text: PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT PASSENGER TRAFFIC REPORT FOR MAY 2012 PITTSBURGH, PA (July 6, 2012) – JetBlue, American, US Airways and Delta have shown increases in scheduled passenger traffic at Pittsburgh International Airport (www.flypittsburgh.com) year-to-date (YTD) through May 2012 compared to YTD May 2011, according to the May 2012 Scheduled Airline Traffic Report compiled by the Allegheny County Airport Authority. Overall, YTD totals show scheduled traffic down 2.6 percent (3,183,663/3,268,149; 2.6 percent). The largest percentage based increases YTD through May 2012 were by JetBlue, with service to Boston and New York JFK, which had a 17.8 percent increase (109,165/92,648; 17.8 percent), and American, on the strength of service to Dallas/Ft. Worth, which reported a 9.0 percent increase (237,619/217,900; 9.0 percent). US Airways (862,951/837,628; 3.0 percent) and Delta (558,095/542,062; 3.0 percent) also had improved traffic. Overall scheduled passenger traffic at the airport decreased 4.7 percent for the month of May 2012 compared to May 2011. A total of 707,535 scheduled passengers were enplaned and deplaned at the airport in May 2012 (707,535 in May 2012/742,330 in May 2011; 4.7 percent decrease). Four airlines reported increases in traffic May 2012 led by JetBlue, which had a gain of over 19 percent (25,417/21,299; 19.3 percent). Other airlines that reported increases were United (123,122/118,081; 4.3 percent), American (53,644/52,737; 1.7 percent), and Frontier (4,903/4,440; 10.4 percent). "Among the positive impacts will be Delta's six new daily flights to New York LaGuardia beginning July 11. Also, American's increase can most likely be attributed to its service to Dallas and effects of the natural gas industry," said Bradley D. Penrod, Executive Director and CEO of the Allegheny County Airport Authority. Airlines that reported decreases in traffic for May 2012 were US Airways (181,504/181,620; 0.1 percent), Southwest (129,626/139,539; 7.1 percent), Delta (127,652/135,345; 5.7 percent), AirTran (56,959/71,842; 20.7 percent), and Air Canada (4,708/5,165; 8.8 percent).


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Home List of Titles Highly selective trapping of enteropathogenic E. coli on Fabry-Perot sensor mirrors
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/220944
- Title
- Highly selective trapping of enteropathogenic E. coli on Fabry-Perot sensor mirrors
- Author(s)
- Ivanova, Elena P.; Truong, Vi Khanh; Gervinskas, Gediminas; Mitik-Dineva, Natasa; Day, Daniel; Jones, Robert T.; Crawford, Russell J.; Juodkazis, Saulius
- Abstract
- Untreated recycled water, such as sewage and graywater, will almost always contain a wide range of agents that are likely to present risks to human health, including chemicals and pathogenic microorganisms. The microbial hazards, such as large numbers of enteric pathogens that can cause gastroenteric illness if ingested, are the main cause of concern for human health. The presence of the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) serotype is of particular concern, as this group of bacteria is responsible for causing severe infant and travelers' diarrhea, gastroenteritis and hemolytic uremic syndrome. A biosensing system based on an optical Fabry–Pérot (FP) cavity, capable of directly detecting the presence of EPEC within 5 min, has been developed using a simple micro-thin double-sided adhesive tape and two semi-transparent FP mirror plates. The system utilizes a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) or glass substrates sputtered by 40-nm-thick gold thin films serving as FP mirrors. Mirrors have been activated using 0.1 M mercaptopropionic acid, influencing an immobilization density of the translocated intimin receptor (TIR) of 100 ng/cm2. The specificity of recognition was confirmed by exposing TIR functionalized surfaces to four taxonomically related and/or distantly related bacterial strains. It was found that the TIR-functionalized surfaces did not show any bacterial capture for these other bacterial strains within a 15 min incubation period.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Micro-Photonics
- Source
- Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 35, no. 1 (May 2012), pp. 369-375
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 0301 Analytical Chemistry; 0903 Biomedical Engineering; 1007 Nanotechnology
- Keyword(s)
- Enteropathogenic E. coli; EPEC; Escherichia coli; Fabry-Perot sensors; Rapid detection; Translocated intimin receptor
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- 0956-5663
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- Additional information
- The authors acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
- Peer reviewed

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one of the greatest albums ever recorded
i hope they remaster it well
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remakes and remasters. though i much prefer the latter, i am getting sick of both.
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Re-releases (with extra's) suck! Just another way from the record companies to rob the fans from their money!
Same goes for "tour-editions" with all kinds of extra's.


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UPDATE: I asked Szymborksi himself if he thought the Phillies could be in the 85-89 win range. His response?
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Dan Szymborski of Baseball Think Factory and FanGraphs released his ZiPS projections today on FanGraphs. There is a lot of data to comb through, as Szymborski's projections include players who likely will not even see Major League time, but there is a lot of interesting information in his projections. Szymborksi's projects do not paint a very favorable outlook for the Phillies in 2013 but they don't exactly write them off, either.
The Good
When looking at these, we'll start with the good, or rather, the not bad. Szymborski projects that Chase Utley will see the plate 450 times in 2013, an 88 PA improvement from 2012. He projects Utley's contributions to be 3.4 fWAR, a 0.2 WAR improvement from 2012. His right side infield partner Ryan Howard is projected to play at a 1.1 WAR clip, a net gain of 2.1 wins from 2012.
Szymborksi is projecting Domonic Brown to put up a line of .265/.335/.461 with 18 HRs and 12 steals in 19 attempts for 1.9 WAR with exactly even defense in 497 PA. Darin Ruf projects pretty favorably for a first year player at 1 WAR with a line of .255/.321/.420. And finally, among offensive players, Michael Young is projected to have a 2.8 win bounce-back, with Szymborski projecting a 1.4 win season for Young with a .279/.319/.401 line while allowing eight runs on defense.
Szymborski's most aggressive projection occurs on the pitching side – he anticipates Roy Halladay to bounce back and pitch 179 innings with a 3.12 FIP, and 154 Ks. His projection for Halladay puts Doc at 3.6 WAR, a 1.1 WAR increase from 2012.
The Regressors
These lines aren't particularly bad but are expected regressions. Szymborski thinks Jimmy Rollins will have a fine year (17 HR, 22 SB, .260/.323/.422) but that only translates into 3.3 WAR, a 1.6 drop from 2012. Even 3.3 WAR would keep Rollins in the upper crust of the NL shortstops so this is a regression, but expected, and would be a really good year for Jimmy.
Carlos Ruiz is not expected to replicate his injury-shortened 2012 5.5 WAR campaign but Szymborski does like Ruiz to put up 3.3 WAR also. Ruiz's calculation does not account for his suspension but the projection has Chooch at .285/.367/.434 in 421 PA. Chooch's back-up, Erik Kratz, is projected to put up 1.1 WAR in 339 PA with a healthy dose of power: 19 2B and 12 HR.
Ben Revere, projected to get a team-leading 639 PA, is projected to get his first home run in 2013 with 42 steals and a .285/.326/.342 line, is due for regression according to Szymborski, expected to take a 1.2 WAR hit.
In pitching, Cole Hamels takes a 0.1 WAR hit, from 4.5 to 4.4, as his ERA balloons from 3.05 to 3.26. His rotation mate, Cliff Lee, is projected to stay exactly at 4.9 WAR, like he was last year.
The Surprises
Szymborski's projections murky up the outfield pecking order. Revere, Brown, and Ruf rank 1-2-3 in terms of projected value, but the next few names may surprise you: Jermaine Mitchell, Tyson Gillies, and Ender Inciarte. Szymborski's projections love Mitchell's speed, giving him nine triples and 14 steals over 544 PA and saving three runs on defense. Szymborksi has a similar defensive projection for Gillies, but do not believe he can play the entire season healthy. Inciarte projects to be worth a half win over a full season, stealing 30 bases in 46 tries.
Another area of increased murkiness is the bullpen. The starters rank who you may expect (Lee, Hamels, Halladay, Kyle Kendrick, and John Lannan), but the bullpen shakes out a bit differently. Jonathan Papelbon and Mike Adams are expected to generally maintain their effectiveness, but the third best projected reliever is swing-man Julio Rodriguez, who struck out 136 in 134 innings last year in Reading. Rodriguez has not generally not been talked about in the names that could help the Phillies 'pen in 2013 so this inclusion is a bit of a surprise. Rodriguez is followed by Antonio Bastardo, Raul Valdes, Justin De Fratus, and Michael Schwimer. That probably is not the bullpen you had in mind to start 2013, right?
On these projections alone, the Phillies probably shouldn't start printing 2013 NL East champions shirts. While the upgrades from Utley, Howard, Halladay, Brown, and a bounce-back year from Young would be nice, they aren't likely to overcome the regression due from Rollins and Ruiz and the stellar, and completely unexpected, play of Kevin Frandsen in last year's second half.
As far as the pitching goes, Kendrick is projected to be the almost exactly the same Kendrick as he was last year while Lannan is projected to be 0.6 wins worse than Joe Blanton was for the Phillies in half a season in 2013. Adams should give a legitimate boost to the bullpen, as should the additional year of experience for guys like Phillippe Aumont, De Fratus, and Jeremy Horst.
For fun, here is the depth chart these projections create:
C – Ruiz (3.3 WAR)
1B – Howard (1.1 WAR)
2B – Utley (3.4 WAR)
3B – Young (1.4 WAR)
SS – Rollins (3.3 WAR)
LF – Ruf (1.0 WAR)
CF – Revere (2.2 WAR)
RF – Brown (1.9 WAR)
UTL – Freddy Galvis (1.3 WAR)
C – Kratz (1.3 WAR)
UTL – Frandsen (0.9 WAR)
OF – Mitchell (0.6 WAR)
OF – Gillies (0.6 WAR)
SP – Lee (4.9 WAR)
SP – Hamels (4.4 WAR)
SP – Halladay (3.6 WAR)
SP – Kendrick (1.2 WAR)
SP – Lannan (1.1 WAR)
CP – Papelbon (1.2 WAR)
SU – Adams (0.9 WAR)
RP – Rodriguez (0.8 WAR)
RP – Bastardo (0.7 WAR)
RP – Valdes (0.4 WAR)
RP – De Fratus (0.3 WAR)
That projected line-up puts the Phillies at 41.8 WAR. Of course, these projections, while fun, aren't guaranteed by any means, and are done by computers. That being said, 41.8 WAR would put the Phillies at approximately 88.54 wins in 2013, using 46.74 as a baseline for a team of strictly replacement-level players. 88 wins would get them and keep them in the playoff hunt. Without adding any further players, their best bet is to have an overachieving bullpen, hope Revere continues to grow as a player, and to have a Cy Young level season out of either Lee, Hamels, or Halladay to get them over 90 wins.
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Decent enough article very complete but a bit to new age for my taste numbers can only tell you so much the leadership and will are more than numbers
How do they decide which players are goin to see MLB time? No Nix, Mayberry, etc?
anything can happen in baseball. just play the games.
I don't generally read these projections, sometimes I check out Bill James, that's about it. So what's this guy's track record? How much WAR does he predict for the Braves and Nats?
There have been post-season reviews of projections to compare their accuracy, but I can't find any at the moment.
Here's a summary of the projection systems from a couple years ago:
I'm sure those who regard sabermetics as their bible will write off Kevin Frandsen's .338 BA in 55 games played last seaso as an anomaly. Of course, they have to say that as there are no amount of advanced statistics to explain Frandsen's performance. I guess my point is there are variables that can't be measured especially the heart, desire, intestinal fortitude and the ability to play at 100 percent all the time. Also the learning process gained from on field experience. Thus the expression "late bloomers" for older players have been used throughout baseball's history and one notable and current player in Phillies lineup is Ryan Howard and his rookie of the year season at age 27.
I just checked Howard's career stats and my post needs a correction. Howard was 25 years of age for his ROY season. Still relatively old for a rookie. I know about Thome playing 1B and possibly delayed Howard's entrance to the Majors. However I believe Howard gained additional experience in the minors that greatly benefited him to have a ROY performance the next season in the Majors.
There are occasionally late bloomers, and it's possible that Frandsen can come close to repeating what he did last year. But all of these projections try to show what is most likely to happen.
The projection systems are computer programs that look at recent trends, and the player's age, and make a projection based on those and how players have typically progressed historically. And where there are things that look out of place in a players's career, history tells us that those will usually regress the following year. Do they always? No, but again they are looking for what's more likely.
So the programs see for example that Frandsen's batting average on balls in play was .366 in 2012. In the 600+ at bats in the majors previously it was only .256. In his minor league career it was .326. Presumably he played at 100% all time in the minors as well, so did he suddenly figure something out last year? Or did he have a nice run, and maybe a few extra balls happen to fall in for him?
ZiPS, for one assumes something in between, with a .293 BABIP for 2013, which generates a .273/.311/.363 line (.674 OPS). The Bill James system assumed .303, which generated a .283/.321/.374 line (.695 OPS). But I would bet that none of the various systems will assume anything higher than .330, and I'd be surprised if I saw anything above .310.
So is it impossible that Frandsen got better at age 30 and that he can keep it up? Of course not. It's just not very likely.
I generally agree with your view on the use of advanced statistics or "sabermetrics'. It's another well developed system to present a more accurate though not a total picture of a player's current worth. My point as previously mentioned, is that there are some individuals who regard their sabermetric system as infallible and the interpretation of the statistical results for a player as irrefutable. They disregard the intangibles that can not be measured. At least you recognized those intangibles and allow for the possibility of a different result for a player who may be a work in progress and a "late bloomer". I often heard from professional players in interview say that no matter how good they may be, they are still learning this difficult game of basball and strive to be better. The players never allow for contentment and satisfaction and always going for a higher goal. For these players, premature judgment as a result of past statistics are unfair.
I don't think it's just those who worship sabremetrics who believe that Frandsen's season was an anomaly. After all, the Phils own GM gave up one of the team's top 20 prospects, plus another hard-throwing reliever off of the MLB roster and $6M of the team's budget to effectively replace Frandsen as the starting 3B with Michael Young.
Win or lose, the Phillies are the greatest crew in baseball
WOW! Can't even think about all that math. My gut feeling is the Phils will be better than last year, by 6 or 7 games.This comes from 50 years of gut feelings for the Phils.I hope that's enough to get us back in the playoffs. Go Phillies!
I am happy with these projections. Especially since they call for Chase and Ryan to play a relatively low number of AB's. If those two are able to have healthy seasons (big IF, I know) then this is a 90 win team.
The outfield/bench numbers here seem a little cockeyed to me. I'm not sure how a non-regular like Mitchell somehow ends up with 544 PAs, or a bench player like Inciarte manages to get 46 base stealing opportunities. I also can't see Revere leading off, which would be pretty much required in order to lead the team in PAs.
I don't think the playing time assumptions are meant to be taken at face value. All the position player projections add up to over 13,000 plate appearances, but an MLB team only gets about 6,000 in a 162-games schedule.
Sure, these are assumptions. I know that. But if the team projects to a certain performance, I would think that the prognosticators involved could do a better job than a difference of 7,000 plate appearances. These numbers are so inflated, they're borderline useless.
George, I think the value in these is in the rate stats (BA/OBP/SLG/OPS etc).
The way to view the counting stats is that if a given player got that many plate appearances, those stats are what he is expected to produce.
Just fyi, I had the same issue with them, and earlier today I wrote a post to convert them to what a full season might look like (google "schmenkman zips projections" to find it).
Great job of translating James's and Szymborski's numbers into more easily interpreted projections for the season. I agree that their rate stats are all that really matter and I'm not sure why they even project PA's for players. It only leads to confusion.
One thing that I have been wondering is whether there's a way to take the projections and turn them into platoon splits and, if so, to take those splits projections and estimate how many additional runs the Phils might get from using strict platoons at certain positions. For instance, since ZIPS has Ruf's wOBA at .321 and the average of James's and ZIPS's projections have Nix's wOBA at .306, which happens to almost be his career average, is it reasonable to assume the following?:
1. Since Ruf has shown a wide split in the minors, assume that his .321 wOBA projection is based on a .370 wOBA vs. LHP (in 30% of his PA's) and a .300 wOBA vs. RHP (in 70% of his PA's).
2. Since Nix has a wide split (career wOBA .317 vs. RHP / .235 vs. LHP), assume a .317 wOBA if Nix played in a strict LF platoon.
3. A strict platoon would give the Phils a .332 wOBA instead of Ruf's .321 wOBA in LF.
If this is reasonable, how many more runs would we expect from an additional .011 of wOBA from LF?
hk, thanks, and that is reasonable. The formulas would say that on average, .011 of wOBA over 650 plate appearances is worth about 6 runs.
(also, Revere can get 639 by batting 8th every day; it just assumes less time missed due to injury for him than for other players)
Did I read that right? A season's total of 639 official at bats for the 8th hitter in the line-up? Seriously? Can you name any player in game's history to achieve that total of at bats batting 8th in the line-up? It's common knowledge that the 8th hitter will generally average one fewer at bat than those hitting higher in the line-up. Plus there are factors such as the opposing pitcher "pitching around" the 8th hitter (a walk issued) in order to go to the pitcher hitting last in the line-up.
The 639 number in the projections is plate appearances, not official at bats. I doubt that the projections assumed any particular spot in the order, but 630-some is how many PA's the Phillies had in the 8th spot in 2012.
So 88.54 wins have been forecasted using this formula base on a 41.8 WAR.
I predicted, with a reasonably healthy Utley and Howard (about 140 games for each) …which I think will happen…that they hit 90 wins and a playoff berth. Of course, that assumes that Doc bounces back as well and that the rest of the Big 3 in the rotation stays at least the same. The bullpen seems to be improved as well. So many factors. But I think that the mere presence of the #3 and #4 hitters in the lineup from Day 1 will have a profoundly positive effect.
I dont really get all these fancy numbers, but how does this years numbers stack up against 08


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The Weekender: Springfield Plays on Borrowed Time
by Jac Coyne | Lacrosse Magazine Online Staff | Coyne Archive | Twitter
|Springfield is so deep in their midfield this year that
Mike Delia, who Pride coach Keith Bugbee says is his best lacrosse
player, will be moving up front to quarterback the team's offense.
This moves leaves little doubt Springfield will make the NCAAs, but
will its weak conference allow it to avoid another second round
© Roy Chambers
There was a time when the Pilgrim League was the second-best
Division III men's lacrosse conference in New England. A league
comprised of teams that have no organic conferences of their own,
the Pilgrim had a strong blend of teams from all over the
But now, the league is crumbling.
Not only has the competition level dropped dramatically due to conference migration and a general downswing by many members, but now the Pilgrim is faced with NCAA insolvency. Norwich and Lasell left for the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC), giving the Pilgim just six programs – one less than the minimum to keep an NCAA tournament automatic qualifier.
Fortunately for Springfield, the lone remaining shining star in the league and the recipient of the last three Pilgrim AQs, there is a two-year grace period through 2012 before the league – and the Pride – has to make some important decisions.
"We could add to the Pilgrim or we could move to a different league. It's kind of up in the air," said Keith Bugbee, who enters his 28th year as Springfield's head coach. "Or we could become an independent."
While this uncertainty will be in the back of Bugbee's mind – as well as Springfield assistant athletic director Craig Poisson, who is the commissioner of the Pilgrim – it could be overshadowed by the promise the Pride has for the 2011 season.
"I think this could be one of my better teams," said Bugbee, who has a career record of 232-139, 13 NCAA tournament appearances and one national championship. "We have a lot of depth, more than we've had for a while. We're really veteran in the midfield, which will be pretty strong, and we're pretty veteran at the close defense and d-middie positions. In the middle of the field we're good."
Bugbee believes one of the key moves this season will be pushing junior Mike Delia -- a former high school All-American out of Shoreham-Wading River -- from midfield to attack. Delia, whom Bugbee called his best lacrosse player, had 15 goals and 18 assists in 2010.
"I think Mike Delia is going to be excellent," Bugbee said. "He's going to be the quarterback of our offense."
The Pride lost its top two scorers on the attack unit, but Bugbee is confident he has the horses to fill that void. The only real question mark is in goal, where four freshmen will compete for the starting spot.
With all of the pieces in place for a strong season, Springfield shouldn't be too worried about making the NCAAs. The Pride is once again prohibitive favorites to win the Pilgrim, although it must get past an ascendant Wheaton team. But the path from there could be perilous.
The last three seasons, Springfield's second-round opponent has been either Cortland (twice) or Salisbury, which resulted in prompt postseason exits.
"I'd like to see them after one more round," Bugbee said with a chuckle.
To do this, Springfield not only needs a decent schedule, but also win several of those clutch games that will move them down the bracket and away from the big dogs. This is where the Pilgrim dilemma comes in.
Because the league games aren't going to register well with the ranking committee, the Pride needs to stack its non-conference schedule. Since most teams move to their conference slates later in the season, this forced Springfield to front-load its schedule. This season, Bugbee has lined up No. 15 Nazareth, No. 18 Endicott, No. 5 Middlebury and No. 19 Bowdoin, all before April.
"That's why I've always tried to play Western New England late in the year, as late as possible, and I've got Bowdoin and Amherst sprinkled in there a little bit," said Bugbee, who will play WNEC on April 5 this season. "Certainly Babson and Wheaton give us good games, but there are a couple of others that aren't as tough. It's a little challenging."
They are not alone in the challenge. Cabrini is another team that battles the same issue in the CSAC – a strong early-season slate that transitions into a relatively weak conference season. Like Cabrini's plight, until the Pilgrim gets stronger or the Pride sweeps up its non-conference schedule, it will be difficult to earn a seed that doesn't have a huge obstacle waiting in the second round.
"Four years in a row we play to a one-goal game with Nazareth early in the year," Bugbee said. "We've had a lot of one-goal games with Endicott, and last year was a one-goal game with Middlebury. If we can win a couple of those games and win the league, we're just hoping we'll help ourselves when it comes to the seeding."
If not, the clock could be ticking on the Pilgrim League.
Changes haven't dampened Duluth's aspirations
Not only has Minnesota-Duluth lost two first team MCLA All-Americans, but the architect of the entire program, Rob Graff, has retired to family life. Surely this has to be a transition year for the Bulldogs.
"You can think that," said new Duluth head man Frank Clark, somewhat defiantly. "I hope everybody thinks that."
As much as Graff's ample presence will be missed on some levels, it's not as if Duluth is starting from scratch. Clark has been the offensive coordinator for nine years now, and defensive coordinator Sam Litman has been around for three. Just because he's calling the shots doesn't mean Clark has any intention of re-inventing the wheel.
"There are a lot of dynamics and variables that change every year, and this is just another variable that is changing," Clark said. "You might see different approaches, but I think the captain and leadership change will have just as much impact on our program. If we totally cleaned house and had a new coaching staff, this would be a completely different conversation. But we're not going to change it just for change's sake."
Not to say Duluth will attempt to stay completely static.
Brandon Nispel will take the reins of the midfield from All-American Dan Pitzl, and Clark said the unit is deeper than the program has had in years. The graduation of All-American Charlie Nesser on defense leaves a void, but rookie Kyle Mork – who hails from the same high school (Totino Grace, Minn.) as Nesser – can soften that loss. Ryan Butts, who transferred in from Sacred Heart, should help on attack.
"There are a few things that we're tweaking, but we always tweak things every year," Clark said. "You can't stay the same and keep growing. As far as culturally, I won't expect too much of a change there."
We'll find out in Denver.
Games this weekend
After a one-game appetizer last weekend, the MCLA expands its schedules this week. Below is a list of the action, highlighted by No. 5 Florida State against No. 20 Texas in New Orleans on Saturday night.
Harding at Centenary, 7 p.m. CST
No. 20 Texas at LSU, 8 p.m. CST
Georgia Southern at Kennesaw State, 12 p.m.
Trinity (Texas) at St. Edward's, 1 p.m. CST
Reinhardt at North Florida, 1 p.m.
Harding at Tulane, 1 p.m. CST
Occidental at Pepperdine, 1 p.m. PST
Concordia (Calif.) at Cal Lutheran, 2 p.m. PST
Baylor at Rice, 3 p.m. CST
Texas State at TCU, 4:30 p.m. CST
UC Davis at UC Santa Cruz, 7 p.m. PST
No. 5 Florida State vs. No. 20 Texas, 7:30 p.m. CST (at New Orleans)
Tulane at Centenary, 11 a.m. CST
Citadel at Furman, 2 p.m.
No. 5 Florida State at Auburn, 3 p.m.
Slides & Rides
- When I spoke with Geneseo coach Jim Lyons this fall, he pinpointed the void created by All-American goalie Dennis Costanza as a question mark this spring. It appears he has gone a long way toward erasing that punctuation. Lyons confirmed that Ryan Zaremba, a former high school All-American out of West Islip who played at Army Prep last year, has enrolled at Geneseo for the spring. Zaremba was ticketed to play for West Point, but opted out and headed upstate. "I think he could be an All-American as a freshman," said Lyons, who has three other Division I transfers coming in this year. It's good news for the Knights, but another question will continue to linger over the program: can Geneseo beat Cortland?
- If you didn't see it earlier this week, I posted a lengthy story on Dayton head coach Charlie Mark...The kick-off for the MCLA pick 'em contest with Nick Schooler will be on Feb. 9...Michigan defensive coordinator Ken Broschart and wife Keekan welcomed daughter Hadley Emma Broschart earlier this week.
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Engagement Analytics allows you to measure real-time engagement across your workforce and beyond. It helps you to understand how your business works and allows employees to measure their own personal effectiveness.
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It's long been recognized that organizations with a highly engaged workforce significantly outperform those without. Yet despite this clear evidence that engagement is critical for business success, few companies are able to measure in real-time the levels of engagement across their business.
In fact data generated by systems of engagement, be that across social, collaboration, or business applications, is the most under-utilized data in the Enterprise for analytics purposes, even though its potentially the most valuable! If systems of engagement data could effectively participate in a company's business analytics strategy, the resulting analytics would hold the answer to a multitude of business questions that are unanswerable today.
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Our solution captures people interactions from systems of engagement to build your enterprise graph; a graph which encodes who is interacting with whom, when, and in what context. It allows you to understand how your business works; which parts of the graph light up when certain things happen and which don't, or which parts of the graph are most active, have the most expertise, or the need for expertise. Our solution allows you to start to answer these questions dynamically in real-time.
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You can drill-down into each KPI in order to understand what actions are driving your score, and take appropriate action. We believe these 4 KPIs provide the framework to allow every employee not just to be successful in social, but in all their interactions across whatever engagement channel, and to grow their skills, reputation, value, and impact over time.
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Among the 19 movies screening in Film Society of Lincoln Center's excellent "The Last New Wave: Celebrating the Australian Film Revival" (today through January 31) are several seldom revived locally: "Petersen" (1974), "Backroads" (1977), "The FJ Holden" (1977), "Money Movers" (1978), and "The Odd Angry Shot" (1979). Perhaps for that reason, some of the usual suspects have been omitted, including "The Cars That Ate Paris" (1974), "Caddie" (1976), and two late entries, "The Club" and "Breaker Morant" (both 1980).
Even more familiar, Nicolas Roeg's "Walkabout" (1971) and Peter Weir's "The Last Wave" (1977) have also been omitted, and that means one of the New Wave's most iconic faces is absent – that of David Gulpilil. In the list of "40 Best Australian Actors/Actresses" posted on IMDB a year ago today, the foremost Aboriginal indigenous Australian actor was disgracefully ranked 40th, just below "The Hunger Games"'s Liam Hemsworth. Right from the start, Gulpilil was a natural who knew how to captivate the camera by ignoring it.
"Walkabout" opened in the US on July 1, 1971, his eighteenth birthday. He was haunting as the youth who guides the white teenage schoolgirl (Jenny Agutter) and her younger brother from the bush, where they have been stranded, to the edge of civilization. Gulpilil is a famous tribal dancer, and the mating dance he performs for the girl near the end of the film has a primal sensuality. That she can't respond leaves him no escape.
It's arguable that "Walkabout," financed by Americans and directed by an Englishman, wasn't a New Wave film. However, it helped to energize the emergent movement, and its themes – the irresolvable conflict between the wilderness and civilization, the spiritual aridity of modern urban life – amounted to a trenchant cultural critique. The tragedy of British imperialism in Australia are represented in the FSLC's choice of Phillip Noyce's "Backroads" and Fred Schepisi's "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" (1978); the Aboriginal stars of these films are the activist Gary Foley and Tommy Lewis, respectively.
In "The Last Wave" Gulpilil played Chris Lee, one of five Aboriginal clients of Richard Chamberlain's lawyer, who's defending them on a charge of ritualized murder. Freak weather conditions in Sydney coincide with the lawyer experiencing ominous nightmares. As he attempts to understand his clients' spiritual life, Chris becomes his guide and teaches him about the meaning of dreams. Gulpilil was never more present or beautiful, his voice never more velvety and compelling. The movie's climactic apocalypse may occur in a parallel consciousness, but it hasn't been outdated by "Melancholia" (2011) or "The Turin Horse" (2012).
Gulpilil also appeared alongside Dennis Hopper in the bushranger movie "Mad Dog Morgan" (1976) – more "Ozploitation" than New Wave. His alcoholism may have limited his appearances over the years, but he has graced such movies as "The Right Stuff" (1983), "Crocodile Dundee" (1986), "Until the End of the World" (1991), "Rabbit-Proof Fence" and "The Tracker" (both 2002), "The Proposition" (2005), and "Ten Canoes" (2006). The latter starred his son James.
Now in recovery, Gulpilil, approaching 60, most recently acted in Catriona McKenzie's "Satellite Boy," which will play at the Berlinale next month. He plays a white-bearded tracker-hunter who tries to pass on his skills to the grandson with whom he lives in an abandoned Outback movie theater – and which is threatened with demolition by a mining company. It's as if the youth in "Walkabout" had survived and grown old, still to be bedeviled by white greed.
Criterion has published the DVDs of "Walkabout" and "The Last Wave." Among the extras on the "Walkabout" disc is the one-hour biographical documentary "Gulpilil – One Red Blood."
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The Northern California division of Kaiser Permanente is notifying about 5,100 patients that protected health information was on a server found in February 2014 to be infected with malicious software.
In a letter to patients, the organization says it believes the server was infected in October 2011. Kaiser removed the server–used to store research data–and confirmed other servers were not affected and appropriately secured. "We currently have no information that any unauthorized person accessed the information on the server," according to the patient letter. "However, the malicious software broke down the server's security barriers so we are investigating and responding with a very high level of caution and concern. We are very sorry that this happened."
Information on the server included patient name, date of birth and gender, and also may have included address, race-ethnicity, medical record number, lab results associated with research, and patient responses to questions related to research studies in which they participated. Social Security numbers and data from Kaiser's electronic health record were not held on the server.
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wolfgang wrote:peanut1439 wrote:1959 I had a 37 Chevy, it was ugly but ran good !!
1960 I had a 55 Chevy with the hanging dice & 8-ball on the gear shift. I was stylin !!!!
1976-- I got a Brand New 76 International Terra Pickup which I still have today. Thank God, most parts are GM cause they don't make these anymore.
1989-- Still have my 88 Chevy Silverado Pickup. Great Truck I drive daily.
1992- Got a 51 Chevy Pickup and restored it. I put a 350 engine in and sold it to a man from Hawaai & it went on the boat to him. He redid it and sent me a pic with it in pieces, I was so sad .
2002- Brought a 49 Ford and hated it, never finished restoring it and sold it on EBAY. No more Fords for me !!! Still made money, just didn't like the car. Guess I'm a Chevy Fan !!!
Would Love to win the Lottery and buy one of Tony's Cup Cars. Dream On Fool...lol
The exception of the 76 cornbinder IH,i love your list,even the Ford.
That 76 International is a good looking truck. Short bed, big engine and runs like a raped ape !!! LOL
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I have a really stupid question, but here it is: as far as I understand block-feeding (feeding on the same side for prolong periods of time) will decrease supply, which is why it's the method of choice when dealing with over-supply.
When I use side-lying in bed, I usually spend at least an hour (or more) on the same side (because it's wee hours in the morning and I'm asleep).
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Reader Mimu Bunnylin points us to an interesting "trademark" battle coming out of Finland, where the Green political party kicked off their latest political campaign with a new slogan: "New Finland" (apparently Uusi Suomi in Finnish). Seems pretty generic, right? Well, apparently for a long time there was a newspaper in Finland that went by that name, and while it went out of business in 1991, in 2007 it was revived as an online only publication. While the editor of that publication didn't see anything wrong with the Green Party slogan, the publisher apparently went ballistic (Google translation from the original Finnish). He called (a different) Finnish newspaper from his vacation to complain about what the Green Party had done:
"This is intolerable, damn it! It is shocking that the Greens think they can demean the name of New Finland without contacting me!"According to Bunnylin, the publisher also said:
"If due reparations are not agreed on, Green voters can vote for the Pirate Party, who think no one should pay for using other people's rights."Of course, it seems that's what it really comes down to: "due reparations." Perhaps the publisher saw an opportunity to try to get some cash out of this. However, it does raise questions about whether or not such a generic and descriptive phrase like "New Finland" can really be trademarked in the first place.


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Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, so looking for local mosques is becoming easier every day. It used to be very difficult to find local mosques in small towns, but now there are hundreds of new local mosques in the United States, that you can probably find one within an hour from your home. Local mosques have a lot to offer a community, especially in the United States of America. This country is just learning about the religion of Islam, that it is hard to understand it without attending local mosques. There are a lot of local mosques out there that offer open houses to the community. Being a non-Muslim country, it is nice to get to know what our neighbors are about. These local mosques invite the communities in to teach them about their peaceful religion, regardless of what the media portrays it to be. When the local mosques let the community know what their religion is truly about, they put the neighbors� minds at ease. Besides offering services to the non-Muslim community, local mosques offer a lot to the Muslims as well. The local mosques in the United States of America are usually also community centers. They are not only places of worship, but offer many more services. Local mosques often have Sunday schools, day cares, and even full time schools. Some local mosques even offer fund raising activities and monthly dinners for the poor and needy.
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Local mosques also hold as a meeting place for the local Muslim community. They are much like the church, as they have youth groups, picnics, and other events for their community to get together. Local mosques are open for prayers at least once a week. All local mosques hold a prayer service on Friday, as this is the holy day in the Islamic religion. Some local mosques are open every day for the five daily prayers, depending on how active their community is. Depending on the Muslim population in the area, some local mosques may offer stores. These stores sell Islamic books, food, and even clothing. They may be attached to the local mosques themselves, or on the same street. You can find a lot of interesting stuff in the local mosques stores. It is one way that the local mosques spread the word of Islam, and let people know what the religion is about. You may not recognize all local mosques. They come in many shapes and sizes, depending on the size of the Muslim community in that particular area. You can find huge local mosques with golden domes and the crescent high in the sky, or old building that were turned into local mosques. Local mosques may even be a house, if the community is only a few people. It is important to learn about other religions of the world. Since Islam has made its way to the United States we should take the time to learn about our fellow Muslims by visiting the local mosques.


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Electronic Arts' On the House program for Origin lets users download free games for a limited time and keep them. It is obviously a way to get the service installed on more computers, and it's EA so some people are going to complain about that, but I'm a fan of the promotion.
Past titles have included Dead Space and Plants vs. Zombies. Right now, through June 3, it's Battlefield 3. Go crash some jets, for me. (So I'm not the only one embarrassing himself.)
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Rained out game means…meeting the players!
Not me. Oh, how I wish it had been me too! But Pick Me Up Some Mets friend Tracy and her son Ryan were in Pittsburgh to catch the game last night, when the rain started coming down, the game got canceled, and they instead wound up in the same hotel restaurant as many of our favorite Mets! Thanks to Tracy for sharing her pics with us! Below you'll see David Wright, Daniel Murphy, Gary Sheffield, Omir Santos, Fernando Tatis, and Jeremy Reed–and of course Tracy and Ryan. Tracy reports that all our Metsies were charming and delightful, and Daniel Murphy's trademark dry humor was present in full effect. When they told him they'd come from New York, D-Murph deadpanned, "So did I." You'll also notice that D-Wright has traded his pastel polo shirts from a couple years back for something a bit edgier. If that's all that's changed since his $50 million plus contract, then he's still the David we all know and love! Enjoy, and thanks again to Tracy.
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I said it before after seeing him up close on San Francisco, but the picture above confirms it – Jeremy Reed is hot!
You know, these days, the Affliction T is what the old-school polo used to be (I remember seeing Roger McDowell on the LIRR in a yellow polo– he was riding in the first car, gleefully looking out the front window, like a little kid). Once everyone's wearing something, it's not "edgy" anymore. If David now doubled back to the pastel polo, then that would be "edgy," especially if he wore it "ironically."😉 🙄


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I have to EP due to a latch issue. My LO is 3 weeks old. She was eating 3 ozs every 2-3 hours. Lately she is eating 5-6 oz every 1-3 hours (varies). I have been keeping tabs on her eating and yesterday she ate 27 ozs a day. The day before, it was 25. She is only 6 lbs 7 ozs.
Why is she eating so much? I cannot keep up with her eating and it is totally stressing me out. When she roots or put her hands in her mouth we try to stall her and not feed her by giving her our fingers or a pacifier or swaddling her or wearing her. She eventually screams, turns bright red and even sheds tears (she did not have tears before) causing me to think, this is about hunger and not a sucking reflex but OH MY GOODNESS why would a 6 lb 7 oz baby need 27 ounces a day? It seems too high based on everything I have read.
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