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Adelphia's business arm shares positive news
June 30, 2002 8:00 pm | by Staff | CommentsThe very public trials and tribulations of their parent company notwithstanding, Adelphia Business Solutions is trumpeting some initial success as leader of a program to network Pennsylvania state government offices and agencies. ABS, the business services spin-off of troubled parent Adelphia Communications, leads a consortium of 13 companies in a project to bring high-bandwidth voice, data, In...
Turner serves up interactive Wimbledon fare
June 30, 2002 8:00 pm | by Staff | CommentsWimbledon, tennis' most regal fortnight, is getting an interactive facelift this year, thanks to a collaboration between Turner Sports Inc. and the All England Lawn & Tennis Club. In addition to the usual coverage on TNT, some viewers are also getting treated to Wink-enabled polls and trivia, a VOD package that touts some classic Wimbledon matches and wireless updates from America Online.
Cogency bows HomePlug wall adapter
June 30, 2002 8:00 pm | by Staff | CommentsHoping to spur the powerline home networking sector, Cogency Semiconductor has launched a HomePlug wall adapter reference design with a USB interface. Cogency said it will sell the design and manufacturing kit to consumer electronics companies for about $25,000. Each kit includes all relevant manufacturing support materials, including schematics, bill of materials and layout guideline.
Pioneer puts pen to paper on PHILA
June 30, 2002 8:00 pm | by Staff | CommentsPioneer Cable and Communications Group has added its name to the short list of companies to sign the CableLabs Point of Deployment Host Interface License Agreement. The PHILA agreement gives Pioneer access to Motorola Broadband's proprietary DFAST (Dynamic Feedback Arrangement Scrambling Technique) copy protection technology and configurations to build OpenCable-compliant set-top boxes that int...
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June 30, 2002 8:00 pm | by Staff | CommentsMidStream Technologies hopes to take video-on- demand to the next level with a new high-density video server designed to push costs below $115 per stream, and perhaps break the $100 barrier in big volumes. The Bellevue, Wash.-based start-up also claims that its 2U-high IP2000 series server also gives more bang for the buck via a sustained throughput of 1.
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June 30, 2002 8:00 pm | by Staff | CommentsA Delaware District Court jury has unanimously upheld an nCUBE Corp. patent for video-on-demand, ruling that rival vendor SeaChange International "willfully infringed the patent." The jury also ruled that SeaChange must pay nCUBE in excess of $2 million in damages, plus a seven percent royalty on all sales of infringing products after Feb.
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June 30, 2002 8:00 pm | by Staff | CommentsGetting through CableLabs with a passing grade for the complex DOCSIS 1.1 specification apparently is becoming old hat. Following certification wave 22, CableLabs said it certified or re-certified eight cable modems and qualified or re-qualified nine cable modem termination systems for DOCSIS 1.1, which underlies cable's IP-based PacketCable platform.
Xtend trumpets 3 GHz cable overlay
June 30, 2002 8:00 pm | by Staff | CommentsIsrael-based Xtend Networks Inc. is marketing an electronics-laden overlay designed to boost a cable network's capacity by as much as 3 GHz without upgrading the network's infrastructure. The company has already found a supporter in Israeli MSO Golden Channels, which has completed a beta trial of Xtend's technology.
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June 30, 2002 8:00 pm | by Staff | CommentsManhattan Digital Corp. (MDC) has inked a deal to purchase Motorola Broadband's Matamoros, Mexico-based set-top and cable modem repair business for an undisclosed sum. MDC said it expects to close the deal for the division, dubbed Ensambladora de Matamoros S.A. de C.V. (EDEMSA), by 2Q 2002.
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Moloney takes top spot at Motorola Broadband
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Hi everyone,
I must admit I have had a tough year in 2005...but it did for sure teach me lots of things as well.
To be out for a whole season due to an injury after the most successful year of my career was really painful and instructive. I learned about when to practice hard and when I should listen to my body's call to rest. I realized that a lot of tennis fans do follow me and support me even when I'm injured and it's made me stronger in character and mind. After a long time of physiotherapy and rest, my shoulder is pain free and I have been practicing very hard for the last 3 months. I cant wait to start playing matches and I think is all I need.
I have another news for you all. I have started to practice with ALAADDIN KARAGOZ, and am planning to work with him during the 2006 season. I and close friends call him ALO - it's his nickname and I have already added a lot to my volley and my serve due to the technical changes we have made during the time off. I admire him a lot since I grew up watching Alo's many matches and hope to have my best years in tennis to come.
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I have a 51 Chevy 2 dr and considering a Nova or Camaro front end. I do not really want to clip the frame, Has any one done this by just using the nova crossmember and suspension? Any tips?
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Your '51 already has an IFS, It is the same suspension as the '53-62 Corvette. If your just looking for disc brakes, there are conversion kits out there.
Fat 50; thanks for the reply. Actually, while it does have IFS it still has kingpins and a few other parts which may be costly to rebuild or replace. I am considering a small block and wonder if the stock steering components would be an issue. Power steering would be a plus with the SBC. I have seen several V8's and the only clean ones are running nova subs but I do not want to clip mine, if the stock steering is not a real issue I will use it.
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I've checked out several '49-54's running around the Detriot area with V-8's. There seems to be 3 main setups (lumping them into 3) Stock front, Mustang II on stock frame rails, and "clipped" front ends. The stock front suspension will hold the V no problem (the I6 is something like 41 pounds heavier than a SCB, go figure)
The Mustang II setups are pretty slick (you get discs, rack and pinion and easy parts availibilty) The stock suspension can be converted to disc ( I used ECI for the plates) but theres a warning about keeping an eye on the tie rods due to greater braking force trying to toe the wheels in on hard braking. And last is the "clipped" cars, some of them i would be afraid to have the drive next to me on the road, while others look like GM themselves did the conversion. C |
The thing that got me thinking about this was a FATMAN ad, They advertise a hub to hub setup starting about $1500.
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Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA)
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The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA) is a U.S. Senate bill designed to allow more sharing of "cyber threat intelligence" between the U.S. government and private sectors. If passed, the bill would allow the government with additional powers and resources to monitor the online activities of U.S. citizens to prevent cybercrimes, namely trafficking in intellectual property and counterfeit goods. While it was proposed as an amendment to the National Security Act of 1947, the bill has been widely viewed as a companion bill to the SOPA and PIPA.
Sponsored by Representatives Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Charles Albert "Dutch" Ruppersberger (D-MD), the CISPA bill[2] was formally announced on March 29th, 2012 in a press release[8] by the U.S. House of Representative's Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which also noted that the bill has received bipartisan support support from over 100 Members of Congress.
If the bill is passed by the U.S. Congress, Internet companies and websites would be required to collect private information of their users and pass them onto the government upon request. Despite the popular comparison between CISPA and its unsuccessful precedents SOPA and PIPA, the new bill would reward companies for collecting data, intercepting or modifying communications and passing information over to the government. According to the official press release, the bill has gained support from several Internet giants like AT&T, Verizon and Facebook.
Notable Developments
News Media Coverage
The announcement of the bill was picked up by TechDirt[7] and Russia Today[3] on April 2nd, 2012 and spread across a number of other tech news blogs like WebProNews and The Huffington Post[6], as well as digital rights advocacy groups Center for Democracy[11] and Technology and Electronic Frontiers Foundation.[12]
Corporate Support
The Internet companies in support of the bill ranges from telecommunications companies like AT&T,
US Telecom and Verizon to Internet companies like Facebook and Oracle, as well as hardware manufacturers Intel and IBM. The complete list of private companies in support of the bill can be found in the official U.S. House of Representatives' press release. In the Congress, the bill has received backings from at least 100 Congress members as of April 6th, 2012.
The proposal of CISPA was met by heavy criticisms from the opponents of SOPA and PIPA and organizers of the January 2012 protests, who likened the latest bill to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill with a new name. On April 3rd, Electronic Frontier Foundation's Trevor Timm appeared in an interview with RT, during which he raised numerous concerns regarding the lack of specifications and potential conflicts with privacy laws. On the same day, the Center for Democracy and Technology's Kendall Burman also chimed in with similar explanations on the same news program.
During the third week of April, numerous civil liberties organizations and notable figures in the Internet world joined the opposition movement by publicly spoke out against the bill:
- On April 16th, Reporters Without Borders also published an article opposing the legislation of the CISPA bill, describing its provisions as "draconian measures to monitor, even censor, the Web.
- On April 18th, Dr. Tim Berners-Lee expressed his opposition in an interview with The Guardian[14], warning that if passed, the bill will threaten the rights of American people and effectively the rest of the world."
- On April 19th, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a statement[13] opposing the bill, asserting that "beyond the potential for massive data collection authorization, the bill would provide no meaningful oversight of, or accountability for, the use of these new information-sharing authorities."
- On April 23rd, 18 Democratic House members signed a letter[17] raising concerns with the lack of safeguard provisions in the bill, mainly in determining what information will be shared, who in the federal government and intelligence communities can access the said information and the purpose in which that information will be used. On the same day, Republican congressman and GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul described CISPA as "the latest assault on Internt freedom."
Online Petitions
The global civic organization Avaaz[5] was one of the first groups to react to the news of CISPA with an online petition titled "Save the Internet from the US." Since its launch on April 5th, 2012, the petition has accumulated more than 752,000 signatures in less than three weeks. The petition was further supported by the community of Reddit, which played an integral role during the online protests against SOPA and PIPA in January 2012.
Between the months of February and March 2012, over 100 posts related to the topic of CISPA have been submitted to Reddit[9], one of the major participants during the SOPA protest blackout in January. On April 23rd, Redditor HazySummerSky posted a link to the Avaaz petition in a thread titled "Reddit, we took the anti-SOPA petition from 943,702 signatures to 3,460,313. The anti-CISPA petition is at 691,768, a bill expansively worse than SOPA. Please bump it, then let us discuss further measures or our past efforts are in vain. We did it before, I'm afraid we are called on to do it again." In less than 24 hours, the thread received more than 52,700 upvotes and reached the frontpage.
Stop Cyber Spying Week
On April 16th, 201, a coalition of civil liberties groups and digital rights advocates launched an online campaign dubbed the "Stop Cyber Spying Week" with Twitter hashtags #CISPA and #CongressTMI in an effort to raise awareness of the bill. The participating groups includes the Constitution Project, American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Center for Democracy and Technology, Fight for the Future, Free Press, Reporters Without Borders, Sunlight Foundation and TechFreedom among others. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the spearheading organizers in the movement, released an infographic post[16] detailing the implications of CISPA (shown below).
Hackers Target CIA Website
On April 24th, hackers associated with the anti-U.S. government hacktivist group "UGNazi" claimed responsibility for launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and successfully bringing down the websites of the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice. According to the International Business Times[15], intrusion was initially claimed by associates of the Anonymous hacktivists, but later gave credit to UGNazi for taking the assault in protesting against CISPA. Meanwhile, spokespeople from the agency did not confirm the attack but said they were "looking into these reports."
Cia.gov was not taken down by #anonymous ,but by @UG , #UGNazi , not #Anonymous ,HF kids stop taking credit.
— AoS (@AnonOpsSweden) April 23, 2012
The UGNazi group was formed by hacktivists JoshTheGod aka Josh Matthews, MrOsama and AntiGov, who hacked the Ultimate Fighting Championship website following the company's endorsement of the controversial SOPA bill in January 2012. A day prior to the attack on April 23rd, UGNazi claimed to have intercepted a notice sent by the FBI's Assistant Director in Charge Janice Fedarcyk to the field offices, which was published via Pastebin[18] in the name of a protest against CISPA.
House Passes CISPA
On April 26th, 2012, the House passed bill with 248 yes votes and 168 no votes.[20] During hours of debate on the floor, a total of 11 amendments were approved for CISPA, including limitations of circumstances under which user information can be shared with the government.[20] Following its passage, both the opponents and proponents of CISPA issued public statements; Privacy advocacy and civil liberties groups like The Center for Democracy and Technology withdrew its support for the bill and the American Civil Liberties Union raised concerns with its broad scope and language of the bill. The White House[27] also reiterated its opposition against the latest version of CISPA, hinting that Obama's senior advisors would recommend a veto action against it.
Online Reactions
Tech companies' reactions were largely divided on the House passage of the bill. Although it was initially reported in the news[21] that Microsoft has softened its support for the bill citing privacy reasons, the company's spokesperson[22] later reaffirmed that Microsoft's position remains unchanged. Meanwhile, Mozilla[23] openly denounced the bill by stating that "the bill infringes on our privacy, includes vague definitions of cybersecurity, and grants immunities to companies and government that are too broad around information misuse." Reddit also went abuzz with the news of the bill's passage; In a post titled "Let's get Reddit Inc. interested in opposing CISPA,"[24] Redditor Zenkin proposed a plan to boycott the site, citing frustration with Reddit administrators' lack of efforts in raising awareness of the bill. Later on the same day, Reddit released a statement[25] acknowledging the concerns of the community. Another thread[26] started by Redditor Zenkin proposed an idea for an interest group for the freedom of the Internet, which turned into an impromptu fundraising event for existing digital rights organizations. By Monday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation[31] had received 200 individual donations in amount up to $7,500.
Anonymous: Operation Defense
On April 27th, 2012, Anonymous-affiliated YouTube channel TheAnonMessage uploaded a communique video titled "Operation Defense: Phase II," which proposed a series of "coordinated physical demonstrations" against the bill and its corporate supporters. The group also acknowledged the reduced effectiveness of DDoS attacks due to many companies' server upgrade.
Senate Rejects CISPA
On May 24th, 2012, a coalition of internet privacy advocacy groups led by Fight for the Future launched the online campaign Privacy is Awesome[32], which proposed a plan to contact the offices of U.S. senators during the Memorial Day recess before they vote.
In contrary to the initial outlook that the CISPA would be put to vote by the Senate in early June 2012 following the Memorial Day recess, the cloture on the bill was repeatedly postponed for nearly two months. On August 2nd, with the final outcome of 52 yes votes and 46 votes, the bill was declared to be shelved indefinitely.
Return of the CISPA
On February 8th, 2013, U.S. House Representative Mike Rogers and C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger announced a plan to bring the CISPA back in a press release. That same day, Bloomberg reported that the White House is preparing to sign an executive order in an effort to improve U.S. cybersecurity infrastructure, citing two former officials briefed on the administration's plans.
Anonymous: Operation SOTU
On February 12th, in response to the news reports of the CISPA's return, Anon Relations released a communique titled "Operation SOTU," calling on citizens of the Internet to disrupt the State of the Union by affecting the online streaming of the presidential address on major news websites.
We reject the State of the Union. We reject the authority of the President to sign arbitrary orders and bring irresponsible and damaging controls to the Internet. The President of the United States of America, and the Joint Session of Congress will face an Army tonight. We will form a virtual blockade between Capitol Hill and the Internet. Armed with nothing more than Lulz, Nyancat and PEW-PEW-PEW! Lazers, we will face down the largest superpower on Earth. And we will win! There will be no State of the Union Address on the web tonight.
Throughout the day, the group's call to action quickly spread across the internet and tech news sites. However, no major disruptions to the streaming service were reported by YouTube or the White House during the course of the address and by 10:18 p.m. (ET), ComputerWorld had reported that Anonymous failed to accomplish its objectives.
Executive Order on Cybersecurity
Meanwhile, President Obama confirmed during his State of the Union address that he has signed an executive order that will establish more effective means of information sharing between the government and private sectors, including the expansion of a real-time communications software program currently limited to private companies in the defense industry, as well as a presidential directive that will launch a program to come up with cybersecurity standards.
House Passes CISPA Again
On April 17th, the day before the House's scheduled vote on the bill, Washington D.C.'s political news site The Hill reported[47] that a minor compromise had been reached between the advocates and the opposition with the last-minute inclusion of a pro-privacy amendment that "would require the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to establish an entity to receive cyber threat information from companies." On April 18th, 2013, the House of Representatives voted 288-127 to pass CISPA.[37]
Despite Representative Rogers assuring his peers that the final revision of the bill would include privacy safeguards, at the time it was passed, there were no requirements that sensitive information pertaining to health or banking records would have to be anonymized before passed on to the government.[38] Because of this, President Obama's top advisers have recommended that he veto the bill if it passes in the Senate.[39]
2013 Blackout Protest
On April 20th, 2013, Anonymous affiliate YourAnonNews called for a blackout[40] protest against the House passage of CISPA on Monday, April 22nd, asking Internet users to change their profile photos to ones promoting the Twitter hashtag #StopCISPA.[41] Nearly 500 websites, including personal blogs, gaming sites and Facebook fan pages, pledged to go offline for the day,[42] many of them replacing the homepage content with a number of promotional images provided by Anonymous (shown below, left). Additionally, a number of subreddits including /r/Funny[43] chose to set the page's CSS code to make the background black (shown below, right), while other subreddits chose to go private for the day.[44] On Tumblr, many users chose not to blog for the day[45], supplementing this by blacking out their blog's homepag ewith CSS code[46] circulating via Pastebin.
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External References
[1]Digital Trends – Watch out, Washington CISPA replaces SOPA as Internet's Enemy No. 1
[2]The Library of Congress – Bill HR 3523
[3]RT – Even worse than SOPA: New CISPA cybersecurity bill will censor the Web
[4]YouTube – CISPA: Nightmare Cybersecurity Bill
[5]Avaaz – Stop CISPA
[6]Huffington Post – Congress Renames SOPA, Hopes No One Will Notice
[7]TechDirt – Forget SOPA, You Should Be Worried About This Cybersecurity Bill
[8]U.S. House – Co-sponsors Top 100 for the Rogers-Ruppersberger
Bipartisan Cyber Bill
[9]Reddit – Even worse than SOPA: New CISPA cybersecurity bill will censor the Web
[10]Avaaz – Save the Internet from the US
[11]Center for Democracy & Technology – Cybersecurity's 7-Step Plan for Internet Freedom
[12]Electronic Frontier Foundation – Don't Let Congress Use "Cybersecurity" Fears to Trample on Civil Liberties
[13]American Civil Liberties Union – Proposed Amendments to #CISPA Don't Protect Privacy
[14]The Guardian – Tim Berners-Lee warns against web snooping bill – audio
[15]International Business Times – Hackers Target CIA Website Against CISPA
[16]Electronic Frontier Foundation – Stop Cyber Spying Week Launches to Protest CISPA
[17]ComputerWorld – CISPA Concerns Spread in Congress
[18]Pastebin – FBI Court Order Leaked
[19]TechDirt – Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote
[20]Washington Post – CISPA passes the House, privacy battle moves to Senate
[21]CNET – Microsoft backs away from CISPA support, citing privacy
[22]The Hill – Microsoft denies softening of CISPA support
[23]CNET – Mozilla is first major tech company to denounce CISPA
[24]Reddit – Let's get Reddit Inc. interested in opposing CISPA
[25]Reddit – A quick note on CISPA and related bills
[26]Reddit – Why don't we form an Internet Freedom Association like the NRA has for firearms?
[27]White House – STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY
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Cleveland won 2-1
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Game 2: Tuesday, June 28 | ||
Cleveland | 4 | Final |
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Game 3: Wednesday, June 29 | ||
Cleveland | 6 | Final |
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Indians 6
(42-37, 18-23 away)
Diamondbacks 2
(44-38, 23-19 home)
3:40 PM ET, June 29, 2011
Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
W: C. Carrasco (8-4)
L: Z. Duke (1-3)
PHOENIX -- Chalk up another gem for Cleveland's young Carlos Carrasco.
The 24-year-old right-hander gave up solo homers to Justin Upton and Stephen Drew, but otherwise stifled Arizona through seven innings in the Indians' 6-2 victory on Wednesday as Cleveland took two of three in the interleague series."Unbelievable," Indians teammate Orlando Cabrera said. "Carlos, he's been incredible the last five, six starts. When we need him, he's just been incredible for us."Carrasco gave up four hits, striking out seven with no walks. He hit two batters. He has allowed a combined four earned runs while going 4-1 in his last five starts, a span of 36 2/3 innings. Manager Manny Acta said that since Cabrera came off the disabled list (right elbow inflammation) on May 11, he has been more willing to use all four of his pitches rather than just his fastball and change-up. The young Venezuelan agreed."I mix up everything," he said.Cabrera, who delivered the deciding home run in the series opener, had a season-high four hits. He doubled, scored twice and drove in a run as the Indians won for just the third time in nine games.Asdrubal Cabrera added three hits, including a double and an RBI single. The Indians could have made it much worse -- they outhit the Diamondbacks 15-4 but stranded a season-high 15 runners.Carrasco (8-4) struck out seven, walked none and hit two batters while improving to 4-1 in his last five starts.The series victory came after the Indians scored just four runs while being swept in three games in San Francisco."I thought it was a very good bounce-back after yesterday (a 5-4 loss) and after the series in San Francisco," Acta said. "Our pitching continues to be good. Carrasco was outstanding."The Diamondbacks play their next 10 on the road leading up to the All-Star game, to be played in Phoenix on July 12.Carrasco held the Diamondbacks hitless until Upton's 13th home run of the season, with one out in the fourth, cut the lead to 4-1. Drew's homer, leading off the sixth, landed in the Cleveland bullpen down the right field line to make it 4-2.The Indians scored four time on eight hits off Zach Duke (1-3) in the first three innings. Asdrubal Cabrera, Carlos Santana and Michael Brantley each had RBI singles in the early flurry. The fourth run scored on Jack Hannahan's groundout when first baseman Juan Miranda's throw to second for what could have been a double play hit the runner.Consecutive singles by the Cabreras and Santana made it 1-0 in the first, then two-out RBI singles by Brantley and Asdrubal Cabrera put Cleveland up 3-0 in the second.The Indians scored off newly arrived reliever Yhency Brazoban in the eighth when Orlando Cabrera doubled and Travis Buck singled with two outs.Cleveland made it 6-2 in the ninth off David Hernandez when Orlando Cabrera singled home Lou Marson from second, the runner barely avoiding Miguel Montero's tag on the throw from strong-armed Gerardo Parra in left."I don't think we played very good today," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said. "Yeah, he (Duke) gave up nine hits in five innings but we all feel like we could have played better today. Their guy threw the ball very well. They had 15 hits and left 15 on base. They pressured us very well, they outplayed us and they beat us."Duke has allowed 20 runs in his last four starts, none of them longer than five innings."You want to see better results and for him you worry about his confidence," Gibson said. "I talked to him a little after he came out of the game, I thought he actually threw the ball better. I didn't feel like we were particularly sharp."Game notes
Gibson said after the game that the team would release third baseman Melvin Mora on Thursday. The corresponding move would be made Friday, he said. ... Struggling Arizona closer J.J. Putz is expected to get some time off with what general manager Kevin Towers believes is a "dead arm." ... Entering the game, right-handers were hitting .393 against Duke this season, lefties .115. ... Carrasco had given up four homers all season entering the game. ... This marked the eighth time Upton and brother B.J., who plays for Tampa Bay, homered on the same day. ... Arizona topped 1 million for home attendance this season. ... Miranda is hitless in his last 30 at-bats at Chase Field. ... Cleveland plays a three-game series weekend in Cincinnati to end a nine-game road trip.
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Regular Season Series
Cleveland leads 2-1 (as of Wed 6/29) | ||
Mon 6/27 | CLE 5, @ARI 4 | Recap |
Tue 6/28 | @ARI 6, CLE 4 | Recap |
» Wed 6/29 | CLE 6, @ARI 2 | Box Score |
Complete Schedule: Indians | Diamondbacks |
Scoring Summary
1st | C Santana singled to left center, O Cabrera scored, A Cabrera to second. | 1 | 0 | |
2nd | M Brantley singled to right, J Hannahan scored, M Brantley to second advancing on throw. | 2 | 0 | |
2nd | A Cabrera singled to center, M Brantley scored, O Cabrera to second. | 3 | 0 | |
3rd | J Hannahan grounded out to first, S Duncan scored, L Marson to second. | 4 | 0 | |
4th | J Upton homered to left center (438 feet). | 4 | 1 | |
6th | S Drew homered to right (368 feet). | 4 | 2 | |
8th | T Buck singled to center, O Cabrera scored, A Cabrera to second. | 5 | 2 | |
9th | O Cabrera singled to left center, L Marson scored, C Phelps to second. | 6 | 2 | |
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Game Information
Stadium | Chase Field, Phoenix, AZ |
Attendance | 26,876 (55.3% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 3:12 |
Weather | indoors |
Umpires | Home Plate - Mike Dimuro, First Base - David Rackley, Second Base - Tim Welke, Third Base - Jim Reynolds |


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Military software developers are getting a social network that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) hopes will make them more productive and boost code sharing and reuse.
As we reported earlier this week, DISA is basing the Forge.mil Community on Acquia's version of Drupal Commons, a social networking extension of the open source Drupal Web content management platform.
By choosing a social environment based on Drupal, DISA was able to customize the open source software to achieve a seamless integration between the Forge.mil community and the software collaboration environment based on SourceForge. "I don't think we could have gotten any other product as integrated as we have" with the same level of time and effort, Gahafer said.
Whitehouse.gov, along with millions of other sites on the Web, is based on Drupal—free, open-source software, built by a global community of volunteers, that enables users to build websites even if they have little to no programming skill. The project has grown steadily since Dries Buytaert founded it in 2001, and more than a thousand people participated in creating Drupal 7, which was released in January. As the community gears up for work on Drupal 8, it is working to preserve an environment that will remain friendly to collaboration now that the project has outgrown the informal systems that have served it to date.
Using open source software in the federal government is challenging, but the problem is not due to the technology. The problem lies with old procurement models and regulations that are better suited for buying file cabinets and missiles than negotiating licenses for "free" open source software.
Still, the desire within government to use open source is strong, and it's driving some to McGyver-like lengths to use what they think is best suited for the job.
Open Source Websites in Government: Dries Buytaert and Tim Bertrand of Acquia join Gov 2.0 Radio's Adriel Hampton and Steve Ressler for a discussion of open source software and open government. Dries, who created the popular content management system Drupal 10 years ago as a student, calls on the government community to give back to the open source community while expanding usefulness of the technology.
Drupal enterprise pushers Acquia make a big hire in Europe to spearhead the expansion of the company's footprint on the continent.
New Office, Old Home Acquia is pushing open source CMS Drupal around the world to enterprises on the back of great growth in 2010. To do that they need boots on the ground and Jim Shaw is the man to lead the surge. The former Software AG and webMethods man is taking on the role of General Manager for Europe....
Acquia is a for-profit company, based on the free/open source content management system Drupal. When Acquia was founded, a little over three years ago, I remarked on its similarity to Automattic (which is based on WordPress).
Today, Acquia and Drupal founder Dries Buytaert posted about "the vision that we've been working towards for the last 3 years, and… how Acquia can help simplify your web strategy." That's based on the premise that "you" are (or are a member of) an organization with multiple websites. Since the sites differ in many ways (scale, rate of change, etc.), you find yourself with a variety of platforms.
Drupal creator and project lead, Dries Buytaert, speaks passionately about the company he began as a hobby during his college days, with the business reach of Buytaert now extending into software company Acquia and Mollom.
Computerworld Australia caught up with Buytaert while he was in Australia for the first DrupalDownunder 2011 conference held last month in Brisbane, with the developer addressing claims that Drupal is a complex content management system (CMS) that becomes unmanageable once it is customised.
"At the end of the day, a content management system like Drupal is a complex tool," he said. "Building a complex website is not necessarily easy. It's not a magical tool that will automatically build your website for you; it still needs some tweaking and some learning."
A passion for PHP, as well as a strong developer community, has been vital to Drupal's success, founder Dries Buytaert said.
Speaking to Computerworld Australia, Buytaert said Drupal's growth can be partly attributed to the fact that the open source content management system (CMS) is written in PHP.
"I think one of the reasons Drupal grew and is one of the dominant systems on the Web is because it's written in PHP," he said. "The reason is that PHP is very accessible, it's very easy for developers to open the code and make any changes."
While Buytaert has no regrets writing Drupal in PHP, he said the company's growth has resulted in an increased need for PHP developers.
There are more than a trillion URLs in Google's index. Yes, that's a one with twelve zeros after it. And Google crossed that milestone two and a half years ago. With so many sites on the web in 2011, how do you know which to pay attention to?
Drupal 7, the latest upgrade to the popular open source Web content management system, is now generally available, Drupal builders said on Wednesday.
Drupal powers millions of websites and applications, including WhiteHouse.gov and InfoWorld.com. Better usability is a primary focus of version 7, which has been in development for three years, said Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. "We contracted with some of the world's best usability experts and we paid them for work on Drupal 7 usability for six months," said Buytaert, who is chief technology officer at Acquia, which provides commercial-grade support for Drupal.
A year ago, I wrote about how those looking for work should consider learning Drupal, an open-source Web content management system. According to the project team, Drupal now powers 1 percent of all of the Web sites in the world.
Throughout 2010, I made a habit of wrapping up interviews with what I am sure was perceived as a cruelly broad question: "What do you think the future Internet will look like?"
The responses I received varied a great deal, but usually began with something along the lines of "Wow. That's a big question."
The House is moving its 520 websites to the Drupal open-source platform and the 93 freshmen members will get the new platform first.
Admit it... you still have the mental energy for just one more list of prediction about 2011, right? Well, we have saved the best for last.
Announcing our inaugural list of (drum roll please...) 10 Companies to Watch in 2011!
This is not an exhaustive list as there are a number of exciting companies in the Boston area, but here are ten companies that definitely have our attention.
We know you have an opinion or your own picks, so comments are welcome below!
Open..and Shut Even as we rapidly approach a future where most software lives on the web, with acronyms like HTML5 and SaaS pointing the way, it's easy to overlook a primary building blog of yesterday's web, Drupal, and its effects on the future web. Drupal founder Dries Buytaert claims that Drupal already powers one per cent of the web. Could it do more?
Now 10,000 sites strong, Acquia's hosted version of Drupal, Drupal Gardens, which debuted in January – is positioned not only to eliminate barriers to adoption of the open source content management system to a crowd that would rather be hands-off on the hosting, configuration, security and upgrade front. It also is positioned potentially to help push the Semantic Web ahead, bringing technologies such as RDF to the attention of a new swath of users if it successfully surfs the wave behind Drupal.
Drupal Gardens, the planned cloud version of the open source Drupal content management system, went into a public beta stage Thursday, thus making it widely available for tryouts , said Drupal founder Dries Buytaert.
Drupal software, support, and hosting company Acquia announced that its Drupal Gardens leaves private beta today. Drupal Gardens is a content management & social publishing system, offering "Drupal-as-a-service" and greatly simplifying the creation and management of Drupal websites.
Whether you want to call it open core or open source or something else entirely, the software as a service business model has been gaining popularity.
Among the companies that have achieved financial success while having open source software at its core is Acquia, co-founded by the original developer of the Drupal Project, Dries Buytaert. I had the opportunity today to chat via phone with Buytaert and Acquia's CEO, Tom Erickson, about Drupal, Acquia's business model and the future of open source.
Every few years, Drupal violates one of the industry's most sacred rules: don't break your APIs.
The next version of the popular open source content management system – Drupal 7 – will do just that. And more. It will offer a redesigned user interface that targets – gasp! – non-technical users. It will hide features that devs know and love.
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NEW YORK ( Real Money) -- You've been an idiot if you've sold almost any stock so far since the start of 2013. You've been a moron if you've been waiting for revenue to pick up before you've bought. You have been a fool if you've feared the Federal Reserve would act imminently. You've been a total bozo if you've listened to President Obama about the crashing of the economy because of the sequester -- particularly if you've sold the defense names, which have been the best-acting stocks in the book.
In fact, the moves are eerie. It is as if there had been an edict that every stock -- other than gold stocks, a copper or an iron ore stock and maybe a few steels -- that everything has to go higher.
To me this speaks directly to the notion of underinvestment and the supply and demand of equities.
For years and years now, companies have been taking in supply. Other than the equity sells mandated by the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the endless master limited partnerships, very little stock has been issued. One year after Facebook (FB), and the only two initial public offerings of any real size have been Pinnacle Foods (PF), a $3 billion company and Quintiles TransNational (Q), about a $6 billion company. Plus, it isn't as if we have had a lot of stock-for-stock deals that have seen a flood of new equity from mergers and acquisitions -- hardly. The very few deals we've gotten have tended to be cash-related. Meanwhile, the share retirement is out of control. While this market has simmered for the past three years, a huge amount of stock has vanished. Procter & Gamble (PG) has gone from 2.9 billion shares to 2.74 billion; CBS (CBS) has shrunk from 694 million to 638 million; Time Warner (TWX) had 1.145 billion and now has 950 million; Intel (INTC) went from 5.5 billion to 4.9 billion; Pfizer (PFE), at 8 billion, is now down to 7.2 billion; Wal-Mart (WMT) went from 3.87 billion to 3.3 billion; and Exxon Mobil (XOM) went from 4.8 billion to 4.48 billion. Even growth stocks like Celgene (CELG) have taken down their share count. Celgene's has fallen from 469 million to 432 million.Select the service that is right for you!
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Parkway Drive, a metalcore band from Australia hit the scene back in 2002. Since then they've come out with four studio albums and are currently writing new material for their fifth.
These heavy music-making Aussies are playing Warped Tour at Cruzan Amphitheatre this Saturday. We had the chance to speak with Winston McCall, the band's lead singer. Not your typical metal dude, Winston is more trad hardcore and lives the straight edge life. Being an Aussie, he of course loves to surf and has even graced the cover of Riptide Magazine.
Winston talked to us about bringing his wife along with him on tour and something about him that would surprise most of Parkway Drive's fans.
New Times: How's Warped Tour going so far?
Winston McCall: Amazing, the shows have been fantastic, and it's all going really smooth. The reception we've had so far has just blown anything we had, expectation wise, out of the water.
What's the hardest thing about being on tour?
Homesickness. I guess it's a cop out because you're away from home doing these amazing things but at the same time it's... Yeah I have family at home that I miss a hell of a lot. Luckily my wife is with me on Warped Tour.
That's awesome though that you get to bring your wife!
Yeah, it is. It's only been for the last couple of years that we've been able to do that so we spent four years of being apart before that. It sucked (laughs).
I guess Skype comes in handy when you have to be apart.
Yeah, it did yeah. And the first couple of years that we were touring was before Skype was even invented, so we were doing lots of phone cards in Europe and stuff like that. You had to type in a million numbers, and it was an absolute nightmare before Skype came along and changed everything. Thank God for the internet.
What's the craziest thing that's ever happened at one of your shows?
Oh (laughs)! Um, where do we start with that one? Crowd-surfing in wheelchairs is always a wild one. We had someone stage dive off a third story balcony which was pretty insane and resulted in security beating the hell out of him and then a riot involving broken Christmas trees which was one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen. We had someone in Russia light themselves on fire in the middle of the pit so yeah (laughs) take your pick out of those.
What attracted you to hardcore and metal?
Um, for me it was an evolution from punk rock basically. I was definitely one of the kids that kind of grew up not really fitting in too well. And the music itself carried this adrenaline and this push that really got my heart racing and kind of fueled me to want to do things and once I actually got into the lyrical side of things, I realized that it wasn't just pop music where they're singing about the same old crap. It really spoke to me. So that's kind of what got me into it. And then from there, we had the desire to push ourselves to be a heavier band.
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I went to Arizona that summer for my health. Talk about irony...
No, I don't have asthma, or anything like that. What I had-and still have, for that matter — was a bad case of parents. Two of them.
Mind you, they are marvelous. I love them. Separately they are unnerving but endurable. Together ... disaster, sheer disaster. Ulcermaking. Productive of high blood pressure, nervous tension, hives, indigestion, and other psychosomatic disorders.
I had not meant to mention my parents. I don't Want to hurt their feelings. However, there is no way of accounting for my presence at Hank Hunnicutt's ranch that summer unless I make unkind remarks about Mother and Dad. Pride prevents me from allowing anyone to suppose I went there of my own free will. Oh, well. It's unlikely that they would read a book like this. Mother only reads cookbooks and Barbara Cartland; Dad has never been discovered with any volume less esoteric than the Journal of Hellenic Studies.
I am not knocking my mother's literary tastes. She is probably the best cook in the entire Western world, and if, after a life which has included economic depression, World War II, and assorted personal tragedies, she can still believe in Barbara Cartland, then more power to her. I wouldn't mind her believing in Ro-mance, with the accent on the first syllable, if she didn't try to foist her opinions on me.
Mother thinks every nice girl ought to get married, read cookbooks, and have lots of children so she can be a grandmother. I don't know why she expects me to produce the grandchildren. I have four brothers and sisters. But I'm the oldest, and Mother's grandmotherlyinstincts began to burgeon when I hit puberty.
Dad thinks that every nice girl, and every nice boy, and all the boys and girls who aren't nice, should be archaeologists. He can't really understand why anyone would want to do anything else. He feels that there are too many people in the world anyway, so if they would just stop perpetuating themselves, then they could all live in the houses that have already been built, and grow just enough food to give themselves the strength to perform mankind's most vital endeavor — digging things up.
If he had left me alone, I might have turned out to be a classical archaeologist. It was a case of overkill. The first toy I can remember playing with was not a doll, or a toy train, or a stuffed kitty. It was a Greek stater. (That's an ancient silver coin.) The reason why I remember it is because I swallowed it, and the ensuing hullaballoo, left a deep impression on my infant mind.
My room, during my formative years, was a horrible mixture of my parents' tastes. Mother contributed dons that wet their diapers and threw up. Dad sneaked in copies of antique statues. The walls were hung with drawings of Winme the Poch and photographs of the Parthenon. When I outgrew my crib, Mother bought me a canopied bed with ruffles dripping from the top. And Dad found, God knows where, a bedspread with heads of Roman emperors printed on it.
So it went, all the way along: cooking lessons from Mother, visits to museums with Dad. It's no wonder that when I went to college I promptly flunked the introductory Greek course.
At the time I was absolutely crushed. I studied for that course. My God, how I studied! Six hours a day. Id go in for an exam, smugly sure that I had memorized every ending of every declension, and then my mind would go totally blank. I can see now why it happened, but five years ago, when I was eighteen, I could only conclude that I was hopelessly stupid. I contemplated slashing my wrists. I mean, one takes things so seriously at that age. The day my adviser called me in, to tell me as kindly as possible that I had better drop Greek before it dropped me, I got sick to my stomach at the very idea of calling Dad to tell him I was a failure. I even got out a bottle of aspirin it was the deadliest drug I owned-and sat contemplating it for about two and a half minutes. Then I remembered that poem of Dorothy Parker's:
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.It made better sense than anything I had heard in Greek class. So I went out and had a double hot-fudge banana split and, thus fortified, called Dad.He didn't yell at me. I knew he wouldn't. He was just sweet and pitying and encouraging, which is lots worse than being yelled at. He"s felt sorry for me ever since. Poor girl, she will never be able to read Homer in the original....I slid into anthropology through the back door. It was the closest thing I could find to archaeology that didn't require any dead languages. If I ever get to my Ph.D., I'll have to pass an exam in German or French or something, but I do all right with spoken languages; and everybody knows how ridiculous those graduate language exams are.Anthropology had another advantage. It disappointed both my parents. I mean, living with those two required a delicate balance. International diplomacy is nothing compared to the skill and wit involved in keeping Mother and Dad more or less even in their fond disapproval of my activities. If I pleased one of them, the other fell into a deep depression, while the favored parent gloated offensively. No, the only way to handle them was to keep them both in a gentle sweat of frustration.I needn't mention what Mother's idea of a suitable college major was, do I? Right. Domestic science, or whatever they call it these days. I wouldn't know. I never got near that part of the university, if there was such a part. I took pains not to find out.luv2readDB
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Tunnicliffe frustrated by lack of action
Defender James Tunnicliffe will have to wait a little longer for a return to the Bristol Rovers starting line-up, despite a number of defensive injuries for boss Paul Trollope.The 21-year-old has been a substitute for 12 games in a row and would have been a certainty to replace injured Wayne Brown from the start against Brighton on Saturday, just as he did for 53 minutes against Leyton Orient, but due to the terms of his loan deal from the Seagulls he will not be eligible.Speaking to This is Bristol, Tunnicliffe said: "It's been disappointing for me over the last few months."The only reason I came away from Brighton was to play football, and, unfortunately, that's not really happened for me lately, for whatever reason."I would probably have got a game this Saturday, but it's just my luck that I can't play."I know there's another big game coming up on Tuesday, so I'll just train as hard as I can this week and hopefully be involved in that."
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Constraint On The Control Benefits Of Brokerage: Evidence From U.S. Venture Capital Fundraising
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This paper investigates how the control benefits of a broker's structural position are constrained by the perceived quality of actors a broker may represent in an exchange. The author proposes that brokers prefer to represent high quality actors but also that the value an actor places on representation is inversely related to the actor's perceived quality. This tension implies that neither the actors that value representation most nor the actors that brokers would most like to represent are most likely to be represented by a broker. The author also proposes that this quality constraint on the control benefits of brokerage is mitigated by the matching of reputable brokers with high quality actors.
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5 proper page-turnerDAVIETN | 08/04/2010 | See all DAVIETN's reviews (4)I've just started reading this book, the 3rd in the Yelena Zaltana series. The previous two books (Poison Study, Magic Study) were excellent. The plot centres around Yelena for the whole of the book and doesn't twist and turn and branch off to other minor or supporting characters like many other authors tend to do. This keeps the story extremely fast paced - every page is about Yelena - and it just sucks you in. Normally I read a few pages, maybe a chapter before I go to sleep. These books kept me up until the early hours of the morning - I just couldn't put them down. From the 30 or so pages I've read so far, this 3rd installment is no exception- I have to force myself to stop reading after a few chapters otherwise I'd go through the whole thing in one or two sessions!I just hope Maria V Snyder keeps writing these excellent stories - as long as she does and they stay this good, I'll keep buying them.
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They are happy
With each other
They fight
With each other
But they forgive
Each other
They stay with the other
No matter what
It's as if they're puzzle pieces
That fit together
You are my friend
Is what I think
Even though
You tried to trick me
You abandoned me
You betrayed me
That's not what friends do
Is it?
Is it just a silly quarrel
Or is it me?
I feel sad
Or is this melancholy?
You try to take others
Away from me
But what did I do to you?
Is this just a trick
Like all your other lies
Just to fool me
And everyone else
You try to show everyone my reflection
So they see what I am deep inside
So that they see
The part of me that I hide
Are you my friend
Or are you a fake?
Like the rest
Are you twisting the truth
And making them lies
Just to spite me?
I won't retaliate
But I don't mind to
Not yet
Since you are my friend right?


text: Christian Bale stars in the true story of Dieter Dengler, a U.S. fighter pilot who was shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War, then escaped from captivity in a brutal P.O.W. camp to reach safety after a harrowing trek through the jungle. Steve Zahn and Jeremy Davies costar in this gripping tale of survival, directed by the legendary Werner Herzog.


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Hanson boys cruise to 77-37 win over MCS
Jordan Marquardt scored 25 points to help the Hanson boys' basketball team beat Mitchell Christian 77-37 Thursday at Mitchell Christian School.
Marquardt also had five assists, Taylor Nichols added 15 points, Sam Vander Stouwe had 13 points and seven rebounds and Jacob Paradeis also had 10 points for the Beavers.
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List Price: $45.95Publisher: Nordiska AfrikainstitutetBinding: PaperbackPages: 270Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall Weight: 0.792Language: English
In this book, KristÃn Loftsdóttir gives the reader a highly personal insight into the lives of the Wodaabe nomads of Niger, who are striving to make a living between the bush and the city. She spent nearly two years as a Wodaabe, living within a Wodaabe extended family and alternating between the nomadic setting of the bush and the urbanized life-style of the capital, Niamey. Loftsdóttir was thus in a unique position to observe the effects that increasing urbanization and globalization, together with the modern tourist industry's preconceptions and demands, have had on the identity and power relations of the Wodaabe. Interwoven with the abstract scientific observations are the more personal reflections and analyses of a young white woman on living within, and sharing all aspects of, the everyday lives of the Wodaabe with the broad spectrum of reactions which this entails. These sensitively written and honest descriptions, including details of what the author at times experiences as her own shortcomings within her project, give a most interesting dimension to the work not always found in anthropological studies.
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The German Bundeswehr is currently preparing another delivery of military equipment and supplies in the non-lethal category to assist Kurdish forces in northern Iraq in the fight against ISIS.
NASA and its International Partners welcomed the Expeditions 40 and 41 Crew members, including Alexander Gerst, home from their time on the International Space Station with an awards ceremony this week in Houston.
The city of Winterberg, translated as "Winter Mountain" in English, is aptly named, given that it is currently playing host to the 2015 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships. The winter sporting event takes place every two years, and this is the second time the city in North Rhine-Westphalia has hosted.
In the present case, the Foundation has handled the claim to the Guelph Treasure in accordance with the Washington Principles, the Common Declaration, and the Guidelines, and concluded that the property at issue was not confiscated by the Nazis.
Foundation Statement
"We, the four Ministers call for the strict implementation of all provisions of the Minsk agreements starting from a comprehensive ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy weapons."
Ministerial Meeting on Ukraine in Paris
Ahead of the G7 Summit in Elmau in June, young people from the G7 states—Germany, France, the UK, Canada, Italy, Japan and the USA—will meet in Berlin in May, together with experts from business, government and civil society, to discuss the same central topics that the leaders will discuss.
Youth Summit in Berlin
The German Federal Statistical Office released a more detailed report of German economic growth in 2014, which shows increases in exports and imports as well as a budget surplus. The ifo Business Climate Index continues to increase.
Budget Surplus
The German Bundestag would have to approve an extension of the assistance program for Greece this week. Without an extension, the program expires at midnight on Saturday.
Assistance for Greece
Today, twenty-five years after a peaceful revolution removed the artificial boundary and led to the unification of Europe, a movement is underway along the former Iron Curtain—in the form of chromium steel, titanium, and spandex.
Iron Curtain
Since the early 20th century, doughnuts have been a popular treat in the United States. More than 10 billion doughnuts are consumed annually in the US, due in part to the large-scale expansion of corporations like Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts. Although the diversity of colorful and frosted doughnuts might seem like an American delicacy, the origin of these sugar-laden treats lies at least partially in Germany.
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The Robotics and Mechatronics Center at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has made strides in recent years in developing humanoid robots. The ultimate goal is to produce robots that are sensitive enough to work in a human environment.
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If you're craving a healthy snack, what do you go for? Studentenfutter, perhaps? The German word Studentenfutter means "students' feed", but describes what we typically refer to as trail mix. And it has an interesting story dating back to the 1600s.
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Peter Wittig is the German Ambassador to the United States.
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The Skills Initiative works to introduce the German style dual training system in the US.
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PUNLMP (Papillary Urothelial Neoplasm of Low Malignant Potential) | |
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Micrograph of a PUNLMP. Intermediate magnification. H&E stain. |
PUNLMP (Papillary Urothelial Neoplasm of Low Malignant Potential) | |
Classification and external resources | |
Micrograph of a PUNLMP. Intermediate magnification. H&E stain. |
In urologic pathology, PUNLMP, short for papillary urothelial neoplasm of low malignant potential, is an exophytic (outward growing), (microscopically) nipple-shaped (or papillary) pre-malignant growth of the lining of the upper genitourinary tract (the urothelium), which includes the renal pelvis, ureters, urinary bladder and part of the urethra.
PUNLMP is pronounced pun-lump, like the words pun and lump.
As their name suggests, PUNLMPs are neoplasms, i.e. clonal cellular proliferations, that are thought to have a low probability of developing into urothelial cancer, i.e. a malignancy such as bladder cancer.
They are thought to be relatively rare; one study of two-hundred papillary urothelial lesions found a prevalence of 0-3.5%.[1]
PUNLMPs can lead to blood in the urine (hematuria) or may be asymptomatic.
PUNLMPs are exophytic lesions that appear friable to the naked eye and when imaged during cystoscopy. They are definitively diagnosed after removal by microscopic examination by pathologists.
Histologically, they have a papillary architecture with slender fibrovascular cores and rare basal mitoses. The papillae rarely fuse and uncommonly branch. Cytologically, they have uniform nuclear enlargement.
They cannot be reliably differentiated from low grade papillary urothelial carcinomas using cytology,[2] and their diagnosis (vis-a-vis low grade papillary urothelial carcinoma) has a poor inter-rater reliability.[3]
Pathologic grading and staging tumors are: graded by the degree of cellular atypia (G1->G3), and staged:
- papilloma - papillary tumor of low malignant potential (PTLMP) - papillary urothelial carcinomas low grade - papillary urothelial carcinomas high grade.
PUNLMPs are treated like non-invasive low grade papillary urothelial carcinomas,[2] excision and regular follow-up cystoscopies.
There is a rare occurrence of a pelvic recurrence of a low-grade superficial TCC after cystectomy. Delayed presentation with recurrent low-grade urothelial carcinoma is an unusual entity and potential mechanism of traumatic implantation should be considered. Characteristically low-grade tumor's are resistant to systemic chemotherapy and curative-intent surgical resection of the tumor should be considered.


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Join the Parks & Recreation staff for a FREE late summer viewing of the family classic movie, The Sandlot. Bring a chair or blanket to relax on! There will also be door prizes and concessions available. For more information, call. All Ages.
Friday, August 29, 8:30 PM
Gerault Park – 1200 Gerault Road, Flower Mound, TX 75028
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Cost: Free