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LOS ANGELES – Eight current and former officials including alleged ringleader Robert Rizzo, have pleaded not guilty to looting millions of dollars from the city of Bell's treasury.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Hilleri G. Merritt ordered them to return to court Dec. 8 for a preliminary hearing. None of the eight, including Bell's mayor, vice mayor and ousted city manager spoke in court Thursday except to say "yes" when Merritt asked if they were agreeable to the hearing date.
The not guilty pleas were entered by their attorneys.
An additional hearing was scheduled for Friday for one of the defendants, Councilman George Mirabal, so his lawyer could discuss pretrial motions. A scheduling conflict kept Mirabal's chief attorney from appearing in court with him Thursday.
Only two of the defendants, Mirabal and former Councilman Victor Bello, are still in custody.


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File this under mesmerizing. Nathan Myhrvold and his Modernist Cuisine team, who published a 2,400-page, six-volume cookbook earlier this year, filmed Jell-O bouncing at 6,200 frames per second. If Jell-O had a backyard trampoline and jumped in super slo-mo, this is probably about what it'd look like. Spoiler alert: a finger pokes the Jell-O at 1:10.
If you liked this, you'll also enjoy popcorn popping at 6,200 frames per second and this wok shot.
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Husnock Warship Weapon Power
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Apart from the single Technical Manual reference to 1.02 Gigawatt phaser output, one of the problems with assigning high Terawatt figures to Star Trek ships lies in the episode 'The Survivors'. In this episode an image of a Husnock vessel created by a being known as a Douwd fires on the Enterprise-D. The following dialogue ensues :
Worf : 'the vessel is firing jacketed streams of streams of positrons and anti protons. Equivalent firepower : forty megawatts. Shields are holding.'
[Vessel fires again]
Worf : 'Again, forty megawatts. No damage.'
Riker : 'Well if that's the best they can do this should last about five minutes.'
Later in the episode the vessel returns and attacks again. This time :
Worf : 'Shields are down. Captain, they hit us with four hundred gigawatts of particle energy!'
Picard : 'Damage?'
Worf : 'Superficial. But I am having trouble reassembling the shields.'
[Vessel fires again]
Worf : 'Shields down. There is thermal damage to the hull.'
Data : 'The warship is capable of striking us with far more powerful bursts.'
There is no easy way to reconcile this number with any other value for weapons or shields - second attack was almost four hundred times as powerful as the Tech Manuals reference to the Type X phaser being 1.02 Gigawatts, and so even one or two shots should have overloaded the shields and destroyed the ship with ease - yet this doesn't happen. On the other hand, if the Type X is rated at 100,000 TW then a 400 GW beam should have no more effect than the 40 MW attack.
On the other hand, we know for a fact that different types and frequencies of energy can have different effects on Trek shielding - for example the Dominions Phased Polaron Beams passed through standard Federation shielding easily on their first encounter, but subsequent modifications to the shields made them far more resistant to these attacks. It is possible that the Husnock weapons were simply especially effective against shielding.
Overall I tend to put this incident down as a simple YATI (Yet Another Technical Inconsistency), but there is one possible way to reconcile it. I do NOT say that the following is what the authors had in mind, and I know it requires a slightly... imaginative interpretation of the dialogue. I simply offer it as a possibility.
The weapon fired antiprotons and positrons (anti-electorns), both forms of antimatter, jacketed inside something. Firing a pure antimatter beam at a shield would do nothing more or less than an equivalent beam composed of ordinary matter particles; given the dangers associated with storing and using antimatter, it seems pointless to use it in this way unless it gives some kind of advantage. So I suggest that what the antimatter stream was 'jacketed' with was a matter stream - this way, when the beam hits the shields the two streams would be brought together and annhilate each other, releasing a great deal of energy.
So what about the 400 GW reference? Well, I propose that this was the kinetic energy of the stream rather than the energy it released upon annhilation. To bring the shields down the Husnock fired a series of four pulses over approximately one second - I don't have the software needed to time it exactly, so I will assume that it is exactly one second.
If the Type X phaser is rated at 100,000 TW, then a Starship would consume 1.111 Kg of fuel per second to power that weapon. I'll assume that the Husnock weapon was, say, fifty times as powerful as this overall. In this case it would be firing a total of 55.555 Kg of matter and antimatter each second. So each shot would have a mass of 13.888 Kg and a kinetic energy of 100 GJ - and an detonation energy roughly equal to 4.6 photon torpedoes. The kinetic energy of the stream would be given by :
KE = 0.5 x m x v2
So the velocity of the stream would be :
V = (KE / (0.5 x m))0.5
= (1 x 1011 / (0.5 x 13.888))0.5
= (14.4 x 109)0.5
= 120,000 m/s
Now when we see the Husnock ship firing on the Enterprise, the pulses certainly look like they're going a lot slower than lightspeed - but of course special effects are not a very good indicator of this kind of thing (phasers travel at c, and they usually look quite slow on screen as well).
As noted, I tend to regard this whole thing as a simple YATI. But I think the idea that Worf was talking about the kinetic energy of the beam does hold water, at least to some extent - he said 'equivalent firepower' was 400 GW, but he didn't say what that was equivalent to, after all!
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Where do you start?
When a coach takes over a team that has lost 43 of its last 44 games dating back to 2010, what is his first move? Do you start from scratch – just burn the whole thing down and go from there? Or do you take what you've got and do your best?
That was the dilemma facing Darry Thornton when he accepted the daunting task of reshaping the Lees-McRae (N.C.) College lacrosse team. Fresh off an 0-15 campaign in 2013 when the Bobcats were outscored 264-48, which computes to an average loss of 18-3, Lees-McRae had only 19 players returning and some pretty grim prospects.
"I talked to some of my coaching brethren and they said, 'Why not? You know what you're doing and you know how to build a program,'" Thornton said. "Just talking to Mr. McPhail, our athletic director, he was absolutely phenomenal, giving support and wanting to take the program to the next level. He wanted to take it out of, for lack of a better word, the doldrums it had been in for the last couple of years. I came down and I absolutely loved it."
Thornton is no stranger to building programs or to Lees-McRae. He started the nascent men's and women's programs at Mt. St. Mary (N.Y.) before trying to get a bottom-feeding Mohawk Valley (N.Y.) Community College to respectability over the past two seasons in the NJCAA. He knew of LMC after spending a year as an assistant at Queens (N.C.), which was in the same conference at the time.
When he arrived at Lees-McRae, which is in Banner Elk, a town with a population a tad over 1,000 on the Tennessee border high in the Appalachian Mountains, Thornton went to work immediately. He quickly cut all ties from the past. No player was allowed to wear the same number he had worn in previous seasons. The Bobcats changed equipment providers and the color schemes on the helmets and jerseys were revamped.
"We've had one win in three years here, so we have to change the culture on and off the field," Thornton said. "Lay the foundation. We established a new identity with these guys. We're going down the highway of life and we can't worry what's in the rear view mirror. We need to focus on the task at hand and focus on the front windshield on the lacrosse highway."
Thornton also established expectations about what he calls "the little things." Players are expected to wear matching socks to practice and the same t-shirt under their pennies. The use of the f-word in practice will result in an instant dismissal for the day. It took a while for the players to catch on to this new way of handling things, but it was craved by many of them.
"Coach Thornton's discipline level is something we needed," said junior goalie Ryan Harrison, the only Bobcat player to earn all-conference recognition last spring. "Me and [sophomore middie] Chris McDonald, who came out of the Army, talked about how the lack of discipline hurt our team. It made it so hard to accomplish things on the field when people weren't displaying it off the field."
"The inmates can't run the asylum," added Thornton. "We go to convocation. All the guys had to shave. When we walk off the field, it's two-by-two. It's very little things, but some of the guys weren't used to it, so they were looking at me like I had six heads. But for the most part it has been well-received."
|One of the first rules that Darry Thornton instituted when he arrived at Lees-McRae was that no player could wear a number he had worn in the past. So for Kyle Judge, the only senior on the team, that means switching from No. 19 to No. 1.
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Thornton has to walk a fine line with his disciplined approach because he also needs to build up the confidence of his team and allow them to be creative on the field. When he watched film of last year's squad, which was shutout three times, Thornton saw a stilted offense that was easily parried by opposing backlines. He needed to coax them out of their paint-by-numbers approach to the game.
"They told me at individual meetings, 'Coach, when we played Pfeiffer and Limestone, they knew all of our plays!' I laughed and said 'That's perfectly fine, but you guys are playing like robots,'" Thornton said. "You can't play scared. I tell them to not be afraid to make a mistake, but if you're going to make a mistake, make it an aggressive mistake. You can notice the difference in our practices."
Thornton has brought in 10 players to give the Bobcats a roster of 29 to start the season, although it is very young with only one senior listed. Perhaps the biggest thing he's brought to Banner Elk is hope. No one is anticipating Lees-McRae going toe-to-toe with conference heavyweight Limestone quite yet, but there is an energy and feeling of rebirth with the program.
"It was two years of very difficult times," said Harrison of the first half of his career. "As a goalie, I like to keep a positive mindset and encourage people, but it was really hard to do when you're getting blown out 24-0. That was probably the hardest thing. But now there is this new sense of excitement and readiness and I feel fresh for the first time since my freshman year. It was very hard to be motivated to encourage the team.
"Now it's very easy and there's a sense that we're going to do something good. You can already see it coming into our fall ball practices how much we've already improved."
The schedule this spring will not be confused with that of a tournament contender, and that is by design. Thornton has dropped several traditional opponents and added more teams that are expected to be at or around the Bobcats' level. There are three first-year programs on the schedule with two of the first three games of the season – against Brevard and Tusculum – coming against rookie teams.
And if Lees-McRae can find a way to beat Emmanuel (Ga.), a provisional member of Conference Carolinas as it transitions from the NAIA, later in the season, the Bobcats won't worry about the details.
"We've got to get a W," Thornton said. "We have to learn how to win. Getting blown out by 10 or 15 goals doesn't help you learn how to win. You need to lose those one or two goal games and just understand that you're close but not all the way there yet. We have to understand that lacrosse is about peaks and valleys and you never want to get too high or too low. Expect to win. Don't go out there and expect to lose and go through things we've been through."
That's where Thornton is going start with his expectations, but his arrival appears to have already commenced the building process at Lees-McRae with the first game still five months away.
"We have a drill called Tar Heel and for the first time I saw our team come together with a lot of competitiveness and I saw the excitement in the eyes of my teammates," Harrison said. "Just hearing them hooting and hollering, getting really into the drill and how hard everyone was going, it made me stop and look around for a minute and realize how far we've come in such a short time. It made me realize how different it is this year."


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In Super Mario 3D World, up to four players can join the action at any time, helping one another find stars, or competing to collect the most coins in a given stage. Gamers can use new power-ups to help them through the adventure, including Super Bells that turn them into a wall-climbing cat, or the Double Cherry that creates character clones. Super Mario 3D World makes full use of the GamePad, letting players tap the touch screen to freeze enemies, open door, or find invisible objects, or tilt the controller to change the vantage point and reveal hidden areas, and the game supports off-TV play.
Wii U
At their genesis, Nintendo is a company that innovates. Every step of the way they've brought something new to the table: They invented the platformer with Mario, changed the way handheld gaming is looked at with the Gameboy, changed console technology with the Wii, and finally they have innovated upon themselves. Super Mario 3D World, for the Wii U, is a rare treat. It offers more of what made it popular but wraps it up in a completely new, refreshing, and original package. Put simply Super Mario 3D World is a console seller. Fans of the original line of games will have to consider opening their wallet if they have not done so already.
At the whistle Super Mario 3D World changes the plot of the game a bit. Bowser is no longer interested in kidnapping Princess Peach and has instead set his sights on a group of fairies. After his typical villainy it is up to our group of heroes: Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Peach, all playable, to overcome Bowsers nefarious plot and to save the day. As a throwback to Super Mario 2 each of these characters have their own little traits that make them worth playing: Mario is his typical jumping self, Luigi can jump the highest, and so on and so forth.
The first thing players of Super Mario 3D world will notice on their Wii U is the graphic level. Everything pops and there are no wasted pixels. The colors set a new standard for how art should be displayed. Even though the game is cartoonish and vibrant it is still completely believable as a real place. This is the best that Mario has ever looked and fans of the series could probably be happy if this was the only thing the game got right. Fortunately for us the best is yet to come.
The goal is in the gameplay for most video games and this new Mario adventure is no exception. Players can control their characters by utilizing any of the many control options (Wiimote, Nun Chuk, Gamepad and so on) and they all feel relatively smooth. Each character responds to the lightest touch and every movement you make is fluid and matters. The platforming is easy at the onset but gets more and more difficult as you adventure on. Familiar power ups have made their way back. Mario gets back into his closet by using the Fire Flower, Boomerang Suit, Raccoon Suit, and even the brand new Cat Suit--which lets Mario turn into a cat that can scratch enemies and scale walls. There are a few other treats that I won't spoil for you guys in the power up world, but they offer a whole new realm of strategy.
To provide a gaming experience worth buying all Nintendo had to do was manufacture another Mario game. They did that. Then they did more. Super Mario 3D world innovates when the audience isn't even demanding it, a true treat for the modern gamer.


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Three types of patch panels (wireless, electronic, and intelligent) have benefits and drawbacks. Knowing what works best where ensures problem-free operation.
When it comes to making a move, add, or change in a voice/data cable plant, sending a technician to perform physical changes at a patch panel in a wiring closet is not a simple task. In fact, it is one of the most time-consuming and cost-intensive operations in the overall support of a communications system. One industry research group recently estimated that the cost to maintain local area networks (LANs) consumes 84% of a network manager's budget, 44% of which is spent on physical management and troubleshooting.
However, there are types of patch panels currently available that can help reduce the time and cost associated with such activities. These "unconventional" patch panels each have benefits and drawbacks, depending on the application.
Some definitions. Before getting into the subject of what's out there in the way of electronic patch panels, let's first attempt to define the term. An electronic patch panel is a device that enables cross-connecting electronically; that is, without the necessity of making any physical changes by hand using patch cords or other cross-connect components. This definition also implies the ability to make such changes from a centralized station or terminal such that the patch panels controlled in this manner can be remotely monitored and/or configured by a central operator. The promise of this technology could be very appealing, since it would effectively eliminate the need to dispatch technicians to wiring closets every time a cross-connect of some kind (i.e., a move, add, or change) is required.
The ideal electronic patch panel should also be very flexible and intelligent. It should not only enable the making of distributed cross-connections from a central point, but should also support mixed media cross-connections. For example, you may want to cross-connect horizontal unshielded twisted pair cables (UTP) to fiber in the backbone or, at a minimum, make UTP-to-UTP connections. In any event, the ability to support opti-electronic transitions in media would seem to be of some value in certain cases.
In practice, an intelligent electronic patch panel would give a network manager the ability to make cross-connections from any circuit in horizontal wiring to any circuit in the backbone subsystem without ever having to leave his or her desk. The ideal system would also enable cross-connections between two or more circuits in the horizontal subsystem, up to and including daisy chained circuits.
Product classifications. A high level review of what's out there in terms of what we'll generally refer to as "unconventional" patch panel technology yields products in at least three different categories. In spite of their differences (which we'll describe), all products in these categories have one thing in common: They are designed to minimize, if not totally eliminate, the need to physically make moves, adds, and changes as traditionally done by technicians using patch cords and cross-connect wires in wiring closets.
The three categories, according to our view of the world, are:
Wireless patch panels,
Electronic patch panels, and
Intelligent patch panels.
Wireless patch panels. Products in this category fit the description of "unconventional" patch panels, but are far from electronic or intelligent. In fact, they are passive devices. This is an important distinction compared with the other two categories, which themselves may be wireless, but not passive. Wireless patch panels are also wireless only to the extent that they avoid the use of external patch cords to achieve cross-connections. Instead, they rely on internal cross-connections using hard-wired modules that connect "input conductors" or jacks to "output conductors." This results in a straight-through cross-connection of media such that each conductor's identification is maintained all the way through the cross-connected circuit (e.g., the Tip of pair 1 is maintained; Ring of pair 1 is maintained; Tip of pair 2 is maintained; etc.). You typically base wireless patch panels designed for copper connections on 2-, 4-, or 8-wire configurations.
With wireless patch panels, the assumption is "normal" prevails for most jacks most of the time, and you should only use patch cords to make changes or deal with the exceptions. Therefore, you can use patch cords with wireless systems, but only when deviations from the norm are required. Insertion of a patch cord into a wireless patch panel breaks the internal cross-connection, thereby freeing the input channel for reassignment to another output channel at the user's discretion.
You must still perform all of the physical administration of a wireless patch panel on a remote basis by technicians inside wiring closets. You cannot control wireless systems, according to our classification here, and therefore they are not addressable by remote devices from a central management station of any kind. Wireless systems also come with passive components (not electrified in any way). In terms of appearance, wireless patch panels closely resemble conventional patch panels and are comprised of RJ-type jacks on their front panels.
Electronic patch panels. Unlike wireless patch panels, electronic patch panels are active in the sense that they are electrified. (See Fig. 1, on page 56 of original article). Therefore, they are capable of sensing, capturing, and storing certain operating or status conditions. Then the network manager can handle them properly. However, you cannot manage electronic patch panels, again according to our classification, from a remote centralized station and still require physical handling by technicians inside wiring closets.
Examples of functionality common to electronic patch panels include "sensing" of patch cord insertion or removal from a jack, after which insertion/removal "events" are captured and reported to a network manager. Other examples include the ability to turn LED lights on or off around specific jacks to help guide technicians performing cross-connect work. In general, a well-rounded electronic patch panel system will provide a variety of status and change-oriented reports, and may also be used to sense other systems of importance in managing the physical environment in wiring closets.
Intelligent patch panels. This category of "unconventional" patch panel, as shown in Fig. 2 (in original article), includes devices with all of the attributes of wireless and electronic systems. As its name implies, the intelligent patch panel is fully manageable from a remote centralized station. These support a variety of automated functions including:
Centralized on-line control: The ability to make cross-connection changes and assignments from a remote centralized station, thereby eliminating the need to send technicians to wiring closets. This also implies the total elimination of patch cords, since all cross-connections are made through internal electronics.
System monitoring and reporting: The ability to activate sensor functions, as in the case of electronic patch panels, along with powerful reporting capabilities for network management.
Automated recordkeeping: Fully integrated cable management system that controls moves, adds, or changes and records for full "as-built" documentation reporting capabilities. Systems of this type make heavy use of user-friendly graphical user interfaces (GUIs) as well.
Disaster recovery: The ability to withstand power failures using backup power supplies, robust memory systems, and secondary/backup path selection.
Security: The ability to password-protect configurations and associated databases is also common to these and all other intelligent systems.
Equipment analogous to intelligent patch panels. In many respects, the concept and functions of intelligent patch panels are very analogous to other forms of switches and intelligent hubs. In the voice arena, every PBX or telephone system out there minimally performs internal cross-connections between stations (extensions) and trunks (phone lines). Even the process of establishing station-to-station connections or multistation/conference calls resembles the same kind of flexible connectivity implied by our definition of intelligent patch panels. In the world of high-speed data networks, intelligent hubs (sometimes referred to as wiring concentrators) also provide dynamic internal cross-connections when used in conjunction with remote centralized management software. Using systems of this type, a network manager can electronically group several network users together in one "logical" network on one day, and on the next, totally redefine the group such that a different mix of users results. This can all be done without having to dispatch technicians to wiring closets.
Performance considerations. In spite of the general appeal of the products discussed here, none of them offer a cure-all from a functional standpoint, and all have their limitations. First of all, any of the products currently in place on the market are media-bound. In other words, they are all either copper-only or fiber-only in makeup. This may represent a drawback in cases where users require multi-media connectivity such as needing to extend copper circuits over long distances where fiber may be the preferred choice.
All of the systems currently on the market also appear to be rather application-bound. In other words, the intended applications seem to be restricted to data-only requirements. This appears to be less the case with the wireless patch panels and more the case with the others. The granularity of treatment required for voice, where for example, 1-pair cross-connections are often required, would appear to be either impractical or cost-prohibitive.
And lastly, even when it comes to data network performance, this technology is still somewhat behind the rest of the industry. If we assume the expectation in the industry is 100-megabit per second (Mbps), or Category 5 UTP, then performance levels are required. Products in each of the three categories roughly break out as shown in the Table (in original article).
What's interesting about this performance analysis is that only the "unconventional" patch panel still relies on "conventional" cross-connection methods rates at the industry-standard level of Category 5 performance. This is not surprising, since Category 5 systems are very sensitive to deviations in crosstalk and attenuation. Unconventional methods of establishing and maintaining circuits appear to have a long way to go before these alternative technologies can stand up to the task of supporting continuous data streams at 100 Mbps. Only one manufacturer of "intelligent" patch panels indicates its products have tested successfully at 100 Mbps. However, they currently hold no certification. This could prove to be problematic in the short run, since all of the industry standards for certification are based on the use of conventional connecting hardware, not unconventional electronic switches.
In any case, the nature of the products described here as electronic patch panels is such that all electronic functionality is essentially nonintrusive. In other words, the key functions of sensing and reporting really do not interfere with or participate in the cross-connections themselves. Certainly the presence of LED lights are external to the connectivity scheme inherent to these devices. Thus, it's no surprise performance for these products is in line with the mainstream of traditional patch panels, and higher than products in the other two categories.


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A Problem Is Only a Problem When You Can't Do It
Article by Jennifer Piggott and Jenni Back
Published February 2011.
..or... life is never as straightforward as you think. Jenny Piggott and Jenni Back ask what are problem solving and mathematical thinking, and how do they relate to what we do in the classroom?
Primary Mathematics,Autumn 04, Mathematical Association, Leicester
Problem solving skills are generic skills that help us tackle the unknown. A problem is something we do not immediately know the answer to and often do not immediately know how to go about solving:
"A problem is only a problem when you cannot do it"
Problem solving involves a structuring of our thought and activities in order to help us move from looking at the problem towards a solution. There are many models of problem solving, including, possibly most famously, that offered by Polya (1957). All these models have a similar structure which comprises (very briefly):
Getting to know the problem
Thinking about how you might solve the problem
Solving the problem
Reflecting on the problem.
It is worth saying here that we do not often move neatly through these four stages of problem solving but sometimes jump stages or revisit stages as part of a process of clarification and restating the problem.
These skills are valuable not just to support mathematics but also as a generic aid to problem solving across the curriculum (and beyond). Having a problem solving weapon in your armoury seems to be a skill of value from the cradle to the grave. But these skills are not easily learnt or taught, not least because many of us have not had personal experience of real problem solving in the classroom. Problems and problem solving are key features of mathematics and can pervade mathematics experiences of pupils from the early years. Putting pupils in challenging situations where the route to a solution is not immediately obvious and giving them experience of that slightly uncomfortable feeling of "not knowing" is valuable in helping to develop their thinking skills. It also helps to develop their understanding of maths as requiring more than rote learning, and being about reasoning and experimenting. It is this aspect of maths that contributes to its having a label of being "hard" but it does seem to be an essential part of the subject. At NRICH we believe that by giving pupils experiences of problem solving we are inducting them into what mathematics is really about and giving them the skills to tackle its difficulties with greater confidence as they move through the Key Stages.
One thing we have been describing in the last paragraph is teaching "for" problem solving. That is, regarding it as a key mathematical activity and worthy of being taught -just like we teach percentages because it is both a fundamental part of mathematics but also has generic benefits. However to do this we also need to teach problem solving skills and one might assume that the obvious way to teach such skills is through problem solving itself. This is sometimes termed "teaching about" problem solving. Finally we can also teach mathematical concepts through problem solving. The idea is to teach new concepts by introducing them through problem solving. So here are at least three ways that we might think of problem solving:
1. Teaching for - Teaching for problem solving involves children in experiencing mathematics as a problem solving arena and gives them the chance to "be a mathematician" in some sense. Real mathematics involves solving real problems not just running through procedures that others have devised and problems that have already been solved. Offering children the opportunity to have a go at a problem that may seem totally new and different for them can give them a sense of what doing real mathematics is like.
2. Teaching about - Teaching about problem solving involves developing problem solving skills. In this role, we aim to help children to adopt a model for problem solving (such as the four stage model above). But, if only life were that easy! Mathematical problem solvers also need to have at hand some particular mathematical thinking skills such as , such as generalising and being systematic which they can employ as part of their problem solving and these also need to be learnt.
3. Teaching through - Teaching through problem solving involves using a specific problem to teach a mathematical concept or result.
NRICH uses problem solving in all three of these ways. Let's look at examples of each of these:
Teaching for
Here is a problem from the October website that poses a challenge and involves thinking 'outside the box':
You might decide to use this problem to encourage pupils to simply engage in problem solving. We think the problem also provides opportunities to discuss, share ideas and visualise and then convince an observer of a strategy. This process has value as a mathematical activity in its own right.
Teaching through:
Here is a problem that offers a way of introducing the Fibonacci sequence:
In this case you might use the problem to introduce the Fibonacci sequence and illustrates the fact that there are real situations that generate what otherwise seems like a purely mathematical invention.
One could of course be teaching about problems solving every time pupils tackle problems but perhaps we should be making these aspects of problem solving far more explicit as we teach. Perhaps we should include them in our learning objectives. Of course you can add a lot more detail to all of this. In particular, you might notice that the "stages" of problem solving are not particularly mathematical, but skills which would be useful to have in any problem situation, in Science, Art, Music and so on. These skills then have value and are worth learning and becoming efficient in because they are very useful skills to have. They also form a backbone of continuing mathematics across phases -a connection throughout a pupil's lifetime of mathematics learning. Learning to be confident about not knowing will also prove an invaluable piece of armoury as pupils move from Primary into Secondary phases.
At NRICH we recognise that within mathematics there are particular problem solving skills such as "being systematic" or "generalising" that need to be developed. In other words we can recognise some particular components of mathematical thinking that support pupils with their problem solving in mathematics. There are many more of these mathematical thinking threads and a list of some of them can be found on the website (www.nrich.maths.org.uk/content/research/a-framework-for-enrichment.doc). These are not things we tend to have sufficient familiarity with to know "how to teach" in the same way we might be confident about teaching about areas of rectangles and compound shapes. At NRICH we are putting together packages of material that develop these ideas in an "ordered" and we think "developmental" way. We are calling them mathematical thinking "trails". One example of a trail we have recently worked on is "being systematic". We often ask pupils to be systematic but do not often reference it to pupils when we model it in the classroom. Nor do we identify specific curriculum opportunities that can be used to illustrate this skill in different contexts, and that will give pupils the chance to revisit and consolidate the thinking skill over a period of time. This particular group of activities is designed to take pupils through KS2 into KS3. We will be publishing an electronic version of the trail online with teacher notes and guidance but to give you a flavour of the sort of problems that are included here is an investigation about numbers that would be accessible to many children at Key Stage 1 but that will really stretch older children as the investigation develops and a proof is created.
Teaching about:
This problem may be an ideal opportunity to use as a vehicle to identify some of the strategies we adopt as problem solvers -using the techniques of being systematic and generalising within the four stage model of problem solving. Start by getting to know the problem by experimenting with some numbers and seeing what happens.
So the message is that there is a great deal of danger in talking about problem solving or mathematical thinking without trying to make sense of these very complex and difficult ideas and skills -life is never as straight-forward as you think but NRICH is doing its best to help make sense of it for you!
Reference: Polya, G. (1957). How to Solve it, Princeton University Press.
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The owners of Diego's Cantina, which opened in January 2012, have rebranded the stunning restaurant as Musas Sports Bar.
The dramatic third story space has been virtually untouched in the transition. The menu, which originally emphasized ceviches and banana leaf-wrapped tamales, now touts football friendly fare such as cheap margaritas, wings and guacamole.
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Farm to Market closes in Kingwood
Barely six months old, Farm to Market Restaurant, 1522 Kingswood Dr., in Kingswood, announced its closing Sunday, Aug. 18, via Face book:
"Thank you to everyone who has supported our humble little establishment and who have made us a part of their routine! Sadly, we will closing our doors indefinitely. It has truly been a wonderful journey for all of us."
The restaurant served classic comfort dishes such as oven-roasted chicken, meatloaf and barbecue and catered to diners with food allergies and sensitivities, going so far as to serve no nuts or shellfish.
Cinco Ranchos closes for remodeling
Cinco Ranchos Mexican Grill, which opened at 402 W. Grand Parkway in Katy in December 2011, announced via Facebook that the restaurant has closed for remodeling.
Remodeling? That's often code for something entirely different. Here's hoping it really is just a case of some paint and new drapes.


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Rihanna Plays It Safe in White Dress, Rocks Statement Gold Necklace at Nude Fragrance Launch
Here's a rhetorical question. When Rihanna attends a launch event for a new fragrance named Nude, what would type of outfit would you expect her to turn up at the celebration wearing? Something super provocative and skin flashing, right? Wrong! The always sexy, loves-posing-topless 'Diamonds' singer played it safe in a sweet, demure white lace frock by Nini Nguyen (that has a flirty, see-through skirt) and Tom Ford black pumps at the event in California on Saturday (Dec. 1).
RiRi may have been understated with her darling dress, but she went for it with the jewelry. She accessorized with serious gold bling, a chunky vintage Christian Lacroix choker with two chains. Maybe it was a gift from 2Chainz? Nah.
Actually, some of her Navy members speculated that it might be a gift from Breezy. She shared a photo of herself wearing the bauble (and nothing else, so she was up to her old tricks again with that) on Instagram, which she captioned: "He told me 'you better not give it away.'" Was it Breezy who said that? Could be!
But we must say that RiRi looked both elegant and classy at her perfume launch. Those are not two words that often accompany her style. The sideswept waves also allowed her choker to take front and center stage.
She is trying to promote and sell a product, so dressing in a white frock with a tea-length hem and a sweet, corset like bodice with thick straps, which showed only a hint of cleavage, was the way to go. Overdoing it with the "I'm too sexy for my clothes" attitude could have turned a more casual shopper off. You can't always give it all away, if you catch our drift.
PopCrushers, what do you think of RiRi's dress? And how about that choker?
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The trick to avoiding spending millions of dollars on new data centres is to make do and mend the existing ones, according to Dell.
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Secondly, Dell increases effective server capacity by 270 per cent across its server estate by running 5,000 virtual machines (VMs) virtualising servers. Chris Ratcliffe, Dell's global marketing director for solutions and services, said: "Next year we'll be at 7,500 VMs and the 3-year savings will be $52,450,000 using existing server hardware with very little outlay from us initially. Microsoft's entry into the virtualisation market will [also] help drive down costs."
The third thing to do is to update power delivery equipment - transformers, power level cleaners, UPS etc. Ratcliffe said: "Most data centres have a 10-year-old power delivery infrastructure. Replace it and you gain efficiency - you can save about 25 per cent of the power costs." Asked about whether AC or DC power was best he replied: "It's much of a muchness." The main event is the modernity of the power delivery equipment not the nature of the current.
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Dell has a range of short-term, fixed-fee, fixed-length Data Centre Optimisation services it is now offering. They are based, Ratcliffe says, on Dell's own internal IT experience. It consolidated 22 data centres to six a few years ago, when Randy Mott was its CIO. After that it was able to avoid building new data centres as its business grew and it expanded into managed services, by optimising the six using the methods above.
Ratcliffe reckons that what Mott is now doing at HP means the company is actually following in Dell's footprints. Take that HP.
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Calling all shwag hags! The Phidippides Award, presented by USA Track and Field (USATF) and National Masters News, is a gorgeous plaque given to Masters athletes who rack up lots of races in a single year. It's also, conveniently, free! If you're a USATF member, that is. But my guess is that most of the people reading this have been qualifying for years and probably didn't know this was available. Maybe another award is the last thing you need hogging up your "Me Wall", but for those who don't mind a little more bling-bling, this one ain't bad.
Phidippides Award application and fill in your races as you go. The points system is straight-forward, age-adjusted, and accommodates races from the 5k on up. Here's a quick glimpse of the scoring system:
5 km - 5 mile 1 point
10 km - 15 km 2 points
10 mile - 1/2 Marathon 3 points
25 km - Marathon 4 points
At the end of the year the following point totals will determine the level of award the runner is eligible to receive.
40-59 yrs. 60-79 yrs. 80+ yrs.
Gold Award 20 points 16 points 8 points
Silver Award 16 points 12 points 4 points
Bronze Award 12 points 8 points 2 points
Last year, about 340 runners picked up a Gold Award. Be sure to add your name to the list for 2013!
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Post by Stefan Van Eycken, Tokyo
A few weeks ago, after spending a fortnight exploring the calvados and whisky distilleries of Normandy and Bretagne respectively, I made a little excursion to the city of Ghent in Belgium to host a Japanese whisky tasting. The organizer – importer/retailer The Bonding Dram – wanted to offer a sort of panorama of Japanese whisky and the decision was made to limit the selection to single malts (but no single casks). To cater to both well-seasoned Japanese whisky drinkers and newcomers, there was a selection of drams only available in Japan (brought over by yours truly) in addition to malts generally available in Europe (supplied by the organizer).
As part of an effort to try and compile a flavour map of Japanese whiskies – based on the model developed by Dave Broom for the Classic Malts – I thought it would be interesting to get some feedback from whisky enthusiasts in Europe and so it was decided to do the entire tasting blind, with no hints whatsoever as to what was in the glass. Just out of curiosity, to see what the collective preference was, we also asked the attendees (32 in total) to score the whiskies.
The line up was as follows:
Miyagikyo 12 (45%abv)
Miyagikyo NAS (43%abv)
Yoichi 10 (43%abv)
Karuizawa 12yo (an original bottling from the 90s, 40%abv)
Ichiro's Wine Wood Reserve (leaf label, only available in Japan, 46%abv)
Yamazaki 18 (43%abv)
Hakushu Heavily Peated (first release, 48%abv)
Eigashima 'Akashi' 12yo Private Bottling (59%abv)
During the first half of the tasting I said very little, not wanting the influence people's evaluation of the whiskies. When scores were tallied and the top 3 drams of the evening were announced a shockwave went through the room: in third place was Ichiro's Wine Wood Reserve; runner up was Yamazaki 18 and the top dram of the evening was… the Eigashima 12yo private bottling. The fact that it managed to win – and win by quite a large margin! – was even more surprising given the fact that this particular whisky had received the lowest score from a small group of people, indicating that those who had given it their highest score liked it quite a bit.
this post). About half of the outturn went to Sweden, the other half stayed here, in Japan. On the nose, the initial impressions are Christmas cake, dates, figs, candied orange peel, breakfast cake (spice cake), lots of wood smoke, peat, charcoal, cigar boxes – also freshly roast coffee beans, vegetal notes (turnip, jacket potatoes), a hint of motor oil, nail polish, rubber and traces of sulphur. It was clear that the latter was responsible for the polarizing response: some couldn't get past it; most people felt it worked in the context of the other aromas. On the palate, you get candied fruit, toffee, burnt toast with orange marmalade, tobacco, burnt marshmallows, beef jerky, barbeque smoke (pumpkin), goya and a hint of cointreau. Water smoothens the rough edges but makes it a bit more bitter. The finish is long and bittersweet on dried fruit, chicory and goya.
At the end of the evening, I got quite a lot of requests from people who wanted a bottle or two of the Eigashima. When I put my bottle (actually two, because they're only 500ml) in my suitcase, I couldn't imagine it would topple the Yamazaki 18, but such are the wonders of blind tasting… a Suntory brand ambassador's nightmare if ever there was one, this little Akashi 12yo private bottling. A pity or good fortune – whichever side of the divide you fall on – that there's nothing like this in the warehouses at Eigashima anymore and that there were only 102 bottles to start with.
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One out of every seven human beings in the world will get a new smart phone this year. According to a new forecast from market research firm IDC, more than 1 billion new smart phones will make their way into consumers' hands in 2013, the first time it will reach that mark in a single year. The total population of the Earth as of this writing is estimated at about 7.1 billion.
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That figure — more than double the volume from just two years ago — represents substantially greater growth than the overall cell phone market. Smart phones will grow 40 percent this year compared with 2012, while the overall mobile phone market will grow just 7.3 percent worldwide to 1.8 billion units.
"Two years ago, the worldwide smartphone market flirted with shipping half a billion units for the first time — to double that in just two years highlights the ubiquity that smartphones have achieved," said Ramon Llamas, research manager with IDC's Mobile Phone team, in a prepared statement. "The smartphone has gone from being a cutting-edge communications tool to becoming an essential component in the everyday lives of billions of consumers."
By 2017, smart phones are expected to reach 1.7 billion unit shipments per year, with overall cell phone shipments reaching 2.3 billion units.
The growth in smart phones, according to IDC, is being driven by two factors: new, cheaper (sub-$200) models and steep up-front discounts on higher-end smart phones that are either subsidized by the manufacturer or effectively amortized over the course of a two-year service contract.
The OS Outlook
For the next five years, Android and iOS will remain the dominant mobile operating systems, IDC predicted. For 2013, Android will power 75.3 percent of all smart phones shipped, while iOS will account for 16.9 percent.
By 2017, the picture will be similar among the top 2: a 68.3 percent share (1.16 billion units) for Android and a 17.9 percent share (304.3 million units) for iOS.
However, in that timeframe, Windows Phone will begin to see growth. This year, Windows Phone will power 3.9 percent of smart phones. By 2017, that will increase to 10.2 percent, representing 173.4 million units.
According to IDC: "Windows Phone will solidify its position as the [No. 3 OS] with incremental share gains over the course of the forecast. With the acquisition of Nokia's device and services unit, Microsoft will increasingly need to drive share gains by itself as OEM support for Windows Phone is expected to wane now that the company is set to become a full-fledged hardware maker. Microsoft will also need to ship more low-cost smartphones to high-growth emerging markets if it is to continue building on its recent nominal share increases."
BlackBerry will continue to exist by 2017, holding on to 1.7 percent of the market, IDC predicted. That's off one point from BlackBerry's forecast share for 2013.
"Underpinning the smartphone market is an evolving market for operating systems," said Llamas. "We believe Android and iOS will remain the clear number one and two platforms, respectively, throughout our forecast. What remains to be seen is how Windows Phone and BlackBerry's respective futures will play out pending their recent announcements. Windows Phone has inched ahead of BlackBerry during the first half of 2013, and we believe that will extend into the future. However, overall shipments will continue to trail those of Android and iOS."
"Smartphones will represent virtually all of the mobile phone market in many of the world's most developed economies by the end of 2017," said Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker program, in a prepared statement. "Aggressive carrier subsidies of handsets, falling prices, higher consumer awareness, and a vast array of devices will mean almost all phones shipped to the developed world will be 'smart.' However, smartphone shipment volume will be dominated by emerging markets, such as China, even though the percentage of smartphones to feature phones won't be as high."
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Back when Dolphins guard Richie Incognito was only known as an instigator on the playing field, Texans defensive end Antonio Smith was suspended for two preseason games and one regular season game for ripping Incognito's helmet off and attempting to use it as a weapon to bludgeon the Dolphin blocker.
Smith ran afoul of the league again in Week 12 when he was penalized for roughing Jaguars quarterback Chad Henne in the third quarter of Jacksonville's 13-6 victory. The punishment wasn't as severe this time around, however.
PFT has confirmed with the league that Smith was fined $15,750 for the hit, which helped move the Jaguars deeper into Texans territory. It didn't wind up costing the Texans any points because J.J. Watt was able to block a field goal attempt by Josh Scobee after the drive stalled a few players later.
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Paille's late goal gives Bruins 3-0 series edge over Rangers
New York, NY – Daniel Paille's goal with 3:31 left in the game led the Boston Bruins to a 2-1 win over the New York Rangers in Game 3 of this Eastern Conference semifinal series.
The win gives the Bruins a 3-0 lead in this best-of-seven series with a chance to close things out on Thursday at Madison Square Garden.
"It's definitely a good feeling but it's not over," said Paille. "They didn't want to go down tonight and we really had to work hard for it. We're really going to have to work hard to try and win this series."
Johnny Boychuk tied the contest early in the third period while Tuukka Rask turned away 23 shots for Boston, which got a pair of assists from Shawn Thornton.
Taylor Pyatt had the lone goal while Henrik Lundqvist made 32 stops for the Rangers, who have dug themselves a deep hole thanks to going 0-for-10 on the power play in this series, including 0-for-2 on Tuesday.
"This was a tough night, but all we can do is put this behind us and come out with our all in the next game," said Lundqvist. "But this one really stinks because we played a solid game tonight."
Lundqvist had stopped 23 shots through the first two periods, but the Bruins finally got one past him at 3:10 of the third. They kept working the puck in the New York end and it eventually came back to the right point for Boychuk, who threw the puck through a maze of players for his fourth of the playoffs.
Rask made a tough save on a Rick Nash offering off a rush inside of nine minutes to play, while Lundqvist flashed the leather on a Tyler Seguin wrister from the right circle with 5 1/2 minutes left.
Boston, though, went ahead with 3:31 to play as a left point shot from Greg Campbell got through to the net and popped high into the air. The disc fell behind Lundqvist and rolled out, but Paille skated around the right side of the net and chipped it in for a 2-1 lead.
Rask made the lead stand with just under two minutes to play as he made a body save on a short shot from Nash at the left side.
The Rangers got Lundqvist out of the net with just over a minute to play, but the Bruins prevented the Rangers from getting any quality chances on net before time expired.
Lundqvist made several nice stops in the first period, finishing the frame with nine saves.
His first came on a short break during a 4-on-4 by Chris Kelly as he made a stop on the backhand from in front and the defense cleared away the rebound with 12 minutes left.
With just under nine minutes to play, Seguin skated in on a clear breakaway and went to the backhand, but Lundqvist was again up to the task. During the same sequence moments later, Lundqvist turned away a pair of Jaromir Jagr chances.
Rask made 11 stops in the period and helped Boston kill off a New York power play to keep the game scoreless.
The Rangers took the lead at 3:53 of the second period as Ryan McDonagh threw a shot on net from the high slot just inside the blueline and it went off Pyatt before getting past Rask for a 1-0 lead.
Boston peppered Lundqvist with shots in the second frame, getting a total of 14 on the goaltender. He came up with every stop, though, including a nice glove save on a slap shot from Campbell with 8:24 to play in the frame.
Game Notes
Only three teams have come back from an 0-3 hole in the history of the NHL playoffs. The Toronto Maple Leafs in 1942, the New York Islanders in 1975 and the Philadelphia Flyers in 2010 ... The game was delayed for several minutes in the second period when a pane of glass became dislodged ... The Bruins didn't have a power play in the contest ... Paille also had an assist on the Boychuk goal.


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Is it a Coco Puff?ReplyDelete
It is not a Coco Puff, though that's close! It is a kind of food, but it's not a cereal...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 27, 2011 at 2:03 PM
A chocolate truffle?ReplyDelete
Getting much closer, Arachnerd- it is a candy! I wouldn't call it a truffle, though (and the manufacturer doesn't advertise it as a truffle). However, chocolate is one of the ingredients.ReplyDelete
Not a milk dud, Jennevieve, but you did uncover a second ingredient: caramel!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 27, 2011 at 3:14 PM
Tasty cake donut hole?ReplyDelete
Tasty cake donut holes are tasty, my friend, but no donut holes were harmed in the making of this remix. : )ReplyDelete
There are three main ingredients in this candy. Two have already been identified: chocolate and caramel (a clue to the third is in the description of this remix).
Here's another hint: this candy is made by a U.K. chocolatier...
wait, I was also thinking malted milk ball. But that doesn't have caramel. hmmm.....ReplyDelete
After getting very close to guessing what this Death Star is made of, I think it's time to reveal the answer: sea salt caramel.ReplyDelete
To be specific, the "No. 1 Salted Caramels" by Artisan du Chocolat in London.
These candies have a "sweet liquid caramel with a pinch of Noirmoutier island's grey salt, captured in a cocoa dusted shell of intense dark chocolate."
All we know is that they make for an awesome remix!
Nathan assures us that they are indeed delicious and worth every penny, by the way.
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So, hopefully you haven't spent a significant portion of your life eating been eating margarine instead of butter because you were led to believe that margarine is more "heart-healthy" than the real stuff. Hopefully you haven't spent a significant portion of your life eating margarine instead of butter because of the taste, either (HA! HA HA HA!). Point is, hope you haven't been eating margarine! Because guess what?
Decades of deceptive marketing to the contrary, margarine isn't actually better for your heart than butter. In fact, the opposite is true -- according to a "recent" study. Which was conducted decades ago. Confused yet? Allow me to explain.
Apparently there's only been one "randomized, controlled study" ever conducted for the purpose of studying increased consumption of the partially hydrogenated oils used in margarine -- and for some reason, while this study took place almost five decades ago, researchers were only able to access the previously unpublished data recently. The data revealed that while people who switched from butter to margarine DID see a drop in cholesterol, they also turned out to be MORE likely to die from cardiovascular or coronary heart disease. Whoops. That disturbing factoid wouldn't have looked very nice printed on the side of a margarine tub! No wonder it went "unpublished" for so long.
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Of course, the info was still out there in other forms. I haven't eaten margarine ... ever, really, because I was raised eating most all-natural foods and the holistic/alternative health community never really trusted the butter substitute. According to Harvard researcher Dr. Walter Willett, the "partially hydrogenated vegetable oils used to make margarine ... are responsible for more than 30,000 of the country's annual deaths from heart disease."
Why is the stuff so lethal? Willett explains (and this is kind of wordy, but you NEED to know the details so just read it!):
"Heat and chemicals used to harden vegetable oils into margarine change fatty acids into unnatural shapes, called trans-fatty acids (TFAs). Bent into the trans-shape, the acids won't fit neatly into cell membranes or other cellular structures. If the body tries to incorporate them anyway, the cell may become deformed. As a result, trans-fatty acids not only contribute to heart disease, but may also increase cancer risks, promote inflammation and accelerate tissue degeneration."
Yikes! I can't believe (people ate that instead of) butter!
Did you know that margarine was so much worse than butter?
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Royals use power surge to beat Orioles
Baltimore, MD – Alex Gordon and Eric Hosmer belted two-run homers in the fourth inning, while Jeremy Guthrie remained perfect on the season, leading Kansas City to a 6-2 win over Baltimore in the finale of a three-game set from Camden Yards.
Mike Moustakas added a solo shot for the Royals, who avoided a sweep and ended a three-game losing streak.
Guthrie (5-0) gave up seven hits and two runs -- one earned -- over his six-inning outing.
"When you're part of a menaingful game that's a positive," said Guthrie. "We had a nice April and we're trying to stay consistent here and compete against good teams and do what we're capable of doing."
Chris Davis homered and J.J. Hardy picked up an RBI single for the Orioles, who had won four in a row.
Freddy Garcia (0-1) allowed five hits and four runs in six full frames.
Kansas City pulled ahead in its fourth turn at the plate. Lorenzo Cain beat out a single to third ahead of Gordon's sixth homer of the season for a 2-1 game, and after a Billy Butler hit to right, Hosmer followed with his first of the year for a 4-1 Royals edge.
"One bad inning and two bad pitches," said Garcia. "I was behind in the count with those two guys and they hit two home runs."
Davis pulled the O's within 4-2 on a solo shot in the home half, but Moustakas took T.J. McFarland deep to begin the seventh. Salvador Perez then singled in Gordon in the eighth to push the visitors' edge to four runs.
After Guthrie exited, Aaron Crow, Kelvin Herrera and Luke Hochevar combined for three scoreless innings, during which they gave up one hit and struck out five Baltimore batters.
The O's scored once in the second but threatened for more. Adam Jones reached on an Alcides Escobar throwing error, then Matt Wieters singled two batters later ahead of Hardy's hit to plate Jones. Ryan Flaherty drew a walk to put two on once more, but Nolan Reimold grounded into a fielder's choice to end the frame.
Game Notes
Guthrie improved to 10-0 since Aug. 8, 2012 ...Hosmer's homer was his first in 145 at-bats ... Kansas City's three homers were its most in one game all season, coming into the game with an American League-worst 19 on the year ... Prior to the contest, Baltimore recalled pitcher Alex Burnett from Triple-A Norfolk and placed pitcher Miguel Gonzalez on the 15-day disabled list ... The Orioles were deprived of their first five-game win streak since taking six in succession from Sept. 16-22, 2012 ... The game was delayed 31 minutes at the outset for expected showers which never arrived.


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Yom Kippur Fast
Yom Kippur is coming, so to fast or not fast is on some people's mind. I stopped fasting a few years ago, because it makes me really sick. I happen to stumble upon an article on About.com for making the fast a little easier, some great things to think about...
May you have an easy fast!
While feeling hunger pains is an acceptable part of the fast experience, one need not dehydrate, faint or get sick while fasting. There are several ways to prepare oneself physically for a healthy fast.
•Days before the fast, caffeine intake should be minimized.
•The day before the fast, eat something small every two hours, avoid caffeine and salt, and drink as much water as possible.
•Plan the final meal before the fast early enough in the afternoon to avoid rushing to finish before the fast begins.
•Plan the menu of this final meal so that it contains high carbohydrate and low salt foods.
•Do not eat too much in the meal before the fast, but drink plenty of water.
•Leave time after the meal to drink warm water with sugar and brush teeth
What food is best to eat before the fast?
According to the Talmud, eating the day before Yom Kippur is a mitzvah equal to the mitzvah of fasting on the day of Yom Kippur. The festive meal before the fast is called Seudah Mafseket ("final meal"). While we do not say kiddush over the wine at this meal, we do bless the challah. Meat is not eaten during this meal, but poultry can be eaten. It is traditional to eat soup, but important to put as little salt and seasoning in the soup as possible. The boiled turkey or chicken from the soup can be served as a healthy pre-fast entree. It is also traditional to serve the soup with kreplach, dough filled with potato, because we hope any strict judgment from God will be covered with kindness.


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Launch your tinnie from the boat ramp or just throw in a line from the pontoon and fish the river at Logan River Parklands. Then cook your catch on one of the barbies by the river while the kids play. If you've got energy left, you can tackle the park's fitness equipment, or just kick back and enjoy the open space beside the Logan River. This beautiful riverside parkland is an ideal stopover for your journey north or south or simply for a great day out.


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Slab, Crawlspace or Basement? When building a new home, which foundation is the best choice? I offer the pros & cons of the typical three choices.
– Least expensive to build
– No moisture/humidity to deal with under sub-floor
– Easy access for handicapped or senior persons, since very close to ground level
– Hard surface, takes a toll on your body/joints
– Difficult to run additional wires/pipes
– HVAC typically located in the attic (unconditioned space)
– A leak in a water supply line in the slab is very expensive to fix
– Entrance at ground level, not as eye appealing
– High likelihood of radon issue (can be easily mitigated)
– More prone to wood destroying insect issues, since close to ground
– Able to install additional wires/piping easily if needed
– Wood floor structure is softer than concrete
– Entrance higher off ground, more eye appealing
– Easy access for repairs
– Less likely to have a radon issue (on ventilated crawlspaces)
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– Moisture issues (water & humidity) are a major issues, creates fungus growth & rot
– Easy access for unwanted pests
– HVAC in unconditioned space
– Able to install additional wires/piping easily if needed
– Wood floor structure is softer than concrete
– Easy access for repairs
– Entrance higher off ground, more eye appealing
– HVAC is located in conditioned space (more energy efficient)
– Additional storage/workshop
– Inexpensive additional square footage, can be finished at a later time
– Increased re-sale value of home & increased buyer appeal
– You can build on a sloping grade
– Provides shelter during extreme weather (tornado's, hurricane's, etc)
– Most expensive to build (compared to a slab or crawlspace)
– Need a sloping lot to build a walkout basement
– Higher likelihood of radon issue (can be easily mitigated)
Mac has remodeled many old homes, been employed in several different construction trades & is a major do-it-yourselfer. He currently owns a home inspection company and has been inspecting homes for many years which is where my experience is most relevant to the proper way to build a home. To learn more about building your dream home, visit my website, http://www.house-building-tips.net
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