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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Investigators say a large wildfire caused by logging operations in northwestern Wisconsin wasn't intentionally set and criminal charges aren't expected.
The Department of Natural Resources said Thursday that negligence wasn't involved in the blaze, which destroyed 17 homes and forced dozens of people to evacuate before it was contained Wednesday night.
The DNR says a logging equipment operator noticed smoke coming from the equipment while harvesting timber Tuesday afternoon. The operator unsuccessfully tried to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher while another operator called 911.
No injuries have been reported from the fire, which charred more than 8,000 acres.
The fire started near Simms Lake in Douglas County, 40 miles southeast of Duluth, Minn.
The DNR says Douglas County prosecutors don't plan to file any criminal charges.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Bob Gotelaere thought he could outrace the wildfire bearing down on his northwestern Wisconsin home.
The retired police officer had fled the house hours earlier after authorities warned him to evacuate, but he wanted to save antique guns from his grandfather and his daughter's needlepoint work. So he and his buddy threaded their way along the back roads to reach the house on Ellison Lake.
Then the wind shifted. The fire — one of the worst to strike northern Wisconsin in three decades — came roaring toward them in a soup of orange smoke.
"There were flames all around the house. The embers were coming down in the yard. You couldn't see because of the smoke. (His friend) was screaming at me, 'we've got to go, we've got to go,'" the 67-year-old Gotelaere said. "It was unreal."
They barely made it out, Gotelaere said Thursday, shortly after firefighters contained the blaze that destroyed 17 homes and 30 other structures as it swept across 9,000 acres.
The Department of Natural Resources announced on its Twitter account Thursday that logging equipment started the fire, though no details were immediately released. An agency spokesman had no immediate comment on the cause.
No injuries have been reported, but at least 60 people were forced to evacuate. About 20 people spent Tuesday night in a Red Cross shelter at Drummond High School.
The blaze began Tuesday afternoon near Simms Lake in Douglas County, 40 miles southeast of Duluth, Minn. Aerial photographs of the fire depicted a roiling mountain of smoke, and the DNR issued a warning for residents to watch for breathing problems.
Firefighters from nearly 40 departments fought the blaze. The National Guard sent two Black Hawk helicopters Wednesday to help, and two Canadian waterbombers, which are fixed-wing aircraft, also helped ground crews, according to the DNR.
Firefighters had finally stopped the fire's spread by Wednesday evening and shifted into mop-up mode early Thursday, exploring the ruined landscapes for hot spots.
"It's just charred around here," Gotelaere said. "It's just unreal. As far as you can see, black."
Authorities have opened some roads, and the Red Cross closed its shelter after it stood empty Wednesday night as evacuees began to return to their homes. Red Cross volunteers remained to help them with anything they needed, though, said Kyle Kriegl, regional executive officer with the Red Cross' western Wisconsin chapter.
The DNR suspended all burning permits statewide Wednesday and issued red flag warnings, which indicate a high risk of fire, for Florence and Marinette counties. Winds were expected to be calmer Thursday but DNR officials were still worried about dry conditions.
Gov. Scott Walker has declared a state of emergency in Douglas and Bayfield counties, which makes the Wisconsin National Guard available for recovery efforts. The governor was scheduled to tour the area around midday Thursday.
The last major forest fire in northern Wisconsin happened on April 22, 1980, and consumed nearly 11,500 acres of forest. A central Wisconsin fire in May 2005 burned more than 3,400 acres.
Bob Gotelaere made his way back to his property Wednesday morning. He discovered the fire had taken his brother-in-law's seasonal mobile home across the street as well as his own outhouse. "It was a nice one, too," Gotelaere said. "Veneer, panel walls, everything."
Somehow, though, the fire spared his house. The phone was even still working.
"I expected to find nothing," he said. "I just looked and couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it."
And he learned a lesson: Get out and stay out.
"You'd think I'd know better," he said. "It was really dumb. The good lord was watching me, I'll you that."


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COMMERCE CITY CO (ColoradoRapids.com) - Your Colorado Rapids travel to New York to take on the Red Bulls this Sunday May 13; kickoff is at 1:00pm MT.
The first-place Rapids will be facing off against a New York side that features former Colorado players Clint Mathis and Hunter Freeman who are both experiencing a resurgence with the Red Bulls this season.
The match will be broadcast live back to Colorado on both Altitude and Telefutura.
The Colorado Rapids currently sit in first place in the West while New York are in the #2 spot in the East under head coach Bruce Arena.
For the full match preview of Sunday's game visit the Colorado Rapids' Official Match-Up Page featuring interactive projected lineups insider game notes and the latest injury and suspension reports by clicking here!
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HOUSTON (AP) — The fate of a Texas woman facing a murder charge after a fire at her home day care killed four children was expected to be in the hands of a jury next week after testimony in her trial wrapped up Thursday.
Prosecutors allege that Jessica Tata had hot oil cooking on a stove at her day care when she left the children alone to go shopping at a nearby Target store in February 2011. The resulting fire also injured three other children.
Tata's defense attorneys told jurors she didn't intend to harm the children, who ranged in age from 16 months to 3 years old.
Tata's defense attorneys rested their case Thursday after calling only one witness, an electrical engineer who told jurors that he believed the stove was off during the fire. The engineer, who testified Wednesday, said evidence he reviewed indicated that a refrigerator near the stove couldn't be ruled out as the cause of the blaze.
But prosecutors on Thursday presented two rebuttal witnesses: an engineering expert who had previously testified that the stove was on during the blaze and a state investigator who said Tata admitted leaving the pan on the stove.
Their testimony was part of prosecutors' efforts to debunk defense attorneys' claims that the fire may have been started by a malfunctioning refrigerator or stove, and nothing Tata did.
Closing arguments in Tata's trial are scheduled for Monday. Jurors will be sequestered during their deliberations.
Tata, 24, is charged with four counts of felony murder but is currently being tried in the death of 16-month-old Elias Castillo. She faces up to life in prison if convicted.
One of the rebuttal witnesses, Kristi Malrey, told jurors Thursday that she spoke with Tata at her home the day of the fire.
"I asked her how many kids she had, how did the fire start," said Malrey, who works for the child care licensing division of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. "She stated that she left a pan with oil on the fire. When she came out from the bathroom, she saw smoke. She left screaming out the door."
Tata had initially told investigators she was at home when the fire began, but video surveillance played for jurors showed Tata was at the Target store when the fire began. A former Target manager previously testified that she remembered during a conversation with Tata at the store that she'd left the stove burner on.
Prosecutors' second rebuttal witness was David Reiter, a forensic electrical engineer who reiterated for jurors — using photographs of the fire scene and a diagram of the stove's circuitry — that the fire started on the stove and spread to the refrigerator and other parts of the kitchen.
Prosecutor Steve Baldassano asked him if he had any doubt that the stove was on. Reiter answered: "Not in my mind."
Convincing jurors that Tata was responsible for leaving the burner on before leaving the children alone could be important for prosecutors in getting a felony murder conviction. Prosecutors do not need to show that Tata intended to harm the children, only that the deaths occurred because her actions put them in danger.
Under Texas law, a person can be convicted of felony murder if he or she committed an underlying felony that led to the death.
During the two week trial, prosecutors presented about 30 witnesses, including neighbors who testified about hearing the children crying during their unsuccessful attempts to reach them during the blaze. Parents of the children who died or were injured testified that they had trusted Tata, believing she was qualified.
Tata's attorneys focused their defense on whether Tata's actions led to the fire, rather than trying to counter claims that she had left the children alone.
Along with the murder counts, Tata was indicted on three counts of abandoning a child and two counts of reckless injury to a child.
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FreeBSD has a reputation of being slow in combination with MySQL, especially when compared to Linux. However, some recent improvements in the scheduler shows that FreeBSD now is pretty much on par with Linux. It also shows that Linux scales very badly after a certain amount of threads per CPU.


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Frame fixings for fixing timber or metal window & door frames to concrete, stone, brick or blockwork.
Quick & easy to use, no marking out, drill straight through frame.
Anti rotation lugs prevent rotation of fixing during tightening.
Tough nylon sleeve prevents frame distortion during tightening.
Size. 10 x 100mm.
Maximum Fixture Thickness: 50mm
Qty. 50.
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ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A court in Croatia on Tuesday convicted a former prime minister of siphoning millions in state money while in power, and sentenced him to nine years in prison as part of efforts by the European Union's newest member to root out corruption.
The verdict was the second conviction for Ivo Sanader, who ruled from 2004 to 2009. Sanader, the highest-ranking former official ever tried in the Balkan country, was sentenced separately to 10 years in prison for bribery in 2012.
The County court in Zagreb ruled that Sanader and his associates siphoned millions from state-run companies through a private firm and then to their own accounts and to the Croatian Democratic Union's party funds.
Judges ordered Sanader to return some 2 million euros (nearly $2.8 million). His former conservative party, which led Croatia to independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991 and remains a major player, must pay nearly 3.8 million euros (over $5 million.)
Judge Ivana Calic said the verdict was a message to both politicians and political parties that corruption does not pay off.
"They were elected to enforce the law, not to break it," she said.
Sanader denied guilt and said the charges were politically motivated. Four other defendants were handed prison sentences of up to three years.
In 2012, Sanader was found guilty of accepting a €10 million ($13 million) bribe from Hungarian oil company MOL in return for securing it controlling rights in Croatia's state oil company INA.


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The company is expected to send Crawford new merchandis…
The company is expected to send Crawford new merchandise, including shoes, this week for the NBA playoffs. Crawford became the first NBA player — besides Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball — to wear the brand this season and has continued to do so in the postseason. At this point it isn't a normal endorsement deal for Crawford, but he would sign a contract with Big Baller Brand down the line that would allow him to be under the brand yet have the freedom to pursue his own personal endeavors.
September 19, 2018 | 3:38 am EDT Update
If McCaw doesn't show up, maybe the Warriors will just stage an open competition and see if one of those younger options seizes the opportunity. But the most likely result remains McCaw's eventual concession. A similar situation happened with center Alex Len in Phoenix last summer. He didn't love his $4.2 million qualifying offer. He dragged the process deep into the summer. He finally accepted it on Sept. 21, right before camp.
Wade, 36, waited until the end of the video before revealing his choice. He began by stating the reasons he considered walking away. The red-eye flights, nightly ice baths and hours on the training table were all factors but nothing made retirement look more appealing than spending more time with family. "Is it selfish of me wanting to continue being away from family," Wade said. "Can I miss my son's games? Can I miss my son? Can I not be there in moments that they need me? Can I not read to my kids as much as I want. Can I not be there to support my wife? It's all these things."
Before entering the league in 2003, Wade always thought time was forever on his side. He was quickly corrected by veteran teammates. Sixteen years later, the warnings proved true. "When you first come in the league, the vets tell you, they say, `Young fella, it's going to go by fast,'" Wade said in the video. "You think at that time, `I'm just getting started.' … I'm here to tell you it goes by fast. It's been a tough summer. This has been a summer for me that not a lot of athletes want to see this time come, where you have to decide if you want to continue to play the game that you love."'
One day after the statements of Greek federation president, Giorgos Vasilakopoulos, about Giannis Antetokounmpo and his possible participation with the Greek national team in the upcoming FIBA World Cup, Giannis' agent Giorgos Panou revealed that there's a gap in the relationship between the Greek freak and the federation. Vasilakopoulos said that "Giannis' agents will decide if he will play in the World Cup. It's a parasitic profession". Panou, who was among the targets of this attack, answered while speaking to "Sport FM radio": "I have to say that I speak for myself and not on behalf of Giannis. I know Giannis since he was 14 years old and I have to clarify some things about him because he never gave the right to anyone to present him as a marionette or a pawn. Mister Vasilakopoulos once more insults one of the top Greek players and presents him having no free will. The truth is the exact opposite. Last year the Federation attacked the Bucks, this year the problem is the agents. However two years ago Vasilakopoulos called without shame Giannis and his brother Thanasis to their faces "leashed bears" who were parading around Greece in the events that they organized themselves. That morning Giannis decided to stay silent, respecting the age and the mantle of the president. However, two people with such different perception of reality can't co-exist. That's why Giannis decided to announce himself that he was not able to play in Eurobasket 2017 due to his knee injury".
That's not so much the case with Popovich, whose playcalling archives are on a Library of Alexandria level. "Pop might call a play and I'll go through my notes and see that the last time he called it was eight years ago," says a West scout. "But it will be the same term, same hand signal, same play." The notoriously clandestine Popovich would likely never reveal its contents, but his playbook must contain thousands of well-archived designs, accumulated through over two decades of Spurs stewardship.
Popovich is also known for having used one of the more ridiculous looking hand signals for a play called "Shake." When signaling the call, Pop looked like he was pantomiming an onanistic act. Then again, that's up for interpretation. "You could say he was shaking up some dice with that hand," an East scout mused.
It's that skill — the ability to probe, report and understand the biggest personalities around the league, as well as his first-rate connections — that led the Clippers to pursue Jenkins. "I ask all the time when I'm working on a story: 'Who is he? Who is he? Who is he?' " Jenkins told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday. "We run around with that question in our head, and it's a worthwhile question for sports teams to ask about players." Jenkins will not report on the Clippers, nor will he help craft presentations for free agents — the kinds of things a communications job might entail. "He's not writing for the website, he's not in human resources, he's not a marketer," Frank told The Post. "This is about a guy who has relentless curiosity, and we are going to use those skills."
Instead, Jenkins will be intimately involved with player evaluation — both free agents and draft prospects. The idea, Jenkins explained, is that in the modern NBA the decision-making process for personnel is both collaborative and diverse. The Clippers, for example, have former basketball players to judge talent and an astrophysicist to crunch numbers already involved. "The reality is someone who's been in basketball versus a journalist will attack a problem from different perspectives," Frank said. "If you want different thoughts and want to avoid an echo chamber and avoid group-think, you have to have people come from different perspectives."


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in reply to Re^2: question for perl book & magazine authors
in thread question for perl book & magazine authors
Sure... if memory is so tight that you have to choose an O(n * m) time complexity over O(n + m) then I guess you gotta do what you gotta do.
Of course, in that case (and especially if this is a routine task) you are almost certainly going to win by throwing more RAM at the problem because the larger your dataset the more (time) you are saving with the linear algorithm.
Update: Also note that the additional memory you need will be relative to the smaller of your two arrays. (As a possible optimization depending, of course, on your data.)
-sauoq "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";
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OTTAWA – The federal government's decision to axe the long-form census has left parts of the Conservative heartland in western and rural Canada without some of the newest data on how its population is changing.
Statistics Canada released the first results Wednesday from the 2011 voluntary National Household Survey, the replacement for the long census. The data covered such topics as religion, visible minorities, aboriginals and immigration.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government in 2010 eliminated the mandatory long-form census, citing concerns over personal freedoms.
It boosted the number of households set to receive the new National Household Survey, but the response rate of 68 per cent fell well below the 94 per cent anticipated by Statistics Canada for a mandatory long-form census.
Certain types of Canadians — aboriginals or the poor, for example — are less likely to respond when given the choice, introducing a potential bias in the numbers.
The agency said it achieved a high quality of results at a national level for a voluntary survey. But it cautioned that the numbers were less reliable when zeroing in on areas with fewer than 25,000 people.
Because of low response rates, Statistics Canada chose to withhold all data on a quarter of Canadian municipalities, or 1,128, compared with the 200 that were suppressed after the 2006 long-form census. Most of those are in rural and First Nations communities.
"The estimates for such areas have such a high level of error that they should not be released under most circumstances," the agency said.
Saskatchewan had the worst results, with information not published on 43 per cent, or more than 500, of its communities. The Conservatives hold all but one of the seats in that province, and have traditionally found support in Canada's rural areas.
Some of the towns and cities excluded across the country include Bonavista, Nfld., Pictou, N.S., Sackville, N.B., Dauphin, Man., Vulcan, Alta., and Tofino, B.C.
"By not having one quarter of municipalities as part of that database, I think there's information that's missing, both for the federal government as well as for the provincial," said Karen Leibovici, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
"Canadians live and breathe at the local level. Even if the long-form data wasn't used to make a decision, it informed a decision," said Peggy Taillon, CEO of the Canadian Council on Social Development.
"If it was a decision on where to put the next family health team, or fire station, you would look at a number of data to make that decision and one of the greater inputs would always be the long-form."
Both the NDP and Liberals have called on Harper to bring back the long-form census for 2016, saying the decision to eliminate it was an example of a Conservative disdain for hard evidence.
"It boggles my mind in the data-driven 21st century that we would have a government that would choose to know less about its citizens, and about its needs and about getting good data about what people are struggling with," said Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.
Harper defended the census decision, and congratulated Statistics Canada for its work.
"Obviously, going forward we will look for ways to improve things, but always in a way that respects and balances the need for public data with the privacy rights of Canadians," Harper said in the House of Commons.
Marty Baroni, assistant administrator in Biggar, Sask., said he wasn't immediately concerned his town wouldn't be getting the latest data release — it mostly relied on the short-form census population count.
But he noted that a growing Filipino community in his riding would likely not have been properly reflected.
Canada's Filipino and Chinese populations are two groups that could be facing data flaws. Statistics Canada conceded that information in the NHS about people who emigrated to Canada from the Philippines between 2006 and 2011 didn't jibe with the numbers gathered by the Citizenship and Immigration Department.
The Chinese Canadian National Council also raised concerns about the data, saying there appeared to be an undercounting when compared with immigration data.


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Noah's world is changing: gravity, a force everyone takes for granted, has begun to disappear. As a young journalist, Noah spends his days documenting the wondrous, strange, beautiful, and sometimes terrifying shifts in the world around him.
But Noah's life is changing, too. And between meeting his one true love and raising a beautiful, rebellious daughter he adores, his mysterious floating world takes on new meaning. From covering the birth of new sports to testing out survival gear, interviewing experts to a journey into space, each experience shapes how Noah views the world and, in turn, his relationship with his family.
And as his daughter grows older, Noah faces the challenge every parent fears and hopes for, dreads and dreams of:
Letting go.
A Radical Shift of Gravity is a science-fiction fable, a graphic novel that explores the ties that bind a family together, the forces that threaten to pull them apart, and the quiet beauty of a world where everyone is floating away.


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LXR-24101A external CD-RW -
Page 1
- Introduction
External drives are usually addressed to office and desktop users who need
a portable and easy to install CD recorder. Lite-On moved forward and shipped
an external drive with an additional advantage: The high supported writing/reading
performance. Lite-On 24/10/40 external drive can be connected to USB1.1/2.0,
IEEE1394, PCMCIA and PC card bus. It would be interesting to see whether we
can consider Lite-On's solution as an alternative for our daily recording needs.
- Features
drive supports 24x writing (Z-CLV), 10x re-writing, has a 2MB Buffer, "SMART-BURN"
as the main anti-buffer under run technology among with adjusting writing strategy
system. The drive also features the SMART-X technology to support high speed
Digital Audio Extraction (DAE) & VCD data extraction. The VAS Vibration
Absorber System Mechanism is used to reduce vibration & noise during read
& write.
The maximum reading speed of the drive is 40x (CAV). The exact writing speeds
are 4x, 8x, 12x,16x (CLV), 20x (16-20x), 24x (16-24x), (Z-CLV). The re-writing
speeds are 4x, 8x and 10x (CLV). The drive also supports 40x (CAV) DAE speed.
These specifications are applied only when the drive is connected through USB
2.0 or IEEE 1394 interfaces. The performance varies according to the connected
interface, as the following table shows:
The drive is equipped with a built-in E-IDE D-type 36pin connector, and with
the appropriate adapter cable the drive works with USB1.0/1.1/2.0 interface,
optional to IEEE1394-1995/1394a (FireWire) interface or PCMCIA2.1/Card Bus5.0.
Lite-On LXR-24101A supports up to Ultra-DMA Mode2 33.3MB/sec.
Lastly, the drive supports all the known writing modes (DAO, SAO, TAO and RAW),
among with packet write and overburning options.
- The package
package supplied contained: the external drive, 1 piece of Lite-On 80min multispeed
CD-R blank , 1 piece of Lite-On 80min 4-12x HS-RW blank, the USB adapter cable,
the AC/DC power adapter with the power cord. The software supplied with the
drive was Nero Burning ROM and Ahead InCD (for packet writing use). The package
also contains a quick installation manual, and a user's manual CD-ROM.
Lastly as the package says the drive is "XP" compatible which was
confirmed from our test results, since the drive worked without any problems
at UDMA-33 mode.
As you can see the drive lines are smoothly designed, and the Lid Cover (top-opened
tray) is silver colored with the "Let's Write" logo in the middle
of it. The green "busy" LED and the red Write/Rewrite LED among with
the open button and the the emergency eject hole are placed on the front of
the drive.
The dimensions of the drive are 152.0 x 44.3 x 198.0 mm (WxHxD) and weights
In the right side of the drive there are the earphone, a stereo mini-jack
for headphones and power speakers, and the volume control.
On the rear panel of the drive you can find the host adapter IDE interface
connector and the power connector.
- Installation
The drive worked in UDMA33 mode and identified itself as "LITE-ON
LXR-24101A". The tests were made under Win XP operation system. Lite-On
LXR-24101A is a March 2002 model with firmware revision v8S01 installed. We
used the newer build of Nero (18.104.22.168), InCD (3.21), and CloneCD (126.96.36.199) for
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University of Vermont
2011-12 Online Catalogue
Policies and General Information
Military Studies
Army Reserve Officer's Training Corps (ROTC) Program
The Army ROTC program offers men and women the opportunity to develop leadership and management skills that can lead to commission as an officer and second lieutenant in the United States Army, Army Reserve or Army National Guard. Instruction focuses on leadership, problem-solving, decision-making, ethics, and military doctrine. Students complete individual and group exercises and assignments in classroom and field environments, and are encouraged to attend various national level seminar opportunities such as Mountain Warfare School; Basic Military Parachuting School; Military Helicopter Operations School; Language & Cultural Immersion in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe; and a fully funded semester abroad.
Department Course Offerings
The four-year Military Studies program at UVM consists of a two-year Basic Course (freshman and sophomore years) and a two-year Advanced Course (junior and senior years). A fully funded 30-day Leader's Training Course (LTC) conducted at Fort Knox, Kentucky is offered as an alternative to the Basic Course of study, and meets all prerequisites for students wishing to start ROTC at the end of their sophomore year. The Department offers Military Physical Training class Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for all Cadets as a student-led activity.
Interdepartmental Course Offerings
The Military Studies Department also offers one-credit courses in related fields on behalf of the UVM Department of Physical Education including: Course PEAC 014 - Orienteering, PEAC 017 - Military Fitness, and PEAC 019 - Backpacking. Students do not need to participate in ROTC to take these courses. These PEAC courses incur no military obligation.
Army ROTC Scholarships and Financial Aid
Scholarships: Two, three, and four year Army ROTC Scholarships paying full tuition, full fees, and $1,200.00 a year for books are available to qualified applicants. Application for the four-year Army ROTC scholarship is made during the high school senior year by applying electronically at www. goarmy.com. All other Army ROTC scholarship applications are made through the department.
Financial Aid: Contracted sophomore, junior, and senior ROTC students can earn up to $6,300 a year through the simultaneous membership program (SMP), which involves participation in the Army National Guard or Army Reserves.
Subsistence Allowance: All contracted cadets receive a monthly ROTC stipend. The stipend is freshmen: $300/month, sophomores: $350/month, juniors: $450/month, seniors: $500/month.
The Department of Military Studies is located at Adams House, 601 Main Street. The phone number is (802) 656-2966. The e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Their Home page is: Army ROTC: University of Vermont .
Norwich University - Air Force ROTC
Through a dual-enrollment agreement with University of Vermont and Air Force ROTC, we are able to provide commissioning opportunities to students who wish to become United States Air Force Officers. Additionally, the Air Force has scholarship funds available to assist qualified candidates to continue their studies while earning commissions as Second Lieutenants in the Air Forces For more information, contact the Unit Admissions Officer at Air Force ROTC Detachment 867, Norwich University, 158 Harmon Drive, Northfield, Vermont.
Call 1-800-468-6679 (press "1" for admissions, then ask for the Air Force ROTC Department) or view their Home page: Air Force ROTC at Norwich University .


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Ross D. E. MacPhee Research Group
Dr. MacPhee studies the historical biogeography of the West Indies, using a combined tectonic/paleontological approach. This program of research has been in operation for more than 20 years and has involved work on all major and many of the smaller islands in the West Indies. His research has focused on systematic and functional anatomical investigations of the groups concerned. Dr. MacPhee also studies recent mammalian extinctions (last 40,000 years). Loss of species during geologically recent times is a worldwide phenomenon that has been blamed either on direct impacts involving people, or less direct impacts caused by environmental change. His research aims to clarify the causal patterns behind these losses, most recently by studying population dynamics of fossil species using ancient DNA methods.
Ross D. E. MacPhee's personal page
Recent Postdoctoral Associates
- Pere Bover (2006-2008)
- Alex Greenwood (1999-2001)
- Manuel Iturralde-Vinent (1997-1998)
Current and Former Graduate Students
- Siobhan Cooke, Doctoral Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York. email@example.com
- Rob Asher (PhD '00, Stony Brook University, Department of Anatomical Sciences)
- Ines Horovitz (PhD '97, Stony Brook University, Department of Anatomical Sciences)
- Jennifer White (PhD '93, Stony Brook University, Department of Anatomical Sciences)
- Hendrik Poinar, Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Canada. firstname.lastname@example.com
- Eske Willerslev, Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. firstname.lastname@example.com
- Lee Arnold, Luminescence Dating Laboratory, Geochronology Research Group, National Research Centre on Human Evolution (CENIEH), Spain. firstname.lastname@example.com?


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The multidisciplinary Spina Bifida Clinic at St. Louis Children's Hospital brings together in one place the specialists who are important to the care of children with spina bifida. In just one day, patients can see a:
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- Neurosurgeon
- Orthopedic surgeon
- Urologist
- Physical therapist
- Occupational therapist
- Orthotist (medical professional who makes and fits braces and splints)
- Equipment specialist
- Dietitian
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This comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach:
- Makes doctor visits easy and convenient.
- Promotes communication between our specialist and your physician, which leads to a
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- ACE & MACE procedures
- Chait button
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- Contractures of the hip/knees
- Foot deformities/Orthotics
Clinic Overview
- The spina bifida clinical nurse coordinator helps patients' caregivers determine the medical/support services needed.
- All physician and medical specialist appointments are made on the same day and in the same location.
- Lab work, imaging studies and other testing are scheduled on the same day as and prior to clinic appointments.
- Patients with pressure sores or other serious wounds are seen by PAWS (Pediatric Acute Wound Service).
- Clinic appointments are available the second and fourth Tuesday of the month, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., in Suite 2A, second floor of St. Louis Children's Hospital.


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No folks, sadly Jeremy Reich will not be walking through that door.
The Bruins today recalled three more "Black Aces" from the Providence (AHL) farm club, and the team's captain was not among them.
Defenseman Andrew Bodnarchuk and Colby Cohen, as well as forward Kirk MacDonald, were the three call-ups. All will continue to practice in Providence in case of emergency with the parent club. Should that "bat phone" ring, the Bruins are in more distress than probably anyone could save them from.


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Older News » Ready, set, read!Last updated 10:55 AM on 15 September 2011
Kids who get a head start on this year's Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) could win early bird rewards.
The challenge officially runs from 1 April to 1 September, but NSW public school students can log on now and start attacking those reading lists.
Each child who completes the required number of books from the PRC booklist receives a certificate signed by the Premier. The aim is that along the way they'll also enjoy discovering quality literature from a wide range of authors.
They'll also find out that quality literature doesn't mean boring books - Graeme Base, Babette Cole, Pamela Allen, Morris Gleitzman, Andy Griffiths and many more popular children's authors have titles on the lists.
Your child can enter the challenge by going to the Reading Challenge website and logging on with the DET portal password they've created at school. Then they simply update their reading log as they finish a book.
And because you really can't tell a book by its cover, the PRC booklists provide a handy guide for parents looking for appropriate reading for their children.
You can also read about parent friendly book, movie and game reviews in the latest issue of Click - a technology guide for parents.


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Further Java Practical Class
Table of Contents
In order to gain a star in the mark sheet you must complete this exercise. Completing the exercise does not gain you any credit in the examination. In this exercise you will extend your implementation of the Java chat server from Workbook 4 to send mobile code to the client. The code that you send to the client should display a Swing chat client interface on the client machine, thereby upgrading the client from a text-based application to a graphical one.
The first thing to write is a simple Swing GUI which is able to interact with your Java chat server. The precise layout of the GUI is up to you, but at the very least it should contain a box in which the user can type in new messages, an area of the screen devoted to displaying messages from other users, and a means of changing the nickname of the user. Test your Swing GUI with your existing server and make sure it works reliably.
Copy your implementation of the Java chat server for Ticklet 4 as well as your implementation of the Swing GUI client into
uk.ac.cam.crsid.fjava.tick4star. As you may remember from Workbook 2, in order to upgrade the client in-place, you will first need to send the definitions of all the classes inside
NewMessageType messages. Finally, you should send the definition of another new class which extends
Message and contains a method with the appropriate run-time annotation to create an instance of your Swing GUI; since you've already sent the definitions of all the required classes, the Java chat client should then display the upgraded interface correctly!
In order to send the definitions of the classes you need to be able to write the definitions into an array of bytes. You might find the following snippet of code helpful:
Class clazz = ... //get a reference to the class you want to serialise String name = clazz.getName(); InputStream is = clazz.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream( name.replaceAll("\\.", "/") + ".class"); ... //Use "is" to copy the definition of "clazz" into an array of bytes
When testing your code, please make sure you run the client outside the Eclipse environment, since otherwise your client is likely to find the correct classes, not because they have been sent correctly over the socket, but because Eclipse will find them in the filesystem for you!
When sending new class definitions to the client, it turns out to be non-trivial to send anonymous inner classes; the work-around is simple (avoid using anonymous inner classes). Extra credit (a double star!) will be awarded to those students who produce a correct implementation of the server which is able to send anonymous inner classes to a client. If you succeed in doing this, please email
email@example.com once you have passed the unit test for this ticklet to explain what you did. (No email, no double star.)
You may change the implementation of your server as you see fit to support this new functionality, but you must not change your implementation of the Java chat client. In other words, your implementation should continue to work with the code you wrote for Ticklet 2 and 2*.
Please put the source code and byte code of the package
uk.ac.cam.crsid.tick4star and
uk.ac.cam.cl.fjava.messages into a jar file called
crsid-tick4star.jar. Please email the jar file to
email@example.com. You should receive a response via email within an hour. If you do not, please send an email to


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Tribute to Michael Jackson
The picture above is from the Victory Tour at Dodger Stadium on Nov. 30, 1984…which just so happened to be my first-ever concert of any kind.
Tonight, during our Friday Night Fireworks, we'll pay tribute to the music of Michael Jackson, who was undoubtedly the biggest entertainer of his generation. It's weird to think that kids born within the last few years will see Michael Jackson in the same way as I see Elvis Presley…an entertainer from my parents' generation who passed away right around the time I was born. Hard to even fathom how big he was in his heydey…
Tonight's lineup:
Pierre, LF
Furcal, SS
Hudson, 2B
Blake, 3B
Loney, 1B
Martin, C
Ethier, RF
Kemp, CF
Kershaw, P
Hope to see all you at the tour tomorrow…Joe Pierre has landed in LA!
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Thanks Josh! Tonight's game and fireworks will be memorable.
I look forward to attending.
Tomorrow will be a great day for ITD. It was wonderful of you to put it all together for us! We are all excited. Especially for Joe Pierre (oldbrooklynfan). See you then!
Good morning ITD boys and girls!
Tough series in Chicago. Oh well, that's gonna happen. I just hope there aren't many more series like that. I am SOOOO excited for tomorrow! I can't wait to meet my fellow ITDers in person! It's going to be a fun day and night! I've been busy for a while now and haven't read ITD much lately (a little bit, but not much), but has it been decided? Are we going to Phillippes after the tour?
I've got a lot to do today and my husband and I are going out tonight, so I don't know if I'll get a chance to post again today, before we leave. I'll try. But if I don't:
I hate forgetting to sign in….you type and type and nothing…so here I go again!
GOOD MORNING ITDs
JOSH – thanks for sharing with us. MJ is a great entertainer and his music will live on forever. Tonights fireworks will be special and I'm sure a lot of the fans will be in tear.
GOOO DODGERS! Tonights game is a MUST WIN! No pressure but hey! CPO & AMY have fun at the game.
I'm so excited about tomorrow. Can't wait to meet many of you. OLDBROOKLYN I am sooooo glad you are able to come. Tomorrows game is also a must win game. Tomorrow this place will be sooooo quiete…but hey but soon we will all be posting our stories from Saturday.
Hey everyone! I just introduced my wife to Dodger Lyrics, however she has known for a long time about the songs being composed here. I need to compose some more, so keep an eye out for some creations, maybe both english and spanish. 🙂
I've got a bet riding on this series with the nieces up on Whidbey Is. Here's hoping the boys bring their A game after their disappointing Chicago series. Of course, these things will happen, but I'd like to keep bragging rights in the family.
Everybody, have fun tomorrow!!!!
How many series has the dodgers lost this year? I'm thinking 2 but I am not sure.
ms, it's 5, all others we have either won or tied.
Lately i've been hearing a lot of music in Spanish but some of the oldies but goodies. The last ones I've been hearing on Yutube are from el flaco de oro Agustin Lara.
nice emma! good music!!!
PERU- Thanks 5 series wow…somehow I just remember the Angels and yersterdays. I guess I have selective memory. Well and the Angels is because my Father-in-law is an Angel's fan and he keeps reminding me. Booohooo!
EMMA – Spanish music is great. Agustin Lara is a classic. Beautiful Music he composed. Of course I grew up to Pedro Infante…I am way to young to be of his time (I'm from the Timbiriche-Menudo Era…LOL), but my mom watched every Infantes' movie. And of course having parents from Jalisco (well MEXICAN in General)…Vicente Fernandez's music was always A MUST play & sing and family gatherings…FUN.
hmmmmmm how is Luna still having these numbers around .353 .420 .657 1.077? To bad that stadium there is a hitter park if Luna already have 13 homeruns and Repko 11 homeruns.
michael jackson tribute fireworks.. it'll be great!
aww, they switched up the rotation.. i really thought we'd get kershaw vs king felix tomorrow.. but that's alright.. we get kersh tonight! so we can start off the series on a high note..
let's get a win tonight boys! we haven't lost 3 in a row all year (if i'm not mistaken) so let's not start now!
i'll be there tonight.. and i'll be there tomorrow.. can't wait for the tour and the game guys.. we've been talking, and talking, and talking.. and the day is really finally almost here!
hmmmmmmmm we have another Saito in the minor putting up good numbers but he's old?
Sara – we have not lost 3 in a row…so tonight is a must win. Maybe that's why they switched Kershaw.
To bad they won't dfa Mota and hate to say this but Wade to and called up Hyang-Nam Choi and Threets or Matthew Sartor and J.D. Durbin or any combo of the 2.
Alberto Bastardo wonder if he's related to the Philly pitching,
aww n/m Durbin is a Philly rejected but still putting up good number.
Good Afternoon from So-Cal!! Tru, Dodger4life, Mariya and I made it here safely, and we are currently in Dodgerericland. Can't wait to see you all tomorrow.
Josh – Thank you so much for the tribute to Michael Jackson, and thank you sooooo much for making this tour happen.
Glad you made it here to SoCal nelly! Can't wait to meet you tomorrow!!! I'm super excited about the tour!!!
My aunt Nora watched and watches all of Pedro Infante's movies and another of her favorite was Gary Cooper.
My latest blog is about the ITD get together. There is a picture of one of the kiddies I am kitty-sitting. The other ones could not stay still. Well, I better head that way before I head to the stadium.
Good to see Joe Pierre has landed! Nelly, happy to see you and yours made it here safely. Getting VERY excited about tomorrow and really looking forward to meeting everyone.
But for tonight, it's business as usual. Sink the Mariners! GO DODGERS!!!
Well everyone, gotta run for the next few hours, going over to help my parents move some stuff. Hopefully see you all later tonight, and of course tomorrow!
Way to go Dre, Lets pound these guys tonight
Another aggressive move by Kemp. That is the kind of gamble I don't mind seeing. Especially when it works out. Only a perfect throw would have nailed him at third.
I'm going to claim the record for most ITD bloggers under one roof with 4.
Light night on here I see. Have fun on the tour tomorrow, I wish I could be there, maybe next if they have it again.
It is good to see Kershaw have 3 good outings in a row. He seems to be trusting his stuff and not throwing as many pitches per inning.
As for Billingsley, this was 2 games in row he goes into the 6th with a 4-1 lead and loses the lead. Come on Chad lets act like an ace and put the teams away. You should have 11-12 victories.. We need you to take the leadership role on the staff and when you have a lead in the 6th it should be lights out…Now with that being said, he should be an All Star along with Broxton.
The more I watch Casey Blake the more I appreciate him. I will admit I was not very excited when the Dodgers got him last year (still not excited long term n giving up Santana), but he is alot better than I thought. Especially defensively, he makes all the plays and he plays the game the right way. Keep it up Casey!!!
That #16 guy is putting on a show tonight, great job…
Hi rams! I agree with just about everything you said. I'm going to give Billz a break for right now. Everyone's due a slump now and then. Let's see how long it takes for him to come out of it.
There are a lot of pleasant surprises on this team this year and Blake is certainly one of them.
Welcome to the Andre show!!!
The Andre Ethier Marching and Chowder Society is going nuts at my house.
That the same Josh Wilson that turned a dp on Blake when he was a dback. I guess his old team don't want him if this is his 3rd team so far.
That the same Josh Wilson that turned a dp on Blake when he was a dback. I guess his old team don't want him if this is his 3rd team so far.
Blah at the double post.
DEric, you must be going nuts with the Ethierholics in the house..sounds like a blpit bullast!!!
As for Bills I agree with you, he gets a pass, but I want him to be like Doc Halladay, he gets a 3 run lead in the the 5th or 6th, the other team gets demoralized..get that pitbull attitude….
Furcal really cannot be this bad all year, can he? I cannot imagine how much fun the lineup would be if he and Martin were to hit to their average years…Furcal just looks lost, his mechanics in his swing have not rythym….I hope it gets it together soon, because he is such a sparkplug…It has to be his back because he is not running as well…
Wait a second Ethier with his 3rd homerun and Mota with 2nd scoring innings omg tell me I'm dreaming.
It is so good to see Andre break out like this!
oops that was a tp on Blake.
Now if Furcal and Martin can get there average to over 280 than it would be really nice.
I know rams I would've love to have keep Santana but we need to make that trade since no one wasn't hitting and we need another power bat in the lineup.
It's been a great night for sure, rams! And we all want to see Billz become that guy, but it doesn't usually happen overnight. It's hard to be patient, isn't it?
Furcal has indeed been a disappointment to this point. I expected him to start slow, but this is ridiculous.
Great game tonight!!! Kersh and Andre show!!
Pass the victory flask!
A beautiful love letter from Andre to our Nelly!!! Thank you Andre. Now Jojo really has no debate when Manny comes back on who should start. You can't bench your home run and rbi leader. LOL!!! Not getting down on Pierre, I think he has performed admirably in Manny's absence. Actually I like his defense in left better than Manny's. Gonna be some tough decisions for Jojo!!! As long as we keep winning and bring home the WS title, I've got nothing to complain about. I think this team can bring it home!!!
Failure is not an option!!!!!
Hi'Ya Dad/Chevelle!! Billz needs to skip a start in my opinion.
Hey all you guys have fun at the tour tomorrow!
Man, that was a positive post! Have you been sipping from sparkle's flask?
Unfortunatley, you KNOW Andre's gonna be tired a few times a month once Manny gets back!
Beeeeeeeev! I've got the camera batteries all charged with a couple of spares. There will be plenty of photographic evidence good or bad!
Billz is like a young Hershiser – has the stuff, but not the mental toughness. Let's give him a nickname.
Uh huh – Andre's gonna be tired from hitting all those home runs. He will definitely need a rest . . . . Joe Torre thought bubble
That's what usually gets me into trouble Eric.
Livin' the High Life Dad!!! LOL!!! I remember when I was 24. I tired out very easily back then. HaHa!!! How've ya been my friend?
I guess they need to do more test on Jackson. I sure hope it's wasn't drug.
LOL Sparkle!!!! Hey Beav!!!! How ya doin' my brother?!!!!!!!!!! No cameras at our parties!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!
Nelly, tru and D4 all say howdy to ya'll! And ME!
Doing well Wally – how's yourself? You gonna be around tomorrow night? – its the Wally, Beav and Bear show.
(I was going to put Bear before Beav, but it just didn't sound nice.)
Speaking of Hershiser they was showing rerun of him on Poker After Dark but it was late like 2 am in the morning.
LOL! There's a certain multi-gold-medal-winning swimmer that would agree!
I think I've got this mini time warp thing figured out – it posts according to the time it says on your computer.
Hope you all have a "Killer" weekend!!!
Tell'em all hello for me Dad!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its Pacific time, but if your PC says 15 minutes past the hour, that's the time stamp it gets. Mine says 16 right now.
And there I am before Erics post. about porno.
Hmmm, bear Beav and Wally sounds too pornographic! LOL!!
Heh, heh, heh!!!!! Hey Beav, do you prefer French Maids or Cop uniforms?
Guess it depends on which way I swing doesn't it?
Nurses and School Marms' are also options!!!!! LOL!!!
No transvestites Beav!!! We are not doing the Time Warp Again!!!!
Beav, you are ahead of your time. We've known that all along!!!
You know what enchanted I was trying to figure that want out and it does stupid time warp.
So now we know Ned was a keyboard player. Not much of a stretch to an accordian… I still say Ned was a Mirth Maker.
Jhall I agree Bills needs to miss a start, I like in the minors they have a 7 day DL..that would be perfect to let the guys miss a start without missing too much time…it would help to keep the arms fresher…
I am worried our BP, which has been great thus far is going to be worn down in the second half…Who will be the pitcher they pickup. Not a big Washburn fan, Cliff Lee is a better fit..although he can give up a lot of hits..he has really battled back from a bad start…Bedard and Peavy are hurt…there does not seem to be alot out there…
Elbert has pitched well since being sent back down and dominated in his 1st game in AAA…
Bear will provide Food for thought, Beav, booze for our souls, and myself, the strippers for atmosphere!!!!!
You guys are hilarious!!! No more baseball talk..
Hi'Ya Ram!!! That would be perfect. I'd take Cliff Lee. The others, Pass!!! You are right, really not alot out there!!!!!!!!!! Indians however, can't use Pierre!!! I think he has played himself into a good trade chip.
Ned can bring his accordian!!!
LOL Beav!!! Those strippers doing the Polka could be interesting!!! I don't want Ned, you can have him, he's not got the tools for me!!!!
Nor the body Wally.
hmmmmmmmm we have another Saito in the minor putting up good numbers but he's old?
By shad15 on June 26, 2009 1:20 PM
To bad they won't dfa Mota and hate to say this but Wade to and called up Hyang-Nam Choi and Threets or Matthew Sartor and J.D. Durbin or any combo of the 2.
Here your bullpen help lol
And strippers doing anything could be interesting!!!
Sorry, but I still believe Ned is a fish out of water and Frank and Jojo instramented or had more input into our recent acquistions and success!!!!!
LOL Beav!!! So true!!!
Look like Bradley got into trouble again and thanks god Ned got rid of him and got Ethier.
One thing for certain, the Dodgers need to be talking to ODawg about a contract now!!!!! I want him back!!!!
I think you're right Wally. Its obvious they don't have someone capable of playing second in the minors that could come close to his defense, and I can't see DeWitt equaling his offense either.
It's a no brainer Beav!!! Kent gone, and our team coming together, coincidence, I Think Not!!!!!!
DeWitt is a nice ballplayer, but, needs to be groomed for taking over 3rd base in 2011!!!
Good Late Evening Boys!!! How are the two of you doing?
ramslover – HIS NAME IS ANDRE ETHIER AND HE IS #16 AND PLAYS RIGHT FIELD AND HE HIT THREE, COUNT THEM THREE HOMERUNS TONIGHT. He also tied James in RBI's tonight and so they share the lead.
BonJour Nelle'!!! Andre loves you baby!!!!
Hey Nells!! Its just too bad that our left fielder is Mr. Baseball.
I see DeWitt more as trade bait than anything else. Hu too if he has any value left.
LOL Beav!! Unfortunate but probably true!!! I agree with you on DeWitt and Hu!!! Just hope they go after pitching!!!!
jhall ~ He did a very good job tonight, yes, he did!!!! Let's hope he saved some for tomorrow night. How are you doing? It's great seeing you and wish you and enchanted were here.
enchanted – It just seems JP these days can't do anything wrong in the eyes of management, the announcers and the media, and regardless of how well Andre (or Matt) plays, playing time will be taken away from them.
Andre will continue to contribute and improve. That's the way he is put together. I believe that. Class act. Doing great, Thanks. We are there in spirit Nell. I am very happy for you all. Have a great time. Carry the torch for us my friend!!!!
Maybe if they do it again next year I'll get a chance to come out.
As long as there are strippers…
Female thank you.
Nothing against DeWitt, but I have to say whoever made the call of signing Hudson over playing Blakey at second made a great call.
Ward Dear/Dodgereric – Thank you for a great evening once again. You and Chris are just super (and Matt, of course too)!!
Gotta have strippers Beav!!!! Another no brainer!!!! LOL!!! And/Or Gin and Tonic!!!!!
I have no doubts about Andre's character, and that alone is going to get him far, with or without baseball. We will carry the torch proudly my friend.
enchanted – I am sure that can be arranged for next year.
Why not both Wally!!??
Guess I'd better hit it. It's been a long day. Thanks for the fun conversation as always my friends. And to all of you going to the tour, have a GREAT time!!!
Good Night enchanted!!! Have a great Beav, Bear and Wally day tomorrow and I would try to ask you to behave, but I know better 🙂
Good Night enchanted!!! Have a great Beav, Bear and Wally day tomorrow and I would try to ask you to behave, but I know better 🙂
Both it is my brother!! G'Nite Beav!!! I echo Beav's sentiments. Hope you all have a great time at the tour and the game. Catch you all down the road.
Excelsior True Blue Believers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good Night to you too jhall!!! Take Care and you, enchanted and the others will not be forgotten on this tour.
…which contains…..
"Jarrod Washburn is friends with Jeff Weaver and in a fantasy football league with Doug Mientkiewicz.
The possibility of Washburn joining his pals in Dodger blue appears very real."
"Torre said that Juan Pierre, who has filled in admirably in Ramirez's absence, would play a day or two a week in center field upon Ramirez's return July 3 from a 50-game drug suspension.
Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier will alternate as the right fielder on the days Pierre starts, giving the other player the day off."
Told ya it wouldn't make a difference how well those two do, their playing time (mostly Andre's) will be jeopardized.
Good evening everyone. I got home at about 11 from my parents', and now need to get some sleep before the tour! See you all tomorrow!!!
Good Night Piano Man!!!! See you tomorrow 🙂
Just finished posting on my blog. I am tired. I worked last night and took a short nap but still felt exhausted when I went to the game tonight. It was a great night. Andre with 3 homeruns and 6 rbis won the game. The look on his face was priceless. He looks like a little boy who can't believe what he did. We were still applauding him when he came out to right field. Huge chest bumps after the game!!
Today is the tour. I can't believe I am still awake. I plan on getting up early and taking care of a few things, going out to breakfast with my Dad, going to my friend's house so we can ride together to the tour. It will be fun.. I wonder what Joe Pierre is doing now.
See everyone tomorrow.
Hello ITD boys and girls.
After I found out where Joe Pierre was sitting, I went there and watched the game with him from the field level. He left after the 9th inning and prior to the fireworks as he was tired from his long day. I went back to the Top Deck to watch the game from there with my friends. I was listening to Dodger Talk and heard that they were doing the show from the 3rd baseline restaurant in the field level so I headed there. I got in line and thanked Mr. McCourt for bringing Joe Pierre here and also thanked Josh for the tour he is giving us. Anyway, I am tired too. I am still house-sitting/kitty sitting but I'll go home early tomorrow to take care of some errands, head to the tour/game and then come back to kitty-sitting.
I see Pau Gasol was probably wearing an Ethier jersey.
Great game for Andre. I'm really happy for him. I'm disappointed that I won't be able to make the ITD tour after all. I hope you all have a great time though. Joepierre, I'm really glad you were able to make it out for the tour.
So I was right and it's was Wade that was dfa for Milton.
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Jun 26 SEA W 8-2 4 3 3 0 0 3 6 0 0 0 0 .268 .366 .494 .860
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Nice to see Ethier slg and ops go up alot and coming so close to last year numbers. Keep it up everyday Dre.
Good morning IDT'ers. Great game last night. What a night for Andre. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
I'm glad Joe Pierre made it out there ok. I hope everyone has loads of fun today on the tour and tonight at the game. I'll be watching for you.
Hey Nelly, Don't forget to take lots of pictures. I'll probably never make it to Dodger Stadium so lots of pics will be the next best thing.
Looks like Clayton is starting to get there. This kid is going to be a great one.
Haver fun today IDT gang. tell us all about it tomottow.
Red pen "have fun today gang. Tell us all about it tomorrow".
Good Morning ITD, Dodger Faithful and Good Morning Boy's!!!
Fantastic game from the Dodgers last night I had the pleasure of watching it at Dodger Erics house last night. Once again thanks to Eric, Chris, Matt and Lucy, I had a wonderful time. Tonight we do it at Chavez Ravine. Joe Pierre I am glad you arrived safely (although I never had a dought) I hope your first expierence was a great one. I cant wait for the tour.
What can I say about the way the Boy's performed last night except….GOOD JOB TEAM!!!!
Lets keep on keepin on….
See ya all in a few…….Lets Rock All Night Long!!!!!!
BEAT THE M's AGIAN!!!!!!
Since I live in Mariner country, I had the pleasure of watching last night's game on a regular local channel, and that along with the result was a treat. Really look forward to seeing tonight's game and trying to watch out for our ITD'ers in attendance.
BRAVO, ANDRE on an outstanding game. I was thinking of Nelly in particular and figured she would have been at the game. What a treat for you.
With Torre's comment about playing Pierre once or twice a week as a starter, why does it result that Andre and Kemp will alternate sitting out – why isn't Manny in the sit-out mode as well. Like, what has he done the last two months that guarantees no days off for him? Are we automatically assuming that he'll come back to form immediately and be crushing the ball? What if he's a dud? Have to be assuming that he was taking the prohibited medication for some valid reason – what's he going to be like without it.
I still say, F Manny, and just keep playing ball the way you have in his absence.
In June Pierre numbers are 266/.317/.319/.636 0 homeruns 4 rbi's. Ethier numbers are .296/.374/.667/1.040 including 8 homeruns and 19 rbi's.
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Samsung hails Galaxy Tab charity donation plan
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Samsung is generously giving 1.67 per cent of the retail price of every Galaxy Tab Android tablet sold through Phones4U to help fight breast cancer.
Buy the £600 gadget from now until the end of November and Samsung will give a tenner to charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
It's an excellent cause to support - breast cancer is now Europe's most common form of the disease, accounting for nearly 30 per cent of all cancer deaths. Early diagnosis is crucial to beating it, and that means making as many women as possible to respond promptly to unexpected changes to their bodies.
Given how pricey its tablet it, Samsung could perhaps have increased the size of its donation and applied it to Galaxy Tabs bought from any retailer or network.
But it's interesting that the company sees women as key potetial purchasers of the new device. Only an arch-cynic would claim that the donation scheme is geared to increase the Tab's appeal to women in the post of boosting launch sales. Samsung has been running a breast cancer awareness campaign throughout 2010.
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Studio Director (BBC Connected Studio)
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- Location
- London
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 09 Nov 2012
- Closes
- 23 Nov 2012
- Category
- Broadcasting, Engineering & Technology, Production, Senior Management, Studio & Facilities, Studio Manager
- Job Type
- Permanent
We are seeking an outstanding individual to help us formulate and run this programme.
BBC Connected Studio is an innovation initiative within BBC Future Media designed to stimulate mid-term, disruptive, innovation. The first phase is a programme of 'Studio' events tied to 10 BBC Online audience facing products with the goal of adding a range of new functions, features or formats across beyond the current priorities.
Future Media is now building on the success of this first phase to create a permanent physical and virtual space in which the BBC and wider industry can explore 'connected storytelling' through projects that develop new, distinctive and connected content and the tools that make this content possible.
We aim to encourage innovation at scale, providing the environment and level of resources needed to pursue big, game-changing ideas and maximise successful transfer of ideas into live BBC output – both online and broadcast.
The Studio will support collaboration and partnership across the UK creative sector - encompassing broadcasters, producers, developers, academics and the wider industry.
• A motivated, individual with entrepreneurial attitude and a strong network of contacts across the UK media industry.
• Experience working in a senior management role within a large organisation ideally in the media, or a closely related, industry.
• Able to communicate effectively, and with credibility, to audiences ranging from technologists and academia to product teams and senior executives.
• A track record of successfully evangelizing new ideas, work methods and technologies within large organisations.
• Broad understanding of the technologies relevant to modern broadcasting organisations combined with an excellent understanding of current and emerging thinking within internet and digital media technologies, products and services.
• Strong track record of leading, motivating and inspiring multi-disciplinary project teams. Experience of mentoring and coaching team members.
• Knowledge and understanding of the tools, techniques and processes required to develop cross-platform, cutting-edge, products and services.
• Experience of rapid prototyping techniques and approaches – both lo and hi-fidelity
• Experience of IPR generation and management (including patenting, defensive publishing and open source or commercial licensing).
• Familiar with the UK and European collaborative project funding process and community
• Appreciation of the regulatory and strategic context of the BBC.
To apply, please click on the apply link to be redirected to the BBC website.
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Ultimate Motorcycling, formerly of Robb Report fame, issued a fun article today (and accompanying press release) about how they've become the most popular American-based website for motorcycling out of all the print magazines, surpassing CycleWorld, Motorcyclist, and *gasp* even Asphalt & Rubber (actually we don't dabble in print, so we guess we're excluded from this club). This of course is complete, utter, and absolute bullshit, now allow me to tell you why. Ultimate Motorcycling is backing up its claim by citing Alexa.com, one of the most unreliable and easily massaged traffic reporting sites on the internet.
Now while all metric sites should be taken with a fair dose of salt, since they typically indirectly measure a website's traffic, Alexa is by far the worst of the group. Bought by Amazon in 1999, and then quickly forgotten about by the Seattle company, Alexa has done little since the 20th century to change with the ever evolving internet. While the site was fun back in the days when AOL was still the default landing page for most internet users, Alexa has long since jumped the shark in regards to its credibility in the industry.
There is a nice Wikipedia article that explains basics of Alexa, and TechCrunch gives a good example on how inaccurate Alexa reports really are (YouTube bigger than Google? Really!?), but the boiled down version is that Alexa collects the majority of its data through its own Internet Explorer toolbar and Firefox/Opera add-ons, and given how few people actually use these toolbars the sample sizes are woefully small and statistically insignificant. Further proof of this is the fact that Bulgaria is shown at Ultimte Motorcycling's top ranking country…yes, Bulgaria (we apologize to all 600 of our Bulgarian readers for this slight, but come on!).
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Based in the UK, illustrator Peter Crawley specializes in stitched illustrations that are created by hand piercing various stocks of paper with a pin and then stitching the paper with a needle and cotton thread. His first piece was inspired by a road trip across America and his desire to illustrate the journey. These illustrations are held in private collections all over the world, and have been featured in leading art and design publications and exhibitions.


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Managers of a condominium complex torched by Tuesday's Quail Lakes fire in north Stockton told a packed room of renters and owners that it could be six to eight months before the units are rebuilt.
Managers of a condominium complex torched by Tuesday's Quail Lakes fire in north Stockton told a packed room of renters and owners that it could be six to eight months before the units are rebuilt.
The meeting Wednesday night attracted about 50 people, some of whom lived in the 14 Sunpointe Condominiums units damaged or destroyed by the fire.
American Red Cross officials said they could help with immediate needs, while the U.S. Small Business Administration is considering whether to grant low-interest loans to renters or owners who either do not have insurance or whose insurance does not go far enough.
Three buildings in the complex on Quail Lakes Drive suffered damage in Tuesday's blaze. One likely will be torn down, said David Ferrill of M&C Association Management Services, which manages the 17-acre condo complex.
It is unclear when residents might be allowed back into the condos to assess the damage. Officials are worried about asbestos and the structural integrity of the most badly burned building.
Rebuilding will take time, Ferrill said, because permits and engineering work must be done all over again.
"We're going to get it done as fast as we can," he said.
The association will construct the new building up to the drywall; the rest of the units, he said, such as cupboards and other interior features, must be built by the condo owners.
One resident said leaves in the rain gutters of the complex might have contributed to the rapid spread of the fire and that trees at the complex have not been well-maintained. Ferrill said managers will take that into consideration in the future.
At the end of the meeting, association officials treated residents to a chicken dinner and gave away 50 tickets to a Stockton Lightning football game.
Michael Farley came representing his mother, 60-year-old renter Otah Farley.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Fifteen states have announced their support for Ohio's elections chief in a dispute over early voting in the presidential battleground being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Secretary of State Jon Husted (HYOO'-sted) has appealed a lower court ruling that reinstates early voting on the three days before Election Day and returns discretion to local boards of elections. The Republican also has asked the Supreme Court to delay the lower court's decision while it decides whether to take the case.
Attorneys general for 15 states asked the Supreme Court Friday to side with Husted. The states are Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
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Former Baywatch star Jeremy Jackson, aka Hobie Buchannon, attends the grand opening of the "Christian Audigier The Nightclub" at Treasure Island hotel casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday.
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I went to Toys R Us recently to buy my son a Lego set for Hanukkah. Did you know a small box of Legos costs $60? Sixty bucks for 102 plastic blocks!
In fact, I learned, Lego sets can sell for thousands of dollars. And despite these prices, Lego has about 70 percent of the construction-toy market. Why? Why doesn't some competitor sell plastic blocks for less? Lego's patents expired a while ago. How hard could it be to make a cheap knockoff?
Luke, a 9-year-old Lego expert, set me straight.
"They pay attention to so much detail," he said. "I never saw a Lego piece ... that couldn't go together with another one."
Lego goes to great lengths to make its pieces really, really well, says David Robertson, who is working on a book about Lego.
Inside every Lego brick, there are three numbers, which identify exactly which mold the brick came from and what position it was in in that mold. That way, if there's a bad brick somewhere, the company can go back and fix the mold.
For decades this is what kept Lego ahead. It's actually pretty hard to make millions of plastic blocks that all fit together.
But over the past several years, a competitor has emerged: Mega Bloks. Plastic blocks that look just like Legos, snap onto Legos and are often half the price.
So Lego has tried other ways to stay ahead.
The company tried to argue in court that no other company had the legal right to make stacking blocks that look like Legos.
"That didn't fly," Robertson says. "Every single country that Lego tried to make that argument in decided against Lego."
But Lego did find a successful way to do something Mega Bloks could not copy: It bought the exclusive rights to Star Wars. If you want to build a Death Star out of plastic blocks, Lego is now your only option.
The Star Wars blocks were wildly successful. So Lego kept going — it licensed Indiana Jones, Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story and Harry Potter.
Sales of these products have been huge for Lego. More important, the experience has taught the company that what kids wanted to do with the blocks was tell stories. Lego makes or licenses the stories they want to tell.
And kids know the difference.
"If you were talking to a friend you wouldn't say, 'Oh my God, I just got a big set of Mega Bloks,' " Luke says. "When you say Legos they would probably be like, 'Awesome can we go to your house and play?' "
Lego made almost $3.5 billion in revenue last year. Mega made a tenth of that.
But Mega Bloks may yet gain on Lego.
Mega now owns the rights to Thomas the Tank Engine, Hello Kitty, and the video game Halo. And, on shelves for the first time ever this week: Mega Bloks Barbies.
Our next story is an economic mystery. Our Planet Money reporter Chana Joffe-Walt stumbled over it while holiday shopping.
CHANA JOFFE-WALT, BYLINE: The other day, I went to Toys R Us after work to buy my son some Legos for Hanukkah. He's never had Legos before, so I was very excited. But did you know that a basic box of Legos cost 59.99? For just 102 DUPLO pieces, 60 bucks. They're plastic blocks.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #1: Legos cost a lot of money.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: Yeah, actually, they are expensive.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #3: Yeah, they're really expensive.
JOFFE-WALT: So when I met Luke Siegel, Mario Tanassay(ph) and Nicholas O'Sullivan, fourth grade Lego experts, I asked them: Is that normal? How expensive do Legos get?
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: Oh, like 200.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #3: No. No. I've seen even expensive - no.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: There's an expensiver one that's $400.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #1: One fifty, max.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: No.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #3: Well, I've seen one that's 400 before.
JOFFE-WALT: Lego appears to be basically immune to competition. It has about 70 percent of the construction toy market. And the question is why? Again, these are plastic blocks we're talking about. Lego's patents expired a while ago. So how hard could it be to make a cheap knockoff?
I brought this question up with Luke, one of the 9-year-old Lego experts, and, you know, said something like, what's so hard about making Legos?
LUKE SIEGEL: They pay attention to so much detail. I never saw a Lego piece that has a little bump on it that couldn't go together with another one.
DAVID ROBERTSON: Lego spends a lot of attention on clutch power.
JOFFE-WALT: Expert of all ages agree on this, although David Robertson had a fancier term for what Luke is talking about. Robertson is writing a book about Lego's remarkable success, which, he says, has a lot to do with clutch power.
Clutch power?
ROBERTSON: Clutch power, yeah.
JOFFE-WALT: What is that?
ROBERTSON: Yeah, the - well, what you want when two bricks stack together is you want that satisfying click.
JOFFE-WALT: David Robertson told me, look inside any Lego brick - he calls them bricks - and there are three numbers in there. Those three numbers tell you exactly what kind of Lego brick you are holding, say, a 2-by-4. They tell you when it was made, from what mold, and exactly what position in that mold.
ROBERTSON: So if this brick didn't fit right - if it was too loose or too sticky or snapped apart - they could go find mold 238 and look at the 15th brick impression in that mold so that they could fix it and make sure that it continued making every single one of the 60 million bricks that it's going to make exactly right.
JOFFE-WALT: For decades, this is what kept Lego ahead. But over the last several years, a competitor has emerged, with clutch power that at this point rivals Lego: Mega Bloks. Mega Bloks are plastic blocks that look just like Legos, snap onto Legos and are often half the price.
So Lego tried other ways to stay ahead, like suing. David Robertson says Lego tried to trademark its block, basically say nobody has the right to make a stacking block that looks like a Lego.
ROBERTSON: That didn't fly and it didn't succeed anywhere. Every single country that they tried to make that argument in decided against Lego.
JOFFE-WALT: Lego needed to do something Mega Bloks could not copy, something dramatic, big.
JOFFE-WALT: Lego got exclusive rights to "Star Wars." If you want to build a Death Star, Lego Lego is now the only company that can make that happen.
ROBERTSON: As a business decision, it was may be one of the best ever.
JOFFE-WALT: And Lego kept going, licensing other properties.
ROBERTSON: There's the Lego "Indiana Jones" series, Lego "Winnie the Pooh."
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: There is a "Toy Story" Lego.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #3: Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD #2: Also, for my birthday, I want the Hogwarts castle from "Harry Potter."
JOFFE-WALT: David Robertson says buying rights to "Star Wars" and "Harry Potter" saved Lego. The money was huge. But more importantly, it taught Lego that what customers wanted to do with the blocks was tell stories. So Lego makes or licenses the stories customers want to tell. And by doing that, Lego has managed to keep lots of kids feeling the way Luke does.
SIEGEL: Like, if if you were talking to a friend, you wouldn't say, oh, my God, I just got a big set of Mega Bloks. Like, they wouldn't be like, oh, my God. When you say Legos, they would probably be like, awesome, can I go to your house and play?
JOFFE-WALT: But Mega Bloks can buy the right to stories too. And it is doing that and now owns "Thomas the Tank Engine, "Hello Kitty," the video game "Halo." And, on the shelves for the first time ever this week: Mega Bloks Barbies.
Chana Joffe-Walt, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.