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Arctic blast to hit UK today with three inches of snow by weekend
A BITTER Arctic blast will roar in to the UK today bringing three inches of snow by the weekend, forecasters have warned.
The threat of a month-long big freeze prompted the Department of Health and the Met Office to issue a level-2 cold weather health alert.
Temperatures are likely to sink low enough over the next few days to cause "significant health risks", they warned.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "Low temperatures can be dangerous, especially for the very young or very old or those with chronic disease.
"Advice on how to reduce the risk either for yourself or somebody you know can be obtained from the NHS Choices website."
The mercury is expected to plunge to -15C with widespread snowfall by Saturday kicking off an "Arctic week" and a month of winter misery for much of the UK.
Forecasters said water seeping out of flooded ground and swollen rivers will turn into sheets of ice overnight leading to chaos on the roads.
Temperatures are going to plummet today with widespread snow by the weekend
Leon Brown, meteorologist for The Weather Channel, said the North will wake up to frost and ice with the South turning "sub-zero" tomorrow.
He said: "Everyone will start to feel the cold as winds strengthen from the north over the UK.
"It will turn colder as we go through a week from the Arctic, and signals are showing this is going to last until the end of December."
"Widespread frost and ice are expected in the North on Wednesday, by Thursday morning the south will be sub-zero in the morning with frost and ice."
He warned ice will be a major problem with much of the UK in for a battering from hail, sleet and snow showers.
"We could see more than 5cm [2ins] accumulations, even as far south as east Kent," he added.
"With snow on the ground in northern Scotland we could see temperatures as low as -15C by Sunday night around the Cairngorms, Speyside and along the Dee Valley near Braemar."
Jonathan Powell, forecaster for Vantage Weather Services, said: "Temperatures are going to plummet on Wednesday with widespread snow by the weekend.
"We are looking at possibly three inches in parts with showers reaching the South.
"The bigger problem is likely to be ice, with sheets forming overnight on the roads making for hazardous driving conditions.
"Britain is now well and truly on standby for the big freeze to arrive."
The Met Office said temperatures will drop daily with widespread frosts and icy roads expected by the weekend.
Forecaster Sarah Holland said: "We have a cold alert out which really comes into force from Friday.
"People are really going to start to notice the difference over the next few days."
The warnings come as Britain recovers from what has been described as the worst flooding in 70 years.
Vast swathes of the country have been left under feet of floodwater after days of incessant rainfall.
Rivers burst their banks and roads were rendered impassible after inches of rain fell in a matter of hours.
The country was hit by another day of rainfall yesterday leading to further disruption and travel chaos.
North Wales Police said the body of an elderly woman had been recovered from a house in St Asaph bringing the death toll from the floods to six.
Some 500 homes in the region were evacuated after the River Elwy burst its banks forcing hundreds of families to seek shelter in a nearby rescue centre.
Essex Fire and Rescue Service received more than 100 calls to flooding related incidents wile railway services across the West country were disrupted.
Travel problems hit the North-east with roads closed in Worcestershire, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland.
Flooding caused disruption to railway services in Darlington, Durham, York, Darlington and Doncaster.
Worst hit has been the South-west where hundreds of houses have flooded, transport networks have ground to a halt and thousands have been forced from their homes.
David Cameron yesterday visited the village of Buckfastleigh, Devon, which was struck by flash flooding at the weekend.
He said: "It is obviously very traumatic when communities are hit by flooding like this but what I found are people are incredibly steadfast and have behaved incredibly bravely at handling the flood and now we need to help them with the recovery."
The Prime Minister vowed to take a "tough approach" on negotiations with insurers over homes in danger of flooding.
Up to 200,000 high-risk properties are at risk of being priced out of affordable cover when a 13-year-old deal between the old Labour government and insurers ends next summer.
The Government has been in talks for two years but as yet an agreement has not been reached.
"I'm sure we will do a deal," Mr Cameron said. "We are in negotiations at the moment.
"We need to take a tough approach frankly and it's important insurance companies do what they are meant to, which is provide insurance to households and we are going to make sure that happens."
A landslip continued to cause disruption in Surrey with the Southern train company running a reduced service between London and Horsham, Sussex.
Although the worst of the rain is expected to have died down by today, the Environment Agency warned flooding is still a risk due to saturated ground.
The agency had 219 flood alerts and 179 more serious flood warnings in place across the entire country.
It said around 960 properties have flooded since Wednesday and 110,000 warnings have been sent to at-risk households.
It warned rising groundwater levels particularly in the South-west pose a risk of flooding for at least the next two days.
Head of Incident Management John Curtin said: "Our thoughts remain with those that have been affected by flooding.
"Further flooding is expected in the next few days and communities across the country, particularly in northeast England, north Wales, Northamptonshire, are urged to remain especially vigilant."


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The genius of the best Disney animated films, from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" to "Frozen," rests in telling stories through young eyes that connect with children and parents on different levels (catchy songs help, too).
"Finding Nemo," which made its splash via Disney's Pixar in 2003, tweaked the formula, beyond eschewing tunes. Sure, plenty of scenes featured the title character, a plucky little lost clown fish with a "lucky" fin. But for once, a Disney film unfolded largely through the point of view of a parent: Nemo's overprotective father, Marlin.
The film's breakout character, though, proved of indeterminate age: the childlike Dory, a fearless flake short on memory and somehow long on the ability to read English.
The Disney fish tale gets a new chapter Friday with the release of a sequel with parents again in key roles: "Finding Dory," in which the blue tang searches for her long lost mother and father. The latest aquatic family mission might not prove as difficult, though, as recreating the magic that turned "Nemo" into an instant favorite among kids now around college age and their parents.
The visually appealing "Finding Nemo" wasn't the fanciest Pixar production, but it swam straight to the heart with its story of a father's determination to find the son he inadvertently drove into danger while trying to shield him from life's uncertainties.
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Albert Brooks gave angst-and-love-filled voice to Marlin, who paid a steep price for refusing to let go. Ellen DeGeneres helped create a classic comic character in Dory, who might or might not be able to speak whale, but sounded the power of persistence with her motto, "Just keep swimming!"
"Finding Dory" goes up not just against memories of "Nemo," but the specter of Pixar's two greatest films: "Toy Story 3" and "Inside Out." Both movies expanded the familial themes of "Nemo" into more emotionally complex explorations of the bittersweet mix of joy and pain that accompanies growing up.
Dory's charm is buoyed by her seeming simplicity, but "Nemo" suggested her waters run deep, even if they're clouded by the limits of her memory. The name of the new film might seem like a misnomer (why not call it "Finding Dory's Parents"?), but perhaps the title signals a more significant quest: Dory's search for her own identity.
That's expecting a lot, but we can only ask of Disney/Pixar what Dory asks of herself: Just keep swimming.
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.

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For some photographers, thousands of rabbis standing around the red 'no standing' sign outside Lubavitch World Headquarters represent a dream; for others, a nightmare. Getting every face into the frame is quite the challenge for the official photographers. If years of experience have taught them, it's also made the challenge greater: with each passing year, the number of shluchim grows.
Setting up and getting the rabbis—representing some 87 countries—together for the annual "group" photo outside Lubavitch World Headquarters, in itself a scene worthy of a photo essay, brings many photographers back year after year. The 2014 conference begins Wednesday afternoon and continues through Monday morning.
Rabbi Eliezer Zalmanov, Chabad representative to Munster, Indiana, feels that the photos session is one of the highlights of the five-day conference. "Sure, the entire weekend is spent in the company of thousands of my colleagues from across the globe, but there is something extremely special about everyone posing together."
The group photo was a part of the first conference in 1983. Back then it was only a national conference and a paltry 60 rabbis participated.
"It was a simple feat, everyone jumped up on one of the bleachers inside Lubavitch World Headquarters, the photographer said, 'squeeze in' and gegeingen, that was it," says Rabbi Lipa Brennan, one of the convention organizers.
Today, pulling several thousand people together for a photo session is a logistical exploit. The multi-tasking, hi-energy rabbis are not a docile group and getting them comply for a sitting (or standing) is quite a maneuver. One is busy catching up on his daily study routine, another is comparing notes with a colleague and another is on an urgent call with a community member thousands of miles away. Multiply that hundreds of times over.
If that isn't enough, the photographer must then manage to get each of the thousands of faces in focus, in one frame. "If someone would ask us to shoot 2,000 people, we'd probably think it's a prank," photographer Noam Galai said. But it's exactly what the official photographer Chaim Perl and fourteen others set out to do.
Perl has figured a way around some of the difficulties. "There are two great challenges, one is the rabbis are in the shade and the sun is facing the lens. I therefore study the sun and its positions to know exactly the best time to take the photo. The second is to get thousands of people to look into the camera at the same time."
Some of the shluchim find the photo session inspires reflection: "I comprehend that I am just one small nail in a much greater picture. Every year when there are so many more Chabad emissaries in the photo—and by today I cannot even see everyone in the photo—I become emotional," Rabbi Levi Mondshine, Chabad representative to Smolensk, Russia, says. "This is the time of the convention that strengthens me most."
As the bleachers set up outside are almost full, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, the Vice Chairman of the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, takes the time to review the day's schedule with the shluchim.
"Each individual here represents a unique Jewish community in a country, a city or town. The entire world is represented here, in one place." There is nothing, he says, that needs to be added. A picture is indeed worth a thousand words.
Year after year, mainstream media outlets cover the group picture at the convention. In 2012, The Daily Mail wrote, "Now that's a lot of rabbis! Incredible images as 3,000 rabbis from all over the world come together on Eastern Parkway."
As the photo session comes to an end, the shluchim erupt in song. Some do a dance. Then the crowd disperses.
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2084 days ago
Yitzchok Winer
Trying to squeeze the faces of 3,000 shluchim into one photo is the epitome of what my father likes to call a "good problem", B'H!
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Mordechai Kestecher
Of all the kinuss photos i've seen in my lifetime, It's upsetting to see the absence of Rabbi N Sudak, (Head sheliach of the UK)
I do take comfort in the fact that if there were an annual photo in shomayim, Rabbi Sudak together with the Rebbe would finally be able to pose with the Avos
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The public on Friday got its first glimpse of the new Sandy Hook Elementary School built to replace the building where 20 first-graders and six educators were massacred in December 2012.
"I think it's emotional, always want to remember those who lost their lives. It is a beautiful tribute to what city was it in the future and that's just a warm smart environment for kids," Dr. Kathy Gombos, principal of Sandy Hook said.
The old Sandy Hook Elementary School was torn down in 2013 and the new $50 million, 86,000-square-foot school was built on the same property but not in the old footprint, and is scheduled to open next month.
"The intent of this building is to offer a warm and comfortable environment for students and boy they hit a grandslam with that, but I can also share with you the security measures in this building are second to none," Supt. Dr. Joseph Erardi said.
The building has a gated entrance, cameras and card readers and locks at entrances.
There was significant community input as town leaders worked to honor the lives of the students and adults killed and build a safe and environmentally friendly educational facility to serve future generations of students.
A media tour preceded a public open house on Friday.
Erardi said the district hopes that allowing everyone a look at the school this week will give students a "quiet, respectful, and appropriate opening as teachers and students return to the new school year" on Aug. 29.


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Zip! Crunch! Bubble! Sizzle! The 26th Summer Research Internship Program
POSTED ON: August 7, 2013
On a bright, warm morning in late July a surprise visitor arrived at a sub-basement classroom in 41 Cooper Square, home of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering. Joseph Herscher, looking a bit like a silent-era film comedian, with his thin frame, elevated hair and a bristle mustache, introduced himself to the assembled engineering interns as a "kinetic artist." (More on that later.) The interns, all from nearby high schools, were there as part of the Summer Research Internship Program. Mr. Herscher's appearance would bring art to science in a program, celebrating its 26th year, that continues to reflect the founding principles of The Cooper Union.
The Summer Research Internship Program, started in 1987, annually gives a select group of New York City public high school students fully subsidized six-week crash courses in chemical, civil and mechanical engineering. "This year we had over 400 applications to fill forty seats," Prof. George Delagrammatikas, the Director of the program, says. "It's designed to give potential students a taste of the Cooper Union School of Engineering experience and let them decide if it's for them. But it focuses on under-represented groups in the field like women and minorities." The sponsors this year include Con Edison, the New York Building Foundation, The Manhattan Comprehensive Night & Day High School and the Albert Nerken School of Engineering.
Students in each of four classrooms were nearing completion on work beyond the scope of ordinary high school sciences classes. In the civil engineering class, Prof. Vito Guido's students watched as a column of concrete they had mixed days earlier had its maximum strength tested in a press until split into fragments with a bang. Behind them, on computer screens, sat designs for their two group projects focusing on storm-surge protection, inspired by the disaster of Hurricane Sandy on the local area coastline. One project proposed a storm proof causeway to connect the Rockaways with Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The other project proposed a system for sealing off tunnels, like the Holland Tunnel which closed after Sandy due to flooding, using pneumatic-activated doors.
While Mr. Herscher, the kinetic artist, was downstairs, Prof. Ben Davis' chemical engineering class huddled in small groups at laboratory workstations. Beakers rested on heating pads while the students took careful measurements. "We're distilling the wastewater that resulted from synthesizing nylon" Caroline Hunt a student at Achievement First Brooklyn High School, explained. "The nylon synthesis gives students a sense of the hidden environmental costs of everyday synthetics, Prof. Davis says, "for example you get a little bit of nylon and a lot of waste water."
Like much of The Cooper Union's undergraduate pedagogy, the Summer Research program has an underlying theme of sustainability, perhaps none more so than Prof. Robert Dell's mechanical engineering class. Inside his Center for Innovation and Applied Technology classroom four different groups worked on ways of recapturing otherwise lost energy. One group took their device outside where they watched intently as a flexible Fresnel lens focused the sun's rays on the end of brass pipe, heating it to 140 degrees Celsius. "It works" one of them shouted as the water inside boiled, turned to steam and condensed into a measuring tube at the end. "At first we thought of using the idea to run a turbine," Alexander Grin of Staten Island Technical High School says, "but now we think it would be better used in a desalination process. It is easily scalable and could be put to use in places with a lot of sun, for example in Saharan Africa."
Meanwhile, back in the sub-basement classroom Mr. Herscher, a native of New Zealand but lately out of Brooklyn, explained to Prof. Delagrammatikas' mechanical engineering class what he does as a kinetic artist. "I build Rube Goldberg machines that make a simple task as complicated as possible," he said. In fact, this was precisely what the students themselves were working on. Each of four groups had to get a ball from one corner of a 3' x 3' board to the opposite corner using recycled materials and as many steps as possible. Though it may strike some as counter-intuitive to have an engineering class focus on making a simple problem more complicated, in doing so, "the students learn about devices important in the mechanical engineering field like pulleys, bridges, levers, motors, electrical switches and circuits while solving problems and working closely in teams," Prof. Delagrammatikas says.
Mr. Herscher, who has built an elaborate machine to water a potted plant at the 2011 Venice Biennial and whose video of a device to turn a newspaper page has gotten over seven million views on YouTube, had arrived to offer his advice. His appearance introduced an interdisciplinary aspect into the class. "This is a step to go from S.T.E.M [Science, Technology, Engineering and Math] coursework to something being called S.T.E.A.M., where the A is for 'art.' " Prof. Delagrammatikas said. He visited each of four machines that had golf balls being carried up cardboard elevators, pulled in paper boats, zipping down ramps, strings being burned by candles, and mousetraps wreaking havoc. By the end the kinetic artist had learned a thing or two himself. "I loved the tracks that are made of up two steel rods, and as the steel ball rolled over them it completed a circuit and turned on a motor," Mr. Herscher said. "There were lots of cool ideas. The kids were very focused on what they were doing, which I was very impressed by because it is a very important skill for this kind of work.
For the 26th consecutive year the Summer Research Internship Program has given local high school students a taste of the Cooper Union experience. "The program gives access to diverse groups of students who may not know of the possibilities of an engineering degree," Prof. Delagrammatikas says. "The very close interaction between faculty and the students in a highly collaborative environment allow them to learn things that are innovative and creative." According to the last longitudinal study, over 90% of students who participate in the Summer Research Internship Program go on to higher education and 70% pursue degrees in engineering. Ten percent like the experience enough to apply and be accepted at The Cooper Union. "I enjoy it," Mia Rodie of Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, Queens says of her time in the program, "even though it's harder than the Regents test."


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I missed doing last weeks, so here are the rest of the books I picked up at World Fantasy Con in Brighton at the start of the month. I've been a little busy with uni work (it's essays time of the semester) but I'm planning to put up my write-ups of it this coming week. I'll also have more reading time now, so reviews will be back! *g*
On to the books!
'Farlander' by Col Buchanan - Fantasy, sounds like it could be interesting
'Black Feathers' by Joseph D'Lacey - Don't know much about this, but I've heard good things about Joseph D'Lacey and the cover is just gorgeous.
'The Emperor's Knife' by Mazarkis Williams - Fantasy, again don't know much about it.
'The Knights of Breton Court' by Maurice Broaddus - A new version of the King Arthur myth - I'm not particularly interested in Arthur stories, but this one looked different so I thought I'd give it a go - it's fairly far down the tbr pile at the moment though.
'The Fifth Wave' by Rick Yancy - this one sounds a bit mid-apocalyptic, and I've heard a little bit about it. I'm actually quite keen to read this one soon.
At the top of this one is the lovely commemorative program they gave to everyone, which features lots of nice pictures and some cool short stories.
'The Queen of the Tearling' by Erika Johansen - This is a proof copy, so the cover isn't final, about a 19 year old girl about to inherit a kingdom that's a bit of a mess, by the sound of it. I think this sounds really cool, and I'm hoping to read it soon. It doesn't come out till summer, so I won't be posting a review for a while though.
'The Martian' by Andy Weir - Don't know much about this at all, so it's fairly low in the pile again, but it could be interesting, I'll give it a go sometime.
'The Forbidden Library' by Django Wrexler - This one sounds really cool, it has an introduction letter from the author tucked inside that says it's built on the question of what if you couldn't trust the mentor figure there often is in fantasy books? I hope to read it soon, but again, it's a proof copy, not releasing until April, so it'll be a while till I actually post the review.
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Initially molded as a traditional Latin balladeer, one who sings romantic songs with much dramatic flair over sweeping string arrangements, Luis Fonsi enjoyed much success as such, though he began to break steadily from that mold, beginning with Paso a Paso in 2005, and enjoyed even greater success and more critical acclaim as a result. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Orlando, Florida, Fonsi dove into show business at a young age, singing in a school vocal group called the Big Guys that also included future *NSYNC star Joey Fatone. Following high school, Fonsi studied singing at Florida State University and scored a contract offer from Universal Latino. He debuted on Universal in 1998 with Comenzare, which did well, peaking at number 27 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart and spawning four hit singles: "Si Tu Quisieras," "Perdóname," "Dime Como," and "Me Iré." His follow-up album, Eterno, released in 2000, did even better, peaking at number six on the Top Latin Albums chart and spawning another four hit singles, among them the chart-topping "Imaginame Sin Ti." And so it went for the next few years, with more releases and more commercial success. Amor Secreto topped the Latin album chart in 2002 and Abrazar la Vida came close in 2003, both of them carried by numerous hits. The only mishap for Fonsi during this remarkable run was an English-language crossover attempt, Fight the Feeling, that came and went very quickly in 2002, a clear miscalculation.
When time came for Fonsi to record his sixth album, to be released in 2005, he went out on a limb, recruiting producer Sebastian Krys, who had previously worked with the likes of Carlos Vives, Obie Bermúdez, and JD Natasha. The resulting album, Paso a Paso, was still a Latin pop excursion through and through, but in general, it featured guitars in the forefront rather than sweeping strings. It also explored different kinds of rhythms and arrangements, resulting in Fonsi's most distinct and creative album to date. Critics, who hadn't always been kind to Fonsi were mostly positive and liked what they heard. Moreover, and more importantly, the public loved the lead single, "Nada Es Para Siempre," and lined up in droves to buy the album when it was released in late summer. Paso a Paso debuted at number two on the Top Latin Albums chart, setting up yet another great run for Fonsi, who now found himself more aligned with successful yet inventive Latin stars like Juanes than the generic balladeers he had previously kept company with. His 2008 effort, Palabras del Silencio, was essentially a continuation of all that Fonsi accomplished with Paso a Paso, with the singer co-writing all of the 13 songs. The album earned double-platinum status in the U.S. and Venezuela, along with gold status in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, and Central America. Featuring the hit single "Gritar," the album Tierra Firme followed in 2011. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi


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Share Your Sweets: Best Biscuits
The Serious Eats community shares their sweet recipes.
This week we went bonkers for biscuits because, let's be honest, they're great plain, buttered, jammed, or dunked in some gravy. It also brought up the issue of biscuits versus scones, which we'll let you weigh in on in the comments section below.
We're always looking for recipes that our gluten-free readers can enjoy so shoot us a photo of your best gluten-free sweet (along with a link to the recipe!) and we'll include it in the next roundup. Be sure to send it in no later than Tuesday, March 26th so we can include it in the Share Your Sweets on March 28st.
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Yesterday, the Phils lose their third straight spring training game, as they lose to the Rays, 6-1.
Yesterday afternoon, the Phils get creamed for five runs in the bottom of the seven inning, before they lose to the Rays, 6-1.
The Phils took the lead in the top of the fourth as, with runners on the corners, and with one man out, Wil Nieves hits an RBI single, knocking in Leandro Castro, who had earlier doubled, then stopped at third base on Freddy Galvis' single, giving the Phils a 1-0 lead, before Galvis, who had earlier singled, is thrown out at third base, 9-5, for the inning's second out. The score would remain 1-0 Phils until the bottom of the seventh as the Rays tied the game up at one-all as, with two men on, and with one man out, Justin Christian, who had earlier walked, then stopped at third base on Jeremy Moore's double, would score on Vince Belnome's fielder's choice ground ball to first baseman Darin Ruf, beating the throw to the plate, as Moore, who had earlier doubled, would move up to third base on the throw home. The Rays then took the lead three batters later, with the bases now loaded, after Moore is thrown out on a fielder's choice throw to the plate on Eddy Rodriguez's ground ball to the pitcher Michael Stutes, 1-2, for the inning's second out, while Belnome would move up to second base, and then a walk to Jerry Sands, moving up both runners, and with two men out, Ray Olmedo hits a two-run single, knocking in Belnome and Rodriguez, giving the Rays a 3-1 lead, while sending Sands over to third base. The Rays then made it a 5-1 lead as Cole Figueroa hits a two-run double, scoring both Sands and Olmedo, before going on to third on the throw to the plate. The Rays added to their lead in the bottom of the eighth as, with two men out. Moore hits a solo home run, his first home run of the spring, giving the Rays a 6-1 lead. That would be the final score as Kirby Yates threw a 1-2-3 ninth.
Roberto Hernandez pitched three strong innings, giving up just a hit, while striking out three. Jeff Manship recorded his first hold of the spring as he recorded two scoreless innings, giving up a hit, as he struck out two. Phillippe Aumont also recorded his first hold of the spring as he pitched a scoreless inning, hitting a batter. Michael Stutes recorded his first blown save of the spring before taking the lost (0-1, 22.50), as he pitched an inning, giving up five runs on three hits and two walks. Justin De Fratus pitched an inning, giving up a run on a hit. Matt Moore pitched one and two-thirds innings, giving up two hits and a walk, while striking out two. C.J. Riefenhauser pitched an inning and a third, giving up a hit and a walk. Heath Bell pitched an inning, giving up a run on three hits, while striking out a batter. Brandon Gomes and Josh Lueke combined for two scoreless innings, giving up a walk between them (Gomes), while striking out two (Gomes). Merrill Kelly (1-0, 0.00) got the win as he pitched two scoreless innings, giving up a hit and a walk, while striking out one. Kirby Yates threw a 1-2-3 inning.
The Phils had seven hits in the game, with Maikel Franco leading the team with two hits, both singles. Ben Revere (Single), Darin Ruf (Single), Leandro Castro (Double), Freddy Galvis (Single) and Wil Nieves (Single, RBI), had the other five Phils' hit. The Phils also had four walks (Dom Brown (2), Ruf, pinch hitter Reid Brignac), and a stolen base (Revere (1)), in the game, while the defense performed a doubleplay.
The Phils' next game is being played tonight against the Blue Jays at Bright House Field in a game already in progress.


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Cool and Refreshing Buttermilk Granita Recipe
This granita made from buttermilk is light and refreshing, with soft crystals of ice softly melting on your tongue. It's what snowflakes should taste like when we catch them in our mouths. It also requires no special equipment: A freezer and a fork are all you need.
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- Yield:Makes about 1 1/2 quarts
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:15 minutes plus 4 hours freezing
- 1 quart (965 grams) buttermilk
- 3/4 cup (150 grams) sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon (3 grams) fine sea salt
Whisk together buttermilk, sugar, and salt in a bowl until sugar is dissolved. Pour granita base into a shallow baking dish and set in freezer for 30 minutes.
Stir granita base with a fork, breaking up the ice crystals to keep it it from forming a solid mass (it will begin freezing around the edges first; mix the broken ice bits into the center). Continue to mix granita base every 30 minutes until it is completely frozen, about 4 hours total. Cover and keep frozen until ready to serve, up to 5 days.
Use a fork to re-scrape the buttermilk granita into a soft, snowy mixture just before serving.
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Jackie Steves is guest-hosting her Dad's blog with 17 posts in 17 days. Follow the adventures of Andy and Jackie Steves as they — the first Steves to venture into South America — report on their experience.
Andy and I on the rustic old-school tram running from the city center up the hill to Santa Teresa.
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The view from the top of Parque das Ruínas.
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The Lapa Steps by Selarón.
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For dinner back in Rio we metroed to the world-famous beach, Ipanema. Public transportation (the subway and the buses) here is extremely convenient. It helps that the city sprawls along the water in a line.
After sundown, the promenade that runs along the beach is still a stream of beautiful fit Brazilians walking, running, rollerblading, bicycling, flirting, and playing. On the sand just below, beach volleyball and soccer are still going too.
As we perused restaurants, we missed how cheap Argentina and Peru had been. Brazil was no cheaper than the States, it seemed.
In the morning our guide, Elvarado (again, hired through Wildland Adventures), picked us up at our hostel to take us on a Historic City-Center tour. He recounted a history that resonated with those we heard in Peru and Argentina — of natives, European conquest, struggle for and achievement of independence, turbulent politics during the 20th century, and finally a brighter picture of better governance and prosperity in the new millennium. But Brazil stands out from the other two for being colonized by Portuguese instead of Spanish and for experiencing a peaceful transition to independence. Today the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has a 90 percent approval rating for applying smart economic policy to pull many out of poverty — along the lines of distributing loans to motivate production. A woman is next in command in Lula's party, so in a few months, when his two terms have run out, Brazil is expected to have a female president!
We visited a few monuments and churches. Most memorable was a Franciscan convent — a church interior excessively and magnificently clad in gold.
We walked for hours, stopping every once in a while at the very convenient juice shops on nearly every other corner. They make the most refreshing smoothies out of all kinds of tropical fruits. They also serve coffee, cakes, sandwiches, etc. You usually just stand at the bar while you have a snack. I tried an açai smoothie, which I thought was far better than anything I've ever had at Jamba Juice.
Besides a female president, Rio has a lot to look forward to. They are working hard to improve their city, by cracking down on crime and developing infrastructure, in anticipation for the World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016.
Elvarado took us to the neighborhood where he lives, Santa Teresa, by way of old rickety tram. This quieter residential town is smack-dab in the middle of the greater metropolis, and the very old tram that rides up the hill from the city center passes through scenic jungle surroundings. The 10-minute ride was like transporting us into story land. The setting: bohemian hill town populated by artists and intellectuals who all take care of each other's kids and take time to stop and chat to whomever they meet while strolling the cobblestones. The Great Depression led to the abandonment of the grand abodes once owned by some of Rio's upper class. The '60s brought hippies to reoccupy the dilapidated hillside mansions.
We stopped at the neighborhood bar so Elvarado could say hi to three of his friends: a sculptor, a professor, and a fellow tour guide, who were having their midday beer. This bar doubles as a convenience shop, with a rainbow of essentials arranged like a grand piece of artwork against the wall behind the bar.
We couldn't get far before Elvarado would run into another friend, this time a tiny old woman with a weathered potato-skin face and a big, crooked-tooth, lipless smile that made my day. They embraced and spoke words we couldn't understand. Elvarado went on to explain that she was their neighborhood's Carnaval queen, a woman always loved and respected by all.
We climbed hills and stairs to Parque das Ruínas, the ruins of a hilltop mansion inhabited 80 years past by an extremely wealthy female patron of the arts. At the very top of her house was a panoramic view of the city from her balcony! And I thought we were spoiled with the Puget Sound view from our house. This view was something else. The expansive bay set off by mountains, a sprawling dance of skyscrapers. She would have grand parties up here, but this house too fell into disrepair following her death and was even inhabited by homeless people for a few decades. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't mind being homeless if I got to crash up here!
We descended what look like normal stairs as you walk down, but when you turn around you see an explosion of color in a mosaic that turns the stairs into a playful marvel. This long flight of stairs is tiled by Selarón, a Chilean artist. He's toiled for decades, picking tiles from his ventures all over the world to add to his masterpiece. His signature icon, which you see in many of the tiles he paints himself, is a dog with a pregnant woman. Pictures of the artist himself, with a huge flamboyant mustache, show him to be as quirky as his characteristic symbol. Despite the fact that the stairs look complete, all filled in with tile, it is actually always a work-in-progress, which he calls his "great madness." A fun fact we learned: hip-hop producers Snoop Dogg and Pharell filmed parts of their "Beautiful" music video on these steps.
I thought my own quirky dad would appreciate this bizarre artist and his tile festival of stairs as much as I did, so I picked him up a signature tile of Selarón and a postcard. The 10 reals ($5 US) that I paid will go toward funding Selarón's work.
We parted with Elvarado at the bottom of the stairs to tackle a couple of museums on our own. The Museum of Fine Arts had an impressively innovative floor of modern art I particularly enjoyed. The Historical Museum enlightened us on the indigenous natives of Brazil, the country's history of slavery, and many other important topics.
At the hostel we met a whole crew of fun backpackers (Irish, Moroccan, British, Italian) and shared taxis to Lapa, the neighborhood downtown that has fantastic street parties on Friday nights. What a scene! The four blocks were absolutely teeming with young revelers. Where cars would usually go stood stands upon stands of food and drink.
We observed a mesmerizing African drum show. Twenty-some drums, an orchestra of percussion. Even gringos couldn't help moving to the beat.
Next we came up to a couple of guys performing Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian art form invented by slaves to secretly practice fighting by disguising it in the form of a dance. It involved crazy acrobatics like I've never seen! They're figuratively fighting, but it's actually a beautiful dance with incredible coordination and skill.
I was a kid in a candy store on the streets in this part of Rio — so many cool sights to drool at. We explored for hours, beers in hand. We even ran into our friends from Ilha Grande!


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(Pocket-lint) - We've been toying with the Panasonic Lumix TZ40 compact camera - better known as the Lumix ZS30 Stateside - for a couple of weeks now and have found it to be a lot of fun. With its versatile 20x optical zoom lens able to deliver a 24-480mm equivalent the world is your photographic oyster. We've lemoned-up that proverbial oyster and, ahead of our full review, bring you an initial smattering of pictures to chew over.
Panasonic Lumix TZ40 image sample - ISO 400
The Lumix TZ40 introduces a new sensor which, at 18-megapixels, is higher resolution than its TZ30 predecessor's 14-megapixel offering. In small-sensor size terms - this is a 1/2.3-inch "high sensitivity" MOS sensor - that tends to be an alarm bell as too many pixels on a small surface area doesn't necessarily bode well for image quality.
What then of the TZ40's sensor - is it going to keep casual snappers and more pixel-peeping shooters content? On the whole we'd say yes, but to deem the TZ40 an improvement would be a bold claim that we think's a stretch too far.
Panasonic's Venus engine processes JPEG images well - no raw shooting to be found here - and the sensitivity ranges from ISO 100 through to ISO 3200. Panasonic hasn't gone overboard with excessively high sensitivity settings, safe in the knowledge that these wouldn't really add anything genuine to the user experience.
Panasonic TZ40 image sample - ISO 1000
High-sensitivity is always a hot topic though, so we've been testing the camera in a number of real world situations. We've snapped some herons across the banks of London's Regent Park's waters and, even at the ISO 1000 sensitivity, we were by and large impressed with the results.
Let's not lose sight of the fact this is a compact camera: yes there's some slight chromatic aberration revealed as purple fringes to the edges of subjects in some cases and, yes, there's picture processing which can produce mottled, artefacted edging to subjects' details, but there's a decent level of detail all settings considered.
Panasonic TZ40 sample image - ISO 1000, shown as 100 per cent crop
Just take a look at the shot cropped down to full size, as shown above. That's none too bad for an ISO 1000 hand-held shot and this is a £329 compact camera. If that's not enabling the masses then what is?
Another big mention has to go to the TZ40's optical image stabilisation system. It's ace. There's no two ways about it - even hand-holding the camera at a near-500mm equivalent and, so long as there's no sudden, jarring movements, it feels as though everything is being cradled into a still preview image. That tech is essential for a camera like this and, for our money, as good as it gets compared to any competitors. And there are plenty of those - think Canon PowerShot SX260 HS, Fujifilm FinePix F900EXR, Sony Cyber-shot WX300 et al and the TZ40 has plenty to prove itself against.
Panasonic TZ40 image sample - ISO 640
Image quality does certainly take some negative impact from that increased resolution however. It's unavoidable that more image noise creeps in, even at the mid-sensitivity ISO settings. Take a gander - well, more of a gull, but that'd make no sense - at this ISO 640 sample, cropped in to 100 per cent:
Panasonic TZ40 image sample - ISO 640, shown as 100 per cent crop
The greater amount of dark areas within this particular shot are ideal to show up the colour noise that's lurking - both in the bird's face as well as the surrounding water. It's not awful by any means, but then it's not great either and we'd say it's more abundant than it was in the TZ30. That's a direct correlation to a resolution increase right there: a bumped-up increase in image noise too. That'll be seen as a bit of a downer by many who would be considering an compact camera upgrade.
Still, on the whole the Lumix TZ40 offers plenty of goodies: the close-up macro mode works extremely well and a mere 3cms from the lens at the widest-angle setting, autofocus is super-fast, there's full manual control and a variety of in-camera filters too. There's even Wi-Fi and NFC (near field communication) Bluetooth for photo sharing all bundled into this little beaut, but more about that in our imminent full TZ40 review.
Panasonic Lumix TZ40 sample macro image - ISO 1600, shown as 100 per cent crop
In the meantime browse our image gallery to look through the initial selection of Panasonic Lumix TZ40 sample images. We've found this camera to be a real enabler - it's got a hugely versatile zoom and we think that paired with great optical image stabilisation will see photographers snapping cracking images from the word go.
It might not match up to larger-sensor, pricier competitors, but then that's not what the TZ40's pretending to be. This is a one-size-fits-all travel zoom that, from what we've seen so far - despite the increase in resolution compared to its predecessor that we'd rather have gone without - will keep its near competitors at bay.


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Are Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes at work on another duet?
It's a question that's been buzzing among the singers' fanbases ever since the "Never Be the Same" star posted an image on social media with her former music collaborator from what looked to be a behind-the-scenes songwriting session.
"Canadian fury + Latin sass," Cabello captioned the image on Instagram, which shows her, guitar in hand, and Mendes sitting backstage at Boston's TD Garden, where the artists performed Tuesday night (December 4) at KISS 108's Jingle Ball.
As soon as the image hit the web, Camilizers and the Mendes Army went nuts for the likelihood of another collab between the two musicians who, if you recall, once teamed up for their 2015 Song of Summer hit "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
"I LOVE U BOTH OMG!! CAMILA WE NEED HEAR IKWYDLS ONE MORE TIME!! PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN!!" one user wrote. "SO ARE WE REALLY GETTING IKWYDLS PART 2??" another added, along with a screenshot of Cabello hinting at a potential sequel for the track on Instagram.
In a comment, the "Havana" musician teased, "IKWYDLS part 2????" to which the "Lost in Japan" crooner respectively replied, "IKWYDLS PART 2!!!!"
The Canadian performer and former Fifth Harmony member ascended the charts with their smash jam in its initial release, reaching the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and merited the pair double honors at the iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards for Fan Fave Video and Best Pop Video in 2016.
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Re: Node cache refactoring (DBI profiling)by tye (Sage)
|on Aug 13, 2003 at 03:49 UTC ( #283429=note: print w/replies, xml )
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Here is some work-in-progress code for profiling Everything's use of the database. This will let me track what one page load from PerlMonks requires of the database in terms of a count of SQL statements, number of records read, and time spent in database requests.
I've currently tested it with loading some pages and found that a typical page load requires between 200 and 800 SQL statements at PerlMonks and 1 CPU second of web server time. The thread-that-must-not-be-named takes about 1500 SQL statements (a few more if not done anonymously) and 8 CPU seconds.
The major sections also read thousands or tens of thousands of records. I'll be fixing that as soon as I get the below code into production (and saving the stats to the database) so that I can quantify how much the fix improves things.
Note that this profiling code adds very little overhead on the web server (about 4%) and the code to record the stats into the database will only be updating a few records (per web server daemon process) every 5 minutes (on a staggered schedule) so the increase to the load on the database will be even smaller.
Note that more modern versions of DBI explicitly support subclassing so you probably don't have to play a few of the games I did (at least I assume it is just a version mismatch between module and docs that accounts for the documented method of subclassing not working -- the "games" were quite minor so I haven't bothered to investigate further).
And note that my short-cut for inserting code into a bunch of Everything functions is rather tricky because some of these functions are exported (and you have to apply this type of trick before the exporting is done or else the exported function doesn't end up "wrapped").
And note that I don't use SUPER:: at all. It makes assumptions that don't apply because of the way I give all of my methods (no matter what namespace they are in) access to the same utility functions w/o polluting the class namespaces.- tye
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RWJF Grantees Named to Forbes' Top 30 Social Entrepreneurs List
Dec 2, 2011, 3:28 AM, Posted by Brian C. Quinn
Forbes is known for its lists – America's richest people, most expensive zip codes, most promising companies and more. This year, for the first time in its 94-year history, Forbes released a new list – the top 30 social entrepreneurs. We're proud to announce that Pioneer grantees made the list – twice!
Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan and Andrew Kassoy made the list for B Lab, a nonprofit that certifies businesses as "B Corporations"—companies that adopt a legal structure requiring them to create value for a broad set of stakeholders—employees, communities and the environment–not just their shareholders. Their hope is that certified "B Corps" will flourish by attracting consumers who are looking to support businesses that align with their values and helping investors to drive capital to higher-impact investments with greater social responsibility, as well as financial returns. To be certified, companies must adopt the legal structure and pass an annual B Impact Assessment. Under their Pioneer-funded grant, B Lab will develop the first set of criteria to assess a corporation's performance in areas of employee and community health and safety to be included in the annual assessment.
Sara Horowitz is listed for founding Freelancers Union, which provides affordable health insurance to freelancers, consultants and temps who don't have access to employer coverage. Her grant from Pioneer enables the Freelancer's Union to expand its group purchasing health-benefits program from New York into New Jersey and Georgia. A previous grant established the for-profit Freelancers Insurance Company to design a health plan model for freelancers in New York state that combines catastrophic insurance coverage with coverage for prevention and wellness services.
RWJF's Vulnerable Populations Portfolio is also excited to see two grantees on the list. Jill Vialet made the list for founding Playworks, which improves the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play. Playworks sends trained, full-time coaches to low-income, urban schools, where they transform recess and play into a positive experience that helps kids and teachers get the most out of every learning opportunity throughout the school day. Rebecca Onie is included for co-founding Health Leads, which mobilizes undergraduate volunteers to help patients fill "prescriptions" shared during provider visits for basic resources needed to be healthy, like food, heating assistance, child care or housing. Health Leads is one of many promising models addressing social needs through the health care system.
As team director of the Pioneer Portfolio, I'm thrilled to see our grantees singled out as innovative entrepreneurs. These innovators represent the kind of leadership and ingenuity that can help us tackle the tough health and health care problems we face in the U.S. Check out the story and don't forget to congratulate Jill Vialet (@jillvialet), Rebecca Onie (@rebeccaonie), Sara (@Sara_Horowitz) and the B Lab crew (@BCorporation) on Twitter using the #Impact30 hashtag.
This commentary originally appeared on the RWJF Pioneering Ideas blog.


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If you're Apple and you need to figure out a way to convince those last few people who don't have an iPhone 4S to grab one for the holidays, how do you do it? Why you employ the services of good old Kris Kringle himself, of course.
Apple has released a new commercial promoting the iPhone 4S by showing the character of Santa Claus using Siri to organize his Christmas delivery schedule. The short spot is clever in that it uses an old holiday tale to effectively show exactly how you're meant to use Siri.
Santa asks Siri for directions, weather information, and even a "naughty or nice" email list. Finally, when Santa asks Siri how the rest of his day looks, Siri replies, "You have 3.7 billion appointments."
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1 Coaching Session (50mins) + How to Move Forward After a Traumatic Experience in Marriage
A Few Important Things to Know About This Course (2:13)
About Rebekah
SECTION ONE: Recognizing the Trauma
A Look at Trauma
How Are You Coping?
How Has the Trauma Impacted Your Life? (4:07)
SECTION TWO: You Are Worth It!
Your Identity in Christ (1:53)
Choose to Abide
SECTION THREE: Navigating Setbacks in a Beneficial Way
How to Handle a Setback (2:09)
SECTION FOUR: Taking Those First Steps
The Truth Is - It All Comes Down to a Choice (2:53)
The Choice is Yours (0:39)
Start Small - Build on Success (1:14)
SECTION FIVE: Hope for When You Feel Overwhelmed
A Word of Introduction
Start With a Celebration! (1:23)
Learning to Rest
The Life Cycle That Changed Me (1:09)
A Different Mode of Attack (1:01)
SECTION SIX: Applying What You've Learned to Your Normal Routine
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College Goal Sunday Is This Sunday
KSCB News - February 21, 2014 8:11 am
Seward County Community College/Area Technical School will be participating in The 'National' College Goal Sunday program. College Goal Sunday provides assistance to families who are applying for financial aid. Volunteers will assist individuals in filling out the Free Application for Federal Financial Aid (FAFSA) from 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 23 in the Liberal High School Library.
By delivering help to families in our community, College Goal Sunday helps ensure that students get the help they need crossing the paper barrier as they qualify for financial aid, said Donna Fisher, SCCC/ATS director of financial aid.
College Goal Sunday is open to all college-bound students regardless of age. Whether a prospective student is going to be a recent high school graduate or someone returning to education later in life, College Goal Sunday will help them complete the FAFSA, accurately and on time. A $500 scholarship will also be awarded to one student who will be a first semester freshman in the fall of 2014.
For the 2014-15 school year you will need financial information from 2013. To accurately complete the FAFSA please bring the following items with you:
Your Social Security card. It is important that you enter your Social Security Number correctly!
Your driver's license (if any)
Your 2013 W-2 forms and other records of money earned
Your (and your spouse's, if you are married) 2013 Federal Income Tax Return if completed – bring your 2012 taxes if your 2013 taxes are not done. (Other applicable returns are: Foreign Tax Return, or Tax Return for Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Federal States of Micronesia, or Palau)
Your Parents' 2013 Federal Income Tax Return (if you are a dependent student) if completed – bring the 2012 taxes if the 2013 taxes are not done
Your/your parents 2013 untaxed income records
Your/your parents current bank statements
Your/your parents current business and investment mortgage information, business and farm records, stock, bond and other investment records
Your alien registration or permanent resident card (if you are not a U.S. citizen)
For information, contact Shannon Davis at 620-417-1113 or [email protected]


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There are several options for how to start using the Reseller API.
The one-minute experience: APIs Explorer
To play around and see what the API can do without writing any code, visit the APIs Explorer. Instant gratification!
The five-minute experience: Quickstart
To run a small sample client application, try a quickstart.
For a more detailed step-by-step tutorial explaining how to get started, follow the instructions in the Reseller API Codelab.
Learn the basics and common API tasks
To understand the basics and start building your application, see one of these pages:
- Prerequisites: Learn what you need to setup and start using the Reseller API.
- Libraries: Download a client library for your programming language and import the classes you need.
- Authorization: Set up your client's authorization using the OAuth 2.0 protocol.
- Concepts: Learn the conceptual relationships of resellers to customers, payment plans, product SKUs, and licenses.
- Codelab: Walk through a step-by-step tutorial that builds an app to provision new customers using the Reseller API.
To look up a particular resource type or method, see the Reseller API reference documentation.
Common errors
Getting errors from the APIs? Don't worry. The following lists contain the most common errors, with troubleshooting steps and solutions:
- Reseller API common errors
- Directory API common errors
- Site Verification API common errors
- Enterprise License Manager API common errors
API Resources
For more information, see the following resources: