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Travel tips from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
Traffic is anticipated to be especially heavy at the I-84 interchange at Exit 9 in Sturbridge on Wednesday and at Exit 11A, I-495, which handles cars headed south to Cape Cod and north to New Hampshire and Maine. Travelers to the Cape now have access to real time roadside traffic information through the newly launched GO Time system. To plan ahead, traffic information is available for download using the free RideWise Smartphone App that provides live traffic conditions. The U.S Army Corps of Engineers reports that all travel lanes on the Sagamore Bridge are now open until after Labor Day. The CapeFLYER train will run Thursday on a Friday schedule. Visit www.capeflyer.com for complete schedules and ticket information. Motorists should consider joining the E-ZPass program ahead of the holiday: www.Mass.gov/EZPassMA. Free coffee will be served from 10 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Saturday at 11 service plazas along the Massachusetts Turnpike and seven others along Route 3 in Plymouth, Route 128 in Beverly, Route 128/I-95 in Newton and Lexington, Route 6 in Barnstable, and the Route 24 northbound and southbound plazas. Beginning at 2 p.m. Friday., the MBTA will provide rush-hour service on all lines. Rides on subways and buses will be free after 9:30 p.m. Service will be provided until 2:30 a.m. Saturday on all subway lines and key bus routes. Bicycles are not allowed on any subway lines for the entire day on the Fourth of July or on inbound commuter rail trains from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. as well as on outbound trains after 4 p.m.
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Will the recovery finally take off next year, or will Americans have to contend with an additional 12 months of sluggish economic growth, stagnant wages and high unemployment?
Will the recovery finally take off next year, or will Americans have to contend with an additional 12 months of sluggish economic growth, stagnant wages and high unemployment?
Much will depend on Washington. While not responsible for creating jobs, government could at least stop making it harder for others to do so.
For Washington, Job 1 should be to remove the stumbling blocks it has erected in the path of economic growth. Here are five steps to do just that.
Fix the fiscal cliff fiasco: The threat of tax hikes slated to take effect Jan. 1 has cast a pall on job creators and investors for most of the past year. Not knowing what their taxes rates will be, they've prudently opted to sit it out until they know the score.
Even at year's end, they still don't know what their next tax bill may look like. The do know, however, that it could be horrendous. Expiration of the Bush tax policies, five new tax hikes for Obamacare, and more. It all adds up to nearly $500 billion siphoned from the private sector in just the next 12 months.
If Congress allows that to happen, it will inevitably mean less investing, fewer new jobs and poor wage growth. Step 1 for improving the job situation: Prevent all tax hikes from slamming the economy on New Year's Day.
Open all of America's energy resources: One bright spot in the economy is a host of new energy jobs. Places like North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Wyoming are attracting workers from across the country to fill high-paying energy jobs. But virtually all of this boom has occurred on private lands. Domestic energy producers could add more than 1 million new jobs in just five years if Washington allowed them reasonable access to oil and gas reserves on federal lands and offshore. The administration could start by approving the Keystone XL pipeline and ending its de facto moratorium on approving drilling permits.
Reform the tax code: Our current tax code is far too complicated. Its countless special interest provisions, distortions and disincentives hold back growth. Reform that broadens the tax base and lowers tax rates can unleash economic growth.
Unfortunately, the tax discussion prevailing during the run-up to the fiscal cliff has focused on raising rates to generate more revenue for the U.S. Treasury. That's a recipe for tax deform. The discussion in 2013 should shift to designing a pro-growth tax code.
End the regulatory assault on business: Washington has unleashed a massive torrent of costly regulations, and dozens more are in the pipeline. New and pending rules threatening to layer on billions in compliance costs only adds to the uncertainty engulfing employers. And uncertainty breeds delay in hiring, employee pay raises and new business start-ups.
The most growth-inhibiting regs on the horizon for 2013 are the Dodd-Frank financial regulations, Obamacare infrastructure and numerous global warming rules spewing forth from the EPA. Better to put the brakes on pending regulations and rules and roll back existing ones that are harmful, outdated or unnecessary.
Fix the real fiscal crisis: Federal debt is reaching the point where it, by itself, will markedly slow the economy. We must reduce the debt mess, and that will require fixing its root cause: runaway spending — particularly the big three entitlement programs.
Until Washington tackles the real problem, businesses can have little confidence that Washington will ever create a more favorable economic environment. Instead, they'll be left worrying about a Euro-style debt crisis or more ill-advised tax increases. To show it's serious about getting its fiscal house in order, Washington must begin to pursue rational entitlement reform — the sooner the better.
The good news: These five steps are not controversial; many have bi-partisan support. All that's needed is leadership.

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Historically, molecular dynamics simulations have played an important role in elucidating the mechanical responses of carbon nanotubes to external forces. Here, they are used to explore the interactions of carbon nanotubes with gases that are either confined to the nanotube interiors or are external to the nanotubes. The simulations demonstrate that molecules are transported through nanotubes in a manner that is very different from molecular transport through micro-scale pores, and that filled nanotubes have mechanical responses that are significantly different from the responses of empty nanotubes. In addition, the effect of external gas flows on the mechanical responses of nanotubes are quantified and shown to be important. The effect of these results on potential nanotube-based NEMS devices will be discussed.
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Oh my...
So you didn't even get to the point of using the program.
My experience with clamscan was when my windows installation quit working. Thinking it could have been a virus, I ran the scanner on the whole partition, from my working linux partition.
That was taking too long on my poor netbook, I ^C'ed it and just reinstalled windows.
It didn't find anything in those two hours, but neither did a full MS Security Essentials scan. I guess it's ok.
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That's right, here are some bug reports for that issue:
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Question : the zip files contains "-incubation". Is it enough or do we need to change something else ?
Project plan
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- Add 3 bugzilla search urls to nebula-project-plan.xml
- Add keyword 'plan' to your major bugzilla items and update priorities. For Gallery : P1 = committed, P2/P3 : proposed, P4/P5 : deferred
To edit the project plan, checkout the Nebula website from cvs and edit
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We are very close to provide an offical Webstart example of Nebula widgets, but only 4 widgets currently have their example tab. It is very easy to turn a snippet to an example tab, but if you have some more free time, show your widget at its best.
A bug have been logged for each missing widget. (include bug # here)
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PEORIA — Corn country may have a little less corn in 2014.
That may have a little to do with falling prices. Corn hit $8 a bushel in 2012 but skidded badly last year. The present price is closer to $4 a bushel.
"Farmers are taking a closer look at soybeans this year," said Patrick Kirchhofer, manager of the Peoria County Farm Bureau.
"Because corn has been more profitable in recent years, we've seen a gradual shift to more corn acres in Peoria County," he said.
Kirchhofer estimated that a breakdown of the largest crops grown in the country would show corn with about 120,000 acres to soybean's 80,000.
"Ten or 15 years ago, it was more like 105,000 acres of corn and 90,000 acres of soybeans (planted in Peoria County)," said Kirchhofer.
Several factors could enter into a farmer's decision to plant less corn in 2014. First of all, there was a big corn crop in 2013 — not just in Illinois — but across the nation where analysts have called it a record year, topping 14 billion bushels.
While U.S. farmers rebounded from a drought-stricken 2012, the positive crop resulted in lower prices.
Corn stockpiles have risen faster than at any time since 1994, noted a Bloomberg survey.
U.S. farmers aren't the only ones who have planted more corn in recent years. Corn & Soybean Digest added that high corn prices increased corn production around the world by 45 percent since 2005.
That not only means more competition for U.S. farmers who want to export grain but — due to excess production of the commodity — lowers the price.
But there's another issue in the Corn Belt: the production of ethanol, the corn-based fuel that uses up to 40 percent of the nation's corn crop, may have peaked. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed reducing the 2014 requirement of ethanol under the Renewable Fuel Standard by 10 percent — from 14.4 billion gallons to 13 billion gallons.
That proposal doesn't sit well with producers like Ross Pauli, a farmer in Edwards. "It's a case of bad timing. Now when we have excess corn and all these (ethanol) plants built, they want to cut back on production," he said.
"It's just going to hurt the farm economy," said Pauli if the EPA decision is approved.
As president of the Peoria County Corn/Soy Promoters, a group that will meet at Gil's Supper Club in Hanna City at 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Pauli said he plans to ask member farmers to register their own views with legislative representatives over the EPA proposal.
On his own 650 acres, Pauli said right now he's planning on pulling back a little on the amount of corn he'll plant this year. "I will still plant more corn than soybeans but the percentage will be 60 percent corn to 40 percent soybeans. Last year it was probably about 65 percent corn," he said.
While soybean prices have also dropped in recent years, the reduction hasn't approached the 40 percent decline that corn futures suffered in 2013.
But don't look for Illinois farmers to abandon corn in 2014, said University of Illinois economist Darrel Good. "I do expect some cutback of corn acres and I think we'll see a tick up in soybean acres but, at this point, I look for a fairly minor adjustment," he said.
Another big crop year also raises the possibility of a soybean stockpile. Recent reports noted that Brazil just planted almost 74 million acres of soybeans while Argentina has planted beans on 50 million acres.
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Washington: Just ten days after the elections, governors of several Republican ruled states led by Louisiana`s Indian American governor Bobby Jindal are all set to embrace, albeit reluctantly, President Barack Obama`s signature healthcare law.
Jindal as also Rick Perry in Texas, John Kasich in Ohio and Scott Walker in Wisconsin among others are about to invite the federal government to set up a health insurance exchange in their states under the law they derided as "Obamacare" not long ago, according to influential news site Politico.
"These Republican governors, and more than a dozen others in red states around the country, have decided it`s better to have Obamacare forced on them than to legitimise it by setting up their own exchanges, even if that means empowering the federal government at the expense of the states," the news site focused on politics said.
"It`s a stick in the eye of a just re-elected president," Politico said. "and an indication that some Republican governors have no intention of backing down just because" Obama won another four years.
Jindal,who has been elected chairman of the Republican Governors Association (RGA), told the Huffington Post that while he`s not going to set up an exchange, he hopes that Obama`s second term will bring more cooperation between the federal government and the states on a range of health care issues.
"We are certainly going to go to the president and give him a chance to actually be bipartisan and give him a chance to give us the flexibility to bring more market-based competition and ideas into health care programmes, and I hope he`ll work with us to do that," Jindal said.
But Maine Governor Paul LePage, as cited by Politico, told Bloomberg this week "I`m not lifting a finger. We`re not going to get involved. We`re going to let Mr. Obama do a federal exchange. It`s his bill."
By late Friday, 19 states had indicated they would let the federal government run their exchanges - most of which went to defeated Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Another 11 states were officially undeclared, while 20 states and the capital city of Washington had announced they would set up exchanges partially or fully run by their states.
The Republican governors of several big states, including Florida`s Rick Scott, New Jersey`s Chris Christie and Arizona`s Jan Brewer, remain in the undecided column, Politico reported.
That may have factored into federal health officials` decision to postpone Friday`s planned deadline for signing up until mid-December, the Politico said noting the RGA had asked for the extension,
Most Democratic states, including California, New York and Illinois, will either set up their own independent exchanges or partner with the federal government to begin establishing them.


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Inspired by the story of a young girl growing up in one of Africa's biggest slums, WFP supporters rallied to provide more than 50,000 meals for World Food Day. Destined for hungry children in schools around the world, most of the meals arrived in the last hours of the campaign.
ROME—A young girl from one of the biggest slums in Africa inspired supporters to raise more than 50,000 school meals during a World Food Day campaign that surged past its goal in the final hours before the deadline.
The campaign revolved around a video about a girl named Molly growing up in Nairobi's Mathare slum. Much of the footage was shot by Molly herself using a video camera that was given to her last year by WFP staff in Kenya.
Do three things
Supporters on World Food Day were asked to watch a video, take a quiz and share it with their friends to provide a child like Molly received a nutritious meal in school.
"The footage she shot is amazing because it captures the real nitty gritty of everyday life for the poorest of the poor," says Web Editor Martin Penner. "It's her telling us how she lives, what's important for her. No film-maker could have gotten material as authentic and raw as this."
Like more than 20 million other children around the world, Molly and her classmates are getting an education with the help of WFP's school meals programme.
Down to the wire
The campaign gave supporters the chance to provide a meal to a child like Molly by watching a video illustrating the impact of that food on her life and taking a short quiz based on what they had seen.
Supporters also had the option of making a donation, which many did. Though primarily a drive to raise awareness, the campaign raised over $10,000 for school meals programmes around the world.
It's an impressive tally for a campaign that came down to the wire. Two weeks after it launched and with less than 24 hours to go before World Food Day, the campaign had raised just over 10,000 meals. "We were starting to get a little nervous," Penner admits.
But WFP supporters rallied on World Food Day to put the total over 50,000. People from dozens of countries and private-sector companies watched and shared the video, which was seen more than 172,000 times in English, Spanish, French and German.
School meals
All of the meals raised through the campaign will go to children like Molly whose surest route to a better life is through an education. School meals not only give kids an added incentive to keep coming to school, but give them the energy to do their best in class.
That's especially important for girls who are often kept at home by their parents to work and do chores. Studies show that educated women have higher incomes and healthier families. According to the World Bank, an extra year of schooling can raise a girl's future wages by 10 to 20 percent and cut rates of infant mortality by up to 10 percent.
"Molly is an amazing person," said Penner. "But there are hundreds and hundreds of kids like Molly out there, kids who just need a chance to show what they can do, to lift themselves and their families out of poverty and hunger."


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Mac has to either sit or sit up or give either paw to get his drinks of water, per NILIF. Then I say "Okay!" and he tears off for his drink. I've tried saying "Oklahoma!" or "Okely-dokely!" and he won't move, but as soon as I say "Okay!" he's off to the races.
What's funny is my typical release word for my girls is "okay." Except to eat or drink. For that it's "mangia." So, I've tested them by saying okay to see what they do. They don't touch the food/water....as soon as I say "mangia" they tear into their meals....interesting what dogs know!!!!


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(MCT) — Just as they do every year to celebrate the Fourth of July, sisters-in-law Lorena and Kristina Perez went to West Lawn Park on the South Side to watch neighborhood fireworks with their family and friends.
But as a set of four fireworks were launched into the air, one of them instead went straight to the ground, exploding at the feet of the Perez women.
Kristina's left foot was blown off, according to a relative in their group, and Lorena suffered injuries to her left leg. Both were taken by ambulance to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
"It seemed like it tipped over and came straight down," said Fabian Carmona, 37, Lorena's brother. "I don't think she saw it coming."
The Chicago Fire Department responded to several fireworks-related injuries, including burns, July 3 and 4 as unauthorized fireworks displays lit up the sky across the city. The Perez women's injuries were the most serious, said fire department spokesman Lawrence Langford.
Kristina, 32, had her left leg amputated, and she suffered injuries to her right foot and an arm. Lorena, 36, was treated for a fractured leg and burns to her lower extremities, according to fire officials and a relative.
Lorena Perez, 39, is married to Kristina's brother, Enrico Perez.
Kristina Perez, 32, began screaming when the stray firework hit her. "I went to look around and then I realized she was missing her foot," Carmona said. "She was yelling, screaming. She was saying, 'Get an ambulance. Get an ambulance.' "
Lorena, who celebrated her birthday a day earlier, is missing a large area of tissue on her left leg, and a toe was badly burned, Carmona said.
The fireworks were unsanctioned but are an annual tradition in West Lawn Park, Carmona said. The injuries occurred between 10:30 and 11 p.m.
"We do it every year. We hang out at the park and watch them go up," Carmona said. "I still can't believe this happened."
He said he doubts he'll go to a fireworks display again. "I don't want to be near that stuff. I am traumatized right now," he said.
John Cole, who was watching the fireworks with this 11-year-old son, said he rushed over to the Perez women and wrapped a shirt around Kristina's leg to try to stop the bleeding. He said other people used the lights from their phones to try to help.
Meanwhile other groups, not realizing what had happened, continued to launch more fireworks at the park near West 66th Street and South Keeler Ave.
"It was horrifying," Cole, 46, said. "It could have happened to any of us."
©2013 the Chicago Tribune
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Just cracked into a bottle of this. It's a nice English Pale Ale. Not super fruity, but the typical ESB ester profile is there. Malt is really bready. If I had to guess I'd say it's all MO with maybe some caramel color. Not really picking up any crystal malt character. Hop bitterness is balanced. Aroma is typical grassy/floral/earthy UK hops and is again well balanced with the malt. This must be a pretty fresh bottle, because the hops taste really fresh.I really like this beer. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's a well-brewed, balanced English Ale. It's the kind of beer that has you looking forward to the next pint before the first one is done. I'd take Landlord or Fuller's ESB over this if I had to pick an everyday English Ale, but I will definitely be buying this again.


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Galileo office building
ul Armii Krajowej 18, Kraków
the conference room 1 on the ground floor
Date and Time
November 15, 2008
11:00 - 15:00 (tentatively)
- Grzegorz Duda, Polish Java User Group PJUG dWorld
- Szymon Brandys, IBM, Eclipse committer Eclipse Platform Workspace Team Blog
If you would like to present at the DemoCamp, please feel free to add your name and topic to the list. Depending on the number of people interested we may have to limit the number of presenters and time of each demo.
- Grzegorz Duda, Sabre Polska, PJUG, Groovy w Eclipse (Groovy in Eclipse)
- Szymon Brandys, Eclipse Platform Committer, Eclipse Platform Workspace team, IBM, e4 (e4)
- Tomasz Zarna, Eclipse Platform Committer, Eclipse Platform Workspace team, IBM, Jak uzywac i korzystac z Compare Framework (How to use and contribute to Compare Framework)
- Pawel Pogorzelski, Eclipse Platform Workspace team, IBM, Kod natywny w platformie Eclipse (Native code in the Eclipse platform)
- Krzysztof Daniel, Eclipse Platform UI, IBM Eclipse Support Center, Eclipse jako aplikacja WEB 2.0 (Eclipse as WEB 2.0 application)
- Igor Czechowski, Sabre Polska, Refactoring w Eclipse (Refactoring in Eclipse)
Thanks very much to IBM for sponsoring the Krakow DemoCamp.
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If you plan on attending please add your name to the list below. We'd like to see as many people show up as possible.
- Szymon Brandys, IBM
- Grzegorz Duda
- Tomasz Zarna, IBM, Eclipse Committer
- Pawel Pogorzelski, IBM
- Igor Czechowski, Sabre Polska
- Grzegorz Bialek, Sygnity SA
- Marcin Bukowski, Sabre
- Szymon Jachim, Sabre
- Dariusz Michura, ASTEC Sp. z o.o.
- Bartłomiej Łączkowski, ASTEC Sp. z o.o.


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In Vancouver's downtown core, hordes of rioters were screaming, fighting, smashing windows and bottles, burning cars and looting stores. From outside St. Paul's hospital, columns of black smoke rising above the buildings and the sound of distant shouting were the only signs of the mayhem unfolding less than a dozen blocks away.
Emergency staff had been put on "Code Orange" alert: prepare for mass casualties — all staff go to their departments, all breaks cancelled, nobody leaves at end of shift. But when the wounded, the pepper-sprayed, the tear-gassed patients began arriving, emergency got so busy that no one remembered to actually call "Code Orange in Effect."
Nobody had to. Because the 2011 Stanley Cup hockey riot occurred so soon after the 2010 Winter Olympics and staff had prepared for possible cup-final mayhem, St. Paul's staff were primed and ready to deal with a mass-casualty event.
The night started off quietly in emergency. Even the homeless people who regularly show up at the department were elsewhere, glued to TV sets showing Game 7 of the final, recalls nurse leader Christina Graham. The game was also on in the emergency waiting room. "We knew when we lost," Graham says. "We knew it was time to step into action."
Police had already told emergency staff that tear gas and pepper spray would be used if unrest developed. Then staff received word that cops downtown were losing control of the crowds, and considering tear gas. Nurses began filling garbage cans with water and mixing in baby shampoo, which helps neutralize tear gas and pepper-spray residue.
"Anybody who's been pepper-sprayed or tear-gassed, their first reaction is to run straight to the hospital," Graham says. Run to the hospital they did. Security guards set up a line to keep out the curious and friends of patients. Nurses outside began conducting pre-triage to determine who needed to be brought in and who could be rinsed off and sent away.
"We were really basically hosing them down and dunking them in buckets," says nurse Pat Munro.
Those admitted — many with contusions from falls or fighting, others with broken ankles — had to be decontaminated first and have their clothing removed, as residual tear gas and pepper spray could be released inside the building. Many patients, says Graham, were "obviously under the influence," or as Brown puts it, "piss-drunk."
Meanwhile, hospital staff — including 15 emergency nurses — who saw the rioting on TV began arriving without being called. One nurse walking from Yaletown had to be escorted across the Granville Street battleground by police holding riot shields over her. Another had to run a gauntlet of hooligans on rooftops throwing bottles down at him.
By 11:30 p.m., ambulances kept out of the downtown core earlier for safety reasons began bringing patients in.
"They'd open the door and now there's not one person in the back, there's five or six or seven," Munro says.
One badly beaten man, who had tried to stop rioters, had received a cupcake from a St. Paul's staffer. "He really needed that," Graham says. "He was just so happy to get a cupcake."
Another man had been attacked and injured for wearing a Boston Bruins shirt. Before he was discharged, staff offered him a different shirt. "He wouldn't take the other shirt," Graham says. "He said, 'Nope, I'm a supporter.'"
Then, in spite of decontamination efforts, emergency staff and patients began experiencing symptoms of tear-gas exposure. Police had fired the noxious substance down the street, and it had been sucked into a hospital air intake. An engineer was dispatched to shut off the vent.
The resumption of ambulance service to St. Paul's brought not only loud, drunk, bleeding victims of fights and stabbings but also patients suffering from ailments not related to the riot. "They were wide-eyed," Graham says. "You've got patients with basic medical complaints who are sitting there staring and thinking, 'What the heck's going on here?'"
Hospitalized patients who were supposed to be discharged that night were kept in till the next morning. "We would've pushed them out into the middle of a riot," Graham says.
Around 3 a.m., the chaos began to subside. "You had a moment to actually sit and go, 'Wow, what did we actually go through?'" Graham remembers.
Echoes of the night's events continued the next day and beyond. Driving through downtown on her way home, "seeing everything broken and shattered and cars destroyed on the side of the road, it was pretty surreal," Graham says. Over the next couple of days, she saw TV news reports featuring rioters and riot victims, including two she'd treated for injuries. "I'm seeing them getting stomped on, getting kicked," Graham says. "It was pretty surprising."
For Graham, the true test of the emergency department's riot response is comparison with a typical night. "We actually provided the care we would have any other night," she says.
It was, of course, not any other night. "It was the epitome of why I went into emergency nursing," Graham says. "We love action. We're emergency nurses for a reason."


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One more time, the air was taken out of their football — only this time, literally.
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The Trojans announced they had been reprimanded and fined by the Pac-12 Conference because one of their student managers had intentionally deflated several footballs below NCAA-regulated levels during the first half of the Trojans' 62-51 loss to Oregon on Saturday at the Coliseum.
The student manager is no longer with the team, but, despite USC's diligent efforts to clean up the program during its two years in NCAA purgatory, the flames of impropriety are again licking at its cleats.


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Winters threw two touchdown passes in the waning moments of the fourth quarter Saturday to lead Harvard to a 14-10 victory at Yale in the 126th playing of The Game. Winters completed 10 of 26 passes for 211 yards while also running 11 times for 51 yards (4.6 ypc) in the game. His touchdown passes came in the form of a 41-yarder to preseason All-America wideout Matt Luft and a 32-yarder to Chris Lorditch with just over 1:30 left in the game to complete Harvard's comeback.
Winters is a two-time recipient of the award after also garnering honors back on Sept. 28.
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Takamura had a team-high nine tackles (five solo) against Harvard and he intercepted a pass at midfield with 51 seconds left in the game to seal the win.
Lorditch recorded his third career 100-yard receiving game Saturday against Yale with five receptions for 104 yards including a 32-yard touchdown pass with under two minutes remaining to lift Harvard to the win.
With its 14-10 win at Yale, Harvard extended its own Ivy League-record of seven-win seasons to nine straight ... The victory ensures that Harvard finishes the decade with at least the nation's second-best winning percentage this decade with a 76-23 record (.768). Harvard is also among the top 10 teams in all of Division I in winning percentage in the 2000's ... Over the past nine seasons, Harvard boasts a 71-18 mark (.798) ... Harvard has won the last five games played at Yale Bowl and won eight of the last nine games ... The last time that Harvard won eight of nine games against Yale came from 1912-1922 when the Crimson dominated the series by outscoring the Bulldogs 154-20, losing just one game by a 6-3 margin (1916) with four shutout victories ... Harvard has scored points in a school-record 118 consecutive games ... Jon Takamura's interception at Yale on Saturday gave the senior linebacker four on the season and marked the first time this decade that a linebacker has led the team in interceptions. He also led the team with four sacks and finished third in tackles (47 - 22 solo) despite missing a game and only starting two ... Carl Ehrlich, the senior captain, finished his career with exactly 100 career tackles after registering seven on Saturday with two sacks.


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As for the rest of the issue, it wasn't bad. I like the use of Madam Masque (I'm an Iron Man fan too) and they seem to be building to a pretty epic finale. I was also glad to see that up against a villain like Count Nefaria, Moon Knight held his own. All I know is: there's only a few issues left, so I plan to stick it out and read this thing to the finish.
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: Mixed feelings after...
: Moon Knight #10
: The opening page would have been nice if it
: wasnt identical to the cliffhanger page.
: The berserker vignette panels were TOO
: vague. Yeah, they explain what happened
: later and having readers use their
: imagination for violent scenes is usually an
: effective way - but this still felt TOO much
: onus on the readers.
: The 3pages of hallucination seemed just
: that. More of the same swiss cheese
: mindscape of Marc. REALLY hope everything
: hasnt been a Pam Ewingesque dream all along
: as this thread speculates. THAT WOULD BE
: Det.Hall had a good scene even if his force
: are bumblebutts to not notify the Avengers
: or have better security to stop a lone
: bodynapper.
: "IMAGINE HOW SHE FEELS" seemed
: like the most tasteless wisecrack in some
: time. Bad karma for Buck there.
: We see what happened to the Count and a
: surprising/cool intro of Masque into the
: storyline. [Need to be reminded how things
: ended with The Hood and where she went.]
: More psycho Marc hallucinating and cashing
: in on Wolverine images. Crazy redundant.
: Wow. Looks like Echo is really dead. Good to
: get meaningful change - not so much in a
: series slated for cancellation. Not sure why
: Masque went to the morgue - it seems just
: for clues in which case her methods seemed
: TOO extreme. Bad Ass even. If it turns out
: she takes the body then am skeptical this is
: Echo's meaningful final fate.
: Snapdragon is becoming a dark horse good
: character. Liked her interrogation scene.
: See Buck, there's that bad karma. If
: Editorial did not give the okay to kill an
: Avenger then this minor player is doomed -
: especially if Masque was the sniper. He is a
: bumblebutt too for the poor security of
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Out of the loop? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Out of the loop? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General North America Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message The K DogJoined: 27 Feb 2003Posts: 24Location: Paris Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 6:57 pm Post subject: Out of the loop? Dear Readers, I have a bit of a problem: I have been teaching EFL in Paris, France for the past two-and-a-half-years, have learned to speak French fluently, but I have no degree in French (BA in English Literature, M.Ed in Postsecondary TESOL), now, I would like to go back to America and be a French teacher in the secondary school system, but I don't know what to do. Even though I don't have a French degree, I speak it, and would like to teach it as I find it more stimulating than EFL, so, do you know, if (I know that regulations vary from state to state) I could teach this subject after passing a certification exam that states that I am fluent rather than getting a whole new BA and a whole new M.Ed? Someone mentioned the private school system, so, maybe that's an option, but I just fear spending six more years acquiring more degrees to teach something I already know and the time and expense that could incur. If you could help I would appreciate it. Peace out, K Dog Back to top MindTravellerJoined: 13 Mar 2003Posts: 89Location: Oman Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 4:02 am Post subject: Teaching French in the USA To get my teaching credential at the age of 40 took 1.5 years full-time. Yes, I greatly enjoyed being back in college as a student. I also taught composition part-time so I wasn't completely out of the proesssional loop. My BA and MFA were in Rhetoric (writing), and there was no credential in writing. So I had to take English literature courses to get a credential in English. If you go for a credential program, you'd obviously have a French placement exam. Then you pass that and take the teaching coursework program and student teaching. THEN you have more opportunities to teach at schools around the world - as EFL and French. If you go to a good school and convince the Education Dept. that you've had a lot of teaching experience, you can cut the student teaching down from a semester to a few months. I did that - then the Education Dept. Head died.... and I had to re-convince the new guy. Rather than student teach for just one month as originally planned, I had to student teach two months, but not the full semester. It's not that painful! It's a good investment. Sometimes I think I should have gotten a Masters in Linguistics, but mosts USA schools seemed two-year programs. However, in the UK, such Masters can be done in one-year programs. The credential program in the USA is strict. It's an educational reform action so the USA isn't littered with many (not all!) Korean-like EFL teachers. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General North America Forum All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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In game theory (see games, theory of ), the computer must choose among a number of possible
next moves to select the one that optimizes its probability of winning this type of choice is analogous to that of a chess player selecting the next move in response to an opponent's move. In pattern recognition, shapes, forms, or configurations of data must be identified and isolated from a larger group the process here is similar to that used by a doctor in classifying medical problems on the basis of symptoms. Natural language processing is an analysis of current or colloquial language usage without the sometimes misleading effect of formal grammars it is an attempt to model the learning process of a translator faced with the phrase
throw mama from the train a kiss. Cybernetics is the analysis of the communication and control processes of biological organisms and their relationship to mechanical and electrical systems this study could ultimately lead to the development of
thinking robots (see robotics ). Machine learning occurs when a computer improves its performance of a task on the basis of its programmed application of AI principles to its past performance of that task.
In the public eye advances in chess -playing computer programs were symbolic of early progress in AI. In 1948 British mathematician Alan Turing developed a chess algorithm for use with calculating machines—it lost to an amateur player in the one game that it played. Ten years later American mathematician Claude Shannon articulated two chess-playing algorithms: brute force, in which all possible moves and their consequences are calculated as far into the future as possible and selective mode, in which only the most promising moves and their more immediate consequences are evaluated.
In 1988 Hitech, a program developed at Carnegie-Mellon Univ., defeated former U.S. champion Arnold Denker in a four-game match, becoming the first computer to defeat a grandmaster. A year later, Garry Kasparov , the reigning world champion, bested Deep Thought, a program developed by the IBM Corp., in a two-game exhibition. In 1990 the German computer Mephisto-Portrose became the first program to defeat a former world champion while playing an exhibition of 24 simultaneous games, Anatoly Karpov bested 23 human opponents but lost to the computer.
Kasparov in 1996 became the first reigning world champion to lose to a computer in a game played with regulation time controls the Deep Blue computer, developed by the IBM Corp., won the first game of the match, lost the second, drew the third and fourth, and lost the fifth and sixth. Deep Blue used the brute force approach, evaluating more than 100 billion chess positions each turn while looking six moves ahead it coupled this with the most efficient chess evaluation software yet developed and an extensive library of chess games it could analyze as part of the decision process.
Subsequent matches between Vladimir Kramnik and Deep Fritz (2002, 2006) and Kasparov and Deep Junior (2003) resulted in two ties and a win for the programs. Unlike Deep Blue, which was a specially designed computer, these more recent computer challengers were chess programs running on powerful personal computers. Such programs have become an important tool in chess, and are used by chess masters to analyze games and experiment with new moves.
Another notable IBM AI computer, Watson, competed in 2011 on the
Jeopardy! television quiz show, defeating two human champions. Watson, about 100 times faster than Deep Blue, was designed to process questions in natural human language (as opposed to simple commands), making sense of the quirky questions' complexity and ambiguity, and to search an extensive database to quickly provide the correct answers. Watson is a prototype for programs or services that can act as knowledgeable assistants, or even human substitutes, in such different fields as medicine, catalog sales, and computer technical support.
See also expert system .
See D. Freedman, Brainmakers: How Scientists Are Moving Beyond Computers to Create a Rival to the Human Brain (1994) D. Gelernter, The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought (1994) D. Rasskin-Gutman, Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind (2009).
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- 1 cup pecans (about 3 ozs.)
- 112 stick (114 cup) unsalted butter.
Butter a 13 x 9 inch baking dish. Cut 24 I-inch slices from baguette and arrange in one layer in baking dish. In a large bowl whisk together eggs, milk, nutmeg, vanilla and 3/4 cup brown sugar and pour evenly over bread. Chill mixture, covered, until all liquid is absorbed by bread, at least 8 hours, and up to 1 day. Preheat to 350 degrees.
- 1 teaspoon unsalted butter
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups blueberries (about 12 ounces)
- 1 cup blueberries (about 6 ounces) 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
In a shallow baking pan spread pecans evenly and toast in middle of oven until fragrant, about 8 minutes. Toss pecans in pan with 1 teaspoon butter and salt.
Increase temperature to 400 degrees.
Sprinkle pecans and blueberries evenly over bread mixture. Cut 112 stick butter into pieces and in a small saucepan heat with remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar, stirring until butter is melted. Drizzle butter mixture over bread and bake mixture 20 minutes, or until any liquid from blueberries is bubbling.
Make syrup: In a small saucepan cook blueberries maple syrup over moderate heat until berries have burst, about 3 minutes. Pour syrup through a sieve into a heatproof pitcher, pressing on solids, and stir in lemon juice. Syrup may be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Reheat syrup before serving


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This week we're taking another break from our Android Gaming Weekly recap to focus on new releases. We still plan to cover upcoming releases and games we're playing, but this new column is dedicated to new games you can install and start playing right now. Check out our top picks and let us know if you have any suggestions for next week in the comments below.
1. Angry Birds Star Wars
Description: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… a group of desperate rebel birds faced off against a galactic menace: the Empire's evil Pigtroopers! Rebel birds, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Imperial Pigs. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the PIG STAR, and are racing to deliver the plans to the Rebel Birds. Now they need your help!
Notes: Yes, you are installing Angry Birds on your phone.
2. Expendable Rearmed
Description: You are given control of a clone army of Expendable units, dropped in one by one, rearmed to battle for the last human settlements which have been overrun by the G'neng, a malevolent bio-mechanical alien race. Attack the G'NENG and kill them all. Relentless waves of aliens in a fight to the death. Nearly everything can be blown up. Large detailed worlds ready to be destroyed. Beautifully rendered destruction effects, have never made destruction so satisfying.
Notes: The PC and Dreamcast 1999 classic arcade shooter brought right up to date on your handheld device.
3. Air Patriots
Description: Air Patriots is a new kind of tower defense game with unique and novel game play, and "towers" that take flight! In Air Patriots, you control a squadron of planes by drawing the paths they will follow to engage the enemy! Unlike normal tower defense games, in Air Patriots your weaponry is all mobile, allowing you to change up tactics on the fly and move your "towers" to where they're needed most!
Notes: From Amazon Game Studios. Free version includes 3 maps that are free in-game (12 levels). All additional maps (present and future) can be purchased in the Map Pack for $1.99.
4. Tiny Troopers
Description: Size doesn't matter to these miniature men of war as they take on a big enemy. Take control of a petite platoon of crack soldiers in a variety of wee warzones as you battle through an epic third-person-shooter campaign. Military-grade strategy, intense shooter action, outstanding 3D visuals and a wry smile make Tiny Troopers an unmissable combination of manic combat, monumental mirth and miniature marines.
Notes: Early reviews report game lag on certain devices.
5. Red Wing Ikaro Racing
Description: With Red Wing (Ikaro) Racing you are the pilot of a high performance airplanes racing for life at low altitude against a fleet of colorful peers in a breathtaking scenario, working your way from apprentice to full-fledged ace pilot. Enjoy and explore the magnificent scenario of the city with all its skyscrapers, fly at low altitude over the water of a calm laguna at dusk, enjoy the beauty of an Arizona canyon under the noon sun.
Notes: Looks like one of the best air racers, but price is $5.99.
6. Army of Darkness Defense
Description: Get out your boomstick and rev up your chainsaw! In this tug-of-war, casual defense game based on the MGM classic movie, you play Ash, the time-traveling, evil-fighting, S-Mart sales clerk as you defend Lord Arthur's castle and the Necronomicon from the oncoming hordes of evil undead.
Notes: I like the movie and tower defense games, but I might pass on this one.
7. Ghostbusters: Paranormal Blast
Description: Who you gonna call? YOU! Become a Ghostbuster and help clean up your own city. Requires gyroscope and camera to play! Ghostbusters Paranormal Blast is the best Augmented Reality game to ever hit Google Play. Battle ghosts in your neighborhood as you rid your own city of paranormal foes!
Notes: Not many augmented reality games are worth playing.
8. Curiosity
Description: Is the power of curiosity enough to unite the world in solving one mystery? Join thousands of people worldwide to simultaneously chip away at a giant Cube to discover the life-changing secret buried inside. Deep in the centre of the Cube is something life-changingly amazing, but only the first person to reach the centre will discover what's inside. Even after the amazing discovery has been uncovered by one lucky individual, there is still more on the Cube to be revealed to the world.
Notes: Sounds like a cool social gaming experience, but early reviews point out constant server errors and other bugs.
9. Star Warfare: Alien Invasion
Description: Aliens return, beat them! Soldiers! Console-quality boss battles, 36 single player levels, multiplayer supported, tons of gear and unique avatars to collect!
Notes: Could be a great co-op shooting game if you got friends to team up with.
10. Hanger
Description: Swing your way through the levels. Don't lose too many body parts! Hanger – the hit game series with over 60 million plays is now available for Android! Use your rope to swing your way through each level. Try not to lose any limbs along the way!
Notes: Cool indie game of the week.


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Physical Sciences
Research Highlights
September 2006
Playing Keep-away with Sulfate
Scientists provide molecular view of sulfate salt dissolving in water
Lai-Sheng Wang
Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Czech Republic's Academy of Sciences have just determined how water molecules pry apart a complex molecule. The research team, which has just published a paper on their discoveries, studied sodium sulfate ions. These ions, as the salt sodium sulfate, appear in natural deposits, laundry detergent and other common household products, as well as in atmospheric studies of deteriorating air quality.
"We obtained a vivid picture of the initial processes of how water molecules start to 'desolve' a sodium sulfate molecular ion," said PNNL affiliate senior chief research scientist Lai-Sheng Wang, who is also a professor of Physics at Washington State University, Tri-Cities. "This study is some of the earliest work done concerning more complex salts."
Water molecules wrap around sulfate, pushing sodium away
Dissolution is a common daily experience, such as when one puts sugar or table salt in water. To understand what happens when sodium sulfate meets water, the team generated water clusters of the complex salt and performed experiments using photoelectron spectroscopy at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy national scientific user facility located at PNNL in Richland, Wash.
By performing sophisticated calculations and comparing with experimental observations, the scientists obtained a clear image of the first steps of dissolution. They found that three water molecules are enough to pry apart the sodium and sulfate, by forming a ring between the two ions.
The computed structure of NaSO4(H2O)3 next to its photoelectron spectrum. The red atoms are oxygen, the golden atom is sulfur, the grey one is sodium, and the white atoms are hydrogen.
Future challenges look at temperature and more water
The researchers hope to study the dissolution process further. "In this study, we were only able to make clusters with up to four water molecules," said Wang. Future studies may look at what happens when more water molecules get into the act, furthering the understanding of the molecular games of dissolution.
In this study, the work was performed at room temperature. Because dissolution rates and reactions depend on the temperature, future research may look at controlling the temperatures of the clusters.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences funded the experimental research. The Czech Ministry of Education and U.S. National Science Foundation funded the calculations.
Wang, XB, HK Woo, B Jagoda-Cwiklik, P Jungwirth, and LS Wang. 2006. "First Steps Towards Dissolution of NaSO4- by Water," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 8:4294-4296. The editors of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics selected this as one of the journal's "hot papers."


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FLEMING ISLAND, FLA. - The Coker men's golf team will play in The Spring Kick-Off Intercollegiate tournament hosted by Lincoln Memorial and Wingate on Monday (Feb. 10) and Tuesday (Feb. 11).
The Cobras will be represented by Josh Clay, Christopher Fuga, Aaron Beebe, Will Bundy, Zane Price, Blake Baysden, and Cameron Winebarger.
Fuga leads the team with the lowest stoke average of 73.9 after nine rounds of play in the fall. Clay was close behind with an average of 74.3, which also represented nine rounds of play from the first semester. Freshman Will Bundy will be looking to prove himself this spring, after earning a stroke average of 72.5 for the two rounds in which he competed last fall.
The two-day tournament will start tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. The Cobras will play 36 holes on day one followed by 18 holes on day two.
Story written by Sports Information intern, Sara Allen.