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Tommy DeeIt's such a great thought. I've been beyond impressed with Woodson out of time outs and being the tactician to get open buckets. Offensively, like it or not, he learned a lot from D'Antoni. This is the veteran team that can sustain and make a push until June. They are playing together with a common goal and no distractions. Success can take time with coaches and, like Belichick, your vision can take time to build. The star player and the coach are on the same page and they are playing winning ball on both sides. It is really fun to watch.


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My wife and I are booked on an icebreaker (the Kapitan Khlebnikov) with Quark Expeditions for a cruise to the Weddell Sea in late October 2006. I have read many things about the conditions in Antarctica, but most everything I find describes the conditions during the prime Antarctic summer travel months of November to March. I have never seen a tourist cruise advertised as leaving as early as October, and wondered if anyone had any thoughts. Specifically, I am most concerned about the weather ? will it be very much colder than the normal temps I see described for the normal travel periods, how much sunlight can we expect (much better for photography) or is it more likely to be overcast, and will there be more storms? On an icebreaker, should I have any concern about early season ice altering our itinerary, or do those guys go anywhere at any time?
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Hi VJ - October will be a great month to see Antarctica from an icebreaker, it will be about mid-spring. Temperatures will be colder than later on of course, but not greatly so. You will probably experience say minus 10C, maybe colder, but it's unlikely to be like that for long. October is the month when the temperatures are changing most rapidly (with February) so there could be quite a range of temperature highs and lows.
Take clothing that you can layer, as it's also likely that many days, the temperature will be up to and above freezing point, so versatility is the key word.
There'll be plenty of daylight, you should be getting about 14-15 hours by then, maybe more and with all the snow and ice around it stays brighter longer with the reflections. Overcast weather is as likely as almost any time of year. You don't need brilliant sunshine all the time to get great pictures in Antarctica.
Storms? no more risk then usual.
As for your itinerary, yes the sea-ice could well alter where you can go, but icebreakers have experienced captains and ice-pilots, so the overall trip itself start and end dates are as unlikely to change as any other cruise. Icebreakers can go far more places at far more times than ordinary ships, so expect the spectacular. It's not early season ice that may cause problems as late season ice. By October the winter sea ice is starting to break up and move around.
If you can't get one place though, you'll be able to get somewhere else. Antarctic cruise companies know that for most people on board, this is a once in a life-time spectacular, and they will go out of their way to make sure that's what you set.
I hope you have a great time.
Re: What are conditions in October?
The Kapitan Khlebnikov visited Halley base in December 2004 as part of one of their Weddell Sea cruises - the first time a cruise ship ever visited our base. See here for details:
We didn't get a chance to visit the ship but they seemed like a very professional operation and all the tourists that came to visit seemed to be having a great time.
I've had a look back at the weather records for October 2005 at our base (75S, 26W, as far south as you are likely to get) - the temperature varied between -3C and -35C with an average of -20C. In terms of wind, we had a few gales in the first third of the month (up to 50 knots) then calmer weather after that. You might get some bad weather but it is unlikely to spoil the whole trip.
As for sea ice, the Khlebnikov shouldn't have any trouble I wouldn't have thought - after leaving here they cut a path straight across the weddell sea to the tip of the pennisula, something our resupply vessel would never manage.
I'd agree with Paul about the sunlight - a good fraction of the time will be light and you'll probably get more spectacular skies than in the summer as the sun will still be setting and rising rather than just going round in circles.
Have a great trip!
Re: What are conditions in October?
Thanks so much Simon. I looked on the website of your station -- very interesting.
Luckily we will not be coming nearly as far south as you. Our furthest stop south will be at Snow Hill Island, which is at 64S, 56W -- way up on the tip of the peninsula. Good thing, because that -35C temperature you mentioned sounds pretty darned cold. I'm game for just about any adventure, but my wife would probably stay inside a lot if it was getting that cold, even at your average of -20C. My guess is it will be a good deal warmer where we will be, probably in the range of -10C like Paul said.
Anyway, thanks again for the info, and if we get blown off course I will stop in and say hello!

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At ESPNNY, Mets VP for Scouting and Player Development Paul DePodesta discussed the state of the Mets' farm system.
Remember, whenever you see quotes from a team official, here, or at ESPNNY, or anywhere else, discussing their own prospects, to apply a filter.
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"First, I think the system when we first arrived was underrated," Paul DePodesta insisted. "It included current big leaguers like Dillon Gee, Ruben Tejada, Lucas Dudaand Kirk Nieuwenhuis, among others…"
Player 2012 fWAR Career fWAR
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Tejada 2.1 3.6
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On Opening Day, 2013, Ruben Tejada will be 23. Kirk Nieuwenhuis 25, and Lucas Duda 27. Dillon Gee will turn 27 in late April. One of these things is not like the others: Tejada, who has been one of the most pleasant surprises since I've been covering the Mets minor league system in 2004. The others fall into a slightly different category, with it looking unlikely that any of them will reach the level of average Major Leaguers. It is of course better to pay Major League minimum for replacement level performance than to pay millions in veteran-level guarantees, but lets not pretend that any of the other trio has yet has established themselves as franchise cornerstones – or ever will. Of the trio, Gee is a perfectly useful back-end starter. Nieuwenhuis and Duda have a lot to prove in 2013.
"Admittedly, our position players are behind our pitchers ….- our pitchers led all of minor league baseball in ERA — but we think we added some key guys in last year's draft, and some of our international players continue making progress. There are some position players we're very excited about. But, collectively, it's not as deep as the pitching.
We rate the bolded section 100% true.
We rate the second part of this statement as yet to be determined. The Mets said in part that they took Brandon Nimmo with their first pick in 2011, because they did not think they would have another chance at an impact-level position player, but liked the depth of arms in the draft. Indeed, Michael Fulmer was a better pitching prospect at #44 than the position guys available. In 2012, the first three players the Mets took were all up the middle position guys – SS Gavin Cecchini, C Kevin Plawecki, and Matt Reynolds (who I like best at 2B). I also like 8th round catcher Tomas Nido and 4th rounder Brandon Kaupe, who has serious speed, although he was overmatched in his professional debut in the Appalachian League.
"We never get caught up in the rankings, because ultimately, it's about producing quality big leaguers……
"All in all, more than a dozen of our players who haven't appeared in any top-10 list have been asked about this winter in major league trades, so other teams out there certainly like our depth."
Oh. So rankings do not matter until they do.
"Thanks to both our scouts and our development people, this is the most talented and deepest group of pitching prospects that I've been a part of in the past 20 years, and I've been fortunate to have been around some good ones. Our teams finished first in the league in ERA, WHIP and K/BB ratio — a good trifecta — in the Florida State League, the South Atlantic League, and the New York Penn League, and we did that with six-man rotations at each spot. Further, those staffs didn't include guys like Wheeler, Familia, Mejia, Harvey, etc. The best part, in my mind, is that our guys aren't just touch/feel guys who are old for their league and are good performers. Rather, these guys have stuff, command and performance. Of course, not all of them will make it, but we have enough of a mass to believe that some of them should.
I agree 100% with the basic point here. There are a number of interesting arms at the lower levels behind Harvey/Wheeler and the likely bullpen guys – Familia and Mejia at the upper levels – working through the lower minors like Michael Fulmer, Domingo Tapia, Jacob deGrom, Rafael Montero, Luis Mateo, Gabriel Ynoa and Luis Cessa to say nothing of the 2012 draftees.
For reference, allow me to present the park factors from Minor League Central for 2011 (where 100 is league average) for the Mets' three affiliates, and their rank in their respective league, where 1 is the most hitter friendly, DePodesta discussed here:
St. Lucie – 111 (2 of 12)
Savannah – 92 (12 of 14)
Brooklyn – 93 (11 of 14)
In two of the three cases, Savannah and Brooklyn, the Mets' affiliate calls one of the most pitcher friendly parks in the league home. Phrased another way, Savannah and Brooklyn should be right near the top of their leagues in ERA every year. Both WHIP and ERA will be heavily influenced by park. K/BB less so. Moreover, team ERA is influence not just by the prospect types, but by guys in the bullpens who will never pitch in the big leagues. Team-level stats just are not a great measure of a team's prospect heaviness at any individual level. Lets not confuse park effects, and noisy data with a dominant stable of young pitching prospects.
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In 1984, during Quebec's 450th anniversary celebrations of Jacques Cartier's discovery of Canada, the province sought an event which would bring the festivities to all Quebecers. Guy Laliberté convinced organisers the answer was a provincial tour of Cirque du Soleil performers and it hasn't stopped since!
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Former students Charles P. Pratt and his sister, Ashley E. Petranchuk, filed suit in U.S. District Court, Syracuse, in April 2009 alleging he was harassed, called names, physically assaulted and threatened for being gay before he dropped out of Indian River High School, Philadelphia, when he was 15 years old. He claims that district officials were aware of the problems but deliberately refused to help him. He and his sister also said any attempts by him to form a Gay-Straight Alliance at the high school were shot down by administrators.
In the suit, Mr. Pratt has attempted to demonstrate that the district was aware of a hostile environment at its high school for years before he arrived there but failed to address it.
Mr. Pratt sought through discovery to have incidents of alleged harassment that occurred before he was a student in the district, or before the 1993-94 school year, entered into evidence. He also sought to have claimed incidents that occurred while he was a student in the district between 1993 and October 2004, but in buildings other than the ones he was attending.
The district fought the enlarged scope of the evidence being sought, arguing that any alleged harassment that occurred prior to Mr. Pratts attending the school, or that may have occurred in buildings he was not in, was not relevant to his claims and was overly burdensome to obtain.
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BUFFALO, NY - Levi Clayton is a 96-year old survivor. The Buffalo man was beaten in his home by a group of young men seen on the home's video surveillance cameras in November.
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ThinkFlood has just released its iPhone universal remote –the RedEye. Loaded with features and costs $188, it is a good deal. Average universal remotes cost about $150 so RedEye's tag is not so bad. What makes RedEye different is that it utilizes the touchscreen of iPhones; it also uses iPhone hardware to power itself.
The device is a must-have especially for iPhone owners. RedEye was used for beta testing some ages ago but now it is available in their website. This new universal remote has a great design. The quality of the hardware is as good as its design and it is durable. However, of course if you keep on doing a wrestling match with anyone in your household because of the remote –it probably will not survive the catastrophe.
What does it do?
Well it connects you to Wi-Fi if you want to surf on your iPhone, and it does not have any problems with controlling the TV, the DVR, or Blu-Ray, no significant latency whatsoever –which is good. RedEye converts your precious unlocked iPhone into a remote. For those fond of their iPods, RedEye can make this into a remote as well. This only works with IR equipped components of course, everyone would be surprised if you can control your dog through the said remote. It is not like one of those movies but hey, it has potential, to control anything that can respond to IR signals.
Setting it up however is a little difficult but that is of course expected since it is a universal remote. Well as they say, no pain, no gain.
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It is May 2007. It is a beautiful day so you decide to take the family for a Saturday ride. You vote and its decided you will go to Grand Junction, Colo., and hit the mall. You leave Price and everything is going just fine. You approach the port of entry in Loma, Colo., and notice that the sign has been changed. Where it used to read, "all commercial vehicles must stop" it now reads "all vehicles must stop."
You wonder what is going on and the kids ask you why we have to stop, and you say, "I have no idea," but you dutifully pull into the port. The man in charge comes out and asks you for your "papers" and "papers" for everyone in the vehicle. After a moment of bewilderment on your part, he demands your "papers" more forcefully and you finally tell your family to hand over their "papers" (the new National ID cards), only to find out that your wife left her ID at home. At this point the man in charge tells your wife to get out of the car and wait in the building. He then asks you where you are going. You ask what is going on with your wife but the man tells you to just answer his questions and there will be no trouble. You tell him you are going to Grand Junction for some shopping and he tells you that you can't because the government wants everyone to stay in his or her home territory for a while to cut down on terrorism. He also tells you that your wife will be detained there until you produce her "papers." You start to protest and he removes you and your children from the car and detains all of you on suspicion of being terrorists because you expressed dissent for government policy.
Fantasy or reality. Have you been paying attention to what is going on in Congress? Did you know that they passed the Real ID Act because it was tacked on the "emergency" appropriations bill and not one senator (including yours) had the courage to demand that it be removed before passage of the spending bill?
Do you want to have to show an internal passport to travel in your own country? To open a bank account? To drive you car? To fly?
The day is fast approaching when we American citizens will have no more rights or freedom than the "comrades" of Red China or Cuba.
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18 U.S. Code § 1907 - Disclosure of information by farm credit examiner
Whoever, being a farm credit examiner or any examiner, public or private, discloses the names of borrowers of any Federal land bank association or Federal land bank, or any organization examined by him under the provisions of law relating to Federal intermediate credit banks, to other than the proper officers of such institution or organization, without first having obtained express permission in writing from the Land Bank Commissioner or from the board of directors of such institution or organization, except when ordered to do so by a court of competent jurisdiction or by direction of the Congress of the United States or either House thereof, or any committee of Congress or either House duly authorized, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and shall be disqualified from holding office as a farm credit examiner.
Source(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 791; Pub. L. 86–168, title I, § 104(h),Aug. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 387; Pub. L. 97–297, § 4(c),Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1318; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K),Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on sections 983 and 1124 of title 12, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Banks and Banking (July 17, 1916, ch. 245, § 31 [third and fourth sentences of third paragraph], 39 Stat. 383; July 17, 1916, ch. 245, § 211(d) [part of first sentence], as added Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 252, § 2,42 Stat. 1460; June 16, 1933, ch. 98, § 80(a),48 Stat. 273).
Section 983 of title 12, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Banks and Banking, does not include the term "farm credit examiner," as used in this section, but it relates thereto as is indicated by sections 951 and 952 of said title.
Section 1124 of title 12, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Banks and Banking, which was taken from a chapter in that title dealing with Federal intermediate credit banks, also relates to farm credit examiners as is indicated by section 1093 thereof. Even so, it was deemed advisable to retain the reference to any examiner "public or private," as used in said section 1124.
For clarification, the types of associations, banks, and organizations to which section relates, were enumerated wherever referred to, and words "examined by him under the provisions of law relating to Federal intermediate credit banks" were inserted.
In addition, changes were made in phraseology.
The provisions relating to disqualification from holding office as an incident to violation were contained in section 1124 of title 12, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Banks and Banking.
For bribery and other provisions of section 1124 of title 12, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Banks and Banking, see sections 218 and 1909 of this title.
Other provisions of said section 983 of title 12, U.S.C., 1940 ed., were incorporated in section 221 of this title.
1994—Pub. L. 103–322substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $5,000".
1982—Pub. L. 97–297substituted "or Federal land bank" for ", Federal land bank, or joint-stock land bank".
1959—Pub. L. 86–168substituted "Federal land bank associations" for "national farm loan association".
Effective Date of 1959 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 86–168effective Dec. 31, 1959, see section 104(k) ofPub. L. 86–168.
Abolition of Office of Land Bank Commissioner
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I have in my possession a set of armor much like the one worn by those of your profession, but of much higher quality. I'd be willing to trade the bracers for ordinary ones in exchange for a small favor.
The blood of the frostsabers and bears that inhabit Winterspring has properties I'm in need of at the moment. Bring me a sizeable sample of it along with the bracers and a small amount of gold. You shall find the effort worth your while.
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This activity is about planetary rovers. Learners will simulate the challenges in communications that engineers face when driving a rover on Mars. They will particpate as part of a rover team to design and execute a series of commands that will... (View More) guide a rover made of people through an obstacle course simulating the Martian surface. Students will learn the limitations of operating a planetary rover and problem solving solutions by using this simulation. The lesson models the engineering design process using the 5E instructional model and includes teacher notes, vocabulary, student journal and reading. (View Less)
This is an activity about spacecraft design. Teams of learners will model how scientists and engineers design and build spacecraft to collect, store, and transmit data to earth. Teams will design a system to store and transmit topographic data of... (View More) the Moon and then analyze that data and compare it to data collected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter . (View Less)
Materials Cost: Over $20 per group of students
This activity is a short engineering design challenge to be completed by individual students or small teams. A real-world problem is presented, designing buildings for hurricane-prone areas, but in a simulated way that works in a classroom, after... (View More) school club, or informal education setting. Students are given simple materials and design requirements, and must plan and build a tower as tall as possible that will hold up a tennis ball while resisting the force of wind from a fan. After the towers are built, the group comes together to test them. If there is time after testing, which can be observational or framed as a contest between teams, students can redesign their towers to improve their performance, or simply discuss what worked well and what didn't in their designs. (View Less)
Materials Cost: $1 - $5 per group of students
This is a lesson about generating hypotheses and testable questions. Learners will use critical thinking and a collaborative approach to pose questions related to the study of Mars and evaluate the quality of their questions. They will explore... (View More) remote-sensing data collected by a camera orbiting Mars - the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) and develop a team science question. Students will practice critical thinking skills, use a collaborative approach to this first critical step of the scientific process. Exploring the images of the surface of Mars in Visible (VIS) images, students will come up with a topic of study, their team science question and hypotheses. The lesson models scientific inquiry using the 5E instructional model and includes teacher notes and vocabulary. (View Less)
Materials Cost: Free
Learners will brainstorm ideas to be developed into a team skit, work cooperatively to assign duties and write the skit, and collaborate with team members to complete the Mars Rover Manual. The lesson uses the 5E instructional model and includes:... (View More) TEKS Details (Texas Standards alignment), Essential Question, Science Notebook, Vocabulary Definitions for Students, Vocabulary Definitions for Teachers, three Vocabulary Cards, the Manual Template, and a presentation writing Mini-Lesson. This is lesson 13 of the Mars Rover Celebration Unit, a six week long curriculum. (View Less)
Materials Cost: $10 - $20 per group of students
In this problem-based learning (PBL) scenario, students prepare a presentation for investors showing how their fishing company has a significant advantage because it locates upwelling zones and fishing areas using TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring... (View More) Mission) and other satellite data. Prior to launching the PBL, students learn about wind: the topics of air pressure, coriolis effect, upwelling and the role of differential heating on the atmosphere are explored in classroom demonstrations. Materials required include a beaker, coffee grounds, drinking straw, balloon, flashlight, and turntable. The resource includes teacher background information, glossary, assessment rubric, and an appendix introducing problem-based learning. (View Less)
Materials Cost: $1 - $5 per group of students
In this problem-based learning activity, students learn about global precipitation patterns. They assume the role of climatologists and teach a newspaper reporter about the scientific method, explore how rainfall patterns impact society using TRMM... (View More) (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) satellite data, and brainstorm needed weather instruments to be built in the future. The resource includes teacher notes, student worksheet, glossary and an appendix introducing problem-based learning. This resource is the third of the 3-part learning module, Investigating the Climate System:Precipitation. (View Less)
Materials Cost: Free per student


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Management of non-native northern pike and smallmouth bass remains the focus of research conducted by Utah and Colorado biologists participating in the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program.
This is the second year of experimental removal efforts to determine if the numbers of certain non-native fish species in rivers can be reduced to a level where they no longer threaten the survival of the endangered humpback chub, bonytail, Colorado pikeminnow and razorback sucker.
Scientific evidence demonstrates that these non-native fish species, as well as channel catfish, pose a significant threat to the survival of endangered fish because they prey upon them and compete for food and space.
"This research will help identify the level of management required to minimize the threat of non-native fishes to the endangered fishes to satisfy criteria for recovery of these species," said Robert Muth, director of the recovery program. "We will assess the data each year to determine future nonnative fish management actions."
Efforts will expand from last year to include additional river sections, work crews and removal trips. From April through October, biologists will work in 515 miles of the Colorado, Yampa, Green and Duschesne rivers.
In Utah, smallmouth bass and northern pike are the fish targeted for removal.
Although channel catfish were included in last year's research effort, capture methods proved inadequate for effective removal.
With the exception of Yampa Canyon, where effective removal has been demonstrated, channel catfish control has been discontinued.
If new technologies can be developed that are more effective at capturing catfish, the recovery program may implement catfish capture and removal in the future and evaluate the results.
Follow-up sampling from this year's northern pike and smallmouth bass efforts will determine if management efforts reduced the numbers of targeted non-native fishes in sections where they were removed.
Monitoring of endangered and other native fishes will determine if numbers of these species increase. This year's nonnative fish management effort is the largest known riverine project of its kind.
It is a collaborative effort among the Utah Division of Wildlife, the Colorado Division of Wildlife Resources, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Recovery Program and biologists from Colorado State University.
"It's important for us to learn whether removing non-native fish is an effective way to increase the number of native fish in the river system," commented Kevin Conway, director of the Utah DRW. "This year's nonnative removal projects are part of that evaluation."
Earlier this year, recovery program partners, which include state and federal agencies, environmental groups and water and power user organizations in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, adopted a policy that addresses the process of identifying and implementing non-native fish management actions needed to recover the endangered fish.
"This was a landmark event because it clearly demonstrates that these diverse organizations recognize that management of non-native fish is essential to achieve and maintain recovery of the endangered fishes," said Ralph Morgenweck of USFWS. "The policy also recognizes the dual responsibilities of state and federal fish and wildlife agencies to conserve listed and other native fish species while providing for recreational fishery opportunities."
The recovery program is implementing several other actions to recover endangered fishes in addition to non-native fish management. Efforts are ongoing to provide river flows, restore habitat, construct fish ladders and screens, produce and stock endangered fish and monitor results.
The recovery program was established in 1988 on a volunteer basis.
For more information, call the Salt Lake City DWR office at 801-538-4700.
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