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ROBERT Smerdon hopes his decision to miss last week's Wyong Magic Millions with talented juvenile Calcatta in preference for Wednesday's Joe Brown Plate at Caulfield will be rewarded.
Smerdon abandoned plans to take Calcatta to Wyong after the filly drew gate 12 in the 13-horse field.
The Caulfield trainer's decision was reinforced after the impressive win by Assail, which controlled the race before surging clear for an emphatic three length win.
Calcatta has drawn gate three in the Joe Brown Plate where Luke Nolen replaces Dwayne Dunn who is taking a break over Christmas.
Smerdon said Calcatta, who can seal a trip to the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions 2YO Classic, has benefited from the experience of her debut win at Moonee Valley on November 30.
"She has quite a good brain for a two-year-old and she has a good gate," Smerdon said.
"The run will tell us how we're going and if we go on to the Millions."
Calcatta has been backed to win the Joe Brown Plate from $3 to $2.50 with Sportsbet.com.au, which has this daughter of Tale Of The Cat a $13 chance in the Magic Millions.
Smerdon also Every Faith, a Not A Single Doubt filly from a Zabeel mare, having its first start in the Joe Brown Plate.
"It (Every Faith) has shown some promise, but I'd rate Calcatta above her," Smerdon said.


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Cooking on a Yacht: An Insider's Guide
Sara Ventiera found a surefire way to pay for traveling: by working in the kitchen of a yacht. |
For me, getting into yachting was a smooth transition. Straight out of Cooper City High School, I secured a job as a server at the Quarterdeck on Cordova Road. I didn't think much of it at the time, but little did I know that I was working at the preeminent yachty bar in all of Fort Lauderdale. Suddenly, I found myself surrounded by what felt like hundreds of attractive men with accents. That was it. I needed to travel. I bought myself a ticket to Australia and didn't return for almost year.
Upon my homecoming, I was faced with the fact that I was not yet ready to rejoin normal society. I wanted to keep traveling. Only problem: I was broke. My solution came while visiting my old colleagues at the Quarterdeck. One of the bar regulars, Capt. Jack, asked me to meet him the following day for an interview. We met, drank beers, talked about diving, and shortly after, I began my career as a stewardess. The cooking came later.
Most of the time, when I try to explain to people outside of the yachting industry what exactly it is I do for a living, the first comment I usually hear is, "Oh, that sounds so glamorous." While I can easily understand their thought process -- that is essentially my reasoning for stepping into the industry nearly seven years ago -- it most certainly cannot be further from the truth. During season, we work 16- to 18-hour days for weeks on end, catering to our guests' every whim and desire. Often, we can start the day with a ladies' brunch for 12, complete with Bellinis and Benedict, and end with a 4 a.m. drunken burrito call for 20. Yes, we get to see some of the most beautiful places in the world, but we can consider ourselves lucky if we are able to step off the dock.
I consider myself fortunate in many ways. I have always had great owners (seriously, that's what we call them). My current boss is by far the best; I've been with him for four and a half years. And quite frankly, there is a good chance he will be reading this blog; it is, obviously, on the internet. The trip you are about to see is far from standard in the yachting industry. If it were the norm, I would have little time for myself. I certainly would not have time to sit down and write. Regardless, this is why I am able to do this. For the next few weeks, I am going to give you an inside view of the ins and outs of cooking on a boat, down island, in the Bahamas. Stay tuned.
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Available position: Game Code Warrior (also known as Game Coder) We are.. a band of 5 game developers who met at the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab. Wed worked on a couple of kick-ass games before, ranging from a cult-hit fighting game that was almost violence perfected, to a popular vertical shooter involving some seriously enraged dots which you controlled by literally sketching out awesome attack formations. Though we had a lot of fun at the time, they wanted to create more immersive play experiences.. especially ones involving Giant Mecha Gorillas! Enter Inzen Studio. Starting in Oct 2012, Inzen Studio is now a scrappy band of 6 fired up developers across Singapore, Uruguay and China. Inzen draws inspiration from Asian entertainment throughout the years. Being big fans of manga, anime and the games that were released in the 90s, we cheered when Shōhoku faced off against Sannoh, we laughed when Ultraman forgot how to activate his powers and we felt awesome when we punched our Sega Saturn controllers like Segata Sanshiro. (We also LOLed when monsters ran all over the screen in one episode of Takeshis Castle but thats a whole other thing.) #What were like to work with: 3 of us work out of an office in Somerset, Singapore and the rest of us + our extended team works completely online. We do daily check-ins, we set weekly objectives and we try and play lots of board games.. and a bit of bball when were all in the same place together! Balance is a big thing for us and this means we balance our creative freedom well with company sustainability. #A word cloud of what inspires us/we play: Crazy japanese game shows, Running Man, Star Control, Rhythm Heaven, Segata Sanshiro, Valve, Penny Arcade, Metal Gear Solid, Batman, Plague, Team Fortress, Bishi Bashi, ROTK, Mass Effect, DOTA, Robot Unicorn Attack and many moar. Job Description - Develop technology that enables innovative game play - Design, create and optimize game code systems - Write clear and maintainable code with proper documentation - Able to assist in code management and prioritizing of coding tasks. - Work with the development team to create a working code pipeline. Our Selection Process Flow 1. CV Review 2. Programming Test 3. Interview (online) What it could be like to work with us? 1. the ability to work from home 2. the freedom to choose on your own work hours 3. the ability to learn at your own pace, and hone your skills with a dynamic team 3. for the longer term, a chance to set the technical direction for future games We require that you are: + able to build game source code independently, from start to finish + well versed in at least one cross-platform framework mobile platforms (Cocos2d-x, Corona, Starling, Titanium etc.) + strong in C++ programming + well versed in source version control systems (Git, SVN) + familiar with standard coding conventions and practices + developed at least one game + able to work and deliver milestones while working remotely from home + able to communicate fluently in English + passionate about play! and games! C-c-c-combo? + experienced in iOS or Android games development + experienced in web development (PHP, MySQL) + adept at Objective C, C#, Java, Flash Action Script + worked with a multi-disciplined team (artists, designers etc.) + experienced in freelancing and remote working + able to start working with us immediately If you are interested, we will be excited to hear from you! Please send us your CV and portfolio to firstname.lastname@example.com, with the email subject: Inzen Game Code Warrior Application. Once shortlisted, a programming test will be sent to you within a few days. Thank you! |
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The pace of research in cell signaling and its intimate connection with the diagnosis and treatment of human cancer continues to accelerate. Many of these advances are derived from our enhanced understanding of the underlying biology of cancer signaling gleaned from model systems and human samples, while others have emerged from the availability of new tools, reagents and methods of data analysis.
Last year the Koch Institute for Cancer Research at MIT, together with Cell Signaling Technology, hosted a sold-out 1-day conference titled "Understanding Signaling Pathways in Cancer", that featured a series of outstanding talks and poster presentations. This fall we will again host the second Annual Koch-Institute-CST Signaling in Cancer symposium, entitled, "Translating Cellular Signaling, from Bench to Bedside".
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Mally Mall - Whatcha Say (Tags) Feat. Drake, Tyga & The K.I.D. Heat
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Mally Mall & The K.I.D. Heat call on Drake & Tyga for this new banger "Whatcha Say".
Well here's something we didn't see coming. California artist The K.I.D. Heat & Mally Mall recruit some big named features from the YMCMB family, including Drake & Tyga, for this new banger titled "Whatcha Say".
Premiered by DJ Carisma just moments ago, the track is another club banger and will surely attract the attention of every DJ and fan of such records around. Better yet, Drizzy leads off the track and takes aim at the ladies while flowing effortlessly over the West Coast sounding production.
No word yet on where this will end up, but who cares for now, just enjoy this ish!
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Silage yield, starch content, fiber quality, disease resistance and relative maturity are five top criteria when selecting a corn silage hybrid.
That's the consensus of a four-year University of Wisconsin study on corn silage selection.
"We did find some variability in quality measurements for corn silage," says Jim Coors, an agronomist at the university. "As a result, we concluded producers should consider nutritional value, but still need to consider silage yield first when selecting a hybrid for silage."
Look for hybrids with the right combination of starch, or grain, and stover, suggests Bill Mahanna, general manager of forage products at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
Grain supplies more energy on a pound-per-pound basis than stover. But stover makes a significant contribution to proper rumen function. When the two are balanced, animals get a consistent supply of energy and nutrient quality, improving animal performance and profitability, Mahanna says.
Growers should also consider ration needs and primary feedstuffs in their herds' diets when selecting corn silage hybrids, he adds.
"If a ration consists of 50-70% corn silage, producers should choose hybrids that have high total plant yield, good grain content and high total digestibility," says Mahanna.
"Highly digestible fiber from the stover and moderate levels of readily available starch from the grain are important to optimize rumen function."
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September 26th, 2008It was with great surprise that I woke up a few months ago and discovered that security units associated with Blackwater International are stationed here in my hometown of Juneau, Alaska. It's not like we're a terrorist hot-spot; it's been ages since the mayor felt compelled to go blasting down Front Street in an up-armored humvee. We 30,000 souls are surrounded by vast icefields on one side and the cold North Pacific on the other, unconnected to any road system. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security rated Juneau dead last for risk of terrorism among 132 urban areas. Yet the presence of Blackwater in Juneau says a lot about America today and, if we're not vigilant and active, a very dark America of tomorrow.
Most readers know Blackwater as the go-to guys for mercenary firepower. Their business model is to recruit elite soldiers trained by the US military and rent them back to Uncle Sam at a premium. But Blackwater is a diverse company, and their aspirations go far beyond the present wars. They provide corporate security and training for law-enforcement officers. They hire mercenaries and trainers out to foreign governments such as Azerbaijan and Japan, and to corporations of their choosing. While the US Marines used to guard our embassies around the world, Blackwater guards are now manning many of those posts. Recently, Blackwater has recruited highly placed ex-government officials, such as former CIA Director of Counterterrorism Cofer Black, to head up a private intelligence agency. Blackwater, like others of its ilk, is penetrating every aspect of our military and intelligence services.
So, what's this global operation doing in tiny Juneau, Alaska?
Blackwater is here to guard a radar station for tests of the National Missile Defense system now officially deployed and operational here in Alaska. Don't let the words "deployed" and "operational" mislead you: the system can't really shoot down hostile missiles. It can barely shoot down a single test missile when provided with its exact take-off time and trajectory, let alone detect and destroy a surprise attack by multiple missiles. Unbiased experts, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, assert that because the system can be so easily and cheaply defeated by countermeasures such as decoys, or overwhelmed by the complexity of a real attack, that it will never be a practical defense. Nevertheless, our government continues to divert billions of dollars into the pockets of defense contractors on this wildly expensive high-tech version of France's Maginot Line, so gleefully outflanked by the Germans in 1940. This is more than just a constellation of pork barrel projects and misguided priorities. It's theft on a massive scale
However, that sort of corruption has been around for a long time, and this is the Bush era, where a trip to the public piggy bank isn't considered complete unless you take plenty of friends with you. The Blackwater guards here are nominally employed by Chenega, an Alaska Native corporation associated with the Alaskan coastal village of Chenega Bay, population 86. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, architect of the "Bridge to Nowhere" and now on trial for bribery, is one of the principal proponents of the anti-missile system and was also instrumental in writing laws which help secure government contracts for Alaska Native Corporations. Senator Stevens didn't invent these affirmative-action type laws: I remember my father grumbling about them in his plumbing business back in the Sixties. In this case, though, they've been refined and corporatized: Chenega gets contracts through the Small Business Administration, rakes off a percentage, then lets giant Blackwater provide the actual services. Since 2000 Chenega has received over $1.1 billion in sole-source or non-compete bids from the Army, Air Force and Department of Homeland Security.
The Bush Administration has turned over an unprecedented amount of government functions to its cronies in private industry, always at a big premium to the taxpayers. More deeply disturbing, though, they have surrendered elements of the military and intelligence services that for two hundred years have been considered the sole prerogative of the People's government. Where once we had soldiers and spies loyal only to our government, we now have mercenaries and corporate spooks loyal to . . . well, I'm not really sure. Their CEO? Whatever political party gives them the fattest contracts? Soldiers and policemen follow orders, and when things get shaky, the question of who is giving the orders can take on a whole new importance. It took a while for this new face of corporate government to get all the way to my home town, but it finally has. It's here, it's armed and it's wearing a Blackwater uniform.


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leopardgirle said:Oh wow... Sorry. :(. Maybe just straightforward tell her that you know the only way a condom wrapper would turn up EMPTY in her room.., your not stupid. And then lay down the law and exactly what the consequences will be if it happens again.
shouldclean said:Does she have the opportunity to be home alone with a boy? I remember some time and 14 buying them with my girlfriends, we were just curious. I would try to have an open discussion about it so she feels comfortable taking to you
I really like the notebook idea that @leopardgirle suggested!!!! Even now at 30 years old, it's much easier to communicate difficult topics by writing!
But yes...I can't imagine having that talk with my 15 year daughter or son for that matter!!!!! AGHHH DS is only 2 but I don't want to think of my baby ever having sex!!! Hugs @sunnymomma !
Frankly, it seems like the sex is besides the point. Punish her for the rules she broke...she had somebody over when she was forbidden to, and she lied about the condom wrapper when you asked her.
Was her boyfriend a virgin? Was he clean? There are more ways for STDs to be spread than just genital-to-genital, like genital-to-mouth.
Do you know the boyfriend's family? I wouldn't be beyond calling his parent to let them know the situation, and that YOU disapprove. His mom may not care, but you need to express that YOU have a problem with the situation. You're responsible for your daughter, but SHE is responsible for HER son. It seems likely that his mom is either always home, or wouldn't approve either considering they did it in YOUR home when you weren't home.
Let his parents know. If his mom caught your kid having sex at her house, wouldn't you want to know?
@sunnymomma you might want to make an OBGYN appointment for your daugher. You said she's on BC, but was it prescribed by her primary care or by a GYN? If she's sexually active she NEEDS to go for a pelvic exam with PAP and STD screening, especially if you don't know how long this has been going on. Because if there is a problem, the sooner it's caught, the sooner it can be treated.
She should also be educated on the finer points of BC pills, like if she takes antibiotics if she's sick it'll make her pill not work. The GYN can do this at the appointment.
If she wants to make adult decisions, she can learn the adult consequences like STD testing and exams.
While I think you probably know with your gut what is going on in your house...is it possible it fell out of a girlfriends pocket or purse? My friends were almost all sexually active before me; a condom wrapper in my teenaged bedroom would (sadly, to me!) not have been mine.


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In this week's episode, word goes out that a wanted man said he wants to shoot cops. Another man has been grabbing girls' necklaces in the Hill. Bar-goers are making too much noise on State Street. Patrol cops need more parking spaces. And detectives got back useful DNA data on an unsolved burglary—from 2009.
"These are repetitive crimes!" Assistant Chief Archie Generoso lamented about the burglary. Then he unveiled an idea for getting DNA lab results soon after a crime occurs rather than three years later.
Welcome to Tuesday's version of Compstat, the best show in New Haven.
The two-hour crime data-sharing and accountability session has established a track record of creatively solving problems since Chief Dean Esserman revamped it earlier this year as part of his campaign to bring community policing back to town. The meetings began taking place weekly, not every six weeks; and doors were opened to the community and other law-enforcement agencies.
The growing supporting cast of 70 community players—top neighborhood cops, heads of police divisions, street outreach workers, federal and state law-enforcers, school officials, Yale researchers, child shrinks, city health and anti-blight inspectors—joined Esserman on the fourth floor of the the police department's 1 Union Ave. headquarters Tuesday for what has emerged as one of New Haven's most revealing weekly rituals.
At times it can feel like a headquarters scene out The Wire or Hill Street Blues. More often it has come to resemble a Yale School of Management-style case study in how to overhaul a large bureaucratic organization with a new philosophy.
In its more dramatic moments, the Compstat gathering may have helped save a life and catch a mother-son scam team the moment it came to town.
But as it has evolved over the past nine months, the most striking aspect of Compstat (which stands for "comparative statistics")—one possible clue to why violent crime has dropped this year—may be the routine information-sharing and problem-solving.
Like the stuff that didn't make headlines Tuesday.
Come see for yourself: a highlights reel follows.
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The room fills up quickly just before 10 a.m.; soon a few community members need to stand in the front and back doorways. Chief Esserman works the room, greeting people with handshakes. Then he takes his seat, and Assistant Chief Luis Casanova, who heads patrol and runs the meetings, calls everyone to order.
As usual, the meeting starts with introductions. All 70 of them. First go the cops seated in rolling chairs at the three tables arranged in a U in the center of the room. The nine "district managers" who run the city's 11 policing districts (two temporarily have double duty) fill one table, the sergeants in blue shirts, the lieutenants in white. Top brass introduce themselves from the center table: Lt. Jeff Hoffman, officer in charge of patrol; Casanova, Esserman, Assistant Chiefs Thaddeus Reddish and Denise Blanchard and Generoso, Yale Chief Ronnell Higgins. At the third table the heads of the city police's major crimes unit and bureau of identification join a minister working on a gang-violence reduction project with the cops, Rev. William Mathis; a top Yale cop, and a representative from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Then, from plastic chairs lining the room's perimeter, follow introductions from suburban cops, railroad cops, academics, health-care workers, officials from the Board of Ed and Livable City Initiative, street outreach workers, Gateway Community College and Yale-New Haven Hospital police and security. Before they took their seats they found stapled 16-page photocopies of maps and charts showing crime breakdowns in each part of the New Haven over the past week, the past month, the year so far. The data show murders down 51.9 percent over the same period in 2011, shootings down 31.7 percent, burglaries and motor vehicle theft down, robberies up.
Detectives offer an update on a murder that took place Sunday night in an apartment complex off Whalley Avenue. They describe a break in the investigation as well as new information about the victim and the history of the apartment complex. They also ask the press keep the information off the record for now as the investigation proceeds—a regular request at these meetings, where officials trust members of the public with an unprecedented amount of privileged information for a government gathering. So far, that trust has been reciprocated.
Then district managers take turns reporting on the past week's activity in their neighborhoods. As each one begins, two maps at a time flash from overhead projectors onto screens at the front of the room. One shows the current week's neighborhood map with icons representing major crimes. The other shows the previous week's map.
District 9, covering a huge swath of the East Shore from Morris Cove up through the Annex and Bishop Woods to the North Haven and East Haven lines, appears largely unblemished by icons. Morris Cove is completely untouched.
Anastasio's map has been clean for weeks. That hasn't always been the case.
Earlier this year icons from a dozen or more shootings and other major crimes would cover Anastasio's maps. By the time he got done reporting on all the incidents and his frustrations with druggies and gang-bangers and dirt-bikers, his head would fall into his hands. Week by week he talked about strategies for dealing with the crime, both immediately in response to incidents and over time establishing relationships with kids in trouble. (Read about the latter here.) And week by week, the maps showed less major crime. That has happened in several districts across town.
Tuesday morning Anastasio sits straight as he reports on the past week. He brings up the case of a 15-year-old caught with a gun. Chief Esserman asks where he attends school. The answer: Wilbur Cross. The chief then turns to Sgt. Ricardo Rodriguez, the department's point man for school-based cops; Rodriguez, used to getting grilled at Compstat, reports that he has already checked in with the school. Next street outreach worker Doug Bethea—whose independent agency used not to work that closely with the cops before this year, let alone attend Compstat—reports he, too, has been talking to the boy. Esserman then asks Bethea to meet afterwards with Kim Johnsky, a top school system administrator, to fill her in on the case.
When Sgt. Anthony Zona's turn comes, he has a messier map to explain.
"Your burglaries are off the charts," Assistant Chief Casanova tells him. "What's going on?"
"I was on vacation," Zona quips.
"Don't do that again," interjects Chief Esserman, eliciting chuckles.
It's a running joke at these meetings, about how cops shouldn't ever take vacations. Casanova does sometimes press district managers for explanations for crime upticks. But rarely does any real discipline or criticism take place in open view. That's saved for later. For the most part tensions and rivalries remain behind closed doors, except perhaps to Kremlinologists.
Instead, managers come expecting Esserman to ask questions about their responses to his latest patrol emphases. He asks them to detail how they're spending grant money the department received to pay for overtime walking cops, which officers they're stationing where. In recent weeks he has started asking them to visit people's homes to follow up on crimes or ongoing complaints; and then to report back on Compstat about whom they visited. Esserman makes a point to credit officers by name who do the follow-ups.
Today, in response to the burglary uptick, Zona proceeds to promise to check up on known thieves who have recently gotten out of jail. He discusses one burglary he checked out in which a landlady reported a lawn mower and a chunk of pipe went missing from a basement. Zona checked out a locked door to the basement, couldn't open it. His conclusion: It's an inside job by a workman.
He mentions thefts from autos parked at the Van Dome nightclub, people leaving iPads in view on the front seat. Esserman closes by praising Zona. Esserman faced 250 Fair Haven immigrants at a community meeting Sunday; they praised Zona for his hard work in the neighborhood, Esserman now reports.
Zona tends to speak up at Compstat. At one recent meeting Zona heard Yale police and other district managers describe attacks on people by kids on bikes; he piped up and suggested a citywide experiment in targeting the problem. Esserman challenged others in the room to think about it, offer suggestions; and a plan came together.
Today, after Zona finishes the Fair Haven report, he jumps into a discussion about the search for the mugger who has been taking the chains off girls' necks in another district, Lt. Holly Wasilewski's stretch of the Hill. Similar incidents have occurred in Fair Haven, he says. In one case, reports Sgt. Nick Marcusio (at right in photo), head of the robbery and burglary unit, a cop took a photo board to one of the Fair Haven victims to seek an identification; no luck.
Zona tells him about a store where one of the incidents occurred; "I know he has video cameras," he says.
Moving to East Rock, several cops offer new details on the arrest of last week of a man robbing the perennially hit Shell gas station. It turns out Assistant Chief Reddish (pictured) had been driving nearby when he heard the call on the scanner, then rushed over with two officers to make the arrest. The man subsequently admitted to having robbed a Mobil station on State Street earlier that day; and a security video confirmed it.
"Who is this guy?" Esserman asks, swiveling to representatives in the room from state agencies. "Probation: Do you own him? Parole, do you own him?"
He turns to a woman from the state's attorney's office. "Is he in or out of jail?"
"In," top East Rock cop Lt. Kenny Howell responds while the others are still tapping on their laptop computers in search of Esserman's answer.
A detective adds that the arrestee buys heroin at the Farnam Court housing complex, "uses that up," then goes on more robberies to restock.
"Nice grab, Chief Reddish," Esserman remarks, after asking the state's attorney's office to "please get back to us" with confirmation that it will seek to convince a judge to keep the suspect in jail.
Asked about community meetings, Howell reports on an East Rock gathering where neighbors pressed him about late-night noise from Dempsey's bar on State Street. He told Lt. Julie Johnson, who oversees traffic details. She confirms that she's sending motorcycle cops to State Street on a late shift this coming weekend.
Howell has brought two photos for show-and-tell. He asks department data analyst Charles Anyinam, who's seated at the back of the room, to project the photos onto one of the screens at the front of the room. A woman on Foster Street shot them with her cellphone when she saw a man stealing a bike; she forwarded them to the cops.
Anyone recognize this guy? Howell asks. Some other crimes are mentioned as possible fits. His colleagues scrutinize the photo, save the image in their mental caches.
The photo's details are hard to read up on the screen.
"What does his hat say?" Esserman asks.
"I think," quips Howell, eliciting another round of laughs in the room, "it says, 'Compstat Forever.'"
Closer inspection reveals a different logo: Chicago White Sox.
In addition to the problems, managers report on "wins."
• A serial downtown bank robber got caught; the room learns about the arrestee's supposed 40-bag-a-day heroin habit and about the suspect confessing to another job in Newark. New Haven's info enabled Newark to make its own arrest of the suspect..
• The playground behind Clemente School in the Hill has quieted down now that the Board of Ed has installed bright lights. At a recent Compstat meeting, top neighborhood cop Lt. Joe Witkowksi reported on how members of a new gang called Slut Wave had begun congregating there in the dark and causing trouble. Johnsky, a top school system administrator, happened to be in the room for the first time that day; she promised to fix the problem. Today she's back in the room. She receives thanks for getting the lights turned on.
• No robberies show up on the report for Dwight-Kensington, a dramatic change from earlier in the year.
One burglary does appear on the map; new neighborhood District Manager Sgt. Rob Criscuolo is prepared to talk about it. It occurred in a house whose owner recently died, he says. Neighbors told him they saw a homeless man who used to do odd jobs for the owner hanging by the house. Criscuolo vows to follow up.
Plans are made:
• Asssistant Chief Blanchard reports on the pending completion of a plan to solve a long-term parking crunch for cruisers near the station.
• LCI Deputy Director Rafael Ramos asks for advice from Fair Haven cops before responding to a request from the owner of a troubled property for permission to rent it out again. A meeting is set up.
• Esserman in turn asks Ramos and some others to stay after today's Compstat meeting to brief top cops on developments on Kensington Street, in advance of a police meeting with a major landlord there.
• Shirley Ellis of the street outreach workers team invites the room to a premiere showing of a movie her agency made with the U.S. Justice Department featuring local kids talking about violence.
"It's a great movie," says Esserman, who has seen it. "Can you show it at Compstat?"
Yes, Ellis responds, then continues: "Chief, get ready to get your tux on. We're going to have a read carpet event [to show] how we appreciate the young people" who worked on the film.
Assistant Chief Generoso (pictured with Blanchard) tells the room about some of his own plans. He describes how the city just got back the DNA hit from the state lab for the 2009 burglary; how another one recently came for a 2010 case. (Detectives have had to wait a year or more for DNA results even on some murder cases.) Generoso says he has been working with other area departments to apply for a grant through the University of New Haven to pay for local DNA testing on burglary and robbery cases. The project would test the thesis that quicker DNA results will help solve burglaries and robberies faster. He's confident about what the results would show.
Suddenly, Generoso, Marcusio and major crimes chief Sgt. Al Vazquez scoop up their papers and bolt from the room.
"With all the detectives running out of the room it better be good news," Esserman remarks. "This better be about the [Sunday night] homicide."
"Close," Marcusio says on his way out. (It will turn out that marshals had located a felon wanted for an Oct. 14 shooting at Farnam Courts; detectives rushed to the scene to assist with the arrest. Scroll down in this story for details.)
As usual, Casanova turns the floor over to Esserman for parting words before the credits roll.
"Last thing I got is: We have 50 less officers than we had a year ago at this time. Fifty less officers," Esserman begins.
"We've cut the homicide rate in half. We've brought the walking beat back. This is the only city in this state where violent crime is down dramatically.
"I owe a debt of gratitude, and so do the people of this city. It is remarkable the work that has been with 50 less officers.
"To everyone in this room and the rank and file, thank you."
It's 11:57 a.m., a few minutes earlier than usual. The formal meeting ends ...
... the schmoozing continues, and some of the real planning begins.
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posted by: anonymous on October 24, 2012 5:12pm
"Asssistant Chief Denise Blanchard reports on the pending completion of a plan to solve a long-term parking crunch for cruisers near the station."
That's good to hear. In the meantime, the NHPD continues to place many lives at risk each day by parking in the crosswalks there.
posted by: Wildwest on October 24, 2012 7:33pm
"and the schmoozing continues"
really, you guys need an op/ed section here at this news rag.
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posted by: PH on October 25, 2012 9:23am
I know this has been bounced around a lot on by NHI commenters, but I witnessed the full dirt bike/ATV gang in action for the first time last weekend. Holy crap! About 20 of them blew through four stop signs at approximately 50 mph, laughing their heads off. One cop car was tailing them, though I wonder to what end. I was with a group of 20 kids, they could easily have been maimed or killed if any of them had been in a crosswalk. This is not just a noise or quality of life issue, this is a serious danger to pedestrians, drivers and the moronic bikers themselves. Some of them looked to be well under 16. I hope the police figure out a way to set up some sort of trap to intercept these fools and impound all of their vehicles.
posted by: oldtimer on October 25, 2012 12:01pm
Very accurate title, Law and Order New Haven, staring Dean Esserman .
posted by: Ex-NHPD on October 25, 2012 5:37pm
My first comments about this article did not make it past the NHI censors. They did make a correction to the story, based upon a mistake I pointed out.
My comments are critical of Esserman and how he runs the Compstat Meetings. I can not believe that with his vast Police Experience, he does not see the dangers and pitfalls of allowing "Law Enforcement Sensitive" Information being disseminated to non-Law Enforcement people at these meetings. I include A.C. Generoso in this critique; turning to the press and saying "That's not for print" is insufficient to protect the integrity of the case discussed, with so many eyes and ears there.
It is nice that these non-L.E. Agencies are present at the meeting. BUT,why are they allowed to be present when "a break in the investigation" of a Homicide is being discussed? How do you make sure they do not repeat what they heard in the meeting, or control who they discuss it with? It is well within the realm of possibility that details of this ongoing Homicide Investigation have already reached the streets of New Haven, with the conduit being people who attended this Compstat Meeting.
Does the State's Attorney Office bristle at such behavior? How about the NHPD's State and Federal L.E. Partners? What will these other Agencies do when Esserman asks them to divulge L.E. Sensitive info at meetings, and they decline? Or if they refuse to keep attending?
Esserman can remedy this situation and still have his partners at the meeting. He can invoke "Executive Session" during the meeting, where non-L.E. people are excused while sensitive details are discussed. They can still be part of the Best Show In Town, just not every scene.
As far as A.C. Blanchard and her plan to address the parking crisis at 1 Union, GOOD LUCK! Both the City and every Chief have given little attention to this problem over the past 25 years. In the early 1990's, then A.C. Esserman attended a Patrol Line-up where he promised that solving this issue was one of his first projects. By the time he left the Department, it was still unsolved. There have only been patchwork responses, with no long term solution. It is crippling the NHPD in its ability to run smoothly, both for those who work there and those who come there for business or help.


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One advantage seems to be that you save 0,5 gold.Originally Posted by Stratege
Edit: Merlact beat me to the answer.
One advantage seems to be that you save 0,5 gold.Originally Posted by Stratege
Edit: Merlact beat me to the answer.
Uh? Like RTW's city view on battlemap? Exemplify.Originally Posted by Johan
"Chavez is leading his people into better future, after ages of explotation they have something to be happy about. Positive thing is also that he suport good causes all over south america and world too a sign of true greatnes." -Ivio
"Yes, Stalin said the same thing." -Tufto
"I think I'm going insane. I can like FEEL each second and minute passing and it's making me go insane because like I could be building skills in those minutes instead of making a forum post or listening to music or g-chatting with a colleague. I can feel it in my brain and in my body. It's terrible.[...]Anyone else have this?" -EFT
"Only when I read your posts." -trajan
can't wait for the game to be released
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I'm guessing like EU3 cities.Originally Posted by Jolt
"Can't you rid us of our commander?" -Lammerding to Heinz Guderian
My first AAR - Frankfurt: A tale of an angry little German city that could (Magni Mundi IV)
My second AAR - Shetland: A World Conquest Crusader Kings - Deus Vult AAR
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I am hoping that when we send a diplomat, it is like a character with traits and stuff.
That's just what Johan said ... erm ... wrote:Originally Posted by Assos
Originally Posted by Johan
This was a short but still great devdiary
But judging from the screen I can say that I won't be roating the view, it's so confusing i could hardly figure out what was what even with the helping square on teh minimap
Birds flying high, you know what I mean
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel
Dragonflies out in the sun, you know what I mean, don't you know?
Butterflies all havin' fun, you know what I mean
Like sleeping in peace, when the day is done
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
And I'm feeling good!
Wow. That could lead to some interesting situations in multi-playerOriginally Posted by Sokraates
"Can't you rid us of our commander?" -Lammerding to Heinz Guderian
My first AAR - Frankfurt: A tale of an angry little German city that could (Magni Mundi IV)
My second AAR - Shetland: A World Conquest Crusader Kings - Deus Vult AAR
My first Let's Play video - Click here to view My Let's Play Dwarf Fortress 0.34.10 (tutorial) video
Are armies recruited on a 1000 men per unit base? And how this unit is called? Cohort? This would be too Roman-centric (not to say too early for pre-Marius republic)
One more thing. Will there be any cap on number of elphants one can field at a certain time? Or cost is supposed to be the only limit factor?
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Nice. I especially like seeing some code lines. And I have to agree that rotating the camera angle will be far too confusing to use.
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Will we get the chance to do the same to AI diplomats? Because that would be the best event ever.Originally Posted by Johan
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I played nearly every paradox game, but HoI2 was the only one i really loved (and I'm still loving).
But this game seems to be really promising everything i read makes me hot cant't wait to enslave the gauls!
yesOriginally Posted by ComradeOm
Cool!Originally Posted by Balor
Yeapp. But I would personaly prefer sending those greedy Romans where they came from and razing thir filthy city to the ground. Go, Carthage!Originally Posted by Bodhisattvas
I'm assuming that, if they're not executed, the diplomat can return to you and you can send them out again. So, axing one deprives their owner of that diplomat. Which then breaks the game in favor of human players, since we could send out diplomat with high ratings, to get favorable results, but if the AI does that, we'd just ax the guy to deprive them of his services, as seeing "Diplomacy rating 8" doesn't really have the same effect on us as it does the AI.Originally Posted by Balor
So, perhaps there's a penalty to a player killing off high ranking diplomats, moreso than there would be killing off a crappy negotiator?
Aside from all that, what is the purpose of killing the diplomat? Just to piss off the other country? An equivalent to the "send insult" button? I'm guessing that if you send an unreasonable offer to the AI, they'll be likely to kill the guy, but again, thats not the same for humans.
You mean Yule? It is a Scandinavian word (Swedish I think).Originally Posted by alvaro
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Awesomely cool Johan. Thanks to you and your crew.
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I like how the guy's nickname is "farmer" in latin....Go Agricola!


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- Location: Indianapolis, Indiana (USA)
Objective: The focal zone width appears to be a critical factor in lithotripsy. Narrow focus machines have a higher occurrence of adverse effects, and arguably no greater comminution efficiency. Manufacturers have introduced new machines and upgrades to broaden the focus. Still, little data exists on how focal width plays a role in stone fracture. Thus, our aim was to determine if focal width interacts with established mechanisms known to contribute to stone fracture. Method: A series of experiments were undertaken with changes made to the stone in an effort to determine which is most important, the shock wave (SW) reflected from the back end of the stone (spallation), the SW ringing the stone (squeezing), the shear wave generated at surface of the stone and concentrated in the bulk of it (shear), or SWs generated from bubble collapse (cavitation). Shock waves were generated by a Dornier HM3‐style lithotripter, and stones were made from U30 cement. Baffles were used to block specific waves that contribute to spallation, shear, or squeezing, and glycerol was used to suppress cavitation. Numerical simulation and high‐speed imaging allowed for visualization of specific waves as they traveled within the stone. Results: For brevity, one result is explained. A reflective baffle was placed around the front edge of a cylindrical stone. The proximal baffle prevented squeezing by preventing the SW from traveling over the stone, but permitted the SW entering the stone through the proximal face and did not affect the other mechanisms. The distal baffle behaved the same as no baffle. The proximal baffle dramatically reduced the stress, and the stone did not break (stone broke after 45±10 SWs without the baffle and did not break after 400 SWs when the experiment stopped). The result implies that since removing squeezing halted comminution, squeezing is dominant. However, there is much more to the story. For example, if the cylindrical stone was pointed, it broke with the point on the distal end but not with the point on the proximal end. In both cases, squeezing was the same, so if squeezing were dominant, both stones should have broken. But the pointed front edge prevents the shear wave. The squeezing wave and its product — the shear wave — are both needed and work synergistically in a way explained by the model. Conclusions: A broad focus enhances the synergism of squeezing and shear waves without altering cavitation's effects, and thus accelerates stone fracture in SWL.
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Beats for bean counters: Sydney singer Meri Amber wants to prove accounting can be cool
PUBLISHED: 09 Aug 2013 10:34:00 | UPDATED: 16 Aug 2013 15:45:55PRINT EDITION: 14 Aug 2013"I worked in management consulting for half a year and I wrote three songs about management consulting," says Meri Amber.
Natalie Tencic
Musicians have written albums for a lot of people and situations. Brian Eno gave us Music for Airports and Music for Films, The Gossip delivered Music for Men, The Prodigy filled a demand for Music for the Jilted Generation, and now, finally, there is music for accountants.
Sydney singer Meri Amber has addressed a sorely neglected market with her album Love$Accy. Part parody, part passion piece and part job pitch, the 15-minute mini-album proves accounting can be cool.
"Accounting is definitely cooler than people think. I don't know why it has this reputation but it does have a reputation of being very dull. I think it's a bit of a flawed stereotype," says Amber.
Dull no more, Amber gives accounting the pop treatment with songs including an obsessive, Ke$ha-style love song about the KPMG Audit Team, burgeoning office-party anthem End of Financial Year and sultry number Smooth Calculator.
For the accountant drowning in the books, Amber hopes her music is a bit of fun reprieve.
"You could always use more pop and it would be a cool thing if you're feeling a little down and bored in your job, to listen to that and think, "actually no, accounting is cool".
A student of accounting and law at the University of Sydney, Amber says the album was conceived as a sly dig at her boyfriend's cousin, who so resembles the stereotypical, lanky, bespectacled accountant type, she felt the need to convince him to pursue his true calling through song. Disappointingly, he has yet to change careers.
A short time after releasing the album online, Amber's musical mission went viral in business circles.
"They were probably thinking 'What is this? This crazy woman is writing this desperate love song for this accounting firm.' "
Though she's performed as pre-show entertainment for artists including Pink, Lady Gaga and Russell Brand, Amber embraces her quirky, self-designated "geek-pop" over the mainstream style.
Amber considers herself "a creature that enjoys writing songs" who could write about anything.
"I worked in management consulting for half a year and I wrote three songs about management consulting," Amber admitted.
"Who knows, maybe I'll write a song about law, maybe I'll have a law album coming up."
For masochists wanting to compare Amber's work with the songwriting efforts of the accountancy firms themselves, KPMG's heart-tugging corporate anthem - A Vision Of Global Strategy - awaits.
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Fibre optic network operator CityFibre is looking to install its gigabit Ethernet networks in more than 20 cities across the UK.
The British firm raised £30m through a secondary placing of shares in efforts to reach more than one million homes, businesses and public sector organisations by 2016.
The latest funding round adds to the £16.5m the company raised at its IPO four months ago, will be used to support the deployment of networks.
CityFibre CEO Greg Mesch said: "We are delighted to have a strong capital base behind us and we can now put our foot firmly on the pedal in our roll-out of Gigabit Cities.
"All the evidence points to the social and economic advantages enjoyed by cities with a future-proofed digital infrastructure and we welcome the increased interest from cities and their service providers in our shared fibre infrastructure solution."
It comes after the firm partnered with Sky and TalkTalk to rollout FTTP (fibre-to-the-premises) networks in York and Peterborough as well as acquiring a councili-owned fibre network in Coventry.
CityFibre has recently seen increased demand for its infrastructure as bandwidth services like internet TV become more popular and businesses move to internet-based communication and storage platforms.
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Regular readers of this blog might be familiar with the sometimes-skeptical tone around government and data. Specifically, there's a lot of hard work in having a transparent government, and it's not universally thought of as a good thing–openness means increased scrutiny and possibly greater costs. Obviously the idea behind openness is that benefits vastly outweigh costs. This is of course measured in a societal benefits, so a strict economic calculus may give a different result than one that includes externalities.
The Danish government just released a strategy document, Good Basic Data for Everyone-A Driver for Growth and Efficiency, and it should be required reading for anybody who things about this stuff. This is more than press release/high five photo op with politicians. The Danes started the initiative 10 years ago, and a report showing economic benefits makes it clear: the roughly 2m EUR investment to freely release a nationwide geocoding database created a direct financial impact of 62m EUR over a five year period. Denmark is not a large country, but a calculator isn't required to understand the ROI. Denmark isn't finished– the next step is to release "basic data":
Basic data is the core information authorities use in their day-to-day case processing. Basic data is e.g. data on individuals, businesses, addresses, real properties and geography (i.e. digital maps)…
And later to create a sort Yelp-style claim-your-listing service. This translates to improved accuracy and currency, allowing the private sector to add meaningful value on top of basic data:
The modernisation of basic data will initially include the most important information about businesses, cadastral registers, maps and buildings, and it will establish a new register of property owners of real property (Register of Property Owners)…
If you you don't want to read, the graph below shows it all. Granted, these are projections and they are few years out, but the cases of the SEC's EDGAR, National Weather Service and creation of the GPS tell similar story: basic government investment + private capital = good economic sense (but let's not forget the failings of the US government in this realm).
Of course there will be parties who object, and it is natural that those who have most to loose will fight tooth and nail. This is likely the entrenched bureaucracy and government contractors. But these parties also win if they take a longer term view, with more efficient, responsive government services, a flourishing commercial industry around a government resource. A study of 15 countries with open data led to corporate growth at a rate 15% higher compared with other countries. Since Australia broadly released basemap data, usage has increased 20x and led to an annual net benefit of 4m USD. Sure, this isn't huge, but it also means the net cost to the government is negative.
Free access to good basic data for everyone is good business; for the public sector and for society in general. Once the initiatives have been fully implemented in 2020, revenues for society are expected to be approx. DKK 800 million annually.


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We have talked about the ways in which various viewpoints differ in the interpretation of Genesis 1. However, Genesis has some clear messages that don't depend on how we view the days of creation. The following statement was taken from the book Authentic Christianity: From the Writings of John Stott, p. 89, InterVarsity Press.
God's Word is designed to make us Christians, not scientists, and to lead us to eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ. It was not God's intention to reveal in Scripture what human beings could discover by their own investigations and experiments. So the first three chapters of Genesis reveal in particular four spiritual truths which could never be discovered by the scientific method. First, that God made everything. Secondly, that he made it out of nothing. There was no original raw material as eternal as himself on which he could work. Thirdly, that he made man male and female in his own image. Fourthly, that everything which he made was "very good". When it left his hand it was perfect. Sin and suffering were foreign invasions into his lovely world, and spoiled it.
The young-earth creationists J. Ligon Duncan III and David W. Hall present some similar points in the book The Genesis Debate: [2]
- God created the world and is distinct from it (but not unconcerned about it).
- God shaped his creation from formlessness into order and filled it from emptiness to fullness.
- God's world was originally good and, therefore, different from the corrupted world in which we now live.
- Man's sin is entirely responsible for corrupting original creation.
- God's character (justice and mercy) is revealed as He responds to the three "low points" of primeval history: the Fall, the Flood, and Babel.
Certainly 'Creation by God' is an important Christian doctrine. The fact that man was created in God's image provides a sense of dignity to all men. Also, the fact that God's original creation was declared to be 'very good' is what make man's Fall into sin so tragic. Our sinfulness is not just the way we are, but is a corruption of what we were meant to be.
I hope that you can see from the above that, as Christians, we can agree on many important aspects of creation while possibly holding differing views on the length of the days.
- Report of the Creation Study Committee to the 28th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), 6 July 2000 [can be obtained from the web site http://www.pcahistory.org/creation/report.html].
- The Genesis Debate, three views on the days of creation, edited by David G. Hagopian, Crux Press Inc., 2001.
- Three views on Creation and Evolution, J.P. Moreland and John Mark Reynolds general editors, Zondervan Publishing House, 1999.
- A Matter of Days, resolving a creation controversy, Hugh Ross, NavPress, 2004.
- The Genesis Flood, The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications, John Whitcomb and Henry Morris, The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1961.
- Genesis, an expositional commentary, vol. 1, James Montgomery Boice, Baker Books, 1982, 1998.
- How it All Began, A Bible commentary for Laymen/Genesis 1–11, Ronald Youngblood, Regal Books, 1980.
- Reading Genesis One, Comparing Biblical Hebrew with English Translation, Rodney Whitefield, author and publisher, 2003.
- Genesis 1–4: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Commentary, C. John Collins, P&R Publishing 2006
- Reasons to Believe website, http://www.reasons.org.
- Creation and Evolution: Rethinking the evidence from science and the Bible, Alan Hayward, Bethany House Publishers, 1995.
- Creation and Time, A Report on the Progressive Creationist Book by Hugh Ross, Mark Van Bebber and Paul S. Taylor, Eden Publications, 1996.
- Portion of the transcript of the Scopes trial where Clarence Darrow questions William Jennings Bryan, http://personal.uncc.edu/jmarks/Darrow.html.
- The Language of God, Francis S. Collins, Free Press, 2006.
- Summer for the Gods, Edward J. Larson, Harvard University Press, 1997.
- The Lost World of Genesis One, John H. Walton, InterVarsity Press Academic, 2009.
- The days of Creation: A Closer Look at Scripture, Jon Greene, on the web site http://www.godandscience.org/youngearth/
six_days_of_creation.html - Genesis Unbound: A Provocative New Look at the Creation Account, John Sailhamer, Dawson Media 1996, 1911


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Hay moisture probes aren't 100% accurate. Yet they can be valuable tools for operators who check probe readings against oven drying and gain experience in their use.
"Some probes could be off by as much as five percentage points," says Oklahoma State ag engineer Ray Huhnke.
Ron Thaemert's two hay probes have always read differently. "One is about two percentage points off; I had to learn the accuracy of that probe," says the Blaine County extension agent from Hailey, ID. He suggests oven-drying hay first tested by a probe to check its accuracy.
"I would never rely on a moisture probe as a sole source of information to make a decision," adds Huhnke. "A person's experience is the best judge. The more a person uses that probe, the more he or she will understand in which conditions it will give reliable or more reliable results."
A major reason for inaccuracies is that bales are made up of layers of inconsistent moisture and density. So the more probes made per bale, the more accurate the results. Meter readings can also be affected by bale temperature.
Hay probes use electrical conductivity between points on probe tips. The wetter the hay, the more electricity flows, causing higher moisture readings. If the surface of a bale being tested is wet with dew, that moisture can give a false reading, Huhnke says.
The meters, he adds, give an approximate moisture content, not an exact number.
Before probing, do some basic maintenance, Thaemert suggests.
"The batteries need to be checked, fully charged or in good charge. Keep tips clean from alfalfa juice buildup and contamination; the contact points need to be clean."
The more dense the bale, the better the reading, Huhnke says. Probe at the ends of a square bale, or at an angle that goes across the stems.
"Round bales should be probed through their diameter. Make at least five probes per bale and take an average of the readings," he says. "If the range is greater than three percentage points, probe more bales to improve accuracy." Also probe several bales at different field locations to account for field variations.
The type of forage being tested affects probes as well. The moisture levels of leafy alfalfa, for instance, are more likely to read accurately in a hay probe than stemmy bales of sorghum-sudangrass, Huhnke adds.
Thaemert sees another reason for inaccurate moisture readings: "We don't allow enough time for the tool to adjust itself." Pushing a probe into a bale quickly often causes friction, skewing results. "Allow those tips to cool down so you can get an accurate reading," he advises.
Windrow Probing Works
Ron Thaemert prefers to moisture-probe hay in windrows. He says probing after it's baled is too late.
"What do you do if the bale's too wet? You set it off to the side and hope you can get it fed before it molds or burns," says the Blaine County, ID, extension agent.
It helps that he has a handy-dandy way of probing, using his own Windrow Sample Gathering Tool. He simply rolls a windrow over, grabs a handful of the wettest-looking hay and twists it into a 2' × 2" ABS pipe until it's full. The pipe, capped on one end, is packed using a 2' × 1¼" capped PVC pipe.
Once the sample is compact, he pushes a 20" hay probe about 4" into it and takes a reading. He also takes readings at 8", 16" and 20". After averaging readings, he packs and probes other areas in a field.
Just as Thaemert cautioned with bale probing, don't overheat probe tips, clean them regularly and charge batteries before testing windrows. Double-check probes by oven-drying samples from the gathering tool.
"I have saved a number of haystack fires in my county because of my tool," Thaemert says. "We try to push baling to the limit, because we're in a very high mountainous area where a rainstorm can come at any time."
Growers in at least nine states — and Romania — use Thaemert's tool, which he will send to those interested for $10, plus shipping.
"They're also free to make their own. I'm very willing to share my pattern and dimensions." Email him at: firstname.lastname@example.com. Instructions are on the Web at: extension.oregonstate.edu/yamhill/pdf/sampling_the_moisture_content_of_alfalfa.pdf.


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This 3 bedroom suite townhome is centrally located just off of Main Street. Built in 2006 and fully remodeled in 2011, this condo boasts 2 master suites with 2 king size beds and a 3rd suite with bunk bed with a trundle. There are blue ray dvd players and flat screen TVs wall mounted in every room for your entertainment pleasure. A private spa on the deck will insure that you can soak away your aches and pains from whatever you decide to experience in Mammoth that day. New furniture throughout make this condo the perfect home away from home. Attached oversize garage to park and store your gears. Brand new state of the art washer and dryer is provided for your convenience.
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Welcome to the official Scott Russell (SR) website!
This website has been a goal of mine for a longtime and I am happy to share it with each of you, my fans. Because of your growing and unwavering support, this site needs to exist. This website will always be changing and updating so check back often.
Back in July when I was in California riding the local tracks coaching some riders, the amount of love and support racers gave me, made me get this in gear. A fan approached me at the end of one of the days and showed me the largest chief tattoo I have ever seen (I'll see if he would mind if we posted a photo, it was so cool) he asked me to sign it so he could go and have my signature tattooed with it! Talk about a great fan and I know there are many more great fans out there!
People ask me all the time about SR helmets and how many my good friend, Troy Lee designed and I have taken photos of them all here for you to see. In the coming weeks, I will be adding photos of my bikes I still have and other SR items for you to see, so stay tuned.
In the about SR section, I am willing to bet that you will learn something new about me, I know I did! Currently, I work for Speed TV, help coach at the Yamaha Champions School, ride pedal bikes and play with my toys at home when I have free time. You can also see where I am traveling to or coming from by checking out the calendar.
The videos section is another part of the site that will be changing as I upload more videos, some of them are pretty funny, stay tuned!
Lastly, check out the official SR products that you the fans can purchase. All of the official SR clothing is on this site and will come with my signature on it somewhere, so look for it! Check this section out often as well, all clothing is limited edition and when it's gone, it's gone! You will see new items coming.
I hope you enjoy this site as much as I did putting it together. To keep up with me, "like" my fan page on Facebook and "follow" me on Twitter and if you see me at the races, say hello!


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An Ezreal was yelling in my last match about how junglers can't get counterpicked. While I laughed at how wrong this was, it got me thinking. How would someone go about countering a jungler such as Shyvanna, Udyr or Dr. Mundo (IE fast clearing, tanky junglers)? Well, besides the obvious answer of ward moar and try to steal their stuff.
Those junglers are so good because no one really can counter them effectively. They will win 1v1 almost indefinitely (or buy time for the lanes to come in).
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Well if I were you, I would counter pick one of those junglers with another. If they pick Mundo, pick Shyvana, if the pick Shyvana, pick Udyr etc. Or, pick trundle. He can deflect counter jungling like a boss.
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What would you do against a good shaco jungler? I mean buying wards early game is costly, you would want to use that gold for better builds for better clearing but since you're on the defensive early on...?
The clock counters Shaco. He has a fantastic early game, and falls to near uselessness late game. You should also counter jungle Shaco when he goes to gank, it will mess him up a ton.
I feel you can always pick a counter to weaker junglers and easy boss jungles like if I see someone pick Amumu im probably going to pick someone like lee sin to bully his jungle take his buffs and be able to out do him.
Jungle no counterpick? loooool its called not overextending and putting down wards


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The city of Wilmington has started to receive some applications for its soon-to-be vacant city council seat.
So far, three men have applied for Jason Thompson's spot. Thompson was elected to the New Hanover County Commission and plans to resign from city council at the end of the month.
Kevin O'Grady is president of Residents of Old Wilmington, and said he has spent years representing folks in downtown and would bring energy to city council.
Jeff Hovis runs a formal wear business and said issues important to him are quality employment and infrastructure.
Dana Page is a marketing and sales COO who said he can bring financial leadership to the council.
Anyone interested in applying has until Monday and should apply with the city clerk's office.


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Xmas in France 2013
Er wow, i have so much work to dive right into (yay!) that i'm just gonna post up some pix of Christmas first and add the words later XD TA! Busy fairy signing out.
Me scaring Emma
Oh i wish i had a cellar! A place to keep all our wines in stellar condition! The best we could do in KL is get a cooler i guess.
In the middle is Delphine, Clem's cousin who resides in San Fran. Her children Romeo and Lella are next to her.
Clem's cousin Manu is a hardcore ACDC fan. I didn't even take pictures of everything in that room… especially since there are books, mags and probably clothes in the cupboards too!
We broke open his ACDC beer and wine, wasn't too bad actually.


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