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- Who I am and what I do.
- Current work.
- The Computing at School Working Group
- The Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
- The C-- project
- My publications, and some of those of my students.
- Research skills: how to write a good research paper, give a good research talk, and write a good grant proposal.
- My Win32 cheat sheet
My GPG key fingerprint is: CABA 2C32 0D13 B715 8611 0390 6B2B 1815 5F25 C538
Current work
New papers
- [March 2016] Backpack to work: towards practical mixin linking for Haskell, with Edward Yang, Scott Kilpatrick, and Derek Dreyer. Submitted to ICFP'16.
- [March 2016] Non-recursive Make Considered Harmful, with Andrey Mokhov, Neil Mitchell, and Simon Marlow. This paper describes a complete re-engineering of GHC's build system using Shake instead of Make. Submitted to ICFP'16.
- [March 2016] Desugaring Haskell's do-notation Into Applicative Operations, with Simon Marlow, Edward Kmett, and Andrey Mokhov. Describes the ApplicativeDo language extension. Submitted to ICFP'16.
- [March 2016] Sequent calculus as a compiler intermediate language, with Paul Downen, Luke Maurer, and Zena Ariola. This paper describes how to replace GHC's Core language (based on lambda calculus) with a new one based on sequent calculus. Submitted to ICFP'16.
- [Jan 2016] A reflection on types, with Richard Eisenberg, Stephanie Weirich, and Dimitrios Vytiniotis, for Phil Wadler's 60th birthday celebrations in April 2016. This paper gives a tutorial introduction to the new type-indexed type representations that GHC supports (or will do soon), and the kind-equality technology that is necessary to support it.
- [July 2015] Injective type families for Haskell, with Jan Stolarek and Richard Eisenberg, Haskell Symposium 2015.
- [July 2015] GADTs meet their match: Pattern-matching warnings that account for GADTs, guards, and laziness, with Georgios Karachalias, Tom Schrijvers, and Dimitrios Vytiniotis. ICFP 2015.
- [June 2014] Refinement types for Haskell, with Niki Vazou, Eric Seidel, Ranjit Jhala, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, ICFP 2014. Here we describe Liquid Haskell, and in particular how to adapt refinement types for a lazy language.
- [Apr 2014] Call arity, by Joachim Breitner. This interesting new analysis is in GHC; Joachim implemented it during an internship at MSR.
- [June 2014] Safe zero-cost coercions for Haskell, with Joachim Breitner, Richard Eisenberg, and Stephanie Weirich. Describes the new Coercible mechanism that allows zero-cost coercions between deeply-nested newtypes.
- [July 2013] Backpack: retrofitting Haskell with interfaces, with Scott Kilpatrick, Derek Dreyer and Simon Marlow. An exploration of a mixin-module approach to separate modular development (SMD) for Haskell. In submission.
- [July 2013] Higher order cardinality analysis in theory and practice,with Ilya Sergy and Dimitrios Vytiniotis, describes an analysis that detects when a lambda is called at most once, or a thunk is used at most once, and shows how to exploit that information to generate better code. Much improved version 2! In submission.
- [July 2013] Closed type families with overlapping equations, with Richard Eisenberg,
Dimitrios Vytiniotis, and Stephanie Weirich. In submission.
- [June 2013] Composable scheduler activations for Haskell, with KC Sivaramakrishnan, Tim Harris, and Simon Marlow. This paper gives a new design for our long-standing goal of allowing user-written schedulers in concurrent/parallel Haskell.
- [May 2013] Computing at school in the UK, with Simon Humphreys and Bill Mitchell; submitted to CACM. This paper summarises the rapid and radical developments during 2012-2013 in the K-12 school computing curriculum in UK. We draw out lessons from
our experience that may be useful to others.
- [May 2013] Call-by-need supercompilation, PhD thesis, Max Bolingbroke, Cambridge University, May 2013. Max's thesis summarises three years work on supercompilation as an optimisation technique. Lots of great insights.
- [Apr 2013] Equality normalization for System FC, with Dimitrios Vytiniotis, describes how GHC optimses big coersions into little ones. This turns out to be extremely important in practice; without the optimisation GHC can choke on type-function-rich programs.
- [July 2013] Exploiting vector instructions with generalised stream fusion describes how Geoff made stream fusion work so well that we can write numerically intensive Haskell programs that run faster than their C equivalents. ICFP'13.
- [Sept 2012] Bringing Computer Science Back Into Schools: Lessons from the UK, with Neil Brown, Michael Kolling, Tom Crick, Simon Humphreys, and Sue Sentance. This paper tells the still-developing story of the UK's Computing at School Working Group.
- [July 2012] Vectorisation avoidance, with Gabriele Keller, Manuel Chakravarty, Roman Leshchinskiy, Ben Lippmeier, Haskell Symposium 2012. Describes a major improvement to the "vectorisation transformation" in Data Parallel Haskell.
- [July 2012] Safe Haskell, with David Terei, David Mazieres, and Simon Marlow, describes how to make Haskell safe enough to confine and safely execute untrusted, possibly malicious code.
- [July 2012] HALO: Haskell to Logic through Denotational Semantics, with Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Koen Claessen, and Dan Rosen. Describes how to translate Haskell and user-specified contract specifications into first order logic, and thereby prove that the program satisfies the contract.
- [July 2012] Guiding parallel array fusion with index types, with Ben Lippmeier, Manuel Chakravarty, and Gabriele Keller, Haskell Symposium 2012. This paper describes the Repa 3 array library, using indexed type families to control the data representation.
- [May 2012] The Glasgow Haskell Compiler, in The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Volume II, ed Brown & Wilson. This paper gives an up to date (2012) technical overview of GHC.
- [March 2012] Equality proofs and deferred type errors, with Dimitrios Vytiniotis and Pedro Magalhaes (ICFP12). An exploration of what happens when you take equality proofs seriously in a compiler. (A predecessor was our unpublished paper Practical aspects of evidence-based compilation in System FC, still available on the same URL as above.)
- [March 2012] Work-efficient higher-order vectorisation, with Ben Lippmeir, Gabriele Keller, Manuel Chakravarty, and Roman Leshchinskiy (ICFP12). It turns out that a naive application of the "vectorisation transformation" in Data Parallel Haskell can be asymptotically less efficient than the original program. Bad news! This paper describes how to fix the problem.
- [Dec 2011] Closer to Nirvana a Channel 9 interview with Charles Torre.
- [October 2011] Giving Haskell a promotion (with Brent Yorgey, Stepanie Weirich, Julien Cretin, and Dimitrios Vytiniotis). How to (a) add kind polymorphism and (b) promote data types to become data kinds. TLDI 2012.
- [July 2011] Termination combinators forever (with Max Bolingbroke and Dimitrios Vytiniotis) describes a nice modular combinator library for doing online termination checking. Very useful in a supercompiler, but with other applications too. Haskell Symposium, Tokyo, Sept 2011.
- [June 2011] Multicore garbage collection with local heaps (principal author Simon Marlow), International Symposium on Memory Management, June 2011.
- [May 2011] Parallel and concurrent programming in Haskell. Simon Marlow's 70-page Summer School tutorial.
- [April 2011 (JFP final)] Modular type inference with local assumptions (with Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Tom Schrijvers, Martin Suzmann). This epic 83-page JFP paper brings together, in a single uniform framework, a series of our earlier papers on type inference for type systems involving local constraints, including GADTs and indexed type families. This is the camera ready copy for JFP.
- [Mar 2011] Improving supercompilation: tag-bags, rollback, speculation, normalisation, and generalisation, with Max Bolingbroke. Max is on a roll; this paper describes the progress we have made in supercompilation since last year's Haskell Symposium paper. Rejected by ICFP'11.
- [Mar 2011] Efficient Parallel Stencil Convolution in Haskell, with Ben Lippmeier, Gabriele Keller. This paper desribes (mainly) Ben's adventures in applying Repa to a practical problem. New stuff includes a multi-region, cursored representation for arrays. Haskell Symposium 2011.
- [June 2011] Towards Haskell in the cloud, with Jeff Epstein and Andrew Black. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and this paper does homage to Erlang. We try to combine Erlang's best ideas with Haskell strong typing. On the way we describe a neat new approach to giving programmers control over serialisation for function closures. Haskell Symposium, Tokyo, Sept 2011.
- [June 2011] A monad for deterministic parallelism, with Simon Marlow and Ryan Newton. Using par/seq to write parallel Haskell programs can be frustrating; this paper explains why and offers a possible solution. Haskell Symposium, Tokyo, Sept 2011.
- [Mar 2011] Parallel = functional: the way of the future: slides (7Mbyte PDF), video. A keynote talk at the London FP Exchange (18 March 2011), giving a whirlwind overview of what's going on in the world of parallel Haskell.
- [July 2010] Generative Type Abstraction and Type-level Computation (with Stephanie Weirich, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, and Steve Zdancewic). This paper, which appeared in POPL'11, describes how to combine Haskell's new abilities to do type-level computation with the old ability to do type abstraction using newtypes. Rather surprisingly (to me) the two are in tension, and the solution is quite interesting.
- [June 2010] Seq no more (by Simon Marlow, Patrick Maier, Phil Trinder, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, and Mustafa Aswad). A new take on the "algorithms + strategies = parallelism" story, providing a nice Haskell library to support parallel computation. Haskell Symposium 2010 .
- [June 2010] Supercompilation by evaluation (with Max Bolingbroke). This is our first foray into supercompilation. To appear at the 2010 Haskell Symposium.
- [June 2010] The performance of Haskell 'containers' package (by Milan Straka). Milan did this work while an intern here at MSR Cambridge. Haskell Symposium 2010.
- [April 2010] Hoopl: A Modular, Reusable Library for Dataflow Analysis and Transformation (with John Dias and Norman Ramsey). This paper, completely rewritten in April 2010, describes our framework for doing dataflow optimisation on imperative C-- programs. Haskell Symposium 2010.
- [April 2010] Regular, shape-polymorphic, parallel arrays in Haskell (with Manuel Chakravarty, Gabriele Keller, Roman Leshchinskiy, and Ben Lippmeier) describes a high-performance data-parallel library for regular arrays. To appear at ICFP 2010.
- [Oct 2009] Let should not be generalised, with Dimitrios Vytiniotis and Tom Schrijvers. This paper argues that local let-bindings should not be generalised: although taken for granted, it is a feature that is seldom used, and it greatly with recent type-system developments, such as GADTs and type functions. Appeared at TLDI 2010.
- [May 2009] Types are calling conventions (with Max Bolingbroke), and its discussion page. Describes an intermediate language that supports much more precise calling conventions than GHC's current Core language. Haskell Symposium 2009.
- About Haskell generally
- Interviews: It's raining Haskell (with John Hughes, Channel 9, Dec 2011, http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Simon-Peyton-Jones-and-John-Hughes-Its-Raining-Haskell); Closer to Nirvana (Channel 9, Dec 2011), InfoQ (Aug 2009), with Joe Armstrong; ComputerWorld (Sept 2008, magazine article); QCon interview (March 2008); Port 25 at OSCON (July 2007, 25 mins video); Channel 9, Haskell and Nirvana (June 2007, 5 mins, video); Software Engineering Radio (Spring 2007, sound).
- [July 2009] Classes, Jim, but not as we know them. My invited talk for ECOOP 2009 discusses the relationship between Haskell's type classes and object-oriented programming. Channel 9 video of the talk. Here's Joe Duffy's interesting blog post discussing the issues raised in the talk.
- [June 2009] Haskell and Erlang: growing up together. An invited talk for the Erlang Factory meeting in June 2009. Here's the video of the talk. And video of an InfoQ interview with Joe Armstrong and myself.
- [2008] Caging the effects monster: the next big challenge. These slides (8Mbytes) are from a talk I gave at QCon'08 and ACCU'08, suggesting that a big programming-language theme over the next ten years will be mechanisms to restrict or control unrestricted side effects. Haskell's monads are one approach, but it is not the only one. One way or another, though, we need to get a handle on those effects.
- [July 2007] A taste of Haskell. I had the chance to deliver this three-hour tutorial about Haskell at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, 2007. There's a video too.
- [June 2007] Comprehensive comprehensions: comprehensions with "Order by" and "Group by", Phil Wadler and Simon Peyton Jones, submitted to Haskell Workshop 2007. We explore some generalisations of list comprehensions that give them the power of the SQL GROUP BY and ORDER BY constructs.
- [Jan 2007] A History of Haskell: being lazy with class. Paul Hudak (Yale University), John Hughes (Chalmers University), Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research), Philip Wadler (Edinburgh University), The Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-III) San Diego, California, June 9-10, 2007. This long (55-page) paper describes the history of Haskell, including its genesis and principles, technical contributions, implementations and tools, and applications and impact.
- Compiler stuff
- [April 2007] Constructor specialisation for Haskell programs, Simon Peyton Jones. An in-depth description of a new optimising transformation in GHC.
- [April 2007] Faster laziness using dynamic pointer tagging, Simon Marlow, Alexey Rodriguez Yakushev, and Simon Peyton Jones. How to squeeze another 10-15% performance out of GHC by tagging pointers.
- Papers about parallelism in Haskell
- [March 2009] Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell (with Simon Marlow and Satnam Singh), ICFP'09. An overview of GHC's parallel runtime, lots of optimisations, and lots of measurements.
- [Oct 2008] A Tutorial on Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell (with Satnam Singh), Advanced Functional Progamming Summer School, Nijmegen, May 2008, LNCS (to appear).
- [Oct 2008] Harnessing the Multicores: Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell (with Gabriele Keller, Roman Leshchinskiy, and Manuel Chakravarty), FSTTCS 2008. This paper describes the Barnes-Hut algorithm in Data Parallel Haskell, and gives a detailed tutorial of the vectorisation transformation. The same link gets you to slides and video of a talk about the paper.
- [April 2008] Parallel generational-copying garbage collection with a block-structured heap (with Simon Marlow, Roshan James, Tim Harris).
- [Jan 2008] Partial vectorisation of Haskell programs, (with Manuel Chakravarty, Roman Leshchinskiy, Gabriele Keller), DAMP'08.
- [June 2007] Lightweight concurrency primitives for GHC, Peng Li, Andrew Tolmach, Simon Marlow, and Simon Peyton Jones; submitted to Haskell Workshop 2007. In this paper we try to re-factor GHC's large and complex run-time system, so that much of it becomes a vanilla Haskell library, with much less of it written in C.
- [Nov 2006] Data Parallel Haskell: a status report (with Manuel Chakravarty, Roman Leshchinskiy, Simon Marlow, and Gabriele Keller). This short paper gives an overview of our work to extend Haskell with data parallelism. Here is the home page for our Data Parallel Haskell project.
- [Apr 2007] Feedback directed implicit parallelism by Tim Harris and Satnam Singh. A limit study of implicit parallelism in Haskell, and a feedback-directed mechanism to increase its granularity.
- [July 2005] Haskell on a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor (with Simon Marlow and Tim Harris), Haskell workshop 2005. We can now run GHC in parallel on a shared-memory multiprocessor.
- Papers about Software Transactional Memory, (with Tim Harris, Maurice Herlihy, and Simon Marlow). This series of papers about transactional memory in Haskell, describes a new coordination mechanism for concurrent programs.
- [July 2007] Slides and video from a short 15-minute keynote at OSCON 2007 on STM
- [Jan 2007] Beautiful concurrency (a tutorial in the O'Reilly book "Beautiful code")
- [June 2006] Transactional memory with data invariants (FLOPS'06)
- [Apr 2006] Lock-free data structures using STMs in Haskell (FLOPS'06)
- [June 2005] Composable memory transactions (PPOPP'05, typos fixed, appendix added)
- [2006] Channel 9 interview
- Papers about types
- [May 2009] Fun with type functions (with Ken Shan, and Oleg Kiselyov). A tutorial on indexed type families, and associated types in Haskell. Channel 9 video of the talk: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MDCC-TechTalk-Fun-with-type-functions
- [March 2009] Complete and Decidable Type Inference for GADTs (with Tom Schrijvers, Martin Sulzmann, and Dimitrios Vytiniotis), ICFP'09. Yes, it's another a stab at type inference for GADTs, but I think a great improvement on our previous attempt.
- [April 2008] FPH : First-class Polymorphism for Haskell ( with Dimitrios Vytiniotis and Stephanie Weirich), submitted to ICFP 2008. This is a completely new paper, much better than our old "boxy type" paper (although you'll still see boxes in it).
- [April 2008] Type Checking with Open Type Functions, (with Tom Schrijvers, Manuel Chakravarty, Martin Sulzmann), submitted to ICFP'08. This is a much more thorough look at the challenge of type checking in the presence of open type functions.
- [April 2007] Scrap your type applications, Barry Jay and Simon Peyton Jones. Have you ever thought that the type applications in System F are verbose and often redundant? Here's a possible way to get rid of (most of) them.
- [Sept 2007] Towards open type functions for Haskell, Tom Schrijvers, Martin Sulzmann, Simon Peyton Jones, and Manuel Chakravarty, submitted to the Implementing Functional Languages workshop, Sept 2007 (IFL07).
- [Apr 2006] System F with Type Equality Coercions (with Martin Sulzmann and Manuel Chakravarty). This paper describes System FC, a modest extension to System F that can accommodate GADTs, associated types, and functional dependencies. GHC now uses FC as its intermediate language. (Rejected by ICFP'06; revised; rejected by POPL'07; revised again; submitted to TLDI'07.)
- [Revised (again) April 2006] Simple unification-based type inference for GADTs (with Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Stephanie Weirich, and Geoffrey Washburn), ICFP'06. This is a completely-rewitten and much-simplified verison of our orignal "wobbly-type" paper. It has been rewritten from beginning to end so, if you liked the earlier paper, this one is probably worth reading too. The big recent change is the idea of a "fresh most general unifier".
- [Revised April 2006] Boxy types: type inference for higher-rank types and impredicativity (with Dimitrios Vytiniotis and Stephanie Weirich); ICFP'06. It is also now fully implemented in GHC.
- [Revised Feb 2006] Understanding functional dependencies via Constraint Handling Rules, Martin Sulzmann, Gregory J. Duck, Simon Peyton Jones, and Peter J. Stuckey. To appear in the Journal of Functional Programming.
- [Revised Feb 2006] Practical type inference for arbitrary-rank types (with Stephanie Weirich, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Mark Shields), to appear in the Journal of Functional Programming. Long in gestatation, the paper describes the approach that GHC takes to type inference for higher-rank types. It has a strongly tutorial flavour, and comes with an executable implementation.
- [April 2005] Associated type synonyms (with Manuel Chakravarty and Gabrielle Keller). Our earlier paper discussed allowing data type declarations in type-class signatures. This follow-up (submitted to ICFP'05) suggests allowing type synonyms too.
- Static verification of Haskell programs
- [July 2008]Static contract checking for Haskell, (with Dana Xu and Koen Claessen), submitted to POPL 2009. This paper describes progress on static verification of Haskell programs.
- Other papers
- [May 2009] Finding the needle: stack traces for GHC (with Tristan Allwood and Sue Eisenbach). Lightweight debugging support for lazy functional programs. Haskell Symposium 2009.
- [Jan 2006] Haskell is not not ML (ESOP'06; main credit to Ben Rudiak-Gould and Alan Mycroft) describes a CPS-based intermediate language that can serve as a target for both call-by-name and call-by-value.
- [July 2005] A monadic framework for delimited continuations (with Kent Dybvig and Amr Sabry, JFP 17(6) Nov 2007, pp 687-730). This foray into continuations, arising from Amr's sabbatical visit in 2004, gives a monadic way of understanding delimited continuations. You can download an implementation of the approach in the paper, written by Dan Doel.
- [April 2005] Scrap your boilerplate with class: extensible generic functions (with Ralf Laemmel). The third paper in the "scrap your boilerplate" series; this one shows how to write open or extensible generic functions, something we previously thought was impossible.
- [Jan 2005] The full text of my out-of-print 1987 book The implementation of functional programming languages is now available online, thanks to the heroic efforts of Marnie Montgomery.
- [March 2004] Lexically scoped type variables, (with Mark Shields). Rejected by ICFP 2004.
- [March 2004] Champagne Prototyping: A Research Technique for Early Evaluation of Complex End-User Programming Systems, with Margaret Burnett and Alan Blackwell. VL/HCC'04. This is a follow on to our earlier paper "A user-centred approach to functions in Excel".
- [Nov 2000] Featherweight concurrency in a portable assembly language.
Haskell stuff
- The International Conference on Functional Programming.
- The Revised Haskell 98 Report, at last completed.
- The main Haskell home page
- The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
- Johan Tibell's State of Haskell 2010 questionnaire results
- John Hughes's links to tutorials on functional programming.
- A History of Haskell: being lazy with class.
- Tackling the awkward squad: monadic input/output, concurrency, exceptions, and foreign-language calls in Haskell.
- Type classes: exploring the design space
- Wearing the hair shirt: a retrospective on Haskell. Slides of my invited talk at POPL'03.
- A taste of Haskell. Video and slides fro my tutorial on Haskell at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, 2007.
- A complete archive of the Haskell mailing list (a single gzipped file) from 11 Sept 1990 to 27 Oct 2000. From Nov 200 all the mail is archived at the main Haskell mailing list.
Who I am and what I do
I'm a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. I started here in Sept 1998. I'm also an Honorary Professor of the Computing Science Department at Glasgow University, where I was a professor during 1990-1998.
I am married to Dorothy, a priest in the Church of England. We have six children (three adopted).
I'm interested in the design, implementation, and application of lazy functional languages. In practical terms, that means I spend a most of my time on the design and implementation of the language Haskell. In particular, much of my work is focused around the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, and its ramifications.
Microsoft Research is next door to the Cambridge University Computer Lab, and I co-supervise a number of PhD students at the Computer Lab. If you are interested in doing a PhD at Cambridge in my area, then I am very happy to discuss it with you.
Here is
- A brief biography, suitable for seminar announcements and suchlike.
- A collection of pictures of me, at various resolutions.
- A 2014 profile by MSR
- Muffy Calder's oration at my 2013 honorary DSc ceremony
- For amusement, a collection of pictures of me having fun, taken by John Petersen in 2008.
Social networks
I use LinkedIn for professional networking, but I restrict my connections to people who I know personally, or with whom I have had some meaningful two-way professional interaction; that is, not simply people with whom I share a professional interest.
I use Facebook for non-work networking, but only for people who my family knows too.
I do have a Twitter account, for some reason, but I have yet to find something significant enough to say that it's worth tweeting.
In all three cases my actual use is minimal, so don't hold your breath.
Microsoft Research Ltd,
21 Station Rd,
Cambridge CB1 2FB, England
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: +44 1223 479 848 (direct)
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WWW: http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/


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Charlotte, NC (SportsNetwork.com) - Al Jefferson scored 28 points and the
Charlotte Bobcats upended the Cleveland Cavaliers, 101-92, on Friday at
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games during the month of March. Kemba Walker had 20 points with 14 assists
and Chris Douglas-Roberts scored 14 points in Charlotte's second straight win.
Luol Deng and Dion Waiters paced six Cavs in double figures with 19 points.
Spencer Hawes and Kyrie Irving each went for 13, while Tristan Thompson and
Jarrett Jack posted 10 apiece as Cleveland fell to 0-3 against the Bobcats
this season.
Final Score: Memphis 85, Chicago 77
Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - Marc Gasol registered 18 points and 10
rebounds to guide the Memphis Grizzlies to a gritty 85-77 win over the Chicago
Bulls. Mike Miller went 4-of-5 from beyond the arc and scored 14 for the
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boards in his return to the lineup. Randolph did not play against the Nets
Wednesday because of flu-like symptoms. Taj Gibson had 10 of his 18 points
in the fourth quarter for Chicago, which had its five-game home winning
streak broken. Joakim Noah ended with 15 points, eight boards and six
Final Score: Toronto 99, Sacramento 87
Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) - Terrence Ross went 6-of-8 from beyond the
arc and scored 18 points to lead Toronto to a 99-87 win over Sacramento on
Friday. DeMar DeRozan and Patrick Patterson had 15 points apiece for the
Raptors, who have won eight of their last 10. Jonas Valanciunas scored 14
and Kyle Lowry had 12 points and seven assists. DeMarcus Cousins tallied 24
points and seven rebounds for the Kings, who have lost four of their last
six. Ben McLemore and Isaiah Thomas notched 14 points apiece, with Thomas
adding five assists. Rudy Gay had 15 points and five rebounds in his return
to Toronto since being traded to the Kings in early December.
Final Score: Boston 91, Brooklyn 84
Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) - Paul Pierce returned home again, but his
second trip to Beantown was far like the first. Rajon Rondo had 20 points,
nine assists and seven rebounds and the Boston Celtics defeated the Brooklyn
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outrebounding the Nets, 51-28. "Obviously the difference in the game for us,"
Celtics head coach Brad Stevens said. "We shared the ball pretty well with our
team, and theirs." Brooklyn beat the Celtics, 85-79, in the initial
showdown in Boston on Jan. 26. Kevin Garnett missed his fourth straight game
due to back spasms. He did not make the trip to Boston to face his former
team. Pierce, the second leading scorer in Boston history, spent 15
seasons as a Celtic and Garnett joined him for six of those years. Both were
integral parts in helping Boston win its 17th NBA title in 2008. They were
sent to Brooklyn as part of a draft night trade during the offseason. Pierce
finished with 10 points on 4-of-11 shooting. Jeff Green netted 15 points,
while Jerryd Bayless added 14 points and six boards for Boston, which had
dropped seven of its last eight coming in. Joe Johnson tallied 21 points and
seven rebounds for the Nets, who had their four-game winning streak snapped
and fell back to .500 two days after going over for the first time this
Final Score: New York 108, Utah 81
New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Carmelo Anthony tallied 29 points and a
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Jazz from Madison Square Garden. Twelve different Knicks scored in this
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Tyson Chandler posting 16 points with a game-high 11 rebounds. The Knicks
have won two in a row on the heels of a seven-game skid. Gordon Hayward and
Alec Burks netted 18 points apiece for the Jazz, who have lost five in a row.
Richard Jefferson added 12 in the setback.
Final Score: Minnesota 114, Detroit 101
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rebounds to lead the way in the Minnesota Timberwolves' 114-101 rout of the
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nine assists and eight boards. Greg Monroe totaled 20 points and 15
rebounds for the fading Pistons, with Brandon Jennings and Will Bynum
picking up 17 points each in Detroit's sixth loss in its last seven outings.
Final Score: New Orleans 112, Milwaukee 104
New Orleans, LA (SportsNetwork.com) - Anthony Morrow scored 12 of his 16
points in the final quarter to push the New Orleans Pelicans to a 112-104 win
over the Milwaukee Bucks. Anthony Davis registered 29 points and 14
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Pelicans, who have won back-to-back contests for the first time in a month.
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Lakers at Staples Center on Tuesday, and three nights later got a strong
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winning streak for New Orleans since Feb. 5 and 7 against Atlanta and
Minnesota. Khris Middleton had 25 points and Jeff Adrien notched 20
points and 10 rebounds for the Bucks, who have dropped 12 of their last 13
road contests. The Bucks played without forward Ersan Ilyasova. He was
suspended one game for punching Sacramento Kings forward Reggie Evans in the
stomach in Wednesday's loss.
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and six rebounds for the Trail Blazers, who have lost two of their last three.
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12 minutes.
Final Score: Denver 134, LA Lakers 126
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Angeles defense, tallying 30 points and 17 assists as the Denver Nuggets
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two straight on the heels of six straight losses. Wilson Chandler added 19
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road trip starting in New Orleans on Sunday. Pau Gasol scored 27 for the
Lakers, who have given up at least 100 points in eight straight tilts. In
three consecutive losses, opposing teams are averaging 136.
Final Score: Houston 112, Indiana 86
Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) - James Harden came in averaging just 14.3
points per game in seven career tilts against the Indiana Pacers. He surpassed
that mark in the third quarter alone. Harden netted 16 of his 28 points in
that frame and the Houston Rockets routed the Pacers, 112-86, on Friday night.
The Rockets outscored Indiana 38-16 in the third to turn a seven-point
halftime edge into a 29-point cushion heading into the fourth. Dwight Howard
had 15 points and seven rebounds for Houston, which has won 14 of its last 16
games. David West tallied 15 points and 10 boards for the Pacers, who have
dropped three straight for the first time this season.
Final Score: Golden State 111, Atlanta 97
Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - David Lee had 18 points and six rebounds and
the Golden State Warriors defeated the Atlanta Hawks, 111-97, on Friday night.
Jermaine O'Neal provided 17 points and eight rebounds, while Stephen Curry
added 13 points and seven assists for Golden State, which has won three
straight and eight of its last 10. Klay Thompson played six minutes before
exiting with a lower back strain. Paul Millsap tallied 16 points and seven
boards for the Hawks, who have dropped five in a row and 13 of their last
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I am using the FOSS version, since I'm small and don't need the extended features (although they do look nice).. but I have a multi-server setup with 2 servers, both in different geographical locations.. both are are MTA's and Mailbox servers, but only one was the LDAP server. I decided to setup the 2nd as an LDAP replica, and I just have to say that it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I took the master server offline and the replica ran off itself serving logins and accepting mail through the MTA. It's working perfectly.
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Looks pretty good! ^_^ I'm no expert on tectonic plates but I think they need a little work IMO, I'll see if anybody else wants to explain.
I like the coastlines they're pretty believable and pretty (did that make sense?)
So, this is eventually going to be a world map for my fantasy world, Draesina. I'm just starting out, as you can see, and would just like some opinions. I have the basic continent outlines, the plate tectonics and their movement, and the continents overlayed onto a world map to show relative sizes. I'm keeping the world similar to Earth, to make it easier for me.
I'm mainly looking for insight on my plate tectonics. What landforms would be created where, mainly, or if there's anything that just looks wonky and needs to be changed. Any and all help is appreciated! ^.^
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Plate Tectonics
Looks pretty good! ^_^ I'm no expert on tectonic plates but I think they need a little work IMO, I'll see if anybody else wants to explain.
I like the coastlines they're pretty believable and pretty (did that make sense?)
lol yes! I actually grabbed some premade continent patterns from deviant art.
In fact, I hunted down the page again: Fantasy Map Resources
Basically what I did was cut open up the vairous premades in gimp, cut put pieces I liked, and mashed them together, editing a little here and there so it would fit correctly. (I had to get some rough measurements down for it to work in my story.) Then I took the entire blob of continent and selected it, then shrank the selection to create an outline. That was the easiest way I found to do it, as the thought of hand drawing (even on the computer!) coastlines made my head spin. Also, I only had a rough idea what I wanted my continents to look like, and so this helped me give them some variety and believability.
Very nice, but just a few things I'd like to point out.
First, your larger continents are cut in half. That can happen, especially when the continent splits as in Africa's Great Rift Valley. But generally, continents float on their own plates. Thus, you end up with two kinds of tectonic plates: ones that have a continent on them, and ones that are nothing but a big piece of ocean floor. It's the collision of the land ones that creates mountain ranges, the splitting of land ones that create rift valleys, and the subduction of ocean plates beneath land plates that creates trenches, volcanic ranges, and island arcs and archipelagos.
You might try looking at your world then as a collection of continents riding their own plates (with the occasional merge or rift) and ocean plates. The western continent might be two that have joined at the narrow area just north of the equator.
Secondly, you do realize that there's not a lot of great real estate on the world as you can see from the overlay of the map of our world, right?. Depending on the terrain, the place most people are going to want to go is the southern half of the western continent and the islands to the east of it. Because of the latitude, everything in the north half is going to be taiga and tundra....think upper Canada and the arctic. The southern continent in the east could be problematic. Depending on the terrain, there's a good chance it could be mainly desert or tropical rain forest, both livable of course, but with difficulty. You could manipulate the terrain so that there's a good amount of grassland at a higher altitude though. That's your perogative. It's your world. The northern continent in the east is almost unlivable except for the southern coast...think Greenland, Iceland, and Siberia.
Now, ,I am a big fan of not manipulating continents and rivers. I like to deal the cards and force myself to play with what I'm dealt, just like in the real world. So if you want lots of frozen wilderness, that's what you're going to have probably. Again, there's a lot of other factors to consider that only you know, for instance the axial tilt of the planet and the extent of it's tropical zones...the altitude of different places, etc. But making these maps can be deceiving. Realize that once you place this map on a sphere, all that land you think you have at the top and bottom is going to pinched severely at the poles.
I made your map wider and spread the continents a bit so that it would be at a proper 2:1 ratio for a better projection on a sphere.
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The outlines you assembled do look nice. Remember how severely distorted that northernmost landmass is, thanks to the projection.
The fractal degree of all your coastlines is similar -- about the same jagginess. You might get enhanced plausibility - and some more types of coastal terrain like marshes, barrier islands, smooth beaches, if you mix it up. Take a look at whole continents worth of earthly maps; there's a wider variety than you currently show. Your stuff isn't bad at all, just might be made even better! :-)
The plates imply some stuff about your landmasses - the mid continent collision at NE would maybe be piling up a Himalayan range, the diverging boundary at SE would maybe ba a rift valley like in east-central Africa or an Icelandic volcanic profusion. Places where you show converging boundaries at sea, if I understand tectonics right, would maybe have shoved the upper plate above water, and/or generated a volcanic arc of islands - see ring of fire, other similar spots on earth. You have several major boundaries that are same direction both sides - no idea what that does. Have you specifically looked that up?
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Alright, neat. For the northeastern continent, I intended it that way, as there is a (important) mountain range in that area. So it would be similar to the Indian plate converging with the Eurasian plate, creating Himilayan-sized mountains (!) as jbgibson says. And I was thinking of playing around with a large rift on the more southern continent, but I'll take your advice on the other two and move that one around, and the one on the western continent.Originally Posted by ManOfSteel
Oops. I didn't realize that.Originally Posted by ManOfSteel
Good. I actually want it that way. I have a desert-based culture that I plan on using (it's where the main villain comes from.) Speaking of that particular area, the small island just north of it, would that be included in the jungle-type terrain?Originally Posted by ManOfSteel
Oops again. I knew part of it would be pretty cold, but I didn't realize most of it. I need it to be a bit more habitable. I'll move that down.Originally Posted by ManOfSteel
I like that idea. I'll probably tweak the one or two little things from above, but I do like the challenges it presents me in its current state. And it also gives me something to work with, now that I know what the general climate will be like.Originally Posted by ManOfSteel
That's pretty nifty. What did you use to create this? It would be an immense help to me!Originally Posted by ManOfSteel
Thanks! I had no idea. Do you know where I could look up different types of terrain, so I can get a feel for how they look?Originally Posted by jbgibson
Himalayan-sized mountains, you say? All the better to hide lost civilizations and dragons in, my dear. :3Originally Posted by jbgibson
As for the tectonic plates moving in the same direction, I couldn't find much with a few Google searches. But from what I did gather, they would probably not be going at the same speed. Which would put them in the same category as transform movement, creating mostly earthquakes, probably similar to those along the San Andreas fault.
Thanks for all that!! I will (hopefully soon) make those changes and post them here! Please, feel free to keep giving your insight. ^.^
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It's really late, but I wanted to check in. I'm glad you liked my insights, but I just realized something. It looks like you're using a Mercator projection of the Earth underneath the map of your world. That doesn't project onto a sphere properly using the software I used. See if you can find an equirectangular projection and slide that underneath and that will give you a better comparison of where your land masses would be when projected on a sphere.
More tomorrow.
Greetings! Attached are two versions of your world; one superimposed over a equirectangular map of the Earth, and another superimposed over the climate guide I used for my world map. I used Bryce 7.1 (still available for free at DAZ3D.com I think) to project your map onto the spheres you see above. Now you can get a better understanding of comparative climates. So it turns out it's not as bad as we (I) thought it would be regarding land usage on your world. You have lots more than we previously thought. Note where the northern cities like Toronto, New York, Oslo, Stockholm, Moscow, and Vancouver would be. That's about as far north as you'd get a lot of people to go.
Note the temperate cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Rome, Paris, Rio De Janeiro, and Sydney. Sometimes gets hot, but never snows.
Note the tropical and near tropical cities like Miami, Bangkok, Mumbai, and Taiwan. Possible jungle depending on the altitude. And look...your island is indeed in the tropical zone.
And note how the main deserts are in two bands...The Mojave, the Sahara, the Arabian, the Gobi, the Sonoran, the Kalihari, the Namibian, the Great Australian...all slightly or well inland along those two latitudes. So:
Green= tropical. Centered around the equator and extending to the tropics (of Cancer and Capricorn on Earth)
Red= the main desert zones
Yellow= the temperate zones. Best weather on the planet.
Blue= You've got to like cold weather if you live here. Summer is usually brief and mild, but never hot.
White= Polar. The lands of ice and snow.
Of course, much of this depends on the axial tilt of your world.
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Since this is my first world, I'm going to keep things like axial tilt similar to Earth. 23.4 degrees if I remember correctly. Also, your links lead me to an invalid attachment.


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Since I can't test the full professional version yet, I need to ask a couple questions.
I know Zimbra works well with Microsoft Outlook.
What I need to know is how well it emulates exchange when connecting with Microsoft Entourage.
Calendaring, this is my main concern. Will Entourage/Zimbra enable me to work the same way as exchange? Can I easily see another users free/busy schedule or access there calendar (from within Entourage)? When I get in appointment in an email received to Entourage, will it schedule it in my "Main Calendar"?
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Although the one-hour show is free, in the spirit of "A Christmas Carol," audience members are encouraged to bring non-perishable food products. Alpha Psi Omega, the Theatre Honor Society, will collect the donations and deliver them to the Mary Brennan Inn in Hempstead.
See the performance at Adelphi's Olmsted Theatre, 1 South Ave., Garden City. For more information, call (516) 877- 4000 or visit http://aupac.adelphi.edu.
A Christmas Carol – The Musical Version
Lynbrook-based Plaza Theatrical Productions, spreads some holiday joy with its staging of the treasured story, Sunday, Dec. 16, at 1 p.m.
This musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic is a delight for the eyes and ears. Jack Holly portrays the hardhearted Ebenezer Scrooge, who learns the true spirit of the holiday season, with Jeremy Smith, of Baldwin, in the role of Bob Cratchit. Smith, a special education teacher, is a veteran performer with Plaza Theatrical Productions, having appeared in "La Cage Aux Folles," "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Hello Dolly," among other shows.
Some of the many talented kids from our area are also involved in this production. The role of Tiny Tim is shared by 10 year-old Andrew Feldman, of Hewlett, and Johnny DiGiorgio. Feldman, is a familiar face in this role, having played Tiny Tim for three years. His other credits include Plaza's "Beauty and the Beast" and "How I Became a Pirate." Other cast members include Rockville Centre's Melissa Aliotta, 10; Juliet Novello, 10, who lives in Cedarhurst; and 10 year-olds Sharon Oosterwijk and Amanda Sweeney, both from Lynbrook.
Tickets are $10 per person. The performance runs for one hour and is followed by a meet and greet with the cast.
See "A Christmas Carol" at The Show Place at the Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Ave., Bellmore. For individual and group ticket information and reservations, call (516) 599-6870 or visit www.plazatheatrical.com.
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A special holiday treat awaits young skaters who get the chance to perform with a bevy of skating stars when "Holiday Dreams on Ice" comes to Roslyn's Christopher Morley Park on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m.
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Portland, OR (Sports Network) - Josh Smith poured in 19 points and pulled down
11 rebounds as the Atlanta Hawks escaped with a 95-87 victory over the
Portland Trail Blazers on Monday at Rose Garden.
Kyle Korver scored 16 points on 5-of-8 from the floor, Al Horford added 15
points and 10 boards and Jeff Teague contributed 13 points and eight assists
for the Hawks, who snapped a brief two-game slide. Louis Williams donated 11
points and four steals in the triumph.
J.J. Hickson netted 19 points and ripped down 18 boards, while Nicolas Batum
contributed 19 points and seven rebounds in the setback for the Blazers, who
have lost four straight. Wesley Matthews donated 17 points, including 10-
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College basketball player rankings: Sporting News' top 10 point guardsncaab August 2, 2013 12:43pm EDT June 10, 2013 2:51pm EDT Sporting News rolls out its position-by-position player rankings today starting with point guards. It's a great place to start, given the tremendous depth at the spot and the names we had to omit to settle on our top 10.
Let's get out of the way first, the names you won't see on our list of the top 10 college basketball point guards—judged not in terms of NBA-style talent, but in likely impact on the 2013-14 season: New Mexico's Kendall Williams, Pitt's James Robinson, Michigan State's Keith Appling, Duke's Quinn Cook, Oregon's Dominic Artis and Penn State's Tim Frazier.
That's how strong the point guard position will be next season.
Oh, and you'll also see there's no mention of Michael Dixon. A year ago, we had him as a second-team All-America. So you know what we think of his talent. What we don't know is whether, even though he has enrolled at Memphis, he'll be permitted to play college hoops this season. He will seek a waiver to become immediately eligible after being asked to leave Missouri last season following a second allegation of sexual assault that never was prosecuted.
And besides, even if he plays for the Tigers, we're not sure he'll be a point. They've got a pretty good one already, as you'll see later:
2 1. Marcus Smart, sophomore, Oklahoma State
At the close of the 2012-13 season, Sporting News was the only major publication to select Smart as a first-team All-America. Yes, we're bragging about this. We're as right on this one as when we picked freshman Tyler Hansbrough over Shelden Williams in 2006 and freshman Carmelo Anthony over Nick Collison in 2003. This isn't supposed to be a career achievement award; it's supposed to be an achievement award, and Smart was one of the five best players in college basketball this past season. Heck, he was one of the three best. His commanding presence on both ends of the court elevated what had been a poor Cowboys team that lost its leading scorer into a legit conference title threat. And then, when he might have been a top-five pick in the NBA draft, he decided he wanted to do better in the NCAA Tournament and chose to stick around another year. Oh heck yeah, we were right about Marcus Smart.
3 Andrew Harrison, freshman, Kentucky
It would be disingenuous to ignore the buzz that Harrison and his brother might be difficult teammates, but it would be downright foolish to ignore that coach John Calipari has resolved far more difficult circumstances. (He got DeMarcus Cousins to focus on winning. Any questions?) Harrison is an elite talent who'll be surrounded by elite talent. One of the few real questions in where to rank him is how much of the glory will be directed his way.
4 Yogi Ferrell, sophomore, Indiana
Victor Oladipo is gone, and Cody Zeller, and Jordan Hulls. The Hoosiers lost nearly everyone but Bob Knight this offseason. But Ferrell returns, and because more will be demanded of him more will be delivered. As a freshman, he was mostly expected to defer to all those veterans and only occasionally to upstage them, but he is an elite athlete and capable shooter who could experience a Shane Larkin-type surge to excellence.
5 Jahii Carson, sophomore, Arizona State
Carson is a high-risk/high-reward player, in part because he had to be. In order for ASU to come as close as it did to reaching the NCAAs last season, Carson had to gamble more than some of the other great playmakers. If he can manage his turnover numbers and make a few more 3s and, most important, get to the tournament, his talents could be truly appreciated. It's hard—no, all but impossible—to make All-American from the NIT.
6 Shabazz Napier, senior, Connecticut
As Napier ponders his position on this list, he can look around and flash his bling and remind all of us he's the only one with a national championship ring. And he wasn't just a practice player when UConn won in 2011. He was an integral part of the team's success, and he was even more so when the Huskies managed to avoid irrelevance in a season when they were banned from postseason play. Napier's junior season was drastically underrated because of that ban. It's also impossible to make All-American when you're not allowed to play in the NIT.
7 Aaron Craft, senior, Ohio State
He has been the primary point guard for teams that advanced to the Sweet 16, Elite Eight and Final Four, that won two Big Ten regular-season titles and two Big Ten Tournament titles, that won 94 games and lost only 19. That's an .832 winning percentage. Craft is one of the top defensive point guards of the past generation and showed a developing scoring touch down the stretch of last season.
8 Kevin Pangos, junior, Gonzaga
That a player with Pangos' gifts and production (11.9 ppg, 3.3 apg) can fall this far on the list is indicative of the wealth of performance at the point guard position. Pangos is one of the best pure shooters at the position and does a solid job running the offense. To become genuinely great, he has to shoot better in the toughest environments; he was 3-of-19 on 3s in road games at Butler, Saint Mary's and BYU.
9 Joe Jackson, senior, Memphis
The numbers and performances continue to improve, all the way to 13.6 points and 4.8 assists in his junior season, and still there is the sense there is more in Jackson if only he would choose to believe it. Jackson still has a tendency to defer, not so much in choosing to pass the basketball (no problem there) as in choosing not to attack when it's available. The only player in college hoops who is as tough to keep out of the lane is Carson; Carson shot nearly 50 more free throws.
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10 T.J. McConnell, junior, Arizona
Last season's Wildcats had a terrific player at point guard, Mark Lyons, but not a terrific point guard. McConnell fits the mold better, and he should elevate the wealth of talent that will surround him. McConnell was averaging 5.5 assists when he last played at Duquesne. What'll he manage when his teammates include perhaps four future NBA players?
11 Chris Jones, junior, Louisville
His entry into Division I basketball was delayed by two years, but it was time well spent. Jones led Northwest Florida State to the NJCAA title game as a freshman and sophomore, and last season was named national player of the year. His teams were 62-6. Louisville needs a new point guard with Peyton Siva gone. Jones has the talent to do more than just fill the job.
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The Royals announced today that the club has acquired left-handed pitcher Antonio Cruz and catcher Julio Rodriguez from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for infielder Wilson Betemit.
The 19-year-old Cruz has pitched the entire 2011 campaign for West Michigan in the Class A Midwest League, compiling a 2-6 record with a 3.11 ERA in 22 games, including 10 starts. The 5-foot-11, 199-pounder from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic was signed by Detroit as a non-drafted free agent on January 7, 2009. West Michigan is hosting the Royals' Class A affiliate Kane County this evening, so Cruz will switch clubhouses and be in uniform for the Cougars tonight.
Rodriguez, 21, is hitting .283 with 11 doubles, one home run, 27 RBI and 20 runs scored in 66 games for Lakeland in the Florida State League (A Advanced). The 6-foot-1 right-handed hitter and thrower was named the Dominican Summer League Tigers Player of the Year in 2008 and was an All-Star in the New York-Penn League last season for Connecticut. Rodriguez is expected to join the Royals' High A affiliate in Wilmington.
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Glendale, AZ (Sports Network) - Alex Castellanos belted a two-run homer in the
seventh inning off Yoervis Medina, and the Los Angeles Dodgers edged the
Seattle Mariners, 3-2, in spring training action.
Tony Gwynn knocked in the other run for the Dodgers, who received three
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Cass Freight Index inches down in December
January 07, 2011 - LM Editorial
Freight volumes finished 2010 on a somewhat uneven growth path in December, according to the most recent edition of the Cass Information Systems Freight Index.
The index, which measures the number of shipments and expenditures that are processed through Cass's account payable systems, has been up in eight of the last ten months.
December shipments at 1.049 were down 3.6 percent compared to November's 1.088, but shipments remained over 1.0 for the eighth straight month, with May 2010's 1.014 shipment mark being the first time shipments eclipsed 1.0 since November 2008. December shipments were up 12.4 percent year-over-year.
December shipment expenditures at 1.912 were down 3.9 percent compared to November's 1.989. Expenditures were up an even 20 percent compared to December 2009.
As LM has previously noted, many trucking industry executives and analysts consider the Cass Freight Index as an accurate barometer of freight volumes and market conditions, with Credit Suisse analyst Chris Ceraso stating in research notes that the Cass Freight Index sometimes leads the American Trucking Associations (ATA) tonnage index at turning points, which lends to the value of the Cass Freight Index.
The ATA recently reported that its advance seasonally-adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage index was down 0.1 percent in November, following a revised 0.9 percent bump in October. The ATA also reported that its not seasonally-adjusted index (NSA), which represents the change in tonnage actually hauled by fleets before any seasonal adjustment, was 108.9 in November, down 3.7 percent from October and up 8.3 percent year-over-year.
The Cass and ATA numbers come at a time when there continue to be various underlying mixed signals regarding the economic recovery and its strength. While December retail numbers were strong, anecdotal evidence indicates that they typically do not factor into December numbers, as those numbers are based on orders made by manufacturers and retailers earlier in the year.
But in any event, it has not stopped carriers from being optimistic about freight volume prospects for 2011.
"It may be a seasonal effect, but it is clear things are picking up on a sequential basis lately, but there is still a long way to go to really get back to where things were before the downturn," a truckload carrier told LM.
And while the Cass Freight Index was down on a sequential basis in two of the last three months of 2010, a research note by Robert W. Baird analyst Jon Langenfeld indicated that freight trends overall are stable, with lean inventories and modest restocking offsetting consumer demand headwinds from earlier in the year.
"Despite a more muted peak than expected, November trucking volumes were better than seasonal as peak season extended longer than expected," wrote Langenfeld. "Demand outlook for 2011 is positive, with industrial end-markets likely outperforming retail."
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I was able to get Zimbra Network Ed. Ver 4.5.6 to perform a successful backup to a fuse/sshfs mount point. The advantage of this approach is that the fact that the backup is to a remote server is completely transparent to Zimbra. If the network connection is broken during a backup, that backup run is ruined, but if the network connection breaks before the backup is run, then the backup will run and be stored on the local drive.
** First, you have to get fuse/sshfs installed and running, which is painless on some systems. It was painful on my CentOS 4.5 server, but I eventually got it working.
** Second, I logged in as Zimbra and ranMake sure that you use a blank password for this key -- it will be used for non-interactive remote secure login.Code:ssh-keygen -t rsa
** Third, create an underprivileged account on your ssh-enabled network attached storage or computer (we'll call this host backuptarget) for zimbra to use, and add paste the contents of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub from you Zimbra server to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on backuptarget, in your underprivileged account's home folder. We'll call this account "underpriv."
** Fourth, test your fuse/ssh login... As the Zimbra user on your Zimbra server, you should be able to login to your remote system without a password, using key authentication:
You should be able to login automatically, without any interaction. If it works, logout to return to your Zimbra server. Now test fuse/ssh:Code:ssh underpriv@backuptarget
Without interaction, /opt/zimbra/backup should now reference underpriv's home folder on backuptarget. Now when Zimbra server performs a backup, the files will physically go there.Code:sshfs underpriv@backuptarget:/home/underpriv /opt/zimbra/backup -o nonempty;
** Fifth, mount remote filesystem (automatically). I mount the remote filesystem ON TOP OF the default backup target, so if the network connection breaks, backups will still run locally. Ideally the network connection is up, and backups will all go remote. I created the following script and added it to zimbra user's crontab to run everyday one minute before the backup:
This script mounts the remote backup target on top of the local backup target, if the remote target is not already mounted. Without this check, you could mount the backuptarget twice. I did that _during_ a backup once, and hosed the backups on the backuptarget. Only way to get a successful backup after that was to delete them and start fresh, hence the safety check in the script.Code:#!/bin/bash # Test if it's already mounted grep "/opt/zimbra/backup" /etc/mtab > /dev/null ; if (($? != 0 )); then sshfs underpriv@backuptarget:/home/underpriv /opt/zimbra/backup -o nonempty; fi
That's it... That did it for me.
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Royals FanFest set for January 21-22, 2011
The Royals have announced dates for the 2011 Royals FanFest presented by Sprint and Teva Neuroscience. The club's marquee offseason event is set for Friday, January 21 and Saturday, January 22 at the Overland Park Convention Center in Overland Park, Kan. Hours of operation and ticket information will be announced at a later date.
Royals FanFest will include appearances by current and former Royals, interactive games for fans of all ages, main stage programming and much more. The 2011 FanFest will mark the fourth year for the popular two-day event, which has welcomed nearly 30,000 fans through the doors of the Overland Park Convention Center in its first three years. More than 80 current and former Royals players and coaches have participated in the event since its debut in 2008.
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Finance Ministry today said the Rs 10,141-crore proposal of Vodafone to buyout minority stake in its Indian arm has been referred to the Prime Minister headed Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for approval.
It also said the government has approved five proposals of foreign direct investment (FDI) amounting to Rs 1,133.41 crore.
The proposals, which have been approved, include that of UK-based Tesco Overseas Investments and Singtel Global. The proposals have been cleared on the basis of recommendations of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB).
"The proposal of (CGP India Investments) has been recommended for the consideration of CCEA, as the investment involved in the proposal is above Rs 1,200 crore," the Ministry said in a statement.
CGP India Investments, an indirect Mauritian subsidiary of Vodafone International Holdings BV, had approached the FIPB to "to increase foreign equity in Vodafone India Ltd from 64.38 per cent to 100 per cent in telecom sector".
Tesco Overseas Investments has been given permission to acquire (through purchase and subscription) 50 per cent of the equity share capital of Tata Group company Trent for multi- brand retail trading in India through a chain of stores.
The Tesco plans to invest Rs 682.43 crore (USD 110 million).
The Ministry further said that SingTel Global (India) Pvt Ltd has been permission to increase foreign investment from 74 per cent to 100 per cent in telecom sector company.
Tikona Digital Networks has got FIPB nod to increase foreign equity upto 72.58 per cent by issuing compulsorily convertible debentures (CCDs) and equity shares to the existing non-resident investors on a rights basis. The company proposes to bring in FDI worth Rs 248 crore.
Pharma company Fresenius Kabi India Private was given permission to to issue shares to its parent company. The proposal envisages investment of Rs 200 crore.
Meanwhile, the Finance Ministry said that government has deferred decision on proposal of HDFC Bank to increase foreign holding in the bank.
HDFC had sought the FIPB permission to maintain the permissible foreign holding in the bank up to 67.55 per cent, out of which the FII sub-limit would be 49 per cent and the balance 18.55 per cent would be FDI.
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Harping on the ISU/Iowa football game, ticket prices, and Marc Hanson's article in today's RAG
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Did you think this wouldn't be talked about today?
And is it bad that yet again in the winter, we're already talking about a game months away?
Personally, I love it.
Is he for, or against the showing at Kinnick? I really hope they do it, it *might* look good for them on the outside, but in all honesty it is going to **** off the donors and hurt their fanbases "travels well" reputation when the people that stay are the ones that ticket prices don't even effect anyway.
i am listening right now on the internet. This guy is a HUGE *********.
Nothing like a Hawkeye bias radio show. They even whine when they have their own show
32 years later and I am still riding on the back.
I don't sweat the petty things,... I pet the sweaty things
Let him. Like I said earlier, Hawk fans can feel the tides turning in Iowa. They are shaking in their little black and yellow booties.
--Luck of the Cyrish--
His true colors are definitly showing today. Typical Hawk dribble
Makes a good case about the Big 10 looking at expanding their conference schedule from 8 games to 9 or 10 games. If that happens, it would be very tough for Iowa to continue the series with ISU.
I don't care for this continued $90 is too much crap though. Jon, the Iowa fans are going to buy those 4000 tickets - easy. Doesn't matter if they cost $150 - fans will buy 'em. And that's what they were worth on the streets last year...well over $100 - Pollard is just getting some of that money instead of the scalpers eating extra good that night.
I still can appreciate the idea of what Iowa is looking to do with the game party/watch at Kinnick. If we did something like this, we'd be all over it.
What I love about all of this is that the $90 price only affects the high-level donors who are able to buy the tickets, and to them $90, is nothing, so the whole point is moot. Anyone that has the opportunity to buy the tickets wouldn't sit in a stadium to watch the game on TV anyway.
I pretty sure I cried less than this in my first 3 years of life!
Originally Posted by ISUFan22
Makes a good case about the Big 10 looking at expanding their conference schedule from 8 games to 9 or 10 games. If that happens, it would be very tough for Iowa to continue the series with ISU.
Do what most other conferences were smart enough to do...GET 1 MORE TEAM, DIVIDE INTO 2 DIVISIONS, AND HAVE A CHAMPIONSHIP! It's not that hard of a concept.
Oh yeah...Who is Jon Miller? And am I supposed to care about his show?
Originally Posted by cycloneworld
Do what most other conferences were smart enough to do...GET 1 MORE TEAM, DIVIDE INTO 2 DIVISIONS, AND HAVE A CHAMPIONSHIP! It's not that hard of a concept.
Correct and it seems the Big 10 doesn't want to get on board with that.
What these Hawks don't realize is if the athletic department wasn't charging $90 it was the ISU season ticket holders that bought them in the past and sold them on ebay and other means for the profit. JP is only cutting us out of the loop and keeping the profit himself. So if they all need to get together to cry about it in Kinnick, then have fun!!!
Also, I met a lot of Iowa State fans and I dont want to leave any of that behind. - DARIUS DARKS on Staying a CLONE!!!
Matt (00 Alumn)
Waukee, Iowa
Somebody needs to get Paul off the damn phone.
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The search continues for three jail escapees in Scott County.
Last Thursday night, 22-year-old Lloyd Page, along with Rodney Fielder and Kenneth Johnson, both 17, escaped from the Scott County Jail in Forest. All are from Newton and were held on armed robbery charges.
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Here's Where The Super-Rich Are Stashing Their Money (PHOTOS)
Mere political controversy seemingly isn't enough to stop the world's super-rich from stashing wealth overseas.
Global offshore wealth, defined as assets housed in a country where the owner has no legal or tax residence, grew by 6.1 percent to $8.5 trillion last year, according to the Boston Consulting Group. And what was the top destination of that wealth? Switzerland, which houses about one-quarter of all offshore assets.
The approximation may even underestimate the true scale of offshore wealth, as a 2012 study from the Tax Justice Network found that the worlds wealthy are stashing up to $32 trillion offshore, or roughly four times the BCG's estimate.
The issue of offshore wealth has come into sharp focus recently as critics have accused notable figures, including former Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, of housing their money in countries with lower tax rates so they don't have to pay higher tax rates at home. A recent project from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists highlighted the broad scope of the issue, noting that those with wealth overseas range from American doctors to middle-class Greeks.
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LOL, no wonder Michele Bachmann just became a Swiss, dual citizen!!!
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ATHENS, Ga. --- The East Carolina men's golf team is in third place after the opening round of the NCAA Athens Regional at the University of Georgia Golf Course on Thursday. The Pirates shot 8-under 276 on the par-71, 7,253-yard links.
Today's 276 marks the first under-par round that ECU has posted in its seven rounds of play in NCAA competition. Its previous best was a 1-over 289 in the first round of the 1991 NCAA East Regional.
The top five teams in the regional advance to the national finals in Pacific Palisades, Calif., beginning May 30. Fourth-ranked Alabama leads the field with a 15-under 269, while No. 10 North Florida is second at 13-under 271. Host institution and No. 24 Georgia is in fourth-place at 4-under 280, followed by Houston and UNC Wilmington tied for fifth-place at 2-under 282.
Senior Harold Varner and sophomore Ryan Eibner lead the way for ECU, as each player carded a 4-under 67 and are a part of a five-way tie for fifth-place. Varner was 1-under after nine holes, as ECU began play on the back nine, but was even through 13 holes. He then birdied four of the final five holes to post his lowest round of the season. Eibner recorded five birdies to match his lowest round of the year.
ECU senior David Watkins pared the final 10 holes to finish tied for 17th at 1-under 70, while classmate Adam Stephenson bogeyed his final hole to complete the round at 1-over 72 tied for 37th. Junior Zach Edmondson, making his first NCAA Regional appearance, carded a 5-over 76.
North Florida's Kevin Aylwin fired a 6-under 65 to lead the field. Aylwin recorded five birdies and one eagle to earn a one-stroke lead over a quartet of players.
The Pirates will play alongside Alabama and North Florida on Friday in round two. The trio will go off in 10-minute increments starting at 9:10 a.m. from hole No. 1. Live scoring and pairings can be found at golfstat.com.