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Investing.com - U.S. grain futures were mixed on Wednesday, with corn prices declining for the third consecutive session amid concerns over ample supplies.
On the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, corn futures for March delivery traded at USD4.4038 a bushel during U.S. morning trade, down 0.25%.
CBOT March corn fell to USD4.3720 a bushel on Tuesday, the lowest since February 4, before trimming losses to settle at USD4.4140 a bushel, down 0.34%.
The USDA cut its outlook for corn stockpiles at the end of the 2013-14 season in August to 1.481 billion bushels from 1.631 billion forecast last month.
While the figure was initially seen as bullish for prices, traders instead focused on that fact that the number will nearly double levels seen last year.
Meanwhile, soybeans futures for March delivery traded at USD13.3375 a bushel, down 0.1%. The March soy contract ended Tuesday's session up 0.7% to settle at USD13.3460 a bushel.
The USDA said soybean production in Brazil will total 90 million metric tons in the current market season, up from 89 million tons forecast last month. The South American nation will produce more soybeans than the U.S. for the first time on record, according to the USDA.
The agency kept its forecast for U.S. soybean stockpiles on August 31 unchanged at 150 million bushels, compared to expectations for a decline to 143 million bushels.
Elsewhere on the CBOT, wheat for March delivery rose 0.2% to trade at USD5.9138 a bushel, the most since February 6. The March wheat contract rallied 0.94% on Monday to settle at USD5.9020 a bushel.
The USDA said that U.S. wheat stockpiles at the end of the 2013-14 marketing year on May 31 will total 558 million bushels, down from 608 million projected last month and compared to market expectations for 602 million bushels.
The agency raised its forecast for U.S. export shipments to 1.175 billion bushels in the current marketing season, up from the 1.125 billion estimated last month
Corn is the biggest U.S. crop, followed by soybeans, government figures show. Wheat was fourth, behind hay.


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On May 15, 2004, the Invincibles of Arsenal brushed aside a plucky, but in truth, not good enough Micky Adams Leicester team, and the inevitable questions that relegation ask began.
The chief one asked was how long? And normally in these instances a doom monger will pipe in with comments like "it could be 10 years before we get back." Well, all hail the doom monger!
Many have tried and failed. Micky Adams, Craig Levein, Rob Kelly, Martin Allen, Ian Holloway, Paolo Sousa and Sven Goran Eriksson. The answer was obviously a manager that was the only one who had a Leicester City promotion to his name in the last decade. After his League One triumph of 2009 he sailed straight into the play-offs only for Cardiff to break his and Leicester's hearts.
With a sale to mysterious Thai owners on the cards Nigel Pearson was apparently a jilted lover with Paolo Sousa given the job. Off to Hull he went only to return at the Thai owners request in late 2011. He finished the season weakly but still in the top half. The following season seemed to be more solid until a second half season collapse saw us scrape into the top six only for Watford to break hearts this time. Numerous pundits and in truth most Leicester fans were expecting that to be Pearson's last game in charge. Only it wasn't.
Pearson and his Leicester City squad have been simply outstanding this season, with 27 wins from 40 league outings this season. Currently they are on a 21 game unbeaten run, of which 16 of those have been victories. The football has been scintillating right throughout the squad with quick intricate passing and an incisive, explosive counter attack.
The attitude from the players has been exemplary as their reaction to the Watford defeat last season spurring them on with every point. The squad also push each other on, as when injuries and suspensions occur their deputies outperform them and end up being first choice with Wasilewski, Schlupp and Mahrez profiting from Moore, Konchesky and Dyer's absences.
When all the outfield players underperform against a tactically astute Yeovil Town, Schmeichel the second, rises like a salmon to inspire an equaliser wrongly given to the alert Chris Wood. The squad has also profited from the intelligence and experience of Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Kevin Phillips and Dean Hammond. As well as this quality we are blessed with captain fantastic Wes Morgan, the now impenetrable midfield partnership of Drinkwater and James.
Add this to Vardy's rise and Nugent's consistency and we're only lacking a French wizard who finished last season in tears and returned this season with a maturity to his ability. Oh wait; we're covered there as well with Anthony Knockaert.
Nigel Pearson has spent the last two-and-a-half-years crafting and sculpting this squad. Gone are the frustrating and the disruptive likes of Matt Mills, Jermaine Beckford and Neil Danns. We now have a squad of players playing for each other who actually like other. Several of them all met up on Saturday to watch Jeff Stelling and the Soccer Saturday team map out the drama.
As Derby faultered and the strangely unsackable Harry Redknapp's QPR went down at Bournemouth, promotion after 10 years was confirmed. The players delight is emblazoned on social media for all to see as they screamed like girls and hugged each other en masse. This is a team that is in it together. Yes there has been money spent on this squad but it would be churlish and disrespectful to Nigel Pearson to label them as a team simply assembled with many "pound notes" (Sean Dyche I'm looking at you).
Pearson has had a careful scouting process coupled with a progressive coaching policy which has seen a move to a style of play more suited to success in a higher division. Pearson is also fully aware of the word "team" as he treats his coaching staff as equals and encourages debate. He is also guarded with the media but candid recognising that taking on the media in mini crusades serves nothing but his own ego (hello to Billy Davies).
What the future and the next 10 years holds can be debated another day, but with a season hopefully heading towards the league title and a 100+ points tally only an idiot or someone who hasn't watched Leicester this season would proclaim that we're certainties to come straight back down. Nigel Pearson and Leicester City have quite simply been the best in the Championship this season – so far.
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(CNN) — Philip Seymour Hoffman didnt want his children to become trust fund kids so he left his fortune to child porn his girlfriend, a court document said.
Hoffman, who died of a heroin overdose in February, wrote in his 2004 will that everything would go to friend and companion Mimi ODonnell, who is the mother of his three children.
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His accountant and the lawyer who wrote the will said the actor repeatedly rejected their recommendations to create trusts for the children, according to interviews quoted in a court filing obtained by CNN.
Hoffman told his lawyer that he did not like the idea of setting up a trust for his children, the lawyer said.
The casket carrying Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman leaves the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola after Hoffmans private funeral service Friday, February 7, in New York City. Hoffman, 46, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment February 1.
Hoffmans longtime partner, Mimi ODonnell, watches Hoffmans casket as it is loaded into the back of a hearse.
Actress Cate Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton, leave the funeral service. Hoffman and Blanchett co-starred in The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Director Mike Nichols and his wife, Diane Sawyer, attended the service. Nichols directed Hoffman on Broadway in Death of a Salesman.
Actor Ethan Hawke hugs another mourner after the service.
Actor Joaquin Phoenix, left, exits the church. Phoenix appeared with Hoffman in The Master.
Pallbearers lift Hoffmans casket into the back of a hearse.
Writer David Bar Katz, wearing glasses, is embraced as he arrives at the church. Katz found Hoffmans body.
Actress Meryl Streep, left, starred with Hoffman in Doubt.
Actress Michelle Williams, wearing glasses, worked with Hoffman in Synecdoche, New York.
Actress Ellen Burstyn and comedian Louis C.K. attended the funeral.
A man cleans the steps of the church.
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Accountant David Friedman said Hoffman told him he did not want a trust in any form for his children, according to the court filing. Friedman recalled conversations in which Hoffman told him he did not want his children to be considered trust fund kids.
It was a decision that Hoffman reaffirmed as recently as a year before his death, the accountant said.
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Hoffman told his accountant that Mimi would take care of the children, he said.
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The quotes were in a report filed by the lawyer appointed by the court to represent the childrens interest. That report to the New York judge overseeing the probate of Hoffmans estate recommended that the will be accepted.
The will, which named ODonnell as executor of the estate, did provide for a trust fund for the oldest son in the event his mother was not living when Hoffman died. It was signed by Hoffman in October 2004, when his son, Cooper, now 10, was just a year old and before daughters Tallulah and Willa were born.
Although Hoffman and ODonnell never married, she is the mother of all three of his children and he treated her in the same manner as if she were a spouse, the filing said.
Hoffman simply did not believe in marriage but that did not affect his affinity or relationship with Ms. ODonnell, the report said.
Hoffmans lawyer said when he wrote the will that the actor instructed him to make sure his son would be raised in a city with art and culture, which led him to include a clause that asked that he be raised in certain geographic locales.
It is my strong desire, and not direction to my guardian, that my son, Cooper Hoffman be raised and reside in or near the borough of Manhattan in the State of New York, or Chicago Illinois, or San Francisco, California, Hoffman stated in the 13-page will.
That provision was in a section that applied only if ODonnell was not living at the time of his death and if a guardian was to be appointed for his children.
If living in his preferred three cities was not possible, Hoffman requested that his son at least visit there twice a year.
The purpose of this request is so that my son will be exposed to the culture, arts and architecture that such cities offer, Hoffmans will said.
Noticeably absent from his list is Los Angeles, given Hoffmans fame as a Hollywood actor.
Hoffman, 46, was found on the bathroom floor of his apartment, a needle in his arm. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators discovered close to 50 envelopes of what they believed was heroin in the apartment, law enforcement sources said. They also found used syringes, prescription drugs and empty plastic bags of a type commonly used to hold drugs, the sources said.
Hoffman, who was nominated for Academy Awards four times, won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in Capote. He earned Academy Award nominations for roles in Charlie Wilsons War, Doubt, and The Master.
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(CNN) — Its the second most common cancer for men worldwide, but prostate escort bayan cancer remains difficult to diagnose, with standard blood tests criticized for delivering a high rate of false positives.
But in a study presented in May this year, trained detection dogs were able to identify prostate cancer from a few sniffs of a urine sample with a staggering 98% accuracy, with few false positives. Although the study is by no means conclusive, it joins a growing body of research suggesting dogs could be able to smell out cancers.
However, there are numerous practical problems in using dogs to detect cancers in a medical setting (not least training, consistency and identifying exactly which chemicals the dogs are detecting), which is why scientists are seeking to harness the potential detection ability of mans best friend through the development of an electronic nose capable of making a diagnosis.
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Finnish researchers are using a device that conducts molecular analysis of the atmosphere in the headspace above urine samples, and tests it for the volatile organic compounds associated with prostate cancer. In a study published earlier this year, the method had a detection rate of 78%, and a specificity (the probability of the test being negative when cancer is absent) of 67%.
Eventually this can be used as a test for every cancer in the Western world.
Dr. Niku Oksala, University of Tampere
We see molecules at the stages when the tumor is very small, said lead investigator Dr. Niku Oksala, of the University of Tampere. We can also find whether it is aggressive or benign to know what action is needed.
Oksalas team is continuing to refine the method, such as through removing impurities for cleaner sample analysis, but he believes the principle is reliable and can be applied to many other cancers.
We have found there are over 30 molecule compounds in a tumor that are very smelly and easily sniffed. Eventually this can be used as a test for every cancer in the Western world, he added.
Around the world, similar approaches are being applied to offer simple diagnosis for the worlds greatest killers. In 2011, the Gates Foundation announced funding for a battery-operated electronic nose prototype in India that functions as a breathalyzer test for tuberculosis.
The NaNose is being developed by the Israeli Technion Institute, claiming 90% accuracy in detecting lung cancer from a breath test, and providing enough information to distinguish between subtypes of the disease.
New generation
Electronic noses are not a new concept. Medical sensors first emerged in the 1980s, but were unable to deliver reliable diagnoses. But in this new generation of devices, experts believe the field has matured.
While the devices today dont come close to mimicking the nose of a dog, Im confident that they will help to recognize diseases based on body odors.
Dr. Gary Beauchamp, director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Pennsylvania
The idea been around for over 20 years with many companies making e-noses they thought would be useful for diagnosing diseases, but they were way oversold and that destroyed the idea for a time, says Dr. Gary Beauchamp, director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Pennsylvania. While the devices today dont come close to mimicking the nose of a dog, Im confident that they will help to recognize diseases based on body odors.
Cancerous material can be found easily enough, says Beauchamp, but decoding the mass of combinations that form smells remains a difficulty. Odors are a mixture of compounds and that requires pattern recognition. A dog recognizes an individual person through thousands of odors at one time, so you need a device that gives you the same information, and that is the challenge for the next generation.
In the short-term, Beauchamp believes that odor recognition could be used in conjunction with other tests, particularly as a means of non-invasive, early detection that could be followed up if necessary. They could become part of a routine examination in much the same way as blood tests … that seems to me a likely scenario.
There are fears that making diagnosis too widely available could take serious decisions out of the hands of experts, and that unreliable tools could proliferate. But similar techniques are already established outside of medicine, for a range of applications from testing for dangerous chemicals to quality control in food manufacturing.
Companies are already moving toward consumer healthcare applications for the electronic nose. British start-up Owlstone is working on a mobile breath-testing system that would give users instant analysis of their breath, offering early detection of conditions such as diabetes, TB or cancers. NASA technology is also being researched as a mobile sensor for lung cancer.
As molecular analysis becomes cheaper and more reliable the applications are rapidly expanding.
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Editors note: Dr. Robert Gamble, a Presbyterian minister in Atlanta, founded and serves as executive director of This Child Here, a nonprofit that works with former street kids and orphans in the region of Odessa, Ukraine. Gamble lived in Ukraine from 2006 to 2010 and travels there regularly. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
(CNN) — She was sitting across from me on the bus in Odessa when we struck up a conversation. Her daughter, maybe 2 years old, was playing with her cell phone. Dressed casually in jeans and a shirt, she told me she had finished university and was entering law school. Her husband was a linguist. They lived in Kiev, but had come to the coastal town of Odessa for vacation.
She asked what I do. This was midway through my four years of living in Odessa. I told her about my organization, This Child Here, and how we work with orphanages and shelters to help Ukrainian children. Aside from spending on what you would expect on the kids — clothes, food and medicine — I told her that Ive paid for horse therapy, sailing lessons, martial arts, English and math lessons, dance classes and more. She listened patiently.
Then she said, I am an orphan.
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This shocked me. Where did you grow up?
In an orphanage in a small town in west Ukraine, she said. I had two sisters, there was no father around; mom couldnt take care of us. My sisters and I were separated.
I told her, I have never met an orphan who went to university and started law school. Would you mind telling me how you did this?
Above the noise of the bus, she said, You cant believe those people who tell you, Your mother is an alcoholic, your father doesnt want you. You will never be anybody. You have to believe in yourself.
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A common reason children end up on their own, in an orphanage, or on the streets, is that they were abused. Ukraine is a country that has been abused. The Revolution of 1917, WWII, Stalins starvation of millions, the collapse of the USSR, have all left their marks on Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin is continuing the abuse now by sending troops, tanks and soldiers to Ukraine.
First Putin took Crimea. Now, pro-Russian protesters are calling for regional independence in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk. This comes on top of the news that a Ukrainian naval officer was shot dead by a Russian soldier in Crimea. No one knows what will happen next.
Putin is working from the view that Russia is the parent and Ukraine is a child. But Ukraine isnt interested in hearing that narrative any more. The abuse that Ukraine has suffered in history is bad enough. But the attitude that says We own you is even worse.
This conflict is not about Russians versus Ukrainians. Many people in Ukraine speak Russian. They were Russian, now they are Ukrainian. Language isnt the issue. Some Russians have been living in Crimea for generations. They live in harmony with their Ukrainian neighbors. Crimea is their home.
There are also Russians who moved to Ukraine for personal, family or business reasons. Ukraine is a developing country, with more freedom to start a business or to be left alone. Wages are low, but there are many opportunities for growth and investment.
Until the events in Kiev and Crimea, people didnt think in terms of who was born in Russia and who was born in Ukraine. Now, that may be changing.
Putin was enraged by the political fallout in Kiev in February when the Ukrainian parliament impeached pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych after he fled the capital, setting the country up for a new presidential election on May 25. By annexing Crimea, Putin is punishing Ukraine for standing up for itself. But Ukraine is a country learning to believe in itself.
Brooks said it to his team, at least in the film version, Miracle on Ice, as they faced the older, seasoned Russians on the ice. I say it to Ukrainians so engaged in this struggle, You were meant to be here. … This is your time. Their time is done. Its over.
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(CNN) — Eight years after he attempted to take his own life, Steven Bowditch is heading to the Masters.
The Australian has battled with depression throughout his career, his nadir coming in 2006 when he attempted to drown himself.
But the 30-year-old has fought back from the brink and, after Sundays win at the Valero Texas Open, he will take to the tee at Augusta National for the first time when the years opening major begins on April 10.
Since his suicide bid in 2006 Bowditch has rebuilt his life and career and is now a spokesman for beyondblue, an Australian organization which raises awareness of depression.
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Steven has long-struggled with a depressive condition and several years ago he publicly explained his plight while raising money for beyondblue, the non-profit organizations chairman Jeff Kennett said in a statement.
Steven today is yet another example to anyone who experiences depressive or anxiety conditions, that by seeking professional help and staying focused you can not only overcome your own struggles, but can rightly be called a champion.
He has triumphed on the toughest golf circuit in the world and it shows that with the appropriate support, people with depression or anxiety are capable of achieving the extraordinary.
It sends a message to all Australians, particularly those in sport, that when you are struggling it sometimes can help to be open and talk about it.
While Steven will today have a wonderful trophy, this achievement itself is a shining prize that will inspire others with depression to reach similar heights.
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In an interview with Golf Digest in 2009, Bowditch revealed that, after going 12 days without sleep, he drank an entire bottle of Scotch and fell asleep for two days.
When he woke up, Bowditch put on his heaviest clothes and jumped in a swimming pool in a bid to commit suicide.
His girlfriend dragged him out and resuscitated him.
In clinching the biggest win of his 13-year professional career, Bowditch had to battle wind, moving rocks and the odd cactus..
The world No. 134 took a three-shot lead into Sundays final round but he was three-over on the first four holes allowing American Matt Kuchar into a share of the lead.
Kuchar bogeyed three of the first five holes on the back nine, allowing Bowditch to triumph. His round of 76 was the highest by the winner of an event since Vijay Singh at the PGA Championship in 2004.
After a period of time out there, with the way I was playing, I kind of just accepted the fact that I was going to be playing from cactuses, moving rocks, missing putts and just had to deal with it every time, Bowditch told the PGA Tours official website.
It happened so frequently that it never really surprised me. I was just lucky enough that the wind was up enough today that no one else could squeeze in there and shoot a good score.
When asked how he will get ready for the years first major, the 30-year-old joked: I dont even know how to get there.
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(CNN) — President Barack Obama spoke Wednesday evening about a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. The White House released a transcript of his remarks:
Hello, everybody. I just got off the phone with Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Sandy Winnefeld to get the latest report on the situation in Fort Hood. Obviously were following it closely. The situation is fluid right now. But my national security team is in close contact with not just the Defense Department but the FBI. They are working with folks on the ground to determine exactly what happened to make sure that everybody is secure. And I want to just assure all of us that were going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.
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Any shooting is troubling. Obviously this reopens the pain of what happened at Fort Hood five years ago. We know these families. We know their incredible service to our country and the sacrifices that they make. Obviously our thoughts and prayers were — are with the entire community. And we are going to do everything we can to make sure that the community at Fort Hood has what it needs to deal with the current situation, but also any potential aftermath.
Were heartbroken that something like this might have happened again. And I dont want to comment on the facts until I know exactly what has happened, but for now, I would just hope that everybody across the country is keeping the families and the community at Fort Hood in our thoughts and in our prayers. The folks there have sacrificed so much on behalf of our freedom. Many of the people there have been on multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. They served with valor; they served with distinction. And when theyre at their home base they feel safe. We dont yet know what happened tonight, but obviously that sense of safety has been broken once again. And were going to have to find out exactly what happened.
The Pentagon will undoubtedly have further briefings for you as we get more details about what happened.
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(CNN) — Whether its learning how to read and write or setting up your own farm, a Zambian computer tablet — known as the ZEduPad — is trying to open up the countrys information highway.
The brain child of British tech entrepreneur Mark Bennett, the ZEduPad principally teaches users basic numeracy and literacy skills, aimed at primary school children.
It became clear that there was a huge need for this kind of technology, Bennett said, particularly tablet technology, which has come a long way in Africa in recent years.
After arriving in Zambia 30 years ago under the British Aid Program, Bennett worked in the computer department at the countrys national university for over a decade before deciding to go it alone.
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We can really do something very major for the first time, he said. Weve invested about $5 million to date… Its totally all-encompassing and quite prescriptive so we are aiming at being able to get to an untrained teacher in a deep rural area in the African bush.
Interactive learning
The ZEduPad is programmed in eight different languages native to Zambia with over 12,000 preloaded classes and lesson plans for untrained teachers in rural areas, according to Bennett.
Approved by the Zambian Ministry of Education, the educational tablet allows children to create a personal profile on its seven-inch screen to keep track of their progress as well as exposing them to e-mail and Wikipedia.
Bennett said the ZEduPad is set up to teach grades one to seven through interactive learning in every subject from math to PE, art and music.
The technology comes at a time when Zambias educational system is undergoing sweeping changes. Since 2001, the government has increased primary school enrollment rates by 90%.
As a result, the World Bank has identified the landlocked southern African nation as having one of the most improved primary school education systems in the developing world.
Bennett added: For years there was a problem with funding, education was not keeping up with population growth. Young people coming out of school and not being well suited or prepared to enter the job market…. Were trying to change that.
The ZEduPad gives children a grasp of vital technology skills in a landlocked country where broadband is scarce and only 18% of the nations 14 million people have access to electricity, according to the World Bank.
In addition to following the national curriculum, the tablet also contains farming and health information designed for adults to help prevent the spread of killer diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria.
Outsourcing to China
The ZEduPad is currently manufactured, assembled and branded in China. The devices are then loaded onto a plane and transported to Zambia, where Bennett and his team install the software onto each tablet.
We sell them to teachers and schools for $200 at the moment. We hope to bring that price down.
Mark Bennett, creator of ZEduPad
It costs roughly $100 to have them made and landed here in this country, Bennett said. We sell them to teachers and schools for $200 at the moment. We hope to bring that price down. One of the other things were trying to do is provide significant tech support.
After teachers purchase the ZEduPad, Bennett said his team of experts go into schools and provide tutorials for staff so that they can maximize the tablets functions while learning how to deliver lessons to pupils.
Bennett said the tablet has, at one time or another, helped employ over 250 staff working in the development and distribution of the software from the companys base in the Zambian capital, Lusaka. He says he has approached the government over hiring assembly workers in Zambia but to no avail.
He said that at a time when few companies are manufacturing technology outside of the Far East, production in China is the cheapest and most cost-effective thing to do.
Huge change
Looking ahead, Bennett doesnt want to stop at Zambia but hopes to roll the educational tablet out to a raft of other nations on the continent.
He believes that as countries in the developed world continue to transition from desktop computers to smart devices, Africa has a real chance to leapfrog ahead.
I think the next big challenge is going to come from a lot of people who have got very cheap mobile phones. Well gradually see Android smartphones coming out for $70 or so… Huge change is happening at the moment, Bennett said.
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(CNN) — Monsters of the deep will have a man-made horror to contend with, as the Crabster CR200 is released into the oceans. Weighing over half a ton, the six-legged, crustacean-inspired robot is intended for the most dangerous undersea exploration.
Developed by the Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), the Crabster offers a solution to a longstanding problem. While propeller-driven craft do not work well in fierce tides, and divers are limited to calm, relatively shallow seas, the new machine mimics the design of crabs and lobsters that live in stormy waters but are still able to control their movements.
The Crabster is 2.4m long, 2.4m wide and 1.3m tall — rising to 1.8m when it stands up. Including payload it weighs around 650 kg, and its six legs contain 30 motors, giving the remote pilot ample control and dexterity. As the Crabster creeps along the ocean floor, it can adapt its posture to different current or pressure conditions, to a depth of around 200 meters. Using sonar, it scans the landscape for objects of interest, and can relay images through onboard cameras.
CR200 will help divers or work instead of them in harsh environments. It also could assist in locating underwater resources.
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Crabster is undergoing final tests in aggressive waters ahead of its first mission. In May, it will be hunting for ancient artifacts in the Yellow Sea, where existing crafts have failed.
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Lead researcher Bong Huan Jun told CNN the machine had performed very well in tests, but was undergoing constant modification.
We are performing tests nearly every day, Huan Jun told CNN. We upgrade Crabster software for more stable and fast walking and manipulation.
The researcher says the robots speed of just 10 cm/second is one of the main challenges his team face, along with enhancing the vehicles stability in strong currents and on rough terrain. The underwater vision system is another priority. But should Crabster succeed in its maiden voyage, Huan Jun predicts a widespread impact.
We suppose CR200 can conduct seabed mapping, survey and inspection of wrecks, pipelines, ecosystems and pollution down to a 200-meter depth. CR200 will help divers or work instead of them in harsh environments. It also could assist in locating underwater resources, carrying out underwater mining, and responding to oil spill incidents.
Huan Jun hopes his creation will be manufactured for use across the world, and is already looking ahead to future incarnations inspired by nature. We are now studying to make the Crabster to swim like turtles or diving beetles. And we are also considering the hydraulic Crabster for heavy-duty underwater working.
And are the researchers expecting their machine to be accepted in the marine environment? I dont know if the animals treat the Crabster as a real crab or not, says Huan Jun. I thought fish like it more than the other underwater vehicles with propellers that make noise. I hope animals treat Crabster friendly.
As of its introduction this year, any swimmers that come into contact with the robot may hope for the same treatment.
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(CNN) — Former world No. 1 Roger Federer had a simple message for those advocates of revamping tennis by allowing on-court coaches — he hopes he will have retired if it ever happens.
On-court discussion with coaches is currently banned at ATP Tour events, but female players are allowed to call for a coach under certain circumstances.
Federer warned against rules changes in tennis following an effortless 7-5 6-1 quarterfinal victory over South Africas Kevin Anderson at the Indian Wells Masters — a win that will see the Swiss star return to the top five of the world rankings.
If it does happen, its hopefully after Im done playing, the 17-time grand slam champion told reporters after the match.
I really dont think its necessary. I dont think its fair, maybe, because not everybody can afford a coach …its just not right.
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Federers comments came after a coaching call appeared to not have quite the required effect in one of the days two womens quarterfinals.
Italian Flavia Pennetta was one set up against American starlet Sloane Stephens, and leading 5-4 in the second set, when she called for her coach.
The Italian proceeded to lose the following three games, and the set, before rallying to take the match 6-4 5-7 6-4.
The rules, introduced in 2009, allow for discussion at one changeover each set, and in between sets.
Federer — once also a vocal opponent of the Hawkeye ball-tracking review system — defended the sport as a one-on-one battleground.
Its cool to figure it out yourself, added the 32-year-old.
You can look over to your coach for comfort and support, but other than that, I think tennis should be one of those unique sports where you dont get coaching.
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Arriving at the tournament ranked No. 8, Federer will re-enter the worlds top five next week, a position he occupied for more than a decade, before dropping out in August 2013.
I really dont think its necessary. I dont think its fair …its just not right.
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Ukrainian Dolgopolov knocked out world No. 1 Rafael Nadal in the third round and he was in bullish mood ahead of his first semifinal at an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event.
I played good for three weeks, said the world No. 31.
Im confident enough to come out and play good tennis. Then, who knows? I beat a lot of good players around here, so I wouldnt see why not win more matches.
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Dedicated Philly Chowhound Board
I always feel a little miffed when I go to the Chowhound menu and scroll past the DC/Baltimore board and select Pennsylvania to get my Philly food fix. I feel strongly that our food scene rivals DC/Baltimore easily. Nearly all of the traffic on this board is Philly and other PA posts get lost.
Nothing against the rest of PA--I know there is great food statewide--but is it time to get a dedicated Philly board? I mean Grub Street just came out with a dedicated Philly food blog.
I agree. I think South Jersey should be included in a Philly-area board as well.
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I live in S. Jersey, about 9-10 miles to downtown Philly. In fact, I live far closer to the city than do most of my friends who live in PA. However, all discussions about restaurants in the NJ area closest to Phila have to go on the Mid-Atlantic board. Quite frankly most of the posting on the Mid-Atlantic board involve N. Jersey restaurants; I would guess at least 70%.
On the weekend, it takes me no more than 10 minutes to get into the city...most of us who live here work in the city! Take a look at any shopping center in Cherry Hill on the weekend, and there are as many cars with PA plates as NJ plates. People go back and forth constantly. I have friends in the city who often take the high speed line to eat in Collingswood or Haddonfield. It is logical that a Philly board should include S. Jersey, just as it should include other PA suburbs. I'm a sales rep and eat out all over the Philly burbs in addition to the city. I like to know what's new and good throughout the area and use CH regularly to get this info.
Let's hope that the moderators take into consideration now dense the area surrounding Philly is, and that PA and NJ people regularly shop and dine in each others states.
re: lawgirl3278
As a life long resident of South Jersey, I never identify with the Philly area, why? Because I am from "down the shore" ya know the EAST coast, not the west area that all seem to think is "south" jersey .
I just cannot see folks looking to a Philly group to see what is happening in coastal NJ, unless they were directionally challenged.
Now if I could support a "Philly and suburb" area group, but please don't think that includes all of South Jersey.
re: Quine
I hear ya, and I'm sure that's right on the money for year-round residents in your area, but I can also think of a heck of a lot of Philly-area residents who are just there weekends and summers.
I don't know what the breakdown is between locals and tourists for local restaurants in Jersey shore towns, but I'm pretty sure non-locals have to represent a decent percentage, right?
Not disagreeing with you, really, just thinking out loud... I think everyone's intention is to have something that makes sense and is easily find-able for those that will use it, not to trample on your regional identity! :-)
This thread was moved from the Pennsylvania board. We handle site issues on the Site Talk board to keep the local boards focused on food.
Please see this thread which addresses some of the issues regarding new board geographies:
I noticed that my post concerning this topic was removed...the gist was the same as expressed above...tired of having posts about nearby communities in our metro area removed by the Chowhound team and transferred to another board...if Chowhound doesn't have the technical means to create a new board for the Philly metro area, how about letting us have freedom to discuss chow topics in the neighboring communities? Please do not remove this post.
I just want to offer up my support as a non-Philly PA hound. As entertaining as I find the Philly posts, it would just be a lot easier. Philly has basically taken over the PA board, to the point where most people don't even post a location if it is in Philly. This is a sign of the great food scene and tourist interest in Philly, not a sign of "bad" posting - and I think that the fact that the posts are so overwhelmingly Philly-centric, indicates the need for their own board. I can understand the desire for the inclusion of a larger metro area, as well.
re: centralpadiner
re: rocknroll52
The only possible downside I see is the possible confusion of wading through areas connected only by the fact that they are not SEPA, and it kinda reinforces that unfortunate the rest of PA versus Philly mentality... but if it's not bothering the Pennsylvanians from outside the greater metro area, it would certainly make sense for us.
re: Mawrter
...not anymore than NYC Metro is to Manhattan Board.
I'll say this much, when the good people of CH *myself included* asked for and discussed a separate NJ Board the conversation wasn't nearly as encouraged and locked by Mods.
There must be Philly Board interest. So good for us! Philly as a food destination deserves its own Board here on CH.
This comes up every so often, so don't get your hopes up. Nothing ever changes. Philly *does* need and deserve its own board, because the PA board is already treated like the Philly board with possible confusion when posts aren't marked with locations (which is how the vast majority of Philly posts are made). But I'm sure you can still find the sticky post above about how requests for new boards are being ignored for the foreseeable future. Continual improvement in the organization of the boards is not a goal around here.
The CH Team linked to my sticky thread earlier, but I'm not sure everyone saw it, so I wanted to post here directly.
We do want new boards, and a Philly & Southern NJ suburbs board is one we're planning to create, when we create new boards. Unfortunately, we can't offer a timeline on when new boards might be happening. It requires Engineering cycles that just haven't been available for us, unfortunately.
-- Jacquilynne, Community Manager for Chowhound
re: Jacquilynne
re: rocknroll52
I support this as well. And I would add we should consider other counties in Jersey as well. I live in Bucks County, but if I want to talk about a restaurant in Lambertville it gets moved to Mid Atlantic, even though its a pedestrian stroll across the bridge and cIonsumers choose between eating in either New Hope or Lambertville. Likewise Trenton pizza and ethnic foods are often patronized by people in Bucks County as well... Stockton right across from Dilly Corners... Milford opposite Upper Black Eddy and so forth where the consumer traffic can hop state lines with abandon. The same issue holds with Wilmington, DE.
re: cwdonald
re: cwdonald
exactly..and I wish I could understand why the mods want to limit our discussions in this way... I think the users of this board are very capable of deciding what's so off topic as to be inappropriate and in that case we can hit the "report" button to bring to something to the attention of the mods.
Philly DEFINITELY needs its own board.
I see a lot of people asking about where to eat in Philly, only to get a zillion recommendations in Jersey or the Suburbs.
Nothing against the burbs but most people who are in town for a few days aren't going to trek 20 miles to eat.
It's hard enough to get visitors to venture out of center city and go to 9th street / washington ave area.


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Lone Pine's football team may have fallen against Tonopah, 24-51, in its first game of the season, but the Eagles didn't quit after struggling in the first quarter.
"The effort was the biggest positive," said first-year Lone Pine coach Chris Riesen, "They didn't give up after we got down."
The Eagles fumbled the ball three times and trailed 22-6 after the first quarter.
Lone Pine settled down in the second quarter and held the Muckers to a touchdown.
Late in the second half, the Eagles took control and they outscored Tonopah, 12-9, in the fourth quarter.
In a back-and-forth battle that took the full strength of the Big Pine football team's roster, the Warriors toppled Lancaster Baptist, 33-27, Saturday.
"It was a hard-hitting game," said Big Pine coach Mark Tillemans. "They (Lancaster Baptist) took our punches and didn't give up."
Big Pine jumped ahead early, but two special teams breakdowns allowed the Eagles to get back in the game.
After going ahead, 13-0, in the first quarter, the Warriors quickly added to their lead in the second quarter, taking a 19-0 lead. But the Eagles didn't quit, as they ran back the kickoff for a touchdown.
In their opening game of the season, the Broncos football team showed why they are ranked No. 1 in the Northeast Division as they downed Linfield Christian, 38-6, Friday.
With the victory, Bishop ended the fifth-ranked Lions' 15-game winning streak that started last season.
The Broncos were in control from the beginning as they took a 24-0 halftime lead.
"I was particularly impressed with the intensity of the boys," said Bishop coach Bill Egan.
Bishop used a ground attack to devastate the Lions' defense. The Broncos rushed for 326 yards as a team.
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Why does Scott Downs Hold today does not appear in scoring??
I hear you. It will cost me a championship if it doesn't come through...
I sent an email. Pretty obvious he got the hold, meets all MLB and Yahoo Scoring requirements. Just a matter of time before they fix it.
They didnt fix it. I just received an email reply to my complaint with Yahoo apologizing and saying they're they couldnt do anything about it.
Unfortunately, MLB is not crediting Downs with a Hold because he did not qualify.
Here is why:
mlb.com shows it as a hold:
BUT if he qualifies for a hold why didn't Friere get a save?
Hi Thomas,
It does look like they updated Downs to include a Hold for 9/23. Unfortunately, this was done after scoring was finalized for the week, and matchup results were locked. It cannot be updated at this point.
Regarding Friere - He didn't qualify for the save. You can see the answer to this question posted here:
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Over objections of the village president, a $35,000 LED sign will soon attempt to draw shoppers from to downtown Greendale.
It's part of an ongoing effort to bring visitors to the boutiques, shops and restaurants that comprise the quaint Village Center. Trustees approved it on a 4-2 vote Tuesday but not without hearing from Village President John Hermes.
Hermes said in the last five years or so the Village of Greendale has spent more than $80,000 on signage designed to bring people downtown. This year the village will also spend $160,000 to repave the business parking lots on both sides of Broad Street, said Hermes.
"The shops (in the Village Center) aren't open during timely hours," Hermes said. "I'm OK with spending money that is effective to actually help this business center."
Planned for the intersection of Northway and Grange Avenue, the sign will be 6 feet, 7 inches wide and 5 feet, 7 inches tall. In addition to paying for and installing the sign, the village — which will control the messaging — will spend about $2,000 annually for upkeep.
The sign's final design has not been approved due to aesthetic concerns from board members.
"Other than the LED board pictured, the wing walls and wording above the sign may not be included," wrote Village Manager Todd Michaels in an email.
It will sit close to original homes on Apple Court and particularly close to one house. The land is village property and the owner of the home does not mind having the sign if landscaping and fencing surround it, said Trustee Greg Turay.
Turay, who abstained from voting, owns property near the sign and was concerned the sign could devalue nearby property—but that he was not completely opposed to the sign.
Hermes, on the other hand, is wholly opposed to the sign. He said adjacent property owners have emailed the village opposing the sign and expressing concern over devaluing property.
The sign evolved from meetings with shop owners discussing ways to encourage visitors to come downtown for shopping and events such as Village Days, Open Market and Gazebo concerts. That led to the idea of an LED sign at the corner of Grange Avenue and Loomis Road, as well as an archway on Northway and Grange Avenue that will be paid for mostly by the shop owners. The archway is still being discussed.
On Feb. 29 the board saw a demonstration of how the LED sign would look at the Northway intersection.
Some trustees liked the demonstrations and others didn't.
"Against the originals it looked gaudy, cheap, out of character and out of charm," Hermes said. "If it would have gone through Planning Commission it might have gotten eat out, chewed out and spit out. The planning commission has never allowed an LED sign except for the high school and Martin Luther High School."
Former Village Trustee and resident Dave Bauer could not believe that the sign did not go through Planning Commission.
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Carol-Shea Porter: It will take compromise and courage to solve sequester impasse
On Tuesday, I went to the floor of the House of Representatives to say we should do more than just one simple vote a day (Tuesday's only real vote was to develop an academic competition, Monday's was to rename a flight facility), and that we really needed to work on the biggest issue - a sequester compromise.
Suddenly, Republican Speaker John Boehner walked in, repeated his comments about how the House had already passed two bills last Congress to avert the sequester, blamed the Democrats for holding out for a compromise bill, and departed.
While I was there to talk about a compromise to avoid the sequester, the Speaker, the only one who actually can make that happen in the House, basically told anyone watching CSPAN that he had already done his part, that he was finished.
So goes a typical day in Washington. A few insults are hurled at the Senate and around the House, and everyone goes home, a day's work left undone. No debate on jobs. No debate on fair and careful deficit reduction. No legislative solutions offered, none voted upon. And when the sequester hits if Congress does not compromise, we will see the consequences - jobs lost in New Hampshire and across America, many Americans finding it even harder to get by.
Remember the "jobs, jobs, jobs" campaign chant? I can't even hear a whisper of the word now in the House, because everyone is yelling so loudly about the sequester. Is there a path to a solution here? I do believe there is, but it will call for compromise and courage.
Both parties agree the debt is too large. We may not agree on what spending was necessary, but we all agree that going forward, we need to reduce the debt. Since Congress already passed a first round of cuts, amounting to $1.5 trillion in discretionary cuts (which caused the economy to contract last quarter), we should now compromise and limit and slow down a second round, so we can absorb it. We should scrutinize and reduce spending where appropriate, but do it gradually, so we do not shock the economy, increase joblessness, and slow down our recovery. The sequester will cut $85 billion this year, and $1.2 trillion over 10 years. That is too severe for a fragile economy.
The sequester will hurt both defense and domestic programs. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the sequester will reduce economic growth in 2013 by one-third. These cuts will make us lose about a million jobs, force federal workers to take furloughs and lose 20 percent of their pay, and hack services that range from Meals on Wheels to school aid, from work at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to work in the National Guard. Hospitals will suffer, nonprofits will struggle, and small and large businesses will feel the pain also, when people are laid off and cannot spend. Everyone will feel the pain eventually because the sequester calls for the axe to fall evenly across the federal government, half the cuts coming from defense and half coming from domestic programs. The only group that is happy about this is the group that largely caused this, the tea party. As the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, "Although Democratic and Republican leaders are pointing fingers, the tea party and its allies are happily accepting credit for the cuts."
While I believe that many members from both parties would like to work this out, Speaker Boehner and his leadership team control the House. They alone decide what bills will be put on the floor for a vote. To date, they have refused to allow votes on any plans to avert the sequester. They wouldn't even change the schedule so Congress can at least be in session today, the day the sequester hits. We cannot compromise if we aren't there, and we can't vote on a compromise if no compromise bills are brought to the floor for a debate and a vote.
Most Americans want Congress to work together. They want us to reduce costs and find revenue by stopping unnecessary subsidies. They want us to get the job done, but most members of Congress can only do what they are doing - sit, wait, and wonder why we can't have those debates and those votes. Debates and votes require courage and compromise. Maybe that's why we aren't having any, but Americans have a right to demand it.
Carol Shea-Porter represents the 1st District of New Hampshire in the U. S. House.
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If you've been following the column, Yahoo and this analyzer have been pretty close in their predictive ability and the prior week, Yahoo had pretty soundly beaten the analyzer's predictions so I'll keep the comparisons up until there's a solid winner or just for information.
Week 8: Average score 7.8, Median 6. 11 scores of 10 or higher
Yahoo's predictions had 9/10 above average inscore and had 7/11 scores that were 10 or higher.
Mine had 7/10 above average scores and had 5/11 scores that were 10 or higher. Yahoo had listed NO who scored 12, SD who scored 11 and TEN who scored 16 on theirs which I hadn't on my list. I had DAL that scored 8, BUF that scored 23 and MIN that scored 7 that were on mine but not theirs. I had said that I hadn't liked the DAL call or MIN call as I felt that Vick and Newton are holding onto the ball better. Would have liked to bring NO into my top 10.
I think I'd tip towards using Yahoo on a more regular basis. They've done well for weeks now and although the analyzer has come close to their level of predictive ability and sometimes picks a break out game that they would miss, on the whole, it does seem to tip in Yahoo's favor.
However, I think that combining information from both may be your best strategy looking at those that were called on both lists.
Turnovers/Sacks are the most reliable predictor that I can find for above average and breakout games. Other additions into the analysis only served to reduce reliability. The following lists are the rank, the defending team, their matchup for the week, the average sacks/turnovers obtained by the defending team, the same given up by their matchup and then the overall score. These are averages which consider the number of games played as some teams have now gone through bye weeks.
I've previously said that NYJ, BAL and GB are teams that should probably be started every week regardless of matchup. I've also been impressed with NYG, DET, SF and CHI and think they may be good starts regardless of matchup as well. The BYE teams are still listed. The bye 'score' btw, is just the alphabetically best fit for the computer so please ignore it.
1) SF vs. WAS (One of the best defenses with a juicy matchup against a faltering skins)
2) BAL v. PIT (Very different from week 1 but BAL is too studly to sit)
3) NYJ v. BUF (Tougher matchup against a strong BUF team but NYJ too studly to sit)
4) GB v. SD (SD is a mess right now)
5) KC v. MIA (Sneaky pick here but I think an appropriate one)
6) CHI v. PHI (CHI is a strong defense but I lowered the ranking because of recent performance by Vick and company)
7) BUF v. NYJ (Buffalo has had some elite weeks making them a higher rank)
8) HOU v. CLE (Houston a bit of a surprise to me, not sure what to make of it)
9) DAL v. SEA (DAL has to be hungry for a win and SEA is the main course)
10) CIN v. TEN (CIN is turning more and more into an elite or need good reason to sit defense)
Considers: OAK v. DEN - Playing in Oakland, denver with a lot of change and I think Oakland will have fewer turnovers than previously.
PIT v. BAL - PIT is a quality defense, I think they've played much better in the past several weeks. NYG is in my 'would sit for good reason' category and I worry about them vs. NE this weekend. We'll see what Yahoo says but I think this may be a more objective way of doing it than my seeing theirs and commenting. I'd be interested to see if they don't have CHI on their top 10.
The NFL ranks passing or rushing defense based on yards per game. However, from a fantasy perspective, TDs and turnovers are weighted much more heavily than yards in most fantasy leagues. Thus, the NFL's ranking doesn't always make sense. The following fantasy passing ranking is based on 1 point per 25 yards, 6 per TD and -2 per turnover. It does NOT take into account the matchup for the week.
Each line shows my rank, the team, the NFL's rank, the average score they are yielding opposing passers, and the toughness of their schedule so far this year. For example, the NYJ are my number 1 passing defense, they are the NFL's number 7 ranked defense. They are yielding opponents only 8.2 points per game on average and have faced the 26th toughest schedule so far.
You should also note that this is passing only and if your qb has good legs, look also at the rushing rankings.
You should also note that this doesn't take into account their opponent that week.
At this point, the top and bottom 10 passing and rushing defenses tends to stabilize quite a bit for the rest of the season with perhaps one team moving in and out of the top or bottom. Too much data now forces the trends a bit.
The jets have allowed only 4 passing TDs in 7 games and have had a solid 11 picks. The average for the league is 10 with the Colts giving up 15 in 8 games folllowed by the Rams, Broncos, Dolphins and Minnesota each giving up 14 TDs. Despite how good Cincy looks against the pass, they have only 3 interceptions (league averages 7 or one per game) with buffalo having the most at 14 picks. A surprise to me is that KC has the 2nd highest number of picks at 13 but one has to remember 6 given up by OAK in one game. Still, they've been good at keeping the ball away. And the primary reason that PIT isn't higher on my ranking scale is that they've only had 2 picks in 8 games which is tied for worst in the league with Miami.
Based on 1 per 10 yards, 6 per TD, -2 per fumble.
For example SF is my number 1 rushing defense, ranked 11th by NFL, giving up an average of only 5.3 ppg to opposing rushers but with the easiest schedule this year.
SF's streak continues. No rushing TDs allowed so far this year. The Ravens have similarly allowed only 2 rushing TD all year. Rough day for Mendenhall coming up. CLE, DET, GB and MIA have also only allowed 3 rushing TDs in their games this year with CLE being the surprise there. Normally one would think of them as a very weak defense. MIA is also a surprise in there given how soft they are in general.
CAR and ARI have yielded the most rushing TDs with 11 apiece and Indy has allowed 10. The jets and giants are solid passing defenses but they have each yielded 9 rushing TDs which averages at more than one per week. As for Fumble Recoveries, again the Steelers would be ranked in my top 10 but for the fact that they've only had 1 FR in their 8 games of play so far.Combined with their low picks, they end up very low from a turnover standpoint.
The sack leaders are NYG at 26 and BAL at 25 but a surprise right behind is MIN with 24. DET has the same mark. And WAS has 23 although on the decline and PHI with 22. I would have thought DAL to be in the top 5 but they and SF have 21. On the low end of that spectrum is KC with only 9 sacks on the year. TB, IND have 12 and the Bills, for as good as they are on defense, only have 13.
I've always said that Defensive and Return TDs are difficult to predict other than pressure such as sacks and turnovers.
However, just for completeness, the Ravens and Lions have had 4 defensive TDs. Buffalo, Cincy and the jets have each had 3 defensive TDs and CHI, KC, NO and TEN have had 2. But as I've always said, these are very hard to predict from week to week other than looking at sacks and turnovers.
Special Teams returns are even harder to predict. CHI, SF and ARI each have 2 returns for TD. A smattering of others have 1.
Points allowed are typically a poor predictor of overall score but for the record, the Ravens and 49ers have only allowed 104 and 105 points. Close behind are the Bengals at 117. The Jets are fairly close to the pack of 128 along with PIT at 133. But looking at the other end of the spectrum, Indy has allowed 234 points (gah!) and Carolina and Minnesota have allowed 201 and 197 points. At the extremes, I do think that points against will matter more.
So that's the tour of the statistical look at defenses for the week.
This information is for entertainment purposes only. Please do not replace common sense and good judgment with a bunch of statistics.
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We should not send new troops to Afghanistan........
by Joshuagen, Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 02:51:03 PM EST
President Obama should not send our troops to Afghanistan. It is really not our war. We should give all the logistic support we could give to NATO, Pakistan and Afghanistani troops. For haven's sake I do not understand why Obama thinks that we should put our young men in that God forsaken place.
As Rudyard Kipling said:
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
We should train and arm Afghanistanis and Pakistanis to fight against Taliban Just as we did against Soviets (a war I would not have supported). I do not want any more of out troops to die.
Now don't tell me that we are the only people in this world that have to defend freedom of every one else.
President Obama I have great expectations of you don't disappoint me. Please don't out source our troops. President Obama the whole world is inspired by you please don't become Bush II by sending new troops to Afghanistan.
Here is some thing I read about you in an Indian news paper:
Obama's victory in the American presidential elections may be seen as one of the most seminal moments in world history, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11. It's a paradigm shift in American history because a man from a community, which was excluded from the American dream till recently, is all set to move into the White House. Now, a dream is coming true for African-Americans.
But Obama is not just the first African-American president of the US, he has something of the world in him: his father was Kenyan; his mother was from Kansas; he did his early schooling at Jakarta in Indonesia; and then he moved to Honolulu in Hawaii. Post World war II, US presidents have all been solidly Atlanticist; for them the world hinged around the America-Europe axis. And the Bush presidency represented an America that effectively seceded from the world.
But Obama, who has been able to reach across divides of race, class, gender and politics and unify his country as never before, represents a diverse and global America. He could become the first truly multicultural US president.
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to the bottom of the disorder and find out what makes those
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Lawn Funeral Home is celebrating its 50th anniversary by building a third location in Tinley Park.
The funeral home was founded in Burbank in 1962 by Don Jarka Sr. A second location opened at 7732 W. 159th St. in Orland Park in 1987. Now a third location is under construction at 179th Street and 94th Avenue in Tinley Park.
"We just thought it was a good move," said Don Jarka Jr. "We're kind of excited about it."
The 16,000 square foot funeral home should be ready by June or July, Jarka said.
When complete, the new full-service facility will have a chapel, viewing rooms and a family lounge.
For information, call 708-429-3200 or visit Lawn Funeral Homes online.
The funeral home is being built by Miller Architects & Builders of St. Cloud, Minn.
Firehouse Subs open in Orland Park
The new Firehouse Subs in Orland Park opened as of Sunday at 15892 LaGrange Road off of 159th Street. The restaurant specializes in steamed sub sandwiches, and their hours are 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
For more information, visit the restaurant's website.
Lane Bryant building to be reconfigured
A new business will finally be moving into the former Lane Bryant space in Tinley Park.
The village's plan commission approved oversized wall signage earlier this month for a new retailer expected to move into a reconfigured retail strip at Brookside Marketplace.
Tinley Park Planning Director Amy Connolly said her understanding was that the mall owner would move four existing tenants to both ends of the retail building and consolidate space in the center for a new retailer who was approved for 4-foot letters instead of the standard 3-foot-tall letters. A similar variance was granted earlier this year for Ross Dress for Less, which is expected to move into a new building that will be built north of the retail strip next year.
The unnamed retailer is expected to take about 14,000 square feet of space in the building, which once housed the Lane Bryant store where five women were executed in February 2008.
Calls to mall owner DDR Corp. were not returned.
Pompei still open
Pompei Little Italy pizza in Orland Park and the original location on Taylor Street in Chicago were not affected by the sudden Christmas Eve shutdown of Pompei locations on Sheffield in Chicago and in Oak Brook.
The Orland location posted this notice to customers on its Facebook page:
To all our loyal Pompei Customers,
You may have already heard that Pompei on Sheffield and Pompei in Oak Brook have closed their doors without notice effective Christmas Eve. Those locations were owned and operated by a separate management company. They were not owned or operated by Ralph Davino.
We were saddened to learn that they did this to their customers and most importantly employees right at the holidays. We appreciate your concern and hope that you will continue to visit us at our Original location on Taylor Street or our newer location in Orland Park. Further information will be available.
Thank you for your support.
Ralph Davino
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Community Mazda expands service hours
Community Mazda in Tinley Park has added late service hours.
The service department at the dealership at 8324 W. 159th St. is now open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The service center is also open on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For information, call 888-7222-9775 or visit Community Mazda.
Sports training center coming to Orland
Pro Sports Performance & Fitness was granted a special use permit earlier this month to open an indoor sports training center at 10649 W. 163rd Place in Orland Park.
The center will take two units totaling 5,500 square feet in a building at Beemsterboer Industrial Park.
The owner will be Steven Purvin.
The center's Facebook page is hinting that the center could open as soon as Jan. 8.
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---- — The idea of abandoning the use of Gloucester's downtown parking meters, to provide an incentive for downtown shoppers is an idea that has surfaced time and time again over the years — and, time and time again, it's gone nowhere.
Yet a number of factors suggest that now is an ideal time to at least look into just such an option for Main Street. And the proposal being advanced by City Councilor and former mayor Bruce Tobey, which faces a continued public hearing tonight (see news story, Page 1), is indeed worth a try.
Tobey's plan calls for suspending the use of the meters along Main Street only for a three-month period in January, February and March – a time frame when residents, not visitors, would be the ones primarily feeding the meters in the first place — should indeed give us all a chance to gauge whether taking out the Main Street meters altogether would provide the intended lift for downtown businesses.
It should also give us the chance to see whether dropping the use of the meters would be manageable on other counts – including whether police would be able to effectively enforce a limit of perhaps two hours, which would be needed to combat the most likely problem keeping downtown employes or even those who live above the stores from dominating the spots.
Yet other communities that have gone meterless have effectively policed the system, notably through having parking enforcement personnel use chalk to mark vehicles' tires, then return two hours later to check if any vehicles with chalked tires are still there, in violation of the parking limits. And Gloucester police have perhaps a better means of keeping tabs on parked cars than those in other communities through the use of the license-plate readers the city acquired last year.
The other likely concern, of course, is the potential loss of city parking revenue.
Yet, remember that the city went several weeks while generating no revenue from several spots on Rogers Street and in its municipal parking lots there during construction of the new HarborWalk, with no screaming nor gnashing of teeth from City Hall. And remember also that these free spots, while hopefully giving a boost to downtown businesses, will also continue to generate revenue through enforcement against the two-hour limit violators.
Are there other questions regarding this potential Main Street change? No doubt.
Yet that's the best reason to launch it as a three-month pilot project. And that temporary project, at least, is an investment city councilors should support and approve.


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Dunwoody detectives secured an arrest warrant Tuesday for a 39-year-old man accused of stealing more than $65,000 worth of computer equipment from his employer.
The man worked at a business on Perimeter Center Parkway, according to police.
He was selling the computer equipment on Craig's List, an internet want-ads web site.
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TIRED OF WAITING for EMC or another tier-one vendor to deliver root-cause analysis software for its SAN, Countrywide Financial Corp. purchased and deployed Onaro's SANscreen to manage its 5,000-port Brocade fabric.
With almost two petabytes of capacity, the vast majority of it on EMC devices, "we were looking to them to provide this functionality," says Michael Crocker, VP of enterprise storage-area management at the real-estate mortgage lender. Unfortunately, "they just aren't there yet," he says. EMC has kept Countrywide apprised of its work on porting SMARTS, a network fault-correlation package that it bought last year, but Crocker says he expects it will take some time for it to work well with Fibre Channel (FC). Last month, EMC announced that SMARTS could discover its NAS devices and hinted at an FC release this summer.
Specifically, Countrywide brought in Onaro to report on and monitor the availability of its paths from the host, through the fabric and down to the storage. "It does that quite well," says Crocker.
Upon implementation, SANscreen discovered the Countrywide environment and found that "overall, we were in excellent shape," says Crocker. "There were some issues that we had to attend to, but we knew beforehand that we were going to find some stuff."
SANscreen now monitors the environment 24/7, alerting administrators to failures or policy violations with SNMP or through a client on storage administrators'
Last month, Onaro announced SANscreen 3.0 and two additional modules, one to monitor performance (rather than availability) and another to manage replication. Crocker is unsure whether or not Countrywide needs either module; "it depends on the kind of information that they discover," he says.
When it comes to application performance, "the SAN is always guilty until proven innocent," says Crocker. In a perfect world, the information Onaro collects should help storage staff prove to the rest of the IT department, that "Look, it's not the SAN's fault."
Mike Karp, senior analyst at Enterprise Management Associates, Boulder, CO, says Onaro is ahead of its competition. "There are lots of SAN management products out there that can interrogate the environment," he says. "Analyzing the results is another [thing], and that's where they've distinguished themselves."
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Spartanburg punches ticket to postseason
Wed. April 25, 2012 at 1:23 a.m. | By Kevin Melton
Adrian Kollock kept Spartanburg in Tuesday's win-or-go-home game against Rock Hill, pitching 4 2/3 scoreless innings. (Photo by JOHN BYRUM/ firstname.lastname@example.com)
GAFFNEY — When it desperately needed to make a play, Spartanburg's defense was money in the Banks.
Sophomore left fielder Banks Wise that is.
Scoreless through the first three and a half innings, Wise made a diving catch with the bases loaded to end the top of the fourth against Rock Hill in a win-or-go-home contest on Tuesday night at Commissioner's Field.
The Vikings followed with a single run in the bottom of the frame and two more in the sixth to pick up a 3-0 victory.
With the win, the Vikings earned the No. 4 seed in the 4A upper state playoffs, while the Bearcats' season came to an end. Spartanburg (11-10) will travel to Region IV-4A champion Blythewood to begin the postseason on Thursday.
"We were in a pinch right there," said Wise about the top of the fourth. "I knew I had to get to it to stay in the game. I went hard and laid out and made the play."
"Banks Wise made a great catch," Spartanburg coach Tom Myers said.
"It was probably the play of the game."
Spartanburg starting pitcher Adrian Kollock recorded a two-out, RBI single in the bottom of the fourth to plate the game's first run. He picked up a no-decision, giving up three hits with three strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.
Harper Grier picked up the win in relief, surrendering one hit with two strikeouts in 2 1/3 innings.
Luke Renfrow added a RBI and Wise scored on a throwing error to add insurance runs in the sixth for the Vikings.
"L.A. (Kollock) did a good job, and Harper came in and closed it out," Myers said.
"Offensively, we did what we had to do."
"Pitching and defense is what we win with most of the time," Grier said. "The defense played great including Banks' big play. It's just a great feeling to win."


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LEIPZIG, Germany—ISC'14—June 23, 2014—NVIDIA today announced that multiple server vendors are leveraging the performance of NVIDIA® GPU accelerators to launch the world's first 64-bit ARM development systems for high performance computing (HPC).
SAN JOSE, Calif.—GTC—March 25, 2014—Unlocking the full potential of desktop virtualization for enterprises, NVIDIA and VMware today announced that NVIDIA GRID™ technology is available on the VMware Horizon™ DaaS® Platform to deliver 3D graphics on virtualized desktops and applications delivered through the cloud.
SAN JOSE, Calif.—GTC—March 25, 2014—NVIDIA today announced that it plans to integrate a high-speed interconnect, called NVIDIA® NVLink™, into its future GPUs, enabling GPUs and CPUs to share data five to 12 times faster than they can today. This will eliminate a longstanding bottleneck and help pave the way for a new generation of exascale supercomputers that are 50-100 times faster than today's most powerful systems.
SAN JOSE, Calif.—GTC—March 25, 2014—NVIDIA today opened the door to the development of a new generation of applications that employ computer vision, image processing and real-time data processing – with the launch of a developer platform based on the world's first mobile supercomputer for embedded systems.
SAN JOSE, Calif.—GTC—March 25, 2014—NVIDIA today introduced a GPU rendering appliance that dramatically accelerates ray tracing, enabling professional designers to interact with computer models of such high visual fidelity that it can largely replace the lengthy, costly process of building physical prototypes.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Feb. 18, 2014—NVIDIA today introduced the first GPUs based on its new Maxwell™ graphics architecture, which deliver amazing gaming performance in extremely power-efficient designs.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Feb. 14, 2014—PGI, a leading suite of high-performance parallelizing compilers and development tools, now features support for the latest version of the OpenACC programming standard on accelerator platforms.
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Noah K tackles the biggest tech rumors of this week! Amazon's Android-based tablet is said to be launching in October, with an all-new touchscreen Kindle alongside of it. Did a Microsoft employee accidentally out Windows Phone Mango's launch date - September - by way of a tweet promoting a contest? Spotify, the beloved European streaming music service, finally launched in the U.S., while Netflix raised the prices on their video services. And all kinds of new phones launched this week!
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The long-rumored Amazon tablet is coming this October, according to the latest round of rumors this week. Built atop a custom version of Android OS, the tablet will likely feature a 9" touchscreen, a relatively low cost, and integration with Amazon's books, music, and tv/movies services. Look for it to launch next to an all-new, touchscreen-based Kindle.
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The 9 Best 'Nathan For You' Stunts From Season 1
After over an over-a-year-long break, Nathan For You returns to Comedy Central tonight with the premiere of its second season, and to get back in the docu-comedy series' groove, we've compiled a list of Nathan Fielder's top nine stunts from season one. From inventing a poo-tasting ice cream flavor to setting up his own dating-reality show called The Hunk, Fielder is constantly pushing himself to top himself by making his show as funny and uncomfortable as it can be.
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Fish Kebab buzzed with activity Thursday night as community leaders gathered from the Port Washington Chamber of Commerce Installation Dinner.
Residents for A More Beautiful Port Washington's Director of Development Mariann Dalimonte and Executive Director Mindy Germain were the evening's honorees.
Presenting them with certificates of achievement, Warren Schein, the chamber's co-president, noted "their creativity and their willingness to make our little town….that much more nicer, sweeter and more pleasant to live in."
Schein pointed Germain and Dalimonte's work with the chamber, the Business Improvement District and Town of North Hempstead. Their efforts to improve the both the business and larger Port Washington community.
Their efforts include:
- Shop Local Discount Card, which offers Residents members discounts at local businesses.
- Clean Green Zone And New Trash Bins, which in part, encourages store owners to keep sidewalks clean to attract shoppers. The town partnered by purchasing new trash and recycling bins on Main Street.
- Golden Storefront Award, given each month to a business for façade improvements. The award includes a check for $50 and local media publicity.
- Holiday Shopping Events, which is a team effort with the chamber, BID and town to promote shopping locally for the holidays. Events to date include Spring Fling, Port Night Out and Port Holiday Magic
- Welcome New Stores, an effort in which Dalimonte visits new merchants, providing them with information about chamber membership and Residents, and a letter from Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio.
The chamber also installed its new leadership.
Town Clerk Leslie Gross swore in the new board of directors, including June Alleyne, Jerry Baldassaro, Katherine Crean, Beth Michalson Fiore, Patrick Gillespie, Anthony Guzzello, Ayhan Hassan, Carl Lalena, Kathy Levinson, Hal Linden, Ken Magida, Mari Marcellino, Suzanne Ressa, Jerry Rudnick, Diane Schubach, Sid Segal, Ken Tuch and Edna Turner.
Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel swore in new officers, including Debbie Greco Cohen, 1st vice president; Ann Arter; 2nd vice president; Catherine O'Neill, 3rd vice president; Wendy Collett, secretary; and Leslie Ann Jacobi, treasurer.
Leg. Wayne Wink swore in Co-presidents Warren Schein and Mitch Schwartz.
Germain and Dalimonte were also recognized by Gross, Wink, and Eric Zausner, who represented County Executive Ed Mangano.