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When a man threatened to harm himself at Rockefeller Plaza, security crews and police quickly responded, but not before the man cut his own wrist with a knife.
Matt Lauer addressed the incident on-air, as the anchors had originally planned a segment outdoors.
"A short time ago a man out there tried to harm himself with a knife, he did manage to cut himself, he was controlled by our security team out there," Lauer said on Today. "However he did harm himself in some way, he's now being attended to."
Al Roker also addressed the incident on Twitter, writing, "We had a disturbing incident by our window this am. It is still difficult and some choose to make light of it or use it as a joke. Not funny."
According to the Daily News, the man was ranting about the corruption of the Internal Revenue Service, saying that the agency "ruined his life."
The man was taken into medical care and is expected to survive.
NBC News later issued a statement: "This morning shortly before 8 a.m., a man attempted to harm himself on Rockefeller Plaza outside the Today show studio. He was quickly subdued by security officers on site and taken to an area hospital for treatment. We have strict security protocols in place to protect visitors to the Today show and those procedures were followed and effective. We are very grateful for the actions of our security team and the NYPD that no others visiting the show were harmed in the incident."
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March 2, 1933 – Feb. 18, 2013
Sister Mary Felicia Szymanowski, a Franciscan nun who for 50 years ministered in the field of education, died Monday in the Colette Hilbert Care Community. She was 79.
Born Helen Szymanowski in Lynn, Mass., she became a postulant in the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph on Sept. 1, 1951, and professed her final vows on July 22, 1956. She earned a bachelor's degree in education from Dominican College in Racine, Wis. Sister Mary Felicia also attended Canisius College, where she earned graduate credits.
Over a 50-year career, she ministered at Catholic schools in Holyoke, Mass.; Detroit; Kewanee, Ill.; Danbury, Conn.; and Auburn, N.Y.
Locally, Sister Mary Felicia taught at Mother of Divine Grace Catholic School in Cheektowaga and St. Mary of the Lake Catholic School in Hamburg, where she served as principal from 1973 to 1983.
She also organized the Math Center for a remedial summer math program for elementary school students at the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse in Hamburg.
In 2003, Sister Mary Felicia joined the Franciscan Sisters at their assisted-living community in Hamburg.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the chapel of Immaculate Conception Convent, 5229 South Park Ave., Hamburg.

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Florida A&M University has hired alumnus Bryan F. Smith as its anti-hazing administrator.
Interim university President Larry Robinson said Friday that Smith's job will be ensuring that initiatives adopted after the hazing death of a band member are implemented.
Drum major Robert Champion died in 2011 after he was beaten aboard a bus for the famed Marching 100 band.
Smith will start Feb. 1 and earn $90,000 annually. He said his goal will be to change a hazing culture on the Tallahassee campus.
Smith most recently was executive director and co-founder of Destined for Success Educational Services in Decatur, Ga.
He has a law degree from John Marshall Law School, a master's in public management from Florida A&M and a bachelor's in political science from North Carolina A&T State University.
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Ryan Mitchell of The Tiny Life website has been keeping us posted about his exciting plans for a modified Fencl. In addition for guest writing for Tumbleweed, Ryan has been blogging about simple living, tiny houses, and environmentally responsible lifestyles on his website: we think he's awesome!
The devil is often said to be in the details, and this couldn't be any truer than in a tiny house. Many times I have made the argument over at my blog that tiny houses are more complex and intricate to build than your standard McMansions. This is because in a small house, you have so little space to work with that the small facets seem to jump out at you.
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When it comes to traditional homes, mistakes are easily covered through various tricks of the trade, but they have one major thing in their favor, lots and lots of space. With that space you can easily hide the mistakes. Compare that to a Tiny House, and the tolerances are so small that sometimes being off by 1/8th of an inch means re-doing hours of work.
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It is here in the details that tiny houses have made a name for themselves, because you have to be so intentional about how you use space. Here are 5 tips to help you make sure the details given the reverence they deserve.
1. Make a list of the most important activities your home must be able to handle, form should follow that list
2. Tape out your floor plan to scale and act out a day in it. Be sure to have extra tape because you'll be changing it a lot!
3. Stop looking at other Tiny Houses, make your house for you.
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You want frustration? Pretty easy visual when you see Ryan Miller, mask off, trying to throw punches.
That's what happened with four seconds left in Saturday night's dreary 4-0 loss to the New York Islanders as Isles forward Matt Martin and Sabres defenseman Mike Weber got entangled with Miller in the Buffalo goal crease.
Martin got bumped into Miller and the Buffalo goalie dropped his gloves and grabbed at Martin as Weber and the Islanders forward grappled.
"Martin is usually a pretty honest guy but he grabs Millsy's head in there," Weber said. "We can't have that so I had to get in there."
"We know who's on the ice," Miller said. "I just thought a bump would be that. He didn't have to try to rip my head off."
The Islanders were apparently unhappy when Marcus Foligno bumped into Evgeni Nabakov at the other end six seconds earlier. Sabres assistant coach Kevyn Adams and Isles assistant Brent Thompson were yelling at each other from long-distance on the benches.
"If they want to be physical around our net, we'll do it around their net," Martin said. "It goes both ways."
"I made a play hard to the net, just a hard play," Foligno said. "I knew what I was doing. They just took it to the net too. They thought we did something and they tried to do it back. Webby did a good job there for us. We need emotion. We need to be involved in that."
When Miller and Martin were engaged, Nabakov came down the ice. Eventually he chatted calmly with Miller in the Buffalo crease and there was no battle between the goalies.
"He just said 'hi,' " Miller said. "Pretty sure he didn't want to share that shutout."
Injured winger Ville Leino was on the ice with his teammates for the first time since Jan. 18 in the morning skate and said he still holds out hope he can recover from his sore hip to play at some point this season.
What was far more interesting during Leino's chat with reporters, however, was his feelings on the firing of coach Lindy Ruff.
"It's disappointing. It's not the coach always, or it's not his fault, but a lot of times it's players and everything else, too," Leino said. "At the same time you've got to move forward. What I like about it is we're doing an effort, we're trying to make it better, doing moves to make the team better. It's a signal to the players, too, that we want to win and we're doing everything we can."
Leino said the firing shows the Sabres have to be more demanding of themselves.
"One of the things here I've noticed just being here over a year is we've got to have higher demands, higher priorities on the games and working better, keeping each other accountable here," Leino said. "It's not always a happy family. You've got to have some controversy, some guys pushing each other. It's not all smiles and happy and be nice – because nice guys usually finish last."
The Sabres returned rookie Mikhail Grigorenko to the lineup after he sat the last three games as a healthy scratch. Grigorenko centered Foligno and Patrick Kaleta but only played six minutes in the game totaling 10 shifts.
"It was really difficult," Grigorenko said of his press box stint. "Every hockey player wants to play and for the last week I didn't. I missed the last three games. It was a little bit hard. It's never happened to me in my life."
The firing of Lindy Ruff and hiring of interim coach Ron Rolston marks the first in-season coaching change by the Sabres since John Muckler replaced Rick Dudley on Dec. 11, 1991 with the Sabres 9-15-4.
The team went 22-22-8 under Muckler to finish 31-37-12 but still finished third in the Adams Division, qualifying for the playoffs but losing to Boston in seven games.
The Islanders officially assigned goaltender Rick DiPietro to Bridgeport of the AHL after he cleared waivers Saturday. DiPietro has eight years left on the 15-year, $67.5 million contract owner Charles Wang gave him in 2006 and carries a $3.6 million cap hit.
In three NHL games this season, DiPietro is 0-3-0 with a 4.10 goals-against average and an .855 save percentage.
Defenseman Alexander Sulzer left the game midway through the first period and did not return after being checked into the boards by Islanders forward Colin McDonald. He has an upper-body injury and will be re-evaluated today.
The Islanders entered the NHL in 1972 and with Saturday's win have 1,355 wins and 1,354 regulation losses. They also had 347 ties and 86 overtime losses.
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quote: 1. Which hackers have been sent to "Death Row"?? Provide names.2. The Chinese hackers usually attack the same targets as Anonymous. These so-called hacktivists are not heroes, they're as bad as a hostile foreign organization.3. Ammohunt's alleged psychotic neighbor has nothing to do with this discussion.
quote: So China employs criminals and we put them in jail. As a nation of laws i am not seeing the issue here. If these blackhats had any concern for western civilization they would put on a white hat and contribute to society in a positive way.
quote: This is not the movies! black hats with any skill are in it for personal gain, creating chaos and perhaps the thrill of being bad. Asking them to fight for a concept foreign to them such as the greater good as defined by someone else is laughable at best.
quote: 1. Exactly how many white-collar financial executives were sent to prison with hefty jail terms or Death Row over their misdeeds, which affected thousands of innocent people and cost taxpayers upwards of billions?
quote: When merely unlocking your phone results in a $1-million fine plus many weeks behind bars, why bother?
quote: We even have a president willing to bend us all over with obscure Executive Orders, completely bypassing what little judicial protections and measures that still exist.
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quote: Apparently there are really a lot of non-level headed people out there.Very true..."Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of everyone is stupider than that guy."- George Carlin
quote: I would venture that anyone as smart as you Tony realizes that most people are pretty stupid, but whatever.
quote: You are just here in a non-Apple article posting your usual pro-apple crap so don't be shocked when people reply with differing opinions.
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WAILEA - Maui hotels and resorts are gearing up to host same-sex couples in Hawaii to formalize their relationships starting New Year's Day.
Industry insiders have said they expect that the law legalizing civil unions, which takes effect Jan. 1, will lead to a boost in tourism among same-sex visitors. Hotel executives said they're actively reaching out to the gay and lesbian community with promotions and packages aimed at couples who are eager to make their commitment official.
"We've had 10 ceremonies booked so far," said Chuck Spence, owner of the Maui Sunseeker LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered) Resort in Kihei. "Already we've also seen an immediate boost in bookings, and not just because of civil unions, but because the law also opens up the perception by the gay and lesbian community that Hawaii is truly a welcoming state. We are aloha."
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Chuck Spence, owner of Maui Sunseeker LGBT Resort, stands in front of his boutique hotel along South Kihei Road last week. The business caters to gay and lesbian visitors.
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He said bookings were up by 50 percent over last year.
Maui Hotel & Lodging Association Executive Director Carol Reimann said a majority of island hotels were making preparations for Jan. 1 that include contracting with wedding planners experienced at working with same-sex couples.
"Our hotels try to accommodate all segments of the population, and this is a huge audience," she said.
Those resorts include the Grand Wailea, which is hoping to lure same-sex guests by offering a free iPad to the first 10 couples who sign up for one of its civil unions packages. The packages, which range from "modest to opulent," according to a press release, include civil union or commitment ceremonies in the hotel chapel or on the beach, vow renewals, and ceremonies that incorporate Hawaiian culture, like lei exchanges, conch blowing or a luau.
Managing Director Matt Bailey said courting same-sex couples made sense for the hotel on a variety of levels.
"Maui has a nurturing and welcoming environment, with a small-town feel and open-mindedness to it," he said. "I wish I could say it was all altruistic, but we're not trying to make a political statement."
He said market research has shown that same-sex couples are an attractive market, because they tend to be higher income, are less likely to have children and often travel with friends.
"It's also the right thing to do," Bailey said.
Hawaii's hard-fought civil unions law was bitterly opposed by conservative and Christian groups, who said the measure posed a threat to heterosexual marriage and traditional families.
Deacon Walter Yoshimitzu of the Honolulu Roman Catholic Diocese said marriage should be only between a man and a woman.
"Even with civil unions, we believe it is same-sex marriage by another name," he said.
"I don't have any reaction to civil unions at the hotels because what they are doing is a business proposition," said Yoshimitzu, an organizer of a large multidenominational rally against civil unions on Maui last year. "They see it as a lucrative market, and they are trying to cash in on it."
Spence acknowledged that many will perceive civil unions as an attempt to cash in on gay and lesbian visitors.
"But realistically, this is a minority that has been discriminated against for decades," he said. "The fact that we can be accepted speaks volumes about Hawaii's true nature."
Sure it can be fun and it costs money, but a civil union is really about true love, Spence said.
A recent study by the University of California, Los Angeles found that Iowa's decision to legalize gay marriage in 2009 translated into as much as $12 million more in tourism dollars.
State Sen. Roz Baker, who represents West and South Maui and was a supporter of the civil unions bill, said she hoped the law would attract couples to Hawaii.
"Let's face it, too, nowhere is the weather nicer in January, or are there as many beautiful places to visit year round, than in Hawaii," she said, adding that "the wedding business has always been good to Maui."
But she and West Maui Rep. Angus McKelvey noted that the new civil unions license will be recognized only in Hawaii, so they anticipated it to attract a wave but not a tsunami of same-sex visitors.
"It's not going to be a billion-dollar law," McKelvey said.
More significant than its ability to attract visitors, he said, the law was important for gays and lesbians living in Hawaii, because it would give them the same rights as heterosexual couples.
"We still have a long way to go," said spokesman Don Bentz for Equality Hawaii of Honolulu, a gay rights advocacy group. "If a couple, let's say, comes from Florida (which doesn't have gay marriage or civil unions), they have rights here but lose them after the plane ride."
Bentz said his organization had already been fielding numerous inquiries about the new civil unions law. But he said he doesn't expect a rush on Jan. 1. Most couples are picking special or practical days, such as anniversaries or when family and friends can be there, for their special day.
Frank Miholer and Kevin Rebelo, who own gayhawaiiwedding.com on Maui, have been performing ceremonies for heterosexual and gay couples, recognized or not, for many years. They've said they expect their numbers to go from nearly 40 ceremonies a year to more than 100.
Spence works with Miholer and Rebelo and said he's going to provide group room discounts and gifts like champagne. He said the hotel's first legal ceremony will be for an Oklahoma couple on Jan. 2.
He noted that they're bringing friends - as others certainly will - and that the tourists will spend money at other Maui businesses.
"In regard to tourism, absolutely this will have a great impact. No question," said Spence, whose hotel currently has 25 rooms and now plans to add more.
Applications and information about civil unions are available online at hawaii.gov/health.
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quote: Bradley Manning is one of those guys who exposed things that should have made America wake up and realize why it is hated by so many nations. But it didn't. He was never seen as a hero. He was thrown into the stockade and treated like a criminal.
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Cars kill many more, but they're not banned
The shooting in Sandy Hook was a tragedy. However, blaming guns is like blaming your car for an accident. Let's blame the sick person who pulls the trigger. One sick shooter out of 300 million people is no reason to punish 150 million-plus gun owners who are law-abiding citizens.
About 30,000 people are killed by cars every year, yet there is no talk about restricting car ownership. Most car "accidents" are caused by someone doing something wrong. No difference – guns or cars – they both kill if misused. Maybe we should do a better job of testing drivers and eliminate violent computer games that teach young people how to kill.
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In this third of five articles we prove that whatever whole number we start with for the Happy Number sequence we will always end up with some set of numbers being repeated over and over again.
This article extends the discussions in "Whole number dynamics I". Continuing the proof that, for all starting points, the Happy Number sequence goes into a loop or homes in on a fixed point.
The first of five articles concentrating on whole number dynamics, ideas of general dynamical systems are introduced and seen in concrete cases.
Start with any whole number N, write N as a multiple of 10 plus a remainder R and produce a new whole number N'. Repeat. What happens?
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These proofs are wrong. Can you see why?
Advent Calendar 2011 - a mathematical activity for each day during the run-up to Christmas.
This problem is a sequence of linked mini-challenges leading up to the proof of a difficult final challenge, encouraging you to think mathematically. Starting with one of the mini-challenges, how. . . .
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Make and prove a conjecture about the value of the product of the Fibonacci numbers $F_{n+1}F_{n-1}$.
Fractional calculus is a generalisation of ordinary calculus where you can differentiate n times when n is not a whole number.
In this 7-sandwich: 7 1 3 1 6 4 3 5 7 2 4 6 2 5 there are 7 numbers between the 7s, 6 between the 6s etc. The article shows which values of n can make n-sandwiches and which cannot.
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Prove that, given any three parallel lines, an equilateral triangle
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Take any two numbers between 0 and 1. Prove that the sum of the
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This article invites you to get familiar with a strategic game called "sprouts". The game is simple enough for younger children to understand, and has also provided experienced mathematicians with. . . .
Here the diagram says it all. Can you find the diagram?
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In this article we show that every whole number can be written as a continued fraction of the form k/(1+k/(1+k/...)).
Find all real solutions of the equation (x^2-7x+11)^(x^2-11x+30) = 1.
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Take any whole number q. Calculate q^2 - 1. Factorize
q^2-1 to give two factors a and b (not necessarily q+1 and q-1). Put c = a + b + 2q . Then you will find that ab+1 , bc+1 and ca+1 are all. . . .
Show that for natural numbers x and y if x/y > 1 then x/y>(x+1)/(y+1}>1. Hence prove that the product for i=1 to n of [(2i)/(2i-1)] tends to infinity as n tends to infinity.
Clearly if a, b and c are the lengths of the sides of a triangle and the triangle is equilateral then
a^2 + b^2 + c^2 = ab + bc + ca. Is the converse true, and if so can you prove it? That is if. . . .
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Punk really likes the idea of these big showcase games annually built into the lacrosse schedule. No doubt about it. This year there are 3 of them. And if you count Final Four, you got a 4th. It's cool to go to the big stadium with a decent crowd and see some top notch lax while you're at it.
However, Punk has a bone to pick with these folks that set it up. Seriously, Why on earth would you hold it this early. It's way tooooo cold out to go to watch two lax games. I know the point was to start the season off with a bang and the first couple were to see if it went well and then set up other one's during the season. I get it. But c'mon how about a few more weeks until it warms up a bit.
Punk's crew went to the games last year and we were miserable. It was a combination of windy and cold so we had to spend the 2nd game at the bar. We were all lucky the first year that it was like 50 degrees. The weather is predicted to be in the low 40's for Saturday. That's not fun for anyone. Especially for someone with kids. Luckily Punk doesn't have any. (I think that we're all lucky about that one!!)
So on tap we have JHU vs Princeton in the first game. This will be a nail biter with two boring non-lethal offenses. If it's too cold, you can show up for the second half of this one and catch the excitement at the end. Princeton edges out the Hop for the win.
The second game has MD vs Duke, which could be a better game with more scoring. Punk saw that the Dukies lost to Harvard, are you kidding me! Who knew there was that much turnover in Dukeland? Maryland smokes Duke in this one by at least 5.
We better have some nice weather on Saturday because Punk's a sucker for some lax, already got his tix and would love to see some pretty ladies out there! Club level is the way to go so you can go inside and watch on TV if you're frozen. It's worth the extra coin.


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I've been sharing birth stories this week and still have more to come. For now I'm playing along with this tag from The Livy Updater!
Preggy Facts:
1. Who did you first inform about your pregnancy and how?
With Noah & Carter, I first told Jeff. With Gray I first told Noah & Carter! And with this little girl, I called my midwife!
2. Maximum weight?
Mine? Oh gosh, not sure. But out of the boys? Carter at 9 lbs 12 oz.
3. Cravings?
Noah: breadsticks from Papa Johns, Carter: celery, Gray: salads & almonds, this one: celery, celery, celery!
4. Aversions?
Noah: strawberries, Carter, Gray, & this one: fast food smells
5. Morning Sickness?
Upset tummy with Noah, very sick with Carter, very very sick with Gray, and ended up in the hospital with this one!
D Day Facts:
1. Number of Kids/Deliveries?
three children/three deliveries so far, with one due next month!
2. NSD or CS?
all natural deliveries but only Gray's was truly med-free and au naturel.
3. Girl or Boy?
all boys so far, girl due next month!
4. AOG (age of gestation) on Birth?
About 39 weeks with Noah & Carter, 37 weeks with Gray
5. How long in labor?
Several hours with Noah, a few with Carter, & a couple with Gray
Moms Who Played Along:
Mai | Yen | Arlene | Hailey's Domain | Hailey's Beats and Bits | Can of Thoughts| Designs By Vhiel | Anything & Everything in Between | Vhiel's Corner | Lourdes' Mia | Pinay Mommy Online |Livy Updater|Adventures In Babywearing
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Giant pandas
About giant pandas
This charismatic and universally-loved species – the symbol of our organisation – is one of the rarest and most endangered bears in the world.
It was once spread throughout China, northern Vietnam and northern Burma. But now the giant panda is found in the wild in just six isolated mountain ranges in Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan Provinces in south-central China.
This distinctive black and white creature typically leads a solitary life. Pandas are good swimmers and excellent tree climbers but they spend most of their time feeding – sometimes 14 hours a day eating mainly bamboo, which makes up 99% of their diet.
Three-quarters of all wild pandas now live in nature reserves – but despite this, they're still endangered. Nearly half of all wild pandas were lost between the early 1970s and the late 1990s – mainly owing to habitat destruction and poaching. Habitat loss and fragmentation are still the main threats today.
Find out how you can help protect giant pandas
Why pandas matter
Giant pandas help to keep their habitats healthy by spreading seeds in their droppings all around the forest – which helps vegetation to spread and grow and so helps the forest thrive.
The panda's forest habitat is also important for the livelihoods of local people – who use it for food, income, fuel for cooking and heating, and medicine. Giant pandas live in the same mountains that form the watersheds for the Yangtze and Yellow rivers. These river basins are the economic heart of China – home to over 500 million people!
So by protecting pandas, we're helping protect the wider environment where they live, for both the people and other wildlife that depend on it.
Pandas themselves are also economically and culturally valuable. They are the national symbol of China and generate income to the country through tourism, which in turn can benefit local communities.
Threats to giant pandas
Habitat fragmentation
The main threat to pandas is loss and fragmentation of their habitat. Roads and railways are increasingly cutting through the forest, which isolates panda populations and prevents them from breeding.
Human expansion
Their habitat is also degraded by people collecting medicinal herbs and harvesting bamboo – the pandas' main source of food. These activities have cut through habitats, reducing the panda's ability to move between areas to look for food – and ultimately isolating populations.
Bamboo naturally dies off every 40-120 years, depending on the type. Before people dominated their landscape, pandas could move from areas where die-offs had occurred to areas with healthy bamboo. But as the human population has expanded and fragmented habitat, pandas are no longer able to 'follow' the bamboo, so may get stuck in areas without enough food.
How WWF is helping protect pandas
Working with the Chinese government
In 1980 we became the first international organisation invited to work in China – and we've been working with the Chinese government to help protect giant pandas ever since. This includes helping to designate and set up protected areas to keep more panda habitat intact.
Helping communities sustainably use natural resources
We also work with local communities to help them use their natural resources more sustainably, and encourage alternative livelihoods such as bee-keeping – things that don't negatively impact on the panda's habitat.
Tracking giant pandas
It's been difficult to track giant panda numbers over the years. The latest survey, in 2004, counted around 1,600 pandas – 40% more than in the 1980s – however this increase could be due to better survey methods. The latest giant panda survey – the fourth national survey - is currently under way. The results are due out later this year.
Success story: 62 nature reserves in China
Since we started our work in China in the 1980s, the amount of panda habitat that's protected has increased and threats such as poaching and illegal logging have significantly decreased.
There are now 62 nature reserves covering nearly 60% of the pandas' range and 75% of the wild panda population. Our aim is to expand and connect more forests so that pandas can safely roam further.
How you can help protect pandas
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In addition to the standard queue type where messages are delivered in the same order that they were sent, the Java Broker supports three additional queue types which allows for alternative delivery behaviours. These are priority-queues, sorted-queues-, last-value-queues (LVQs). Additionally, Java Broker supports message grouping.
In the following sections, the semantics of each queue type is described, followed by a description of how instances of these queue can be created via configuration, programmatically or Web Management Console.
The final section discusses the importance of using a low client pre-fetch with these queued.
In a priority queue, messages on the queue are delivered in an order determined by the JMS priority message header within the message. By default Qpid supports the 10 priority levels mandated by JMS, with priority value 0 as the lowest priority and 9 as the highest.
It is possible to reduce the effective number of priorities if desired.
JMS defines the default message priority as 4. Messages sent without a specified priority use this default.
Sorted queues allow the message delivery order to be determined by value of an arbitrary JMS message property. Sort order is alpha-numeric and the property value must have a type java.lang.String.
Messages sent to a sorted queue without the specified JMS message property will be inserted into the 'last' position in the queue.
LVQs (or conflation queues) are special queues that automatically discard any message when a newer message arrives with the same key value. The key is specified by arbitrary JMS message property.
An example of an LVQ might be where a queue represents prices on a stock exchange: when you first consume from the queue you get the latest quote for each stock, and then as new prices come in you are sent only these updates.
Like other queues, LVQs can either be browsed or consumed from. When browsing an individual subscriber does not remove the message from the queue when receiving it. This allows for many subscriptions to browse the same LVQ (i.e. you do not need to create and bind a separate LVQ for each subscriber who wishes to receive the contents of the LVQ).
Messages sent to an LVQ without the specified property will be delivered as normal and will never be "replaced".
To create a priority, sorted or LVQ queue, it can be defined in the virtualhost configuration file, can be created programmtically from a client via AMQP (using an extension to JMS), using JMX, using REST interfaces or created in Web Management Console. These methods are described below.
Once a queue is created you cannot change its type (without deleting it and re-creating). Also note you cannot currently mix the natures of these queue types, for instance, you cannot define a queue which it both an LVQ and a priority-queue.
On clicking on "Add Queue" button on Virtual Host tab the pop-up dialog to create a queue is displayed.
For a Simple queue a Queue Type "Standard" should be selected
For a Priority queue a Queue Type "Priority" and the priority value (10 by default) should be selected.
For a Sorted queue a Queue Type "Sorted" and Sort Message Property should be specified.
For a LVQ queue a Queue Type "LVQ" and LVQ Message Property should be specified.
Additionally, for each type of the queue Flow Control Thresholds and Alert Thresholds can be specified in optional fields.
Also, a Dead Letter Queue can be configured for the Queue by checking "Create DLQ" check box. The maximum number of delivery retries before message is sent to the DLQ can be specified in "Maximum Delivery Retries" field. However, configuring of maximum delivery retries on a queue without DLQ(AlternateExchange) will result in messages being discarded after the limit is reached.
To create a priority, sorted or LVQ queue programmatically from JMX or using a Qpid extension to JMS, pass the appropriate queue-declare arguments.
Table 9.1. Queue-declare arguments understood for priority, sorted and LVQ queues
|Queue type
|Argument name
|Argument name
|Argument Description
|Specifies a priority queue with given number priorities
|Specifies sorted queue with given message property used to sort the entries
|Specifies lvq queue with given message property used to conflate the entries
The following example illustrates the creation of the a LVQ queue from a javax.jms.Session object. Note that this utilises a Qpid specific extension to JMS and involves casting the session object back to its Qpid base-class.
Example 9.1. Creation of an LVQ using the Qpid extension to JMS
Map<String,Object> arguments = new HashMap<String, Object>(); arguments.put("qpid.last_value_queue_key","ISIN"); AMQDestination amqQueue = (AMQDestination) context.lookup("myqueue"); ((AMQSession<?,?>) session).createQueue( AMQShortString.valueOf(amqQueue.getQueueName()), amqQueue.isAutoDelete(), amqQueue.isDurable(), amqQueue.isExclusive(), arguments);
The following example illustrates the creation of the sorted queue from a the JMX interface using the ManagedBroker interface.
Example 9.2. Creation of a sorted queue using JMX
Map<String, Object> environment = new HashMap<String, Object>(); environment.put(JMXConnector.CREDENTIALS, new String[] {"admin","password"}); // Connect to service JMXServiceURL url = new JMXServiceURL("service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:8999/jmxrmi"); JMXConnector jmxConnector = JMXConnectorFactory.connect(url, environment); MBeanServerConnection mbsc = jmxConnector.getMBeanServerConnection(); // Object name for ManagedBroker for virtualhost myvhost ObjectName objectName = new ObjectName("org.apache.qpid:type=VirtualHost.VirtualHostManager,VirtualHost=myvhost"); // Get the ManagedBroker object ManagedBroker managedBroker = JMX.newMBeanProxy(mbsc, objectName, ManagedBroker.class);; // Create the queue passing arguments Map<String,Object> arguments = new HashMap<String, Object>(); arguments.put("qpid.queue_sort_key","myheader"); managedBroker.createNewQueue("myqueue", null, true, arguments);
How to declare queues in the Virtual Host configuration file is described in Section 14.9, "Configuring Queues".
Queues can be bound to the broker exchanges in the virtualhost configuration file or programmtically from a client using AMQP bind API (using an extension to JMS), using JMX API, using REST interfaces or Web Management Console.
A queue can be bound to different exchanges at the same time. Also, a queue can be bound to the same exchange multiple times. Differenent binding keys can be used to bind a queue to the same topic or direct exchanges.
Binding attributes can be specified on binding creation to allow filtering of messages accepted by the queue using a selector expression or/and specifying whether messages published by its own connection should be delivered to it.
A queue can be bound to an exchange by clicking on "Add Binding" button on a Queue tab or an Exchange tab.
The following example illustrates the creation of queue binding to topic exchange with JMS client.
Example 9.3. Binding a queue using JMS
ConnectionFactory connectionFactory = ... Connection connection = connectionFactory.createConnection(); AMQSession<?, ?> session = (AMQSession<?,?>)connection.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE); ... AMQShortString queueName = new AMQShortString("testQueue"); AMQShortString routingKey = new AMQShortString("testRoutingKey"); AMQDestination destination = (AMQDestination) session.createQueue(queueName.asString()); ... // binding arguments Map<String, Object> arguments = new HashMap<String, Object>(); arguments.put("x-filter-jms-selector", "application='app1'"); // create binding session.bindQueue(queueName, routingKey, FieldTable.convertToFieldTable(arguments), new AMQShortString("amq.topic"), destination);
The following example illustrates the creation of queue binding to topic exchange with JMX interface using the ManagedExchange interface.
Example 9.4. Binding a queue using JMX
Map<String, Object> environment = new HashMap<String, Object>(); environment.put(JMXConnector.CREDENTIALS, new String[] {"admin","password"}); // Connect to service JMXServiceURL url = new JMXServiceURL("service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:8999/jmxrmi"); JMXConnector jmxConnector = JMXConnectorFactory.connect(url, environment); MBeanServerConnection mbsc = jmxConnector.getMBeanServerConnection(); // Object name for topic Exchange MBean for virtualhost 'default' ObjectName objectName = new ObjectName("org.apache.qpid:type=VirtualHost.Exchange," + "VirtualHost=\"default\",name=\"amq.topic\",ExchangeType=topic"); // Get the ManagedExchange object ManagedExchange topicExchange = JMX.newMBeanProxy(mbsc, objectName, ManagedExchange.class);; // Create the binding arguments Map<String,Object> arguments = new HashMap<String, Object>(); arguments.put("x-filter-jms-selector", "application='app1'"); // create binding topicExchange.createNewBinding("queue", "testBindingKey", arguments);
How to bind queues in the Virtual Host configuration file is shown in Section 14.10, "Queue Binding".
The broker allows messaging applications to classify a set of related messages as belonging to a group. This allows a message producer to indicate to the consumer that a group of messages should be considered a single logical operation with respect to the application.
The broker can use this group identification to enforce policies controlling how messages from a given group can be distributed to consumers. For instance, the broker can be configured to guarantee all the messages from a particular group are processed in order across multiple consumers.
For example, assume we have a shopping application that manages items in a virtual shopping cart. A user may add an item to their shopping cart, then change their mind and remove it. If the application sends an add message to the broker, immediately followed by a remove message, they will be queued in the proper order - add, followed by remove.
However, if there are multiple consumers, it is possible that once a consumer acquires the add message, a different consumer may acquire the remove message. This allows both messages to be processed in parallel, which could result in a "race" where the remove operation is incorrectly performed before the add operation.
In order to group messages, the application would designate a particular message header as containing a message's group identifier. The group identifier stored in that header field would be a string value set by the message producer. Messages from the same group would have the same group identifier value. The key that identifies the header must also be known to the message consumers. This allows the consumers to determine a message's assigned group.
The header that is used to hold the group identifier, as well as the values used as group identifiers, are totally under control of the application.
The broker will apply the following processing on each grouped message:
The absence of a value in the designated header field for grouping as treated as indicative of a lack of desire for the message to be grouped. Messages with such a lack of a value will be distributed to any available consumer.
Note that message grouping has no effect on queue browsers.
Note well that distinct message groups would not block each other from delivery. For example, assume a queue contains messages from two different message groups - say group "A" and group "B" - and they are enqueued such that "A"'s messages are in front of "B". If the first message of group "A" is in the process of being consumed by a client, then the remaining "A" messages are blocked, but the messages of the "B" group are available for consumption by other consumers - even though it is "behind" group "A" in the queue.
In order for the broker to determine a message's group, the key for the header that contains the group identifier must be provided to the broker via configuration. This is done on a per-queue basis, when the queue is first configured.
This means that message group classification is determined by the message's destination queue.
Specifically, the queue "holds" the header key that is used to find the message's group identifier. All messages arriving at the queue are expected to use the same header key for holding the identifer. Once the message is enqueued, the broker looks up the group identifier in the message's header, and classifies the message by its group.
Message group support is specified by providing one or more of the following settings
in the arguments map that is used when declaring the queue (e.g. when calling
Table 9.2. Queue Declare Message Group Configuration Arguments
|The name of the message header that holds the group identifier value. The values in this header may be of any supported type (i.e. not just strings).
|Provide a value of "1" to switch on C++ compatibility mode
It is important to note that there is no need to provide the actual group identifer values that will be used. The broker learns these values as messages are received. Also, there is no practical limit - aside from resource limitations - to the number of different groups that the broker can track at run time.
Qpid clients receive buffered messages in batches, sized according to the pre-fetch value. The current default is 500.
However, if you use the default value you will probably not see desirable behaviour when using priority, sorted, lvq or grouped queues. Once the broker has sent a message to the client its delivery order is then fixed, regardless of the special behaviour of the queue.
For example, if using a priority queue and a prefetch of 100, and 100 messages arrive with priority 2, the broker will send these messages to the client. If then a new message arrives will priority 1, the broker cannot leap frog messages of lower priority. The priority 1 will be delivered at the front of the next batch of messages to be sent to the client.
So, you need to set the prefetch values for your client (consumer) to make this sensible.
To do this set the Java system property
max_prefetch on the client
environment (using -D) before creating your consumer.
A default for all client connections can be set via a system property:
The prefetch can be also be adjusted on a per connection basis by adding a
maxprefetch value to the Connection URLs
Setting the Qpid pre-fetch to 1 will give exact queue-type semantics as perceived by the client however, this brings a performance cost. You could test with a slightly higher pre-fetch to trade-off between throughput and exact semantics.
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A Surprising Path for Proton Transfer Without Hydrogen Bonds
Scientists working at the ALS have discovered a new route for proton movement from one molecule to another--a basic step in countless chemical and biological reactions--thereby opening new avenues for research in biology, environmental science, and green chemistry. Read more...
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New Crystal Structures Lift Fog around Protein Folding
At the ALS, researchers have deciphered the crystal structure of a critical control element within large protein-folding machines (chaperonins). In identifying the nucleotide-sensing loop and its controlling role, the researchers believe they may have opened a new avenue by which modified protein-folding activities could be engineered. Read more...
The ALS User Meeting will be held October 8-10, 2012. Please consider nominating a deserving colleague for a User Meeting Award. There are two new aspects of the awards for 2012. First, there will be a monetary prize for each award. Funds for this are currently being raised from the ALS exhibitor community. The amount is not yet finalized but will be at least $1500 per award. Second, a policy for roll-over of unsuccessful nominations is being instituted. Nominations will remain active for three years, with nominators being allowed to update their nomination prior to each competition. There are three awards, and the forms are all available on the User Meeting Awards Web page.
David A. Shirley Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement at the ALS
David Shirley was a Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and Director of LBNL from 1980 to 1989. He was instrumental in building the ALS. He is now retired from the lab.
Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS
Klaus Halbach was a senior staff scientist at LBNL who pioneered the development of undulators using permanent magnets, and other innovations in accelerator physics. Even though he retired from LBNL in 1991, he remained active in lab projects and student training until his death in 2000.
Tim Renner User Services Award for Outstanding Support to the ALS User Community
Tim Renner was a beamline scientist at the ALS who died at an early age, and who during his career touched everyone that knew him with his caring attitude to others and his larger-than-life personality. This award recognizes individuals, across the ALS organization, that have made outstanding contributions to the ALS user community.
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The Institute for International Students, which was founded over 25 years ago, is an intensive English program (IEP) that offers an academic focused English program for students who have not yet achieved 473 on the Institutional TOEFL score, 52 on iBT, or 5.5 on IELTS. The program prepares students to become effective, confident speakers of English in academic institutions and professional settings as well as in everyday life. The IEP's coordinator, student advisor and staff are always ready to assist students in reaching their goals.
Students are tested at the beginning of each session, counseled, and placed in the level most appropriate to their needs. The program entails twenty hours per week of intensive instruction focusing on English grammar and reading, report and essay writing, communication, and academic skills. Students can also choose from a variety of elective courses.The Intensive English Program is also designed to prepare students for the undergraduate (Academic Program) at City College of San Francisco. Students of this program who reach the required TOEFL score are given priority consideration for admission into the Academic Program. The IEP will provide assistance for the smooth transfer to this program.


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Nov. 11, 1927 – July 10, 2013
Lowell Grosse, of Clarence, a lawyer who served as Clarence town justice for 22 years, died Wednesday after a short illness. He was 85.
Born in Buffalo, he enlisted in the Navy after graduating from Mount Penn Academy in Reading, Pa., and sailed around the world as an aerologist aboard the USS Greenwich Bay.
He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Buffalo in 1951 and his law degree from UB in 1954, serving as an associate editor of the Buffalo Law Review.
A trial lawyer with offices in Buffalo, he maintained a private practice for 50 years.
Mr. Grosse was a member of the Erie County Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He served on the board of directors of the International Association of Defense Attorneys.
A member of United Craft Masonic Lodge 931, he was a master Mason. He was a past president of the Clarence Lions Club and former director of the Kidney Foundation of Western New York. He donated one of his kidneys to his late son, Jamey, in 1974.
Mr. Grosse was appointed to the Clarence Town Planning Board in 1972, then won election as Clarence town justice in 1977. He retired from the bench in 1999.
He was a member of Brookfield Country Club.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, the former Edith F. Ertell; a daughter, Holly A. Cournan; a son, Lowell D.; and a brother, Sherwyn "Skip."
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Amigone Funeral Home, 8440 Main St., Clarence.


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The humiliating and staggering defeat of Altoona by McKeesport this Friday night is a disgrace to Altoona alumni and fans. What happened? Here are a few ideas for dishearten Altoona fans to mull over. First, Altoona is way out of its league by reentering the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIA). As was evident in tonight's smashing defeat, Altoona does not have the current speed needed to excel in this league. Palfey is quoted as saying that the WPIA is speed, speed, and more speed. Clearly, Altoona lacks any. Aside from being outmanned, Altoona killed themselves with nothing less than idiotic, ridiculous, and totally transparent and predictable play calling. A sprint/iso or delayed handoff up the middle on EVERY first and 10? Who is the moron offensive coordinator? A 5th grade football player could predicate Altoona's play calling on 1st down. Ridiculous. Calling for a new offensive coordinator! A turnover in coaching is desperately needed again in Altoona!
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LOCKPORT – The Town of Niagara man accused of beating professional boxer Nick Casal with a metal object in a fight faced new legal trouble Monday.
Michael P. Vicki was arraigned in Niagara County Court on two counts of third-degree insurance fraud and one count of attempted third-degree grand larceny.
Vicki, 31, of Portland Street, pleaded not guilty to allegations that he crashed his car into a tree on Frontier Avenue in Niagara Falls May 6, left the scene and then reported to his insurance company that his vehicle had been stolen.
The indictment said he collected $21,783 from New York Central Mutual Insurance. A tentative trial date was set for the first anniversary of the wreck.
Assistant District Attorney Heather A. DeCastro said a witness to the crash wanted a court order of protection against Vicki because some of the defendant's co-workers had been contacting him and telling him "to back off," as DeCastro put it.
"If a boxer can be beaten to that level, he's very concerned," DeCastro told County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, who granted the order.
Farkas warned Vicki that she will jail him without bail to await trial if anyone bothers the witness.
Also Monday, Farkas rejected an effort by defense attorney James J. Faso Jr. to reduce the first-degree assault charge against Vicki in the Casal case.
Faso argued that the charge should be second-degree assault.
That would reduce the maximum prison sentence that Vicki would face to seven years instead of 25 years if he is convicted in the May 12 attack on the 21-year-old junior welterweight contender.
Faso said, "The injuries sustained by Mr. Casal do not rise to the level required by the [first-degree assault] statute."
Deputy District Attorney Doreen M. Hoffmann disagreed, saying that Casal suffered four or five deep head lacerations.
His skull was exposed, he suffered bleeding in his brain, and doctors used 15 staples and 250 to 300 stitches to close all the wounds.
Faso said Casal went home after the fight but was taken to the hospital later that day. Hoffmann said that "shouldn't be held against him."
However, DNA test results on blood spatter inside the house still have not been received, causing Farkas to postpone Vicki's assault trial from Dec. 3 to Jan. 28.
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Nothing Beats September Baseball
|Doug Davis, LHP
183/88 K/BB, 24 HR in 202.2 IP
|Jerome Williams, RHP
60/39 K/BB, 12 HR in 102.2 IP
|SS #Neifi Perez
|CF Brady Clark
|2B *Todd Walker
Might as well pencil him in
Might as well pencil him in the fifth slot. It's not like anyone is going to get a chance to take it from him this season.
Neifi Perez, SS Todd Walker,
Neifi Perez, SS
Todd Walker, 2B
Derrek Lee, 1B
Nomar Garciaparra, 3B
Jeromy Burnitz, RF
Matt Murton, LF
Corey Patterson, CF
Michael Barrett, C
Neifi's one of the best
Neifi's one of the best table-setters in the game, dude.
Billy Corgan is a bright
Billy Corgan is a bright baseball fan. Just read his Q&A covering for Paul Sullivan, and he knows what's going on.
jerome williams would sure
jerome williams would sure look nice in a tampa bay devil rays uniform...maybe bringing us the elusive leadoff man-carl crawford or the number 5 hitter we need like aubrey huff. how about dannys baez? basically, i think we should trade williams to a team that needs a cheap starter.
since it seems dead..dunno
since it seems dead..dunno who's watching this game..
d.lee gets served (so far) with 4Ks in a row from davis...going up high and missing a ton
m.murton hits a m.wise changeup left in the middle of the plate off the fat of the bat and well over the wall
s.williamson's slider is definately back tonite...looking wuertz-style nasty...oh yeah, wuertz gave up a homer, himself, but didnt look bad.
"jerome williams would sure
"jerome williams would sure look nice in a tampa bay devil rays uniform...maybe bringing us the elusive leadoff man-carl crawford or the number 5 hitter we need like aubrey huff. how about dannys baez? basically, i think we should trade williams to a team that needs a cheap starter."
Crawford's career OBP is 320 and his career high 331. I am willing to live with that from a masher, but not a leadoff hitter. Huff is a poor mans ManRam and he is that way because he cant him like him but he can sure play D like him. Baez I like but he is not that much of an upgrade over Dempster. If your going to trade Williams I want Dunn, Manram, or Soriano back.
Funny, Chifan3887, but you
Funny, Chifan3887, but you sound about as ridiculous as Tampa ownership in your trade demands. 5th starter with, what, 3rd starter upside for Adam Dunn? Riiiiiiight. Good luck with all that.
I never said we could go get
I never said we could go get those guys for Williams straight up. Of course we would have to thrown in some minor leaugers. However I would say Williams will be at least a solid 3 with his upside being a good 2. He is good and dont judge him or guys like Kolb off of 1 season. He had the whole start of his season interupted this guy put up good # with SF.
"If your going to trade
"If your going to trade Williams I want Dunn, Manram, or Soriano back."
YOUR not going to get that
I never said we could go get
I never said we could go get those guys for Williams straight up. Of course we would have to thrown in some minor leaugers.
Oh, okay... since you add change to Jerome and thereby create a package for a useful impact player (or Alfonso Soriano), then the other team will jump.
I'm sure there'll be a bigger crowd tomorrow: we are fighting to see who gets to raise the third-place banner on Opening Day next year.
CHIFAN3887, I am afraid you
CHIFAN3887, I am afraid you will have to slip Carl Lindner some funny brownies to make that trade. If Adam Dunn is traded, a big if from reading Gammons and other national correspondents, it will be for a stud pithcer, say someone like Prior.
Speaking of Prior, should we trade him, or should the Cubs sign him to a big $10,000,000 per Wood like contract that will extend beyond his walk season of 2007? His health is almost a questionable as Wood's, but of course once we trade him he will turn into this generation's Roger Clemens and Greg Maddux. Just throwing this out for discussion. Certainly I prefer trading him then just letting him walk like the Cubs let Maddux walk in 1992 under the Larry Himes, deer in the headlights, school of management.
A follow up to Ron Galt's post on another chat, I grew up in Park Ridge, a northside suburb, and rooted for the Cubs and then the White Sox through high school. But then I went to college and then law school, and I ran into a lot of Cub hating Sox fans. After some time of living and working with these folks, and taking their jibes about the Cubs for years and watching their glee at some humiliating Cub loss (see 1984 and San Diego), nothing would give me more pleasure then seeing their hang dog look after a Sox loss. I am a bit down that Indians let me down tonight.
I am all for getting Soriano. After all he is the sort of selfish, me-first, flashy athletic player with poor defense, poor base-running, and poor OBP that the Cubs seem obsess over, so he will fit right in with the current team. Probably should trade Murton for him, a cheap, boring, high OBP player who is averaging a home run every 20 at bats. Makes sense to me as the Cubs are aiming for 4th place next season unless the Reds find some pitching.
CFIG, I did not say we
I did not say we could get Dunn for Williams. What why was trying to say is that Williams is a solid young pitcher and we shouldn't trade him for run of the mill guys like Crawford and Huff who look like SS because of whats around them. On Soriano he is the best avalible option we have for a 5 hitter. Dunn will cost the farm, and Giles and Matsui will not leave where there at. His job would not be to get on base, it would be to protect Ram. At RF he would be an average D player and also he would lead the team in SB. Also for a guy who can only hit in TEX he did pretty good hitting at Yankee Stadium. He is a good player and not somekind of Jose Macias clone that alot of people on this board think he is. Remember how many people that it was doomsday when we got Burnitz? That did not turn out so bad.
While I would be happy to
While I would be happy to have Dunn at the right price I think to call him average defensively at any position is a stretch. Maybe on a softball team but not in MLB. He's actually a born DH. He looks to be in physical danger in the field.
"I also owe it to baseball
"I also owe it to baseball and owe it to the Phillies and the Florida Marlins and the Washington Nationals to play my best lineup because those teams are competing with Houston in the wild-card race." - Baker
While I agree with Baker's sentiment, I will be interested to see what he considers his best line up.
"However I would say
"However I would say Williams will be at least a solid 3 with his upside being a good 2. "
That's a stretch at this point.
Crawford? Dunn? for Jerome Williams? Throw in a minor leaguer or two? Sure...
"However I would say
"However I would say Williams will be at least a solid 3 with his upside being a good 2. "
I guess that depends on what team you are talking about...
If you are talking about a team with any playoff aspirations - then there is no way he is anywhere near those levels right now. If you are talking about a team that will struggle to play .500 baseball, then those are realistic. In either case, the odds of getting an all-star calibre player for Jerome Williams is slim unless that player is coming to you at a ridiculous cost factor.
He is a good player and not
He is a good player and not somekind of Jose Macias clone that alot of people on this board think he is.
Nobody thinks he's a Jose Macias clone. The players are similar in that they're not worth anything near what they're paid; they're different because one of them makes ten million dollars.
Remember how many people that it was doomsday when we got Burnitz? That did not turn out so bad.
Here's another 2005 storyline that shouldn't be allowed to take root. Burnitz is 21st in VORP among RFs, despite being in the top 6 in PA. In fact, his line is strikingly similar to someone else's:
Cubs starting RF, 2005: 265/333/451
Cubs starting RF, 2004: 253/332/517
He wasn't a disaster--he was a tepid non-factor who didn't completely fall apart, which was the extent of his upside.
The only position I hear
The only position I hear Soriano will consider playing is 2b, and as a 2d baseman, he makes Fletcher look like a whiz on defense. I am with Ron as to his (over)value.
Those who are in Chicago may say I am all wet on this, but just reading the beat writers on the web, seeing the Dusty and Hendry quotes, I get the feeling that as soon as Murton has a 1 for 20, he will be history, buried on the bench or shuffled off to Iowa. Unlike Patterson, who they ache and pine to succeed, it seems they have no emotional investment in Murton. The kid better avoid slumps next year as I don't think the management believes in his talent.
Speaking of Prior, should we
Speaking of Prior, should we trade him, or should the Cubs sign him
There is no way you trade Mark Prior. Yes, he is an injury risk (but nowhere near the risk of Wood), but his upside is incredible. We have seen what Prior can do, and it is great. If Prior can stay healthy, he will be one of the best pitchers of our generation.
You don't trade a player like that unless it is for someone like Pujols or Miguel Cabrera, and we know that is not going to happen.
In response to Prior's
In response to Prior's health being almost as questionable as Wood's -- that is a myth whose roots come from the media's insistance on constantly grouping the two together, and nothing more. Wood could very well continue to blow his arm each and every year because of his mechanics, but Prior will remain healthy unless he is the victim of any more freak incidents.
In short: If you trade him, don't do it under the false belief that he's fragile and therefore prone to injury. You aren't going find a pitcher in baseball who is going to hold up any better in such a nasty collision with Marcus Giles, or when a line drive off the bat of some guy whose unfortunate last name sounds like a ridiculous battle cry goes SCUD missile on your elbow.
Prior has been, and will be, a much better, much more consistant pitcher than Wood, and that will continue bear out over the next couple of years -- provided Wile E. Coyote doesn't drop and anvil on his head, or something of the like.
Does anyone know where David
Does anyone know where David Kelton was this year and how he did?
Kelton spent a full year at
Kelton spent a full year at Iowa. His line:
Out of options. Out of chances with the Cubs organization, I'm afraid.
Why are you afraid that
Why are you afraid that Kelton's going to be gone?
"There is no way you trade
"There is no way you trade Mark Prior."
Not if you intend on competing next year - I agree. But if the decision is made that the window is closed, and that you want to blow this thing up, then it is a reasonable discussion that management would have behind closed doors, and never let the fans hear one word of. You could literally have the farm for him if you wanted. Look what Oakland got from STL for Mulder. (Barton, Calero, Haren) If we are going to go out in FA and fill our holes, and try and build a legit contender in 2006, you keep Prior. But if we are coming back with a bullpen full of junk, CP in CF, a Burnitz type RF and Ronny Cedeno at SS, then there is no reason not to consider looking into getting anything for someone to take Wood (10mm) off our hands and to find someone willing to pay top value (3 high end MLB ready prospects) for Prior. It wouldn't be one bit popular amongst the busloads of morons coming to see the Cubs. It wouldn't be popular with the media. But if the decision is that next year is not winnable, it's a real discussion.
"provided Wile E. Coyote doesn't drop and anvil on his head, or something of the like. "
Or he have a groin, a calf, a hammy, a back, or any of a number of ailments. You don't know. All I know is that Prior has them more than most #1 pitchers do.
"Out of options. Out of chances with the Cubs organization, I'm afraid."
I missed the part when he did ever have a chance. He couldn't play defense in the IF, so they moved him to the OF. As a bad hitter, that, right there, was the end of David Kelton. If he could be a mediocre hitter and play 3B, he could have had a few years here as a backup IF. In fact, given Aramis' injuries, he might have gotten more playing time than any of us would have wanted to see. But when his arm was proven too soft to play 3B, that was the end of any shot he warranted. I have to imagine Kelton will be a Minor League FA after this year.
the FA starting pitching
the FA starting pitching market is pure ass...to believe the cubs are gonna go out and actually try to sign anyone worth a damn is as sketchy as trading prior.
burnett...millwood...morris...??? hell, i wouldnt want a piece of morris, but that's all i can come up with off the top of my head.
a lotta teams are looking SP...i wouldnt count on anything other than zambrano/prior/maddux/wood/williams at this point outta sheer neccesity...especially considering rich hill doesnt seem to be an answer for 06 and mitre cant get it together, himself.
i guess rusch is in the mix if he's willing to devalue himself to play for 2m, but looking at the SP FA market i doubt he'll stick around cuz he could easily get 3+m somewhere else.
barrett, patterson and
barrett, patterson and cedeno for juan pierre and paul loduca, anyone?
huff could handle left field and still has monster-number potential
jacque jones for right field
rafael furcal and omar infante turning double plays?
more than one move needed to solve this mess
Why not go after Morris? We
Why not go after Morris? We could move Jerome Williams to the pen...if someone gets hurt, we start Mr. WIlliams...you can never have enough SP's...just a thought...
If the Cubs didn't have a
If the Cubs didn't have a gigantic payroll, then I'd say trading Prior might make some sense. But we do, and the Cubs should see if Prior maintains a reasonable degree of health between now and 2007-08 or whenever he comes up for free agency, they should break the bank on him. It's one thing if you have no chance of retaining your players: it's another if you don't know what they'll be. I don't think Prior's at the point where the Cubs can take that kind of risk, but it's all moot because, as you say, they'd never do it for marketing reasons.
This also applies to Zambrano, and if they can't break the bank on both of them when the time comes, then they need to do it anyway and make huge cutbacks somewhere else. That means not pouring any huge money into the rotation now: it's going to consume plenty between these two for awhile.
The mid-decade window is over. With the exception of Furcal, the Cubs' needs aren't a good match for the market this offseason (unless one takes the cynical route of "big-name over-30 veteran whose best years are behind him"), and they're probably not going to be able to improve themselves enough to win anything significant in 2006.
As for the discussions management should be having behind closed doors, I guarantee that TCR posters will do a lot more thinking about 2007-2008 than they will. The Cubs' brass is going to be in "impress people now so we can keep our jobs" mode. A gaggle of CEOs and shareholders can tell you how well that works out.
why go after
why go after morris?
there's 3 FA pitchers worth a damn...being that morris is one of them, that's scarey as hell.
its so weak and there's gonna be a lot of buyers...this offseason should signal the return of the 3-5m starter who isnt worth 1/2 of that cuz of the sheer unavailability of guys who can fill roles.
yeah, the weak market accellerates the value of the cubs star pitchers, but its so weak the worth of the midrange/cheap kids are also falsely propped. they could probally get what they need to get without even thinking of trading the big guys.
"1) barrett, patterson and
"1) barrett, patterson and cedeno for juan pierre and paul loduca, anyone?
2) huff could handle left field and still has monster-number potential
3) jacque jones for right field
4) rafael furcal and omar infante turning double plays?
more than one move needed to solve this mess"
I'd do #1 in a heartbeat
#2 - Huff? Is it still not apparent that this guy was a juicer? His bad D is well known and he's worse offensively than Burnitz. I wish Cubs fans would get over this guy.
#3 Jacque Jones is another overrated strikeout machine who has to play in a platoon because he CAN NOT hit lefties.
#4 Furcal would be great. I'm not so sure about infante.
Aside from #1 and Furcal, what makes you think those changes would be any better than what the Cubs had this year?
Still sounds like a shitty mess to me.
In regard to Prior having
In regard to Prior having more injuries than most #1 pitchers:
Roughly half the teams in the ML have what I'd term a legit #1 type. Of those, here are their stories:
Atlanta: Smoltz hurt now, has a history of injuries dating back to the nineties
Boston: Schilling has a history of injuries dating back to the nineties, hurt all this year, hurt two years ago
Florida: Beckett and Burnett have had serious injury problems since the beginning of their careers
Houston: Pettitte missed a ton of last year and a significant portion of 2002 with injuries.
Mets: From 2001-2003 Pedro never topped 200 innings, he's got a rotator cuff tear he's pitching through, too, if I recall correctly
San Diego: Jake Peavy has yet to top 200 innings in his career, though he has a shot at doing so this year
San Fran: Jason Schmidt has had all kinds of injury problems throughout his career and is having them again this year
St. Louis: Carpenter has been nothing but injured his whole career, and missed the WS last year with injuries
Toronto: Halladay has missed major time in 3 of the last 5 years
That leaves Johan Santana, Randy Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Clemens, Willis, and if you want to really stretch the bounds of what constitutes a legit #1, Colon and Livan Hernandez as durable aces. And Willis and Santana may well have their problems too.
This is quick research, so I'm sure I missed a couple of guys. But you catch my drift. Prior doesn't really have more problems than most other aces at all.
Morris sucks. They'd be as
Morris sucks. They'd be as well off to keep Rusch. Morris has had the highest run support in the NL this year and still only managed a weak 14-9 record. Morris is mediocre, a 4th starter at best.
a lotta overpaid starters
a lotta overpaid starters gonna earn some serious loot this offseason...personally, im thrilled the cubs have a starting 1-5 already under control. all that's a question seems to be if wood will rehab/heal on time.
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If Geoff Blum could be a Playoff hero, there is hope still...
Giants scare me. I think you're wrong about Bumgarner, he would pitch on short rest for Game 2 and then full rest for Game 5. Cueto would go Game 1, then short rest in game 4. Add in some really tough outs in that lineup and I want nothing to do with them. With that rotation they can easily steal a series.
Cards are a tough matchup. The rivalry evens out their comparable lack of talent. And like someone said, they love HRs, which is how to beat the Cubs. The upside is that I would feel really good about Lester twice against STL.
j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
heyward 0-4 :(
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Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
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Two weeks ago the Stetson lacrosse team was still winless nearing the end of its first season in program history. Today, the Hatters (2-13, 2-2) are riding a two-game win streak and are set to take on Detroit (4-13, 3-1) in the semifinals of the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship on Friday.
Stetson, which clinched a berth in the conference's first ever women's lacrosse championship with its 18-13 win at Howard on April 19, earned the three seed after Detroit defeated Kennesaw State on Sunday.
With the Titans' victory over the Owls in the regular season finale, they garnered the two seed. Kennesaw State (1-9, 1-3) earned the four seed, and will take on top seeded Jacksonville (11-5, 4-0) in the other semifinal.
Stetson and Detroit's semifinal is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University's Southern Oak Stadium. The game will feature live stats at AtlanticSun.org and free live video at ASun.TV. Tickets are $5 per day, but free to students with an ID.
The Hatters and the Titans met earlier this season, when Detroit came out victorious 19-9 at the Stetson Athletic Training Center. Thanks to a 7-2 start, the Titans were able to withstand a late four goal rally by the Hatters to earn the victory back on April 12.
Stetson hasn't lost since, defeating Kennesaw State 19-7 at home, and topping Howard 18-13 on the road. The Hatters recorded 30 shots per game during the two wins, while holding their opponents to just 23.5 shots. Of Stetson's 37 goals in its final two contests, 15 were assisted. KSU and Howard recorded just five assists on 20 total scores.
Detroit, meanwhile, is coming off of a 22-3 win over Kennesaw State, and has recorded three of its four victories over the last two weeks of the season. Against the other conference teams, the Titans defeated Howard 16-5, and they lost to Jacksonville 16-2.
The winner of Friday's semifinal will take on the winner of Kennesaw State and Jacksonville, a game that takes place at 1:00 p.m. on Friday. Sunday's title game is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. in Jacksonville.