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Nine players on Blue Jays' roster out of options
TORONTO -- The Blue Jays always seem to focus a lot of their attention on roster flexibility, but next spring the challenge will become rather daunting, with nine players out of options on the 40-man roster.
Players who don't have any options remaining on their contracts must pass through waivers before they can be sent to the Minor Leagues. That creates the risk of another team swooping in and taking that talent away without any compensation.
TORONTO -- The Blue Jays always seem to focus a lot of their attention on roster flexibility, but next spring the challenge will become rather daunting, with nine players out of options on the 40-man roster.
Players who don't have any options remaining on their contracts must pass through waivers before they can be sent to the Minor Leagues. That creates the risk of another team swooping in and taking that talent away without any compensation.
There are plenty of examples over the years of players making the club out of Spring Training because of their contract status. Jo-Jo Reyes cracked the rotation in 2011, lefty Luis Perez headed north the following year, and last season it was right-handed reliever Jeremy Jeffress who broke camp.
When the Blue Jays were rebuilding, the strategy made plenty of sense. Toronto didn't want to give away a player who could potentially become a valuable commodity down the road. With the overall win-loss record not necessarily being that important, there was an ability to be more patient in the development of a player.
Those days are clearly over, as general manager Alex Anthopoulos has put an emphasis on winning in the immediate future. The chances of a player making the team just based on his lack of options isn't as prevalent as it once was, but that doesn't mean it will be entirely ignored next spring.
Here's a closer look at which players are out of options and how that could impact plans this offseason, future trade talks and next year's roster decisions:
Dustin McGowan: The oft-injured McGowan hasn't been able to pitch a full season since 2007, but he finally started to prove his worth late in 2013. McGowan showed he still had something left by posting an impressive 2.45 ERA while striking out 26 over 25 2/3 innings out of the bullpen.
There has been some talk that McGowan will be stretched out as a starter during Spring Training. The probability of him cracking the staff entirely depends on how many starters Anthopoulos adds this offseason, but in theory, McGowan will compete for a job. A more realistic scenario would see McGowan resume his role in middle relief, where his ability to avoid contact has proven crucial. Either way, McGowan doesn't seem at risk of not making the team, as Toronto has remained by his side since 2008, and that's unlikely to change any time soon.
Esmil Rogers: Despite struggling during Spring Training earlier this year, Rogers was never at risk of not making the team because of his contract status. He began the year in long relief and ultimately found his way into the rotation following a series of injuries to Toronto's staff. It seems unlikely that Rogers will be in a similar role next year, but he's an early favorite to win the long reliever's job for a second consecutive year. He also could be used as trade bait, but it would have to be as a complementary piece because Rogers wouldn't have that much value on his own.
Todd Redmond: The 27-year-old exceeded expectations by making 14 starts, emerging as one of the feel-good stories in 2013. He was originally signed to help provide depth in the Minor Leagues, but a series of injuries and subpar results at the Major League level opened the door for a greater role. Anthopoulos' main priority this offseason is to upgrade the rotation, and that doesn't bode well for Redmond's future. Unless there is a trade this offseason, Redmond will head to Spring Training without a guaranteed job, and the club likely would take its chances by trying to sneak him through waivers.
Sergio Santos: After battling injuries during his first year and a half with the Blue Jays, he finally showed what he can do late in 2013. Santos finished the year with a sparkling 1.75 ERA while striking out 28 in 25 2/3 innings. He has a guaranteed job in middle relief and could become a candidate to close if the Blue Jays explore the possibility of trading right-hander Casey Janssen this winter. Either way, Santos' spot on the team is secure, and he has the potential to become one of the most dominant relievers in the game because of an overpowering fastball and a wipe-out slider.
Jeffress: The hard-throwing righty made last year's team out of Spring Training, but he was essentially written off just one week into the season because of an inability to command his pitches. Any team in baseball could have claimed him, but Jeffress cleared waivers and was sent to the Minor Leagues. Once there, he overhauled his mechanics and also received treatment for juvenile epilepsy.
That allowed Jeffress to come back in September as a seemingly different pitcher on the mound. The upper-90s velocity was still there, but the command had drastically improved, and all of a sudden, Jeffress looked like he belonged. Despite all of that, he's currently caught up in a numbers game and faces an uphill challenge to make the team. If Anthopoulos moves some relievers this offseason, Jeffress' prospects will improve, but until then, he'll face stiff competition from Rogers and Perez for the final spot in the bullpen.
Brad Lincoln: The veteran reliever was expected to become an integral part of the bullpen following a midseason trade with Pittsburgh in 2012. Unfortunately for Lincoln, things haven't really worked out, as he spent the entire 2013 campaign bouncing back and forth between the Majors and Minors. Lincoln's biggest problem at the big league level was his 22 walks in just 31 2/3 innings. As of now, he doesn't seem to have much of a chance to make the team, but he could be included as a secondary piece in one of Anthopoulos' trades this offseason.
Brett Cecil: He's now an All-Star, but back in March, there was some doubt about whether Cecil would even make the team. The left-hander competed with Jeffress in a battle of pitchers who were out of options, but it didn't take Cecil long to secure his spot for the present and the future. His season was eventually cut short because of an injury, but Cecil has proven to be lethal against lefties and will enter the year as Toronto's primary left-handed reliever.
Perez: Two years ago, Perez became one of former manager John Farrell's favorite relievers. He was relied upon to record key outs vs. left-handers and also throw multiple innings when needed. Perez's overall versatility proved extremely valuable, but the development then came to an end when he was forced to undergo Tommy John surgery. He returned late in 2013 and will need a strong Spring Training to secure his spot in the organization. Unless he really struggles, there would appear to be very little chance Perez could pass through waivers. Either way, Perez should be in the Majors next year.
Moises Sierra: The 25-year-old outfielder seems like a prime candidate to be shopped this offseason. Toronto currently has Melky Cabrera, Colby Rasmus and Jose Bautista locked in at the three outfield spots. There is at least one spot open on the bench, but Sierra doesn't fit the mold of a reserve outfielder because of his erratic defense and inability to play center field. That will likely increase the odds of Anthopoulos trying to include him as part of a bigger deal. On the surface, Sierra wouldn't appear to have a lot of value. But keep in mind, it wasn't that long ago that Anthopoulos was able to turn mediocre outfielder Eric Thames into right-hander Steve Delabar.
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB.


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Too bad more of you don't live near LA, because my hunting lease has been quite accomodating in terms of spudguns. I bring my friends there and we shoot spudguns, rifles, etc. The land that the camp is located on is pretty large. It is right next to a large levee which i usually shoot into. The levee also leads to larger plots of land that are WIDE open. Housing wouldn't be a problem, because the camp can hold about 20 people, complete with 2 showers, a kitchen, porch, compressors, tools and various junk to shoot at.
Unfortunately, the map ( http://www.frappr.com/spudtech ) only shows 2 other people in LA, one of which I can't find on the member list (DriveMyAlien572).
I've read the posts about the Southwest meet and it seemed like an amazing amount of fun. I am very interested in any IPLA event, even if it's out of state.
Just wanted to let yall know that IF anyone in my area wanted to get together, I could make it happen. Too bad I live down here...


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I've faced so many problems using images in LaTeX. See for example, another question at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/382590/latex-using-eps-images-builds-slowly
What tools do you use to make figures for inclusion into LaTeX? Is there a simple solution to this? Some scenarios described below:
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- I want to include a figure from visio into LaTeX;
- I plot a graph, export into png, and the image does not seem to have a bounding box.
How to handle these scenarios?


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Patented by the Frenchman Frank Lambert, this typewriter is in form and technology with 84-character keyboard, reminiscent of the dials of the first phones, is the only one in one piece. Pressing a key on the keyboard every move and printed the letter to the paper.
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Originally posted by C.Roberts View PostIfun I wuss uh mine tu I cud hep yuins widt yer anglish. Butt ull jist leef Elkie tuh duh thet.
Got a call from Clawed this mornin as he was passin thru Valdosta on their way to their winter sugar shack --- come find out were only about 1hr to 1 1/2hrs apart --- ya'd never know he was a retired teacher the way he talks --- his english is atroshius.
The worst part a are comin down ta the Geezer Bowl is that we can't leave the kids home alone overnight, so we'd hafta take the camper, but then there's too big a gap tween it n' the Newberry ASA shoot. We ain't ruled it out yet --- I'm sure it will be a last minute decision, and the weather bein a major facter.
Valerie and I know we have a place to wickie up if we come down. There is another possibility of room n' boardin the kids out, and then us just goin down in are 40mpg car. It's 3hrs 45min down there fer us.
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What's muscle memory? At my age, I it's hard to remember having muscles, or memory.
Elkie, you were probably like me. We were just lucky to have one spouse, let alone two, and one can put enough knots on your head, especially if they pay any attention to Tim. LOL
Hey --- a "news alert" just comin in --- the Geezer Bowls gonna also be a ASA "state qualifier", and its now official, that the 2014 Florida State shoot is gonna be July 19th & 20th in Tallahassee ---- SOOOOOOO, go git qualified tip toein thru the tulips @ Timmys' "Shake n' Bake" n' then yer qualified for the state championship shoot in July --- word is its gonna be sum stiff competition there this year.
There, that outta git me steak#1
Florida Warm Up. Strikes a memory cord.... Was down there in '73. Daytona Speed Week, motorcyles races, me there for the Alligator 200 Enduro. Got use to warm weather....and then that dang ocean breeze would come in at night or early morning....We was a grabbing for sweaters, jackets and blankets to keep from freezin'....Still shivering when the Enduro began that morning....riding on grapefruit rocks, dang desert ain't got as much sand as Florida, swamps....Afraid to slow down for a gator might get me....Riding along in a ditch...Looked kinda funny and then realized it was a plow furl about shoulder high. Ya, plow so big a dozer pulled it. Ya ever see them pine tree fields? Dirt peaks 5 and 6 feet high and we had to whoopity dew across 'em. My kidneys still ache thinking about it. Enduro over out in the middle of nowhere and given a paper to get us to the club tent... Got there, stopped....Well, just sort let my scooter fall over...me with it...They let us recover and the next morning presented awards....Half beat to death, motorcyle all but junk and a marble base stand up trophy for 3rd place to show for it. Still gots the trophy....
i see where bhtr3d is beginning to employ threats and engage in intimidation in an effort to deflect honest, well-earned criticism from hisself which is bein' generated by the geezer nation.
be forewarned former ASA director, the wrath of geezers with bows and arrows is a terrible thing to behold...just lookie at what happened to Mickey Mouse when he took on Ol' Phil....
Originally posted by carlosii View Posti see where bhtr3d is beginning to employ threats and engage in intimidation in an effort to deflect honest, well-earned criticism from hisself which is bein' generated by the geezer nation.
be forewarned former ASA director, the wrath of geezers with bows and arrows is a terrible thing to behold...just lookie at what happened to Mickey Mouse when he took on Ol' Phil....
Aaahhh....Well, I know that most of you all have not both of these ranges...and no one has shot one of them Just be glad im not sending you all the way to the back 40 this time around but I just might send you geezers..and say look for a target LMAO ...hhhhmmmm that might be a good thing.....send the olddies out to the back 40 range and whomever comes back we can say are winners for enduring the walk LMAO because I wont let y'all have the use of the carts for there.....


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Their winning streak finally over, the Miami Heat did on Thursday what they had planned to do all along.
They took the day off.
While the circus atmosphere around the team may slow down now - until the playoffs start, anyway - the way the reigning NBA champions go about their business over the final 11 games of the regular season probably will not. Miami's epic, historic, sometimes-mindboggling 27-game winning streak ended with a 101-97 loss to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night, and Heat guard Dwyane Wade was among those sounding absolutely relieved afterward.
"It really didn't matter to us," Wade said. "If you get it, it's awesome. If you don't, we still won 27 games in a row. That's pretty awesome. So, we really weren't like, 'We've got to get that record.' Not at all. And now that it's over, I'm glad it's over."
Next up: tonight at New Orleans, where the Heat will try to return to their winning ways.
Miami's quest for NBA history ended with the Heat six games shy of matching the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers for the league's longest winning streak. The Lakers will keep their record, but the biggest Lakers star of this generation offered the Heat plenty of respect when their run was over.
"I think just as a student of the game, as a fan of the game, you appreciate those kind of streaks and you realize how difficult it is to put together that big of a streak," Lakers star Kobe Bryant said after learning of the Heat loss. "Obviously the Lakers winning 33 in a row was phenomenal, but the Heat's one was just as impressive."
Still, the Heat insist they can get better.
When Indiana beat the Heat on Feb. 1, Miami coach Erik Spoelstra's postgame theme was that his club had to get better. Nearly two months later, when the Heat streak ended in Chicago, much of Spoelstra's postgame remarks had the same theme.
Players understood his point.
"At the end of the day, a win is a win in our league," said reigning MVP LeBron James, who averaged exactly 27 points per game during the 27-game winning streak. "We've gotten better throughout the season. Each and every month we've improved. We've started from behind some games, but for the most part we've played some great basketball. We're not a team that builds bad habits. That's not even who we are so we're not worried about that."
No matter how they did it, no matter how many double-digit deficits they erased or fourth-quarter comebacks they pulled off, the bottom line was Miami enjoyed 7½ weeks of dominance.
Entering Thursday, 10 NBA teams hadn't won 27 games yet this season.
"Really proud of the grind of the last few weeks from my guys," Miami forward Shane Battier, who was part of a 32-game win streak at Duke, 22 with the Houston Rockets and now 27 with the Heat, wrote on Twitter early Thursday. "The focus and effort (and luck) was phenomenal."
Battier closed that tweet with two hashtagged words <0x2014> onward and upwards.
Whether it was because they were revered or reviled, the Heat probably got more eyeballs on NBA regular-season basketball than any team had in some time, with people watching to root for either the streak continuing or the streak ending.
They were must-see TV, as proven by national networks like ESPN and NBA TV scrambling to pick up Heat games as the streak rolled along. ESPN said the overnight rating for Heat-Bulls was the fifth-best of any regular-season game ever shown on the network.
Media coverage was as intense as any time during the Big Three era in Miami. On Monday in Orlando, the visiting locker room was overwhelmed by reporters. And on Wednesday in Chicago, Wade freely said he was ready for the circus to end.
"I don't know who half you people are," Wade said.
For those who still need streaks to follow, there's plenty of options.
Women's basketball is chock-full of them right now, with Baylor (32), Notre Dame (28) and Delaware (27) all taking streaks that at least match the Heat run into NCAA regional games this weekend. The NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins were seeking for a 14th straight win against Winnipeg on Thursday night. In men's college basketball, Louisville takes a 12-game winning streak into its Midwest Regional semifinal against Oregon on Friday night.
As far as the NBA goes, the longest current winning streak now belongs to the New York Knicks <0x2014> a mere six games.
What the Heat did obviously won't be exceeded this season, and probably not for a while. If Miami won every game left on its schedule and swept all four playoff series, they would end the year with another 27-game winning streak.
Don't count on that one happening. Bryant may have tipped his cap to the Heat, but not all the Lakers were exactly heartbroken that their franchise will keep the record.
"We kept the streak," Lakers center Pau Gasol said. "And it's about time that Miami lost."
During the streak <0x2014> starting from the moment Miami lost in Indiana on Feb. 1 to the final buzzer in Chicago <0x2014> every other NBA team lost at least five times. Nearly two-thirds of the league lost at least 10 games. Orlando lost more than anyone else, falling on 23 occasions. Maybe the biggest sign of Miami's dominance was that 12 teams endured more defeats during the streak than the Heat had lost all season.
Starting Friday, they begin another chapter.
"Now that it's over," Wade said, "let's look back on it as something that was great."


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Namadgi National Park – Orroral Valley as seen from Trojan Wall.
I visited Trojan Wall last year – it was a really, really windy day and certainly wasn't the best for having a look around. In contrast, this time it was a calm, warm and beautiful day and I managed to find a spot that offered a much wider view of Orroral Valley down below. Aviationally speaking today must have been a pretty busy day – the sky was filled with quite a few contrails, more than the usual amount I'm used to seeing in this area anyway.
There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.


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Lolo Jones survives first bobsled crash
WINTERBERG, Germany (AP) -- Lolo Jones has survived her first bobsled crash.
The Olympic hurdler and first-year bobsled push athlete was in a sled that tipped over during a training run Monday for this weekend's World Cup stop in Winterberg, Germany. Jones and driver Elana Meyers were not hurt.
Jones said on Twitter that going through the crash made her realize "God is real. I saw him today and he said come back later."
Bobsled crashes are not unusual, especially in training runs when drivers are trying to master unfamiliar tracks.
Jones handled it with humor. When people at the track asked how she was, Jones said she asked them to bring her a mirror so she could check her face.
Jones wrote, "Forget my legs and arms. I'm still single!"


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Christina is a master weaver and has been weaving for more than forty years. She attributes her knowledge to many people, especially her mother, Matekino Lawless, who is also a weaver and has been her strongest support and mentor. Christina is grounded in the traditional weaving techniques but has moved towards more contemporary forms. She continues to push the traditional boundaries of weaving, using materials such as glass, copper, stainless steel, wood and Perspex.
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BALTIMORE | The Miami Dolphins hope a quarterback change won't blunt the momentum they've gathered from a three-game winning streak.
Matt Moore makes his first start of the season Thursday night against the Baltimore Ravens, who have quarterback issues of a different kind.
Moore replaced the injured Jay Cutler in the second half last week and threw two touchdown passes against the New York Jets in a 31-28 comeback victory. Cutler remains sidelined with cracked ribs, so Miami (4-2) will go with the 33-year-old Moore in this AFC matchup.
"He's going to take some chances. He's going to get that ball out quick," Miami offensive coordinator Clyde Christensen said of Moore. "He has a little gunslinger to him."
Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco had the reputation of a sharp shooter — until this year. In his 10th season as Baltimore's starter, the former Super Bowl MVP has thrown eight interceptions compared to only five touchdowns as part of the NFL's 32nd-ranked passing attack.
In his defense, Flacco has been operating behind an injury-riddled offensive line and with a receiving group that last week at Minnesota was without injured starters Jeremy Maclin, Mike Wallace and Breshad Perriman.
"There's been a lot of adversity," coach John Harbaugh said. "There are going to be a lot of good times ahead for Joe Flacco. Stick with him. It's going to be fun to watch."
The Ravens (3-4) have lost four of five, including their past two at home.
"The bottom line is we just have to win football games," Flacco said. "At this point, it doesn't matter where it is."
Flacco acknowledged that his inconsistency has put the Ravens in a must-win situation.
"The fact that I have been up and down, now you are climbing out of a hole and you are putting yourself behind the 8-ball," he said.


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Ever since the map of the Circuit of the Americas came out, I've been wondering: What's it like to drive on that thing? When am I gonna get my chance to go through those winding corners and crazy elevation changes? When, Lord? When? When's gonna be my time?
That time finally came for me earlier this week when I got a chance to drive on the track that will herald Formula One's glorious return to the U.S. Well, kind of.
As part of a promotional event with Shell and Ferrari, I did a hot lap in the Shell Professional Simulator Experience, which is a silly name for a racing simulator that's actually really badass. They say it's about as close to driving on an actual track in an actual F1 car as you can get without doing it for real.
This is what the Ferrari drivers train on, built into the actual chassis of a Ferrari 2009 F1 car. It has a replica Ferrari F1 steering wheel complete with switches, paddles for shifting and the feel of resistance, and a genuine pedal set.
It projects an engine noise around you as you drive and it pitches, rolls and yaws as you race around a virtual course projected onto a panoramic screen that's six-and-a-half feet tall. The Shell folks never told me how much it costs, but needless to say, it's more expensive than your grandmother's Corolla.
There are only three of them in the entire world. One of them is in Fernando Alonso's house. Suddenly your Xbox doesn't feel too special anymore, does it?
Shell and Ferrari let some journalists take a crack at the simulator earlier this week. It isn't easy to drive, but fortunately we had a good teacher: Ferrari driver Felipe Massa.
After answering a few questions about how excited he is for F1 to return to the U.S. (isn't everyone?), Massa talked about how crucial simulators like these are for drivers who don't get a lot of practice time on the actual track. That's especially true for a brand-new one like COTA, which he had a lot of praise for.
"You have all different types of corners, but it's very technical as well," Massa said. "It's not an easy track to learn, but it will be a very nice track to drive."
But while the simulators help you learn the corners, it's obviously not as intense as the real thing, he said.
"I think we had (the cars) braking around four g's," Massa said. "It's quite a bigger impact."
After Massa did a lap in around virtual COTA in the simulator, it was our turn to try it. I went second because you should never volunteer for these kinds of things in a room full of spectators unless you really know what you're doing. The buff mag writer who went first made a valiant effort before crashing violently halfway through.
Then it was my turn. Like getting into an actual F1 car, climbing into the simulator is like submerging yourself into the world's tightest and most uncomfortable bathtub. The sides of the "car" squeezed my shoulders as I slid in, stretching my legs out until I could feel both pedals.
Again, like an actual F1 car, you drive with both feet, your left foot on the brake. This isn't nearly as unintuitive as you may think, although the brake pedal has no travel at all. Massa told me I basically had to stand on it with all my weight.
The graphics aren't as realistic as, say, your latest generation of racing games, but they don't need to be. The simulator needs to present a scientifically accurate version of the track for the drivers to learn on, and that's what it does.
I clicked the right paddle to put myself in first gear and I was off, exiting the pit into the long straightaway before the elevated hairpin turn 1. I wish I could give you a lovingly-crafted, detailed analysis of every corner on that track, but frankly I was too preoccupied with getting my line right and making sure I was in the proper gear.
You know how people like to say that the Circuit of the Americas is "a very technical course"? That's code for it's really fucking hard. You probably can't tell this from an aerial map, but there are few areas where you can really open it up before the course throws another corner your way. The elevation changes make some of them blind as well. You really have to know what you're doing out here — I foresee more than a few crashed BRZs once they open this thing for HPDEs and stuff.
As for the simulator, it feels best for cornering. You don't really get the full sensation of moving forward, even though the huge screen is so engrossing, but you do get a good sense of what it's like to enter a turn. I went in as slowly as I could, simply because I wasn't used to the mechanics of the car and because it's so prone to oversteering.
My biggest problem was that I kept looking up at the top of the big screen to see my tach and what gear I was in, trying to make sure I was slow enough to go around most tight corners in second gear, but that took my eyes off the road. I should have paid attention to the lights on the steering wheel instead, which act as a kind of rev counter.
I did a little bit better when I got the hang of things. All the while, Massa told me when to brake, where to hit the apex, when to shift. He was a gracious coach and seemed to be enjoying himself.
"Good, good," Massa told me when I nailed my entry into turn 19. I suppose I got too cocky after that, because I gave it too much gas on the exit and spun out. "Not so good," he said.
I came fast out of turn 20, toward the huge straightaway, and I gunned it hard. I was in a 700-horsepower racing car, or at least a virtual one. I might as well go for it, right? Except I did something wrong — maybe my wheels weren't straight enough — and I spun out badly near the paddock, the finish line in sight. Game over, man.
I stepped out and shook the hand of my new BFF Felipe Massa. And for the next five minutes, I kid you not, I was dizzy as hell. I wish I had thought to write down my lap time, but I was too busy trying to walk straight. I guess this was closer to the real deal than I give it credit for.
Do I feel like an F1 driver? Sure. Just not a very good one.


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Machias, ME- The University of Maine at Machias men's basketball team defeated Northern Maine 90-72 in a Friday night game in the Reynolds Center. The win improves the Clippers to 13-6 overall and 9-3 in the Yankee Small College Conference standings.
The Clippers were led by Erick Andrews with 18 points and 6 rebounds. Floyd Higgins and Brian Getchell each had 12 points and Elias Gutierrez had 11 points. AC Ford led the Clippers in assists 8 and rebounds 9. Northern Maine was led by Matt McGlinn with 34 points and Matt Till 19 points.
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Last week the New Hampshire Insurance Department announced that AIG had reached a settlement with NH and six other states. It agreed to do a better job of trying to find beneficiaries of life insurance policies it had issued.
AIG is also known as American International Group, and is one of the world's biggest insurance companies. It will pay $11 million to the states that sued it, and make changes in its business practices.
The AIG agreement follows similar deals with Prudential and Metlife earlier this year, with $17 million and $40 million in agreed to payments. Another deal is in the making with Nationwide, according to the Insurance Department.
These are some of the biggest companies out there that write life insurance policies. What a relief to know our loved ones won't be left destitute if we have an insurance policy and die and they didn't know we meant for them get something.
What's wrong with this picture?
It harkens back to ethics and business and why the insurance industry is considered sleazy. It's not the only industry we don't trust these days, either, for similar reasons.
Here's what was happening.
Consumers were taking out the kinds of policies that double as retirement plans and are known by various names such as "whole life" plans. At some point such plans made regular investment payments to the policy holder, known as annuities. When that person's name showed up as having expired on the Social Security Administration's Death Master File, AIG would stop making annuity payments.
Fair enough. But it did not take the next step, which should have been to pay the policyholder's named beneficiary the amount remaining in the plan when the policyholder died.
AIG and the other companies just quietly held on to the money unless a beneficiary contacted them.
"It was an industrywide problem and in many cases the beneficiaries were unaware ... what companies are being asked to do is just good business practice," said Keith Nyhan, director of consumer services at the NH Insurance Department.
Now, the companies will "regularly check" the Death Master File and take "reasonable steps" to pay insurance benefits to named beneficiaries. Good practice indeed, sounds more like honesty to me.
Insurance is an odd business. It deals with intangibles and plays to our fears.
What if a hurricane fells a tree that crushes the car? What will it cost to replace our house if fire strikes? What will my spouse and the kids do if I keel over from a heart attack?
When we take out an insurance policy we agree to pay for piece of mind. In return, we trust that the insurance company will honor the terms if something happens.
Did we really need to have states strong-arm these companies to get them to honor their commitments to policyholders?
Turns out they were operating under the don't ask-don't tell policy. We all know what this is, as it's become common, especially in the cable and wireless business.
This is when your cable TV bill suddenly increases and you finally reach a live person by phone and are told they have changed the rates. You complain and they agree to give you a special reduced rate.
"Would I have gotten this deal if I had not complained?," you ask them.
The answer invariably is "no."
Don't ask, don't tell.
It's one thing to be shafted like this by a telecommunications provider. It's a much bigger violation when we're dealing with a firm we depend on to take care of our property and loved ones when something goes wrong.
The scariest part is this only pertains to the states that were party to the legal action. This included New Hampshire, Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, North Dakota and Pennsylvania.
It also only involves the aforementioned big companies.
So what about beneficiaries of policies in other states and those who have policies with all the other insurance companies writing policies out there? They'll just have to rely on good faith.
Nyhan said the hope is the companies involved will decide it's good business practice to regularly use the Death Master List and other databases to find people who are owed money. And will do so nationwide, not just in the states such as New Hampshire where they got their hands caught in the ash urn.
Now in this state at least people who pay for life insurance can rest a bit more comfortably.
Under the terms of the settlement, any sums owed where beneficiaries can't be found will be turned over to the state's Abandoned Property Unit. This is the place that periodically releases a list of people who have funds coming to them. Eventually, if no one comes forward this goes into state coffers, which is some comfort that it at least will benefit the public.
Nyhan said anyone who thinks they may be one of these life insurance beneficiaries can contact his office at 1-800-852-3416, or go on the department website at www.nh.gov/insurance.
The new due diligence by insurance firms should be evident immediately, he said.
There are many cases where the less-government-is-better crowd can make a case. When it comes to government oversight of the insurance industry, let the buyer beware doesn't work very well since they're often dead.
Jeremiah Turner can be reached at email@example.com.
Policyholders can now rest in peace
Last week the New Hampshire Insurance Department announced that AIG had reached a settlement with NH and six other states. It agreed to do a better job of trying to find beneficiaries of life insurance policies it had issued.


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The Gift of Remembering Those We've Lost
We were just finishing up lunch two weeks ago when the phone rang. I picked it up and was greeted by Jane, an acquaintance of mine who volunteers at another grass-fed livestock farm about 30 minutes from here.
"Shannon, I'm calling you because I wanted to let you know that we just made the tallow soap recipe from your new cookbook," she explained quickly. I winced and tangled myself in the phone cord as I reached for my own kitchen copy and frantically rifled through the pages in search of the recipe. Had I left something out? Was there an error we didn't catch in the proofreading and recipe testing?
"What happened?" I asked, preparing for the worst.
"Oh, the soap? That was great … But I wanted to tell you about what happened after."
Breathing a sigh of relief, I settled in on a stool.
Jane began telling me about her grandmother, and explained that she'd raised her family in the country but died tragically at an early age. Her own mother had been so traumatized by the event that she rarely spoke about her childhood. Jane, as a result, knows very little about her family's roots.
Jane's mother is now in her late eighties and still rather taciturn in nature, but Jane makes a point of calling her every day in an ongoing effort to stay connected. Their conversations extend to the matters of the day, Jane explained, and rarely go deeper … until the day she mentioned that she and her friends were rendering animal fats to make soap.
Quite unexpectedly, her mother began to talk. Triggered by the memory of harvesting animals in the fall and her own mother's rendering pot, the elderly woman began sharing snippets of her own memories about this process, giving Jane a rare glimpse into a family history that she'd craved all her life.
I had been in a rather glum "writer's mood" that morning (I'm prone to them occasionally: bouts of panic that suddenly everyone will find my writing horrible; that our family will somehow be cast into the streets because I wrote a bad book; followed by despair that my books are selling too few copies, which is followed by despair that my books are selling too many copies, followed by despair and panic that I won't be able to write another book … and why should I? They give me such misery … You get the point).
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Jane's phone call was enough to help me step outside my self-centered misery and rejoin life, and I felt thankful to her. But truthfully, I thought little more about the phone call ...
... Until a few days ago, when an email with a Word attachment landed in my inbox. It had been circulating through my Dad's side of the family, and he'd forwarded it along to my brother and me with the simple note saying, "Please read. Love, Dad."
I opened the document to discover that it was written by my Uncle Bill, whose wife, my Aunt Eileen, had lost a fierce battle with cancer a year and a half ago. That branch of the family is centered in Ohio. I'd had very little contact with them growing up, so I was curious why my Dad had seen fit to send me this document, which was a personal account of my Uncle Bill's memories of Aunt Eileen.
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In all the years I've known him, I've never heard Uncle Bill speak more than four or five sentences. But here before me was a 31-page document containing his memories of his life with my aunt. He started with the very first moment he saw her red hair at a square dance at Penn State at the beginning of the 1961 fall term. From there he recounted details of their courtship, the ways they spent time together, their wedding, what their first apartment was like, how they lived on $185 per month. He wrote down her jokes, stories that underscored her assertive personality, the cultural clashes that occurred between my East Coast relatives and his Pennsylvania family. He told stories about each of their children's births, about when their house burned down, and about dairy farming and growing tobacco in Ohio.
I hung on every word. And I began to understand the significance of Jane's phone call with her mother. I didn't know my Aunt Eileen very well, just as Jane had never known her grandmother. But the details of their lives—the things they thought, the way they lived, the major events in their lives—form the fabric of our identities regardless.
All of us lose loved ones over the course of our lives, and the pain of those losses is especially sharp during the holiday season, when we cope with the darkness by adhering to traditions with our family and friends. And when the people who were closest to the departed can find ways to share their memories with the subsequent generations, their sharing is truly a gift—one that will not wind up in a landfill, pollute the skies, or clutter a home, but will always fit perfectly and last through time.
Uncle Bill's memories of Aunt Eileen are now my memories. And as I raise my own children and guide them into this fast-changing world, those memories will become part of our family wisdom. I am deeply grateful to him for taking the time to share these thoughts. They represent one of the sweetest gifts I've known.
I wish you all a peaceful holiday season, made rich by the gift of memories.
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A Pizza The Pie: Domino's Delivers Marketing As Official NCAA Partner
By Barry Janoff, Executive Editor
March 10, 2011: In 2011, the NCAA Men's Division I basketball tournament has expanded from 64 to 68 teams and will get much broader network and digital coverage due to a first-year alliance between CBS and Time Warner division Turner Sports, which formed an alliance and signed a 14-year, $10.8 billion deal with the NCAA for exclusive coverage.
This expansion has also hit corporate America. Domino's Pizza said it has signed a multi-year partnership to become the "official pizza of the NCAA" and several of its 23 national championships. Domino's is the third company to join the NCAA's corporate marketing roster in 2011, along with Infiniti and Unilever.
According to the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based pizza company, this is the first time Domino's has partnered nationally with collegiate athletics, and the first national sports marketing sponsorship for the company since 2007. Domino's said the alliance would be anchored by an alliance with NCAA corporate partner Coca-Cola, which is the "official fan refreshment of the NCAA." Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Other NCAA corporate partners are AT&T, and Capital One (corporate champions); Enterprise, The Hartford, LG Electronics, Lowe's, Kraft Foods' Planters, Hershey's Reese's and UPS.
State Farm this past February decided not to renew its sponsorship deal with the NCAA.
"We are very proud to be the 'official pizza of the NCAA,' and look forward to a terrific opportunity to connect our brand with national and local platforms showcasing our country's finest student athletes," Russell Weiner, CMO for Domino's Pizza, said in a statement. "Hard work, commitment to winning and an emphasis on team achievement are all attributes Domino's and the NCAA have in common, and we are excited to bring these traits to life through this partnership."
The three-week period of March Madness is one of the best-selling pizza segments of the year, according to industry analysts.
In addition to the men's basketball tournament and Final Four, Domino's will have rights to such NCAA events as the women's basketball Final Four, men's hockey Frozen Four and the men's and women's College World Series.
"Coca-Cola's involvement with the NCAA and our championships has brought a tremendous amount of positive exposure to our long-standing partnership," Peter Davis, NCAA director of corporate alliances, said in a statement. "With this announcement as the 'Official Pizza of the NCAA,' we welcome Domino's Pizza to our NCAA championships, and we are excited to see the energy with this new relationship."
"Hard work, commitment to winning and an emphasis on team achievement are all attributes Domino's and the NCAA have in common."
According to Will Funk, svp-NCAA partnerships and branded programming within Turner Sports ad sales, "We're excited to have Domino's as an NCAA marketing partner, and look forward to their NCAA activation in conjunction with Coke," says
Domino's which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, has more than 9,000 locations worldwide.
Under terms of their new NCAA deal, Turner Sports and CBS Sports negotiate the NCAA's corporate champion and corporate partner agreements.


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I was guessing the ouput of a command that fails to execute should be sent to stdout and hence can be piped. It seems I am wrong, so please correct me.
For example,
The program 'easy_install' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
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Monday 2nd October 2017
Midland Football League Premier
Coleshill Town 2 v 1 Quorn
Town: Matt Gardner 2.
Quorn: Callum Thompson.
Attendance: 117.
Opposition Player Of The Match: Matt Gardner (Coleshill) Amarvir Sandhu (Quorn)
Supporters Club Man Of The Match, Sponsored By Greensleeves: Joe Cole.
Colemen: Paul Hathaway, Jeese Race, Jorna Moulton, Danny Tymon, Joe Cole, Luke Edwards, Drew Aiton, Reece Leek, Matt Gardner, Liam Molesworth, Dean Rathbone. Subs used Giovanni Dainty, Ryan Edmunds, James Medford. Subs not used Joe Halsall, Dominic Cotter.
Quorn: Russell Hoult, Robert Mulonga, Amarvir Sandu, Leavi Oshungbure, Daniel Chapman, Niall Mather, Ryan Evans, Callum Thompson, Dominic Brennan, James Hicks, Nick Gould. Subs: Liam Turner, Troy Owen, Joe Lovett.
By Craig Hamilton
Straight from the kick off Coleshill lose possession and Quorn attack but cannot capitalise as a shot goes wide. A scrappy start by Coleshill saw Quorn on top and they won a free kick on the right side of the area but the cross was headed over. Coleshill started to get into the game and they attacked down the left wing and the ball was pulled back to the edge of the box but Danny Tymon's shot was saved at the second attempt by Hoult in the Quorn goal.
However Quorn were having the better of the play and on 14 minutes took the lead as a clever back heel pass fell to the on rushing forward to side foot past Paul Hathaway 0-1. Then Coleshill had a chance to score as a great run down the left by Jorna Moulton saw him play the ball to Matt Gardner but he shot wide. But Quorn gained the advantage as a long ball over the defence saw Paul Hathaway run out of his area but was beaten to the ball by Hicke but his shot hit the outside of the post from an acute angle.
With so many changes to the team Coleshill were finding it hard work and they gave the ball away too easily but then they clicked into gear as Reece Leek saw a shot blocked and the follow up by Drew Aiton was blocked and cleared. Then Danny Tymon hit the outside of the post from 20 yards. Coleshill started to get more of the ball but a cross was headed wide by Matt Gardner and the first half ended with them a goal down not having played to their ability.
The second half started and its clear to see Coleshill had upped their game as good build up play by Jorna Moulton saw the ball played to Danny Tymon but again he shot wide. Coleshill started to get on top but again the final pass let them down and Quorn were still in the game but fail to make any headway.
A long ball clearance by Paul Hathaway then found Matt Gardner and he held the ball up, beat his marker and played the ball to Dean Rathbone but his shot went just past the post. Coleshill then made a double substitution with Gio Dainty replacing the injured Jorna Moulton and Ryan Edmunds replaced Liam Molesworth.
Quorn were not out of the game and won a free kick on the right but the shot was deflected wide. Then Joe Cole won the ball on the edge of the Coleshill penalty area and ran 20 yards forward before playing a good pass to Reece Leek who runs on and shoots but Hoult parried the ball only to see Matt Gardner score from the rebound 1-1 and game on.
Coleshill were now on top and attack again as Reece Leek headed on to Dean Rathbone but he dragged his shot wide. Then Ryan Edmunds fired in a shot that the keeper pushed wide. Coleshill were now the better side and their pressure payed off when a great run and cross down the right by Reece Leek was met in the six yard box by Matt Gardner to slide the ball home 2-1. Then Reece Leek had a chance as he beat the keeper to the ball but headed just wide.
James Medford then made his first team debut as he replaced Matt Gardner for the last couple of minutes.
Coleshill were now working hard to maintain the lead and Ryan Edmunds chased 60 yards to win the ball in midfield and played the ball forward for Reece Leek to run onto but saw his one on one with the keeper saved by Hoult.
This was the last action of the game and Coleshill won 2-1 to stay top of the league but they will have to do better over 90 minutes and not just rely on a good second half performance.
A Match Report taken from the Quorn web site
http://www.quornfc.com/1st-mr-2017-18/c ... 2-1-quorn/
Quorn travelled to visit the current league leaders without Ryan Thacker, Nathan Dale and Jake Dodds. James Hicks returned to partner Dominic Brennan up front with Callum Thompson replacing Dale in midfield. Russell Hoult returned between the sticks and Liam Turner made a surprise return to the squad following his retirement at the end last season.
Quorn settled well and completely dominated the first period, Thompson opened the scoring after a quarter of an hour but missed chances kept the score line to a slender margin at the break.
The 2nd half saw a complete turnaround and the Home side gained the upper hand early on and Quorn were having to defend desperately to preserve their lead. Fifteen minutes from the end, the visitors made the breakthrough when Matt Gardener scored from close range after Hoult had parried the original effort. Soon after, they added a second to take the points.
Quorn Team
R.Hoult, R.Mulonga, A.Sandhu, L.Oshungbure, D.Chapman, N.Mather, R.Evans, C.Thompson, D.Brennan, J.Hicks, N.Goold.
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Meet Crystal, a 25-year-old chimp who remains playful despite having been infected with HIV years ago as part of biomedical research. She's one of countless chimps who have been used to study diseases ranging from polio to malaria to high blood pressure. But as scientists find new research methods, the role of chimps is declining - and the apes are aging.
Where do the chimps go to retire? The lucky ones (including Crystal) end up at Chimp Haven, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Keithville, Louisiana. There, 132 chimpanzees - many with chronic health issues - live in an environment that simulates life in the wild but also provides the apes with veterinary care.
There's no shuffleboard, but the senior chimps keep active. Keep clicking to meet 16 more residents at the sanctuary, as described by the caregivers at Chimp Haven...
Credit: Chimp Haven
Brett, 35, "has never met another chimpanzee he doesn't consider a friend." Think he's only good for medical research? The talented chimp is well-known for his paintings - one of his pieces is in the permanent collection at the NOVA Art Museum in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Keith, 47, is one of the older chimpanzees in his social group - but you'd never know it, based on the fights he picks with younger males. The squabbles often end with him crying or throwing a tantrum. Keith has lots of freckles and goes ape for frozen pomegranates.
When he first arrived at Chimp Haven, Thundarr was super fat and didn't want to move - he spent most of his time just lounging in the playground. He has now lost over 40 pounds, thanks to efforts from vets, and is a lot more active. He's 29.
Joice, 48, is one of the eldest and most respected females in her group - which means she often ends up with a good deal of food. Joice prefers the company of female chimps and is often found resting in the sun, eating, and enjoying her retirement.
Paul (back), 45, loves the ladies and can sometimes become very jealous of the other males in his group. He only has one leg, but you wouldn't know it when you see him chasing after one of the girls or chasing one of the other boys away. Libby (front), 47, has always been a very curious chimpanzee, wanting to check out every corner of her enclosure. She loves to receive presents or any type of surprise. Libby puts up with the attentions of the males in her group, but don
This lady chimp loves to eat. When the chimps in her social group receive treats, Sara hoards as many as she can. She tends to be protective of others and once fashioned a spear from a branch to help protect the group. She's 26.
Queenie, 30, acts as royal as her name suggests. When waiting for her turn for treats, she is polite, and extends her hand in the air, as if to say, "May I be next?" She's also excellent at catching food that's thrown to her. She's also very popular among the gents.
Grandma, 58, is Chimp Haven's oldest resident. She always carries a plush animal toy, a reminder of her days as a nursery caregiver to the baby chimps.
Pam, 42, was used in HIV studies. She often appears to be mouthing the word, "apples," caregivers say, when she wants a treat. She likes to play dress-up and enjoys the attention of humans.
This 27-year-old is missing a leg, but doesn't let that stop her from moving around. Connie always carries a life-size plastic baby doll and pretends to nurse it. If another chimpanzee takes away her "baby," she gets very upset - but, luckily, this doesn't happen, and Connie has many chimp friends.
Sheba (left), 30, has lived in zoos, homes, laboratories and sanctuaries. She is related to a famous chimpanzee named Nim, who was recently featured in a book, "Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human," and a movie, "Project Nim." Sheba herself has been featured in TV shows for her intelligence. Sarah Anne (right), 52, is also very smart and famous - she was taught to use lexigrams (symbols on keyboards) by Dr. David Premack in the 1960s, and is mentioned in many books. She is the matriarch of her group, and waits for all others before moving from one area to another.
Aixa, 31, likes to spend time alone playing with her favorite toys
Gay recently passed away at age 44. She was a very intelligent chimpanzee who enjoyed looking at electronics. When a caregiver accidentally dropped a two-way radio into Gay's enclosure, Gay kept it and used it for a few days before trading pieces of it for bananas. She might have traded the whole radio at once, but it wouldn't fit through the mesh holes. Breaking it into pieces took care of the space problem and dragged out the period in which she received treats.
Violet loves to carry a large SpongeBob SquarePants pillow. The 26-year-old often places it on her back, as though it's a baby chimp.
Hamlet was taken from his mother at a very young age. Because he never received the nurturing he needed to learn chimpanzee life skills, he arrived at Chimp Haven socially inept. Over time, he has been integrated into a large social group. He tends to be the rowdiest member of the group, constantly making high-pitched screams and banging objects to make noise. He's 31.
Jeff was timid when he arrived at Chimp Haven. Today, he is the second-ranked male in his social group and is known to prefer the company of female chimpanzees. Jeff will rally the other males in his group when it is time to come inside. The 26-year-old is often seen carrying plastic toys.


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Exclusive: How 'Star Trek: Enterprise' Was Born
Watch a video clip from the Blu-ray "Star Trek: Enterprise Season One." The video features co-creator Rick Berman discussing the inception of the show's pilot. (Video: CBS Home Entertainment)
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The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, examined the reach of tobacco and cigarette marketing among some of the world's most vulnerable populations, sampling five and six year-old children from Brazil, China, India, Nigeria, Pakistan and Russia. These countries were selected because they have the highest number of adult smokers among low- and middle-income countries.
"Previous studies show that children and adolescents who are highly exposed to pro-smoking messages are more likely to smoke," said Dr. Dina Borzekowski, lead author of the Pediatrics study and research professor in the UMD SPH Department of Behavioral and Community Health. "It should be of great concern that the majority of very young children in our study were familiar with at least one cigarette brand. Even in households without smokers, children could identify tobacco logos."
The United States created stronger regulations for tobacco advertising in the 1990s after similar research found that six year olds were as familiar with Camel tobacco's "Joe Camel" mascot as with the Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse.
"Regulations created by the World Health Organization to restrict tobacco advertising exist outside of the United States, but beyond our country's borders these regulations may not be as effective," Borzekowski explains, referring to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. "Multi-national tobacco companies appear to have moved their promotional efforts from high-income, industrialized countries to low- and middle-income countries where there are often weak tobacco control policies and poor enforcement." While smoking is stabilizing or decreasing in wealthy countries, people in low and middle-income countries are taking up the habit at alarming rates. In China, for example, nearly one third of adults are cigarette smokers ( about 53 percent of men) , according to WHO data.
With five and six year-old children aware of domestic and international tobacco brands, there is a need to enforce stronger regulations in countries where tobacco companies have increased efforts to attract new users. When children are aware of logos, they are more likely to like and want those products. This is concerning when the products – such as tobacco – should not be used by children. Borzekowski and colleagues suggest changes including requiring larger graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. Additionally, they urge changes to limit children's exposure to the point of sale of tobacco products, including establishing minimum distances between these retailers and places frequented by young children.
"This study reiterates that more needs to be done to reduce the ability of tobacco companies to market their products to children," said co-author Dr. Joanna Cohen, director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Global Tobacco Control. "Countries can implement and enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, including putting large picture warnings on the front and back of cigarette packs. Plain and standardized packaging, now required in Australia, also helps to reduce the attractiveness of cigarette packs among young children."
For this study, researchers worked one-on-one with the participating children, asking them to match pictures of different products with their corresponding logos. In China, where roughly 71 percent of households with participating children had a tobacco user, 86 percent of children could identify at least one cigarette brand logo. Pakistan had the second highest percentage, with 84 percent of children capable of identifying at least one cigarette brand logo. Russia ranked last on the list with half of the participants able to identify any of the cigarette brand logos.
In addition to examining a child's familiarity with tobacco logos, the study also looked at the child's intentions to smoke and his or her level of media exposure.
View the paper International Reach of Tobacco Marketing Among Young Children
at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/recent
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Pope Francis has ordered the German Roman Catholic prelate known as the "bishop of bling" for spending around €31m on a residence to leave his diocese for an unspecified period.
The move, just short of a resignation, was taken against Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Limburg.
It comes two days after he met the pope to discuss the scandal in the German church at a time when the pontiff is stressing the importance of humility and serving the poor.
The renovation costs went from an initial €5m to over €30m, with an additional €10m also likely due because of damage to surrounding streets and structures caused by the construction work.
A Vatican statement said the bishop "was currently not in a position to carry out his episcopal ministry" and that he was ordered to leave the diocese while an investigation and audit into cost over-runs is held.
The diocese will be administered in the bishop's absence by a vicar.
The pope has called for a more austere church and has told bishops not to live "like princes".
German media, citing official documents, said the residence had been fitted with a free-standing bath that cost €15,000, a conference table that cost €25,000 and a private chapel that cost €2.9m.


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Will judge grant George Zimmerman bond?
Decision day on Zimmerman's bond
George Zimmerman, the man accused in the death of Trayvon Martin, may be granted bond by a judge on Thursday.
Zimmerman spent the 4th of July holiday behind bars after the judge could not come to a decision on whether to grand him bond at a hearing Friday.
Judge Kenneth Lester said he considered everything he heard at Zimmerman's bond hearing last Friday, and would make a decision Thursday.
Lester revoked Zimmerman's bond earlier this month after it came to light that he and his wife had misled the court regarding more than $130,000 donated to Zimmerman's legal defense fund. The judge said Zimmerman lacked respect for the law and ordered him to return to the Seminole County Jail, where he remains.
Martin was shot to death in a Sanford townhouse complex. Zimmerman said the shooting was self-defense. He faces second degree murder charges in the case.
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The Standard rooms are tastefully furnished, encompassing a contemporary and modern décor that captures the Mediterranean spirit.
Room capacity: 2 Adults or 2 Adults and 1 Child (child up to 12 years sleeps on folding bed)
They feature:
one room with a double bed
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26'' Flat screen TV with satellite channels
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"Maryland County Road" by Erica Wheeler. This video using her father's black and white photographs taking during these family trips referenced in this song!
If anyone can rally the preservation troops to get 'a sense-of-place' off the endangered species list, it's Erica Wheeler.
With its emphasis on integrating writing, music, and a sense of place, Erica's workshop was incredibly inspiring... [She] gave us all an invaluable opportunity to reflect on our connections to the land, our personal history, and our best selves.
Erica's work writing and singing about how people connect to places encourages us to move beyond technical solutions and perspectives, and to re-connect with the natural world in a way that acknowledges nature as a source of something more than a set resources for human use, but as a pathway for understanding and comprehending our life and life experiences.
Erica has an impressive versatility. Her warm personality and knowledge of her subject matter gave our students a gift: she empowered them to express themselves and connect to the land in a way many of them had never experienced before.
Erica has an amazing knack for bringing out the creativity in people.
We brought Erica in to help us master the art of storytelling and to learn how to share the meaning of these places even more effectively. When we worked with Erica before, it was one of the most meaningful experiences of my career. I was thrilled by seeing the growth in rangers and the inspiration they gleaned.
Erica creates a kind of alchemy in the room where even the most timid of us is inspired to find the writer within. She gave us new tools and reminded me of tools I once knew and had long forgotten. She inspired me to get back to an interpretive project I had put aside which I am now working on with renewed enthusiasm and focus.
We'll continue using what we learned. Erica's techniques were especially effective for creating the baseline of connection that leads to meaningful dialogue.
You are missing out if you aren't trying to book Erica for your upcoming workshop or training event. Her work with the 'sense of place' concept through her Soulful Landscape workshop provides excellent hands-on exercises in an area that is so often perceived as intangible, while her keynote was just the dose of inspiration we needed.
I have experienced Erica and her music at several conferences, workshops and meetings and the results are always the same. The energy in the room changes and an opening is created. There is a sense of playfulness and grounding. Emotional connections to land and place are strengthened and our energy for conservation work is renewed.


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About Lonyo
Worth noting that per the above comment it was removed because it had achieved its purpose, and also that there are various games, some over a year old now on which Denuvo still hasn't been cracked.
There's also only one main "group" (person?) cracking Denuvo, CPY, and it seems to be taking a while each time, giving a nice window of uncracked games for people using it in terms of sales.
Make sure to delete Steam as well while you're at it.
And all your browsers too.
And Windows actually.
This is a broadly similar flaw to one apparently present in Steam and other URI handling applications, and isn't Origin specific.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/bug-on-eas-origin-game-platform-allows-attacker s-to-hijack-player-pcs/
Is this not incredibly dangerous and counterproductive?
Basically, a guy finds a flaw in a website, and reveals it (after being slightly nefarious to show that it's an issue and get it publicity).
For bringing it to the attention of the public, he gets punished.
If he had kept it secret and just leaked the information without revealing himself, which he could have done, the security hole may not have been notified to AT&T.
Basically it means that amateur security people will no longer find these holes in large corporations, meaning people who want to exploit them for personal gain will have a much easier time of keeping them secret or finding them first.
Resulting in a LESS secure system, due to laws which are supposed to improve security.
If your law against hacking results in hacking being driven more underground and people NOT revealing security flaws they find, you're doing it wrong.
Indeed, it is a special case.
Which is why I said that in my post in the first place, just not with the words "special case".
For NZ it isn't a bad idea, which is why this article comparing it to US tax breaks is stupid, because it's not exactly like with like.
(Yes, it's Wikipedia, but look, references!).
Before you say "rubbish", do a scant bit of research rather than using preconceptions.
While it is quite a lot, and they might not get that much return immediately, you can't really argue with the idea that the LOTR films helped promote New Zealand as a tourist destination, and The Hobbit will probably do the same.
"After the Lord Of The Rings films came out a Tourism New Zealand survey showed 6% of visitors came mainly as a result of having seen the movies. They added around 250m annually to the country's income. "
Spend $120m, get some of it back in tax/etc, and then get 250m (NZD?) annually for a couple of years? That's not a particularly bad investment.
There's more than just the jobs created here. For the US it might be difference, since lots of US cities are not appealing even after a film has been made there, but for somewhere like NZ, it can be quite different.


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All our lambing sessions are now sold out for this year. Tickets go on sale for 2020 in January 2020!
Keep an eye on our Facebook page and Instagram feed where we'll post as and when our lambs are born.
What's a lambing experience?
Come and visit our farm during one of the busiest times of the year, lambing time.
With nearly 1200 expectant ewes (mummy sheep) to lamb this spring, this is your chance to get a real first hand experience of what it is like to be a farmer at this time of year.
You will be able to help care, feed, bed and water the ewes and their new born lambs.
And with any luck, witness the birth a new life onto the farm. (Although this can't be guaranteed for obvious reasons).
How long does it last?
Your booked slot will last 1 hour. In this time, you can help the farmer with the chores in the lambing shed, or if you prefer, just soak up the atmosphere and play with lambs!
What do I wear?
Bring outdoor clothing, preferably water-proof and that you don't mind getting wet or dirty! Wear outdoor footwear, wellies are ideal.
We will provide latex gloves for extra health and safety.
Who can come?
We invite everyone from school age (4 1/2) onwards to come to this experience. All children must be accompanied by a paying adult..
If you are trying for a baby, think/are pregnant, we advise that you do not take part in this experience this year.
If you are allergic to hay or straw, we advise that you don't take part in the 'sheep feeding/bedding' activity!
Hand wash facilities will be provided and we stress the need for high levels of hygiene.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. – UNCG senior runners and twin sisters Shaina Sumney (Washington, Pa./Trinity) and Chelsea Sumney (Washington, Pa./Trinity) ran Friday and Saturday at 2014 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Regionals in Jacksonville, Fla., hosted by North Florida. Neither Sumney qualified for to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, but finished out their UNCG running careers admirably.
Both Shaina and Chelsea ran in the second of three heats in the 3,000-meter steeplechase Friday night with the top three times in each heat along with the next three top times advancing to the national championship. Shaina placed seventh in her heat with a time of 10:21.35 while Chelsea was 14th with a time of 10:43.16.
Rachel Sorna of Cornell won the second heat with a time of 9:52.88 while Leah O'Connor of Michigan State had the overall top time of 9:52.69 in heat one. Sarah Martinelli of West Virginia turned in the final at-large time at 10:10.25. Shaina time was 19th overall in the three heats while Chelsea was 41st overall.
Shaina ran in the 5,000-meter race Saturday night to close out her running collegiate career. She finished 35th overall in the two heats, including 17th in heat number one. She posted a time of 16:55.55 while Elino Kirk of UAB turned in the top overall time of 15:53.95.
Shaina qualified for the 3,000-meter steeplechase this season with a time of 10:18.13 on May 4 at the Payton Jordan Invitational. Chelsea earned a spot in the race by posting the 44th best time in the region. She clocked in at a time of 10:27.64 at the Virginia Challenge May 9, in her second to last race of the season.


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Senate bill aimed at tighter regulation of compounding pharmacies
WASHINGTONLarge specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year would be subject to federal safety inspections and manufacturing standards under a new Senate proposal introduced Friday.
The draft bill is the first Senate effort to address the recent outbreak tied to contaminated compounded drugs that sickened more than 700 Americans and killed more than 50 others.
- FDA cracks down on compounding pharmacies
- Report reveals FDA knew of complaints against Massachusetts pharmacy
- 60 Minutes: Lethal medicine linked to meningitis outbreak
The wave of deadly fungal infections was identified in September and linked to a large Massachusetts compounding pharmacy, which regulators said was operating more like a manufacturer.
The new proposal would subject such large compounding operations to direct federal oversight by the Food and Drug Administration, rather than the state pharmacy boards that have traditionally overseen them.
Compounding pharmacies mix customized solutions, creams and other medications in formulas specified by a doctor's prescription. Over the last two decades though, larger compounding operations have emerged that produce medications in bulk and ship them across state lines.
The New England Compounding Center, which triggered the meningitis outbreak, shipped more than 17,600 doses of its pain injection to 23 states.
Last week, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said her agency was not aggressive enough in policing the company because of the conflicting patchwork of state and federal laws that govern pharmacies. The Senate bill is designed to clear up that ambiguity.
"By clarifying FDA authority over high-risk compounding practices, this bill will enhance protections for patients taking compounded drugs and help prevent crises like last year's tragic meningitis outbreak," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The bill was drafted with support from Republicans on the committee, including Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Pat Roberts, R-Kan.
The bill identifies "compounding manufacturers" as pharmacies that produce injectable drugs and ship them across state lines without patient-specific prescriptions from doctors. These operations will have to register with the FDA, report the drugs they make and meet standards similar to those required of drug manufacturers.
Traditional compounding pharmacies, generally small operations that work with individual doctors, will continue to be regulated by state pharmacy boards. But the bill sets minimum standards for ingredients used by all compounding pharmacies.
As the first bipartisan bill in Congress aimed at addressing last year's outbreak, observers say the Senate legislation has the best chance of becoming law. Several Democrats in the House of Representatives have introduced similar measures, but Republicans who control that chamber have shown little interest in passing new compounding legislation.}
Previous congressional efforts to regulate the compounding pharmacies have been scuttled before, stretching back to the 1990s.
In the last attempt, senators including Roberts and Ted Kennedy, D-Mass, circulated a bill in 2007 that would have given the FDA more power to inspect compounders and set standards for sterile medications. But the legislation was abandoned after compounding pharmacists campaigned against it, visiting Capitol Hill and lobbying in Senate offices.}
The industry's main trade group, the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, spent about $1 million lobbying Congress in the last decade, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics.
The group said in a statement Friday that new categories like "compounding manufacturer" create "more confusion and further blurs the jurisdictional authority of regulators."
"IACP reiterates its position that state boards of pharmacy are responsible for the licensing and oversight of compounding pharmacies and the FDA is responsible for overseeing and regulating pharmaceutical manufacturers," the group said in an emailed statement.


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Mode Set Bus Cards
These business cards designed by Amy Kitt for Mode Set are a great example of how to sucessfully incorporate a splash
of metallic foil into a project. A single grey ink was printed on both sides of a French Durotone Steel Grey 200# cover stock. To finish things off a small metallic foil icon was imprinted on the front of
the cards. Subtle. Classy.
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New IRONMAN World Championship Slot Allocation and Rolldown Process
Global initiative puts slot allocation and rolldown at the same time.
Every year thousands of athletes compete at IRONMAN events around the world in hopes of qualifying for the IRONMAN World Championship held in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii every October. Age group athletes must finish at the front of their age categories to earn a chance to compete at the world's most prestigious one-day sporting event.
New Slot Allocation and Rolldown Process
In order to standardize the slot allocation and rolldown for the IRONMAN World Championship, IRONMAN events around the world will now combine slot allocation and rolldown into one ceremony.
In the past many events have offered a separate time for automatic qualifiers to claim their slot, followed by a rolldown ceremony where the remaining slots were handed out. This process will now be combined where slot allocation and rolldown will be completed at the same time.
Slot Allocation
The final number of slots allocated in each age category at an event will be determined by the number of starters in each age group, not by the number of athletes registered. There will always be one slot allocated per age group (as long as there is at least one competitor who has started in that age group). The higher the number of starters in an age group, the higher the percentage of slots allocated to that age group.
For detailed information on the rolldown process, please go to our Qualifying for Kona FAQ page.
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High anxiety on future of pot laws
The voters have spoken about legalizing marijuana in Colorado and Washington. Now it's the federal government's turn — and that might mean the two new referendums are about to go up in legal smoke.
The state ballot measures passed on Election Day creating the world's most permissive pot laws put the Feds in a bind that could set in motion years of legal wrangling, tax penalties levied against growers or distributors — as well as unclear situations of SWAT-style raids by federal agents despite laxer local authorities.
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"The stage is set for a confrontation of massive proportions," said Asa Hutchinson, the former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Hutchinson, who headed the DEA during George W. Bush's first term, said he sees only two options for the Obama administration, in the likely event that it doesn't just ignore the new laws: a lawsuit against both states or enforcement of federal drug laws by federal agents.
The most likely federal response, Hutchinson predicted, would be a lawsuit arguing that federal law trumps any state efforts. The administration should "have the courts decide finally that federal law trumps and that the state law violates the federal law," he said.
Other former drug enforcers say that approach might work.
"Clearly, there are provisions in both of the initiatives that unambiguously violate federal law," said Kevin Sabet, former senior adviser at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Obama Administration. "The regulation and taxation, the fact that you can buy marijuana at the store — that's clearly in violation."
Sabet said he would be "surprised" if the federal government stood back and allowed both states to move forward in setting up legal, taxable and regulated marijuana industries.
But that doesn't worry the people behind these unprecedented experiments in state-level legalization.
"A 55 percent vote to end marijuana prohibition is a clear mandate," said Brian Vicente, an attorney who helped write the Colorado law, citing the vote results. "It sends a message to our [state] officials and to federal officials."
Even Amsterdam only tolerates marijuana in a handful of cannabis cafes. Wider use or growing the drug itself is illegal, though those provisions are unenforced. The new Colorado and Washington laws go much further: not only do they explicitly authorize citizens to use pot for recreational purposes, they demand state involvement, with provisions for regulating, taxing and licensing marijuana growers and retailers — creating systems where the drug can be sold just like alcohol.
"I think we would expect the Feds to be particularly concerned with growers and distributors, especially commercial sellers," Sabet predicted.


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Bishop of San Francisco
In North America, one of the most important and major Sees in the Orthodox Church belongs to the Bishop of San Francisco. Up until the 1920s, only one see with this title existed. When communism came to power in Russia, the Orthodox Church in the Americas was left to fend for itself. To further complicate things, the Metropolia, later the OCA' and ROCOR broke into two jurisdictions in America and the diocese in San Francisco was divided into two amongst the Russians.
Bishops of San Francisco
Recognised as such by the OCA, the ROCOR and the Patriarchate of Moscow.
- Bp. John (Mitropolsky) 1870-1876 Transferred the Cathedra from Sitka to San Francisco in 1872, unnofficial)
- Bp. Nestor (Zakkis) 1879 - 1882 (In his time the Holy Synod in St. Petersburg officially recognizes the move to San Francisco, thus, Bp. Nestor was the first "Bishop of San Francisco" He died at sea whilst sailing to Alaska from San Francisco. His body was found at the mouth of the Yukon river and was buried at Unalaska.)
- Abp. Vladimir (Sokolovsky-Avtonomov) 1888-1891 (Received St. Alexis Toth into Orthodoxy, translated and served in English at the Cathdral in San Francisco)
- Bp. Nicholas (Ziorov) (1891- 1898)
- St. Tikhon (Belavin) of Moscow (1898- 1907) American Cathedra transferred from San Francisco to New York. American Archdiocese given to auxiliaries, Bp. Innocent for Alaska and St. Raphael Hawaweeny for the Syrians.
- Archbishop Apollinary (Koshevoy) of San Francisco (1926-33) In 1927, the diocese (and the Russian Church in America) would split in two, he was at that time expelled from the Holy Trinity Cathedral on Green Street in San Francisco. He and half of the community of Holy Trinity started a seperate parish, which would later become Holy Virgin Cathdral (ROCOR) on Geary.
The ROCOR Bishop of San Francisco
- Archbishop Apollinary (Koshevoy) of San Francisco (1926-33)
- Abp. Tikhon (Troitsky) (1934-1962)
- St. John Maximovitch (1962-1966)
- Bp. Nektary (Kontzevitch) Administrator of the diocese in San Francisco, 1966-1968
- Abp. Anthony (Medvedev) (1968-2000)
- Abp. Kyrill (Dmitrieff) of San Francisco (2000 - present)
The OCA bishop of San Francisco
In 1922, a Sobor was held that ultimately decided on autonomy for the American Archdiocese. In 1927, due to large protests for and against the Metropolia's decision, the diocese (and the Russian church in America) was divided in two, along those loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and those loyal to what would later become the OCA.
- Abp. Alexis (Panteleev) (1927-1931)
- Metr. Theophilus (Pashkovsky) (1931 - 1950) (He was made Archbishop of San Francisco from 1931 until his repose in 1950 in SF.
- Abp. John (Shahovskoy) (1950-1973, 1975-1979).
- Metr. Vladimir (Nagosky) of Tokyo and San Francisco Administrator of the diocese, 1974-1975
- Bp. Basil (Rodzianko) (1980-1984).
- Bp. Tikhon (Fitzgerald) (1987-2007).
- Bp. Benjamin (Peterson) (2007 - present)
Ecumenical Patriarchate - Diocese of San Francisco
The initial Charter of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America provided for diocesan sees in New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. A new charter issued in 1930 abolished these dioceses; however, an auxiliary bishop continued to reside in San Francisco and oversaw the western parishes of the Archdiocese until the reestablishment of the Diocese in 1979. In 2002, the Greek Orthodox Diocese of San Francisco was elevated to the rank of Metropolis.
- Bp. Kallistos (Papageorgapoulos) of San Francisco (1927-1940)
- Bp. Eirinaios (Tsourounakis of San Francisco) (1941-1944)
- Bp. Athenagoras (Kokkinakis) of Eleia (1950-1955)
- Bp. Demetrios (Makris) of Olympos (1955-1960)
- Bp. Meletios (Tripodakis) of Christianopoulls (1960-1978)
- Met. Anthony (Gergiannakis) of San Francisco (1978-2004)
- Met. Gerasimos (Michaleas) of San Francisco (2005-present)


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HYPE Tons of ToysThe Hartford Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs hosted its annual Tons of Toys fundraiser Dec. 5 at the Gershon Fox building in downtown Hartford. The toy drive collected thousands of toys for the YMCA of Greater Hartford.
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- Manchester Main Street ScarecrowsManchester's downtown scarecrow contest
- Pedal to the Medal 2019Early risers participated in the Hartford Marathon Foundation's 2nd Annual Pedal to the Medal event which started and finished under the Memorial Arch at Bushnell Park. Almost 200 bike riders rode along the CT Fastrak route from Hartford to New Britain and back, an 18.8 mile journey, starting at 3 am before the Hartford Marathon Saturday, October 12th. The proceeds help benefit BiCi Co., Hartford's educational community bike shop, as well as putting on Pedal to the Medal each year.
- Crossing The Finish Line: Hartford Marathon 2019Runners finish strong at the 26th Eversource Hartford Marathon Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, in Hartford.
- Tommy's Tattoo Convention 2019Tommy's Tattoo Convention returned to the Connecticut Convention Center Oct. 11 to 13, when tattoo enthusiasts, were able to get tattoos, listen to live music and discover new styles of body decoration.
- The Hartford Marathon 2019Runners from across the country gathered near Hartford's Bushnell Park on Saturday Morning to compete in the Hartford, Marathon, Half-Marathon & 5K races,
- Crazy Brew Bash at Mount SouthingtonThe 5th Crazy Brew Bash on Oct. 12 featured dozens of beer, wine, and liquor distributors, food trucks, and live entertainment.
- The 26th running of the Eversource Hartford Marathon winners and moreOver 9,000 participants took to the streets of downtown Hartford for the 26th running of the Eversource Hartford Marathon, half marathon, charity 5K and kids run on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019.