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Under the Veil of Night (Vikings vs. Zombies)
A group of warriors fights a desperate last stand against an unstoppable force of nature.
By Nate Davis
"Cattle die, kinsmen die,
And so one dies oneself.
One thing I know that never dies,
The fame of a dead man's deeds."
—The Havamal
". . . and there were King Harald of Norway and Earl Tostig slain, and numberless people with them, both Northmen and English, and the Northmen fled from the English. Then was there but one of the Norwegians who withstood the English folk, so that they could not pass over the bridge or gain victory. . . ."
—The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The noonday sun was well-hid behind a veil of thunderheads that sent loud rolling peals echoing through the valley. In between thunderclaps the cold northern rain poured down in sheets, swelling the mountain stream to a raging torrent and washing the blood and detritus from the bridge that spanned it. Booted feet kicked broken and dismembered human forms into the brown churning water, and grim blue eyes watched them being bashed and sundered against the rocks downstream. The driven rain, the rolling thunder, the churning river, and the howling wind sounding through the valley muffled, but could not silence, the bestial moans wafting up the worn track on the far side of the bridge.
A lone figure shuffled out of the dense pine wood, obscured by a haze of mountain fog and summer rain. It was dressed in bloodied and soiled buckskins and it approached the bridge with a painful shambling gate. When it started to traverse the span of the bridge, a man approached from the other side. This man was tall and broad, dressed all in animal skins, with a sword strapped to his waist and a big round shield hanging from his left arm. He raised his shield and with a loud cry smote the creature into the river to be swept away by the current and broken on the rocks.
Wiping the rain out of his eyes, he walked back across the bridge to rejoin his fellows. There were eight others like him, all tall and broad, dressed in skins, with grim blue eyes and wild shocks of red or blonde hair. They each had a sword and a shield, save for one who carried a big two-handed war axe.
The axeman nursed a wound on his forearm while he futilely tried to tune a rain-ruined harp. With a cry of frustration he pitched the harp into the flood and barked at the returning man, "Wulfstan! You have the sharpest ears. When the wind blows our way again, I want you to tell us how many are coming."
The howling wind changed direction, blowing toward them from the other side of the river, and carried on it were numerous of those maddening, unearthly moans. Wulfstan cupped a hand to his ear and reported, "I cannot say for sure. But it must be at least ten dozen, very likely several more. And they are close."
The bard looked back away from the river toward the mountains on the far side of the valley, their forested peaks shrouded in mist. He said, "Hilda and the others should be over the ridge by now. Do you think we will be able to hold until nightfall?"
Wulfstan scoffed. "You insult us, Caedmon! I could hold this bridge to nightfall by myself!"
The bard—Caedmon—grimaced, said: "I feel the poison coursing through me. You men may fight on, but I will be drinking with our fathers before the sun rises again."
The nine of them sat in a circle on the muddy track, sharpening their swords and waiting for the enemy as the moans grew steadily louder. A figure much like the first shambled out of the forest and approached the bridge. It had mottled grey skin and torn clothes and was missing an arm; congealed black blood oozed out of the stump. Another figure emerged, followed by another, and yet more until the track on the far side of the river was thick with them. They opened their mouths and filled the air with their moans. As they piled onto the narrow bridge, their number was so great that many were forced to wade into the churning stream where they were caught by the current and smashed against the rocks.
The fighters rose up fearlessly to face their adversaries, their eyes grim with a cold and unfeeling fatalism. As the beasts shuffled closer, the stench of their rotten breath filling the air, Caedmon hefted his big Dane axe and chanted:
"The coward believes he will live forever
If the fight he does not face,
But age will not grant him a gift of peace
Though the spears may spare his life."
He gave his axe a practice swing and barked, "Get to it! Time now to separate the dogs from the men!"
The bridge was narrow—only three men could stand abreast on it—and one of the fighters howled with blind battle-fury and jumped onto its span, driving his big rotund shield into the beasts with the full weight of his body behind it. He swung his sword and smote one across the throat, very nearly severing its head. With shield and sword he tore into them, but still they kept coming, biting and scratching, seemingly oblivious to the damage he was dealing.
Wulfstan brushed strings of rain-soaked blonde hair out of his eyes and said, "Caedmon, tell me: How did it come to this?"
The rain pounded the slat roof of the mead-hall, and a howling wind powerful enough to uproot trees battered at its stout log walls, but the air inside was warm and dry. Even the howling wind and the rolling thunder were muffled, drowned out by the sounds of feasting and merry-making. Men, women, and children drank deeply from horns of beer, feasted on joints of beef, laughed, talked, boasted, and listened eagerly to Caedmon's tales.
". . . Loudly spoke Thrym the giant-king," the bard chanted as he strummed his harp,
"'Bring for the hammer to bless my bride.
Let Mjollnir lie upon her knees
That its strength may bless our vows.'"
The men and women and children chuckled in anticipation; this was an old tale and a favorite, one they all knew well.
"The fighter's heart laughed in his breast
When hard-soul'd Thor beheld his hammer.
Grim Thrym he dropped first, the giant-king,
And then all the folk of the giants."
The crowd were applauding him now. Caedmon paused to take a draft of beer fro ma proffered horn and resumed chanting; he had reached the end of the story.
"The giant's old sister then he dropped,
She who'd begged for bridal gifts.
A knock on the head in the shilling's stead
And hammer-blows for rings!
And so did Odin's son get his hammer back."
The crowd applauded and laughed. Caedmon smiled. "Any others you'd like to hear?", he asked.
"Tell it again!", demanded one of the children. "Tell it again, about Thor killing all the giants. It's my very favorite."
"I like the part where Thor puts on a dress," said a little girl.
A man wizened, grayed, and bent but still as strong as a bear stepped up and said, "It is a good tale, to be sure, but this is not a night for tales of laughter. Sing us a song that befits the weather. Tell them of Grendel, Caedmon."
"A good idea," Caedmon answered. He fiddled with the tuning pegs on his harp until he found a sound he liked, strummed a few chords, and chanted:
"A powerful monster, living deep
In the dark, growled in impatient pain
As music rang day after day
Loud in the mead-hall, the harp's
Call and the poet's songs, sung of
Ancient heroes to us all, and of the gods
Shaping the earth, unfolded over the
Haunted moors where the monster stirred.
The fiend, the demon Grendel who
Was spawned in the slime from a pair
Of monsters born of Cain.
Banished by God, punished forever,
When darkness had dropped the demon
Grendel went up when night fell,
Up from the swamps to the mead-hall
To slip through the door, steal sleeping men
From their beds to devour them, drink
Their dripping blood, and off again
To his lair beneath the swamp.
With hands forged in Hell, he—"
"I hear something!", Wulfstan interrupted.
The old man laughed. "Seems Caedmon's tale has got to our young friend's head, and he thinks he hears old Grendel sneaking up to the hall door!"
Wulfstan glared at him, and above the mocking laughter quipped: "Do not make sport of me, Theodric. I might wish I heard Grendel, the sound out there is so chilling. Listen!"
Theodric cupped a hand to his ear, said: "That is just the wild, Wulfstan, and the rain. Do not let the old tales go to your head so."
"By the gods, that is not the wind if wind I ever heard! I say we go outside and have a look around."
"Into the storm? If it will put your mind at ease, I suppose we can. But I tell you it's only the wind."
It took four men to push open the big oak doors upon which the wind was battering, and the men had to keep their shields held close to their chests to keep from being blown backward. Thunderheads hid the moon and stars, and rain and fog obscured the distant woods.
"See, Wulfstan?", Theodric shouted over the wind and rain. "There is nothing out here but the weather."
A thunderbolt smote the peak of a nearby mountain, bathing all the valley in pale, flickering witch-light for the briefest of moments. Through the haze of fog and rain they could see the outlines of human figures, hundreds, edging closer.
"That does not look like wind to me, old man," Wulfstan snapped.
"This is no time to joke, boy! We could be under attack."
"Why do they carry no torches?"
"I suspect they're using the storm as cover.
"But why do they not attack us while we're vulnerable? They must've seen us, and they're far more than our number."
"It's the whole village they're after, I'll warrant. Back to the hall! Quickly!"
As they fled back to the hall, the wind picked up yet more and Caedmon thought he could smell rancid meat. That inhuman moaning—faint before, but now perfectly clear—followed at their heels.
The hall doors were still wide open when they returned through the fog and driving rain. Though they all tried, the big hunks of oak were too heavy and caught too much wind. The main entrance to the hall would remain open.
"What is going on?", demanded a woman, tall and blonde.
"We're under attack," Theodric said, "and we can't get the doors closed for the wind. Put those benches up against the entrance! Ready your weapons! Let us see what sort of men we face."
They built a barricade of tables and benches a few feet inside the mead-hall and a line of fighters—men and women both—stood across the span of the doors with shield, sword, axe, and spear.
"That smell is horrible!", someone shouted over the storm and the moaning. "Like bad beef."
"And that moaning! Like the tortures of the underworld or the wolves of Hell herself."
Dim figures stepped out of the fog and into the flickering torchlight. Lightning flashed again, revealing a mass of such figures that stretched all the way to the end of the valley. Theodric raised up his sword and shouted, "Hail, there! Do you mean us good or ill?" He got no answer.
Caedmon scratched his thick beard introspectively. He said, "I think that the keening and the smell are coming from our new friends."
"What are you saying?"
"Watch this."
Caedmon hefted his axe and stepped out into the storm. One of the figures drew close enough for them to see it was a man, but with mottled grey skin covered in mud and gore. Its left arm hung limply at its side, and in its right hand it clutched a cobblestone. Its mouth opened menacingly and it let out a horrible moan. Caedmon swung his axe and the hardened steel bit deep into the beast's shoulder, lopping off the limp arm and severing the spine. It fell to the ground with its lower body as limp as a dead fish, but its jaws kept snapping and it kept coming, pulling itself along on the ground with its one good arm.
"Dead!", Caedmon shouted as he returned. "As dead as stones, but up and walking around!"
"It's the end-times!", someone keened. "The last battle is near at hand!"
Theodric shook his head. "I doubt that, but that does not mean that this is any good." Lightning flashed again, and they saw that the hall was surrounded. "We will divide up into two groups; one will fight while the other rests." He turned to the woman who'd addressed him upon their return: "Hilda! See to our stores."
They lined up with their shields tight together and their swords brandished. The creatures came on them slowly, biting, scratching, blindly swinging cobblestones and sticks of split stovewood. The warriors hacked, slashed, stabbed with their weapons, but the reeking beasts pressing against their shields didn't seem even to notice. Occasionally an arm or spine would be severed, but it seemed to have little effect. Sensing something odd, Wulfstan looked down and saw a creature that had been slashed nearly in two, its legs dragging along limply but all its faculties above the cut still functioning, trying to wrap a hand around one of his thick boots. With a grunt, he raised his foot and brought it crashing down on the creature's head, which burst like a carbuncle. Its body lay still.
Exclaiming with the excitement of discovery, Wulfstan reared back with his sword and shouted above the wind, above the rain, above the sounds of battle, above the horrible moaning, "Their heads! Go for the heads!"
To illustrate his point, he swung the sword foreward and struck a creature clean between the eyes. The powerful blow shattered bone and sheared flesh, splitting the thing's skull nearly in two. The other warriors howled with approval and followed suit. Thus they fought for nearly five hours without letup, until old Theodric sheathed his sword and shouted, "Caedmon! Spell us!"
The exhausted fighters walked back to the welcome hearth-fire, changed out of their wet clothes, sharpened their notched and dulled swords, tried desperately to catch a few minutes' sleep and to shake some warmth into their numb bodies. Theodric nursed a wounded hand.
"I think they hunger for us," he said. "The lore says that the dead are always hungry, that they hunger for life while hating the living. One of the sons of whores bit me, nearly took my thumb off. That was good thinking, Wulfstan, how to bring them down."
"I just thought about what Caedmon had said," Wulfstan responded. "They're dead. They're all messed up."
Hilda came up and handed Theodric a drinking-horn full of warm beer. She said, "We should have enough meat and drink to last a full month."
Theodric shook his head. "It will not be enough."
"Not enough?", Wulfstan scoffed. "It is no trouble for us to hold the door; surely we will be fine until help arrives."
"From where, good Wulfstan, will help come? From the same direction as those things? Surely not. From Wyglaf's villages over the ridge? You know as well as I that raiders press him from the sea. We are alone in our little valley."
"What will we do, then?"
The old man scoffed. "We will die, Wulfstan. But I would like to die fighting, if at all possible."
"My lord," interjected Hilda, "there is something you can do."
"And what is that, Hilda?"
"If you gather your forces and meet them—"
"Meet them? Are you insane, woman? We have thirteen men, and there are hundreds of them out there! Hundreds!"
Hilda sighed and spoke slowly, as one might speak to a child. "The hall is a death-trap, my lord. We will die in glory, to be sure, but . . . what is it that Caedmon is always singing?
"'The lame rides a horse, the handless is herdsman,
The deaf in battle is bold;
The blind man is better than one that is buried.
No good can come from a corpse.'"
"To form up and meet them would kill us just as well. We can live a few more weeks at least, holding the door."
"These beasts are slow, and the arts of fighting are beyond them. We can form up around the children and escape."
"They number in the hundreds, and we know not how many may be waiting in the hills. They'll pull us down like dogs loosed on swine."
Hilda thought for a moment. "We make for the river, and leave a group to guard the bridge. You'll be well into Wyglaf's territory and will have warned him of the danger by the time the bridge is taken. I beg you, my lord, do not sacrifice the children. I know the mind of the women; we would gladly die fighting alongside our husbands. But what of the children?"
Old Theodric nodded, said, "It is a good plan, Hilda. You speak with wisdom unbecoming of a woman." He stood up. "Caedmon! Get me Caedmon!"
Caedmon was fetched, as were all the others one at a time, and all were filled in on the plan;; they would form up into a wedge with the children in the center, the men and fighting women on the sides, and Caedmon's big bearded Dane axe at the tip. Upon Theodric's signal, they all rushed to the back of the hall and formed their wedge. When the dead had filled the front half of the hall, they charged. The formation, with sharp swords along the sides and Caedmon's wide-bladed axe at the head, cut through their ranks effortlessly, and even slowing down so as not to overtake the children they made excellent time. They had to fight their way all down the forest track to within a hundred yards of the bridge, but they made it without incident save for the bite on shieldless Caedmon's hand.
Theodric, who had been looking steadily paler since his injury, dropped his sword and collapsed at the foot of the bridge. Wulfstan tried to pull him up, but the old man refused help.
"My doom is upon me. I haven't power enough even to stand. The bridge is narrow and the river too rough to ford; nine should be enough to hold it. The rest must protect the women and children. Go, and fear no darkness."
So passed Theodric, and they cast him laid him on his shield and cast him into the river. The thirteen of them drew lots, and Caedmon, Wulfstan, and seven others were chosen to stay behind. The rest struck off into the wilderness, passing out of their knowing forever.
Wulfstan pointed to the lone man on the bridge and laughed. "Look at that! Old Harald is making short work of them, all by himself. Those things are so worthless that a part of me dares hope we'll survive this fight, numbers be damned."
Caedmon shook his head, answered, "I am not so sure."
"You're just mad that the rain got into your harp."
"You don't seem to get it, Wulfstan, or maybe you just know not enough of the lore. The dead are a force of nature, without even as much mental faculty as the dumbest beast. If we were fighting on a bridge over a canyon nine miles deep, they would keep coming until none were left or until their corpses filled the emptiness."
"Too gloomy are your thoughts, Caedmon. Have a little hope."
"Hope is the cruelest curse of the gods, Wulfstan. I am only being realistic. Look at that."
Wulfstan looked to where Caedmon was pointing. The river had risen to where the deck of the bridge was mere inches above the water, and it seemed almost as if the flow of the river had stopped. The reason for this, he saw to his horror, was that the broken bodies of the dead had filled the gaps between the rocks, damming the flood. The dead who could not fit on the bridge walked into the river and were not washed away. Soon a head broke the still surface, followed by a neck, shoulders, and a torso as the creature trod into shallower water. Another joined it, and another. The men knew they'd soon be surrounded.
For the briefest of moments the rain broke and the fog rolled back, revealing a forest that teemed with scores upon scores of the walking dead. Caedmon grimaced, steeling himself for his fate. Trying to fight back his fear, he cleared his throat and chanted, "Where now the horse? Where now the rider? Where now the giver of rings?"
The other eight chanted along as the circle of undead tightened. "Where now the horse? Where now the rider? Where now the giver of rings?
Where now the house of the feasting? Where now the loud joys of the hall?
Alas, o shining cup! O proudly-decked fighter!
O proud prince! O, how that time is departed,
Gone under the veil of night, as though it had never been!"
Caedmon dove into them, swinging his axe in a wide arch and laying several low. The others followed suit, fighting like mad dogs, like cornered wolves. The sun was touching the tips of the western hills by the time exhaustion and the enemy's numbers finally overcame them.
The blistering wind was worst on the lip of the ridge where the bare bones of the hills stuck out as naked as a newborn babe without so much as a shrub able to cling on, and Hilda and the others had to be careful when crossing over; a single misstep would send one tumbling thousands of feet down into Theodric's valley on one side and Wyglaf's on the other. Standing tall and proudly against the wind, Hilda fingered the pommel of the sword strapped to her hip and looked first up at the obscured noonday sun and then back down the hill. The river was nothing but a thin brown line zig-zagging along the base of the ridge, the fighters and dead nothing but a mass of black dots, and the lot of it was barely visible through the fog and driven rain. Wyglaf's side of the ridge was truly unknown territory: The sea-fog was so thick that all the valley, from one hundred feet below the tip of the ridge and on downward, was obscured by a white veil.
"I can no longer hear the moans over the wind," Hilda commented.
A warrior, big and broad and shock-headed, put a comforting hand on her shoulder and said, "We are safe now. They can hold the bridge for some hours yet."
Sullenly, reverently, the refugees crossed to the other side of the ridge and trekked down into the unknown.


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It's a common refrain in healthcare, heard among established companies and entrepreneurs alike, and among patients, providers, and payers: Despite massive investment, no one has figured out how to change human behavior.
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4 Wheel lever rattling
So i have been getting this rattle on from under the Jeep. when i hold on the 4wd lever it goes away. So i crawled underneath and followed the linkage looking for the problem. Im going to say this in my terms and i hope you under stand. There is a plate that holds a plastic looking nipple part from the linkage. Looks like all it is there for is to hold the linkage in place. Im not sure if it was supposed to have a bushing or not but it is definetly rattling around. Any ideas or suggestions on fixing it? I was thinking some kind of rubber hose around the nipple part. Let me know!!
There is a TSB covering this. It is not covered under warranty or recall. You can pick up the part for about 20 bucks from the dealer, and new and improved thingy.
My firewall prvents me from pulling up this site, but I believe this details everything about it.
Is you Jeep still under the original Bumper-to-bumper warranty?
My 99 Sahara was doing the same thing back in 2001. The dealer fixed it according to the TSB that Compshooter was talking about and it was covered under warranty. No noises from there since.
I've got the exact same problem with mine right now. I took it to the dealership to get the tranny looked at and asked them to look into the knocking too, anyway, they said what Compshooter said, but they were gonna charge me $120 for the job!!! Thanx for startin this thread and thanx ALOT to Compshooter for the info and link!
try tightening your the bracket bolts. i just did that and it when away.
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Congress ends war on medical marijuana
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The House of Representatives is trying to defund the war on medical marijuana!
That the vast majority of Americans (78 percent) support states' right to allow access to medical cannabis shows how much Congress is far behind progress.
It took SIX MONTHS after the bill had passed for it to work its way into legislation.
The medical marijuana provision first passed the House in May, as a bipartisan amendment sponsored by Dana Rohrabacher (R, CA). Federal funds have been used to shut down scores of licensed, regulated dispensaries across the country, as well as prosecute and imprison providers. The federal government under the Obama Administration has spent about $300 million on enforcement in medical marijuana states, Americans for Safe Access reports.
In a landmark moment for cannabis law reform, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure late Thursday night to de-fund the federal war on medical marijuana. If passed by the Senate and signed by President Obama, the provision would bring a halt to the three-year-long medi-pot crackdown in California and other states.
The Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment to the $1.1 trillion cromnibus spending bill blocks the use of Department of Justice funds to "prevent [medical marijuana states] from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana."
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Mr Tng Tai Hou is a Manager in the Technology Intelligence & Competitive Intelligence team, Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd, the Technology Transfer and Commercialisation division of A*STAR.
Tai Hou has a BSc in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore. He has 18 years of hands-on experience in R&D and project management. Prior to joining ETPL, Tai Hou worked at Ericsson Cyberlab Singapore where he led research teams consisting of ethnographers, industrial designers, marketing staff, and engineers on Mobile Applications and Phone Concepts for Chinese Users. These has resulted in patents, papers, and secured funding for technology evaluation projects within Business Units.
Prior to Ericsson, Tai Hou led the handwriting recognition product development team at KRDL and at Apple. He worked with researchers at Apple-ISS on code optimization and quality control, and with ISS researchers in developing application concepts to visualize the use of technologies.
Tai Hou has filed 5 patents on the topics of handwriting recognition and input methods for Chinese mobile phone users. He has given presentations at conferences in Singapore, US, and China. For example, at the IDSA 2002 in US.
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COMEDK (Consortium of Medical Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka), Bangalore is conducting COMEDK PGET (Post Graduate Entrance Test) Exam 2015. It is a State Level Examination which is to be held on 1st of February, 2015. Get more update on recruitmentinfosite.com . This exam is conducted for aspirants who are looking forward to take admission in various Post Graduate and Diploma courses in Medical and Dental Colleges of Karnataka. Interested aspirants can apply for the specified examination latest by 27th of December, 2014. Other details are given as under :
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Cost of Application- Rs.2,500 is the application fee which has to be paid through Crossed Demand Draft, payable to COMEDK at Bangalore.
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text: Data Science Topics • databases and data architectures • databases in the real world – scaling, data quality, distributed • machine learning/data mining/statistics • information retrieval • Data Science is currently a popular interest among employers – Our Industrial Affiliates Partners say there is high demand for students trained in Data Science – topics: databases, warehousing, data architectures – data analytics – statistics, machine learning • Big Data – gigabytes/day or more • Examples: – Walmart, cable companies (ads linked to content, viewer trends), airlines/Orbitz, HMOs, call centers, Twitter (500M tweets/day), traffic surveillance cameras, detecting fraud, identity theft... • supports "Business Intelligence" – quantitative decision-making and control – finance, inventory, pricing/marketing, advertising – need data for identifying risks, opportunities, conducting "what-if" analyses Data Architectures • traditional databases (CSCE 310/608) – tables, fields – tuples = records or rows • <yellowstone,WY,6000000 acres,geysers> – key = field with unique values • can be used as a reference from one table into another • important for avoiding redundancy (normalization), which risks inconsistency • example: SSN links address database to employer database – join – combining 2 tables using a key – metadata – data about the data • names of the fields, types (string, int, real, mpeg...) • also things like source, date, size, completeness/sampling Name HomeTown Grad school John Flaherty Houston, TX Rice Susan Jenkins Omaha, NE Susan Jenkins PhD teaches title 2005 CSCE 411 Design and Analysis of Algorithms Univ of Michigan 2004 CSCE 121 Introduction to Computing in C++ Omaha, NE Univ of Michigan 2004 CSCE 206 Programming in C Bill Jones Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Mellon 1999 CSCE 314 Programming Languages Bill Jones Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Mellon 1999 CSCE 206 Programming in C •SQL: Structured Query Language >SELECT Name,HomeTown FROM Instructors WHERE PhD<2000; Bill Jones Pittsburgh, PA >SELECT Course,Title FROM Courses ORDER BY Course; CSCE 121 Introduction to Computing in C++ CSCE 206 Programming in C CSCE 314 Programming Languages CSCE 411 Design and Analysis of Algorithms • Some efficiency issues with real databases – indexing • how to efficiently find all matches in a database with 100,000,000 entries? 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The reason why motorhome holidays are given with that name is because this type of vehicles is mostly used by the vast majority of people to accommodate them for their holidays, particularly if they are going to spend their holidays by going camping. Motorhomes are suitable to be used for holidays for they have the ability to offer facilities which other types of vehicles do not. In the following, then, some of the facilities will be discussed.
Clean water and waste water tanks are concealed in external drawers or, if necessary, in the double floor. A battery ensures an electrical autonomy for the lighting and the water pump. A hot water heater provides hot water both for the toilet and for the kitchen and dishes.
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PinstripesPlus.com: Let's talk about Luis Severino first -- what were your impressions of him this season?
Danny Borrell: Frontline stuff, he really does. He'll be anywhere from 92-97 mph and he'll fill the zone up with that fastball. He'll get swings and misses in the zone. He spins a really good, tight slider. He'll vary shapes and speeds on it but I think as he ages and as he climbs the ladder he'll be able to figure out which one is better for him. And he has a plus changeup as well. You put those three together and considering he's 19 years old, and we may have a really, really special kid.
PinstripesPlus.com: The stuff is what obviously jumps out at you but you mentioned his age -- he sure doesn't seem to pitch like a 19-year old with his demeanor on the mound and with his delivery being so good already. He almost seems like he's older than he is.
Borrell: Without a doubt. He's a kid who pitches well beyond his years. He reminds me of [Jose] Campos when it comes to that; he's 19 but he pitches way older than that. Just the way he pitches guys, he pitches to situations, he holds runners -- everything you want in a pitcher it's in his DNA.
PinstripesPlus.com: You mentioned Jose Campos so let's talk about him. Everyone knows he was on an innings restriction this year but what did you see from Campos this year versus last year, even though he didn't pitch much a year ago?
Borrell: The biggest thing was he answered the bell every five days. He knew from the get-go that there was going to be some restrictions on his innings and his pitches but he took it all in stride. I saw much of the same from last year to this year. His stuff not only stayed the same but it actually probably got a little bit better at the end of the year. To come back from where he came back from in terms of his elbow issues, it was good to see.
PinstripesPlus.com: I agree, I thought the stuff was better towards the end of the year. He seemed to average a little higher with the fastball and the stuff in general just seemed crisper. Where do you think he made the most progress with his stuff this year?
Borrell: I think for him it was just pitching and getting more comfortable with his arm. It's just like anybody else, when you have an injury and come back you just want to make sure everything is fine. He probably just got more confidence, some more trust in his own arm as the season went on. Mechanically we had to involve a little more usage of the legs and when he gets a little more leg drive with his strike throwing abilities which is probably second to none in our organization, it was a good year.
PinstripesPlus.com: Where do you think he needs to improve the most going forward? Is it with the breaking ball? Is it with the changeup? Where is his biggest weakness right now?
Borrell: His biggest weakness is probably just lack of experience. Just like many of the other kids, the more he pitches the better his stuff is going to be. Throughout the season we saw glimpses of plus curveballs, plus changeups, and he commands the fastball to both sides of the plate. I think the more comfortable he gets with those offspeed pitches the better he's going to be.
PinstripesPlus.com: You got right-hander Rookie Davis, somebody I know you were familiar with before you got him, at the end of the season. What were your impressions of him this year?
Borrell: I've seen Rookie since he signed and the guy we saw at the end of the year was what he all hoped to see when he signed. He's just going to be a workhorse. His body works so well, he's throwing sink with his delivery and he looks like he's going to be that typical 200-inning workhorse. He's going to have at his disposal three average to plus pitches, and that doesn't even count the cutter he was working on at Instructs.
PinstripesPlus.com: I want to ask about that cutter in just a minute but first I'd like to find out how far along is his changeup. We know he's got the great curveball and we know his fastball velocity went up this year, but how far along is his changeup? Did you see flashes of that being a plus pitch?
Borrell: Oh without a doubt, yes. He has great feel for his changeup. In his two starts in Charleston he didn't throw it much because he faced a lot of right-handed batters and he was able to get that curveball over for a strike. When he did throw that changeup, it's going to be mid to upper-80s. It's firm but it has good fade and it has good deception. We're not concerned about his changeup being 86-87 mph when he's going to be sitting 92-94 mph.
PinstripesPlus.com: About his cutter, how quickly is that coming along?
Borrell: That came along very, very quickly. Gil [Patterson] and him introduced that -- I think he was working with Tommy Phelps during Instructs -- and it came along just like that. It was just as quick as his fastball but it had that little cut on the end and he just tore up some left-handed and right-handed bats during Instructs.
PinstripesPlus.com: I know you didn't have Rafael DePaula in the second half but you did get to see him down at Instructs. Was he back to being the pitcher you saw in Charleston at Instructs?
Borrell: He really was. I just think for him it was making that jump [in level to Tampa] and statistically that jump from low-A to high-A is the biggest one you can make, and he probably just lacked a little bit of confidence in his stuff. Even with that plus-plus fastball that he has, when you're not commanding it these hitters are going to make you pay for it. But the guy we saw at Instructs was very similar to the guy we saw in Charleston. He filled the zone with his fastball and he was working on cutter, and we saw some very quality cutter/sliders. He was fun to watch as usual.
PinstripesPlus.com: Is the big thing for him then just having more command?
Borrell: Oh yeah, just being able to learn himself as a pitcher and just making the adjustment from level to level, I expect a big season for him coming up.
PinstripesPlus.com: Let's talk about Gabe Encinas. I know he didn't pitch much before he went down with Tommy John surgery but the numbers were tremendous. What did you see from him secondary pitch-wise? Did the secondary pitches come along as well as you would have like them to?
Borrell: Oh yeah, they certainly did. His curveball, when it's on, it's a hammer. And he's had the changeup from the get-go. We actually changed the grip on his changeup a little bit because it was coming out of his hand a little bit differently so we just wanted to make sure it had the typical fade and bottom moving away from a lefty that the changeup should have. The biggest thing for him this year was the mental side -- he was such a different kid on the field. He didn't let the small things get to him; bad calls, defensive miscues, nothing got to him. It was very evident when you looked at the numbers.
PinstripesPlus.com: You mentioned numbers just now -- Evan Rutckyj didn't have the numbers this year but he seems really close to making that next step in his development. Do you agree?
Borrell: Some kids just take a little bit longer to develop and 'Rutter' is probably one of those guys. He had his ups and downs but there was a five-start period in June where he was just lights out; throwing all three pitches for strikes, just ground ball after ground ball, just filling the zone. So when you're talking about a 6-foot-5, 6-foot-6 lefty with good velocity and induces ground balls with two good offspeed pitches, it's a pretty good recipe for success. It's just a matter of him growing into his body and just figuring out his mechanics. I think he's pretty much the same as DePaula -- he's really close to clicking -- and when it does it will be fun to watch.
PinstripesPlus.com: I love Daniel Camarena -- he simply just knows how to pitch. Is the big thing with him just gaining a little more arm strength or are you not too concerned about it?
Borrell: Not right now, he's only 20 years old. He was very, very young for the Sally League. I'll tell you what, his last 70 innings were incredible. That pretty much took up the second half of the season and the last part of the first half. 70 innings, 50 hits, I think he walked like eight or nine guys, at 20 years old you can't teach his pitch-ability. But yeah, if he gains a couple of more MPH's we're talking about a stud.
PinstripesPlus.com: What were your impressions of Cesar Vargas this year?
Borrell: 'Vargy' was very consistent the whole year. He learned how to pitch off of his fastball which is a big thing for him. He's got that really good curveball but you've got to put yourself in those situations to throw that curveball and he learned he's got to have that fastball command. That was a big reason why he got promoted up to Tampa, because he proved he could command the fastball. It's a got a little cut to it. He got hurt there towards the end but overall it was a great season for him.
PinstripesPlus.com: What's his stuff like?
Borrell: He'll get up to 94 mph, he'll sit 89-92 mph, he has a nice, tight curveball. We actually introduced a slider/cutter to him and that's mid-80s. And he's got a nice changeup too. So he's got a four-pitch mix and now it's just a matter of him incorporating all four of those into his repertoire.
PinstripesPlus.com: Let's talk about Tyler Webb -- he seems to be a big left-hander who can throw strikes.
Borrell: I'll tell you what, he got it up to 94-95 mph [at times] but he's got this short, compact arm stroke and he's like Nick Goody -- guys just don't see his fastball. So while it's coming it at 90-93 mph it's playing way more firm that that just because guys don't see it coming out of his hand. He has a good changeup and probably the biggest improvement he made this year was his slider. His slider came along very well this year at the end of the season and he has the pedigree of pitching in a big program at South Carolina. He's going to be pretty good.
PinstripesPlus.com: Let's talk about Brett Gerritse. He's been around for a while now -- did you see his stuff improve this year?
Borrell: Yes it did, it certainly did. We actually give him a little two-seamer and his velocity went up when he was throwing exclusively two-seamers. He was 91-94 and he's always had a good curveball and he's always had a good changeup, but now at the end of the season he was very good. In fact he had the fifth lowest FIP in minor league baseball among guys with 100 innings pitched so he was really good.
PinstripesPlus.com: Of the guys you saw down at Instructs who stood out for you?
Borrell: I was pretty much around [the same] five guys. [James] Pazos, he was there. He had a great [Arizona] Fall League -- he threw a couple of times [at Instructs]. Ian Clarkin was fun to work with. He's going to have just plus-plus stuff across the board. He spins the ball well, he's got good life to his fastball, his changeup was actually his best pitch at Instructs. All of them were fun to watch.
PinstripesPlus.com: You mentioned Pazos -- where do you think his game is right now?
Borrell: Well when you're talking about a lefty who is 92-97 mph with a good slider and who can throw his changeup over for strikes, I would guess the sky's the limit for him just because you're talking about a power lefty. And he's not going to be a situational guy, he's going to be able to get both lefties and righties out. He's not going to be secluded to being just that one lefty out of the pen, he could be that late inning guy and he could move fast for us.
PinstripesPlus.com: So you didn't get to see many of the other new pitchers at Instructs?
Borrell: I saw Caleb Smith. He's got a little funk in his delivery but he's another guy who's 92, 93 mph and we only saw his slider at Instructs but he's got a great changeup. That's another guy that guys just don't see his fastball but he fills the zone and he spins a good slider.
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According to Dr. Christina Miller, MD Integrative Medicine, "As you age, neurons in your brain and spinal cord begin to degenerate, and even die off, if not being used. Think of activities that you used to do that you no longer do now. You're likely losing, or have already lost, those neurons. This can range from complicated math problems or playing an instrument, to playing a sport or activity and have given up. The good news is that you can learn or relearn activities at any age, and promote growth of those, or nearby neurons, and regain function. This is the concept of neuroplasticity - regenerating parts of your brain and body that have gone latent with inactivity.
Learning a new sport is a great way to fire up some neurons, especially in the areas of balance, movement, focus and complex motor coordination. Neurons that fire together, wire together and will keep your brain and body functioning at a higher level."
With Dr. Miller's info in mind, I would like to issue a challenge to make January "Learn A New Sport Month". Find something that you've never done and give it a try. Or, how about that high school or college sport that you competed in and loved. What about a class at your gym that you've always said you would join?
Rekindle that fire. Regenerate those neurons!
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SLACKLINE - Mondays 7-8:45pm,
Wednesdays 7:30-8:45pm
ROCK CLIMBING - call for times
Indoor rink - every weekday, at mid day
Outdoor Pond rink - all day, every day & night
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Adult Learn-to-Swim - Wednesdays 7:00-8:30pm
Master's Swim - Mondays & Thursdays 6:00-7:30pm
ADULT BALLET - Tuesdays 8:15-9:45am
Taught by ASFB company member, and Aspen Club member Craig Black
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Equipment and lessons:
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OUTDOOR SKATING (in addition to rink at the ARC)
Snowmass Rodeo Lot - all day, any day
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Pakistan's military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, made a bold leap towards peace with India for the first time in the history of the country when he officially disowned the jihadi (Islamic militants) groups and vowed to curb militant violence against India.
Although he made it clear that his government would not compromise the right of self-determination of Kashmiri people, he clearly indicated a change of tactics - his policy will now be one of diplomacy and not military action. Thus a major hurdle to the peaceful resolution of the conflict has been removed.
The jihadi groups fight for "al-arzu-lilah wal-hukmu-lillah" [the land belongs to Allah and thus rule of Allah should be implemented], making Kashmir one among the many battles of their pan-Islamic movement across the world. Furthermore, a majority of the jihadis are non-Kashmiris and their agenda transcends the battle for the right to self-determination.
They are in principle against any form of dialogue and believe that a military option alone will resolve the conflict. Thus, whenever hopes for the peace process rise, the jihadis intensify violence and checkmate the moves.
Now, with the Pakistani establishment having sidelined them and initiated measures to effectively shift its policy from supporting "jihad [holy war] against India" to "a genuine political struggle of Kashmiri people for the right of self determination".
Although Gen Musharraf's policy statement will take some time to be implemented on ground, there are already indications of change. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of 23-Kashmiri parties that represents the political face of separatism has already come up with bold statements.
A senior leader Abdul Gani Lone asked the jihadi groups to leave Kashmir and even sought a review of the violent campaign against India. "The violence is now counter-productive and is going against the interests of our freedom movement," he said.
Does this mean Kashmir might actually see an end to violence in near future? There certainly is an opportunity, especially because there is a realisation among both Kashmiri separatists as well as Pakistan that the use of violence for even achieving a genuine political objective has zero tolerance in the international community now. The events of September 11 have washed away the line drawing a distinction between terrorism and armed political struggles.
The need, however, is to see a similar shift in India's Kashmir policy as well, which is also a hostage to certain rigid opinions. In fact, the September 11 events and the tough stand taken by the international community to fight all sorts of terrorism across the world has made the Indian stance even more rigid, making any reconciliation very difficult.
The Indian government projects the problem in Kashmir as its own "war against terror" and the incidents like the suicide attacks on the legislative assembly complex in Srinagar on October 1 2001 and a similar attack on Indian parliament on December 13 only strengthened its point.
The Indian response has been along the expected lines: they launched a diplomatic offensive besides a massive military build up against Pakistan. These pressure tactics worked. The international community, especially the US and the Britain, got involved and Pakistan had not only to clamp down on the jihadi groups based on its territory but also ban the two groups, Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, accused of the attack on Indian parliament.
Encouraged by the growing international sympathy, the Indian government seems to turn all the heat on Kashmir and use this opportunity to establish its grip on the troubled area. However, the Indian leadership clearly misses the point. The jihadis are just a part of the violent campaign and not the entire campaign.
There are indigenous militant groups like Hizbul mojahedin still active on ground. But even if international pressure forces Pakistan to abandon the entire violent movement in Kashmir, it will not end India's problems in Kashmir. Militancy is clearly a symptom and not the disease. It could erupt again as soon as the world situation takes another turn.
Pakistan is not only ready for a dialogue but has in a way conceded to India's demand to end its support for violence in Kashmir, creating a conducive environment for further talks. On the ground in Kashmir, Gen Musharraf's policy shift has strengthened the moderate voice and put them in the centre stage of Kashmir's separatist movement.
This is the ideal situation to initiate a peace process and to draw a road map to end the decades-old dispute. What is immediately needed is a real peace offensive by India to solve the problem and not just to delay it.
· Muzamil Jaleel, a journalist with the Indian Express, is on attachment to Guardian Unlimited and The Observer.


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Long gestation periods were not Bennett's style. So some critics have suggested that the story "of pure and primitive emotion, unclouded by any religious or moral quality" was really inspired by a brief but joyous engagement in 1906. I believe that one of the catalysts that started the creative chemistry process was an event that occurred during the previous year. I base my claim on the evidence of an old sepia photograph that hangs in the bar of The Eyre Arms at Hassop in Derbyshire.
The Old Wives' Tale begins with an account of the superficially dull existence of a Potteries draper and his family. It goes on to show that their lives are packed with emotion. Hope challenges fear. Ambition conflicts with duty. Loyalty competes with novelty. There is a Thomas Hardy-like incident in which a distant relative is convicted of murdering his drunken wife. But that is incidental. The description of the elephant that escaped from the travelling menagerie, "knelt on a man in its tent ... and tried to put a second man in its mouth" is not. The "six men of the Rifle Corps, engaged to shoot it at short range" were the agents of nemesis.
There has always been a suspicion that the story of the elephant's execution was invented. No Bennett enthusiast who drinks Black Sheep bitter in The Eyre Arms believes that for a second. Above the bar there is an ancient picture of a dead elephant and one of the proud militiamen who shot it after its escape from the circus of Lord Sanger and Sons on May 25 1905. There is no record of Arnold Bennett passing through south Derbyshire. The Peak District villages were not to his taste. But he was known never to let a scrap of information go to waste. With his annual output, he could not have worked in any other way.
In one year "he was editor (until September) of one journal and the mainstay of two others. He was reviewing books at the rate of more than one a day and writing criticism of a very high order. He counted the number of articles he wrote during the year as 196. He also wrote six short stories, a one-act play, two full-length plays, The Grand Babylon Hotel and the first draft of Anna of the Five Towns." Yet The Old Wives' Tale, in concept and in execution, stretched over half a dozen years. Its author was not Arnold Bennett, journeyman writer with a sign hung outside his door saying "articles written while you wait". He was a writer of genius who was, at least for a time, less interested in his ledger of words written and words published than in producing a great novel. His greatness was identified by JB Priestley, in one of his more perceptive moments: "The Old Wives' Tale has two suffering heroines, Constance and Sophia Baines, and three conquering heroes, Time, Mutability and Death."
While he was considering, at length, those three major themes, Bennett was also publishing whole shelves of books which (mostly and rightly) are now forgotten - Hugo, The Sinews of War and Whom God Hath Joined in 1906 alone. We will not celebrate their centenary this year. They are probably the novels that Virginia Wolf had in mind when she accused Bennett of using "immense skill and industry in making the trivial and the transient seem true and enduring". Perhaps she never read The Old Wives' Tale. We ought now to begin our celebration of a book devoted to acknowledging that "every stout woman was once a young girl with unique charm". Celebrate its conception, its creation and completion. I shall certainly drink to all those things in The Eyre Arms at Hassop in Derbyshire.


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Name: Kyle Anson
Position: Catcher
DOB: April 21, 1983
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 200
Bats: Both
Throws: Right
"The first half went great and then I got the injury, but I've learned something about myself – I played through pain and I learned when not to play through pain," Anson said of his 2008 season. "That helps me in the future."
"That helps my career out and it gets me going. It's a learning process going through the minor leagues, the ups and downs of it."
No stranger to injuries, one who missed a significant portion of his debut season in 2005 and then all of 2006 with two knee injuries, Anson was involved in a collision at home plate against the Clearwater Phillies on June 2nd where he strained all the ligaments in his right foot and also turned his ankle in what many described as a dirty play by the opposition.
Hitting .250 with three home runs and more walks than strikeouts in the first half, he earned a Florida State League All Star selection before missing the ensuing six weeks with the injury and he found it extremely tough the rest of the way, hitting just .225 after the break.
"It was definitely because of the injury," Anson said of his second half struggles. "Baseball is a game of confidence and when it's one of your wheels [foot] there, and your base for catching and hitting – I don't want to make excuses and I did go out there and tried my hardest – but I didn't play to my potential and there were a couple of games there where I was embarrassed with my play.
"That could have happened if I was healthy too. It is what it is and everybody plays through pain and everybody plays through injuries."
While his offensive output wasn't what he and the Yankees had hoped for, both parties were very pleased with his continued defensive progress behind the plate.
"Defensively, I took a lot from what I learned my first couple of years and then in Spring Training I learned a lot from those guys," he said. "You learn how to apply them and diagnose if I do something wrong.
"I can diagnose it myself and not need to have somebody go over video with me or explain it to me. I can diagnose it quicker, that way it doesn't happen a second time."
Obviously more self aware of his strengths and weaknesses, and where to make the necessary changes to his game, Anson, who has been quite a natural at blocking balls and throwing out runners, believes his game-calling abilities took a major leap forward in 2008.
"I definitely got a better rapport with pitchers and learn how to call each guy's different game, stick to their strengths, and go out there and talk to them if we disagree on a couple of calls," he said of what facet improved the most.
"I'll go out there and talk about what we're going to throw the next guy or just in the dugout we'll talk about things, and prepare before the game with each pitcher. I didn't do that as much as I should have the year before so I learned how to do that this year and just have a better game plan."
As pleased as he was with that aspect of his game, however, Anson believes that is still the area of his game that could use more improvement. And despite another injury-shortened season, he can feel the momentum of his game coming together at the catcher's position.
"I'm very confident, honestly," he admitted. "I've always felt it was my natural position and I'm starting to get more of a feel for it, the natural movement to block a ball or throw a guy out, call this pitch or see something. It's not where I have to think about it so hard [anymore].
"I remember when I started [catching] I'd wear myself out quickly mentally. I'm definitely more confident. I understand my abilities more with what I'm good at and where I need work. I can take that into each game."
Essentially with just two and a half seasons at the catcher's position under his belt, which isn't all that much in the grand scheme of things, Anson finds himself Rule 5 Draft eligible this offseason after the Yankees didn't protect him on the 40-man roster and there exists the possibility some team might believe he is big league ready enough to warrant a selection.
"It's kind of one of those things where you don't know if you're ready until you try it," he said if he's big league ready or not. "I'm definitely excited about getting my chance in the big leagues for sure and that's a big deal.
"Who knows if you're ready for it until you go out there and get the experience of it all. It's a different elevated game. I got a taste of it in Spring Training. It's definitely cool and I definitely want to try it. It's a big deal for me."
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Batting and Power. Kyle Anson has plus big league plate discipline already - period! He has walked more than he has struck out in each of his first three professional seasons after doing it every year in college as well. Possessing an excellent trio of big league plate discipline, patience, and pitch recognition, despite his career .255 average thus far, Anson projects to be a .300 hitter eventually, one with an above average on-base percentage. He is not a home run hitter, but he does have excellent gap power and most scouts believe he could approach double-digits in home runs at some point once he remains healthy and gets more comfortable defensively. A switch-hitter, he is a good hitter from the right side but he's even better from the left side.
Base Running and Speed. Anson is one of the fiercest competitors around and he hustles on every play. While he might not have the plus speed to be a major factor stealing bases, he does have enough natural agility and innate baseball knowledge to be an asset taking extra bases and swiping the occasional bag. He has the potential to have a Brad Ausmus-like impact on the bases at the catcher's position, possibly even approaching double-digit in stolen bases someday.
Defense. Anson has developed from a beginning catcher with raw plus abilities - including his quick release, plus arm strength, and plus accuracy with his throws - to a more polished defensive catcher in a short amount of time. His quick feet and agility were already in place to be adept at blocking balls in the dirt, but he has learned how to properly place his glove to become even better. Anson has also become a better receiver behind the plate, learning how to frame pitches better. He has also learned the nuances of calling games better, but while his rapport with pitchers has gotten better, he can still be a bit stubborn with his pitchers when insisting on certain pitches being thrown.
Projection. Anson's plus big league plate discipline, switch-hitting abilities, and natural catch-and-throw skills are more than enough to project him safely as a major league backup catcher someday. If he could finally avoid the injury bug long enough to continue developing and add some more strength, Anson could project to become a Bill Mueller type offensively as a switch-hitter with excellent plate discipline - a .300 hitter with good gap power. He still has room for improvement defensively, however, so if he could continue making progress framing pitches and working with pitchers better, he has the potential to be a very good starting catcher in the big leagues. He projects as a major league backup for now but there is a strong possibility he could be more.
ETA. 2010. With three really good catchers on their 40-man roster already, Anson has become a luxury of sorts for the Yankees and he'll now be Rule 5 Draft eligible this offseason. The foundation of his game is already there for a team to stash him on a roster as a backup catcher, but should he not be selected he will most likely open up as Trenton's starting catcher in 2009 and from there it should only be one more year before he gets his big league chance.


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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday evening joined the House of Representatives in approving a compromise FDA bill that includes a fifth five-year authorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA V), as well as provisions that expand the categories of drugs for which the agency will allow faster reviews and decisions.
President Obama is expected by July 4th to sign the measure, which the Senate passed 92–4, hours after voting 89–3 to close debate and bring the bill to a vote. Last week the House approved the bill in a unanimous voice vote. The bipartisan margins in both chambers reflect Congress' interest in keeping agency drug review operations humming—and avoiding the loss of jobs funded through user fees.
The FDA Safety and Innovation Act (S.3187) includes PDUFA V among a set of user-fee measures that for the first time will include collection of the fees for biologic and generic drugs. For the federal fiscal year starting on Oct. 1, FDA expects to collect $720 million in prescription drug user fees, as well as $299 million in generic-drug user fees, and $20 million in biologic drug user fees.
Through the authorization period (FY 2013–FY 2017), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) expects FDA to collect about $6.4 billion in total user fees projected from the bill, of which $4.068 billion will be prescription drug fees. The generic user fee is expected to generate $1.575 billion, compared with $128 million for the new biosimilar fee.
In return for the fee money, PDUFA V is projected to fund 2,599 full-time equivalent (FTE) staffers, while 450 FTEs will be supported through the new generic drug user fee and 72 through the new biosimilars user fee. More importantly, FDA is committed to reviewing and acting on 90% of standard applications within 10–12 months from the date of filing and on 90% of priority submissions within six to eight months from date of filing. However, the start of the agency's first review cycle clock was pushed back to after its 60-day administrative filing review period.
Also, PDUFA V creates a new mid-cycle meeting to which FDA will call an applicant, generally within two weeks after the agency holds its own internal mid-cycle review meeting on an application. FDA hammered out PDUFA V during a year of talks with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
The FDA bill reauthorizes two pediatric drug measures set to expire this year, the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act and the Pediatric Research Equity Act. Both suggest designating as "breakthrough" therapies drugs that alone or in tandem with other drugs treat a serious or life-threatening disease where preliminary clinical evidence indicates that the drug provides "substantial improvement over existing therapies on one or more clinically significant endpoints such as substantial treatment effects observed early in clinical development."
The bill adds rare diseases as among topics that must be considered in a future fast-track guidance, required to be drafted 18 months after enactment; and changes FDA's inspection policy. The agency will regularly inspect domestic or overseas manufacturing plants based on risk to patient safety, a change from the current policy requiring mandatory inspections of domestic plants every two years.
However, the House and Senate avoided a potential stalemate by removing a provision requiring the tracking and tracing of every individual container of medicine. Track-and-trace had been part of the Senate version of the bill, but was opposed by biopharma giants.
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