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The title of "whingeing Pom" should be stripped from the British and slapped on Australians after repeated attacks on the Gillard government's leadership despite an economy envied by the world, wrote The Guardian newspaper.
The commentary piece was among the harshest reports of last Thursday's failed Labor leadership spill published around the world. From Britain to United States to China and Indonesia, the spill was variously described as a farce, bizarre and dramatic.
"While the rest of the world lurches from crisis to economic crisis, the land of Oz is powering ahead, enjoying an Aussie dollar at a record high, unemployment at near-record lows (5.4 per cent) and basking in more sunshine than the rest of us can dream up," the The Guardian's report said.
"So what does its Labor government do? Attempt suicide."
The author of the story, Australian
"Now, it's time for Australians to accept the malcontents' mantle, because it is they who appear incapable of seeing just how lucky they are."
But the audience is British, along with any outside who accessed the free article online.
In light of the turmoil across Europe – most recently the threatened raid on Cyprians' savings to help foot a €10 billion ($12.4 billion) bail-out for the troubled nation – news of "yet another political attack against Australia's leader smacks of a particular strain of antipodean madness", Ms Totaro writes.
The Guardian, which is due to launch a web-only presence in Australia, ran an online "as it happened" blog following the leadership threat.
In another story in Britain's Telegraph, British barrister Rupert Myers called the Australian Labor Party "surely one of the world's most dysfunctional political organisations, making even the decade-long melodrama between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair look statesman-like in its restraint".
Mr Myers, who has worked in Sydney at law firm Allens, said the history of ALP leadership "read like Henry VIII's little black book".
"The Labor Party manage to switch their main cast with a regularity rarely found outside of television soaps," he writes.
Mr Rudd, he called a "seemingly robotic diplomat whose mild-mannered and verbose façade was lifted by leaked recordings of him swearing like a trooper".
For The Times, Australian politics were "at times surreal".
It headed its report by saying it was a "farcical ballot", and its opening line said the government was "left in chaos".
"In an extraordinary day – even for Australia's at times surreal politics – Ms Gillard earlier called a shock leadership ballot only for Kevin Rudd, the former PM and the only possible contender to refuse to take up the challenge.
"Ms Gillard will now almost certainly take her party to the election on September 14 but the government has been badly damaged."
The Independent similarly referred to a "dramatic and bizarre day", opening with: "Some called it a farce, some called it a charade, and others used less printable terms."
Beyond the UK: US, Asia
The Washington Post ran an Associated Press story that opened with a reference to "Australia's deeply unpopular government" and called the spill a "bizarre internal power struggle in which the Prime Minister was forced to open her job to challengers only to find that no one from her party was willing to run against her".
"The unprecedented spectacle of a leadership ballot without a challenger adds to the perception of dysfunction and turmoil that taints Prime Minister Julia Gillard's party and is likely to harm its already dismal chance of holding onto power at national elections in September," it said.
Other press were more prosaic.
Xinhua, the official press agency of the Chinese government, reported the story under the headline: "Gillard retains prime ministership as Rudd ducks vote" and the Hong Kong broadsheet, the South China Morning Post said Ms Gillard "faced down a leadership challenge . . . emerging victorious".
"However, as the elections approach Gillard is struggling to fend off concerns over her leadership and political strategy, and complaints over policy flip-flops that have seen her dubbed 'Ju-liar'," it reported.
The Jakarta Globe reported on Ms Gillard retaining leadership after no rivals stood.
National apology takes limelight
The coverage of Thursday's turmoil by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, tucked the leadership issue at the bottom of a detailed report on the national apology delivered to single mothers who were forced to give their babies up for adoption for decades up to the early 1970s.
The apology made the second paragraph of The New York Times report of the failed spill.
The BBC tucked it at the bottom of a piece on Ms Gillard declaring the leadership issue "settled", referring to her "historic apology".
In Australia, many have complained that the leadership tussle overshadowed the significant event and received scant media coverage.
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UPC cable giant fights watchdogs as shares slideUPC, Europe's largest cable group, hit back at Dutch regulators which have promised to bring in competition to the broadband market. But that was not enough to prevent its shares hitting a record low for the second day running.On Thursday evening UPC shares closed down 26% at Euros5.90 on the Amsterdam stock market. On Tuesday, prior to the announcement they traded at Euros9.30.Dutch telecom regulator OPTA and competition regulator NMa said it would like the internet access mark
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Zhang Ziyi to star in Wong Kar-Wai's 2046Zhang Ziyi, the newcomer who stole the plaudits as rebellious princess Jiao Long Yu (Jen) in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo Hu Zang Long), is to star in Wong Kar-Wai's forthcoming 2046.Zhang currently on set in Hong Kong with New Line's Jackie Chan film Rush Hour 2, this week revealed that she had signed for 2046. Producers were unable to confirm more than a very strong intention and could not say whether contractual terms had been finalised.The f


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Monday July 23rd, 2012 4:36pm
Although the travel to Bethpage, N.Y., this weekend won't be equidistant for the Denver and Duke lacrosse teams, the location is the center point for an enduring friendship between two of the games greatest head coaches
Both Denver's Bill Tierney and Duke's John Danowski grew up less than 10 miles Bethpage High School, the site of Saturday afternoon's contest between the No. 4 Blue Devils and the No. 10 Pioneers, and the coaches are looking forward to the reunion as well as a great weekend of lacrosse.
"It's weird because you don't usually talk to opposing coaches the week of a game," said Tierney at a press conference on Tuesday. "But I spoke to John this morning, and we are both really excited about this weekend."
Tierney, a Levittown native, and Danowski, an East Meadow native, were able to find a date where their respective teams had an opening and scheduled the game together along with a third, interconnected member, John DeTommaso, who played for Tierney at John Hopkins before coaching alongside Danowski at Hofstra.
"John is the Assistant Superintendent of Schools at Bethpage, so this all came together from this triangular relationship," said Tierney. "At first you kind of think about it, playing at a high school, because its such a bi- time game, but they have done an amazing job so far. They're bigger crowds in lacrosse, but none more intimate than this weekends."
The Bethpage Educational Foundation is sponsoring the event this weekend, and the new state-of-the art athletic complex was built by the local school district as well as the Town of Oyster Bay.
For the event, the town is adding 2,500 seats to its already 2,700-seated complex, which has been sold out for this weekend.
The teams will take part in a youth lacrosse clinic on Friday afternoon, according to Tierney.
Tierney and Danowski have collected multiple national championships and national coach of the year awards, and bring their respective programs into the event following successful 2010 campaigns. Duke is the defending NCAA champion, while Denver is coming off a season where it clinched an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament by virtue of winning their conference.
As for the teams that will take the field on Saturday, Duke's ranking has fluctuated from as high as No. 3 to as low as No. 15 in the national rankings this season, while Denver enters the top 10 for the first time this season.
The Blue Devils (8-3) are coming off a 13-11 loss to top-ranked Syracuse at New Meadowlands Stadium in the Konica Minolta Big City Classic, while Denver (8-2) is riding a four-game win streak following their loss to No. 2-ranked Notre Dame back on March 12.
The Pioneers also lost to Syracuse at the Carrier Dome in February.
"We haven't been able to get our signature win yet. We've been able to beat some teams that have gone in and out of the top 20, but haven't been able to get that win against a top 5 team, and that's what this program really needs so we can establish ourselves this year," said Tierney.
Denver will be without senior midfielder Andrew Lay, who suffered a season-ending jaw injury last week in practice.
Lay joins fellow senior midfielder Pat Rodgers and sophomore attackman Colin Scott on the injured reserve, which has forced Tierney to search the depth chart for new talent.
"Hayden Schutte and Harrison Archer have been waiting in the wings for us, and they moved into the lineup without skipping a beat," said Tierney of replacing Lay. "We have two of our top three midfielders out for the year, but when you have depth you are always looking for young men to step up, and we certainly feel good about the young guys ability to do so."
Tierney noted that last weekend the Pioneers top six midfielders were composed of two freshman and four sophomores, but isn't concerned with the infusion of youth.
"The key this week is to shore up the defense," said Tierney. "Some teams we've played we felt we could dictate what we wanted them to do, but this Duke team isn't like that. They have a ton of experienced kids and we are going to have our hands full."
One of the more pivotal match-ups will pit Duke's CJ Costabile against Denver's Chase Carraro in the face-off circle
Although Carraro has won 59.2 percent of his faceoffs this season, and is much improved from last season, Tierney acknowledges Costabile as a looming threat.
"CJ Costabile is a dynamic athlete. He is one of the best in the game," said Tierney of the player who won the go-ahead faceoff in last years national championship game and scored the game-winning goal only seconds later. "It's very rare in lacrosse that you have to prepare for a team's defensive player as if he is an offensive player, but CJ is one of those rare kids."
While Denver prepares for Costabile, Duke must do the same for the Pioneers' Mark Matthews, who is third in the nation with 2.89 goals per game, leading a Denver offense that ranks second in both scoring and assists.
Both defenses will have their hands full come Saturday afternoon as the game has the potential to be an offensive shoot-out.
During those hours of intense competition, there will be a rivalry brewing between the opposing coaches. Once the game ends, that rivalry will dissipate with a handshake, and a friendship will be restored.
The game begins at 2 p.m. ET.


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On 9/30/06, Robert Fitzpatrick <lists at webtent dot net> wrote:
> I am brand new to m0n0wall, I use FreeBSD quite a bit and decided to
> consider m0n0wall to be my router. I tried a Sonicwall and it was not
> compatible with my network setup I guess. Although I've managed many
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> OK, I have 3 subnets assigned by the provider including the WAN subnet,
> I guess I should use fictitious public numbers for privacy reasons? I'll
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> This is what I would like to setup:
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1. Re: Adding or deleting Shared Nodes using an Action ScriptMurali Pasumarti Feb 5, 2013 8:23 PM (in response to 981310)Yes it is possible,
Instead of Adding you need to AddInsert to maintain a Shared node,
"AddInsert,Version,Hierarchy,Node,Parent,Leaf/Limb Flag"
Instead of Deletion it's a good practice to Remove shared nodes and after through analysis if required please perform Delete,
Let me know if you see any issues,
2. Re: Adding or deleting Shared Nodes using an Action Script981310 Feb 13, 2013 8:32 PM (in response to Murali Pasumarti)Thanks Murali - that's almost EXACTLY what I ended up doing! Instead of the 'AddInsert' command though, I used just 'Insert' for making sure I was just adding shared nodes. And I used 'Remove' to remove the nodes that I no longer needed - then performed the thorough analysis yoe mentioned of these removed nodes and deleted them (AFTER nmaking sure they were ALL shared nodes first!)


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The commission investigating the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US has resumed taking testimony from senior figures in public hearings, including Attorney General John Ashcroft. Earlier witnesses included White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, former administration security chief Richard Clarke and CIA Director George Tenet.
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of 2001, I told the committee that my number one priority was the
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"Even if they could have penetrated Bin Laden's training camps
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"The right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing."
"We had a very effective programme... given the resources that we had.
"We can change the law, we can pass new statutes, we can add billions of dollars to the fight. We need to keep in perspective however what was the reality before September 11 and what was reality thereafter.
"At the end of the day, the FBI as a part of the Department of Justice has to obey the law - whatever that law is, it's one that protects us, it protects our constitution, it also protects our people."
Thomas Pickard, acting FBI Director during summer of 2001:
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"For many complex reasons, we did not develop the necessary intelligence, either through our own resources or through foreign resources, to sufficiently understand and react to their planning, communications, control and capacity to do us harm."
"These 19 [hijackers] acted flawlessly in their planning and execution. They successfully exploited every weakness, from our borders to our cockpit doors."


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In September 2009 my boss' wife called me to tell me about a fabulous jewelry company she just joined and would love to do a trunk show for me. Well, I was a new Mommy, working full time, tired and stressed out... a little wine and girl time sounded like a fabulous idea. I took one look at the catalog and knew I wanted to dive right in as a stylist. At first I saw it as a fun way to make extra money and quickly I realized that this was my future. "
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A VILLAGE community centre, run by volunteers for the last 12 months after council bosses pulled out of running it, has gone from strength to strength.
Blackburn with Darwen Council stopped its involvement with The Barlow Institute in Edgworth last December.
Responsibility for the Bolton Road venue was handed over to The Barlow committee, which organises a team of more than 65 volunteers.
North Turton and Tockholes councillor Colin Rigby, who is part of the committee, said: "We have got 65 to 70 volunteers who have stepped up and done a fantastic job.
"It is all down to those volunteers. Without them this place wouldn't be running. It is a different place to what it was 12 months ago.
"The building is getting really well used.
There are events on all the time and we are now taking bookings for November next year."
Cllr Rigby said a lot of work had been done on the building since the committee took it over.
He said: "We have spent a bit of money on the place.
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"We have recently been getting prices to rip out the toilets and have them refurbished.
"In our first year we have made a modest profit, which I think is good going."
When the building was first handed over to the volunteers, council chiefs completed a raft of health and safety work.
Cllr Rigby said: "The council came in and got all the jobs done.
"Blackburn with Darwen Council has been quite good with us. I have no problem with them."
The Barlow Institute opened in October, 1909.
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Auxiliary bishops frozen in place
It was recently announced that Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of my friend Peter Rosazza as auxiliary bishop of my home Archdiocese of Hartford, having reached the retirement age of 75.
It was recently announced that Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of my friend Peter Rosazza as auxiliary bishop of my home Archdiocese of Hartford, having reached the retirement age of 75.
The feud, if it might be called that, between the Catholic Health Association (CHA) and the U.S. Catholic bishops over the health-care reform legislation that has already been passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President Obama, is the subject of this week's column.
It is a mystery why the U.S. Catholic bishops continue to oppose the health-care reform legislation that has already passed both houses of Congress and been signed into law by the President.
Many years ago, when the National Catholic Reporter was a young newspaper, it ran a feature in the left-hand column of Page 1 that highlighted embarrassingly dumb items that had recently appeared in parish bulletins and other ecclesiastical documents.
Arizona has been in the news lately because of the passage of an immigration law that many accuse of fostering racial profiling.
However, there is another Arizona case that has gained national attention, especially in Catholic circles. And that is the excommunication of Mercy Sr. Margaret Mary McBride, vice president of mission integration at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix.
Chapter 8 of Fr. Charles Curran's forthcoming book, The Social Mission of the U.S. Catholic Church: A Theological Perspective, to be published by Georgetown University Press before the end of the year, focuses on the U.S. bishops and abortion law.
Late this year, Georgetown University Press will publish a new book by Fr. Charles E. Curran, who is widely regarded as the leading Catholic moral theologian in the United States and one of the Catholic church's most distinguished moral theologians worldwide.
The death of Williams Borders, retired archbishop of Baltimore, this past April at age 96 has dramatized the acute change in the composition of the U.S. hierarchy over the past 30 years, that is, since the election of Pope John Paul II in 1978 and the departure of Archbishop Jean Jadot, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, in 1980.
I regret very much that Gerald Renner, former religion writer for The Hartford Courant, did not live long enough to see himself vindicated.
This year we observe the 400th anniversary of the death of Matteo Ricci, the famous Jesuit missionary to China who died on May 11, 1610.
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A muffin is still a muffin even if it's wrapped in parchment paper . . . but I was inspired when I saw these in a recent Style at Home magazine. The recipe is one I've played with and switched up ingredients for and no matter what I do to it, it always turns out.
- 2 cups multigrain flour (or half white/half ww)
- 1/2 cup oatmeal
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup buttermilk or yogurt
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
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- 1 Tbsp butter, melted
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup oatmeal
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- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
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text: Steve: I ended up with creating a class that contains the three values: Pseudo code.... Class LineAmount { String province; String valueOfSomething; //getter and setters that are public } In a singlton class I have the following: Public Map<String, LineAmounts> MyLineAmounts = new HashMap<String, LineAmount>(); And I access the new map with a public add and retreive method that evokes either the put or get methods of the map. I feel this is more robust. Jim -----Original Message----- From: program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Meacham Sent: September 3, 2010 12:42 To: program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-java] Re: Java: Redimensioning my existing array. Please allow me to offer a didactic review of what Java arrays actually are. This will be a little bit long, so wait to read it until you have time to go step-by-step through what would be about a whole page in a textbook. // This is a single, primitive, double double d; // no jokes, guys // This is a single dimensional array of primitive doubles double[] ad; // This is a single dimensional array of single dimensional arrays of doubles, which can be used to simulate a two dimensional array double[][] aad; // This is a single dimensional array of single dimensional arrays of single dimensional arrays of doubles, which can be used to simulate a three dimensional array double[][][] aaad; Java only supports single-dimensional arrays. I stopped with three, but most Java implementations will allow you to go up to 255 levels deep like this. I don't recommend it. Each single dimensional array allows from zero to Integer.MAX_VALUE elements. Please note that it isn't until you reserve the memory that the lengths are specified. This allows a lot of flexibility, such as not knowing how bit to make the arrays until run-time. Now, let's reserve memory for the two-dimensional array in the most primitive way. aad = new double[5][]; // This creates an array of five arrays of doubles aad[0] = new double[10]; // The creates the first one, an array of ten doubles aad[1] = new double[2]; // The creates the second one, an array of two doubles aad[2] = new double[6]; // The creates the third one, an array of six doubles aad[3] = new double[0]; // The creates the fourth one, an array of zero doubles aad[4] = new double[5]; // The creates the fifth one, an array of five doubles Please also note that each of these sizes could have been done with a variable and not known until run-time. Try to do THAT in FORTRAN! Of course, Java offers what I call "syntactic sugar" for when all the dimensions are the same: // This creates an array of five arrays of doubles. It also creates five arrays of ten doubles each. aad = new double[5][10]; This is good and bad at the same time. It is good because it is flexible and powerful. Bad, because not only is it confusing to just about everybody (no, you're not alone), but because it slows things down a bit. In most languages finding the value stored in aad[2][5] is as simple and fast as adding two times five time the size of a double to the starting address of the multi-dimensional array. In most languages, most or all of this can be done at compile time, making it into a simple memory de-reference. In Java, however, the nested arrays must be traversed at runtime, one at a time. Finding add[2][5] become "retrieve and de-reference the value at add[2]; then find the value at add[5]." Arrays of Objects, rather than primitives makes this even worse. Because of this, arrays are very unique and special-purposed in Java. It's not like in Fortran where, if you can't do it in with array, it isn't worth doing. I'm not sure what problem you're trying to solve, Jim, or what domain you're trying to represent, but in Java, using nested-arrays is rarely the best solution. The main places I find them to be appropriate is in graphics, cryptography, and other very specialized applications. In business application programming, not so much. There, the Collection Classes are the main containers for multiple instances of related same-type data, and Classes are the main containers for related but different-type data. Steve On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Willem <dwillemv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Arrays are by design not resizable. You need to copy the data to a bigger array. This is what ArrayList does behind the seens, and linkedList does the same for adding nodes. On 9/3/2010 4:24 PM, Homme, James wrote: Hi Guru, Maybe you can adapt the code about dynamic arrays on this page. It says Java can't really do dynamic arrays, but talks about a way to get around the problem. http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/c7/s3.html Jim Jim Homme, Usability Services, Phone: 412-544-1810. Skype: jim.homme Internal recipients, Read my accessibility blog <http://mysites.highmark.com/personal/lidikki/Blog/default.aspx> . Discuss accessibility here <http://collaborate.highmark.com/COP/technical/accessibility/default.aspx> . Accessibility Wiki: Breaking news and accessibility advice <http://collaborate.highmark.com/COP/technical/accessibility/Accessibility%20Wiki/Forms/AllPages.aspx> From: program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Corbett, James Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 9:40 AM To: 'program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [program-java] Java: Redimensioning my existing array. Hello all: I have an array of type double.... Double[][] myDoubleArray = new double[2][13]; ...I now need to add an additional field.... 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YORK City Knights' under-20s reserves will not partake in league competition this year – citing travel costs as a big reason for pulling out.
The club will instead arrange U20s friendlies throughout the year, and chairman John Guildford is confident that will prove just as beneficial, if not more so, for their up-and-coming aces – as well as end the need to call on local amateurs to make up the numbers at late notice.
The Knights U20s – under then coach James Ford, who is now a player/assistant at first-team level – provided some of the high points of the club's 2013 relegation season as they reached the top-three play-offs in their U20s Championship.
However, Guildford fears changes to the U20s merit league format in 2014, which will see the introduction of new Cumbrian, North East and Midlands academy sides, plus the inclusion of Gloucestershire All Golds, will compromise the standards, as well as send travel costs soaring.
Additionally, it is thought some traditional clubs only decided to join the league late on when they were told it was a stipulation of possible promotion to Super League under the new restructure, and what teams they put out remains to be seen.
Guildford explained his club's reasons for pulling out.
"We're not sure some of the new teams will provide the challenge we need for our U20s, especially when you consider the long distances they will have to travel for matches," he said.
"It will be difficult for our part-time young lads to take time off from work or studies to travel four or five hours to Gloucester and back, and the cost to the club is also prohibitive.
"It's ridiculous really. We can't afford to keep running all over the country.
"We will instead be running our U20s by playing friendlies, or challenge matches, against the better sides. They will still be competitive."
The Knights already have one U20s outing arranged, against Halifax at Huntington Stadium on Thursday, February 6, and plan to take on the likes of Sheffield, Keighley, Featherstone and Leigh during the spring and summer, once the fixtures are ratified by the Rugby Football League.
"Lots of teams weren't going to run an U20s reserve team six or seven weeks ago, before finding out it would be one of the stipulations of being allowed promotion," said Guildford.
"Personally, I think every club should have a reserve side – I'm a big believer in that – and I hope the situation quickly sorts itself out so we can have the right kind of competition."
Guildford actually envisages little change to the number and quality of matches the Knights U20s will face in 2014.
They played ten league games in 2013, with Rochdale and South Wales both cancelling matches due to a lack of numbers. Several of the games were also arranged ad hoc.
This year, they will again arrange fixtures as and when – but without the threat of penalties if games do not go ahead.
"It probably works better for clubs at our level," said Guildford, who reckoned good quality training was perhaps more useful to young players than simply turning up to play a game.
"At times we were bleeding players from the amateur game. We don't want to do that – we're trying to help each other.
"Our lads can have more quality time (in training) rather than us having to chase round for a team, which is one of the things that annoyed the amateur clubs.
"I'm confident there will still be regular fixtures but we can have them when it suits us and our players.
"The players came on in leaps and bounds last year and that was largely down to the work they did with Fordy and (U20s assistant-coach) Mick Cook off the playing field as much as on it."


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PHILADELPHIA – Penn women's tennis (4-0) took down yet another conference champion on Friday, defeating Stony Brook (0-1) 4-3 at Levy Pavilion. The Quakers' victory evens the series against the Seawolves at one apiece.
The Red and Blue started off the day strong, sweeping the doubles competition by winning all three matches. The 22nd ranked pair in the country of Sol Eskenazi and Sonya Latycheva defeated Stony Brook's Polina Movchan and Becky Shtilkind at first doubles, 8-3. Co-captains Stephanie Do and Jules Rodin mimicked that success, defeating Nini Lagvilava and Louise Badoche in a tight second doubles match, 8-7 (1). The third duo of Emma Whitfield and Katherine Jania finished off doubles competition, defeating Chloe Pike and Cassandra Dix, 8-5.
The singles competition was the toughest it's been for Penn all season long. The Quakers were defeated by the Seawolves,4-3, last season, and the evenness of the two squads certainly showed. At first singles, Eskenazi met Lagvilava in a very even match. Unfortunately, Lagvilava dealt Penn its first individual-match loss of the spring, as Eskenazi fell in straight sets; 7-5, 7-5. The match between Latycheva and Movchan was the lengthiest of the afternoon, going the full three sets. The Penn freshman took the first set easily, 6-1, but the second set went to a tie break, which Movchan ultimately won, 7-6 (3). The final set went Movchan's way; 6-4.
Third singles saw Do go the full three sets, besting Badoche; 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-1. Jaime Yapp-Shing dominated at fourth singles against Shtilkind, winning her second match of the season in straight sets; 6-1, 6-0. Jackie Altansarnai topped Alex Ion in three sets at fifth singles; 6-1, 1-6, 6-2. Sixth singles went the Quakers' way as Jania bested Dix in straight sets; 6-2, 6-3.
Penn will be back in action on Feb. 23 when it travels to Williamsburg, Va. to face William & Mary. The match against the Tribe kicks off the Red and Blue's six-match southern state road trip.
Full Results
Penn 4, Stony Brook 3
1. Nini Lagvilava (S) def. Sol Eskenazi (P); 7-5, 7-5
2. Polina Movchan (S) def. Sonya Latycheva (P); 1-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4
3. Stephanie Do (P) def. Louise Badoche (S); 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-1
4. Jaime Yapp-Shing (P) def. Becky Shtilkind (S); 6-1, 6-0
5. Jackie Altansarnai (S) def. Alex Ion (P); 6-1, 1-6, 6-2
6. Katherine Jania (P) def. Cassandra Dix; 6-2, 6-3
1. Eskenazi/Latycheva (P) def. Movchan/Shtilkind (S); 8-3
2. Do/Rodin (P) def. Lagvilava/Badoche (S); 8-7 (5)
3. Whitfield/Jania (P) def. Pike/Dix (S); 8-5


text: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave another speech today, and Wall Street simply shrugged, ending the day ever so slightly in the red. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.02% Thursday to close at 11,381.15, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.04% on the day to 1303.81. The Nasdaq Composite ended down 0.09% to close the day at 2183.75. The Treasury market continued to rally, as the 10-year note added 5/32 to yield a new five-month low, 4.73% Bernanke did not reveal clues about future policy decisions, which only fueled Wall Street's growing belief that the Fed is done raising interest rates and the economy is not falling off the proverbial cliff. Indeed, some say things may not even be as bad in the much-maligned housing sector as many contend. What Gentle Ben did say before a business leadership group in Greenville, S.C., supports his belief that the economy is headed for a soft landing with only modest inflation. Much like the traders on Wall Street, the Fed chief shrugged off a recent downward revision in productivity figures, saying the nation's workforce appears as industrious as ever. "A case can be made that the strong productivity growth of the post-1995 era is likely to continue for some time," he says, adding that he expects productivity to continue to rise at an average pace of 2.5%.


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Ever have one of those days where everything just seems to fall apart? Not in a domino fashion, but completely different technological breakdowns that just happen to coincide with other breakdowns? I'm certain I'm not the only one to experience this particular phenomenon.
Case in point: The other day, I was dealing with a particularly quixotic network problem, intermittent random packet loss across across a VPN as noted by myriad Nagios warnings that would hit suddenly and inexplicably. Testing the fiber circuit itself revealed no problems, but intratunnel traffic was showing 50 percent packet loss. Was it the tunnel endpoint having problems? The internal switching? The fiber circuit itself? As soon as I'd dig in to test one particular subsystem, the problem would cease and all would be well, maybe for 10 minutes, maybe for 10 hours. Yeah, one of those.
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That alone is a real PITA, but for the day I spent fixing it, I was accosted by all manner of other technological failures. My phone suddenly refused to make calls and would drop calls where it hadn't done so before. I was working from a remote site, and my Internet connection that had been rock-solid for many moons suddenly went flaky. I had a wireless access point spontaneously bite the dust, gone for good. The coup de grâce was when the coffee machine quit -- seriously. I was either amazingly unlucky, there was an electromagnetic pulse released overhead (but I saw no mushroom clouds), or I was being subjected to a phenomenon I call mass technological revolt (MTR).
Inside the insidious MTR malady
In essence, MTR involves an initial technological problem (in this case, the intermittent network instability) that then somehow creates a localized technological war zone. Any number of pieces of technology maybe succumb to MTR during an event, generally in arcane and obtuse ways. In layman's terms, it's as if there was a rabble-rouser that convinced other devices to say, "Hey, screw this guy," and start breaking down. Like a mob, once this idea starts to spread, it catches like wildfire (as in last week's British riots). Before you know it, your coffeemaker flips you off and throws a heating element.
Interestingly, the initial and successive problems need not be physically local to the affected person, but they must be in his or her immediate purview. An example of this might be a server outage handled by an IP KVM switch that suddenly blows a power supply and thus eliminates all remote management capabilities to that downed server.


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Announcing your big news can be one of the most meaningful, memorable, and just plain fun parts of pregnancy. Looking for ideas? Here's how other expectant moms clued people in.
Telling your sweetie
If your partner is standing right next to you while you wait for the results of the pregnancy test, you can rule out a big reveal. Still, for many couples, finding out together is wonderful. "The month after I miscarried, my husband made me test, even though I thought I wasn't pregnant," one mom recalls. "It came out positive and we just freaked out and hugged each other."
Though finding out the happy news without your partner can be a somewhat solitary experience, the upside is that you can really let your creativity soar.
"I told my husband in a fortune cookie," says one mom. "I ordered take-out, then swapped my custom fortune cookie for the one from the restaurant. He loved it!" Another says, "We were at a restaurant and I had the waiter put a pacifier on our dessert plate. My husband's reaction was classic."
One mom told her husband she was making something for him and to go peek in the oven – she'd put a single bun inside. Another wrote, "Hi Daddy, I can't wait to meet you!" on her belly with a washable marker. She asked her husband to come look at a mark on her belly. When he saw the message, he nearly keeled over.
You can put the positive pregnancy test to use by wrapping it up as a gift, or taking a photo of it and sending it to your partner.
Additional ideas from BabyCenter moms include wearing a t-shirt that says "Mommy-to-Be" or dressing an older child in a "Big Brother" or "Big Sister" shirt, then waiting for your partner to notice.
You can also play to your partner's hobbies or interests. "We're big readers, so I gave my husband a children's book called Does a Duck Have a Daddy?" one mom says. Another plans to order her husband a NASCAR onesie. Another's husband loves cupcakes, so she plans to bake a dozen and frost them all in blue and pink, then ask him why he thinks they're decorated that way.
Don't feel like putting in a ton of extra effort? No problem – simple announcements can be every bit as momentous as elaborate ones. "I just left the digital test on the bathroom counter, and when my husband went in, he saw it," says one mom. "He was speechless."
Telling family
Your pregnancy is big news for your parents as well, especially if it's their first grandchild. Of course, there's nothing wrong with just calling them up or arranging a video chat and saying, "Guess what?" But some expectant parents like to liven things up a little.
"I set up a lunch date with my mom, and when we met at the restaurant, I said, 'We're so glad to see you!' She was confused and said, 'We, who?' All I had to do was smile and put my hand on my belly. She got it immediately."
"I sent six blue and five pink carnations to my parents and my in-laws with a note attached that said, 'Some are pink and some are blue. The color there's more of is your clue.' His parents got it right away, but I had to explain it to mine."
"I plan to create a holiday card saying, 'Happy holidays from us, dog, and baby on the way.' Then I'll nonchalantly ask my parents to proofread it," says one mom. "I have a feeling they'll have to read it a few times!"
Giving your parents little gifts is another fun way to go. "We gave my mom and mother-in-law copies of Goodnight Moon with a sticky note saying, 'Something to read to your grandchild,'" one mom says. Other gift ideas include bibs, booties, and pacifiers. Or you could give them something they'll wear themselves – like a shirt or hat that says "World's Best Grandma" or "World's Best Grandpa."
Sending a card via snail mail works great, too. "We sent my parents and in-laws a card meant for grandparents instead of parents, and inside we wrote my due date," says one mom. Another says, "My mother-in-law's birthday is in a week and I'm sending her a birthday card with one of my sonogram pictures inside. I'm adding one of those speech bubble stickers next to the baby that says 'Happy Birthday, Nana. See you October 15th!'"
Have an older child? Get her in on the act. "I taught my 2-year-old to respond to the question 'Where's the baby?' by pointing to my belly. I recorded it on video and sent it to all the family. I got so many excited calls and texts back, it was great!" says one mom.
If you're having a family get-together, consider making your announcement over dessert. "We ordered pink and blue M&M's that said 'we're having' and 'a baby' on them," says one mom. "We passed them out after dinner and waited to see who'd notice first."