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LEEDS, Ala. (March 19, 2014) – Team Penske wrapped up the 2014 Verizon IndyCar Series Spring Training pre-season test in impressive fashion on Tuesday. Will Power, the three-time series road course champion, finished the two-day test at Barber Motorsports Park with the fastest lap time each day in the No. 12 Verizon Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet. His top overall time around the 2.3-mile road course was 1:07.0608. Power was on track for a total of 110 laps over the course of the two days of pre-season action at Barber.
Team Penske's Helio Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya, who both produced top-three times in the Monday practice session, continued to show speed one week before the first race of the 2014 season. Each driver posted top-10 lap times in Tuesday testing. Castroneves, the winner of the first Verizon IndyCar Series race at Barber in 2010, clocked in with the sixth-fastest overall lap of 1:07:4004 in the No. 3 Hitachi Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet after turning a total of 105 laps. Montoya, driving the No. 2 Verizon Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet, toured the course a total of 116 times overall. His lap of 1:07:4764 was good for the ninth-fastest combined time for the test.
"Coming back to Barber, hopefully we found a happy place," said Power, a two-time winner on the Barber circuit. "Obviously the temperature will be a lot different, and I think that brings out imbalances in the car. It was so cold today and there was so much grip, I think it was hard to get good reads on changes. We'll see where we go and head to St. Pete. It's going to be really tight this year."
Precipitation and cold temperatures again forced the cancellation of the first session of the day Tuesday, similar to the first day of the test. However, when the track was deemed ready for action, the Team Penske drivers made the most of the remaining time. Power turned 62 laps on day two, with Castroneves and Montoya completing 54 laps and 61 laps, respectively.
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Getting serious: Lesley Stahl of �60 Minutes� is the best, the finest, the smartest TV reporter in the world. Show me anybody else on the air who can match her these days.
In a time of reality programming mania, drones, vampires and the undead, and talking heads aimlessly nattering on, Lesley still goes out to get the really big true story.
So, if you missed her on �60 Minutes� Sunday, when she showed the building boom in China about to go bust, you really missed something. China has thrown everything into building Manhattan-type high-rise cities where people paid their entire life�s savings to buy space, but nobody can afford to live there � and nobody does. There are miles of high-rise buildings with empty lobbies and empty streets around them. These incredible clusters of buildings still stand empty.
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This revelatory outing on CBS News has to be seen to be believed. Two days after Lesley aired this story, headlines yesterday read: �Chinese stocks plunge on plan to tax home sales 20 percent.�
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Dec. 2 (UPI) -- An armed robber who shot up the Gastonia Express store in Gastonia, N.C., on Saturday night left with a cold beer instead of the cold, hard cash he was hoping for.
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Clerk Charlie Welch recognized the gunman. "I've interacted with him and talked with him on a daily basis," Welch told WSOC-TV. "It was something I didn't expect." He said that he attempted to get out the back door and "stay out of the way of the bullets."
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After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, communities around the nation came together to help each other grieve, to support those who had lost loved ones, and most importantly, to help each other heal. One aspect of this healing was seen in many interfaith communities, as the horrendous acts by terrorists on 9/11 had sent waves of discord through interfaith relations.
In order to keep communities together and keep interfaith relations strong, many communities reached out to centers of different faiths. One such is the Freehold community, where three centers of different faiths: Muslim (Bait-wali-ul-Asr, IZFNA), Catholic (St. Robert Bellarmine Church), and Reform Jewish (Temple Shaari Emeth), came together in 2006 to form a program called Project Understanding. This program, according to the Monmouth County Human Relations Commission, was created to "promote positive human relations amongst diverse groups in Monmouth County through interaction with interfaith groups and community service projects, such as the collecting and delivering food for the Open Door Food Pantry, serving meals at the Freehold Area Lunch Program, and collecting and distributing food and clothing to homeless in the Midnight Run Project.†The Midnight Run Project involved youth from three different faiths in collecting clothing, food items, and toiletries at their respective centers, and coming together on a cold, winter night, to load the items on a bus, and distribute them to the less fortunate at midnight in New York City.
At the completion of the program, the youth were awarded with certificates of appreciation, presented by the Monmouth County Human Relations Commission. The program is now inactive, but memories of the positive effect it had on creating relationships based on understanding and friendship between youth of different faiths calls for more programs of its kind. By focusing on the youth, programs like these will allow for the future leaders of the world to build the foundation of their interfaith understanding today, instead of waiting for tomorrow, so that in the years to come, acceptance and understanding between the communities can continue to grow, and ties of friendship will continue to be passed down for generations to come, Insha'Allah.


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Toxicology shows Gibbs had a 0.10 BAC
Four shots from an off-duty Lenoir County Sheriff�s Office deputy�s gun caused extensive injuries leading to the death of William C. �Billy� Gibbs III.
The official autopsy report released by the N.C. Chief Medical Examiner�s Office in Chapel Hill details how Gibbs, 26, suffered four gunshot wounds to the left side of his body outside of the Waffle House on East New Bern Road on Nov. 25.
Two bullets entered Gibbs� chest, one 3 inches lower than the other. Another bullet struck Gibbs� abdomen and the fourth hit his left upper thigh.
An LCSO statement released subsequent to the incident said deputies Joseph Heck and William Shambeau were working security while off-duty at the restaurant, when around 3 a.m., they conducted a security check of the parking lot.
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The deputies initially went on paid administrative leave as the State Bureau of Investigation began looking into the case. They�ve since gone back to work.
�They are not on leave, they are just on administrative duty now,� LCSO Chief Deputy Chris Hill said.
The autopsy was conducted at the ECU Brody School of Medicine on Nov. 26 and signed off by Dr. Jonathan Privette on Dec. 10. Though the wounds are listed in order from bottom to top, it�s unknown in which order they were created.
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SBI Agent Jennifer Matherly took into evidence a blood card, hair samples, Gibbs� clothing, shoes, cash, the lighter and the four bullets. It�s unknown the specific state of the investigation at this time.
�I just checked and that investigation is still ongoing,� said Jennifer Canada, N.C. Department of Justice assistant public information officer, Wednesday. No other information on the case was available.
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A rebounding economy and January's rally on Wall Street are pushing prices higher. "Thanks to economic improvement, demand is also up roughly 3-to-5% over last year," says Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com. He adds that anytime the Dow gains or loses 100 points or more, gas prices follow suit in either direction 90% of the time, he says.
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Clayton Town Council read the first reading of an amendment Monday night that will see the Electric Ordinance mirror the Town Ordinance regarding the waiving of late fees.
Councilman Alex Dias said the Electric Ordinance has a paragraph on late payment charges that isn't in the Town Ordinance; therefore, if council approves the change the town is going to put the paragraph in the Town Ordinance.
Dias said the paragraph on late payment charges in the Electric Ordinance reads as follows: "If payment for bills rendered is not received by the town by the 20th of the month, a late payment charge shall be added to the amount due for each metered account. The amount of the late payment charge is listed in the Schedule of Fees and Charges. Payments shall be credited against the most delinquent charges. If the customer requests an exception to the fee, the appeal must be made to the mayor and council. However, the late payment penalty may be waived only if the customer has not been delinquent during the past twelve months. The late payment charge will not be applied to balances which are under dispute provided all other amounts not in dispute are paid when due."
Currently the customer can sign a waiver once in a 12-month period. The late charges are $15 for electric and $15 for water.
The change will now be reviewed by Town Solicitor Scott Chambers, and if there are no issues brought back for a second reading and vote at the next council meeting.
Council approves DEMEC RPS Plan
Council approved a motion to accept the Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation's Renewable Portfolio Standard Compliance Plan.
Town Foreman Jeff Hurlock said it is a state mandated policy that the town has a renewable portfolio plan.
"Our plan falls under DEMEC and what we're basically doing is agreeing to DEMEC's plan," Hurlock said.
The mandate basically requires more green energy use. Each member of DEMEC, which consists of nine Delaware municipalities, falls under DEMEC's plan.
Councilman Dave Letterman asked if residents would be able to find out more information regarding the plan through other sources such as a website.
"I'm sure they can go to DEMEC," Hurlock said. "But if they really have a question they can't get answered, they can come to us."
Donation for fireworks
Council approved a $3,000 grant for the Smyrna-Clayton July 4th Association. The donation will go towards fireworks.
"This was a budgeted item as well as two other grants that we had in the budget," Letterman said. "Each year we give them what we can so this year we decided in the budgeting process to give them $3,000."
Mayor Tom Horn noted he was sure the group would appreciate the donation.
Kudos to the town crew
Councilman Robert Lightcap complimented Hurlock and town workers for quickly paving roads when Clayton received about four inches of snow a couple of weeks ago.
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"The largest element of the sound sculpture should be up and working by April 30, when a celebration will be held at the station as part of a campus-wide open house celebrating MIT's 150th birthday."
The New York Times writes about the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, calling MIT's move "a particularly ambitious step." President Reif says the College will "educate the bilinguals of the future," people in fields like biology, chemistry, politics, history, and linguistics who are also skilled in the techniques of modern computing that can be applied to them.
As part of Wired's 25 anniversary festival, Prof. Joi Ito, director of the Media Lab, leads a conversation with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman about "blitzscaling," which encourages new companies to prioritize speed over efficiency. Ito points out that blitzscaling technology "accelerates you in the direction you are already going," making it hard to correct any issues that arise early on.
Prof. Simon Johnson reviews Adam Tooze's new book, "Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World" for The Washington Post. Johnson writes that the book, "is an impressive narrative history, weaving together events from around the world with a light touch and a great deal of helpful explanation."
In an article for The Wall Street Journal, Joseph Coughlin, director of the AgeLab, and research associate Lucas Yoquinto write that companies are increasingly designing aesthetically-pleasing and user-friendly technology for the elderly. "As the focus on older consumers' preferences goes beyond the development of better products to the creation of new product categories, the experience of later life may improve substantially," they explain.
CBS News reporter Kate Gibson writes that Atlas, the robot developed by MIT spinoff Boston Dynamics, can now tackle a parkour-style obstacle course. "The robot's control software uses its whole body -- legs, arms and torso -- to jump over a log and then leap up steps more than a foot high each, all without breaking pace," Gibson explains.
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Wikipedia describes Big Data as "data sets that grow so large and complex that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Difficulties include capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics and visualizing."
Making decisions based on too much information that is not properly managed and classified can be just as dangerous as making decisions based on too little. This is the challenge of Big Data.
Big Data has become a common buzz phrase in the trading industry and the implications for market professionals, from the individual trader to large firms and trading desks, are real and significant. Big Data confronts us with several questions: How do we tackle collection and distribution? How do we take data soup and manage it in such a way that it is informative and offers cues to act? When profitable opportunities rely on market inefficiencies, and when these inefficiencies may appear only for moments, how do we equip ourselves to manage these processes fast enough to seize them? Big Data no longer rings hollow as a buzz phrase but as a solid challenge that needs to be addressed. Before we dig into ways to navigate this new world, let's look at the evolution of data.
• Data past: In recent history, traders managed market data with pen and graph paper. Data granularity was confined to limits of open, high, low and close prices, and data management was restricted by physical capacity. When parsing price data to an analyzable and actionable format was a manual process, the scale of manageable data was limited. Data delivery was slower, which constrained the amount received in a given period of time — over the past 35 years we have moved from data delivery via floppy disk, satellite and low-bandwidth internet connectivity. The seemingly finite nature of data in the recent past makes the current information explosion appear overwhelming.
• Data present: The futures industry now finds itself in a situation of ballooning data volume and low-latency, or even ultra-low-latency, access. As with nearly all things technological, we have progressed rapidly in an impressively short time period. Trading decisions now hinge on a huge quantity of market information. Electronic exchanges offer quick access to highly granular data. Tick data is updated in microsecond time frames. Real-time price action for similar or related instruments listed on different exchanges is visible on a single trading screen. In addition to the speed and complexity of structured data, factor in unstructured data such as real-time news from traditional sources and non-traditional sources like Twitter, which increasingly provides news before it is news. It is possible to add sentiment gauging on social media platforms to the trader's or firm's ordinary workflow. Now consider the number of symbols in that workflow and multiply accordingly. Thus our future: Big Data.
• Data future: These factors distill to two core Big Data challenges: 1) Effectively and efficiently collecting and distributing data and 2) reliably and intelligently analyzing the data and executing on it.


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When it comes to Chicago Cubs baseball, if recent events have taught us anything, it's never say always. One of my favorite things to say here at Prose and Ivy is, "We'll Always Have Pittsburgh". Given our performance in the past against the lowly Pirates, it always appeared on the year's schedule as a gift-wrapped blessing. A small three day break if you will where wonderful things happen like Cubs home runs flying out of the park, pitchers dominating on the mound, Cubs ending up on the right end of a blow out and W flags are hooked to the flag pole rope at the top of the first for it's inevitable rising after the top of the ninth. Plan to head home early folks because the Pirates are coming to town. There won't be any Cubs batting in the bottow of the ninth because there won't be one. These games are given. The Pirates can't handle the talent and the skill level the Cubs bring to their games. Regardless of how the Cubs were going, if you see Pittsburgh coming up on the schedule, get ready for at least a three game turnaround and find your brooms. The Cubs were about to seem the Pirates and all will feel right again in Wrigleyville.
That was then. This…is now.
All of a sudden, the Cubs can't be counted on to beat one of the worst teams in all of baseball and the cellar dweller or the NL Central. See that .342 winning percentage and the 17 games that they currently sit behind the division leading Reds? Don't let that fool you! When the Pirates have had the all-of-a-sudden priviledge of playing the Cubs, they are a surreal .800 ballclub! In ten games against the Cubs this year, they've won 8 and lost 2. What?!? WHAT!?! There are certain things that this blog feels it can count on: baseball magazines and websites and blogs will have the Cubs listed as contenders in the Central, talk whether this is the year and then the Cubs will let you down come October (some seasons even earlier); Dempster will predict the Cubs will win it all; Carlos Marmol will be responsible for at least six heart attacks across the midwest throughout the course of a season; Sox fans will hate on Cubs fans and vice versa; and if nothing else is going our way, hey hey…at least 'We'll Always Have Pittsburgh'. Well, that last one apparently no longer applies. And it just may be a blessing in disguise.
Think about how this season is going. The Reds lead the NL Central and the Cubs currently sit in fourth place looking up at the unfortunate view of Brewers behinds, hardly even keeping the Cardinals in sight, while the Reds are a ******** 10 games out in front of them. The offense thinks it's still the off-season. Carlos Zambrano is seeing a shrink. Piniella seems to be snoozing through the first half of the season. All of our 'all-stars' suddenly look too old, too injured, or too apathetic. Castro started out hot and then cooled off to an average pace. Wells can't seem to find the form that kept him one of the club's most dominant pitchers in '09. And for some reason, we CAN'T beat the Pirates. Fine. If that's the way it is…if that's the way it's going to be, then perhaps the rest of the things we've come to expect can start to make a change as well.
Perhaps the head shrink can get Zambrano under control and he can perform out of the bullpen upon possibly returning after the All-Star break. Perhaps Wells can find his form and start to lead this club through a charge to possibly make up 10 games to the top of the division. Our crosstown rivals just made a huge push to put themselves in the club of relevant baseball teams for this year, and if they can do it I KNOW we can do it. Perhaps we will find a way to win one run ballgames in the 2nd half of the season. Those eighteen losses in one run games might just be the single most frustrating aspect of 2010. Perhaps since what has become the norm against Pittsburgh has been turned on it's head, maybe all of these other things we've come to expect from this team this year can take a change of course as well. Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise.
Of course, if it does happen there is a very good chance that we may have a few different guys wearing that same disguise as there are rumors that everyone from Zambrano to Marmol to Fukudome to Lilly are on the trading block. I'm not sure how far behind we need to be for Ricketts to consider himself a seller as opposed to a buyer. He's a good business man it seems, but he's also a fan. I wonder how hard it must be for him to make rationale decisions when analyzing at point this particular team is no longer going to make the push it needs to contend. I wonder if Ricketts thinks Pittsburgh is just another symptom of an extremely frustrating and disappointing Cubs season. I wonder if he can find a way out of this mess and find the blessings in all of this turmoil. So many fans on-line if you read around the Cubsblogosphere have already said 'please, no more' or are very close to taking that flag and throwing it in like a towel. I don't like our odds against the rest of the league if we can't even handle Pittsburgh. However, I didn't expect Pittsburgh to put the beating on us the way they have. Hopefully an unexpected 180 on this season's trajectory is around the corner as well. If not Pittsburgh, we'll always have fool's hope, right?
(Any thoughts you'd like to share can be done in the comments section, or if you'd like, you can call into tonight's Baseball Bloggers Alliance podcast. I'm guest hosting tonight at 11pm EST and you can find the show's site and information here! And since I'm hosting with WebSoulSurfer who runs a Padres blog, I've included a clip of the Derrek Lee/Chris Young fight. Why not? Enjoy. Go Cubs Go!)


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Evans enjoyed an outstanding week as she averaged 25.3 points, 10.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 3.0 steals. In addition, Evans shot 46.2 percent from field, 42.9 from beyond the arc and 76.0 percent from the free throw line. After scoring 76 points against three conference foes, Evans moved her way up to 7th on the all-time Lady Buccaneer scoring charts, ending the regular season with 1,283 points.
Evans, the Atlantic Sun's leading scorer (16.7) and rebounder (10.3), began the week with a career night at USC Upstate on Monday. The junior preseason all-conference selection put her ETSU team on her back and rallied them to a 90-84 win - finishing with a career high 35 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. Evans shot 11-for-21, while going 6-of-11 from beyond the arc (setting a new career best) and dished out five assists and forced two steals as well. Then, on Thursday night against Kennesaw State, Evans recorded her sixth straight double-double (16th of the season) after posting a game high 26 points and 12 rebounds, as well as dishing out three assists and forcing a career-tying six steals in the 73-66 win over the Owls. The
The Lady Bucs now carry the number one seed into this week's Atlantic Sun Tournament, hosted at Lipscomb's Allen Arena. ETSU awaits the winner of the #4 Mercer/#5 Stetson match-up and the Lady Bucs will play the first semifinal game on Friday at noon (1 p.m. eastern).
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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) -- Mo'Ne Davis, one of two girls at the Little League World Series, threw a two-hitter to help Philadelphia beat Nashville 4-0 on Friday in the opener for both teams.
The first girl to appear for a U.S. team in South Williamsport since 2004, Davis received rousing cheers during pregame introductions, every time she stepped to the plate and after she struck out the final batter.
"It's very unreal. I never thought at the age of 13 I would be a role model," Davis said. "Hopefully, more girls play Little League."
Davis had eight strikeouts and didn't walk a batter. She retired the first six batters and needed only 70 pitches to complete the game. She was hitless in three at-bats.
Philadelphia shortstop Jared Sprague-Lott hit a three-run home run in the first inning, and outfielder Carter Davis had an RBI sacrifice fly in the sixth.
Also Friday in U.S. play, Pearland, Texas, beat Cumberland, Rhode Island, 6-4. In the other International game, Japan beat Venezuela 1-0.
The tournament opened with four games Thursday. In the U.S. bracket, Chicago beat Lynnwood, Washington 12-2 in five innings, and Las Vegas topped Rapid City, South Dakota, 12-2, also in five innings. In the International games, Seoul, South Korea, beat Brno, Czech Republic, 10-3, and Humacao, Puerto Rico, topped Perth, Australia, 16-3 in four innings.
Matthew Adams stuck out seven in 4 2-3 innings to lead Pearland.
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Pearland catcher Joshua Gabino left in the bottom of the first with an injured left hand.
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Takahashi threw 73 pitched in six innings in the opener for the Tokyo team.
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Nope, the alloy BB shell was clean and smooth as is. SRAM BB fitted in fine. I did have to add the spacer for GXP tho - lucky i read the instructions first haha.
__PG__ wrote:punk_rob wrote: The Krylions are awesome too - once you wear the layer of wax they come with off - much better cornering and grip than the gatorskins. Lets see how they go with puncture protection.
What did you think? I got about four punctures on my Krylions in about 2.5 years before the inner tubes started showing through the tyre carcass in a big cut. I probably got about 5,000 km out of them (which is apparently what they are designed for). I loved them.
Yeah they are a great tyre. I previously had Gatorskins, and while i loved the puncture protection (in my case anyways) they always felt uneasy cornering and in the wet. Krylions have the same protection (again, in my experience) but loads more grip in dry and wet conditions. Have yet to have a puncture on these bad boys. The rear is starting to square off, so ill swap front-to-back and try and get some even wear out of them. Im very happy with them. I just hope the new ones branded Pro4 Endurance are the same. Ill probably go to 25mm wide when i buy new rubber...just for the comfort on open chip roads.
One thing to remember - pluck or cut off those little hairs on the tyres when you buy them new. The Krylions had them on the red stripe - but as the wheel rotated on the rear, those hairs actually touched the chain stay near the BB. It took me awhile to polish the red line out of the frame clear coat. If i had left it forever, it wouldve gone thru or permanently marked the clear coat i reckon - friction of the rubber hair at 100rpm for 1000's of kms.


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Maybe we need a new pay system for our leaders. Full payment for service up to two terms and then reduce it by half for every term afterward with no retirement package.
Maybe they need a new itinerary that says they have to spend more time with their constituents then in Washington DC. Perhaps if they had to spend time with those who want them to represent them, we might actually get represented.
Probably the number one thing on our list is stop spending. We can only be bled out so far and I think we have reached that point.
We don't need to raise the debt ceiling we need to cut the legs off of the spending plans.
We don't need to raise the debt ceiling we need to raise employment so more people pay into the system.
We don't need to raise the debt ceiling we need to stop illegal immigration and the massive funding that feeds these leaches on the system.
There are a lot of things that We The People want done. Unfortunately, everyone we elect to do them turns tail. I will say I am rather impressed with our current freshman class in DC. We need to send a few more like them. It is nice to see a politician with a spine and a conscious.
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The Guard members reported to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, to support the U.S. Border Patrol and are expected to begin their missions by next week, Michael Friel, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman, told American Forces Press Service.
"They're in various stages of in-processing," Friel said. Some command-and-control elements are already standing up a joint task force, and many of the operators are expected to be working within days, he said.
Paul McHale, assistant secretary for homeland defense, and Army Lt. Gen. H Stephen Blum, National Guard Bureau chief, traveled to the region June 13 for two days of site visits and coordination, according to Air Force Lt. Col. Tracy O'Grady, a Pentagon spokesperson.
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano placed a conference call June 13 to thank troops supporting the border security mission for taking time away from their families and jobs. "We need your help," she told them.
President Bush announced plans to temporarily boost the National Guard's contribution to U.S. border security in mid-May. Under the president's plan, up to 6,000 National Guard members will provide mobile communications, transportation, logistics, training and construction support to the U.S. Border Patrol.
Guard officials expect to have about 2,500 troops along the border by the end of June.
The guardsmen will not play a law enforcement role, officials emphasized.
During the mission's second year, Guard participation is expected to drop to 3,000 or less.
In announcing his plan, Bush said the effort will give the Border Patrol time to recruit and train more members.
Blum is a strong supporter of the plan and said it's well in line with missions the Guard has been conducting for years. "The National Guard has almost 20 years of history in supporting the Border Patrol," National Guard Bureau spokesman Emmanuel Pacheco, said today.
Some Guard members are already operating along the Southwest border in support of those long-established arrangements, Friel said.
Among them are combat engineers from the Utah and Connecticut National Guard, who reported for duty in Arizona earlier this month. They were greeted by searing temperatures - almost as hot as what many of them faced last year in Iraq - and quickly went to work installing lights and building a corrugated metal fence as part of the Defense Department's Innovative Readiness Training program.
Related Site:National Guard BureauRelated Article:'Operation Jump Start' Puts 2,500 Guardsmen on Southern Border in June
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ACC basketball's talent drain continues at a record pace. With the expected news that Duke's Austin Rivers and North Carolina's Harrison Barnes and John Henson are entering the NBA draft, the conference next season will return no first-team, all-league players for the third time in four years.
It's a sign of the times and, absent conceding most top prospects to programs such Kentucky, Kansas and Ohio State, unavoidable.
It's also unheard of. In the previous 20 seasons, from 1989 to 2008, no All-ACC first-teamers returned only once.
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LAUDERHILL, Florida — Putting together a coherent team on what is essentially a moment's notice is the toughest thing about the Combine. Soccer is the ultimate team sport – context matters in our game more than any other – so throwing new faces together and saying "Play beautiful soccer!" should pretty much be a non-starter.
With that in mind, we're going to start off our Stock Watch with the adiPower starting midfield trio, who looked like they were born on the same pitch.
John Stertzer, Mikey Lopez, Alex Isern – They played like brothers. You probably know Stertzer (the day's best player before coming off with an ankle "stinger," in his words) and Lopez from the fact that they played at high profile schools – Maryland and UNC – and are expected to be first round picks. (CLICK HERE to watch Lopez talk about the game)
GOAL: Stertzer scores 1st of 2013 Combine
Isern, though, came out of nowhere. The Barcelona native spent the last two years at Winthrop, yet looked right at home surrounded by all-Americans. He's about to turn 25, and he's not an athletic specimen, but he definitely put his name on some draft boards with the way he was able to combine with the other two in dictating both the pace of the game and where it was played.
All three of these guys finished the day looking better than they did when it started, reminding everyone along the way that our game is at its most beautiful when it's kept simple.
Andrew Farrell – Is it possible for the consensus No. 1 pick's stock to rise? Turns out the answer is "yes." Farrell (above) was physically dominant (expected), but also picked up an assist on a 40-yard, defense splitting through ball (unexpected). It was a cultured play.
He also had one of the day's worst plays, getting dispossessed midway through the second half, but was bailed out by a great save from James Belshaw. Farrell showed admirable self-awareness afterward, saying "I have a tendency to try to do too much. It's something I know I need to work on." Combine coachability and talent, and you usually have a guy that you can build around for a long time.
Kofi Opare – A few things went wrong for adiPower in the second half of their 2-2 draw vs. Prime, starting with the revamped midfield simply not being as dominant. But the other thing was that Eriq Zavaleta started finding space and winning his physical battles en route to creating both goals. That wasn't happening in the first 40 with Opare on his back. He was arguably the second best central defender on the day, after Farrell. If he plays as well in Sunday's and Tuesday's games, it'll be shocking if he's not picked.
Donnie Smith – AdiPure were blown out 4-0, and could never get into the game (or onto the ball) in central midfield. But Smith, whenever he was on the pitch, found a way to be dangerous moving forward. He's all north-south, but he looked good at both left midfield and in a brief run at left back. Smart, athletic and consistent service from the left side … that tends not to last long on draft day.
Carlos Alvarez – Coaches have had four years to scout the UConn playmaker, who was more of a trequartista for Prime on the day. He admitted that he and Zavaleta struggled to figure things out in the first half, but the two of them combined relentlessly in the second for the comeback. Had a goal and an assist, and showed the finishing touch he'll need in order to become a regular at the next level. Reminded a lot of folks of TFC's Luis Silva.
Jason Johnson – Looked out of his element on the left side of adiPower's 4-3-3, and took too long to pick his passes. Was in position to make an impact time and again, but rarely did.
GOLAZO: Powers thumps it home
Dillon Powers – Scored a golazo and served a perfect free kick for an assist. But he was one of the sloppiest midfielders out there in possession, constantly trying to do too much and forcing his team into a series of desperate clearances.
Blake Smith – The New Mexico winger was supposed to be the trickiest one-v-one player in the draft, but he barely registered on the day. Looked lost playing wide, and indecisive the few times he got into the final third.
It's always a danger to read too much into the Combine – all three of the guys in the "Stock Down" section are going to be first round picks, and justifiably so.
Just as easy is getting too high on a player because of one good performance. But in a draft weak at right back, it was hard not to notice Boston University's Michael Bustamante, who spent the first half there for adiPower. An attacking midfielder in college, he provided width and dedicated two-way play for at an unfamiliar position, then added a solid second half in central midfield. In the words of MLSsoccer.com's Jason Saghini, "That's an MLS player."
Hard to disagree after Day 1. We'll see on Sunday what Day 2 brings.


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Highlights from The Armory Show 2013
Howard Rachofsky
Image rights: © Mark Tansey. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
Mark Tansey's densely imaginative canvases derive from a labor-intensive composition process. Using a huge trove of collected material, including his own photographs and magazine clippings, Tansey manipulates, crops, combines, and photocopies the forms. His collages serve as studies for large, monochromatic oil paintings of figures and landscapes, whose precise photographic quality is achieved by applying gesso and then washing, brushing, and scraping paint into it. Though they resemble straightforward narrative scenes, the paintings are full of visual puns and references. Wake (2003), one of many works in ultramarine blue, hides a portrait of novelist and poet James Joyce in a speeding boat's wake.
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There is just a handful of special events at Orlando-area theme parks and attractions this week, but they're pretty meaty.
+ The grand opening of the Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is Saturday. The centerpiece of the new $100 million attraction is the genuine Atlantis orbiter, elevated and tilted at a 43-degree angle with payload bay doors open. It can be seen from almost any angle, including from below. It is flanked by 60 space-related interactive kiosks. It's included in regular visitor complex admission. More info: KennedySpaceCenter.com.
+ The Summer Concert Series continues at Universal Studios on Saturday with a performance by former "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert, known for singles such as "Whataya Want From Me" and "If I Had You." Show time is at 8 p.m., and the concert is included in regular Universal Studios admission. More info: UniversalOrlando.com.
+ Thursday's Velvet Sessions concert at Universal's Hard Rock Hotel will feature Little River Band. More info: VelvetSessions.com.
+ Epcot's Sounds Like Summer concert series, which featuring tribute bands continues nightly. This week's performers: Mike DelGuidce & Big Shot -- The Ultimate Billy Joel Tribute Show. On Sunday, the park switches to Slippery When Wet -- The Ultimate Bon Jovi Tribute. The concerts are included in regular Epcot admission. More info: DisneyWorld.com.
+ Continuing nightly: Summer Nights at SeaWorld Orlando, which includes "Shamu Rocks," "Sealions Tonite" and a Shamu & Friends dance party. These activities are included in regular SeaWorld admission. More info: SeaWorldOrlando.com.


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Blue Nets 2 Wins In Rocky Mountains
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Josh Balch's first goal of the young 2012-13 season could not have come at a better time. The senior forward found the net from an off angle at 3:21 of overtime to give the Yale men's hockey team a 6-5 win over No. 14 Colorado College before 6,654 at World Arena.
Balch (Wilmette, Ill.), who gave the Bulldogs (5-2-1) their third straight win and second OT victory of the Front Range weekend, skated in from the left side with a defender pushing him to the outside in a 4-on-4 situation. The Yale right wing angled inside and then wristed a hard low shot past the Tigers' goalie, Joe Howe (42 saves).
"Stu (Wilson) got the puck on the boards in our zone. I cut behind the defenseman and got a pass from him that gave me a one-on-one," said Balch. "I pulled the puck to the center and shot between the goalie's legs."
Yale, which outshot CC 48-34, had three one-goal leads before trailing 5-4 at the end of 40 minutes.
"It was a great team win. To come from behind and win it at this altitude is a testament to the preparation our guys have done with their strength and conditioning," said Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach, whose team also beat No. 2 Denver last night.
The Bulldogs flew to Denver on Thursday afternoon and had to be ready to play less than 24 hours later against two nationally ranked teams in conditions they are not accustomed to.
It took over 42 minutes for Yale to find the net a night ago in its win over Denver, but goals came quicker – five combined in the first period - for both schools tonight against Colorado College.
Antoine Laganiere (Ile Cadieux, Que.) opened the scoring 57 seconds in with a nifty move through the low slot. The big Yale forward deked forehand and then flipped the puck backhanded over Howe when the Tiger goalie dove out to make the stop.
Rylan Schwartz, the brother of former Yale women's hockey player, Mandi Schwartz, evened the score at 4:33 on a freak play. Schwartz took a long feed and then fired off the post from the middle of the slot. As he entered the low slot to the left of the Yale goalie, the puck bounced off Schwartz's chest and ricochet into the net.
Thirteen seconds later, the visitors went up again. Howe made an acrobatic save on Kenny Agostino (Flanders, NJ) but the rebound stayed in front of the net on the right side. Jesse Root (Pittsburgh, Pa.) was there to smack it into the back of the cage at 4:46.
Twenty-six seconds later the game was even again, and it came on another crazy bounce of the puck. Eamonn McDermot's shot off the boards zipped back and caught the back of Yale senior goalie Jeff Malcolm's skate before sliding over the goal line at 5:12.
The 2-2 tie lasted more than six minutes, until Agostino made a great play behind the net to set up defenseman Tommy Fallen (Plymouth, Minn.) for his first goal of the year. After being taken down during his rush to the net with the puck, Agostino bounced up and then found his teammate open in the high slot for one of his two assists. Fallen wound up for the one-timer and sent a slap shot past Howe at 11:57.
Two straight Tiger goals to start the second period gave the home team a 4-3 lead. Archie Skalbeck went top shelf from the left circle 80 seconds into the second, and then CC jumped all over its first power play chance. The Blue had a 30-25 edge in shots on target after two periods, but the Tigers were making their shots count.
A wide shot by a Yale forward whizzed around the boards and started CC on a rush that ended up with a Scott Winkler's blast from the left circle that hit Malcolm (20 saves) and trickled in over the goal line.
The visitors jumped all over a rebound 45 seconds later to tie it up again. Trent Ruffolo (Coral Springs, Fla. ) notched his fourth of the year off an assist from Laganiere at 10:53.
It took an extensive video review for Colorado College's third goal of the frame, but it seemed like a good call after the Yale goalie apparently saved the puck on a rebound off the edge of the crease. Jared Hanson poked the puck out of Malcolm's glove at 13:37 to put the Tigers up again at 5-4, which brought senior Nick Maricic (Alta Loma, Calif.) out to take over the Yale net. He would eventually earn the win with nine saves.
The Tigers (7-6-1) stopped Yale's first four power plays, but the fifth was the one that did them in. Yale's captain stepped up when he was needed most to get the final equalizer of the night at 12:03. Andrew Miller converted an advantage with a shot from the left circle to cap a period in which his squad outshot the home team 15-5.
"Antoine (Laganiere) made a cross-ice pass and I was able to beat the goalie high glove side on a wrist shot," said Miller, who has three goals this year. "We played a great team game tonight. There were points in the game when things didn't go our way, but we showed a lot of poise as a team to fight back and get a win."
The Tigers had to erase a big deficit last night against New Hampshire to force OT in a 4-4 draw. They had a chance to take one win this weekend.
"It was a run and gun deal. We were ok with it for the most part, but we should have been able to take care of the lead. It's a tough one to take," said Scott Owen, the head coach of Colorado College.
Yale is now 4-0 against nationally ranked teams this year… Freshman Mitch Witek took his spot as a seventh defenseman… The Elis are back in action Saturday night against Brown at Ingalls Rink.
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The rod shudders violently and the fight is on.
My 22-year-old son, Alex, has a 17-pound Chinook salmon on the line and it naturally doesn't want to come in the boat.
"All right, all right, game on," yells our guide, Wade Dayley of Bear Cove Cottages & Sport Fishing.
"This fish is a real reel-screamer. Play it out, Alex. But keep tension on the line."
It's a classic battle between man and salmon.
The initial hit on the line is dramatic and the fish takes off, squealing out 30-pound carbon test line and creating that distinctive screeching of the reel.
The fish tires, Alex cranks the reel, pulls the rod up into an impossible arc, and the Chinook gets a second wind and is off again.
The scenario repeats itself several times until the salmon surfaces, gives a final fight and is scooped up in the net by Dayley.
"Congratulations Alex, you are no longer a Chinook virgin," says Dayley with a laugh and a high-five.
Since this is a three-generation boys fishing trip, Alex, the youngest, gets to wrangle the first fish of the day, customary in these Pacific waters of the Goletas Channel, off of Port Hardy, at the northern tip of Vancouver Island.
I get the second fish a few minutes later, an 18-pounder, in another man-and-fish back-and-forth.
And then my dad, Alex's grandfather, nonchalantly lands the biggest fish of the day, a glistening 21-pounder.
We rib each other about salmon size and fishing technique and then do it all over again.
We catch our limit of two Chinook per person per day for a total haul of over 100 pounds of the reddest, most tasty salmon there is.
We're full of ourselves and talking trash. But the reality is, Dayley's done all the work and we've reaped all the glory.
A veteran guide, who was born-and-bred in Port Hardy, Dayley has his stash of secret spots and knows where the Chinook hang out.
Setting out at 6 a.m. because "the bite is on," we speed to these elusive waters in Dayley's 27-foot Grady-White boat, which is named Double Header.
By the way, a fishing "double header" is the phenomena of having two big salmon on separate lines at the same time, putting two fishermen — and the entire boat — into a frenzy.
And as luck would have it, Alex and I capped the day off with a double header.
Dayley sets two big rods off the back of the boat with down riggers and anchovy bait on a treble hook with big-ass lures.
"This is my secret spot and these are my secret weapons," he says pointing to the set ups.
The boat is also equipped with a fish finder, making it all seem like the odds are stacked in our favour.
But this is what fishing guides do to ensure success for their customers.
Otherwise, you're going home empty-handed because Chinook, the most desirable salmon, is otherwise uncatchable for a newbie sports fisherman.
"I never get tired of helping my clients catch fish," says the tall and bearded Dayley with a smile.
"I'm excited everyday for this job."
Dayley takes care of everything on the water for Bear Cove Cottages & Sport Fishing and his wife, Shannon, does it all on land.
Bear Cove's most popular package is a four-night stay in one of the eight rustic-luxe cabins to fish for three days.
Meals, fish frozen and vacuum packed for you to take home and airport pick up and drop off are also included.
Price is $2,500 per person based on double occupancy.
Pacific Coastal is the only airline that flies in and out of Port Hardy with three flights daily from Vancouver.
While Chinook (also called spring and king salmon) is definitely the marquee attraction, there's also Sockeye and Coho salmon, halibut and cod fishing.
Bear Cove can also set up whale watching, bear watching and other North Island excursions for you.
While the business has a typical website at BearCoveCottages.ca, it's also branding its fishing with the WickedSalmon.com site.
Also check out PacificCoastal.com and VancouverIslandNorth.ca.


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Now that the system benchmarks are complete, we will move on to the video benchmarking portion of the review. I will be using an EVGA 8800GTS 640MB as the video card of choice for today's test. We will be using an assortment of games to test performance across manufacturer's boards to look for any performance advantages.
The game tests that we use are as follows:
- Far Cry
- Flight Simulator X
- Call of Duty 2
- Quake 4
- Need For Speed: Most Wanted
First up we have Far Cry. This game makes extensive use of pixel shaders and features Polybump normal mapping technology to increase character details.
We will be using the Hardware OC Benchmarking Utility version 1.8 with the following settings.
- Maximum quality option, Direct3D renderer
- Level: Volcano, demo: Volcano.tmd
- Pixel shader: model 2.0b
- Anti-aliasing: 4×
- Anisotropic filtering: 8×
- HDR: disabled
- Geometry Instancing: disabled
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JavaFX – Performance Optimization
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|There was a question related to Best Practices for speed optimization in Oracle-Mix forum. There are many small tips & tricks, just thought of listing out what ever came to my mind..
Use Layout: For positioning node always use Layout. There are plenty of layout available such as HBox, VBox, Tile, Flow and Stack. If we need any custom layout you can use Container or Panel. Position node using layoutX and layoutY attributes. Use translateX and translateY for Animation.
Consolidate Theme Attributes : We can reuse many theme related objects such as Font, Color, Paint, Image. Eg: If we use same Font for many Label/Text, we can use the same Font instance instead of creating one each for each instance of Node. This consolidation also allow us to customize the UI. You may refer to Theme used in Calendar sample. Also share Image instances such as default-image, place-holder image etc across multiple objects.
Bind with Caution: I have stressed on this in one of my previous post. Repeating the same again. Use this mostly for wiring model to view. Minimize use for other purpose such as layout of Nodes. Also better to avoid chaining of binds, its very problematic and difficult to debug.
JavaFX for View: There is a tendency to write entire application using pure JavaFX. This may be fine for small widget like application or samples. But when you write real business application we need to push out the business logic, IO operations and non-ui related code to Java layer. Use JavaFX Async APIs + Callback methods so as to execute these code outside Event-Dispatch-Thread. HttpRequest API demonstrates use of this approach.
Reduce use of Effects: In many cases we may need to have static effects in UI, such as nice gradient for background, font effects etc. If these effects are static, its always better to use Image instead of effect API.
Stroke Vs Fill: Instead of using stroke attribute for shape, we may use nested shapes with fill attribute. Example: For creating a stroke for Rectangle, we can create two instances of Rectangle overlapping, with the inner Rectangle smaller than outer Rectangle. This will have better performance compared to use of stroke attribute.
Avoid Class-Path in Manifest: When we add various jars as library to Netbeans, these jars are directly referenced in Class-Path of Manifest file of the application jar. When deployed, this will force to download all jars before start of application. Concept of lazy download will not work. Also there will be an attempt to make an unnecessary network connection, even though resources such as plugin.jar, javaws.jar etc are not hosted. This will increase initial applet/javaws startup time.
Use Image.width & Image.height: If we need to show a thumbnail of large image, its better to specify its width and height Image object itself rather than resizing the ImageView using fitWidth and fitHeight attribute. This will reduce the memory used to hold the image.
Provide Startup Feedback: Many a times people get bored due to lack of proper feedback during startup. This creates a notion of increased startup time. Except for small use-cases such as advertisements, RIA's do have some startup time. It will be nice to provide a Custom Splash Screen and even better a Progress Listener UI to give useful feedback.
Tips for Mobile: : Joshua Marinacci has listed some useful tips for mobile.
I'm sure there are more… 'll keep updating this list… 🙂