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Implicit in my last post about reputation in science was one major assumption: that honesty and integrity are important in academia. The reason I left this implicit is because it seems so utterly obvious to us in academia, given that the truth is in many ways our only real currency. In industry, there are many other forms of currency, including (but not limited to) actual currency. And thus, while we value truth first and foremost in academia, I think that in some areas of industry, even those perhaps closely related to academia, the truth is just one of many factors to weigh in their final analysis. This leads to what I consider to be some fairly disturbing decision making.
It's sort of funny: many very talented scientists I know have left academia because they feel like in industry, you're doing something that is real and that really matters, instead of just publishing obscure papers that nobody reads. And in the end, it's true: if you buy an iPhone, it either works or doesn't work, and it's not really a debatable point most of the time. And I think most CEOs of very successful companies (that actually make real things that work) are people with a lot of integrity. Indeed, one of the main questions in the Theranos story is how it could have gotten so far with a product that clearly had a lot of issues that they didn't admit to. Is Theranos the rare anomaly? Or are there a lot more Elizabeth Holmes's out there, flying under the radar with a lower profile? Based on what I've heard, I'm guessing it's the latter, and the very notion that industry cares about the bottom line of what works or doesn't has a lot of holes in it.
Take the example of a small startup company looking for venture capital funding. Do the venture capitalists necessarily care about the truth of the product the company is selling or the integrity of the person selling it? To me, from academia, I thought this would seem to be of paramount importance. However, from what I've been hearing, turns out I was completely wrong. Take one case I've heard of where (to paraphrase) someone I know was asked by venture capitalists at some big firm or another to comment on someone they were considering funding. This person then related some serious integrity issues with this person to the venture capitalists. To which the venture people said something like "We hear what you're saying. Thing is, I gotta say, a lot of people we look at make up their degrees and stuff like that. We just don't really care." A lot of people make up their degrees, and we just don't really care. A number of other people I know have told me versions of the same thing: they call the venture capitalists (or the venture capitalists even call them), they raise their concerns, and the venture people just don't want to hear it.
Let's logic this out a bit. The question is why venture capitalists don't care whether the people they fund are liars. Let's take as a given that the venture capitalists are not idiots. One possible reason that they may not care is that it's not worth their time to find out whether someone has faked their credentials. Well, given that the funding is often in the millions and it probably takes an underling half a day with Google and a telephone to verify someone's credentials, I think that's unlikely to be the issue (plus, it seems that even when lies are brought to their attention, they just don't care). So now we are left with venture capitalists knowingly funding unscrupulous people. From here, there are a few possibilities. One is that someone could be a fraud personally but still build a successful business in the long term. Loathe as I am to admit it, this is entirely possible—I haven't run a business, and as I pointed out in the last post, there are definitely people in science who are pretty widely acknowledged as doing shoddy work, and yet it doesn't (always) seem to stick. Moreover, there was the former dean of college admissions at MIT, who appeared to be rather successful at her job until it came out that (you can't make this stuff up) that she faked her college degrees. I do think, however, that the probability of a fraudulent person doing something real and meaningful in the world is probably considerably less than the infamous 1 out of 10 ratio of success to failure that venture people always bandy about, or at least considerably less than someone who's not a Faker McFakerpants. Plus, as the MIT example shows, there's always the risk that someone finds out about it, and it leads to a high-profile debacle. Imagine if Elizabeth Holmes said that she actually graduated from Stanford (instead of admitting to dropping out (worn as a badge of honor?)). Would there be any chance she would have taken her scam this far without someone blowing the whistle? Overall, I think there's a substantial long term risk in funding liars and cheats (duh?).
Another possibility, though, is that venture capitalists will fund people who are liars and cheats because they don't care about building a viable long term business. All they care about is pumping the business up and selling it off to the next bidder. Perhaps the venture capitalists will invest in a charming con-artist because someone not, ahem, constrained by the details of reality might be a really good salesman. I don't know, but the cynic in me says that this may be the answer more often than not. One might say, well, whatever, who cares if some Silicon Valley billionaires lose a couple million dollars. Problem is, implicit in this possibility is that somebody is losing out, most likely some other investors along the way. Just as bad, rewarding cheaters erodes everyone's sense of trust in the system. This is particularly aggravating in cases when the company is couched in moral or ethical terms—and in situations where patient health is involved, everything suddenly becomes that much more serious still.
Overall, one eye-opening aspect of all this for me as an academic is that while we value integrity, skepticism and evidence very highly, business values things like "passion" more than we do. I don't know that an imposition of academic values would have necessarily caught something like Theranos earlier on and all the other lesser known cases out there, but I would like to think that it would. Why are these values not universal, though? After all, our role in academia is that of evaluation, of setting a bar that employers value. In a way, our student's aren't really paying for an education per se—rather, they are paying for our evaluation, which is a credential that will get them a job; in a sense, it's their future employers that are paying for the degree. Why doesn't this work when someone fakes a degree? When someone fakes data?
Here's a thought. One way to counter the strategy of funding fakers and frauds would be for us to make this information public. It would be very difficult, then, to pump up the value of the company with such a cloud hanging over it, and so I think this would be a very effective deterrent. The biggest problem with this plan is the law. Making such information public can lead to big defamation lawsuits directed at the university and perhaps the faculty personally, and I've heard of universities losing these lawsuits even if they have documented proof of the fraud. So naturally, universities generally advise faculty against any public declarations of this sort. I don't know what to do about that. It seems that with the laws set up the way they are, this option is just not viable most of the time.
I think the only real hope is that venture capitalists eventually decide that integrity actually does matter for the bottom line. I certainly don't have any numbers on this, but I know of at least one venture capital firm that claims success rates of 4 in 10 by taking a long view and investing carefully in the success of the people and ventures they fund. I would assume that integrity would matter a lot in that process. And I really do believe that at the end of the day in industry, integrity and reality really do trump hype and salesmanship, just like in academia. I don't know a lot of CEOs, but one of my heroes is Ron Cook, CEO of Biosearch Technologies, a great scientist, businessman, and a person of integrity. I think it's not coincidental that Ron has a PhD. For real.
Update in response to comments, 7/22/2016:
Got a comment from Anonymous and Sri saying that this post is overblowing the issue and unfairly impugns the venture capital industry. I would agree that perhaps some elements of this post are a bit overblown, and I certainly have no idea what the extent of this particular issue (knowingly funding fakers) is. This situation probably doesn't come up in the majority of cases, and it may be relatively rare. All that said, I understand that my post is short on specifics and data when it comes to funding known fakers and looking the other way, but I think it will be impossible to get data on this for the very same reason: fear of defamation lawsuits. You just can't say anything specific without being targeted by a defamation suit that you will probably lose even if you have evidence of faking. So where are you going to get this data from?
And it's true that I personally don't have enough anecdotes to consider this data. But I can say that essentially every single person I've discussed this with tells me the same thing: even if you say something, the venture capitalists won't care. In at least some cases, they have specific personal examples.
Also, note that I am not directly calling out the integrity of the venture capitalists themselves, but rather just pointing out that personal integrity of who they fund is not necessarily as big a factor in their decision making as I would have thought. My point is not so much about the integrity of venture capitalists—I suspect they are just optimizing to their objective function, which is return on investment. I just think that it's shady at a societal level that the integrity of who they fund is apparently less important to them than we in academia would hope. Let me ask you this: in your department, would you hire someone on the faculty knowing that they had faked their degree? I'm guessing the answer is no, and for good reason. The question is why those same reasons don't matter when venture capital are deciding who to fund.


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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Some common mistakes in genealogy
1. Failing to look for and record the correct full name of an ancestor. One of the side benefits of looking at a large collection of user submitted family trees is that it is fairly easy to compare the submissions of any one individual and see the variations. In this case, I have used Ancestry.com's Public Member Trees and New FamilySearch for the lists. All of the individuals I examine in this post as well known and accurate information on the individual is extremely easy to find. I can verify a name of any of these individuals from several online free original sources. Here is the classic example from my family: Henry Martin Tanner. Just to get an idea of the number of submissions, Ancestry.com's Public Trees show 37,110 returns on a search for his name. The name variations are as follows:
Henry Martin Tanner
Henry Tanner
Henry M. Tanner
Henry W. Tanner (obviously wrong)
I started with someone who is well recorded. Here is the second example: Henry's father, Sidney Tanner.
Sidney Tanner
Sydey Tanner
Sydney Tanner
None of these variations are a reflection of the common problem of a lack of a standard spelling. The name variations do not appear in any source records that I have seen. Next example: Ove Christian Oveson.
Ove Christian Ovesen
Ore Christian Overson
Ove Andreasen
Ove C. Oversen
Ove C. Overson
Ove Christian Jensen
Ove Christian Overson
Ove Christian Oveson
Ove Christian Oveson (Overson)
Ove Conrad Overson
Ove Ovesen
I think you can get the idea. Some of these are probably the wrong person. It might help to know that Ove Christian Oveson changed his name to Overson when he came to the U.S. from Denmark.
2. Failure to record the complete or correct location for an event. This is really common. Usually, the submitter merely leaves out the county or other larger geographic designation. In places like Denmark where identical names are common, failing to identify the exact location of an event usually ends up with the wrong person. Here are the places listed for Henry Martin Tanner's birth in 1852:
San Bernardino, Los Angeles, California
San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California
San Barnadino, California
of Utah
Joseph City, Apache, AZ
Joseph City, Arizona, USA
Toquerville, Wash. UT
St. Joseph, Navajo, Arizona
Lakeside, Arizona
Date and place not provided
Can you guess which one is correct for 1852?
3. Failure to provide a correct date or giving an approximate date when the actual date is known. Back to Henry Martin Tanner, his birth date is well documented and correct, 11 June 1852. Here are the variations:
11 June 1852
11 July 1852
about 1858
about 1859
Date and place not provided
Come on, there is really no excuse for the variations. There are no records that show different dates for his birth other than those sloppy submissions.
4. Failure to provide a name or date when the name or date is well known. I can't really give an example of this because the information is lacking from the submitter's file. For example, it is common to find an unknown spouse for someone whose spouse's name is readily available. It is also common for submitted family trees to have the first name of the wife when her maiden name is known. The submitter commonly cops out by using Mrs. Jones or Miss Jones where the Jones is the husband's surname. This may be an acceptable practice in some circles but it is unacceptable to me.
5. Considering two individuals to be the same person, merely because they have the same name. What can I say about this except that it happens all the time.
Well, as you can imagine, the list could go on and on and perhaps it will in the future.
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If Ove Christian Oveson was Danish, then I'll eat my nose if his original name was indeed Oveson. No way. Either -sen or in older times -søn, not -son.ReplyDelete
Just looked a bit around. If it's the person mentioned in http://theancestorfiles.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html - which it very much looks like it might be - then his original name in Denmark was Ove Christian Jensen, named after his father Jens Andreas Ovesen (http://theancestorfiles.blogspot.com/2008/10/tanner-24-25-jens-kjersten-pederson.html) who again was named after his father Ove Andersen.
Scans from the parish registers (found at http://www.sa.dk/ao/English/default.aspx): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2959070/OveChristianJensen.tif and http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2959070/JensAndreasOvesen.tif
Wow. That's so cool, JP. I've done Swedish research on the other side of my family, but I don't know if I've ever gotten around to looking into the Danish records. Thanks for sending those! I'll have to put up a blog post tomorrow or Friday with those two records and a link to your comment.ReplyDelete
As far as the -son and -sen problem: it was not unheard of for Danes to change their name to -son when they came to America. One notable example was Mormon Church Historian Andrew Jenson. He was Danish through and through, but used the -son spelling his whole life. I've assumed the immigrants changed to -son because it was the more American spelling and they were interested in assimilating and having their children be as American as possible.
Here is a post with Jens Andreas Ovesen's death notice:
The death notice uses the spelling "Oveson" and "Oversen." His gravestone says "Ovesen."
(Make up your minds, people!! :)
The descendants of his sons Lars Peter and Ove Christian use the spellings Oveson and Overson, although as you note in your comment, it should probably be Jensen.
Thanks again for the info!
Amy (James's daughter)
"it was not unheard of for Danes to change their name to -son when they came to America."ReplyDelete
It might well have been more common to change name than not to do. And not just the ending. :)
Doing research in Denmark is easier than many other places as both parish registers and censuses are online for free through arkivalieronline.dk. Many of the censuses are also transcribed in the Danish Demographic Database.
Here's the family in the 1840 census:
Hjørring Amt, Børglum Herred, Taars Sogn, Borup Mark, a house:
Jens Andreas Ovesen, 29, gift (married), Mosberg Sogn ([birthplace] Mosberg parish), Tømmermand (carpenter)
Kirsten Marie Pedersd., 32, gift, Ugilt Sogn, hans kone (his wife)
Ove Chr Jensen, 5, her i Sognet ([born] in this parish), deres Børn (their children)
Ane Kirstine Jensd., 1, Do
+ two apprentices and a maid
And in the 1845 census:
Hjørring Amt, Børglum Herred, Taars Sogn, Borup, a house:
Jens Andreas Ovesen, 34, gift, Mosberg Sogn, Hjørring Amt, Tømmermand, Huusfader ("house father" - head of family)
Kirsten Marie Pedersdatter, 37, gift, Ugilt Sogn, Hjørring Amt, hans kone
Ove Christian Jensen, 10, her i Sognet, deres Børn
Ane Kirstine Jensen, 6, Do
Lise Jensen, 2, Do
Notice that it is Pedersdatter (and Jensdatter). Datter is Danish, dotter is Swedish. And also notice that Ane Kirstine is called Jensdatter one place and Jensen in the other, that's (unfortunately) perfectly normal.
Wow. Thanks again, JP for the resource links and documents and translations. That's a great incentive to spend some time looking at the Danish records.ReplyDelete
I would agree with you had you been discussing completed, published genealogies. In those works, all of the above are certainly unacceptable. However, most Ancestry.com Public Trees are not completed works uploaded to the site, but research works-in-progress. All of the "mistakes" you mention in this post will likely be corrected in many of the trees as their research continues. Criticizing Ancestry's Public Trees is a lot like criticizing a researcher's private research notes (which are of course public in today's social web).ReplyDelete
While I will agree it is best and proper to include full complete names, dates and locations in genealogical research, I have to agree with Michael Hait that most of what you find on Ancestry.com or other sites is work-in progress, and those people may not be as far along in their research as you, thus may not have found the full data you are expecting. If you were to see this in a published book, for example, with no explanation of why the data are incomplete or missing, then you could certainly feel justified in the lack.ReplyDelete


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The night shift started with our first job…'male, unconscious, not breathing'. Two minutes after booking onto the shift we were heading towards one of the estates edging my patch. En route control updates us 'CPR advice being given to the family, RRV arriving scene!'
My crew mate gives it a bit more leather on the accelerator. Blues and twos are helping us to wend our way through the evening traffic but still we come up against the occasional idiot who thinks he owns the road and will not yield. This makes us slow down having to circumnavigate the clown who gives us 'the look' as we pass him!
Soon we are at the top of the street but we are further slowed down because of the speed bumps. Eventually after scaling several of these tarmac hills we pull up outside the address. The RRV is parked outside and there are members of the family running around flapping…not a good sign.
We dash into the house and are met by two women consoling each other and pointing to a door…'Hes in there!' Opening the door we find the RRV pilot doing CPR on a collapsed male. I can see that there is vomit everywhere around the head end. The RRV pilot is covered in it! Grabbing hold of the collapsed male we turn him onto his side and using the #1 suction unit (index finger) we sweep out the worst of the vomit from his mouth.
Getting him onto his back the RRV pilot recommences chest compressions and 'bags' the patient whilst we set up the defib/monitor. A quick look through the paddles of the defib shows VF (ventricular fibrilliation where the heart rattles and shakes like a bag of worms) and I shock him once telling the RRV pilot to crack on with a minutes worth of chest compressions straight after. Another look at the monitor and checking for pulses reveals that we have a good cardiac output.
His heart is beating but he is still not breathing for himself. Whilst my crew mate inserts a line and sets up an IV, I intubate the patients airway first time and connect him to our automatic resuscitator. Although I have to ly in the patients vomit to do this I think that things are looking good. After less than a minute the patient makes some attempt at respiratory effort.
We put the call into the A/E resus and we take our patient in 'on the light'. Handing over to the team in A/E the prognosis for our patient seems to be getting better by the minute. It will be a matter of time to see if there is any neurological damage if he does regain consciousness…but the signs are good. The chain of survival has helped.
After cleaning our truck and equipment we grab some fluid replacement in the form of a cuppa and reflect on the job we have just done. It went well…it makes a change to get one back, to deny the reaper his quota for the day. Now its back to station for cover. A couple of minutes later after setting off for our base station the MDT squawks into life again. '20 year old male, nosebleed' Its back to normal then!
For the rest of the shift it is a relentless procession of inappropriate jobs that should be dealt with by GPs or even themselves. How hard is it to take a 'Lemsip' for a cold? The nights darkness is tempered by the high spirits we are still in from our first job…plus the job we attend where the 'patient' thinks he is having a stroke makes us laugh. He has been asleep and woke up to use the toilet only to find his left arm would not work! After a few tests and a couple of questions we find out why his arm went dead…hes been sleeping on it! Pins and needles…nothing more!
Coming towards the end of our night shift we are driving back through the city centre heading for base. Only half an hour to go…then its back home to snuggle up in a nice warm bed and sleep. My eyes are closing and my head is doing the bobbing thing as I momentarily dream of dreaming. I'm just glad its not my drive. My crew mate is just as knackered as I am but hes now 'vehicle commander' and has to get us both back safely.
'Squawk, squawk f*****g b******d squawk!!!' goes our MDT screen. 'Bollocks! Bollocks! and b******d bollocks!' go us. The dispatcher comes on the radio….'I'm really sorry lads but you're the nearest crew…and I'm really sorry but its a baby not breathing!' The swearing stops and the complaining from us abates. We switch on and head out to the other side of the city hoping against hope that its a false alarm!
Minutes later we are pulling up to the address. I can see through the front window a woman holding a baby in her arms and screaming! Another woman is out in the street running towards us! My heart sinks even further, its not a false alarm! All thought of sleep has vanished and the adrenaline is kicking in big time! I grab the resus bag from the truck and dive into the house.
Mum is stood there screaming at me to help and clutching the lifeless, grey baby its eyes surrounded by a bluish, reddish tinge. Trying to control mum and my own emotions I gently ease the baby out of mums arms and place the baby onto the settee. No pulse, no breathing…the baby is dead. But we still try…bagging the baby with our smallest face mask and using only finger tips or thumbs for chest compressions. Mum is falling apart, her other child is being comforted by grandma in the same room. I decide to run for it…the A/E is only minutes away.
Holding the baby with its head in my hand and its body laid along my arm we make our way to the truck. Continuing with the CPR we belt it to the hospital. During the short ride mum tells me that she had the baby in bed with her and found her unresponsive when she got up! That explains why the baby is still warm! Arriving at the A/E I still perform CPR whilst quickly negotiating the inappropriate 'patients' hanging around the entrance smoking their cigs.
The resus room is waiting and I hand over the baby to the doctors who carry on with the CPR. Relaying the history to the senior doc I then leave to complete the paperwork. As the adrenaline starts to wear off the tiredness floods in and I have to fight back the tears. The reaper has got one back! I remember thinking out loud…'I don't want to do this job anymore!'


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One relatively obscure area of TFS object model is area/iteration manipulation. Prompted by the question on how to delete area (btw, did you know how to use DeleteBranches for that) I decided to do a quick primer on area/iteration API and its usage.
First, how does one get areas/iteration list given the project (or parent node)? If you even started thinking about the areas or iterations, you will need to use ICommonStructureService service. This service encapsulates functionality related to TFS artifacts such as projects, areas and iterations (those are the common structures in its name).
Another important thing to know about this service is that most of its methods require artifact URIs as parameters. URI would consist of protocol (vstfs), type and unique identifier for the artifact; for example, for area it would be similar to "vstfs:///Classification/Node/[Guid]" (where Guid is unique ID for that area).
Let's start with a simple task of getting project's areas and iterations:
Dictionary<string, string> GetProjectAreas(string projectName)
ICommonStructureService commonStructure =
as ICommonStructureService;
ProjectInfo project = commonStructure.GetProjectFromName(projectName);
Dictionary<string, string> results = new Dictionary<string, string>();
foreach (NodeInfo node in commonStructure.ListStructures(project.Uri))
// here will be more code
return results;
Note several aspects: creation of ICommonStructureService, conversion from project name to project URI and call to ListStructures method. Most important of those is ListStructures method – given project URI, it returns array of NodeInfo structures that holds all top level areas and iterations defined. NodeInfo itself provides host of properties such as node name, node path, node URI, parent URI and node structure type. Using the latter one may distinguish area node from iteration node (area StructureType is "ProjectModelHierarchy", whereas for iteration it is "ProjectLifecycle").
Common Structure Service (CSS) provides couple of handy methods to get NodeInfo structure either by node path (GetNodeFromPath) or by node URI (GetNode). However, most frequent task is to get subtree of nodes (areas of iterations) given project root node. For the top level nodes it can be easily done by using ListStructures; but to drill down into the tree one must use different approach, namely GetNodesXml method of CSS.
Code example below iterates over all root areas in project, and calls recursive function to retrieve all child areas and put them into dictionary of pairs (<area path>, <area URI>). First, I will change GetProjectAreas function code to include new function:
foreach (NodeInfo node in commonStructure.ListStructures(project.Uri))
// more code
if (node.StructureType != "ProjectModelHierarchy")
XmlElement nodeElement =
commonStructure.GetNodesXml(new string[] { node.Uri }, true);
node.Name, nodeElement.ChildNodes[0], results);
And now, iterate over the results recursively:
static void AddChildNodes(
string parentPath, XmlNode parentNode, Dictionary<string, string> results)
results.Add(parentPath, parentNode.Attributes["NodeID"].Value);
if (parentNode.ChildNodes[0] == null)
foreach (XmlNode node in parentNode.ChildNodes[0].ChildNodes)
string nodePath = node.Attributes["Path"].Value;
AddChildNodes(nodePath, node, results);
The example shows most features of GetNodesXml. It takes two parameters: array of root node URIs and boolean specifying whether to retrieve data for child nodes.
Then GetNodesXml returns hierarchical XML document, with every node in the return result represented as separate child "Node" XmlElement, with all properties as XML attributes (the attributes names and values correspond to NodeInfo properties). Raw XML for for area "Area 0" in project "Test Project" node will look similar to this (I removed actual GUID values for clarity):
NodeID="vstfs:///Classification/Node/[guid 1]"
Name="Area 0"
ParentID="vstfs:///Classification/Node/[guid 2]"
Path="\Test Project\Area\Area 0"
ProjectID="vstfs:///Classification/TeamProject/[guid 3]"
StructureType="ProjectModelHierarchy" />
Hierarchical means that if "Area 0", for example, has any child areas, they will be contained in its Node XmlElement. Thus with the help of GetNodersXml it is possible to get the whole areas/iterations tree for specific project.
And to finalize review of CSS functionality that is relevant to areas/iterations, let's have a look at other parts of C[R]UD.
How to create area/iteration? There is method CreateNode (that takes parent node URI and new node name); additionally, there is ImportBranch method that takes new node in the form of XmlElement (XML should conform to CSS format, same as used by GetNodesXml above).
How to update area/iteration? For the purpose of rename one may use RenameNode method (supplying node URI and new name); to move the node (and all child nodes) one may use MoveBranch method (supplying node and parent URIs)
How to delete area (or iteration)? First, you need to get area/iteration URI (and that is covered in the beginning of the post). Next, you need to call method DeleteBranches of ICommonStructureService.
Sound simple, eh? However, the method takes two parameters: while first is easy to understand – the array of node URI to delete, the second (named reclassifyUri) is far less obvious.
To understand how that parameter works, it would be helpful to refer to one of my past posts that talks about deleting area/iteration in Team Explorer UI.
Now, reclassifyUri is exactly that - the URI of the node to use in reassigning all work items associated with areas/iterations that are being deleted (or as MSDN succinctly puts it "URI of the node to which artifacts are reclassified").
In that post I tried to give quick survey of basics related to areas/iterations API. It is worth noting that CSS can be used for another important purpose of listing projects (for example, as demonstrated in James Manning blog post).
To conclude, some related links that may be of interest (mostly tools with the source code):
- Ben Day discusses difference between CSS area/iteration Path representation and the format used by Work Items
- Brian Harry presents basic tool for areas/iterations export
- Neno Loje takes export tool further and provides GUI Area Import/Export tool
- Grant Holiday provides tool for listing project areas and iterations (to use with TFSSecurity utility)


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Spicy Shrimp Fried Rice Recipe
They say spicy food makes you eat less and speeds up your metabolism. I'm not sure how true that is, but I do like some spice in my food once in a while and I feel satisfied with smaller portions. I made this with brown rice, which has more fiber, therefore keeps you full longer and a nice firm texture for fried rice. Every bite of this rice, is loaded with shrimp and a little bit of heat!
Spicy Shrimp Fried Rice
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 4 • Size: 1-1/2 cups • Points +: 8 pts • Smart Points: 7
Calories: 307.3 • Fat: 7.0 g • Protein: 22.7 g • Carb: 37.4 g • Fiber: 3.5 g
3 cups brown rice cooked
1 lb large shrimp, peeled and deveined (peeled weight is .75 lb)
2 egg whites, scrambled
1 whole egg, scrambled
1/2 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, diced
5 medium scallions, chopped, whites and greens separated
oil spray
1 tbsp sesame oil with cayenne pepper
1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes (or more to taste)
4 tsp soy sauce (or more to taste)
1 tsp Asian fish sauce
salt and fresh pepper
In a bowl, season shrimp with cayenne pepper, chili powder, paprika, salt, pepper and garlic powder.
Scramble eggs with a drop of water and season with salt and pepper. In a hot wok, spray a little oil and cook the eggs. When cooked, remove from pan and set aside.
Let the wok get really hot. Add sesame oil and saute onions, scallion whites, garlic and hot pepper flakes for about 1-2 minutes. Add shrimp and saute until no longer translucent. Add rice and cooked egg along with soy sauce and fish sauce, mixing well for about 2 minutes. Add greens of the scallions and serve.


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A man who grew up next door to a man accused of a triple homicide in Lafayette County said isn't really shocked.
Jaren Kuester, 31, was arrested Sunday at an apartment complex in Waukesha.
"He was a troublemaker as far as I'm concerned," neighbor Dave Jones said.
Jones lived next to Kuester and his family for 20 years. He said there were six kids. In the past few months, everyone had moved out.
Kuester's Facebook page has pictures of him training for mixed martial arts. Two area gyms didn't want to comment on him.
"I wasn't surprised, but yet I was surprised," Jones said. I wasn't surprised because of the nature of what I've known of him."
The bodies of 70-year old Gary Thoreson, his 66-year old wife Cloe and his 76-year old brother Dean were found Sunday on the Thoreson family property in Lafayette County. Their pickup truck was tracked to an apartment complex in Waukesha, where police arrested Kuester.
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Mitt Romney, in calls to major donors to his presidential campaign, said President Barack Obama bought the election by giving "gifts" to his core constituency: that 47% of loafers and freeloaders who live below the income level that is taxable: African-Americans, Hispanics, and young and elderly voters.
Romney first proposed that Obama is supported by a core constituency of people who want free stuff from the government in early 2012 at an appearance before wealthy donors during the campaign. That appearance was secretly recorded and made a campaign football by the media. Romney recanted and said he was wrong, that his comments were crudely delivered, and at one point intimated that during a campaign it is standard practice to play to the prejudices of the audience.
But it appears Romney has returned to his theme of government-dependent freeloaders blindly supporting Obama to get government handouts as he attempts to rationalize his election loss to those who supported him, and ultimately to himself. He doesn't see his failure as a result of his unpopular policies, his elitism, or his inability to understand the lives of average Americans. Instead it's the fault of those poor people, the freeloaders who are looting our government of the hard-earned taxes the rich pay.
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How good can the Lions' offense be?
With the addition of two second-round draft picks — WR Titus Young and RB Mikel Leshoure — how good can the Lions' offense be?
"If we are able to stay healthy I don't think there's a question we'll be successful on the field with all the weapons we have,'' wide receiver Calvin Johnson said.
Wide receiver Nate Burleson agreed with Johnson.
"There was a lot of questions about the draft and what we should do. The areas we should have interest in. I said from the beginning we should draft the best available athlete on the board,'' Burleson said.
"I like exactly what they did, I don't care if it's a position I'm playing or a position that someone else is playing, if you get the best athlete you're going to be in position to make plays. With the firepower we put on offense this year it's going to be explosive,'' Burleson added.
Even without Matthew Stafford for most of last season, the Lions managed to win six games. If the 23-year-old quarterback can stay healthy they are immediately better. Add the two rookies to the mix and there should be no questions. On paper there are no holes on the Lions' offense. Now they just have to make it work.
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The Tech 10: Google's Wireless Bid, Facebook's Cash Flow and Motorola's Mojo
Note: John Paczkowski is on vacation and won't be writing or posting videos until he returns on Monday.
To keep you abreast of tech news while he's away, we're compiling a daily digest of 10 must-read tech stories. Our Tech 10 appears below.
- Auction Action: Confirming the expected, Google announced today that it would indeed apply to bid for wireless spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission auction in January, writes Kevin J. Delaney in The Wall Street Journal, adding that if the search giant grabs a wireless license, it could become a provider of mobile phone and Internet services, among other things.
- Facebook Gets a $60 Million Infusion… Hong Kong mogul Li Ka-shing has invested $60 million in Facebook, reports BoomTown's Kara Swisher, who notes that the billionaire businessman has the right to invest another $60 million.
- … And Pulls Back on Privacy: The social-networking site, under siege from Move.On and its own members, as well as from "Landmark Partner" Coca-Cola (which, says Louise Story of the New York Times, is holding off on participating in the social-advertising feature) has announced changes to its new Beacon ad system. Observes Om Malik: "Facebook finally backed down, more or less acquiescing to the demands of those concerned about its seemingly blatant abuse of privacy of its fast-growing user base."
- Rise and Fall of Motorola Magnate: Ed Zander, CEO of the electronics manufacturer whose mojo with the Razr cellphone brought the company big gains, is resigning in the face of equally disappointing declines to rival Nokia over the last year, The Wall Street Journal reports. Greg Brown, the company's president and chief operating officer, will succeed Zander.
- Sprint Rejects a Suitor: Sprint Nextel has turned down a $5 billion investment offer from Providence Equity Partners and SK Telecom of South Korea in exchange for sacking its management, according to the New York Times.
- Big Brother Online: Government agencies worldwide are increasingly using the Internet to spy on and conduct cyber attacks on their enemies, according to an annual virtual criminology report by McAfee, writes Jon Brodkin of Network World, noting that the U.S. joins China as one of the biggest employers of Internet espionage.
- Kiwi Teen in Botnet Probe: New Zealand police have held for questioning a teenager suspected of leading an international cyber-crime group, according to the BBC, which adds that the group allegedly hacked a million computers to steal millions from people's bank accounts.
- Publishers Want Web Respect: Launching an effort to bring them more power to say what content search companies may make available, publishers have developed a framework to inform online search engines that certain pages, directories or sites must not be indexed, reports eWeek, noting that supporters of the measure to respect copyright include the Associated Press, Reuters and the Association of American Publishers.
- Sony Hears On-Demand Demands: Starting early next year, users of Sony's PlayStation 3 will be able to download high-definition video to their devices, according to Variety, which adds that each download will cost about $1.85.
- Exploding Cellphone Death Greatly Exaggerated:The Korean quarry worker whose death was blamed on an exploding cellphone was actually killed by a co-worker, who admitted he concocted the story after accidentally hitting his colleague with a drilling vehicle, the Associated Press reports.
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A 15-year-old Granite Bay boy was arrested on four counts of attempted homicide in connection with a firebombing at a home where two of his schoolmates reside, deputies said.
The Placer County Sheriff's Department said that boy had bullied two teenagers, and after an on-campus argument among them, the suspect decided to retaliate with the firebomb.
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Stanley Kubrick's celebrated black comedy classic about an "accidental" nuclear attack was nominated for four Academy Awards in 1964. Created during a time when the paranoia of the Cold War was at its peak, the film still seems surprisingly relevant today. Convinced the Commies are polluting America's "precious bodily fluids"; a crazed General orders a surprise nuclear air strike on the USSR. His aide Captain Mandrake-Peter Sellers furiously attempts to figure out the recall code to stop the bombing. Meanwhile the US President –Sellers again, gets on the hotline to convince the Drunken Soviet Premier that the impending attack is a silly mistake, while the President's advisor (and Ex-Nazi Scientist) Dr. Strangelove-Sellers yet again, confirms the existence of the dreaded doomsday machine—a new secret Soviet retaliatory device guaranteed to end the Human Race once and for all! (Back of the box spin)
The audio for the film is presented in a Mono platform that pushes all of the film's audio material through the center channel. Admittedly, it's a lackluster audio performance but given the source materials for the day, you couldn't have had better. It has been remastered digitally so, the audio is clean and there is only a moment of background hiss that can be heard sporadically throughout the film's presentation.
The original aspect ratio for Dr. Strangelove is 1:33.1. As such the director's vision is contained in total on this full frame presentation of the film. The print is incredibly clean with only a couple of scratches of note. The black and white transfer really sparkles in its presentation of the film. Beautiful full frame transfer with no transfer errors to really speak of.
This edition of Dr. Strangelove is loaded compared to the previous DVD entry of this title. For starters, a documentary entitled The Art of Stanley Kubrick from Short films to Strangelove. Roughly 13 minutes in length, it covers interviews with art directors, friends and colleagues of Stanley Kubrick and presents Kubrick's life story if you will, covering his first work in short films, then on to his first major break with a big studio and finally, the coda of films that go to make up the Kubrick legacy.
The next segment is a bit longer (45minutes) and is entitled Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove.In this documentary among other things it demonstrated that Kubrick was no easy man to work with. He knew what he wanted and he wanted it when he wanted it! It also showed the incredible genius of set designer Ken Adams. One of the integral elements of the story deals with a B-52 bomber and it's interior. Given the sensitive nature of the bomber, the Air Force refused to assist Adams and his crew of designers in their assessment of the planes' interior. However where there's a will there's a way. In doing his research, Adams came upon a novel that described in perfect detail the interior of the bomber. So complete was the description that the FBI became involved in an attempt to determine the source of material for Adams' set design! Lucky for him, it was all above board! Additionally, the story is conveyed about Peter Sellers playing four (4) roles in the film as opposed to the three (3) that currently exist as well as the "pie fight scene" for the ending of the film that exists only in B&W stills of the event. In all, this documentary was exhaustive in its presentation and thoroughly covered all aspects of the film's genesis and final appearance. Very well done documentary.
The weirdest part of the extras segment is the Split-Screen Interviews with George C. Scott and Peter Sellers. Before live links for promotional segments were available, the studios would pre-tape interviews with the actors responding to static questions that an interviewer could time in order to get the needed response and the appearance of a live interview. It's just a strange thing to see people laughing and cajoling in response to nothing.
All of the original advertising/print media is found in the Original Advertising Gallery, and a trailer for the film is included as well. The trailer while 37 years old is still effective in setting the stage for this terrific film.
If you look closely enough, you'll be able to find a misspelled word in one of the title sequences. It's revealed in the second documentary but it's kinda fun to try and locate it yourself.
The animated menus need a nod for originality and kitsch! When you select any of the features on the disc from the main menu, a B-52 flies across the screen and drops a bomb complete with Slim Pickens voiceover! Pretty neat. Additionally, the cover art for the disc as well as the main menu screen is the artwork that Kubrick selected for the film himself.
I must have seen this film 100 times before and never quite got all the gags. However, watching it this weekend I found myself in tears from all the humor found in Dr. Strangelove. This is a very funny movie that any political scientist (like myself) should find enormously funny. Strangelove is classic Kubrick and a definite must for every collection.


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Use of Personal Vehicles for College Business
This information applies to all who may use their personal vehicles for college business (broadly defined)--whether student, employee, volunteer or otherwise. This can include errands, field trips, organized social activities, and so on.
There are significant limits to the extent to which Westmont's insurance may be involved if you have a collision while driving on college business. The Additional Background section below explains these limitations. If you have questions not answered there, please contact Troy Harris (x6633 or email).
Employee Information
In order to qualify for mileage rate reimbursement, Westmont requires that you maintain current personal auto insurance based upon the standard used by the IRS in calculating the rate:
- liability limits customarily referred to as 100/300
- $50,000 property limit; and
- $500 deductible for comprehensive and collision
Note: If you drive rental cars on college business, always decline the coverage offered by the rental company.
- If using the National/Enterprise contract, the coverage is already included (for business use).
- If using other providers, please obtain a college insurance card from the office of the VP for Finance prior to renting the vehicle.
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Additional Background
State law dictates that the registered owner of a vehicle has primary liability for any event involving that vehicle, and that the vehicle be insured for liability. Also under state law, the insurance for the owner of the vehicle must respond first in the event of an accident. If the operator is other than the owner, then the operator's insurance would respond second.
Westmont's auto policy would respond third in sequence on what's called an excess basis as a "non-owned automobile" when the vehicle is used on Westmont business. That is, only liability losses which EXCEED those of the insurance carried by the owner/operator would be covered by Westmont's insurance, up to our total limits, which are typical for our size of institution.
As is customary for institutions whose employees use personal vehicles on company business, and as a prudent measure to guard the college's assets, Westmont requires all faculty and staff using their cars on official business to carry standard automobile insurance, with the IRS-based typical limits referenced above.
IMPORTANT: Westmont's automobile insurance applies to: a) bodily injury and property damage to "third parties" (ie, not to the college as "first party" nor to employees as "second party"); and b) property damage to college-owned vehicles.
Westmont has NO COVERAGE for your vehicle even if used on college business, EXCEPT that Westmont will cover the deductible for your property loss, up to $1,000* and IF you had the above-specified insurance coverage in place at the time of an accident while driving your personal vehicle on college business. If you have sub-standard personal coverage, you will not qualify for any Westmont participation in your loss. (In any event, we do not share the cost of any future premium increases that may result from an accident.)
Your circumstance is the same as if your car were in an accident on personal time. If it were caused by another driver, the other driver's policy should cover the cost of fixing or replacing your car. If s/he had no [or inadequate] insurance, your own policy would instead cover the damage to your car. Regardless of fault, though, you would be personally responsible for any applicable deductible and also for any property loss not covered by the other driver's [or your own] policy.
It is unfortunate that the insurance marketplace does not offer coverage that Westmont could purchase designed to address your property loss in the event of an accident on college business. If you prefer not to carry the personal auto insurance or accept the risks associated with driving your own car on college business, you may arrange for use of a college fleet vehicle instead.
Please drive safely, whether on college business or not!
* - Despite the IRS standard of $500 deductible, Westmont will cover up to $1,000 in order to match the deductible on our own commercial auto policy. In other words, we're willing to cover up to that much "out of pocket" on our own vehicles, so we would have that much at stake anyway and it's thus available to employees.


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The Canisius College hockey team recognized its top players during the 2012-13 season on Thursday, naming its award winners for the campaign.
Junior Tony Capobianco (Mississauga, Ontario) was named the team's MVP after anchoring the Canisius defense throughout the 2012-13 campaign. The junior set four school records in saves (1,256), save percentage (.929), goaltender wins (18) and shutouts (four) during the season. He led all players in the country with his 1,256 saves, which ranks 12th in NCAA history and the most since the 1988-89 campaign. He also finished 12th nationally with his .929 save percentage to go along with a 2.40 goals against average.
Capobianco was also key in leading the Griffs to their first Atlantic Hockey Championship. He was named to the league's All-Tournament team after setting a tournament-record with 235 saves. Overall, he posted a 6-0-0 record during the team's postseason run with a 1.99 goals against average and .951 save percentage.
Junior Kyle Gibbons (Westlake, Ohio) earned the team's Top Forward Award after leading Canisius with 43 points, 21 goals and 22 assists during the 2012-13 campaign. His 43 points and 21 goals are the third most in the program's history, while also placing second with nine power-play tallies. Overall, Gibbons placed 12th in Division I in points, eighth in goals and sixth in power-play goals.
Gibbons played his best hockey with the team's season on the line, earning Atlantic Hockey Tournament Most Valuable Player honors. The junior led all players in the country with 18 points during the month of March, posting six goals and 12 assists. He recorded at least one point in all seven postseason contests, including a career-best four points in the championship win over Mercyhurst.
Junior Ben Danford (Stillwater, Minn.) collected Top Defenseman accolades for the third-straight season. He is the first Griff to earn the honor in three-straight campaigns in the program's Division I history and the third overall (joining Joe Federico – 1984-87 and Craig Jantzi – 1986-89). Danford led all defenders on the team this season with 18 points, scoring two goals to go along with 16 assists. The junior was also a key member of the Griffs' record-setting penalty kill unit.
Freshman Ralph Cuddemi (Concord, Ontario) earned the team's Rookie of the Year award. Cuddemi recorded 10 points, four goals and six assists in his first season in the Blue and Gold. Five of the his 10 points came during the Griffs' postseason run, including his first career multi-goal game in the Atlantic Hockey Championship victory over Mercyhurst.
Sophomore Cody Freeman (Toronto, Ontario) earned Most Improved honors, finishing his sophomore season with 20 points, 12 goals and eight assists in 28 games. Freeman increased his scoring by 15 points from his rookie campaign and the sophomore led all players in the country with eight goals during the month of March.
Senior captain Preston Shupe (Weyburn, Saskatchewan) received the Dr. David B. Dietz Award, which is presented to a player for his dedication in both athletics and academics. Shupe finished second on the team with 29 points and 16 goals during his final season with the Griffs.
Senior captain Torrey Lindsay (Grosse Isle, Manitoba) was honored with the Top Chapman Memorial Award as the team's unsung hero for the second-straight campaign. Lindsay appeared in all 43 games with 14 points, three goals and 11 assists. He was also a key member of the team's penalty kill unit, which finished as the 11th-best unit in NCAA history by killing 90.1 percent of its opponent's power-play chances.
In addition, Shupe and freshman Stephen Miller (Boxborough, Mass.)earned team awards for their work off the ice. Shupe collected the Hasek's Heroes Award for the third-straight year for his work with the program, while Miller earned the team's Community Outreach Award.
Canisius had its most successful season in school history during the 2012-13 campaign. The Griffs won the program's first Atlantic Hockey Championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. Canisius finished the season ranked 19th in the USCHO.com national poll, the highest placement in the program's history.


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smeff necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 10 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
I am redesigning my squeeze page:
For this project, you'll be designing a website header that goes across the top of the top.
I would like the header to EASILY be changed in shape so that it can appear as an ebook cover and/or DVD cover
Best Foreclosure System
The first graphic is a website header for Best Foreclosure System. This will sit on top of the squeeze page, as well as the sales letter. It should NOT be so overpowering that it takes away from the headline of the sales letter. To see an example of a previous contest that we ran on 99designs, with the winning header graphic, and how we're using it, go here:
http://www.theshortsaleformula.com (squeeze page-NOTE-.com is NOT necessary for the header for this contest)
http://www.theshortsaleformula.com/sl/ (sales letter-NOTE-.com is NOT necessary for the header of the sales letter)
The Second Graphic Should be an EBook Cover For "Best Foreclosure System ECourse". This should have the same look and feel as the header, but be a book cover, offering an "ECourse"
For an example here of how we integrated a past header and ebook cover, visit http://outsourcelossmitigation.com/sl/
The Third Graphic Should be a DVD Cover For "Best Foreclosure System". The DVD itself will be titled "PreForeclosure Marketing Strategies"
Again, this should have the same look and feel as the website header, as if they are all from the same "family" of products
- Clean look and feel
- Source files in a PSD (most prefered) or PNGformat (least prefered), complete with layers, so that modifications can bemade relatively later quickly and easily.
- As high a resolution resolution file (and largefile dimensions) in the above format, as is possible. This is important so that we can makeresizing changes if applicable.
- the header graphic to be so overpowering that it takes away from the headline of the sales letter and squeeze page
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Here it is — the first ever clip from Cabin in the Woods is already channeling the self-aware-but-don't-really-care antics of Wes Craven's Scream. Watch as the gaggle of liquored up teens play Truth or Dare and casually associate strange happenings to "the wind." Hot damn, we love this movie.
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Covenant Presbyterian Church sits high atop "Red Bud Hill" overlooking Green Hills in south Nashville.
The new Gothic style sanctuary was completed in 2009. The beautiful architecture, wonderful acoustics, and C. B. Fisk, Opus 134 Pipe Organ serve not only the congregation for worship, but also the Nashville community as a fine venue for concerts and other musical events.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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When Alex Toulemonde moved to Vancouver from France, he figured he was coming to the right place to indulge his passion for playing hockey.
He couldn't even find a recreational team to play on.
It was that frustration that led Toulemonde and his roommates Daniel Yew and Martine Yen to create their own solution — the newly launched hockey-community.com, a website that puts social media on skates and delivers everything from rink times to pickup games.
"When Alex came to Canada from France, he had been playing hockey when he was younger and he looked forward to playing here; he was expecting to be overloaded with hockey when he came to Canada but that wasn't the case because he didn't know the people to connect with," said Yew, a civil engineer who is in his second year of playing recreational ice hockey, after playing street hockey and roller hockey when he was growing up. "That's where the idea came from."
The website has launched in beta, with 2,600 rinks in Canada listed and plans to add ones in the United States next.
"We want to make hockey more accessible," said Yen. "You can find a rink, you can book a time.
"You can find the closest rink to you and you can organize a game and get people to join or find a game and sign up for it."
Yen said the Hockey Community has created software so rinks can update their information. Additional features, like the ability to book ice times, will be added as the site develops. The founders have been working on the launch since last May and also have an iPhone app in the works. It is expected out late this year or early next.
Wesley Ong was among the first to sign up at hockey-community.com. A recreational hockey player who played at Burnaby 8 Rinks and now at the Richmond oval, Ong found the logistics around organizing practices and pickup games daunting, a long process involving a lot of calls to hockey rinks and contacting players to line up times.
"The thing about the Hockey Community is that you post it on there and players can all sign up and join in games," said Ong. "It's actually quite a unique web page for me to use.
The site also lets users follow rinks, so they can find out events at the rink or when pickup games are being organized.
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Workout Day
Both teams worked out at Citizens Bank Park this afternoon, the Brewers at 1 and the Phillies at 3.
To help accommodate the media, an interview room is used prior to the workouts and then pre- and post-game for all postseason games. Dale Sveum, Yovani Gallardo and Ryan Braun were there at noon with Charlie and Cole at 2.
Media for a Division Series: MLB requires 125 seats, a working press room and 25 still photographer locations. Those numbers increase during the LCS and WS.
Roster Story
Gillick will oversee a meeting following our workout. Meeting is two-fold, finalize the postseason roster. Deadline for filing that with MLB is 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Second, scouts Gordon Lakey, Charley Kerfeld, Chuck LaMar and Hank King will review the Brewers. We've been scouting them even though we played them a little more than two weeks ago.
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Phillies ballgirls are also blogging on this site. For a different perspective, check out their thoughts: http://philliesballgirls.mlblogs.com/
In addition, Shane will be offering his thoughts on a phillies.com blog.
Hall of Fame pitcher Robin Roberts will be a guest analyst in this space after each Phillies postseason game. And, Charlie's lineup will be posted first right here.
Before I forget, happy birthday today to Roberts, a spry 82 today.
Citizens Bank Park
Media has labeled the park as a bandbox, among other names.
ESPN.com publishes a Park Factor in which numbers are crunched: the rate of stats at home vs. the rate on the road.
When the park opened in 2004, it ranked 5th among all parks in the category of home runs. A year ago, it was first. This year, 11th. Check the numbers:
CBP Home Runs Phillies Enemy
2007 116 125
2008 109 80
Writers also point out Ryan is playing in a small, hitter-friendly park. For his career: 90 at home, 87 on the road. That's pretty even. When Ryan unloads, the Grand Canyon can't hold his drives.
In Boston, a home run needs to travel just 303 feet down the right field foul line. Yet, Fenway is considered a shrine.


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That old urban legend about spiders crawling into your orifices while you sleep has come true. A woman who checked into China's Changsha Central Hospital Wednesday (Aug. 8) with an itchy ear learned she had a small spider dwelling in her ear canal, according to news reports. It had crawled inside five days earlier while she slept.
At the hospital, heebie-jeebie-inducing pictures of the patient's ear canal revealed a stocky, hairy, four-eyed arachnid peering out at the camera, much to doctors' and the patient's surprise.
Amid concerns that disturbing the spider would cause it to "instinctively drill its barbs deeper, scratching the ear canal," local news sources reported that doctors succeeded in removing the creature by pouring saline solution into the ear canal and flushing it out.
As the spider's outstretched foot emerged from her ear, the patient, identified only as "Ms. Lee," reportedly "almost started crying."
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