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Parking at Wellesley College
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th
8:00 am to 3:00 pm
This website is designed to acquaint you with the Wellesley College Motor Vehicle Parking Rules and Regulations. Whether you maintain a vehicle on campus throughout the year, or have temporary use of a vehicle, you are expected to be familiar with and abide by these regulations.
Specific questions or concerns related to parking on campus can be answered by contacting the Police Department at 781-283-2121 (Ext: 2121 from any campus phone), or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Buckle up! Use your seat belts.
For Emergencies: Police-Fire-Ambulance: 781-283-5555 or Ext 5555
The principal objectives of the parking regulations are to:
- Provide students with the opportunity to maintain a motor vehicle while attending Wellesley College.
- Assure students, employees, visitors and guests have an appropriate place to park.
- Establish and promote a walking campus in order to minimize congestion, noise and safety problems.
- Enforce safety for pedestrians and vehicular traffic.
- Assure that access for emergency vehicles and equipment is maintained at all times.
Employees are typically assigned to general staff parking in the Davis Parking Facility and Gray Lot. Senior employees and those who work in buildings east of Tupelo Lane are assigned to restricted parking areas, such as Founders Lot. Movement from general staff parking areas to restricted parking areas is based primarily on years of service and disability needs. As vacancies in restricted areas become available, eligible employees will be contacted about the vacancy and afforded the opportunity to move from the general parking areas to the restricted parking areas.
Employees must park in their designated parking areas at all times.
Employees with temporary or permanent medical disabilities must request special parking permits directly through Jim Wice, the Director of Disability Services. Medical documentation of an illness or injury may be requested.
Visitor Parking and Registration
Daytime visitors and guests may park in designated visitor parking spaces on each level of the Davis Parking Facility
Overnight visitors/guests must obtain a visitor parking permit at the Police Department. The fee is $2 per night and free on the weekends and holidays.
Students are responsible for the fines incurred by their guests.
Temporary Parking Passes for Temporary Vehicles
Students and employees who have temporary use of a vehicle or a rental must obtain a temporary parking permit for that vehicle if parking on Wellesley College property overnight. Temporary student parking permits and visitor parking permits are available 24 hours a day at the Police Department, which is located in the Davis Parking Facility.
All visitors are required to park in the Davis Parking Facility.
Student Parking Registration 2014-2015
IMPORTANT NOTICE: All returning students wishing to maintain a vehicle on campus for the 2014-2015 academic year must register their vehicles at the Wellesley College Police Department within the first week of the semester. Vehicle registration is located at Campus Police between the hours of 7:30-3:00pm. It is extremely important to register your vehicle in a timely manner to avoid parking citations.
Parking at Wellesley College is a privilege afforded to sophomores, juniors and seniors. All students who wish to maintain a vehicle on campus are required to register it with the Wellesley College Police Department within 24 hours of bringing it here. Registration of your motor vehicles may be completed at the Wellesley College Police Department. There is a fee associated with parking. Students must charge their parking registration fee to their term bill.
Parking Fees:
- Resident Student full year decal:$135.00
- Resident Student 1/2 year decal:$75.00
- Commuter full year decal:$100.00
- Commuter 1/2 year decal: $60.00
Auditor Parking Fees: Please make checks payable to Wellesley College
- Full Year Decal: $85.00
- 1/2 Year Decal: $50.00
- Senior Citizen & Alumnae - Full year decal: $55.00
- Senior Citizen & Alumnae - 1/2 year decal $35.00 per semester
- Retired WC Employees w/10 years of service: $10.00 per year
All students' vehicles must be registered in person by the owner/operator of the vehicle. Parking decals will be issued at the time of registration.
**It is helpful to bring in your vehicle registration and insurance information when registering your vehicle for a parking decal.**
Parking Decal Instructions:
Once your vehicle is registered, place the Wellesley College parking decal on the inside lower right hand corner of the rear driver's side window. All parking decals must be permanently affixed to the window of the vehicle and must be easily read from the outside. Failure to display a current parking permit properly may result in fines and/or towing. All previous parking decals must be removed in order to make identification easier - Scrapers are available at the Wellesley College Police Department.
Again, students must register their own vehicles. If a student falsely registers a vehicle (i.e. having a senior register the vehicle owned by a sophomore or junior in order to receive priority parking), Campus Police will refer both students to General Judiciary and their parking privileges may be revoked.
Miscellaneous Information
- Changes in license plates, makes, models, owners, etc., of a registered vehicle must be reported to the Police Department immediately.
- Vehicles not registered, improperly registered or without proper license plates are subject to towing.
- Vehicles that cannot be readily moved or are inoperable shall be towed
Non-Massachusetts Registration:
Massachusetts Law requires that every non-resident enrolled as a student at a school or college in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who operates a motor vehicle registered in another state or country for more than thirty days within the Commonwealth during any period beginning September 1st of any year and ending August 31st of the following year shall, on or before such thirtieth day, file in triplicate with the police department of the city or town in which said school or college is located on a form approved by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, a statement signed by him/her under penalties of perjury providing the following information: registration number and make of the motor vehicle, and the state or country of registration, the name and address of the owner, the legal residence while attending school or college, and the name of the school or college he/she is attending. Any such non-resident who fails to comply with the provisions of the paragraph shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
Resident Students
Students who live in campus residence halls must park in their designated parking areas and walk from place to place.
First-Year Students
First year resident students are not authorized to bring vehicles to campus.
Sophomores & Juniors
Sophomores and Juniors will receive DC parking decals upon registration and are required to park in the Distribution Center Parking Lots 24 hours a day seven days a week. See picture below.
There is no parking at any time in Gray Lot, Dower Lot, College Club Lots, Sports Center, in front of Munger Hall, Jewett Hill, Pendleton Hill, the Rte. 135 circle by Cazenove and Pomeroy, the West End of the Sports Center, the Trade Center Lot, or in any other area that is not specifically authorized.
Seniors residing in the Tower Court Complex, Lakehouse, Cervantes, Munger and the Hazard Quad must park in the Davis Parking Facility (DPF) on levels 3 and 4 during normal business hours, 7:00am-4:30pm Monday through Friday. After 4:30pm, Monday through Friday, parking is permitted in Gray Lot and Founders Lot until 2am. There is no overnight parking in Gray Lot or Founders Lot Monday through Friday.
Weekend Parking in Staff Lots (Seniors Only)
Seniors may park anytime in Gray Lot and/or Founders Lot on the weekends beginning Friday at 4:30pm. All students must remove their vehicles by 6am Monday morning. Failure to vacate by 6am will result in a parking citation and/or motor vehicle tow.
There is no parking at any time in College Club Lots, Sports Center, Jewett Hill, Pendleton Hill, the Rte 135 circle by Cazenove and Pomeroy or in any other area that is not specifically authorized.
Commuter Students
During business hours (7:30am-4:30pm), commuter students must park their vehicles in the appropriate areas, which include levels 3 and 4 of Davis Parking Facility and the parallel spaces along Christmas Tree Alley adjacent to Gray Lot. Commuting students may not park in Gray Lot during business hours. Commuting students may park in the Founders Lot and Gray Lot after business hours and on weekends provided they vacate by 6am Monday morning. Failure to vacate by 6am will result in a parking citation and/or a motor vehicle tow.
Auditing Students
Auditor students are required to register their vehicle(s) and may only park in the Davis Parking Facility or Gray Lot.
Munger Hall Seniors
The parking spaces in front of Munger Hall are reserved only for seniors residing in Munger Hall on a first come first serve basis. Once occupied, all other Munger Seniors must park in the Davis Parking Facility. In conjunction with the Police Department a special Munger Senior Parking Permit will be provided.
Fire Lanes
All roadways surrounding the residence halls are fire lanes. Parking in a fire lane is strictly prohibited and will result in a parking citation or tow at the owner's expense.
Additional Parking Clarifications:
Students on official business or employed at any college office are expected to park in their designated parking area and walk to that particular office or area.
Students and employees who need to park close to a building to drop off items, unload a vehicle, pick up passengers, may do so by notifying the police office by telephone and reporting the circumstances, make of vehicle, and license plate number. Campus Police may permit temporary parking to accommodate for a reasonable amount of time.
Parking is strictly prohibited in the following areas:
- On any campus road
- On the side of any campus roadway
- In front of any building (residential, academic or administrative)
- On any grass or unpaved area
- on public streets adjacent to the campus
- in any visitor or reserved space
- in any designated fire lane (all roadways surrounding residence halls and academic buildings are fire lanes whether posted or not)
- in any loading area
- in front of any chain or gate
- in reserved parking places
- in handicap areas
- at any bus stop
- on any sidewalk, path or crosswalk
- in front of or along side of a fire hydrant
- at the College Club
- in front of the Campus Center
- in any "RD" Resident Director space near or around the residence halls
- in any parking space behind Claflin and Lake House
- in any parking space along the Lake House roadway
- on Jewett Hill or Pendleton Hill, Claflin, Lake House and Boat House:
There are many parking spaces in the areas around Claflin, Lake House and the Boat House. These parking spaces are designated for the Resident Directors/Area Coordinators and their visitors. The parking spaces near the Boat House are designated for visitors to the Boat House only. Students may not park in these areas at any time.
Visitors and guests of students and employees must park in the Davis Parking Facility. Students and employees are responsible for any violation incurred by their guests.
Snow Removal
Snow removal is difficult under the best conditions, but more so when parked cars are obstructing snow removal equipment. Cars hindering snow removal operations will be towed if necessary. Resident students should keep their cars in their designated parking areas during snow storms unless instructed otherwise by Campus Police. Faculty and Staff parked on the fifth floor of the Davis Parking Facility are urged to move their cars to lower levels of the garage as soon as possible during snow storms.
Damage or Theft
Wellesley College is not responsible for damage or theft insurance of motor vehicles while on college property. Vehicles and their contents cannot be guaranteed against protection loss of any kind. Owners should always lock valuables in the trunk area of the vehicle and consider purchasing anti-theft devices. You can call Campus Police for additional crime prevention measures.
Vacation Periods
Unless otherwise instructed by Campus Police, all motor vehicles must be parked in designated parking areas throughout the year including all breaks and holidays. Vehicles cannot be stored or left on campus during winter or summer break periods without the consent of Campus Police.
Abandonment and Towing
Any vehicle parked on campus property in violation is subject to towing if deemed necessary by a police officer. It is the responsibility of the driver to park legally. Vehicles that are illegally parked may be towed without prior notification to the owner. The following are but some examples of violation:
- Cars registered but inoperable will be towed even from a legal space.
- Cars obstructing fire lanes or other emergency access are subject to immediate towing.
- Charges for towing and storage are the responsibility of the owner.
- Vehicles parked in front of any campus building are subject to towing.
- Vehicles not registered and displaying a proper permit are subject to towing.
- Vehicles parked illegally in handicap areas are subject to immediate towing.
- Students parked in employee areas during business hours are subject to towing.
- Vehicles obstructing snow removal are subject to towing.
Motorcycles and Mopeds
The Police Department advises against bringing any motorcycle-type vehicle to campus because of the extreme vulnerability to theft. Such vehicles are easily loaded into pickup trucks or vans. All the rules and regulations applicable to motor vehicles also apply to motorcycle-type vehicles.
Revocation of Driving Privilege
The privilege to maintain or operate a motor vehicle on the campus may be revoked by the Chief of Police or her designee for continued disregard for rules and regulations, accumulation of 5 or more parking violations during the academic year, flagrant violations, reckless driving or any violation that places the safety and welfare of the community in jeopardy. Individuals who have been notified that their privilege to maintain and/or operate their vehicle on campus has been revoked must remove their vehicle from campus within 24 hours of the revocation notice. Should the vehicle be observed on campus it will be towed and the operator may be subject to further disciplinary action.
Parking Citations may be appealed only if done so according to the instructions on the back side of the citation and within the 14 day period from when the citation was written.
The preferred method for appealing a parking ticket is on-line. Please email email@example.com and provide the citation number in the subject field. Please provide your name, address, phone and your reason for appeal in the body of the email.
If you do not have internet access, appeals can also be made by filling out the form in person at the Wellesley College Police Department. Ticket appeals will not be considered on citations older than 14 days.
Visitors who receive traffic violations while on campus may return such notices to the Campus Police office prior to leaving campus or mail such violation within the 14 day appeal period as stipulated on the reverse of the violation. Subsequent violations by visitors will not be waived and will be subject to billing of all fines imposed. Students and employees are responsible for the fines incurred by their guests. Due to the volume of citation appeals, delays may occur. Do not send in duplicate appeals, as they may slow down the process. Visitors who fail to turn in the yellow copy of their first citation will have the bill sent to their home address.
Billing for Violations
Parking citations are billed through the Cashier's Office at Green Hall and placed on the student's tuition bill. Employees will be billed directly from the Cashier's Office and outstanding fines may be deducted from payroll.
Payment may be received at the Cashier's Office during their normal business hours.
Traffic Laws
All persons operating motor vehicles on Wellesley College property are expected to comply with the motor vehicle and traffic laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Failure to comply with these laws could result in the issuance of a Commonwealth of Massachusetts Motor Vehicle citation.
Operating Under the Influence
Motorists operating vehicles under the influence of intoxicating liquor, marijuana, narcotic drugs, depressants or stimulant substances or the vapors of glue, all as defined in MGL S.1, CH. 94C, shall be arrested and prosecuted under chapter ninety, section twenty-four of the Laws of the Commonwealth.
Personal Safety Tips for Drivers
- Always lock doors and close all windows when leaving your car, whether for a few minutes or overnight.
- Store all packages and valuables in the trunk when leaving the vehicle parked.
- Never pick up hitchhikers.
- As you approach your vehicle, have your keys ready. Check the vehicle for intruders before getting inside and lock your door once you are in the vehicle.
Preventing Auto Theft
Each year more than a million vehicles are stolen in the United States. You should always behave as if your vehicle is at high risk for theft. The typical car thief, professional or amateur, is looking to steal vehicles that offer the least amount of resistance. You should also be aware that the year and model of the vehicle does not matter. Older vehicles may often be sold for parts.
Your objective should always be to remove the risk and reduce the opportunity for theft. Listed below are some measures you might consider:
- Remove the ignition key and secure all doors and windows even while running a quick errand.
- Avoid leaving valuables in the car. Purchases made while shopping should be kept in the trunk and out of sight.
- Consider the purchase and installation of a security device, such as an alarm, locking gas cap, and/or a locator device, such as LoJack.
- Be sure to keep GPS devices and iPods out of plain view while the vehicle is unattended.

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National Debt:
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Incentives, Question, [608] (20.1.2000) WA158.
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I have been interested in the geographic relation of private landlords to their portfolios. Made by possible by a unique spatial analysis of a dataset of registered private rental properties in Scotland, I produced a draft paper on the proximity of landlords to their portfolios and the implications of this for expanding the rented sector. This work in progress was presented at the ENHR conference in Lillehammer, Norway on 26 June 2012.
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China ETF — Guggenheim China Technology ETF (CQQQ)
It's hard to bet on China without some exposure to technology. And if you're technically inclined, this particular China ETF is a great way to bet on China's future.
The Guggenheim China Technology ETF (CQQQ) is the Chinese equivalent of the QQQ. At least 80% of its $70 million in total assets are invested in ADRs or other commonly used depositary receipts. Tracking the AlphaShares China Technology Index, it seeks to follow the universe of publicly-traded companies in China and Hong Kong that participate in the information technology sector.
Rated four stars by Morningstar when compared with 20 other China ETFs, CQQQ invests 24% of its assets in mid caps and another 5% in small caps providing investors with a greater exposure to smaller Chinese stocks. Tencent Holdings (TCEHY) is the largest stock, representing 11.1% of the ETF's portfolio. Relatively expensive when it comes to technology ETFs (with a 0.7% expense ratio), it's not nearly as bad compared to the average MER for China ETFs.
If you don't want to pay the MER but still want technology exposure I'd recommend you buy something like the SPDR Technology Fund (XLK). However, if you don't mind paying for excellence, then you'll do fine by the CQQQ. Just remember that occasionally it can get quite volatile, which isn't uncommon for China ETFs.


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Ok, i just disconnected the water line and the flow is out of this world. (kitchen is now wet) the only thing left i see is some kind of control board under the dish washer and I do not know what this is.
Well, it could. we had a bad lightning storm the preceeding evening before the dish washer quit working. and there was a strike 1 block over from us. : the valve has an electronic sensor on it, is this not the flow meter?


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Benefit cuts will have a devastating impact on poor families, Cabinet minister Vince Cable has admitted.
The Business Secretary said fellow Lib Dem Sarah Teather, sacked in the recent ministerial reshuffle, was right to raise concerns about the Government's flagship £500-a-week benefits cap.
And he pledged his party would ensure the rich also pay by hiking taxes on luxury property and called for a clampdown on tax avoidance by multinational companies.
Mr Cable told the BBC: "We've got to cap the housing benefit element while at the same time increasing the supply of affordable housing. That is critical because without that, you will have serious social consequences, which Sarah has quite rightly warned about."
Mr Cable's remarks come as ministers seek to slash up to £10billion more from the welfare budget.
A two-year freeze in Jobseekers' Allowance and Income Support is on the cards as Chancellor George Osborne tries to fill a hole left by the weak economy. Ms Teather has branded the benefits cap "immoral" and warned hard-up families will be driven out of some areas when it comes in next April.
Mr Cable insisted the cap would stop landlords making a fortune out of taxpayers via housing benefit.
But The National Audit Office warned it will leave families unable to find affordable homes across half of Britain within five years.
Ministers are banking on landlords lowering their prices but have little idea what will actually happen, the spending watchdog said.
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cure for the sound of Analog and the convenience of
- the Amarra Playback
Software and the Weiss Minerva Firewire DAC
There have been some interesting breakthroughs in the world of digital audio… mostly for convenience reasons through, I should add. CES '09 was a real eye opener. I'd say about 30% of the rooms had some sort of PC based audio playback device that would convert USB to SP/DIF. Most of the ones I had seen made me chuckle a bit inside, as they just didn't seem to get it.
The majority of them seemed to have just "jumped on the bandwagon." Hey, look… I've got a magic box that will convert USB to SP/DIF… $399. What?? Most of these little boxes were just the run-of-the-mill delta sigma chipset that would do a maximum 48 KHz sample rate at 16 bits. For the casual CD listener this might suffice. There are a lot of other things at play here that are like the icing on the cake.
I suppose by now just about everyone has heard of Sonic Studio's newest inception: Amarra. At first, I just didn't buy it. I had heard a few flawed demos involving several other pieces in the chain manipulating the audio signal and it just sounded too stale to me. Essentially, what Amarra does is play back audio files using iTunes as its GUI. It skips the playback portion of iTunes and uses its own mathematical equations to compute the audio data. Sonic Studios claim bit perfect output! Is it? Well, while I will admit I do not have the correct measuring equipment to prove this, I will say that it does sound quite different. More on this later…
I stumbled upon a room that was using not only Amarra, but the Weiss Minerva DAC. "What a simple looking device," I thought. 3 buttons, 3 LED's and that's it. No fancy display, no esoteric buttons and knobs to twiddle. Where the real magic is, is inside. This DAC was made from the ground up to operate on the Firewire bus of a computer. There are a lot of audiophiles out there that don't understand the differences between USB and Firewire, so I will divulge just a little bit (back to the Weiss in a moment.)
USB was originally created years ago to try and get rid of the serial port on the PC. This serial port was extremely limited in bandwidth, and was used mainly for a mouse or a modem. USB, or universal serial bus, replaced it claiming not only faster speeds, but plug and play. Plug and play wasn't really streamlined until Windows XP came out, in my opinion, but by now I'm sure everyone has a memory thumb stick or a USB mouse/keyboard. These days it's quite simple: you plug it in, and, 90% of the time, the PC recognizes it—wham, there it is on your screen. For the PC-based audio world, there are quite a few limitations that have only been overcome by some of the best programmers out there. Mainly, out of the box USB is very generic. 90% of the USB DAC's on the market today use the same off-the-shelf chip, not only limited in bit rate, but also in the way it shares data bandwidth with the rest of the computer's devices. One interesting fact: Firewire was created first as an audio/video transport. USB was created first as a data transport.
I don't want this article to get too technical here, as there are hundreds of articles on the web about the differences of Firewire and USB. USB is really catching up; I will not dismiss several companies out there that embrace the interface by creating their own subset of drivers and code to get the best out of it. In my opinion, Firewire still has it beat. USB's overhead is reliant on the CPU of the computer, which as you might know is doing lots of things at once. It wouldn't be a computer if otherwise! The beauty of Firewire is that it is its own manager. All of the overhead is on the device itself and that is it. The bad thing is that most devices that embrace Firewire aren't cheap. They have to be designed from the ground up, which takes lots of time and money. The end result, though, is something interesting…
Back to the Weiss unit—when at CES I stepped into a room and heard some real magic. It was all run by a Mac book using iTunes and Amarra through the Firewire interface to the Weiss. How to describe it? No ice pick stuck in one's ear! Very rich, detailed, with a notably open soundstage. I started to do some reading on this unit, and the specs were very impressive. You can even use it as your system's preamp if you are after the minimal approach (has a volume control feature.) Where this unit really shines is its extremely high sample rate capabilities. If you haven't paid a visit to www.hdtracks.com, you might want to spend a few minutes to get an overview of what to expect. This site offers re-mastered audio in high resolution for playback on these types of DAC's, and let me tell you it's really starting to get good. Gone are those nasty digital artifacts and what some of my Analog loving friends refer to as "digititis." The timing and the beat is back my friends. The air, the soundstage, the presence; these are the things the Vinyl junkies will talk about for hours on end!
Trust me—I get it. I have heard some of the nicest Analog rigs out there and let me tell you, there is just nothing like it. I think we're getting close though. What I've been recently having fun with are high resolution digital recordings of Vinyl/Tape records. Most of these are recorded from people that own all of the gear and software to lay down a nice digital version of the analog giant. It's not too expensive, considering that the turntable and the phono stage is where most of the money is invested. All you need aside from that is an ADC, or analog to digital convertor. There are 100's of these on the market today, Firewire and USB. On top of that you will need some decent recording software (another forté of Sonic Studios) to record and cut up the songs with. I intend on getting more into this with another article in the future.
The Weiss unit sports not only two Firewire interfaces (as one can daisy-chain these devices) but also fully balanced outputs if one desires. Not only that, but it can be interfaced with several other Weiss units that perform other digital type duties. It's quite compact in size and blends in quite well with other equipment (doesn't steal the show.) It would be nice if they offered a black faced bezel if one preferred, but for now it's silver.
So, what about the sound? Well, the real intent of this article is to describe the synergy of both Amarra and Weiss. It wasn't until these two were put together that I was really impressed. There seems to be a certain magic with using this duo together, considering Amarra was originally written to work with this unit as well with their own proprietary suite of DAC's and other pro-audio-related gear. A huge feature that I found beneficial –is the ability for auto sample rate switching. I'll describe my life pre-Amarra: Let's say you are listening to a standard audio CD consisting of 16-bit/44.1 KHz, which 90% of your library probably is. You then decide that you want to throw on that higher resolution version of the album with the flick of a remote control. Well, iTunes will output the music, but not in its native sample rate. One must first shut down iTunes, go into the audio setup applet on the Mac, and change its sample rate output to match that of the music. Then, you launch iTunes and play back the music. Wait a second, isn't this all about convenience here? Amarra will automatically adjust these settings on the fly depending on the music being played.
As it stands, there are limitations with Amarra's file formats. It will currently only play back uncompressed audio—yes, even lossless compression doesn't qualify. This is a huge drawback, in my opinion. But, according to Sonic Studio's Jon Reichbach, this will change soon. I personally have 90% of my audio stored in Apple Lossless, since it does save me about 30% of disc space this way. There are some stipulations that fully uncompressed audio sounds better than apple lossless due to the CPU overhead of real-time uncompressing, but this is something I've not witnessed just yet (and refuse to get into on this article.) Yes, hard drives are getting cheap, so who cares, right? Well, I personally have data redundancy (RAID 5) so it's not as cheap as it seems. When you've got as much data I do, you really don't want to rely on one single hard drive and no backup. Ripping CDs and movies takes a lot of time and patience, and considering the fact that most hard drives these days average about two years life expectancy, you're just asking for trouble if you don't protect your investment of time and effort.
Anyway, as mentioned earlier, Amarra is simply a plug-in for iTunes. Its options are limited, which in my opinion is a good thing. Playback is happening in real-time with iTunes, so basically the file you're listening to is playing back from both iTunes and Amarra at the same time. When Amarra is enabled, it simply mutes iTunes. This comes in handy when doing A-B comparisons. When Amarra is disabled, it stops processing the file and un-mutes iTunes. There are minute delays but nothing too difficult to deal with. A few other features of Amarra: a built-in equalizer and dither control. I haven't had much time to play with the equalizer, but it seems quite powerful, offering high shelf, parametric and low shelf adjustments. On another menu, there are dithering options allowing one to turn on dither if you are applying any gain in the digital spectrum (something you should do according to Jon Reichbach). I've also tried using it either to bring 16-bit medium to 24-bit; I preferred this setting for my 16/44.1 material.
A spectrograph capture of the analog waveform recorded from vinyl. As you can see, it goes way beyond the standard 22 KHz Nyquist filter from a Redbook mastered CD. Here's the life of the recording!
So far I've been having quite a bit of fun with the duo. I've had some friends over that scoff at 'all that is digital' and have really blown their minds when exposed to what the combo can do musically. No one has left a demo I've given without having their thoughts on digital changed. I've played back vinyl both on my turntable and through Amarra (once recorded in 24-bit 96 kHz), and the results were staggering. Back is the soundstage, the presence, the airy magic. It's quite amazing and what's even cooler is that I can now control the music via my iPhone (or iPod touch) with the flick of a finger. I think a solution is finally here for the Analog junkies. You will have to invest in a bit more equipment here, but think about the possibilities, the convenience of PC-based audio playback, without having to wear out your wax. No more fussing with the cleaning rituals (although most analog junkies attest to this being quite a spiritual experience and enjoyable!)
In the end, this has been quite a journey, and also the pinnacle of my PC-audio-based life as I know it. Amarra now works with most off the shelf DAC's, even allowing sample rate changes (albeit limited based on the actual DAC itself as far as sample rates go), and also offers a 30 day evaluation period to really get to know how it sounds. The price is a little high, but you have to remember Sonic Studio is no newbie in the business. They've been developing studio grade software for years and have really mastered the industry (no pun intended.) You can't go wrong here, playback software that offers the convenience of iTunes and the audio quality of how it was originally recorded.
The Weiss DAC is probably the best I've ever heard, encompassing custom hardware and software geared for the highest fidelity audio playback possible, along with its own clock source to eliminate jitter over Firewire's Asynchronous communication method. I think that the real synergy here is both with the DAC and the software playing back the music though. As far as I'm concerned, this combination just can't be beat for sound quality. I will also add that I have heard Amarra on systems with their own DAC, and could not hear the differences when Amarra was toggled on and off as much as I could in my system.
Can you hear the difference? You be the judge; from me—two thumbs up for changing not only my own views, but the stubborn views of some of the most stubborn Analog junkies on the planet!
Weiss www.weiss-highend.ch
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Retiree Les Moseley keeps meaning to slow down. Now in his 70s, Moseley volunteers up to four days a week at the Art Gallery of NSW, in-between looking after his grandchildren, helping his wife in the garden and catching up with friends and family.
"Everyone thinks I do too much," he says. "They can't understand how I can do four days a week volunteering. I keep on saying I'll slow down, but another exhibition comes along and I think, 'that sounds interesting'."
While he may sound busy for a man who retired at age 60 from being a primary school principal, Moseley's active lifestyle is the new norm for older Australians, according to research from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
While most Australians still retire at 65, there has been a slow but steady increase in those continuing to work full- and part-time. Apart from working, the research shows that 65-74 is the decade of life when people are most likely to volunteer in a community group and care for other people's children (usually their grandchildren).
And contrary to the stereotype of old meaning infirm, three-quarters of those aged 65-74 rate their health as good or better.
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It is also at odds with the self-reported health of this cohort. More than 90 per cent of respondents to the ABS "Australian Health" survey rated their health as fair or above. About 13 per cent said their health was excellent, 60 per cent "very good or good" and about 17 per cent "fair".
One striking aspect of the data is the steady increase in the number of people working beyond the age of 65. The percentage of Australians aged 65-74 working full- or part-time increased by one-third between 2006 and 2011 to 16.2 per cent.
The number of 65- to 74-year-olds working full-time in that period jumped by 43,000 to almost 124,000, while the number working part-time increased by almost 54,000 to about 140,000. This doesn't include older Australians who want to work but can't find a job.
According to the research, the quest for work is a function of financial necessity and a desire to remain active and stimulated.
"Working is becoming more and more what people want and what they are seeking," Ryan says.
"The main barrier is age discrimination in the minds of employers. The fear is if they are over 65, they'll have too many health issues."
In fact, she says, the reality is that most people are quite active until close to the end of their lives. "I have many friends who are working [full-time] and others who are working part-time. They may not be working at the same pace as 10 years ago, but they are doing stuff."
Ryan's long-term goal is for older Australians to continue working in large numbers until their 70s. "What I would like to see is the workforce participation rate stay at the [early 50s] level [about 70 per cent] until about [age] 70," Ryan says.
"Seventy at 70. It's an entirely reasonable objective and it's certainly what people want."
The economic benefits would be enormous. Lobby group National Seniors Australia estimates that the underemployment of older Australians – where the elderly can't find a job or want more work but can't find it – costs the economy about $10.8 billion a year.
Apart from paid work, volunteering and unpaid child care peaks in the 65-74 age group. More than one in five do some sort of community work and about one in six care for other people's children (which in most cases will be their grandchi;dren or other younger relatives).
Moseley says he was lucky that his superannuation cut in at the early age of 60, allowing him to be able to choose volunteering rather than paid work.
"I do think that it is a luxury that [I've] been able to retire at 60," he says. "When I retired, I didn't have any plans.
"I knew I wasn't going to play golf twice a week and I wasn't go to go fishing.
"I could have gone into paid employment but it didn't occur to me. But when the opportunity came along, I did the guiding."
In addition to being a veteran volunteer guide at the art gallery, Moseley is vice-president of the Art Gallery Society Council.
"The original commitment was two days a week, but I've got a tendency to say yes a bit."
Moseley talks with the passion of someone who has, by accident, found a new lease on life.
"There is some truth that when you give something, you get something back. I'd like to think we're doing something for the cultural side of Sydney," he says.
"And because of the volunteer work, [I feel] I have a very stimulating life."
He has some words of wisdom for others: "For people retiring, don't plan too heavily, just let things happen. But take the opportunity and get out there."
The Australian Financial Review


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The second half of the season is typically very kind to Suns point guard Goran Dragic.
When Dragic was a rookie in 2008-09, he barely sniffed the court in the first half of the season before coming on strong to earn a spot in the rotation during the second half of the year. Then, with Houston last season, Dragic started steadily before eventually tearing up the competition after the All-Star break.
The 2012-13 campaign appears to be no different.
"The sky is the limit for him," Suns Head Coach Lindsey Hunter said. "I really like the way he approaches the game and how nasty he gets at times. That's a part of who he is and what makes him great."
With the Rockets last season, Dragic captured Western Conference Player of the Week honors after averaging 20.7 points, 8.3 assists and 2.7 steals. That offensive outburst came from April 2-8, but this season's statistical explosion has arrived much earlier than last year's.
At the All-Star break, Dragic and Miami's LeBron James were the only two NBA players leading their teams in points, assists, steals and free throw attempts. Since the break, no other NBA player has recorded more assists than the 6-3 Slovenian.
In fact, the Suns' floor leader posted at least 10 points, 10 assists and two steals in four-straight games for the first time in his career. And that was the first time a Sun has uncorked a streak of that kind since Jason Kidd did so in 1999.
His four consecutive games of double-digit assists were also a career-best for Dragic, who credited the All-Star break with giving him opportunity to recharge his batteries.
"The (All-Star) break was great for me," he said. "More than physical, it was good for me mentally to rest."
There was no better proof of that than in his first game after All-Star Weekend. Against Portland, Dragic scored 16 points and dished out a career-high 18 assists in a Suns road win. With that effort, he joined Boston's Rajon Rondo and Detroit's Jose Calderon as the only players this season to record at least 18 assists in a game.
However, Dragic is the sole player in the league to record at least 16 points and 18 assists in a game this season. Along with the Clippers' Chris Paul, the Thunder's Russell Westbrook, the Warriors' Stephen Curry, the Nuggets' Ty Lawson and the Heat's LeBron James, the Suns' fifth-year veteran is the only other NBA player averaging better than 14.0 points, 6.0 assists and 1.5 steals.
Dragic is on pace to become only the fourth Sun in franchise history to do accomplish that feat in an entire season.
"Most of those assists are from March (center Marcin Gortat) rolling and sucking the defense in so I can find the open shooters," Dragic said. "Or if he's open, he'll finish some easy layups. And I think our spacing is better than before, too".
Since the All-Star break, Dragic is averaging 15.3 points, 10.7 assists and 2.3 steals a game, which could just be the result of so many new faces finally coming together.
"He's someone that gets better throughout the season," Suns swingman Jared Dudley said. "Sometimes it takes a while with guys and I think playing with a lot of new guys this year, you just start to play better at the end of the season."
With improved chemistry among the players, Dragic now has a better feel for where his teammates will be and what they will likely do. Now he can read each situation better.
"As a former point guard, I always encourage him to be himself but learn how to get better," Hunter said. "I've always felt that taking a guard's aggressiveness away from him was never good for him.
"Goran can still learn how to facilitate out of his aggressiveness. I would never tell him not to take a shot or not to do this, I would just tell him to think about the situation."
It's obvious that the Suns playmaker has been listening to his coach.
"If the guy goes under on the pick-and-roll and the big guy goes with the guy, I'm going to be open and I have to take that shot," Dragic said. "But sometimes, they double-team me and I have to pass the ball. So you just have to read it."
Hunter, who sees a lot of the Spurs' Manu Ginobili in Dragic, has been impressed with his point guard's athleticism.
"He's a lot faster and stronger than people expect him to be," the Suns' first-year coach said. "Not a lot of guards understand how strong he is until they match up against him. And there is still a lot of room to grow."
Although Hunter would like to see Dragic improve in an array of areas, he believes Dragic's game will go to another level once he develops his mid-range game more. The new Suns head coach is asking his leading scorer to be point man on the defensive end, too.
Controlling the defense is not easy when he's already playing a career-high 33 minutes a game, but Hunter believes he's fully capable of it.
"He has all the ability in the world to play defense," Hunter said. "He's more than athletic enough, and he's longer and bigger than most point guards. He can be a terror out there on defense and that's what I'm challenging him to be."
The 26-year-old guard already has at least one steal in 44 of 58 games this season and has multiple steals in 28 of 58 contests, which are the most multiple-steal games by a Sun since Shawn Marion during the 2006-07 season.
To put it in perspective, Dragic is not only leading the charge defensively, but he also has more double-digit scoring games and 20-point efforts this season than any other Sun. Throw in the fact that he's 11th-best in the league in total assists and one can understand where his future could be headed.
"If he keeps going the way that he's going, he can reach the All-Star level," Hunter said. "I think he's that type of athlete and he has that type of drive in him. And he can be an All-Star point guard in this league."


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The main focus of the British military effort in the Great War was on the Western Front. The other theatres of war were what amounted to costly sideshows - some major - in Africa (East, West and Southwest) the Dardanelles, Mesopotamia, Palestine and Salonika.
The British could only prosecute the war in all these theatres of war if a guaranteed uninterrupted supply of material and manpower could be ensured to and from the homeland - Great Britain. And provided that an equally vital unimpeded contact was maintained with Britain's allies, neutral suppliers and the battlefields of the British overseas armies.
Therefore, from the outset of the Great War, it was Britain's and its Allies principal aim to ensure an uninterrupted flow of this material and manpower. And it was the Axis Powers' equally firm intention to interrupt this flow to the maximum extent possible.
A separate consideration for the British was the interdiction of the German maritime supply routes by a naval blockade of the German ports. This aspiration for an efficacious Naval Blockade in time of war is almost as old as the Royal Navy itself. The principal role of the Royal Navy has always been to impose a military and economic blockade on its enemies whilst protecting the Britain's own Merchant Marine trade routes from interruption.
Naval establishments
In 1914, the Royal Navy had a battle fleet of 24 modern dreadnought battleships, nine pre-dreadnoughts,10 battlecruisers, around 200 cruisers, a similar number of destroyers and numerous torpedo boats. This fleet continued to grow as the war progressed. There were also 57 submarines - 17 ocean-going and 40 coastal - rising to a total of 137 in service by 1918. Additionally there were the semi-autonomous naval fleets of the Dominions - Canada, Australia and New Zealand. At the outbreak of the Great War these ships were immediately put at the disposal of the Mother country. All in all, numerically, the British Navy was by far the most potent naval force in the world, and would remain so for the duration of the Great War. Technologically, the Germans would maintain their pre-eminence.
Initially, the German Navy's response was to concentrate on attacks on the Royal Navy warships by its warships, 10 operational submarines, numerous torpedo boats, and with the lying of mines. It met with some success. A single submarine, U-9, torpedoed HMS Cressy, Aboukir and Hogue, all armoured cruisers, on the 22nd September 1914 and a German mine off the Irish coast sank HMS Audacious on the 27th October 1914; 1,500 sailors were killed.
The British initial response at the outbreak of war was to withdraw most of the Grand Fleet to the Irish Sea, until the naval bases at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys, and Rosythe in Northern Scotland, were considered sufficiently well protected against German warships, submarines and mines. Smaller concentrations of the British Battle Fleet were located around Dover and Harwich in Southeast England and in the Mediterranean.
The submarine factor
As the Rules of Submarine Warfare stood at the outbreak of war, submarines could be used against enemy warships with no restriction - although some commanders on both sides considered their use to be unethical. As for merchant ships, the rules required that the target ship should be stopped, boarded and its status as a belligerent, or a non-belligerent nation established. If the vessel belonged to the enemy, or was transporting material on its behalf, the attackers would allow the ship's crew to take to the ship's lifeboats before using scuttling, torpedoes, gunfire or explosives to sink it. Some ships of the more valuable enemy ships and cargoes would be taken as prizes.
However, these same rules allowed merchant ships to arm themselves against such attacks by submarines, or other craft. During the war, particularly in the latter part, increasing numbers of merchant ships of the belligerent nations were appropriately armed.
Realising the dangers of attacking British warships when compared with the relatively risk-free and highly productive sinking of merchant ships, the Germans quickly targeted some of their available lighter warships and submarines on the British merchantmen. In early 1915, they began a co-ordinated campaign by both warships and submarines against the Allied merchant shipping world wide. The Germans called this campaign the Handelskrieg - Trade Warfare.
At the beginning of the war, submarines of all the belligerents lacked deck guns. So to sink ships they were restricted to using the limited numbers of torpedoes that they could carry aboard, making the mining and/or scuttling of the captured merchant ships by far the preferred option. As the German submarines became progressively armed with deck guns, gunnery became the favoured method of sinking the Allied commercial ships, especially those with smaller tonnage. The small numbers of torpedoes that could be carried on board could then be reserved for the sinking of the larger commercial vessels and warships.
Towards the end of 1914, even before the British Grand Fleet was sequestered in safe harbours, the thoughts of the British naval commanders turned to how the attacks by the German submarines on the British merchant marine could be countered on a global scale. Since the arming of all merchant ships was an impossible immediate proposition, due to the shortage of suitable naval and artillery pieces in the early days of the war, the British decided that stealth might succeed where brute force was not available.
The decoy ships
In November 1914, whilst progressively directing as many destroyers and other smaller craft as could be spared into anti-submarine duty, the British (and French) created the first of a small flotilla of decoy ships to expressly deal with the German U-boats. These ships came to be known as Q-ships. But they were also known as Mystery Ships, Decoy Ships or Special Service Ships. The class designation 'Q' is said to have been derived from the British naval base at Queenstown, in Ireland, where many of these ships were based. The majority of the Royal Navy's Q-ships was quite small in size - less than 4,000 tons - and included sailing ships, tramp steamers, coasters, colliers, fishing boats and marine tugs. They were deliberately kept or made to look old and run down, and usually bore a false name. Often, various false names were used at different times. The ship would often be painted in the colours of neutral nations and the silhouette of the ship changed by additions to the superstructure and by the erection of dummy funnels and masts.
The first Royal Navy Q-ships were armed with three main guns; one 4-inch (102mm) naval gun and two 12-pounder artillery guns and - from 1915 - depth charges. Later in the war the number and calibre of the guns aboard was increased. Additional armaments that were carried on the ships included machine guns, depth charges and, on the later Q-ships, torpedoes.
The guns and other armaments were hidden behind false, hinged, bulwarks, dummy super-structure, deck cargo, and inside deck boats. When the Q-ships became increasingly subject to torpedoing themselves, efforts were made to counteract flooding by installing buoyancy material below decks.
The modus operandi of the Q-ship was simple. It would fly the flag of a non-belligerent (neutral) nation. When approached by a German U-boat, it would play the role of an innocent seafarer: even to the point of lowering in simulated panic a life-boat containing some of the crew in civilian dress, including 'females'. Once the Germans had seized the bait, and had drawn close enough to be able to hail the vessel and board it, or open fire, the crew would raise the White Ensign, proclaiming its nationality, reveal its guns and open fire first. Providing the White Ensign was raised before firing began, the ruse was permissible within the Rules of Submarine Warfare. One must suppose that at some point both sides would begin to feel they were taking part in a dark, dangerous, game of charades with very high stakes indeed.
In November 1914, the first British Q-ship, the British Victoria, went into service, as did the French decoy ship, Marguerite. The Russians and the Italians also employed a small number of decoy ships.
The first successful action of a Q-ship against a U-boat took place in July 1915 when the Prince Charles, a former coaster of 373 tons, sank U-36.
Various sources give the total number of Royal Navy Q-ships in service as between 220 and 400 (probably it was close to 366) and the French 15. The consensus on the number of Royal Navy Q-ships lost in action is 61 - the French losses were two. During the war the British Q-ships and the French decoy ships collectively claimed responsibility for the sinking of 11 U-boats; 30% of all the German submarines that were sank on the surface during the war.
Another British ruse was for a fishing trawler to tow a submerged submarine connected to the trawler by telephone. When the German U-boat approached the decoy, the British submarine would surface and attack the U-boat by gunfire. At least one U-boat fell to this ruse; U-40 in June 1915. The British submarine was C24, which was towed by the Taranaki.
As time passed, and the numbers of Q-ships on the High-Seas increased, the Germans became increasingly wary and frequently avoided approaching close enough to the Q-ship to carry out a surface attack, settling the matter with a long range torpedo shot. Accordingly, the pickings for the Q-ships became slimmer and, despite all the ruses they employed, costly in ships and men. By 1917, the results had declined markedly; although the numbers of Q-ships had increased considerably and included one built specifically for the purpose, i.e. Hyderabad. Even so, U-34 was sunk by Q-19 in 1918.
The toll of the decoy ships
On the face of it, the sinking of only 11 U-boats for a loss of 76 British Q-ships and French decoy ships, and the enormous cost in men and material utilised in mounting the Q-ship campaign, does not seem to give a very worthwhile return. But into the balance of account must be put the psychological and deterrent effect that the campaign had on the German U-boat crews, and thus the inevitable decrease in the amount of despoliation they were able to inflict on Allied and Neutral commercial shipping across the Globe.
The Germans also employed a version of the British Q-ship - the Auxiliary Commerce Raider (ACR). But these ACR's flew the flags of neutral nations at all times and were aimed specifically at surface vessels - predominantly merchant ships. Most were former auxiliary minelayers - so looked like warships, unless disguised - but did include a large sailing ship, the Staedler. This wooden decoy ship was eminently successful in alone claiming 10 ships in the Southern Ocean before it was itself destroyed. Other decoy ships that became famous in the German press were the Mowe and the Wolf.
In addition to the Q-ships, the Royal Navy also mounted rather less stealthy measures by placing heavy cruiser-grade guns on large, fast, former passenger liners. One formation of such ships - The 10th Cruiser Squadron, with 20-Armed Merchant Cruisers (AMC's) - was deployed for much of the war in the shipping lanes between Britain and Iceland.
All the major combatant navies used AMC's in the Great War, but Britain's force was considerably the largest. Germany primarily employed its AMC's in an offensive role as Sea and Ocean Commerce Raiders. But by 1915 the Allies had quickly eliminated them. These German AMC's had wrought considerable angst across the Seven Seas whilst they lasted.
Allied losses of AMC's to torpedoes and mines were high, with the French Navy's losses proportionally heavy at 17, whilst the British were 12. Later in the war the Allies used their AMC's widely for troop transportation and as hospital ships.
Smaller British liners were armed and put into service in a whole range of wartime duties as Commissioned Escort Ships (CES's) and Armed Boarding Vessels (ABV's). British merchant ships that were provided with anti-submarine devices were given the general nomenclature of Armed Merchant Ships (AMS's).
The outcome of all this deception, allied with the arming of the merchant and commercial shipping of the belligerent nations, was a ruthless level of warfare that was at least as relentless and destructive as that which was waged on land. The bottoms of the seas and the oceans of the world are still carpeted with the detritus of men, cargo and ships that this merciless war afloat wrought. The tragedy was, 21 years later, when not even a generation had passed, the entire scenario was destined to run again for another five years.


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CLEARWATER — Donnie Abraham, the former Tampa Bay Buccaneer standout and Gibbs coach, embarked on an exploration Monday.
Named the successor to Clearwater coach Tom Bostic last month, Abraham's mission — at least for now — is to learn the schemes and players. After that, he will try to harness the playing styles to develop a system to his liking.
"I'm still kind of feeling my way through things," Abraham said. "But I feel at home on a football field and feel pretty good about coming here. I've been able to look at some film and got to know some of the players and coaches. I'm just doing a lot of evaluating right now."
In July, Clearwater announced it was looking for a coach in waiting to replace Bostic, who is retiring after 30 years at the school. The Tornadoes wanted to think out a transition without quick-hire urgency, to nail down the guy they wanted and remove uncertainty for players who might otherwise transfer.
Abraham said he heard rumblings about the position but didn't realize it had become official until reading about it in the Tampa Bay Times. He applied July 18 and was hired a week later.
"Everything came about real fast," Abraham said. "Clearwater has always had a tremendous program and Bostic has done a great job. Everything is in place here to succeed. And I admire the administration sticking with their philosophy on finding a coach-in-waiting and not falling to the pressure from everyone else to do something different.
"But my job right now is to be an assistant and help out wherever I can."
The Tornadoes had about 30 players for their first practice. One player not coming to Clearwater is Abraham's son, Devin, a wide receiver/defensive back at East Lake.
"Devin is settled there at East Lake," Abraham said. "It's his home school and they're building something special there. But if he ever came to me and said he wanted to come here, I wouldn't hesitate in taking him."
Now that father and son are at different schools, the rivalry has begun.
"I already told him I'm not wearing any more blue in our house," Abraham said. "It's all red for me. I'm excited about getting started and helping turn this thing around."


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For as big as he is, it always amazes how athletic and how quick his feet are. He flipped between left and right tackle and although a move inside to guard in college is probable, if he were to lose say 40 pounds or so, with his increased quickness by the weight loss, there is no doubt he could play right tackle in college.
On the recruiting front, Mama recently set up his third official visit.
"I'm going to Notre Dame (Oct 18)," Mama said Friday night after the game. "That should be fun, there's a lot of West Coast players going that weekend and I'm looking forward to going and hanging out with them. I know Juju (Smith) and Tyler (Luatua) will be there and were all real close so it should be good."
"I still have Wisconsin set for (Oct. 12) and Alabama for (Nov. 8). I'm not sure on my last two trips yet. I know I'll take them but I'm still figuring out where. I could be Florida or Ohio State. I've been to BYU, UCLA and USC several times so I don't think I need to do an official visit there."
Mama attended the UCLA-Nevada game two weeks and was planning to attend the USC game this past Saturday as well.
"The UCLA game was cool, they looked real good," Mama said. "I liked the atmosphere a lot and they got the running game going. Coach (Adrian) Klemm was at the game tonight and that was cool to see him. After a few blocks I had, I made sure to look over and make sure he noticed.
"I'll be going to the USC game tomorrow with Washington State and will also try and make it for the game with Boston College. I enjoy going to the games so every weekend I have a chance, I'll try and go watch either USC or UCLA play."
Editors note- We talked to Mama Friday night after his game but weren't able to reach him following the game with Washington State to get his post-game reaction.


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Hill, Richard M. & Carney, Leo G. (1976) Extended wear systems. Contact Lens Forum, October, pp. 29-31.
The phase "permenant wear" seems now to be a well established one in the lexicon of contact lens practice. Unfortuunately it can also be a misleading one to the patient, who may take it as a tacit promise that one fitted the matter has been taken care of for his wearing lifetime.
Since it is highly unlikely that even the best systems in the horizon will even approaach such a lifetime concept, perhaps a more realistic description would be extended wear. Although certainly not originaal with us, we do feel that the phrasing imparts a more appropriate sense of moderate optimism by suggesting more than a waking day, yet somewhat less then a lifetime - a quality which, with some care in usage, can hopefully be produced for a considerable time to come.
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March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month
In observance of Colon Cancer Awareness Month, the Southwestern Endoscopy Center at Cherry Tree Medical Park in Uniontown is taking part in "Dress in Blue Day" on Fridayas a way to bring awareness to and educate people on the risks of colon cancer.
"Dress in Blue Day" is a part of a national campaign organized by the Colon Cancer Alliance as a way to raise awareness about colon cancer, celebrate survivors, and help patients in need during the month of March.
"This program is for anyone who is involved with colon cancer, whether you've had a colonoscopy or know someone who has. Everyone that day dresses in blue as an awareness of colon cancer," said Sally Calabrese of Southwestern Endoscopy Center in Uniontown.
The center will be kicking off the month by educating people with posters, distributing stickers and pins, and having physicians available as a source of information.
"A 30-minute colonoscopy can save your life," Calabrese said. "That's all it takes. People have a little bit of a stigma about going in for a colonoscopy, but it's very non-invasive."
A colonoscopy works as a cancer preventative measure, because it facilitates the removal of pre-cancerous growths.
Colon cancer is diagnosed in roughly 150,000 Americans each year. Approximately 50,000 people die of colon cancer annually in this country, making colon cancer the second-leading cancer killer behind lung cancer. The American Cancer Society now recommends that everyone have a colonoscopy every 10 years beginning at age 50.
"We're just trying to raise awareness, because this is definitely a preventable type of disease," Calabrese said.
The Southwestern Endoscopy Center is located at 300 Spring Creek Lane in Cherry Tree Park, Uniontown. The center is operated by five board-certified gastrointestinal physicians and is fully equipped with a full-service gastrointestinal group and endoscopy center. For more information, call 724-437-7677.


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Most teachers and parents would cringe at hearing that Robert Kyncl tells his children to "put that book down and watch some more YouTube". Yet this is not so much an admission from the LA-based executive as a statement of pride. But then, what can you expect? Kyncl is YouTube's global head of business.
The 42-year old Czech is telling me this from inside a glass pod at Google's London HQ. He explains: "I had an amazing moment when I came home one day and my daughter was showing me an animation on YouTube.
I thought, 'Oh, that's kind of basic, but it's nice.' Then she said, 'I made this.' I asked, 'How did you code the animations?' I don't know how to code, but she had learned it from the Khan Academy. That was the moment when I said, 'Put that book down and watch some more YouTube'."
The Khan Academy, for the unfamiliar, is a free web resource set up by a former hedge fund manager Salman Khan, offering "a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere". It teaches mathematics, computer programming, economics, the sciences and humanities, using explanatory YouTube videos. And Kyncl, in part, has been indirectly responsible for its success.
In his youth in the former Czechoslovakia, Kyncl was a professional cross-country skier. "I grew up in a mountain town and skiing was a way of life," he says. When the Iron Curtain fell, "I realised I didn't know anything besides skiing." He decided immediately to learn English, and moved to the US for college and business school. After getting a job at a Hollywood talent agency, the rest "rolled from there", he says. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife, their teenage nephew and their 10- and 13-year-old daughters.
By 2010, Kyncl was working at Netflix, where he'd been instrumental in transforming the company from a postal DVD rental business into a movie streaming site. Since YouTube poached him, Kyncl has been the man behind "the channels". He took what was a meaningless feature of the video-sharing site (when you signed up you created what was called a channel for yourself) and re-organised YouTube to turn these channels into the primary way for users to find themed content and for creators to develop a coherent identity for themselves.
He kicked it off in 2011 with more than 100 original channels from well-known and high-profile sources such as TEDEducation, VICE and WWEFanNation, all producing regular and original content. Since then, independent creators have launched many more channels — one being the Khan Academy.
While YouTube is still the home of the one-off viral hit funny baby video and the dance-routine internet meme, it is also a place that users visit regularly to view professionally produced material. This in turn has spawned the development of "multi-channel networks" such as AwesomenessTV or Forefront, set up independently of YouTube but linking several complementary channels together to create a network with a broad offering around a theme or subject. Jamal Edwards, a south Acton 23-year-old who set up youth-entertainment channel SB.TV through YouTube, this month sold a stake in his company that raised its value to £8 million.
No wonder everybody keeps talking about YouTube killing off traditional television broadcasting. "Distribution through the traditional broadcast model is actually very efficient," counters Kyncl. "It's 'one to many' distribution rather than one to one, and it's going to be around for a long time to come. The broadcast model is still significantly bigger, but both models will coexist for the foreseeable future."
For a big shot at a huge multinational company, Kyncl is a remarkably relaxed character with a Schwarzenegger-like smile that he employs often. Yet he also admits that there are challenges at YouTube. "Generally, they come in clusters of smaller companies. I call them piranhas. They eat away at you," he says. "Whether it's Facebook or Twitter, Snapchat or Vidi, there are lots of different companies trying different things in video. Also, television is simply getting better at the internet. All of that just chips away from different angles."
He adds, "The biggest challenge is how you expose people to the right content. Now that they have unlimited choices it becomes difficult to find what they want." Getting this right is "the key thing" and "there's a lot of effort going towards that".
Of course, it all works on algorithms and data collected from your general internet usage (which is why YouTube being part of a much bigger organisation, Google, is so valuable). And even if it won't kill traditional television quite yet, YouTube is already changing advertising models. When millions of people are all watching different content for their various niche interests, you have to customise things for the advertisers, says Kyncl. "Currently, it's one TV commercial run many times. It will become 250 video commercials run fewer times but to the right people, using geo-location, age-targeting and interest-targeting."
This specialised content will also reduce the need for critics or curators. "Most Adam Sandler movies were not critically well received but they generated a tremendous amount of revenue," Kyncl explains. "Human tastemakers will have to become really expert within a certain field. You'll have a tremendous amount of other recommendation given to you algorithmically through the use of data and behaviour analysis."
Some people still find this idea a little creepy — that everything you do online is being watched, in order to make what you see more relevant and useful to you, but also to market more stuff at you. Of course, Kyncl doesn't think so. "The usefulness of these things is just amazing, so I'm absolutely happy to put as much data in there as possible." But what about his children and what they're exposed to online?
"The minute you hand them a phone or a computer they can type in anything they want," he says. "What I tell my kids is, 'Nothing that you do online is private. Always behave in the same way as if you're in a public place — behave yourselves'." And as long as it's the Khan Academy, they can watch some more YouTube.
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Homer uses metaphor—'it was so crowded, it was like bees swarming over a pail of milk.'
Let us try to set aside—preferably forever—the image of the ever-immaculate Romney crouched bare-assed over a pail.
Evelyn looked on for a while, and finally took up a pail and began milking, too.
Close mold securely and place in a pail of chopped ice and salt.
"Get a pail of water and throw it over your dad, Sophia," said Mrs. Holbrooke.
I reached down and drew up a pail of water, and it was right cold.
Suppose you wanted to lift the pail with the least possible effort, where would you put your hand?
Then, seeming satisfied with her scrutiny, she picked up her pail.
One afternoon, Lydia took her pail to get some water from the swollen stream running by the door.
Ven I go to sleep, puy one pail of pranty for ze Soldaten, ant zey will sleep.
mid-14c., of uncertain origin, probably from Old French paele, paelle "cooking or frying pan, warming pan;" also a liquid measure, from Latin patella "small pan, little dish, platter," diminutive of patina "broad shallow pan, stewpan" (see pan (n.)).
Old English had pægel "wine vessel," but etymology does not support a connection. This Old English word possibly is from Medieval Latin pagella "a measure," from Latin pagella "column," diminutive of pagina (see page (n.1)).
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Looking for Stairs to climb
I've referred several times to "sample size," that is, how many at-bats or innings pitched should a team have to see before deciding whether a particular player is going to help them or not. After 22 games, the Nationals likely aren't ready to make any drastic roster decisions. Their more significant free agent signings - Jayson Werth and Adam LaRoche - have similar offensive numbers


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Lost Profits from Patent Infringement: The Simulation Approach
A patent owner is entitled to recover any additional profits that would have been earned but for infringement. This paper suggests the use of an adaptation of merger simulation to assess lost profits in patent infringement cases. A model of the industry with infringement is calibrated to observed prices and quantities and estimated demand elasticities. Lost profits are then estimated by calculating a new equilibrium without the infringing product(s).
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