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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS — Billy Hurley III knows he may or may not keep his 54-hole lead at the Greenbrier Classic, but he knew it wasn't going to keep him awake Saturday night.
He slept pretty well with his 36-hole lead, he said.
"Benefit of the Navy is you learn to sleep anywhere," Hurley said. "I think I'll sleep fine tonight."
With the winds of Friday gone but hole placements very difficult, the U.S. Naval Academy graduate fired a 3-under-par 67 to stretch a one-shot lead into two. He sits at 12-under 198 through the first three rounds.
The man directly behind Hurley is different, Argentinean Angel Cabrera. The two-time major winner fired a 64, tied for the best round of the day with Michael Thompson and Cameron Tringale, to close at 10-under 200.
Hurley had his second and third bogeys of the week (the third and 15th, both par-3s), but more than made up for them. He stuck an approach 3 ½ feet on the fourth and 5 feet on the ninth, and tagged the flag stick for another birdie on the 12th.
Then he went to the 480-yard, par-4 13th, again playing as the hardest hole of the day, and birdied it to put him at 13 under. Briefly, he led the tournament by three strokes.
"Three pretty good shots there, and the ball was pretty tricky from 18, 20 feet coming down the hill," Hurley said. "That one went right in the middle, and those were probably the three best shots back-to-back, on 13."
He maintained his efficiency in ball-striking and putting. He has hit 36 of 42 fairways this week, reached 39 of 54 greens in regulation, stayed out of the sand altogether and used just 80 putts, 29 on Saturday.
He didn't seem to be nearly as aggressive as he was when he shot a 63 on Friday, but he said his approach didn't change.
"Yeah, there were some pins out there that you didn't want to get near," he said. "The pin on 7 [way in the back], you didn't want to get close to.
Cabrera, several twosomes in front of the final pair of Hurley and Kevin Chappell, bogeyed the 13th but fired seven birdies — four in the first six holes. His putting in that stretch was sublime — he rolled them in from 19, 11, 24 and 26 feet.
Chappell stayed in contention with a 69, but fell three shots behind at 9 under. His downfall was failure to get up and down for par on the par-4 11th and that 13th. "Yeah, it was pretty poor, tee to green," he said.
Thompson and Tringale lifted themselves to a seven-way tie for fourth place at 8 under, which signals a wide-open race for the four British Open berths to be awarded today.
At this point, the invites would go to Hurley, Chappell, Thompson and Chris Stroud (also at 8 under), the latter two on a world-ranking tiebreaker. The four highest players without already having a British Open exemption in hand will go to Royal Liverpool in just over a week. (Those four must finish in the top 12 and ties overall, which likely will not be a factor.
Others at 8 under are Steve Stricker, Camilo Villegas, 50-year-old Joe Durant and PGA Tour rookie Will Wilcox. All are close enough to catch Hurley, yet all want to correct flaws in their game.
"I've got to go to the range and iron out a few things," Stricker said. "I'm not real consistent with everything I'm doing. I'm doing some good things once in a while, but nothing horrible, nothing great. It's just been pretty blah and hanging in there and grinding-it-out kind of golf. Hopefully I can put together a longer stretch of good golf to make a move."
Jim Renner is alone in 11th at 7 under. Bubba Watson and Bill Haas lead a mass tie for 12th at 6 under, while Davis Love III and first-round leader Jonas Blixt are tied for 19th at 5 under.
At the other end, 15 players were sent home in the secondary cut, including John Daly. Seventy-four players tee off today, beginning at 8:25 a.m., with Hurley and Cabrera going off at 2:05 p.m.
Hurley isn't worried about playing with Cabrera, a 25-year pro with victories on the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters on his resume. Not much worries the Navy man.
"I just kind of tell myself, and I've been telling myself the last couple of days, just be Bobby Hurley," he said. "He's doing pretty well. We'll stick with that and it will be a new experience.
"I've played with major winners a couple times before, but certainly not in the final group of a tournament."
Reach Doug Smock at 304-348-5130, email@example.com or follow him at twitter.com/dougsmock.


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Slow-starting Encarnacion gets day off
TORONTO -- Power-hitting first baseman Edwin Encarnacion got the day off Saturday against the Red Sox.
Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said giving Encarnacion the day off made sense because of his struggles against Boston starter Clay Buchholz. Encarnacion is just 1-for-21 lifetime against the right-hander.
"Buchholz has been real tough on him," Gibbons said prior to Saturday afternoon's game. "It's a perfect day for it, but he'll be sitting over there waiting."
Typically a home run threat at the plate, Encarnacion's start to the season has been relatively slow. The 31-year-old has just one home run through 23 games this season, during which he's hitting .225 (20-for-89).
During March/April in 2013, he had nine dingers, and the year before he had eight during that span. Gibbons said he's confident his cleanup hitter will come around soon.
"It's gonna happen, I have no doubt in my mind [he'll break out]," Gibbons said. "You look around the league, some of the top sluggers are off to slow starts. That's the way it goes sometimes, but you have to believe."
Jamie Ross is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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I was looking for a display case, curio cabinet to display some of my signature golf balls. After seeing an antique fabric dye display on a popular antique television show I set out looking for a similar type of display. I described to my wife what I had hoped to find and we went antiquing together, for the first time. We had the space, in our living room, already pick out. With an idea in my head and measurements in my note pad, we entered the first shop. This place was wonderful, even with their lack of old golf balls. I was like a kid who found the toy store for the first time. As I was looking at everything, my wife was on her mission to find the perfect arts and crafts style display cabinet. She stepped into a small room, seconds later waves me over and says, "Here it is!" It was this very cool barrister bookcase, just the right style, just the right finish, and it could not have fit it's allotted space any better. The shopkeeper had even dressed it up with resin cast of the golf ball evolution, this had to be sign.
After looking at a number of new items, none of which were built with such quality and cost twice as much as I sent on my new, new as in better then a new one, Globe-Wernicke barrister bookcase.
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Hello, all. I'm playing in my first tournament on September 10th and I'm a bit nervous about it. I've been playing quite awhile but I've never been exposed to the tournament style of play. I've only ever played casually with friends.
What are the major differences I can expect? And, are there any rules that tournament newbies usually break because they don't know about them?
Thanks in advance.


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Select program offers undergrads direct path to Baylor Law or College of Medicine
What could be better than a Baylor degree? Two Baylor degrees, that's what.
Baylor 2 Baylor provides students with that opportunity. Baylor 2 Baylor (or Baylor²) is a dual-admission program that allows a select group of incoming freshmen to follow their Baylor undergraduate experience with automatic admission into either Baylor Law School or Baylor College of Medicine.
Composed of two tracks — Baylor² Law School Program and Baylor² Medical Track Program — Baylor 2 Baylor offers students a smooth pathway from Baylor University directly into the respective schools. To say the programs are competitive is an understatement; the opportunity to apply comes only by invitation, and both tracks have an interview day that selects six students for the program out of the dozens who apply.
The Baylor 2 Medical Track program has built a strong history at Baylor since it began in 1999, and the results prompted Baylor to begin the Baylor 2 Law School track for this year. Students, not surprisingly, must meet a rigorous set of academic standards during their years at Baylor to remain on the path to their postgraduate work, but once they have done so, they avoid the stress of applying for medical or law schools around the nation — they already know where they're going, as we like to say around here.
Sic 'em, Baylor 2 Baylor students!


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Market steer/heifer weigh-in scheduled
All 2012 Ashland County market steer/heifer program participants will need to weigh their animals and have them tagged 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Ashland County Fairgrounds. Members are allowed to weigh in three animals, show two at the county fair and sell one at the Junior Fair auction. A fee of $10 per head will be collected at the weigh-in.
All animals must be haltered at the weigh-in. No bull calves will be eartagged. All calves must be castrated prior to the weigh-in or they will be ineligible for participation. A complete listing of all rules and regulations is available for members by contacting the Extension office.
The Market Steer Committee is again offering an Ashland County class for steers and heifers born and raised in Ashland County. There is a nomination fee of $20 per animal, which is due by April 15 along with the nomination form.
Contact Ohio State University Extension, Ashland County office at 419-281-8242 for more information.
Town & Country offers scholarship
Town & Country Co-op offers a patron scholarship program to assist dependent family members of active Town & Country shareholder/members to work toward a baccalaureate, associate or technical degree.
The criteria include academic achievement and extra curricular activities, financial need and patronage with Town & Country Co-op.
The program was established to assist agricultural producers who support the cooperative.
Each recipient is eligible for the scholarship only once. Scholarships are awarded for work toward a bachelors or associate degree. No family will receive more than one scholarship in a four-year period.


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We finally put Ke$ha in her place this week in The B-Movies Podcast #55: Batman Fights His Weight in Owls! But first, CraveOnline's Film Content Editor William 'Bibbs' Bibbiani and Professor Witney Seibold review This Means War – a romcom for real (sensitive) men – and Studio Ghibli's magical fantasy The Secret World of Arrietty.
Also this week:
Why is the 1960s Casino Royale "like getting slapped in the face with a sock full of acid?"
What is the secret connection between the X-Men and Leprechaun movie franchises?
What if Kids director Larry Clarke took over for Larry King on CNN?
How would Gore Verbinski get a Diary of Anne Frank movie made?
Is Witney really a big stupid doo-doo head with a dumb face in his butt?
Why does Reese Witherspoon owe Bibbs a 2,000-word essay on Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes?
How do you say "I am a pumpkin" in Japanese?
Are shapeshifting testicles a hard sell in America?
The answers to all these questions and more on The B-Movies Podcast #55: Batman Fights His Weight in Owls!
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Banish Fruit Flies, Naturally!
Posted March 22, 2014
Ugh, fruit flies. No one wants to see a little cloud of insects hovering around the kitchen, darting in and out of the garbage, or making merry in the compost. Yet, even in a clean house, fruit flies can start to multiply in the warmer months, coming out just around the time you're thinking about bringing out the sundresses and taking off the extra layer of blankets on the bed. You don't want to live with fruit flies, and we don't blame you; but there's a natural way to control them so you don't have to fill the house with chemicals in your battle against insect life.
If you've got a fruit fly problem, start by eliminating attractants in the house. If you have fruit sitting out, cover it in fine mesh so they can't get to it; a number of companies make very nice fruit baskets and dishes with fruit fly covers. Bread and other dry goods can be secured in a cupboard to keep temptation out of reach.
Make sure dishes are done as they're used so they don't sit around, and take out the recycling regularly so fruit flies aren't drawn to residue in bottles and cans. In addition, keep your counters wiped down, and always wash your compost bucket out after you empty it. Check your faucet for leaks, as these can attract fruit flies and you don't need to call a plumber to replace a washer and fix the problem.
Your houseplants could also be harboring water sources for fruit flies. When you water, don't water so much that spillage accumulates in the dishes under your plants (I like to water in the sink so excess water goes down the drain -- and that way I can wash my plants while I water them). It's possible you may not even have fruit flies, but instead gnats that hatch in damp soil. If you let your house plants dry out and the problem disappears, you know your visitors weren't fruit flies. When you resume your regular watering schedule, try to keep it light so your plants don't get too moist.
The classic fruit fly management trick is the vinegar or wine trap. (Beer works too.) You can make it with a shallow dish, bowl, or cup. Pour in a little bit of your liquid of choice (don't waste your good red wine, though!) and cover the lid with saran wrap poked with a few holes -- you can also create a paper funnel or simply use a jar and screw the lid on over the vinegar, adding some holes to it once it's secure. The fruit flies will enter through the holes, drawn to the sugars in the liquid, and then drown.
A variation on this trick uses a big soda bottle as the trap. Cut it in half, pour some vinegar into the bottom, and then upend the top so that the pouring spout forms a funnel. No matter which method you use, this quickie fruit fly trap should fill up quickly, so you can dispose of your unwanted visitors down the drain and set it up again to catch the next round.
This isn't the only way to get rid of fruit flies, though. Try diluting lemongrass essential oil in warm water, and spraying it around areas where they congregate. This solution also works on ants and other unwanted insects around the house, in addition to adding a nice aroma to the house! (Bonus.)
You can, of course, hang fly paper to trap fruit flies, but it can be unsightly. These natural pest control methods are less obtrusive and very effective, as well as free, in addition to being a cinch to implement! If you continue to have a significant fruit fly problem, it might be time to call in the big dogs and talk to your Charlotte exterminators.
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|Systemic Sclerosis Scleroderma
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|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
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|Scleroderma Family Registry and DNA Repository
- Establish National registry of Scleroderma as resource for scleroderma scientific community [ Time Frame: ongoing ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2000
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|January 2022 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Patients with scleroderma and their family members (parents, brothers, and sisters)
Healthy volunteers with no autoimmune disease and without a first-degree relative with a systemic autoimmune disease
Detailed Description:
Scleroderma refers to a group of diseases that involve the abnormal growth of connective tissue, which supports the skin and internal organs. Scleroderma can affect the skin, making it hard and tight; it can also damage the blood vessels and internal organs such as the heart, lungs, and kidneys. Estimates for the number of people in the United States with the systemic (body-wide) form of scleroderma range from 40,000 to 165,000. The number of people with all scleroderma-related disorders is between 250,000 and 992,500.
Researchers believe that several factors interact to produce scleroderma, including abnormal immune activity, potential environmental triggers, and genetic makeup. Scleroderma is not passed on from parents to child, but certain genes may make a person more likely to develop the disease. The goals of this project are to identify the genes that influence disease susceptibility and expression in systemic scleroderma and to establish a repository of DNA, plasma, and serum samples from single case scleroderma families, multicase families, and healthy unrelated volunteers for the use of researchers interested in studying this disease.
Participants in the Registry will have a phone interview regarding disease characteristics and family history. Participants will be sent a blood kit to get a blood sample drawn locally for shipment to the Registry lab. Blood samples will be made available (anonymously) for studies by researchers around the country. In some cases, participants will be asked to sign a release of medical information so that medical records can be obtained to verify the diagnosis.
As of May 2009, this study is no longer enrolling family members.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
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Patients diagnosed with Systemic Sclerosis or family member of patients with systemic sclerosis
Healthy volunteer with no autoimmune disease and without a first degree relative with a systemic autoimmune disease.
Inclusion Criteria
- Diagnosis of systemic sclerosis or family members of patients with systemic sclerosis
- Healthy volunteer with no autoimmune disease and without a first-degree relative with a systemic autoimmune disease
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00074568
|Contact: Jason Anderson
|United States, Texas
|University of Texas - Houston Medical School
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Contact: Jason Anderson 713-500-7196
|Principal Investigator: Maureen D. Mayes, MD, MPH
|Sub-Investigator: Frank C. Arnett, MD
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|Maureen D. Mayes, MD, MPH
|The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
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|National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00074568 History of Changes
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N01AR02251-000 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|December 16, 2003
|Last Updated:
|January 4, 2016
Keywords provided by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS):
Genetic Study
Transmission Dysequilibrium Testing
Genome Wide Scan
Family Study
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Scleroderma, Systemic
Scleroderma, Diffuse
Scleroderma, Localized
Connective Tissue Diseases
Skin Diseases
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Estee Lauder Pure Color Nail Lacquer Reviews
Nice Product...Bad ValueThe Estee Lauder Nail Lacquers are a good quality product. The colors are classy and true and don't chip. My problem is you get so little product for the price. I think this is on par with OPI but more product would make it even better. — 5 years, 6 months agopowerwoman033 | 509 reviews
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Good colorsGreat color selection and easy to use handle. I just found the colors didn't wear very well on me. Still, they applied nicely and were very pigmented. — 5 years, 7 months agoTheLacqueredLady | 751 reviews
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ClassyI didn't think I'd say this but the lacquer (Clear Top Coat) is very nice. Of course, the price is pretty high at 13 dollars but we aren't talking drug store quality. I'd say it ranks up there with OPI (9 dollars a bottle). I won a gift certificate actually from totalbeauty or I wouldn't have indulged. If you aren't pinching pennies I'd say it's worth it. It brushes on expertly. — 8 years, 8 months agoleo1999 | 678 reviews
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Bold and BrightI love this nail laquer because as the name implies it is thicker than most polishes so it only requires one coat. The colors come on bright and bold and really stand out. It is a little expensive but stays on strong to give you bright nails. — 9 years, 3 months agoStef42678 | 500 reviews
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love the bottle also...I love the bottle that this product comes in! My fav color is Neiman Marcus Red. The product application is great and so is the lasting strength, but the price is too high, when OPI is less than half the price with same quality. — 9 years, 3 months agothedragonslady | 483 reviews
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Buck-O-Meter updates four more ratings on Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn
The Buck-O-Meter has four new ratings today on Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn:
The promises (with the Buck-O-Meter's updated rating) are:
• Appoint a Chief Technology Officer with specific responsibilities. (Compromise)
• Create a housing program modeled after the Challenge Fund. (Stalled).
• Strengthen the Nuisance Abatement Board. (Compromise)
• Launch a public service campaign for bicycle safety. (Promise Kept)
The Buck-O-Meter is produced by PolitiFact Florida, the Tampa Bay Times' political fact-checking team.
Buckhorn, who will reach the halfway point of his four-year term on Monday, says he intends to run for re-election. During the mayoral campaign in 2010 and 2011, he made 34 campaign promises now being tracked by the Buck-O-Meter. So far, he has kept 17 of them. On another eight, he has taken steps — often quite substantial, but usually different from his original promise — that amount to a compromise. He has broken three, has four still in the works and is stalled on two.
For PolitiFact Florida's story summarizing Buckhorn's performance on his campaign promises over the past year, click here.


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Parker Aerospace (Hall 5 Stand D264) is featuring its recently developed thermal management and lubrication packages for aircraft engines here at Paris 2011.
The customizable packages offer improved thermal management efficiency by optimizing each component interface, while maximizing the thermal transfer properties and reducing the oil system volume. In addition, according to Parker, the package offers the additional benefits of increased reliability, reduced weight, component integration and optimized fluid distribution due to a reduction of part-count and fewer connections and linkages.
The system packages combine engineering expertise from across the company to integrate multiple systems components, from the main engine oil and scavenge pumps and oil reservoirs to heat exchanges and bypass valves. A display of the engine thermal management package can be seen at the Parker Aerospace stand.
Other aviation innovations on display include Parker's ethanol fuel pump, which is designed to improve overall performance while reducing operating and maintenance costs on ethanol-operated aircraft. The company claims that ethanol power is "at least 50-percent cheaper than aviation fuel and cleaner burning."
Parker is also developing composite fans and shrouds made of high-end thermoplastic compounds to cool electric motors on several of its hydraulic systems. The benefits include reduced weight and elimination of expensive coatings and finishes.
Also on show at the stand is a special engine subsystems and technologies display, emphasizing pneumatic, fuel actuation and fluid conveyance devices and systems for gas turbine engines. The company also is featuring its "stick-to-surface," adaptable fly-by-wire control system, as well as its aft strut fairing module.


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THE North Yorkshire combination of trainer Geoff Oldroyd and owner Reg Bond head to Knavesmire this afternoon with a fighting chance of bagging not just one winner, but two.
Alfred Hutchinson carries the colours of Pocklington-based Bond in the opening One Marketing Communications Handicap, while in the £50,000 Betbright Trophy it's the turn of Jamaican Bolt to try and lift the feature race on the card.
Oldroyd, who is based at Brawby near Malton, will be pleased about the easy underfoot conditions for Jamaican Bolt, a confirmed mudlover, who has run sound races in both his outings this season, most recently on this course when sixth to Aetna in a competitive field.
That race was over six furlongs and considering Jamaican Bolt's three career wins have all been gained over the minimum trip, the drop back to five furlongs today should be in his favour. Smart apprentice Robert Tart claims a handy 3lb off his back and, in a wide-open race, a bold bid is expected from the nap selection.
Alfred Hutchinson is no stranger to the York winners' circle. He won on Knavesmire in 2012 and has since proved himself a very able all-weather performer. He is, however, no mean performer on turf as he proved when finishing fifth to Navajo Chief on this course earlier in the month over a mile.
Proven over this shorter distance of seven furlongs and with give in the ground, Alfred Hutchinson is fancied to run a big race in a contest where David O'Meara's Doncaster winner Best Of Order may be the main danger.
Ryedale trainer Peter Niven saddles Clever Cookie in the £40,000 Stowe Family Law LLP Grand Cup after the gelding's splendid win in a hot handicap at the Dante Festival.
Previously a useful bumper horse and hurdler, Clever Cookie is two-from-two since switching to the Flat. He now has to prove himself in Listed company and over this longer distance of one and three-quarter miles. A bold show is expected, but the vote is marginally cast in favour of First Mohican, a winner on this course last season, who ran a blinder to finish third to Mount Athos at Newbury on his latest start. He is set to meet Clever Cookie on 10lb better terms than he would if this were a handicap.
Also worth noting at York are Endless Credit (3.25), a potentially useful handicapper from the Luca Cumani stable and Tim Easterby's promising Dutch Breeze (4.35), who should find the switch to six furlongs ideal after tackling trips either side of that in recent outings.
At Haydock, Garswood is selected to come good for Richard Fahey in the Timeform Jury Stakes, a Group 3 event over seven furlongs.
Although below his best when out of the money at Sandown last month, Garswood proved himself a high-quality performer last year when winning the Free Handicap at Newmarket and the Group 2 Lennox Stakes at Goodwood. He is capable of making a major impact here.
Fahey also saddles Parbold in the Sandy Lane Stakes, which is a Listed class event.
A creditable fifth under the top weight in the Free Handicap on his return to action, Parbold has since looked an unlucky loser at the same Newmarket course when fourth in Listed company, again over seven furlongs. Provided he can cope with this drop back to six furlongs, the Malton colt, who was narrowly beaten in last year's Gimcrack, should go well under top Irish jockey Pat Smullen, who has also been booked for Garswood.
Sir Michael Stoute's Astonishing (2.05), who looked in need of the race when behind Cubanism at Newbury, is fancied to reverse placings with that winner this time, and Swan Song (3.15), a fluent handicap winner at Chester earlier in the month, can step up to Listed company. It would be appropriate to see Swan Song win in the same week that her dam, the brilliant Lochsong, passed away.
York today
1.50 Alfred Hutchinson, 2.20 First Mohican, 2.50 Jamaican Bolt (NAP), 3.25 Endless Credit, 4.00 Home Cummings, 4.35 Dutch Breeze, 5.10 I'm Super Too.
Haydock today
1.30 Justonefortheroad, 2.05 Astonishing, 2.40 Garswood, 3.15 Swan Song, 3.50 Parbold, 4.25 Skye's The Limit, 5.00 Early Morning.
Today's other meetings
Chester, Newbury, Newmarket and Stratford.
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Fakenham and Nottingham.


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DRIVERS are being advised of delays from this week on Blackamoor Road, Blackburn.
Resurfacing work is expected to last for around three weeks.
To minimise disruption work will be carried out in off-peak times and a temporary traffic lights system will be in operation.
As part of the essential works, sections of the road will be completely closed over three weekends – November 17-18, November 24-25 and December 1-2 – from Guide roundabout to the junction of Walker Road or alternatively from the junction of Walker Road down to the residential houses.
Diversions will be put in place.


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VULNERABLE pensioners are to get a helping hand from police as a protection scheme is branched out.
The Vera (Vulnerable Elderly Residents' Addresses) project sees police keep a log of where the most vulnerable people live, so they can make sure they are given the help they need.
It is now being launched in West Oxfordshire after success in Oxford, Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire.
And officers in West Oxfordshire are now calling on neighbours to let them know if anyone vulnerable lives in their street.
It comes as the Oxford Mail last month revealed doorstep criminals targeting elderly county residents had hit a seven-year high, with rogue traders conning people out of at least £864,000 in 627 incidents between April last year and March this year.
West Oxfordshire Neighbourhood Inspector Ollie Holland said: "Vulnerable and elderly residents often feel they don't want to bother anyone or be a burden but we want to make sure they know they can contact their local police team if they have any issues.
"We work hard with our partners, such as Trading Standards, to reduce doorstep crime and this is a key part of getting that prevention message across.
"Each resident we visit will receive a pack containing information on protecting yourself from bogus callers and general advice on home and personal security so if you know anyone who could benefit from this scheme please contact us."
Officers from neighbourhood police teams will now be visiting vulnerable residents to introduce themselves as a point of contact.
They will also hand out the packs, put together by the West Oxfordshire Community Safety Partnership, which include home security leaflets, "no cold callers" stickers, and purse bells to deter handbag thieves.
They will also include "Nominate a Neighbour" cards which refer unknown visitors to a neighbour who can check they are genuine.
Vera was expanded in Oxford after the floods of 2007 showed the need for police to know where the vulnerable lived.
Pc Jan Warner, who heads the scheme in Jericho, Abingdon Road and West Oxford, advised West Oxfordshire police before the launch.
According to her, it helped make neighbourhoods more community-minded with residents looking out for one another.
She said: "For us as community officers, knowing where vulnerable elderly residents might be and knowing that other residents are helping them does provide more cohesion.
"If we know where they are we can offer the right sort of help."
Pcso Helen Keen, of the Eynsham neighbourhood police team, said: "It is a really good scheme for us to get to know who the elderly and vulnerable people are so they don't ever feel they are on their own. It is all about getting to know people, the community, and pulling together."
Anyone who wishes to refer a vulnerable neighbour should get in touch with their neighbourhood police via the 101 number.


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Tallies aside, Escobar playing like an All-Star
MINNEAPOLIS -- You won't find his name on any of the recent ballot updates, but shortstop Alcides Escobar, 27, has been playing like an All-Star.
Escobar improved his season average to .295 on Monday with a four-RBI performance against Minnesota and has hit .374 in his past 27 games.
"This is the best year of his career, because he's much more focused, and he's much more in tune to the game," manager Ned Yost said. "He's just having a great year."
Entering Tuesday, Escobar's average was second-best among American League shortstops (Chicago's Alexei Ramirez is hitting .298), and he was tied for second with 85 hits, tied for first with 23 doubles and fifth with 28 RBIs.
So although he is not among the top five vote-getters for his position, that could change in the next few days if he continues his hot hitting.
Alex Smith is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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because of that, i want to see him keep it up for the rest of the season. that doesnt mean averaging 25 for the rest of the year. but it means keeping up his shooting and being aggressive like he is now. Even when Danny returns. I want him to hover around that 20ppg mark for the rest of the year. He is a good enough shooter to, especially if he stays aggressive.
edit: as for the all star game, that would be tough. it really depends on how the other coaches look at Indiana. They know we are without Granger and struggled earlier. Will they overlook that, see that we are playing better as of late and see that PG is playing some phenomenal basketball? I mean if he keeps up the 20+ppg, he could make it. It would be hard to keep him off actually. Especially if we are pushing our record past .500 and have the division lead.


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Imagine sitting in a Subway sandwich shop early on a weekday evening when all of a sudden bullets pierce the glass and start whizzing into the restaurant. Employees and customers dive to the floor. A 20-year-old man gets shot in the head. His companion runs out the front door and starts returning fire at the group outside. Some two dozen rounds are fired, some striking a barber shop across the street.
That was the scene last Wednesday at the Subway near 109th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland. It was the second shooting at an Oakland eatery in a week. On July 2, two employees were fatally shot at the Wingstop on Lake Park Avenue near Lake Merritt.
The shooting at Subway is the latest in a crazy series of street shootings that have occurred in the last year within blocks of a major $45 million development at Foothill Square Mall — one that many people had hoped would help inject new life into a long neglected, desolate area of East Oakland. The idea was that with the new and improved Foothill Square, nearby residents would no longer have to drive to San Leandro to get to the closest bank or supermarket. Kroger Company, America's largest supermarket chain, is opening a Foods Co supermarket, and Wells Fargo is putting in a branch.
The Subway had just opened last year on the MacArthur Boulevard corridor — a healthier alternative to the fried chicken and hot dog joints. On Wednesday, they got a real welcome to the neighborhood.
As the Foothill Square development gets closer to its supposed opening date later this year, the violence in the immediate area seems to be getting worse. On June 2, a woman was shot and gravely wounded a few blocks from the mall during a sideshow. Two other people were also shot. Since May 2012, six people have been shot and killed within blocks of Foothill Square. I don't how many others may have been shot but survived.
It is stunning, given the major investment in the Foothill Square development, that city and police officials have not made it a high priority to clamp down on the violence — which, if it is allowed to continue unchecked, will make what could be such a positive development dead on arrival. Time is running out for city and police officials to send a strong message to the thugs running up and down MacArthur Boulevard with guns blazing that at least the Foothill Square corridor is off-limits.
I realize OPD doesn't have the manpower it needs to police this city. But police officials must find a way to maintain a highly visible presence in the area around the mall. Oakland must take a stand somewhere against this insanity. Foothill Square is as good a place to start as any because there is so much at stake.
This development is key to helping East Oakland finally begin to reverse decades of economic decline. We cannot allow runaway violence committed by a relatively small number of bad actors to scare off customers.
Gloria Polo, who lives near Foothill Square, wrote in an email that Mayor Jean Quan, the City Council, "especially Larry Reid," the Oakland Police Department and Oakland Public Works have a lot of work to do if the project is going to be successful. "This part of Oakland has been going downhill since I moved here five years ago, and I have seen no signs of improvement this year," Polo said. "In fact, matters have only gotten worse as the city has failed to deal with crime at any level."
I wasn't able to reach acting Capt. Kirk Coleman, the area commander for District 5, to find out what OPD intends to do about violence in the Foothill Square mall area. Councilman Larry Reid, whose district includes Foothill Square, says OPD has a strategy but that he was "not at liberty to discuss it."
Reid said he told Acting Police Chief Sean Whent that something had to be done. "We have to do something so people will feel safe," Reid said. "This has got to stop."
The clock is ticking.
Tammerlin Drummond is a columnist for the Bay Area News Group. Her column runs Tuesday and Sunday. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow her at Twitter.com/Tammerlin.


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I recently hit the road to talk to customers who had tried using Google Apps for Business, but switched to Office 365 because they experienced too many workarounds to get work done. I could completely identify with the customer who was told she could not use "folders" in Gmail to organize her email, like she can with Microsoft Outlook. Instead, she had to use "labels" as the workaround.
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Each week, my third-grader brings a red folder home with his homework. We use blue and green folders to keep the Math and English homework packets separate as we work through his homework during the week. When the homework is completed, the folder goes to school for submission. In the same way, I use a red bin to keep all my invoices and bill payments and a green bin for personal subscriptions to magazines and deals that I sort on a weekly basis.
Folders in Microsoft Outlook are intuitive containers that can hold email similar to how you'd use folders for your own mail at home or homework at school. As you sort your inbox, you can move email to the relevant folder for future use.
Categories: A Colorful Way to Organize Email in More Ways
Outlook users who need to manage email that belongs in more than one place, can use "categories." Categories help you classify email into various buckets that you can color code to spot them easily. You can define multiple categories and assign them to different email. You can assign more than one category to an email if you need it to be tagged as such. You can even assign these same categories to other items in Outlook such as "events" and "tasks" to keep all related items organized.
For millions of users worldwide, Outlook folders help keep email organized. The power of inbox rules helps them take organizing to the next level. Inbox rules help users automatically sort email into specific folders, categorize email, and get notified proactively as to when they need to break their routine to look at important email.
Unlike Outlook folders, Gmail "labels" does not follow the container approach. You are expected to categorize all your mail with labels. Sometimes I wonder whether these labels were designed to help users stay organized or to help improve Google's search algorithms.
To think we all pile all our email in one place and only use labels to search and find is a crazy idea. It is as crazy as expecting a department store to only sell black shoes!
Searching Email: Several Ways to Find What You're Looking For
With Outlook, finding email stored in folders is easy. It's as easy as opening the folder you filed the email in and looking for it. The email in the folder can be sorted using various attributes of email. You can sort the email by sender's name, subject of the email, date which the email was received, email with attachments, email with categories, and many more.
For those of you who prefer to search for email rather than organize email in folders, searching for email in Outlook is easy. You can search using the "search box" at the top, choosing whether to look in the current folder, current mailbox, subfolders, all mailboxes, or all items in Outlook. You can even search based on sender's name, subject of the email, whether or not the email has attachments, whether an email was flagged, whether an email was marked important, and by many other attributes. Search capability is not just limited to email; you can even search for calendar events and tasks. Those of you who are looking for advanced options can also dig into some of the advanced search capabilities around Indexing as well.
And for those who get excited by the power of folders and search, "search folders" in Outlook is the perfect feature for you. Search folders are virtual folders that contain the view of email items that match a specific criterion that you define. You can easily create a search folder by clicking on search folders in the navigation pane in Outlook. For those who use categories for their email, the "categorized mail" search folder helps you locate the email that you had categorized previously. Similarly, for those of you who had flagged emails for follow up, "for follow up" search folders will help you find them all in one place.
With a feature-rich Outlook, every one of you can get your work done without using workarounds.


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Can't Buy Me Chemistry?
My wife and I have been married for seven and a half years. We dated for four years before that. There are days when it's eerie how in sync we are. We've gotten to the point where someone will say something and we'll both look up and smile knowingly at each other because we're both aware that the other's mind just went to the same obscure song lyric from 15 years ago. Yeah, I think we have some chemistry going.
And then there's the chemistry I have with the man who probably controls my life even more: the best boss in the world, BP's editor-in-chief, Ben Lindbergh. He sent me an e-mail last weekend which contained a couple of quotes and an idea for an article on the subject of team chemistry. Since I wrote about chemistry a couple of weeks ago, he thought of me when he saw them. Remind me to send him some flowers.
It's that odd time of year when players are reporting to camp after having been away for a few months. I'm sure it's a nice time to reunite with old buddies whom you haven't seen all winter but whom you spent six months with in rather close quarters last season. There's surely a lot of high-fiving, back-slapping happiness as guys get to catch up with one another. And it must be kinda tough for the new guys. After all, they walk into a clubhouse where most of the people know each other, and they have to be the new kids in school.
We've also reached the awkward point in camp where teams are starting to play games but most players aren't at maximum effort, so there's not much to talk about other than the obvious five questions about each team that often have five obvious answers. It's noteworthy when anyone says anything remotely interesting. Brandon Belt was asked about the Giants' NL West rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles, and how they have welcomed quite a few new faces into the fold recently. Belt stated, "You can't buy chemistry." Evidently he figures that since the Dodgers have a lot of new faces on the team, their on-paper talent may not have had time to jell yet, and so they might not be as fearsome as their projections indicate.
Meanwhile, in Nationals camp, there was this dispatch from Washington Post writer Thomas Boswell:
In an itinerant mercenary sports world, the Nats are recreating something from a previous age — as much as the era permits. They want to be a club that stays intact year to year in its core personnel. That way, they accumulate knowledge as a group from season to season. More important, they want to embed a clubhouse culture in which everyone aspires to ferocious focus.
I'll pass on figuring out what "ferocious focus" means, but all this talk brings up an interesting issue. Is keeping the same group of players together somehow good for a team's performance? Does the third baseman being able to complete the left fielder's sentences or the catcher knowing what was the shortstop's favorite band in 10th grade somehow improve a ballclub's record?
Warning! Gory Mathematical Details Ahead!
Then I selected all hitters who had 250 PA in both the previous season and the current season. I looked at various rate stats, including strikeouts, walks,
I tried two methods. I first used a method in which I predicted the current year's rate, controlling for last year's rate and then including the carryover ratio in the regression. I also included the dummy variable of whether the hitter was a holdover or not, and the multiplied interaction between the two. (For the initiated, that's a dichotomous moderator model.) Surprisingly, there were significant findings for HR rate and outs in play.
For HR rate, I looked at four possible scenarios: The team had a carryover rate of 50 percent (high turnover) or 90 percent (low turnover) crossed by whether the player was a holdover from the previous year or whether he was new in these parts. I assumed that he was roughly a league-average hitter, so I also assumed that he hit a HR in 2.5 percent of his PA last year. These were his projected (very age and park unadjusted) HR rates for the following year.
For outs in play, I assumed a base rate of 50 percent.
An interesting set of findings. The worst outcomes happen for a player who is new to town and who is walking into a room full of guys who played together last year. It's hard to be the new kid in school. However, when there are a lot of new people around, the new guys actually do better.
The effect sizes here may not appear huge, but for those who are holdover players, even going from high turnover (2.46% projected HR rate) to low turnover (2.59%; a difference of 0.13%) over 700 PA is just shy of one extra home run. But since that effect can theoretically apply to all the players on the team, you might estimate that the team could pick up a handful of extra home runs that otherwise might have been outs. The advantage gained from this sort of switch is something on the order of a run and a half. If you can gather seven of those together, it's worth a win.
I did something similar for pitchers using the same basic format, looking at strikeout, walk,
Moving to the team level, I looked to see whether there was something to the thought that team cohesion might make a team better than it looks on paper (or in Brandon Belt's formulation, that the Dodgers will have a price to pay for so many new faces being around.) Thanks to some intrepid work by BP intern Andrew Koo, I took PECOTA's preseason projections from 2004-2012 and compared them to what they actually achieved. The carryover rate and the amount that teams varied from their preseason PECOTA projections had a correlation of .03. In other words, no relationship. Sorry, Brandon.
But perhaps being a cohesive unit helps a team win the close games? As Hollywood has told us over and over, the key to winning is commitment to each other, courage, and character. Well, the correlation between carryover rate and record in close games made it only to .08. Sorry, Hollywood.
But is it Chemistry?
Now, what to make of those findings about hitters? For one, let's first point out that all we have here is an association. Turnover and changing teams is associated with other factors that might be in play here. For example, being a new guy in town means moving to a new home ballpark. One thing I've found previously is that hitters tend to perform better in ballparks that they know well, so perhaps we're just seeing the effect of a batter getting used to a new park. Maybe Albert Pujols (a new player with the Angels last year who struggled to hit HR early in the season) just needed some time to adjust to the new batter's eye.
Still, the argument that this really is an effect of team chemistry isn't that hard to make, if we assume that low turnover builds friendships (sensible), and that friendships make people happier (very sensible). Science has shown that people show better physical performance when they are happier. Maybe that little extra spring in a player's step (or swing) is enough to push a ball over the wall that otherwise would have been caught by the center fielder.
But then there's the matter of whether low turnover unto itself is a goal that a team should pursue. Well, if a team has a bunch of Hall of Fame-caliber players, then yes, obviously. Keeping Hall of Famers on your roster is a good thing. But because we're talking about maybe one home run of added value, if a team has a chance to add a player who projects to be five HR better than the player he would replace, it will get more bang for the buck if it simply signs the new player. The effects of player talent level far, far outstrip the effects of low turnover on the roster. It feels so satisfying to think that a group of young players might grow into a World Series winning crew through shared adversity and in the meantime develop great friendships with each other, because that's the plot of every team sports movie ever. But sports movie plots are often terrible guidebooks for running actual teams.
Wow, is it cloudy today...
And really, that's what it can come down to. In my article on how to (theoretically) measure team chemistry, I mentioned that one marker of healthy group dynamics is the presence of social networks that are well-formed. The networks also need to be open to a little bit of change. If there are 24 holdovers from last year and none of them are interested in making new friends, it's going to be a lonely time for the new guy.
But think about what happened when you started a new job or went to a new school or moved to a new town. Society has scripts for meeting new people, introducing yourself, and getting to know someone. I absolutely despise talking about weather of any kind, but I tolerate it, because it's a societally accepted entrepot into getting to know someone. You're not really talking about weather, you're trying to be nice and saying, "I'd like to be friends". Maybe the conversation wanders and you bond. Maybe you end up marrying that person. (For the record, my wife and I did not talk about the weather when we first met. I knew she was the one for me right then.)
A team can help the new guy get acclimated, and maybe hit a few more home runs, by having some sort of simple welcoming ritual. Or having a guy around who is really good at reaching out to people and making them feel welcome. Y'know, a good clubhouse guy. Maybe through that effort, teams can get all the benefits of bringing in a better player without the penalty that he might pay for being the new kid on the block.
Once again, thanks to Ben Lindbergh for the inspiration, and Andrew Koo for the research assistance.
Russell A. Carleton is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @pizzacutter4
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Would it have been more useful to look at days spent on the active roster, as opposed to appearances in games?
Feb 26, 2013 03:25 AM
Reading this it made me wonder if some organizations are better suited to high roster turn over. Great work because it really made me think even though I think it would be impossible to prove anything because of all the outside factors that are at play here.
Feb 26, 2013 05:23 AM
Intriguing article, a couple of ideas for follow up:
Feb 26, 2013 07:28 AM
Thank you for the follow-up article. The approach covered a lot of concerns I mentioned in my comment on the previous one.
Feb 26, 2013 07:40 AM
Could there be a selection bias due to age? Would high and low turnover teams tend to have (and add) players of different ages and, therefore, be on different points of the aging curve, biasing your predicted performance based on the preceding year?
Feb 26, 2013 10:07 AM
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At the team level, could you compare pre-season projected winning percentage to winning percentage through the trade deadline? I can see a possible correlation between turnover and in-season roster churn that could mask the correlation with full-season records.
Feb 26, 2013 12:06 PM
Interesting, but I was surprised you looked at individual performance.
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Ninety-five percent of sexual abuse cases could have been prevented with education. To that end and in support of the Lauren's Kids Organization's 1,500-mile walk to shine light on the problem, the Broward Sheriff's Office Child Protective Investigations Section is bringing together state and local entities involved in the aftermath of sexual abuse to discuss ways to curtail the problem.
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Lauren Book, founder of Lauren's Kids, began the fourth annual, 1500-mile walk across Florida March 19 from Key West. As she walks through Broward County, she'll stop to meet with BSO investigators, representatives from the State Attorney's Office, Office of the Attorney General, Children's Services Council, County Commission, Senator Eleanor Sobel, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and children's services organizations and medical facilities. Through the roundtable discussion, participants hope to provide valuable input to aid in her goal to prevent sexual abuse through awareness and education and to help survivors heal with guidance and support.
As a victim of sexual abuse as a child, Lauren Book has dedicated herself to the education of adults and children about sexual abuse topics through an in-school curriculum, a 24-hour crisis hotline and speaking engagements around the country. The organization also provides more than 4.5 million educational and awareness materials statewide through direct mail every year.
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Yeah, I heard the audio of former New Orleans defensive coordinator Gregg Williams urging his players to injure various 49ers before their January playoff game. It's pretty compelling not just because he wanted to maim Michael Crabtree and Vernon Davis, and not just because he may have been illegally taped without his consent, but because Williams might be the worst motivational speaker in recent American history. No wonder the Saints lost that game. If that was a sports movie scene, the director would have fired Williams and replaced him with another actor. What a buffoon.
Of course, it's 2012 the Year of Internet Self-Righteousness which means we need to feign disgust, pile on the Saints, argue for Williams to receive the NFL's death penalty and basically freak out that a football coach would ever do that. So let's concede the following points. No, you shouldn't instruct your players to hurt people. Yes, you should be fined and suspended for that. Yes, Gregg Williams came off like an insensitive Neanderthal, and yes, it would be difficult (if not impossible) to take him seriously as a coach again. His professional career is over. The tape is pretty damning. Even if it's far-fetched that any Saint listened to that speech and thought to himself, Maybe my creepy weirdo of a coach is right, maybe I SHOULD go after Michael Crabtree's ACL!
But there's a bigger story here: the laughable notion that anyone can change an ingrained culture of violence overnight. Any parent knows that kids never listen the first time it takes four or five times, and usually a raised voice or a threat, before they heed your wishes. Players and coaches are wired the same way. The league never turned off its "We're gonna look the other way, keep being violent and keep those hits coming" switch until the 2010 season, after that infamous October weekend with all the signature hits, when Roger Goodell said, "Oh, crap, maybe I should start fining these guys because the Sports Legacy Institute has accumulated three-plus years of rock-solid concussion evidence and lawsuits are coming. Better later than never!"
And so the league started cracking down. Less than 18 months later, we're supposed to be baffled and appalled that the Saints would shrug off those warnings, that they wanted to win money for crippling opponents or knocking them out you know, because football players aren't supposed to think that way or something. (Watching ESPN this morning was pretty funny it's like every talking head took an oath to forget the network was running "JACKED UP!" segments a few scant years ago.) My two favorite Patriots victories were Super Bowl XXXVI (over the Rams) and the 2003 AFC Championship (when the defense beat up Colts receivers so badly that Colts GM Bill Polian convinced the league to change the line of scrimmage contact rules the following summer). I am not naive enough to believe that, before both of those games, Bill Belichick didn't tell his players, "I want you to beat the absolute crap out of (fill in: Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce, Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, Dallas Clark, Ricky Proehl, etc.) and make them remember you the next time they go over the middle do whatever it takes."
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Belichick uttered something more ominous than that. That's football, a sport in which coaches holler things like, "NOW GO OUT THERE AND KILL THEM!" Do they mean, literally, to murder them? Of course not. It's just the way these meatheads talk. It's the language of their barbaric game. Watch this clip, for God's sake. Normal human beings don't interact like this. When it came out that Williams (and his players) crossed the line, the Saints became The Scapegoat Du Jour for a league that desperately needed one. In case this wasn't clear, everyone, the NFL is taking player safety seriously now! Emphasis on the word "now." It's a transparent ploy to make up for decades of real negligence, as well as mounting evidence that the next generation of football players (any teenager, basically) can be ruined by one concussion. Meanwhile
1. Football is a really violent sport. There is no right way to play football that doesn't include the words "exert your physical will." Every current player grew up hearing instructions like "I want hats on the ball" (translation: "Lead with your head"), "I want guys swarming the ball" (translation: "If your teammates are tackling someone, come flying in as hard as you can and join them") and "Make them think when they're crossing the middle!" (translation: "Keep hitting the receivers as hard as you can so that they'll start thinking about you instead of the catch"). I'm sure they heard even more vicious and inhumane instructions than that. So deconditioning them (and their coaches) is going to take time. We're going to have some hiccups along the way. Hopefully, Gregg Williams's bizarre "inspirational" speech that was only missing a stretcher and a metal Hannibal Lecter mask will be the biggest hiccup. But I doubt it.
2. Here's what I wrote after Goodell belatedly started cracking down (in October 2010): "[He's] a total hypocrite for pretending to care about the welfare of his players as he's pushing for an 18-game regular season that would lead to more injuries, more concussions, more collateral damage, more everything. Hey, Roger: If you cared about the welfare of the players, you'd shorten the season to 15 games and add another week of byes. Right? But hey, that would cost owners money. Instead, you'll continue to position yourself as the Sheriff of Player Safety, puff out your chest, crack down on hard hits and swagger around like you're Tim Olyphant in Justified."
Allow me to add the following: When will Goodell admit publicly that he waited waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long to start cracking down on violence (and the culture behind it), or that he'll always regret looking the other way as evidence mounted that concussions were infinitely more dangerous than we originally believed? You're telling me Goodell never watched this Real Sports piece about Chris Nowinski, Andre Waters and concussions in 2007? Come on. The man was three years late. On everything. Maybe that's not as bad as what Gregg Williams did, but Goodell's not exactly one of the heroes of this sordid story, either. You looked the other way, Roger. You did.
3. As Peter King wrote in his column this week, the same league that's making such a fuss about violence ran a show called 10 Most Feared Tacklers on its own network last week. The truth is, the NFL doesn't know what the hell it wants. It's the most successful sports league ever; the value of its franchises has never been higher; its television money haul has never been greater. Only there's an elephant in the room and it's not the Williams tape, Bountygate or even the hundreds of concussion-related lawsuits from former players that are coming. If they change how football is played and turn it into a glorified version of the Pro Bowl, there's a chance people won't like the sport as much.
So what do you do? You pretend you care. You make an example of the Saints. You crack down on the language of your game. You overreact to cheap hits, and you fine players because sometimes they can't control their bodies at 18 miles an hour in the split second after an opponent ducks his head. You lean on media cronies and convince them to spin stories your way. You hope and pray nobody notices, and that CTE awareness never moves into the mainstream. But meanwhile, your players are bigger and faster than ever, and they're colliding at speeds at which human beings aren't meant to collide.
You're walking a tightrope, basically. Only one thing can save you: the knowledge that fans won't really care because of the whole "people just want to eat steak, they don't care how it's made" mentality. Sadly, that's the best thing you have going for you. Before yesterday's Cardinals-Marlins game, I watched Muhammad Ali (one of my childhood heroes) trembling so severely that he couldn't throw the first pitch. Poor Ali could only hand the baseball to Miami's catcher and he could barely do that. Boxing did that to him. He took too many punches; now he's a quivering mess. I noticed this, digested it and felt absolutely horrible about it.
Yes, I will keep watching boxing.
Which makes me a hypocrite.
That's what the NFL is banking on these next few years hypocrisy, basically as more stories emerge about the tortured lives of retired players. Many of them can't walk, sit down or remember anything. Some battle debilitating headaches and gulp down pills like they're peanuts. A few weeks ago, Jim McMahon confessed in an interview that his short-term memory was gone, then admitted he wouldn't even remember the interview as he was giving it. You hear these things, you sigh, you feel remorse, you forget and then you go back to looking forward to the next football season. Gregg Williams crossed the line; he won't be there. I just wish someone would decide, once and for all, where that line really is.


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The school would be called the Carpe Diem Summit Campus and be for grades 6-12. It will be at 1025 W. Rudisill Blvd. on the former Taylor University campus.
Should each of four conditions set by the board be met, the Summit Campus would open in August with a projected 130 students: 30 in sixth grade and 25 each in grades 7-11. There would be no seniors in the first year of the school's operation.
There's the rub, however: Meeting enrollment projections is one of the conditions for the opening of the school.
The board was cognizant that there was opposition to the charter, as witnessed during a public hearing Tuesday at the site of the proposed campus, with state charter board Executive Director Claire Fiddian-Green stating, "There is very strong, and organized, opposition from the school district."
While that opposition from Fort Wayne Community Schools board members and employees did not lead to the denial of the charter replication, Carpe Diem will still have to show that residents will support the educational model and enroll their children, with Robert Sommers, the CEO/managing partner of Carpe Diem Learning Systems, acknowledging, "If we don't engage enough parents, we can't open."
Here are the four conditions set by the state charter board:
*Carpe Diem Indiana must meet all the requirements of the state's charter board's pre-opening checklist, which will be verified during a site visit by Fiddian-Green. The Carpe Diem Indiana board must complete development of all its board policies by April 1.
*Carpe Diem must identify by June 1 a resident from Fort Wayne who would join the board. That person must have successfully completed an expanded background check before joining.
*Student enrollment forms for the Fort Wayne campus must either meet their overall enrollment target or reach a number that supports a sustainable budget (referred to as the "break even" number) by July 15.
*Carpe Diem Indiana will assess ISTEP+ and other assessment data from Carpe Diem Meridian Campus in Indianapolis and determine whether actual outcomes demonstrate quality performance in Year 1, all in compliance with the management agreement and state's charter board accountability plan. The assessment of Carpe Diem Meridian must be reported to Fiddian-Green no later than July 15.
The state charter board's staff will then take that information and determine, in conjunction with the pre-opening site visit, if the school opening should proceed or be delayed until August 2014.
The board also questioned during the Tuesday meeting what efforts Carpe Diem will make to engage the community and develop support by possibly seeking to work with the existing school systems.
Sommers wasn't opposed to that idea, saying that Carpe Diem would prefer to be a complement, not necessarily a competitor, saying, "We think poverty and ignorance is the real competition; once we get that figured out, maybe then we could turn on each other."
Sommers said after the meeting that the Summit Campus could have a principal in three to four weeks, with other staff to follow.
Carpe Diem features a "blended learning model," which combines computer-assisted learning with classroom instruction. The school model is meant to hold a maximum 300 students.


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Saw X-Men first class and I think I liked it more when I was watching it than I did a few hours later. In a way it was a lot like cotten candy to me. Pretty to look at, good tasting but at the end there was no real sustaining qualities.
First & formost how is it even possible for January Jones to make Emma Frost be unsexy? I don't know what it is about that woman but whenever she opens her mouth I want to fall asleep. No charisma at all. However I will admit she did have the body for the part, if not the totall overall look.
Did like seeing Jackman as Wolverine and sneaking Rebecca Romijn in was very well done & if you didn't know who she was you probably missed her scene altogether.
I liked the movie, but I think I want to make sure that this is where they end this particular series. No need for a sequal here.


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A friend of mine and I have scored great seats to tomorrow nights game against Boston.Does anyone know how or if there is a good way to get player autographs before the game? Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks
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A friend of mine and I have scored great seats to tomorrow nights game against Boston.Does anyone know how or if there is a good way to get player autographs before the game? Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks
The gates open 90 minutes before tipoff. So be there right at 5:30 and they will allow you to walk down close to the court and as players exit or enter through the pacers "tunnel" - you can get autographs. if you aren't sure where to go just ask an usher. They allow anyone down in that area up until about 30 minutes before tipoff
Thank you very much!!
if your goal is to meet your favorite athlete or celebrity, might i recommend not following this priest's method
Priest fit for trial in Conan case
By Samuel Maull, Associated Press
NEW YORK — A priest accused of stalking Conan O'Brien was found fit to stand trial Friday, although his lawyer acknowledged he has been treated for psychological problems.
The judge issued the ruling after a court-appointed psychologist examined the Rev. David Ajemian of the Archdiocese of Boston. State Justice Abraham Clott also ordered him held on $2,500 cash bail.
Ajemian's attorney, Eric Seiff, agreed the priest was fit for trial. But Seiff said Ajemian had been taking medication and has been treated for a year for psychological problems.
Msgr. Dennis Sheehan of Our Lady Help of Christians Parish in Newton, Mass., attended the hearing. He said the cardinal of the Boston Archdiocese "asked me to come as a sign of his concern."
Ajemian, 46, was arrested last week while trying to enter a taping of Late Night with Conan O'Brien in New York City despite being warned to stay away by NBC security.
Ajemian, who allegedly began writing O'Brien in September 2006, has been placed on leave by the Boston Archdiocese and can't minister publicly. He was removed in June from his last posting, at St. Patrick Parish in Stoneham, after two years at the parish.
A spokesman at the archdiocese did not respond to questions about whether the move was related to the stalking allegations.
But on July 2, Ajemian wrote to security officials at NBC questioning "why you chose to raise this matter with my superiors after I left you a clear message by phone several weeks ago that I would cease all contact with the show," according to court papers.
In the letter, he called himself "a stalker of a very different order than the kind you are used to dealing with" and dared them to "tell Conan about your surveillance of me."
In a previous letter, Ajemian expressed frustration to O'Brien that he had been denied a spot in his audience after he'd flown to New York "in the dimming hope that you might finally acknowledge me."
"Is this the way you treat your most dangerous fans???" he wrote. "You owe me big time pal."
He also told O'Brien he knew where he lived and wrote, "Remember (mobster) Frank Costello once dodged a bullet in your building and so can you."
Ajemian's seminary mentor, the Rev. John Mark Hannon, said Thursday he believes Ajemian can still be a good priest if he receives proper psychiatric help.
"He was a good seminarian. He was kind and generous and affable and concerned how people were," said Hannon, who guided Ajemian before he graduated from St. John's Seminary in 2001.
Ajemian, the son of former Time magazine journalist Robert Ajemian, attended Harvard University at the same time as O'Brien. Ajemian graduated from Harvard in 1983, while O'Brien graduated in 1985.
It was unclear whether the two crossed paths there. O'Brien's roommate at Harvard, the Rev. Paul O'Brien, a priest in Lawrence who is not related to Conan O'Brien, declined comment.
NBC said Conan O'Brien would not comment on Ajemian.
After graduating from Harvard, Ajemian took a roundabout route to the priesthood. Among his jobs was work in 1990 as a legal assistant at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. He also worked as a teacher.
Hannon, pastor at St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Hanson, said Ajemian never spoke to him about O'Brien and never gave any indication anything unusual was happening in his life. He's not a dangerous person, Hannon said.
"I still consider him a friend," he said.
This is the darkest timeline.
Haha, that guy looks and acts like Father Phil from the Sopranos.


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retrofuturist wrote:Greetings,
Oh no... that would run directly counter to my deep set aversion towards physical exertion!
catmoon wrote:retrofuturist wrote:Greetings,
Oh no... that would run directly counter to my deep set aversion towards physical exertion!
hmm. did somebody say ngondro?
retrofuturist wrote:Greetings,
"Ngöndro is everything – the whole Vajrayana path!" - http://www.ngondro.net/home.html
retrofuturist wrote:Just because he observes various physical sensations and remains mentally equanimous about them, doesn't mean that he ought to ignore them if they point towards some kind of physical illness.
Ben wrote:Hi Sam
My personal opinion is that one should never ignore possible symptoms of illness or disease. Certainly, there maybe ample time to observe their anicca characteristic, but one should also ensure that one listens to one's body and acts accordingly - ensuring our health and longevity - which in turn ensures an ongoing opportunity to practice Dhamma.
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NASA Tech Briefs Grand Prize Winner will Show up
Phil Kinnane October 7, 2011
Just a couple of days ago we got word of the winners from NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Design Contest. The Grand Prize winner was Monika Weber and a team (Christopher Yerino, Hazael Montanaro, Kane Siu Lung Lo, and Mark Reed) from Yale University.Read More
Phil Kinnane October 6, 2011
There are some great Keynote presentations being given during the conference. Dawn Bernardi kicks it all off by presenting her work and Ford's project for greener vehicles. She develops mathematical models that predict system behavior, and her presentation will be specific to lithium-ion batteries.Read More
Phil Kinnane October 5, 2011
The conference User Presentation Breakout Sessions are being run between 5:00 and 6:30 pm on Thursday and 1:30 and 3:00 pm on Friday. Each Session will consist of nine parallel topic sessions, so make sure you prepare and choose wisely if you want to be hopping from one to the other.Read More
Phil Kinnane October 4, 2011
Hi there, Just looking through the Proceedings CD, I say that there are so many different topics and areas of research that it must be a daunting task to review them all. But through the diligent effort of the Program Chair, Yeswanth, he was able to get twenty experts within different areas to become members of the Program Committee. In fact, almost everyone he asked was willing to participate.Read More
Phil Kinnane October 3, 2011
Now it's done! All finished. And it's great but the conference is looking even better. One hundred presentations will be presented during eighteen different sessions, and the 56 posters will be up throughout the whole conference. Topics range from the general (Analysis of Microwave Radiation for Heating) to the specific (Calculating and Observing Opto-Mechanically Induced Surface Acoustic Waves in a Silica Whispering Gallery Microresonator). Contributors will be presenting everything from plasmas in Tokamak reactors to frying potato chips. It looks […]Read More
Phil Kinnane September 30, 2011
Hi Again, I have just come from a meeting concerning the conference and its poster sessions. Our marketing manager, Lauren, was just dispensing chores. A group of us will have to be there early on Wednesday to get them up, because this time we have done the printing of the posters sent by our attendees.Read More
Phil Kinnane September 29, 2011
Hi Everybody, My name is Phil Kinnane and I have just joined the COMSOL Boston office. Even though I've been working for COMSOL overseas for over eleven years, I have never actually been to a COMSOL Conference – unbelievable isn't it. But having arrived here, I've been thrown in the deep end, and have been asked to work with it – almost full-time.Read More
Phil Kinnane September 8, 2011
To read the full article visit the article "The inside track on simulation software" webpage.Read More
Phil Kinnane September 8, 2011
To read the full article visit the article "The inside track on simulation software" webpage.Read More
Phil Kinnane June 15, 2011
COMSOL Multiphysics v4.2 Release Highlights This video shows the new features that are in COMSOL Multiphysics version 4.2Read More
Heat Transfer papers from the 2010 COMSOL Conference show solutions for Design Engineers and Researchers
Phil Kinnane April 13, 2011
Almost every manufacturing process and product design must consider the effect of thermal fluctuations. COMSOL Multiphysics Heat Transfer Module provides a combination of simulation capabilities to model heat transfer via conduction, convection, and radiation, as well as the ability to couple these to other physics. Design engineers face a number of these problems when enhancing and developing new products.Read More


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I have a PS2 in good working condition with all wires and a few controllers. Might have a game or 2 lying around as well.
I also have a Nintendo, no wires, no controllers, last I used it it worked fine but that had to be 6 years ago. Come's with Mario the wires were lost in a move. Comes as is as I cannot test it to know if in working condition.
I also have a KBC Dark helmet. I thought I had a picture on my PC but guess not. This is a stock photo. It come with brand new dark shield as well s a brand new clear shield with upgraded shield mechanism directly from KBC. The helmet does have some nicks and scratches on it. It was never involved in an accident but from it fall from the bike seat a few times. I can take pictures if needed. looking for 40.00 shipped
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Concussions are becoming an epidemic in contact sports. The injures sustained from a concussion can be serious to these athletes. For former Husker Blake Lawrence, his battle began once he came to play for the University of Nebraska. This is his story.
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A lot of organizations have separate documented communication strategies for each communications discipline. Your organization may have a public relations strategy, marketing communications strategy, social media strategy and sales strategy, all operating in parallel to accomplish often similar (or exact) goals. I suggest having one, clear and cohesive communications strategy that covers all communications activities within your organization. If there are different people responsible for each strategy, get them all in the same room to create a single one (this goes for any organizational-wide plans as far as I'm concerned).
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Note: Most user interface tasks can be performed in Edge Classic or the New Edge experience. For an overview, getting started topics, and release notes specific to the New Edge experience, see the docs.
Using the sample API proxies
Apigee provides a set of samples on GitHub that you can download and run locally.
The samples require you to have an account on http://enterprise.apigee.com. You can sign up for a trial account at http://accounts.apigee.com/accounts/sign_up.
For more information on creating accounts, see Creating an Apigee Edge account.
To use samples, you should also install Git and Python.
The samples that are located on GitHub. If you do not have Git installed, please refer to GitHub's git setup instructions. If you don't want to install Git, you can browse the files and download a ZIP from https://github.com/apigee/api-platform-samples.
Python is required to run the Apigee deploy tool. Python is present in most Linux environments, on a Mac with XCode installed, on a Windows machine with Cygwin installed, and in many other places.
To obtain Python, please refer to the Python installation instructions.
Downloading and deploying the samples
Use the following procedure to download and deploy the samples:
- To obtain the sample files, run:
$ git clone https://github.com/apigee/api-platform-samples.git
- After you download the samples, go to the
$ cd setup
- In the
/setupdirectory, locate the file
setenv.sh. Edit this file to set your organization, the email address associated with your username, and the environment (prod or test) where you want to deploy the API proxies.
- After you edit
setenv.sh, run:
$ sh deploy_all.shThis script deploys all API proxy samples to your organization. (The process takes 3-4 minutes.) Follow prompts to deploy API products, developers, and apps (which are used for OAuth).
- After the deploy script completes, navigate to the sample-proxies directory. In the directory
sample-proxies, you will find one directory per sample proxy. In each directory is a README.md file with information about running the sample, and two scripts that help you as you make small changes to the samples, deploy, and then invoke the sample to see what effect you change had:
invoke.sh: Run this script to invoke the deployed version of the API proxy.
deploy.sh: Run this script to deploy the API proxy after you make any changes.
- Try the apikey sample. This sample shows how to perform a simple "API key" style of API security using Apigee. Change to the
$ cd sample-proxies/apikey
- Invoke the sample:
$ sh invoke.shYou will be prompted to enter your password. The sample then displays information about the app used to make requests to the API, displays the API key used to access the API, makes a request to the API using the key, and then makes a request using an invalid key.
You can continue to work in the samples, move on to the tutorials at Create your first API proxy, or start building your first APIs at Build a simple API proxy.
For more information on the samples
For more information, see:
- Using the sample API proxies for detailed information on running and modifying the samples
- Samples list for a list of the available samples
- Troubleshooting for help with solving issues with the samples
Help or comments?
- If something's not working: Ask the Apigee Community or see Apigee Support.
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