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Pipeline Perspectives: Baez ready to contribute now
Cubs' callup will provide more this season than counterpart, Taveras of the Cards
There's a good amount of subjectivity regarding baseball prospects. With the evaluation of talent being in the eye of the beholder, finding consensus is often difficult. Even Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo of MLBPipeline.com don't always see eye to eye. They discuss their viewpoints regularly in a feature called Pipeline Perspectives. Submit a topic for them to debate.
Perhaps the best part of being someone who writes about prospects is when they make it to the big leagues. There is the inevitable pride one feels when a prospect you touted makes it, and then goes on to live up to his potential.
But it goes beyond that. Sure, not much beats seeing these guys we write and talk so much about succeed. Watching the drama unfold, watching a new career begin, is just as good, even if there isn't immediate success.
It's not often that two top 10-caliber prospects get an opportunity to play every day in the Major Leagues at the same time. Putting two in the same division? Even better.
That's the scenario before us now. The Cardinals' trade of Allen Craig in the John Lackey deal opened the door for Oscar Taveras to play right field every day. This week's news that the Cubs were bringing up Javier Baez brought excitement to Chicago and to prospect fans everywhere. It marks the start of a new era for the Cubs, where all of their greatly hyped prospects will now get chances to show what they can do. The Baez callup means Kris Bryant can't be too far behind, even if it's next year. Newly acquired Addison Russell should be right on their heels as well.
Circle Aug. 29 on your calendar. That's when Taveras and Baez will meet as big leaguers for the first time, in St. Louis. The question before Jim Callis and me this week: Which of these elite-level prospects will produce more the remainder of the season? Jim is going with Taveras and I'm in the Baez corner.
One thing we both agree on is that both will eventually be outstanding, perhaps even superstar Major Leaguers. But this is a discussion about the short-term. We'll leave the long-term talk for another day.
Baez has as much bat speed, if not more, than any prospect in the game and it might be difficult to find any big leaguers with a quicker bat. That generates a ton of raw power (he has a 70 grade on the 20-80 power scale) that's already showing up consistently in games. The former first-round Draft pick hit 37 homers in 2013 and was up to 23 this year after a slow start.
Baez has erased that early slump with authority, hitting .300 with 12 homers since the beginning of July. Yes, he's still swinging and missing a good amount, but his walk rate has gone up considerably, aiding the improvement in his overall numbers. In other words, the Cubs are calling up Baez at the perfect time.
They were preparing for this moment, having the No. 5 overall prospect play second base in games starting in mid-July. Those worried that playing a relatively new position will impact Baez on offense should note that he hit .339/.394/.763 as a second baseman in the Pacific Coast League.
Mr. Callis will try to dazzle you with an argument about how Baez will face more pressure than Taveras since the Cardinals lineup is deeper and his choice is being asked to be a complementary piece. Baez, on the other hand, is leading a wave that's being asked to reverse the Cubs' fortunes and he won't be surrounded by as much in the lineup.
Honestly, I don't think the argument works. No one is asking Baez to single-handedly carry Chicago back into contention right now, a la Roy Hobbs. The Cubs are in last place and all Baez is being asked to do is get his feet wet and use that quick bat against Major League pitching.
Taveras, on the other hand, is in the heat of a playoff race. Yes, there are others in the lineup shouldering the load. But Taveras is being asked to replace a cornerstone of the lineup in Craig, an All-Star just a year ago who hit .375 in the World Series. No, there's no pressure there at all.
I'll give the nod to Taveras as the better pure hitter, and he's starting to show some signs of settling in. But even if his average starts to come up, I don't expect the power to show up consistently just yet.
Meanwhile, Baez may not hit for as high of an average and he'll likely carry the bat back to the dugout somewhat frequently. But that power is going to play right now and even if the K rate makes some cringe, he's going to hit balls out of the park and into the gaps, leading to RBIs aplenty.
Given the short-term nature of this argument, the power and run production between now and the end of September should trump whatever boost in batting average Taveras comes up with.


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We've seen bumble bees, honey bees, sweat bees, wool carder bees and syrphid flies topple into our swimming pool, but never an alfalfa butterfly until now.
This male alfalfa butterfly--the gender identified by noted butterfly expert Art Shapiro, professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis--bumbled into our pool early one morning. Not sure why it fell into the pool. It spiraled over the catmint, fluttered over the pool, and then dropped into the water. Not very gracefully, either.
We netted it and placed it on a flowering artichoke so it could rest a bit and dry its wings.
The alfalfa butterfly, Colias eurytheme (common name "orange sulphur" or "alfalfa butterfly") is a significant pest of alfalfa, Shapiro says on his website, Art's Butterfly World. It "overwinters as a larva almost entirely in annual vetch at low altitudes, and colonizes alfalfa only as the vetch senesces in May-June. Aside from alfalfa and annual vetches, it also breeds on a variety of clovers and sweet clovers and occasionally on lupines."
"An oddity of sulphurs is that their orange and yellow pteridine pigments are water-soluble," Shapiro told us today. "Had it remained in the water long enough, its scales would have been leached to translucency."
And, he pointed out, "Colias that sit out in the alfalfa during overhead irrigation regularly get water-spotted."
This one not only survived but so did its colors.
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Alfalfa butterfly, Colias eurytheme, lands in a swimming pool. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The chicken nugget was created by a food scientist at Cornell University more than 60 years ago.
Since then, the breaded pieces of chicken meat have become a part of nearly every fast-food menu.
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Last couple days I've been talking with a few friends about the heroic or epic feel of the game. This was spurred by the recent Cataclysm class previews. My friend felt that the game was making players too over powered and he feels that what he wants is and I quote
"To have the ever loving shit beaten out of the raid by a boss. Like seriously have Deathwing be so badass he just looks at us and we die."
I replied with a little snark informing him that he could always level to 60 and turn off xp and raid classic content while it still existed, whatever was left of it.
To me the game is taking a logical step in many ways, I mean let's take a look at all the things we've done in the game (and by we I mean as a collective player base).
- Defeated an elemental lord
- Defeated the son and daughter of the aspect of earth and the progenitor of the Black Dragon Flight
- Defeated and old god and his followers
- Defeated troll tribal leaders and their god
- Defeated the Lich Kings floating citadel and his right-hand lich
- Cleansed the home of Medivh
- Defeated a Daemon lord
- Stomped a troll hero into the dirt
- Defeated a power sucking Prince of the blood elves
- Defeated Illidan
- Restored the sunwell while repelling a powerful Eredar
- Trudged through the snow and ice to set fire the the Lich Kings floating citadel AGAIN!
- Killed the aspect of magic
- Beat down ANOTHER god and the servants of titans
- Slapped around the custodian of the titans
- and Dethroned an undead king
So… Yeah. Safe to say we've done a lot right? but if you look at it it's been big bads right? So why shouldn't we feel a little powerful right?
We've all had those moments too, where after a boss goes down or a particularly hard fight is won where you want to stand up and thrust your fists in the air and yell in victory. I know it's just a game, but you can't help but feel accomplished sometimes. For me it's those moments of the harrying first kill. My guild's first Blood Queen (25) kill, there were only two people left standing. Me and the feral druid stood over her corpse amid a sea of raider bodies. It may sound weird but in that moment I felt really good at the kill, being so close to that wipe and trying EVERY trick I had to stay alive / res / keep someone up long enough for the DoTs to tick was heart pounding, and that kill is among the ones I savor the most. I count that as one of my heroic moments in the game, where I felt that this could see this as a scene from a movie or book and wanting to throw my hands up victorious in the air and scream my defiance at this villain that had stood in our way threatening death, and nearly delivering it in full.
In every story I've ever read as the main character got more powerful, so did his enemies. We are about to go up against the corrupted aspect of earth. EARTH. That little thing all of Azeroth is comprised of. Safe to assume he's going to be something of a jerk right? So with all the class changes happening I think it's in good form that we are starting to feel well…. uber. It fits with the progression of the game.
Also consider that encounters are changing. The way we handle fights now is for the most part pretty linear. Don't stand in fire, don't stand in front of the boss, let the tank get aggro etc etc. Even the current mechanics can be boiled down to simplistic measures in many cases. In Cataclysm however the dynamics of each role are changing. The mechanics of each class are changing and this is going to allow developers to make more interesting encounters.
Me, I'm looking forward to Cataclsym and all the changes. I'm looking forward to having to approach different encounters differently. I look forward to feeling like yes I am powerful, but still have a damn good challenge ahead of me. I'm looking for more spells, more encounter mechanics, harder mana regen. I'm looking forward to feeling like the team I belong to earned EVERY kill with sweat blood and perseverance. I don't think we're overpowered, I just think we scale with content!
So how about you? How do you feel about the changes coming? Do you think they are over powered? Do you have a heroic moment to share? A well earned kill?
That's it for today folks, until next time, Happy Healing!


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As it does in the majority of households across the country, roast chicken makes frequent appearances at our dinner table -- it's quick, it's comforting, and leftovers are always welcome. Like many people, I have a default method. Mine involves smearing an herby, garlicky butter under the skin, so it's in direct contact with the meat. Then, I simply truss and roast at high heat for the first twenty minutes, lowering the oven temperature to 350 to finish.
While this process always results in juicy, tender legs, on one more than one occasion it has failed to yield the same results with the white meat, which remains forlornly attached to the bird, rejected until every last scrap of dark meat has been devoured. For some reason, the other week I decided to spend five extra minutes and spatchcock -- or butterfly -- my bird before applying the usual ministrations. A couple of snips with my kitchen shears, and the backbone was no more. Laid flat in the roasting pan, the breast and legs on an even plane, the chicken cooked in record time. When I cut into the breast, I could immediately see that it was juicy and succulent. For the first time in a long time, I chose white meat instead of dark.
Spatchcocked Roast Chicken
Serves 4 to 6
1. In a small bowl, combine the butter, lemon zest, garlic, thyme, mustard, a teaspoon of salt and some pepper. Set aside.
2. Remove the gizzards from the chicken and discard. Pat the chicken dry with paper towels and set it on a cutting board. Flip it onto its breast and using sturdy kitchen shears, remove the backbone by cutting carefully down each side of the bone, starting at the tail end of the bird. The entire inside of the chicken should be exposed when you're finished.
3. Sprinkle the cavity thoroughly with salt and pepper, and then flip the chicken over so that it lies flat. Trim any excess deposits of fat from around the cavity, and gently slide your fingers under the skin and ease it away from the meat, around both sides of the breast and both legs. Carefully smear the compound butter underneath the skin all over the meat, being careful not to break the skin. Reserve about a tablespoon of the butter, and then spread that evenly over the skin, followed by a generous sprinkling of salt and pepper.
4. Lay the chicken in a shallow roasting pan just large enough to accommodate it and put in the refrigerator for an hour or two (this will help the skin crisp more when you cook it).
5. When you're ready to make dinner, heat the oven to 425 degrees and remove the chicken from the fridge. Roast for 20 minutes, then baste and decrease heat to 375. Cook for another 15 to 20 minutes, basting once again in the middle, until cooked. Let the chicken sit for a few minutes before carving; serve with the pan juices and some crusty bread or roasted potatoes for sopping them up.
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A special international regime for nuclear third party liability is necessary since ordinary common law is not well suited to deal with the particular problems in this field. The drafters of the Paris Convention set out to provide adequate compensation to the public for damage resulting from a nuclear accident and to ensure that the growth of the nuclear industry would not be hindered by bearing an intolerable burden of liability.
The Convention establishes a special legal regime founded on a number of important principles:
The Paris Convention provides for compensation for injury to or loss of life of any person, and for damage to, or loss of any property caused by a nuclear accident in a nuclear installation or during the transport of nuclear substances to and from installations. It does not cover damage to the nuclear installation itself.
Nuclear installations are defined as: reactors other than those comprised in any means of transport; factories for the manufacture or processing of nuclear substances, for the enrichment of uranium, and for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel; and facilities for the storage of nuclear substances. Facilities which do not involve high levels of radioactivity, such as those for uranium mining and milling and for the production of radioisotopes, are covered by general tort law rather than the Convention.
The Paris Convention also applies to nuclear substances in transport from one nuclear operator to another. Liability is, in principle, imposed on the operator sending the nuclear substances since it will normally be responsible for its packing and containment. In the case of transport to or from operators in states which are not party to the Convention, special provisions apply to ensure that an operator to which the Convention regime applies will be liable.
The Paris Convention generally applies when an accident causing damage occurs in the territory of a party and damage from this accident is suffered in the territory of a party, including the territorial sea. In 1968, the NEA Steering Committee recommended that the Convention cover nuclear incidents occurring or nuclear damage suffered on the high seas and in 1971, it recommended that the Convention apply to damage suffered in a Paris Convention state even if the nuclear incident occurs in a state not party to the Convention. Many of the Paris Convention states have adopted these recommendations.
The Paris Convention was adopted under the auspices of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and covers most Western European countries. It is open to any OECD country as of right and to any non-member with the consent of the other contracting parties.
The OECD Secretary-General is the depositary for the Paris Convention, which has been amended by Protocols adopted in 1964, 1982 and 2004.
The 2004 Protocol to amend the Paris Convention has not yet entered into force.
*The unit of account used in the Paris Convention is the Special Drawing Right, a unit of account defined by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) based upon a basket of key international currencies. The currency value of the SDR is calculated daily and the valuation basket is reviewed and adjusted every five years.
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Tell us something about yourself (your blog) and your little ones.
I was born to Irish parents in England. Abandoned by my mother and then put into an orphanage and adopted by Americans. I now live in Ireland with my very long suffering girlfriend, two stepsons, my own son and daughter.
When not on twitter I'm full time carer to my autistic stepson.
I started the blog http://omgitsagirl.WordPress.com when I found out that the fourth child was going to be a girl. I envisioned it as a humorous look at living with a girl in a house of boys. So far the only real difference is there is PINK everywhere!
What were their birth stories like?
Not being with Mrs OMG for the births of the first two I can only say what I know about their births. The eldest stepson was an emergency section, by all accounts it wasn't the most pleasant of births. Stepson #2 was 6 weeks premature. My first ever experience of childbirth was Buddy's birth. It took all of 29 minutes from the midwife breaking the back waters to him being born! Curiosity got the better of me and I had to peek at the business and once the head was out. Mrs OMG took a seizure and things went a bit mental. I got queasy and sick, therefore missing the rest of the birth!
Little Miss OMG was an entirely different story! She took hours to arrive!! I'm not sure how many lives I got through on Candy Crush. The epidural meant there was no seizure this time and at 6.44 pm on the 9th of Feb last year my perfect little girl was born.
What you wish you knew about being a Dad before becoming one?
There is nothing that can prepare you for what life with a baby you helped create is like. Having lived with the stepsons who were four and nearly three when I moved in with their mother I thought a baby would be a breeze. How wrong was I!
How do you balance your time between work/blogging and fatherhood?
Really badly!! Even with two of us at home full time. (Mrs OMG has epilepsy) It seems I never have enough time. Between normal household duties, taxi between sports and school and a very active toddler there's just about time for coffee! It's the blogging that suffers. There's also my habit of breaking uninsured mobile phones! As this is my only way of blogging it slows things down.
Any favourite anecdotes of your kids?
Oh there are so many! I'm such a bad parent! Buddy will do something that I should give out to him for but I end up laughing.
This one time at band camp, (well Lidl really) a recently toilet trained Buddy announced he needed a wee. I told him to go round the side of the shop. He ran out the in door. I wasn't quick enough and they closed on me. As I hurried round to the exit I looked out the window and saw Buddy peeing against the shop window!
What is it about fatherhood you love about?
Everything! But if you insist on one thing it's watching them in those moments they learn something new for the first time. Even better if it's something they've struggled with.
If there is anything about fatherhood you dislike about, what would it be?
I'd love to be able to go for a wee or a shower on my own again! Buddy was obsessed with the shower! He was about 2 1/2 and happily playing so I told Mrs OMG I was gonna sneak off for a shower. I nearly had a heart attack when I finished washing shampoo off of my hair and found a naked Buddy had joined me!
If you were given a chance to be a stay-at-home dad, would you take it?
Technically I am a SAHD. Back in 2008 I was a supervisor on the night shift for one of the largest bookmakers. Mrs OMG had a tough pregnancy with Buddy. She was taking lots of seizures, had to go for injections to stop early labour and eventually be glued. This coincided with Stepson #2 Autisim diagnosis. I was taking more and more time off work so in the end made the decision to leave work and stay at home as full time carer.
I do miss work and certainly miss the money, but I've seen every milestone. First steps, first words, school sports days and concerts, not forgetting parents evenings and extra curricular activities like football matches.
Best Advice you've received about Fatherhood?
The best piece of advise I was given surprisingly came from my mother. When Buddy was 2 he was running around a restaurant one lunchtime. I was getting noticeably fraught as he wouldn't sit down. My mother said "Relax"
If you can give yourself advice before becoming a Dad, what would it be?
Enjoy every moment. They are only small for a short time.
Do head over to Alan's blog. You can also stay connected with him through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, G+ and Pinterest.
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The problem is that I am not that familiar with java and I am quite lost and don't know how to start.
Basically I need to create a password keeping tool such as keepass.
How can I use JCE classes to build an application that encrypts a file containing passwords please?
If someone could explain to me simply how I can do that and how I can start that project, it would be really nice.
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J.D. Power and Associates has named the 2007 Honda CR-V, Fit and Ridgeline as the "most-dependable" vehicles in their respective segments in its 2010 Vehicle Dependability Study℠ (VDS).
The study, which measures problems experienced by original owners of three-year-old vehicles (2007 model year), includes 198 different problem symptoms across all areas of the vehicle. Overall dependability is determined by the level of problems experienced per 100 vehicles (PP100), with a lower score reflecting higher quality. The industry average for all vehicles in the 2010 VDS survey measured 155 PP100.
The CR-V compact multi-activity vehicle received an overall score of 113 PP100. The Fit subcompact received an overall score of 137 PP100, and the Ridgeline midsize pickup received an overall score of 109 PP100. The Honda Accord was also among the top three models in the midsize car segment with a score of 103 PP100.
J.D. Power and Associates also measures initial quality of new vehicles. Last year the CR-V and the Honda Ridgeline pickup ranked highest in their respective segments in the company's 2009 Initial Quality Study℠ (IQS). The Honda CR-V ranked highest for IQS in its segment for the third consecutive year, with an IQS score of 93 PP100, and the Honda Ridgeline truck ranked highest in the midsize pickup segment, with an IQS score of 81 PP100.
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Thailand unrest: Opposition MPs pledge to resign
Thailand's opposition MPs are to resign en masse, officials say, after weeks of anti-government protests in Bangkok.
Opposition-backed street protesters have been trying to oust PM Yingluck Shinawatra, saying she is controlled by her brother, former PM Thaksin.
Protest leader Suthep Thauksuban, a former deputy PM, has rejected dialogue and called for a final push to overthrow the government on Monday.
Ms Yingluck has proposed a referendum on the country's political crisis.
She repeated that she was ready to dissolve parliament and hold fresh elections if agreement could be reached with her opponents.
The protesters want Ms Yingluck's current government to step down and be replaced by an unelected "People's Council".
They allege that her government is controlled by her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is in self-imposed exile after he was overthrown in a military army coup in 2006 and convicted of corruption.
Final push
All 153 MPs of the main opposition Democrat party, Thailand's oldest, will resign.
They hold just under one third of the seats in the 500-seat parliament, where the the governing Pheu Thai party has a commanding majority.
"We decided to quit as MPs to march with the people against the Thaksin regime," Democrat Party MP Sirichok Sopha said in televised remarks.
Bangkok MP Sansern Samalapa wrote on his Facebook page: "The resignation en masse is intended to deny the parliamentary system of the Thaksin regime, which has run out of legitimacy, and we have fully performed the duty of the opposition."
Mr Suthep, a former Democrat MP, is calling Monday's final-push protest a last-ditch attempt to overthrow Ms Yingluck's government. Protesters say huge rallies will converge on Government House from nine directions.
If he fails, he says he will hand himself in to the police, who have issued an arrest warrant for him.
The government, despite all the criticisms made of it, still holds a clear majority in parliament, and is likely to win another election, its sixth in succession, if the prime minister does decide to call one, says the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Jan. 20, 2006) A West Phoenix man was indicted on charges of aggravated ID theft and other charges stemming from an allegation that he used Green Bay Packers' quarterback Brett Favre's credit card account in Maricopa County.
William J. Joachim, 35, was indicted on one count of fraud, two counts of aggravated taking the identity of another, one count of theft and one count of misconduct involving weapons.
Two other men, Freddy Lopez Sanchez, 32, and Ignacio Bobadilla Gomez, 29, were also indicted in this case. Sanchez was indicted on one count of fraud, two counts of aggravated taking the identity of another, and one count of theft. Gomez was indicted on one count of forgery. A fourth defendant was included on the indictment, but has not yet been served with the charges.
In December 2005, the Arizona Attorney General's Office received information from the National Football League indicating that Favre's credit card account had been compromised and more than 40 unauthorized transactions had been completed in Maricopa County, totaling over $10,000.
The indictment alleges that Joachim and Sanchez possessed credit card information of more than five people, and used those account numbers to purchase goods and services. Favre's credit card account among those used.
The indictment alleges that Gomez offered to perform maintenance work on a motorcycle in exchange for a forged Arizona Driver's License.
Joachim, Sanchez and Gomez will be arraigned on January 27, 2005. If convicted of all charges, Joachim and Sanchez each face up to a maximum of 14 years in prison and Gomez faces up to a maximum of 1.5 years in prison. Assistant Attorney General Todd Lawson is prosecuting this case.


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Don't let a long-running operation take hostages. When some work that takes a long time to complete holds exclusive access to one or more popular shared resources, such as a thread or a mutex that controls access to some popular shared data, it can block other work that needs the same resource. Forcing that other work to wait its turn hurts both throughput and responsiveness.
To solve this problem, a key general strategy is to "design out" such long-running operations bysplitting them up in to shorter operations that can be run a piece at a time. Last month in Break Up and Interleave Work to Keep Threads Responsive, we considered the special case when the hostage is a thread, and we want to prevent one long operation from commandeering the thread (and its associated data) for a long time all at once. Two techniques that accomplish the strategy of splitting up the work are continuations and reentrancy; both let us perform the long work a chunk at a time, and in between those pieces our thread can interleave other waiting work to stay responsive.
Unfortunately, there's a downside: We also saw that both techniques require some extra care because the interleaved work can have side effects on the state the long operation is using, and we needed to make sure any interleaved work wouldn't cause trouble for the next chunk of the longer operation already in progress. That can be hard to remember, and sometimes downright complicated and messy. Is there another, more general way?
Let It "Partly" Be: Embrace Incremental Change
Let's look at the question from another angle, suggested by my colleague Terry Crowley: Instead of viewing partially-updated state with in-progress work as an 'unfortunate' special case to remember and recover from, what if we simply embrace it as the normal case?
The idea is to treat the state of the shared data as stable, long-lived and valid even while there is some work pending. That is, the "work pending" that results from splitting long operations into smaller pieces isn't tacked on later via a black-box continuation object or encoded in a stack frame on a reentrant call; rather, it's promoted to a full-fledged, first-class, designed-in-up-front part of the data structure itself.
Looking at the problem this way has several benefits. Perhaps the most important one is correctness: We're making it clear that each "chunk" of processing is starting fresh and not relying on system state being unchanged since a previous call. In [1], we had to remember not to make that implicit assumption when we resumed a continuation or returned from a yield; this way, were are explicit about the "data plus work pending" state as the normal and expected state of the system.
This approach also enables several performance and concurrency benefits, including that we have a range of options for when and how to do the pending work. We'll look at those in more detail once we've seen a few examples, but for now note that they include that we can choose to do the pending work:
- with finer granularity, so that we hold exclusion (e.g., locks) for shorter times as we do smaller chunks of the work;
- asynchronously, so that it can be more easily performed by another helper thread; and/or
- lazily, instead of all up front.
Note the "and/or" -- one or more of these may apply in any given situation. Some of these techniques, notably enabling lazy evaluation, are well-known optimizations for ordinary performance, but they also directly help with concurrency and responsiveness.
The rest of this article will consider two mostly orthogonal issues: First, we'll consider different ways to represent the pending work in the data structure, with real-world examples. Then, we'll separately consider what major options we have for actually executing the work, how to use them singly or in combination, and what their tradeoffs are and where each one applies.


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U.S. and China Maintain Polite Disagreement as Climate Talks Reach Final Days
By LISA FRIEDMAN of ClimateWire
Published: December 8, 2010
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CANCUN, Mexico -- China's pledge to reduce the intensity of its carbon emissions will be bound by domestic law, but it is "premature" to demand the country make internationally binding commitments, a top Chinese negotiator said.
Huang Huikang, special representative for climate change negotiations in China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told ClimateWire that China is "poor" and "not at the same level" as the United States and is not yet prepared to agree to mandates.
"It's going to be, but this time we cannot say legally binding," Huang said. "In principle we will make our commitment under the convention, but this time it is probably premature to discuss whether China's commitment is legally binding or not."
Huang's comments came after a day of confusion and wild speculation at U.N. climate treaty talks, set off by remarks to Reuters interpreted by many to mean that China will accept legally binding targets. Though the comments appeared to be contradicted by Chinese Vice Minister Xie Zhenhua, analysts described the position as everything from a "game changer" to a key signal of that China intended to be flexible on negotiations in the coming days.
But U.S Envoy Todd Stern early in the day declared that China's offer to inscribe its existing pledge under a binding U.N. decision contained "nothing new," saying "That was the Copenhagen Accord, as far as we're concerned."
And, Stern said, because China insists that the targets be declared voluntary while U.S. and industrialized nation targets be legally binding, the position "steps backward."
Meanwhile, Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told ClimateWire, "I couldn't make head or tail out of the Reuters report."
With only three negotiating days left, the kerfuffle leaves China and the United States roughly where they began when the 16th conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opened last week: close to a deal, but it appears not close enough.
If there is an agreement to be unlocked in Cancun -- and dozens of ministers insisted yesterday that there is -- China and America hold the keys.
Transparency of emissions reports remains key
The central fight is over transparency. That is, America insists that developing countries report on their efforts to cut emissions and also allow expert consultation and analysis of that reporting. China has allegedly agreed to some measure of reporting. The debate, though, is what happens to that report once it is submitted to the U.N.
Those familiar with China's position say the government is eager to agree to certain principles -- like that an international monitoring system should not be punitive or impinge on national sovereignty. But it doesn't want an expert panel to rigorously truth-squad its methods or numbers, or allow other countries to submit questions about the reports. America, meanwhile, won't approve agreements on avoiding deforestation, adaptation, technology transfer and other programs worth billions of dollars until it gets specific agreements from China on elements like having an expert review panel.
"We're looking for genuine balance," Stern said earlier this week. "That doesn't mean a great deal of detail on some issues and 50,000-foot level of principles and little else on other issues," he said.
Yet while the United States is casting China as the linchpin of the negotiations, there is anger aplenty at America inside the Moon Palace resort where talks are being held. Many say the United States is demanding compromise from others while bringing nothing to the negotiating table itself.
"I'm actually more concerned about the U.S.'s transparency," said Jennifer Morgan, who heads the World Resources Institute's climate and energy program.
One leading U.S. analyst said every time countries make progress on an issue, the United States reminds countries that it might all mean nothing unless China agrees to transparency rules.
"The U.S. is the problem here," the analyst said. "Everybody is so pissed off. Here we are with nothing back home, and acting like bullies."
A 'non-aggression pact'?
On the surface, though, the mood is one of self-conscious diplomatic niceties. Gone are the finger-pointing and the insults that reached a fever pitch a few months when Chinese negotiator likened Stern's criticisms to a pig admiring itself in a mirror.
In fact, countries avoided even mentioning one another by name. China has studiously referred to America obliquely an Annex 1 country that is not a party to the Kyoto Protocol. Stern, meanwhile, recently noted that a proposal for a monitoring system has the support of small island nations, Latin American nations and least-developed countries -- but "not from everybody who matters yet." The holdout being, of course, China.
"There seems to be a secret non-aggression pact between the two. They seem to be much gentler with one another, and that's good," said Elliot Diringer, vice president of international strategies at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
"This time we don't [point] fingers at each other," Huang agreed. "We don't want to criticize each other in public."
Meanwhile, ministers who arrived yesterday for a high-level plenary session emerged optimistic of a compromise between the United States and China.
"What I can tell you is, I think the Chinese delegation has shown flexibility since they arrived in Mexico, and we hope this would be reflected in the outcome," said Luis Alfonso de Alba, Mexico's climate change ambassador.
Ramesh, India's envoy, agreed. "The Chinese are very constructive on the transparency issue. We have to work out the modalities." He also maintained that America's commitment to immediate funds often referred to as "fast start" is inadequate. Nations pledged $30 billion by 2020, and so far the United States has committed $1.7 billion -- an amount American officials consider to be serious cash on the table.
Ramesh, though, noted that $400 million of that is export credit, which he called "a very strange definition of fast-start finance." And, he said, it also includes $26 million of aid to India -- which India doesn't want. Early money for climate change, Ramesh said, should be given to Africa and the most vulnerable countries.
"We don't want to be counted in the fast-start category," he said.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who addressed the conference yesterday, said he believes "some decisions are ripe for adoption" including on deforestation, climate adaptation, technology and "some elements of finance."
Global climate change policy, he said, means balancing the need to provide for a populous earth with the necessity of cutting emissions to levels that will make it possible to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
"We need to fundamentally transform the global economy based on low-carbon clean energy resources," Ban said.
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Major/Minor: Biology, Drama, Premed
When Mali Royer '06 needed a respite from her junior year studies, the premedical student volunteered with Habitat for Humanity in Myrtle Beach during spring break.
"It was an awesome experience," she recalls. "School is mentally hard work, so it was nice to physically work and see the results of your labor. The community that forms when people work together toward a physical goal is also really powerful."
That experience motivated her to spend a year after college working with Habitat International's Global Village program, while applying to medical schools. In Chile, she was one of 16 volunteers working on second-story additions to homes in the town of Casa Blanca. After medical school, Mali, a member of the Class of 2012 at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, hopes to enhance healthcare in developing countries by working for an international agency such as Doctors Without Borders.
A double major in biology and drama, Mali migrated to the premedical program halfway through her academic studies, and completed two senior thesis projects—a research project for biology and a dramatic show. "If you want to do two crazy things at the same time, it can happen at Washington College," Mali says, giving lots of credit to her professors who encouraged her to pursue both disciplines.
"Let me just say that Dr. Verville is the best person in the world. She's amazing. The drama faculty, especially Dale Daigle, were really helpful too, knowing the demands I had as a premed student. To me, that's the joy of going to a small college."
Mali says she also benefited from collaboration with her fellow students, particularly during organic chemistry study sessions. "At some schools, premedical students can be very competitive. At Washington College, we're in it together."
Mali relished her year between college and medical school. "I've been places and seen things I never thought I would," she says. "I'd highly recommend it."


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New London police chief drops ethics complaint vs. city councilor
New London - The Board of Ethics officially dismissed and closed the Ackley vs. Buscetto case Wednesday, the same night the first of three hearings on the issue was scheduled to take place.
The board, by a 5-0 vote, accepted a request by Police Chief Margaret Ackley to withdraw her ethics complaint against City Councilor Michael Buscetto III. Ackley made the request Tuesday, a week after Buscetto lost his bid to become the city's first strong mayor in decades.
Neither Ackley nor Buscetto was in attendance Wednesday, but each was represented by their respective attorneys.
Buscetto's term on the council will end Dec. 5. Shelley Graves, an attorney for Ackley, said before the meeting that because Buscetto will no longer be a councilor there is no need for the complaint to proceed.
Ackley alleged that Buscetto violated the city's Code of Ethics when he refused to recuse himself from three City Council meetings in August in which Ackley's retirement contract was discussed. The board set the hearings after finding probable cause that Buscetto violated the parts of the ethics code that pertain to standards of conduct, conflict of interest and confidential information.
In an e-mail sent Tuesday to the ethics board, Graves said, "As the scheduled ethics hearing is narrowly limited in scope to the propriety of recusal, the issue would appear to be moot and we no longer have a compelling reason to continue forward with the complaint. As a result, it is hereby withdrawn."
Buscetto and his attorney, Kelly Reardon, have alleged from the start that the complaint was politically motivated.
Ackley confirmed Sept. 2 that she had filed a complaint with the Board of Ethics, 11 days prior to the Democratic primary election in which Buscetto was to face Daryl Justin Finizio. Buscetto lost the primary but later registered as a write-in candidate for the Nov. 8 general election, in which he finished second to Finizio out of six mayoral candidates.
"The fact that (Ackley) waited a week until after the election to withdraw her complaint is a clear indication of what she intended to do, which was to ensure that Mr. Buscetto got a lot of negative publicity, that his reputation was tarnished and that he lost the election," Reardon said in a phone call before the meeting Wednesday. "It's a shame that the board has allowed itself to be used as a tool for (Ackley) to obtain her objectives."
In September, Reid Burdick, who has held elective and appointed positions in city government, lodged a complaint with the Board of Ethics alleging that board members Eunice Waller, K. Robert Lewis, Brian Giesing, Sheila McCarthy and Denis Downing should recuse themselves from investigating any complaint against Buscetto because each had a conflict of interest. Only Giesing agreed to recuse himself. Downing, Lewis and Waller voted on Wednesday night.
Burdick did not attend Wednesday's meeting.
Earlier this year, Ackley reached an agreement with the city manager to retire by the end of the year, and said at a City Council meeting in August that Buscetto was "causing her distress" by meddling in police affairs and that she was unable to do her job. That agreement has an opt-out clause that would allow her to change her mind.
At that meeting, she threatened a lawsuit against the city and submitted a list of her complaints against Buscetto. That list has not been released to the public, and The Day has filed a Freedom of Information request for it.
That claim against the city is separate, and Graves said Wednesday it is still pending. The City Council retained former Superior Court Judge Beverly Hodgson last month to investigate.
Graves said city Law Director Thomas Londregan has told Ackley that Buscetto "will not be involved in any further council discussions or action concerning her legal claim between now and the end of Mr. Buscetto's term on the council."
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Petroglyphs along the Kohala Coast
Petroglyphs of Hawaii Island Petroglyphs, or kii pohaku, are lava rock carvings etched into stone centuries ago by Native Hawaiians. Although the true meanings of the petroglyphs are unknown, it is generally thought these carvings are records of births and other significant events in the lives of the people who lived here long ago. See the carvings of human forms, canoes, turtles and others in the many captivating petroglyphs fields throughout Hawaii Island. Within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park at the coastal end of Chain of Craters Road youll discover the sacred Puuloa Petroglyphs, the largest petroglyph field in Hawaii. You can see more than 23,000 images carved into the lava rock here, most before western contact in Hawaii. You can take a guided tour or take the .7-mile hike that ends on a boardwalk from which the petroglyphs are easily visible. In the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park located three miles north of Historic Kailua Village (Kailua-Kona) you can find many mysterious petroglyphs scattered throughout the 1160-acre park. This historic National Park is also the site of Hawaiian fishponds, kahua (house site platforms), a holua (stone slide) and heiau (temples). Along the Kohala Coast, Puako Petroglyph Archaeological Preserve features hundreds of petroglyphs and is a short walk from the Fairmont Orchid Hawaii and Holoholokai Beach. On the grounds of the Waikoloa Resort, Anaehoomalu Petroglyph Field is another great place to view well-preserved Hawaiian petroglyphs. Many of the petroglyph fields in this area reside on the Ala Kahakai Trail, also known as the Kings Trail, a 175-mile trail corridor full of historic sites including sacred heiau, Hawaiian fishponds and settlement ruins.


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A storm was brewing and thunder rumbled in the distance. Caliban staggered under the burden of the wood he had collected but he had to keep going or his master's spirits would pinch him or frighten him with goblins, or throw him in the mud or lead him astray in the shape of a will-o'-the-wisp. He had to be careful because his master would set the spirits on him for every little thing. Sometimes they looked like apes, and made faces and chattered at him, and then bit him. At other times they looked like hedgehogs that lay tumbled up in his path as he walked barefoot, and raised their spines when he trod on them. Sometimes snakes were twined around him, hissing at him with their forked tongues, until he was driven mad.
He pulled his ragged cloak tightly around him as a large thunder crack, very close, seemed to move the earth. And here was one of Prospero's spirits now, come to torment him for bringing the wood in too slowly. It was a most weird-looking spirit; half red, half yellow, and wearing a cap with bells on it. Perhaps if he fell flat on the ground the spirit wouldn't notice him.
The 'spirit' was, in fact, Trinculo, the king's jester. Bewildered by his survival and marooned in this unfriendly place, all alone, he stumbled forward, worried about this alarming storm that was about to break. There wasn't a bush or a shrub here to keep off the weather at all. That black cloud – the huge one – looked like a foul leather bottle that was about to split open and spill its water. If the storm was going to be like the one that wrecked the ship he didn't know where he was going to hide his head. That cloud was going to rain down in bucketsful!
He saw what looked like a filthy pile of rags spread on the ground and he stooped and lifted a corner of it. Something moved. He jabbed it with his toe and it moved again, more decisively this time.
What did we have here? Was it a man or a fish? Dead or alive? Trinculo stooped and sniffed, and immediately recoiled. Phoo! A fish. It smelt like a fish, a very old and fish-like smell. A kind of not-so-fresh cheap, dried fish. A strange fish! He bent over and took a closer look at it.
Hmm. It had legs like a man. And its fins were like arms. He touched one of them and sprang back. Warm! His opinion had changed. This was no fish, but an islander who had been struck by lightning.
There was a mighty thundercrash. Trinculo looked about desperately. Hisbest bet was to creep under the monster's cloak; there wasn't any shelter around here. He hurried beneath the cloak and lay on top of the still figure, his legs pointing in the opposite direction from the creature's, and pulled the cloak over him. He would stay there until the storm was past.
The ship's butler had also survived, although the miracle of it wasn't something he had been thinking about. He had surfed to shore on a barrel of wine and when he'd been cast up on the island he had made himself a bottle out of the bark of a tree and filled it from the barrel. And now he was quite drunk. He walked along, swaying, not a care in the world, singing: 'I shall no more to sea, to sea; here shall I die, ashore ..' He stopped. 'This is a very depressing song to sing at a time like this,' he said. 'Well, here's my comfort.' He took a swig and began singing a more cheerful song.
The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
The gunner and his mate.
Lov'd Mall, Meg, and Marian and Margery;
But none of us cared for Kate;
For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch…'
'This is the wrong song too: but here's my comfort.' He took another swig but almost choked as a mournful voice came from the ground near him.
'Don't torment me!'
Stephano looked down and saw the heap of old sacks. He prodded it with his foot.
'Ohhhhh!' came the voice again.
Stephano crouched down and examined the mound. Two feet stuck out of one end. He looked for the head at the other end and saw that there were two feet sticking out there as well. He stood up and scratched his head. 'What's this?' he said. 'Have we got devils here? Are you playing tricks on me like in a freak show hey? I haven't escaped drowning to be scared, now, by your four legs, and I'm not going to run away.'
Caliban's voice came again: 'The spirit is tormenting me! Ohhhhh!'
Stephano swayed and pointed at the thing with his bottle. 'This is some four-legged monster of the isle who has, I think, a fever. Where the devil did he learn our language? I'll give him some medicine if that's the problem. If I can make him better and keep him tame, and get to Naples with him, he's a present for any emperor who ever wore expensive shoes.'
'Please don't torment me,' wailed Caliban. 'I'll bring my wood home faster.'
'He's in a fever now and talking nonsense,' said Stephano. 'I'll give him a taste of my bottle. If he's never drunk wine before it will help subdue his fever. If I can recover him and keep him docile the sky's the limit. Whoever buys him will pay a lot for him'
Trinculo moved now and Caliban moaned. 'You haven't hurt me yet but I know you will. I know it by your trembling. Prospero is controlling you.'
Stephano lifted the cloak: Caliban's terrified eyes stared up at him.
'Come on,' said Stephano, 'open your mouth. Here's something that will make you talk. Open your mouth!' Caliban obediently opened his mouth and Stephano stuck the bottleneck in it. 'This will shake off your shaking, I can tell you,' he said.
Caliban sucked on the bottleneck and coughed as the wine hit his throat. Stephano laughed and removed the bottle. When Caliban's convulsions had subsided he offered the bottle once more. 'Come on, open your mouth again,' he said.
Trinculo raised his head. 'I know that voice,' he said in a small, frightened voice. 'It's …. but he's drowned. And these are devils. Oh! Help!'
Stephano fell over then struggled to his feet again. 'Four legs and two voices!' he exclaimed. 'A very clever monster! If it takes all the wine in my bottle to help him I'll do it. Come. Amen. I'll pour some into your other mouth.'
He lifted the cloak. Trinculo saw him and uttered his relief 'Stephano!'
Stephano dropped the cloak and turned to run. 'Is your other mouth calling me by name? Mercy! Mercy! This is a devil, not a monster. I'm off. I don't have a long spoon!'
He started running. Trinculo called after him 'Stephano! If you're Stephano speak to me. I'm Trinculo. Don't be afraid. Your good friend, Trinculo!'
Stephano stopped and came back cautiously. 'If you're Trinculo, come out. I'll pull you by the smaller legs.' He examined the legs and saw the jester's motley. 'If any are Trinculo's legs these are the ones.' He whipped the cloak away. Trinculo rolled off Caliban then stood up. 'You are Trinculo!' He embraced his friend.
Caliban was paralysed in his confusion, and lay still, watching the two newcomers. He felt light headed. It was a good feeling. He licked his lips and tasted the delicious wine that had caused it.
'I thought he had been killed by the lightning,' said Trinculo. 'But weren't you drowned, Stephano? I hope you aren't drowned. Has the storm blown itself out? I hid under the dead monster's cloak in fear of the storm.' He grasped Stephano and began dancing wildly with him. 'Are you really living, Stephano? Oh, Stephano. Two of us escaped!'
'Please!' exclaimed Stephano, pulling himself away from his delighted friend. 'Don't turn me around like that; my stomach is unsettled.'


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A crowd of newsmen swarmed the streets of Warm Springs, Ga., on April 14, 1945, each one chasing a story, a photograph that would capture the feelings of grief and loss that gripped the nation following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
But none seized the moment as well as the sharp-eyed Ed Clark.
As his colleagues trained their lenses on Roosevelt's flag-draped casket, Clark turned his attention to a single man, accordionist Graham Jackson, who played Dvorak's "Goin' Home" as tears of anguish streamed down his face. He immediately snapped the picture -- an unforgettable image that came to symbolize a nation's mourning.
"All the elements are there: the perfect caption, this man playing the song on his accordion, his deeply emotional response," Paul Roth, a photo-historian and admirer of Clark's, said. "It's the quintessential image."
Fix your gaze on this and other iconic images of the late legendary photographer in "Ed Clark: American Photojournalist," a new exhibition opening at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich.
On view through June 1, the show features approximately 40 images by Clark, a longtime Life magazine photographer whose empathetic, human-centered approach endeared him to people of all walks of life, from politicians and movie stars to farmhands and factory workers.
The works are culled from the Ed Clark Collection, part of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation in Pleasantville, N.Y.
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Launching his career at his hometown newspaper, the Tennessean, at the age of 18, Clark went on to join the staff of Life magazine, shooting features on Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower. He even took pictures of Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial.
But his photographs of average Americans were just as moving. Take Clark's photo of Jackson, a close personal friend of Roosevelt's who was in Warm Springs on the day of the president's death. Instead of seeing Roosevelt's funeral train, "you see one man's reaction to an overwhelmingly painful event," said Roth, who curated the exhibition. "It's very powerful."
The potency of the image wasn't lost on Clark, whose powers of perception were notably unaffected by an all-night drive from his home in Nashville, Tenn., to his assignment in Warm Springs.
"I thought, `My God! What a picture,' " he recalled in an interview years before his death. "I took three or four shots with my Leica, hoping that nobody else noticed."
Luckily, no one did. The photograph was later published full page in the April 17, 1945, issue of Life magazine that was devoted to Roosevelt's death.
Clark was good at reading a scene, but he was just as good at reading other people. ("He could charm the pants off his subject," Roth said.) The photojournalist was able to negotiate the halls of power, securing exclusive meetings with politicians and other high-profile members of society. One of those individuals was John F. Kennedy, who invited Clark to his Georgetown home in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1958. The visit resulted in the now-famous (and impossibly cute) images of the president admiring his baby daughter, Caroline, as she sits up, grinning ear to ear, in her crib.Read Full Article
"We're talking not only about a person who could make a great image, but a person who could fit in wherever he was and be accepted by people who are normally not trusting," Roth said. "He was so charming and attentive to his subjects that they let their guard down."
You might say Clark had (and continues to have) the same effect on his viewers. Bringing an everyman sensibility -- a sense of humanity -- to a wide range of subjects, he was able to charm a nation.
"He wanted to engage people in a very humane way," Roth said. "When you look at his images, you are looking at a mirror, at a society we are all part of."
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Md. Apartment Fire Displaces Dozens | News
GREENBELT, Md. (WUSA) -- Dozens of residents are displaced after a fire ripped through an apartment complex on Wednesday in Greenbelt.
At about 4:30 p.m., firefighters got the call to 9133 Edmonston Terrace in Greenbelt. When they got there, flames were shooting through the roof of the two-story apartment building.
In the end, 24 apartments full of people in the Franklin Park Apartment Complex were evacuated, and won't be sleeping at home tonight. But, firefighters said again and again, this could have been worse.
At one point, a resident was trapped.
" [A man] couldn't get through the stairwell, too much smoke, too much heat. Firefighters threw a ground ladder, pulled him down, he was fine," Mark Brady, the Prince George's County Fire Department Spokesperson said.
A firefighter who got separated from others was also in danger during the fire.
"Intense heat, thick smoke, he did the right thing by sounding the mayday, indicating that he was in trouble, he was almost immediately located by other firefighters and brought out to safety," Brady said.
We talked to Kim Boone who was one of the many people evacuated from her apartment. She says she ran out with just the clothes she had on and threw on some slippers quickly.
"Thank God for my two sisters and my sister in law, they brought me some clothes," Boone said.
She says she's grateful for what she has, not what she may have lost.
"Even though we might have lost everything, at Christmas, it's all good. We might have lost everything, but God's got my back, we had insurance, so it's ok."
And like so many things in life, timing seemed to mean everything, as Brady explains, "if we had this particular incident say in the middle of the morning, certainly the potential for higher injury is there."
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the game is simple. just stab at the knife a rotate keg.
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NEWARK – Worcester County Board of Education members this week got a first look at several options for the western terminus of the proposed Route 50 service road including two access points on Seahawk Rd. across from Stephen Decatur High School and Middle School and a new traffic signal along the highway.
The proposed service road will eventually run along the south side of Route 50 with Holly Grove Rd. at its eastern end and Seahawk Rd., across from the two county schools, at its western terminus. The intent is to create access to existing and future development along the Route 50 corridor for local traffic while keeping the main highway to the resort area open to through traffic.
There are at least 10 private property owners in the proposed service road area whose land would be directly impacted by the development of the corridor. In addition, there are environmental factors involved including the existence of unbuildable wetlands areas throughout the corridor.
As a result, several options are on the table each with good points and inherent problems. On Wednesday, attorney Mark Cropper, who represents several of the property owners along the proposed route, addressed the county school board, presenting several options for the western terminus of the proposed service road at Seahawk Rd., just across from two county public schools on the west side of the road. The initial plan called for a single access point on Seahawk Rd. across from the existing school bus exit point at Decatur High School.
Cropper explained that plan would create the greatest amount of hardship on the Harley Davidson property owners while contributing to the already congested area around the school, particularly during morning and afternoon drop-off and pick-up times at the schools.
Just south of the Harley Davidson property across from the schools is a nearly 10-acre undeveloped tract on which tentative plans are in place for a mixed-use commercial and retail development along with some residential. Cropper, who represents the property owners for the project tentatively called Liberty Square on Wednesday presented to school board members a proposed service road alignment that would best alleviate the traffic congestion around the schools while appeasing the property owners in the area and ensuring public safety.
The plan calls for a total of three access points for the service road on Seahawk Rd. including a right in, right out only access point across from Stephen Decatur Middle and another access point at the current exit from Stephen Decatur High on Seahawk Rd. The latter would be one-way east only allowing buses and student traffic heading east on the service road to connect to a new traffic signal on Route 50 near the existing Advance Auto store. The third access point would be further south on Seahawk Rd. and would be utilized only by emergency vehicles responding to the eventual Liberty Square project.
Cropper explained the intent of the plan was two-fold. The one-way east access point, which would be controlled by a part-time traffic signal, would accommodate heavy traffic leaving the schools and heading east on Route 50 to Ocean Pines, Ocean City and West Ocean City by connecting it new traffic signal further down the highway. Traffic leaving the schools heading west toward Berlin and other areas would still utilized the existing traffic light at Route 50 and Seahawk Rd.
"In theory, if Seahawk Rd. is already congested and you need a relief valve, this plan actually splits the traffic on Seahawk Rd.," Cropper told school board members. "The concern today is where the service road connects with Seahawk Rd. Regardless of what happens, substantial improvements to Seahawk Rd. will be necessary to accommodate all of this."
The County Commissioners last month reviewed the amended plan but withheld judgment until the various agencies affected by it had a chance to weigh in, including the Board of Education. Cropper said on Wednesday the State Highway Administration had endorsed it and an environmental assessment of the property concurred with the plan, leaving at least tacit approval by the school board as one of the missing pieces.
Decatur Principal Lou Taylor told school board members he wasn't necessarily campaigning for the plan, but said improvements to the Seahawk Rd.-Route 50 intersection were paramount to any service road changes.
"I'm not arguing for this, but you all know the limitations we have now on Seahawk Rd.," he said. "If any development is generated on the Liberty Square property, we have to have something in place. If they do anything on the other side of Seahawk Rd, if we don't have a plan in place, we're going to have a nightmare out there."
Cropper assured school board members their input would be considered as part of any final plan.
"Any concerns you have we'll corporate into our plan as best as possible," he said. "We're looking for your input on this now because it's easier to change in the planning stages."


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General Electric, Hitachi and Toshiba designed, built and serviced the reactors which directly contributed to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, yet these companies have not paid one cent of the cost for the reactor failures.The cost of the Fukushima nuclear disaster is estimated at $250 billion US dollars.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan lost their homes, jobs and communities. None of them have received enough compensation to rebuild their lives.
All of the costs from the nuclear meltdown fell on TEPCO, the operator of Fukushima, which could not afford it and was nationalised. The costs of Fukushima are being paid by the Japanese people themselves, as taxpayers they are footing the bill for this nuclear disaster.
The situation in Japan is not an exception, if you live in or near a country with nuclear reactors, it is likely that nuclear companies could walk away from an accident near you without paying any of the costs. General Electric, Hitachi and Toshiba should pay for the damage caused by their reactors!
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ITT Visual Information Solutions (ITT VIS) has announced the release of IDL 8.0, the most recent update of its scientific programming language used to create high-quality, meaningful visualizations out of complex numerical data.
IDL is used by scientists, researchers, engineers, and professionals across disciplines to create a range of data analysis and visualization solutions from small analysis programs to widely deployed software applications.
IDL 8.0 introduces a powerful new graphics system, an enhanced and expanded programming language, and a streamlined development environment.
The most notable enhancement in IDL 8.0 is a dynamic new graphics system that allows users to more easily produce meaningful, presentation quality graphics, such as 2D and 3D plots, graphs, and maps, from virtually any type of numerical data. The system is both interactive and dynamic, and provides the capability to quickly make on-the-fly adjustments to individual graphic elements, which saves significant time and effort. The new graphics system is powered by an improved language syntax that saves time and effort by requiring fewer lines of code to produce high quality graphics when compared with other popular programming languages.
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Julian Assange has reportedly hired Sydney lawyers to pursue a defamation case against Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Mr Assange has told left-leaning activist group GetUp! that Ms Gillard defamed WikiLeaks when she allegedly told a radio station in 2010 he had broken the law by releasing hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables, according to a statement released by the group on Monday.
"I have hired lawyers in Sydney and they are investigating the different ways in which we can sue Gillard over this statement," Assange told GetUp!
Mr Assange is holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London after seeking asylum as part of a bid to fight extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over rape allegations.
Mr Assange also rejected claims by Foreign Minister Bob Carr that he was receiving full consular support.
"When there are statements made that there are 63 consular contacts, they are counting emails that they send my lawyer asking for some future possible appointment," he said.
"I haven't seen any member of the Australian embassy or consulate since I was in prison in 2010. And even then, all they did was bring some notepads, pens, et cetera," he told GetUp!


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Language Arts Specialist in Santee, California.
However, I continued my role as an instructor at the
University of California, San Diego, in the Reading
Specialist Certification Program until June, 2009.
I wasn't ready to retire.
Teaching is in my blood! (My mother always reminded me
that when I was little, I dragged the neighborhood kids
in to play school whether they wanted to or not!) I
still have the strong desire to make a difference for
teachers, parents, and students. I'm passionate about
the joy of knowing how to read and write and want every
child to have the experience of closing a book with a
sigh, "Wow, that was a good book!" The only way they can
do that is by having the necessary skills and strategies
to become independent readers. Teachers and parents need
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After much
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*You'll notice as you peruse the pages that I'm a poet
at heart, and so I dedicate this one to those of you who
tend a "garden of life and learning."
The keeper of
the garden builds an everlasting environment that is
filled with beauty and peace. In the middle of that
garden is a haven . . . a birdhouse, a safe place for
fledglings to grow and flourish before taking off on
their own. The gardener provides nourishment to feed his
feathered friends, to make them grow strong and healthy.
He protects them from predators, watching from afar, not
interfering with the balance of nature. They flutter and
fly and sing their sweet songs from the safety of their
home in the garden, and then, one day, they are gone.
The keeper of the garden experiences a moment of sadness
at the loss, but he knows that he has done well.
We are, you
and I, the keepers of the garden of life and learning,
protecting the sanctity and serenity of the
"schoolhouse." We build an educational environment that
is filled with opportunity and experience. We provide
nourishment to feed our cherished children, to make
their minds grow strong and healthy. We protect them
from outside forces and influence, watching them from
afar, letting them try out their wonderful wings of
independence. They sing their sweet songs of newfound
knowledge and then one day, they are gone. We, too,
experience a moment of sadness at the loss, but we know
that we have done well as keepers of the garden of life.
We have some
very dear friends in Germany and we've spent quite a bit
of time with them here in San Diego and in Europe. I
followed the children to school . . . I couldn't help
myself. Once a teacher, always a teacher! I walked with
the girls to the bus stop, rode the bus to school and
sat in on their classes on two separate days, jumped
rope to American jingles and completed the same
assignments they were given (or tried to). Even though I
could only understand some of the language, I came to
the realization that no matter where we are, children
are children, delightfully so! Since then we've been
back several times and I've been invited to teach in
their English classes and design some materials for
their program. Such fun! Thought I'd share this poem
that I wrote after visiting the classrooms in 2004.
While spending a week in Tuscany and another on the
Danish coastline, I taught the girls American jump rope
jingles. I was surprised to find later that they had
shared them with their German school chums. I was talked
into going outside for recess and being one of the rope
Children Are Children
Children are children wherever you go.
They act the same from head to toe!
The boisterous boys with skinned-up knees,
Who love to laugh, to tickle and tease;
They twirl their fingers in their hair
And weave their daydreams in the air.
They play a game of tag and chase,
Or have a rowdy running race.
The patched-up jeans and baseball caps
Belong to boys and chummy chaps!
The giggly girls with bows in their hair,
Who skip and jump from here to there;
Dainty dresses and frilly frocks,
Shiny shoes and slippery socks;
Barrettes and braids and freckled faces,
The missing teeth with smiley spaces;
Bracelets, braces, shiny glasses . . .
We love them all, the girls and lasses!
Children are children wherever you go.
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Frau von Heyden and Frau Domnick)
Tuttendorf, Germany
April 21, 2004
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website and for the CDs that are available for purchase.
Ron Leishman, whose artwork is available at Toonaday.com
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The Stability and Numerical Dispersion Study of the ADI-SFDTD Algorithm
In this letter, the alternating-direction-implicit (ADI) technique is applied to Symplectic finite-difference time-domain (SFDTD) method, the curl operator is endued with two different styles when doing computation from the th progression to th progression. It holds the advantages of both ADI-FDTD and SFDTD, not only eliminating the restriction of the Courant-Friedrich-Levy (CFL), but also holding the inner characteristics of Maxwell's equations. The analytical accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method is verified good.
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Pigs in a Blanket were all the rage at one time, then they got a bad wrap for being tacky party food. They were banned from any event with style. But, like all things that were once great, these little guys are making a comeback in the comfort food craze. As a huge hot dog (and comfort food) fan - I'm thrilled. Serve these with a gourmet mustard or cheese dip to up their style factor.
Pigs in a Blanket
Bringing Back a Classic
8 Beef Hot Dogs
1 can of Crescent Rolls
Dijon Mustard
Roll out the crescent rolls out on a cutting board. Cut them in half, making equal triangles (or as equal as possible). Cut the hot dogs in half and roll the halves on each triangle of crescent roll dough. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a Silpat baking liner. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes, or until golden brown and puffed.
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Since a lot of people loved the lesson on Jack Spicer, so I wanted to make and upload more tutorials on some of the other characters from the series. I decided that making a lesson on "how to draw Omi", step by step would make more sense because he is the main protagonist of the show. I don't know much about Xiaolin so I had to do a little research. From what I've read Omi is the Xiaolin Dragon of Water. He was trained by Master Fung, and took to the training well. Omi has a very interesting character appeal because of the large bald head, squinty eyes, and very expressive face. He is a very easy figure to replicate which means you will have a less stressful time with recreating him. Drawing Omi should prove to be fun, and if you are looking for other characters from Xiaolin, stick around because I have just what you're looking for. Adios mi amigos.
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Brunswick / New Brunswick
Brunswick is the Low German name for the city of Braunschweig and the surrounding duchy of Brunswick-Lüneberg. It is the ancestral home of the Hanoverian kings of England, George I through William IV. The Hanoverian Dynasty in England ended with the ascension of Victoria, who as a woman could not inherit the Hanoverian throne.
The Canadian province of New Brunswick was named in 1784 in honor of George III's royal house.1
1Alan Rayburn, Dictionary of Canadian Place Names (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 266;
Oxford English Dictionary, Brunswick1, 2nd Edition, 1989, Oxford University Press, accessed 22 Dec 2008
Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada, edited by Kelsie B. Harder (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976), 67.
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I had so much fun with this file!! The possibilities with this file is endless. I do believe that you could use this for any occassion or holiday out there. I know the file says Little RED Wagon but hey, who says the wagon couldn't be blue??? lol
So with this project, I was sit working on a swap I'm in, when it hit me, Thanks to Regina Easter lol why send it in some boring sandwich bags? Why not fancy it up a bit, where the ultimate of surprise carries a small token a little further?? So that's what I did!!
Below you'll see my little boxes packed with different buttons. I love this paper. I have no clue where I got this paper from lol but its just like cardboard but the thickness of cardstock. I really need to go through my paper drawers and see what other lovely goodies hides from me lol
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