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One out from win, Dodgers lose in walk-off fashion
NEW YORK -- The Dodgers on Wednesday night couldn't enjoy the good because of the bad.
The Dodgers blew a lead in the bottom of the ninth and lost the game in the bottom of the 10th to the Mets, 7-3, on Jordany Valdespin's walk-off grand slam while wasting Ted Lilly's first start in nearly a year and Matt Kemp's first home run of the season.View Full Game Coverage
NEW YORK -- The Dodgers on Wednesday night couldn't enjoy the good because of the bad.
The Dodgers blew a lead in the bottom of the ninth and lost the game in the bottom of the 10th to the Mets, 7-3, on Jordany Valdespin's walk-off grand slam while wasting Ted Lilly's first start in nearly a year and Matt Kemp's first home run of the season.View Full Game Coverage
Lilly and Kemp are both coming off operations on their left labrum, so they have hurdles to clear. Manager Don Mattingly predicted before the game that Kemp's home-run swing would return, even though this one was delayed an extra 2 1/2 minutes, as umpires needed instant replay to overturn the incorrect call on the field.
Kemp got tired of postgame questions about the home run, which ended an 86 at-bat drought.
"Home runs are going to come," Kemp said. "We don't need to talk about home runs. Talk about the game. We've just got to get better, score more runs, do a better job of everything. We've just got to win these games."
The Dodgers had only four hits (none after Kemp's homer, which came in the sixth inning), and the game might have been lost sooner if not for defensive gems by Mark Ellis and Jerry Hairston.
Lilly, at 37, had a bigger hurdle than Kemp to clear -- convincing the world that he wasn't done. He never thought he was, and he made a stand 10 days ago when, with Dodgers starters dropping like flies, he refused to make an extra Minor League rehab start without assurance that he would be activated.
He was, and he pitched nicely, allowing one run over five innings, pitching smartly out of jams and actually outpitching Mets sensation Matt Harvey. It was Lilly's first Major League start since last May 23, at Arizona, and he struck out seven.
"I was definitely under the impression I had to prove myself at this level, and understandably, coming off shoulder surgery, prove to myself, too," said Lilly. "I didn't give up on myself, but I needed to prove to myself I can continue to be here. It's not so much what other people think. We lost a game. If it goes different, I still think I'm healthy, and I should be able to compete.
"This is just one game. I expect to make the rest of my starts for this club. It's still a long year."
But Lilly is in the rotation because Zack Greinke was hurt in a brawl, as was Chris Capuano, and Chad Billingsley underwent Tommy John surgery and Aaron Harang was traded.
All the pitching depth the Dodgers thought they had is thinned, so Lilly became the eighth starter the Dodgers have used in 20 games, the most in 49 years.
The domino effect also has been felt in the bullpen.
Stephen Fife, who filled in on Sunday for Billingsley, pitched 4 2/3 innings after Hyun-Jin Ryu went six innings in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader and Josh Beckett went 5 2/3 innings in the second game. After a day off on Monday, Clayton Kershaw threw only five innings on Tuesday, and Lilly matched it.
That left the bullpen to pick up 17 innings since Saturday, which is why Josh Wall was on the mound in the 10th inning on Wednesday night. Lilly wishes he could have given his club at least one more inning.
"I was out of bullets," said Mattingly. "[You] play the cards you're dealt at that point."
Brandon League suffered his first blown save of the year by allowing a run in the ninth. The runner, pinch-hitter Mike Baxter, reached base when left fielder Carl Crawford, inserted in a double switch, was unable to make a sliding catch on a sinking leadoff line drive, and the ball caromed off his glove for a double.
"A do-or-die play," Mattingly said.
Baxter scored on David Wright's two-out single off League with two outs and first base open. John Buck, who had struck out three times with a groundout, was up next.
"You don't want to put the winning run on base," Mattingly said. "David is aggressive, and you like to use that against him."
Which is exactly what happened when Wright was caught stealing for the third out of the inning.
Wall took over for the 10th. He allowed a single to Buck and walked Ike Davis on four pitches, then Marlon Byrd sacrificed them over. Mattingly brought in Luis Cruz as a fifth infielder and removed Crawford, intentionally walking Lucas Duda to load the bases and hoping for a ground ball and an out at the plate.
Instead Valdespin hit the Mets' first walk-off grand slam in 22 years (following Kevin McReynolds) on a 2-1 fastball.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Greg Graffin Cold As The Clay PodCast now up!
We have put together an interesting piece for the new Greg Graffin record, Cold As The Clay. It is a complete PodCast featuring interview footage with Greg that is inter-cut with tracks and commentary on the music from the album.
Hit the link below to check this thing out, and be on the look out for it in the iTunes PodCast directory!
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Let's say I am given $n$ flips of a coin, $k$ of which are heads. These are iid flips.
Can I say, with probability $p > 1/2$, that the true probability of heads is in range $[p_1, p_2]$ ? What is that range?
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So yep you can make your own gnomes now! yeah!
Season Gnomes ( Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter)
Emotion Gnomes (Love, Cheery, Sad, Angry )
The sizing of the gnomes are the "Large" size that i used to make. As for instructions they are pretty simple but if i get many people confused i might do a tutorial in the future.
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WASHINGTON — HOW awful are Ted Cruz and his Cruzettes?
They have done the impossible. They have made Americans look back at the Bush II era, the most reckless wrecking ball in American history, with relative nostalgia.
With 78 percent of Americans feeling blue about the country being on the wrong track, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, many consider the G.O.P.'s imperialistic unilaterists less loco than the narcissistic anarchists. As grandiose delusions go, global domination makes more sense than self-annihilation.
"If I was in the Senate now, I'd kill myself," Chris Christie said on Friday.
But before you start thinking Dick Cheney is temperate by comparison, consider the Commentary roast of the former vice president on Monday night at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
Cheney made a joke about waterboarding an antelope that he borrowed from Jay Leno. Donald Rumsfeld quasi-jested that he knew Dick "back when the president of the United States still led our foreign policy, instead of Putin."
Ben Smith of BuzzFeed reported that the roast sponsored by Rupert Murdoch and others featured Rumsfeld, Joe Lieberman and Scooter Libby, known as "Cheney's Cheney" until he was convicted of lying during a federal leak probe.
Lieberman, a guest told BuzzFeed, said it was nicer to be at the Plaza than in cages after a war crimes trial. There were pardon jokes about W., whose relationship with Cheney was shattered over not giving Libby one. Libby said W. sent a note: "Pardon me, I can't make it."
The acrid legacy of Cheney and Rummy lives on as they carp from the sidelines about the "so-called commander in chief." In December, "The Unknown Known," an Errol Morris documentary about the man who was the youngest and oldest secretary of defense, hits theaters.
Morris won an Oscar in 2004 for "Fog of War," his documentary about another dangerous, delusional defense secretary with wire-rimmed glasses, Robert McNamara; in his acceptance speech, Morris warned that, with Iraq, America might be going down another "rabbit hole."
But the cocky Rummy talked to him for 33 hours anyway. Unlike McNamara, however, Rumsfeld does not admit his historic blunders, but maintains his "Stuff happens" brio.
"You make a movie with the secretary of defense you have," Morris told me dryly, "not with the secretary of defense you want to have."
Still, the filmmaker was smart to bookend the men, opposite ends of the same warmongering problem: McNamara was so droning and unemotive that he lulled listeners into thinking that nothing bad could be happening, while Rumsfeld was so energetic and blithe that it was hard to believe that people were dying and the war was being lost. Morris's wife and collaborator, Julia Sheehan, said that McNamara was "The Flying Dutchman" wandering the earth looking for redemption, while Rumsfeld is the Cheshire cat.
"All we're left with at the very end is this infernal grin," Morris said. "Everybody wants this smoking gun. The entire Bush administration is a smoking gun.
"In his memos and homilies, Rumsfeld will say things that are just contradictory, as though by saying everything, you've covered all your bases," Morris continued. "It's deeply anti-rational, as if there's no deep reflection or thought. You have no evidence? Well, 'the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,' as Rumsfeld said about W.M.D. in Iraq. Taken to some crazy conclusion, you can justify anything that way.
"At times in his language, he descends into some strange insanity, as though he's trying to convince himself."
Asked the lesson of Vietnam — Rumsfeld was the chief of staff to Gerald Ford when Saigon was evacuated — Rumsfeld briskly replies: "Some things work out, some things don't. That didn't."
When Morris presses Rumsfeld about the Justice Department's "torture memos," the former defense chief said they did not come out of "the Bush administration, per se; they came out of the U.S. Department of Justice." That parsing would be beyond Bill Clinton.
About the memos that led to what Morris considers "one of the great stains in American history," Rumsfeld says he never read them. When asked why, he replies, "I'm not a lawyer. What would I know?"
When Morris asks Rumsfeld about the "confusion" that linked Saddam to 9/11, he answers brightly, "I don't think the American people were confused about that," adding, "I don't remember anyone in the Bush administration saying anything like that, nor do I recall anyone believing that."
Holy mushroom cloud.
Rumsfeld doesn't even seem to understand his signature phrase. Reading from a 2004 memo, he says, "There are known knowns. There are known unknowns. There are unknown unknowns." He tells Morris that there are also unknown knowns. Things that you possibly may know that you don't know you know.
Morris challenges him: "But the memo doesn't say that. It says that we know less, not more, than we think we do."
Rumsfeld finally admits a boo-boo: "Yeah, I think that memo is backwards." Then he chastises the filmmaker for "chasing the wrong rabbit."
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 248 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
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Police: Man Impregnated 12-Year-Old
Alejandro Ortiz-Badillo, 28, Charged With Criminal Sexual Penetration Of Minor
Police arrest an Santa Fe man who they say is accused of getting a 12-year-old girl pregnant.
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Albuquerque police said the charges Alejandro Ortiz-Badillo, 28, faces are every parent's worst nightmare. Investigators said the daughter of Ortiz-Badillo's girlfriend showed up at hospital complaining about stomach pains.
"Low and behold, the female was actually pregnant," said Capt. Aric Wheeler, of the Santa Fe Police Department. "It actually sickens you as an individual to feel that somebody would find a 12-year-old female attractive in that way."
Ortiz-Badillo told police he had a consensual sexual relationship with the girl when her mom wasn't home, investigators said.
"It goes back to the basic dynamics of who can give consent. Obviously, a 12-year-old cannot consent to anything," Wheeler said.
Police said Ortiz-Badillo is charged with criminal sexual penetration of a minor, because the age of consent in New Mexico is 16, and the partner can only be two years older.
Police said they're offering the girl the resources she will need to cope with the incident.


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It's been hard to miss Katie Holmes's recent style switch-up since arriving to New York to start rehearsals for her Broadway debut. Gone are the chic dresses and sleek bob — instead, Katie has been sporting a shorter, wispier 'do and tons of baggy denim. In fact, we've spotted Katie in the same pair of baggy, pegged jeans multiple times in the past week! Turns out that they are the $360 "Barracuda" style from the celeb-fave men's Prps line — in fact, David Beckham swears by them (and wife Victoria borrows them from him literally!). Prps is even coming out with a women's style for fall based on how much women love the men's line, appropriately called "the Boyfriend." We know Katie is onto a huge fall trend here — she's not the only star we've spotted in baggy jeans lately — but we can't quite get adjusted to her new look! We want to know what you think. Tell us: What do you think of Katie's new look? Do you love her jeans as much as she does?


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A-LIST 2016: Keep Tulsa Cool
Editors' picks + the winners of TulsaPeople's annual A-LIST readers' choice awards.
Tulsa is Tulsa. It's a little quirky, swanky, trendy — and always cool.
Here we present those responsible for its appeal: the winners of TulsaPeople's annual A-LIST readers' choice awards. A-LIST voting takes place in early March and after tabulation, winners are mailed certificates for their respective categories. The top five winners in each category are named, with a few exceptions for ties.
The 2016 A-LIST is your guide to Tulsa, highlighting the destinations and treats that make Tulsa the coolest, literally and figuratively.
Keep reading to see who made our Editors' Picks this year!
Best way to salute the sun
Rooftop Yoga
Downward dog in a darkened studio is dandy, and plank in the park is pleasant, but to get the most out of your sun salutations, the best way to go is up. Rooftop yoga is hotter than Bikram right now, and there are several places in town to get vinyasa with a view.
Get your fix three times a week on Cherry Street over Ascent. On Thursdays from 7-8 p.m., The Yoga Room offers wine and live music from the likes of Steve Liddell, Damion Shade and more. Or, make yoga part of your farmers' market routine with their Saturday morning class from 8:30-9:30 a.m. On Tuesdays at 7 p.m., The Yoga Room offers rooftop acro yoga (short for "acrobatic" and done in pairs) — no partner or experience required. All classes are donation-based (suggested $10-$20), and you're encouraged to bring your own mat and your friends. (Check www.theyogaroomtulsa.com for a full schedule and weather cancelations.)
Sundays at 10 a.m., hit the rooftop at Lululemon for a free, all-levels class. Once you've filled up on good vibes and Vitamin D, head to the street for some Vitamin B — brunch, of course — at one of Brookside's many posh nosh spots.
For the highest rooftop yoga in town, head downtown to the Mayo Hotel on Thursdays at 6 p.m. Bring your own mat and $10 cash. On the elevator, hit "P" for Penthouse. Namaste indeed.
Ascent, 1325 E. 15th St.; Lululemon, 3506 S. Peoria Ave.; the Mayo Hotel, 115 W. Fifth St.
Best wardrobe builder
GreenHouse Clothing's T-shirt of the Month Club
One can never have enough T-shirts, but you don't want the same ones as every other person on the street. That's why GreenHouse Clothing's T-Shirt of the Month Club is so cool.
Since August 2015, the locally owned and operated T-shirt shop has offered the club as a way to differentiate itself among the masses and to create a T-town T-shirt community.
To participate, sign up online and choose your shirt size. Designs are exclusive to club members and sometimes carry a theme — like April's Record Breaker graphic in celebration of National Record Shop Day on April 16.
Memberships are six or 12-month subscriptions ($20 per month, six months; $15 per month, 12 months). Members also receive a discount for in-store and online purchases.
9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday. 3310 S. Yale Ave. 918-895-6225, www.greenhouseclothing.net.
Best way to impress your foodie friends
Mecca Coffee Co.
Walk through the doors of this Tulsa institution and enter a world synonymous with flavor and kitchen know-how. You don't have to be hip to shop at the 95-year-old store, but it will up your foodie street cred.
Some Tulsans are attracted by the 130-plus kinds of bulk herbs and spices; you can buy as little as 1 ounce or as much as you desire. Others swear by the infused olive oils and balsamic vinegars, with flavors like Thai lemongrass mint, aged red apple, cilantro and roasted onion or Persian lime, in 60-750 ml bottles. The whole-bean coffee and loose-leaf tea supplies are impressive, too. A friendly barista can brew up your favorite latte or tea while you shop.
Mecca's selection of barware, distinctive tableware, cutting boards, kitchen gadgetry and one-of-a-kind gifts make it a one-stop destination for finding the perfect gift for that foodie in your life, or an addition to your own discerning kitchen.
9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Monday-Saturday. 1330 E. 41st St. 918-749-3509, www.meccacoffeeco.com.
Best tropical vacation without leaving town
Saturn Room
If watching HGTV's "Island Life" is the closest you might get to the tropics this summer, Saturn Room is your oasis. Escape the Oklahoma heat at the Tiki-themed bar that serves Tiki cocktails like mai tais and the Macadamia Nut Chi-chi in kitschy glasses and fresh coconut shells. This place commits to Polynesian decor, from its thatched patio awning and totem bar stools to its blowfish light fixtures.
A stone's throw from the Brady Theater, Saturn Room is a great spot to grab a pre- or post-show beverage. If you're with a group — or if you make new friends easily — share a Singapore Sling, which serves two to three people. But be forewarned: The fresh and fruity drinks and friendly bartenders might convince you you're on island time, not Tulsa time.
4 p.m.-2 a.m., daily. 209 N. Boulder Ave. 918-794-9422, www.saturnroom.com.
Best revitalization of the moment
Route 66
For decades, Route 66 was America's heartbeat. For many it never ceased to be cool, and others are realizing the untapped potential the thoroughfare still has for Tulsa.
A number of renovations are already underway, and new businesses are flocking to the area. Three years ago, Soul City art studio — today it's a music venue and gastropub, too — moved into 1621 E. 11th St., the site of a former Texaco service station. Nearby, interior designer Jill Croka set up her showroom on the Mother Road. Jenkins & Co. opened its modern general store in November 2015. In another former service station, Henbit Market sells unique handmade gifts and live plants.
These new businesses are interspersed with local favorites like El Rancho Grande, Joseph Gierek Fine Art, Lola's Caravan and so much more. Route 66 will always be the Mother Road, but on this Tulsa stretch, to quote "Mean Girls," "I'm not like a regular mom; I'm a cool mom."
East 11th Street from South Peoria to Delaware avenues.
Best treat to welcome the weekend
Livi Lee's
When a donut craving hits hard on a Friday night, Tulsans have traditionally had few options for a fresh doughy treat to ring in the weekend (#firstworldproblems #thestruggleisreal). Enter Friday Night Donuts at Livi Lee's, less than 10 minutes west of downtown Tulsa in Sand Springs.
The whimsical Daylight Donuts shop transforms its drive-thru into patio seating for this weekly celebration under the stars. Choose from regular and mini donuts with colorful cereal and candy toppings — even bacon — or splurge for a donut boat: a pile of mini cake donuts topped with fruit, whipped cream and other indulgent and trending toppings. Like what you taste? Livi Lee's can bring its Instagram-worthy donut bar to your next party. Keep an eye out for a new location, opening soon in Jenks.
5-11 a.m., Monday-Thursday; 5 a.m.-noon, Friday and Saturday; 7-11 p.m., Friday; 6 a.m.-noon, Sunday. 411 E. Broadway, Sand Springs. 918-241-2765. www.livilees.com.
Best throwback to childhood
Soft-serve ice cream at Dilly Diner
There's nothing better than creamy, cold soft serve on a hot summer day — except maybe enjoying it in the AC at Dilly Diner's sophisticated retro bar. This rich version ($2) is not the "iced milk" of fast food chains, and variations on the standard vanilla and chocolate flavors include rotating flavors such as hazelnut and saffron honey.
You can't go wrong topping a piece of flaky pie with the creamy stuff or ordering it to top off lunch, dinner or even breakfast, which is served all day. To amp it up, try a jam shake ($4.25) with house-made jam or a boozy "adult milkshake" (price varies) both made with the soft serve.
7 a.m.-10 p.m., Monday-Thursday; 7-1 a.m., Friday and Saturday; 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday. 402 E. Second St. 918-938-6382, www.dillydiner.com.
Best international adventure
Nam-Hai International Market
You might not be able to afford a trip to Asia, but you can definitely afford a trip to Nam-Hai International Market.
Fill up your cart with hard-to-find but fairly priced goods, from exotic vegetables to live seafood. Though the market's focus is on Asian goods, you'll also find items from all over the world. What's niftier than hopping to a new country on every aisle? Nowhere else in Tulsa can you keep cool while you shop with a Vietnamese iced coffee or boba smoothie from the adjacent Pho Nhi restaurant and emerge with a light-up Buddha statue, oxtail, durian fruit, Japanese gummy candy, bags of Mexican spices, Indian snack food and uncured pork belly all in one shopping cart.
The vibrancy of the market is a reminder of Tulsa's cultural diversity, too. Despite the hyper-connectivity of the modern world, it's easy to stick with the familiar, even in your own hometown. The fact that Tulsa is representative of different languages, cuisines and cultures is pretty rad.
9 a.m.-8 p.m., Monday-Sunday. 11528 E. 21st St. 918-438-0166, www.facebook.com/namhaitulsa.
Best way to green up your diet
Sage Farms Home Delivery and Subscription Service
Processed junk is out; real local food is in. And it's more convenient than ever to feed the family in a way that's both healthy and sustainable. Across the country, food home delivery services are bringing fresh fruits and vegetables directly to our doors. Join the club in Tulsa where Sage Farms is doing just that with produce that is sustainably grown without harmful chemicals or GMOs — because that's how the cool kids do it.
The convenience of home delivery hooked us, but the fresh, flavorful greens won us over. Participants can sign up for weekly ($15.99) or twice-monthly ($17.99) delivery and receive multiple varieties of lettuce, greens, herbs and a helping of seasonal vegetables. A helpful recipe is sent with every delivery. There's a $10, one-time joining fee.
Locally owned and operated by Ashley and Ben Neal, Sage Farms recently created an online store, allowing subscribers to add organic chicken and beef, Garnish Salt, Mecca Coffee Co.'s oils and vinegars, and other recipe components to their delivery order.
email@example.com, www.localfarmok.com.
Best DIY buzz
High Gravity Homebrewing & Winemaking Supplies
Craft is cool again, but the ultimate mantle of hipness is bestowed not on the consumers of small-batch and handmade goods, but on those who do that small-batching and hand-making. With the help of High Gravity, you can be your own craft brewer.
Whether you're a hobbyist or beginner, High Gravity has all the supplies to make your boozy, bubbly dreams come true. It might not be glamorous (the shop resembles the back closet of a mad scientist's laboratory) but the results could be glorious. And if the store's mascot, an African gray parrot named Pippin, asks if you want some beer, do say "yes."
There's no need to keep your enthusiasm bottled up. Every other Saturday at 11 a.m., the store hosts workshops on beer making (June 4, July 2, July 30, Aug. 22) and wine making (June 18, July 16, Aug. 13). This is a great way to up your game, meet other home brewers or just see what all the buzz is about.
10 a.m.-7 p.m., Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday; noon-5 p.m., Sunday. 7142 S. Memorial Drive. 918-461-2605,
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I realized today that an alias is not the same thing as a soft link in Lion. I made an alias of a folder in my Dropbox folder and moved the alias to my Desktop.
When I try to
cd into this alias in terminal, the terminal notes that the alias is not a folder. In Ubuntu, I can, however,
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How can I create a soft link in Lion? It would be convenient for me because I write python scripts that rely on soft links.


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BOSTON — Celtics coach Brad Stevens is generally a pretty positive guy, and generally said pretty positive things about every player who came through Waltham for pre-draft workouts in recent weeks.
But there was something about the way Stevens talked about Marcus Smart that made you think the coach might be an advocate for taking Smart if the Celtics kept their first pick in this year's NBA draft.
When Smart was still on the board with the Celtics still holding the No. 6 pick, that's exactly the direction the Celtics went as they jumped on the 6-foot-4 guard out of Oklahoma State.
"He's come in here twice in the last three weeks," Stevens said Thursday night, "and we've absolutely fallen in love with his leadership, and his work ethic, and his spirit, and the way that he goes about things."
While Smart has the type of NBA-ready body and game that could make him a Rookie of the Year candidate if he can get enough playing time, the Celtics went a bit more long-term with their second first-round pick when they selected 18-year-old University of Kentucky freshman James Young at No. 17.
Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck indicated the team grew more fond of Smart each time they saw him during two workouts in Waltham, and an additional workout that Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge traveled to watch in recent weeks.
For Stevens, it seemed Smart was more a case of love at first sight.
"Clearly, he's got a way about him where people follow him," Stevens said after his first workout. "He's a very tough guy. He competed the whole time. My expectations for him were high from that regard, but he certainly met them. He's going to be a good player."
Smart would have been in the running to be the No. 1 overall pick last year had he come out of OSU after averaging 15.4 points a game as a freshman. He increased his scoring to 18.0 points per game to go along with 6.0 rebounds, 4.8 assists and nearly three steals as a sophomore but slipped out of the very top of the draft due to a combination of a better overall draft class and some questions about his maturity after he shoved a courtside fan who allegedly hurled a racial slur at him.
But Stevens said following the workout he had no questions whatsoever about Smart's character, and Grousbeck said Thursday night that fire was part of the reason the Celtics jumped on him at No. 6.
"We like the fact that he's an instigator," Grousbeck said. "Red (Auerbach) told me personally when we first came in you need instigators over retaliators. He's energetic. He's a bull. He's a force.
"He's got that physique and that attitude that we really like around the Celtics."
Stevens said the Smart pick had no impact on the futures of Rajon Rondo and Avery Bradley in Boston. Smart said following his workout that he would be "honored" to back up Rondo early in his career.
"I don't think there's any doubt (Smart and Rondo) can play together," Stevens said. "It will be great for Marcus to have a player like Rondo to look up to and learn from. He's physically ready to play and he competes every single minute of every day.
"That can do nothing but help your team regardless of what position he plays. I expect him to play some off the ball, and play some on the ball. I think it will be great for both of them."
Stevens added that he believes Smart is a much better shooter than most believe — and showed off that stroke in multiple workouts in Waltham — and can defend as many as three positions with his long wingspan.
The 6-foot-6 Young averaged 14.3 points per game for a Wildcats team that reached the NCAA title game. He finished 10th in the Southeastern Conference in 3-point shooting, and is considered to have as much upside as almost anyone in the draft.
"James has always been a scorer," Stevens said. "He's got a stroke that's just going to get better and better. We felt he was a very, very undervalued scoring wing in this draft. Everybody in our room had him ranked higher than No. 17. So we were surprised he was available at 17. We were thrilled he was there at 17."
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 137 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Company Name: billFLO
What we do: Business-to-business solution provider for electronic invoicing management
Current website: http://www.billflo.com
We are an Internet software startup company based in Silicon Valley. Our product is a software-as-a-service product called billFLO, an electronic invoicing network that allows businesses to easily, inexpensively and safely share invoices electronically over email.
Each year nearly 20 billion paper invoices are exchanged between businesses at the price of nearly $30 billion in lost productivity. billFLO completely eliminates paper invoices by electronically connecting both the vendor and customer accounting systems. billFLO creates a computer readable invoice that vendors can simply email to buyers. With a single click, the buyer imports the invoice into their accounting system, eliminating all their manual handling and data entry. Venders eliminate invoice transmission costs, gain visibility into invoice status and get paid quicker.
We are looking for talented designers to create a refreshed logo to accompany a new website for our product launch. The ideal candidate will have design experience for business-to-business (B2B) software or hi-tech companies, have an eye for design element details, and be able to deliver very quickly.
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The Kenneth Treister Collection includes architectural drawings, project files, correspondence, publications and writings, photographs, documentary films, and other materials spanning from the 1950s into the 21st century. Treister is an architect, sculptor, photographer, artist, author, and lecturer. Born in 1930, he graduated from the University of Florida in 1953 with a degree in architecture. A lifelong resident of Miami, primarily Coconut Grove, he is perhaps best known for his design and planning work in that region.
The hundreds of drawings and project files document numerous important architectural and design projects, primarily in South Florida and the Caribbean. These projects include Mayfair, the up-scale retail and mixed-use development in Coconut Grove; Temple Emanu-El of Greater Miami; Yacht Harbour Condominiums in Coconut Grove; Gumenick Chapel of the Temple Israel in Miami; the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach; Elizabeth Virrick Park in Miami; Out Island Inn in the Bahamas; Office in the Grove, a Coconut Grove high-rise office building; and several residential projects in South Florida. A portion of the drawings and project files represent Treister's work as president and partner in the Housing Corporation of America, a leading firm in the development of low-cost public housing (turn-key housing) in the United States. Other materials document his extensive planning work in Israel, including residential and industrial projects.
In addition to his architectural records and related material, the collection contains over 50,000 photographic slides documenting Treister's extensive travels around the world. The images focus particularly on architecture, design, and urban planning in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and northern Africa. There are slides of his own work as well as the works of notable architects such as Antonio Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. In addition to celebrated structures and famous landmarks, the photographs document examples of architecture typically overlooked by architectural photographers, such as residences found in poorer districts of cities or dwellings built by non-industrial peoples in remote, rural regions. The slides also include photographs of people, artwork, landscape design, and the natural environment. Treister primarily used the slides during his lectures, which took him around the world at the invitation of foreign governments, universities, and other organizations and companies. As such, the majority of the slides were organized in slide carousels based on lecture topics, particularly cities or regions.
The Treister Collection also includes manuscripts and photographs used to create books on topics such as Temple Israel, the Holocaust Memorial, and Havana. In addition, there are documentary films he produced on the Holocaust Memorial, Easter Island, and the Maya.
Treister is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and also is the recipient of numerous awards for his architectural and sculptural designs.
As a partnership between the Smathers Libraries and the School of Architecture since 2004, the Architecture Archives has become a leading repository for historical records pertaining to the architects and architecture of Florida. Initial activities have focused on a handful of important collections, including the archives of Alfred Browning Parker, Kenneth Treister, Rufus Nims, Darrell Fleeger, and the Carrère and Hastings firm. The collections support scholarly research, historic preservation, and the education of future students.


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SKF launches cost-saving portable analyser for rail applications
2014 September 23, 14:00 CEST
A new portable analyser kit from SKF will collect and interpret condition monitoring data from operating train bogie systems, helping protect and boost profitability
Gothenburg, Sweden, 23 September, 2014: SKF has released a new analyser kit that has been designed to meet the unique needs of the railway industry. Due to its compact, portable form factor, the SKF Microlog CMXA75 significantly improves the efficiency of data collection both in workshop and operational condition monitoring programs. The portable device, which can be used for sophisticated analysis of bearing and other rotative parts in traction motors, gearboxes and other rotating rail application equipment, underlines SKF's status as a major player in condition monitoring for the railway industry with solutions that help users protect and boost profitability.
The SKF Microlog CMXA75 collects data from accelerometers placed on the subsystem that needs to be checked. Signals are processed by the handheld analyser and alarm parameters set in the SKF @ptitude Observer software enable fast and accurate condition monitoring of key systems. The kit can be used as both a troubleshooting tool and for routine operational condition monitoring. Used in combination with the SKF @ptitude Observer software, the Microlog constitutes a complete entry level condition monitoring system for large and small train operators.
"All railway operators are interested in condition monitoring, but some have not yet incorporated it into their maintenance programs," says Fredrik Larsson, Managing Director, Condition Monitoring Center Lulea and Global Business Development, SKF. "The SKF Microlog CMXA75 is convenient and easy-to-use for operators who are not vibration specialists, facilitating the transition from time-based maintenance to condition-based maintenance and providing a wide range of measurements in a single instrument. The analyser replaces human listening to monitoring with a measurable system that improves the customer's ability to offer consistent quality in their operations by providing a repeatable quality check."
The SKF Microlog CMXA75 helps rail operators achieve a more efficient maintenance strategy by helping reduce the duration of maintenance and unplanned service disruptions. Used as part of a predictive maintenance regime, it will help operators achieve savings in maintenance costs due to extended service intervals, reduce passenger inconvenience as a result of reducing service disruption, improve workshop testing quality procedures and bring about a more efficient use of downtime.
The SKF Microlog CMXA75 is one of a series of solutions that enhance efficiency and performance in rail applications that will be demonstrated at the InnoTrans fair in Berlin from 23th-26th September
Also displayed will be a new generation of tapered roller bearing units for passenger trains and compact tapered roller bearing units for heavy haul freight and the SKF Multilog On-line System IMx-B
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The original instrument for this sample set is a precious historical Positiv from the early 18th century, presumably built in Southern Germany. Except for the addition of an electrical wind supply (Ventola), which can be used instead of the fully functional wind supply with a foot-pumped bellows, it is in original condition and exceptionally well maintained. The instrument is ideally suited to accompany small choirs or instrument ensembles. It is part of a private collection of historical musical instruments located in Braunschweig (Germany). The instrument comprises one manual (C-c'''') and four stops: Flute 8'' and 4'', Voxumana 2'' (a labial stop!) and Principal 1''. The 1''-stop has been added later to the original instrument and can only be played together with the Flute 8''.
You can download the booklet (pdf) included with the sample set here.
The Positiv has been recorded in Dezember 2015 with high quality microfones using a Jecklin disc in a studio-like room with very little reverb. Each pipe has been recorded with two separate release layers, one for staccato and one for longer notes. A third release layer does not add anything with the short reverberation time of the room. Blower and action noise have been recorded separately as well. Due to the very dry recording the set is exceptionally well suited to be used in rooms with strong reverbaration or for adding reverb by post-processing. The volume of the blower and action noises can be adjusted with sliders in the graphical user interface.
As a special addition reverb samples have been created from the dry recordings. This gives the user the option to add reverb to the sound. Two virtual rooms are available, one with about 1.5 seconds reverb and the other with 3-4 seconds. These can be selected using a switch on the organ image, and the reverb intensity can be adjusted in real-time using a slider. This new feature is unique and gives users more options to adjust the sound of the Positiv to their taste.
Wind supply modelling
Another unique feature of this set is the detailled modelling of the wind supply using a manually pumped bellows, allowing a historically correct performance with a breathing instrument. In the original instrument the bellows is operated with a foot pedal at the right side of the organ case. Pushing down the pedal lifts the upper plate of the bellows, upon release of the pedal the weight on the bellows forces it down again pressing air into the reservoir bellows. After about 4-5 strokes the reservoir is filled and an overflow valve opens to release the extra air with a noticeable hiss.The winding system is designed with considerable leakage so that the reservoir will empty itself in a short time even when no pipes are speaking at all. This leakage has two advantages. On one hand it makes it easier to play with a consistent pumping motion, on the other hand it reduces the pressure peaks when pipes start or stop speaking, as the heavy reservoir bellows plate is kept in a nearly constant motion. This manually operated wind supply has been completely modelled in the sample set, a truly funique feature among Hauptwerk sample sets! The best way to operate the bellows is to use Hauptwerk's MIDI-Learn feature to connect the organ's expression pedal (if available) with the foot pump lever. Then pushing down the pedal will fill the pumping bellows with air, and lifting it up again will make the air flow into the reservoir. With a little practice one can then control the wind and the resulting sound fluctuations matching the rythm of the music one is playing. The "Control"-page of the GUI visualizes the operation of the wind system and the air level in the reservoir.
This sample set requires a Windows-PC or Apple Mac-OS computer and the Hauptwerk™ software, Advanced Edition, Version 4.2 (The Free or Basic Editions will work as well except for the wind modell, which does require the Advanced Edition). CPU and memory requirements are quite low, the required sample memory is about 860 MB (16-bit compressed) or 1720 MB (24-bit compressed) when loading with 24bit resolution.
Licence Conditions
§1) This agreement defines the licencing agreement between Pipeloops Reiner Suikat and the user of the sample set of the historical Positiv organ. The sample set consists of the samples, images, database, and other files. §2) Pipeloops grants the customer the perpetual right to use the sample set. Pipeloops retains all rights, including all copyright and intellectual property rights, to the sample set and all copies thereof. §3) The sample set may be used for any purpose including public installations and commercial recordings. In case of public performances or recordings a note stating the use of the sample set is required. §4) The customer is allowed to make backup copies of the distribution media as needed. Use of part of the sample set (i.e. samples or graphics) for other products is not permitted. §5) The Trial Version may only be used to evaluate the sample set. Public performances etc. are not permitted with the Trial Version.
A fully functional trial version of this sample set can be downloaded from us. The trial version contains all samples and functions of the licenced sample set, but the sound is muted periodically when playing.
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Petoskey, A Native American
A statue of the man after whom the City of Petoskey, Michigan, is named. (2014)
Big Blue Eyes
This image is not for sale (NOT FOR SALE). This young girl with her bright glasses was running around at a family picnic . . . and as bright as the glasses look, it seemed to me that nothing could distract from her beautiful blue eyes. (2014)
Playing At The River
The Chief
This image is not for sale. (2015)
British Soldiers At Fort Michilimackinac
Fort Michilimackinac was an 18th-century French, and later British, fort and trading post at the Straits of Mackinac; it was built on the northern tip of the lower peninsula of the present-day state of Michigan, near today's Mackinaw City. (2012)
The Smile
I was walking around the grounds of the Backporch Restaurant near Lake Alfred, Florida, when I noticed a young woman working in the flowers. When I stopped to ask her a question, she turned toward me with the most pleasant of smiles. That is how she looked after working all day. When she had answered my question, I asked if I could take her picture. In my rush, I failed to focus properly on her eyes but you can easily see why I was so taken by her wonderful smile and wanted to add her to my 'people' file. Thank you, Krystal.
Walking In The Rain
On a rainy day while my grandchildren were visiting, they decided to go out for a walk under umbrellas. I couldn't resist a shot from my garage. In my haste, I failed to achieve a shutter speed fast enough to freeze them. But the moment was too good to throw away, so I chose to use a common filter to give this image the feel of a painting. (2014)
Playing On The Beach
Walking the beach near our hotel on Hawaii's island of Kauai, I came across these boys playing in the surf. The waves were just large enough to keep the beach's sand washed smooth. (2011)
The Photographer And Her Subject
While visiting Balboa Park in San Diego, California, I came across the two young ladies. One was taking photos of the other (I forget which way around). They agreed to pose for this quick photo.
While visiting the beach at Hanalei Bay on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, I noticed these two friends having a conversation. The steep mountains made the perfect background.
Aunt And Grand-Niece Stroll The Beach
Big Camera, Little Camera, No Camera
These three visitors were walking to a panoramic sight at Yosemite National Park's Olmsted Point. (2014)
Rifle Firing Demonstration At Fort Michilimackinac
These men are employed by the State of Michigan to perform as British Soldiers at Fort Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City, Michigan. They were giving a rifle firing demonstration in this image. I was fortunate to catch the muzzle flash along with the ignition in the firing pan. (2014)
Happiness Is Mime
While strolling Balboa Park in San Diego, California, I happened upon these two mime artists. They were kind enough to make this pose for me.
The Sun Is Blinding Me
These performers at a Florida attraction are being blinded by the sun during what photographers call the 'golden hour' . . .
The Gardener
While visiting Fort Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City, Michigan, I saw this young lady employee working in the flowers in her period-piece costume. She was kind enough to agree to a photo.
The Couple With Tattoos
As I was taking a break at Disney Springs in Orlando, Florida, this couple sat down near me. I felt they made a lovely couple with their tattoos, smiles, and general aura. I could not resist asking their permission for this photograph and they were kind enough to pose quickly.
Watching The Boats Go By
While walking the streets of St. Ignace in Michigan's upper peninsula, I came across this couple sitting on a bench as they watched the boats come in off Lake Huron.
Playing At Ocqueoc Falls
Preparing To Bathe
Campers sometimes bathe in the Merced River while staying at Yosemite National Park. At an isolated portion of the river I came across someone I felt might be in preparation . . . and, yes, she was unaware of my presence and I gave her privacy. (2016)
Enjoying A Round of Golf
These golfers are teeing off from the 14th tee at Black Bear Golf Course in Vanderbilt, Michigan. In my landscape gallery, I have included an image of this hole from behind this 14th green on the same day. (2013)
Civil War Canon Crew
While attending the Battle Of Bowlegs Creek reenactment in Florida, USA, I saw this canon crew taking a break with the dead bodies behind them. It seemed appropriate to display it in black & white.
Looking To The Horizon
Photographers love what they call the 'golden hour' when the sun is low in the evening sky, but to many people the low sun is an annoyance.
Can You See Bill . . .
Photographers love the sunlight at what they call the 'golden hour', but for many of us it is annoying beyond belief.
Being Awed . . .
The visitor to Taft Point cannot help but be awed at all the various sights of grandeur spread out in from of him/her. These visitors have reached the edge of the escarpment on one side of Taft Point and are looking across a chasm to another portion of the escarpment.
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Female hunters made up over a third of the participants at this annual hunt
BELOIT – Thirty-five new hunters with limited experience came from all across the state to get a taste of what pheasant hunting can be like. Hunters ranged in age from 11 to 55, and out of those 35 hunters, an impressive number of 11 participants were female. The event is organized by Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism staff from the Glen Elder Wildlife Area and volunteers from the Pass It On – Outdoor Mentors, Inc. of Wichita.
This year hunters were joined by 10 celebrities and hometown heroes who served as hunting mentors. Celebrity hunters included former NFL players Mark Arneson, Jerry Holloway, Mel Gray, and Eric Williams; former professional drag racer Guy Caster; youth Crappiemasters champion John Gilotte; and national go-cart racing youth champions Brody and Nolan Pope. Hero-celebrities from the Kansas National Guard included LTC Damon Frizzell from Gardner and SSGT Casey Pennock from Manhattan.
The day began before sunrise in the basement of Hopewell Church at Glen Elder State Park with a biscuits and gravy breakfast. Following breakfast the young hunters were briefed on safety procedures and then divided into five hunting groups. Each hunting group had celebrities, a hunt captain, and at least three bird dogs. Groups hunted in either Glen Elder State Park or in one of the refuge areas on Glen Elder Wildlife Area surrounding the lake where public hunting is generally not allowed.
Every group saw a good number of pheasants within shooting range and almost all of the hunters got multiple shot opportunities at the tough birds. Only the youth and celebrities hunted in each group and each youth was "shadowed" by a parent or other adult mentor throughout the morning. While afield, participants also enjoyed seeing lots of deer, geese, ducks, bald eagles, as well as several other wildlife species.
Hunters bagged a combined total of eight roosters, with every group harvesting at least one bird. The morning of the hunt, participant Cassandra Kinzie even managed to pull off a "double" on two roosters that flushed together, making quite a present for the young lady who celebrated her birthday that day.
At lunch, groups returned to the church basement for a meal provided by the Waconda Lake Association. Hunting stories were shared and one youth hunter from each group was recognized and presented with an additional prize for demonstrating excellent safety skills while they hunted. A longest tail feather contest was also held for the successful youth hunters. After lunch, several hunters took part in a trap shoot held in Glen Elder State Park. Within a couple hours, trap shooters managed to burn up about 1,500 rounds of target ammo and blue rock that was provided as part of the event.
The day's events concluded in the evening with a Hunter's Banquet held at Memorial Hall in Downs where each youth hunter received a prize package, and attendees learned about the importance of quality habitat for pheasants and the importance of getting more kids involved in hunting. Meet and greets with celebrity hunters concluded the evening.
"This event would not be possible without the generous support of over 30 businesses and individuals that stepped up as sponsors from the local communities surrounding Waconda Lake," said Glen Elder Wildlife Area Manager, Chris Lecuyer. "These sponsors allow the day-long event to be offered to participants absolutely free of charge and their donations of prizes, food, services, and financial contributions continue to make the event a bigger success every year, so thank you."
For information, contact the Glen Elder Area Office at (785) 545-3345.


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If you're a conflicted libertarian in a swing state, check this out. It's a way to agree with non swing state Republicans to exchange votes. You get to register a vote for a libertarian AND impact your local race.
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text: Why carve a pumpkin when you can build a machine to do it for you? Using an EMSL Egg-Bot for inspiration, the VanDiepenbos family scaled it up in order to make a pumpkin carving robot called the punkinBoT. This is a video of their machine's first cut at Maker Faire Detroit. It's a bit wobbly, but looks like it's doing the job nicely. I especially like the severed arm on the cutter head. Very fitting!


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Steven Sum has been to the state meet three times–in cross country. In track and field, where long distance talent is rich but CIF State bids are few, the Saratoga junior is 0-for-2.
At about 8:45 p.m. on Friday on the San Jose City College track he will try his best to change that stat. That's when Sum and 11 other challengers are scheduled to race in the 3,200-meter final at the Central Coast Section championship meet.
Field events at the CCS finals will get underway at 4 p.m. on May 30 and the track program will begin at 6 p.m.
Unless somebody cracks the usually tough-to-crack state qualifying mark, only the first three finishers in each event will advance automatically from CCS to the state meet, June 6-7 at Veterans Stadium in Clovis.
As a freshman, Sum finished fifth in 9:26. He was five seconds faster last year as a sophomore, but placed sixth behind five seniors. This year Sum is the CCS leader in the eight-lap race, having clocked 9:10.23 at the Arcadia Invitational on April 11, and no other runner has come within seven seconds of that mark.
Although Sum won both the 3,200 and 1,600 races at the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League finals on May 16, he decided to focus on just the longer distance at CCS.
After placing second in Division III cross country three seasons in a row, Sum will be running for his first CCS gold medal of any kind.
In the first of two heats at the CCS Semifinals May 24, only Monterey senior James Welsh could stay with Sum. They both crossed the finish line in 9:25.18 and were the only runners to advance to the 3,200 final.
The other 10 qualifiers came from the second heat, which was won by Los Gatos junior Chris Foster in 9:18.62. It is the first track final for Foster, who ran 9:45 for 16th in last year's semifinals.
Foster, who captured cross country gold in CCS Division II and finished ninth in the state meet last fall, ranks second to Sum at the 3,200 distance with 9:17.62.
Another Los Gatos junior, Ben Haderle, was the third fastest qualifier out of 33 runners, slicing more than 12 seconds off his PR with 9:24.07. Bellarmine senior Matt Seidel (9:25.71) also advanced, as did Homestead senior Cooper Sloan (9:26.13) and Lincoln junior Jose Pina (9:26.20).
Foster also was one of the 12 runners who advanced in the 1,600, finishing third in his heat and sixth overall with 4:19.66. Lynbrook sophomore Justin Robison was the top qualifier, winning his heat in 4:18.27, a new PR. Pina was fifth overall in 4:19.56, four seconds faster than his previous best. Juniors Miles Meijer of Bellarmine (4:20.78) and Jack Sexton of Los Gatos (4:23.77) also qualified with new PRs.
In the girls 1,600, everybody was chasing either state leader Anna Maxwell (4:53), a senior from San Lorenzo Valley, or Gunn senior Sarah Robinson (4:56). Neither approached their sub-4:50 bests, but they ran plenty fast, resulting in PRs for several others.
Los Gatos junior Cecily Johnson was second to Robinson and fourth overall with 5:00.49, a PR by four seconds. Pioneer senior Jeanine Noordam (5:01.37), who was fourth in the Maxwell heat and sixth overall, Leigh freshman Emily Smith (5:05.73) and Homestead junior Hannah Allen (5:06.62) also advanced with PRs. Fremont sophomore J.J. Escalera qualified 10th at 5:09.03.
Noordam (2:16.28) was one of four heat winners in the 800, along with top qualifier Robinson (2:09.72), state leader Maxwell (2:09.86) and Bianca Bryant of Piedmont Hills. Junior Juliana Mount of Notre Dame-San Jose (2:11.38), Smith (2:17.09) and Escalera (2:18.24) also reached the final.
Maxwell will not be in the 3,200, but Robinson will be, after winning her heat with 10:39. Harker freshman Niki Iyer (10:51) was the third fastest of the 12 qualifiers, and Monta Vista senior Bridget Gottlieb was fifth in 10:56.86, snapping the 11-minute barrier for the first time.
Archbishop Mitty sophomore Julia Lemak (11:01.40), Lynbrook junior Grace Ling (11:04.16) and Monta Vista freshman Kelly Bishop (11:08.02) also advanced with PRs.
Among the non-qualifiers was Los Gatos' Johnson, who was seventh in her heat and 15th overall with a PR of 11:15.59.
There were not a lot of surprises at the meet, which featured 34 entries for each event and lasted from 2 p.m. until after 9:30 p.m., when the last 4×400 relay heat was completed. With the exception of the two long distance runs, only the top eight finishers advanced from each running event. There will be 12 finalists in throws and horizontal jumps, but just eight in the pole vault and high jump contests.
Cats seek repeat
Defending champion Los Gatos, Gunn and Piedmont Hills all kept themselves in good position to win the girls first-place trophy, as their key performers all advanced.
Los Gatos and Gunn got started right away, winning their heats of the 4×100 relay.
The Wildcats lowered their season best time to 47.36, zipping to victory in the first of five heats. Junior Marina Torras, seniors Greta Wagner and Hannah Chen and sophomore Caice Lanovaz combined to beat second-place Santa Cruz by nearly two seconds.
Lynbrook was the only qualifier from its heat, as seniors Imani Behrens and Kathy Jang and juniors Gianna Wu and Claire Yuan combined to run 49.81 and nip Mitty by .11.
For Los Gatos Wagner, Lanovaz and Chen–all State Meet participants last year–each advanced to the finals in three individual events.
Lanovaz (14.79) and Chen (14.99) were heat winners in the 100 hurdles, trailing only Piedmont Hills freshman Reonna Collier (13.77), who also had the fastest times in the 300 hurdles (42.67) and 100 dash (11.82). Wagner was the only other girl to zoom under 12 seconds, taking her century race in 11.93.
Chen won her 300 heat in 43.73, the third fastest time of the day, and senior teammate Carly Heffernan qualified seventh in 45.36.
Wagner (24.83) and Lanovaz (24.95) were heat winners in the 200, along with Cupertino sophomore Jade Harrison (24.45) and CCS leader and reigning champion Maddy Price (23.98).
Price (55.34) and Harrison (56.57) won their 400 contests. Wilcox junior D'Airrien Jackson (56.33) and Homestead sophomore Kailey Harvey (59.00) also reached the final. Harvey finished just ahead of Los Gatos' Torras (59.09) in their heat to earn the final spot.
Wagner and Heffernan were among the pole vault qualifiers, along with Presentation sisters Taylor and Sydney Jaques, each clearing 10-6.
Lanovaz (18-2.5) and Chen (17-6.25) were second and fifth in the long jump, behind the top leap of 19-1.5 by defending champ Marisa Kwiatkowski of Wilcox. Maggie Cusick of Notre Dame-San Jose also advanced with 17-5.
Kwiatkowski also was the top qualifier in the triple jump, bounding 39-3.25. Branham junior Shelby Shikashio was second with 36-8.50 with Cupertino junior Anamika Ghosh fourth at 35-9.75. Other finalists include Notre Dame junior Gabriela Triant and Wilcox senior Alicia Yee, both at 35-0.5, and Mitty sophomore Julia Chizanskos (34-7.5)
In the high jump, Saratoga senior Mady Fagan, the CCS leader with a best leap of 5-8.5, junior teammate Puck de Roos and Prospect freshman Olga Baryshnikova were among seven athletes to advance by clearing 5-2.
In the throws, Valley Christian teammates Ronna Stone and Elena Bruckner were the top qualifiers.
Stone paced the discus with a toss of 136-8 and Willow Glen junior Kiya Paul (114-1), Bruckner (112-10) and Monta Vista senior Emma Seyer (106-3) also advanced.
Bruckner's 44-5 was the best heave of the shot put. Stone was second at 40-9 and Seyer sixth with 34-10.
Maciel top thrower
Willow Glen senior Luis Maciel led the boys in both throwing events, hurling the discus 167-5 and heaving the shot 52-8. Bellarmine junior Marshall Godsil qualified third in the discus (161-4) and fifth in the shot (50-0). Branham junior Raymond Ellis took fifth in the discus (148-2) and eighth in the shot (48-2), while Willow Glen senior Joe Kaufusi advanced in the discus (141-10).
In other field events, seniors Grant Bush of Bellarmine (44-11) and Davis Catolico of Lynbrook (44-0.25) qualified third and fifth in the triple jump, while Branham junior Zachary Nichols and Bellarmine senior Jon Stofer advanced in the pole vault by scaling 13-6.
A pair of Lincoln juniors were heat winners. Jacob Hoekstra covered the 110 high hurdles in 14.94 and ran 39.57 in the 300, and teammate Daniel Cervantez ran 1:56.19 in the 800.
Branham junior Aidan Kirwan won his 300 hurdles heat in 39.10 and was the final qualifier in the 110 highs (15.02), right behind Leland senior Jack Weeks, who ran 14.90.
In the short sprints, Los Gatos senior Marcus Lanovaz (11.12) was second to top qualifier Alex Morris of Santa Cruz (10.81) and sixth overall in the 100, and Saratoga senior Eric Ringsrud was seventh in the 200 at 22.39. In the 400, junior Derek Friske of The King's Academy qualified sixth with 50.03 and Wilcox senior Delshawn Mitchell was seventh at 50.08.
Saratoga won its heat of the 4×400 relay, as Ringsrud and fellow seniors Travis Stokes, Will Guy and Ben Glasstone combined for a PR of 3:26.06, fifth fastest overall. Homestead's team of seniors Hakeen O'Neal and Kevin Nguyen, junior Tim Stoddard and sophomore Michael Rhoads qualified seventh with 3:26.58.
Leigh seniors Rahul Sirasao, Brian Galvan, Ibrahim Conte and Sean Cosentino teamed up to take their 400 relay heat in 43.35, fifth fastest of the eight qualifiers. Lynbrook's senior combo of Catolico, Andrew Lee, Eloy Fernandez and Ervin Irimpan was second to the Longhorns with 44.12 and earned the last spot into the finals. Santa Cruz (42.05) and Bellarmine (42.73) posted the best times.


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As an INTJ, your primary mode of living is focused internally, where you take things in primarily via your intuition. Your secondary mode is external, where you deal with things rationally and logically.
INTJs live in the world of ideas and strategic planning. They value intelligence, knowledge, and competence, and typically have high standards in these regards, which they continuously strive to fulfill. To a somewhat lesser extent, they have similar expectations of others.
With Introverted Intuition dominating their personality, INTJs focus their energy on observing the world, and generating ideas and possibilities. Their mind constantly gathers information and makes associations about it. They are tremendously insightful and usually are very quick to understand new ideas. However, their primary interest is not understanding a concept, but rather applying that concept in a useful way. Unlike the INTP, they do not follow an idea as far as they possibly can, seeking only to understand it fully. INTJs are driven to come to conclusions about ideas. Their need for closure and organization usually requires that they take some action.
INTJ's tremendous value and need for systems and organization, combined with their natural insightfulness, makes them excellent scientists. An INTJ scientist gives a gift to society by putting their ideas into a useful form for others to follow. It is not easy for the INTJ to express their internal images, insights, and abstractions. The internal form of the INTJ's thoughts and concepts is highly individualized, and is not readily translatable into a form that others will understand. However, the INTJ is driven to translate their ideas into a plan or system that is usually readily explainable, rather than to do a direct translation of their thoughts. They usually don't see the value of a direct transaction, and will also have difficulty expressing their ideas, which are non-linear. However, their extreme respect of knowledge and intelligence will motivate them to explain themselves to another person who they feel is deserving of the effort.
INTJs are natural leaders, although they usually choose to remain in the background until they see a real need to take over the lead. When they are in leadership roles, they are quite effective, because they are able to objectively see the reality of a situation, and are adaptable enough to change things which aren't working well. They are the supreme strategists - always scanning available ideas and concepts and weighing them against their current strategy, to plan for every conceivable contingency.
INTJs spend a lot of time inside their own minds, and may have little interest in the other people's thoughts or feelings. Unless their Feeling side is developed, they may have problems giving other people the level of intimacy that is needed. Unless their Sensing side is developed, they may have a tendency to ignore details which are necessary for implementing their ideas.
The INTJ's interest in dealing with the world is to make decisions, express judgments, and put everything that they encounter into an understandable and rational system. Consequently, they are quick to express judgments. Often they have very evolved intuitions, and are convinced that they are right about things. Unless they complement their intuitive understanding with a well-developed ability to express their insights, they may find themselves frequently misunderstood. In these cases, INTJs tend to blame misunderstandings on the limitations of the other party, rather than on their own difficulty in expressing themselves. This tendency may cause the INTJ to dismiss others input too quickly, and to become generally arrogant and elitist.
INTJs are ambitious, self-confident, deliberate, long-range thinkers. Many INTJs end up in engineering or scientific pursuits, although some find enough challenge within the business world in areas which involve organizing and strategic planning. They dislike messiness and inefficiency, and anything that is muddled or unclear. They value clarity and efficiency, and will put enormous amounts of energy and time into consolidating their insights into structured patterns.
Other people may have a difficult time understanding an INTJ. They may see them as aloof and reserved. Indeed, the INTJ is not overly demonstrative of their affections, and is likely to not give as much praise or positive support as others may need or desire. That doesn't mean that he or she doesn't truly have affection or regard for others, they simply do not typically feel the need to express it. Others may falsely perceive the INTJ as being rigid and set in their ways. Nothing could be further from the truth, because the INTJ is committed to always finding the objective best strategy to implement their ideas. The INTJ is usually quite open to hearing an alternative way of doing something.
When under a great deal of stress, the INTJ may become obsessed with mindless repetitive, Sensate activities, such as over-drinking. They may also tend to become absorbed with minutia and details that they would not normally consider important to their overall goal.
INTJs need to remember to express themselves sufficiently, so as to avoid difficulties with people misunderstandings. In the absence of properly developing their communication abilities, they may become abrupt and short with people, and isolationists.
INTJs have a tremendous amount of ability to accomplish great things. They have insight into the Big Picture, and are driven to synthesize their concepts into solid plans of action. Their reasoning skills gives them the means to accomplish that. INTJs are most always highly competent people, and will not have a problem meeting their career or education goals. They have the capability to make great strides in these arenas. On a personal level, the INTJ who practices tolerances and puts effort into effectively communicating their insights to others has everything in his or her power to lead a rich and rewarding life.
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Everything I'm not - except for the drinking and I gave that up years ago.
Hi Ian - I don't drink at all - they are generalizing - and it says that they might do drinking under stress - so I don't understand that statement myself - anyone could drink under stress.
I've noticed that INTJ and INTP women are very likely to be atheists. I am neither and (you guessed it) not even female. On my schedule - searching the site to see if it's true that most active atheists have the N preference.
That is true Joe - most INTJ are rational and are Atheists.
I've had to go through the personality type testing twice, once for an employer and the other through college, and both times I was placed in the INTJ category.
The summary is just that, a general idea of the type of personality a person is working with. It is very helpful for people to have a clue into the type of person they are working with as it gives them the tools to handle the many complicated situations that arise due to personality conflicts. There are obviously variances of the people within the categories but as humans, we like to label and categorize for rapid information processing and quick decision making.
I often wonder if I had been armed with this information beforehand, and knew that I was living with an extrovert (extrovert doesn't even begin to describe how outgoing this guy is...:P) I may have been able to avoid leaving. It's the most frustrating feeling to be so deeply dissatisfied but not be able to explain it to the other person so that it doesn't sound like petty nitpicking of differences.
As for mindless repetitive activities such as over-drinking, guilty as charged. I think what separates an INTJ's usage from the every day usage of others under stress is that once the stress is gone or at least manageable, we don't keep drinking. It is the hyper-focused, obsessive part that distinguishes the reaction to stress from other personality types.
Thank you Tara for your reply.
I'm not on Facebook either - nice to have you Michele.
INTJ - this should help you if you tested as this personality type.
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Started in late 2008, Perimeter's unique Distinguished Visiting Research Chair program offers a second research home to some of the world's leading physicists. While retaining permanent positions at their home institutions, DVRCs visit the Institute for extended periods each year, becoming a part of Perimeter's community in all respects: conducting research, collaborating with colleagues, organizing conferences, teaching in the Perimeter Scholars International master's program, and contributing to outreach programs. Perimeter currently has 25 DVRCs from across the entire spectrum of theoretical physics, appointed to three-year renewable terms. In 2012, in addition to the four new DVRCs highlighted below, 11 existing DVRCs accepted three-year renewals: Yakir Aharonov, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Ignacio Cirac, Stephen Hawking, Patrick Hayden, Leo Kadanoff, Renate Loll, Subir Sachdev, Leonard Susskind, Bill Unruh, and Mark Wise.
Adrian Kent (PhD Cambridge, 1996) is a Reader in Quantum Physics with the University of Cambridge. He has previously held positions as an Enrico Fermi postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Prior to becoming a DVRC, Kent was an Associate Faculty member at Perimeter Institute. His research focuses on the foundations of physics, quantum cryptography, and quantum information theory, including the physics of decoherence, novel tests of quantum theory and alternative theories, and new applications of quantum information.
Ramesh Narayan (PhD Bangalore, 1979) is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University. He is an astrophysicist who has won international renown for his research on black holes. Narayan has also carried out research in a number of other areas of theoretical astrophysics, including accretion disks, gravitational lensing, gamma-ray bursts, and neutron stars. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (London), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the International Astronomical Union and the American Astronomical Society.
Ashvin Vishwanath (PhD Princeton, 2001) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary field is condensed matter theory, with a focus on magnetism, superconductivity, and other correlated quantum phenomena in solids and cold atomic gases. Vishwanath is particularly interested in novel phenomena, such as topological phases of matter, non-fermi liquids, and quantum spin liquids. He has recently been interested in realizing Majorana and Weyl fermions in solids and in using concepts from quantum information, such as entanglement entropy, to characterize novel phases of matter. His past honours include a Sloan Research Fellowship (2004), the CAREER Award of the National Science Foundation (2007), the Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the American Chapter of Indian Physicists (2010), and the Simons Foundation Sabbatical Fellowship (2012).
Steven White (PhD Cornell, 1988) is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Irvine. His primary research concerns condensed matter theory with an emphasis on numerical approaches for strongly correlated magnetic and superconducting systems. In 1992, White invented the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG), a numerical variation technique for high accuracy calculations of the low energy physics of quantum many body systems. For his efforts, White has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1998) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008). In 2003, he won the Aneesur Rahman Prize, the highest honour in the field of computational physics given by the American Physical Society.


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The asymptotic behaviour of a singular-perturbed two-phase Stefan problem due to slow diffusion in one of the two phases is investigated. In the limit the model equations reduce to a one-phase Stefan problem. A boundary layer at the moving interface makes it necessary to use a corrected interface condition obtained from matched asymptotic expansions. The approach is validated by numerical experiments using a front-tracking method.
The asymptotic analysis of IBVPs for the singularly perturbed parabolic PDE ... in the limit epsilon to zero motivate investigations of certain recursively defined approximative series ("ping-pong expansions"). The recursion formulae rely on operators assigning to a boundary condition at the left or the right boundary a solution of the parabolic PDE. Sufficient conditions for uniform convergence of ping-pong expansions are derived and a detailed analysis for the model problem ... is given.
Second Order Scheme for the Spatially Homogeneous Boltzmann Equation with Maxwellian Molecules (1995)
In the standard approach, particle methods for the Boltzmann equation are obtained using an explicit time discretization of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation. This kind of discretization leads to a restriction of the discretization parameter as well as on the differential cross section in the case of the general Boltzmann equation. Recently, it was shown, how to construct an implicit particle scheme for the Boltzmann equation with Maxwellian molecules. The present paper combines both approaches using a linear combination of explicit and implicit discretizations. It is shown that the new method leads to a second order particle method, when using an equiweighting of explicit and implicit discretization.
Simulation methods like DSMC are an efficient tool to compute rarefied gas flows. Using supercomputers it is possible to include various real gas effects like vibrational energies or chemical reactions in a gas mixture. Nevertheless it is still necessary to improve the accuracy of the current simulation methods in order to reduce the computational effort. To support this task the paper presents a comparison of the classical DSMC method with the so called finite Pointset Method. This new approach was developed during several years in the framework of the European space project HERMES. The comparison given in the paper is based on two different testcases: a spatially homogeneous relaxation problem and a 2-dimensional axisymmetric flow problem at high Mach numbers.
The paper presents theoretical and numerical investigations on simulation methods for the Boltzmann equation with axisymmetric geometry. The main task is to reduce the computational effort by taking advantage of the symmetry in the solution of the Boltzmann equation.; The reduction automatically leads to the concept of weighting functions for the radial space coordinate and therefore to a modified Boltzmann equation. Consequently the classical simulation methods have to be modified according to the new equation.; The numerical results shown in this paper - rarefied gas flows around a body with axisymmetric geometry - were done in the framework of the European space project HERMES.
The paper presents a parallelization technique for the finite pointset method, a numerical method for rarefied gas flows.; First we give a short introduction to the Boltzmann equation, which describes the behaviour of rarefied gas flows. The basic ideas of the finite pointset method are presented and a strategy to parallelize the algorithm will be explained. It is shown that a static processor partition leads to an insufficient load-balance of the processors. Therefore an optimized parallelization technique based on an adaptive processor partition will be introduced, which improves the efficiency of the simulation code over the whole region of interesting flow situation. Finally we present a comparison of the CPU-times between a parallel computer and a vector computer.
Numerical Simulation of the Stationary One-Dimensional Boltzmann Equation by Particle Methods (1995)
The paper presents a numerical simulation technique - based on the well-known particle methods - for the stationary, one-dimensional Boltzmann equation for Maxwellian molecules. In contrast to the standard splitting methods, where one works with the instationary equation, the current approach simulates the direct solution of the stationary problem. The model problem investigated is the heat transfer between two parallel plates in the rarefied gas regime. An iteration process is introduced which leads to the stationary solution of the exact - space discretized - Boltzmann equation, in the sense of weak convergence.
The system of shallow water waves is one of the classical examples for nonlinear, twodimensional conservation laws. The paper investigates a simple kinetic equation depending on a parameter e which leads for e to 0 to the system of shallow water waves. The corresponding equilibrium distribution function has a compact support which depends on the eigenvalues of the hyperbolic system. It is shown that this kind of kinetic approach is restricted to a special class of nonlinear conservation laws. The kinetic model is used to develop a simple particle method for the numerical solution of shallow water waves. The particle method can be implemented in a straightforward way and produces in test examples sufficiently accurate results.
Monte-Carlo methods are widely used numerical tools in various fields of application, like rarefied gas dynamics, vacuum technology, stellar dynamics or nuclear physics. A central part in all applications is the generation of random variates according to a given probability law. Fundamental techniques to generate non-uniform random variates are the inversion principle or the acceptance-rejection method. Both procedures can be quite time-consuming if the given probability law has a complicated structure.; In this paper we consider probability laws depending on a small parameter and investigate the use of asmptotic expansions to generate random variates. The results given in the paper are restrictedto first order expansions. We show error estimates for the discrepancy as well as for the bounded Lipschitz distance of the asymptotic expansion. Furthermore the integration error for some special classes of functions is given. The efficiency of the method is proved by a numerical example from rarefied gas flows.


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Sen. Kent Conrad, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said on Fox News Sunday today that Sen. Harry Reid will offer a compromise proposal on Monday to extend the payroll tax cut into next year.
Democrats and Republicans rejected each others plans in dueling votes on Thursday night. Republicans wanted to extend a federal pay freeze, while Democrats wanted a surtax on incomes over $1 million to pay for the extension.
Both parties say the question of extending the tax is not a question of whether, but of how to pay for it.
Conrad promised that "It will be paid for, it will be in a way that is credible and serious," saying he discussed the proposal with Reid yesterday.
He added that the Reid plan will be "serious attempt to move this ball forward because we should not have a tax increase on the middle income. That just makes no sense in this economy."
The extension of the tax cut is seen as vital for the economy by economists on both sides of the aisle, and allowing it to lapse would mean the average American family would see a $1,000 tax increase next year.


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An Elegant Tern would be an amazing 300th bird!
Red-necked Stint. Virginia's Warbler. American White Pelican. Black-bellied Whistling Duck. Little Gull. Northern Saw-whet Owl. Ash-throated Flycatcher. And that's just seven of the 299 birds I have seen in Queens so far. I want number 300 so badly that I can almost taste it…I wonder what it will be and when I will see it? What do you think? Wait, don't tell me yet – read on!
Instead of just finding bird 300 and later blogging about it I want to make sure that at least one person out there in the world would truly share my joy. And what better way than to share an awesome book about birds with the person who correctly predicts bird number 300? Fortunately, the folks at Princeton University Press agreed, and the person who correctly guesses my 300th species of bird in Queens will get a free copy of The Warbler Guide (which Donna reviewed).
How do you enter? Just follow the easy steps below!
A Brown Pelican would be a nice bird to add to the Queens list.
I recognize that this game might give an unfair advantage to those who are familiar with patterns of occurrence of birds in Queens or of my birding habits so I will list a few hints as to what birds seem most likely at this moment. (Or you could look at my previous prediction posts.)
So, readers, guess away! And if you like the idea of this contest please help spread the word…the more guesses the more likely that someone will claim The Warbler Guide! See you in the comments.
Many thanks to Princeton University Press for agreeing to give the lucky winner a copy of The Warbler Guide!
Eastern Kingbird OR Inca Dove.
Sans a Mega shorebird or you lucking into a BRPE or Shearwater this weekend, it's gotta be Whimbrel.
Just keep looking up.
Whimbrel, July 20, 2013.
Nix that date Corey, the Whimbrel will fly by on July 27, 2013. Just make sure you're birding Queens that weekend.
I'm rooting for you Cory! Brown Pelican, July 29!
The Bearded Vulture that flew off West over my office on June 28 should arrive over your appartment in Queens on July 5th as your #300.
Odds are much better for something ocean related, but Fork-tailed Flycatcher, August 2.
My guess is Brown Pelican on July 21st.
I'm pretty ignorant (and a little jealous) of the Queen's birding scene (holy warblerfest!), but I'll take a stab at it with a Whimbrel, say August 17th?
I think I'll go for a brown pelican on July 25th 🙂
I'm going to guess Northern Goshawk on Dec. 18. Their winter range includes New York. So I'm hoping for your sake, Corey, that one wanders into Queens.
I am going to say that shorebirds and seawatching stink again. It takes you until a cold front on Nov 3 pushes an improbably Golden Eagle over Queens.
Black Vulture August 8th is my guess 🙂
Red Phalarope – Sept. 7
Black vulture on August 25. Happy birding!
Elegant Tern in the next few weeks.
Brown pelican, August 24, 2013
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Re: Autocross Event with my EV on race tires!
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BuckMkII wrote:It would be awesome if there was an "overboost" button on the steering wheel that gave an extra , say, 50 or 70 foot-lbs of torque for one or two seconds followed by a short refractory period.pyromancy5 wrote:If only we could find a way through software to tap into the extra power in the Leaf motor.
I have no idea how these things work, but I would love to see if a tuner could remap the throttle controller and exceed the programmed limits.


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Well, here is another tutorial on another Ninjago character that is just as cool or cooler than Jay. Here is "how to draw Zane", step by step from Ninjago. He is a white colored ninja, and he is part of the Ninja of Ice affiliation. Zane's character is probably one of the more interesting of the few that I have read up on, and I think it's because of his background. He is a very calm, cool and collective figure that because of this, he doesn't show his emotion too often. Like with most popular characters, Zane has a horrendous sense of humor which is probably due to the fact that he has a sixth sense. As far as weapons go, Zane uses a shruiken, spear, and a Ninjago sword. Anyways, he is going to be an easier Lego character to replicate so when you tackle this task of drawing Zane make sure to leave a comment and rating to let everyone else know what you think. There is one last lesson going up for the day so have fun with all the tutorials that I submitted thus far. Thanks guys and enjoy!
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Titan Pharmaceuticals ( TTNP - Get Report) is developing Probuphine, a proprietary, long-acting form of the opioid dependence drug buprenorphine. Probuphine is implanted just under the skin of the upper arm and provides continuous delivery of drug for six months. The FDA accepted Probuphine for priority review with an approval decision expected on April 30. Titan also expects FDA to convene an advisory panel to review Probuphine, likely in the second half of March. Various oral forms of buprenorphine, including Suboxone, have been used to treat opioid dependence for years, with sales well in excess of $1 billion annually. But oral buprenorphine has its drawbacks, patients can forget to take their pills or choose to sell them illegally. Probuphine avoids these problems and should improve compliance. Titan licensed U.S. and Canadian rights for Probuphine to Braeburn Pharma. Titan received $15.75 million upfront and is eligible for another $50 million if Probuphine earns FDA approval, plus additional milestone payments and double-digit royalties on sales. Braeburn has also committed $75 million towards commercial launch. Titan secured this licensing deal while their market cap was under $80 million, so the investment by Braeburn is substantial and meaningful. With that setup, let's talk trading Titan. The first key event will be the FDA advisory panel in the second half of March. Run-up traders like myself love to trade FDA advisory panels because so much of the stock action is predictable. I expect Titan's stock price to continue to move higher the advisory panel nears. The FDA will release its Probuphine review two business days prior to the advisory panel meeting date, which is the opportunity for traders to safely exit with profits (hopefully.) Titan is currently listed on the OTC bulletin boards but management said a Nasdaq listing is a 2013 goal. With shares running up to their advisory panel and their late April FDA approval decision date, up-listing to Nasdaq may be attainable in the near future. Titan has enough cash from the Braeburn deal to carry it through the FDA advisory panel and its April 30 approval decision date. The U.S. market for buprenorphine was $1.3 billion in 2011 and growing. Titan estimates Probuphine sales could reach $300-500 million per year at peak.
Titan, with a low stock price, large potential commercial market and enough cash on hand, has all the ingredients for a beautiful run up into the advisory panel. Messier is long Titan shares.