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Baynes, Cayla
I am a third year Ph.D. student in the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Interdisciplinary Program. My research focuses on developing low-cost medical devices for the identification, detection, and quantification of cancer biomarkers using a paper-based platform.
My outreach project is a weekly afterschool club at Elvira Elementary School named Operation S.O.A.R. The students learn about engineering design and teamwork as they work through lessons based on situations that astronauts might encounter on a long journey. Learning how sensors work and how to construct them is a major theme in this program. The other major theme in this afterschool club is how biomedical engineering can help individuals monitor their health using an everyday device – a smartphone.
Chen, Sophia
I am a first-year physics Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona, researching utility-scale solar energy in Dr. Alex Cronin's lab. I am passionate about environmental issues such as pollution, energy security, and climate change. In addition to their technical elements, I am also interested in the social aspects of these issues, particularly promoting interdisciplinary and cross-cultural communication. I spent a year in China on a Fulbright fellowship researching coal-related pollution. While there, I taught environmental awareness classes to Chinese students to help bridge the gaps between our perspectives. Outreach—raising environmental awareness and capturing the interest of a new generation of scientists—is essential to this line of work. The Space Grant allows me to communicate with different groups of people about these environmental issues.
I help organize and coordinate a high school solar go-kart competition run by Tech Parks Arizona at the University of Arizona Tech Park called Racing the Sun (RTS). The program is in its third year, and participating schools come from all over Arizona, including Tucson, Phoenix, and Monument Valley areas. Students design, build, and race solar-powered go-karts under the mentorship of two high school teachers. The participants gain skills in electronics and engineering in a fun, hands-on setting. In the spirit of interdisciplinary education, the program also has an entrepreneurial component: the students fundraise the cost of the go-kart. I connect academics and industry professionals to mentor these high school students, and I help to organize and teach workshops. The program seeks to promote interest in STEM and to help students begin to develop the skills necessary for such careers.
Coe, Michelle
Michelle Coe: My NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowship involves incorporating Manzo Elementary's restoration ecology program into the classroom. I am doing this by implementing projects occurring at Biosphere 2's Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO) into Manzo Elementary's greenhouse. One of Manzo's 4th grade classes will be learning and replicating projects happening at the LEO site, as well as visiting the Biosphere 2 twice during the school year. Projects occurring in Manzo and LEO's greenhouses will include hypothesizing, data collection, and analyzing native seedlings planted on LEO soil. Furthermore, we will be looking at variables such as variation in aspect, temperature, and soil moisture as these variables may occur in a natural landscape. This will help the children get a sense of how their research and projects can relate to science on a larger scale (both in terms of the LEO project and climate change projections), as well as allow a new and innovative area for math, science, and English skills to be incorporated into their curriculum. The classroom outline at Manzo Elementary includes 1 hour lesson plans and 2 hours in the greenhouse each week, where the children review concepts, collect data, and learn vocabulary focused on climate change, landscape, vegetation and more.
The Arizona Space Grant Consortium is proud to support this impressive STEM education program at Tucson's Manzo Elementary school through the efforts of UA Graduate Fellow Michelle Coe. Michelle speaks about her program with Manzo students in a PBS AZPM video segment.
Video from "Local Kids Benefit from Nationally Recognized Ecology Program" by Mitchell Riley
Fall 2014 Update
Manzo Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona is an innovator in using reconciliation ecology as a tool to offer experiential learning and address children's behavioral issues. Their ecology program has improved and supported the school's larger educational objectives by enabling students to be more inclined to learn. In January of 2012, Manzo received the U.S. Green Building Council's "Best Green School" award. Despite impressive infrastructural innovations and accolades, teachers have yet to fully embrace the opportunity to link classroom teaching to the multifaceted aspects of the ecology program. To address this disconnect, this program connects the science students are learning in weekly sessions at Manzo to scientific experiments occurring at Biosphere 2 (B2) in Oracle, Arizona. Manzo Elementary has partnered with B2's flagship experiment by reproducing a model Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO) within Manzo's greenhouse, testing what types of seeds and saplings will grow in the observatory's soil. The goal is to create experiential learning programs appropriate for the classrooms that have real and tangible benefits for ongoing research. In so doing, a win-win-win scenario is created: (i) Manzo students conduct science, mathematically process results, and write reports based on their work; (ii) B2 scientists receive augmented datasets about the early ecology of Landscape Evolution Observatory soils; and (iii) B2 educators acquire a template for experiential learning that can be adapted for other classrooms in the area. These activities connect students to contemporary climate change problems such as climate variability and drought and are synchronous with the development of Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) science and math skills. As the second year of this program begins, we have begun working with Ms. Norma Gonzales' 3rd grade classroom at Manzo Elementary. We hope to expand the mini LEO project and curriculum to other schools within TUSD at the beginning of January, 2015 with help from graduate student assistants from the University of Arizona and the School and Community Gardening Program.
Davis, Jason
My NASA Space Grant project is a documentary film called Desert Moon. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy declared humans would walk on the moon before the end of the decade. But at the time, scientists knew very little about the moon—including whether the surface was solid, or a thick layer of dust that would swallow a spacecraft.
Desert Moon explores the creation of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. The lab, founded by astronomer Gerard Kuiper, played a critical role in constructing the first photographic lunar atlases in support of the Apollo moon landings. Kuiper's team also participated in the Ranger program, an effort to send America's first unmanned spacecraft to the moon.
The film features interviews with current and retired UA planetary scientists, and contains archival photos and videos from the lab's early days. Desert Moon debuts at Flandrau Science Center in 2014.
I am a University of Arizona journalism master's student specializing in science writing. Last year, I created Scientific Tucsonan, a digital science journalism magazine for iPad. I was the Wick Science Communications Intern for Green Valley News. I am also a contributing editor for the Planetary Society, a non-profit space advocacy group co-founded by Carl Sagan and currently led by Bill Nye.
Documentary Explores How the UA Helped Land a Man on the Moon
Lybrand, Rebecca
Rebecca is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, with a minor in Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis. Her research is focused on changes in soil development and soil carbon storage across contrasting climates and landscape positions. Rebecca's field sites are located in the Santa Catalina Mountains of southern Arizona, where her sites span desert scrub to mixed conifer forest.
Rebecca is committed to science education outreach and has volunteered as an i-STEM mentor since 2012. The i-STEM hybrid mentoring program is focused on broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM education programs and careers. i-STEM employs a combination of in-school, hands-on science activities and informal, out-of-classroom science field trips to stimulate interest and knowledge of STEM fields. Mentors recruited from the Tucson community are paired with 3rd-8th grade students from local schools. This NSF-funded initiative is committed to evaluating the program's effectiveness on Native American and Hispanic student academic performance and science retention.
Rebecca is developing Space to Soils modules for use by i-STEM mentors and mentees as her UA/NASA space grant educational outreach project. The Space to Soils modules aim to integrate applied, technology intensive activities using satellite imagery to explore the Earth's surface from space with a closer, hands-on examination of the soils encountered in everyday life. Rebecca's goal is for i-STEM mentees to be engaged in the world's interconnectedness from the expanses of space science to the intricate details of soil science. Mentees and mentors will also be taking a field trip to the University of Arizona's Campus Agricultural Center where they will participate in a combination of space and soils related activities including the exciting exploration of soil pits!
The educational materials developed for the i-STEM hybrid mentoring program will be made publicly available for use by K-12 teachers and educators worldwide.
Sommers, Pacifica
I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. I study how invasive plants affect biodiversity. I am passionate both about science and the outdoors, and especially combining them. My Space Grant project allows me to pursue those interests in helping to inspire a new generation of explorers and scientists.
Exposing students to science inquiry in outdoor settings increases their interest in and knowledge of scientific concepts. But despite the rich natural resources near Tucson, many Tucson students lack access to them due to financial and logistical limitations of their homes and schools. As a Fellow in the BioME GK-12 program last year, funded by the National Science Foundation, I spent several days every week in two seventh grade classrooms. I experienced first hand how important interactive and informal learning can be. I also understood better all the logistical challenges to moving science class outdoors.
I have been a volunteer and certified trip leader for Tucson Inner City Outings (Tucson ICO), a nonprofit that provides outdoors experiences for low income youth of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, for three years. I have partnered with Tucson ICO and the Mount Lemmon Sky Center (MLSC) to develop, fundraise for, and lead at least four overnight multi-disciplinary experiences for middle school groups to Mount Lemmon. We explore the ecology, geology, and astronomical viewing opportunities provided by the Sky Islands in our region, and how best to protect these resources. These trips will serve as pilot projects for in a developing vision of a Sky School education program at MLSC.


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July 27, 2014, 04:14 PM
I live in Texas and was wondering the the minimum age requirement to buy any type of muzzleloader was. I am 15 years old and was looking to buy a derringer kit to build and not sure if I can legally buy it.
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July 27, 2014, 09:24 PM
I would guess 18 to purchase yourself, but probably 16 to own. Not sure though.
July 28, 2014, 08:10 AM
Might look up Ch 46 texas pc -googles up a pdf file. The last time I read it, non cartridge firing replicas were not considered firearms and were not regulated. The definition hand gun begins - "A firearm that is...." So they are not regulated either and it has been technically legal to wear one on the street. That never seems to work out very well though.
July 28, 2014, 10:54 AM
Legal if it's unloaded. And I'm uncertain as to what's unloaded here in TX as some places call it unloaded as long as there are no caps on the nipples but powder and projectile seated.
A few guys were arrested in Austin for this and I haven't heard what happened to them (arrested for open carry of an unloaded percussion pistol).
4v50 Gary
July 28, 2014, 11:03 AM
The guys in Austin had the charges dropped. I forgot whether there was an out-of-court settlement.
July 28, 2014, 11:07 AM
Hmmmm Good that they didn't attempt to change the laws or find a different charge.
July 28, 2014, 11:23 AM
Chapter 46 from Definitions:
3) "Firearm" means any device designed, made, or adapted to expel a projectile through a barrel by using the energy generated by an explosion or burning substance or any device readily convertible to that use. Firearm does not include firearm that may have, as an integral part, a folding knife blade or other characteristics of weapons made illegal by this chapter and that is:
(A) an antique or curio firearm manufactured before 1899; or
(B) a replica of an antique or curio firearm manufactured before 1899, but only if the replica does not use rim fire or center fire ammunition.
(5) "Handgun" means any firearm that is designed, made, or adapted to be fired with one hand.
I find no changes in the CODE or the section of the code that has changed since I taught the subject. Firearms and Weapons are enumerated and no where is an antique or curio weapon not firing fixed cartridges regulated in the code. The people who wore them in public during a protest might have been arrested on the "Duck Principal" and later released when it was clarified that no violation existed. If it looks like a handgun openly carried, works like a handgun then no police officer is going to get into any hot water for treating it exactly like a handgun until all of the information is evaluated. A few more open carry demonstrations like this, and the lege will entertain bills to treat percussion /flint etc arms exactly like cartridge firearms.
"Loaded" is not defined in the Code. The closest mention comes under allowing a Readily Dischargeable Firearm to come into the possession of a minor. A RDF is defined as "a firearm that is loaded with ammunition whether or not there is a cartridge in the chamber."
July 28, 2014, 05:52 PM
Cool, thanks for the help. I just ordered a kit abd no age was asked.
July 28, 2014, 08:47 PM
I don't recall where I had seen, though I'm fairly certain it was in conjunction with the men in TX that were arrested not too long ago, but cannot seem to find what they "proved" having given links or some such. With what little I've recently seen (today) there is no clause that it be unloaded, though I was certain they had pointed that out back then.
July 29, 2014, 06:42 AM
back in the olden days when handgun shooting and hunting were getting popular, it was pretty much illegal to carry them anywhere though there were exceptions a judge might take into account. At at time, lecturers on the subject stressed that there law didn't differentiated between loaded and unloaded, visible or concealed etc etc. The child safety law and the language about "readily dischargeable firearm" is the first time it entered the PC>
TX Mudcat
July 30, 2014, 12:14 AM
It's tough to say. Since they're not "firearms", they really aren't addressed much.
I think those guys in Austin were arrested for Disorderly Conduct, being that DPS interpreted their wearing of the pistols as trying to "cause alarm". I believe charges were dropped though.
July 30, 2014, 05:46 AM
It might be fun to study Chapter 42 pc "Disorderly Conduct" It covers drunkenness, cursing, making the gesture window peeping and a lot of other stuff. Don't recall anything related to the BP revolvers but somebody might find a near fit.
A generation or more ago the old criminal code had a violation called " Rude Display of a Deadly Weapon. It fell out during the revision of the late 70's.
July 30, 2014, 07:01 PM
...which brings up the question, "What is an UNrude display of a Deadly Weapon?"
The mind boggles.
TX Mudcat
July 31, 2014, 08:01 PM
One pointed at the bad guy...
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Outsourcing IT: A Matter of Trust
With the rising cost of energy and the increasing complexity of the application landscape, the economics of outsourcing some or all of your IT are compelling. When patches, upgrades, and administration are out of IT's hair, the brightest minds in your organization can spend more time innovating and less time maintaining. Still, there are risks. You've been managing your entire IT estate for years. Your computing infrastructure is absolutely critical to everything you do. It's difficult to imagine relinquishing control. What about security? What kind of support can you expect? Who is really on the other end of the line?
At Rackspace, we've built our culture and tool set specifically to support managed hosting in the cloud. We back up our hosting with Fanatical Support®. Let's review some common concerns about outsourcing IT to help you understand why managed cloud hosting from Rackspace can help you put those concerns to rest.
The Risks of Outsourcing IT
Outsourcing has certainly become more common over the years, but there is plenty to keep a CIO awake at night. Some of the primary risks of outsourcing IT include:
Security. Fundamentally, outsourcing IT means giving up control of some substantial portion of your IT infrastructure. How does the outsourcing provider handle security? How seriously will they take the security of your IT infrastructure?
Lack of operating experience. If your provider is new to the business, there may be risks they haven't fully come to appreciate, such as hardware or network failure or poorly designed, off- the-shelf management software. How does the outsourcing provider handle problems and can they provide any evidence or references of how they handled issues in the past?
Financial insecurity. A strong financial base is not a given. A start-up or poorly financed business could shut the lights off overnight, leaving you in the dark.
Non-responsiveness. When a critical business asset is on the line, you don't want to be stuck waiting on the line to find out what's going on. Some providers keep you waiting and don't seem to have complete information when you finally get through. You could wind up explaining things again and again.
Inflexibility. Many outsourcing providers focus on their own business model rather than on serving you. The result is inflexible policies that constrain your ability to grow.
Fuzzy service-level agreements (SLAs). If you need a translator to understand your service agreement, you're going to have a problem enforcing the SLA if the provider doesn't meet expectations. Some vendors include confusing clauses that make it difficult to get credit if SLAs aren't met.
No growth potential. If your business needs to add capacity quickly, and your vendor can't scale, you will lose valuable time to market and potentially miss opportunities.
Vendor lock-in. As a way of offering "one-stop shopping," some vendors will try to lock you into a given set of hardware, software, or architecture protocols. This tends to raise cost by limiting choice, thinning the value proposition of outsourcing itself.
A Checklist for Outsourcing IT
When considering an IT outsourcing vendor, review this checklist. The provider you select should address all of these points.
Responsiveness. In any relationship, people show their true colors when things go south. You want to make sure that your problems get the attention they deserve. That's not always something that is obvious in the contract, but it should be obvious in all your interactions with the provider.
Security, with a helping of transparency. Security is a prime concern of every enterprise. Verify that the provider has both physical and logical security infrastructure in place. Ensure that the provider follows international security standards such as ISO 27001. Find out exactly how your systems will be protected, and verify that the approach meets your standards.
Operational experience. Is the provider new to the market? Were they in some other business last year? Be sure that they have a track record of resolving outsourced IT problems and solid relationships with industry partners, such as hardware and software vendors and security companies. Make sure there is a roadmap for growth, and a clear escalation path if things go wrong. It's worth asking, "Can this provider do better than we can on our own?
Financial strength. Your provider needs to have the financial capability to purchase robust equipment and software, hire adequate personnel, and stay afloat and provide service continuity. "Mom and pop" shops are charming on Main Street, but not when your critical data is on the line.
Watertight, transparent SLAs. A clearly written contract in English, with no hidden charges or agendas, is a requirement. The SLA should clearly put the customer first.
Redundancy. When your mission-critical applications are running elsewhere, you want to make sure that you replicate them in at least one other location—preferably not in the same region, where a catastrophic incident could take out the whole operation. There is no one size fits all geographic redundancy solution. Make sure your provider has the ability to design and deliver services to you in more than one physical location.
Scalability. If your enterprise needs to grow, you want to ensure your provider can scale. You need assurance that the provider has the capacity and knowledge to scale quickly.
Vendor neutrality. An outsourcing partner committed to open standards can keep costs low over time. A proprietary strategy tends to lead to vendor lock-in, which can result in higher costs. You don't want to be "loyal" to a provider who gives you no choice.
Outsourced IT with Rackspace
The mission of Rackspace is to provide Fanatical Support. When you work with the industry leader in hosting, you are reducing the risk of outsourcing IT. Our corporate history consists of perfecting new ways to offer better outsourced IT for more than 13 years. We accomplish this through our in-house software and Fanatical Support.
The Rackspace Software System
Our system for managing your IT infrastructure in our data centers was built from the ground up to be the best in the market. Very early on, we made the decision not to repurpose a platform that was built for something else or to buy a third-party solution. We found that such combinations don't provide a good customer experience, which is something we are obsessed with.
A single pane of glass = singular focus on you. When you call us, we never ask you to repeat information. On one screen, our system displays all tickets, servers, policies, emergency contacts, and procedures associated with your account. Data center, server rack location, firewall and security settings, billing history, contracts, and sales information are one click away. Each customer page forms a customized solution to providing a seamless managed hosting experience—which means you get the answers and actions you need right away.
We can scale. Rackspace maintains hardware inventory at each of its data centers. Hardware procurement is one of the slowest steps in deploying new configurations. Rackspace avoids this by having network and server gear available. We also offer a one-hour hardware-replacement guarantee.
We use our experience to customize your hosting solution. When you engage with Rackspace, we host your enterprise systems in whatever configuration makes the most sense. If you're a Web hosting company focused on scaling up as needed, you might want a core managed hosting environment, with high-speed networks connecting web and application servers and a remote database in another facility that needs frequent backups. Another company, like a global financial institution, might have 20 departments, each with its own network and discrete security requirements. We support virtually any combination of hardware and software you can throw at us and help find the optimal solution for you. We deploy 1,500 to 2,000 servers per month and support our customers as teams, not just individuals. We've done this before. Your account is not an experiment.
We never lock you in. We are vendor-agnostic and wholeheartedly opposed to vendor lock-in, even when it comes to cloud software. We give customers root access to their servers, as well as real-time control of some network devices through the customer portal—yet we still support them. We want our customers free to do whatever they want in the cloud and in their dedicated hosting environments, with maximum flexibility to choose and move between providers. That's why we founded OpenStack. With Openstack, we opened up our cloud computing code and partnered with other key technology providers to help drive cloud innovation and industry standards.
Fanatical Support
Fanatical Support is the hallmark of Rackspace's corporate culture and service model. We have a singular focus on providing the best hosting services on the market. Hosting is not just a business line for us. It is our business. Here are just a few of the fundamental tenets of Fanatical Support.
We want to know you and grow with you. Our goal is to forge bonds with our customers, and that starts and ends with our employees. Consistently voted one of the best places to work in the US and the UK, Rackspace employees work every day on truly understanding their customers.
We reward innovation and efforts to maintain customer loyalty. We break with traditional notions of dividing support teams into functional areas such as security, system administration, and networking, which is generically considered to be better for shifting workloads. Instead, we have cross-disciplinary teams supporting each of our customer groups, almost like small businesses within our company. When you call us, you talk to someone who knows your configuration, and you won't have to explain anything. You get to know them by first name and vice versa.
Bad news first, and no surprises. Everyone talks about transparency and "five 9s." But if something ever goes wrong, we let you know. When we had an outage in our data center a few years ago, we not only posted updates frequently but our CEO explained it in a video . If something is wrong, you will be the first to know, and we will be the first to act. We help you diagnose the problem, work with other vendors, and help you get up and running again. Even on December 25th at 3:00 AM (and yes, we've done that before).
Straight talk. We want you to have total confidence in our abilities. We walk you through as many details of our security policies as you want to hear about. If we've ever had service or security issues, we tell you exactly what happened, how we dealt with it, and what we learned.
The odds are better with hosting. When the core of your business is hosting, a problem in your data center isn't just a bad day. At Rackspace, we collect evidence from such rare incidents and make improvements that elevate the whole industry. Some who fear letting go of their IT assets cite public failures of cloud and hosting providers as evidence for retaining internal control of assets. But we see it like the difference between air and auto travel. Plane accidents and hosting-provider crashes are exceedingly rare, but get lots of publicity. Meanwhile, auto accidents happen all the time (with far more fatalities), and so do corporate data- center problems. They're just not reported. Every time a service provider has a failure, it's an opportunity for the whole hosting industry to get that much better at running an IT estate than any single IT department.
Phone responsiveness. We answer the phone in two rings. On the other end of the line is a real person who actually works for Rackspace, not some offshore third party. You can call us or chat with us live, 24x7x365. You will be routed to your team, who knows your configuration and can quickly diagnose the issue or answer your question. Customers receive their Account Managers' phone numbers. We openly share information and give our customers access to our C-level executives when needed. How many service providers can say that?
Empower the front line. Rules can get in the way of great customer service, so we empower our employees with very few rules beyond, "Provide great customer service." When you need to get home and an airline employee puts you on the last flight of the day without a change fee, even when it's "technically against policy," you remember that. We'd rather someone make a mistake in your favor than follow policy to the letter and disappoint you. You quite literally come first.
We follow the highest level dictated by the ISO/IEC 27001 standard for auditing controls as well as industry standard practices for securing and accessing our data centers. We have all the controls in place, including operating system and database best practices, physical security, internal and external network security, employee security (including background checks), and financial security. Our data centers are so airtight that even our CEO can't walk the floors without an escort with the proper clearance.
Rackspace mitigates the risks of outsourced IT by providing great customer service, watertight best practices, and software built from the ground up to run a dedicated, top-tier hosting business—our only business. We understand that outsourcing IT is a substantial shift in behavior and resource allocation for many of our customers, and we're here to guide you every step of the way. Solid SLAs, robust technology, and solid data centers are really just the beginning of a quality managed hosting business. In the end, the only way to truly gain your trust is to earn it with Fanatical Support and by acting with integrity. At Rackspace, that's our specialty.
Paul Croteau, Solutions Evangelist, Enterprise Marketing: Paul Croteau is a 20-year I/T veteran that joined Rackspace in February of 2005. After seven years as an engineer, he recently joined the Rackspace enterprise marketing team. Prior to joining Rackspace Paul worked at companies large and small – most of which have been acquired and changed names – including Andersen Consulting, EDS, Data Return, SBC. He has designed, installed, supported, account managed, sold and trained in the I/T industry since 1991, taking a break in the mid- 1990s to enroll in graduate school full time to earn an M.B.A at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He also holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Texas, one of the most prestigious music schools in the world.
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Derek Sparks tells a different kind of football story
"Just carry the ball," is what Derek Sparks heard from his coaches. He listened and did that very well without questioning until the reality of what that truly meant impacted his future education and potential career.
Engagement: Bethel - Bourne
During a surprise three-day visit to Italy, Jason Bourne proposed to Danica Bethel in a gondola on a canal in Venice.


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I have install Maple13 and GRTensorII on my PC (Ubuntu12.04) ~ but GRTensor dosent work ! When i start Maple13 ,there are the words "Error, "/home/herb/.mapleinit" is an empty file".
Is anybody can help me out of it? I really have done the following in README:
3. Go to the INSTALLDIR. In this directory you will find a file called mapleinit.sample. This is a Maple configuration script which has been configured automatically based on the value you specified as the installation directory. Copy the contents of this file to the file .mapleinit in your home directory.
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First published in Cleantech Infocus: UK Innovation in Fuel Cells and Hydrogen, in partnership with the Technology Strategy Board, October 2012
The recent success of Team GB in the London 2012 Olympics was testimony to years of strategic investment by the UK Government – combined with an element of 'home team advantage.' International success in industry, as with sport, requires strategic investment on the part of government – and in this technological age, investment in new technology is key to a strong industrial base, with the associated benefits of economic growth and job creation.
The Technology Strategy Board, the UK's government-backed innovation agency, has adopted a unique approach to cultivating technology innovation. In this publication we review its work within the clean technology sector of fuel cells and hydrogen.
The Technology Strategy Board adopts, as its name suggests, a 'strategic' approach to the support of technology innovation. This approach, which governments elsewhere are considering replicating, aims to enable the cost effective, 'more bang for your buck' roll-out of new technologies, products and services that meet global market needs and tackle societal challenges. And all with the aim of helping to both accelerate growth and build the future economy.
The examples in these pages, projects which have received support through the Technology Strategy Board over the years, demonstrate the role of the organisation in helping to bring new technologies closer to market.
The UK looks set to become a significant player in the emerging hydrogen economy as these industries now start to enter the mainstream - due, at least in part, to the focus provided by the Technology Strategy Board.
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Some folks probably took offense when President Obama sat down for an interview with The New Republic and said, "I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football."
The headline on the Daily Beast said, "Obama Takes a Swipe at Football."
I'm not really arguing whether the comment was a "swipe" or not, but I am wondering: if you have a son, did you or will you let him play football?
Here's a confession: When our grown son was a kid and wanted to play, I said no.
He played baseball and soccer, both dangerous sports. He skied, he got his driver's license on the day he turned 16, he….well, let's just say I said yes to a lot of potentially dangerous things. But when he was little and it was my choice to make about football, I found I couldn't say yes.
I like football. I admire the folks who are involved in the sport. But every time I thought about Buddyo playing, I imagined him in a neck brace or worse. (It didn't help that I once interviewed a top flight player who really did break his neck.)
Interesting to look back at all of the decisions we Middle Laners made that involved the safety of our kids. We made them every day, sometimes a dozen times a day, and it goes without saying, some of those calls were wrong. Today, if I were to generalize, I'd say today's parents are over-protective.
Go figure.
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- 2012 was a big year for target spot in Southeast cotton
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TARGET SPOT IN cotton continues to spread throughout the Southeast and has caused yield loss in some fields.
Looking at time frame
Researchers continue to look at the time frame that the leafspot and defoliation develop, says Hagan.
"I had two trials where I rated cotton over an extended period of time. In the central Alabama study, the spotting probably started about mid-July, and the cotton was about 55 days old at that time.
"On the Gulf Coast, the leafspotting got started at the end of July, and this cotton was planted in early May, making it 75 to 80 days old, so we really haven't pinned down the time frame of when the leafspotting begins."
Studies conducted this past year were intended to help determine the type of yield loss that might occur due to target spot in cotton, says Hagan.
"We used Phytogen 499 and Deltapine 1050, which we identified in 2011 as being susceptible and maybe a little less susceptible, respectively, to this disease in a variety trial. At the end of the season, just before the cotton was sprayed with a defoliant, we had about 80 percent leaf shed in the untreated Phytogen 499 versus about 50 percent in the Deltapine."
It's very hard to define how much yield loss is occurring, and it's hard to set up a trial in order to get the high level of disease control needed to show that, he says.
The estimate was made of 250 pounds of lint per acre, on average. Some consultants in Georgia suggested that the yield loss in some cases was up to 600 pounds per acre. These, however, are rough estimates, says Hagan.
"We do know that target spot does reduce the yield of cotton," he says.
"On Phytogen 499, as the disease intensified, yield went down. We need to more specifically determine what the yield loss might be. On the Deltapine variety, as the disease intensified, yield did not go down.
"As we increased the number of Headline applications on Phytogen 499, we got a 100-pound increase in yield with each successive Headline application. By the time we got done with five Headline applications, we came up with a 600-pound increase in seed cotton yield.
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"With DPL 1050, we also got a significant yield gain as the number of Headline applications increased. With that variety, it was an increase of about 60 pounds of seed cotton per application."
There are risk factors to be considered in target spot incidence, says Hagan.
"There is some difference in sensitivity among cotton varieties to this disease. You'd think that crop rotation would have a major impact with this pathogen, but that's still up in the air.
"When we've gone out and looked at problems, it seems like the worst incidence of the disease has come in fields where cotton followed cotton in strip- or no-till production. We also need to look at the influence of tillage on this disease.
"The other factor is canopy moisture. You can't look at higher defoliation and say that will be the higher or lower yielding variety."
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The national spotlight will shine on a Lehigh County high school student during the famous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!
Ashley Williams is a senior trumpet player at Emmaus High School.
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It helps that the star of the movie titled "The Undefeated" is former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Signs and people lining the streets of Pella is an unusual sight, so folks knew something was in the air.
Then the star of the evening arrived. Fans reached for their cameras, hoped for a handshake, and supported Palin no matter what the media has to say about her.
"I don't get caught up into all the stupid hype, you know, the bad things they want to say about her," one bystander told CBN News.
"I appreciate her conservative values and she's a Christian," said Dick Strange, an Iowa voter.
The film portrays Palin as a tough-as-nails governor who faces constant criticism. She was not involved with the production of the film. The director, Stephen Bannon, is simply a big fan.
"It was the pop culture, just vulgarity and violence against this woman that was just incredible. (There were) paintings of her being crucified, paintings of her with her face ripped off, paintings of her with just all forms of physical violence," Bannon told CBN News.
After the event, Palin mingled at a cookout with the local townsfolk and also got up close and personal with her fans.
Besides her fans, the media also mobbed Palin with questions. CBN News managed to get a question or two in as she stopped to talk to us.
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You can't get much different when it comes to background when looking at the 285-pound match at the 2010 NWCA All-Star Classic presented by the Marines.
On one side of the mat will be Central Michigan's Jarod Trice, a junior from the rough suburb of Highland Park, outside of Detroit, Mich. On the other, will be Chechen born-Moscow bred Alan Gelogaev of Oklahoma State.
Growing up wrestling nearly 5,000 miles apart, the two will face off for the first time on November 21 at Selland Arena in Fresno, Calif.
Trice, an All-American last year for Tom Borrelli's Chippewas, spent the summer training in freestyle and Greco-Roman, winning both styles at the University Nationals. Gelogaev, or "Z" as he's called by pretty much everyone, trained in his more comfortable freestyle, was a workout partner for the U.S. World Team and beefed up from 197 pounds, where he was an All-American last year in his first full collegiate season.
Fans shouldn't expect a snoozer here, both wrestlers like to throw - a lot. Trice went 27-5 en route to an eighth-place finish at the 2010 NCAA Division I Championships. Trice has the throw in his arsenal if needed, becoming a more patient wrestler under Borrelli's tutelage.
Gelogaev's throws are there, and he uses them. Adapting to American folkstyle wrestling, the Cowboy junior went 30-9 with eight falls at 197 pounds and finished seventh at the NCAA Championships. He'll be moving up to heavyweight for the 2010-11 season.
The 45th Annual NWCA All-Star Classic Presented by The Marines will be held at the Selland Arena in Fresno, California on Sunday, November 21, 2010. The doors open at 2:00 p.m. The All-Star Classic follows a weekend of fundraising events. For more information about the tournament, purchasing tickets and the fundraising events, visit the www.nwcaonline.com's event page.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Scott Prillaman swiped the lead from Jordan Wood on the white-flag circuit and picked up the win in the 50-lap Machinery Movers Top Dog race, the featured event of Saturday evening's KISS 105.7 Night program for Arena Racing USA at the Richmond Coliseum.
The victory, his third of the season, gave Prillaman a Top Dog/A Main sweep for the night. Prillaman beat Wood to the flagstand by half a car-length. Travis Wall was third, while Matt Midgett and Tommy Jackson, Jr. completed the top five.
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Who Keeps Love Boat's Doc, Bernie Kopell, on An Even Keel? A Mogul Wife Named Yolanda
How to account for the longevity of the series, whose formula calls for the resolution of three romantic tangles (usually including one farce, one straight comedy, one tear-jerker) per 60-minute show? Comedian Dick Shawn, a guest star, found a simple answer: "If Disney did a porno flick, the result would be Love Boat." Bernie Kopell, the skirt-chasing "Doc" Adam Bricker on the series' cruise-liner set, has a loftier notion: "It's a fantasy that transports viewers out of their very real problems—crime, inflation, pollution, overpopulation. It's evocative of the Depression, when people would go to a show to lift their spirits."
Maybe. But doubtless one reason for the show's success is just the amiability of its good-guy regulars: captain Gavin Macleod, bartender Ted Lange, cruise director Lauren Tewes, yeoman-purser Fred Grandy and, not least of all, Kopell. The Doc has emerged from the show, at 49, as something of a heartthrob, a fact, he admits, "that still makes my head reverberate."
It should. On Love Boat Kopell is the four-times-divorced M.D. who is forever plotting to put the make on the female passengers he greets at the start of each show. In real life he's reticent with women; he's the sort who admits that his first attempt at a kiss, as a tremulous Brooklyn kid at summer camp, was a downright "trauma." He's also stuck on his wife of seven years, Yolanda Veloz, 34, a California beauty who quit TV for a career in real estate. And on the trips that the 150-member Love Boat cast and crew take on cruise liners to shoot part of their 25 annual episodes, Bernie brings Yolanda along. "It's dangerous for people not to be with each other," he says.
Kopell, the cast cutup, can be a hazard all by himself on the cruises. Ted Lange remembers one night on last year's trip to Australia when he got "a wee tipsy" with Bernie and Fred Grandy: "We were talking about old movies that had people falling downstairs. So we decided to see how it would work falling upstairs. It was much harder." On this year's voyage, a 54-day May-June jaunt to the Mediterranean, Doc really got to play a doctor. During a call at the port of Kusadasi in Turkey, where Love Boat is popular, an outdoor fete was held for the visitors. Suddenly some hydrogen-filled balloons exploded, leaving Grandy with second-degree burns on his hands. Kopell reports that he and others "stayed with Fred all night to keep him happy and stimulated—there's a critical time for a burned person when his body can go into shock." Grandy soon recovered—though he played a few Love Boat scenes with bandaged hands.
Ashore or afloat, Kopell's favorite Rx is his wife. Though Yolanda is more of a casting director's idea of a sex object than Bernie, she's "not interested in show business," he says. After five years appearing in series like McCloud and Baretta, she traded her SAG card for a real estate license in 1975. She bought the eight L.A.-area houses (seven of them rented out) which she and Bernie own and earns fat commissions selling prime properties to clients like comedian Jerry Van Dyke and director John (Escape From New York) Carpenter. "Yolanda's a magician," says Ted Lange. "My wife, Sherryl, and I told her what we wanted, and in less than a month we were closing the deal." Bernie's happy too: "Whatever I've made has grown because of Yolanda's financial ability."
The son of a jeweler, Bernie grew up a loner. "Because I stayed by myself," he says, "I became interested in other people's lives and found I could duplicate their mannerisms." At 13, while in summer camp, he was drawn to acting. "It was a tremendous opportunity not to be me," he explains. After studying Shakespeare and Shaw at New York University, he started performing at an upstate theater. He first went to sea as a librarian ("Nobody else wanted the job") on the battleship Iowa. When he got out of the Navy two years later, in 1957, his actor friend James Drury steered him to L.A. Bernie soon found himself hawking vacuum cleaners and driving cabs for a living.
His first movie role came a year later when one of his fares, producer Dick Einfeld, gave him a two-line part in The Oregon Trail; by then Kopell was broke and living on an L.A. estate in a tool shed "small enough to heat with a hot plate." In 1962 he won work on The Brighter Day and The Jack Benny Show, but the next year saw the end of his brief marriage to actress CeeCee Whitney. He would later win roles as the supercilious German agent on Don Adams' spy spoof Get Smart and as Mario Thomas' neighbor Jerry on That Girl. By 1964 Kopell was finding success "difficult to deal with," as he puts it. In fact, he temporarily put aside Science of Mind, a self-help, positive-thinking philosophy he embraced in 1960, and started psychotherapy.
Gradually his life turned around. In 1973 he met Yolanda on the NBC series Needles and Pins. He played a hotshot clothing salesman, she a model. They dated, but it was almost a year before marriage was mentioned. Then one night he cracked, "So many of our friends are getting divorced, why should we screw up a good thing?" Her reply: "I hate you, Bernie Kopell." Suddenly he realized that where there's hate, there's real passion. They wed soon after.
Yolanda was the "very shy" daughter of the ballroom stars Frank Veloz and Yolanda Casazza, who were lionized on a 1939 LIFE cover as America's "greatest dancing couple." She made her own dance debut at 7 with her 9-year-old brother, Tony. After graduating in 1970 from California State University, Northridge, as a speech major, Yolanda's affluent world crashed. Her parents, separated since she was 10, not only divorced but lost almost everything in a failed chain of dance studios. "All the money left town," she says. "My parents had more talent than business sense." Then her oldest brother, Nick, died of cancer at 26. Yolanda spent a year in social work in East L.A.'s Mexican-American community. "I loved it," she says, "but I became so involved, I couldn't sleep." Tragedy struck again in 1972, when Tony committed suicide at 27, after the death of his wife in a still-unexplained homicide. Yolanda plunged into TV acting, but found it hollow: "I always played the hooker who gets killed off in the first scene." She credits Bernie with her success in business: "My lack of confidence was so strong, he had to keep telling me to go out and try."
Their San Fernando Valley house sports a pool, a tennis court and an oversize hot tub in the bathroom off the master bedroom. Though pals like James Franciscus and Dick Van Patten often drop by for tennis, they no longer get Yolanda to play what she calls "mixed troubles" with Bernie. "I kept giving her little suggestions like, 'Bend your knees, lardass,' " he explains.
Bernie and Yolanda devour health foods and dine two or three nights a week on just popcorn with Parmesan cheese. "You can eat all you want and it doesn't show on the scale," he explains. They're disappointed at not having had children and are thinking about adopting. Otherwise their life is smooth sailing—thanks in large part to Yolanda's touch with both bucks and Bernie. "I'm aware that actors have times of highs and lows," she says. "I wanted to make our financial life secure. Now Bernie will never have to take a job he doesn't want."
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NewU fitness game released today!
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Naruto Shippuden movie DVD release date!
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Riverman Media Annouces Cash Cow for the iPod Touch/ iPhone
Riverman Media has announced several new uncoming titles for the iPod Touch/ iPhone. Cash Cow is a coin counting game which gives player the chance to help Buck the Cow and friends save the farm. The objective is to earn money by counting your loose change. Small coins make up bigger coins which make up dollars. Add in counterfeit money, ladybugs, gold nuggets, glowing coins, and powerups for a challenging game. Cash Cow promises an intuitive controls, interactive tutorials, an indepth combo system, the chance to custom build farms with windmills, haystacks, chickens, and many other animals. Other upcoming games include Underground and Super Shock Football both expected to be released shortly. Minigore Episode 2 is also coming to the Apps Store soon. FollowRead more →By GamergirlSB in Mobile No comments yet
Order Pizza Mid-Game With Papa Johns & PS3
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Jones to release Dungeons & Dragons soda
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Konami Announces Reflection for the DSi
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Spore Creature Creator in 2-D
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Is TV dead? When you look at the growth of online video consumption it starts to feel like TV is quickly becoming passé. But the fact is that TV is still important to many big brand marketers. So no, TV isn't dead.
But what about online video?
The growth of online video
Online video is starting to become more important. And even though TV advertising continues to grow, online video consumption is growing at a faster clip. Nielsen reports that US online video consumption is up 45% year-over-year.
- 174 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in March for an average of 14.8 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience engaged in more than 5.7 billion viewing sessions during the course of the month. (source: comScore)
Last week I went to the IAB Case Study Roadshow in San Francisco. The event showcased examples of interactive advertising campaigns. It was created by and for interactive advertisers. Advertisers and their agencies co-presented nine different case studies, sharing data and insights from their campaigns.
If there was one theme that I thought was pervasive, it was online video advertising. And online video advertising is becoming a lot like TV commercials.
Exclusive Online Video Content = Targeted Advertising Opportunities
The Internet has now become the most effective way to reach an audience. So it's no wonder the entertainment industry has begun using the Internet to broadcast exclusive content. For example, Kiefer Sutherland's new series, The Confession, is being broadcast exclusively on Hulu.com. Are videos we see pre-roll, or post-roll something we can, therefore, start calling commercials?
This is exciting because it means advertisers can buy targeted and re-targeted online video advertising opportunities for exclusive online video content that's coming out. You can't really do that on TV.
Targeted Video Ads
What about video content that is produced exclusively for brands to advertise? Are they infomercials?
Big brand advertisers still see TV as an important element in their marketing mix. Why? Because TV still remains an important and growing distribution channel for entertainment and news. As online video consumption grows, however, the Internet will increasingly become just as important, if not more important, for advertisers that need to reach the right audience at the right time. Likewise, most TV networks encourage viewers to consume content online as well.
Although online video advertising is growing, online video ads still do not represent a significant interruption to the online viewing experience.
TV commercials are too expensive for more companies, so we don't see TV as part of the small and mid-sized companies' advertising budget. SMBs are more inclined to spend their advertising and marketing budget on targeted events, online marketing, and direct mail.
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Don't forget about mobile marketing! HTML5 will mean video plays easier in mobile browsers. Online mobile video consumption will go through the roof. So plan your video so that it can be enjoyed in a mobile browser as well.[approved]By 2015, two-thirds of all mobile data traffic will be video. And, mobile data traffic will increase 26 times by that point! (source: Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast)[/approved]
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Defeat the perfect tonic for Kingdom
Published 28/04/2008 | 00:00
Kerry got the best possible shot in the arm for their three-in-a-row All-Ireland hopes when they they were decisively dumped on their backsides by Derry at Parnell Park yesterday.
It had become obvious in recent months that complacency was going to be Pat O'Shea's biggest problem as the season progressed, but that is all gone now.
It is clear that if Kerry want to go all the way they will need to play their strongest team, show more versatility in response to dominant opponents and forget the notion their forwards will always be fancy enough to cod the opposition.
That is what Kerry tried and did in the first half yesterday, when Kieran Donaghy and Darren O'Sullivan played ducks and drakes with the Derry backs, and with 26 minutes gone, they led by 2-6 to 0-4.
Obviously, Kerry players believed what they were seeing and were deluded into thinking that Derry would be playing like this all day. Instead, once the Derry midfielders, particularly Fergal Doherty, began to take control of that area Kerry's goose was cooked.
In the remaining 10 minutes of the first period, Derry scored 1-2 without reply. And for the final 26 minutes of the second half Kerry managed just one point, scored by defender Tomas O Se, while Derry rattled off seven points to crush the All-Ireland champions.
In the process, cracks developed in the Kerry machine in several areas. Midfield disappeared and Darragh O Se's lame attempt at an easy point in the 34th minute summed up his display.
With midfield out of the picture, particularly when Derry's Paul Murphy arrived, the Kerry forwards had no tricks to play, Gooch or no Gooch, because they hardly got a decent ball in the whole second half.
Equally worrying for Kerry was the way their back line was dismantled in the final 35 minutes. We all expected Paddy Bradley to make a major impact, which he did, but all the Derry forwards were in rampant mood and the Kerry defence was creaking badly from an early stage. It was definitely a very bad day at the office for the Kingdom.
But it was a great day for Derry football after some rather torturous years and it is obvious that they are serious All-Ireland contenders this year, possibly the leading contenders at this moment.
They have three or four powerful midfield players, their back line is ruthless yet skilful, and their forwards have now become more versatile, with the playmakers no longer merely directing every ball to Bradley.
Indeed, the contrast with Kerry in that regard was significant as the Kingdom seemed to have only one attacking ploy, which was to thump high balls on top of Donaghy.
And what a boost it was for Derry to see Sean Martin Lockhart, who had missed the entire league campaign through injury, returning to action as a sub yesterday.
This is a very formidable panel of players in Derry and it will be a surprise if they cannot reach the last eight in the Championship by winning the Ulster title. That is provided they place the emphasis on their many skilful players rather than having a contest to see which is the hardest team in Ulster.
As always with Kerry, they will lick their wounds, knuckle down to getting a whole lot fitter and study the 2008 calendar to maximise their approach to the forthcoming championship.
Yesterday's rebuff will surely be pivotal in the 2008 competition and no doubt Kerry will learn from it -- as so often in the past.
Missing players not the only concern for woeful Blues
So ghastly were many of the performances from leading Dublin players against Westmeath on Saturday night that there have to be serious questions over the general welfare of the team as they prepare for the Leinster and All-Ireland championship.
A total of three lousy points from 39 minutes of second-half action is a damning indictment of the quality of many Dublin players. Granted Westmeath are the most improved team in the national league since last February and Dublin were missing half a team, but nevertheless the way several leading Dublin players performed has to be a source of major concern. For example, five of Dublin's best defenders of recent years were playing against Westmeath -- David Henry, Barry Cahill, Colin Moran, Bryan Cullen and Paul Casey along with goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton. These have been front-line players in big championship matches over the past three seasons yet they were simply brushed aside by Westmeath with Dermot Bannon, Denis Glennon and Fergal Wilson in particular destroying their direct opponents.
Now Dublin fans can cast aside Saturday's game as they see fit but more discerning Dublin football people will realise that there are huge problems ahead as both individuals and the team look desperately out of sorts. I watched Dublin face Armagh a couple of weeks ago and the pattern was very similar with the Dublin defence simply swept aside by more enthusiastic and determined opponents. Some people will say, of course, that Dublin are only interested in the 2008 championship from August on and with a possibly fourth successive Leinster championships to come one could argue that to a point. But football is not usually such a precise science that things can be planned that way.
The biggest source of concern for Dublin is the loss of form by so many previously established players. The pathetic free-taking of Mark Vaughan against Westmeath is typical of this uncertainty. One man who did prove his worth was wing halfback Ger Brennan who did show the sort of mentality that is normally associated with Dublin on big-match days. The same could be said for Jason Sherlock -- that is until he went off injured during the first half.
There is still lots of time for Dublin to make a vast improvement even though the shoal of recent suspensions, nine in all if Alan Brogan is included, will have a disruptive effect for some time. But Leinster does not look too challenging for Dublin and that may buy them time to re-equip and go forward again.
Westmeath's victory was a huge achievement despite the weakened opposition. They played marvellous football, full of skill, showing incredible teamwork and a daredevil approach to football that is very rare in these days when managers try to hold every player's hand rather than give them their head.
The return of Martin Flanagan, again, has brought a new approach to the whole team and the moving of former fullback Donal O'Donoghue to the middle third of the field has also revolutionised things.
Westmeath have three outstanding forwards at least in Bannon, Glennon and Dessie Dolan and when you have scoring forwards in the modern game you have a huge head start. It would be interesting, for example, to work out how many of the Westmeath forwards would be selected for a full-strength Dublin team -- probably three.
However, there is a very important caveat for Westmeath. They may be playing very well and have moved into Division 1 football but next Sunday week they must travel to play Longford in Pearse Park in the championship. That is a a very high risk assignment, even if Longford are at a low ebb at the moment. Local derbies don't come just with high profile counties -- contests with Longford and Westmeath are just as volatile among fans and players as May 15 will prove. So Westmeath would be foolish to start counting up chickens!


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Two employees of a North Bergen Walmart were arrested yesterday after being accused of under-ringing, according to North Bergen police.
Rosemary Vega, 27, of Union City and Nickole Amponsah, 25, of Newark, worked the front registers in the Walmart and voided purchases to allow certain customers and themselves to walk away with merchandise for free, officers said.
The Asset Protection Manager at the Walmart observed the two women under-ringing and confronted them about it, at which point they admitted to committing the crime, officers said.
Vega voided a purchase of $138 and let a customer leave the store without paying, while Amponsah voided $188 worth of merchandise that Vega bought and let her leave the store without paying, officers said.
Both were charged with under-ringing, which is a disorderly persons offenses, while Vega was additionally charged with shoplifting, according to police.
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Canoeing and tennis begin. So does a new event: synchronized swimming (with American favorites Candy Costie and Tracie Ruiz). Some track finals: the men's 110-meter hurdles, featuring Greg Foster, and the men's long jump with Carl Lewis. And the women's springboard finals, featuring favorite Kelly McCormick, daughter of two-time double-gold-winner Pat McCormick.
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