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Exploring and testing the relationships within a dataset are the focus of this book. The author uses python and pandas to present the statistical methods used. But, python and pandas is not the focus of the book, it is just the presentation tool. There is a lot of material in the github repo, which is used in a "blackbox" fashion by the author to allow the logic of the statistical thinking to shine. The result is the clearest treatment of stats I've seen-- at least from the point-of-view of a programmer who handles data work flow challenges. This book, paired with either the online pandas docs or "Python for Data Analysis" is the best way to dig deep.
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What the Bible says about our work
Colossians 3 tells us to do all our work as if unto the Lord, but how do you actually go about doing that? That question has plagued me for years. Over time (and a great deal of weeping and gnashing of teeth) I constructed three strategies that seem to help:
- Work as an expression of Love – When Jesus reminded us to love our neighbor as ourselves, work was part of that. In fact, at work is the one place where we most often forget this command. Think of everything you do at work as a way to express God's love to others.
- Focus away from the crap – You have a choice. You can pay attention to the bits of your job that you hate, or you can remind yourself of the positives. But first you have to find the positives. Find what you love about your job, the opportunities to shine and be your best.
- Exceed everyone's expectations – Find out what they expect from someone in your position and then do more. You will be more happy, they will be joyous, and everything will go well with you. Find the details, those sometimes hidden parts of the task or job that most people take for granted, and then do more or better.
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Master Chief - badder and better in part three.
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Halo cost me Oni 2, which could have been fantastic.
I can't decide if I agree with that first part or not. It may be a programmer's attempt to do an end run around his bosses and either will get us a better game next time or get him fired.- which is admittedly a courageous move but I'd feel better if the people setting the deadlines admitted the error - then again at least it's not Duke Nukem Whenever :)Originally Posted by Breach
I think it is courageous that they can admit that they were not happy with their product and are in tune in some ways with Halo fans who criticized the game a bit. Hopefully that will be fuel for Halo 3 to be the best ever.
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So why did they not release it for PC and fix it? All this is is Hype for Halo 3 plain and simple If anyone does not think that every little piece of Halo 2 was not examined this way or that by in house game testers are out of their head. If you want a little taste of what is behind how they make a game, play Valves HL2 E1 on directors commentary almost every scene the directors tells you that they had to change this or that due to game testers criticizing that segment of the game when tested.
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One of South Carolina's most corrupt, incompetent government agencies is about to be rewarded for its abysmal performance by so-called "Republicans" in the S.C. Senate – which would flush another $9 million of your money down the toilet.
In fact the South Carolina Retirement System Investment Commission (SCRSIC) – which has presided over the ongoing implosion of the state's pension fund – is in line to double its budget for the second consecutive year.
After receiving $5.8 million in fiscal year 2010-11 – this notoriously corrupt agency convinced current S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and our "Republican-controlled" S.C. General Assembly to appropriate another $5.5 million in the current budget. This spring, the agency upped its budget request for the coming fiscal year to $19 million.
This request was (wisely) shot down by the typically free-spending S.C. House of Representatives, but now S.C. Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman (RINO-Florence) has decided to try and insert the money in the state budget anyway.
Is this guy serious?
Sadly yes … Leatherman is joined at the hip with Florence attorney Reynolds Williams, whose law firm has made a pretty penny off of insider deals associated with his role as "Chairman Emeritus" of this agency. However while Williams has been busy padding his own pockets, those who depend on this fund have been taking it up the yin-yang.
South Carolina's pension fund lost $1.8 billion of value over a six-month period ending January 9. Meanwhile its unfunded liability has mushroomed to $14.4 billion. The agency already pays an exorbitant amount of money on fees and bureaucracy – and the S.C. Senate's solution to this problem is to expand that institutional incompetence?
What a joke … and it's even more of a joke that so-called "conservatives" in the S.C. Senate like Greg Ryberg are on board with this nonsense.
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley's office has yet to take a position on this $9 million request, although her appointee to this commission has repeatedly demonstrated that he is in the pocket of the status quo – as has the appointee of S.C. Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom.
Meanwhile S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis – who has been fighting to reduce the pension fund's liabilities and improve its investment performance – has been taking arrows in his back in an effort to clean up this catastrophic mess.
Two months ago, FITS published an exclusive report detailing the real "pay-to-play" scams going on at this commission – scams which Loftis has spent his first year in office investigating. Most of those scams involve the state's former investment czar Bob Borden, who was forced to resign his post two months ago after Loftis began digging into his administration of the fund.
This funding request will not create higher returns, it will create more bureaucracy. As is the case with our worst-in-the-nation public school system, taxpayers cannot afford to continue to throw good money after bad as it relates to our money-losing pension fund.
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A 15-year-old Waukesha boy was charged on Tuesday, Feb. 11, with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha County Circuit Court.
Zakaria M. Alhasasneh is allegedly an accomplice of Alonso Corral, a one-handed Waukesha man also charged last week with attempted homicide in connection to the Wednesday, Feb. 5, shooting in the 2000 block of Kensington Drive.
Corral faces new charges of possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of narcotic drugs, three counts of first-degree reckless endangerment with a dangerous weapon, endangering safety by reckless use of a firearm, and two counts of misdemeanor bail jumping.
Corral, 24, could effectively face life in prison and over $150,000 in fines if convicted. Alhasasneh could face 60 years in prison if convicted.
According to an article in the Lake Country Reporter, Corral lost his right hand in September 2012 while employed as a machinist for Nature's Path, a Sussex-based cereal packaging company. The article states he was attempting to clear a jam in a flaker machine when his hand got caught in the rollers.
District Attorney Brad Schimel said that under the law Alhasasneh had to be charged as an adult.
"The juvenile court has no jurisdiction over [first-degree intentional attempted homicide], unless the adult court determines that a reverse waiver back to juvenile court is appropriate," he said.
Schimel said he could not recall the last time a juvenile was charged in adult court with homicide or attempted homicide.
According to the criminal complaint, Waukesha City Police were dispatched at about 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 5, to the Kensington Apartments, 2107 Kensington Drive, after receiving reports of shots fired.
Police located two shell casings but no witnesses; the victims of the shooting had already sped off from the scene and arrived at the police station, the complaint states.
Damian Jimenez told police in the complaint Corral had fired two shots into his van, which was occupied by him, his two children and the likely target, John Brautigam.
Brautigam said he felt one of the bullets fly past his ear. A police specialist that searched the vehicle noted in the complaint that if Brautigam were sitting upright, he'd likely be dead or seriously injured.
Brautigam told police in the complaint that Jimenez stopped the vehicle at one point after the shooting and began frantically searching his children, ages 5 and 8, for gunshot wounds.
Several witnesses to the daytime shooting spoke to police in the following days.
A 17-year-old man told police in the complaint that he heard a "bang, echo, pause, bang, and another echo," at about 3:50 p.m. on the day in question. He looked out a balcony window and saw a Hispanic male flee the scene and disappear into a building across the street from the shooting.
Nick Thomas, a 16-year Army veteran, heard the gunfire and chased Jimenez's van as it fled the scene, assuming it contained the shooter and not the victims, the complaint states.
Edward King was sitting in his living room when he heard the gunshots. He said he saw two men, dressed in a similar fashion, running toward 1813 Kensington Drive.
According to the complaint, police at the scene of the shooting followed two sets of footprints to an apartment at 1813 Kensington Drive. Inside were Dora Rocha and Gricelda Rocha, who allowed police to search the residence.
Police recovered from the apartment several bags of heroin, about two ounces of marijuana and numerous items of matching clothing, including black-and-yellow hooded sweatshirts, sweatpants, baseball hats and two pairs of shoes, the complaint states.
Dora Rocha, allegedly a former girlfriend of Corral, told police in the complaint she had not seen him since the previous evening. She said the drugs were not there when she left the apartment in the morning.
Police searched for Corral over the course of the night and learned that he might be holed up at the Wildwood Lodge, N14 W24121 Tower Place, Pewaukee, the complaint states.
Police were bringing resources to bear on the lodge at about 2:20 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6 when a detective said he spotted Corral leaving in a gray vehicle, the complaint states.
The vehicle entered onto the highway, according to the complaint, but was stopped a short time later by a State Patrol officer on I-94 east near the 35th Street interchange.
Four people were pulled from the vehicle, including Corral and Esmeralda Rocha. Brautigam had told police earlier that he was at the Kensington Drive apartments to visit Esmeralda Rocha.
Maurice Carter, the driver of the vehicle, said in the complaint he had no idea Corral was being sought by police and when he was stopped by multiple squad cars, Corral and Esmeralda Rocha said: "I think that is for us."
Esmeralda Rocha told police in the complaint she had known Brautigam for about eight years and that they used heroin together.
"She explained that [Brautigam] had a habit of just showing up by people's house and trying to get them to give him drugs," the complaint states.
She told police that is what happened on Feb. 5, but claimed she never saw Brautigam, the complaint states.
She said she learned what happened after the fact and called Corral, who said he was at the lodge with Miguel Sanchez and Alhasasneh.
Sanchez refuted Esmeralda Rocha's statement. He said in the complaint that he had known Corral for about 12 years, back from when Corral tried to recruit him into the Latin Kings.
The day of the shooting he arrived at the Rocha residence at Kensington and saw that Alhasasneh and Corral were dressed the same, wearing yellow pants and black jackets.
Jimenez honked his horn, Sanchez said in the complaint, and Alhasasneh said: "We are going to to get that n----." Corral and the boy then ran out of the apartment, he said in the complaint.
Esmeralda Rocha and Sanchez fled the house after shots were fired and later picked up Corral and Alhasasneh at Coronado Street, about 4 miles from the scene of the crime. They drove to the Wildwood Lodge and Alhasasneh was picked up by his mother.
Esmeralda Rocha denied luring Brautigam to the apartment so that he could be shot, the complaint states.
Corral was transported to Waukesha Memorial Hospital after his arrest to be treated for serious withdrawal symptoms.
Corral told police in the complaint that he started using heroin about six months after he lost his hand. In a statement, he said that Alhasasneh was the shooter and claimed he could not shoot a gun because of his injury, the complaint states.
Alhasasneh was pulled from class on the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 7 and taken to the police station for questioning.
Alhasasneh's statement changed several times over the following days.
He said that he lived with Corral several days a week at his house at 1470 Cleveland Ave. because he does not get along with his mother and brother. He said that he bought the "strap" used in the shooting a few weeks earlier, from a guy he knew who sold him marijuana. He kept it hidden in a drawer at the Rocha residence.
He initially told police that Corral had been the shooter, but the next day told police he himself did it. After further questioning, he admitted it was Corral who fired the gun, the complaint states.
He said Brautigam had been talking about robbing people, and may have robbed a gang member's house, according to the complaint. Alhasasneh said in the complaint that he believed that shooting at Brautigam, even if he missed, might be enough to get him into "the gang," though which gang in question is unclear.
Alhasasneh said that Corral was not supposed to be the shooter; it was his job to do the shooting, but Corral took the gun from him and fired the shots, according to the complaint.
Alhasasneh's mother said in the complaint her son had told her that Corral was the shooter. She told police she did not know where the gun went.
Corral is being held in Waukesha County Jail on a $500,000 cash bail. He is expected to appear at a preliminary hearing on Thursday, Feb. 27.
Alhasasneh is being held on a $250,000 cash bail. He is expected to appear at a preliminary hearing on Friday, Feb. 21.
Corral, 1470 Cleveland Ave., was charged last November with possession of an illegally obtain prescription, retail theft and resisting arrest. He was released Nov. 5 on a $1,000 signature bond on the condition that he not commit any further crimes.


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Blogs Liberty and Power Wal-Mart Derangement SyndromeDec 23, 2005 4:37 pm
Wal-Mart Derangement Syndrome
One of my interests these days is defending Wal-Mart against the misguided barbs of its critics. In the last year, I've participated in two different public forums on Wal-Mart, one defending putting a Supercenter in the next town over and the other as a "responder" to the new anti-Wal-Mart documentary "The High Cost of Low Price." I have posted my remarks on the latter on my website. My apologies for some of the local references there, but the audience was leftist students and local community members.
When I did that forum, however, I wish I'd had access to this paper (PDF) by Jason Furman. (Hat tip to Don Luskin at the Krugman Truth Squad.) Some of this was reported on in a Washington Post op-ed, but the paper has tons more good stuff in it. One item not noted in the op-ed is this:
Wal-Mart is relatively unusual in that it offers health insurance both to full- and part-time employees. By comparison, only 60 percent of firms economywide offer health benefits and only 17 percent of firms offer health benefits to part-time workers. Target, for example, does not offer benefits to people working less than 20 hours per week. Wal-Mart, however, has longer waiting periods for eligibility for benefits than many other firms, 6 months for full-time workers and 24 months for part-time workers.
It never ceases to amaze me how many distortions people have created around Wal-Mart, as well as the level of sheer fear it creates among certain folks, both right and left. Perhaps, much like the BDS ("Bush Derangement Syndrome") coined by Charles Krauthammer, we need a WMDS for those who seem to froth at the mouth at the mere mention of Wal-Mart. If so, let me take credit for first coining "Wal-Mart Derangement Syndrome" as the acute onset of paranoia, irrationality, and/or economic ignorance in otherwise normal people in reaction to any one or more of the policies, the practices, the prices, the products, the aesthetics, if not the very existence, of Wal-Mart.
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William J. Stepp - 12/30/2005
Just for the record, I've read Chandler. The fact that transportation and other infrastructure that retailers (and everyone else) depended on was subsidized is irrelevant. Don't forget that Wal-Mart was highly profitable from the getgo, and therefore paid lots of taxes.
The libertarian solution is to privatize the infrastructure and charge Wal-Mart and its vendors and customers for using it.
Your point about Wal-Mart's innovations (nicely summarized by William Lewis in his book on productivity) being irrelevant in a world of private infrastructure is just plain wrong and you point to no evidence or logic to support it.
Even if Wal-Mart and Tyson lobbied for an airport on stolen land, if the airport were private and had been built on private land, they would still be profitable and productive enterprises.
The history of Wal-Mart is not about the history of subsidies--far from it, as Wal-Mart has paid many billions in taxes over the years, surely more than enough to fund as many private airports on private land as it needed to conduct its business.
Btw, my one and only letter to the editor of the New York Times advocated privatizing airports and landing slots, which are now controlled by the goverment.
Kevin Carson - 12/29/2005
Well, you should check out Chandler's The Visible Hand on how the evolution of large national wholesalers and mass retailers in the 19th century depended on a government-subsidized transportation system.
"Subsidies" doesn't just mean direct payments. It also refers to the socialization of costs through government-provided infrastructure and services.
If airports and highways were funded entirely by user fees, on a cost basis, and deprived of eminent domain, all of Wal-Mart's much-vaunted innovations in distribution would be about as useful as titties on a fish.
Here in NW Arkansas, we've got a regional freight airport (built on stolen farm land) shoved down the taxpayers' throats by--you guessed it--secret political lobbying by Wal-Mart and Tyson.
William J. Stepp - 12/27/2005
The lastest nonsense about Wal-Mart on the internet is that the retailer is receiving subsidies.
WMT earned about $10.8 billion in net income in fiscal '05 and paid about $3.96 billion in taxes, an effective tax rate of 36.7%.
Meanwhile, it paid $0.52 per common share in dividends on 4.16 billion shares outstanding, a total of $2.16 billion in dividends.
So who owns Wal-Mart, its shareholders or the government?
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Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) is a hip street dancer with attitude and a weakness for breaking and entering. Nabbed while trashing a school of arts, he's sentenced to perform his community service there. Pretty ballet dancer Nora (Jenna Dewan), meanwhile, is desperate to find a new dance partner, but all the candidates are wimps. Hmmm, where could she find a strong, manly man who's easy on the eye and light on his feet? Like many films in the romance/dance genre, 'Step Up' makes a virtue of its predictability, setting the stage for a dream scenario and fulfilling the wishes of its young audience. But while Tatum has rough charm, Dewan is more dancer than actress, and most of the peripheral characters – as they would put it – suck (Rachel Griffiths almost visibly grits her teeth throughout her dull turn as school principal). Several dance scenes are fantastic, but with its wooden dialogue and pedestrian plotting, this is more 'Save the Last Dance' than 'Footloose'.
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"Chen, Xiao" <email@example.com>
st: questions on treatreg
Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:28:38 -0800
I have a couple of questions about treatreg. I don't know much about
econometrics in general. In particular, I don't know much about this
treatreg procedure.
Here are the two questions:
1) Does it make sense to include an interaction term of the endogenous
treatment variable with a predictor variable in treatreg?
For example, in the model below, my hypothesis is that the effect of lfp
depends on the status of wc.
webuse labbor, clear
gen wc=0
replace wc=1 if we>12
xi: treatreg ww i.wc*lfp , treat(wc= wmed wfed) twostep
I think conceptually, this model should be doing the following:
ww = beta0 + beta1*lfp + beta2*lfp*wc + beta3*wc + e (1)
wc = g0 + g1*wmed + g2*wfed + u (2)
and e and u are bivariate normal with variance sigma and 1 and
covariance rho.
For this example, I do have trouble running it using ml. But I have seen
models that actually run with ml estimator. But the fact that it runs
mechanically does not really tell much if the model makes sense or if
the estimates are biased or not.
It seems that if any substitution of equation (2) happens in (1), it can
only happen to beta3, not to beta2 since this will make lfp a random
effect and that is not what has been hypothesized.
2) Does fixed-effect model make sense for treatreg? Let's say we have
data over multiple years and we want to control the year effect. Would
it make sense to just include the dummy variables for year in the model
to account for the fixed effect of year?
I hope these questions make sense and I really appreciate any hints on
them from the experts.
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Statistical Consulting Group
UCLA Academic Technology Services
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Few great sportsmen have ever divided opinion like Muttiah Muralitharan. For everybody who has hailed him as a wonder of the age, another has condemned him as a cricketing pariah. His record as the greatest Test wicket-taker in history will forever be tarnished by the endless debate about the legality of his bowling action.
Murali's unique action, which is reliant upon an elbow deformity at birth that prevents him from straightening it fully and a highly supple wrist, has provided one of the most passionate cricket debates in history. It has involved not just cricket officialdom, but presidents and prime ministers, biomechanical scientists and, at the bottom of the heap, the boorish cricket fans who have drawn amusement from shouting "no ball" whenever he bowls.
Murali's great career has uncovered one unpalatable fact – under the strict interpretation of the Laws, everybody chucks. The scientific studies that arose out of the Murali furore proved that nobody bowls with a straight arm, as the Laws demand, and perhaps nobody ever has.
Six years ago the International Cricket Council acted upon a study of bowling actions worldwide. They were taken in staged and match conditions, involving cameras from up to six different angles, some capable of 250 frames a second. They showed that at the point of delivery a bowler's arm straightened between three and 22 degrees. This led the ICC to introduce a tolerance level of 15%, the point at which the straightening of the arm became apparent to the naked eye.
It was a realistic response, using the insights of modern technology to find a compromise under which the game could function. Many dismissed it as a cheats' charter. Barry Jarman, a former Australian wicketkeeper and the ICC match referee who first expressed misgivings about Murali's action in the early 1990s, railed. "It makes a joke of the game – it makes me sick talking about it," he said. "Everyone knows he bowls illegally. I saw a photo in the paper the other day and put my old school protractor on his arm. It was bent at 48 degrees. I put it up in the pub to show everybody."
Scientists could strap sensors to Murali's arm, film him from innumerable angles and make computer calculations, and Jarman still preferred the evidence of fading eyesight, two-dimensional photographs and his old school protractor. It was absurd.
Cricket has always been a highly technical game predominantly watched by incurable romantics. That is why many former players, steeped in orthodoxy, and priding themselves as realists, condemn Murali's action as illegal whilst a majority of spectators sighed: "Leave him alone, he's a delight to watch."
The betrayal of Murali first occurred in a Boxing Day Test in Melbourne between Australia and Sri Lanka in 1995. The umpire Darrell Hair, not one to be overawed by the fact that the umpires are the "sole arbiters of the game", called him for throwing. A career potentially destroyed in front of 70,000 people. Another Australian umpire, Ross Emerson, no-balled him again in Brisbane 10 days later in a one-day international against West Indies. It was a calculated attempt to drum him from the game.
When Emerson again no-balled him for throwing in Adelaide the following year, in an ODI between Sri Lanka and England, Sri Lanka's streetfighting captain, Arjuna Ranatunga, led his side from the field.
There had to be a more sensitive way of doing things. Umpires and match referees were instructed to report their suspicions. The ICC cobbled together its first survival plan, allowing fast bowlers 15 degrees tolerance, medium-pacers 10 degrees and spin bowlers five degrees, an entirely arbitrary distinction.
Darryl Foster, a former Sri Lankan bowling coach, and by then working at the University of Western Australia, put suspicions about Murali down to an "optical illusion". Murali bowled in arm braces for the TV cameras, in Colombo he even bowled with an ankle brace on his elbow because that was all they could find. Attempts to emulate Murali by Sri Lankan youngsters granted neither a revolving wrist nor a locked elbow meant a chucker on every beach.
Just as life quietened, Murali developed the doosra, the ball that leaves the right-hander, a delivery that many contend cannot be bowled without throwing. Chris Broad, the English match referee, reported suspicions about his particular delivery after a Test in Colombo, again involving Australia, his perpetual detractors.
The ICC raised the limit to 15 degrees for everybody, Murali bowled his doosra with caution and officialdom emphasised that suspect actions should still be reported. They still are, but in an atmosphere of rehabilitation, not bloodlust.


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SAN DIEGO -- While Jake Peavy got dirty, Josh Beckett's stuff was simply filthy.
Beckett topped Peavy in a matchup of two of baseball's top pitchers, becoming the first 11-game winner in the majors and leading the Boston Red Sox to a 4-2 victory Sunday over the San Diego Padres.
The Red Sox were patient against Peavy, making him throw a lot of pitches and collecting nine hits off the ace in five innings.
"He's obviously, if not the best, one of the best in the game, and we did make him work hard," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. "And fortunately for us, one of the other best is on our team, and he was great."
The Beckett-Peavy matchup was just the third in history in which two opposing starters each had nine or more wins against one or fewer losses. The previous one was when Toronto's Roger Clemens (11-1) faced Atlanta's Denny Neagle (9-1) on June 16, 1997.
Throwing an electric fastball while mixing in a curveball and an effective changeup, Beckett held San Diego to two runs and six hits in eight innings while striking out eight and walking one. He improved to 5-1 against the Padres, with the previous decisions coming while he was with Florida. The Red Sox ended Peavy's streak of six straight wins.
Beckett (11-1) kept the Padres scoreless until he gave up a two-run double in the fifth to Terrmel Sledge, who was pinch-hitting for Peavy (9-2). Sledge advanced to third on Jose Cruz Jr.'s groundout, but was stranded when Beckett retired Michael Barrett and struck out Adrian Gonzalez with a full-count curveball.
The top three batters in the Padres' order, Cruz, Barrett and Gonzalez, went 0-for-12 against Beckett with six strikeouts.
"He did well -- won the game, got through the eighth. Good performance in my book," Peavy said.
Jason Varitek tripled and homered for the AL East leaders, who have baseball's best record. The Red Sox took two of three from the Padres, who yielded the NL West lead to Arizona.
"Anytime you go against Jake Peavy it's going to be a tough day," Beckett said. "We got big hits with guys in scoring position. The guys picked me up. To score three runs off that guy, I didn't expect to get that much on a day like that."
Peavy lasted five innings, his shortest outing this season, and saw his ERA rise from 1.98 to 2.14, dropping him from first in the NL to third. He gave up three runs and nine hits, struck out only three -- matching his season low -- and walked one. Peavy came in leading the NL with 110 punchouts.
He also got dirty from falling down while making a putout at first and diving to try to make a play at third.
The Red Sox scored three runs on five hits in the third, when Peavy threw 38 pitches.
"I feel like I made some quality pitches and just didn't have anything to show for it," Peavy said. "I don't feel like I got hit all over the ballpark, by any means. I felt good about myself and everything I did out there, except I lost."
Jonathan Papelbon pitched a perfect ninth for his 18th save in 19 chances.
Peavy retired Beckett leading off the inning, then allowed three straight singles. One pitch after fouling off a 99 mph fastball, David Ortiz singled to right on a 1-2 slider to bring in Coco Crisp. Manny Ramirez followed with a sacrifice fly to right. After J.D. Drew beat out an infield single, Mike Lowell had a base hit to right to score Ortiz.
Every Red Sox regular except Julio Lugo had a hit off Peavy. Beckett singled off Peavy in the fourth.
Peavy and the Padres had a Keystone Kops second inning.
The pitcher fell down covering first on J.D. Drew's grounder, but made the putout.
With two outs, Varitek ended up with a triple when his fly ball to shallow left fell between shortstop Khalil Greene and left fielder Russell Branyan, who collided. Peavy tried to cover third, sliding headfirst into the bag, but couldn't hang onto the throw. Manager Bud Black and a trainer came out to check on Peavy's hand, and he stayed in the game.
"You talk about position players playing hard and getting dirty," Black said. "Well, the dirtiest player on the field today was our starting pitcher."
Kevin Kouzmanoff walked leading off the Padres' fifth and Geoff Blum followed with a single before Sledge doubled to right-center to bring them both in.
Varitek homered off Scott Linebrink leading off the eighth, setting off a scramble for the ball in the sand play area beyond the right-center fence. It was his eighth.
- The Red Sox finished interleague play 12-6, the third-best mark in baseball, and the Padres were 6-9.
- With RHP Curt Schilling on the DL, LHP Kason Gabbard will be called up to start for the Red Sox on Tuesday at Seattle. Gabbard is 7-2 with a 3.24 ERA in 14 starts with Triple-A Pawtucket. He beat Atlanta 6-3 in a spot start on May 20 in Boston.
- Peavy had a pedestrian June -- for him, anyway -- going 2-1 with a 3.61 ERA in five starts.


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For the Safe-Guard Suspension 10%, 1000 ml Bottle (liquid, not paste):
Dog: 1cc (1ml) per 5 pounds of body weight for three days in a row.
Cat: Same as above.
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If you only have one dog and/or one cat it may be more cost-effective for you to buy the 3-day Safeguard or Panacur packets over the counter, but for those of us in rescue or breeding, buying a $100 bottle of Safeguard that lasts a year and worms dozens of animals...
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Iraq committed an armed attack on Kuwait in 1990 and military force, as an exercise in collective security, was approved by the Security Council to repel it. This was no minor skirmish; it was, as the Secretary-General said, the only case where a member of the UN had overpowered and annexed the entire territory of another member of the UN.
Since then, the Security Council has tried - but failed - to restore peace and security by passing lots of resolutions.
Accordingly , Kuwait has all of its inherent rights to collective self-defence, and so do its allies. What more basic right does it have than to disarm its enemy and remove the threat?
The second case where force is allowed is where the Security Council itself approves the use of force. In that case, the UN itself marches off to war or at least allows its members to do so.
But here our scholars make another mistake. They say that before the council can act, there must be " . . . an actual threat to the peace . . . (which) cannot be averted by any means short of force . . ." Contrary to their assertions, chapter 7 of the charter does not say there must be an actual threat. It can act if there is "any threat to the peace", a "breach of the peace" or an "act of aggression".
Surely, given Iraq's known belligerence, the Security Council would be entitled to say this state poses, at the very least, a threat to the peace.
The council is therefore entitled to authorise military action to restore international peace by disarming Iraq.
If you want academic opinion, Professor Anthony Aust, deputy director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, has even argued that a further authorisation by the Security Council is not necessary because the 1990 authorisation is still valid.
But if the Security Council will not approve force, those who are willing say they are entitled to join in disarming Iraq. It is here the experts make their main point, rejecting this notion of "pre-emptive self-defence". To accept such a principle, they say, "contradicts the cardinal principle . . . the prohibition on the unilateral use of force to settle disputes".
Now that is a curious argument. If the principle is so cardinal, how do we explain that, according to Professor Michael Glennon, of Tufts University, there have been about 100 cases of the use of force in international affairs since the UN charter was established. In none of them did the Security Council authorise the use of force: all that prohibited conduct gone unpunished!
If it is so cardinal, how do we explain the NATO (including French) attack on Yugoslavia without Security Council approval?
If it is so cardinal, how is it that since 1945 the Security Council has authorised force in so few cases?
No, the intention was cardinal and commendable, but not the achievement.
Indeed, Professor Bill Bowring, of London Metropolitan University has said that, "many scholars of international relations deny that law, or indeed the UN itself, have any influence whatsoever on the actions of the great powers".
The research service of the Library of Congress (not the US Government) says it is clearly arguable that a pre-emptive strike is lawful in appropriate cases and that "most analysts" recognise this.
So the academic opinion is nowhere nearly as clear-cut on one side as the experts say.
But it seems to me both sides in this lawyers' argument, including me, sound a bit like medieval theologians, as they search for ancient precedents and comb over UN resolutions. It is time for the world of reality to take a place.
The world of reality tells us that, despite its imperfections, the UN is the first and best place to have this dispute resolved, because everyone is there and they can talk.
But it also tells us that the UN will have to act this time, to finish off the Gulf War and bring to heel an erratic dictator who holds most of his region in terror.
And the world of reality tells us, finally, that if the UN does not act, the US and its allies will - and they will have plenty of law on their side to justify it. Or, as Madeleine Albright said to Robin Cook during Kosovo, you can always change the lawyers.
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Cavanaghs Recap the Classic
Submitted by Tom & Maureen Cavanagh on August 28, 2008
Hey, do you like to do kind acts for complete strangers? No? Then read no further!
To those of you still reading, I have an act of kindness to share with you! It occurred at NYC's legendary Holcombe Rucker Park, the world mecca of playground basketball, and it was perpetrated by a particularly shiny group of youngish men and women. In fact, the folks behind this act of kindness were so darn kind, we should capitalize this act--thus, an Act Of Kindness! In fact, maybe quotations are also called for: "Act Of Kindness"!
No. That's pushing it. Capitalized Act is all that's really called for. You're right, let's not overreact.
What about italics? OK, jeez, I'm just asking. We'll stick with Act Of Kindness.
And just what was said act, you ask?
We are talking of course, about the first inaugural NOTHING BUT NETS CAVANAGH CLASSIC Charity Hoops game involving local legendary streetball players, celebrities of Film, TV and stage, the youngsters from the local New Heights organization and a guy dressed as a giant mosquito. (Winner of most dedicated intern EVER; our friend Axel!) Despite the heat, (baller and "Rescue Me" star Steven Pasquale had an unofficial estimate of 217 degrees Fahrenheit - or was that Kelvin?) we had a terrific turnout of fans from all over New York. And actor/comedian/author/scrabble expert Michael Ian Black drove down from Connecticut, having falsely been promised an espresso machine. Another pair 'o nutmeggers, Maureen's parents, couldn't quite make it, their car having broken down on the Cross Bronx. Something to do with the alternator, I understand. Pasquale claims it was the 412 degrees Fahrenheit, or was that gigawatts. "It's hot," added defensive specialist Carlos Hawkins, "but it's a hot heat". To which actor and Ralph Lauren model Chris Collins responded, "Whatever." As soon as Chris spoke, 10 women fainted - and it definitely wasn't the heat.
The day started out with a very soulful version of the National Anthem sung by recording artist Shaliek Rivers. His smooth vocals set the stage for a heartfelt and informative speech by Elizabeth Gore from Nothing But Nets and then a quick but witty welcome by Tom Cavanagh. Actually, baller and TV personality Gary Apple was overheard stating "That was the least witty welcome I've ever heard, and I work with sports reporters," to which baller and actor Jimmy Burke added "Don't forget long and boring," prompting baller Gene Hackett to respond "At least he didn't curse."
Then it was onto the first-rate stylings of Andre "Dre" Britton, who shone all day long as the official MC, bestowing sometimes flattering, sometimes less-so nicknames on the hoopsters, (we're still uncertain whether Slovenia's own Niko Klansek chafes or rejoices over the "Dirk" handle) and chronicling the day's events with hilarious play-by-play . Timing award goes to hoops legend and Above The Rim founder Cape who shows up at the Rucker as he is being introduced, and without missing a beat runs right onto the court , high fives everyone, including the mosquito (" I didn't get to where I am today by forgetting the disease-ridden little people," Cape tells me).
Now what self-respecting fundraiser can make do without music and photo-ops. We were so thankful to DJ B-Fats who kept the beats flowing during the entire day, prompting Michigan Wolverine Ron Garber to pop and lock and defend the key at the same time. "Dude wouldn't have lasted one round on 'Dancing with the Stars,' " opined that show's alum and starting forward Cameron Mathison. To which the 6'9" Garber replied "Is this a 'tall' thing?"
Sports Illustrated photographer David Bergman recorded the day's events for posterity, for which we are eternally grateful. Having Bergman there was kinda like having Babe Ruth at a Little League game, but we'll take it. And that'll teach him to not underestimate me in poker--never draw to an inside straight, Bergie. Keep playing loosey-goosey like that and you'll be shooting my Cavanagh Classics 'til the Los Angeles Clippers go for a three-peat. David and his loyal assistant Ben shot some pretty stellar images from the game by putting up several remotes and shooting everything from the team photo to the monster dunks by Gordon James and Ryan "Special Effects" Williams. David writes about the day in his blog here.
We were honored to have such impressive talent out there on the court, sweating into the blue and white reversables. "Seriously, it's like 10 billion degrees Celsius out here," giggled Pasquale, "or is that Centigrade.". Heat-resistant actor Rory Wheeler showed his afterburner speed and quick hands, competing for highlight reel space with old friend Zach Ward, and renaissance man DeeMo walked off as the game's unofficial high scorer. Both benches were also in secure hands, Blue being guided by Big Ten strategist Maureen Holohan, while the victorious White squad was firmly guided by Toronto Raptors coaching alum Mike McCollow. In an attempt to appear more legitimate than we actually were, we made Rotoworld mastermind Steve Alexander the official scorekeeper. He wrote about his day here.
The halftime show was presented by The Harlem Magic Masters, run by the always personable Rudy Johnson. They played a game against the New Heights youngsters that turned out to be the crowd pleaser of the day. Through-the-legs passes, amazing defense and all-out hustle by the New Heights kids proved a tough match for the Magic Masters. It was clear who the crowd was rooting for! Visit the New Heights website to learn more about these amazing kids.
In fact, as all present threw their support behind our goal of combating the spread of malaria, the only down-note came from Michael Ian Black, who floated the idea of whether we should kill the mosquito mascot, as a way of symbolizing our desire to defeat the mosquito-borne disease, but he was quietly ushered out, with promises of a brand new espresso machine.
Maureen and I send our heartfelt thanks to all involved, and to all who continue to be involved. To donate $10 to our team, check out our team page here. Send a net, save a life!
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Hawaii Considers Coqui Frog Cry a Screech Instead of a Chirp
Hawaii is planning to eradicate the famed coqui frog from the island.
The frog with its friendly coqui chirp is a favorite of Puerto Rico but is an outsider on Hawaii. Articles preceding the eradication efforts call the frogs call a shriek.
Coqui frog eradication to close park on Big Island
February 25, 2006
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Posted in Amphibians, Animals, Hawaii by roger with comments disabled.


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Chromebrakes ?
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I did a search and came up dry... so looking for any advice/thoughts
So Brembo cross-drilled rotors are back ordered (per tire rack) indefinitely and could be 6+ months before avail. Wanted to get this done once spring comes, and so need to find an alternative, but want good stuff.
I found these... anyone know of them - thoughts, etc... Price is comparable. The color is cool and they have like all colors - novel, but the black is cool (I think... :confused:)
Thanks in Advance!
Re: Chromebrakes ?
What about R 1. Did you contact Steve and see if he can help with R1 rotors.
I know r1 does well on wk1 SRT and all other models as well.
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[Martin Squires is an illustrator extraordinaire whose work appears regularly in Classic Motorcycle magazine. He provides a slightly different view on the old bike scene through his art, and this is the second of his 'Motorcycle Specials' series for The Vintagent.]
In Janurary 2015 I sketched Ossie Neal's Scott Hill Climb outfit, over the following months I sketched two more of Ossie's motorcycles which are now championed by his daughter Sheelagh.
Ossie was a well known racer during the 1950s and beyond, riding well into his eighties. Before taking up the sport of motorcycling, Ossie was a real sportsman competing in boxing, speed skating and cycling. He turned to motorcycles after a knee injury. Ossie's first bike was a Scott which he road raced, he then went on to use various other machines such as the Triumph and Velocette illustrated here. Ossie travelled the country in a converted ambulance to various hill climbs and sprints with his wife, son Pat and daughter Sheelagh. Ossie's wife passengered for him first, then when the children were old enough they would passenger too.
|Ossie Neal racing his Scott Special outfit
The Scott was converted into a sidecar outfit by Ossie, by lowering and lightening it. His bikes always sport a plethora of holes as Ossie was always drilling out unnecessary metal in order to make the machines lighter. The blue colour is a homage to the Bugatti that he could newer afford. Colours on the bikes became a bit of an Ossie trademark; the blue colour on the Triumph came about because Ossie worked for Cambridgeshire County Council as a waterworks engineer and it was the colour that was used to paint their doors. Not only did Ossie use the paint but he also used the top quality steel pipe he used for plumbing for building the sidecar frame on the Scott. Whilst working for the council a new pumping station was built to his design which coincidently included a large workshop and a long driveway.
The 250cc Triumph started as a road racer in the early 1950s, it was turned into a sprint machine later in the decade, with further modifications using BRM H16 parts in the 1960s. The bike is still campaigned by Sheelagh where it's allowed as the exhaust emits 126 decibels which is too high for some events. It runs 14.5 second quarter miles on straight petrol as apparently it didn't like methanol. The compression is 7 - 8 to 1, and the bike doesn't have a power band it just provides straight torque all the way.
The Velocette barrel was made from two different barrels in order to give high compression. Many parts on these bikes show what an engineer Ossie Neal was, from copper exhausts on the Scott to variable screw in jets so that they didn't have to be changed at a meeting. Ossie's Irish heritage is apparent on the machines as he used to attach coins to various parts of the bikes for good luck. Sheelagh has been asked to identify one of his bikes in the past and when she saw a coin on the machine she had no doubt it was one of his.
Seeing these specials out of the workshop and being used by Sheelagh makes me so happy and I'm sure it would make Ossie happy too. These bikes are built for a purpose and that is racing. Many machines like this that are not used and I tend to agree with Sheelagh when she says that if the bike goes 'bang' then at least it was doing what it was built to do when it does. [The VMCC holds an Ossie Neal Memorial Sprint - check here]
Illustration and Words by Martin Squires


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Utila: A Photo Journal
Welcome to the red mangroves of Isla de Utila, Honduras! In our search to catalogue the fish species of Turtle Pond, a large lake in the middle of the island, we kayaked down swamp canals with the help of Max, a local hermit with a boundless knowledge of the landscape. He led us through impassible mangrove forests and expansive savannah, finally reaching the shore of Turtle Pond, a place, Max said, very few people get to see. There we catalogued myriad new species of cichlids and found a juvenile green parrot snake!
Check out more awesome photos in the next journal!
Category: Available Categories, featured, Food and Travel, Nature
About the Author (Author Profile)One of four, Andrew likes to think that he's the coolest. After all, he's an avid long boarder and ukelele player, an ardent animal lover, and proud owner of a fish tank (he used to have five but then he had to go to college). When Andrew isn't busy watching Discovery Channel, flaunting his brightly colored beanies around campus, or pondering the mysteries of life, he's busy studying biology (his one true love). If this were a perfect world, Andrew would probably live in a hut in the rainforest with monkeys somewhere in Central America.
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North Carolina has music too because I am listening!!! Great stuff keep it coming…………..E
The Earth has music for those who listen." – George Santayana
Thanks for sharing the music of Utila!
Amazing stuff. I am sure the photos don't do the scenery justice.


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Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty
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Diana Sherry
Assistant Professor (2007)
B.S. University of New Mexico
Ph.D. Harvard University
Dr. Sherry is a biological anthropologist whose research interests include reproductive ecology, physiology, and the implications of evolutionary biology for medicine and public health. She has studied the nutritional status of Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania in relation to seasonal resource availability as well as the effects of body weight and insulin levels on reproductive hormones in Samoan women in the context of a modernizing society.
Dr. Sherry is currently working on a collected volume for Springer entitled "Evolution and Health over the Life Course," which showcases some of the most prominent bio-anthropologists operating today at the forefront of a burgeoning new field called evolutionary medicine. Her chapter, on the influence of contemporary environments on ancestral physiology and psychology, advances the concept of the modern world as an extreme environment -- with potential dire consequences to health. Dr. Sherry also maintains an active affiliation with the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.