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Bayhealth Stroke Care has designated critical care and medical surgical units at both Kent General and Milford Memorial. For more information about the Bayhealth Stroke Care, please cal (302) 744-6638.
A stroke is commonly referred to as a "brain attack." The majority of strokes occur due to arteries being blocked by blood clots or accumulation of plaque and other fatty deposits. Less common, are strokes caused by the rupture of an artery which stops blood flow to the brain.
Stroke is currently the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and the leading cause of long-term disability. What these staggering statistics don't reveal is that stroke is largely preventable. Knowing your individual risk factors for stroke is essential to preventing stroke.
Risk factors that are related to lifestyle can be controlled:
Some risk factors are out of your control, such as being over the age of 55, being a male, being African American, and having an immediate family history of stroke. Medical risk factors for stroke are: a previous stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA), high cholesterol, hypertension, heart disease, atrial fibrillation and carotid artery disease.
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Health Hints: 6 Surprising Energy Zappers
If you're sick and tired of feeling, well, you know, find out why your energy levels are so low and vow to make a health change -- or six
Sitting up straight will also reduce strain on the muscles in your upper back and neck, which might otherwise wear you down. Your mother just called back. She says to tell you that she told you so. (See? Should've left your phone at home.)
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Not my technology. But I definitely got to do work on these things. I need the energy.
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Can't deal with clutter at all. It drives me crazy.
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No more phone in the bed! I say it now, but I know it won't stick. :S
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So true about dehydration! When I drink enough water during the day I can go so much longer at night.
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Open messaging for the Open Web: Installing and configuring Mozilla Raindrop on Ubuntu 9.10
By the time you read this Karmic Koala will have been released to a waiting world, but I couldn't wait. A felicitous combination of a desire to do a distribution upgrade to the release candidate and a Twitter arriving on my laptop giving me a link to Raindrop kept me busy for the day. I was intrigued by Raindrop and having used other Mozilla lab experimental software I was determined to see what all the hype was about. If you like the idea of combining a tool for aggregating Twitter, e-mail, RSS and other social Web 2.0 stuff with free and open standards then read on.


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The 2014-15 season will mark Geoff Grawn's 13th season on the Islanders staff as an assistant coach.
During the 2009-10 season, the Islanders clinched the most wins in school history with a 24-11 record. After falling in the Southland Conference title game to Lamar University, the team was selected for the inaugural Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI), reaching the semifinals.
Four out of the past five seasons, the Islanders have reached the Southland Conference Tournament and each campaign and has won at least one game in the tournament in three out of four appearances.
During the 2004-05 season, Grawn and the Islanders made an appearance at the Women's National Invitation Meet (NIT) with a 23-7 record, winning in the first round against Fresno State 56-53.
Grawn coordinates all travel and administration of camps as well as film exchange and outreach.
Grawn also teaches several kinesiology classes at A&M-Corpus Christi.
Grawn, a native of Marquette, Mich., joined the Islander staff after a seven-year stint at Northern Michigan University as a team manager and student assistant. During his tenure at NMU, he helped direct the Lady Wildcat program to seven-consecutive NCAA Division II Tournaments, three GLIAC tournament crowns and a spot in the 1998 national tournament semifinals.
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I-71NB reopens after truck crash
Driver not hurt
UPDATED 7:25 PM EST Feb 22, 2013
A crash has closed Interstate 71 northbound at Fields Ertel.
Dispatchers said a truck crashed through a barrier and ended up with a wheel over the edge of the overpass over Mason-Montgomery Road.
Photos: Truck crashes on I-71
The truck was also leaking fuel, dispatchers said.
Two lanes reopened by about 6:30 a.m. as crews patched the fuel leak and prepared to move the truck.
Crews examined the bridge for damage and opened the last lane just before 9:30 a.m.
The driver, Thomas Gans, was charged with failure to control.
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Hi, this is more Groovy-related, but as I'm doing what I want to do in PMS, I thought I'd ask here.
Is there a specific syntax/method to access another, arbitrary plugin class from within a PMSEncoder groovy script?
Builtin JDK classes work, not having any luck with a plugin I've created.
If yes, a quick script { init {action {}}} block sample would be great.
Worked around it by just recreating the class functionality within Groovy. Probably the only option anyway after some thought.


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Sonar ship plotting path of undersea cable may interfere with lobstering
Throughout July and August, the company plans to use the Sonar equipment from Revere Beach to the Seabrook, N.H. area circling around Cape Ann.
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Sweet Reason, winner of the Grade 1 Spinaway at Saratoga Race Course last summer, returned to form on Saturday at Belmont Park to take the Grade 1, $750,000 TVG Acorn by a half-length.
Trained by Leah Gyarmati for Treadway Racing Stable, Sweet Reason showed great promise in her 2-year-old season. In addition to her Spinaway victory, the Street Sense filly finished second in the Grade 1 Frizette at Belmont Park after a troubled beginning, and fourth in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
The Gyarmati trainee kicked off 2014 by taking an optional claimer at Aqueduct Racetrack with a modest 72 Beyer Speed Figure, and returned to finish a disappointing third in the Grade 2 Gazelle at Aqueduct.
"After the Gazelle, I didn't like how she was looking," said Gyarmati. "I pulled some blood on her. There were little things off, nothing major, probably just wear and tear from the winter. She probably took it harder than I thought she did going into the race. We just did a lot of work on that, lots of vitamins. There wasn't anything major."
On Saturday, Sweet Reason settled near the back of the pack in the opening stages of the race, as Fiftyshadesofgold led the field through an opening quarter-mile in 22.86 seconds and a half in 45.88.
After six furlongs in 1:10.32, jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. began looking for running room as the field entered the stretch, waiting patiently for a path to reveal itself. With a furlong and a half remaining, a lane finally presented itself, and the bay filly charged up to the leaders and wore down a determined Sweet Whiskey.
"I got a perfect trip," said Ortiz. "Everything turned out perfectly. She broke, I sat, I waited, waited, waited and turned the corner and saved all the ground I could. Then, I got clear and she took off."
Sweet Reason completed the mile in 1:34.98 and returned $20.80 on a $2 win bet.
Sweet Whiskey - trained by Todd Pletcher - held well to finish second after making the first run at the pacesetter. The daughter of Old Fashioned had previously finished first in the Grade 3 Old Hat at Gulfstream Park and second in the Grade 2 Beaumont on Keeneland.
"When I rode her at Keeneland, I said I'm going to do the same thing today - take her back, put her behind horses and hope she takes the dirt," said Hall of Famer John Velazquez, jockey aboard Sweet Whiskey. "She was perfect. Perfect trip and we got outrun right before the wire."
It was another four lengths back to Unbridled Forever in third, who also was third in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks.
Fiftyshadesofgold, Tiz So Sweet, and House Rules rounded out the next three slots, while odds-on favorite My Miss Sophia, also trained by Pletcher, finished seventh.
Artemis Agrotera, Fashion Plate, Risque Reality, Lady Paradime, Vero Amore and Euphrosyne completed the order of finish.
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NASA's discovery of three new planets -- circling comfortably between fire and ice -- bring us closer to that most far-fetched of dreams: We may not be alone.
These newcomers to the growing planetary list are the most Earth-like in their location and size yet, buoying hopes that they might have atmospheres hospitable to life.
"The discovery represents a historic moment in science," said UC-Berkeley's Geoff Marcy, a member of the Kepler telescope team at NASA Ames Research Center, near Mountain View, that made the finding. "How long before we find Earth 2.0?"
They're too far away to visit, but they can be detected from Kepler's perch in space. Two of the planets orbit the star Kepler 62, slightly cooler than our sun and 1,200 light years distant in the constellation Lyra. The third orbits the sunlike star Kepler 69, in the constellation Cygnus 2,700 light years from earth.
The next step is to explore their atmospheres, looking for key elements.
"If they have CO2 or water, they can have life," said William Borucki, the principal investigator on the Kepler Mission. "If they have oxygen, maybe higher life."
Planet discoveries used to be special, but now they're as common as a cheap hotel. If each star has an average of five planets, and our galaxy holds 200 billion stars, perhaps a trillion planets are out there, awaiting discovery. So far, we've found 2,700.
Most live in the wrong neighborhoods -- either too close or too far from their suns to hold life. If they're too near, they get blowtorched. If they're too distant, they're frigid. A few don't seem to circle at all, but have wacky orbits that eventually fling them from their star systems, as if from a slingshot.
The most unlucky planets don't have a home sun, but slide among the stars untethered by gravity.
The few "habitable zone" planets have been vast and gas enveloped, almost the size of Neptune or Jupiter. The previous record-holder in the habitable zone was Kepler-22b, nearly two and half times larger than Earth, Marcy said.
"That exoplanet is so large that it certainly is enshrouded in a large envelope of hydrogen gas and perhaps water," he said.
These new discoveries are special because they are prime real estate -- and they have enough gravity to keep their protective atmospheres, scientists said.
The new planets are:
The discovery of the Kepler 62 planets was reported in Thursday's online issue of the journal Science. The Kepler 69 planet was announced in The Astrophysical Journal.
To learn more about planets closer to home, NASA will use its newly completed "Automated Planet Finder" telescope at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton. It will seek out Earth-like planets around the nearest stars, within 20 light years of us. Scientists hope to begin using it this summer.
"These habitable zone planets indicate that worlds with lakes and oceans number in the billions within our home Milky Way Galaxy," said Marcy. "Such planets can certainly spawn biology as we know it."
"The next great scientific question is even more daunting: How often does simple, single-cell life spring up on these habitable worlds?" he asked. "How common are intelligent critters who look up at their night sky asking the same questions about their uniqueness in the universe?"
Contact Lisa M. Krieger at 650-492-4098.
EXOPLANET Tally
NASA's "Exoplanet Archive" lists extrasolar planets and their host stars. The latest tally:
-- 30 solar systems with multiple planets
-- 2,712 planets (candidates and confirmed)
For more information about the Archive: http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html
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Capital Journal Daybreak: U.S. Tried to Rescue James Foley | Holder Vows Thorough Probe of Ferguson Shooting | In Ads, Wall Street Gets Reprieve as Political Villain
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U.S. TRIED TO RESCUE JAMES FOLEY: U.S. Special Operations forces mounted an unsuccessful mission inside Syria earlier this summer to try to rescue several Americans held by Islamic extremists, including James Foley, the journalist who was murdered this week. President Barack Obama ordered the secret operation, the first of its kind by the U.S. inside Syrian territory since the start of the civil war, after the U.S. received intelligence the Americans were being held by the extremist group known as Islamic State at a specific facility in a sparsely populated area inside Syria.
The officials declined to say exactly where and when the operation took place. But its disclosure was just the latest of several signs of a toughening American posture toward the extremist forces of Islamic State, a group Mr. Obama yesterday called a "cancer" on the Middle East. Several dozen Special Operations forces took part in the helicopter-borne operation as drones and fighter aircraft circled overhead, but they didn't find any of the Americans in the facility and pulled out of the area. Dion Nissenbaum and Adam Entous report. Meanwhile, British and American intelligence agencies are working to identify the man who executed Mr. Foley. The possibility of involvement by a British national in Mr. Foley's death underscores what for many U.K. officials has become their top national security threat: that some of the estimated 400 British Muslims suspected of fighting with jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq could come home radicalized.
-Rebecca Ballhaus
Far fewer political ads mention the financial industry this year, a big switch from 2012 when Wall Street was a main political villain. By mid-August, roughly 15,000 ads aired that referred to Wall Street or the financial-services industry, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group at Kantar Media, a sliver of the 2012 tally. Read Patrick O'Connor's full post in Washington Wire.
HOLDER VOWS THOROUGH PROBE OF FERGUSON SHOOTING: Attorney General Eric Holder tried to reassure Ferguson residents that the U.S. Justice Department is thoroughly probing the police shooting of Michael Brown, saying he has assigned the government's "very experienced" agents and prosecutors to investigate. He also added a personal touch as he crisscrossed the suburb Wednesday, saying he understood residents' concerns because of his own experiences as a black man. Mr. Holder's visit coincided with the first day a local grand jury began to review the shooting. Devlin Barrett reports. After more than a week of clashes between protesters and police, Wednesday night was calm and mostly quiet, officials said. Here's a look at who has been drawn to the protests in Ferguson.
HILLARY EMBRACES MIDWESTERN ROOTS: When Hillary Clinton lived in the White House, her home state was Arkansas. Then she was a senator from New York. As secretary of state, she traveled the world and lived in Washington. But now, as she mulls a 2016 presidential bid, Mrs. Clinton is emphasizing her Midwestern roots—a region critical to electoral success and a calling card for any politician trying to craft a no-nonsense image. Elizabeth Williamson reports.
AD BARRAGE TO ESCALATE IN ALASKA SENATE RACE: The pace of political ads that have flooded Alaska''s airwaves is set to intensify after a candidate backed by Republican leaders, Dan Sullivan, won the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic Sen. Mark Begich. The state has already seen more than 31,000 political ads—less than half of which have been funded by the political parties and candidates. And Mr. Sullivan's win on Tuesday is fueling GOP hopes of claiming the seat in its effort to win a Senate majority. Reid J. Epstein reports.
ALSO IN THE NEWS: Israel killed three top commanders of Hamas's military wing in an airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip, officials from Hamas and Israel said … Iraqi officials say U.S. airstrikes have driven some ground commanders of the Sunni radical group Islamic State from northern Iraq across the border into Syria … Federal Reserve officials debated at their July policy meeting whether they might need to raise interest rates sooner than expected in light of a strengthening recovery … The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the start of same-sex marriages in Virginia … Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell testified that his wife was showing the strain of becoming first lady within hours of his election …Sen. Mark Pryor Wednesday launched a new campaign ad that spotlights his support for the 2010 health-care law.
–Compiled by Rebecca Ballhaus
President Barack Obama delivered a somber address Wednesday in response to the gruesome killing of American journalist James Foley by Islamic State militants in Syria. Washington Bureau Chief Jerry Seib explains the three tough challenges for Mr. Obama going forward in targeting and eliminating the group's threat.
–ECONOMIC INDICATORS: Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims, 8:30 a.m. The National Association of Realtors releases existing home sales for July at 10 a.m. The Conference Board releases leading indicators for July at 10 a.m.
Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker, who knew executed American journalist James Foley, writes this of the fact that Foley's executioner appears to be a British man who joined the radical group ISIS: "Freed and encouraged to kill and to horrify, it seems, many people will do so, even people raised in Western democracies."
There's now at least one vulnerable Democratic senator up for re-election who is portraying his vote for Obamacare as a positive: Greg Sargent of the Washington Post's Plum Line reports that Arkansas Sen. David Pryor has just released a TV ad in which he praises the law for preventing people from losing coverage because of illness or a pre-existing medical condition.
Brian Sikma of Mediatrackers reports that one of the members of the grand jury that voted to indict Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry for using his veto power to try to force the resignation of the woman running a state public integrity investigative unit "was an active delegate to the Texas Democratic Party convention during grand jury proceedings."
A Dallas Morning News editorial argues that even those who think the charges against Perry are flimsy ought to want them heard and decided upon by a Texas jury—but that the state's Public Integrity Unit then should be moved out of the Travis County District Attorney's office to "a more logical place, like the Texas attorney general's office."
In the WSJ's Think Tank, Robin Wright explores the damage the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., is doing to America's reputation abroad. Most embarrassingly, she writes, "dictators, autocrats and theocrats around the world are lambasting the U.S. for its handling of racial unrest in Missouri."
Bank of America is set to pay a record settlement of nearly $17 billion over its mortgage lending. This latest bank settlement with the Justice Department follows a $13 billion settlement with J.P. Morgan Chase last year and a $7 billion settlement with Citigroup in July.
@DanielPearlFNDN: "Our hearts go out to the family of journalist James Foley. We know the horror they are going through." -Ruth Pearl #JamesFoley #DanielPearl
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A massive brush fire threatened businesses and homes in Aiken County on April 24. It happened around 4:00 p.m. on the Aiken Bypass.
News 12's Diane Cho followed the story all day.
The windy conditions in a thick wooded area gave firefighters some problems battling the blaze.
They needed a bulldozer just to cut their way into the forest.
Firefighters say this was "no ordinary wildfire."
Acres of land were still smoldering more than an hour after the wildfire was contained.
Heavy smoke forced officials to block off the roads on the Aiken Bypass, Highway 118.
And it all started in one backyard.
"They burned their trash earlier today and left the fire unattended, and it spread quickly from their backyard into the neighboring woods," says Sgt. David Turno of Aiken Public Safety.
Whipped by the wind, the fire soon threatened nearby homes and businesses.
Fehren Bach was concerned about her husband's business, just 20 feet away from the nearest flames.
"Employees called me at home and told me they were told to evacuate," she says. "They were in a hurry to get out; they said they looked out and flames coming around trees."
Bach was terrified their family business would go up in flames.
"He's out of town on business and he's going to call me in a few minutes, and I don't want to alarm him so I thought I'd come and check it out."
Dennis Jackson didn't pay much attention to it because he thought it was a neighbor burning trash.
"I didn't think it was that bad until the smoke started swirling," he says.
It took more than 40 firefighters along with bulldozers from the South Carolina State Forestry to finally put it out.
All the teamwork convinced Dennis they'd get the job done.
"I thought about California, 'I hope it stays over there...'" he says. "Then I said, 'Nah...they'll put it out'."
Indeed they did...and fairly quickly.
The fire was extinguished within an hour.
No one was injured and they knocked down the fire before it affected any buildings
However, officials want to remind you that it is illegal to burn household garbage in the state of South Carolina.
They say that's what caused the blaze.


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JEFFERSONVILLE, NY – Local radio station WJFF 90.5 will be airing a special holiday program of highlights from area schools holiday concerts on Sunday, Dec. 22 from 2-4 p.m. and again Sunday, Dec. 29 at the same time.
The program will also be available live by webstream or for later download online at www.wjffradio.org.
The holiday concert programs will feature selections from upcoming holiday concerts by the choirs and bands of schools across WJFF's listening area, as well as interviews with some of the students and staff involved, and a few other special treats.
"As a community radio station, WJFF is excited to be able to continue its unique tradition of providing programming to our neighbors, created by our neighbors," says Adam Weinreich, WJFF's Interim Station Manager.
Most area schools have already signed up, but any additional schools interested in being featured should have the head of their music department contact Patrick at (845) 482-4141 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Recordings need to be submitted in MP3 or CD format no later than Wednesday, December 18th for inclusion in this special broadcast.
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"Unadulterated fun. Pratchett parodies everything in sight." -- San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author
Terry Pratchett is one of the world's most popular authors. His acclaimed novels are bestsellers in the United States and the United Kingdom, and have sold more than 85 million copies worldwide. In January 2009, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Pratchett a Knight Bachelor in recognition of his services to literature. Sir Terry lives in England.


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Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore (Elixir of Love), acclaimed as one of the greatest comic gems in opera, opens the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD broadcasts for the 2012-2013 season Saturday at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge.
The story depicts an off-balance love triangle featuring the lead character, Adina, a resourceful but headstrong farm owner. Equal to her social status is the dashing, cocky Sergeant Belcore, who immediately captures her love. In the background, a poor, lovesick villager, Nemorino, pines for Adina but considers himself a nobody.
The setting is rural Italy in the early 19th century. The opening act takes place in a field of waving yellow wheat and flowing water, where the learned Adina takes her place beneath a symbolic tree to read to the villagers, reciting the legend of how Tristan won the heart of Isolde by drinking a magic love potion.
Soon thereafter, the quack Dr. Dulcamara enters the scene, pushing a cart with bottles of "elixir" - a brew he claims to be love potion. He sells a bottle to Nemorino, who envisions it as the way to capture Adina's love.
The part of Adina is sung by the charismatic soprano, Anna Netrebko, whose singing Anthony Tommasini describes as "feisty and earthy one moment, but poignant and shimmering the next, with gusty confidence in her acting and vocals."
The part of Nemorino is sung by American tenor Matthew Polenzani, whose vocal and acting performance Mike Silverman of the Associated Press calls "the triumph of the evening." Rounding out the cast, baritone Mariusz Kwiecien performs Belcore, who sings with "hearty sound and seductive lyricism" according to Tommasini. The Italian baritone, Ambrogio Maestri, sings Dulcamara, who Tommasini describes as a "portly, rumpled giant of a man, with a voice that is big, beefy and sung with sly phrasing and droll comic timing."
The love story, fickle as it may be, is offset by Donizetti's engrossing music, with its lilting choruses and captive arias, the most famous of which is Nemorino's well known "Una Furtiva Lagrima," sung in the second act. Energetic orchestral vibrancy is provided throughout.
"What I love about Elisir is that you have the best of the glorious Italian comic tradition, but with characters of great depth," said stage director Bartlett Sher. "It is filled with enormous inventiveness and beauty, while the sense of proportion is exactly right. It's a masterpiece."
Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore will be rebroadcast from the Metropolitan Opera at 10:55 a.m. in the Finkel Auditorium at CMC Breckenridge, 107 Denison Placer Rd.


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JENKINS, Ky. (WYMT) - Jenkins freshman guard Whitney Creech is having another outstanding season.
"It's just crazy that God has blessed me like he has."
You wouldn't know it by talking with her, but Jenkins freshman Whitney Creech is putting together quite the season.
"It's got to be her character, just the way she plays, her body movement, everything is flowing with the game perfectly," says Lady Cavalier coach Ashley Addington. "I mean, even when she gets excited or when she gets frustrated, you can't even tell it. She's just got a face of steel."
Creech's accomplishments this year are pretty impressive. She's recorded four double-doubles, she became the youngest Lady Cavalier to join the 1,500-point club, she's scored at least 30 points in a game 10 times, and she set the Jenkins single game scoring record by pouring in 52 against Hazard back on January 26th.
"But the past three, four games, she's just turned it on. I think she's got a lot more confident that she can take the ball in on anybody. I don't know what triggered it, but I'm glad she's picking it up at the end of the season right before districts."
"It's just great," says Creech. "I mean, I've worked hard all season to be able to do this and I couldn't do it without my coaches and my teammates."
And that's one thing that separates Creech from a lot of players; her team-first mentality and unselfishness.
"They all love each other. This year especially, they're playing as a team. They're just like sisters. It's just like their sister's doing a great job out there," says Addington. "They'll back her up, and she'll do the same for them."
At such a young age, Creech is establishing herself as one of the top players around, shooting 48% from the floor and leading the state with a 31.4 points per game average. But Creech says you can't worry about the numbers.
Says Creech, "The hardest is going in thinking you're going to score 30 (points) every night. You can't do that. You just gotta go play and not worry about the stats."
As the year winds down, Creech is looking to help lead the Lady Cavaliers in the post-season and continue their season at least a few more weeks.


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LOS ANGELES — The Immanuel Christian girls basketball team turned the ball over a season-high 29 times against CIF-SS Division VI powerhouse Los Angeles Adventist (9-3) Wednesday in a 39-25 loss, which ended a two-game win streak for the Crusaders (3-3).
"The Eagles magnified a glaring weakness of our team in creating turnovers," Crusader Coach Bob Smith said. "We have got to do a better job with the ball in our hands, and secure the ball prior to doing something else with it."
The Eagles are ranked No. 2 in the division, and could very well be a CIF playoff opponent for the Crusaders in February.
"I told our team we need to come into this game and swim with a team like this, rather than sink," Smith said. "Our non-league schedule has us facing several highly-ranked teams, including No. 3 Cal Lutheran and Lone Pine. Our goal is to come out with a win, of course, and if not, at least play well and fix the little things we find.
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The Crusaders faced a tenacious defense that forced outside-in-action, which led to the team's 26 percent shooting from the field, which is nearly half of what the team has accomplished during its short two-game win streak.
"We were able to handle the Eagle press pretty well, and we clearly out rebounded that team, but our protection let us down for the most part," Smith said.
The Crusaders had balanced scoring for the game with Jennifer Mondragon (8 pts), Morgan Lieser (7 pts) and Elicia Hazlewood (7 pts) leading the way. Tara Henderson had 14 rebounds to add to her three points, which tied for game high with Mondragon who had nine more offensive rebounds.
The Lady Crusaders play three games next week before the Christmas break, with a road game at Lucerne Valley Monday, and home games Tuesday and Friday with Lucerne Valley and Mammoth, respectively. All home games are played at the Kerr McGee Center and begin at 5 p.m.
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With her smoldering good looks and statuesque frame, you'd never guess that Alicia Jay was the target of bullying. But, growing up in Portland, the kids used to call this aspiring model a Jolly Green Giant and Big Foot.
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When Sen. Amy Klobuchar was appointed to the Senate conference committee that would work with members of the U.S. House on a federal farm bill, she had no idea she would have to wait this long to get the leaders to the table.
After a one-year extension was approved by Congress earlier this year, the fact the farm bill is still up in the air has become a source of frustration for those who are involved in the ag industry.
Klobuchar heard some of those frustrations earlier this week when she made a tour of southern Minnesota talking with producers and ag business leaders.
Among the stops was a visit to the Berg farm near Clements where she met with the Berg family, including Richard and Fred Berg who farm in the area.
"I wanted to get out and talk with people about the farm bill," said Klobuchar, adding she knows they are interested in the final outcome and the impact it would have on them.
After what Klobuchar called the chaos going on in Washington, D.C. in recent weeks surrounding the government shutdown, there is an increased level of interest in getting something accomplished. That something, she believes is the farm bill.
The committee is scheduled to meet next week.
One popular proposal of the federal farm bill proposal approved in the Senate is that it includes $24 billion in debt reduction, which Klobuchar said is appealing for those in Congress.
One of the most significant cuts being proposed is in the SNAP program (food stamps), with the senate proposing a $4 billion reduction. The challenge, however, Klobuchar told the group who had gathered at the Berg farm, is the House proposal includes nearly $40 billion in cuts to SNAP. The House bill, which was approved more recently, also splits the food stamp program from the rest of the farm bill, which Klobuchar said has gained little interest elsewhere.
"None of the farm groups support this," she said.
The food stamp program was added years ago as a political move to help the more rural areas of the country who wanted the provisions of the farm bill that aided their efforts. Adding food stamps to the provision made the bill more attractive to urban leaders.
While the one-year extension ended in September, the real cuts would begin taking place in January, and one of the major messages Klobuchar and other Congressional leaders are sharing is if a compromise is not reached by the end of the year the farm bill would default to 1949 levels. Those levels would dramatically increase food costs nationwide.
Klobuchar said the tragedy in South Dakota, when livestock producers saw thousands of cattle killed in a snowstorm, could have been addressed if there was a farm bill in place. However, due to the fact no agreement has been made nothing can be done to help them now.
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"The duct tape...slam it and then the duct tape...," said Dawn Barnum, a homeowner receving assistance from the Tuesday Toolmem.
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"In this particular case we're basically redoing the entire bathroom. We're adding some support in the basement. We're hiring contractors, and we're also doing our typical Tuesday Toolmen stuff at this home," said Lance Queen, Coordinator for Tuesday Toolmen Program
A group of retirees from salesmen to engineers have been repairing the homes of Lansing seniors for years, but now they can take on bigger projects like the Barnum home thanks to an $80,000 grant from the AARP.
"There was no way possible that we were going to be able to get even half this stuff done.... I mean the fawcett even getting that fixed," said Barnum.
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"What these guys are doing.... it's just unbelievable. I'm going to start crying again. It means a lot," said Barnum.
The Tuesday Toolmen also do repairs at the homes of people with disabilities. If you would like to apply for assistance you can call 517-372-5980 to request an application. If you would like to volunteer you can call that same number and apply to be a member of the Tuesday Toolmen. The Greater Lansing Housing Coalition also accepts donations to the program. You can donate by contacting the organization at that number. The Tuesday Toolmen have made repairs to over 150 homes since the program began. They hope to do even more now that they have this grant.


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Facebook is seeking European Union antitrust approval for its plan to buy WhatsApp, according to a person familiar with the company's plans.
Facebook requested the European Commission scrutinize the antitrust aspects of the $19 billion deal, said the person who asked not to be identified because the process isn't public. If a company faces a merger review in three EU countries, it can ask the Brussels-based commission to handle the case.
"Depending on where Facebook would have had to file, it may feel safer with dealing with the sophisticated, unbiased" commission merger people, Matthew Hall, a lawyer at McGuire Woods in Brussels, who isn't involved with the case, said in an e-mail.
The cash-and-stock acquisition would be the biggest by Facebook, the world's largest social network, and the most expensive for an Internet company in more than a decade. In addition to antitrust issues, the merger has sparked concerns about privacy as data-protection regulators question how the mobile-messaging startup's client data will be used.
The European Commission declined to comment on whether the deal has been notified to the regulator for approval. Menlo Park, California-based Facebook, also declined to comment.
"Imagine you have to notify in Germany, in France and in Italy," said Jose Rivas, a lawyer at Bird & Bird in Brussels. "In each country you have to do it in a different language, different procedure, different deadlines and no guarantee of non-contradictory decisions. Because imagine the Germans say 'yes,' the French say 'no' and the Italians say 'yes.'"
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The Black Keys are nominated for five awards at Sunday's 55th annual Grammy Awards—"Album of the Year," "Record of the Year," "Best Rock Performance," "Best Rock Song" and "Best Rock Album." These honors conclude a highly successful year for the duo, whose critically acclaimed Nonesuch album, "El Camino," was recently certified RIAA Platinum. In 2010, the duo won three Grammy Awards for their breakout album, "Brothers."
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Greens Farms 61, Chase Collegiate 47: Matt Tate netted 15 points to lead host Greens Farms (1-0).
Blake Hardy led all scorers with 18 for the Highlanders (0-1), while Matt McClain scored 12. Charles McClain also had 10 points.
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This year's Python Convention [1], being held this weekend in Dallas Texas, started off with an inspiring presentation by an engineer from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project [2] (Ivan Krstić) , showing off the hardware features of the new "OLPC XO 1" prototype, as well as some "dangerous ideas" about its software design: a large part of the user space code for the laptops will be implemented in Python, mainly because of the ease of manipulating the source code. The OLPC laptop software will be 100% free software, not just in principle, but in spirit as well—the assumption of open source design is literally built into the hardware.
It's all free software
It's not at all surprising that the OLPC laptop's operating system will be based on Linux, of course—people do that with just about any new embedded device these days. But the motivation for OLPC goes much deeper than that. Citing the importance of open source as an educational value, Krstić suggested that a programming language "where the program was the source" was what was called for, and the selected language is Python. It makes it particularly easy to make source both available and easy to modify and use, since it is an interpreted environment. This greatly reduces the burden of including the source on each unit (where storage space is limited).
In his "Dangerous Ideas" presentation, Krstić lamented the "great lie of open source": namely that it is enough simply to make the source code available for a piece of software (leaving the problem of setting up a development and build environment and learning how to use it as "an exercise for the user"). He also noted that the average user of this laptop is expected to be a 6-year-old gradeschooler. Thus, the laptop goes several steps further:
- By using Python, which eliminates the problem of compiling and linking
- By writing almost all userspace code for the laptop (including the GUI and the filesystem) in Python
- By actually building a "View Source" special function key on the keyboard, as support for the "Develop" activity (one of several activity-based interface elements on the laptop)
Having made the decision to use Python, the OLPC group has decided to run all the way with the idea. Much of the underlying userspace code for the platform will be developed as a Python project, including the graphical user interface, called "Sugar". Perhaps the most remarkable innovation will be the "filesystem" which will be implemented as a version-controled "object store" called "Yellow" (this is reminiscent of Zope's "object file system" or of a Subversion "repository"). This provides a number of spinoff features, including built in "undo" journeling/versioning, which is unheard of in ordinary Linux filesystems, as well as unique capabilities such as advanced local searching abilities. The underlying true filesystem, "JFFS2" also provides built-in wear-levelling capability, since it will be physically based on Flash memory modules.
The hardware innovations in the laptop are remarkable in their own right, though this has been more widely reported (so I won't take up too much time repeating). Among the more impressive are:
- The dual-mode 7.5″ LCD which will function as either a backlit color display at 692×520 or as a direct sunlight visible reflective monochromatic display at 1200×900 pixels
- The LiFePO4 batteries which are lower toxicity, cooler operating, and much lighter than prior laptop LiMH batteries
- The completely autoconfiguring 802.11s ESS mesh networking system, along with the "rabbit ear" antennas that have been reported to work over a range of up to 2km
- The extremely low power design that runs off of about 4-5 Watts (peak) of electricity, along with a power supply that can be hooked up to just about anything that produces electricity (including some hand-powered devices—the integral hand crank from earlier models was eliminated because it wasn't considered durable enough, a pull cord device is being considered to fill the same role)
View Source!
While Bulletin-boards provide a layer of abstraction on top of any given activity, the View Source button allows one to look behind the activity, peeling away layers of abstraction in order to reveal the underlying codebase which makes it tick. This feature will integrate cleanly with the Develop activity, encouraging children to view, modify, and redistribute variations on the activities they use. Through collaboration and sharing, a garden of home grown activities will begin to develop on the laptops, created by the children themselves..
—— OLPC Wiki
Another feature of dynamic languages that Krstić favored was the simplicity of creating plugin architectures and the resulting reduction of bloat. He described an amazing example of a CD-ROM burning package, which grew from 28 MB in 2004 to 398 MB in 2007. Addressing some of the reasons for this kind of excess, he notes that users often want just one new feature, but are forced into a total upgrade in order to get it, resulting in them acquiring much more code that they don't really want. By focusing on a small core design with plugins to provide extra deatures, though, he believes the overgrowth of packages can be greatly reduced. These are, of course, vital issues for the OLPC machine, since it has limited storage space.
The user interface guidelines for the XO may represent the greatest examination of the user experience since the first Macintosh computers were made by Apple, and the Sugar project is sure to produce wide-ranging spinoff improvements in GNU/Linux interface design in general, as well as specific improvements aimed at younger users.
These are ambitious improvements, and the schedule for producing the first OLPC laptops (10 Million expected to be delivered later this year) is fairly tight, so there is a need for free software programmers familiar with Python to help participate in developing and improving the code. The public releases of Yellow is not up to date yet, but Krstić reports that it will be available sometime during the next couple of weeks. The "Sugar" UI is basically ready now, and can be downloaded from the project's development site.
Although I personally find the OLPC laptop idea immediately compelling, Krstić did spend some time explaining the motivation behind the project, citing his own experiences from growing up in Croatia, and seeing the huge difference between good and poor education among his former schoolmates. He also pointed out some interesting figures about the sheer scale of the problem, noting, for example that the "top 25% by IQ in China is larger than the total population of North America".
He notes that traditional education is dependent on having great teachers, and that for much of the world, there just aren't any. Re-engineering the world's school systems would be a huge project, which he suggests might take 50-100 years at best to implement. Instead, the OLPC project will focus on self-directed learning, by providing a tool to enhance children's own natural impulse to learn via exploration. Thus, the OLPC laptop is designed from the ground up to be the most transparent learning device that it can be.
Return on Investment
Krstić himself mentioned only a little bit about the impact of 100 million children being exposed to laptop computers and the internet, let alone a view source key inviting them to learn one of the most powerful free software oriented programming languages in one of the most powerful free software operating systems. He suggested that
comp.lang.python "might get a bit crowded". (In fact, only about 10 million will be deployed this year (2007), with an expected 50 million in 2008 and more to come after that).
However, I want to challenge your imagination a bit further, with a few numbers to contemplate. Recently, I've been making a study of the size, value, and effort involved in creating Debian GNU/Linux. I plan to publish a bit of that research here in my blog later this month, but to be brief, Debian Sarge consists of about 215 Million Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC), which, if evaluated for replacement cost as a proprietary software product, using the COCOMO cost model is worth about US$10 Billion (this is a kind of lower limit, since it represents the cost of development)[3]. It's difficult to estimate the true number of participants in creating Debian, but my back-of-the-envelope estimate suggests that the number of people responsible for creating that code is about 20,000 (including the 1500 official Debian maintainers, 8000 developers for each of the 8000+ source code packages, and some guestimates of the number of developers working on big projects like Linux, Mozilla, and OpenOffice.org).
Now let's suppose that out of every 1000 children who get an OLPC laptop in the next few years, just 1 really gets into the "View Source" key and begins, after a few years, to participate in the development of free software. That would be an influx of 100,000 new developers. Approximately five times the entire development force that made Debian. Presumeably, as they mature, they will become as productive (the "first world" having no monopoly on intelligence or skill). They would reasonably be expected to produce about US$ 50 billion worth of free software. That's nothing to sneeze at, even here in the United States, but remember that this is software of, by, and for the people in countries which are currently much poorer. This is, for comparison, about 25% of the entire Gross Domestic Product of Nigeria![4]
And that's based on a participation rate of just 0.1%. Imagine what would happen if the participation rate were to tick up to just 1%! Imagine what would would happen to online content if just 1% contributed, say, one photo a month to Flickr, using the VGA-resolution camera (also standard on the OLPC XO 1)—that's 12 million photos a year. What about contributions to Wikipedia, especially in improving their native language editions? With that kind of power, it might not be unreasonable to assume that, a few years down the road, the next generation global teaching tool will be designed and built by those kids. That wouldn't be a bad return on investment.
Yes, these are "dangerous ideas" indeed.
[2] One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project
[3] This is from a study by Libre Software Engineering
[4] This is a value-to-value comparison, based on the value of all products created in Nigeria at US prices. The cash value of Nigeria's GDP is even lower. Data from CIA World Fact Book, 2006.
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Build environments
It's really inaccurate to say that free software/open source hasn't considered build environments. Why do you think the free software developers created make, automake, autoconf, ant, etc.? These are all tools for just the problem you described. The GPL even requires source for modified verisons include "the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable."
RE: Build environments
The tools you mention are too complex to learn, although you can start with just a ./configure && make && make install
And add to that the complexity of tools needed to build distro specific packages.
Getting into developing free software on GNU/Linux is not very user friendly unless you use something like Python ;)
Although Java helped with the latest and greatest Java IDEs is a close second ... so I really hope to see Java also running on top of OLPC, especially now since it will be GPLed.
You misunderstood the criticism
Ivan was not criticizing the community for not creating build systems. He was saying that the build systems are hard to use, and that distribution leaves that problem up to the user. Many users simply aren't up to the task (even if they might be up to the programming itself).
The point is, we are talking about a six to ten year old child.
I'm not sure I understand autoconf, I'm certainly not going to have much luck explaining it to my school age kids.
On the other hand, Python (or any interpreted language) makes "modifying and running" quite transparent, even for kids.
Truly Subversive
Indeed, this project has the potential to be truly subversive, IF the children aren't mentally shackled by the likes of Microsoft et al. If they are welcomed into the community and aided and made to feel worthwhile so they don't turn to MS. Of course, there's the potential for them to completely develop their _own_ community, especially with the mesh network, which could be a very interesting occurrence.
OTOH (using your numbers), if a mere 0.01% become script kiddies, that's 10,000 new script kiddies to deal with, though fortunately they won't have the 'benefit' of working with Windows to learn their mad skillz.
> if a mere 0.01% become
> if a mere 0.01% become script kiddies, that's 10,000 new script kiddies to deal with
Actually that's also a good thing.
It will help demonstrate that security by obscurity is nonsense.
Too many companies are not thinking enough about security or are under the impression that Free Software is insecure because the source code is available.
Script kiddies contribute to making the security systems more harder to crack ... its natural evolution that just works.
And it gets harder and harder to become a good cracker ;)
True 'nuff, I hadn't considered that! :-)
Going to happen anyway...
I think we're going to see "10,000 new script kiddies" no matter what happens. In fact, I'd wager the impact of new OLPC users entering those ranks will be negligible.
This also has to do with the way that the numbers work. 10,000 new script kiddies is just a linear increase in internet attacks. An O(N) phenomenon.
But free software value is highly aglomerative or self-amplifying. It probably does at least O(NlogN) or O(N^2) growth (N being the number of developers). My reasoning on that is that, the more free software there is, the more material there is for a new programmer to pick up and work with. That means more free software gets created, and so on (it's a positive feedback loop).
There are limiting factors as well. As individual coding projects get more complex, the system runs into combinatorial explosion problems, resulting in an increased effort to maintain.
Pretty much the entire discipline of computer science (structured programming, object-oriented, functional, aspect-orient, very-high-level languages, etc. etc.) is dedicated to orthogonalizing programming problems to reduce the impact of such combinatorial explosion—by converting large interlocked projects into thousands of tiny quasi-independent projects.
Taking those two factors into account, and basing itself on historical empirical evidence, the COCOMO I model (which was used for the Debian "replacement cost" estimate above) uses a power law, with alpha=1.05 for that (IOW, "O(N^1.05)).
So, increasing growth requires also a constant improvement in software engineering techniques -- constantly organizing and simplifying the organization of code.
From the evidence I've seen, corporate proprietary development entities are hitting a complexity wall at which their abilities cap out. (E.g. evidence suggests that Microsoft is running into a combinatorial wall with Windows Vista so the project is in a runaway to unmaintainability). That is to say, we are reaching the limits of what monolithic corporate capitalism can achieve in software development.
OTOH, free software teams constantly divide as a natural behavior, so they stay in small, highly orthogonal groups, and the resulting combinatorial problems are solved. The evidence suggests that free software production, taken collectively, is NO WHERE NEAR any kind of productivity limit and can be expected to continue near-exponential growth for years to come.
And of course, that codebase is working against the "script kiddies" to produce software quality. You can of course, accept the "tiger team" view of crackers -- they keep us strong because we constantly have to fight them. In which case, the "script kiddies" are actually contributing to the quality of software.
Tthough this is suspiciously close to the "broken window" fallacy in economics. After all, what "script kiddies" primarily do is to make software more proof against script kiddies.
That's kind of like how the main reason you need a lawyer is to protect you from other lawyers (or the main reason you need a military is to protect you from other countries' militaries). In both cases, it might actually be better for society to reduce the total number of crackers/lawyers/militaries. But which actor within the society actually has the power and motivation to initiate such an action?
Great article
A really great article, covering many topics around the OLPC. We have featured it on
I think we're going to see
I think we're going to see "10,000 new script kiddies" no matter what happens. In fact, I'd wager the impact of new OLPC users entering those ranks will be negligible.