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Sandy Alderson appeared today on Fox Business to discuss a myriad of Mets financial and offseason issues.
CLAMAN: Well, you say you're in charge of looking at everything that's on the field. David Wright's on the field. Will you fight to keep him, at least?
ALDERSON: Yes, I think David's going to be with us for a while, so I wouldn't worry about losing David and Jose in the same year.
CLAMAN: OK. And I know it's inside baseball, so to speak, when you talk about the players. But this all leads to big questions that come out in that movie, "Moneyball," for example, that you can build a winning team with less expensive players. I don't want to say cheaper, but less expensive players. Is that going to be what the Mets have to do?
ALDERSON: Well, I think, first of all, that "Moneyball" was about finding value. And whether that was finding value at lower prices, or finding value in players that command higher salaries, the same point is made. You know, we need to make good decisions with respect to players that don't make a lot of money, but we need to make good decisions with respect to players who do.
And if we invest lots of money in high-salary players, we need to be right most of the time, just as we need to be right when we spend fewer dollars.
CLAMAN: Well, all of this money that's thrown around tends to sometimes destabilize a team, because they don't have enough money to actually run the operations, and people look at these loans that the Mets have taken out. And I think that there's a fair question being thrown around, and that is are the Mets in peril of not meeting payroll?
ALDERSON: Oh, no. That's not an issue.
CLAMAN: That is not an issue?
ALDERSON: No, absolutely…
CLAMAN: 100 percent?
ALDERSON: No.
CLAMAN: Is this the World Series team in 2012? Or is this a rebuilding year, as (inaudible)?
ALDERSON: Well, 2012, we won't be favored in the National League East. The National League East is pretty stacked, and probably the toughest division in baseball at this point.
But we're going to be fun to watch, and you know, the nice thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's not necessarily the highest payroll that wins. It's very often somebody who's put together a team, based on not just resources but also quality decisions. Teams like Tampa Bay are a good example of that, and certainly it can happen here, too.
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On the whole I think it was a good and productive meeting, raising a number of issues seldom discussed in the depth they deserve, and advocates presented a number of potential solutions. I passed around a document I prepared on my thoughts about sidewalk riding as a symptom of dangerous streets and approaches to reducing sidewalk riding. This was partly in response to complaints from seniors about sidewalk riders and the subsequent ticketing of riders by SMPD with overly punitive misdemeanor charges. I was glad at the very least the police acknowledged a misdemeanor was far too harsh and were lobbying to have the ordinance changed to the level of infraction, as most traffic violations are.
I also pitched the idea of programs in Austin and Portland were ticketed cyclists can opt to instead of pay the fine, pay for a certified street cycling course that teaches safe practices and local laws on cycling. I think that's far more productive then sending people to the LAX court house. There were high and low points, like one of the officers suggesting that accidents and bad driving were "inevitable". We really have a long ways to go in fostering a culture of safe streets in Santa Monica.
I can't entirely pin this all on the SMPD though. They are overwhelmed by an entire system that is failing, in engineering, education, other components of the legal system, and the failings of the state level. Improving traffic safety is complex, cross-departmental, influenced by culture, by media and every level of government. There is also the interplay of connected municipalities such as Santa Monica receiving much of it's traffic from the City of Los Angeles.
A complex problem requires multifaceted solutions, but if Santa Monica really makes it a priority to improve traffic safety for bicyclists and pedestrians, and as a consequence it would improve safety for everyone, even drivers, I believe a lot can be accomplished fairly quickly. We need to come together and tackle what is the biggest threat to life in this community.
I have become a firm believer in setting as the goal post, vision zero, an ethical standard that no death should be tolerated on our streets and that we reduce the body count to zero. If you think about our current system and culture, it is based on the premise that the high rate of people dieing in traffic is an unfortunate but accepted collateral damage for moving cars quickly, with the notion that we must all have cars and must move cars fast, to create economic prosperity. This collateral damage costs more American lives than our military engagements, and unlike other health risks, victims often have little or no control over their demise, such as when reckless drivers unpredictably strike or lose control of their vehicle. We are in need of a culture shock.
For a more complete synopsis of the bike committee meeting this week, check out the Santa Monica Mirror, which had a reporter at the meeting and covered the evening's discussion.
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Edward and Lisa Lang of Warwick announce the engagement of their daughter, Kristin Marie Lang, to James Roger Downey, son of James Downey of Exeter and Debra Downey of Warwick.
The future bride is a graduate of Pilgrim High School in Warwick and the Community College of Rhode Island. She is a histotechnician at Rhode Island Hospital.
The future groom is a graduate of Pilgrim High School and New England Tech with a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering. He is a machinist at Nagel Machine Co.
The couple will have been together for six years as of February 2012. They became engaged the weekend of Hurricane Irene, Aug. 28, 2011. They will be married on Oct. 12, 2012 at the Alpine Country Club and take a cruise on the Caribbean for their honeymoon.


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FAQ 54: Does HIPAA Really Restrict Use and Disclosure of My Health Records?
FAQ 55: Is My Consent Needed to Disclose Records for Treatment or Payment?
FAQ 56: Are Disclosures for Treatment, Payment and Health Care Operations Okay?
FAQ 57: Do I Have a Say in Any Disclosures? (Facility Directories and Caregivers)
FAQ 58: Does HIPAA Allow Uses and Disclosures Without My Approval?
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FAQ 60: What Are the Allowable Uses and Disclosures?
FAQ 61: What Should I Do if Asked to Sign an Authorization to Disclose my Record?
FAQ 62: Do I Need a Disclosure Authorization to Care For My Elderly Parent?
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General lighting is used to cast a comfortable level of brightness throughout the kitchen. It is best achieved with a mix of sources, such as a central ceiling-mounted fixture and recessed spotlights around the perimeter. Dark-color kitchens need more general lighting than bright-color rooms.
To achieve adequate light levels using recessed can lights, allow one for every 20 to 25 square feet.
Task lighting focuses on a specific spot, such as the baking center, and makes working much more comfortable.
This type of lighting is best achieved with a mix of sources, such as ceiling- or wall-mounted fixtures augmented with under-cabinet lighting. Position light sources so the worker's shadow isn't cast on the work surface.
Because of their high light output and small size, compact fluorescent bulbs and halogen track lights work well for task lighting.
Accent lighting is designed to spotlight a kitchen's best features. It can be used to highlight a painting or to bring out the texture of a wall.
Effects are best achieved with track lights, recessed lights, and wall-mounted fixtures -- any beam that's stronger than the general lighting. Incorporate a dimmer to create a multitude of moods.
Many sizes and styles of bulbs can be found at a good electrical supply house, but most fall into one of three categories:
Incandescent. Casts a warm, pleasant light and shows fabrics and paints in their true colors but can make the room uncomfortably warm if too many are used.
Fluorescent. Compact versions that fit standard fixtures cost more than incandescents to buy but use only one-third the electricity. For kitchens, specify warm white (not cool white) tubes for best color rendition.
Tungsten-halogen. This low-voltage incandescent bulb provides an intense beam that's ideal for spotlighting objects. They last longer and use less electricity than standard incandescents but cost more up front and produce lots of heat.
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An event to help kick off the girls� basketball season will be held Tuesday night at Williams High School.
Cummings High School will take on East Forsyth in the first game at 6 p.m. That will be followed by Greensboro Grimsley against Williams.
Williams coach Tommy Cole said the matchups came about to ease scheduling later in the season when holiday tournaments might have caused some complications.
Tina Gunn, who left the Eastern Guilford coaching position in the spring, is the Greensboro Grimsley coach.
At the time of the move, Gunn said she would miss some of the rivalries her teams had with Alamance County teams. She mentioned, in particular, how much she liked the scene for games inside Williams� gym.
�I compare a Grimsley to an Alamance County Williams,� she said. �I love playing at Williams.�
Gunn said the new position also would be accompanied by a renovated gym at Greensboro Grimsley. This came after she had a new facility with the rebuilt school a few years ago at Eastern Guilford.
Cummings coach Freddie Shoffner said next week�s game will count as an endowment game for his team.
-- ORGANIZING THE RACE: Southern Alamance senior Morgan Deese organized a road race that was held Saturday. She called it the SA 5K.
Deese is a cross country runner and a track and field participant. She put together the fundraiser to serve as her senior project.
�Why I did it is I want to be a nurse,� she said. �I did it to help with leukemia and help with children.�
She said she�s sending proceeds to St. Jude Children�s Research Hospital in Tennessee. She raised slightly more than $1,000.
The race began and ended at the high school.
There were about 60 participants, with approximately half of them part of a running program at Alexander Wilson Elementary School. She said the turnout was better than she expected.
-- PRESALE TICKETS AVAILABLE: Presale tickets are available for Friday night�s Class 3-A state playoff football game between visiting Orange and Eastern Alamance. The third-round game is expected to attract a large turnout, Eastern Alamance coach and athletics director John Kirby said, so the presale should limit the wait time in lines at the gate.
The $7 tickets will be for sale at Eastern Alamance during school hours through noon Friday. The price was set by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association.
-- TIPPING OFF: The area high school basketball season will be under way Friday when Burlington Christian Academy plays host to a girls� / boys� doubleheader against Vandalia Christian.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Wiebke Schlender of Indiana Tech has been named the NAIA National Women's Golfer of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Schlender was selected based on her performance from March 31-April 6 and was chosen out of a pool of conference, independent and unaffiliated group winners.
Schlender, a freshman from Paderborn, Germany, carded a one-under par 72 to win the University of Saint Francis (Ind.) Cougar Invitational on April 5 in Fort Wayne, Ind. The win, Schlender's ninth in 11 appearances, helped Indiana Tech to a second place team finish at the Invitational. The 72 was two strokes off of Schlender's season-low round of 70, but nearly four strokes better than her season average of 75.71, which ranks third in the NAIA.
The next Women's Golfer of the Week will be announced on April 16. For the complete 2014 Golfer of the Week schedule, click here.
Nominees: Avery Rochester, Columbia (Mo.); Mary Jackson, St. Francis (Ill.); Erin DeVries, Bethel (Ind.); Leah Miller, Marian (Ind.); Courtney Musgrave, Peru State (Neb.); Heather Shake, Houston-Victoria (Texas); Bri-ann Tokariwski, Cumberlands (Ky.); Maria Saavedra, Bellevue (Neb.); Kenzie Rottinghaus, Grand View (Iowa); Maggie Yang, William Penn (Iowa); Elia Folch, Oklahoma City; Sarah Gilliard, Coastal Georgia; Heather Wiquist, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Rebecka Holmstrom, Northwood (Fla.); Cecilia Lam ton, Southeastern (Fla.); Angela Gaines, Warner (Fla.); Natalie Blaxo, Madonna (Mich.); Mallory Antor, Davenport (Mich.).
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DURHAM — Sandra Strogen scored two goals to lift the Oyster River High School girls hockey team past Concord Saturday at Jackson's Landing.
Hannah Herz-Khan also scored of the Bobcats (5-1), while Mickyala Hartford added two assists. Goalie Jess Pittroff made 36 saves.
Oyster River hosts Bishop Brady/Trinity Monday at 6 p.m. at Jackson's. Concord is 1-4.
STA/Dover 10, ConVal 0
DOVER — The St. Thomas/Dover girls hockey team blanked ConVal, 10-0, in action Saturday at the Dover ice Arena.
Abbey Raiche and Gabbi Dodier had two goals each for STA/Dover (4-3), while Nicole Arsenault, Riley Kane, Eleanor Cifrino, Sarah White and Katelin Van Aken also scored. Megan McBride and Taylor Wilusz combined for the shutout in goal.
Berwick Academy 8, Portsmouth Abbey 0
DOVER — The Berwick Academy girls hockey team blanked Portsmouth Abbey, 8-0, to improve to 5-2-0.
Anna Wright had two goals and two assists to lead BA, while Kayleigh Sonricker added two goals and one assist. Also scoring were Gabby Wiggin, Aimee Briand, Gabby Boalavanh and Emma Hambright.
Izzy Eldridge added four assists, while Julia Mini earned the shutout in goal.
Berwick plays at Hebron Wednesday.
Berwick 3, Northfield Mount Hermon 2 (OT)
HENNIKER — The Berwick Academy boys hockey team edged Northfield Mount Hermon, 3-2, in overtime Saturday at New England College.
Jon Malloy scored the game-winner in OT from Alex Hopkins. Cam Toohey had a goal and an assist and Ricky Kramer also scored. Max Motew made 35 saves in goal.
BA (4-5-1) hosts Brewster next Friday.
St. Thomas 3, Exeter 1
DOVER — T.J. Boulanger, Jon Douglass and Glenn Wiswell each had a goal and an assist to help lift the St. Thomas boys hockey team past Exeter, 3-1.
Ty Turgeon added an assist and goalie Zane Angelopoulos made 29 saves in goal.
STA (4-1-1) hosts Salem Wednesday.
Spaulding 3, Bow 2
ROCHESTER — The Spaulding boys hockey team scored all three of its goals in the final two minutes of the first period and then held on to beat bow in D-II action Saturday, 3-2.
Brian Chick scored the game-winner on a 5 on 3 with 27 seconds left in the first period that put the Red Raiders (5-0-1) up 3-1 at the time. Brent Phillips and Brendan Colson had assists.
Phillips netted the first goal and Zach Poisson picked up the second from Zander Allen. Derek Scott stopped 22 shots.
Spaulding plays Somersworth/Coe-Brown Wednesday in Rochester. Bow is 3-2-1.
Merrimack 8, Somersworth/Coe-Brown 1
ROCHESTER — Merrimack skated past Somersworth/Coe-Brown in D-II action Saturday, 8-1.
Timo Jurenka netted the lone Bearcats goal and Peter Robertson made 39 saves.
Somersworth/Coe-Brown hosts Spaulding Wednesday.
Noble/Wells 3,
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Chullainn Kelly had a goal and an assist to lead the Knights. Dean Pratt and Nick Hudson also scored and Wyatt Ricker made 13 saves.
The Knights play at Windham/Sacopee Valley Wednesday.
Traip 96, Sacopee Valley 42
KITTERY, Maine — The Traip academy boys basketball team walloped Sacopee Valley in Class C action Saturday, 96-42, behind 17 points from Chris Czachor and 14 from Atencio Martin. Nick Foye added 11 points.
It was coach Jeremy Paul's 101st career win.
Traip is 4-4 and visits Class B Greely Tuesday.
Traip 40, Sacopee Valley 39
SOUTH HIRAM, Maine — For the second time this season Kendra Kagiliery hit a 3-pointer to beat Sacopee Valley. This time her heroics came with four seconds to play to win the game, 40-39.
Kagiliery had 14 points and Alli Bartlett added 11.
Traip (3-5) hosts Greely Tuesday.
Alvirne 57, Spaulding 27
HUDSON — The Spaulding girls basketball team lost at Alvirne in D-I action Friday, 57-27.
Lyndsee Thompson and Emily Benway had seven points each and Seana Flynn added five.
Spaulding plays at Pinkerton Tuesday.
Marshwood takes third
SANFORD, Maine — The Marshwood wrestling team placed third at the Spartan Wrestling Tournament in Sanford with 181.5 points behind Timberlane, N.H. (265.5) and Danbury, Conn. (248.5).
Jackson Howarth (145 pounds), Luke Howarth 9170) and Brett Gerry (182) all placed second, while Cody Hughes (152) was third, and Elliot Allen (113), Tyler Davidson (120) and Nick Janes (138) were each fourth.
Trevor Smith (132) was fifth, and Darren LaPointe (106) and Eric Pratt (220) were sixth, as was Noble's Jacob Zenga (285).


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Alleged photo of the plane in the Hudson:
It seems to float pretty well!
whatsgoingon wrote:I guess all the empty air spaces in the plane are sealed water-tight with lots of duct tape, wax, and elmer's glue. No water leaks at all -- perfectly buoyant. Who knew that A320s could float like a duck but be taken out of the sky with a duck? Well, we know why the Masters are defunding public education. Physics are getting in the way of their operations.
The Airbus A-320 that landed its passengers safely in the Hudson River was recently donated to the Carolinas Aviation Museum by the Chartis Insurance Company. Other museums were interested in acquiring the aircraft, but the aircraft was on its way to Charlotte that day, most of the passengers were from the Charlotte area, the aircraft was based in Charlotte AND our museum was the only one that would display the aircraft indoors and intact.
Since CAM is a nonprofit organization, we needed the help of many people and organizations to make it all happen.
After the crew and passengers were safe, heavy duty equipment crews continued to work long hours to lift the aircraft out of the Hudson and position it on a barge.
Once the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) had finished with its investigation, J. Supor and Son Trucking and Rigging Company donated the equipment and manpower necessary to have the aircraft transported from New Jersey to North Carolina.
University of North Carolina - Charlotte (UNCC) engineering students designed a fixture to support the aircraft. The fuselage went on display as soon as it was in place at CAM. It quickly became a major attraction.
The tail section was installed by US Airways volunteers with the help of Hunter Wrecker and shortly after that the wings arrived by truck. Museum staff directed by US Airways heavy maintenance volunteers brought the wings into position.
Both wings were positioned beside the fuselage on wooden pallets and jacks to be installed at a later date. The aircraft went back on display.
Hunter Wrecker arrived after museum hours and lifted the heavy wings into their final position. Again, the assembly was directed by US Airways Heavy Maintenance volunteers.
Once in place, the entire museum was transformed with new graphics, lighting, and procedures with the Airbus A-320 as one of the key exhibits.
To cap off the exhibit, several passengers volunteered their time to come to the museum and talk with our visitors bringing real life emotion to the exhibit.
In the image to the left, passenger Tripp Harris talks with CAM visitors about his thoughts and feelings as he rode the crippled aircraft into the Hudson.
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To be sure, the initial and underlying question of this thread was: "Can we see anything wrong in the photographic record of the Flight 1549 miraculous event as illustrated by the media and (alleged) amateurs?" My firm and final answer would now be: Yes. If my observations are correct, this obviously raises a question: who would benefit from staging this highly publicized event? I will try and answer this question later on - and elaborate as to why the very same interest-groups behind the 9/11 hoax may be involved. For now, let's have a look at another comparison of high-quality photos of the Flight 1549 drama:
Source of the upper picture: http://www.airwaysmag.com/channels.html ... nnel_id=16
Source of the lower picture: http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2 ... rentPage=3
I have not added any arrows here in order to make everyone exercise their observation skills for themselves. I hope everyone will reach the conclusion that something is very wrong with these pictures - which are supposed to depict very much the same objects and scenery. If not, let me list just three aberrations to help you along - but do not read any further until you have tried to detect them on your own:
1: The left rear ailerons in the two photos are completely different - they are not even closely related.
2: The stylized American flag (white-striped logo on the rear rudder) is inexplicably, partly missing in the lower picture.
3: In the upper picture, how can we NOT see the main left wing of the aircraft at all ?
Then we have those crane barges ("Weeks 533" and "Weeks 566")...Here's what we may learn about "Weeks 533"... a.k.a. "the Big Bitch" :Mounted on a barge that measures 300 feet long and 90 feet wide, the Big Bitch — more formally known as "Weeks 533" — swings a 248-foot long boom that can lift up to 500 tons, making it the largest rotating maritime crane in the eastern United States. http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2 ... rentPage=3
Note: NOT ONE SOUL is to be seen in the lower picture. This, in spite of the full clout of the mainstream media publicizing the event. Would there not be at least ONE curious bystander on that dock? No rescue workers? Just the lone, early-bird photographer? If your opinion is that I am wrong - and that this is in fact a real and legit photo - please remember this view next time someone asks you about "the millions of witnesses on 9/11"...
SacredCowSlayer wrote:Simon,
I was researching a site that I strongly suspect of being disinfo, and I came across their promotion of this made for TV true story called Miracle On The Hudson, played by none other than Tom Hanks. I instantly recalled the question around here about why they would fake a miraculous plane crash.
Well I guess we have at least a partial answer to that question. I watched two documentaries on this story, and I find it about as believable as Apollo 13. So stupid. . . but here it is.
simonshack wrote:SacredCowSlayer wrote:Simon,
I was researching a site that I strongly suspect of being disinfo, and I came across their promotion of this made for TV true story called Miracle On The Hudson, played by none other than Tom Hanks. I instantly recalled the question around here about why they would fake a miraculous plane crash.
Well I guess we have at least a partial answer to that question. I watched two documentaries on this story, and I find it about as believable as Apollo 13. So stupid. . . but here it is.
Dear SCS,
that is truly hilarious! A made-for-TV "true story" featuring Tom Hanks - and directed by none other than ... Clint Eastwood ?!!!
And never has such an excruciatingly silly movie been titled more appropriately: "Sully".
In fact, the utter silliness of the supposed "Hudson miracle water landing" rates - in my book - as one of the stupidest media tales of all times. I set aside a little time yesterday to analyze the extant "CCTV footage" that we were offered - supposedly depicting the actual water landing / touchdown itself. We have three purported 'CCTV videos" (of the "Absurdly Blurry & Grainy" type - i.e. of the sort we've all grown accustomed to, in the context of the various psyops of this silly world we live in ):
"CCT VIDEO" N°1 : "CCTV Of US Airways 1549 Con Edison Security Camera"
The Youtube description says: "The video was recorded on Jan. 15, 2009, by a Con Edison security camera on Manhattan's West Side."
"CCT VIDEO" N°2 : "US Airways Flight 1549 Crash Lands in Hudson River - Raw Video"
As aired on CNN. YT description says: "Here is amazing raw video from various surveillance cameras of the US Airways Flight 1549 crash landing into the Hudson River on January 15, 2009."
"CCT VIDEO" N°3 : "Video of US Airways descent into Hudson River released"
Now, this one truly 'takes the cake'. Youtube description says: "New York--The Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board released Coast Guard footage today of the U.S. Airways passenger plane as it conducted an emergency landing into the Hudson River Jan. 15, 2009."
This third one is quite pricelessly sully silly - let us watch it together.
This "CCTV clip filmed by The Coast Guard" features a running time stamp - so there can be no doubt that it is meant to represent continuous, 'security camera footage'. It starts with showing us a (ghost-town-like) 'Manhattan scenery' - the only moving, 'lifelike' objects being the clouds in the sky, for an interminable, 2 boring minutes. Yes, this is supposed to be a view of 'bustling Manhattan' at around 3.30 PM ... Note also that, smack in the middle of the framed 'Manhattan skyline', we have what looks like two tall & dark twin towers (whichever these buildings are meant to be). At 2:02 into the YT clip, we see "Flight 1549" at far left, splashing into the 'camera view':
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mLKfRVU3qM
Eight seconds later (at 2:10 into the clip), we see the 'plane' gliding to a halt.
(At the bottom of the picture, we see ONE vehicle driving along the dock road - hey, there's life in 'bustling Manhattan' after all!...).
Then, at 2:35, the static "CCTV security-camera" suddenly 'springs to life' - and starts zooming and panning towards the floating airplane.
At 2:42 (i.e. 33 seconds after the plane ground to a halt), here is what we can see :
That's right: we're asked to believe that about 20 passengers (+ inflatable life raft) had managed to exit the aircraft in 33 seconds flat ! That computes to an average 'escape time' of 1.6 sec for each one of these passengers to step out / scramble out of the plane !
'Sully' indeed. Nay, excruciatingly 'sully', if you ask me.
PS: Please note that we, the people, are also asked to believe that, back in 2001, 50+ "amateur videographers" managed to capture on video the "550mph FLIGHT 175 crashing into WTC2" - at 9:03 AM. Yet, this "Miracle on the Hudson incident" (featuring an alleged emergency landing of a big airliner approaching at far, far slower velocity than 550mph - at 3:30 PM) was only captured by the above three, crappy "CCTV cameras"...
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Last night was a good night.
Last night I, Msaker, rustled through my bank account and bags, sold all that I could spare, and amassed another 300 gold. Mind you this was on the heels of my own purchase of the training required to ride an epic mount just days earlier. Not sure how I managed it, but there it was. The last of the auctions collected from the mailbox and tallying the figures, 300 gold.
Now Droonda had already been given some gold. Blackhoof had given her no small amount already, his Outland questing going well enough. (And the big cow has had an epic mount since forever now.) And Darban-"I'm not a bank alt!!!"-ville has been selling a lot of Outland derived loot and materials. Her activities provided a large amount of the cash Msaker needed, and Droonda got some as well.
Anyway, Msaker rejoined the story in progress, in Kargath, and he goes to the Burning Steppes in his quest to get a little more thorium. And in a "pics or it didn't happen" moment (I'll add pics later! - added) I actually mined an Arcane Crystal. WTF? I've been mining thorium for months and that's my first one. Ever. I was so shocked I had to screen shot it. When it turns out I need 3 for an Arcane Rod for my enchanter, Darban-"I'm more than an enchanting alt"-ville, my heart sinks a little. (Blackhoof later transmutes it, with a little Thorium, into an Arcanite Bar. Woot! I was perplexed however that the item text wasn't orange for legendary.)
All the Thorium will buy plans so I can craft an Imperial Plate set for Halcyon, my wife's Paladin.
So, back to the story, Droonda logs on and I tell her to check her mailbox. She's got cash. I've returned to Orgrimmar and ask her to meet me at the wolf seller. It's time she bought her epic mount. I gave her the last 250 gold she needed and she picked the Swift Gray Wolf. She's got her trinket and I've now got spurs made and am waiting to put them on her boots. Two Orcs on fast wolves. Nice.
So, that mission done we hearth back to Shattrath and fly back to Falcon Watch to wrap up some odds-and-ends projects.
Not much later we're asked by a guildie could we please come to Un'Goro Crater. ... That's like 20-30 minutes away. What did he want? His level 54 Blood Elf, Mortannon, had found King Mosh and wanted to kill it and see what loot it dropped, and skin it for mad amounts of Ravasaur Leather.
Well, we fly to Shattrath, port to Orgrimmar, and fly to Marshals Point. The hunt was on.
Well, the first go wasn't stellar. Droonda was not wearing her "Healing" outfit and the 54 Hunter's DPS wasn't that great, and King Mosh has 61,000 hit points, and that's 10 times what I have. I'm stomped, the Hunter goes down, and Droonda, beloved Shaman Princess, bites the dust of Un'Goro Craters floor.
Alright. Plan B. Mortannon logs off and brings out Maelstrom, his level 65 Undead Warrior. Msaker would tank, Droonda would be healing in her Healer gear, and Maelstrom would DPS.
The first fight I noticed the bear was feared a lot. Msaker was never feared. The second fight I was feared over and over. But with a Tremor Totem out I recovered quickly enough.
And the 2nd time King Mosh did the dust munching thing. Pwned. Shammy and two Warriors.
We loot and King Mosh had a Jade Plate Chest Armor hidden on him (not a bad piece of armor) and Mortannon returned and skinned King Mosh. The big guy dropped 1 piece of Ravasaur Leather. One. :) Ah well.
We saluted Mortannon and hearthed back to Shattrath. We did finish the couple of quests we'd started and then we journeyed to the Cenarian Refuge in Zangarmarsh and logged off for the night.


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I suppose after five years of anticipation and cult hit status, it would be difficult to not let down the fans. Nevertheless, I wanted so little of the fourth Netflix-driven season of "Arrested Development"—the bar was so low. Just put all of those characters back on screen, I figured, and I'd be happy.
But this experiment was, for all intents and purposes, an abysmal failure.
Okay, that might be strong. AD4 still wrung more than its fair share of reluctant laughs out of me even after I got pissed at it: George Michael's fumbling, Tobias's double entendres, GOB's inadvertent one-liners (same!). However, I was one of the original AD fanatics, watching the pilot debut after "The Simpsons" way back in 2004 (Jesus Christ, I'm old) and sending prayers to the invisible wizard in space to keep it on the air.
Because I'm an amateur scientist, however, I knew I couldn't rely on my own observations. I needed a controlled experiment. Luckily, I had my roommate for this. He had never seen "Arrested Development" before and burned through the first three seasons in about a month, laughing his ass off. Yet he too sat on the couch, mostly silent throughout season 4.
First of all, we knew something was wrong when we just couldn't get through the episodes. I'm shocked we didn't watch them all the first night they came out on Netflix, but it took us almost two weeks. It became a chore. We kept falling asleep during the episodes (same!).
Furthermore, several plot lines just ran off into inanity, including whatever the ostrich was doing in the story (Oh, I guess it didn't get a part in "The Hangover III"?). Between Lindsey's boyfriend with face blindness and George Sr.'s effeminate softening—there were way too many gags that felt lazy, unfunny, or the detritus of some other, lesser show.
However, the main problem with the Netflix season is that the writers constructed a massive apparatus of interlocking stories that on its surface might seem clever but is really just too clever by half. At no point in the episodes do any of the characters' stories feel primary or urgent enough to actually warrant your attention. You spend the whole season waiting for a primary narrative to emerge and instead end up watching the same four or five scenes played out in "Rashomon" fashion. Yet this convolution requires the narrator, Ron Howard, to spend the entire season explaining what's happening. While that device is well-loved and well-utilized in previous seasons, in this one it simply inhibited almost any scene from going longer than four seconds. There were so few scenes where the actual characters interacted long enough to generate any comedic rhythm, through the whole story you mostly feel like you're being shuffled along through a writer's room recap.
Perhaps this is more a problem of anticipation than anything else. After all, how can any series return after five years and recapture its particular edge? Still, season 4 feels like all the wrong elements: too ambitious and barely funny at the same time.
But who am I kidding? If there's a movie, I'll totally be first in line (same).


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Retailers big and small gear up for holidays
'Black Friday' coming: Malls, small merchants anxious about good start
Millions of shoppers will line up outside large chain stores across the country on Thanksgiving night, waiting for the clock to strike midnight, when they will rush the doors to grab a discounted hot item for their children to unwrap on Christmas Day.
But large retail venues in the region like the Stamford Town Center, Westfield Trumbull Mall and Westfield Post Mall in Milford are girding for an earlier onslaught as their major national tenants including Macy's, JC Penney, Sears, Dick's Sporting Goods and others have opted to open instead on Thanksgiving at 8 p.m.
Others will open their doors at midnight, kicking off the "Black Friday" shopping frenzy.
"Last year was the first year we opened at midnight, and we saw a good turnout. We're very optimistic that we'll see a successful shopping season," said Paul Sabina, district marketing director at Westfield Trumbull Mall.
To get people into the spirit, the malls will go all out, decorating for the holidays, with Santa, strolling singers and helpful elves greeting anxious shoppers.
In fact, elves at the Westfield Post Mall will perform "random acts of kindness" paying for lucky customers' merchandise.
"We set aside a budget for this," said Danielle Consiglio, marketing manager at the mall. "We're looking to create a surprise around every corner of the mall."
According to the Nielsen Holiday Spending Forecast, the excitement of the Black Friday shopping experience might be wearing thin, noting that 13 percent of those who responded to the survey plan to crash the gates on Thanksgiving night, compared with 17 percent last year. Fifty-one percent of Black Friday shoppers plan to avoid the crowds and shop online.
Going local
While some enjoy the Black Friday excitement, most area shop owners like Dorothy Sim-Broder, owner of Written Words, a Shelton book store, can't offer that same sense of exhilaration.
Sim-Broder doesn't seem to mind. Instead, she persuaded a dozen other merchants to join her in organizing "Shelton's Gone Local" to promote the premise that holiday shopping in downtown Shelton can be a pleasant experience. Shelton's Gone Local coincides with Small Business Saturday on Nov. 30, an annual program created by American Express in 2010 to support small businesses.
"American Express has been wonderful putting their marketing dollars behind supporting small businesses. We decided to piggyback on Small Business Saturday," said Sim-Broder, who with her fellow merchants created an advertising pamphlet that will be distributed to shoppers.
The group will distribute 500 pamphlets, which will include information about the merchants.
"Shoppers can answer questions about a store's products and services, so they have to get to know us, and their names will go into a pool for a gift certificate," Sim-Broder said.
Sim-Broder, whose business is located at 482 River Road, has learned to adjust to the challenges of Kindle and Amazon and offers small gifts, as well as books.
`Passion and vision'
"Black Friday is a challenge like any other day. I don't believe in sitting there, crying my eyes out. That doesn't do any good," she said. "You have to have passion and vision."
A nationwide survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses and American Express revealed that 39 percent of small-business owners, like those in Shelton, will collaborate to promote Small Business Saturday, and 67 percent will offer discounts, like their big-chain cousins will offer the day before, on Black Friday.
Babe Rizzuto, owner of Roam, a women's clothing store in Greenwich, is hoping to take advantage of Small Business Saturday to bring customers into her store, which opened just last year.
"We try to make it a fun shopping experience," Rizzuto said. "I think there's a trend of people leaving the malls. People are enjoying the shopping experience in their communities more than malls. Especially, with everything going online, you're missing that shopping experience."
Consumer spending
Area retailers, including those at the Stamford Town Center, are hoping that the holiday shopping season will be a good one, particularly after hearing economists at Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase say that consumer spending will improve from its weakest performance in more than two years.
Still, not everyone is sure retailers can rebound from Thanksgiving's falling so late in the month this year. Kevin Coupe, operator of morningnewsbeat.com, a Darien-based website that covers the retail industry, characterized the shopping season as a "perfect storm" of fewer shopping days, competition from online vendors, and shaky consumer confidence.
"The total numbers are not going to be as high, because you're going to see an extraordinary number of discounted sales that will drive prices down," Coupe said. "You're seeing stores opening earlier on Thanksgiving, but you have to take into consideration the broader picture. As e-commerce becomes more of a competitor, it puts more pressure on bricks-and-mortar retailers. I don't necessarily think [opening earlier] is going to have the effect they want."
At Stamford Town Center, select retailers like Macy's, Gap and Victoria's Secret will open their doors at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, with Black Friday sales beginning at 7 a.m. Retailers in the mall are aware of the conjunction of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving this year, and will roll out most of their discounts and promotions on Black Friday as usual, said Meredith Keeler, general manager at the mall.
"Certainly retailers are very promotional and we expect more customers will come in during that condensed season," Keeler said. "We always see a high volume of shoppers during that [Black Friday] week, and we are ready to welcome them."
For many local stores, the start of December is expected to be the busiest, and some like Darien Toy Box, are getting into the spirit by extending their hours as well. As of Dec. 1, the store will stay open seven days a week with additional hours, offering shoppers a chance to browse the selection of wooden toys and playthings imported from Europe.
Playing Santa
Bill Jensen, owner of Darien Toy Box, has been in business for five and a half years and said that small, independent retailers like himself offers services that chain stores can't, like in-depth recommendations and personalized service. Jensen will hold wrapped toys in the store until parents want to pick them up, keeping them away from kids' curiosity, and will sign gift tags as Santa Claus, so parents don't reveal their own handwriting.
"Anything to keep the Christmas spirit going," Jensen said.
Sonia Malloy, owner of Splurge in Greenwich, has slightly underestimated her expectations for pre-Thanksgiving sales, but she hopes she might be proved wrong. She predicts her early December sales will be stronger than previous years, as customers rush to squeeze more shopping into fewer days.
"It may actually make next week a little stronger than I'm anticipating," Malloy said. "So that would end up offsetting the loss of a later Thanksgiving."
While many chain stores are opening Thanksgiving night at midnight, others like department store chains have rankled Americans for extending their shopping hours. Kmart will be open Thanksgiving day at 6 a.m., and Walmart will open Thanksgiving at 6 p.m.
That doesn't concern Ryane Rumore, a manager at Apricot Lane, a women's clothing store at 1499 Post Road in Fairfield, noting that owner Diane Holtz has planned a series of in-store, online and Facebook offerings.
"We'll have our own Black Friday event the day after Thanksgiving," Rumore said. "For the holidays, we put together a gift guide on Facebook. We'll be participating in Small Business Saturday. It gives people a jumping off point for shopping at our store."
`We know our customers'
In its 2 1/2 years, the store has developed a loyal clientele, including students at area colleges, and Rumore expects to see many during the holidays.
"We know our customers, and they know us," she said.
That's always essential for a small retailer but particularly during the holidays, said Tim Phelan, president of the Connecticut Retail Merchants Association, who could not predict how retailers will fare.
"There have been starts and stops in retail all year, and it makes it hard to predict how they will do," he said, stressing the importance of Small Business Saturday and the opportunity to buy at a store rather than shopping online. "Small retailers are the backbone of the community."
Rotary Ski and Snowboard in Stratford is certainly one of them as it enters its 63rd holiday season.
"My dad started the business in 1950," said Mark Quirizoni, owner of the business, which has built generations of loyal clientele. "The economy hasn't affected me drastically. You're looking at a different clientele in snowboarding and skiing -- not someone buying clothing."
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Sonia's ambitious food bill wins LS vote; UPA gets its 'game-changer'
The food security bill, ardently pushed by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as the centrepiece of her party's campaign to win a third term in elections due by May 2014, finally won approval of the Lok Sabha on Monday. Know the food security bill| Blog: parties disagree to agree on food securitydelhi Updated: Aug 27, 2013 12:17 IST
The food security bill, ardently pushed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi as the centrepiece of her party's campaign to win a third term in elections due by May 2014, finally won approval of the Lok Sabha on Monday -- after days of unruly scenes in Parliament.
Described as India's most ambitious and historic initiative, the bill, which is to ensure food and nutritional security to its people at affordable prices, was adopted by the House after an intensive debate and protracted voting process.
About 300-odd amendments that were moved by opposition leaders to extend the scope of the bill's coverage were negated by division of votes and last-minute glitches.
One such glitch even involved leader of opposition Sushma Swaraj's amendment to the bill, which was shown by the electronic voting display system as having a majority support, which was later revised by a re-vote.
In a rare speech to Parliament, Sonia Gandhi urged everyone to unanimously clear her party's flagship welfare scheme and rebuffed critics who questioned finding money to run it at a time when India's economic growth was running aground.
"There are people who ask whether we have the means to implement this scheme. I would like to say that we have to figure out the means. The question is not whether we can do it or not. We have to do it," she said, directly addressing the criticism of the impact of the expensive scheme on government's meagre finances .
Images: Parliament debates food bill
Gandhi described the welfare scheme as part of an "empowerment revolution" and reached out to the opposition for support.
"This legislation is only the beginning," she said, "we will be open to constructive suggestions, we will learn from experience, but we must put aside our differences."
The latest law proposes subsidized foodgrain for up to 75% of the rural and up to 50% of the urban population.
Eligible households would get five kg of foodgrain per person every month -- Rs. 3 a kilo for rice, Rs. 2 a kilo for wheat and Rs. 1 a kilo for coarse grains.
It also has a special focus on nutritional support to the poorest of the poor, women and children.
Read More: Why food security bill makes economic sense
In case of non-supply of foodgrains, the deprived will get a food security allowance. The law also provides for grievance redressal mechanism and penalty for non -compliance by a public servant or authority.
Under the plan, the government will sell subsidised wheat and rice to 67% of its 1.2 billion population.
Replying to the debate, food minister KV Thomas promised to make improvements in the legislation, plugging loopholes while pledging not to trample on the powers of the states to implement.
He also assured states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala and 18 others that their quota of foodgrains currently drawn, which was higher than what they would be entitled under the new law, would be protected. He also said minimum support price for farmers' produce would not be copmpromised as apprehended by many opposition leaders to cut corners.
Read More: All constructive suggestions would be considered, says food minister
"The PDS needs reform. The leakage problem has to be addressed...We are bringing an empowerment revolution in the country," she said, while mentioning in this regard the Right to Information Act, the Right to Education Act and Forest Rights Act et al.
She said, "It is my fervent appeal that we shall pass this unanimously. We are open to constructive criticism, we must rise above differences to pass this. The food bill is meant for the less fortunate sections of our society...It is a historic step to eradicate hunger. It is time to send out a big message that India can take the responsibility of ensuring food security for all its citizens."
The debate saw BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi describe it as the Congress party's "vote security bill." Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav too spoke of some reservations.
Read More: Ensure food bill does not burden states: Sharad Yadav
"Who will foot the financial burden for the states in implementing the bill? The centre should have convened a meeting of chief ministers on the bill before bringing it in Parliament," he said. "The bill does not say that all of farmers' produce will be bought. Bring in the amendments for this," he said.
Read More: Non-Congress states to gain most from food security bill
With the general elections eight months away, the Congress considered it would be a game changer as it had won the last two elections on the back of populist programmes such as a rural jobs plan called MNREGA and a loan waiver plan, which were passed before the 2009 general election.
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tl;dr: Setting the WorkItemPriority in ThreadPool.RunAsync actually changes the thread priority the code runs on, not just the position in the pending work queue.
It's been a while since I've blogged, but this entry has been a finding that had long eluded me and this was a good chance to blog again. If you're still reading, thanks :)
In the Plain Old (or might I say, complete) .NET framework, there was a pretty useful property named Thread.Priority, which gave a lot of control to app developers. This allowed a very control of what would run, where, and how.
Using this API, you could have CPU bound (hence blocking) code that could run at a very low priority, without the need to be yielded somehow, like it's suggested now with async and Task.Yield().
I was under the impression, since Windows Phone 8.0 and WinRT 8.0 have been introduced, that there was no available way to control the actual thread priority, since either the property does not exist, or even Thread does not exist anymore.
The suggested counterpart, Task, does not provide such a feature, leaving developers no choice but chunking the work, by using clever tricks or work item priority scheduling.
tl;dr: Memoization can be associated with the ConditionalWeakTable class, which allows the addition of memoized computation results to immutable types. This makes the memoized results live as long as the instances that was used to create it.
In the first part of this article, we discussed a bit the Memoization pattern in C#. In this second part, we will discuss how to alleviate the memory management issue for memoized computation results.
In .NET 4.0 – quite a while ago now – a new class was added, the ConditionalWeakTable, to help in the creation of dynamic languages based on the DLR, where there was a need to be able to attach data to existing type instances, much like a fictional extension property could be. This topic is not covered much, and since it has to do with the GC, it is often misunderstood.
The idea is pretty simple: It is a dictionary that takes an type instance as a key, and a value associated to it. The key is stored as a weak reference, meaning that the data is held as a hard-reference as long as the key lives. When the key is collected by the GC, the hard-link is removed, making the data available for collection if it's not referenced anywhere else.
Here's how to use it:
TL;DR: Immutable data and memoization are functional programming concepts that can be applied to C# programming. These patterns have their strengths and weaknesses, discussed a bit in this article.
I've grown to not being a great fan a data mutability.
Data mutability can introduce a lot of side effects in the code, and it can be pretty complex to go back in time to know what a specific state was before the code failed. This gets worse when multiple threads are involved, and that tends to happen a lot more these days, now that even phones have multiple cores.
Sure, we can use IntelliTrace to ease that kind of debugging, but that's pretty much limited to issues you already know about. That means you're reacting to issues that already happened, you're not proactively preventing those issues from happening.
So, to address this more reliably, there's the concept of immutability. When a set of data is built, it cannot change anymore. This means that you can pass it around, do computation with it, use it any place you want, there's not going to be any subtle concurrency issues because the data changed under your feet.
TL;DR: C# 5.0 async/await does not include the implicit support for cancellation, and needs to pass CancellationToken instances to every async method. F# and the Reactive Extensions offer solutions to this problem, with both implicit and explicit support for cancellation.
My development style has slowly shifted to a more functional approach, during the past year. I've been peeking a F# for a while and that shift to a more functional mindset in C# lends me toward understanding a lot better the concepts behind core features of F#, and more specifically the async "support" in F#.
It's known that F# inspired a lot the implementation of C# async, but having looked at the way it's been implemented in F# gives me some more points against the "unfinished" implementation in C#.
Recently, now that people are effectively using async, in real-world scenarios, problems are starting to bubble up, and some to giggle. Async void, async void lambdas, the fact that continuations run mostly on the UI thread when not taken care of properly, obscure exception handling scenarios, the "magic" relation to the SynchronizationContext, that it does not address parallelism, and one that's been pretty low-key, cancellation.
TL;DR: Using an upgraded (and fixed) Parallel Build Process Template allows to use multiple TFS2012 build agents simultaneously, which can be more than welcome when building metro apps that target all three supported platforms. A build that took 11 minutes can go down to 3.5 minutes.
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CI is a wonderful feature, especially when associated with Gated Checkins.
You're certain that what's in your source control is in line with your build definition and constraints, and that there is always a binary that respects a minimum set of rules. This does not ensure that your app is bug free, but still, that's a minimum.
The downside of this validation is that there cannot be multiple builds running at the same time. This can become a bottleneck when multiple developers checkin within the duration of a single build run.
This means that the longer your build gets, the longer a developer might wait for its task completion because of a long build queue, and increase its task switching cost. If a build fails, the developer needs to unshelve its changes, make the necessary adjustments, then check-in again.
Below 4 minutes of build time, this stays in the acceptable range where the developer's task context may not be lost if the build fails.
TL;DR: It is possible to disable the Static Analysis phase in VS2012 projects by setting the DevDivCodeAnalysisRunType environment variable to "Disabled".
This will be a quick post, but which might save you a lot of time if you rely heavily on Code Analysis (FxCop).
FxCop is definitely not known for its analysis speed, and when ran in every build, this takes a lot of time. I usually work on projects where FxCop is only enabled in the Release Configuration, which helps during development in Debug configuration.
But if you're bound to run in Release configuration, such as when profiling the app, or any other task that requires to build in that configuration, then having FxCop running every single time can be time consuming.
To avoid this, there are multiple choices :
That trick is a bit hidden, but here's how you can do this :
Build your solution and you won't have the static analysis running, without any modification to your solutions' configuration or projects. Easy.
That said, remember that this is not documented and might change at any point in the future so don't rely on it too much.
TL;DR: Writing Xaml/C++ attached properties sometimes gives a 30% improvement over the C# version, which can be caused by the use of events. This article shows code sample for both versions.
Since it is possible to write a XAML application entirely in C++/CX, I decided to give a try to the performance of some simple code.
There is, after all, some marshaling involved when communicating from C# to native code, particularly with events.
WinRT's BitmapImage class supports, as does WPF and Silverlight, the DecodePixelWidth and DecodePixelHeight properties.
These are very useful properties that forces the memory surface to store the image to fit a certain size, and avoid the waste of memory induced by large downscaled images. This is a very common performance issue for applications that display variable sized images, where the memory can grow very quickly.
TL;DR: Expanding data-bound item templates in Xaml/WinRT in Windows 8 is about a hundred times slower than with Xaml/WPF. This article details how this was measured and a possible explanation.
In Windows 8, Microsoft has a introduced a whole new Xaml stack, codenamed Jupiter, completely re-written to be native only.
This allows the creation of Xaml controls using C++ as well as C#.
I will not discuss the philosophical choice of ditching managed WPF in favor of a native rewrite, but make a simple comparison of the performance between the two.
I worked on a project that had performance issues for a UI-Virtualized control, where the initial binding of data as well as the realization of item templates, was having a significant impact on the fluidity of the scrolling of a GridView control.
To isolate this, I created a simple UI: More...
tl;dr: JavaScript can call C# code in Metro apps, and allows for C# code to observe notifications coming from JavaScript, using the Reactive Extensions grammar.
Javascript is (almost) everywhere, literally.
Not in everyone's minds though, which is only around 7% according to the PYPL index.
Yet, Microsoft is pushing a lot on that front, particularly in Metro apps where the documentation shows JavaScript examples first. Subjectively, I'm not a big fan of the decision, because it pushes us back a few years and not simply because of the language, but because state of the full JavaScript ecosystem, compared to the .NET counterpart.
TL;DR: Don't use the ReaderWriterLockSlim class on Windows Phone 8 RTM, it has a bug that appears only under contention.
Windows Phone 8's move to the NT kernel has had a lot of advantages for the developer, such as the move to the same .NET CLR as the Desktop Windows, but also the ability to have multi-core based environment.
More specifically, there is one access synchronization – the ReaderWriterLockSlim – which makes a lot of sense in real multi-core environment.
I've been using this class to synchronize access to a dictionary abstraction for performance reasons and also for legacy reasons, since that the Concurrent Collections are available. Note that we do have a new tool in the toolbox, the BCL Immutable Collections, that are becoming my new preferred way for creating collections.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo's Prosperity Scholarship program welcomes its newest class of young, promising scholars, the biggest selection of students in the scholarship's history and the program's latest statement claiming many of Western New York's best and brightest students as its own.
The 27 students – three more than last year -- include university upper-class scholars representing a variety of academic specialties, from urban planning to mathematics to engineering to humanities.
This is the first year the program has broadened its approach and included students from all academic disciplines, according to Hadar Borden, administrative director of UB's Undergraduate Academies. The program is open to juniors and seniors from all disciplines, as well as graduate students affiliated with the School of Management and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at UB.
"Students are awarded not only for their accomplishments and promise as innovators, but also for their desire to contribute to the revitalization and sustainability of Western New York," says A. Scott Weber, senior vice provost for academic affairs.
"It is our goal as an institution to elevate them to the next level, so that upon graduation, they can be even more effective through an intimate understanding of the region's entrepreneurial landscape and the many relationships they develop with Western New York business leaders through the opportunities the Prosperity Scholarship program provides."
The Prosperity Scholarship, funded by the Prentice Family Foundation, covers each recipient's unmet educational expenses, including tuition, books, housing and transportation.
The expanded scope of the program assimilates students covering the full spectrum of academic promise, including those students studying to be doctors, social workers, scientists, writers, engineers, entrepreneurs, psychologists, public servants and economic outside-the-box thinkers who see Buffalo's expanding immigrant and refugee population as commercial potential, not a liability.
Beyond the significant investment in these promising college students and the clear message to let their newfound home benefit from their talent, the program emphasizes activities that showcase career opportunities, job creation, enterprising spirit and the responsibility to give back to their community.
"This year we are excited to be hosting a week-long seminar as part of UB's winter session to help students understand the entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities of the Western New York region," says Andrew Stott, dean of undergraduate education.
"Through this experience, our students come to better appreciate how they might contribute to the region in impactful and creative ways."
The benefits for each scholar include:
-- A needs-based scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year, up to $25,000.
-- Financial support for a summer internship at a prominent Western New York firm.
-- A personal mentor from the business community for guidance on career decisions.
-- Membership to the Buffalo Niagara 360, a young professionals program that helps members develop leadership skills and build stronger networks.
-- Membership in the UB Alumni Association upon graduation.
-- Invitations to networking events and seminars where students meet local business leaders – including potential employers.
The Prosperity Scholars range from Osiris Gomez, a Snyder native pursuing a master of business administration who hopes to become a certified financial planner serving Buffalo's refugee population; to Michael Pantzer, who is pursuing a master of business administration and a juris doctor degree who hopes to expand and promote the digital entertainment industry in Western New York; to Irianna Torres, a Buffalo native earning a biomedical sciences major who hopes to be an oncologist and biomedical researcher.
For a full directory of each Prosperity Scholar, including photos, career aspirations and personal information, go to: http://wnyprosperityscholars.buffalo.edu/experience.shtml
"I believe the developing Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus will play a crucial role in the revitalization of Western New York," says Emily Brooks, a PhD student in biomedical engineering and currently a Prosperity Scholar.
"Born and raised in Buffalo, it is an aspiration of mine to contribute to the region's economy through the establishment of a startup company in the medical corridor focused on the design and development of orthopedic devices.
"I am hopeful that this scholarship will afford me the networking opportunities to gain access to the diverse group of professionals required for the realization of this goal. Further, I look forward to working with an interdisciplinary group of students throughout the year as we learn about entrepreneurship and ways to give back to the Buffalo community."
This year's program also features a new Alumni Advisory Board, established in March 2014, that represents the diverse talents evident in the 27 students. Among the recently appointed advisors are Eben Piazza, Buffalo entrepreneur and connector; Micheal T. Logon, associate with Hodgson Russ LLP law firm; and Julia Jornsay-Silverberg, content marketing strategist at Buffalo Niagara Partnership.
The Prentice Family Foundation has invested more than $2 million in the scholarship program since the group started it at UB in 2009.
Local companies have frequently recruited Prosperity Scholars for popular internships. Previous students in the program credited their scholarship experience with helping them land jobs at regional businesses.
The program has more than 60 alumni, including Piazza, Buffalo City director of Startup Grind, a monthly entrepreneurial speaker series.
"Being a Western New York Prosperity Scholar has shown me that it is OK to want to create something on your own, to take risks and to not follow the beaten path," says Piazza. "It's also helped me realize there are people and organizations in Western New York to help along the way.
"There is no better feeling than when someone comes to me at an event and says 'Will you listen to my business idea?'"
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Jennifer's Farmers Market Bounty En Papillote Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009
Recipe: Farmers Market Bounty En Papillote
How long does it take? 45 minutes or less
Category: Vegetarian
Name: Jennifer
Why is it a favorite meal? It's fresh, seasonal, light, healthy, and delicious! It's a fun way to prepare and present whatever I've found at the farmers market that week, and the simple prep allows the flavors of the produce to shine.
Farmers Market Bounty En Papillote
1 cup fresh corn (2 ears), or frozen
2 small crookneck squash or zucchini
1/3 c. red bell pepper
1 carrot
1/2 small yellow onion
1 clove garlic
1/2 c. cauliflower cut into small florettes
1/2 block extra firm tofu (or fried tofu)
1/4 c. soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame oil
fresh ground pepper
parchment paper
Cut tofu into bite-sized cubes and put into bowl. Add soy sauce and sesame oil. Gently toss and let sit to marinate.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. If using fresh corn, cut from cob; if frozen, thaw and drain. Slice squash into 1/4 inch rounds. Slice red bell pepper. Slice carrot into matchsticks or 1/8" rounds. Thinly slice onion and garlic.
Bring 1 cup of water to boil in small sauce pan. Gently drop cauliflower florettes into boiling water for 1 minute. Drain.
Cut 2 pieces of parchment paper to approx. 24"x30". Fold in half, and with scissors, cut each into a circle. Place flat circles of parchment on a baking sheet. Divide all ingredients onto 1/2 of the round sheets of parchment, leaving 2" free around the edges. Add the tofu last and drizzle with soy sauce/sesame oil marinade. Sprinkle with fresh pepper. Fold the other half of the parchment over the ingredients, and starting at 1 end, fold and roll the edges all around to the other side, sealing in the veggies and tofu.
Brush or spray top of parchment packets with water. Bake until veggies are cooked, yet still a little firm, approx 20-25 min. Transfer packets to plates and serve, cutting large cross or T in the top at the table.
Note: You can substitute any other vegetables, just be sure that they require relatively the same amount of cooking time, or pre-boil veggies that need more time. You can also substitute chickpeas for the tofu.
Thanks Jennifer, and good luck! Readers, give Jennifer a thumbs up if you like this recipe!
Recipes from our Quick Weeknight Meals contest
Take a look at the dozens and dozens of great recipes from the past few weeks of this contest.


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D048 News / Committee / Bio - Pam Faris
State Representative Pam Faris is currently serving her third term as Representative of the 48th Michigan House District, having been elected in 2012, 2014 and 2016. Before joining the Michigan House of Representatives, Faris was elected to the Mott Community College Board of Trustees. As a member of the Michigan Early Childhood Investment Corporation and the Michigan Women's Commission, Faris worked passionately to improve education and advance women's health and equality policy throughout the state. Representative Faris retired from the Genesee County Prosecutor's Office, where she served as jury coordinator.
Representative Faris has been appointed to serve on the House Appropriations Committee during each of her three terms in office. Her experience in government, education and health policy led to her current appointments as Minority Vice-Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services and as a member of the School Aid and Education and the General Government Appropriations Subcommittees. Representative Faris has also served as legislative co-chair of the Michigan Children's Trust Fund; Political Action Committee Chair of the Progressive Women's Caucus; and a member of her caucus' Great Lakes Task Force. She was appointed by the Speaker of the House to represent the Michigan House of Representatives this term as a member of the Health and Human Services Committees for both the Council of State Governments and the National Council of State Legislatures.
Representative Faris has an associate degree from Mott Community College and a bachelor's degree from Baker College. Pam and her husband, John, are longtime residents of Clio. They have two children, Meghan and John, a daughter-in-law, Teresa, and two granddaughters, Madeline and Diana. Pam enjoys spending free time hosting family dinners, reading and gardening.
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President Barack Obama is calling for international investigators to have "immediate and full access" to the site in Ukraine where a passenger jet was shot down last week, and he called on Russia to compel separatists in the area to cooperate. (July 21)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sternly called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to compel Kremlin-backed separatists to stop hampering the probe at the Ukraine site of a downed passenger jet and allow international investigators unfettered access.
"What exactly are they trying to hide?" Obama said Monday from the South Lawn of the White House.
Obama also warned Putin that he could face additional economic costs if he fails to take steps to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, but officials said new American sanctions were not imminent. Instead, much of the White House's focus was on gaining access to the crash site and shoring up European Union sanctions, which have lagged behind U.S. penalties.
EU foreign ministers planned to discuss the prospect of deeper sanctions during a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday. A European official said the discussions were expected to focus on targeting Russian individuals and businesses, as well as possible arms embargoes.
The official said the downing of the passenger jet last week has shifted the calculus among some European nations that had been reluctant to impose tougher sanctions, including Germany and the Netherlands, which lost more than 190 people in the crash. However, the official said there remained splits in the European coalition, with other countries concerned that deepening sanctions on Russia now could harm efforts to gain access to the crash site.
Both the U.S. and Britain, which has been pushing for aggressive European sanctions, indicated some frustration in particular with France, which is pressing ahead with the sale of warships to Russia. British Prime Minister David Cameron publicly questioned that decision Monday and U.S. officials said they continue to raise the matter in conversations with the French.
While earlier rounds of Western sanctions appear to have had little impact in shifting Putin's calculus, U.S. officials said Monday that Russia risks being pushed into a recession by the penalties. Officials repeatedly have cited data from the International Monetary Fund downgrading Russia's growth outlook to nearly zero this year.
Just one day before Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot out of the sky by a missile, Obama announced broad unilateral U.S. sanctions on some of Russia's biggest banks and weapons firms.
Beyond sanctions, Western allies were weighing whether to revoke Putin's invitation to attend a Group of 20 economic meeting in November. U.S. officials said that decision ultimately rested with the host country of Australia, which lost at least 37 people on downed flight.
The U.S. and allies took a similar step earlier this year when they boycotted the Group of Eight meeting Putin was scheduled to host in Russia and instead met without him in Brussels.
The U.S. and European officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss internal deliberations by name.
The White House has been seeking to pin responsibility on the separatists for shooting down the Malaysia Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 people. Officials have also pointed a finger at Russia, arguing that it would be all but impossible for the insurgents to operate the sophisticated missile system needed to shoot down a passenger jet without some level of assistance from Russia.
Obama stressed the need for trans-Atlantic unity in responding to the plane incident and Russia's broader actions in Ukraine during a phone call with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, the White House said. In a sign of how the conflict has rattled the region, the White House said the two leaders agreed it was crucial for European members of NATO to boost their defense spending amid efforts to bolster security in central and eastern Europe.
Obama offered no new evidence Monday as to who was responsible for shooting down the plane. But White House spokesman Josh Earnest said a clear picture of what happened in the incident was coming into focus.
"Russian claims to the contrary are getting both more desperate and much harder to believe," Earnest said.
Russia's Defense Ministry said Monday that it saw no evidence a missile was fired and denied involvement in the downing of Flight 17 and suggested the Ukrainian military was at fault.
International investigators still had only limited access to the sprawling fields where the plane fell. The Obama administration appeared unmoved by an announcement from Malaysia on Monday that the separatists were prepared to give independent international investigators "safe access" to the crash site.
"The burden now is on Russia to insist that the separatists stop tampering with the evidence, grant investigators who are already on the ground immediate, full and unimpeded access to the crash site," Obama said.
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One movie condition you may want to consider is:
Luke Skywalker deflecting blaster shots with his pee saber.
It seems that no matter how many people are shooting at him, he deflects them all, even when shot from behind.
He can sense shooters behind him with the force.
This would be the extreme condition that you might want to allow and design for.
You also have to remember the "Stormtrooper Effect", which causes a massive amount of grunt troops who are all firing at the same target to miss every one of their shots or have them deflected back at them...


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The only review that matters - as detailed and in-depth as ever. "I'm giving the MacBook Pro with Retina Display our bronze Editor's Choice award. Making it the first Mac to ever receive one. It would have been a silver had the software story been even stronger (iWork, Mountain Lion, Office and Photoshop being ready at launch would have been a feat worth rewarding). And it would have been a gold had Apple been able to deliver all of that but without sacrificing end-user upgradability." The device has performance issues which Mountain Lion will address (to a degree), but for the rest, AnandTech's review details - without being pro or anti-anything - just how good this new MBP really is. As a sidenote, Windows 8 on the retina display further confirms the classic desktop is dead to Microsoft: it still can't handle high-DPI displays properly. With the desktop going the way of the dodo, why would the company make it so?


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Boeing 787 Battery Saga
WASHINGTON (AP) — While Boeing's 787 Dreamliners are grounded, the batteries causing airliner's troubles can still fly. At the time the government certified the 787 as safe, federal rules barred the type of batteries used to power the airliner's electrical systems from being carried as cargo on passenger planes because of the fire risk. Now the situation is reversed. Dreamliners worldwide were grounded nearly three weeks ago after lithium ion batteries that are part of the airliners led to a fire in one plane and smoke in a second. Pilots and safety advocates say the situation doesn't make sense. The aircraft are assembled in Seattle.


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This was the "elegant" evening attire....it was also lobster night. Travis was so happy about that.
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That cruise looks amazing Andrea. I think swimming with dolphins would be at the top of my list of things that I would like to do. Sounds like a pretty fun birthday too.
It looks like it was an incredible cruise and an incredible birthday! I'm so glad to see things are going so well for you and your family!
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I love how jolly you always are. That must be your secret to staying so young and beautiful. totally jealous of your fun times! Olivia started cheer! How fun!!
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