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Royals Minor League report: April 18
Omaha Storm Chasers (8-7)
Omaha 3, Round Rock 2
WP: Buddy Baumann (1-0)
SV: Spencer Patton (3)
HR: Francisco Pena (3), Carlos Peguero (1)
Peguero's homer in the sixth snapped a 2-2 tie as Omaha took three of four in the series. Catcher Pena recorded a two-run homer in the fifth, his third round-tripper in his last three games. Omaha catchers homered in all four games, as Jesus Flores went deep on Thursday. Brett Tomko tossed five innings, striking out two while working around two solo homers.
NW Arkansas Naturals (4-11)
Northwest Arkansas 6, Tulsa 5
WP: Malcom Culver (1-1)
SV: Hassan Pena (1)
HR: None
Cheslor Cuthbert's RBI single in the eighth lifted Northwest Arkansas to a second straight win. Cuthbert, ranked 20th among Royals prospect by MLB.com, posted three hits with two RBIs. Brian Bocock doubled twice and scored three times. J.C. Sulbaran worked a season-high six innings, striking out four while allowing a run on five hits and two walks.
Wilmington Blue Rocks (7-7)
Wilmington at Myrtle Beach -- postponed due to rain
A doubleheader is on tap for Saturday, with the first game scheduled to start at 5:05 p.m. ET. Christian Binford (1-0, 0.00) will start Game 1, and Daniel Stumpf (0-2, 3.52 ERA) is set to pitch the nightcap. Binford is ranked 12th among MLB.com's list of top Royals prospects.
Lexington Legends (8-8)
Augusta 11, Lexington 3
LP: Luke Farrell (0-1)
HR: None
Lexington dropped to 1-1 vs. the GreenJackets. Humberto Arteaga (KC's 19th-ranked prospect), Alfredo Escalera and Dominique Taylor had two hits apiece. Starter Luke Farrell struck out five over three innings while yielding three unearned runs on four hits and two walks.


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Ani DiFranco: Things Pete Seeger Taught Me
I don't remember the first time Pete Seeger wrote me a letter (the early 1990s?) but I remember thinking, "whoa, Pete Seeger wrote me a letter! And it's like 2 pages long!" It was only over the course of many years, as he continued to write to me, in long hand, often in red ink… penmanship slowly deteriorating as the years passed… that I sort-of got used to the idea.
Pete was a great comrade to me and I tried to be a good comrade in return, to come when he called. The reason I can claim to be his comrade at all is because of his insistence on walking alongside people, not in front of them. Within our camaraderie was the essential relationship of teacher and student. I learned a heck of a lot from him about being a folksinger and an activist. In our every interaction there was a lesson and I payed close attention.
I remember meeting him at the first of many benefit concerts in which we would both participate. It was a typically well-meant but disorganized folk affair, and I was surrounded by stressed-out, agitated old lefties on the one hand, trying to keep the show moving along without losing their cool, and a lot of ego-driven performers on the other hand, jockeying for the limelight and who gets to headline. I was very young at the time and struck by all the unexpected and unfortunate vibes. And then in walked Pete. Within 15 minutes of his arrival he had everybody holding hands and singing in one big circle backstage. He said it was to "warm up" but I felt he was doing the work of grounding the event in the spirit in which it was intended. He instantly transformed the scene with his powerful presence and brought us all back to the purpose and joy of why we were there.

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I have doubted my belief in the Judeo-Christian god (I was raised in a Baptist household) since I was 16. I know that I am skeptical about the existence of him and other deities, organized religion, and spirituality in general; however, I refuse to truly admit this to myself. Further adding fuel to the fire is that I am gay; while I am not sure I believe in Heaven or Hell, I am still fearful that I will go to Hell for my sexual orientation. As well, my family is all about Christ (at least in bark; their bite ain't on par), so if I told them I am an agnostic with atheist overtones, they would probably scorn me. I am sort of a unicorn of oppressed identities: black, homosexual, non-theistic, and (possibly) genderqueer. I am affirmed in these identities, but am unable to fully embrace them due to my religious upbringing.
What should I do? I am fearful of fully embracing my non-theism and skepticism. I am afraid that I might be wrong in doubting, and will suffer in death (Hell or any other penalties purported by other faith systems). I suppose I might not find the answer here, but I still thought to ask.
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Edge, T.A. and S. Hill. 2007. Multiple lines of evidence to identify the sources of fecal pollution at a freshwater beach in Hamilton Harbour, Lake Ontario. Water Research. 41: 3585-3594.
Khan, I.U.H., V. Gannon, R. Kent, W. Koning, D.R. Lapen, J. Miller, N. Neumann, R. Phillips, W. Robertson, E. Topp, E. van Bochove and T.A. Edge. 2007. Development of a rapid quantitative PCR assay for direct detection and quantification of culturable and non-culturable Escherichia coli from agricultural watersheds. J. Microbiological Methods. 69: 480-488.
Hamelin, K., G. Bruant, A. El-Shaarawi, S. Hill, T.A. Edge, S. Bekal, S.M. Fairbrother, J. Harel, C. Maynard, L. Masson and R. Brousseau. 2006. A virulence and antimicrobial resistance DNA microarray detects a high frequency of virulence genes in Escherichia coli isolates from Great Lakes recreational waters. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72: 4200-4206.
Edge, T.A. and K.A. Schaefer (ed.). 2006. Microbial Source Tracking in Aquatic Ecosystems: The State of the Science and an Assessment of Needs. National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Ontario. NWRI Scientific Assessment Report Series No. 7 and Linking Water Science to Policy Workshop Series. 23p.
Edge, T.A. and S. Hill. 2005. Occurrence of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli from surface waters and fecal pollution sources near Hamilton, Ontario. Canadian J. Microbiology. 51: 501-505.
Edge, T., J.M. Byrne, R. Johnson, W. Robertson and R. Stevenson. 2001. Waterborne Pathogens. p. 1-3, In Threats to Sources of Drinking Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Health. National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Ontario. NWRI Scientific Assessment Report Series No. 1. 72p.
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problems since 4.2 update
problems since 4.2 update
I've reported on another thread (and to TM) that after navigation is canceled the energy graph doesn't display in the left panel and has to be manually reselected.
Bluetooth OK.
After navigation the left side is blank until I manually select something.
I have not noticed a Bluetooth issue. However, I will test that out tomorrow.
Ditto here. Once I manually reconnected BT from phone it was OK.
I'm not having Bluetooth issues, and I will try the nav. My one "feature" that seems to have disappeared is the Sync Temp option on the climate controls. It's no biggie, for sure, but just wondering if it was gone for everyone or if I need to do a reboot of sorts?
No Bluetooth issues. I normally keep trip info in the left panel, and as soon as I leave navigation it goes back to it.
Media app also disappears from the left panel after navigation is complete. Basically, it works like this: If you have some app displayed in the left dash panel (e.g., energy, media), and then you set some route in the Nav app, the navigation steps appear in the left dash panel, replacing whatever you had there before. When you reach your destination and navigation is complete, the left panel does not return to your original setting, it just stays blank.
But this is not new with 4.x. It has been doing this since I had 1.15.14.
I am having the Bluetooth issues. Every morning I have to manually connect my iPhone. Car sits all day at work and is fine, but it needs reconnecting every morning after charging and sitting overnight.
@mkh1437 - I am not seeing that, at least with the trip display showing in the left panel. Last night, I used navigation, and when I exited it the left panel went back to showing trip information with no further action required on my part. I never had that issue while on 4.1 either.
@jat, you said "when I exited it the left panel went back to showing trip information". Do you mean it goes back to showing whatever you had in the left panel before you initiated the navigation?
Remove your Bluetooth setting from the car, and from your phone, and re-sync. That should rectify the problem.
My left dash display comes and goes as it pleases in both my original SW 1.15.14? and 4.2 which I installed a few days ago.
However, my voice commands don't work at all in 4.2 (not that they worked before). No matter what I do, I get an error message that what I said was "unclear".
OK, this is interesting. We've seen the left side panel and nav issue but 4.2 did not install when it was supposed to so we are still running 4.1. We are supposed to install tonight with a work around...Hmmm.I post the results of this little experiment tomorrow.
@mkh1437 - yes, though the only times I can remember that was showing trip information before and after using navigation -- if you usually have something else there, it is possible it is related to what was showing.
JohnFloyd - "... disappeared is the Sync Temp option on the climate controls".
I have it with 4.2, but I didn't notice it with 4.1. I thought it was a new feature. Perhaps there is some initial operation to get it to show up such as having two different left and right temps? Once it showed up for me it always appears now. Perhaps I pressed somewhere other than the up/down arrow to get it to appear? Try tapping the temp value between the up/down buttons.
I just received an update last night, now 1.19.42. Does anyone know what this "fixed"?
It's prob'ly your thick Sveedish accent!
"Use the SYNC option (that pops up when you touch the arrow) to set the same temperature for both the driver and passenger side at the same time."
tap the tesla logo and it will tell what version and changes are on it. I also received 1.19.42. I had 4.2 but I guess it was an older version. I did notice the voice command operation changed slightly. You press and hold while issuing the voice command and then release when you are done.
I have not noticed anything else but I did not read the entire description.
went from 4.0 to 4.2 and the only display in the left dash is when I use navigation. in 4.0 I would also see energy on left dash.
also it appears right dash only can have music there - I used to be able to select what I want to see there.
not sure if this change was intentional (I suspect not)
@JohnFloyd - re Sync Temp - mine disappeared for a couple of days and then magically reappeared - no updates were installed during this time. Weird.
@noel.smith, you should be able to add whatever apps you want on either side on the dash display. If you hold down the left or right scroll wheels on the steering wheel (for whichever side you want to set), you will get a scrolling list of the available apps.
@MKH1427 - you are correct, I was mistaken, the right side works perfectly when I click the button below the wheel and select customize. the left side does not give me the option.
Hmmm... left side should work the same, but you have to click and hold the scroll wheel, not the button below it. If it doesn't maybe try rebooting your displays.
My 4.2 download was completed about three days ago. Following this every time I open the door and sit down the windshield wipers take one swipe. My navigation application (google maps) will now occasionally not function. This requires a reboot to get it to work again. In addition, after the download a red message bar appeared stating the car needs service-please call the service center. The engineers were able to reset the message error remotely, but the other problems persist. Tesla states this is the first time that they have heard of the wiper problem. Has anybody else experienced this?
I would load the 4.2 software but... oh that's right... The 'S isn't here yet. Sigh. :-)
@firstname.lastname@example.com the windshield wiper wipe seems to only occur if you left the wipers in one of the auto-sensing settings. If you turn it all the way off, then it shouldn't happen. I would agree, however, that you should be able to leave them in the auto position and not have it do the single wipe when entering the car.
The wiper splash is a known problem, and it existed prior to 4.2. If the wipers are set to "auto," when the door opens the car turns on, the sensors detect any moisture on the windshield, and the wipers splash anyone entering the car (it may even happen if the windshield is dry -- I'm not sure).
A simple fix would be to disable the "auto" feature whenever the front door is open.
I do not think it is dependent on whether moisture is detected. I find that it does the single swipe even if my car is in the garage and bone dry. It seems completely dependent on whether the wipers were left in one of the auto-sensing settings.
You are probably right. However, the wet ones are the ones I mostly remember. :)
I just got an email from Ownership stating that the windshield issue is a known inconvenience from software 4.1, but was corrected in 4.2.
I will let him know that 4.2 didn't fix it.
@DouglasR agreed. I'm also still seeing it with 4.2.
It's a "feature" on other cars as well, I think to let you know the wipers are set to auto.
Sure, and a little splash of water in the face keeps you awake when you start driving.
The windshield wiper doing a swipe every time the car is started is not a good thing when you are in a dry climate with dust on your windshield.
AlexK - then just turn the windshield wiper off of Auto if you are in a dry climate. Easy peasy.
@jjaeger | FEBRUARY 1, 2013: then just turn the windshield wiper off of Auto if you are in a dry climate.
Yes, that's what I do when in AZ. But for a setting that is suppose to be "automatic", I sure have to do allot of manual controlling of it. My other cars have auto windshield wipers and they do not decide to do a jig each time they are turned on.
My cabin temperature setting/heating isn't working since the update. I thought at first that the temp display on the top left corner of the screen was wrong, but no matter how I change the cabin temp selection, I get no heat. Brrr.The outside temp is displayed. Anyone else have this problem?
AlexK, my Seville had the same behavior (one swipe at start-up), so I was not overly surprised when the S did its thing. Now with the Cadi, I was always in the car when it was 'started', so did not have to dodge the potential spray. Assuming Tesla wants to keep the behavior, am sure that they could tweak it so the driver seat needs to be occupied. I kept the car in automatic mode all winter long, and turned it to Off during the summer months (where it never rains here in the bay area).
I received my Model S on Monday, January 21 and loved it for the week! That weekend, I got the message to upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 which I did. I am only charging at work as do not have a 220/40 at home yet. So on the following Monday, I go to plug in the car at work and the circle of light goes from blue to green to flashing green and then 10 seconds later, solid red. On the mobile charging cable itself, I got two flashing red lights. Without going into all the trouble shooting details that was tried, my car is currently sitting in the Tesla service center waiting for a new charger as this is what they think is the problem. I noted the upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 above because that is the only thing that changed during the week I had the car. But I also know I charged the car at work once or twice after the software update before that Monday morning fail. Needless to say I am very bummed as I am without my car and was told the charger is on back order. Has anyone else had a charger fail? Could 4.2 be the problem?


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Hermann Schwarz's father was an architect. Hermann studied at the Gymnasium in Dortmund where his favourite subject was chemistry. When he left school he intended to take a degree in chemistry and he entered the Gewerbeinstitut, later called the Technical University of Berlin, with this aim.
Schwarz began his study of chemistry at Berlin but it was not long before Kummer and Weierstrass had influenced him to change to mathematics. The first of his teachers to influence the direction that his research would eventually take was Karl Pohlke. Through him Schwarz became interested in geometry. Schwarz attended Weierstrass's lectures on The integral calculus in 1861 and the notes that Schwarz took at these lectures still exist. His interest in geometry was soon combined with Weierstrass's ideas of analysis. As Bölling writes in [3]:-
... ideas coming from geometrical considerations were translated [by Schwarz] into the language of analysis.He continued to study in Berlin, being supervised by Weierstrass, until 1864 when he was awarded his doctorate. His doctoral dissertation was examined by Kummer.
While in Berlin, Schwarz worked on minimal surfaces (surfaces of least area), a characteristic problem of the calculus of variations. Plateau published a famous memoir on the topic in 1866 and in the same year Weierstrass established a bridge between the theory of minimal surfaces and the theory of analytic functions. Schwarz had made an important contribution in 1865 when he discovered what is now known as the Schwarz minimal surface. This minimal surface has a boundary consisting of four edges of a regular tetrahedron.
Schwarz continued studying in Berlin for his teacher's training qualification which he completed by 1867. In that year he was appointed as a Privatdozent to the University of Halle. In 1869 he was appointed as professor of mathematics at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich then, in 1875, he accepted appointment to the chair of mathematics at Göttingen University.
Perhaps surprisingly after Schwarz succeeded Weierstrass accepting a professorship in Berlin in 1892, the balance in favour of the most eminent university in Germany for mathematics, which had undoubtedly been Berlin, began to shift towards Göttingen. There were several reasons for this. Firstly Schwarz failed to keep up his output of mathematical research after his move. Bieberbach in [2] put it rather well when he wrote that Schwarz retired to Berlin in 1892. That this was the case should not have come as a complete surprise to those making the appointment for Schwarz had published his Complete Works in 1890, two years earlier. Boerner writes in [1] that:-
... teaching duties and concern for [Schwarz's] many students took so much of his time that he published very little more. A contributing element may have been his propensity for handling both the important and the trivial with the same thoroughness, a trait also evident in his mathematical papers.We should not give the impression that the only reason for Berlin moving down from being the leading German university for mathematics to become its second university was due to Schwarz. The other effect was Klein whose dynamic leadership in Göttingen made it prosper at the expense of Berlin where Frobenius and Schwarz could not provide the same inspired approach. Perhaps the final sign that Göttingen had overtaken Berlin came in 1902 when Frobenius and Schwarz chose Hilbert to succeed to the Berlin chair which had become vacant on the death of Fuchs. Hilbert turned down the offer, preferring to remain at Göttingen. The Berlin chair was then filled by Schottky but, like Schwarz before him, he had moved to Berlin after his best days for mathematical research were behind him.
Schwarz continued teaching at Berlin until 1918. We shall describe some of his very fine mathematical achievements in a moment, but first we note that he had several interests outside mathematics, although his marriage was a mathematical one since he married Kummer's daughter. Outside mathematics he was the captain of the local Voluntary Fire Brigade and, more surprisingly, he assisted the stationmaster at the local railway station by closing the doors of the trains.
One important area which Schwarz worked on was that of conformal mappings. In 1870 he produced work related to the Riemann mapping theorem. Although Riemann had given a proof of the theorem that any simply connected region of the plane can be mapped conformally onto a disc, his proof involved using the Dirichlet problem. Weierstrass had shown that Dirichlet's solution to this was not rigorous, see [10] for details. Schwarz's gave a method to conformally map polygonal regions to the circle. Then, by approximating an arbitrary simply connected region by polygons he was able to give a rigorous proof of the Riemann mapping theorem. Schwarz also gave the alternating method for solving the Dirichlet problem which soon became a standard technique. This aspect of Schwarz's work is examined in detail in [10].
His most important work is a Festschrift for Weierstrass's 70th birthday. Schwarz answered the question of whether a given minimal surface really yields a minimal area. An idea from this work, in which he constructed a function using successive approximations, led Émile Picard to his existence proof for solutions of differential equations. It also contains the inequality for integrals now known as the 'Schwarz inequality', see [9] for details.
The fact that Schwarz should have come up with a special case of the general result now known as the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality (or the Cauchy-Bunyakovsky-Schwarz inequality) is not surprising for much of his work is characterised by looking at rather specific and narrow problems but solving them using methods of great generality which have since found widespread applications. That he found such general methods says much for his great intuition which was perhaps based on a deep feeling for geometry.
For example the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality appears in arithmetic, geometric and function-theoretic formulations in works of mathematicians such as Bunyakovsky, Cauchy, Grassmann, von Neumann and Weyl. The form in which the inequality is usually presented today:
< x + my, x + my > ≥ 0with its standard modern proof seems to have been first given by Weyl in 1918.
In answering the problem of when Gauss's hypergeometric series was an algebraic function Schwarz, as he had done so many times, developed a method which would lead to much more general results. It was in this work that he defined a conformal mapping of a triangle with arcs of circles as sides onto the unit disc which is now known as the 'Schwarz function'. This function is an early example of an automorphic function and in this work Schwarz was looking at ideas which led Klein and Poincaré to develop the theory of automorphic functions.
Let us end with quoting Bölling [3] on Schwarz's character. He writes:-
Schwarz was deeply influenced by Weierstrass. From their correspondence one finds that Schwarz addressed his teacher often with an accuracy going down to the last detail, sometimes almost timidly. Schwarz's demeanour has been described as naive, dramatic, coarse. In spite of giving the impression of self-confidence, he was, in fact, rather insecure and besides, not efficient in business matters.
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I am going back out into the workforce to program using the java language. Unfortunately, I do not have all of the experience in this particular field. The other day I went to the indeed job site to get a sampling of the requirements needed for a programming position and here's what was listed:
Whats needed for the position: java, c++, google web toolkit (gwt), javascript, web 2.0 dhtml, linux/unix,
mysql, ajax, jsp, xml, mvc frameworks,
tomcat, apache, cgi, shell scripting, relational database.
My question is: Really? Do i need to be well versed on all of the aforementioned, or are there certain things I can take from the list, study, and target my time and energy?
Also, I want to design a student math tutorial program which can be implemented as a standalone executable file on a PC, or web based.
In addition to the Java programming language what is needed to build a program of this type(web base or pc standalone exe)? i would appreciate a hint on some of the steps involved in the creation process.
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The Brange and all the children left Tokyo today. Here they are, trudging through the airport with their various sleep aids and toys and pillows after Brad and Angelina worked the sales pitch for Moneyball. All in all like 48 hours. I know it feels like a long way to go for 48 hours. But...Um, in their defence, because I received an email yesterday from "Ann" who was very, very upset that I bitch on Angelina so much in favour of my "idols" Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow - more on this later - maybe it's because they were in Hungary (for World War Z filming), had to hit up Japan, and now are heading back to LA? So the kids had to come along? Miss Zahara looks like she's ready to go all the way flat back in her first class seat. Full Story
Now he's saving puppies
His hair cut has helped a lot, and now Robert Pattinson is rescuing puppies on the set of his next movie Water for Elephants – is this a campaign?!? And it looks like a Jack Russell Terrier too, not some designer canine butterfly so, yes, of course this is hot. Dog loving is hot. It's one of the hottest things about Jacek, my husband, that he's never met a dog that doesn't totally fall in love with him. Full Story
Why sign when you can spit?
Gerard Butler hit up a Golden Globes gifting suite last night and was approached for autographs from fans who'd gladly let him spray their faces. Have I ever mentioned my Team Spittle hate mail? Not quite as f-cked up as the Twi-Hards or as violent as the Aniston groupies or as self righteous as the Brangelunatics, but firmly ensconced in their very own crazy corner all the same. Full Story


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A Chinese student on board Asiana Flight 214 survived the plane's crash-landing only to be killed accidentally on the runway by a firefighting vehicle racing to the scene.
That was the conclusion announced Friday by San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucralt at a news conference detailing that Ye Meng Yuan, 16, was killed by "multiple blunt injuries," consistent with being run over by a vehicle. He said that a review of her internal hemorrhaging showed that she had survived the plane crash, and was alive before a specialized airport firetruck ran over her. He did not know how many time she had been run over, and the driver's name of the rig was not revealed.
She and 34 other Chinese high school students were on their way to Stanford University, and then a Christian summer camp in Southern California when the plane crashed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6.
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Foucralt said he spoke on Thursday with the girl's family, along with the two others' victims families who died, to tell them the news. He declined to elaborate on their reaction. Ye's family is in the Bay Area, awaiting to take their daughter's remains back to China. They have declined all media requests.
The teen, whose first name means "Dream" in Chinese, and her middle school classmate, 16-year-old Wang Linjia, died in the crash. The other victim killed, 15-year-old Liu Yipeng, died at a hospital July 12. Another 182 people were injured when the Boeing 777 came in too slow and too low when it clipped the seawall on the runway as it landed on what had began as a sunny Saturday afternoon.
MORE: Full Asiana Airlines Crash Coverage
San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said that investigators believe that one of the specialized rigs, called an Aircraft Rescue Firefighting vehicle, or ARFF, struck the girl, who was "not standing up, but on the ground." She also said that it's possible two rigs hit her.
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A few facts still remained unclear after the news conference, specifically what role the firefighting foam played in possibly covering up the teen. She had been sitting in the back of the Boeing 777, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, before it crashed. And now, authorities are investigating how she came to be found at the edged of a paved path near the left wing - covered in foam - just before 12:30 p.m.
Hayes-White has not personally spoken with the families herself, but said that through the Chinese Consulate, she has expressed a desire to meet with them one-on-one if they choose. She said she told the consul that the families have her deepest apologies and condolences.
RAW VIDEO: Coroner, Fire Chief Comment on Asiana Autopsy Report
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee also offered his thoughts to the families, while supporting his city's firefighters who he said acted quickly and heroically: "I am profoundly saddened by the involvement of a responding emergency vehicle in the death 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan. On behalf of the people of San Francisco, I offer my deepest condolences and regret for her tragic death, and the deaths of her close friend Wang Linjia, and 15-year-old Liu Yipeng. Our hearts are heavy, and our thoughts and prayers continue to be with their families and friends an ocean away. "
Lee noted that the lives of the remaining 304 passengers and crewmembers on board the craft were "undoubtedly saved that day" because of the firefighters and first reponders."
When asked about possible civil charges that might lodged against the department, Hayes-White said she wasn't a legal expert and wouldn't comment. Criminal charges are not expected in what Hayes-White called a "tragic accident."
Hayes-White also added that, in the wake of this "very sensitive matter," her department will "continue to examine our response, if we could have done something different."
NBC Bay Area spoke with Wang Chuan of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. He said there are still eight family members of the three Chinese victims who are still in the Bay Area, taking care of everything from waiting for the autopsies to talking to attorneys. They have not responded so far to the San Francisco fire chief and mayor's invitations to sit down and talk.
Chuan believes the families are coping better now, after meeting with the Consul General at his San Francisco home a few times in the last couple of weeks.
"I think now they're getting better," said Chuan. "But I can still feel they are very – I can feel deep sorrow inside."
NBC Bay Area reporter Stephanie Chuang contributed to this report.


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Forest fires cost the United States millions of dollars per year in property and land loss and were responsible for the deaths of numerous firefighters and civilians last year. In addition, this year, there have been highly publicized aviation disasters that have occurred in attempting to extinguish the infernos.
What if the likely ignition locations of these fires could be predicted? What if the spread of these fires could be predicted and therefore controlled before becoming uncontrollable? Unusually for a CFD challenge this is not about reducing design costs, nor about meeting production deadlines: it is, however, about protecting the environment and saving property and lives where the deadlines are even
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A few hours after eating a red-meat meal, Michael Abley of Surry ended up in a hospital emergency room. It wasn't food poisoning.
"First I swelled up in hives just horribly, just violent itching all over," said Abley, 72. "Then I had trouble breathing. Then I just passed out cold."
That was about 15 years ago, but it wasn't until more recently that Abley's condition was properly diagnosed: He had developed an allergy to mammalian meats. And the culprit was the bite of the tiny lone star tick.
It was an ironic development for a beef-loving man born and raised in a family of Western cattle ranchers.
"I figure it's karma," said Abley.
Karma or not, it's a growing reality for more and more Virginians and others in the southeastern U.S., where the range of the lone star tick is rapidly expanding, exposing more people to the consequences of its bite.
Researchers don't know yet how many people in the U.S. have developed a red-meat allergy, but estimate it's in the thousands. Still, they consider the risk of developing the allergy from tick bites fairly small.
"Certainly not everybody that gets bit ends up with it," allergist Scott Commins said in a phone interview from Charlottesville. Commins is one of the researchers studying the condition at the Asthma and Allergic Diseases Center at the University of Virginia Health System.
While the allergy has been around for a while, what's relatively new is nailing down the cause and the ability to diagnose it. Symptoms don't present for several hours after eating mammalian meats, and include a burning rash or hives, difficulty breathing and abdominal cramping.
The medical director of the Hampton Health District said the allergy isn't a reportable condition, so his office doesn't have statistics on local residents affected.
"My feeling is that this is going to turn out to be something that's either a major breakthrough or it's going to wash out and nothing will come of it," said Bill Berg.
Commins said he and his colleagues are treating "plenty of patients" from Hampton Roads, like Abley.
The lone star tick is by far the most common in Virginia. It's unknown how many people get bit every year, but a state entomologist estimates it's "somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 or more."
Those numbers could increase as the range of the lone star tick explodes along with the population of deer — the tick's primary host for feeding and breeding.
According to research by Commins and others published by the National Institutes of Health, "the number of cases of delayed anaphylaxis being diagnosed in central Virginia and the surrounding areas has increased dramatically, suggesting that we might be looking at an epidemic."
On the other hand, entomologist David Gaines of the state Department of Health in Richmond said only a very minor proportion of those bitten by ticks might develop such an allergy.
An outdoorsman, Gaines said he gets nipped by a lone star tick or two every year and hasn't developed an allergy yet. It could be that those who do are already genetically predisposed. The allergy could fade over time, but not if the sufferer continues to experience tick bites.
Allergists are learning more about the condition, but family practitioners, interns and pediatricians might not yet recognize it if they see it, or how to properly diagnosis it.
Unlike more traditional allergies to foods like peanuts, milk or shellfish, Commins said, a skin test is very unreliable to diagnose a red-meat allergy, which requires a blood test.
Abley said he's had a tough time convincing others it even exists. He still eschews red meat, but does eat "anything with fins or feathers."
"It's more of a nuisance than anything," Abley said. "I really miss not being able to eat beef and pork and lamb, but you just adapt."
Red meat-lovers could also reap health benefits.
"Some people who might want to become vegetarians might call that a blessing," said Gaines.
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2008 Heritage Award Acceptance Speech
by Brian R. Rosborough '58, P'03,'06
2008 Heritage Award Acceptance Speech, October 7th, 2008
Thank you. It is an honor to be invited back. I've been asked to speak for just 20 minutes about my 50 years with Deerfield, so I will try to connect my Deerfield to yours, my life to yours, and your life to the future. Please fasten your seat belts.
Not so long ago, in geological time at least, I sat right there where you sit, wondering 'what's this one about?' Today, I am an immigrant in your world.
My Deerfield was 500 students, all boys, and a nimble headmaster named Frank Boyden. He would be 128 this week. Half those years, 66, were spent building this school from a back water rural public school with 14 students, to the best independent school in the country – 44 of his 66 years were all boys, a failed experiment say the girls. In spirit, Deerfield has been coed since its founding in 1797 as a colonial academy and is a better place for it.
We played more sports and watched no TV; there were no computers, no cell phones, no Xerox machines, and no printers. We wore scratchy wool uniforms, and rarely lost a game. We were checked in 15 times a day (three sit down -meals, before seven class periods, at evening events, back in the dorm, and at lights out, and two times when we weren't looking.) We sang a lot and twice on Sundays. Most attended the brick church. Jews and Catholics were exempt, or bused to town which was a better deal. We were allowed two dances a year, one in the fall with Emma Willard and one in the spring with Stoneleigh Prospect. The girls were trucked in and closely guarded; we were matched up by height, like 500 bad marriages: faculty was assigned bush duty in case we slipped out of the dance. Despite all this, we loved the place!
Mr. Boyden was barely five feet tall, a full ten inches shorter than Mrs. Boyden. We sat on the floor a lot to listen to his stories. Mr. Boyden's desk was in the hall in front of the fireplace in the Main School Building where he could watch us come and go. He knew when we were off our game. "Never give a boy bad news at night; always wait till morning," he would say. "A boy is more important than a rule." We knew we had a second chance. His mission was to build character; the rest would take care of itself.
He said things back then that connect to your Deerfield. 'Be Mobile!' 'Look at the hills!' 'Be Worthy of your Heritage!' Without realizing it, I must have been following his advice all these years. I've been mobile, whizzing about, often to little effect, trying to save this and that. Looking is what scientists do, and you can see more from the hills. Being worthy of one's heritage can mean many things, e.g. being true to your family values, to your upbringing, to your word, to your faith, to your community, to this school. Just being true to your values should suffice. But heritage, in my view, is huge. It's all things that matter, all that makes life interesting along your way, e.g. art, music, the environment, the wonders of life and its splendid diversity. Without our heritage, we are impoverished. That's what I've come to talk about, our heritage and your 'rendezvous with destiny' (if I may borrow that title from a good book by my professor Eric Goldman).
Let's start with 'Be Mobile!' In one sense, mobility is NOT your problem. You are walking, talking, texting, multitasking, Special Xing dudes (what's the feminine of dude? Deuces?). But I think Mr. Boyden had more than mobile devices and special exercise on his mind. His 'Be Mobile' translates into agility of mind and spirit, exploring all your talents, including team sports, picking yourself up when you're knocked down, like Alex Nicholson and Maggie Ray. Being mobile means resilience, resourcefulness, and perhaps Mr. Boyden foresaw that being mobile translates into entrepreneurial daring or your noble instinct to do the right thing, when no one is looking. That's also called character, by the way.
Being mobile requires time management skills and good judgment which you're learning as you go. To be mobile is not the same as to be available. Beware of every chum who friends you or texts you incessantly to learn 'Where you at?' or 'How you doing?' That's your precious time, and you can't get it back. Much better to be smart than available, he would say.
He was a crafty Yankee, Mr. Boyden. He used to put all the biggest boys on the front of the team buses, so we would intimidate the home team on arrival. I usually sat in the back. Before my time, during the war years, he wanted his boys to be officers if they served. He figured they'd have a better chance of survival. During mock interviews to prepare his graduates for recruiters, he would push a pencil off the desk to see how quickly you would pick it up. So 'be mobile' can mean be alert, it may save your life. You've all read John McPhee's book, The Headmaster. This place is your heritage too.
"Look at the Hills, boys and girls!" He's nuts, we thought. Sure the fall colors are stunning, but we had our books and games to worry about. The Quid was right. If you haven't noticed, you are learning about life in one of the best natural laboratories on the planet. If you take Mr. Harcourt's class you'll get a closer look at those hills, and learn the oldest rocks traveled here 400 million years ago from 20 degrees south, about where Brazil is today. The continents bunched up for several hundred million years and then tore apart. Boston and Deerfield were competing for coastline, and the rift in Boston won out, as Europe drifted away at three centimeters a year.
But Deerfield has better rocks, ground down over millions of years from volcanic peaks as tall as Everest. If you sit still, you can almost feel the earth heave beneath your seat. Listen! Can you hear the dinosaurs? They passed right near this room, stomping across mud flats at Turners Falls. Next time you're in Amherst, go to the College Museum of Natural History, and see the dinosaur footprints found here by a former Deerfield headmaster, Edward Hitchcock. No telling what Mrs. Curtis will find. Those hills and this valley were carved by retreating glaciers which left a vast lake, named Hitchcock, as big as the great lakes some say. Now, fast forward to your time.
This week you have a ringside seat on the change of seasons that brings millions of visitors to New England. Kick up the leaves. Learn their different names. Learn the chemical processes of living and dying that produces their iridescence. Wake one morning early, at first light (if you can manage this feat) and bring your camera to America's prettiest mile, Main Street, lined with house museums covering four centuries of frontier settlement. Those hills have seen four thousand years of settlement in this valley, including the slaughter of the Pocumtuck by the Mohawk. Less than a year after the fight, Thomas Pynchon, a Connecticut merchant, settled a debt with settlers from Dedham who wandered out in wagons to find this valley, pristine and deserted, yet enriched as if it had been farmed for years. Divine Providence! They must have rejoiced. Sorry folks, just blind luck and good timing. Some night after a fresh snow, while you're lying in bed, waiting to fall asleep, listen for the screams of neighbors, living right here were you sit, as they fought off the French and Indians who climbed over the stockyard around this village in February, 1704.
Don't just look at the hills, go ask a farmer if you can milk his cow, or help him pick corn or sack his potatoes. Tom Clark on the hill across the river, just there, grows 39 different varieties of apples. Go learn their names. Mr. Clark needs apple pickers. He went to Deerfield too. That's what Mr. Boyden meant when he said, "Look at the hills!" When we weren't being mobile, he wanted us to be observant, to be a noticer, an active participant in life. 'Enjoy living', say the Chinese, 'for you are a long time dead!' There are 100,000 different micro-organisms in every handful of farm soil out there, and no one knows their names. Read the Last Child in the Woods by Robert Lourie. He says you can name a thousand sports heroes, commercial products and celebrities, but fewer than a dozen plants, trees, and flowers you pass by every day. It's called Nature Deficit Disorder and it can stunt your imagination and rob you of sensory delights. I hope you don't catch it.
Rudyard Kipling once said, "Something hidden! Go and find it!" After Deerfield, I studied history, law, and business then tried investment banking, but I found my life on expeditions for science and conservation. I learned it was more fun to give away money than to make it. Starting a non-profit organization is the commercial equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot. But what fun we had! Come join us on an expedition this summer.
I was a slow learner. Mr. Boyden said, "Look at the hills", when I was 16. We laid the foundation stones for Earthwatch when I was 32, so you've got plenty of time to be mobile and be observant before you start your own organizations. Not everyone wants to climb into volcanoes, excavate shipwrecks, measure melting glaciers, or spend days on one's knees in a rain forest documenting chemical warfare between termites. There is plenty else to do. 'Something hidden! Go and find it!'
Now when you're not being mobile, and are tired of looking at the hills, 'Be Worthy of Your Heritage', said Mr. Boyden. What the dickens is he getting at, we wondered? It was a lofty phrase alright, the sort of thing you'd chisel into a rock for passers-by to ponder. To be honest, I don't think any of us got the hang of it while we were here. Heritage sounded to me like old things, furniture and bibles, stuff you're supposed to look after until it's your turn to give it away. Now they even have an award named Heritage.
Little did I realize back then, when I was sitting right there with you, that I would dig up everyone else's heritage. Earthwatch has funded archaeological excavations in about 60 countries. Dr. Farouk El Baz asked us to help him find out why the paintings on Nefatari's tomb were buckling and falling off the wall. You remember Nefatari, she was Ramses II's wife (or Ramses' second wife, I can't remember), Nefatari, not Nefertiti, she was a different queen. These people lived in Egypt a long time ago, and when they died, people made a big fuss, invented embalming, and erected tombs as large as pyramids to cover them over. Many of the Royals were buried in the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens across the Nile from Luxor. No doubt some of you have been there. I never had, so I went along on the expedition. Egypt is all about heritage, 4,000 years of it, 30 Dynasties, invaded by Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, one of our first great civilizations. The reason we have so much heritage lying around is that all civilizations before us have perished. Think about that. All of them!
Now our job was to make a map of the hillside behind the tomb (you're thinking, "Ok, Look at the hills, boys"). These hills were escarpments, ugly, rugged, rocky clay monsters with no trees, just Egyptian police, watching our every move. The EAO, which you know to be the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, is responsible for all the heritage in Egypt, they dig it up, rebury it, clean and catalog it, put it in museums, and charge the rest of us to come look at it. I'd say they are worthy of their heritage.
The EAO wanted to know where the moisture was coming from that leached through ancient soils, slipped in behind priceless 3,000 year old paintings, blistered, and pushed their heritage onto the floor of those tombs. Some thought it might be the perspiration of German tourists, so Nefetari's tomb had been closed to the public for over 80 years, just a few years after its discovery by an Italian archaeologist named Schiaparelli in 1903. Others, including Farouk El Baz believed the culprit was ancient rains that may have drained down the escarpment into the tomb. He asked Earthwatch to sponsor an expedition to look closely at the hills so we could make a map. The map convinced EAO to move the road. No sweat. German tourists now arrive in air conditioned busses, that are kept running while they peer into tombs, and their idling buses might have made the ground shake, which may or may not have shaken the paintings off the wall. In the end, it did not matter. Our little map persuaded the Getty Conservation Institute to give the EAO millions to restore their priceless heritage.
Well, I don't think Mr. Boyden had the Egyptians in mind when he said "Be Worthy of Your Heritage," but the story indicates how much value we humans place on our heritage. There's even a UNESCO division called World Heritage (Google it). They look after about 600 World Heritage Sites in 150 countries, roughly half natural (like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone) and half man-made (like the Pyramids or Angkor Wat). Earthwatch has sponsored restoration at 173 of them. If you're the King of Cambodia and you've got a root growing through your temples at Angkor Wat, you're in the dog house, because that's World Heritage, and you haven't been worthy of it.
Now there is cultural heritage and there is biological heritage. Did you know that there are between 8 and 12 million different species of animals on earth? Some say 30 million. But we only have the names and addresses of 1.8 million. That's your biological heritage, and a source of medicines, art, and spiritual renewal. We only know 10 to 15% of the animals who share the planet with us, and few of the free services they provide us. Of those 1.8 million known species, all but 46,000 are invertebrates. "God had an inordinate fondness for beetles", said one 19C explorer. Of those 46,000 with backbones, half or 23,000 are fish; about 9,000 are birds; 6,000 are herpes and reptiles; and 4,000 are mammals, of which you are one. We don't understand their relations or interdependencies, but we depend on them for our survival, especially the countless micro-organisms without names found in the soil and our bodies. 'Something hidden! Go and find it!'
Perhaps you prefer plants to animals. You should know we have about 270,000 higher order plants, multi-celled, plants you can see. Of those, we cultivate about 1% or 2,700. We choose to eat about 65 or 70 plants. One plant feeds half the world. Rice! What we don't know about plants is exciting, since we depend on them for the health and nourishment of humankind.
It takes a long time to create all that heritage, different plants and animals, rocks and rivers, people and their ruins (i.e. millions and millions of years). It didn't come in a kit; it evolved through countless permutations, and random chance happenings that brought us together today. It is who we are, why we are, what we are. We don't own it. It owns us. It defines us, nourishes our spirit, and feeds our bodies and soul. Maybe that's what Mr. Boyden meant when he said, "Be Worthy of your Heritage."
That's why you are among the luckiest students on earth. You are in the best school of its kind, in the best valley for learning about natural and cultural heritage, at the awakening of your intellectual capabilities, and members of the first generation since the dawn of man, who understands that all life is interdependent, fragile, and connected to a common heritage. Your parents did not know that. Are you sitting down? 30% of American voters do not believe we evolved from animals! You are ahead of the pack.
Now here comes the important part about you and your future. In the next thirty years the world as we know it will change, imperceptibly at first, then in fits and starts as climate change alters the playing field, and the world's peoples, plants, animals, and fisheries move around. Nature prefers steps to gradients, so expect surprises (i.e. fires, floods, heat waves, natural disasters, and other so-called Acts of God), which will soon be called man-made disasters, as we have a hand in it. Denial Ain't Just a River in Egypt.
You have box seat tickets to the events ahead. You just stumbled upon it like the Dedham settlers who found Deerfield; it's your blind luck. I say luck and not misfortune because you get to invent a new Era, a kinder, less consumptive age, a less wasteful world, where material goods are built to recycle, and waste equals food, a world you'll be proud to hand on to your successors. Change is not something to worry about; it's been going on since we climbed down from trees and stood up on our hind legs to peer out over African savanna grasses in search of food and predators. That's what our species does best; we innovate! Climate change is healthy and life supporting, but the velocity of change can be destabilizing, and the excitement will occur on your watch.
Here's what we know and don't know about climate change:
- We know the Earth is in a warm phase, but not how long it will last. Mr. Gore's film may have taught you that.
- We know it's caused in part by variations in solar radiance hitting the Earth. In 1859 a Serbian engineer named Melankovich worked out a 126,000 year cycle of the Earth's orbit around the sun, a 46,000 year pattern of the different tilts of the earth on its axis, and a 21,000 year cycle of the variations in the gyration of the Earth on its axis. Crispin Tickell's book, Global Climate and World Affairs, calls these cycles 'stretch, tilt, and wobble'.
- We know if you studied 3 million years of climate, laid out here on the stage, you'd detect a pattern of 100-150,000 years of cold and ice, followed by 10-15,000 years of warmth. All human civilizations have come and gone in our warm patch. Some day, long after your time, there'll be a stack of ice a mile high on this roof. But your days on earth will grow warmer.
- You know a lot of other things if you read newspapers (e.g. our carbon intensive lifestyle is a problem, our fossil fuel addiction, especially to coal, is a huge problem forcing a warmer climate). There's a mad scramble to find clean energy with no solution in sight, CO2 emissions in the atmosphere are increasing, polar caps are melting, glaciers are retreating, worrying farmers and cities that depend on melt water. In addition to the stress of climate change, environmental warning signs are everywhere (e.g. over harvesting, species decline, and habitat conversion). Where have the frogs, bees, and bats gone? We are witnessing the 'Tragedy of the Commons'. Chicken Little would be pleased.
We know nature likes surprises, but we don't know the triggers for climate instability, the so-called tipping points, that have radically altered climate by 5 or 10 degrees in the past few decades. We know clouds play a huge role, but can't pin that down. Nor do we know the stability of vast deposits of methane in the tundra and deep oceans, which could speed up the mess if released, nor the inertia in the system that visit more warming long after the problem is solved, and it will be solved. Go to ipcc.ch and read their reports, 1,400 scientists from 80 countries can't be too far off.
We don't know the tolerances of carbon sinks, like our forests and oceans, nor the positive feed backs that reverse their capacities to ameliorate CO2 emissions, or the tolerance of marine life to withstand ocean acidification. We do know that marine life and their food sources like phytoplankton are in serious decline, and that coral reefs and shell fish are struggling. Our oceans need your attention. We need to put less in, take less out, and guard the edges.
We know the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) want to live the American Dream and are adding energy capacity at a staggering rate. China is putting online a new coal-fired utility every five days, without any carbon sequestration. The emissions from just two new plants are sufficient to wipe out the gain from changing every light bulb in the US to the twisty jobs, in just 20 days.
We don't know whether it's safe or effective to try to geo-engineer the climate to a cooler state, like seeding the upper atmosphere with sulfur particulates, imitating volcanic ash that occasionally cools the planet. Tinkering with the climate is a crazy idea, but the Native Americans danced for rain, and someday we may too.
So what to do? The velocity of climate change is accelerating. We need to reverse CO2 concentrations by 2050, or we're toast, literally. The decision path to get there needs to be charted before you turn 30. Now that's exciting. The solutions may be in this room.
What to do? Easy! You'll design and build a new smart grid that delivers renewable energy from all sources to quaint green, carbon neutral, zero waste communities, better looking than the Truman Show, and designed by you. Net metering and venture capital will make many of you entrepreneurs in search of clean energy to run your lives. Some may take the risk and stir in a bit more nuclear capacity. Others may feed coal emissions to fast growing blue green algae for conversion to bio fuels, or genetically engineer carbon eating trees. You'll all be driving plug-in hybrids in 5-7 years. You will replace or retrofit half of existing buildings with carbon neutral, green designs in 60 years. You will transfer our best technologies to the world's 50 poorest countries and devise ways to pay the developing world not to burn down their forests, while you help build their schools, hospitals, and their dignity. You'll be so busy; you won't have time for wars.
As the seas rise, you'll need to move those most vulnerable out of the lowlands. Half of today's world lives within 60 miles of some coast line. That's a big job waiting for one of you. 20% of them make less than $2 a day. You will find ingenious ways to shelter and nourish legions of environmental refugees.
Yes, you are on the eve of a renaissance. It's like Martin Luther just nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg. Everything is going to change. When you are my age, there will be 9 billion people on Earth, an increase of 40% from today. You will witness a race for the middle class and a staggering assault on your heritage; the natural and cultural treasures you will hold in trust for your children.
Years ago, the Boston poet, David McCord, loaned me this verse. It's about you.
"Oh what it is to be young,
To be of, be for, be among:
Be enchanted, enthralled,
The caller, the called;
The singer, the song, and the sung."
Climate Change is the caller; you are the called.


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Ryan Loyd
Ryan Loyd is Texas Public Radio's city beat and political reporter who brings more than a decade of news experience back to his hometown.
Ryan began reporting at KGNB radio in New Braunfels, followed by KTSA. He worked in television news in Joplin, MO, San Antonio, Sherman, Texas, and Austin.
Since joining TPR in October 2011, Ryan has covered stories of local, state and national interest including the 2012 Democratic National Convention, where San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro delivered the keynote address.
Ryan especially enjoys reporting on in-depth issues like the Eagle Ford Shale oil and natural gas boom, the ongoing conversation into redeveloping Alamo Plaza, the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland sex scandal, and numerous city issues. Ryan is a regular contributor to NPR News.
For his coverage in 2012, Ryan won a Michael E. DeBakey Journalism award for his feature on a story about Canine PTSD, which ran locally and on NPR's "All Things Considered." The story explored the possibilities that combat dogs exhibit symptoms of a post-traumatic stress disorder, similar to the same disorder human soldiers experience.
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Porters tee it up for Houston schoolchildren
Astros manager, wife Stacey host golf tournament for S.E.L.F. Foundation
HOUSTON -- Mentoring and coaching young people isn't anything new to Bo and Stacey Porter. They've been doing that since they were athletes attending the University of Iowa some 20 years ago.
But now that Bo Porter has established himself as a staple in professional sports, first as a player, then as a coach, and now as manager of the Houston Astros, he has been able to utilize his name and status in the baseball community to help those in need. In July 2012, the Porters founded the S.E.L.F. Foundation, designed to improve and impact the lives of others through sports, education, life skills and faith. On Monday, the couple hosted the Bo Porter Celebrity Golf Classic to raise funds for the foundation.
Approximately 175 participated in the event, which took place at the Wildcat Golf Club in Houston. Several Astros players attended, including Josh Zeid, Brett Wallace, Mark Appel, Matt Albers, Jarred Cosart, Matt Dominguez and Robbie Grossman. The group also included members of the front office, including general manager Jeff Luhnow, assistant GM David Stearns and special assistant Enos Cabell, and two former managers: Art Howe and Phil Garner.
Among the non-baseball celebrities were retired Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Danan Hughes, Porter's college roommate and football teammate at Iowa, and NBA Hall of Famer Moses Malone.
"There are a lot of people from around town that want to help," Luhnow said. "Bo and Stacey have built a great network not only here in Houston but across the nation, and it's nice to be able to use that for someone's benefit."
Proceeds from the tournament will benefit S.E.L.F., which works with the Houston Independent School District to organize after-school programs.
"Our program was put together to give back to the community," Porter said. "It's all about whole-person development. The golf tournament today will go a long way to improving the lives of kids in the community."
The foundation emphasizes fitness, education, physical health and spiritual enrichment. While the programs are currently Houston-based, the Porters envision something much larger in the future.
"My wife and I sat down and said we really enjoyed the impact we were having on the kids," Porter said. "That's what triggered us to decide start the foundation. We wanted to do it in Houston. This is where we make our home. My wife was born and raised here. I've been here for 18 years.
"We started the S.E.L.F. Foundation in 2012 and a year and a half later it's in HISD. It's our goal to continue to grow the foundation and make it a national foundation where we're able to impact the lives of many people in other communities as well."
The golf tournament was the second major event the Porters have hosted since Bo became manager of the Astros. In November, more than 400 people attended a $500-per-plate gala titled "A Legacy Lasts Forever" to benefit the foundation.
The mission statement of the S.E.L.F. Foundation is a fitting complement to the Astros' community focus, which shifted almost exclusively to benefiting and helping at-risk youth when Jim Crane took over as owner two years ago.
In 2012, the Astros founded a Community Leaders program that invested $18 million in city-owned public youth baseball and softball fields in disadvantaged areas of Houston over the course of five years. Construction of the first fields began in the fall of 2012, to serve thousands of at-risk youth.
"The Astros Foundation has done a tremendous job of building those facilities in at-risk communities," Porter said. "You look at our foundation, we sat down with HISD and one of our goals was to try to find out the greatest need within the HISD school district. They have absolutely invited us with open arms shared a lot of resources with us. By partnering up with the school district, we have the facilities where the kids are housed in each and every day, we have the faculty and the staff and the principal. Everyone is pulling in the same direction for the betterment of the kids."


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This year's Tokyo Designers Week's main event at Meiji Jingu-Gaien has had a bit of a makeover. As "Creative Fes," it now includes a music venue, various food stalls and a market of hand-crafted goods. But, of course, the main focus remains design, and the event's new Asia Awards, which includes categories for design schools, young creators and professionals, pulled in plenty of entries.
From architectural constructions to jewelry, we took a look at what the students and pros had to offer, as well as perused our old favorite — Designboom Mart. This year, we also found an extra favorite spot: the TAPAS Spanish Design for Food exhibition, which not only made us hungry for more, but proved that design can have a great sense of humor.


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Istanbul, capital and centre of two great Empires also covering the Balkans, is a place where all contrasts, contradictions and promises of modern Turkey can be studied. The largest city in South East Europe, it has been experiencing rapid change in recent decades, growing from 3 million people in 1970 to some 12 million in 2003. Today it is home to 15 percent of Turkey's population, the industrial, financial and media centre of the country, and, due to its strategic location between East and West, symbolizes current debates about Turkey's European identity.
This was always a global city: just before World War I some 130,000 foreigners lived here. The Encyclopaedia Britannica described the city in 1910 as "a remarkable conglomeration of different races, various nationalities, divers languages, distinctive customs and conflicting faiths." But the loss of many of its minority populations deprived the city of a large number of its merchants and businessmen. The subsequent loss of Empire and the suspicion of the founders of the Republic towards the Ottoman past - (expressed through the construction of a new capital in the centre of Anatolia) also deprived the city of its political role. For many decades, the city became nostalgic, its culture inward-looking, its business contacts provincial. All of this appears to be changing now.
Since 2004 foreign investment has picked up sharply. The local economy (and real estate market) is booming. More money is being invested to preserve Istanbul's heritage, new museums are opening and new infrastructure (including a tunnel connecting Asia and Europe) is being built. Is the city returning to the dynamism and cosmopolitanism that marked it for so many centuries?
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You read that correctly, as an 11 year-old, Lupe Fiasco claims he was visited by extraterrestrials. As the Chicago native explained to the crew at Big Boys Neighborhood during an interview in Los Angeles, he was a visited by the creatures from another world; he remembers waking up and feeling a wave of electricity overcoming him, unable to call for help or move away from his captors. After the encounter was over, Lupe says he was left with a souvenir; a scar on his ankle which he vehemently denies was caused by any other logical explanation.
So tell us, do you think Lupe Fiasco has finally gone off the deep end or do you believe that the aliens that we, as humans, have spent countless resources to find and make contact with, managed to slip our radars, satellites and millions spent on equipment designed to monitor our skies, just to shoot waves of electricity and scar an inner city kid from Chicago?
P.S. The chick that claimed she used religion to scare away the Aliens should seek help.
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ATLANTA -- A person familiar with the deal says free-agent outfielder B.J. Upton and the Atlanta Braves have agreed to a five-year contract.
The person says the deal is expected to be announced Thursday once Upton passes his physical. The person spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made.
The 28-year-old Upton hit .246 with 28 homers, 78 RBIs and 31 stolen bases for Tampa Bay last season. He will replace free agent Michael Bourn as the Braves' center fielder and provide a needed right-handed power bat for the lineup.
Upton's home run totals have increased in three straight seasons, but he has hit below .250 with more than 150 strikeouts in each of his last four seasons.


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Photographer's Note
Wish I was there now
even though I've been told
the place almost closes
during wintertime
still I wish I was there
Loutro is a small seaside place in southern Crete. It was one of our favourite places during our trip of last summer.
Dolce far niente - Greek style
(which we like even more)
song title reference: Eddie Cochran
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ChrisJ (154546) 2018-01-13 2:15
Hi Benny
Isn't Greece marvellous? I just stayed in Iraklion and Hania but found some wonderful beaches in Kythera & Kefalonia. I really enjoyed Hydra near Athens too. Good repetition of the moored fishing boats with good sharpness and saturation. Tfs!
pajaran (94129) 2018-01-13 2:19
Dobar dan.
Interesantan i lep pogled, dobar tekst ...
Lepo pokazano, dobra perspektiva i kontrast, lepe boje.
Lepi camci i kuce na obali, lepe bele gasade i planina.
Zelim vam lep dan, sve najbolje za vikend, srecno.
Good day.
Interesting and beautiful look, good text ...
Beautifully shown, good perspective and contrast, beautiful colors.
Beautiful boats and houses on the shores, beautiful white valleys and mountains.
I wish you a nice day, all the best for a weekend, happy.
kasianowak (14440) 2018-01-13 3:01
Hi Benny
The deep blue of the sky and the turquoise hues of the sea are simply incredible. The white houses and boats complete the picture.
Best wishes
Nicou (190958) 2018-01-13 3:54
Fantastique vue quelle luminosité et éclairage superbe et ces contrastes de tons entre les bateaux blanc la colline presque rousse en fond et le bleu de la mer c'est très beau.
Belle journée
lousat (122901) 2018-01-13 3:56
Hi Benny,i agree with your words,i wish to be there me too,the weather is cold but the place without tourist is surely peaceful.Magnificent memory of the last summer,fantastic small village and a magical water,for me is enough. Have a nice weekend and thanks,Luciano
sacimar (37071) 2018-01-13 5:06
Hello Benny,
good image of this place, I like the combination of white houses with the colors of the mountain behind them, it is a beautiful village, well seen,
Best regards,
Sergiom (117061) 2018-01-13 6:49
Bonjour Benny,
C'est vraiment un très bel endroit.L'eau est d'une superbe limpidité et les bateaux semblent flotter dans les airs. Le ville blanc en arrière plan est de toute beauté ainsi que les montagnes derrière.
jimmj63 (0) 2018-01-13 8:45
ciao Benny,
finally a postcard from summer! very good colors and grat mediterranean light.
ciao, Giacomo
dta (96198) 2018-01-13 9:38
Hello Benny ,
What a charming white village . And a great place for swimming in the emerald water .
Winter is long and dark in our countries ...
Fis2 (145263) 2018-01-13 11:31
Witaj Benny!
Interesting view, beautiful place.
Good frame and colors.
Curious port, boats add flavor to this composition.
Well done.
Nice sunday.
cornejo (61498) 2018-01-13 11:44
Hello Benny, very good view of this interesting and beautiful Greek villa, very well composed and captured in this good and beautiful picture. An interesting image, with good sharpness, depth, light, color and quality. Excellent and beautiful work perfectly done, my congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this interesting work.
Good night and happy Sunday.
All the best from the south of Spain.
Ilonka1974 (6713) 2018-01-13 12:30
Hi Benny,
Very beautiful capture of this white houses . Love the strong saturated blue of the water.
Composition and presentation are perfect
jemaflor (127551) 2018-01-13 23:57
Salut Benny,
Superbe teintes bleues avec ces eaux plaisantes et ce ciel, c'est bien rendu, joli village blanc au pied des falaises, une photo qui m'évoque quelques souvenirs de cette côte et de ce village crétois.
emka (141952) 2018-01-13 23:59
hello Benny, Who wouldn't wish to vbe there, specially in winter. Not important that the place is almost closed. It was fun and even a bit scary to see closed pubs and hotel in Ayia Napa. And I preferred it than to see hords of people like in high season. Charming white small houses near the sea, No wonder you liked the place so much.
Kind regrad s Malgo
Cricri (176) 2018-01-14 9:31
Bonjour Benny
Une image difficile de ne pas aimer, tout est beau a voir, bien composer et de plus le contraste des couleurs sont magnifiques
oh je veut bien être là aussi :-)
Bonne soirée
mkamionka (55158) 2018-01-17 11:01
Hi Benny,
beautiful spot. I have never been to Crete but it is on my list for a family holiday.
Lovely white washed houses. Well contrasted with the rough hills at the back.
Very well saturated colors. The sky seems may be even too saturated almost dark purple.
Nevertheless the final effect is stunning and inviting to visit!
Very well done,
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- Copyright: Benny Verbercht (BennyV) (30602)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2017-07-23
- Categories: Daily Life
- Camera: Nikon D3200, Tamron AF18-200mm 3,5-6,3 XR Di II E 6
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Travelogue: Crete to Rodos
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nationalism, political or social philosophy in which the welfare of the nation-state as an entity is considered paramount. Nationalism is basically a collective state of mind or consciousness in which people believe their primary duty and loyalty is to the nation-state. Often nationalism implies national superiority and glorifies various national virtues. Thus love of nation may be overemphasized; concern with national self-interest to the exclusion of the rights of other nations may lead to international conflict.
Nationalism is a comparatively recent phenomenon, probably born with the French Revolution, but despite its short history, it has been extremely important in forming the bonds that hold modern nations together. Today it operates alongside the legal structure and supplements the formal institutions of society in providing much of the cohesiveness and order necessary for the existence of the modern nation-state.
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The Brookings Institution has ranked the Denver-Aurora area as among the best in the nation for connecting workers to jobs.
And that's something to be proud of for several reasons.
The ranking is a manifestation of regional cooperation and a long-standing commitment to public transportation. It's also an important selling point for companies looking to bring operations to the metro area.
The survey ranked the Denver-Aurora area as 12th nationally for public transit coverage, which is a measure of jobs located in areas served by public transit. In addition, the survey put Denver-Aurora as 9th in the country for the proportion of metro residents who can get to their job within 90 minutes via public transportation. The survey was done by Brookings, a Washington D.C.-based group focusing on public policy.
The system has been an important economic building block for the region, and we're glad to see it recognized.


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ANyone know of an ST IRC channel? I am on ##ATARI on freenet, but not much ST talk on there.
I could use a hand getting through stuff.
I have the cosmos up and running.
1. I use the IKBD, but if I wanted to use the computer without the cosmos.. is there a switch I could install to disable the IKBD injector.. because if I boot without the cosmos the keyboard goes wacky.. I guess because its looking for input from the cosmos?
2. I have my wifi working with it. So what else do I need to do to get say cab running on the machine? Do I still need STING? if so.. how do I use it. I am not finding much documentation on it.. except to use it to connect PPP etc.. what if I already have an IP assigned by the cosmos?
3. Clock.. the cosmos grabs the time off the internet, but when I view it in the control panel it says 2028 not 2017... how do I fix this?
4. How large can the USB translated drive be?? I know typically for RAW max is 512mb.. but can I put a 32gb usb in .. and I am working?


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Having been registered on here for over 5 1/2 years, I suppose I had better belatedly introduce myself.
I may have already done this.......although my post count shows only 3* I'm sure I have posted more times than that; has some stuff gone missing?
If it has, it's probably gone the same way as most of my brain cells!
Anyway.......I work on the railway at a small station near Ashford, and have modelled in various (too many) scales and gauges.
My Gn15 output so far consists of a little pizza layout I built in about 2008/9; some of you may have seem it at MOMING in Pewsey back then and I think Steve Bennett took some photos which ended up on here somewhere.
The only stock I had was a Sidelines "train set" I bought at the Telford show in 2008; this consisted of kits to make a small battery electric loco, two v-skips and a tool wagon.
Part of the reason for re-kindling my activity in Gn15 was the discovery at Amberley Rail Gala recently of six Sidelines wagon chassis at a bargain price; I also had some resin parts to form the basis of a small I/C "critter", some PECO 0-16.5 track and points and another cheap acquisition; a set of Fujimi garage mechanic figures, cut off the sprues but still in assembled and boxed for £2!
Like a lot of modellers, I have a few surplus baseboards kicking around waiting for something to do; the one in question being just under 4' long by about 8".......I'm sure I should be able to fit a little layout on it, and when I do I will start a separate thread.
A couple of photos of the possible new layout.......
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If you think Linda Le aka Vampy's EarthBound cosplay is adorable, wait until you get a load of her Morrigan from Darkstalkers.
Vampy is an incredibly attractive cosplayer who loves the classic Super Nintendo role-playing game EarthBound, the anime Lone Wolf and Cub, and of course, dressing up as characters from anime and video games. I learned all of this from a recent interview with the artist over at Digital Hippos, after I had finished wandering through her amazing gallery.
You might have seen her at San Diego Comic Con earlier this year, making fans sweat as Morrigan from Darkstalkers, seen below, but for all of the gravity-defying sex appeal of the succubus costume, there's just something about a girl who isn't afraid to pick up the bat and take a swing at Ness.
Find out more about Vampy via her Digital Hippos interview below, or visit her web page for more lovely photos.
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Three jet fuel surrogates were compared against their target fuels in a compression ignited optical engine under a range of start-of-injection temperatures and densities. The jet fuel surrogates are representative of petroleum-based Jet-A POSF-4658, natural gas-derived S-8 POSF-4734 and coal-derived Sasol IPK POSF-5642, and were prepared from a palette of n-dodecane, n-decane, decalin, toluene, iso-octane and iso-cetane. Optical chemiluminescence and liquid penetration length measurements as well as cylinder pressure-based combustion analyses were applied to examine fuel behavior during the injection and combustion process. HCHO* emissions obtained from broadband UV imaging were used as a marker for low temperature reactivity, while 309 nm narrow band filtered imaging was applied to identify the occurrence of OH*, autoignition and high temperature reactivity.


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Reyes to return today; Kawasaki optioned
CLEVELAND -- The Blue Jays finally have their leadoff man back in the fold as Jose Reyes is set to make his return on Saturday afternoon.
Reyes was activated from the 15-day disabled list following Friday night's 3-2 win over the Indians. In order to make room on the 25-man roster, Toronto optioned infielder Munenori Kawasaki to the Minor Leagues.
The 30-year-old Reyes had been on the DL since he suffered a strained left hamstring during his first at-bat of the season. He spent the past four days on a rehab assignment in Florida and appeared in two official games with Class A Advanced Dunedin.
"He's going to be good to go," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "He's coming, he's ready to go and he'll be in there."
Reyes didn't have a hit in six at-bats with Dunedin, but walked three times and scored three runs. The biggest test came in the field and the first few steps out of the batter's box, and in both cases he came away feeling healthy.
The end result of Reyes' injury is that he missed a total of 15 games. He was technically eligible to come off the DL on Wednesday, but the fact that Reyes required only a couple of additional days to prepare is very positive news for the Blue Jays, considering hamstring injuries often linger for an extended period of time.
Reyes will have to continue monitoring his legs, and it seems unlikely that he will be a major threat to steal bases at least through the month of April, but the organization claims he'll be playing without limitations. Gibbons confirmed that Reyes will be in the lineup both Saturday and Sunday before the entire team enjoys an off-day on Monday.
"It's big, he's a big part of our team," Gibbons said of Reyes' return. "The other guys have held their own and done a nice job for us. But he's a key part of our offence."
Kawasaki is the odd-man out as the Blue Jays have decided to go with Ryan Goins as their starting second baseman. Jonathan Diaz also remained with the team, as he'll back up the middle infield positions and also potentially see some time in the outfield depending on the situation.
Toronto purchased the contract of Kawasaki from Buffalo on April 13. He appeared in three games with the Blue Jays and played a pivotal role in Friday night's win over the Indians by hitting an RBI single during the seventh inning.
The move wasn't necessarily an easy one to make, but Gibbons said after the game that Kawasaki handled it well.
"Like a pro that he is," Gibbons said. "He said, 'I'm always ready.' It doesn't matter where he's playing, but he belongs in the big leagues and he's a big part of our team. He'll be back, he'll be back."