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THE OFFICE – 9:00PM (NBC) When it was first announced that Steve Carell was leaving this show, I think everyone was ready to go ahead and write its obituary. But if losing Carell means getting Will Ferrell as his temporary replacement, well then it was nice knowing you, Steve. Be sure to send a postcard. The biggest star in comedy graces the show with his presence for four episodes starting tonight, and assume at least one of those episodes will feature his bare posterior. After such a long run, the writers of this show should just go off the deep end. Have Creed start killing people. Have Pam give birth to a demon child. Have Dwight grow a Stalin mustache. What's there to lose? ANTICIPATION: VERY HIGH!
THE PAUL REISER SHOW – 9:30PM (NBC) It's my job here at Watch List to point out shows you should be excited to watch. And so I'm going to address Paul Reiser's new show very, very carefully. After all, this is the man who gave us the execrable "Mad About You," and is now starring in a sitcom that's a direct lift of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (Larry David even guest stars in the premiere, likely because he owed Reiser money). So if that sounds appealing to you, then you go right head and tune in. If it doesn't, tune in anyway. Like you, I often like to watch things that make me angry. ANTICIPATION: NOT QUITE SO HIGH!
TRIPLE RUSH – 10:00PM (Travel Channel) We've got coal miners, fishermen, pawnbrokers, taxidermists, and virtually every other profession covered in the reality TV landscape. Ah, but what about bike messengers? You know, the breathtaking idiots who endanger motorists and pedestrians on a daily basis by riding in the center of traffic and flagrantly disobeying traffic signals? Well, now they get their own show. And if Travel Channel can promise me that a messenger gets run over every episode, they have my viewership. ANTICIPATION: PUNKS!
AMERICAN IDOL – 8:00PM (FOX) Some kid is gonna get the boot, but that's irrelevant. What matters is that Rihanna and Kelly Clarkson will be dueting tonight, and that's quite a pull by the "Idol" folks. ANTICIPATION: RIHARKSON!
RANDY JACKSON PRESENTS: AMERICA'S BEST DANCE CREW – 10:00PM (MTV) The "Idol" judge's danced competition has a new season debuting tonight. In the premiere, the crews must choreograph routines inspired by Ke$ha. Expect them to expertly pantomime drinking a handle of Southern Comfort and falling into a swimming pool while wearing far too much glitter. ANTICIPATION: TIK TOK!
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Phil eagles the 13th hole to move into a tie for first-place. Grab your hankies, folks. It could get very dusty in here.
To just sum up the current situation. Ricky Barnes, who nearly set a 54-hole record at the Open, is +6 for the day, and has fallen two shots behind the leaders. Lucas Glover is +3 and that has opened the door for sentimental favorite Phil Mickelson, who is putting the ball pretty much wherever he wants right now. Two-under for the day, -4 for the tourney, and currently tied with Glover for the lead. (Tiger? Screw that guy.) We'll keep you posted with updates for the rest of the afternoon.
12:15: And the Deadspin jinx works quickly. Phil just bonked a five-footer for par on 15. Back to -3, one stroke behind the leader.
12:25: David Duval, who must be a rookie or something because I can't recall a time when he was ever playing golf on television, birdies 15 to move to -2, tied for third with three others. Glover and Barnes (the final group) are working their way up 15 now.
12:40: Glover bogeys 15, to drop back into a tie with Mickelson at -3. Meanwhile, Hunter Mahan (at -2) hit the pin from 170 yards on 16, the ball ricocheted 50 feet to the other side of the green and he ended up with a bogey. Tough break.
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12:49: So the leader comes back to Mickelson again, and what does he do? Immediately misses the green on the par-3 17th, misses a ten-footer for par, and drops back to second. No one wants to win this.
12:51: Glover birdies 16. He's back in the lead, alone, with two holes to play.
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12:59: Mickelson's birdie try on 18 misses by an inch. He finishes at -2. Quite a charge, but two bogeys in the final four holes won't get it done.
1:09: Glover lays up on 18. Announcer: "This is just the opposite of Jean Van De Velde. This has got some intelligence in it." It's been ten years and the guy is still getting burned.
1:20: Well, it's over. And I was so looking forward to watching another 18 holes of this afternoon instead of doing my job. All the drama ends with a whimper. Phil Mickelson has his fifth second-place finish at the U.S. Open, David Duval has his best finish at any tournament since 2001, and Lucas Glover of all people shoots +3 in the final found and wins the U.S. Open by two shots. And to all a good night....


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Last week: 10-6. Season totals: 122-113-5, Pct. .519. Best Bets: 22-25-1, Pct. .469.
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N.Y. GIANTS 31, Philadelphia 17 (+9 1/2) - My first thought was to take the Eagles because Nick Foles broke his hand last week, which "forces" Michael Vick back into the starting lineup - but in their last six games the Giants are 2-0 at home, outscoring their opposition 90-37, and 0-4 on the road while having been outscored 115-43!
N.Y. Jets 20 (+3), BUFFALO 14 - This could be Rex Ryan's last game as Jets head coach - and with Mark Sanchez back in the saddle due to Greg McElroy's concussion (which he attempted to conceal from the team), it should be their seventh straight win over the Bills. Those who bet the Patriots-Jets exacta in the AFC East have special interest in this game, for a Jets win coupled with a Dolphins loss in New England later in the day gives the Jets second place in the division on the grounds of a better division record (their then sweep of Buffalo, who Miami split with, making the difference).
PITTSBURGH 17, Cleveland 0 (+7) - Only one outlet, the Las Vegas Hotel (formerly the Hilton), has had the chops to open a line on this game, and on the Tampa Bay at Atlanta and Oakland at San Diego games as well. Brandon Weeden, Trent Richardson, and even Colt McCoy aren't likely to go here for the Browns, so it sets up nicely for their ninth consecutive road loss (and with only two covers) to a Steeler team that the present Cleveland franchise has never swept (having beaten Pittsburgh at home in Week 12).
ATLANTA 27, Tampa Bay 17 (+3) - Mike Smith is playing it close to the vest about how many, if any, of his starters will rest with home field throughout the NFC playoffs already assured - but if Josh Freeman doesn't give the interceptions a rest (he's thrown four picks in both of his last two games) it may not even matter.
Baltimore 16 (+3 1/2), CINCINNATI 13 - This is one of two games this week matching up playoff-bound teams in which the team with the worse record has no incentive but the team with the better record does (the Ravens could gain the 3 seed in the AFC with a win and then having the Patriots lose their late game), so this is strictly a "need" pick, plus the line is a conceptually underdog-favoring three-and-a-half.
Chicago 27, DETROIT 20 (+3 1/2) - Maybe both teams will come away happy - the Bears because they keep their playoff hopes alive (hopes that will be realized if they win here and the Vikings lose their late game to Green Bay), the Lions because Calvin Johnson gets the 108 receiving yards he needs to become the first 2,000-yard receiver in NFL history.
INDIANAPOLIS 24 (+4), Houston 23 - Do you think for one minute that the Colts are going to lose in Chuck Pagano's triumphant return - and least of all to the Texans, to whom they have never lost at home? Remember also that Houston is 1-6-1 against the line in 2011-12 as a visitor on the carpet.
TENNESSEE 27, Jacksonville 14 (+4) - The line on this game should be at least a touchdown. The Tim Tebow Era can't begin soon enough in Jacksonville.
NEW ORLEANS 31, Carolina 20 (+4) - Cam Newton cooled off noticeably last week and over the last five years the Panthers are 6-14 against the spread on artificial turf and 5-10-1 against the spread in domed stadiums.
NEW ENGLAND 37, Miami 17 (+11) - The Dolphins are getting hosed by the time change, as it will make the kickoff-time temperature that much colder, and Miami is 14-33 straight up and 20-26-1 against the line since 1995 as a visitor in cold weather. New England has scored 86 more points than the second highest-scoring team (Denver).
Green Bay 23, MINNESOTA 14 (+3) - The Packers, who own the NFL's longest-active winning streak in division games at 12 (and are 8-3-1 against the spread) are slowly getting healthier on defense, and if they jump out to an early lead there is little chance the Vikings, who have the league's worst passing offense, can come from behind and beat them.
DENVER 38, Kansas City 7 (+16) - And when the Texans neglect to break their Indiana jinx, this will give the Broncos the top playoff seed in the AFC - and the Chiefs the top pick in the 2013 draft, which will almost certainly be spent on West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith unless Smith decides to join a monastery or something.
SAN DIEGO 28, Oakland 10 (+4 1/2) - Four and a half is an absolute bargain with Carson Palmer out and Dennis Allen - who deserves to be fired every bit as much as Norv Turner does, but unlike Turner, will probably survive - agonizing over whether to start Matt Leinart or Terrelle Pryor.
SAN FRANCISCO 30, Arizona 0 (+15) - In the dying rage of his tenure as head coach, Ken Whisenhunt has turned to career bench jockey Brian Hoyer at quarterback, at a venue at which the Cardinals have been outscored 85-23 in their last three visits, all three resulting in losses both ways.
SEATTLE 31, St. Louis 6 (+10 1/2) - A seemingly bloated number, until it is pointed out that the Rams have lost seven straight at Seattle by a combined 199-76. Jeff Fisher still made the most of his team's co-league-leading drop in strength of schedule, with a 5 1/2-game improvement over last year.
WASHINGTON 34, Dallas 13 (+3 1/2) - And for the second year in a row, the biggest lock of the entire season might have been saved for the very last game - and also involves a pick against the Cowboys in a cold-weather night game; in addition to their well-chronicled travails in the cold, Dallas is 2-10 straight up and 2-9-1 against the spread in regular-season finales in this millennium, outscored 281-160 therein, with one of the two victories a one-point win in 2010 over a team (the Eagles) whose playoff seeding had already been determined and who emptied their bench.
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My Systems Librarian column for the November 2008 issue of Computers in Libraries talks about some of great libraries in other countries that I've visited in the last few years. I've been extremely fortunate to receive invitations to speak in many international venues including Taiwan, Korea, China, Thailand, The Netherlands, Austria, and the Czech Republic, and Argentina. These trips provide the incredible benefit of allowing me to tour libraries and visit with librarians from different parts of world, each facing their own unique problems and issues. This diversity of perspective has helped me extend my own thinking about library automation beyond what happens in my own part of the world. I'm impressed with how much some libraries are able to accomplish with very limited resources and how others deliver state-of-the-art technology and provide exceptional collaborative learning spaces for their communities.
In my research on library automation, I've worked hard to embrace an international perspective. It's a slow process, but I'm hoping to expand the lib-web-cats directory to include many more libraries outside the English-speaking world. I'm also following some of the technologies used in libraries in other regions. Tens of thousands of libraries in the developing world, for example, use automation products based on ISIS initially developed by UNESCO. The ISIS community has seen some very interesting developments in the last year, including a movement toward open source. While each region has its own particular issues and challenges, I also see many common themes. I hope to continue to gather information about libraries throughout the world and bring some of that content into Library Technology Guides.
I've been extremely fortunate over the last few years to have had the opportunity to travel to many different parts of the world and speak and work with librarians in many countries. It has been great to have the chance to see firsthand some incredible libraries that demonstrate creative approaches to library services, innovative uses of technology, expansive resource sharing, and pragmatic approaches to library automation. Let me give you a quick tour. continue reading...
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The digital transformation sweeping through industry after industry demands that company websites, eCommerce sites, mobile apps, and other customer-facing properties be robust and flexible enough to support a new world in which customers — and the marketers working to engage them — are calling the shots.
"We have put a digital shift first and foremost on all of our marketing efforts, rather than taking an in-store or print-first approach," says Lucille DeHart, CMO of Maidenform Brands. (1) "Our IT and marketing teams have to respond quickly both internally and externally to what consumers are telling us.
Even though we're already embracing technology, we need to embrace it in a way that makes us smarter, faster, and better across traditional platforms." The combination of digital-first marketing initiatives and increasing customer demand for digital interaction is taxing IT infrastructure in new ways - and driving a need for extreme IT flexibility in the face of unprecedented demand elasticity.
"Companies are driven to initiate more interactive communications with their audiences, to interact with consumers whenever and wherever they are through any device, and to make those interactions more relevant with technologies that incorporate services like geo-location or in-store beacons," says Darnell Fatigati, Senior Manager at CenturyLink. "They are doing this in creative ways, such as through online promotions that incorporate gamification, like scavenger hunts, contests, and other digital events."
Take, for example, PepsiCo's 2013 "Every 2 Minutes" campaign and website. The campaign urged consumers to collect codes worth a certain number of points from Mountain Dew and Doritos products. They could start banking the points online in late September and then bid with them between Nov. 5 and Dec. 9 — every 2 minutes — to win Xbox One entertainment systems, before the Microsoft game console became available for public sale.
"It was basically an eBay-type auction site for Xbox games and consoles," says Thomas Moran, Senior Director, CenturyLink. "It's a good example of a campaign that ran for only a few months, but required infrastructure comparable to what an auction site needs, which is very high-demand, very instantaneous response."
Relatively speaking, it's not difficult to set up a web platform that would do the job PepsiCo needed for the Every 2 Minutes campaign.
However, what is difficult is setting up a web platform with enough server and storage power to support the traffic that hits the site. The main difficulty is that you can't determine with certainty what that traffic will be. Companies can make good educated guesses, but they can't anticipate, say, a tweet from a consumer saying he scored an Xbox One during the auction, incenting his followers - and his followers' followers, and so on - to check out the site themselves.
An unexpected surge of traffic on a promotional site like Every 2 Minutes would be what one might call a good problem to have, but it would be a problem nonetheless for a company that did not expect the traffic or have the infrastructure to support it.
"Launching those types of digital promotions requires more capacity, because you're driving more and more people to your web properties, and you need to be able to support that demand when they come," says Fatigati.
And it's not just planned promotions that are taxing infrastructure. "Most businesses also have peak periods," says Kevin Conway, Global Director of eCommerce, CenturyLink. "It could be 13 times a year that a business spikes, or it could be mostly around the October-to-December holiday season. There are times, too, when marketers send out a three-million-person email campaign, and the site just gets crushed. Having the capability to flex up and flex down very rapidly to address demand spikes - especially the unplanned ones - is something that companies all need to have."
Conway notes that social media is often a driver for unplanned surges in traffic — surges so great they can even disrupt the social media sites themselves.
Twitter probably anticipated and prepared for a spike in traffic during this year's Academy Awards ceremony. But what it couldn't have anticipated was that host Ellen DeGeneres' "selfie" with celebrities would be retweeted more than two million times immediately after it was posted. The traffic from all of the retweeting disrupted service on the site for more than 20 minutes.
Such challenges have consequences ranging from annoying to life-threatening as more and more organizations provide services online and through mobile and cloud-based apps.
But it's not just the ability to scale up that's important; ompanies also need to be able to scale down when demand is lower. Otherwise, they are just wasting precious computing cycles - and dollars. "By elastic we mean you need it to flex immediately, because you can't afford to wait to increase capacity and accommodate greater customer demand," says Fatigati. "But it also means that when you're not using it anymore, you can then turn it down really quickly." Sometimes spikes occur even on a day-to-day basis, says Moran. "Right now the biggest user of Internet bandwidth during peak hours is Netflix. (2)
Applications like that or HBO Go have significant spikes in demand during peak viewing periods, like 7 pm to midnight, but then overnight and early in the morning there's very little demand." In order to deal with traffic surges, companies often provision for the "worst" and hope for the best. "They overprovision," says Fatigati. "They look at the maximum total capacity needed for the year and potentially longer, and they build out based on that. There are cost implications to that - they have to have a much bigger capital budget for equipment that gets used only part of the time."
Even worse, some companies are actually throttling back their ability to engage or sell because they know their infrastructure can't withstand additional traffic.
As an example, Conway notes a major floral company that declines television appearances on certain holidays because it knows its existing infrastructure can't stand the heat, so to speak.
"That's using technology as a disabler, not an enabler," adds Fatigati.
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"Companies are struggling to figure out which are the most appropriate workloads to be putting on public clouds versus private clouds versus hybrid clouds," says Fatigati. "Parts that need to scale suddenly can do so, but more sensitive areas can be put behind more security. These are difficult decisions, and you really have to understand the pros and cons of each."
For all these reasons, many companies are choosing to work with hosting and managed service providers, both to gain the ability to expand and contract infrastructure as necessary and to leverage the best practices and expertise that providers develop from working with a variety of companies across industries. As more and more customer interactions occur over IT systems, cloud technology puts responsibility for uptime into the hands of professionals who focus on nothing else.
"Customers aren't completely sure how to leverage the cloud as part of a larger transformational initiative to support this emerging 'all-digital' landscape," says Fatigati. "They don't know what the answer is. They're not cloud experts; they're not infrastructure experts.
But they do know they need to figure out how to use technology to succeed and are looking for guidance and best practices that can be applied from other successful deployments or solutions."
The digital transformation of business is far from over. And as business becomes increasingly driven by customer demands and across digital channels, hosting providers will be extending new capabilities to their customers, as well.
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Blocking can be defined as the non-occurrence of some linguistic form, whose existence could be expected on general grounds, due to the existence of a rival form. *Oxes, for example, is blocked by oxen, *stealer by thief. Although blocking is closely associated with morphology, in reality the competing "forms" can not only be morphemes or words, but can also be syntactic units. In German, for example, the compound Rotwein 'red wine' blocks the phrasal unit *roter Wein (in the relevant sense), just as the phrasal unit rote Rübe 'beetroot; lit. red beet' blocks the compound *Rotrübe. In these examples, one crucial factor determining blocking is synonymy; speakers apparently have a deep-rooted presumption against synonyms. Whether homonymy can also lead to a similar avoidance strategy, is still controversial. But even if homonymy blocking exists, it certainly is much less systematic than synonymy blocking.
In all the examples mentioned above, it is a word stored in the mental lexicon that blocks a rival formation. However, besides such cases of lexical blocking, one can observe blocking among productive patterns. Dutch has three suffixes for deriving agent nouns from verbal bases, -er, -der, and -aar. Of these three suffixes, the first one is the default choice, while -der and -aar are chosen in very specific phonological environments: as Geert Booij describes in The Morphology of Dutch (2002), "the suffix -aar occurs after stems ending in a coronal sonorant consonant preceded by schwa, and -der occurs after stems ending in /r/" (p. 122). Contrary to lexical blocking, the effect of this kind of pattern blocking does not depend on words stored in the mental lexicon and their token frequency but on abstract features (in the case at hand, phonological features).
Blocking was first recognized by the Indian grammarian Pāṇini in the 5th or 4th century
Models of Human Sentence Comprehension in Computational Psycholinguistics
John Hale
Computational models of human sentence comprehension help researchers reason about how grammar might actually be used in the understanding process. Taking a cognitivist approach, this article relates computational psycholinguistics to neighboring fields (such as linguistics), surveys important precedents, and catalogs open problems.


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Angels need Beltre — and Damon
The Angels have lost their sizzle. They've made a few nice splashes in the bullpen with lefties Scott Downs and Hisanori Takahashi bringing balance, but that's not going to appease the disenfranchised fandom. They're craving some big-name recognition.
The Angels have to do everything possible to make a bold move in the wake of losing Carl Crawford to the Red Sox. The obvious target is Adrian Beltre, a gem defensively with a lively bat. He's a tough sign, of course, with Scott Boras running the show, but this is important. The Angels need to make a statement, not only to their fans but to their own players. Beltre would do that.
But I wouldn't stop there. I'd go get Johnny Damon.
Sitting out there in free-agent land, virtually unnoticed, is one of the game's acknowledged winners and sparkling personalities. Yes, he's getting up in years, and some Angels fanatics are weary of importing former Yankees in their sunset years. But Damon can still play. He had a solid season in Detroit – 36 doubles, .355 on-base percentage – and would solve the leadoff issue, at last.
Give Damon a one-year deal at fair market value and let him keep left field warm for Mike Trout along with Bobby Abreu, the two former teammates in the Bronx sharing left and the DH role. Damon is not a great defender, but he's good enough – and, like Torii Hunter, he'd be enormously helpful to Peter Bourjos.
For a team in need of a personality implant, Damon has few peers. He's universally respected and liked throughout the game as a standup guy, a winner. He's tough and he's smart. He would also give Hunter some breathing room in an Angels clubhouse that is not exactly brimming with exciting, articulate leaders.
There's a reason why a dozen or so reporters mill around Hunter's locker space for 162 games every year. He has something to say and doesn't mind saying it. The Angels have some terrific performers, notably in the starting rotation, but they're not exactly quote machines. They prefer low profiles.
Johnny Damon is high profile, and affordable. I say go get him while you're busy trying to figure out how to land Beltre. I've heard Damon could be on his way to Tampa Bay, but he has to see how difficult and dreary it could be in the Trop this season with no Crawford, no Rafael Soriano, no Carlos Pena, a bullpen that needs reconstructed.
Come on out west, Johnny D. And bring that bright light that follows you around. This team needs to come in out of the darkness. It could use one of the most endearing "Idiots" ever to pass through a Major League clubhouse. – Lyle Spencer
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When Trout comes up, Bourjos will be the one moving to LF…assuming he's still here in 2012.
We need Johnny Damon because of his "sparkling personality" and fun quotes? Pass. And a .355 OBP isn't exactly going to solve the leadoff problem either… How about Jim Thome: someone who knows how to get on base (.412) and, oh yeah, can hit 25 jacks as well.
Honestly, I'd rather see Reggie Willits in LF and hitting leadoff than have Johnny Damon. He can work counts, get on base, steal some bags and play a decent LF.
And while Beltre would be a nice addition, I think it would be foolish to throw the bank at him. You've already got 3 guys on the roster who can play 3rd, and while everyone wants to give up on Brandon Wood, I find it impossible to believe he'll be worse than last year. Call me a dreamer, but I think he still has a chance to get out of his head and just play. If at mid-season he hasn't, the Cubs will be long out of it and we can trade for the overpaid Aramis Ramirez to make everyone smile.
Not sure about Damon. Good guy, but his noodle arm gives me the willies. He's got the worst arm I've ever seen on an MLB player. It's almost comical. Landing Beltre and getting Kendry back, in addition to shoring up our horrendous bullpen, is good for 10-12 additional wins next year, as long as everyone doesn't spontaneously NOT HIT like in 2010. Texas didn't exactly run away with the West last year. They only had 90 wins last year. In any normal year, they should have been a distant second or third. With Beltre in the mix, we're looking pretty good. I say make a run at Greinke. Trade a few prospects, plus Mathis, Rivera, and Kazmir. This would give us a rotation that rivals the Phillies. Get us to the playoffs and we're looking good. Give Willits one more shot in left, and let him lead off.
Not sure about Damon. Good guy, but his noodle arm gives me the willies. He's got the worst arm I've ever seen on an MLB player. It's almost comical. Landing Beltre and getting Kendry back, in addition to shoring up our horrendous bullpen, is good for 10-12 additional wins next year, as long as everyone doesn't spontaneously NOT HIT like in 2010. Texas didn't exactly run away with the West last year. They only had 90 wins last year. In any normal year, they should have been a distant second or third. With Beltre in the mix, we're looking pretty good. I say make a run at Greinke. Trade a few prospects, plus Mathis, Rivera, and Kazmir. This would give us a rotation that rivals the Phillies. Get us to the playoffs and we're looking good. Give Willits one more shot in left, and let him lead off.
I dont agree with Damon as an option. Corey Patterson instead??? More speed, and you don't have Scott Boras to deal with on Patterson. Just a thought, if looking at cheap option.
there was a lot of talk about boston making a move for crawford in order to be able to move ellsbury… that would solve our lead off and outfield problem in a heartbeat… how bout move some of our talent for him to make the splash. damon's arm scares me too, as does the 15 buhgillion we're going to have to pay beltre for his .250 average and 20 HRs
I respect your opinion Lyle, but I don't want Damon anywhere near the Angels' clubhouse. I think we can find a better/cheaper option elsewhere.
Come on! We need someone who can play defense and who has an arm. Neither of those is Johnny Damon! He went to the Yankees and took advantage of that short porch in RF, but other than that was a bust. We can do without him. We just struggled through a year with the banged up Matsui, only for his bat. Let someone else take on Damon. We need an upgrade!
I agree with getting them both. We need Beltre's pop and would fit nicely with Morales & Tori in the middle of the lineup. He will play a solid 3rd based as well. Johnny would be the DH and lead off since he has no arm and would not serve well in the outfield.
Let's see if management pulls the trigger.
why don't the angels bring back gmj to play left since they are already paying his salary. it would be cheaper and it makes better sense, ha!
The Angels should stay as far away from Damon as possible, he has one of the weakest outfield arms I have ever seen, which is why the Angels always ran on him, instead the Angels should inquire on the availability of Justin Upton who I think has more upside than Carl Crawford would have, or look at Carlos Quentin from the White Sox who could provide some power in the middle to support Kendry, although his defense is probably below average we have Bourjos to help cover for him. Beltre I have mixed feelings as he is one of the best defensive 3rd basemen and decent hitter, I still feel Wood deserves a shot to win the job.
Damon would be a good 1 year contract addition. He can be a DH leadoff hitter, and steal bases as Bobby Abreu does with intelligence, and decent speed in tank. Damon can also hit left handed pitching, so I see no problem with 2 lefties (Damon & Abreu) leading off, actually think about it, they are pros and will set the table. Aybar could be returned to less pressure 9 spot, where he thrived in 2009.
Regarding Beltre, I am still for getting him 70M or 75M over five years, what's the difference? On other hand, if we want to not do it, or 75 is not enough, how about signing Penny and Millwood for 1M performance contracts (1 or both will do it) and make a major trade for a differnce maker with one of our starters and prospects leading our package. David Wright, Jose Reyes, or with Marlins…Kazmir is in his walk year, don't worry he is working hard and will produce, it means 75 M to him, Penny or Millwood will be more than a 5 starter.
Angels need to sign Beltre already. What is management waiting for???? With his defensive skills and ability to bat in the lineup with Morales and Tori, he could be a lethal weapon. I mean, considering he played in Seattle's terrible lineup, he put up overall decent numbers. Now imagine batting with Morales and Tori??? Wow, I can't believe the Angels are not pulling the trigger on this one.


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We might meet Paris, say officials
21 Jul 20 - New Zealands 2030 emissions reduction target might be consistent with the Paris Agreement it all depends on how you look at it, officials have told the Government.
Most nations ignore climate plans update
12 Feb 20 - The Marshall Islands, Suriname and Norway have submitted plans for tougher action to tackle climate change before a five-year milestone of the Paris Agreement in 2020 - but almost 200 others - including New Zealand - have ignored an informal February 9 deadline.
Unhappy investors criticise firms over Paris pact
3 Oct 19 - Investors representing more than $55 trillion say just a fraction of companies are doing their part in meeting the Paris Agreement.
Major economies fail to answer New York call
25 Sep 19 - Delivering on a goal of net zero emissions is a daunting, civilisational task, which the UN climate summit in New York showed leaders do not have plans to meet.
Russia formally signs up to Paris Agreement
25 Sep 19 - The worlds fourth-largest emitter, Russia, has formally adopted the Paris Agreement, drawing an end to months of national tensions on the subject.
Ardern in star turn at UN climate summit
23 Sep 19 - New Zealand will again take centre stage at international climate talks in New York, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern giving a keynote speech in the early hours of tomorrow morning.
Why the New York climate summit matters
17 Sep 19 - As world leaders converge on New York City for the United Nations Climate Action Summit on September 23, they enter what may be the most consequential week in climate politics since Donald Trumps surprise election as president of the United States in 2016.
Putin has doubts but Russia will sign Paris pact
11 Jul 19 - The Russian government will submit legislation to ratify the Paris climate agreement by September, but president Vladimir Putin warned against the perils of absolutist renewable energy.
Russia takes new look at Paris Agreement
7 Feb 19 - Russia, one of the worlds highest-polluting hold-outs, has taken steps that could lead to ratification of the Paris Agreement.
Only 16 countries meet their Paris commitment
1 Nov 18 - Only 16 countries out of the 197 that signed the Paris Agreement have defined national climate action plan ambitious enough to meet their pledges.
Catholic bishops call for faith in Paris target
30 Oct 18 - Catholic Church leaders have urged governments around the world to ramp up their climate action efforts, calling for ambitious implementation of the Paris Agreement.
All Paris pact counties now have climate policies
2 May 18 - All 197 countries which signed the Paris Agreement now have at least one law in place to limit global temperatures.
Bonn meeting to sort out Paris pact
30 Apr 18 - A meeting to hammer out the operating manual for the Paris Agreement starts in Bonn today.
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21 Mar 18 - THE PARIS accord is built on speculative tech fantasies. It can not save us from climate catastrophe, says Dr JASON HICKEL of the University of London.
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Dog remains man's best friend until very end
Corey McMillan, Gonzo traveled country together
Corey McMillan may be gone, but his spirit lives on through the extraordinary bond he shared with his four-legged best friend, Gonzo.
"That dog went everywhere with him, even when he went to the stores. It didn't matter where he went, people's houses to visit, that dog went everywhere with him," his mother, Karen McMillan, told Channel 4 Action News' Andrew Stockey.
Karen McMillan said her son was an excellent student at West Virginia University and worked a part-time job, but that he decided to give it up two years ago to travel the country.
"He ran across some people who had told him about this lifestyle and he thought this was something he wanted to do before he had to commit to paying bills on his own and responsibilities," she said.
But before Corey McMillan left on his journey, a friend wanted him to have a companion along the way.
"She brought him this puppy and she said, 'I want you to have him,' and he said, 'No, I don't need him,' or whatever, and she said, 'No, Corey, he will be the best thing for you,' and instantly he was attached to that dog," said Karen McMillan.
From there, Corey McMillan and his newfound best friend embarked on their journey through 19 states, living like vagabonds as they hopped trains and survived on the streets.
"Traveling around and meeting all these new people, you kind of take something from each place you go to and each person you meet," said friend Jayme Borbonus.
Borbonus said Corey McMillan always put Gonzo first.
"He never ate unless Gonzo did first. Anytime people would come up and offer him food, he'd say, 'Well, if you could feed my dog first that would be fine, and if you had anything left for me, I'll take it,'" said Borbonus.
Suddenly, a phone call from an animal shelter in Louisiana changed everything.
"We had five days to pick (Gonzo) up, and if we did not do that, they would euthanize him, so I asked the man to hold off until I could get a hold of Corey," said Karen McMillan.
She later learned that her son died at 22 of a suspected overdose with Gonzo by his side. Corey McMillan may have ended up as another "John Doe" had he not put the dog's needs before his own.
"He got him microchipped, which was absolutely the best thing he ever did for us," said Karen McMillan.
Corey McMillan's friends decided the best thing they could do was drive to Louisiana and get Gonzo.
"We drove straight down there and straight back. I think we slept an hour," said Samantha Krall. "On the way down, it was kind of depressing and everyone was still in shock. On the way back, we were a little bit happier. We were laughing about memories of Corey."
Even though her son is gone, Karen McMillan believes he remains alive through Gonzo.
"I know he is. I know he is. Not a doubt in my mind," she said.
Corey McMillan had one goal he never reached, and that was to make it to Oregon with Gonzo.
Friends are gathering funds to send the McMillans to the west coast to spread Corey McMillan's ashes there.
Donations can be sent to:
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Art and Design Research and the PhDOctober
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Post-conference update (December 2010): Download and view individual responses to the conference by its Parsons co-organizers.
Doctoral study has traditionally been associated with intensive scholarly research, the culmination of which confers a PhD degree. But for artists and designers whose disciplines are rooted in creative practice, how is research itself defined and in what ways might it shape a
doctoral degree?
How is the outcome of creative work or research by artists and designers valued in comparison to intellectual inquiry in other fields? What does the MFA as a "terminal degree" indicate to academics in other disciplines? What does it say about how we as artists and designers value our practice?
Evolution: Art and Design Research and the PhD brings together artists, designers, and researchers from across the world to explore these and related questions, opening a dialogue about the role of a PhD in American schools of art and design.
Conference hosted by Parsons The New School for Design and organized in collaboration with Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney, with the support of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.


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It's been a long time since I've written one of these, but this story is too mad sciencey to pass up.
Mad Reference: "Can Our DNA Electromagnetically 'Teleport' Itself? One Researcher Thinks So" by Clay Dillow at Popular Science, about work by Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier. Uh-oh, the work hasn't been published yet, and apparently first appeared in New Scientist. Going to the press first is a bad sign. Going to New Scientist first (the magazine that reported that SETI had found concrete evidence of alien intelligence, causing SETI scientists to reply "We did what now?") just might mean even you know what you're peddling is nonsense.
Mad Background: Quantum teleportation is a real phenomenon, and it's really interesting to read about. But it has nothing to do with what happened here, so I'm not going to go into detail about it. If you're interested, I recommend the Wikipedia article I linked as a good primer.
The more interesting (and relevant) background is that of Luc Montagnier, the scientists whose lab is reporting this finding. I was first introduced to Dr. Montagnier through the excellent 1993 HBO movie And the Band Played On. And the Band Played On tells the story of the discovery and characterization of AIDS and HIV, and the political nonsense that slowed down the progress of those discoveries. I changed my major to biology shortly after first seeing that movie, in part inspired by it. In the movie, Luc Montagnier (played by Patrick Bauchau) is one of the good guys, fighting against the egomaniacal American biologist Dr. Robert Gallo (played by Alan Alda). The film shows how Gallo pretty clearly (in the movie, not in reality) stole a sample of HIV from Montagnier's lab, and used the sample to fake results showing that he had discovered HIV.
However, around the same time the movie first aired on HBO, a group looking into those allegations published their report. They found that a sample sent by Montagnier's lab to Gallo's had been accidentally contaminated with the sample, and then Gallo legitimately used that sample in his studies. Evidently, Montagnier's lab still has issues with contamination.
Mad Observation: DNA is complicated. People understand very well how it gets copied in cells, but maybe they're wrong. Also, quantum teleportation is really cool (honestly, that's the best set of observations I can come up with to explain what Montagnier did).
Mad Hypothesis: Maybe DNA undergoes quantum teleportation in cells! We have no reason to think this, but let's devise an experiment to test it anyway!
Mad Experiment: Montagnier's lab put two test tubes, one containing a known DNA sequence and the other believed to contain pure water, in a straight-up mad scientist contraption meant to "mute the earth's natural electromagnetic field to keep it from muddying the results," according to the Popular Science article. They then subjected these tubes to a weak electromagnetic field, because, hey, why not? After several hours, they performed PCR on the pure water tube to see if it contained any DNA.
They All Laughed, But: Holy crap, the tube of pure water totally contained DNA! It must be that quantum stuff! We're geniuses!
We're Still Laughing: From every report I've read, Montagnier's lab didn't do the control experiment, in which both test tubes contained "pure" water. Chances are very good they'd still get the same result.
PCR amplifies any trace of your target DNA. Modern PCR can amplify as little as a single strand of the target DNA. Add to that the fact that DNA is very stable, and thus easy to contaminate your lab with.
I often cook with jalapeños. After slicing them up, I'm careful to wash my hands. But sometimes, even after washing my hands, I touch my eye, and it starts to burn. Were I in Dr. Montagnier's lab, I guess I'd assume those muddying effects from Earth's natural magnetic field were causing bits of the jalapeños on the counter to quantum teleport into my eyes. Since I don't work in Dr. Montagnier's lab, I just assume there was a trace contaminant (jalapeños) left on my fingers, and that got into my eye.
Mad Engineering Applications: Since this research is nonsense, there aren't any. However, were it correct, there would be all kinds of applications. We'd probably have to stop working on all of the antiviral agents that block them from entering cells; surely viruses could just quantum teleport their DNA into our cells, skipping all the bother of physically entering cells. I'm sure other people could also find uses for this research.
The last time I wrote one of these, the mad scientist I wrote about had a clear claim to that title, but only tongue-in-cheek. Sadly, I think this week the scientist in question may really be mad.


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Making Meals: Southwestern Pumpkin Burger Sliders
Prepared by Executive Chef Justin Johnson
Southwestern Pumpkin Burger Sliders (yield 6 servings)
-6 t. extra virgin olive oil, divided
-1 medium onion, chopped
- ½ c. finely chopped red and green bell pepper
- ½ c. frozen corn
-2 cloves garlic, minced
-2 t. chili powder
-1 t. cumin
- ½ c. canned pureed pumpkin
- ½ c. shredded cheddar cheese
- ½ c. fine bread crumbs
-2 T. chopped fresh parsley
- ½ t. salt
- ½ t. fresh cracked pepper
- 6 mini sesame seed buns
-2 c. shredded ice berg lettuce
1- Heat 2 t. oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add onion and cook,
stirring often, until softened, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl; let cool
to room temperature, about 10 minutes.
2- Add pumpkin, cheese, breadcrumbs, parsley, salt and pepper to the onion
mixture; mix well. With dampened hands, form the vegetable mixture into
six ½ inch thick patties, using about ½ c. for each. Preheat oven 325. Stack
sesame seed buns and wrap in aluminum foil. Place in the oven for about 15 minutes to
heat through.
3- Using 2 t. of oil per batch, cook 2 to 4 patties at a time in a large nonstick
skillet over medium heat until browned and heated through, about 4 minutes
per side. Adjust heat as necessary for even browning. Put the patties on sesame seed buns and serve immediately, garnished with lettuce and fresh salsa (if
Nutritional Facts:
-331 calories
-13g. fat
-8mg. cholesterol
-45g. carbohydrates
-12g. protein
-638mg sodium
-407mg potassium


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I have a program requesting user input for two variables as integers. I then have a third variable set as a double that I would like to use to divide the two integers and give me a decimal with no more than 2 decimal places.
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Bonnaroo bound: Riding high on the Dirty Bird
When the Hackensaw Boys burst onto the Charlottesville music scene back in 1999, their sheer number was enough to get a Blue Moon Diner crowd rockin' to the old time bluegrass music they played. Four years later, the group, now winnowed down to a core group of six, is finally getting some of the national– and international– recognition for which every small town band longs.
On Saturday, June 12, the Hackensaws will play Tennessee's massive three-day music festival, Bonnaroo, joining headliners the Dave Matthews Band, Trey Anastasio, The Dead, and Bob Dylan, along with a plethora of lesser known artists, including ATO Records' newest signee, Jem.
But while the Hackensaws have had no shortage of exposure these last four years or so– including Bonnaroo 2003, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and the High Sierra Music Festival– they're still waiting for the record deal that could put their music out for all the world to hear.
"We've worked really hard," says David Sickmen, a.k.a. Shiner Hackensaw. "We're still working really hard."
In the past four years, Sickmen estimates, the band has played 750 shows across the country and in Europe, doing most of their touring in the aging bus– dubbed the Dirty Bird– given to them by local developer and auto mechanic Oliver Kuttner, a big fan of the band.
"I really like those guys," Kuttner says. "I hope they do even better."
But no matter how far they go– or how much fame they find– the Hackensaws say they will remember their roots.
"We'll keep Charlottesville as a home base," says Sickmen, "of course."
David Sickmen a.k.a. Shiner
Age: 35
Role: Guitar and mandolin, singer/songwriter
Resume: Local music scene-ster who formed The Ninth (with Stefan Lessard) as well as "goofin' around playing music in art rock punk bands" such as Beau Prie.
Jimmy Stelling a.k.a. The Kooky Eyed Fox Age: 35
Role: Banjo
Resume: Prior to joining the Hackensaws in 2001, just before the band's first trip to NYC, he worked as a "soup chef, playboy model, and carpenter."
Tom Peloso a.k.a. Pee Paw
Age: 37
Role: Fiddle
Resume: Fiddle-fixer; played with Richmond bands King Sour and Chigger
Robert Bullington a.k.a. Mahlon
Age: 30
Role: Mandolin
Resume: Played with Richmond alt-rock group Fried Moose
Jesse Fiske a.k.a. Baby J or Dante
Age: 23
Role: Harmonica
Resume: Once jammed with harmonica legend James Cotten
Justin Newhart a.k.a. Salvage
Age: 24
Role: Drum and "charismo," a percussion instrument made of "portable junk"; he also refurbishes the Dirty Bird.
Resume: Played drums with punk rock group The Proles
Top row: Salvage Dante J, Kooky-Eyed Fox and Shiner; bottom row: Pee Paw and Mahlon.


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