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Girl Scout Computer & Math Workshop
Sponsored by the Town of Framingham Girl Scouts
Place: St. Bridget School Hall, 832 Worcester Road (Route 9) Eastbound, Framingham
Date: Sunday, October 25, 2009
Time: 2-4 p.m. (registration will begin at 1:45 for early birds)
Who: Daisy, Brownie, and Junior levels
Cost: $6 per Brownie and Junior (covers cost of Patch, supplies, and use of computer lab)
$3 per Daisy (covers cost of Patch and supplies) they can try the Brownie Math activities
Adults are free
Contact Person: for the event: Mary Ann Sager at 508-872-4989 or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FraminghamGirlScoutLeaders/post?postID=vepcrbJ6olpAoCNOJTNJaZLkbxJdt6CjxYJCqbSWuo3G4ljupvWYdkg5CbJ4Ri9br6XJtvj0NM7pcI8e
Guest: We are fortunate to be allowed the use of the computer lab at St Bridget School for the program. Their computer specialist, Jennifer Trombino, will teach the computer program!
Badge Workshops: (girls will have the opportunity to meet requirements for 2 badges at their level once earned; badges may be purchased separately at the Girl Scout store)
Brownie = Computer Smarts & Math Fun (not included in registration price)
Junior = Computer Fun & Math Whiz (not included in registration price)
Participation Patch: all girls attending will receive a patch (style TBD), included in the registration fee price.
1:45: Check in, girls will be assigned to a computer lab time slot. They may go to math stations at their own pace. The leaders will be given the patches for their troop
2:00-4:00: Computer slots every ½ hour in the computer lab, ongoing math stations in the main hall
Occasional gaps in program to hold a sing-a-long to learn Girl Scout songs
4:15: Clean up
NOTE: We ask that NO food be brought into the hall. Girls are free to bring their own water bottles.
Return your form early; this event will be closed after the first 80 girls register.
Individual Scouts may register, but a guardian or parent must attend with them.
All girls must be pre-registered, no walk-ins, no money at the door.
Previous town programs have closed well before the deadline DO NOT wait!
Please return the bottom portion with your payment to reserve your patch and to ensure adequate supplies:
c/o Mary Ann Sager, 6 Gryzboska Cir. Framingham, MA 01702
Deadline: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Troop #: ___________________ Level: D B J
Leader: ___________________
Phone: _____________
email: __________________
# Girls Attending: ____________
*Please keep number of adults to Safety Wise ratios.
Total Amount enclosed: $______________
(Make check payable to: Town of Framingham Girl Scouts)
We do need Adult volunteers for this program; please let us know if you can help:
Name: _______________________________
Phone: ________________
email: __________________
One town-wide Troop/Service Unit Activity Application will be sent for this event.


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Doreen Blue, 62, of Flat Rock and Kay Shurtleff, 66, of Saluda — both retired educators — say the secret to staying young is staying active. The two have competed in Henderson County's Senior Games for nearly five years, claiming top gold and silver medals in swimming, track and field and cornhole events.
The duo now stand as Henderson County's newest ambassadors of the local games and will welcome enrollment in the field of competition for all talents over the age of 55 beginning in March.
When the opportunity called for them to become ambassadors for the Senior Games, they answered together. The two women, who teach water aerobics at the Y, went for training in Cary Jan. 9-10.
What led you to teach water aerobics?
Blue: I always did aerobics in Rhode Island. But, I don't know, we just retired and I would swim laps for years before school in the morning. Then I saw Karen Budro (aquatics director at the YMCA in Hendersonville) and she said, "Are you retired? We need an aerobics instructor." I said, "What? I don't know how to do that." She said, "We'll train you."
Blue: We do everything together, pretty much.
Why did you want to become ambassadors?
Shurtleff: We want to recruit a lot of new seniors in the Senior Games because it's really fun.
Blue: We've participated in it ... You look at us and we've both won like 15 gold medals (laughing). There have not been that many in out age bracket.
Shurtleff: Yeah, we need more people. It is fun and everybody just encourages everybody else.
Blue: Anybody over 55 can participate and you don't need a lot of talent because we've done football throw, baseball throw, shot put, discus... I mean, we're not good at it, but we try it. We'll try anything — standing broad jump, which is like 3 feet 11 inches, so anybody can beat that. We got a gold medal for that.
Shurtleff: When we were in high school, we didn't have sports for girls... We grew up before the girls really had any sports in high school.
Blue: Last year we were some of the first teams to do cornhole competitions. It was at the brewery; we liked that. And they have an arts program, Silver Arts. Everybody really should participate, I think; it's a lot of fun.
Shurtleff: Then you can really get serious when you go to state, and then there's national games, too.
When are the games?
Blue: The games are in May, the second and third week of May, and they're local. The locations of the games, managed by the Henderson County Parks and Recreation, change every year. Participants are asked to start registering in March.
What's involved in the training?
Blue: You train on your own.
Shurtleff: To train to be ambassadors, you learn how to do PR. But as far as training for the games, everybody's kind of on their own. We have practiced on our own, throwing footballs in a field and hurling a makeshift discus of two Frisbees, loaded with rocks, taped together under the guidance of friends we call "coaches."
Blue: It's fun to feel like a jock. I was never a jock in high school.
What will you be doing as ambassadors?
Shurtleff: We're going to try to promote it and do the PR and get more people involved.
Blue: We'll go to senior places or the Opportunity House or anywhere we can get more participation. Some people, I don't think, even know that it exists. In the track and field and swimming events, we have maybe 25-35 people, but there's a lot of talent (untapped out there)... There's a little something for everybody, with the arts and performing arts theater as fields of competition in the Senior Games.
Blue: It's wonderful to be active and to show people that seniors are still vital and active.
You two are both very active. Is it important to be active?
Shurtleff: Together we hike, build and maintain trails with the Carolina Mountain Club and the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy. I'm also active in the Big Sister program and Boy Scouts of America.
Blue: Oh, definitely. I just feel like a slug if I don't move. I make costumes for local theater groups and volunteer at the Carl Sandburg Home, helping care for the farm's goats. I think the Y has helped me stay active, and the trail maintenance and the goats and the pool.
Why do you think it's important to stay active?
Shurtleff: When you learn new things and take new challenges, it keeps your mind going.
Blue: You meet a lot of wonderful people, and similar-minded people, too.
Did you two know each other before you started helping at the Y?
Blue: Oh yeah, she roped me into going to the Senior Games. I said, "I don't know anything about football!" I had never even had a football in my hands. But that's fun, we like the football throw. You have to go with the flow. You can't be too serious about it. But there are people that are serious... And I think the talented people need more of a challenge.
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Doreen Blue, 62, of Flat Rock and Kay Shurtleff, 66, of Saluda — both retired educators — say the secret to staying young is staying active. The two have competed in Henderson County's Senior Games for nearly five years, claiming top gold and silver medals in swimming, track and field and cornhole events.


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Originally posted by manmath View PostThanks for the devs who are working really hard to make something good. But, my comment was not mean for them, it's for AMD. It does put efforts on OSS but the result is so minismal that it can be ignored. For example what's the use of open source drivers for certain chips if they are ~40% feature complete and ~20% performing after 3 years of release of those particular devices. Does it really make any sense (on the part of AMD, not the devs)?
AMD, please compare the case with Intel and nVidia. But i doubt if you really care the meagre linux/unix userbase.
Grow up. Businesses have to make money.
Wake me when Linux creates a stable ABI and has desktop penetration above a pimple. All the server penetration is being driven by AMD, Intel, IBM, Oracle whose data clients could careless about advanced Audio and Video performance for gaming.
If AMD hits its stride like they are positioning for 2013 you'll see a much improved Catalyst and FOSS will get a lot of freebie coding, but keep whining they don't pull their weight. I'm sure they're more interested in Valve as those guys making their games scream on Windows, OS X and Linux for the Catalyst driver means more GPGPU sales and more jobs for AMD to have a future against Intel.
Originally posted by Marc Driftmeyer View PostWake me when Linux creates a stable ABI and has desktop penetration above a pimple.
Originally posted by pankkake View PostThe only thing I'd like is better power management, my card is running pretty hot (but I never compared with the proprietary drivers, so there might be not much left to do).
echo profile > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method
echo low > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
This will downclock 1st GPU to lowest frequency it can do. It's enough for desktop effects, etc. But 3D games will suffer a lot.3
If you have more than 1 GPU, replace card0 with desired target.
To get full clocks again, you can use
echo high > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
This forces GPU to run at full speed. Desirable for 3D games, etc.
There is also dynpm method instead of profile (echo dynpm > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method) which meant to switch frequencies automatically, based on load. But it's seriously borked at the moment. For me it only toggles to medium power state (which is 4 times higher freq than low so a lot of heat for nothing) and can cause screen to blink a bit on reclocking. Also GPU load detection isn't very great and sometimes GPU does not switches to highest clock even under serious load. Hence less FPS in games, etc. In fact I fail to understand why AMD can't spend some time reworking this code. It's probably not the hardest part but one of most annoying issues so far.Last edited by 0xBADCODE; 12-09-2012, 12:33 PM.
There is a nice Gnome Shell extension to make switching power profiles easier:
Originally posted by manmath View PostAbsolutely right! Agree 100%. But a stable abi from Linux and a sizeable desktop penetration is just a pipe dream. Intel knows it yet releases better drivers.
BUT, whats that shit about stable abi, what does that have to do with anything, Intel and AMD have zero problems with a always improving abi with their free drivers only this proprietary instable garbage drivers seems to need them... because the developermodell is weak so they are slower to react...
So maybe you are right, maybe most users dont care if a driver is free or not... but they care if their driver always break... so it will not happen if you flamewar 1000 forums around the clock for 1000 years the linux abi will stay "unstable" if you will call it that way... so because of that, users indirectly will need free drivers... so yes users care if not because they understand or not if they get good and therefor free drivers.
I would not even care if nvidia card users would see on the linux-boot screen a message you bought a hardware from a company that wants to enslave you, linux doesnt support such modells so buy another card or you cant use linux.
Or at least a kind of message that you have to press enter at the first boot or so... or in the installation, that says something like you will not have a good user experince because nvidia does not support free drivers... so I dont have to hear again somewhere linux is so bad because linux has bad drivers. No linux-beginner cares about fps in a shooter they have windows for gaming anyway at least till now and in the mid future maybe in long-term that changes with steam... but till now they have problems with the unstable nvidia-rootkit...Last edited by blackiwid; 12-09-2012, 06:51 PM.
AMD starts pushing stuff for the "real" 8000 series.
For now it's mainly the PCI IDs for the OLAND family, but it seems they are preparing for more.


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Crude Oil Futures Slip As Iraq Risks Recede
The price of oil slipped Thursday as the risk of supply disruptions in Iraq faded and key export terminals in Libya were expected to reopen.
Benchmark U.S. crude for August delivery fell 42 cents to $104.06 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, its sixth day of declines. On Wednesday, the contract fell 86 cents to $104.48.
Brent crude, a benchmark for international oils, fell 24 cents to $111 a barrel.
Oil prices in recent weeks have largely been driven by concerns that violence in Iraq, OPEC's second-largest producer, would disrupt supplies. Oil reached a 10-month closing high of $107.26 on June 20.
The al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant rampaged across Iraq in recent weeks, feeding off the chaos of neighboring Syria's civil war to seize control of a large chunk of territory in Iraq and effectively erasing the border between the two countries.
Despite the chaos, Iraqi oil production continued and prices began to stabilize when the militants' advance appeared to have slowed after encountering stiff resistance in Shiite-majority regions of Iraq.
An agreement in Libya between the central government and a regional militia was expected to lead to the reopening of two eastern oil terminals that would boost the country's crude exports by about 500,000 barrels a day.
Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix in Switzerland said that since the start of the crisis in Iraq, "the crude oil market has seen no interruption of supply from the south of Iraq, an increase of supply from the north of Iraq (Kurdistan) and the re-opening of ports in Libya."
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
- Wholesale gasoline was little changed at $3.02 a gallon.
- Natural gas rose five cents to $4.41 per 1,000 cubic feet.
- Heating oil fell two cents to $2.93 a gallon.
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WWW::Mechanize::Cookbook - Recipes for using WWW::Mechanize
First, please note that many of these are possible just using LWP::UserAgent. Since
WWW::Mechanize is a subclass of LWP::UserAgent, whatever works on
LWP::UserAgent should work on
WWW::Mechanize. See the lwpcook man page included with the libwww-perl distribution.
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
autocheck => 1 tells Mechanize to die if any IO fails, so you don't have to manually check. It's easier that way. If you want to do your own error checking, leave it out.
$mech->get( "http://search.cpan.org" );
print $mech->content;
$mech->content contains the raw HTML from the web page. It is not parsed or handled in any way, at least through the
content method.
Sometimes you want to dump your results directly into a file. For example, there's no reason to read a JPEG into memory if you're only going to write it out immediately. This can also help with memory issues on large files.
$mech->get( "http://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz",
":content_file" => "stable.tar.gz" );
Generally, just call
credentials before fetching the page.
$mech->credentials( 'admin' => 'password' );
$mech->get( 'http://10.11.12.13/password.html' );
print $mech->content();
Find all links that point to a JPEG, GIF or PNG.
my @links = $mech->find_all_links(
tag => "a", url_regex => qr/\.(jpe?g|gif|png)$/i );
Find all links that have the word "download" in them.
my @links = $mech->find_all_links(
tag => "a", text_regex => qr/\bdownload\b/i );
Use Abe Timmerman's WWW::CheckSite http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-CheckSite/
Copyright 2005-2010 Andy Lester
Later contributions by Peter Scott, Mark Stosberg and others. See Acknowledgements section in WWW::Mechanize for more.


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- The U.S. electric industry is undergoing a sea change in the way it delivers electricity to millions of households and businesses nationwide. The $220 billion industry, which has been called the last great government-sanctioned monopoly, is slowly but surely being deregulated and opened to competition, giving consumers the power to choose their electricity provider in much the same way they choose telephone carriers.
- Advocates of deregulation say reducing government control of the industry will benefit consumers – lowering prices while expanding services and giving the public a say in who supplies the power that runs their computers, toasters, lamps, and more. But among the 24 states that have enacted electricity deregulation plans, results are mixed. Rising prices, skyrocketing demand, and limited supply in some areas have raised questions about the viability of deregulation. At the same time, Congress has been unable to agree on a measure to introduce competition to the electricity market nationwide.
- Whether or not electricity deregulation delivers the benefits touted by its supporters – including lower prices and more services – is an open question. Pennsylvania's deregulation experiment, enacted in 1998, has been a rousing success by most accounts. Nearly 500,000 consumers – more than 11 percent of ratepayers – had chosen to leave their utility company as of Oct. 1999, reports The Washington Post. In the Philadelphia area, residential customers who chose the least-expensive electricity supplier were saving about $10 per month.
The story is much different in California, which in 1996 became one of the first states to enact an electricity restructuring plan. Not long after the plan went into effect, price increases began to whittle away public support for deregulation in the Golden State. Just two years after deregulation was enacted, California consumer groups succeeded in putting on the ballot an initiative that would have thrown out the state's deregulation plan. The measure failed. Criticism of deregulation intensified in the summer of 2000, when limited power supplies and increasing demand caused the wholesale price of power to soar throughout the state. In San Diego, where the retail price of power fluctuates directly with the wholesale market, electric bills doubled. The problem grew markedly worse in the winter of 2000/01, as the state's electric utilities faced a financial crisis and consumers were met with electricity shortages and skyrocketing prices.
- Virtually everyone involved with the issue seems to agree that electricity deregulation can work. The major question is how. The drive for electricity deregulation is being led by seven groups, each of which advocates changes to the current system that provide the greatest benefit to their members, reports Congressional Quarterly. The groups have spent a combined $50 million lobbying lawmakers, according to their own reports to Congress, which are believed to contain extremely conservative figures.
The groups vary in their approach to deregulation. The first point of contention is whether Congress should repeal the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA), which gave big utilities a monopoly in their geographic area but prevented them from expanding their reach. The law was enacted to prevent national conglomerates from dominating the electricity industry, and some groups -- namely large investor-owned power companies -- contend that the law now stands in the way of increased competition that could lower prices and improve services. Other groups, including utilities owned by government agencies and municipalities, are concerned that repealing PUHCA would do away with important consumer protections.
There are other ways the groups vary in their approach to deregulation. Some groups want to make sure they aren't squashed by the large investor-owned electric companies in a deregulated system. The American Public Power Association, which represents utilities owned by municipalities or other government agencies, wants the ability to compete fairly with the large investor-owned electric companies. It also favors government monitoring of the electric market to ensure fair pricing and access.
Other groups want deregulation to come free of additional government oversight that would favor rural, independent, and government-owned utilities. Edison Electric Institute, the giant trade association of investor-owned electric companies and utility holding companies, opposes additional federal regulations on investor-owned electric companies that would curb the market power of those companies. It supports giving consumers a choice of electricity providers – including their present providers.
A third category of groups is concerned about deregulation's overall effects on small electricity providers and consumers. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, a national service organization that represents consumer-owned cooperative electric utilities, is worried that electricity deregulation could have a negative impact on residential customers, small businesses, farmers and ranchers. It wants Congress to give regulatory authority to states, and to allow electricity cooperatives to regulate themselves.
- The origins of the current system of energy production and delivery date back to the New Deal era, when Congress brought an end to the tight reign of large interstate holding companies that controlled more than 75 percent of the country's electric generating capacity. The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) forced the holding companies to break up, and gave utilities a government-sanctioned monopoly over a limited territory. In exchange, utilities agreed to provide reliable electric service to all customers at a regulated rate. The law resulted in the formation of nearly 300 power systems and 800 rural cooperatives, reports Congressional Quarterly.
OPEC's worldwide oil embargo in 1973 had a dramatic impact on the electric industry. Although the embargo was most famous for creating interminable lines at the gas pump, it also produced sharp increases in electric utilities' costs. The result was a surge of interest in alternative forms of energy. In 1978, Congress passed the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) requiring utilities to use "renewable" energy, which is produced from wind, solar, and other sources. Both PUHCA and PURPA would later be viewed as impediments to workable national electricity deregulation.
By the 1990s, a growing chorus of voices within the electricity industry, Congress, and the federal government was pushing to bring competition to the industry. Congress opened the system to competition in 1992 with the National Energy Policy Act, which allowed power producers to compete for the sale of electricity to utilities. In 1996, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued what would become one of its most famous orders. Order 888 required utilities to open their transmission lines to competitors. Soon thereafter, New Hampshire launched a pilot program allowing competition, as did Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. These actions at the state level fueled the fire for a national deregulation plan.
- As talk of national electricity deregulation intensified in the 1990s, electric utilities -- not surprisingly -- increased their political contributions to candidates and parties. In 1992, utilities contributed a total of $5.4 million in individual, PAC, and soft money contributions. That figure nearly doubled to $9.5 million in 1996. That figure could double again when the final statistics for the 2000 election cycle are known.
The strongest area of growth in political giving from electric utilities has been in the form of soft money. In 1992, utilities contributed just $556,000 in unlimited, unregulated soft money to the Democratic and Republican parties. By 1996, soft money contributions increased by more than six times to $3.6 million. The industry's soft money contributions more than doubled in the 2000 election cycle to approximately $8 million.
It seems that every major group within the electric industry is pouring money into political activities. In fact, there's so much money being thrown around that some observers say Congress has little incentive to resolve the matter quickly. Lobbyists, too, are reaping the benefits of the issue. One lobbyist even called it the "two-Lexus bill," reports CQ Weekly.
The undisputed lobbying leader in this issue is the Edison Electric Institute, which has spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying Congress on behalf of large investor-owned electric companies. Other types of electric companies are also in the game. Rural electric cooperatives are led by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, which is consistently among the industry's top 10 contributors to candidates and parties. Municipal and government utilities, represented by the American Public Power Association, are also active in lobbying elected officials, albeit to a much lesser degree than the wealthy investor-owned utilities.
And then there are the advertisers. As any Congressional staffer or lobbyist knows, publications aimed at Congress have been filled with ads from companies and groups staking out positions on the debate over electricity deregulation. These groups include Americans for Affordable Electricity, a coalition of large-scale business consumers of electricity; Citizens for State Power, a conservative coalition backed by investor-owned electric utilities; and the Electric Utility Shareholders' Alliance, a coalition of cooperatives, investor-owned utilities and labor interests.
- As late as 1994, electric utilities slightly favored Democrats over Republicans with their campaign contributions. But like many industries, electric utilities dramatically increased their preference for Republican candidates and committees following the GOP takeover of Congress in 1994. Between the 1994 and 1996 election cycles, the proportion of contributions from electric utilities going to Democrats dropped by nearly half, from 53 percent to 32 percent. During the same period, the proportion of contributions to Republicans leapt from 47 percent to 68 percent. Electric utilities continue to favor Republicans with their campaign contributions by more than 2 to 1.
- Electricity deregulation has been the focus of pointed debate in Congress as far back as 1996, but the absence of consensus – among members of Congress and the various groups lobbying them – has resulted in little progress.
The debate during 1999 and 2000 focused on whether the federal government (in other words, the FERC) or the states should be responsible for overseeing a deregulated system. Those who supported giving the FERC authority included Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.), the retiring chairman of the House Commerce Committee, and Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M), ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Favoring state control were Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), chairman of the House Commerce Energy and Power Subcommittee, and Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska), who heads the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Bliley and Murkowski each put forth deregulation proposals in the 106th Congress, but neither man got very far. In the House, Barton's subcommittee approved a bill in Oct. 1999 that would grant states most of the power to oversee a deregulated system. The vote was 17-11. Bliley, wary of giving the states that much power, called the full committee together in the summer of 2000 to consider his bill, but adjourned the session without so much as a vote.
Murkowski tried unsuccessfully to move his deregulation proposal through the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Instead, the panel approved a more limited measure that seeks to guarantee reliability of the nation's power grid. The Senate passed the bill June 30, but the House did not act on it before the 106th Congress adjourned.
The prospects for passage of national electricity deregulation in the 107th Congress are unclear. The fallout from California's failed deregulation experiment could dim the level of enthusiasm among deregulation proponents in Congress. Another question mark is how the issue will fare in the retooled House Energy and Commerce Committee. Rep. W.J. "Billy" Tauzin (R-La.), the committee's new chairman, has not taken a leading role in the deregulation issue thus far. But the electricity industry is very familiar with him -- Tauzin is one of the top 10 House recipients of money from electric utilities.


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Goodbye blog, welcome Facebook
I realised that I need no blog to share my ideas with all of you friends, now that facebook gives me the opportunity of expressing my mood, post links, videos and other objects. So I guess this is my last post here. I am sure you will not miss me. If you do, just come on and visit me: http://www.new.facebook.com/reqs.php#/profile.php?id=643947002&ref=profile


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Fox has pulled the plug on its series Almost Human after just one short season, according to Variety.
The show, which was produced by J.J. Abrams, started off strong with more than 9 million viewers for its pilot episode back in mid-November, but the ratings quickly declined.
Almost Human starred Karl Urban and Michael Ealy as a cop and his human-like android partner. Also starring on the show were Minka Kelly, Mackenzie Crook, and Lili Taylor.
The series finale episode aired on March 3.
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Chivas USA 4 vs 1 FC Santa Clarita
Chivas USA Notes (4-1 win vs. FC Santa Clarita Storm, The Home Depot Center – Field 6, Carson, Calif., 1/30/2013)
· CARSON, Calif. (Wednesday, January 30, 2013) – Chivas USA defeated FC Santa Clarita Storm, 4-1, Wednesday morning at The Home Depot Center's Field 6 in its second preseason scrimmage. The Rojiblancos took a two-goal advantage on goals by Miller Bolaños and Jose Correa in the first 31 minutes. The Storm answered back with a Miguel Ibarra score to cut the lead in half, but the Red-and-White would pull away with two unanswered goals by Bolaños and Jose Manuel Rivera, all in the first half for the rout.
· Chivas USA's next scrimmage will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 11:30 a.m. (PT) against the Chicago Fire at The Home Depot Center's Field 6.
· The Rojiblancos got into dangerous spots in their attacking third from the opening whistle. In the 18th minute, midfielder and academy product Marky Delgado served a pass from the right wing to Bolaños, who controlled the pass inside the box, squared up and beat the Storm goalkeeper.
· In the 31st minute, midfielder Giovani Casillas served a pass from the left wing into the box, where Correa was able to tap in the score for the Goats. Two minutes later, the Storm got on the board when Ibarra worked the ball on the left seam and found the back of the net unassisted to cut the lead down to 2-1.
· Chivas USA goalkeeper Patrick McLain got the start in the first half and was tested on two solid looks by the Storm´s offense. In the 14th minute, McLain denied a Storm attacker on a one-on-one breakaway.
· Bolaños knocked in his second goal of the match in the 35th minute when he and Correa combined for a give-and-go just outside the box. After passing the ball off to Correa above the arc, Bolaños made his run down the right seam and found the back of the net to give the Goats a 3-1 advantage.
· Four minutes later, Delgado recorded his second assist of the match when he headed a ball from Edgar Mejia near the right post back toward the center of the box, where Rivera gathered the pass and put the exclamation point on the Rojiblancos´ four-goal performance and sealing the 4-1 win.
Chivas USA will kick off its ninth season when it hosts the Columbus Crew at The Home Depot Center for First Kick 2013 on Saturday, March 2, beginning at 7:30 p.m. PT. Ticket packs are available for as little as $10 per ticket. For more information please call 1-877-CHIVAS-1 or visit cdchivasusa.com. Follow us on Twitter @cdchivasusa and Facebook.com/chivasusa.
Chivas USA (2-0-0) vs. FC Santa Clarita Storm
January 30, 2013 – Home Depot Center – Field 6
Scoring Summary:
CHV – Miller Bolaños 1 (Marky Delgado 1) 18
CHV – Jose Correa 2 (Giovani Casillas 1) 31
FCSC Storm – Miguel Ibarra (unassisted) 33
CHV – Miller Bolaños 2 (Jose Correa 1) 35
CHV – Jose Manuel Rivera 1 (Marky Delgado 2) 39
Chivas USA – Patrick McLain (Tim Melia 46), Walter Vilchez (Carlos Borja 46), Mario de Luna (Steve Purdy 35, Daniel Antunez 65), Joaquin Velasquez (Bobby Burling 35, Emilio Orozco 65), Edgar Mejia (Marvin Iraheta 46), Jorge Villafaña (Laurent Courtois 46), Marky Delgado (James Riley 46), Giovani Casillas (Josue Soto 35, Narciso Cuevas 65), Jose Manuel Rivera (Carlos Alvarez 46), Miller Bolaños (Paul Islas 46, Tristan Bowen 76), Jose Correa (Eric Avila 46),
Subs not used: Dan Kennedy, Ben Zemanski
Misconduct Summary:
CHV – None
FCSC Storm – None
Time of Game: 1:47
Weather: Clear, 70 degrees


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VanessaBPI necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 39 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Bright Power
Bright Power is made up of a fun, young team who operate as a boutique solar power developer. Our goal is match our financial backing with rooftops for the purpose of building solar power developments, the resulting energy we sell back to the power grid in Ontario at a subsidized price. The program increases Ontario's contribution to renewable energy, while creating green sector jobs.
Savvy building owners who are looking to green their brand, increase the value of their asset, or to generate extra cash flow.
We have a logo already, so we are looking for the content we've come up with to be converted into a sleek brochure. The layout we've envisioned is a double-panelled A4 folder brochure (no pockets), with 3 inserts. We are of course open to creative input, in which case ignore directions specified below!
We look to achieve a theme of continuity that can be carried on throughout the brochure and accompanying inserts.
We envision the imagery as being photographic when resembling the solar power industry: sunshine, blue skies, rooftop solar power developments, etc, but are open to creative alternatives!
Front Panel of Folder
- Bright Power logo, plus some imagery reflective of the solar industry, i.e. sunshine, blue skies, rooftop solar developments etc.
Inside Panels One & Two
- Content from attachement 1_Bright Power High Level Overview.docs.
- continuity of imagery chosen for front panel
Reverse of Folder
- Content from attachement 2_Contact Us.docx
- continuity of chosen imagery
Insert 1
- Content attachement 3_Bright Power Owners Program.docx
- continuity of chosen imagery
Insert 2
- Content from attachement 4_Bright Power Leasing Program.docx
- continuity of chosen imagery
Insert 3
- Content from 5_Partnership Model.docx
- continuity of chosen imagery
Any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me, Vanessa (416) 930-0934.


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A few months after "Mad Money" began airing on CNBC in 2005, host Jim Cramer recommended little known biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, then trading at less than $5 a share.
"It was pure speculation," recalled Cramer on Thursday's broadcast. "The company didn't have a single drug on the market. They had been toiling for about 17 years and at that point they'd come up with nothing that they were able to commercialize."
Since then, though, Regeneron's stock has been on a tear. It's climbed a whopping 3,400 percent. The stock was the single best performer in the NASDAQ last year, up 209 percent. REGN has been stalling a bit lately, though, up just 2 percent year-to-date.


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Contingency Management in the Delivery of HAART to Drug Users in Chennai, India
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01031745
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 15, 2009
Last Update Posted : November 2, 2016
- Study Details
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- No Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
|Condition or disease
|HIV Substance Abuse, Intravenous
|Behavioral: Contingency Other: Prize bowl drawings
|Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|120 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Study Start Date :
|May 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 2011
|Experimental: Contingency
Behavioral: Contingency
Participants are provided a non-monetary incentive for achieving particular tasks between study visits. Tasks include initiation of HAART, timely refill of medications from the government ART centers, suppression of HIV RNA
|Active Comparator: Control
Other: Prize bowl drawings
Control participants receive counseling and referral, but no incentives for engagement in HIV care. At study visits they are eligible to receive "bonuses" through prizebowl drawings to offset the inability to earn incentives.
- Time to initiation of HAART [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Attendance at HIV treatment visits [ Time Frame: 12-months ]
- HAART possession ratio (a surrogate of medication adherence based on pharmacy fill data) [ Time Frame: 12-months ]
- Proportion with HIV RNA < 400 copies/mL at 6- and 12-months [ Time Frame: 12-month ]
- Changes in absolute CD4 count from baseline at 6- and 12-months [ Time Frame: 12-months ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- 18 years of age or older
- Provide written informed consent
- Provide a history of injection or non-injection drug use in prior 30 days
- Documented evidence of HIV infection
- Be ART naïve (by self-report)
Satisfy Indian National Guidelines for initiation of HAART (any of the following)
- Absolute CD4+ count < 200 cells/ µl
- AIDS-defining illness with any CD4+ count
- Absolute CD4+ count between 200 - 350 cell/ µl with HIV-related symptoms
Exclusion Criteria:
- Indicates an intention to migrate in the next 12 months
- Any medical or psychiatric condition that the study physician believes to be a contraindication to study participation.
- Enrolled in another HIV treatment program
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01031745
|YR Gaitonde Centre for Substance Abuse-Related Research (YRGCSAR)
|Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600113
Publications of Results:
|Responsible Party:
|Gregory M. Lucas, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01031745 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|December 15, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|November 2, 2016
|Last Verified:
|November 2016
Keywords provided by Gregory M. Lucas, Johns Hopkins University:
Complementary Therapies
Drug Users
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Substance-Related Disorders
Substance Abuse, Intravenous
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Mental Disorders


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Please select the area you would like to locate a puppy from the list below. You can also select an area on the map.
The Find A Puppy website conforms to and exceeds PAAG's minimum standards for pet advertising but please note that our existing online service does not currently include the facility for breeders registering their puppies with the Kennel Club to upload any photos of their puppies. We do recommend that people ask their breeders for a photograph of the puppy for sale. The Kennel Club, at this time, makes no warranty as to the quality or fitness of any puppies offered for sale. We cannot accept responsibility for any transaction between purchaser and vendor arising from publication of the listing. We would strongly recommend that new owners select an Assured Breeder from the puppy lists on the Find a Puppy service to help ensure the best chance of finding a healthy puppy and having a rewarding dog-owning experience. This information is published with the kind permission of the breeder(s). The information is for use by prospective puppy purchasers only and should not be reproduced in any manner electronically or otherwise for any purpose whatsoever without the express consent and authorisation of the breeder(s) concerned.
Copyright © The Kennel Club Limited 2019. The unauthorised reproduction of text and images is strictly prohibited.


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As soon as I saw this book described as "The Bourne Identity meets The X-Men", I knew I had to read it. In The Rook by Daniel O'Malley, Myfanwy (rhymes with Tiffany) Thomas wakes up on a rainy street in London, having clearly been beaten to a pulp. The bigger problem? She has no idea who she is. Luckily her past self was prepared for this to happen, because in her jacket pocket Myfanwy finds a letter that directs her to a bank, where she will have two choices: safe deposit box #1 contains lots of money and everything she needs for a new identity, and safe deposit box #2 contains information about who she is and what happened to her. After being attacked for a second time, Myfanwy opts to learn the secrets of safe deposit box #2: she is part of a secret government organization called The Chequy, comprised of British citizens with supernatural abilities, working together to protect the country from its more unusual threats. Moreover, past-Myfanwy is certain that a fellow member of The Chequy is the one who ordered the attack on her. With nothing but a big stack of letters from her past self, Myfanwy must protect the country from imminent danger all while trying to protect herself from a threat close to home.
This was a really fun concept for a book, and I liked the main character a lot. She's really snarky and funny, particularly when she's re-learning about her powers or trying to cover up the fact that she's lost her memory (and doing a poor job at it). However, I almost didn't finish this book because it's a LOT longer than it needs to be. Much of the first half moves pretty slowly with at least one subplot that could have easily been disposed of. Luckily things picked up at the halfway point, and I couldn't help but tear through it all the way to the exciting end.


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A Quincy man accused of beating up his pregnant girlfriend and then trying to orchestrate drug deals from jail is being held on $100,000 bail.
A Quincy man accused of beating up his pregnant girlfriend and then trying to orchestrate drug deals from jail is being held on $100,000 bail.
David Courage, 24, of 181 Farrington St. is due to appear in Dedham Superior Court on April 15 on two separate cases. After being sent to the Dedham jail last summer for allegedly abusing his girlfriend, Courage conspired with that same girlfriend to try to sell 200 grams of the club drug known as molly on the South Shore, police said.
Courage pleaded innocent to one count of conspiracy to violate drug law at his arraignment March 19 in Dedham Superior Court.
In October, he pleaded innocent to six counts of aggravated assault and battery for allegedly abusing his pregnant girlfriend, Cory Lyn Wojcuilewicz, so severely that she had to be hospitalized.
Despite the alleged abuse, State Police said Wojcuilewicz, 25, stuck with Courage and plotted with him for two months, through conversations over the jail's recorded telephone lines, in hopes of selling enough molly to raise bail and get him sprung from jail.
Wojcuilewicz has been arrested and faces drug charges in Worcester County linked to the deals with Courage, police said.
In 2012, Courage testified for prosecutors in the trial of James Winquist, a former Weymouth resident who was accused of beating two homeless men to death in 2005 in Hingham. Prosecutors said Courage and Winquist were members of the Brotherhood of Blood, a small group dedicated to white supremacy and neo-Nazism.
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I was recently asked to make a cake for a Bar Mitzvah.
It was my first. Considering I was raised in a Christian household, attended only parochial schools, and have only been inside a Synogogue a handful of times in my life.....I think it turned out pretty well, don't you??
I used two 9 x 13 pans to create a double layer vanilla cake. After freezing the finished cake, I carved the top and sides flat.
I bought this humongous spatula for only $5 at a close-out store in North Conway, N.H.
I don't know how I have lived this long without one.
LOOK! It picks up the whole dang cake!
Crumb-coat or "dirty-ice" the entire cake before placing the fondant.Once the fondant is placed, work quickly to seal and trim.
The base of the cake represents the bimah, which is the elevated area or platform from which the person reads from the Torah. I used brown food coloring mixed with vodka to create a woodtone.
The Vodka dries to a very shiny finish. You don't believe me?? Okay, go spill some Vodka on your kitchen floor and let it dry.
Even though I froze the cake before carving out the shape, I still wasn't happy that the sides still came out slightly rounded. Next time, I'm using a chainsaw.
The tallit, or prayer shawl, was much easier to replicate. I used white fondant and rolled it out to the desired length. Then I used a small rolling pin to press three strips of blue fondant into the white.
This looks like the prayer shawls that were worn in the film "The Ten Commandments". Especially the one worn by...........go on..........you know the name.............tall guy, long white hair, gladiator sandals, carrying two stone tablets, answers to the name of.....................MOSES.
After trimming and shaping, I made tassles for both ends and tried to gracefully drape it across the cake.
For the yamaka, I shaped white fondant on an upturned cereal bowl and let it dry overnight. Then I carefully trimmed it with white fondant strips and sugar pearls.
A hand-held steamer is a great way to give the fondant a nice shiny finish on the completed cake.
I still like to use the food coloring and vodka mixture on the more detailed items though. You know what they say "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker".


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Larry Lee Fry, 66, of Murray died Feb. 3, 2014, at Clarke County Hospital in Osceola.
Funeral services were 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, at Van Wert Assembly of God Church. The Rev. Butch Black officiated. Cremation followed with burial to be held at a later date in High Point Cemetery east of Leon. Slade-O'Donnell Funeral Home, Leon, was in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be given to Van Wert Assembly of God Church.
Larry Lee Fry, son of Wilma Mae (Glendening) and David Drew Fry, was born June 30, 1947, in Osceola.
Larry grew up in the Van Wert area and graduated from Clarke Community High School in 1965.
During the Vietnam era, Larry spent six years in the U.S. Army Reserves.
Larry was a member of Woodburn American Legion.
On Sept. 16, 1966, Larry married Jennie Lynn Massey at Van Wert Assembly of God Church.
They made their home in Van Wert, until moving to Murray in 1977.
Larry initially worked at Ford Motor Implement in Des Moines for several years. He was then plant manager and salesman for Farm Service in Weldon and Murray. Before retiring, Larry worked as a rock inspector for Martin Marietta Quarry for 15 years.
Larry attended Van Wert Assembly of God Church.
Larry is survived by his wife Jennie Fry of Murray, son T.J. (wife Shelly) Fry of New Virginia, daughter Sami Fry of Saint Charles; grandchildren, Jessica Toney, Blake Martin and Lucas Fry; brother Ronnie (wife Bunny) Fry of Van Wert; nephews, Randy (wife Crystal) Fry and Aaron (wife Chris) Fry; niece Carrie (husband Mike) Boswell; other nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends.
Larry was preceded in death by his parents and brother and sister-in-law Garry and Linda Fry.


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Beautiful Music
October 14th, 2014
Aprudent sense of safety keeps us looking at the ground as we walk, and trails trick us into looking straight ahead to see what's coming. The consequence of looking down and looking ahead is that we miss what's around. Places become something we pass through so offhandedly that we — person and place — become ephemeral to each other. Marvelous old trees, spectacular wildflower assemblages, hard-to-find animals, and other wildlife surprises can remain hidden in secret places near the trails that allow us to pass through. In the Secret Places seminars, we will explore just off familiar beaten paths with a mind for discovering the wildlife richness that bestows character on place.


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Optional Validation Framework
Authors: Mike Kienenberger, Alexander Jesse
An optional validation framework is available as module OptionalValidator in svn for the jsf-comp [http://jsf-comp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jsf-comp/trunk/OptionalValidator/ ] project.
Note: I recommend evaluating the use of the sandbox subForm or ADF subform partial form validation components as an alternative to this framework -- Mike kienenberger
This optional validator framework allows you to change the behavior of validators in a form. JSF allows you limited two-stage control of validation using the immediate attribute. However, this is only sufficient for trivial use cases. It does not work well if you have multiple actions requiring multiple validation configurations on the same form. It also does not provide a warning-only mode where validation errors are reported in a non-fatal manner.
OptionalValidator currently supports three modes: hard (default), soft, and none.
- "none" means that the validator will not be validated.
"soft" means that the validator will be executed, and the FacesMessages generated, but the lifecycle will continue past the processValidations phase.
- "hard" is the standard JSF behavior, and the validator will perform as normal.
There is also an OptionalConverter for performing the same operations on conversion errors (in none or soft mode, after a conversion error, the converter will always return the original submitted value for getAsString and getAsObject).
Because the required validation of a component is handled separately from normal validation, you must not use the required attribute. Instead, there is a RequiredValidator that needs to be used, and a OptionalValidatorWrappingRequiredValidatorChecker component that is added to bottom of your UIForm in order to trigger the RequiredValidators (which may also be wrapped in OptionalValidators).
There is also a SubmittedValueCollectorWalker component that is added to the top of your UIForm to preserve submitted values for components which failed validation and to mark components invalid at the start of the model-update phase.
The behavior of the optional validators is determined by the setting of the NET_SF_JSFC_OPT_VDTR_MODE request parameter. Different UICommands can submit different request parameter options.
It is the responsibility of the end-user developer to know whether any particular component contains valid input for a given action, but it should now be possible to check the isValid method for a component.
For assistance, send email to email@example.com
<html [...] xmlns:jsfcomp="http://sf.net.jsfcomp.validator"> [...] <h:form id="form"> <jsfcomp:submittedValueCollectorWalker/> [...] <t:inputCalendar value="#{dateValue}"> <jsfcomp:optionalConverter delegateConverterId="net.sf.jsfcomp.validator.CalendarDateTimeConverter"/> <jsfcomp:optionalValidator id="openDateOV"> <f:validator validatorId="net.sf.jsfcomp.validator.RequiredValidator"/> </jsfcomp:optionalValidator> </t:inputCalendar> [...] <h:inputText value="#{value}"> <jsfcomp:optionalValidator delegateValidatorId="net.sf.jsfcomp.validator.RequiredValidator"/> <jsfcomp:optionalValidator id="openDateOV"> <myValidatorId/> </jsfcomp:optionalValidator> </h:inputText> [...] <h:commandLink value="Optional action" action="#{optionalAction}"> <f:param name="NET_SF_JSFC_OPT_VDTR_MODE" value="none"/> </h:commandLink> <h:commandLink value="Refresh action" action="#{refreshAction}"> <f:param name="NET_SF_JSFC_OPT_VDTR_MODE" value="soft"/> </h:commandLink> <h:commandLink value="Update action" action="#{refreshAction}"> <f:param name="NET_SF_JSFC_OPT_VDTR_MODE" value="hard"/> </h:commandLink> [...] <jsfcomp:optionalValidatorWrappingRequiredValidatorChecker/> </h:form> [...] </html>
In progress
Allow a set of converters to be wrapped by OptionalConverter.
- Allow separate mode settings for different groups of validators.
Change how OptionalConverter reports errors (use message bundles?).
Implementation notes
The OptionalValidatorWrappingRequiredValidatorChecker component must be placed after all other validating components in the MyFaces implementation in order to mark those components invalidated. Safest bet is to put it right before the closing </h:form> tag. This is probably also true for other JSF implementations.
The SubmittedValueCollectorWalker component must be placed before all other validating components in the MyFaces implementation in order to preserve submitted values and update invalidated component status before the update-model phase. Safest bet is to put it right after the <h:form> tag. This is probably also true for other JSF implementations.
Using only the required validator parts of this framework
If all you want is to use a required validator instead of the required attribute on a component, do something like this. The required validator parts of this framework should work with vanilla JSF 1.1, and have been relatively-well tested.
<h:form> <jsfcomp:submittedValueCollectorWalker/> <uiinput> <jsfcomp:requiredValidator/> <uiinput/> <uiinput> <jsfcomp:requiredValidator/> <uiinput/> <jsfcomp:requiredValidatorChecker/> </h:form>


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Will Your next farm implement be smarter than you? Will it be a better driver?
Maybe. Electronics are increasingly common on planters, sprayers and other towed equipment, allowing more functions to be controlled from behind the hitch. Take for instance implement steering packages like AutoFarm's AFTracker or Trimble's AgGPS TrueTracker, which keep implements aligned with the crop rows far more accurately than a driver can eyeball it.
Come to an end row? No problem. Headland management systems like John Deere's iTec Pro, now a part of tractor guidance packages, automate the process of turning and raising implements to make the entire field experience hands-free.
Even the most complex tasks, like varying fertilizer rates according to the condition of each plant, is now possible through the use of optical sensors that measure the greenness of the leaves.
Affordable sensors
This level of automation used to be reserved for commercial industries like the air and automotive industries. But as circuitry becomes more affordable and, at the same time, more reliable, the same sensors and controllers used in cars and planes are being bolted on to toolbars to make implements just as smart.
"Putting a GPS sensor on an implement no longer costs an arm and a leg," says Deane Malott, product marketing director, AutoFarm. "This kind of control is very affordable today. And you don't have to be a rocket scientist to use it."
He says the upgrade comes at a time when consumer needs have never been greater. As farms have continued to expand, equipment has grown in step. And operators are finding it increasingly difficult to manage the wider wingspan.
"The fact that today there are 36-row planters means equipment itself is harder to handle," Malott says. "From our perspective, larger equipment calls for more electronic devices to help manage it so you are not trading efficiency for accuracy."
Implements have been shown to drift as much as 8 in. off the row even though the tractor is being steered correctly. That amount of drift can result in a yield loss and misapplication of inputs. In an independent study conducted by the Irrigation Research Foundation, a planter that drifted 8 in. off a strip in a strip-till system resulted in a 4.2% loss of yield. Planting just 4 in. off a strip resulted in a 2.3% yield loss.
The rising price of seed, chemicals, fertilizer and other inputs is turning technologies once considered luxuries into more affordable items today. According to a study by Marvin Batte, The Ohio State University, and Reza Ehsani, University of Florida, on the economics of precision guidance with automatic boom control, the higher the cost of the material sprayed, the greater the economic benefit of the precision spraying system. And with seed that has more than doubled in price in five years, a planter programmed not to drop seed in areas that already have been planted can save a great deal on seed costs.
'Smart' developments
The term "smart" can be applied to any implement that has an electronic controller built in to perform some function automatically, according to Marvin Stone, professor of agriculture and biosystems engineering, Oklahoma State University. "This can range from a simple bale-wrapping controller that automatically controls bale density to something pretty sophisticated like GreenSeeker, which senses plant reflectance and uses that information to adjust fertilizer application to meet plant requirements," he explains.
Stone says simple controllers have been around for years. An early example was Vermeer's Equal-Fill/Auto-tie controller for balers introduced in 1971. The controller was one of the first to incorporate a computer to fill in for the operator. The driver no longer needed to turn around and move a lever when a bale was big enough to tie. Instead the computer monitored the size (based on information relayed by sensors) and told the controller when to tie and kick out the bale. "I think this type of controller was the beginning of 'intelligent implements,'" Stone says.
But these early systems couldn't do much because a heavy wiring harness had to be strung from the implement to the tractor. The harness housed dozens of wires, which were required to transfer signals back and forth. The bulky setup constrained communications and was prone to breakdowns. "Just ask someone who dropped the exposed connector end in the mud," Stone says.
Across the hitch
Improvements came with the emergence of serial communications in the early 1980s and serial "networks" later that decade. Serial communications allowed for thousands of input-output signals to be sent over a single pair of wires. Sensors, controllers and tiny computers called microprocessors were enabled to talk back and forth easily on a "bus" — the physical connection between a set of electronic components.
As a result of serial networks, wiring harnesses could be made small and simple, and sophisticated functions could be supported across the hitch. One of the first implements to use a serial network "across the hitch" was New Holland's Bale Wrap Controller in 1986, Stone says. A computer processed moisture and density readings taken by sensors and instructed controllers to wrap and seal the bale.
In this development, the implement may have multiple computers, all being controlled by a single terminal, according to William Rudolph, technical director of TeeJet Technologies. "On a sprayer, there may be one computer that controls the rate, another that controls which boom sections are on or off, another that provides speed input to the system, another that provides control of the hydraulic lift functions," Rudolph says. "All are interfaced together and are accessed by the operator through the tractor terminal."
Later, all electronics were standardized under CANbus (Controller Area Network) protocol, which allows networking between the tractors and implements of one brand. Today, the standardized protocol called ISOBUS allows any brand of implement to work with any brand of tractor through one common connector.
GPS enters
In the mid 1990s, machine control systems were tied to a new type of sensor called the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system, which provided position coordinates to machines equipped with a GPS receiver. This produced a new wave of smart implements designed for precision farming. With this new technology, farmers could tailor input applications to what each plant or area of the field required.
John Deere's GreenStar precision farming system was part of this wave. Launched in 1995, it was one of the first commercial systems that integrated the basic concepts for sensors, processing computers and mapping systems with position information obtained from GPS satellites.
"Once you have a GPS sensor, you can plug in other things into the system like steering control, seeding control, spray control and yield monitoring," Malott says.
Future smarts
So how much smarter will implements get? "Hard to say," says Ben Craker, marketing specialist with AGCO Corporation's Advanced Technology Solutions. "I'm sure autonomous [robotic] vehicles are just over the horizon. These would be very smart implements."
Engineers are working on wireless transfer of data from implements. "All data will be logged and wirelessly transmitted to the home computer for analysis and record keeping in farm management software that allows the user to make variable-rate maps and keep track of input costs and profit per square foot of a field," Craker adds.
In the meantime, he says, many of the features currently available as an option (such as implement steering and automatic point-row shutoff) will become standard equipment.
Stone says, "Perhaps the ultimate goal would be to build farming systems that allow farmers to focus their efforts on tasks they enjoy and let the machines handle the tedium."
Timeline to intelligence
Controllers with computers are used to automate tying and wrapping of bales with the introduction of the Vermeer large round baler. Mechanical and hydraulic controls power simple implement functions.
Advent of serial communications that simplify data transfer, allowing hundreds of signals to be sent across the hitch over a single pair of wires. Sensors, controllers and tiny computers now talk back and forth across an electronic cable called a "bus."
CANbus (Controller Area Network) protocol developed for the auto industry allows computers to work together in a network. Ag equipment manufacturers using CANbus now have implements that are controlled by a tractor's computer terminal.
Vehicle-based nitrogen sensing and regulating equipment is developed. This precision application technology receives information, such as the greenness of the leaves, on the go and immediately varies the nitrogen application rate.
GPS emerges and companies start to tie machine control functions to geographical coordinates. This marks the beginning of a new product category called precision farming where positioning information from satellites is integrated with field information like yield and pest pressures.
GPS-based guidance and steering become available on tractors, creating a new wave of technology that at first assists with steering and then takes over steering functions using computer controls. The Fendt Vario terminal is first shown on 700/800 and 900 series tractors.
Precision farming equipment takes off as manufacturers make automated guidance easy to use, more accurate and affordable. Guidance becomes a factory-installed feature.
Fendt launches a headland management system (HMS) through the Variotronic terminal. If the Fendt HMS was not the first true headland management system in the industry, it was certainly a more advanced version.
The Vario TMS generation of 700/800/900 tractors is introduced. (TMS stands for Tractor Management System, which includes Teach-In HMS.) When the Fendt tractors started offering the Teach-In system controlled by the Vario terminal, they started having full HMS as we think of it today — memorizing and automating hitch, PTO, remote valves actuation, throttle changes and so on.
AGCO/Massey/Challenger introduces a headland management system that automates all end-row functions.
Machinery manufacturers adopt ISOBUS electronic standards. The standards allow any brand of implement and tractor to work together and exchange information across the hitch.
Implement steering is developed. GPS is added to the implement to steer it on the same line as the tractor pulling it. This leads to a resurgence of farming practices like strip-till and controlled traffic, which require precise implement steering.
Deere introduces the industry's first headland management system that incorporates satellite-assisted steering to provide an auto-turn capability.


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Titanic's astronomical budget, notoriously troubled production and non-marquee young leads made it a risky Hollywood endeavour for James Cameron back in 1997. 15 years later, and the film is the second highest grossing movie of all time (eclipsed only by Avatar), Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are superstars and Cameron is the Oscar-winning, self-crowned "king of the world". Titanic's status as a movie phenomenon is pretty much undisputed.
With the 100-year anniversary of the maiden voyage approaching, Cameron has given his romantic opus a digital restoration and 3D makeover to hand Jack and Rose's doomed affair a second run on the big screen. It's as solid a post-conversion as you'd expect from a 3D evangelist like Cameron, but the most striking thing about it all is how well it stands up after all this time.
It's easy to be cynical and dismiss Titanic as schmaltzy nonsense, but there's no denying that it's movie-making with a capital 'M', a sweeping cinematic experience that needs to be seen on the big screen. All those years of TV repeats don't do it justice, it's simply too big to be contained in a household living room. This is epic in every sense of the word.
The 194-minute running time flies by as Cameron transports the viewer back to 1912 in a stunning recreation of the eponymous vessel's Atlantic crossing. In truth, Titanic is three different movies rolled into one. There's the underwater treasure hunt with Bill Paxton's Brock Lovett, the love story between Jack and Rose and the huge-scale disaster movie that kicks into gear as soon as the iceberg hits.
Cameron may occasionally have a tin-ear for the gooey romantic dialogue, but he's a master technician when it comes to spectacle and narrative momentum. Titanic builds to a devastating emotional crescendo that's made all the more effective by the chemistry between Winslet and DiCaprio. The latter, all fresh-faced and full of spirit, is a world away from the intense and super-serious screen presence he is now. Wouldn't it be great to see that smiling Leo make a comeback?
You forget about certain things, too, like Kathy Bates's memorable turn as "unsinkable" Molly Brown, Billy Zane's sneering "unimaginable b**tard" Cal Hockley and Jack having a pal called Fabrizio (complete with comical Super Mario accent).
Titanic is a dense, detailed film, from the lavish sets to the expansive cast of characters, most of whom are pushed to reveal their true selves - through courage or cowardice - as they face certain death. Some, like shipbuilder Thomas Andrews (Victor Garber) and Captain Smith (Bernard Hill), stay dignified to the end. Cameron's films tend to find out the most about their characters by pushing them to extremes. Titanic is no exception.
The 3D may not be earth-shattering, but the digital touch-up means each frame is pristine. It's certainly a jaw-dropping big screen experience, even though the outcome is never in doubt. Just make sure you bolt for the door once Celine Dion's caterwauling kicks in.


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I have excuses. Most of them are lame, so I'll spare you.
I do have one pretty good one...
While I've been away I've been gestating our second baby!!!! I'm just a few days shy of 14 weeks and feeling pretty healthy. We should be welcoming our little bundle around April 23. (Or not. Little Man was three weeks early, so I'm not marking my calendar or anything. This one will come when he or she comes.)
With Little Man, I was tired and sick. The nausea was pretty constant for about 12 weeks and there was some (but thankfully not much) puking going on. I was also really tired. This time the first twelve weeks were pretty much the same--except I never did puke (praise be!)-- but chasing a toddler around definitely made it seem much, much harder. Some days I didn't know if I was coming or going.
I'm not complaining. I know as far as pregnancies go, I've been blessed. I'm so, so, so lucky. Thus far (and hopefully throughout) I haven't have debilitating sickness or chronic pain. I can stay active and live my nine months virtually unencumbered. (Or as unencumbered as one can be while growing a human being--its all relative, right?)
In the photo above I'm obviously unencumbered on our recent 25 mile bike ride in West Virginia. Not every preggo would be able to do that, I suppose. It was, however, a completely flat 25 miles, so don't get too impressed with my feat.
Part of me thinks we might be absolutely insane for having two under two years old. Sometimes our house is absolute chaos with just one energetic toddler. What could it possibly be like with two? I push those thoughts away and think about what it will be like to have two kids who are close enough in age to be buddies. Yes, basically I ignore the initial years when my twenty-three month old won't understand why mom isn't his and his alone. I'm ignoring the thought of my three year-old trying to play with my one year-old and being too rough or getting frustrated with not being able to play the way he wants. I know all of these are teachable moments; they are life lessons that need to be learned. So, perhaps that's why I ignore my inner anxiety and I focus on our sheer joy. Yeah, we'll go with that.
When I was pregnant with Little Man, Beau kept talking about going for Irish twins. Since he didn't go through pregnancy or labor, I felt I had the authority to veto that idea quickly. When Little man was about a year old I got more comfortable with the idea of going through the whole ordeal again. (And baby fever started to hit hard...)
And, well, to spare you the details here we are. We're happy. We're nervous. We're perhaps a little crazy. Most of all, though, we know we are blessed.
So, dear readers, thank you for your patience while I've been "away." Thank you for spending your time reading about and caring about my family. Hopefully I'm back and I'll be able to share our chaos with you far more regularly!


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Colt Ford Goes 'Back' to Basics With Jake Owen in New Video
Colt Ford turns down the tempo in his latest video for 'Back,' with country superstar Jake Owen providing lead vocals for the slow-burning country-rap tune. Directed by Potsy Ponciroli, the clip features Ford going "back" to basics, returning to his hometown of Athens, Ga. to reminisce about the good old days.
'Back' is the first single from 'Declaration of Independence,' the singer's upcoming album, due out Aug. 7. "This album is very real and honest and by far the best record I've ever made," Ford says about his fourth studio album (quote via ColtFord.com). "The last two records — I stand up and cheer for them — but I tried to make a lot of people happy on the last two records and I took the edge off of it. On this record I put the edge back on there."
'Declaration of Independence' features collaborations with a number of country stars including Jason Aldean, Darius Rucker, Kix Brooks, Montgomery Gentry and Laura Bell Bundy.
Watch 'Back' by Colt Ford and Jake Owen


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By JON HAGLOF
By JON HAGLOF
Sports Editor
NEW BEDFORD — Dartmouth and New Bedford were each 3-2 winners over their respective opponents from Bishop Stang and New Bedford Voc-Tech Friday night at the Hetland Rink in the first round of action in the 2012 New Bedford High School Christmas Tournament. And it was shaping up to be one whale of a championship game on Saturday.
But it wasn't.
Instead, the Indians whaled on the Whalers to the tune of an 11-2 final in Saturday's championship round to take the Christmas Tournament title and, believe it or not, pick up their first official win of the season.
Joe Correia was the player of the game for Dartmouth in Friday's win over Bishop Stang, scoring a pair of goals, including the game-winner with just 32.7 seconds to play in overtime.
In another hard-hitting and hotly-contested clash between the two rival schools, Correia got the scoring started with his first of two at 13:37 of the first period, and the Indians carried that lead into the second period.
The Spartans hit back in the second, notching a pair of quick goals by Luc Sauve and Kade Kaminski and jumping out to a 2-1 lead. But it didn't take long for Dartmouth to counter and draw even, as freshman Owen Sylvia scored at 9:26 of the second for 2-2.
A scoreless third period followed, as the two goalies, Brendan Sullivan for Dartmouth and Tim Magalhaes for Stang, combined for any number of game-saving stops to keep the score locked at 2-2 and force overtime.
"Their goalie had a fantastic game, as did ours. It was an up-and-down game, and it really started to open up in the second and third period and in overtime," said Dartmouth head coach Mike Cappello.
"It was great to come out on top. Anytime you're able to beat Stang, it's a good feeling. Certainly, it was a great atmosphere here tonight, and this is a good win for our program."
The game goes in the books, officially, as a 2-2 tie, so each team earned a point toward qualifying for the MIAA tourney, but Dartmouth took the pass to the next round with the "unofficial" overtime win.
On Saturday, it was all Dartmouth from the start.
The offensive onslaught for the Indians started with first-period goals by Garrett Sylvia (39 seconds into the game), Nick Cardoso, Joey Gomes, Jack Arruda, and Evan McCarthy. New Bedford countered with a late score by Justin Ferreira to make it 5-1; Ferreira also tallied the Whalers' only other goal in the second period, which ended with DHS up 8-2.
Dan Bolton, Owen Sylvia and Andy Santos contributed the second-period scores for the Indians; Bolton, Joe Correia and Cardosa closed out the scoring in the third.
In the consolation round game, Voc-Tech and Stang skated to a 2-2 tie. Luc Sauve and Kody Skolis netted the goals for the Spartans, and Jordan Vieira and Nate Dandurand scored for the Bears.
Dartmouth finishes the pre-holiday schedule at 1-1-2, while Stang is 1-1-2.


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The recently ended government shutdown is being framed as a conflict between large government (liberal) and small government (conservative) proponents.
Framing the problem this way is a smoke screen; in fact, both sides are big government advocates. The real conflict is over who gets big government largess. Generally, liberals want government money to secure a safety net for low income people; conservatives want government money to flow to the wealthy.
Some examples are in order.
• Congress recently cut food stamps by $40 billion. At the same time they increased subsidies to large wealthy farmers. Right-wing media hailed the food stamp cuts; nothing was said about the increased farm subsidies.
• Conservatives routinely support increases in military spending. Much of the military budget goes to contractors and suppliers who make huge profits off government contracts. The U.S. military is the world's largest by far. Those who push to make it even larger can hardly claim to be small government folks. Campaign contributions by military suppliers ensure that military spending remains an essential conduit of government money to wealthy people. Halliburton made a profit of $13 billion off the Iraq war. That's a lot of food stamps.
• Conservative politicians at the state and local levels are always trying to limit spending on public education. At the same time they funnel public education funds to charter and private schools. Public schools are designed to serve all children, poor and rich alike. Private schools generally serve the children of wealthier people.
Framing the left/right conflict in terms other than who gets the money — big/small government, abortion/anti-abortion, personal freedom/big government oppression, etc. — obscures what's really going on.


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March 30, 2002
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - In a battle between the top two home run hitting teams in the Big West, Cal State Northridge out-slugged UC Santa Barbara five home runs-to-two, in defeating the Gauchos 15-9, on an overcast Saturday afternoon at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
Freshman designated hitter Matt Wilkerson (Trabuco Hills, Calif.) hit both of the homers for UCSB, who now fall to 14-17 overall and 1-2 in Big West Conference play.
Andy Davidson (4-2) gets the win for Northridge, pitching six innings surrendering seven runs on ten hits and striking out seven. Matt Larson picks up the save as the Matadors improve to 20-11 overall and 2-1 in the Big West.
Both teams had 16 hits apiece, but the five long-balls and a six-run seventh inning, highlighted by Erik Verbryke's grand-slam, keyed the win for Cal State Northridge.
Ryan Haag, Aaron McKenzie, Jason Gorman and Tim Dorn also homered for the Matadors.
Rick Sorenson (Dana Point, Calif.) takes the loss for the Gauchos, as the sophomore relieved starter Jeremy Sugarman (Malibu Calif.), who was roughed up for seven runs, six earned, in four-plus innings of work.
All five UCSB pitchers were tagged for at least one run.
Five Gauchos had two hits, with rightfielder Ryan Spilborghs (Santa Barbara) and catcher Chad Ziemendorf (Los Altos, Calif.) with three hits apiece.
UCSB returns to action Friday April 5, when they travel south to take on UC Irvine for a three-game Big West Conference series.
Cal State Northridge travels to UC Riverside for their next series beginning also, on April 5.