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San Francisco, CA, United States, 2014/07/08 - Increased Solar Cell Performance Supports Adoption of Solar Cell Technology Based on N-Type Substrates - imec.be.
Nano-electronics research center imec, reported today an n-type PERT crystalline silicon (Si) solar cell fabricated on a large area wafer (15.6cm x 15.6 cm) reaching a top conversion efficiency of 21.5 percent (calibrated at ISE Callab). This is the highest efficiency achieved for this type of solar cell on an industrial large area wafer size. This result will accelerate the adoption of n-type PERT (Passivated Emitter, Rear Totally diffused) solar cells in the industry as it clearly shows the potential for improved conversion efficiencies for next generation standard two side contacted crystalline silicon solar cells. Additionally imec researchers showed recently that n-type PERT solar cells of imec, having a rear emitter, are not affected by reliability risks originating from a front Ni/Cu plated metallization.
The cell reaching this 21.5 percent conversion efficiency had an open circuit voltage (Voc) of 677mV, a short circuit current (Jsc) of 39.1 mA/cm2, and 81.3% fill factor, and features a rear blanket p+ emitter obtained by boron diffusion. Reliable front metal contacts on an n+ front-surface-field are formed by means of Ni/Cu/Ag plating (3 bus bars grid) using an industrial plating tool from Meco, while the rear local contacts to the p+ emitter were obtained by laser ablation of the rear passivation stack and subsequent physical-vapor-deposition of aluminum. The rear passivation stack includes a thin (<10 nm) Atomic-Layer-Deposited (ALD) Al2O3 layer, deposited with the spatial ALD technique InPassion Lab® from SoLayTec. The adoption of ALD Al2O3 based-passivation for the p+ emitter resulted in an average improvement in cell efficiency of about 0.3% absolute with respect to passivation by wet oxidation. This illustrates the excellent capabilities of ALD for passivation layers in next generation cell concepts like PERC and n-type PERT.
Notwithstanding the early development stage, the result shows very high efficiency potential of n-type PERT solar cells, said Jozef Szlufcik, director of imecs PV department,Moreover, n-type cells remain unaffected by light induced degradation present in p-type cells due to Boron-Oxygen complex, which results in improved long term energy yield and, therefore, lower total cost/kWh.
These results have been achieved in the framework of the imecs industrial affiliation program on advanced silicon solar cells, dedicated to developing high performance and low cost Si PV-technologies. In this program, imec works closely together with industrial and academic partners along the solar cell value chain. Via participation and contribution to this program, these partners support imecs developments and obtain early access to new technology solutions in this way accelerating their own product development.
To learn more about imecs solar cell research progress, please visit the imec at booth #SH2311 at Semicon West/Intersolar North America, taking place July 8-10, 2014 in San Francisco.
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Imec (imec.be) performs world-leading research in nanoelectronics and photovoltaics. Imec leverages its scientific knowledge with the innovative power of its global partnerships in ICT, healthcare and energy. Imec delivers industry-relevant technology solutions. In a unique high-tech environment, its international top talent is committed to providing the building blocks for a better life in a sustainable society. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, and has offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Taiwan, US, China, India and Japan. Its staff of over 2,080 people includes more than 670 industrial residents and guest researchers. In 2013, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 332 million euro.
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St. Thomas University College Visit
Mrs. Spotts, College & Career Counselor
Thursday, September 26, 2013 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
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Event Details
St. Thomas University is visiting Jefferson High School in the auditorium on Thursday, September 26th at 11:30am. Seniors with a 3.5 or better GPA should register through Eventbrite and print your ticket as your pass. No announcement will be made to call for students, so it is the student's responsibility to check in with the teacher and attend the visit at the specified time and place. Please note: It is teacher discretion whether or not students are allowed to attend. Thank you!
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4401 West Cypress Street
Thursday, September 26, 2013 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM (EDT)
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I'm a straight woman and I am tired of society always judging me based on looks. Why do you think women, gay or straight, are expected to look good? It is almost our fault if we look ugly.
Do you think there is a practical reason why we NEED to look good? Men are not judged based on their looks. They are judged more based on the size of their wallets, and what they can contribute to society.


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On 5/1/2010 4:07 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
If you are interested in DVDs under Debian, note that a useful thing to know about is the videolan project http://www.videolan.org/ They provide libdvdcss and libdvdplay, useful libraries to install, which are not included in Debian. (non-DFSG)I've already installed packages vlc (it's my player of choice) and libdvdcss2. Are you saying that I should install upstream instead?
No. vlc is part of videolan project. If Debian infrastructure serves your needs, then ignore my suggestion.Upstream of libdvdcss (not libdvdcss2) and libdvdplay are all years old, anyway.


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MIAMI - According to a published report, the Birdman will be staying with the Heat.
Yahoo! Sports is reporting that Chris Andersen has signed a one-year deal to stay with Miami.
Andersen joined the Heat mid-season.
He provided a spark that helped Miami win 27-straight regular season games.
Birdman also became a key player during the Heat's second straight championship run.
Andersen was a fan favorite for his colorful tattoos and dynamic personality.
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See also: nancy
- Rhymes: -ænsi
Etymology 1Edit
Medieval diminutive of Ann and Agnes.
Proper nounEdit
Nancy (plural Nancys)
- A female given name.
- 1792 Robert Burns: Ae Fond Kiss:
- I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
- Naething could resist my Nancy:
- But to see her was to love her;
- Love but her, and love forever.
- 1913 Eleanor Porter: Pollyanna: Chapter 7:
- "And they've got lovely names, too. You'll like their names," sighed Nancy. "They're 'Algernon' and 'Florabelle' and 'Estelle'. I - I just hate Nancy!"
- "Oh, Nancy, what a dreadful thing to say! Why?"
- "Because it isn't pretty like the others. You see, I was the first baby, and mother hadn't begun ter read so many stories with the pretty names in them, then."
- 1792 Robert Burns: Ae Fond Kiss:
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Etymology 2Edit
Proper nounEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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- A female given name borrowed from English.
Etymology 2Edit
From the medieval name, Medieval Latin Nanciacum, from Old High German Nanzig.
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A fussy baby may be "OK" once they get their hands on a cuddly Okey Dokey Dino WubbaNub Pacifier! This easy to clean toy is very functional as well, as it comes attached to a Soothie™ pacifier, a well-known favorite of hospitals, parents and babies. These Mary Meyer exclusives feature fresh designs and bright colors - and this dino is adorned in bright blue with neon green horns. Try the self-soothing power of this pacifier/lovey combo - young ones will love it! Measures 6" long.
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American Medical Association launches new internet "supersite"BMJ 1999; 319 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.319.7219.1217a (Published 06 November 1999) Cite this as: BMJ 1999;319:1217
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Folks, I have wrangled us a "pod" at the JavaOne conference at Moscone to talk about PostgreSQL and Java. I'd like to get some actual Java geeks to help me staff it. As an incentive, I can offer: -- pass to JavaOne show floor; -- ability to show off/talk about your own Java+PostgreSQL applications I know that I talked to a few of you about getting a "community" session at JavaOne, which we didn't get :-(. However, if you're in the area this should still be a good opportunity for you to talk about your application to the largest crowd of Java developers likely to visit San Francisco. Of course, I'm also happy to have help from The Usual Suspects for PostgreSQL events, but it's really critical to get people who speak Java. Please ping me by e-mail ASAP. (Oh, and FYI if there are Java programmers on this list more than the people I usually here from, I know of a contract opportunity involving PostgreSQL+BIRT.) -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco
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Corn Estimated Fund Position
Trends – March Contract
Short Term: Up Net Long Futures and Options: -178958
Long Term: Down Change: -3000
Overnight Trade: H +1/2 @7:30 AM
The initial reaction to yesterday's report was positive and the March corn tested the 50-day moving average for a few moments, but the market eventually reversed lower as the wheat market collapsed. The market then made a mid-range close and followed that up with two sided trade overnight. The lower than expected US and World ending stocks estimates are supportive, but the bulls will have to see the market clear the resistance at the 50-day moving average quickly in order to maintain what little bullish momentum the market has. A move to $4.57 is still possible if we see good export sales and continued weakness in the Dollar.
Wheat Estimated Fund Position
Trends – March Contract
Short Term: Down Net Long Futures and Options: -111005
Long Term: Down Change: -5000
Overnight Trade: Chicago: H -1 KC: H -3 @7:30 AM
The wheat numbers were disappointing to the bulls. It wasn't much of a surprise to see the world ending stocks increase due to the higher production in Canada and Australia, but many traders are still looking for USDA to increase our export estimate due to the strong pace we have seen so far this year. The charts look negative, but the market is oversold and the indicators are showing divergence, so if the Dollar pushes lower there is a good chance at a temporary turn around.
Soybeans Estimated Fund Position
Trends – January Contract
Short Term: Up Net Long Futures and Options: 116667
Long Term:Up Change: -5000
Overnight Trade: F +2 @7:30 AM
The soybean numbers came in as expected with ending stocks falling to 150 million. The March beans made a new high for the move yesterday, but closed poorly, because now we are back to watching export sales and S. American weather. The bulls need some fresh news if the market is going to continue higher. A setback, or more consolidation trade is likely in the short run. It will probably take a weather event to see a major move higher, but big export sales will keep traders on their toes.
Live Cattle
Short Term: Down
Long Term: Down
Opening Calls: 10-30 Higher
Live cattle futures recovered to close mixed on Tuesday, after trading under pressure for much of the day session. Overnight activity is firmer, with the front two months leading the advance. Open interest has fallen about 8,000 contracts in the past two sessions, which may be end of the year position squaring by large specs. Cutouts were mixed on Tuesday, with choice modestly lower and select higher. Cash is expected to be a day or two away, with asking prices of $134 and bids near $130 in the south.
Feeder Cattle
Short Term: Up
Long Term: Up
Opening Call: Mixed
Feeder cattle futures closed higher on the session Tuesday, with a late recovery in the fats and softer corn values inspiring the advance. Overnight trade is narrowly mixed and corn is trading slightly higher. The cash index was up .49 for the day and significantly higher on a single day average. Customers report that the past few days have been on fire in the area sales.


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Get an overview of this hotelCalgary motel in University District, walk to McMahon Stadium
Popular property highlights
Located in University District, this motel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Tom Baker Cancer Centre and McMahon Stadium. University of Calgary is 1.3 mi (2 km) away.
Property Features
A restaurant, a fitness center, and coffee/tea in a common area are available at this motel. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, laundry facilities, a 24-hour front desk, and express check-out are onsite.
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All 55 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and microwaves, plus free WiFi and TVs with cable channels. Other amenities available to guests include coffee makers, free local calls, and hair dryers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Hotel Amenities
The motel offers a restaurant. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. This Calgary motel also offers a fitness center, gift shops/newsstands, and coffee/tea in a common area. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Econo Lodge Motel Village has designated areas for smoking.
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Total number of rooms - 55
- Fitness facilities
- Number of floors - 2
- Laundry facilities
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Express check-out
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Designated smoking areas
- Free WiFi
- 24-hour front desk
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Restaurant
- Free self parking
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- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking
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- Premium TV channels
- Phone
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- Air conditioning
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- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
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Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast.
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Recreational amenities at the motel include a fitness center.
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Worcester League AGM 2017
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Worcester League AGM 2017
WORCESTER TABLE TENNIS LEAGUE.docx AGM etc. 2017.pdf
The Worcester Table Tennis League was formed in September 1932, making season 2011-12, the Leagues 80th Anniversary year.
In 1932 the League started with 9 teams and was so popular that the following season it was extended to two divisions to cater for 18 teams.
It wasn't long before table tennis really got a hold on the sporting life of the city and inter-league matches were organised with other midland clubs and exhibition matches were staged at the Shirehall and the Public Hall with international players Victor Barna and Richard Bergmann being the star attractions.
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UA's ALLELE Lecturer to Discuss Ancient Man, Evolution
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will visit The University of Alabama campus to give the lecture, "Neandertime: How Ancient Genomes are Transforming Our Past and Present," Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in room 127 of the Biology Building.
Hawks is the second speaker in the Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution, known as ALLELE, lecture series. The lecture is free and open to the public.
As a paleoanthropologist, Hawks studies ancient humans as found in fossil evidence around the world. In his lecture, Hawks will talk about his research that has uncovered the rapid genetic changes in humans during the past 10,000 years and the unique contribution of the genomes of Neanderthals and other ancient people to our origins and evolution.
Hawks is known as an international advocate for open science, which is a movement that aims to make all scientific research available to people at all levels, from amateur to professional. His blog (johnhawks.net) has become a highly visible science communication resource with 2.5 million annual visits. He is part of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute initiative to improve undergraduate biology education. He also serves on the advisory panel for a new Smithsonian-sponsored pilot project to bring human evolution into advanced biology education.
He received his doctorate at the University of Michigan and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Utah. While there, Hawks expanded his work into the field of genetics, and he has since become known for his ability to connect these different aspects of the evidence for human origins. His research has taken him to Africa, Europe and, most recently, Siberia.
While on campus, Hawks will visit anthropology classes and will also give a talk titled, "Human Evolution During the Holocene" Friday, Dec. 7 at 3 p.m. in room 22 of ten Hoor Hall.
The 2012-2013 ALLELE series is an interdisciplinary lecture series organized by the Evolution Working Group and supported by UA's College of Arts and Sciences, the Honors College, Blount Undergraduate Initiative, New College, educational studies in psychology, research methodology and counseling, and the departments of anthropology, biological sciences, chemistry, English, gender and race studies, geological sciences, history, philosophy, psychology, and telecommunications and film.
The ALLELE lecture series is part of UA's College of Arts and Sciences, the University's largest division and the largest liberal arts college in the state. Students from the College have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the USA Today Academic All American Team.
The University of Alabama, a student-centered research university, is experiencing significant growth in both enrollment and academic quality. This growth, which is positively impacting the campus and the state's economy, is in keeping with UA's vision to be the university of choice for the best and brightest students. UA, the state's flagship university, is an academic community united in its commitment to enhancing the quality of life for all Alabamians.
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Morning "corpse reviver" drinks are an early-20th-century tradition. Version No. 2 survives in many bartending guides of that era.
This cocktail is a variation on the sidecar, similar to the Hoopla or the Odd McIntosh (see related recipes for the latter two). It substitutes gin for cognac and adds Lillet Blanc (or the newly arrived Cocchi Americano). A tiny bit of absinthe or Pernod creates a complex, yet still light and refreshing drink.
Servings: 1
- Ice
- 3/4 ounce gin, preferably Plymouth
- 3/4 ounce Lillet Blanc
- 3/4 ounce orange liqueur, preferably Combier or Cointreau
- 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon absinthe (may substitute Pernod)
- Preserved or maraschino cherry, for garnish (see related recipe)
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Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice. Add the gin, Lillet Blanc, orange liqueur, lemon juice and absinthe. Shake well, then strain into a chilled cocktail (martini) glass.
Garnish with the cherry.
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Tested by Michael Taylor.
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WYPLAY announces launch of HTML5 Android TV platformTuesday, March 19th, 2013
MARSEILLE, France — WYPLAY, one of the world's leaders in innovative software solutions for TV operators, launches its next generation HTML5 Android platform designed for Chipset vendors, STB manufacturers, RCU companies and 3rd-party software houses.
This TV reference platform combines the award winning Wyplay Middleware, which already powers millions of operator deployments, with Android, and managed by a pure HTML5 user interface. There is no shortage of basic Android platforms in the market today, however, most are simply a telephone-centric Android chipset port that is not suited to the Operators challenges such as TV management (broadcast, streaming), Security, Product range management…
The Wyplay TV reference platform is running on the two leading chipset providers; STMicroelectronics and Broadcom. Powered by an advanced HTML5 user interface, this next generation TV platform provides all the main TV features such as Zapper, EPG, PVR, Timeshifting, VOD…
On top of these standards features, Wyplay has integrated its latest back-end software solutions:
- WyStore: an Application Store with the support of HTML5 and Android Applications,
- WyClub: a platform to enable Multi-user features including Recommendation and Social TV, in a Multiscreen environment, with seamless interactivity with all mobile devices…
"With the launch of this next generation TV platform, Wyplay once again demonstrates that it has attentively listened to its customers, correctly observed the market needs, and acted to create an extremely innovative and adaptable solution" said Dominique Feral, CMO Wyplay. "Wyplay's customers are now able to deliver an evolving range of products and offerings that suite their specific market and their individual subscriber needs"
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Sunday church services: Stanbury Church, morning prayer at 9.30am and Haworth Parish Church, morning prayer at 10.45am. West Lane Baptist Church, morning service at 10.30am and evening holy communion service at 6pm both led by the Rev Chris Upton. West Lane Methodist Church, morning service led by Bernard Thompson at 10.30am. Hall Green Baptist Church, morning family service at 10.30am and at 6pm. The 10.30am includes a creche for under-threes and a Sunday Club for older children. Our Lady of Lourdes, Ebor Lane, holy mass at 10am. Scar Top Chapel service at 2.45pm. Fern Christian Fellowship meet in the Methodist Church hall at 6.30pm.
Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Haworth is organising a parish meal at Chaplin's on Sunday, February 23 at 12.30pm. The cost is £14.50 for a three-course meal. Those interested are asked to add their names to the list at the back of the church.
Keighley Community Transport will be putting on a shoppers' bus service aimed at elderly and disabled peopletel. This will serve the villages of Haworth, Stanbury, Oxenhope and Leeming to the Keighley supermarkets for a trial period. It will pick up and drop off by arrangement. The service for the trial period will be free. Contact Mary on (01535) 609278.
The Haworth, Oxenhope, Lees & Crossroads Gardeners & Allotment Associations 96th annual flower, vegetable and produce show will be held on Sunday, August 17, at Haworth Community Centre, Butt Lane. The subjects for the photography class are The Tour De France and anything else with a Wow factor. Anybody wishing to sponsor a class in the show, contact Geoff Wilkins on (01535) 642633.
The next meeting of the Haworth and Oxenhope District Bridleways Group will be on Tuesday at 8pm, preceded by a junior meeting at 6.45pm. The speaker will be Bex Matteo on Simple Systems (feeding). Members and non-members are always welcome. Membership subscriptions for 2014 are now due as follows: senior £8, junior £4, family £12. Meetings are held monthly, at the Old White Lion Hotel, Haworth. Full details of activities, pictures, adverts, etc can be found on hodbg.org. For further details, please contact Gill Burgess on (01535) 644347; 07799 614763 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
This week the Worth Valley Young Farmers' Club went ice skating to Bradford. It was the first time on the ice for a few members and by the end of the night there were a few sore bums. For further information about the club, visit worthvalley.org.
There will be a six-mile guided circular walk to Catstones End. Meet David Anderson at 10.30am on Wednesday, February 19 at St James's Church, Cross Roads. Packed lunch recommended, but no dogs please.
A Valentine's Day Irish ceilidh will take place in aid of The Massabielle Group who take local people to Lourdes in May. This takes place at Branshaw Golf Club on Saturday from 8-11.30pm. Tickets cost £5.
The Haworth Cinema will have a special showing of the 2011 film Jane Eyre to celebrate St Valentine's Day from 7.30-10pm on Friday at West Lane Baptist Church.
Haworth Craft Fairs will be held at The Old School Rooms at Haworth Parish Church Hall from 10am-4pm on Saturday and Sunday. There will be hand-made gifts, jewellery, toys, chocolates, fudge, truffles, soaps, cushions, throws and handbags.
Naishindokai Martial Arts sessions (children's karate) are now being held upstairs at Parkside Social Club on Monday evenings from 6-7.30pm. Contact Stuart on (01535) 210249 or 07749 075305.
Haworth and Worth Valley Rotary Club meets at the Old Silent Inn, Stanbury, for a meal every Tuesday at 7.30pm for 8pm (but not Tuesdays following a bank holiday). Usually they have a guest speaker. Recently they have been running a "contact the elderly" project. This is to invite the elderly to afternoon teas once a month on a Sunday afternoon. The organiser, Hilary Wharton, (01535) 647531 is seeking some volunteer drivers to help. They would only be required three or four times a year to drive mainly in the Haworth area. For more information on Haworth Rotary Club, visit haworthrotary.org or phone Duncan and Pat Clark on (01535) 643792.
If you would like to join a friendly group of retired ladies who play badminton at Haworth Community Centre on Friday afternoons from 1.30-4pm, we would be glad to see you. It costs £1 for the afternoon session. No racquet needed initially. For more information, ring Margaret on (01535) 681681.
The Community Contact Point at 28 Changegate, Haworth, BD22 8DY, is normally open from noon-4pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, with no Saturday, Sunday or Monday openings. Contact Margaret Smith, the co-ordinator on 644001 or e-mail to email@example.com for more information.


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Internet and Web Applications and Services, International Conference on (2009)
Venice/Mestre, Italy
May 24, 2009 to May 28, 2009
pp: 193-199
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICIW.2009.35
Web applications are becoming increasingly popular. More and more types of multimedia data have been embedded into web pages for providing abundant information and user interface. However, these complex web pages could not be smoothly presented on devices without adequate functionalities or resource. An alternative approach is shifting tasks from resource-constrained device to surrogate with rich resource. In this paper, we present a heterogeneous auto-offloading framework based on web browser, and implement plug-in proxy to offload multimedia processing tasks to heterogeneous surrogate automatically. The plug-in proxy works transparently with existing browser, and does not require modifying, recompiling or relinking. We perform several plug-in proxies of Firefox by offloading multimedia data and execution logic to surrogate, and merging remote display seamlessly with web browser interface. The experimental results show that the proposed framework and plug-in proxies could enrich browser functionalities, reduce resource consumed by client, or improve performance of multimedia tasks.
heterogeneous auto-offloading framework, web browser, resource-constrained devices, plug-in, proxy
Tao Huang, Xue-tao Guan, Yang Zhang, Xu Cheng, "A Heterogeneous Auto-offloading Framework Based on Web Browser for Resource-Constrained Devices", Internet and Web Applications and Services, International Conference on, vol. 00, no. , pp. 193-199, 2009, doi:10.1109/ICIW.2009.35


text: Legendary heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne signed copies of his new book, "Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice From Rock's Ultimate Survivor", yesterday (Saturday, October 22) at The Booksmith in San Francisco, California. Fan-filmed video footage from the event can be seen below.In "Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy", Osbourne embraces his status as a medical marvel to tell incredible stories, offer advice as only he can and shed light on his seemingly superhuman ability to stay alive. Released on October 11, "Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice From Rock's Ultimate Survivor" by Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres (Grand Central Publishing) is the follow-up to 2010's New York Times bestselling memoir "I Am Ozzy", which landed at #2 and #3 on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal non-fiction charts, respectively. Based on his ongoing Rolling Stone (U.S.) Sunday Times (U.K.) columns, "Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy" will include some of the best material from the columns, as well as survival stories not found in Ozzy's memoir, his answers to celebrities' medical questions, charts and sidebars, and much more. The best way to describe this book is 100% Ozzy part memoir and part advice column, delivered with Ozzy's famous wit and humor. It's comprised of reader-submitted medical and lifestyle questions, Ozzy digs deep into his murky past, searching for pearls of "wisdom." Although Ozzy said at the start that his medical advice column was not meant to be taken seriously, he said on the October 13 edition of NBC-TV's "Today" show that he now thinks he's the perfect person to dispense health tips to people. Speaking with interviewer Jenna Hager, Ozzy said, "It started as a joke at first. I survived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and the drinking and the drugs and I learned to tell the tale. People along the way would say what's this pill? What's that pill? Is this any good for that? And I'd go, 'Well, I've sampled quite a variety and so I think I thought it would be funny to do a spoof on that.'" Now, however, Ozzy is not joking about some of the advice he doles out, especially to young men, whom he says should seek out medical attention the minute they see a strange lump or rash. Ozzy said, "Go see your doctor, that's what they're there for." Ozzy said that his own paranoia about health made him convince his wife Sharon to visit a doctor when she was not feeling well. She ended up being diagnosed with colon cancer and getting successfully treated for it. The BLACK SABBATH singer who is in the early stages of reuniting with the group for a new album and tour said he's sober but "still crazy" nowadays, adding that sobriety allowed him to finally get his driver's license and buy his own car, a Ferrari.


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Mass Times Santiago | on the last 100km of the French Way posted: 2016-09-19 08:54:00
Below you will find an indicative schedule for Mass times Santiago, along The French Way from Sarria to Santiago in different towns during the last 100km of the pilgrimage into Santiago de Compostela:
Parroquia de Ntra. Sra. Del Rosario:
Sundays and holidays: 12.00 Weekdays: 19.00
Iglesia de Santa Marina:
Sundays and holidays: 12.00 Mondays to Saturday: 9.00
Daily: 19.30. Pilgrim blessing, a visit and a Camino passport stamp (March to October): from 11.00 to 13.00 and from 17.00 to 21.00
Convento de la Merced:
Sundays and holidays: 13.00 Monday to Saturday: 18.30 / Summer hours: 20.00
Confession: If it is requested and during worship.
Visit and stemping of Camino passport: from 10.00 to 13.00 and from 16.30 to 19.00
Capilla de San Lázaro:
Sundays: 12.00 Monday to Saturday: 19.00
Iglesia de El Salvador:
Sundays and holidays: 9.30
Sundays and holy days/holidays: 12.30
Evening before Sundays and holidays: 19.30 Daily: 19.00 (with pilgrim blessing)
Sundays and holidays: 12.30
Daily: 20.00 (with pilgrim blessing)
Sundays and holidays: 13.30 and 20.00 Daily: 20.00
Sundays and holidays: 10.00, 11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 17.30 and 19.00
Weekdays: 10.00 and 19.15
BOENTE (between Melide and Arzua)
Sundays and holidays: 12.15 (from June to September) and 13.00 (all other months)
Sundays and holidays: 10.30, 12.30, 19.00 in winter and 20.00 in summer
Evening before Sundays and holidays: 19.00 in winter and 20.00 in summer
Weekdays: 8.30, 19.00 in winter and 20.00 in summer
The Cathedral of Santiago is quite a spectacle and thankfully is open all year round so it is a very welcome sight when you arrive in Santiago de Compostela after your pilgrimage to sit down and attend church at a mass time Santiago that suits you. It is certainly something very special and humbling so be prepared to have some sort of emotion opened up in your core. Also the famous Botafumeiro is a sight to behold. Read more on the Botafumerio here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botafumeiro
Opening hours: 7:00 am to 9:00 pm.
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By unanimous vote today, the Tennessee Health Services and Development Agency granted a certificate of need to Methodist to construct a replacement emergency department at Methodist University Hospital. To better serve patients and increase efficiency, Methodist University Hospital, 1265 Union Avenue, will undertake this $33 million project.
"This is a win for not only for patients in midtown and downtown Memphis area and the Memphis Medical District, but for patients all over the Mid-South," said Kevin M. Spiegel, FACHE, chief executive officer of Methodist University Hospital. "Methodist University Hospital serves as a tertiary/quaternary academic medical center for five counties, as it is the major teaching hospital for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center."
The new emergency department will essentially become the "front door" of the hospital on Eastmoreland. Two adjoining buildings on the campus, the Doctors' building and the West buildings at the corner of Bellevue and Eastmoreland will be demolished. The new emergency department will be a two-story structure with a heliport on the roof. The lower level will house the new ambulance entrance and parking area with elevators to the main floor. The project adds 93,000 square feet of new space and includes 6,200 square feet of renovated space. The estimated total project costs are $33,488,985.
The new center adds 16 patient treatment areas bringing the total treatment areas in the center to 54. The center will be built to green building design standards and the hospital will seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification.
The Methodist University Hospital emergency department is certified by the Joint Commission as a Stroke Center and Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Center, and is also certified by the Society for Chest Pain Centers for Cycle IV Accreditation. The emergency department has experienced intense volume growth over the last five years from almost 47,000 visits (2007) to almost 57,000 visits (2011), and this upward trend is expected to continue. The new emergency department will be able to accommodate 70,000 patients annually.
"By expanding and repositioning our ambulance bays, pre-hospital care providers will be able to offload patients with greater efficiency in a larger covered space," said Spiegel.
This project will also improve design for disaster planning with convertible space. The lower level space designated for ambulance bays can be converted to a mass decontamination area. The observation beds in the main emergency department are positioned so that they can easily be sealed off for decontamination if needed.
The project will take approximately two years to complete.


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JERUSALEM (May. 25)
The release of 11 imprisoned Syrian Jews last week coincided with a rising tide of protests all over the world on behalf of Syria's 4500 strong Jewish community and demands for the release of four more Jewish prisoners, including Albert Elias, the kidnaped former head of the Jewish community in Beirut, Lebanon. Local members of the World Committee for Syrian Jews, which is headed by Alain Poher, president of the French Senate, summarized the worldwide activities aimed at ending the persecution of Syrian Jews and the full restoration of their civil rights.
In London, the Minister of State for the Foreign Office, Joseph Godber, said in reply to a question in the House of Commons that his government was attentive to the plight of Syrian Jews. Some members of parliament joined members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews keeping an all night vigil outside of the Syrian Embassy.
The Syrian Embassy and the Syrian Airline office in Rome was picketed and thousands of handbills were distributed. A kiosk was set up in the Piazza Navone where passers-by were asked to sign a petition for Syrian Jews to be sent to President Hafez Assad in Damascus. Twelve newspapers carried articles on the plight of Syrian Jews and telegrams were sent to President Assad by the Italian League for Human Rights.
The Egyptian Embassy in Stockholm was picketed and the Goteborg newspaper, Goteborg Handels, published an article under the caption, "Even the Right To Cry Is Denied Syrian Jews." Amnesty International in Sweden and the Stockholm Committee for Jews in Arab Lands sent protest telegrams to Damascus, In Helsinki, well known Finnish personalities sent protests to Assad and to the United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.
In Caracas, the chairman of the Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee, who is president of the Venezuelan Committee for Syrian Jews, announced that his government has instructed its representatives to international organizations and its Ambassador in Damascus to act on behalf of Syrian Jews. The Arch bishop of Venezuela, Cardinal Kittner, learned of the condition of Syrian Jews at a meeting with representatives of the Jewish community, according to the Catholic newspaper. La Religion.
In Montevideo, the Uruguayan Committee for Arab Jewry sent a protest cable to Assad. In Oslo, scores of Norwegians signed a petition to Assad urging the release of Jewish prisoners and permission for Syrian Jews to go to Israel.


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Book Review: The Team that Changed Baseball
A writer of non-fiction faces four basic challenges:
1. The writer must choose subject matter that is inherently interesting. No matter how thoroughly researched or well-written, some subjects are simply not destined to grab and hold a reader's attention, either because the issue itself is just plain dull, or perhaps because it's a great subject but it's already been covered to death. And even after selecting the right juicy topic, the writer must decide from what angle to approach it and make wise choices regarding which aspects to highlight and which to downplay or ignore.
2. The writer must present thorough research and fundamentally get the facts straight. This may seem simple and obvious, but every writer of non-fiction will acknowledge that it sounds a lot easier to do than it is, and every reader of non-fiction will note that it's all too often not accomplished. It's fundamental, it's crucial, and yet its non-achievement is the most common failing in non-fiction work: to dig beyond the superficial, and to get the details right.
3. The writer must do more than just present interesting facts and details: unless the work is expressly intended as pure reference material, the writer must interpret the facts. We read non-fiction not just to learn (or to be reminded) what happened, but to gain deeper insight into why it happened, and what were its consequences, and how things might plausibly have transpired differently. At its best, this insight is fresh and penetrating: it stimulates us to see the events in a new light, to make connections we hadn't made, and to question our prior assumptions.
4. Most difficult of all: the writer must present all of this with élan. A dry, encyclopedic rendering of facts, and even of opinions, won't engage and delight the reader nearly as deeply as the same content delivered with genuine style. Nor can the style overshadow the substance; too much, self-consciously imposed, mugging for the reader's attention, is generally worse than too little. The prose must be organically infused with grace, with wit, with cleverness, and with passion, yet with a delicate touch that animates the subject matter without overwhelming it.
Managing all of this is no easy task, of course. Few works, in the baseball genre or anywhere else, fully succeed on all four counts. Those that do are the ones we hail as classics, as towering landmarks of non-fiction achievement. They set the gold standard that the best writers strive to attain.
Bruce Markusen's latest book is The Team that Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates. It's a serious work of baseball history, and it deserves serious consideration against the highest standards of non-fiction writing.
Subject Matter
Grade: A+
The period of the late 1960s and early 1970s is one of the most vibrant in recent American history. Against the backdrop of the chronic, wrenching, divisive, demoralizing Vietnam War, the nation was embroiled in cultural and political upheaval, fracturing racial, gender, class, and generational fault lines as few periods have. In this wildly unsettled time, the 1971 Pirates were a dashing, raucous, multi-layered, and exquisitely talented baseball team, forging a division, league, and World Series championship while presenting the most racially and culturally integrated roster yet seen in professional sports.
Yet somehow the Pirates failed to capture the national imagination as thoroughly as they might have: they weren't as celebrated at the time as such ball clubs as the 1969 New York Mets, or the 1972–74 Oakland A's (the subject of an earlier Markusen book). The Pirates' World Series victory was an upset over the immensely talented and highly respected Baltimore Orioles, a fascinating bunch in its own right, featuring such magnificent characters as Frank Robinson, Earl Weaver, and Jim Palmer. Yet taking all of the on-field and off-field considerations into account (most particularly, as Markusen pointedly does, the fact that on September 1st of 1971, the Pirates fielded the very first all-black starting lineup in major league history), it may well be the case that the '71 Pirates are the single most compelling team of that era.
This is a story that deserves to be told, and it hasn't been, at least not this fully.
Research and Accuracy
Grade: A-
This is where Markusen's strengths most come to the fore. The book was many years in the making, and the painstaking depth and quality of research shines through on page after page. Countless little-known details and anecdotes are presented, the bounty of many painstaking hours at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, and most tellingly, the payoff of interviews with many key 1971 Pirates' players, as well as General Manager Joe Brown, coach Bill Virdon, and broadcaster Nellie King.
The Pirates' 1971 season is told on a nearly game-by-game, and sometimes it seems nearly inning-by-inning, basis. If this impeccably detailed chronology can veer into the mind-numbing—and we'll get to that—it never fails to impress with its catalogue of facts, big and small, familiar and obscure, all impeccably proofread and fact-checked.
Well, almost all. The book doesn't quite get right the background story of superstar Roberto Clemente's 1954 acquisition by Pittsburgh. Markusen doesn't flub it nearly as badly as did a recent high-profile Clemente biography, and it's certainly true that the details of a 1954 transaction are hardly central to the story of the 1971 team, but it is the case that Clemente is as close to a single central character as this book has—his name is in the subtitle, after all—and, hey, if you're going to include this detail, it should be correct. See the References and Resources section below for the specifics.
We'll have to give Markusen a minor ding for that, but overall this book is extremely thorough and precise.
Grade: C
The book does a wonderful job of allowing us to get to know the major characters as people, beyond their exploits on the field. Clemente, Danny Murtaugh, Willie Stargell, and Steve Blass shine through in particular as complex, multi-dimensional personalities.
And Markusen focuses on the issue of the racial integration of the Pirates' roster as a central theme, demonstrating how the organization under General Manager Brown went about player evaluation and selection in a remarkably color-blind manner, in distinct contrast to the semi-integrated standard of the day. However, it must be said that there is more to this troubling issue than Markusen explores. The book doesn't delve very deeply at all into the larger context of black/white racial, and/or Latino/Anglo cultural, complexities as they stewed in the turbulent Pittsburgh of the early 1970s, nor of the nation at large.
Nor does the book make much effort to place the Pirates and major league baseball of the day into the still broader context of the US in 1971: the Vietnam War and its consequent (often violent) public protests, the counterculture and the drug culture (a particularly rich vein to explore with the acid-dropping Dock Ellis at hand), the economic struggles of the city of Pittsburgh (and similar "Rust Belt" baseball towns such as Cleveland and Detroit) and its impact on baseball attendance, or the dark and stormy U.S. political climate under the Nixon administration. Instead, outside of frequent comments by Pirates' players about their interpersonal relationships with teammates, the book focuses almost entirely upon the games on the field—indeed it covers the games on the field in close to day-by-day, almost play-by-play detail.
Thus, as an insight into the particular men who comprised the 1971 Pirates and their daily adventures in achieving their championship season, the book is invaluable. However, it eschews multiple and obvious opportunities to explore wider and deeper means to connect this baseball team and season with particular and fascinating surroundings. Markusen could have done much more with this than he does.
Grade: D
Okay, let's state the good news: Markusen most definitely avoids the sin of laying on too much style. "Overwritten" is an adjective that never comes close to describing this book.
Alas, the book exhibits essentially no writing style whatsoever. Facts, dates, and quotes are all presented in a basic, straightforward manner. The story follows a simple, no-nonsense chronological line, from spring training trough to the World Series. All is offered in a manner that is clear, direct, and—well, there's just no other way to say it—somewhat dull.
This is not a book in which the reader will be delighted with the author's subtle humor (or even unsubtle humor), or startled by the author's anger, or inspired by the author's passion, or perplexed by the author's point of view, or even just impressed by the author's clever turn of phrase. Instead, alas, the book reads as dry and colorless as a textbook: it doggedly, steadfastly plods along, in a bland, safe monotone.
The Bottom Line
So, this is a book with some clear strengths and clear weaknesses. I guess that means it won't go down in history as one of the great classics of the genre (but then, how many do?), nor even is it just a good book for every reader. Some will no doubt find it much more satisfying than others.
I'd sum it up this way:
– Pirates fans, especially Pirates fans who were thrilled to watch that great 1971 team, will love this book.
– Fanciers of baseball history, especially the baseball history of the 1970s, will find a lot of value in it.
– Those interested in understanding the interrelationship between what was going on in MLB in the 1970s and the larger U.S. reality won't get a whole lot out of this one.
– Fanciers of elegant writing will, shall we say, not be enthralled.
As for me, I'm not a Pirates fan, (though I did, as an adolescent, play a complete Strat-o-Matic season with the 1970 Pirates, just because they were such an interestingly constructed team), so set that aside in my case. But as a baseball historian, I learned a lot from this book, and will likely turn to it as a resource. As one deeply interested in the placement of baseball within the larger culture, and as a lover of great writing, this book doesn't do anything for me.
But one out of three ain't bad; last I checked that's a .333 average. The kind of mark Clemente used to put up. I give this book a modulated thumbs-up.
References & Resources
Markusen asserts (page 46) that the Pirates were able to draft Clemente from the Brooklyn Dodgers because:
In 1954, other teams had the option of drafting players who had been given substantial bonuses and had not been protected on a 40-man major league roster. Since Clemente had received a bonus of well over the $4,000 limit, he fell into the category of unprotected players.
This isn't exactly untrue, but it rather misses the point. There was nothing special about the rules of 1954 or about Clemente's bonus that led to his being drafted: the Rule V draft had been in effect for decades prior to 1954 (and exists to this day), and Clemente wasn't available for the draft because of his bonus (which technically had been paid by the Montreal Royals of the International League, the holder of his contract), he was available for the draft because he wasn't on the Brooklyn 40-man roster, period. The bonus issue here is a red herring; Clemente was plucked in the 1954 Rule V draft just as were 56 other players from many other minor league teams (including such luminaries as Jim King, Glen Gorbous, and Mickey Grasso), and their defining status wasn't what bonus amounts they had or hadn't received, rather it was that none of them were included on a major league roster.
Bruce Markusen and I don't know each other well, but I'm confident that I speak for him when I say we're friends. I've had the pleasure of meeting him personally on a couple of my sojourns to his hometown of Cooperstown, New York (quaint little burg, you may have heard of it) over the past few years, and we've engaged in quite a few e-mail exchanges. At Bruce's request, I contributed a few tidbits to his book Tales from the Mets Dugout. I wrote this review at Bruce's request as well, and I trust he will appreciate the criticisms within it, as well as the compliments, as sincerely presented in the spirit of collegial respect.
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text: Hart & Huntington: On The Move Shan Moore | January 14, 2011When freestyler Cary Hart's Hart & Huntington Supercross team first broke onto the scene a few years ago it was more about smoke, loud music and girls than anything. To be honest, a lot of people in the industry didn't take them seriously. However, four years later, with backing from Dodge and Bel-Ray, H&H is a legit top-five team, and hoping to score a podium this year with 450 veteran Ivan Tedesco on the bike.At the opening round of the series in Anaheim, Tedesco grabbed the holeshot in his heat race and in the main event, and ran up front until chassis issues forced him to back off the pace for an eventual seventh place finish. However, heading into Phoenix, H&H team manager Kenny Watson feels the team is moving in the right direction. Cycle News spoke Watson about the progress of the team.Things seem to be coming together pretty well for the Hart & Huntington Supercross effort. Talk a little bit about this year's team. We are stepping up to a new level in 2011. Every year we have moved up to a different level and this year we have raised the bar, we are almost at the top bar. We've got some top riders and it's going to be an exciting year. We've got Chris Blose back with us, and we're expecting good things from him. No pressure, but we're expecting him to go out and do his best. Hopefully, we can get him into the top 10.We also have signed Josh Hill. We picked him up because we believe in him, first of all. We're the type of people that pick people up when they're down. A lot of people don't believe in Josh, they say he's done, but he's only 20 years old, so we're giving him a chance. He's hurt right now, be we're going to use him this year as kind of a media/PR guy. He's going to handle all of our interviews and dealer signings and TV and some stuff at the track with FELD. He's going to be out in front of the TV cameras for the fans, when the other guys can't do it because they are out riding.We picked up Ivan Tedesco for 2011 and a lot of people don't understand Ivan. He's had some issues the past few years, he was having problems with arm-pump and fatigue and he thought he was over-training, but they finally figured out the problem and he is working though it. He was diagnosed with Hypoglycemia so he had to change with his diet and he's getting that taken care of. Ivan is riding really well and he is super excited and he's happy and so are we.What have you done, behind the scenes, to raise the bar?We hired Tony Berluti, who worked as a mechanic with Suzuki for years, and Kyle Bentley, who was Christophe Pourcel's mechanic at Pro Circuit. We also picked up Pro Circuit to do all of our suspension and motor work. We're also blessed to have a really good dealership behind us, Jacksonville Powersports. Jeff Lewis is a guy who helped me out at Moto XXX back in the day and it's gone full circle and he's helping us again. First of all, we're on Kawasaki's this year and Jacksonville Motorsports supplies our bikes and parts for this year. Kawasaki does absolutely nothing for our program… they don't give us parts, they don't give us bikes. They let our guys ride their Supercross track, which is cool, we're grateful for that. But they have their own thing and we have our own thing.Dodge is another big backer for us, along with Bel Ray, Arna Energy Nuts, and Contour Camera, and we are blessed to have them all on board. With these sponsors we're able to buy what we need and get what we need and not have to rub nickels together, so it exciting.Go back and talk about how the Hart & Huntington team first came about.When we started the team four years ago, Cary [Hart] was still racing Supermoto and I was kind of between jobs, and Cary and I are friends from way back, and he asked me to help him with the Supermoto program just on the weekends. I did and I kind of seen something there, how the fans were attracted to the team and how marketable Cary was. Donnie Wanat was with the program back then and he and I talked to Cary about doing a Supercoss team. So we got Rockstar involved and we knew we had to start at the bottom with a grass roots approach. We also knew we could have a strong pit presence and get the people there. But it takes a while to build a program where you get the riders to believe in it. I've built teams before and I kind of knew what to do and I knew that you could have the best riders in the world but if they are pushing their bikes off the track then you're just spinning our wheels. So I like to build things from the inside out and start with some solid mechanics and work that way. When we picked up Berluti it really elevated the program. Tony is a great mechanic but he's not just a parts changer, he's an R&D guy. He can develop parts, he can work with the chasis and that kind of elevated our program.Talk more about the Dodge sponsorship.Well, starting out, some people in the industry liked us and some didn't. Some said we were just a novelty and just a sideshow in the pits. When we got started we had a three-year plan. We had a three-year contract with Rockstar and we decided if we couldn't build a good team in that three years and show to the industry and the outside world that we are marketable and a serious team, then we're going to go away. We're not just going to the races to get 10th place. But things came together and we had a sponsor with the team who had Dodge as a client and one thing led to the next and Dodge was interested in talking to Cary and we came away with a three-year deal with Dodge. It's not dancing girls and smoke shows any more, it's a legit, let's-go-racing kind of program. We're going to walk that fine line. We're still going to be a little bit on the edge, but we're going to be a legit race team.There were rumors that you were talking to Chad Reed. Tell us what you can about that.Well, our connection with Chad is that Steve Astephen with WMG is Chad's manager; and he's Cary's manager too. WMG works with their athlete kind of as a family, and I'm not saying they share sponsors, but they try to keep it all under the same umbrella. Chad was without a ride and Chad and Cary are real good friends and we had a deal that was real close. We were riding Honda's at the time and Honda gave us an offer that was really good and it looked like Chad was in. When we put the deal in front of Dodge they agreed on it but when it went to legal they kicked it back because of branding. Dodge and Honda both are competing car manufacturers, so they didn't want to do the deal. So we had to decide what bike manufacturer we wanted to go with and we literally had three to chose from: blue, orange or green. We had to step back and look at the performance end of things and who was going to build our stuff. I went down to Mitch Payton and he really stepped up, which meant we would be going with Kawasaki. But Chad really liked the Honda and he wanted to stay on Honda and he had a really bad taste in his mouth from Kawasaki, so he decided he wanted to go his own direction on a Honda, and it was no hard feelings.You and JGRMX are the only major teams not based in Southern California. Do you see that as an advantage or a disadvantage?I think it's an advantage. We have a really strong base here in Vegas and we don't have to buy into all the California bullshit. We don't get caught up in what's going on in California; my riders don't get caught up in it. You can go to the grocery store and you don't see the whole industry in the supermarket. They don't know what's going on with your personal life and we try to stay away from that kind of stuff. Also, for us it's good because we have a good track here in Vegas and it's been raining so much in SoCal the last few winters so we are not affected by that. A lot of guys are coming up here to ride because it's so wet to ride.What are your goals for the team? Our goals are to win races and eventually win a championship. By 2012 we hope to have a top-four guy on our team. I think this year we have to build and get those guys to believe in our program. We need to have some strong finishes with Ivan and we want to keep Ivan here to finish out his career, and I think if we can get one more banger to go with Ivan and Josh, then I think we are going to be a threat all across the board. It might be a pipe dream, but my goal is to look at that podium one night and see Hart & Huntington guys on all three steps. Shan Moore | Contributing EditorMoore covers all facets of off-road racing for Cycle News – from AMA Supercross and Motocross to GNCC and National Hare Scrambles events. Comments


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In the hours immediately following Saturday's crash of an Asiana Airlines jumbo jet at San Francisco's airport, dozens of United Airlines employees were scrambled to tend to the needs of survivors at area hospitals and at the airport terminal.
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Max Dougherty, an otherwise sane 28-year-old American male, has a tattoo of the Red Sox logo on his left chest and two cats named after members of the Red Sox team, and he never wears anything other than red socks.
He also once wet himself after a Red Sox win in the playoffs.
On purpose.
This was in 1999. There were 30 people at his apartment. His sister said she was so nervous she could pee her pants, and he told her that he would if the Red Sox won. Max Dougherty is a man of his word.
The front of his khakis turned dark.
The American League Championship Series now shifts up here. With the series tied at 1-1, Game 3 is this afternoon at Fenway Park. The Rays will be up against not only Papi (David Ortiz), Pedey (Dustin Pedroia) and Youk (Kevin Youkilis), but thousands of loud-mouthed rowdies like Dougherty.
Are Red Sox fans cocksure and obnoxious or passionate and devoted? Are they earnestly intense or pee-your-pants insane? Probably a bit of all of the above.
They can't help it. Their fawthahs behaved this way. Their fawthahs' fawthahs behaved this way.
By now this is part of the rhythm of this region. In October, temperatures drop, leaves turn, and the lights come on at Fenway. And now these fans expect to win.
It wasn't always this way.
For the better part of a century they were brooding and fatalistic. Some said they were cursed. They were losers is what they were. They were such spectacular losers, in fact, that America began to pity these poor people.
The Red Sox lost the World Series in 1946 in seven games.
And in '67.
And again in '75.
And again in '86.
That year, when the Red Sox were one strike away and still lost, Dougherty was a boy in Peabody, Mass., the indoctrinated son of a longtime season ticket holder, and after that blown World Series his fawthah went into his office for a couple of days and drank Cognac and smoked cigars alone. The boy and his mother cracked the door.
"Go away!"
Shut it again.
But then the Red Sox won in '04. Then they won again in '07.
"Now we're greedy," Dougherty said.
They sleep on the sidewalk behind Fenway for days just for the chance to get tickets. They have crammed into the park for almost 500 straight sellouts. They no longer brood and wail, at least not nearly so much, but they do buy Red Sox dinner plates and Red Sox champagne flutes and Red Sox shirts and caps that are not just blue and red but now also camo and tie-dye and jump-the-shark pink.
They travel the country and take over stadiums that aren't theirs. That drunk guy who last month at the Trop had to be wrestled into submission by security guards and sheriff's deputies on the top of the dugout? Red Sox fan. And proud of it.
In suburban Wellesley, Mass., there's a woman named Lynne Smith who after the '04 World Series turned her downstairs bathroom into a painted panoramic Fenway replica. On the back of the door is a huge life-size painting of David Ortiz.
"While you're using the potty," Smith said, "David's watching you."
Sometimes she talks to him.
"David, are you going to get a hit tonight?"
She was at the Trop for Games 1 and 2. She's already looked into hotel availability in Philadelphia for the World Series.
Walk around Fenway these last few days, talk to the fans, and a consensus becomes clear: They think the Trop is an atrocity. They hate the cowbells. They think the Rays could test the Red Sox. But beat them? In October? Please.
But they respect the Rays. They respect Joe Maddon and Evan Longoria and Carl Crawford. Good young team. Play hard. Play right. They respect all that.
They just don't respect you.
They think Rays fans are a bunch of fair-weather bandwagon jumpers.
Up here the night before the first game of the series, on all-sports radio station WEEI, a guy called in to say the Rays fans are "lame" and "don't deserve to have the pennant flying over that piece of crap ballpark."
By Friday night for Game 1, Dougherty, who works in a souvenir store by Fenway, was in the apartment he shares with three roommates, a fat black cat named Big Papi and a smaller, feisty gray cat named Roia, as in Pedroia. Here he has his Red Sox tie and his Red Sox backpack and his Red Sox work gloves and his three drawers and additional trash bag of Red Sox T-shirts.
Game time.
He sat stiff and focused on his couch covered with his world champs blanket and poured a Sam Adams Octoberfest into his world champs pint glass and lit a Camel cigarette with his Red Sox lighter.
On the screen was a picture of the Trop.
"God-awful," he said.
A shot of fans clanging those cowbells.
"In Boston we don't need noisemakers," he said. "In Boston our noisemakers are our throats and our hands."
The Trop got quiet late in the game.
"SITTING ON YOUR COWBELLS?!?" he yelled at the TV.
He lit another Camel.
He drank another Sam.
He turned up the volume.
Michael Kruse can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (727) 869-6244.


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Letters 3-20-2013
Task forces
A reasonable structure recommendation
Two articles in Sunday's West Hawaii Today illuminated problems associated with Hawaii government task forces:
The Hawaii Senate Health Committee voted to approve setting up a task force to study the potential Banner Health takeover of the Maui and Big Island hospitals from Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.
The other article was about the Ethics Commission and problems with the Mortgage Foreclosure Task Force.
Who sits on this hospital task force is of great importance. When members of a task force have a personal interest in the outcome, it reduces the effectiveness of the group for several reasons. One, opposing interests can lead to contentious proceedings and two, it can foster political horse trading where everyone gets what he wants — to the detriment of the taxpayers — and three, important information may not be revealed.
From personal experience, I believe the task force should include ordinary citizens who haven't any direct connection to or financial benefit from the outcome. The task force would operate like a grand jury, asking questions of the stakeholders, who would present their positions and offer their expert opinions to the task force members.
A little over 10 years ago I sat on a task force studying the expansion of the courthouse facilities in Reno, Nev. The Washoe County Commission took applications from any citizen who wanted to participate. As far as I know no one was turned down and we ended up with about 18 members, none of whom had a direct personal or financial interest in the outcome. Despite their protestations, the Washoe County Commission declined to include a representative from the district attorney's office, the judges, or any other stakeholder.
The committee met in midwinter, early evening, twice a week for about two months. We interviewed the stakeholders, their representatives and outside sources. Any one who wanted to present information was heard.
A few of the things we discovered that might not have been revealed had the task force consisted of stakeholders only, were that an existing facility could support additional floors, that each judge did not need his own courtroom because of the many cases settled before trail, and the courtrooms in the huge justice facilities being constructed in Las Vegas at that time were not complying with "national size standards" because of the additional cost.
We presented our findings to the Washoe County Commission in a short period of time and most of our recommendations were followed in the subsequent expansion of facilities.
The Hawaii Legislature has the Stroudwater Report that was completed while I served on the West Hawaii Hospital Board at a cost of $750,000, as well as at least four other studies that all pretty much offer the same recommendations. These studies have cost over a couple of million dollars.
The Legislature knows what needs to be done. If legislators want to delay their decision longer by having a task force, fine, but put lay people on the task force who are interested and impartial and will deliver an honest appraisal, not union members and hospital administrators or medical staff —who have their own interest to promote.
Give them a deadline for their report. The Legislature just might be informed and pleased by the results.
Michael C. Robinson
It's who you are
When I moved to Hawaii in 1965, both kanaka and haole were derogatory terms.
Kui Lee spent much of his too short life trying to return kanaka to its original meaning, "born of the land." Haole means "foreigner."
I am a haole — I was not born here. It is the same in Japan. You are either a "nihonjin" or a "gaijin" native-born or foreigner.
These are descriptive terms. How can you be angry about being described as what or who you are?
Annette LaBonte
Banyan Tree
Not the right thing
As I watch the heavy equipment knock down the trunk of the 130-year-old banyan tree at the Catholic church, I ask myself why.
Now I'm listening to the chain saws tear through its flesh and feel like a family member is being dismembered. It's so sad.
With all of the community concern surely there could have been some way to save this tree.
I was born and raised Catholic and always thought the church would do the right thing when it came to community.
I guess not in this case.
John Phillips
Solid waste
What are we to do?
I read with broken heart about the closing of the metal waste in Hilo and Kona.
We have enough metal junk on the sides of our roads as is. But now with this "saving money" idea the landscape will become more ugly.
What are folks to do, pile it up in their yard on empty lots? Or are we to do as many people already do, dump it along the sides of the road?
Or maybe there is a good old boy with a business that is ready to charge for removal?
Please, do not close these assets to us.
It is hard enough to enjoy a drive on our roads as is.
Candi Baker
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Those were the days
Amoco — Standard Oil of Indiana. It strode the Midwest as a colossus and spent most of its domestic criminal time simply trying kill people one-at-a-time by having marble fall off it's giant over-compensating monolith in Chicago.
Yes, those were the days, when like Union Carbide, the patriotic corporations only tried to commit their greater crimes abroad. For instance, in the in the last quarter of the 20th century Amoco launched sister ships of mass destruction to take out France and then, in turn, Italy.
But then BP bought out Amoco, and suddenly the oil disasters make it to this country.
It's almost as if this stuff starts wars and causes environmental disaster, irrespective of arbitrary international borders and politics and perhaps we should find a way to rid ourselves of its curse?


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Just put these up on my website - two more Christmas Cards and a New Baby Card. I keep saying I've done Christmas but still keep coming up with more !! I used Glamour Dust to give some sparkle to the Chimney Card and I ran the JOY letters on the baby card and the letters on the Noel card through my Cuttlebug using the swiss dots folder. I think I have almost worn that folder out as I use more than any other I've got.
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As players from around the globe kept pouring in birdies - relative unknown players like Prayad Marksaeng and Jeev Milka Singh, followed by the familiar name of Phil Mickelson - Tiger Woods was stuck in the middle of the CA Championship pack.
Mickelson chipped in three times on his way to a 7-under-par 65 in Doral, Fla., that gave him a four-way share of the lead with Retief Goosen, Marksaeng, and Singh.
Woods made only three birdies - two on par 5s - and had to settle for a 71 that put him in a tie for 40th.
"I need to be a touch sharper," said Woods, who has never finished out of the top 10 at Doral.
Mickelson has rarely been this excited. He can't recall hitting the ball this long or having a short game this superb. Along with taking only eight putts on the back nine, he pounded a tee shot so far that he had wedge left for his second shot on the par-5 first hole.
Singh ran off five birdies in a six-hole stretch around the turn and was the first player to post a 65 on a balmy, breezy afternoon. Goosen, switching back to a conventional putter, ran off eight birdies in his round of 65. And the real surprise was Marksaeng, of Thailand, who shot 30 on his back nine.
PGA - Monday qualifier Derek Lamely and 20-year-old Australian Jason Day shot 6-under 66s in windy, sometimes rainy conditions to share the first-round lead in the Puerto Rico Open in Rio Grande.
Nationwide - Americans Josh Teater, Todd Demsey, and Alex Prugh shot 7-under 65s to share the first-round lead in the New Zealand Open in Queenstown.


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Rum, buggery and the lash sail into the Washington National Opera with Francesca Zambello's production of Benjamin Britten's sea-going epic Billy Budd. Alas, if only there had been some actual buggery t'would've been such a bonny night! Sadly, the climaxes are all allegorical, not actual.
Never mind. This is a fascinating piece, a thinking person's opera, well worth the price of admission just for the intellectual challenge. The story is based on a novella by Herman Melville, with libretto by novelist E.M. Forster. It aims to pit good versus evil in the form of the guileless Billy Budd and the menacing Master-At-Arms Claggart. Pivotal and yet ultimately helpless in the unfolding crisis is the Captain of the ship, Vere. That's really all there is to it plot-wise, the rest is philosophically up for grabs. Or not.
See, the thing about an opera like this — and what's so admirable about the Washington National Opera taking it on — is that you'll find it either a jumping off point for a long evening's contemplation of evil's need to destroy good, or you'll spend two and a half hours hoping Claggart finally bends Budd over the rails and gives him what's for. In other words, you'll be riveted or bored beyond reason. There is simply no scope in the story or the libretto for compromise. That, coupled with the rather hokey and obvious homoerotic overtones, is bound to tweak the loyalties of the gala-going subscribers — and thus, you've got to hand to the company for taking the risk.
But all the risky stuff aside, there are still oodles of good solid conventional theater and singing to enjoy. The choreography of the sailors in, over, and around their schematic ship is a masterpiece of planning and visual interpretation. There is, all told, an awful lot of scuffling to and fro and yet somehow it never gets tiresome. And the scene in which the ship prepares for battle and all hands ready for action, is brilliantly conceived and executed.
The chorus — all men, all sailors — give the opera its best moments of atmosphere. They turn sea shanties into oceans of sound ebbing and flowing like the tides. Quite magical. Dwayne Croft in the title role sings with grace, gorgeous tone and some real gay abandon. What else can he do with such an odd role? He is meant to epitomize male beauty, both in soul and physique, with almost no characterization whatsoever other than appearing to be a fairly affable shlub. He aptly defies the gaps in believability with tremendous bids at expression during his "monologues."
Similarly, Samuel Ramey as Claggart and Robin Leggate as Vere work their single dimensions with intensity. Ramey has the hardest task as Claggart is denied any self-exploration; he is simply the Man Who Must Kill What He Would Bugger. Ramey embraces the personification, but it only just works. He gives Claggart no real angst; he is robotic and it draws some power from the central crisis of the opera. Leggate has the advantage of actually having some character development to work with and he provides some of the more conventional emotional moments. Despite the allegorical context, they are touching.
Finally, the WNO orchestra does a stupendous job with the score under the amazing baton of conductor Richard Hickox.
So, you may have heard the buzz about the WNO staging a gay opera and jump to go. By all means, try it. Bear in mind, despite a few bare chests and some antiquated allusions to shipboard S&M, this is a long, inaccessible evening for most.