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MLB: Rockies knock off Reds
Todd Helton homered twice and matched a career high with six RBIs to power Colorado to a 9-6 victory over Cincinnati on Friday night.
The loss dropped the Reds 3ᄑ games behind Pittsburgh and St. Louis in the NL Central.
Jorge De La Rosa (15-6) allowed three runs and eight hits in six innings to win his fifth consecutive start. He improved to 9-1 with a 2.73 ERA in 13 home starts this season.
Helton's 28th career multihomer game and first since 2011 left him one hit shy of 2,500.
The first of his two three-run homers came in the fourth off Bronson Arroyo (13-10), roughed up for six runs and nine hits over 3 1-3 innings in his shortest outing of the season. He issued a one-out walk in the first, ending a 30-inning string without one, and had his four-game winning streak snapped.
Helton homered again in the seventh off reliever Logan Ondrusek, his 11th of the season. Both times, Troy Tulowitzki and Wilin Rosario hit successive singles to set the table for Helton, who also had six RBIs against the Dodgers on May 29, 2003.
GIANTS 1, DIAMONDBACKS 0: Tim Lincecum pitched six spotless innings and third baseman Pablo Sandoval made a diving play to save San Francisco against Arizona.
Angel Pagan doubled and scored in the first during his first game back from a long stint on the disabled list. Three relievers closed it out for the Giants, who handed Randall Delgado (4-5) a hard-luck loss and won for the 10th time in their last 12 games at Chase Field.
Arizona loaded the bases against Lincecum in the sixth, and A.J. Pollock hit a sharp grounder past third. Sandoval had it played just right, though. He backhanded the ball as he hit the ground, got to his feet and threw to first for the third out.
Lincecum (8-13) allowed six hits and two walks.
Javier Lopez and Santiago Casilla set up Sergio Romo for his 33rd save.
DODGERS 9, PADRES 2: Yasiel Puig had four hits and two stolen bases after getting benched in his previous game, and Adrian Gonzalez hit a pair of two-run homers to help Los Angeles beat San Diego.
The Dodgers moved 10ᄑ games ahead of second-place Arizona in the NL West, matching their largest cushion of the season.
A.J. Ellis homered in the seventh inning immediately after Gonzalez's second of the game. Hanley Ramirez's two-run double preceded the back-to-back homers off reliever Anthony Bass.
Dodgers center fielder Andre Ethier threw out Nick Hundley at the plate in the top of the inning.
Hyun-Jin Ryu (13-5) tied Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke for the team lead in wins, allowing a run in 6 1-3 innings following his first back-to-back losses in the majors. The South Korean lefty also drove in the Dodgers' first run with a double.
Eric Stults (8-12) gave up four runs and eight hits over 5 1-3 innings. He is 0-5 in his last eight outings.
BRAVES 2, MARLINS 1: Freddie Freeman hit a two-run homer in the first inning and Julio Teheran topped Jose Fernandez in a matchup of young right-handers to lead Atlanta over Miami for its fifth straight win.
The 21-year-old Fernandez (10-6) took his first loss since July 7 but allowed only one hit after Freeman's homer. He gave up three hits in six innings.
The Marlins have lost five straight.
The 22-year-old Teheran (11-7) yielded one run and four hits in 6 1-3 innings. Each starter had eight strikeouts.
With closer Craig Kimbrel unavailable after pitching in three straight games, Anthony Varvaro got six outs, including a perfect ninth, for his first career save.
Fernandez led off the third with a triple, the first of his career, and scored on Christian Yelich's single.
PHILLIES 6, CUBS 5: Michael Young had four hits, including a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning, and Philadelphia rallied past Chicago in Ryne Sandberg's return to Wrigley Field.
Kevin Frandsen had two hits and scored two runs after entering in the sixth. Chase Utley added a two-run triple.
Philadelphia improved to 9-6 since Sandberg was promoted to interim manager when Charlie Manuel was fired on Aug. 16. The Hall of Fame second baseman spent most of his playing career with the Cubs and was cheered all day long in his first trip to Chicago since he was elevated to the top spot in Philadelphia.
Anthony Rizzo and Nate Schierholtz homered for the Cubs, who built a 5-0 lead against Roy Halladay. Starlin Castro had two RBIs and Kevin Gregg (2-4) took the loss.
B.J. Rosenberg (1-0) pitched a scoreless inning and Jonathan Papelbon got three outs for his 23rd save.
METS 3, NATIONALS 2: Ike Davis hit a two-run homer, Daniel Murphy scored from second on a grounder, and Dillon Gee allowed two runs over 7 2-3 innings to help New York beat Washington.
Gee (10-9) gave up six hits, struck out three and walked one, outpitching Jordan Zimmermann as the Mets won for the third time in nine games.
The Nationals, trying to work their way into the NL pennant race, lost for just the second time in 10. Washington is 6ᄑ games behind Cincinnati for the second wild card.
Wilson Ramos and pinch-hitter Steve Lombardozzi homered for the Nationals. Zimmermann (15-8) went 7 2-3 innings but remained tied with Adam Wainwright for the NL lead in wins.
LaTroy Hawkins earned his sixth save.
ANGELS 5, BREWERS 0: Jered Weaver tossed six sharp innings and Grant Green hit a three-run double that led Los Angeles over Milwaukee.
The Angels made their first trip to Miller Park since April 2007, when they played the Indians in a game moved due to heavy snow in Cleveland.
This was the Angels' first appearance against the Brewers at Miller Park since sweeping a three-game series in June 2002.
Weaver (9-7) allowed just three singles, striking out three and walking three. He escaped a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the fourth, and the Brewers stranded 13 runners overall.
Wily Peralta (8-14) allowed three runs on four hits in six innings. He has lost five of his last six decisions.
Kole Calhoun hit a solo home run, his fifth.
YANKEES 8, ORIOLES 5: Ichiro Suzuki hit a two-run homer, and Robinson Cano singled in two runs during a five-run fifth inning that helped New York pick up an ineffective CC Sabathia and beat Baltimore.
Alfonso Soriano connected for a two-run shot in the fourth off Miguel Gonzalez (8-7), and Alex Rodriguez had an RBI single in the seventh inning of a late August game that felt more like October.
In a playoff-race twist, Mark Reynolds had three hits, including an RBI double when the Yankees batted around in the fifth. Last year he helped Baltimore reach its first postseason since 1997 with seven homers and 11 RBIs in seven games against New York beginning on Aug. 31.
An August pickup by New York from Cleveland this season, Reynolds was right in the mix as the Yankees gained ground in the wild-card race. They began the day 1ᄑ games behind the Orioles, who trailed Oakland by 3ᄑ for the second AL wild card.
Sabathia (12-11) lasted just 5 2-3 innings and yielded five runs and seven hits.
TWINS 3, RANGERS 2: Chris Herrmann hit a tying, two-run homer to break up Yu Darvish's no-hit bid in the seventh inning, Justin Morneau followed with a home run, and Minnesota beat Texas.
Minnesota snapped a five-game losing streak on a night when it looked as if the strikeout-prone Twins had no chance against the AL's strikeout leader.
Instead, Darvish (12-6) had a third straight start without a win and the right-hander's home run total jumped to 22 after the Japanese ace allowed 14 his entire rookie season.
Twins starter Liam Hendriks (1-2) got his second career win by holding Texas to one earned run in six innings. Glen Perkins struck out two in a perfect ninth for his 31st save in 34 chances.
RED SOX 4, WHITE SOX 3: Ryan Dempster returned from his suspension for hitting Alex Rodriguez and pitched into the seventh inning, leading Boston over Chicago for its fifth win in six games.
David Ortiz snapped an 0-for-23 slump with a two-run single for the AL East leaders.
Dempster (7-9), penalized five games for plunking A-Rod on Aug. 18, held Chicago hitless through the first four innings. He allowed three runs and five hits in 6 1-3 innings.
Koji Uehara struck out two in the ninth for his 15th save in 18 opportunities. He worked 1 1-3 innings in his 20th straight scoreless appearance.
Hector Santiago (4-8) took the loss as Chicago opened a 10-game road trip.
TIGERS 7, INDIANS 2: Victor Martinez doubled twice and drove in two runs to lead Detroit to a win over Cleveland in a game stopped after seven innings because of rain.
AL Central-leading Detroit opened a 7ᄑ-game lead over second-place Cleveland despite slugger Miguel Cabrera being pulled from a second straight game. Cabrera left after two innings because of irritation in his abdominal area. He struck out in his only at-bat.
Rick Porcello (11-7) allowed two runs and five hits in 5 2-3 innings, walking two and striking out three. He was replaced by Al Alburquerque with the bases loaded and two out in the sixth.
Zach McAllister (7-8) gave up five runs and six hits in 3 2-3 innings for the Indians.
ATHLETICS 4, RAYS 3: Kurt Suzuki hit a three-run homer and Jed Lowrie hit a go-ahead double in the eighth to lead Oakland over Tampa Bay.
Jarrod Parker dueled with David Price to run his unbeaten streak to 17 straight starts, matching Catfish Hunter's Oakland record set from June 2-Sept. 3, 1973. The A's pulled within two games of the first-place Texas Rangers in the AL West, and moved ahead of Tampa Bay in the wild card.
Price (8-6) lost for the first time in nine starts since July 12 against Houston.
Parker came out for the eighth at 100 pitches, but gave way to winner Ryan Cook (6-3) after allowing the first two hitters to reach.
Grant Balfour pitched the ninth for his 34th save.
BLUE JAYS 3, ROYALS 2: Mark Buehrle pitched seven shutout innings to win his sixth straight decision, and Toronto ended Kansas City's winning streak at five games.
Adam Lind drove in two runs for the Blue Jays, who have won 10 of 14 against K.C. since 2011.
The Royals, who came in six games behind Oakland for the second AL wild-card berth, lost for the first time since Aug. 24 against Washington, the final defeat in a seven-game skid.
Buehrle (11-7) allowed four hits, walked one and struck out five to match his longest winning streak since 2005, when he won a career-best nine consecutive decisions.
Ervin Santana (8-8) allowed three runs, two earned, and four hits in seven innings.
MARINERS 7, ASTROS 1: Taijuan Walker did not allow an earned run over five innings in his major league debut, and Dustin Ackley had a career-high four hits with four RBIs as Seattle beat Houston.
The 21-year-old right-hander, rated the fifth-best prospect in baseball, yielded two hits and one run with two strikeouts and a walk. Walker (1-0) retired the first eight batters he faced.
The Astros were up by one in the fourth before Ackley tied it with an RBI single. Seattle led by two in the fifth before a single by Ackley made it 5-1. A run-scoring single in the ninth gave Ackley four RBIs to tie a career best.
Houston starter Brad Peacock (3-5) was tagged for seven hits and five runs in 4 2-3 innings.


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(VicPol) are more likely to suffer injuries and emotional stress,
and have higher rates of unplanned leave, than other public sector
AV, MFESB and VicPol have each recognised the importance of
managing unplanned leave. However, there are significant
differences in how effectively and efficiently they are each
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Both AV and VicPol have been generally effective and efficient
in managing unplanned leave, although AV recognises the need to
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AV and VicPol have effective management oversight, supported by
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MFESB's management has been aware of the causes of personal
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LOCK HAVEN, Pa. - Sophomore Rebecca Barry scored two goals in a four-minute span as No. 16 ranked Richmond defeated Lock Haven 3-2 to clinch their second-straight Atlantic 10 Regular-Season Championship on Friday.
This is the Spiders' eighth Atlantic 10 Regular-Season Championship in the last 11 years and Richmond wrapped up the No. 1 seed in next weekend's Atlantic 10 Tournament at UMass. Richmond, which has won nine-straight games, still has one regular-season game remaining on Sunday at La Salle.
"We discussed how tough this final weekend of conference would be for our program," Lucido said. "The team must find a way to break through their opponents' defensive tactics and remain mentally strong and poised in play. Lock Haven brought a rock solid game plan and converted on their opportunities. The depth of our team unity and perseverance was tested once again."
For the third-straight game, the Spiders (14-4, 6-0 Atlantic 10) fell behind 1-0 and still found themselves trailing with under 11 minutes remaining. With 10:19 remaining, junior Christina Amorose deflected a shot by freshman Amy Cooke into the cage to tie the game.The goal was Amorose's sixth goal of the season.
"Christina Amorose had a timely goal to tie up the game and bring us some momentum," Lucido said.
Lock Haven (11-8, 2-4 Atlantic 10) regained the lead with 6:57 remaining on a goal by Molly Urey, but that lead lasted just 45 seconds.
The Spiders were awarded a penalty corner and senior Catherine Ostoich found Barry for the first of two goals in less than four minutes. Barry's second goal came with just 2:23 remaining off Cooke's second assist of the game.
Barry has now scored two goals in four of the last six games, including two goals in less than a minute in last week's win over Temple. One of those goals made ESPN SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays of the Day. She leads the team with 13 goals this season.
"Rebecca Barry demonstrated that all the hype over her has not affected her humility in any manner, as she competed, and converted for the win leaving her past laurels in the past," Lucido said. "Jess Hollis made some key defensive plays for the Spiders and Sam Ostoich was pushing on our attack throughout the game."


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Historically known as the "Gateway to the West," Fargo was founded in 1871. Amtrak has a waiting room in the old REA building adjacent to the former Great Northern Railway depot.
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Fargo, the largest city in North Dakota, was founded in 1871 and has been historically known as the "Gateway to the West." Amtrak has a waiting room in the old American Railway Express Agency building adjacent to the former Great Northern Railway (GN) depot. Both buildings, designed by architect Samuel Bartlett and constructed of red brick with light sandstone trim, were completed in 1906. The depot includes a four-sided clock tower and covered, open air waiting areas. Today, the building is used for commercial purposes.
The GN is considered to have been America's premier northern trans-continental railroad, running from St. Paul, Minn. to Seattle. It was formed in 1889 by James J. Hill, who orchestrated the merger of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad with the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway. Hill holds a special place in railroad history and lore, and is known as the "Empire Builder." Whereas most transcontinental lines were built with federal assistance in the form of federal land grants, the GN did not utilize this method.
Hill's business acumen guided the planning and construction of the GN. Much of the upper Midwest and West was sparsely settled, so instead of racing across the continent, the GN developed the regions through which it traveled as it steadily moved toward the Pacific. This action helped settle the land and created a customer base. Hill the businessman actively sought to establish trade links with Asia, and the railroad is credited with putting sleepy Seattle on the map and transforming it into an important and powerful Pacific Ocean port after the railroad reached the West Coast in 1893.
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Ashley Greene's Style Transformation
Taking a cue from her pop predecessor Britney Spears, Lady G donned a skintight latex bodysuit for a 2008 performance. As per usual, she overdid the accessories with a black scarf, three belts, and mime gloves. This is a subdued kind of crazy for Gaga — she was just starting out as a superstar, after all — but it's definitely indicative of the insane outfits to come... Even from the beginning, Lady G was in a category all her own.
It takes daring to pull off a golden unitard, but on Lady Gaga it looks downright tame. Between the color and her partner-in-crime, the aptly named Heatherette designer Richie Rich, she totally looks "Beautiful Dirty Rich." This is also the first sighting of Lady Gaga in her everpresent shades, though this pair is more Paris Hilton (her high school classmate!) than Lady G!
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
RIP Arthur C. Clarke
NY Times
18 comments:
- Conduit said...
Wow, wow, wow. Damn.
The novel 2001: a Space Odyssey is one of my very favourite books of all time. A cerebreal head-trip even greater than the movie. His body of work is among the greatest of any writer of the last century. He and Asimov were kings of the genre, and I suppose he was one of the last of that golden age of sci fi.
- March 18, 2008 at 6:25 PM
- AstonWest said...
2001 is one of my favorites as well...
- March 18, 2008 at 6:26 PM
- Conduit said...
There's a more detailed obit here:
I wasn't aware of the controversy in his later years, and it's sad the article ends on that note. :(
- March 18, 2008 at 6:29 PM
- Margaret Yang said...
Thanks for the link, Conduit.
I am a science fiction writer today because of men like Arthur C. Clarke. He showed me what was possible.
- March 18, 2008 at 7:04 PM
- Adaora A. said...
2001 is amazing. I just read it 3 months ago. Death is such a sad part of life.
@Conduit - Thanks for the link.
We shouldn't focus on the negative. We have to just remember how revolutionary he was,and is.
- March 18, 2008 at 7:29 PM
I will always remember his novel, THE DEEP RANGE. Still have it, in fact. The opening sentence was something like "When I first saw Ingrid, she was standing up to her knees in shark blood."
RIP Arthur C. Clarke.
- March 18, 2008 at 7:56 PM
- mardott said...
He was one of the first science fiction authors I read, back in the golden days.
We'll raise a glass to him, tonight. I hope he's sailing the stars.
- March 18, 2008 at 8:19 PM
- Chumplet said...
Oh, my gosh! I had no idea! I just got home from work and switched straight to the hockey game.
I loved his work. In high school we had a special course just on Science Fiction. It was there that I fell in love with his prose.
What a great loss.
- March 18, 2008 at 8:36 PM
- Furious D said...
My childhood reading was defined by Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Harlan Ellison.
My first exposure to his work was seeing 2001 when I was six years old and thinking it was the wildest thing I ever saw. I made a note of his name and read everything of his I could find at my local library. He was my entry into science fiction and fantasy.
It's heartbreaking, but we can take comfort in the massive, and rich legacy he left behind.
- March 18, 2008 at 9:49 PM
What is the difference between a manager and an agent?
As a first-time author, do I need a manager? One is currently interested in my work, but I am unsure if I should proceed. If he helps me get my foot in the door, then it could be positive for me. However, I do not want to get involved with a manager if it is not needed or even recommended. Your thoughts?
- March 18, 2008 at 11:23 PM
- mlh said...
A very sad thing to hear.
First my hockey team loses, and now a famous author is lost to the world.
At least his works will live on.
- March 18, 2008 at 11:31 PM
- Nathan Bransford said...
Managers are more of a movie industry thing. I don't know much about them.
- March 18, 2008 at 11:41 PM
- Diana said...
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- March 19, 2008 at 12:59 AM
- Diana said...
I feel like I've done nothing but put up memorial displays at the library these past few weeks. Margaret Truman. William F. Buckley. And now Arthur C. Clarke.
- March 19, 2008 at 1:00 AM
- Adaora A. said...
Yea I was going to say that managers are for actors specifically. They basically hang around the actor on the movie set and let them know everything that they have to do for the day. They know the actors day i.e. inteviews etc and so on. They basically remember everything else the actor has to do so the actor can...focus on their lines? Agents are agents and managers are managers. I do vaguely recall a manager who dealt with authors. I'm not sure the logistics of that. As I said, they're more for actors.
- March 19, 2008 at 1:32 AM
- ORION said...
The one thing is that he'll be remembered. His work will live on.
What a testament to his amazing talent!
- March 19, 2008 at 3:28 AM
- Furious D said...
What is the difference between a manager and an agent?
I think I can answer this question.
In the movie business-
Agents get 10%
Managers get 15%
The excuse is that they do more than just find work for their clients. Many have a hand in producing projects for their clients (though often it's in title only) and "manage" the financial, publicity, and sometimes personal affairs of their clients. How much they manage depends on the manager and his/her relationship with the client.
The current president of Paramount Brad Grey started out as a "manager" used that position to get producer credits, and now he runs a studio.
Writers, especially fiction writers, usually don't have or need managers. Go for an agent.
- March 19, 2008 at 7:34 AM
Thanks for the feedback on the manager question. All of you have helped to clear that up for me.
Happy Wednesday!
- March 19, 2008 at 3:14 PM


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Ulster model Jamie Dornan ruled out romance with catwalk queen Kate Moss, claiming, "I'm not cool enough." The 23-year-old hunk from Holywood, Co Down, who had a two year romance with actress Keira Knightley, stars in the latest Calvin Klein ad campaign alongside the world's top supermodel. But despite playing in a band, Jamie says he doesn't he think he's hip enough for rockstar-loving Kate. "I've met her several times and she's really sweet. A lovely girl who is just so cool to be around. It's a nice thought of course, but somehow I just don't think I'm cool enough or rock star enough. Given her taste in men, I'm really not her type."
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Yesterday you met Jessy and Anum, who told us all about how their families celebrate Hanukkah and Eid. Today, you'll hear from two of our funniest staffers, Ashish and Jason.
Jason is one of the happiest people in the office (and he manages to handle all of our customer returns with a smile!), and Ashish runs the greeting cards section of our website. As an expectant father, Ashish had lots to say about how he plans to celebrate both Christmas and Dwali, the Indian festival of lights. He and his wife have welcomed their new baby boy since we finished filming, and we couldn't be more excited for his growing family. You can see all the fun for yourself in this short clip:
To read Ashish's thoughts on being an excited expectant father, check out his guest post on the Tiny Prints blog. And don't forget to stop by tomorrow to hear from two of our office newlyweds about how they're splitting up Christmas duties this year!


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Praktyki w ICM – oferta
ICM, jak co roku, organizuje praktyki dla studentów. W tym roku poszukuję osoby, która byłaby zainteresowana pracą nad stworzeniem aplikacji umożliwiającej interaktywną wizualizację danych sieciowych.
Oferujemy pracę w młodej i dynamicznej grupie badaczy sieci oraz nawiązanie kontaktów z zagranicznym zespołem naukowym.
Wymagania (pierwsze jest warunkiem koniecznym, pozostałe będą dodatkowymi atutami):
- Programowanie w R
- Programowanie w JavaScript
- Tworzenie aplikacji Shiny
- Znajomość biblioteki D3js
- Znajomość metod Social Network Analysis (SNA)
Jeżeli jesteś zainteresowany, wypełnij formularz na stronie ICM! Mój temat ma numer 22.
Alluvial diagrams
Parallel coordinates plot is one of the tools for visualizing multivariate data. Every observation in a dataset is represented with a polyline that crosses a set of parallel axes corresponding to variables in the dataset. You can create such plots in R using a function
parcoord in package MASS. For example, we can create such plot for the built-in dataset mtcars:
library(MASS) library(colorRamps) data(mtcars) k <- blue2red(100) x <- cut( mtcars$mpg, 100) op <- par(mar=c(3, rep(.1, 3))) parcoord(mtcars, col=k[as.numeric(x)]) par(op)
This produces the plot below. The lines are colored using a blue-to-red color ramp according to the miles-per-gallon variable.
What to do if some of the variables are categorical? One approach is to use polylines with different width. Another approach is to add some random noise (jitter) to the values. Titanic data is a crossclassification of Titanic passengers according to class, gender, age, and survival status (survived or not). Consequently, all variables are categorical. Let's try the jittering approach. After converting the crossclassification (R
table) to data frame we "blow it up" by repeating observations according to their frequency in the table.
data(Titanic) # convert to data frame of numeric variables titdf <- as.data.frame(lapply(as.data.frame(Titanic), as.numeric)) # repeat obs. according to their frequency titdf2 <- titdf[ rep(1:nrow(titdf), titdf$Freq) , ] # new columns with jittered values titdf2[,6:9] <- lapply(titdf2[,1:4], jitter) # colors according to survival status, with some transparency k <- adjustcolor(brewer.pal(3, "Set1")[titdf2$Survived], alpha=.2) op <- par(mar=c(3, 1, 1, 1)) parcoord(titdf2[,6:9], col=k) par(op)
This produces the following (red lines are for passengers who did not survive):
It is not so easy to read, is it. Did the majority of 1st class passengers (bottom category on leftmost axis) survived or not? Definitely most of women from that class did, but in aggregate?
At this point it would be nice to, instead of drawing a bunch of lines, to draw segments for different groups of passengers. Later I learned that such plot exists and even has a name: alluvial diagram. They seem to be related to Sankey diagrams blogged about on R-bloggers recently, e.g. here. What is more, I was not alone in thinking how to create such a thing with R, see for example here. Later I found that what I need is a "parallel set" plot, as it was called, and implemented, on CrossValidated here. Thats look terrific to me, nevertheless, I still would prefer to:
- The axes to be vertical. If the variables correspond to measurements on different points in time, then we should have nice flows from left to right.
- If only the segments could be smooth curves, e.g. splines or Bezier curves…
And so I wrote a prototype function
alluvial (tadaaa!), now in a package alluvial on Github. I strongy relied on code by Aaron from his answer on CrossValidated (hat tip).
See the following examples of using
alluvial on Titanic data:
First, just using two variables Class and Survival, and with stripes being simple polygons.
This was produced with the code below.
# load packages and prepare data library(alluvial) tit <- as.data.frame(Titanic) # only two variables: class and survival status tit2d <- aggregate( Freq ~ Class + Survived, data=tit, sum) alluvial( tit2d[,1:2], freq=tit2d$Freq, xw=0.0, alpha=0.8, gap.width=0.1, col= "steelblue", border="white", layer = tit2d$Survived != "Yes" )
The function accepts data as (collection of) vectors or data frames. The
xw argument specifies the position of the knots of xspline relative to the axes. If positive, the knot is further away from the axis, which will make the stripes go horizontal longer before turning towards the other axis. Argument
gap.width specifies distances between categories on the axes.
Another example is showing the whole Titanic data. Red stripes for those who did not survive.
Now its possible to see that, e.g.:
- A bit more than 50% of 1st class passangers survived
- Women who did not survive come almost exclusively from 3rd class
- etc.
The plot was produced with:
alluvial( tit[,1:4], freq=tit$Freq, border=NA, hide = tit$Freq < quantile(tit$Freq, .50), col=ifelse( tit$Survived == "No", "red", "gray") )
In this variant the stripes have no borders, color transparency is at 0.5, and for the purpose of the example the plot shows only "thickest" 50% of the stripes (argument
As compared to the parallel set solution mentioned earlier, the main differences are:
- Axes are vertical instead of horizontal
- I used
xsplineto draw the "stripes"
- with argument
hideyou can skip plotting of selected groups of cases
If you have suggestions or ideas for extensions/modifications, let me know on Github!
Stay tuned for more examples from panel data.
Gadka na SERze
These are slides from the very first SER meeting – an R user group in Warsaw – that took place on February 27, 2014. I talked about various "lifehacking" tricks for R and focused how to use R with GNU make effectively. I will post some detailed examples in forthcoming posts.
Oto moje slajdy z pierwszego Spotkania Entuzjastów R (SER) , które odbyło się 27 lutego w ICM. Niebawem w oddzielnym poście opiszę szerzej prezentowane rozwiązanie GNU make + R.
As if life after PhD was not hard enough…
And so I wrote a post on the Future of ___ PhD yesterday. Today I just learned about this shocking story about a political science PhD looking to be employed as an assistant professor at the University of Wrocław and facing shady realities of (parts of) of Polish higher education… Share and beware.
The Future of ___ PhD
Fill-in the blank in the title of this post with a name of scientific discipline of choice. Nov 1 issue of NYT features a piece "The Repurposed Ph.D. Finding Life After Academia — and Not Feeling Bad About It". The gloomy state of affairs described in the article mostly applies to humanities and social sciences, at least in the U.S., but I'm sure it applies to other countries as well. I'm sure it does to Poland too. More and more people are entering the job market with a PhD (at least in Poland as evidence shows). At the same time, available positions are scarce and the pays are low. It is somewhat heart-warming to know that people are self-organizing into groups like "Versatile Ph.D" to support each other in such difficult situation.
The article links to several interesting pieces including the "The Future of the Humanities Ph.D. at Stanford" discussing the ways of modifying humanities PhD programs so that humanities training will remain relevant in the society and economy of today. Definitely a worthy read for higher education administrators and decision makers in Poland.
Reading internet
Google Reader was one of my main way of reading Internet. It was great to read news and updates from many websites. For example, I had my own "R bloggers" folder within Google Reader long before Tal Galili created R-bloggers.com. Unfortunately, Google is killing the Reader on July 1. There are several alternatives to the Reader, just search for "google reader alternative". Meanwhile, I switched to Feedly. It's pretty cool, although there is a couple of things that annoy me a lot, e.g.: too many content (feed/item) recommendations and keyboard shortcuts are different than in Google Reader. The mobile app (I use Android) is also great although a bit heavy for my Samsung Ace. Nice features include being able to (1) push feed items to Instapaper or Evernote, (2) save selected items for later reading.
And so, I just browsed my Feedly "Saved for later" folder and here are a couple of interesting items from last 30 days:
- Nice R illustrations of multicollinearity.
- Almost like self-analytics in the spirit of Stephen Wolfram, here is a great analysis of infant feeding schedule.
- If you read recently Signal and Noise by Nate Silver, have a look at TED talk by Didier Sornette about predicitng financial crises.
- Computerworld published a nice short introduction to R. Although probably it is not ideal if you never programmed a computer before.
- If you own a computer with Intel processor and are willing to buy Intel MKL, Flavio Barros shows how to integrate it with R. MKL can speed-up many elementary operations, like matrix multiplication, by a factor of 3!
Recent issue of Science brings a very cool paper by Luís M. A. Bettencourt explaining the scaling properties of cities: how things like GDP, crime, traffic congestion etc. depend on city size. Descriptively the relationships seem to follow a simple power-law relation (see this presentation by Geoffrey West). However, as the paper shows, explaining it is not that simple and involves considering many types of interactions and interdependencies.
To finish on a somewhat less geeky note, Warsaw National Museum has a temporary exhibition of Mark Rothko featuring his works from National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, which is a first Polish exhibition of Rothko's works ever. Accompanying the exhibition, there is a lovely childrend's guide by Zosia Dzierżawska.
Package intergraph goes 2.0
Yesterday I submitted a new version (marked 2.0-0) of package 'intergraph' to CRAN. There are some major changes and bug fixes. Here is a summary:
- The package supports "igraph" objects created with 'igraph' version 0.6-0 and newer (vertex indexing starting from 1, not 0) only!
- Main functions for converting network data between object classes "igraph" and "network" are now called
- There is a generic function
asDFthat converts network object to a list of two data frames containing (1) edge list with edge attributes and (2) vertex database with vertex attributes
- Functions
asIgraphallow for creating network objects from data frames (edgelists with edge attributes and vertex databases with vertex attributes).
I have written a short tutorial on using the package. It is available on package home page on R-Forge. Here is the direct link.
Usage experiences and bug reports are more than welcome.
R Color Reference Sheet
R has a built-in collection of 657 colors that you can use in plotting functions by using color names. There are also various facilities to select color sequences more systematically:
- Color palettes and ramps available in packages RColorBrewer and colorRamps.
- R base functions
colorRampPalettethat you can use to create your own color sequences by interpolating a set of colors that you provide.
- R base functions
hsv, and
hclthat you can use to generate (almost) any color you want.
When producing data visualizations, the choice of proper colors is often a compromise between the requirements dictated by the data visualisation itself and the overall style and color of the article/book/report that the visualization is going to be an element of. Choosing an optimal color palette is not so easy and its handy to have some reference. Inspired by a this sheet by Przemek Biecek I created a variant of an R color reference sheet showing different ways in which you can use and call colors in R when creating visualizations. The sheet fits A4 paper (two pages). On the first page it shows a matrix of all the 657 colors with their names. On the second page, on the left, all palettes from RColorBrewer package are displayed. On the right, selected color ramps available in base R (base package grDevices) and in the contributed package colorRamps. Miniatures below:
You can download the sheet as PDF from here.
Below is a gist with the code creating the sheet as a PDF "rcolorsheet.pdf". Instead of directly reusing the Przemek's code I have rewritten the parts that produce the first page (built-in color names) and the part with the ramps using the
image function. I think it is much simpler, less low-level for-looping and a bit more extensible. For example, it is easy to extend the collection of color ramps by providing just additional function name in the form
packagename::functionname to the
funnames vector (any extra package would have to be loaded at the top of the script).
Assorted links
Some assorted links collected this week:
- A new interestingly looking book "Web Social Science" by Robert Ackland coming out in July 2013.
- In recent issue of Nature (Match 28): a special on the future of scientific publishing.
- An interesting TEDtalk by Colin Camerer on neuroscience and experimental economics
- Nice paper analyzing world email traffic, co-authored by Michael Macy. Another example of using 'igraph' package for network analysis.
- Gary King and Stuart Shieber on Open Access science and publishing.
There are discussions in various places about merits, pitfalls, and misunderstandings related to buzzwords "bigdata", "data science" (what a useless term it is…) etc., analysis being "data-driven" or "evidence-based" etc. Perhaps I will make a separate post on that at some point… For now:
- "Let the Data Speak for themselves", a guest post by Joseph Rickert on Revolutions blog
- Echoes and comments of Nate Silver's acclaimed book "The Signal and the Noise", for example:
- Matt Asay on readwrite (hat tip to Dominik Batorski), and here
- at NYT
- David Brooks at NYT
- Petr Keil on data-driven science


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Richard Gerver, Theatre Arts
What Richard is doing now
Richard Gerver has been described as one of the most inspirational speakers on education, business and the third sector of his generation and has an international reputation. He is also a globally best selling author.
How Derby impacted on Richards's career
Whilst studying at the University of Derby's Mickleover campus, Richard met his future wife Lynne. He began his working life as an actor, and also worked as an advertising copywriter to make ends meet. His teaching career started in 1992 and he rose through the ranks fast, being identified by the school's inspectorate in 1997 as one of the most outstanding teachers in the country.
By 2005 he had won the prestigious School Head Teacher of the Year Award at the British National Teaching Awards for his work in leading a school on the brink of closure to becoming one of the most innovative in the UK. By 2003 Richard was working with Tony Blair's Government as an advisor on education policy.
Richard works closely with Sir Ken Robinson on developing the awareness of human potential and creativity, and features in Robinson's best-selling book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.
He also works as an author and media commentator, and is a regular contributor in the British print media; writing for The Times and The Daily Telegraph, as well as appearing on the BBC, most recently on breakfast television and The Politics Show.
Richard's best-selling book Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today (2009) deals with education transformation. His second Change was published in the summer of 2013 and deals with human capacity and leading change. It spent two months at number one in the business book charts and has now been translated into a number of languages including Spanish and Taiwanese.
What would you say to students thinking of studying at Derby?
Do it! Derby is a unique and exciting university at the heart of a special city; a place where everyone feels valued and anything is possible!


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So You Wanna Own A Baseball TeamBy
Before he bought the San Diego Padres in June, 1990, television producer Tom Werner loved to play rotisserie-league baseball, "owning" an imaginary team composed of major-league stars. Owning the real thing isn't always as much fun. A month after he and 14 partners closed their $75 million deal to buy the Padres, Werner watched in horror as Roseanne Barr, star of his hit series Roseanne, screeched and scratched her way through the National Anthem. His first year as an owner also featured a still-simmering salary dispute with All-Star catcher Benito Santiago, open feuding between stars Tony Gwynn and Jack Clark, and a front-office purge. "I'm glad that year is over," says Werner. "I've learned that baseball is a tough, bottom-line business."
NEW LOOK. To its owner's evident relief, the team's future looks better than its past, even though the Padres, as of the All-Star break, are in fourth place, 10 1/2 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League's tough Western Div. Werner, who parlayed The Cosby Show into a sizable fortune, is remaking the team from top to bottom. "It was a dormant operation, too conservative," says Michael Megna, a sports-valuation expert for American Appraiser Inc.
No longer. Out went the dreary, brown-trimmed uniforms, in came classy blue pinstripes. Sayonara, General Manager "Trader" Jack McKeon and 40 other front-office employees. Later for you, Clark: Feel free to do your righthanded power-hitting for the Boston Red Sox from now on.
To retain the team's most marketable players and develop new talent, Werner, 41, brought in Joe McIlvaine, late of the New York Mets. McIlvaine traded slugger Joe Carter and promising second baseman Roberto Alomar to Toronto for first baseman Fred McGriff and shortstop Tony Fernandez. And he shelled out nearly $40 million to sign multiyear deals with McGriff, hitting machine Gwynn, and pitcher Bruce Hurst.
McIlvaine's moves, which sent payroll costs up 30%, to $21.7 million, are already showing results. McGriff has 16 home runs, tying him for second in the National League. Gwynn is the league's leading hitter, with a .358 average. Hurst could become the team's first 20-game winner since 1978.
The clubhouse isn't all smiles, though. Santiago, 26, isn't satisfied with the Padres' offer of $11 million over four years and could become a free agent after next year. The friction highlights a long-term problem for Werner and McIlvaine: Teams in larger TV markets can generate more revenues than the Padres, so Werner needs to keep down payroll costs. To that end, the Padres have increased their minor-league budget and added scouts.
ROCK CONCERTS. But there's more to running a team than spending big on a few stars and pinching pennies elsewhere. Perhaps Werner's biggest task is to get the turnstiles clicking. Even after raising ticket prices by as much as $1.50, to a top price of $11, and hiking parking $1, to $4, the Padres will be lucky to break even on more than $40 million in revenues, says club President Dick Freeman. The St. Louis Cardinals, by contrast, bring in some $56 million a season. To draw crowds, Werner has added postgame rock concerts, targeted ads to San Diego's large Hispanic community, and improved ballpark food.
The real money in team ownership, though, is often in the appreciation of franchise value, not operating profits. And, says Megna, partly because the $95 million entry price for the two new NL expansion clubs set a floor price for franchises, the Padres are now probably worth $100 million. "That's if someone wanted to buy it," says Werner quickly. "And I'm not selling." But hey, after a first year like Werner had, he's earned the right to have a little fun.
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Overstreet advanced out of the NCAA East Preliminary in a jump off, clearing 12-1 ½ (3.95 meters) to claim an official clearance of 13-1 ½ (4.00 meters) heading into the final.
She set an outdoor personal best at the ACC Championships, clearing 13-5 ¼ (4.10 meters) and ranks second all-time in the UNC record books with the mark. Overstreet earned All-ACC honors for each of her second-place finishes in the indoor and outdoor pole vault this season and also garnered top honors with her second-place finish in the Championship of America pole vault at the Penn Relays.
Overstreet also stands out in the classroom as she won All-ACC Academic Indoor honors and was named to the Dean's List for both semesters during the 2012-13 academic year.


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Having spent her youth regularly returning to England to see her father while her mother stayed in Canada working for B.C. Ferries, Edmonson eventually decided to take her career back to her homeland for a few years, working as a stylist in the British music industry. Her last contract was with the famed Irish rock band U2.
"Everyone said, 'That's amazing. You are working with U2!' and I was, 'Oh, yeah, I guess …' It was a huge sign, you know, when you are that disconnected from what you are doing."
In 2009, she broke up with the Canadian boyfriend with whom she was sharing her transatlantic life, came back to Toronto for a bit, and got stuck there when she banged up that knee. Sitting around recovering, she decided she wanted to be a film director. Knowing the music industry well, she figured making music videos was the fastest way to get a reel together and get some music-industry grants, and she made her first for flamboyant indie rocker Diamond Rings. "It was one of the best days of my life," she says of the shoot. "You get to run around and make things … I was finally in my natural environment."
From there, Edmondson has very rapidly built herself a reputation as a music-video director who gets attention with her consciously pretty, slightly spooky and often controversial imagery. Her latest rather dreamy video for Kandle features the young singer/songwriter swanning about a dimly lit, retro kitchen breaking glass on the floor.
"Claire has a very interesting aesthetic," says Aaron Miller of the Arts & Crafts record label. "Her videos are exciting enough to spark a response in a day and age where a thousand new videos are coming out every day. Most are forgettable. Hers are not."
Most memorably, in 2011, Edmondson created a video for Arts & Crafts's biggest act, Broken Social Scene, and their song Sweetest Kill. It featured lots of B-movie gore as a woman, played by Bijou Phillips, poisons her boyfriend, hacks his body to bits and buries them wistfully in a rose garden.
BSS member Andrew Whiteman, who wasn't involved in its production, created controversy that summer when he broke ranks with his band mates in the sprawling music collective and criticized the video as too literal an interpretation of the song. He has since apologized, but Edmondson felt he just didn't get it. "It's a breakup song; it speaks to that. What I wanted to address was: We don't ever see women killing; we see men killing. Killing is a giant metaphor for the breakup."
She wonders if the reaction to the obviously fake gore on Sweetest Kill did not mainly reveal that people are more comfortable watching men kill women. Anyway, the video did its job: It has gotten 500,000 views on YouTube, was screened at Toronto's Bell Lightbox, and has been shown at several festivals.
Her status as a cheeky observer of the worlds she inhabits is probably the result of that dislocated childhood, spent shuttling between Canada and Britain. Her taste for the macabre, however, is all thanks to northern life. "Prince Rupert was a very dark place to grow up. There was a lot of death," she says, recalling a small community where everybody knew everybody and there was a lot of dangerous behaviour among bored youths.
"Suicides, a lot of boating accidents, car accidents. One year, my brother had eight friends die … I went to a lot of funerals. When I make videos, it just sort of comes out. I don't do it to be controversial. Life is beautiful, but it is also really dark."
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Sweetest Kill, Broken Social Scene
In Edmondson's gorey 2011 video for Sweetest Kill, a breakup song by indie darlings Broken Social Scene, Bijou Phillips plays a murderous girlfriend who chops a man to pieces and then buries the body parts in a garden.
Edmondson's video for City of Quartz, a new song from Toronto/Vancouver band Gold & Youth, is typical of her atmospheric aesthetic, featuring both menace and joy as a young skateboarder crashes in view of a barking dog and unengaged bystander.
Me, March & Hugh
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On November 19, Larry Klayman's Reclaim America Now engaged in a "second American revolution" protest. The goal of the protest was to force Obama, Reid and Boehner out of office. Obviously, they didn't succeed.Lots of tea party people attended the rally and the organizers and speakers wrapped themselves up in the founders, even employing an actor to portray George Washington (see the picture below). Also in that picture is the likeness of Thomas Jefferson on a poster with the motto: When … [Read more...]
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In 2008, Illinois was struggling to enact new rules on giving state contracts to campaign contributors.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich had raised millions of dollars for his campaign from donors who later got state contracts. Many of these were based out of state, had never given to Illinois candidates previously, and have not given to Illinois candidates since. A bill to ban this type of pay-to-play practice, and to require disclosure of campaign donations from contractors and bidders, was introduced. Every member of the Illinois House voted for the bill, and 48 of the 59 sitting state Senators sponsored the bill. Yet it was a struggle to enact the new law because Senate President Emil Jones did not want to embarrass his close ally, Gov. Blagojevich.
Jones' stranglehold on the bill was broken by then-US Sen. Barack Obama, who publicly called for his former colleague in the state Senate to hold a vote on the bill. Now, US President Obama is proposing similar disclosure rules for federal procurement. The Obama administration is circulating a draft Executive Order that would require companies bidding on contracts to disclose campaign contributions and independent expenditures that effect federal elections.
ICPR applauds this action. The federal context is different from Illinois', but many of the same problems persist. If contractors are also taking steps to benefit particular candidates, the public has a right to know if the political help factored in the letting of the contract. Disclosure is the sort of sunshine that can reveal problems or assure the public that there is nothing untoward.
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Apple has sent out emails to registered owners of 1st generation iPod nanos stating that certain iPod nanos created between September 2005 and January 2006 might overheat and pose a safety risk. This is because of a manufacturing defect from a single supplier, and the likelihood of problems increases as the model ages. Apple then directs the owner to a replacement program .
There have been some cases of the iPod nano's battery overheating in the past, and while a search on Apple's support site turns up a document, the link is currently not active . The issue turned up previously in 2009 , and the Japanese government said in 2008 that three fires were caused in Japan from faulty 1st-generation nano batteries, and that Apple had two other reported cases where people were burned by their iPod nanos.
For those wondering if the emails they received are legitimate, a link to the replacement program can be found directly from Apple's support site for earlier models of the iPod nano and Apple's exchange and repair extension program .
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Four Lady Ranger basketball players were honored by the NAIA as being named a 2010-11 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete. Northwestern's Alecia Heath, Autumn Klugh, Rachel Wilczek and Annalena Farias were four of 130 student-athletes chosen for the honor.
"I am very happy for these young ladies and proud of the way they represent out basketball team and university," stated head women's basketball coach Milburn Barton. "Our team's 3.50 team grade point average last semester is an example of the way all of our young ladies represent Northwestern as true student-athletes."
Heath, a senior post from Chickasha, earned the honor for the second consecutive season. Autumn Klugh, a junior guard from Fort Cobb; Rachel Wilczek, a junior guard from Lomega; and Annalena Farias, a junior center from Tonkawa, were all named in their first season eligible for the award. All four of the players earned All-Sooner Athletic Conference Academic Team honors.
In order to be nominated by an institution's head coach, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status to qualify for this honor.
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The new Golf GTI certainly remains one, including in its latest generation – and you will see that modesty is simply not its thing. On the contrary, this model is only too happy to show us what it's got.
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Re: Column vectors should be interpreted as simple lists where
On Sep 11, 2011, at 3:32 PM, John Fultz wrote:
> Responding to your various points...
> Making Ctrl+, do what you want by default would be a bad idea. We could create
> a column vector notation, but we'd have to be careful that it couldn't be
> visually confused with other legitimate notation.Just for kicks, I made a first
> cut at doing something like this...a button which pastes a notation that allows
> you to put in a column of things (i.e., you still press Ctrl+, inside the
> placeholder) and interpret them as a flat vector:
> PasteButton[
> RawBoxes[
> TemplateBox[{"\[SelectionPlaceholder]"}, "ColumnVector",
> DisplayFunction -> (RowBox[{StyleBox["[", FontWeight -> Plain], #1,
> StyleBox["]", FontWeight -> Plain]}] &),
> InterpretationFunction -> (RowBox[{"Flatten", "[", #1, "]"}] &),
> BaseStyle -> {SpanMaxSize -> Infinity}]]]
Thanks very much, this is just what I was thinking of. I'll create a custom palette and put this on it.
> Making Input cells not be bold is easy, but without some other sort of style
> change, I think it would be pretty visually confusing. Just Format->Edit
> Stylesheet and paste the following in at the end of the resulting stylesheet:
But then how do I distinguish bold characters from plain ones? Somewhere I saved a post about this, and I'll try to dig it up. I should be able to figure it out, if it's an acceptable thing for us to be doing. I'm wondering if it's the kind of thing that's going to "break" in future releases of Mathematica, though. I, for one, would hugely appreciate being able to have distinct symbols with bold versus plain type. Would also love to able to use any non-assigned Unicode characters for variable names, in order to match various standard math notations.
> Commands to insert paired delimiters already exist. See the Insert->Typesetting
> submenu, the "Matching..." menu items (which also shows you the keyboard
> shortcuts you can use).
That's great! Option-command-], etc. will put in matching brackets, etc. just the way I wanted. I missed this one before . Many thanks!


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Worked like a charm.
Thank you again :-D
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Worked like a charm.
Thank you again :-D
Thanks a lot Cjizzle. I will try this as soon as I get home from work.
So I can use the shopping channel even if the system is soft modded? It wont do some system check and brick my wii?
Hey guys I soft modded my 4.3 u (black) and I have preloader, homebrew and wiiflow.
After modding I do not have the netflix channel anymore.
Can anyone help me and let me know what the best way,...
then I guess the nand files are gone. If I back everything up with this setup, as it is working, I guess that could use as a fail save. I do have the priloader installed so I think that is also a...
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Bekase, you know, he'd go to heaven, and I'd like to be wid him; sure he'd miss me—his own atty—wherever he'd be.
And so you'd lave me and your sisters, atty, and go to heaven with your father!
The sleep that's in the grave, atty, dear; death is the sleep I mean.
"It is indeed, atty;" and yet she said so; with a doubting, if not an apprehensive heart.
atty, indeed, it was: the same wizened atty as of yore; but no longer pulling the long face to which Mainward had been accustomed.


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Seattle-based band Mäd Fiddlu plays Swedish traditional music featuring the nyckelharpa, a keyed fiddle with sympathetic strings. They stopped by Empty Sea Studios to continue tracking for their upcoming studio album.
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I just bought a new G30SF this week and have only be able to put 50 rounds through it. My question is does anyone have any tips on taking the slide off the frame. I have been trying to this throughout the day.
First I will pull back on the slide about 3/4 to 1 inch.
Second pull down the two small plastic pieces to release the slide off of the frame. But when I let go of the slide to let it move past the front of the gun and come off, it will not come off.
I could be doing something wrong, plesae let me know if anyone has any tips or seen this before. Thanks.


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As an elementary teacher I want to say BUY this now, as colored pencils should never be sharpened in the regular pencil sharpener. A typical colored pencil is only good for about the first hour of a new school year. By then it's dull.
But I am concerned that these seem more like crayons. I don't know how they will work for fine strokes, like on a map, graph, etc.
These are awesome for all ages and a great deal 48 in one package. They have cute little messages as you unravel them. They work well.
I think they're basically china markers which are heavy-duty crayons. Good price for 48, though, not to mention it's fun to unravel them!


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|Iranian Missiles Shipped To Gaza For Use Against Israeli Civilians
Jerusalem, Israel (rushPRnews) 03/05/14 — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a series of security consultations prior to approving the IDF action that began this morning (Wednesday, 5 March 2014).
The INA states that after the seizure of the ship, the Prime Minister spoke with Israel Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz and Mossad Director Tamir Pardo and praised them for the quality intelligence that led to the action and for the precision with the operation was carried out.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said: "I would like to commend the IDF, the intelligence services of the State of Israel and – of course – the navy commanders and personnel who carried out a perfect operation to intercept a secret Iranian weapons ship. At a time when it is talking to the major powers, Iran smiles and says all sorts of nice things, the same Iran is sending deadly weapons to terrorist organizations and is doing so via a ramified network of secret operations in order to send rockets, missiles and other deadly weapons that will be used to harm innocent citizens. This is the true Iran and this state cannot possess nuclear weapons. We will continue to whatever is necessary in order to defend Israel's citizens."
The Israel News Agency reports that the M-302 rockets were on route in an elaborate smuggling operation orchestrated by Iran. Manufactured in Syria, the rockets were flown to Iran, then shipped from its Bandar Abbas port to Iraq to cover their tracks and loaded onto the civilian cargo ship destined for Sudan. From there, they were to be smuggled overland through Egypt to the Gaza Strip said IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner.
Israel forces intercepted the ship, the KLOS C, in international waters off the shores of Sudan and Eritrea, 1,000 miles from Eilat, Israel's southernmost point and only Red Sea port, Lerner said.
The Israel News Agency states that the M-302 rockets have a range of up to 100 miles and would have significantly improved the capabilities of Gaza terror organizations, putting nearly all of Israel in their range.
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I just completed two plus hours of training in the prevention of sexual harassment. Thanks to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's flirtatious ways in his he-man days, California has a law (AB 1825) that "requires employers with more than 50 people to provide 2 hours of training and education to all supervisory employees." (Learning to spell 'harassment' correctly is a challenge itself - one 'r', not two, and two 's's; pronunciation is another issue.)
So I'm able to meet this requirement by taking an online course that teaches about "protected characteristics" and other terms. "Real-world" legal cases are presented throughout. At times, I thought I was reading Aesop's Fables, but with the "moral" of the story presented as multiple choice. Most of the lessons have the tone of a humorless teacher: "Employees should never use email or any business communication system to send or receive rumors or gossip, or to make disparaging or defamatory remarks about anyone." I felt like a student in the back of class wanting to say: "yeah, that never happens."
So I was surprised to read that the subject of one of these fables was Koko the Gorilla.
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Kendra was a research associate for The Gorilla Foundation. As part of her duties, Kendra helped care for Koko, the sign-language talking gorilla.
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BRASILIA – President Dilma Rousseff on Monday hit out at alleged Canadian spying on Brazil's Mining and Energy Ministry, demanding that the United States and its allies stop such practices.
She said on her Twitter account that revelations aired by Globo television Sunday that the Mining and Energy Ministry was targeted by Canadian intelligence "confirm the economic and strategic motives" behind the electronic espionage.
Rousseff said Brasilia wanted explanations from Ottawa, which has mining interests in her country.
Canadian Ambassador to Brazil Jamal Khokhar on Monday was summoned to the Foreign Ministry, where chief diplomat Luiz Alberto Figueiredo delivered a strong protest and demanded an explanation.
But the Canadian government stayed silent on the report, with Defense Ministry spokeswoman Julie Dimambro refusing to comment on foreign intelligence gathering activities.
Sunday's Globo report followed earlier disclosures, also based on documents leaked by ex-U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, that the U.S. National Security Agency snooped on Rousseff's communications with her aides, on phone call and email data of millions of Brazilians as well as on state-run energy giant Petrobras.
Globo cited leaked documents, purportedly from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, showing a detailed outline of the Brazilian ministry's communications, including phone calls, email and Internet traffic.


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MANILA, Philippines >> The ousted Philippine chief justice has indicated that he won't challenge his removal after being convicted at an impeachment trial of failing to declare $2.4 million in his bank account.
Renato Corona's dismissal by a high tribunal last week marked the first time in Philippine history a chief magistrate had been impeached.
Corona issued a statement Sunday saying he was leaving the court, without mentioning any plans to challenge his removal. Corona, however, says he will continue to fight for judicial independence outside of government.
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Best scratch remover???
Well I went to ask advice from my dealership (theyre cool about this type of stuff). Along with the keys to the car they gave my dad a card for a lawyer that deals with traffic tickets.
He said that I should first try a scratch remover type of stuff, like a compound. He said that that will take most out but he said most likely I will have to get my bumper painted.
How much would you think to get a side skirt, back bumper, and front bumper painted. He said a few hundred dollars for it done right.
Gotta rid my rex of my accidental rally marks.
Gotta say, I had it buried somewhat when I entered the gravel and spun. Gravel was thrown 100 feet in any direction. It was sprayed in the bushes and all over the road and the parking lot across the street.
Scary as hell dont do it. I almost had to change my skivvies afterwards. I stopped in the middle of the road and started sweating I was so scared. POTENZAS SUCK!!! I was only doing like 45-50 in a 35mph corner and they gave up the road.
Alright I got 2 estimates for my WRX back bumper and side skirt. 541 and 481. I decided to go to one of those U-Wash places and wash it and then got some wax at the car parts store that was designed to take out scratches in blue cars and it came with a scratch crayon. That got it most of the way out and I dont think Im gonna pay to re-spray.
How much is touch up paint from the dealership?
do you have pics of what needs to be fixed?
i took scratches & paint rub marks off the Jag.
this is the before pic. (crap, the other corner of the bumper had the bad paint rub marks from another car)
here's teh other coner after i detailed it (sorry, my friend didn't take a whole rear when he was taking pics :( )
here's a link to my Range Rover that has been off-roaded & me detailing afterwards
Ok well I waxed her up. Still didnt go away scratches too deep. I picked up some touch up paint because it was so low on the body and un noticable. So I painted it and waxed that paint and it is un noticable now. Just a small dull spot if you are really looking.
OK, I have some scratches on my car...
I just washed it for the first time today and now I have 3 scratches on the hood after going to a place where you wash it yourself. The one on the hood is like 3-4 inches and 2 more are like 1 - 1.5 inches.
What should I get to remove it?
I bought a wax that was designed for blue cars. It really helped on the little stuff! I will go outside and get the name of the wax for you.
Sweet, much <3. How big were your scratches? I don't think mine are extremely deep, but I can feel the biggest one with my finger.
Well let's just say mine were from a branch or log so they were quite big, but the little branch marks came out and I couldn't really feel them, I dont know it was a while ago. I will grab the name here in a minute...I'm too lazy lol.
Thx man, it means a lot. I think my scratches came from the brush at the self-wash place... needless to say, my car is too much of a blessing for it to get any more scratches. I'm gonna have to baby it and do it myself.
[QUOTE=sunchopper]needless to say, my car is too much of a blessing for it to get any more scratches. I'm gonna have to baby it and do it myself.[/QUOTE]
+1 for that. Heck, I bought mine with some scratches on it but I really didn't care about them. I can get that fixed without a problem.
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Prevent Blindness America Announces State Winners of Most Beautiful Eyes Contest
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CHICAGO (Sept. 10, 2013)– Prevent Blindness America has announced the state winners of its 2013 "Most Beautiful Eyes Contest." From June 24- July 31, parents were asked to submit a photo of their child, aged 17 or younger to the Prevent Blindness America Facebook page. From Aug. 1-31, members of the public were encouraged to go online and vote for their favorite entries once per day.
View the photo gallery of Most Beautiful Eyes state winners.
All state winners will receive a free pair of Real Kids Shades (RKS) sunglasses and a copy of the new book, "Jacob's Eye Patch" by Beth Kobliner Shaw and Jacob Shaw. And, all state winners advance to the final round of judging for a chance to win a $10,000 educational scholarship from Marchon Eyewear. Additional contest sponsors include Eagle Eyes® Optics and Walters Golf.
The national winner will be determined by a celebrity panel of judges that includes ORA-TV's Larry King, "Fox NFL Sunday" Host Curt Menefee, actress Barbara Eden, and author and financial journalist Beth Kobliner Shaw. The national winner and two family members will enjoy a weekend in Chicago to attend the Prevent Blindness America Annual Awards Banquet on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, where the scholarship will be officially awarded.
"We want to congratulate all of those who participated by entering and placing their votes. This year, the Contest generated close to 50,000 online votes!" said Hugh R. Parry, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness America. "We hope everyone had a fun time as well as took a moment to remember the importance of healthy vision, especially for our kids."
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MADDOW: He"s the Obama administration"s point man on Iraq. Political crisis over the Iraqi election it was Vice President Joe Biden who flew to Baghdad to try to diffuse the crisis.
When the Iraqi leaders dead-locked on creating a new government Vice President Joe Biden flew to Baghdad to talk to them. When U.S. combat operations officially ended last month, Vice President Joe Biden flew to Baghdad for the official ceremony.
He has been there six times since taking office. While back in D.C., he runs the administration"s monthly meetings on Iraq. And when I spoke with Vice President Biden yesterday, he had just met with the president and with the former commander of the U.S. forces in Iraq, General Ray Odierno.
MADDOW: I know you"re just out of a meeting with General Odierno.
JOE BIDEN, U.S. VICE PRESIDENT: Yes.
MADDOW: The departing commander of the U.S. You"ve been in Iraq a number of times including quite recently. You told "The New York Times" last week--they published the transcript of you speaking with them about Iraq.
And you said, "The bottom line is there are a lot of bad ass 50,000 troops that are left. These guys can shoot straight. Fifty thousand troops in country is still a big, big contingent."
With 50,000, as you put it bad ass troops --
BIDEN: Guys who can shoot.
MADDOW: Guys who can definitely shoot.
BIDEN: And women who can shoot.
MADDOW: I was in there. I know they are.
BIDEN: And the women can shoot, too. By the way.
MADDOW: Yes.
MADDOW: And they are--they are in peril. Since the handover, we have had U.S. killed in action. We have had U.S. wounded in action.
Does it undercut their service and their sacrifice to say this is no longer a combat mission? Why do we need to use that phraseology when it seems like they"re in combat?
BIDEN: No. I"ll tell you why we have to use the phraseology.
Because the Iraqis--we"ve trained up 650,000 Iraqi forces. They actually
and here"s the point, and I know you know this.
They have been taking over since January of last year. We have made a
we made a firm commitment to the Iraqi people and the American people.
One, we get all combat troops out of the city last year. We would get--we would bring down from 100,000 to 50,000 -- which we"ve done--troops in the country this--by this end of this August. And all 50,000 remaining will be out by the end of next year.
We have fundamentally shifted our positions where we are located. So we"re in a very different role. It"s a support role. But we are there in case the Iraqis need additional help to use our combat. And by the way, it was used recently.
You know, so--so it really isn"t--the technical definition of the combat lead means that you"re the commander out there, leading the troops, the Iraqis are behind you, and you"re saying up over the hill and you"re leading the way.
We"re not doing that anymore. But it was very important to--for the sovereignty of the Iraqis to let them know we recognize the fact they are now capable. They are capable. We"ll continue to train them. We"ll continue to help them.
But by the end of next year, we"re out. We"re gone. And so it may be, you know, a bit of a misnomer. But in literal military terms, we are no longer in a combat position. We are doing support. We are protecting American facilities, the embassies. We are protecting American personnel, American citizens and we"re training Iraqis.
MADDOW: One last question. I know your time is short. But on the issue of Iraq, having come back from there, I felt like--if I forget all the history and I just think in very, very broad strokes about the fact that we have had 7 ½ years of American presence in Iraq, a trillion dollars, all of those lives lost. All of the--everything that was spent there in every sense.
To be leaving there with there being no electricity in Baghdad and the suffering that that causes the Iraqi people, the effect that that has on the prospects of stability and peace and civil society taking hold in Iraq after all those years, electricity seems to be not just one of a list of things. It seems like the thing that we could most to do for the Iraqi people if we could do anything.
Why hasn"t that been the U.S. priority, to leave them with at least that to remember us by?
BIDEN: By the way we will. By the time we leave, we will. Number one. Two, I"ve been there 13 -- I don"t know, 14, 15 times. There is a great deal more electricity there was than when the war first started. And when there was before.
MADDOW: In Baghdad.
BIDEN: Well --
MADDOW: In Baghdad, Saddam gave back a lot of power to the rest of the country.
BIDEN: Yes--no, no. No. But nationwide. Nationwide.
MADDOW: Yes.
BIDEN: Thirdly, what"s happened is, as we--as the Iraqi--as we, and now the Iraqis, when they go eliminate the al Qaeda that"s left in Iraq as well as the--there"s a difference between terrorism and insurgency.
The insurgency was out there trying to form a new civil war. It hasn"t worked. It hasn"t taken root. And--but they were also doing a great deal of damage to the electrical infrastructure and the electrical grid and the deliver of services.
This is going to just get better and better and better, but it"s a long process. And we"re going to--look. When we leave Iraq next year, we are not--we are leaving militarily. But we are significantly ramping up our civilian presence.
I mean, significantly. And we are working--I conduct a meeting once a month with the--our folks in Iraq as well as with our every Cabinet member. I have the secretary of commerce, the secretary of education, the secretary of treasury, the secretary of agriculture.
We"re all there working now with the Iraqis. Providing for the ability to help them build their institutions so they can function, including how to make the electric grid function. So that is a process. We"re not walking away from that.
We are--we are increasing our civilian commitment. And we"re trying to work out what they call a--you know, a strategic arrangement long term with them that is not military but it is on the civilian side.
And look. The Iraqis are not in a position now. But by the year 2013, they"re going to be in surplus. By the year 2015, "16, "17 and "18, they"ll--they have enough natural resources to be pumping as much oil as Saudi Arabia.
So this is about stabilizing them, getting the functioning government in place, having eliminated the insurgency, putting the Iraqis in a position they can take care of their own physical security. And now help them to build their institutions.
This is going to work.
MADDOW: It"s going to take a long time.
BIDEN: It is taking--absolutely. Nothing easy about it. But we"re bringing those kids home including my son.
MADDOW: Mr. Vice president, thank you so much for your time.
BIDEN: Thanks.
MADDOW: It"s a real honor to have this much time with you. Thank you, sir.
BIDEN: Well, thank you.
MADDOW: Thanks.
BIDEN: Thank you.
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