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Aug 22, 2013
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Nine University of Michigan fall Olympic sports teams are gearing up for the start of the 2013 season, which will kick off on Friday, Aug. 23, when women's soccer hosts UW-Milwaukee at 7:30 p.m. at U-M Soccer Stadium.
Men's soccer (Aug. 30), volleyball (Aug. 30), men's and women's cross country (Aug. 30), field hockey (Aug. 31), men's golf (Sept. 16), women's golf (Sept. 20), women's tennis (Sept. 20) and men's tennis (Sept. 20) will also begin competition throughout the next four weeks.
Below is a breakdown of each fall Olympic sport, including key matchups and season-ticket information. Be sure to follow all our teams on MGoBlue.com, as well as Facebook and Twitter, for up-to-the-minute news and behind-the-scenes photos and videos throughout the season and beyond.
Venue: U-M Soccer Stadium (2,200)
Season Ticket prices (11 matches)
Reserved (chairback) seats: $60
General admission (adults): $40
General admission (youth/seniors): $25
Individual match prices
Reserved (chairback) seats: $8
General admission (adults): $7
General admission (youth/seniors): $5
Marquee home contests
San Diego State (Sept. 1)
Wisconsin (Sept. 27)
Ohio State (Nov. 2)
Twitter: @umichwsoccer
Facebook: Facebook.com/MichiganWSocc
The University of Michigan women's soccer team returns 10 players that started at least 10 matches last season after helping the Wolverines to a top-three finish in the Big Ten Conference and an NCAA Sweet 16 appearance for only the third time in program history. Entering their 20th year as a varsity program, the Wolverines start the season ranked No. 19 in the NSCAA preseason poll and were picked to finish second in the Big Ten. Five All-Big Ten selections from a year ago return, including striker Nkem Ezurike, who enters her senior season needing 10 goals to become the program's all-time leader in the category. She is one of four captains, along with senior midfielder Meghan Toohey, fifth-year senior defender Holly Hein and senior defender Shelina Zadorsky. Sophomore Corinne Harris is also back after making the All-Freshmen Team last season. Michigan opens the season this Friday (Aug. 23) against U-W Milwaukee at the U-M Soccer Stadium, with the match beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Venue: U-M Soccer Stadium (2,200)
Season Ticket prices (10 matches)
Reserved (chairback) seats: $60
General admission (adults): $40
General admission (youth/seniors): $25
Individual match prices
Reserved (chairback) seats: $8
General admission (adults): $7
General admission (youth/seniors): $5|
Marquee home contests
South Florida (Sept. 13)
Creighton (Oct. 15)
Indiana (Oct. 26)
Akron (Oct. 30)
Twitter: @umichsoccer
Facebook: Facebook.com/MichiganSoccer
U-M returns a little more than 75 percent of its scoring output from a year ago, including its top four goal scorers. Last fall, Chaka Daley led the Wolverines to a six-win turnaround with an 11-10-1 overall record, a berth in the Big Ten championship game and an NCAA Tournament victory. The squad returns 2012 All-Big Ten first team midfielder Tyler Arnone, All-Big Ten second team goalkeeper Adam Grinwis, All-Big Ten Freshman honoree James Murphy and 2011-12 leading goal scorer Fabio Villas Boas Pereira. In the initial NSCAA Preseason poll, U-M enters just outside the top 25, receiving four votes. U-M welcomes the No. 8 recruiting class in the country according to College Soccer News, as well as the No. 10 recruiting class according to TopDrawerSoccer.com. The class is comprised of nine freshmen and Providence transfer Marcos Ugarte and is led by incoming freshman left back Rylee Woods (No. 26 player in 2013 class by College Soccer News), Brett Nason (No. 47), and Lars Eckenrode (No. 64). The Wolverines open up the 2013 season at home on Friday, Aug. 30, against the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers at 4 p.m. at the U-M Soccer Stadium.
Venue: Cliff Keen Arena (1,800)
Season Ticket prices (15 matches)
Reserved (chairback) seats: $90
General admission (adults): $60
General admission (youth/seniors): $50
Individual match prices
Reserved (chairback) seats: $8
General admission (adults): $7
General admission (youth/seniors): $5
Marquee home contests
Oregon (Sept. 7)
Nebraska (Oct. 11)
Penn State (Nov. 1)
Twitter: @umichvball
Facebook: Facebook.com/MichiganVolleyball
The University of Michigan volleyball team returns 13 letterwinners and five starters, plus the libero, from last year's team that went 27-12 and advanced to the NCAA national semifinals for the first time in program history. The Wolverines earned program highs in preseason rankings by both the AVCA (7th) and the Big Ten Preseason Coaches' poll (3rd). Seniors Jennifer Cross and Lexi Erwin return after earning All-America third team and honorable mention recognition, respectively, by the AVCA, and junior Lexi Dannemiller was named to the NCAA All-Berkeley Regional team. All three players also earned Preseason All-Big Ten honors on Aug. 16. The Maize and Blue opens its 2013 season on Friday, Aug. 30, against Clemson at the Xavier Invitational in Cincinnati, Ohio. The first home match for U-M is on Friday, Sept. 6, against Oregon State, with a 7 p.m. start at Cliff Keen Arena.
Admission: Free
Marquee home event
Michigan Open (Aug. 30)
Twitter: @umichtrack
Facebook: Facebook.com/MichiganMensTrack
The University of Michigan men's cross country team returns 14 harriers from its 2012 squad that finished second in the Big Ten and at the Great Lakes Regional Championships and qualified for the NCAA Championships for the second straight year. Head coach Alex Gibby is in his fourth year at the helm of the program, which will be led this season by seniors Mark Beams and Morsi Rayyan, both All-Big Ten second team honorees, as well as sophomore Tony Smoragiewicz, who was a member of the NCAA Championships squad as a freshman. The Wolverines will kick off their 2013 season when they host the Michigan Open at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 30, at Hudson Mills Metropark in Dexter. Purdue will join Michigan in the non-scoring 5K race, making it the first time U-M will face an opponent at the Michigan Open since 2010 when Eastern Michigan also competed in the meet. Admission to Hudson Mills Metropark is $5.
Admission: Free
Marquee home event
Michigan Open (Aug. 30)
Twitter: @umichtrack
Facebook: Facebook.com/MichiganWomensTrack
The University of Michigan women's cross country team returns 17 runners, including five from its 2012 Big Ten Championships squad. The Wolverines are also coming off their second straight Great Lakes Regional title and a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships -- their highest finish since 2006. Michigan will be led by 22nd-year head coach Mike McGuire, who earned his ninth Big Ten Coach of the Year honor in 2012. On the course, 2012 Big Ten Freshman of the Year Shannon Osika, All-Big Ten second team member Taylor Pogue and all-region honoree Brook Handler will spearhead U-M's efforts. The Wolverines will begin the 2013 season when they host the Michigan Open at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 30, at Hudson Mills Metropark in Dexter. Purdue will join Michigan in the non-scoring 5K race, making it the first time U-M will face an opponent at the Michigan Open since 2009 and 2010 when Eastern Michigan also competed in the event. Admission to Hudson Mills Metropark is $5.
Venue: Phyllis Ocker Field (500)
Admission: Free
Marquee home contests
Louisville (Sept. 14)
Iowa (Oct. 5)
Penn State (Nov. 1)
Indiana (Nov. 3)
Twitter: @umichfldhockey
Facebook: Facebook.com/MichiganFieldHockey
The University of Michigan field hockey team returns 15 letterwinners, including eight starters, from last year's team that posted a 15-7 record, winning eight of its last 10 games to advance to the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive season. After carrying a roster of 11 true freshmen and just one senior a year ago, the Wolverines will have a more balanced lineup in 2013 with four seniors, five juniors and a grad-student transfer to provide leadership. Senior Rachael Mack will seek both her fourth All-America honor and Michigan's career goals record in her final collegiate season, while fifth-year senior goalkeeper Haley Jones, senior/junior Leslie Smith and sophomore Lauren Thomas look to repeat as All-Big Ten honorees. Mack and Thomas were named to the conference's 2013 Players to Watch List, as was senior/junior Ainsley McCallister, a 2012 redshirt who helped Team USA place seventh at the Junior World Cup this summer. The Wolverines kick off their 2013 season with back-to-back road trips, squaring off against Massachusetts in their opener on Saturday, Aug. 31, in Orono, Maine. The first home match for U-M is at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 4, against Louisville at Ocker Field.
Venue: Varsity Tennis Center
Individual match prices: Free|
Marquee home events
Wolverine Invitational (Sept. 20-22)
ITA Midwest Regional Championships (Oct. 10-15)
Twitter: @umichtennis
Facebook: Facebook.com/UofMTennis
The University of Michigan women's tennis team hosts two tournaments in the fall, the Wolverine Invitational (Sept. 20-22) and the ITA Midwest Regional Championships (Oct. 10-15) at the Varsity Tennis Center. U-M returns six letterwinners from a 2012-13 team that went 23-5 and won its fourth straight Big Ten championship. Highlighting the returners is the All-America doubles pair of senior Brooke Bolender and junior Emina Bektas, who finished last year ranked No. 4. The fall season will be key for Michigan as the Wolverines look for the right lineup heading into the dual-match season in January. Admission for all women's tennis events is free.
Venue: Varsity Tennis Center
Individual match prices: Free
Marquee home matches
Texas (Feb. 7)
Duke (Feb. 9)
Vanderbilt (Feb. 23)
Twitter: @umichtennis
Facebook: Facebook.com/MichiganTennis
The University of Michigan men's tennis team returns seven letterwinners from last year's team that finished with a 16-10 record, including a 9-2 mark in Big Ten play, and advanced to the Big Ten Tournament championship match for the first time in program history. The Wolverines -- fresh off their eighth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament under the guidance of head coach Bruce Berque -- kick off the fall individual season on Sept. 20 in Charlottesville, Va., with the UVA Ranked +1 Invitational -- the first of several tournaments in which members of the Wolverines will participate before the New Year. U-M opens its 2014 dual-match season on Saturday, Jan. 18, with a day-night doubleheader against Western Michigan (9 a.m.) and Toledo (7 p.m.). In total, the Wolverines will square off against 14 teams that qualified for the postseason last year, including seven teams that finished in the top 25 of the final ITA rankings.
Venue: U-M Golf Course
Tournament pricing: Free
Twitter: @umichgolf
Facebook: www.facebook.com/michiganwomensgolf
With the beginning of the Jan Dowling era, the University of Michigan women's golf team returns a roster backed by four seniors -- Alyssa Shimel, Yugene Lee, Chelsea Pezzola and Alicia Weber -- as well as juniors Lauren Grogan and Devon Compton. Sophomores Catherine Peters and Ella Pendy join incoming freshman Grace Choi as underclassmen. U-M will compete in nine regular-season tournaments -- four fall and five spring events -- followed by the postseason beginning in French Lick, Ind., for the 2014 Big Ten Championships at the French Lick Resorts Pete Dye Course. Overall, five of U-M's nine slated events are return visits from a season ago.
Venue: U-M Golf Course
Tournament pricing: Free
Marquee home event
Wolverine Intercollegiate (Sept. 16-17)
Twitter: @umichgolf
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MichiganGolf
In Chris Whitten's third year at the helm of the University of Michigan men's golf team, he will carry a roster with no seniors and just one junior -- Noori Hyun, who has started 18 of 19 career events. Sophomores Chris O'Neill and Brett McIntosh led U-M last season, starting all 12 tournaments. Joining them will be classmate Andrew Yeager and a highly regarded freshmen class of Tom Swanson, Bryce Evon and Reed Hrynewich. Highlighting the fall will be U-M's only home event of the season -- the Wolverine Intercollegiate, set for Sept. 16-17 at the U-M Golf Course. The 54-hole tournament will be played over a two-day span and feature an 11-team field.


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'McKee isn't an all-star. He has little offensive ability and was plagued by injuries before the lockout allowed him to heal up. He IS sound defensively, but $16 million seems like a rich investment at a position already featuring Barrett Jackman, Eric Brewer, Christian Backman, Dennis Wideman, Bryce Salvador, Matt Walker and No. 1 overall pick Erik Johnson.'
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One of the scariest things in horse racing is when a thoroughbred breaks loose and runs wild. It happened at Belmont Park yesterday, and ended with a horse named City On Line being euthanized after he crashed into the track's famous statue of Secretariat.
As the 4-year-old colt was heading from the paddock to the track, it reared up and tossed jockey Jose Lezcano out of the saddle, according to the New York Daily News. Then it made a U-turn and darted back into the paddock, where the statue stands.
The horse attempted to stop, and left skid marks on the pavement around the statue, but slammed into the base of the monument and caused it to topple.
City On Line couldn't get back on its feet, and was euthanized.
The Daily News says the statue is wrecked. It was placed at Belmont to commemorate Secretariat's Triple Crown-clinching victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes, when he won by 31 lengths in world-record time.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.


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This is a very simple LED dimmer circuit which has 2 transistors, 1 resistor and 2 potentiometers. Typical segment displays LEDs consume around 25 mA for each segment and should be limited to this value by using resistors. If a six digit display is to be current limited, at least 42 series resistors are needed. To counter the above described problems, this led dimmer project allows you to do the adjustment of the LED display's brightness using just a few components.
The series resistors are not needed anymore for the segment display which simplifies the pcb design and contruction. The circuit is simply a voltage regulator with variable voltage output.
The brightness of the LEDs are dependent on the output voltage. Since the voltage regulator is variable, the brightness of the LEDs is also variable. Potentiometer P1 is used for rough adjustment while P2 is used to trim the brightness in finer resolution. The output of the regulator circuit can be varied from 0 to 4.3 volts.
Before tuning the circuit, set the pot to zero point, then slowly adjust the pots until the desired brightness is achieved. In a typical six segment disply, the maximum current must not exceed 1 ampere. For example: if one segment consumes 25 mA each, then 7 segments of a six digit display will consume around 1050 mA. That is a bit more than 1 ampere! The transistor T1 must be heatsinked because high current consumption will produce a lot of dissipated heat.
Printed circuit layout for the LED dimmer
Parts placement layout for the LED dimmer


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Glee returned last night for its fourth season premiere! We missed watching Lea Michele's Rachel Berry stomp around McKinley High, though we did enjoy seeing her brand new NYATA wardrobe, including leotards for dance classes with Kate Hudson's Cassandra July and pencil skirts by Milly. Meanwhile, down in Lima, we're happy to report that the rising seniors are ready to fill Rachel's Mary Janes, none more than Blaine (Darren Criss), who took the lead with this effervescent rendition of Imagine Dragons's "It's Time" (watch it above!). In true Blaine form, Criss sings, dances, and works one of his trademark vests on the high school's back stairwell, all to say a sweet "goodbye" to his boyfriend, Kurt (Chris Colfer), who (spoiler alert!) made his way to New York by the end of the show. Tell us: Did you love last night's premiere? And what do you think of Rachel's new style?
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Shamas stands in the open door and watches the earth, the magnet that it is, pulling snowflakes out of the sky towards itself. With their deliberate, almost-impaired pace, they fall like feathers sinking in water. The snowstorm has rinsed the air of the incense that drifts into the houses from the nearby lake with the xylophone jetty, but it is there even when absent, drawing attention to its own disappearance.
This is the first snow of the season and the neighbourhood's children will be on the slopes all day today, burning candles to heat the runners of toboggans to make them slip with increased fluency, daring each other to lick the frozen spikes of the railings around the church and those around the mosque, smuggling cheese-graters out of the kitchens to refine the symmetry of the snowmen they will build, oblivious to the cold because everything is a sublime adventure at that age; an oyster tolerates the pearl embedded in its flesh, and so the pebbles on the lake shore don't seem to pain the soles of the children's bare feet.
An icicle breaks off from above and drops like a radiant dagger towards Shamas, shattering on the stone step he is standing on, turning into white powder the way a crystal of sugar loses its transparency when crushed. With a movement of his foot, Shamas sends this temporary debris into the snow-covered front garden where in May and June there will be rosebuds the size and solidity of strawberries, into the corner where one of his children had buried a dead finch many years ago, not allowing anyone to set foot on that spot afterwards lest the delicate bones crack under the weight, the tiny skull as fragile as the eggshell within which it had formed the previous spring.
The house is on a street that runs along the base of a hill. This street is linked by a side-street to a shelf-like road higher up the hill and, in late summer, when the abundant dropped fruit of the wild cherry trees gets trodden on, the footpaths up there are stained with red and dark-blue smears.Continue reading the main story
In the mornings the adolescents from down here can be seen keeping an eye on the elevated road for the bus that takes them to school, eating breakfast on the doorstep if the parents and the weather permit it, racing up the side-street when they glimpse the vanilla-and-green vehicle coming between the cherry trees-up there between the gaps in the trunks where a small figure is walking through the snow now. Fishing for carp one night, Shamas's younger son had catapulted into the lake a mass of flowers from those trees, hoping they would prove an alternative to the expensive hyacinths which drew the fish to the surface within moments, but the cherry blossom was a failure, as were the dandelions that lit up the dark water the following night with a hundred vivid suns; perfume was the key and only the clusters of lilac were a success but their season was soon gone.
According to the children, the lake-as dazzling as a mirror and shaped like the letter X-was created in the early days of the earth when a towering giant fell out of the sky; and he is still there, still alive, the regular ebb and flow of the tides being the gentle rhythm of his heart still beating, the crashing waves of October his convulsive attempts to free himself. Just inside the water's margin the stones are covered in tufts of wet moss, bringing to mind the broken pulp of a squeezed lemon, and to stand up to the waist in the calm summer water is to become two-headed like the jacks and queens on playing cards, right side up either way. On the shore the winds rush from every direction during the winter months to twist themselves around the body like a sari, and he remembers one of his children saying that his biology teacher dispatched a pair of boys with cellophane bags to the lake whenever she needed a frog for dissection. Very occasionally in the past, the lake has frozen over and then the children have walked on it, "pretending to be Jesus."
Even though it is not yet daybreak, the dawn-like translucence of the fallen snow enables him to see clearly the person walking on the road up there, and he decides that it is someone on his way to the mosque for the day's first prayer.
Or it could be Queen Elizabeth II. Shamas smiles, in spite of himself. Once, marvelling at the prosperity of England, a visitor from Pakistan had remarked that it was almost as though the Queen disguised herself every night and went out into the streets of her country to find out personally what her subjects most needed and desired in life, so she could arrange for their wishes to come true the next day; it was what the caliph Harun al-Rashid was said to have done according to the tales of the Thousand and One Nights, with the result that his perfumed Baghdad became the most easeful and prosperous place imaginable.
Perspective tricks the eyes and makes the snowflakes falling in the far distance appear as though they are falling slower than those nearby, and he stands in the open door with an arm stretched out to receive the small light pieces on his hand. A habit as old as his arrival in this country; he has always greeted the season's first snow in this manner, the flakes losing their whiteness on the palm of his hand to become clear wafers of ice before melting to water-crystals of snow transformed into a monsoon raindrop. Among the innumerable other losses, to come to England was to lose a season, because, in the part of Pakistan that he is from, there are five seasons in a year, not four, the schoolchildren learning their names and sequence through classroom chants: Mausam-e-Sarma, Bahar, Mausam-e-Garma, Barsat, Khizan. Winter, Spring, Summer, Monsoon, Autumn.
The snow falls and, yes, the hand stretched into the flakes' path is a hand asking back a season now lost.
The person on the hill is indeed a woman and, whoever she is, she has left the high shelf of the road and is coming down the side-street towards him, one arm carrying an umbrella, the other steadying her descent by holding on to the field maples growing at regular intervals along the edges of the inclining street. With that umbrella she is a riddle personified: the solution being a foetus attached to a placenta by the umbilical cord. She would soon be near and would no doubt consider him lacking good judgement: a man of almost sixty-five years standing here with his hand thrust into the path of the snow-and so he withdraws into the house.
The front door opens directly into the kitchen. One blue, one strawberry pink, one the yellow of certain Leningrad exteriors: these were the colours of the three rooms in the olive-green house in Sohni Dharti-the small place in Pakistan where he was born and had lived permanently until his mid-twenties-and a few years ago, by mixing ground-up chalk and rabbit-skin glue with the appropriate pigments, he had painted the rooms in this house with those three colours, surprising himself by reproducing the three shades precisely. It's almost as though when he stood facing a corner as a child during a game of hide-and-seek, it was for the sole purpose of committing its colour to memory, to be able to conjure it up in the years of exile and banishment.
During the school holidays he would approach the bookcase in the pink room and stand before it, his hand alighting on this or that volume with the arbitrariness of a moth, half deciding on something before sliding it back in place and moving on, as though experimenting with the keys of a piano, all briefly opened books eager to engage his eye, each flickeringly glimpsed paragraph enticing him hurriedly with its secret, and having made his choice he would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for the fear that his undisturbed shadow would leave a stain on the wall.
There is someone at the door. Three informal taps are given on the glass panel instead of the doorbell being pressed, the bell that has a little amber light burning in it, the moths dancing around it all through the summer nights. As though he has sucked too hard through a paper straw and flattened it shut, he inhales but cannot find his breath, his chest solidifying into heavy stone, in terror. Who could it be? However enriched with light this hour is-this pause between night and day-it is still too early for a call not to be out of the ordinary. But he is aware that he would have reacted similarly had it been the middle of the day, imprisoned as he has been in a shadowy area between sleep and waking for almost five months-ever since his younger brother, Jugnu, and his girlfriend, Chanda, vanished from their house next door.
Almost five months of not knowing when time would stir again and in which direction it would move, tip him into darkness or deliver him into light.
He doesn't know what to do about the knock.
There it is again, the knock, the sound of finger-bone on glass, louder this time, but he is in a paralysed trance, his skull full of moths. Garden Tiger. Cinnabar. Early Thorn. Nail Mark. He loves the names of moths that Jugnu taught him. Ghost Moth.
The sound of the doorbell runs through him like an electric current, jolting him out of his funk.
"I am sorry to trouble you this early, Shamas ... Good morning. But my father has had to spend the entire night on the floor because I can't lift him back into his bed." It is Kiran-a ray of light. "Could you please come with me for a few minutes, please." She indicates the direction of her house with a turn of her head-up the sloping side-street with its twenty maples, and then along the high road with the cherry trees where he had seen her earlier without recognizing her.
He opens the door wider for her to step inside, handfuls of snow on a gust of wind rushing in inquisitively either side of her and then past him into the house, sticking softly to the linoleum in whose pattern of ivory-and-green roses a peeled almond is hard to find once it has slipped out of the fingers, or out of which, as though one of the green roses has shed a petal, a mint or coriander leaf curling at the edges strangely appears when the floor is swept at the end of the day, having lain undetected against the pattern since lunch.
"You should have telephoned, Kiran."
She doesn't enter the house-uneasy no doubt about encountering Shamas's wife, Kaukab. Kiran is a Sikh and had three decades ago wanted to marry Kaukab's brother, a Muslim. The two were in love. He was a migrant worker here in England, and when during a visit to Pakistan he told his family of his intentions of marrying Kiran, they were appalled and refused to allow him to return to England. Kiran boarded a plane in London and arrived at Karachi airport to be with him, but her telegram had been intercepted by the young man's older brother who was waiting at the airport to tell her to take the next flight back to England, any reunion-or union-between his brother and her an impossibility. A marriage was hastily arranged for him within the next few days.
Shamas asks her to step in now. "Come in out of the rain, I mean, snow, while I put on my Wellingtons. Kaukab is still in bed." This is a narrow house where all the doors disappear into the walls, except for the two that give on to the outside world at the front and back, and he slides open the space under the stairs to look for the shoes, stored somewhere here amid all the clutter at the end of last winter. There are fishing rods leaning like stick-insects in the corner. Soft cages for her feet, there is a pair of jellied sandals that had belonged to his daughter, lying one in front of the other as though he has surprised them in the act of taking a step, the straps spiralling like apple peel.
"I apologize again for having troubled you so early. I was hoping one of your sons would be visiting, and I would bring him with me."
"All three children are far away, the boys and the girl," he says as he rummages. There is a lobster buoy from Maine, USA, that is used as a doorstopper at the back of the house on hot mornings, to let in the sun and the trickling song of the stream which runs beside the narrow lane there; the stream that is more stones than water as the summer advances but a great catcher of pollen nevertheless, the stones white as chalk in the sun, black underwater. During autumn the speed of the water is so great that you fear your foot would be instantly sliced off at the ankle if you stepped into it.
Outside, as he walks behind Kiran in that below-zero monsoon, there are gentle skirmishes between the falling snowflakes now that the wind has risen a little.
Two sets of Kiran's footprints lie before him as he follows her to her house. Each perfect cylinder punched into the deep snow has at its base a thin sheet of packed ice through which the dry leaves of the field maples can be seen as though sealed behind glass. They are as intricate as the gold jewellery from the Subcontinent-treasures buried under the snow till a rainy day.
Planted between two field maples on the slope, the telephone pole has had several of its wires broken during the night, and, encased in thick cylinders of ice, they lie snapped like candles in the snow. The chilled air is as keen as a needle on the skin and the incline is forcing him to take a hummingbird's 300 breaths per minute. A frozen buried clump of grass breaks under his weight and the cracking sound is the sound that Kaukab produces when she halves and quarters cinnamon sticks in the kitchen. . . .Continue reading the main story


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Yesterday mommy did bring home a kitten. I really did not like that too much. She kind of stunk, she is pretty though. I went outside as soon as I could because Abbie and Tobey kept barking at her. That was driving me nuts.
My new sister's name is Cammi Isabell, daddy calls her Rouger though! He is nuts! Mommy is not for sure if she is using the litter box or not. Last night Cammi pooped on a magazine(mommy put her in the litter box as soon as she got in the door) mommy put the poop in her litter box. Mommy said that when she came home a minute ago she smelled poop in the utility room, like she had used it, but she is wondering if she did. She does not know what to do to get Cammi to use it if she is not yet!
Well, I am going to go back outside...bye for now
This morning when daddy left at 5 o'clock for work I decided that I was going to go ahead and go outside. Well, it was really cold and still is. I decided that I am going to stay outside today because it is going to get warmer and I have to know what is going on. Anyway I am kind of depressed.
Mommy told me this morning that she is thinking about adopting a kitten. My first thought was oh NO. But she told me that our animal shelter is really full right now with kittens and they are going to start "getting rid of them" if no one adopts some. So even though daddy will be mad at her she is going to adopt one. Mommy has a soft heart and if she thinks she can help an animal she does not care who gets mad at her. Daddy never stays mad at her long though, he really does love her. Even I can see that! Well I just hope she gets a cute one.
This is all I am going to write right now. Mommy is getting ready to leave and I want to go outside before she leaves and traps me in here. Bye bye
I first laid eyes on my mom when my siblings and I were playing on her rabbit cage on a sunny October afternoon. She seemed nice enough but I, as were my sibling, were very afraid of humans. I soon learned to like her though because every morning and evening she put food out for us to eat on her back steps. So we soon let her get a little closer to us. One day terror struck our world, the other humans took us to a new home and we did not know what to do. Soon we were old enough to venture out on our own. And so on October 18, 2003 I wound up on mommy's door step.
It was cold that night that I showed up on their door step. I remember I was real hungry and after a brief chase she brought me in. I gobbled that warm milk right up. It felt so nice to be warm. The first few days I was real weary of mommy and daddy but I soon came out of that when I discovered that they were the ones that fed me! We soon became the best of buds. I slept in a basket of blankets those first few nights...then it was in to mom and dad's bed.
Over the next few weeks I received toys, a collar, a vet. visit, flea medicine, and food of course. They decided that at 6 months I was to be spayed and declawed for my own safety.(with the declawing part) They had Buster when I first arrived. They said that they had gottne him in July 2003, he was my first real friend. He liked play too rough and when they got my sister Abbie in March 2004, he taught her to play to rough with kittens also. In June 2004, Buster was given to granny Patty to be a kind of watch dog. And so it was Abbie and I. Around this time is when I really started going outside a lot. I would go out when mommy and daddy left for work and would not come back in until they got him that night. This was only so I would have a soft place to sleep.
Abbie and I were the only ones inside until mommy and daddy decided to get another pug, a boy this time. So they got Tobey Joe in September. He is kind of cute but the same thing happened as it did when Abbie came along. Abbie taught Tobey Joe to be too rough with kittens just as Buster had taught her. And the cycle continued!
As of right now it is getting cold so I have been going outside during the day and then coming inside at night. It is really cold if I stay out there. Well until next time.
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As states continue developing ways to get kids outside, the North American Association for Environmental Education has created a document entitled "Developing a State Environmental Literacy Plan". This will help facilitate the creation of established state plans. You can view and download the publication (Adobe pdf).
While the NCLI Coalition is focused on federal policy, many of our affiliated members are working hard in state capitals around the country to encourage state leaders to improve environmental education offerings. A key focus in several states is enactment of state "environmental literacy" plans. Such a plan, developed locally, spells out how a state will deliver high-quality instruction to ensure that students have a basic understanding of their natural world. Such plans vary from state to state, but policy experts have concluded that a well crafted state environmental literacy plan will ensure that:


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How Design Thinking Can Guide Startups Better [PSFK SEATTLE]
Seattle-based Artefact is a design consultancy that creates next-generation products and user experiences
Building up to our PSFK SEATTLE event on May 10th, we're interviewing the creators and thought leaders who will be sharing their latest ideas with us. As a co-founder and principal of Artefact, Rob Girling is responsible for setting the company's strategy and vision–to design exciting products and experiences that inspire positive changes in human behavior. Rob's design career spans some of the leading agencies and design brands in the world, including Apple, IDEO, Microsoft, and Sony, and touches everything from interaction design experience, to natural user interfaces, motion graphics and 3-D design.
Why did you decide to start Artefact?
We started Artefact six years ago with the modest goal to create a world class, technology product design company. We knew there was very few companies out there who are simulteaneously great creative technologists AND great designers, and who have a strong point of view about what makes products great. We hope that our work has a long lasting positive impact not only to our clients' business and our profit margins, but to society as well.
How do you motivate positive change through design?
Advances in behavioral economics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology have grown tremendously in the past few decades and has provided us with some better insights into human cognitive bias. Understanding these biases as designers we can nudge behavior towards better outcomes (for the individual user). We have to remember that with knowledge comes responsibility—the question we face is less about how we design things, and more about why we do it and what the desired and undesirable outcomes will be.
What role does the A3 Incubation Engine play at Artefact?
We spend about 20% of Artefact's bandwidth a year doing internal incubation projects that reflect our passions. Most of these efforts result in prize winning competition entries and client conversation starters (SWYP, WVIL). A few of these efforts present compelling enough ideas that we take them forward and explore business partnerships, and IP development. In one case we have taken an idea all the way to market, launching a new tech startup company (10000ft.com). We are in the process of figuring out how to do more of this kind of thing in the future, and actively have several concepts bubbling away including things like Civic IQ.
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How do you define the boundary between technology and design?
We are in an 'innovation' age where deciding what to build is considerably harder than building most things. Design thinking allows us to solve challenging problems in the world, and technology is the medium we use to accomplish that.
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Rhetoric & Philosophy of Technology Emphasis Area
The Rhetoric & Philosophy of Technology emphasis (30 credits) focuses on the ethical engagement of technology in personal and professional life. Rhetoric & Philosophy of Technology works out of the media ecology tradition to explore ideas and issues that have a profound impact on communication and culture - some obvious and less obvious, but all vital to human life, liberty, and responsibility. Media ecology, as defined by Neil Postman, includes examination of the role of various communication media and how they have impacted human communication, perception, and experience.
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Is This Machine Due?
Telling when a machine is ŌĆ£due to hitŌĆØ is the Holy Grail of the slot world
By Frank Legato
ItŌĆÖs one of the most-asked questions among slot players: Which machines are due to hit? Or, how do I tell when a machine is due? Or, which machines are the best to play, right now?
These are not only among the most-often questions asked in letters to this and other player magazines; they are questions asked at casinos across the country, to slot attendants and floor managers: ŌĆ£Where are the hot machines?ŌĆØ
Despite all that has been written about the workings of the modern slot machine, there is still a prevailing notion among players that these questions can be answeredŌĆöthat attendants can give you a hot tip on a machine thatŌĆÖs about to hit; that some outward signs visible on a slot game can show that a machine is close to a jackpot.
Helping this notion is the wealth of ŌĆ£slot systemŌĆØ trash available on the Internet and elsewhere, offering ŌĆ£visual cluesŌĆØ to when a game is ŌĆ£about to hit.ŌĆØ
The Internet ŌĆ£systemsŌĆØ are all scams, and the notions about machines being ŌĆ£dueŌĆØ are misguided. The reason is that a slot machineŌĆÖs computer is constantly selecting new resultsŌĆöresults that have nothing to do with what the machine did three spins ago, four hours ago, for the past week or for the past year.
It all comes down to our old friend: the random number generator. A slot machineŌĆÖs computer contains what is basically a digital duplication of physical reels. Before the early 1980s, the probability of hitting jackpots, and their likelihood on any give spin, was tied to how many symbols and blanksŌĆöknown as ŌĆ£stopsŌĆØŌĆöwere on each physical reel. The old electro-mechanical slots had 22 stops on each reel. By logging the symbols that landed on each reel, it was possible to perform calculations that would give you the odds of a jackpot landing on a given spin.
That all changed, however, with computerization of the process. For casinos, the problem with physical stops was that the odds of hitting the top jackpot could only be as long as the number of stops on each reel would allow. The use of a random number generator allows ŌĆ£virtualŌĆØ reelsŌĆöa computer simulation of reels containing as many symbols as the programmer desires. Numbers in the program represent each stop on each reel. If the programmer wants a low-paying or non-paying symbolŌĆösay, a blankŌĆöto appear more often, it is duplicated in the program so the random number generator selects it more often.
Thus, instead of 22 stops per reel, you may have 60 stops, hundreds of stopsŌĆöas many as the programmer wishes, while staying within the odds limits set by the state. This is why odds can no longer be calculated through a formula involving the number of symbols on physical reels. The 22 symbols visible to the player no longer represent the slot machineŌĆÖs probabilities. They display the symbols that can lead to combinations, but there is no way for the player to know how many numbers correspond to those symbols. The more of them the computer considers there to be on a reel, the more likely it will be selected by the RNG.
The All-Important RNG
The random number generator in a slot machine is just what the name indicatesŌĆöit is a software program that generates numbers at random, from the list of numbers entered to represent each reel stop. The RNG generates more than a hundred sets of numbers every second, and it generates them continuously, even when the slot machine is idle. This is why each result is independent of every other result on a slot machine. The random generation of numbers is continuous, and no one sitting at a machine can predict which of the numbers the RNG will have generated at the instant you push the spin button.
When you push the spin button, the computer takes a snapshot of the numbers generated that instant by the RNG, and translates it into a reel result. An instant before you push the button, the RNG is generating an entirely different set of numbers; an instant later, yet another set. No one looking at the slot machine can predict the number it will choose next.
This is why a slot machine can never be said to be ŌĆ£dueŌĆØ to hit a jackpot. It is also why those systems you find on the Internet will never work.
One system circulating the Internet says that one can watch for ŌĆ£patternsŌĆØ on the reels of a traditional-style slot machines for clues as to when the next spin will be a jackpot, and adjust your bet accordingly. Another actually tells the player to watch the reels on a traditional slot machine for wiggling. Bet a single coin until you see the reels wiggle, then bet the max because the wiggle means a jackpot is coming.
These gimmicks are all nonsense. No ŌĆ£patternŌĆØ formed by symbols in the pay windowŌĆöan ŌĆ£XŌĆØ formed by bar symbols, for instanceŌĆöis indicative of what will come next. And, ŌĆ£wigglingŌĆØ reels may mean that the slot machine is old and in need of repair, but nothing else. The physical reels are only there to do what the computer tells them to do. They are display mechanisms. They do the same thing as a video screenŌĆöcommunicate to the player the result at which the computerŌĆÖs RNG has arrived.
Tips from Attendants
Many players still feel that a slot attendant or other floor person who is in one location all day can tell them which machines are ŌĆ£hotŌĆØŌĆöin other words, which machines are about to pay off. They will throw the employee a tip to identify a hot machine.
It is a waste of money. Even if a certain machine has been paying off all day, this is no indication it will continue to pay off tonight. A slot machineŌĆÖs cycles are not predictable.
The only thing an attendant or floor person can give you is historical information. The sole place this historical information may be useful on a slot floor is a progressive bankŌĆöone that has been in place in the same location for a long time. The useful historical information an employee can give you here is the level at which the progressive jackpot has hit on that game. If it is substantially above that, other players who are familiar with the link will give that bank of slots more play than normalŌĆöthe ŌĆ£jackpot feverŌĆØ phenomenon. Jackpot fever pushes more coins through the game. With more changes for one of those machines to generate the winning combination, it is more likely it will hit.
More likely, but not guaranteed. And that is the vital part of my message: Even if a progressive is higher than ever before, that doesnŌĆÖt necessarily mean itŌĆÖs definitely going to hit soon. It could go higher, and even higherŌĆöand wait until well after your bankroll is gone.
Is This Slot Machine Due.
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Getting Physical: Using OpenStack to Provision and Manage Physical Servers, not just VMs
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text: EXTON, Pa., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ViroPharma Incorporated (Nasdaq: VPHM) today announced that Vincent Milano, president and chief executive officer of ViroPharma, will provide an overview of the company's business, including additional maribavir clinical trial data, during the 31 st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The presentation will be webcast live at 6:30 P.M. ET ( 3:30 P.M. PT) on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 and may be accessed via the company's website at www.viropharma.com. The conference is being held at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. The company expects to release full-year 2012 financial results later in the first quarter of 2013. "2012 represented a new beginning for ViroPharma. We believe our execution and achievements throughout the global organization during the year position the company very well for not only success in 2013, but also provides the opportunity for tremendous growth for our shareholders in the years ahead," stated Milano. "ViroPharma has moved beyond Vancocin ® (vancomycin hydrochloride capsules, USP) and now has a geographically diverse commercial portfolio and a robust, maturing development pipeline. The continued success of Cinryze ® (C1 esterase inhibitor [human]), with unaudited 2012 U.S. net sales of approximately $321 million, driven by over 900 active patients on prophylactic therapy, led the way. The commercial launches of Cinryze, Buccolam ® (midazolam, oromucosal solution) and Plenadren ® (hydrocortisone, modified release tablet) in Europe are also beginning to gain traction, and we believe that these products will ultimately become strong contributors to our overall growth in the years ahead." Milano continued, "As we advance through 2013, we believe that our progress will clearly show ViroPharma to be well along the path that we laid out in our analyst day event this past September. The financial guidance we are providing this morning reflects strong enthusiasm for our products from our patients and their caregivers. We expect 2013 will also be a significant year in the advancement of our development programs. Success in 2013 could position us to be entering into phase 3 development of several products in 2014. As always, our global team embraces the challenges in front of us and is poised to continue executing on our long term plans which are designed to ultimately drive tremendous growth for our shareholders."


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Whole Foods Market Inc. rose Friday after a Morgan Stanley analyst upgraded the stock, citing the specialty grocery chain's potential to significantly grow its footprint over the next several years.
THE SPARK: Analyst Mark Wiltamuth changed his rating to "Overweight" from "Equal Weight," noting that Whole Foods has the potential to grow to as many as 1,300 stores, indicating about 15 more years of growth. The Austin, Texas-based company had 329 stores as of June 30.
Wiltamuth said he expects earnings per share growth of 19 percent through 2015. He said profit margins could also grow as the company leverages its operating scale.
He raised his earnings estimates to $2.51 per share for the current fiscal year, from $2.45, and to $2.97 per share for 2013, up from $2.75.
That compares with an average Wall Street estimate of $2.51 for the current year and $2.89 for next year, according to FactSet.
THE BIG PICTURE: Last week, Whole Foods lifted its profit outlook for the year after its net income rose 32 percent in the third quarter. The natural and organic foods store chain said it was doing well despite the slow economy.
Traditional supermarkets such as Kroger and SuperValu, which also operates Albertson's, have been struggling to hold onto shoppers as big-box retailers such as Target Corp. and other players expand their food offerings. Whole Foods, however, has revitalized its business by emphasizing lower prices and healthy offerings.
SHARE ACTION: Whole Foods stock added $2.30, or 2.5 percent, to $95.23 in morning trading, after earlier changing hands as high as $95.98. The stock has traded between $53.32 and $97.25 in the past 52 weeks.


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SIP trunk, CUBE and CUCM 8.5
I have a SIP trunk from a TSP terminated on the CUBE. - c2901 gateway connected via H323 to a CUCM 8.5 cluster. The signalling looks OK but I have no voice. The provider seems to support only G.729br8 codec and my phones (c6901 and c6921) seem to talk G.729r8 only so I need to do some transcoding. I'm in the UK btw.Now, I can do it on the CUBE and utilize dspfarm but that is I think only possible with SCCP. How do I register the gateway in CUCM, if it's already there as the H323 gateway?
Is there any way to do the transcoding on the CUCM? Any general advise would be much appreciated.
The reason why this is not working is because the called number is not 5811 from the sip provider..
Your dial-peer 1 is like this..
dial-peer voice 1 voip
incoming called-number 5[8-9].. (this is not the incoming called number)
it should be this..
dial-peer voice 1 voip
incoming called-number 01387345[8-9]..
Then when this dial-peer is matched, the xlation will be applied.
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I have looked at the trace in detail and I have an idea why this is not working..
Can you please remove this from your dial-peers to cucm. Please ensure you remove from all dial-peers to cucm and sip provider.
progress_ind setup enable 3
progress_ind alert enable 8
Please do another test call and send me debug ccsip messages.
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You still have not configured the dial-peer to CUCM to use SIP. But here is what I see..
SIP/2.0 183 Session Progress
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 126.96.36.199:6280;branch=z9hG4bK7kljtp2088b0cmgv34l0.1
From: ;tag=536c8c54
To: ;tag=44F7878-C23
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:38:06 GMT
Call-ID: ODE1Y2E4ZTlhZDg1NjM0MmRhZDE4YmNhNTRiMjhkN2M.
CSeq: 1 INVITE
Require: 100rel
RSeq: 650
Allow: INVITE, OPTIONS, BYE, CANCEL, ACK, PRACK, UPDATE, REFER, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, INFO, REGISTER
Allow-Events: telephone-event
Remote-Party-ID: "Michelle Walters" ;party=called;screen=no;privacy=off
Supported: sdp-anat
Server: Cisco-SIPGateway/IOS-12.x
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Disposition: session;handling=required
Content-Length: 262
o=CiscoSystemsSIP-GW-UserAgent 5886 9981 IN IP4 184.108.40.206
s=SIP Call
c=IN IP4 22.214.171.124
t=0 0
m=audio 20748 RTP/AVP 18 96
c=IN IP4 126.96.36.199
a=rtpmap:18 G729/8000
a=fmtp:18 annexb=yes
a=rtpmap:96 telephone-event/8000
a=fmtp:96 0-16
You are sending G729br8 to your provider but they do not support annexb because in their invite we do not see annexb.
INVITE sip:[email protected]:5060 SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 18.104.22.168:6280;branch=z9hG4bK7kljtp2088b0cmgv34l0.1
Max-Forwards: 68
From: ;tag=536c8c54
Call-ID: ODE1Y2E4ZTlhZDg1NjM0MmRhZDE4YmNhNTRiMjhkN2M.
CSeq: 1 INVITE
Allow: INVITE, OPTIONS, BYE, CANCEL, ACK, REFER, PRACK
Content-Type: application/sdp
Supported: 100rel
Content-Length: 278
o=Redwood_INX 347015 347015 IN IP4 126.96.36.199
s=Redwood Media Server
c=IN IP4 188.8.131.52
t=0 0
m=audio 50002 RTP/AVP 8 18 96
a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000
a=rtpmap:18 G729/8000
a=rtpmap:96 telephone-event/8000
a=fmtp:96 0-15
So either configure your cube to transcode from g729br8 to g729r8 or send your provider g729r8
Here is the document to use to setup xcoding on your cube..
Ensure you add g729br8 in your list of codecs
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Orange nails are so pretty on fingers... and these are nutritious as well!
- 7 saltine crackers
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 8 chicken tenders
- 1/2 cup Italian salad dressing
- sliced carrots
How to Make It
Place crackers, cheese and garlic in a blender or food processor; blend until crumbly. Dip chicken in Italian dressing; roll in cracker mixture. Arrange on a lightly greased baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Just before serving add a sliced carrot to the end of the chicken to resemble a fingernail.
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The Tennessee at Georgia football game on CBS last Saturday recorded a national rating of 2.9 with a 7 share. The viewing audience for the Vols and Bulldogs was 4.682 million.
The game was the second-most watched college football game for the Sept. 28 weekend. Only the Ohio State-Michigan State game on ABC drew a larger audience with a 3.6 rating.
In Knoxville, the Vols-Georgia game drew a 26.8 rating and a 47 share, meaning 47 percent of televisions in the market were tuned in to the game during that 3:30-7:30 p.m., time slot.
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• Not long now until the official launch of The Church of Fear, John Sweeney's new book on the Church of Scientology. The event is eagerly awaited, especially by the L Ron Hubbard-ites themselves. For they have a particular view of the author, with whom the church had angry exchanges as he prepared a BBC documentary five years ago. "John Sweeney is genuinely evil," one church blogger said. Still, things could have been worse. They might have been fighting on two fronts; but publisher Transworld confirms it has dropped plans to publish another Scientology exposé that's kicking up quite a bit of dust in the US. Lawrence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Celebrity, and the Prison of Belief has been seized upon by the church's critics. At the same time, it has been denounced as "preposterous lies" and attracted a blizzard of legal threats from aggrieved Scientologists. It was published in the US by Knopf – part of Random House – but Transworld in the UK, also part of Random House, took a look and didn't fancy its chances. "The full manuscript didn't come in until the end of November, at which point we did a full risk assessment," MD Larry Finlay told the website Publishing Perspectives. "Our advice was that we wouldn't be able to defend it in the UK courts. The UK has much more stringent libel laws, which is why so many cases are taken up here. If we had wanted to go ahead with the book there was too much to change." Publishable in the US. Too risky by far for London. That's comforting isn't it?
• Meanwhile, as Iain Duncan Smith does all he can to fend off the accusation that the compassionate Conservatives have morphed into hard-hearted skinflints, up pop his friends at Tory flagship council Wandsworth to ruin all that good work. Last year, the true believers in south London moved to raise a bit of cash by charging children £2.50 to play in a local park. That idea had to be scrapped amid howls of protest. But they are a dogged bunch and so now the plan is to demolish the Battersea Park adventure playground and replace it with a conventional play area. The beauty of this is that without the climbing wall they have been able to dispense with the services of three staff members employed to ensure all was well. Alas, word got out and so now the park has been invaded by aggrieved locals and protesters from Occupy London. A sit-in, threats of legal action: another wheeze going pear-shaped. What chance that soiree in the brewery?
• Further north, things refuse to settle down for George Galloway in Bradford, where one of the Respect MP's many enemies has set up a Twitter account, @where'sgeorge, asking members of the local public to report sightings of the much-travelled representative. A flurry of excitement last week as George outed himself as being on a plane en route to Cairo "where the revolution continues". Wish me luck, he said. In his absence, the machinations continue, with GGs supporters reporting the MP monitoring operation to the Twitter police, only for it to immediately appear again, only slightly modified (@wheresgeorge9). Will they learn to love GG before he runs for office somewhere else?
• He's famously thick-skinned, but then the best of them have that quality. I'm a bit odd, admits Ukip's Nigel Farage. We like odd, he says. And, funnily enough, around the same time we find a missive from our favourite Ukipian, Godfrey Bloom, the celebrated MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber whose bad behaviour in Brussels and Strasbourg is now legendary. "All the best to the dear old Grauniad," is his New Year's message. "Don't forget to be beastly about me in 2013. I don't want the Ukip membership to think I've drifted to the left." His reputation is safe with us.
• Finally, hard lines to Cheltenham Town FC, thrashed 5-1 by Everton and denied further excitement in the FA Cup. Many diehard Cheltenham fans toil by day at GCHQ, for the listening post is one of the area's leading employers. But their team seemed none the wiser about the secrets of the opposition dressing room. A bit of intel, and they might have stood a chance.
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Workshops for the Unemployed
Published January 11th, 2012
They are helping those who need help finding a job. A series of workshops are going on right now if you live in Marion, Levy and Citrus Counties. The workshops are hosted by workforce connection. Several classes are available for those searching for a job to sharpen their job seeking skills. From learning how to market oneself, computer basics and how to create that perfect resume, job seekers are encouraged to take advantage of the free services. Other classes include how to make the most of your money with smart saving and spending and getting a job even with if you have background issues.For more information visit www.clmworkforce.com.
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Despite the Protection of Freedoms Act, the retention of DNA in England and Wales remains unclear and inexact.
The majority of police forces are unable to distinguish the DNA profiles of those convicted to those not charged, let alone found innocent. There is little to no standardisation between forces. Our research suggests the cost of implementing the Protection of Freedoms Act will be twice the Government's estimate, casting serious doubt on the accuracy of the on-going costs of implementation.
As the data sharing agenda continues, and as our databases remain substantially broader than those in other countries, Britain continues to put its citizens at a disadvantage internationally.
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DNA Database Policy Recommendations
1. The retention of innocent individuals' DNA profiles should be banned
There is no justification for innocent people to have their DNA held on a central database without their consent. Membership of the Prüm Treaty means that this measure should be a priority for police forces as no DNA should be shared with other European states if that profile is of an innocent individual. As the Protection of Freedoms Act stands, individuals who were never charged may still see their DNA profile stored under 'prescribed circumstances' with the consent of the Biometrics Commissioner.
2. The Scottish model should be adopted for the DNA database
The Government should re-think the watered down version of the Scottish model that has been proposed. Both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have committed themselves to the implementation of the Scottish model, as was highlighted in the Coalition agreement.
3. Biometric data should fall under the same guidelines as the DNA database
Just as worrying as the DNA database, there is currently the ability to retain biometric data based upon 'national security determinations' for an initial two years, but with potential for indefinite renewal. This is grossly excessive and judging from past cases of how anti-terrorism legislation has been applied it is far from certain that it will be limited to cases of credible threat to national security.


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The story sounds as surreal as it's tragic. After all, there is certain truth in the Chinese saying that the police are but certified gangsters.
It was around 10 pm on October 25, Wu Ying and her husband Cai Shiyong were watching TV at the back of their little rice noodle eatery in Ping Nan county in China's southern province of Guangxi. Two customers were also in the store. Hu Ping, a local policeman who, together with another 9 friends, just finished 5 kilogram of local white wine, stepped in, shirtless and with a gun on his belt.
"Do you have milk tea?"
"No, we don't."
After learning that he cannot get milk tea at Wu's rice noodle shop, Hu pointed his gun at one of the two customers and asked again: "So you don't sell milk tea, do you?" At that point, everyone at the scene can feel the tension.
Wu then told Hu to walk down the street for milk tea, but just as she finished the sentence, her husband was shot in the shoulder. When she tried to walk out to call for help, Hu aimed the gun at her and fired, first in her head, then in her belly.
Wu was 5-month pregnant. According to the doctor who later announced her death, it was a boy, a son that the couple for years have wished for. Wu's husband Cai Shiyong, who is still in the hospital recovering from the shot in shoulder, said: "We really don't sell milk tea. Why shoot us?"
It is tragic, but to many Chinese netizens, it's more than a tragedy. As popular Weibo account 假装在纽约 commented, the case shows the extent of power abuse in China. "This may be an individual case. But we can easily image what this police looks like during everyday work. We need to reflect on why our police system recruited such people in the first place." Another netizen 蝈蝈1968 commented.
The tension between ordinary people and the police isn't news in China. The Chinese have long jokingly equaled police with gangsters certified by the government. What happened in Guangxi this week only reinforces that image.
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What could he say? One day after hitting a 37-foot jumper as time expired to propel Ohio State to victory, Turner scored 11 of his game-high 31 points after regulation ended as the Buckeyes earned an 88-81 double-overtime victory against Illinois in the semifinal round of the Big Ten tournament.
"We probably needed this from the standpoint of getting in (tough) situations," head coach Thad Matta said. "From here on out it becomes momentum. It becomes swings. You see it every year in March."
As Matta said, it was a game of wild point swings, clutch shots and plenty of dramatic moments. Matched up against his childhood teammate in Demetri McCamey, Turner showed more emotion than he had all season against a team the Buckeyes had defeated handily in two meetings earlier this year.
"It was (an emotional game) due to the simple fact that when they started hitting shots they started talking a little more smack," Turner said. "They were front-runners and I didn't like that too much. This was the day they chose that they wanted to win as opposed to the rest of the season. I didn't like that at all. We weren't having that."
That the game made it to the first overtime, much less the second, was partially thanks to the fact that the fifth-seeded Illini (19-14) were unable to get shots off despite having possession at the end of both regulation and the first overtime. After entering the game's fourth stanza tied at 75, the Buckeyes got the first basket of the frame on a three-pointer from junior guard Jon Diebler.
The basket made him the school's all-time leader in treys and allowed OSU to draw first blood. Turner then scored two possessions later to push it to a five-point lead, and Illinois would never again have possession of the ball with a chance to tie the game.
Getting to that point took plenty of drama, however. After trailing by a game-high 11 points with 12:52 left in regulation, the Buckeyes put together a 20-0 run capped by a five-point possession: two free throws from Diebler on a flagrant foul from Illinois' D.J. Richardson and a trey from Buford that made it 59-50 with eight minutes remaining and OSU appeared firmly in control.
Instead, the Illini answered with a 6-0 run to claw back into it and twice led in the final minute and a half. McCamey hit two free throws with 31.6 seconds remaining, but Turner drove from the right corner and laid it on along the baseline to set the score at 66-all.
He would reprise that role in the second overtime as OSU battled back from a four-point deficit with 2:23 remaining. Trailing 73-69, Turner scored his team's next six points – four from the free-throw line – and converted a layup with 22.0 seconds left to knot the score at 75.
Turner's late-game performance came despite having picked up his fourth personal foul at the 5:13 mark. He would foul out with 1:00 remaining in the second overtime, gesturing to the crowd as he found his seat on the bench with OSU ahead 84-80.
Illinois got a free throw from Tyler Griffey to make it a one-possession game, but junior forward David Lighty's slashing drive to the basket with 34.6 seconds left put it out of reach.
"Evan fouled out and it went back to when he got hurt (earlier this season) and I'm in the position to come off the ball-screen now," Lighty said. "That's exactly what we did. I came off the screen and made a good play."
Turner's primary partner in crime was sophomore guard William Buford, who had 22 points on a game-high 20 shots and also added 10 rebounds. Diebler had 14 and junior forward David Lighty added 12.
The Buckeyes got off to a hot start and jumped out to a 15-7 lead but the rest of the first half proved to be more difficult. After a basket from Lighty at the 13:14 mark, OSU would not score again for more than six minutes.
During that stretch, Illinois seized control to the tune of a 14-0 run that made it 21-15 when freshman forward Tyler Griffey hit a jumper at the 7:30 mark. Meanwhile, OSU missed all six of its shots and committed four turnovers – two from Lighty and two from Turner.
It was so tough, junior center Dallas Lauderdale went to the line and missed two free throws. That in itself was not terribly surprising – he entered the game shooting 34.8 percent (35 for 80) from the charity stripe – but he was afforded a third chance when Illinois' Mike Davis was called for a lane violation.
Lauderdale then calmly missed his third attempt as badly as he missed the first two.
Diebler picked up his second foul at the 10:14 mark and sat for the remainder of the half. Seldom-used senior guard Jeremie Simmons spelled him the rest of the way and hit on 1 of 2 three-pointers and added an assist.
The OSU drought came to an end when Buford canned a three-pointer at the 7:01 mark, making the score 21-18.
After shooting a combined 36.2 percent (46 for 127) in the first two meetings between these teams this season, Illinois went 15 for 32 (46.9 percent) in the first half.
"We didn't have it in the first half," Diebler said. "They made a run, and for playing how bad we did in the first half and be only down six we were still very confident. We knew we were going to make a run."


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Did you miss Bucsblitz.com publisher Matthew Postins' appearance on the NFL Network's "Path to the Draft" show last week? Don't worry. Click here to link to our story on the appearance, plus a link to the video clip.
Jovan Haye (starter), Chris Hovan (starter), Greg Peterson. The Buccaneers can also use Kevin Carter and Marques Douglas inside.
Depth is one consideration. The Bucs have only three pure defensive tackles right now. Sims is only under contract for one more year. Haye is a restricted free agent and the Bucs are waiting to see if he'll accept their one-year tender offer of $2 million. Even then, Haye would only be a Buc for 2008. Peterson is a tallish tackle who is still progressing as a player and is considered, at the moment, to be more of a pass rusher than a run stopper.
The other big consideration is the Bucs' No. 17 ranking against the run in 2007. While Haye and Hovan had solid seasons a year ago the Bucs are really in need of a 300-pound plus tackle that can help stop the run. If the Bucs are to become a better run-stopping team — an improvement that would aid their top-rated pass defense of a year ago — they need more beef inside.
Here are the top five defensive tackles in this draft, according to Scout.com:
Glenn Dorsey (6-foot-1 1/2, 313 pounds), LSU — NFL Films producer Greg Cosell says this is one of the best athletic specimens in the draft, regardless of position. He won't fall out of the Top 10.
Sedrick Ellis (6-foot-1, 297 pounds), USC — Deceptively quick and strong at the point of attack, Ellis is another Top 10 pick that won't drop far enough for the Buccaneers to select him.
Kentwan Balmer (6-foot-4, 295 pounds), North Carolina — There is debate about whether Balmer is a first- or second-round pick. What isn't in debate is Balmer's value as perhaps the most versatile tackle in this draft, as most scouts see him as a perfect fit in a 3-4 or 4-3 front.
Marcus Harrison (6-foot-2 ½, 310 pounds), Arkansas — Harrison made a living in the backfield of opposing offenses in the SEC. He's the slowest of the Top 5 tackles in the draft (5.20), so he's likely a situational run stopper who would be a solid second-round pick.
Dre Moore (6-foot-3 ½, 308 pounds), Maryland — Moore is another tackle that fits the run-first mold. His talent and size will likely make him a late second-round or early third-round pick.
Want to know more about these prospects, plus other DTs the Bucs could be interested in? Check out the links below.
Check out how North Carolina State DT DeMario Pressley at his pro day last week.
Don't just read about Ellis. Find out what the Trojans defensive tackle had to say on-camera recently about his potential draft status:
Auburn tackle Pat Sims is a second- or third-round prospect that could be a real find for a team in need of help inside. Find out more about Sims during his video clip from the Scouting Combine:
Balmer answers reporters' questions in Indianapolis:
With all the talk about the NFL Draft's top wide receivers, Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman is not a player to forget about. The Buccaneers haven't. Click here to read about Bowman's recent conversation with the Bucs and the past he overcame to reach this point.
Did you miss Postins' second Buccaneers-only Mock Draft? Click here to read how Postins shook up the Buccaneers' draft strategy.
It's the most important time of the year for NFL teams that want to improve their roster for 2008. Are you getting all the analysis you need as the NFL Draft approaches? If you're not, click here to find out how you can become a Bucsblitz.com insider and become the expert at your NFL Draft party. We're the only Tampa-based media site providing daily draft and scouting coverage with a Buccaneers slant.
Matthew Postins covers the Buccaneers for BucsBlitz.com and the Charlotte Sun-Herald in Port Charlotte, Fla. An award-winning member of the Pro Football Writers Association, he appears frequently on Scot Brantley Show from 3-6 p.m. weekdays on WHBO 1470-AM in Tampa-Clearwater.


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The .45 ACP works very well in a quality revolver, giving outstanding accuracy and providing effective terminal performance.
While I don't have personally own one, I'd certainly recommend a Smith & Wesson Model 625 like the one at the top of the three revolvers, shown in photo above, which belongs to a friend of mine. The revolver is accurate enough for the most precise target work and still relatively compact for concealability. It's very dependable and easy to rapidly load with moon clips. It offers true big-bore "thump" with easily controlled recoil. Nothing beats an N-Frame Smith & Wesson for effective rapid-fire double-action work. N-Frame Smith & Wesson double-action function has to be experienced to be appreciated. Did I say this revolver is very accurate? I'd like to have one of these of my own.
For a classy and very accurate range revolver one could search out and find a nice Smith & Wesson Model 25, otherwise known as the Model of 1955. This was a premium target revolver offered by Smith & Wesson for bulls-eye competition for a number of years. Now discontinued, it would still give a lot of joy at the range and would be the enthusiastic handloader's friend. See forum post No. 15 within the link below:
Lets See Those model 25's
The .45 ACP chambered revolver goes back 96 years now, to World War I when both Colt and Smith & Wesson supplemented our armed forces' supplies of Model 1911 pistols by providing their large-framed revolvers to the War Department, chambered in .45 ACP. As a substitute standard issue handgun these gave a good account of themselves during the U.S. involvement in "The Great War."
I've shot a lot of .45 ACP through a couple of the old World War I revolvers in years gone by. I still have the revolvers but don't make too much use of them these days. Used to occasionally carry them for hiking or hunting on our old family place. These revolvers are capable of rewarding accuracy with quality ammunition. Very interesting historical pieces they are and still just as effective as they were in 1917-1918.
Colt Model 1917 (top) and Smith & Wesson Model 1917 (bottom).
More personal opinion ahead that should be taken with a grain of salt.
Smith & Wesson would go out of business awaiting my purchase of a Governor. The .410 shot shell fired from a revolver offers nothing special that can't be accomplished with proper .45 revolvers, that is .45 ACP or .45 Colt revolvers. Silly as a snake gun, it's also silly to think a .410 revolver has unique attributes as protection against "car-jacking," a claim frequently put forth as a reason for carrying one of these revolvers. It doesn't make the fearsome home-defense weapon that some folks feel it is for those who are unskilled with accurate handgun shooting either. I'd much prefer either of the ancient Model 1917 revolvers for any purpose than any clunky and awkward revolver that chambered .410 shotgun shells. This goes for the Taurus Judge line as well. The .410 slug is measly and any other .410 shell, whether it's carrying a compliment of three 000-buck shot or a swarm of No. 9 shot won't be any more special and effective on the receiving end than a properly administered 185-255 grain bullet fired from a proper .45 caliber arm.
Save the .410 for shotguns for the kids to use when dove shooting over a stock tank and put a proper revolver to work for handgun purposes.


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Police: Elderly Man Dies Following Lower Merion Hit & RunThe Lower Merion Police are asking for the public's help as they try to find the driver responsible for a fatal hit and run.
Teen Arrested For Lower Merion CarjackingsThe carjackings happened between September 15th and October 13th.
Man Dies After Falling Into Trash Pit On Main LineAuthorities say a Bala Cynwyd man is dead after falling 45 feet Saturday afternoon.
Brotherly Love: Famous Visitor Inspires County's Food DriveLast year, Pope Francis stayed at St. Charles Borromeo seminary in Lower Merion for a night and Montgomery County officials wanted to give the visiting pontiff a tangible thank-you.
Lower Merion School District Updates High School Grading ScaleLower Merion is joining the trend toward adopting a ten-point grading scale, giving an 'A' for a score of 90-100, and a 'B' for 80-90 and so on, this is replacing the 92-100 eight-point scale.
Lower Merion Police K9 Receives New Bullet-Proof VestA Lower Merion Township K9 is now wearing new body armor thanks to a charitable donation.
Barnes Foundation Gets New CEO – That's Chief 'Experience' OfficerThe latest major acquisition by the Barnes Foundation is not a Matisse or a Cezanne but a Bernstein.
Witnessing Kobe Bryant's Last Game Will Cost You 'An Arm And A Leg'The average price for a ticket to the Lakers game in Los Angeles is listed at over $2,100 and selling for about $1,400. To even get in the arena costs more than $800.
3 Rescued From Lower Merion House FireThe cause of the fire is under investigation.
Black People In Montco Make Voices Heard Over Dislike Of How Police Treat ThemThe message is clear: the black residents of Lower Merion do not like how they are being treated police in their community.
Man Rescued After Being Trapped For Nearly 9 Hours In Car After Crashing Down An EmbankmentPolice received calls about the accident around 4:25 a.m. at Mill Creek Road and Grays Lane in Lower Merion.
Bridge Inspection To Slow Traffic On Schuylkill ExpresswayPennsylvania's Transportation Department says the right lane will be closed on Interstate 76 east between Belmont Avenue and City Avenue from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday.


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» Etan Thomas: The Dawn Of A New Era - SLAM Online
Interesting article. He certainly seems like a sharp guy. But did he really have to throw in that silly poem at the end?
D4e, I like the poem. The publication is SLAM, so it's not like a newspaper article or something. Besides it shows he is smart, political and creative. Plus, he's on my Novice Fantasy team!
I am not sure I agree with his comment regarding the writers on this subject. Writers, driven by their editors and publishers in many cases, have an agenda and they will write to that agenda. So what we read in the papers, on the web or hear in the media by sports writers is rarely straight forward objective reporting. It is agenda driven in order to maximize the bottom line of the company that they work for. Like with the NY/Denver fight. In my opinion the agenda by the media was to draw attention away from CA's dastardly dead, and the best way for them to do that was find a scape goat. Zeke was perfect given his general public image, how the national media has blasted him for the last 30+ years and what he told CA. CA is one of Stern's 3 poster children with Wade and James being the other two. This is also one reason that basically all the media has been hyping the AI trade. It sells tickets, copy, souveniers (sic) etc. Other than his comment about sports writers I think that Thomas did make a lot of good points in his article.
nice article but can he get healthy again please?
Etan Thomas is an amazing person. He gave a speech in Wash DC at a war protest last year and he was very eloquent. If he is active in the players union perhaps he can rein in David Stern and stop the league from trying to railroad the players.
This is, without a doubt, quite possibly the greatest blog post I have ever read. It is pure genius. From Wizznutz, couretsy of Truehoop. THE WIZZNUTZZ Etan talking about a referee that dissed him... One of Wizznutz's responses
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WASHINGTON -- Jim Wallis and Richard Land were preaching to the same flock, but their sermons at the recent "Values Voters Summit" reached very different conclusions."I am an evangelical Christian who tries to live under biblical authority. A fundamental is the dignity of human life. We are all created in the image of God," said Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine and author of "God's Politics."But it's time for new strategies, he said. Evangelicals should try to "dramatically reduce the … [Read more...]
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