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5000+ wikis saved to date
WikiTeam, a set of tools for wiki preservation and a repository of wikis
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Welcome to WikiTeam. A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages, generally used to store information on a specific subject or subjects. This is done with a day-to-day web browser using a simplified markup language (HTML as an example) or a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) text editor.
Most of the wikis don't offer public backups. How bad!
Wikis to archive
Please add a wiki to wikiapiary if you want someone to archive it sooner or later; or tell us on the #wikiteam channel if it's particularly urgent. Remember that there are thousands of wikis we don't even know about yet.
You can help downloading wikis yourself. If you don't know where to start, pick a wiki which was not archived yet from the lists on wikiapiary. If you can't, edit those pages to link existing dumps! You'll help others focus their work.
Examples of huge wikis:
- Wikipedia - arguably the largest and one of the oldest Wikis on the planet. It offers public backups (also for sister projects): http://dumps.wikimedia.org
- They have some mirrors but not many.
- Every now and then we upload a copy to archive.org, but this is not automated. You can do it in our stead. ;)
- Wikimedia Commons - a Wiki of media files available for free usage. It offers public backups: http://dumps.wikimedia.org
- But there is no image dump available, only the image descriptions
- So we made it! http://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons
- Wikia - a website that allows the creation and hosting of wikis. Doesn't make regular backups.
There are also several wikifarms with hundreds of wikis. On this wiki we only create pages for those we have some special information about that we don't want to lose (like archiving history and tips). For a full list, please use wikiapiary: see the wikifarms main page.
Tools and source code
Official WikiTeam tools
- WikiTeam Google Code repository
- dumpgenerator.py to download MediaWiki wikis: python dumpgenerator.py --api=http://archiveteam.org/api.php --xml --images
- wikipediadownloader.py to download Wikipedia dumps from download.wikimedia.org: python wikipediadownloader.py
- Scripts of a guy who saved Wikitravel
- OddMuseWiki backup
- UseModWiki: use wget/curl and raw mode (might have a different URL scheme, like this)
Wiki dumps
Most of our dumps are in the wikiteam collection at the Internet Archive. If you want an item to land there, just upload it in "opensource" collection and remember the "WikiTeam" keyword, it will be moved at some point. When you've uploaded enough wikis, you'll probably be made a collection admin to save others the effort to move your stuff.
For a manually curated list, visit the download section on Google Code.
There is another site of MediaWiki dumps located here on Scott's website.
Some tips:
- When downloading Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons dumps, pages-meta-history.xml.7z and pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 are the same, but 7z use to be smaller (better compress ratio), so use 7z.
- To download a mass of wikis, just
splityour full
$listin N chunks, then start N instances of
tmux[1] and at the same time a window or screen running a loop of
uploader.py $list --prune-directories --prune-wikidumpand a
sleeptime (to upload dumps as they're ready and clean up your storage). Occasionally attach to the tmux session and look (
ctrl-b f) for windows stuck on "is wrong", "is slow" or "......" loops, or which are inactive[2]. Even with a couple cores you can run a hundred instances, just make sure to have enough disk space for the occasional huge ones (tens of GB).
BitTorrent downloads
You can download and seed the torrents from the archive.org collection.
Old mirrors
- Sourceforge (also mirrored to another 26 mirrors)
- Internet Archive (direct link to directory)
See also
External links
- http://wikiindex.org - A lot of wikis to save
- http://wiki1001.com/ offline?
- http://www.cs.brown.edu/~pavlo/mediawiki/mediawikis.csv - 20,000 wikis
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wikis
- http://s23.org/wikistats/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_farms
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Wikipedia_Archive
- http://blog.shoutwiki.com/
- http://wikiheaven.blogspot.com/
- List of largest wikis in the world
- Dump of nostalgia, an ancient version of Wikipedia from 2001, dump
- http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/wiki/AvailableBackups many dumps


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The Animal Legal Defense Fund and a group of concerned citizens have offered a $7,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for this horrific pelican attack. Find out more about this bird and how you can help.
What is International Bird Rescue? Where do we work, and why do we do what we do?
Our Mission in 3 Minutes
Your gifts support bird care 365 days a year, including the all-important orphaned baby bird season. Whether it's a recurring gift or a single donation, we appreciate all our bird rescue supporters!
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Our symbolic Bird Adoption Program is a meaningful way to honor the wildlife lovers in your life! Check out our new Plover Chick adoption level here!
Adopt a Bird
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez tragedy. In this short film, we spoke with three of our emergency responders who were on the ground rescuing birds and otters in 1989.
Exxon Valdez
Spring is here. Read more on how you can help this orphaned Canada gosling and hundreds of other baby birds we're sure to receive in the coming months.
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Our Amazon.com wish lists are filled with items we need to care for birds that fit any budget. It's a fun way to give to wildlife in need.
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International Bird Rescue provides a hand-picked team of professional emergency managers, wildlife rehabilitators, biologists and veterinarians to manage each aspect of a wildlife response.
Whether you're a new member or a longtime supporter, your gift will go to support baby birds and other wonderful animals during our spring season. New monthly giving members will receive the popular feather bangle by Alex and Ani!
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PAY & BENEFITS • Mar 2014 • Volume 3 / Number 6
Employer-sponsored benefits extended to domestic partners
The BLS National Compensation Survey (NCS) publishes data annually on the availability of employee benefits, such as health care and retirement plans, and has expanded the scope of the survey to capture data on the availability of health care benefits and defined-benefit pension survivor benefits for unmarried opposite-sex and same-sex partners. This issue of Beyond the Numbers looks at the frequency with which health and defined-benefit plans are extended to unmarried domestic partners.Read full article » | Download PDF
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Why does BLS provide both the CPI-W and CPI-U?
This Beyond the Numbers article briefly looks at the history and evolution of the CPI, explains the reasoning behind the creation of two main indexes, and describes the debate surrounding this development.
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Improvements to the Producer Price Index measure: the Final-Demand–Intermediate-Demand system
The release of January 2014 Producer Price Index (PPI) data marks the transition from the Stage of Processing (SOP) aggregation system to the Final Demand–Intermediate Demand (FD–ID) aggregation system. The transition to the FD–ID system is the culmination of a longstanding PPI objective to improve upon the SOP aggregation system by incorporating price data for services, construction, government purchases, and exports. In comparison to the SOP system, the FD-ID system more than doubles PPI coverage of the U.S. economy to over 75 percent of in-scope domestic production.
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Measuring occupational concentration by industry
Although some occupations are found in nearly every industry in the United States, others are specific to one or only a few industries. For example, several of the most concentrated occupations in the coal mining industry are found primarily in that industry, and are uncommon outside of the mining and extraction sector. As a result, job mobility for these workers might be extremely limited in the face of an industry downturn, particularly one affecting the extraction industries in general. On the other hand, although over a quarter of computer systems analysts are found in the computer systems design and related services industry, this occupation was distributed relatively evenly across sectors, potentially allowing displaced workers to move more easily into other industries. Understanding the relationship between industry and occupation may provide important insights into workers' ability to cope with job loss by moving across industries.
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Sounds like a playground taunt to me, but actually it is a new television series on NBC based on a BBC show of the same name. Each show takes a celebrity on a genealogical hunt through their pedigree. So far it does not seem to be causing a genealogical fervor as Roots did so many years ago, but it may yet gain momentum. So far only three episodes have aired and I have watched each one of them. I have mixed feelings about the show. For good or bad, here is my take on it:
1. I am not a celebrity watcher. I border on anathema towards such. I resent anything that presents a celebrity telling me what I should eat, wear, say, do, what to ask my doctor, or who to vote for, however I have hoped to overcome my prejudice and look at this show as about family history, not celebrities. The stories are and can be interesting and I know that the celebrity factor is to draw viewers. I think you could probably take any ordinary citizen and find something interesting in their family history, but there might not be as many viewers for that. For us genealogists we would probably watch no matter who was in the spotlight, but the celebrity factor draws people who otherwise might not watch.
2. The program distorts the actual process of genealogy research. It would be nice if all of us searching our family tree could walk into an archive and immediately talk to a professional genealogist who pulls out the correct book that gives you the information you have been seeking. Or you happen to walk into a store in an old family town and right off find a second cousin thrice removed who tells you where to go next. Or best of all, travel to all those places where your ancestors originated no matter how far away and find distant cousins or old family friends. Yesssirrreee, wouldn't we all love to be able to do that. But usually there is no one that is or even can be so helpful. Even professional genealogists hit brick walls. Oftentimes our time doing research is hours sitting in front of a screen searching barely legible documents and finding nothing and going on to the next film. Or pulling dusty books off of shelves hoping, between sneezes, that each one will give you some little clue to what you are searching. We even spend time learning the basics of a foreign language so that we can read those barely legible documents. And is it really necessary to travel to the places where your ancestors came from? Any genealogist will tell you that with the onset of the internet - NO. It is nice, and sometimes it is helpful, but it is not necessary. Emails and letters can often do what we can't do when we can't physically go to a place.
3. The specific programs:
a. Sarah Jessica Parker - Hers is a story of America, specifically the United States from the Salem Witch Trials to the California Gold Rush.
b. Emmit Smith - Reviews said that his was the most compelling story in the series. I have to disagree. Yes, it is a tragic story, but ultimately it is about a woman who succeeded in bringing a better life to her offspring than what she had and that is the story of all families - parents working for a better life for their children. I am glad that they did show the part in Africa where they told about modern-day slavery. Too often people think of slavery as only part of the American past, but slavery has been a part of every people and every nation of every age and still exists in many forms today.
c. Lisa Kudrow - To me, so far hers is the most compelling story. Whereas Emitt's story was of life, Lisa's story was of death, specifically murder and torture. I nearly cried along with her when she visited the scene of her great-grandmother's unconscionable murder along with a village full of people at the hands of Nazis, and when she found her father's cousin still alive and with his own family I cried yet again.
4. What I like about the program is the history. Finding the stories behind the names of our ancestors personalizes the past. It brings the events that have shaped our lives closer to us and we can connect to who we are and where we came from. It helps us to know our selves a little better because of knowing our past. By watching this process in others, perhaps we and maybe those who may not previously have been interested in genealogy will see the value in it and start researching their own family history. Perhaps they will find something that will help them to cope with their own life.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Who do you think you are?
Posted by Thor at 8:16 AM
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1 comment:
- Cherie and Jeff said...
You never cease to amaze me. Thanks so much for your insight. Sure love ya.
Cherie D
- March 29, 2010 at 11:03 AM
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Is Washington an especially corrupt state?
The Securities and Exchange Commission has published its report on the first full year of the Dodd-Frank whistleblower law. The law created financial incentives and legal protection for whistleblowers who come forward with evidence of fraud, securities law violations, and other corporate misconduct. And it's been very successful. In total, more than 3,000 whistleblower tips were received.
But an unusual number of these tips came from Washington. No. Not our nation's capital. Washington State, that one up there on the upper left of the map, by Vancouver. What is going on in Washington?
California leads with 435 whistleblower tips, with New York a distant second at 246. Florida and Texas follow with 202 and 199, respectively. That's exactly what you might expect to find because those states have the highest GDP's in the country. More business activity means more opportunity for wrong-doing, creating more potential whistleblowers.
What you wouldn't expect to find is Washington sitting anywhere near the top of the heap. According to the SEC report, Washington is tied with New Jersey as the state producing the fifth highest number of whistleblowers, 102. It's actually ahead of Illinois (99) and Pennsylvania (90), states with much larger economies.
Washington is ranked 14th in terms of its GDP (going by 2010 figures, which were the most recent I could find). So why is it over-producing whistleblowers?
One possibility is that workers in Washington are more eager than workers in other states to turn in their bosses for wrong-doing. Absent something that could explain why Washingtonians are extra-eager to blow whistles, however, we can safely put this aside. The odds are that Washington workers are not much more likely to turn their bosses in to the authorities than workers in other states.
We're on safer ground if we assume that the level of whistle-blowing activity is at least somewhat reflective of the level of corporate misdeeds in a state. But that would be a huge indictment of the corporate culture of Washington. It implies that Washington is undergoing something of a corporate crime or disclosure fraud wave. (For more background on the whistleblower program's first year, see this post on the University of Pennsylvania's RegBlog.)
Washington is home to a number of well known American businesses, including Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, Starbucks, and Costco Wholesale. So perhaps one or more of these companies are generating an outsized number of whistle-blower claims. The SEC doesn't report on how many cases it is actually bringing as a result of the tips, so we can only speculate at this point.
Of course, the Dodd-Frank program has only been in effect for a year so we don't have very robust data. Perhaps Washington's out-performance in whistle-blowing is just a product of random chance.
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Their prayers are effective; people will not hesitate to ask them to pray. Problems of this life are viewed differently – not as something that tears us down, but something that God will guide us through and help lift us up. Christians with Christ-centered lives progress every day – they never stop learning. They have a clear purpose - to be more like Jesus every day. Is Jesus the center of your life? If not, it's not too late to come to Him.
Some of our youth group spent the evening at the AMP in Carrollton, GA, for a special evening of praise, worship, and a word from God. They all enjoyed the experience. Pray for our youth that they continue to follow Jesus.
Please pray for: Robert and Gladys Baughn, Jo Simmons, Sherry Brown, David Derusha, our church, its members, and anyone God wants you to pray for. We invite you to visit with us at Verdon Chapel.


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A few weeks ago, the 13th major release of WordPress saw the light of day after more than six months of work by 218 contributors. WordPress 3.0 (codenamed
after the famous jazz pianist Thelonious Monk) introduces some very exciting new features, including the much awaited merging of WordPress MU (Multi-User) and WordPress.
Among the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, WordPress 3.0 also has a new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers also get a new API to implement custom headers, backgrounds, menus and so on. So now, you don't need to hack the code as much to customize the themes.
In this article, I highlight 5 of the most important and interesting features introduced in WordPress 3.0.
1. WordPress + WordPress MU Integration
This is probably the most talked about feature in WordPress 3.0. The WordPress team has finally wrapped the functionality of WordPress Multi-User into the main WordPress project. If you're wondering what this means, then this feature probably isn't something you need and you shouldn't worry about it. For the more curious and unaware, this integration allows you to manage multiple blogs with different permissions from a single admin panel.
2. New Theme: 2010
Say goodbye to the old default Kubrick theme and say hello to Twenty Ten! This new theme introduced with WordPress 3.0 has a similar page structure as Kubrick, but a few changes make it much more appealing than its predecessor (see Figure 1 below). To begin with, the theme is wider; the accepted minimum resolution of screens is 1024x768 as opposed to 800x600.
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Figure 1.
New WordPress 3.0 Theme: Twenty Ten
The blue header has been replaced with an image. Ah, a picture speaks a thousand words! Or in this case, it almost brings the page to life. What is even better is that you can easily set different header images for different pages.
3. Custom Menus
Don't you wish that you could put together certain categories of posts and certain pages under the same menu in the site navigation? Wouldn't it be great to have more control of the site navigation than simply organizing the site into Categories, Pages and Blog rolls as independent sections? Gets kinda boring, doesn't it? Luckily, this type of control is delivered through custom menus, one of the best additions in WordPress 3.0 (see Figure 2).
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New WordPress 3.0 Custom Menus
Under the Appearance box in the admin panel, you will find a new link called
. On that page, you can simply drag and drop custom links, pages or categories of posts into a menu and position them in any order you want. Depending on the theme you use, it might support one or more menus. If you are building your own theme, you should research how to incorporate custom menus into your theme.
4. Custom Taxonomy
What are taxonomies? Well, taxonomies are different methods for classifying things. In the case of WordPress, you are classifying your posts. Prior to WordPress 2.3, this could be done only with Categories.
Suppose you have a large variety of posts that you publish on your website. You would have a sizable category tree, which would become quite unmanageable. To overcome this inflexibility, WordPress introduced custom tags. While categories are usually thought out in advance for specific types of content on the site, tags provide a more impromptu method of classifying your content. Using the important keywords in the post as tags will make it easier for the reader to search through your website.
Over time, users requested that the WordPress team allow them to create fully hierarchical custom taxonomies. Finally in WordPress 3.0, their wish has been fulfilled. With just a few lines of code, you can add custom taxonomies to your blog.
5. Custom Post Types
According to the WordPress Codex, "Post type refers to the various structured data that is maintained in the WordPress posts table. Custom post types allow users to easily create and manage such things as portfolios, projects, video libraries, podcasts, quotes, chats, and whatever a user or developer can imagine."
In other words, as a developer, you are no longer restricted to the structure of a blog post for your entries. You can have a variety of post types. For example, suppose you build a website to sell seashells on the Internet. You want to enter the size, color and texture of the shells, but you also want to have a blog section to rant about how your shells are different from the seashells that Sheila sells on the seashore. With custom blog types, you can easily create blog posts as well as entries for your seashell catalog.
In my opinion, these five features are the most important in WordPress 3.0. There are a few other minor updates worth looking into, like the new color scheme of the dashboard, an improved API for theme developers and the ability to upload a featured image for each blog post. WordPress 3.0 has definitely taken a huge step towards becoming more usable for non-programmers while giving the advanced programmer the ability to tweak WordPress to suit his wants.
In my upcoming articles, I will look into each of these features more in detail and explain how you can actually implement them on your website.


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'One of the most gorgeous recordings of orchestral music I have heard in the last year' (Crisis, USA)
'Strongly recommended' (Hi-Fi News & Record Review)
'The four orchestral works on this magnificently-performed and brilliantly-recorded release shows off Pizzetti's sumptuous blend of romantic-impressionistic harmony with modally-inflected melody to its richest and most cinematic … If orchestral splendor is the music lover's chocolate, this disc is a five-pound box of opera creams. Yum' (American Record Guide)
'Brilliantly colourful performances—no better way of winning converts to Pizzetti' (Gramophone)
'This excellent and impeccably played survey reveals a talent well worth investigating' (The Scotsman)
Rondò veneziano [23'32]
Preludio a un altro giorno [11'34]
Largo [5'53]
Con impeto [5'59]
Sire Huguet [3'17]
With the exception of a few works by Ottorino Respighi, and for reasons which are relatively obscure, the orchestral concert music of the generation of Italian composers to which Ildebrando Pizzetti belongs has—so far as international acceptance is concerned—remained little-known outside of Italy.
It can be claimed that this relative disregard surely has more to do with fashion and performing circumstance than with the quality of the music, and, of these undoubted masters, it is the art of Ildebrando Pizzetti which is perhaps most in need of reassessment and revival, for original music of this self-evident quality—music which was performed and recorded by, among others, Arturo Toscanini, Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein and Tullio Serafin—manifestly does not deserve to remain unknown.
Pizzetti's music clearly declares him to have been a Latin composer, traditional in approach and general manner, yet always refined and polished by his mastery of a stylisation which combined lyrical elements of late-Romanticism (in technique, not ethos), the clear structure of early Italian masters, and a tonal fluidity which may initially have owed a little to César Franck.
His music is imaginative and strikingly beautiful, from the music he composed for theatre (La Pisanella) to the mood pictures (Tre Preludii Sinfonici), all are sure to delight listeners and show that he is a composer who should be neglected no longer.
Ildebrando Pizzetti was born in Parma, not far from Verdis birthplace, in September 1880. His father, Odoardo, was a teacher of the piano, and when Ildebrando was two years old the family moved a little way south-east to Reggio Emilia. It was in this town that young Brando Pizzetti was educated, and although the environment at home was musical it was the theatre which first inspired the boy. Barely into his teens, and having already written several plays (two of which he produced with an ad hoc company), it seemed as though his artistic career was firmly fixed; but, when he was fifteen, Pizzetti entered the Parma Musical Conservatoire.
He remained at the Conservatoire from 1895 until 1901. In 1897 the directorship passed to Giovanni Tebaldini (18641952)a remarkable musical scholar who, in 1909, published a sensational essay virtually accusing Richard Strauss of musical plagiarism in his opera Elektra, attempting to show that around fifty themes from Elektra (1909) bore striking similarities to those from the opera Cassandra (1905) by Vittorio Gnecchi (18761954).
As may be expected, Tebaldini ensured his students, including Pizzetti, became familiar with the latest music. He also introduced them to neglected early Italian musictwin influences which remained throughout Pizzettis adult life. Brando Pizzetti was a keen, hard-working student, and before his graduation in 1901 had already composed and heard performed a number of large-scale works including a symphony, two other symphonic pieces, a cantata with orchestra, a violin sonata and some sacred works. In October 1900, as one of a group of young students, he met Verdi, in whose presence, he recalled, a complete silence descended on the scene. Very rarely, either before or since, have I had such an impression of universal religious awe.
After his graduation Pizzetti devoted his life to composition, teaching, and writing about music. His extensive output was dominatedalthough not exclusivelyby his music for the theatre, a notable aspect being his choice of recurrent elements of mysticism in such works. Pizzetti also became a much admired and widely respected teacher, in which capacity he held a succession of increasingly important posts. As can be heard in the music on this CD, both Pizzettis technique and his musical personality remained remarkably constant throughout his life. His music clearly declares him to have been a Latin composer, traditional in approach and general manner, yet always refined and polished by his mastery of a stylization which combined lyrical elements of late-Romanticism (in technique, not ethos), the clear structure of early Italian masters, and a tonal fluidity which may initially have owed a little to César Franck. Pizzettis critical writings include several books, one of them being a biography of Paganini. Together with Giuseppe Bastianelli, he co-founded a journal of modern music, Dissonanza, in 1914.
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In the winter time, the city creates an open-air ice rink for the public to enjoy. All lit up for the holidays, it's conveniently located across Embarcadero Road from the Ferry Building and punctuates the end of Market Street, affording amazing views in both directions.
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"Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy. ... I like what I'm doing now to my old job. I worked with a lot of smart people; some things went well, some didn't go so well. But when you see how what we did ended up empowering people, it's a very cool thing." -- Bill Gates (The Daily Mail)
* Bill Gates gave a rare and revealing interview to The Daily Mail chatting about how the three Gates kids will only receive a "miniscule portion" of dad's wealth and why the next big thing in tech is speech and voice recognition. (The Daily Mail)
* How Steve Jobs's Pixar experience helped lead to Apple's iCloud service. (CNN)
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My neighbor has the 4000-09 and I've got a 4100-09. At the time, I was able to buy the 4100 on the Web at the same price as the 4000 (which was on sale locally). If the 4000 were available for 1/2 the price of the 4100, it'd be a no-brainer. The improved safety features on mine are safely stored away in their holders; didn't know about the more powerful motor. The main reason I bought it was for the stand.
As for the book, there's a ton of them out there. Taunton Press would be a good place to start.
If you've used circular saws and radial arm saws in the past, I think you'll find a table saw doesn't replace either one well. I use it mostly for ripping small (say, less than 4' length) stock. For long rips, I still use a circular saw and a straightedge guide. For that reason alone, I wouldn't spend a lot of money on a table saw. (However, if you're getting into the cabinetmaking game, then a high-quality table saw (not the Bosch 4x00) is indispensable.) For crosscuts, a compound miter saw. If I were going to buy any new saws, I'd look seriously at the Bosch 5412L Dual-Bevel 12" Slide Miter saw -- Oh! the temptation!.


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A book talk with author Stephanie Limoncelli (Loyola Marymount University, Sociology) and discussant Kathryn Farr (Portland State University, Sociology)
Sex trafficking is not a recent phenomenon. Over 100 years ago, the first international traffic in women for prostitution emerged, prompting a worldwide effort to combat it. The Politics of Trafficking provides a unique look at the history of that first anti-trafficking movement, illuminating the role gender, sexuality, and national interests play in international politics.
Initially conceived as a global humanitarian effort to protect women from sexual exploitation, the movement's feminist-inspired vision failed to achieve its universal goal and gradually gave way to nationalist concerns over "undesirable" migrants and state control over women themselves. Addressing an issue that is still of great concern today, this book sheds light on the ability of international non-governmental organizations to challenge state power, the motivations for state involvement in humanitarian issues pertaining to women, and the importance of gender and sexuality to state officials engaged in nation building.
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Energy harvested from an ambient electric field could monitor power lines for the smart grid
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Energy harvesting from an ambient electric field is a viable solution for applications where solar power is not readily available. Some examples include monitoring power lines to enable the "smart grid," occupancy sensors in residential and office buildings where the ambient light can be very low, and monitoring rotational machinery. In these applications, a readily available source of time-varying electrical field is available from which energy can be harvested to do useful work. In this article, a power management solution is provided for extracting maximum energy from the electric field to charge and efficiently manage the batteries.
Typically, a wireless sensor node (WSN) is used in these applications. A WSN consists of an energy harvester, rechargeable battery (or supercapacitor) to store harvested energy, electronics to measure the parameters of interest, and a wireless transmitter and receiver.
To maximize a system's run time in these applications, it is critical to extract the maximum possible energy to charge the battery. Furthermore, by increasing the energy harvested, the time required to charge the battery is decreased. The simplest implementation of an ambient electric field harvester consists of a current transformer (CT) that can operate at mains frequency, a Schottky diode for rectifying the output voltage of the CT, Zener diodes for clamping the voltage output of the rectifier, and an output filter capacitor which are electrically connected as shown in Fig. 1.
When there is current flow in the primary circuit, an electric field proportional to the current is generated. By the principle of induction, a current proportional to the electrical field, scaled by the transformer ratio, is induced in the secondary coil. The large voltage generated at the CT output corresponding to the secondary current is rectified and clamped using Schottky diodes and Zener diodes, respectively. The clamped voltage is filtered by the output capacitor to produce a dc-voltage. The rectified dc-voltage can be used to drive a load. A plot of the waveforms at the input and output of the rectifier is shown in Fig. 2.
To extract the maximum power from the harvester, the maximum power point (MPP) of the harvester is experimentally determined using the setup shown in Fig. 1. In this example, a light bulb that consumes 65 W is used to energize the primary coil. A resistive load, connected to the output of the harvester, is varied and the power dissipated in the load is plotted as a function of the rectified voltage (see Fig. 3).
It is evident that there exists a voltage at which maximum power can be extracted. For the system under consideration the MPP occurs at 1.6 V. The ratio of the rectified voltage at MPP to the voltage under no load is measured to be 76%. Theoretically, for a sinusoidal current source rectified by a half wave rectifier, maximum power can be extracted from the source when the rectified voltage is regulated to 70.7% of the maximum voltage. In this application, due to the presence of the Zener clamps, the output current waveform is not purely sinusoidal. Hence, the maximum power point is shifted and occurs at 76% of the maximum rectified voltage.
To extract the maximum power from the harvester, the rectified voltage must be regulated to the MPP. Also, the voltage must be boosted up to charge a battery. Figure 4 shows a high-level block diagram of an input regulated boost converter that can regulate the rectified voltage, which is suitable for this application.
Here's how the circuit operates. The charger periodically turns off when the EN signal goes low. During this time, VR goes to the open circuit voltage. A fraction of this voltage, determined by resistors R1 and R2, available at the VSAMP node, is sampled by the IC onto a cap (CREF). The integrated circuit (IC) then regulates VR to the sampled voltage, thus, allowing the harvester to extract maximum power.
As an example, Fig. 5 shows a schematic of a solution using the bq25504 IC to extract maximum energy from an electric field harvester and charge a battery. This input regulated boost converter with battery management can be used for charging batteries. The fraction of the open-circuit voltage at which the input should be regulated to extract the maximum power can be programmed using resistors ROC1 and ROC2. To manage the battery, the IC has programmable thresholds for the over voltage and under voltage settings. This converter also has a battery_ok flag which goes high at a user programmable level. The overvoltage, battery_ok, and undervoltage settings were set to 3.1, 2.8, and 2.2 V, respectively. In this application, the harvester charges a Maxell LR2032 Li-ion battery. The MPP ratio was set to 76%. The load connected to the circuit consisted of a MSP430-based temperature sensor with a 2.4-GHz wireless radio.
In summary, we demonstrated a wireless sensor node powered by the energy harvested from an ambient electric field. An ultra-low-power boost converter like the bq25504 can extract maximum power from an energy harvester and manage a rechargeable battery. To increase the power harvested, a full-wave rectifier or a transformer with a lower turns ratio can be used. ■
"When there is current flow in the primary circuit, a MAGNETIC FIELD proportional to the current is generated."
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02-03: Had a 7-0 record at the No. 3 singles and an 11-1 record overall ... Went 4-3 overall in doubles.
01-02: Played No. 4 singles where he had a 3-7 record ... Went 4-9 in doubles, with a 3-4 record at No. 3 with Adam Stone.
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Before CU-Colorado Springs: Was an all-district champion all four years while at Kingwood High School in Texas ... Fighting Mustang Award Winner.
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Personal: Plans to major in Business ... Has four sisters, Kim, Nihhi, Jenelle and DanI ... Enjoys snowboarding and playing poker ... Parents are Donna and Curt Sellentin ... Born on October 19, 1982.
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|May 6, 2005
|Tennis season ends at Regionals
|The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs tennis team was eliminated in the opening round of the NCAA Division II North Central Region Tournament on Friday in St. Cloud, Minn.
|April 27, 2005
|Men's tennis qualifies for regionals
|The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs men's tennis team qualified for the NCAA Division II North Central Regional Tournament, the school learned Wednesday.
|April 22, 2005
|Men's tennis season ends at RMACS
|The UCCS men's tennis team saw it season come to an end with a loss to Nebraska-Kearney in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Semifinals.
|April 13, 2005
|Shorthanded Lions top CC
|Due to injury, UCCS tennis coach Matt Hays was forced to institute a different lineup in the Mountain Lions' 6-3 win over Colorado College on Tuesday.
|April 11, 2005
|Voorhies keeps hot, Mountain Lions down Mesa
|Sean Voorhies has been on fire lately. UCCS' No. 1 tennis player has been perfect this spring and has rolled off eighth straight victories overall in singles competition.
|October 2, 2004
|Men's tennis concludes fall season
|Travis Sellentin and Jason Schultz each won both their singles and doubles matches, but the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs men's tennis team came up one point short in Saturday's 5-4 loss to the Colorado School of Mines.
|September 13, 2004
|Men's tennis wins opener
|The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs men's tennis team opened its season Monday with a 6-3 victory over the Metro State Roadrunners at Memorial Park.
|April 23, 2004
|Sellentin named second-team All-RMAC
|University of Colorado at Colorado Springs junior Travis Sellentin was named second-team All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference at No. 4 singles, the conference announced Friday.
|April 20, 2004
|Men's tennis ends regular season with 5-4 loss
|So close yet again.
|April 19, 2004
|Singles sweep leads men's tennis to win
|All six players won their singles matches as the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs men's tennis team defeated the Colorado Christian Cougars 8-1 Monday at the Broadmoor.
|April 4, 2004
|Men's tennis falls to Mines again
|Same result. Different day
|March 31, 2004
|Close not enough for men's tennis
|The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs men's tennis team dropped its second straight one-game loss to a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference opponent Wednesday, a 5-4 defeat to the Colorado Mines Orediggers in Golden, Colo.
|March 12, 2004
|Men's tennis can't master Metro
|Travis Sellentin and Ken Huston combined for three wins for the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, but it wasn't enough to defeat the defending Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tennis champion Metro State Roadrunners Friday at the Broadmoor. The Mountain Lions were only able to win one other contest as they lost the match 5-4.
|January 31, 2004
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|The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs men's tennis team opened its spring season with a 7-0 loss to Colorado-Boulder on Sunday at the Meadow Creek Tennis and Fitness Club in Lakewood.


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Surprise! I'm not starting with, "geeked out", or "get your geek on"…although I just did…kind-of. Oh alright, you got me. But you can't help it. Eventually, you knew The Geek Army was going to be the Show of the Week eventually, and the summer time just feels like the best time to see them. So why not see them on a Friday at happy hour?
Coconut Joe's on Fridays host happy hour deals along with a side of live music. This past week was, well, you can guess who played. Despite the intermittent rain, the multi-winning RockErie Music Awards group played classic hits from the 80s, all the way up to the latest music you will hear on the radio.
These geeks know how to play and entertain. Who else can pull off suspenders, plaid shorts, and showing off some extra leg? By looks alone, you can tell they are an easy going, good time band that's there to have as just as much fun as you are.
Being one of Erie's favorite cover bands, it's not just looks that brings in fans…you have to sound good as well. Lead singer, Terry Wood has a wide range of vocal capabilities which makes playing different songs in different genres possible. Professor Grimes on the guitar knows how hammer away your favorite guitar riffs and solos from your favorite songs. Dennis Rockberg on the bass plays it cool and collective while Chuck on the drums is not afraid to hammer out with emotion (just watch his facial expressions and you'll know how much he loves playing).
Needless to say, if you're an Erie citizen, chances are you've seen them play. Even if you are not a fan of cover bands, you have to hand it to them…they know how to play.
Don't forget to see the entire gallery on pictures (78 of them) by clicking here. You can buy the photos as well, so…buy some! Crazy music weekend folks: Block Party tonight with Chrome, Krayzie Bone and Wish Bone from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony at the Metro on Friday, and don't forget the tattoo convention going on at the Bayfront Convention Center with all-female rockers Lez Zeppelin kicking it off!


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Welcome to the magical world of fairies
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- Have a fairy-crafting party! Projects are perfect for birthday parties, play dates, and afternoon playtime
Welcome to Fairyland! Inside this book, you'll find more than 28 projects that'll make the most of your imagination. Whether you want to make flower fairies, zombie sprites or forest gnomes, there's something in here to get you started! You can even craft a treasure pocket to hide all your creations in. Best of all, you'll learn new sewing skills that you can show off to your pals!


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Sturnella militaris (pampas meadowlark)
A Red-breasted Blackbird (Sturnella militaris) sits on a fencepost and calls near Grano de Oro (Costa Rica), 6/24/99. The locals call him "Veranero" or a "Cacique veranero". This has been a South Pacific lowland bird, but reports of it moving north throughout the country are increasing. In this case, the bird is in the eastern Talamancas, far from the southeast lowlands!
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2014. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.
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4/21/14 - The San Francisco Giants are 11-8 on the season and 2nd in the NL West despite losing their weekend series to the San Diego Padres. The Giants cleaned up yesterday, scoring 4 runs (the best offensive performance since last Sunday), and have the opportunity to build upon the victory when they take on Colorado today. When San Francisco wraps up their road trip against the Rockies, they'll return home to host the Cleveland Indians this Friday. Cheap San Francisco Giants tickets are available at Coors Field this week (get-in for $10 on 4/22), but prices jump up to a $20 minimum (4/27) for their series at AT&T Park against Cleveland.
4/14/14- Last week, the San Francisco Giants won one and lost won: they dropped two games to Arizona and came up two games against Colorado. The biggest action of the week came when Madison Bumgarner became the first pitcher in the MLB to hit a grand slam this season; he launched one over the left field wall in the fourth inning off of Jorge De La Rosa of Colorado. This week, the Giants have a shot at their NL West rivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers (4/15-4/17). Last time the two met, San Francisco came away with the win, and this time, the series will be held at AT&T Park. San Francisco Giants tickets start at $25 across all three games.
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4/7/14 - The San Francisco Giants are 5-2 to start off the season, thanks to winning both of their series against NL West rivals, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers--on the road to boot. The whole squad is much improved: Tim Hudson has healed nicely from the broken ankle suffered last year, the lineup leads the majors in home runs (11) and shares the lead with the Marlins in runs (40). Albeit early in the season, the Giants are sitting on top of their division and look to widen the gap when they host the DBacks and Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park this week. San Francisco Giants tickets for tomorrow's home opener are high, starting at $69. Prices drop down to an $8 minimum on Thursday (4/10) and Sunday (4/13).
3/31/14 - Get ready for some heated National League tension to start off the year! The San Francisco Giants travel to the Arizona Diamondbacks to open up regular season play with tonight's Opening Day game at Chase Field. The Giants will be in Arizona across four games for this extended series: cheap San Francisco Giants tickets are offered this Thursday in their fourth meeting (4/3) for just $11. Tim Lincecum is likely to start for the matchup on Thursday, and LHP Madison Bumgarner will be on the hill tonight in his first opener. Can SF bounce back from last season with a sweep of Arizona? Get you San Francisco Giants tickets to find out!
3/24/14 - The San Francisco Giants are prioritizing the need to sign Pablo Sandoval, considering their flimsy minor league sluggers, though negotiations have been put on hold following yesterday's move. Kung Fu Panda's agent has reportedly denied a three-year $40 million contract, believing the third baseman is due for a huge year and deserves much more (something along the lines of Hunter Pence's five-year, $90 million deal). The San Francisco Giants will play one final game in Arizona, before packing their things and heading back to the Bay. Score cheap tickets to San Francisco's final game at Scottsdale Stadium this Wednesday: spend just $15 to see the Giants take on the Rockies. The Giants will not play their first regular season home game until days after the MLB's Opening Day, when they host the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 8 ($56 minimum).
3/17/14 - San Francisco Giants fans will be happy to note that they have some serious workhorses on their team. This Sunday, though the Giants lost to the Indians, Tim Hudson threw 20 pitches above the average for starters during this stage of spring--he went the extra mile because to catch up for falling behind due to ankle surgery and recovery. The Giants will wait to see if visiting coach Barry Bonds' words of wisdom will pay off during their Opening Day game against the Arizona Diamondbacks March 31. San Francisco Giants tickets average $63 for their first game of the season, that's the cheapest across the MLB for Opening Day! You can get more cheap Giants tickets this Sunday when they take on the Royals ($38 to start). An expensive cross-city rivalry game comes this Friday, when San Francisco takes on Oakland in Arizona: tickets start at $66.
3/10/14 - The bitter San Francisco Giants-Los Angels Dodgers rivalry was renewed this weekend, when the two faced off on Sunday for the first meeting of the year. The Giants overcame LA when Brandon Hicks hit a two-run homer against Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw, while Pablo Sandoval stopped Yasiel Puig and saved two runs for the 3-2 victory. Today marks the first official day in guest hitting coach Barry Bonds' weeklong stint in Arizona, see what kind of impact he makes this spring! This week, San Francisco Giants tickets are cheapest when they take on the White Sox on Wednesday (get-in for $19) and are priciest when they host the Oakland Athletics on Saturday (get-in for $53).
3/3/14 - The San Francisco Giants are .500 over four games to start Spring Training, with wins over the Brewers and Diamondbacks and two back-to-back losses against the Oakland Athletics. The Giants were happy to see RHP Tim Hudson looking better than ever in his first start since breaking his ankle in July, pitching two no-hit innings in yesterday's victory over Arizona. See this Bay Area team take on other Cactus League contenders in week two of spring training! San Francisco Giants tickets for their game against the vivacious Los Angeles Angels are one of the biggest steals of the week: an astonishingly low $6!
2/24/14 - San Francisco Giants tickets have seen one of the biggest drops in ticket price, down $13 (from $54) to $41 on average across spring training. This trend is hard to believe, considering the announcement that Barry Bonds will be present through spring training as a guest instructor. The Giants' first game against Oakland has dropped from $5 to just $1 at Scottsdale Stadium—an unbelievable price to see the home run king pass on his skills to a new generation of players!
2/18/14 - San Francisco's latest pitching acquisition, Tim Hudson, arrived at Spring Training last week, and has been busy practicing with Buster Posey to give position players some heat when they report today. Goofy outfielder Michael Morse is already shaping up to be a new fan-favorite for the 2014 season, and has recovered well from offseason wrist surgery, believing this year he will regain the same power-hitting strength he displayed with the Nationals (31 HRs in 2011). San Francisco Giants tickets have dropped to just $5 for their first spring game (2/26) against the Oakland As, lock yours in now!
2/11/14 - The San Francisco Giants will be reporting for
Spring Training
in three days with generally familiar-faces, and two new ones: Tim Hudson and Michael Morse. This is the year before a recently slimmed-down Pablo Sandoval will enter free agency, so he'll be as determined as ever to help the team reclaim the NL West title. The Giants will go head-to-head against rivals over the bridge, the Oakland Athletics, in Arizona (2/26). San Francisco Giant tickets start at just $6 for their inaugural spring game.
1/30/14 - The San Francisco Giants and GM Brian Sabean went to work quickly at the close of last year's play, to fortify their existing roster by re-signing a number of indispensable would-be free agents. The Giants also welcomed three new key players that are intended to fill out both the bullpen and left field, to help the Bay Area team bounce back with great success. San Francisco Giants tickets are $54 on average to catch them down in Arizona for Spring Training.
2013 Season
7/26/13 - The defending World Series champions have struggled to keep pace in the NL West, currently standing in fourth place just ahead of last place San Diego. Yet, the Giants have some bright spots on the team, including Buster Posey, Hunter Pence, and Marco Scutaro. The mound corps, while led by Madison Bumgarner, has to be windering whether the no-hitter tossed by Tim "The Freak" Lincecum is a sign of a return to success, or the final flash in what has become a meteoric fall from greatness for the two-time Cy Young winner. Giants fans will certainly need to be hoping for the latter if they expect to be able to defend their Series title in the 2013 postseason.
San Francisco Giants 2014 Season
Since the close of last season, the San Francisco Giants have been making moves to enhance 2013's toiling roster. GM Brian Sabean assertively hunkered down, re-signing the Giants' would-be free agents (including two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum, Javier Lopez and Hunter Pence) as well as banking three newest additions (Tim Hudson, David Huff and Michael Morse). Huff was acquired from the
New York Yankees
, being moved to make room for Japanese ace Masahiro Tanaka; his reassignment will add much-needed depth to SF's bullpen.
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All this winter work will do wonders to repair their poor left field and fill out their starting rotation, and they did so without breaking the bank. The Giants are still contending with the placement of Buster Posey infield: to move him away from behind the plate and up to first base (preserve his physicality), or to leave him there where he shines. In other news, SF fans are excited with the news that third-base slugger Pablo Sandoval has slimmed down this summer and is in amazing shape; his improvement is a must-see during upcoming
Spring Training
. The 2012 World Series defendants are coming off a dreadful season in which they missed playoffs, but you can keep an eye on these NL heavy-hitters with San Francisco Giants tickets today!
2013 Season
When the San Francisco Giants claimed the 2012 World Series, it marked a stunning display of teamwork, as well as luck. Down two games to none in the Division Series round to the
Cincinnati Reds
, who needed to win only one of three home games to advance, the Giants achieved an historic sweep over the Reds, before knocking off the 2011 Series champs from St. Louis — who held a 3-1 series lead at one point! — in a seven-game NLCS. The Giants had the fortune of holding home field advantage in the World Series, thanks to the NL's win in the
All-Star Game
earlier in the summer, and used that as a launching pad to a four-game sweep of the
Detroit Tigers
Until he was suspended by MLB for a positive test for performance-enhancing drugs, outfielder Melky Cabrera was leading the Giants in several offensive statistics; eventual NL MVP Buster Posey provided the power in the lineup while also leading in OPS (on-base plus slugging). A big question for the 2013 season is whether Tim Lincecum's off year in 2012 was just a one-time thing or a potential issue in 2013? If Lincecum is not able to return to his Cy Young winning form from 2008-09, the Giants still have a pair of top starters in 16-game winners Matt Cain and Madison Bumgarner. SF Giants tickets at
AT&T Park
average $25-$1,245 in 2013 — from seats in the Reserve Outfield to Lower Boxes. Will you be at Opening Day on April 5th? Cheap tickets to the Giants home opener versus the
St. Louis Cardinals
start at $128. Ticket prices are as low as $57 to see each of the other two games in the San Francisco Giants opening series.
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2012 BTB Awards: Under the radar
The BTB Awards are our look back at the best — and worst — of the tennis season. Today we bring to light some of the interesting stories that seemed to fly under the radar.
2012 IN REVIEW: Report Card | Surprises | Meltdowns | Shots | Best Slam? | Quotes | Photos | Videos | Fashion | Breakthroughs | Feuds
• The demise of Russian tennis: Maria Sharapova may have had a year to remember, and Nadia Petrova surged late in the season, but it was a year to forget for most of the rest of the Russian women. The country that once dominated the top-10 rankings continued to fall away. As recently as 2009, Russia began the year with five players in the top 10. But 2013 will mark the first time since 2003 that fewer than two Russians occupied top-10 slots, with Sharapova as the sole representative. Injuries played their part: Vera Zvonareva, who started the year No. 7, tumbled to No. 96, while two-time Grand Slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova slipped to No. 71. Meanwhile, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, of whom much has been expected, continued to stall, ending the year at No. 36.
• Ivo Karlovic accuses the All England Club of bias: Karlovic was called for 11 foot faults, with some at crucial moments, in a 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (4) loss to Andy Murray in the second round of Wimbledon. Afterward, Karlovic accused the All England Club of conspiring to help Murray win.
"I mean, what is this? Is it Davis Cup or is it Wimbledon?" Karlovic said. "After this match, the whole credibility of this tournament went down for me.
"Right now, I'm angry about it … because I don't expect it here. Even though it is against an English guy who they always want to win, I don't expect it here."
Well, actually he's Scottish, Ivo.
• Introducing Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor: "Who?" Precisely. The 20-year-old Spaniard began the year unranked and never made it to the main draw of a Slam. But by the end of the year, Torro-Flor was inside the top 100 by virtue of a strong season on the ITF circuit, including a 31-match winning streak and five consecutive titles on clay. She didn't lose a single match from mid-April until the U.S. Open in September, where she lost in the first round of qualifying. To go from being unranked to No. 98 in a year — sandwiched between Kimiko Date-Krumm and Coco Vandeweghe — is an incredible effort.
• Marcel Granollers' grunting: Oh, there was lots of talk about grunting in 2012, that's for sure. But the issue remained confined to the women, as if they were the only ones who made any noise when they played tennis. While Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova remained the lightning rods, there was little acknowledgment that some of the men, such as Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and David Ferrer, don't exactly run silent, either. The common response to calls to make grunting a tennis issue as opposed to a WTA issue was that the shrieking/whooping/howling from the women was more irritating and ultimately driving away fans. That's a loaded response that raises questions about gender norms and sexism, but that's a discussion for another time.
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Shapley wrote:Was it composed before the sinking of Shackleton's Endurance?
Is the trumpet a featured instrument?
Was the composer born in a country that borders the Rhine? (see previous 30Q for the list).
bignaf wrote:composed after Nixon's resignation?
navneeth wrote:Good to have you doing a 30Q, TM!
Was it composed before the discovery of the neutrino?
Was the composer born before the only Olympics in which cricket was included?
If so, was (s)he born after the first "Ashes" series?
bignaf wrote:was the composer born in the western hemisphere?
Shapley wrote:Was the composer born before the sinking of the Maine? (Disregard if Nav's third question is negative)
Does the composition contain parts for strings and woodwinds?
Does the composition contain vocals?
navneeth wrote:The composer was at least 74 years old when this piece was composed!
Trumpetmaster wrote:navneeth wrote:The composer was at least 74 years old when this piece was composed!
Now you're making me do addition too?
Wait a moment... I need a calculator
bignaf wrote:composer born in EU country?
navneeth wrote:I hope you were serious about the wink meaning that you were not serious about "question" #12.
Just having some fun!
Did the composer live to be an octogenarian?
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Sri Lanka win the toss, Murali back in
Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara has win the toss and decided to bat first against the West Indies with both teams looking to start their Super Eight campaigns with a win.
Having won the toss Sangakkara surprised everybody by announcing Muttiah Muralitharan was fit to play after suffering a tournament ending groin strain against New Zealand last Friday.
Having been told to rest for 2 3 weeks its a huge surprise to see Muralitharan back in the Sri Lankan line up so soon.
The West Indies meanwhile have made two changes to the team that beat England on Monday. Narsingh Deonarine and Nikita Miller have been dropped which means Jerome Taylor and Wavell Hinds come into the starting line up.
West Indies team - CH Gayle*, ADS Fletcher, S Chanderpaul, RR Sarwan, WW Hinds, DJ Bravo, KA Pollard, DJG Sammy, SJ Benn, R Rampaul, JE Taylor.
Sri Lanka team - M Muralitharan, DPMD Jayawardene, KC Sangakkara*, CK Kapugedera, AD Mathews, ST Jayasuriya, NLTC Perera, S Randiv, SL Malinga, BAW Mendis, KMDN Kulasekara.


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