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FEATURE! --Mn-z 03:04, September 12, 2009 (UTC)
- Seriously? I just wrote this for me. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 03:24, September 12, 2009 (UTC)
- On a more serious note, you should put this mainspace. --Mn-z 03:51, September 12, 2009 (UTC)
I could have sworn I put the VFH tag on that. --Mn-z 05:52, September 13, 2009 (UTC)
- Was it the imaginary tag? I do that all the time. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 06:14, September 13, 2009 (UTC)
Dear Modusoperandi, would you mind if I use this beautifully written eulogy at my funeral? Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.127.116.11 (talk • contribs)
- I don't mind. Go right ahead. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 18:34, September 27, 2009 (UTC)
edit I would
Force the atheist I tied up to read this right before I kill him. ---The Great Lung Sphincter of Nebuchadnezzar 01:04, September 30, 2009 (UTC)
- Silly Lung. There's no such thing as atheists. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 03:06, September 30, 2009 (UTC)
edit Beautiful!
That was an amazing poem. If I were an Atheist, that would be read at my funeral for sure. —Pelozurian (talk) 23:09, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks. Sometimes, pages come from nowhere. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 23:14, May 7, 2010 (UTC)

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VOLUNTEERS are needed to get Yate's cycling route on track with the National Cycle Network.
The Joint Cycleway Group, which aims to encourage cycling in the area around Yate and Chipping Sodbury, is appealing for people to help prepare a new section of cycling pathway around Westerleigh.
Part of the pathway from Pucklechurch to the M4 has already been completed and construction is currently under way on the second phase, from Westerleigh to the M4 bridge. The section from Yate to Westerleigh will follow afterwards.
Volunteers are now needed to work one day a week to help prepare, lay and construct the dust path alongside South Gloucestershire Council's Streetcare team of contractors.
The work parties are being held every Sunday (9am-4pm) and helpers are welcome for as little time or as long as they can.
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Pirates minor league notebook: Late-round pick rises to become All-Star
BRADENTON, Fla. — Bryton Trepagnier may not be a household name or one of the Pirates' hottest prospects, but he is a Florida State League All-Star.
The pitcher was a late addition to the South Division's roster, replacing St. Lucie's Matt Koch.
A 41st-round pick in 2010, Trepagnier was 3-0 with five saves in 18 appearances with the Marauders while posting a 1.86 ERA in 29 innings heading into Saturday's All-Star game at McKechnie Field. Trepagnier has given up just 16 hits and no home runs while striking out 20 and walking 13.
Opposing hitters were batting .172 against him heading into the weekend.
This marked the first time the Florida State League All-Star Game was held in Bradenton.
Other Marauders who made the game were outfielder Josh Bell and pitcher Orlando Castro.
Bell, considered the Pirates' sixth-best prospect by MLB.com, was as good as advertised during the first half. The outfielder made the All-Star team as well as the home run derby while batting .318 with nine home runs and 42 RBIs in 62 games.
But other, less-heralded guys came through, too.
Jonathan Schwind, who saw an increase in playing time because of injuries to Jordan Steranka and Jose Osuna, hit .306 with a .431 slugging percentage in 41 games.
Schwind, who had three home runs and 15 RBIs heading into the weekend, was the Pirates' 41st-round pick in 2011. He hit .183 in 30 games in 2012 and .216 in 75 games last season with low Single-A West Virginia.
And one of the team's most reliable starters was Chad Kuhl, whose seven wins are tied for the league lead with St. Lucie's Gabriel Ynoa. Kuhl, a ninth-round pick out of Delaware in 2013, has a 3.95 ERA in 13 starts.
One of the Pirates' top pitching prospect, Tyler Glasnow, has rebounded after missing most of the spring and the beginning of the season with an injury. Though his record is a 3-3, he has a 1.90 ERA in nine starts, allowing 24 hits and no home runs in 42 2⁄3 innings with 48 strikeouts and 28 walks.
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By winning their 35th game Thursday, the Marauders guaranteed themselves a non-losing first half. That's in stark contrast to last season when Bradenton's first-half record of 26-42 was the worst in the league.
John Lembo is a freelance writer.


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BEIJING – In a broadening campaign to enforce its territorial claims, China says it's beefing up its police powers in the disputed South China Sea and requiring foreign fishermen to ask Beijing's permission to operate within most of the vast, strategic waterway.
The move, which took effect this month, comes on the heels of the late November announcement of a new air defense identification zone requiring foreign planes to notify Beijing of flights over a huge swath of the East China Sea, where China is locked in a bitter territorial dispute with Japan.
The steps are prompting concerns that President Xi Jinping's push to assert China's role as a regional power could spark a confrontation with neighbors.
"These sort of assertions of sovereignty, or territorial claims, will continue. Xi believes he can't afford to be seen as soft," said City University of Hong Kong China politics expert Joseph Cheng.
The affected waters account for 2 million of the South China Sea's 3.5 million sq. km, a sweeping area encompassing island groups claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and others — and in some cases occupied by their armed forces. The islands sit amid the world's busiest commercial sea lanes, along with rich fishing grounds and potential oil and gas deposits.
The new rules demand that foreign vessels seek permission to fish or survey within waters administered by Hainan, China's southernmost island province, which looks out over the South China Sea.
Authorities in the provincial city of Sansha, on an island far south of Hainan, held a joint drill Jan. 1 involving 14 ships and 190 personnel from various border patrol and law enforcement agencies.
"Rampant infringement by foreign fishing vessels" was among the activities targeted in the practice scenarios, law enforcement official Wang Shizhen was quoted as saying by the official China News Service.
Passed by Hainan's provincial legislature in late November, the new rules say only that permission must be obtained from unnamed "relevant departments" under China's Cabinet. Chinese law allows for the confiscation of catches and fishing equipment and fines of up to 500,000 yuan ($83,000) for violators.
While it would be nearly impossible to enforce the rule over such a vast area, the requirement seems to emphasize China's determination to compel foreign nations to take its sovereignty claims seriously.
Beijing has moved systematically to put teeth behind its island claims, setting up the Sansha city administration in 2012 to administer the scattered, lightly populated region of island groups and reefs.
China has also combined its civilian maritime agencies into a single coast guard to increase effectiveness, and even has cracked down on activity in the area by foreign maritime archaeologists.
Farther north, China's announcement of its ADIZ drew expressions of concern from Japan, South Korea and Australia, all U.S. treaty partners.
The zone is seen largely as a means of strengthening China's claim to the uninhabited Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
However, Xi is under far less nationalist pressure at home to take a hard line on South China Sea issues, said Cheng, the China politics expert.
Despite the new fishing rules, Beijing will likely seek to avoid increasing frictions by enforcing them too zealously, Cheng said.
"Beijing wants relations with Southeast Asia to be relatively smooth," he said. "They can't afford to alienate too many neighbors at one time."


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A persistent thief who was jailed after preying on elderly neighbours was a "devil with two faces", according to a relieved neighbour.
Gemma Davies in Dalmeny Way, Epsom, was last week was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court to 20 months behind bars.
Davies, 29, described as a "menace to the community" by police, pleaded guilty to 13 charges - five thefts, two burglaries, four counts of child neglect, one count of making off without paying, and a fraud.
The thefts included stealing purses when making phone calls at the homes of neighbours and stealing cash when collecting sponsorship money from a 94-year-old woman in West Street, Epsom in June.
She also snatched the purse of 75-year-old woman in a shop in Epsom High Street, Epsom on June 30.
ON MONDAY: Community "menace" from Epsom jailed after admitting burglary, theft, child neglect and fraud
A man in his 30s who lives with his family near to the flat which was occupied by Davies, said she started blighting the life of the community very shortly after she moved there in April.
He said: "From the beginning, she was begging for money from every property and sometimes she was going round asking for sponsorship money from people.
"Sometimes she just knocked on the door saying her phone didn't work, she didn't have any water or electricity in her house.
"Then she would go into properties and steal wallets and mobile phones. Sometimes she would put her hand inside people's letterboxes in our communal area and take the letters."
The neighbour said many of the problems stemmed from Davies' behaviour which he believed related to drugs - although the prison sentence she is now serving is not the result of any charges relating to illegal substances.
He said Davies stole from four different homes on Dalmeny Way alone: a wallet from a 65-year-old woman's house, two mobile phones and £85 cash.
He added: "She always targeted the older people.
"Sometimes you could see on her face that she looked like a devil.
"She was a horrible woman and a liar.
"She had two faces. One day she was happy and another day you didn't even want to say hello to her.
"She was very rude to everyone."
He added: "She was always using mini cabs even when she didn't have the money.
"She would run inside the house saying she would get the money but then wouldn't answer the door and the mini cab driver would call the police.
"She stole a wallet from a mini cab driver."
The man said Davies had moved to Epsom from Chessington, where she had also been embroiled in "troubles".
He said he heard she had a challenging background - having been raised by one parent, having problems with drugs from an early age and issues at school.
The neighbour said Davies' incarceration has brought relief to the residents of Dalmeny Way.
"This area has always been very quiet.
"Since she moved in we have had quite a lot of problems.
"Most of the people felt insecure. You had to make sure you locked your house to put out the rubbish," he said.
"People were worried about the kids playing outside as strange people were coming in and out of her property.
"Now everything is quiet."
He said that while Davies was on bail for the offences she had been charged with, the police had to be called again and she was then remanded in custody.
Other neighbours living on the road said Surrey Police's community officers had visited them in May with anti-social behaviour charts, asking them to record any offensive behaviour.
PC Lisa Betchley, who investigated the case, said: "Gemma Davies has been nothing short of a menace to the community in the short time she has lived there.
"Taking advantage of the goodwill of her neighbours who attempted to help her after she had moved in, and targeting the elderly were particularly callous acts on her part.
"It cannot be underestimated the impact these sort of offences can have on residents living in a close-knit neighbourhood which is why we took steps to bring Davies to justice.
"I hope this reassures the public that we will act when faced with challenging individuals and we would encouraging anyone else faced with similar situations to report matters in confidence."
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"Motors, Brownian Motors,
and Brownian Mechanosynthesis
I read a new paper today titled "A Bipedal DNA Brownian Motor with Coordinated Legs", but I find that this has prompted me to write not about what is new there — an advance in mechanical DNA nanotechnologies that is related to purely-DNA-based logic circuits — but instead about motors, Brownian motors, and their relationship to Brownian nanomachines and mechanosynthesis.
I turns out that mechanically guided synthesis doesn't require machines with motors.
Brownian Assembly
I've discussed how Brownian ('self') assembly differs from mechanically guided assembly. The advantages stem from spontaneous motion: components can reach the right position and orientation with no need for a mechanism that moves the same way. (A disadvantage, of course, is that components can also reach all the wrong destinations, so each component and its attachment site must bind together in a more-or-less unique way.)
Brownian Motors
Brownian motors also exploit random motion. There's no need to provide a steady force to move something from A to B if it will move there spontaneously and can be latched in place when it arrives. This approach makes it possible to use chemical forces that operate across only short distances (~0.1 nm) to drive a machine that takes much larger steps (>1.0 nm); the short-range force need only provide the latch. Brownian motors [pdf review] can be implemented by applying this principle in a directed, cyclic process.
Non-Brownian Motors
All known biomolecular motors operate on the Brownian principle, which is well suited for soft machines. It is sometimes asserted in learned journals that nanoscale physics somehow [wave hands here] demands that all nanoscale motors be Brownian, but this is incorrect. For a counterexample, in Nanosystems (Section 11.7, "DC motors and generators") I described and analyzed a non-Brownian electric motor in which a rotor is charged and discharged by electron tunneling and driven by electric fields; a paper last year in Physical Review Letters reports the apparently independent rediscovery of this principle of operation and provides a detailed molecular dynamics analysis of a specific embodiment. Motors of this class can be efficient, and mechanical scaling laws permit the power density to be extraordinarily high, >10–12 W/nm3 (= 1015 W/m3).
Brownian Mechanosynthesis
In classic machines, motors drive motion. Nanomachines can work the same way, as I've discussed elsewhere, yet in mechanosynthesis, the Brownian-motor principle requires no separate motor.
The fundamental principle of mechanosynthesis is the use of mechanical constraints to guide the motion of reactive molecules, accelerating reactions where molecules encounter one another, and suppressing reactions where they do not. There is, however, no reason why a constrained motion must be driven by a motor. Brownian fluctuations can drive the motion, and a thermodynamically favored reaction can serve, in effect, as latch at the end. The motion constraint will still suppress off-path reactions, and properly constrained motions — even when free along one or more coordinates — can still result in a greatly elevated effective concentration at a target reaction site, thereby greatly accelerating the intended reaction.
Because effective mechanosynthetic constraints can be provided by machines (including soft machines) that have neither motors nor power-transmission systems, the advantages of mechanosynthesis are more accessible than has often been assumed."


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40 years ago today, one of the most one-sided trades of the 1970s occurred. It was among the best deals the Yankees have made – and among the worst the Cleveland Indians agreed to.
On Nov. 27, 1972, the Yankees sent Cleveland Rusty Torres, Charlie Spikes, Jerry Kenney, and John Ellis in exchange for Jerry Moses . . . and Graig Nettles.
Five of those six names you've probably never heard of, with Nettles of course being the exception. Nettles would play 22 years in major league baseball, hit 390 homers (including a league leading 32 in 1976), and have a stellar defensive reputation.
Most of that was in the future, though. 40 years ago today, Nettles was a 28-year-old third baseman who'd just completed his third year as a starting third baseman. He was a respected talent—he'd even received a token 10th-place vote for AL MVP in 1971—but he wasn't seen as anything too special. Cleveland was actually Nettle's second team. The Twins had sent him there.
He was a good offensive player, but was ultimately a 'tweener. He had some power, but nothing great. He drew some walks, but he was well under the league leaders. Sure he had a great glove, but in 1972 defensively there was Brooks Robinson and then there was everyone else. Nettles was one of the everyone elsers. Worst of all, Nettles' weakest point was batting average, which was the best regarded offensive stat back then. In three years as Cleveland's third sacker, he'd hit just .250. That's nice, but nothing outstanding. Combine that with his 71 homers, and Cleveland felt he had enough value to be worth trading but not enough value to be worth keeping.
Also keep in mind that Cleveland had just finished in last place in 1972—and that was despite a Cy Young Award performance from ace pitcher Gaylord Perry. The team was 10th in runs scored with a .234 average. Nettles, they felt, was part of the problem, not the solution. So they peddled him off and see how many holes they can fill in the process.
So what did they get? All four guys coming to Cleveland were position players. If things worked out perfectly, they might get half of a starting lineup. Yeah, if only some things broke their way, they could have two good starters.
The least of the four was infielder Jerry Kenney. 10 months older than Nettles, Kenney was already a bust. He was supposed to be the Yankees third baseman of the future, but hit .193 in 140 games in 1970. He improved in 1971, but flopped back in 1972. The Yankees wanted Nettles to replace Kenney. So they gave Kenney to Cleveland, who hoped he could rekindle his game. It didn't take. He played five games in Cleveland before calling it a career.
Well, he was supposed to suck. How about Rusty Torres, the young rightfielder? He'd hit .211 in a partial season with the Yankees in 1972, but he was only 23-year-old and maybe he'd improve as he aged? Nope. In two years and 230 games, he hit .199 and 10 homers.
Next is John Ellis. He was a first baseman/catcher who'd actually had success in the bigs before coming to Cleveland, hitting .294 in 52 games at age 23 with the 1972 Yankees.
Sure enough, that wasn't a fluke, as Ellis was a solid hitter for Cleveland in 1973 and 1974, hitting .278 with 24 homers. It's nothing world class, but it made him an above average hitting catcher. Yeah, but in 1975 he strangely flopped. Cleveland palmed him off on Texas, where he became a longtime backup.
That just leaves Charlie Spikes, a corner outfielder just shy of his 22nd birthday at the time of the trade. Spikes had the best career of the bunch, earning a starting slot in the Indians outfield for four years. But he didn't quite pan out. He started out showing promise, hitting 23 homers at age 22 in 1973, albeit with a low .237 average. Next year, he kept the power and improved his average to .271. But he was still merely serviceable. With fewer walks or steals, you need better power or a superior average from a corner outfielder.
Instead, Spikes fell apart. He hit .229 with 11 homers in 197 and .232 with three homers in 101 games in 1976. As he entered what should've been his prime, he was worthless.
Cleveland got four flavors of blah. Meanwhile, Nettles made a half-dozen All-Star teams, and was solid and steady enough to keep his job in the starting lineup through 1987, at age 42. By that time he was no longer a Yankee, but Nettles helped New York claim three pennants and three division titles from 1976-81. Meanwhile, Cleveland had become an annual cellar dweller in the AL East. The only nice thing for Cleveland is that Jerry Moses, the other guy they gave up, didn't do anything.
Still, it was a terrible trade for Cleveland – a trade that is now 40 years old.
Aside from that, many other baseball events celebrate their anniversary or "day-versary" (which is something that happened X-thousand days ago) today. Here they are, with the better ones in bold to make things easier to skim.
1,000 days since the Dodgers sign free agent Garrett Anderson.
2,000 days since Joe Torre notches his 2,000th managerial victory. He's 2,000-1,733 for his career at this point.
2,000 days since draft day, 2007. Among those taken are: Matt Wieters by Baltimore and Jayson Heyward by Atlanta.
3,000 days since Curt Schilling becomes the fourth pitcher to beat all 30 franchises, joining Al Leiter, Kevin Brown, and Terry Mulholland as members of the club.
4,000 days since the Cardinals trade Dustin Hermanson to the Red Sox.
6,000 days since Chili Davis joins the 2,000 hit club.
6,000 days since Jason Giambi plays a full game at third base for the final time.
7,000 days since Dennis Martinez becomes the seventh pitcher to post 100 wins in the AL and NL. Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Gaylord Perry, and Fergie Jenkins pre-date him, but I'm not sure who the other two are.
7,000 days since Shawn Green makes his big league debut.
9,000 days since Gary Carter enjoys the last of his 28 career multi-home run games.
10,000 days since Oakland signs Tommy John as a free agent.
40,000 days since the Tigers play in Grand Rapids to avoid Detroit's city-wide ban on Sunday ball. They beat the Washington Senators, 5-4.
1892 Bullet Joe Bush, 200 game winner, is born.
1910 The Tigers play their first exhibition game in Cuba on an off-season tour. 15,000 see this contest.
1915 The Indians pick up future Hall of Fame pitcher Stan Coveleski from the Portland squad in the Pacific Coast League.
1922 Austin McHenry dies at age 27. He was a very good player, who died far too young from natural causes.
1926 The A's trade infielder Bill Wambsganss to KC in the minor leagues. Wambsganss is famous for pulling of an unassisted triple play in the 1920 World Series.
1931 Jack Burdock, 19th century infielder, dies at age 79.
1939 Relief pitcher Dave Giusti is born.
1950 The Red Sox sign free agent infielder Lou Boudreau, who the Indians had cut a few days earlier.
1955 In the Rule 5 draft, the Cubs claim Monte Irvin from the Giants.
1956 Charlie Peete, who is in the running to become the first black starter for the St. Louis Cardinals, dies in a plane crash while returning from winter ball in Venezuela.
1958 Mike Scioscia, catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Springfield Isotopes, is born.
1961 Bob Harmon, NL deadball pitcher who led the league in walks allowed in consecutive seasons, dies at age 74.
1961 The White Sox trade Minnie Minoso to the Cardinals.
1962 Cincinnati trades Cookie Rojas to the Phillies.
1962 Milwaukee trades veteran first baseman Joe Adcock to the Indians.
1963 Baltimore trades slugger Jim Gentile along with $25,000 to the A's for Norm Siebern.
1967 The Braves release backup catcher Charlie Lau.
1967 In one of the rare trades involving a manager, Washington trades skipper Gil Hodges to the Mets for $100,000 and a player who've never heard of named Bill Denehy.
1971 Ivan Rodriguez is born.
1974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for two years due to his illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon.
1978 Baltimore selects John Lowenstein off waivers from Texas. Lowenstein will become one of Earl Weaver's platoon specialists.
1978 Jimmy Rollins, shortstop, is born.
1987 Babe Herman, outfielder, dies at age 84.
1991 The Reds trade Eric Davis and another player to the Dodgers for Tim Belcher and John Wetteland.
1991 The Phillies name Lee Elia as their new manager.
1991 The Mets sign free agent Eddie Murray.
1997 Hall of Fame Negro League first baseman Buck Leonard dies at age 90.
2001 Baseball owners unanimously vote to extend Bud Selig's contract as commissioner through to 2006.
2004 The Pirates send cash and Jason Kendall to the A's for Mark Redman, Arthur Rhodes, and cash.
2006 Eddie Mayo, runner up in the 1945 AL MVP vote, dies at age 96.


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Unreal Tournament's Future to Be Revealed Next Week
The future of Unreal Tournament will be revealed later this week by Epic Games.
Epic Games' Paul Meegan and Vice President and Co-Founder Mark Rein have confirmed on Twitter that Unreal Tournament is returning after six years since the release of Unreal Tournament 3.
RT @CodeSe7en: @MarkRein @Storm360 UT is coming back!? I've been begging for this very thing! <-Yes UT coming back! https://t.co/9XUToORA4c
— Mark Rein (@MarkRein) May 2, 2014
UE4 Dev Community + Epic. The future of Unreal Tournament. Tune in to http://t.co/hPLc5jcZSv Thursday at 2pm ET. #unrealdev #FirstBlood
— Paul Meegan (@PaulMeegan) May 2, 2014
The future of the series will be announced at 2PM EDT on Thursday, May 8 on Twitch TV. There are no hints about what the announcement will concern other than the fact that it will have to do with the Unreal Engine 4 and the Unreal Engine 4 Dev Community. The tweets were followed by lots of speculation, such as the possibility that the next Unreal Tournament will be a mod/user-generated content platform akin to LittleBigPlanet.
There's also no word about whether or not this next Unreal game will appear on any consoles or will be available as a PC-exclusive title, but this update on the official Unreal Engine 4 forums details new features that include full support for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. We'll update you as more information is made available.


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Zach " I think that the ADGA needs to honor their commitment and award the USDGC bid to John"
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First Aired - 3/7/1991
Santa's Little Helper is forced to go to obedience school after ruining Marge's heirloom quilt, Homer's new Assassin sneakers, and Homer's giant macadamia nut cookie, and, if he doesn't pass, he'll be given away.
!!This episode contains examples of:
* BigNo: Homer did this when he saw that Santa's Little Helper had chewed up his Assassins. It coincided with SLH howling, causing every dog in the neighborhood to start barking.
* BlahBlahBlah: How SLH interprets most human speech, until he clearly hears Bart saying "sit."
* ContinuityNod: While Santa's Little Helper is chewing the remote, he changes the channel showing a new reporting on the [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E13SomeEnchantedEvening Babysitter Bandit]] and a Duff commercial from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E3HomersOdyssey Homer's Odyssey]]".
* DramaticIrony: PlayedForLaughs when the Simpsons' neighbor calls to complain about SLH being in her pool while Homer claims it isn't him as he's outside, unaware that he had escaped until he looked out the window.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Marge scolds Homer for buying the Assassins. Homer counters this by telling Marge she bought a bunch of smoke alarms and they haven't had a single fire.
* HypocriticalHumor: Homer tried to calm Marge down about SLH eating the Bouvier family quilt by saying that you can't get too attached to things. But when he saw that Santa's Little Helper had also eaten his giant macadamia nut cookie, ''he'' went [[IncrediblyLamePun nuts]].
* JawDrop: Bart slowly drops his jaw when he realized what Homer is trying to say.
* TheLastStraw: Homer considers Santa's Little Helper eating his giant macadamia nut cookie this and decides to get rid of him.
* LawOfDisproportionateResponse: Santa's Little Helper eats Marge's old quilt, which was a family heirloom for centuries. She is understandably very upset and Homer tries to comfort her by telling her it's just a quilt. Then he discovers the dog also ate a cookie he wanted to eat, which sends him into a hysterically {{Narm}}y despair. This also turns to be the final straw for him to get rid of the dog.
* MurdererPOV: During the moments when Santa's Little Helper eyed Homer's cookie and attacked Marge's quilt, this was used, complete with ominous music.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Normally in situations like this, when Lisa fails to do so, Marge is often the VoiceOfReason when it comes to Homer's demands be it comically ridiculous or heart wrenching decisions. However when he decides Santa's Little Helper has to go, Marge is on his side, much to the kid's shock and Homer's delight. Justified as she was very upset about the quilt.
* OhCrap: Homer's reaction when he sees that Santa's Little Helper had escaped. What makes it worse besides being annoyed that SLH got out and he now has to retrieve him, he called the neighbor on the phone an idiot and claimed it wasn't SLH in her pool when it was.
* ParentalNeglect: It's stated in the epilogue that SLH bit Bart and Homer didn't mind.
* PottyFailure: SLH did this at obedience school, and Ms. Winthrop forced Bart to clean it up.
* RockyRollCall: When Homer brings home his new Assassin sneakers:
-->'''Marge''': Those are very elaborate sneakers.
-->'''Bart''': They better be for a hunderd and twenty-five big ones.
-->'''Homer''': D'oh!
-->'''Marge''': $125?!
-->'''Homer''': Bart!
-->'''Bart''': Aah!
-->'''Marge''': Homer!
-->'''Homer''': D'oh!
* ShoutOut: To the famous "touching fingers' scene from [[Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial E.T]]. The music was even the same.
* SoundEffectsBleep: When Homer started yelling that Santa's Little Helper had to go, it immediately switched to the dog's POV, so all we hear is BlahBlahBlah.
* SpecialGuest: Tracy Ullman as Emily Winthrop; Frank Welker as the dog noises/animal walla.
* TheUnreveal: How Marge managed to get Dr. Hibbert's home phone number.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The end showing what happened to all the dogs after they graduated obedience school.


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Published 4:51 pm, Saturday, June 29, 2013
(06-29) 16:47 PDT Antioch -- A man was shot and killed at his Antioch apartment on Saturday, a day after he survived being shot in a similar attack, police said.
The victim, a 42-year-old man whose name wasn't immediately released, was shot in the head shortly after 9:30 a.m. Saturday while he was on the front porch of his apartment on the 2100 block of Spanos Street, said Antioch police Lt. Diane Aguinaga.
The man died at a local hospital.
About 11 a.m. Friday, the same man was at home when he was shot, Aguinaga said. He received a grazing wound to his back and a gunshot wound to his leg but was "uncooperative with officers at that time and gave no information as to who had shot him," Aguinaga said.
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John Danks tossed 7 1-3 shutout innings as the Chicago White Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-0 Friday night at Kauffman stadium.
The White Sox won the game as +135 underdogs, and the five runs went UNDER the nighyt's posted over/under (7).
A.J. Pierzynski went 3-for-4 at the plate, including a solo home run for the White Sox. Scott Linebrink threw just underdogs two innings for his second save.
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The MA program in English offers you the opportunity to work closely with publishing scholars in the field of your choice. Small classes with vibrant, engaged faculty challenge and inspire you to pursue your interests and prepare for a career or further study. Our two-year program offers concentrations in literary studies, literary studies with creative writing emphasis, professional writing, and rhetoric and composition. Graduate assistantships offer funding and valuable teaching experience. Internships, independent studies, and lots of one-on-one mentoring ensure that every student emerges ready for a profession or further study. Workshops provide practical advice on prospectus- and thesis-writing, submitting to conferences, applying to PhD programs, job hunting, and teaching at the two-year college.
Watch our graduate faculty discuss their research on the English Department's YouTube channel.
Faculty Research
Dr. Angela Vietto talks about her research.
Literary Studies
Students concentrating in literary studies choose coursework from a wide range of periods and genres. Courses within a given time period may be taken more than once; they focus on a different topic each time they are offered. Faculty bring their research into the classroom, involving students in cutting-edge conversations about literary texts, and theoretical concerns.
The literary studies checklist spells out requirements. Electives allow students to take classes in other concentrations as well. The Graduate Program offers interdisciplinary literary study through affiliated programs in British Studies, Film Studies, and Women's Studies. Our relationship with the famous Newberry Library in Chicago allows students to participate in workshops and attend lectures there. Graduate students also have access to the University of Illinois library's massive collection.
Students in their final semester write theses or take exams to demonstrate mastery of their field. Throughout their two years at Eastern, many give presentations at local and national conferences.
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Our graduate faculty talk about some of the skills involved in reading literature in The Close Reading Cooperative video series.
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Students concentrating in literary studies with creative writing emphasis choose coursework from various genres: workshops are offered in writing creative nonfiction, fiction, drama, and poetry. All creative writing classes follow a workshop format and may be taken more than once.
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JERUSALEM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioLineRx (NASDAQ:BLRX) (TASE:BLRX) announced today the final results of the Phase Ia study of BL-1021, an orally available small molecule for neuropathic pain. In this study it was demonstrated that a single administration of BL-1021 in the dose range examined was safe and well tolerated, with no significant changes noted in vital signs, ECG or laboratory safety parameters at any dose when compared either to baseline measurements or to the placebo group. In addition, BL-1021 demonstrated a favorable pharmacokinetic profile and the potential for once daily oral administration. In September 2011, BioLineRx announced positive interim results from the trial.


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This recipe came from my sister-in-law's side of the family and is a Thanksgiving favorite for all. This can easily be doubled as we do it every year.
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- 2 large sweet potatoes or 2 large yams
- 6 tablespoons butter, room temp
- 1 egg
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 1⁄2 cups corn flakes, crushed
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup pecans, chopped
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
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- Preheat oven to 4oo degrees.
- Cook sweet potatoes in large pot of boiling water until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain and then transfer potatoes to a large bowl and add room temperature butter. Using an electric mixer, beat until smooth. Add egg, sugar, spice and beat to blend. Transfer mixture to an 8"x8" baking dish.
- Bake potatoes until beginning to brown around edges and slightly puffy, about 25 minutes.
- Meanwhile prepare topping. Mix together remaining ingredients in bowl. Spoon topping evenly over potatoes. Bake until golden brown and crisp, about 10 minutes longer.


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PHILADELPHIA (April 3, 2012) – The Lighting Practice (TLP), a lighting design firm headquartered in Philadelphia, is working to enhance the lighting of some of the nation's leading colleges and universities, hospitals, religious buildings, and tourism, public and retail spaces in 2012. This year also brings several master planning projects, a growth area for The Lighting Practice, showcasing TLP's lighting design expertise on a larger scale.
"We are thrilled to be working on several high-profile projects this year," said Helen Diemer, president of The Lighting Practice. "Our current projects underscore our many areas of expertise, including our expanded work on master plans and infrastructure projects, as well as our commitment to finding sustainable lighting solutions for our diverse clientele."
The Lighting Practice is working with the Miami Downtown Development Authority in Miami, Florida, on a lighting master plan for Flagler Street to rejuvenate this historic main street of the Central Business District. Miami Downtown Development District was attracted to TLP by their work with Philadelphia's Center City District on a lighting installation on a dozen buildings along Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts.
TLP is also completing a plan for Zilhka Center at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, to improve the sustainability of the college's exterior campus lighting, including an LED retrofit for the existing campus light poles. In 2011, Diemer and Dr. Esaul Sanchez, Facilities and Real Estate Department at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke at the Professional Lighting Design Convention in Madrid on a similar project they did in the neighborhood surrounding Penn's campus to improve lighting to make the streets feel more safe and welcoming to students, professors and visitors alike. In addition to Williams College, TLP will also be completing a master plan this year for the lighting at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
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Just as the title says, where is a good place to go and get a CCW permit in MO? Im interested in knowing specifically about the St. Louis area, but i dont want to limit the answers to just STL. So feel free to list places around KC and other parts of MO as well!
see the sheriff's office in the county you live in
Call your NRA Field Rep in your state. All Certified Inst are listed by the NRA. You can then contact an Inst. in any area of your state. I would not call the Local law. They more often than not give out poor information.:)
Here is a novel idea. Fly to Vegas, party all weekend, then take the 30 state CCW course.
Tell the wife/GF/Sig other, it was a business weekend.
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Council members held a study session Tuesday to discuss ideas for an upgrade of Rengstorff Park with the intention of making it a "safe and enjoyable" place.
The city is now starting a process that will consider many possibilities for the park, including new vehicle and pedestrian entrances, new infrastructure such as playground and pool facilities, and possibly closing off a portion of Crisanto Avenue to extend the park northward.
"The sky is the limit" for the park's design, said council member Mike Kasperzak, who added that the city should consider rebuilding the 50-year-old Community Center there, and making it as tall as possible -- four stories tall if need be -- to save open space.
Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga said the lack of air conditioning in the existing Community Center makes it unbearable to use in the summer. Fixing it has been put off due to budget cuts.
Council member Jac Siegel and others expressed support for closing off portions of Crisanto Avenue so the property could be incorporated into the park. The street will have limited access if a proposed grade-separated railroad crossing is built at Rengstorff Avenue, which would run Rengstorff under the railroad tracks.
The council wanted to include in the plan the church property at 263 Escuela Ave. across from the Senior Center, which it purchased for $3.5 million in June. Some members mentioned the possibility of moving the city's Community Center to the property, which is still used by the Rock Church of Mountain View.
"Moving the community center to the Rock Church may be a great idea, but I don't want to wait 20 to 30 years for a (nice) Community Center," said council member Ronit Bryant.


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Saint Mary's is led by Brenden Kalfus who also leads the WCC with his .387 average. Kalfus also enters the weekend having hit safely in 26 consecutive games.
Markus Melgosa (.350), Shawn O'Brien (.323) and Riley Heinzer (.313) are all hitting over .300. As a team, SMC is second in the WCC in batting average with a team average of .280.
Collin Ferguson leads the Gaels with 70 total bases, including 12 doubles and four home runs. DonAndre Clark leads the WCC with his 18 stolen bases.
On the mound, the Gaels are led by Ben Griset with a 4-2 record and 2.71 ERA. Jordan Mills is right behind with a 4-3 record and 2.23 ERA. Ryan Brockett has been SMC's third starter with a 4-5 record and 3.63 ERA.
Patrick Keane has a team-high six saves and set the SMC all-time saves record last weekend with his 17th career save.
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Rational escalation of costs by playing a sequence of unfavorable gambles: the martingale
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The study is by the think tank Headwaters Economics, based in Bozeman, Mont. Researchers looked at what are known as "firewise" communities. Rural homeowners are encouraged to do things like clear brush around their homes and replace wood shingles with a metal roof.
The idea is that these practices keep fire at bay and firefighters out of danger. Some policy makers hoped they would keep firefighting costs down as well.
Turns out, it may not do that last one. Ray Rasker is one of the report's authors. He says when a fire threatens a community, fire managers are going to fight the fire whether the community is firewise or not.
"They deploy the resources, whether it's airplanes to do drops or helicopters or firefighters on the ground," Rasker said.
Rasker says his findings suggest it would be more cost effective to limit development in highly fire prone areas in the first place.
The federal government is projecting firefighting costs to reach $1.8 billion this year, based on drought conditions in the West – particularly in California.
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Dvorak Definitely Rocks!
Hey guys. I've been with you since your first issue. I remember I was using a Kaypro IV with an Epson RX-80 printer back then. Then I popped for a Leading Edge Model D color system and ran a BBS (Bellevue Crossroads BBS) using Double-DOS on a 4.77MHz 20MB drive [4.77Mhz drive? We're baffled too. Ed]. That was fun.
I can recall PC being thicker and full of ads for the PCand let's not forget, CP/M. I haven't read or heard the word CP/M for many years now, and I'll bet there are still some folks out there using it.
My favorite publication at the time was Computer Shopper however. The reason being, it had tons of ads for all types of equipment like 8-inch floppy drives. Zork was a favorite game for most people back then. As a matter of fact, you can still get Zork online for free.
I've been a subscriber on and off since your first issue and now I wish I had kept every one of them. I now keep two years worth of issues in case I need to go back and dig something up. I love Dvorak, although he never answered back when I asked him whatever happened to the Dvorak keyboard (remember that?).
Thanks for juggling my memory cells now. I got into computer when I was 40 and now I'm just about 65. I consider myself an expert computer user and have built a few systems in my time.
Keep up the publication and don't steer too far off the PC track. I notice you are starting to position yourself as more of a Technical Audio/Video rag now with your stories on HDTV and other electronics. Stay on top of the PC, and I'll even allow Macs in now and then. I've been considering the purchase of my first MAC just for fun.
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Dvorak Most Assuredly Rocks!
I started my computing life when I came to the realization that our unborn daughter one day would say "Daddy, I have a computer problem. Can you help me?" and I would have no clue. So, I started with the an IBM PC clone and read PC Magazine to make sense of it all. I admit now that I understood less than 10 percent of the content back then, but read it from cover to cover anyway, with John C. Dvorak's column being a life saver. I still read (and listen) to him today.
Thanks for 25 years of excellent coverage. I will write again at your 50th!
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What? No Dvorak?
I've just finished reading the 25th anniversary sidebar in the December 5, 2006 issue of PC Mag. I've been involved with PCs of all sort since 1983 when I tested the first two PCs at my company for suitability. Those were an IBM 64K PC and an Apple II GS.
I've been a subscriber to PC Mag since sometime shortly thereafter, but darned if I can remember exactly when I got my first issue. I recently threw out a file of all those little debug scripts that were published in the mag in the 80's and 90's. [We can send you copies if you like. Ed]
My how we've changed!
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I Was A PC Martyr
In 1981, I was the poor devil in charge of computer planning for a midsize government agency with several very big computers. We had a shop dedicated to computer procurement under the arcane provisions of the Brooks Act (www.gcn.com/print/15_21/31733-1.html), which decreed that the government should have one big computer on each coast and all government users could share time on them. Government agencies differed in their degree of obedience to the Brooks Act and ours, which had about 150 field offices with excellent technical and engineering capabilities, was particularly nonchalant. Many of the field offices had bought Apples and Commodores or built Heathkits and were calling them anything but computers on their unit inventory.
When the first IBM PCs hit the market, I could see that the Brooks Act was going to have a serious collision with reality. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving of 1981, I went in to my boss and told him that I thought we ought to buy one of those new PCs and see what we could do with it. My boss told me, "Danny, this is just another one of those fads like CB radio." I finally persuaded him that IBM wouldn't do anything foolish. "OK," he said, "but I want to see that thing on my desk and working on Monday morning."
I stopped off on my way home and picked up a PC, VisiCalc, and WordPerfect (or maybe it was Electric Pencil). By Monday morning, I had set up a top-level spreadsheet for our agency's operating budget. We often got short-fuse orders from the Department to prepare reports on what the impact would be of changes in our appropriation, a job that typically took six or eight people about a week. In a few days, the budget analysts had the PC jumping through hoops. When the first rocket came in from the Department the report went back out in a couple of hours. That was it. We ordered our first truckload of PCs a month later.
The observation that no good deed goes unpunished applies double in government work. Some main-frame loyalist turned me in to the Inspector General and my office became the scene of a series of investigations right out of Inspector Clouseau. The IG suspected that we were in technical violation of the law, but there was nothing in the Brooks Act that clearly applied to PCs. Finally, the IG reached a Solomon-like decision: I was guilty as charged and my penalty was to write a letter of reprimand to myself. I was ready to retire anyway so I spent my last couple of weeks in Civil Service writing a stern letter ordering myself not to procure any more PCs, a letter that I still pull out of my file when I need a good laugh.
Those were the days,
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I'm new to Frontline and trying to use the Forms feature with my field staff. They currently do not have internet enabled phones. Can someone please provide me with detailed instructions on how to upload the files onto their mobile phones?
One member of my team has a Nokia 5228. I tried to download the app by going to the browser, but it just downloaded as a zip file and from there, I'm not sure what to do with it. I tried unzipping it, but nothing happened.
I'm planning to buy my staff Samsung phones on an android operating system. Will I be able to use Forms with the new phones?
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Hi Mallory,
Welcome to the FrontlineSMS community.
Frontlineforms do not work on the android platform so unfortunately you will not be able to use the forms with the new Samsung phones.
Please have a look at this link www.frontlinesms.com/the-software/frontlineforms/ to find the requirements, installation details and list of supported phones
This will also be of great help http://help.frontlinesms.com/manuals/18.104.22.168/forms.htm
Thanks, Joy. Do you anticipate that forms will work on android at some point in the future?
Later in 2012, we plan to build Forms functionality into FrontlineSMS Version 2 and we'll look into adding this functionality to support more mobile devices.
Joy could you please inform us about the status of the above? Is there any estimation on when Forms will work on android?
Thank you in advance!
I am really new to this community so this could be a really stupid response but have you seen Open Data Kit?
Of course, but ODK is not SMS based.
Hi Sila,
Thank you very much for your reply!
What about the Forms client? How difficult is it to port the client part to android? Do you have any idea if a jad/jar to android converter can do the trick? Does it worth even trying such an approach?
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Just to add to what Sila said, Forms is actually proprietary, so we can't make changes to its code I'm afraid. The Android app Sila refers to actually runs FrontlineSMS in its entirety on an Android phone, sort of a handheld SMS client if you like. We don't currently have plans to port Forms to Android, but we are looking at integrating other phone-based clients and systems with FrontlineSMS early next year. Watch this space!!
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