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Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court order. FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate what's happened to people moved from adult homes into apartments and find more than two dozen cases in which the system failed, sometimes with deadly consequences.
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The Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department is asking for assistance from the public in the collection of dead birds found in Ford and Iroquois counties. "Since West Nile virus arrived in Illinois at the end of the summer of 2001, dead birds have been important sentinels for early West Nile virus activity," said Terry Eimen, Environmental Health Director for the health department. "We are looking for "perching birds" such as crows, blue jays, starlings, robins, cardinals, mockingbirds, catbirds, and grackles. Also many species of sparrows, finches, flycatchers, swallows, warblers and wrens will be accepted for testing."
Mr. Eimen said submitted birds should be believed dead less than 24 hours. Birds should only be submitted if they have not been damaged by scavenging animals and are not decomposed. Birds that have an obvious cause of death such as a gunshot wound or that have been hit by motor vehicles are not eligible for testing. Residents who find dead birds should double bag them in plastic bags (plastic bags that seal are best). Citizens should collect and then take them to the Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department offices at 235 North Taft Street in Paxton or at 114 North Third Street in Watseka.
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How WatchGuard's 4RE solves data storage problems for police
Recording in HD significantly increases the evidentiary value of video evidence – but with larger files comes storage issues.
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In recent years, there's been an explosion in the volume of agency-generated video recordings of police work — from on-officer cameras to dash cams and mobile surveillance trailers and other platforms. This video has been invaluable in bringing countless investigations to a successful conclusion, and has prevented potentially costly lawsuits against officers when no such lawsuit is merited.
Furthermore, the quality of the video being captured has also exponentially improved — whereas only a few years ago most video was limited to grainy, low-quality black-and-white imagery, many systems now are recording in higher-definition. Increasingly, there has been demand for true HD-quality video for police.
With so much more video being recorded — some of it captured in HD — the issue of storage becomes a concern. Recording in HD significantly increases the evidentiary value of the video evidence, but those video files are significantly larger — five to six times larger — than standard definition. This has proven to be a barrier for many agencies.
WatchGuard Video has come up with a system to help alleviate some of that problem. The company's 4RE™ High Definition In-Car Video System simultaneously records video at two different resolutions through a single camera lens, and then selects which version to keep after the event is over.
Jack and Jill and their Buckets of Data
The engineers who designed the 4RE system would likely laugh at the simplicity of the following analogy, but imagine that your data storage is a well (like the one in the Jack and Jill children's poem).
The well has a specific and set maximum capacity. Every time you upload video to the system, you pour water into that well. Pour too much HD video in there, and soon your well will be full-to-overflowing.
In essence, the WatchGuard multiple-resolution recording process enables police agencies to capture higher-resolution video while using less overall data storage than conventional systems. It does so by taking the source video camera, splitting the signal into two streams, and depositing both SD and HD files into separate buckets. The HD bucket is full with water, the SD bucket has one fifth of that volume.
This is accomplished by the officer when he or she ends the recording at the end of an event or incident. The system asks the officer to input what type of event it was, he or she makes a selection. Although recordings are kept in both resolutions, only the appropriate resolution is uploaded automatically later when the vehicle arrives back at the station.
To go further with our 'buckets of data' analogy, Jack carries evidentiary video in HD with a larger file size, and Jill carries the bucket of non-evidentiary, standard definition video, with smaller file size. Which of the two individuals pouring their bucket of data into the well is determined when the officer selects the type of event the incident was. The officer's selection of which type of incident it was will determine whether the HD video with a larger file size or the non-evidentiary, standard definition video, with smaller file size is most appropriate.
It's important to note that the officer is not making the decision about HD or SD — they're simply making determinations based on agency policy, which then triggers which version of the video is deposited into the data well. A DUI or an arrest event is automatically stored in HD, whereas a simple traffic infraction is kept in SD. It's totally seamless, and for all practical purposes, invisible to the officer.
Eliminating the File Size Penalty
Most HD recording systems for law enforcement record in HD all the time, and store all video evidence in HD. This results in significant added cost for storage and slower file exports for court, internal review, and whatnot. This added cost has essentially kept many agencies from even considering a migration toward HD, even though that video can be significantly more useful in court. There's just too much of a "penalty" in terms of storage costs.
The WatchGuard 4RE system allows agencies to prioritize recordings based on agency policy to record in different resolutions and this is done after the fact, so that HD is always recorded, but video is always transferred in the most optimal resolution, allowing agencies to record as much or as little in HD as they choose, based on their policy and procedure requirements.
"We discovered that most police agencies record at the lowest resolution in order to minimize file sizes and data storage costs," WatchGuard President and CEO Robert Vanman explained.
"So we decided to develop a recording system that handled routine events (that do not go to court) differently than the critical events (about 10 percent of recordings) that stem from 'arrestable' incidents," Vanman continued.
"We simultaneously record all events in both 720p high definition and a lower resolution, and then after the recording is stopped, we automatically determine which resolution to keep based on the event type classification. Each agency sets up their own list of event classifications and configures which event types they want to keep in high definition," Vanman said.
The fact is most video recorded by law enforcement is never used in a court of law. Countless traffic stops — in which the only thing that happens is a driver being cited for an infraction — are recorded and stored (for a duration determined by agency policy). If that's captured in HD only, the file takes a long time to upload to storage and it takes up a lot of room.
Vanman concluded, "By eliminating the file size penalty, 4RE provides pristine high-definition video for all court-bound video while simultaneously reducing the overall file storage needs and wireless transfer times."
Captain Michael A. Patrick, Assistant Director of Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Patrol summed it up thusly, "With the multiple-resolution recording capability of the new system, we now have the option to save the videos in either HD or standard definition, which saves us time in the copying process as well as in storage space."


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A judge ruled that there is enough evidence for Miguel Alonso Contreras-Perez to stand trial on charges he killed corrections Sgt. Mary Ricard and tried to kill Sgt. Lori Gann.
District Judge Michael Schiferl ruled Wednesday during a preliminary hearing that there was sufficient evidence to bind over Perez on all 13 charges filed against him, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and assault in the first degree with serious injury.
Perez allegedly killed Ricard and injured Gann with a kitchen butcher knife at Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility on Sept. 24, 2012. He is an Army deserter who was sentenced in 2004 to 35 years to life in prison after he raped a 14-year-old girl he kidnapped in Colorado Springs.
Deputy District Attorney Rod Fouracre said no decision has been made whether to seek the death penalty against Perez. Prosecutors have 63 days after arraignment to make a decision. The arraignment date has not been set.
Perez acknowledged during interviews with investigators that the murder of Ricard and stabbing of Gann "was all about the body count" and that he had planned to kill "at least three." One of his intended victims, another correctional officer, was not harmed.
He claimed the attacks on the officers were spurred by a jealous rage. He was upset because he believed Gann was having a sexual relationship with another inmate and a staff member. But Perez frequently contradicted himself. He told officers he once had a chance to kiss Gann in the cooler but lost his nerve.
Perez mailed several taunting letters to authorities that indicated he was proud to be a "cop killer."
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There is something so very civilized about afternoon tea — the quiet conversation, the aromatic brew and the allure of pastries, scones and tea sandwiches. Throw a tea party at home or venture out to one of these tea houses around the Bay Area. Reservations are a must at virtually all of these.
Afternoon tea in San Francisco
The Palace Hotel Garden Court in San Francisco is famous for its Saturday afternoon teas, which include scones, pastries and tea sandwiches with cucumber and green goddess crème, for example, or a smoked salmon roulade ($45 and up). 2 New Montgomery St.; www.sfpalace.com/garden-court.
San Francisco's Craftsman & Wolves serves a more avant-garde afternoon tea on weekdays with a menu ($22) that includes pear walnut scones, salt cod rillettes, beet root madeleines and caramelized hazelnut financiers. This is not a ruffled chintz-and-flowers place. It's a contemporary patisserie housed in an industrial chic, exposed brick building, with a communal table and standing bar. 746 Valencia St. in the Mission district; http://craftsman-wolves.com.
Tea in the South Bay
Afternoon tea at the Fairmont San Jose includes finger sandwiches, scones with Devonshire cream, and French pastries for $32 — or a children's tea with ginger bears, dream cookies and jelly sandwiches for $18. 170 South Market St., San Jose; www.fairmont.com/san-jose/dining/.
The menu at Lisa's Tea Treasures, a Victorian tea salon, includes the Duchess' Delight — a fresh scone with Devonshire cream, cucumber-mint and egg-salad tea sandwiches, quiche and dessert for $23.95. 1175 Merrill St., Menlo Park; www.lisasteamenlo.com.
The Quail & Thistle Tea Room serves tea on weekends, but they are moving from their current location in Ben Lomond to Capitola, where they will open at 911 Capitola Ave. in mid-January; http://quailandthistle.com.
Tea in the East Bay
Lafayette's French Bakery offers a Parisian take on the English tea concept. The Demi Tea in the Tuilleries menu ($22), for example, includes a warm scone with jam, clotted cream and lemon curd, tea sandwiches and two "petite sweets." 71 Lafayette Circle; http://thefrenchbakery.biz/.
In Pleasanton, try the English Rose Tea Room for teas, tisanes and all the scones and tea sandwiches any Anglophile could want — plus a Princess Penelope's Fancy Afternoon Tea option for kids; $12.50-$23. 163 West Neal, Pleasanton; www.theenglishrose-pleasanton.com.


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Patricia Barber's unique style and unusual voice made her an easy target for critics in the early days of her career. Her piano playing and singing, while inventive, never ventured close enough to the avant-garde to earn her artistic license, and her insistence on writing her own material and adapting songs from the pop world made her difficult to categorize. A tireless performer who refused to conform to more conventional vocal jazz idioms, she worked her way up through the Chicago jazz scene slowly, almost reluctantly, after having spent several years in Iowa attending college and performing with local groups.
The daughter of Floyd "Shim" Barber and a blues vocalist, she had all but rejected the idea of becoming a jazz musician, but found herself drawn to the performing world after college. When she returned to Chicago, she was trashed by the local critics, and only after winning a five-day-a-week gig at the intimate Gold Star Sardine Bar and releasing her first album on her own Floyd label (1989's Split) did the tide begin to turn for her. She signed a contract with Verve and released A Distortion of Love in 1992, which brought her some positive critical attention and earned her a more national audience, but the big-label experience was trying for Barber and she sought a place where she could have more creative control. Her next two albums were issued by the tiny local label Premonition (1994's Café Blue and 1998's Modern Cool).
Premonition was purchased by Blue Note in 1998, and the label put some marketing muscle behind Barber, helping to bolster the international reputation she had already begun to earn. Blue Note released Companion in 1999 -- intended to act as her introduction to a wider audience, the album reprised much of her popular material and was recorded live at Chicago's Green Mill, a historic jazz club where Barber had been performing weekly for several years. 2000's Night Club took her back into a studio setting, but still featured many of the inventive interpretations that had distinguished her work in the past. Barber issued her edgy, critically acclaimed Verse on the Blue Note label in 2002. She won a Guggenheim in March of 2003 to create a song cycle based on Ovid's Metamorphses. Her concert set Live: A Fortnight in Paris was issued on the label in 2004, consisting of five originals, five covers, and two brand new songs. Mythologies followed in 2006. A year later, the anthology The Premonition Years: 1992-2002 appeared, detailing most of Barber's early releases. In 2008, Barber took a break from her original material and delivered the jazz standards studio album The Cole Porter Mix. She toured to support the album and continued to play festivals and her longstanding Monday night gig at the Green Mill in Chicago. She continued writing, and tried out her new material at the club, using a revolving cast of players -- many of whom were among the city's younger generation of players. Barber signed to Concord in 2012. Smash, her debut offering for the label, was released in January of 2013. ~ Stacia Proefrock
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Trumbo should thrive in desert pairing with Goldy
New D-backs left fielder already getting raves for dedication, analytical approach
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- In his 2011 breakout season as runner-up in the American League Rookie of the Year race to the Rays' Jeremy Hellickson, Mark Trumbo became known as "Thunder" in a relationship with longtime buddy Peter "Lightning" Bourjos.
Angels fans envisioned a long, entertaining run with "Thunder and Lightning," but partnerships don't always last. Three years into a career as one of the game's emerging power hitters, Trumbo is a D-back and Bourjos is a Cardinal. They'll always be close, but now they're rivals in a new league, with new clubs.
"Pete and I talk all the time," Trumbo said. "We had a great time coming up together through the system and in Anaheim, but this is part of the business. Nothing is forever. I'm really happy to be in Arizona, and Pete's excited to be in St. Louis."
In the desert, D-back fans have every reason to be enthused about a new partnership. Call it "Thunder and More Thunder."
In Paul Goldschmidt, second to Andrew McCutchen in the 2013 National League Most Valuable Player balloting, and Trumbo, his new left fielder, manager Kirk Gibson has a pair of long-distance operators calling to mind Bash Brothers Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco -- or, more recently, Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder.
Goldschmidt (36, 125) and Trumbo (34, 100) combined for 70 homers and 225 RBIs in 2013. Cabrera and Fielder, in their final season together in Detroit, went deep 69 times with 243 RBIs as a unit.
Walked intentionally an NL-high 19 times while assembling a .302/.401/.551 line last year, Goldschmidt might see more good pitches with a menacing Trumbo looming behind him.
Similar in raw power, physical stature and an earnest approach to taking advantage of all their gifts, Goldschmidt, 26, and Trumbo, 28, are expected to create headaches for NL West pitching staffs for years to come.
"He's very cerebral, very methodical," Trumbo said of Goldschmidt. "Albert [Pujols] comes to mind as very similar. It translates. It seems like guys who are able to maintain that focus are able to thrive.
"For a guy to put up those numbers in his second [full] year in the big leagues is pretty phenomenal."
Acquired in a three-team winter deal that sent pitchers Tyler Skaggs and Hector Santiago (via the White Sox) to the Angels and center fielder Adam Eaton to Chicago, Trumbo will not be shy about using the disciplined Goldschmidt as a resource in becoming a more complete hitter.
"This is our third official day [of Spring Training], but I've been here since the third [of February]," said Trumbo, who grew up about 10 minutes from Angel Stadium in Villa Park, Calif. "I wanted to get settled in, get to know people.
"Everyone has been great. Paul was super accommodating. He said, 'If you have any questions at all about anything, I'm here.' I started peppering him with some things about pitchers in the league, hitting. I'm really looking forward to being around him on a daily basis."
Driven to the point that he can be too hard on himself, the 6-foot-4, 235-pound Trumbo acknowledges his .250/.299/.469 career line is not where he wants it to be -- and believes it will be as he makes refinements.
There's nothing wrong with his 95 homers and 282 RBIs in three seasons, but he aims to be less streaky.
"Last year," he said, "I did walk more [54 times, up from 36], but my batting average went down [to .234 from .268] and I had too many strikeouts [184].
"I'm going to try to cut down my stride this year. When you're going good, you can feel like the best hitter in the game. But then there are huge valleys. I've done some things to try to be more consistent."
Trumbo was a multi-positional chess piece with the Angels, moving from first base to right field to left to designated hitter. He even had a brief fling at third. He was most comfortable at first, but that position and his former No. 44 belong to Goldschmidt. Trumbo will wear No. 15.
Confident he can adapt to left and flourish, he has made 73 career starts there with positive analytics: seven runs saved, according to Baseball Info Solutions.
In the company of Dave McKay, considered one of the game's premier outfield coaches, Trumbo has taken a proactive approach to improving his footwork and throwing motion in left.
"Before camp, we stayed later for an hour or so to walk through some drills, break some habits," Trumbo said. "I don't have the breakaway speed like some guys, but there have been quite a few guys who became good outfielders by being in the right spot, getting good breaks, using your head.
"My biggest thing on defense is being dependable. I'm really happy with my throwing; I've changed a few things."
McKay reached out to Rob Picciolo, who coached Trumbo in Anaheim, and got a rave review.
"Picciolo had so many good things to say about Mark, on and off the field," McKay said. "Rob said he made himself a very good first baseman with his work ethic, and first base is a lot more difficult than the outfield. You're throwing from all sorts of different angles at first.
"He wasn't lining up properly, and we corrected that. Usually that takes awhile, but he got it the first day. He's sharp. He thinks about everything you say and asks, 'How is that going to help me?' He's very analytical. That's what I like about him."
Bourjos is in St. Louis, but another of Trumbo's Angels buddies, catcher Bobby Wilson, is hoping to hook on with the D-backs.
"Trum's going to thrive here," Wilson said. "This place -- the ballpark, the team -- is made for him."


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A self-explanatory gallery title. Here we shall be seeing anything with four coupled wheels from the GWR design tenures of Dean, Churchward and Collett plus at least one original and previously unpublished (one hopes) shot of a De Glehn compound at Paddington.Read More
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Percy and his friend had to find a way to rescue his mom, so he went to many places. One thing they had to do was get a pearl from Medusa. Then they had to go past these dragons that were disguised as people. The second pearl was on a stutue, but first they had to find a way to get past the dragons and get Medusa's head because it could turn anything into a statue. The last place they went to was a casino in Hollywood. They had to find some lotus flowers and were stuck there for a couple of days. They finally got to the underwold. Percy wondered why everyone kept attacking him and he finally figured out that everyone thought he was the Lightning Thief.
Percy had to go to Hades to get his mom back. He told everyone the truth, that he was not the Lightning Thief. Percy got a shield that had a lightning bolt sticking out of it. He figured out that Luke stole the lightning bolt. Percy ended up going to the Gods to return the lightning bolt.
I would not change anything in the book because I liked it the way it was written. My favorite part of thes tory was when Percy found the three pearls because it meant that he now had a way to escape. My favortie character is Percy because he can read words that are mixed up and he can control water. My least favorite character is his mom because she does not do much in the story.
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Spike up your style with this jewelry kit! The Spike Jewelry craft kit makes 7 bracelets with neon satin cords and the latest craze: spikes and studs! For ages 6
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Welcome to Wolf XXX: Mega Man Edition!
Totally didn't jack this from DeathersHeya everyone! Deathblade impossible numbers and I are finally here to host you this thing!
[Day Phase]: This is where every player votes for a person to lynch, usually through some form
of discussion. Please use the format [Vote lynch X] (in bold + size 3) to vote.. Changing votes is required
to use [Change Vote lynch Y] (also in bold + size 3). There is no "No Lynch" vote.
- It is preferable for one to make at least 2 contributive posts per day if possible. Voting, however, is mandatory, as you must vote once each day. If you have not voted for anybody for 3 consecutive day phases, you will be modkilled.
- Any ties that the mayor does not break will be broken by one of us hosts with a random generator.
- Day phase lasts about 24 hours and will end at 10 PM EST [for now]
[Night Phase]: This is the phase where the wolves decide which town member they will lynch, and any other members with night actions send their actions to one of the hosts.
- Wolves are granted outside communication with other wolves on their discussion site.
- All night actions are to be sent in before the night phase ends.
- The night phase will also last 24 hours.
[Win Conditions]:
Town : Lynch/kill all wolves
Wolves : Bring the number of townies down to the same amount of wolves.
Independents : Survive to the end.
[Other Rules]:
- You can post SPAM during the nightphase [ to a reasonable extent]
- Deceased players are allowed to post SPAM during the night phase as well, but are obviously not allowed to post during the day phase.
- No role-claiming, role hinting is acceptable.
- No outside communication
- Friendly reminder to send in all actions for either phase to either one of us hosts.
Day Phase One Result [Post 80]
Vigilante Kill [Post 177]
Day Phase Two Result [Post 343]
Night Phase 2 Result [Post 365]
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Season 43 Episode 4311 | 54m 11s
Relish the ACL debut of alternative rock icon LCD Soundsystem. The recently revived band spotlights hits and songs from its comeback album American Dream.
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Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front made little progress in mediated negotiations on Western Sahara's status in 2010, and violent clashes between Sahrawi protesters and Moroccan security forces led to a number of deaths in November. Sahrawi activists continued to face harassment and detention during the year.
Western Sahara was ruled by Spain for nearly a century until Spanish troops withdrew in 1976, following a bloody guerrilla conflict with the pro-independence Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario Front). Mauritania and Morocco both claimed the resource-rich region for themselves, agreeing to a partition in which Morocco received the northern two-thirds. However, the Polisario Front proclaimed an independent Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and continued its guerrilla campaign. Mauritania renounced its claim to the region in 1979, and Morocco filled the vacuum by annexing the entire territory.
Moroccan and Polisario forces engaged in a low-intensity armed conflict until the United Nations brokered a ceasefire in 1991. The agreement called for residents of Western Sahara to vote in a referendum on independence the following year, to be supervised by the newly established UN Mission for a Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). However, the vote never took place, with the two sides failing to agree on voter eligibility.
Morocco tried to bolster its annexation by offering financial incentives for Moroccans to move to Western Sahara and for Sahrawis to move to Morocco. Morocco also used more coercive measures to assert its control, engaging in forced resettlements of Sahrawis and long-term detention and "disappearances" of pro-independence activists.
In 2004, the Polisario Front accepted a UN Security Council plan that called for up to five years of autonomy followed by a referendum on the territory's status. However, Morocco rejected the plan, as it could lead to independence, and in 2007 offered its own autonomy plan.
Because the Polisario Front remained committed to an eventual referendum on independence, the two sides failed to make meaningful progress in four rounds of formal talks and three informal meetings that started in 2007 and continued in 2010. Talks in November 2010 were overshadowed by a confrontation on November 8 in the Gadaym Izik protest camp outside Western Sahara's main city of Laayoune, in which Moroccan forces used helicopters, tear gas, and water cannons to disperse residents who had mobilized within the camp. According to Human Rights Watch, 11 officers and 2 civilians were killed, although it emphasized that these were Moroccan estimates and that independent verification was made impossible by the Moroccan authorities. The Polisario claimed that 11 civilians died, 700 were wounded, and many were arrested. Each side accused the other of attempting to disrupt the ongoing negotiations.
Political Rights and Civil Liberties:
As the occupying force in Western Sahara, Morocco controls local elections and works to ensure that independence-minded leaders are excluded from both the local political process and the Moroccan Parliament.
Western Sahara is not listed separately on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, but reports of corruption are widespread. The territory possesses extensive natural resources, including phosphate, iron-ore deposits, hydrocarbon reserves, and fisheries. Nevertheless, the local population remains largely impoverished.
According to the Moroccan constitution, the press is free, but this is not the case in practice. There is little independent Sahrawi media activity. Moroccan authorities are sensitive to any reporting that is not in line with the state's official position on Western Sahara, and they continue to expel or detain Sahrawi, Moroccan, and foreign reporters who write critically on the issue. Online media and independent satellite broadcasts are largely unavailable to the impoverished population.
Nearly all Sahrawis are Sunni Muslims, as are most Moroccans, and Moroccan authorities generally do not interfere with their freedom of worship. There are no major universities or institutions of higher learning in Western Sahara.
Sahrawis are not permitted to form independent political or nongovernmental organizations, and their freedom of assembly is severely restricted. As in previous years, activists supporting independence and their suspected foreign sympathizers were subject to harassment. In April 2010, activists faced harassment at the Laayoune airport upon their return from the Polisario-controlled refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria.Sahrawis are technically subject to Moroccan labor laws, but there is little organized labor activity in the territory.
International human rights groups have criticized Morocco's record in Western Sahara for decades. In the aftermath of the November 2010 clashes outside Laayoune, Amnesty International renewed its call for independent monitoring of human rights violations. Three Sahrawi activists who had been arrested in Morocco in October 2009—Brahim Dahane, Ali Salem Tamek, and Ahmed Naciri—remained in detention throughout 2010, and their pending trial was postponed in November after disruptions in the courtroom, largely by pro-Moroccan spectators. The Polisario Front has also been accused of disregarding human rights. In September 2010, the Polisario Front arrested a Sahrawi dissenter, Mostapha Selma Sidi Mouloud, as he returned to the Tindouf camps after publicly endorsing Morocco's autonomy plan in Western Sahara.
Morocco and the Polisario Front both restrict free movement in potential conflict areas. Morocco has been accused of using force and financial incentives to alter the composition of Western Sahara's population.
Sahrawi women face much of the same cultural and legal discrimination as Moroccan women. Conditions are generally worse for women living in rural areas, where poverty and illiteracy rates are higher.


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text: Selected as the seventh chancellor of the Dallas County Community College District, Dr. Joe May assumed his duties at DCCCD in late February 2014. Throughout his career, May has expanded opportunities for students who want to pursue a bachelor's degree by starting at a community college. At the same time, he brings a strong commitment to improving the Dallas economy by helping to grow middle-class jobs. He is known both nationally and internationally as a result of his relentless advocacy for the role of community colleges in solving today's most challenging social issues.


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Sunday goodies and another goal accomplished!
September 18, 2005 05:26PM
Yes, I grazed the reverse. The picture is a little dark, but it's in pretty good shape, with almost full split bands on the reverse.
6' away from the dime, I got another 6" High Coin signal. I opened a plug, and started scooping out dirt. In one of the handfuls of dirt, I saw a large reeded edge sticking out. However, something was odd about it. Normally, due to the moisture and mineralization of this site, clad and nickels come out really red. This one was black, with some rust-colored discoloration. I checked that date, and noticed it was a from the '50's. Cool! My third silver quarter this year! Here's the pic:
I pocketed that quarter, and out of habit, swept the hole before I closed it up. PING! Hey, there's another coin in there! I was thinking that it would be really sweet if it was another silver quarter, as I usually find clad quarters in pairs. I probed around with my vibraprobe, and got a hit at 6 o'clock. I popped out a divot of dirt, and saw another black-colored quarter! I checked the date, and saw it was a '41. Here's the image:
I kept running down the sideline. At almost the other endzone, I got a High Coin hit at an indicated 4". When I flipped up a plug, I saw a tarnished silvery oval shape in the dirt. I flipped it over to reveal this:
Sweet! This makes my 12th piece of silver jewelry this year, and meets my goal for silver jewelry.
I ended up getting another Wheat, a '29, a piece of scrap copper, and large lead disk. I was hoping that would be a large lead bale seal, but there's nothing on it, so I think someone made a lead poker chip out of boredom.
The silver coins from this site are almost always tarnished, as are Wheat's. I was going to give them a little zap in my electrolysis tank, but apparently, the last time I used it, I fried it, as it won't do anything right now. Time to go to Radio Shack!
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Great day Allen
September 19, 2005 11:45AM
Sweet finds Allen.......love them quarters!!
September 18, 2005 10:37PM
Re: Sunday goodies and another goal accomplished!
September 18, 2005 10:31PM
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September 18, 2005 11:46PM
Great trophys , Allen !!!...that soil is...
September 18, 2005 10:02PM
Very nice quarter snag, adn WTG getting your goal.
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Tucked away down a country lane in the heart of Broadland and enjoying glorious views across open fields a range of handsome barns has been tastefully converted to create the attractive cluster of cottages we offer here. Some nestle under their traditional Norfolk thatch all are very comfortably appointed and each enjoys its own individual patio. From the cottages a gentle and tranquil rural landscape dotted with ancient churches wind pumps and nature reserves among a myriad other delights all under vast arching East Anglian skies offers a wealth of opportunity for enjoying walking cycling and bird watching. Nearby How Hill nature reserve with its marsh meadows dykes woodland and open water is well worth exploring and the wider surrounding area supports a host of attractions. Riverside pubs and cafés are plentiful and a number of Broadland centres offer bike hire or canoe hire (possibly the most delightful way to discover the lovely reed lined waterways and their abundant wildlife) and visitors can also hire boats at nearby Potter Heigham (4 miles) or take a pleasure cruise from bustling Wroxham – the capital of the Broads and home to the 'world's largest village store' as well as the train station for the Bure Valley narrow gauge steam railway. Close by Bewilderwood a magical tree top park promises children a day to remember and lovely dune backed sandy beaches are a short drive – Sea Palling lies just 6 miles away. For lively family fun visitors need look no further than Great Yarmouth and its famous pleasure beach or Pleasurewood Hills theme park whilst Cromer also offers traditional seaside entertainments including a renowned end of pier show. Byegone museums craft centres and Blickling Hall (N.T.) area all within an easy drive as is the medieval city of Norwich with its magnificent cathedral castle galleries museums cinemas theatres and excellent shopping. A little further afield on the north Norfolk coast seal watching boat trips can be found at picturesque fishing villages many of which also boast pubs and restaurants serving superb locally caught seafood. Coarse fishing is available on local waters just 400 yards away and the pretty village of Ludham (1 mile) boasts two pubs and a good range of shops.
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Hoyer Remarks at Press Conference on President Obama Meeting With House Demcratic Caucus
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WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) delivered remarks today at a press conference with House Democratic Leadership following President Obama's meeting with the House Democratic Caucus. Below is a transcript of his remarks:
"Well I agree with the Leader and with Chairman Becerra – the President was optimistic, the President was positive, the President was obviously pleased with the meetings that he's had both with the House Republicans and the Senate Republicans, as well as Senate Democrats and now House Democrats.
"The President indicated, as has been referenced, and I would submit – the election is over. We've had our election, we had a vigorous debate, and the American people have made a choice. We have a Democratic President, a Democratic Senate and a Republican House. He observed, and I agree, and I think all of us agree, that the sequester that has been adopted should not go forward, should not stay in place. We ought to do that in a more rational, balanced way, that we need to move forward in setting our country on an even more successful path than we are on.
"Good job numbers last month, 236,000 jobs. Stock market at historic highs. But in order to continue that and to grow more jobs the President made it very clear that he understands he needs to reach out to Republicans and to work with his Democratic colleagues in the House and the Senate to make sure that we reach a balanced resolution – a resolution to move this country forward. And if we do so, he's very optimistic about the fact that we're going to do very, very well as a country, create the kinds of jobs we need and be competitive in world markets to grow our economy.
"So it was a very positive meeting. I know all of our members were pleased the President joined us and he is positive about the meetings he's had with our Republican colleagues and we look forward to working with him in the coming days and months."


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Immunology Researchers Uncover Pathways That Direct Immune System to Turn 'On' or 'Off'
Roswell Park team's work honored as Journal of Biological Chemistry "Paper of the Week"
BUFFALO, NY — A key discovery explaining how components of the immune system determine whether to activate or to suppress the immune system, made by Kelvin Lee, MD, the Jacobs Family Chair in Immunology, Professor of Oncology and Co-Leader of the Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Program at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Roswell Park), and colleagues led to published findings being selected as the "Paper of the Week" by the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC). The honor places his work among the top 2 percent — in terms of significance and overall importance — of the year's manuscripts reviewed by the journal.
This research focused on the immune system's dendritic cells (DCs), crucial cells that initiate and regulate immune responses. For example, the dendritic cells activate T lymphocytes to fight an infection or cancer. Curiously, they are also known to suppress the immune response. Determining when DCs turn the immune response "on" or "off" is a major question in immunology.
For this project, Dr. Lee's team explored two receptors (called CD80 and CD86) expressed on the surface of dendritic cells that trigger the cells to make either immune-stimulating factors (interleukin-6) or immune-suppressive factors (indolemine 2, 3 dioxygenase, IDO). They defined the intracellular pathways by which the receptors triggered each response and also uncovered a previously unrecognized interaction with another receptor called Notch-1.
Understanding how these pathways are put together opens the door to targeting components of the pathway so physicians can manipulate the dendritic cells to either activate or suppress the immune system in a way that's therapeutically beneficial.
"Activating the immune response would enhance a patient's response to a vaccine designed to prevent a cancer from growing or recurring," explains Dr. Lee. "Suppressing or blocking an unwanted immune response would be helpful in organ-transplant cases, to prevent rejection, or in autoimmune diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis."
With regard to cancer, Dr. Lee explains how manipulating the CD80/CD86 pathway could impact treatment for multiple myeloma, a cancer of a type of white blood cell in the bone marrow.
"Myeloma cells use this pathway to survive and grow by inducing the DC to make IL-6 — which promotes the cancer cells' survival — and IDO, which blocks anti-cancer responses," he says. "Targeting this pathway would be a novel treatment strategy for multiple myeloma."
This work has been supported in part by three National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants: awards R01CA140622, R01CA121044 and T32CA085183, from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and R01AI100157, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Additional funds were provided by the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF).
The paper was published March 14, 2014, in JBC and is available online at jbc.org.
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I'm a huge fan of the Tesla Model S sedan. I only wish my income would allow me to buy one. There's nothing not to like. 0-60 in 4.0 seconds, a realistic 260 miles of range. All the features, luxury and driving performance/handling of a Mercedes S class, Audi A8, BMW 7 series, Porsche Panamera, etc., and a driver interface and features that are right out of The Jetsons. All for as little as $73K if you can do without the power sunroof and a couple of other things, and as little as $53K if you can make due with the smallest battery pack giving only 160 miles of range.
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There are tons of videos on YouTube of great Tesla Model S reviews and owners singing the praises of their cars, but this one that I ran across this morning really caught my eye. It's a training video from Tesla showing first responders how to treat Teslas in an accident situation. My jaw dropped right down to the floor, however, when I hit the 27:30 mark. Watch the video, it's pretty interesting. If you're impatient, however, fast forward to the above mentioned point and watch from there to see something pretty shocking. At least it was for me. I'm not going to ruin the surprise by telling you what it was...you'll just have to watch it for yourself.


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Executive summary: Indonesia offers a critical example of why GHG emissions arising from deforestation and land-use change need to be dealt with at the international level, by governments and corporations.
Indonesia holds the global record for GHG emissions through deforestation, putting it third behind the USA and China in terms of total man-made GHG emissions. During the last 50 years, over 74 million hectares of Indonesia's forests have been destroyed – logged, burned, degraded, pulped – and its products shipped round the planet.
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System backup
This rsync script allows creating a full backup copy across filesystems. It is setup so that the copy includes intact booting capabilities, optionally excluding selected files.
The approach has benefits over omitting system files by just copying personal data; if the system becomes corrupted in the main partition, overcoming the problem means booting into the backup as opposed to identifying and reinstalling affected programs.
Instructions were converted from this forum post.
Two files are needed: the backup script and a file stating which files to include/exclude from the backup source.
Backup script
The script is very simple; it rsyncs in archive mode, ensuring that symbolic links, devices, permissions and ownerships, among other file attributes are preserved, while excluding files that match the patterns from the include/exclude list.
Save it as Template:Filename and make it executable: Template:File
- Backup source; Template:Codeline
- In this case it's performing a backup on the whole root.
- Backup destination; Template:Codeline1
- Passed as an argument to the script; e.g. Template:Filename
- Include/exclude list; Template:Codeline
- This example uses Template:Filename.
Include/exclude list
As deciding which files should populate this list can be difficult, here's a typical backup example that excludes common files that don't need to be backed up, such as the vast majority of Template:Filename. Note that specifying every desired file or directory in Template:Codeline is not needed; this section only acts as a filter for statements in Template:Codeline. This file is in the traditional include/exclude rsync format.
Save the following as Template:Filename: Template:File
- Exclude
- Content in system directories; Template:Filename, Template:Filename, Template:Filename and Template:Filename are excluded because they are created by the system at runtime, while the directories themselves need to be preserved since they are not regenerated at boot. Lastly, all Template:Filename instances are skipped since they are partition-specific. For Archlinux Template:Filename can also be excluded. This can save a lot of time on every backup since the directory contains many small files that tend to change quite often. These are description files for every package from the repositories. These files can be regenerated with Template:Filename.
- Include
- Even though Template:Filename is excluded, 4 files that are not dynamically created by udev need to be preserved. These are Template:Filename, Template:Filename, Template:Filename and Template:Filename.
Backing up
Substitute Template:Filename as appropriate, and mount the destination device:
# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/backup
Run the backup script (note that the trailing "Template:Filename" character is necessary):
# ./rbackup.sh /media/backup/
Boot setup
After the sync is finished, the backup destination's Template:Filename has to be modified, a boot loader needs to be installed on the backup destination, and configuration in the destination's Template:Filename requires to reflect the new location.
Modify fstab
Edit the backup destination's fstab: Template:Command
Because rsync has performed a recursive copy of the entire root filesystem, all of the Template:Codeline mounpoints are problematic and will cause the backup boot to fail. In this example, all of the offending entries are replaced with a single one: Template:Command
As before, remember to use the proper device name and filesystem type.
Install bootloader
While these instructions assume GRUB is being employed, they could easily be adapted to other bootloaders, such as LILO.
Open the GRUB console:
# grub
Direct the install towards the destination device:
root (hd1,0) setup (hd1)
- root; Template:Codeline
- This should point to where the GRUB files are located--in this case, "Template:Codeline" means the second storage device (Template:Filename) and "Template:Codeline" is the first partition (Template:Filename).
- setup; Template:Codeline
- The command specifies where the actual boot loader is to be installed. In this example it is installed to the MBR of the second storage device.
Configure bootloader
The problem here is that even though the boot loader installs correctly, its menu entries are for the main system's partitions, not the backup system's.
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TTouch recognises an inextricable link between posture and behaviour. Observations are key to helping owners and carers understand their dog(s) on whole new level and the combination of TTouch body work, ground work and specialist equipment such as the Balance Lead, TTouch Harness and Body Wraps provide anyone working/living with or handling dogs valuable tools for change.
Holly was in a re-homing shelter. Note the stress lines around her muzzle and across the top of the head
Coat changes often appear where there is underlying tension in the body and the appearance of the ears and tail can give you vital information about muscle development through the neck, back and hindquarters. The way a dog moves will usually have a direct influence on how he responds to stimulus and physical, mental and emotional balance cannot be separated
Tension in the neck and back is common in dogs that are reactive to other dogs and strangers and the gentle body work TTouch techniques help to release tight muscles and create a sense of calm. Dogs that are timid often have cold extremities and the gentle Lifts and Slides improve circulation and give the dog increased confidence as a result. For dogs that are nervous about direct hand contact, fake hands or wands (long dressage schooling sticks) may be used and ground work can be a valuable starting point for dogs that cannot tolerate touch. Sessions should be short with plenty of breaks to enable to the dog to process the information and it is often in the breaks that most changes occur.
Removing the slip lead and using a harness with two points of connection released tension from her neck and the gentle Ear Slides helped her to settle in a matter of minutes
Contact with the back of the hand is often less threatening to a nervous dog and is an ideal way of teaching children how to interact with the family pet. This also prevents them from patting or leaning on the dog which can be threatening for many animals.
All behaviours are linked and as TTouch helps to improve physical balance and well being it can have an immediate and often profound effect on behaviour and mood. There is much clinical evidence that shows that when tension in the body is reduced all associated behaviours begin to diminish and often disappear. TTouch helps dogs become more confident, more focused, calmer, less reactive, quieter and easier to train. With TTouch, dogs learn to learn.
TTouch is beneficial for all dogs regardless of their age or breed and can be used in conjunction with appropriate veterinary care to help dogs overcome a variety of health concerns.
Many of the UK's top re-homing centres and smaller shelters use TTouch to reduce kennel stress, improve behaviour and increase a dogs chances of finding a new home. It is also used with assistance dogs, sniffer dogs, competition dogs, working dogs, show dogs, and of course the family friend.


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Click here to visit the website of this beautiful state park that offers many amenities but can't pay all its bills.
Managers of the Honey Creek Resort State Park at Lake Rathbun in southern Iowa are asking for a state bailout as it struggles to make payments on its loans. Iowa's chief parks manager is asking for $27 million to pay off the costs of building the so-called destination park, Radio Iowa, Des Moines, reported
Department of Natural Resources Director Chuck Gipp told Gov. Terry Branstad at a budget hearing that the resort is having to tap into state environmental funds to make its bond payments. "And it is making money, it is making money, but it's not making enough money to pay off the bonds and the interest," Gipp said.
"It's paying for its ongoing expenses, it's not paying for the capital costs of building it," the governor replied and Gipp said that was correct. Gipp says Honey Creek has boosted the economy in southern Iowa.
"While sales tax collection was falling in a majority of the counties across the state of Iowa, two counties that experienced increases in sales tax at that time were Wayne and Appanoose county. And the only new thing that occurred thing different is the proximity to Honey Creek state resort," Gipp says.
The governor replied, "So there is some economic benefit in the area." Gipp replied, "There is."
The governor suggested he will look for a one-time source of money to cover the bonds. Developers had initially projected that the resort would make enough money to cover the debt. Honey Creek offers guest rooms, cottages, golf and water sports on the lake.


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The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) operates regional psychiatric hospitals in six locations across the state. These specialized facilities provide short-term, intensive treatment to patients in both inpatient and community-supported environments. They also deliver comprehensive care to patients committed by criminal courts.
Working in collaboration with county boards and community agencies, expert services are built on evidence-based best practices. Staff at all our hospitals focus on maximizing the potential for recovery so that people with mental illness will be successful and satisfied in their preferred community roles with the level of support needed and wanted.
Each hospital is required to be inspected by and maintain compliance with the national healthcare standards for hospitals of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (TJC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
OhioMHAS also has statutory and regulatory authority over community providers of mental health services to Ohio consumers. Separate standards apply depending on the type and level of service provided: Community Mental Health Agencies, Residential Facilities and Inpatient Psychiatric Service Providers.
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Charles Babbage
Born: 26 December 1791 in London, England
Died: 18 October 1871 in London, England
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Both the date and place of Charles Babbage's birth were uncertain but have now been firmly established. In [1] and [12], for example, his date of birth is given as 26 December 1792 and both give the place of his birth as near Teignmouth. Also in [18] it is stated:-
Little is known of Mr Babbage's parentage and early youth except that he was born on 26 December 1792.However, a nephew wrote to The Times a week after the obituary [18] appeared, saying that Babbage was born on 26 December 1791. There was little evidence to prove which was right until Hyman (see [8]) in 1975 found that Babbage's birth had been registered in St Mary's Newington, London on 6 January 1792. Babbage's father was Benjamin Babbage, a banker, and his mother was Betsy Plumleigh Babbage. Given the place that his birth was registered Hyman says in [8] that it is almost certain that Babbage was born in the family home of 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London.
Babbage suffered ill health as a child, as he relates in [4]:-
Having suffered in health at the age of five years, and again at that of ten by violent fevers, from which I was with difficulty saved, I was sent into Devonshire and placed under the care of a clergyman (who kept a school at Alphington, near Exeter), with instructions to attend to my health; but, not to press too much knowledge upon me: a mission which he faithfully accomplished.Since his father was fairly wealthy, he could afford to have Babbage educated at private schools. After the school at Alphington he was sent to an academy at Forty Hill, Enfield, Middlesex where his education properly began. He began to show a passion for mathematics but a dislike for the classics. On leaving the academy, he continued to study at home, having an Oxford tutor to bring him up to university level. Babbage in [4] lists the mathematics books he studied in this period with the tutor:-
Amongst these were Humphry Ditton's 'Fluxions', of which I could make nothing; Madame Agnesi's 'Analytical Instructions' from which I acquired some knowledge; Woodhouse's 'Principles of Analytic Calculation', from which I learned the notation of Leibniz; and Lagrange's 'Théorie des Fonctions'. I possessed also the 'Fluxions' of Maclaurin and of Simson.Babbage entered Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1810. However the grounding he had acquired from the books he had studied made him dissatisfied with the teaching at Cambridge. He wrote [4]:-
Thus it happened that when I went to Cambridge I could work out such questions as the very moderate amount of mathematics which I then possessed admitted, with equal facility, in the dots of Newton, the d's of Leibniz, or the dashes of Lagrange. I thus acquired a distaste for the routine of the studies of the place, and devoured the papers of Euler and other mathematicians scattered through innumerable volumes of the academies of St Petersburg, Berlin, and Paris, which the libraries I had recourse to contained.It is a little difficult to understand how Woodhouse's Principles of Analytic Calculation was such an excellent book from which to learn the methods of Leibniz, yet Woodhouse was teaching Newton's calculus at Cambridge without any reference to Leibniz's methods. Woodhouse was one of Babbage's teachers at Cambridge yet he seems to have taken no part in the Society that Babbage was to set up to try to bring the modern continental mathematics to Cambridge.
Under these circumstances it was not surprising that I should perceive and be penetrated with the superior power of the notation of Leibniz.
Babbage tried to buy Lacroix's book on the differential and integral calculus but this did not prove easy in this period of war with Napoleon. When he did find a copy of the work he had to pay seven guineas for it - an incredible amount of money in those days. Babbage then thought of setting up a Society to translate the work [4]:-
I then drew up the sketch of a society to be instituted for translating the small work of Lacroix on the Differential and Integral Calculus. It proposed that we should have periodical meetings for the propagation of d's; and consigned to perdition all who supported the heresy of dots. It maintained that the work of Lacroix was so perfect that any comment was unnecessary.Babbage talked with his friend Edward Bromhead (who would become George Green's friend some years later- see the article on Green) who encouraged him to set up his Society. The Analytical Society was set up in 1812 and its members were all Cambridge undergraduates. Nine mathematicians attended the first meeting but the two most prominent members, in addition to Babbage, were John Herschel and George Peacock.
Babbage and Herschel produced the first of the publications of the Analytical Society when they published Memoirs of the Analytical Society in 1813. This is a remarkably deep work when one realises that it was written by two undergraduates. They gave a history of the calculus, and of the Newton, Leibniz controversy they wrote:-
It is a lamentable consideration, that that discovery which has most of any done honour to the genius of man, should nevertheless bring with it a train of reflections so little to the credit of his heart.Two further publications of the Analytical Society were the joint work of Babbage, Herschel and Peacock. These are the English translation of Lacroix's Sur le calcul différentiel et intégral published in 1816 and a book of examples on the calculus which they published in 1820.
Babbage had moved from Trinity College to Peterhouse and it was from that College that he graduated with a B.A. in 1814. However, Babbage realised that Herschel was a much more powerful mathematician than he was so [12]:-
He did not compete for honours, believing Herschel sure of first place and not caring to come out second.Indeed Herschel was first Wrangler, Peacock coming second. Babbage married in 1814, then left Cambridge in 1815 to live in London. He wrote two major papers on functional equations in 1815 and 1816. Also in 1816, at the early age of 24, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London. He wrote papers on several different mathematical topics over the next few years but none are particularly important and some, such as his work on infinite series, are clearly incorrect.
Babbage was unhappy with the way that the learned societies of that time were run. Although elected to the Royal Society, he was unhappy with it. He was to write of his feelings on how the Royal Society was run:-
The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.However in 1820 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in the same year he was a major influence in founding the Royal Astronomical Society. He served as secretary to the Royal Astronomical Society for the first four years of its existence and later he served as vice-president of the Society.
Babbage, together with Herschel, conducted some experiments on magnetism in 1825, developing methods introduced by Arago. In 1827 Babbage became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a position he held for 12 years although he never taught. The reason why he held this prestigious post yet failed to carry out the duties one would have expected of the holder, was that by this time he had become engrossed in what was to became the main passion of his life, namely the development of mechanical computers.
Babbage is without doubt the originator of the concepts behind the present day computer. The computation of logarithms had made him aware of the inaccuracy of human calculation around 1812. He wrote in [4]:-
... I was sitting in the rooms of the Analytical Society, at Cambridge, my head leaning forward on the table in a kind of dreamy mood, with a table of logarithms lying open before me. Another member, coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep, called out, Well, Babbage, what are you dreaming about?" to which I replied "I am thinking that all these tables" (pointing to the logarithms) "might be calculated by machinery."Certainly Babbage did not follow up this idea at that time but in 1819, when his interests were turning towards astronomical instruments, his ideas became more precise and he formulated a plan to construct tables using the method of differences by mechanical means. Such a machine would be able to carry out complex operations using only the mechanism for addition. Babbage began to construct a small difference engine in 1819 and had completed it by 1822. He announced his invention in a paper Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables read to the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 June 1822.
Although Babbage envisaged a machine capable of printing out the results it obtained, this was not done by the time the paper was written. An assistant had to write down the results obtained. Babbage illustrated what his small engine was capable of doing by calculating successive terms of the sequence n2 + n + 41.
The terms of this sequence are 41, 43, 47, 53, 61, ... while the differences of the terms are 2, 4, 6, 8, .. and the second differences are 2, 2, 2, ..... The difference engine is given the initial data 2, 0, 41; it constructs the next row 2, (0 + 2), [41 + (0 + 2)], that is 2, 2, 43; then the row 2, (2 + 2), [43 + (2 + 2)], that is 2, 4, 47; then 2, 6, 53; then 2, 8, 61; ... Babbage reports that his small difference engine was capable of producing the members of the sequence n2 + n + 41 at the rate of about 60 every 5 minutes.
Babbage was clearly strongly influenced by de Prony's major undertaking for the French Government of producing logarithmic and trigonometric tables with teams of people to carry out the calculations. He argued that a large difference engine could do the work undertaken by teams of people saving cost and being totally accurate.
On 13 July 1823 Babbage received a gold medal from the Astronomical Society for his development of the difference engine. He then met the Chancellor of the Exchequer to seek public funds for the construction of a large difference engine. The Royal Society had already given positive advice to the government:-
Mr Babbage has displayed great talent and ingenuity in the construction of his machine for computation, which the committee thanks fully adequate to the attainment of the objects proposed by the inventory; and they consider Mr Babbage as highly deserving of public encouragement, in the prosecution of his arduous undertaking.His initial grant was for £1500 and he began work on a large difference engine which he believed he could complete in three years. He set out to produce an engine with [3]:-
... six orders of differences, each of twenty places of figures, whilst the first three columns would each have had half a dozen additional figures.Such an engine would easily have been able to compute all the tables that de Prony had been calculating, and it was intended to have a printer to print out the results automatically. However the construction proceeded slower than had been expected. By 1827 the expenses were getting out of hand.
The year 1827 was a year of tragedy for Babbage; his father, his wife and two of his children all died that year. He own health gave way and he was advised to travel on the Continent. After his travels he returned near the end of 1828. Further attempts to obtain government support eventually resulted in the Duke of Wellington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and other members of the government visiting Babbage and inspecting the work for themselves. By February 1830 the government had paid, or promised to pay, £9000 towards the project.
In 1830 Babbage published Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, a controversial work that resulted in the formation, one year later, of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1834 Babbage published his most influential work On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, in which he proposed an early form of what today we call operational research.
The year 1834 was the one in which work stopped on the difference engine. By that time the government had put £17000 into the project and Babbage had put £6000 of his own money. For eight years from 1834 to 1842 the government would make no decision as to whether to continue support. In 1842 the decision not to proceed was taken by Robert Peel's government. Dubbey in [6] writes:-
Babbage had every reason to feel aggrieved about his treatment by successive governments. They had failed to understand the immense possibilities of his work, ignored the advice of the most reputable scientists and engineers, procrastinated for eight years before reaching a decision about the difference engine, misunderstood his motives and the sacrifices he had made, and ... failed to protect him from public slander and ridicule.By 1834 Babbage had completed the first drawings of the analytical engine, the forerunner of the modern electronic computer. His work on the difference engine had led him to a much more sophisticated idea. Although the analytic engine never progressed beyond detailed drawings, it is remarkably similar in logical components to a present day computer. Babbage describes five logical components, the store, the mill, the control, the input and the output. The store contains [4]:-
... all the variables to be operated upon, as well as all those quantities which had arisen from the results of other operations.The mill is the analogue of the cpu in a modern computer and it is the place [4]:-
... into which the quantities about to be operated upon are always bought.The control on the sequence of operations to be carried out was by a Jacquard loom type device. It was operated by punched cards and the punched cards contained the program for the particular task [4]:-
Every set of cards made for any formula will at any future time recalculate the formula with whatever constants may be required.The store was to hold 1000 numbers each of 50 digits, but Babbage designed the analytic engine to effectively have infinite storage. This was done by outputting data to punched cards which could be read in again at a later stage when needed. Babbage decided, however, not to seek government support after his experiences with the difference engine.
Thus the Analytical Engine will possess a library of its own. Every set of cards once made will at any time reproduce the calculations for which it was first arranged.
Babbage visited Turin in 1840 and discussed his ideas with mathematicians there including Menabrea. During Babbage's visit, Menabrea collected all the material needed to describe the analytical engine and he published this in October 1842. Lady Ada Lovelace translated Menabrea's article into English and added notes considerably more extensive than the original memoir. This was published in 1843 and included [7]:-
... elaborations on the points made by Menabrea, together with some complicated programs of her own, the most complex of these being one to calculate the sequence of Bernoulli numbers.Although Babbage never built an operational, mechanical computer, his design concepts have been proved correct and recently such a computer has been built following Babbage's own design criteria. See THIS LINK. He wrote in 1851 (see [7]):-
The drawings of the Analytical Engine have been made entirely at my own cost: I instituted a long series of experiments for the purpose of reducing the expense of its construction to limits which might be within the means I could myself afford to supply. I am now resigned to the necessity of abstaining from its construction...Despite this last statement, Babbage never did quite give up hope that the analytical engine would be built writing in 1864 in [4]:-
... if I survive some few years longer, the Analytical Engine will exist...After Babbage's death a committee,whose members included Cayley and Clifford, was appointed by the British Association [12]:-
... to report upon the feasibility of the design, recorded their opinion that its successful realisation might mark an epoch in the history of computation equally memorable with that of the introduction of logarithms...This was an underestimate. The construction of modern computers, logically similar to Babbage's design, have changed the whole of mathematics and it is even not an exaggeration to say that they have changed the whole world.
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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual to shrubs, ± woolly
Leaves generally alternate, entire to nearly compound
Inflorescence: heads 1many, generally radiate; cluster often ± flat-topped; involucre obconic to hemispheric; phyllaries in 1 series, free or ± fused; receptacle flat to columnar, generally naked
Ray flowers generally ± 1 per phyllary; ligules entire to lobed, generally yellow (white)
Disk flowers (3)10300; corolla yellow; anther tips ovate, deltate or awl-shaped
Fruit 4-angled or flattened in outer flowers, generally club-shaped in inner flowers; pappus 015 ± jagged or fringed scales
Species in genus: 14 species: w North America
Etymology: (Greek: woolly leaf)
Reference: [Mooring 1991 Madroño 38:213226]
Annual species by Dale E. Johnson.
Subshrub or shrub generally 27 dm
Leaf 15 cm, ± obovate, deeply 35-lobed to nearly 2-pinnately compound, rolled under, becoming ± glabrous above
Inflorescence: heads 330+; peduncles 025 cm; involucres 37 mm, bell-shaped, tomentose; phyllaries 47, obtuse, keeled, strongly overlapping, ± free; receptacle ± convex
Ray flowers (0)46; ligules 25 mm
Disk flowers 1075; corollas 24 mm, puberulent to glandular
Fruit 24 mm; pappus generally < 1 mm
Ecology: Many dry habitats
Elevation: < 3000 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, Central Western California, Southwestern California, w edge Desert
Distribution outside California: Baja California
Highly variable, intergrading complex.
Hybridizes with E. lanatum.
Plant sometimes becoming glabrousSee the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Inflorescence: heads 310; clusters generally loose; peduncles 025 mm; involucres 57 mm
Disk flowers 3575; corollas 3.54 mm
Fruit 3.54 mm; pappus scales ± 8, unequal
Chromosomes: 2n=64
Ecology: Oak woodland
Elevation: 600800 m.
Bioregional distribution: c Sierra Nevada Foothills.Possible hybrid derivative of var. c. X E. lanatum
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PEORIA, Ariz. -- Mike Zunino knows full well that his first order of business as a catcher is working with pitchers, playing strong defense and calling games behind the plate.
But, yeah, he wants to hit, too, better than the .214 average he put up in 52 games as a rookie last season. And the Mariners would love to see better plate production from their 2012 first-round Draft pick, as well, which is why new manager Lloyd McClendon has taken an early interest in helping the 22-year-old prodigy make some slight adjustments in his swing.
McClendon, the hitting coach for the Tigers the previous seven seasons, made some suggestions to Zunino on Saturday about moving his hands back a little to put himself in a stronger position to drive the ball. And with help from Mariners hitting coach Howard Johnson, the young catcher has quickly put the advice into play and is eager to see the results in the coming weeks.
"He wanted me to get my hands in the proper position to hit, getting them all the way back in a good, strong load position," Zunino said Sunday. "That's something that registered yesterday. He saw something, so it gives me something to really focus on this spring, just trying to get that going."
McClendon might be new to Seattle, but Mariners hitters are plenty aware that he's been working with Miguel Cabrera and other outstanding hitters in Detroit in recent years.
"It's one of those things that is an advantage to having him here, a manager that was a hitting coach," Zunino said. "Obviously, HoJo is a great hitting coach, also. It never hurts to have a lot of eyes and people that know what they're doing. It's one of those things where if they see something, then I can take it to the cage and work with HoJo and really work to perfect it."
McClendon is careful not to step on Johnson's toes. The Mariners' new hitting coach has plenty of credentials himself as a two-time All-Star whose 14 seasons in the Majors included World Series titles with the '84 Tigers and '86 Mets. Johnson was hitting coach for the Mets from 2008-10 and worked as Triple-A Tacoma's batting instructor last year before joining the Mariners' staff.
"HoJo is pretty good, too," McClendon said. "I'm not going to infringe on his property. I'll interject from time to time. We had a nice session yesterday with Zunino and made a few adjustments with him. If I see something, I'll say something."
Zunino came to camp already working on standing a little more upright in the box and tinkering slightly with his stance, after watching film over the offseason that led him to believe he'd strayed a bit from the swing that made him successful before being rushed to the Majors in midseason last year.
"I just want to simplify everything," he said. "I want to stand up tall. I want to see the ball a little better. I wasn't striding as much, just so I could get my foot down early and try to recognize pitches. Last year, when you're going up there and trying to tinker with stuff in the middle of the season, you don't necessarily have the time to fix everything."
Zunino drove the ball well in his batting practice Sunday, with McClendon again pulling him aside for a quick talk and some encouragement.
"Look, Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer in the world and he makes changes all the time," McClendon said. "You have to make adjustments, and you have to adjust to the league and the pitching in this league. When they start attacking you a certain way, you need to be able to make adjustments and attack back. We're just trying to get him to a consistent launch position where he's strong and explosive and can drive the ball to all fields."
McClendon understands even small changes take time to commit to muscle memory, so that hitters stay with their new approach when they get in a game and instincts take over.
"My philosophy is, you take it from the cage to BP and eventually from BP to the field," he said. "And you have to trust it. Part of that is having an understanding with your manager and hitting coach that even if you struggle a little early on, we're going to stay with it and support you. I think that's real important."
Zunino hit .327 with 47 home runs and 175 RBIs in 193 games over three seasons at the University of Florida, where he led the Gators to three straight College World Series appearances. That offensive production, coupled with his excellent defensive skills, are why the youngster was the third pick in the 2012 Draft.
Called up to the Mariners in mid-June and thrust immediately into the starting lineup, Zunino threw his time and energy into learning his own pitchers and opposing hitters. He survived and even thrived in that role, but would love now to add some offense into the mix as well.
"That's what we have to do," Zunino said. "We have to help the pitching staff out and call a good game and do everything you can behind the plate, then hit afterward. That was my main focus, but obviously you want to contribute as much as you can at the plate, and I'm looking forward to doing that this year."


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