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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hal Needham, a top Hollywood stuntman who turned to directing rousing action films including "Smokey and the Bandit" and "The Cannonball Run," has died.
He was 82.
His business managers told the Los Angeles Times that Needham died Friday in Los Angeles.
A former paratrooper, Needham appeared in thousands of TV episodes and hundreds of movies, performing and designing stunts and new equipment to execute them.
Needham jumped from planes, was dragged by horses and wrecked cars – breaking 56 bones in the process.
His best-known directing efforts involved 1970s Burt Reynolds action comedies, including "Smokey," "Cannonball Run" and "Stroker Ace." He also directed Arnold Schwarzenegger in "The Villain."
In a Twitter posting, Schwarzenegger called Needham an icon.
Needham received an honorary Oscar last year.

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6th Annual Media Summit Success
We completed another successful summit at Occidental College hosted by the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute! Thanks to all who came and shared in the experience.
In case you missed it, here's some video from the event (with more to come!) and pictures.
Keynote Presentation from Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
1st Panel on the issue of LA Times Ownership with Ian Masters, Robert Scheer, Kathleen Miles and Angelo Carusone
You can see pictures by visiting the album of this event at California Common Cause's Facebook page here.


text: BOHUNICE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS One of the greatest University achievements of recent years was the construction of the new Masaryk University Campus. Construction works commenced in 2004, and the Campus was officially opened in 2010. This year therefore concluded the major period of the Campus construction; however, in the following years, it was expanded with new departments of three research projects. The key role in this expansion is played by CEITEC – the Central European research centre of excellence. Its laboratories, equipped with first-class technology and facilities, create optimal conditions for both basic and applied research in the fields of life sciences and advanced materials and technologies. The scope of one of the remaining projects – named CESEB – was completing the construction of the Faculty of Science's Biological Section pavilions. Buildings of the Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, CETOCOEN, then established conditions for dealing with essential issues in the area of environment and sustainability. The University Campus in Bohunice was constructed with the budget of EUR 183M, and is spread over the area of 42,200 m2. The additional projects amounted to a total of EUR 83M. The whole Campus provides high-quality and modern background for approximately 5,000 students and 1,500 employees.


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Texas' AL West lead at 3 after 8-3 loss to A's
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – The Texas Rangers were in quick trouble against the Oakland Athletics.
The AL West leaders were behind for good only three batters into the game, and already back in their overworked bullpen before the end of the first inning Wednesday night.
Rookie left-hander Martin Perez made it through only eight batters for the Rangers in a 9-3 loss that cut their division lead against Oakland to three games with seven to play.
While not the best timing for the Rangers to play a game like this, center fielder Josh Hamilton said the two-time defending American League champions are not panicking.
"It is what it is," said Hamilton, who was 0-for-4 with a couple of fielding miscues. "I'm not going to give in or put my head down or start crying or collapse all over myself, and the team's not going to do that either. Come back tomorrow."
The magic number remained at five for the Rangers, who Thursday go for a split of the four-game series against Oakland before three games at home this weekend against the Los Angeles Angels. They end the regular season with three games at Oakland next week.
The Athletics will finally wrap up a stretch of 20 games over six series in six cities before ending the regular season with six games at home.
"To come out there and get these guys was the biggest series of the road trip. These are the guys we are trying to catch," Josh Reddick said. "A lot of people want to say we can get the wild card. We're trying to still win this division. … It's definitely possible."
A's manager Bob Melvin said it was important for his team to bounce back from a 5-4 loss in the series opener at Texas, which scored in the bottom of the ninth to win that game.
"For me, it was even more important to come back and win the next day and follow it up with a good performance today," manager Bob Melvin said. "Certainly it would be nice to win tomorrow, but at this point, these two games I think were big for us."
A night after Yu Darvish was scratched from his scheduled start because of neck stiffness, and Scott Feldman and five other relievers were needed in a 10-inning loss, the Rangers were already back in their bullpen before the end of the first inning.
Wilmer Font, the third Texas pitcher, walked the only two batters he faced to start the third before Stephen Drew's two-run single made it 7-3. Brandon Moss doubled and scored on a single by Derek Norris an inning later.
Matt Harrison (17-10), the All-Star left-hander, starts for Texas in the series finale, when he will try to become the Rangers' first 18-game winner since Kenny Rogers in 2004. He faces lefty Travis Blackley (5-3).
"If we come back tomorrow and win the ballgame, they leave out of here the same way they came in," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "We feel like we're going to win tomorrow. We just didn't get it done tonight."
Oakland, which had played five consecutive one-run games, led 5-0 only eight batters into the game. The A's chased Perez (1-3) before the rookie left-hander got all the way through the batting order one time.
Rookie righty Jarrod Parker (12-8) won his third consecutive decision over four starts. He struck out eight in six innings, and his 109 pitches were his most since 111 on June 4, when he threw eight scoreless innings and allowed only one hit against the Rangers in Oakland.
Parker walked leadoff hitter Ian Kinsler in the first before Elvis Andrus doubled off the left-center field wall. Michael Young and David Murphy had consecutive singles to start the second, scoring on a fielder's choice grounder by Mitch Moreland and a sacrifice fly by Andrus that made it 5-3.
After Yoenis Cespedes' one-out triple in the first, the A's had three consecutive singles. The last was Josh Donaldson's grounder up the middle that then rolled under the glove of Hamilton for a two-base error, making it 4-0. Norris tripled to left-center on a liner Hamilton appeared to misplay and let get over his head.
Drew had four of Oakland's 16 hits, including a double leading off the game before scoring on Cespedes' triple.
NOTES: Oakland is 51-25 since the start of July, the best record in the majors over that span. … Oakland's 11 strikeouts gave it 1,333 for the season, breaking the AL record for the most in a season. The 2007 Tampa Bay Rays had 1,324. … The A's are 8-7 against Texas this season. … The start by Perez was the shortest for a Ranger since July 2, 2011, when Derek Holland also got only two outs facing eight batters against Florida. … Perez got his first major league victory on June 30, against the A's at Rangers Ballpark. … Yoshinori Tateyama struck out four in 2 1-3 innings, and was the only Rangers pitcher who didn't allow a base runner. … The only Oakland starter without a hit was No. 9 hitter Cliff Pennington. Reddick ended a career-long 0-for-30 slump with singles in the seventh and ninth innings.


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My client is a Primary Care Physician who owns their own practice. The website will be used to create an online presence, attempting to both attract a younger demographic of patients and give general information about the office (location, hours, etc..)
We have decided that the site will have a main page along with 2-3 sub-pages. When designing, please consider that there is a possibility of adding more pages in the future.
The main page should consist of navigation, a place for some content, a sidebar for a small content blurb (she would like to post small education tidbits about current medical topics, flu season, and the like. 2-3 paragraphs in length). Also should be a small area that will say whether the Dr. is taking new patients or not, along with any insurances she is presently not accepting. Office hours and an address should also be featured on this page.
The First Sub-Page will be a Bio and Credentials Page.
It will consist of a photo of the Doctor, and a history of her education. Also will be a history of the practicem, and the Doctor's specialties. This is mainly a content page. There will also be photos of the office on this page.
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It will consist of office hours, location, phone number etc. It will also incorporate a map of the location of the office along with pictures of the building.
The name of the practice is Hales Corners Family Care and should be incorporated in the design.
This contest will go until 20th of January unless a clear winner is determined before that. In the event that we find that non of the entries are to the acceptance of my client by the ending of the contest, we reserve the right to not declare a winner. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not enter this contest.
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PIA announces the 2012 Education Award of Excellence Winner
Art Lindauer, instructor, Venice High School, Los Angeles, California, is the academic recipient.
Printing Industries of America is pleased to announce Art Lindauer, instructor, Venice High School, Los Angeles, California, is the Academic Recipient of the 2012 Education Award of Excellence. The Education Awards of Excellence were established by Printing Industries of America as a way to recognize that the success of graphic arts education and training programs depends heavily on the motivation, enthusiasm, and leadership of those dedicated to teaching.
Art has applied for and received numerous California State grants to upgrade his print shop. Most recently, he received $3 million from the State Proposition ID CTE Grant—$1.5 million for equipment and $1.5 million matching funds from the Los Angeles Unified School District for renovation. This application required long hours of researching printing equipment and speaking to experts in the printing industry to determine what equipment would be necessary to provide his students with a state-of-the-art printing facility.
Additionally, Art has started an after-school club through a 21st Century Learning Grant between Venice High School and the Venice Boys & Girls Club. He is also very active promoting his students and instructional programs with trade and industry groups. He is in the finishing stages of instituting PrintED, a national accreditation program, based on industry standards, for graphic communications courses of study at the secondary and post-secondary levels, administered by the Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation (GAERF). Once this process is complete, Venice High will be the only high school in the state of California to offer this accreditation process for its students.
Art will be presented with the 2012 Printing Industries of America Education Award of Excellence at the 2012 GASC/Printing Industries of America Teacher's Conference at GRAPH EXPO in Chicago on Sunday, October 7. For more information about the Awards Programs at Printing Industries of America, visit printing.org/awards, or contact Michael Packard, program manager, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 8
O light of Orthodoxy, teacher of the Church, its confirmation, / O ideal of monks and invincible champion of theologians, / O wonder-working Gregory, glory of Thessalonica and preacher of grace, / always intercede before the Lord that our souls may be saved.
Kontakion — Tone 8
Holy and divine instrument of wisdom, / joyful trumpet of theology, / together we sing your praises, O God-inspired Gregory. / Since you now stand before the Original Mind, guide our minds to Him, O Father, / so that we may sing to you: "Rejoice, preacher of grace."


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Kansas university leaders poised for pay raises
Private money will help fund pay hikes
The top administrators at Kansas' six public universities will see their salaries increase in July, but private dollars will cover the increases.
The state Board of Regents approved the higher salaries Thursday but specified that each university's fundraising foundation will provide the extra money.
The largest increases of $60,000 each went to Kansas State University President Kirk Schulz and University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. Regent Fred Logan of Leawood said the boosts bring their salaries closer to those of presidents at comparable universities.
Schulz's salary will be $460,000, or 15 percent more than it is now. Gray-Little's will rise almost 14 percent, to nearly $493,000.
Other raises ranged from 2.4 percent for Pittsburg State University President Steve Scott to 4.7 percent for Emporia State University President Michael Shonrock.


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2 WKU meteorology majors receive national scholarships
- Author: Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Ryan Difani of Pocahontas, Ark., and James Austin Boys of Greeneville, Tenn., both seniors in the WKU Meteorology Program, recently received multiple national scholarships to support their education.
Boys was one of 37 nationally selected winners of the Phi Eta Sigma Distinguished Member Undergraduate Scholarship worth $6,000. He also received the Carl W. Kreitzberg Scholarship in Meteorology from the American Meteorological Society worth $2,000.
Difani received the Ken Reeves Scholarship in Meteorology from the American Meteorological Society worth $2,000. Only 22 American Meteorological Society scholarships are available each year and WKU was one of only four universities (Rutgers, Oklahoma and Iowa State) to have more than one awardee. Difani also was awarded the Dr. Roderick A. Scofield Scholarship in Meteorology from the National Weather Association worth $1,000.
Dr. David Keeling, head of the Department of Geography and Geology, noted that "these national awards are continued evidence of WKU's high-quality Meteorology Program. The Meteorology Program has a successful record of producing highly skilled and competitive students who present research at professional conferences around the country, publish research in peer-reviewed journals, and win multiple research and other relevant awards for excellence. With the added recognition for the annual summer field course in severe storms forecasting, WKU meteorology students have an incredible degree of experience under their belts at graduation. It is wonderful to see our meteorology students rewarded for their educational efforts."
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Introducing Light L16 the world's first multi-aperture camera with 16 lenses
- Camera of the future means magic moments are never missed
- Available to pre-order now
- Innovative design and technology, Light's "L16" camera provides the same quality of a DSLR and the convenience of a smartphone
- Multiple 16-lens camera fuses images together, creating a single high quality image, up to 52 megapixels
- Retailing now at £1099, and available on pre-order now. This holiday offer is available until 1st January 2016
High-quality, beautiful photography becomes a more accessible feat with the world's first 16-lens camera from Light ( https://light.co/ ). The debut L16 camera model features multi-lenses which work by fusing together multiple shots taken from each lens. The result – one single, high quality image of up to 52 megapixels.[BL1]
The L16 uses innovative technology, offering the quality of a DSLR that fits perfectly inside your pocket.[BL2] Its smaller, lighter, and better image quality are unrivalled by other cameras in its price class.
A travel-friendly, lightweight and portable camera, the L16 allows you to enjoy every moment, with its easy to use touch-screen interface, as well as the option to edit photos directly on the device, and allows phots to be shared on social media platforms. Compared to professional-grade cameras that require multiple lenses and add-ons, the L16 requires no additional equipment.
RRP at launch: £1,199. Pre-order the L16 now for a £100 discount – available for a limited time. Shipment will take place late 2016. Pre-order here http://light.co/holiday
When we launched L16 pre-orders, we planned to provide 35-150mm optical zoom equivalent. Many of our pre-order customers emailed us asking for a wider focal length, and we listened. Today, we are pleased to announce that the shipping L16 Camera will have a 28-150mm optical zoom equivalent. This wider zoom range will make for more dramatic landscapes, more interesting street and architectural photos and a more versatile camera overall.
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I knew that cellphone camera lenses were molded out of plastic—that's why they were so inexpensive. And thanks to cellphones, molded plastic lens technology had been nearly perfected over the previous five years to the point where these lenses were "diffraction limited"—that is, for their size, they were as good as the fundamental physics would ever allow them to be. Meanwhile, the cost had dropped dramatically: A five-element smartphone camera lens today costs only about US $1 when purchased in volume. (Elements are the thin layers that make up a plastic lens.) And sensor prices had plummeted as well: A high-resolution (13-megapixel) camera sensor now costs just about $3 in volume.
By using many modules, the camera could capture more light energy. The effective size of each pixel would also increase because each object in the scene would be captured in multiple pictures, increasing the dynamic range and reducing graininess. By using camera modules with different focal lengths, the camera would also gain the ability to zoom in and out. And if we arranged the multiple camera modules to create what was effectively a larger aperture, the photographer could control the depth of field of the final image.
All the lenses in the L16 are molded plastic, and all the camera modules capture images using standard CMOS sensors, similar to those used in smartphone cameras. Each camera module has a lens, an image sensor, and an actuator for moving the lens to focus the image. Each lens has a fixed aperture of F2.4—that is, the focal length of the lens divided by its diameter is equal to 2.4. (A lens with a lower F number has a larger aperture and so lets in more light.)
Our first-generation L16 camera will start reaching consumers early next year, for an initial retail price of $1,699. Meanwhile, we have started thinking about future versions. For example, we can improve the low-light performance. Because we are capturing so many redundant images, we don't need to have every one in color. With the standard sensors we are using, every pixel has a filter in front of it to select red, green, or blue light. But without such a filter we can collect three times as much light, because we don't filter two-thirds of the light out. So we'd like to mix in camera modules that don't have the filters, and we're now working with On Semiconductor, our sensor manufacturer, to produce such image sensors.
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EVT4 is the first build we've completed with our production ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). The ASIC is the "brain" of the camera and is what we use to control all of the L16's camera modules. Consider that your traditional (non-computational) camera only has to control a single lens and a single sensor as you compose, focus, adjust and capture. The L16 requires simultaneous control of at least 10 discrete cameras (lens barrels, sensors, mirrors, etc.). Needless to say this requires an extremely advanced "brain," which is why we designed a highly advanced ASIC specifically for this purpose.
There are 3 ASIC's in each L16 Camera, each made using industry leading semiconductor processes. Each ASIC is comprised of a 533 MHz processor with multiple levels of internal caches and has up to 4GB of DDR memory support. Light has devised a proprietary MIPI data handling mechanism to be very power efficient. In fact, Light's ASIC has more MIPI camera interfaces than any leading media or application processor in the semiconductor industry. In addition, each ASIC is loaded with Light's exclusive lens, mirror, and sensor controls that enable the L16 to work its magic. The development of this chip marks major breakthrough and required an enormous amount of effort from the Light team.
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After nearly four years of designing, prototyping, building, tweaking, improving, testing, and retesting, we are thrilled to announce that we started shipping the Light L16 camera to our pre-order customers today!
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Article about severe issues even with demo images
Camera is total mess
Actually all is eve worse than this:
Actually properly matching even two close cameras of same focal length in clos shots is impossible task.
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The conceptual evolution of Knowledge Management (KM) has been supported by the use of flexible processes and several computational tools. The sophistication of these tools, incorporating the KM concepts, has been growing with time, creating functions better suited to knowledge creation processes. However, centralized Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) present some inconveniences, such as inflexible knowledge codification structures and centralised control. These may diminish the flexibility and the availability of knowledge through processes that standardize knowledge and information and remove them from the context. The suggestion of peer‑to‑peer (P2P) systems seems to promise to overcome these inconveniences by supporting interaction and knowledge sharing in simultaneous different contexts. The P2P systems provide real benefits to the interchange of knowledge among its peerscollaborators, but they are far from being a guarantee of interaction. We argue that the notion of ba is the design basis to obtain P2P systems closer to theoretical KM concepts. Peers can be encouraged to freely share knowledge without the constraints imposed by hierarchies or other organisational limitations. Interaction through P2P systems, supported by the ba concept, can make better use of autonomy to access and share personal knowledge without a centralized codification. P2P systems consubstantiate the ba concept thereby creating a new entity which we call "connecting ba". We believe that the "connecting ba" can give different visions and energy to the utilization of P2P systems. "Connecting ba" can also provide stimulation for virtual participation and for knowledge creation processes. Probably the most important implication of "connecting ba" is the possibility to incorporate peers within the spirit of ba, promoting collaboration for knowledge creation. The characteristics and the concept relations of these notions are enumerated and justified throughout the text.
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Release: 2018
Publisher: Trapeze
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Last year, I read and thoroughly enjoyed Ragdoll by Daniel Cole. It was a great and unique police procedural that made a difference because of the way the story progressed. By the time I finished reading it, I deeply admired Daniel Cole's ability to craft such a unique storyline.
I didn't know what to expect from Hangman, but the early reviews seemed promising enough. And while I wasn't sure how I felt during the first few pages (confused, for sure), I soon became so engrossed in the story that I forgot everything around me. I read it compulsively and I didn't want to do anything else.
As in Ragdoll, Hangman's concept and consequent storyline is "big" and complex. This is not a small crime and it's not set in a small town either. This is a rather spectacular case set both in London and New York, designed to stay in your mind, filled with graphic murders and shocking scenes that feel powerful and cinematic.
The main character in this book is not William Fawkes, aka Wolf (if you read the last book, you can imagine why), but her friend/colleague Emily Baxter. There were other major characters like Rouche and Curtis, and my personal favorite, Alex Edmunds. The interactions between them were sometimes hilarious and although Baxter isn't exactly easy to love, you have to admire her wit. Rouche was incredible as Baxter's partner in crime and her boyfriend will probably win the Boyfriend Of The Year award really soon.
I've consciously avoided mentioning any details about the plot because I want you to discover everything for yourselves. Hangman's story is a complex web of lies and manipulation that will make you reflect on how villains are created. And of course, there were plenty of twist and turns for everyone to enjoy.
So even though I loved Ragdoll, I love Hangman even more. It's bigger, it's better, it's surprising and captivating and it has everything I look for in crime/thriller books. Whatever you do, don't miss it.
Many thanks to the publishers for providing me a copy


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Government extends Polaris aircraft maintenance contract with L3 MAS
The federal government has approved a five-year contract extension with Quebec-based firm L3 MAS for the continued maintenance of the Royal Canadian Air Force's fleet of five CC-150 Polaris aircraft.
The contract, valued at up to $230 million, is a renewal of the original in-service support contract awarded in 2013 to L3 MAS in Mirabel. The original contract included extension options for two five-year periods.
The work will be done at Mirable and at 8 Wing Trenton, ON where the fleet is based and operated by 437 Transport Squadron.
The CC-150 Polaris is a multi-purpose, twin-engine, long-range jet aircraft that is used for strategic air-to-air refueling and transport. Two CC-150 Polaris aircraft are configured for strategic air-to-air refueling and the rest are used for transport and other roles.
As part of the in-service support contract, L3 MAS provides the necessary maintenance support to service, repair and overhaul the aircraft fleet and equipment, as well as engineering support, material management and management of related contracts, according to the Department of National Defence.
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How to Play Drinking Games With Your Family During The Holidays
'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, you could hear Grandpa yell "Waterfall" then "dammit I'm housed".
The holidays can be pretty boring. You can only hear about Uncle Mort's foot maladies for so long. We all make what I think is the mistake of compartmentalizing the type of activities we do with our drinking buddies and with our family members. Huge mistake! Yes, family members can get on our nerves, but so can our drinking buddies. Go hang out with your drinking buddies when you're sober and they've been drinking. You're going to wish you were speaking to your inebriated Aunt Agnes while she thinks you are her former high school sweetheart.
There are some unique considerations you must contemplate when engaging in drinking games with your family. Let's go over the pros and cons for each game, and then I'll give you some advice about playing with relatives. I think your holidays just got a little better. You're welcome.
· Kings
Pros-This game takes no skill and family members can learn as they go.
Cons- Playing 'never have I ever' with family members. Keep it non-promiscuous, no one wants to learn about the sexual proclivities of their family members.
Advice- For some added suspense, put an unopened can of beer in the middle. Every time a card is pulled the person that pulls the card has to place the card between the tab and the can. The person you places the card between the tab and can that cracks open the beer has to drink the full beer.
· Beer Pong
Pros- Technically, Beer Pong doesn't have an age restriction. Just substitute beer with soda and you can play beer pong with your 12-year-old cousin. That's not to say your Aunt and Uncle won't get pissed that you are teaching their son a drinking game.
Cons- The trash talk during these games of beer pong are going to be much more tame than you are used to hearing. You cannot tell any family member to suck anything.
Advice- Make sure your family members are playing with light beer. It's a common rookie mistake to play with whatever is around. I made the mistake of playing with Newcastle Brown Ale for an entire evening. The side of my brother's car will never be the same. Thanks for DD-ing, Tim.
· Flip Cup
Pros- The whole family can play at the same time. No one gets left out therefore no one's feelings are hurt. You know how sensitive your Aunt Judy is.
Cons- The apology letter you are going to have to write your grandmother for cursing her out when she's the perennial weak link on your team. Get your head in the game Nana!
Advice- Make the game interesting. In my family, half the holiday is spent trying to figure out who is going to do the dishes. Once the teams have been decided, establish that whoever loses has to do the dishes, or whatever other pesky chore everyone is trying to avoid.


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Premier League: Wilfried Bony set to continue talks with interested parties
Sky Sports understands that Wilfried Bony is set to hold talks with several Premier League clubs.
By Gerrit van Leeuwen & Graeme Bailey
Last Updated: 17/05/13 1:20pm
The 24-year-old finished as top scorer in the Dutch top-flight last season, and he is widely expected to leave Vitesse Arnhem this summer.
Anzhi Makhachkala have already made moves, and one of his agents Francis Kacou has confirmed talks with the Russian giants, a German club and an English side.
Kacou told Algemeen Dagblad: "We have had more than one conversation with Anzhi. We now know what Anzhi would approximately want to pay. About wages, bonuses and commissions we will talk again.
"I have to say we also spoke with a German club last week and the next weekend we will be at a London side. Bony is currently in good demand on the market."
But Sky Sports understands at least three Premier League sides are set to meet with Bony next week.
In recent months, Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool and West Ham have all been linked with the Ivorian star.


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Papers (1911-1968, undated) include correspondence, writings, legal and financial papers, news clippings, a photograph and miscellaneous documents related to the career of Harry V. Bernard, Sr., who was an American businessman in China beginning in 1911. The documents also reflect his work with flood relief in the Shanghai District of China in the 1930s and his internment by the Japanese in a prison camp near Shanghai during World War II.
Harry Virden Bernard (1879-1968) was born in Camden, N.J. He attended high school in Bayonne, N.J., and was graduated from Sheldon Business College in Chicago and the Alexander Hamilton Business Institute in New York, N.Y. In 1905, he married Emma Jane Macdonald of Bayonne. The Singer Sewing Machine Company designated Bernard as its sales representative to China in 1911; he remained there until 1918 when illness forced him, his wife, and three children (Leonora, Harry, Jr., and Barbara) to move back to the United States. Bernard returned to China in 1919, affiliated with the Homestead Sewing Machine Company. His connection with this company proved troublesome, so he relied increasingly on the Euro-China Trading Company- an organization he had formed himself- for financial support. In 1931, Bernard was appointed head of the Shanghai district of the National Flood Relief Commission, a position he held until 1934. Because of his successful efforts in flood relief, Bernard was chosen in 1938 to head the International Red Cross program to aid Chinese refugees from the Sino-Japanese War. Placed under house arrest by the Japanese in December of 1941, Bernard and his wife became internees at the Chapei Civil Assembly prison camp near Shanghai in 1943. Emma Bernard and Juanita Sebastian, a ward of the Bernards, were repatriated in September 1943; Harry Bernard remained in the camp until 1945. After gaining his freedom, Bernard served as acting head of the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai until April 1946, when the Consul General arrived. Shortly after, Bernard left Shanghai and moved to Washington, D.C., where he formed the Central China Development Company; after its failure, he joined a brokerage firm in Washington.
For additional information, see Barbara Bernard McGee and Ruth Dorval Jones, Barney- Journals of Harry Virden Bernard (Smithfield, N.C.: McGee Press, 1982).
Correspondence (1932-1945) concerns Bernard's activities as head of flood relief for the Shanghai district, his internment in the Chapei Civil Assembly Center, and Emma Bernard's voyage from China to the U.S. as a repatriate in 1943. Bernard wrote in 1932 (presumably to his family) about his work with flood relief and his view of how China might develop in the future; in this letter, he included copies of several reports concerning relief efforts. Also in 1932, Bernard reported to his wife and oldest daughter about festivities held in his honor as he prepared to leave the interior of China, where he had been directly supervising relief work, to return to Shanghai. Materials for 1943-45 deal with Bernard's incarceration at Chapei and the repatriation of Emma Bernard.
Included in a group of Harry Bernard's writings (1939-1945, undated) is a report presumably written by Bernard in 1939 on "American Relief Efforts during the Sino-Japanese War," in which he describes the work of the American Red Cross, a variety of missionary groups, and China Famine Relief, U.S.A. Two contemporary accounts describe aspects of Bernard's life as an internee in the Chapei Center, including his health, diet, and attitudes about his incarceration.
The bulk of the writings consists of a memoir written by Bernard between 1963 and 1968. The memoir is composed of typed sheets which the processor has placed in rough chronological order corresponding to the narrative of Bernard's life found in Barney- Journals of Harry Virden Bernard. The researcher interested in determining the precise order of events described in the reminiscences should consult this book. (Page three of the memoir may be notes compiled by Barbara B. McGee when writing Barney.) Although Bernard discusses his and his wife's early lives, the first years of their marriage, and their three children, the most important information contained in the memoir consists of his observations about China and the Chinese. Among topics and events discussed by Bernard are battles around the Shanghai area among competing area warlords, his trips to the interior as a Singer Sewing Machine Company representative, the deliberate wrecking of the S.S. CHINA by the Japanese in Nagasaki Harbor (ca. 1911), Chinese social customs, travel within China, activities of Chinese revolutionaries, a visit to Hong Kong and French Indochina, flood relief in the Shanghai area (during the course of which Bernard met and briefly worked with Mao Tse-tung), International Red Cross work with Sino-Japanese War refugees, a 1939 trip by Bernard to the U.S. during which he served as escort for Kay Fukuhara (the daughter of a prominent Japanese official), methods of dealing with Chinese servants, and the Bernards' internment in Chapei Center. The reminiscences provide much valuable information about Americans' commercial relations with the Chinese and the role of foreigners in Chinese society in the early twentieth century.
Financial and legal papers, clippings, and miscellaneous materials (1916-1949, undated) pertain mainly to Bernard's work in flood and famine relief, Emma Bernard's repatriation during World War II, and the Bernards' incarceration at Chapei Center. The one photograph in the collection (1927) shows a crowd in an unidentified city gathered around the site of an execution.
Four oversized items have been filed separately. They are: The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury, 16 October 1943, 3 December 1943, 2 June 1944; and an unidentified newspaper, in Chinese characters (undated).
Gift of Mrs. Barbara B. McGee
Processed by J. Hesson, February 1984
Encoded by Apex Data Services
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.


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I don't think you could call him medium! Anyway, his comeback season after injury last year brought him 53 wkts, which was more than any other Somerset bowler and he's far better than Harmison in my opinion, as my sig will tell you!!
I don't think you could call him medium! Anyway, his comeback season after injury last year brought him 53 wkts, which was more than any other Somerset bowler and he's far better than Harmison in my opinion, as my sig will tell you!!
"One day lad, all this will be yours"
"What, the curtains?"
12 February, South Africa v Kenya, Potchefstroom
Collins Obuya (Kenya)
Lance Klusener brings one back sharply and Collins Obuya is trapped in front first ball. It was a terrific delivery, much too good for the young Kenyan all-rounder. Who is this young Klusener? Runs in one game, wickets in another? Party like it's 1999, Zulu.
DD rating - 5 lilypads
Martin Suji (Kenya)
Lance gets one to pop. Martin Suji can't keep it down and the ball loops gently to Shaun Pollock at short fine leg. Eight minutes, five balls, no runs, no hope, no worries, no chance. No dismembered trunk of a man in his late twenties, no head in a bag, nothing.
DD rating - no lilypads either.
Breadcrumb moment - Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa) and Maurice Odumbe (Kenya)
A joint award here. Odumbe has just bowled a very tight first over, conceding just a single. With the crowd baying for quick runs, Gibbs obliges 0-6-4-0-4-6. For those of you who lost count, that's a big twenty off the over. Credit the bowler for keeping going - at least there were no extras. I understand that the next time South Africa play, the crowd are going to be issued with helmets. The entire match had taken just 59.2 overs from start to finish.
"Time for a 20 overs game before the pubs open, guys?"
Nigel Clough's Black and White Army, beating Forest away with 10 men
I'll be waiting for the other one please
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box
12 February, India v Netherlands, Paarl
This tournament just gets better and better....
Zaheer Khan (India)
Fifth ball of the 49th over - nine wickets down, eight balls to go, eight singles will do. Playing on borrowed time and flushed with his involvement in the successful demise of Mongia from the previous delivery (see Breadcrumb moment), Zaheer plays what I can only describe as a 'flop' across the line. The ball from de Leede had pitched on middle-and-off and was heading nowhere else but halfway up the sticks. It was so plumb, even the man driving the drinks cart appealed. In fact, even the square-leg umpire appealed! Not bad. In for just 2 balls, involved in 2 dismissals. Man of the Match de Leede finishes with the highly creditable figures of 9.5-0-35-4 and game on!
DD rating - 7.5 lilypads - a clear second place and pushing Nathan hard.
Jan Kloppenburg (Netherlands)
First over, the Dutch want a good start. Should they block for a while, or should they give it a bit of clog? Fourth ball of Javagal Srinaths first over, we get the answer - well, we don't actually. The ball is just too good for the tentative prod of Kloppenburg and Virender Sehwag takes a smart, low catch at second slip.One lilypad for each ball faced by the opener. 300 ODI wickets for the evergreen Srinath.
DD rating - 4 lilypads
Bastiaan Zuiderent (Netherlands)
Good foot movement, the batsman gets to the pitch of the ball nicely. An expansive drive, pose for the cameras and the ball races across the outfield to the extra cover boundary. Well, that's the theory. If you've been in for an hour or you are a Lara or Tendulkar, perhaps you can get away with it. If, however, you are Bastiaan Zuiderent, you are facing your sixth ball in the World Cup and the bowler is a decidedly sharp Zaheer Khan, the game's not that easy. The flamboyant drive makes contact all right, the ball flies hard all right, but straight to Virender Sehwag at slip.
DD rating - a criditable 7 lilypads
Timotheus de Leede (Netherlands)
Enter Harbhajan Singh into the fray. 'Barnacle' de Leede has decided to play the sheet-anchor role, allowing Daan van Bunge and the splendid Extras to take the game to India. Final ball of Harbhajan's first over, the top-spinner totally bamboozles de Leede. A snick and the chance is taken by Rahul Dravid behind the sticks. Seventeen minutes in, nine balls faced, the second-longest duck so far of the tournament. Not bad, but a long way short of the best.
DD rating - 5.5 lilypads
Breadcrumb moment - Dinesh Mongia (India)
Timotheus de Leede from the Nederburg end to Zaheer Khan, fourth ball of the 49th over. A push to Jan Kloppenburg at mid on. Dinesh Mongia, going well, smelling a half-century, desperate to get the strike, charges down the wicket. He knows there is never a run there, but sometimes sacrifices have to be made for the greater good of the cause. Zaheer is unmoved : "... an Indians crease is his castle, and I'll stay here as long as I choose" - well, for this ball anyway. Mongia turns, sprints, dives, home easily. It was a dreadful return to the bowler - wide, looping. To tell the truth, if the throw had been good it would have been very tight. The bails are removed as an afterthought. But wait..... the third umpire is called for. Apparently, Mongia has decided to celebrate making his ground by waving his bat in the air in triumph. At the critical moment, you could drive a bus between bat and crease. Oh dear! Bye bye, Dinesh. Bye bye India? Only time would tell. Win or lose, they'll be saying "Hey, man, who's Cricket?" in the coffee shops of Amsterdam tonight.
Breadcrumb moment - Harbhajan Singh (India) and Edgar Schiferli (Netherlands)
"Hey, Charlie. Give him de throat ball" was the cry which used to go up in the Caribbean during the 1960s. Well, the 'Turbanator' is a bit of a killer, too. Batting bravely without a helmet to the lightning-fast Harbhajan and whirling at every spitting delivery like a windmill, Schiferli amazingly plays too soon at a searing top-spinner. There is a sickening crunch as the Flying Dutchman gets well and truly poleaxed. There is a five minute delay as
a) The Dutch all-rounder finds his feet again
b) Harbhajan finds his tooth to keep as a trophy. "I'm opening with Srinath next game, eh, skip?"
Breadcrumb moment - Javagal Srinath (India)
They always say "bowl a yorker, then follow it up with a slower one"
<luckyeddie> Who always says that?
Those who really know their cricket. You know.....ducks. Quiet, LE, this is my column.
As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, Srinath to the previously immovable Daan van Bunge - a superb yorker. Clean bowled.... only the bails don't fall.
Next ball, an extraordinarily extravagant extroverted.....
<luckyeddie> less of the exes, DD
Anyway, van Bunge is ex....tracted (a bit like Schiferli's tooth) ex...actly as intended with a real looper. Srinath's playing so well - reminds me of a young Matt Bulbeck.
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13 February, West Indies v New Zealand, Port Elizabeth
Breadcrumb moment - Marlon Samuels (West Indies)
Over number 48, Andre Adams is looking for runs. He has just slammed a huge six over long off - the ball after Ian Botham in the Sky Sports commentary team has said "Adams is not timing the ball today" - when the batsmans eyes light up again. A swat to leg and Chris Gayle, bowling from the Duckpond End, looks expectant as the ball loops out to where the ever-reliable Samuels awaits. "Put it in de scorebook, man - he's a goner." Now there are times when things are just too easy, so Samuels climbs up the rope ladder, gets on his unicycle and rides across the tightrope juggling three clubs just to make it a little more challenging. At least, that's what it looked like. Four attempts at grasping the ball later, the batsmen had run two. Adams continued his savage assault in the last two overs, helping New Zealand to a challenging 241 when frankly 220 looked more likely.
Breadcrumb moment - Lou Vincent and Chris Cairns (New Zealand)
Sponsored by Fernando's Guest House and Grill, 102 Cape Road, Mill Park, Port Elizabeth. Tel (041) 34-4080 (International +27 41) for bookings. Parties catered for.
Andre Adams has just removed Chris Gayle with a long hop, Flushed with success, he tries his second secret weapon - a leg stump half-volley - to Brian Lara. The Master Blaster whips the ball through midwicket and plods off for an easy two. Seeing that the man on the boundary is Vincent, he calls Wavell Hines through for a third. "Come on, man. Lou got an arm like a stick o' rhubarb". The batsmen meet in mid-track, where we pick up the conversation on the DevilDucky stump-mic (pat pending).
<WH> What do you think of Port Elizabeth, Brian?
<BL> It's beautiful - and the people are so friendly. Do you know they actually call Port Elizabeth 'The Friendly City', Wavell?
<WH> I was not aware of that fact, but it makes sense. As you so rightly say, the people are so friendly.
<BL> Yes. It is also known as the 'Gateway to the Eastern Cape'
<WH> Did you know that it has over 40km of breathtaking coastline and beaches?
<BL> Yes, I did know that. I may come back at Easter for the 'Vodacom Splash Festival.' Mr Fernando from Fernando's Guest House and Grill told me about it last night.
<WH> By the way, did you enjoy your meal?
<BL> Oh yes. Fernando's certainly do the best steaks in town (sound of Brian sucking his teeth).
Unbeknown to Lara, the ball is tossed back to Chris Cairns at halfway who, with just a single stump to aim at, does the rest, thus rudely interrupting this most interesting and informative travel guide.
Breadcrumb moment - Jacob Oram (New Zealand)
Ridley Jacobs, the last real hope for the West Indies, has decided to open his ample shoulders and launch a serious assault on the New Zealanders. Having just poleaxed a guy in the crowd who was desperately protecting his pint, he tries the same again to a ball from Scott Styris. An outside edge looks a safe single to third man, but we reckon without a quite magnificent diving catch from the giant Jacob Oram, the former New Zealand under-19 goalkeeper.
<LE> You were really scraping the barrel today, Devil Ducky.
<DD> What do you mean, Lucky Eddie?
<LE> Tourist guides indeed! How much did you get paid for that?
<DD> I'm not going to tell you.
<LE> It was an interesting game of cricket between two closely matched teams - with twists and turns every few overs - and yet you have written so little about the game itself.
<DD> It was a rubbish match between two bunches of no-hopers - and I gave it more column inches than it deserved.
<LE> Why do you say that?
<DD> Look, St George's Park is supposed to have a Duck Pond End.
<LE> I know.
<DD> Well?
<LE> Well, what?
<DD> No ducks!
Indeed!! lol. I enjoy having a good laugh at the alter ego that is Devil Ducky
Didn't know about the duck before the world cup and i've concluded you're a genius!!both of you
A True Champion - Bob. Rest in peace. 15/04/06
"People today have too big a devil and too small a God"
- Stephen Currie
"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" Psalm 27:1
<quack> I'm working him with my foot
<LE> Heeeeeyyyyyyy. I invented you!!!!
<quack> As AC/DC once said, "Who made who?"
14 February, Sri Lanka v Bangladesh, Pietermaritzburg
Hannan Sarkar (Bangladesh)
Chaminda Vaas is opening the bowling from the Duzi End. Hannan Sarkar takes guard to the first ball of the day - a delightful inswinger from the Colts CC leftie. Hannan Sarkar flails without a deal of foot movement and the off peg is rattled. To tell the truth, so are Bangladesh. Not a good start.
DD rating - 6.5 lilypads
Mohammad Ashraful (Bangladesh)
Chaminda Vaas is opening the bowling from the Duzi End. Mohammad Ashraful takes guard to the second ball of the day - a delightful inswinger from the Colts CC leftie. Mohammad Ashraful thinks "Ah, the same as Hannan just got" - but not quite! This delivery is a cleverly disguised slower one. The batsman plays a little too soon and Vaas takes a smart return catch high over his head. Definitely not a good start.
DD rating - 5 lilypads
Ehsanul Haque (Bangladesh)
Chaminda Vaas is opening the bowling from the Duzi End. Ehsanul Haque takes guard to the third ball of the day - a delightful inswinger...
<luckyeddie> Are you using automatic commentary-writing software, Devil Ducky?
<DD> zzzzzzzzzzzz.
....... from the Colts CC leftie. Ehsanul Haque thinks "We've been here before. I know just what to do...". Actually, we haven't. It's there for the drive, but pushed across the batsman a little. Ehsanul thinks about a slash through the covers (perhaps he should have gone before he came out to bat) but eventually decides to push down the line. The ball takes the outside edge and flies to Mahela Jayawardene at second slip. HAT TRICK!!!!! Cue the bowler to run around like a lemon playing 'Aeroplanes'. Wait a tick. HAT TRICK!!!! HAT TRICK!!! More to the point, THREE DUCKS!!! Bangladesh don't need me to tell them they are in trouble big-time. Chaminda Vaas thinks this wicket is a Duzi.
DD rating - 9 lilypads (Nathan Astle, your moment in the sun has ended)
Breadcrumb moment - Chaminda Vaas (Sri Lanka)
Abdul Hannan Sarkar bowled Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas 0
Mohammad Ashraful caught and bowled Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas 0
Ehsanul Haque caught Denagamage Proboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene bowled Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas 0
Breadcrumb moment - Brent Fraser 'Billy' Bowden (with thanks to John Cleese for giving me the idea)
<quack> With the game finishing early, I took the opportunity to interview Kiwi extrovert and general good egg Billy Bowden a few moments after the game.
<DD> Mr Bowden, I should like to thank you for taking time to talk to your fans at Cricket Web.
<BB> A pint of 'Whistling Weasel Pale Ale,' please, barman
<DD> Mr Bowden.... Mr Bowden...... Oi, Billy!!
<BB> What?
<DD> Allow me to pay for that (hands 100 Rand over) and two slices of bread soaked in 'Pickled Pig Porter' please - keep the change!
<BB> Can we go over to that quiet corner of the bar? I don't wish to be seen in public being interviewed by any duck, let alone you, Devil Ducky.
<DD> Thank you, Billy. It is all right to call you Billy, is it?
<BB> Of course. Everyone in cricket calls my Billy.
<DD> Thank you. You were born in Auckland, New Zealand?
<BB> Yes, a suburb called 'Henderson'.
<DD> When was that?
<BB> 1963, DD. On the 11th of April.
<DD> Ah, yes. That makes you an Aries, doesn't it?
<BB> Yes.
<DD> Aries. The Ram.
<BB> Yes!
<DD> And you are from New Zealand.
<BB> (hesitates) er, yeeeees?
<DD> Is Aries a common star sign among New Zealanders?
<BB> Right, stop that now.
<DD> Stop what?
<BB> This line of questioning.... I'm going - now!
<DD> Tell me about your cricketing background, Mr Bowden
<BB> What?
<DD> I understand that you played cricket as a boy
<BB> No more sheep gags?
<DD> I promise!
<BB> Well, I played schoolboy cricket to a fairly high level but when I was 21 I developed rheumatoid arthritis. I played on for a few years but it was a struggle.
<DD> What made you turn to umpiring?
<BB> A single incident. I was bowling to a young slugger one day. I remember that, first ball of the over, he hit the ball back at me like a bullet. Never had chance to move - ball hit me slap bang right between the eyes.
<DD> That's it, is it? The defining moment?
<BB> Not quite. Third ball, I tried my slower one. Batsman took one pace down the wicket, hit the ball back at me like a bullet. Never had chance to move - ball hit me slap bang right between the eyes.
<DD> And?
<BB> Last ball, a quicker one. Batsman played back, hit the ball back at me like a bullet - never had chance to move - couldn't protect myself - hit me slap bang right between the eye eye eye eye eye b-b-b-b-b-b.
<DD> Amazing!
<BB> Of course, I was getting used to it by then.
<DD> Another beer?
<BB> Please.
<DD> These extraordinary signals of yours....
<BB> You mean when I'm umpiring...
<DD> No, just then, when you were trying to catch the barman's eye
<BB> Touch of cramp, I think.
<DD> I'm just going to put a few Rand in the juke box. Can I select anything for you?
<BB> Something by Buddy Holly and the Crickets, please.
<DD> Ah yes. Very funny.
<BB> I'm sorry?
<DD> Mr Bowden, cricketing umpire extraordinaire, Cricket Web thanks you for your time.
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15 February, Australia v India, Centurion
Yuvraj Singh (India)
Last ball before the end of the bowling restrictions, although the biggest restriction at the moment is the one posed by the superb Aussie attack. Glenn McGrath rips one through the forward defensive push of a subdued Yuvraj who has faced 8 deliveries. The ball MAY have pitched a fraction outside leg stump. It MAY have just done a bit too much. It MAY have been a little high. I'm sure that if I watch the action replays a few more times I MAY be able to detect an inside edge or the bowler MAY have overstepped - but apart from that it was plumb - look in the scorebook. These things happen. On reflection, the umpire MAY have taken into account the rotation of the Earth and the Coreolis effect. Either that or he was asleep. Cue DevilDucky stump-mic (patent pending).
<Glenn McGrath> HOWZAAAAAAATTTTTTT?
<Umpire de Silva> zzzzzzzzzzzzzz what?
<Glenn McGrath> Is there an aeroplane flying over your head?
<Umpire de silva> Why, yes - look - up there (points skyward)
<Yuvraj Singh> MAYday
DD rating - 6 lilypads
Javagal Srinath (India)
Loads of overs to go, last two men at the crease, the last thing that India could do with is a run out. Push the ball about, don't take any sharp singles. Rotate the strike, push it into the gaps, take the easy ones but whatever you do, DON'T GET RUN OUT! Block everything even - the Aussies are so far behind the required rate that they are looking at losing at least 4 overs from their own allocation. Brad Hogg to Anil Kumble, the ball is prodded gently into the off side. Kumble calls Javagal Srinath through for the sharpest of sharp singles. Darren Lehmann swoops, the ball is flicked at the stumps and the bails are off - so's Srinath.
The duck thinks hard, then awards 1 lilypad per brain cell involved in the combined decision to take the single
DD rating - 0 lilypads
Breadcrumb moment - Harbhajan Singh (India)
Brett Lee, his tail up, greets the new batsman with one which strikes him on the noggin. Whatever happened to the 'Fast Bowlers Club'? The 'Peril of Paarl' decides to exact his own sort of revenge. The batsman backs away to leg. The bowler follows him. A carve and the ball whistles to the boundary over the head of the wicket-keeper - 4. A couple of deliveries later, the Turbaned Terror tries it again. This time, Lee doesn't follow him. He decides to bowl a fast yorker at the unguarded stumps. Harbhajan slams the ball over third man for a maximum. How? Don't ask me. I'm only a duck!
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Obviously you've never played ICC!Originally posted by anilramavarma
Who is Matt Bulbeck???
My house is burned down but I can see the sky.
ICC...the International Cricket Council...I'm not sure if you can play that...it can be used to describe a state of mind though, the attitude of "I don't care, your going anyway."Originally posted by Bazza
Obviously you've never played ICC!
although...I am playing International Cricket Captain as we speak
"Age is just a stupid number"
20...that's a rather big number :(:(:(
15 February, Canada v Kenya, Cape Town
Nicholas de Groot (Canada)
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. 159-5 became 159-6 in the 43rd over when Maurice Odumbe drifted one in from well outside off stump to somewhere else not quite so well outside off stump but still outside off stump all the same, with the batsman well down the wicket and playing a shot (albeit a pretty crummy one). The ever-consistent Nicky de Groot had maintained his World Cup 2003 average of 0. When I say consistent I mean consistent - 4 balls again. One lilypad last time, but this one's definitely worth more. Smart umpiring too - the finger was up before the appeal. Must have been another aeroplane flying overhead..
DD rating - 6.5 lilypads
Breadcrumb moment (and boy, it's a long one) - Hitesh Modi (Kenya)
The splendid John Davison, bowling from the Kelvin Grove End, has just witnessed the clearest bat-pad of the tournament turned down by umpire Mohammad Nadeem Ghauri. Modi has previously struggled for almost an hour to get the ball off the square and is just craving blessed release. All I can suggest is that the bowler has managed to persuade the umpire that the batsman has made no contact. This is confirmed by the following delivery when Modi gives Davison the charge with reckless ineptitude. The ball is collected by keeper Ashish Bagai who, seeing that it is Modi out of his ground, gives up the simplest stumping chance by fumbling the ball - thus just about keeping Canada in the game. Further confirmation of this tactic is to come in Davisons following over when the same batsman edges the ball through to Joseph Harris at slip. The fielder takes the catch clean enough but - horror of horrors - he subsequently recognises that it is the hapless Modi whose fate he holds in his hands. Realising his mistake too late, he quickly hurls the ball to the ground but the batsman has already fled the scene, thus condemning Canada to almost certain defeat. His six runs have taken just 48 balls.
<quack> and another thing.....
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Humble McGee worthy of spot in Cardinals Hall of Fame
Two-time National League batting champion won 1985 NL MVP Award with St. Louis
In 18 years in the Major Leagues, Willie McGee accumulated four National League All-Star nods, three NL Gold Glove Awards, an NL Silver Slugger Award, an NL MVP Award and a pair of NL batting titles, among numerous other accomplishments -- none of which he desired.
McGee was honored to have received them, but he never played for the accolades. He loved the game and believed he was paid to play it to the best of his ability.
Even 15 years after retiring from the game, McGee's mentality remains unchanged. He's in position to add another accolade to his resume as one of eight candidates for the new Cardinals Hall of Fame, and although the humble former outfielder would likely divert the spotlight to one of his fellow nominees, McGee was leading the pack with 33.29 percent of the fan vote in the first released results.
"It's a great opportunity for a lot of players to get more recognition," McGee said. "But like I always say, I'll still sleep well whether I've got a trophy or a plaque.
"Bottom line is, I know that I went out there and gave 110 percent every day for the 20 years I had the opportunity to play. To me, that's what it's all about, [but] I appreciate the recognition."
Fans can go to cardinals.com to vote for up to two of the eight candidates -- McGee, Jim Edmonds, Bob Forsch, Keith Hernandez, Mark McGwire, Matt Morris, Ted Simmons or Joe Torre -- until Tuesday.
The two leading vote-getters will be enshrined during an Aug. 16 ceremony at Ballpark Village, joining the 22 Cardinals who received automatic induction because they are either already in the National Baseball Hall of Fame or have had their number retired by the Cards.
Initially a first-round Draft pick of the Yankees in 1977, McGee was traded to St. Louis in '81, and he made his big league debut in May '82. But it was in the postseason where he really burst onto the national scene.
The rookie belted a pair of home runs in Game 3 of the 1982 World Series en route to the Cardinals winning it all.
"The greatest memory was the seventh game," McGee said. "Winning that game and winning that championship -- I haven't had a feeling like that all my life and probably never will again."
McGee would earn his first All-Star recognition the following season, and posted a very respectable .290 combined batting average in his first three seasons.
But in 1985, McGee eclipsed that mark in a big way, hitting .353 with 26 doubles, 18 triples, 10 homers, 82 RBIs and 56 stolen bases. His stellar regular season earned him NL MVP Award honors, a Gold Glove and a Silver Slugger.
For McGee, the breakout campaign was a long time coming. He believed his ascent actually began years earlier in Double-A.
"I didn't know if I was big league-ready, but I didn't have to think about things out there on the field. Pretty much it was just a reaction," McGee said. "And to get to that point in '85, [where] you just know you're going to go out there and hit the ball hard two or three times a game -- everything just fell into place."
McGee played eight seasons in St. Louis before he was traded to the A's on Aug. 29 1990. He earned his second NL batting title that season by hitting .335 before the deal.
McGee finished out the 1990 season in Oakland, then signed as a free agent with the Giants. He spent four years with San Francisco and one with the Red Sox before returning to the Redbirds in 1995 for the final four seasons of his career.
"It wasn't planned; it just happened, and I'm grateful for it," McGee said. "My whole career, things just seemed to work out for the best at crucial points.
"It couldn't have worked out better to finish your career where you started in a great baseball city."
Though he resides in Northern California, McGee is still very much a Cardinal. He serves as a special assistant to general manager John Mozeliak and spends about a week out of every month as an instructor in one of the club's Minor League cities.
Even when McGee is at home, he's still working in the game by coaching Little League, fast-pitch softball and junior college teams.
"I love it. I love baseball, always have. That's what I know," McGee said. "I'm always on the field somewhere."


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) His new red NFC West champion hat on backward, Donte Whitner stayed put at his locker with eyes glued to the Packers-Vikings game on the television above him - the matchup that would determine San Francisco's playoff positioning.
The safety rooted for Minnesota's Adrian Peterson with multiple chants of, ``Break a long one, AP!''
The scene was the same around the 49ers' cramped locker room after their 27-13 win against Arizona on Sunday - and everybody cheered when Blair Walsh's 29-yard field goal sailed through the uprights for the Vikings as time expired to give San Francisco a first-round playoff bye.
The 49ers had to wait all of about 15 minutes once their game ended to really start celebrating.
Albeit briefly, considering Jim Harbaugh is their coach. He will get this group back to work in a hurry to prepare for the NFC divisional playoffs at home the night of Jan. 12.
Yet on this day, Harbaugh offered plenty of praise for the offensive tandem of Colin Kaepernick and Michael Crabtree.
``I thought Michael and Colin really got us going,'' he said. ``That was a great spark those guys gave us.''
Crabtree's career day and dazzling catch-making display sent San Francisco to a second straight division title and into the playoffs with some much-needed momentum.
Crabtree caught touchdown passes of 49 and 7 yards and finished with a career-high 172 yards on eight receptions, leading the 49ers to another rout of Arizona after a slow start.
Kaepernick threw for a career-best 276 yards and two TDs as the Niners (11-4-1) did their part to control their postseason fate - then waited all of about 15 minutes to watch Minnesota beat Green Bay and give San Francisco the NFC's No. 2 seed and a week off before hosting a divisional playoff game.
``It means a lot,'' linebacker Patrick Willis said. ``I was just telling some of the guys that it's something we don't take for granted. I don't.''
Frank Gore ran for a 2-yard score early in the fourth quarter for his franchise-best 51st touchdown rushing, breaking a tie with mentor Roger Craig and late Hall of Famer Joe Perry.
With yet another new face under center, the Cardinals (5-11) lost for the 11th time in their last 12 games in what might have been Ken Whisenhunt's final game as coach. Brian Hoyer went 19 of 34 for 225 yards and a late TD toss in his first NFL start as Arizona's fourth quarterback this season.
He couldn't keep up with Crabtree and Kaepernick.
Crabtree's outstanding outing was the best by a 49ers receiver since Terrell Owens' 166-yard performance on Nov. 25, 2002, against Philadelphia.
``My dude made it happen,'' Crabtree said, looking at Kaepernick. ``I'm really focused on these playoffs.''
Crabtree caught a 31-yard pass to set up his team-leading eighth TD reception on the next play. The sequence put him over 1,000 yards, giving San Francisco its first 1,000-yard receiver since T.O. in 2003.
On the next series, Crabtree made a pretty, one-handed grab with his right hand along the left sideline on third-and-11 for a 19-yard gain and first down. He made a 14-yard catch on fourth down late in the third, and later converted another fourth down with a reception of 7 yards.
What a boost for an injury-depleted receiving corps missing Mario Manningham for the rest of the season because of a knee injury. Plus, tight end Vernon Davis was limited a week after sustaining a concussion.
Struggling San Francisco kicker David Akers missed wide left on a 44-yard field goal attempt midway through the second quarter, then did it again with nearly the same kick - from 40 yards this time - 24 seconds before halftime. Akers put his hands on his knees and closed his eyes in frustration as boos rained down from the sellout crowd at Candlestick Park.
He missed for the fourth time in his last eight spanning three games and 13th time in 40 tries after setting an NFL single-season record with 44 field goals in 52 attempts last year. Akers bounced back by nailing one from 43 yards early in the second half but was later clipped in his kicking foot by Arizona's Justin Bethel. Akers stayed in the game, then booted a 26-yard field goal with just more than 9 minutes remaining.
Coach Jim Harbaugh didn't rule out a change.
``We'll evaluate that,'' he said. ``It's his job to make the kicks.''
Hoyer exhibited poise in the early moments. He completed seven of his first 13 passes and three straight - for 7, 15 and 12 yards - during one drive as Arizona took a 3-0 lead on Jay Feely's 35-yard field goal late in the first quarter. Feely added a 31-yarder early in the second to make it 6-0.
The Cardinals outgained the 49ers 129-15 in the opening quarter and held San Francisco without a first down.
But that didn't last long.
Arizona ended a six-game stretch without a touchdown pass when Hoyer hit Michael Floyd on a late 37-yard score. Floyd had eight catches for 166 yards.
The Cardinals pounded the ball toward the right side of San Francisco's defensive line where Pro Bowler Justin Smith had been stout against the run all season before getting hurt two weeks ago. Now, San Francisco has an extra week for Smith to heal.
``Today's game kind of mirrored our season,'' Whisenhunt said. ``I'm proud of the way our team's worked. You understand this is part of the business. We haven't won enough games this year.''
Former starting quarterback Alex Smith made what could have been his final appearance in a 49ers uniform when he entered the game with 5:57 to go - playing to chants of ``Let's Go, Alex!'' and ``Alex! Alex!''
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James Harrison, who had knee surgery last year and two back surgeries the year before, turns 35 in May. The Steelers are in salary-cap hell, and one of the biggest decisions they'll make this offseason is whether to keep the former NFL defensive player of the year around. In the meantime, Harrison has let his Twitter and Facebook followers know he's teamed up with the Ball Busters for a little fun and games. At long last, he gets to play in a league that'll let him take all the head shots he wants.
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Chemical contaminant linked to obesity in mice
The latter has been linked to the development of medical complaints and diseases ranging from obesity to various cancers.
TBT is a non-intentionally-added substance (NIAS) found in PVC plastics. Writing in the monthly peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives, the scientists claim TBT influences the build up of fat in mice two or three generations removed from those exposed to it.
Earlier work
The assertion builds on earlier work from the same researchers indicating TBT exposure modulates critical steps in fat building and that prenatal TBT exposure predisposes certain mouse stem cells to become fat cells.
The latest paper outlines an experiment exposing female mice to a dimethyl sulfoxide vehicle, the pharmaceutical obesogen rosigilitazone or three doses of TBT throughout pregnancy via drinking water.
Mice initially exposed in utero were bred to yield a second generation and effects were studied on a third generation bred from the second.
Effects studied
Fat depot weights, fat cell number and size, cell programming, build up of fat in the liver and liver gene expression in all three generations was studied.
The paper states prenatal TBT exposure increased most white fat tissue, depot weights, fat cell size and number and the predisposition of the stem cells to produce fat at the expense of bone.
"Prenatal TBT exposure produced transgenerational effects on fat depots and induced a phenotype resembling non-alcoholic fatty liver disease through at least the F3 [third] generation," the scientists conclude. "These results show that early life obesogen exposure can have lasting effects."
Source: 'Transgenerational inheritance of increased fat depot size, stem cell reprogramming and hepatic steatosis elicited by prenatal obesogen tributyltin in mice'; Environmental Health Perspectives; January 15, 2013; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1205701 Authors: Raquel Chamorro-García, Margaret Sahu, Rachelle Abbey, Jhyme Laude and Nhieu Pham (Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, California) and Bruce Blumberg (also with Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California).


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Most programming languages have their own XML parser libraries. And many of those use the DOM (Document Object Model) API. DOM is good for general-purpose XML processing: The input is parsed into a tree structure that can be modified and written back out. Often whitespace is preserved so the output is identical to the input if it is not modified. This generality comes at a cost: large memory requirements (often more than double the input size) and slow read and write. For applications that read the XML data for only specific pieces of information, there are better alternatives.
Other libraries use SAX (Simple API for XML), and a pull parser. SAX is callback-based and I find it difficult to work with, but it allows breaking your code into reasonable size pieces. I use pull parsers, but my code ends up in one or two large functions. Pull parsers have a simple internal structure and a lot of little snippets of code for each data type of interest.
Neither method in mainstream libraries deliver the speed and simplicity I want, however. Let's see how to improve them. The examples in this article start with a simple OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language, an XML language) subset. It is suitable for the RSS export format used by most RSS readers (such as Google Reader or Thunderbird). The second example is a more robust version that handles nested feeds (for example, Google Reader's Categories). The final version is possibly overkill for OPML, but it illustrates techniques suitable for larger parsers such as RSS). The complete OPML programs with test suites and sample input files are on GitHub.
RSS (originally, RDF Site Summary, often dubbed "Really Simple Syndication") is an XML language for publishing news and blog summaries. When I first started working with RSS feeds for a Ruby on Rails application, I used FeedTools. It is a solid package that supports reading, searching, modifying, and writing RSS feeds. But, it doesn't scale to reading thousands of feeds per hour.
The developer of FeedTools lamented in his blog about choosing to use REXML (part of the Ruby standard libraries) and that he was too burned out to redo it with a faster library. Nokogiri and Hpricot are newer XML libraries and an RSS parser using them runs 10% faster than FeedTools. Both use the libxml2 library (in C, part of the GNOME project). An RSS parser written with libxml2 is an additional 10% faster. However, I wanted 10 times faster, not 10% or even 20% faster. The current benchmark results for these parsers and my lean alternative are near the end of the article.
The libxml-ruby docs are much more readable than the libxml2 docs. Digging around in them I found the two additional APIs: SAX and pull parsers. I did not have much success with the SAX API. Pull parsers I understand. An RSS pull parser is over a hundred times faster than FeedTools! The key to the speed is the API, not the language it is written in. The REXML pull parser (pure Ruby) is trivally slower (approximately 2%) than libxml (in C with libxml-ruby Ruby wrapper). Interestingly, the REXML DOM API is 20% slower than the libxml2 DOM API. The RSS parser I use in production is available here.
How To Do It
Let's look at the feed and how its speed was accelerated. A simplified OPML file with one feed looks like this:
OPML Example 1.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <outline text="AmethystRSS Blog" xmlUrl="http://blog.amethystRSS.net/feed/"/> </body> </opml>
Pull parsers loop through the input. Within the loop, an outer case statement handles the markup types. Only tag start, tag data, and tag end markup are needed for OPML and RSS. Inner case statements switch on the path the nesting of tag names. For example, the title in Example 1 has the path "opml>head>title" (using ">" to separate tag names is my own convention).
The code to parse it looks like Listing One (in the FLAT branch on GitHub). A case could be made for declaring a class or two to store the results. In the interests of simplicity and for teaching purposes, I've chosen to store the feeds as an array (reasonable) of hashes (a class with just title and URL might be better). Using built-in types simplifies the test data (in test/opml on GitHub). Each OPML file has a similarly named YAML file (YAML Ain't Markup Language) with the expected parse result. By sticking to YAML standard types: sequences (arrays in Ruby) and mappings (hashes in Ruby), the test data is portable across implementation languages that have support for those data types (e.g., Python).
Listing One: Parsing.
feeds = [] opml_title = nil while reader.read case reader.node_type when TYPE_ELEMENT: # begin element case tag = reader.name when 'outline' # save relevant RSS feed attributes: title and URL feeds << {:title => reader['title'], :url => reader['xmlUrl']} end when TYPE_TEXT, TYPE_CDATA # contents case tag when 'title' opml_title = reader.value # OPML file title end end end
For simple OPML files with no nesting, this works. Example 1 above is represented like this by Ruby's inspect primitive:
[{:title => "AmethystRSS Blog", :url => "http://blog.amethystRSS.net/feed/"}]
In YAML, this is:
YAML Example 1.
--- - :title: AmethystRSS Blog :url: "http://blog.amethystRSS.net/feed/"
Google Reader supports grouping feeds into named categories. In OPML, these are simply nested outline elements.
OPML Example 2.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <opml version="1.0"> <head> <title>Lars subscriptions in Google Reader</title> </head> <body> <outline title="@Bibliotek" text="@Bibliotek"> <outline text="24 Ways" title="24 Ways" type="rss" xmlUrl="24ways.xml" htmlUrl="http://24ways.org/"/> </outline> <outline title="@Politics" text="@Politics"> <outline text="Jon Udell" title="Jon Udell" type="rss" xmlUrl="JonsNewRadio.xml" htmlUrl="http://blog.jonudell.net"/> <outline text="Linux Magazine Full Feed" title="Linux Magazine Full Feed" type="rss" xmlUrl="LinuxMag.xml" htmlUrl="http://www.linux-magazine.com"/> </outline>> </body> </opml>
In keeping with the decision to represent records with hashes, the parse of Example 2 in YAML is the feed title now included in the parse results:
YAML Example 2.
--- - Lars subscriptions in Google Reader - - "@Bibliotek" - :title: 24 Ways :url: 24ways.xml - - "@Politics" - :title: Jon Udell :url: JonsNewRadio.xml - :title: Linux Magazine Full Feed :url: LinuxMag.xml
The code to parse Example 2 must keep track of the nesting depth. Note also that regular expressions are used in some
case statements to match the path for nested elements. The complete program is in the NESTED branch on GitHub.
Listing Two: Core parser functions for keeping track of levels.
title = nil feed_stack = [[]] tag_stack = [] tag = nil # force scope feed = {} while reader.read case reader.node_type when XML::Reader::TYPE_ELEMENT tag = reader.name tag_stack.push(tag) case tag_stack.join('>') when /^opml>body(>outline)+$/ feed = {:title => reader['text'].strip} feed[:url] = reader['xmlUrl'].strip if reader['xmlUrl'] if feed[:url].nil? # Category/folder start? feed_stack.push([feed[:title]]) else feed_stack[-1] << feed feed = {} end if reader.empty_element? tag_stack.pop end end when XML::Reader::TYPE_TEXT, XML::Reader::TYPE_CDATA case tag_stack.join('>') when 'opml>head>title' title = reader.value.strip feed_stack[0].unshift(title) end when XML::Reader::TYPE_END_ELEMENT case tag_stack.join('>') when /^opml>body(>outline)+$/ tmp = feed_stack.pop feed_stack[-1] << tmp end tag_stack.pop end end # flatten feed_stack while feed_stack.size > 1 tmp = feed_stack.pop feed_stack[-1] << tmp end return feed_stack[0]


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Washington is engaged in one more Chicken Little game of chicken. "The sky is falling" they cry, whipping up the fear and panic, demanding we solve the latest "crisis" by cutting taxes for the rich, cutting the things We, the People do for each other, and handing over even more of our common wealth to the already-wealthy few. Again and again we go through these phony crises, until people just roll their eyes and tune out. Wall Street appears tuned out to the default threat. No one else believes it could happen, either.
But this time people should notice that the wingnuts are serious about killing government: the Federal Aviation Administration was shut down midnight Saturday, and is still shut down. Yes, it is another Chicken Little phony crisis, but almost a hundred thousand jobs are already gone. And $200 million in tax revenue is lost each week it continues.
It was the Republicans who shut down the FAA. As a result, 4,000 FAA workers have been laid off and about 90,000 construction workers are being laid off right now. (Only air traffic control operations were spared.) I wrote about this last week, in the post The Hostage-Taking Just Keeps Coming - This Time The FAA Shuts Down,
The latest conservative hostage-taking involves a fight over unions and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) budget. Conservatives refuse to fund the FAA unless the Senate agrees to block airline and railroad unions from being able to organize. Result: the agency shuts down at midnight tonight.
The FAA's funding reauthorization bill has been held up over Republican insistence that anti-union language be included. The specific language says that any worker not voting in a union organization drive be counted as a vote not to form a union. (They are also eliminating funding for many small-town airports... in Democratic districts.) The House has passed this, the Senate refuses to, and since no bill has passed funding for the FAA dries up at midnight.
How Many Jobs?
In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution post, FAA Furlough Update II, Jamie Dupree has a (very long) list of construction projects being shut down around the country, writing:
For now, the pleas of [FAA Administrator Randy] Babbitt and other federal officials aren't having any impact on Capitol Hill, where Republicans in the House and Democrats in the Senate remain at odds over the renewal of the FAA bill, in what would be the 21st extension of the measure since 2007.
Yes, the debt-ceiling is a phony crisis. No, it doesn't have to happen. Yes, it is another game of chicken, being played by the Chicken Little "shock doctrine" crowd. But yes, these conservatives do want to kill our government. They mean it, they rejoice in it, and they will do it unless you add your voice to tell them to stop.
That AFL-CIO has an action call out: Tell your members of Congress the FAA needs to get up and running immediately. Republican House leaders' hostage-taking needs to stop.
Here are the details at the AFL-CIO NowBlog post, Tell Congress: Save 90,000 Jobs, Get FAA Back to Work,
More than 90,000 airport construction jobs are on the line because of the Republican shutdown over the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Not only are 4,000 FAA workers already out of their jobs, but because House Republicans refused to pass a funding authorization bill, money for airport improvements has dried up and construction workers at many airports have been sent home.
Click here to tell your members of Congress to stop the Republican hostage taking of more than 90,000 jobs and get the FAA up and running again.
Republicans grounded the FAA because they want to take away Democratic union elections for aviation and rail workers.
Congress could have passed temporary spending authority for the FAA, as it has 20 times in the past without controversy. But like their tactics on debt ceiling negotiations, Republicans are demanding their way at any cost.


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Symbols are powerful forces in politics. Public appearances, mannerisms, and budgets are among the many elements that define leaders and help us evaluate their performances. To that end, Californians have witnessed something of a political earthquake in the symbolic gestures of Gov. Jerry Brown compared to predecessor Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Seven years ago, Schwarzenegger, the actor-turned-governor, staged a grand inauguration ceremony highlighted by huge theater screens on either side of the Capitol walkway showing slides of himself in various campaign scenes. The day's activities included several luncheons attended by 7,000 dignitaries, accented by a large Hollywood contingent.
Brown's inauguration and festivities earlier this month telegraphed austerity and populism. A simple swearing-in ceremony in a large public hall followed by a "feast" of hot dogs and chips conveyed the image of an individual who placed more significance in the rite of passage than the right of the privileged.
Leadership styles also take on great symbolic significance, especially early on in a term where they set the stage for future expectations. Schwarzenegger assumed command immediately after the swearing-in ceremony by marching into his office and signing an executive order that eliminated California's car tax, one of his campaign issues. He showed all that he was in charge.
Brown took the opposite approach. Rather than sweep in with a dramatic gesture, he held forums throughout the state, seeking common ground with California's political forces. While warning the state of great pain to come, he called for people to put California first, partisan bickering second.
Then there's the concept of leading by example, always an important symbol. As soon as Schwarzenegger took the reins of power, he had a tent installed in the inner Capitol courtyard so he could convene stogy-punctuated meetings. Never mind that the state has a firm "no smoking" law in and near state buildings; he was the governor.
Brown has taken just the opposite approach. Warning Californians that the state would need to tighten its collective economic belt, he slashed the budget of the governor's office by 25 percent as a sign that he would take as much or more from himself than he would expect from others.
None of this is to suggest that the low-key frugality exhibited by Jerry Brown is more desirable than the over-the-top mannerisms of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Still the contrast is stark. And in a world where more than ever a picture is worth a thousand words, Brown has began his own narrative with a symbolism much different than that demonstrated by Schwarzenegger.


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President Barack Obama is picking Florida, Indiana, Louisville, Ohio State to reach the Final Four. And after a championship match-up between No. 1 seeds Indiana and Louisville, Obama has given the Hoosiers the edge at the NCAA basketball tournament.
"I think this is Indiana's year," Obama said in unveiling his bracket on ESPN. The president has filled out a bracket for ESPN for five years straight.
Indiana and Louisville are each No. 1 seeds, with Louisville the overall seed. Ohio State is a No. 2 seed and Florida is a No. 3 seed
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On the women's side, Obama selected Baylor, California, UConn and Notre Dame to advance to New Orleans.
Baylor, UConn and Notre Dame are all No. 1 seeds and California is a No. 2 seed.
In 2012, President Obama's men's bracket ranked 2,347,421 out of 6.45 million entries, placing him in the 63.6th percentile.