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Chacin progressing toward big league return
LOS ANGELES -- Rockies right-hander Jhoulys Chacin's right shoulder felt healthy and closer to sharpness after a 4 2/3-inning rehab performance for Triple-A Colorado Springs on Thursday night, head athletic trainer Keith Dugger said Friday.
Rockies manager Walt Weiss said the club has not determined if Chacin's next start will be with the Rockies, or again with Colorado Springs. If he continues the rehab assignment, and he can throw up to two more times, the next start will be Tuesday night at Memphis.
Chacin sustained the injury before even throwing a bullpen session in Spring Training, but he was shut down before the problem became worse. The Rockies consider Chacin at about at the stage of the last or next-to-last start of Spring Training.
Chacin threw 80 pitches over 4 2/3 innings, giving up five hits and four runs (two earned) for Colorado Springs against Iowa.
"He felt good, I talked to him this morning, and actually he threw all right, and he came out of the game with two guys on," Dugger said. "Health-wise, he felt real good and he felt he had better control. His offspeed was good, his changeup was good, and slider was probably the best his slider has been. He had a better feel for it."
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Newcastle's successful march back to the Premier League was capped at Plymouth as they secured the Coca-Cola Championship title with a 2-0 victory and sent their hosts down to League One in the process.
Having already had their promotion back to the big time confirmed a fortnight ago, Chris Hughton 's men made sure it will be them and not West Brom that lifts the trophy – their first since winning the old Second Division under Kevin Keegan in 1993. The result also ends Plymouth's six-year stay in the second tier, with Sheffield Wednesday and Crystal Palace's final day encounter meaning it is impossible for them to stay up even if they win their remaining two fixtures.
Goals from Andy Carroll and Wayne Routledge were enough to see off Paul Mariner's men, who have paid the price for winning just 11 games all season.
Despite losing their last two matches, Plymouth started brightly and nearly went ahead with just 53 seconds on the clock.
Damian Johnson, making his 250th league start, got in round the back and picked out Jamie Mackie, whose drilled effort was beaten away by Steve Harper. Then, from the resulting corner, Bondz N'Gala sent a header over the bar when it looked easier to hit the target.
Carroll opened the scoring with 20 minutes on the clock, rising the highest to connect with Joey Barton 's corner and loop a header into the top corner for his 18th goal of the season.
The goal sapped Plymouth of their enthusiasm and the visitors went two goals up eight minutes later. Barton made it with a defence-splitting pass to Routledge, before the winger coolly rounded David Stockdale and slotted into an empty net.
Mackie then worked Harper again as Plymouth attempted to rally, with Bradley Wright-Phillips and Alan Judge also going close with drives that fizzed just past the goal. Judge thumped a 35-yard effort against the bar after the break as Newcastle took their foot of the gas.
Plymouth brought on striking prospect Joe Mason in a last-ditch attempt to pep up their attack but, with both sets of fans accepting their respective fates, the standard of play began to deteriorate quickly.
Best nearly put an end to that with 25-yard strike that crashed against the bar, while Stockdale produced a smart save to keep out Barton's close-range hit. At the other end, Jose Enrique denied Plymouth a late consolation when he cleared Mason's header off the line.

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Arguably the best right-sided midfielder in Major League Soccer history, New England Revolution midfielder Steve Ralston is retiring from professional soccer after 15 seasons to pursue other professional opportunities.
Ralston, 36, retires as Major League Soccer's leader in assists (135), appearances (378), starts (372) and minutes (33,143). He re-signed with the Revolution on June 8, and was one of two remaining "MLS Originals" – a player who began in MLS in 1996 and who are still active. Ralston was a seven-time MLS All-Star and three-time Best XI performer.
"Steve Ralston has been the definition of a professional in his time with us and the Revolution," Investor/Operator Robert K. Kraft said. "You look to build teams around players like Steve: players who understand that they have a responsibility on the field, but also off of it. He is the best player ever in MLS at his position, and we're fortunate that he spent eight years with us, helping us improve our team. We wish Steve nothing but the best as he moves on to the next step in his life."
Ralston began his career with the Tampa Bay Mutiny in 1996 after playing collegiately at Florida International. In 2002, the Revolution selected Ralston with the sixth overall selection in the Allocation Draft, after the Mutiny and Miami Fusion folded operations. He played with the Revolution from 2002 through the 2009 season, after which he signed with his hometown AC St. Louis of the second division after suffering a season-ending knee injury last September. In June, Ralston re-signed with New England, making one appearance – a brief substitute appearance against Brazilian power Cruzeiro.
Ralston is one of three Revs players to start all four of the Revolution's MLS Cup appearances (2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007). Ralston also won the 2007 U.S. Open Cup and the 2008 SuperLiga titles with the Revolution.
In addition to his league records, Ralston closes his playing career as the Revolution's all-time leader in assists (73), and he's second in appearances (201), starts (196) and minutes (17,643).
Ralston began his MLS career with the Tampa Bay Mutiny in 1996, when he was drafted in the second round (18th overall) in the 1996 MLS College Draft. He was voted the first-ever MLS rookie of the year after scoring seven goals and two assists in his first professional campaign.
A consistent performer for the Mutiny, Ralston recorded no fewer than five goals in each of his six seasons in Tampa Bay. He posted double-figure assists in three different seasons in Florida (1997, 1999, 2000), earning back-to-back Best XI honors in 1999 and 2000. In 1999, Ralston became the first-ever MLS player to play 10,000 minutes, a benchmark he would go on to re-set each season.
When Tampa Bay ceased operations in the spring of 2002, the Revolution selected Ralston with the sixth overall pick in the Allocation Draft.
Ralston's arrival in New England corresponded with several other key additions and changes, and the team found itself among the league's elite from then on. A 19-assist season in 2002 earned Ralston another Best XI honor, and his play helped propel the club to MLS Cup 2002, which was played at Gillette Stadium. It was the first of his four appearances in the championship match.
With the Revolution, Ralston transitioned his career from an outside midfielder, to central midfielder to withdrawn forward, with some brief spells at both left and right back. His ageless style of play and soccer IQ allowed him flexibility to play all over the field and maintain a very high level of play throughout his 15-year career.
Giving credence to the saying that many improve with age, Ralston posted some of his best and most-balanced seasons as a professional in his final three full seasons – 2007-09 – during which he registered 25 goals and 33 assists in 97 regular-season matches. In 2007, Ralston scored four goals and led MLS with 14 assists, his highest season total since 2002. In 2008, Ralston scored a career-high eight goals and added seven assists before his campaign was cut short in October when he suffered a broken fibula during a road match at Kansas City. In 2009, Ralston tallied seven goals and seven assists in 20 matches. He suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee on Sept. 26, 2009 against Seattle, in what turned out to be his final regular-season match in a Revolution uniform.
Ralston's consistent on-field performance was noticed by the U.S. National Team. He made his National Team debut in 1997, earning four caps. He added a handful more caps in 1999 and 2000, but in 2003 under head coach Bruce Arena, Ralston became a regular at National Team camp.
Overall, Ralston recorded 36 caps, scored four goals and added six assists. Ralston made 15 appearances with the National Team in 2005 as the team went through the qualification process for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He scored the game-winning goal in the 2-0 victory against Mexico on Sept. 3, 2005, in Columbus, Ohio, as the U.S. claimed a berth in the 2006 World Cup. In May 2006, he was named as an alternate to the U.S.' 2006 World Cup squad after he suffered an adductor strain in April.
Ralston remained in the mix for the U.S. National Team after the 2006 World Cup, and was called in by new head coach Bob Bradley for the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Ralston made three appearances in the Gold Cup, and was a member of the 2005 and 2007 gold-medal winning U.S. squads.


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LOUISVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Ruth Bennett died clutching the last child left at her day care center as a tornado wiped the building off its foundation. A firefighter who came upon the body gently pulled the toddler from her arms.
"It makes you just take a breath now," said next-door neighbor Kenneth Billingsley, who witnessed the scene at what was left of Ruth's Child Care Center in this logging town of 6,600. "It makes you pay attention to life."
Bennett, 53, was among at least 35 people killed in a two-day outbreak of twisters and other violent weather that pulverized homes from the Midwest to the Deep South. The child, whose name was not released, was alive when she was pulled from Bennett's arms and was taken to a hospital. Her condition was not known.
As crews in Mississippi and Alabama turned from search-and-rescue efforts to cleanup, forecasters began to downplay their initially dire predictions of a third round of deadly twisters Tuesday. Meterologists said the storm system had weakened substantially by evening, although some tornado watches and warnings were still in effect for isolated areas.
In North Carolina, the National Weather Service reported tornado touchdowns in five counties Tuesday, but the twisters caused only moderate structural damage to homes and toppled some trees. Two cities in the state reported extensive flooding from the storm system. No injuries were reported.
One of the hardest-hit areas in Monday evening's barrage of twisters was Tupelo, Miss., where a gas station looked as if it had been stepped on by a giant.
Francis Gonzalez, who also owns a convenience store and Mexican restaurant attached to the service station, took cover with her three children and two employees in the store's cooler as the roof over the gas pumps was reduced to aluminum shards.
"My Lord, how can all this happen in just one second?" she said in Spanish.
On Tuesday, the growl of chain saws cut through the otherwise still, hazy morning in Tupelo. Massive oak trees, knocked over like toys, blocked roads. Neighbors helped one another cut away limbs.
"This does not even look like a place that I'm familiar with right now," said Pam Montgomery, walking her dog in her neighborhood. "You look down some of the streets, and it doesn't even look like there is a street."
By the government's preliminary count, 11 tornadoes — including one that killed 15 people in Arkansas — struck the nation's midsection on Sunday, and at least 25 ravaged the South on Monday, the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said.
Among those killed was 21-year-old University of Alabama swimmer and dean's list student John Servati, who was taking shelter in the basement of a Tuscaloosa home when a retaining wall collapsed on him.
His death — and that of at least two others in Alabama — came the day after the third anniversary of an outbreak of more than 60 tornadoes that killed more than 250 people across the state.
In Kimberly, Ala., north of Birmingham, the firehouse was among the buildings heavily damaged.
Four firefighters suffered little more than cuts and scrapes, but the bays over the fire trucks were destroyed, and the vehicles were covered with red bricks, concrete blocks and pieces of the roof.
The trucks were essentially trapped, so the town had to rely on nearby communities for emergency help.
Louisville was also one of the hardest-hit areas, with officials reporting at least nine dead in and around town because of a powerful tornado with a preliminary rating of EF4, just shy of the top of the scale.
A team formed by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks was searching on Tuesday for an 8-year-old boy still missing from the community after rescuers found the bodies of his parents near their destroyed home. The boy was believed to have been with his parents when the tornado struck, said department Capt. James Crawford.
Sennaphie Yates arrived at the small local hospital in Louisville to check on her grandfather just ahead of Monday's twister. As the funnel cloud closed in, staff members herded people into a hall.
"They had all of us against the wall and gave us pillows. They said, 'Get down and ... don't get up,'" she said.
The winds knocked down two walls and tore holes in the roof. Doctors moved some emergency room patients to a former operating room and sent some to other hospitals.
Bennett's day care center was not far from the hospital. Her niece Tanisha Lockett had worked at Ruth's Child Care since it opened seven years ago.
She said all but the one child — a 4-year-old girl who had been in the center's care since she was a baby — had been picked up before the storm.
On Tuesday, Bennett's family and those who worked for her stepped over schoolbooks, first aid supplies and a Hooked on Phonics cassette as they tried to salvage paperwork.
"We're just trying to keep a smile on our faces," said Jackie Ivy, an employee. "I cried all last night."
Sainz reported from Tupelo, Miss. Associated Press writers Jack Elliott Jr. in Jackson, Miss., and Jay Reeves in Kimberly, Ala., contributed to this story.


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Apr 10, 2015
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Marshal Dutton – Vocals; Joe "Blower" Garvey – Guitars;
Mark King – Guitars; Mike Rodden – Bass; Cody Hanson - Drums
Hinder, the multi-platinum Oklahoma City rockers, are gearing up for their fifth studio album When the Smoke Clears (set for release via The End Records/ADA this spring).
Singalong anthems, such as "Get Stoned" and "Lips Of An Angel," shot them to megastardom, establishing Hinder as the next wave in anthemic rock. Now with over a decade-plus career under their belts, and having honed their live chops touring with the likes of Mötley Crüe, Nickelback, Aerosmith, and Papa Roach, Hinder's upcoming album with their official new lead vocalist Marshal Dutton has breathed new sound, and new air, into the ever-evolving band.
"We've made a really great record," said drummer Cody Hanson. "Once the fans get a hold of it, they will be very happy with it. This band was built around a strong core of hard work and friendship. Like it or not, we're going to be around for a long time."
The band, which released its debut Extreme Behavior in 2005, followed by 2008's Take It to the Limit, 2010's All American Nightmare, and 2012's Welcome to the Freak Show, has every reason to have that kind of unfettered confidence in the new album. They have an unfuckwithable foundation, one that is bolstered by true friendships and proven know-how when it comes to writing and recording songs.
The songs on When the Smoke Clears run the gamut from rowdy rock to subtle country influence to memorable pop hooks, all of which retain the DNA-distinct spirit of Hinder. That ability to walk the tightrope between genres, without a net, is something Hanson is proud of. "We can cross genres whenever we want," he said. "We don't want to be a band that can only do that one thing. We have something for everyone. We've always been that way. Having the ability to do our own production, having our own studio, gives us a chance to experiment and try new things."
"Hit the Ground" is a key song on the album, since the lyrical content is so genuine. "Through the years, we've been known as a party band," Hanson acknowledged. "That is still our thing, but we've lived every lyric in this song. We know what it feels like to have our entire world crash down around us. The song shows fans where we were mentally. And we know how true the last line of the chorus really is." The line he is referencing – the powerful statement that "Falling feels like flying 'til you hit the ground."
It was during the album cycle for their fourth album, 2012's Welcome to the Freak Show, when Hinder made the decision to part ways with longtime vocalist Austin Winkler. The band also left its longtime label digs at Republic Records and settled in at powerhouse indie label, The End Records.
What might seem like a time of uncertainty on paper was actually fueling the band's forward progress in reality.
Dutton, a part of the Hinder family since 2009, began co-writing/producing on the All American Nightmare album and has been a co-producer on every Hinder release since. He fell right in line, making the transition seamless without requiring any sort of learning curve or adjustment period, since Dutton was joining forces with a well-oiled machine, the members of which trust each other implicitly.
"Marshal has been helping mold the Hinder sound for several years," says Hanson. "Whenever we're working together, everything just feels right and it clicks. We couldn't be happier to finally announce him as an official member."
Despite the period of change, it was actually the Hinder faithful that inspired the band to continue on – Hinder's direct, personal connection to their fans that Hanson, Garvey, King, and Rodden worked diligently through the years to forge.
Hanson admitted, "We knew a change had to be made or we couldn't continue. We had fans reach out to us, asking us to figure out a way to keep going forward. That meant a lot to us. So we did what we had to do. The four of us have been playing music together for over a decade now. It's crazy to think we have spent as much time together as we have over the years and we're still such great friends. That's what sets this band apart. It's an amazing support system."
The fans are the only ones Hinder have to prove anything to. But Hinder know their audience and what their fans relate to, and they are confident that fans will respond to When the Smoke Clears. With a repository of hook-filled anthems that speak directly to their diehards, how could they not?
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Today, the House overwhelmingly passed legislation that would provide a mechanism for establishing true nonresident licensing reciprocity for insurance agents.
The legislation was reported by the Senate Banking Committee in June and is awaiting floor action.
Industry officials privately believe that, despite the current gridlock in Congress, the program, called the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers (NARAB), has a very good chance of being enacted by this Congress.
NARAB, as envisioned by the legislation, would create a non-profit, independent board that would allow multistate licensing for insurance producers.
Under the bill, insurance agents will be able to apply for NARAB membership and become licensed to sell insurance in multiple states, but states will maintain their full authority in regulating the business of insurance.
States would retain their regulatory jurisdiction over consumer protection, market conduct and unfair trade practices, and would retain their rights over licensing, supervision, disciplining and the setting of licensing fees for insurance producers, according to Ken Crerar, president/CEO of the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers.
The bill is H.R. 1155, the "National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013," which passed the House by a 397-6 vote on the suspension, or expedited calendar.
The bill was introduced by House Insurance Subcommittee Chairman Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, and Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., in March with 42 original cosponsors. The bill currently boasts the support of 86 bipartisan sponsors.
The bill did not need action by a House committee because it has already passed the House in two prior Congresses by voice vote, according to Joel Wood, CIAB senior vice president of government affairs.
The Senate bill is S. 534, the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013. It was introduced in the Senate in March by Sen. John Tester, D-Mont., and Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb. It has 24 co-sponsors.
The bill has strong support from the advisor industry.
Rob Smith, president of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors said that "Nearly 80 percent of NAIFA members have lost clients who moved to states in which they were not licensed, and 12 percent report that they have lost more than 50 clients this way.
"NARAB II would offer a common-sense solution to this problem," Smith said.
Currently, agents and brokers must be licensed in each state in which they do business, he said. He emphasized that NARAB II would create a national — not federal — clearinghouse for insurance agents and brokers to obtain approval to operate on a multi-state basis. He said NARAB would be governed by a board dominated by state regulators and would establish standards for membership that meet or exceed the existing requirements in any state.
A prospective NARAB member would be required to be fully licensed in his or her home state and satisfy rigorous membership criteria for the national organization, Smith said. An approved NARAB member could utilize the clearinghouse to obtain approval to operate in any other state, he said.
Investment Retirement Institute president and CEO Cathy Weatherford said there is unprecedented momentum to get this bipartisan legislation enacted in to law to secure its promise of an efficient and cost-effective insurance licensing process for financial advisors operating in multiple states. "This is a common-sense bill that will maintain important consumer protections, retain states' authority to regulate the marketplace, and ultimately remove a barrier that is impeding broker-dealers' ability and financial advisors' willingness to sell lifetime income products," Weatherford added.
"The NAIC commends the House of Representatives for passing the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2013," said Commissioner Jim Donelon in a statement. "In particular we thank Representatives Randy Neugebauer and David Scott for their longstanding leadership and support of this bipartisan legislation. NARAB streamlines the multi-state agent licensing process through a regulator-controlled board and preserves state enforcement of critical consumer protections. We urge the Senate to move swiftly to pass this common sense legislation."


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NH's only death row convict to appeal conviction, sentence to the state Supreme Court
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � New Hampshire's only death-row inmate will have his day in court � all day � when the state Supreme Court hears arguments in his case.
Michael Addison was sentenced to death for gunning down 35-year-old Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006, when Briggs tried to arrest him on robbery charges.
The court will be deliberating the death penalty for the first time in more than 50 years � deciding whether Addison's sentence is just or was a product of passion or prejudice
Court observers say the day-long hearing on Michael Addison's conviction and death sentence is unprecedented. A typical hearing lasts half an hour.
If his sentence is carried out, Addison would be the first convict executed in New Hampshire since 1939.
Arguments begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday.


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I've just started studying Java, and I really don't know how to correct this error. It keeps saying :
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem:
The operator * is undefined for the argument type(s) double, String
at CircleScanner.main(CircleScanner.java:16)
This is what I have, so far :
import java.util.Scanner;
public class CircleScanner
//Program for the area of a circle with the user giving radius input
public static void main (String[] args)
String message;
Scanner scan = new Scanner (System.in);
System.out.println("Please enter a value for the radius of the circle:");
final double PI = 3.14159;
message = scan.nextLine();
double area = PI * message * message;
System.out.println("The area of this circle with radius " + message + " is " + area + "");
Can anyone point out what the problem is, and how to rectify these errors? Thanks <3


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What if health technology adapted to consumers, clinicians and administrators? The new frontier of digital experience is technology specifically designed for individual human behaviour. Healthcare leaders recognise that as technology shrinks the gap between effective human and machine cooperation, accounting for unique human behaviour expands not only the quality of the experience, but also the effectiveness of technology solutions. This shift is transforming traditional personalised relationships into something more valuable: partnerships that span beyond a physical lifestyle or care setting.Healthcare technology will become more human-centred. When technology is designed to account for the human experience, it benefits consumers, clinicians and administrators. Healthcare organisations have an unprecedented opportunity to transform their relationships with all these stakeholders when they consider and respond to human behaviour. And, consumers will have a better opportunity to interact with technology to access care how and when they want to.
From depositing checks via your smartphone to making dinner reservations online, people want to use self-service to take care of business. Healthcare is yet another industry using design thinking to create tech-enabled services that are simple, intuitive and make it easy for people to achieve an outcome.
What began as telemedicine has evolved into a broader array of digital healthcare services. For starters, people can book appointments on their own. The options will only expand as technology interfaces become more sophisticated and offer more choices: What type of appointment—during or after hours? Virtual consult or in-person? See the doctor now, or communicate asynchronously? Even payment for care will be simpler as more plans will allow you to pay for healthcare services online, using a variety of payment methods.Technology also empowers consumers to meet their health goals from home or on the go—places outside of a clinical setting. Services designed for people will learn from their behaviours and adapt accordingly. For instance, if someone has a weight loss goal, a health app can suggest foods to eat or offer motivation to exercise. Data can be shared with the person's doctor so that they are informed of health changes. Clinicians can augment the service, as needed, to help encourage the weight loss.
Healthcare organisations will be able to design a service around spoken and unspoken needs, because human-centred design has problem-solving ability at its core. Smart technology is always watching and learning with every interaction. Through observation, systems will develop a keener understanding of what people want and need. For consumers, it makes self-care easier. Digital therapeutics is a good example. The technology understands a person's unique condition or disease and can customise interactions based on behavioural economics principles to provide nudges to take medications, schedule follow-up visits or modify their diet.
In current form, the often poor usability of technology for clinicians is a considerable factor in physician burnout. The future is an exciting new frontier for experiences. Technologies today are being designed so that they adapt to how humans behave, thereby improving the clinician experience. This is a huge shift away from the current paradigm where clinicians have had to learn technology and adapt to it. Now, technologies are taught to be adaptive, responsive and aligned to goals that will enhance the clinician experience.
By considering and responding to human behaviour, businesses have the opportunity to create richer, more responsive journeys with customers, clinicians and administrators, transforming relationships into true partnerships that improve the health system for everyone.
|81% of health exes agree orgs need to understand where people want to be, and shape the tech to act as their guide.
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Residual stress characterization of steel TIG welds by neutron diffraction and by residual magnetic stray field mappings (2017)
The residual stress distribution of tungsten inert gas welded S235JRC+C plates was determined by means of neutron diffraction(ND). Large longitudinal residual stresses with maxima around 600 MPa were found. With these results as reference, the evaluation of residual stress with high spatial resolution GMR (giant magneto resistance) sensors was discussed. The experiments performed indicate a correlation between changes in residual stresses (ND) and the normal component of local residual magnetic stray fields (GMR). Spatial variations in the magnetic field strength perpendicular to the welds are in the order of the magnetic field of the earth.
This study examines the relationship between the magnetic mesostructure with the microstructure of low carbon steel tungsten inert gas welds. Optical microscopy revealed variation in the microstructure of the parent material, in the heat affected and fusion zones, correlating with distinctive changes in the local magnetic stray fields measured with high spatial resolution giant magneto resistance sensors. In the vicinity of the heat affected zone high residual stresses were found using neutron diffraction. Notably, the gradients of von Mises stress and triaxial magnetic stray field modulus follow the same tendency transverse to the weld. In contrast, micro-X-ray fluorescence characterization indicated that local changes in element composition had no independent effect on magnetic stray fields.


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His fastball rates plus with mid-to-late 90s velocity and tailing action into right-handed hitters. He spot his heat at both sides of the plate and shows above average command of all his pitches.
The slider has been labeled a plus-plus pitch by some scouts. Terrific downward biting action. He throws it with great confidence. A true swing' n' miss offering.
His change-up has been called average. which in fine since his likely destination is the bullpen and the fastball/slider combo is plenty good enough there. It's a pitch he could show from time to time to give left-handed hitters something to think about. …
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2011 Golden Globe Awards: Battle of the Pink Ladies
2011 Golden Globe Awards: Battle of the Pink Ladies
After it was announced that honeysuckle would be 2011's color of the year, we've been seeing pink hues everywhere — and at last night's Golden Globe Awards, a gaggle of gorgeous Fab ladies were looking through rose-colored glasses. Lea Michele looked frothy and feminine, Julianne Moore rocked hot-pink Lanvin, and Claire Danes and Emma Stone both looked chic in Calvin Klein sheaths. Click through to see each stylish lady, and cast your vote for who looked prettiest in pink.


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Sioux Falls Receives Economic Development Administration Funds to Build a Street
Sioux Falls has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) to assist in constructing a street in an industrial park.
At a media announcement Monday July 8th, Darrin Smith from the Sioux Falls Community Development office; Slater Barr from the Sioux Falls Development Foundation; Lynne Kellar Forbes of the Southeastern Council of Governments (SECOG); and Mark Cotter, City Public Works Director, explained how the grant was obtained, and how and when it will be used.
In the Northeast section of Sioux Falls, on the east side of Interstate 229 between Benson Road on the south, and 60th Street on the North, is about 270 acres of land which is zoned light industrial. Most of the land is owned by the Development Foundation. What we see as we drive by this land is pasture with livestock grazing. That pasture is officially called Development Park 8.
There are a few businesses on the east side of the park which are not visible from the interstate. The grant money will be used along with funds from the Development Foundation to build a three lane street called Bahnson Avenue thru the middle of the park from north to south. Access to I-229 will be from Benson Road on the south. Mark Cotter stated the street will be similar to Lewis Avenue in the park to the west.
According to Slater Barr the road will open up development sites, which when built upon could create nearly 3000 jobs, based on past experience with acreages of similar size in Sioux Falls.
The plan and hope is for technology and research companies, similar to Poet and Sanford just across the road to fill the space. According to Barr there are very few available, build-able, industrial sites in Sioux Falls today. The road to be constructed in 2014 will change that.
Lynne Kellar Forbes explained this is the third attempt made by SECOG to obtain funds from the EDA region which serves this area and 10 states, and only has about $10 million a year available.
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Ballfields of PA: West Field (Homestead Grays)
Recently, I visited one of the more historical fields that I have ever played on, West Field in Munhall. The field is located along West Street between Homestead and Munhall. Many years ago, the Homestead Grays of the Negro League played at this field. Here is an article from the Post Gazette.
It talks about how a local man served as a bat boy at West Field and rubbed elbows with the likes of Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell. Pretty interesting stuff.
I had once lived just a mile from this field for five years and never once visited or played on it. I had only heard bad things about it – most notably that Mark McGwire on steroids would have a tough time hitting a home run here.
Check out the dimensions:
It's exactly 358 feet to left field. That's deep.
It's about 750 feet to center field. That's ridiculous. And its about 390 feet to right field.
I parked beyond the left field fence and entered through this gate along with Amy and Olivia.
I immediately noticed how ridiculously deep left field was. And the fence got deeper in a hurry as I looked out to left center field. It was definitely way over 400 feet to the left field power alley.
Before hitting, I took a few pictures. Here we have a view looking towards the first base line from left field. Notice the stands. They're ancient.
And a view from behind the pitcher's mound, which doesn't even line up correctly with home plate.
As for home plate? I guess its somewhere under a bunch of muck.
The dugouts looked especially small:
Some more ancient bleachers:
And a view of left field looking from home plate:
Looking out towards center field:
And a panorama of the field:
And another view with large old light towers keeping guard:
I dumped out 20 baseballs and began to hit.
I tried to put everything I had into each swing to have a chance to maybe hit a home run here.
It obviously didn't happen. I hit five of the twenty to the base of the wall. Once of the balls made it out of West Field… but that's only because it rolled under the fence.
By the way, I hate the Phillies, but am a big Jim Thome fan. So, in light of his recent return to the Phillies, I pulled out my old Jim Thome shirt for today.
Anyhow, as for a quick review of this field. I didn't like anything about the field itself. It's in rather poor shape and the dimensions of the field are awful. The cool thing about the field is that there are actual bleachers behind the plate and along the right field line and the fact that the Homestead Grays once played here.
There's some nostalgia here,
but I this would be my last choice to play on if I were taking batting practice or playing a round of home run derby.
Goodbye West Field, I probably won't be back unless I come to watch a high school baseball game here.
Condition: D-
Dimensions: F
Location/Surrounding Area: D (there was broken glass everywhere in the lot)
Parking/Access: B
This is the worst rated field I've visited so far. Look for upcoming entries about South Fayette and South Allegheny.
Links to other fields that I've hit at and reviewed for the Ballparks of PA Series:
Riverfront Park, Boston
Wylie Park, Elizabeth
Peterswood Park, Peters Township
Washington Park, Washington PA
Thomas Jefferson High School Field, Jefferson Hills PA
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The next member of Congress from Massachusetts' Fifth District, a ribbon of suburbs from Revere to Framingham, will enter an environment marked by ideological rigidity, partisan voting, and special-interest pressures. It will be hard for a new representative to get his or her bearings, let alone develop the kind of relationships that enabled Ed Markey, who held the seat for 37 years, to be an effective lawmaker even in periods of Republican control.
The five candidates who are running in the Democratic primary to succeed Markey are all solid, well-credentialed politicians who cut their teeth in an entirely different atmosphere on Beacon Hill. Voters must decide which contender's style of leadership best translates to the Capitol. The candidates provide a range of legislative approaches, from the ebullient, unabashed "Massachusetts liberalism" of state Representative Carl Sciortino Jr. of Medford, whose funny "coming out" ad is already being touted on MSNBC, to the fiscally moderate, professorial state Senator Will Brownsberger of Belmont, whose openness to new ideas could make him a bridge to centrist Republicans.
Of them all, however, the one who has best articulated a strategy for navigating the bitterly divided House is state Senator Katherine Clark of Melrose, whose warmth and intelligence are complemented by a sharp understanding of the issues and a shrewd legislative game plan. The Globe is pleased to offer her its endorsement in next Tuesday's Democratic primary.
Clark, who is 50, has been in the Legislature since 2008, having previously served as the chairwoman of the Melrose School Committee and in various public-advocacy legal positions in Massachusetts and Colorado, from which she moved to the Bay State in 1995. Rather than downplay the fact that she spent her early adulthood in another state, Clark wisely touts it as a credential — a means of understanding how people think in other parts of the country, which could help to build new coalitions in Congress.
Clark has clear goals. Most of all, she wants to be the congresswoman who brings universal pre-kindergarten to the children of America. She knows it will be a long fight, and that she must draw conservatives to her side. But she's ready to begin that work on day one. In addition, she speaks sensibly about reaching out to members of Congress from the "wind corridor" that runs through the central part of the country, boosting support for government backing of wind power, which would help Massachusetts' own energy industry.
Clark shares the liberal values of many Fifth District Democrats, but has shown herself to be a strategic thinker; her willingness to support a "grand bargain" to trim the long-term federal deficit, even if it includes some provisions that are disappointing to liberals, is a sign of maturity. After all the debates and committee hearings and mark-ups of bills, a member of Congress must decide whether, on balance, a piece of legislation moves the nation forward. Clark's refusal to allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good suggests she would be a productive lawmaker.
Sciortino, 35, is bright and engaging, but lacks that kind of maturity. He has pledged, for instance, to vote against any bill that includes President Obama's proposal to change the formula for cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security — even if it were coupled with defense cuts, increased tax revenues from the rich, and other Democratic priorities, and would take a giant bite out of the deficit. Such absolutism plays well on the campaign trail, and is a facet of the boffo ad in which he spars with his Tea Party-supporting father. If there were Academy Awards for political commercials, the Sciortinos should share the Best Actor award — especially since their affection for each other comes through as clearly as Sciortino Jr.'s unyielding commitment to liberal values. It's an honest pitch. This son certainly has the star power to win over even his grouchy, conservative dad. But in Congress, he seems more likely to be a feisty back-bencher than a legislative mover.
Two other candidates are vying with Sciortino to be the most liberal in the race, Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian of Waltham and state Senator Karen Spilka of Ashland. The 52-year-old Koutoujian, a former assistant district attorney and state representative, touts his longstanding work to reduce sexual assaults and prevent gun violence, among other causes. He offers a wide-ranging platform, including a vigorous defense of the Affordable Care Act. But like many politicians with roots in law enforcement, he's most animated when talking about public-safety matters — important issues, to be sure, but ones he can influence most successfully in his current job.
Spilka, 60, has claimed a large number of union endorsements and carries an unimpeachable pro-labor record. She has also worked hard to attract more high-tech businesses to Massachusetts, easing unemployment in her district in Boston's western suburbs. An advocate for mental-health care, among other health-related causes, she's been an effective state senator. But her campaign is based largely on her record, which was pieced together within the friendly confines of Beacon Hill. She seems less prepared than some of her opponents to make the leap to Washington.
Brownsberger, 56, should be Clark's main competition for the Democratic nomination, because he, too, promises to be an effective member of Congress. Brownsberger is one of the few politicians of any state who approaches issues with a clean slate and open mind: He studies problems with an academic intensity that leads him to some places that other Democrats don't go. On Beacon Hill, he's grappled with health plans, pensions, and other dollars-and-cents issues, which he seems to understand better than most other members. That's no small thing. He's helped the state save money while still offering generous benefits to its employees and retirees. In Washington, one could imagine him gravitating toward less-partisan issues, working across the aisle on the types of complicated long-range policy matters that appealed to Markey.
His belief that fellow Democrats should share some blame for the rancor in Congress is also likely to endear him to GOP colleagues. He's right to avoid the reflexive Republican-bashing that more partisan Democrats enjoy. But it's also possible to be too accepting of opposition tactics that should be strongly condemned. Brownsberger could well emerge as a moderate leader around whom both Democrats and Republicans can rally; or he could prove so thoughtful and even-handed in his judgments that he's not a force in pushing legislation forward. In any case, he's not as assertive about his congressional priorities as Clark, who conveys less sheer knowledge but a stronger sense of mission.
Voters have much to choose from in this experienced, varied field. But Clark's clear-eyed, results-oriented approach to leadership sets her apart.


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Freeman channeling Chipper as Mets tormentor
NEW YORK -- Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman does not believe he has been around long enough to have earned the "Mets Killer" title that Chipper Jones gained during his long, storied career.
"I think it's a little too early to say that," Freeman said. "How many games have I even played against the Mets? Chipper can have that title. I'm still young. It's a little too early for that."
Freeman entered Sunday's finale batting .323 with 13 home runs and a .974 OPS through the 58 games he had played against the Mets. Jones batted .309 with 49 home runs and a .949 OPS in the 245 games he played against New York's National League affiliate. Through his first 58 games against the Mets, the former Braves third baseman hit .364 with 17 home runs and a 1.115 OPS in his first 58 contests against the Mets.
Jones' 58th game against the Mets came during a torrid late September stretch that earned him his only National League Most Valuable Player Award. It is also far too early to know whether Freeman will earn his first MVP Award this year. But he has thus far built a strong base for his candidacy.
Freeman entered Sunday leading the Majors with a 1.239 OPS. He was tied for second in the National League with five home runs and third with a .413 batting average. His hot start has provided every indication that he has not been burdened by the franchise record eight-year, $135 million contract he signed with the Braves in January.
"I'm just trying to be that consistent guy they can put in the lineup every single day and they don't have to worry about me. Just put my name in that lineup and I'll go play," Freeman said. "So far, so good. I feel healthy, and that is the key with everybody.
"I've been able to stay consistent and keep those 0-fers to one game and then get back on track as soon as possible. We're all going to have our ups and downs, but I just want to keep those downs as short as possible."


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If you've ever wondered exactly what you should do if you came across a yeti, fear not – the US Government has you covered.
The National Archives released a document to its Tumblr page from 1959, detailing processes and procedures for what to do if hikers in Nepal came across the fabled creature. In addition to paying a fee of $5,000 rupee to the Nepalese government, hunters were permitted to photograph or capture the animal but could not kill it unless in self-defense.
National Archives archivist Mark Murphy told 7News the document was a copy of an original that he found while reviewing records several years ago.
"The subject popped right out at me and was a complete surprise since it was located in a general file about the 1959 political situation in Nepal," he said via email. "No other documents with similar subject matter were around it."
The document was a foreign service dispatch from the American Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal, titled, "Regulations Governing Mountain Climbing Expeditions in Nepal – Relating to Yeti" and dated Nov. 30, 1959.
The document also stated that any proof of the existence of the animal must be immediately surrendered to the Nepalese government and could not be publicized without the government's permission.
"I can't stress enough that the document is just an administrative record conveying regulations," Murphy said. "It does not confirm that the US Government nor the Government of Nepal believed the Yeti existed, but it's fun to see that its existence isn't discounted either."
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STOCKTON - The SCVB Pacific Invitational is getting a facelift this year with a new format at a new home.
STOCKTON - The SCVB Pacific Invitational is getting a facelift this year with a new format at a new home.
The signature event of the men's golf program will take place today through Saturday at Stockton Golf and Country Club after spending its first seven incarnations at Brookside Country Club. The 12-team tournament tees off at 8 a.m. each day and is free to the public. Pacific's three juniors - Eric Sugimoto, Byron Meth and Drew Bender - and sophomores SeungJae Maeng and Austin Weatherholt will start at 8:50 a.m. today on the back nine.
"Stockton Golf and Country was so great in allowing us to do a Thursday through Saturday tournament," Pacific coach Brandon Goethals said. "Most courses wouldn't give up that time. Saturday is going to be huge because the goal of this event is to get the community involved and get as many people out here as possible. Playing on Saturday lends itself to being such a better event for the fans."
Goethals said he has worked closely with Stockton Convention and Visitors Bureau in making arrangements for the tournament and hopes to have a few hundred spectators for the final round. He said he wishes every college tournament had a three-day format rather than playing 54 holes in two days, with two rounds played on the first day. In the past few years, the Pacific Invitational ran Monday through Wednesday. The Tigers won it in 2010, and Kansas State will be back to defend its title this year.
Sugimoto, who spent last week in Shandong, China, finishing 20th in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, said this is the Tigers' favorite week during the season, and the new setting and schedule have added to the excitement.
"I think it's awesome because it gives an opportunity for the community to come out and see what we're all about," said Sugimoto, the Big West Conference champion last year. "Hopefully, we'll be competing for championships that final day."
The Tigers have been practicing at their new course since the season began last month, and according to Goethals, the players have scored well there, but that hasn't translated to tournament play, where the Tigers have finished 14th, fourth and 10th in three events this season.
Pacific will host a tough field that includes BYU, Charlotte, Saint Mary's and UC Davis. Goethals hopes the course's short, tight holes will cause problems for the visitors. Meth said the Tigers can't wait to tee off and put their hours of preparation to the test.
"We've gotten comfortable out here by playing it so much," Meth said. "(The course) suits all of our games. It's all about staying patient and making a lot of pars. We made a decision the past couple of weeks of being more prepared, so we'll be ready to go."
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PETA Deutschland facebook ad case analytics and study
1.Advertising format and material analysis:
The advertising formats used by "PETA Deutschland" top 3 ads are Image,Image, and Image.
Ad Format Optimization Suggestions:
The Facebook algorithm indicates that Facebook will give priority to displaying videos to user news sources. So, to get more advertising reach, consider video advertising.
In summary: Facebook's creatives determine the user's first sense of advertising. A / B testing of different creatives is required, and different creatives are used for different audiences. In addition, you can also use BigSpy to spy the industry's latest ads and competitors' ads. BigSpy provides the material download function to help you solve your creative troubles.
2. Advertising copy analysis and study:
|Ad title
|Zur Petition
|Hilf einem obdachlosen Hund
|Die Hunde brauchen dich am Weltkastrationstag
|Ad text
|🦍 NEIN zum neuen Affenhaus in Krefeld, JA zum Artenschutz. Jetzt unterschreiben!
|DRINGEND: DAS LEID DER OBDACHLOSEN HUNDE IN RUMÄNIEN Unzählige obdachlose und vernachlässigte Ti...
|WIR BRAUCHEN DEINE HILFE: Hilf einem obdachlosen Hund am Weltkastrationstag! Obdachlose und vern...
|Ad type
|Ad word count
Ad copy optimization suggestions:
Although copywriting accounts for a small part of advertising, copywriting can directly affect the click-through rate of ads. Among all the ads of "PETA Deutschland", the text type used is other to obtain the best advertising results. "PETA Deutschland" can use this copy style more. On the other hand, Advertising copy requires A / B testing, because the length of copy, spacing, and size of fonts, white space, etc. are all different.
Summary: Different copywriting effects are different. The core of designing copywriting is to capture the user's psychology and the selling point of the product and retain the user with clever language. In addition, BigSpy monitors user responses for different copywriting. Before designing ad copy, advertisers can learn how to design good ad copy.
3. Type of CTA analytics and study:
The types of CTA used by "PETA Deutschland" are:LEARN_MORE,DONATE_NOW,LEARN_MORE.
CTA optimization recommendations:
Without the CTA button, the conversion cost per ad will increase by almost 2.5 times. Selecting the CTA button is better than not selecting it. Adding a call to action to your Facebook ad lets users know what to expect from the other side of the ad.
In the 1st advertising case, the use of "LEARN_MORE" help "PETA Deutschland" gets a higher conversion.
In summary: Facebook ads must be tested in the final round of CTA when performing A / B testing. This detail may help you save a lot of budgets. In addition, BigSpy can filter competitors' CTA types of Facebook ads through filtering, which can be used as a reference for your test.
4. Advertising schedule:
"PETA Deutschland" When Facebook ads are placed on Facebook, the ad schedules are 1 days,1 days, and 1 days.
Ad scheduling optimization suggestions:
Your ads are not valuable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Check your Facebook advertising report, which day and time will you get the results. With this, you can set the schedule for your ads so that they only run during valuable time periods.
Finally, the above is the analysis and optimization suggestions for the Facebook ads of "PETA Deutschland". The analysis and optimization of Facebook ads is a long-term accumulation process. In this report, the basic design of ads was learned through Bigspy. In real advertising marketing, marketers also need to have in-depth analysis of products through BigSpy, grasp the audience's psychology, learn about marketing, and make precise calculations of data.


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NTFS Drive Protection is a free and portable tool which can lock a USB drive, preventing anyone from editing its contents (that includes creating new files or folders). The main aim is that your drive won't then be able to be infected by autorun viruses, but the program could also be useful whenever you want to create a "read only" USB key, where its contents can be viewed, but not changed.
It only takes a moment to set this up. Launch Ntfs Drive Protection, select your USB drive in the "Target Drive" box, click "Start Protection" - and that's it. In just a few seconds the program will change your file and folder permissions to prevent them being edited.
If this all seems a little too inflexible, check the "Create an Unprotected Folder" box, and the program will then create a new folder (\_Unprotected by default) with the standard file permissions. And so any existing files or folders will be locked, but you'll still be able to save new files in the_Unprotected folder.
If you don't need this drive protection any more than clicking "Stop Protection" will remove it.
And an Options menu provides quick access to various drive-related options: the "Disk Management" applet, the "Safely Remove Hardware" dialog, drive properties, format and more.
One problem with all of this is that it relies on your drive using the NTFS file system, which isn't generally the best choice for USB keys (it's less compatible, and writes more to the drive, increasing wear and shortening its life).
It's also at least possible to change the permissions on a non-removable drive (though not the system drive, fortunately), which could cause you all kinds of odd problems. You're most unlikely to do this by accident, but it's still a program you should keep well away from people who don't know what they're doing.
NTFS Drive Protection does provide a quick and easy way to lock the contents of a USB drive, though. It should be enough to ensure viruses can't infect the drive with their own autorun.inf file, and if you're only transferring files between PCs then there probably won't be any compatibility issues. Give it a try, see how the program works for you.
Version 1.3 changes:
1. [Added] – Translate GUI
2. [Fixed] – Icon view
3. [Fixed] – Unable to create more than one Unprotected File/Folder
4. [Fixed] – Attrib , List… commands
It has one or two potential down sides, but on balance NTFS Drive Protection is a useful way to keep your USB drives safe from Autorun viruses


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This mining town of 300 people clings like a burr to the back of the Black Rock Desert. For years, it was marked on state Highway 447 by a two-story sign reading, "Welcome to Nowhere."
On June 20, that tongue-in-cheek greeting will become a fact. Empire, Nev., will transform into a ghost town. An eight-foot chain-link fence crowned with barbed wire will seal off the 136-acre plot. Even the local ZIP Code, 89405, will be discontinued.
Many towns have been scarred by the recession, but Empire will be the first to completely disappear. For only a few days more it will remain the last intact example of an American icon: the company town.
Since 1948, the United States Gypsum Corporation (USG), which is the nation's largest drywall manufacturer, has held title to all of Empire: four dusty streets lined with cottonwoods, elms, and silver poplars, dozens of low-slung houses, a community hall, a swimming pool, a cracked tennis court, and a nine-hole golf course called Burning Sands. The company also owns the town's drywall plant and the nearby gypsum quarry, a 264-acre gouge in the foot of the Selenite mountain range six miles to the south.
The end of Empire began just before Christmas, when dozens of workers in steel-toed shoes and hard hats filed into the community hall for a mandatory 7:30 a.m. meeting. Mike Spihlman, the gypsum plant's soft-spoken manager, delivered the news to a room of stunned faces: Empire was shutting down. "I had to stand in front of 92 people and say 'Not only do you not have a job anymore, you don't have a house anymore,' " Mr. Spihlman recalled.
USG, known for its Sheetrock-brand products, has posted losses of about $1.5 billion over the past three years. The red ink is a result of "weak market conditions and extraordinarily low shipping volumes," former chief executive William C. Foote told investors in October. Beneath the jargon is a simpler story: What Empire makes is not in high demand anymore. The housing construction slump has continued too long for the plant to hold on. By the end of 2010, wallboard sales had dropped more than 50 percent since 2006, when the industry peaked and USG had $297 million in profits. Manufacturers are getting desperate now. On Nov. 3, USG announced plans to hike drywall prices the following month by 25 percent, a Hail Mary pass to stimulate profits. The move rippled across the industry as other wallboard manufacturers followed suit. (USG's price increase was later revised and rolled out in two installments: 20 percent in March and an additional 15 percent in May.)
"Every day we made it was a day closer to economic recovery. But [the recession] just outlasted us," says Steve Conley, who began working here in the early 1970s. He rose to become quarry foreman, the same title once held by his father, Bud, who retired in 1987 after 33 years of service. "I was born in a haul truck," the younger Mr. Conley jokes, adding more soberly: "This is my home."
Until January, the quarry was a noisy place. Blasts of ANFO, an explosive, punctuated the still mountain air, dislodging white, chalky chunks of ore from five terraced pits, the largest a half-mile across. A fleet of haul trucks shuttled 60-ton batches of gypsum six miles up the highway to the factory, where workers pulverized it, cooked it up past 500 degrees F. in massive kettles, and shaped it into the wallboard delivered for construction across the American West. Before the miners used trucks, they ferried 1,800-pound payloads along an aerial tram in colossal steel buckets, trailing blotches of spilled powder below.
By some accounts, the Empire facility – known here as "the gyp" – encompasses the longest continuously operating mine in the country. The mining claim, originally established by Pacific Portland Cement Co., dates to 1910.
Now the quarry is silent, its roads blocked off with gravel berms to discourage trespassers. The factory has been empty since Jan. 31. And Empire, a scrap of green in the desert, is already starting to fade. Lawns once immaculately tended are choked with weeds. A fence is rising around the perimeter. Residents say it makes Empire look like a "concentration camp." If someone doesn't find a new use for this place, the town will eventually vanish. When dust blows in from the desert, no one will be here to sweep it away. It will start erasing signs of human habitation in a place that has been settled since 1923, when miners established a tent city.
By the end of May, all but a handful of workers had already made the forced exodus. Before they left, many tossed their corporate hard hats high into the branches of a neighborhood tree, creating an impromptu monument to their lives here.
Those lives are all about to change drastically, because leaving Empire doesn't mean just moving down the road. Jobs in the immediate vicinity are scarce. Empire is located in one of the remotest corners of Nevada, which has long led the nation in unemployment. Apart from Gerlach – a neighboring hamlet with fewer than 200 people that shares its schools with Empire – the nearest town, Nixon, is 60 miles to the south on a reservation owned by the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.
Calvin Ryle began working in Empire on July 1, 1971. In January, he helped bring the last piece of drywall off the line. Standing beside a conveyor belt in the factory, where his son also worked as a maintenance mechanic and his daughter-in-law as a quality-lab technician, Mr. Ryle raised his hand and pressed the stop button for the last time.
"I've been here for 39 years and seven months," Ryle said at the time. As the plant's quality supervisor and former general foreman, he set the record for longest continuous service – "I've never missed a single day, never been injured." Shutting down the conveyor belt brought him to tears. "The worst thing you can hear in a board plant is silence," Ryle said. "You're a part of building America. It's not just making Sheetrock here."
The plant's maintenance foreman, Aaron Constable, watched Ryle administer those last rites. "He actually stood there and cried," Mr. Constable recalled. "He's up there at the main start-stop station. When they said, 'You go ahead and shut her down,' it took him some while before he actually pushed the button."
At its height, EmpirE WAS HOME to more than 750 people, as noted in the July 1961 issue of USG's in-house magazine, Gypsum News. "The folks who make their homes in Empire are one big happy family," the magazine reported.
By many residents' accounts, that was still true until the end. Empire was an extended family, with the kind of intimacy and security – not to mention the gossip and lack of privacy – that comes with close quarters.
"We've got the neighborhood watch program," Constable explained in the January interview. "Your neighbors watch you whether you want them to or not."
For decades, Empire was largely insulated from the troubles of the outside world. Here, you could rent a company-owned home for $250 a month, or an apartment for as little as $110. Water, cable TV, sewer, trash, and Internet service were all provided on the company dime. Workers were awarded gold-colored construction helmets when they reached 25 years of service and wore them with pride. No one bothered to lock cars or homes. Kids had the run of the neighborhood, but were still in hollering distance come dinnertime.
There were some rough patches. In 1993 and 2001, USG filed for bankruptcy. The second episode followed personal injury claims related to asbestos exposure, totaling millions of dollars. Both times, the company emerged and regained profitability, leaving Empire unscathed.
During the 1970s, the plant at Empire went through layoffs and shortened shifts. Some apartments were boarded up, but the town survived. "We just tightened up our belts," says Sunny DeForest, the plant's former human resources supervisor.
Ms. DeForest retired in 2007 after more than 42 years at the plant and now lives with her husband, another former USG worker, in a home across the highway from Empire. Their house is not on company property, but it relies on USG's infrastructure for electricity. They plan to stick around. "We've got a brick house, and you don't move brick houses so easily," DeForest says wryly. She's not sure what they'll do, however, if the power gets cut.
Her daughter, Tammy Sparkes, is also in a hard place. In October, after returning from a tour of duty as a military ordnance officer in Kuwait, Ms. Sparkes used her savings to buy the Empire Store, the only place to get groceries for miles, sprucing it up with new flooring, a fresh coat of paint, and a couple of cafe tables. Sparkes owns the building but leases the land from USG, which also supplies the power and water. With most of her customers gone, she's struggling to make it to August, when the annual Burning Man festival, held in the nearby desert, brings a wave of thousands of colorful, albeit temporary, patrons.
"I always liked that store. It's neat, because it's a community thing. You know everybody within a day. I had all the employees I needed," Sparkes says. In December, one of those employees called her tearfully to tell her the town was going away. "I was devastated," she recalls.
Empire's troubles have also rippled out to Gerlach, where the regional school system that served 73 students this year anticipates just a dozen next fall. Twenty staffers are losing their jobs. One teacher and two aides will remain in a three-room schoolhouse. "We are blessed to have this much, by the sounds of things," Judy Conley, the school secretary, wrote in an e-mail.
IN THE MIDST OF THE CRISIS, there's an upside: Many of Empire's displaced workers have landed safely. The same economy that was flattened by the housing crash has seen gold prices skyrocket, and Nevada's mines are hiring. Barrick Gold Corporation owns several Nevada sites and hired more than a dozen Empire employees, including Constable.
"Sad to say, the best thing that could have happened to us was the gypsum plant shutting down," he said in a May e-mail. Constable has already been promoted to supervisor. He was able to use his USG severance pay, one month for each of his 28 years, to buy a house with his wife in Spring Creek, Nev. "Some of us live within eyesight of each other," he wrote of Empire's resettled refugees.
Others haven't had it so easy. "I threw out a few résumés, haven't gotten any bites," former supply chain manager Dan Moran said in January between bites of chicken-fried steak at Bruno's Country Club, the only restaurant in Gerlach. "I might just end up cutting firewood for a living." As of last month, he was still planning to start a firewood business near Reno, Nev.
Ryle, who pushed the button to shut down the factory in January, said at the time that he planned to stay as long as he could: "I'm a company person.... I've always worked here." But what is a company man when his company doesn't want him anymore? At 62, Ryle isn't sure if he'll work again: "You feel like you gave them a lot and, when it came down to the end, they didn't give you nothing."
There's talk that, if the economy recovers, USG could reopen the idled plant, but Ryle doesn't think that will happen. He plans to leave his gold hard hat, once a badge of honor, in the house where he spent the past four decades when he goes.
But he's not leaving everything behind. He says he'll transplant the rosebushes and a tree from his front yard when he moves to Fernley, Nev., where he just bought his first home.
"I planted that tree, so I'll dig that one up. They don't care," Ryle says. "And it's my tree. I'll fill in the hole, anyway."


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There can be a broad range of reading ability within any group of students. The guided reading, or leveled reading, instructional approach allows teachers to place students into small groups and provide each group with developmentally appropriate texts.
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writer's response activity, a
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Group students according to skill level, but introduce comprehension skills and reading strategies to the whole class.
Pocketbooks are the ideal size for students to take home for extra practice.
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Another top university official in Puerto Rico resigns amid protest
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The president of the University of Puerto Rico's main campus has resigned just days after the presidents of the university's 10 other campuses did the same.
Friday's announcement by Ana Guadalupe comes amid a flurry of resignations to protest the governor's reform of the institution's board of directors. A new board president was appointed Thursday, and an interim president has been chosen to oversee the island's largest public university, which includes the campus Guadalupe oversaw.
Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla has revamped the university's board to create new positions and reduce the amount of time members serve. He also recently signed a law to eliminate an $800 fee that had sparked violent protests and led to a drop in enrollment.