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Seattle's Michael Morse bats against San Diego in a spring training game. He and Kendrys Morales (below, left) have combined for 16 home runs in the preseason and the should put some pop in the middle of the Mariners' batting order. The two will bat in the No. 3 and No. 4 spots.
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But with opening day rapidly approaching, I find myself thinking that Monday will be the beginning of a much more exciting season of Seattle Mariners baseball. (Please forget I said that if it comes to be that the Mariners are 10 games out of first place by Memorial Day).
After a spring full of winning and scoring copious amounts of runs, the Mariners look not just like a functional major league ballclub, which would count as progress, but they actually look like a pretty good one. Now, we all know spring training results don't predict much of anything -- Munenori Kawasaki won a Cactus League batting title last year, after all. But for a team that has been so offensively anemic in recent years, all of that offensive production has to be encouraging, right?
Besides, if this spring was just a mirage, we'll have all summer to be cynical about the Same Old Mariners. So while the sun is still out, and while the Mariners are still tied for first, let's imagine for just a second what it might be like to watch meaningful baseball games in the Northwest all the way into the summer, if not beyond.
While all this hope might be heat-stroke induced -- hey, 68 degrees feels hot this time of year -- here are five optimistic, though not entirely crazy, predictions for the 2013 Mariners.
1. The Mariners will have a slightly above-average offense.
Wait, slightly-above average counts as optimistic? Well yeah, it does for a team that has been at or near the bottom of baseball in runs scored for five straight seasons. The Mariners have been the lowest scoring team in the American League now for four years running. With the addition of a couple big bats in the middle of the lineup, with the growth of the young nucleus of the team and yes, with the fences coming in at Safeco Field, the Mariners should finally be able to score runs like an honest to goodness big league lineup.
Michael Morse showed this spring that he's ready to get back to his 2011 form. Kendrys Morales will upgrade the lineup as well. Those two, who will hit in the No. 3 and No. 4 spots for the Mariners, have combined for 16 home runs this spring. And when you've got guys like Jesus Montero and Dustin Ackley, who last year were expected to help carry the offense, now hitting seventh and eighth, the Mariners have what looks like a very solid lineup.
Heck, if we're being optimistic, why can't Justin Smoak finally have a good season after finishing last year strong and carrying that success over into spring training?
2. Fresh of a huge contract, Felix Hernandez will have a Cy Young-caliber season.
When some athletes sign huge contracts, you wonder if they'll get complacent. That shouldn't be an issue for Hernandez. Before the 2010 season, he signed his first big extension, then went on to win a Cy Young award that year while leading the league in earned run average and innings pitched. If anything, Hernandez's new big contract, along with the hope that he is finally on a team good enough to contend, should motivate him to be better than ever.
3. The rest of the rotation won't be great, but it will be better than expected.
For the first time in a while, the Mariners have more question marks in their rotation than their lineup. It's true that nobody beyond Hernandez is a sure bet to succeed, but No. 2 starter Hisashi Iwakuma went 8-4 in the second half of last season with a 2.50 ERA and Joe Saunders should be able to put up numbers similar to the departed Jason Vargas.
Rookie Brandon Maurer was so good in spring training that he forced manager Eric Wedge into giving him a job. Even if he has the inevitable ups and downs that come with being a 22-year-old in his first season, Maurer wouldn't be in the opening day rotation if he wasn't a pretty special talent. While Blake Beaven has yet to prove he can get the job done consistently for a season, his tweaked mechanics and strong spring give hope that he might be figuring things out. Should Beaven or anyone else struggle, the Mariners have both veteran options and promising rookies waiting in the minors.
4. Improved chemistry will make a difference.
The Mariners added players like Morse, Morales, Raul Ibanez and Jason Bay trying to improve their offense, but another bonus is what they can bring to a clubhouse. The Mariners had veterans in their locker room, but players like Ichiro Suzuki, Miguel Olivo and Chone Figgins were hardly known for their leadership skills.
That's why, before spring training started, Wedge said: "If you look at the veterans we had in our clubhouse last year versus to the veterans we have in the clubhouse this year, it's night and day. ... You guys know who the veterans we had last year were, and you guys know who the veterans are coming in this year, so you can probably figure that out."
Talent matters more than team chemistry, but in a sport where players are together almost every day from February to October, having the right clubhouse vibe can make a real difference in the standings.
And finally, all of that adds up to ...
5. The Mariners will win 85-plus games and be in contention for a wild card berth well into August.
In their slow rebuilding process, the Mariners have gone from 61 wins to 67 to 75 in the past three seasons. This year they should be able to take a bigger leap. The AL West is a beast, to be sure, but the addition of a second wild card last season gives the Mariners a very real shot be in playoff contention late in the season. Playing the new-to-the-division Houston Astros 19 times shouldn't hurt either.
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Sometimes a team has to face the very best early on in order to be ready for greater challenges down the road.
This could be said for the 2012 West Point Green Wave (7-2; 5-0) who will face perhaps their toughest challenge on Friday night when the undefeated Oxford Chargers (9-0; 5-0) come into town.
It's not certain if the Chargers will be the best team West Point has faced this year, but Oxford comes to town a district challenger, with the district on the line.
Neither team has lost a district game to date.
Oxford has not lost a game in 2012, but it can be easily argued that Oxford has not faced the competition that West Point has faced.
In week one, Oxford was hosting Grenada High School, a team that has lost five of its first nine games.
That same week, West Point was on the road, facing one of the toughest teams in the nation in South Panola.
The Green Wave nearly pulled off a rally that Saturday night, losing by two points on a last-second field goal by Panola. It was clear that the defense was solid enough to win games, but the offense had its struggles.
Both teams went undefeated during weeks two and three, but on week four, while Oxford was on the road at Senatobia (3-6), West Point was taking on Noxubee County (10-0; 4-0).
West Point's defense was championship strong that night, but that contest went in favor of the Tigers 6-0.
Since then district play has seen Oxford and West Point roll through unbeaten. On Friday the two clubs will face each other, and it may not be the last time they go head-to-head in 2012.
The road to Jackson might just have to go through Oxford or West Point in 5A ball.
After Friday night there is still one last district challenge for both of these clubs. West Point seems to have the advantage in the final week, taking on New Hope (3-6; 1-4) and Oxford will take on Clarksdale (4-5; 2-3).
Whether the district title is settled tomorrow night or next week, this home match against Oxford is important. It may very well be a post-season preview, and it will put the West Point offense to its toughest test thus far in district play.
The game will begin at 7 p.m.
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Glenville, WV---The Pfeiffer men's basketball team lost their first game of the year 104-94 to Fairmont State (WV) in the finals of the Glenville State Classic. Pfeiffer led 40-32 with three minutes to go in the first half when Fairmont went on a and 11-0 run to lead 43-40 at halftime. Fairmont stretched the lead to as many as 20 in the second half before Pfeiffer cut it to seven with 5:32 to go.
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WASHINGTON, DC – September 3, 2013 – The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) announces that as of September 1, 2013, the Society's current president, Jo Handelsman of Yale University, has stepped down from her position. In accordance with the organization's bylaws, the governing body of the ASM has appointed its immediate past president, Jeff F. Miller of the University of California, Los Angeles, to serve in her stead.
Last month, Handelsman was nominated by President Obama to be Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. As a requirement of accepting this position, it was necessary for her to resign as ASM President.
"While I am excited about new opportunities, it is bittersweet as I truly enjoyed my time as President," says Handelsman. "I am pleased that the Council Policy Committee has chosen Dr. Miller to complete my term. He brings experience, confidence and most importantly enthusiasm to the role."
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No subject has stirred more controversy among "Straussians" than the chapter on John Locke in Natural Right and History (1953). It is a primary source for Leo Strauss's understanding of the foundations of modernity as "low but solid," and of the American Founding as quintessentially modern—and more low than solid. Allan Bloom, in the Closing of the American Mind (1987), blames the moral disintegration we see around us on the egalitarianism propelled into the regime by the Declaration of Independence. Walter Berns has written that the beginning of the Declaration and its end contradict each other. The "rights" of the beginning, he held, are wholly self-regarding, and could not justify the commitment to our "sacred honor." Locke is looked upon, in short, as Hobbes with false whiskers.
Harry V. Jaffa, the Henry Salvatori Research Professor of Political Philosophy Emeritus, takes up this challenge in a luncheon talk at the Athenaeum. Kicking off the Salvatori Center's seminar on Leo Strauss, Jaffa argues that the moral horizons of the American founding, and of Locke himself, were far higher from this well-known interpretation would suggest. In fact, Jaffa argues that if Aristotle had been alive and well in England in 1670, he would have written a handbook for legislators very much like Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1690). Thus, the elements of classical natural right were in the Founding, as Lincoln said they were. And they were in John Locke, which is where the Founders had found them.
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- Johung K, Rewari A, Wu H, Judson B, Contessa JN, Haffty BG, Decker RH. Role of excision repair cross-complementation 1 expression as a prognostic marker for response to radiotherapy in early-stage laryngeal cancer. Head Neck. 2013 Jun;35(6):852-7.
- Johung K, Saif MW, Chang BW. Treatment of locally advanced pancreatic cancer: the role of radiation therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Feb 1;82(2):508-18.


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Neutrinos are the least understood and the most elusive of the known fundamental particles in the Standard Model of particle physics, though they are the second most abundant in the universe. On average there are about 3 million neutrinos in a cubic meter, but they are difficult to detect because they interact with matter so rarely. Neutrinos are produced in cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere and in particle accelerators on Earth, but the only cosmic neutrinos that been detected have originated either from our Sun or the exploding star Supernova 1987a.
Current research experiments in neutrino physics are investigating: neutrino oscillations, a phenomenon where neutrinos change from one type to another as they propagate through space, revealing that neutrinos do have mass; the nature of the neutrino, that is, whether the neutrino is its own antiparticle; searches for cosmic neutrinos which can probe deeper in the universe than other types of cosmic messengers.
Neutrino Astronomy
Since neutrino interactions are so scarce, neutrino telescopes need detection volumes of a cubic kilometer or more to have any chance of observing cosmic neutrinos. Antarctic ice is an attractive medium for neutrino telescopes due its large volume and purity, as is sea water. The Icecube experiment at the South Pole and the ANTARES in the Mediterranean sea both seek neutrinos from black holes, supernova remnants, or Gamma Ray Bursts, the most energetic processes in the universe.
ANITA is an Antarctic balloon experiment that will launch its second flight in December 2008, viewing the ice sheet from 37 km altitude and viewing 1.5 million cubic kilometers of ice at once. ANITA is searching for a radio signature from neutrinos associated with the highest energy particles ever observed above 10ERROR 18 ERROR eV. Neutrinos at these energies may reveal the sources of the highest energy cosmic rays, and their interactions occur at higher energies than probed at the LHC.
While ANITA may be the first to detect ultra-high energy neutrinos, several proposed experiments aim to measure a sample of cosmic neutrinos that is large enough to extract precise particle physics and astrophysics information from their properties. IceRay is a proposed array of antennas that would surround IceCube at the South Pole. SalSA is a proposed antenna array that would be deployed in one of the many salt formations that occurs in many places around the world.
Acoustic experiments such as ACORNE are searching for an audible signal that neutrinos would emit as they impact the earth. ACORNE has an array of sensors deployed on the sea floor off the coast of Scotland.
LOFAR is an international collaboration deploying a array of 25,000 antennas spanning many European countries with unprecedented sensitivity for astronomical observations at radio frequencies below 250 MHz. LOFAR will also make world-class measurements in atmospheric science, planetary science and particle astrophysics. LOFAR can be used to search for neutrinos interacting in the surface of the moon, and can measure the radio signal emitted by cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere.
Neutrino Oscillations
As early as the late 1950s, physicists suggested that neutrinos could have mass, and, if they do, would be able to transform from one flavour to another, such as from a muon neutrino to a tau neutrino. The MINOS experiment is an international collaboration of 200 physicists that set out to answer two major questions: What is the maximum fraction of a neutrino beam that can change from one flavor to another? For example, how much of the beam will transform from muon neutrinos to tau neutrinos? How great or small is the oscillation length? The oscillation length is the distance a beam of neutrinos, traveling at near the speed of light, would take to transform from one neutrino flavor to another and back again. In order to measure these parameters, a neutrino beam is made from a proton beam at Fermilab near Chicago in the US and the neutrinos are measured with a near detector at Fermilab and compared with a far measurement in Soudan, Minnesota 735 km away.
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
All the fermions in the Standard Model are Dirac particles by nature, where the antiparticle is the charge conjugate of the particle and has equal but opposite quantum numbers. Neutrinos, however, have an extra possibility due to their neutral charge. It is not forbidden for neutrinos to have a Majorana mass, which would imply that the neutrino and antineutrino are the same particle. This possibility seems to be favoured by the theoretical community, indeed it is a requirement of many Grand Unified Theories. The Majorana nature of the neutrino leads to the non-conservation of the full lepton number and can address many fundamental questions. In particular it can explain a tiny assymetry between matter and antimatter shortly after the Big Bang, which was necessary to make the world surrounding us evolve the way it did.
Experiments which can answer both questions are searching for neutrinoless double beta decay — 0νββ. In fact, 0νββ is the only practical way to understand whether the neutrino is a Majorana or a Dirac particle. NEMO 3 is one such experiment, now installed at the Fréjus Underground Laboratory (LSM) in Modane (Savoie, France). It is a very low radioactive background detector. Its performances enable the observation of DBD processes with lifetime at the sensitivity of 1024-25 years. Scientists are analysing data from the NEMO 3 detector, searching for very rare neutrinoless double beta decay events. The SuperNEMO next generation experiment is currently in R&D phase.
Some Possible Origins Projects
- Studying whether the highest energy cosmic messengers originate from sources that follow the large scale structure of the universe or whether they are uniform on the sky, and thus whether they originate from astrophysical sources or new fundamental particles
- Searching for neutrinos interacting in the moon and cosmic ray particles interacting in the atmosphere while making new measurements of properties of the ionosphere with LOFAR
- Searching for a possible time-dependent variation of a fundamental constant of nature called the Fermi constant by measuring the rate of double-beta decay in rocks of varying age
- Developing a radio experiment to search for ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos with future moon missions such as MoonNEXT, MoonLITE and the International Lunar Network and characterising the electromagnetic properties of the moon surface and the lunar radio environment
- Designing and developing a mega-scale water Cherenkov detector for observing astrophysical sources, measure fundamental neutrino properties and investigate Grand Unification
Recent papers of interest
Title: Constraints on cosmic neutrino fluxes from the ANITA experiment
Authors: ANITA Collaboration (S. Barwick et al.)
Title: First results of the search of neutrinoless double double beta decay with the NEMO 3 detector
Authors: NEMO Collaboration (R. Arnold et al.)
Title: A Study of Muon Neutrino Disappearance Using the Fermilab Main Injector Neutrino Beam
Authors: MINOS Collaboration (P. Adamson et al.)
Title: Forecasting neutrino masses from combining KATRIN and the CMB: Frequentist and Bayesian analyses
Authors: Ole Host, Ofer Lahav, Filipe B. Abdalla, Klaus Eitel
Title: Neutrino Mass, Dark Energy, and the Linear Growth Factor
Authors: Angeliki Kiakotou (UCL), Oystein Elgaroy (Oslo Uni.), Ofer Lahav (UCL)
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2013 Cross Country: Ran in seven meets … placed ninth at the All-Ohio Championships (22:38.4) … clocked a season-best 6K time of 21:58.6 to take 18th at the MAC Championships.
2012-13: Cross Country -- Ran in six races for Miami, scoring in all of them....ran a career-high 5K at the Dayoton Flyer 5K in 18:41.0, taking second for Miami and fifth overall...improved her career high at the Sean Earl Invitational, scoring as Miami's fourth finisher in 18:22...had a career-high 6K at Pre-Nationals, scoring third for the RedHawks in 21:43.7...took third at the MAC Championship in 22:11.9...improved her 6K time at the Great Lakes Regional, taking third for Miami and 67th overall in 21:48.
2011-12: Cross Country -- Ran in five races for Miami, scoring once ... was the team's fourth scorer and finished 55th overall at the Penn State National Meet (23:00) ... posted a season-best 5K time of 19:15.45 to place fourth in the open division race at the All-Ohio Championships ... clocked a 6K season-best 22:28.6 at the MAC Championship as she crossed in 38th place ... ran first collegiate race Sept. 3, taking 44th at the Dayton 5K Challenge (20:25.0).
High School: Earned three letters in cross country and a combined seven letters between indoor and outdoor track at Williamsville South HS ... served as team captain for each sport for three years under head coach Dan Syracuse ... recorded a three mile personal best of 18:37 and a 5K mark of 19:13 ... also posted personal bests of 10:36 in the 3K, 7:28 in the 2000m steeplechase and 3:05 in the 1000m ... won the Erie County Interscholastic Conference cross country title for Division II in 2009 ... was the Section IV 3000m champion in track ... a four-time state qualifier ... also played four years of softball as a pitcher, serving as captain three years, and three years of field hockey.
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A clearer picture is beginning to emerge of exactly how many Defense Department employees will have their pay raises cut in half for the foreseeable future.
Patricia Niehaus, the national president of the Federal Managers Association was one of those who testified yesterday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia.
At the hearing, John James, director of the Pentagon's National Security Personnel System (NSPS) Transition Office, told lawmakers 21 percent of the more than 53,000 employees who had been shifted back into the General Schedule as of May 23 fall into the "pay retention" category.
Those employees make more, said Niehaus, than the top pay in the grade they are transitioning back to.
"If you extrapolate" the 21%, said Niehaus, "for all of the NSPS employees returning to the General Schedule, that could be about 37,000 employees who could be negatively impacted." Other estimates go as high as 47,500.
Either way, that's a lot of people with fractions for pay raises.
Many people perceive the individuals under NSPS who were paid more than they would have been under the GS as having benefited from NSPS. The comment was made yesterday that we've already benefited more under NSPS will continue to have that extra pay, so pay retention is a way of leveling the field. But Senator (George) Voinovich (Ranking Member (R-OH)) also pointed out yesterday that those who are in this situation were the best and brightest under NSPS. They were the highest performers. So it's kind of like you rewarded them on one hand, but now you're only going to give them a partial raise every year. It's almost like you're penalizing them on the other hand.
These are the people, said Niehaus, whose responsibilities were expanded under NSPS, which is how they became eligible to the higher pay in the first place.
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Preliminary Engineering by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) for the Purple Line and Future CCT is nearing completion. MTA has begun its second round of neighborhood work group meetings to present the next level of design to the public. Purple Line/CCT design features were presented for the Bethesda Station area on December 18, 2012 and for the Lyttonsville and Woodside Station areas on January 16, 2013. The most recent powerpoint presentations, sketches and maps for those areas are available now at the MTA website.
A sample of the information available at the MTA website for neighborhood work groups Bethesda, Lyttonsville and Woodside:
Proposed Purple Line and CCT bridges over Rock Creek
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The future Purple Line and CCT alignment at Rock Creek
(see MTA Lyttonsville Map for a more complete view)
The new MTA drawings show some changes from prior CCT plans, including:
1) The new 5-7′ wide sidewalk alignment through the Bethesda Tunnel, with the main trail shunted to the surface route (surface route not shown – that is under design by MCDOT),
2) The north-side location for the switchback connection to the Rock Creek Trail,
3) A new underpass alignment under the Purple Line tracks that is closer to the Rock Creek bridges,
4) A trail bridge over the CSX tracks that is further north from the Rosemary Hills Elementary School, and
5) A new, grade separated crossing under the east end of a proposed new Talbot Avenue Bridge.
These changes reflect some difficult trade-offs, but by-and-large can result in a high quality off-road trail from the center of Bethesda into the center of Silver Spring. While the decision to take the trail out of the Bethesda Tunnel and across Wisconsin Avenue at-grade has been a disappointment, the trail would have only one other at-grade crossing between Bethesda to downtown Silver Spring (at relatively quiet Stewart Avenue in Lyttonsville). At-grade crossings at three state highways (Connecticut Ave., 16th Street, and Colesville Road) on today's Georgetown Branch Trail would be eliminated.
All of this planning is in serious danger of going onto the shelf, with no progress for building either the Purple Line or for completing the CCT for many years to come!. The facts:
- All funding for Purple Line planning ends in 2014, and there is no funding available for construction to begin.
- To avoid a shut-down of work, the state must submit an application for a "Record of Decision" to the FTA this summer to get federal construction funding. The application must include a credible financial plan to show how the state will meet its proposed 50% share of the construction costs.
- The state transportation trust fund has been depleted and the state has no money to start any new highway, bridge or transit projects. The state cannot submit a credible financial plan for its share of the Purple Line unless a serious transportation funding package is approved by the state legislature now that will restore the Transportation Trust Fund in the immediate future.
The impact of the uncertainty in state funding for Purple Line upon completion of the CCT is already showing – with the recent accouncement that funding to build the CCT is being delayed: See Montgomery County projects tied to Purple Line delayed
If the governor and state assembly do not act in this legislative session, it will likely be many years before the transportation funding issue is addressed again in any substantial way. Next year is an election year and little will get done that involves political courage. The Purple Line will lose its place in line for federal construction funding. It could be many years before the project can be revived, and much of the design work will then need to be updated.
If the Purple Line project stalls, progress on completing and paving the Future CCT between Bethesda and Georgetown will also stop. We will not get the right-of-way in the CSX corridor that is crucial to completing the trail.
There is no alternative trail alignment for an off-road trail into downtown Silver Spring that does not require using CSX right-of-way in several places. But CSX has a strong general policy of not allowing any trail uses within its right-of-way. Purple Line project manager Mike Madden confirmed in an email exchange with me on November 26, 2012 that MTA had sent Purple Line plans to CSX for comment last fall, and CSX had responded in a letter to MTA to indicate it would not grant right-of-way for any trail use. MTA responded in turn with a letter to CSX to request that an exception be made for the state Purple Line/CCT project. Mike Madden told me at the 16 January Lyttonsville/Woodside neighborhood work group meeting that CSX has not yet responded to this request.
The grade-separated trail crossing under the 16th Street Bridge
is one of several places where CSX right-of-way is critical
(source: MTA at www.purplelinemd.com)
The state has considerable leverage it can use to bring CSX to the negotiating table regarding right-of-way for the Purple Line and CCT. CSX has many business interests statewide that are before the state for consideration, including requests for increasing its freight infrastructure capacity along its Brunswick Line. CSX cannot easily brush the state request for CCT right-of-way aside so long as the state makes the CCT an integral part of its high priority Purple Line project. But if the Purple Line project stalls, CSX right-of-way negotiations with the state will stop. Montgomery County has no leverage to bring CSX to the negotiating table for a trail-only project.
Paving the existing Georgetown Branch Trail between Bethesda and Lyttonsville will also likely remain gridlocked without the Purple Line, for several reasons:
1) The county council will be extremely reluctant to approve funding to pave the existing trail so long as there is any hope that the trail will be torn up and rebuilt for shared use of the corridor with transit in the not-to-distant future. Transit use has always been proposed for this corridor since the county bought it in 1988 – in fact the corridor would never have been purchased by the county if not for this future shared transit/trail use. Even if the Purple Line stalls, the need for better rapid transit between Silver Spring and Bethesda will only continue to grow. Neither East-West Highway nor Jones Bridge Road can be expanded to have the dedicated transit lanes that are essential for "rapid" transit on these congested roads, at any reasonable cost and impact. This Georgetown Branch transportation corridor will continue to be the only, and obvious, choice for better east-west rapid transit, whether as light-rail or as Bus Rapid Transit. Trail supporters cannot reasonably expect that this corridor will be surrendered to them for exclusive trail use if the Purple Line stalls.
2) Transit supporters will vigorously oppose placing anything in the Georgetown Branch corridor that may make it politically more difficult to advance transit in the future. I believe some limited trail development is worthwhile and should proceed in this corridor – I was in the lead in advocating for opening the Rock Creek Trestle in 2003. But I cannot dispute that "Save the Trail" advocates have used "we got here first" to build opposition to transit in the corridor, with no regard to the fact that the trail would not exist today if not for the promise of future shared transit and trail use.
3) There will be significant oppositon to paving the trail from local neighorhoods and other users. Pam Browning, past president of "Save the Trail", was on record in opposition to paving the trail unless it is done without replacing the existing gravel path and without cutting any trees. Those conditions are, of course, impossible to meet. There are many other local residents, joggers, and recreational cyclists who would like to see the Interim CCT stay as it is – uncrowded and natural. They fear paving will open the CCT to speeding cyclists.
Trail users should be very concerned that the Purple Line is in danger of stalling because the state Transportation Trust Fund is running on empty. If the project stalls then completing and paving the future CCT will stall along with it. If that prospect bothers you and you live in Maryland, then now is the time to contact your Maryland State Representatives and urge them to fix the Transportation Trust Fund.
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RYAN VREDE, in London, reports that Heyneke Meyer says comparisons between the Springboks and All Blacks are ill-formed and unfair, explaining the world champions are far advanced in their development.
The Springboks' victory over Scotland somewhat polarised opinion. Some lauded an almighty defence performance that restrict their hosts to just one try despite their comprehensive dominance of territory and possession in the second half. Other lamented another match in which the Springboks looked impotent, imprecise and unimaginative in what Meyer calls the 'goal zone' (between opposition tryline and 22m).
For most of the latter group, the All Blacks' 51-22 victory over the Scots six days earlier was used as the benchmark for the Springboks, and their inability to meet those expectations then fueled their frustration.
Meyer is acutely aware of the criticism and comparison and has generally tried to be diplomatic in explaining the mitigating factors for their struggles. However, speaking in London ahead of the final Test of an unbeaten year-end tour against England, Meyer's own frustrations were obvious.
'Comparisons are always fun to do. Let's do another one,' he began. 'They've played Australia, who are one of the better defensive sides in the world and scored three times. We scored five in one match against Australia at Loftus and one in the other [in Perth], so we've got six against their three in a game less. Suddenly the picture looks different.
'They have the luxury of playing a different side if they choose because they've developed the depth. There's more than 19 players either injured, unavailable or retired from the World Cup Springboks. They use their whole system to ensure the side peaks at the rights times. They are far more experienced – with Richie McCaw there as 100 plus games as an assistant and Steven Hansen 100 games an assistant. So you have to compare apples with apples.'
Meyer, however, tempered that stern rebuttal by acknowledging the Blacks' killer instinct when presented with scoring opportunities, which is a glaring deficiency in the Springboks' game.
'Where they are definitely ahead is that they are far more clinical than us. Whenever they get a chance to score a try they do. Scotland were in the game against them, then they made two errors and the game was different. We were 16-12 up at half time of the Soccer City Test and a mistake from the kick-off and they were away.'
The Springboks' forwards were awe-inspiring at the gainline on attack in the first half of the Murrayfield Test, as they were in the second against Ireland. Still there is a large degree of predictability about the attack and an apparent lack of spacial awareness of intelligence in contact, which is a hallmark of the Blacks. The New Zealanders carry the ball powerfully, but also possess the presence of mind to do so in a manner that allows them to free their hands often, after which they have the option of picking off support runners, who are never in short supply.
This is the legitimate criticism of the Springboks' attack, not that they appear to kick away possession (often their opponents, including the Blacks, have kicked more). It is this refinement that is required and that is entirely a coaching issue.


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- František, Josef's son, was born 1867 in Telč
- Telč registries are stored in MZA Brno and are available online on http://www.actapublica.eu
- Josef was married to Marie Mašková before 1867, but not in Černíč, where Marie was born, or in Telč, where the family lived since 1867.
- Josef was an illegitimate son of Anna, maid in Šach, daughter of František Čudlý from Šach and Marie nee Macke
- Josef was of non-catholic, helvetian religion
- Šach belongs to SRA Třeboň, parish Volfířov (catholic) or Velká Lhota (non-catholic). These records are also available online on http://digi.ceskearchivy.cz
Blog for those who are interested in Czech genealogy, who have ancestors in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.
Friday, September 23, 2011
How I found my great-great grandfather
5 comments:
I can read the word Anna. Is it written in Sutterlin Script? I can recognize the S because that is what I look for in my husbands ancestors Sperl.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2011 at 9:10 AM
Blanka, I dont know German, but I think I can read it, its what Im doing in my researches...ReplyDelete
So here it goes:
Anna ehelich ledige tochter des Franz Czudli, Chalupners in Schach ?? 25 und der mutter Maria geborene Tors(??) von Schach Chalupners ?? 25.
I think is something like:
Anna, single, legitimate daughter of Franz Czudli, cottager in Schach house 25 and of Maria, nee Tors(??) Cottager from Schach house 25.
Am I right?
Ps. I used anonymous to post, but Im member of your blog :)
Chris, great! Tors is Twrs (Tvrz), that sign before 25 is HN for Haus Nummer.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Im so glad that I could translate it right!!!! Im trying to learn everything that I could, so thanks for the tips!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2012 at 1:40 PM
Alois Čudlý a bratr Antonín Čudlý-Nová Bystřice jejich matka Františka rozená Talpová, provdaná Krejčí a Čudlá - Horní Dubenky č.23 nar.16.2.1848 Nová Ves sos uvízla jsem firstname.lastname@example.com


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Offense Arrives Just in Time as Baseball Settles for Twinbill Split at Coker with 7-5 Win in Game Two
March 16, 2013
HARTSVILLE, S.C. - Pfeiffer University and host Coker College split a Conference Carolinas doubleheader on Saturday afternoon as the Cobras took a 4-1 decision in game one while the Falcons bounced back for a 7-5 victory in game two. Pfeiffer improves to 10-17 overall, 6-4 in league play while the Cobras move to 16-8, 8-4.
Pfeiffer's lone run in the seven-inning opener came in the top of the first as Cole McGraw doubled home Jacob Yates with the game's first run. Coker would immediately take advantage of two Falcon errors in the bottom of the first to score three gaining a two-run lead. Coker would add one final run for insurance in the third.
Game two saw Pfeiffer dig themselves a 4-0 deficit until scoring all seven runs over the final three innings to salvage the final game of the series. In a three-run, three-hit seventh, Matt Wade would bring home McGraw on a sacrifice fly to center while Kyle Hackney blasted a two-run homer to left after Izzy Perez kept the inning alive with a double to left.
In the eighth, Jon Gray would continue his tear with a solo shot to left squaring the contest at four before tacking on the final three runs in the ninth. Perez delivered again with a RBI-double to score Wade while Hackney brought in Perez with a single to right. Hackney would later score on a wild pitch to make it 7-4 in favor of Pfeiffer.
Hackney would finish game two with a 3-for-4 outing adding three RBI and pair of runs scored. Perez, Gray and Yates would each collect two in the come-from-behind win.
Pfeiffer gets back to action on Tuesday night taking on Lenoir-Rhyne in a neutral site contest at CMC-Northeast Stadium in Kannapolis, home of the Kannapolis Intimidators. First pitch will be thrown at 7:00 p.m.


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OPM: D.C. feds can take unscheduled leave, telework Thursday
Wednesday - 1/16/2013, 7:07pm EST
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Federal workers in the Washington D.C. region can take unscheduled leave or telework Thursday, the Office of Personnel Management announced. A Winter Storm Watch will remain in effect for the D.C. region through much of the day Thursday.
D.C. federal agencies will remain open.
According to WTOP, the storm watch indicates the potential for significant amounts of snow, with some areas receiving more than 4 inches of snow. Forecasters expect the heaviest snowfall during the afternoon and evening commutes.
The OPM website states:
Non-Emergency Employees must notify their supervisor of their intent to use unscheduled leave or unscheduled telework (if telework-ready). In accordance with their agency's policies and procedures, subject to any applicable collective bargaining requirements, non-emergency employees have the option to use:
Telework-Ready Employees who are regularly scheduled to perform telework or who notify their supervisors of their intention to perform unscheduled telework must be prepared to telework for the entire workday, or take unscheduled leave, or a combination of both, for the entire workday in accordance with their agency's policies and procedures, subject to any applicable collective bargaining requirements.
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