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At the age of just 11, Ita Buttrose knew she wanted to be a journalist. But she also thought she'd leave the workforce after having children.
"I thought I would work for a few years, marry, have children and leave the workforce to become a housewife," she told Women's Agenda late last year.
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"I married and had children but kept on working, becoming part of women's changing world, much of which was driven by the arrival of women's liberation. It has been an exciting time to be a woman!"
The former Australian Women's Weekly copy girl became the Daily Telegraph's women's editor at just 23 and was later promoted to launch the groundbreaking woman's title, Cleo. She was the first woman appointed editor of a major metropolitan newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, and the first again to take a seat on the News Ltd board.
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Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences - The Wrong Life // Track-by-Track
Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences are set to release their EP on Audio Anithero this Monday, and to celebrate we got Paul Hawkins to write a track-by-track guide. Not only that, but we have the full EP stream for you to check out too.
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The Beginning of Mr Hyde
One of the big changes for this EP, and most likely are next album, is the amount that the band, and particularly our bassist Jes, have started contributing to the song writing. Which is great from my perspective as I think it gives another dynamic to the sound and gives me freedom to write lyrics without knowing quite how the songs are going to end up. With this one I already had the idea for the song in my head and had drafted some lyrics, then Jes came in with the music and I refined the lyrics to fit it.
The basic idea for it is effectively the same idea of the novel I'm referencing – the way you've got this side of you that wants to do all the things you're not supposed to do and how you suppress and balance that. Not long before I wrote it, one of the most respected senior and respected people in my old place of work had lost his job in pretty unsavoury circumstances and I was quite interested by the question as to whether discovering someone has done something very wrong necessarily invalidates all the undoubted good that they'd previously done.
The Finest Cherry
I wrote this absolutely literally just after a relationship break-up. We finished the relationship in the morning, started writing it in my head as I got the bus back to my house, and the second I got through the door I picked up my guitar and wrote it pretty much as it is.
One of the difficult things with both this and Gomorrah, which I'll come onto a bit, was the problem of writing a song where the person it's written about is likely to hear it, which is why it's a lot less direct and more allegorical than most of the songs I write. I often think about whether or not you end up with better songs when you write when you're feeling emotionally turbulent. On the one hand you can end up with lines and ideas you'd struggle to come up with when thinking straight but on the other hand it's quite easy to end up with an incoherent rant that only you can enjoy or relate to. I think on this one it's hit the right balance I think though.
I really like the band's work on this – especially the backing vocals and our former guitarist David Serra's guitar lines.
Of Course I Stole the Train
Occasionally a song title pops into my head and I think "I've got to write a song with that name" and this was one of those occasions. The incident it came from was on an underground train when I was going out for the night in Brixton. I was a running a bit late and the train kept stopping 'cos someone was playing silly buggers with the emergency alarm. I was sat at the front of the train and virtually alone in my carriage and, at one point, the driver came out to go and investigate the alarm and left the door to his open. At which point it struck me that, if I was ever going to get the chance to illegally drive a tube train, this was probably it.
Obviously had I done it I'd have been arrested, probably lost my job and almost certainly been plastered all over the newspapers as this utter idiot who'd endangered passenger lives for his own brief amusement but there's still a tiny part of me that feels I'm a bit of a chicken. This song is basically about what would have happened if I'd had the courage to embrace my stupidity. This song is a hell of a lot of fun to play live – I remember one gig when our keyboardist Niall, who kicks it off, came in about three times too fast – the speed at which I had to spit the words out pretty much knocked me out for the rest of the evening…
The story in this song is an urban myth I heard in my school playground as a child – one day I'd been looking around on the internet to see how widespread it was and found that, although there were lots of versions, none of them seemed to tell the story particularly well, which is why I had a go. It's fascinating how far these stories spread too – I remember after one gig a Turkish girl came up to me and told me she'd heard the same story when she was growing up thousands of miles away…
This is another live favourite – I've taken to acting out the song in the manner of a slightly deranged children's presenter, which is a thoroughly enjoyable experience!
This is probably the most radical departure from our previous sound, especially thinking back to the days I started out as an acoustic guitarist who really couldn't sing it seems incredible to have been involved with a song like this.
Like the Finest Cherry, it was a song written about the end of a relationship and specifically the fine line between trying to move on and get on with your life and looking like you never really cared about the other person in the first place, which can be a tricky thing to negotiate especially if it's a fairly amicable split. One thing I realised about this EP is that, especially for someone who isn't and has never been religious, both sin and the Bible seem to come up quite a lot – I think every song on the EP is either about the temptation to do something you shouldn't or the consequences that come when you do!
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On Feb 6 2005, Radu Grigore wrote: > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:26:55 +0000, Jon Harrop <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > > The code to implement a simple tree is unwieldy in C++ (e.g. 1975 LOC > > in stl_tree.h and stl_map.h vs 198 LOC in map.ml). > > The implementation in stl_tree is not a "simple" tree. The difference > in size is also because the STL implementation is more efficient. This is a much smaller effect compared to the verbosity imposed by inherent inefficiencies of the C++ language though. > For one thing RB trees are better balanced than HB(2) trees. The implementation details should be considered secondarily to the functionality provided, IMHO. Thus, I would consider the ability of the (functional) ocaml Set and Map to fork lineages to be more important. There might be an imperative RB-tree ocaml implementation hanging around somewhere if you want to make a more accurate comparison... > Another observation is that fold on maps is not tail recursive. But the depth of recursion on the stack is O(ln_2 n), IIRC. > True, the > stack will probably never go above 40 calls but it is a problem if you > want to accumulate large structures. I would like to think that your stack will be big enough to fit 40 recursive calls if you expect your computer to handle trillion-element maps! > Yet another problem is the missing cardinal function. An arbitrary number of functions are "missing". You can't expect INRIA to implement all infinity of them for you! :-) As someone else has posted, you can easily supplement the current Map with code to keep track of the number of mappings with a good complexity and reasonable efficiency. A reason not to implement the cardinal function is the overhead of having counters in the nodes of the tree or the cost of testing for membership with every add/remove. > I have a StringMap with about 200000: it > takes about 3 minutes (!!!) to get its length using a fold. I guess this poor performance is due to cache incoherence but, of course, this is the wrong data structure for the job. > That would > take something like 1 millisecond in C++. The STL will probably take <<1ms because the STL's size() is probably O(1) whereas Map's fold is O(n). In contrast, forking lineages is probably O(n) with the STL (requiring a copy) and O(1) with ocaml's Map. > I'm a bit annoyed right now with OCaml's Map because I'm writting a > tool where I need to construct big associative tables from strings to > other data. An implementation with Hashtbl makes the program work in 1 > minute. The problem is that the next execution phase needs to fold > over the tables in increasing order of keys. Simple, no? Switch from > Hashtbl to Map. Right. Now the same program doesn't finish executing > in 3 hours. I would have expected a running time of about 20-30 > minutes. > Maybe a hand-written lexical-tree will be good enough. You seem to be complaining about poor performance when you know you are using the wrong data structure. Talk about unreasonable expectations. :-) IIRC, the exact data structure you want is already on the hump. HTH. Cheers, Jon.


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Swimming is an exercise modality that is highly suitable for health promotion and disease prevention, and is one of the most popular, most practiced and most recommended forms of physical activity. Yet little information is available concerning the influence of regular swimming on coronary heart disease (CHD). Exercise recommendations involving swimming have been generated primarily from unjustified extrapolation of the data from other modes of exercise (e.g. walking and cycling). Available evidence indicates that, similarly to other physically active adults, the CHD risk profile is more favourable in swimmers than in sedentary counterparts and that swim training results in the lowering of some CHD risk factors. However, the beneficial impact of regular swimming may be smaller than land-based exercises. In some cases, regular swimming does not appear to confer beneficial effects on some CHD risk factors. Moreover, swimming has not been associated with the reduced risks of developing CHD. Thus, extrapolation of research findings using land-based exercises into swimming cannot be justified, based on the available research. Clearly, more research is required to properly assess the effects of regular swimming on CHD risks in humans. |
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What....? Consensus moderation? But, you're probably doing it already!
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Title | What....? Consensus moderation? But, you're probably doing it already! |
Author | Nulty, Duncan David |
Publication Title | Society for Research into Higher Education: Positive Futures for higher education; connections, communities and criticality |
Editor | Francois Smit |
Year Published | 2011 |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
Publisher | Society for Research in Higher Education |
Abstract | Consensus moderation has been advocated as a mechanism by which universities can ensure the consistency and appropriateness of their academic standards. Unfortunately, for many academics, the term "consensus moderation" has no tangible meaning, while for others the term has only a narrow meaning. This is unhelpful when attempting to implement broader use of consensus moderation as a central component of academic quality assurance. This paper reports on research that maps the term "consensus moderation" to a time-line of eight levels of activity academics routinely engage in. Example practices are provided as a way to help people to realise that, in fact, many consensus moderation practices are already in common use – without those using them realising. Surfacing this realisation is a key component to reducing the "ad hoc" quality of some of these practices, systematising their use and thereby extracting more purposeful and deliberate benefit from them. |
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Conference name | SRHE 2011 |
Location | Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales |
Date From | 2011-12-07 |
Date To | 2011-12-09 |
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Date Accessioned | 2012-01-16 |
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Several days after the news conference, the Houston Chronicle raised the issue of hypocrisy by pointing out that a member of Berry's campaign steering committee, attorney Mark Dulworth, owed year-old back taxes. After the issue was raised with the Berry campaign, Dulworth quickly paid the $2,770.
Since Berry has not yet filed his first list of contributors for his mayoral effort, The Insider pulled the councilman's most recent council campaign report at City Hall and began randomly running supporter names through the Harris County Tax Assessor's delinquent taxpayer database. It didn't take long to corral Berry supporters branded with a scarlet T.
Ousley Lacey, a $300 contributor to Berry's campaign last January, owed back property taxes to various local governmental entities from 1999 to 2000 totaling $2,517. D.J. Blanton, a $350 contributor to Berry during the same period, is the subject of two delinquent tax suits with judgments totaling nearly $8,000, according to the county's private tax collection firm. Richard Battle, a $750 contributor, is listed by the tax office with $11,393 in delinquent property taxes dating back to 1992. Presented with the data, the Berry campaign did not contest the accuracy of the material.
Would Berry be willing to return the campaign money he collected so blithely only a year ago from sources he now seems to think are tainted, at least when it comes to a mayoral rival? At first, consultant Blakemore seemed to say yes.
"If somebody gives us money and we later find out the guy owes taxes, we're going to give it back," stated Blakemore. "We don't want to take it from people who ought to be spending it paying their taxes. I'm certainly going to make the case that even though that's money from a year ago, that's fine, we can deal with that, too."
But after a day of considering the matter, another Berry consultant, Chris Begala, called back singing a different tune.
"I really don't have anything to do with the 2001 campaign," explained Begala, the brother of former president Bill Clinton adviser Paul Begala.
"I don't think this campaign is going to go back into time two, three, ten years ago. I don't think that we're going to be delving into that past history."
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I started off adv style riding on a KLX250, and thought it was really great at it.
A bit under powered, but I had a great time traveling on it.
I killed that and went onto an old DR650rs and loved the extra power on the road and it's ability to cart my crap better.
But I did still sometimes wish I was on the KLX, the better handling and suspension were the main things I missed.
After the DR fell apart on me I stumbled on an older KTM 640 Adventure.
I do not miss anything about any bike I have ever had after riding the 640.
Being able to do 130 Kph fully loaded up on gravel roads with ease is something I really enjoy these days, and I have found myself wishing I had more speed on some desert roads I have traveled on with it (160 was the best I had seen on a GPS once, but I don't usually look how fast I am going or carry a GPS).
It has completely changed my style of riding from plodding along just on the speed limit to pretending I'm racing Dakar every time I go on a trip.
I ended up rebuilding the old KLX with the intention of doing a few trips on it, but after riding it again, I sold it because it was just so boring, a trip on it would be a chore...
I have nothing against smaller bikes, I used to preach loudly that they were a lot more capable than people give them credit for, but I could not go back to them for gravel road work.
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Out of the Angle Brackets
I've been working closely with the IE team leading up to the release of IE7 and looking at the use of XML in the browser. During this investigation one thing has become immediately obvious – there is a lot of confusion around the versioning story for MSXML and how to instantiate the "right" MSXML object in the browser. Here's a quick snippet of code that I've seen all too often out on the web:
What NOT to do...
if (Web.Application.get_type() == Web.ApplicationType.InternetExplorer) {
var progIDs = [ 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0', 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0', 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0', 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0', 'Msxml2.DOMDocument' ]; // MSXML5.0, MSXML4.0 and Msxml2.DOMDocument all have issues - be careful when using. Details below.
for (var i = 0; i < progIDs.length; i++) {
try {
var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject(progIDs[i]);
return xmlDOM;
catch (ex) {
return null;
The code iterates through the "progIDs" array and instantiates the highest version MSXML DOM that is available on the machine and returns it to the caller (see below for details on which versions ship where). This has at least a few implications:
My goal for this post is to give a quick history of MSXML lifecycle and versions, provide details with an example on implementing best practices with MSXML on the web, and talk about a couple key things to watch out for.
If you want the full story please read on, but if you're short on time and want the quick scoop here it is in 4 bullets:
MSXML Lifecycle & History
OK, the full story requires a little bit more context – so let's cover the different versions of MSXML, where they ship, and what the long term strategy is.
Over the long run, the goal is to have our customers move their applications to MSXML6. In terms of deployment, we want to ship our technology "in-the-box" with the operating system so that page authors and app developers can take advantage of it with zero deployment. However, our customers have told us they want symmetrical XML APIs on all supported OS platforms, so we still need a way to get the newest XML technologies to our downlevel OSes (Win2k, Win XP, and Win 2k3).
MSXML6 will be part of the Vista operating system when it releases, but requires a redistributable package to be installed downlevel. We'd like to get MSXML6 "inlined" in the next service pack of each of the downlevel OSes, but we need a strong business case to do so. So in the short and medium term we will continue to ship a redistributable package for MSXML6 that can be installed on downlevel operating systems. We'll try to get a post up on the benefits of moving to MSXML6 sometime soon.
As much as we'd love everyone to be on MSXML6 today, we realize the migration can take some time. So we're continuing to invest in MSXML3 to support existing applications and applications that have zero deployment requirements. MSXML3 doesn't have all the improvements in MSXML6, but developers should consider it a robust and stable platform for MSXML applications. MSXML3 is already part of the operating system on a fully patched Win2k SP4 installation and higher so in general no deployment to the client is required. Going forward, MSXML3 updates will come out in each of the OS service packs. MSXML3 SP7 is the last update to MSXML3 that should ship in redistributable form and in the future no redistributable package should be necessary for our partners and customers to use MSXML3 functionality.
MSXML4 was a predecessor to MSXML6 but hasn't ever shipped in the operating system. MSXML6 is a significant step forward in terms of reliability, security, W3C and System.Xml compatibility, and it also has support for native 64-bit environments. Right now we are investing much more heavily in MSXML6 and MSXML3 and we're encouraging our customers to move to 6 when possible and 3 when necessary.
Finally, anyone using MSXML5 who isn't writing applications specifically targeted at Microsoft Office 2003 or Microsoft Office 2007 should migrate to MSXML6.
The details
Once you pick a version of MSXML to use, how do you do it effectively? MSXML ships side-by-side with version dependent ProgIDs. That means two things:
var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0') //uses MSXML 3.0 var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0') //uses MSXML 6.0
var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0') //uses MSXML 3.0
var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0') //uses MSXML 6.0
One related note - service packs of a particular version of MSXML are not side by side and will upgrade that version of MSXML to the service pack version. For example, if your computer is running MSXML3 SP5 and you install MSXML3 SP7, all applications that use MSXML3 will automatically be upgraded to run on 3 SP7.
Ideally, customers should standardize on MSXML6, but as mentioned above legacy applications or zero-deployment requirements may block full migration to MSXML6 in the short run. In this case there are two tensions that need to be balanced – functionality and test costs. This essentially leads to two options:
if (Web.Application.get_type() == Web.ApplicationType.InternetExplorer) { var progIDs = [ 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0', 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0']; for (var i = 0; i < progIDs.length; i++) { try { var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject(progIDs[i]); return xmlDOM; } catch (ex) { } } return null; }
var progIDs = [ 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0', 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0'];
A couple things to watch out for
var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0') and var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument')
var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0')
var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument')
As always, I'd love to get some feedback from people so if you have questions, comments, or random thoughts you'd like to share please comment here or mail me directly (email link above).
Adam Wiener
Lead Program Manager
Data Programmability/XML Technologies
More or less in the random thoughts category, but have MSXML's problems with XHTML 1.1 ( http://www.satoshii.org/markup/dtd/xhtml11-msxml.en ) been entirely resolved (and, if so, in which version)?
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Hi Adam,
Thanks for the great post. Some of the mud is getting clearer! I have a very large AJAX application (well, suite of applications) that together comprise a corporate intranet (I'll omit the company). Currently that site is set to use MSXML4 SP2. If I change my <object> tags to install the MSXML6 CAB and if I change my ProgIDs to the 6.0 equivalents, what kind of compatibility problems am I likely to encounter? Is there a comparison document/table between the latest MSXML 6 and MSXML4 SP2 that I can refer to in order to assess the risk of such a transition?
Andrew Eberhard
Could you point out about XSLPattern versus XPath in version 3.0? I find this to be one of the commonest causes for code failing when working with different versions.
I run Windows 2000 Professional Sp4, and I much appreciate your clarification that MSXML 4 Sp2 is NOT the preferred fallback MSXML version below MSXML 6.0.
So I will upgrade my three Win2k computers to MSXML 6.0 (without the SDK since I am not a software developer in any way), provided that MSXML 6.0 works not only with MSIE 7 (which I believe will not be available for Win2k) but also with MSIE 6 Sp1 in Win2k.
I urge you to explicitly include somewhere that MSXML 6.0 DOES (or does not) work with MSIE 6 Sp1.
Roger Folsom
Thanks for this post, it explains some of the issues we had with our xml editor (Xopus) in IE7.
However, your statement to use either MSXML3 or MSXML6 contradicts my experiences. In Xopus we need XMLHTTPRequest, XSLT 1.0 support and SchemaCache.
AFAIK doesn't MSXML3 fully support XSLT 1.0 and has no SchemaCache object so we can't use it.
MSXML4 and 5 work well for us, Office 2003 is widely spread, especially amongst our user base. We haven't had issues with MSXML5 due to it's specialization towards Office.
MSXML6 has breaking changes in SchemaCache (Support for Partial Schemas and Schema flattening) that requires us to rearchitecture our validation infrastructure. We haven't found the resources to do this yet.
So we ended up supporting only MSXML4 and 5, the exact opposite of what you're suggesting. Now with IE7 we seem to be forced to drop MSXML5 support as well.
Why shouldn't we support MSXML4, MSXML5 only in IE6 and MSXML6 as soon as possible?
Huge thanks for clarification... Good and very helpful article.
Benjamin, XHTML support is something we're looking at right now in both MSXML and System.Xml. Thanks for the great pointer to the analysis on the Satoshii site - I love getting the feedback on what people are experiencing with our products in the real world. The IGNORE issue is still there and we don't support HTML entities without a declaration in the DTD (  is the most famous). In terms of resolving externals we will resolve relative to the resource URL in MSXML6 - it simplifies our security model particularly in the browser and ensures malicious documents can't harm browsers when they are surfing.
Best Regards,
Data Programmability / XML Technologies
To Joe and Laurens - thanks for your insight. I'll edit the main post to take your feedback into account. Thanks for sharing and helping to broaden our best practices guidance for everyone.
What's the recommendation for distribting a solution that calls XMLHTTPRequest (ie, I do not control the users environment and am looking for the broadest current support)?
ie. what's the best Curl-equivalent for Classic ASP?
To Roger, MSXML6 will work with any supported version of IE6 as well as IE7. If you do take the time to install it, any pages that use the "fallback" method above will be able to take advantage of your shiny new installation of MSXML6.
Hi Andrew, right now we don't support CAB installation for MSXML6. But we've heard from a bunch of folks now that this is an important scenario so we're looking at wrapping our existing installer. In terms of migration between 4.0 and 6.0 you can look at the "Things to watch out for" section above and also look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html/cb34f1f0-c235-4d6c-8fc0-1c337dadb56f.asp to see what's new in MSXML 6.0


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The Red Sox sent Jed Lowrie and Kyle Weiland to Houston for Mark Melancon today before agreeing to terms with Nick Punto on a two-year deal. One thing they did not do was bid on Yu Darvish. Here's the latest from Boston (and for more on the Red Sox, click here):
- Jason Varitek may still be in the picture for the Red Sox, according to Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe (on Twitter). It still seems hard to envision a deal between Varitek and the Red Sox, who have catchers Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Kelly Shoppach, Ryan Lavarnway and Luis Exposito.
- The Red Sox maintain interest in Roy Oswalt, according to Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports (on Twitter).
- Joe Saunders is Boston's next target, according to Jim Bowden of MLB Network Radio (Twitter link).
Quick Hits: Varitek, A's, Braves, Cordero, Lee, Pujols
Some links as Tuesday turns into Wednesday…
- The Red Sox have not yet made catcher and captain Jason Varitek a contract offer, reports Rob Bradford of WEEI.com. Boston added Kelly Shoppach to Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Ryan Lavarnway on Tuesday, a move that likely spelled the end of Varitek's time with the Sox.
- There are clubs with interest in trading for both Gio Gonzalez and Andrew Bailey and others with interest in both Jair Jurrjens and Martin Prado, but Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports says the Athletics and Braves are likely to deal their players separately to maximize the return. Rosenthal and Morosi note that the Braves and Orioles have discussed a deal that included both Jurrjens and Prado.
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- The Pirates still have interest in first baseman Derrek Lee even after trading for Casey McGehee, reports CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman (on Twitter). Bringing Lee back at first base would allow them to use McGehee at the hot corner with Pedro Alvarez.
- Heyman hears that the Angels put a deadline on their ten-year, $254MM offer to Albert Pujols (Twitter link). The deal did seem to come together very quickly Wednesday night into Thursday morning last week.
- The Rockies do have some money to spend according to Heyman (on Twitter). In addition to Carlos Beltran and Michael Cuddyer, they also have interest in Hiroki Kuroda, Joe Saunders, and various trade targets.
- Morosi says (on Twitter) that Andruw Jones could also be an option for the Rockies if Beltran and Cuddyer sign elsewhere.
- The Cardinals' interest in pitching upgrades is "understated," reports Joe Strauss of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (on Twitter). Both Kyle Lohse and Jake Westbrook remain on the trade block.
- The Yokohama Bay Stars have released right-hander Hiroki Sanada so that he may pursue a deal in MLB according to a report passed along by Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker. No teams bid on Sanada when he was posted last week.
- The Astros and Rays are possibilities for Ivan Rodriguez, according to Heyman (on Twitter). Though the Mets have discussed Rodriguez, they're leaning toward relying on Mike Nickeas as their backup to starter Josh Thole.
- MLBPA executive director Michael Weiner says the Joint Drug Agreement should provide Ryan Braun with privacy and fair proceedings. "I urge all to reserve judgment on this matter until the JDA's process has played itself out," Weiner said in a statement.
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We heard earlier this evening that David Ortiz plans to return to Boston next season, either through arbitration or a multiyear deal. Now let's check in on some other Red Sox news:
- GM Ben Cherington's comments today suggest the Red Sox won't be bringing back Tim Wakefield and Jason Varitek, says Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe.
- The Sox have talked to other clubs about Marco Scutaro and Jed Lowrie, tweets Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports.
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Heath Bell isn't close to signing, despite last night's rumors, but it's not for lack of interest. Here's the latest on Bell and a handful of other free agents, via Jon Heyman of SI.com (Twitter links):
- The Red Sox are content to wait out the market for closers, since so many of them are available.
- Mark Buehrle is drawing interest from 14 teams, Heyman reports.
- Opposing GMs expect the Cubs to trade Matt Garza.
- The Mets would offer Jose Reyes $80MM for five years, but would not guarantee a six or seven-year contract.
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- The Marlins met with Bell and seem very aggressive. "This is no publicity stunt," Heyman writes.
- Miami was interested in meeting with free agent closer Ryan Madson, but the right-hander declined, since their offer "wasn't right."
- The Mets and Orioles are among the teams showing interest in Jason Varitek, Heyman writes. The Orioles are definitely looking for backup catching help, but it appeared earlier in the week that they were uninterested in Varitek. GM Dan Duquette favors players who could catch every day if necessary.
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Pinto has a 1.42 ERA with a 42K/16BB ratio in 43 2/3 innings as a starter in the Venezuelan Winter League this year, for what it's worth. He last pitched in the Major Leagues for the 2010 Marlins. In parts of five seasons with the Marlins, Pinto posted a 3.62 ERA with 8.6 K/9, 5.9 BB/9 and a 42.4% ground ball rate in 231 innings (244 relief appearances).
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Updated team decisions:
- The Blue Jays offered arbitration to Frank Francisco (B), Kelly Johnson (A, will not cost signing team a draft pick), Jose Molina (B) and Jon Rauch (B), according to Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca (on Twitter). They declined to offer Shawn Camp (B) arbitration.
- The Red Sox announced that they offered David Ortiz (A) and Dan Wheeler (B) arbitration. They declined to offer Jason Varitek (B) arbitration. Jonathan Papelbon (A) already signed with the Phillies.
- The Yankees offered Freddy Garcia (B) arbitration according to MLB.com's Bryan Hoch (on Twitter).
- The Royals offered Bruce Chen (B) arbitration, according to Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star.
- The White Sox announced they've offered arbitration to Mark Buehrle (B) and not Juan Pierre (B).
- The Athletics announced David DeJesus (B) and Josh Willingham (A, will not cost signing team a draft pick) were offered arbitration.
- The Rangers announced C.J. Wilson (A) will be offered arbitration. Modified Type B free agent Darren Oliver does not require an offer.
- The Orioles announced they will not offer arbitration to Vladimir Guerrero (B).
- Twins GM Terry Ryan said today on a conference call that he will offer arbitration to Michael Cuddyer (A, will not cost signing team a draft pick) and Jason Kubel (B), and noted that no arbitration offer is necessary for modified Type B free agent Matt Capps.
Teams with decisions still due:
- Tigers: Wilson Betemit (B), Magglio Ordonez (B)
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Red Sox GM Ben Cherington suggested today that the Red Sox don't need wholesale changes. "This offseason is more about fixing what's under the hood than buying a new car," he told reporters. Here's the latest on the team, starting with a note on their ongoing managerial search…
- Cherington doesn't expect to interview additional managerial candidates after he meets with Blue Jays first base coach Torey Lovullo and Tigers third base coach Gene Lamont, according to Alex Speier of WEEI.com (all Twitter links).
- The Red Sox have asked the Brewers to extend their window to talk with hitting coach Dale Sveum, according to Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (on Twitter).
- Indians bench coach Sandy Alomar Jr., a candidate for Boston's managerial opening, is "going to be a Major League manager, whether that's in 2012 or sometime after that," Cherington said, according to Speier.
- Cherington has exchanged messages with free agents David Ortiz, Jason Varitek and Tim Wakefield, according to Scott Lauber of the Boston Herald (Twitter links). However, he hasn't spoken with the representatives for Jonathan Papelbon recently.
- There's no resolution on compensation between the Cubs and Red Sox for Theo Epstein, but the commissioner's office has given the sides more leeway, according to Lauber.
- Speier explains how Ryan Madson's possible deal with the Phillies affects Papelbon and suggests the likelihood that Papelbon has thrown his last pitch for the Red Sox would increase "if Papelbon wants to dig in for a contract that clears the bar set by Madson."
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While the Red Sox's struggles so far this season have not been lost on GM Theo Epstein, the club doesn't plan to make any major moves at this time, writes Brian MacPherson of The Providence Journal. Even though there still areas in which the club can improve, any additions likely will have to come from within the organization until after June 1st.
"A lot of it is dictated by opportunity," the GM said. "You're not going to make a blockbuster trade in April, for the most part, or May. Usually that's something for the middle third of the season."
The Red Sox could likely use an upgrade behind the plate, but Epstein isn't terribly concerned, citing that other clubs aren't receiving high offensive production from their catchers either. Backstops Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Jason Varitek have a combined slash line of .181/.246/.244 thus far.
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- Mets third baseman David Wright's days in New York may be winding down, writes Adam Rubin of ESPNNewYork.com. The Mets, who may be in full-on rebuild mode as soon as midseason, could opt to trade Wright because he is signed to team-favorable terms through 2013 and would therefore yield a better haul in a trade than Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran or Francisco Rodriguez, writes Rubin. That the Mets could entertain this is indicative of how far they've fallen the past couple years; it once seemed likely Wright would spend his entire career in Queens.
- Red Sox catchers Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Jason Varitek have struggled so far this season, writes Alex Speier of WEEI.com, but with underwhelming and unready in-house options and limited trade or free-agent targets out there, a move is not imminent. Bengie Molina, 36, is still unsigned, but as Speier points out, would he be much of an improvement?
- The Nationals have purchased the contract of infielder Brian Bixler from Triple-A Syracuse, tweets Mark Zuckerman of CSNWashington.com. A corresponding move on the 40-man roster was to be announced. Bixler, a second-round pick of the Pirates in 2004 out of Eastern Michigan, last appeared in the bigs in 2009. In 166 career plate appearances, he has a .178/.238/.237 line.
- Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has hired Steve Loy of Gaylord Sports Management to handle his marketing. As our Agency Tracker shows, A-Rod has not officially announced an agent since parting ways with Scott Boras, and he may not need one for a while considering he's signed through age 42. For a complete list of Scott Boras clients, click here.
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Alder has also designed the set, which sets a heavy old desk and a couple of sideboards and chairs on layers of dark Oriental rugs. Statues of gods and goddesses crowd the surfaces — pretty phallic symbols, if you want to get Freudian about it. The only slip-up prop-wise is the old radio, which works too quickly when Alder's Freud clicks it on to hear the war news. Those old "wireless" sets took several seconds to warm up, though such a pause would be awkward in a play.
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COLUMBIA — Darren Day used to walk into classes at MU exhausted on Friday mornings, look around at his equally weary classmates and realize he and his peers weren't tired for the same reason.
While his classmates had been up late studying or partying, Day had been out fighting fires.
Day is one of about 250 volunteer firefighters at the Boone County Fire Protection District, which covers approximately 500 square miles and is the largest volunteer fire department in the state.
The volunteers are all ages, but about half are 18 to 25, some of whom volunteer while pursuing a college degree. While college students create a constant turnover for the fire district, they also provide an inflow of volunteers, as students continue to move in and out of the city.
"(They're) not really tied down to anything, (they) want to do something fun, learn how to be a firefighter, maybe turn that into career skills," said Josh Creamer, recruitment and retention coordinator for the district.
One of the benefits for college-age volunteers is the free housing the Fire District offers. Each fire station includes dorm-style rooms, where about eight volunteers get a room for free. The fire station becomes their home, and they respond to calls whenever possible.
"That younger, college-age demographic is coming from out of the area; they don't have a place to live," Creamer said. "So this option is appealing to them."
The living arrangement also benefits citizens, Creamer said, because volunteers can respond to calls much quicker than if they lived far from their equipment. While the average volunteer may respond to about seven calls a month, those who live at the stations can respond to about 30 calls a month.
Managing the turnover
Every year, the Fire District holds two training academies and brings in about 40 new people overall, 20 during each academy. That helps make up for the approximately 20 people who leave each year.
And by increasing the number of volunteers, each individual volunteer is required to give less of his or her time, Creamer said. That's important for a volunteer who's also trying to keep up with classwork.
About half of the volunteers who leave each year are in the 18 to 25 age range. Although the fire district wants people to stay a long time, Creamer said, the turnover is manageable and worth it: The new volunteers bring enthusiasm, passion and a willingness to learn.
At any given time, about 30 percent of volunteers are in their first year of experience, he said. Most of the time, a mix of experienced and relatively inexperienced volunteers will respond to a call. There is usually an officer, who must have at least five years of fire experience, on every call, he said.
While a lot of other volunteer departments are understaffed, the fire district has never had a problem getting people to apply, he said. During the last several recruitments, about 55 to 70 have interviewed for the available 20 spots.
Elaine Gibbs, 23, decided to apply to the fire district in November 2010 after watching her twin brother join a few months prior. She said she also wanted the chance to help her community.
"I liked that I was able to help people on a daily basis, and I loved that every call was something different," Gibbs said.
Originally from Columbia, Gibbs is a health sciences major at MU and a lieutenant with the fire district. She first moved into Fire Station No. 8 in March 2011 during her recruit training. After six months, she wanted to move to a busier fire station to gain more experience, so she moved to Station No. 1 and stayed for a year and a half. She moved out of the station for a year because she was busy with school and work but then moved into Station No. 12 in March, about a month before she was promoted to lieutenant.
The Fire District has become a huge part of her life, she said. However, it's not always easy. Gibbs said the hardest part about being in the Fire District is dealing with some of the difficult and sad situations the volunteers witness. When an emergency has an unhappy ending, she has to move on and learn from it.
"I've gotten used to accepting that we always do our best and that we did all that we could," she said.
Years of experience
Day first became interested in the fire district after talking with his childhood friend, Anthony Poehlmann, who was a few years older than Day and already volunteering with the Fire District. Poehlmann showed Day around the fire station and sometimes took Day with him when he responded to calls. Day said he "caught the bug."
Day wasn't even 18, the required age for firefighters, when he started the recruit program. Just a month after graduating from high school, he started his training and graduated from the program in October 1999. Then in January of his freshman year at MU, he moved into Fire Station No. 5.
Freshman year was pretty rough, Day said. He took 15 credit hours, trained with the fire district, worked on his EMT license through the district and worked a few jobs. The recruit program met Monday and Wednesday evenings and every other weekend for about three months.
"It was a challenge," he said. "But it wasn't one that I saw as a challenge at the time because I enjoyed it so much."
Day spent the next four and a half years living in a fire station. He juggled school and volunteering, answering emergency calls day and night.
"(I thought), how cool is it that I'm 19 and they trust me to drive a fire truck?" he said. "I just thought it was the neatest thing in the world."
He liked the unexpected — like cutting cars apart during a rescue — the never knowing what was going to happen and always having to be on his toes.
Gratification from the work came in different guises, like the time he was called to put out a fire in a farmer's basement. Although there was minimal fire damage to the house, the smoke damage left the house uninhabitable for the farmer and his wife.
As luck had it, Poehlmann rented a house not far from the damaged house, and the owner of Poehlmann's house owned another home down the street. The two firefighters made arrangements for the farmer and his wife to live in the empty house while the smoke-damaged house was being cleaned.
To this day, when the farmer runs into Day, he thanks him for saving his house.
"To have that experience as a college student taught me that first of all, things are so much bigger than me," Day said. "That's not an experience I would have had at a club at MU."
Fifteen years later, Day still volunteers. He's a captain at Station No. 12 at 980 El Chaparral Ave., where he's been since 2013. The position is unpaid, and he splits his time between working at the Fire District, being a stay-at-home dad and teaching online business classes at Central Methodist University.
Day calls himself a "lifer."
"People don't really know that about themselves until they get hooked," he said. "People don't anticipate all of the experiences, the training and the family you become a part of when you volunteer."
Go to class, or take the call?
Lindsey Gregory, 21, had heard the fire district was like a big family but didn't believe it until the day she had a minor car accident.
Gregory, a junior at MU, decided to join the fire district as a freshman when she couldn't find anywhere on or around campus to use her EMT license. She was accepted into the program in December 2011 and officially started her training Feb. 7, 2012.
She graduated from the training program in May 2012, and shortly after moved into Fire Station No. 8 where she lived for five months. In September 2012, she moved to Station No. 14 and lived there for a year and a half.
And then there was that bad day in August 2012 when the bumper on her car came off in a car accident. When a fellow firefighter called her about something unrelated, he could tell she was crying and asked what was wrong. Five minutes later he was there, helping her fix the bumper.
"These are the people who are going to drop anything when someone in the community needs help," she said. "Or if you need help."
But even with all of its benefits, volunteering in the fire district and being a student sometimes presented its own set of challenges.
Sometimes Gregory would receive a call at 7:15 a.m. and also have a class at 8 a.m. She had to choose between going to class or going to help someone who was struggling to breathe.
"Every time, I went to the call," she said.
Gregory once got a call at 7:15 a.m. and had to respond to a man in his 40s who died from a heart attack. She recalls sobbing the entire 20-minute walk to her 9 a.m. class.
She's found the best way to handle the emotions is by talking with someone, usually someone who is also in the Fire District. Other volunteers know what she's going through and understand the need to talk about the experiences, she said.
Recently, Gregory said, she's seen other MU students involved on campus and has wondered whether she might have missed out on part of the college experience. But the upside was great.
"It brought so many great opportunities that I wouldn't have gotten anywhere else," she said. "I don't live the typical college life, and it's been awesome."
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Nude model Ryan Kesler is "good to go" and will be back in Vancouver's line-up tomorrow when the Canucks host the New York Rangers.
The Selke Trophy winner has been sidelined since undergoing off-season hip surgery. Kesler had optimistically hoped to be back for the start of the regular season, but soreness wouldn't allow him to return. In fact, many thought he would be out until November.
The Canucks shipped rookie defenseman Chris Tanev to the Chicago Wolves of the AHL in order to open up a roster spot. The move wasn't indicative of Tanev's play; they just didn't want to lose anyone to waivers, and Tanev can be moved up and down freely.
What will be interesting to watch now is what the Canucks do with Cody Hodgson. The much-touted (and similarly much-maligned) prospect has played well in Kesler's absence, but finds himself on a team with four NHL centers (Kesler, Henrik Sedin, Manny Malhotra and Maxim Lapierre).
Malhotra has taken a few shifts on the wing this season, and that could be one way to keep Hodgson up, if that's what the organization decides to do. However, Canucks coach Alain Vigneault still doesn't seem completely sold on Hodgson's NHL readiness.
"He's doing some things out there that we like as far as things to do with the puck," Vigneault said last week. "There are certain areas he needs to get better at and we've discussed it with him. You've got a young man there who really wants to work hard and try to find his way on a consistent basis in the NHL."
But that's getting ahead of things. In the meantime, the Canucks will just be happy to have Kesler back. Secondary scoring has been a glaring issue over Vancouver's first five games — Canuck forwards have combined for 11 goals, six of them courtesy the Sedins and Alex Burrows, the three players who comprise the top line.
- Nowhere Man - Oct 17, 2011 at 5:09 PM
This is where I have an issue with Vigneault. I think he's got a chip on his shoulder re: "talented" players. What I mean by that is he'd like to give a solid hard working plug a shot before pricey talent. I think he feels he's giving them the shot he never got but when in actual fact they just aren't good enough.
- babar61 - Oct 17, 2011 at 5:14 PM
Just hope they arn't rushing this….Vancouver is deep enough to wait until he is %100
- canucks18 - Oct 17, 2011 at 8:17 PM
1. Who is the plug you're talking about??
2. I think Hodgson needs to move to a wing, for 2 reasons which are less defensive responsiblilty than when at centre and less faceoffs. Why would you move one of the best in the league(Malhotra) ???
- Nowhere Man - Oct 17, 2011 at 8:36 PM
Doesn't apply in this case. Past hard working plugs include. Guillame Desbiens, Alex Bolduc, Aaron Rome.
Kesler isn't a plug obviously.
CoHo has been one of their better players to start the season and AV's comments seem to belie that fact.
- wombat2thereturn - Oct 18, 2011 at 3:10 AM
i for one can't wait to see Hodgson finally playing with a guy who can move and handle the puck better than him (i.e. Nude Boy Kes)….should be fun to watch, plus there'll be a backup face-off man if Kes gets waved out. throw in higgins, who seemed to gel with Kesler in the playoffs, and the Canucks may have a 2nd line again.


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In March of 1989 while employed at CERN (l'Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire), Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal that would become the basis for the World Wide Web. With approval from his supervisor, the late Mike Sendall, and support from colleagues including Robert Cailliau, Berners-Lee's invention grew from one server at CERN (1990), to millions and millions of servers today.
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"This special anniversary brings the opportunity to acknowledge the impact of the Web and the W3C's stewardship role," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C's Director. "I hope it will also inspire ever more collaboration, creativity, and understanding across the globe."
The event's emcee is Ethernet inventor and Internet pioneer Bob Metcalfe. The rich program includes equal parts reflection and projection. Sessions cover the early days of the Web and W3C's emergence, through the commercial and social impacts of the Web on the world we now experience. Others look at the impact of the Web, and of Web standards, with an eye towards new frontiers for Web technical development, and tensions that may require resolution.
"W3C10 is a celebration that brings together the people who are pioneering, standardizing, implementing and benefiting from Web technologies," explained Steve Bratt, W3C Chief Operating Officer. "We'll share stories from the W3C's past and dreams for the future of Web technology, making for a full and exciting day."
W3C10 enjoys generous sponsorship from both Members and outside organizations including Platinum sponsors MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), HP, and Microsoft Corporation; Gold sponsors Adobe Systems, Amadeus e-Travel, BEA Systems, Google, IBM, ILOG, and INRIA; and Silver sponsors Billiotek srl, CERN, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), IONA Technologies, Inc., Intervoice, Inc., Nokia, Sogei, and Uncover the Net.
The W3C was created to lead the Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. It is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France and Keio University in Japan. Services provided by the Consortium include: a repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and users, and various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use of new technology. More than 350 organizations are Members of W3C. To learn more, see http://www.w3.org/