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Even player development people, whose job it is to be patient in coaxing prospects through the levels of the farm system, get fired up a little more when they see big numbers being put up by one of their charges.
It's not that they aren't interested in everyone throughout the system, but the fan in them might lead them to the computer first thing each morning to see what a hot player has done.
Left-handed pitcher Jeff Francis is an example of a big-numbers player as he came through the Rockies' farm system. Francis won 12 games in 2003 with Visalia of the advanced Single-A California League in his second year in the organization. He was 13-1 the next season at Double-A Tulsa and 3-2 with Triple-A Colorado Springs before getting the call to join the Rockies, where he went 3-2. Ubaldo Jimenez won 10 games and struck out 138 hitters in 2003 at Asheville. Jhoulys Chacin was a combined 18-3 at Asheville and Modesto with 160 strikeouts in 2007.
At the plate, Todd Helton hit .352 in 21 games in 1996 at Triple-A Colorado Springs and .352 again in 99 games for the Sky Sox in 1997. Brad Hawpe put up numbers of .347, 22 homers and 97 RBIs at advanced Single-A Salem in 2002.
"Big numbers aren't a guarantee that a player is going to make it in the big leagues, but they're encouraging to the organization," said Marc Gustafson, the Rockies' director of player development. "It's fun for us to watch the fantastic numbers some players put up."
The watch now is on left-handed pitcher Tyler Matzek, the 11th overall pick in the major-league ama- teur draft last June out of Capistrano Valley High School in California. Matzek made his pro debut last week at Asheville, allowing one hit in five innings.
"With Tyler, you're looking at talent that's hard to find," said Asheville manager Joe Mikulik, who has seen most of the Rockies' top minor-league prospects on the way up through the organization. "You don't see that type of delivery and arm strength very often. His potential is obvious when you see the left-handed power arm and clean delivery."
Mikulik likes Matzek's mental toughness, comparing it to what he saw with Francis and Jimenez.
"It was exciting to finally get started," Matzek said. "I hadn't thrown against competition for quite some time. You always have butterflies, but you deal with it."
Matzek didn't sign soon enough last summer to make his rookie debut at Casper. He remained in extended spring training in Tucson this spring.
"There wasn't any rush this year," Gustafson said of Matzek's stay in Tucson. "We wanted him to get acclimated to pro baseball."
Mikulik sees work ahead for his new pitcher.
"We need better command of the fastball and more work on the secondary pitches," Mikulik said. "He's not afraid to work. If he stays with the program, he'll have all the success in the world."
Keeping track.
Christian Friedrich, a first-round pick two years ago, has returned from the disabled list and is 0-2 with a 3.23 ERA in six starts in his first assignment at Double-A Tulsa. Infielder Chris Nelson, the top pick in 2004, is back from the disabled list at Colorado Springs and is hitting .259 in 19 games. Right-hander Greg Reynolds, the second player taken in the first round of the 2006 draft, and right-hander Casey Weathers, the 11th player taken in 2007, are mending from elbow injuries.
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Brad Eldred, 1B, Sky Sox
A week ago, officials in the Rockies' organization hoped no one noticed what appeared to be a lack of power hitting in the farm system.
With the organization leader sitting at eight home runs, the Rockies farmhands weren't intimidating many foes with their bats.
First baseman Brad Eldred got the message.
Last Sunday, Eldred blasted three home runs against Iowa. The Sky Sox lost 11-7, but the power outage was broken. Eldred hit another home run Thursday to bring his 10-game total to six. He went into the weekend leading the farm system with 10.
"I tend to hit home runs in bunches, but I don't think I've hit three in one game before," Eldred said. "I hit the last one with two strikes. I wasn't really thinking that I already had two in the game."
Eldred, who bats and throws right-handed, joined the organization as a minor-league free agent. At 6-feet-5, 290 pounds, Eldred gives the Sky Sox a big presence at first base.
"I've hit with power," Eldred said. "If I get one good swing, you never know what's going to happen. I have to be more consistent."
Marc Gustafson, the Rockies' director of player development, noted that the organization had scouted Eldred and found his power intriguing.
Eldred was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2002. He went into Saturday's game hitting .283 with 34 RBIs. Irv Moss, The Denver Post
Organizational leaders (Through Thursday)
BATTING AVERAGE: (38 games) Jordan Pacheco, Modesto, .359; James Cesario, Modesto, .343.
RUNS: Eliezer Mesa, Asheville, 37; Thomas Field, Modesto, 34.
HITS: Pacheco, Modesto, 60; Cesario, Modesto, 59.
DOUBLES: Mesa, Asheville, 18; Brian Rike, Modesto, 16.
TRIPLES: Cesario, Modesto, 8; Cole Garner, Colorado Springs, 4; Field, Modesto, 4.
HOME RUNS: Brad Eldred, Colorado Springs, 10; Jared Clark, Asheville, 8.
RBIs: Pacheco, Modesto, 36; Eldred, Colorado Springs, 34; Cesario, Modesto, 34.
STOLEN BASES: Angelys Nina, Ashe- ville, 12; Anthony Jackson, Tulsa, 11.
WINS: Ethan Hollingsworth, Modesto, 5; Alan Johnson, Colorado Springs, 4; Wes Musick, Asheville, 4.
LOSSES: Chaz Roe, Colorado Springs, 7; Nicholas Schnaitmann, Asheville, 5; Jonathan Vargas, Asheville, 5.
SAVES: Adam Jorgenson, Modesto, 13; Juan Rincon, Colorado Springs, 6.
INNINGS: Hollingsworth, Modesto, 57; Juan Nicasio, Modesto, 50 1/3.
WALKS: Vargas, Asheville, 24; Damian Moss, Colorado Springs, 23.
STRIKEOUTS: Hollingsworth, Modesto, 58; Musick, Asheville, 44.
ERA: (Starters) — Ching-Lung Lo, Tulsa, 2:03; Johnson, Colorado Springs, 2.15. (Relievers) — Scott Rice, Tulsa, 0.92; Isaiah Froneberger, Modesto, 1.25.


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Universal Pictures will release Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking masterpiece Jurassic Park in 3D on April 5, 2013. With his remastering of the epic into a state-of-the-art 3D format, Spielberg introduces the three-time Academy Award®-winning blockbuster to a new generation of moviegoers and allows longtime fans to experience the world he envisioned in a way that was unimaginable during the film's original release.
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Jurassic Park was released June 11th, 1993.Read More
John Williams' iconic Jurassic Park theme has finally reached #1 on the classical music Billboard Charts. This milestone comes 22 years after it was released as a single to accompany the theatrical debut of the Steven Spielberg directed thriller. It was originally released as a cassette and CD single, two items that are almost as extinct as the dinosaur. The theme leapt to the top of the charts with a miraculous 205 percent gain.
Over 3,000 copies of the single were sold in the week ending June 14, according to Nielsen Music. To date, the Jurassic Park theme has sold a whopping 189,000 downloads. This happened the same week the long-awaited sequel Jurassic World opened to record breaking box office numbers. The film was released in preview showings last Thursday, and pulled in $209 million to be come the biggest ever opening weekend in both the U.S. and Canada, beating previous record holder Avengers: Age of Ultron.Read More
Welcome to today's edition of Nerd Alert, where we have all the off-beat, nerdy news for you in one convenient spot. What do we have in store for you on this marvelous Monday? Game of Thrones fans react to last night's shocking season finale (there will be SPOILERS if you didn't watch last night's episode), Jurassic Park gets remade by kids in 1993, and Mad Max: Fury Road gets a Cars-style trailer. So, sit back, relax, and check out all that today's Nerd Alert has to offer.
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When Jurassic World hits theaters next weekend, it will have one very big distinction that makes it different from Jurassic Park. And that's the science on display in this new Steven Spielberg produced sequel. According to a report, what we'll see on screen in Jurassic World in terms of its science is much more plausible and realistic. In fact, it could happen!
Jurassic Park was released June 11th, 1993.Read More
Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson and Colin Trevorrow reminisce about the first time they saw Jurassic Park in a new preview for Jurassic World, arriving in theaters June 12. Original Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg also offers his thoughts on this new adventure, stating that Jurassic World, "goes down an original road that none of the other movies dared to travel." He also adds that his confidence in director Colin Trevorrow was very high, and that there will be plenty of surprises in store for the audience.
Jurassic World is set twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, returning to Isla Nublar, which now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining, in order to fulfill a corporate mandate, a new attraction is created to re-spark visitor's interest, which backfires horribly. The supporting cast includes Judy Greer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jake Johnson, Katie McGrath, Lauren Lapkus, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan and original Jurassic Park star B.D. Wong.Read More
Ever since Jurassic World was first announced, fans have been wondering if any of the Jurassic Park cast members will be coming back. Director Colin Trevorrow confirmed that one of the original actors will be making a return, although it might not be someone you expect.
B.D. Wong's Dr. Henry Wu didn't appear in the Jurassic Park sequels The Lost World: Jurassic Park or Jurassic Park III, so it will be interesting to see how he fits into the Jurassic World story line. He joins a cast that also includes Chris Pratt, Idris Elba, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Vincent D'Onofrio and Irrfan Khan.Read More


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Eliminate commercial jet transports connecting continents, and the tangled tribal, economic, anarchic and ideological problems vexing Afghanistan become more localized torments afflicting Afghanis and their neighbors.
What? The jets aren't going away? Has Barack Obama failed to apologize for American Airlines, Southwest and United? What an uncomfortable fact: swift jet transportation shrinking oceans to a matter of hours places your home within commuting distance of chaos, murder, mass terror and the kind of blighted men who use deadly anarchy and crime to build their version of earthly Paradise.
Of course the terrorists and tyrants, the blighted men, are the culprits here, not the jumbo jets, and it isn't Americans they slay first, but villagers and developmental assistance providers in range of their Kalashnikovs. Modern transportation technologies do put their sad corners of the planet near your New York and Washington, however. Sept. 11 demonstrated that, as airliners hijacked by tribal fanatics became manned missiles striking targets with global economic and security significance.
Using "peaceful" transport aircraft as weapons was the evil judo of men seeking 12th century goals exploiting 21st century technology. "Witness the destruction that awaits you, America," al-Qaida's apocalyptic killers and their apologists sneered, "the global future lies not in your modernity but in our version of the past renewed."
That was fall 2001, when al-Qaida claimed divine providence and the Taliban was attempting to impose its "past renewed" on Afghanistan. The war for the terms of modernity had been going on in Afghanistan for years; via jumbo jets New York learned it, too, was on the battlefield.
In fall 2009 the wicked problem presented by Afghanistan differs from that of 2001, and President Barack Obama must understand those differences.
In fall 2001, U.S. and Northern Alliance forces demonstrated that al-Qaida and the Taliban did not have God on their side. Afghan elections in October 2004 were indicative of popular aspirations, when 8 million voted, despite terrorist violence. International observers reported that when the Taliban blew up a bridge near one polling place, the voters forded the stream and kept coming. At Polling Center 217, a poll watcher found a "veritable parade" of women in blue burkas waiting to vote -- OK, still in burkas, but women engaged in an act of political modernization anathema to tribal killers.
Austin Bay is the author of three novels. His third novel, The Wrong Side of Brightness, was published by Putnam/Jove in June 2003. He has also co-authored four non-fiction books, to include A Quick and Dirty Guide to War: Third Edition (with James Dunnigan, Morrow, 1996).
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Any suggestions on how to get him back to sleep in the crib or to sleep 2 more hours??
Lo wakes up at 4am everyday
Any suggestions on how to get him back to sleep in the crib or to sleep 2 more hours??
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My lo is 4 months and she goes to sleep at 10pm.then she wakes up again at 3:30 or 4am i give her bottle and she goes right back to sleep. Wakes up until 8am. Hope this helps. My lo doesnt sleep 9-10 hours strait..every baby is diff.:)
Ours gets a dream feed at 10...and then sometimes does wake up at 4. We just rock her back to sleep...we don't give her a bottle earlier than 5 because like you said in your case, LO falls right back to sleep. I think in our case she just needs a little help going back to sleep at that hour. I've heard from 4-6 is their lightest sleep...
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I would say hunger, too, but if you have to work around medications, that's tough. Do you have a swing that you could pop him in then? Maybe he'd sleep well in there.
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my lo still wakes up in the night, too. she goes down around 8pm and wakes at 2:30am (almost exactly every night!) to nurse. then she's up again around 4 or 5am, so i feed her again and pray she lets us sleep another hour or two. although this past week, she's hit the 4 month sleep regression, so absolutely nothing is guaranteed! gah! can't wait til she finally sleeps through the night, although i suspect that wont happen for mine until she's eating solids. sigh.


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Dr. Jesse Harris, age 70 of Louisville (native of New Castle), passed away on Saturday, September 22, 2012 at his residence. Jesse was a member & deacon of New Castle Main Street Baptist Church. He was an employee of Fischer's Packing Company for 35 + years; employee and organizer of UFCW Local 227; Kentucky State labor chair for NAACP; Kentucky Colonel; 2012 Candidate for Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame; Founder & President of Faces of Our Children Sickle Cell Foundation; Founder of the nation's first and only Sickle Cell Choir; Founder of Joyful Praise Ministries, broadcasted on WLOU 1350 radio station; member of the National CBTU Religious Outreach Commission; member of the Kentucky Alliance against racism and political repression; Hired by the Henry County judge exec 1st County Youth Service Bureau; Founder of the contributing writer of a children's book, "Petera Comes to America." He was the son of the late Irvin and Mattie Lee (Scott) Harris. He was preceded in death by two sisters, Evelyn Tolbert and Ida Lee Johnson.
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"O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
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Beautiful. Of all of his movies, this is still one of the scenes I think about most.
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Trainer Nick Zito was on the phone Sunday night from Lexington, Ky.
"It's been seven hours since I found out that Chris [Antley] died," Zito said. "I still can't get over it. It's a crying shame."
Antley was found dead late Saturday at his home in Pasadena, the victim of an apparent beating.
At the end of 1990 and early in 1991, Zito was training a well-bred son of Alydar, a colt that couldn't win even though some of the best jockeys in the game--Mike Smith, Jerry Bailey, Pat Day and Craig Perret--were given shots to ride him.
It was three weeks before the Kentucky Derby, and Zito hired Antley to ride Strike The Gold in the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. Strike The Gold had only one win to show for six starts, but Antley rode him to perfection, winning the Blue Grass by three lengths. Strike The Gold moved on to Churchill Downs, where as the third choice in the Derby he won under Antley again, this time by almost two lengths.
"Chris was a superb athlete," Zito said. "Regardless of the downside to his career, he was one of the best jockeys of our time. He was right up there with riders like Gary Stevens and Jerry Bailey."
Eight years after Strike The Gold--too much of the time dissipated by drug use and battles to shed weight--Antley was united with another horse with a bad case of the slows. Trainer Wayne Lukas, so frustrated with Charismatic that he ran him twice in races in which another trainer could have claimed him for $62,500, tapped Antley two weeks before the Kentucky Derby. With three other jockeys, Charismatic had won only three of 14 starts and, under Laffit Pincay, was a badly beaten fourth in the Santa Anita Derby.
At 31-1, Charismatic and Antley won the Derby by a neck over Menifee. Antley was so tickled nearing the wire that he prematurely raised an index finger, and seemed to bobble in the saddle.
"If he doesn't get there," Lukas jokingly said the next morning, "all of you would have next seen that finger in a bottle of formaldehyde."
Antley's was a career with a jillion comebacks. With his weight down and his head straight, he could ride the hair off a horse. Less than 24 hours after his death, the Hollywood Park and Aqueduct tracks lowered their flags to half-staff, and at Hollywood the two dozen or so riders came out of the jockeys' room between races for a moment of silence.
One of those riders, Stevens, had answered his phone at home at 5:45 Sunday morning. Natalie Jowett Antley was on the other end from New York, saying that her husband had been killed.
A little later, Ron Anderson, a jockeys' agent who had represented both Stevens and Antley, called Stevens with the same bad news.
"When Chris was focused, he was so good that it was scary," Anderson once said.
Antley's death is the most tragic off the track for a California jockey since Ron Hansen, whose barely identifiable remains were found in a salt marsh not far from the San Mateo Bridge in 1994. One of Hansen's closest friends, horse owner Ron Volkman, called the Hollywood Park press box late Sunday, hoping that his unconfirmed report of Antley's death was only a bad rumor.
What Stevens said about Antley could also have been said about Hansen.
"I truly believe that had Chris been able to focus all his energies, he most definitely was going to break many, many records and would have been a Hall of Fame rider."
Antley had already set a few records--nine wins in one day, 64 consecutive days of winning at least one race--and, as Stevens said, two Kentucky Derby wins weren't really enough. Interviewed last May, he envisioned a revival by July at Del Mar, but that day never came.
Trainer Vladimir Cerin couldn't remember any big races that Antley had won for him, but Cerin used him frequently on many of his horses. Antley's loyalty to Cerin was unflagging.
"I had this horse Mateo that I was running in a $35,000 race at Turf Paradise [in Phoenix]," Cerin said. "I didn't think Chris would go over there just to ride one horse, but he did. He missed a whole weekend of riding locally just to ride in a $35,000 race."
Trainer Ron McAnally once campaigned a good filly named Antespend for Elmendorf Farm. Antley, mistakenly, thought the horse had been named after him, which was not the reason McAnally hired him to ride her. Together, Antespend and Antley won the Las Virgenes Stakes, the Santa Anita Oaks and the Del Mar Oaks.
In 1996, the day of the $400,000 Queen Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Keeneland, Antley missed his plane out of Los Angeles. He asked his agent, Tony Matos, to find a private plane that would get him to Kentucky in time.
"A private plane?" Matos said. "How do you expect me to pay for that?"
"Here," Antley said, handing Matos a piece of plastic, "put it on my credit card."
In the paddock at Keeneland, about 15 minutes before the race, a valet came out of the jockeys' room and told McAnally that Antley was a no-show. McAnally had already settled on a substitute rider, Willie Martinez, when Antley seemed to appear out of nowhere. Antespend finished third, with Antley's share of the purse coming to only $4,000. His bottom line for the day, counting the $17,500 for the Lear jet, was a minus $13,500, but he had honored the mount.
Cerin said that Antley, when he could make weight, was a 115-pound man hiding inside a 150-pound body.
A few days after Charismatic's victory in the Derby, a reporter scheduled an interview with Antley in the Hollywood Park jockeys' room. By accident, the two of them took seats at the lunch counter.
"Whoa," the reporter said, "this has got to be the worst place in the room for us to be doing this."
"That's OK," Antley said. "I go by this counter every day. I can handle it."
There were too many things in life that Antley couldn't handle.
"I think he was in search of the perfect life," Stevens said. "Unfortunately, there is no such thing."
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Oakland County International Airport
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Oakland County International Airport (IATA: PTK, ICAO: KPTK, FAA LID: PTK) is a county-owned public-use airport located in Waterford Township, Oakland County, Michigan, United States.[2] The airport is located approximately 1 mile from the center of Waterford Township and Oakland County.
It is the sixth-busiest airport in the United States without scheduled passenger service.[3] Charters carrying sports teams competing at The Palace of Auburn Hills nearby frequently use the airport. The airport was originally called Pontiac Municipal Airport when it opened in 1928 and became Oakland-Pontiac Airport later before adopting its current name.
The airport holds an open house every year, showing aircraft based at PTK, military aircraft and vintage aircraft. The Civil Air Patrol acts as security for the open house.
In March 2013 Lakeshore Express Aviation announced regular flights from Oakland County International Airport to Chicago-Midway on Saab 340B aircraft beginning in June.[4] Similar flights to Pellston, Michigan were announced in May.[5]
The City of Pontiac purchased 160 acres (65 ha) of land on September 12, 1928, and on November 27 of that year the airport opened. It received its dedication the following June. The Oakland County government bought the airport on February 25, 1967. The Oakland County Board of Commissioners gave the airport its current name on March 7, 1996 after L. Brooks Patterson suggested renaming the airport.[6]
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Oakland County International Airport covers an area of 750 acres (300 ha) at an elevation of 981 feet (299 m) above mean sea level. It has three asphalt paved runways: 9R/27L is 6,521 by 150 feet (1,987 x 46 m); 9L/27R is 5,676 by 100 feet (1,730 x 30 m); 18/36 is 2,582 by 75 feet (788 x 23 m).[1]
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2011, the airport had 119,347 aircraft operations, an average of 326 per day: 90% general aviation, 7% air taxi, 1% scheduled commercial and <1% military. At that time there were 627 aircraft based at this airport: 60% single-engine, 21% multi-engine, 16% jet, 2% helicopter, <1% glider and <1% ultralight.[1]
Added to the airport facility in 2004, as part of a noise abatement project, is a Ground Run-up Enclosure, or "Hush House." This 3-sided structure is used by aviation mechanics for testing turbine powered aircraft. The airplane is taxied inside the structure and turned so the exhaust and thrust is facing the rear wall. The mechanics can then run the engines at high power. A majority of the noise will be either absorbed by the walls or deflected upward, reducing the impact to the surrounding community.
During 2013, Lakeshore Express operated by Pentastar Aviation operated flights from PTK to Chicago-Midway and Pellston.
Lakeshore Express flights suspended operation in April 2014 as operator Pentastar Aviation elected to cease operating the flights.[7]
- ^ a b c FAA Airport Master Record for PTK (Form 5010 PDF), effective December 12, 2013.
- ^ "Waterford township, Oakland county, Michigan." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on October 28, 2009.
- ^ Oakland County International Airport
- ^ Cain, Carol (March 24, 2013). "Carol Cain: Location key as charter service moves to Oakland". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- ^ Creager, Ellen (May 29, 2013). "Michigan Traveler: Fly to Pellston on new, low-cost service". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
- ^ "Oakland County International Airport debuts new green terminal" (Archive). Oakland County Prosper, Oakland County's Department of Economic Development & Community Affairs. Retrieved on July 10, 2015.
- ^ Creager, Ellen. Travel smart: Little airline that could now can't, Detroit Free Press, April 13, 2014, Retrieved April 14, 2014
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|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oakland County International Airport.
- Oakland County International Airport
- Lakeshore Express Aviation
- Oakland County International Airport 75th Anniversary
- FAA Airport Diagram for Oakland County International (PTK) (PDF), effective February 4, 2016
- FAA Terminal Procedures for Oakland County International (PTK), effective February 4, 2016
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for PTK
- AirNav airport information for KPTK
- ASN accident history for PTK
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures


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Kind of but not really. My DS was a true surprise. Pregnant on the pill... but this LO, we were definitely trying for. We just had been told it wouldn't happen and were making plans to see a specialist at the start of the new year, and then bam, pregnant. So definitely wanted, just surprised I got pregnant right after being told it wouldn't happen!
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I am, it took us 4 years of trying and fertlity treatments to have DS. we figured there was no reason to ever prevent again as we have never been pregnant without fertility treatments. Here we are 7 months after having my DS and I get the + on the test. DH was kind of sckeptical, as am I until I see a hb.
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yes like pp we have a 4 1/2 month old and we were on birth control. im pretty shocked considering it took us 21 months to conceive DD.
we're both very happy just worried about the health risk of being pregnant so soon after a c-section.
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baby #2 7-2-13
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ABSTRACT: We study online mechanisms for preemptive scheduling with deadlines, with the goal of maximizing the total value of completed jobs. This problem is fundamental to deadline-aware cloud scheduling, but there are strong lower bounds even for the algorithmic problem without incentive constraints. However, these lower bounds can be circumvented under the natural assumption of deadline slackness, i.e., that there is a guaranteed lower bound $s > 1$ on the ratio between a job's size and the time window in which it can be executed. In this paper, we construct a truthful scheduling mechanism with a constant competitive ratio, given slackness $s > 1$. Furthermore, we show that if $s$ is large enough then we can construct a mechanism that also satisfies a commitment property: it can be determined whether or not a job will finish, and the requisite payment if so, well in advance of each job's deadline. This is notable because, in practice, users with strict deadlines may find it unacceptable to discover only very close to their deadline that their job has been rejected.
Article: Calendaring for Wide Area Networks[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Datacenter WAN traffic consists of high priority transfers that have to be carried as soon as they arrive alongside large transfers with pre-assigned deadlines on their completion (ranging from minutes to hours). The ability to offer guarantees to large transfers is crucial for business needs and impacts overall cost-of-business. State-of-the-art traffic engineering solutions only consider the current time epoch and hence cannot provide pre-facto promises for long-lived transfers. We present Tempus, an online traffic engineering scheme that exploits information on transfer size and deadlines to appropriately pack long-running transfers across network paths and time, thereby leaving enough capacity slack for future high-priority requests. Tempus builds on a tailored approximate solution to a mixed packing-covering linear program, which is parallelizable and scales well in both running time and memory usage. Consequently, Tempus is able to quickly and effectively update its solution when new transfers arrive or unexpected changes happen. These updates involve only small edits to existing transfers. Therefore, as experiments on traces from a large production WAN show, Tempus can offer and keep promises to long-lived transfers well in advance of their actual deadline; the promise on minimal transfer size is comparable with an offline optimal solution and outperforms state-of-the-art solutions by 2-3X.
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Conference Paper: Speeding up Distributed Request-Response Workflows[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We found that interactive services at Bing have highly variable datacenter-side processing latencies because their processing consists of many sequential stages, parallelization across 10s-1000s of servers and aggregation of responses across the network. To improve the tail latency of such services, we use a few building blocks: reissuing laggards elsewhere in the cluster, new policies to return incomplete results and speeding up laggards by giving them more resources. Combining these building blocks to reduce the overall latency is non-trivial because for the same amount of resource (e.g., number of reissues), different stages improve their latency by different amounts. We present Kwiken, a framework that takes an end-to-end view of latency improvements and costs. It decomposes the problem of minimizing latency over a general processing DAG into a manageable optimization over individual stages. Through simulations with production traces, we show sizable gains; the 99th percentile of latency improves by over 50% when just 0.1% of the responses are allowed to have partial results and by over 40% for 25% of the services when just 5% extra resources are used for reissues.
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ABSTRACT: We consider mechanisms for online deadline-aware scheduling in large computing clusters. Batch jobs that run on such clusters often require guarantees on their completion time (i.e., deadlines). However, most existing scheduling systems implement fair-share resource allocation between users, an approach that ignores heterogeneity in job requirements and may cause deadlines to be missed. In our framework, jobs arrive dynamically and are characterized by their value and total resource demand (or estimation thereof), along with their reported deadlines. The scheduler's objective is to maximize the aggregate value of jobs completed by their deadlines. We circumvent known lower bounds for this problem by assuming that the input has slack, meaning that any job could be delayed and still finish by its deadline. Under the slackness assumption, we design a preemptive scheduler with a constant-factor worst-case performance guarantee. Along the way, we pay close attention to practical aspects, such as runtime efficiency, data locality and demand uncertainty. We evaluate the algorithm via simulations over real job traces taken from a large production cluster, and show that its actual performance is significantly better than other heuristics used in practice. We then extend our framework to handle provider commitments: the requirement that jobs admitted to service must be executed until completion. We prove that no algorithm can obtain worst-case guarantees when enforcing the commitment decision to the job arrival time. Nevertheless, we design efficient heuristics that commit on job admission, in the spirit of our basic algorithm. We show empirically that these heuristics perform just as well as (or better than) the original algorithm. Finally, we discuss how our scheduling framework can be used to design truthful scheduling mechanisms, motivated by applications to commercial public cloud offerings.
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ABSTRACT: Datacenter networks have been designed to tolerate failures of network equipment and provide sufficient bandwidth. In practice, however, failures and maintenance of networking and power equipment often make tens to thousands of servers unavailable, and network congestion can increase service latency. Unfortunately, there exists an inherent tradeoff between achieving high fault tolerance and reducing bandwidth usage in network core; spreading servers across fault domains improves fault tolerance, but requires additional bandwidth, while deploying servers together reduces bandwidth usage, but also decreases fault tolerance. We present a detailed analysis of a large-scale Web application and its communication patterns. Based on that, we propose and evaluate a novel optimization framework that achieves both high fault tolerance and significantly reduces bandwidth usage in the network core by exploiting the skewness in the observed communication patterns.
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ABSTRACT: Virtualization can deliver significant benefits for cloud computing by enabling VM migration to improve utilization, balance load and alleviate hotspots. While several mechanisms exist to migrate VMs, few efforts have focused on optimizing migration policies in a multirooted tree datacenter network. The general problem has multiple facets, two of which map to generalizations of well-studied problems: (1) Migration of VMs in a bandwidth-oversubscribed tree network generalizes the maximum multicommodity flow problem in a tree, and (2) Migrations must meet load constraints at the servers, mapping to variants of the matching problem – generalized assignment and demand matching. While these problems have been individually studied, a new fundamental challenge is to simultaneously handle the packing constraints of server load and tree edge capacities. We give approximation algorithms for several versions of this problem, where the objective is to alleviate a maximal number of hot servers. We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of these algorithms through large scale simulations on real data.
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ABSTRACT: We consider a market-based resource allocation model for batch jobs in cloud computing clusters. In our model, we incorporate the importance of the due date of a job rather than the number of servers allocated to it at any given time. Each batch job is characterized by the work volume of total computing units (e.g., CPU hours) along with a bound on maximum degree of parallelism. Users specify, along with these job characteristics, their desired due date and a value for finishing the job by its deadline. Given this specification, the primary goal is to determine the scheduling} of cloud computing instances under capacity constraints in order to maximize the social welfare (i.e., sum of values gained by allocated users). Our main result is a new ( C/(C-k) ⋅ s/(s-1))-approximation algorithm for this objective, where C denotes cloud capacity, k is the maximal bound on parallelized execution (in practical settings, k l C) and s is the slackness on the job completion time i.e., the minimal ratio between a specified deadline and the earliest finish time of a job. Our algorithm is based on utilizing dual fitting arguments over a strengthened linear program to the problem. Based on the new approximation algorithm, we construct truthful allocation and pricing mechanisms, in which reporting the job true value and properties (deadline, work volume and the parallelism bound) is a dominant strategy for all users. To that end, we provide a general framework for transforming allocation algorithms into truthful mechanisms in domains of single-value and multi-properties. We then show that the basic mechanism can be extended under proper Bayesian assumptions to the objective of maximizing revenues, which is important for public clouds. We empirically evaluate the benefits of our approach through simulations on data-center job traces, and show that the revenues obtained under our mechanism are comparable with an ideal fixed-price mechanism, which sets an on-demand price using oracle knowledge of users' valuations. Finally, we discuss how our model can be extended to accommodate uncertainties in job work volumes, which is a practical challenge in cloud settings.
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ABSTRACT: We consider an uplink wireless collision channel, shared by multiple mobile users. As part of the medium access proto- col, channel reservation is carried out by using request-to- send (RTS) and clear-to-send (CTS) control packets. Conse- quently, collisions are reduced to the relatively short periods where mobiles request channel use. In our model, users are free to schedule their individual channel requests, while the objective of each user is to minimize its own power invest- ment subject to a minimum-throughput demand. Our anal- ysis reveals that for feasible throughput demands, there exist exactly two Nash equilibrium points in stationary strategies, with one being superior to the other uniformly for all users. We then show how this better equilibrium point can be ob- tained through a distributed mechanism. Finally, we discuss the optimal design of the reservation periods, while consid- ering capacity, power and delay tradeos.
Conference Paper: Socially Optimal Pricing of Cloud Computing Resources[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The cloud computing paradigm offers easily accessible computing resources of variable size and capabilities. We consider a cloud-computing facility that provides simultaneous service to a heterogeneous, time-varying population of users, each associated with a distinct job. Both the completion time, as well as the user's utility, may depend on the amount of computing resources applied to the job. In this paper, we focus on the objective of maximizing the long-term social surplus, which comprises of the aggregate utility of executed jobs minus load-dependent operating expenses. Our problem formulation relies on basic notions of welfare economics, augmented by relevant queueing aspects. We first analyze the centralized setting, where an omniscient controller may regulate admission and resource allocation to each arriving job based on its individual type. Under appropriate convexity assumptions on the operating costs and individual utilities, we establish existence and uniqueness of the social optimum. We proceed to show that the social optimum may be induced by a single per-unit price, which charges a fixed amount per unit time and resource from all users.
Conference Paper: A State Action Frequency Approach to Throughput Maximization over Uncertain Wireless Channels[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We consider scheduling over a wireless system, where the channel state information is not available a priori to the scheduler, but can be inferred from the past. Specifically, the wireless system is modeled as a network of parallel queues. We assume that the channel state of each queue evolves stochastically as an ON/OFF Markov chain. The scheduler, which is aware of the queue lengths but is oblivious of the channel states, has to choose one queue at a time for transmission. The scheduler has no information regarding the current channel states, but can estimate them by using the acknowledgment history. We first characterize the capacity region of the system using tools from Markov Decision Processes (MDP) theory. Specifically, we prove that the capacity region boundary is the uniform limit of a sequence of Linear Programming (LP) solutions. Next, we combine the LP solution with a queue length based scheduling mechanism that operates over long `frames,' to obtain a throughput optimal policy for the system. By incorporating results from MDP theory within the Lyapunov-stability framework, we show that our frame-based policy stabilizes the system for all arrival rates that lie in the interior of the capacity region.
Conference Paper: Online Job-Migration for Reducing the Electricity Bill in the Cloud[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Energy costs are becoming the fastest-growing element in datacenter operation costs. One basic approach to reduce these costs is to exploit the spatiotemporal variation in electricity prices by moving computation to datacenters in which energy is available at a cheaper price. However, injudicious job migration between datacenters might increase the overall operation cost due to the bandwidth costs of transferring application state and data over the wide-area network. To address this challenge, we propose novel online algorithms for migrating batch jobs between datacenters, which handle the fundamental tradeoff between energy and bandwidth costs. A distinctive feature of our algorithms is that they consider not only the current availability and cost of (possibly multiple) energy sources, but also the future variability and uncertainty thereof. Using the framework of competitive-analysis, we establish worst-case performance bounds for our basic online algorithm. We then propose a practical, easy-to-implement version of the basic algorithm, and evaluate it through simulations on real electricity pricing and job workload data. The simulation results indicate that our algorithm outperforms plausible greedy algorithms that ignore future outcomes. Notably, the actual performance of our approach is significantly better than the theoretical guarantees, within 6% of the optimal offline solution.
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ABSTRACT: Traditional network optimization focuses on a single control objective in a network populated by obedient users and limited dispersion of information. However, most of today's networks are large-scale with lack of access to centralized information, consist of users with diverse requirements, and are subject to dynamic changes. These factors naturally motivate a new distributed control paradigm, where the network infrastructure is kept simple and the network control functions are delegated to individual agents which make their decisions independently ("selfishly"). The interaction of multiple independent decision-makers necessitates the use of game theory, including economic notions related to markets and incentives. This monograph studies game theoretic models of resource allocation among selfish agents in networks. The first part of the monograph introduces fundamental game theoretic topics. Emphasis is given to the analysis of dynamics in game theoretic situations, which is crucial for design and control of networked systems. The second part of the monograph applies the game theoretic tools for the analysis of resource allocation in communication networks. We set up a general model of routing in wireline networks, emphasizing the congestion problems caused by delay and packet loss. In particular, we develop a systematic approach to characterizing the inefficiencies of network equilibria, and highlight the effect of autonomous service providers on network performance. We then turn to examining distributed power control in wireless networks. We show that the resulting Nash equilibria can be efficient if the degree of freedom given to end-users is properly designed.
Conference Paper: Non-Cooperative Spectrum Access - The Dedicated vs. Free Spectrum Choice[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We consider a dynamic spectrum access system in which Secondary Users (SUs) choose to either acquire dedicated spectrum or to use spectrum-holes (white spaces) which belong to Primary Users (PUs). The tradeoff incorporated in this decision is between immediate yet costly transmission and free but delayed transmission (a consequence of both the possible appearance of PUs and sharing the spectrum holes with multiple SUs). We first consider a system with a single PU band, in which the SU decisions are fixed. Employing queueing-theoretic methods, we obtain explicit expressions for the expected delays associated with using the PU band. Based on that, we then consider self-interested SUs and study the interaction between them as a noncooperative game. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a symmetric Nash equilibrium, and characterize the equilibrium behavior explicitly. Using our equilibrium results, we show how to maximize revenue from renting dedicated bands to SUs. Finally, we extend the scope to a scenario with multiple PUs, show that the band-pricing analysis can be applied to some special cases, and provide numerical examples.
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ABSTRACT: The popularity of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing has re-sulted in large flows between different ISPs, which imposes significant transit fees on the ISPs in whose domains the communicating peers are located. The fundamental tradeoff faced by a peer-swarm is between free, yet delayed content exchange between intra-domain peers, and inter-domain communication of content, which results in transit fees. This dilemma is complex, since peers who possess the content dynamically increase the content capacity of the ISP domain to which they belong. In this paper, we study the decision problem faced by peer swarms as a routing-in-time problem with time-varying capacity. We begin with a system of two swarms, each belonging to a different ISP: One swarm that has excess service capacity (a steady-state swarm) and one that does not (a transient swarm). We propose an asymptotically accurate fluid-approximation for the stochastic system, and explicitly obtain the optimal policy for the transient swarm in the fluid regime. We then consider the more complex case where multiple transient swarms compete for service from a single steady-state swarm. We utilize a proportional-fairness mechanism for allocating capacity between swarms, and study its performance as a non-cooperative game. We characterize the resulting Nash equilibrium, and study its efficiency both analytically and numerically. Our results indicate that while efficiency loss incurs due to selfish decision-making, the actual Price of Anarchy (PoA) remains bounded even for a large number of competing swarms.
Conference Paper: A Truthful Mechanism for Value-Based Scheduling in Cloud Computing[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We introduce a novel pricing and resource allocation approach for batch jobs on cloud systems. In our economic model, users submit jobs with a value function that specifies willingness to pay as a function of job due dates. The cloud provider in response allocates a subset of these jobs, taking into advantage the flexibility of allocating resources to jobs in the cloud environment. Focusing on social-welfare as the system objective (especially relevant for private or in-house clouds), we construct a resource allocation algorithm which provides a small approximation factor that approaches 2 as the number of servers increases. An appealing property of our scheme is that jobs are allocated nonpreemptively, i.e., jobs run in one shot without interruption. This property has practical significance, as it avoids significant network and storage resources for checkpointing. Based on this algorithm, we then design an efficient truthful-in-expectation mechanism, which significantly improves the running complexity of black-box reduction mechanisms that can be applied to the problem, thereby facilitating its implementation in real systems.
Conference Paper: Dynamics in near-potential games[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Summary form only given. Potential games is a class of games for which many of the simple user dynamics, such as best response dynamics and fictitious play, converge to a Nash equilibrium. The objective of this paper is to examine whether the convergence properties of dynamics in potential games can be extended to games that are "close" to potential games, thereby enhancing the predictability of user interactions. Intuitively, dynamics in potential games and dynamics in games that are close (in terms of the payoffs of the players) to potential games should be related. In this paper, we make this intuition precise by establishing convergence of dynamics to "approximate" equilibrium sets in near-potential games.
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ABSTRACT: In this paper we introduce a novel flow representation for finite games in strategic form. This representation allows us to develop a canonical direct sum decomposition of an arbitrary game into three components, which we refer to as the potential, harmonic and nonstrategic components. We analyze natural classes of games that are induced by this decomposition, and in particular, focus on games with no harmonic component and games with no potential component. We show that the first class corresponds to the well-known potential games. We refer to the second class of games as harmonic games, and study the structural and equilibrium properties of this new class of games. Intuitively, the potential component of a game captures interactions that can equivalently be represented as a common interest game, while the harmonic part represents the conflicts between the interests of the players. We make this intuition precise, by studying the properties of these two classes, and show that indeed they have quite distinct and remarkable characteristics. For instance, while finite potential games always have pure Nash equilibria, harmonic games generically never do. Moreover, we show that the nonstrategic component does not affect the equilibria of a game, but plays a fundamental role in their efficiency properties, thus decoupling the location of equilibria and their payoff-related properties. Exploiting the properties of the decomposition framework, we obtain explicit expressions for the projections of games onto the subspaces of potential and harmonic games. This enables an extension of the properties of potential and harmonic games to "nearby" games. We exemplify this point by showing that the set of approximate equilibria of an arbitrary game can be characterized through the equilibria of its projection onto the set of potential games.
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ABSTRACT: We consider the power control problem in a time-slotted wireless channel, shared by a finite number of mobiles that transmit to a common base station. The channel between each mobile and the base station is time varying, and the system objective is to maximize the overall data throughput. It is assumed that each transmitter has a limited power budget, to be sequentially divided during the lifetime of the battery. We deviate from the classic work in this area, by considering a realistic scenario where the channel quality of each mobile changes arbitrarily from one transmission to the other. Assuming first that each mobile is aware of the channel quality of all other mobiles, we propose an online power-allocation algorithm, and prove its optimality under mild assumptions. We then indicate how to implement the algorithm when only local state information is available, requiring minimal communication overhead. Notably, the competitive ratio of our algorithm (nearly) matches the one we previously obtained for the (much simpler) single-transmitter case [BLMNO09], albeit requiring significantly different algorithmic solutions.
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Mask-Line art by DigiAvalonWatch
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The final of the six Line arts I did recently. I had to do a lot of edits on this in PS, but I think I have fixed most of the issues in the antomy, or at least all I can without redrawing. I hope you like her, I invinson her as being very pink >.> but you can color her any way you wish XD
To color:
remember to color in Photoshop, set this layer to mutiply and color below in a new layer/s
To color:
remember to color in Photoshop, set this layer to mutiply and color below in a new layer/s
Love her may I colour her (I use pencils/markers), thus not digital
I want to use this lineart in a pyrographic, but I was wondering if I could please have permission to finish the leg? I'm particular about how people alter my lineart, so I always ask first.
yes that sounds fine.
Thank you very much!I also (managed to forget to) ask if I may also burn your Compass Rose lineart to a different plaque. These are for decorating my daughter's room only, I'll never sell them.
OH MY GOD! This is right at the top of my to colour list >_< expect to see it uploaded soon~
Sorry, guess the link doesn't work...but it's in my gallery...not too hard to find
I'm going to attempt this And I'll be adding lots of pink for yah^-^
I'll send you the link after
I'll send you the link after
Reminds me of the girl from Return to Labyrinth
Hey Cody, I was considering coloring this one as well :3 I have too much spare time hahah
Love her mask a lot, and the hair is really well done too. i can't spot anything in particular on the drawing as wrong. So you did an awesome job on it.
:drools: so much yummy details !!
It's so cute. I love it. ;3
Mmmm prettyness! I love the lace!
great costume
this is absolutely gorgeous
awesomes details ^^ love hair, eyes , mask...
Omg. Your line art is amazing. How do you DO it?!?! I can color in photoshop yet I can't make line art...
well most of this was done with pen i fixed some things in ps, but I do ink all in ps time to time, I just zoom in really close.
I admit some of your work looks pretty stiff sometimes because you never put any variety in your lineart, but this one turned out really nice. I love the curves. I might just have to color this one.
Dang, you've been making wonderful lineart as of late! The details on this are wonderful. I love the outfit and mask!
I hope you'll colour this sometime! I love this pic. The detail in the lace is great and her outfit is really nice also. I agree with the pink but when I see it I also think purple!
Oh goody, something to color! I'm Bored to tears!
reply: um, do you think you could provide a link to where you could download a higher resolution PSD?
<333333 details and masks <3
oh, i am so going to color this. This is beautiful. I need some practice. Since my arm has been .. pained. Thanks for this beautiful Lineart!
Hmm...pink? I was thinking red and gold, but I can do pink too!
btw did you get your print?
I really adore the style of her beautiful dress as well as her gorgeous hair! Wonderful work on how this drawing was detailed.


text: I'm cleaning out my closet and have a bunch of stuff for sale or trade. Things I'm interested in getting 5x7 film holders Speed graphic any working condition (want focal plane shutter, don't care re: viewfinder) Other 4x5 field camera Lenses for 5x7 Harrison changing tent Mamiya C330 lenses or accesories Ok...here goes. 1) Crown Graphic. I bought this from Colin. I wasn't sure the difference between a Crown and a Speed at the time, and realize now that I really wanted the focal plane shutter. I have a 5x7 field camera and I'm building a reducing back for it, so I don't really need this camera. That said it's in really nice shape. I hesitate to say 'mint' because it's got the dust of a normal old camera but it's very clean. Everything seems to operate as it should. Movements are clean, nothings bent. Colin told me the viewfinder was operable but not calibrated, I honestly don't know how they work so I'll have to trust him. Colin had it at $200 shipped priority in the United States so I'll start with that. The only 'defect' is that it has a strip of velcro attached to the top to attach a dark cloth. I'm pretty sure it would be removable easily but I'll leave that to you. 2) #2 was a Pentax MX sold on LFF.info. 3) Morris Small Softbox This is a great little softbox for doing portraits, small stuff. I believe it's this one at B+H. I've had it forever and used it a lot. I guess I could say it's a little dusty, and probably could do with a wash but otherwise it's great, and I would use it without washing it (that's just me). It comes with an attachment so that you can use a small flash. I used this with my Canon 5D and 580ex and really loved it for portraits. If you put it really close to the subject without getting it in the frame, it gives a nice soft light that falls off quickly. I used it almost exclusively for doing these portraits. BTW in the picture I have the hot shoe attachment on backwords. $40 + S&H 4) Efke Positive 5x7 paper Bought this when I bought my 5x7. Never used it and probably won't. You can look online, it's interesting stuff. I don't know much about it. Stored in my apartment for the last 6 months. Should be fine but sold as-is. Here it is at freestyle. $8 + S/H 5) Vivitar 385 Flash This flash is in otherwise great condition but there's something a little wrong with it. It has a replacement metal shoe that seems to be installed wrong. So the PC cord socket doesn't work. My guess is that someone who knew about them could fix it. But flashes are dangerous to work on, and I would die. Included is a cheap little optical slave. I just put it on the flash and it fires fine when triggered by another flash. So I think the hot shoe fire thing on the bottom is good, just the PC cord socket is messed. That said, this is 100% as-is. And not sure about the trigger voltage, so don't destroy your nice digital camera with it. $10 + S&H 6) Filters I got these filters for doing different kinds of lighting effects. In the tube there is a sheet of reflective silver film (I think it might be adhesive but I'm not sure), a sheet of 3/4 CTO, a sheet of tough green and a sheet of this black heavy tin foilish stuff that I think you can make snoots out of. The sheets of filter are something like 11x14. I've cut little bits off of them but not much. Also included is a set of "strobist" lighting filters. These are smaller sheets, I think I got them in a kit from MPEX. There's a good variety here and you can use them on small flashes. I cut one width off each one, to make a filter kit for one flash. This is the rest of them. Currently not doing much with lighting and probably will start fresh when I do. All this great filtering for the low, low price of $10 + S&H I can stuff the small sheets in the tube that the big sheets are in and should be able to mail for just a few bucks. 7) Paparazzi Flash Handle. Get chased by celebrities while you have your Yashica Flex and the above Vivitar 385 (after you fix the PC cord thing) on this sweet flash handle. It's been floating around the family for many years, never been used. I think the condition is accordant to that. $20 + S&H Last but not least... 8) Czech Violin. This is more for trade than for sale. This is a 1920's ish (aka somewhere between 1890 and 1950) Czech(ish) violin. I played Irish fiddle music on this violin for about 10 years. I would say it's a reasonable instrument. Not a strad, not a turd. Just a garden variety violin. I had it appraised about 12 years ago for $2k. In the meantime, due to the glut of chinese violins, the overall price for student quality violins has dropped. The violin is in good shape with no significant cracks or chips. It would benefit from a decent set up, but currently has strings and a decent bridge, and a fine tuner tailpiece. No bow. Comes with the case you see, an old leather case that works fine. Ideally you'd get a decent case for it. Some kid scratched his initials into it somewhere along the line, so you have the pleasure of playing "A.J."'s violin. Would like to trade it for $500 worth of photography stuff. Again, looking for a speed graphic, 4x5 field camera, 5x7 holders, lenses other than a 180mm for 5x7, Mamiya C330 lenses or accesories, Leica M lenses, Cosina M lenses, film, etc. Also looking for a Harrison Changing tent, big enough for 5x7, for trade. If you have an old Speed Graphic, I'm mostly just looking for the focal plane shutter. I don't need a functioning view finder (that would be nice but I don't really care). So I'm willing to consider your beater speed, preferably with a lens, for this very clean Crown.


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Daemon Sand
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|The title of this article is conjecture based on information revealed in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels and may be subject to change.
- For other characters who share the same name, see "Daemon".
|Daemon Sand
|First seen
|"The Mountain and the Viper"
|Also known as
|The Bastard of Godsgrace
|House Allyrion
House Martell
Ser Daemon Sand is a minor character in the fourth season. He is a knight, and serves as squire for Prince Oberyn Martell.
Season 4Edit
Ser Daemon squires for Prince Oberyn Martell during Tyrion Lannister's trial by combat, and coats his master's spear head with deadly manticore venom. He witnesses the Red Viper's death at the hands of Ser Gregor Clegane.[1]
|Season Four appearances
|Two Swords
|The Lion and the Rose
|Breaker of Chains
|First of His Name
|The Laws of Gods and Men
|The Mountain and the Viper
|The Watchers on the Wall
|The Children
In the booksEdit
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Ser Daemon Sand, also known as "The Bastard of Godsgrace", is Ser Ryon Allyrion's natural born son. He serves Prince Oberyn Martell as squire, and received his knighthood from the Red Viper himself. There are also rumors that he is one of Oberyn's lovers, though this is seldom said to his face.
Ser Daemon is close friends with Arianne Martell, daughter and heir of Prince Doran, and took her maidenhead when they were both fourteen. When Prince Doran learned of this he didn't seek to punish Daemon, but refused to allow him to marry his daughter.
He is considered to be one of Dorne's finest swordsmen.
House Allyrion belongs to the group known as "Salty Dornishmen", who live along the coasts of Dorne and the Greenblood river system. This group has the most Rhoynar blood of all Dornishmen and generally possess olive skin, dark hair, and dark eyes. Daemon's brief appearance in Season 4 of the TV series did not resemble this, but as it turns out, in the books he is not described as having classic "salty Dornish" features. Instead, he is said to have sky blue eyes and light sandy brown hair. Daemon is a bastard son, so the simple explanation may be that he takes after his non-Allyrion parent in looks, and this parent was either a "stony Dornishman" from the western mountains, or possibly from somewhere outside of Dorne entirely.
See alsoEdit
- Daemon Sand on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (spoilers from the books)


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Palm to use Wind River Platform for Foleo
In an announcement at Linuxworld in San Francisco, Palm stated that it will be using the Wind River Linux platform for development based on the recently launched Foleo Linux device.
Foleo is a new mobile device concept by Palm, that fills the gap between PDA and notebook. Palm will also be supporting Wind River with services and support for customers. The aim of this alliance is to develop new applications for the Foleo and to promote third-party development.
In the next few months the partners will be concentrating on modifying the Wind River platform for consumer devices to support the mobile device. The Foleo was designed to be WLAN-capable and is also compatible to Palm's Treo smartphone.
Issue 184/2016
Buy this issue as a PDF
Linux Foundation Eliminates Individual Membership
But you can still be a non-voting "individual supporter" if you pay the money
Secret Backdoor Affects More Fortinet Firewalls
Several current systems could fall victim to the attack
Linus Announces Linux Kernel 4.4
Latest Linux engine comes with better graphics and support for Intel's new power-saving chips.
Mass Poem Greets Web Admins
Hackers send a message of beauty and liberation to server logs
Raspberry Pi Becomes a Thin Client
Citrix gets excited about new Pi-Powered XenDesktop client system
Microsoft Offers Linux Certification
Linux on Azure cert heralds a new era for Redmond.
CeBIT 2016: Call for Open Source Contributions
Proposals for presentations at the CeBIT Open Source Forum will be accepted through 24 January 2016.
Gone in a Flash
Adobe looks for a new start; renames its embattled Flash tool.
Rasp Pi Generates Weak SSH Keys
The Pi's popular Raspbian OS pursues secrecy without entropy.
Photon Controller Goes Open Source
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The Night Feed
, Posted on 10/14/2013 by
I don't often make guarantees, but I am right now: I guarantee this video of a Japanese kindergarten class performing "Day Man" from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is the best thing you will see on the internet today, hands down. It's hilarious and cute, and for some reason there is a picture of Family Guy's Peter Griffin drawn on the whiteboard behind the kids. All in all, this video is internet perfection. It doesn't get more internet-y than this video, my friends.
And for good measure I'm going to throw in this clip of some dude just BEGGING to get jammed up.
Daily Grace
, Posted on 4/15/2012 by
I know.
I know I know I know I know I know. Thanks to intrepid viewser ifeeIinfinite who must have actually read my previous post about how you can always tell me if something is wrong on My Damn Channel! So, yay for that! Thank you! You did good, girl!
My home internet is in a bad way right now. Like, it's anemic or sick or depressed or something and won't let me fix the video. So it'll have to stay unworkable/unwatchable for a few more hours. Can you wait that long? Will you forgive me? Will you with words unspoken say that I'm the only one? Will you still love me tomorrow? Okay. That was too much.
UPDATE: It's fixed AND our taxes are done.
Daily Grace
, Posted on 10/15/2013 by
Chris Donahue
You guys, OH MY GOD YOU GUYS!!! Patrice Wilson has done it again!!!
First he wrote the hit song Friday, with DailyGrace fan Rebecca Black, about the best day of the week... Friday. Then he wrote another amazing song about the best holiday where you don't get presents, Thanksgiving, and now he's back at it!
When you were sitting around your home the other night thinking, "there is absolutely no way that Patrice Wilson could top Friday or It's Thanksgiving," YOU WERE WRONG!!! He topped it with Chinese Food!
I'm always pretty thrilled about these videos. They're pretty ridiculous but extremely entertaining. This one kind of takes the cake for me though, or should I say… the fortune cookie?
Alright, guys, I'm just completely obsessed with Patrice Wilson now! Tweet at me your favorite Patrice Wilson music video.
The Night Feed
, Posted on 10/2/2013 by
Liz Belsky
There are two types of people in the world: people who watch horror movies all October, and people who watch Hocus Pocus.
Take a wild guess which camp I fall into.
Seriously, guys. This is arguably the best Halloween movie ever made. Its only peers are Beetlejuice, Halloweentown, and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. But while those movies are all pretty good - some might even call them great - they don't hold a Black Flame Candle to Hocus Pocus.
I was kind of a macabre kid, obsessed with all things spooky. I once wrote a persuasive essay to convince my parents that instead of going to Disneyland again, we should consider taking a ghost tour vacation culminating in Salem, MA. (Considering that we lived, like, twenty minutes from Disneyland, they decided to pass on my suggestion and placated me with riding Haunted Mansion five times in a row.) This movie, along with Harry Potter and Roald Dahl's The Witches, was the root of my childhood obsession with witchcraft. I mean, these were some witches you could root for! All they wanted to do was suck the life out of the children of Salem in order to live forever! Kathy Najimy flying a vacuum cleaner is still the funniest image ever!
(Did you know that Sarah Jessica Parker's costume from this movie is on display at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Times Square? It's pretty much the only reason you should ever go to Planet Hollywood.)
Look, I'm sure there are some horror devotees out there who turn up their noses at ostensibly "grown adults" who prefer to spend their season of the witch watching movies about, well, witches. Sorry, guys. Unless you recut Amityville Horror with a Bette Midler musical number, I'm just not interested.
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This morning, Blackberry announced Alicia Keys as their "Global Creative Director."
Yeah. I know. Actually, I DON'T know. I don't know what that means or how this will work or whether or not she took this gig to help pay down Swizz Beatz's legal fees. (Scorned Baby Mamas are expensive, yo!).
All I know is I laughed hysterically because this is obviously something very important in business-y things, and I don't understand it and I laugh hysterically when I don't understand things.
And then I thought about how Alicia Keys's established body of work may be just what Blackberry needs.
Here are 5 Alicia Keys Songs She Can Use To Help Rebrand Blackberry:
(In no particular order...)
1. "This Girl Is On Fire... but Not Because My Blackberry Spontaneously Combusted"
2. "You Don't Know My Name... But You Got My BBM"
3. "How Come You Don't Call Me... I'm The New Global Creative Director of Blackberry and I Got You That Phone For Free"
4. "If I Ain't Got You... I Probably Have an iPhone or More Likely an Android But Those Aren't as Cool as a Blackberry"
5. "No One... Understands What This Gig Is But All I Know Is I'mma Be In Hella More Blackberry Commercials"
Any other ideas? Or can you explain how this will make you want a Blackberry more? Let me know at @mariaalana
Daily Grace
, Posted on 8/9/2012 by
Brandon Dannenhoffer
Well well well, if it isn't Mr. Hoodie Allen, if that is your real name. We've been keeping tabs on you.
According to our informer, you've been commenting on Daily Grace videos. On September 26th, 2011 you were even hazed by Grace for asking her out on a date and were turned down. That must have been pretty embarrassing, huh?
Then yesterday you had this to say on Grace's video: "friends are terrible".
We've got our eye on you, Hoodie.
My Damn Channel LIVE
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Dear Steve Rannazzsi:
Everyone in the My Damn Channel office keeps telling me that I should watch FX's The League. I keep saying I don't play Fantasy Football. They keep insisting that it doesn't matter; that I will enjoy your show because I like laughing and The League makes everyone laugh. And at first I was resistant to the idea, but then I thought about how much I enjoy watching you in Daddy Knows Best, and how much that show makes me laugh, and so I thought, okay, sure, I'll watch The League. I also figured it might help me learn definitively how many N's and Z's are in your name since I knew I would be writing this post today. For the record: there are a LOT of N's and Z's in your name. Hope Beth asks you about that today when you're on My Damn Channel LIVE. That and what you think about babies in strip clubs.
Wainy Days
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The trailer for This Is 40, which follows up on the characters Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd played in Knocked Up, is now, uh, UP.
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Virtually all decisions to hire, fire, promote or punish employees, to oversee the sale and rental of housing, to ensure that all minorities have access to all restaurants, hotels and motels, are under the jurisdiction of these minions who are right out of Orwell's "1984."
Scores of thousands of bureaucrats -- academic, corporate, government -- are on watch, overseeing our economy, patrolling our society, monitoring our behavior.
A radical idea: Suppose we repealed the civil rights laws and fired all the bureaucrats enforcing these laws.
Does anyone think hotels, motels and restaurants across Dixie, from D.C. to Texas, would stop serving black customers? Does anyone think there would again be signs sprouting up reading "whites" and "colored" on drinking foundations and restrooms?
Does anyone think restrictive covenants against Jews would be rewritten into contracts on houses? Does anything think that bars and hotels would stop serving blacks and Hispanics?
In his indictment of George III, Jefferson wrote of the king: "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."
Is that not what we have today in spades?
Why do we need this vast army of bureaucrats?
They exist to validate the slander that America is a racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic country which would revert to massive discrimination were it not for heroic progressives standing guard.
And, indeed, some bigots might revert to type. But so what?
Cannot a free people deal with social misconduct with social sanctions?
And isn't this what freedom is all about? The freedom of others to say things we disagree with, to publish ideas we disbelieve in, even to engage in behavior we dislike?
As for the Christians of Arizona and same-sex unions in Arizona, if they don't like each other, can they not just avoid each other? After all, it's a big state.
Why will we not see the lapsing or repeal of civil rights laws whose work is done? That would mean cracking the rice bowls of hundreds of thousands of diversicrats who would then have to apply for jobs from folks they have spent their lives harassing.
Last year, the Supreme Court struck down the preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Yet, somehow, Mississippi still has more black elected officials than any other state.
If the conditions that called for the laws of the 1960s have ceased to exist, why do those laws still exist?
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Based in the city of Minna in central Nigeria, INCRESE advocates for the sexual health and rights of society's most disenfranchised groups, including youth, sexual minorities, survivors of sexual violence, commercial sex workers, and widowed women living with HIV/AIDS. Through education programs in its outreach center and advocacy throughout the community, INCRESE is promoting an understanding of sexual rights that is both protective (the right to say no to unwanted sex) and affirmative (the right to sexual expression)—and challenging the culture of silence around sexuality in a highly conservative environment.
INCRESE works with government representatives and policymakers on sexual and reproductive health and rights issues at regional, national, and international levels, and also provides legal services and leadership development training and conducts research related to these issues.
The 2006 National Census revealed that 33.66 percent of the total population of Nigeria, or 47 million people, are young people between the ages of 10-24 years; by 2025, the number of youth is estimated to surpass 57 million. But a lack of education and accurate information has led to a range of health problems among youth in Nigeria, including unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, pregnancy-related complications, sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, and gender-based violence.
Despite the country's commitments in international agreements to honor the rights of adolescents and young people—including their rights to health and education—social and cultural stigma surrounding adolescent sexuality has left many young people uneducated about how to negotiate this period in their lives safely and in good health.
INCRESE is addressing these problems with its Hajara Usman Girls' Leadership Training Program, which provides at-risk girls with leadership skills, educates them about their bodies and rights, and helps them develop their ability to respond to inequalities and injustice. These are important tools that can dramatically increase a young girl's self-esteem and give her a voice in deciding her future. The program also engages parents and provides them with information about the benefits of keeping their daughters in school to advance their education and avoid child marriage.
As Nigeria gets ready for a momentous election, media and political campaigns have failed to capture the reality of many women and girls.
As African leaders gathered this week in Washington, D.C., for the White House's first-ever U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, IWHC and the Girls Not Brides USA coalition held a panel discussion on the widespread problem of child marriage and called on governments to work together to end the practice.
"Some day, they will say this was the moment when the world woke up to my potential…this is the moment when being a girl became my strength, my sanctuary, not my pain." These are the words of the Girl Declaration, a powerful statement written by adol …
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The £14m Chelsea art house with a fish tank wall between dining room and loo
6th September 2015
I don't sell paintings to match curtains. I sell paintings, then help people find the right room to hang them. Our own house used to double as a gallery, so we got used to hanging and rehanging paintings at regular intervals. That brought home the need for balance and symmetry when displaying paintings. Get it right and it can have a transformative effect on an entire home.
It is fabulous to work with Josie, who understands interiors and the placement of art to complement an interior design project. My clients have been extremely happy with the variety of beautiful pieces that Josie has selected for various projects. She has a talent for choosing new and exciting artists, and it is always a great pleasure to visit the gallery in Hampshire, where in a calm atmosphere you can select from a large and varied collection the perfect piece.
Clare Bayne Collingwood Bayne Design – West Sussex, 2014