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April 17, 2013
Reston founder Robert Simon waves to the crowd during the 10th annual Founder's Day celebration at Lake Anne Saturday, April 13. Simon wrote a diary for the day for The Connection [Page 3].
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Reston Founder Welcomes Newcomers
"I believe you will find you have moved to a friendly place. Your neighbors will want to get to know you no matter how old or young you are and regardless of the color of your skin or the size of your bank balance. The 50 miles of paved pathways within Reston make it possible for you to get around on foot or on a bicycle. You can meet people and make friends on the pathways and you can enjoy the natural open spaces that wind through as they connect to the five Village Centers.
Reston Celebrates Simon's 99th
Lake Anne hosts 10th annual Founder's Day celebration.
Robert Simon opened up the first weekend of his 100th year at Lake Anne, celebrating with members of the community he founded. Simon, who celebrated his 99th birthday Wednesday, April 10, spent Saturday, April 13, surrounded by well wishers at the 10th annual Founder's Day Celebration.
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Project name
Project code
Main objective
Reinforcing SME capacitation for internationalization
Region of the intervention
ISA – Intelligent Sensing Anywhere, S.A.
Approval date
Starting date
Conclusion date
Total eligible cost
472.999,61 €
Financial support from European Union
Objective and expected results
With this project ISA aims to reinforce its competitiveness dynamic factors, mainly through a strong commitment to the internationalization strategy. This strategy comprises transversal actions like participation in conferences, web presence, prospection in international markets and, on the other hand, in some actions in the beginning of the project, related to the specific certifications for ISA devices as well as trademarks registration.
The expected result will be reach new ambitious targets in the global market with a strong knowledge of new markets, making easier to leverage new R&D projects to improve continuously ISA solutions.
Objetive: Design, development and validation of an integrated solution for Energy Efficiency and Smart Metering, including tele-measurement mechanisms, tele-metering and tele-operation, included the following components: Software platform obeying Service Oriented Architectute paradigms (SoA) and Internet of Services (IoS) for integration of multi-metering and sub-metering information.
Project Begin: 01/10/2011
Project End: 30/09/2013
Objetive: The "TICE.Mobilidade – Mobility System User Centered" aims to provide mobility services focused on the user, using for such infrastructure converging internet tools and thus making those solutions available in the market. This project will also provide a digital platform to facilitate the access to mobility services by users, combining mobility, energy optimization, urban spaces management and shared information to develop services for urban mobility.
Project Scope: The mission of the project involves developing new services that make the urban mobility network more efficient, through the results of several actions:
– Development of a service commercialization platform;
– Development of an information platform;
– Support to identify and define business models;
– Mobility products and services development ( Management system for urban transportation; service platform to share bicycles; information services of public transportation companies; financial, time and environmental impact report system in user's mobility; multimodal support system to mobility services; taxation systems and services; promotion of inclusive mobility)
Coimbra and Porto were the two cities chosen to install the first pilots and proof of concept.
Site: http://tice.mobilidade.ipn.pt
Project Begin: 01/01/2011
Project End: 31/12/2013
Objetive: SPORTE2 aims to manage and optimize the triple dimensions of energy flows (generation, grid exchange, and consumption) in Sport and Recreation Buildings by developing a new scalable and modular BMS based on smart metering, integrated control, optimal decision making, and multi-facility management. This tool will enable a new relationship and business model structure between facility managers and power providers. The approach will target a reduction of energy consumption by up 30%, with commensurate CO2 reductions and cost savings.
Project Scope: Opening of a market for ICT-based customized solutions. Collaboration framework between the ICT and buildings and construction sectors. Radical reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Implementation of three real scale Pilots in Santa Maria de Lamas (Portugal), Cesano (Italy) e Bizkaia (Spain). Market analysis and dissemination plan.
Site: www.sporte2.eu
Project Begin: 01/09/2010
Project End: 28/02/2013
Project Name: IMMO: Smart Oil & Gas Platform – Installation, Monitoring and Multi – Optimization
Project Code: CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-003266
Main objective: Reinforce research, technological devolopment and innovation
Region of the intervention: Centro
ISA – Intelligent Sensing Anywhere, S.A.
INESC Coimbra – Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra
Subvention: 215.400,85
Approval Date: 16-10-2015
Starting Date: 03-06-2015
Conclusion date: 02-06-2017
Total eligible cost: 383.678,26€
Financial support from European Union: FEDER – 215.400,85€
Objetive, activities and expected results: The objective of the project is develop a solution for the downstream sector of Oil&Gas market, namely for the tank telemetry domain, encompassing all the business processes from installation through data validation and availability ending in customer operations optimization.
The project includes six activities, of which the key activities are technical specifications, research, development and prototyping as well as validation of the solution in real environment. The expected result will be deliver a complete solution that allow ISA customers to reduce the number of tanks drops and increase the amount of gas per delivery.
Mammut Video: https://youtu.be/6ao1aO7sFoA
Objetive: BEEM-UP will demonstrate the economic, social and technical feasibility of retrofitting initiatives, drastically reducing the energy consumption in existing buildings, and lay the ground for massive market uptake. BEEM-UP will implement an innovative approach to go beyond a 75% reduction in space heat energy consumption, in addition to reducing the total energy consumption. Ambitious energy reduction will be demonstrated as the economically most attractive alternative for retrofitting.
Project Scope: BEEM-UP develop and demonstrate innovative, cost effective and high performance retrofitting concepts and solutions to be adopted by architects and designers, promoters and contractors, clients and users to boost high quality energy efficient renovation and accelerate the retrofitting uptake of low efficient building stock. This project will also proceed to implement three pilots in several European cities: Paris (France), Alingsås (Sweden) and Delft (Netherlands).
Site: www.beem-up.eu
Objetive: Creation of an effective solution to implement a system with Embedded Intelligent Controls for Buildings with Renewable Generation and Storage allowing building managers to:
– Directly optimize energy use in buildings: optimal control of internal sub-systems;
– Enable active participation in the future smart grid environment: effective interaction with external world, including other buildings, local producers, or electricity distributors.
Project Scope: These energy optimization objectives will be achieved in three complementary actions:
– Developing supervisory control strategies that will be able to coordinate larger subsystems (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, renewable energy generation, thermal storage, etc.) and orchestrate operation of the numerous devices in such systems. Energy use in buildings will be optimized as a trade-off between occupants comfort, energy costs and environmental impact, while taking into account people's habits, weather conditions, electrical characteristics of appliances and devices, thermal characteristics of buildings, local energy generation and storage capacities and market conditions, such as existing tariff structures.
– Through the development of an intelligent gateway with embedded logic supporting inter-building energy exchange. This brokerage agent will communicate directly with other buildings and local producers to negotiate possible use of the electricity produced locally in their premises. This mechanism will aim to increase interoperability of buildings and will address challenges related to deployment the future Smart Grid concepts and technologies.
– Developing novel virtual sub-metering technologies and event-based middleware applications that will support advanced monitoring and diagnostics concepts. Systematic performance monitoring will ensure the achieved savings are sustained over long period of time without being degraded by deteriorated performance of both mechanical equipment and the monitoring and control system itself.
Site: http://www.encourage-project.eu/
Project Begin: 01/05/2011
Project End: 31/04/2014
Objetive: Adapt4EE aims at augmenting the contemporary architectural envelope by incorporating business and occupancy related information thus providing a holistic approach to the planning, design and evaluation of energy performance of construction products at an early design phase and prior to their realization. The project also aims to deliver and validate a holistic energy performance framework that incorporates architectural metadata, environmental parameters, critical business models and treating occupants as the central reference point. The Adapt4EE framework, identifying and analysing occupancy behaviour (presence and movement) will align energy consumption points to all interrelated enterprise aspects (business processes, enterprise assets and utility state and operations).
Project Scope: Adapt4EE will develop an enhanced semantic enterprise data model that treats, learns and manages the enterprise environment as an intelligent agent, perceives environmental state using multi-type sensors and information modalities. The Adapt4EE Enterprise Model will incorporate business processes and occupancy data. It will also constitute a formal model for enterprise energy performance measuring, monitoring, simulation, prediction and optimization. The model will be calibrated during the training phase based on sensor data capture during operation and then applied and evaluated in real-life every day enterprise operations. More specifically the Adapt4EE Enterprise Models will allow for the proactive identification of optimum local adaptations of enterprise utility operations, based on predictions of possible occupancy patterns and respective business operations and energy profiles.
Adapt4EE will provide a set of Open Business Reference Models as well as respective methods and tools for modelling and simulating the real life operations of construction products, thus allowing for more accurate and realistic evaluation of the energy impact of alternative design and planning decisions. In order for the Adapt4EE vision to be realized and in the view of combining the advantages of the worlds of Building Information Modelling and Business Process Modelling treating occupants as the central point of reference as well as the catalyst of this fusion, several prerequisites are set in the form of intermediate or main Scientific and Technological objectives. The overall project success will be defined by the efficiency and effectiveness of the appropriate synthesis as well as the individual quality of these specific achievements. Therefore we can establish seven main actions in this project:
– Establishment a Hybrid Enterprise Modelling Approach combining different modelling methods;
– Design and Develop innovative algorithms and techniques to automatically extracting Occupancy Patterns;
– Development and evaluation of an Multi-Agent Based Holistic Modelling and Simulation Framework (methods, algorithms and tools);
– Establish an Integrated Enterprise Energy Performance Model that extends current Energy Performance Models;
– Design and implementation of an Open Semantic Based Middleware for integrated Management of Multi-Sensorial Clouds;
– Deliver Innovative interface mechanisms for the detection of complex patterns of space occupancy and energy consumption;
– Design and implement an indicative multi-sensorial network, dynamically incorporating a large number of heterogeneous input sources to provide accurate monitoring data related with space occupancy, energy consumption, comfort levels and environmental quality.
Site: www.adapt4ee.eu
Project Begin: 01/11/2011
Project End: 31/10/2014
Objetive: Helping cities to open their data and giving developers the tools they need, the CitySDK project aims for a step change in how to deliver services in urban environments. With governments around the world looking at open data as a kick start for the economies, CitySDK provides better and easier ways for the cities throughout the Europe to release their data in a format that is easy for the developers to re-use. Taking the best practices around the world the project will foresee the development of a toolkit – CitySDK v1.0 – that can be used by any city looking to create a sustainable infrastructure of "City apps".
The project will focuses on three pilot domains: Smart Participation, Smart Mobility and Smart Tourism.
Project Scope: Within each of the three domains, a large-scale Lead Pilot is carried out in one City. The experiences of the Lead Pilot will be applied in the Replication Pilots in other Partner cities.
CitySDK is creating a toolkit for the development of digital services within cities. The toolkit comprises of open and interoperable digital service interfaces as well as processes, guidelines and usability standards. CitySDK enables a more efficient utilization of the expertise and know-how of developer communities to be applied in city service development.
This approach will engage a great number of citizens and developers in several European Cities, informing 31 Million citizens, half a million active users and a thousand developers, creating a sustainable network to implement the Smart City concept.
The project will allow the construction of a technological convergent market, defining standards to apply in several applications.
Site: www.citysdk.eu
Project Begin: 01/01/2012
Project End: 30/06/2014


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- Get first-hand reports from previous Antarctic Scouts
The Antarctic Scout will join teams of scientists conducting research during expeditions scheduled for the Antarctic summer season. The focus of this assignment is to add value to the different research teams by providing the positive assistance required to accomplish their mission. As a support member, the candidate will assist the scientists in the daily activities required to successfully conduct their field research projects. These assignments may be as simple as helping to cook the daily meals and doing camp chores to the more challenging tasks of gathering and analyzing samples for testing—and even wrestling seals!
The candidate contributes to the National Science Foundation goal of providing students with opportunities to participate in research activities outside the college or university setting and involving students at all levels with pioneering research.
The Frozen Continent
Antarctica, the continent lying around the South Pole, has an area of 5.4 million square miles, making it larger than the United States and Mexico. An ice sheet reaching nearly three miles in thickness covers all but about 2 percent of this frozen continent.
Antarctica is the coldest continent. The world's record low temperature of -128.6ºF was recorded there. The mean annual temperature of the interior is -70ºF. Along the Antarctic Peninsula, temperatures as high as 59ºF have been recorded.
The coasts of Antarctica are the windiest places in the world; gusts have been recorded at nearly 200 miles an hour.
Many scientists believe that, some 200 million years ago, Antarctica was joined to South America, Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand in the single large continent Gondwana. There was no ice sheet, the climate was warm, the trees and large animals flourished. Today, only geological formations, coal beds, and fossils remain as clues to Antarctica's temperate past.
Surrounding Antarctica are the southern parts of the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Indian Oceans. Sea ice to ten feet thick forms outward from the coast. In summer the sea ice occupies less than two million square miles. But in winter it is a wide belt of eight million square miles, an area that exceeds that of the continent itself and which is impenetrable even by icebreakers.
Life has a tenuous hold on Antarctica. The ice-covered interior supports no life at all. Bacteria and yeasts have been recorded on exposed rocks. Lichens and mosses occur in a few ice-free areas, and two flowering plants grow along the Antarctic Peninsula. Native land animals are limited to seventy-six species of insects.
The cold ocean waters are rich in nutrients and produce an immense amount of phytoplankton, which supports large populations of krill, fishes, birds, seals, and other animals. In summer, birds (particularly penguins) and seals come ashore to establish rookeries and breed, but they get their food from the sea.
Solving Global Scientific Problems
The United States and other nations active in Antarctica are determined to understand the nature of Antarctica, its uniquely adapted life forms, and its relationship with the rest of "Spaceship Earth." In the U.S. program, some 600 investigators perform approximately 125 research projects per year. The National Science Foundation selects most of these research teams from U.S. universities, although some come from federal agencies and other organizations.
Glaciologists study the nature and the dynamics of the world's largest ice sheet. Ice cores drilled as deep as the bottom of the ice are studied to determine climatic and atmospheric changes over at least the last 100,000 years—information that is vital to understanding the response of the ice sheet to changes in climate.
Surveys and reconnaissance of the biota and habitats were largely completed in the late 1960s, and experimental and ecological studies have been emphasized since. Major attention is on the structure and function of marine ecosystems. Emphasis also is placed on studies of adaptations, particularly to low temperatures.
Although geological maps have been prepared of many Antarctic areas, geological reconnaissance of the continent is not yet complete. Research to date has provided an outline of the region's geology and geophysics as well as major clues in support of plate tectonics, and hypothesized Gondwana supercontinent. This research has pointed to the resource potential of Antarctica, but it is not intended to identify or quantify deposits of resources.
Unique studies of the earth's magnetosphere and of sun-earth relationships are possible in Antarctica because of its physically stable location at high geomagnetic latitude. Objectives are to improve understanding of the earth's upper atmosphere and its near and far space environment, and to investigate solar effects on humans and our environment. The U.S. station at the geographic South Pole is an important location for astrophysics, aimed particularly at understanding the origin of the universe.
Antarctica is the earth's largest heat sink (or area of cold). Research objectives in meteorology are to determine the relationship between the Antarctic atmosphere and global circulation and to determine Antarctica's role in global climate. An example is the research in Antarctica that identified the ozone hole and solved the questions of what causes it. Unstaffed automatic weather stations collect data at remote locations. At South Pole Station, a clean-air sampling facility measures the world's background levels of aerosol propellants, trace gases, and pollutants. Routine weather observations are made at all the U.S. stations.
The southern ocean is a major source of cold water masses that circulate throughout the world's oceans. Oceanographers perform physical, geological, and geophysical studies to investigate the relationship between oceanic and atmospheric circulation and the physical basis for the region's high biological productivity.
An Effort Just to Be There
For humans, there is no practical source of food, energy, or materials in Antarctica, and virtually everything used is imported. Three to four people are needed to support the work of each scientist there.
The United States operates three year-round stations in Antarctica. Additional research camps and ships are operated in summer.
McMurdo, the largest Antarctic station, is built on the bare volcanic rock of Ross Island at the farthest south solid ground that is accessible by ship. It is the U.S. program's logistics hub, with a harbor, landing strips on sea ice and shelf ice, and a helicopter pad. Its eighty-five buildings range in size up to three-story structures. Peak summer population can exceed 1,100; winter population is less than 200.
Amundsen-Scott Station, at the geographic South Pole, houses more than 150 in summer and about 28 in winter. It is supplied entirely by airplane from McMurdo.
Palmer Station, on Anvers Island by the Antarctic Peninsula, supports marine biology in conjunction with the research ship, Polar Duke. Palmer's population ranges from about 10 to 43.
Logistics resources include seven LC-130 airplanes operated by the United States Navy, five UH-1N helicopters also operated by the Navy, one each Navy-operated cargo ship and tanker annually to resupply McMurdo, and a United States Coast Guard icebreaker. A contractor operates stations and provides specialized support to scientists. There are two research ships: the 220-foot Lawrence M. Gould (ice strengthener) and the 308-foot research icebreaker, Nathaniel B. Palmer.
International Cooperation
The Antarctic Treaty provides a legal framework for the area south of 60ºS latitude. It reserves the region for peaceful purposes and encourages environmental protection and international cooperation in scientific research. The United States cooperates with all the treaty nations in research and logistics. Any nation may accede to the treaty, and any nation that conducts substantial scientific activity in Antarctica may participate in consultative deliberations of the treaty system.
About the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is the United States government agency charged with maintaining U.S. strength in scientific research; improving science, mathematics, and engineering education; and aiding in the dissemination of scientific information. This responsibility is carried out largely through grant programs for investigators at colleges, universities, and other institutions.
By U.S. presidential directive, the foundation is responsible for budgeting and managing U.S. activities in Antarctica. This effort is termed the United States Antarctic Program.
Accounts from Previous Antarctic Scouts
Read about the experiences of …
- Benjamin Pope, 2005-2006 Antarctic Scout
- Brad Range, 2003-2004 Antarctic Scout
- Tim Brox, 2001-2002 Antarctic Scout


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Trapattoni calm on future after triumph
A bullish Giovanni Trapattoni was planning for the future after seeing the Republic of Ireland cruise to victory in the Faroe Islands.
The 73-year-old Italian started the day fighting for his job as Ireland manager amid claims that the Football Association were ready to ditch him in the wake of Friday night's 6-1 drubbing by Germany at the Aviva Stadium. But after witnessing a spirited response as his players ran out 4-1 winners at the Torsvollur Stadium, he refused to contemplate his exit.
Asked if he expected to be manager for the rest of the campaign, Trapattoni said: "We have in November another game. I expect. We started three games ago - we have won two games, we have lost one against the best team [in Group C]. It's not my decision."
He added: "I know what I can do, but it's not my decision. I don't have a problem. For me, it's my job. I say always I am proud to be the manager of this team with these players.
"We have discovered many, many young players in the last three years and sometimes we can lose. Football is like this."
The speculation reached fever pitch before kick off in Torshavn when it emerged that Trapattoni's usual post-match de-brief, which was scheduled for Wednesday evening in Dublin, had been cancelled. However, Trapattoni revealed he was returning early to Italy for personal reasons.
"I have a meeting in Italy, and my sister is in hospital and I am not sure how serious it is, so I would like to return," he said.
However, with Football Association of Ireland chief executive John Delaney having declined to comment on Trapattoni's position both before and after Tuesday night's game, the rumour mill was still churning.
Asked if he expected to meet Delaney or any other FAI official in the coming days, he said: "No, absolutely not. I'm not aware of the suggestions, but I am a serious professional and I have worked at big clubs with 100 per cent responsibility.
"That's my professional seriousness. In other countries, people know Trapattoni is a professional man, and that is a great honour. There is a very simple sentence in my history: the winners has 100 fathers, the losers are orphans. Football associations change like the wind, they can change in a second."


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The Yankees sell Mythology every day. They sell baseball gods named Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle off their very own Pinstriped Mount Rushmore that will one day include the ones who go by Jeter and Rivera.
But they're not buying Mythological figures anymore, at least not now, at least not if doing so would push the Yankees over the 2014 payroll tax threshold of $189 million, a number becoming as famous in The Bronx these days as the ones hiding in plain sight in Monument Park.
"Read our lips," the Yankees have been saying for months. "No new taxes."
That policy, apparently etched in granite by ownership following adoption last offseason of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement that features significant penalties for clubs exceeding the threshold and rewards for big market clubs that stay under the ceiling, was reiterated by general manager Brian Cashman last night on the eve of today's non-waiver trade deadline.
The GM took a question about the Phillies' take-my-lefthander-please Cliff Lee, who has $87.5 million remaining on his contract beginning next year, and turned it into an opportunity to restate the Bronx version of fiscal responsibility.
"I'm not allowed to speak about another team's player," Cashman said before the Yankees' eighth defeat in their last 11 games, this one by 5-4 to the Orioles.
"But if there was a hypothetical, mythical beast that makes like $25 million a year for the next 'X' number of years that became [available on] the market, we certainly could not participate in [acquiring] that level of financial talent.
"If it doesn't fit, it's a non-starter."
There are big dollars at first base when Mark Teixeira is there, big dollars at short in Derek Jeter, monstrous dollars at third when Alex Rodriguez is on the field. There are big numbers on the mound when CC Sabathia takes the ball, are big numbers on the rubber when Rafael Soriano comes in to close and there presumably will be big numbers in the ninth next year when Mariano Rivera returns.
This is not to mention the huge numbers Robinson Cano will command on his next deal.
"At 189 [million], I should be able to get everything done that needs to be done," Cashman said.
Point taken, but for an organization whose vision of manifest destiny is to plant the World Series flag at the end of each of October, this is a policy of cents over sense.
The Yankees still wouldn't trade places with anybody in baseball, holding a 6 1/2-game lead over the Orioles that represents the largest divisional edge in the majors, but the seams are fraying for this team that failed to bury Boston over the weekend and failed to do the same last night to Baltimore while sustaining what could be yet another significant injury to Teixeira, who left with a wrist problem in the eighth.
Five of the last eight defeats have come by one run, with the club slipping to an uncomfortable 13-15 in that category. The key hits have been few and far between, but more disturbing is the team's increasing propensity for this all or nothing at all lineup to strike out in key situations.
Fact is, the Yankees not only struck out 94 times over the last 11 games — nearly 1.5 per above their prior average — but they have struck out a combined 23 times in the eighth and ninth innings through that stretch, plus four more in extra innings.
Indeed, the Yankees went down on strikes 10 times last night, and twice in the ninth, including Russell Martin's K for the final out with the potential tying run on third and hypothetical winner on second.
"Our offense is kind of sputtering a little bit," said Eric Chavez. "It hasn't been really consistent.''
But ownership and management has been. It's $189 million or bust in 2014 — whether or not a beast is out there, whether or not the personnel is capable of scaling the mountaintop.
They're not buying mythological figures in The Bronx these days. Only selling them.


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LONDON – Manchester United accepted a world-record transfer offer for Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid on Thursday, clearing the World Player of the Year to negotiate terms with the Spanish club.
The Premier League champions said it received an unconditional offer of $131 million for Ronaldo, and unlike last offseason is willing to see its 24-year-old star join a major European rival.
United said: "At Cristiano's request – who has again expressed his desire to leave – and after discussion with the player's representatives, United have agreed to give Real Madrid permission to talk to the player. Matters are expected to be concluded by 30 June."
Madrid confirmed the offer for Ronaldo in a statement, saying: "The club hopes to reach an agreement with the player in the coming days."
The Portugal winger, who joined United from Sporting Lisbon in 2003, spent last June pushing for what he called at the time a "dream move" to Madrid.
An unsuccessful complaint about Madrid's pursuit was made to soccer's world governing body FIFA and an offseason move was blocked by Ferguson, who traveled to Lisbon to persuade his player to stay at Old Trafford.
That didn't stop Ronaldo being linked with Madrid, and Ferguson's irritation boiled over in December when he said he "wouldn't sell Madrid a virus," describing the club as a "mob."
But a world-record bid appears too hard to resist for a club whose debts have spiraled to nearly $1 billion.
Ronaldo, who was under contract until 2012, plunged his future into doubt after United lost the Champions League final to Barcelona last month, saying he wasn't sure if would stay. This came despite having vowed to remain with United in the buildup to the match and in a broadcast interview.
The return of Florentino Perez as Madrid's president has changed things as the billionaire looks to spend lavishly to return the Spanish side to the glory days.
Brazilian star Kaka was signed away from AC Milan earlier this week for a reported fee of around $92 million.
But the offer for Ronaldo would eclipse that, as well as the $65 million Madrid paid to lure former France striker Zinedine Zidane away from Juventus in 2001.
Ronaldo's arrival could strengthen Madrid's position as world soccer's richest club based on revenue. According to accountancy firm Deloitte, Madrid earned over $512 million compared to second-place United's $455 million.
On the field, though, Ronaldo would be joining a club that just had its first trophy-less season in three years, while United won a third straight Premier League title, the Club World Cup, and the League Cup.
Ronaldo finished as United's top scorer again, despite not matching the 42-goal haul in the 2007-08 campaign when Ferguson's side won the Champions League and the English title.
However, Ronaldo was viewed by some as a divisive influence at United, openly challenging Ferguson's authority.
In the last weeks of the season he angrily swiped at some TV equipment while shaking his head in clear annoyance when substituted against Manchester City. When he missed a shot against Wigan, he answered Ferguson back from the pitch while shrugging his shoulders.
Former United manager Tommy Docherty said Thursday that relations were clearly strained with Ferguson, as they had been with David Beckham before he was allowed to join Madrid in 2003.


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Post-Hurricane Sandy NYC: How You Can Help, and Info to Share
Hurricane Sandy Devastated Areas of NYC That Are Hard-Hit by HIV, Including Lower Manhattan; Here Is Information on How to Help, and How People Can Get Help Who Are in the City
November 1, 2012
We will keep you updated, but also recommend staying directly in contact with the twitter feeds of Housing Works and VOCAL-NY for the fastest information.
We invite everyone to send us other resources/alerts, etc from NYC and all other regions affected, and will share them with you all.
If You Are in NYC, Please Take Action to Ensure a Better Response
CAAAV alert: Call 311 and demand that the leaders of this City take responsibility for Chinatown/Lower East Side and other still impacted communities. Stop putting people over profits. The people of our communities deserve just as much attention as Wall Street and Times Square.
Helpful Information on City Services From VOCAL-NYC
TRAVEL: There is limited subway service as of 2pm on Wednesday, view the list at Gothamist, MTA's Twitter feed and MTA's website. You can check info about bus lines on the MTA website.
FOOD: If you lost food during the storm, e.g. spoiled food due to an electricity outage, you can apply for emergency food stamps. Go to the nearest HRA or HASA Center and fill out a 2921 Form.
HASA: The 14th Street, Coney Island and Staten Island HASA Centers appear to be closed. Please call to confirm. You can go to the closest HASA Center if yours is currently closed. Please scroll down to the bottom of these email for a list of HASA Centers and phone numbers. The HASA Service Line is 212-971-0626, although no one was answering the phone today.
METHADONE: Methadone maintenance treatment programs appear to be offering guest dosing and multiple days for take-homes. If you cannot get to your regular program, go to the nearest one and ask them to call your counselor to confirm your dose. To find a program near you, visit this OASAS website. We have been unable to reach OASAS staff regarding any troubleshooting, but please let Fred know if you have problems: (646) 321-5282 or email@example.com.
MEDICAID: Fee for service Medicaid is waiving prior authorization requirements for urgent health needs during the state of emergency. Contact the CSC Call Center at 800-343-9000 for more information.
LOCAL SERVICES & 311: We have not been able to get through to 311 today due to call volume and busy signals, although we encourage you to try if you need to. As an alternative, you can reach out to your local elected officials office. Click on these links to find your City Council Member, State Assembly Member or State Senator. Do NOT call 911 unless it is a real emergency!
EMERGENCY SERVICES: Here's a website for emergency info about Hurricane Sandy and a special hotline for New York residents: 1-888-769-7243 / 1-518-485-1159. For power outages and gas issues, call 1-800-75-CONED. Here's the Red Cross website.
SHELTERS: Click here for a list for emergency shelters for people displaced by Sandy. You can also reach out to local elected officials mentioned above.
COURT: Manhattan DAT court is open. Do not assume your hearing is cancelled unless you can confirm it. We do not know if the courts are issuing bench warrants for people who don't appear given the limited transportation options after the storm.
VOLUNTEER: Occupy Wall Street is working with our allies to organize volunteer opportunities in Red Hook, Chinatown and other areas affected by the storm. Check out their Twitter feed. VOCAL can also use volunteers with harm reduction services and supporting HIV/AIDS housing programs affected by the storm. Contact Jaron at (718) 864-3932 or email@example.com.
VOCAL EVENTS: Our events are cancelled for the rest of the week. Get in touch if you need anything or want to volunteer!
Directory of HASA Centers
WAVERLY CENTER [Appears to be CLOSED temporarily -- call to confirm]
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Donations & Immediate Needs From CAAAV
From CAAAV (Committees Against Anti-Asian Violence) in Chinatown, Lower Manhattan:
"Everyone is coming to us in the community. We had folks from the City-run evacuation center at Seward Park come to us asking for supplies. The 7th precinct had our sign on their front door and their front desk were directing people to us. At the same time other officers from the 7th precinct TRIED TO SHUT US DOWN."
From Helena Wong, Executive Director:
Dear friends,
WOW! MANY THANKS to all the individuals who dropped off food, canvassed, brought supplies and worked with us all day to help with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Over 500 residents from Chinatown and the Lower East Side came to our office to get their phones charged, to get food and supplies, and most importantly to get INFORMATION.
This is the state of where things are at:
This is what we need immediately:
And of course, we can always use financial donations. Just today alone, CAAAV staff and volunteers used hundreds of dollars of our own money to buy flashlights and batteries. Please consider making a donation at www.nycharities.org/donate/c_donate.asp?CharityCode=1838&amount&designategift2.
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Re: How best to implement a hash table in Mathematica
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg125035] Re: How best to implement a hash table in Mathematica
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:28:42 -0500 (EST)
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On 2/18/2012 1:28 PM, Joseph Gwinn wrote: > I have an application that resembles dictionary lookup, with significant > rates of collision. > > The current approach is to initialize the hash table, a 10^4 element > list of empty sublists, and then build the table by inserting document > object id numbers into the correct sublists as indexed by some important > property of the object. The choice of property varies with application. > The property may be quantized geographic location, or some attribute of > the object itself. > > When done building the hash table, query consists of reading the sublist > using an index derived in the same way as for the original building of > the list. Each sublist may have many entries, and the entries need not > be numbers. > > Anyway, I have a workable approach using > > HashList[[index]]= > Union[Flatten[Join[HashList[[index]],{new object ID}]]]] > > as the core update function, but I'm wondering how well this will scale > to say 10^6 sublists (which may be needed to keep the collisions under > control with large datasets), and of course if there is a better way in > Mathematica. > > I did look at SparseArrays, but they don't support elements that are > sublists. > > Although this hash table is one dimensional, I have uses for 2D and > maybe 3D tables, which are very common when one is hashing physical > location. > If you have an application similar to dictionary lookup, have you considered using the DownValues of a symbol? dict[_] = Null dict["key1"] = "value1" dict["key2"] = "value2" This is a mutable data structure which might not play very well with Mathematica's native paradigms, but it is often very useful. You can also consider using a list of rules: rules = {"key1" -> "value1", "key2" -> "value2"} You can build a dispatch table using Dispatch[rules] to make replacements very fast, but every time you add an element, it will be necessary to re-build the Dispatch object from the rules, which might take a while. -- Szabolcs Horvát Visit Mathematica.SE: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/


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So, I have decided to take a break from writing this blog for a while. Although I have much to write about, sometimes the time, energy, and means to write it are not as available. And I'm in a place in my life right now where I don't care to "push the river."
I have to prioritize how I use my time right now. And I realized this is a good theme for my last Beliefnet blog (for now.)
What are your priorities? If you had only a limited amount of time, energy, and money (and this is true of all of us,) then how would you utilize those precious resources?
- Many of us, if we were conscious about these choices, would choose to spend more time with FAMILY. Do you have kids, a spouse, parents, grandchildren who would benefit from more of your time? Do you miss your family? This is certainly the case for me right now. My parents are both around eighty years old. Mom is relatively stable at the moment physically, but has a strong emotional need to be with her children. Dad is declining physically. He has Alzheimer's and although he still has lucid days, his body is starting to break down quite a bit. He spends most of his days in bed, eyes closed, and we all suspect he isn't long for this world. I want to have quality time with Dad while he's still here on this physical plane.
- Another priority we might consider placing higher on the list is our own SELF-CARE. Do you find yourself continually putting others' needs and demands first? If so, consider making yourself a higher priority!!!! I am learning (over and over and over again!) that I can't pour myself so completely into the care of others that I forget about my own needs – spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical. I need to remember to set aside time for walking, being in nature, being creative, being with my spiritual cohorts, hanging with friends, spending time in solitude, having fun. All of these things are essential. Without these lynchpins of my own self-care, my own health starts to decline. And I can't afford that – literally or figuratively.
- Are you making ends meet? Do you enjoy working? Are you able to live on this physical plane comfortably? As much as I hate to admit it, I do have to pay attention to my financial stability. The currency that is currently valued and needed in this world culture is money. As much as my spirit would prefer to live simply and trade for everything I need and want, the world is not yet set up that way. So, like it or not, I have to make money. Ideally, I make a living doing things I enjoy, or at least things that feel worthwhile and valuable, or at the very least, things which cause no harm – to me or others. And so, I focus also on my WORK (A caveat: If you are one of those people who spends the majority of your waking hours doing your job, and if it is not something you enjoy or something that fulfills you, then – I implore you – please do NOT let this continue to be a priority! Your happiness and health are so much more important than making money!!!!)
- And what about PURPOSE? Do you know what your purpose is? Are you in the process of fulfilling it? Ideally my purpose would be covered in one of the above priorities. But if it is not, then clearly doing whatever I need to do to fulfill my purpose is key! If you have never asked yourself what your purpose is on the planet at this time, I cannot stress enough how important this is. We each have a purpose and a place on this Earth. Our lives will flow along much better if we are attuned to our purpose. Don't let this paramount task fall by the wayside! Let it be your guiding light. Ask yourself often: Am I doing what I am meant to be doing on the planet? Am I offering my gifts to the world? If you are not, then I encourage you to redirect your course.
There then. That's my encouragement for the day. And it also explains why I need to pull back from this blog for now. I will certainly keep writing and I will keep looking for ways to inspire people, but at this time I need to take care of myself and my family, do my work, and be about my purpose.
I most sincerely wish you all the best. May you live your most glorious lives. May you be grateful, conscious, aware, loving, and joyful! May you be at peace. May you be blessed.
I have been greatly honored and blessed to have been a columnist for Beliefnet and to have been given the opportunity to touch the lives of others and to be touched in return. Blessings abound, for sure.
Two times in the last two weeks I was feeling incredibly depleted and fatigued. The first time it was after driving 2000 miles across the country in four days by myself – the third and longest day was through gale force Kansas winds that shook my car so thoroughly I had to slow way down so as not to be blown off the road. The second time was this morning. I had worked nine consecutive 17-hour overnight care-giving shifts, I had packed and moved half my belongings into storage, and I was preparing to fly home to help attend to the needs of my elderly and ailing parents.
Both times, the Universe/God/the Angels stepped in and gave me a thoroughly unexpected gift. And both times my exhaustion lifted in an instant! Both times I noticed this transformation in my body and spirit and marveled at the wonder of it. Grace. Absolute Grace.
Thank you. Thank You. THANK YOU!
The first time this happened I was on the last leg of my journey home. I had awakened that morning with very low energy, wishing like crazy I didn't have to get back in that car. (I had to be home the next day to meet a guest and then later, to begin work.) My energy rose a bit when I got to the wide-open spaces of the beautiful Colorado desert west of Pueblo and then even moreso as I drove through the canyonlands and the beautiful Arkansas River. But after one and a half hours of driving, Beauty alone could not sustain me. Have you ever been so exhausted you just wanted to cry? That's how I felt. I finally dragged into the town of Salida and had a quick bite to eat and then I slogged on.
I was now on the home stretch. I was back in familiar territory only an hour north of home. And suddenly it happened. I drove through Poncha Pass. This is a lovely place where the upper reaches of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains meet the Sawatch Range. Once one exits the pass, the whole of the great San Luis Valley spreads out, guarded on the east and west by a chain of gorgeous, tall mountains. Anyway. I had just driven a mile or so into the pass when I suddenly realized I was smiling. It was my first genuine smile of the entire day. And I suddenly realized that my fatigue had disappeared. It had just flat out disappeared. I felt light! I felt buoyant. I felt… happy!
Oh the gift of feeling that shift from exhaustion to delight. My whole body, mind, and spirit felt better. I felt so blessed.
This morning the shift was equally unexpected. I had ended my work shift at 9 a.m. I still had packing to do. Lots of it. Whatever didn't fit into my suitcases had to be taken to storage or given away. I still had vacuuming to do. I had to go to the bank, get gas, clean out the car, make several phone calls. I was supposed to meet a friend for lunch. I had another part-time job to do in the middle of the day. I had a myriad loose ends to tie up before the long drive to the airport the next day. And I had no energy to do any of it. I was absolutely overwhelmed, exhausted, and sad, because deep in my heart, I didn't want to leave. I dearly loved this town which I had lived in for only nine months. And the thought of leaving this place that was so special to me to deal with the impending loss of our family home plus attend to the needs of my two dear parents, one of whom was inching closer to death…. It all felt like too much.
Finally, after one and a half hours of procrastination, I put in my contacts, brushed my teeth, tried to cheer myself up with some lipstick, and ventured outside.
I confess I felt better simply stepping outside. I took a few steps, and then I saw it. There, right before me in the partially melted snow, was a perfectly shaped heart. This was not carved by human. It was the Angels' doing. It had to be. Some snow had melted on the surface and below the surface leaving in its wake a hole that was shaped like a heart.
It was all I needed. I felt loved. I felt the gift of being alive and here in this place of Magic and Miracles.
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
The Gift of Transformation. It can happen to any of us at any time. And it can happen in an instant.
On a long 2,000 mile car trip across the country recently, I found myself with some time to think. Car trips can be good that way. Somewhere along the way I found myself thinking about money and how we have come to place such value on something which is, in actuality, paper. Yes, I know theoretically it is supposed to represent a certain amount of gold which is stored at Fort Knox. But the reality is we have all collectively decided to place value on these pieces of paper that we offer for goods and services.
What if suddenly we all decided money was no longer valuable? What if we no longer placed value on these pieces of paper? What would happen to all these people who had previously been accorded so much status simply because of these pieces of paper they had in their bank accounts? Would they suddenly become no more important than the men who pick up our garbage each week? Perhaps they'd actually be less important because society would realize that some of the wealthiest people in the country may not actually do much to serve the greater good. Perhaps suddenly we would have renewed respect for those who collect our trash and those who grow our food and those who teach our children. Maybe we'd learn to place value on completely different things.
I've also been pondering the value of all the possessions I've been moving from one place of residence to another. (Something I seem to be doing rather a lot of in recent years.) I have learned this past year that I can live with relatively few possessions. Likewise, I have friends who have moved back to the States from Costa Rica and Ecuador, respectively. Both friends returned with only a few suitcases of possessions. We all marvel at how little we actually need to own (and cart around with us!) When I rent a furnished home, all I really need fits in one car. And although I have books and paintings and plants that I really enjoy, the fact is, I don't need to own them. I actually need own very little in order to survive and be happy.
What do you most value? What would you most miss if you didn't have it?
When I was driving and I got to the Midwest, I began hearing more country songs on the radio. What I began to appreciate about many of the songs I was hearing was the songwriters' appreciation for the simple things in life. I heard at least two songs which mentioned feeling grateful for "a roof over my head and shoes on my feet." How often do we forget to appreciate the most basic things?
What do you most value?
If you're thinking of possessions, I urge you to broaden your thinking. Here is what I most value:
- Clean air,
- Pure drinking water,
- A healthy earth in which to plant food,
- A place of shelter,
- Beauty,
- Freedom,
- The people (and animals) I love.
The first four items on my list ensure physical survival. The last three things ensure emotional and spiritual health. Sure, I could survive without beauty, but my spirit would wither. Sure, I could survive with people telling me what I could and could not do, but it would not be a very pleasant existence. And what's the point of any of the above if there is no one with whom to share it all? We all need someone to care about us, to love, to keep us company, to talk with.
I submit that if we suddenly had no money in this world, our sense of what is valuable would shift considerably. Suddenly we'd all be hungering for fertile land with good supplies of clean water, and either places of shelter or materials from which shelter could be built. If we get back to the basics, this is all we really need. Everything else is just icing on the cake.
Let's put things in perspective. Let's be grateful for the simple things. A roof over our head, shoes on our feet, clean water to drink, good food to eat, and someone to love.
We're all familiar with that timeless piece of wisdom found in Ecclesiastes:
"There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace."
(Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8)
Well, I am realizing there is a time to serve and a time to refrain from serving; a time to give care and a time to let others care-give; a time to immerse myself in the health and well-being of others and a time to immerse myself in the health and well-being of self; a time to wear myself out and a time to restore myself.
Most of my friends know that I took a leave of absence from my beautiful and beloved home in Colorado to help my father in his transition into a nursing home and through the latter stages of Alzheimer's. I've also been supporting my mother emotionally as she experiences life without the daily presence of her husband of fifty-six years. What has additionally changed this last week is that, sadly, my mother also had to be admitted into the nursing home – and not because she needed more care, but because the she and my father and the rest of the family are very simply running out of money.
It is sad to me that after a lifetime of working so very hard at his work as well as investing in some property, everything that had been earned has disappeared in the face of taxes, fuel costs, health insurance, and the cost of hiring caregivers. We simply had to take a bed when one was available because otherwise the money would have completely disappeared and we'd have had to wait for a Medicaid bed.
It has been a sad time in the Greb family. In addition to now supporting Mom in this painful transition into a home, we are also faced with the imminent loss of our family home – the wonderful two-story home my father built when we had outgrown the rancher. It will be falling into the hands of the bank because we'd had to get a reverse mortgage to help pay for my parents' expenses. Everything is changing.
Meanwhile, the Universe has been conspiring. I'd been away from Colorado for seven weeks. I was missing it, but Dad's health was so unstable that I felt I needed to stay. Suddenly, however, wonderfully, he showed tremendous improvement. In addition, my dear friend needed her car driven from Pennsylvania to Colorado. In addition, there was a huge opportunity for me to do some short-term, good-paying work in my hometown. I told my therapist friend that I found myself wondering whether I should take a short two-week break. And she was feeling strongly guided to encourage me to return to Colorado – to my home, to my work, to the place that made my heart sing.
At the time of this therapy session, Dad was feeling much better and Mom was still at home. We didn't yet know of what was to transpire. So Betsy masterfully guided me through all the parameters. How would Dad feel about me leaving, she asked. How would you feel if he passed over while you were away? I found myself realizing that when one begins to flow from this world to the next, they begin to not care so much about what is going on in the physical world. I began to remember that his spirit could communicate with mine whether I was by his side or not. And yes, I would most definitely want to be by his side. However, I was really burned out. I was exhausted from caring for both parents for large portions of every day. I was exhausted from overseeing Dad's care and attending to so many details and nuances. Ultimately I began to realize that maybe the world wouldn't end if I left for two weeks. I began to entertain the notion that maybe it would not only be extremely healthy for me, but actually a nice break for the staff from my hyper-vigilance, as well as an amazing opportunity for me to learn to move into a greater place of trust. I began to realize that it might be for the highest good of not just me, but for those around me as well, if I allowed myself this break.
As I seriously entertained the idea of a short respite, I found my joy bubbling up again. Home! Mountains! Hot springs! Friends! Beauty! My own space! A palpable presence of Spirit! Nature in all its magnificent glory!
Oh oh OH! It felt so good to give myself permission to return for just a short time to a place where I knew I could restore and renew myself.
And then we got word of needing to move Mom.
I gave my dear sister the space to give Mom the painful news of her imminent and unwelcome move. (Karen is so much better at that kind of thing than me!) Afterwards, I and Mom's caregiver were there to comfort Mom and to help her see different ways of looking at the situation. She would be closer to Dad. She would have more support, more care. She would have the opportunity to make friends, engage in more activities. We would still be going out to breakfast with the family occasionally, she could walk around town. It wasn't a prison! And slowly, gradually, Mom began to bravely shift into a position of acceptance.
At one point, there was an opening in the conversation and I confessed to her that there was an opportunity for me to return to Colorado for two weeks to make some decent money. (I'd been virtually without income during the whole time I was in Pennsylvania supporting my parents.) To my surprise and delight, she understood. She said she would have help, she'd be okay. She gave me her blessing.
I cannot thank Mom enough for having the courage to let me go. And I'm so very grateful to Betsy, who lovingly and firmly encouraged me to consider this respite.
And so I gave myself permission. It's okay for me to let go of managing the Universe! It's okay for me to not be physically present for a couple of weeks. It's okay for me to tend to myself for a couple of weeks. It's all very much okay.
And so, right now Mom is safely ensconced in her new home and, at the moment, adjusting better than I could have hoped. And I am in the process of driving across the country. I am – very gratefully – spending the evenings and nights in motel rooms – blessedly alone, doing whatever I want or need to do. I am writing, resting, taking long hot showers. I am returning to myself.
That's my story, friends. Thank you for listening. Blessed be.


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Not that they weren't already concerned, but last weekend made the Packers that much more conscious of keeping Aaron Rodgers upright.
With Michael Vick, Jay Cutler and Alex Smith leaving with concussions, it brought back into focus for them the risk their quarterback takes when he leaves the pocket.
"We can't afford to lose our quarterback to not sliding and trying to make a play," tight end Andrew Quarless said, via Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I definitely think it's something he takes into consideration. If he goes down [because of injury], it's going to be pretty tough.
"I wish you could see the coaches' faces when he takes a hit."
Rodgers' inclination remains to err on the side of making a play, much to the chagrin of coaches and teammates.
But it's not just when he's outside the pocket, as Rodgers has taken a league-high 29 sacks.
"I get concerned," center Jeff Saturday said. "He takes some shots now. He's a tough kid. There's a lot of times where I'm screaming, 'Throw it, throw it.' He can't hear it, but you just want him to let it go because I want him to play the next play.
"But that's ingrained in him. He knows if he's willing to hold it for one second, he's willing to take that shot to get the ball off and create the big plays."
Of course, that willingness to go for first downs or hold the ball a second longer trying to make a play is part of the reason he's good at what he does.
"Just reflect back to our last game vs. the Cardinals and his ability to make plays with his feet," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. " I think Aaron's a lot more conscious of it [protecting himself] and it's something, frankly, where hopefully we're doing a better job of coaching it with our quarterbacks."
Whether they're ever able to coach that tendency out of Rodgers remains to be seen.


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Hear Lourdes speak
Madonna and Lourdes walked the pink carpet together at the Material Girl launch at Macy's last night in New York and actually stopped for joint interviews on the press line and while Lourdes has certainly been heard before, this is really the first time she's been broadcast so widely. It's pretty amazing.
She really is 14. Madonna has a 14 year old daughter who behaves as though she's 14, with much more money and privilege than other 14 year old girls, sure, but the way she's fidgeting with her braces is universal, no matter who she calls mom.
And together they are adorable. Lourdes of course knows everything, so much everything that she cuts her mother off when she's talking, and when she talks there are, like, so many "likes", so much so that you realise, she's pretty untrained, as opposed to say, someone like Chloe Grace Moretz, or most Hollywood child players, who cannot come up with an unrehearsed answer and fall apart when faced with an unexpected question.
I love Madonna the mother. And it's Madonna the mother who seems younger to me, younger than Madonna the single lady dating the child model. There's something very fresh and very youthful about her interaction with her children, especially with her firstborn. If only she could see this for herself.
To watch the video, click here. Thanks Farrah!
Photos from Wenn.com and Splashnewsonline.com


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Recipes: Greens & EggsTuesday, March 29th, 2011
I had a revelation this morning while eating breakfast – I love greens and eggs together! I'd thrown two fried (organic) eggs onto a flour tortilla, tore up some of my macrogreens (including a good bunch of dill), and rolled it all up. It wasn't pretty (so I didn't take a picture) but it tasted so lovely – creamy eggs with a little buttery crispness on the edges, herb-y dill, the spring-fresh flavors of the mesclun greens – and it reminded me that some of my favorite food combinations have to do with eggs and greens.
There are so many ways to have them – omelettes and quiches are typical but my favorite combinations usually involve fried eggs and a robust green with some kind of bread-like base. My absolute favorite version is a thick slice of toasted rustic multi-grain bread, rubbed with a clove of raw garlic and drizzled with olive oil; on top of that, dandelions, raw (if young and fresh) or sauteed (if getting on a bit) and spritzed with a tiny bit of lemon juice; on top of that, 2 eggs, preferably from my mother's chickens, fried in butter and liberally sprinkled with freshly ground black pepper and slightly coarse salt (or even smoked salt, for a whole other layer of goodness!); and finished off with a sprinkling of green onions or chives…I'm drooling even as I write!
I've made other versions – scrambled eggs and spinach wrapped in a tortilla, scrambled eggs on mesclun on a buttered rye crisp, spinach or arugula substituted for dandelions in the above dish – it's all depended on what I have on hand and what I feel like eating. Not being a big carb-eater, I've sometimes shocked my sister, a woman who feels that bread really is the staff of life, by not having any in the house for weeks on end so I've sometimes had to use potatoes or mushrooms as a stand-in. I think because the greens and eggs combo is such a flexible one, and almost a 'doh' kind of recipe that I don't notice how often I eat it…and love it.


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U.S. Men's Junior National Team Sweeps St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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Feature Story: Olympic Dreams Ignited at Men's Junior Continental Championship
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 28, 2012) –The U.S. Men's Junior (U-21) National Team used a 73.91 kill percent to sweep St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 25-8, 25-8, 25-9 in its second match of the 2012 NORCECA Men's Junior (U-21) Continental Championship on Tuesday evening at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Michael Henchy (Ventura, Calif.) led the United States to its victory, posting a match-high 12 points at outside with a match-high nine kills, two blocks and two service aces.
"We came out today knowing that we had to play our game," Hechy said. "We wanted to make sure we prepared for today and now we need to prepare for tomorrow."
Team USA, the tournament's defending champion, will face Mexico (2-0) on Wednesday. Both teams are undefeated and both look to secure a spot in the semifinals. The winner of the match will advance directly to the semifinal round on Friday and skip the quarterfinal round. St. Vincent and the Grenadines (0-2) meets Honduras (0-2) at 1 p.m. MST on Wednesday as both teams search for their first victories.
"In a tournament like this we can't underestimate our opponents," Henchy said. "Mexico is one of those teams that we can't overlook. We want to play each game and not think too far ahead in the tournament."
U.S. Men's Junior National Volleyball Team Head coach Peter Hanson started Henchy and D.J. White (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) at outside, team captain Micah Christenson (Honolulu) at setter, and Matt Tarantino (Van Nuys, Calif.) and Driss Guessous (Pasadena, Calif.) at middle blocker, Ben Patch (Provo, Utah) at opposite and Tony Ensbury (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) at libero.
"We would like to congratulate St. Vincent and the Grenadines on a well-played match, and it has been a pleasure to have them here at the NORCECA Championship in Colorado Springs," United States head coach Peter Hanson said. "By having them here and playing, they will get better making NORCECA as a region even stronger. Tonight it was good for us to play everyone and rest some players. Now we will start to prepare for Mexico and for the playoffs after that."
Guessous started all three sets and posted four kills, two blocks and two service aces to contribute eight points for the U.S. Tarantino charted six kills and one service aces in just two sets of play. James Shaw (Woodside, Calif.) subbed in at opposite in the first set and started the second and third, posting five points off of three kills and two blocks.
Nick Olson (New Berlin, Wis.) and Scott Rhein (Pleasant View, Tenn.) both connected on four kills for four points each. Olson started the third set at middle while Rhein subbed in at outside the first and started the second and third. Matt West (Seattle, Wash.) subbed in for Christenson as setter in the first set and started the second and third sets. West posted two kills, a block and a service ace. Patch started the first set and posted three points off of two kills and a block. White contributed one point off of a block.
Behind Christenson's and West's setting, Team USA converted 34 of 46 attacks for a 73.91 kill percent and .670 hitting efficiency (34-4-46). The U.S. posted 34 kills to St. Vincent's 13 and out blocked 9-0. Team USA delivered 5 unanswered service aces. St. Vincent converted just 24.07 percent of its attacks with a negative .167 hitting efficiency (13-22-54).
"First of all I want to congratulate St. Vincent and the Grenadines on a good match," Christenson said. "Coming into this match we wanted to focus on our side of the net and concentrate on the small things. We are excited to play versus Mexico. We had a couple good matches against them in the past the youth level at Pan Am and NORCECA."
Guessous came out in the first set swinging for the U.S. charting the team's first two points. A service error by Guessous brought the set to 3-1. St. Vincent snuck a quick one-over at 3-2 before Patch got air on the right side for a kill. Tarantino responded with a kill of his own to bring the set to 5-2. Patch hit the tape on his serve for an error to give St. Vincent the ball at 5-3. Henchy took a huge swing on the left side for a kill and remained serving from a St. Vincent hitting error at 7-4. The U.S. was called on a net violation but St. Vincent's serve went long giving the U.S. possession at 8-4. The overpass by St. Vincent went long and the U.S. took five-point lead at 9-4. Guessous surprised the defense with a one-over at 11-5. Patch used his ups to get through a double block on the right side at 12-5 only to me complimented by a double block from Guessous and White. Patch again connected for a kill and the U.S. went up 14-5. St. Out of the technical timeout Rhein came in to serve. A missed block by the U.S. gave St. Vincent the call at 16-7. The U.S. then used 11-1 point run to finish out the set. Tarantino swung big for a kill at 20-8 followed by a one-and-done from Henchy. Henchy then used the far left side to give the U.S. set-point at 24-8. St. Vincent hit the antennae and gave the U.S. its final point of the set with a 25-8 finish.
Starting the second set for the U.S. was Guessous and Tarantino at middle, Henchy and Rhein at outside, Shaw at opposite, West as the setter and Ensbury at liero. St. Vincent team errors gave the U.S. three of its first six points. At 6-3 St. Vincent used a huge dig and set for a kill before Shaw delivered a rocket down the line that knocked him and the defender of their feet at 7-3. Shaw served into the net to give St. Vincent the ball back at 7-4. St. Vincent gave the U.S. a point with a dropped ball from miscommunication at 8-4 before heading into the first technical timeout. The U.S. came off the break with three straight and Tarantino came out with a huge kill into a gap at 11-4 followed by a St. Vincent timeout. The U.S. went on a 6-1 run with Tarantino back to serve. St. Vincent couldn't stop the team errors and was called on a hitting error followed by a double hit at 18-5. Guessous and Shaw teamed up for a double block at 21-7. Henchy delivered an outside attack for a kill at 22-7 followed by a long attack from St. Vincent at 23-7. St. Vincent was called for a hitting error to give the U.S. set point at 24-7. St. Vincent called a timeout and came off the bench with a kill at 24-8. The U.S. then took the second set, 25-8 from a St. Vincent service error.
Starting the third set for the U.S. was Guessous and Olsen at middle, Henchy and Rhein at outside, Shaw at opposite, West at setter and Ensbury at libero. Both teams came out swinging in the third set with kills coming from both sides at 1-1. Guessous delivered a rocket followed by a service error to bring the set to 3-2. St. Vincent posted a service error of its own at 4-2. Rhein used an overpass to set up the perfect attack for a kill followed by a kill off of a swing from Olsen at 7-3. West posted a block at 8-3 before the first technical timeout. Rhein's serve went wide at 8-4. Guessous posted a block on the back row attack at 11-4 followed by a kill through the middle at 12-4 to force St. Vincent to call a timeout. Olsen hit the net on a service error coming out of the timeout . Henchy made up for the lost point with a kill from the left side at 13-5. St. Following a St. Vincent wide attach, Henchy posted back-to-back kills to bring the U.S. to 16-5 before the technical timeout. A lift call was called on the U.S. but St. Vincent responded with an error of its own at 17-6. Rhein's attack went wide left but he made up for it with a huge swing from the left side at 18-7. St. Vincent found the back corner on an attack at 19-8. Following two St. Vincent errors, Olsen posted his fourth kill at 24-8 to give the U.S. its first set-match point. Shaw served into the net and the U.S. saw its second and final set-match point as St. Vincent ended the match with a service error. The final score of the third set was 25-9.
2012 U.S. Men's Junior National Volleyball Team
# - Name (Position, Hometown, Grad Year, Club, Region, College Status)
3 - Micah Christenson (S, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2011, Outrigger Canoe Club, Aloha, University of Southern California)
4 - Tony Ensbury (L, Manhattan Beach, Calif., 2011, SCVC, Southern California, Princeton University)
5 - Driss Guessous (MB, Pasadena, Calif., 2012, Manhattan Beach Surf, Southern California Signed at Ohio State)
6 - Michael Henchy (OH, Ventura, Calif., 2011, Spectrum VBC, Southern California, Ohio State)
8 - Nick Olson (MB, New Berlin, Wis., 2012, West Allis Lightning, Badger, Signed at University of Chicago-Loyola)
9 - Ben Patch (Opp, Provo, Utah, 2012, Utah Elite, Intermountain, Signed at Brigham Young University)
10 - Greg Petty (OH, Downers Grove, Ill., 2011, Sports Performance, Great Lakes, Lewis University
11 - Scott Rhein (OH, Pleasant View, Tenn., 2011, Impact Volleyball Club, Southern, Pepperdine)
14 - James Shaw (S/Opp, Woodside, Calif., 2012, Mountain View Volleyball Club, Northern California, Signed at Stanford)
16 - Matt Tarantino (Opp, Van Nuys, Calif., 2011, Santa Monica Beach Club, Southern California, Pepperdine)
17 - Matt West (S, Seattle, Wash., 2011, Space Needle Volleyball Foundation, Puget Sound Region, Pepperdine)
18 - DJ White (L/OH, Hermosa Beach, Calif., 2011, Manhattan Beach Surf, Southern California, Harvard)
Head Coach: Peter Hanson
Assistant Coach: Jonah Carson
Assistant Coach: Jay Hosack
Statistician: Jake Schick
Team Leader: Collin Powers
2012 NORCECA Men's Junior Continental Championship Schedule
Pool A
Aug. 27: Mexico def. St. Vincent and the Grenadines 25-7, 25-10, 25-15 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 27: United States def. Honduras 25-12, 25-12, 25-16 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 28: Mexico def. Honduras 25-15, 26-24, 25-14 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 28: United States def. St. Vincent and the Grenadines 25-8, 25-8, 25-9 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 29: Honduras def. St. Vincent and the Grenadines 25-17, 25-11, 25-20 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 29: United States def. Mexico 25-18, 25-18, 25-20 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Pool B
Aug. 27: Puerto Rico def. Curacao, 27-25, 25-13, 25-23 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 27: Canada def. Guatemala 25-15, 25-13, 25-21 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 28: Canada def. Curacao 25-13, 25-7, 25-22 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 28: Puerto Rico def. Guatemala 25-20, 25-19, 25-20 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 29: Guatemala def. Curacao 25-14, 23-25, 25-19, 25-18 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 29: Canada def. Puerto Rico 25-13, 25-15, 28-30, 25-12 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 30: Puerto Rico def. Honduras 25-16, 25-16, 25-11 (Match 13) (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 30: Mexico def. Guatemala 25-23, 25-17, 25-23 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Classification 5/8
Aug. 31: Guatemala def. St. Vincent and the Grenadines 25-12, 25-16, 25-16 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 31: Honduras def. Curacao 25-27, 25-19, 27-25, 25-19 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 31: Canada def. Mexico 25-17, 25-18, 24-26, 25-21 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Aug. 31: United States def. Puerto Rico 25-15, 25-16, 25-20 (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Final Classifications
Sept. 1: St. Vincent and the Grenadines vs. Curacao, 11:00 a.m. (7th Place) (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Sept. 1: Guatemala vs. Honduras, 1:00 p.m. (5th Place) (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Sept. 1: Mexico vs. Puerto Rico 3:00 p.m. (Bronze) (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)
Sept. 1: Canada vs. United States, 5:30 p.m. (Gold) (Live Stats - Final Stats - Photos)


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