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Mark Leviton on Mar 21, 2012
Guaranteed to day-glo your third eye, freak your beat and blow your mind, tonight we reach into the archives for Nuggets, Pebbles and Rubble from the sixties. Obscurities and chart-toppers will battle it out!
Mikail Graham on Mar 20, 2012
Tonight on The Other Side from 8 to 10pm"Nels Cline - A Musical Chameleon" Guitarist and composer Nels Cline has been part of the jazz and experimental improvisation scene in Los Angeles for decades, contributing as well to rock bands including Bloc and The Geraldine Fibbers. Leading his own...
Tenali Hrenak on Mar 13, 2012
"Weeeeeeeee!!!'"Off we go to the tree house in the sky full of jump rope songs, nursery rhymes, folk songs, tongue twisters, ring games, eefing, 1920s & 30s, and more! Come out, come out, wherever you are and join guest host Tenali as he explores the imagnarium of childhood, wonder and awe.
Mikail Graham on Mar 6, 2012
Tonight on The Other Side from 8 to 10pmThe Other Side Of Country Part 3Raised on classic country and western music mixed with a healthy does of easy listening pop, Other Side host & producer Mikail Graham will take you on yet another journey into the world of old western style country...
Mark Leviton on Mar 1, 2012
SIDE ONE Respect/Aretha Franklin Wedding Bell Blues/Laura Nyro The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game/The Marvelettes Can't He Take a Hint/Kenni Woods I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy/The What Four Wow Wow Wee (He's the Boy For Me)/The Angels (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone (demo)/The Pivots Hey, Big Boy/The...
Mark Leviton on Feb 28, 2012
It's Sadie Hawkins Day! Pet Sounds only gets to do a show on Leap Day once every 26 years or so, and we'll use this one to let the women have their say in music. A few marriage proposals might be included, so be prepared to shed a tear or two.
Mikail Graham on Feb 21, 2012
Tonight on The Other Side from 8 to 10pm - The World Of Cazazza According to legend, there are multiple Monte Cazazza's inhabiting the planet earth's current biosphere. On this episode we'll spend 2 hours, live-in-the-studio, with at least one (if not more) of these enigmatic Cazazza...
Mark Leviton on Feb 16, 2012
SIDE ONE Baby I'm Yours/Barbara Lewis I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)/Aretha Franklin Tell Mama/Etta James A Lover's Concerto/The Toys Honey Chile/Martha Reeves & The Vandellas Reflections/Diana Ross & The Supremes Son-of-A Preacher Man/Dusty Springfield I Say A Little Prayer/...
Marc Cuniberti on Feb 14, 2012
Thanks to all who pledged on the 2 shows. We will contact you soon for your gifts and scheduling. Marc
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Mikail Graham on Feb 5, 2012
Greetings and welcome to a preview of The Other Side's Upcoming Shows... February 21: 8pm - 10pm"The World Of Cazazza"According to legend, there are multiple Monte Cazazza's inhabiting the planet earth's current biosphere. On this episode we'll spend 2 hours, live-in-the-studio, with at least one...
Marc Cuniberti on Feb 5, 2012
Money Matters will host a special 2 hour show this Thursday February 9, 2012 at noon, PST. Hear all about the latest crazy market movements, my new take on the IPO of Facebook, Apple stock, the latest about the Euro, real estate, gold, silver, dividend paying stocks and bonds. We will offer...
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Indiana Man Dies in Fall from Grain Bin
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. - A man died Wednesday after falling from a grain bin in Crawfordsville. 69-year-old Richard B. Lowe of Darlington had fallen from a roof and struck his head, causing his death.
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Australian rugby union great David Campese has apologized for a Twitter outburst in which he said Muslim cricketer Fawad Ahmed should "go home" if he refused to wear a beer logo on his shirt.
Cricket Australia agreed to the Pakistan-born leg-spinner's request not to wear the sponsorship logo of beer brand VB on his team outfit because of Islam's ban on alcohol.
The move sparked critical comments, including from former Australian cricketer Doug Walters, who said Ahmed should realize how much funding sponsors put into the sport and if he did not want to wear the uniform, he should not take their money.
The comments prompted former Wallaby captain Campese to tweet: "Doug Walters tells Pakistan-born Fawad Ahmed: if you don't like the VB uniform, don't play for Australia. Well said Doug. Tell him to go home."
In another tweet on Friday he said: "Team means team not I. You can't win if you think that way. sponsors pay money to pay wages, develop the game..."
Cricket Australia condemned any "racist comments" directed to Ahmed on social media and Campese has reportedly been suspended as a rugby commentator by a South African television station over the remarks.
In his latest tweets, posted on Monday, Campese apologized.
"Just like to say sorry for comments. It is about sport and never has or will be about religion. Any [one] who knows me can tell you that," he said.
Campese added that he would be ringing the Australian Cricketers' Association "to say sorry and to pass my message on. Sport is about team work and team. That was my point. Sorry again."
Ahmed, who became an Australian citizen in July after his application was fast-tracked, did not have the brewer's logo on his shirt during his international debut in recent T20 matches against England.
His case is not the first of its kind, with South African batsman Hashim Amla, also a Muslim, permitted not to wear the logo of Cricket South Africa sponsor Castle, a beer company, on his kit.
Australia's one-day vice-captain George Bailey said former asylum-seeker Ahmed was unmoved by the row.
"I don't think it'd particularly worry Fawad," Bailey said after Friday's washout in the first one-day international in Leeds. "I think he's probably had to deal with a lot more important things than what's on the front of his shirt."


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By Stephen Brown, Anthony Lynch, and Antti Petajisto
Now that the Dodd-Frank Act has been passed by both houses of Congress, we finally know its broad implications for hedge funds. As expected, it requires all large hedge fund advisers to register with the SEC. Also the new rules on derivatives trading have an additional impact on many hedge funds. However, since the Act leaves many specifics up to the regulators, considerable uncertainty remains about the exact form of the new rules. The main tradeoff is between the government's desire to learn more about hedge funds, both to assess systemic risk and to protect investors, and the compliance costs this imposes on funds and investors. Overall, how economically sensible is hedge fund regulation in the Act, and how well does the Act resolve this tradeoff?


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Friday, January 12, 2007
Tebow at the Controls
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this was taken from a Miami message board:
A few things:
1. NOT Tebow's girlfriend
thats my friend Erin, shes in DG here at UF... nice girl, so-so in the looks department... she is very photogenic - she used to model for Abercrombie when she was a freshman, then she blew up... now she is just getting back into shape
2. Those are 100% fake - Ive known her for 2 years, and she just got them last semester... they look bigger in the picture, not so big in real life
3. Erin is a senior and wants to go to med school... shes actually pretty smart
4. Time Tebow dated an ADPi here at UF, a Freshman, who said he was "weird" - but not in a gay way - and that he was too religious... the girl dumped him a few months ago
5. Erin has a boyfriend in Pike, who is also a senior, who is about 5'2'' and they have been together for about 3 years... real nice guy
6. Tebow went on a few dates with my friend Tanya, also a senior, a real nice and attractive Colombian girl... she also wasn't feelin the vibe with him- said he was too young and they didnt click
7. I met Erin here at UF - she recognized me from the gym one day while i was at Gator City, and wanted to introduce her friend to me - that her and her friend always see me at the gym... her friend is a UF Dazzler, good looking girl from what i remember, I just met her briefly, but not really my type
Just from someone who is involved in the Gville bar/gym/social scene...
Well isnt that some useful information about the freshman. I doubt anyone really cares about Mr. Tebow.
I myself am a USF fan and looking forward to the UF game in 2009. BE AFRAID TEBOW... we have the number one rated freshman quarterback in the nation. Matt Grothe.
"Those are 100% fake."
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The peace talks' missing piece
Secretary of State John Kerry hosts a dinner Monday to launch a new Obama administration drive for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, but one of the biggest players didn't score an invite: Hamas.
Leaving Hamas out of the peace talks calls into question how almost 40 percent of the Palestinian population living in a possible future Palestinian state will be represented — and underscores Israeli worries about whether a comprehensive deal could ever become reality.
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"Hamas is the biggest elephant in the room…..an elephant in the room that neither Israel nor the United States or even [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas would like to come to terms with," said Fawaz Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics. "You need Hamas…to give any kind of settlement legitimation."
( PHOTOS: John Kerry's career)
For the moment, bringing the Islamic political group into the talks seems to be a non-starter. The idea has been floated repeatedly — including by some experts close to the Obama administration — but has been repeatedly rejected by both the United States and Israel, who consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization because it is unwilling to renounce the use of violence.
The Israeli and Palestinian Authority-backed negotiators meeting Monday and Tuesday at the State Department are expected to hash out the mechanics for future talks.
"They're pretending Hamas doesn't exist and that Abbas, if given a sweet enough deal will be able to speak for enough Palestinians to give Hamas three tough choices: oppose it by force, sit on the sidelines and don't oppose it, or join it," said former U.S. peace negotiator Aaron David Miller. "This is the Kevin Costner school of Israeli-Palestinian peace: if you build it, they will come."
( PHOTOS: John Kerry in Iraq, Afghanistan)
Gerges, said the impulse to bring Hamas into the process doesn't have to arise from any fondness for the movement or its tactics, but simply from an acknowledgement of its power.
"It's in Israel's interest and U.S. interests to have Hamas in the room, in particular if there's any chance of a breakthrough, not from a sentimental point of view and not from a liberal point of view, but from a realist point of view," he said. "Regardless of what you think of Hamas, Hamas cannot be ignored, cannot be isolated because Hamas has the capacity to undermine any kind of settlement."
Few in the mainstream of Israeli politics want to give Hamas a seat at the table — but many view the group's absence as yet another ground for pessimism about the talks being launched under U.S. auspices Monday night.
( PHOTOS: John Kerry's first overseas trip as secretary)
"There's no way a Palestinian prime minister operating under today's conditions can sign an agreement agreeing to give up the right of return" under which Palestinians claim the right to migrate to and live in what they view as their ancestral homeland, said Steve Rosen, a former foreign policy director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "Arafat balked at it repeatedly and Abbas is weaker than Arafat was and the Palestinians are more divided today."
"That right of return and, for Israel, surrender of Jewish historical rights to Jerusalem and the hills of Judea and Samaria will be bitter pills to swallow — pills that the current political alignment probably will prevent on both sides," Rosen added. "You get the costs now, but the benefits later."
A Mideast expert who advised Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign, Shibley Telhami, agreed that it's difficult to see how either side will make huge leaps to achieve peace, given how much uncertainty remains about whether a deal will ever be implemented.
"When you believe the prospect for peace is less than 50-50, you are an idiot to compromise…You're not only afraid to do it, you're stupid to do it," said Telhami, a professor at the University of Maryland.
Telhami said he believes the only thing that can give the process enough momentum to overcome that uncertainty is the Obama administration taking the politically uncomfortable step of putting forward a U.S. proposal for a potential agreement.
"My own view is that left to their own devices and because of their own dynamics, there's no way they'll be able to make a deal on their own without someone putting a plan on the table," he said. "My worry is that as talks start, there public posturing and leaks and reports that undermine public opinion, which can then go south instead of north, and then it can become difficult to make concessions."
Of course, the blacklisting of Hamas has never been as stark as U.S. and Israeli officials often suggest. Israel has bargained with Hamas to obtain the return of prisoners. And Obama was fairly candid that the U.S. was in some kind of dialogue with Hamas through the government of since-deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during an outbreak of violence between Israel and Hamas last November.
Top Hamas officials have not objected to their rivals in the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority conducting talks with Israel through the Palestian Liberation Organization, and have even suggested at times that they'd be open to a referendum where Palestinians could vote on a proposed peace deal.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and to the United Nations Thomas Pickering said the current negotiating drive is based on the notion that, if a deal nears, Hamas will eventually become more open to it, or perhaps splinter.
"If you think of it as a train leaving the station, there are those who want to blow up the railroad tracks and make sure nothing ever happens," he said. "Others may want to be on the train if it looks like it's going somewhere, and it looks like it going to be important to be on the train with a ticket rather than running alongside and given the chance at a later stage to try to jump on board."


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I was recently overviewing various massive compact halo object studies (the Anglo-Australian MACHO collaboration and the French I/II EROS collaboration), and they frequently reference "blue bumper stars," irregular variable stars which produce light curves very similar to gravitational microlensing event. Further searches for more information about them was mostly fruitless, producing a few conference proceedings:
- The MACHO Project LMC variable star inventory: Aperiodic blue variables (code 1995llnl.reptR....P)
- The MACHO Project LMC Variable Star Inventory: Aperiodic Blue Variables (code 1995AAS...18710202P),
but little else.
Is there any more information on this type of variable star, especially a more rigorous and targeted study of them? Also, how is it possible to get the full text for either of those articles?


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Not just Gambhir. Malinga was all over Kohli outside off. I was absolutely ****ting myself during Kohli's first 10 balls.
My mate immediately told me it was a mistake taking Malinga off. I responded "I guess they're saving him for the death". He rightly responded "they're not going to win by defending the total in 50 overs. They need to bowl India out".
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Tbf, same was the case with Zaheer and India today.
His overs were not used earlier to attack and in the end ,he was ineffective.
Yeah could have kept him on, but it would have been a huge call. SL were only 1 down.
Whereas India were 2 down, and SL knew what they were defending. One more Malinga over was worth it IMO.
Ultimately though, Malinga didn't have the support. India saw off any threat from Murali, and that was that.
If not kept on Zaheer could have been brought on when Srilanka lost their 2nd or 3rd wickets,to add to the pressure.
But instead Dhoni was more preoccupied with finishing Sreesanth's quota of overs,but he kept releasing the pressure after every wicket with loose overs.
And Zaheer whose overs were saved for the PP like Malinga proved ineffective in the end.
An absolute joke of a decision by Sri Lanka.
I would hate to be Mendis at the moment. Sorry Ajantha, we know you've taken 4/69 from 19.5 overs across the quarters and semis but this is India, so we have to lose our minds and pick a guy who wasn't even in the squad.
I wonder what would have happened had Matthews played? Surely only one of Perera and Kulasekara would have played.
Really unusual captaincy too, I can't believe that Murali wouldn't have even bowled out his 10 overs, even with a dodgy knee.
Sacrificed bowling for some extra batting depth.
With my 20-20 hindsight I can safely say that it was very silly.
How does Randiv all of a sudden jump both Herath and Mendis for the 2nd spinner role? Why bring in Kapu over Silva? Strange.
But ultimately, it was poor captaincy by Sanga that brought India back into the game. Gambhir played a great innings, but Sri Lanka made it a little to easy from overs 10-20 after such a great start.
That period after Malinga's spell was where they lost it. Such sloppy cricket from SL.
citoyens, vouliez-vous une révolution sans révolution?
But they didn't add batting depth. They only added batting firepower near the end.
They still only had 5 specialist batsmen, which is what resulted in Dilshan and Tharanga being so hesitant early (obviously Zaheer bowling a great spell helped!).
They were in a weird situation where they lengthened their batting lineup, but also made it shorter at the same time.
Well, you could call that batting depth, imo.
Shortened the tail, then?
Anyhoo, surely in a WC final you trust the top order that got you there. Yeah, Matthews injury sorta threw the balance of the side, but replacing Matthews with two players (Perera and Kula) came at the expense of one of their better bowlers of the tournament in Mendis.
Hindsight and all, but it did stink when the sides were announced too.
Mendis averages 19 in ODIs (19 FFS!!) and gets dropped for the final FOR A BLOKE WHO WASN'T IN THE SQUAD after playing like the gun he is all tournament, because of a perception that India play him well.
This decision is going to look more and more bizarre as time goes by
The way I see it Kapugedera/Silva was pretty meh (both crap), Kulasekera was a swap for Herath (as those two seem to have been fighting for a spot most of the tournament, and arguments can be made for both depending on pitch conditions) and Perera came in for Matthews as he's the next closest thing to an all-rounder.
Think it shows the difference between what the selectors gave the team management and what the senior players/coach wanted.
This thread is dancing around the fact that Sri Lanka's bowling didnt have the depth to trouble India in the same way that Paksitan or even Australia and SA did.
Malinga had a dream first spell - but nobody else - including Murali or Malinga's subsequent spells - were able to create sustained pressure from that excellent start. Mendis would have to be formidably a better spinner than Murali or Randiv, and Matthews significantly more attacking a bowler than Kulasekara or Perera to make a difference.
In fact, having to replace Mathews with 2 seamers who could bat probably didn't hurt. Had SL really played 3 spinners, and elected to bat - wouldn't the dew factor hamper the 3rd spinner at least as much as the 2 best spinners in their squad?
Mathews replacement with Kulasekara & Perera didn't hurt SL with the bat either. Yes their openers played in a circumspect manner, but even with Mathews their middle order was fragile &/or untested.
And in any case, Jayawardene was going at a ball a run from the start, and Mathews' replacements combined for 54 out of 39 balls with the bat.
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Étienne de La Boétie
French judge, writer and philosopher
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Étienne de La Boétie (1 November 1530 – 18 August 1563) was a French judge, political philosopher, and anarchist.
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)Edit
- Poor, wretched, and stupid peoples, nations determined on your own misfortune and blind to your own good! You let yourselves be deprived before your own eyes of the best part of your revenues; your fields are plundered, your homes robbed, your family heirlooms taken away. You live in such a way that you cannot claim a single thing as your own; and it would seem that you consider yourselves lucky to be loaned your property, your families, and your very lives. All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not from alien foes, but from the one enemy whom you yourselves render as powerful as he is, for whom you go bravely to war, for whose greatness you do not refuse to offer your own bodies unto death. He who thus domineers over you has only two eyes, only two hands, only one body, no more than is possessed by the least man among the infinite numbers dwelling in your cities; he has indeed nothing more than the power that you confer upon him to destroy you. Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves? You sow your crops in order that he may ravage them, you install and furnish your homes to give him goods to pillage; you rear your daughters that he may gratify his lust; you bring up your children in order that he may confer upon them the greatest privilege he knows — to be led into his battles, to be delivered to butchery, to be made the servants of his greed and the instruments of his vengeance; you yield your bodies unto hard labor in order that he may indulge in his delights and wallow in his filthy pleasures; you weaken yourselves in order to make him the stronger and the mightier to hold you in check.
- Et de tant d'indignités que les bêtes elles-mêmes ne supporteraient pas si elles les sentaient, vous pourriez vous délivrer si vous essayiez, même pas de vous délivrer, seulement de le vouloir.
- From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free.
- Soyez résolus à ne plus servir, et vous voilà libres. Je ne vous demande pas de le pousser, de l'ébranler, mais seulement de ne plus le soutenir, et vous le verrez, tel un grand colosse dont on a brisé la base, fondre sous son poids et se rompre.
- Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.
- Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bait, than are all these poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather passed, so to speak, before their mouths. Truly it is a marvelous thing that they let themselves be caught so quickly at the slightest tickling of their fancy. Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naïvely, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books.
- Part 2.
- Ils veulent servir pour amasser des biens: comme s'ils pouvaient rien gagner qui fût à eux, puisqu'ils ne peuvent même pas dire qu'ils sont à eux-mêmes.
- Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.
- Part 3.
- Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.
- The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support.
- This quote is a paraphrase of the contents of the first chapter of Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. The quote appears in an edition titled Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude edited by Murray Rothbard and Harry Kurz (1975), p. 39.
Quotes about La BoétieEdit
- Modern libertarians know of many great thinkers only because of Murray Rothbard. My favorite in this category is the 16th century anarchist, Étienne de la Boetie. To him, the great mystery of politics was obedience to rulers. Why in the world do people agree to be looted and otherwise oppressed by government overlords? It is not just fear, Boetie explains in "The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude," for our consent is required. And that consent can be non-violently withdrawn.
External linksEdit
- Etiennedelaboetie.net – Website dedicated to the works and life of Etienne de La Boétie
- Étienne de La Boétie: Against Voluntary Servitude – Discourse on the fall of tyrants (2012)
- The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (PDF) at the Ludwig von Mises Institute
- Discours de la servitude volontaire, translated and with an introduction about its reception
- Discours de la servitude volontaire French text at Wikisource.
- Poetry (in French)
- Ending Tyranny Without Violence (The Political Thought of Étienne de La Boétie) by Murray N. Rothbard


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Birmingham-Southern (10-3; 3-0 SAA) rallied for four runs in the sixth inning to erase 1-0 deficit and take a win 4-1 over Sewanee (5-4; 0-3 SAA) in game two of a Southern Athletic Association doubleheader Sunday at Striplin Field. The Panthers won game one 8-0.
Sewanee grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth of game two on an Allen Thigpe RBI single, scoring James Snover.
Stephen Denton singled and Taylor McCracken was hit by a pitch to start BSC's four-run fifth. Denton scored from third on a balk to tie the game and Jeremy Hatley gave the Panthers a 2-1 the lead on a single to bring home Grovenstein. Mayfield and Hatley scored on Ethan Netherton's single to give BSC a 4-1 advantage.
BSC added another run in the sixth to make the score 5-1. Denton singled to lead off the inning and scored on a Hatley single to centerfield to wrapup the game two scoring.
Starter Paul Caudill (2-0) had four strikeouts and gave up a run on two hits through five innings to record the win. David Bourbonnais and Blake Yance pitched scoreless sixth and seventh innings with a strikeout to close the game.
After pitching four scoreless innings, Worth Osgood gave up four runs, two earned on four hits with three strikeouts suffer the loss for Sewanee.
The Panthers scored two in the first and one in the second for an early 3-0 lead in game one. Jacob Mayfield had an RBI double and later scored on a throwing error to give the Panthers a 2-0 lead after the first. Zach Wagner walked and scored on a wild pitch in the second.
BSC added two runs in the seventh and three in the eighth to push the lead to 8-0. Taylor McCracken singled and scored on a wild pitch and Jeremy Hatley walked and scored on a Ethan Netherton single in the seventh. Zach Wagner doubled and scored when Matt Brown reached on a fielder's choice and Mayfield drew a bases loaded walk in the eighth.
Kyle Royalty, who worked out of bases loaded jams in the first and fourth innings, earned the win. The Atlanta, Ga., native struck out three and scattered eight hits over five scoreless innings to improve to 2-1.
Jacob Simpson took the loss for Sewanee, allowing three runs, two earned, on four hits with a strikeout to fall to 2-1.
Birmingham-Southern returns to the diamond for a mid-week game against Emory on Wednesday at 6 p.m.


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Sunday, November 21, 2010
When Life (or death) is Stranger than Fiction -Notice from the Connecticut Courant 1807
The following death notices appeared in the Connecticut Courant, February 25, 1807.
--On the Allegheny Mountain, Mr. James Pollock, son of Justice Pollock, of Westmoreland County. He was horribly murdered by two Frenchmen, who were taken.
--In Green Village, (N.J.) Mr. Isaac Miller, jun. by the upsetting of a waggon.
--In Conway, Mr. Thomas Billings, (From Springfield) aged 72 : He fell from his chair in the fire, and was shockingly burnt.
--In Stockbridge, Mr._ Leighton : he fell from a tree which he had ascended in pursuit of a squirrel.
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Death notices showing how transient life is and how capricious death is have long fascinated me, too, M. And the 19th century seems to have specialized in them. You're right, part of the fascination here is three such notices in one paper at one time.ReplyDelete
A thoughtful researcher who knows something of my roots in northwest Louisiana recently sent me an obituary in this vein, from my Birdwell family. It's from a newspaper called Bossier [Louisiana] Banner, 7 May 1891, and is the obituary of James Birdwell, son of John Birdwell, who was a brother of my ancestor Aletha Birdwell Leonard.
Entitled "Life Is a River That Runs Up Stream," the obituary begins, "Died: On Cash Point, Bossier Parish, April 25th, 1891, Jimmie, youngest child of John and M.F. Birdwell, aged 9 years, 5 months, and 19 days.
While attempting to check a runaway mule, Jimmie fell from the cart and a wheel ran over his body, causing internal injury. After lingering nine days, he passed into the arms of One whom he loved and trusted, and amid the shadows of death he said to a near and dear one he was not afraid to go for God would take care of him," etc.
The Victorians knew how to write these stories of horrific death visited suddenly and very unjustly on too many folks with style. And how frequently it does seem many of our ancestors witnessed things like this, as children fell into fireplaces and down wells, or men were dragged to death in front of their wives and children by mules run amok, as they came home in the evening from plowing their fields.
Thank goodness for records like this, because at this time period the death records rarely recorded a cause of death.ReplyDelete


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 60 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Logo with clean and modern style design, for a on-line shop focus on innovations and good ideas that facilitate people's life.
Looking to create an image that portrays modernity, confidence and professionalism.
You are limited to your imagination on this one.
We are an on-line shop of innovated products from around the world. Our goal is offer new stuffs, innovations or just good ideas that facilitate people's life.
As a reference, we like the symbol forward (>>), it represent the idea of been ahead, we like that! It doesn't need necessary to be on the logo, it is just an idea that can be developed.
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a "dangerous" al-Qaeda chief in southern Yemen who took part in several attacks, state news agency Saba reported.
The agency, citing police, said Suleiman Hassan Mohammed Morshad Awadh, also known as Abu Ussama al-Abiye, was "one of the most dangerous members of al-Qaeda and involved in several terrorist operations."
Awadh, whose name figured on a wanted list, was arrested in Zinjibar, capital of
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an
Islamic Emirate
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Charles Walsh: DEEP working to popularize fishing with youth
If someone were to gauge youth fishing participation in Connecticut based on the turnout on opening day of trout season in April, they might conclude that fishing is more popular than ever with kids. The banks along some of the fully stocked lakes, ponds and trout parks are crowded with enthusiastic children casting lines, watching intently for bobbers to bob and squealing with delight as they reel in a nice fat trout. It's a joyous sight to behold.
Sadly, that impression is a bit misleading.
The truth is that the numbers of young people (under 16) who fish regularly has been dropping for more than a decade, a trend that's led to fewer adult anglers. The decline in youth fishing is reflected in the continuing fall in the numbers of fishing licenses issued annually by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Blame for this unfortunate fact usually falls to a couple of factors:
• Parents, especially dads, are for some reason less likely to introduce their offspring to fishing than they once were.
• Modern kids are more likely to prefer indoor activities like computer games and TV watching to outdoor activities like fishing.
Concerned by this trend, the DEEP has over the years developed many laudable programs aimed at introducing more kids to the fun of fishing. When the DEEP is not promoting events like free fishing days for kids, private groups do their part by sponsoring and organizing all-day youth fishing programs. Every spring, for example, the Fairfield Police Athletic League and Milford Striped Bass Club put on highly successful youth fishing programs attended by hundreds of children.
As great as these programs are, the overall numbers of kids who fish continues to fall.
Now the DEP has launched a more comprehensive program called "Youth Fishing Passport" aimed at introducing and connecting young people to "a lifetime of excellent fishing opportunities across Connecticut." The new program will "introduce young anglers to the state's many fishing opportunities and engage them in a lifetime of appreciation for Connecticut's beautiful natural resources," said Susan Whalen, deputy commissioner of DEEP. "Encouraging young people to spend time outdoors with a family activity such as fishing is good for their health and for the health of our environment."
In other words, it will hopefully sustain an interest in fishing into adulthood.
By signing up for the Passport, participants aged 16 and younger receive an annually renewable Lifetime Conservation ID number. The idea behind the Passport number is to give young fishers a sense of belonging to the state's angler community, says Whalen.
One facet of the program is to make available activities that extend the state-wide fishing experience throughout the calendar year. Two activities currently available through the Passport program are a virtual fishing challenge that allows young anglers to compare their catches with other anglers online, and Fish-Geo Catching, which is similar to geocaching, except that the goal is to catch a variety of fish species from designated state water bodies.
Early participants in the Passport program are eligible for free gifts such as bags of Berkley Power Baits. In addition, the publisher of the annual Connecticut Angler's Guide is sponsoring a Youth Fishing Passport Sweepstakes. Prizes include a family fishing charter and fishing gear packages from Berkley and Shakespeare.
Complete details and free sign-ups for the Youth Passport program are available at the DEP Web site, www.ct.gov/deep/YFP.
If we may be allowed to paraphrase a familiar saying from another field: Give me a child who fishes until they are 10 and I'll give you an angler for life.


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"Booh... Bah..."
"It's just a cheap immitation"
Boohbah was a children's television program created in 2003, aimed in 5 year old's that still found amusement in farting noises. It was later banned in The UK for the very same reason.
The show was designed to be a child friendly television song which they could sing along too in their very own lounge room or watch for a cheap and reliable source of amusement, as 3 years old's find anything funny no matter how serious it may be. But as luck would have it, the internet saw it, and the internet corrupted it into something terrifying and dark.
Now boohbah is an endless supply of furry porn as well as being the subject of many beautiful artworks like this painting of Dick Cheney.
Boohbah started out in 2003 to go along side other such memorable television series', like Bob the Builder and Teletubbies, but it provided something that the other shows could never provide: 25 minutes of repetitive amusement for those with an attention span sort enough, to not realize the show was basically the same thing every day. This allowed the parents to get on with the more important things in life.
So the show was launched with its very first episode. A make or break situation, if it couldn't appeal to the toddlers of the day how else could it expose children to ours of subliminal messaging and advertising about
buying getting someone else to buy all of their lame plushy dolls and music CDs. Fortunately for the networks it was a total success and receieved a grand "two thumbs up" by the reviewers.
The television show, showed promise to the local and international networks and was put to air in the United States, Europe and Asia, for a grand total of 104 full length episodes. Until it got axed by the network, because they felt the audience it once had was growing up and the show did not appeal to the new younger audiences.
Abilities and habitat[edit]
The show was an instant hit with the kiddies, and thus launched into its programming phase which lasted a full 104 episodes. In this phase we delved deep into the world of the boohbahs and other associated characters. As well as the environment in which they lived, for example the boohbahs were said to live in a giant floating magic booh-ball that could materialize out of nothing!
Every adventure shows the boohbah's floating in skydiver formation and telling the children stories of mystical adventures that had once had in a land far, far away. It was rapidly becoming obvious that the children featured on the television program were becoming the pure envy of the children that watched the show in their own living rooms. For a brief instant they considered axing children from the scene altogether, they then realized it would be nothing but colorful fat things flying around looking quite stupid. This was considered even too gay for the producers to handles.
Boohbahs can also fly, despite the obvious handicap of being shaped like a bloated chicken. This further proves how utterly ridiculous the whole project is.
The end?[edit]
All good things must come to an end, rather unfortunately. The board reviewed the show and saw that it was going no where, so they reluctantly axed the show and all attributes and other factors leading to its creation. This news was announced much to the dismay of its loyal viewers who saw it as yet another wacko government conspiracy to get kids getting more fresh air and exercise.
Many 3 year old's were heard crying across the lands, whilst the producers celebrated a secret victory over now they could flog millions worth of worthless Boohbah memorabilia and tapes. This worked exactly as planned and was concidered an epic win by all parties involved.
Fortunately the boohbahs were not forgotten, many childhood molesting communities across the internet picked up the shoow and turned it into something beautiful. Including the article you are reading right now. They made art, film and such about every single other method imaginable of raping something so badly that all of its innocence is lost forever.
Boohbah has a wide range of characters from the boohbahs themselves to the children that they live with. Although poorly thought out, extremely overweight and of questionable sexuality. The characters are considered family friendly to all.
- Humbah - Humbah is the yellow one of the pack. Apart from looking like a giant bumble bee, Humbah enjoys flying and playing nicely with others. What a lovely chap.
- Zumbah - Zumbah is the nigga of the group. Well as dark as he can be with that purple shade of his. He's also gay because he likes purple. What a homosexual???
- Zing Zing Zingbah - Zing Zing Zingbah, is the most originally thought up name in history. He is the orange dude and cares not for plagiarizing off the names of others.
- Jumbah - He's blue, there is definitely something wrong with this guy. He's silent and shuns society and prefers to lurk in his own little dark corner, but of course being blue makes you a sad old one.
- Jingbah - The pink one. Presumably female because no male would want to be pink.


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Digging a little deeper into engagement with these top 10 travel sites in Europe, visitors to Deutsche Bahn and Groupe SNCF accessed the most pages during March 2013, namely 24 and 23 pages per visitor, respectively. TUI Group is not far behind with 21 average pages per visitor, followed by Travora Media with 17 pages per visitor.
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Luciano's isn't far for us, that's the beauty of it, but it's also quite a pleasant place to hang out on a summer's evening and they do the best pizza round our way. I'm not saying it's the best pizza ever – it's just good, homemade and served with a smile.
The first time (last week) we decided to sit straight in the restaurant, foregoing polite pre-dinner drinks mainly because I WANTED SOME CARBS. RIGHT NOW. The restaurant was mostly full and we were surrounded by young couples and groups of certain age ladies – there was a quiet, friendly buzz to the air.
Luciano's at the Millstone - with thanks to Chorley Guardian
Service was quick, efficient and friendly. The pizzas were freshly made, charred at the edges and bursting with flavour – the tomato sauce Luciano's makes has a sweetly bold flavour; but it's a good idea to ask for less cheese (unless you like your pizza smothered).
The kitchen was more than happy to listen to and comply with my many questions and demands. Wonderfully, if you ask for rocket it's always served on top, afterwards and never cooked – as Luciano says "well we are Italian, so why would it be served any other way?" (Take note pizza chains of the North West).
Second visit was on one of those recent, unseasonably scorching evenings; feeling more relaxed we opted to sit in the bar and placed our drinks orders and waited. And waited. And went and looked for a member of staff. And waited.
Hungry to the point of thinking the menus looked good enough to eat we walked off into the restaurant, explained the situation to the maitre'd and were immediately seated. Again the place was buzzing – this time with various birthday parties and some more of those certain aged ladies (do they ever eat at home, maybe they were thinking that about us?).
Service here was attentive, quickish and efficient – a complete opposite to the main bar area. We did have to wait a little longer than usual for food, but we were in no rush and there were quite a few other diners there that night, so non c' è problema then.
Sharing a pizza, with it's liberal topping of anchovies and black olives (not enough to make it too salty, just enough for that moreish, mouth puckering tang), the staff were only too pleased to cut it up for us and place it on a stand so we could share and still look at each other (ah, romantic).
Look at all these olives
Our side of bread and olives was a bargain for £3.10 – big juicy olives seasoned with herbs, dried chilli and a massive whack of garlic, which made up for the fact they were pitted (thankfully with no hint of rancid oil). The olives were served with slivers of spanking fresh bread with a peppery, green, grassy olive oil streaked through with sticky balsamic vinegar, that clung to the bread in big musty blobs; divine.
T'boy seeking immortality and fame...and lots of olives
Luciano's is a straight forward, useful addition to our local restaurants – they're good at the simple things, which is what you need most of the time; but it's done with such pride, care and in such a lovely setting that it makes something ordinary, truly extraordinary – plus there is no where in the area where you are treated so warmly, indeed Luciano's smile could melt a million ice caps and the twinkle in his eye rivals any star in a clear night's sky.
Pizza £6.95-£9.50, Bread and Olives £3.10, Beer £3.10
Food – 7/10
Atmosphere – 7/10
Service – 8/10 (excusing that minor blip in the bar)
Value for money – 9/10 (for pizza, not sure for full mains)
Total – 31/40
Go again? Yes, they're great for mid-week meals or when we need a quick, friendly cheer up.
Luciano's Italian Restaurant, At the Millstone, Bolton Road, Anderton, Chorley PR6 9HJ - 01257 480205


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A variety of valuable gases going to waste
The industrial-scale synthesis of ammonia produces a purge gas stream. Depending on the process used by the ammonia manufacturer, a typical purge gas stream contains around 60 percent hydrogen, 20 percent nitrogen, five percent argon, four percent ammonia and ten percent methane, which has a negative impact on the catalytic ammonia synthesis reaction. The diverse range of gases produced is attributable to the feedstock, as Weise explains: "Natural gas is used to produce NH3. Following upstream process steps, it ultimately acts as a source of hydrogen. The required nitrogen comes from the air, which of course contains many other gases. Purge gas therefore contains various gas components which do not contribute to ammonia synthesis."
Plant to recover hydrogen from the purge gas stream from an ammonia production facility in Moron, Venezuela
Purge gas – more than a source of energy
Cryogenic plants and membrane plants
Optimal separation of gases
The largest constituent of purge gas, hydrogen can be fed directly back in to the ammonia production process. This makes it particularly valuable for plant operators. The gas can be recovered either by using a membrane process or a cryogenic process. With the first method, the gases are separated through fine pores in a two-stage process. Before the gas mix passes through the membrane, the ammonia has to be separated with a gas scrubber. In the cryogenic process, the gases are separated by means of heat exchangers and a separator in a coldbox. Linde offers two different process options here. Depending on whether only hydrogen is to be separated or whether nitrogen and argon are also required, the process comprises multiple stages and additionally includes rectification columns within the coldbox.
Plant to recover liquid argon from the purge gas stream from an ammonia production facility in Hazira, India


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Republicans shifting towards climate change legislation.
Thank you god.
Can we get this done in the next two years, please?
Norquist seems to be pushing for it to be part of the Grand Bargain. The last time Obama scored energy legislation it was wrapped up in the stimulus package. Wrapping up more energy legislation in a Grand Bargain would be consistent with that -- never let an opportunity go to waste, amiright?
Norquist: Carbon-Tax Swap for Income-Tax Cut Wouldn't Violate No-Tax-Hike Pledge
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November 12, 2012 | 5:09 p.m.
In a step that may help crack open the partisan impasse on climate change, Grover Norquist, the influential lobbyist who has bound hundreds of Republicans to a pledge never to raise taxes, told National Journal that a proposed carbon tax swaptaxing carbon pollution in exchange for cutting the income taxwould not violate his pledge.
Norquists assessment matters a lot, and could help pave the way for at least a handful of Republicans to support the policy. Over the past six months, a growing number of conservative voices, including former Republican officials and renowned economists, have amped up pressure on their party to finally address climate change.
One group, the Energy and Enterprise Initiative headed by former Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C., has been working for months to persuade the GOP to take up a carbon-tax swap as part of a broad tax-reform package next year. The idea is to create a market signal to drive consumers away from fossil fuels by taxing the carbon pollution caused by burning coal, oil, and natural gas.
The problem is that creating a new energy tax would be viewed by some as political suicide. And Republicans who have signed Norquists pledge would be barred from supporting it.
Thats where the swap side of the policy comes in: The new carbon tax would be paired with a cut in the income taxsomething Republicans have long sought. The idea essentially would be to cut the tax on income and move it over to carbon pollutionkeeping the proposal revenue-neutral.
Its possible you could structure something that wasnt an increase and didnt violate the pledge, Norquist told National Journal.
But Norquist made clear he himself doesnt like the policy. It would infuriate taxpayers, he said. He also opined that politically, its beyond a long shot. While supporters might now be talking about how to structure the tax swap in such a way that it could win political support, Its a conversation about what color unicorn youd like, Norquist said.
If the Democrats thought it was a good idea and the country wouldnt hate them for it they would have done it in 2009, when their party held majorities in both chambers of Congress, he said.
Still, if the tax swap could indeed be structured in such a way that it wouldnt violate Norquists pledge, it could remove at least one political obstacle for some Republicans.
We hear frequently, constantly from Republican lawmakers who say, we see climate change as a huge problem and we want to talk about ways to do this, but for now theyre afraid to talk about it, because of the political repercussions, said Rob Sisson, president of the group ConservAmerica, formerly Republicans for Environmental Protection.
Conversation about a carbon tax is increasing in Washington. In September, the Congressional Budget Office released a report concluding that a carbon tax on its ownnot paired with a tax cut elsewherecould reduce the federal deficit by 10 percent to 50 percent.
The day after the presidential election, the global bank HSBC put out a research note identifying a carbon tax as a policy that could emerge in President Obamas second term.
On Tuesday, the Brookings Institution hosts a daylong conference on the economics of a carbon tax, featuring speakers from CBO, the Treasury Department, and the International Monetary Fund.
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Though all the lawmakers stressed bipartisan agreement on the goal of reducing government waste, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said, "Whether climate change is increasing will be talked about for some time to come. But we can't assume the budget is one thing and then add $50 billion in a supplemental bill every year."
He said the federal and state governments have "underprepared for a generation" as if not anticipating that there will be floods and earthquakes. "It's the responsibility of states and cities, who can't just assume the federal government will come in," Issa said. "We must be proactive in withholding federal funds" and monitor how locals are handling issues of insurance and safe rebuilding. "Our committee has the obligation to ask questions so the federal government either appropriates money or shifts it to states and localities. This isn't controversial, it's good government."
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The recent rise in sightings of non-native Asian tiger shrimp off the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts has government scientists working to determine the cause of the increase and the possible consequences for native fish and seafood in those waters.
Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working with state agencies from North Carolina to Texas to look into how this transplanted species from Indo-Pacific, Asian and Australian waters reached U.S. waters, and what the increase in sightings means for native species.
"We can confirm there was nearly a tenfold jump in reports of Asian tiger shrimp in 2011," explained Pam Fuller, the USGS biologist who runs the agency's Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database. "And they are probably even more prevalent than reports suggest, because the more fisherman and other locals become accustomed to seeing them, the less likely they are to report them."
NOAA scientists are launching a research effort to understand more about the biology of these shrimp and how they may affect the ecology of native fisheries and coastal ecosystems. As with all non-native species, there are concerns over the potential for novel avenues of disease transmission and competition with native shrimp stocks, especially given the high growth rates and spawning rates compared with other species.
"The Asian tiger shrimp represents yet another potential marine invader capable of altering fragile marine ecosystems," said NOAA marine ecologist James Morris. "Our efforts will include assessments of the biology and ecology of this non-native species and attempts to predict impacts to economically and ecologically important species of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico."
The cause of the rapid increase in sightings remains uncertain, Fuller added. The non-native shrimp species may have escaped from aquaculture facilities, although there are no longer any known Asian tiger shrimp farms presently in operation in the United States. It may have been transported in ballast water from ships or possibly arrived on ocean currents from wild populations in the Caribbean or other locations.
Fuller's team at USGS has been tracking reports of Asian tiger shrimp since they first came to the attention of marine scientists and resource managers in 1988, when nearly 300 of them were collected off the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida within three months. Scientists tracked the cause back to an isolated incident that accidentally caused an estimated 2,000 animals to be released from an aquaculture facility operating at that time in South Carolina.
It was not until 18 years later that reports of the non-native shrimp resurfaced. In 2006, a commercial shrimp fisherman caught a single adult male in Mississippi Sound near Dauphin Island, Ala. Within months, additional specimens were noted in North Carolina's Pamlico Sound, Louisiana's Vermilion Bay and other parts of Florida and the Carolinas. The species was later reported off the coasts of Georgia, Mississippi and Texas in 2008, 2009 and 2011, respectively.
Scientists have not yet officially deemed the Asian tiger shrimp "established" in U.S. waters, and no one is certain what triggered the recent round of sightings. With so many alternative theories about where these shrimp are coming from and only a handful of juveniles reported, it is hard for scientists to conclude whether they are breeding or simply being carried in by currents.
To look for answers, USGS and NOAA scientists are examining shrimp collected from the Gulf and Atlantic coasts to look for subtle differences in their DNA, information that could offer valuable clues to their origins. This is the first look at the genetics of wild caught Asian tiger shrimp populations found in this part of the U.S., and may shed light on whether there are multiple sources.
"We're going to start by searching for subtle differences in the DNA of Asian tiger shrimp found here – outside their native range –to see if we can learn more about how they got here," said USGS geneticist Margaret Hunter, "If we find differences, the next step will be to fine-tune the analysis to determine whether they are breeding here, have multiple populations, or are carried in from outside areas."
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World Challenge Cup!!!!!!
WELCOME TO THE GRAND OPENING OF THE 1st WORLD CHALLENGE CUP!!!!
The cup will be simmed using Virtual Cricket and will display the best and the mediocre of the cricketing world.
The competing teams:
The Not-Quite-Good-Enough XI (NQGE)
The Youth Talent Asian XI
The Youth Talent World XI
and of course...everyone's favourite...
Each team will play one game per round until they have played each other 4 times (ie 12 games per team)
To provide crowd entertainment, the ROUND 1 games will be played on flat batting wickets with fast outfields and wild man eating lions!!!!!!!!!!
5pts-win, 0pts-loss, 2pts-draw
Please post your comments and selection requests in this thread.
Let the games BEGIN!!!!!!!!


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"Black Cloud" may now be lifted
BRIDGEWATER -- A "black cloud" finally might have lifted from the town and the legacy of former first selectman Bill Stuart.
On Friday, two FBI agents arrived unannounced at Bridgewater Town Hall to return eight boxes of documents taken in a raid in July 2012.
"The agent who we've been talking to for some time said the investigation is over and no charges will be filed," First Selectman Curtis Read said Saturday. "I feel a black cloud has been lifted from the town and Bill Stuart.
"If the people who perpetrated this wanted to cause the town and Bill pain, they've succeeded," Read continued. "I hope now they can just let it lay."
The FBI has never said what precipitated the 2012 raid or described the nature of the investigation. Among the items listed in the search warrant were several years' worth of town meeting minutes and records from the Burnham Fund, a town-run charitable trust that Stuart had for more than 28 years.
Stuart was first selectman at the time of the raid, and local speculation was that he was the target of the FBI investigation.
"This should settle things in people's minds," Stuart said Saturday. "I'm sure it won't settle things in the minds of the people behind this."
Stuart has always contended that his political opponents were behind the investigation, hoping to disparage him and his administration and discourage him from running again for first selectman. Stuart, a Democrat, in fact declined to run in 2013 and stepped down after 30 years in office after the November 2013 election.
"The intention was to cause as much disarray as possible and to see that neither I nor my running mates got into office again," Stuart said. "It didn't work," he added, noting that Read, a fellow Democrat, won election that year.
Stuart and former Board of Finance member George Allingham, once great friends, had battled for years before the 2012 raid, beginning with Allingham's 2009 letter to town residents accusing Stuart of misappropriating Burnham funds.
Stuart denied any wrongdoing. The state attorney general's office cleared him, but the feud continued.
Allingham also accused Stuart of undermining his campaign for re-election to the finance board in 2009.
Stuart has repeatedly accused Allingham of tipping off the FBI. After the raid in July 2012, Allingham declined to comment to The News-Times on the advice of his attorney.
"All I'll say is I'm sad for the community," Allingham then said.
Calls Saturday to Allingham and his son, Tom, also a Stuart critic, were not returned.
Other residents were glad to hear that the investigation is seemingly at an end.
"I think its good for the town to have this settled and put behind us," said David Hawley, Republican Town Committee co-chairman.
A call to RTC co-chairman Ned Bandler, also a frequent Stuart critic, was not returned Saturday. Bandler had called for "transparency" in town government.
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What exactly gives you these values? Is it the Arduino IDE ?
Please provide exact details on what you have connected.
Then you mentioned the other problem about transducers behavior and define Northerror[20] .Why 20 values? An again the logic , even is there, not sure to follow why.
I have posted the eagle files I could find for my projects:Download eagle_files.zip from:http://code.google.com/p/arduino-projects-carl47/downloads/listI use:Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor(EAGLE)Version 5.6.1 for WindowsLight EditionCopyright (c) 1988-2009 CadSoftAll rights reserved worldwideAdd the Sparkfun Eagle parts library "SparkFun.lbr"Instructions from sparkfun tutorial "Beginning Embedded Electronics - 8"The schematics relate to the following projects:Weather Station:http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,8874.0.html4digit1 , indoor , outdoor , supplyProgramming the 328:http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,59968.0.html328_programSRAM memory:http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,50006.0.htmlSRAM2RF Links:http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,60239.0.htmlrf_link_tx , rf_link_rxUltrasonic Anemometer:http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,53569.0.htmlanalog , digital , ultra_amp


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Dr. Debbie Norris
The vice president of planning and assessment is the chief administrator responsible for the assessment of each academic and administrative office and coordinates the strategic planning of the university. The graduate dean provides support to the campus in administering the more than 50 graduate program areas through 13 degree programs.
Reporting Departments
- Continuing Education
- Graduate School
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Я имею в виду торнадо здесь, в Орегоне…
ROSEBURG, Ore. — A Roseburg resident is cleaning up the mess, after a tornado, yes a tornado, touched down near Roseburg Tuesday afternoon.
Sheila Nielsen, who lives just north of Roseburg, said she looked out her window and saw the funnel cloud touch down.
It broke a chain link fence and threw a canopy into a boat next door, according to Nielsen.
No injuries were reported.
Weather service officials have classified it an EF-0, meaning it had wind speeds somewhere between 65 and 85 miles per hour.
The National Weather Service in Medford says they are checking old records to make sure, but officials say they are not aware of ever getting a tornado report in the southwest interior of the state.
A tornado and three funnel clouds whipped Oregon last week, including an EF1 storm that damaged buildings in McMinnville and two cold core funnels that twisted over the southern Willamette Valley.
A map by the TornadoHistoryProject.com showing all reported tornados in Oregon from 1950-2012, shows none touching down anywhere in the Roseburg area.


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Washington's big effort to wring bloated costs from the 401(k) system appears to be working—even though it may be going unnoticed by many of the workers it's meant to benefit.
Over the past year the Labor Department has rolled out a slew of new rules designed to shine more light on what many regard as hidden and unnecessary fees in 401(k)s and other retirement plans. These tax-advantaged investment vehicles represent the bulk of many Americans' retirement savings.
Now industry analysts have had a chance to see how different players are reacting, and initial reads suggest good news. Armed with new disclosures detailing how plans' investment options route money to service providers, employers seem be bargaining for lower fees. One study by consulting firm NEPC found those that shopped for new funds managed to cut certain back- office costs by as much as 40%.
Less encouraging are initial reports on new rules designed to target individual savers. In recent months, millions of employees were sent at least two rounds of new disclosures aimed at better communicating the costs of specific investment options, such as mutual funds.
A separate study by the Plan Sponsor Council of America found that only 1.4% of these participants asked questions after receiving their mailings. The PSCA, a trade group for employers, argues those findings suggest the Labor Department is wasting businesses' time. "Clearly, the results raise questions about the costs incurred in complying with the regulations," the group concluded in a statement.
Then again, it may be too soon to rush to that judgment. The PSCA appears to have asked employers about their workers' behavior, not actually the workers themselves. (The trade group didn't return calls seeking comment.)As anyone who has seen the new Upstairs Downstairs knows, asking the lady of the house what her maid thinks about something doesn't always get you the whole answer.


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Forum Post: Privilege, If it happened it was obviously just a natural action
Posted 6 years ago on July 27, 2013, 9:25 p.m. EST by windyacres
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
an action that resulted in an efficient way to dominate markets ensuring huge amounts of money for the connected. 147 companies where enough of the important positions are controlled by this conglomerate through clever interlocking directors that give them the advantage of a casino over the world.
If this conglomerate exists, OWS should be continuously exposing the actions of these privileged, OWS should be experts on the subject until equality is agreed upon.
This conglomerate controls the MSM. We should discuss this conglomerate daily if it is indeed true, and whether it puts them in position to be the world's casino.


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Here at Food52, we love recipes -- but do we always use them? Of course not. Because once you realize you don't always need a recipe, you'll make your favorite dishes a lot more often.
Today: As the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, we start craving chili. Now it's simple enough to make any night of the week, without a recipe.
There's something about chili -- so versatile and satisfying. Top it with cheese, sour cream, avocado, crumbled crackers, or diced fresh onions and hot peppers. Roll it into a tortilla with some rice. Pour it over a burger. It's all good. My favorite recipe is a vegetarian version from my former restaurant in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Dedicated carnivores and vegans alike happily slurped it up. If you prefer meat in yours, by all means go ahead -- it'll be terrific. I like to think of chili in terms of ratios. However you decide to proceed, and whatever ingredients you use, stick to about 2 parts diced vegetables : 2 parts cooked or canned beans : 2 parts tomatoes : a little less than 1 part (optional) added protein like tofu. This is a loose guideline, of course, but it gives you something to jump off from.Let's make it happen.
How to Make Vegetarian Chili Without a Recipe1. In a big heavy pot, heat up a pat of butter or a glug of oil of your choosing. Sauté some diced onions, whatever combination of hot and bell peppers you like, and garlic. If you feel like some finely diced carrots, leeks, or celery, too, go for it. Add some salt and stir.
2. Add spices. I've used chili powder, cumin, turmeric, smoked paprika, chipotle, and various ground peppers; you should use whatever tastes like chili to you. Use 2 to 3 times as much assorted chili powders as cumin and turmeric. This is really to taste, but start with 1/2 teaspoon of cumin per cup of tomatoes if you need a benchmark. Salt and pepper to taste. If you didn't put in fresh garlic, add garlic powder here -- shoot for about the same amount of garlic powder as cumin.
3. Now, get your can opener ready! You'll need beans and diced tomatoes. I love to use fire-roasted diced tomatoes and diced tomatoes with green chilis, but you can use your favorite. As for beans, I prefer a combination of kidneys, garbanzos and black beans. If you like to work with dried beans, I recommend cooking these first and then adding them now. You will probably also need to add 1 part water or stock at this point. Fill your empty tomato cans with stock or water as a measuring guideline and pour in liquid until it looks like chili.
4. Add more protein if you like. I'm a fan of tofu, so I cut a block of extra-firm into smallish cubes and toss it in. Tip: If you freeze tofu ahead of time, then thaw, then squeeze all the water out before you use it, you'll be blown away by the texture.
5. Now just simmer for about an hour, mostly covered. Then add spice as needed and enjoy! Don't forget to serve it over scrambled eggs for tomorrow's breakfast.
Round out your Tex-Mex menu with some other classics:
• Cornbread with Chorizo• Charred Corn and Avocado Salad with Lime, Chili, and Tomato• Rick Bayless's Tortilla Soup with Shredded Chard
A New Way to Dinner, co-authored by Food52's founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is an indispensable playbook for stress-free meal-planning (hint: cook foundational dishes on the weekend and mix and match 'em through the week).
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