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By Chris Moyer, AWS Community Developer
When I first dove into cloud computing, I searched all over the Internet for a feasible solution to my problems using existing softwareall to no avail. Django seemed to be the closest match, but it didn't support using Amazon SimpleDB as a storage engine. I looked at making my own back end for Django but again was halted because of the unique relation-less nature of Amazon SimpleDB. It also seemed like Django, Pylons, and every other Python-based Web application framework out there was simply too complicated for my simple requirements.
So, I decided to develop a new framework that covered all of my needs: Meet Marajo.
Introducing Marajo
Marajo started off as a clone of the Google App Engine (GAE) framework to be run in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). I then realized that there was a lot of functionality I could implement to make things easier. Eventually, Marajo evolved into a quick framework for spinning up new Web services. Marajo today is similar to the GAE framework but uses power that can only be achieved with Amazon EC2 (and it's much easier to use).
At its core, Marajo uses the familiar modelviewcontroller (MVC) pattern. All three of these sections are run from the same server, making it a slower and less efficient system than is possible, but it also makes it quite quick to develop on. It uses the same template style language as Django and GAE, known as Jinja, which makes transitioning from Django or GAE to Marajo quick and easy.
Figure 1. Marajo overview
As you can see from Figure 1, Marajo handles the Application, Presentation, and Database layers for you. This allows you simply to focus on code and develop your interface quickly without worrying about Amazon Web Services (AWS)specific details.
Initializing Your Environment
When you first start, you'll want to launch a new Ubuntu image from http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/release/. Because I'm launching in us-east-1a, I've chosen to use ami-bb709dd2. I assume that you've already followed the steps to set up a key-pair and your boto configuration. To start your Amazon Machine Image (AMI), use the
launch_instance command that boto provides:
$ launch_instance -a ami-bb709dd2
This command then asks you a series of questions about where exactly you want to put the instance, what security group it should go in, and the key-pair you want to use. You also need to make sure that the security group you choose is open on port 80 to the world. Next, log in to the newly created instance using Secure Shell (SSH) and your key-pair:
$ ssh -i /path/to/your/key.pem ubuntu@ec2-host-name
Installing Your Software
Start by installing boto from Subversion. First, check out a copy of boto locally into your local directory:
$ apt-get install python-setuptools $ cd /usr/local/ $ svn co http://boto.googlecode.com/svn/trunk boto $ cd boto $ python setup.py develop
Then, set it up as a pyAMI instance by creating a special
/etc/rc.local file and some special scripts in your /
root directory:
#!/bin/sh -e # File: /etc/rc.local # execute firstboot.sh only once # Note that /mnt only stays with us # until we're re-bundled, so this is a # safe place to store this flag if [ ! -e /mnt/firstboot_done ]; then if [ -e /root/firstboot.sh ]; then /root/firstboot.sh fi touch /mnt/firstboot_done fi # We run startup reguardles of if we've been # booted before or not, this lets us # schedule things to be only run on re-boot if [ -e /root/startup.sh ]; then /root/startup.sh fi exit 0
Doing so ensures that the
firstboot.sh script is run the first time this instance is run. You'll use this script to make sure the ssh key is regenerated every time a new instance is launched. Because you're not making this image public, it isn't a big deal; but do it anyway, because you should always be concerned about security.
#!/bin/bash # File: /root/firstboot.sh # Regenerate the ssh host key rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*_key* ssh-keygen -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -t rsa -N '' | logger -s -t "ec2" ssh-keygen -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -t dsa -N '' | logger -s -t "ec2" # This allows user to get host keys securely through console log echo | logger -s -t "ec2" echo | logger -s -t "ec2" echo "#############################################################" \ | logger -s -t "ec2" echo "-----BEGIN SSH HOST KEY FINGERPRINTS-----" | logger -s -t "ec2" ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub | logger -s -t "ec2" ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub | logger -s -t "ec2" echo "-----END SSH HOST KEY FINGERPRINTS-----" | logger -s -t "ec2" echo "#############################################################" \ | logger -s -t "ec2" update-motd depmod -a /usr/bin/python /usr/local/boto/boto /pyami/bootstrap.py exit 0
Finally, set up a script to automatically update your system on reboot. You do this in
#!/bin/bash # File: /root/startup.sh # Things to run just after the boot process is finished # On reboot or first boot # # Update local packages apt-get -y update apt-get -y upgrade # Update boto, marajo, and botoweb cd /usr/local/boto;svn up cd /usr/local/marajo;svn up cd /usr/local/botoweb;hg pull -u /usr/bin/python /usr/local/boto/boto/pyami/startup.py exit 0
Marajo mostly installs itself, but unfortunately, Jinja2 has some features in development that you need. So, install Jinja before installing Marajo:
$ easy_install -U jinja2==dev
Next, download Marajo from Subversion and install it:
$ svn co http://marajo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk marajo $ cd marajo $ python setup.py install
Installing Apache
When you're logged in, install Apache 2 and configure it to work with your system. As with most systems, you'll want to use
apt-get and install it normally:
$ apt-get install apache2
You also want to configure and install
mod_proxy and
$ apt-get install mod_proxy mod_proxy_balancer $ a2enmod proxy_balancer
Next, configure Apache to use your blog application as its proxy, and point the directory to your Web root. Modify the default vhost file located at
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default to the following:
NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> AddDefaultCharset off Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> <Proxy balancer://blog> BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8080 BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8081 BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8082 </Proxy> <Directory "/usr/local/blog/www"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> DocumentRoot /usr/local/blog/www ProxyPass /api/ balancer://blog/ ProxyPassReverse /api/ balancer://blog/ ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log </VirtualHost>
Initializing Your Application
Marajo is set up to use four separate directories for each part of an application. Start by creating a directory called
/usr/local/blog. In that directory, you create the four directories that house each of the major parts of your application:
handlers. This directory houses the individual Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) handlers. These handlers deal with any special logic that needs to be overridden. For the most part, every handler will extend
resources. This directory houses all of your persistent data storage. For your blog application, it stores your
Commentobjects. Marajo already handles the
Userobject for you, which is located at
marajo.appengine.api.users.User. Also, a user handler is available to you at
marajo.appengine.handlers.user_handler.UserHandlerthat ensures that you only let users modify their own object, not their authorization group.
static. This directory holds all of your static HTML, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), and other media.
templates. This directory holds all of your Jinja2 templates for how to view the data. The template mapper also allows you to create sub-directories that specify the content type requested. Figure 2 indicates how the mapper handles these situations.
Figure 2. Template Mapper
Creating Your Resources
As with any Gui-Over-Database application, you start by defining your data structure. Figure 3 shows the artificial schema you'll be creating. Because Amazon SimpleDB is schema-less, you use the
boto.sdb.db module to restrict and persist your objects.
Figure 3. DB schema
Now, let's take a look at how you go about creating your
Post and
Comment objects:
# File: resources/post.py from boto.sdb.db.model import Model from boto.sdb.db.property import * from marajo.appengine.api.users import User class Post(Model): """A Blog Post""" title = StringProperty(verbose_name="Title") tags = ListProperty(str, verbose_name="Tags") content = BlobProperty(verbose_name="Content") created_at = DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True) modified_at = DateTimeProperty(auto_now=True) created_by = ReferenceProperty(User, collection_name='created_posts') modified_by = ReferenceProperty(User, collection_name='modified_posts')
The first step is to extend boto's
Model class. This base class automatically handles much of the conversions for you, so you don't have to worry about converting properties that are lexicographically sortable for use within Amazon Simple DB. Next, use the related
property to set up some properties for your object. You use several different properties to store each of your different property types:
StringProperty. Stores a string up to 1024 characters
ListProperty. Stores multiple strings (again, up to 1024 characters)
BlobProperty. Uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store the actual contents of the property, so it's limitted to 5 GB
DateTimeProperty. Stores a Python
datetimeobject; set
auto_now_addto automatically set it to
utcnow()on creation and
auto_nowto make it automatically set anytime it's updated
ReferenceProperty. Stores a reference to another object; in this case, you're referencing the
Userobject, and the
collection_nameattribute adds a reverse reference link automatically on the
Next, create a
comment object, which allows you to add a comment to your post:
# File: resources/comment.py from boto.sdb.db.model import Model from boto.sdb.db.property import * from resources.post import Post class Comment(Model): """A simple Comment object""" post = ReferenceProperty(Post, collection_name='comments') # This is just a string since we # don't require them to log in to post posted_by = StringProperty() content = BlobProperty() created_at = DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
Again, you're using the same type of process. Now, you have the two objects required for your application. Marajo already handles the
User object for you, so you don't need to make that.
Creating Your Handlers
When working with Marajo, you rarely need to create your own handlers. A simple create, read, update, delete (CRUD) interface is automatically implemented for you, so it's easy just to configure and set everything up. You'll create one base handler to show the home template:
# File: handlers/__init__.py from marajo.appengine.handlers import RequestHandler class MainPage(RequestHandler): """Simply shows the main page""" def get(self): self.display("index.tmpl")
In addition, the basic
DBHandler doesn't allow non-users to create anything, so extend it and override the
post method:
# File: handlers/comments.py from marajo.appengine.handlers.db import DBHandler from marajo.exceptions import Unauthorized class CommentHandler(DBHandler): """Override the POST to allow any user to do a create""" def post(self): """Save or update object to the DB""" obj = self.read() if obj: if not self.user: raise Unauthorized() obj = self.update(obj, self.request.POST) else: obj = self.create(self.request.POST) return self.redirect("posts/%s" % obj.post.id)
Configuring Your Application
Configuration for a basic CRUD application is quite simple. The entire
app.yaml file, which resides in your root folder, is written using YAML. The first section just defines a few simple variables that are accessible throughout your templates and handlers:
application: blog auth_db: marajo_users session_db: marajo_sessions version: 1
Next, configure the
handlers sub-section of the configuration. This sub-section maps the URL patterns to their respective handlers. The mapper allows you to specify either a
static_dir, or
static_file directive; everything else is passed in to the handler as an argument. This is how things like the
DBHandler can act to serve up any object depending on what you specify as the
db_class argument.
handlers: - url: / handler: handlers.MainPage - url: /javascript static_dir: static/javascript - url: /images static_dir: static/images - url: /style static_dir: static/style - url: /posts(.*) handler: marajo.appengine.handlers.db.DBHandler edit_template: viewPost.tmpl db_class: resources.post.Post - url: /comments(.*) handler: handlers.CommentHandler db_class: resources.comment.Comment
Creating Your Templates
You only need a few basic templates to get started. Start with your menu template, which you'll add to the top of each page. This code uses the typical Jinja syntax to insert variables at specific places. Note that you have access to the current user object if the user is logged in; you can use this object to determine whether you need to provide the user with a login or logout option.

Home

All Posts

 {%if user%}
Logout {{user.username}}
 {%else%}
Login
 {%endif%}

It's generally a good idea to add the HTML comments to each template so that when you view the generated source, you can figure out where a specific element is coming from. Templates can be quite tricky to debug if you don't have some sort of reference to where each element was inserted.
Next, look at your index page. This one is relatively simple, but feel free to expand on it as needed.
{% extends 'base.tmpl' %} {% block content %}
Hello World!
 {% endblock %}
This template shows the basic concept of making a new regular page for a handler to display. Notice that you always start by extending
base.tmpl so that you don't need to re-type all the HTML and menu code that's duplicated on every page. This base template defines blocks, which you can then override. Here, you override the
content block to add your Hello World comment.
Running Your Application
At this point, you have a fully functioning application. You can simply navigate to your application root directory and run
marajo_server.py. You can then navigate to
http://your-server:8080 and view your entire application. You should see a login button in the upper right of the window. Marajo uses sessions, so the login happens via sessions, not basic HTTP authentication. You'll have to log in before you'll be able to post.
Of course, this is just a basic setup for a blog. Now, let's look into customizing your templates.
Creating Custom Templates
You're now ready to start building some custom templates for your application. There are three basic templates that you can override for the database handler.
The List Template
The list template is the default template that you see when you go to the URL without any arguments. This template is passed in a few arguments, the most notable of which is
objects, which is an iterable object that allows you to query the objects that should be listed. Take a look at the list template for your post handler:
{% extends "base.tmpl" %} {% block head %} <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{static_file('/style/blog.css')}}" type='text/css'/> {% endblock %} {% block content %}
 {% for obj in objects %}

  {{obj.title}} {{obj.created_at}}

{{obj.content}}

 {% for tag in obj.tags %}
{{tag}}
 {% endfor %}

 {% endfor %}
 {% if user %}

 <form method="POST" class="post">
Title
 <input type="text" name="title" style="width: 300px"/>

Content
 <textarea name="content" rows="20" style="width: 600px;"> </textarea>

Tags
 <textarea name="tags" rows="10" style="width: 600px;"> </textarea>
 <input type="submit" value="Create Post"/> </form>
 {% endif %}  {% endblock %}
Here, you introduce a new block called
head, which allows you to insert tags into the HTML
 tag. You've used this to link to a static file using the
static_file function passed into your template. Using this function instead of just passing in the link directly allows you to serve these static files out of CloudFront or Amazon S3 if you configure that into your
app.yaml file.
The next interesting block of code starts with the
{% if user %} tag on line 32. This section only appears if the user is logged in, providing him or her with a mechanism to add an additional post to the blog. As tags are multi-value, Marajo allows you to separate the strings by newlines, so you just use a
<textarea> tag. You also don't have to add an action URL to your form, because you want to post directly back to the page you're already on.
You next have to modify tour posts handler configuration in
app.yaml to add the
list_template definition. Your new
handler section should look like this:
- url: /posts(.*) handler: marajo.appengine.handlers.db.DBHandler db_class: resources.post.Post list_template: listPosts.tmpl
The Edit Template
The edit template is called every time the user goes to an object-specific URL. You can also think of this template as a view template: If the user is logged in, you can provide him or her with the form so the user can edit the post; if the user isn't logged in, you can simply display the post and allow him or her to add a comment.
{% extends "base.tmpl" %} {% block head %} <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{static_file('/style/blog.css')}}" type='text/css' /> {% endblock %} {% block content %}  {% if user %} {% include "editPost.tmpl" %} {% else %} {% include "displayPost.tmpl" %} {% endif %}
 {% for comment in obj.comments %}

{{comment.posted_by}}

 {{comment.content}}

 {% endfor %}
 {% if not user %}

 <form method="POST" action="/comments"> <input type="hidden" name="post" value="{{obj.id}}"/> Your Name:  <input type="text" style="width: 210px;" name="posted_by"/>

 <textarea name="content" cols="40" rows="20"> </textarea>
  <input type="submit" value="Add Comment"/>  </form>
 {% endif %}  {% endblock %}
On line 11, notice that you introduce a conditional statement
{% if user %}, which signifies that the user is logged in. You could also validate that the user is of a specific authorization group by using
{% if user and user.has_auth_group("auth-group-name") %}, but for now, assume that you're the only user. The next directive indicates that you'll include a separate template within the same directory you're currently in called
editPost.tmpl. This entire section essentially means that if the user is logged in, you'll show him or her one template; otherwise, you'll show the user another.
The next bit of code simply shows how you can iterate over the comments for your given post using the
{% for comment in obj.comments %} block. It's important to note that as soon as you call this block of code, it triggers the query against Amazon SimpleDB, so expect that to take a little longer to render. You can also add filters or limits to this query by appending them just like you did in the
handler code. Because you don't want to see any spam, change that query:
{% for comment in obj.comments.filter("spam_chance <", 50) %}
Now, you'll only show comments with a spam chance of less than 50%. Because
filter returns the query itself, you can also chain filter, order, and fetch together into one line. Also, add a limit to only show the last 10 comments ordered by date created in descending order:
{% for comment in obj.comments.filter("spam_chance <", 50).order("-created_at").fetch(10) %}
The next chunk of code uses logic to show a comment box only if the user isn't logged in. You're assuming that if you're logged in to the site, you're not adding comments to your own posts, so this helps clean up some things that you don't want to see. You're adding another box with a custom form in it that performs a
POST operation on
/comments. You set the
post option to the current post's ID so the comment is automatically attached to this post, and you let the user fill in his or her name and a brief comment. When the user clicks Submit, he or she hits the comment handler that you previously set up, which re-direct the user to this post, showing the comment the user just added.
The displayPost Template
Next, take a look at the displayPost template, which shows when the user isn't logged in:

 {{obj.title}} {{obj.created_at}}

{{obj.content}}

 {% for tag in obj.tags %}
{{tag}}
 {% endfor %}

This template is similar to the
comments section of the editPost template, where you simply show the details of the post in an HTML format. Now, take a look at the editPost template that will be shown only when the user is logged in. The only major changes you make here are to replace the simple display of the fields with their proper input types:

 <form method="POST" class="post"> <input type="text" name="title" value="{{obj.title}}" style="width: 300px"/> {{obj.created_at}}
 <textarea name="content" rows="20" class="attr content"> {{obj.content}}</textarea>

Tags
 <textarea name="tags" rows="10" style="width: 600px;"> {%- for tag in obj.tags -%} {{tag}} {% endfor -%} </textarea>
 <input type="submit" value="Update Post"/> </form>

Here, you use your form with a
POST again, but you don't set the action URL, because you simply want to post to the current page. You've also set all the form's default values to the post's current values, and now you have a fully functional editing template for your user. Note that in the
textarea for the tags, you use
- inside the
{% %} tags. These dashes state some formatting codes that allow you to remove the white space before or after the tag so you can still make the code readable but not have the tags show up spaced oddly. You don't strip out the white space before the
{% endfor %} block, however, because you do need one newline after each tag.
Finally, you modify your post handler once again to add this template:
- url: /posts(.*) handler: marajo.appengine.handlers.db.DBHandler db_class: resources.post.Post list_template: listPosts.tmpl edit_template: viewPost.tmpl
Setting Up Your Application to Start at Boot
The last thing to do is modify your
startup.sh script to automatically run your server whenever it's started. For purposes of this example, launch three copies of tour application server. Simply add the following three lines right before the exit 0 line:
cd /usr/local/blog; marajo_server.py -p 8080 cd /usr/local/blog; marajo_server.py -p 8081 cd /usr/local/blog; marajo_server.py -p 8082
That's it! Your application is now set up to run on three ports, and your spam filter will start automatically in the background.
Bundle Your Image
Now, bundle the image using the simple
bundle_image command that boto provides. This command is relatively verbose, so make sure to follow through the prompts. You'll need your public and private keys provided to you by Amazon when you first set up your account. You'll also need an Amazon S3 bucket to store the image on and a prefix to identify your image. Use of the
bundle_image script is quite simple. Just make sure you run it from your local computer, not the instance you've just launched.
% bundle_image --help Usage: bundle_image [options] instance-id [instance-id-2] Options: --version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit -b BUCKET, --bucket=BUCKET Destination Bucket -p PREFIX, --prefix=PREFIX AMI Prefix -k KEY_FILE, --key=KEY_FILE Private Key File -c CERT_FILE, --cert=CERT_FILE Public Certificate File -s SIZE, --size=SIZE AMI Size -i SSH_KEY, --ssh-key=SSH_KEY SSH Keyfile -u UNAME, --user-name=UNAME SSH Username -n NAME, --name=NAME Name of Image
For a Ubuntu-based image, use the following command:
% bundle_image -b
\ ... -p <my_custom_identifier> \ ... -k /path/to/my/key.pem \ ... -c /path/to/my/cert.pem \ ... -s 10240 \ ... -i /path/to/my/ssh-key.pem \ ... -u ubuntu \ ... -n blog
This process may take up to an hour to finish, so now is a good time to take a break from all this coding. When the processing is finished, you'll be provided with your new AMI ID, which you'll use to launch all your new instances. Make sure you launch at least one copy of the instance before you terminate your development instance, so you're sure everything worked.
Creating the Proxy
The last step is to create and set up your proxy system. You're using Elastic Load Balancer for this, so let's use the
elbadmin tool, also provided by boto.
% elbadmin -l 80,80,http create blog % elbadmin enable us-east-1a % elbadmin add blog <instance-id>
You'll probably want to launch a few of these instances and add each one to the load balancer. Also, make sure you set up a CNAME to the address provided to you by the
elbadmin script so that you can point your users to something more readable. Your final deployment configuration should look something like Figure 4.
Figure 4. Marajo deployment
You should now be able to go directly to your proxy URL, click All Posts, and see something similar to Figure 5.
Figure 5. The All Posts page
Using Marajo is a great way to quickly bring up a new Web application without having to worry about doing a lot of coding. It provides you with sane defaults and the ability to override just about everything to create a custom system. You can find all of the code examples used in this article in the example directory for Marajo.


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HOUSTON -- In a decision that came as no surprise, the Astros aren't going to rush center fielder Dexter Fowler back before the All-Star break. Fowler was eligible to be activated on Saturday after missing the previous 14 games with a right intercostal strain, but he's now targeting Friday's game in Chicago.
"I feel all right," Fowler said Saturday. "Obviously, I'm not ready to come off the DL. I think we're going to use the All-Star break to get back."
Fowler isn't surprised the injury has taken more than two weeks to heal.
"No, they told me in the beginning that this is the type of injury that you never know what can happen," Fowler said. "It's just how your body feels and depends on how long it takes."
The only thing Fowler can do at this point is rest, which he will get plenty of in the next week when the Astros take three full days off for the All-Star break. The team will work out Thursday at U.S. Cellular Field prior to starting its series against the White Sox.
"You look at the progress which he's been able to make and the fact we have another week, it should provide more time for him to get better," manager Bo Porter said.
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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30 years after made-for-movie jailbreak, man gets parole hearing
PORTLAND, Ore. - A convicted felon will go before a parole board Wednesday morning and ask to be set free. But this isn't just any prisoner.
In 1982, Stephen Kessler crafted a cunning scheme and escaped from the old Rocky Butte Jail in Portland.
A prison guard who was held hostage during that escape passionately opposes setting Kessler free.
The escape rivaled the "Shawshank Redemption."
Six inmates pretended to be priests. Their mastermind, Kessler, was a smart and manipulative bank robber.
And behind the sturdy stone walls in the summer of 1982, Kessler and his cohorts concocted a plan to steal their own freedom.
"July 25. It was a Sunday afternoon, which was fairly quiet in the jail," said Jim Turney, a former Rocky Butte Jail guard, on Tuesday.
Since it was a Sunday, volunteer chaplains walked the cell blocks, preaching peace.
Kessler, 42 years old at the time, turned to violence, overpowering the men of God with a smuggled gun, stealing their clothes before surprising rookie Sgt. Jim Turney in the mess hall.
"My first thought was, 'what the (expletive deleted) is Steve doing in civilian clothes?" Turney said. "I grabbed for the gun. Well, there were three inmates there. Three to one is not good odds. I got knocked down and kicked."
Turney was hurt but not as bad as his colleague.
"The real injustice is to Deputy Irv Burkett who was shot," Turney said. "He lived the rest of his life in a lot of pain - in a wheelchair, in a hospital bed."
Thirty years later, Turney's retired. Kessler, who was captured just a month after escaping, is now a much older man, pushing 70 in the Oregon State Penitentiary.
Turney's not happy that Kessler could be a free man. The prisoner who got the best of him that July afternoon could find his freedom again - this time, the legal way at a parole hearing.
But Turney plans a vehement plea and a five-page speech to stop it.
Wednesday at 10 a.m. will be the first time the two men will see each other since the escape.
If Turney could be one-on-one with Kessler, he would say this to him: "Hey, Steve, what's the deal with the gun? How did that thing get in there? What did we miss?"
Kessler does have a few friends in the right places. One of them is the very same judge who sentenced him after he was captured. The judge wrote a letter to the parole board, saying Kessler should be released and that he's reflected on what's done.
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Hamels confident after first spring action
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Phillies left-hander Cole Hamels took a major step forward Thursday, pitching two innings in his first game action of the spring.
Hamels, who suffered a setback on March 1 following his recovery from left shoulder inflammation, allowed two infield singles and recorded nine outs in a Minor League game against the Pirates' Class A Advanced affiliate at the Carpenter Complex. He threw 30 pitches, 20 of them for strikes, as he faced four batters in the first inning and five in the second.
Hamels said he felt "really great" in Thursday's outing and hopes it was the start of what should be a normal, albeit delayed, Spring Training going forward.
"From what happened March 1 to where I am now, I'm really pleased and really confident, and what I'm able to do now is to truly get Spring Training in," Hamels said. "Obviously it's a little late, but I feel healthy, and I think that's really the key. I have the strength now, and now it's just getting the repetition to feel confident to be able to do it up there in the big leagues."
Hamels will break camp with the Phillies and join the club in Texas on Monday for the season opener. After that, he said, he'll hop on a flight back to Clearwater to continue his rehab. General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said Hamels' exact rehab schedule is still being finalized, but the lefty said he's fine working out of the Phillies' Spring Training complex.
"To be able to do the good routine, not have to worry about going on the road [with other Minor League affiliates] ... you don't want to mess with that," Hamels said. "Just get a good routine in here and have my mini-Spring Training down here."
That schedule would put Hamels in line for a late-April return date, and he believes the Phillies will be able to make up for his absence while he continues to build up strength.
"Those games count. They don't want to cost the team in trying to build me up or see how many I can possibly go. They want to know that I'm ready to go," Hamels said. "I really do feel like we have a firm chance of staying [on] pace or at least having an above .500 [record]. That's the goal. I know I'm confident in those guys doing so."
In addition to Hamels, pitchers Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez, Mike Adams and Ethan Martin will start the season on the disabled list. Gonzalez could be placed on the 60-day disabled list, Amaro said, which would open a spot on the 40-man roster. Adams is targeting an April 15 return and made his spring debut on Tuesday.
Jonathan Pettibone is also on the mend, recovering from inflammation in his right shoulder. He pitched two scoreless innings on Thursday in his spring debut and was optioned to Triple-A after the game.
Austin Laymance is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @jalaymance. Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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As science progresses we witness evolution and revolution in scientific understanding. Coupled intricately with this is an evolution and revolution in scientific techniques and methods – the problem-solving ability of science advances as new methods lead to new understanding, and this in turn leads to new methods…
In the last 10 years science has experienced a step change in problem-solving ability brought about by increasing digitisation, automation and participation. This has in part been achieved through the engagement between scientists and the providers of the advanced information, computational and software techniques that they need. That's what we call e-Science.
Is it done now? Can we put the "e-" in the history books and just get on with Science?
In a thinktank some months ago about a future strategy for e-Science I argued for "the next level". e-Science has been successful and, in a properly Darwinian way, is bedding down in our research institutions. But I don't think we're done yet – in fact we're just beginning! What happens next is that we assemble the pieces in order to do entirely new things. That is the next level.
This week I've seen a great example of the next-level in action. The music information retrieval community has been developing tools to extract features from digital recordings of music. It's hard but this multidisciplinary community is flourishing and making great progress. For example, here in Tokyo I've just seen (or rather heard…) the vocal extracted from a pop song to generate two files – one with just the vocal, one without. It works incredibly well! Check out the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) and the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX).
And now we're seeing the research move up a level – having extracted the features, they can be used for the next tier of work; having mastered the computational infrastructure we have it ready to support this. So, for example, you can extract some features and then use autocorrelation to find repeating patterns and figure out the musical stucture – and move from signal processing into musicology. To do this involves remote processing, smart alogorithms and stonking amounts of computation. And it's a community effort (for content, algorithms and ground truth).
Perhaps the job of work for the science-serving computer scientist is now the assembly rather than the pieces. The music IR community is so ready for assembly- for example, the linked data cloud has substantial music content, thanks to MusicBrainz and the BBC activities. We'll be exploring this joining-up in the Networked Environment for Music Analysis (NEMA) project.
I wonder what the science history books will say. "1st Generation e-Science 2000-2010 – Accelerated Research", "2nd Generation e-Science 2010… – stuff that just wouldn't have happened otherwise"
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October 26, 2009 at 09:20:42 Oct 26, 2009 @ 09:20
if you have a redwings store they have this machine that will measure your foot size and take in consideration of your width of your feet.
They measured mine 9.5 which i think is correct considering i size up 1/2 to 10 on most shoes because my feet are wide.
oh alright, there isn't an actual redwings store here, but a bunch of retailers that sell them, i guess i'll have to go down to one of them and see for myself and hope they have the ones i want


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Hi i came accross a piece of code as follows. Wedding Wishes Registry . How  will work. when i tap on the link it is taking me to new page. How is that possible as there was no target page mentioned in 'href'.
Hey agkrishna and welcome to the Forum.
The  is how you would place a link using HTML. If the end user clicks on the text, in this case "Wedding Wishes Registry", they would be directed to the place that the href has specified. In this case, the user wouldn't be directed as "#" is what you use when building a site before applying links.
As you have said this does re-direct you, can you provide the website so we can take a look?
Yes, all that will do is take you to the top of the current page, so it's useless. The # needs to be replaced by the URL of the target page. # can also be used to link to other parts of the same page, but it doesn't sound like this is the purpose here.
Until a link is actually made programmers will sometimes put the # in as a placeholder. It's possible the placeholder escaped to the wild. Also, it is possible they have some JS click event to send you to the real link - but that's a clumsy way to do it since it breaks if JS isn't available.
Hi, the website is www.kohls.com
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In case you are wondering WHY a link would go nowhere, they are probably using "#" as a placeholder. An anchor tag would not behave as an anchor tag w/o the HREF, but setting an actual HREF might send you off the page each time you are testing. That is annoying, so "href='#'" works out nicely.
Addition tips. you can actually use # to jump to a specific part of ANOTHER page. for example let say somewhere in you "about.html" page you have an element with an ID= "theresMore". From any OTHER PAGE, you can link directly to that part of the page with "href=about.html#theresMore" ( do note that would be a relative url just for the example)
hope that helps
But where is the link with the # in it? All I can see is this:

The # at the end of that link is a mistake.
It means "Render a hyperlink that takes the visitor to the top of the page and label it with the, distinctly uninformative, text Click here"It work :- <input type="button" value="Submit" class="button" />
The above code (<input type="button">) will not work in IE 6-8, unless someone's given the anchor an onclick event.
when you linking within the same document, the A element is set as follows.
Eg:
Now make a hyperlink that points to the bookmark:
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Your code is out of date. These days, use this:
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Blue Jays can't solve their Bronx blues in finale
Hutchison yields four runs in 4 1/3 innings, while defense is spotty
NEW YORK -- The Blue Jays made a quick exit out of the Bronx on Thursday night, but their departure likely couldn't have come soon enough for a lot of players on the team.
Yankee Stadium has become a House of Horrors for the Blue Jays in recent years and their first series of 2014 was no different. It has gotten to the point where Toronto's prolonged skid has reached historic proportions.
The Blue Jays found themselves in familiar territory as they were once again swept with a 6-4 loss to their American League East rivals. Toronto's losing streak in New York has reached a franchise-record 16 games and dates all the way to 2012.
"Yeah, I would say so," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said when asked if he was happy to be leaving town. "Hey, if you can play in primetime, you have to perform on the big stage and we didn't do it. We're fully capable of doing it, we just didn't do it. So, yeah, it'll definitely be good to move on."
The 16 losses mark the longest road losing streak by any Major League club vs. a single opponent since the Orioles dropped the same number of games against Toronto from Aug. 8, 2009 to June 15, 2011. It's also the longest home winning streak for the Yankees since they won 19 in a row against Cleveland from June 10, 1960 to April 21, 1962.
Toronto's record in New York gets even worse when dating to 2011 with a total of two wins in 27 games. The Blue Jays have lost 10 consecutive season series on the road in New York, with a 29-66 record over that span. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, New York's all-time record vs. Toronto at the current Yankee Stadium (38-11) is the best for any Major League team vs. an opponent at any stadium -- minimum 30 games.
These are all factoids that the Blue Jays would like to see come to an end, but they won't have a chance to reverse their fortunes until the next series on July 25-27.
"It's a big stage here, you have to perform here," Gibbons said. "Whether you like it or not, whether you're struggling or not, you have to be able to scratch out a win somehow because that's what the great teams, the teams that go on to win, do. The next time we come to town, we have to change that around a little bit."
Reliable fielding has been a strength for Toronto all season, but it was a noticeable weakness in the series finale. The Blue Jays were unable to make some routine defensive plays and not only did it increase the pinch count for starter Drew Hutchison, but it led to a run in almost every situation.
In the first inning, Juan Francisco was unable to make a play on a slow grounder to third. In the second inning, second baseman Steve Tolleson dropped a routine ground ball and had to settle for a fielder's choice. In the third, catcher Erik Kratz couldn't make the pick on a short hop from left fielder Melky Cabrera.
Hutchison compounded the issues with some control problems and by the fifth inning three runs were in, and he found himself closing in on the 100-pitch mark. The right-hander departed with two runners on, one out, and saw his pitching line come to a close when left-hander Aaron Loup surrendered an RBI double to Carlos Beltran. Hutchison was charged with four runs on six hits and four walks over 4 1/3 innings.
"That's just baseball," Hutchison said. "You talk about the double-play ball, but I walked the leadoff guy to put him on in that situation. Those are things you can't do to be successful either. It's just baseball, you have to keep grinding and finding ways to win."
The positive the Blue Jays can take away from Thursday night's game is that the power in their lineup returned. Cabrera hit his 11th of the season in the third and Edwin Encarnacion added his 21st in the eighth. Both were two-run shots and came following a stretch when Toronto had two homers in a span of eight games.
Encarnacion's late home run also was the only thing that saved the Blue Jays from scoring three runs or fewer for the 10th time in 13 games. This time it was Yankees right-hander David Phelps who got a quality start after allowing two runs over seven innings to complete the sweep and climb within 1 1/2 games of the first-place Blue Jays.
"They did a really good job," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said of his pitching staff, which allowed eight runs in the series. "They had a lot to do with our success. We know how explosive of an offense that is over there. That offense has scored more runs than any offense in the American League East and our guys did a really good job."
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Complexity of colic magnifies challenge of isolating its cause
Equine colic is "responsible for more deaths in horses than any disease group except old age." That's how Nathaniel A. White, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS, described the insidious nature of the condition in a 2005 presentation to the American Association of Equine Practitioners in Quebec.
White, Jean Ellen Shehan professor and director of the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine (VMRCVM), noted that, in a normal farm population, colic deaths are 0.7 deaths per 100 horse-years, a fatality rate of 6.7 percent, with fatalities due to stomach rupture, strangulating lesions or enteritis.
In a recent U.S. study of horses more than 30 days of age, 32.5 percent of deaths were from "unknown causes/all other causes," followed by old age (28.9 percent, a catch-all category), and then injury/trauma/wounds at 16.3 percent, followed by colic at 14.6 percent.It has been estimated that there are 12,000 to 24,000 colic surgeries annually, or possibly as many as 2.7 per hour.
Surely equine colic is a serious and significantly prevalent disease.
The value of horses lost to colic in 1998, White stated, was more than $70 million, with a total cost to the industry during the year estimated at $144 million.
Understanding the cause/s of colic is difficult because of its complexity. It is related to several different diseases or conditions that result in various types or forms of colic, be it ileal impaction, gas distention/spasmodic colic or strangulation.
The cause may be as evident as grain overload or parasite infection. It is more complex when the entire GI tract is affected – the large colon is most commonly involved, followed by the small intestine, cecum and small colon, respectively – diseases or conditions that affect the gastrointestinal propulsive motility, which "depends on a complex interaction between neural, hormonal, vascular and neuromuscular pathways," states Judith Koenig, Dr. med vet, DVSc, DACVS, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph. "Disruption of this intricate interaction leads to stasis of aboral movement of food material, or so-called ileus," Koenig notes.
Digesting possible causes
Noah Cohen, VMD, MPH, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, professor of equine medicine at Texas A&M University, hypothesizes that people who confine horses in stables or barns under poor management practices "have altered the natural evolutionary existence of horses as grazers and herd-members. Changes appear to have had adverse physiological and behavioral consequences."
Have people inadvertently influenced the prevalence of this disease?
If so, what particular risk factors related to colic can be modified to possibly reduce the incidence of, or change the dynamic that may have tipped the scale in favor of colic?
It would be against Darwinian logic that the natural existence of horses in herds grazing open pastures would promote a disease "more responsible for deaths in horses than any disease group except for old age," or even at 14.6 percent.
There are several risk factors allied to the incidence of colic, but those that seem most directly associated with it would seem to be those that would directly impact the gut, i.e. water intake, feeding/food sources and pasture. Management practices are another point of interest.
Drinking water
Some studies have noted the association of drinking water and colic risk. Access of horses to ponds, as opposed to watering with buckets, tanks or troughs, has shown benefit. But access to ponds might be linked to exposure to larger pastures, rather than an effect of the source of water, per se. Likewise, the link between colic and horses in barns, where they are watered with buckets, may be the occasional lack of water due to empty buckets, water unavailability, rather than the manner in which water is dispensed.
Access to fresh, clean water might be the key. Cohen notes, "Provision of an adequate amount of water that is fresh, palatable and potable is important."


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text: Court questions mining permits By Ken Ward Jr. April 22, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A federal appeals court has criticized a streamlined permit process used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, adding to the questions about the way the agency reviews new mountaintop removal mining proposals.The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the corps did not properly consider the cumulative impacts of previous mining or document how post-mining "mitigation" measures would make up for any damage to streams.A three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based court threw out a streamlined Clean Water Act permit process that was issued by the corps in 2007 and has since been updated with more environmental restrictions.But the 16-page decision, in a case brought by Kentucky citizen groups, involves broader questions about whether the corps ignores growing scientific evidence about mountaintop removal impacts when it issues new mining permits.In a decision written by Judge Deborah L. Cook, the 6th Circuit directed the corps to use past mining impacts more carefully to assess cumulative effects and to document in more detail whether mitigation can effectively reduce those effects."Up to now, the corps has refused to take these issues seriously and to measure mitigation effectiveness," said Jim Hecker, a Public Justice lawyer who represented citizen groups in the case.Doug Garman, a corps spokesman, said his agency is reviewing the 6th Circuit decision, but offered no further comment. A National Mining Association spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The issues regarding corps' permitting practices are similar to those in a pending challenge at the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to a ruling in which U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers declined to overrule a corps-issued permit in Logan County.Chambers ruled in a case over an Alpha Natural Resources mining proposal that the corps handled through its more detailed "individual permit" process, instead of the streamlined "nationwide permit" procedure. In the Alpha case, Chambers said that scientific evidence clearly shows mountaintop removal is damaging water quality and aquatic life downstream from mining. But the judge said a previous 4th Circuit decision tied his hands, forcing him to defer to the corps' permit approval.The 6th Circuit agreed that federal agencies are due broad deference in such cases, but said that the courts "may not excuse an agency's failure to follow the procedures required by duly promulgated regulations." In this instance, the court said, the corps had ignored regulatory requirements of both the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act that it "take a hard look" at the environmental impacts before approving more mining permits."Failing these regulatory prerequisites, the Corps leaves us with nothing more than its say-so that it meets CWA and NEPA standards," the court said. "We may not supply a reasoned basis for the agency's action that the agency itself has not given."The 6th Circuit case involved the previous practice by the corps of approving many mountaintop removal operations through a streamlined permit process meant only for activities that cause minimal environmental harm. U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin in Charleston had twice blocked the corps from using such permits, and the case involved authorizations issued under a 2007 version of the agency's "Nationwide Permit 21" for surface coal mining.That 2007 nationwide permit expired in 2012, and a more restrictive version was issued by the Obama administration. But the corps also created a loophole that gave about 70 uncompleted mining projects until 2017 to operate under the old standards.It's not clear now what will happen with those projects. The 6th Circuit stayed its ruling for 60 days to allow the parties to "assess the ramifications of this ruling on existing projects" and consider "potential remedies." The 6th Circuit's decision overturned a previous ruling by U.S. District Judge David Bunning in Pikeville, Ky."This decision has been a long time coming," said Judy Petersen, executive director of Kentucky Waterways Alliance, one of the groups that brought the case. "Every year we see the health of rivers and streams in eastern Kentucky declining. "In 2010, according to the Kentucky Division of Water, only 1 percent of eastern Kentucky streams fully supported fish and other aquatic life. I'd say that we can see an impact from mining."Reach Ken Ward Jr. at email@example.com or 304-348-1702. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 Plans for all-ages venue rise in old bakery building 3 Body found in Kanawha River, near South Charleston 4 Judge gives water crisis settlement preliminary approval 5 Andrew N. Robinson: Congress must rescind health insurance tax hit coming in 2018 (Gazette) Alderson-Broaddus to change name to university Previous Story Natural gas future topic of Monday forum at UC Next Story


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Another night, another shakeup in the AL wild-card race. The see-saw that is the NL Central race changed position again, too. The most interesting news, though, was made by a certain preseason World Series favorite that continued its desperate charge toward a postseason berth.
Nationals 6, Braves 5; Nationals 4, Braves 0: The Nats not only kept Atlanta from clinching the NL East on Tuesday, they also picked up a half-game in the race for the second wild-card spot. Washington is 4 1/2 games behind the Cincinnati Reds with 11 games remaining.
MORE: Full standings | Scoreboard | Magic number watch | Postseason schedule
The Nationals won the opener of their day-night doubleheader in improbable fashion. They scored three times in the bottom of the ninth against Atlanta closer Craig Kimbrel, and the winning runs scored on an error by normally sure-handed Braves shortstop Andrelton Simmons.
The night portion was ho-hum by comparison. Rookie right-hander Tanner Roark (7-0) threw seven innings of two-hit ball, and the Nats scored three times in the bottom of the eighth to break it open.
Washington will go for the series sweep Wednesday night.
RELATED: MLB mourns Navy Yard victims | Nats can't wear tribute caps during game
Cardinals 11, Rockies 4: St. Louis took back the division lead thanks to a laugher at Coors Field and another loss by the Pittsburgh Pirates. Former Rox star Matt Holliday went 4-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs. The Cards' bullpen again showed some leakage, but it was working with a lead that was safe enough for even Coors Field.
Padres 5, Pirates 2: Pittsburgh lost its second in a row to non-contending San Diego at home. One night after being one-hit by Andrew Cashner, the Bucs couldn't get to left-hander Eric Stults, who got through five. The Pads' bullpen allowed one baserunner over the final four frames.
Reds 10, Astros 0: Cincy had no trouble in Houston. Jay Bruce smacked a grand slam in the fourth to back starter Mike Leake, who allowed five hits over eight innings. Cincy remains 2 1/2 off the Central lead with another to play at Minute Maid Park. The Reds and Bucs will meet in a three-game set beginning Friday in Pittsburgh.
Rangers 7, Rays 1: Texas and Tampa Bay are tied at the top again. The Rangers evened their series at the Trop on the strength of a four-run second inning against Rays starter Jeremy Hellickson. Ian Kinsler homered on Hellickson's first pitch of the game. Texas starter Alexi Ogando got the win with five strong innings.
Indians 5, Royals 3: Cleveland clawed its way to a comeback win and stayed a half-game behind the Rangers and Rays. It did so against KC's bullpen, which wasted a strong start by Yordano Ventura in his major league debut. Ventura, a 22-year-old right-hander, held the Tribe to one run in 5 2/3 innings while registering triple digits on the radar gun. Cleveland scored in the seventh, eighth and ninth.
Orioles 3, Red Sox 2: Matt Wieters delivered a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning and Chris Davis set the O's single-season home record with No. 51. The run in the ninth also marked the end of Boston closer Koji Uehara's run of perfection. Uehara had retired 38 consecutive batters prior to allowing a leadoff triple to Danny Valencia.
GALLERY: Single-season HR leaders, by franchise | GIF: Davis' first 50 homers in '13
Blue Jays 2, Yankees 0: New York remains tied with the Royals at the bottom of the wild-card heap, 3 1/2 games back. It couldn't solve Toronto knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, who tossed seven-innings of four-hit ball. Solo homers by Colby Rasmus and Rajai Davis were Toronto's offense. As to whether the Bombers need to win out, manager Joe Girardi told reporters: "We're getting to where we can't lose much more."
American League
Texas, 82-68, ----
Tampa Bay, 82-68, ----
Cleveland, 82-69, 1/2 GB
Baltimore, 80-70, 2 GB
Kansas City, 79-72, 3 1/2 GB
NY Yankees, 79-72, 3 1/2 GB
National League
Pittsburgh, 87-64, +1 1/2
Cincinnati, 86-66, ----
Washington, 81-70, 4 1/2 GB
All times Eastern
American League
NY Yankees (Hughes 4-13) at Toronto (Happ 4-6), 7:07 p.m.
Baltimore (W. Chen 7-7) at Boston (Peavy 11-5), 7:10 p.m.
Texas (Holland 9-9) at Tampa Bay (Archer 9-7), 7:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Salazar 1-2) at Kansas City (B. Chen 7-3), 8:10 p.m.
National League
Atlanta (A. Wood 3-3) at Washington (Ohlendorf 4-0), 7:05 p.m.
San Diego (T. Ross 3-8) at Pittsburgh (Morton 7-4), 7:05 p.m.
St. Louis (Wainwright 16-9) at Colorado (Chatwood 7-4), 8:40 p.m.
Cincinnati (G. Reynolds 1-2) at Houston (Peacock 5-5), 8:10 p.m.
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Interview from Hoopsworld
Liked hearing his enthusiasm about the new guys. Even before seeing him as a Pacer I hope we can re-sign D J Augustin , I think he's what we need at point guard.
We need good defense from our PG as well if we don't want our opponent to try to exploit our suspect pick and roll defense. IMO that made the big difference between Hill or Collison in the starting lineup.
I like them as a duo. Hill for his defense and size to pass the ball to Hibbert or West in the post and Augustin to create opportunities for our less talented but quicker frontcourt players + Tyler.
The quicker your screen, the more time you have to find the open man. I'm really looking forward to see some alley oops from DJ or Lance to Green, Plumlee and Mahinmi.
Winning is great but winning with some spectacular plays is even better
Interesting that KP thinks Miles Plumlee can crack the rotation. Shows what I know. Nice to see though. I will be sooo glad to see more size in the front court. Thought that lack of size really minimized the excellent length that Paul, Danny and Hill gave the Pacers in the backcourt. Really curious to see how the defense changes next season. Last season, Danny and Paul spent a lot of time cheating inside to help out with the rim protecting. Next season they can play more outside. That's gotta help.
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Selection Process/Criteria | B.A. Requirements | J.D. Process/Criteria | The First Year at Southwestern | Scholarships | Contact
Southwestern and California State University, Northridge (CSUN) have established a joint, accelerated multiple-degree program through which students can earn both their Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees in six years, rather than the usual seven.
Students participating in the 3+3 B.A./J.D. Program will have their first year of law school count as the fourth year of their undergraduate education. Those students admitted to Southwestern through this program will also receive $10,000 Wildman/Schumacher entering student scholarships, which may be renewable in subsequent years depending on academic performance. CSUN will begin recruiting students for the program this year. The first class is expected to enroll in Fall of 2014, and the initial enrollment is expected to be up to 35 students drawn from any department at CSUN.
Selection Process/Criteria
- Students must have a high school GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, and either an ACT minimum score of 25 or S.A.T. minimum score of 1140.
- A formal application to the B.A./J.D. Program must be completed at the time of admission to CSUN.
- Students must begin the B.A./J.D. program in their first year of undergraduate studies and be classified as full-time freshmen.
B.A. Requirements
- Students must complete all undergraduate course requirements for both general education and their chosen major in the first three years.
- Additionally, students must complete at least 90 credits during the first three years; 30 credits from the first year of law school will apply to both degrees.
- A tracking and monitoring system will be utilized to ensure that the student meets the curricular requirements prior to applying to Southwestern.
J.D. Process/Criteria
- Although it's strongly recommended that interested students take the LSAT in the fall or winter of their junior year at CSUN, they must sit for the exam no later than February of their junior year. The LSAT is offered four times a year (February, June, October and December) and is administered by the Law School Admission Council; more information can be found at www.lsac.org.
- Students must fulfill all the traditional criteria for admission to Southwestern (click here for complete details).
- The B.A./J.D. program requires a minimum LSAT score of 156 (approximately 68th percentile) and a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.40 over the three years (as calculated by the Law School Admissions Council).
The First Year at Southwestern
- CSUN will award the baccalaureate degree to students after successful completion of the first year at Southwestern, or by the end of December following the first year of law school for students enrolled in Southwestern's part-time program.
- Tuition and fees for the first year will reflect Southwestern's current rates.
- Students must remain in good standing throughout their first year of law school and complete the first year with a minimum "C+" cumulative GPA, in addition to complying with Southwestern's policies and procedures.
- CSUN students admitted to the program will receive a $10,000 Wildman/Schumacher entering student scholarship. The scholarship will be renewed in subsequent years when a minimum 2.7 GPA is maintained.
- As with any Southwestern student, B.A./J.D. participants may also be eligible for a Dean's Merit Award after their first year. Dean's Merit Awards provide partial tuition to upper division students in the top 30% of their class who have demonstrated academic excellence. Dean's Merit Awards may not be "stacked" on existing scholarships, but they can provide additional funding to students who perform exceptionally in the upper-division portion of their legal education.
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Library Efforts
The Library is an active participant in the Ozarks' efforts to recycle and reuse our resources. Individual Library branches and even individual employees make efforts to be efficient with our energy and resources. Here are some examples:
On Tuesday, November 15, Edco Group Inc. will be parked at the Library Center from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a "shredding event." Edco will place all your old documents, bills, bank statements, and other personal papers in locked bins and deliver them to Edco's shredder at its Springfield headquarters.
How You Can Help the Library
You can help us save even more paper and energy! Sign up for email notifications from the Library about item due date reminders, pickups or cancellations for holds, and "overdue" notices. Not only is it "green," but email notices are also the most reliable and fastest method to receive Library notices.
It's easy. Just give your email address to a librarian at the checkout desk, or log in to your account at thelibrary.org/myaccount to add or update your email address. To make sure you don't miss any emails, add email@example.com to your approved email contacts.
A few numbers for you:
Each day at the Library there may be approximately 15,000 individuals with items on hold. Almost 6,000 of those individuals still receive notification by mail or telephone instead of the more "green" and speedier email notification of their hold availability.
On any given day, there can be more than 25,000 individuals with items checked out from the Library. More than half of those individuals have not added an email address to their Library account, so they don't receive a courtesy due date reminder email. If those individuals sign up for email notifications, they will receive the reminder and maybe save a little money on those overdue fines.
Community Resources for You
Recycling Facilities
The city of Springfield offers three recycling facilities for citizens to use. Hours for each facility vary, as does what each facility accepts. A detailed guide to recyclables is available from the city, as well as directions to each location.
Curbside Recycling
Can't make it to a recycling center? Since 1991, Springfield residents have been able to recycle from their own homes with Curbside Recycling. According to the city's recycling website, all haulers in the city of Springfield are required to offer this service. To find out more, contact your hauler for specifics.
But what if you need to recycle something other than the regular paper, glass and plastic? Never fear, you still have options.
Household Chemical Recycling Center
The Household Chemical Recycling Center is located at 1226 W. Nichols St. and provides a safe means for the disposal of common household chemicals. The center is open year-round and an appointment is required to use this service. Make an appointment by calling 417-864-2000.
Computer Recycling Center
The Computer Recycling Center is located at 1434 N. National Ave., hours of operation are Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. No appointment is necessary. The center accepts many items for free, including LCD monitors, DVD players, and stereos. A few items such as television sets and microwaves require a small fee. Check the full list of items accepted and fees before you visit.
Habitat for Humanity ReStore
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Together in Song Internship
WGBY's local series Together In Song seeks a motivated, highly organized intern to assist with the production of this musical series. Internship is open to students and individuals thinking about a career in broadcast television or who have an interest or passion for choral music. Interns experience first-hand the operations of a local PBS broadcast facility and will be part of a one day live broadcast event.
Internship will run from mid November 2012 – early May 2012 with varying hours.
Hours range from 15 – 20 hours per week.
The ideal candidate should be good with computer databases and have good organizational skills and have the ability to work a varying schedule.
WGBY is an equal opportunity employer.
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text: Reclassification shakes up state wrestling picture By Jeff Rider November 30, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The high school wrestling landscape will have a new look this season, thanks in large part to the most recent round of reclassification by the Secondary School Activities Commission.Point Pleasant, last year's Class AA-A state champion and a perennial power in the small-schools division, is now competing against the big boys in Class AAA. With several place winners back from last season's team, the Big Blacks certainly have the talent to be competitive in Class AAA. But a tough road awaits to merely get to the state meet. Point Pleasant resides in Region 4 with two top-10 teams from last year's AAA state tournament a season ago - Huntington (third) and Cabell Midland (ninth).The ripples from that move are being felt in the Kanawha Valley, where George Washington moves out of Region 4 and into Region 3 alongside the likes of Ripley (last year's AAA runner-up), Capital, Riverside and Woodrow Wilson."The biggest thing for us is they realigned the region," said GW coach Richard Harper. "That's made [Region 4] a really tough region. By that happening, it's really evened out the regions where you now have three or four top teams in each region. At the same time, the teams [in Region 3] are completely different than the teams we've wrestled in the past."The good news is I think we'll be really competitive in Region 3. But if you have a bad day in Region 3 and a kid finishes fourth, they might have to face somebody really good out of another region [at the state tournament]. In our region now, we have to focus on getting kids into the finals so they get a good draw in the state tournament."The Patriots have two of the Valley's top grapplers in senior Jake Smith and junior Jensen Lorea. Smith capped a 48-5 season by winning the state title at 145 pounds last season, while Lorea finished fifth at 126. Harper has high expectations for both entering 2012-13."With those guys there, I expect at least a repeat," Harper said. "You expect to at least match that, and then some. With Jake, everybody realizes he's the real deal now so he's got a little X on his back, he's going to get everybody's best shot. If they can beat him, they know they're pretty good. It's hard to repeat, but he's very capable. We're just trying to keep him focused, and I think he's up to the challenge. "For Jensen, there are high expectations also. Like any kid, he wants to win it and he's going to work hard enough. He's going to be there when it comes down to it."Beyond that pair, Harper said his squad is looking good thus far."We've got some new guys and a few guys back with experience, some who were one match from placing last year," he said. "They've been working real hard in the offseason. This early, you just never know."While the Patriots are likely the most tournament-tested team in the Valley, there are several individuals worth keeping a close eye on. Those include junior Zane Weese at Herbert Hoover, who finished fifth at 195 in the state tournament; Winfield sophomore Bryce Humphreys, who placed sixth at 120 as a freshman; and Nitro sophomore David Smith, a heavyweight who qualified for the state meet last season before dropping his opening match to the eventual state runner-up.Around the state, three two-time champions return. Parkersburg senior Jared Haught won at 182 last season and at 160 as a sophomore; Musselman senior Cody Spinks won at 152 as a junior and 145 as a sophomore; and Huntington senior Justin Arthur, who won at 138 as a junior and 119 as a freshman.Parkersburg South is the defending Class AAA champion, and with the departure of Point Pleasant, the AA-A field is likely to be wide open. Independence, Clay and Wirt finished behind Point in last year's state tournament, while newcomers East Fairmont (7th in AAA), North Marion (10th in AAA) and Bridgeport (15th in AAA) will be looking to make a splash in the small-schools division.The state tournament is scheduled for Feb. 21-23 at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 Derek Redd: Marshall thinks outside the cable box for broadcasts 3 Innerviews: Dual-identity surgeon riding high in horse racing world 4 Former State Police captain now chief in Winfield 5 Man charged after motorcycle pursuit early Sunday Ellis Invitational welcomes 14 schools today at Hurricane Previous Story Wahama eyes perfect season, first title vs. Madonna Next Story


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DETROIT (AP) -- A 79-year-old man has died in a pre-dawn fire in a two-story house on fire Detroit's west side.
The fire was reported about 2 a.m. Wednesday.
Minnie Drew-Nix tells WXYZ-TV (http://bit.ly/ZPztlp ) that the victim was her father, Cecil Mack Jr. She says he was a retired General Motors worker.
The station says a couple in their 50s also were in the house. They were taken to an area hospital for treatment.
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The Baltimore Ravens are stuck with Joe Flacco now.
The quarterback with the 60 percent career completion rate just put an exclamation point on one of the best postseasons a quarterback has ever had by being named Super Bowl MVP.
They don't give that award to guys on the losing team, only to champions.
"You can sleep on the guy, you can talk bad about him," Ravens running back Ray Rice said. "He's a quarterback, and when he makes plays, you can't talk bad about him anymore."
The only quarterback to win a postseason game in each of his first five seasons, Flacco is now a Super Bowl winner – right as he is also about to negotiate a new contract.
Flacco's agent, Joe Linta, is one of the good guys. But has any agent ever had an easier job?
"We just won a Super Bowl," Flacco said when asked about his contract status. "I'm not concentrating on that."
But then he laughed and remembered a conversation with Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti.
"He did let me know if this day came I could go beat on his desk and really put it to him," Flacco said. "That's what I'm going to do."
Flacco's 60.5 career completion percentage is just 14th-best among the QBs who have played since 2008. His 86.3 passer rating is 13th.
Now, he is one of three quarterbacks (Eli Manning and Philip Rivers) in the league to have not missed a start since the beginning of the 2008 season, and his 54 regular-season victories since then are second only to Matt Ryan (56).
Some other guys who won their first Super Bowl in New Orleans: Joe Montana, Tom Brady, Roger Staubach, Terry Bradshaw.
Presumptuous to say Flacco just won his first Super Bowl?
Perhaps. These things aren't easy to win. You need only ask Philip Rivers or countless other quarterbacks who have arguably been better than Flacco over a period of time. But Flacco is a winner, and a winner at the right time.
Over the past three years, Flacco has amassed an 87.2 passer rating in the regular season. In eight postseason games in that span, his passer rating is 105.0, a product of his 15 touchdowns and two interceptions.
In four postseason games over the past month, Flacco compiled a 122.9 passer rating. The closest guy who threw more than 100 passes in a single postseason was Drew Brees' 117.0 rating in the 2009 postseason.
Flacco's 11 touchdowns this postseason tied the record jointly held by Joe Montana (1989) and Kurt Warner (2008). Like Montana, Flacco also went the entire postseason without being intercepted.
Baltimore offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell saw this season as a continuation and a beginning.
"I think he's grown by leaps and bounds week after week," Caldwell said. "But … he's been winning a lot of games throughout his five years. This is a great culmination and the start of a great career … He's a big-game performer. You see him rise to the occasion. And I think you're going to see that continue throughout his career."
Flacco exploited an aggressive 49ers secondary on Sunday, fooled them and caught them flat-footed. He took advantage of a San Francisco pass rush that didn't show up until later in the game.
Flacco went to the locker room at halftime having completed 13 of his 20 passes for 192 yards, which included touchdown passes of 13, 1 and 56 yards.
You could say in his second half was more indicative of his career. Good enough. Fortunate to be surrounded by good players. More than a manager, less than elite.
But save for a three-series span following the 30-minute delay due to a power outage, during which a 22-point Baltimore lead was sliced to five points, Flacco often made plays when needed, some of them throws only an elite quarterback can make – like a back shoulder third-down toss to Anquan Boldin.
But it just doesn't matter if he's considered elite.
"I have never cared," Flacco said. "I have never wanted to feel in a position to defend myself. But we'll have his thing forever."
He's a champion. And a really good contract negotiator.


text: Utah's bowl hopes, however slim they were, are over. According to Wright Waters, the executive director of the Football Bowl Association, there were 62 teams that were bowl eligible going into the weekend's play. Of those on the bubble, Virginia Tech, Central Michigan, West Virginia, Baylor, Michigan State, SMU, Purdue, Rice, Ole Miss have all won. Pitt will be bowl eligible if it wins at South Florida next Saturday. The Utes were hoping enough teams would fail to be eligible, forcing the NCAA to use the Academic Progress Rate to create a pool of 5-7 teams that bowls would use to fill their vacancies. However, there were a lot of upsets that made such a scenario unnecessary. Ole Miss upset Mississippi State 41-24, SMU upset Tulsa 35-27, Baylor upset Texas Tech 52-45 and Pitt upset Rutgers 27-6. Pitt will be bowl eligible if it wins at South Florida next week."It looks like with the way things happened, we're going to be Ok," he said Saturday. Time to focus on basketball, Utah fans. - Lya Wodraska


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If not completely unparalleled in its impact on the fashion world, then Levis certainly comes close. Since it patented the first-ever pair of blue jeans in 1873, Levis has never stopped producing high-quality denim and other apparel, expanding its collection to now include jackets, tees, accessories, and more. For close to 150 years, Levis has been pushing the limits of fashion with with exciting new designs and fabric choices. You'll never be out of fashion with a pair of Levis, as the balance of classic looks and functionality keeps the brand's products ahead of the ever-changing style trends. Levis has also established itself as a progressive brand with a genuine concern for improving the lives of its workers, demonstrated through its commitment to charity work. With products that have withstood the test of time, as well as a passion for improving to communities around the globe, it should come as no surprise that Levis continues to be a leader in the world of fashion.
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