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class Weather { public static void main(String[] args) { // declare variables int i = 1; // represents year double temp = 0.0; final double ANNUAL_INCREASE = 1.0; double uncertainty = 0.0; String result = " "; System.out.println(" Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec"); while(true) { if (i > 5) break; else if (i == 3) continue; System.out.println(i); i++; } } }
So part of my assignment is to loop though my variable for year (named i) from 1 through 5. Then skip through once "i" has the value of 3, and continue on afterwards. The code above compiles and displays this output:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1 2
It stops and leaves 3 as an empty blinking line inside of my terminal. Switching the break and continue statements around like this:
while(true) { if (i == 3) continue; else if (i > 5) break; System.out.println(i); i++; }
gives me the same result as the first code. It was my understanding that the break statement is essentially a loops stopping point, and continue carries on to the next iteration without terminating the loop.
This code below gives me the nearly desired result:
while(true) { if (i > 5) break; System.out.println(i); i++; }
It prints out like this:
1 2 3 4 5
So that makes me know that the stopping point is at least correct. The confusion comes when trying to skip over once (i == 3).
The only time i was instructed to use the continue statement was inside of a for loop like this:
for (int i = 0 ; i <= 5 ; i++) { if (i == 3) continue; System.out.println("I = " + i); }
Which gives me the perfect output (1, 2, 4, 5). I'm hoping this is just a syntax thing rather than a misunderstanding on my end for combining a continue/break statement.
Any help towards the solution is appreciated


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If you look at our Solar System, there's a sharp divide between the four rocky planets and the large "ice giants" of the outer Solar System, Uranus, and Neptune. The divide isn't only a matter of properties; there's a large size gap between Earth and Neptune, which has a radius four times the size of Earth's. There's also a matter of location, with the rocky planets all clustered in the inner Solar System, while the ice giants orbit on the outer edge.
This raises an obvious question: are any of these differences related and, if so, how? We might still be stumped on these questions if it weren't for the discovery of exoplanets. Much to our surprise, the majority of the planets we're discovering have a radius that's intermediate between the radiuses of Earth and Neptune. We've been able to get some understanding of the exoplanets' interiors even as we've struggled to get planet formation models to produce bodies of this size (previously, we didn't know that any of these planets existed, so there was nothing for the models to explain). Now, a review of exoplanets suggests there's a sharp cutoff at about two times Earth's radius between what you might consider a super-Earth and a mini-Neptune.
Rocky or gassy?
The vast majority of exoplanet discoveries has come from the Kepler observatory, which tracks the dimming that exoplanets create as they pass between their host star and the Earth. That, combined with the orbital period, gives us a sense of a planet's radius. But it tells us nothing of its mass, which is needed if we're to determine the properties of the planet.
There are two ways to get at an exoplanet's density: get lucky, or spend money. In tightly packed exosolar systems, we can detect the gravitational interactions among the planets, which can slow down or speed up the transits, creating what are called timing variations. By measuring the strength of the interactions, we can infer the mass of the planet, and thus its density. The alternative is to measure the exoplanet's gravitational influence on its host star, which gets pulled toward the planet's changing orbital position. But these radial velocity measurements are expensive; the new paper says they require "∼45-min[ute] exposures with the world's largest telescopes on 50-100 different nights," and telescope time is not cheap.
As a result of these challenges, we only have density information on a small fraction of the thousands of exoplanets we've discovered. By limiting the analysis to planet radiuses between that of Earth and Neptune, the authors are left with 33 transiting exoplanets. By plotting their densities against their radiuses, a sharp divide was apparent. Below somewhere between 1.5 and two times Earth's radius, there's a gradual increase in density as the planetary radius increases. This trend is also apparent in our own solar system, where density goes up with radius for Mars, Mercury, Venus, and Earth. The authors ascribe this to a degree of gravitational compression of rocky planetary material.
But above 1.5 Earth radiuses, there's an inflection point. Density stops going up with size, and instead, the values start to scatter over a wider range. For some exoplanets, the density is actually lower than that of smaller planets. The only way to get that, the authors argue, is lots of lower-density material: water and ices, along with envelopes rich in hydrogen and/or helium. There's almost certainly a rocky core beneath all of that, but the relative sizes of the core and lower-density envelopes don't seem to follow any clear rules.
Part of the reason for that may have something to do with the planet's formation. But most of the exoplanets we've discovered so far are close to their host stars, which could potentially strip part of the atmosphere. The authors also find that planets in this size range are evenly distributed in the area close to their host stars, and the distribution showed little sign of tailing off—had Kepler continued to function, we'd probably have found them decaying logarithmically with distance from the host star. So, it's possible that future discoveries will provide us with the chance to see whether densities get a bit more orderly in areas where the atmosphere is less prone to boiling off.
The other thing this even distribution suggests is that the Solar System's structure, with the Neptune-class planets on the exterior, doesn't tell us much about the formation of these planets. It's possible that orbital migrations may have shuffled the order of some of these exosolar systems a bit, but it's unlikely we'd see this sort of even distribution if all of these systems were being scrambled.
Oddities and quirks
If that provides a nice clear model, there are still some oddities that need to be sorted out. For example, masses measured by transit timings are generally lower than the masses obtained by radial velocity measurements. Yet, when used on the same planets, they produce the same results, so it's not clear what's going on there. Another oddity: "Jupiter-size planets found around stars in the Kepler field of view seems to be about half that found around nearby stars, a difference not understood."
Another issue is how little the core-plus-envelope structure of the larger planets actually tells us. We have pretty good measurements of gravitational fields of Uranus and Neptune, and we received up-close measurements of their atmospheres from the Voyager probes. Yet there are still what the authors call "compositional degeneracies"—we can put together several plausible models of the planets' interiors that are consistent with all the data, yet differ from each other.
The last issue is a problem with planet formation models. Right now, once a large core starts to accumulate gas, our models show a runaway gas accumulation, which builds a Jupiter-style gas giant. They don't typically stop at an intermediate state that looks like these planets. Until recently, we didn't know these planets existed, so it wasn't so much of a problem. But these are now the most common class of planets we know about, so this problem is growing increasingly awkward.
Despite these remaining problems, it's hard to understate the progress this field has made in recent years. Five years ago or so, the Kepler data wasn't even available; the new paper is largely based on results the same authors published just last year (one they modestly term a "tour de force"). With Kepler committed to a second-generation mission, our catalog of exoplanets is likely to continue to grow, providing an even clearer picture of the rules of planet formation.
PNAS, 2012. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1304197111 (About DOIs).
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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp said on Tuesday it would offer buyouts or early retirement to all of its U.S. hourly union workers, and expects the lackluster North American market to rebound in the second half of 2008.
The top U.S. automaker posted a quarterly loss reflecting a slump in its North American market, but analysts were encouraged that the sweeping deal with the United Auto Workers covering 74,000 workers would cut labor costs more aggressively than expected.
Analysts also said the quarterly results showed that the top U.S. automaker would continue to face pressure in the U.S. market, which has been hurt by a slower economy, higher fuel costs, and tighter credit markets.
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Excluding one-time items, GM posted a fourth-quarter profit of 8 cents per share that reflected a $1.6-billion tax accounting adjustment that boosted reported results. Analysts surveyed by Reuters Estimates had forecast an adjusted per-share loss of 61 cents, but it was not immediately clear how fully that reflected the tax gain.
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JP Morgan analyst Himanshu Patel called GM's forecast for improved automotive results "encouraging though perhaps optimistic," adding that the blue-collar attrition deal suggested "greater future savings potential."
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Henderson said GM's pension plan, including reserves for factory and white-collar workers, was overfunded by about $20 billion at the end of 2007.
(Reporting by Kevin Krolicki and David Bailey; Editing by Derek Caney)
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Read The Turnigy 9X V2 Review first.
Now feel free to discuss the contents of that review, ask questions, share your own experiences with this product or whatever.
johnkim100530 wrote:Why did they make it this way? Using antenna pin and routing RF signal through circuit board does not work for 2.4G wave length?
Lack of interchangeability of module limits its versatility. But who needs interchangeability at this price. Just buy it as another extra transmitter. I will end up posessing 3 transmitters; iMAX, Turnigy V1, Turnigy V2. After all, cheap is not cheap if you sum up money I spent for 3 transmitters. I could not resist buying additional transmitters because it is so cheap. They will replace my old transmitters which do not have electronic trims.
stk20 wrote:Should I hold off changing the old module to a Corona DIY kit?
Sidewinder wrote:One item which "may be" incorrect in your review was the binding procedure. I didn't use your method listed so I can't say weather or not it will work. After reading many posts on several boards, this is what worked for me on a total of 5 of the $9.00 Turnigy receivers: Attach the "batt" and "bind" cables in reverse position, as listed on the receiver. Turn on the receiver and note the flashing red light through side panel of receiver. Take the transmitter at least 6 feet away from the receiver and while holding in the "bind" button (on back of case), turn power on. Red light on receiver should turn from flashing to solid red.
The only other problem that I experienced (other than the poor connection of the batteries within the holder) was with 8 Nicd batteries (Sanyo 1.2V, 600 mAh) installed in the stock holder, there was no way that the battery cover would fit on the back of the trans. I simply replaced them with a 3 cell lipo 2500 mAh transmitter battery; fit perfectly in the case and even the Futaba-like plug mated perfectly with the jack inside (charged to storage value only- 3.8V/cell)
One other curious item was when testing servo channels, channels 5, 6, 7, and 8 would not function at all until I enabled them individually within the programming. Not a small feat considering that this is my first "fully" programmable unit and no manual was supplied.
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The new position will appear at the beginning of each new month. You are invited to solve it. I will be pleased to receive feedback about the positions and the analysis. The solution will be published the following month with the new position. Some of these positions will come from actual historical games. Others will be composed endgame studies, but they will be relevant to the practical game. The site has over 400 chess endings and endgame studies and and has now reached its 11th year.
Important Announcement: For the time being I have decided not to add any more endings to the present collection. There is already plenty of material here to chew over. The site will remain open for the forseeable future for study/training and I haven't ruled out adding more endings at a later date. I would like to thank you for your interest and support over the years and especially those who have sent me analysis. Special thanks must go to Antonio Senatore and Ernest Hong whose contributions have been invaluable.
Russian/Soviet Endgame Composer. One of the founders of the art of modern endgame study composition. His early career in composing started in 1895 but only lasted a couple of years and then his interest waned. Much of his earlier work was full of new ideas but lacked the polish that was to come later. In 1906 he made a triumphant return to chess with his brilliant analysis of the difficult ending of two Knights vs pawn. In 1910 he wrote an important article, published in the St Petersburg paper "Niva" in which he laid down the principles for the composing of studies. He has over 1000 studies to his credit. He wrote: A Selection of Chess Studies (1934). Troitzky died in the siege of Leningrad in 1942.
Although White is material down he can mount a winning attack because of the poor placement of the Black King at the edge of the board. The stair-movement of the new promoted White Queen is worth remembering because it is often a feature of these type of endings.
(a) Basic Endings. These are theoretical positions in which we know the correct result with optimum play by both sides. They may consist of three pawns or less and also include all the non-pawn and five piece endings which have now been extensively analysed by computer and of which we have tablebases. In the days when we had adjournments some of these endings could be looked up in text books to give us some idea how to play the position. As we no longer can do this, knowledge and memory of these endings has become important in practical play. Fundamental Chess Endings (2001) by Muller and Lamprecht and Basic Endings (1992) by Balashov and Prandstetter and the earlier A Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames (1970) by David Hooper are good introductions to these endings.
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Thanks all!
Uh...I think it's having issues...I see lots of lines..do you?
Okay, so if you're getting lines, just reload and go to where you were. That fixed it for me. I think it's just something with youtube.
I tred to watch and it said you had not made it available in a mobile version (I use an iPad). I have never gotten that type of message before when I have tried to watch anything.
hmm...that's weird, I check it out....
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Well, stink, it's because of the certain songs I have. I'm allowed to use them, but the companies that own the song are allowed to put ads and stuff since their song is being used. And ads don't appear on mobiles, so they disable it. Annoying.
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And MSGF, I agree! I SO wish we could truly do it all that fast.
rdjr- I used Sharon Zambito's frosting recipe. It's here on cakecentral. It's under "Sugarshack Icing and Tips" but mine was dairy free. I substituted coconut milk for the coffee creamer. (and I'd give the link, but I'm on an old iPhone turned iPod, so it's hard to get the link.)
I liked it, it looked like lots of fun. That was a nice break for me today from my three toddlers. I understand how challenging it can be decorating a cake with little ones in the house. I'm glad your fondant pieces survived so you can get them on the cake. My monsters steal my fondant pieces while they are drying and they brag about it when they succeed. Loved the star wars bit at the end.
Too funny, yet frustrating!!
When I was done, I had a bunch of left over fondant/gumpaste pieces on the counter, including a couple of bows.
My daughters asked if they could have a bow and I said yes. They then asked if they could have a little piece of a scrap. I said yes and had to go feed my baby. I come back and ever bit and scrap of gumpaste and fondant was gone. LoL Well, at least it was one less thing to clean up. And luckily, they didn't get stomach aches.
I tried to use the "icing plugs" but could not make it work.
Hi again, Soledad! =)
Sorry the plugs didn't work for you. I didn't really show it close, so I'll try to explain it.
First, put your coupler in your icing bag. Then after you roll up the frosting in the plastic wrap, you tightly roll the end of the plastic wrap and slide it through the coupler and trim the plastic wrap up to the coupler. Then you can add your tip and coupler screw thing. (yeah, real technical there...) But if you're doing your frosting or dam, you'll only need the coupler.
If the frosting doesn't want to get through the plastic wrap just slightly pull it back up into the frosting bag to give it a bit more space.
Hope that all makes sense!
Great Video! would you mind sharing your buttercream recipe?
So I'm at my computer now. =)
Here's Sharon's recipe link:
Also, I've uploaded my video in better quality. This is the link:
Thank you, all, again!!


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I sat recently at the Grand Opening Ceremony at CeBIT 2012 in Hannover. There was a huge crowd of dignitaries, business people, and captains of German industry. They were waiting to hear from the President of Brazil, the Chancellor of Germany, and the Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt. Each gave a keynote. As the event's them was Managing Trust, it seemed salient for me to listen specifically to Schmidt, perhaps one last time. It's not that I don't respect the German Chancellor or the President of Brazil, but I wasn't trying to divorce myself from the organizations they represent.
You see, I'm leaving Google, in toto -- meaning in every single possible personal way. What you're reading is the first seven days in the attempt, which is ongoing.
If you live in the modern world, leaving Google is both heresy and damn difficult to do. My primary motivation is that I don't believe Google's privacy protection claims. But you should know I cannot know the truth of its claims; I simply don't trust them. I was raised to be skeptical.
Day One: Inventory
The content industry is tied to Google Analytics, which is the oil well in Google's basement that fuels and funds many things that Google does. It's a brilliant system. It serves ads based on demographics gleaned from analysis of user behavior and advertiser needs. The more an ad is targeted and salient or relevant for the user, the better chance a user will click on the ad for whatever purposes the ad portends. It's automated in such a way that it has become a vast machine. Lots of money is made with targeted clicks.
That machine is charged with robbing most of your personal characteristics in a quest to make the ads better. The problem is: it also robs you of your privacy. The price of privacy is ostensible excellent, and often free content that's subsidized by the oil well in the basement, and the economic engines that it fuels in terms of sales for advertisers. In my mind, it's a robber baron of dignity.
Day one was spent totaling the way Google has permeated my online life. I had to add up the ways I go about my work day. Google is glued to my life (and perhaps yours) like barnacles to a boat. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that I have a personal mobile phone based on Android, and Google has tremendous involvement in Android's attachment to its analytic (and therefore privacy robbing) engines. Removing the barnacles can be done. I've largely done it, although there are unfortunate ways that I unwittingly must still face seeing Google and its products online. Losing one user, Tom Henderson, won't hurt Google in any discernible way as the body of data that Google has is monstrously huge.
Day Two: Leave No Tracks, Start to Delete Cookies
It's this immense body of data that's the ideological problem. Law enforcement agencies seem to have easy access to the data. That data includes: where I surfed via Google Search. Who I called. My participation and 3000+ friends on Google+. My location, via what Android tells Google. I hope and mostly believe that Google doesn't know ALL my contacts and their phone numbers, and in some instances, their location. I cannot know the true extent of what Google knows about me. I believe that Google Corporate may not be able to tell me how much they know.
When I sit at home, Google (unless I consciously prevent it) knows where I sit, on what machine, and what time of day I'm there. Data is collected not only from the search engine site, but sites that I visit that have Google maps, and so forth. The penetration of Google's ability to sniff a single individual's location and preferences is unprecedented. Google knows more about me than my mother. Google "deserves" this knowledge because of the EULA they mandate, and because it's their business model.
First, I had to remove the cookies. There were several dozen of them with Google's address or name on them. I have three browsers (for research purposes) based on different software engines. Each has a slightly different way of exorcising the cookies. It should be noted here that Google isn't the only one tracking me for demographic purposes. It's just the big dog, and the one with the largest reach.
I'll avoid references to the "old days" when people didn't relinquish their privacy and details to gain free access to applications and services. Some people believe this is benign, but they're wrong. I won't argue these points, rather explain how to get yourself free. After you rid yourself of the cookies as an exercise, you'll be much more aware of how much was being tracked.
Day Three: Reality Check, Delete More Cookies, Install Redirected Host Files
You can't use Google products. If you use one Google product, a single agreement covers your use of them, and Google can basically use the information it gleans from what you do, where you surf online, where you were when you surfed it, any other information kept in your browser that it can read, and use it for any purposes that Google wants. So you can't go to anything.google.anywhere. To prevent accidental Google application use, one must actively prevent a computer from going to Google sites. The cookies will reappear, as if by magic. Day Three consisted of destroying Google's tracks on my machine(s).
If you go to Google, or a site accidentally uses a Google product access, you're back to square one because the cookies, the tracks of your use, will be reestablished. You have to teach your computer to stanch requests made to Google because you can use Google by accident. In doing so -- stopping unwitting access -- you can also add protection from other web sites that track you like a pack of trained dogs. There's a way of preventing your computer from going to these sites in a technical way that's a holdover from the old days of computing. It's called a redirected hosts file. Ask your geek friends about them.
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Editor's Note: The following is an edited portion of an interview with Kishore Mahbubani, the Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Mahbubani previously served for 33 years in Singapore's diplomatic service and is the author of The New Asian Hemisphere, Can Asians Think? and Beyond the Age of Innocence.
Every time the United States or the West steps into an Islamic country it presents a major geopolitical gift to China. (When the U.S. decided to intervene in Libya) China was privately saying, "Great, go ahead! Go into more Islamic countries. Make my day."
If you're a logical, long-term, hard-headed geopolitical realist thinker from America it is very, very clear that the only country that can overtake the United States in absolute power - militarily, economically, in every sense - is China.
The Islamic world will not overtake America– not in my lifetime and not in your lifetime. So America should be devoting 90% of its resources on managing China and 10% of its resources on managing the Islamic world.
Instead it is spending 90% of its resources getting involved in the Islamic world - whether it is Iraq or Afghanistan or Palestine or Libya– and 10% of its time managing China. In so doing, America is revealing its geopolitical incompetence
The U.S.should engage China more seriously and try to work out a long-term, viable, geopolitical partnership with China. It should also give up its dream of achieving democracy in China. It should stop believing that a "Jasmine Revolution" is on the way and realize that this government in China is going to survive and possibly do very well.
You may wish for all kinds of worst-case scenarios for China, but as a geopolitical planner you should plan for the best-case scenario.
China is going to go from strength to strength. And if China is going to go from strength to strength and you spend all your time either in the Islamic world or having this absolutely ignorant domestic debate about how to cut the deficit, you're just buying time for China.
A lot of my writings are intended to serve as a wake-up call to the West. I'm not anti-West nor am I anti-American - even though many people think I am. I'm actually just telling the West that you are acting against your own long-term geopolitical and economic interests in your policies towards the rest of the world. There was a time - and it lasted only 200 years - when the West could make decisions and the rest of the world had to comply. That era is gone, finished – poof!
Now the West has got to learn to understand what the rest of the world wants and pragmatically adjust. The biggest advantage that Asian countries have over the United States and other Western countries is that they're very pragmatic and flexible and America has become ideological and dogmatic. America needs to become pragmatic and flexible too.
Unfortunately, American public intellectuals have an incestuous, self-referential and self-congratulatory discourse among themselves saying, "Aren't we the greatest in the world? Gee, aren't we wonderful?" And they don't realize that Western power - including American power - is receding steadily in the world.
Look at Southeast Asia. After theU.S.won the Cold War, (Southeast Asia) was frankly an American lake. And then suddenly Americans became very arrogant after winning the Cold War and they said, "Hey, we don't need the world; forget you."
With a slow, pragmatic and often wise approach, China is advancing steadily in the world. I admire what the Chinese have done. It's amazing how careful, deliberate, and systematic they are in their policies towards the rest of the world and how arrogant and ignorant American policies are.
If you want to learn about how to grow a country's economy right now, please don't go to Europe, don't go to America; go to Asia. Frankly, the best governed country in the world - and I can say this somewhat immodestly - is Singapore.
Or even go to China.
Let me give you a very simple example. The most shocking thing I've learned recently for someone who lived in New York for 10 and a half years is that the Tappan Zee Bridge which carries thousands of cars can only survive another 10 years. Isn't that shocking? In the meantime, while you can't hold up one bridge across one river, guess what,China is building the world's fastest trains and the world's best airports.
I've flown several times, just by chance, directly from Shanghai to JFK (airport in New York). And when you fly from Shanghai airport to JFK, you're flying from the first world to the third world. And yet Americans are not aware of how far they've fallen behind. The Americans cannot conceive of the idea that you can learn about governance from the rest of the world. China can and China does. China spends so much time studying best practices in the rest of the world and America spends no time studying best practices in the rest of the world.
So my message to America is that the clock is ticking. Time is no more on your side. And fortunately even today there are huge reservoirs of goodwill towards America in the world. Try to figure out how you can use these reservoirs of goodwill for the long-term benefit of America. Don't waste them.
Go ahead, fight it out amongst yourselves on an internet site. Meanwhile, the Chinese are learning two extra languages in the meantime.
One can only concur with the author's analysis. In particular, the issue of infrastructure is more than blatant. China is working on a comprehensive high-speed rail infrastructure in addition to upgrading airports (49) and building new ones (56) on the basis of the 2011-2015 plan. In 2015, China will be equipped with 240 modern state-of-the-art airports. By contrast, airports, roads, bridges and rail infrastructure in the US are more than outdated. Any comparison with Japan is even more embarrassing, the Japanese operate a high-speed train network (Shinkansen) since 1964 !
The issue of education is a very important too (amongst others), just look at the number of Chinese students getting degrees in US universities and vice-versa. China is growing at an impressive pace and you have to go there to realize what they have achieved in such a short time.


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If it did, Trinity Catholic would have gotten out of Darien with a stunning upset. But after the game's opening stanza, the Blue Wave would have none of it.
Darien shrugged off a seven-point, second-quarter deficit by scoring the next 42 points en route to the 56-29 victory.
"The bottom line is Trinity played well for a young team, and we did not play well. I think our kids took them lightly," Darien coach Rob Trifone said. "But they know that if they keep winning, they control their destiny for states."
Trinity took the lead with a pair of first-quarter touchdowns on a 5-yard reverse by Matt Christensen and a 23-yard connection between quarterback Johnny Somers and Connor Amann.
Darien's Nick Lombardo, who scored the game's first touchdown on a 4-yard end around, got the Blue Wave back into it when he hauled in an 82-yard touchdown straight up the middle of the field from quarterback Silas Wyper, who hit the senior receiver in stride.
Trinity's two first-half touchdowns were scored just three plays apart, the second of which was set up when Neno Merritt of the Crusaders recovered a muffed kickoff.
"I told them that I loved the effort and that I'm proud of it, but unfortunately, it's the sixth time I've said it that way," Trinity coach Don Panapada said. "We go in thinking that we're going to win. We were getting on the bus today to win the football game and for no other reason."
On Darien's ensuing possession with the score still knotted at 14-14, Lombardo put his team in front to stay when he reeled in a 45-yard touchdown pass from Wyper.
"We came out a little flat. We knew going into halftime that we had to come out flaring and just get the job done. They were feisty and they could make some plays and it showed," said Lombardo, who caught six passes for 180 yards and two touchdowns and also had a rushing touchdown. "We want to play in December and that's the goal."
With Trinity backed up on its own 8 and just under five minutes remaining in the half, Darien's Griffin Ross doubled his team's lead to 28-14 with a 22-yard interception return for a touchdown.
The competitive phase of Saturday's clash ended less than two minutes into the second half.
Passes from Wyper to Lombardo and Myles Ridder resulted in gains of 27 and 45, respectively, and put the ball at Trinity's 1-yard line. Ridder carried it in for a touchdown on the following play.
On the third play of Trinity's next possession, a blitzing Timothy Lochtefeld shot across the line for the sack, jarring the ball loose. Mark Evanchick scooped it up at the 5 and went in for the score and the 42-14 lead.
Up next for the Blue Wave (5-1, 4-1 FCIAC) is a matchup with Ridgefield on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
"With high school kids, it's hard to always put your finger on it, but there is a game with Ridgefield looming," Trifone said.
Trinity Catholic's (0-6, 0-5 FCIAC) Courtlyn Victrum had a big game with 33 carries for 260 yards and a touchdown and Amann picked off a pair of passes, but it wasn't enough to prevent a sixth straight loss.
"Our kids are no different from Greenwich or Darien; they have the same toughness," Panapada said. "There's just more of them."
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D--Nick Lombardo 4 run (Daly Hebert kick kick)
TC--Matt Christensen 5 run (Sam Ruzzi kick)
TC--Connor Amann 23 pass Johnny Somers (Ruzzi kick)
D--Nick Lombardo 82 pass Silas Wyper (Heber kick kick)
D--Lombardo 45 pass Wyper (Hebert kick)
D--Griffin Ross 22 interception return (Hebert kick)
D--Myles Ridder 1 run (Hebert kick)
D--Mark Evanchick 5 fumble return (Hebert kick)
D--Ross 21 pass Wyper (Hebert kick)
TC--Luis Gonzalez 23 pass Somers (Thomas Castigan pass Chirstensen)
D--Shelby Grant 11 pass Cooper Drippe (Hebert kick)
TC--Courtlyn Victrum 48 run (Ruzzi kick)
Records: Trinity Catholic 0-6, 0-5 FCIAC; Darien 5-1, 4-1


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Relatives wept as former Irish rugby star David Tweed was jailed for eight years for a catalogue of child sex abuse.
Tweed, 53, a father of four, blew kisses and waved to family members as he was led from the dock to begin his term behind bars at the high security Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim.
There were heated exchanges between Tweed's supporters and members of his victims' family during the hearing at Downpatrick Crown Court.
Tweed, who was capped five times for Ireland during the 1990s and played at the World Cup in South Africa, was convicted of 13 counts of abuse including indecent assault and gross indecency with a child.
The sex abuse spanned an eight-year period from 1988 while he was at the height of his rugby career and happened when the girls were aged between eight and 11 years old.
Judge Alistair Devlin described the crimes as thoroughly despicable and deeply disturbing. He said they had left a devastating legacy on both women.
Judge Devlin said: "There was not one, but two victims. Each defendant was young, innocent and particularly vulnerable because of their young age, they came to be sexually abused and exploited."
Victim impact assessments, some of which were detailed in court, disclosed that one of the girls had attempted suicide, suffered sleep disturbance and saw her marriage break down.
The judge commended the courage displayed by both victims, who took the stand and gave evidence during Tweed's two-week trial.
Judge Devlin said: "The defendant has shown and continues to show no remorse whatsoever in relation to any of these offences."
Tweed showed no emotion as the sentence was handed down. He stood in the dock flanked by two prison guards with his hands clasped tightly in front of him. At times, when details of the abuse were read out, Tweed, who consistently denied guilt, shook his head.


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You put in a disc or launch a game from the hard drive. The title screen glows in front of you, beckoning. Time to press the start button, like you've done thousands of times before. Not anymore, though. Start's gone, shown the door by both the PS4 and Xbox One.
Next-gen console hardware always brings changes. Some of them, like upgraded user interfaces or new peripherals, are expected. But it's a bit of a surprise that the button in the center-right of both the Xbox One and PS4 controllers doesn't have the word "start" underneath it anymore.
Start goes back to the arcade era, back to when your money was already accepted and all you needed to do was press a button to begin a grand adventure. And adventure is key here because the word "start" can be used as a verb. Video games are all about verbs: run, jump, shoot, dodge. Pushing start inserted you into a new skin and a new world. There's alchemy in "start."
But, now, the title screen for Xbox One exclusive Killer Instinct says 'Press Menu.' Menu? Accurate though it may be, that's not getting anybody hyped.
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"Press Any Button" is becoming more and more common now, too.
The change in terminology also reflects on how things have shifted with regard to the making and selling of video games. You're not the one starting things anymore. They've already been started for you and they run in the background without you. You're not a hero; you're a browser, an end user. Both Options and Menu evoke a list of tasks. The same games lie behind each word but without "start," they seem less exciting.
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Keith Jardine (17-9-2 MMA, 0-0-1 SF) recently announced via Twitter that he expects to compete on December's currently unannounced Strikeforce card.
No details about his contract or opponent were disclosed, and officials haven't formally announced his the booking.
As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) recently reported, the Dec. 17 card is expected to feature a lightweight title fight between champion Gilbert Melendez and Jorge Masvidal.
Jardine, who's perhaps best known for his appearance on "The Ultimate Fighter 2" and subsequent 12-fight stint in the UFC, hasn't competed since an April draw with light heavyweight Gegard Mousasi at "Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley." Jardine took the fight on late notice as a replacement for injured Mike Kyle, and his status with the organization wasn't clear after the fight.
Now, Jardine said he's heading to middleweight and has employed the services of noted nutritionist Mike Dolce to help with the drop.
The UFC released the heavy-handed Jardine in 2010 after four straight losses. He then suffered a split-decision defeat to Trevor Prangley at Shark Fights 13. Jardine, though, is undefeated in his three fights since then with wins over Francisco France and Aron Lofton in regional competition and the Strikeforce draw with Mousasi
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People who have experienced difficulties are often the best positioned to help others facing those same problems.
That goes for a child of divorce who now counsels clients with failing marriages, and also describes an advisor who has personally experienced the dangers of debt addiction.
Fort Worth financial advisor Jason Hull, a popular blogger, gets personal about his bouts of credit card binging in a post that is all the more interesting because he also had a later experience as a credit card company executive.
Hull covers familiar ground in noting there are two general approaches to paying off credit card debt.
The mathematically sound method is to pay off higher rate cards first, to arrest the negative compounding and pay a smaller total interest tab, ultimately.
There are those who take a behavioral approach, however, arguing that it's of greater value to pay off a smaller debts first in order develop a feeling of accomplishment needed to make further progress.
As a newly minted Army officer with paychecks and a couple of credit cards, Hull succumbed to the temptation to use his credit for nights on the town and other unneeded expenses that did not abate after the first time his card got declined.
Rather, he would pay off debts to give himself "breathing room," and keep on spending. That is what makes Hull suspect that there is an element of addiction involved in the experience of credit card users.
What's more, as one who worked for a credit card company after his Army career and before he became an advisor, Hull says cardholders are essentially locked in a chess game with an opponent whose goal is to encourage indebtedness (rather than, say, encourage repayment of the debt).
"The optimal customer stays right at the edge of maximum repayment capacity," Hull writes. "That's why there are minimum payment amounts – to anchor you."
Working with the insight that addictive behavior is involved, Hull explains that it is likely that the card user knows and wants to stop spending but continually falls off the wagon in the same way the chemically addicted do: through reuse of the card (just like re-use of a drug just fuels the habit, which is why rehab centers prevent a person from gaining access to the drug). He cites other factors such as stress that might induce spending to relax just as perhaps one might smoke a cigarette to relax.
If addictive behavior is at play, then neither the mathematical nor standard behavioral approaches may be addressing the real problem nor provide the best solution.
Rather, Hull suggests a credit user cut off the source of the addiction — by canceling the card after paying it off. While this would negatively impact the user's credit, it will give him the time he needs for rehab and save money over the long term since failure to do so may induce the user back onto credit.
It may also be necessary to stage an "intervention," where somebody else assumes the user's spending authority — the equivalent, he says, of an addict checking into a Betty Ford clinic.
Hull also offers a more esoteric idea wherein a credit card is programmed to allow expenditures on necessities while denying authorization for flat-screen TVs.
The financial advisor says he does not "blame the credit card companies," and faults himself for his bad personal decisions in his youth. His focus is strictly on individuals' use of credit cards.
But in a period where Americans are still dealing with the after-effects of a global financial crisis brought about by the massive abuse of credit, it is worth pondering how public policy might further refine how consumers — and large financial institutions as well — access and use credit.
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Puyallup Fair says job applicants overwhelming
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Officials at the Puyallup Fair say 4,000 people came out on Wednesday to sign up for temporary jobs at the event, and many were turned away and asked to come back again. That number of job seekers was 3,500 more than officials had ever experienced on the first day of hiring of the fair.
On Thursday, the first 600 people in line will be given numbers and others will be asked to come back on Friday and Monday.
"Due to the inability to process that many applicants in one day, many of those people who showed up were asked to return tomorrow," Fair officials said in a statement.
They said they cut off the line at a place where WorkSource Employment Office staffers could process those applicants.
Fair officials said they're looking to fill 3,000 jobs for the fair set for Sept. 11-27, with wages starting at the state's minimum wage of $8.55 an hour. Some jobs pay more than that, officials said, depending on duties and skills required.
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This poster claims he got this information from BBC America, I can't find it, so pinch of salt time, BUT they are probably about right. They are of course BBC America transmission dates, but the UK and US are supposed to be on the same day (unless the USA has another holiday lol :) )
Torchwood Miracle Day will end at the end of August or beginning of September...
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September 10, 2011 - What Are Little Boys Made Of?
September 12, 2011 - The Green Anchor
September 24, 2011 - The God Complex
October 01, 2011 - Season Finale part 1
October 08, 2011 - Season Finale part 2 (ALL titles TBC of course)
(one isn't weekly though, 10th then 12th, is 12th meant to be 17th, probably is for the UK?)
October will see the Sarah Jane Adventures final episodes.
Then Christmas Day for the Doctor Who special.
And of course there are the Confidentials etc.
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The $100 Canon Selphy CP740 is an entry-level compact photo printer whose limited onboard feature set reflects its relative position among dedicated 4x6 photo printers. Still, we liked the quality of the prints and the printer's ease of use. If you're looking for a dedicated snapshot printer and you're on a budget, this is a good choice. But if you want more features and are willing to pay for them, check out the Epson PictureMate Snap.
The Selphy CP740 is indeed compact and can be easily slipped into a tote bag or large purse. It measures 7 inches wide, 2.5 inches tall, and 5 inches deep. It weighs 2.1 pounds without the ink installed, paper cassette attached, or power brick plugged in; with all of the necessary accoutrements, it gets a bit heavier.
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On the printer's left edge are two USB ports, one for connecting the printer to a PC and another for connecting a PictBridge device (an alternative to the front-mounted mini-USB port). On the right edge is a door that conceals the ink cassette.
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Building a Family: Past, Present, and Future of the Cat & Fiddle Pub
I went to the Cat and Fiddle as a patron for the first time ten years ago, during the first days I lived here. I was an outsider moving into the big city, but at the Cat and Fiddle, I felt like an insider. Jess, my best friend from college, was a native of L.A. During one summer break, we had stayed in L.A. and spent much of the summer hanging out with her childhood friends. I found her friends fascinating -- they were so cosmopolitan, so mature, so effortlessly chic. The most interesting to me were the twins, Ashlee and Camille Gardner. Ashlee, with her fringed bangs and vintage car, was particularly captivating. She was so cool, but her coolness didn't stop her from being incredibly engaging and warm. I knew the girls' family owned a pub in Hollywood and that their dad, Kim, had recently passed away. I think one time we even dropped in on Ashlee at the pub on a sleepy late afternoon. But it wasn't until I graduated from college and moved permanently to Los Angeles that I experienced the Cat and Fiddle in all its congenial glory.
I stood in the packed Spanish style courtyard late one night with a group of equally eager new friends, who had all come from other places to make some sort of artistic dream come true. A couple of drinks in, I was eager to tell everyone that I knew the owners, but I quickly realized it didn't matter. At the Cat and Fiddle, everyone belonged. Everyone was family. Everywhere there were groups from different parts of the globe laughing and talking, hoisting a pint in the air, getting a little rowdy.
Over the years, I would occasionally return to the Cat and Fiddle, and always feel at home. When it was announced that the Cat had been forced out of its lease and would be closing its current location on December 15, I got invitations from no fewer than three very different groups of friends, all arranging one last meet up at their favorite haunt. Rich rockers, poor hipsters, intellectuals, artists, preps, and jocks all considered it to be a very important place in their lives. A week ago, I visited this incarnation of the Cat and Fiddle for the last time. My friends and I laughed and hugged and even sang a song or two. It was a very good night.
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Kim Gardner was born in Dulwitch, England, in 1948. He grew up with his mother and grandparents. In his early teens, Kim moved to West Drayton, England. It was here that the good-natured, gregarious Kim met up with Ronnie Wood, a neighborhood boy who would become a legendary member of the Rolling Stones. They began jamming together and would become lifelong friends and early collaborators. Kim soon dropped out of school and took to the road in a van, playing in pubs all over England and Germany. Over the next few years, he played bass in a series of highly influential rock and roll bands, including the Birds, the Creation, and Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, whose single "Resurrection Shuffle" was a hit on the European charts in 1971.
Kim's life changed forever in 1973, while he was in New Orleans recording and touring with Jackie Lomax, the first artist signed to Apple Records, the Beatles' music label. He was hanging out in a bar on Bourbon Street when he met Paula, the owner of a vintage clothing store in the French Quarter called "The Cocky Fox." "It was a really good bar,"( L.A. Times Cat & Fiddle Is a Pub's Pub With a Kicked-Back Feel June 26, 1996) Paula remembers. Kim soon came to Los Angeles on a record contract, and Paula came to visit him. She never left. Instead, she and Kim began to build a life together (their first daughter, Eva, was born in 1979). Kim continued to tour and to work as a sought after session musician. Business-savvy Paula opened Lily Bleu, a successful shoe store in Santa Monica. In their downtime, they would hang out in bars and pubs with Kim's many famous friends. Eventually, Kim decided to stop patronizing pubs and start one himself. According to his daughter Ashlee:
The first Cat and Fiddle opened at 2100 Laurel Canyon Boulevard in October 1982, two weeks before the birth of twins Ashlee and Camille. After Kim realized he had bit off more than he could chew with his new venture, Paula closed her shoe store to help manage the pub. This led to a long running joke between Paula and Kim. "When Dad was being silly and Mom was upset about something in the restaurant, he always said, "Well, I gave you a job, didn't I?" Ashlee remembers her Mom would reply, "I had a job, and one that I liked very much!"
The pub, which featured a full bar and traditional English fare, soon attracted many British expats, as well as the couple's friends from the world of music and fashion. The pub was so successful that it led to its downfall. Neighbors began to complain of late nights filled with drunk shouting and motorcycles revving. In 1984, vengeful Canyon residents found the site had never been zoned for a bar, and the Cat and Fiddle was forced to find a new home. A Los Angeles Times profile from the time reported:
Kim soon found a new place to do business. It was an indoor-outdoor space in a two-story Spanish-style shopping complex at 6530 Sunset Boulevard. Built in 1927 by cowboy star Fred Thomson (husband of famed screenwriter Francis Marion), it had been billed as the first step in making Sunset Boulevard equal to the famed Rue de la Paix in Paris. Over the years, it had been home to popular restaurants like Le Gourmet, Mouling, and Sunset Gardens. Kim was instantly smitten, particularly with the garden-like patio, shaded by palms, eucalyptus, and enhanced by a small gurgling fountain:
The fun had only just begun.
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The Gardner family soon settled into a comfortable routine. Paula ran the pub during the day, taking care of the paperwork and payroll. Kim held court at night. The three girls grew up at Cat and Fiddle and other pubs the family frequented on their many trips around the world. Ashlee remembers secretly playing slot machines, and playing with the children of John Entwistle and Ronnie Wood while their parents relaxed and shared a pint. In their high school years, the girls spent many afternoons doing homework at the bar and hanging out with regulars, like those they called Uncle Skip and Uncle George. Employees, like manager Christie Scarafia, became part of the Gardners' extended family. She remembers, "As a 24 year old moving to L.A. and away from my Midwest small-town, the Cat and Fiddle became my home ... Four separate times over the past 21 years I would leave and the Gardners would always welcome me back. I have always loved the diversity of the clientele, from the rockers to the families with their kids, and of course, the famous and almost famous."
This family feeling extended to the pub's many famous patrons, who were able to relax at the Cat and Fiddle. One night found Kim and Eric Clapton playing darts. Always the showman, Kim turned around backwards to throw his last dart and got a bulls eye, winning the game. Rod Stewart would arrive with his entire soccer team in tow. Drew Barrymore and Christopher Lloyd were there all the time. It seems every popular British band that came through Los Angeles stopped in at the Cat, whose menu of bangers and mash, kidney pie, and plowman's lunch reminded them of home. But besides a weekly jazz brunch, an open mic night, and special events, Kim made the decision that the pub would not be a music club. "Then people come by based on who you've got performing that night," he explained. "So instead, I've made this a place to get away from all the music clubs." 5
Kim was the sun around which life at the Cat revolved. "My favorite stories are mostly of Kim," Scarafia says. "He would wander around reciting limericks, sipping a pint with the lads, and just looking to have a laugh with anyone who would join in. If the night wasn't lively enough, he'd get up on the bar and tell a joke or do a little jig with a funny hat -- just get everyone riled up!" At the Sunday jazz brunch he'd sit in as the 'mystery bassist' and jam to Miles Davis' "All Blues."
"Dad was nocturnal," Ashlee says, "so he used to invite regulars, friends, or homeless people walking around our front gates inside for a pint. He would hang out with anyone that would listen to him and his stories."
After Kim died of cancer in 2001, the homeless folks he befriended would occasionally still come in, looking for their non-judgmental friend. Eva was now on her way to being a very successful touring musician, and the only woman honored with her own Fender signature bass. Camille and Ashlee were in college. In 2005, Ashlee became a full-time employee at Cat and Fiddle. Shortly thereafter, she became a partner with Paula. But Kim's spirit lived on. Many years later, Ashlee talked to Sir Paul McCartney and his wife, as they sipped coffee on a bench in the courtyard, before a show down the street. He was one among many who had known Kim back in the day.
The Torch is Passed (Resurrection Shuffle)
Life at the Cat and Fiddle eventually moved on. Ashlee was perfectly suited in her role as the friendly face of the Cat and Fiddle, graduating from USC in business/entrepreneurship and having spent much of her life working in and patronizing pubs of all sorts. Weekly trivia nights, movie nights, soccer viewing parties, and special music events drew new clientele. The 2000s also saw a new group of celebrity regulars, including Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant from Reno 911. Morrissey is another regular. He recently spent the night rocking out with Noel Gallagher in a corner, as Russell Brand chatted with customers at the bar, drinking an iced soy latte. The collegial, fun spirit of the pub is as strong as ever. Longtime customer and family friend Jamie Rarrick remembers:
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It is fitting that the pub that was the result of Paula and Kim's love story has been the site of so many more. Longtime employee Christie Scarafia met her husband, Rob, at the pub over 15 years ago. Steve and Stacy were aspiring actors and servers who fell in love while working their shifts. Erin was a bartender who was pursued for months by Jake, a patron, until she finally relented (they now have twins). Melanie was a server who met her future husband, Charles, the CEO of a neighboring company, Creative Asylum, through the window on the famed patio. Most recently, Kim, a server, met and married Matt, a director at Creative Asylum. "During this difficult time," Ashlee says, "Mom and I constantly are touched by all the stories and marriages and babies that come from this special location."
This fall, the gentrification of Hollywood finally caught up with the Cat and Fiddle. After their landlords refused to renegotiate their lease, the blogosphere was in an uproar. Protest petitions were started, Facebook pages were formed, and the Cat and Fiddle experienced a huge increase in sales. As always, the Cat and Fiddle staff has stuck together. "All of them are doing such a great job right now with the huge increase in business with the announcement of our closing," Ashlee says. "They are pulling doubles and pitching in wherever they can. I keep hearing from them and have gotten text messages saying: 'We are staying till the end cause we are a family and we stick together.' What a crew."
The Gardners plan to open the Cat and Fiddle in a new location. No doubt, their many loyal customers and staff will follow them, wherever they go. The Cat and Fiddle remains a decidedly family affair. "My twin sister, Camille, will be brought in as a partner in the new location, along with Mom and my fiancé, Justin Raisen," Ashlee explains. "He is a producer and songwriter for today's top up and coming musicians, and some already successful artists will also be involved. The new generation is here to move the Cat and Fiddle forward, and we're ready for it!"
Special thanks to Ashlee and Paula Gardner and the employees of the Cat and Fiddle.
Photos courtesy of The Cat & Fiddle/Facebook, unless otherwise noted.
1 "Oh to sink a pint and sling some arrows" Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1988
2 "City oversight will force pub to close" Los Angeles Times, November 8, 1984
3 "Pub ambience on a patio" Los Angeles Times, July 23, 1989
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
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