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The ESPN Fantasy staff has published its mid-May rankings -- their top 250 players for the rest of the season.
It's always interesting to see the different opinions. Everybody agrees on guys like Miguel Cabrera and Ryan Braun, but here are some guys where the rankings differ or have changed from preseason projections:
Bryce Harper (14th overall, up from No. 36 preseason): Our guy Eric Karabell has him the highest at No. 9 while his lowest ranking was 26th. I'm in line with Eric here, although he hasn't run yet (one stolen base) and needs to stay away from walls.
Stephen Strasburg (32nd overall, down from No. No 23): Wild variance in opinion, as he was as high as 22nd and as low as 73. Strikeout rate is down nearly two per nine innings from last year and left-handers have a .357 OBP against him. Somewhere in the 30s seems right to me.
Shin-Soo Choo (33rd overall, up from No. 75): As high as 18th, as low as 53rd (that's Karabell). He's helped carry my team to first-place in the one auction league I joined this year with all the ESPN fantasy gurus (shameless self-promotion), but I can't say he's going to hit .322/.465/.589 all season. Still, his power is playing up in that bandbox. The concern is he still can't hit lefties (.159) and you're not going to hit .322 when you can hit one side of pitchers.
Matt Kemp (18th overall, down from No. 6): The fantasy guys are expecting his power to come back (one home run so far). My concern: In his big 2011 season, he basically had two strikeouts for every walk; this year, it nearly 4-to-1.
Albert Pujols (25th overall, down from No. 7): He's hitting .248/.328/.418 with six home runs and 23 RBIs, so the fantasy guys expect a big bounce moving forward to rank him 25th. I'm not so sure. Yes, he'll get his RBIs hitting behind Mike Trout, but you have to be worried about a DL stint at some point and he's not going to give you those few stolen bases he always gets.
Matt Harvey (55th overall, up from No. 160): Thought he'd be a little higher, but I guess he may not win many games with the Mets' offense behind him.
Jean Segura (87th overall, up from No. 276): Hitting .349 and leads the NL with 13 steals. Obviously, if he comes close to that he'll be better than 87th, but keep in mind he always had trouble staying healthy in the minors.
Hisashi Iwakuma (134th overall, up from No. 243): He's not this good, but he is good, with that devastating split-fingered. His track record goes back to when he joined the Seattle rotation last July. With eight walks in nine starts, that WHIP will remain low even as his BABIP regresses to more normal levels.
Shelby Miller (135th overall, up from No. 261): Unlike Harvey, he'll get better run support. But will the Cardinals limit his innings?
Kyle Seager (138th overall, up from No. 162): But still below Brett Lawrie. I'll take Seager.


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Hi Ken (and Mark), Different "Mark" here... I'm new to this mailing list and am not a Tomcat developer. Forgive me if I'm interrupting your thread, but I am very interested in this topic, since I've spent a fair amount of time debugging OOM-PermGen errors within Tomcat (5.5.x). I would be interested in hearing any tips or tricks regarding OM-PermGen, too, and am happy to share my experiences regarding this. None of the issues I've looked into have never been attributed to Tomcat. They have all been application issues related to an inability to garbage collect a webapp's classloader. This root causes were split between one of the following: * A webapp registering an object with another object that outlives the webapp and forgetting to unregister it webapp shutdown. As a result, that object cannot be garbage collected, which also prevents that webapp's classloader from being garbage collected. Examples of things that outlive a webapp or objects from libraries within Tomcat's shared library folder, Tomcat itself, and the JRE itself. For example, if a webapp registers a JDBC driver or a JCA/JCE provider, it should take care to unregister it on shutdown. * Instantiating a new Thread somehow (e.g. directly via its constructor, or indirectly via a thread pool, a Timer, or a ScheduledExecutorService) in response to a request to a webapp. This is because, by default, the new Thread inherits the parent thread's context classloader, which in Tomcat (5.5.x) is set to that webapp's classloader. If that Thread keeps the context classloader reference and outlives the webapp, the webapp's classloader cannot be garbage collected. As an aside, those causes highlight a reason why people should be weary of putting a new JAR files into one of Tomcat's shared library folders. Doing so requires that a webapp be vigilant about cleaning up any interactions with that library on shutdown. Said library also needs to provide a means to do the cleanup, as well as be sensitive to context classloader issues. When trying to debug these issues, I typically load things up in a profiler, stop the webapp and see of its classloader still resides in memory. When it exists, I use the profiler's "find the garbage collection root" to help determine why the classloader still resides in memory and figure out how to fix the issue. If using JProfiler (and probably other profilers), I think you have to tell it to go not stop when it reaches the Class object along the reference path. To help pro-actively detect webapp classloader garbage collection issues, I've leveraged the Insane library (a library I found from Netbeans while researching the topic) to write a utility that searches for webapp classloaders that should have been garbage collected. Using the utility in combination with automated tests has been definitely helped catch and diagnose issues. Apologies if this wasn't helpful. Please let me know if I'm wrong, outdated, or if there is a better way! Best regards, Mark DeSpain -----Original Message----- From: Ken Bowen [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:33 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Headstart on "Resolving OOM-PermGen errors on webapp reload" Mark, Any chance we could make a headstart on "Resolving OOM-PermGen errors on webapp reload" ?? Perhaps some general pointers, guidance etc. [to help you refine the talk in advance :-) ] The manager app is giving me more & more of: FAIL - Application at context path /ctx could not be started FAIL - Encountered exception java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space This is on a Tomcat 6.0.18 (java 1.5) running on a remote Linux CentOS 5, in a Parallels VM, with httpd + mod_jk, running two versions of the app. Total memory available is 432 MB, with a number of non-system, non-TC processes, including ActiveMQ and 9 Postres processes. But there appears to be about 200MB of unused memory according to the Parallels control panel. I develop locally on a Mac OS/X 10.5.6 box with 4GBmem using (My)Eclipse and Tomcat 6.0.18 directly. With lots & lots of reloads, I'm not surprised that I eventually hit OOM PermGen space in this setting, but it happens much less often than on the CentOS box (of course 4GB != 432MB). Thanks...Ken Mark Thomas wrote: > I was at a conference recently and rather rashly made the statement > "OOM > PermGen errors on reload are an application issue, not a Tomcat one". > Several people came up to me afterwards with variations on a theme of > "Our app has OOM on reload - put your money where your mouth is and > show > us where we have gone wrong" > > Having helped several people track down the causes of these errors > (and > yes they were all application issues) it occurred to me that there may > be interest in this at ApacheCon. 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5:27. I've been staring at that number for about an hour now. I would be surprised if it hasn't been burned into my brain. And I love how the alarm clock company designers choose the most conveniently annoying red color to flash the numbers in my face. But after a staring contest with the unchanging numbers, I turned over.
The leather chair in the corner of my room was empty. Marc was already gone.
Fighting a headache, I rolled off my bed and trudged out of my room and into my bathroom for a shower. I was stiff and numb in the stale cold. I hate mornings.
Dressed, I went downstairs. An unfinished bowl of oatmeal was left on the kitchen counter. The smell of it was enough to spark my appetite, so I cleaned up the kitchen a little and poured myself a bowl.
The banging up above started again. My uncle was up early working on the roof. I don't think he ever slept. I was taking a year off from college, and staying at home with him while I helped with some much needed renovations. His recent knee surgery has made it hard for him to work as much as he used to, so I offered a hand. I was thinking of quitting college altogether, but Uncle Henry would never approve.
I was feeling a little lazy, but knew working would be better than staying in bed. I grabbed my jacket and started off my very early morning.
The clouds were planning something. They crept closer to each other, slowly, darkening in complexion by the minute. Although the breeze gave no scent of rain, the gloomy sky proved its imminence.
I inched toward the edge of the roof and looked down. Barney was looking up at me.
"I'll handle the rest, I think. Thanks, Nat." Uncle Henry told me, dropping a hammer at his feet. He wiped his forehead with his sleeve and squinted over at me.
"Sure?" I asked more on impulse, tossing my gloves into the back of the truck some fifteen feet down. I turned slowly and climbed back toward the highest point on the roof, avoiding areas of missing shingles. I took a swig of Gatorade and checked to see our progress so far. More than half the roof was done. Not bad.
"Yeh." He nodded, kneeling down to pick up some nails left over. I walked over and handed him a towel. "You know I don't wanna make you work. No full-grown man would choose to do this if he didn't have to. Ya know that?" He noted, wiping his neck and glancing up at me skeptically.
"So I'm a full-grown man, am I? I'm glad you waited nineteen years to tell me. Marc will love that." I teased him.
"You two married yet?" He chuckled and rose to his feet, catching his balance and producing keys from his back pocket. He held them out for me. "Tell 'im I said hi."
"Not yet. And thanks, I'll be back early to help you with the rest." I smiled and took the keys, giving him an appreciative hug. I kissed his cheek and patted his shoulder.
"Hurry up and get off my roof, before I make you clean out the garage." I heard him say behind me. I looked over my shoulder and smiled. And he means what he says. I carefully stumbled over to the ladder on the edge of the house and got a safe foothold to descend.
Uncle Henry peered over to make sure I made it down without any broken bones and shook his head at my unscathed success. I jogged across the side of the house to the driveway.
Barney greeted me with a leap at my face. His paws dug into my hip and his tail waved back and forth vigorously. He let out a bark and jumped down to trot around the truck.
I locked up the trunk and made my way to the driver's side. Barney sat in front of the wheel. His tongue hung out from excitement. I ran my hand through the matted fur down his back and tugged a little at his collar. He got up and pressed his wet nose to my leg as I opened up the door. I reached into the passenger seat and grabbed a half-eaten cheeseburger from a McDonald's bag and tossed it on the driveway near him. He stuck his nose on the pavement and gave the burger a sniff before beginning his snack.
I climbed into the car and let the warm air conditioning start up. The engine gave a groan as I gave one last look at Barney and backed out onto the street. He barked once, then retreated back to the yard to watch Uncle Henry.
The wind was beating my face at a comfortable 55 mph down the long, unmarked road leading to Twin Peak Avenue. Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" played quietly from my CD.
It was an unusually warm day for typical south-east Maine. A jacket was only optional, and I was just fine in my shorts.
The enormous pine trees began to hide the small, earthy cabin homes on both sides. With the trees surrounding you on two sides, it was easy to lose track of the time. It was difficult to know if it was day or night with the trees cutting off the sky. It's one thing I didn't quite like about this place. But everything else I loved.
Soon, after only a few minutes, I found myself in the heart of Winthrop. My favorite place. Here, I could find the two people I loved the most in the world. My Uncle and Marc. Even though I have lived here all my life, I doubt I would leave. I don't see any other town or city that could be more comfortable. I can imagine growing old here.
7/11, Super 8 Motel, Kwik Stop Car Wash and Publix brought a little life to the busy intersection. The sight of such common urban attractions in such an isolated part of the country made me laugh sometimes. But Winthrop had its own handful of unique family-run stores. Such as my aunt's floral shop at the very end of the Avenue.
At exactly 1:14, I reached Winthrop High School. I rounded the front and parked in the way back. I sat and let the engine purr while I rolled down my window. I checked the doors for any students and turned up the music. Robert Plant's vocals ran through my mind.
I used to go here, and remember it pretty well. I was one of those people who if you saw in the yearbook, you wouldn't really know or care who it was. I wasn't popular, and didn't care if I was. But when I come here, I get a sense of it as a second home, because of how much time I had spent there.
My eyes closed and I leaned back on the head rest. I didn't protest enough to want to stay awake. I had a few minutes until class ended. I was actually pretty tired.
I think I fell asleep.
"Babe. Nat, babe."
There was a hand on my arm. I took a deep breath and sat up. I opened my eyes to the person I always expect to see. Marc. He was leaning in the driver side window, giving me his same goofy smile.
"I'm a light sleeper." I said, trying not to laugh. I wiped my eyes and yawned. I inhaled the scent of his cheap deodorant that smelled good on him and him only. The outline of his face came into view and warmth seemed to bubble up inside me. Around him, I was always warm.
"Uh huh, just like I'm the King of England." He retorted with harmless sarcasm.
"Come on, Your Majesty, I'm getting hungry." I smiled and patted the passenger seat.
"Are you sure you wanna drive? You look tired. Here, I'll do it." Marc backed up and opened the car door. He smiled again and waited. I hesitated, but climbed out. He was hard to object to.
He wrapped an arm around my waist and pulled me against him. My heart missed a beat and I buried my face into his shoulder, holding him in tight hug. I missed him especially this morning. It was hard waking up and not having him there. Marc kissed my forehead and led me over to the passenger side. He lifted me up and squeezed my hand before stealing my seat at the wheel. I leaned my head against the window and watched him.
"Where you wanna go?" He asked, tossing his backpack into the backseat and strapping on his seat belt.
"Wherever you want." I answered, curling up into the seat and watching a group of kids walk down the sidewalk.
" 'Kay." He pulled out of the parking lot and got back onto our main road. "You still okay with going this weekend?"
"I'm already packed."
Marc made a face. "You don't have to... We can just stay home."
"It's your sister, you gotta see her." I told him, watching traffic cross the intersection as we waited at a red light. He looked at me, then back at the road.
"But it's New York. I'd rather stay..." He complained, playing with the radio dials.
"And do what? Sit around the house? Just go and see her concert. She really wants to see you there. We'll come back as soon as we can. Then we can do whatever." I offered, clearly proving a point. He didn't answer, just frowned.
The trip to New York would be by plane. I knew he didn't enjoy planes at all. It was going to be one of the only few times I've left here and I had even less enthusiasm, but I didn't want him to miss a chance to see his younger sister. She was an excellent violinist, a member of an orchestra in her high school band in New York. Marc would often travel to see her performances.
"Thank you." Marc almost whispered. He looked over at me and I could feel his hand touch mine. I intertwined my fingers and nodded. He rubbed my ring between his fingers and I risked a cardiac arrest. I almost went light-headed, but caught myself. I swallowed hard and squeezed his hand, feeling the solid gold throb against my skin. Our engagement rings were linked in a perfect union.
Every time we held hands, I felt our wedding day creep closer. No matter how far away it was. Marc was going to be my husband, if he wasn't already in my mind as one. I have known him for three years, and it was physically impossible to imagine wasting so much time with another person. He was already the person I centered my life around. I don't care if I have to pick him up from high school everyday or live a year earlier than him. Even though we wouldn't marry a day before 21, he had engaged to me a few months ago. Only three more years.
"I hope pizza is okay." Marc said, pulling into the Eden strip mall, in front of the pizza shop.
"Of course." He parked and we headed toward the door.
"Hold on, I left my wallet in my bag, wait a sec." Marc said, walking back outside.
I held the door open for him while he jogged back to my car. I heard a thud sound and looked back. A small girl with a cute ribbon in her hair had fallen down while going through the threshold. I knelt down beside her to see if she was okay. She propped herself up on her knees and looked up at me. Her blue grey eyes locked on with mine.
"Sorry!" She apologized, straightening herself up, wearing a hurt expression on her face. She was probably no older than six or seven. She stepped back and her shoulders feel in embarrassment. I stood back up and smiled at her cute charm.
"No worries. You alright?"
"Mmhm!" The girl looked down at her knees and mirrored my smile. I tried to remember when I was that little. "You're pretty." She gushed and took a second to look me over.
"Right back atcha." I replied, surprised at how sweet of a comment that was, regardless of if I believed her or not. I was serious of mine though, she was pretty in a way a small child was likely to always be. She beamed up at me.
"Bye!" She said and ran past me.
"Nat?" I heard Marc ask over my shoulder and turned around. He looked over at the girl who walked away, and at me with a smile, holding his hand out for me. I took it and followed him inside. We found an empty booth and sat down for some sodas. The waiter came over quickly and took our orders.
"When's the festival again? Next Sunday?" My fiancé asked me curiously, taking a drink of his Coke. The waitress came over to give us our plates of bread sticks.
"Yeah, you wanna go?" I perked up a little at his interest. I had gone with him the past three years. It was a local tradition. Crestpoint Festival is an event where couples and families would take boat rides after the sun went down and watch the fireworks at the nearby port to celebrate the day the town was founded. I loved going and remember going every year for a long time.
"Of course." Marc agreed, looking up at me.
I was able to hold his eye contact for only a few seconds, but had to look away. Even to this day, he had an affect on me. Warmth spread on my cheeks and I returned to nibbling on my pizza. When I see him, I can't help but smile. Not if, but when I marry him, I'm going to be able to see it every morning. Every day. Every night. Whenever I wanted.
"You wanna head home so we can get the car ready? We gotta get up early in the morning to get a seat at the airport." Marc offered unenthusiastically.
"I guess so." I pouted.
I grabbed his hand and he led me out of the restaurant, although I was not eager to leave tomorrow. When we left, the sun was reaching its highest in the sky and the fog of the morning was beginning to disappear. The sky was a mirage of yellows and oranges that was contrasted against the grey clouds as they emptied their rain. The pattering of the raindrops sounded on the tin roof above us. I held on tighter as the cold wrapped around me.
We ran out in the rain to our car that wasn't far away. I never carried an umbrella, I loved the rain, even if it was only 40 degrees out. I would miss it in New York.
When I got inside, I reached for a towel in the backseat, but was intercepted by a pair of hot lips. Marc kissed me hard. I was surprised for a second, the feeling of my cold lips on his melting ones was nice. When he pulled away, he grabbed the towel I had tried to get and threw it over my face, laughing.
"What was that for?" I breathed, using it to dry off my hair.
"I dunno." I took it off my face so I could look up at him as he smiled some more.
"Goof." I said, throwing the towel at him.
One thing about him was that he was always smiling. Gosh, I love him.
Marc pulled out of Eden and we headed on home. The rain continued to drizzle in steady rhythm and the sun crept lower past the pine trees.
I never got tired of this. Waking up, spending everyday doing the same things. I hated change. I would never get tired of spending my time with him, and I hope he felt the same way.
But, no matter how close we are, we never really talked in the car. We are both people who liked silent car rides. I liked to think about anything and everything, and car rides proved to be perfect times to do this. He didn't mind because he was the same way. We are a quiet, simple couple, and that's how we like it.
I immediately thought about my uncle, and if he had gotten inside before it started raining. His birthday was coming up and I still needed to buy him something. Maybe I can find something cool in the Big City that he would like, even though I suck at buying gifts.
I felt the car jerk and the slamming of brakes. I was able to see the wet, blurred asphalt of the road for a second. Then nothing.


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Fuse tried to signal out to the hovercars, but none of them was looking his way. A few of them had already reached the wreckage. They were trying to put out the fire. Others were cutting through the melted hull, using onboard Class III lasers, to try and reach inside. Fuse slowed down once again. He was fully aware that the wreckage could blow if the fires weren't put out in time, especially if it was running on the new condensed plasma fuel, which was dangerously explosive. Even worse, there was a condensed plasma fuel line on G27 itself. There was every possibility that the line could be hit, which meant bye bye G27. Fuse knew it was best to let the hovercars do their jobs.
Fuse was about to turn around and walk away, when he saw some of the hovercars suddenly turn around and head away from the crash. At first, Fuse thought the fuel tank had caught fire, and the spacejet was about to blow. But then, Fuse saw the blue things crawling out of one of the holes in the spacejet. They looked like large worms, almost all blue. At this distance, Fuse couldn't quite tell what they were. But they looked like they were the reason the ambulance hovercars were speeding away. One of them was headed his way. Fuse hollered out, "Hey! What's going on?" The Kahnan in the hovercar slowed down and shouted back, "Kid, get in, that spacejet's crawling with Kestinos"
"Kestinos, they're headed our way. Get in!!!"
Fuse got in, and the Kahnan sped off at full speed. Kahnans were a race of healers with moderate intelligence. That's why they usually worked on ambulance hovercars and medships. The Kahnan was talking really fast, "Never thought the damn Kestinos would get this far. What's the GBCE doing? We've got to warn the others. We've got to get everyone to leave. If they get their mouths on a ship, it could be worse than what we started with. We can't let them leave here. Kid, you got a ship?"
"Yeah, I do. Let's warn the others first."
"I don't, you'll let me come with you, won't you?"
"Sure pops, let's just deal with this first, okay?"
Fuse had only heard of the Kestinos and their deadly attacks in many parts of the universe. But he'd never expected to be faced with an attack. Suddenly, his thoughts perked up. Here was his chance. Once he got Dreamgazer running, he could double back and shoot the crap out of the Kestinos. He could do it, he'd be a hero. The saviour of G27. Ok, so maybe that wasn't very catchy, but there was always the outside chance they might rename the planet after him.
In the meanwhile, their hovercar had reached the main waiting room annexe. Fuse and the Kahnan got and started rushing to the Control Deck. There were already alarms sounding. A synthetic voice was saying, "…orbit. Please don't panic. There's been a Kestino attack on the planet. Kindly exit to your spaceships in an orderly fashion and commence orbit. Please don't…"
Fuse looked out the Firmaglass viewing window and saw the Kestinos racing towards the annexe. "There's not enough time. Pops, you got any weapons on you? There's a good chance we might have to fight."
"Here, I got two Compulsers. You take one."
Fuse felt the compressed pulser gun in his hand. It looked like a striated tube with a small handle for a trigger. It was the first time he had held a gun in his hand. It felt good.
There had already begun a mad rush towards the lifts and up towards the docking stations. Many people were already out.
"Look kid, we can't get everybody out. There'll be some drunken loser who hasn't bothered to hear the warning. We gotta guard the lifts till they can shut down the entire system."
"But then what about us?"
"Don't worry son, I got the lockdown codes. We'll be able to get out. Tell the Control Deck to initiate a lockdown."
Most of the control staff too had rushed out. The few remaining quickly started up the lockdown sequence and hightailed it out of there. Then it was just the Kahnan and Fuse who were still in the annexe. And minutes later, the Kestinos burst in through the Firmaglass.


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The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), which had organised a 24-hour dharna outside Parliament, decided to end the protest following Awan's announcement.
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Main opposition PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif visited the protest venue and said he agreed with the journalists' demand that the probe should be led by a serving Supreme Court judge.
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It's not news anyone wants to see over a long holiday weekend: on Friday night, a pipeline ruptured in Montana, dumping thousands of gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River. The pipeline, owned by ExxonMobil, ruptured 20 miles upstream from Billings, spilling up to 42,000 gallons of oil into the water.
The Environmental Protection Agency is posting updates on the clean up. As the New York Times reported over the weekend:
The pipeline is 12 inches wide and runs from Silver Tip, Mont., to Billings, an area with three refineries, ExxonMobil said. All three were shut down after the spill. ExxonMobil said it had summoned its North American Regional Response Team to help clean up the spill, and a fire spokesman in Laurel said more than 100 people, including officials with the Environmental Protection Agency, were expected to arrive at the scene by Sunday morning.
In a statement, the company said it "deeply regrets this release and is working hard with local emergency authorities to mitigate the impacts of this release on the surrounding communities and to the environment."
Officials still don't know what caused the rupture on the line. The extent of the damage is also unclear at this point, but needless to say, local residents aren't very happy.
The rupture also isn't likely to help the case for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would also cross the Yellowstone. That project has already met a good deal of protest as the State Department considers whether to grant it approval.
Julia WhittyJul. 1, 2011 7:46 PM
Ouch. All bite and no bark.
The first ever recorded instance of a human bitten by a cookie cutter shark is described in a paper now online in early view in Pacific Science.
An unfortunate human swimmer on a 47.5 kilometer/29.5 mile haul across the Alenuihaha Channel between the Hawaiian islands of Hawai'i and Maui got nailed twice by this fearsomely ninjalike denizen of the deep, Isistius sp.
If you've spent any time at sea outside polar waters, chances are you've seen the toothwork of this gnarly little predator. It leaves deep round scars on whales, dolphins, tuna, billfishes, squids, and other larger marine life.
(Two cookie cutter shark bites in a pomfret. Credit: PIRO-NOAA Observer Program via Wikimedia Commons.)
As Kramer used to say: Nature, she is a mad scientist... and never more so than with the hunting technique devised by the cookie cutter shark. Here's how FishBase describes it:
The cookie cutter shark has specialized suctorial lips and a strongly modified pharynx that allow it to attach to the sides of it prey. It then drives its saw-like lower dentition into the skin and flesh of its victim, twists about to cut out a conical plug of flesh, then pull free with the plug cradled by its scoop-like lower jaw and held by the hook-like upper teeth.
Cookie cutter sharks live in the mesopelagic zone and below and swim to the surface to feed at night. Credit: Nicholas Felton via Mother Jones.
Cookie cutter sharks spend the daylight hours below the cusp of darkness—that is, below 1,000 meters/3,280 feet. They migrate to or near the surface at night, travelling 2,000-3,000 meters/6,560-9,840 feet on a diel cycle. That's nearly two miles a day for a fish that maxes out at 56 centimeters/22 inches in length.
They ascend and descend alongside a massive community of marine life known as the deep scattering layer. (I wrote extensively about this community in my Gulf of Mexico oil piece in Mother Jones last year called The BP Cover-Up.)
(Scars on a dead Gray's beaked whale, Mesoplodon grayi, possibly from cookiecutter shark bites. Credit: Avenue via Wikimedia Commons.)
But here the mad-scientist design gets even madder. The skins of cookie cutter sharks glow strongly bioluminescent—reported to radiate light for as long as three hours after death—part of their underwater camouflage wherein they hide among schools of glowing squid.
And no one likes squid better than many cetaceans. When whales and dolphins attack squid, cookie cutter sharks ambush the ambushers, darting out to steal a plug of flesh, then disappearing back into the bioluminescent background.
The human swimmer off Hawaii was attacked at night when the stern deck lights from the escort boat were lit and shortly after the escort kayak lit red and green bow lights. Here's what the Pacific Science paper says:
About ten minutes after the kayak's bow light was turned on, the victim was bumped by a squid. Over the next twenty minutes he was bumped by squid two or three more times in the shoulder and side areas at irregular intervals. At 2003 hrs, the victim suddenly felt a very sharp pain on his lower chest, and assumed it was a triggerfish bite. The sensation was instantaneous and localized, like a pin prick, and felt like a bite from a very small mouth. The victim yelped and swam over to the kayak, turned off the bow light, and was in the process of getting into the kayak with his legs vertical and "egg-beatering" to maintain position when he felt something bite his left calf. The time interval between the two bites was less than 15 seconds. The sensation of the bite to the leg was slightly more prolonged (but still very quick, less than a second), involved some pressure, and was less painful than the chest bite.
You can see images of these wounds at my blog Deep Blue Home. You can read the whole paper here.
Seems like FishBase will have to amend their listing for cookie cutter sharks. Currently it reads:
Not dangerous to people because of its small size and habitat preferences.
The Pacific Science paper concludes:
Humans entering pelagic waters at twilight and nighttime hours in areas of Isistius sp. occurrence should do so knowing that cookiecutter sharks are a potential danger, particularly during periods of strong moonlight, in areas of manmade illumination, or in the presence of bioluminescent organisms.
Jen QuraishiJul. 1, 2011 3:18 PM
In a study trial lawyers are sure to find of interest, Israeli scientist Micah Edelson has found that people's recollections of recent events can be altered by peer pressure. The study (published in Science this week) asked participants to view a movie in small groups. Directly after the movie, participants were questioned individually about it. Some participants were very sure their answers to interviewers' questions about the movie were correct.
Four days later, the interviewers asked participants about the movie again (especially on the items the participant felt strongly they had answered correctly). However, this time, the interviewers presented the participants with false information about the film, allegedly provided by the other people in the participant's viewing group. Edelson found that in nearly 70% of cases, the participant changed his or her correct memory about the movie to match the group's incorrect memory. And in nearly half of these cases, the participant's memory switch was long-lasting, meaning they might no longer remember their own, individual, correct version of the movie: instead, it had been replaced with the group's inaccurate memory.
There has been research before showing people's willingness to change their stories (even if they knew they were true) under social pressure. What makes Edelson's research unique is he used an MRI scanner while people were answering interviewer's questions. Edelson found that participants' hippocampi and amygdalas showed activity only when people changed their answers to match their viewing groups. If they changed their answer because a computer told them they were wrong, the hippocampus and amygdala didn't light up. The hippocampus is linked with memory and the amygdala with emotion.
"Our memory is surprisingly susceptible to social influences," Edelson said during a recent podcast. This can be a source of concern to some, he noted, since "studies have show that... [witnesses] often discuss crime details with each other before testifying, and this can definitely have an influence on court cases." As Edelson's recent paper shows, a crime witness who's had his or her true recollection of an event altered by some one else's faulty recollection may lose their initial memory of the event forever. It's neurologically possible for a witness's (or a juror's) memory of an event to truly change under social pressure.
Makes you wonder what effect the hippocampus and amygdala have on people who continue to believe crazy things (cough! Obama's a Muslim!) even in the face of conflicting facts. Maybe their communities have actually changed their memories of events and they actually remember a different reality than others. Or maybe it doesn't so much matter what you believe, as long as you think someone else believes it too.
Kate SheppardJul. 1, 2011 6:00 AM
It's been a busy week for anyone following the national debates over hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," the controversial method used to cut into shale rock to extract natural gas. In New Jersey, a strong bipartisan majority in both chambers of the legislature approved a bill banning fracking in the state as its neighbor to the north, New York, appeared ready to end its moratorium on the practice.
The New York Times reported Thursday that on July 1, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to lift a fracking moratorium, which former Gov. David Patterson issued in an executive order last December amid concerns that the use of a high-pressure mixture of chemicals and water used to tap the rock could lead to groundwater contamination. While it was described in press accounts as Cuomo "lifting" the ban, he's actually just letting the ban expire; it was temporary anyway, and was put in place while the state awaited the results of an environmental review, as ProPublica explains.
The state's Department of Environmental Conservation intends to issue a draft environmental review with recommendations on how to proceed to the governor on Friday. In its press release, the DEC indicated that it will recommend that high-volume fracking be banned in the New York City and Syracuse watersheds, within primary aquifers and 500 feet of their boundaries, and on state-owned land—which still leaves about 85 percent of the state's land open to fracking. There will be a 60-day public comment period beginning in August, so it will be months before fracking could actually proceed in the state.
Environmental groups aren't likely to take kindly to the proposed rules, as it still leaves much of the Marcellus Shale open for fracking. "It seems like there's an attempt to carve up the state, sparing certain places while turning others into sacrifice zone," said Claire Sandberg, executive director of Frack Action in New Paltz, NY. "We want to see a full and permanent state-wide ban."
New York, which sits on a significant portion of the Marcellus Shale, has been ground zero for debates over fracking. New Jersey, though, hasn't seen the rush to development. A portion of the northwestern part of the state lies on the Utica Shale, which is deeper than the Marcellus and not a target for natural gas developers at this point (though it could possibly be of interest in the future). This makes Wednesday's vote in New Jersey largely a symbolic move, but its sponsors hope it resonates in neighboring states. "We want to send a strong message that we don't want to poison our drinking water," said Assemblywoman Connie Wagner (D), who sponsored the bill in the Assembly.
The bill passed by large margins in both chambers: 32-1 in the Senate and 56-11 in the Assembly. It also had pretty strong support accross party lines. "It's a terrible practice, which has great potential to do irreparable harm to the water supply system," said State Sen. Christopher "Kip" Bateman, a Republican who cosponsored the measure. "It's a practice that should be outright banned nationwide."
Bateman couldn't say whether Gov. Christie is going to sign the bill into law. If he does, New Jersey would become the first state in the country to formally ban the practice. "If he's smart he'll sign it," said Bateman.
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In this episode, Soundcheck revisits two jazz-leaning segments. The first, an interview with legendary soul jazz organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, who, at 70, recently launched his own label and released a new live album, The Healer.
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la la la la stormy rainy night in the grim part of town la la la la
(forgot my words, vaguely remember: Wheel Rolling Down and Cigar...)
The rain fell hard upon Goodwin's fedora.
His eyes shifted constantly towards the road ahead of him like a seagull eyeing up a young boy's ice-cream. So many years of work had led to this moment. So many months of sifting through the thousands of police records, so many long nights of trailing dimwitted wannabe gangsters, so many wasted interviews for the sake of the most minor insight into this man's whereabouts.
Even then this old-time detective couldn't shift his doubts. Everyone had told him to drop the case, warning him that it was an eccentric pursuit. People had been whispering behind his back that he'd finally lost it. That there was no man capable of what Goodwin suspected the mysterious "D" was responsible for. But he wouldn't let it go. He couldn't.
Every case Goodwin had ever had seemed to link to this mysterious man. Screw it. Every case he'd ever seen had some kind of connection to this elusive figure! Sometimes it would be a slight slip of the tongue referring to "D-man" or "Mr D" but more often than not, it was that blurred figure lingering in the background of oh so many police photographs. Watching over a poker game before things turned ugly. Lingering and watching from afar on the CCTV footage as a poor girl gets dragged into a alleyway by the monstrosities of humanity. Never changing. Always the same relaxed stance with one hand holding a cigar to his out-of-focus mouth. He had something to do with them all. Every single one. He must have.
This man was the big cheese. Tonight Goodwin may just meet the man. He was slightly conflicted about such a thought…
This was it, the bar that the slime ball he'd interrogated last night mentioned. The only place to ever recur in their tall tales. "Stinky Pete's…what a name" he thought, though it really did smell. It's smell seemed to be a perfect summary of the place as a whole. The door seemed to have been broken-into to the extent that it could never truly be shut, and beyond it was a rickety staircase leading to another door in perhaps worse condition. Above the outer door was a flickering green and pink neon sign portraying who Goodwin assumed to be "Pete" grinning with a half-full set of teeth whilst visible gasps of foul air wafted around him in a vivid green. It became apparent that Pete, truly did stink.
He was almost too distracted by the in-every-way crude front of the bar to notice the soft crunching of the ghostly car's wheel against the sodden tarmac that drifted towards him and the entrance to Stinky Pete's. The car was a jet black Cadillac Eldorado which blossomed pink and green shimmering flowers on it's bonnet as it drew nearer to the influence of the uninviting sign. Goodwin's gut clenched as he felt that this could very well be the moment he'd been waiting for, he had to play this right.
The black tinted window rolled down, sucking away the enchanting neon reflections and revealing a harsh nothingness. Abruptly the nothingness struck a match, indicating a likely something-ness. The match was held to a face and lit a cigar, which then pulsated alongside the presumed respiration of it's holder.
"What are you doing out here? This doesn't look like your kind of place buddy." said a weatherbeaten voice from the darkness. The clichés seemed to be coming thick and fast.
"I'm lost i'm afraid, I was trying to get to Mercy Street." his voice faltered only a little, he knew that fear would be expected.
"You don't look lost. You look like you know exactly where you are." Goodwin shuddered, the lack of a face made this meeting far more intimidating than most of his past encounters with over-the-top gangsters. After all, maybe this was the man he had come to meet…"In fact, you look like you've come here with more of a purpose than the every day scum that flock here. In fact, you look like a pig!"
The air tightened around the old detective, he'd been swimming in shark-infested waters without a harpoon. He couldn't afford for things to get dicey. "Fraid not, my father was though. This is his Fedora actually." He tilted the hat off his head, "I really am lost."
A fierce arm shot out of the darkness from the Cadillac and wrenched at the scruff of Goodwin's neck, "I know why you're here detective." growled his captor, spitting Cigar ash into his face, "You think I wouldn't know the man that's been harassing and stalking my guys? Do you think i'm an idiot?" Ash managed to get in the poor man's eyes, causing him to blink uncontrollably, he could barely even focus on hearing the question, let alone answering it. He knew that he'd found who he was looking for, and for some reason wasn't feeling as satisfied about it as he'd expected he would.
"No" he winced.
"Then don't lie to me son! Now get in. We're going for a ride." The hand loosened and from below the window appeared a small silver creature. Had it not been the nose of a handgun it would have perhaps seemed quite endearing.
The door clicked open as the cigar and handgun retreated as the man shifted to the other side of the car. Goodwin obediently sat down in the smoky abyss, trying to find the humour in how warm his captor had left the seat for him. In that moment, without thinking he giggled, then the thought became too much and before he could stop himself he was bursting with laughter in the back of the Cadillac Eldorado.
"What's he laughing at?" Said the man to the driver.
"I dunno boss, maybe he's a crazy." Said the ridiculous and fat sounding chauffeur, spurring Goodwin on like no tomorrow.
"I'll show you what to laugh about!" another small shiny creature appeared from the darkness, this one seemed much flatter and a little less passive than the last, given the persistent stinging and biting that followed.
Goodwin suddenly felt that the moment had slightly lost it's humour and that maybe the creature wasn't ever going to stop, "Please….stop D….D….stop…" he rasped through the pain firing away from his chest and stomach.
"Who the hell's D?" called the driver.
"Fuck do I know?" screamed the man without relenting from the vicious task at hand.
Goodwin's eyes widened as the Cadillac jolted to a stop. The door opened and the driver (who most certainly lived up to his voice) grabbed him gingerly, trying not to get red on his lovely XXL uniform, and dragged him onto the wet pavement.
The wheels screeched as they rolled away from behind him. The rain dripped and dropped around Goodwin's damaged body, soaking into the already drenched coat. He squinted upwards to see a luminous Pete stinking away, unable to bare such a stench of a sight he kept his eyes to the glistening stone slabs between him and the war-scarred entrance to the bar. Relating more to a door than he'd ever previously thought possible. Unexpectedly the entrance swung open, revealing two remarkably polished black shoes calmly moving closer to Goodwin's face, step by step.
About 3 feet closer than Goodwin could handle, the feet stopped. A cigar stub fell to a shallow puddle beside them, splashing water and glimpses of embers. One shoe then lifted and slowly crushed the butt deeper into the ground than it surely deserved. His heart began to fail, perhaps because of his overwhelming empathy for the cigar and it's cruel end, perhaps because most of his blood had upped sticks and left his body, he'd never know. Images had started shimmering now, the two shoes became fidgety black rats. Unable to see more poor creatures get hurt, his eyes looked upwards to see a man lighting another cigar, starting the sadistic ritual all over again.
The shimmering man looked down towards Goodwin, looked him dead in the eye and said, "You shouldn't have tried to find me Goodwin. I knew you wouldn't get along with the people i associate myself with." He drew a long draw of his cigar and the flames danced around his face like demons, "Oh well, too late now I guess."
D picked up the fedora that had rolled a few feet away from Goodwin. "Nice hat." he chuckled as he gave it a shake, placed it on his head and vanished into the hard falling rain.


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Team Management vs. Leadership
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First things first: What does it really mean to direct a work team and how does it differentiate with leadership? John P Kotter explains that leaders are people who do the right things, while the directors/managers are people who do things correctly. This does not mean that one is better than the other; in fact, these two roles are complementary to each other and to operate a team at work to be successful, you need to meet both requirements.
We understand that the basis of leadership is founded on the vision of the future, how to communicate that vision and helping people to understand and achieve. On the other hand, directors are those responsible for making this vision to be implemented effectively and successfully, in other words "create plans" to achieve that. That said we clarify that a leader is not necessarily a manager and not the opposite, but it is possible that they can be.
On one hand, a real manager will provide order, therefore organize and promote compliance with the company's plans, this will do it by making decisions and delegating functions using a formal structure to generate stability and avoid poor performance. A leader will establish a communication process and will push his/her team together utilizing informal relationships to establish bonds, of which will motivate the workers to transmit said energy to the rest of the team.


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Ajax have failed in a bid to sign Chelsea's £9m summer signing Marco van Ginkel on loan.
The Dutch club wanted the Dutch international as a replacement for Christian Eriksen, who is on the verge of joining Tottenham.
Van Ginkel has yet to start a game for Chelsea this season, which has already caused concern in his camp because he is desperate to earn a place in Holland's squad for the World Cup next year.
Mourinho assured the 20-year-old he would play regularly when transfer negotiations took place last month, but he wasn't even in the squad for the goal-less draw against Manchester United on Monday.
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Well, if you have your Bibles, please turn to Romans chapter 5. We're in a series called, "Breaking the Chains of Religion: Experiencing the Joy and Power of Authentic Christian Life, the Authentic Christian Life." And today, I want to speak to you on a subject I've entitled, "The Rest of the Story."
Now it was in 1976 that ABC Radio began broadcasting a program, "The Rest of the Story." I think probably everybody has heard Paul Harvey talk to us about the rest of the story. That program's still going strong. It started in 1976. And what Paul Harvey would do in that program, he would take a familiar story, but he would give us a tidbit, a, a kernel of unknown truth in that story, something that we didn't know about it that really enhanced the story, and it made it so cool and so awesome and so, "Wow, I never knew that." And he always said, "And now you know the rest of the story." Now we just as human beings, we like to know the rest of the story. There's just something about us that we really like that.
Now you guys know that Don our Minister of Music, he has been on vacation. He's going to be back in the office tomorrow, but he's been on vacation for two weeks and been enjoying some good vacation. Now, Sue couldn't get off for two weeks, and so Don had some time where he was just kind of by himself. What am I going to do? Well, he was out running some errands one day, and he saw a sign in front of a house,
and the sign said, "River cruise - $50.00." And Don said, "You know what? I mean something happened." It just jumped into his heart. He said, "I'd like to go on a river cruise. That sounds good. Sue's working. I've got some time today." And so he went to the door. He knocked on the front door. A man opened the door. He said, ah, "Yes, may I help you?" He said, "River cruise. I'm interested in river cruise - $50.00." The guy said, "Yeah, riv ...
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At a meeting of its executive committee May 27 in Tokyo, the JAAF made the decision to eliminate the advantage in Olympic and World Championships marathon team selection given to members of its National Team program. The National Team program was launched last spring and is overseen directly by the JAAF's Development Committee, who at the time of the program's inauguration said that members would receive priority in consideration for the 2016 Rio Olympic team. A year later they have flip-flopped and gone in exactly the opposite direction.
At the meeting the JAAF board discussed the organization of this year's National Team, the members of which have not yet been announced. Criteria such as evaluation of athletes' performances over the last year will not change, but Vice-Chairman of Development Katsumi Sakai stated, "At the point in time when we determine Olympic team membership we will not take into consideration whether candidates are member of the National Team program." Board member Toshihiko Seko, who at an earlier board meeting had said, "It would be strange is someone who ran a solid time was not chosen just because they were not in the National Team program," commented, "I think it's a good change. It will give motivation to young athletes who are not members of the National Team program."
The change will help improve competition for the Olympic team by giving more chance for athletes without proven track records to make it, but the National Team program itself remains vague and ill-defined. Last year team members were announced at the start of the fiscal year at the beginning of April, but at this point in the program's second year the Development Committee is still talking to potential members. Vice-Chairman Sakai has said, "Our goal in Rio is to have our athletes finish among the top places. To that end we will offer support for dealing with hot weather and such." Be that as it may, with the National Team program members' advantage in Olympic and World Championships team selection eliminated it is likely that we will see athletes decline to take part in the program.


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Brevard restaurant to benefit Boys & Girls Club
Falls Landing, at 18 E. Main St., Brevard, is planning an Irish dinner on St. Patrick's Day and will donate the proceeds — expected to be nearly $3,000 — to the Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania County.
Reservations for the event, to be held at 7 p.m. March 17, will be for tables seating two, four or six persons. Per-person tickets are $60. Reservations can be made by calling 828-884-2835.
Nominations open for outstanding public place
The N.C. Chapter of the American Planning Association is accepting nominations for outstanding Main Streets or public places. Online nominations will be accepted through 5 p.m. on March 24. At that point, a panel of expert judges will narrow down the list, with voting taking place April 9–May 9. To get started, log onto www.greatplacesnc.org and look for the People's Choice Award.
Sentinel Patriot Club to meet
The Sentinel Patriot Club will feature Henry Leissing, a constitutional scholar, attorney and author, as the speaker at its upcoming luncheon meeting at 11:30 a.m. March 19 at Bay Breeze Restaurant, 1830 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville. The meetings are free and membership is not required.
For more information, contact Ron Kauffman, co-founder, at 828-696-9799, or visit www.sentinelpatriot.com.
Volunteers needed at Sammy Williams
The Sammy Williams Center, at 301 N. Justice St., Hendersonville, has an immediate need for volunteers to help serve meals from 10:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Call 828-692-3320 if interested.
The Apple Valley Middle School Improvement Team will meet at 3:30 p.m. today in the media center of the school.
The Edneyville Elementary School Improvement Team will meet at 3:45 p.m. today in the media center of the school.
The Glenn C. Marlow Elementary School Improvement Team will meet at 3:30 p.m. today in the media center of the school.
Mills River Town Council will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at Town Hall.
The Rugby Middle School Improvement Team will meet at 3:20 p.m. today in the media center of the school.
The Laurel Park Board of Adjustment will meet at 4 p.m. Thursday at Town Hall.
Laurel Park Town Council will hold an agenda work session at 9 a.m. at Town Hall.
The Upward Elementary School Improvement Team will meet at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the media center of the school.
The Village of Flat Rock will hold a council meeting at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the assembly room.
The Village of Flat Rock will hold a Park Advisory Board meeting at 9 a.m. Thursday in the Highlander Room.
Western Carolina Community Action Inc. will hold a Board of Directors meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Etowah Lions Club.
Applications for the Western North Carolina Quilters' Guild scholarship are due Saturday. High school students in Henderson and Transylvania counties can apply for the $2,000-$5,000/year renewable scholarship. For more information, contact Francia Welker-Tartar at 828-974-2871, firstname.lastname@example.com or Pat Yurk at 828-693-5080, email@example.com.
The Children & Family Resource Center, 851 Case St., Hendersonville, will host a viewing party at 11 a.m. Friday to discuss effective education. Lunch will be provided, RSVP to Jamie Wiener at 828-698-0674.
Hendersonville Kennel Club will hold a dog handling class and dog socialization class at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Salvation Army gym, Corner of Grove Street and 4th Ave. E., Hendersonville. Cost for members $3; nonmembers $5. Bring a chair. For information, contact Victoria Galaspy at 828-290-8223 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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