclosure of classified national-defense information," Politico reported. At a conference at The New York Times in March, Sen. Chuck Schumer asserted that Risen would benefit if a proposed federal shield law were to be passed, as it would allow him to have his day before a judge who would evaluate the necessity of his testimony, while the government would have to prove that the leak had caused "future harm." But many journalists at the same conference questioned whether a law with an exemption for national security would ever truly benefit them. In the meantime, Risen's fate continues to hang in the balance.
Despite the risks to Risen, the government appears to be upholding, at least for now, Attorney General Holder's lukewarm statement that he would not prosecute the journalists who published the Snowden documents. After much anticipation, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras returned briefly to the U.S. from their self-imposed exiles earlier this month to accept a journalism award without incident. Their arrival came after months of inflammatory statements by senior members of the intelligence community like Clapper, who referred to the journalists as "accomplices," and former NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander, who accused the journalists of "selling" the documents and praised judges in the U.K. who had, in his view, established that "journalists have no standing when it comes to national security issues."
Rather than scapegoating journalists, the greatest hope for the intelligence community to regain the public's trust might be to let in a little sunshine on their own terms. As David Ignatius (a strong defender of the intelligence community), wrote in the Washington Post, "In a world where nothing is reliably secret, which nations will have an advantage? Some might argue it will be the true police states, such as Russia (Snowden's absurd refuge) or China, that will be able to muzzle their populations and protect the crown jewels. But I think the opposite is likely to be true: The beneficiaries in a no-secrets world will be relatively open societies, such as the United States, that are slowly developing a culture of accountability and disclosure for their intelligence agencies, however painful the process may be. The fewer secrets, the less to protect."


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DUBOIS – Victory Media, the premier media entity for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, has named Penn State DuBois to the coveted Military Friendly Schools list.
The 2013 Military Friendly Schools list honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in the country that are doing the most to embrace America's military service members, veterans, and spouses as students and ensure their success on campus. This is the second year in a row that Penn State DuBois has earned a spot on the list.
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