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Centennial, Colo., Dec. 7, 2012 (ULA PR) -– Today, United Launch Alliance (ULA) cleared the next launch of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) for Dec. 11, after a thorough flight clearance process was executed following a flight data anomaly that occurred on the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-3 launch on Oct. 4.
Although the GPS mission was successful and the satellite was delivered to a precise orbit, ULA and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) are executing an extremely robust investigation into the cause of the reduced engine performance on the recent Delta IV mission," said Jim Sponnick, ULA vice president, Mission Operations. "Our 50-year heritage of launch experience and decades of launch data have enabled the robust investigation processes we perform for any flight conditions that differ from our nominal predictions, in order to continue the critical focus on mission success that our customers demand."
The ULA investigation has concluded that a fuel leak occurred in a specific area of the interior of the thrust chamber, and that this leak started during the first engine start sequence. Although the investigation into the flight data anomaly continues, all credible crossover implications from the Delta anomaly for the OTV-3 Atlas vehicle and engine system have been thoroughly addressed and mitigated, culminating in the flight clearance decision for the OTV-3 launch.
"Our flight data anomaly investigation includes substantial involvement and oversight from senior industry technical advisors, as well as our Air Force OTV customer, Air Force EELV customer, and NASA customers," said Sponnick. "We thank the OTV customer for their patience and participation throughout the flight clearance process for this important mission."
Following the OTV-3 launch, ULA's next launch is the TDRS-K mission for NASA, which is planned for Jan. 29, 2013.
ULA program management, engineering, test, and mission support functions are headquartered in Denver, Colo. Manufacturing, assembly and integration operations are located at Decatur, Ala., and Harlingen, Texas. Launch operations are located at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla., and Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
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Polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution is a laxative solution that increases the amount of water in the intestinal tract to stimulate bowel movements. This medication also contains potassium, sodium, and other minerals to replace electrolytes that are passed from the body in the stool.
Polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution is used to clean the bowel before colonoscopy, a barium x-ray, or other intestinal procedures.
Polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
Do not use this medication if you have a perforated bowel, a bowel obstruction or severe constipation, or colitis or toxic megacolon. Polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution can cause dangerous or life-threatening side effects in people with these conditions.
You should not use this medicine if you are allergic to polyethylene glycol or any other electrolyte solutions (such as Pedialyte or Gatorade), or if you have:
Polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution can cause dangerous or life-threatening side effects in people with these conditions.
People with eating disorders (such as anorexia or bulimia) should not use this medication without the advice of a doctor.
To make sure polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have:
FDA pregnancy category C. It is not known whether polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution will harm an unborn baby. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant while using this medication.
It is not known whether polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing baby. Tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
Moviprep contains phenylalanine. Talk to your doctor before using if you have phenylketonuria (PKU).
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
If you have any of these side effects, you may need to drink the medication more slowly, or stop using it for a short time. Call your doctor for instructions if you have:
Common side effects may include:
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Avoid taking other medications, vitamins, or mineral supplements within 1 hour before drinking polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution. Any medications you take just before a bowel cleansing will not be properly absorbed into your body.
Do not use other laxatives while using polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution unless your doctor has told you to.
Other drugs may interact with polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal products. Tell each of your health care providers about all medicines you use now and any medicine you start or stop using.
Polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution is a powder medicine that must be mixed with water before using it. Follow all directions on your medicine label. Do not take this medicine in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended.
Do not add any flavorings to this medicine, such as sugar, honey, artificial sweetener, fruit juices, or other beverages.
Do not take polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution if it has been less than 1 hour since you last ate solid food. For best results, take the medicine 2 to 4 hours after you last ate.
Store unmixed medicine at room temperature away from moisture and heat.
Store the mixed medicine in a refrigerator in an upright position.
Drink plenty of clear liquids (such as water, broth, black coffee, tea, clear soda) before, during, and after your treatment. Avoid foods and beverages that contain pulp or are red or purple in color. You may also eat popsicles (not fruit bars or fudge bars) or gelatin without fruit pieces or toppings.
This medicine comes with instructions about when and what to eat or drink on your first day of treatment. Each brand may have different instructions.
Shake the liquid well just before you measure a dose. Drink this medicine in the exact portions at the exact time intervals prescribed by your doctor.
The usual dose of the medication is 8 ounces every 10 to 15 minutes. Drink each portion as quickly as possible, rather than sipping it slowly. The first watery stool should appear within 1 hour after you start drinking polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution.
Polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution will produce watery diarrhea. Keep taking the medicine until your stool is watery and clear. In most cases, at least 3 liters of polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution is needed for the full effect.
Throw away any polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution you have not used within 24 to 48 hours after it was mixed (follow directions for your specific brand of this medicine).
Do not eat or drink anything within 2 hours before your medical test.
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.
Talk to your doctor if you cannot drink all of the medication prescribed for you. Your test or procedure may need to be rescheduled if your bowel is not completely cleansed.
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|Preached by Revd Bridget Shepherd on Sunday 15 September 2019 (Good Shepherd).
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The concept of a Stony Point Police Department was started shortly prior to 1967, when a group of Stony Point citizens approached the Town Board and requested that a full-time Police Force be established. Until then the Town's police services were provided by Stony Point residents acting as Constables and the New York State Police from a barracks on 9W in Stony Point.
In 1971, the Police department moved to 112 West Main Street with eight full-time Police Officers and a smaller part-time complement as well as several Crossing Guards.
In 1980, the Police Department moved to its present location at 79 Rte 210. The facility was constructed on land donated by Eleanor Allison, in memory of Calvin T Allison. The building is a modern facility constructed to serve the changing needs of today's police services. In 1980 the Stony Point Police Athletic League (P.A.L.) was formed by the department and concerned citizens in an effort to provide activities and special services to the youth of our Community.
In May of 1990 the Stony Point Police Department assigned a member to the Rockland County Narcotics Task Force. This unit is comprised of Police Officers from around the County of Rockland and focuses on narcotics investigations.
In November of 1999 the department began a renovation and upgrade project to its communication center. The project is financed with an $ 180,000.00 grant received from the State of New York. When complete the communications center will be outfitted with the most up to date electronics and be capable of running multiple operations simultaneously.
In March of 2001 the Department assigns its first member to the Rockland County Intelligence Center. This unit is comprised of Police Officers from departments within Rockland County and focuses on gathering and disseminating criminal information to law enforcement agencies.


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Cooper's 11th-inning hit sends Jays past ChiSox
Toronto, ON – David Cooper's RBI single in the bottom of the 11th inning sent Toronto past Chicago, 3-2, in the opener of a four-game series.
Jesse Crain retired Rajai Davis on a pop-up to start the frame, then Leyson Septimo (0-2) walked Kelly Johnson before yielding to Nate Jones, who gave up a base hit to Edwin Encarnacion which put runners on the corners.
Cooper stepped in and bounced a single to right which scored Johnson easily to win the game.
It made a winner of Steve Delabar (3-1), who fanned six and didn't allow a hit over two scoreless relief innings.
Encarnacion drove in a run and Moises Sierra added his first career home run for the Blue Jays, who have won two in a row following a five-game losing skid.
Adam Dunn went deep twice for the White Sox, who have lost four of their last six.
"Adam Dunn makes the ballpark look like a little league field every time he steps up to the plate," Blue Jays manager John Farrell said. "That was the case again tonight."
Blue Jays starter Carlos Villanueva scattered five hits and one run with eight strikeouts over seven strong innings, while counterpart Jake Peavy worked eight innings and gave up two runs on five hits, walking two and fanning six.
The Jays picked up a run in the third, as Anthony Gose was hit with one out, went to second when Johnson was plunked, then scored on an Encarnacion single. On the play, Toronto was denied a chance to continue the rally after Johnson was caught in a rundown.
Dunn reached the facing of the second deck in left center with one down in the fourth, but Sierra led off the home seventh with a blast to left and the hosts led by a 2-1 count.
Dunn sliced a ball to the opposite field off Casey Janssen to begin the ninth, tying the game at two.
"We were fortunate enough we had a chance to tie the game and a chance to win it," Peavy said. "They threw some pretty good arms at us tonight and we just came out on the wrong end."
Gose walked with two down in the home 10th, but was caught attempting to steal second to end the inning.
Game Notes
Toronto has won six of its last eight home games against Chicago...Dunn posted his second multi-homer game of 2012 and the 32nd of his career...A.J. Pierzynski extended his hitting streak to 14 games for Chicago.


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For the first time in the show's history, host Kevin O'Connor and master carpenter Norm Abram take This Old House on the road to New York City to restore a neglected 1904 brownstone in Brooklyn. Homeowners Karen Shen and Kevin Costello will convert the former rooming house into a three family home while preserving and restoring period detail wherever possible. In Brooklyn, Norm meets veteran brownstone remodeling contractor Michael R. Streaman at a similar job down the street to see how he transformed one of these rooming houses into a beautiful, modern family home. Back at the project house, Streaman gets to work on demolition and also starts stripping the paint off the back of the house to prepare the brick for re-pointing and eventually the installation of new energy-efficient windows.
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It's three days after he played in what could be the final college basketball game of his career and Collin Pryor of St. Charles is back in the weight room at Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D.
"I'm big into the fitness thing," he said. "I'm big into working out and staying healthy. In the past five years, I've learned a lot about health and nutrition."
Pryor, a fifth-year senior who double majored in biology and psychology, has another reason for staying in shape.
He doesn't believe his basketball career is over.
"I have a bright future not only in academics, but athletics still," he said. "It's definitely an opportunity for me to go overseas and play professionally there."
The St. Charles East graduate, a 6-foot-6, 190-pound forward, thinks that option is even more realistic after a senior season at Northern State in which he averaged 16.2 points and 7.7 rebounds a game, both team highs. The Wolves finished the season 20-11 overall and 14-8 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, but it's virtually guaranteed they will not be selected to participate in the NCAA Division II national tournament.
"I think this was probably the best year from a team standpoint that we've had in five years," Pryor said, noting that it was the first 20-win season in his five years at the school.
Aberdeen is a town of 26,000 people near the North Dakota border. Pryor acknowledges there was "absolutely" some culture shock moving to a rural prairie village from the Chicago metro area, saying there was "definitely an adjustment process.
"As an 18-year-old, I came out here and I thought I had the world figured out, and I quickly learned that was not the case."
Pryor attracted the attention of Northern State at the beginning of his senior year at St. Charles East, thanks to a coaching acquaintance who knew an assistant coach at the university. But he also attracted the attention of NCAA Division I Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.
"Unfortunately, the head coach [Billy Taylor] left and took a job at Ball State," Pryor said. "That sort of fell through."
Dayton, another D-I school, also expressed interest.
"Again, that kind of fell through," Pryor said.
He said "There were some other D-II schools up in Michigan and a bunch of D-III schools," that he also considered, but "Northern State was definitely the school I had my eyes on I guess, and vice-versa."
The decision proved to be a good one for both parties. After redshirting his first year at the school, Pryor moved into the starting lineup as a freshman and averaged 10.8 points and 5.8 rebounds a game. As a sophomore, he was a first-team all-conference selection after averaging 15.2 points and 8.5 rebounds a contest.
He was slowed by a knee injury during his junior campaign, but bounced back strong this season, scoring a career-high 26 points in a victory over Minnesota-Moorhead. He also led the team in free-throw shooting, making 88 percent of his attempts. His play once again earned him first-team all-conference accolades.
"Five years – it goes by fast," Pryor reflected. "People tell you to take time to enjoy it and not to take any of it for granted and I definitely don't. … [But] it's not until you reach that final year that you gain that true appreciation."
Pryor doesn't know what town he will call home in a few months.
"I have applied to grad school at South Dakota State University. It's a couple of hours from here," he said. "If basketball doesn't work out, I'll go on and get my master's in athletic training, and we'll see where it goes from there."
• Dennis D. Jacobs writes the On Campus column for the Kane County Chronicle. To suggest a local college athlete worthy of recognition, email him at email@example.com.


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Rio Grande National Forest Again Sides with Developer in Wolf Creek Access Issue
The Rio Grande National Forest Supervisor, Dan Dallas, signed a Final Record of Decision that could result in an easement over our Federal Public Lands to facilitate construction of the massive "Village" at Wolf Creek. This decision circumvents a federal court ruling that invalidated prior approvals for this controversial real estate development. The "Village" at Wolf Creek, located atop Wolf Creek Pass, would house up to 10,000 people in as many as 2,000 housing units.
Read more: Rio Grande National Forest Again Sides with Developer in Wolf Creek Access Issue
Conservation Groups Cheer Court Decision Rejecting Village at Wolf Creek Land Exchange
A federal appeals court Tuesday dismissed the latest attempt from the would‐be developers of the Village at Wolf Creek to reinstate a land exchange rejected by a federal judge last year. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver dismissed the developer's appeal, based on a lack of appellate jurisdiction. The dismissal leaves in place the District Court's findings, as well as its invalidation of the land exchange. Conservation groups fighting to preserve the critical wildlife corridor and undeveloped character of Wolf Creek Pass cheered the decision, the latest in a long-‐running series of legal and political setbacks for this massive proposed development.
Read more: Conservation Groups Cheer Court Decision Rejecting Village at Wolf Creek Land Exchange
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Hello guardians of lands we hold sacred;
If the bombardment of 2018 is any indicator, it's no wonder that this request has been our first opportunity this year to rally member financial support for the SLV Ecosystem Council. Wow, what a journey it has been...
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Update on Wolf Creek
The San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council (SLVEC) is a 501C3 non-profit corporation incorporated in 1998 by a group of citizens concerned about impacts to public lands around the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.
We believe in the power of education, stewardship, community involvement and public advocacy. Our mission is to protect and restore the biological diversity, ecosystems, and natural resources of the Upper Rio Grande region, balancing ecological values with human needs.
We have organized several different working groups, including the Friends of Wolf Creek, LEAP-HIGH Water Quality, the Solar Working Group, and others, which include over 100 volunteers. SLVEC has over 400 members, who give what they can in money, time, or expertise. Because of their dedication and support, we have enjoyed many successes in helping to protect this beautiful area. We are very grateful to all of them.
Over a Decade of Dedication to Public Lands
San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council
Twenty Years of Dedication to Public Lands Integrity
- In 1998, SLVEC submitted a Citizen's Management Alternative (CMA). Approximately one-half of the 1.86 million acres of Rio Grande National Forest (RGNF) is now prescribed as either Back Country or Designated Wilderness.
- 1999, SLVEC organized, advocated and testified before Congress for the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Act of 2000 preserving the 100,000 acre former Baca Ranch, moving this pristine landscape into Public Land. The ranch is now part of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Baca National Wildlife Refuge, and a Baca Mountain Tract addition to National Forest.
- 2001-2004, SLVEC was appointed to the Great Sand Dunes NPS Management Plan Advisory Council by Interior Secretary Gayle Norton, pushing for recommendation of 50,000 acres of wilderness designation. Acquiring the mineral rights beneath the National Park will move this Wilderness recommendation forward.
- 2001-2003, SLVEC, in cooperation with Southern Rockies Conservation Alliance (SRCA) inventoried one-half million areas of Roadless Areas within Rio Grande National Forest (RGNF), using ground truthing forms for documentation and GIS/GPS points imbedded in photographs. Thousands of photos were taken linked to GPS.
- 2004-2005, SLVEC performs a BLM Rapid Assessment Inventory on ½ million acres of BLM roads for the SLV BLM Travel Management Plan and submitted a Citizens Management Alternative. A 51% road closure was recommended by BLM.
- 2005, SLVEC and Colorado Wild filed a lawsuit challenging the Rio Grande County Commissioners' decision on accepting the "Village at Wolf Creek" plat design, a proposed development of 2,122 units near the continental divide. District Judge Kuenhold agreed with the claim because there was no year round access to the land.
- 2006, SLVEC testified before Congress and the Rio Grande Natural Area Act was passed, designating 33 miles of Rio Grande Corridor, from the southern boundary of the Alamosa Wildlife Refuge to the New Mexico State line, extending protection for one-quarter mile from either bank of the river, under BLM jurisdiction.
- 2006, Judge Marcia Krieger agreed with an adjacent landowner and SLVEC lawsuit challenge of the Rio Ox-bow Land Exchange claiming that it was not in the public interest. This decision protected some of the few remaining public access points in the Upper Rio Grande. The case has also brought precedence regarding public/private land trades in Colorado to require an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
- 2006-2015, Colorado Wild and SLVEC challenged the Forest Service EIS decision granting access to "Village at Wolf Creek". In 2008 Supreme Court Justice Kane agreed with these claims, including the Forest Service narrowing the scope of the EIS. A variation of "Village at Wolf Creek" that includes a new land exchange scenario has been approved bu the Forest Service. SLVEC and associate enviro groups have filed a law suit to contest the Forest Service's decision. An agreement has been reached so that there will be no development until the suit is settled.
- 2005-2012, Water Quality Awareness Project, recipient of EPA Environmental Justice Community Problem-Solving and (CPS) received EPA CARE 1 Grant. Fewer than ten grants were awarded throughout the USA. SLVEC was recipient of the EPA Environmental Stewardship Award (2007) for organizing free household well testing in small communities throughout the SLV. Over 800 household wells have received this free well testing. SLVEC conducted Environmental Health Risk assessments within 13 communities of the SLV. The CARE Project set priorities based on community input and determined next steps for impacting environmental health issues. We also sent out 500 free radon test kits for people to test for this harmful gas within homes and buildings.
- 2006-2015, Challenge of Oil and Gas development within the SLV Baca National Wildlife Refuge, SLVEC spearheaded a legal challenge of Oil and Gas Drilling on the Baca National Wildlife Refuge because the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Process was being avoided. This case was settled with US Fish and Wildlife Service that would reguire a full NEPA process for any further exploration. We continue in our efforts to have the mineral rights transferred to the refuge, which would permanently protect the area.
- 2007, San Luis Hills and Flat Top Mesa, BLM lands in the central SLV slated for minerals leasing -Parcels withdrawn due to SLVEC actions.
- 2008, Mineral leasing offered on the Rio Grande National Forest and BLM lands-144,000 acres deferred indefintely because of SLVEC-promoted citizen input.
- 2010, Co-sponsored a Solar Workshop with other groups at SLV Rural Electric Coop in Monte Vista, CO to bring small businesses and communities together to discuss a community-scale solar siting process.
- 2011- 2015, San Francisco Creek, near Del Norte, CO -Application to Drill (APD) filed with Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) for 5,000 ft exploratory O & G Well by Hughes Oil. BLM releases EA in January 2014 giving OK for drilling to proceed under specific guidelines. SLVEC filed an official legal complaint in an effort to make the drilling comply with findings from an independent study. The study recommends sealing the drill bore all the way through any water bearing formations, which could run the entire depth of the proposed well. SLVEC asserts the protection of our agricultuarally-based industry by keeping the acquifers contaminent free.
- 2011, With Conejos County Clean Water taking the lead, SLVEC reached a settlement agreement regarding the Department of Energy (DOE) proposal for a low level Transwaste facility in Antonito. This transwaste transfer point has been withdrawn. The material was to originate from Los Alamos, NM. A site specific (NEPA) public process will have to be conducted if DOE decides to reopen this proposal.
- 2007-2015, The Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area (NHA), signed into law by President Obama in March 2009, establishes cultural, historical, and natural resource preservation and protection for the southern three counties within the San Luis Valley. The Great Sand Dunes Park and Preserve lands are included within the NHA. SLVEC has served for 6 years on the Board which has now finalyzed a Management Plan.
- 2011, Developed the San Luis Valley Renewable Energy Master Plan to infuse support of community based siting of solar installations.
- 2008-2015, SLVEC works with the public and monitors activity on BLM Solar Energy Zones (SEZ's) on 22,000 acres of land within the San Luis Valley
- 2011, Organized public comments challenging the Air Force Low Altitude Tactical Navigation (LATN) Flyovers, bringing together organizations and sharing information from Colorado and New Mexico constituencies. The proposed project spans 62,000 sq. miles and impacts 38 counties in some of Colorado's most remote backcountry. This proposal has been "postponed" indefininetly due to public outcry.
- 2011, Hosted three public education forums with the Transmission Line Coalition (TLC) concerning the a proposed high capacity transmission line over La Veta Pass, including bringing the utilities (Tri-State and Xcel) together for public discussion. SLVEC-supported public scrutiny of this proposal has resulted in the "postponement" of this project. In 2012, Xcel abandoned its participation in the line making its liklihood of further pursuit doubtful.
- 2011-2013, Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE). SLVEC spearheaded a regional effort to identify environmental health hazzards and opportunities, funded by a grant from the EPA. The San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council, in partnership with the public health departments around the Valley, local businesses, and community members worked to assess the environmental health of this region through education and community involvement,. The CARE Project worked with all six counties in the San Luis Valley, which are Alamosa, Costilla, Conejos, Rio Grande, Mineral and Saguache County. Phase I of the CARE project was completed in 2012 with the critical task of identifying healthy environment priorities for SLV communities completed.
23. 2013-2015, CARE- Indoor Air Quality is designed to build capacity (training and education) and provide service coordination to promote healthy indoor environments in primarily homes, schools and child care settings. We are educating school nurses and staff, home health care providers, health care professionals, student nurses and early childhood educators to, train, do outreach and/or demonstration projects that seek to reduce exposure of indoor air contaminants and asthma triggers (dust, mold, second hand smoke and smoke from wood burning stoves).
24. 2014-2015, 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act SLVEC sponsored and participated in many events that commemorated the creation of the National Wilderness System in 1964. Included were booths, public outreach and celebrations in art, music and poetry. We collaborated with federal agencies that manage Wilderness such as the Fish and Wildlife Service, National Forests, Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service.
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What is Map/Reduce and why are GATK tools called "walkers"?
One of the key challenges of working with next-gen sequence data is that input files are usually very large. We can't just make the program open the files, load all the data into memory and perform whatever analysis is needed on all of it in one go. It's just too much work, even for supercomputers.
Instead, we make the program cut the job into smaller tasks that the computer can easily process separately. Then we have it combine the results of each step into the final result.
Map/Reduce is the technique we use to achieve this. It consists of three steps formally called
map and
reduce. Let's apply it to an example case where we want to find out what is the average depth of coverage in our dataset for a certain region of the genome.
filterdetermines what subset of the data needs to be processed in each task. In our example, the program lists all the reference positions in our region of interest.
mapapplies the function, i.e. performs the analysis on each subset of data. In our example, for each position in the list, the program looks into the BAM file, pulls out the pileup of bases and outputs the depth of coverage at that position.
reducecombines the elements in the list of results output by the
mapfunction. In our example, the program takes the coverage numbers that were calculated separately for all the reference positions and calculates their average, which is the final result we want.
This may seem trivial for such a simple example, but it is a very powerful method with many advantages. Among other things, it makes it relatively easy to parallelize operations, which makes the tools run much faster on large datasets.
Walkers, filters and traversal types
All the tools in the GATK are built from the ground up to take advantage of this method. That's why we call them walkers: because they "walk" across the genome, getting things done.
Note that even though it's not included in the Map/Reduce technique's name, the
filter step is very important. It determines what data get presented to the tool for analysis, selecting only the appropriate data for each task and discarding anything that's not relevant. This is a key part of the Map/Reduce technique, because that's what makes each task "bite-sized" enough for the computer to handle easily.
Each tool has filters that are tailored specifically for the type of analysis it performs. The filters rely on traversal engines, which are little programs that are designed to "traverse" the data (i.e. walk through the data) in specific ways.
There are three major types of traversal: Locus Traversal, Read Traversal and Active Region Traversal. In our interval coverage example, the tool's filter uses the Locus Traversal engine, which walks through the data by locus, i.e. by position along the reference genome. Because of that, the tool is classified as a Locus Walker. Similarly, the Read Traversal engine is used, you've guessed it, by Read Walkers.
The GATK engine comes packed with many other ways to walk through the genome and get the job done seamlessly, but those are the ones you'll encounter most often.
Further reading
A primer on parallelism with the GATK
How can I use parallelism to make GATK tools run faster?
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If one was to, "...open the files, load all the data into memory and perform whatever analysis is needed on all of it in one go", how much memory would be needed??? What if there was up to 64 TB of cache???
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Missouri CourthousesContact and other information about this county is available on the National Association of Counties website, http://explorer.naco.org/.
When McDonald County was created in 1849, two communities, Rutledge and Maryville (which was later named Pineville), competed fiercely for the county seat. An 1850 confrontation in Rutledge resulted in death to three participants. About six years later a log courthouse, reportedly built in Rutledge, was demolished in one of the acts of hostility that continued to occur between the antagonistic factions.
From the time of organization in 1849 until winter of 1857, McDonald County operated with two courthouses and two sets of officials. The General Assembly appointed commissioners to select the legal county seat. They settled the matter by relocating the county seat at Pineville.
The first courthouse in Pineville, a one-story, frame building, built in 1858-59, measured 30 feet square and stood at the corner of Third and Main.
The next courthouse, a two-story, brick house built in 1861, was located on the city square site in Pineville. The Freemasons planned a third-story addition to this courthouse for their lodge room. Whether or not the third story was ever built remains a matter of conjecture, but J. A. Sturges, an attorney who came to McDonald County in 1881 and interviewed old-time residents of Pineville for his history, maintains it was built. Bushwackers burned the courthouse in 1863, destroying most records.
In November 1866 the court appointed a representative to rent rooms for county use and to sell the bricks and bats from the old courthouse. Roman Malach, a local historian, noted a payment of $25 made to Z. P. Cogswell for making plans and specifications for the new courthouse, begun in 1869. In December of the same year the court accepted the low bid of $4,949.50 from contractors Willis R. Cox and Zachariah Smith. Construction began in 1870 on a two-story, brick building measuring approximately 42 by 48 feet (Figure 1). The court accepted the building in June 1871. Sturges claimed the old courthouse was on the same plan; another source, 1849-1949, 100 Years of History and Progress, maintained that part of the 1861 building was in the 1870 building.
Figure 1McDonald County Courthouse, 1870-1978. (From: postcard, Trenton Boyd collection)
In 1905 the court made a $1,500 appropriation for an addition on the east to provide vaults; in 1943 the building was stuccoed and painted white. The courtroom was paneled, the ceiling lowered, and the room was rewired with new light fixtures in 1969.
The County Court bought a $10,000 lot north of the city square for the 20th century courthouse in 1977. Hood-Rich, architects and consulting engineers from Springfield, designed the one-story, 72-by-84-foot, masonry building. R. E. Smith Construction, Joplin, received the building contract in December 1977. Ground breaking took place Dec. 21, 1977 (Figure 2). The amount of space, 5,500 square feet, was about the same as in the old courthouse.
Figure 2McDonald County Courthouse, 1977-. Architects: Hood-Rich, architects and consulting engineers. (Courtesy: McDonald County News-Gazette)
The Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1977, as amended by the Public Works Employment Act of 1977, under the U.S. Department of Commerce, provided a grant of $145,000. Local contributions of about $20,000 completed the funds.
Dedication and open house were planned for July 1978 to coincide with Jesse James Days, when a festival air reigns throughout the town, with street dancing, music, a brush arbor wedding and a showing of the film Jesse James. In 1938 Twentieth Century Fox brought Tyrone Power, Randolph Scott and Henry Fonda to Pineville and the 1870 courthouse to shoot the Missouri epic. The occasion has been celebrated ever since. As one resident said, "It's the greatest thing that ever happened in McDonald County." The old courthouse, immortalized in the film, was leased for possible commercial development in 1980.
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OTTAWA — When Mira Dineen began gathering stories for the book Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins, her biggest surprise was how the poor "defied stereotyping."
The fourth-year Queen's University student expected she would be talking to people who had grown up in poverty. That was not the case. "People we spoke to really broke that mould," said Dineen.
"A lot of the people we spoke to ended up in poverty working minimum wage jobs or dependent on social assistance because of life circumstances that could really happen to anyone," she said at the Ottawa launch of the book at City Hall Jan. 26.
Circumstances precipitating poverty included: mental health illnesses, physical health issues, workplace accidents, or the breakup of a relationship, she said. Most had exhausted all their resources and were not able to find work.
The book, sponsored by the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition, (ISARC) a provincial interfaith body that receives funding from the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario, sent a team of volunteer interviewers into 26 cities and town across Ontario, she said.
Dineen, one of three co-authors, worked on the book as an internship for her global development studies at Queens. Having not been involved in poverty activism before, she called the work an "eye opener."
The goal of the project was "to consult the real poverty experts to get a sense of the lived experiences of poverty in Ontario," she said.
"Many are living in poverty," Dineen told a packed reception room at the Ottawa City Hall. "It could happen to anybody."
"With these projects we hope to give voice to those who are often ignored by politicians," she said. "I felt so honoured they were willing to tell their stories, stories of resilience and hope as well."
"It's a phenomenal re-telling of stories," said Sault Ste. Marie MP Tony Martin, a Catholic, who flew to Ottawa for the launch.
"We need to be telling these stories to our families and friends so they can know the real human dimension of poverty, the real tremendous need across this great country."
Martin spoke of the private member's bill last June, Bill C-545, which calls for a national anti-poverty strategy that would coordinate with what he called a growing movement for provincial and city-wide anti-poverty strategies. He called the book "one of the tools" for this movement.
Kat Fortin, who worked on the ISARC social audit for Ottawa, said she had special concerns for those with disabilities or those needing special diets for health reasons.
"I know people right now that can't get the help they need getting a special diet," she said. "They are going hungry, they can't just eat anything."
Christina Dib, who described herself as a "member of the working poor" said she was asked to tell her story for the book.
Dib works at a minimum wage job, as do her adult children who cannot afford to move out. She said they can't take the luxury of holidays. She knows she is overweight but she can't afford exercise classes or more expensive healthy foods.
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The book paints a picture of the destructive effect of poverty on relationships, when parents can't afford extra school fees or lessons for their children; on social life and work when the expense of travel confines them to their apartments; the demeaning treatment by social assistance case workers; and the rising cost of living that public assistance is not matching.


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The Ben & Jerry's ice cream HQ in Waterbury, Vermont, is beloved for a number of reasons. One is the quickity 30-minute tour, where you can see how all of those quirky flavors the company is known for come together. It also has a gift shop, natch, and perky employees, and other idiosyncratic touches that help make it one of the best known cold-treat brands on the planet.
But we're going to posit that somewhere in that famous factory there's a weather center, and within the weather center are ice cream-fueled meteorologists, wired on Chubby Hubby, predicting when the temperature will be just right for Free Cone Day, the annual Ben & Jerry's queue-up for a gratis goodie.
And, once again, the meteorologists behind the secret wall at Ben & Jerry's HQ have nailed it, at least in terms of Bay Area weather: Tuesday, April 8, which is Free Cone Day, will be perrrrfect ice cream weather.
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By Lady Ray Romano
Many people came away inspired from the San Antonio Area Foundation's "Assignment: Education" program, featuring Geoffrey Canada, a rock star of the education reform movement. Canada is best known for the Harlem Children's Zone, where he has engaged the community in transforming education in a 97-block, low-income area of New York City.
That March 20 event brought together people with differing viewpoints, but who share the common goal of helping our children succeed in school and changing the educational outlook for San Antonio. We hope to foster an ongoing conversation in our community so we all can work together toward that goal, but as individuals, we each have the opportunity to take action right now.
Most of us won't be founding projects like the Harlem Children's Zone, but there are many things we can do to make a difference in the lives of our young people and help them succeed right here in Bexar County.
We know that San Antonio can do better for our children. We know that we can do better than the data showing that in some areas of the city more than half of the adults did not graduate from high school. Or as Canada stresses, we can stop accepting a system in which it is assumed that some students simply aren't going to make it. And we can turn the situation around "one child at a time."
Changing lives through volunteering
One way many of us can get involved is by volunteering our time.
Did you know that SA2020, a community-wide effort to chart San Antonio's course for the next decade, has a volunteer component called SERVE SA? SERVE SA's Call to Service in Education is looking for more than 1,500 volunteers to help elementary students read at grade level, inspire and prepare middle school students for college and assist students with obtaining the financial aid they need to bring college within their reach:
- Inspire U is a mentoring program matching adult volunteers with middle and high school youth
- SAReads provides reading tutors with students by grade level and
- Student Aid Saturdays uses volunteers trained to aid high school seniors in completing state and federal financial aid forms.
Decide where you'd most like to serve and visit the SA2020 website .
The Volunteer Center at United Way is also a great resource for finding volunteer opportunities, including many that involve helping young people. More information is available online at this link.
Another place with a wealth of volunteer opportunities is Communities in Schools, an organization working since 1985 to address the city's high dropout rate. CIS knows how to put volunteers to work in many meaningful ways, including mentoring, tutoring, assisting in classrooms, serving as interns during college and partnering in other ways. For more information on Communities in Schools, visit CIS online.
Other ways to help include participating in school board meetings and adopting a school.
Business professionals can consider offering internship opportunities to help youth explore career opportunities.
Donating money
Another way to make a difference is to make financial donations to nonprofit organizations involved in helping youth to succeed in school and make positive lifestyle choices.
With that goal in mind, the San Antonio Area Foundation last year launched its High School Completion initiative. Based on research indicating that many students are at risk of disengaging from school during the middle school years, the Area Foundation began providing grants to Bexar County nonprofit organizations with effective out-of-school-time programs for middle school age students attending public schools. Find more information here.
Every person in this community has something to give, and if we all get involved in some way we will significantly change the lives of our children and grandchildren.
Lady Ray Romano is Vice President for Grants and Programs at the San Antonio Area Foundation.


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Newcastle all-but secured the Coca-Cola Championship title as
Kevin Nolan's brace gave them a 2-1 victory at Reading.
Nolan struck twice before the break to take his tally to 18 for the season and put Chris Hughton 's side nine points clear of second-placed West Brom with just three games left.
The Magpies also boast a superior goal difference so have one hand on the Championship trophy, but will need to make sweeping changes if they are to survive next season if this display is anything to go on.
Newcastle made a sloppy start but they took the lead in the 20th minute with their first real attack.
Goalkeeper Steve Harper sent a long ball forward which was helped on by Shola Ameobi to Nolan on the left-hand side of the penalty area. The former Bolton man showed great strength to hold off his marker before firing in an early left-foot shot which Adam Federici got a hand to but could not keep out.
It was Nolan's fourth goal in as many games this month and it energised the Magpies. Wayne Routledge should have made it two moments later but he stabbed wide after collecting Danny Guthrie 's fine pass.
Reading regained the initiative after that however and controlled possession for the rest of the half without testing Harper. And they were made to pay when Nolan doubled his tally in the 42nd minute.
Again the goal came from nothing as Guthrie won the ball in midfield, ran in on goal and slid in Routledge who was overlapping on the right. Routledge delivered the perfect first-time cross for Nolan to volley in from no more than six yards.
Reading forced a flurry of corners and pulled a goal back in chaotic fashion in the 72nd minute. Shane Long had a header well saved, the ball ran free in the six-yard box and Jose Enrique smashed his clearance against Simpson, only to see the ball loop in.
Brian McDermott's side pushed on in search of an equaliser but Newcastle were able to see out the victory despite seven minutes of added time after Reading midfielder Brynjar Gunnarsson was carried off with a nasty-looking head injury.


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Scrum Sevens
Fly by night
ESPNscrum Staff
February 3, 2011
Don't be fooled by the smile: Anton Oliver during his time with Toulon © Getty Images
Olly Barkley Rupeni Caucaunibuca Christian Cullen Jonah Lomu Anton Oliver Mikaela Pesamino Andre Pretorius
Well, that didn't work out quite as planned. Gavin Henson has left Saracens, almost as abruptly as he arrived, and joined Toulon as he seeks a recall to the Wales squad prior to the Rugby World Cup. Detractors may scoff, but the centre has plenty of company in the pantheon of transfers that didn't stay the course. We've compiled some notable breakdowns in our latest Scrum Seven.
Anton Oliver - Toulon
The thinking man's rugby player, Oliver took a lucrative deal with second division Toulon in 2007 in the wake of New Zealand's crushing exit from the Rugby World Cup at the hands of France. Having used vivid First World War imagery in his account of the pervading feeling in the All Blacks' dressing room after the game it was little surprise that life in the south of France did not appeal to the former Otago hooker, who described his final All Black game as the end of his rugby life. "I knew that night my life as a rugby player was finished," he said in an interview with The Times. "Full stop. Leaving the All Blacks is a bit like leaving the Mafia. When you leave, you leave. You're gone. You're not coming back, mate. Football boots removed, concrete boots go on. That's it. No more." With money the only reason to extend his stay - a reported €250,000 offer for a season in the Top 14 - Oliver retired from rugby and took up a place at Oxford to study an MSc in biodiversity, conservation and management, playing opposite Wallabies lock Dan Vickerman in the 2008 Varsity Match.
Jonah Lomu - Cardiff Blues
The legendary All Black became a crowd favourite at the Arms Park during his short spell with the Blues and delighted the home faithful with a debut try against Newport-Gwent Dragons in a festive derby in 2005. It was soon apparent however that the great man was a shadow of his former self following a kidney transplant and the view from the stands quickly became one of hope rather than expectation when the ball found its way to his wing. Lomu was unfortunate to suffer a broken ankle in a league game against the now defunct Borders, ending his time in Wales early and also, as it turned out, his career at the sharp end.
Christian Cullen - Munster
One of the game's most electrifying runners and a good shout as the greatest fullback of all time, Cullen's career fizzled out at Munster rather than reaching a crescendo. The All Black headed to Limerick in 2003, having fallen out with All Blacks boss John Mitchell, but his time there was wrecked by injury. A serious shoulder problem, coupled with knee and ankle complaints, limited his involvement from the off and he became a frustrating figure for sections of the home support. Cullen eventually called it quits after signing for a fourth year at Thomond Park and returned to New Zealand, where his legacy remains intact. "I have loved every minute of my time in Ireland - apart from the injuries," he said. "The club and supporters have been terrific to me but I can't help feeling that I have let them down. When I signed in 2003 I felt like I could reproduce the type of performances I was able to put on for the All Blacks but three shoulder operations put paid to that."
Olly Barkley - Gloucester
Barkley's one-year stint with Gloucester proved that, for some, there's no place like home. Having made his bow for Bath in 2001, the move to their west country rivals was a surprising one and also left a serious dent in their attacking arsenal. During his time at The Rec, Barkley had amassed 1538 points in 164 appearances, but failed to hit his straps after decking out in Cherry and White. A frustrating first season at Kingsholm resulted in 19 league appearances and over 100 points, but the feeling was not the same for the England international and he quickly swung into a u-turn and returned to his former stomping ground. "I have come to realise over this past season that Bath is really where my heart is and I feel that while I gave it my best shot at Gloucester, it is right, for me personally, to return to Bath," he said.
Andre Pretorius - Western Force
The unluckiest man on this list, Pretorius' move from the Lions to Western Force in 2010 never got off the ground. A member of South Africa' Rugby World Cup-winning squad in 2007, the fly-half was signed by the Perth franchise as a marquee overseas player, with the intention of filling the gap left by the Brumbies-bound Matt Giteau. Unfortunately for them, Pretorius didn't get the chance to play a minute of competitive rugby for the franchise after he tore his left hamstring from the bone in training weeks before the start of the Super 14 season. He was ruled out for the entire campaign following surgery, leaving the Force to muddle along with a combination of Mark Batholomeusz, James O'Connor and veteran Kiwi David Hill at No.10.
Rupeni Caucaunibuca - Agen
Across two spells with French side Agen, 'Caucau' proved equally adept at creating chaos off the field as on it. The club missed their star player, on his day one of the game's great entertainers, for large parts of his time there, with tropical viruses, lost passports and a ban for testing positive for cannabis all playing their part. He was released in 2008 but subsequently re-signed to help the side into the Top 14 in 2009-10. He failed to appear for pre-season training - having turned out for Fiji against Australia over the summer - and was finally shown the door by the management, who could no longer 'trust' him. The winger was later picked up by European champions Toulouse as a 'medical joker'.
Mikaele Pesamino - Sale Sharks
Compared to Pesamino, Henson's stay at Sarries may as well have traversed an ice age. Former Sharks head coach Mike Brewer announced the signing of the IRB Sevens Player of the Year in July 2010 but as yet he has failed to arrive at the club, due to a combination of visa issues and a reported failure to sit a mandatory English exam. With Brewer having now been shown the door at Edgeley Park, it appears doubtful that the flyer will ever lace up a pair of boots for the club. "The situation with Mikaele is that it was left with Mike Brewer to deal with the player's agents," head coach Pete Anglesea told the Manchester Evening News. "It's one of those situations where it has been on, then it's been off, then it's been on and then off again. To be honest, I never really knew what the stumbling block with it was but if it's a case of him having any doubts then he shouldn't come."
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Bushwood CC is proud to bring you the second installment in our 3 interview series with contestants from this year's Big Break. Today, we will be talking to a multi-talented native of Macomb, Illinois who fled the wintry Midwest for sunny Arizona at the tender age of two ! Guys, I gotta tell you, she is so pretty it will make your eyes blur - AND she can probably smoke it past you off the first tee - so get ready to be impressed, informed, and maybe a little intimidated !
Before we get started with the interview, I am psyched to tell you that Blair is partnering with Bushwood CC on our FIRST prize giveaway - Here is how it works: Just send an email to email@example.com before May 7th, 2009. The winner (to be chosen at random) will receive their choice of one of the autographed items from the "Pro Shop" section of Blair's website. While you are there, feel free to browse around and buy some stuff - it goes to a great cause, supporting Blair's efforts to make it on tour.
And now, please give a HUGE Bushwood Country Club welcome to the lovely Blair O'Neal. (applause is deafening...)
Cash: Hi, Blair, it's awesome to have you here at Bushwood Country Club's 19th hole. Thanks for making time for us.
Blair: Thanks for inviting me – I know that this chair is a special place, so I feel privileged to be here with you.
Cash; Sweet, well, I know the word is getting out that BCC is the happenin' place to be – we had to turn down Spencer (and Heidi) last week, because our standards are pretty damn high. Anyway, enough about us, lets talk about you. You are quite a tall drink of water – you look like a model or something…
Blair: Well, I am 5'10" tall, and actually I AM a model. A little shameless self promotion here, if you do not mind – check me out at www.blairgolf.com
Cash: Nothing wrong with self promotion….we have collected some questions from the members here at Bushwood – do you feel like opening up a bit with us ?
Blair: No problem, but can you get me something to drink. Um, and don't try the "apple juice trick" like you did on the eTrade baby, ok. I've been to more than one rodeo,cowboy...
Cash: Um, you, uh..., heard about that ??? Ok, No prob – here is a bottle of water. (see what I mean, fellas !) Ok, Blair, lets tee it up…
- Tell us a little about yourself – age, hometown, where you live now, college, etc. I'm 27 years old and live in Scottsdale, AZ. I played collegiately for 4 years at ASU, and loved every minute of it. I grew up in Tempe, so ASU was something that I always had a strong affinity for. As you mentioned earlier, I was born in Macomb, Illinois. Right now, in addition to working really hard on my golf game, I am also modeling and going on casting calls.
- Tell us about your time at ASU ? ASU was an incredible experience. When I was growing up, I always wanted to go there and play golf. One of my early goals was to be recruited for the golf team and receive a scholarship to play there. I always dreamed of playing golf at ASU because they had a great program and one of the best coaches in the country, Linda Vollstedt. My favorite memories of ASU are (1) getting recruited to play there, (2) going to NCAA nationals EVERY year, and (3) winning the long drive contest !
- What are your goals for 2009 ? My goals for 2009 are to play in as many competitive events as possible (Cactus Tour, Duramed Futures Tour, etc) and to go to LPGA Q school at the end of the year. I will be working very hard on my game, and am on the lookout for sponsors to support me in this effort. As you know, the purses are not large on the developmental tours, so every dollar really counts!
- What part of your game are you working the hardest on ? I am really paying particular attention to my short game and the mental side of golf. I have always hit the ball pretty far, and with good accuracy. To better my tournament scores, I have got to really perfect the scoring part of the game inside 100 yards.
- How were you introduced to golf ? I started pretty young – I hit my first ball at 11, and was playing tournaments by the time I was 13. My Dad is a golfer, and when I was 11, he put my brother and me in a junior golf clinic. I loved it IMMEDIATELY. When we finished the clinic, Dad could see the gleam in my eyes, so he got me started with lessons and I have been hooked ever since that time.
- What's in your bag ? Well, right now I am playing PING – and the folks at Ping (an Az. based company) have been very nice to me over the years. I play the Ping ISI blade irons, a G2 driver (I know it's old, but I love it), Ping tour wedges, and a Ping Anser putter. I took some time off of competing the last couple of years, so I will be updating some of my equipment this year. I play the Titleist Pro V1 ball.
- So we have to ask, How do YOU mark your Titleist ? I mark my Pro V1 with two dots above the name on the ball – my colors change. Sometimes, I get balls with the ASU logo – I love Sparky!
- Tell us about your work with Play Golf Designs – what is involved in that ? Play Golf Designs is a really cool outfit – first class all the way. I've worked with Nisha there for a little over two years, and played in 3 events with them. The coolest was a Broadcasters Association Tournament in CT – there were tons of former pro athletes there – I remember playing a Par 3 with Ahmad Rashad and several others – very memorable stuff. I like working with PGD because it fits well with my schedule, and provides a unique opportunity to interact with people who really care about golf.
- How many holes in one do you have in your career ? I have only had one ace in my career ! I was playing a practice round in college, and hit a 6 iron into a long, uphill par 3 with an elevated green. I'm waiting for my hole in one during a tournament round!
- OK, now for a personal question – since you won the long drive contests in college, how far do you hit your driver ? I average about 275 - 280 off the tee. I have always hit the ball a long way, and this really helps my game.
- Who would be in your dream foursome and why ? Hmmmm – Tiger, my Dad, and My Grandfather. I never got to play golf with my grandfather – he played back home in Illinois and was a great golfer. His name was Robert O'Neal, and I've heard stories about how he loved to play in tournaments… so I think that would be a good group!
- Favorite sports other than golf ? Growing up I was very involved in dance (ballet,tap,cheer,etc). I basically gave it up so I could focus on improving my golf game. In high school, I did one year of track… but it was really just for fun. Now, I enjoy yoga, lifting weights, and I LOVE hiking up Camelback Mountain right here in the valley of the sun. I also enjoy going to basketball and hockey games. (Editor's note – little known fact – Blair was the STAR player for one of the teams in the Lingerie Bowl)
- Favorite athlete ? Tiger is my favorite athlete – his focus and ability to execute under pressure is an incredible motivator.
- What frustrates you the most ? Hmmmm, I'd say all that's incolved in getting sponsors for a player like me is one of the most frustrating things for me – I really really want to place 110% of my focus on improving my game, and not worry about how I am going to get the funding to support my pursuit of making the LPGA tour. Entry fees and travel expenses add up very quickly. (Hint to prospective sponsors – Blair is a sharp, smart, articulate, attractive, and imminently likable person. This is someone to take a long, hard look at !)
- What makes you smile ? I smile all the time, and love to laugh ! Although nothing makes me smile like hitting a great golf shot.
- What's on your IPOD ? A mix, really. I really love music – currently there is a Black Eyed Peas song called "Boom Boom Pow" that I cannot get out of my head. I like up-tempo music.
- What's your take on the whole "new media / Web 2.0" thing ? I am pretty technologically forward thinking - It is a great way to establish and promote your personal brand, and to connect with people - fans and friends. I am on Facebook and Twitter, and have a pretty cool website as well.
Blair: You are welcome - it was great spending time with you - this is a REALLY nice place you have here.
Cash: Nothing but the finest here at Bushwood - since Judge Smails went to that great bunker in the sky and left us his millions, we are rolling in a fat way ! We are super excited to welcome you as a member of Bushwood Country Club, and like all new members, your Bushwood CC t-shirt is on the way to you. Don't forget to send us a pic of you sporting it, ok ?
Blair: I promise to wear it with pride and humor, er, honor, and always uphold the values and virtues of Bushwood...
For more info on Blair O'Neal be sure to check out the upcoming season (premiering April 20th) of TGC's "Big Break PEI" - Blair is sure to be a hit with everyone. You can also find Blair online at www.blairgolf.com, or on Twitter @blairalana.


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Conservation biologist Stuart Pimm reports from Patagonia near the tip of South America on how dedicated colleagues are re-wilding former sheep ranches. Their vision is to create a Yosemite-size national park that protects temperate grasslands for indigenous animals and plants.
Culpeo fox photograph by Stuart L. Pimm
By Stuart L. Pimm
Special contributor to NatGeo News Watch
Patagonia, Chile–It's nearly midnight when I arrive, but it's only just got dark. I look at the sky. Orion is the wrong way up. His "sword," and the famous nebula it contains, point directly upwards. Although it's January–high summer–it's cold.
I savor the novel sensations. I've never seen the night sky so alarmingly upside down before.
The scenery we passed on the seven-hour drive was spectacular–and snow-covered. Warm, humid and generally flat forests are my regular haunts in South America.
One reason I'm in such an unfamiliar place is a striking, if prosaic, statistic.
Background: It's 2010–the International Year of Biodiversity. The nations of the world have committed to protect 10 percent of their land surface as national parks (or similar), under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
According to a recent publication in the journal Biology Conservation from two colleagues, Drs. Clinton Jenkins and Lucas Joppa, the world's nations have done better than that on average–nearly 13 percent is now under protection of some kind. Devils are in the details.
Some biomes–Earth's broad kinds of habitats–have done better than others. None has done worse than temperate grasslands. Of the ten million square kilometers this biome covers worldwide–that's about the size of the U.S. lower 48 states–only 4 percent is protected, and only half of that is well-protected. That's the statistic.
Put simply, grasslands are in deep trouble.
The main reason I'm in Chile is to meet Kris Tompkins. With her husband Doug, she has protected more land than any other private individual–almost one million hectares (two million acres). Most of that land is temperate grassland.
Next morning, we're off and head towards the nearby border with Argentina. She stops as we cross a ridge.
It's not just the distant mountains with a fresh dusting of snow that are lovely. The valley has flowers and lush, tall grass, and, for as far as I can see, herds of guanacos.
Photograph of guanacos in grasslands by Stuart L. Pimm
Kris seems to catch her breath. It's a sight that could be from an imagined movie — "Pleistocene Park," let's call it.
That this scene might have been as fictional as one with dinosaurs in it has everything to do with how humanity uses grasslands.
Generally, we evict the native herbivores and substitute cattle or sheep. "Abuse" would be a better verb. On over two thirds of the world's drylands–the half of the planet that is too dry for trees–overstocked livestock have massively reduced the land's productivity.
Kris removed tens of thousands of sheep. The grass came back, covering the large areas of bare earth the sheep's hooves had created.
The grass was now tall enough to seed out, where it had once been nibbled to within inches of the ground. With the grass, the guanacos can back. And with them, mountain lions. The lakes were thick with swans, geese, ducks, coots–and flamingos with pink knee-caps.
Photograph by Stuart L. Pimm
We drove on, Kris telling us that she'd camped here, then over there, and so on along the valley into the more open grasslands, as we approached Argentina.
Technically, all this was her property. But both she and Doug devote their efforts to creating what will eventually become the Patagonia National Park. As such, it will belong to the people of Chile–and all who want to visit it.
They had founded Conservacion Patagonica, a nonprofit, to establish a "world-class national park" that would span the land between two huge lakes, Lago General Carrera and Lago Cochrane. It would be nearly as large as Yosemite in California.
I asked Kris: "Why here? What makes you so passionate about this place?"
In this video Stuart Pimm talks to Kris Tompkins, who with her husband Doug, has acquired and re-wilded almost one million hectares (two million acres) of former sheep ranches in Chile. Their hope is to create a Yosemite-size national park that protects Patagonia's grassland animals and plants.
Video by Stuart L. Pimm
"People protect the places that they love and to love it you have to identify with it. Big, open wild, unpopulated Patagonia has always appealed to me greatly," Kris said.
"Once you get involved in protecting something that means so much to you, your relationship with that place changes forever–in ways that are unspeakable, un-describable, really. I feel very fortunate to be doing this.
"What do you hope to accomplish," I continued.
"The re-wilding of the Patagonia region. To bring some balance between human use, landscapes, and habitats that are fully flourishing. That requires all the inhabitants of that landscape to be intact and evolving in their natural way–which today they are not. All those things are possible to restore, if you work fast and work smart."
Photograph by Stuart L. Pimm
What do you think people will think of you and Doug a hundred years from now?
"I hope people will say they loved wild things. Wild nature. And they gave it a shot to bring that into its rightful place. That they brought the human and non-human world if not into harmony, but into at least a truce. And that we participated in that effort.
"I want to leave a legacy that we loved land."
Photograph of Patagonia Mountains by Stuart L. Pimm
Professor Stuart L. Pimm is a conservation biologist at Duke University, North Carolina. A former member of the National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration, Pimm is the author of dozens of books and research papers, including the book "The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth."
Read earlier blog posts by Stuart Pimm>>


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Hardee's Counters McDonald's Free Chicken Biscuit Promotion with a Challenge
May 21, 2008
"Chicken Biscuit Challenge" Offers Money-Back Guarantee
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – May 16, 2008 – The folks at Hardee's are pretty cocky about their Chicken Fillet Biscuit. Confidant enough to announce that they will give every customer who doesn't agree that their Chicken Fillet Biscuit is the best a full refund of the purchase price. The "Chicken Biscuit Challenge" runs until June 30 and was announced today in full-page newspaper ads throughout Hardee's markets.
"Hardee's was the first fast-food chain in America to offer Made From Scratch™ buttermilk biscuits way back in 1972 and we have been selling a Chicken Fillet Biscuit in all of our restaurants in the South for almost as long," said Brad Haley, EVP of Marketing for Hardee's. "So, when some 'Johnny-Come-McLately' tries to tout the goodness of their much smaller chicken biscuit, we thought it was appropriate to let the consumer decide who makes the best one," Haley added. "We're confident that we won't be paying out on very many money-back guarantees because our Chicken Fillet Biscuits aren't just 'Southern-style' like the other guy's, they are real Southern biscuits."
The Chicken Fillet Biscuit features a 4 oz. seasoned and buttermilk-battered chicken breast fillet served on a fresh, Made From Scratch buttermilk biscuit. It is sold at participating restaurants for $2.99 alone or $4.59 for a small combo with crispy hash rounds and a beverage. Prices may vary.
Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter ended Jan. 28, 2008, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,067 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 13 countries, including 1,141 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,926 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.


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From the Associated Press
By GARY D. ROBERTSON
Associated Press
The North Carolina Democratic Party chairman said Monday that he will name a new interim executive director later this week, and it appears former national NAACP leader Benjamin Chavis is his choice.
Chairman Randy Voller told fellow Democrats in an email he�ll announce a replacement Wednesday for Robert Dempsey, who Voller confirmed was fired Sunday.
Patsy Keever, the party�s first vice chairwoman, said she disagreed with Dempsey�s firing and believed he was doing a good job. Keever said Voller told her Sunday night that Chavis was his choice to succeed Dempsey.
When asked earlier Monday if Chavis was his pick, Voller responded he had �no comment at this point.� But he said in his email to Democrats that the choice would mark �the return of a North Carolina native and national leader.�
�Our intent is to have a Democratic revival in the state of North Carolina,� Voller said in the interview.
Chavis told The Associated Press in an email that �as a native of North Carolina, I strongly support and share the leadership vision of Chairman Randy Voller and the N.C. Democratic Party.� He did not respond specifically to the question about whether he would become the next executive director.
Voller said any replacement would be an interim choice and need the approval of the party�s 40-plus-member executive council to become permanent.
Chavis is an Oxford native who has mostly stayed out of North Carolina politics and social activism in the state until recently. He was a member of a group wrongly convicted of firebombing a Wilmington grocery store in 1971. He served about five years in jail and prison before his release. Then-Gov. Beverly Perdue pardoned Chavis and other members of the �Wilmington 10� in late 2012.
In 1993, Chavis, then a minister in the United Church of Christ, was named executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was fired in 1994 after admitting that he used NAACP funds to settle a sexual discrimination case against him without consulting the board. He converted to Islam and helped organize the Million Man March in 1995. Chavis also has been a leader, with Russell Simmons, of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network.
Chavis endorsed Voller when Voller ran for the party chairmanship last year. Voller narrowly defeated his rival in the party�s election. A vocal bloc of activists has criticized Voller�s leadership and tried unsuccessfully to remove him from the job. Voller also has faced questions about some business-related tax debt and a party fundraising trip.
Voller wouldn�t give further details about the circumstances for terminating Dempsey, whom Voller helped pick while leading a search committee last spring, saying it was a personnel matter. The executive director serves at the chairman�s pleasure. Dempsey wasn�t talking Monday. Party spokesman Micah Beasley resigned late Monday �in light of recent events,� he said in a one-sentence letter to Voller.
Dempsey�s dismissal is the latest in a string of public troubles for the state Democratic Party that reach back to before Voller arrived in early 2013. The party is trying to rebound after losing the General Assembly to Republicans in 2010 and the governor�s office in 2012 to GOP Gov. Pat McCrory.
Voller tried to calm the party faithful in Monday�s email, saying that on Monday morning the doors of the party headquarters �opened as usual for the business of electing Democrats to serve the people of North Carolina.�
The Democrats underwent internal turmoil in 2012 when a male employee accused party executive director Jay Parmley of sexual harassment. Parmley resigned from his job but denied the allegations. Top Democratic elected officials called on then-Chairman David Parker to resign. He offered his resignation in May, but a majority of party regulars declined to accept it.
Parker didn't seek another two-year term in 2013.


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== Upcoming libraries ==
== Upcoming libraries ==
Revision as of 07:14, 4 June 2013
Use pipes to create elegant streaming programs within Haskell. Build streaming components and connect them them together to process both events and data.
Pipes is the official Hackage category for the pipes ecosystem.
The pipes package is the core library which emphasizes:
- Elegance and Simplicity
- Speed
- Lightweight dependencies
The pipes library offers many unique features not available in other streaming libraries:
- Bidirectional streams
- Extension framework
- Elegant ListT interconversions
- Correctness proofs for the entire library
Read the official pipes tutorial to learn more.
Source code hosted on GitHub
The pipes-safe package adds resource management and exception safety to the pipes ecosystem. pipes-safe offers many high-level features such as:
- Complete exception safety, including asynchronous exceptions
- Termination safety
- Resources are freed in reverse order of acquisition
Additionally, pipes-safe is the only streaming library that provides truly native exception handling, allowing you to seamlessly handle exceptions and resume uninterrupted streaming.
Read the official pipes-safe tutorial to learn more.
Source code hosted on GitHub
The pipes-concurrency package adds powerful and light-weight concurrency primitives to the pipes ecosystem. Use these primitives to:
- Build reactive event-driven programs
- Merge and split streams
- Communicate between multiple concurrent pipelines
- Manage multiple resources simultaneously
The pipes-concurrency library offers several features unavailable in other streaming libraries such as:
- Deadlock safety
- Cyclic communication graphs
- Dynamically changing graph topologies
Read the official pipes-concurrency tutorial to learn more.
Source code hosted on GitHub
The pipes-parse package defines the generic machinery necessary for common parsing tasks using pipes:
- Detect and handle end of input
- Save unused input for later steps
- Mix proxies with different leftover buffers using lenses
- Nesting and delimiting parsers to a subset of the input
- Interruptible and resumable parsing
Read the official pipes-parse tutorial to learn more.
Source code hosted on GitHub
Community-contributed libraries
The pipes-attoparsec library converts attoparsec parsers to pipes for high-performance incremental parsing.
Source code hosted on GitHub
The pipes-network library converts server and client sockets to pipes to seamlessly stream data over any network.
Source code hosted on GitHub
The pipes-network-tls allows streaming through TLS-secured network connections, exposing a similar API to the one exposed by pipes-network.
Source code hosted on GitHub
The pipes-zlib enables compression and decompression of strict ByteString streams using the zlib codec.
Source code hosted on GitHub
Besides the usual Haskell community channels such as the official mailing lists or the Haskell subreddit, you can ask for help, suggest improvements, or discuss about the Pipes ecosystem at the "haskell-pipes" mailing list at Google Groups.
In chronological order.
- pipes-1.0.0: The original announcement, which first introduced the concept of unifying sources and sinks and transducers into a single Category.
- pipes-2.0.0: The introduction of Frames, later deprecated in favor of pipes-safe.
- pipes-2.1.0: Transition of Frames to indexed monads, later deprecated in favor of pipes-safe.
- pipes-2.3.0: The introduction of bidirectional Proxies, which evolved into modern pipes.
- pipes-2.4.0: The release of the proxy transformer extension system.
- pipes-2.5.0: Major performance improvements.
- pipes-3.0.0: Major API simplification and consolidation.
- pipes-safe-1.0.0: Resource safety and exception management
- pipes-network-0.1.0: Use TCP network sockets as pipes streams.
- pipes-3.2.0: ListT integration, Codensity proxy transformer, and ArrowChoice primitives.
- pipes-concurrency-1.0.0: Concurrency support for pipes
- pipes-zlib-0.2.0.0: Zlib compression/decompression support for pipes
- pipes-network-tls-0.1.0.0: Stream through TLS-secured network connections.
- pipes-parse-1.0.0: Pushback, delimited parsers, resumable parsing, and lenses
- pipes-attoparsec-0.2.0.0: New API, interleaved parsing support, built on top of pipes-parse.
Upcoming libraries
- pipes-string: Bytestring and Text support
- pipes-free: Pipe suspension and single-stepping pipes
- pipes-attoparsec: Improve the current pipes-attoparsec library by relying on the upcoming pipes-parse for interleaved parsing support.