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Barack Obama I'm Praying for Bobbi Kristina
President Barack Obama: I'm Praying for Whitney Houston's Daughter Bobbi Kristina
President Barack Obama is concerned about Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina after her recent hospital scares ... this according to a rep for the White House.
Press Secretary Jay Carney just released a statement -- claiming Obama's thoughts and prayers are with Whitney Houston's family, especially her daughter.
TMZ broke the story ... Bobbi was taken to the hospital Saturday night and again on Sunday. We're told Bobbi was "hysterical, exhausted and inconsolable" after her mother's death.
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"In the following excerpt from an interview included with the official screenplay, Anderson explains his logic."
Q: Of all things, why frogs?
A: It truly came from a slightly gimmicky and exciting place. I'd read about rains of frogs in the works of Charles Fort, who was a turn of the century writer who wrote mainly about odd phenomena. (...) So I just started writing it in to the script. It wasn't until after I got through with the writing that I began to discover what it might mean, which is this: you get to a point in your life, and shit is happening, and everything's out of your control, and suddenly, a rain of frogs just makes sense. You're staring at a doctor who is telling you something is wrong, and while we know what it is, we have no way of fixing it [Earlier in the interview the subject of cancer came up]. And you just go: "So what you're telling me, basically, is that it's raining frogs from the sky." I'm not someone who's ever had a special fascination with UFO's or supernatural phenomena or anything but I guess I just found myself at a point in my life where I was going through some shitty stuff, and I was ready for some sort of weird religious experience, or as close as I could get to one. So then I began to decipher things about frogs and history things like this notion that as far back as the Romans, people have been able to judge the health of a society by the health of its frogs: the health of a frog, the vibe of a frog, the texture of the frog, its looks, how much wetness is on it, everything. The frogs are a barometer for who we are as a people. We're pollutting ourselves, we're killing ourselves, and the frogs are telling us so, because they're all getting sick and deformed. And I didn't even know it was in the bible until Henry Gibson gave me a copy of it, bookmarked to the appropriate frog passage.

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Postgame quotes after the Revolution defeated the LA Galaxy at Gillette Stadium on July 10, 2010.
Bruce [Arena] and David [Sarachan] have been here enough times to know that the one thing that they're going to get is that we're going to stand up and be counted. I think we defended well. We hit numerous balls across the goal, which would've been nice to get somebody on the end of it, which we did manage to do. Eventually we got a break on the second goal- you know we haven't had a break all season. We got a pretty corner, which obviously made it easier, and it was two-nil.
I think we pick up more second balls in the second half than the first. Shalrie [Joseph] was one of the first to the balls and challenging them. We just didn't read the second ball well enough in the first half. I think we did better in that second half. That made a difference.
Edson Buddle's having a good season. He puts himself about. He is not going to blind you from the sides, you know what you're getting when you play against him. He just happens to be on the top of his game. Darrius [Barnes] handled him well tonight. They won the fair share but more importantly they challenged properly.
We wanted to play the game in their half of the field tonight. I don't think that was any secret. We've done that, and we've got the points, and we can start building from there.
I think it's huge [to get some forward momentum]. We've had a bad run, no question about it, but they came out and fought as hard as they could. I think in the end we deserved to win the game.
I think he [Sainey Nyassi] had a good game tonight. He put some miles in tonight. I think he's been good all season, but I think he can get better as well. I think he can make some better decisions at times and once he sorts that out, he'll be dynamite.
What can you say, it was a fantastic performance by Darrius Barnes, but we need to be careful because obviously the first game's the easiest one. The adrenaline is going and all of that other stuff. It's the next one we need to make sure that between now and then, he needs plenty of rest because obviously he doesn't have that much juice in the tank after all of that treatment. So it's important that he's ready for the next one.
It's huge to get that first goal, it's definitely a relief but it's also pleasing that we deserve to win the game…. But at the same time, had we not won the game tonight, I think we would have been hard done by.
Impressed yes, surprised no, that our guys kept attacking with a one-goal lead. As I said before, we got the turnout and we were determined to get a result tonight. And to get it against the best team in the league at the present time, it's just even more pleasing.
It definitely was a little persistence and we talked about it at halftime and even the guys who haven't been playing like Taylor [Twellman] and all those guys were encouraging us to keep pushing and pushing and I think we had a more direct plan.
Eventually a game was going to break our way. If we kept pushing and pushing and keep battling hard and we talked about how we didn't work hard enough the past couple of games and we needed to stick to our game plan to keep up the hard work. We showed a lot of mental and physical strength out there as well as heart and I think we definitely put on a good show.
I think the team meetings we had during the week just emphasized what we needed to do tonight and what we were playing for. It is all about heart and giving 110 percent every game. We had all agreed that we were not trying our hardest and I think tonight everybody tried their hardest and the result went our way.
We worked really hard tonight. We had a game plan that we came up with and we started in Salt Lake for twenty minutes. We played well and then fell apart and fortunately the same didn't happen tonight for us.
I think the second half; I got more balls than I did in the first half. We got the ball down more in the second.
It's always good to score first and them to concede a goal and try and come from behind. It always helps so we can hold the ball and play as a team and do whatever we want with the ball, we don't have to force anything.
Shalrie [Joseph] was solid and really helped us in the midfield and he was a part of our game plan while using him up top. Shalrie was able to share the ball and it enabled us to get some good chances, which was great.
On the goal, I knew Shalrie was going to pass it, either pass it or take a shot and then all of a sudden I was at the right place at the right time and I hit it in the right area for the goal.
We still have games to go and this result certainly helps us. We have played seven or eight games without winning or scoring goals. I think if we keep playing the way we played tonight, the rest of the season is going to go our way and I think that's all we need to do and we will be fine.
The ball was heading towards the goal so I decided to throw my body after it and take one for the team and get some rust off, but there was no chance I was coming out after that.
We finally got a good start to the game and I felt like we were on the front foot for the majority of the first half and we had them under pressure a little bit and we were able to play the ball well in their half and relieve some pressure of our back half.
I feel like the whole back four did a good job of keeping their attack in front of us. That was our goal coming into our game and we were not looking to fall behind and we wanted to keep the ball in the midfield and not let them get too many chances.
It felt great to get out there and play. It was good to come in and get some touches on the ball and get that confidence back because when you've been out a while and the timing is off a little bit and I just wanted to do the simple things and to get myself back into the game.
The three points definitely helped out a lot and it's a confidence builder. I mean we can't be happy with just four wins and we need to keep doing what we did tonight. We have SuperLiga next week, which will help us get some momentum moving forward into the rest of league play. We can't be satisfied with this and we can definitely play better and we are going to keep going up from here.
He (Landon Donovan) hasn't been around for two months, that's not an excuse. He hasn't been here for two months, why would that be a reason?
Tonight was one of those nights were I think the team that made the fewer mistakes would win tonight and we made a couple and the Revolution took advantage of it. So it was a deserving win on their part.
Of course we were aware that the Revolution was in a slump. We're not as dumb as we look sometimes. We knew they would play a hard game and obviously coming in on this surface with the field slick and the short field it tends to be the kind of game you saw tonight. The ball bouncing all over the place and that's part of it and there's no excuses for us to not be up to the task and to deal with the game. We were here last year and we came out favorably, so there's no excuses with any of that stuff and yes we did know they were a team that was down and we did know we were playing on this field and there's no excuses. We lost the game.
Well I don't think they (LA) were pressing more than they should have after New England scored the first goal. They (LA) were trying to get the goal.
No I don't think the Revolution were different in the second half. They didn't look any different in the first half.
Well we knew it was going to be a tough game, especially with them coming off a 5-0 loss. They aimed to pressure us tonight and they did just that, they beat us in key spots on the field and scored two goals against us. We had a chance in the 2nd half, but we just didn't play well enough tonight and we just have to put this game behind us and get ready for DC next week.
Yeah definitely is disappointing to give up two goals for the first time all year. We have been playing really well and have not been allowing goals and this is the first time anyone has scored two goals in one game on two shots we should have been able to prevent. Yea it's disappointing, but like I said, we should just put this behind us and keep doing what we have done all year and take that into D.C. and the rest of the season.
No I don't think we were too tired, yeah we had a game on Wednesday in Seattle. Some of the traveling might have tired out legs but that is no excuse for not showing up and playing well. There just wasn't enough quality out there tonight and no I don't think fatigue was the issue, but just that we weren't as tough as we usually are out there.
Yea definitely, I felt 100 percent out there tonight [after leaving the Seattle game early]. I just got to keep working and get back into shape. I just got to keep playing and getting ready for next week and each morning just work to get better.
We try to take something from each game, at the end of the road we didn't get the result we were looking for. The first goal came on a set piece, which put us behind for the rest of us 2nd half, and forced us to have to try and crawl back into the game. Like I said, we just have to take some positives from the game and just be better next week.
We missed both Landon [Donovan] and Omar [Gonzalez]. Both guys make us better you know, and we don't want to miss either one of those guys.
Well right now I would say that I haven't ever had someone feed me the ball like Landon . I have been playing real well ever since I got to LA, and I have been here four years now and just want to get better every time I step on the field. We definitely missed him tonight and definitely could have used him. Well it looks like that when it's working, when everything is going well but when we are not winning people are going to question and it's easy to take notice. When the combination is working and you are winning it just makes it all that sweeter.
I really didn't know about the Donovan rumors and I am expecting him to finish the season and I have heard that he has had talks but don't know if he is entertaining them. I really have no idea.
Looking at it down the road I would say yes I would like to have another shot with the national team, but right now it's tough to tell because I just went through the experience of not knowing if I would make the team and I just keep working and hope to get the call.


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Feminism surfaced at the North Pole. There's been a story circulating on the Internet for the last few years that states that all Santa's reindeer were girls. It goes something like this: "According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter each year, usually late November to early December. Females retain their antlers until after they give birth.
Therefore, according to this caribou calendar, every member of Santa's team had to be a girl. We should have known. Only women could be able to drag a fat man in a red velvet suit all around the world without getting lost.
So, ladies, is this true? Depending on the source you read, male reindeer shed their antlers from November to January which gives them only a week for pulling the sleigh. I consulted the "National Geographic" website which quotes a biologist in Alaska. Here is a paraphrase of what the expert says: "The largest bulls shed their antlers first, almost immediately after the rutting season ends in October. The sparring between males during the rutting season can be very violent. In herds with a lot of mature males, injuries can be the leading cause of death. Young bulls and cows can keep their antlers through April depending on their nutrition, amount of daylight and retention of testosterone.
By the end of the rutting season, the bulls not only don't have antlers, but they are so exhausted from fighting that it's doubtful they'd be hauling any fat man with tons of goodies all around. The people of Lapland who depend on reindeer herds for their livelihoods usually neuter their males. Therefore the evidence leads to the conclusion that Santa's reindeer are either female, neutered bulls, or immature males."
The first reference to a reindeer was in 1821 in an obscure children's book called The Children's Friend that had a picture of a tiny Santa standing with one reindeer pulling his sleigh. Two years later, the Clement Moore poem, The Night before Christmas was published in an upstate newspaper. He mentioned the 8 reindeer but they didn't really fly. They just leaped in the illustrations of an 1848 edition. Moore christened the deer for eternity when he w r o t e : "Santa whistled a n d shouted a n d c a l l e d them by n a m e : N o w Dasher! N o w Dancer! N o w , Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet, on, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen!" Think about it. Only Donder, Cupid, and Blitzen sound masculine. Rudolph didn't go down in history until much later. Montgomery Ward created the "him" as a promotional gimmick in 1939, and Gene Autry's song immortalized him in 1949. All the other reindeer names could be unisex, with the exception of "Vixen", a popular name of exotic dancers. Moore probably intended the herd to be co-ed. How else could Santa guarantee baby Blitzens?
Besides pondering the sex of the herd, did anyone ever check St. Nick for a Y chromosome? Maybe it's Mrs. Claus in disguise leading the transcontinental shuttle every Christmas Eve because, after all, an out of shape man couldn't get that much done in so little time without an hourly R & R (Rest & Remote) on the couch.
To honor our reindeer girls, this week's Oyster Bay Shelter (677-5784) poster pets are both female. "Maggie" #1139, a lovable 2 year old St. Bernard, was so accommodating for her antler picture. "Kitcha" #1182 is a 3 year old declawed cat given up because of a child's allergies. We have a feeling that she may understand Polish, although "kotka" is the word for cat. See more Oyster Bay adoptable pets by visiting the shelter on Miller Place in Syosset or www.petfinder.com/shelters/NY527.html.
Dogs: "Powder" #1129- a female white Boxer; "Pinny"- #1169- a male Australian Terrier; a female Miniature Schnauzer-#1164; "Pluto"- #1161- a 3 yr. Jack Russell.
Cats: "Bob" & "Bobby"- both Bob's Big Boy tabbies.


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The Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney is set to meet budget cuts by privatising its hydrotherapy pool but outraged union members claim it will jeopardise patient care.
Health Service Union (HSU) staff will stop work to protest the move at midday on Monday, said the union's NSW secretary Gerard Hayes on Sunday.
"How can patients at the Prince of Wales have confidence that their recovery will be the priority when a new private operator has commercial objectives to meet?" he said.
Mr Hayes said the pool "sell-off" would provide part of the $35 million in savings the hospital must find to meet the NSW government's $3 billion in health cuts.
It's believed it is the first move of its kind in NSW.
The hour-long protest at High Cross Park also marks the official launch of the HSU's "O'Farrell Cuts, We Bleed campaign", which will travel across the state for the next six months.
"Daily, our members are reporting cuts like these ones," Mr Hayes said in a statement.
The union is using the privatisation of the hydrotherapy pool as an example of how cuts to the health budget will devastate staff and patients.
Mr Hayes said the facility was crucial for people suffering cerebral palsy, post-polio syndrome, musculoskeletal conditions and breast cancer.
"Yet the O'Farrell government wants to turn the pool over to a private operator, whose main imperative will be to turn a quick buck," he said.
"We intend to fight him on this, every step of the way."


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You've been singing the "12 Days of Christmas" for as long as you can remember. You played it as a child on a plastic recorder at an elementary school concert wearing a festive red vest made out of scratchy construction paper and green yarn. You don't remember standing on a rickety riser and wearing antlers made from brown pipe cleaners?
Wait, that was me.
That was about the time my father launched a family tradition based on that beloved carol. Each year we picked a family that needed a little magic during the season. Unlike many other Christmas traditions, the need wasn't usually financial. It was about brushing color onto an otherwise black and white holiday season. Our targets were often dealing with December sadness: deaths, illness, empty nests, etc.
Dad created a small gift to go along with each of the 12 days and wrote a short letter explaining why the item wasn't quite what they might have expected. Most were handmade, none cost more than a few dollars and each gift was utterly unpredictable.
The joy of the tradition was that we knew something no one else did. You've meant well, but the winter-cold truth is that you've been singing the song wrong all these years. There are, of course, many theories about the songwriter and what each day might mean. All are false.
What if the original songwriters were time-traveling elves?
It's true. The song was written by a family of elves who traveled the globe by sleigh searching out gifts and writing verses along the way. Unfortunately, some of the lyrics were misunderstood or translated incorrectly through the years. This led to mass confusion.
Take, for instance, the "First Day of Christmas." You've always assumed they meant an actual "Partridge in a Pear Tree." The words are right, but the shocking truth is that the elves never meant a bird in a tree, they were sharing an experience in Brazil when they met David Cassidy hiding from a throng of screaming teenagers in an orchard. The gift on that first day was a single pear and a David Cassidy CD.
Then there's the "Fifth Day of Christmas." The "Five Golden Rings" sounds pretty straight forward, except that the original rings weren't all supposed to be jewelry. The elves dedicated years collecting rings from places like Saturn, a village called Aroundthecollar, the mysterious island of Yerneck, from the "Lord of the Rings" and one from the Olympic logo.
But a twist of fate changed history when the elves stumbled across a box of fresh Krispy Kreme glazed donuts and never looked back. To this day, whenever someone sings the fifth verse, a Krispy Kreme passes through the conveyor belt icing shower and gets it wings.
Were the "Ten Lords" really leaping? Sure, if you're referring to paratroopers jumping over Times Square in 1779. It's a long story, but it involves Dick Clark, King George and 10 men from the British House of Lords. The gift that night was a package of 10 toy paratroopers.
You get the idea.
I'm not sure who enjoyed this annual adventure more, my family or those on the receiving end of his wild deliveries. Some of my most cherished Christmas memories star my siblings and I sneaking like rookie spies up to dark porches, knocking on doors and racing through side yards to the getaway station wagon. We laughed, we tripped and my sister once lost a shoe that was waiting on the porch for her the next night.
In my family's version of this unique tradition, the gifts and explanatory letters could differ from year to year. But even if the words changed, the message never did. The 12-night adventure was meant to share a little faith, hope and charity with someone in need. We heard nearly every year from secret intermediaries or in public settings how much the nightly deliveries had meant.
My own family has done our best to keep the tradition alive. We've not been as perfectly dedicated, and some years have passed with more busy excuses than quirky letters. But the spirit of the tradition is never far from our home or hearts.
Recently the elf family added a 13th day that takes place on Dec. 26, and I decided to fictionalize my childhood memories into a novel called "The 13th Day of Christmas." This bonus day was never part of my father's version, but I think if he were alive today, this is where it would have evolved. It's a new verse that suggests the real meaning of the sacred holiday is found the day after Christmas.
Are we different after celebrating the birth of the Savior? Are we rededicated to living better? Gifts, songs and laughs are meaningful, but following the Savior's example is what gets us to our eternal home.
As Christmas approaches, you're likely to sing the carol a time or two — or 12. Next time you do, consider whether your family might be up to the challenge of selecting a worthy recipient and experimenting with the tradition.
You'll be glad you did. And I promise that the Partridge family and Krispy Kremes will never be quite the same.
Jason F. Wright is a New York Times best-selling author of 10 books, including "Christmas Jars," "The Wednesday Letters" and "The 13th Day of Christmas." He can be reached at [email protected] or jasonfwright.com.


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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – When it comes to food safety, solutions are usually common-sense best practices.
That's the message from from numerous experts on food safety on the opening day of the fourth annual Center for Produce Safety Research Symposium. They also said without absolute commitment from top management, no company in the fresh produce supply chain can achieve adequate food safety measures.
About 300 people from all segments of the industry are attending the two-day symposium, said Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli, executive director of the Center for Produce Safety. In its six years of existence, the center has funded 70 research projects.
The projects are already helping improve food safety, according to presentations from numerous speakers during the first day of the symposium at the Wegmans Conference Center.
"The search for answers to food safety questions is not just the right thing to do, it is the best risk management tool we have," said Brian Silbermann, president and chief executive officer for the Produce Marketing Association, Newark, Del.
Silbermann introduced keynote speaker Seattle attorney Bill Marler, known for litigating food safety personal injury cases, beginning 20 years ago with ther Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak.
"He has done more than any one person to force industry and government and the rest of us to look at food safety," Silbermann said.
Marler"s presentation included tips on how to avoid being sued as well as reasons to implement effective food safety programs.
"There"s a business reason in addition to a moral reason," Marler said.
"When you"re doing the right thing for your business, it"s right for your customers. When it"s right for your customers it"s good for your business."
Another key point Marler repeated involved commitment from the top down.
"CEOs are a pivot point," Marler said. "In questioning them under oath I"ve learned that food safety is the most important thing to them, but it is apparent that isn"t the case all of the time."
Another speaker, Courtney Parker, made the same point about the attitudes and actions of top company officials. Parker is a microbiologist and vice president of food safety at Church Brothers and True Leaf Farms, Salinas, Calif.
During the past year Parker has worked closely with Gills Onions, Oxnard, Calif., after three recalls of fresh-cut onions because of listeria contamination. Company officials did the right thing when they closed two fresh-cut facilities and engaged on a seek-and-destroy mission, Parker said.
She said the company completely rebuilt the facilities after consulting with experts in sanitization and areas of other food safety. Gills Onions is open again and rebuilding its customer base.
"They didn"t just look for one smoking gun, they initiated a top-down investigation," Parker said. "We focused on quality over speed. To say we took things down to the skeleton would be an understatement."
That kind of commitment is what you need to win the war against listeria, said Martin Wiedmann, professor and director of graduate studies for food science and technology at Cornell University.
Wiedmann explained how listeria is difficult to eradicate because of its prevalence in nature and its ability to multiply in refrigerated conditions. He said he has documented the presence of a single species of listeria in facilities from three months to 12 years.
"All outbreaks associated with it are linked to long-term presence," Wiedmann said, adding that the pathogen"s ability to hang on is what makes a search for the root cause mandatory.
Wiedmann also said additional research such as that funded by the Center for Produce Safety is needed to better understand where listeria is most likely to occur so that growers can avoid planting there.


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With all our emphasis on charismatic fish and stunning coral formations, boring old algae tends to get skipped over by most observers of the underwater world. Being out here in the South Pacific with an algae expert though, it doesn't take long to be won over by these intriguingly important life forms.
Kike Ballesteros of the Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CSIC, is NG Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala's long-time mentor and collaborator. He is also the master of all things algal for the Pitcairn Islands expedition, and he agreed to enlighten me about the wonders of algae.
Algae Great and Small
First off, there are two major kinds of algae in a coral reef. One is the tiny microalgae living inside the coral itself and providing a food source (and coloration) for these ancient animals. The other is macroalgae, which includes seaweed, and can be either soft and fleshy or hard and crusty (calcareous).
Basis of the Food Chain
In shallow temperate areas huge plains of seaweed and other macroalgae are the main components of the seascape. Here in the tropics the main component is coral. But don't be fooled—macroalgae are still hard at work making life at the coral reefs possible.
Algae, both soft and crusty, provide the only food source for plant-eating fishes (such as parrotfishes, chubs, damselfishes or surgeonfishes) and invertebrates (some sea urchins, small crustaceans, and snails). Together with the microalgae that live inside the coral colonies, these algae provide the basic food and energy source much of what lives on the reef.
Builders of the Reef
Crusty algae are also active builders of the reef structure itself.
Red algae (such as Hydrolithon and Lithophyllum in the gallery above) produce limestone which cements together the coral pieces into a solid chunk. Without this ever-rising base, the corals themselves would not be able to build up vertically.
The algae then is what allows the reef to build up towards the ocean surface and cause waves to break off shore, at once forming the lagoon and protecting the interior island's beaches from the full power of the ocean.
Where Tropical Beach Sand Comes From
Finally, other crusty species of green algae (Halimeda in the gallery) are important sand producers. Beaches along the reef and sand flats under the water are made up of many components, including coral debris and the skeletons of several marine invertebrates (like molluscs, sea urchins, and tiny shelled foraminiferans) but far and away, the biggest contributors are broken up Halimeda.
So next time you're sipping mai-tais on a tropical beach, raise your glass to algae, the workhorses that make paradise possible.
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MINNEAPOLIS—Another attempt to break the long impasse in the Minnesota Orchestra lockout has failed.
Both sides said Friday that back-channel talks between two board members and two musicians broke off Monday after two meetings because they were unable to agree on how to move forward.
Doug Kelly, one of the management negotiators, said his side floated the idea of a reconciliation task force to discuss a vision for the future of the organization.
But one of the musicians, Tom Zavadil, said management just kept going back to talking points.
"It was very apparent from our perspective that they were not going anywhere," Zavadil said. "We know there are some board members who are ready to try to solve this in a different way, and we hope they can become empowered to start future discussions."
The musicians have been locked out for more than 13 months. Managers say they need substantial cost reductions from the musicians' contract to make the orchestra financially viable. Musicians say lower wages will send talented players elsewhere.
No other talks are scheduled. The musicians will continue to perform their self-produced concerts, including this coming Thursday and Friday with former Minnesota Orchestra music director Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Dec. 14-15 with former music director Eiji Oue. Zavadil said there will be more to come.
About the only issue they agree on is the desire for the return of Osmo Vanska, who resigned as music director six weeks ago as a result of the dispute.


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GotGame: With the SXSW Gaming Expo all set for March 8-10 in Austin, Texas, Nintendo is taking advantage by showcasing 10 unreleased games for both the Wii U and 3DS.
Pikmin sold like one million on gamecube and under one million on wii lol amazing how much hype fans are putting on this game that isnt a system seller by no means. I never knew ppl wanted pikimin so much until i came to this site because numbers def. speak a diff tune.
But yeah Pikmin does look cool.
Unreleased... not unannounced. The only people who should be excited about this are those who are attending. As for me? I'll be freezing up in Michigan, where game conventions never venture.


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Meet Elite Rider Evie Boswell-Vilt
Age: 33
USCF: Category 1
Hometown: Coal City, IL
Current: Chapel Hill, NC
Profession: Research Associate
After 14 months of bicycle racing, Evie was ranked #1 in the US for Masters road racing, age 30+ in 2009. Her athletic prowess started when she attended college on a full scholarship for cross country running; she has been acquiring athletic accomplishments ever since.
Evie has already started her 2010 season strong, with a win at the Rock Hill Omnium last weekend! It was a big early season race with hefty competition and Evie was 2nd in the Street Sprints, Queen of the Mountains in the Road Race and 2nd in the Criterium, giving her the Omnium crown.
How long have you been racing?
This will be my 3rd season. I started racing cyclocross in 2007, then raced my first road season in 2008.
Who or what inspired you to start racing?
I bought a road bike to do a duathlon, because of my background in running and the close proximity of the duathlon to where I was living. However, the idea of cyclocross was what really got me interested in racing a bike.
What do you do for a living?
I work in academic research as a project manager.
What race are you most proud of?
At masters road nationals last year, I was delivered a huge lesson- it was a small field, and I was off the back for most of the race contemplating a DNF, but persevered, then caught the field in the last few miles to sprint for 2nd.
What do you do for fun when you're off the bike?
I used to play disc golf, ultimate Frisbee and backpack a lot. Now I paint, cook and read for fun b/c it doesn't interfere with cycling as much as the former activities.
What was your first bike?
Steel Bianchi Vigorelli. It's now a single speed.
What's your dream spot to go for a ride?
I'd love to ride through the winding French countryside with my soon to be husband. Scotland on a mountain bike looks pretty awesome though, too.
Any pre-race rituals or routines? Something you can't race without (pre-race meal, warm-up, lucky charms)?
Actually- I tend to do something completely different before each race; mostly I'm narrowing it down to drinking a lot of water and training my brain remain focused and competitive throughout a race.
Favorite music to train to?
I like strong repetitive beats. If I have to do intervals, it's usually to wolf parade.
Any nicknames for other team members? For yourself?
Well, there is already a "super Evie" out there on the circuit, but I am pretty sure I have a lot of nicknames- "E" is the most simple yet effective one. I think our team will promote gratuitous usage of nicknames once we all settle into knowing each other.
What are your goals for this upcoming season?
Effectively manage an elite women's team with fun and purpose. Continue to train and race at a more competitive level. Get Joe and Laura in our team support car for Philly, once we're invited.
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Cycling as an event is a tough and unforgiving sport- experience, luck and attitude play a huge role in a competitor's success or failure during a race. As a result, I've found that riding your bike because you enjoy it is paramount to anything beyond.
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The stakes were high as President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney met in their second debate tonight in Hempstead, N.Y. NBC Politics monitored the debate in real time with Storify.
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'Noles edge 'Canes, snap Miami's win streak
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Bernard James got off to a miserable start. He made up for it with a terrific finish.
James scored 15 of his 18 points in the second half and No. 15 Florida State remained in the hunt for its first Atlantic Coast Conference championship with a 64-59 victory over Miami on Saturday.
"He's a cool customer," Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton said of the 6-foot-10 James. "When we start executing better, it makes it easier for him."
James, who is shooting 60 percent from the floor this season, missed four of his five attempts in the first half. But he went 7 for 8 from the field after the break and matched his career-high point total as the Seminoles ended Miami's longest win streak in ACC play at five.
Michael Snaer had 12 points and Ian Miller finished with 11 for Florida State (17-7, 8-2), which bounced back from a disappointing 64-60 loss at Boston College on Wednesday.
The Seminoles, who began the day tied with Duke and North Carolina for first place in the league, have conference wins over the Tar Heels and Blue Devils among their league wins while their only ACC losses came at Clemson and Boston College.
"Hopefully we can be more consistent as we move through the rest of our season," Hamilton said. "We bounced back today."
Hamilton made some changes at halftime to try and give James a bit more operating room inside.
"We had a difficult time getting him going because of the defensive job that Reggie Johnson was doing," Hamilton said. "His massive body throws you off. You end up bouncing off of him."
It paid off in a couple of ways, with the 6-10, 285-pound Johnson wearing down and playing just 11 minutes in the second half. He finished with four points a week after scoring 27 points to lead the Hurricanes to a 78-74 overtime win at Duke.
James and 6-11 Xavier Gibson were just 3 of 10 down low in the first half. Snaer, who is Florida State's leading scorer on the season, had 10 of the Seminoles' first 21 points Saturday and managed just one more field goal in the final 27 minutes of the game.
James' layup with 16:32 left gave the Seminoles a 32-31 lead. They never trailed again.
"We were not able to prevent those baskets right near the hoop," Miami coach Jim Larranaga said. "He (James) was able to take his time inside and finish some tough shots. He doesn't get flustered by anything."
Miami, down by 10 on two occasions in the second half, closed to 60-57 with 31 seconds left when Kenny Kadji converted a three-point play.
Kadji led Miami (15-8, 6-4) with 14 points and Durand Scott added 12.
Miller hit three crucial free throws in the final 50 seconds and Okaro White sank two more with just 2 seconds left to ice the win.
"It's good to get our momentum going again," James said. "We didn't need two losses in a row."
Florida State had won seven straight before the setback at Boston College.
The Seminoles shot 46 percent to Miami's 39.3 percent. Miami had a 35-29 rebound advantage and both teams committed 15 turnovers.
Former high school quarterback Luke Loucks had five of his six assists in the second half, several on quick passes inside to James.
Florida State, which led 28-26 at halftime, has won six straight games and 11 of the last 12 in the series. The teams will meet again in Miami on Feb. 26.
Miami hosts North Carolina on Wednesday and Florida State faces Virginia Tech at home on Thursday.
At halftime, Florida State retired the jersey of Dave Fedor, who averaged 20.2 points a game during his college career between 1960 and 1962 and was the school's first player selected in the NBA draft.


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Jamie Unwin is a conservation photographer, Wildscreen Exchange contributor and zoology student at the University of Exeter. After creating a highly successful film on elephant poaching in Malawi, Jamie enlisted the help of coursemate Hannah Pollock to create their own conservation organisation, Stand Up for Nature (SUN). SUN's aim is to use education to bring about cultural evolution to conserve wildlife. Their first mission was to use a bicycle-powered cinema designed and constructed by Jamie to take this film to communities that had not yet seen the film.
The pair have just finished their first and very successful bicycle powered cinema project in Malawi, and over 6 weeks they reached over 14,000 people with the film and took 336 children into 6 protected areas to see their country's wildlife for the very first time.
Jamie and Hannah have now returned to England and were keen to share their amazing experience with us.
Jamie – what was it like to return to Malawi?
J – Meeting all those people that I had spent many memorable moments with a year ago was special for me, last year was an eye opening experience and it provided me with an introduction as to what was really happening to Africa's elephants. Tears of joy as well as moments of great sadness were shared with some incredibly inspirational people.
Hannah – what was it like seeing an elephant in the wild for the first time?
H – Having never seen an elephant in the wild before I was somewhat on a similar playing field to the children that we brought into the parks. Unfortunately, my first experience with a wild elephant was under the worst of circumstances, on Christmas day we received word that a poached elephant had been found and so we joined the ranger patrol as they went off to find it and establish a cause of death. As I witnessed my first wild elephant dead at the hands of a poacher it simply reinforced in my mind how important the project was and the true severity of the problem.
Thankfully I had further encounters which were incredible, the most memorable was when we were observing a herd of elephants playing in a lake. As we sat watching, 3 males decided to come and investigate us, we remained quiet and still as they approached so that they wouldn't be startled. Deciding that we posed no threat and also that in fact we weren't that interesting they went about stripping the nearby trees of their leaves and had lunch right in front of us.
Jamie – how did you feel when you joined the rangers during a night raid to catch a poacher?
J – No one will ever understand the real brutality of the situation in Africa unless you have worked with one of the rangers. They put their lives at risk day in and day out, to keep Africa's wildlife safe.
Late one night we had a call from an informer that a poacher had been seen carving up bush meet. The land cruiser was quickly assembled with 10 rangers in full camouflage, I was placed in the back and told to make sure I had nothing that would omit light. I set to work duct taping all parts of my camera to make sure none of the dials or the screen would give any light signal which would alert the poacher of our position. We were dropped a couple miles from the poacher's location, this is where our back up stayed in case we encountered trouble. We walked quickly and silently with nothing but moonlight guiding the way until Richard, the head ranger, signalled that we were nearly there, he discussed a quick plan with the rest of the men. I joined Richard's group and we proceeded to walk quickly towards the suspect's location (a small mud hut with a grass roof), one ranger had unclipped hand cuffs from his belt and held them open and ready.
Sat by a fire was a man cooking the legs of a bush pig, before anyone had time to react and with no exchange of words, the handcuffs were placed on the individual and he was lifted onto his feet and walked back the way we came. The rangers had already called for backup and as we reached the main track the land cruiser arrived and we swiftly piled into the back, poacher and evidence included. We then drove back to camp the interrogation began the following morning.
Hannah – due to the time constraints incurred by running the project over your Christmas holidays, was it fun to have a 19hour working day? Describe what an average day would involve?
H – We certainly worked long hours out in Malawi but this was essential as there was a lot to get done. A typical day would involve us waking up around 5am so that we arose with the sun ready to start the day. Daily activities included visiting schools to show the film and leading discussions, meetings and interviews with a variety of organisation representatives and figureheads, bringing the children into the parks, shadowing individuals and learning what work was being done by those at the forefront of wildlife protection and of course lots and lots of driving as we covered an extraordinary distance, most of which was off-road.
Most of our evenings over the six weeks were spent showing the film to communities – we would arrive around 6pm as the sun was setting and set up the bicycle powered projector then begin as soon as it became dark. The community showings tended to last longer as more people got involved and we kept them going for as long as there were questions/comments. By the time we returned to wherever we were staying that night and had cooked and eaten dinner it was usually nearing midnight.
From the second we arrived in Malawi we had every moment scheduled, we had one afternoon scheduled off in Mzuzu for travelling but upon being asked by a school student to show the film at his youth club we couldn't say no. Seeing the response we got, the smiles on the children's faces as they saw the wildlife and experiencing first-hand the warmth of the Malawian people was incredible. Malawi truly is the 'warm heart of Africa'. I can safely say we all slept very well on the aeroplane home!
Hannah and Jamie – it's sad to see so many conservation projects end once the project leaders have left the country, was this the case with yours?
H & J – The last thing we wanted was to just turn up in Malawi, stay for six weeks and then just disappear again with no long term plan in place, that wouldn't have helped anything. In order to avoid this, we worked with local educators throughout Malawi, giving the communities a lasting figure head once we had gone. A wildlife guardian network was established, a proportion of which is being managed by 'Children in the Wilderness' and various 'Wildlife Clubs' of the Department of Parks. The story book 'The Elephant and the Mountain' was also given out to children to remind them of the wildlife they had seen. Most importantly the project has now been handed over to Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, the British High Commission have funded a similar bicycle powered cinema to stay in Malawi and the Lilongwe Wildlife Trust will be continuing to visit communities and schools to show the film alongside their outreach work. We hope to return in the future to see the project flourishing.
So what's next?
H – Kenya! Jamie is already in Kenya filming for the next project and we aim to run the bicycle powered cinema across Kenya in August 2016!
The film can be viewed here.
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Within this blog will be a series of concept arts. New and fresh ideas, an exercise to get my imagination rolling and my mind on creating images. Most images will be related in some way. Some will be random creations. All will be (hopefully) new ideas that have never been seen before, or at least new ways to look at the image portrayed.
The main theme behind the concepts presented here will be to build upon an idea I have for a cult. Ranging from the high clergy within the confines to the lowly servants that cower in the shadows to the rituals they perform and the instruments they use. The name of the cult is Ulmar, or the Cult of the Famed Wolf. More info on the cult and its beliefs and rituals will come with each post.
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February 7, 2012
Mermaid Mary Turner of Herndon jumps into the 40 degree water of Lake Anne on Saturday, Feb. 4, as part of the fifth Freezin' for a Reason Polar Dip, that raises money for Camp Sunshine in Casco, Maine (www.campsunshine.org). This is Turner's second year to make the plunge.
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Freezin' For a Reason at Lake Anne
Area daredevils ready to freeze to help kids battling illnesses.
Individuals in crazy costumes and creative flair will take over Lake Anne Plaza in Reston once again for the 6th Annual Freezin' for a Reason Virginia Polar Dip on Saturday, Feb. 2. The event will kick off at noon with family friendly activities and warm-up—with the dip scheduled to take place starting at 2 p.m. Last year's event drew record crowds of both spectators and jumpers raising over $76,000. Registered participants will take a chilly full plunge or a "Chicken Dip"—to raise funds for Camp Sunshine, a national year-round retreat for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.
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Little Giants Repeat Second-Place Finish at NCAC Championship Meetby Brent Harris • October 30, 2010 Share:
Four Wabash runners earned All-North Coast Athletic Conference honors Saturday afternoon, helping the Little Giants to a second-place finish at the annual cross country conference championship. Wabash served as host for men's and women's 2010 championship meet.
Senior Seth Einterz (right) picked up First Team All-NCAC honors for the fourth straight season with his fourth-place finish out of a field of 101 runners. Einterz finished the 8,000-meter course with a time of 25:52.1 Junior Kevin McCarthy earned Second Team All-NCAC honors with his eight-place finish (26:21.2). Donavan White was also a Second Team All-NCAC runner for the second consecutive season, grabbing 10th place with a time of 26:33.8. Brian David took 15th place, just missing a spot on the Second Team. He earned a place on the Honorable Mention All-NCAC team by finishing in 26:50.4.
Kenny Farris finished 27th for the Little Giants (27:25.0). Teammate Jake Ponton was the highest-finishing freshman to claim the NCAC Men's Newcomer of the Year Award. Ponton crossed the finish line in 27:33.1. Michael Gough (28:17.5) was 45th, while Corey McFarland finished 50th (28:30.0). Jacob Surface (29:24.8) took 71st place. Patrick Carter was 74th (29:30.4).
Wabash scored 64 team points, trailing Allegheny in first with 35 total points. The Gators claimed their seventh consecutive NCAC men's title. The Little Giants return to action on Saturday, November 13 at the NCAA Great Lakes Cross Country Regional at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
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Nick Nelson needed a new wordpress theme design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 31 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
Houston80s.com is a blog and entertainment company - daily, we blog - monthly, we throw 80s partys and bring in tribute bands for once a month concerts. We also book wedding bands, corporate functions and private parties, so the site should be professional yet fun, basically in the middle, not over the top in any one direction.
25-45. We're looking for those who remember the 80s and love them, or younger college kids who didn't have the chance to live the 80s, and want to see realistic 80s concerts by tribute bands such as TheCured.net and DepecheTribute.com
This is a 2 page design - one for the main page, and one for the interior content pages. I am, of course, only looking for a layered PSD, not a coded design.
The main page should be 2 or 3 column and have a poll, a place to register for a newsletter (this should be fairly dominate as one of the primary objectives of the site is to collect email addresses), a fairly dominate "Book a free party with us" ad which I could substitute for ads for upcoming big events as well, Ad spots - but it's important the ad spots flow with the site as to not interrupt the design.
Should have a spot for upcoming events. Also a spot for a Menu of sorts (where I can put the various categories) as well as "Recent posts". It should of course have a place to link to our twitter/facebook/rss feeds.
Designs I like for structure and formatting of the site are http://www.yoast.com and http://www.css3.info, as far as 80s themed, i like http://www.reflexbars.co.uk.
For our logo, please look at http://www.houston80s.com/media/ - if needed you can alter the shading/coloring of the logo to make it more appealing, I do not have any colors in mind for this, but it should be "80s" without being too disco/70s/feminine looking.
And finally, the bottom should have a place for links, similar to yoast.com where we can put our categories again, favorite other sites/venues/etc.
Design should also have a tag cloud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud) and search box.
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LOS ANGELES — Mickey Rose, a childhood friend of Woody Allen who co-wrote his movies "Bananas" and "Take the Money and Run," has died at age 77.
His daughter, Jennifer, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/1551DRw ) that he died Sunday from cancer at his home in Beverly Hills.
Rose and Allen met in high school in Brooklyn and became friends. They shared a love of playing jazz and baseball.
Rose met his late wife, Judy, through a blind date arranged by Allen.
Rose became a TV comedy writer. He wrote for Johnny Carson and Sid Caesar and for shows including "The Smothers Brothers," "All in the Family" and "The Odd Couple."
In a statement, Allen says Rose was one of the funniest humans he's known — and a "wonderful first baseman."
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Victoria News: Q & A with Justin Courtnall
The Victoria News' Travis Patterson recently had the opportunity to sit down with Lightning draft choice and Victoria Grizzlies winger Justin Courtnall.
Q: You've committed to skate with the Boston University Terriers in the NCAA next season. How did that choice come about?
A: Boston had been watching me for the past couple of years. It's a place I always wanted to go to. As a top-rated school, it's a dream for a lot of kids to go there, luckily it came through for me.
Q: What do you plan on studying?
A: I want to get into business education, but I'll just generalize going into next year.
Q: Grizzlies part-owner Len Barrie has since become a part-owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning, the team that drafted you n 2007. Did you know Len before?
A: I met him when I first came to the Grizzlies. I was pleased to hear Len bought the team, but it doesn't change anything, it's just part of hockey. Tampa (ownership) was looking to sell there team and Len was interested, people buy stuff.
For the rest of the interview, click here. (Pictured: Courtnall in the BCHL All-Star game)
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The FALKEN Porsche 911 GT3 RSR achieved the first GT class win for Porsche in the fifth race of the 2011 ALMS season. FALKEN drivers Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers emerge victorious at the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) by virtue of their superior driving skills and perfect choice of tyres.
Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers are the new ALMS 'rain masters' after a storming finish at the Mid Ohio round of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). After a very mixed practice and qualifying, they kept their nerve in the rain-drenched fifth ALMS round at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge to bring home the first victory for FALKEN and Porsche in the 2011 season. "We weren't that happy with our practice and qualifying performance," according to FALKEN driver Bryan Sellers, "but the FALKEN crew worked hard to improve the car, and we seemed to be faster the longer the race went."
Wolf Henzler recounts the critical moments: "When it started to rain, I still had good grip with the slicks, and didn't want to lose the track position. The team called me in to change, and I disagreed with their decision. Finally, they called me and we changed to rain tires. Then the racing line started to dry and I was really upset." Henzler's request to go back to slicks was ignored in favor of the crew's strategy: "Then it rained really hard and, of course, the team was right. On the last lap, all the guys spinning were taking the inside line, but I found grip on the outside line and passed all those cars. FALKEN had tested in the rain at Mid-Ohio, but Bryan had done all the testing. Still we had confidence in the rain tires and they helped us win."
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For children in war-torn Syria, Rami Adham is a welcome visitor. Since the beginning of the civil war, the Syrian native who lives in Finland has risked his life traveling to Syria more than two dozen times to deliver toys to children.
"I was very saddened by what was going on," Adham told NBC News. "As a Syrian, I wanted of course to do my part in helping people ... so I decided to go there myself."
According to Adham, his three-year-old daughter gave him toys before his first trip back to his homeland. From there, his charity, the Finland Syria Community Association, grew. It collects toys, sponsors orphans, and even builds schools for Syrian children.
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The beech is a beautiful tree. It is distinctive for its bark, which is smooth and gray in contrast to rough and brown like most other species. It is also, unfortunately, a magnet for vandals who carve their names or declarations of love into its trunk. No other tree provides such an inviting writing surface.
In J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the hobbits and their companions pass through the domain of the Elves, the "Golden Wood" called Lothlorien. The gigantic mallorn trees, the biggest in Middle Earth, which support the elves' dwellings, are modeled on the beech.
This is a good time of year to see beeches, before the green cloak of summer obscures the identifying bark and branch structure. There are two species here, the European (Fagus sylvatica) and American (Fagus grandifolia). The leaves of European beech are more rounded; those of American beech are narrower and more pointed at the tips. Location is the best clue to identity, however. A long-settled beech in town is probably European; one in the woods, or in a more recently developed area, is likely to be American.
The European beech is not native to eastern Long Island, but has been widely planted in estate areas. Because it eventually attains massive proportions, it is not suitable for small sites. Also, a lawn beneath such a beech is out of the question, due to the deep shade it casts and the shallow root system. No sunlight plus no water equals no grass.
European beeches can easily be seen from certain streets in East Hampton Village. Some, along Woods Lane, are recognizable because of their massive trunks and limbs that sweep almost to the ground. Looking around, you will see a number that were planted at the same time. They are sometimes called Shipwreck Beeches. The story is that a vessel carrying hundreds of saplings foundered off East Hampton sometime in the 1800s. Residents salvaged the nursery stock, planted it, and the result is still with us.
The American beech has a different personality and a graceful primeval beauty. Neither abundant nor rare, it is difficult to find in summertime. It is easier to pick out in autumn, if you look for swaths of pale yellow leaves in contrast to the golds of hickory and the reds of oak. It is easiest to identify in winter, however: Last year's leaves cling to the twigs of younger trees, with colors that range from caramel to parchment, and all the leaves are the same shade on a particular tree. Its pale, smooth bark is characteristic, as is its horizontal branching. In midspring, the beech is again identifiable, as it leafs out weeks earlier than oaks. For several weeks in May its bright green foliage stands out, until the rest of the woodland catches up. Then it seems to vanish until October.
The beech forest represents the last stage of a predictable chronology of trees in our climate, a process called succession. Starting from abandoned pasture or the ashes of a devastating fire, the first trees to appear are sun-lovers such as sumac, red cedar, wild cherry, and sassafras. After some decades, oaks and hickories shade out the first colonizers, which decline and die. The oak and hickory stage can last over a century. But the final act — the beech climax — is beginning in scattered parts of the South Fork.
A beechnut sprouts best on a shady forest floor with a consistent moisture level, such as that provided by mature oaks. As it grows it slowly changes the environment to its liking, making it less sunny and more humid. By leafing out earlier in spring, it starves young oaks and hickories of light. The beech has evolved a successful tortoise-vs.-hare approach. It is slow out of the starting gate, but its progress is inexorable. Once an individual establishes itself, it propagates steadily, one tree eventually initiating a grove. Because of the shade cast by the dense canopy, a mature beech forest is open and park-like; understory vegetation is sparse.
An uncommon community on the South Fork is the beech-holly forest, found in a few spots in the Stony Hill area. Winter is the best time to take a look at how they share space. Given that the beech hogs all the solar energy, the evergreen holly soaks up sunlight while the beech is naked. It can easily coast through the summer on what it earns in the off-season. Speaking strictly of serendipity, the bark on the holly is remarkably like the beech's bark, smooth and light gray — and the species are not closely related. A few places where you can find beech-holly forests are Stony Hill Road and La Foret Lane, both in Amagansett.
The reign of the beech climax forest can theoretically last indefinitely, as once in power it tends to stay there. While disaster in the form of fire, hurricane, lightning, or the hand of man may knock it back a few hundred years, it will just renew its relentless climb to the top. Almost nothing really grows well in the shade of a beech except for another beech.


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The tool is used as part of the script which is supposed to mount hot-plugged storage devices. It is supposed to identify the device name of hot-plugged storage devices. Unfortunately it likes to fail to e.g. identify memory cards. Further, it is rather strange that for this small task Buffalo decided to build a binary, while the following three lines of trivial scripting code does the same:
awk '$1 ~ /Host/ && $3 ~ /usb-storage/ { printf "/dev/sd%c\n", substr($2, 5, length($2) - 5) + 97 }' /proc/scsi/usb-storage-*/*


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Inner Products on Differential Forms
Now that we've defined inner products on -forms we can define them on forms for all other . In fact, our construction will not depend on the fact that they come from a metric at all.
In fact, we've basically seen this already when we were just dealing with vector spaces and we introduced inner products on tensor spaces. Pretty much everything goes just as it did then, so going back and reviewing those constructions will pay dividends now.
Anyway, the upshot: we know that we can write any -form as a sum of -fold wedges, so the bilinearity of the inner product means we just need to figure out how to calculate the inner product of such -fold wedges. And this works out like
Now let's say we have an orthonormal basis of -forms — a collection of -forms such that is the constant function with value if and otherwise. Taking them in order gives us an -fold wedge . We can calculate its inner product with itself as follows:
We've seen this before when talking about the volume of a parallelepiped, but it still feels like this should have volume . For this reason, many authors will rescale the inner products on -forms to compensate. That is, they'll define the inner product on to be the determinant above, rather than times the determinant like we wrote. We'll stick with this version, but remember that not everyone does it this way.
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