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Interview date: 08/19/2008
Run date: 09/11/2008
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Lots of bands get their break after gigging in New York…but how many of them actually grew up there? About half, by our estimation, and the way some publicists spin it, any band that moves to New York from the Midwest should hide their original hometown like some dirty little secret. The boys in Locksley, on the other hand, are rightfully proud of their Midwestern upbringing. They may currently call Brooklyn home, but they love their hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, and were actually back in Badger country to attend the wedding of a band member's sister when Bullz-Eye caught up with singer Jesse Laz to talk about the re-release of their Beatle-riffic debut Don't Make Me Wait, "Cloverfield" (one of their songs appeared in the party scene), opening for Hanson, and running into Paul McCartney.
Bullz-Eye: "Hello, Wisconsin!" The first press release I read about you guys was almost apologetic about the fact that you formed in Wisconsin. Would you care to set the record straight and give some love to the home of Garbage and the Violent Femmes?
Jesse Laz: I can say without reservation that we love Wisconsin and are very proud to be [from] there. In fact, we always try and tell people we're from Wisconsin instead of New York, even though it ends up getting said that it's New York a lot just because I think, I don't know, people get confused or whatever. But we were all raised in Wisconsin and my brother, who's the bass payer in the band now, and Kai, the lead guitarist, were both born in Wisconsin. I lived there myself for 12 years, so we have a lot of close ties. Actually, Kai's stepdad is the chancellor of [the University of Wisconsin].
BE: Is that right?
JL: Yep. All our parents still…I'm actually in Wisconsin right now.
BE: Yeah, that's what your manager told me, you were there for a wedding. Is that right?
JL: Yeah, yeah. Kai's sister is getting married.
BE: Cool. Now I first heard your album in November 2006, and here you are, almost two years later, still promoting it. Admit it: you have to be sick to death of talking about these songs by now.
JL: Yeah, I mean I guess so. We've been working on another album, and we're re-releasing [Don't Make Me Wait] so the other album is, I would say about halfway done and we're shooting for maybe like a spring or late spring release; maybe an early summer or something like that. I can't say for sure because it's not actually finished yet. But because it's not done yet and we have all this good coverage with MTV coming up in the fall, so we figured that it was a good opportunity [to re-release the first album]. We had a lineup change, you know, the old bass player left and my brother joined and we had done a couple big tours and things since then, so it seemed like it made sense because we felt like there were a lot of people who still hadn't heard the album. We do really feel like it's a good album, though I definitely wouldn't mind playing some new songs.
BE: My first thought when I heard the record was 'the Beatles meet the Strokes.' I'm sure you get that a lot.
JL: Yeah, and you know, that's actually what we describe ourselves as to somebody who hasn't heard it before because I think it's fairly accurate and it gives them a good idea. I was talking to someone the other day who described it as…they were like, I definitely think early Beatles for sure and then they said that they thought there was quite a bit of Stay Cats and the Cure, which I thought was pretty cool. I can hear it too, you know, in songs like "Don't Make Me Wait" and "Why Can't I Be You."
BE: Now here's my question: do you get the sense that it's no longer considered to be a good thing to be compared to the Beatles, and isn't that the most fucked up thing you've ever heard?
JL: Yeah. No, you know it's weird, I mean I feel like a lot of people…when we first released this album, we got mostly good reviews. The ones we got that were bad it was almost like they took offense to the fact that we sounded like the Beatles, or that we were influenced heavily by the Beatles. And that's what they wrote in their critical reviews, was in kind of a mean way that these guys sound like the Beatles. And we said that would be like somebody telling a basketball player that your style is too much like Michael Jordan or something. It was like well, you know, I get it and I understand why people maybe take it personally or whatever, I mean I do. I'm the most critical of bands that I think sound like us or sound like things that I am a big fan of. So I understand why people would watch it, but I think that we do it in a pretty tasteful way, I mean it's not like were directly ripping off melodies or anything, it's just that we love that music and it seeps in because it's what we listen to.
BE: Have you guys sent a copy of "She Does" to Paul McCartney?
JL: No, no we haven't yet.
BE: I would love to hear his reaction.
JL: I would love to hear his reaction about anything on the album. There is a funny story though; an album that we self-released before this one, that was like demos we did in our apartment. A couple of them are actually getting…we re-recorded them they're getting released as B-sides, or as bonus tracks on this re-release. And Sam, our drummer, was walking around the streets of New York, and he saw Paul McCartney on the street and he happened to have a CD with him. And so he went and walked up to him and gave it to him, and he said he's never been so speechless in his life. And Paul was like, "Is this for me?" He was like, "Yes, yes, yes."
BE: The guitarist for a newer act recently told me that he thought it was more important to get a song in a TV show than to get one on the radio. Since your first major exposure came courtesy of an AT&T commercial, how do you feel about that?
JL: I mean, having not had a ton of radio success, I can't really compare. But it definitely has worked for us. I feel like it's easier, I don't know if easier is the word, but it seems like ad companies and things are willing to take a chance on a lesser-known band or a totally unknown band that nowadays would be unheard of on the radio. We've been lucky and we've had a lot of exposure, AT&T commercials, we had a thing on the Starz movie network, Payless Shoe commercials and trailers for movies and things. And definitely it has given us great exposure and we have people writing all the time telling us about how they heard it or they heard it on here and they had to find out who that song was by. And it's just been great for us. Certainly nowadays too, if you look at like, MIA with that song "Paper Planes," which was just on the trailer of "Pineapple Express." Because of that, she had a Number One song on iTunes. So yeah, I think it's huge. It's definitely a new, kind of a new format for artists to get exposure.
BE: You also received significant exposure during the party scene in "Cloverfield." What did you think of that movie?
JL: That was just exciting for us because we're big movie nerds too, like we just love going to the movies all the time. So to actually be able to go to a big-screen movie and hear our song in the background of it was pretty cool. It was pretty good press. We didn't end up making it onto the soundtrack, and I'm not exactly sure why. I don't know if there was some confusion in the negotiations for the thing or what not but that would have been, I think, even that much better for us if we had. But it was still really exciting anyway.
BE: In the liner notes, you give shout-outs to the Hives, Rooney, the Rapture…and Hanson. Did you guys really open for Hanson?
JL: Yeah.
BE: What was that like?
JL: They have the most rabid fans that I have ever heard of. We used to promote in New York outside of concerts of anybody who we thought their fans might be into us. And we promoted at a couple of Hanson concerts and normally there would at least be someone else there giving out fliers, things like that; any other show that was a "hipper" show. But the Hanson show, after the show we were the only people there, and when people were coming out by the end of the night, we had dozens of people asking us for autographs and wanting to take pictures with us. And all we were doing was giving out our CD outside of their show; this was way before we ever played with them. So after that we were like, "Oh man, we need to get on this tour." And so we did and it was just…I mean they're not playing huge places anymore, but they were a major, major band. They were a Number One worldwide band. I don't know if their album was diamond or not but it was certainly…they had a couple of multi-platinum albums and it was definitely a different kind of a thing, you know. We actually became pretty good friends with those guys and Kai and I went…they do a writing workshop once a year with artist friends of theirs, and so we went. That was really cool.
BE: I also read that you opened up for She Wants Revenge. There's just no diplomatic way of asking this: how the hell did you wind up opening for She Wants Revenge?
JL: She Wants Revenge was on the OK Go tour. They were on tour opening for OK Go and we ended up opening, like getting like an opening slot above them on the bill for a couple shows.
BE: Oh, got it.
JL: So that was just by default. But I thought it was a bit of a weird mix as well. Because I think Locksley and OK Go are pretty similar sounding. But yeah, it was interesting.
BE: One of these things is definitely not like the others.
JL: Yeah, right.
BE: Okay, now it's time to play "Wikipedia: True Story, or Complete and Total Bullshit." Are you ready?
JL: All right.
BE: All right. Fact #1: On your way to New York from Madison, your trailer came off on the New Jersey Turnpike.
JL: That is true.
BE: Okay. Fact #2: You were evicted from your first apartment for making too much noise.
JL: That is true.
BE: All right. Fact #3, and this is awful: Your gear was stolen out of your second apartment two days after you moved in.
JL: That is also true.
BE: Yikes. What did you guys do?
JL: Well, we had just gotten evicted from our first place so we moved into our next place, and it was in a pretty shady neighborhood. We had only been out in New York for a few months, really. We were living in East Williamsburg, right by Bushwick, and now it's become a little bit hipper but that was four years ago, almost five years ago, so it was not that nice. The only thing we figure is that people must have just seen us moving in and they just knew that that stuff was there. It was pretty rough and then the insurance company didn't want to pay out on any of the gear because they said that we were a business and the insurance only covered personal effects, or whatever. So it took six months or nine months of writing letters and saying that we all had full time jobs and we didn't make any money doing the band at that point. Finally after writing a letter to the New York state insurance board or whatever, then finally they got in touch with us and basically said all right, whatever you need.
BE: Wow. Did you ever go out to gigs afterwards and then look up at a band playing and think, "Hey man, that's my guitar"?
JL: Yes, actually. At the time I was playing this white, turquoise Casino which you just didn't see that much. So whenever I would see somebody with one, I would wonder, you know. Because we figure somebody must have pawned the stuff off. It was actually really sad though, because of everything that got stolen was all replaceable except this one guitar. Kai's best friend had died actually shortly before we moved out to New York, like a few months, and his parents had given Kai his friend's guitar. Which was not a necessarily nice guitar, it was like a black Les Paul knockoff Cortez, but you know it was his most treasured possession. The whole idea was he was going off to New York and he was supposed to…so when that got taken, he was just like, "Oh." If he just could have gotten that back. So if anyone is reading this, and they see a black, Les Paul Cortez somewhere randomly in a New York pawn shop, let us know and we'll buy it back from you.
BE: Brutal. All right, well I'll keep you on time but I did want to mention I talked to your manager earlier today to ask him which one of you guys did the "John" bits, and which one did the "Paul" bits on the record, and he said you do both of them.
JL: It's weird; I've actually had a lot of vocal problems recently. I just got some surgery on my vocal cords because I had something called a focus, it's like a pocket. But on any given day my voice could be much scratchier and sound a lot more like John, or it would be much more pure tone and I would kind of sound like Paul. And you know, I think maybe that's one of the things we get criticized for too, but it's just like growing up, that's what I listened to. It's weird though, because people send in pictures of me that are sort of like George Harrison or Paul McCartney a little bit and it's just like, what are the odds, you know? Then I'll run in to some other guy who's in a band who looks like Lou Reed and he's in a Velvet Underground kind of band or he kind of looks like Elton John and he plays piano, you know what I mean? It's weird that people seem drawn to that stuff.
BE: Well when did you first realize that you could do that?
JL: That I could sing like that?
BE: Yeah.
JL: I don't know. Like I said, I think just growing up, you know. I don't remember a time where I didn't know all the Beatles' songs, you know. My mom, I feel like she put her headphones on her belly when I was in the womb. So when I started singing, I'm sure I was singing along to those songs and probably just developed into it. It really has never been a conscious thing where I try to sound like them; I guess I just sort of do.
BE: Well, I'll keep you on schedule. Have fun resting that voice up; I look forward to hearing the new material, and have fun at the wedding.JL: Oh, thanks a lot.
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Until Sunday, Tom Brady wasn't just having a bad year. He was having by far the worst year of his NFL career.
Heading into Sunday's games, the list of quarterbacks who had a higher passer rating than Brady this season included Chad Henne, Matt Schaub, Mike Glennon and Thad Lewis. Brady's passer rating was a career-low 74.9. Brady's completion rate was a career-low 55.7 percent. Brady's average yards per pass was a career-low 5.9. Brady was throwing touchdowns a career-low rate, with only nine in his 307 attempts through eight games. There was talk that Brady's hand was hurting, that he was getting old, that he couldn't adjust to all the turnover in his receiving corps. In short, Brady stunk.
And now Brady is back.
In Sunday's 55-31 win over the Steelers, Brady completed 23 of 33 passes for 432 yards, with four touchdowns and no interceptions. Brady led the Patriots to 33 first downs and 610 yards, and the 55 points were the most ever allowed by the Steelers, in the 81-year history of the franchise. It was as good a game as Brady has ever played, and it should pretty well silence any talk that there was anything wrong with Brady over the first half of the season that won't be fixed over the second half of the season.
"It feels good," Brady said after the game. "They don't always go like that. That was a fun day. It was good execution. I think for the most part, that was our best day of execution. You don't wake up in the morning and think they're going to be like that. That was pretty sweet."
That was pretty great. Brady was the player who impressed me most on Sunday. Here are my other thoughts:
If workplace harassment is common in the NFL, the NFL has a problem. The odd story of Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin, who left the team as a result of apparent harassment from his teammates, has some people to say hazing goes on in every locker room, and it's just a part of the culture of being a professional football player. To which I say, so what? If Martin didn't like the way he was being treated, it was incumbent on others to stop treating him that way. And it was incumbent on the Dolphins to see to it that their employee wasn't mistreated. The Dolphins showed they're taking this seriously by suspending Richie Incognito for his treatment of Martin. Now it's incumbent on the NFL to ensure that every player and every team knows that players mistreating their teammates will not be tolerated.
The NFL's modified sudden-death overtime is great. It used to feel like such an anticlimax when an overtime game would be decided by the team that won the coin toss driving down to the 30-yard line and winning on a 48-yard field goal. The new sudden-death, which requires the team that wins the toss to score a touchdown to win on its first possession, is so much better. On Sunday Washington ran a great game-winning drive in overtime that included five plays after they were already in field goal range. A long, sustained drive is a lot more fun to watch than a short drive and a long field goal.
Yes, the Jets are improving. I was skeptical last week, when Jets owner Woody Johnson said his team was improving rapidly — days after the Jets had lost 49-9 to the Bengals. But I'll have to eat some crow after the Jets beat the Saints on Sunday. Rex Ryan knows how to build a defense, and Jets offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg is doing a nice job of calling plays that take advantage of rookie quarterback Geno Smith's strengths and mask some of his weaknesses as a passer. The Jets aren't a great team, but they're getting better.
Good call. My favorite play call of the day came in Carolina, where the Panthers went for it on fourth-and-1, lined up as if they were going to run power to the left, then had Cam Newton roll to the right and hit a wide-open Greg Olsen for a 14-yard touchdown. A great decision by head coach Ron Rivera to go for it, and a well-designed play by offensive coordinator Mike Shula.
Bad call. With the Bills leading the Chiefs 10-3 in the third quarter and facing third-and-1 at the 1-yard line, the obviously right thing to do was to play it safe, hand it off to Fred Jackson or C.J. Spiller, and kick the field goal if you don't score. Instead, the Bills let undrafted rookie quarterback Jeff Tuel, making his first NFL start, throw a pass. The result: Tuel throws it right into the hands of Chiefs defensive back Sean Smith, who picks off the pass and runs it back 100 yards. Instead of the Bills leading 17-3 or 13-3, they found themselves tied 10-10. It was a terrible decision by Tuel but an even worse decision by the Bills' coaches to put the game in their third-string quarterback's hands in that situation.
Ugly call. What on earth was that end-around the Saints ran on fourth-and-1 in the fourth quarter against the Jets? New Orleans coach Sean Payton has always been a creative offensive play caller, but sometimes he outsmarts himself. That was a prime example.
Why was Brandon Weeden ever the Browns' starting quarterback? The Browns have now started three quarterbacks this season: Weeden had the job at the beginning of the year, then relinquished it when he hurt his thumb, then got it back after his replacement Brian Hoyer suffered a season-ending knee injury, then lost it to Jason Campbell. We've now seen enough of all three quarterbacks to make it clear: Weeden is by far the worst of the bunch. Hoyer played very well early in the season, and now Campbell has played two straight strong games, including leading the Browns to a victory over the Ravens on Sunday. It's hard to imagine what the Browns were thinking putting Weeden ahead of both Hoyer and Campbell on the depth chart, when he's clearly not as good as either of them. The Browns have a good defense, and they play in the weak AFC North. They don't need a great quarterback to win their division, just a competent quarterback. With Campbell, they have a chance to catch the Bengals in the AFC North. Unfortunately, the Browns may not be able to overcome the four games they lost with Weeden as their quarterback.
Chip Kelly is an offensive genius again. Nick Foles tied the NFL record with seven touchdown passes in Sunday's win over the Raiders, and Kelly's Philadelphia offense looked outstanding. It's hard to understand how an offense that looked so awful in losses to the Cowboys and Giants could look so good in Oakland, but when Kelly's offense is rolling, it's a nightmare for opposing defenses.
Gronk is great, when he's healthy. Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski is such a unique offensive weapon — you just don't find guys that big and strong who also have soft hands and run great routes. Gronkowski had nine catches for 143 yards against the Steelers on Sunday and was a big part of Brady's big day — and a constant matchup nightmare for Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, Gronkowski's arm and back injuries have caused him to miss 11 of the Patriots' last 14 games. As long as the Patriots have a healthy Gronk, they can expect to have Brady at his best.

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text: Yes indeed it's fascinating, and I could write all day about what I **did** do (in 92 ish?) but which was already obseleted by porting to a platform with a better ("vetted by randomness geeks") library. But I think the idea ("hmmm") was that the bit of paper fluttering down from the keypunch to the (sufficiently wide-mouthed) wastebasket might be a better source of shuffling than anything programmatic. Like, a poor-man's geiger-counter. (At the Savannah River plant, I think my dad could have wired up an actual geiger counter...). So the macroscopic but small scale aerodynamics would be the randomness generator, and I woulnd't have minded at all the problem of mapping the distribution (of letter frequency in my FORTRAN programs, say) to Uniform, programmatically, that's easily in my scope. But effectively reading from the wastebasket seemed like a stopper. Today I could do it with a vacuum hose and OCR, but at the time it seemed like too much trouble :-) Peter On 10/17/07, Robert G. Brown <rgb at phy.duke.edu> wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Peter St. John wrote: > > > If someone had thought of a way to queue up and read tiny bits of paper > > science would have advanced a decade :-) > > <essay length="short"> > > Ahh, but but but... > > Let us grant that a bucket full of such dots can be shaken to where the > order that they are drawn is unpredictable (note well that I don't say > "random" as I'm not convinced that the word means anything beyond an > abstraction in this Universe). Not unlike the little bingo or lottery > ball machines, they get all mixed up and after enough shuffling or > shaking one can attain a high degree of mixing that makes them > unpredictable and may make them "random" within testable resolution on > the source. > > However, is there any guarantee that 0-9 are uniformly distributed in > the original shuffled sample? There is not. If you punched out letters > drawn from (say) a dictionary, would they be uniformly distributed? In > no way. Would the results of using shuffled strings of either one be > likely to produce acceptable digits in a uniform random distribution? > No. > > And in any event, the "randomness" comes from the shuffling, not the > source per se. So even if one deliberated punched all the numbers out > of many cards and ensured uniform populations of each digit in the > shuffled population (and drew from that population with replacement and > additional shuffling, so that one doesn't immediately introduce bias > after the first digit is drawn) it is the shuffling that matters. If it > is good, then you don't need "a population" -- you just need one each of > the ten digits and a good shuffler, as you draw, replace, shuffle, draw. > > So one is then back to -- how to make a good shuffler? Physically it > isn't too easy, actually -- there having many balls gives one the > ability to average over the subtle differences between balls that might > produce slight deviations from uniformity in the shuffle/draw. > Numerically you're right back where you started, because a good shuffle > requires a good random number generator (or at least a good source of > unpredictability/entropy). > > This is a non-trivial problem, actually. There are numerous physical > sources of "randomness" or "entropy" out there in the world, but many of > them produce not random bits with an equal probability of 0 and 1 but > "random" bits with some unequal probability of 0 and 1. Some of them > have autocorrelation times associated with the drawing process. Some of > them have long term occult periodicities in the signals. Even with > physical RNGs, about all one can really say is ex post facto either the > strings of random bits they produce pass various statistical tests for > randomness, or they don't. > > Throw in Shannon's theorem and some of its consequences -- entropy > theorems applied to code -- and "random" number generation (oxymoron > that it is) is one of the most interesting subjects on the planet, as is > testing and their various applications. > </essay> > > rgb > > -- > Robert G. Brown > Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 > Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb > Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20071017/5fdd4a4d/attachment.html>


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So, is there a way to avoid doing (floor x y) w/o consing extra memory? Even if there's an SBCL-specific way, that's good too.
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(defun next-power-two-log (x)
(declare (optimize (debug 0) (safety 0) (space 0) (speed 3)))
(declare (type fixnum x))
(ash 1 (1+ (the signed-byte (floor (the single-float (log x 2)))))))
Here's an example of what I was trying to do, but it doesn't work because the type hint of signed-byte is ignored. But this is only to illustrate that even with speed 3, the second (and obviously redundant) value from floor is created and discarded.


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A season marred by injuries took another ugly turn Monday night when Angels second baseman Howie Kendrick suffered a hyperextended left knee and had to be helped off the field in the fifth inning of a 5-2 loss to the Texas Rangers.
Kendrick, who is batting .301, was listed as day to day but could be headed for the disabled list, where he would join first baseman Albert Pujols (partial tear left heel), center fielder Peter Bourjos (broken right wrist), pitcher Jason Vargas (blood clot, left armpit) and reliever Sean Burnett (flexor tendon tear).
With a three-man bench and 13 pitchers, the Angels will probably call up Grant Green on Tuesday from triple A. Green was acquired from Oakland last week.
BOX SCORE: Rangers 5, Angels 2
"He'll certainly be down for a number of days, and hopefully that will be a best-case scenario," Manager Mike Scioscia said of Kendrick. "He's an important guy to us, and to lose him would be big."
With runners on second and third, two out and the score tied, 1-1, Elvis Andrus flared a ball to shallow right that Kendrick went back on. Outfielder Collin Cowgill rushed in, attempted a sliding catch and clipped Kendrick, who twisted his knee as he planted his foot in the turf.
"I didn't even see him, and the next thing I know we're running into each other," said Kendrick, who was on crutches after the game and will undergo an MRI exam Tuesday. "I guess the good thing is he slid, because if we were both standing up trying to make that play, it might have been a lot worse."
The ball fell for a two-run triple and a 3-1 Texas lead. The Rangers pushed it to 5-1 in the sixth when Adrian Beltre homered against starter Jerome Williams and Jurickson Profar hit an run-scoring single against reliever Michael Kohn.
The Angels scored in the seventh inning and had the bases loaded with two out when Kole Calhoun, pinch-hitting for replacement second baseman Tommy Field, lined out to right field, a move that required Mark Trumbo to switch from first to third base, a position he hadn't played since May 3, 2012.
The Angels loaded the bases again with two out in the eighth, but J.B. Shuck flied to the wall in right to end the inning.
Before the game, the Angels released veteran reliever Ryan Madson, who had so many setbacks in his recovery from Tommy John surgery that he was unable to pitch this season.
The Angels signed Madson to a one-year, $3.5-million contract with incentives that could have pushed the deal to $7 million, but the closest the right-hander got to returning was a one-inning stint for Class-A Inland Empire on May 13.
Madson, 32, last pitched for Philadelphia in 2011, going 4-2 with a 2.37 earned run average and 32 saves. He signed a one-year, $8.5-million deal with Cincinnati in 2012 but underwent elbow surgery that April.
"This was an upside gamble that I deemed worth the risk, and unfortunately it did not transpire for either Ryan or the club," General Manager Jerry Dipoto said. "We signed Ryan with the belief he would return to the mound and positively impact our team.
"It became increasingly more apparent to us that he was not going to pitch for the Angels this season. Our medical team has spent much time, effort and resources in the effort to facilitate a healthy return. It's been a long and difficult process for all involved."
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Holland College purchases state-of-the-art equipment in preparation for anticipated student increase in metal trades enrolment
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Under the Government of Canadas Atlantic Shipbuilding Action Plan, the Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of National Revenue and Regional Minister for Prince Edward Island, on behalf of the Honourable Bernard Valcourt, Minister of State for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) and La Francophonie, today announced an investment for Holland College to purchase state-of-the-art equipment for metal trades programming.
With the Governments announcement to rebuild the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Coast Guard fleets, Holland College was one of the community colleges in Atlantic Canada that anticipated a future increase in demand for skilled workers, many in specialized metal trades, said Minister Shea. In order to meet an increased demand for welders, the intake of students for these specialized programs at colleges must increase. That is why we are proud to provide funding for this additional state-of-the-art equipment that will be necessary to handle the future demand, one of the positive spin-offs that are expected with this major shipbuilding initiative.
The Government of Canadas Atlantic Shipbuilding Action Plan was created to ensure businesses across Atlantic Canada are in the best position to seize all opportunities related to the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy. For more information, visit: www.acoa-apeca.gc.ca/eng/Pages/Atlantic-Shipbuilding-Action-Plan.aspx.
I dont know if it would be possible to exaggerate the opportunity this represents for people who find work on these ships. This project could represent an entire career of employment, said Alberton-Roseville MLA Patrick Murphy, appearing on behalf of Innovation and Advanced Learning Minister Allen Roach. Our Island businesses are attending meetings this week to help them seize that opportunity and now we are helping our Island workers to do the same.
Holland College is pleased to be the recipient of this Government of Canada investment. The National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy and this regions significant role in it, has certainly created an increased awareness in many of our trades programs, particularly welding, which is at the top of the list. The equipment purchased will significantly enhance our ability to deliver state-of-the-art training to students at our Georgetown and West Prince campuses, said Dr. Brian McMillan, President, Holland College.
The Government of Canada, through ACOAs Business Development Program, is investing $269,044 towards the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment that will be used in Holland Colleges expanded offering of the Welding programs in Georgetown and West Prince.


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A month has never gone so quickly. It seems like just yesterday I was groggily awakened by the droning flight attendant's voice, "Please stow all tray tables and return your seats to the upright position," as the plane descended into Rome.
Orvieto, Rome, Venice, Florence, Assisi, Siena, Piensa, Cinque Terre, Pompeii – and yet, I feel like I still have so much more to see in Italy. A whole month, and it was just the tip of the iceberg.
I've only been home for a week and my eyes already yearn for those uneven, cobblestone streets that were filled to the brim with a hodgepodge of stone and brick-work shops and houses. My mouth craves black truffle sauce, thinly sliced prosciutto and cheese plates with honey. Don't get me wrong, I am a Texas girl born and raised, but there's something about Italy that I will never shake. The smells, the sounds, the taste – will forever linger in my mind!
After arriving in the medieval town that would serve as our home base, Orvieto, we left almost immediately for Pompeii. As an art history major who has taken Dr. Greg Warden's class on ancient Pompeii (I highly recommend it), being inside of the ruins was absolutely a dream come true. With Mount Vesuvius ominously standing in the background and dark rain clouds hovering close enough to obscure our view, the whole experience was truly surreal.
Was I really standing in the center of the ancient forum? I couldn't help but fall behind the group so I could take in the ancient stone and transport myself to the time when the streets were filled with commerce and the houses were bustling with domestic life.
The plaster casts of those who had been victims of the eruption in 79 A.D. were nothing short of eerie. There's something morbid about our fascination with these frozen images of death. Fear and pain is written across every part of their bodies. Each cast was different from the next, yet the undeniable feeling of terror reigned over all. How strange it was to be touring the place these people once called home. Being inside of the houses of Pompeii made the city come alive. It was no longer simply an archaeological site, but a place where people had once lived and flourished.
After navigating through the rows and rows of remnants of dwellings and shops (and even a brothel), we finally came to the outskirts of the city and went through the Villa of the Mysteries. It was everything I had imagined and so much more. The condition of the wall paintings was just breathtaking. It is hard to believe something so old still contains a beauty that can captivate even the most doubtful eye. The paintings that show what is believed to be the initiation of a member into the Dionysus cult are infinitely more impressive in person.
I jockeyed around the flood of Japanese tourists to take picture after picture of the different parts of the mysterious program. The body language and expressions of the figures push the imagination to-and-fro. I loved the woman who looked across the room to the opposite corner to see the initiate about to be whipped by a female winged figure. The movement of her shawl and the graceful position of her body is nothing short of elegant. Viewing the Dionysus cult room was by far the highlight of the trip to Pompeii.
The Colosseum, the Forum, the Pantheon – they were each inspiring in their own way. The picture I took of the coffered ceiling in the Pantheon took some interesting maneuvering (ok, I lay down in the middle of the church), but it was worth every second of the yelling I endured from the enraged Italian man. I don't know Italian so his curses were lost on me. That picture, however, I will have forever!
We took three trips to Rome, but the adoringly named "marathon day" came to a grand finale with an after-hours, private tour of the Vatican. Aside from a handful of guards, our group of forty-something was left to roam the halls of the Vatican museum completely undisturbed. The halls were free from the usual swarming of bodies.
I must admit that I wanted to get left behind – locked in that place for the night! Could I sneak off and hide behind the Laocoon? I don't think the behavior code said anything about "accidentally" getting left in the most amazing museum in the world. Try as I might, our valiant chaperons herded me toward the group. This little sheep wasn't going to stray far without at least one watchful eye noticing. I was in awe of the tapestries, the Belvedere Torso, the Gallery of Maps, the Raphael Rooms and of course, the Sistine Chapel. Who can say that they were able to sit in front of Michelangelo's Last Judgment for what felt like 10 minutes but was in actuality closer to an hour, in the spacious luxury of a mere 40 people? The tour of the Vatican was by far one of the most rewarding travel experiences I have had.
Going to Mass in St. Peter's (we got to sit in front of the Baldacchino!) and in the Florence Cathedral was a fascinating religious experience. The services were in Italian (with some intermittent Latin), but the rhythm of the Mass was unchanged. Though I got lost at times, I could follow the Mass and recite what I could remember simultaneously in English. When I lost my place, I simply prayed and the unceasing Italian put me in a sort of meditative state until I would be brought out of it by the familiar pace of something like the Lord's Prayer.
There's something about Venice that will always root itself deep in my heart. There's simply no other place on earth like it! The gondoliers called out to each other as they glided their lacquered gondolas through the channels. The absolute extravagance of gold leaf mosaics and Murano glass glitters from every corner of the city. It was sensory overload everywhere I turned. From venetian decoration to an over-abundance of boutiques and market shops, there wasn't a dull square foot in the city!
As much as I resented the cat calling, "Ohhh Americana, Americana!" I'm going to miss every minute of Italy until I find my way back. Gelato from Central Market just isn't the same without the attitude-filled woman who cattily corrected your pronunciation of stracciatella.
And surprisingly enough, the sounds of Vespas flying past had almost become soothing. While it's great having a car again and not fearing for my life every time I cross the street, I miss having the ability to walk everywhere. I had become so accustomed to soaking up the scenery when I went to the store, or walked to dinner. Now things are just a blur as I drive by. Highland Park is beautiful in all its manicured glory, but there's something far more beautiful about the imperfect, irregularity of the streets of Italy.
When I close my eyes to drift off to sleep I can still see the beautiful Umbrian landscape, pitching and heaving with fields of hay and orchards of green.


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I only say near-perfect because i don't want to jinx my next session. Had some friends over on thursday to help me brew because they were interested in the process and may want to start homebrewing themselves. Everything went smoothly and they had a blast. I let them add the grains, stir the mash, vorlauf, etc etc while I instructed them during the whole process, they even helped me clean up!We spent the whole day brewing, eating bbq, drinking beers and laughing while the kids played in the yard. Such a great day!btw, the SNPA Clone we brewed is bubbling away and smells great!I highly recommend having people over to help you brew, it made my brew day just that much better.Tony
My friends are definitely not interested in brewing. They will, however suck down all my beer when they are over. I prefer not to have the distraction. Kudos on the BBQ-Brewing event. Sounds like a good way to keep the wives and kids happy while the brewer(s) gets to working.
I'm with you guys about brewing alone. It's a solitary endeavory for me. I never had anyone show me how to do it, so I wasn't taught in a group setting. I have friends who like to have parties while they brew. Not me, I like no one to be around.But it does sound like quite a fun time y'all had, brewing or not. BBQ, friends, and beer is always a good time.
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Dayton Bid for Minnesota Tax Overhaul is No Easy Sell
ST. PAUL (AP) - Minnesota's tax code brims with contradictions, carve-outs and just plain confusion.
At least that's how governor after governor has viewed it as he's tried to convince the Legislature and the public that the system is ripe for a remake. Gov. Mark Dayton makes his pitch for a top-to-bottom overhaul Tuesday. If the past is any guide, Dayton will find a political minefield awaits him.
He's trying to address a $1.1 billion projected deficit. And he wants to bring about what he considers to be equity and stability in the system.
He intends to seek a new income tax tier affecting the richest Minnesotans. Administration officials also have been carefully studying ways to reshape the state's sales tax, corporate tax, property tax and tobacco tax.
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Kendall Schmidt of Big Time Rush and Heffron Drive is easy on the eyes. He is also a PopCrush fave. The boy bander populates his Instagram feed with plenty of cute, fun and candid images, which we've collected here for Rushers who have a soft spot for Schmidt and consider him their favorite member of the band.
It really gives you an indication of what his days are like! It's like stepping inside a day in the life of Kendall Schmidt, or, kendizzzzle, which is his Instagram handle.
He likes outdoorsy activities (fishing and more) and loves animals, as there are tons of pics of Schmidt and furry creatures.


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Batelco bids to recoup $185m from India partner
Dubai, November 26, 2013
Batelco will go to a British court in May in a bid to recoup $185 million from a failed Indian venture, as the Bahraini firm tries to avoid following Gulf peer Etisalat in suffering big losses on the subcontinent.
The ongoing troubles of Batelco and the United Arab Emirates' Etisalat show the difficulties some foreign telecom operators have found working in a competitive Indian market.
Britain's Commercial Court will hear Batelco's case against former Indian partner Siva and its chairman Chinnakannan Sivasankaran on May 7, a court official told Reuters.
The Bahraini firm is claiming the $174.5 million it paid Chennai-based Siva for a 43 percent stake in Indian operator S Tel in 2009, plus $10.3 million and a further $30,000 a day.
Batelco and Etisalat, which in 2008 bought 45 percent of Swan Telecom, later renamed Etisalat DB, had hoped the Gulf's large Indian expatriate communities would help them prosper in India, but both were late entrants and struggled to gain a foothold.
Between them, the two units accounted for only 5.2 million of India's 894 million subscribers at the end of 2011 and in February 2012 the two affiliates were ordered to be stripped of their licences as part of a corruption probe that pre-dated the Gulf operators' investments.
Batelco swiftly announced it was selling its stake in S Tel back to Siva, but when Siva failed to pay by an October 2012 deadline, the Bahraini firm launched legal proceedings.
Batelco claims it had an option potentially allowing it to sell its S Tel stake back to Siva, court documents show. The Bahraini firm argues Siva's failure to arrange $281 million of debt for S Tel entitled Batelco to trigger the sell option, which Siva disputes.
Batelco and Siva then provisionally agreed for Siva to buy back the S Tel shares at the original sale price and for Batelco to acquire 79 million equity shares in Tata Teleservices Ltd - India's No.6 mobile operator by subscribers - held by the Chennai group for the same amount.
But Batelco and Siva disagree over the whether these deals were to be completed simultaneously, with the Bahraini company insisting they were two separate transactions and should not be considered a share exchange. Neither sale was completed.
Batelco did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Siva declined to comment because the matter is sub judice.
Etisalat, which took an impairment of 3 billion dirhams ($828 million) on Etisalat DB in the fourth quarter of 2011, is still trying to extricate itself from India and was in court in Mumbai this month to wind up its affiliate, according to local press reports.
Etisalat also took an impairment of 2.37 billion dirhams against its Pakistani unit in 2012. – Reuters


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UAE. Dubai city not only as a milieu but also as a principal example of the specific challenges that cities around the world are facing. Future Cities Show will have Sustainability, Innovation and Happiness as its main core hence focusing on several transformational concepts as catalysts for smart urban development.
Future Cities Show conference and exhibition is held at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
Osman Sultan, Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Integrated Telecommunication Company du, commented "As we continue to experience rapid change across our global communities through digital disruption, it is our role as an ICT leader to leverage and harness this great opportunity for progress. This tsunami of data can be shaped by our trusted expertise so we can learn and grow together. Our flourishing partnership with Smart Dubai is producing data-driven insights that are reducing complexity throughout our great city, one of the elements driving towards the 10X Dubai initiative. Here at EITC we focus on getting the balance right between the technology and the human, social, ethical and economic variables too, nowhere is this seen more clearly than in our Smart City deployment here in Dubai."
Future Cities Show is comprised of an exhibition, where companies and institutions will reveal their projects, technologies and urban solutions to visitors and experts alike, as well as a smart city conference focusing on the aspects to develop modern urban environments that adapt to the citizens.
The show emphases on three key themes – Environmental, Economic and Social matters – and features over (50) highly specialized speakers in IoT & big data, Blockchain technology, carbon capturing, green tech, smart technology and futuristic mobility and safety solutions, as well as smart building development and happy societies.
The presentation area agenda hosts (25) different city presentations, workshops & session. The (12) keynotes given by global smart city decision makers and thought leaders in sustainability, innovation and happiness evangelists.
The CEO of du elaborated on this saying "the convergence of life, mobility, economy, governance, environment and the smart city of tomorrow is only possible through a visionary approach towards technology providing seamless connectivity is the first step to ensure the rabbit rapid realization of the Dubai Smart vision."
Cities of the future on display
Imagine the future of transportation, and re-imagine everything you know about data analysis, energy and waste management. Future Cities Show brings together international frontrunners in all sectors of smart cities, to present, showcase and discuss what the future will look and feel like. And how the cities we have today have to adapt on all levels to take the increase in inhabitants.
Mobility in compact cities
Future Cities Show has a special focus on mobility, which is maybe the single most discussed issue around the world in urban planning and city management. The Middle East and Asia are good examples of fast scaling metropolitan populations that need special attention to the mobility issue to move around the inhabitants every day.
Energy solutions to power the green revolution
Another main focus of decision-makers around the world is the need for greener and renewable energy solutions, to protect the planet from the increased energy usage from carbon producing methods. Displayed at Future Cities Show will be waste-to-energy solutions, self-sustainable smart devices, solar, wind and water power solutions, energy efficient construction materials and monitoring systems that lower energy usage.
Digital transformation and communication
The future of tomorrow is digital and rests highly on technology providing new ways to interact, connect and communicate across all platforms.
Blockchain technology will increase the level of security in digital transactions and as such more sensitive transactions can be handled digitally.
The Future Cities Show exhibition features over 60 international companies and institutions from China, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Belarus, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, UAE each bringing their highly specialized solutions and services that tackle today's need for Sustainability, Innovation and Happiness.
About Future Cities Show
The second edition of the Future Cities Show takes place from 9 - 11th of April 2018 in Dubai, UAE. The show highlights the latest and the most innovative technologies and solutions in a smart city context.
The first edition of the Future Cities Show attracted 30 exhibitors and a large chunk of the 19,000 visitors visiting a number of exhibitions taking place concurrently at the Dubai World Trade Centre from over 141 countries.
The Future Cities Show is the ideal platform for local and international institutions from various industries to showcase their latest smart city technologies and services which redefine the way we live. The show focuses on three pillars; sustainability, innovation, and happiness. S
ustainability accounts for 'what can be done now to ensure that the future generations can see the present that we live in'. This can be done via innovation as it is the key to bringing sustainable change in the working of the world. The combination of factors will lead to greater happiness in the society.
Future Cities Show 2018 brings together environmentalists, sustainability leaders, innovators, solution providers, healthcare practitioners, security vendors, energy consultants, manufacturers, builders, urban developers, architectures, investors, mayors, mobility players and students under one roof to interact, discuss and showcase solutions for a smart sustainable future.
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Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Trailer: The Freedom Cry Rings Out
Freedom Cry, the single-player downloadable content story for Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, is now available for download. To celebrate its release, here's a new trailer that gives you a taste of what's in store.
The DLC drops today and will feature over four hours of extra gameplay starring Edward Kenway's first mate, Adewale. This adventure will take place 15 years after the events of the game proper, so keep in mind that the trailer may hold some spoilers.
As Adewale, you'll help free the slaves of Port-au-Prince after getting shipwrecked in Saint-Domingue. If you've purchased the Season Pass, then all you have to do to access this DLC is download it. If not, then you can still purchase it separately and get started on liberating the people of Port-au-Prince. Watch the trailer above to see a bit of the emotionally-charged narrative and the swashbuckling action.


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Nola Tosses Two-Hit Shutout in Super Regional Opener
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BATON ROUGE -- While LSU starter Aaron Nola was in the midst of a two-hit complete-game shutout, JaCoby Jones hit an eighth-inning triple and broke a scoreless tie on a double by Tyler Moore, as the Tigers won game 1 of the NCAA Super Regional, 2-0, over Oklahoma.
LSU (56-9) advanced within one game of its 16th College World Series appearance and first since 2009. Game 2 of the best-of-three series is set for Saturday at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN2, WatchESPN.com and the LSU Sports Radio Network.
Ryan Eades (8-1, 2.81 ERA) will get the start for LSU, while lefty Dillon Overton (9-2, 2.91 ERA) is set to take the mound for Oklahoma. The pair were taken 20 picks apart in the second round of the Major League Baseball Draft on Thursday night, with Eades taken 43rd by the Minnesota Twins and Overton 63rd by the Oakland Athletics.
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Nola (12-0) was magnificent on the mound, tossing his fifth complete game of the season with no walks and six strikeouts. He hit a batter in the second inning, but picked him off first base.
Nola was only touched for a leadoff double in the left-field gap by Sooners cleanup hitter Matt Oberste in the fifth inning and a two-out single by designated hitter Colt Bickerstaff in the eighth. Oberste was bunted to third but went no further, as Nola got a strikeout and chopper on the infield to end the threat.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma starter Jonathan Gray (10-3), who was the third overall selection in the Major League Baseball Draft on Thursday night, kept up to his end of the pitchers' duel. Gray allowed three hits over the first 7 1/3 innings before his pitch count - and fastball - started to rise.
With one out in the bottom of the eighth, Jones broke through against the hard-throwing righty with his first triple of the season into the right-centerfield gap. In the next at-bat, Moore, pinch hitting for Andrew Stevenson, connected for a double over Oklahoma right fielder Taylor Alspaugh's outstretched glove, putting the Tigers in front 1-0 and sending Gray to the showers after 118 pitches.
With Oklahoma reliever Ralph Garza on the hill, pinch runner Jared Foster came home on a seeing-eye single to right off the bat of rightfielder Mark Laird, who finished 3-for-4 on the night.
With a 2-0 advantage in the ninth, Nola shut the door retiring the Sooners in order and marking his fifth complete game performance on the season. Nola threw 102 pitches including 77 for strikes. In the process, the SEC Pitcher of the Year lowered his ERA to 1.68.
Oklahoma (43-20) saw its eight-game winning streak come to an end in front of a record crowd of 11,095 on a pleasant evening at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field.
- The attendance for the opening game of the Super Regional was 12,007 (paid) and 11,095 (actual). The actual is an Alex Box Stadium Skip Bertman Field record, topping the 10,752 set last Saturday, June 1, against Sam Houston State in the regional round.
- With the win, LSU now has a record of 6-4 in first games of the Super Regional. The record at either Alex Box Stadium is 5-2, 3-0 in the new ABS-SBF.
- LSU is now 56-9, winners of seven straight games, dating back to the SEC Tournament, while Oklahoma drops to 43-20 and this loss stopped an eight-game winning streak for the Sooners.
- LSU is 131-49 in NCAA Tournament play. The win was Paul Mainieri's 25th NCAA post-season win at LSU.
- JaCoby Jones' triple that would eventually score the technical winning run was his first of the season.
- Aaron Nola pitched his fifth complete game of the season and since giving up five runs in the first inning last Saturday against Sam Houston State, he has pitched 15 consecutive scoreless innings in running his record to 12-0.
- The last complete game pitched by LSU Tiger in an NCAA Tournament post-season game was a 4-0, five-hit shutout in 2004 Super Regional (game2) by Lane Mestepey).
- The last time LSU pitching allowed just two hits in an NCAA Tournament game was the 2000 Game 1 of the Super Regional against UCLA, 8-2. LSU has never thrown a two-hit shutout in NCAA until tonight.
- The last complete game two-hit shutout by an LSU pitcher was by Louis Coleman on May 2, 2009 at Arkansas, 5-0.
- Aaron Nola's outing marked the first shutout by an LSU pitcher in an NCAA Tournament game since Lane Mestepey defeated Texas A&M, 4-0, on June 13, 2004 in Game 2 of the NCAA Super Regional in Alex Box Stadium. Mestepey fired a five-hitter and threw 108 pitches.
- Nola's shutout was the fifth by an LSU pitcher in the Tigers' NCAA Tournament history – the others were recorded by Brett Laxton vs. Wichita State on June 12, 1993 (CWS Championship Game); Kurt Ainsworth on May 31, 1999 vs. East Carolina (NCAA Baton Rouge Regional Championship Game); Justin Meier on June 4, 2004 vs. Army (NCAA Baton Rouge Regional first round game); and Lane Mestepey vs. Texas A&M on June 13, 2004 (NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional Game 2).
- LSU allowed only two hits in an NCAA Tournament game for the second time in its history. The first time occurred on June 2, 2000 when the Tigers defeated UCLA, 8-2, in Game 1 of the NCAA Super Regional in Alex Box Stadium. Brian Tallet and Weylin Guidry combined on the two-hitter for LSU.Aaron Nola tied the LSU record for single-season shutouts with three – the other LSU pitchers with three shutouts in one season were Randy Wiles (1970), Ben McDonald (1989) and Brian Tallet (2000).
- The Sooners' winning streak ended at eight games, the third longest win streak of the season.
- Head Coach Sunny Golloway has coached OU to a 24-18 record in the NCAA Tournament since 2005.
- The game marked the 10th meeting with LSU. The Tigers lead the all-time series, 7-3, since meeting for the first time in 1962.
- Oklahoma is 79-68 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.
- Max White passed assistant coach Rich Hills (1992-95) for second all-time in games played at OU with 238…he is now one behind Keith Drumright (1973-76) for most all-time.
- In the fifth inning, Jonathan Gray passed Geoff Geary (1998) for third most strikeouts in a season with 143…he later tied Daniel McCutchen (2006) for the second most all-time at 147 in the eighth.
- For the second straight game, the Sooners sent the minimum to the plate in the first four innings.
- Oklahoma played in front of a crowd over 10,000 (11,095) for the first time since the 2010 College World Series against South Carolina (24,180).
- The Sooners are 15-16 when their opponent scores first and 1-19 when trailing after eight innings.
- Gray threw more than 100 pitchers for the 15th time in 17 starts.
- He totaled nine strikeouts or more for the eighth time and he has struck out 32 batters in his last 25.1 innings pitched.
- The Sooners were shutout for just the third time this season…the last against Dallas Baptist, 2-0, on April 30.
- Game 2 is scheduled for 6 p.m. CDT Saturday and will be televised ESPN2
LSU vs. Oklahoma
NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional
June 7, 2013
LSU Head Coach Paul Maineri
Opening Statement
"It was everything that everyone expected it to be. It was as great of a pitching duel as you'll ever see. On one hand you have a guy who was picked the third pick in the draft in Jonathan Gray and on the other hand you have Aaron Nola. Our guys have looked forward to facing Gray but people might forget that we had a pretty good pitcher as well. I wouldn't trade him for anyone in the world. He was fantastic tonight and we've seen this before. He pitched a typical game for him. Even though he dominated the game, I still thought it was a tremendous team effort. Gray threw so many sliders and he could throw them for strikes. It was tough for our guys but they never stopped battling. I told Jacoby (Jones) that he was seeing the ball well tonight and he would eventually get to him. He then hit the ball in the gap at the perfect time. Tyler (Moore) was ready and fortunately they made a pitching change to let him regroup. I thought Mark Laird had a tremendous effort it and it was a great team win. Aaron only threw six strikeouts and our defense played great behind him. I thought (Alex) Bregman came back tremendously from struggling last week on defense. We are one down and we still have another one."
On the atmosphere…
"Anybody that hasn't been to Alex Box Stadium for a game like this needs to put it on their bucket list. You haven't lived until you experience this with the crowd and the atmosphere. I thought it was a very crisply played game that did college baseball really proud tonight. There's no other place like Alex Box Stadium so that's the kind of game that should have been played here. It was an awesome ball game."
On Tyler Moore stepping up…
"He's had a knack for getting big hits for us his whole career. I'm just so proud for Tyler. He's watching the whole game but not as a fan. He's studying the pitcher knowing that we may call on him. It's a sign of a great team that they are so unselfish. Our players that aren't in the game stay ready mentally and physically just in case they are called on."
On Mark Laird's performance…
"I'm just so proud of Mark Laird. I've believed in him from the day he has walked on this field. I believe he will only get better. He is a great athlete and a good kid. He's got the it factor and it's something you can't describe. He has that extra something. He's kind of lost in the background but I think he is a great player and has a great career ahead of him."
LSU Player Quotes
On giving up a leadoff double in the top of the fifth inning …
"That leadoff double is definitely a momentum changer for the other team, but my goal was just to not let that run score. Me and Ty (Ross) talked about that when he came during that mound visit. He said, 'Don't let this run score.' That bunt was real big. We made that first out, and I was looking for that strikeout. Fortunately, I got a chop to second. That was a big momentum changer for us after that third out."
On facing off in a pitcher's duel against Oklahoma's Jonathan Gray …
"Coming into the game, I knew it was going to be a pitcher's duel. All (Jonathan) Gray has done this year is been outstanding. Our whole team knew it was going to be a pitching duel, and we were going to get deep in the game, both of us. We just needed that clutch hit. JaCoby (Jones) provided that for us, and Tyler (Moore) came through for us."
JUNIOR 2B JaCOBY JONES
On his key triple in the bottom of the eighth inning …
"Well, I told Coach Jav (Sanchez), in the dugout before I got up to bat, that I was going to sit on a slider. He threw me a first pitch slider, and I didn't swing at it. I was kind of disappointed at myself. Then, he came back with a fastball on the outside corner when I was down 0-2. I know my hands are fast, and I just trusted my hands. He threw a fastball over the plate, I got the barrel to the ball and it went in the gap."
"I was going to sit on the slider until I got two strikes because he was pounding the zone with all of his sliders. We were just swinging away. He pitched great with his off-speed pitches. Then, he'd come back with his fastball. I just trusted my hands and got the barrel to the ball as I said. I was sitting on the slider before I got two strikes, but after that I was just trying to battle and get on base."
On his clutch pinch-hit, go-ahead RBI double in the bottom of the eighth inning …
"Well, you know JaCoby (Jones) came up big, and that was a huge momentum booster for us. I just used that to carry over into my at bat. Coach told me, 'Don't be afraid to do something with the slider. He may come at you early with it.' That's exactly what he did, and I just tried to put a good swing on it, lift it and get it into the outfield to at least score the run on a sac fly. It ended up going over his head."
On his emotions before his go-ahead RBI double in the eighth inning …
"Ever since you're a little kid, those are the moments that you dream of. You dream of getting the big hit to win the game. Really, all of these guys are prepared for that kind of moment. We're so close together this year, and we want to do it for each other. Each at bat is just as important as the big at bat, and really just battling and trying to hit every pitch."
Oklahoma Coach Sunny Golloway
Opening statement…
"What a tremendous college baseball game. We tip our cap to [Aaron] Nola and the way he threw the baseball. We're extremely proud of Jonathan Gray and the way that he threw the baseball for our program today. We've grown accustomed to expect nothing less from 'Big Jon.' We kept a close eye on the pitch count and it looked like [Aaron] Nola was winning the pitch count contest throughout the game and that was getting to be a bit of a concern. Really what it came down to was a man on third with less than two outs. [Aaron] Nola got a punch out when we needed to make contact and they brought the infield in and their guy hit a good pitch. I thought [Jonathan Gray] had one strike and I thought he made a really good pitch. You've got to tip your cap sometimes. They got the hit when they needed to right there with a man at third – just trying to hit a fly ball, which is what we needed to do earlier in the game in a pitching duel. In summation, it's just a great environment to play for college athletes and one heck of a college baseball game. I'm glad the country got to see it."
On Jonathan Gray's pitching performance…
"We had made a decision going into the eighth that that would be his last inning. You've got to understand what the young man has gone through. Last week, threw 129 pitches in a first round win at Blacksburg and his last pitch was 102 [miles per hour]. So even though he's big and strong and he can do it, he's gone through the whole week, from a mental standpoint, where he was going to be drafted. He found out yesterday and whether you like it or not, that takes its toll on you mentally and physically. He had just done too good of a job and we've got a very good bullpen, so we were going to try to let "Big Jon" go through it. When I went and made a mound visit, it was just real simple. It was 'let's not give them anything to hit, let's go for the strikeout, expand the zone if we can a little bit.' He made a great first pitch and just lost the second pitch. We're not going to fault "Big Jon" – not after what he's done for us all year. We teach our guys we take the good with the bad and vice versa. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but you come back tomorrow and you play hard, so that's exactly what we plan on doing."
On his pitching plan for game two…
"We'll start Dillon Overton, our No. 2 left-hander who was drafted in the second round. He's got that behind him and he'll sleep well tonight, and hopefully he slept well last night, and he'll be ready to go. He's looked stronger. He's coming off a bit of a forearm strain which probably kept him from getting drafted in the first round. He's a very good, quality pitcher and I know for game two, we've got two second-rounders going. That's pretty impressive after seeing what we just saw."
Oklahoma University Player Quotes
P Jonathan Gray
On JaCoby Jones' hit…
"We were 0-2. I was going to throw a fastball, but I left the ball up. I threw it too close in the zone and it got hit."
On his pitching strategy for tonight…
"My pitching strategy was to mix early. I wanted to mix all my pitches early and slow the hitters' bats down. We had them [LSU] right where we wanted them. I just did not throw a couple of pitches with conviction like I wanted to."
On the pitching duel and atmosphere…
"They had a great lineup. The crowd was pretty loud, and it obviously favored them [LSU]. It was a great game for both sides. We battled hard and they battled hard, but, they ended up on top. It was a good game. Out on the field it is very loud. It is hard to hear each other. We knew it was going to be like this so we worked on it in practice. We definitely started communicating and looking at each other more."
1B Matt Oberste
On what the loss means…
"We need to get over it pretty quick because we need to come back tomorrow. You know, it is a three-game series and you have to win two. Jonathan [Gray] did a good job of throwing. We have to do a better job as hitters to get runs across."


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Forcing fast charge mode
From Openmoko
This page is intended to consolidate the information about forcing fast charge mode on the Neos.
When is this necessary
By default, the Neos will only draw 100 mA of power from a USB connection, in accordance with the standard. This is not much power. The Neo almost always draws more than 100 mA to operate. So the battery can actually go dead while the Neo is plugged in and you think it is charging. But:
If the Neo recognizes the connection as a "smart" USB connection (by communicating with the host about power availability) or as a standard Openmoko charger (by recognizing an expected resistance across two of the connectors) then it will switch into 'fast charge mode', drawing 500 mA or 1000 mA.
The detection logic is done in software, one can bypass it. If the USB charger used is not signaling the phone its capacity to deliver 500 or 1000 mA, then one may use these scripts to force fast charge mode anyway. Please double check. Trying to draw 1A from an electric system rated lower will lead to overheating and physical damage.
Neo FreeRunner
The behaviour is pretty much the same as described below for the Neo 1973. There's also a 1000 mA mode for the Openmoko-provided wall charger. Please note, that the sys-fs path changed slightly. It is now /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/ .
See the GTA02 sysfs page for a description of how to set/get the bit controlling power charge from the FR. What you want to do is something like this:
cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/usb_curlim echo 500 > /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/force_usb_limit_dangerous cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/usb_curlim
The battery package
Here's a nicely packaged battery level and charge state script:
- Package: http://hdr.meetr.de/neo/openmoko/battery/battery_0.20080721_armv4t.ipk
- Screenshot: http://hdr.meetr.de/neo/openmoko/battery/battery_05.png
Known bugs:
1. If you see no icon on your desktop, just edit /usr/share/applications/battery.desktop changing the line
2. If program cannot be launch because of a python error, check line 82 in :
and replace the init call by _init, that is add an underscore.
Nytowl's power center
User:Nytowl wrote a python script to control the fast charge states : Power Center.
Power Center allows you to force a Neo FreeRunner into Fast charge modes. It can damage your hardware so be careful with what its plugged into. I'm not responsible if you toast the USB port on your brand new laptop.
copy Power Center into /usr/bin and "chmod u+x /usr/bin/power_center"
copy Power Center Desktop fileinto /usr/share/applications
To enable fast 500 mA charge "touch /home/root/allow_force_500"
To enable fast 1000 mA charge "touch /home/root/allow_force_1000" I don't recommend using this one
Beni's fast_charge_gta02.sh
Beni wrote a small shellscript providing status output and the ability to change charge settings. Just download the script and execute it. You can fetch it here: http://beni.skyforcesystems.de/openmoko/fast_charge_gta02.sh
Be careful ! In the above script, setting 100mA charging will force 500mA charging. Just a bad copy/paste, but it could be a pain. Edit line 53, and replace 500 with 100.
This battery monitor batmon.py can force fast-charge mode.
The Battery project
See this other Battery project on the forge.
Neo 1973 and the checkFastCharge.py daemon
There are several ways of forcing fast charge mode:
- From a terminal or ssh session, execute '
echo -n "fast_cccv" > /sys/devices/platform/s3c2410-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0008/chgmode'
- To add a uboot menu entry, see Bootloader commands
- Use a script. User:Wurp has written a python script to monitor for slow charge and automatically pop up a gui asking if you want to switch to fast charge, see next CheckFastrCharge.py below.
What it does
Your neo will detect when it is charging slowly and pop up a gui to ask if you want to switch to fast charge mode. It will take a few seconds to detect that you are charging slowly.
This will not work for the FreeRunner. Andy Green has a patch to give the FreeRunner the needed functionality, then I'll need to update my script after that becomes available.
checkFastCharge will remember if you select slow charge and not ask you again. If you accidentally selected slow charge, unplug the neo from the charger for several seconds, then plug it back in. Next time the script checks, it will ask again if you want slow or fast charge.
When you select fast charge, the script goes through a confirmation sequence, because fast charge can be dangerous for your hardware if the charger doesn't support 500 mA or more. Just click 'Confirm' four times to confirm that you want to go into fast charge mode.
Install as a daemon
On your neo, with an internet connection available:
- cd /
- wget http://static.frimp.net/neo/checkFastCharge.tgz
- tar xzf checkFastCharge.tgz
- cfc-inst
- /etc/init.d/checkFastCharge start
(The above just creates /home/root/bin/checkFastCharge.py, /etc/init.d/checkFastCharge, and the links to make checkFastCharge start up automatically when the neo reboots.)
Just install the script
If you want to run checkFastCharge manually, without the /etc/init.d script...
- Download the tgz
- extract checkFastCharge.py from the tgz to somewhere on your path
I'll package this up into an ipkg with an /etc/init.d and a startup script when I get the time...
Options are only available if you run the script manually, rather than through /etc/init.d
- -f means start up even if the script thinks another instance is running
- -d means check every few seconds for slow charge (without this flag it just checks once immediately)
- -q means don't print out messages on the terminal about what the script is doing


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If you miss the gothic romances of Daphne DuMaurier and Mary Stewart, I've got just the book for you -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips' "Heroes Are My Weakness" (William Morrow, $26.99).
The story takes place in the present on an island off the coast of Maine, but it has many of the elements of classic romances such as "Rebecca" and "Airs Above the Ground."
The heroine is a struggling actress from New York City -- Annie Hewitt -- who must spend at least two months at her late mother's isolated Maine cottage or ownership will revert to the rich family her mother married into.
The visit forces Annie to renew her acquaintance with first love Theo Harp, who has recently returned to live at the neighboring mansion, Harp House. Theo is a brooding, strikingly handsome man in the Heathcliff tradition -- when they were younger, though, he scared Annie with his impulsive, sometimes bizarre behavior.
"Heroes Are My Weakness" combines mystery with romance as it becomes apparent that someone on the island will do almost anything to get Annie to leave.
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Although there was a time when "romance" was a pejorative term, Phillips said the arbitrary divisions between genres seem to be breaking down.
"Some of it is because of Nora Roberts, but you're also getting a lot of writers who are experimenting with the genre. Romantic suspense has become a huge subgenre. It's like any other kind of novel -- some romances are terrible, some are fabulous," she said.
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You can't simply remake the great Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, she added.
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A rally held outside one of Market Basket's Tewksbury stores Saturday night drew hundreds of customers. Their goal: to emphasize that they are boycotting the company in support of the grocery chain's workers and in protest of the firing of former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas.
The rally was organized by customers on social media. Employees were among those in the crowd at Saturday evening's rally, though The Boston Globe's Jack Newsham reported they comprised a minority of the total crowd, which he estimated at several hundred. Noel Gordon, one of the people most active in organizing it on Facebook, is the wife of fired Market Basket management-level worker, Tom Gordon.
Previous rallies over the course of this summer's protest movement have been geared toward workers, though many customers and some vendors have also participated. Those rallies have drawn as many as 10,000 people.
Customers have also been active in voicing their support of the protest movement on social media, and have previously raised money for a full-page advertisement critical of the company's management in The Lowell Sun.
The Save Market Basket Facebook page, which has served as an organizing voice for the protest movement, praised the customer-held rally, saying it was important for boycotting customers' message to be heard. Their post read in part:
If there was one message that was delivered loud and clear tonight it was DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE US! We know these people (ed.: current management and the board of directors) have underestimated the associates many many times and each time we have made them look foolish, if they choose to underestimate YOU our beloved customers then the demise of Market Basket cannot be far behind.
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