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If idle hands are indeed the devil's workshop, ol' Satan himself has no business calling on a trio of Dixon Dukes.
The hands of Dane Schielein, a senior, and juniors Alex Helander and Jacob Harrison are plenty busy. They are going to be key members of the football team this season, but a commitment to the gridiron is only a small part of any given day.
All three of them are in the school band, are members of the track team, and are top-notch students.
Scheilein is in student council, National Honor Society, the 4-H Club, and attended Boys State this past summer.
Helander is the junior class president, treasurer of the Leo Club, and a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Key Club. He's active in Boy Scouts and his church youth group.
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"When you have kids that put their heart and soul into their high school like they are, they're going to get great rewards out of this building," Dixon football coach Dave Smith said. "Our whole faculty is pushing kids to be in multiple sports, activities or clubs, to get involved in our school and to have fun, and what three great role models to look to. They're in everything."
For Schielein, school is serious business. He was a bright spot on last year's winless football team, and also a top performer on the track team. In the classroom, he carries a 3.5 grade point average and is ranked somewhere in the top 20 of the senior class.
In college, he wants to get into something sports-related, perhaps as a trainer or sports management.
He used to play in a garage band, and can play a mean version of "Can't Stop" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on his guitar.
"The other things that I'm involved with, it's sort of a getaway from school," Schielein said.
Helander and Harrison also have their avenues to challenge themselves outside of school. Helander is an Eagle Scout, while Harrison is an accomplished pianist. He performed at the Next Picture Show this past February.
In school, Helander and Harrison are ranked Nos. 1 and 2 in the junior class, respectively. Neither has so much as a B on any report card during high school.
Helander is currently taking pre-calculus, Spanish III, Advanced Placement history, physics, band, AP statistics and AP language composition. During the second semester of his sophomore year, he pulled down six A+ and one A to boost his grade point average to 4.23, .01 ahead of Harrison.
"There's definitely a rivalry," Helander said. "He would get mad if I do 1 percent better on a test or a quiz than him, and likewise for me. We're good friends, but we compete in academics."
Harrison's current classload is AP chemistry, Spanish III, AP U.S. history, band, AP language and composition and sports P.E. The second semester of his sophomore year, he posted five A+ and two A's, leaving him with a grade point average of 4.22 – just behind Helander.
"When we found out we were No. 1 and No. 2, it was just a little competition, I guess," Harrison said, "and it's going to continue to be a competition. On graduation day, unless somebody steps up, one of us is valedictorian and the other salutatorian. It's a good competition."
The threesome's thirst for athletic competition is quenched on the football field, as they try to boost a football program that hasn't won since the final game of the 2011 season. Schielein, a starting running back and linebacker, is one of just two 4-year Dixon players (the other being Logan Fassler) on the roster, and he is optimistic for the upcoming season.
"The chemistry is just great," Schielein said. "I don't think the fact there's only a few seniors will affect us. We've been under Coach Smith for a few years now, and we're all buying into the program. We're going to make things happen."
The low numbers, Harrison noted, is not a reason the team can't win.
"We have 18, 19 people on our varsity squad, and that's a challenge we have to overcome," Harrison said, "but if we keep our heads up and stay optimistic, there's no reason we couldn't do awesome things this year."
"I think we all just need to trust each other," Helander added. "I played some varsity last season, and the team camaraderie and teamwork wasn't there. I feel like if we work as a team, work together and play smart, we can get some more wins on the board."
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• This will be Dixon's last shot at teams from the Northern Illinois Big 12 West, as it will be moving to the Big Northern West in 2014.


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Baseball America lists Top 100 prospects
Baseball America released their Top 100 prospects today. Where do the Astros fall?
Jason Castro, #41: Best Tool: Bats; ETA: Mid-2010
Jiovanni Mier, #73: Best Tool: Defense; ETA: 2012
Jordan Lyles, #91: Best Tool: Command; ETA: 2012
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That's interesting on Castro and Lyles strengths
Hearing about Castro as of late you hear about his defense and how good of a receiver he is. The bat has been talked about, but seems like more of an 'upside' tool that hasn't shown its full potential yet.
With Lyles, i've read on how his fastball upped a few MPH after Houston had him abandon his cut fastball when he initially joined the org, but don't usually read about his control as being a plus
- February 23, 2010 at 7:09 PM
- Steve Duer said...
I am surprised they see Lyles and Mier arriving both in 2012. If Lyles starts in CC as expected and keeps moving up, I would see him in Houston at the end of 11 but 12 is probably more realistic. Mier has yet to play a full season of baseball so to expect him to master A, A+, AA and AAA at a rate equal to Jason Castro, who was a college junior when drafted not a high school grad, seems ambitious to me. I think 13 is more realistic for Jio.
- February 23, 2010 at 8:07 PM
- OremLK said...
Most prospect writers don't see Lyles as being ready for AA, which is why the 2012 projection, I think.
However, it's true that if he does start at AA and pitches well (both big "ifs") then he could be up as soon as 2011--maybe even opening day.
I don't really see him as that kind of talent, though. Very few players make it up before their 22nd birthday.
- February 23, 2010 at 11:36 PM
- The Constable. said...
+1s to Patrick, Steve, and OremLK
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There is no genetic resistance for the wind-borne fungus known as Asian soybean rust. Corn rust, stripe rust and leaf rust in wheat are similar to Asian rust: all reproduce quickly and can move long distances rapidly.
"If the environment is favorable, these fungi are very successful," said Rick Cartwright, Arkansas Extension plant pathologist, who spoke at the White County production meeting in Searcy, Ark.
"An example is in Brazil. If uncontrolled, they can experience 80 percent yield losses with Asian rust. We've compared Arkansas rainfall patterns, temperatures and so forth with Brazil. Arkansas is much more erratic, so we don't think the rust will be quite as bad. But there will be areas and certain years when it could be."
Asian soybean rust was first identified around 1900 in Japan. It's since made its way around the world, following the adoption of soybeans. North America is the last row crop continent to host it.
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"In the United States, we anticipate it will freeze out of Arkansas down towards the Gulf or Caribbean. It will then move back into our fields. The suspected movement of Asian rust shouldn't be foreign to us. We've been dealing with corn and wheat rusts. They're killed back to the Gulf and move back annually. They're pretty successful, but we've been dealing with them so long we have tools in place — especially genetic tools — that help regulate their behavior."
As a plant pathologist, "it bothers me that we have no genetic resistance for Asian rust. Since we don't, our regulators will have to be the environment or our management."
One thing about soybean rust that differs from corn and wheat rusts is length of crop susceptibility. With corn and wheat rusts, there is typically a short period of risk in a given area. That may be less than a month for stripe rust. Corn rust may have a window of six weeks to damage the crop.
"With soybeans, though, we'll be planting between March and July. That means green, flowering, susceptible plants for many months."
Based on the experience of other countries, Asian rust will be controlled with fungicides.
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"I cannot overstate the importance of proper application and timing of the first fungicide. They are absolutely critical. Disease epidemics are much easier to halt early in the game. Once a disease is established, in many cases you've already lost. This is especially true with rust."
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It's new paper time once again here at CS! Today's topic is an entropic form of the uncertainty principle, a joint effort by Mario Berta, Matthias Christandl, Roger Colbeck, Renato Renner, and yours truly, detailed here. [The paper is new to publication, but not to the arxiv, whose slightly older version (due to Nature Physics rules) is here.]
Putting a bit of spin on our result (i.e. do not quote this part), what we show is that the usual uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics is wrong and how to fix it!
Now that I've got your attention, I should tell you the actual result: With the assistance of quantum memory, the uncertainty principle as normally formulated does not apply in all circumstances. Instead it has to be modified to take into account the "quantumness" of the memory, and in particular the possibility of entanglement between the memory and the thing you're trying to measure.
Because the "uncertainty principle" is really a whole host of related issues, we specify a concrete setting in which the original entropic form of the uncertainty principle is no longer valid. It's a game involving two players, named, as usual, Alice and Bob. In the game Alice and Bob agree on two possible measurements for Alice to make on a physical system she's going to get from Bob. To be more specific, let's say the two measurements are angular momentum along two different spatial directions and the physical system is an electron. The angular momentum of electrons can only take on two possible values, or . Bob goes first in the game and prepares the electron in any way he likes, giving it to Alice when he's done. Now it's her turn, and she performs one of the two measurements and tells Bob which one. Finally, Bob attempts to guess her result. If he does, he wins the game. If not, he loses. The point of thinking in terms of this game is not that it's fun to play, but rather to very clearly fix our attention on the issue of "knowing" (being able to predict) the outcome of either of two possible measurements, only one of which is going to be performed. So we're not immediately interested in questions like how much measurement disturbs the state of if both measurements could be performed at once (though they are related).
In the world of classical physics, Bob can always win the game. That's because physical properties are always in principle well-defined; "classical electrons" (think of a spinning ball) have definite values of angular momentum along every given axis, including the two chosen at the beginning of the game. So Bob simply prepares the electron so that he knows the two values and gives it to Alice.
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different axes is not well-defined; if one is known then the other must be at least partially uncertain. Thus, it initially appears that the uncertainty principle implies that Bob cannot always win the game. However, there's a catch: He's allowed to use any means at his disposal, and since he prepared the state in the first place, he could have entangled it with a "quantum memory", i.e. some other quantum system. This possibility is not considered in usual formulations of the uncertainty principle.
In fact, given the possibility of entanglement it's easy to see that he can always win by preparing the electron and quantum memory, which for our purposes here is just another electron, in a state of total angular momentum zero. This is precisely the state used in Bohm's version of the EPR paradox, and it has the peculiar property that, even though angular momenta along different axes are not simultaneously well-defined, if the two electrons are each measured along the same axis individually, opposite outcomes are nevertheless always obtained. Therefore, Bob can always win the game in quantum mechanics by waiting for Alice to tell him which measurement she made, and then just making the same measurement on his system.
The above analysis is straightforward and fairly elementary in the subject of quantum information theory. So what do we add to this in the paper? Answer: a version of the uncertainty principle that works in the case Bob has a quantum memory, and a few applications to boot. Read on for more; warning, it's technical.
In the setting of the game, it's somewhat natural to quantify the uncertainty Bob has about either outcome using the entropy . If we call the measurement outcomes and and treat them as random variables (since there's a probability distribution for them once we specify the state Alice has), then an entropic version of the uncertainty principle due to Maassen and Uffink states that the sum of the entropies, is always bigger than some constant which depends on the nature of the observables in question. For incompatible measurements, is always positive, so in that case there's always some uncertainty about one or other of the observables. Thus, the entropic version is morally equivalent to the usual, variance-based version. Somewhat more technically, we really have the statement , where the subscript means we take the quantum state which describes the electron, compute the probability distribution (or , respectively), and then compute the entropy using the formula .
This result can be extended fairly easily to the case that Bob possesses a classical memory, for instance for the purpose of remembering how he prepared the quantum state! If his classical information is denoted by , then what this means is that the classical information (at best) specifies the quantum state of the electron. (It could also be useless, like the tomorrow's weather forecast.) Then one imagines applying the above uncertainty principle in each case and taking the average over the information . All this leads one to use the conditional entropy, the entropy of the outcome given the classical information, and obtain . The magic of Maassen and Uffink's result is that doesn't depend on the state , so this doesn't interfere with our averaging procedure.
Now, to really tell you what's in the paper. If we naively replace classical information with quantum information (in the form of another electron, say), then we'd get . Ok, really we'd get , where now the quantum state describes both the system sent to Alice, and the quantum memory, . This equation is wrong, as the above analysis shows. So what to do? How can we include the effects of the quantum memory?
It turns out that in the presence of quantum memory, the entropic uncertainty principle becomes . Doesn't look like much of an improvement, adding terms to the lower bound when we're trying to move the inequality in the other direction. But, because quantum mechanics is weird, the conditional entropy can be negative. (This entropy is defined in analogy with the classical version using the von Neumann entropy instead of the usual Shannon entropy.) If you're wondering what it means for the entropy—the uncertainty—to be negative, you're not alone. One way to interpret it is that it means you know less than nothing! Another way to look at it is that it means the state is entangled; the conditional entropy can be used as a measure of entanglement. So entanglement between the system going to Alice, the electron, and the quantum memory reduces the uncertainty burden quantitatively in this way.
It was already clear from our example that entanglement was somehow related to this issue, so it's satisfying to see it show up in the quantitative form as well. Moreover, one of the applications promised above and mentioned in the paper is that we can turn the connection between winning the game and entanglement on its head and use the probability to win the game to determine the amount of entanglement between the system and the memory. In this sense, being able to win the game beyond a certain threshold is essentially a witness to the presence of entanglement.


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Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams, who filmed a scene outside of an apartment building near Water Tower Place mall Friday, dined at Gold Coast restaurants The Goddess & Grocer, Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse and Le Colonial. Co-star Laurence Fishburne dined at Le Colonial twice – both times alone. He also hung out at The Joynt in River North.
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text: The Havoc Staff is a magical weapon wielded by Skeletor. It is a long pole crowned with a small replica of the Ram Skull of Zelesia and a crystal ball embedded within. The staff is mostly used by Skeletor to channel his magic, however it has also been employed for remote viewing and as a melee weapon in battle against He-Man's Power Sword. He can discharge bolts of mystic force from the head of the staff, or use it as a focus for more powerful forms of magic. Skeletor has the ability to draw energy from the Havoc Staff and discharge the energy from his fingertips, and even his eye sockets. His abilities, when in conjunction with his Havoc Staff, seem nearly unlimited in scope and highly potent in raw power.


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Queens of the screen
Loved by audiences and network bosses in equal measure, these are the women set to deliver ratings gold this year.
They are the women most coveted by television stations for their appeal among viewers. But the big question for 2013 is which female TV stars will be the most popular in Australia this year?
The networks have already unveiled their major shows for the year and there is a mix of new faces and familiar favourites among the women chosen to dominate our small screens.
Here's our verdict on which women will light up our screens in the coming months.
Their names are like gold in the corridors of television stations. Some of these women set ratings alight last year and others have already got viewers talking before they've appeared on screen. Mandy McElhinney, who has been phenomenally popular starring as Rhonda in car insurance ads, will play the role of Nene King in Paper Giants: Magazine Wars on ABC1, opposite Rachel Griffiths. McElhinney should be one of the most talked about faces on television (and, no, there won't be a cameo from Ketut). Brenna Harding and Ashleigh Cummings, the stars of Puberty Blues, will return for a much-anticipated second series on Ten this year. They received widespread acclaim for their roles, marking a much-needed high point for Ten. Mind you, Asher Keddie (in her lead role as Nina on Offspring) has been a strong achiever for the same network and with another series scheduled this year, she is considered one of its most important stars. And while there has been plenty of talk about The Voice's new coach Ricky Martin, don't underestimate how much Nine is banking on its female star Delta Goodrem to help carry the show's second season. While she experienced serious problems with online abuse from detractors last year, Goodrem got the audience talking and that's what TV executives love. Sonia Kruger is another woman who can currently do no wrong, after the success of Big Brother on Nine in 2012. Kruger will be back for another season and is considered a major star at the network, after proving her defection from Seven was worth every dollar. At Ten, Kat Stewart is another woman on the rise with her new leading role in Mr & Mrs Murder, opposite Shaun Micallef, as well as her ongoing role in Offspring. And stars won't get much bigger than Claudia Karvan in 2013. She has three projects lined up on three different networks - her ongoing role in Puberty Blues, an appearance in Better Man on SBS and a starring role in The Time of Our Lives on ABC1.
Newsreader and journalist Helen Kapalos hasn't let a redundancy from Ten affect her status as a powerful force in current affairs. She is the front runner for the Today Tonight chair vacated by Matt White. Across at Nine there's no greater powerbroker than A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw, who has scored more big exclusives than most of her rivals and handled them with aplomb. Over at the ABC, Leigh Sales is a force to be reckoned with. She had a slow start after stepping into Kerry O'Brien's shoes, but made up for it with her sharp, insightful interview with Tony Abbott and it's been upward from there. Seven has a major star in Sunrise co-host Melissa Doyle, who is one of the most influential women at the network (as is newsreader Chris Bath), while over at Nine, Today co-host Lisa Wilkinson remains one of the most intelligent, likeable - and powerful - women on screen. SBS can still claim one of the most impressive women on television, Insight host and Gold Walkley winner Jenny Brockie.
It's not cheesy or soft to describe these women as favourites among a family audience. In fact, it makes them big stars inside the television networks because of their widespread audience appeal. Top of the list is, of course, Rebecca Gibney from Seven's Packed to the Rafters, while Julia Morris on House Husbands is slowly catching up. Ten's Carrie Bickmore is considered one of the most important hosts at the network because of her ability to relate to a range of viewers. Her Ten stablemate Chrissie Swan is another rightfully popular name in television right now - she proved with Can of Worms that she can pull an audience as a host in her own right. Watch out for more from Swan this year. Justine Clarke is already loved among many families for her work on Play School but she steps into adult drama this year with the ABC's The Time of Our Lives. Noni Hazlehurst is another long-time favourite of the small screen who will be returning to a prime-time drama this year, on Seven's A Place To Call Home. Former swimming champion Hayley Lewis will be back for another season of The Biggest Loser and Ten is banking on her family-friendly appeal to get viewers watching the show this year.
Keep an eye on Marta Dusseldorp, the star of Seven's major new drama A Place to Call Home. This time next year the network is hoping she will be a household name. Anna McGahan has already impressed many viewers in her role on House Husbands (not to mention the Underbelly franchise) but expect her profile to rise even more dramatically this year. Elle Dawe is the female star of the SBS comedy Housos and she is gaining industry attention as a result. Singer Casey Donovan has scored a hosting role on NITV and looks set to make her stamp on the television market. And although she's only a puppet, Hootabelle - the female owl on the ABC's children's show Giggle and Hoot - is also on the rise. She raised eyebrows as a latecomer to the show (because of gender stereotyping and her introduction as the ''girl'' owl) but she's now playing a major role on the program, with a marketing campaign to match. Anna Gare has been handed another hosting role, on Nine's The Great Australian Bake Off, so it will be interesting to see if she gains more traction than she did on Junior MasterChef.
While we know many of the key female personalities the networks are banking on, expect plenty of other potential stars in 2013 with announcements pending about cast members in shows including Seven's Celebrity Splash. Many roles are up for grabs - the new panellists on the revived Spicks and Specks on ABC1, the fresh cast of Nine's Celebrity Apprentice, the new judging panel for Australia's Got Talent (in the format snapped up by Nine). Expect plenty more women to be reckoned with.
Christine Sams is an entertainment writer


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Will 'The Newsroom' Season 2 Cover the Newtown Massacre?
Controversial though it may have been, HBO's 'The Newsroom' made plenty of headlines of its own by addressing real-life news stories, incorporated into the show's sliding timeline of remaining about one year behind real life. Now, as the Aaron Sorkin-scripted drama prepares to launch a second season on HBO this summer, will it cover some of 2012's biggest stories, or gracefully sidestep more sensitive tragedies like the December Newtown Massacre?
Both Aaron Sorkin and 'The Newsroom' have dealt with their fair share of controversy, the latter after only 13 episodes on air, but that debate could go significantly more public after the show's impending second season. Aaron Sorkin and the cast recently gathered together for PaleyFest, wherein Sorkin revealed a number of real-life topics to be covered over the course of the show's second season.
We already knew that much of the second season would focus on the 2012 elections, but Sorkin added to the list of news stories, such as Trayvon Martin, the Affordable Care Act, drones, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Muammar Gaddafi. However, one subject reporters were curious to see if 'The Newsroom' would broach was that of the 2012 Sandyhook Elementary shootings, which still grips the country on a number of fronts.
Said Sorkin of the tragedy, "that's a tough thing to write about without minimizing or exploiting it or spreading Cheez Whiz around it," and that "you've got to be careful, you really don't want to do a disservice to that story...I am not a hundred percent sure [we'll cover it], [but] I bet we do."
Sorkin didn't make it clear if the story could make it into 'The Newsroom' season 2, or if commentary would be saved for a potential third season, but any mention is sure to come under heavy scrutiny going forward. What say you? Should Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom' stay away from certain real-life events?


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Minute Man Race: Fleet of runners puts best feet forward for the community
A chill in the air and sudden shower didn't stop runners from rolling out to Compo Beach on Sunday morning for the 36th annual Minute Man Race, sponsored by the Westport Young Women's League.
The event consisted of a 10K run, a 5K run/walk and fun runs for kids ages 2 to 12. More than 1,200 people pre-registered for the event and at least another 300 signed up Sunday.
Meg Himes, the WYWL's vice president, said the race is one of the group's two major charity fundraisers of the year, the other being CraftWestport in November. "The league hands out grants every year with funds raised from our events, which all go to charities in lower Fairfield County. Beneficiaries include groups like Mercy Learning, Project Return and the Westport Department of Human Services. In all, almost 40 area charities benefit."
The race is no easy job to coordinate, with more than 120 volunteers -- primarily, WYWL members and the Staples High School Service League of Boys -- called into action. But the result is worth the effort: the league has already donated more than $60,000 to area charities in 2014, and about $40,000 was expected to be raised through the Minuteman Race events.
The WYWL currently has 126 members, local women of varying ages. They contribute to the community through volunteer work and financially, benefiting children, adults, women and education. Since the group was founded in 1956, it has raised more than $4 million for charities and community causes.
First Selectman Jim Marpe called the Minute Man Race one of the town's great family events. "It's been going on 36 years and still draws huge crowds," he said. "It's a great cause and, coincidentally, my wife, Mary Ellen, was a past chairman of the race."
Appropriately, the WYWL's work has even had an impact on the event's setting at Compo Beach, according to Natalie Fonteyne, the group's president. "Part of recent funds raised went to update the beach playground, which was damaged by Storm Sandy in 2012," she said.
Fonteyne was appreciative of town departments that support the event. "We couldn't do this race without Parks & Recreation, police and fire who help us set up, control traffic and provide safety," she said.
A number of families ran the race together. The Connells of Westport hit the race course together for a second consecutive year. "Last year was lots of fun and inspired us," said Amanda Connell. "We want to continue to make this an annual event."
Mike McCreesh of Southport expressed a similar sentiment. "My eldest daughter, Madison, has run this a couple of times in the past. My youngest daughter, Kira, and I decided to join her this year. I'm six days removed from running the Boston Marathon, so we'll see how my legs work," he said.


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River Junction Poets Mission Statement
From 2005 to 2009 the River Junction Poets hosted Poets Birthday Readings at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Saginaw (MI) to read and discuss poets and poetry. Events were planned around the birthdays of poets; the bookstore mentioned our events in its monthly Newsletter. When we sent a birthday card to the poet we celebrated, we included the Newsletter that mentioned the event. Several of those poets responded with Thank You notes. This blog serves an ongoing interest in poets and poetry.
Thanks for the notice. I wish I could finally attend one of your "Birthday Poets" meetings. This sounds like it promises to be a really good one. Unfortunately, this is also the same night as our Downriver Poets & Playwrights meeting in Wyandotte. Perhaps another time in the future.
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top teams falter in playoffs as battle for No. 1 comes to a head
chase for No. 1 in Perfect Game's weekly ranking of the nation's
Top 35 summer-league teams has largely been a two-team affair
throughout the 2011 season. The Cape Cod League's Hyannis Harbor
Hawks occupied the top spot most of the first half of the summer,
while the Coastal Plain League's Edenton Steamers has held steady
at No. 1 for the last four weeks.
teams entered post-season play in their respective leagues on a high
note with Hyannis (29-15) easily posting the best overall record
during the regular season in the Cape, while Edenton (44-11) was an
impressive 25-3 over the second half of the Coastal Plain schedule.
each team suffered a critical loss—to a much lesser opponent, no
5-2 setback to the upstart Falmouth Commodores was enough to knock it
right out of the Cape Cod playoffs as the Commodores won the
opening-round, best-of-3 series, two game to one. Falmouth had limped
into the eight-team Cape playoffs with a lowly 19-25 record.
7-4 loss to a 29-27 Wilmington team wasn't quite as costly as it
squared their best-of-3 semi-final series at a game apiece, with the
deciding game set for tonight in Edenton.
the No. 1-ranked Steamers haven't been as dominant in the playoffs
as they were in the regular season in the Coastal Plain League. They
squeezed by the eighth-seeded Peninsula Pilots in the opening round
of the playoffs by coming from behind both times to win two
hard-fought, extra-inning games—10-8 in 10 innings and 7-6 in 14
innings. And Wilmington has given Edenton all it can handle.
Hyannis effectively eliminated from the chase for No. 1 and Edenton
not proving as invincible as it was earlier in the season, it has
opened the door for other contenders for the designation of the
nation's top summer-league team. The obvious beneficiary appears to
be the Cal Ripken League's Bethesda Big Train, which has already
completed its 2011 season.
Big Train (36-9) ran through the regular season in the Cal Ripken
League and clinched its third straight league title with a playoff
sweep. It moved from No. 3 a week ago to No. 2, supplanting Hyannis.
Edenton continues to hang on to the top spot.
West Coast League's Wenatchee AppleSox has also positioned itself
for a run at No. 1. The new No. 3-ranked Sox (39-14) have dominated
that league all season, and would become a significant challenger for
an unofficial national champion if it should go on and win its third
straight West Coast League championship—most likely, though, only
if Edenton should falter in its drive to a CPL championship.
Hyannis, several other pretenders for the No. 1 spot fell from
contention over the last week with unexpected playoff losses. Among
the casualties were Newport of the New England Collegiate League and
Harrisonburg of the Valley League, and even Orleans of the Cape
League. Newport and Harrisonburg had posted the best records in their
respective leagues, while Orleans had finished first in the Cape's
Eastern Division. All slipped up against sub-.500 opponents.
No. 1 team will be announced once all summer-league playoff rounds
are complete. The Northwoods League will be the last league to wrap
up its schedule as its regular season doesn't even conclude until
Sunday, with two rounds of playoffs to follow.


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Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Many-Bears Grinder announced the initiative to establish a new State Veterans Cemetery in the Upper Cumberland region.
TDVA has submitted a pre-application grant to the National Cemetery Administration for federal funding of the architectural design, engineer support and construction costs. However, funding for land acquisition must be raised through donations as well as city, county and state funding.
The cemetery would be located in the Upper Cumberland Region to serve Veterans and their eligible dependents in Clay, Cumberland, Dekalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Smith, Trousdale, Van Buren, Warren and White counties
TDVA Assistant Commissioner Don Smith hosted a community meeting on Thursday, April 25 to form a steering committee to proceed with the land acquisition process. Volunteers for the community member committee were finalized on Wednesday, May 1. Two community members from 12 counties have volunteered to participate in the Upper Cumberland State Veterans Cemetery Steering Committee. Clay and Dekalb Counties will not participate in the committee efforts. The Upper Cumberland State Veterans Cemetery Steering Committee will review available properties in the region and narrow the list to three recommendations which will be submitted to the Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs for consideration.
Chairman Jim Amerson of White County will be a non-voting member. Remaining committee members include Co-Chairman Daven Oppenheim of Fentress County, Secretary Ron Goode of Overton County as well as committee members Mark Pfaffenroth and Bill Ward of Cumberland County, E.J. Hancock and Keith Kennedy of Fentress County, Everette Vanhooser and Dale Smith of Jackson County, Mike Scott and Pat McJury of Macon County, John Alcorn of Overton County, Glenn Williams and Brian Raef of Pickett County, Frank Favia and Jim Loftis of Putnam County, Bob Baker and Scott Penfield of Smith County, Dan Belcher and William "Buddy" Hughes of Trousdale County, Vern Curry and Les Conway of Van Buren County, Angie Higgins of Warren County as well as George Schneider and Ralph Griffith of White County.
"Veterans and family members in the Upper Cumberland region currently have to drive to State Veterans Cemeteries in Nashville or Knoxville for services," Grinder said. "It is our goal to establish a new State Veterans Cemetery within 75 miles from the Veterans and dependents we serve in the Upper Cumberland region."
The next full steering committee meeting will be held on Friday, May 17 at the White County Courthouse, Second Floor, 1 East Brockman Way in Sparta at 10 a.m. (CDT).
For more information about the Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs and existing State Veterans Cemeteries, visit the department's website at www.tn.gov/veteran, facebook.com/myTDVA or stay up to date by following the department on twitter @TNDVA.


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Digital-Tutors Releases 18 New Tutorials for October 2012, Training Library Reaches Over 19,000 Video Lessons
October 7, 2012 11:19 pm
Tags: 3ds Max, Adobe, autodesk, CINEMA 4D, MARI, Maxon, Maya, NUKE, Photoshop, Softimage, ZBrush
Oklahoma City, OK - Digital-Tutors, providers of the world's largest CG
and visual effects training resource, today released 18 new
tutorials and over 57 hours of training content covering the latest
software updates, techniques and workflows for artists and
students. The release also marks another milestone for
Digital-Tutors as the library crosses the 19,000 video lesson
October's release features training from Digital-Tutors in-house instructors and popular artists from around the world in the Creative Development series. This month, we see more great ZBrush, Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage, CINEMA 4D, NUKE, MARI, Photoshop and a selection of integration tutorials now available for viewing.
New training and tutorials for October 2012:
Animating a Grappling Hook in Maya
New Animation Features in Maya (Individual Lessons)
Creative Development: Modeling Exterior Scenes in Maya with Pat Imrie
Creative Development: Sci-Fi Vehicle Modeling and Texturing in Maya and ZBrush with Maxim Fleury
Creating Concept Vehicles in 3ds Max
Creating Seamless Textures for Games
Professional Series: Game Asset Production Pipeline
Creative Development: Hair Dynamics in CINEMA 4D with Derya Öztürk
Introduction to Python Scripting in NUKE
Facial Rigging in Softimage
Texturing Prehistoric Reptiles in MARI
Updates to mental ray Node Reference Library
Creative Development: Building Futuristic Armor in ZBrush with Peter Minister
Creative Development: Animated Turntable Techniques in ZBrush and After Effects with Brad Groatman
Creative Development: Sculpting a Creature Bust in ZBrush with Lee Magalhães
Mesh Insert Techniques in ZBrush
Working Quickly in ZBrush
Creative Development: Rapid Concept Art Techniques in Photoshop and ZBrush with Ismail Wamala
Creating Photo Manipulations for Advertising with Photoshop
Grayscale Shading and Non-Destructive Coloring Techniques for Photoshop Artists
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October's new tutorials and every tutorial in the world's largest CG and VFX training resource are available with a subscription to Digital-Tutors.
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Learning how to use QuickBooks to its full potential goes beyond learning the program's basic features. Even experienced QuickBooks users struggle when applying certain business situations to QuickBooks. In this course, we'll go beyond the basics as you master QuickBooks' more advanced features and applications.
You'll learn to manage multiple company files, export and import list data from one file to another, and make journal entries. If your business handles inventory, you'll learn how to enter price levels and track discounts and credits. You'll even learn how to track mileage on vehicles you use in your business.
This course also covers many other common topics that small business owners encounter, including how to create customer statements and assess finance charges on overdue balances, as well as how to write off past due balances when the customer won't pay.
Finally, you'll learn how to enter common transactions between the owner and the business, including when the owner takes money out of the business or invests new capital. The course concludes with a discussion of how to track loans and use the budgeting feature to better plan and control your business.
This course is designed for those who already have a good grasp on the basics of this program or have successfully completed the Introduction to QuickBooks course. Whether you're a small-business owner, or bookkeeper or accountant needing a QuickBooks refresher, this course will make you more confident and secure in accounting for your business.
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Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical Dictionary
Barbara Sicherman, Carol Hurd Green
Harvard University Press, 1980 - Biography & Autobiography - 773 pages
The supplemental volume includes 442 women who died between January 1, 1951, and December 31, 1975. There was a major effort to include minority women, and foreign-born women are included as well. Criteria for selection include and influence on time or field, a pioneering or innovative quality, the significance of achievement, or relevance of the career in the history of women. The volume follows the pattern of the main set with an excellent introduction, full entries with bibliographies and a classified list of entries. This set should be in middle and high school collections.
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VALENCIA>> State inspectors returned to Six Flags Magic Mountain on Tuesday to investigate how and why a pine tree fell across the tracks of the Ninja roller coaster ride, causing one car to derail.
Four of the 22 people stranded on the ride Monday were transported to local hospitals and were treated and released, after a 30 to 40 foot tall pine tree fell on the track. The fallen tree caused the first car on the ride to derail. Los Angeles County fire crews rescued the stranded riders using cherry pickers.
Inspectors with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health were on scene to determine how the accident happened, spokesman Peter Melton said.
"Cal/OSHA is asking for a certified arborist to check out the tree," Melton said. Ninja "will be offline until they figure it all out."
Ninja is described as a suspended swinging roller coaster in which riders whip around the track at 55 mph. There are four coasters of its kind in the nation, according to Magic Mountain.
Riders appeared to be stuck on the coaster at the corkscrew portion of the track for more than an hour after fire officials received a call about the accident.
Data from the federal OSHA office show there have been four accidents at Magic Mountain in the past 10 years. None involved Ninja, and most involved injuries to employees on other rides. But in 2008, a 21-year old man was struck unconscious by a car on the ride when he lost his hat and climbed two security fences to retrieve it, according to news reports.
Magic Mountain spokeswoman Sue Carpenter said in a statement Monday that the safety of guests and employees was the park's priority.
"As a precaution, the ride will remain closed until a thorough inspection of the area is complete," she said.


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So let's talk about ganking and getting ganked -- vile, nasty, evil rogues. How WoW players rage against rogues! You'd think an entire collective of them would be utterly reviled by the player community -- but not this group, which is such a straight-up gang that many of its sap-and-drop victims actually become cross-faction buddies. Vile Thorn of Defias Brotherhood (EU-H), an all-rogue guild that recently packed up shop and moved from another slowly stagnating roleplay, is probably the amicable gank squad you'll ever come across (or that'll come across you -- you know what we mean ...).
With an ironclad one-kill rule and a hankering for cross-faction roleplay, Vile Thorn takes no prisoners when it comes to fostering realm-wide roleplaying and world PvP. Its roster shows no sign of tanks, healers or other DPS classes; this group is utterly dedicated to its dark duties. GM Arli reports a warm welcome from players on Defias Brotherhood, both in character and out, after the guild's weekend sprint in search of a wider roleplaying community. To gank, or not to gank -- why is death at the hands of the Vile Thorns so compelling that one guild of factional enemies even realm-transferred along with its nemesis?
So let's talk about ganking and getting ganked -- vile, nasty, evil rogues. How WoW players rage against rogues! You'd think an entire collective of them would be utterly reviled by the player community -- but not this group, which is such a straight-up gang that many of its sap-and-drop victims actually become cross-faction buddies. Vile Thorn of Defias Brotherhood (EU-H), an all-rogue guild that recently packed up shop and moved from another slowly stagnating roleplay, is probably the amicable gank squad you'll ever come across (or that'll come across you -- you know what we mean ...).
Main character Arli
Guild Vile Thorn
Former realm The Venture Co (EU)
Current realm Defias Brotherhood (EU)
WoW Insider: A pack of Horde rogues sneaking up on unsuspecting prey -- sounds nasty! Just how nasty a group is Vile Thorn, anyway?
Arli: Well, in character we are a pretty nasty bunch and have a policy that all Alliance must die. So we are supposed to attack and kill any we meet on our travels, no matter the level or what they are doing. The guild has been around about five years ... The excerpts below are taken from the guild history on our forum, as written by our long-time guild leader, Anethrax :
The Vile Thorns were founded by the Scourge during the third war to act as the Scourge's scouts, saboteurs and were also known to be used as Assassins. They would be sent ahead of the main Scourge force to take out any sentries around an enemy key position or to sabotage key enemy defences.
The Vile Thorns were eventually brought into the Horde under the blessing of Sylvanas and the Forsaken with two conditions. One condition was it was lead by a Forsaken, one of dark lady's most loyal subjects and would make sure there was no sign of corruption within this new group of rogues. The second condition was that the Vile Thorns would allow other races in; this was met with some protest from some of the remaining original Thorns.
One of the main themes is that once you join Vile Thorn, you are now part of the family, so take an oath and then put your Thorn brothers and sisters above all others. We take keen retribution if you attack one of our family!
But I guess the poor sap you just sapped while he was out questing doesn't necessarily know or care about your roleplaying mission, does he? How do you keep the rest of the realm from hating the very sight of your guild name?
We have a one-kill guild policy which we uphold very strongly -- no camping allowed. Of course, if they rez and come after us in a red-mist rage, then sure, we face plant them again. But this way, we don't overly disrupt any roleplay or questing -- kill, move on. Although anyone attacking a Horde settlement is fair game for a bit of camping, to make sure they don't want to be a tourist again. (Get off my lawn!)
We encourage the Thorns to stay in character as much as possible and always kill and hunt in character. Adds a real fun dimension to PvP. We still get some that log a level 1 Horde and rage, but I explain politely that, well, it is a PvP server and we didn't camp. We rarely get people relogging and raging; the few that have, I've often ended up chatting to them for a while about the guild and playing rogues and stuff. Some have even started rogues and joined us; people are generally cool about it when you explain things.
Oh yes, we got on well with the other Horde RP guilds and the RP/PVP Alliance-side, particularly with the Wardens of Azeroth. We had many a fight against them, ad hoc and arranged. They played fair; if just a few of us, they would play with a no-healers rule on their side.
We had some good cross-faction RP, too. My character, Arli, has had a long running roleplay situation with an Alliance rogue called Robi (Robinas), which started with a bit of ad hoc RP where they kidnapped Arli. The roleplay around it lasted a week and ended in a battle at Brill, where the Thorns took Robi and we had a hostage exchange -- and of course a W-PvP battle around it. That was a couple of years ago, though, involving a few Alliance RP/PvP guilds, when the server was much more active. We also arranged a few W-PvP events -- the battles for Thandol Span and then Deadwind Pass were led by the guild -- but as server population dwindled, it just stopped being feasible.
It's kind of random! We have a guild meet each Friday, followed by a hunt on Alliance lands. We do fight nights where we help each other improve in PvP, as well as guild runs of dungeons for guild XP or old raids, etc., just purely for the fun of it. We 5-rogued the Cata normals a couple of weeks ago with no problems, again stealthing through in character -- it was a fun night. Often you'll find a few of us in BGs, some roleplaying, other doing dailies ... the usual mix of things. We have guild chat as roleplay via the use of an imaginary comms device, so we all can chat in character as we do other things as well, plus an out of character channel for all the usual gossip.
I'll bet the Raid Finder has made a huge impact on your ability to more fully round out your characters. Are most of your members Raid Finder regulars?
Some of them have really taken advantage of the Raid Finder and geared up for PvE too, although we all concentrate on at least basic PvP gear first. Many (me included) just don't have the time. Working full time, my game time tends to be on guild things and PvP.
What about Fangs of the Father legendary daggers? Do you have a system you're working through to nab them for your members, or does an all-rogue roster simply push this into the realm of each man for his own?
Well, as a guild of all rogues, it's kind of tricky ... Recuperate can only take you so far! So, as a guild no we don't have plans. We hope to find a friendly raiding guild that might take us along for the pick-pocket part at least, but as we are new to the server, it may take us a while.
I'm signing us up for any W-PvP events arranged via the Defias RP forum, of course, plus we have our own guild RP and interactions with other Horde (and sometimes Alliance) guilds.
On The Venture Co, we would often have a guild of the month, which would be an Alliance guild we would target for a month. The Thorn with the most kills would win a gold prize; proof was screenshots posted on the forum and points would be awarded on a sliding scale, depending on level killed and how many took part in the kill. Of course, this was kicked off with an RP post taking out a contract on said guild!
We also set up bases in different zones and patrol those. We have a guild mount of the skeletal purple warhorse, and it does look impressive when we walk around in a group on matching mounts and all red-masked (wearing the tabard and a red Defias mask are the only RP uniform we insist on).
How about structured PvP? Is Vile Thorn into Battlegrounds and Rated Battlegrounds?
We have talked of RBGs -- but again, all rogues would be tricky, although Arathi Basin is a possibility if we are careful. We often go into Battlegrounds as a team. No one quite expects a group of rogues to be guarding a flag. We don't use voice chat at the moment so coordinate usually IC via guild chat. We have players who don't like to speak in groups, others who worry about their spoken English, and others whose PC is in a noisy place, so we use other methods. We are looking into having one of the group as caller in W-PvP, calling out targets via raid warning -- this would be great for a lowbie to do as well. So we find different ways to work together.
What about Arena -- is that productive at all with an all-rogue team?
Most of the guild Arena, often in two-rogue teams. I think three-rogue teams have been tried too, but pairs work well. Some have friends of other classes they PvP with, too. However, we are not PvP elitists, so little attention is paid to Arena rating -- it's often just for the enjoyment of it.
I will admit, most of us are subtlety rogues, and most leveled that way simply because it's such a fun spec to play. We have a couple of assassination rogues too; they are nice to have around with pesky plate wearers like Gerrond of Wardens of Azeroth, our nemesis when on The Venture Co (we loved him for it, too). I don't think any play combat for PvP, although one of our biggest RP enemies on TVC was a combat rogue called Shayanan, who regularly beat us up in PvP -- but again, a nice guy we got on with really well out of character.
It sounds like you had some great connections on The Venture Co. So what prompted a move to a new realm?
Sadly, our old realm is slowly dying. At the start of the year, we ... all agreed that a move was the only solution left. So Defias Brotherhood was chosen, since it is the most active RP-PvP realm.
Incredibly, some of your old enemies have switched realms to keep up the enmity, isn't that right?
We tried various ways to try and rekindle W-PvP as well as roleplay on The Venture Co, but unfortunately the pool of RPers just got too small. I even created an Alliance rogue and druid RP-PvP guild (Brotherhood of Shadow) to give us some opposition -- but again, it struggled for players. My good in-game friend Robi is guild leader, and it has also moved that guild to Defias, so we are looking forward to more cross-faction RP and PvP with them once all settled.
Any tips or observations on the guild transfer experience? What's gone well? What's been rougher than expected?
The mechanics of the move was very straightforward, so I have to compliment Blizzard on that one. Dianthaa did a lot of research into the existing Horde and Alliance RP guilds and posted on our forum. I already had an account on Defiasrp, which is the Defias RP forum, so posted that we would be coming along and what we are about, as well as on the official Blizzard server forums.
It's all gone well. The RP guilds and RPers on the server have made us really welcome (/waves to Cult of Shadow), as well as those we have randomly joined in W-PvP in Elwynn (/waves to Tides of Misery). The only rough bit, I guess, was getting our guild lore accepted as being legitimate, but we are sticking with it and hope all will turn out OK. We have found that no matter how much you read up on existing guilds and ongoing roleplay, you don't really get a feel for inter-guild relations until you actually meet them in character and have a bit of a gossip.
We only moved at the end of last week and still have some others who are planning to move when they can. We are in the process of rebuilding after the loss of Thorns due to the state of The Venture Co plus the effect of the move, so we are looking for more rogues willing to RP in the Thorn style (info on this is on the main page of www.vilethorn.com) and come stab some Alliance with us. We do want to get our RP style established on Defias so are taking recruitment very slowly, however. We have taken in a few that seemed to understand what we are looking for.
We are also looking for other guilds to W-PvP with -- ideally, RP-PvP guilds or RP-friendly ones like Tides of Misery. The officer team is very optimistic that we will make good contacts here. The people have been friendly and there is a lot of opportunity for us to meet like-minded individuals ... and go kill with them!
Join up or join in the skirmishes by making contact with Vile Thorn on the web.
"I never thought of playing WoW like that!" -- and neither did we, until we talked with these players, from Game of Thrones' Hodor (Kristian Nairn), to a blind ex-serviceman and the guildmates who keep him raiding as a regular, to a 70-year-old grandma who not only tops her raid's DPS charts and wields a legendary but is her guild's GM. Know someone we should feature? Email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Subject: General Tech | February 9, 2012 - 12:07 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: arm, Intel, amd, atom, low power, cortex, Medfield, hondo
To revive an old buzzword some of you may have forgotten, ubiquitous computing is the current holy grail of the computing industry. If AMD, Intel, ARM and to a lesser extent NVIDIA, can get the market to prefer one of their low power processors over the competitions there is a lot of money to be made in the mobile market. The way that they are approaching the market is very different however. In Intel's case they pride themselves on the general computation power of their upcoming Medfield processor though that comes at the cost of power consumption and less graphics capabilities. AMD. like Intel, are trying to reduce the power consumption of their chips and though they lag behind in general CPU performance the graphics capabilities are generally considered superior.
Then there is ARM, which is striving to overcome its reputation of providing chips low in power, both electrically and computationally. Their latest Cortex processors are certainly display a vast improvement in performance compared to previous generations. The power consumption may have increased but not to the levels of consumption of the Intel and AMD chips. Intel and AMD need to continue lowering their power consumption without sacrificing power while ARM needs to increase performance without impacting the power consumption before anyone can be considered a clear winner. There is another consideration which DigiTimes points out; right now ARM is winning the price war which could be every bit as important as power consumption or computational power.
"While Intel and AMD have been making efforts to develop low power processors for use in smartphones and tablet PCs, they cannot compete with solutions from ARM in terms of price, according to notebook makers."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Android's Chrome finish comes too late for Flash coating @ The Register
- Transactional Synchronization in Haswell @ Intel
- Google touts website prefetching with Chrome 17 @ The Inquirer
- AMD announces FirePro V3900 for entry-level professional graphics @ DigiTimes
- Windows 8 confirmed for February 29th (Beta Queue) @ Kitguru
- Ninjalane Podcast - Basic Casemodding Listener Mailbag Interview with a Top Overclocker
- Samsung NX 200 Review @ TechReviewSource
- Weekly Giveaway #21: Antec LanBoy Air and High Current Pro 750W Power Supply @ eTeknix
Meet Hondo, AMD's soon to arrive 2W TDP Brazos chip for tablets ... and Apache servers?
Subject: General Tech | July 5, 2011 - 12:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: windows 8, ontario, low power, hondo, brazos, APU, amd
Thanks to a leak from AMD, we have new information on their plans for tablets and ultra mobile platforms. Hondo will be a member of Brazos-T, the planned improvement to the current low power version of Brazos which goes by the name of Desna. This is not so much a new chip as a refining of Brazos and the Ontario APU, the 1GHz APU will still be made on a 40nm process and sport a DirectX 11 GPU at 276MHz also optimized for lower power consumption and heat production. The Hudson controller is also being tweaked in the same way, with the chipset's TDP sitting at 1W compared to the ~4W the APU will consume. It should be capable of playing 720p videos at that power setting, though you can expect a bit more power draw if you are streaming the movie wirelessly. You can read more about the future of the new fanless APU from AMD at The Inquirer.
"CHIP DESIGNER AMD is planning to refresh its Brazos platform in time for Microsoft's Windows 8.
AMD launched its Brazos platform last year, though actual products tipped up earlier this year featuring a dual core processor and a DirectX 11 GPU. However with Windows 8 coming out in 2012, it is a little surprising that leaked slides point to AMD planning a refresh of Brazos, codenamed Hondo. According to the slides, Hondo is designed to operate with passive cooling, and have 2W "app power" usage, about half that of the current Brazos chips."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam" @ Slashdot
- Unlicensed: Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player illegal? @ Ars Technica
- Facebook's 'awesome' plan to hook up with Skype? @ The Register
- Top level domain explosion could wreak MAYHEM on NET @ The Register
- Nanolayers improve performance of phase change memory @ Nanotechweb
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|Maya Aloni, Ph.D.
I earned my Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and my Bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Toledo. My research interests are in the areas of close romantic relationships and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. In the area of close relationships I focus on people's impressions of romantic partners with dietary restrictions. In another line of research I study people's purchasing preferences following romantic rejection. I also conduct research related to teaching and learning. This research has focused on teaching strategies for improving the quality of discussions both within the classroom and in online discussion boards.
I teach Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychology of Personality, Advanced Personality-Social Psychology, and The Psychology of Close Relationships.
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I have a Ph.D. in Human Cognition and Learning from Columbia University. I usually teach Psychology of Cognition, Experimental Psychology, Physiological Psychology, and Introduction to Psychology. My research interests include instructional media effects, math learning, the ecological context of cognition, and non-declarative learning in general. I have two research articles on "Dr. Flanagan's General Information" ERES page if you want to read more about my research. I am especially interested in working with students on research that focuses on learning, cognition, or media effects.
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My area of specialization is clinical psychology and my areas of interest include psychological assessment, substance abuse counseling and assessment, sport psychology, and gifted children. I welcome student participation in my research projects in these areas. Among the courses that I teach are Community Psychology and Substance Abuse Counseling: Applied Counseling. These courses have practicum requirements and interested students should plan their schedules to accommodate these placements.
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I completed my graduate training in experimental/cognitive psychology with specialties in attention, reasoning, thinking, problem solving, statistics, human factors, and human computer interactions. My research interests are in thinking, reasoning, problem solving, and visual and auditory perception. I teach Introductory Psychology, Research Methods in Psychology, Psychological Statistics, Experimental Psychology, Psychology of Perception, Psychology of Cognition, and Senior Seminar. My interests outside of school include music (especially the blues), audio equipment, photography and video, bad cartoons and movies, traveling, fantasy books, and science fiction books. Lately, I have been building loudspeakers for fun.
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My PhD is in Developmental Psychology (Fordham University) and I have taught the following courses at WCSU since 1998: Child Psychology, Adolescent Psychology, Adult Years, Advanced Developmental Psychology, Moral Development.
My research examines how people make decisions about whether to engage in risky behaviors such as substance use, delinquent activity, and sexual activity. My most recent work focuses on alcohol use and social cognitive variables thought to play a role in drinking by adolescents and young adults. A second line of research concerns the effects of exposure to violence during childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood. A third area of work examines moral reasoning from a theoretical perspective, as well as its association with exposure to violence and risky activity. Ethics is a final area in which I have written, specifically, ethical issues that arise in practice and applied research with children, adolescents, and older adults, as well as ethical issues in teaching. Over the years I have worked closely with many WCSU students, inviting them to work on my research and scholarly activities, and helping them develop and test their own ideas.
I have written and edited several books including: The Psychology Major's Handbook, Careers in Psychology: Opportunities in a Changing World, Graduate Study in Psychology: Your Guide to Success, and the Your Career in Psychology Series.
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Specializes in health and sport psychology. Active research interests include:
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I am interested in cognitive psychology and evolutionary psychology. More specifically, my research centers around decision-making, and evolutionary influences on decision making. I explore the types of decisions that people make in hypothetical life-and-death situations. I have published in such journals as Perception and Psychophysics, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Evolution and Human Behavior. I like teaching intro, cognition, perception and experimental psychology (I and II). Some day, I hope to offer a course in evolutionary psychology, and I also hope to offer a course on how society has created a mythology of psychology. I am interested in having students work with me on ongoing research projects.
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I earned bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Biology at San Jose State University, and received my doctorate in Neuroscience at the University of Rochester. Courses routinely taught at WCSU are Introduction to Psychology and Brain and Behavior. My research focuses on investigating the brain circuits and cognitive processes related to vision. Specific studies address various aspects of visual experience, including perception, learning, memory, and eye movements.
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BUT I do have here for you a really great idea for potatoes (even though anything with potatoes is just super). It's called potatoes boulangere and I'm sure there are all sorts of smartarses out there who know all about it already, but for those who don't, it's like a non-gloopy/heart attack potato dauphinoise. A real crowd-pleaser. (Is that a totally wankerish phrase or not? I can't decide.)
My husband's friend Jim did this for us the other day and he said he did it like this:
Slice up a lot of potatoes and onions. Arrange them flatly in a baking dish and pour over some good chicken stock until the potatoes are just covered. Add a lot of salt and pepper. Then put in the oven at 180C for 2.5 hours. On the rack above the potatoes put a joint of meat, if you are having one. As the meat cooks, the fat will drip down on to the potatoes.
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South Korea's National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong said today that President Donald Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un by May.
"He (Kim Jong Un) pledged that North Korea will refrain from any further nuclear missile tests," Chung said.
The announcement comes as one of the first major diplomatic breakthroughs with the reclusive nation.
Trump has expressed a willingness to talk with the North Korean dictator about denuclearizing the Korean peninsula, saying, "We'll see."
The scheduled talks come after a contencious year between the two leaders, during which the pair traded insults and threats, including a speech by Kim at the beginning of the year in which the dictator bragged about a 'nuclear button' on his table.
"The U.S. should know that the button for nuclear weapons is on my table," Kim said during a Jan. 1st speech. "The entire area of the U.S. mainland is within our nuclear strike range.
Trump hit back against the North Korean leader, tweeting, "Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"
President Trump, who has derisively referred to Kim as "Little Rocket Man," will be the first sitting American president to meet with a North Korean leader.
The last time the United States and North Korea sat down for talks was back in 2009. The six-party talks included several nations with the U.S., North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Russia and China as participants.
The meeting is schedule to happen by May.
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Catholic University law school Professor Roger Colinvaux testified before Congress on Feb. 14 as lawmakers considered substantial changes to the nearly 100 year-old system of deductions for charitable contributions.
The Obama Administration has proposed capping or limiting the use of such deductions, which tend to benefit higher-income taxpayers who are more likely to file itemized returns.
In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, Colinvaux did not support or oppose a specific proposal, but indicated to lawmakers the need to impose changes to the tax code that are sensible and serve larger, coherent policy goals.
"The charitable deduction has been modified substantially since its inception. Remarkably, because of the many changes, the simple idea of tax-favored giving has now become one of the most complex provisions of a notoriously complex tax code," Colinvaux said.
"The changes to the deduction have largely been piecemeal, reactive to abuses, and generally have not directly reflected one or another rationale. What remains is a confusing mix of policies and priorities."
Colinvaux was a former staff member of Congress when he served as Legislation Counsel with the Joint Committee on Taxation. He reminded committee members of the significant difference between cash and noncash gifts in charitable giving.
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