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It began without Serena Williams, and by the end of the first week didn't have any Aussies. It has not really had a novelty insurgent - in the Marcos Bagdatis mould - to captivate the fans despite Alexandr Dolgopolov's ponytail and unconventional style.
Overall, this year's Australian Open has been much like the weather: cooler than usual. Everyone is grateful there's been no need for pepper spray and that grandstand tribalism is muted, but there's also been an antiseptic flavour to the tournament.
Whatever it has lacked, the tournament has blue-chip assets that can assure it of finishing with a flourish: before last night's final quarter-final it still had the big four - Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic - in the men's draw.
As with Australia's banking foursome - whose outrageous profits allegedly insulated Australia from the global financial crisis - there's an apparent upside to a cartel, to an Open that is closed. The gang of four can ultimately keep the Australian Open from a downturn. All's well that ends well.
In truth, Federer and Nadal represent a big two, with a fair gap to aspirationals Djokovic and Murray. That doesn't mean, however, that those two can't knock out the champs. The aspirants have done it before, here and in other slams.
''It's hard to keep up with them but this is what you learn from playing with those guys,'' said Djokovic said after his quarter-final rout of Tomas Berdych.
Djokovic beat Federer in their most recent grand slam match, also a semi-final, at last year's US Open. Federer botched two match points then and, after carving up compatriot Stanilas Wawrinka with surgical precision earlier this week, he flat out said that the US Open five-setter was a match he ''should have won, really''.
He offered up an excuse for his failure to kill off the Djoker in Gotham City: he was thinking too much about what lay ahead, namely fellow superhero Nadal. ''Maybe I just felt like I have to get out of this match as quick as I could to save energy to play Rafa the next day,'' Federer said. He added that the match was decided ''by a shot or two'', which Djokovic agreed was all that separated the pair in recent matches. ''The winner of the matches, you know, gets away with couple points here and there,'' Djokovic said. ''On this level, this is what happens.''
Most of those points here and there have been won by the more bankable Federer, who has a 13-6 career lead over Djokovic. The Serbian world No.3 defeated the Swiss in the corresponding semi-final at Melbourne Park in 2008, when Federer was said to be afflicted with mononucleosis. The Djoker went on to win his one and only slam.
Djokovic views confidence as indispensable against Federer.
''I have to be confident on the court, have the right attitude, and that's the only way I can beat Roger or Rafa. There is no other way.''
Murray is viewed as a player who gives Nadal curry, despite the career scorecard of 9-4 in the Spaniard's favour. That head-to-head, though, is misleading, considering that Nadal won the first five encounters. They're 3-2 (to Nadal) in grand slams, with Murray having beaten an injury-riddled Rafa [he hurt his knee] via forfeit here in the quarters last year. Murray, who had been leading two sets to love and 3-0 then, took Nadal down in the semis of the 2008 US Open, but was beaten in straight sets at Wimbledon by Rafa last year.
Australian tennis great Fred Stolle, who has been commentating at the Open, believes Murray and the Djoker are ripe to supplant the dynastic duo this time. Murray has had success against Nadal in slams and against Federer generally. His failing has been grand slam finals against the Swiss. ''I think he's [Murray] got a pretty good record against both those guys,'' Stolle said. ''Djokovic is playing some unbelievable tennis. I think he's going to bother Federer.''
But there's a fair gap between bothering and beating, even for the game's fourth man.


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Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 12:01 p.m. ET
Affairs Article Outlines Challenges For Demonstration Projects
Authorized Under 2003 Medicare Law
Authors List Numerous Barriers Faced By Past Demonstrations Trying To Improve Quality, Save Money In Caring For Chronically Ill Elders
BETHESDA, MD—Health care demonstration projects like those ordered under the 2003 Medicare bill often fail to show cost containment or quality improvements because they assume that small investments and adjustments in practice patterns can quickly result in big savings, according to a new article posted today on the Health Affairs Web site.
Marsha Gold, a senior fellow with Mathematica Policy Research, and colleagues review demonstration initiatives under the Program for Elders in Managed Care, the first program authorized by the California HealthCare Foundation, which also supported the independent evaluation of the program that provides the basis for this article.
In 1998, the program began issuing grants to consortia of managed care organizations, providers, and community organizations seeking to demonstrate ways to improve care for chronically ill seniors through program designs sometimes called "case management" or "disease management." The grantees were unable to demonstrate big results, however, because of flaws in their concepts, problems in translating concepts to program designs, and problems in executing the programs.
For example, the grants offered under the program—$1 million over three years—were small compared with the revenue of large health care organizations, Gold writes. Grantees also defined their success as the ability to yield big results quickly, such as improving health status, reducing utilization or cutting costs, all of which were difficult to demonstrate. Grantees also differed in their ability to effectively target the best patients for the demonstration, and recruiting patients often proved to be a challenge.
Because the Medicare Prescription
Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) authorizes several new
demonstration projects, Gold discusses issues that developers might want to
consider in the future, including:
— How to establish realistic outcome goals;
— How to effectively target interventions to problems;
— How to anticipate implementation challenges
— How to evaluate results.
"Generating major improvements in care for high-risk elders is difficult without major system changes" Gold says. "Yet massive change in financial incentives and how institutions relate to one another is not likely to occur in the immediate future. MMA and related recent initiatives create opportunities for progress, but the points we have raised previously also suggest that expectations about these opportunities' outcomes should be realistic."
Gold's coauthors are Timothy Lake, a Mathematica senior researcher; William Black, a Mathematica research analyst; and Mark Smith, the CHCF's president and chief executive officer.
You can read the article at content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.w5.199.
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text: The name is no good, first off. "The Reigning Sound" sounds like it should be plastered onto the bass drum of a plodding modern-rock outfit, or one of those party-ska-lounge acts that were all the rage a few years back. The Reigning Sound doesn't do itself any favors by opening its second album, Time Bomb High School, with a cover of "Stormy Weather." The Memphis band rips out a smoking rendition of the old standard, but it's a minor-league play, not indicative of a record worth celebrating from start to finish. Time Bomb really starts with its second track, "Straight Shooter," which sounds like an Exile On Main Street outtake played with the clarity of London Calling-era Clash. From that moment on, Time Bomb is nothing short of a revelation, jumping miles ahead of the group's tepid 2001 roots-rock debut Break Up... Break Down, and fulfilling the promise of bandleader Greg Cartwright's prior band, Oblivians. Not that The Reigning Sound specializes in Oblivians' scuzzy, shattered garage-punk; Cartwright's latest obsessions rest in the rocked-up R&B legacy of his hometown. The disc makes room for the all-shook-up garage of "Brown Paper Sack," the Phil Spector dramatics of "I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys," and the pogo-friendly punk self-definition of the title track. Amid all the historical rock signifiers, Cartwright's stinging country-soul ballads"You're Not As Pretty," "I Walk By Your House," "Dressy"gain authority beyond their Westerbergian sense of sorrow and pithiness. They demonstrate the command of an artist who knows exactly what he's doing, who can sing "You're the thing that's caught my eye" with the specific proportion of sincerity and sleaze, and who can apply rippling piano, quavering organ, and cooing background vocals without the least bit of irony or rip-off. The Reigning Sound is so terrific that it may even survive its lousy first impression.


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12:01 a.m. EDT
Imaging Is Transforming The Practice Of Medicine,
Say Experts From Industry And Academe
But They Also Warn That Rising Costs
Mean That Demonstrating Value Will Be Crucial
Bethesda, MD -- Medical imaging promises transformative benefits for the practice of medicine. However, the technologies involved are already costly and getting more so, making it crucial to ensure that techniques such as computed tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET) are used cost-effectively.
That's the message delivered by two experts, one from industry and one from academe, in an interview with Health Affairs founding editor John Iglehart. The interview was published t oday on the Health Affairs Web site.
The United States has more imaging equipment per capita than other developed countries, says Bill Clarke, who at the time of the interview was executive vice president and chief technology and medical officer at GE Healthcare. But according to Clarke, that does not mean that the U.S. is overspending on imaging. "It is my strong feeling that noninvasive imaging has so revolutionized medical practice by leading to early, more precise, and much less morbid diagnoses that this is a good health care investment," says Clarke, who now heads Cellectar, a Madison, Wisconsin-based company developing radiopharmaceuticals for cancer therapy.
In 2005, Clarke says, sales of imaging devices in the U.S. totaled $8.1 billion. "This is a significant amount of money, but, to put this in perspective, the estimate for 2005 U.S. sales for all medical devices is $108 billion, and the estimate for pharmaceuticals is in the range of $500 billion."
E. James Potchen, the University Distinguished Professor and chairman of radiology at Michigan State University, points out that imaging often substitutes for more expensive, more invasive procedures, such as exploratory laparotomy surgeries: "Not long ago we used to do laparotomies to investigate what's going on in the abdomen. Now, a patient can undergo an outpatient CT scan at far less expense, pain, and inconvenience, and the physician can glean more information than previously possible from an invasive laparotomy."
Both Potchen and Clarke note that imaging is also used to make sure other treatments are working for particular individuals. "Coronary artery patients are now frequently managed with statins or stents," says Potchen. "However, whether or not a statin is working effectively to change regional myocardial blood flow is not readily evident without an imaging technique." And Clarke opines: "I truly believe we will look back in fifteen years and say, I can't believe we gave people two and a half months of chemotherapy before we looked to see whether or not it was actually helping them."
Clarke: Pushing The Technologies Further
Means Pushing Costs Higher
Nevertheless, imaging technologies don't come cheap, and "the incremental cost of innovation is getting higher and higher," according to Clarke. Innovation costs are "increasing because we're having to push the technology to the outer limits of the physics and engineering sciences," he says. "Where imaging is going" -- combining the "most difficult aspects" of hardware and software, physics and biochemistry "into what we call molecular imaging -- means that it's going to be extraordinarily expensive and very difficult to bring that innovation forward."
To convince payers to fund "what I think is going to be a transformation of medicine, we are simply going to have to do high-quality clinical trials to show the value," Clarke says. He also endorses the "coverage with evidence development" approach taken by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services with regard to coverage of PET scans. Under this approach, the CMS has agreed to cover certain oncological applications of PET scanning on an interim basis, while "compiling databases of pre- and postscan information and understanding how that affects decision making."
Clarke calls this "a very creative way to get very solid information about how to use this technology in a large population," and he says that GE is discussing adopting a similar approach with "one of the big [private] payers." In general, he says, "I would like to see payers engage in an earlier assessment, an earlier statement of what they would like to see the technology do, and then we need to get to a point where there is a better collegial engagement among purchasers, payers, and technology suppliers -- a clear understanding that we have a shared responsibility or interdependence to assess this technology."
Potchen: Pay Based On Results,
Not Based On Credentials Or Location
Asked by Iglehart how a payer such as the CMS, which has seen costs for radiology services increase dramatically, could ensure that it was getting its money's worth, Potchen replies that the CMS could pay only for images read by those who had demonstrated a certain level of skill in doing so. He suggests that imaging is uniquely suited to this approach. "With radiology, you've got the image after the fact. You can actually see it and see what happened" and measure the value added for each patient.
"Whoever does the job well should be paid," Potchen says, regardless of whether he or she is a radiologist, a cardiologist, or a member of some other specialty. "The trouble is, [imaging is] so profitable that many people with less-than-adequate knowledge enter the business because there are no restrictions on who does it." The site of imaging -- inpatient versus outpatient -- should also be immaterial, he adds. "I worry greatly about the current focus on costs of 'outpatient' imaging." Freestanding imaging centers are becoming more prominent in large part because "hospitals are not needed for an awful lot of medical care. If anything, there is too much inpatient capacity because so much care has shifted to ambulatory settings," Potchen says.
Potchen: For Physicians, Overuse Of Office-Based
Imaging Technology Is Tempting
However, Potchen does describe at least one instance in which the site of imaging could affect usage in ways that might be troublesome: "It is so profitable to buy a machine and put it in your office … that it becomes the dominant source of income for many physicians independent of their training. … It's only human to expect people to want to use equipment they own or are invested in once it is installed in their office," he observes. "When I was in general practice, I had an x-ray machine. And there's no question: I would weigh in my mind whether to order an x-ray based upon whether I could do it on the machine in my office. That's just the way people's brains function."
You can read Iglehart's interview of Potchen and Clarke at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.26.2.w227
Health Affairs, published by Project HOPE, is the leading journal of health policy. The peer-reviewed journal appears bimonthly in print with additional online-only papers published weekly as Health Affairs Web Exclusives at www.healthaffairs.org.
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Augustine was suspicious of charismatics' claims to superior righteousness, which supposedly authorized them to relay truths about creation and redemption. What follows finds the origins of that suspicion in his disenchantment with celebrities on whom Manichees relied, specialists whose impeccable behavior and intellectual virtuosity were taken as signs that they possessed insight into the meaning of Christianity's sacred texts. Augustine's struggles for self-identity and with his faith's intelligibility during the late 370s, 380s, and early 390s led him to prefer that his intermediaries between God and humanity be dead (martyred), rather than alive and charismatic.
The Manichaean elite or elect adored publicity. Augustine wrote the first of his caustic treatises against them in 387, soon after he had been baptized in Milan and as he was planning passage back to Africa, where he was born, raised, and educated. Baptism marked his devotion to the emerging mainstream Christian orthodoxy and his disenchantment with the Manichees' increasingly marginalized Christian sect, in which, for nine or ten years, in North Africa and Italy, he listened to specialists—charismatic leaders and teachers. Subsequently he suggested, with regret, that he had believed as they did and had encouraged his friends to respond similarly ([
To do so, he relied on rumor as well as on his own experiences of the specialists' hypocrisy. He said that he had never met one of the elect who was above suspicion of scandal. Most of them, he went on, were petulant; they were a constantly quarrelsome lot, uncivil to their colleagues and condescending to their followers (or "auditors"). Manichaean charismatics were especially contemptuous of critics and seldom disciplined their peers ([
Augustine concluded his initial anti-Manichaean screed with the story of an affluent devotee in Rome who tried to rehabilitate the reputation of his sect's elite for holiness. He was not one of the elect but offered them hospitality. They could live comfortably on his estate, if only they conformed to standards of behavior that Mani commended. Augustine implied that their host's generosity would have made a massive difference, if the beneficiaries would have cooperated, yet they did not, and the venture failed. The elect's dedication to the founder was insufficiently influential to attenuate the specialists' dislike—Augustine said "hatred"—of each other. And they lost no love on their auditors, who—much as their host—seemed eager to wait upon them ([
What the charismatic few lavished on followers, Augustine included, were "extravagant promises" ([
"I fell in with the Manichees (
Then, in 383, he acquired a new student. An acclaimed Manichaean adept, Faustus, came to Carthage to study classical literature, hoping to learn from Augustine, a lesser Manichee, how to market Manichaeism to cultivated Christians. His new teacher, however, was hoping to learn from Faustus how to make sense of their sect's doctrines. Augustine probed. His pupil resisted ([
They mocked the faith of ordinary Christians and promised to replace it with a religion based on a sturdier foundation, on what Mani described as "comprehensive solid science" ([
Neoplatonism had all but replaced Manichaeism as the interpretive key to Augustine's Christianity by the time he wrote about Faustus's far less than hypnotic effects on Carthaginian Manichees. Nearly fifteen years had passed ([
What apparently bound Augustine and his like-minded friends together, during their first "retreat" to a country estate near Milan in 386 and, afterward, to his country home in Africa, was their determination to study scripture and what historian Carol Harrison characterizes as a "sense of unworthiness" that clearly distinguished their teacher and leader of their enterprise, Augustine, from the charismatic Manichean elites ([
Although he endorsed measures formulated to coerce Donatist Christians to end their schism, Augustine was uninterested in persecuting Manichees ([
Christians demanded explanations. Their religion's statements about God, good, and evil raised questions, for which the Manichaean specialists claimed to have answers. At first, and for years, Augustine trusted them. But he came to understand the enormity of the challenge and his charismatic colleagues' inability to meet it:
For their part, the Manichaean elect seem to have conformed to what is now expected of charismatic leaders; they crafted a claim to superior righteousness and knowledge to undermine conventional norms, "exercis[ing] diffuse and intensive influence over [others'] normative and ideological orientations" ([
Jason Beduhn's excellent, comprehensive study of the Manichaeism and anti-Manichaeism of Augustine's early years identifies the "recurring part[s]" of his protagonist's "outlook." He supposes that a "predilection for esotericism" first attracted his protagonist to Manichaean versions of Christianity and held his interest for nearly a decade. Disenchanted eventually with the sect's elect and drifting away, during his interviews with Faustus—if not before—from its cultic discourse, Beduhn's Augustine retained "high expectations of revealed knowledge" yet disavowed the expectation that complete sanctification and comprehension could come upon any of the sect's specialists. Augustine figured that insight came with faith, and faith was the onset of "a gradual conformation to a system as one learns it more thoroughly and keeps adjusting one's sense of self" ([
The founder of Manichaeism might have agreed, to a point. The sect's listeners were gradually "adjusting" as they learned the truths imparted by the elect and understood that the temptations to wickedness which they experienced were symptoms of a powerful evil other's seizure; their wills were captive. But the charismatic specialists who succeeded Mani and who purportedly resisted temptation lay claim to authority on the strength of that resistance, which—with acquired intelligence that enabled them to ascertain the presence and power of evil as well as the presence of Light in creation—distinguished them from listeners, learning and "adjusting" gradually. Augustine joined the chorus of complaints prompted by such a distinction. The first anti-Manichaean script, the
If a reply was composed and circulated, it got lost, yet historians have lately engaged in the rescue Faustus might have tried; the recovery of long lost Manichaean literature has helped them rehabilitate Mani's reputation. Hence, few scholars familiar with Christian antiquity would now dissent from the favorable observations on offer in Geo Widengren's concise introduction to
As Dickson rightly says, in the second and un-Weberian sense of charisma, a charismatic leader, performer, or seer may be well served by "a whiff of scandal" [
Augustine was intent on turning the "whiff" or scent of scandal into a stink. According to François Decret, his objective was "to aggravate the tensions" between the sect's "aristocracy of virtue" and other Manichees who presumed their charismatic leaders would be virtuous. Decret thinks the tension was characteristic of the Manichees' organization—the
Augustine wanted answers and was led to believe that Faustus would furnish them. He later referred to what he got as nonsense,
Reflections on exegesis, dualism, and doctrine tell much of the tale, but Augustine's disaffection during the 380s was also a reaction to the sect's charismatic specialists'—to him—determinedly indecorous behavior and disingenuous claims. In a study that rarely touches on Augustine's developing antagonism toward the Manichaean elect, Peter Brown noticed that his subject transferred affections encouraged in late Roman culture, specifically, the "deep warmth for teachers and spiritual guides," to Christianity's martyrs. "Heavy with the humility of human death" ([
Jason BeDuhn appropriately warns against exaggerating Augustine's transformation—his apostasy from Manichaeism and conversion to Nicene Christianity. A reasonable reading of the relevant texts suggests that he subordinated a desire for "self-intelligibility" to related "systems" of Christianity, finding "that he constantly had to reinvent what his conversion would mean for him as he continued to discover the potential of his adopted system and of himself as its point of articulation "in the face of the Manichaean challenge" ([
Citations in the text give the book, section, and/or chapter numbers used in editions of Augustine's work, the most accessible of which is on-line at
I borrow the phrase "cultic discourse" from Jason BeDuhn, who intriguingly suggests that the "vividness" of Augustine's recollections of his adolescent quest for truth may be due to "his close scrutiny of his child's behavior," attention that "most likely reflects an active interest at the time in what it might indicate about human nature" in light of the Manichaean specialists' "teachings" on that topic [
Faustus's apparent caution was unusual, if we may trust Augustine, who berated the sect's other accomplished polemicists who were more combative and forthcoming with criticisms of current wisdom ([
Cornelius Mayer elaborates on Augustine's passage, linking it with Plato's sense that a cloud of unknowing (


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Hoerling M. P., J. K. Eischeid, J. Perlwitz, X.-W. Quan, T. Zhang and P. Pegion (March 2012): On the increased frequency of Mediterranean drought. J. Climate, 25, 2146-2161. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00296.1Full text not available from this repository.
The land area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea has experienced 10 of the 12 driest winters since 1902 in just the last 20 years. A change in wintertime Mediterranean precipitation toward drier conditions has likely occurred over 1902–2010 whose magnitude cannot be reconciled with internal variability alone. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing are key attributable factors for this increased drying, though the external signal explains only half of the drying magnitude. Furthermore, sea surface temperature (SST) forcing during 1902–2010 likely played an important role in the observed Mediterranean drying, and the externally forced drying signal likely also occurs through an SST change signal. The observed wintertime Mediterranean drying over the last century can be understood in a simple framework of the region's sensitivity to a uniform global ocean warming and to modest changes in the ocean's zonal and meridional SST gradients. Climate models subjected to a uniform +0.5°C warming of the world oceans induce eastern Mediterranean drying but fail to generate the observed widespread Mediterranean drying pattern. For a +0.5°C SST warming confined to tropical latitudes only, a dry signal spanning the entire Mediterranean region occurs. The simulated Mediterranean drying intensifies further when the Indian Ocean is warmed +0.5°C more than the remaining tropical oceans, an enhanced drying signal attributable to a distinctive atmospheric circulation response resembling the positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation. The extent to which these mechanisms and the region's overall drying since 1902 reflect similar mechanisms operating in association with external radiative forcing are discussed.
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Update, 1:50 p.m.: OK, apologies on the delay but there was a lot of waiting around for players while they attended a "Doping Control Seminar". I'm pretty sure that has to do with blood doping, and not tips on how to deal with various dopes on your team (or in the media).
But we finally had a chance to speak to Nikolai Zherdev; and to Scott Gomez, Markus Naslund, and Tom Renney about Zherdev. I'll have more on this later, but it's safe to say the team is hoping for a breakout year from the 23-year-old wing. Even Zherdev said he's looking for bigger things in his first season in New York.
"Last year I scored 26 goals. Maybe this year there's more goals because there are good forwards and a good center here," Zherdev said. "I'll try to score more goals and win the Stanley Cup."
As for the hit from Byers, Zherdev is fine. It was called as a penalty in the scrimmage, but I'd call it a questionable one at that.
"It's OK," Zherdev said, who only had a slight scratch on his face as a result. "It's hockey."
Some other updates:

Tom Renney on his hopes for the fourth line this year: "I'd like to see more production. What we got out of that line is real, good solid play. They were able to shut down some very good lines this league. But I'd like to see more production."

One snafu I never thought of until today: The Rangers will play six exhibition games in North America in NHL rinks, and will play their two games in Prague in an NHL-sized rink. In between, though, are two games in Switzerland in a 200-by-100 Olympic rink. Renney admitted it's not the ideal preparation for the regular season.

On whole, the Rangers came into camp in better shape than expected. The average score from yesterday's tests — which measured strength, explosive power, aerobic fitness, anaerobic fitness — were the highest conditioning coach Reg Grant had seen in his seven years in New York. The team no longer gives an award to the player who tests the best, but Renney singled out Petr Prucha as someone who tested extremely well.

Michal Rozsival refused to divulge what number he'll wear this season. "It's a secret," Rozsival said. "It's actually the last two digits of my social security number."
"What about 68?" someone suggested.
"No," Rozsival said. "Too much pressure."
Rozsival, by the way, already has some 30 friends and family coming to the Prague games, but is now having to turn people away for tickets.

Individual tickets for games this season go on sale on Saturday. Here's the release:
New York, September 17, 2008 – The New York Rangers announced today that tickets for the 2008-09 Rangers season home games will go on-sale on Saturday, September 20 beginning at 12:00 p.m. on Ticketmaster via newyorkrangers.com, Ticketmaster charge-by-phone, (212) 307-7171, (201) 507-8900, (631) 888-9000, (845) 454-3388, (609) 520-8383 and Ticketmaster outlets.
Tickets are limited. Fans will be limited to a maximum of four (4) tickets per game. Due to high season subscription renewals for the upcoming season, there will be extremely limited individual tickets available for "Adam Graves Night" on February 3rd vs. the Atlanta Thrashers.
Update, 12:05 p.m.: On-ice workouts are done. I'll check in after some interviews.
Update, 11 a.m.: Uh, I guess Zherdev is OK, because he went on to score his first highlight-worthy goal in a Rangers uniform (fine, practice Rangers uniform). The wing carried the puck through center ice, dumped it to Markus Naslund before taking a pass back from Gomez and wristing a shot in from the right side.
Chris Drury and Patrick Rissmiller also scored good-looking goals for white.
Tough day for Hugh Jessiman, who was hit hard first by Thomas Pock, then taken off the ice after getting in the nose by Colton Orr.
Altogether, pretty high intensity for mid-September.
Update, 10:26 a.m.: The first "yikes" moment of training camp comes when Dane Byers comes up high with a shoulder on Zherdev. Zherdev is helped off the ice, and misses the next shift (where he's replaced by Lauri Korpikoski), but eventually returns and actually gets a decent shot on goal.
Through the first period of the scrimmage, each side has a goal on a penalty shot (blue by Ryan Hillier and white by Petr Prucha), but the play is a tad sloppy. I continue to be impressed by Callahan and Dubinsky, who controlled the puck well in the offensive zone.
Not to be forgotten is Petr Nedved, who set up Patrick Rissmiller in front, but Rissmiller fanned on the shot.
Update, 9:46 a.m.: The Blue practice is over. On some rush drills, it's clear that the Zherdev-Gomez-Naslund is going to fluster teams with their speed. But connecting on scoring chances is another story. At one point Gomez rushed into the zone, left a drop pass for Zherdev, but the wing couldn't get a shot off in time.
More impressive actually was Brandon Dubinsky and Ryan Callahan on an energy third line. Dan Fritsche was on the left wing, although I don't envision him staying there.
The actual scrimmage in a few minutes will be more telling.
Still no news on Brendan Shanahan, who isn't here…
Michal Rozsival doesn't care who Harry Howell is. He's still wearing No. 3 in practice. That's obviously going to change at some point…
Earlier: So here's my story on "the Rangers' expectations heading into training camp":http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080917/SPORTS01/809170390/-1/SPORTS. Some still aren't shy about referencing a Stanley Cup, which I suppose is fine.
If you're not optimistic at this time of year — when the power play still hasn't sputtered, the defense still hasn't looked soft, and your line combinations still haven't proven to be a complete failure — when can you be optimistic? Not that I'm saying those things are going to happen. It's just that they DEFINITELY haven't happened yet. And I maintain that the lower expectations surrounding the team this season will only help, because I don't envision the same type of early-season stick squeezing that plagued them last October.
Of course, this team might be jet-lagged for the first three weeks and won't be able to stand upright as a result, but let's not get ahead of ourselves….
Meanwhile, I'm off to the rink momentarily. My plan is to update this post throughout the day with news and notes from the split squad workouts. First up is a Blue team practice featuring the likes of Markus Naslund, Nikolai Zherdev and Wade Redden, followed by a scrimmage against the White unit at 10.
Stay tuned..


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A couple of side-by-side headlines in the news today got me wondering: Will enterprises stick with Microsoft as a mobility platform going forward, or will new entrants like cloud-based services gain the high ground?
With a big Microsoft reorg apparently in the works, it seems like as good a time as any to assess whether or not Microsoft and Windows will remain the corporate IT standard as more mobility makes its way into the working world. It's almost a given that in any big enterprise there is a lot of Windows penetration, from desktops to apps, that needs to be integrated into any mobile deployment. But is Windows a legacy system on the way out, or a platform able to evolve? I think the leadership and organizational changes in the works will have a lot to do with how that question is answered. What is it like at your enterprise? Are you still a Windows shop? Will that ever change?
If it does, it's likely that you may be one of the enterprises kicking the tires at the upcoming DropBox developer conference. It's pretty amazing to think that DropBoxadded 75 million users between late last year and now. I think that's not just a vote for DropBox, but for cloud-based services in general. A perfect storm of sorts (faster, more powerful devices, better wireless connectivity, etc.) has made using cloud services like DropBox a no-brainer for the types of people who "just want to get things done." Now that they've opened the door, will corporate IT follow and start developing apps with DropBox and other services' APIs? Will that be the start of the end of the Windows era?
Again, some of this (like always in the enterprise world) may take a few years at least to shake out. But the leaders in either direction will be starting their new journeys now. Windows or something else? Which is the right way to go?
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"The Feminist Utopia Project" Imagines A World Without Misogyny
What would a feminist world look like? The Feminist Utopia Project anthology, which is currently in the making, aims to help us discover exactly that. Writers Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff are leading the project and are putting together a collection of pieces that will get us thinking about what life might be like in the absence of a patriarchal society. As they note on their website:
Too many of us know too intimately the ways sexism constrains our lives, limiting our opportunities, harming our bodies, reducing us. Often unspoken, though, is the way misogyny limits our imaginations. The ubiquity of sexism comes to feel like the inevitability of sexism. Electoral politics narrow our ambitions to preserving the rights we are told we can have rather than mobilizing for what should be.
What if, instead, we could dream of a future far better than what we've been told we're worthy of? It's hard to fathom how far-reaching our imaginations might be if men and women were on more equal footing in the world. Contributors to the project dream of a society in which access to a safe abortion is a given, and words used to diminish women suddenly lose their negative meaning. When put onto paper, those ideas hardly seem unreachable – and that's the point. As Brodsky and Nalebuff say, misogyny doesn't need to be inevitable, but we've been taught over the years that it is. By starting to collectively think about what could be, we'll begin to find more possibilities of making a more equal planet come to life.
The project is collecting submissions through July 15, and interested writers can submit essays, short fiction, poetry or art.


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Following is a statement from U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) on the president's proposal to use the executive office to circumvent the elected representatives of the people:
"I am disappointed by the president's remarks and actions today. The Administration's decision to circumvent the elected representatives of the American people is surely not the right way to approach an issue of constitutional significance. It would be more productive to have a thoughtful, national discussion on how to better determine when young people are becoming troubled, how to get them back on the right path, and what causes an individual to commit an evil, violent act. We need to focus on getting to the root of these questions, rather than focusing on the instruments that disturbed individuals have misused and abused to carry out heinous crimes. Firearms are lawfully owned and used by millions of responsible Americans for purposes such as self-defense, hunting, and recreation, and as a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, I will work to protect our constitutional right to keep and bear arms."
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I recently ran into an interesting problem when creating the UI for what amounted to a complex form. The page consisted of a number of inputs, many of which could trigger
model.set or
model.save calls when their values changed, as well as a background "auto save" feature which fires periodically.
The page consists of an
<input> A and a
<button> B. The Backbone model has two values which these values control:
name and
type. The default values are
{name: null, type: 1}. Entering a value in input A triggers a
model.save({name: inputA.val()}), whereas clicking on button B triggers
model.set('type', 2).
The scenario I ran into looks like follows:
- User types "Hello World" in input A, triggering a
model.save()call with a
PUTand a request body of
{name: "Hello World", type: 1}.
- While the
PUTis still outstanding, the user clicks on button B, triggering a
model.set('type', 2);. The model's attributes now read
{name: "Hello World", type: 2}.
- The
PUTreturns, with a response body of
{name: "Hello World", type: 1}. Since it has no knowledge that the
model.set('type', 2)in step #2 has occurred, it immediately overrides
typeback to its original value of
The UI may or not be listening for this
change:type and will re-render or not accordingly when this happens. If it does re-render, the user has a jarring experience where their click on button B is immediately undone. If the View does not re-render on that change, a more subtle and dangerous problem manifests itself: if
model.save() is again called, the user will be saving a
type to the server that does not reflect what they see on their screen! Either way, it's bad new bears.
Choices, choices…
There are several ways one might handle this scenario. For starters, you could simply disable the UI while the model is syncing. While this does prevent the bug from above from even occurring, the obvious downside is that the UI becomes briefly unresponsive, possibly even "flashing" as inputs toggle to
disabled and back.
Another approach would be to have each input's View check for any outstanding AJAX calls on the model, and wait until those complete before calling
model.set. This approach could prevent the issue as described above, but it requires a lot of boilerplate code for each input, which isn't ideal and should make any seasoned dev's skin crawl.
Door number three
After pondering a while, I came up with a little utility to add a
deferredSet method to
Backbone.Model. The logic here is pretty simple: when
model.deferredSet is called, it checks whether the model is currently in the middle of syncing, and if it is, it holds off on calling
set until that request is finished. If the model isn't syncing (hopefully the majority case!) it immediately defers to the good old
Here's a quick example of
deferredSet and how it differs from
var model = new Backbone.Model();
var xhr = model.save({a: 1, b:2}); model.set({b: 3}); console.log(model.toJSON()); //{a: 1, b: 3}
xhr.then(function() { console.log(model.toJSON()); //{a: 1, b: 2} - b: 3 is lost! });
var xhr = model.save({a: 1, b:2}); model.deferredSet({b: 3}); console.log(model.toJSON()); //{a: 1, b: 3}
xhr.then(function() { console.log(model.toJSON()); //{a: 1, b: 3} - b: 3 is preserved! });
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Rollover on takeoff
PIC: ATP, non commercial
Camisea, Peru
Bell 212
Prelim report (5 uninjured)
During an attempted takeoff, a Bell 212 helicopter rolled over and was substantially damaged near Camisea, Peru on 01-17-2011. The helicopter's planned destination was La Peruanita, Peru when the uncommanded rollover occurred.
Impact with terrain at cruise
PIC: unreported, non-commercial
Cojedes, Venezuela
Partenavia P68C
Prelim report (5 killed, 1 serious)
A Partenavia P68C airplane was destroyed on impact with terrain near Cojedes, Venezuela, on 01-07-2011. The plane departed from SVMG (Nueva Esparta, Venezuela) and was in cruise flight when the accident occurred, only one passenger survived.
Total electrical failure
PIC: Unreported, non-commercial
LFMT (Montpellier, France)
Beech BE-200
Prelim report (4 minor injuries)
Shortly after takeoff, a Beech BE-200 experienced a total electrical failure after departing LFMT (Montpellier, France) on 01-07-2011. After the initial climb in IMC the pilot executed a precautionary landing. The aircraft sustained minor damage during the landing and all occupants received minor injuries.
Runway excursion on landing
PIC: comm, Part 135
PAKI (Kipnuk, Alaska)
Cessna CE-208B
Prelim report (9 uninjured)
After landing on a snow covered runway, a Cessna CE-208B received substantial damage when the aircraft departed the end of the runway at PAKI (Kipnuk, AK) on 01-06-2011. According to the pilot, he flew over the airport and entered a left downwind for runway 33. He elected to land long to avoid a bump in the runway. After an uneventful touchdown, he applied brakes and adjusted the prop but realized he was travelling too fast. After applying maximum brakes the aircraft exited off the departure end of the runway and struck a ditch.
Landing on closed runway
PIC: Comm, Part 135
PAPM (Platinum, Alaska)
Piper PA-32-300
Prelim report (5 uninjured)
On 01-04-2011, a Piper PA-32-300 received substantial damage when the pilot attempted to land on a closed runway at PAPM (Platinum, AK). Witnesses stated they saw the airplane fly over the field and line up on the closed runway and land. The airport opened a new runway approximately 2 years earlier and portions of the old runway were incorporated into a taxiway. The open runway had approximately 1 inch of snow and the runway lights were on the highest setting. After the airplane landed on the closed runway it hit a ditch where the ground was elevated for the taxiway.
Hard landing and runway departure
PIC: ATP, Part 135
SPI (Springfield, Illinois)
Gates Learjet 35A
Prelim report (1 minor, 4 uninjured)
Following an ILS approach into SPI (Springfield, IL), a Gates Learjet 35A received substantial damage when it landed hard and departed the end of runway 22 on 01-06-2011. According to the NTSB report, the crew encountered IMC during the approach; however, the airfield was VMC.
Landing short after securing both engines
PIC: ATP, Part 91
WJF (Lancaster, California)
Cessna CE-310C
Prelim report (1uninjured)
On 01-09-2011, during a precautionary landing at WJF (Lancaster, CA), a Cessna CE-310C received substantial damage following a nose gear failure while executing a practice approach at PMD (Palmdale, CA). The ATP rated pilot told the NTSB that the nose wheel failed to fully retract after a practice approach at PMD so he elected to land at the accident airport. While on final approach to runway 24 (7,201 feet), the pilot stated he shutdown both engines; which increased the sink rate and the aircraft landed short of the runway.
Aborted landing impacts terrain
PIC: ATP, Part 1355
PANW (New Stuyahok, Alaska)
Beech E18S-9700
Prelim report (1 uninjured)
Following an aborted landing, a BEECH E18S-9700 airplane received substantial damage when it impacted terrain at PANW (New Stuyahok, AK) on 01-03-2011. In a written statement from the pilot to the NTSB, the pilot stated he realized after touchdown the runway was too ice covered and would be unable to stop. He attempted to abort the landing by applying power but during climb out the airplane could not avoid contacting terrain on departure.
Ag plane impacts MET tower
PIC: Unreported, Part 137
Oakley, CA
Rockwell International S-2R
Prelim report (1 killed)
While performing aerial application operations on 01-10-2011, a Rockwell International S-2R was substantially damaged when it struck a meteorological tower (met tower) near Oakley, CA. Witnesses stated the airplane did not appear to perform any evasive maneuvers prior to contacting the MET tower.
BE-200 impacts terrain
PIC: Unreported, non-commercial
Goias, Brazil
Beech BE-200
Prelim report (6 killed)
All occupants on board were killed when a Beech BE-200 impacted terrain on 01-14-2011, near Senador Canedo City, Goias, Brazil. According to the accident report, the aircraft was approaching SBGO (Santa Genoveva Airport (SBGO), Goiania, Goias, Brazil) when the accident occurred.


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Tokyo (AFP) Oct 14, 2011
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency urged Japan Friday to ensure decontamination efforts in the wake of the Fukushima crisis stay focused on reducing radiation doses to the public.
The group of 12 international experts released a preliminary report Friday praising the commitment of Japanese authorities and residents to clean-up operations, but also urged efficiency as it concluded a fact-finding mission.
The report warned against overly "conservative" efforts on decontamination in areas such as forests that did not pose a particularly high exposure threat to the population, which would also result in generating more waste material.
"Japan has to deal with a very huge problem," Juan Carlos Lentijo, head of radiation protection at the Spanish nuclear regulatory authority, said to Goshi Hosono, state minister in charge of the nuclear accident.
A towering tsunami released by the March 11 earthquake crippled cooling systems and triggered reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, leading to the release of radiation over wide areas of northeast Japan.
Tens of thousands of people remain evacuated from areas in and beyond the 20-kilometre no-go zone around the Fukushima plant. Fully restoring those areas is expected to take decades.
The task of restoring towns and villages even in lightly contaminated zones is complicated, with high costs and logistical issues of where to store soil contaminated with radioactive caesium after it is removed.
However, Lentijo said: "We want to explain there is a need for looking for a more realistic approach."
Japan "is advised to consider explaining to the public the importance of focusing on radiation doses that may actually be received by people, rather than on data containing contamination levels," the report said.
"The investment of time and effort in removing contamination beyond certain levels from everywhere, such as all forest areas where the additional exposure is relatively low, does not automatically lead to reduction of doses for the public," the report said.
"It also involves a risk of generating unnecessarily huge amounts of residual material."
A final report will be provided to the Japanese government by November 15 this year, the team said.
Over a nine-day trip the experts visited the crippled nuclear plant and many other locations in Fukushima prefecture, including the cities of Minamisoma and Date, in addition to Iitate village where local residents have been evacuated.
Seven months on from the disaster, radiation emissions from the plant have been reduced as crews work to put the facility into a stable state of cold shutdown by January.
In September Japan eased evacuation advisories for five areas near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant as it looks to convince nearly 30,000 residents that it is safe to return home.
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Five inmates who rioted at Victoria's maximum security facility for remand prisoners and caused more than $300,000 damage have appeared in a Melbourne court under heavy security.
The County Court on Thursday heard that the Melbourne Remand Centre was locked down for days after the five young men scaled and bent a wire fence to enter a forbidden ''sterile zone'' that surrounded the prison.
Prosecutor Lynne Featonby told the court the men injured three prison officers with thrown rocks and destroyed CCTV cameras, intercom panels and windows before they were subdued after more than two hours.
Ms Featonby said in her opening the men were ultimately ''sandwiched'' between two teams of officers wearing full riot gear and deploying chemical agents after the incident on August 12, 2012.
Patrick Meizys, 19, Sam Liszczak, 20, William Smith, 20, Joseph Haebich, 22, and Andrew Foster, 20, each pleaded guilty to a charge of riot, criminal damage and to three charges of recklessly causing injury.
When they entered the dock they were flanked by six burly prison officers while others sat in the body of the courtroom.
Solicitor Melinda Walker, for Meizys and Liszack, told Judge Frank Gucciardo her clients had behaved stupidly, but questioned the appropriateness of their strict custody regime at their age since the incident that included virtual solitary confinement.
In response, Judge Gucciardo said while he understood the seriousness of the offences, he contrasted that with the money and effort that had gone into keeping the men under such ''management'' conditions.
He commented that the resources had been expanded for ''this type of resolution so we can all feel safe'', but that in the long term ''we end up with'' five long-term criminals.
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Showing the sense of humor millions of Americans fell in love with last year, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Thursday that critics of her previous day's op-ed in the Washington Post "kind of got all wee-weed up about it and wanted to call me and others deniers."
Palin, chatting with conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham, was obviously poking fun at something President Obama said over the summer: "There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up."
According to Palin, who might have been referring to derogatory comments from folks like MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, and Keith Olbermann, such was the reaction to her published views on global warming and the United Nations climate change conference currently taking place in Copenhagen (YouTube audio embedded below the fold courtesy our friend Story Balloon, partial transcript):
LAURA INGRAHAM, HOST: Would you agree to a debate with Al Gore on this issue?
SARAH PALIN: Oh my goodness. You know, it depends on what the venue would be, what the forum, because Laura, as you know, if it would be some kind of conventional, traditional debate, with his friends setting it up or being the commentators, I'll get clobbered, because they don't want to listen to the facts. They don't want to listen to some reasonable voices in this. And that was proven with the publication of this op-ed where they kind of got all wee-weed up about it and wanted to call me and others deniers of changing weather, weather patterns, and climate conditions, trying to, you know, make the issue into something that it is not.
INGRAHAM: Well, what if it's an Oxford style proper debate format? I mean, he's going to chicken out. I mean, if you challenge him to a debate, do you actually think he would accept it?
PALIN: I don't know. I don't know. Oh, he wouldn't want to lower himself I think to, you know, my level to debate little old Sarah Palin from Wasilla.
Actually, Governor, Gore refuses to debate anybody on this issue regardless of where they're from.
So don't feel bad.


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On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Neil Golden <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

 Hi all,

My name is Neil, I am a somewhat frequent visitor in Noisebridge. After discussing it with a few people, it was suggested that I post to the mailing list. Last Wednesday I left my netbook unattended in the kitchen (it was playing classical music while I cooked some rice). I stepped downstairs to smoke a cigarette, and when I came back to the kitchen the laptop (netbook) was powered down and I discovered that the battery was gone; someone removed it while I was outside - and I was outside for fewer than ten minutes (closer to six or seven).

I'm not writing to pursue the matter, simply to publicly state that it occurred to make the space aware of the theft. (they're cheap to replace, I'm replacing it later this week. That's life :P)

 In the meantime, I was hoping to do some coding on the public linux terminal I'm on now (the one tucked away at one end of the member's shelves). In order to do the programming I'd like, I need to install a few packages; I was wondering if anyone knows the root password to this machine? As I understand it, this machine is "hackable" inasmuch as no one really cares what's done with it (as long as it still functions as a terminal). So, if anyone can provide me with the name of someone who knows the root login, I can ask them in person or whatever - I just need to install some libraries and an interpreter.

Neil,

You're talking about the Hackshelves, not the Noisebridge member shelves. ĀPlease don't confuse the two. Ā

Can you run a linux distro off a thumbdrive or external drive? ĀThen you could install any packages you like onto it.

Ā-rma


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2014-10-10 - The new monitoring systems GMS600-G and GMS600-GT will simplify and enhance generator circuit-breaker (GCB) monitoring.
GCB protects the important assets in power plants such as generators and transformers by clearing potential harmful short-circuit faults in tens of milliseconds preventing severe damages. GMS600 is a state-of-the-art monitoring system that provides full control of the GCB operational parameters enabling preventive and predictive maintenance.
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That was what Toddles called his beady-eyed conductor in retaliation.
Chet Ball was staring at the beady-eyed yellow chicken in his hand.
The fourth member was a Navajo Indian, a copper-skinned, raven-haired, beady-eyed desert savage.
There were about a dozen mop-headed, beady-eyed men, and some two dozen women—two apiece—and children.
The beady-eyed stranger, who had once or twice been seen beyond the gates, was a man of strangely magic power.
When Eylan was finished with him, Barrent went to a small, beady-eyed man who lectured on Earth's memory-destroying system.
They'll be dark-skinned, beady-eyed, soft-footed Greasers slip right up out of the ground!
Turning, Henrietta saw that a black, beady-eyed gentleman was staring at her sternly.
From out of a deep windfall a beady-eyed, thin-bellied fisher-cat came forth, and stopped with his feet in the crimson ribbon.
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MOON LAKE — Like so many elementary school teachers, Tricia Hein worried about how she would manage the state's latest mandate on physical education when classes resumed in August.
"My concerns were just having enough time in the day to get it all in and get all the academics they need," said Hein, a kindergarten teacher at Moon Lake Elementary.
The new rules mandated that not only would elementary students get 150 minutes of weekly PE, but each block of exercise would run no less than 30 minutes. For most schools, that realistically meant classroom teachers — who haven't been trained to teach PE — would shoulder a large chunk of the responsibility.
Hein was one of many who wondered what, exactly, she would do with the kids, what she would have to sacrifice, and where she would do it at a school where space comes at a premium.
It's such a big potential demand that the United School Employees of Pasco has pushed to negotiate contract terms for how to implement the requirement. District officials have begged off so far, saying they want to give individual schools the chance to try first.
Moon Lake offers one potential solution that all key players, including teachers, administrators and students, appear to enjoy.
The school calls it PET (that's PE by the Teacher), and it's a simple, single lesson plan that everyone follows. It requires little in the way of supplies or additional space, and it doesn't force educators to come up with something new to bring to their students each time.
For the first quarter, everyone walks around the quarter-mile bus loop for 30 minutes twice a week. They get a regular PE class the other three days.
For the next quarter, they're looking at a fitness trail. After that, team competitions.
The teachers came up with the idea, and physical education department chairman Doug Anderson helped implement it.
"Initially, people were like, 'Oh my gosh. This is another thing I have to do,' " assistant principal Iveta Maska said. "Once we said it shouldn't be in isolation, let's look at it as a collective, and we gave them input, I haven't heard a complaint."
One recent afternoon, Hein's kindergarten students were out walking with their buddies, fifth graders in Kim Hein's class. The two teachers are sisters, and they like to share projects like this one.
Jared Baker, 10, played "I Spy" with 5-year-old Sarah Sharp to pass the time. A few girls skipped. Some children talked about how hot it was. Others chugged from their water bottles.
"A truck is coming!" kindergartener Molly Daniel shouted out as a delivery truck approached. All the students jumped onto the grassy area beside the loop to let the truck pass by. Then they returned to their walking.
"I like this better than PE," said Jonathan Perez, 11. "I like my little buddy."
Cecil Eval, Jonathan's kindergarten pal, smiled.
"I like spending time with Jonathan," Cecil replied.
Some students in other classes, who don't have buddies, said they preferred regular physical education classes better because they could play more games and run rather than walk. But others said they enjoy any type of exercise they get, and they turned the walking into a challenge for themselves.
"It keeps your body energized," said fifth-grader Brendan Boniol, 10. "We make it a little goal to overlap everyone at least once."
"It's just fun coming out here and racing," added Matthew Shoun, also 10.
Second-grade teacher Holly Heywood said the added physical education requirement gives her a chance to talk with her students in a nonclassroom environment. She usually picks a different partner each time, and said she likes getting to know more about them as they walk together.
"Once you put it in the schedule, it's pretty routine," Heywood said. "The kids expect it."
Tricia Hein said she still wishes she could have her hour of classroom instruction back — not to mention the unstructured play time that disappeared with the new state mandate. But she makes the best of it, she said, giving her students lessons related to the walking to ensure the time is well-spent intellectually as well as athletically.
After all, she acknowledged, "It is a good thing. The kids need to get exercise."
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Laramie/Broken Honor
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|Season 4, Episode 26
|April 9, 1963
| Robert V. Wright (teleplay)
Joyce Perry (story)
|William Witney
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Edge of Evil
|4x27 →
The Last Battleground
|Laramie — Season Four
Guest Star: Rod Cameron (Roy Halloran)
Also Starring: Peggy McCay (Martha Halloran)
With: Stuart Randall (Mort Cory), Vinton Hayworth (Art Potter), Donald Barry (Dave Brynie), Richard Bakalyan (Mel Doleman), Eddy Waller (Mose), Norman Leavitt (Freddie), Ron Soble (Harvey Doleman)
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Jess Harper is planning on riding shotgun on a stage run carrying a bank shipment when Dave Bryne tries to bribe him to look the other way. Jess tries to get Bryne arrested but skinflint stage office manager Art Potter won't press charges. To further complicate matters Potter finds out about Jess' checkered past and orders him to stay away from the stage. Mort Cory gets Jess to catch up with the stage outside town. The stage is robbed anyway with Mose and Jess getting wounded. Jess chases down the thief who grabbed the strong box but he doesn't have the money. It's now a case of who's got the money and puts Roy and Martha Halloran squarely in the cross hairs because Martha found the strong box and Roy insists on keeping the money, lying to friends and himself. His lies could cost him Martha, his friend Jess Harper, his honor and their lives.


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Dead or Alive 4
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"Mortal Kombat - blood + more ladies +unbalanced AI = DOA4"
At first glance, it seems like a decent fighting game with some awesome looking characters. And it is (What with all the breast physics), although every game has its problems. Namely the unbalanced A.I, the bizarre story mode endings and those little visual problems that could've been fixed, but weren't because the developers were focusing on other "important" stuff. DOA4 is another one of those generic arcade fighting games: Think Mortal Kombat, with all the blood turned off.
The setting of the fights is pretty simple: 2 fighters on some weird level, fighting until one opponent's health bar runs out. The levels themselves each have some kind of way of expanding: Falling off a bridge into a river. being knocked down stairs, knocked through windows, e.t.c. And the characters you fight in story mode are pretty random, except for set fights (E.g Ryu fights Christie in a castle/hall thing). Since I'm already talkin' about Story mode, we'll start with that.
Every character has their individual story mode, usually consisting of 3 main parts (Complete with cutscene) and about 7 random fights. Once you have completed all these, a bizarre ending movie, having almost nothing to do with the character. Expect to see Hitomi making breakfast in nothing but her panties and a nightgown, Kasumi dreaming she's a topless mermaid, Ryu destroying some helicopters and Christie killing a guy in a strip club (While wearing very a revealing leather outfit, and dancing erotically). While the graphics in these are amazing, they are completely unrelated to what the character has been doing in their story mode.
Gameplay is like most other fighting games: Use the control stick to move around, and have a couple of buttons for kicking, punching, blocking and throwing. This doesn't really work. Y controls your punches, B makes your character kick, X will make your character block (Briefly) and A will let you try and perform a grab and throw move. Like I said, it doesn't work. Most (Hell, all) combos consist of punches, kicks and control stick jabs. But, due to the AI (See my ranting a few paragraphs down) you will be able to perform a 4 hit combo before your opponent reverses it, and gives you a 9 hit combo. Usually over. Think you can block it? Wrong. Even holding the block button won't last very long, and usually grabbing will never work unless your opponent is standing completely still, but your opponent has no problem doing it to you.
Online play is yet another feature included to "enjoy" the game to its full potential. But, considering you will be versing people who can probably drain your health bar in one combo, making you throw your controller around in frustration. And if you happen to be winning, then the person will most likely turn off the Xbox 360, ending the match and letting no one win. Any matches where no one does this will be few and far between. Also online is Zack's Shop, where you can buy alternate costumes for the characters (These can be unlocked by completing Story mode or Time Attack mode).
Visuals are quite amazing, and truly put the 360 to the test... Or do they? The cutscenes before fights and ending movies are truly beautiful, but the ingame fighting can leave more to be desired. The whole thing is very colourful and bright, but the same can't be said for the character's hair: Characters who have long hair (I.E Almost all of them) look like they have paper thin ribbons of hair that are made of plastic, which somehow move though the character's shoulders and neck. Considering from first looks that alot of work has been put into the breast physics of the girls (They bounce around everytime the girl moves), it shouldn't be too much to ask for some good hair visuals. This is supposed to be next-gen, isn't it?
Now, the thing that annoys me the most. Out of all the things in the game that make you think "Wow, the people who did this are really smart and should rule the world", there is a problem that will shatter those thoughts to pieces: The AI. This simple feature is in almost every game, but it's particularly bad here. When you are playing story mode, the first few fights will make it seem like you're in Training mode, but then after a few fights the AI difficulty is pumped up to insane proportions, to the part where you will be juggled, combo'd into the air and smacked into the ground, and then a few low attacks to finish you off. And while you can't grab your opponent or reverse their moves, they can do it easily to you, even when you're fighting. Once when I had to fight Alpha-512, it demolished me with an 11 hit combo, followed by another 5 hit. I was KO'd in seconds, and never got a chance to fight back.
Rent or buy?
Definitely rent. You'll see all there is to see in one story mode playthrough, let alone about 20 more times. If you want to unlock all the costumes for the characters, you could try: But it will take a very long time, especially since you can't save between fights. So if you get stuck on the final boss and turn off your 360 in frustration, you'll have to play through it all again. Maybe I'm not partial to fighting games, but I've played some good ones (And bad ones) before, and this falls under the category of "bad ones". DOA4 had potential, but there are details (Both large and small) that the creators didn't pay attention to, even though it would've been common sense.
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When Steamboat ski patroller Cody St. John died six years ago on Easter Sunday, from injuries sustained in a car accident, his short life and his renowned on-mountain career were cut short.
But the Cody St. John Foundation, founded by his family after his death, has turned his legacy into new opportunities for patrollers — including three from Aspen and Snowmass — hoping to improve their on-mountain skills with medical training and education.
The nonprofit offers the only scholarship available exclusively to professional ski patrollers for medical training. Its primary fundraiser is Cody's Challenge, an uphill and mountaineering race in Steamboat. This year's is Saturday, April 6.
St. John, at 28, won Colorado Ski Country USA's 2006 award for Patroller of the Year, though he'd only been on patrol for three years. He was on his way to the University of Wyoming for nursing school orientation at the time of his accident.
Three Aspen area patrollers have won St. John scholarships since 2011.
John Perko, who has been on Snowmass patrol for nine years, used his $1,000 scholarship in 2011 to help pay for paramedic school at HealthONE in Denver. He spent six months in intensive training there, before returning to patrol with a new set of skills.
"There are so many scholarships out there for people in so many fields but very few that just help patrollers," said Perko. "Without that scholarship it would have meant me just putting more money on my credit card."
As a paramedic he also earned a position with the Snowmass-Wildcat Fire District.
Fellow Snowmass patroller Andy Fisher followed Perko's lead. He won the scholarship last spring, and used it, along with funds from the Elks Lodge and Aspen Valley Medical Foundation, to pay for six months in the accelerated paramedic program at Denver Health. He returned to Snowmass patrol in December, and was hired with the Snowmass fire department in January.
"It sounds like Cody led a great life, not unlike mine," Fisher said.
This winter, Fisher is teaching free CPR certification courses in Snowmass, to pay forward the generosity that helped put him through school.
St. John's parents visited here last year to meet the local scholarship recipients.
"They're working real hard, trying to carry on what Cody was doing with his life," Fisher said.
Aspen Highlands patroller Elliott Larson won a St. John scholarship last year and is using it to pay for nursing school. He's currently in the residency program at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, working in the medicine specialties unit. Larson, who lived in Aspen for nine years and worked as a patroller for five, is hoping to bring his metropolitan hospital experience back to the slopes when he completes the program.
"It's a great opportunity for me to gain nursing experience working [at] a busy hospital in a big city, and build up my confidence," he said, "rather than try to work right away in a rural mountain town."
Larson went to Steamboat last year to watch the Cody's Challenge competition, which organizers are hoping draws 100 racers this year.
Corinne St. John — Cody's sister and the foundation's director of marketing — said they've drawn about 25 scholarship applicants per year.
This year, they're giving eight scholarships, to be announced during this weekend's festivities.
"This all happened out of a terrible tragedy," she said. "But it's great to know that we can contribute — even if it's just a little bit of tuition for ski patrollers to hold their place in school. It's been healing for us."
The key part of the application is a personal essay, where St. John said they find kindred spirits of her brother who are passionate about the mountains and helping people.
"There's definitely a common thread that they love to serve," St. John said. "A lot of them remind us of Cody."
To learn more about the Cody St. John Foundation visit www.codyschallenge.org [1]
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Jordan offers troops to quell Iraqi rebels
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A vehicle burns next to a mosque in Baghdad's Firdous Square, where an imposing statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled in front of international media on April 9 last year.
King Abdullah of Jordan has become the first Arab leader to offer troops to assist US-led international forces tackling a rampant insurgency in neighbouring Iraq.
Despite his Baghdad embassy being the first "soft" target of a bombing campaign that began last summer - 11 died and 65 were injured - and strong anti-US sentiment among his people, the king's offer is a remarkable breach in what has been a wall of pan-Arabic refusal to become involved in the Iraq crisis.
He told a television interviewer: "Now there's an interim Government and, we hope, a fully independent process very soon in Iraq. If the Iraqis ask for help it will be very difficult for us to say 'no'. My message is: tell us what you want and we have 110 per cent support for this.
"My position has been beforehand not to send troops because of Jordanian history with Iraq. I felt (then) that all countries that surround Iraq have their own agendas, so maybe we are not the right people to go in for the job."
A senior official in Washington went out of his way to present the Jordanian move as an offer to Iraq, not to the US, but it was clearly welcomed.
"To have a neighbour, to have Muslim troops contribute to the stability of the country, would be important because Iraq needs assistance on security," he said. "To have fellow Arabs patrolling, I am sure, would be welcome."
King Abdullah made his move on a day in which there was no let-up in the violence in Iraq and there was virtual silence from Arab capitals on the dramatic court appearance by the ousted Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, for crimes against humanity.
But while Saddam and 11 of his former lieutenants were processed by the court, several American intelligence officials briefed reporters in Washington on their failure to extract any useful information from them during months in captivity.
Some of the officials, who claimed to have seen secret transcripts of Saddam's interrogations, said there was nothing on what Washington gave as its key reasons for going to war - WMD and terrorist links.
When the other 11 charged with Saddam came before the court late on Thursday, the shock on some of their faces when they were told that they faced the death penalty suggested that they were unaware the new Iraqi interim administration had reinstated the practice after the US occupiers had revoked it.
In the 24 hours to yesterday morning (local time) eight people died - six Iraqis and two US soldiers. And as peak hour approached, a series of explosions rocked Firdous Square. At the nearby Baghdad Hotel, three people were injured. The Ishtar Sheraton was also hit but no casualties were reported.
In the US, the former American administrator of Iraq, Paul Bremer, warned that the Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab Zarqawi had set up a dangerous, "professional operation" in Iraq that would be active long after other insurgent groups were defeated.
Mr Bremer told the Washington Times that members of Zarqawi's network were mostly trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and arrived in Iraq "not as undisciplined jihadists, but as professionally trained killers".
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Threatened lawyer 'just doing his job'
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The Victorian Bar Association has denounced death threats made against Sean Grant, the barrister representing Victor Brincat, one of Melbourne's alleged underworld hitmen.
The anonymous threat was made to the Law Institute of Victoria two weeks ago after a hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court.
VBA vice-chairman Ross Ray, QC, said it was unjust to criticise a barrister who was simply carrying out his obligation to give legal representation.
The specific nature of the threat to Mr Grant - who is also representing alleged drug trafficker Carl Williams - was not known but it was believed to have been conveyed in a telephone call.
Mr Ray said death threats against lawyers were rare.
He said barristers were obliged to take on a case regardless of who or what it involved.
"You are on occasions representing people you may not like and you might be pursuing causes that you disagree with but it's got nothing to do with your own personal position," he said.
Mr Ray said that every person was entitled to legal representation and the justice system would be placed in jeopardy if barristers refused some cases.
Brincat, 43, has been named by police as the likely hitman who shot Jason Moran and Pasquale Barbaro in front of 10 children at a suburban football clinic in June last year.
Brincat, of Southbank, and Thomas Hentschel, 41, of Cheltenham, are on remand at the Barwon Prison charged with the murder of kickboxer and hot dog seller Michael Marshall in South Yarra last October.
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January's Friday Late 'Sound It Out' was an incredibly successful evening with 5812 visitors in total and many more who were sadly unable to get into the Museum as we reached maximum capacity by 8.30pm – a first in the history of Friday Late. The event looked at music's relationship to technology. The projects we showcased represented […]Keep reading


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When I upload images, they appear broken in the editor. I can log into FTP and see them sitting there just fine in the uploads folder, but when I try to open them in the browser I get a 404. However, as soon as I publish the blog post, they appear normally and unbroken.
Why would this be? I would like to be able to preview my posts properly when writing them, without having to make them live to check their final appearance.
The pictures I'm uploading are small — max width maybe 500 px and file sizes mostly in the 20-60k range. Nothing's having to be crunched and the uploading itself seems to work fine.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me!
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