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Here is an experiment I've been working on. It draws shapes inspired by Islamic geometric principles.
Here are some parameters I like:21/22/150/20/112/9/140/5/2
If you find any other cool ones let me know.
Thank you E
You can place the code within a jQuery callback to get started, but the spinner isn't required when good coding is used.
With 25 I've turned this from taking 1.5 seconds to taking only 4 milliseconds, which is nearly well over 350 times faster.The main thing that I did to improve on this is to remove the coords to string conversion, and remove as many global variables as possible.
I've also used objects to contain the x/y coords, which while they don't provide much speed benefit, result in easier to read code.
Here's the line_exists function from before:
function line_exists(coord1,coord2,subdivided_output) {
coord1=coord1[0]+' '+coord1[1];
coord2=coord2[0]+' '+coord2[1];
new_cords=coord1+' '+coord2;
new_cords_alt=coord2+' '+coord1;
for (iii = 0; iii < subdivided_output.length; iii++) {
sub_coord1=subdivided_output[iii][0][0]+' '+subdivided_output[iii][0][1];
sub_coord2=subdivided_output[iii][1][0]+' '+subdivided_output[iii][1][1];
old_coord=sub_coord1+' '+sub_coord2;
if(old_coord==new_cords || old_coord==new_cords_alt ) {
//$('#data').append(''+old_coord+" :: "+new_cords+"
");
return true;
else {
//$('#data').append(counter+' ::: '+old_coord+" :: "+new_cords+'
' );
//$('#data').append(old_coord+" :: "+new_cords+'
' );
return false;
and the line_exists function after the changes
function line_exists(lineFrom, lineTo, subdivided_output) {
var i,
for (i = 0; i < subdivided_output.length; i += 1) {
from = subdivided_output[i].from;
to = subdivided_output[i].to;
sameStart = (from.x === lineFrom.x && from.y === lineFrom.y);
sameEnd = (to.x === lineTo.x && to.y === lineTo.y);
switchedStart = (from.x === lineTo.x && from.y === lineTo.y);
switchedEnd = (to.x === lineFrom.x && to.y === lineFrom.y);
if (sameStart && sameEnd || switchedStart && switchedEnd) {
return true;
return false;
Another example of improvement in terms of performance is in the subdivide function. Before it was looping through all lines and then using modulus with skip:
for (ii = 0; ii < output.length; ii++) {
if([b]ii%skip==0[/b] && output[i] != output[ii] && line_exists(output[i],output[ii], subdivided_output)==false){
So with a skip of 4, that is similar to this:0. ii % skip = 0 so use this1. ii % skip = 1 so don't use this2. ii % skip = 2 so don't use this3. ii % skip = 3 so don't use this4. ii % skip = 0 so use this5. ii % skip = 1 so don't use this6. ii % skip = 2 so don't use this7. ii % skip = 3 so don't use this8. ii % skip = 0 so use this
The updated code doesn't need that check, because it just loops by the skip amount:
for (to = 0; to < output.length; to += skip) {
if (output[from] !== output[to] && !line_exists(output[from], output[to], subdivided_output)) {
So with a skip of 4, that is similar to this:0. use this4. use this8. use this
The improved speed also means that most of your size constraints shouldn't be required now.
The working code is up at http://jsfiddle.net/pmw57/kJVjR/2/Put in sides of 25, or 40, and you'll find that there is now an instantaneous response time.
Very Awesome! You've given me a lot to chew on. I'll go through and review it until I understand all of it. I've been wanting to add sliders it sounds like with this information it will be practical.
The steps that I took to achieve that are:
Thanks for these tips. I don't understand some of this syntax. Could you explain a few things?
In the section below, what does the '.from' do?
from = subdivided_output[i].from;
In this section, how is "===" diferent from "==" and how are x and y defined?
sameStart = (from.x === lineFrom.x && from.y === lineFrom.y);
Many thanks
To clarify, the "from =" is a completely different "from" than the one used in ".from" at the end.One is a named variable, while the other is an object property.
Previously, push was being used to add items to the subdivided_output array:
Using the push method with only one item tends to be slower than other techniques, so to squeeze more performance out of this section, we can use the array length to add the item to the end of that array.It's also preferable to use [arrayItem] instead of new Array(arrayItem) too.I also renamed the for loops to make it clear what they are referring to.
subdivided_output[subdivided_output.length] = [output[from],output[to]];
Later on, we had lots of different array index being used:
sub_coord1=subdivided_output[iii][0][0] + ...
So make things nice and clear, we can store the array items as named objects instead.
subdivided_output[subdivided_output.length] = {'from': output[from], 'to': output[to]};
Those output items are also objects, which we'll get in to below, so code to access the subdivided_output values can now be:
sub_coord1=subdivided_output[iii]['from']['x'] + ...
Which can also be done without the array notation, as:
sub_coord1=subdivided_output[iii].from.x + ...
Using ['from'] or .from, those are not array variables. They are just ways to access object properties.
That line of code might be easier to understand if the variables are adjusted slightly, so that instead of using from/to to store the coord, we use start/end instead.That way we would have code like this:
start = subdivided_output[i].from;
The triple equals is used to ensure that both side really are equal.The double equal allows far too many strange cases to slip through, and programmers are almost certainly not aware of all variations, so it's best advised to stay away from using the double equals.Some of this is explained in articles such as [The pleasures and perils of JavaScript's promiscuous comparison operator or in slides like [url="http://www.powershow.com/view/a6800-ZWEzM/JavaScript_The_Good_Parts_Part_Two_A_Survey_of_the_Language_flash_ppt_presentation"]The Good Parts Part Two (slides 31 & 32) which you can also see explained in good detail in [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook&feature=player_detailpage#t=899s"]JavaScript: The Good Parts [from 14:59]](http://blog.founddrama.net/2011/02/promiscuous-comparison-operator/) (video)
x and y are defined in the shape function. They used to be array items, such as:
points=new Array(x,y);
which is the same as doing:
output[i] = [x, y];
however, storing them as array items results in needing to use [0] and [1] to access their values, and they are actually different types of values, so it makes better sense and is easier to read when we store and access them as x and y properties instead.
output[i] = {
x: Math.round(size * (1 + Math.cos(angle))),
y: Math.round(size * (1 + Math.sin(angle)))
It also means that what used to be this:
function shape(sides, size){
output=new Array;
for (i = 0; i < (sides+1); i++) {
x= size * Math.cos(2 * Math.PI * i / sides);
y=size * Math.sin(2 * Math.PI * i / sides);
x= x+size;
y= y+size;
points=new Array(x,y);
return output;
is now easier to understand as:
function shape(sides, size) {
Math.TAU = Math.PI * 2;
var output = [],
slices = Math.TAU / sides,
for (i = 0; i <= sides; i += 1) {
angle = slices * i;
output[i] = {
x: Math.round(size * (1 + Math.cos(angle))),
y: Math.round(size * (1 + Math.sin(angle)))
return output;
Paul,Thanks for all this information.You've given me a lot to work with.I really appreciate this.E


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I have a weber performer kettle grill in which i use lump charcoal. Should I sear my meats and poultry with the lid on or off. I realize to use te lid when cooking longer cuts of meats, but i like my steks rare and tend to overcook them with the lid on
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Pronunciation: twêrp • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: An insignificant, annoying person.
Notes: Today's odd little word is a lexical orphan without any related derivations. Of course, we are free to add the suffix -y and create an adjective, twerpy, which opens the way for a noun twerpiness. The adjective already appears 23,200 times on the Web and the noun, about 2460 times.
In Play: Young siblings often perceive each other as twerps: "Mom, will you speak to Winthrop! The little twerp rode my bike to the playground and got mud all over it!" But twerpiness is not bound by size or age, for it is, after all, in the eye of the beholder: "The little twerp in accounting took me to a hamburger joint for dinner last night; I'll never go out with him again!"
Word History: Today's Good Word remains of uncertain origin but it might have originated in the name of a student at Exeter College, Oxford, around the turn of the 20th century. According to a letter from J. R. R. Tolkien published in 1981, the original twerp was T. W. Earp, an acquaintance of Tolkien, who ". . . lived in O[xford] at the time when we lived in Pusey Street (rooming with Walton, the composer)." Whether Tolkien was writing tongue in cheek or not is difficult to discern; however, Roy Campbell in his book Portugal (1957) makes the same claim. Earp matriculated in the Michaelmas Term, 1911. The first known published example of the word appeared in 1925, fitting the time frame established by Tolkien and Campbell very nicely. T. W. Earp was a poet and translator, not one of the gunfighters at the OK Corral.


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WINTER PARK, Fla.—Saint Leo junior guard Teresa Manigrasso has been named Sunshine State Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week presented by VALIC.
Manigrasso, a native of Atlantic Highlands, N.J., averaged 16.0 points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 3.0 steals in a pair of big Sunshine State Conference wins for the Lions. In a 53-47 victory at Eckerd, Manigrasso tallied 14 points, four rebounds, three assists, and three steals. Her stat line was nearly identical in a 52-48 win over Rollins, as she registered 18 points, four rebounds, three assists, and three steals. The Lions' victory was their first over the Tars since the 1997-98 season. In two outings, Manigrasso shot 45 percent (13-for-29) from the field and made all four of her free throw attempts.
The Lions have won two in a row and three out of their last four as they are exactly half way through conference play. The team will get back at it on Saturday, Feb. 2 when they travel to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. to take on Nova Southeastern.
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Mushkin PC3200 2-2-2 Special: Last of a Legendby Wesley Fink on 4/4/2004 8:00 PM EST
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MIDIman - Thursday, April 08, 2004 - linkConfused about the last chart concerning highest speeds. Anandtech mentions that the Mushkin did extremely well, but its pretty much the lowest of the group on all of the charts.
I've been looking at costs via pricewatch, and something in the middle, like Geil's 4000, is looking very attractive when you put cost into the table. Reply
Praeludium - Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - linkThe only reason you're going to be paying attention to the 'last chance!' warnings is if you're planning on building a Nostalgia System from the year 2004. Maybe put this special RAM in with that Voodoo 6 that sold on Ebay a few months back, and it'll be a great hodgepodge of anachronisms and sought-after parts! Reply
pgx - Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - link"it is your last chance to buy them", "Mushkin Special is your last opportunity", etc seemed stressed enough(how many times were thoughts like that mentioned?)... i mean if mushkin has a stash of old winbond chips who's to say no one else does? this review just gave me a weird vibe. sure the performance is great but the cost is really high and with ddr2 right around the corner who knows what is going to happen. Reply
retrospooty - Monday, April 05, 2004 - linkIF Twinmos is getting out of the DRAM business, why did they just release a bunch of new DDR2 chips including DDR2 667 ?
They stopped the bh-5's because it was expensive as hell to produce, not enough profit margin. Reply
TrogdorJW - Monday, April 05, 2004 - linkI think you showed a performance comparison once using 5:4 ratio for overclocking, and the performance was actually quite high. Can you do a roundup at some point showing highest overclocks using 1:1 *or* 5:4 - basically show a breakdown of how the two options end up performing with a variety of memory? Also, is that sort of overclocking (5:4 ratio) an option with Athlon 64 systems at all? Is it even beneficial in the Athlon 64 world? I'm guessing no, but would like your input on the matter. Reply
KristopherKubicki - Monday, April 05, 2004 - linkWinbond is getting out of DRAM. There will be no more BH5s all though there are some reservesof them here and there. Mushkin had one of the larger reserves if i remember.
Kristopher Reply
Pumpkinierre - Monday, April 05, 2004 - linkI thought they were producing BH5s again.
Wesley Fink - Sunday, April 04, 2004 - link#1 -
I haven't a clue how it happened, but the chart is now fixed. The extra line is removed. Reply
l3ored - Sunday, April 04, 2004 - linki think your numbers are screwed up for the 2-2-2 special overclocking, you have 400ddr speeds at 2-3-3-6 or something and 500 ddr at 2-2-2-5
an unrelated question: why did they discontinue the bh-5 and 6 chips? Reply


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Two Orange County teachers who violated state rules for administering standardized tests in spring 2012 were responsible for the invalidation of their schools' Academic Performance Index scores and were disciplined, according to district records.
Carolyn Lambert, a former fifth-grade teacher at Garden Grove's Peters Elementary School, and Leslie Michihira, a second-grade teacher at Westminster's Willmore Elementary, were found to have given their students a competitive advantage when they administered the Standardized Testing and Reporting exams, according to disciplinary records released in response to a Register information request.
The state does not assign API scores to schools in which more than 5 percent of students are exposed to an "adult irregularity" during testing.
Lambert and Michihira did not return messages left for them at their schools.
Three other O.C. schools have had their API scores invalidated over the past decade – Tustin's Barbara Benson Elementary in 2010, Newport Beach's Newport Elementary in 2007 and Orange's Richland Continuation High in 2004.
Lambert asked her students at least three science questions directly from a testing booklet in the days leading up to the exam's administration, according to Garden Grove Unified School District records.
The impropriety was discovered on a day Lambert was absent, when Lambert's substitute attempted to find her lesson plans, according to the district's investigative summary. Another teacher who was asked to assist the substitute saw sticky notes affixed inside an actual exam booklet that had yet to be administered.
"I asked (the students who found the booklet) if this was what they used on Friday, and they both said yes," the teacher said in a written district statement. "I immediately went back to Room 95 and told (Lambert's substitute) that he could not use any questions from the test booklet and that I would try to help him find an alternative."
Lambert, a Garden Grove Unified teacher for 22 years, received a 15-day unpaid suspension June 1-21, according to district records. The district also confirmed to the Register that she was transferred to another school in the district, Skylark Elementary in Garden Grove, and assigned to teach a grade level that does not take STAR tests.
Lambert also was reported to the state Commission on Teacher Credentialing, although the district wrote a letter asking that she be allowed to keep her teaching license. Lambert holds a valid credential.
"She has had outstanding evaluations on her performance and has been an excellent employee," Joli Armitage, Garden Grove Unified's assistant superintendent for personnel services, wrote in the Oct. 26 letter. "It is our strong belief that Carolyn made a mistake for which she has paid the consequences."
During language-arts testing at Willmore, Michihira read multiple passages and questions out loud to her students, providing a leg-up on an exam that was designed to test, in part, students' reading-comprehension skills.
Michihira admitted to Westminster School District officials that she had read one passage out loud, according to records.
"Your failure to follow these state laws and regulations not only brought into question the accuracy of your students' test data," Principal Robert McKane wrote in Michihira's reprimand letter, "but has also resulted in the invalidation of Willmore School's Academic Performance Index score for 2012, and has rendered Willmore ineligible for state and federal awards programs, such as Blue Ribbon Schools and California Distinguished Schools Program for the 2012-13 school year."
Westminster district officials also reported that Michihira had improperly reviewed with her class a previous day's test that a substitute teacher had administered. Students, however, were not allowed to change their answers after the review, officials said.
In her reprimand letter, Michihira, who remains employed at Willmore, was barred from administering state exams and district benchmark exams. She was instructed, though, to remain in her classroom during testing so a proctor could "demonstrate proper administration" to her.
Michihira has been working in the Westminster district since 1996, according to district records.
The school districts reported the testing irregularities to the state in May.
Peters reported that 97 of the 857 students tested were affected. Willmore reported that 22 of the 263 students tested were affected.
Students at the affected schools, however, still received individual score reports, and the schools received raw test scores.
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PHILADELPHIA - The Ivy League has announced its weekly honors in women's soccer, and University of Pennsylvania senior forward Kerry Scalora has been named the Ivy League Player of the Week.
Scalora was named to the award after scoring the only goal in Penn's 1-0 Ivy League win over Cornell on Friday night. The goal came on a penalty kick, and was her fourth this season which ties her for the team lead in that category. She also has three assists for a team-leading 11 points.
This is Scalora's first weekly honor of the 2013 season. She was a first-team All-Ivy pick a year ago, and the 2010 Ivy League and ECAC Rookie of the Year.
Penn is 6-1-3 overall heading into this weekend, when the Quakers are at Columbia (Saturday) and Navy (Monday).


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The Chiefs might be the NFL's version of a family sedan. Practical. Efficient. Responsible. Occasionally boring. Still, Kansas City enters the playoffs as the NFL's hottest team, ripping off 10 straight following a 1-5 start, and the one early win was a season-opening 27-20 victory at Houston.
The Chiefs take care of the ball (they are plus-16 in turnover margin during their current run) and keep opponents out of the end zone. It's a formula as basic as coach Andy Reid's game-day demeanor, yet a style that has arguably made Kansas City the least-flawed team in an AFC where weaknesses abound.
The Texans have plenty of them. They captured the AFC South crown by being the best of a mediocre bunch. J.J. Watt did J.J. Watt things, finishing with a league-high 17 1/2 sacks while turning each celebration into a dance-off. Coach Bill O'Brien made an offense that couldn't seem to keep a quarterback healthy work anyway. The merry-go-round has come full circle, with Brian Hoyer back in control of the huddle as Houston seeks to improve to 3-0 in the wild-card round.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The wrong-way driver in a deadly crash that killed three sorority sisters on Interstate 75 in Ohio had medical issues and was not a drinker, her daughter told authorities in state patrol records released Friday.
Charmaine Lein did not offer details about her mother's health problems, but a witness to the crash said the wrong-way driver was going at least 75 mph and never swerved to miss cars, the records said.
"I was going 75 mph and she was pulling away from me," Volker Kock, a Canadian military medic who kept up with the driver on the other side of the interstate for several miles before the crash, told investigators in a statement.
The State Highway Patrol said Winifred Lein, 69, was driving south in the northbound lanes of Interstate 75 when she crashed head-on into a car of Bowling Green State University sorority members on their way to a spring break trip. The crash killed Lein and three of the students and seriously wounded two others.
A second car of Bowling Green students caravanning with their sorority sisters and driving two to three car lengths ahead swerved in time to miss Lein, according to the records released Friday.
Kock, of Borden, Ontario, told investigators that as Lein drove, several trucks flashed their lights at her. He declined to comment Friday, referring questions to a military spokeswoman who said she would pass questions along to Kock by email.
Video of the crash released this week shows Kock arriving at the crash scene shortly after a state trooper and working with them to put out a fire in the students' car and try to free the survivors.
Lein had left work less than 30 minutes before police received the first 911 call about the car, the patrol said.
The patrol's Bowling Green post also said it's still investigating where Lein got on Interstate 75 and how fast she was going.
The post said Lein, of Perrysburg, checked into her job at Toledo's Jeep plant at 5:52 p.m. on March 1 and left the plant at 1:47 a.m. the following day.
The Jeep highway exit is at mile marker 205, or 19 miles from the mile marker where a trooper spotted the car just seconds before the crash. That leaves just 10 minutes of Lein's time unaccounted for, said Lt. D.W. Laubacher of the Bowling Green post.
The patrol says no businesses around I-75 said they saw Lein before the crash.
"The question is, what happened between the time she pulled out and the time the crash happened," Laubacher said.
A security guard who checked Lein out of the Jeep plant told the patrol she seemed fine as she left.
The first 911 call about a wrong-way driver came at 2:14 a.m., two minutes before a trooper spied the car on the highway, which was just seconds before the crash.
Video of the dashboard camera in trooper P.R. Mohre's car shows the officer switching lanes to avoid the on-coming car, then turning around to chase Lein's car.
The patrol continues to investigate where Lein got on the highway.
Lein's car struck a car carrying five Alpha Xi Delta members as they caravanned with other sorority sisters in separate cars to the Detroit airport for a trip to a Dominican Republic resort.
Students killed in the crash were Sarah Hammond, 21, of Yellow Springs; Rebekah Blakkolb, 20, of Aurora; and Christina Goyett, 19, of Bay City, Mich.
Two other students were seriously injured.


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Something must be in the air ! There are several great videos just posted up on Adobe TV discussing OSMF. To start, we have a series of short videos done by David Hassoun to cover the material he created for the REOPS player and his great white papers (posted here, for those of you with short memories).
Episode 1 – David does an overview of OSMF, and how he used it with MobileRider
Episode 2 – David goes over the creation of a little video player project
Episode 3 – David works with the great skins provided by Juan Sanchez
In addition to all these videos, Nick Hippe, one of Adobe's talented solutions engineers, did a terrifc 1/2 hour long presentation at NAB this week, giving an overview of OSMF, some demos, and a links to additional information.
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They may be made of plastic but, at many vending machines, the new $20 bills might bounce like they're made of rubber.
Businesses that own the vending machines that dispense change or goods, as well as the ones at self-checkout kiosks, say many of them won't accept the new bill until they have been reprogrammed or replaced.
"At times it seems this is an ongoing project — if it's not a bill it's a coin," Jim Jackson of Quality Vending and Coffee in Winnipeg, said on Monday.
"We started reprogramming our bill acceptors when the new $20 bill came out, but then the (federal government) released a change to the bill with the Queen's chin in a different position. Now we are out reprogramming what we had already done and reprogramming the other ones.
"A lot of people have been affected by the changes... it's an inconvenience for the consumer."
The government put out the new polymer bills in November because they last longer than the former paper-cotton ones and more anti-counterfeiting things could be incorporated into them.
So far more than 145 million new $20 bills have been put into circulation and the Bank of Canada is planning to similarly replace the $5 and $10 bills later this year.
Sabbir Kabir, a spokesman for the Canadian National Vending Alliance, said the federal government announced midway last month it was slightly modifying the bills, forcing some vending machine companies to begin reprogramming the machines a second time.
"It's expensive to do it," Kabir said.
"It involves time, mileage, and a programmer."
John Graham, a Canada Safeway spokesman, said the company is in the process of reprogramming its self-checkout machines to accept the new $20 bill.
"Upgrading is scheduled to begin this week and will be completed across Canada by the end of the month," Graham said.
Jackson said with the newer machines all that's needed is to reprogram the software, but older machines either have to have parts replaced or the machines need to be completely replaced.
"And with the new $5 and $10 bills, we'll have to do it all over again later this year," he said.


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Sex Offender Management Fellowship Program-Specific Information The SMART Office will be funding two fellowship positions. One will focus on sexual violence prevention and education programming, and the other will focus on sex offender management programs in Indian Country, with an emphasis on the availability and nature of juvenile and adult sex offender treatment and re-entry services in Indian Country. The goal of these fellowships will be to work on multi-disciplinary issues across the various program offices in the Office of Justice Programs (Office of Victims of Crime, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the National Institute of Justice, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics) as well as with the Office on Violence Against Women and other federal partners, to explore and build a foundation for integrating effective prevention and education programming into sex offender management practices and policies, and to determine the current state of sex offender management programming in Indian Country, including the availability and nature of juvenile and adult sex offender treatment and re-entry services for tribal communities. These fellowship positions will be expected to coordinate with the SMART Office staff and other DOJ/OJP offices.
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SWINDON Town midfielder Massimo Luongo is edging closer to fulfilling his dream of playing at the World Cup as he prepares to travel to Brazil as part of Australia's 27-man preliminary squad.
The former Tottenham man was part of the Socceroos' original squad of 30 players but didn't see any game time during his country's clash with South Africa earlier this week.
Australia boss Ange Postecoglou has now cut three players from that squad as the team prepare to travel to Brazil, with Luongo maintaining his place.
Four more players will be cut from the squad when Postecoglou names his final party for the tournament on June 2.
Asked if he had a final squad in mind, Postecoglou said: "It's nice to work in definitive measures but the reality of football is that every day things change.
"We had a starting line up in our head all week but had to change it four or five times...that's still going to be the case right up until we play Croatia.
"You just don't know how the players are going to cope with all that. To say I have 23 in my mind I don't.
"It's up to the remaining 27 players to realise how quickly the opportunity they now have in front of them can evaporate."


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Dakar Rally should come home: N'DourDakar
Published: January 10 2013 - 7:51AM
Singer and Senegalese Tourism Minister Youssou N'Dour believes it is time for the Dakar Rally, held in South America over the past five years, to come home to Senegal.
The past five editions of the race, currently under way in Peru, have been held outside Senegal owing to security fears but N'Dour says it should "resume its route" back in Africa or else change its name, a source close to him told AFP.
"For Youssou N'Dour, there is no question of the rally continuing to retain the Dakar name and yet not run in Africa. Either the race resumes in Africa - or it drops the Dakar name," Charles Faye, N'Dour's communications officer, said.
"Youssou N'Dour cannot accept the rally retaining the kudos of the Dakar name and yet not come (back) to Africa," said Faye.
"They (the organisers) are free to go where they want but they shouldn't keep the Dakar name (as that entails) using backing (from advertisers) which earn money" for them, Faye indicated, claiming that Dakar is "considerably" losing out in terms of tourism since the event moved continents.
The decision to move the race came in 2007 following the murder of four French tourists in Mauritania by a pro-al-Qaeda group in the Maghreb as well as the killings of three Mauritanian soldiers.
The killings shortly before the race was due to begin saw the participants stay in Lisbon rather than head for Africa and the race was cancelled.
The event was then moved to South America, where it has remained.
This year's edition, running to January 20, takes in Peru and Chile as well as making an incursion into Argentina.
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/motorsport/dakar-rally-should-come-home-ndour-20130109-2chgi.html


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PHILADELPHIA - After its final off weekend of the regular season, No. 22 Penn gets right back into Ivy League action on Saturday with a pair of duals in The Palestra against Harvard (10 a.m.) and Brown (2 p.m.)
The Red and Blue are 5-3 overall and 0-1 inside the Ivy League. The 0-1 mark ties the Quakers with four other teams inside the League for second place as each squad has already wrestled Cornell which has clinched the Ivy title. The next three weeks will determine who claims second among the Ivy programs - a spot owned by the Quakers each of the last ten seasons.
For the first time since 1991, Penn will be looking to avenge a loss to Harvard when the two teams meet in The Palestra on Saturday morning. Last season, an undermanned Quakers lineup with three backups in starting spots was downed by the Crimson, 23-19, in Cambridge, for Penn's first defeat against Harvard since 1990. The Quakers have won 11 in a row over Harvard at home, the last loss coming on Feb. 10, 1989.
Penn will lineup three nationally-ranked wrestlers this weekend, highlighted by a pair of ninth-ranked wrestlers in 141-pounder C.J. Cobb and 197-pounder Micah Burak. Mark Rappo joins that group, sitting at No. 20 at 125 pounds. Those three are a combined 38-11 this season, and are 6-2 against Ivy opponents. Penn's best wrestler inside the Ivy League so far in 2012-13 has been Ian Korb. The 174-pounder is 5-1 against ivy opponents, and he has a chance to flip is one loss on Saturday against Harvard's Cameron Croy. The two met at Midlands in December, Croy scoring a 5-3 win in sudden victory.
The highlight match in the dual against the Crimson likely will come at 141 pounds where Cobb and Steven Keith will rekindle a blossoming rivalry. Cobb and No. 13 Keith have met four times over the past two seasons - twice each at 133 and 141 pounds. Cobb is 1-3 against the 2012 All-American, with the win coming in the semifinals of the Keystone Classic this past November, 4-0. The other meeting this season saw Keith score a 6-5 win at the Binghamton Open.
Two rematches from last year's dual are on the docket. At 157, Troy Hernandez will wrestle No. 8 Walter Peppelman. The two have met twice, with the two-time All-American winning both. Last year, Hernandez was game with Peppelman before a 5-2 loss. In 2009-10, the score was 3-0 for Peppelman at the Binghamton Open. The second rematch could potentially come at heavyweight between Steven Graziano and David Ng. Last year in the dual, Graziano edged Ng, 3-2, after suffering a similar loss to open the season at the Binghamton Open.
The Crimson are 3-4 overall in duals, and 1-3 against EIWA foes. Last time out, Harvard handled Army, 23-16, in West Point. The Crimson won six bouts, propelled by three bonus-point wins including a fall from Jeffrey Ott at 125. The Crimson held a 17-10 lead, but needed a pair of late decisions at 197 and heavyweight to clinch the dual. Keith leads the team with 19 wins this season, while Croy is second with 16.
Brown is 6-5 in duals this season and 4-5 against Division I opponents. Inside the EIWA, the Bears are 1-3 with the lone win a 24-12 victory over Franklin & Marshall. The Bears are 0-4 in their last four Division I duals. Ophir Bernstein leads Brown with a 12-7 record at 184 pounds. Bernstein finished fourth at EIWAs last year and qualified for NCAAs as a true freshman. Canaan Bethea picked up a 6-4 win over Bernstein at the Keystone Classic earlier this season. At 197 pounds, Sophomore Sterling Hecox is 10-4 with four wins by fall. At the Binghamton Open, Micah Burak defeated Hecox, 4-1.
The Quakers have won 20 duals meets in a row against Brown dating back to Feb. 4, 1994.
No. 22 Penn's Probable Lineup
125: No. 20 Mark Rappo (15-4)
133: Jeff Canfora (5-6)
141: No. 9 C.J. Cobb (16-5)
149: Andrew Lenzi (18-9)
157: Troy Hernandez (7-9)
165: Casey Kent (17-10)
174: Ian Korb (16-10) or Harrison Cook (4-9)
184: Canaan Bethea (18-7)
197: No. 9 Micah Burak (7-2)
285: Steven Graziano (14-11) or Kyle Cowan (6-6)
Harvard Probables
125: Jeffrey Ott (12-12, 3-4)
133: Ryan Osleeb (7-10, 3-4)
141: No. 10 Steven Keith (19-6, 6-1) or Patrick Hogan (3-4, 0-0)
149: Alexis Wagener (0-6, 0-2) or Todd Preston (3-2, 3-2)
157: No. 8 Walter Peppelman (9-2, 7-0)
165: Devon Gobbo (5-8, 1-6)
174: Cameron Croy (16-10, 4-3) or Ian Roy (4-4, 0-0)
184: Josh Popple (6-10, 1-6)
197: James Fox (5-2, 5-2)
HWT: David Ng (6-8, 2-2) or Nicholas Gajdzik (4-7, 0-3)
Brown Probables
125: Billy Watterson (10-10) or Vinny Moita (5-6)
133: Anthony Finocchiaro (3-5) or Beau Martino (4-6)
141: Cort Choate (6-11) or Zack Tanenbaum (5-7)
149: Grant Overcashier (1-5) or Zach Rees (2-6)
157: Phil Marano (2-4) or CJ Howard (2-6)
165: Giuseppi Lanzi (7-8) or Austin Rugraff (1-7)
174: Ricky McDonald(2-6)
184: Ophir Bernstein (12-7) or Sebastien Levin (2-5)
197: Sterling Hecox (10-4) or Gus Marker (1-5)
285: DJ Ingham (0-5) or Marcos Aranda (2-9)


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The world's largest nuclear power plant demonstrates inherent safety
Those opposed to nuclear power have long raised doubts over its safety. Often raised is the question, "what would happen if major earthquake struck one?" Would a radioactivity release endanger millions?
This morning, we got a chance to find out. A 6.8 earthquake struck northern Japan, almost directly underneath the massive
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And that's it. Nothing to see here folks, move along.
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HTC to retire QWERTY from its future plans
The folks over at Pocket-lint are reporting that, at the Frequencies event in Seattle, HTC's design team made it clear that they are moving away from physical keyboards and concentrating all of their efforts on touchscreens.
The majority of HTC's hits have been touchscreen devices. It did release the HTC ChaCha last summer, which has a physical keyboard and a dedicated Facebook button. Unfortunately for QWERTY fans, the device's reception was mediocre at best and that may have something to do with HTC's decision to abandon physical keyboards altogether.
While there are still a few holdouts that long for the touch of actual keys as they type, touchscreens and virtual keyboards have come a long way, and, overall, seem welcomed by the majority of consumers.
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1. Jyakotu (Posts: 854; Member since: 12 Dec 2008)
Well then I know I won't be buying an HTC phone any time soon. Sorry, I know touch screen phones are thinner and that virtual keyboard are GOOD, but I still prefer the touch and feel of a physical QWERTY keyboard on my phone. I don't care about the extra size, I just like that I can type faster on a QWERTY keyboard. I guess I better get an HTC Arrive on Sprint, since it's currently the ONLY HTC phone on the network with a physical QWERTY keyboard.
8. tigermcm (Posts: 860; Member since: 02 Sep 2009)
I love the Arrive but um wait till Sprint bumps its head this summer and starts saying what wp8s they will carry
11. ardent1 (Posts: 2000; Member since: 16 Apr 2011)
You remind me of the prototypical writer who couldn't live without his typewriter. Somehow, they adapted to the word processor world.
Keyboards are going away -- due to speech to text like Siri or better handwriting recognition software (a la shorthand).
My advice is to keep better care of your phone because the trend is simplicity and means fewer necessary parts like keyboards.
13. JC557 (Posts: 1794; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
"Your old phone's hardware keyboard. This is the tool of the business user. Not as clumsy or random as a touch screen. An elegant tool, for a more civilized age."
21. Stuntman (Posts: 839; Member since: 01 Aug 2011)
I'm sure that at some point in the future, alternate means of entering text such as speech recognition will be better than using a physical keyboard. Right now, touch screen keyboards and speech recognition is definitely not there yet. If you want me to switch from using a physical keyboard, make technology that makes it easier for me to enter text. When that happens, I will gladly give up my physical keyboard. Don't force me to use technology that I consider substandard to a physical keyboard before that happens.
15. deadma44 (Posts: 18; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
OG Epic 4 LIFE!!!!
2. skymitch89 (Posts: 1366; Member since: 05 Nov 2010)
You forgot to mention how great of keyboards they make though. They had the TouchPro 2 keyboard, which from what I've heard and read, was one of the best physical keyboards; and I have the Evo Shift and I love the physical keyboard, I can actually text/type faster on it than I can with the HTC keyboard or Swype.
I guess that if smartphone, mainly Android devices, are going the way of the screen and doing away with physical keyboards, then I might just go back to a feature phone.
24. Goldeneye (Posts: 419; Member since: 22 Jan 2011)
Go for it.
3. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
There might be hope for RIM yet....
4. mercorp (Posts: 1043; Member since: 28 Jan 2012)
Htc is missing out on a group of people like this:Business man and those who are tired of blackberries but still want a qwerty.
Look at the droid 4.
5. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
it wasn't the keyboard that made the ChaCha so unappealing... -.-
anyway i think there will always be a place for physical keyboards, just work on improving them too. maybe we can even get slide-out, touchscreen keyboards.
6. tigermcm (Posts: 860; Member since: 02 Sep 2009)
in a way the echo from sprint could have went the direction you're thinking
16. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
yeah, kind of now that you mention it. o:
12. ardent1 (Posts: 2000; Member since: 16 Apr 2011)
Slide out devices add both bulk and design problems like hinges. It was common for me to see the demo units missing the screens since the hinge broke. That said, I do think the Kyrocero Echo or Sony clamshell tablet is making inroads to the traditional smartphone. If the Echo came with 4" screens rather than 3.5" screens, it would rival the Samsung Note.
7. Hunt3rj2 (Posts: 396; Member since: 11 Nov 2011)
While I personally don't care for physical keyboards(Never could get used to them, keys too small...), there's obviously a market for it.
I have a strong suspicion that if they made a slider version of the One S, it would be intensely popular.
9. Gusto (Posts: 28; Member since: 20 Mar 2012)
Well, if their last attempt to physical QWERTY was HTC ChaCha, maybe was for the best their retirement from this niche.
10. sorgo (Posts: 10; Member since: 26 Sep 2011)
Hunt3rj2: Let's call it One Z :) Definitely a device I would accept as a replacement for my Desire Z!
14. ibap (Posts: 785; Member since: 09 Sep 2009)
Well, HTC just lost another customer. I've got a Touch Pro2 on the shelf, along with an Epic. The TP2 was a rugged beast and if it wasn't Windows 6 would probably still be in use. Android hacks have not been satisfying. The Epic is waiting for me to give up on my current phone, which I won, but does not have a keyboard.
When you're reading texts and posts with odd spellings and wordings, you know what kind of keyboard ithey were created on. How many times do you see them and know the user, even if they were inclined to do so, just gave up on editing?
17. Roomaku (Posts: 278; Member since: 06 Feb 2012)
nokia e6, there's a good keyboard.
18. roscuthiii (Posts: 2246; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)
Aytch tee cee, dubbya tee eff?!
19. gwuhua1984 (Posts: 1237; Member since: 06 Mar 2012)
Good luck to all my friends who loves QWERTY keyboards...
20. salic (Posts: 24; Member since: 23 Dec 2011)
The Evo Shift would have been a lot cooler if they had put better hardware in it, it was an all around downgrade from the original Evo and launched 6 months later.
22. Tsepz_GP (Posts: 1043; Member since: 12 Apr 2012)
Im not sure if this is a good idea. We need diversity, i personaly dont like QWERTY infact i use a multitap t9 on my GS2, but i have come across many who are still holding on to their BlackBerrys, Htc Desire Zs, Nokia E7s, N900s, even E90s who just love the QWERTY keypads on their smartphones and want a QWERTY driven smartphone with dual-core, but outside the USA there arent many and those that are around are running on old HW e.g. the Desire Z, ChaCha, Galaxy Y Pro,E6, E7 etc... The one decent QWERTY smartphone around is the Xperia Pro as its getting ICS but even that can be hard to find.
HTC has some amazing QWERTY smartphones in their past e.g. the TyTN-II Kaiser, Touch Pro, the fugly yet great Dream and even the Desire Z, they have/had the resources and know how to make a great QWERTY smartphone, not everyone wants a full touchscreen slab.


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|'Tis Better to Give...
|Gearing up for the second-annual "Night for Wishes & Fishes."
A benefit always serves dual purposes. On one hand it encourages scores of donors to join forces, so that by the end of an evening their collective munificence reaches a monumental scale. On the other it is a celebration of generosity itself. Take a look at the photographs on these pages, and you'll notice a prevailing atmosphere of well-being among the patrons of last year's inaugural "Night for Wishes and Fishes." It's clear that giving is good for you.
But the objectives of this gala event are more diverse than most: to replenish the coffers of two separate, worthy organizations, The Sunshine Foundation and The Recreational Fishing Alliance.
The Sunshine Foundation exists to bring happiness into the lives of children who live with debilitating chronic illnesses, who cope with terminal diseases, or who have suffered domestic abuse. Its mandate is at once simple and profound: to fulfill the wishes of these children in ways that deliver them, at least for a time, from their despair and demonstrate to them that dreams can indeed become reality. Over the past 25 years the organization has helped more than 28,000 children realize their dreams. Through the gift of a puppy, an indescribable encounter with a celebrity hero, or the unforgettable delight of a family outing, The Sunshine Foundation has brought joy into these troubled lives. At the same time, it has given each and every child the lasting and priceless understanding that somebody cares.
The Recreational Fishing Alliance was started in 1995 to benefit recreational fishermen and the saltwater environment they so love. Comprised of sportsmen, boatbuilders, and companies in the recreational fishing industry, it is a highly organized voice on legislative matters concerning conservation, fishing quota distribution, and claims to vital gamefish species. Through aggressive lobbying in Washington and in legislatures coast to coast, The Recreational Fishing Alliance endeavors to promote the rights of saltwater sportfishermen, advance the interests of the boatbuilding and sportfishing industries, and sustain the health of America's saltwater resources.
The decision to couple The Sunshine Foundation and The Recreational Fishing Alliance is not arbitrary. A few years ago when PMY publisher Dave Branch and his wife Tricia attended a Sunshine Foundation dinner, they were astonished to learn that an extraordinary number of the charity's patrons were boat owners. While the phenomenon could simply have been attributed to the general wealth of many who support worthy causes, Branch sensed a deeper significance. Through his long association with Power & Motoryacht, he knew that nearly every yacht owner considers his vessel a dream come true. So it seemed only natural that a group of accomplished individuals understands the worthiness of a charity that specializes in making dreams come true for others. These same high-minded mariners have a vested interest in the goals of The Recreational Fishing Alliance. Thus was born an evening benefiting boaters' sporting interests and the boating environment while also bringing magic into the lives of innocent victims of misfortune.
The second-annual gala will take place on September 7th at the Trump Marina Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and coincide with the Atlantic City In-Water Powerboat Show. Like last year's event, the evening will feature dining and dancing, a silent auction, and a live auction. Items in 2001's auctions included an Edgewater powerboat, diamond jewelry, vacations, sports memorabilia, marine and fishing equipment, and more. Items on the block this year promise to be even more enticing.
Join the staff of Power & Motoryacht and hundreds of compassionate boaters from the New York metropolitan area for this elegant event, and celebrate with other like-minded individuals who know the manifold pleasures of giving. For tickets contact Megan Foley at (917) 256-2286.
Michael McNabb's dream to meet Rosie O'Donnell came true thanks to the event.
Last year's "Night for Wishes & Fishes" featured live and silent-auction items as well as dinner, dancing, and table serenades. After the event two deserving Sunshine children and their families (middle, far left and far right) traveled to Disney World, and McNabb, the third, finally met his favorite celebrity (top right).
This article originally appeared in the June 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Tom grew up in Milwaukee, bartended in Wauwatosa in the '70s and moved here in 1984.
Commentary, observations and musings about the outdoors, life in general and maybe Tosa politics and personalities will be the order of the day. He savors a lively debate as much as terrific cooking.
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This past weekend a bunch of us got together for an organized bike ride. Have I told you lately how well that new hip is working-out? Getting back in the saddle was - in a manner of speaking - just like remembering how to ride a bike.
In any event there was some serious post-ride porch sitting that followed and I had to chase a couple of my friends out of the garden.
It's one thing to fence the asparagus to keep the blonde Lab from gnawing on the spargel. Twice I found humans munching on my peas! They were filching the young tender pods and scarfing them right off the vine.
You're probably thinking that I'm coming down too hard on my pals because those peas DO look tempting. But understand the circumstances. Last year I planted peas not once - but twice - and both attempts resulted in a crop failure. I had had no clue what went wrong. Furthermore, there were no back-up peas in the freezer. I was frustrated by the entire experience. This year I planted peas, radishes, beets and spinach on April 8th. It was during a stretch of gloriously warm weather and I figured what the heck. Everything came-up and then...KAPOW! Two inches of snow covered my newly emerged crop.
Miraculously everything arose unscathed after the snow melted.
Any number of hard frosts followed and the veggies never skipped a beat. Since then we've dined on radishes and freshly-picked spinach. The beets have been thinned and are looking great. And the peas should be ready for shelling in about a week or so. Understand my overprotective tendencies.
Later this season I'll plant another patch of peas. The spinach will be continuously sown. Inasmuch as they've shown a remarkable propensity to survive cold conditions I'm hopeful for shelling fresh peas and picking spinach for deer camp and Thanksgiving. Maybe even Christmas.
For any of you gardeners - these are Green Arrow variety from the Jung Seed Company. Soak them overnight in water before planting and use a granular inoculant when you put them in the ground. Those same pea pirates were incredulous to learn that the spinach hasn't bolted yet. Tyee Hybrid. First time I've tried it and it seems a winner.
Pumpkins are up.
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Be My Boyfriend: Real-Life Edward Scissorhands
Dear Valentino LoSauro,
I've been waiting for Edward Scissorhands to give me a haircut since 1990. I know you don't look like Johnny Depp, and I don't look that much like Winona Ryder, but I'd like you to give me a haircut with your Clawz. (I like to put "Z"s on the endz of my wordz, too!)
You've been quoted as saying that Clawz bring musicality to hairdressing. And you use special cutting techniques you've dubbed "Flight of the Bumblebee" and "Zap" and "Raking." It's obvious that you are a former pianist. I was a singer. We have so much in common!
Valentino, cut my hair. Zap me. Bumblebee me. Rake me. Put your Clawz all over my head. Be my hairdresser. But we can skip the blindfold.
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BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - One of the last Old Florida-style roadside animal attractions in the state has closed its doors to the public.
Wonder Gardens in Bonita Springs closed for good on Sunday.
Lester Piper started the park in 1936 with panther cubs, alligators and snakes. Later, when the menagerie was owned by Piper's grandson David Piper, it claimed to have the largest crocodile in captivity in the world - Big Joe was more than 1,200 pounds.
But David Piper was diagnosed with an inoperable tumor and decided to close the park and sell the land and all of the animals.
"Really mixed emotions," Piper told the Fort Myers News-Press. "There's an old song that said 'Cowboys ain't supposed to cry.'"
Sunday's visitors were estimated to be near the record 965 guests the attraction drew on a single day in 2004. More than 800 visited Saturday.
Former employee John O'Kelly stopped by to say goodbye to his favorite parrot, Peanut, and the gators and bobcats he fed for nearly three decades.
"This place is lost in time," O'Kelly said. "There aren't too many places you can go that still look like they did 100 years ago."
On Monday, Piper said that he will call zoos and collectors interested in his animals and artifacts.
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Canada a major polluter
I wish to thank Don Hermiston for reinforcing the fact that Canada creates a tremendous amount of greenhouse gases that contributes to the global warming problem (America's useful idiots, May 8).
With a population of only 35 million, 0.5 per cent of the world's population, Canada's two per cent of the planet's carbon dioxide emissions is grossly disproportionate. China emits the highest at 23 per cent, but has 19 per cent of the world's seven billion people. Canada has the second highest greenhouse-gas emissions, just slightly behind the U.S., per capita.
Hermiston also correctly points out that sometimes politics, unfortunately, trumps good judgment. To surrender Canada's entire economy to one unpredictable and foreign manipulated industry is lunacy.
Dan Cecchini
Don Hermiston could have also mentioned that besides Americans trying to keep oil prices low and the NDP playing politics with Canada's oil patch, environmentalists in general are playing a similar role with their denunciation of new pipeline construction, particularly Keystone XL and Northern Gateway. Yet they are deluding themselves and the public with this opposition since even the most optimistic studies show that rail transport of unrefined petroleum is still almost three times more likely to experience spills than are pipelines.
When U.S. producers recognized legal wrangling was likely either to delay new pipelines or cancel them outright, they turned to the railways. As a result, the amount carried by tank cars has increased more than 20-fold during the past few years, and from the start of last year until the end of 2013, rolling stock manufacturers will have produced 105,000 new cars each capable of holding an average of 600 barrels. All this extra traffic has seen the number of spills jump from only 10 during the 2007-2009 period to 124 in the three years following.
So what's the rationale behind blocking pipelines when the oil will flow regardless and through a more accident-prone medium?
Edward Katz
Airships are the future
From time to time we see articles promoting the use of airships for northern transportation. Perhaps they may also move manufactured homes as well.
Could the military find need for them in maintaining our Arctic sovereignty? The uses cited to date are only the obvious -- the tip of the iceberg into a vast undeveloped area.
Michael Warachka
Put Bipole under water
John Fefchak (NDP talks good game) and Dave Ennis (Stop the Bipole Charade) in the May 7 paper have essentially the same complaint. We elect governments to make decisions and take action in the best interests of the majority, but the present government is apparently unable to do so.
The NDP government needs to realize there is never a perfect answer to any problem. We almost always need to choose the least of several evils. In the case of the three outstanding problems facing us just now, I would suggest they put the Bipole III line down the centre of the lake and dredge the Red and Assiniboine rivers to a depth of 10 metres from the lake to Brandon.
Putting the power line under the lake requires adopting the technology the Norwegians developed 40 years ago. Once we have established the plant to manufacture the line, we will be able to put many more lines underground, where they will be safe from ice storms and bush fires.
Dredging the rivers will ameliorate the flooding problems by getting the excess water to its inevitable destination more easily. It will also help to solve the problem of eutrophication of Lake Winnipeg by removing much of the phosphate, which is carried in the mud.
Bill Rolls
NDP compares favourably
Next to the laments and axe-grinding of retired hydro engineers, my favourite Op-Ed interventions are those of that old war-horse of Manitoba politics, the estimable Sidney Green (NDP's spending chickens coming home to roost, May 3).
Green launches with the broadside that the one percentage point PST hike is "required simply because government spending has spun out of control."
A simple accuracy check reveals that Manitoba's debt to GDP ratio for 2012/13 was 27.1 per cent and for 2011/12 was 25.5 per cent. This compares to the debt/GDP numbers for the final full two Conservative years, i.e. 1997/98 at 32.7 per cent and 1998/99 at 32 per cent. Coincidentally, both two-year periods come in the aftermath of significant flood events, in 1997 and 2011.
And another point the sky-is-falling brigade might wish to consider is that the size of the Manitoba economy in 1999 was $32 billion, whereas today it has almost doubled to over $62 billion.
The 2013 budget cuts or freezes 11 departments, and this is on top of cuts and freezes to five departments last year. The Justice Department, however, sees an increase of 9.5 per cent and local government increases by 9.6 per cent. Perhaps the lawyers and the rural municipalities would like to see cuts in these areas? I suspect not.
Accuracy prevails, however, and Green does acknowledge the referendum legislation enacted by the Conservatives was both confusing and a "blatant piece of window dressing that was doomed to failure." So true.
Sig Laser
Re: PST hike decried by business group (May 6).
What is the sound of the Manitoba NDP popularity balloon inflating? Answer: SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSPEND.
What is the sound of the same balloon deflating? Answer: PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST.
Don Warkentin


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After the Typhoon, Another Disaster: Oil Spill Endangers Community in the Philippines
The municipality of Estancia in Iloilo Province, one of the areas in the Philippines hardest hit by Typhoon Haiyan, was dealt another crippling blow by the deadly storm earlier this week: a barge owned by the national electric company, containing over a million liters of fuel, crashed during the typhoon and has begun leaking oil into the water. So far, approximately 200,000 liters of oil have already contaminated rivers, sanitation infrastructure, and houses up to a mile from the spill site. As Action Against Hunger's teams scale up emergency relief efforts in Iloilo Province, we've also committed teams to assist those affected by the life-threatening oil spill.
A community uprooted
Considering the oil spill a danger to public health, the local authorities have evacuated more than a thousand families within a mile radius of the leak. These families, some of them already displaced by the typhoon, are being uprooted again and sent to a college campus in Estancia that is serving as an evacuation center.
But since this decision was made so urgently, the campus—which was also badly damaged by the storm—was not equipped to handle the sudden influx of people. There is not enough shelter, clean water, or safe sanitation for everyone. Josephine, who evacuated with her family, now shares a room with 36 other people—and may have to do so for the next three months. Antoinette, another evacuee, doesn't even have a room—she and her family must share a tent on the college's grounds.
"We were assigned a tent once we got here. There are fifteen of us sharing this tent—it's really not comfortable. The real problem here is sanitation: there are no toilets, no washing facilities, and no privacy."
– Antoinette, Typhoon Haiyan survivor and oil spill evacuee, Estancia
Racing to help hard-hit families
Part of emergency relief is preventing "over-disaster"—managing public health risks so they don't get worse during a disaster. For example, we're giving out emergency hygiene kits to prevent outbreaks of waterborne diseases, and providing emergency food rations to prevent increases in malnutrition cases. For families displaced by the oil spill, we're now racing to increase their access to clean water, and to construct dozens of emergency latrines, showers, and washing areas. Charlotte Schneider, the coordinator for our emergency team, emphasizes the importance of helping these evacuees:
"Most families here had already been evacuated because of the typhoon—they had just begun to return home, only to be forced to evacuate a second time because of another emergency. We're already putting the most basic supplies in place for them: clean water, latrines, showers, tents, and emergency relief kits. We must do the best we can to make things easier for these evacuees."
– Charlotte Sneider, Emergency Pool Coordinator, Action Against Hunger, France
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THE DAUGHTER of a woman who dedicated her life to supporting others is planning a skydive in her memory.
Mother-of-two Jenny Hinson from Wroughton lost her private battle with lung cancer at the Great Western Hospital in January after the disease had spread to her brain.
She had kept her illness a secret from all but her husband, Joe, for more than a year as she did not want to worry her children and friends.
"She was just the most wonderful person I have ever known, and my best friend," said her daughter, Jolene.
"I have never met anyone who was so caring and touched the heart of everyone she met.
"She always put other people's feelings first."
Jolene plans to remember her with a charity skydive over the Whitsundays in Australia.
The 37-year-old said: "I just wanted something positive to come out of losing mum, and I thought that fundraising for Cancer Research UK would be one way to do it."
Jolene plans to carry out the 12,000ft jump in April and is appealing to those who knew her mother to help her raise money.
She said: "I spent a year travelling around Australia and sharing it with mum so I just thought it just seemed like the right thing to do. Running a marathon or something like that just isn't me, and I wanted to do something a bit different.
So far, Jolene has raised around £900, and she hopes to raise as much as she can in her mother's memory.
She said: "I am funding the trip myself, so every penny I receive will go to charity.
"It is time for me to be positive and stand up to cancer, to raise funds for an amazing charity in the hope that one day a cure will be found for this horrific disease.
"It's also an opportunity for me to take some time out to reflect and remember all the special times."
Earlier this year Jenny's family was inundated with tributes from friends, family, and many other people who knew her.
The 58-year-old spent her life supporting others, including at Moormead Nursing Home, Swindon Council and Connect, where she helped those with disabilities to find and secure work.
To sponsor Jolene, visit her Donate In Memory page at www.donateinmemory.cancerresearchuk.org/0004800.


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All lines to Sutton station are now open following an explosion earlier today, but travellers have been warned delays are continuing.
The station, in Brighton Road, was closed for several hours this morning after an electrical cable exploded under the platform at platform 2.
Workmen start repairing the faulty cable on platform 2
The incident caused travel chaos across south London with no trains able to pass through the station and one train stuck between Sutton and Carshalton for three hours.
Although Sutton station has reopened, staff there say they are operating on a "train by train basis" with all services subject to sudden cancellations and delays.
It is understood the explosion was caused by a fault and means up to three-quarters-of a-mile of cable now needs replacing.
Commuters have been advised to allow extra time for their journeys this evening.


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Can we choose one thread to talk about this in? Just trying to follow the discussion and I don't see why there's two threads (reviving vehicles + this) discussing the same thing.
Good point there, although I think qaz's post and thread were more of a call to arms of sort for some swagriding that eventually didn't happen, while this is strictly for discussing comms setups for vehicle play in general.
Still, if people'd like that, I could merge them
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THE Primrose Hospice is seeing business bloom after opening a new fundraising facility.
The Bromsgrove-based care centre recently launched a furniture shop and donation centre in Redditch with help from property agents John Truslove.
Helen Garfield, hospice chief executive, said: "It is still early days but it has started well. We are pleased with the local support and initial sales.
"The more money we can raise the more work we can do and the more people we can help. So I would urge the public to even greater feats of generosity."
The centre, at 189 Evesham Road, Headless Cross, accepts all donations of goods including clothes, books, bric-a-brac, furniture, electrical items, and much more besides. A collection service is available for large items or house clearances – telephone the shop on 01527 401416 for more information.
And for those looking to purchase there is plenty of opportunity to pick up a bargain.
John Truslove partner Ben Truslove said: "It is a wonderful cause and does fantastic work for those with life limiting illnesses and their families.
"It is quite humbling and I am so glad we were able to help."
The charity has taken 3,885 sq ft on a five year lease – sorting takes place to the rear of the premises.
Primrose Hospice is an independent charity, supporting patients in Bromsgrove, Redditch, and surrounding areas.
Based at St Godwalds Road, the hospice is open five days a week. It also contributes to palliative care for in-patients at the Princess of Wales Community Hospital in Bromsgrove – known as "Primrose at the Princess" – in partnership with Worcestershire Health and Care Trust.
Ms Garfield said: "The hospice could not function without our dedicated team of volunteers many of whom work in our shops.
"We rely on donations and fundraising events by individuals and businesses in order to maintain and develop our high standards of care."


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Lois Lurel Oliver Crabtree, 89, of Ceres, Va., left her loving family and friends and went to her rest August 1, 2009. She was preceded in death by her parents, Minor and Ethel Hypes Oliver and two brothers, Nelson and Wayne Oliver. She is survived by her loving husband of 62 years, Andrew Bane Crabtree, of the home; a daughter, Iris Lynn Crabtree Pruett and husband, H. Michael Pruett, of Ceres; three grandchildren, Michael and Sarah Pruett, and Erin and Phillip Buttery; two great-grandchildren, Stephanie and Andy Blankenship; two sisters-in-law, Thelma Oliver and Frances Oliver; several nieces and nephews, and many friends also survive. She received a B.S. Degree from Madison College, now James Madison University, in Harrisonburg, Va., with a degree in Home Economics. She taught in Bland and Craig Counties for a number of years. She was an advisor to the Future Homemakers of America. Lois was a member of the Sharon Lutheran Church and was their secretary for a number of years. She was also a charter member of the Bland County Retired Teachers Association, and a member of the Ceres Alumni Association. Funeral services will be held Monday, August 3, 2009 at 7 p.m. at the Highland Funeral Chapel in Bland, Va., with the Rev. Kathy Haga officiating. The family will receive friends from 5 p.m. until service time Monday evening, at the funeral Home. An interment service will be held Tuesday morning at 11 a.m. at the Sharon Lutheran Cemetery in Ceres, Va. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sharon Lutheran Cemetery Fund, C/O Evelyn Groseclose, 860 West Bluegrass Trail, Ceres, Va.


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|FYI — October 2002
|By Brad Dunn
of the Sturgeon
Collisions between sturgeon and boaters are on the rise this year in the freshwater rivers of Florida, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Sturgeon, which have increased in number after they were classified a threatened species in 1991, can grow more than six feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds, making them particularly dangerous projectiles.
Take the case of Danny Cordero, 19, who was cruising the Suwannee River on a PWC with his girlfriend this past Fourth of July. A sturgeon jumped out of the water and knocked them both off the vehicle before they could react. "I don't remember anything," Cordero told the local newspaper. "My girlfriend said it was like hitting a brick wall." The couple suffered minor injuries but were able to swim to shore.
On Memorial Day weekend, Lacy Redd, 34, an elementary school principal from Gainesville, Florida, suffered five broken ribs when a five-foot-long, 150-pound sturgeon shot out of the water into her family's boat and knocked her out. She said her family never saw it coming.
Boaters of the Suwannee River say such fish collisions are on the rise not only because the fish are multiplying, but because boat traffic has increased. Making matters worse, male sturgeon can leap extraordinarily high out of the water during spawning season.
Just ask the Gilchrist County sheriff's department. A few summers ago a sheriff's deputy was patrolling the river in a boat when a 106-pound sturgeon exploded through the windshield and knocked him down. "When he called in on the radio, they didn't believe him at first," says sheriff's chief Harvey Montgomery.
Keeping a careful eye out for leaping fish is probably the best way to safeguard yourself against a surprise sturgeon attack. If you're boating in known sturgeon spawning areas, be especially cautious. You never know when--or where--they may strike.
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20 cells are arranged in a 5x4 grid. The cells are occupied by 20 birds (10 different birds, a pair (2) of each).
The cells are labeled as follows:
The birds are: albatross, bunting, cardinal, chickadee, finch, flamingo, hawk, magpie, penguin, and swan.
A bird can only occupy a cell if the cell is labeled with a letter that is in the bird's name. For example, a hawk can only be in cell: H, A, W, or K.
Each pair of birds must be in the same row or the same column.
Where are the birds located?
Answer1) Determine the locations of the swans. The only cells that are in the same row/column are in row 4.
2) Determine the locations of the hawks. One of the cells is eliminated because it is occupied by a swan. The only remaining cells that are in the same row/column are in row 2.
3) Determine the bird that is in row 1 column 2. Placing the bunting in that cell will lead to a dead end. Therefore, an albatross must be in that cell.
4) The remaining cells can be easily filled with the remaining birds.
Row 1: albatross, albatross, chickadee, chickadee, penguin
Row 2: finch, magpie, hawk, finch, hawk
Row 3: cardinal, magpie, flamingo, flamingo, penguin
Row 4: cardinal, swan, bunting, bunting, swan
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Last Friday night my wife and I watched the White County Warriors and North Hall Trojans play a very competitive game. The contest was as good as advertised and the Brickyard was packed.
I spoke with East Hall football coach Bryan Gray on Sunday about what his secret is to rebuilding a program that was near the basement in the state. How do you introduce talking about playoffs into the vocabulary of players that didn't have much experience winning?
You know how you always seem to hear about movies with twist endings before you see them, so that you know to expect something, but you don't know what?
Each week I try and pick out the most interesting game played on Friday night by the Hall County teams.
It was amazing to see the passion that White County's football team played with in its subregion victory against Lumpkin County last Friday. I dug through my memory bank and couldn't recall an instance where a high school team in any sport played with such resiliency under tremendously adverse conditions.
At 2:30 Thursday afternoon, Sterling Bailey paced the floor of the East Hall gym. The 6-foot-5, 260-pound senior looked, at the same the time, happy, embarrassed, anxious and confident.
Halfway through the season I have no doubt Flowery Branch has the best football team in Hall County.
Region 8-AAA may be one of the most interesting regions in the state to follow down the stretch with so many teams playing at a playoff caliber. Unlike in some year's past in Region 7-AAA, there are more teams that are strong enough to contend for the playoffs than the four postseason spots allow.
It's not yet a full month into the high school football season, and there's still plenty we don't know.
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By now, you've probably heard the news: David Wright has reportedly agreed to an eight-year, $138 million contract. It will be backloaded, it will keep him in a Mets uniform through 2020.
Let's take a closer look, though, at what this means, and what it doesn't mean.
What it doesn't mean:
The Mets will be contenders in 2013. Alas, probably not. They won 74 games last year with Wright and Dickey performing at elite levels. They aren't expected to spend much beyond the 2012 payroll, and with obligations on the books and a poor free agent class, expecting the Mets to compete in the National League East in 2013 is a stretch.
Ownership is financially secure. Nope. We don't know how much money in the Wright deal is deferred. But we do know that ownership has yet to refinance their team debt (approximately $320 million) due in 2014 or SNY debt ($450 million) due in 2015, and that the effort to do so, by borrowing further against their SNY equity, will compromise their only remaining source of profit.
Signing David Wright means he'll be around, whatever else happens. But it doesn't mean much about what will happen around him.
What it does mean:
David Wright will be in a Mets uniform for most of my daughter's childhood. When Wright came up with the Mets, I was just out of college. When Wright's new deal ends, I'll be 40, and my daughter will be 10. Her first jersey was a David Wright. His picture adorns her play room. We watched him homer in September at Citi Field, and we wondered if it was for the last time.
It looks like it wasn't for the last time.
As Matthew Callan points out, this isn't just a reversal of recent history, from Jose Reyes to Carlos Beltran to, next week, probably R.A. Dickey. It's the anti-Seaver, anti-Strawberry, anti-Gooden moment.
The Mets made a great choice to keep him. My guess? This contract actually looks better in hindsight. Not only are they paying him $17.25 million per season in a marketplace where B.J. Upton is deemed worthy of $15 million per season, the infusion of television money is raising salaries across the board. And given the reported backloading/deferrals in the deal, this is probably costing the Mets far less up front, while making the contract more expensive at the point ownership has either changed hands or continues to be hamstrung, making large investments impossible.
Either way, by the end of the decade, $17.25 million won't be a substantial portion of a winning team's payroll. Either the Mets will be run in a reasonable way financially, making Wright a perfectly acceptable portion of the overall payroll, or the Mets weren't winning anyway, and got to enjoy their franchise player for the duration of his career.


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WINNIPEG — Though it's a surprise to some, court documents filed in the Phoenix Coyotes' bankruptcy case suggest the NHL hasn't forgotten about Winnipeg.
In an affidavit filed late Friday, Earl Scudder, a lawyer for Coyotes majority owner Jerry Moyes, alleged that NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told him he preferred to move the Coyotes to Winnipeg rather than Hamilton.
The conversation Scudder referred to, in early April, regarded a potential offer the Coyotes were contemplating from a Canadian buyer who was interested in moving the team to southern Ontario.
Scudder said Bettman told him the league wouldn't approve of moving the Phoenix franchise to Hamilton because of the age of that city's Copps Coliseum and that, "if the team did return to Canada, it would be to Winnipeg."
Bettman also said a new team in southern Ontario would have to be an expansion club, the affidavit said.
Asked to comment on Bettman's alleged remarks about Winnipeg, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told the Free Press on Saturday they're consistent with the league's position.
"I don't think I would have been a party to that conversation specifically," Daly wrote in an email. "But there were conversations over time about what might happen if there were absolutely no other options in Phoenix.
"And, certainly, we have consistently maintained that we would be open to exploring the possibility of bringing NHL hockey back to Winnipeg."
Scudder's comments in the court filing also didn't surprise True North Sports and Entertainment chairman Mark Chipman.
"We don't know if he (Bettman) said it but if he did, it's not inconsistent with what he's said in the past and certainly that he's not opposed to going back to Canada," Chipman said Saturday.
Chipman, whose company controls the NHL-suitable MTS Centre, said most of the news from the court case underscores the value of the southern Ontario market for the NHL and that the league wants to protect all its future interests there.
But Scudder's comment does not mean there is any plan to bring the Coyotes back to Winnipeg, Chipman said.
"I'd rather not comment any further on this because it opens a can of worms that leads to nowhere right now," Chipman said.
The remarks about Winnipeg -- where the Coyotes franchise was located prior to 1996 -- are a side issue in the bankruptcy filing by Moyes. The NHL has challenged the filing and a hearing is slated for Tuesday in a Phoenix courtroom.
Moyes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy nearly two weeks ago, already with an offer of $212.5 million from RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie to purchase the debt-laden team. That offer is contingent on being able to move the team to Hamilton.
The NHL contends that after providing millions in funding to keep the Coyotes operating during the 2008-09 season, Moyes signed documents relinquishing control of the franchise and therefore has no authority to place the team in bankruptcy.
Bettman and the league are also vigourously defending their right to control the process of another team locating in southern Ontario. They said they were working on another offer to purchase the team and keep it in Phoenix.
Lots of talk, but...
Speculation on Winnipeg's major-league hockey team has popped up regularly since the team left 13 years ago, especially since 2005 when the new collective bargaining agreement with players changed the financial formula and made it slightly more likely Winnipeg might one day get a team.
January 2007: NHL commissioner Gary Bettman utters the words "NHL" and "Winnipeg" in the same sentence for the first time. "Under the new CBA, we haven't studied it, but I wouldn't rule it out... The fact of the matter is, it's not something we currently have a plan to do. Even though we haven't done the homework, I believe there might be a world under the partnership we have with the players, with the salary cap, that Winnipeg probably could support an NHL team." Giddy speculation ensues but the capital costs of buying a team remain prohibitive.
May 2007: During the provincial election, Tory Leader Hugh McFadyen promises to work to bring back the Jets, a promise widely seen as a pie-in-the-sky blunder.
July 2007: It's revealed that True North chairman Mark Chipman met with NHL executives and made a presentation to the league's heavyweights in New York about the possible expansion or relocation of a team to Winnipeg.
February 2008: Instead of ducking the topic, Chipman utters some positive words about the NHL's return to Winnipeg during a one-on-one interview with the CBC's The National. "The game's growing in Canada. The revenues that are supporting that league -- or much of them since the lockout -- have come out of this country," said Chipman. "So I think it's logical for them to look back to Canada, not just to this market but to one or two others."