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Yesterday's Boston Globe offered H. W. Brands's review of Joseph Ellis's latest book on the founding era, American Creation. Brands says of Ellis:
he eschews a continuous rendering of a period—in this case the years 1775 to 1803—in favor of focusing on a handful of discrete events and brief stretches of time. As he has before, he ties the events closely to famous individuals. A chapter on the decision for independence features John Adams. Next comes a chapter on Valley Forge that trails George Washington through the snow (but debunks the vision of the Continental Army commander falling to his knees amid the drifts to seek divine guidance). Ellis then jumps a decade to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and makes James Madison the hero of the hour. The Federalist decade of the 1790s gets two chapters; the book closes with Thomas Jefferson purchasing Louisiana from France in 1803.That sounds much like Ellis's entertaining Founding Brothers, except that instead of seeking out lesser-known episodes in the U.S. of A.'s founding, in this book the Mount Holyoke professor hits the best-known moments that many authors have already written about. Random House offers an online excerpt. Ellis will address the Cambridge Forum at First Parish in Harvard Square on Thursday, 1 November, at 7:30; this event is free, and he's a charming speaker.
Ellis's style is discursively delightful. "Narrative is the highest form of historical analysis," he remarks. As his narrative unfolds, so do his conclusions, with such gentle art as almost to compel assent.
The same Sunday paper ran columnist Sam Allis's musings on tourism in Boston, and how closely it's tied to history, and thus to (gasp!) mental effort:
What do the ranking of Charleston (3), Santa Fe (4), and Savannah (8) mean? They tell me that Americans—exhausted two-career couples and their kids, in particular—want to relax on their pitifully short vacations. They want easy. They want fun. They want small.Where can I sign up for that quiz?
What they don't want is dutiful. Boston is dutiful. These people don't want an "eat your spinach" history marathon through the 16-station Freedom Trail with the threat of a spot quiz back in the hotel room on Crispus Attucks.
Today's Globe adds David Mehegan's review of two books touching on witchcraft trials in the late 1600s and his profile of Eve LaPlante, author of one of those books, about Judge Samuel Sewall. The judge lived just a few years into the eighteenth century and was never involved with the province's break from England. But he was a key figure in the colony's transition from a Puritan theocracy, and he kept a most human diary.
Finally, the most important story from our local paper: "Sox are kings of diamond."


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10 new images from The Expendables 2 have landed online. The sequel sees the return of the all-star action hero team from the first film banded together to take on the one and only Jean-Claude Van Damme. Sylvester Stallone and his crew are not only hell-bent on revenge following the death of one of their own, but Van Damme's baddie is also harboring some weapons-grade plutonium. No one's really looking for a best picture winner here, so hopefully director Simon West (Con Air) was able to put together an entertaining actioner with fights galore.
Hit the jump to check out the new images. The film also stars Jason Statham, Yu Nan, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Expendables 2 opens on August 17th.
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Here's the synopsis for The Expendables 2:
The Expendables are back and this time it's personal… Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) — with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard — are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time — six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that's nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother. That is done the Expendables way….

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It's game day! Just six days after the full squad reported, the Phillies are facing a team with different uniforms. The Florida State University Seminoles arrived this morning with a traveling party of more than 60. It's much larger than they would bring for a road game during their season. But who can blame them for wanting to bring as many people as possible to watch the four-time Eastern Division Champions at Bright House Field. During the Phillies morning BP, a gaggle of FSU players surrounded the batting cage to watch Ryan and his teammates.
The Phillies clubhouse had a few more smiles this morning. When the games begin, it means the players no longer have to go through the same routine of drills that have occupied their days for the last week. Veterans can count on playing early, before heading to the showers and then to their favorite golf course or back to the beach condo with their families.
Today's game isn't being broadcast on radio or television, but the highlights will be all over the place. MLB Network called this morning to make sure we will have our phillies.com camera taping the game. There is increased interest because this is the first game being played this spring by any Major League team, in either Arizona or here in Florida.
Game highlights and player interviews will be on this site later this evening. Tonight's video feed will also include a one-on-one interview with Doc Halladay.
Happy Spring Opening Day everybody!
Phillies and Blue Jays will play a "B" game at 10 a.m. Saturday at Bright House Field; gates open at 9:30 and there is no admission charge . . . That morning, another group of Phillies will bus to Tampa for their Grapefruit League opener against the Yankees. Same two teams open the Bright House Field portion of the spring training schedule on Sunday afternoon. Scott Franzke and Larry Andersen will broadcast both Yankee games on 1210 AM, The Big Talker, and MLB.com . . . Cliff Lee did an interview with ESPN The Magazine today . . . Baseball America's top 100 prospects for 2011 has come out and the Phillies have four: OF Domonic Brown (4th), OF Jonathan Singleton (36th), RHP Brody Colvin (56th) and RHP Jarred Cosart (70th). Singleton is 19 years of age, Colvin and Cosart, 20.
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A Gastonia man who drowned last summer in Robinwood Lake had nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, in his system.
A Gastonia man who drowned last summer in Robinwood Lake had nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, in his system.
That�s according to a North Carolina Medical Examiners� report.
Police found Robert Scott Dula�s body the morning of July 5. Investigators ruled the death an accidental drowning. They believed he was fishing from a boat when he fell out and drowned.
The latest report says Dula was found in 3 to 4 feet of water with a life jacket underneath his body.
A medical examination concluded Dula, 36, had used nitrous oxide shortly before dying.
A box containing nitrous oxide canisters was found in his truck. Five empty canisters were found where his boat had been docked, according to the report.
Nitrous oxide is typically used as an anesthetic in surgical procedures. Recreational users inhale the gas, a central nervous system depressant that slows brain activity.
Nitrous oxide use was a contributing factor in Dula�s death, according to autopsy results.
Alcohol and drug paraphernalia were found in his truck and at his boat, but the medical examiner did not note any evidence of alcohol or drugs other than nitrous oxide in his system.
The autopsy notes scrapes on Dula�s nose and mouth. Just hours before his body was found, Dula was reported missing by his father after reportedly going fishing the day before and not returning home.
Gazette reporter Wade Allen can be reached at 704-869-1828; twitter.com/gastongazette.com.


text: Singer Ketty Lester has a career that spans music, TV, film, and stage. Her cover of Dick Haynes' 1945 hit "Love Letters" went to number five pop and number two R&B on Billboard's charts in the spring of 1962. The tune was originally the title theme from the 1945 Jennifer Jones movie. Ketty Lester was born Revoyda Frierson on August 16, 1934, in Hope, AR. She was one of 15 children born into a farmer's family. After winning a scholarship in 1955, she moved to California and attended San Francisco City College, majoring in nursing. Lester sang in church and the school choir, and performed in summer stock theater. She also appeared as a contestant on the classic '50s game show You Bet Your Life. Meeting country singer/comedienne Dorothy Shay at the Purple Onion club (where she was performing), Lester was introduced to producers Ed Cobb and Lincoln Mayorga. Herb Newman's Era Records released the resulting single, "I'm a Fool for You" b/w "Love Letters." DJs and listeners preferred the sparse, steamy B-side, making it a Top Five pop hit. The follow-up single, a cover of George Gershwin's "But Not for Me" from the musical Girl Crazy, peaked at number 41 pop during summer 1962. Ketty Lester was issued that same year. It featured two singles, "You Can't Lie to a Liar" and a cover of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." Another Era single was "Fallin Angel" b/w "Lullaby for Lovers." She also recorded the upbeat "West Coast" b/w the ballad "I'll Be Looking Back" for Capitol, "I Said Goodbye to My Love" b/w "Queen for a Day" for Everest, and "Measure of a Man" b/w "Cracker Box Livin'," "Show Me" b/w "Since I Fell for You," and the LP Same for the Pete label. Lester recorded for RCA (Soul of Me, Where Is Love, the singles "Better World," "Roses Grow With Thorns," "You Go Your Way," "Some Things Are Better Unsaid," "The Luck of Ginger Coff") and for Tower (When a Woman Loves a Man, "Love Me Just a Little Bit"). She also recorded a Christian album, I Saw Him, for Mega Records. Originally offered the lead role in Julia, starring Diahann Carroll, Lester appeared in the films Just for Fun, Up Tight, Uptown Saturday Night, The Terminal Man, Street Knight, House Party 3, and Blacula, and the TV movies Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style and Percy and Thunder. She also guest-starred on TV series like Sanford and Son, Laugh-In, Quantum Leap, Hill Street Blues, Love American Style, The FBI, Harry 0 (the 1975 episode with Maureen McCormick), That Girl, Marcus Welby, and Lou Grant. She became a regular on Little House on the Prairie (as Hester Sue Terhune) and the soap operas Days of Our Lives (as Helen Grant) and Rituals. The singer won an Off-Broadway Theater Award for her performance in a revival of A Cabin in the Sky. Lester also had a recurring role as Vivica A. Fox's grandmother on the 1998 sitcom Getting Personal. ~ Ed Hogan


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The course providers do not want to catch you out during the interview. They are simply trying to assess whether they think you will be able to complete the course successfully. Most reputable establishments are reluctant to fail people, because this might be seen as a sign of their fauiure to train properly, so they try to accept only people who, they feel, have a good chance of succeeding.
Also, some people just do not possess the personality or academic ability to complete the course succssfully, even with the best trainers in the world. Reputable establishments will not accept such people on the courses .
So, they will just be trying to find out something about you. They will almost certainly want to know why you want to become a teacher of English, what ideas, if any, you have on what you think the role of a teacher is, and whether you have had any experence of teaching in any form.They may well be interested in why you chose their training establishment.They may also ask you some questions about your knowledge of English.
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It's an important class for college students these days, so thank goodness for Dr. Jason Pappas. The course is named "Issues in Sports Management," or perhaps more accurately "How To Avoid Crashing Your Motorcycle While Joyriding With A Younger Female Employee Who Is Not Your Wife." Its course code SPM 5930.
It looks like the class started last week, but maybe interest is such that they will bring it back for the fall semester. It's a good bet; there are currently two sections with 40 seats a section.
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Love him or hate him, soccer star David Beckham draws a crowd.
The famed English midfielder was booed nearly every time he touched the ball Saturday night, but also drew cheers when he scored on a free kick for the Los Angeles Galaxy in a 2-1 exhibition loss to FC Barcelona before a crowd announced at 93,137 at the Rose Bowl.
With flashbulbs popping among the largest crowd for a soccer game in the United States since the 1994 World Cup, Beckham approached the ball in the 45th minute and demonstrated his free kick prowess that prompted the title of the 2002 film, "Bend it Like Beckham,'' putting a shot from about 25 yards out just under the crossbar for the goal.
Beckham received a generally warm reception, some standing to applaud, as he left the game in the 87th minute.
FC Barcelona, the reigning European and Spanish champion, scored what proved to be the winning goal in the 67th-minute of the 90-minute game as Jeffren Suarez took a pass from Sergio Busquets, then fired a shot past charging Galaxy goalkeeper Josh Saunders into the net.
FC Barcelona opened the scoring in the 11th minute as Pedro Rodriguez put in a rebound of a shot by Lionel Messi.
"This is a great night for soccer in America,'' Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber told reporters at halftime when the scored was tied, 1-1. "This is one of the largest crowds in the history of the sport in this country. It is a night to celebrate. Our team is standing toe-to-toe, at least in the first half, against the best team in the world today and perhaps one of the best teams of all time.''
The loss ended a six-game undefeated streak for the Galaxy in MLS and exhibition play.
The game was the first in a three-game West Coast tour by FC Barcelona, which is coming off one of the most successful seasons by a European team, winning the UEFA Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey.
FC Barcelona will play Wednesday against Seattle Sounders FC of MLS in Seattle and Aug. 8 against Mexico's CD Guadalajara in San Francisco.
FC Barcelona's roster includes some of the most recognized names -- Messi, Thierry Henry, Xavi Hernandez, Rafael Marquez, Carles Puyol, Andres Iniesta, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Beckham has drawn the ire of Galaxy fans for extending his loan to Italy's AC Milan from March through the May 31 end of the Serie A season, causing him to miss the Galaxy's first 17 games of the 30-game MLS season. Beckham said he wanted to extend the loan so he could continue to face top-flight competition, which would bolster his chances of remaining part of England's national team as it continues to attempt to qualify for the 2010 World Cup.
Many believe Beckham would prefer playing for AC Milan on a full-time basis. Beckham has said he will fulfill his contract with the Galaxy, which runs through the 2011 season.
The game was Beckham's second in Southern California in 2009. He was greeted by boos and derisive signs as he made his 2009 Southern California debut in a 2-2 tie against AC Milan July 19 in an exhibition at The Home Depot Center.
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The 106-year-old company is airing TV ads beginning Monday to recast its orthopedic shoe inserts as "energizing cushions" that help people live life to the fullest.
The campaign will replace the brand's popular "Are You Gellin'?" commercials, which featured actors in stressful situations being transformed by the gel inserts into a relaxed mood.
Company executives hope the new "Get Up and Go" tag line turns attention to how the inserts might enhance a wide range of lifestyles. They want to dispel the notion that Dr. Scholl's products are only for older people suffering aches and pains. The first ad shows a break-dancer slipping a gel pad into his shoe before flipping in the air.
The ad also features actors running a marathon, line dancing and cheering at a college football game.
"The shots are meant to encompass all walks of life, in different parts of the country," said Phil Silvestri, creative director of Euro RSCG Tonic, the agency that also developed the "Are You Gellin'?" ads.
Dr. Scholl's already has strong brand recognition so the new campaign aims to connect with customers who don't bother seeking a remedy for their foot pain, said Jim Mackey, senior vice president of Merck Co., which acquired Dr. Scholl's with its purchase of Schering Plough Corp. in 2009.
"They go home, take off shoes and they sit down and put their feet up," Mackey said. "They recognize they have a problem but don't necessarily understand what to do about it."
Mackey said the company is "significantly increasing" its marketing dollars for Dr. Scholl's in the year ahead, but he didn't give specifics. The image makeover includes new packaging to hit shelves at the end of the month and new products that will roll out in August.
The company is focusing on its line of "For Her" products, which first hit the market in 2006. Mackey said women are a crucial demographic given the "challenges with women's shoes." A new ad in March will show how inserts can make high heels more comfortable.
In contrast to "Are You Gellin'?," which focused on relieving pain, the "Get Up and Go" campaign is intended to reposition the entire brand as the "oil in the engine" that makes people feel energized, Silvestri said.
Besides, the "Are You Gellin'?" commercials were growing stale after seven years, he said. And that's a fate Dr. Scholl's is hoping to outrun.
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Hi, starting a D&D 4e at Wizard's on US1 in St Augustine on thursday evenings. It'll start the first thursday in Jan, but I'll be there the thurs. before the holidays to get new players introduced and help make characters. We have a board at lostmagic.com
I live in Palm Coast but work in Ormond so I am mostly looking for a game close to those areas. I don't mind driving for a good game, but I have no interest in 4E at all. I am in a saturday afternoon game right now and maybe starting a saturday or sunday night game with 2 friends. If so we will be looking for players who can play in Daytona Beach or Ormond.


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mynextdive had een nieuw logo ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit42 ontwerpen ingezonden door13 freelance designers.
Design a killer logo for a Scuba Diving website inspired by Web 2.0 design trends, with influence from a few logos that we like from other scuba diving organizations.
My Next Dive
Scuba Trip Planning
Desired Color Scheme:
Blue/Green for water, Reds/Whites for Scuba Flag Colors (we're open to suggestion)
Desired Style:
Though it's a little flat for a Web 2.0 web site, we like the simplicity and composition of this logo:
Though it's a little complicated for a website logo, we love the color scheme, shading and composition
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This logo will be put on Business Cards, T-Shirts, Brochures and Stationary, so it needs to hold up and different sizes, and be versitile enough to look good in print and on the web.
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To win this competion, you'll need to impress us with composition, color pallet, lighting/shading and overall theme. For theme, anything scuba/marine related is fine. We're open to ideas, so feel free to suprise us.
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Do dark worlds abound? (Credit: NASA/Artist's Concept).
Theyre out there, Man I dont know why, but Sunday morning our thoughts always turn toward ideas of cosmic death and destruction here at ye ole Astroguyz HQ a recent study published in the journal of Nature suggests a startling possibility; that free-floating gas giant planets may be common in our galaxy; more common, in fact, than stars by a ratio of 2:1 in favor of the dark worlds. [Read more...]


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What is the Asthma Report?
Love the insights you've been gaining from your sensors but want to see the data displayed visually? Good news! We've created Asthma Reports to conveniently view and share your Propeller data. Your reports will give you more detailed insight to the status of your asthma and help identify ways to improve your asthma control. On the tenth day of each month, you'll receive an email with your Asthma Report attached as a PDF. It will give you information from the last 30 days of your asthma medication use. You can view all your past reports, as well as generate a new report at any time, in the Propeller Health app.
What's in the Asthma Report?
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1 - Asthma Control Status: This information is based on how many times you use your rescue inhaler. You can learn more about your Asthma Control Status in this article.
2 - Nighttime Rescue Usage: Our system considers "night" to be between the hours of 10pm and 7am. Knowing how often you use your rescue inhaler at night helps determine what might be causing your symptoms. When people routinely experience symptoms at night, it could indicate that other issues, such as sleep apnea, are present.
3 - Controller Adherence: Here we look at the number of times you took your daily controller inhaler over the last 30 days and compare that with what is prescribed. If you'd like to learn more about how we calculate adherence, try this article.
4 - Daily and Weekly Average Rescue Trends: This portion of the report breaks down the times you use your rescue inhaler into daytime, afternoon, evening and night. We also look at each day of the week. Knowing the time of day and day of the week when you use your rescue inhaler the most can give you and your doctor better insight into what might be causing your symptoms. This can also help direct conversation around ways to help prevent or control those triggers.
5 - Rescue Medication Usage Graph: This graph shows the number of puffs taken from your rescue inhaler each day over the last 30 days. Seeing information presented this way allows you and your doctor to easily see what your inhaler use looked like over the last month. It's also important to compare these graphs each month to see if any potential progression of the disease or a need for medication change.
6 - Controller Medication Usage Graph: This graph shows the percentage of controller inhaler medication take each day over the last 30 days. When your doctor prescribes a daily controller inhaler, their goal is for you to take that medication each day, regardless of how you're feeling. You and your doctor can see how often you are using your controller inhaler and look for any patterns that may be preventing you from using it as prescribed.
How do I view my report?
If you have more than 2 weeks of Propeller data and have synced your sensor recently, you will receive an email with your report on the tenth of each month. When your report is ready we'll send you a push notification and a reminder in the app that your report is ready to view. You can also generate a new report for the past 30 days of data within the app.
To view your emailed report:
1. Open your email inbox.
2. Find the email from Propeller Health with your report.
3. Download the .pdf attachment - this is your report.
4. Open the PDF report to view your report.
Note: This report can be printed or emailed so you can share it with your doctor or care team!
To create a report in the app:
1. Tap the "Records" tab located on the bottom of your app screen.
2. Tap "Asthma Reports".
3. To generate a new report covering the last 30 days, select "View Report" at the top of the screen.
4. The report will open as a PDF (it may take a few seconds to load).
5. To save or send the PDF, tap the arrow icon in the upper-right corner. You can email, text message or save the report from this menu.
What if I didn't receive an emailed report?
We can only display data that we're given from your sensors. If you haven't had your Propeller sensors for more than 3 weeks or if you haven't synced them recently, you may not receive an email with your report. If you need help getting your sensors synced, check out this article.


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A Father And Daughter 'Keep The Faith' During Cancer Fight
By Mark Goldberg On July 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In National Public Radio, Stories
For the past three years, StoryCorps' Legacy program has given people facing serious illness the chance to record interviews with loved ones and caregivers. Recently, StoryCorps expanded the program to include children.
In 2007, Faith Marr was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer on her spine. She was 4 years old. That year she had her first of eight surgeries, replacing her vertebrae with titanium rods. Doctors were uncertain about her chances of survival.
"From the very first surgery when I walked into that ICU, it really, really shocked me," says her father, Jerris. "You were so swollen up, and you had a lot of tubes connected to you. I didn't think it was you, and it just was really, really hard to see my baby like that."
"I couldn't even sit up it was so painful," says Faith, now 10.
"That's right, but then at the same point, there was a lot of good in it because I got to spend so much time with you," says Jerris.
Faith remembers they got tattoo pens, and her dad would draw on her skin. "From your sternum down to your pelvic bone, you had a pretty good scar, and so we'd make that into the stem of a flower. And then to the left of that is a scar from your feeding tube during chemo," Jerris says.
"I call it my second bellybutton," says Faith.
"That's right," Jerris says, "and we would turn that one into a butterfly."
"And you promised on my 18th birthday we would go get a tattoo together," Faith says.
Jerris asks his daughter what she feels she has learned from cancer.
"I think I learned that you don't always have to keep like, your tears in, and you just got to believe that you can do this. It's turned me into a mini-adult," Faith says. "And my friend, he had brain cancer, and I went up to him and I'm like, 'I know you're scared but the doctors told me that I won't live, too, and you've got to believe that you can make it.' And he just started crying and he hugged me, and his grandma came up and she hugged hard."
And Faith asks her dad how he thought she handled herself during her cancer fight.
"You're an amazing person, and it's going to be exciting for me to watch you continue to grow and develop into a young lady because your maturity has done nothing but inspire me to be a better person," Jerris says. "And the strength that you demonstrated through so many of your procedures gave me the energy to be strong there for you."
"Do you still worry about me?"
"Every day, every minute," her dad replies. "But I'm not worried about this cancer coming back anymore because you've kicked its butt."
"Yeah," Faith says.
"You've beat it."
Faith's cancer is now in remission. When she turns 18, Jerris plans to get a tattoo in her honor that says "Keep the Faith."
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Ausmus OK with Tigers hitting in Home Run Derby
DETROIT -- While Miguel Cabrera waits to decide whether he'll take part in the Home Run Derby, and Victor Martinez waits to see whether he'll make the All-Star team to be around for the Derby, their manager said he has no problem with any of his players taking their hacks at the outfield seats at Target Field.
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Realizing it or not, the MIT Artificial Intelligence has become even "smarter" even though there are categories into which we can break the notion, such as "weak" and "narrow" artificial intelligence (A.I.).
Seeing things from a long-term viewpoint, the forming of general levels of artificial intellect, let's say, has been on the table for quite some time. What's mostly known about the narrow version of A.I is that it has a restricted set of abilities mentally and physically, whereas the strong A.I. level has been known to surpass a human's capability to provide a resolution regarding an issue.
For instance, imagine playing a brain-boosting game, such as chess, or solving a cognitive task. In this case, an artificial intelligence featuring a strong A.I is without a doubt going to outperform an individual's efforts towards one and the same task.
The so-called advanced, or strong A.I, has been an object of thousands of counterfeit stories and myths. For the most part, all these phony tales aim at having us in a state of fear and uneasiness because of the robotics domination. A typical example of such a controversy is related to the society's beliefs about robotics stealing our jobs and taking a wrong turn, just like it happens in the movies.
Additionally, the maximum level of intelligence, or at least in the way we recognize it, is on its way, but its goal is set on improving our lives not taking them. Ultimately, it's about the potential of "smoothing" our fast-paced lives, not self-destroying them by creating superintelligence...
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I mean, what's the point? I hide in tanks to stay away from guys like this, but the more they level up, the more tools they get to pry me out and do terrible things to my corpse.
Seriously, if you play Battlefield 3 - or even can appreciate a skilled player of first-person shooters - take a look. The guy not only makes some great moves, he makes a great video, leaving out the dubstep in favour of death and destruction.
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The Thwaites outflow seems to be increasing, and to be warm! , much of the near glacier waters are shown to be ice free - see the close up below. Given ASLR's latest post, 2 above, perhaps the focus of the research should have been on the Thwaites, not the PIG.
The Thwaites outflow seems to be increasing, and to be warm! , much of the near glacier waters are shown to be ice free - see the close up below. Given ASLR's latest post, 2 above, perhaps the focus of the research should have been on the Thwaites, not the PIG.
My focus is more on West-Antarctica particularly B22a (44X24 nm) which blocks Thwaites Glacier from the open sea. If this beast becomes loose all the icebergs behind can drift out as well.
The linked articles confirm that not only are the Earth's rotation poles wandering rapidly, but so are its magnetic poles:Title: "Shifting Ice Caps - Magnetic Poles and Ice Caps move in Tandem"https://planet-earth-2017.com/wandering-poles/Extract: ""The rate of the magnetic pole's movement has increased in the last century compared with fairly steady movement in the previous four centuries", said Joseph Stoner and the Oregon researchers."See also:Title: "Magnetic north pole drifting fast"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4520982.stmExtract: " The Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America so fast that it could end up in Siberia within 50 years, scientists have said."
The linked reference provides paleo evidence that the Earth has experienced geomagnetic pole reversals in as little as a century, and that we are overdue for our next geomagnetic pole reversal:
The time spans of chrons are randomly distributed with most being between 0.1 and 1 million years[citation needed] with an average of 450,000 years. Most reversals are estimated to take between 1,000 and 10,000 years. The latest one, the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal, occurred 780,000 years ago, and may have happened very quickly, within a human lifetime.[1] In August 2018, researchers reported a reversal lasting only 200 years.[2] A brief complete reversal, known as the Laschamp event, occurred only 41,000 years ago during the last glacial period. That reversal lasted only about 440 years with the actual change of polarity lasting around 250 years. ...
The Earth may be statistically overdue for a reversal, but it is not a train-on-a-set-schedule sort of thing.
As I have said before, I am doubtful that icesheet collapse will trigger mag pole reversal. I am unaware of evidence that WAIS collapse in the Eemian ror in Holsteinian did any such thing.Mechanism that generated the mag field is very poorly understood, and mechanism of pole reversal is even less understood. Present state of knowledge makes speculation of pole reversal due to WAIS collapse the equivalent of haruspicy.sidd
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My guess is the polar wander caused by ice melt is just noise in the ancient signal.
ASLR,I'm not quite sure what light the magnetic field diagram is supposed to bring to the discussion. It seems to me the magnitude of the folds in the lines would be considerably less if the projection were less distorting; that the changes in the magnetic field might be an interesting note to your argument, but cannot be inferred from the diagram; and that the fold might cause the equivalent of Jupiter's Great Red Spot under different atmospheric conditions. However, I think RTG has a strong argument in the absence of a good theory -- correlations don't do much by themselves. So, please elucidate a theoretical connection that will explain how the minor mass shift might be causal rather than coincident.
So where does loss of Antarctic ice come into play?
ASLR, I understand the tectonics involved and think that the Thwaites Glacier is likely to have its melt accelerated by vulcanism, but I see no obvious case for more than a trivial direct influence of ice loss on magnetic reversal (at most). So I agree with RTG.
While the linked research, indicating more rapid bedrock uplift in Amundsen Sea Embayment, seems like good news, if one refers to projections from ice sheet models that do not include Pollard's & DeConto's ice cliff and hydrofacturing mechanism and which assume radiative forcing scenarios of RCP 4.5 or less. However, if one assumes radiative forcing scenarios close to BAU for the next two decades and projections from Pollard & DeConto's recent work, then Barletta et al (2018)'s finding are actually bad news regarding the potential collapse of the WAIS this century.V.R. Barletta el al. (22 Jun 2018), "Observed rapid bedrock uplift in Amundsen Sea Embayment promotes ice-sheet stability," Science,:Vol. 360, Issue 6395, pp. 1335-1339, DOI: 10.1126/science.aao1447. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6395/1335
The localization of mantle helium to glacial meltwater reveals that volcanic heat induces melt beneath the grounded glacier and feeds the subglacial hydrological network crossing the grounding line. The observed transport of mantle helium out of the Ice Shelf cavity indicates that volcanic heat is supplied to the grounded glacier at a rate of ~ 2500 ± 1700 MW, which is ca. half as large as the active Grimsvötn volcano on Iceland. Our finding of a substantial volcanic heat source beneath a major WAIS glacier highlights the need to understand subglacial volcanism, its hydrologic interaction with the marine margins, and its potential role in the future stability of the WAIS.
ps. can someone suggest a good open study on Marine ice cliff instability?
2500 MW melts about 1/2 Gtonne ice per year (Check my math, always)Amundsen sea glaciers are losing about 100Gtonne/yr. So still down in the noise.sidd
All the datasets illustrate the previously documented accelerating mass loss of Antarctica (Rignot et al., 2011a, b; Velicogna, 2009). In 2005–2010, the ice sheet experienced ice mass loss driven by an increase in mass loss in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica (Mouginot et al., 2014). The following years showed a reduced increase in mass loss, as colder ocean conditions prevailed in the Amundsen Sea embayment sector of West Antarctica in 2012–2013 which reduced the melting of the ice shelvesThe large interannual variability in mass balance in 2005– 2015, characteristic of Antarctica, nearly masks out the trend in mass loss, which is more apparent in the longer time series than in short time series. The longer record highlights the pronounced decadal variability in ice sheet mass balance in Antarctica, demonstrating the need for multidecadal time series in Antarctica, which have been obtained only by IOM and altimetry. The interannual variability in mass balance is driven almost entirely by surface mass balance processes. The mass loss of Antarctica, about 200 Gt yr−1 in recent years, is only about 10 % of its annual turnover of mass (2200 Gt yr−1 ), in contrast with Greenland where the mass loss has been growing rapidly to nearly 100 % of the annual turnover of mass.The annual turnover of mass of Antarctica is about 2200 Gt yr−1 (over 6 mm yr−1 of SLE), 5 times larger than in Greenland (Wessem et al., 2017). In contrast to Greenland, ice and snow melt have a negligible influence on Antarctica's mass balance, which is therefore completely controlled by the balance between snowfall accumulation in the drainage basins and ice discharge along the periphery.
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Quote from: AbruptSLR on August 30, 2018, 03:41:25 AMFrom a Google search:Thanks.
Quote from: AbruptSLR on August 30, 2018, 03:41:25 AM..Is there a topic discussing Marine Ice Sheet Instability?
One can only assume that the heating will accelerate with the current state of the Arctic, and that at some point the heat loss by conduction through the surface mixed layer will be able to keep up with the extra heat input .. that or it will reach the adiabatic threshold and start mixing.
Quote from: RoxTheGeologist on August 30, 2018, 11:27:12 PMOne can only assume that the heating will accelerate with the current state of the Arctic, and that at some point the heat loss by conduction through the surface mixed layer will be able to keep up with the extra heat input .. that or it will reach the adiabatic threshold and start mixing.The one consideration that you are ignoring is that per the research that I reference in Reply #75, the relatively freshwater layer immediately above the deeper warm layer of water, is unstable. So it is not that the deeper and denser warm water will magically float up through less dense cooler water, but rather that the upper cooler/fresher lay may well some day flow laterally away (into the North Atlantic) which would then leave the warm water closer to the surface.
I was answering your point: One of the most important fundamental driving force for freshwater drainage out of the Arctic ocean is lateral density difference. Low salinity water is continually flowing out of the Arctic. It's not something I would ignore. I attempted to simplify my answer to get the idea across. Clearly i failed.
AbstractAstrometric and geodetic measurements show that the mean position of Earth's spin axis drifted through the solid crust toward Labrador, Canada at an average speed of cm/yr during the 20th century. Understanding the origins of this secular polar motion (SPM) has significance for modeling the global climate, as it provides a link to ice mass balance and sea-level rise. A perplexing issue, however, is that while glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) models satisfactorily explain the direction of SPM, the associated prediction of the amplitude is insufficient. Our Bayesian GIA analysis, with constraints from relative sea-level and vertical land motion data, reveals that this process only accounts for % of the observed SPM amplitude. This shortfall motivates a more broadly scoped reassessment of SPM drivers. To address this, we assemble a complete reconstruction of Earth's surface mass transport derived from recent advancements in modeling the global 20th century cryospheric, hydrologic, oceanic, and seismogenic mass exchange. The summed signals, nonetheless, cannot fully reconcile the observed SPM, even when considering the error statistics of each driver. We investigate an additional excitation source: changes in Earth's inertia tensor caused by mantle convection. Sophisticated models have recently been advanced in tectonic plate reconstructions, in conjunction with geoid and seismic tomographic models. Here we use these models to compute new estimates of SPM. While the convection-driven SPM has considerable uncertainty, the average direction of 283 recent models aligns with the residual SPM (within 2.7 +/- 14.8 ), significantly reducing the gap between observation and prediction. We assert that one key mechanism for driving 20th century SPM is long-term mass movement due to mantle convection.
Except that Hansen notes a minimum has likely been reached as El Nino conditions have started.
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Could Henrique be of any realation to Mallorie Bardas?--Kremer 01:23, October 2, 2009 (UTC)Kremer
That's the theory... I left it out just because there is absolutely no confirmation of it yet, but if someone wants to put in a Speculation section mentioning it, go for it. The other interesting thing is that his buddy Armando Torres shares a last name with Elizabeta Torres, a friend of Mallorie Bardas. It all seems like to big of a coincidence, especially with a name like Bardas which is by no means a common Latino surname, but there's no official word from R* on this yet.--Mafioso86 11:58, October 2, 2009 (UTC)Mafioso86
We'll find out soon enough with the release. I'm pretty sure he's Mallorie's cousin who gave Roman and Niko the Bohan apartement. I'm also pretty sure Luis gets introduced to Mallorie by Henrique, and in another cutscene Henrique gets a call from Mallorie about the aparement thing. Master Sima Yi 16:28, October 4, 2009 (UTC)
I haven't been all the way through TBOGT yet, but I have to agree with Mafioso that Armando and Henrique both having the same last names as Elizabeta and Mallorie respectively is too coincidental to be a coincidence. But if my memory serves correctly, it seems like Mallorie did mention something about a cousin named Henrique in a GTA IV cutscene. Ghost Leader 08:23, December 3, 2009 (UTC)
Henrique is implied to be of Dominican decent, like when they're talking about there mothers. Mallorie is explicitly stated to be Puerto Rican.
- And it's totally impossible and freakishly inhuman that Puerto Ricans can interbreed with Dominican, right? Ghost Leader 14:26, December 4, 2009 (UTC)
About the mysterious Mallorie's cousin
No, Mallorie never said that his cousin is named Henrique. She just said her cousin has got an apartment in Bohan and she will give it to Niko and Roman whereas Henrique lives in Northwood and never said he had an apartment in Bohan, and he has no reason to have one. And as you know Elizabeta is in prison, Armando, Henrique or Luis would surely have spoken of it if they were cousins. Nostrein 19:31, December 3, 2009 (UTC)
- That's not neccesarily true, Henrique COULD have had an apartment to give away to Mallorie, and he COULD be her cousin. My guess is that Rockstar dicided to make these coincidental names, just so people like us would argue about it and cause speculation. Grand Theft AJ 22:49, December 4, 2009 (UTC)
- Nonetheless, the page saying they can't be related because they're of different ethnic backgrounds is kind of stupid, because if that's so, my Mexican cousins must be total freaks of nature considering I'm 100% white American. That (along with the similar statements on Armando's, Elizebeta's, and Mallorie's pages) should be removed as there's absolutely nothing preventing Dominicans and Puerto Ricans from having kids together. Ghost Leader 14:41, December 4, 2009 (UTC)
Ghost Leader has a good point. As of now however it's just specualtion, and coincidence, it's still possible, but there is no comfirmed proof. I think that info should stay on the page. Grand Theft AJ 22:49, December 4, 2009 (UTC)
Sorry isnt it likely seeing as Henrique has gone out with Carmen Ortiz that he has links in Bohan and could have an apartment there also he has stated hes a good earner so could afford to.He may have also had ties with Elizabeta Torres (in jail during bogt timeline) as they are heavily into drug trafficking and Ortiz is seen at her party and Mallorie is friends with E.Torres and introduces her to Niko even though Mallorie doesnt have any links to crime according to the lcpd database.Also the bogt timeline would suggest Niko would already be living in the apartment at the start of bogt and even though henriques a good earner hes staying in northwood where they grew up suggesting hes living with his family again maybe its suggested that mallorie and henrique are in fact related but never confirmed as he was not seen at the wedding in gta4 and henrique probably wasnt invented until bogt as he isnt really an important character to the plot. Markuseire 02:53, June 15, 2010 (UTC)
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I think stating that Henrique swears alot to act tough is a very unnecessary addition... what GTA Character doesn't swear? I also think the Trivia point stating that Henrique only talks about Luis' family because he has nothing else to talk about is very unnecessary. Anyone else agree? Grand Theft AJ 21:14, February 2, 2010 (UTC)
- I dont think those should be parts of the article either, i agree with u. 6FTofDIRT 02:48, February 3, 2010 (UTC)
Not saying it's a bad thing, but why the picture of him eating? It kind of cracked me up, like, take note in this dudes personality that he likes to eat food, preferably on sofa's. Also, I think we should change the profile picture of him to the shot in "I Luv LC" where he does the dumbass gang sign outside of Masionette.
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The McQuaids are letterboxing, a fun outdoor activity that sends people peering into all kinds of places in search of letterboxes. "Letterbox" is the term used for a mail box in England. Modern letterboxing probably has roots in the 1850s, when an English man left cards in a bottle with a note inviting others to do the same. Pretty soon people began leaving messages or letters for other folks passing by to find.
Modern letterboxes are plastic boxes instead of a bottle. Here's how it works: Someone hides a box, maybe under a log in the forest or tucked into a crack in an old stone wall. Inside the box, the hider places a rubber stamp and a notebook. Letterboxers post clues about how to find the box on websites like www.letterboxing.org/kids.
When you are ready to go letterboxing, have an adult go online and search for boxes by location—in your neighborhood or home town, or in a place you are going to visit. The boxes are all across the U.S. and in many other countries.
As you head out to find the letterbox, take along the clues you printed out from the Internet, a pen or pencil, a notebook, and a rubber stamp. Don't forget the usual hiking supplies: water, bug spray, and sunscreen!
When you find a box, open the notebook you find inside. Dorrie says it is fun to see who has been there before you and where they live. (Remember to be secretive if other people are nearby; if they don't know about letterboxing, they might take the box away).
Write your name, hometown, the date, and a short note in the log book. Don't forget to make your mark with your own rubber stamp. (Look for a library book that explains how to design and make your own stamp!)
Then take the special stamp from inside the box and make a print in your own notebook. Collecting as many stamps in your notebook as possible is a big part of the fun. Then wrap the box up carefully and return it to its hiding place for the next letterboxer to find.
Dorrie, who found another box on St. John hidden in an old stone wall, says, "I would definitely do it again. I'm a big mystery solver—I love reading mysteries and solving problems. Letterboxing is—and it's not like your basic tourist thing. I always like the chance to do something different!"


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BERLIN – Vacation homes in the top 30 markets have risen in price by 120 percent in the past five years, nearly twice the increase for primary residences, according to Fiserv Lending Solutions. But more recently those markets have been cooling along with the national slowdown in residential sales, which may make this a good time to think about purchasing the second home you've always wanted.
Buying a vacation home is a significant financial commitment and can be complicated; that's why it's important to work with your financial advisor to see how a vacation home fits into your overall financial strategy and budget. Before you make an offer on a property, you need to consider a number of steps to make sure the purchase is right for you.
The first step is deciding the setting for your vacation house. Are you looking for a quiet lakefront retreat? Or, is a ski chalet more suited to your active lifestyle? Second, you need to consider proximity to your primary residence. One-third of second homebuyers purchase a place within 100 miles of their primary residence, while another third venture more than 500 miles, according to the National Association of Realtors.
After you have picked the perfect spot, you need to make sure you can afford properties in that market that suit your needs. Condos tend to be less expensive than detached homes and far easier to maintain. Depending on the type of condo, some lenders will require a larger down payment, as much as 20 percent to 25 percent of the purchase price. Mortgage interest rates also might be higher on a condo and you will most likely have to pay monthly condo association fees.
Housing costs for all of your homes should exceed no more than one-third of your total income.
A popular strategy for paying the down payment on a second home is through a cash-out refinancing of your primary residence. This approach might lower the interest rate and closing costs compared with a home equity loan.
The affordability of a vacation home must also take into account the tax consequences. If you spend at least a few weeks out of the year living there in your vacation home, you and your spouse may be allowed to deduct mortgage interest on up to $1 million in debt on all of your residences.
You can also deduct interest payments for home equity loans and property taxes. But some restrictions on deducting mortgage interest apply if you rent the property and deductions may also be limited if you are subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).
If you plan to rent out your vacation home to help pay for it, be realistic about how often and how much you will rent it. The average vacation home is rented for 12 nights a year for 25 percent of the homeowners who choose to rent their properties, according to the National Association of Realtors. While your home might rent for a substantial sum, you might have to pay a management company as much as 50 percent of the rent to take care of renting, cleaning and maintaining the property.
Popular rental times, like holidays and school vacations, are often the same times that you might want to use the property. Also, know that your rental income must be reported on your tax return if your rent it out for more than two weeks during the tax year.
When you're ready to buy your vacation home your financial advisor can help you work through all the details. From determining the size of your down payment to ensuring the rest of your personal and financial goals are secure, your financial advisor can help make buying your home away from home as simple and stress-free as possible.
(The writer is a Merrill Lynch Senior Financial Advisor. She can be reached at 410-208-9084.)


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I found a source code of Huffman Coding algorithm. After I read the code, I didn't see any problem. So I downloaded it, and tried to run it. But then, it doesn't run (compiling fine). Probably there is something I misunderstood about the instruction of author. Can you guys please help me pointing out the problem here? The instruction said that I'm supposed to put the file name in the command line, but when I did it nothing happened. Here is the link to source code. Please help me!
The Laws of Cryptography: Huffman Coding Algorithm
Thank you very much!


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When the TSA launched its Evolution of Security blog last month in an effort to engage in open communication with travelers, my colleague Jon Stokes expressed skepticism and characterized as laughable the prospect of TSA acting on feedback from the public. Having written about the ineptitude of TSA in the past myself, I was emphatically inclined to agree with Jon. It looks like we might have passed judgment prematurely, because it only took TSA one week to start making broad policy changes in response to feedback received through the blog.
In an entry posted at Evolution of Security yesterday, TSA reveals that it has put a permanent end to the highly invasive practice of requiring travelers to remove all electronics from carry-on bags—a security measure that recently inconvenienced many travelers, including several Ars staffers who were flying out of San Francisco International Airport. "After some calls to our airports, we learned that this exercise was set up by local TSA offices and was not part of any grand plan across the country," the blog entry says. "These practices were stopped on Monday afternoon and Blackberrys, cords and iPods began to flow through checkpoints like the booze was flowing on Bourbon Street Tuesday night. (Fat Tuesday of course)."
Another blog entry posted on Evolution of Security this week includes a public message from TSA director Kip Hawley to our own Jon Stokes in response to Jon's question about liquids.
"We have lots of material on our site (tsa.gov) going into the liquids issue so that is available for background, including the video of it blowing up. I'll try here to break the question down into the sub-questions I hear most. I enjoy ars technica, especially that it is thoughtful and issue-oriented and I appreciate having the opportunity to address your question," the message says. "The preparation of these bombs is very much more complex than tossing together several bottles-worth of formula and lighting it up.
"In fact, in recent tests, a National Lab was asked to formulate a test mixture and it took several tries using the best equipment and best scientists for it to even ignite. That was with a bomb prepared in advance in a lab setting. A less skilled person attempting to put it together inside a secure area or a plane is not a good bet. You have to have significant uninterrupted time with space and other requirements that are not easily available in a secured area of an airport. It adds complexity to their preferred model and reduces our risk, having the expert make the bomb and give it to someone else to carry aboard."
TSA hopes that its swift response to comments about the electronics policy will illuminate the organization's willingness to listen to the public. "So thanks to everyone for asking about this and for giving us a chance to make it right," the blog entry says. "Our hope is that examples like this validate our forum and show the solid partnerships we can form with our customers—the traveling public—in not only increasing security but in making all of our lives just a little easier."
If this promising first step is the beginning of a trend rather than an isolated incident, TSA might succeed in eroding some of the cynicism I've accumulated over the years while reading about the agency's many failures.
Found via ThreatLevel: "TSA Reads Blog Comments, Changes Policy"


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The Houston Dynamo Academy kicked off the Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup on Sunday and got off to a rough start, losing all three games they played.
The Academy U-16s, who are competing in the U-17 bracket, fell 4-2 to UAE Precor, a youth team from the United Arab Emirates. Midfielder Carlos Ibarra picked up a red card in the 10th minute and the Dynamo found themselves in a 2-0 hole after the 30-minute mark. The squad regrouped in the second half behind goals from Bryan Salazar and Elochukwu Ozumba, but the defense could not keep UAE Precor off the board. Edgar Garibay scored in the 68th minute and Tim Ruhrseitz scored off a free kick in the 73rd minute to give the Middle Eastern side the opening match victory.
The Pre-Academy U-15s, who are competing in the U-16 bracket, fell 2-1 to West Coast FC in their opening match. West Coast FC's Nathan Chow and Aleksander Cucuk scored in the first half to give the California club an early lead. Josue Palomino pulled one back for Houston in the 50th minute, but that would be all of the offense Houston could muster.
In the U-19 age group, the Dynamo South Texas Academy (McAllen) fell 2-0 to the Puerto Rican U-19 national team.
HFA Tournament
While the younger teams battle for hardware in Dallas, the Academy U-18s participated in the 2012 HFA Tournament, presented by Taco Bell at Bear Creek Park. The Dynamo competed in the Open division, with a $1,000 cash prize at stake. On Saturday, the Academy defeated Houston Rangers, ASC Stars and EP Elite to advance to the semifinals.
On Sunday, despite a significant size disadvantage, the Academy played Houston-based amateur club Feelin Old to a scoreless draw. After two 30-minute halves, the teams went straight to a penalty shootout. Goalkeeper Leopoldo Castillo made one save and Dynamo shooters went 5-5 to advance to the final match.
In the final, the Dynamo Academy faced a familiar foe, local amateur club ASC New Stars. New Stars won the HFA Premier Division and are one of the top amateur clubs in the region. After a scoreless first half, Houston went on the board in the 60th minute after midfielder Alan Arellano hammered home a penalty kick. The lead was short-lived as ASC stormed back minutes later and took advantage of a dropped ball by Castillo to even the match.
The two teams battled for the remaining twenty minutes of regulation and two 10-minute overtime periods but could not find an additional goal. In the ensuing penalty shootout, both teams connected on their first four attempts. In the fifth round, ASC's shooter drilled the ball off the crossbar to open the door for an Academy victory. Midfielder Isaiah Noreiga, who converted the fifth penalty kick in the semifinal shootout hit the ball well but could not get the ball past the diving ASC goalkeeper.
With the two squads tied at four through five rounds, the shootout went to sudden death. The sixth ASC shooter stepped up the ball and fired it down the middle of the goal. Castillo dove to his right but managed to reach his left hand back toward the center of the goal to deflect the ball up in the air. The ball went straight up and landed in front of the goal line. Midfielder Glen Reid then stepped up for Houston as the sixth shooter and fired the game-winning goal past the ASC keeper. The win marked the first time an Academy squad had won the HFA tournament.


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Square, the company that simplified the ability to accept credit cards, has a new product that makes it very easy to send cash to a friend.
How easy? You just send the recipient an email with the amount and boom: The money appears in their bank account.
It sounds too good to be true, and it's sure to make the heads of the privacy-obsessed explode. But Square Cash is very real, and you can use it today to send money to friends and family.
Square says there's no signup, but that's not quite accurate. Both you and your recipient must register your debit cards with Square's system in a one-time process.
Here's how it works, according to Square's news release and details on its website:
1. To start the process, you send an email to the recipient with put firstname.lastname@example.com in the CC field and the dollar amount in the subject line. Your email would look something like this:
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
CC: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: $25
2. The first time you do this, you receive an email from Square with a link to enter your debit card number on the company's secure website.
3. Your recipient receives a similar email.
4. Once the accounts are registered, the money is transferred, usually within a day or two.
After you send this first email, you no longer have to visit Square's site, but each new recipient will need to register his or her debit card.
Oh yeah, I forgot one important thing: This is a free service. Square charges nothing for it, although the company reportedly charged 50 cents per transaction during beta tests, according to The Verge.
So what does Square get out of it?
For one thing, Square Cash builds awareness for Square as a company known for simplifying transactions. Square also begins to build a database of email-linked debit card accounts to which it can market other products. Square told Wall Street Journal reviewer Walt Mossberg that the company hopes to monetize Square Cash by offering premium services, such as sending cash internationally.
In terms of security, Square says it has anti-spoofing technology in place to prevent fraud. But, according to the Verge, the company's not saying how that works:
Square Cash works over email, which raises some pretty obvious questions about security. At first glance, you might assume that an SMTP-spoofing program could convince Square that you're sending money from an email address that isn't yours. "When we built the product we were all thinking of the same thing," says Grassadonia, "but the product is 100 percent secure. Nobody is going to get taken advantage of via spoofing." Working within the existing structures of email is clever, but could be intimidating for some new users, who will have to take Square on its word. The company declined to provide any details about its anti-spoofing methods.
Square has a page discussing Cash's security, but it's also not very specific. The page includes a warning to have a strong password on your email account, because once you link that email account to your debit card, your money is accessible by anyone who can get into your inbox.
You can use Square Cash with any email service, and Square had released iOS and Android apps that work with it. But all they really do is generate the email – you don't really need them.
This could be a very popular service for those unafraid to give up their debit card numbers to Square and trust in the company's black-box security processes. It could also serve to undercut Square's primary business of handling credit-card transactions.
My wife uses the Square Reader in her small business. That's the small, square card-swiper you plug into the headphone jack of a mobile device. Square charges a percentage on each transaction.
When I told her about Square Cash, she began to wonder if she could use it to accept payments in lieu of credit cards, bypassing the company's transaction fee. She'd have to get her customers to trust the process, which could be an uphill battle for some.
But the biggest deterrent to business use is a $250-per-week transaction limit. You can upgrade to a $2,500-per-week limit by giving Square more information about yourself, including a mobile phone number for a text-message verification and a Facebook account. (No, Square doesn't report your transactions to your friends – it just uses Facebook as a verification.) If you don't use Facebook, you can provide your full name, date of birth and the last four digits of your Social Security Number.
What do you think of Square Cash? Will you try it?


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Poison ivy has invaded the area the Sustainable Food Center uses for their farmer's market in East Austin, Texas.
But rather than dousing it with plant-killing sprays, the SFC found an environmentally friendly -- and perhaps even a tasty -- solution, according to a report by KXAN.
The market has teamed up with nearby Swede Farms to use goats as a solution to the problem. The farm's goats love to eat poison ivy and, according to their owner Leeanne Carlson, the plant is a treat for the animals.
"Things we think of as nuisance plants they love and are very good for them," she said. "It's like coming to a dessert bar where they can make their own ice cream sundaes."
SFC will use other methods to kill off the plant once it's been eaten down. A solution that includes soap and orange oil will eradicate the plant without hurting the environment.
The Sustainable Food Center is the first in Austin to use the goats for clearing. Swede Farm is hoping they aren't the last.


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Solidarity with student struggles from Québec to Palestine !
- Palestine solidarity contingent at 22/03 Montreal protest against tuition hikes.
- Thursday, March 22, 13h
South/east corner St. Catherine/Peel
Montreal, Québec
photo Palestinian students in Gaza Strip.
- Bring Palestinian flags, solidarity banners !
As students in Québec are taking to the streets, the student strike is building momentum against efforts by the Liberal government to hike post-secondary education by $1625 over the next five years.
"While the student general strike will be in its sixth week and the Liberal government of Jean Charest has yet to respond to the demands of students, tens of thousands of students and citizens will take the streets to shout their anger at tuition hikes. Education is a right, and barriers to accessible education must be eliminated !" writes the Coalition Large de l'Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (CLASSE).
Tadamon! calls for a Palestine solidarity bloc at the major student protest in Montreal on March 22nd, highlighting the long-standing solidarity work undertaken by the Quebec student movement in support of Palestinian students struggling against policies of Israeli occupation and apartheid.
In May 2008, l'Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (ASSÉ), the coalition of student unions currently leading the student strike, became the first major student union in North America to support the growing boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement in solidarity with Palestine.
Let us join together on the streets of Montreal to support the inspiring Quebec student strike while also remembering the struggles waged by Palestinian students. On a daily basis, Palestinian students are still fighting for the right to education under apartheid policies enforced by the Israeli Occupation Forces. Regularly, Palestinian universities in the West Bank face closure by the Israeli military, often blocking students from accessing university campuses like Al Najah University in Nablus. Furthermore, in the Gaza Strip, entire departments of the Islamic University in Gaza were destroyed in indiscriminate bombings at the turn of 2009.
Solidarity with the Quebec student strike !
Solidarity with Palestinian students struggling against Israeli apartheid !
Tadamon! Montreal
info(at)tadamon.ca | 514-664-1036


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As the first day with Chrysler in bankruptcy dawns, let's look at a mad car from an era when the automaker was set to conquer the very skies: the jet-powered Gilda coupé.
There is something definitely wrong with the heat exchangers of Italian air conditioners. Granted, they have fans in them and machines with fans will never be silent but cooling a small building by Lake Como should not require a jet engine.
There, I said it—and as if on cue, this orange-silver concoction from half a century ago rounds a bend and motorvates leisurely down a service road. The noise is deafening, high, piercing, slightly dangerous.
The Gilda—named after Rita Hayworth's famous role in the 1946 film of the same name—is not a Chrysler in the way a 300 or a Hemi engine is, but it would certainly not exist without the company.
Chrysler's executives commissioned it in 1955 and it was designed by Giovanni Savonuzzi of Italy's Ghia coachbuilding firm. The car was shaped to take a gas turbine, but it was never fitted with one: the Gilda toured the show circuit with a 1.5-liter OSCA four-pot, then was handed over to the Henry Ford Museum, where it sat until purchased by a Californian eight years ago for $125,000.
Scott Grundfor, the car's new owner, had the car restored and fitted, as originally intended, with a gas turbine. It's a perfect complement to the styling, which, as you can see in our gallery, is perhaps the most extreme example of Fifties jet plane car design. A weird one-off from an era where ultra-high speed transport seemed to be just around the corner. And when Project Orion was not the name of a space program set to retrace our achievement from forty years ago, but stood for a set of spaceships powered by atom bombs.
Yeah, the Fifties were cool.
Postscript: Chrysler's partnership with Ghia in designing a jet car culminated eight years later in the Chrysler Turbine Car, a test run of 50 automobiles powered by the A831 turbine engine making 130 HP at a very un-V8 60,000 RPM. While the cars were reliable, they never made it into production, and died quick EV1 deaths.
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What's in your bag, Peter Maffay?
The German singer with the Transylvanian roots has been producing one hit song after another for more than 40 years. No one has released more No. 1 albums in Germany than Peter Maffay, 68. This February and March, he is touring the country with his new album MTV Unplugged. He let Lufthansa Magazin take a peek inside his case(s) at Leipzig Airport
The sound of Peter Maffay


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When the RPG masters at BioWare team up with George Lucas' beloved science fiction franchise amazing things happen, but is the developer's first foray into the MMO market worth your massively multiplayer money?
A Star Wars: The Old Republic review isn't built in a day. With changes and tweaks being made constantly up to launch day and beyond and so much of the experience relying on the growing game community, day one reviews based on beta experience aren't really able to provide a comprehensive look at a massively multiplayer online game. Even after 20 hours playing in the game's early launch I would hesitate in delivering a definitive recommendation or condemnation of BioWare's latest and greatest. Instead I'll be following our established MMO reviewing formula: Four weekly impressions-filled gameplay journals followed by a final verdict based on those experiences.
While you'll have to wait until tomorrow for the first of those journals, I can at least give you my off-the-cuff suggestion based on what I've seen so far. Normally we try to gather three early opinions, two from those that have played the game and one from someone without much experience. We're only doing two this time around, with Owen Good (my MMO apprentice) as the non-player and me as the player, though at nearly two dozen hours I've barely scratched the surface.
This is exactly the sort of situation that requires a Gut Check.
Michael Fahey, a dark and evil MMO player whose two children may be the only hope for a doomed galaxy: I've had many doubts over the development cycle that BioWare, a company known for its single-player role-playing games, had what it takes to create a proper massively multiplayer online RPG. The developer's focus on emotionally engaging stories just didn't seem to mesh with the idea of a large online world populated by thousands of players.
After playing Star Wars: The Old Republic in both beta and now more than 20 hours of early access, I'm still not convinced BioWare can craft a massively multiplayer experience that can stand the test of time. The portions of the game that focus on multiple players getting together in crafted player-versus-environment and player-versus-player scenarios don't feel nearly as polished and balanced as those of other games in the genre. There are some excellent ideas here that I will get into with my weekly journals, but I'm not sure they can carry the weight of a monthly subscription yet.
So how come the big graphic up top is all green? Because Star Wars: The Old Republic is at its core eight different single-player BioWare Star Wars stories rolled up into one. Each of the eight classes in the game has its own story that sees players travelling to the far corners of the galaxy in pursuit of their own personal adventure. My Smuggler, for instance, has developed an intense rivalry with a rival operator. I hate this bastard, and can't wait to see how he gets his final comeuppance at the end of the storyline. Consider me emotionally engaged.
To bottom line it, for $US59.99 you get eight different single-player BioWare Star Wars games that just happen to have other people wandering about in them. You've got a month to play through them all and figure out if the massively multiplayer aspects of The Old Republic are worth subscribing to. Yes.
Owen Good, who turned to the MMO side and became Darth Fahey's apprentice this year: In practical terms, buying this game is a pretty simple "no" for me right now — I'm a Mac user. I'd be lying, however, if I not only thought about buying a copy of Windows 7 for use in Boot Camp, but also moved up my purchase of a new computer to yesterday in the vague hope I could find a way to play The Old Republic on it. That would make this game effectively cost some $US1,500, and though that's prohibitively expensive, there's still a powerful gut feeling in me that The Old Republic is something worth joining. I do not have the budget for it now, but it's a lead-pipe cinch I'll be playing the game, somehow, in the next three or four months. Considering what I'll have to overcome to do that, it makes it a Yes.


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See what's new for 2013 at this year's Technology Expo on April 22, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., in the Dean's Hall, Penn Stater Conference Center, University Park. Organized by Media and Technology Support Services (MediaTech), the event will bring together more than twenty vendors under one roof, and feature the latest in plasma and LCD flat-panel displays, projectors, touch-screen control systems, whole-house sound systems, digital cameras, podiums and more.
Product vendors and MediaTech staff will be on hand to answer questions and demo the use of the equipment.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 814-865-5400.


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This article is intended for system administrators. If you deleted a built-in Apple app on your personal iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, learn how to restore it.
Prevent users from deleting built-in Apple apps
In iOS 11 or later, you can use mobile device management (MDM) to prevent users from deleting built-in apps on supervised devices.
To use this restriction, turn off "Allow removing system apps", then restart the device for the setting to take effect.
Contact your MDM vendor for additional instructions.
Restore a built-in Apple app that a user has deleted
If you allow users access to the App Store, they can restore built-in apps.
In iOS 11.3 or later, you can use MDM to restore built-in apps.


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Kinda very atmospheric place.
The Call of the Fireflies is a puzzle-based singleplayer mod for Crysis. There's no guns, explosions or nanosuits involved. Just an old man who follows mysterious fireflies through mountains and dark caves, sleeping villages and frozen woods, and has to use all kinds of mechanisms to open his path, while battling to stay alive in the winter cold.
Kinda very atmospheric place.
marry xmas!
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