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Talk of the TownMarch 21,2013
Mmm, mmm good!
BARRE The Cornerstone Pub & Kitchen plans to crown a chili champion during a cancer benefit this weekend, but were told the restaurant earned bragging rights of its own at the annual Taste of Vermont legislative reception on Tuesday.
Those who braved the wintry weather to attend the event sponsored by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce were given a chance to sample foods and vote for their favorites.
Well give you three guesses who won this years Peoples Choice Award and the first two dont count.
The best taste of 2013 BBQ Braised Pork Shank with Smoked Bacon Jalapeno Mac & Cheese, and Collard Greens was prepared by (drum roll please...) the crew from the Cornerstone.
As regular readers may recall the Cornerstone is hosting its own taste test a classic chili challenge on Sunday. When last we checked they were still looking for a few folks to prepare a batch of chili (its $25 to enter and you can register at the restaurant) and were getting ready for Sundays 1 to 4 p.m. event that will feature live entertainment by Dave Keller.
The price of admission for folks who arent cooking is $10. There will be plenty of chili, live music, and raffles. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Vermont Cancer Survivor Network.
Glass what?
BARRE Word that a new tobacco and glass shop is planning to open above Planet Rock in the space formerly occupied by Rock City Tattoo seemed to befuddle at least one member of the City Council this week.
Glass shop? Councilor Michael Boutin asked. So theyre going to be selling glasses?
Boutins question was greeted with a chorus of pipes and tobacco pipes before Mayor Thomas Lauzon weighed in.
Lets just leave it at pipes, Lauzon said.
And the council did.
Jack the ripper?
BARRE TOWN Its not like he hacked and slashed or anything, but Jack Mitchell did turn a few heads Tuesday night when he offered up a surgical cut to one of several town budgets that are still a work in progress.
It was nothing really a scant savings of $675 but the rest of the members of the towns budget committee sure made it sound like Mitchell never met a line item he didnt like.
Technically Mitchell didnt cut anything. He was simply persuaded by Selctman Doug Newtons observation that a 22-ton floor jack would be an economical alternative to the 25-ton version Town Manager Carl Rogers requested.
The idea of Mitchell cutting anything had Select Board Chairman Jeff Blow marking his calendar, and the fact that Mitchell (a Jack himself) cut a jack earned him some friendly ribbing from other members of the committee.
Something borrowed
WILLIAMSTOWN Its not like members of the Williamstown Historical Society came up with the idea of sponsoring an ice out as a local fund-raiser, but their annual guessing game (modeled after the one on Joes Pond) turns 10 this year.
Its all over but the ticket sales according to Becky Watson, who tells us the familiar block and flag have been placed out on Lotus Lake and tickets are selling for $1 apiece. You can pick them up at the town offices, the Ainsworth Public Library, Behind the Scenes Café, and from members of the historical society. Just call 433-5565 if you have any questions.
The ice in Williamstown doesnt last as long as the ice in West Danville and last year the ice out ended earlier than ever before on March 23 at 4:04 p.m. However, if youre looking for trends you wont find one because in 2011 the contest lasted longer than ever before, finally ending on April 25 at 7:26 p.m.
Some time in April is a pretty safe bet. April 3, 9, 13, 14, 15, 19 and 22 have been the other lucky days in the contest started by Adam Boyce. All you have to do is pick a date and time (a.m. or p.m.), pay $1 by April 1, and cross your fingers.
Whoever comes closest to guessing when the ice goes out wins 50 percent of the proceeds from the ticket sales. The rest, as they say, goes to the historical society.
Theyre baaack!
BARRE Back in the day when the Asian Gourmet was the Country House (thats pre-Lucias and Sean & Noras for folks keeping score), Barre Rotarians held their weekly meetings in downtown Barre.
After many years of Wednesday meetings at the Hilltop Restaurant in neighboring Barre Town, the club has decided to shake things up again.
They arent meeting at the Country House (or the Asian Gourmet for that matter), but they have brought things back downtown and will be meeting at the Quarry Grill and Tavern at the corner of North Main Street and Depot Square until further notice.
Organ donors?
WILLIAMSTOWN Thanks to the generous donations of folks who live in and around Williamstown, members of the Williamstown Congregational Church were able to raise the $81,000 it took to restore an 1878 Nutting Organ that will get yet another workout this weekend.
The organ, which was restored three years ago, will be the center of attention Sunday when the church hosts its fourth annual Area Organists Concert.
Montpeliers Stephen Morse, William Spear of Northfield, and Moretowns Isaac James will all be in Williamstown for the 3 p.m. concert that is open to all. Donations will be accepted but arent required, and refreshments will be served after all three organists have taken their turns on the old pipe organ.
History maker?
BERLIN Were pretty sure Jeremy Hansen made history in a town that will turn 250 on June 8 (more on that as the date approaches) and he did it at his very first Select Board meeting.
It was nothing really.
Hansen, who ran unopposed for the seat previously held by Craig Frazier, arrived at the meeting with his laptop, marking the first time that a sitting member of Berlins Select Board enlisted computer assistance during one of their Monday night meetings.MORE IN Central VermontMIDDLEBURY According to WebMD, Dystonia is a movement disorder that causes a persons muscles ... Full StoryTiffany Briggs and Kayla Jackson eyed each other across the table, clasped hands, and then it was... Full StoryMARLBORO Police are investigating a burglary on Higley Hill Road. Full Story
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Software: Photoshop Elements
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If you are like me, the act of trying to find the best images to work on in my ever-growing picture library becomes more and more difficult. What's the answer to locating those hero shots quickly?
Photoshop Elements has two key features designed to bring order to your photos – Keyword Tags and Albums. Keyword Tags are simple, often single-word descriptors, that can be added to your photos and used to help organise your images. The Keyword Tags panel stores the tags, and provides an easy drag and drop approach to adding tags to selected photos. The panel is grouped together with the Albums and Properties panels in the new Task pane and was previously called the Organize Bin.
Photoshop Elements also uses Albums (previously called Collections) as a way to organise your photos. Albums allows you to allocate the same image to several different groups. Unlike in the old days with simple folders-based systems, this doesn't mean the file is duplicated and stored multiple times in different folders; instead, the picture is only stored or saved once and a series of Album associations indicates its membership in different groups.
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1 To create a new keyword tag, select the New Keyword Tag option from the '+' button menu at the top of the Tags panel. In the Create Keyword Tag dialogue select a category for the new tag, add in a name and include any explanatory notes. Click OK to close the dialogue and add the new keyword tag to the tag list.
2 Now to add the tags. To add a tag to a single image, click and drag the tag from the Keyword Tags panel to the thumbnail image in the Organizer workspace. To add a single tag to multiple thumbnails, multi-select the thumbnails in the images and then drag the tag from the Keyword Tags panel onto one of the selected thumbnails.
3 To find tagged photos, click the Keyword Tag entry in the Keyword Tags panel. To return the browser back to the original catalogue of thumbnails, click on the Show All button (previously Back to All Photos) at the top of the thumbnail group.
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Get Organised by Using Albums – It Will Pay Dividends
1 To start using Albums, make a new album by clicking on the '+' button in the Albums panel and selecting the New Album menu item. In the Create Album dialogue choose the group that the new album will belong to, add the name and include any explanation details for the group. Click O.
2 To add images to your newly created album select the photos to be included in the album in the Organizer and drag them to the Album heading in the Albums panel. Single photos or even groups of pictures can be added to more than one album at a time by multi-selecting the album names first before dragging the images to the pane.
3 To view all the pictures in an album, simply click on the Album heading in the Albums panel. Notice that each thumbnail in the album display contains a number in the top left corner. This allows the images to be sequenced (click and drag to a new position) before being used in creating Elements's photo projects such as Slideshows.

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Major W.R. Randy Robertson began his career in 1985 with the Muscogee County Sheriffs Office as a Jailor assigned to the Muscogee County Jail. During his tenure he has worked in all bureaus of the agency and is currently assigned to the Administrative Bureau.
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The Administrative Bureau works as a hub for the Sheriffs Office. All incoming civil process and criminal warrants are received and processed through the Administrative Bureau. This Bureau also provides administrative support to the various bureaus within the Sheriffs Office.


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Leonid Meteor Storm Forecast
Meteor Storm Forecast NASA scientists have just released new predictions
for the 2002 Leonid meteor storm.
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Oct. 9, 2002: A New Mexican desert. A graveyard in West Virginia. The International Space Station (ISS). What do these places have in common? Experts say they're good spots to watch the 2002 Leonid meteor storm.
"We've calculated meteor rates for 58 cities around the world and for the space station," says Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Space Environments Team. "People who live in North America or Europe or onboard the ISS are going to see a lot of Leonids this year."
Above: Walter Pacholka photographed this Leonid streaking over the Joshua Tree National Park, CA, on Nov. 18, 2001. Copyright W. Pacholka. [gallery]
Earth will plow into the second cloud about six hours later (1030 UT or 5:30 a.m. EST) and cause an even bigger outburst over North America. "Observers here in the United States could see as many as 2000 per hour," he predicts.
Other parts of the world will be sprinkled with Leonids, too, but nothing like Europe or North America. If the predictions are correct, observers in Asia, Australia, South America and much of Africa will count no more than a few dozen bright meteors in a one-hour span.
Click on the name of the city nearest your hometown. [sample]
Above: Bill Cooke of the NASA/MSFC Space Environments Group prepared these city-by-city forecasts of Leonid activity in 2002. The colored curves denote predictions by three teams (Asher-McNaught, Jenniskens, Lyytinen-Van Flandern) who successfully forecast the 2001 storm. Note that the rates (vertical axis) correspond to 15-minute intervals; also, all times (horizontal axis) are local--that is, the time in the city specified. [more]
Although millions of people will experience either the European outburst or the North American outburst, only three people will see both: the crew of the International Space Station.
"The ISS will be flying over Europe during the first outburst," explains Rob Suggs, leader of the Space Environments Team. "Then it will pass over North America during the second outburst. Perfect timing!" Astronauts looking out the station's windows could spot more meteors than anyone else.
Meteor watching from the space station isn't like meteor watching from the ground. On Earth we look up to see shooting stars. On the ISS they look down. That's because meteoroids glow when they disintegrate in Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of about 80 km. The ISS orbits Earth about 300 km higher than that, so from the point of view of an astronaut meteors appear underfoot. (Astronaut Frank Culbertson described his experience watching the 2001 Leonids from the ISS in Science@NASA's "Space Station Meteor Shower.")
Left: The International Space Station high above Earth. Astronauts inside the ISS must look down toward Earth's atmosphere to see meteors. [more]
Observers on the ISS and on Earth will be equally bothered during this year's shower by a glaring full Moon. "Moonlight will reduce the number of Leonids seen by some factor between 2 and 5," says Cooke. "We took this into account when we calculated our forecasts."
Along the east coast of North America, the meteor outburst will happen just before local dawn. "That's good," says Suggs, "because at that time of night, the Moon will be low in the western sky. Try to find a dark observing site where the Moon sets early behind tall buildings or surrounding hills." A country graveyard, say, in one of the mountainous Appalachian states might be an ideal spot, he laughs.
Right: This composite image shows something you don't often see: a bright full moon surrounded by stars. In real life, moonlight overwhelms all but the brightest stars and meteors. [more]
In Europe and in western parts of North America, the Moon will be high in the sky when the Leonids arrive. "That's not so good," he says. Moonlight scattered from air molecules and aerosols (e.g., water droplets, dust and pollution) makes the air glow and interferes with meteor watching. The glow will be less in places where the air is dry and pollution-free. Suggs recommends traveling to the desert, if possible, or to a mountain which rises above the local aerosol layer. "A desert mountaintop would be the perfect combination," he says.
Indeed, that's where Suggs is going, to the Sacramento Mountains of southern New Mexico. He's leading a team there to record the North American outburst using image-intensified video cameras. "Our job," explains Suggs, "is to improve meteoroid activity forecasts for spacecraft. Observing these showers from Earth helps refine our models." Suggs will also have teams in Spain, Alabama, the Canary Islands and Arizona, "so we'll be able to monitor both peaks."
"I'd rather watch the shower from the ISS," allows Suggs, but it could be worse: New Mexico is ones of the best places on Earth to see the 2002 Leonids, and "it beats a graveyard any day."
Editor's note: During the Leonid meteor storm, Spaceweather.com will relay near-live reports from Suggs' team and display meteor images from around the world. Tune in next month for full coverage. Also, if you're thinking about watching the Leonids from a graveyard, first get permission from your local authorities. NASA does not advocate unlawful entry ... even for a better view of the sky.more information
The 2002 Leonid meteor shower peaks at 0400 UT and 1030 UT on Nov. 19th. What is UT? The answer: Universal Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time or GMT.
The Truth about the 2002 Leonid Meteor Storm -- (Science@NASA) Another Leonid meteor storm is due in 2002. Rumor has it that a full Moon will ruin the show ... but maybe not.
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Jaw-dropping Leonids -- (Science@NASA) The author recounts his experiences during the 1998 Leonid fireball shower.
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Pikas prefer the colder climates and are generally found in mountainous regions and rocky areas where there tend to be fewer predators. There are more than 30 different species of pika that range in colour and size, across Asia, North America and parts of Europe.
Pikas are solitary animals and are found inhabiting piles of rocks close to meadows where there is little in the way. Pikas defend their territory by whistling to one another, and their large, rounded ears come in useful to hear the calls from competing pikas.
Pikas are herbivorous animals and the pika therefore has a diet based on vegetation. The pika is a diurnal animal and forages for grasses, seeds, weeds, thistles and berries during the hours of daylight.
Although the pika inhabits regions where there are few other animals, the pika has a number of predators mainly due to it's small size. The weasel is the main predator of the pika, along with birds of prey, dogs, foxes and cats.
During the mating season male and female pikas on opposite territories call to each other and form a pair bond. The female pika is able to produce two litters per year, but usually only one leads to successful young. The female pika gives birth to between 1 and 5 babies, after a gestation period of about a month. When the babies are old enough to be independent, they often settle near to their parents.


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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRI's. are among the most commonly prescribed medications in the United States.
Now, new research, just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests taking these antidepressants before surgery may increase the risk of adverse outcomes.
The study looked at more than 5-hundred-30 thousand patients over the age of 18...who had major surgery during a two-year span from 2006 to 2008. More than 72,000 had received an SSRI during their hospitalization (Cindy, I was trying not to say perioperative period because people won't know what that is, but I'm not sure during the hospitalization works. Thoughts?).
Researchers analyzed data on length of stay, readmission, bleeding events, heart issues and death after surgery.
After adjusting for factors such as obesity, pulmonary disease and depression, the data showed that patients on SSRIs before surgery had higher odds of bleeding, readmission and in-hospital mortality.
The researchers say further study is needed to determine if other patient factors or the SSRIs themselves are responsible.
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Kululu inspires his fellow invaders when he mysteriously starts helping out around the Hinata house. In other news, Momoka will stop at nothing to make a virtual love connection with Fuyuki.
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3 Steps to Ensure Social Media Won't Cost You a Job
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- With employment figures still dragging, you'd think job hunters would cover all the bases to impress a potential employer.
Creating a shiny resume, dressing sharp for that big interview, setting up references for employers to call -- even writing "thank you" notes to managers after meetings -- are all steps most serious job wranglers take in looking for work.
You risk all that if you don't behave properly online, especially when it comes to using social media.
Posting party pictures on Twitter
OilandGasPeople.com, an energy industry job placement site, surveyed more than 7,000 recruitment firms and hiring managers and found that 82% of companies big and small review an employment candidate's social media activity before extending a job offer and that 64% have "rejected" a job applicant after checking the applicant's social media profile.
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JEFFERSONVILLE, NY — Track and field teams are among the largest fielded by schools during the sports year. In some schools, a winning tradition offers an ongoing allure to younger students. Consequently, the ranks swell and points rise as there are more kids to cover events. Such is the case at Tri-Valley. As the Bears' t-shirts advertise, "Join the team and share the dream."
Sullivan West's teams are smaller in number but no less committed and talented. The two schools have a storied history of track clashes. Tri-Valley's girls are the defending Section 9 champions. Two years ago that honor belonged to the SW boys.
The annual Division IV clash was held at SW's track on April 13. A bright and balmy day provided the backdrop for the engaging encounter. Tri-Valley got early with wins in the 3200 relays. Omar Lopez, Hauk Boyes, Justin Weintraub and Aidan Woosey turned in a winning time of 9:23, while Autumn Bender, Caroline Bertholf, Alexandria Brooks and Ashley Weintraub combined for a victory in 10:43.
T-V's Brian Edwards continued his dominance in the shot put with a heave of 45-6.7, while Dominique Darby won with a throw of 36-6. In the long jump, Sullivan West's Brandon Wagner took first in 16-11, as did Hannah Feinman with a mark of 14-9.5. The duo also won the triple jump as Wagner posted a 36-7 and Feinman leaped 30-7.5. In the 110 high hurdles, T-V's Damon Lopez prevailed in 17.7. He also won the 400 intermediate hurdles in 63.3. Feinman won the 100 high hurdles in 17.5. Sullivan West's Kristina Sumfleth captured the 400 intermediate hurdles in 76.6 and surpassed her best pole vault with a winning mark of 7-6. Sullivan West's Kyle Flynn sped to victory in the 100 in 11.6 and the 200 in 24.3. T-V's Kaitlynn Greffrath was tops in the 100 in 13.5. Sullivan West's Laura Vennes took the 200 in 30.8.
T-V's Richard Johnson won the 400 in 57.7 and Alexandria Brooks won the event in 66-0. T-V took the 1600 relay won by Weintraub, Lopez, Woosley and Damon Lopez in 3:55.4. Agnes Pompeii, Bender, Brooks and Weintraub were preeminent in 4:44.6.
Omar Lopez won the 800 in 2:20.7, while Sullivan West's Rianne Erlwein won it in 2:31.3. Lopez grabbed the 1600 in 5:07.2, while Bender nabbed the 1500 in 5:20.9. Hauk Boyes won the 3200 in 10:59.7. Dani Myers won the 3000 for SW in 11:37.7. The speedy boys 400 relay went to Tri-Valley in 47.9. The Lady Bears won it in 57.6.
Westie Todd Roeder captured the discus with a heave of 134-8, while Darby won the event with a throw of 90-9. In the pole vault, T-V's Aidan Woolsey equaled his top leap at 10-0. In the high jump, it was SW's Mitch Paciga topping out at 5-0, while Kaitlynn Greffrath took the honors for T-V at 4-6.
On a chilly, rainy April 16, Tri-Valley played host to 28 schools at the annual Tri-Valley Relays. The Lady Bears won Div. II. Sullivan West was fourth and Eldred was fifth. In the boys meet, Monticello was fourth in Division I, while Tri-Valley took second in Division II. Individual local winners included the following.
Boys: From Eldred, 3200, Alex Campanella, 9:47.1; 2000 steeplechase, Hunter Proscia, 7:40. From Tri-Valley, hammer throw, Rafael Ramirez, 139-2; freshman/sophomore shot put, Brendan Tierney, 34-7½. From Monticello, 400, Tino Taylor 52.7.
Girls: From Liberty, long jump, Jessica Dunnigan, 16-1/2. Dunnigan was named the Outstanding Field Athlete. She was second in the triple jump, the 100 and the 200. From Sullivan West: f/s long jump, Feinman, 14-3. From Tri-Valley, hammer, Darby, 121-1; f/s shot put, Mareena DiMilia, 30-7½; f/s 400 relay, Devlin Jones, Sabrena Smith, Bernadette Tierney and Brittany Rennison, 61.3.
Schools are on spring break this week and action will resume on April 22, as SW hosts Deposit for baseball and softball. A full array of tennis, softball, baseball, golf and track will resume on April 25.


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The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly through the skies over Clovis during the 2002 Air Expo at Cannon Air Force Base. (File photo)
By David Irvin: CNJ staff writer
Cannon Air Force Base's Air Power Expo will open Saturday with a peaceful glider flight across the sky to the tune of the national anthem. Then it will get noisy.
Four F-16s from the 524th fighter wing will scream low over the airfield, simulating an airfield assault.
"The airfield attack is just kind of a good way for the visiting public coming to the air show to get a flavor of what these guys do in a combat situation," 1st Lt. Jennifer Geeslin said. "And that's why we are putting the airfield attack in the morning as a way to open up the show."
Parking for the show will be available at Doc Stewart Park off of U.S. Highway 60/84, just outside of Cannon's main gate. From there, spectators will be shuttled on base starting at 9 a.m. Demonstrations are set to begin just after 10 a.m.
Three F-16 pilots of the 524th fighter wing, Cpt. Russ Piggott, Cpt. Chris Breffitt and Cpt. Jeff Schwerdt, sat down to talk about the air show and why it is an important event for the base and for the public.
"I think they are probably the biggest recruiting tool that the Air Force has," Piggott said. "People go to air shows to see the planes and see what we have and look at all the neat stuff."
Schwerdt said he would be taking his 3-year-old daughter around the show, starting the fighter-pilot-recruitment process early in life.
"The air show gives us the chance to bring someone up close to see what we do on a day to day basis, where you can see a fighter, or a bomber, up close, be able to touch it, see that it's actually real and that its attainable," Schwerdt said.
Breffitt said he joined the Air Force because of his amazement at air shows. On Saturday he will be stationed at the F-16 static display, the pilot on hand to explain the different aspects of the plane to visitors.
Other displays at the show will include a B-1, A-10, F-4, a vintage P-51 and an old Soviet Mig 17. The West Coast F-15 Demonstration Team is scheduled to perform at 3:15 p.m.
Piggott was in the Middle East when the war with Iraq started. He was immediately put into a combat role, attacking Republican Guard positions, pre-planned targets and real-time, strategic military targets. He said he flew for the duration of the air war in Iraq, sometimes with as little as 30 minutes notice.
"We pretty much beat the Republican Guard down so our guys could roll right into Baghdad," he said. "At the same time, we targeted the regime. We did what is called 'time-sensitive targeting.'"
Geeslin said the simulated airfield attack at Saturday's show will be a good example of what the pilots do when attacking enemy positions. The air show is a special opportunity for the base to thank the community for its support during the military's harrowing missions.
"Basically an air show is a way for us to open our gates to the public so they can come in and see what we really do in the Air Force," Geeslin said. "It's our way to give a demonstration of air power and truly show the capabilities of the United States Air Force."
Geeslin said air show management requests attendees not bring backpacks, large bags, coolers, alcohol or pocket knives. Everyone entering the base will be subject to search.
Cameras, blankets and lawn chairs are permitted at the event, Geeslin said.


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11 Inning Stalemate Ends In 3rd Walk-Off Win In A Row
Phillies fans everywhere are experiencing a weird, but very pleasant, case of déjà vu. In three games with the Reds, the Phillies have gone extra innings 3 times and won 3 times with 3 walk-off hits; 2 homers and today, an RBI-single.
At the start of the game, people were wondering, who in the world is this Travis Wood kid pitching for the Reds? When he first stepped on the mound, I guessed that maybe one of the Reds players was pulling a fast one by putting his 12-year old son out there with some stick-on facial hair, disguised as a big-leaguer. I thought, oh how cute, this little boy is "playing" pitcher. Isn't he adorable?
But once he started pitching, he was not so cute anymore. Wood is 23 years old and today's game was only his 3rd appearance as a major league pitcher. He gave up 2 runs in his first game and 3 in the second. Against the Phillies, he got through 8 full innings without a base runner.
But the Phillies were certainly helping him out. They were not patient at the plate, swinging at first pitches and balls, swinging when ahead in the count and basically just looking awful. Shane Victorino had 2 balls and no strikes on him at one point and swung at the very next pitch, a high fastball, popping it up. WHY?
Now everyone is thinking, can this kid throw a perfect game? And even more perplexing, can Roy Halladay actually lose to a 12-year old? Oh, I mean a 23-year old; my bad.
Halladay was nearly as good as Wood and the game was a total stalemate through 8 innings for both pitchers. Neither team had scored, although Halladay did give up some hits. But after 9 innings, Halladay had his shut-out intact.
Unfortunately for Wood and his perfect game attempt, Carlos Ruiz was activated off the DL today. He stepped to the plate at the start of the 9th and 4 pitches later, Wood's perfect game was gone as Ruiz doubled to centerfield. Wilson Valdez tried to ruin the moment by bunting into mid-air; that ball was caught for the first out. Raul Ibanez hit a sac fly to move Ruiz to 3rd, but Jimmy Rollins popped out to end the inning.
So Halladay, despite a 9-inning shut-out, could no longer qualify for the win. That is a tragedy. But the Phillies would make up for it by winning the game in extra innings. Yes, for the 3rd consecutive night, the Phillies and Reds went to extra innings.
More déjà vu occurred in the 11th inning, and in more ways than one. Ruiz doubled…again. And then Rollins had yet another chance to get Ruiz home. In the 9th inning, he popped out. But this time, base hit! And, AGAIN, the Phillies won the game on a walk-off! That is 3 extra inning games in a row and 3 walk-off wins in a row! I said it yesterday, I will say it again: Unbelievable!!!
The finale of the 4-game series will be tomorrow at 1:35pm with Cole Hamels pitching. I am hoping to witness a sweep (pretty please?). Either way, I will return with photos. Go Phillies!
Halladay photo by Jenn Zambri Photography; Wood photo from CBSsports.com
*Read more about the Phillies at my other home page, Phightin' Phils Phorum in the My Team Rivals network*
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I could not believe some of these games! I was talking a bout them with my friend Linda who is also volunteering at the All-Star FanFest. She and her hubby moved here in October. She had Phillie season tix for 30 years. Her husband is a HUGE Dodger fans so he is happy to be back home.
I kept looking up at the scorebaord knowing both Wood and Halladay were opposing each other, and it didn't shock me they traded "0's" for so long, it is that Halladay went 8+ innings with the All-Star game around the corner.
Thought Charlie M might pull him in the 7th to give him a small breahter, but the win was important. Pitcher's duels like that seem to drag on forever, but they also show you just how precise and calculated a pitcher has to be to surgically disect a hitter's zone.
But the Phillies pulled it out against a team that most did not expect to have massive success in 2010. Still think this Reds team is going to be a thorn in the NL all the way to October…Classic game by an old pro and a young buck.
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It was an agonizing game for sure but a win is a win. I'm hoping for a sweep as well. I'm also hoping the Phils bats will produce some hits today. Pretty please? LOL /Barb


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TheLuminis620, dude, you're Malaysian right? I'm also Lumia620's user. You know, I'm on your side. It is not because I'm Malaysian too, but you're Lumia620 user, so you deserve talk about it more compare to people who does not have it and arguing based on other people opinions.
Btw, yeah, that is true, battery 1300mah is not enough for this phone, but with this kind of price, it deserve it!
Well, i'm a bit upset those apps are not enough especially in Malaysia. I don't understand, why we could not access Windows Store for worlwide? Why must be apportion by region?
So, somehow, the apps available for some region, some is not. We actually facing sufficient apps to be compared with Android and iOS. But, I'm looking forward for WP8. Come on!
Hey buddy,its great to see you replying to each and every question.
I too have one query.
Are you aware of the "other storage" issue happening to all the Windows Phone 8 devices?
If yes,then is there a similar case with the Lumia 620?If no then can you please google and verify?
Thanks in advance.
No, for now I'm not looking into 3rd party battery because seems like as long as my phone can last for a day, it's fine. However, if I found one, surely I'm going to purchase it. About the wireless charging, yes I've heard about it in GSMArena comments on this phone saying the wireless charging enabled back cover may be out later for the Lumia 620. Unsure if it's true but perhaps any of those connectors at the back of the phone can support wireless charging. Unfortunately we have to wait to see if the rumors are indeed true :)
I actually never denied that 1300 mah is not enough. When I first planned to buy this phone, battery life is what I concern the most but after 2 weeks of ownership, I don't really have big problem with battery life and it can easily get into the range of 15-24 hours with mixed usage and WiFi on all the time. The phone is already cheap anyway, and this is the cheapest phone that you can get with WP8 on board but still performs as good as any other top line smartphones.
I have to agree I am a bit upset too with the apps collections in Malaysia but you can always switch to different region in settings and you can still download apps. I've switched mine to the US region and there are tons of apps that Malaysia don't have, yet I can still download and use them without any problem. However, I am unsure as to why Microsoft decided to do it all by regions and not standardise it worldwide. WP is still new though, I'm pretty sure we'll see gain in apps in the next couple of years once WP share is getting bigger and bigger.
The pricing will be between 610 and 710.
A website has also listed it along with pricing.Check it out.
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link you'll come to know that using a memory card is useless as the other storage keeps on increasing as you use your apps and games,and since you cannot store those apps in memory card,therefore all those temporary files get stored in the inbuilt memory only.Go through the thread,you'll understand it better.
And even if you delete the apps and games,memory is getting freed but not equal to the size of the app or game.Many people have got their inbuilt memory full and now they can't even perform basic operations.The only way to free it is a hard reset.But a curious thing is that this is NOT happening with a very few people.
With those people,as soon as the inbuilt memory reaches a critical point,space from the 'other' storage gets automatically freed.And this is what is supposed to happen in windows phone 8 but this is not the case with most of the people in that thread.
That's a nice bit of info there mate. Thanks! Will keep my eyes on it. Hopefully Microsoft will have a close look into it but it seems like a solution or an update for it to roll out before the release in India may not happen.
So I've uninstalled some apps from my phone and it went from 1.45GB to 1.43GB. I don't actually know how to explain much but this can be useful, taken from that thread.
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By the way, I doubt the 620 will ever support wireless charging. The connectors at the back are for NFC lol..
Witless charging requires a separate set of connectors.
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Been seeing a lot of pictures and videos of the 620 lately and for a "budget phone" it looks great. The colours and the finish are much better than other low end Android phones out there.
I would consider getting one as a temporary phone to try out WP8.
Battery life is definitely a concern as it only have 1300 mah battery capacity but I've been using this phone for 2 weeks already, and I can tell you can easily get in the range of 15-24 hours easily but I live in Malaysia so things might change in different country. I used my phone for frequent WhatsApp, a couple of phone calls, messaging, web browsing, use of camera, Facebook, Twitter, Board Express and many, many more. Still, this is what I got after those use yesterday.
Once the Critical Battery warning (10% left) was out, I immediately went to the battery saver feature and switch it on. I didn't charge it, I use it instead with the same usage as before and it finally died around an hour after that.
It performs just as good and as long as any other top line smartphones. I held a test a couple of days ago with my friends with them using the Nokia Lumia 800, 900, Samsung Galaxy Note, S3 and iPhone 4S. The duration was from 10 in the morning until 9 at night and I got back home with almost 30% of battery left while the Note, S3 and iPhone 4S didn't make it. The worst performer was the Galaxy Note which completely died even before 9 o'clock. So despite having a small 1300 mah battery capacity, it performs very well just like any other top smartphones out there. Sure it will be great it has a bigger battery capacity like, 1800 mah for instance but for the actual price of the device itself, I have nothing to complain.
- 01-29-2013, 04:03 AM #69Once the Critical Battery warning (10% left) was out, I immediately went to the battery saver feature and switch it on. I didn't charge it, I use it instead with the same usage as before and it finally died around an hour after that.
It performs just as good and as long as any other top line smartphones. I held a test a couple of days ago with my friends with them using the Nokia Lumia 800, 900, Samsung Galaxy Note, S3 and iPhone 4S. The duration was from 10 in the morning until 9 at night and I got back home with almost 30% of battery left while the Note, S3 and iPhone 4S didn't make it. The worst performer was the Galaxy Note which completely died even before 9 o'clock. So despite having a small 1300 mah battery capacity, it performs very well just like any other top smartphones out there. Sure it will be great it has a bigger battery capacity like, 1800 mah for instance but for the actual price of the device itself, I have nothing to complain.
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I wanted to reply to all the "chatter" on this thread. First, the battery life is very good if you have WiFi turned off. I am able to go 1-2 days of normal use. With the WiFi turned on, the battery certainly drains quickly.
I would recommend this phone for those users like me that have a need for a small form factor with minimal compromise. I loved my Treo Centro and I equate this to that (obviously the feature set is larger - but you get what I mean).
It feels great in the hand and the battery is a standard Nokia size. I have no doubts about getting a larger capacity battery. Or, just purchase a second one.
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I know people are concerned about the battery only being 1300. But my iPhone only has a 1420 battery and thats running a higher resolution display. If it bothers people I say get an after market battery. as for the'other' sotrage issues, it really takes the **** there isnt a file management system in WP8, its the reason I returned my 8S because 4GB (which is actually 1.7GB after the OS and other software) was too small to allow me to use this smart phone as an actual smart phone because you can get like 10 apps on the phone. Now with the 620, 8GB should be good enough for most people, all videos, music and photos can go on the SD Card and that leaves 5GB for apps and the stupid cache.
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And I don't even have home internet, so there's no reason for me to turn WiFi on, and no reason not to pick up one of my own as a backup phone/media device! Or as my main phone and relegate my Ativ S to backup/weekend status so I don't wreck it at work...(2nd paragraph in response to dootndo2)
Have any of you guys heard of the multi touch issue with the Lumia 620 before? It's quite common here in Malaysia and my phone has been struck with this issue last night, but it only happens for a while and then it's back to normal. Strange...
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Love the way the announcers said Melo wants to be compared to LeBron and Wade/Bosh...Don't you think he already should be...lol..Melo gets little respect, its sad
The only way Carmelo can get his respect from ESPN is if we keep winning but Melo's gotta play hard for himself and for the team, not BSPN.
Yea, maybe Carmelo did shoot too many shots last night but he still scored 30 points and he wasnt disruptive to the offense. His defense should be talked about more but ESPN doesnt know what defense is unless your talking blocks and steals
Love the way the announcers said Melo wants to be compared to LeBron and Wade/Bosh...Don't you think he already should be...lol..Melo gets little respect, its sad
There's 2 things that annoy me with Melo:
1. He shoots too many 3's. He is too talented from Midrange and In to settle for 3's. He needs to post up and just dominate inside the arc.
2. The most annoying thing about Melo is when he doesnt get a call he doesn't get back on defense. This hurts the team obviously and sets a bad example.
Well, maybe because he hasn't earned it yet?
Wade: 2 chips, once lost in the finals, once in the ECF;
LeBron: chip, twice L in the finals, once ECF;
Bosh: chip, once L in the finals.
Melo: once to the WCF.
No comparision.
@BigAppleSports I agree that Melo too often spends time complaining after a non call and takes his time getting back on defense. Saw it a couple times last night and it irritated me.
@Red yeah that was also too many 3's for my liking as well but they just took what Miami was giving them.
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Rings are very overrated, Eddy Curry has one
I didn't get to watch the OP untill now, great job Dzwonsson!
Way to go, Knicks!
P.S. I can't believe some of you are criticizing Melo.
Does it matter if he shoots too many 3's as long as "the" team wins?
nope, I don't think its necessary to criticize Melo. The teams winning, they stomped the Heat. Let em play.


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12A build week and an X33 trim code (plus a bunch of other tag issues) equal a repro tag.
I give the seller credit for discolsing it is a restamped motor and his careful use of words like 'correct' vs. original.The tag looks like it was stamped on the same machine for not only the vehicle specific codes, but the 'blank' tag info as well (ST TR....)It is a nice looking car though. Is the drive shaft optional? Mike
Quote from: Mark on September 06, 2013, 11:12:42 AM12A build week and an X33 trim code (plus a bunch of other tag issues) equal a repro tag.so what was the first known week for X codes? (jerrys book says the first week of december of 68)


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December 3, 2002: An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to help make a precise measurement of the mass of a planet outside our solar system. The Hubble results show that the planet is 1.89 to 2.4 times as massive as Jupiter, our solar system's largest orbiting body. Previous estimates, about which there are some uncertainties, place the planet's mass at a much wider range: between 1.9 and 100 times that of Jupiter's. The planet, called Gliese 876b, orbits the star Gliese 876. It is only the second planet outside our solar system for which astronomers have determined a precise mass.See the rest:
Hubble did not view the planet directly. Astronomers used a set of instruments on Hubble called Fine Guidance Sensors to measure a small "side-to-side" wobble of the star due to the tug of the unseen planet. (The Fine Guidance Sensors also are used to point and stabilize the free-flying observatory.) This technique, called astrometry, had never been used to measure the mass of a planet beyond our solar system. Astronomers using ground-based telescopes first discovered the planet in 1998.
The team of astronomers observed the star's "yo-yo" motion for more than two years. Making measurements of a star's movement is like measuring the size of a quarter 3,000 miles away.
The team then combined the Hubble information with previous measurements made by ground-based telescopes using a different technique. That technique, called the radial-velocity method, measured the star's subtle "to-and-fro" speed, caused by the unseen planet's gravitational tug.
Those independent measurements helped the team deduce the planet's orbital inclination toward Earth and thereby calculate the planet's mass. If astronomers don't know how a planet's orbit is tilted toward Earth, they can only estimate its minimum mass. The planet's orbit turns out to be tilted nearly edge-on to Earth, verifying that it is a low-mass object.


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beaverpond wrote:I just would like to thank my friends in the south for sharing their warmth. It has helped melt a lot of the ice from yesterday's icestorm. Much appreciated.
ur welcome Beave, j shuts-down the turbines. Got to save some sunshine for us in Flori-Duh. 52* now, with a high of 63*


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Dec. 13, 1956: The Portales Daily News: The Greyhound football banquet given annually by H.T. Brassell was at 6 o'clock in the Conestoga room of Cal Boykin. D.H. Reed, professor in social studies and the first football coach at Eastern New Mexico University, was the toastmaster.
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The Sistine Chapel's ceiling is unveiled, the National Weather Service makes its first forecast, the U.S. explodes its first hydrogen bomb, and Honda opens its first U.S. factory, all on this day.
1915: Parris Island in Port Royal, South Carolina, is officially designated a U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot. Today, the military base provides the initial training for all male recruits living east of the Mississippi River and female recruits from all over the United States.


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Taz and snowflake would like to try out for the Baltimore Ravens lots of "birds" to chase around . When I yell cuase the team is losing snowflake hides.
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Tours Iowa Biodiesel Plant; Discusses How Biofuels Are Reducing Need for Foreign Oil, Creating Jobs in Rural Communities
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SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa, September 14, 2012 – TODAY, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack discussed how the increased use of biofuels is helping to reduce the nation's reliance on foreign oil during a tour of AGP Biodiesel. During the tour, Vilsack highlighted today's action by the Environmental Protection Agency to establish the volume of biodiesel products required to be included in diesel fuel markets.
"President Obama's all-of-the-above energy plan is working – today, we are importing less foreign oil than we have in nearly two decades and we are creating jobs by producing more of our energy here at home, said Vilsack. "A key part of the President's strategy is the development and promotion of biofuels and bio-based products, which are helping us fuel our cars and trucks and displacing petroleum used in the manufacturing of household products. Over the past three years, we have doubled generation from renewable energy and today's announcement by EPA will ensure that we are continuing to utilize biodiesel to help meet our energy needs, create jobs and strengthen the rural economy."
Today's action by EPA sets the 2013 volume of biodiesel products required to be included in diesel fuel markets at 1.28 billion gallons under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) which established the second phase of the Renewable Fuel Standards program. EISA specifies a one billion gallon minimum volume requirement for the biomass-based diesel category for 2012 and beyond. It also calls on EPA to increase the volume requirement after consideration of environmental, market, and energy-related factors. Today's final action follows careful review of the many comments and additional information received since EPA proposed the volume last spring.
President Obama has laid out a bold goal of reducing oil imports by half by 2020 and in his Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future released in March, 2011 the Administration laid out an all-of-the-above energy plan to achieve that goal by developing domestic oil and gas energy resources, increasing energy efficiency, and speeding development of biofuels and other alternatives. Domestic oil and gas production has increased each year the President has been in office, while renewable energy generation from wind, solar, and geothermal has doubled.
Creating new markets for the nation's agricultural products through biobased manufacturing is one of the many steps the Administration has taken over the past three years to strengthen the rural economy. Since August 2011, the White House Rural Council has supported a broad spectrum of rural initiatives including a Presidential Memorandum to create jobs in rural America through biobased and sustainable product procurement, a $350 million commitment in SBA funding to rural small businesses over the next 5 years, launching a series of conferences to connect investors with rural start-ups, creating capital marketing teams to pitch federal funding opportunities to private investors interested in making rural and making job search information available at 2,800 local USDA offices nationwide.
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March 5, 2014 —
Soup and sandwich, salt and pepper, even Bert and Ernie. Some things just go together, but fire and ice? Heading out the door last Friday, I noted that Danny Fitzgerald and the Lost Wandering Blues and Jazz Band were in the region, slated to perform on both sides of the river. Their first stop was in Bethel, NY (www.catskilldistillingcompany.com [2]), so I grabbed the Wonder Dog and (side-stepping the ice that covered my walkway) headed out, confident that they would provide a hot time in the old town that night. Fitzgerald, now 80, has not lost any of his charisma or charm and has millions of fans around the globe. Based in Europe, Danny and his ever-changing roster of musicians have performed on both sides of the Atlantic for decades in a staggering array of venues, including appearances on television and in films, but he is just as much at home on street corners as he is playing major nightclubs in New York or Paris. Fitzgerald's résumé is (IMHO) so impressive that I recommend using "the Google" (as my mom was fond of saying) to learn more, in case anyone alive is unaware of the guy, his music and his many accomplishments over the years.
Picking up local musicians as he traverses the globe (www.lostwandering.com [3]) is one of Fitzgerald's traits, and the past week is no exception. "Danny is so generous. He loves to sit back and let others shine," said Darren Wiseman (washtub) in between sets at the distillery. "He's a living legend. Let's rock and roll!" Wiseman was joined by Joe Flood, Mark Herschler, Eugene Clark and Brian Price who shared vocals, trumpet, sax and guitar duties with such panache that the audience was frequently on its feet, swingin' swayin' and stompin' the night away. If I hadn't been booked the next night, I would have caught the act again in Honesdale (www.thecooperageproject.org [4]) where, according to Wiseman, the band experienced "an amazing audience, cheering everything Fitzgerald did." Darren went on to say that the crowd at The Cooperage "applauded after every solo. Danny was on fire!" and that he hoped I had enjoyed catching the band the night before. Rest assured, my friends and I were thrilled to take in the show, which was filled with sugar and spice (Fitzgerald is often bawdy) and all things in-between.
Although I was loath to do so, I left the dog at home on Saturday, knowing that my trip to Lakeville, PA near Hawley (www.sculptediceworks.com [5]) was going to be cold. "Crystal Cabin Fever," the annual celebration of all things ice has been on my radar for years, and I was determined to not miss out this time around. The factory, which offers tours and a variety of events throughout the year, relies on frigid temps, so I donned my boots and gloves and layered up, prepared for the best exhibit and worst thermometer reading. My first stop was at the ice-carving demonstration outside, with chainsaw artist Neil Trimper displaying his skills, right next door to Ray Keller's glass blowing booth, both of which drew a crowd all day. Keller's fire was cool to observe, but not warm enough to melt Trimper's impressive blocks of ice, and I warmed my hands by the bonfire, before heading indoors to check out the icy slide, hot chocolate and enormous sculptures, all of which were made of (you guessed it) ice.
As kids shrieked with glee on the slide, I took in the incredible display, which included a New York skyline, Statue of Liberty, Egyptian pyramids and Sphynx, replicas of Mt. Rushmore, the Eiffel Tower and more. As if on a frozen trip around the world, I gaped in awe at the gigantic blocks of ice that made up an enormous Roman Coliseum, which I learned was comprised of 150 individual pieces and weighed in at more than 40,000 pounds. Thankful that the factory provides a "warm-up" room on the premises, I opened and closed the door quickly, happy that I had made the right decision and left the "mutt" home while her "Jeff" took the tour.
Later that same day, I took part in the first of 12 installments of the Yarnslingers Memoirs project, which is a partnership between this local storytellers group (www.facebook.com/yarnslingers [6]) and CAS (www.catskillartsociety.org [7]) in Livingston Manor, NY. Nine writers converged to share their chapters with a sold-out crowd and take part in a lively discussion afterward, in a process that is leading the variety of authors in the general direction of crafting their individual memoirs-in-the-making. It would be unfair to compare the individual writing styles in this diverse and talented group. I felt a bit inadequate next to so many clever wordsmiths, but at the end of the day, it's apples and oranges, I suppose. With 11 more installments in the offing (a book of 12 chapters at the end of the year), there are plenty of opportunities to check out this interesting project in the near future. Like Fred and Ethel, the pooch and I will be there, come hell or high water.


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LUBBOCK — Things had already gone badly enough for Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team. The last thing they needed was the ignominy of being no-hit.
ENMU senior and Clovis High grad Justin Gee whacked the first pitch from reliever Brian Cloud up the middle for the Greyhounds' first hit with two out in the top of the ninth, breaking up Texas Tech's would-be three-man pitching gem on Monday.
Senior Mike McDuffie followed with another single before Cloud got Mick Letofsky on a fly ball to left, ending the Red Raiders' 16-0 rout in a game hastily added to the schedule after both teams had games canceled over the weekend.
ENMU had a Lone Star Conference crossover doubleheader against East Central canceled on Saturday because of a water main break in Portales, while the first two games of the Raiders' three-game weekend series against St. John's were wiped out by cold weather.
Tech (6-3) pounded out 18 hits — 14 singles and four doubles — in handing the Hounds just their second loss of the season in 12 games.
The Raiders wasted little time jumping on Hounds starter Evan Courteau (2-1), getting two runs on four singles in the first. They added two more in the third, then erupted for five runs on just three hits in the fourth against freshman left-hander Seth Clabaugh.
Tech capped the scoring with a five-run seventh against Charlie Ward. ENMU closer Keith Balderaz restored some semblance of order by working a hitless eighth.
Dustin Richardson (1-0) pitched six innings for the Raiders, walking two and striking out 10 while facing just two batters over the minimum. Another Clovis High grad, Jason Seefeld, worked the seventh and eighth — he walked one and plunked his former high school teammate, Gee, with a pitch — before giving way to Cloud in the ninth.
First baseman James Leverton went 4-for-5 for Tech with five RBIs, including a three-run double in the seventh. Left fielder Roger Kieschnick was just 1-for-4, but drove in four runs with a two-run single, a sacrifice fly and a run-scoring groundout.
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- Title
- Predictions for ASKAP neutral hydrogen surveys
- Author(s)
- Duffy, Alan R.; Meyer, Martin J.; Staveley-Smith, Lister; Bernyk, Maksym; Croton, Darren J.; Koribalski, Barbel S.; Gerstmann, Derek; Westerlund, Stefan
- Abstract
- The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) will revolutionize our knowledge of gas-rich galaxies in the Universe. Here we present predictions for two proposed extragalactic ASKAP neutral hydrogen (H i) emission-line surveys, based on semi-analytic models applied to cosmological N-body simulations. The ASKAP H i All-Sky Survey, known as Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (WALLABY), is a shallow 3 π survey (z = 0–0.26) which will probe the mass and dynamics of over 6 & 0215; 105 galaxies. A much deeper small-area H i survey, called Deep Investigation of Neutral Gas Origins (DINGO), aims to trace the evolution of H i from z = 0 to 0.43, a cosmological volume of 4 × 107 Mpc3, detecting potentially 105 galaxies. The high-sensitivity 30 antenna ASKAP core (diameter ∼2 km) will provide an angular resolution of 30 arcsec (at z = 0). Our simulations show that the majority of galaxies detected in WALLABY (87.5 per cent) will be resolved. About 5000 galaxies will be well resolved, i.e. more than five beams (2.5 arcmin) across the major axis, enabling kinematic studies of their gaseous discs. This number would rise to 1.6 × 105 galaxies if all 36 ASKAP antennas could be used; the additional six antennas provide baselines up to 6 km, resulting in an angular resolution of 10 arcsec. For DINGO this increased resolution is highly desirable to minimize source confusion, reducing confusion rates from a maximum of 10 per cent of sources at the survey edge to 3 per cent. We estimate that the sources detected by WALLABY and DINGO will span four orders of magnitude in total halo mass (from 1011 to 1015 M⊙) and nearly seven orders of magnitude in stellar mass (from 105 to 1012& 8201;M⊙), allowing us to investigate the process of galaxy formation across the last four billion years.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 426, no. 4 (Nov 2012), pp. 3385-3402
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Galaxy evolution; Luminosity function; Mass function; Radio lines
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- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
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intense lol.
not sure what I think too early to say really. I think its very possible it may require Rinnegan but until we find out the direct relationship between Sharingan and Rinnegan its hard to say.
Originally Posted by Beetle
Rinnegan summons Gedo Mazo. Let's see Perfect Susanoo versus the Juubi.
Imperfect Juubi.
Rinnegan is way better than EMS
that's what I think
Perfect Susanoo is a Mangekyou Sharingan technqiue
Anyway, saying EMS is stronger than Rinnegan is like saying the 3 tomoe Sharingan is stronger than MS, or MS is stronger than EMS
they're the same dojutsu, Sharingan = Rinnegan.
Rinnegan includes previous Sharingan techniques like EMS includes MS techniques.
Rinnegan is the peak of the dojutsu so it's obviously the best form of Sharingan to have (it's best used by an Uchiha)
that is until the Juubi's dojutsu is explained
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Look at Obito's MS three versions of Kamui if Obito had both eyes he'd be invincible. He could warp you from afar and up close and you'd never be able to hit him. He'd be in the same level as Nagato with one MS eye if he'd had both he could kill Nagato easily. Madara with EMS is unstobable his Susanoo is to powerful that only one person in history has been able to stop it. Madara rarely uses his rinnegan powers. The rinnegan is more diverse but MS is just to powerful. One look at someone and they die.
Also to the people arguing with the maker of this thread don't bother it'll be like fighting a wall if dimond with just your fist. Madara himself said the only person to defeat his perfect Susanoo is the 1st hokage. That stabilized Susanoo is still the perfect Susanoo. Just like chidori is still Rakari just advanced. Madara fights with mostly his Susanoo so of course it'll be more advanced than his Tsukuyomi or Amaterasu. Itachi hardly used Susanoo and Sasuke is learning the stages of Susanoo. Sasuke never even used Perfect Susanoo in an actual fight.
Originally Posted by Chatte
Itachi and Sasuke have Complete Susano'o, not Perfect.
So until shown otherwise, we can safely assume Perfect Susano'o is Rinnegan Tech.
that's like saying their Susanoo are new and Madara's is fresh or vice versa
complete = perfect. they have the exact same meaning. there's absolutely no difference. Kishi uses the terms interchangeably, in fact the only reason you know it as "perfect" is because that's how the translator chose to phrase it.
Madara's Susanoo is complete and Itachi and Sasuke's are perfect.
Madara and Itachi's Susanoo are perfect, Sasuke's is complete.
Itachi, Sasuke and Madara all have final stage Susanoo's.
Madara's is only larger and stabilized (optional)
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Amplification Summoning Technique
Animal Path
Asura Path
Banshō Ten'in
Blocking Technique Absorption Seal
Chakra Explosion
Chakra Propulsion
Chakra Sensing Technique
Chibaku Tensei
Deva Path
Five-Seal Barrier
Flaming Arrow Missiles
Flaming Arrow of Amazing Ability
Human Path
Magic Lantern Body Technique
Mental Barricades
Mirrored Sudden Attacker Technique
Naraka Path
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Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique
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Shapeshifting Technique
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Six Paths of Pain
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Summoning: Demonic Statue of the Outer Path
Water Release: Wild Water Wave
Wind Release: Gale Palm
Chakra Disruption Blades
Chakra Receiver
we're talking about the eyes So6p had...
wow solos everyone
When Madara said "the full power of Uchiha Madara" he is speaking on his EMS powers. Those are his true natural powers. The Rinnegan isn't something that Madara naturally gained. This is why Madara stated that the myth behind his P.Susanoo is that who ever seen it never lived to tell about it. This means that Madara had the P.Susanoo before he had the Rinnegan. Madara gained the Rinnegan when he was a very very old man and by that time he was stuck underground attached to the Mazou.
The Sharingan evolves into the Rinnengan so no EMS is not stronger then the Rinnengan.
You have to remember that we have never really seen the full power of the Rinnengan because as strong as Nagato was with the Rinnengan they were not his own eyes.
It's same thing with Kakashi & his Sharingan he will never be on the level as an Uchiha with a Sharingan because he doesn't have the body to go with the eyes. That's why even though Obito & Kakashi share eyes Obito's is stronger.
& there reason why the Sage was so powerful is he had the eyes & the body. It's the Yin&Yang thing.
Originally Posted by Amelius
we also honestly have no clue if the meteor attack came from Rinnegan... Its completely different from Chibaku Tensei and It needed to use his susanno to help use the jutsu. All he did was pull the rock from orbit. If it was a rinnegan based, he wouldnt have needed susannos help!
Nagato using a meteor jutsu...
Madara using a more powerful meteor jutsu via Susanoo (three hand signs are needed) ...
It is safe to say by using Susanoo with rinnegan, it allows you to use a more power technique. Hence the more powerful meteorite jutsu (which needed Susanoo for the three hand signs). Seeing the proof above, Madara uses EMS Susanoo and enhances it's power with the rinnegan making it "perfect" (showing him using the rinnegan when performing this).*
*Sigh*, you guys are idiots...
I don't know why this Q was brought up, rinnegan eye is the combination of 2 mighty powers. Also if u take just 2 of rinnegan power Edo tensei and the chakra /ninjutsu absorption tech u pretty unstoppable.
Rinngan is stronger
Originally Posted by Encon Uchiha
Sasuke perfect Susanoo '
Itachi perfect Susanoo
Madara perfect Susanoo
Madara perfect Susanoo (chakra stabilized)
I hope that helps guys. Madaras is bigger because he is adept at Susanoo and was known to have one of the most powerful chakras in Narutoverse. The stabilized version is only exclusize to Madara though.
i have extensive knowledge about Susanoo and prolly will explain it all in a thread later but right now i gotta go to class,i can maybe reply there but it wil be hard
Acutally i dont think its considered perfect suasnoo until the chakra is stabilized
I made a thread like this because i feel like perfect susanoo is a rinnegan tech
because when he used the perfect susanoo he had the rinnegan activated.
EMS on SENJU steroids>Perfect susanoo
susano=ms/ems tech. it being perfect means nothing.
Well, since Rinnegan is an evolution of EMS, it's obviously stronger. However, the only Rinnegan users we've really seen (Madara only used 1 or 2 tech) had IMPLANTED eyes, so they probably didn't have the EMS powers, while a true Rinnegan like Madara's has all the powers.
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Every now and then, an idea comes along that in retrospect seems just so simple and obvious that everyone wonders why it hadn't been seen all along. Often when that happens, it turns out that the idea isn't really all that new after all. The Java revolution began by drawing on ideas from all the programming languages that came before it. Now, XML--the Extensible Markup Language--is doing for content what Java did for programming: providing a portable language for describing data.
XML is a simple, common format for representing structured information as text. The concept of XML follows the success of HTML as a universal document presentation format and generalizes it to handle any kind of data. In the process, XML has not only recast HTML but is transforming the way that businesses think about their information. In the context of a world driven more and more by documents and data exchange, XML's time has come.
XML and HTML are called markup languages because of the way they add structure to plain-text documents--by surrounding parts of the text with tags that indicate structure or meaning, much as someone with a pen might highlight a sentence and add a note. While HTML predefines a set of tags and their structure, XML is a blank slate in which the author gets to define the tags, the rules, and their meanings.
Both XML and HTML owe their lineage to Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)--the mother of all markup languages. SGML has been used in the publishing industry for many years (including at O'Reilly). But it wasn't until the Web captured the world that it came into the mainstream through HTML. HTML started as a very small application of SGML, and if HTML has done anything at all, it has proven that simplicity reigns.
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HTML flourished but eventually showed its limitations. Documents using HTML have an unhealthy mix of structural information (such as
<head> and
<body>) and presentation information (for an egregious example,
<blink>). Mixing the model and the user interface in this way limits the usefulness of HTML as a format for data exchange; it's hard for a machine to understand. XML documents consist purely of structure, and it is up to the reader of the document to apply meaning. As we'll see in this chapter, several related languages exist to help interpret and transform XML for presentation or further processing.
When Tim Berners-Lee began postulating the Web back at CERN in the late 1980s, he wanted to organize project information using hypertext. When the Web needed a protocol, HTTP--a simple, text-based client-server protocol--was invented. So what exactly is so enchanting about the idea of plain text? Why, for example, didn't Tim turn to the Microsoft Word format as the basis for Web documents? Surely a binary, non-human-readable format and protocol would be more efficient? Since the Web's inception, there have now been trillions of HTTP transactions. Was it really a good idea for them to use (English) words like "GET" and "POST"?
The answer, as we've all seen, is yes! What humans can read, human developers can work with more easily. There is a time and place for a high level of optimization (and obscurity), but when the goal is universal acceptance and cross-platform portability, simplicity and transparency are paramount. This is the first, fundamental proposition of XML.
Using text to exchange data is not exactly a new idea, either, but historically, for every new document format that came along, a new parser would have to be written. A parser is an application that reads a document and understands its formatting conventions, usually enforcing some rules about the content. For example, the Java
Properties class has a parser for the standard properties file format (Chapter 10). In our simple spreadsheet in Chapter 17, we wrote a parser capable of understanding basic mathematical expressions. As we've seen, depending on complexity, parsing can be quite tricky.
With XML, we can represent data without having to write this kind of custom parser. This isn't to say that it's reasonable to use XML for everything (e.g., typing math expressions into our spreadsheet), but for the common types of information that we exchange on the Net, we should no longer have to write parsers that deal with basic syntax and string manipulation. In conjunction with document-verifying components (DTDs or XML Schema), much of the complex error checking is also done automatically. This is the second fundamental proposition of XML.
The APIs we'll discuss in this chapter are powerful and well tested. They are being used around the world to build enterprise-scale systems today. Unfortunately, the current slate of XML tools bundled with Java only partially remove the burden of parsing from the developer. Although we have taken a step up from low-level string manipulation to a common, structured document format, the standard tools still generally require the developer to write low-level code to traverse the content and interpret the string data manually. The resulting program remains somewhat fragile, and much of the work can be tedious. The next step, as we'll discuss briefly later in this chapter, is to begin to use generating tools that read a description of an XML document (an XML DTD or Schema) and generate Java classes or bind existing classes to XML data automatically.
As of Java 1.4, all the basic APIs for working with XML are bundled with Java. This includes the
javax.xml standard extension packages for working with Simple API for XML (SAX), Document Object Model (DOM), and Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) transforms. If you are using an older version of Java, you can still use all these tools, but you will have to download the packages separately from http://java.sun.com/xml/.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser was the first to support XML explicitly. If you load an XML document in IE 5.0 or greater, it is displayed as a tree using a special stylesheet. The stylesheet uses dynamic HTML to allow you to collapse and expand nodes while viewing the document. IE also supports basic XSL transformation directly in the browser. We'll talk about XSL later in this chapter.
Netscape 6.x and the latest Mozilla browsers also understand XML content and support the rendering of documents using XSL. At the time of this writing, however, they don't offer a friendly viewer by default. You can use the "view source" option to display an XML document in a nicely formatted way. But in general, if you load an XML document into either of these browsers, or any browser that doesn't explicitly transform it, it simply displays the text of the document with all the tags (structural information) stripped off. This is the prescribed behavior for working with XML.
The basic syntax of XML is extremely simple. If you've worked with HTML, you're already halfway there. As with HTML, XML represents information as text using tags to add structure. A tag begins with a name sandwiched between less-than (<) and greater-than (>) characters. Unlike HTML, XML tags must always be balanced; in other words, an opening tag must always be followed by a closing tag. A closing tag looks just like the opening tag but starts with a less-than sign and a slash (</). An opening tag, closing tag, and any content in between are collectively referred to as an element of the XML document. Elements can contain other elements, but they must be properly nested (all tags started within an element must be closed before the element itself is closed). Elements can also contain plain text or a mixture of elements and text. Comments are enclosed between
<!-- and
--> markers. Here are a few examples:
<!-- Simple -->
<Sentence>This is text.</Sentence>
<!-- Element -->
<Paragraph><Sentence>This is text.</Sentence></Paragraph>
<!-- Mixed -->
<Sentence>This <verb>is</verb> text.</Sentence>
<!-- Empty -->
An empty tag can be written more compactly with a single tag ending with a slash and a greater-than sign (/>):
An XML element can contain attributes, which are simple name-value pairs supplied inside the start tag.
<Document type="LEGAL" ID="42">...</Document>
<Image name="truffle.jpg"/>
The attribute value must always be enclosed in quotes. You can use double (") or single (') quotes. Single quotes are useful if the value contains double quotes.
Attributes are intended to be used for simple, unstructured properties or identifiers associated with the element data. It is always possible to make an attribute into a child element, so there is no real need for attributes. But they often make the XML easier to read and more logical. In the case of the
Document element in our snippet above, the attributes
type and
ID represent metadata about the document. We might expect that a Java class representing the
Document would have static identifiers for document types such as
LEGAL. In the case of the
Image element, the attribute is simply a more compact way of including the filename. As a rule, attributes should be atomic, with no significant internal structure; by contrast, child elements can have arbitrary complexity.
An XML document begins with the following header and has one root element:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
The header identifies the version of XML and the character encoding used. The root element is simply the top of the element hierarchy, which can be considered a tree. If you omit this header or have XML text without a single root element, technically what you have is called an XML fragment.
The default encoding for an XML document is UTF-8, the ASCII-friendly 8-bit Unicode encoding. But an XML document may specify an encoding using the encoding attribute of the XML header.
Within an XML document, certain characters are necessarily sacrosanct: for example, the "<" and ">" characters that indicate element tags. When you need to include these in your text, you must encode them. XML provides an escape mechanism called "entities" that allows for encoding special structures. There are five predefined entities in XML, as shown in Table 23-1.
& (ampersand)
< (less than)
> (greater than)
" (quotation mark)
' (apostrophe)
An alternative to encoding text in this way is to use a special "unparsed" section of text called a character data (CDATA) section. A CDATA section starts with
<![CDATA[ and ends with
]]>, like this:
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The CDATA section looks a little like a comment, but the data is really part of the document, just opaque to the parser.
You've probably seen that HTML has a
<body> tag that is used to structure web pages. Suppose for a moment that we are writing XML for a funeral home that also uses the tag
<body> for some other, more macabre, purpose. This could be a problem if we want to mix HTML with our mortuary information.
If you consider HTML and the funeral home tags to be a language in this case, the elements (tag names) used in a document are really the vocabulary of those languages. An XML namespace is a way of saying whose dictionary you are using for a given element, allowing us to mix them freely. (Later we'll talk about XML Schema, which enforce the grammar and syntax of the language.)
A namespace is specified with the
xmlns attribute, whose value is a Universal Resource Identifier (URI) that uniquely defines the set (and usually the meaning) of tags from that namespace:
<element xmlns="namespaceURI">
Recall from Chapter 13 that a URI is not necessarily a URL. URIs are more general than URLs. In practical terms, a URI is simply to be treated as a unique string. Often, the URI is, in fact, also a URL for a document describing the namespace, but that is only by convention.
xmlns namespace attribute can be applied to an element and all its children; this is called a default namespace for the element:
<body xmlns="http://funeral-procedures.org/">
But more often it is desirable to specify namespaces on a tag-by-tag basis. To do this, we can use the
xmlns attribute to define a special identifier for the namespace and then use that identifier as a prefix on the tags in question. For example:
<funeral xmlns:fun="http://funeral-procedures.org/">
<fun:body>Corpse #42</fun:body>
In the above snippet of XML, we've qualified the body tag with the prefix "fun:" that we defined in the
<funeral> tag. In this case, we should also qualify the root tag as well, reflexively:
<fun:funeral xmlns:fun="http://funeral-procedures.org/">
In the history of XML, support for namespaces is relatively new. Not all parsers support them. To accommodate this, the XML parser factories that we discuss later have a switch to specify whether you want a parser that understands namespaces.
We'll talk more about parsing in the sections on SAX and DOM later in this chapter.
A document that conforms to the basic rules of XML, with proper encoding and balanced tags, is called a well-formed document. Just because a document is syntactically correct doesn't mean that it makes sense, however. Two related specifications, Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and XML Schema, define ways to provide a grammar for your XML elements. This allows you to create syntactic rules, such as "a City element can appear only once inside an Address element." XML Schema goes further to provide a flexible language for describing the validity of data content of the tags, including both simple and compound data types made of numbers and strings. Although XML Schema is the ultimate solution (it includes data validation and not just rules about elements), it is more theory than practice at present, at least in terms of its integration with Java. (We hope that will change soon.)
A document that is checked against a DTD or XML Schema description and follows the rules is called a valid document. A document can be well-formed without being valid, but not vice versa.
To speak very loosely, we could say that the most popular and widely used form of XML in the world today is HTML. The terminology is loose because HTML is not even well-formed XML. HTML tags violate XML's rule forbidding empty elements; the common
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The first-time Man Games in Heber might have come on as a surprise to locals. Not many were aware of the happening. It is still an event in it's early stages of growth that hopes to gain popularity by returning annually.
Chantelle Rowley one of the organizers, said, "Oh yes—we loved it here at Wasatch! We feel pretty happy with the turnout and definitely love the facility. It was perfect. We hope to come back again, and do it in the spring."
Besides just the contests themselves, there were vendors, a live DJ and giveaways in the parking lot and grounds throughout. Even the Maverick hot air balloon came to fly above to spot the location.
"We're probably heading to Southern California next, but have a date in Atlanta in the works", said Rochelle.
More information on the Maverick Man Games, including results from Wasatch County, can be found on its website at: www.mangames.com