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Could Illinois Be Next to Legalize Online Poker?
An Illinois senate committee filed a bill earlier this week that could potentially authorize online gambling in the state.
The bill, which passed by a 10-4 vote, still has to get through a full senate vote, which could happen within the next few days.
If the bill passed it would legalize all online gambling including games of chance and games of skill, such as poker.
Despite Illinois governor Pat Quinn vetoing two earlier attempts, this time he seems optimistic about the bill.
Just hours before the online gambling bill passed through senate committee, Quinn announced a massive $400 million cut from the state's education budget so he would welcome any new influx of cash.
Quinn went on to say that under the right circumstances he would approve gambling expansion in the state.
International Sites That Operated in the U.S. to Be Locked Out
The Illinois online gambling bill includes a "bad actor" clause that would restrict any online poker sites that offered online gambling when it was in violation of U.S. law during the 10 years prior to their application.
That clause would ban all major online poker sites, even the ones that withdrew because of UIGEA.
Illinois could potentially become the fourth state to legalize online poker joining Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware.
Illinois is an intriguing option for online gaming thanks to its large population. Illinois' 12.8 million residents is more than the population of Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware combined.
Although Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware have all legalized online poker, there has yet to be a single U.S.-facing site launched. Some industry insiders believe the first one will launch before the end of 2013.
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Chapter 4
Surgeon-Major Thomson had apparently forgotten his appointment to view camp
bedsteads, for, a few minutes after he had left Geraldine and her brother, his taxicab set
him down before a sombre-looking house in Adelphi Terrace. He passed through the
open doorway, up two flights of stairs, drew a key of somewhat peculiar shape from his
pocket and opened a door in front of him. He found himself in a very small hall, from
which there was no egress save through yet another door, through which he passed and
stepped into a large but singularly bare-looking apartment. Three great safes were ranged
along one side of the wall, piles of newspapers and maps were strewn all over a long
table, and a huge Ordnance map of the French and Belgian Frontiers stood upon an easel.
The only occupant of the apartment was a man who was sitting before a typewriter in
front of the window. He turned his head and rose at Thomson's entrance, a rather short,
keen-looking young man, his face slightly pitted with smallpox, his mouth hard and firm,
his eyes deep-set and bright.
"Anything happened, Ambrose?"
"A dispatch, sir," was the brief reply.
"From the War Office?"
"No, sir, it came direct."
Thomson drew the thin sheet of paper from its envelope and swept a space for himself at
the corner of the table. Then he unlocked one of the safes and drew out from an inner
drawer a parchment book bound in brown vellum. He spread out the dispatch and read it
carefully. It had been handed in at a town near the Belgian frontier about eight hours
Fifty thousand camp bedsteads are urgently required for neighbourhood of La Guir.
Please do your best for us, the matter is urgent. Double mattress if possible. London.
For a matter of ten minutes Thomson was busy with his pencil and the code-book. When
he had finished, he studied thoughtfully the message which he had transcribed:--
Plans for attack on La Guir communicated. Attack foiled. Believe Smith in London.
"Anything important, sir?" the young man at the typewriter asked.
Thomson nodded but made no immediate reply. He first of all carefully destroyed the
message which he had received, and the transcription, and watched the fragments of
paper burn into ashes. Then he replaced the code-book in the safe, which he carefully
locked, and strolled towards the window. He stood for several minutes looking out
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Mars One Project: 35 Canadians Apply For 1-Way Trip To Red Planet (VIDEO)
MONTREAL - Andrew Rader has always wanted to be an astronaut and he's ready to do anything to get into space — even spend the rest of his life on Mars.
The Ottawa native is one of at least 35 Canadians to apply for a mission to the Red Planet in 2023.
The Mars One project, the brainchild of Dutch entrepreneur Bas Landorp, plans to send a few willing pioneers on a one-way trip, with no chance of returning to Earth. The $6 billion project will use existing technology and be funded through sponsors and private investors.
Two weeks after the call for applicants went out, about 80,000 people from 120 countries have already responded in the hope of becoming one of the first four Martian settlers.
The Canadian applicants range in age from 18 to 47, with the majority of them in their 20s. While most are men, as of Thursday at least four Canadian women have applied.
What the planned colony will look like
Rader, 34, had already applied to become a member of the Canadian astronaut corps in 2009 but he wasn't chosen.
"I've always wanted to work in space and to be an astronaut is really my ultimate goal," he said.
Rader has discussed his far-out plan with his parents, and brother and sister, whom he said are supportive. Not everyone is thrilled with the idea, though. He said his aunt considers the idea a "suicide mission."
"There are enormous risks. That being said, I think that the risks are worth taking. I mean, major leaps required major risks," he said.
"Life is short, life is precious and that's why you really should do major things that you believe in."
Rader admitted that he views the project as a "very, very long shot."
"The chances of it actually getting carried out as stated are extraordinarily slim," he said. "(But) I think there is a very small chance that if all the dominoes fall in the right place, it could happen."
The modules that would be used to create a habitat, with the help of robots, would be sent up first. Eventually, the first settlers would arrive following a seven-month trip.
On its website, the non-profit Mars One group says the first four settlers would be followed by more groups, every two years. At first, the home base would be limited to provisions, oxygen and water, but would expand to everything the settlers might need, including solar panels.
Mars One says primary funding will come from an as-yet-unspecified "global media event" that will feature the astronauts and their preparation. One organizer bristled at the comparison to reality TV, and said she preferred to call it an educational project.
A veteran space scientist at York University has his doubts, but says the mission is thought-provoking.
"On one hand, you could be talking about this as a great mission, with great discoveries, expanding mankind and so on," Gordon Shepherd said in an interview.
"On the other extreme, you could say it's just reality TV and it's people paying to see people die."
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This image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light as seen by the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions, and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In the instruments' combined data, this nearby dwarf galaxy looks like a fiery, circular explosion. Rather than fire, however, those ribbons are actually giant ripples of dust spanning tens or hundreds of light-years. Significant fields of star formation are noticeable in the center, just left of center and at right. The brightest center-left region is called 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, for its appearance in visible light.
This enhanced-color image shows sand dunes trapped in an impact crater in Noachis Terra, Mars. Dunes and sand ripples of various shapes and sizes display the natural beauty created by physical processes. The area covered in the image is about six-tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) across. Sand dunes are among the most widespread wind-formed features on Mars. Their distribution and shapes are affected by changes in wind direction and wind strength. Patterns of dune erosion and deposition provide insight into the sedimentary history of the surrounding terrain.
This image obtained by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta. Scientists are discussing whether the circular structure that covers most of this image originated by a collision with another asteroid, or by internal processes early in the asteroid's history. Images in higher resolution from Dawn's lowered orbit might help answer that question. The image was recorded with the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft from a distance of about 1,700 miles (2,700 kilometers). The image resolution is about 260 meters per pixel.
This undated photo shows a classic type 1a supernova remnant. Researchers Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the United States and US-Australian Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Physics Prize on October 4, 2011 for their research on supernovae.
A quartet of Saturn's moons, from tiny to huge, surround and are embedded within the planet's rings in this Cassini composition. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is in the background of the image, and the moon's north polar hood is clearly visible. See PIA08137 to learn more about that feature on Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across). Next, the wispy terrain on the trailing hemisphere of Dione (698 miles, or 1,123 kilometers across) can be seen on that moon which appears just above the rings at the center of the image. See PIA10560 and PIA06163 to learn more about Dione's wisps. Saturn's small moon Pandora (50 miles, or 81 kilometers across) orbits beyond the rings on the right of the image. Finally, Pan (17 miles, or 28 kilometers across) can be seen in the Encke Gap of the A ring on the left of the image. The image was taken in visible blue light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 17, 2011. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.3 million miles (2.1 million kilometers) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 27 degrees. Image scale is 8 miles (13 kilometers) per pixel on Dione.
Combining almost opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, this composite image of the Herschel in far-infrared and XMM-Newton's X-ray images obtained January 20, 2012, shows how the hot young stars detected by the X-ray observations are sculpting and interacting with the surrounding ultra-cool gas and dust, which, at only a few degrees above absolute zero, is the critical material for star formation itself. Both wavelengths would be blocked by Earth's atmosphere, so are critical to our understanding of the lifecycle of stars . (AFP / Getty Images)
Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's panchromatic vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-infrared wavelengths, reveals the vibrant glow of young, blue star clusters and a glimpse into regions normally obscured by the dust. (NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage)
A bubbling cauldron of star birth is highlighted in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Infrared light that we can't see with our eyes has been color-coded, such that the shortest wavelengths are shown in blue and the longest in red. The middle wavelength range is green. Massive stars have blown bubbles, or cavities, in the dust and gas--a violent process that triggers both the death and birth of stars. The brightest, yellow-white regions are warm centers of star formation. The green shows tendrils of dust, and red indicates other types of dust that may be cooler, in addition to ionized gas from nearby massive stars.
This composite image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151. X-rays (blue) from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are combined with optical data (yellow) showing positively charged hydrogen (H II) from observations with the 1-meter Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope on La Palma. The red ring shows neutral hydrogen detected by radio observations with the NSF's Very Large Array. This neutral hydrogen is part of a structure near the center of NGC 4151 that has been distorted by gravitational interactions with the rest of the galaxy, and includes material falling towards the center of the galaxy. The yellow blobs around the red ellipse are regions where star formation has recently occurred. (NASA / CXC / CfA / J. Wang)
"These tidal tails are thin, elongated streams of gas, dust and stars that extend away from a galaxy into space. They occur when galaxies gravitationally interact with one another, and material is sheared from the outer edges of each body and flung out into space in opposite directions, forming two tails. They almost always appear curved, so when they are seen to be relatively straight, as in this image, it is clear that we are viewing the galaxies side-on."
This image provided by NASA shows the Solar Dynamic Observatory's ultra-high-definition view of Venus, black dot at top center, passing in front of the sun on Tuesday, June 5, 2012. The next transit of Venus won't be for another 105 years. (NASA/Solar Dynamic Observatory/AP)
WISE, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, has a new view of Barnard 3, or IRAS Ring G159.6-18.5, that is awash in bright green and red dust clouds. Interstellar clouds like these are stellar nurseries, where baby stars are being born. (UCLA / JPL-Caltech / NASA)
Feel like you are being watched? This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet notable for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye.
In visible light, the star-forming cloud known as NGC 281 in the constellation of Cassiopeia appears to be chomping through the cosmos, earning it the nickname the "Pacman" nebula after the famous Pac-Man video game of the 1980s.
This undated handout image provide by NASA combines data from four different space telescopes to create a multi-wavelength view of all that remains of the oldest documented example of a supernova, called RCW 86. NASA announced the findings Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, and said the exploded star was observed by the ancient Chinese in the year 185, and visible for eight months.
This image provided by NASA shows a night time image photographed by the Expedition 29 crew from the International Space Station on Oct. 16, 2011. It features airglow, Earth's terminator, Rocky Mountains, Denver-Colorado Springs (center-right), Santa Fe-Albuquerque (low-center-right), US Great Plains cities: Dallas-Oklahoma City, Kansas City and Chicago.
This image provided by NASA shows the image captured by Hinode on June 5, 2012 of the transit of Venus -- the last instance of this rare phenomenon until 2117. Hinode is a joint JAXA/NASA mission to study the connections of the sun's surface magnetism, primarily in and around sunspots. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages Hinode. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., is the lead U.S. investigator for the X-ray Telescope. (JAXA NASA/AP)
The silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour appears over Earth's colorful horizon in this image photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on Feb. 9, 2010.
Messier 78 Nebula brings into focus a murky region of star formation. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty nebula with its infrared vision, showing stellar infants that are lost behind dark clouds when viewed in visible light. Messier 78 is easily seen in small telescopes in the constellation of Orion
An image released on October 3, 2011 show the Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038 and 4039) are a pair of distorted colliding spiral galaxies about 70 million light-years away, in the constellation of Corvus (The Crow). This view combines Atacama large milllimetre/submillimetre array (ALMA) observations, made in three different wavelength ranges during the observatory's early testing phase, with visible-light observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Most of the ALMA test observations used to create this image were made using only twelve antennas working together -- far fewer than will be used for the first science observations. The first phase of operations at the ALMA complex in Chile's Atacama desert are underway on October 3, 2011 following ten years of construction. Alma's purpose is to study processes occurring a few hundred million years after the formation of the Universe when the first stars began to shine. Alma consists of an array of linked giant antennas on top of the highest plateau in the Atacama desert. AFP PHOTO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
A swirling a landscape of stars known as the North America Nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this image infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears.
In this undated image taken by the WISE telescope a massive star is shown plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc.
At 5:20 a.m. EDT on March 29,2011, the Messenger probe captured this historic image of Mercury. The image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit of the solar system's innermost planet. (NASA)
The full moon rises near the Lincoln Memorial on March 19 in Washington. The full moon was called a "Super Perigee Moon" since it was at its closest to Earth in 2011. The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March 1993. (Bill Ingalls, NASA / AFP / Getty Images)
This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, features a region of star birth wrapped in a blanket of dust, colored green in this infrared view. Designated as LBN 149.02-00.13, this interstellar cloud is made up of a shell of ionized gas surrounding a void with an extremely hot, bright star in the middle. (UCLA / JPL-Caltech / NASA)
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows portions of the Martian surface in unprecedented detail. The photo shows many channels from 1 meter to 10 meters wide (approximately 3 feet to 33 feet wide) on a scarp in the Hellas impact basin. Some larger channels on Mars that are sometimes called gullies are big enough to be called ravines on Earth. (NASA / AFP / Getty Images)
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, center, is 3,200 miles in diameter. The smaller moon Enceladus, far right, just over 300 miles across, appears just below the rings. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 524,000 miles from Titan. (SSI / JPL / NASA)
The space shuttle Discovery is seen from the International Space Station as the two orbital spacecraft accomplish their relative separation. During a post undocking fly-around, the crew of each vessel photographed the opposing craft. (NASA)
This NASA image shows what the Hubble Space Telescope revealed in a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in the spiral galaxy NGC 2841. A bright cusp of starlight marks the galaxy's center. Spiraling outward are dust lanes that are silhouetted against the population of whitish middle-aged stars. Much younger blue stars trace the spiral arms. NGC 2841 lies 46 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). (Hubble Heritage / ESA / NASA)
This image obtained by NASA's Stardust spacecraft shows Comet Tempel 1 at 11:39 p.m. EST on Feb. 14, 2011. The NASA spacecraft's flyby of the comet showed erosion on Tempel 1's surface since it skimmed by the sun in 2005 and revealed the first clear pictures of the crater made by a Deep Impact probe. (Cornell / JPL-Caltech / NASA)
A pair of active regions on the sun were captured in extreme ultraviolet light from the Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft over a three-day period. The magnetic field lines above the regions produced fluttering arcs waving above them, as well as a couple of flares. Another pair of smaller active regions emerges and trails behind the larger ones. (Solar Dynamics Observatory / NASA)
This view of the North America nebula combines both visible and infrared light observations, taken by the Digitized Sky Survey and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, respectively, into a single vivid picture. The nebula is named after its resemblance to the North American continent in visible light, which in this image is represented in blue hues. Infrared light, displayed here in red and green, can penetrate deep into the dust, revealing multitudes of hidden stars and dusty clouds.
This still caught the action in freeze-frame splendor when the sun popped off two events at once. A filament, left, became unstable and erupted, while an M-1 flare and a coronal mass ejection, right, blasted into space. Neither event was headed toward Earth.
This image shows a dramatic view of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. Seen in near-infrared light, most of the starlight has been removed, revealing the Whirlpool's skeletal dust structure. This image is the sharpest view of the dense dust in M51. The narrow lanes of dust revealed by Hubble reflect the galaxy's moniker, the Whirlpool Galaxy, as if they were swirling toward the galaxy's core.
While searching the skies for black holes using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a giant supernova that was smothered in its own dust in this image released on Jan. 14. In this artist's rendering, an outer shell of gas and dust -- which erupted from the star hundreds of years ago -- obscures the supernova within. This event in a distant galaxy hints at one possible future for the brightest star system in our own Milky Way.
Mars' two moons have been photographed in the same frame for the first time. The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter snapped this image, which was released Dec. 11, 2009. The larger moon is Phobos. The much smaller one is Deimos.
Scientists said Dec. 8, 2009, that the Hubble Space Telescope spotted several thousand never-before-seen galaxies that were formed 600 million years after the Big Bang. Here, a photo shows some of them. They appear in the image as the faintest and reddest objects.
This is one of the most detailed images to date of the heart of the Milky Way. The galaxy's center is within the white spot near the right edge of the photo. NASA released the image Nov. 10 to mark the 400th anniversary of the telescope. It is a composite of images from three observatories: the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows an object known as both NGC 2623 and Arp 243, which was formed by a collision of two galaxies. The galaxies' cores have merged into one; the tails streaming from the object are full of young stars. NGC 2623 is about 250 million light-years away in the constellation of Cancer.
This portrait of Barnard's Galaxy, one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors, was taken by a telescope at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile. The red features in the photo are nebulae where new stars are being born. The galaxy has about 10 million stars; the Milky Way has an estimated 400 billion.
The Cassini spacecraft became the first to photograph an equinox on Saturn, a 15-year event that took place Aug. 11. This photo is a composite of images that Cassini shot over eight hours. New equinox images of the planet show strange formations in its rings and suggest that in some places, the rings are much thicker than expected.
Clumps of debris cast shadows that are visible in the middle of this image of Saturn's A ring. The shadows suggest that the clumps are about 2,000 feet tall. Scientists have believed for years that the rings were about 30 feet thick, but based on the new images, scientists now think that they're more than 2 miles deep in some spots. "Isn't that the most outrageous thing you could imagine? It truly is like something out of science fiction," said Carolyn Porco, leader of the Cassini imaging team.
This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light-years from Earth, shows X-rays from the NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue) produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute. Arp 147 contains the remnant of a spiral galaxy, right, that collided with the elliptical galaxy on the left. This collision has produced an expanding wave of star formation that shows up as a blue ring containing an abundance of massive young stars. These stars race through their evolution in a few million years or less and explode as supernovas, leaving behind neutron stars and black holes.
A new photo released in July from the Hubble Space Telescope is the clearest yet of what astronomers are calling a scar on the surface of Jupiter. An object, possibly a comet, struck the planet recently, creating the strange dark patch. It happened on the 15th anniversary of another comet strike.
This planetary nebula, named Kohoutek 4-55, was photographed May 4 by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The nebula, dubbed a "giant eye," contains the outer layers of a red giant star that died. The camera, which is the size of a baby grand piano, has captured several memorable images since it was installed in 1993.
In this sequence of photos released in April, a jet of gas spews from a massive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. The gas fades and brightens, with a peak that even outshines the galaxy's core. The outburst is coming from a blob of matter, dubbed HST-1, and scientists are so far at a loss to explain its weird behavior.
This photo was snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope after winning a public competition to determine what the next space portrait should be. It shows Arp 274, a system of three galaxies -- two larger ones on the right, and a smaller and less intact one on the far left.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of three galaxies playing a game of gravitational tug-of-war that could destroy one of them. The galaxies -- NGC 7173, middle left, NGC 7174, middle right, and NGC 7176, lower right -- are about 100 million light-years away. The photo was released March 3.
Our solar system is in the middle of a cosmic dust storm, and some astronomers said they've zeroed in on the possible source: the Red Rectangle nebula, which is 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. A double star system there is spewing the dust, according to findings announced in February.
After transmission problems on the Hubble Telescope weren fixed, NASA in October 2008 provided this undated photograph showing the aftermath of galaxies colliding. In the pair known as Arp 147, a reddish-colored galaxy has passed through an O-shaped galaxy glowing blue.
Photographs taken of Mercury by the spacecraft Messenger in January 2008 were analyzed in the journal Science seven months later. Images like the one above show that volcanic activity played a part in forming plains on the planet.
Even galaxies get bullied. Here, a so-called "death star galaxy" blasts a nearby galaxy with a jet of energy. Scientists said that if this happened in the Milky Way, it would likely destroy all life on Earth.
In 2005, NASA's Hubble Telescope captured this image of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers witnessed this violent event in 1054.
US National Reconnaissance Office unexpectedly transferred control of two Hubble-quality satellites to NASA in June of 2012.
Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt roam the Moon's surface in December 1972.
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Shepherd said proposing to do things that have never been done before — in just 10 years — is not feasible.
"I would say it's going to take more time, more thought," he said, suggesting a more realistic timetable would be 25 years.
"This idea that we have to do it in 10 years, and as a consequence people are going to end their lives there, to me it's a bit bizarre," Shepherd said.
Shepherd said anyone considering the trip has to answer some deeply personal questions: "What's the meaning of life — what's the meaning of my life?... That's a tough one and I think they have to understand that fully before doing it."
Shepherd, 81, whose science career has spanned 50 years, also questioned the ethics of what's being proposed.
"To persuade people to do things that they will later regret and can't be undone, (and) messing with people's lives like that, it's not ethical," he said.
But Raye Kass of Montreal's Concordia University, says it's not about persuading people to make the one-way trip.
The human-sciences professor, an adviser to the Mars One mission, put together the criteria for the selection process.
"I would disassociate myself completely with anything connected with persuasion," said Kass, 75, who has worked with space agencies including NASA in the past.
"There wouldn't be any persuasion — in fact, there would be a lot of people we would dissuade."
Kass will also be involved in the actual selection with an international team, as well as in the training of the Mars settlers.
She said five characteristics will be considered when judging applicants: resiliency, adaptability, curiosity, the ability to trust, and creativity or resourcefulness.
"The key factor related to all these qualities is attitude," she said. "That's probably the foundation.
"We're looking at a person who is willing to build and maintain healthy relationships because, after all, they're going to be developing a colony together... Unless they are able to work together and be together they will not be able to survive at all."
When asked if the one-way trip could be a suicide mission, Kass pointed to the manned moon landings.
"People thought it would be totally suicidal and would never happen and it did — so my hunch is (Mars One) will take place," she said.
"But will it take place in 2023? I don't know; that's what's being aimed for."
The project organizers hope to receive 500,000 applications by the Aug. 31 deadline.
Kass believes it is possible to send humans to Mars, but the bigger challenge is once they arrive there.
"I don't know if they can get over the possibility that they may never, ever see their families again," she said. "I think that's why a sense of purpose, as to why they're doing this, begins to be extremely important."
Kass admitted that she often wanted to be an astronaut, but had no interest in travelling to Mars.
"Because I love life too much and what's happening here in this world, I feel I can make a tremendous difference in what I'm doing," she said.
"Going to Mars, no. Trying to do the best for those who wish to go, yes."


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By Simon Morgan, AFP Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 12:13 am TWN
FRANKFURT--Investment sentiment in Germany stalled unexpectedly in January after rising to a seven-year high the previous month, but recovery of Europe's top economy remains intact, a survey found on Tuesday.
The widely watched investor confidence index calculated by the ZEW economic institute inched down by 0.3 point to 61.7 points in January, ZEW said in a statement.
Analysts had been pencilling in a further increase after the barometer hit its highest level in more than seven years in December.
But ZEW president Clemens Fuest insisted the latest reading was no real setback.
"Hovering at a high level, economic expectations for Germany have moved sidewards in this month's survey," he said.
"For months, the surveyed financial market experts have expected an economic upswing. In this month's survey the clearly improved assessment of the current economic situation seems to confirm these expectations," Fuest said.
For the survey, ZEW questions analysts and institutional investors about their current assessment of the economic situation in Germany, as well as their expectations for the coming months.
The sub-index measuring financial market players' view of the current economic situation in Germany rose by 8.8 points to 41.2 points in January, its highest level since May 2012.
Investor sentiment is "still going strong," said ING DiBa economist Carsten Brzeski.
The strong equity market and the possibility of further action by the European Central Bank "have clearly kept German investors in a positive mood," the expert said.
"The ZEW index has not the best track record when it comes to predicting German economic activity.
"However ... over the last years, the current assessment component has become a rather good leading indicator for GDP growth. In this regards, today's sharp increase of the current assessment component is good news for the economy," Brzeski said.
"The fundamentals of the German economy remain strong. With a solid labour market, higher real wages, the gradual investment pick-up, filled order books and low inventories the German economy seems to be in the starting blocks for a growth acceleration this year," he added.
"All in all, the January data confirm our picture of an economic upturn in the euro area at the turn of the year," said BayernLB economist Stefan Kipar.
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'Shahid' depicts the real-life story of a human rights activist and lawyer Shahid Azmi.
Mumbai: Hansal Mehta shot his upcoming biopic 'Shahid' at Shahid Azmi's office and it was the slain lawyer's mother who helped Raj Kumar Yadav get the look right for the film.
Mehta said Shahid's mother got emotional to see Rajkumar dressed as a lawyer when she visited the sets during the shoot.
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My friend and I started training in October and by mid December we could run 5k fairly comfortably then, due to situations beyond our control, we had to stop training for a bit. We started again this week expecting to be able to run for at least 15 mins but were shocked to discover we had lost almost all the fitness we had built up.
We have had to go back to week 3 of the RW 5K beginners programme and even that is a bit of a struggle.
We had originally planned to do a 10k in May but that seems very unlikely now, will probably powerwalk at best.
Is this common and will we ever get our fitness back?
You will probably find you get your fitness back quicker than you gained it first time around.
Welcome back and don't be despondent.
Thanks Pig
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Dippy, please don't worry!
Everyone has dips in training and fitness - it arguably gets easier to return to previous form the more experienced you are, but you will get back there.
I reckon you could still manage that 10K, y'know. May's still a while off.
Pig is right - you'll probably find that your fitness improves more quickly this time round, because you're covering ground you've already done in the past.
Take it slowly, steadily, stay positive and stick at it. You'll get there.
Keep us updated with progress!
You will get it back, it's amazing (not in a good way) how quickly you can lose fitness - I couldn't get out over half term and was knackered first run when the schools were back.
Don't give up though, you've plenty of time to get ready for May and you'll find that once you start, you'll get there sooner.
Also, weather/light improving, so will be nicer/better/easier for you to get out now.
Keep at it, we're all rootin' for you and look forward to hearing how you progress. Even if you can't get out, don't forget you can always do something else - all helps towards stamina, fitness etc. Run/walk combos are great for getting you back into the swing of it, and as you're doing it together, you'll be able to keep each other going.
Good luck
I agree with what everyone else has said. I had just started hitting 8-9km on my runs and then I chickened out and gave up for the winter because it was cold. I've just started up again and although I can't do anything close to the distances I was doing, it's building up quicker than it did before.
Do your 10k.You have plenty of time
Thanks for all your support guys, it's much appreciated.
My friend suffered a particularly nasty virus over Xmas then had some family stuff to sort out so I didn't want to push her into running when she had other things on her mind. I wouldn't go out on my own because I need the distraction - so it became easier not to.
I'm still pretty fit as I do lots of dvds but we just can't sort the running out. My friend is really breathless (I have suggested a course of iron tablets in case she is anaemic) so although I feel I could do a bit more I don't want her to feel like she is holding me back and end up giving up.
So my plan is to just take it really easy and hope we both stop finding it an effort. It's better to do 3 minute bursts than nothing at all I s'pose.
are you doing the running bits too fast?
you should be able to tlak during them
I started running 2 1/2 yrs ago, then had to give up after 8 - 10 wks through injury. I wasn't able to restart until last May/June.
On my physio's advice, I just started with walking 10mins 2/3 times per week, then 20 mins, 30 mins etc.
You could try that as it sounds to me as if you're going too fast at the beginning. (Easiest thing to do, I'm always doing it, and then get knackered later on.)
Alternatively, you could do run/walk combos - say in 5 mins bursts eg run2/walk3, that way you keep on the move, but not to the extent that it makes you keel over. IMHO, I think it's better to try and keep moving, both physically and mentally, than run, get so out of breath that you have to stop. Think it would also help you to rebuild your stamina etc.
Hipps and CJBA do have a point actually, Dippy.
Maybe you are setting out too fast. You should be able to maintain a conversation when you're doing the running bits.
Might seem ridiculously slow at first, but you'll probably find you'll progress better in the long run if you build up gradually.


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He made himself an international star with his 2011 major label album debut, + (he'd been self-releasing EPs for years before that), and now he has the biggest-selling album in the world, all the while staying true to his easy-going-occasionally-drunk-23-year-old-average-dude image.
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The other governors are governors Butch Otter of Idaho and Brian Sandoval of Nevada.
"The western states need to bind together and unite their voices," Herbert said. "We have a uniqueness that other people don't understand."
The all-day gathering, which Herbert dubbed as the Rocky Mountain Roundtable, will focus on the management of public lands by the federal government.
All of the states have large swaths under federal control, whether it's national forest, national parks or acreage owned by Bureau of Land Management.
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As i wished my brother a safe journey and said goodbye, i went back to my post. The Great One doesnt like it when im late, he walks the streets looking at where everyone should be.
I flew out to my guard tower, facing the great willowin. My eyes noticing everything they are doing. Ive never seen them prepare for war before. I looked around, hand on my eyebrow so i could see past the sunlight. Looking throughout the forest borders. I noticed that satyr again, the one who snuck a shot at that centaur. He was shot at by an arrow, which missed. Then i saw centaurs charge out from the forest, in over whelming numbers. The woman being part of them.
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230v appliaces only seeing 7v
Let me apologize in advance if my terminalolgy is a bit off. I'm a mechanical engineer that only had to take 1 electrical class in school so I have very little knowledge of this subject. I have an issue at my breaker box where the two main lines come in from the ground. I traced it back to the breaker box from my heating system which is no longer working. When the heating system was probed, it read only 7v but should see 230. So i know that the heating system isn't broken. My other appliances such as the oven and dryer are also no working.
The strange thing is that all the other outlets and switches in the house that are 115v are working just fine. I probed the breaker box and each of the single switches see 115v, as expected. I probed each of the two main lines coming in and they each see 115v. but when i probe across the two, I only see 7v. I should see 230v.
my big question is what to do. is this a problem considered inside the house and I'd have to get an electrician, or is it a problem with the source power and I'd get the electrical company out here to fix it.
Are you sure you are getting 115 on each leg of the incoming wire.
Are you measuring to ground? If you are not getting 240 across both legs, then you are missing a hot leg. Most of the time it is a power company problem.
Call them.
did you try measuring it at the breaker box?
I have seen the symptoms you are describing only once before. It turned out to be the meter was bad. Don't ask me how that could cause those symptoms but the PoCo told me that was what was wrong.
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The third annual International Gamay Competition has announced the winners from its 2013 awards, which included a new category of sparkling wine.
Organized by Inter Beaujolais, a total of 547 wines were tasted across the competition, with 165 medals awarded, including 31 Grand Gold (the top award), 64 Gold and 70 Silver.
This year saw 23 medals awarded to wines from outside France, including five Grand Gold, an increase from four last year. Croatia won a Grand Gold medal, illustrating once more the potential of Gamay to produce quality wines around the world. French producers swept 29 medals from Loire and Rhône valleys, and south west France, while Beaujolais appellations picked up 113 medals, including 23 Grand Gold.
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CLABSIs can be prevented by following sterile techniques in inserting the central line, changing the surrounding dressing and accessing the central-line port.
How does Sutter Health protect patients?
In 2007, our leaders added CLABSI prevention to Sutter Health's Clinical Quality Statement, increasing our hospitals' focus on the reduction of preventable health care associated infections. To reduce the rate of CLABSIs, clinical experts from the Sutter Health network collaborated to identify procedures and products that reduce the risk of this infection. As a result:
- Medical caregivers—especially nurses in intensive care units—have undergone extensive training to heighten awareness of how CLABSIs develop and how they can be prevented.
- Sutter Health works with affiliated hospitals to provide "best practice" prevention strategies recommended by the Institute for Health Care Improvement.
- Councils of nurses from multi-disciplinary areas—known as Partners Advancing Clinical Excellence (PACE)—have been formed at six Sutter-affiliated Bay Area hospitals. One priority for these councils is to analyze the incidences of CLABSI and identify interventions to improve outcomes.
How are we doing?
Throughout the Sutter Health system, the number of blood stream infections for patients with central venous catheters has dropped dramatically. In fact, since CLABSI prevention efforts were addressed systemwide in 2007, an estimated 202 cases have been avoided. This translates to 32 lives saved and $8.2 million in medical expenditures avoided. Other results across our system include:
- An 88 percent reduction in central-line infections at California Pacific Medical Center
- Seven Sutter Health hospitals—Mills Peninsula Health Services, Novato Community Hospital, Memorial Hospital Los Banos, Sutter Davis, Sutter Lakeside, Sutter Santa Rosa, and Sutter Roseville Medical Center—have maintained a rate of zero CLABSIs for 18 months or more.


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Media release
Date: February 14, 2000
Outstanding Individuals to Receive Honorary Degrees At Millennium Festival
Twelve outstanding men and women, whose significant contributions to society in the 20th century will continue to shape the new one, will receive honorary degrees at a special convocation on April 7. The ceremony is the highlight of the Millennium Festival, a week-long series of events running April 1 to 7 that celebrates achievements at UVic and in the community at the start of a new millennium.
The 12 men and women to be honoured are:
Louise Arbour, Supreme Court Justice and former prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda;
Maude Barlow, an outspoken advocate of citizens' rights and national volunteer chair of the Council of Canadians;
Dr. Helen Caldicott, peace activist and former president of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility;
Vicwood Chong, Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, well known in China, the Philippines and Guinea for his dedication and generosity to educational causes;
Adrienne Clarkson, former broadcaster, writer, publisher, producer and lecturer and now Governor General of Canada;
Dr. Paul Gabias, a B.C. psychologist and lifelong advocate for equality and empowerment for the blind;
George Heller, CEO of the Hudson's Bay Company, whose successful stewardship of the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria led to a $60 million legacy of sport and community facilities in the region;
Dr. Myer Horowitz, one of Canada's most eminent scholars in the field of education, whose work is recognized nationally and internationally;
Dr. Mo Im Kim, Minister of Health and Social Affairs in Korea, widely considered the intellectual and moral leader of the nursing profession in that country;
Susan Point, internationally acclaimed Coast Salish artist whose work can be seen across Canada, including a major installation at the Vancouver International Airport;
Dr. Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics for his contributions to welfare economics;
John Walton, outstanding businessman and community service activist, best known as chair of the Victoria Commonwealth Games Society.
The honorary degrees will be presented in University Centre Farquhar Auditorium. A limited number of tickets will be available to the public on a first-come first-served basis on March 17.
Due to scheduling difficulties, Vicwood Chong is unable to come to Victoria to receive his degree.
Patty Pitts (UVic communications) at (250) 721-7656.
UVic media releases and other resources for journalists are available on the World Wide Web at http://communications.uvic.ca/media


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Every cent helps: euro zone explores scrapping smallest coins
By Anders Melin
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Saving pocket change may not end the euro zone crisis, but the European Commission hopes that scrapping the smallest coins could help penny-pinching governments cut costs.
The European Commission outlined proposals this week for the 17 euro zone countries to scrap their 1 and 2 cent coins, leaving 5-cent pieces as the smallest in circulation.
The Commission says the cost of making the coins has exceeded their face value for the past 11 years, effectively costing member states 1.4 billion euros ($1.8 billion).
More than 45 billion of the 1 and 2 cent coins have been minted since the euro entered circulation in 2002, but many are now buried behind sofas, lost in back pockets or left on the street rather than making their way to cash registers.
While scrapping them all together may appear to make sense, some consumers worry that rounding prices up to the nearest 5 cents will prove inflationary. On the other hand, rounding prices down to the nearest 5 cents might be beneficial.
Evidence from euro zone countries that no longer issue the smallest coins - including Finland and the Netherlands - shows that there is little impact on prices either way.
"People like to be concerned," said Carsten Brzeski, a senior economist at ING in Brussels. "But if you think about the psychology of price, I think you'll rather see a rounding down to 95 cents than an upward adjustment."
While the Commission, the EU's executive, could decide to scrap the 1 and 2 cent coins, depending on what comes out of consultations with member states and discussion with the European Parliament, there are also other options, including changing the content to a cheaper metal. Continued...


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UPDATE 6-BA cancels flights from London as global IT outage causes chaos
* BA latest to be hit by computer problems (Adds comment by BA's chief executive)
PARIS PPR's (PRTP.PA) disappointing first-quarter sales have reinforced fears that the luxury goods sector has run out of steam and reached a turning point.
Shares in the French luxury and sports group fell 7 percent on Friday, taking the shine off the rising star of a global industry which boasted average growth rates of more than 10 percent over the past three years.
Looking ahead, the sector is likely to witness increased gyrations and variations depending on the brand, region and time of year, producing a mixed global picture, analysts predicted.
"The luxury goods sector will continue to outperform other markets but the pace of growth is likely to come down because it was not sustainable the way it was growing in the past 2-3 years," said Scilla Huang Sun, who runs the JB Luxury Brands Fund with 320 million euros under management.
Like-for-like sales at PPR's fashion brand Gucci in the first quarter, which rose 12 percent last year, increased only 4 percent in the first three months of 2013, while analysts expected 6 percent growth.
Comparatively, rival Louis Vuitton's (LVMH.PA) sales growth reached 2-3 percent on a like-for-like basis in the first quarter, its lowest performance since 2009, compared with growth of more than 10 percent last year.
PPR's figures weighed on other luxury stocks with industry leader LVMH and the world's second largest luxury group Richemont CFR.VX down nearly 1 percent.
PPR, which published its numbers late on Thursday, echoed LVMH's remarks about depressed consumption and lower tourist flows in Europe and forecast the Chinese market, the biggest engine of growth, was unlikely to improve.
The two group's comments chimed with Swiss watch executives at the Basel watch fair this week indicating that China was undergoing a deeply seated cultural shift that could hold back luxury goods purchases.
Hermes (HRMS.PA), widely regarded as the most crisis-resistant of all luxury brands, said watch sales fell 5 percent in the first quarter due to weak demand in China and leather goods sales decelerated as well.
Against that trend, Burberry (BRBY.L) earlier this month posted forecast-beating fourth-quarter results, boosted by its efforts to position the brand in a more upmarket segment and regain momentum in China.
PPR, which owns fashion brands Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen, this week bought control of Milanese brand Pomellato in deal welcomed by investors.
But the group's first-quarter miss - PPR's overall like-for-like luxury sales rose 6 percent against expectations of 9-10 percent growth - led several analysts to downgrade earnings forecasts for the year by 2-3 percentage points.
PPR was seen as the rising star of the luxury goods industry after shedding its sluggish retail businesses to refocus on luxury and sports, giving its shares strong growth prospects.
But analysts predicted PPR's fall from grace would weigh on valuation in the near term.
"For the first time in many quarters, PPR's luxury sales disappointed by not outgrowing the sector in spite of having the best portfolio of upcoming brands (together accounting for more than 40 percent of total luxury sales)," HSBC said in a note on Friday.
The group's results also raised concerns about Puma (PUMG.DE), for which it just hired a new chief executive, as they revealed how seriously affected the sports brand was by the depressed economic environment in Italy and France.
(Editing by David Cowell)
* BA latest to be hit by computer problems (Adds comment by BA's chief executive)
May 27 General Motors Co said on Saturday that proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services has recommended that shareholders vote against a slate of directors proposed by hedge fund Greenlight Capital and reject the hedge fund's plan to divide GM shares into two classes.
LONDON, May 27 British Airways said a power supply issue was to blame for a global computer system failure which sowed confusion and chaos at London's two biggest airports, with thousands of passengers queuing for hours and planes left stuck on runways.


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|Patriots Look Poised For Another Super Bowl Run
|Bruins Trade For Drew Stafford
|Black and Gold Bruins Turn Yellow On Parade Day
|Inconsistency Will Continue For Bruins Unless A Change Is Made
You should take Evan Longoria and Robinson Cano in the first round. You shouldn't take Asdrubal Cabrera or David DeJesus in the first round. These are directions I shouldn't have to waste your time with.
However, I do have some helpful hints that you should waste your time with… because you know you're just sitting at work or at home, reading every great article Sports of Boston has to offer, instead of doing the 37 other things you SHOULD be working on right now. Really, you're looking to waste your time… so you've come to the right place. You're very welcome.
March is fantasy baseball month. Sure, hoopheads will say it's "March Madness" time, but really, for the fantasy fanatics among us, it's fantasy baseball month. The die-hards have already done about a dozen mock drafts online… believe me, the draft lobbies on Yahoo and ESPN have been full for weeks. So here you are, already behind in doing your homework… brings you back to your high school days, doesn't it? Well, you've come to the right place.
Fantasy baseball drafts come easy in the first five rounds. Pick the best player on the board… start stockpiling your studs. But fantasy baseball leagues are really won in the last five to ten rounds. If your picks click, you're rounding the bases on your way to fantasy glory. If your picks strike out, then come July, you're getting a jump on fantasy football studying, since your baseball team has already bitten the dust.
So this series of articles is aimed at focusing on those latter rounds… finding those "diamonds in the rough," the roster depth guys that will help you look like a genius for drafting them.
Today, we focus on sleeper picks around the infield.
I challenge you to find a funnier video from the 2010 season than when Morales broke his ankle as he crossed home plate, jumping high in the air in celebration of his game-winning home run last May. What can I say, I love watching other people get hurt. If you miss out on the top 10 first basemen, I'd take Morales with confidence. Before his injury, he was on a 30-homer, 100-RBI pace last season, and there's no reason why he can't reach those benchmarks this season… assuming his coaches have asked him to tone down his celebratory leaping for 2011.
At age 34, you'd think Huff would start to regress. He hasn't, and he won't. AT&T Park seems perfect for the guy, and with 1B and OF eligibility, his value increases even more. He'll hit about .300 for you, and go for at least 20-25 homers and 85-90 RBIs, which should put a smile on your face after you draft him so late.
In his prime, there wasn't a fantasy baseball team of mine that didn't have Derrek Lee on it. I never thought he got enough respect in fantasy land, and even at 35 years old now and playing for a new team in Baltimore, I still think too many people look past him on draft day. He battled through back and thumb problems last season to still hit 19 home runs and rack up 80 RBIs in a lackluster Cubs batting order. Hopefully healthy now, he takes his talents to Camden Yards, which is a much friendlier ballpark for right-handed hitters. I think his batting average comes back to the .280 range this season, and if he stays in the lineup consistently, 20 HRs and 85 RBIs should be reasonable goals for Lee in 2011.
Would the real Ben Zobrist please stand up? After a breakout 2009 campaign, Zobrist fell off the map in 2010, batting just .177 after the All Star break. But with second base being one of the thinnest positions going, Zobrist will be a starter in most fantasy leagues, and he's one of the few 2B guys that could get you 20 HRs and 20 SBs this season, if his power comes back. I like his upside, and his flexibility with multiple positions certainly helps his cause a great deal also.
Yup, I just highlighted a real, live Pittsburgh Pirate as a sleeper pick. It's true… I don't think the Pirates are going to be as terrible as they have been the past 15+ years, and that's due heavily to the trio of Walker, Jose Tabata, and Pedro Alvarez in the middle of their lineup. The team still can't pitch their way out of a paper bag, but that's not what we're here to discuss. We're here to talk about Neil Walker, a rare middle infielder with power potential. You should be able to wait until the last few rounds to get this guy, then watch him score 75-80 runs, hit 18-20 home runs, and bat a solid .280-.290.
Do you know how many times I had to spell check this guy's name? Anyway, Nishioka is making his U.S. debut this year as a Twin, after signing a three-year deal coming over from Japan, where he won two stolen base titles in seven seasons with the Chiba Lotte Marines. He's penciled in as the second base starter for the Twins, and should hit near the top of their order, in front of Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau. That should translate into solid run totals to go along with him being a near lock for 20+ SBs. Don't fear the unknown… if you miss out on the Canos, Pedroias, and Utleys of the world, wait about a dozen rounds and feel comfy putting your trust in T-Nish. That's not his nickname yet, but I'm working hard to make it happen.
So you missed out on Hanley and Tulo in the first round, and the second tier of shortstops (i.e. Jeter, Rollins, Reyes, and Andrus) has passed you by as well. Shortstop is probably the thinnest position going this year, so you might be inclined to panic. Don't. This is where you simply turn to a proven, entrenched starter who will hit at or near the top of a good lineup, and give you something… anything. One guy I like is Arizona's Stephen Drew. He's not going to light the world on fire with a huge stat line, but he'll give double digit totals in home runs and steals, he'll hit for a decent average, and probably score you 75-80 runs too. You could do a lot worse.
If it weren't for hamstring and back injuries slowing his 2010 production down, Rafael Furcal would have likely finished the season as one of the top seven or eight fantasy shortstops last year. So again, if you're left picking off the shortstop scrap heap, jump in feet-first and take a risk by going with the veteran Dodger shortstop. He won't give you much in terms of power, but Furcal can still run the bases well, give you at least 20 steals, and could score you up to 90 runs. For a late-round shortstop pick, I think you'd have to be happy with that.
Rarely do I look fondly upon a Kansas City Royal, but I like what I've read so far about Mr. Escobar. Coming over from Milwaukee, where Escobar wasn't a big part of the Brewer offense, I see his production poised for a solid uptick this season playing for another lousy Royals team. He's another guy that should get in that 20-steal neighborhood, and if he hits near the top of the Kansas City lineup, like he should, he could produce a decent run total, maybe somewhere between 70 and 80 runs on the year. All this being said about these three sleeper shortstops, I'm really advising you to target one of the top six guys at the position this year… otherwise, you're looking at a potentially huge hole in your fantasy lineup.
Love me some Casey McGehee this season, I'll tell you that! Here's a stat, courtesy of the worldwide leader in sports, Mr. ESPN… since June 1, 2009, which is about when McGehee became a full-time starter, how many third basemen have more RBIs than Casey McGehee? The answer: just one, A-Rod. McGehee has outproduced Evan Longoria, Ryan Zimmerman, David Wright, and every other hot corner hottie over the last year and a half, yet he doesn't get the same love and respect. With 25 homer, 110 RBI potential, I like McGehee to be a huge breakout star in 2011.
If you can cover your power numbers in other positions and you can get away with just drafting a solid batting average guy at 3B, Polanco could be your guy. He'll be hitting in a very potent Phillies lineup that should score in bunches, and he's a near lock to hit at least .285, which won't hurt your team. At 35 years old, age and health may come into play, but not even you can't predict injuries.
Look, a second Pittsburgh Pirate in this article… what are the odds!?! Alvarez isn't going to win any batting titles, and he may strike out 150 times as a full-time player now, but his power upside is absolutely there… a breakout 30-homer season is not a pipe dream. If you miss out at filling your third base spot early, which again, this is a position I'd aim to grab in the first few rounds because it gets thin quick, roll the dice with Alvarez and hope that his sophomore year isn't filled with wedgies and detention, like my sophomore year was.
Tags: Alcides Escobar, Aubrey Huff, Ben Zobrist, Casey McGehee, Derrek Lee, fantasy fast forward, Kendry Morales, Neil Walker, Pedro Alvarez, Placido Polanco, Rafael Furcal, Stephen Drew, Tsuyoshi Nishioka


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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
looks great to me. nice work
Very nice!
SOOOOOOOOOO, want to come to North Carolina and make a few?????
Great job on both tables....been after my DH to build me a sewing table like yours......hasn't happened yet :(
Your tables look very nice. Could you give me a ballpark figure on how much it cost to make the first table?
Nice job! My abilities is limited to writing a check for an item or doing without!
WOW - you really make it look easy! Thanks for all of your work in bringing this to us.
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MIT Center for Transportation and LogisticsYossi Sheffi | Jan 12, 2009 1:19PM EST
The lesson of recent years is that fixation with current trends is dangerous, unless one assumes that the trend is for continued volatility. Volatility in demand, financial markets, innovation, supply, energy prices, weather, industry structure, political alignments and other factors seems to be the only constant that executives should be planning on. And the way to plan for it is to build in flexibility.
As recently as July, oil prices hit highs exceeding $145 per barrel and were forecast to go north of $200 shortly. High oil prices meant trading transportation for inventory: using full truckload instead of less-than-truckload and carloads instead of truckload — leading to high inventories. In addition, network planners called for more inventory decentralization, keeping finished goods closer to market, again saving on transportation costs but leading to higher safety stocks. Both led to higher inventories, and some commentators even declared the end of just-in-time supply-chain discipline.
With the financial crisis and the reduction in energy costs, the recommended course of action is the exact opposite. Inventories are costly because they tie up cash, while transportation costs are down. Minimizing inventories by using centralized inventories and maintaining quality customer service — even with premium transportation — suddenly look like components of a winning strategy.
There are many open questions worth examining:
-- Will the new U.S. administration be able to reverse the economic collapse, or will the U.S. continue with a deflationary cycle mimicking the last decade in Japan?
-- Will the U.S. consumer ever return to its conspicuous consumption habits, or will the current generation become ever more cautious, like the one that grew during the Great Depression?
There are many other unknowns, including global political changes, terrorist activity, the effects of global warming, and an onset of a new pandemic.
The lesson of the continued volatility was said best by Charles Darwin about 150 years ago: "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."


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Hi everyone....
I am researching on this new WD Book Live Duo 6TB which appeals to me quite a bit.
I have a few questions which I hope I can get answers on prior to my purchase.
1) I need to know if I will be able to connect my WD 4TB My Book Studio Edition II via the USB connection located on the WD Book Live Duo. Per the specs on the WD Book Live Duo the USB connector can be used to expand the drive capacity by attaching another external drive via the USB. In this case if these two drives work together I will end up with with 5TB of usable space (Live DUO 3TB (RAID 1 configured), Studio Edition 2TB (RAID 1 configured))
2) Once an second drive is attached to the Live DUO via the USB will I see one large 5TB disk or will I see two seperate disks?
3) Once the second drive is attached to the Live DUO will the second drive work in the cloud since I am assuming the interface will then become the ethernet connection via the router.
1) Yes, you can do that.
2) No, it will be kept separate.
3) I'm not sure, but I think so.
Answer to question 3 is yes.
A note on how the external storage works. Anything you plug into the USB port is turned into a Share. So if you plug your 2TB drive into the USB you will see two shares (by default) when you access the Duo. One will be the Duo's Public folder, the other will be named after your external drive.
If you plug multiple external drives (via a USB hub) there will be a share for each created.


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Bamba for Babies
It seems that peanuts are fraught with controversy these days, especially among those with young families.
The legacy of "conventional wisdom" that advocates avoiding introducing peanuts to babies and children–even up to ages 1 through 3– continues to this day, despite the fact that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has retracted previous endorsements of this practice due to lack of scientific evidence. Indeed, evidence is trickling out to the contrary, suggesting that perhaps delaying introduction of peanuts beyond year one may unwittingly *increase* the risk of childhood peanut allergy. More evidence is needed to clarify the relationship between timing of peanut introduction with risk of peanut allergy for certain, though.
And yet, among those families who choose to introduce peanuts in early childhood, the sticky issue (no pun intended) of how to do so technically remains. Peanut butter is often considered a choking hazard for young children (though a supremely thin layer spread on an appropriate delivery mechanism can be safe for many babies in their final few month stretch toward turning one). And peanuts themselves–whole or chopped–are also a choking hazard.
The buzz on the NYC mommy listservs is that pediatricians-in-the-know have a workaround for these issues that's appropriate for babies ready for finger foods (~8-10 months, roughly): they're recommending Bamba.
Bamba is a beloved Israeli snack food that's essentially a puffed corn doodle lightly coated in peanutty powder (rather than, say, cheese powder as in a Cheez Doodle.) Similar to 'toddler puffs' snacks marketed by a variety of companies, Bamba easily melts in the mouth, making it a safer delivery system for peanut protein than thick, sticky peanut butter itself.
And although it comes in a brightly-colored, crinkly bag, Bamba is surprisingly benign, nutritionally speaking. It's very low in sugar, relatively low in sodium (5% of the daily value) and is vitamin and iron-fortified, though I'd stop short of calling it a "healthy" food, per se. Each 1 ounce serving has 160 calories, 4g of protein and 1g of sugar; it also has 4.5 mg of iron (25% of the daily value for adults, but 64% of the recommended intake for children aged 1-3 years and 45% of the recommended intake for kids aged 4-8). The product is also Vitamin C fortified, which should help with the iron absorption.
Bamba is vegan, making it appropriate for kids/families who avoid dairy. And Bamba is also gluten-free, in case any of you Celiac parents accidentally lick your fingers after serving Bamba to your little ones.
While some people are quick to point out that the incidence of peanut allergy in Israel is significantly lower than it is in the US– experts rightfully point out that the unscientific observation that Israeli babies and kids coincidentally also eat lots of Bamba cannot be mistaken for proof that early introduction of peanut protein causes lower allergy risk.
Still, if you and your pediatrician agree that there's no medical reason to delay peanut introduction in your young child but are concerned that your little one can't handle the texture of peanut butter yet, Bamba may be a good solution for you. I think we'll probably try it out in our house as soon as Max & Stella master the pincer grasp in another month or so, though I view it as a stopgap measure until they're ready for real peanut butter rather than a staple snack for the long haul.
Unless you live in a community with a large Israeli population, your best bet to finding Bamba would be to order it online. Amazon sells large-sized bags of it by the case (go in with a few other families in your area; no one family needs 84 ounces of snack food laying around in the pantry just for the sake of introducing junior to peanut protein!)Did you like this? If so, please bookmark it, RSS feed.


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Saturday Night Live Cast Shake Up [VIDEO]
We already know that Bill Hader is done with Saturday Night Live and Seth Myers will leave middle of next season to take over "Late Night" but they may not be the only one's leaving.
I loved the tribute to both Hader and Myers during "Weekend Update" where Myers broke up "Stefon's"(one of Hader's characters) wedding to Anderson Cooper.
We heard that Jason Sudeikis and Fred Armisen were also abouot to hang it up but we hadn't heard any confirmation. That is until cast member Jay Pharoah tweeted "Hader, Armisen and Sudekis. The talent of those three and just them as people in general will be missed, but we will be strong and carry on". The tweet was deleted but we all saw it. If this is it for Armisen he also got a pretty cool send off. He was performing as his British rock star character Ian Rubbish and some of his friends joined in. They were "Portlandia" co-creator Carrie Brownstein and musicians: Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth, J. Mascis from Dinosaur Jr., Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols, Aimee Mann and Michael Penn.
I think Sudeikis should of got a better send off if he is done but I'm positive we haven't seen the end of any of these guys.


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Game Recaps
McDonald Struggles with Command in Loss to Twins
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BRADENTON, Fla. -- Right-hander James McDonald's last trip to the mound on Saturday against the Houston Astros was impressive. McDonald tossed 5.1 of hitless ball, and overall allowed just one run on two hits over 7.0 innings. He didn't walk a batter and struck out three while throwing 75 pitches.
McDonald fared much differently in his fifth start during Grapefruit League action of the spring on Thursday afternoon at McKechnie Field. Overall, McDonald allowed 10 runs on seven hits over 3.2 innings. He walked seven batters, struck out one and gave up two long balls.
"It's not frustrating. It's baseball," McDonald said. "I've had days where it's worse. Some days, I've made those same pitches, and I ended up giving up one run. One day you can be on top of the word, the next day you can ...
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