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NEW YORK -- Growing up, we always heard about the value of a college education. Now we have empirical evidence that it's true.
According to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report, college graduates will make an average of $900,000 more than high school graduates over their working careers. And then there is the case of USC's Steve Johnson.
Instead of jumping right into the cathartic world of professional tennis -- like fellow Americans Ryan Harrison and Jack Sock -- Johnson decided to hit the books. He led the Trojans to four consecutive NCAA championships, becoming the first player to lead his team to that degree of success. Johnson won the 2011-12 singles championships and his last 72 matches.
Based on the early returns of his professional career, it looks like college was a good investment.
Johnson, 22, has won his first two Grand Slam matches at the U.S. Open. On Friday, he took down the occasionally formidable Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-4.
"Feels pretty good," Johnson said. "All the hard work I put in since last year losing in five sets has paid off."
In his Grand Slam debut here in 2011, Johnson took Alex Bogomolov Jr. to five sets.
After the college season, Johnson played some ATP-level matches -- with little success. He did get his first ATP match win against Donald Young this summer but elected to play a Challenger in Aptos, Calif., instead of trying to qualify in Cincinnati. He won all five of his matches and came into New York in a good state of mind.
"I felt a little more pressure because I had come off a great college season and hadn't lost in a while," Johnson explained. "I just didn't feel comfortable with the surroundings. I had a nice week to train back at home with the USTA and came here.
"I think everything worked out pretty well."
Johnson looked quite comfortable trading rallies with Gulbis, particularly when the points mattered most; the kid from Orange, Calif., saved all nine break points against his serve.
Next up: A third-round match with No. 13 seed Richard Gasquet. Even if Johnson loses, his career-high ranking of No. 245 will jump to around No. 180.
Back-to-back upsets: It was a nice little story when British teenager Laura Robson knocked off retiring Kim Clijsters in the second round. But to be fair, Clijsters was not in match shape.
The 18 year-old's shocker over No. 9 seed Li Na -- she won 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2 in the third round -- was far more significant. First, Li was the 2011 French Open champion. Second, she didn't win a match in any of her previous Grand Slams this year.
"Thanks for reminding me," Robson said. "The way I see it, it was time to start winning a few of them."
Soccer star Wayne Rooney is even tweeting about her, although he referred to her as "Robinson." Later, Rooney blamed the predictive text function on his phone.
"Can you blame that on predictive test, though?' Robson asked. "I'm not so sure. It's great that he watched, even though he got my name wrong."
It's the first time a British women has been in the fourth round of a major in 14 years. If Robson beats No. 7 seed Samantha Stosur to reach the quarterfinals, Rooney will probably get the name right.
Stars and stripes: The 6-foot-10 John isner bombed 23 more serves and 69 winners to advance to the third round by beating Jarkko Nieminen 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3. He'll next play the winner of the Philipp Kohlschreiber-Benoit Paire match … Three American doubles teams advanced to the third round in straight sets: the Bryan Brothers, Williams sisters and Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond. Retiring Kim Clijsters is still alive in the mixed doubles, thanks to partner Bob Bryan.
Tough day at the office: A total of 36 Americans -- 20 men and 16 women -- found themselves in the main singles draws here at the U.S. Open. A total of 15 survived into Day 5, but Friday saw the herd thinned considerably.
Mallory Burdette, a Stanford University senior, fell to No. 3 seed Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-1 -- in 58 minutes. Sharapova did not seem affected by the news that broke earlier in an Italian newspaper that her planned November wedding with former Los Angeles Laker Sasha Vujacic has been called off.
Facing Sharapova, Burdette said, is a little different than, say, the No. 1 player at Duke.
"Her intensity," the 21-year-old Burdette said. "She walks up to the line and you can feel her presence. She's got a lot more tools than I do."
Burdette admitted she might have entertained the possibility of turning professional if she had won but that, following a talk with her parents, will return to Stanford for a fourth and final season. In preparation for a pro career, she will focus more on her game -- fitness, practice, etc., -- than she has in the past.
A top-50 ranking is her long-term goal.
"From there," she said, "it's up to me how hard I want to work, how far I want to take it."
Other U.S. losers: Ryan Harrison, to Juan Matin del Potro 6-2, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; Varvara Lepchenko to No. 7 seed Samantha Stosur 7-6 (5), 6-2 and Bradley Klahn to Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.


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THE DETAILS: Researchers followed about 2,500 people ages 21 to 65 for a year, breaking them up into three groups: All visited a website with general health advice, but the second and third groups accessed a website that helped them track their diets and was tailored to their dietary needs and preferences. The third group also received individualized counseling by email. The researchers found a significant increase in the fruits and vegetables eaten, particularly among the branch of participants that also received motivational emails.
WHAT IT MEANS: Fruits and vegetables are nutritional superstars because they offer a wide variety of nutrients, in addition to disease-fighting phytochemicals. And accumulating evidence is linking produce to protection from certain cancers and other chronic diseases. But it can be hard to include enough healthy food in your diet when you're constantly tempted by fast-food fare and other heavily marketed, unhealthy choices. This study suggests that online tools can help you keep track of what you eat so that you can see where your diet falls short and can make changes accordingly. Just don't spend too much time at the computer, since exercise is another lifestyle factor that can cut your risk of health problems.
Here's how to use technology to help you eat a more healthful diet:
• Figure out what you need. There are several recommendations for how many fruits and vegetables you should eat each day, with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services calling for men to eat nine servings a day, and women, seven. To get a more precise estimate, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Fruits and Veggies Matter site to figure out how much produce you should eat each day, based on your age, sex, and activity level.
Read on to see how your computer and iPhone can help you eat healthy.
• Keep track. There are plenty of free or inexpensive digital tools to track your diet and help you to lose weight while eating a healthy diet. For starters, check out Prevention magazine's free online Health Tracker, where you can create a food log and track nutritional info, daily activity, and even mood and energy levels.
The Eat This, Not That! iPhone app ($4.99, iPhone App Store) helps you track calories, build a more healthful grocery list, create a weight-loss plan, and find simple food swaps that will shave hundreds of calories off your daily food intake.
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• Don't let it be boring. If you or your family members are getting bored with the typical produce lineup, try out some of these tips from Christine Gerbstadt, MD, RD, spokesperson American Dietetic Association:
1. If you've had a long day and can't deal with chopping, washing, and preparing vegetables, buy them frozen or fresh, already washed, and cut-up. Add them to any- and everything possible, such as soups, slow-cooker meals, black beans, chicken or vegetable stock, salads, or rice.
3. Plan a dinner around a fresh local vegetable, such as artichokes, asparagus, eggplant, acorn squash, or whatever's in season at a local farmer's market. Try stuffing it, breading and sautéing, or adding a dipping sauce. Check the Rodale Recipe Finder for cooking ideas.
4. Fresh salsas are a great way to include not just tomatoes, but also peppers, cucumbers, onion and leeks, fresh herbs, jicama, and root vegetables like parsnips, and carrots. Dip with corn chips or vegetable chips.
6. Dried beans and peas are vegetables, too. Cook them, puree, and season with new spice combinations, using cumin, turmeric, mint, basil, garlic, and oregano, and you've got a great spread to enjoy on a warm pita.
• Pick greener produce. When shopping for produce, try to buy organic whenever possible. Organic growing methods keep harmful hormone-disrupting chemicals out of your body, the soil, and water—and add greenhouse-gas carbon to the soil instead of the atmosphere. Follow our money-saving tips when buying organic, such as buying in season and in bulk to get the best deals. If you avoid buying fresh food because it tends to go bad in your fridge, check out our story Never Throw Food Away Again.

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Sendak, ever-untamed, sees `Wild Things' adapted
NEW YORK About the hoopla surrounding the film adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are," Maurice Sendak is characteristically gruff.
"I kind of want it over," he said. "I'm not used to this invasion."
But that speaks more to the 81-year-old author's fondness for privacy and quiet than his feelings about Spike Jonze's film, co-written by David Eggers. In a recent phone interview from his home in Ridgefield, Conn., Sendak said he considers both Eggers and Jonze to be good friends, and believes the director has done a "spectacular" job with his most famous work.
The movie is a long time coming. Sendak originally co-founded a production company in the mid-'90s. Two directors earlier tried their hand at adapting the book, but their visions didn't impress. And it took Jonze years to finish his "Wild Things," a process all the more arduous because of widely reported arguments with the studio, Warner Bros., which wanted a lighter approach.
"The people I dislike, I've never gotten to meet, so I can't say anything bad about them," says Sendak. "And they're all in Hollywood, where they belong."
The beloved illustrator has always had a complicated relationship with "Wild Things." When it was published in 1963, Sendak, a son of Jewish immigrants, was an up-and-coming children's book author. His life was irrevocably changed by the success of the book.
It won the prestigious Caldecott Medal and has since sold more than 10 million copies. The story of Max, a misbehaving boy clad in a white wolf suit who's sent to his room that soon grows into a forest, resonated with children – an impact all the more remarkable because it was done in just 10 sentences.
But as much as it elevated Sendak, it also overshadowed much of what he's done since. He's not only written other classic children's books like "In the Night Kitchen" and "Higglety Pigglety Pop!" but also collaborated on operas (Mozart's "The Magic Flute" with director Frank Corsaro, "Brundibar" with playwright Tony Kushner), illustrated adult books (Herman Melville's "Pierre") and co-founded the Night Kitchen Theatre.
Sendak says he no longer feels tied to "Wild Things."
"At one time, that was a bitter, bitter pill. It no longer is," says Sendak. "`Where the Wild Things Are' is no longer an enemy. It's now Spike Jonze's and lots of nice people who have become friends."
"Wild Things" caused quite a stir in its day. It was revolutionary in its honesty about childhood: Max misbehaves and his mother loses her temper. The Wild Things, based on Sendak's aggressively affectionate relatives, scared some children. For a time, many libraries refused to stock the book.
Max, Sendak says, "wouldn't be invited to Winnie the Pooh's house – and if he had been, he wouldn't have gone."
Much in "Wild Things" can be found throughout Sendak's work: the power of the imagination, the always looming threats of childhood. Sendak urged Jonze to remember those qualities.
"I advised him to make more mischief, and he made more than most," says Sendak. "In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. And I did not want to reduce Max to the trite image of the good little boy that you find in too many books."
Sendak clearly sees something of himself in Jonze – he notes Jonze made the movie at roughly the same age he wrote the book: his early 30s. Jonze has also made a moving, intimate documentary of Sendak, "Tell Them Anything You Want," that premieres on HBO on Wednesday.
"Maurice was our sort of mentor in this whole thing," said Jonze. "He was the one person that I really wanted to please. The thing that's so great about him is he wanted me, early on he said, `You need to make this your own. Don't worry about me, don't worry about the book, don't worry about what anyone else expects. You have to just make something bold and not pander to children and make something that's as dangerous for its time as the book was in its time.'"


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So I've had my 2nd incident today in however many months, today's REALLY pissed me off because I'm a week out from my first triathlon that I've been training for for 6 months. The first incident I was brushed on my arm by a side view mirror of a toyota rav 4 who was laying on his horn to warn me he was coming by (Hi I'm riding on the road, I figured out that there are cars there!). I proceeded to flip him the bird and lucky for both of us he caught the red light. I pulled up next to his window and let him have it.
Today I was traveling towards the main road that I ride on and there was about 6 cars stopped at the light. I was passing them all on the right next to the curb (no shoulder) when the light turns green and the first car fails to react, people start thinking and as I'm passing the 5th car in this idiot pinched me in against the curb! He had no reason to go there there wasnt any sort of shoulder for him to go around traffic, he would have crashed into the curb! He missed my left leg by > < that much. So of course I let him have it as well, and he has the nerve to pull up and say "you're going the wrong way".... At this point I ALMOST put my fist through his window, but I contained myself. I let him have it a bit more as he drove off.
My question is when you have these near misses, do you smack their hood, push off their car, or just avoid them and be happy you're not dead?


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State of the Art: Linux Audio 2008
The demands of professional audio production require a different order of performance from a sound server. None of the servers mentioned above are capable of drop-out free performance under heavy resource demand—for example, multichannel recording with high sample rates and bit depths—and they cannot be considered suitable under pro-audio conditions. Fortunately, Linux has JACK, a truly professional-grade audio server and master transport system. If you plan on producing professional-quality audio with Linux sound and music software, you need to know JACK.
JACK development is steady and continues to expand the system's capabilities. JackMIDI is showing up in more applications, and the jackdmp Project points the way toward JACK's future on multiprocessor architectures. Current versions already run on OS X, and there's even been a successful port to Windows. Currently supported back ends now include ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio, FreeBob/FFADO (for FireWire devices) and CoreAudio (on OS X).
Erik de Castro Lopo has contributed some essential components to the Linux audio infrastructure. His libsndfile provides programmers with a comprehensive library for handling file I/O for a great variety of soundfile formats, and his libsamplerate has found broad acceptance as the preferred tool for high-quality sample rate conversion. These libraries relieve applications programmers from the burden of writing code for very common tasks, and both packages are common dependencies throughout the world of Linux audio software. I'm also happy to report that both libraries are currently maintained.
The sound-related software most familiar to typical users includes media players, games and audio communication devices. In each instance, the application itself does not handle audio directly, instead relying on the kernel's sound API (that is, ALSA). This reliance frees application developers to focus on features, rather than on how to interface with users' sound hardware.
Linux music players are a mixed blessing. For average users, programs such as Amarok, Banshee, Rhythmbox and the XMMS clan work well for playing most audio formats (MP3, Ogg, WAV, AIFF and so on). AlsaPlayer continues to provide a lighter-weight player, not so feature-rich but stable and JACK-savvy. JACK-awareness is one of my personal complaints with most of the current music players, but I have reason to hope that the major players will get it and at least provide a plugin for JACK connectivity. And, while I'm dreaming, I'd also like to see Linux media players adopt the JACK master control system. More typical wish lists include true gapless playback and support for huge collections. The development teams of the popular players are quite aware of these requests and are working to address them in future releases. As Figure 1 indicates, some developers are indeed moving forward.
Multimedia players, such as MPlayer and Xine, continue their development march forward. These projects are well established, and many users rely on them heavily for more than just DVD and video file playback. MPlayer (and its sister software MEncoder) is a veritable toolkit for a wide variety of video and audio tasks, and the Xine library is used by many other applications that need video capabilities. Both programs play a wide variety of video and audio formats, and both include hooks for user-friendly GUIs.
Alas, there is a snake in the grass in this field. Video players depend on codecs that provide support for the seemingly endless variety of video formats, and many popular formats are patent-encumbered. One immediate result of this situation is the difficulty or impossibility of including these codecs in a mainstream Linux distribution. Some distros simply point users to a repository where they can download the necessary packages, but it would, of course, be better if the codecs could be installed along with the players. However, until patent law reform takes place (in the US, at least), there can be no other way to supply the software.
Playback of encrypted DVDs also is problematic. It appears that the MPAA is no longer pursuing legal action against distribution of the DCSS software, but distribution vendors remain hesitant to include the software directly. Again, users typically are directed to a distribution point on the Internet where they can acquire the software they need to watch their legally purchased discs. Although these extra steps may seem trivial to seasoned users, they often are confusing and seem unnecessary to novices, especially when there is little or no understanding of the legal ramifications. Nevertheless, until patent encumbrance and copyright entanglements are things of the past, the extra steps will be necessary if users expect fully functional media playback.
Similis sum folio de quo ludunt venti.
Pianoteq and JUCE
The great Pianoteq is also based on JUCE.
Jackdmp comment
"Currently supported back ends now include ALSA, OSS, PulseAudio, FreeBob/FFADO (for FireWire devices) and CoreAudio (on OS X)."
Not exactly, PulseAudio is not supported, but a PortAudio driver to be used for Jackdmp Windows version.
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Ouch, you're right, I meant Portaudio. Thanks for the correction. :)
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You may not have heard the term 'robo-advice' but you may have noticed the growth in the number of financial firms using websites and digital platforms that help you work out how to invest or save for your retirement
Financial Advice & Information
How much does it cost to see an independent financial adviser – and what would you be happy to pay?
New figures show that independent financial advisers charge £150 an hour for their time, on average
The regulator, the FSA, has found some banks and building societies aren't giving good financial advice
The latest mystery shopping exercise by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) found that banks and building societies still weren't giving good financial advice in all cases
Financial advisers can no longer be paid by commission for investment advice
If you go to see a professional for financial advice about investments, from today they won't be able to be paid by commission from the company whose products they sell
There's new information about changes to the way financial advisers can charge for advice
At the end of this year there will be a big change in the way we pay for financial advice
How much should you pay for independent financial advice?
If you asked a financial adviser for advice about what to do with a pension, you'd expect to pay for their time
Getting trail (or renewal) commission rebated; how to pay less for your finances.
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Can you trust your bank? What should banks do to improve the advice they give.
Reviewed 1st January 2012
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Getting a professional review of your finances by an IFA. How much is it likely to cost?
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Recently I was contacted by a SavvyWoman user who wanted to know whether or not it was worth getting a financial review with an independent financial adviser and – if so -how much it would cost
Female financial advisers; are you better off taking advice about your finances from a woman?
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I've been involved in personal finance for more years than I care to admit to (I started when I was very young!) and the question that keeps coming up is 'how do I find a good financial adviser?' Many of us may feel we'd like to get expert advice and help with our finances from time to time; but how do you track down someone who will have your best interests at heart and not their own
Navigating the maze of financial adviser qualifications; how to get an adviser who's qualified.
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I used the 3/8 to remove broken spark plugs!!!
This is a great set. I bought them hoping I could remove broken spark plugs that were stuck on the back side of a Ford Windstar V6 engine. The 3/8 worked like a...Read complete review
This is a great set. I bought them hoping I could remove broken spark plugs that were stuck on the back side of a Ford Windstar V6 engine. The 3/8 worked like a charm. I sprayed some PB Blaster around the side of the plugs and then inserted the 3/8 in to get a grip. They came out without a problem and the threads were as good as new on the extractor and inside the engine. I had to pull the extractor from the inside the plug with pliers after each removal of the plugs. I have seen were the EZ-Outs sometimes break. This did not and the spark plugs were broken off as a result of someone turning them the wrong way so you know they were in all the way! I highly recommend them.
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I usually do not B&M about HFT's stuff but the 3/4" Nipple Extractor did not work and probably needs to be 1/16 to 1/8" smaller. With...Read complete review
I usually do not B&M about HFT's stuff but the 3/4" Nipple Extractor did not work and probably needs to be 1/16 to 1/8" smaller. With this price point, the smaller ones may be fine. Regardless this tool gets returned.
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So easy a GIRL can do it! LOL
By CJ
from Orlando, FL
About Me Casual Do-It-Yourselfer
Comments about Pittsburgh 5 Pc Pipe Nipple Extractor Set:
We had a new fence installed and I knew the sprinklers were at risk, so I flagged them. Sure enough 2 were broken off, leaving the threaded portion in the pipe. "The extractor set" made life so simple. Tapped it in and unscrewed/removed the broken piece - put the new sprinkler on and whala! We're up and going! AND thanks for your helpful staff :)
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Work great with no issues
By RG
from Belcamp, MD
About Me Professional
Used to remove brass plugs
Worked great!
By Al
from Vandalia, OH
Wish I had known about this tool before.
Worked Very Well
By svAndiamo
from Edmonds, WA
About Me Avid Do-It-Yourselfer
Worked exactly as I hoped to extract broker piper threads.
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Work as Advertised!
By Rico
from Marlborough, MA
This kit was a life saver! It worked perfectly when I had to remove a piece of pipe that broke off on a pump. The pipe was 3/4 in. and using this extractor was simple and easy. One thing to consider: make sure the inner diameter of what you are trying to extract matches exactly the sizes available in the kit. If it doesn't you may have to use a file to smooth out the edges a little bit before inserting the extractor.
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By Nick at Night
from Denver CO
Had an automotive lift blow its hydraulic hose out of both the ram and the pump. Now, mind you this was probably because someone used the wrong fittings (i.e. cast iron plumbing fittings) that were not rated for the high pressure. How in the heck was I going to get those NPT fittings out, as they were broken off below the surface. While googling like mad, just happened to run across a link to these extractors buried in a forum. Skeptical of extractors, I also bought the HFT left hand drill bits. Tried the extractor first...couple light taps with a hammer to seat it then applied pressure with a wrench. The teeth dug in then presto...out it came like butter. Less than 2 minutes I had both pieces out. This cheap set saved me hundreds in professional machinist bills!!
saved the day
By albw
from cp ny
my compressor tipped over and fell on the air outlet line. which broke the nipple off the top of the tank inside it. it was in there tight. ratchet didnt have enough leverage.i set the 3/8 extracter in used my HARBOR FREIGHT big breaker bar and turned it right out. really saved what looked like a headache. new nipple was only 1.50
By jerichar99
from Phoenix, AZ
A plastic PVC nipple pipe cracked in my shower valve. I tried to remove the pipe, but it unfortunately snapped off, leaving a stuck thread pipe in the brass shower valve. I was trying to use a thread chaser to remove the remants without any success. I tried this tool, and on the first time, it cleanly removed the pipe! I was amazed it worked! Literally saved me hours of work. Best buy!
Works as described.
By Justin
from Everett, WA
...Snapped off a brass pipe elbow on a propane line. The small extractor in this set removed the broken nipple on the first try.
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Don't conflate the problem of people abusing belief systems to carry out atrocities with the problem of an inherently immoral belief system. The only time there's a problem with a religion (or whatever you want to call it) is if its teachings encourage something immoral. That's really all there is to it.
As a special note, if you're an atheist (or not, I suppose) and your main problem with religion is that people are "deluding themselves from the truth," you are a fool and a jerk. Delusion isn't inherently bad, and if it has a positive impact on those people, you should not try to take that away from them. I would imagine it is a rare person who
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Freddie Ljungberg, in his first action in three games, can't connect on a penalty kick as Seattle ties Columbus 1-1
A lackluster start gave way to a wild finish Saturday night at Qwest Field, and when the final whistle blew, nothing was settled.
Sounders FC rallied to earn a 1-1 draw with the Columbus Crew, but defender Tyrone Marshall, who had played every minute of every Major League Soccer regular-season game before last night, was issued a red card and ejected in extra time of the second half.
So Seattle (4-2-5) had to play out the last couple of minutes with 10 players and yet survived for its fifth straight draw, hardly the result it sought playing at home for the first time in three weeks. The tie didn't necessarily make the players, the crowd of 29,126 and especially coach Sigi Schmid very happy, as Schmid had some choice words for his team about its focus and being overly concerned about the referee's calls.
"We paid too much attention to the referee," Schmid said. "I'm a big believer that you've got so much energy to expend over 90 minutes and if you expend a lot of energy dealing with the referee, you're not going to have that energy to deal with the game."
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Marshall's ejection came when the assistant referee came to the conclusion that Marshall threw a punch at the Crew's Steven Lenhart, as Schmid understood it. Marshall fumed after the game and was incredulous that the call came so late in the match.
"He ran into me with his elbow," Marshall said of Lenhart. "Being the competitor I am, I'm not going to take that … I guess the retaliation, the linesman saw that part, and didn't see the first part of it."
A few seconds further into his diatribe, Marshall stopped. "I probably shouldn't say anymore, because then I'll be getting more fines."
But Marshall took one last shot, mentioning that he thinks his team has been hurt by unfair calls and that he thought Lenhart deserved a red, too. The veteran will have to miss Sounders FC's match at first-place Chivas USA next weekend, and is the fourth Seattle player to be red-carded this season.
Efforts to contact referee Michael Kennedy didn't produce a response from him.
All that aside, Sounders FC was the better team as far as offensive play. One such moment led to a penalty kick for midfielder Freddie Ljungberg, who'd missed the past two games due to effects of a migraine.
In the 32nd minute, Ljungberg was taken down in the penalty area after controlling a pass from midfielder Steve Zakuani. But his penalty kick went wide left.
"I hit it quite hard and it curled around the corner unfortunately," Ljungberg said. "Next time it'll go in, but it happens, unfortunately."
Ljungberg atoned for his miscue with solid play from his attacking position and provided an assist for Nate Jaqua's equalizing strike in the 58th minute.
Things looked bleak for the Rave Green before that. In the 12th minute, defender Jhon Kennedy Hurtado allowed Crew forward Alejandro Moreno to get ahead of him on a run down the middle in front of the goal. Moreno was in perfect position to knock in a good cross from teammate Pat Noonan for a 1-0 Crew lead.
The second half saw an energized Sounders FC pick up the tempo. Jaqua was there to control Ljungberg's blooper and hammer it home inside the far post in one motion.
"A good ball through, and I was kind of waiting on it," Jaqua said.
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First half — 1, Columbus, Moreno 2 (Noonan 1, Zayner 1), 12th minute. Second half — 2, Seattle, Jaqua 3 (Ljungberg 2), 58th. Total shots — Columbus 10, Seattle 10. Shots on goal — Columbus 5, Seattle 2. Total saves — Columbus 1, Seattle 4. Fouls — Columbus 22, Seattle 14. Offsides — Columbus 2, Seattle 3. Corner kicks — Columbus 3, Seattle 7. Yellow cards — Columbus, Schelotto 73rd; Seattle, Vagenas 37th, Hurtado 68th, Ljungberg 89th. Red card — Seattle, Marshall, 92nd+.
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Seattle — Casey Keller (GK), Brad Evans, Tyson Wahl, James Riley, Peter Vagenas (Ianni, 64th), Freddie Ljungberg, Steve Zakuani, Tyrone Marshall, Fredy Montero (Sturgis, 94th), Nate Jaqua (Sebastien Le Toux, 83rd), Jhon Kennedy Hurtado.
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On January 11, 2013, the Dartmouth community welcomed Philip J. Hanlon '77 and officially introduced him as the 18th President in the Wheelock Succession. Hanlon told the crowd assembled in Spaulding Auditorium that leading Dartmouth "at this time in history is inspiring—as we approach the 250th anniversary of the College in the midst of historic changes in higher education."
President-Elect Philip J. Hanlon '77 and his wife, Gail Gentes, greet members of the Dartmouth community during the reception in Alumni Hall. (Photo by Eli Burakian '00)
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Through the thin walls of a small semi-detached house tucked away in a quiet cul-de-sac in the heart of England, the peace is disturbed by two boys next door screaming abuse down their Xbox Live headsets at whoever cares to listen.
One lad is 14 and his brother is 12. They're playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, a videogame that has an '18' classification stamped on it due to its "strong bloody violence and strong language". The age rating didn't stop their parents buying it for them though, nor did it stop them from playing Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops and Modern Warfare. This means that the two boys were screaming abuse down their headsets at adults long before the older one's balls dropped.
Now, they're mouthy kids at the best of times. Consequently, with a headset and a world full of faceless gamers who can't answer back by putting a fist right in their cheeky mouths, they've discovered that trashtalking, a form of boast or insult commonly heard in competitive situations, is a great way to let off steam after a day at school.
This nightly racket from the neighbours, only counteracted by turning my own videogames up so loud that I drown out their high-pitched screams of "In your face bitch!" and much worse, serves as a regular reminder of the days when online gaming on Xbox and PlayStation consoles used to be much more of a fun, socially enjoyable experience.
I remember fondly the days of playing Ghost Recon during the Xbox Live beta phase, a peaceful time when the immature masses hadn't yet swamped the online lobbies with their childish jibes and irritating voices. Fast-forward to today and it's apparent that there are so many people who have had enough of the insults that there's barely any communication online at all now.
Being able to talk and play such strategically in-depth games with other gamers in the centre of the living room wasn't just a novelty at the birth of online gaming on consoles; it was the first time that many people had united under one front through their love of videogames and it brought with it an intimacy that many enjoyed.
The twilight years of both Xbox Live and PSN were great for socially-focused, competitive gaming. In the early days of Xbox Live, you'd bump into the same people night after night who were embracing this new world of online gaming. At this stage, it was a fairly tight-knit community and it wasn't long before relationships were forged and people who had never met each other on the street started meeting online regularly.
Groups of gamers formed clans and created websites to recruit like-minded players and build a base for their strategies; it was like one big family. Clans knew each other well, arranged meet-ups and participated in ladders and tournaments.
I became captain of AlphaSiege UK, which was among the best times I've ever had as a gamer due to the social interactivity between our team and other clans. Though we'd get the occasional idiot trash-talking, or stumble across a clan full of kids who simply wanted to cheat their way through matches, these instances were few and far between; it was a joy to be online with both familiar faces and a world of strangers that wanted to chat together about football, random interests and their videogame experiences.
The online lobbies were full of people who enjoyed friendly banter, shared tactics and showcased their knowledge of videogames. Most people wore a headset and most people chatted away in the lobby before getting down the competitive side of gaming. In the first couple of years of online gaming on console, it was an inviting environment for anyone who embraced it.
Take a look right now. Search Google for Xbox Live and PlayStation clans and you'll find a mass of redundant links. Most teams have disbanded, given up. The real-world clan tournaments dried up (I'm not talking about corporate-sponsored events and teams that get paid to play). Ladder and leaderboard sites have closed or had to change tact and offer cash for rewards to tempt greedy lone individuals. LAN parties vanished into the ether and team work was abandoned. So, what was to blame?
There were two franchises that were prominent in changing the face of online gaming and communication over Xbox Live and PSN – Halo and Call Of Duty. Aggressive marketing campaigns made these two series the talk of the playground. The gates were opened to under-age and rude teenage gamers who could easily persuade their parents to pick up a copy of a Mature-rated game. They then invaded the online servers like a plague, and still do.
The rise of these multi-million pound franchises coincided with the death of many clans, ladder and tournament sites and real-world team competitions. Across the entire gaming community, communication online dipped dramatically to where we are right now – in an era where you're likely to play in silence with other strangers because people just don't bother to talk anymore.
The tide started to turn with the release of Halo 2 in 2004. I loved this game and the clan scene was still going strong, but then…it happened. Anti-English, anti-European, anti-American, anti-jew, homophobia, racism and 'mom' jokes became part of the nightly experience. One American kid would hear an English accent and that person would then get every stereotypical comment thrown at them, from being a "tea-drinking faggot," to a "crumpet-eating limey with bad teeth." The U.K. lot would give as good as they got (and there were some idiots in the U.K. too who also got a kick out of a verbal assault on others) but the abuse was largely from American teenagers. U.S-based kids* sucked the interesting chat and intelligent conversation out of online lobbies almost overnight.
I put up with it for a while and so did many other gamers from all corners of the globe, but there came a point where we would just mute most people who had their mics turned on because the abuse became so frequent. Online lobby conversation was quickly replaced with Party Chat sessions where only people we knew were invited.
Immature attitudes from kids crossed over into other online shooters too, with Call Of Duty being the worse. Every single Call Of Duty game has been swamped with annoying toe-rags that have sought to ruin the experience for others just so they can reel off their latest gay jibe, or stereotypical remark based on the country or accent an opponent is from. The amount of times I've heard the word "nigger" online is quite shocking, and it's clear that a massive chunk of the gaming community just doesn't want to listen to it anymore, despite there being ways of reporting people.
As a result of muting and not even bothering to use a headset, gone are the days when gamers actually speak to each other online, sensibly. Since day one there has always been annoying individuals with headsets and mics but at one point they were in a minority. Now, there's so many of them that game lobbies of the most competitive titles out there are now as silent as a graveyard.
If you played Gran Tusismo 5 online you've likely experienced your fair share of hate speak while playing with strangers from around the world. One of our editors has plenty of first-hand experience playing with his brother online and competing against random people from around the world. They frequently play with guys from South American countries and while their Spanish and Portuguese aren't so great, our editor and his brother can pick up English words like "faggot," racial slurs, and other homophobic comments. Like those competitive first-person shooters, this racing game once had players who, while they were quite competitive and offered plenty of trash talk, were at least fairly respectful and tried not to alienate anyone. Today if you check out lobbies, you'll find the occasional room name that clearly designates some people--usually gay or black people--are told they are not welcome to join. Trash talking is to be expected, but labeling your online room "no faggots" is beyond childish; it's pathetic.
Now, unless I already know the people I play with, my headset remains on my desk and I don't bother to attempt to communicate any more. Neither do many others. The online servers may be busier than ever, but teamwork has disappeared. Team deathmatches are no longer about shouting out enemy positions to help out your team, or joining up in pairs to work together to infiltrate a certain section. There are rare times where this communication and thought for the overall goal does exist - especially if you're in a group of friends that you know - but generally people now play for selfish reasons only: XP, rewards, Trophies, Achievements and kill count.
The disappointing fact is, kids – many of whom are too young to have been playing these games in the first place - ruined online chat and teamplay for good on Xbox and PlayStation consoles. I've got my fingers crossed that Sony takes a leaf out of Microsoft's book for PS4 and introduces Party Chat because Xbox 360 gaming friends who had enough of the abuse a long time ago have been using this feature to enjoy a peaceful night's gaming. Is that too much to ask for?
*Though I've highlighted American teenagers as being the main issue behind the death of online gaming chat, it's worth pointing out that there is a proportionately larger amount of Americans online than Europeans, which is why this is probably the case. I've met many polite and friendly U.S.gamers who have been just as annoyed as I've been with the influx of loud-mouths and I've met plenty of irritating gamers from other countries too.


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[EOD] Eugene O'Donnell. Slow Airs and Set Dances. Eugene O'Donnell (fiddle).
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Here are all transcriptions of this tune considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.
|As tune #54 in [Sc] Scottish Fiddle Tunes.
|On page 53 of [FF] David Brody. The Fiddler's Fakebook.
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OL Only one lineman definitively slated to start the regular-season opener in Baltimore participated in Thursday's practice and that was right guard Kevin Zeitler, who started 27 of the 28 games in which he was healthy over the last two seasons. Rookie Russell Bodine continued to play center with the first team, while Marshall Newhouse continued to play left tackle with that unit as Whitworth continues to recover from his calf injury. With Smith missing his second straight practice with a concussion, free agent signee Will Svitek played right tackle. Clint Boling and Mike Pollak have been rotating days off as Boling is returning from offseason ACL surgery and Pollak from a knee injury with the other playing left guard on the day he practices, but both had Thursday off and rookie Trey Hopkins filled that spot.
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|The pyrogeography of sub-Saharan Africa: a study of the spatial non-stationarity of fire–environment relationships using GWR
|SA Ana; PEREIRA José M.c.; CHARLTON Martin E.; MOTA Bernardo; BARBOSA FERREIRA Paulo; FOTHERINGHAM Alexander S.
|JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SYSTEMS vol. 13 no. 3 p. 227-248
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|Aim Analyze the relationship between fire incidence and some environmental factors, exploring the spatial non-stationarity of the phenomenon. Location Sub-Saharan Africa. Methods Geographically weighted regression (GWR) was used to study the relationship between fire incidence and a set of environment covariates, which comprise land cover, anthropogenic and climatic variables, over an eight year period (1981-1983, 1985-1991). GWR was compared to Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), and the hypothesis that GWR represents no improvement over the global model was tested. Local regression coefficients were mapped, interpreted and related with fire incidence. Analysis was carried out using a 0.5x0.5 degree grid. Results GWR revealed local patterns in parameter distributions, and also reduced the spatial autocorrelation of model residuals. All the predictors were non-stationary and in terms of goodness of fit the model replicates the data very well (R2=87%). About 45% of the local models had an R2 above 0.75 and only 26% had an R2 below 0.57 (the global R2). Herbaceous cover has the most significant relationship with fire incidence, with climate variables being more important than anthropogenic ones in explaining the response variability. Both precipitation seasonality and soil water coefficient estimates exhibit locally different signs, which would have been ignored by a global approach. Main conclusions Results highlighted the need to accommodate for the effects of spatial non-stationarity in fire-environment relationship, which may be hidden in a global model. This study provides an improved understand of spatial fire-environment relationships, indirectly contributing towards the reduction of uncertainties in burned area estimates and to make better predictions of broad-scale fire patterns. GWR is shown to be a valuable complement to global spatial analysis methods, revealing details of fire incidence patterns and data properties that global methods average out and fail to detect.
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"Gives You Hell"
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"Big Schools"
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Not to be flip or whatever, but zoning out on these Zoloft-trance exercises at my day-job desk—which is usually where I get up close and personal with music these days—feels dishonest. I mean, shouldn't I be doing bounce aerobics on a sparkly trampoline with raver track pants and a pinwheel hologram tee as "Starslider" bleeps the light fantastic?
"I'm in Miami Bitch"
In PG-rated situations—as when they recently performed on America's Got Ballast, er, Talent, sorry—these Californian knuckleheads switch out "bitch" for "trick," presumably because programming sentinels aren't fans of Southern rap or have Hustle & Flow slotted way, way back in their Netflix queues. LMFAO have an album out, but I really think they should just focus on cranking out single after single based on the "Miami" template with minor variations: You know, "I'm in Long Beach Ho," "I'm in Elizabethan England Strumpet," and so on into infinity.
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Unfortunately, the cousin has died, and no one in the family seems to know what she did to make the pecans stay mixed in the filling. Does anyone know the secret?
We always stock up on Oklahoma specialty food items every time we're there. Between barbecue sauces from Enid and special jellies from all over the state, we'll need a trailer to haul our purchases home one of these days. Oklahoma wines are good, too.
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DEAR MELBA: This pecan pie is good anytime.
Pecan Pie With Sour Cream, shared by Linnie Lee Swink, of Oklahoma City, is one of the recipes in your "Holiday Hilites" cookbook. It was also a winner in your 1979 Original Recipe Contest.
3 large eggs, separated
1 cup sour cream
{+1}/{-4} cup all-purpose flour
{+1}/{-2} teaspoon salt
1 cup granulated sugar
{+1}/{-2} teaspoon lemon extract
{+1}/{-2} cup pecan pieces
1 baked (9 inch) pie shell
{+1}/{-8} teaspoon salt
1 cup light brown sugar, packed
{+1}/{-2} cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In medium saucepan, beat together egg yolks and sour cream.
In small bowl, mix flour, {+1}/{-2}-teaspoon salt and granulated sugar. Stir into egg mixture.
Cook over low heat until mixture thickens. Stir in lemon extract and {+1}/{-2}-cup pecan pieces. Pour into pie shell.
Beat egg whites and {+1}/{-8}-teaspoon salt until mixture stands in stiff peaks. Gradually beat in brown sugar. Fold in {+1}/{-2}-cup chopped pecans. Spread over filling. Bake 15 minutes. Cool before serving.
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