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The onesie tells all! Josh Duhamel has revealed that he and his wife, Fergie, are expecting a baby boy.
The "Scenic Route" star, appearing on "Live! With Kelly and Michael," spilled the beans in a short segment that will air Wednesday. In the brief teaser, hosts Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan have coaxed the actor into a game of "Du or Don't Part II: Baby Edition" and ask him to choose between two onesies: pink or blue.
The couple, who announced the pregnancy last February, had yet to share their child's gender with the public. After working up the studio audience on "Live!" Duhamel snatched the "Kelly & Michael"-branded blue onesie from Ripa's left hand and proudly held it up for the cameras.
So ... it's a boy! The babylicious little guy is said to be due in late August or early September.
Pop star Fergie, 38, whose real name is Stacy Ann Ferguson, officially changed her last name to Duhamel on July 10, People reported. The couple have been married since 2009 and wanted to ensure that their family would share one surname, the site said.
"Right now, we're just fascinated by the whole idea there's a baby growing inside of her," Duhamel told The Times last March. "We're fascinated by every stage of its development at this point. We're already feeling a real connection to it. This is what I was meant to do, and we're both really, really excited about the whole thing.
And the dad-to-be is already growing very attached to his expanding family.
"I can't imagine having a kid and then not being able to be there — that would just drive me crazy. My head would be at home with Mom and baby," Duhamel recently told ET Canada. "We want to work it out so that we can be together; whether I am working, they can come with [me] or if she is working I can go with them. I can't see myself ever wanting to be away from my wife and kid."
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Krejci scores in OT to lift Bruins past Hurricanesby Matt Kalman
BOSTON -- Home ice continued to be kind to the Boston Bruins. The road continued to be difficult for the Carolina Hurricanes.
David Krejci scored 1:28 into overtime after Jarome Iginla led the rush into the Hurricanes zone, and the Bruins improved to 6-0-2 in their past eight games at TD Garden with a 3-2 win Saturday afternoon.
Iginla drew two defensemen to him as he drove down the right wing, and Carolina goaltender Cam Ward moved out toward his left in anticipation of a shot. Instead, Iginla passed to Krejci in the slot. The Boston center dangled until Ward went down, then roofed the game-winning shot.
"It was basically all [Iginla]," Krejci said. "It was like 1-against-2. He split the D. I didn't think he saw me, but he did. And I kind of had it easy, an easy job, to put it in a half-open net."
The Hurricanes (8-10-5) picked up their first point in six road games, but they are winless in their past six away from home and in their past four overall (0-3-1). The Bruins (15-6-2) are 1-0-1 through two games of a three-game homestand and 2-0-0 against Carolina this season.
Krejci, Iginla and Milan Lucic, who make up the Bruins' top line, had been limited to two goals (one into an empty net) and one assist in the past five games. Krejci hadn't scored a point in any of those games. Lucic had an assist on a power-play goal by Zdeno Chara in the first period.
"I felt like the last game against [the St. Louis Blues] we played pretty good," Krejci said of the Bruins' 3-2 shootout loss Thursday. "We had some chances. Obviously we didn't score. It gets kind of frustrating. But we kind of stayed positive, and today we got a couple goals from our line. Hopefully it was a breakthrough for our line and we can be putting the puck in the net more often."
Prior to the overtime goal, Bruins defenseman Johnny Boychuk took possession of the puck in the Boston zone after forward Carl Soderberg and Hurricanes center Jordan Staal fell in the corner. Carolina coach Kirk Muller was not pleased Soderberg wasn't called for a penalty.
"We had a guy tripped up in the corner," Muller said. "I mean, we lose a guy. We lose a guy and he goes down, let's call a spade a spade. Lose a guy, it's 4-on-3, they come down, they execute and make a nice play. But we lose a guy in the corner, there is going to be a breakdown when a guy goes down like that."
The first period didn't start well for Carolina defenseman Andrej Sekera. He blocked a Shawn Thornton slap shot and had to be helped off the ice at 3:12. He wasn't gone long, however, and returned in time to make sure the Hurricanes' first power play was a success.
With Soderberg off for hooking, Sekera took a wrist shot from the blue line that went past no fewer than four bodies and eluded Chad Johnson at 5:53 for a 1-0 Carolina lead. It was the Hurricanes' first power-play goal in four games after they went 0-for-12 in their prior three.
The Bruins outshot the Hurricanes 6-0 before the power play. By the time of Sekera's goal, shots were 7-6, Boston. It took a double-minor for high sticking against Manny Malhotra to get the Bruins' offense into full gear.
Chara swept a rebound of a Lucic shot into the back of the net at 14:49 to tie the game 1-1. The Bruins went to the first intermission with a 14-6 advantage in shots on goal.
Carolina went 22:43 without a shot on goal from near the midpoint of the first period until well into the second. The Bruins outshot Carolina 12-4 in the second period and held a 26-10 advantage through 40 minutes. Johnson held up his end of the bargain in Boston's net, and Reilly Smith gave the Bruins a 2-1 lead with a goal at 13:31.
Soderberg's pass from between the hash marks to the front of the net hit the skate of Hurricanes defenseman Tim Gleason and deflected to Smith, who cut across the slot and beat Ward with a backhander to the short side.
The Hurricanes showed their most jump offensively in the early stages of the third period. Carolina closed the shots differential a bit by outshooting Boston 14-11 in the third period, and tied the game.
"I think that's huge for us," Muller said. "Not too many teams are going to walk in here and get points the way they're playing; they're a good hockey team, but we stuck with it. We battled through a little adversity earlier on, but I thought the guys played hard, played well, and that's a big point. We can kind of turn the corner and gain on and build on [it Sunday] hopefully (against the Ottawa Senators)."
Even when killing penalties, the Hurricanes were working hard to score the equalizer. During one penalty kill, Johnson stopped an Eric Staal shot on a 2-on-1. Later in the period, Patrick Dwyer scored shorthanded on a breakaway after he stole an errant Boston pass in the Carolina end. Dwyer roofed a shot past Johnson to tie the score 2-2 with 8:50 remaining in regulation.
"We came in and we talked and said our backs are against the wall and we have to scratch and claw to get back into this hockey game, and try to win the game, and I think we went out there and played pretty well in the third," Dwyer said.


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A Heart Awareness Walk will take place that day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Doctors Memorial Hospital.
Bonifay � The Holmes County Health Department and Doctors Memorial Hospital are partnering together to promote Heart Health Awareness. Cardiovascular Disease is the #1 killer of American men and women. CVD is responsible for more deaths in women than the next four causes combined, including all forms of cancers.
Friday, Feb. 1 is the 10 year anniversary of National Wear Red Day� endorsed by the American Heart Association and the Go Red for Women� Campaign. Holmes County�s healthcare organizations encourage everyone to wear red on Friday, February 1 in support of Cardiovascular Disease awareness.
A Heart Awareness Walk will take place that day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Doctors Memorial Hospital. The walk is free and everyone is invited to participate. Walkers are encouraged to bring a �heart healthy� lunch and commit to walking at least 4 laps or more. The first 100 participants will receive free gifts and educational resources concerning heart healthy exercises, nutrition and much more.
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text: WLOY wins seven national awards at student electronic media convention November 6, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos WLOY staffers pose with their trophies at the 2013 National Student Electronic Media Convention in San Antonio. (Back row, left to right: Rachel Stoczko, '16, Patricia Bryan, '15, John Devecka (operations manager), and Kathryn O'Brien, '16. Front row, left to right: Leslie Weis, '16, and Kathleen McKeveny, '16) Community programs produced by WLOY, Loyola University Maryland's student-run radio station, were honored with seven awards at the 2013 National Student Electronic Media Convention in San Antonio, Texas, on Nov. 2. "What Happens Next?", a children's program designed to improve imagination, literacy, writing, and communication in elementary school students, won the national 'Best Feature – Radio' award. It was also a finalist in the 'Best Regularly Scheduled Program – Radio' category. WLOY's innovative Word on the Street was the national winner for 'Best Community Involvement.' Word is a nonprofit newspaper in Baltimore operated by a coalition of volunteers and people who have experienced homelessness. The convention received 700 entries from more than 100 schools across the country. WLOY operations manager John Devecka said WLOY's awards serve a dual purpose: recognition and awareness. "We certainly like the trophies, but our work is for the community, not the recognition," said Devecka. "The awards are sometimes what is needed to get people to understand how important the programs are and the impact that Loyola students can have on the community around them. Even though we draw from all over the country, students at WLOY really embrace and love Baltimore. I'm very proud of what they constantly give back and how they seek ways to help others." WLOY also took home two additional finalist awards for "Both Feet In," a program that features conversations with people experiencing homelessness. The show launched in 2010 and has already won eight national awards. Devecka said "Both Feet In" reduces the stigma and stereotypes associated with homelessness by making invisible people visible and telling their stories. Since beginning full-time operations in March 2003, WLOY has received numerous local and national awards for its exceptional programming. The station won a Best of Baltimore award in 2006 for 'Best Local Music Radio Show' and went on to win trophies from the Associated Collegiate Press and National Student Electronic Media Convention host College Broadcasters, Inc. The station is run by a staff of 18 Loyola students who oversee more than 60 DJs. For more information on WLOY, visit wloy.org.


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ADAC lead the way with Guidelines App.
Mr Scott Wilson, the Director of the Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (SA) Inc at yesterdays forum, held in Melbourne which examined the role of the Guidelines in reducing risky alcohol consumption in Australia released the first phone app targeting Aboriginal Australians.
"Mr Wilson said that it was the first of its kind in Australia that is using modern technology to get a health message to Aboriginal people Australia wide". ADAC has used the National Health and Medical Research Council's (NHMRC) Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol and made them into a culturally appropriate mobile website app.
The mobile website app is based on the ADAC produced Alcohol Guidelines to Reduce the Lifetime Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol, which Drinkwise had provided funding for in 2010.
Mr Wilson said that "it was and exciting development in ensuring that the Alcohol guidelines could a great tool the Indigenous alcohol and drug workers would have wherever they worked in Australia on their phones or other media such as IPADS or tablets.
The mobile friendly website app can be viewed at guidelines.adac.org.au
Or visit adac.org.au/guidelines for more information.
There is help if you need it, just visit guidelines.adac.org.au using the web browser on your mobile phone or tablet (not just for iPhones and iPads, the site is Android friendly).
There are instructions of what you need to do.
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No. 12 Kansas holds on to beat Kansas State 73-72
CBK Headlines
- Big East to invite UConn to rejoin
- Calipari signs 10-year, $86M extension
- At least 6 programs to face allegations
- Idaho fires coach Verlin after probe
- Kansas lands coveted recruit Wilson
By DAVE SKRETTA
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Kansas coach Bill Self insists he hasn't spent any additional time this season working on late-game situations, those pressure-packed moments that are often the difference between victory and defeat.
Perhaps he should.
The No. 12 Jayhawks were in another back-and-forth affair on Saturday, this time with their biggest league rival. It took 23 points from Devonte Graham, two go-ahead free throws from Malik Newman with 15 seconds left, and some salty defense on the final possession to hold off the Wildcats, 73-72.
It was the Jayhawks' third Big 12 win by a combined 10 points.
"We don't have the same teams we've had in the past where you can pull away from folks," Self said. "When you play better competition, any win is a good win, and we have to understand that."
Udoka Azubuike added 18 points and eight rebounds for the Jayhawks (14-3, 4-1), who beat their Interstate 70 rival for the sixth straight time and 12th in a row at Allen Fieldhouse.
"We've got that confidence that in crunch time we can get that last stop or execute that last play on offense," Graham said. "That just translates to a real game."
Kansas State (12-5, 2-3) led 67-64 with 3 minutes left when Lagerald Vick knocked down a 3-pointer in front of the Jayhawks' bench and Newman scored on a put-back to give Kansas the lead.
It was the first of five lead changes in the final 2:18.
Xavier Sneed gave the Wildcats the lead with 30.2 seconds left when he made two free throws, but Newman got to the line at the other end and the 86-percent foul shooter converted both. That gave Kansas State the last shot, but Barry Brown's rushed 3-pointer from well beyond the arc was no good.
"It felt like a shot I've shot before, and I shot it with confidence," Brown said of the final play, which was designed to go to teammate Dean Wade on a pick-and-pop. "Just tried to make a play."
Wade had 22 points to lead the Wildcats. Cartier Diarra added a career-high 18, though he was also whistled for a crucial technical foul, while Brown had 12 points, six assists and five rebounds.
"Pretty frustrated," Wade said. "Pretty disappointed."
The Jayhawks raced to a 13-4 lead before the Wildcats ratcheted up the defensive intensity. Kansas struggled to get the ball inside and eventually went nearly 10 minutes with just one field goal.
The Wildcats slowly pulled ahead during a 14-3 run, but back-to-back 3s by Svi Mykhailiuk - the last from about 25 feet at the buzzer - knotted the game 34-all at the break.
That's when Azubuike and Graham went to work.
The big fella scored the first two baskets of the second half, then Graham knocked down a 3, as the pair got an inside-outside game going. They combined for all the Jayhawks' points during a 15-2 run that turned a 36-34 deficit into a 49-38 lead with about 13 minutes left in the game.
Diarra clawed the Wildcats back once more, at one point scoring 11 straight for them, and the game was tied at 64 at the under-4 media timeout to set up a frantic race to the finish.
"We're going to be fine. Just a tough loss," Brown said. "We're going to bounce back after this, like our last loss. Get back in the gym and focus on our next game."
Kansas State coach Bruce Weber took umbrage with Diarra's late technical for trash-talking, and he said several other calls were questionable. But asked for specifics, he replied: "I want to keep my job. I don't want to get fined. I've worked too hard for it."
Silvio De Souza, a 6-foot-9 forward from Angola, was cleared by the NCAA before tip to play for Kansas. The five-star prospect graduated high school last month and played 4 minutes on Saturday.
Another five-star prospect, Billy Preston, remains sidelined while Kansas looks into the ownership of a car he was driving during an accident last fall. The freshman has not played this season.
Kansas State guard Kamau Stokes, the Wildcats' third-leading scorer, missed his second straight game with a left foot injury. He was wearing a walking boot and it remains unclear when he will be back.
Kansas State has lost nail-biters in its last two trips to the Phog. Last year, it was a missed traveling call on the Jayhawks' Mykhailiuk that cost them a win over the Wildcats' biggest rival.
Kansas also got 11 points from Mykhailiuk and 10 from Vick, and that balanced scoring was important as the Jayhawks played with essentially a six-man rotation. Three others combined for 12 minutes.
Kansas State faces No. 9 Oklahoma on Tuesday night.
Kansas visits No. 2 West Virginia on Monday night.
For more AP college basketball coverage: collegebasketball.ap.org and twitter.com/AP-Top25
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- Know federal regulations and industry standards for the safe operation of cranes
- Know how to conduct shift crane inspections
- Know how to pick, carry, swing and place a load safely
- Understand methods of reeving wire ropes and selecting the proper load block and/or ball
- Shutting down and securing the crane
- Know the standard hand and voice signals
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- Basic load rigging procedures
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- Use and requirements of operational aids and safety devices – what to do if they malfunction
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It is the beginning of November and T/AP is glad to welcome our second artist, Iris Bechtol! Starting the day with brief introductions, Iris delivered a short presentation about her work to familiarize us with her thought processes and methodologies.
Moving into the galleries, Iris led us in a discussion about how artworks can interact with a particular site—looking specifically at Michelangelo Pistoletto's The Etruscan, Carl Andre's Slit, Dan Flavin's Diagonal of May 25, 1963, Robert Irwin's Untitled, and Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington.
After our tour and discussion in the galleries, the students were tasked with sketching and taking photos of some of the "forgotten" corners of the museum—places that most patrons would not notice or consider. Once back in the lab, the students began a new assignment that saw their 2D sketches turned into a 3D object.


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Cloth seats
Cloth seats
I'm not sure what's "green" about cloth seats in place of leather from cows that we are going to kill and eat anyway (yum).
I think today's leather is better than what they used to use in cars. I too, remember not liking leather seats in cars when I was a kid, but my current car has leather seats, and it's softer than the kind I remember in old cars. Of course it does get hot and cold in extreme weather, but not nearly to the degree that the older, tougher leather seemed to get.
The green part is not the cows, it's the tanning process which uses very toxic chemicals.
Cows - it's not our fault they are so delicious! Plus, we can reuse the original packaging for wallets, purses, shoes, and car seats. Win - Win!
Too bad there are no cloth options other than black, but no leather seats for me! Not everyone eats meat people!
That's why I got alcantara ;)
So soft!
[I'm kind of responding to comments that were also made in the 'Initial review from Jason Calacanis - Sig #1' thread]
If you don't want leather seats for moral reasons, I can totally understand your dilemma and it's unfortunate that you don't really have the proper options available for your preferences. Also, @jerry3, good point about the chemicals used in tanning.
However, if the concern is simply over the quality of leather, I am wondering how it is that people are having such different experiences.
In the other thread, jerry 3 said, "The leather seats I've had in cars start cracking within a couple of years."
My aunt has a BMW from the late 90's that is normally kept outside under a car port (the paint is in terrible condition), but the leather inside is fine.
I myself hhave a Chevy with leather that is about 4.5 years old, and my parents both have other GM cars with leather that are 6 to 7 years old, and the seats are perfectly fine in their cars too.
In all of these cases, we have not done any maintenance to try to preserve the leather.
And I wouldn't say it's just because I have a different standard or attention to detail. I mean, even on close inspection, I would say that the leather in all of these cars is just as good as new other than the fact that it's a little loose in areas that have been subjected to the most wear. The quality of the leather itself is still soft and supple. It's smooth with no cracks. The same goes for the leather on the steering wheels and shifters as well.
I have definitely been in plenty of older cars with real leather that seems to be of worse quality taht what we have today. I dunno, maybe we have better chemical treatments that improve the quality of the leather somehow. In these older cars, I remember that the leather cracks, scraping your skin, and it also becomes stiffer making it less comfortable. I also remember that the transfer of heat between your skin and this older leather seems to be way more pronounced than the leather I have now, which is what makes it so undesirable when it's hot or cold.
Jerry3: My CTS-V has leather seats with leather provided by Eagle Ottawa Leather. They have included a statement in the materials that came with the vehicle which assert: "...and best of all it is produced using new technologies not harmful to the environment." I am not claiming this is true, only that it is in writing.
I had also been under the impression that heated seats only came with leather. I thought it had something to do with durability until someone told me they have heated cloth seats in their Hyundai. I now believe that heated seats are bundled with leather as a luxury combo. It's time to separate these two options, particularly in something like a Model S where nobody is getting away cheap, no matter which version they buy.
I now believe that heated seats are bundled with leather as a luxury combo. It's time to separate these two options, particularly in something like a Model S where nobody is getting away cheap, no matter which version they buy. (dubaty)
+1, in particular heated seats (+steering wheel) are a great way to save on cabin heating and optimize range without sacrificing comfort!
You are correct that there are tanning methods that don't involve toxic chemicals. However, that's not how most leather is produced. Unless stated, as yours was, the assumption is that toxic chemicals are used.
+1 on the unbundling the heated seats. I'm guessing heated seats are almost mandatory with leather because in winter the leather feels ice cold compared to cloth so the heaters are required to get around one of the drawbacks of leather.
In Canada you can get heated seats with cloth interior.
+2 on utilizing the seat heaters instead of the climate control. This should work for pre-heating also and may save some serious juice!
To Tesla Forum Monitor: Please include remote seat heater activation as part of your soon to be released smartphone app.
Bumping this to ask - has anyone gotten cloth seats delivered? There's 3 damn Tesla stores in the LA area with a show car and a test drive car, and none of the 6 have cloth seats to check out. I'm going for a 2nd test drive tomorrow, but I fear that I won't be able to see the cloth before I have to reserve. It makes my wife especially nervous - buying something sight unseen.
It's pretty obnoxious. Any cloth out there yet?
I've sat in the cloth seats. I can say I was genuinely surprised by their quality. They had a slightly grippy texture that I quite liked. I was going to get the leather but am strongly considering switching to the cloth. It seemed durable and good quality.
@archibaldcrane - The car I test-drove had cloth, and it seemed to be much like all the other cloth seats I have sat on. My car should be here next week and I can answer any questions you have then.
Personally, I wouldn't take leather if it was the same price -- in the south, cars get hot and hot leather is just uncomfortable to sit on. Besides, leather takes more care and in my (admittedly not recent) experience hasn't lasted as long as cloth does.
The new cloth seats (coming after the price increase) will also get 12-way adjustment and heating.
Yeah let me know what you think Jat, my username at gmail.
My wife and I will only consider cloth seats and fortunately during our test-drive the Tesla rep said without prompting, "And this is our no animal products interior, our so called vegan option". This will sound silly to most, but that was really an important step in our deciding to put in a reservation on the Model S, as we found the cloth interior very nice indeed, plus the fact that Tesla actually realized that some people cared about such things.
Now the question is how to get the newer 12-way heated cloth seats without paying the full $2500 price increase and delaying the availability of our car, which will be an 85/active air and hopefully ready fairly soon. But so far, no finalize button. We are #14574.
I have learnt the hard fact of cloth seat in recent days, feeling cheated by Tesla to some extend if I have to say....
I made my reservation last year and finalized my configuration Jan this year. I had the same "green" consideration like the most of us here: do not want have animal skins in such a green car. In addition, cloth seats are actually more comfortable in hot weather.
When I finalized my configuration, I was only aware that I would not get the customized trim. However, now I realize I missed a lot:
1) Missed lumbar support! This is one of most desired feature in my taste. It adjusts the lower back support which is much needed for long road trips.
2) Memory seats: I did not realize actually my seat did not come with memory positions! Later on, I went to Tesla website and found out it is listed in the tech package. I ordered the tech package so I should have the memory seats. I called Tesla service. They said this was disabled for cloth seat. They are working on a software update to enable it in the next month or so.
3) No heated seat.
For lumber support, I actually have the 4-way button installed (in addition to the back-forth adjustment buttons). However, it does nothing. Today the service engineer in Frement called me. He told me it was a mistake to install that button. He offered to remove that button for free! This is ridiculous.
Even my cheap old Honda has a lumber support dial that can manually adjusted. How can Tesla offer a cloth seat which can only adjusted back and forth?
As an earlier "test driver", I wish Tesla can do better in clearly spec out the difference between cloth and leather seats. Do not hurt our "green" thinkers.
Do not get me wrong, I like the car they are making and this company. I have provided many feedback on my experiences in the last few months of driving. However, I would recommend that their management think for the customers and deliver more than customers expect in every aspects instead of cut it short sometimes.
@Xiaolong_Zhang, I empathize with you. It has been a bit confusing.
For reservations made before Jan 1, textile seats did not come with lumbar support, heat or memory. All these functions were tied to leather seats for original reservations.
As of Jan 1, new reservations with textile seats included lumbar support and heat along with a $2,500 increase in base price. Memory was still tied to the leather seats.
As of Apr 1, for new reservations driver profile memory was moved from the leather seats to the tech package.
Since your reservation was made last year your textile seats did not come with lumbar support, heat or memory, and your tech package did not come with seat memory. If Tesla gives you seat memory because you bought the tech package, count your blessings. You will be getting a freebie. People who reserved last year needed to buy leather seats to get driver profile memory.
It makes much more sense IMO to tie driver profile memory to the tech package. Now new reservations with textile seats can enjoy all the benefits of leather seats.
I'm sorry you got caught in the middle of these changes. Many people did. But on the positive side you saved $2,500 and it sounds like you might be lucky enough to get driver profile memory for free.
@ddruz thanks for your explanation. I reserved last october and was confused too by the strange combination of options. I was going for textile because my wife does not like leather seats (too slippery). And then there was this relation between saving $2500 or getting full option seats. Have discuss this with the sales person when I have a final test drive.
firstname.lastname@example.com, Thanks for the explanation. I was not aware of these changes when they did the price increase, and until now. In fact, when I ordered the car before the increase, what I got from Tesla was that I should order as soon as possible to dodge the price increase. Otherwise I would be buying the same thing with +$2500 more. I still think Tesla should have clearly stated the difference between cloth and leather seats. After all, they are going through an online ordering system that people have to rely on to get everything right.
It seems Tesla has not completely got away from a car dealer's bad habit:)
I LOVE the textile seats in my 60, but I really miss the lumbar. I miss two other things: auto slide back of the driver seat when exiting the car (would be tough to do since the car doesn't know when you are shutting it off till you start to leave!), and the memory seat for when I pick up the car from the valet (I am short!). I do wish these had been available with the textile seats...


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Looking at Arlene Mulder's legacy in Arlington Heights
Arlene Mulder hasn't given much thought to her legacy.
In the past week, the retiring Arlington Heights village president has been cleaning out 20 years of paperwork, photos and memories from the village hall that she often spent more time at than her own home.
Between taking carloads of boxes to her basement and armfuls of papers to the recycling bin, Mulder made one last lobbying trip to Springfield, as the Senate passed a gambling bill that would allow slots at Arlington International Racecourse -- though the measure still has to pass the House and Gov. Pat Quinn's desk.
She drove back in time to chair a Friday morning meeting of the O'Hare Noise Compatibility Commission.
Friday afternoon she was sitting in her temporary village hall office -- she abandoned the mayor's office early so it could be made ready for its new occupant -- cleaning out binders from old Metra board meetings, just so she could return the binders.
All this while waiting for word from her son and daughter-in-law who were about to have twins, Al and Arlene Mulder's sixth and seventh grandchildren.
So, legacy -- how Mulder will be remembered for 34 years of public service to Arlington Heights and the Northwest suburbs -- hasn't been on the former teacher's mind, even as her good friend and colleague, Mayor-elect Tom Hayes, prepares to be sworn in Monday night.
But many around her say one doesn't have to look far to see all that she has accomplished -- a revitalized downtown that other suburbs have emulated, a heightened reputation regionally and nationally, and a network of strong relationships between the village government, park district and business community, among others.
Her personal style as mayor -- upbeat, personal and seeming to draw energy from the endless public events instead of being worn down by them -- is often credited as the means by which Mulder has been able to find and foster success.
Different downtown
When Mulder took office in 1993, downtown Arlington Heights looked very different from what it does today. Dunton Tower, opened in 1986, was one of the only tall buildings and many people worried it meant their quiet, homespun downtown was about to change.
It was -- Arlington Heights was subscribing to a new theory that said if you want to save a suburban downtown, first bring in upper-class residents and the businesses will follow.
In October 1997, the village board approved the Arlington Town Square development. Mulder prepared a speech for that board meeting, telling a council chamber packed with people, many of whom disagreed with her, "I strongly believe this is in the best interests of all Arlington Heights."
Now with a mix of residences, retail, restaurants and culture, downtown Arlington Heights is considered by many a jewel, or at least successful enough that other suburbs have emulated it. It has been noticed outside the Northwest suburbs as well.
"Her administration was instrumental in the revitalization of downtown Arlington Heights, which boasts a thriving arts and cultural scene," said Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, of Evanston.
But in between, carrying out the vision for downtown was at times very difficult, says former Trustee Steve Daday.
"There were a lot of difficult decisions and some significant differences of opinion, but she never tried to force her opinion on other trustees," said Daday, a trustee from 1989 to 2005. "Her role was to be a consensus builder. She tried to bring people together."
She came to the boardroom with the mindset that to disagree was to disagree with an idea, not the person behind it, he said.
And, she could give up and move on. A few years ago the village board was locked in a contentious vote over whether to increase the tax levy. The board voted seven times and was tied 4-4 every time. Mulder changed her vote on the eighth roll call, preferring a loss over gridlock.
"Politics is only temporary," Mulder said Friday, shrugging off the dispute.
Not everything was a victory. Despite intensive lobbying by Mulder, the track does not as yet have slot machines. Her administration is blamed for the cost overruns on the new village hall, referred to by detractors as the "Taj Mahal."
And the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, originally pitched as being self-sustaining through ticket sales and fundraising, is surviving only with the help of the village, which stepped in to buy much of the building and set up a fund to contribute an annual subsidy. The money comes from an arts and entertainment tax, not property taxes, but that hasn't stopped complaints about the village supporting a business that is not a core service.
Mulder, however, considers Metropolis a success, particularly since it contributes an estimated $5 million in economic activity to Arlington Heights each year.
"Metropolis is a gem," she said, pointing out that other suburban performing arts centers get municipal subsidies. "It's a concept that still needs to grow into its own, but I'm confident it will get there. Later on we'll question why we ever doubted it."
'It was a lifestyle'
Lauree Harp, Mulder's longtime friend and the chairwoman of last year's quasquicentennial celebration, says at one Fourth of July parade her 5-year-old granddaughter complained about the noise. All the sirens were going off at once, hurting her ears and making it hard to talk.
Harp pointed to Mulder. Go tell the mayor, she said.
Mulder got down to ground level with the girl and said, "That's a good question, I'll find out." She went to fire officials and asked if the parade couldn't be a little quieter.
"She would listen to anyone and if she didn't know the answer she would find the person who did," Harp said. "Even if she didn't agree with them, she was hearing them."
Mulder, whose attendance at events is legendary, forged relationships with the park district and library, the county, the school districts and, perhaps mostly, with the business community. She visited businesses to woo them and sang karaoke at chamber fundraisers.
"Her availability to businesses created a healthy environment because new or struggling businesses knew the mayor would make time for them," said Jon Ridler, executive director of the Arlington Heights chamber of commerce.
"It wasn't just an elected position for her; it was a lifestyle," Ridler said.
Mulder says she averages only three or four hours of sleep a night. Longtime friend Kris Stabler said even off the clock, the mayor is always thinking about the village.
"She doesn't leave it at the office," Stabler said. "People would be surprised at the hours after closing time she spends, working on different projects, returning phone calls. She's worked tirelessly for the betterment of the community."
Mulder says she looked at the residents as her boss. "I tried to show respect for them; whenever they had an event and asked me to come to it, I did," she said.
Hayes has joked he will have some very large shoes to fill starting Monday.
"Her legacy is her ability to establish relationships with all of these individuals and groups who make up our community and who are so critical to establishing the quality of life that we've enjoyed under Arlene for the past 20 years," he said.
But, at every farewell event and interview since announcing her retirement last September, Mulder has pushed off any claim to success to Village Manager Bill Dixon and his staff, as well as residents.
"I can never really take credit," she said. "I was just in the right place to orchestrate and help other people do their best work."
Mulder will bring one last meeting to order on Monday night, using the gavel that bears the name of John Woods, another iconic Arlington Heights mayor whom Mulder calls her patron saint. Once the meeting is called to order, Hayes will be sworn in and Mulder will step aside.
She says she will try to stay away from village hall, but she will never move away from Arlington Heights. She'll keep her seats on both the Metra board and the Noise Commission.
But between that work, time with the grandchildren, tending to her garden and traveling with Al, Mulder said she won't spend much of her retirement thinking about her legacy then, either.
"I hope people will say that I listened," Mulder said on Friday, sifting through papers in the temporary office. "I hope they will say that I tried to do my very best. I'm not a miracle worker, but maybe that I was able to foster the spirit of cooperation and hopefully be a good neighbor."


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That is quite drastic video, but I guess it's worth watching as a warning.
Moray eel bites scuba diver and eats his thumb
Posted 10 March 2007 - 09:30 AM
That is quite drastic video, but I guess it's worth watching as a warning.
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Posted 10 March 2007 - 09:58 AM
Seems that all this 'show' was for photographers around him.
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Posted 10 March 2007 - 10:15 AM
Teasing animals for the purposes of photography to me is wrong. O.k the once to feed it and maybe draw it out quickly..Maybe. but i didn't like that at all.
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Posted 10 March 2007 - 02:45 PM
i doubt it was as bad as it seemed. and the thumb was just an unfortunate accident.
the only moron i see in that video was the guy trying to pet the eel wearing gloves .. what is the point ??
not all handling of marine animals is bad .. some even seek it out and enjoy it people shouldn't be so quick to blame the diver. or the fact thatphotographers were present .. the guy who had his thumb bit off looked like he was mostly filming himself as thecamera was on the ground !
Posted 10 March 2007 - 04:50 PM
Morays don't have very good eye sight and he was pushing his luck.
Still I think I would of took my reg out and bashed it in the head or free flowed it under it to try and get it to let go.
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Posted 10 March 2007 - 05:19 PM
The guy was totally harassing the moray, being teased like that with bread and sausages, oh yeah a morays favourite meal too! I was actually hoping the eel would go for the guys weener and not the one in his hand, now that would have been a better kind of revenge hey.
This has to be a Thailand guide or the likes, where your general dive guides are so bad they need attraction dives like this as they can't find anything else that is interesting!
I think I'd have rather had no thumb than cutting off a toe to replace it with!
Posted 11 March 2007 - 01:09 AM
Is there a way for me to watch it from another site?
Posted 11 March 2007 - 03:22 AM
The name idiot is being way too polite to the guy who got what he deserved here. Me, I simply call this reef revenge, anyone who goes out on reef with the intention of doing stupid things like this deserves to be eaten alive, slowly by a whole pack of moray eels.
The guy was totally harassing the moray, being teased like that with bread and sausages, oh yeah a morays favourite meal too! I was actually hoping the eel would go for the guys weener and not the one in his hand, now that would have been a better kind of revenge hey.
This has to be a Thailand guide or the likes, where your general dive guides are so bad they need attraction dives like this as they can't find anything else that is interesting!
I think I'd have rather had no thumb than cutting off a toe to replace it with!
Geez Graham, tell us how you really feel. Too much coffee?
While I agree feeding is generally not a good thing, I'm sure many who've been to Tulamben, or shark feeds would disagree. Unfortunately the line between harassment and interaction is broad and very grey.
That guy whose thumb was chowed on was Matt Butcher, somehow the irony in that in poetic. Use to work in PhiPhi Island as well. I think that was shot in the Similans.
And Graham, I think that's a bit "harsh" to say Thailand waters have very little to see. Out in the similans, you can get whaleshark to harlequin shrimp all in a single dive on a single site. There was a time when silvertips dives were awesome but like Indonesia, silvertips are an odd infrequent interloper than a common sight nowadays.
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Posted 11 March 2007 - 03:48 AM
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Posted 11 March 2007 - 05:27 AM
not sure if you are talking about thai guides or thai dives, but in any event i recommend you go and dive a bit around the similans and surin - you may be surprised by what there is to see, and by what you local and expat guides will be able to show you...
This has to be a Thailand guide or the likes, where your general dive guides are so bad they need attraction dives like this as they can't find anything else that is interesting!
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Posted 11 March 2007 - 07:21 AM
To hold a piece of bread.. etc, out and move it away at the last minute continuously and to persist to frustrate the creature , in my view, is wrong. Try that with a shark too many times and you may loose your hand...Its not interacting with the eel, more 'show off' for the divers. I would have told him my concerns as well...
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Posted 11 March 2007 - 07:40 AM
I also feel strongly about the stingray city kind of dives with kids and the likes; I think this is also asking for trouble!
Don't get me wrong I've dived Thailand and loved every minute of it; even found it to be well beyond my expectations. I managed to dive round the Similans and even found that Phi Phi had fantastic places with amazing critters right in the bay there! Though way too many divers out in the Similans and those places for me! I prefer to get away from crowds when I'm diving! Hence - Fakfak, Banda Sea, Halmahera, Alor being my favourite places and hey even Komodo, plenty of great sites where no other liveaboards go, all right in the National Park as well, they all hit the same sites.
Dru -- check it out again -- I never said that Thailand has very little to see, just that the general dive guide there is bad, meaning uneducated about marine life, Matt Butcher here shows my point really well I think -- ooh very harsh I know, so sorry! Oh OK, so I generalised from my experience in Thailand... I only had a few days on Phi Phi to try find a dive company, well a dive guide that sounded like they could show me something interesting, this proved nothing but hard work, I went round a bunch of dives shops who were more keen on trying to sell me a PADI dive course. I reckon some of the dive guides on Phi Phi must have more different PADI certificates than actual logged dives... Oops bit of an exaggeration there! Though if you've been on land round Phi Phi you must know what I mean?
I don't know Matt Butcher, but anyone who wants to go dive and play round with morays eels, then tease them food deserves everything he gets, to me the guy was just showing off, hey look everyone I can play with a moray and it..... Ahhhhhhhhh!
The moray even looked like it wasn't happy being teased with food, and come on if your gonna feed an animal underwater feed it with something that it may actually eat in its natural habitat and not bread and sausage, I mean the guy could have taken this one step further -- maybe by taking down a McDonalds Big Mac Burger for the moray eel. I won't tell a dive guide not to do this kind of thing, just let them wait for the day when some animal gets its own back for teasing. I would not allow anyone on a trip with me to do this, as it may jeopardise the trip for others.
Was this from a live aboard or land based operation? I'm sure they would have had to head straight back to shore/hospital immediately when the dive guide lost his thumb… Hence a very stupid thing to do as his paying divers probably lost dive time due to the his stupidity.
I also disagree when guides feed Napoloen wrasse eggs -- now who thought of that one first -- Napoleon wrasse eating chicken eggs?
Posted 11 March 2007 - 08:02 AM
SO you disagree with people training dogs for pets using treats as rewards ? Really I don't think anyone here can criticise what the guide was doing .. from either point you have probably done it yourself at some point .. or you have been that diver who enjoyed the dive guide doing that even if it was a long time ago.
To hold a piece of bread.. etc, out and move it away at the last minute continuously and to persist to frustrate the creature , in my view, is wrong. Try that with a shark too many times and you may loose your hand...Its not interacting with the eel, more 'show off' for the divers. I would have told him my concerns as well...
What is correct to say is there is a right and wrong way of doing it, and using food they are used to is definately better. Drew is correct saying there is a grey line, and as someone that loves feeding and interacting with everything this planet has to offer I am flabbergasted at how people always jump in and say it wrong when this subject comes up. It's not wrong at all IMO.
From completely disagreeing with your first statement i completely agree with that.
The moray even looked like it wasn't happy being teased with food and if your gonna feed an animal underwater feed it with something that it may actually eat in its own habiat and not bread and sausage, I mean the guy could have one step further maybe by taking down a burger for the eel.
I truely doubt that there is anyone who has not at one point in their life enjoyed an animal feeding of some sort .. be it at home with a pet to make it roll over .. or at the zoo ... at seaworld ... stingray city ... giving polly a cracker... feeding birds in the park during winter etc etc .. it's all the same .. so can we get off our horses and give it a carrot ?
Posted 11 March 2007 - 08:19 AM
As Graham mentioned, at least try to give it some realism. Don't harass.... Oh yeah you agreed with this statement..
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Posted 11 March 2007 - 08:50 AM
As Giles said, i wouldn't necessarily call it teasing, in many respects i think if it makes the animal work a little for its food then its a good thing, in the wild they would very rarely get some food without having to search for it. Teasing it with the empty bag like that is wrong though. But the more times they go for the food and miss, they faster they are going to strike, he lost his concentration or got too relaxed and got bit, simple as that.
On a liveaboard trip, where do you think all the waste from meal time goes? Sure some bits can be saved for soups, but if you were to follow regulations about what can and cannot go back in the fridge, most of what is cooked has to be thrown away, and all the excess off plates? If you were to follow marine regs, then no solid matter until well offshore, but most liveaboards and diveboats don't go offshore, it has to go over the side or the boat stinks for a week!
Is it any different throwing unwanted sausages from breakfast over the side to the fishes underneath the boat, or taking them diving with you and having a play, as long as it is only the divemaster doing the feeding it can be controlled and regulated.
I personally think if you are gutting a fish on the boat then it is probably better to save the excess for the fish life if you are feeding them away from the boat, and away from areas with human population.
If you chuck the remains over the side directly, Barracudas etc get accustomed to receiving a free feed and would quite happily bite a dangling foot as a snorkeller puts their mask on.
If at the start of every charter you threw away 3 -5 trimmed carcasses in the port/dock area where in remote locations kids frequently play, you may entice a tiger shark etc, resulting in less kids playing! Locals don't like you putting it in the trash as the landfill is in many cases close to town and they already have dog/cat/rat problems.
I would say from the editing on the video it was shot over a long period of time, and i would image the diver has a good sense of humour about it! The fact the diver didn't reach for his knife or start trying to kill the animal shows how much respect he had for his 'dive buddy', you can see him trying to gently pry its month open with his thumb and forefinger in the video, much as i'd do when playing with my dog and trying to get a toy out of her mouth.
I am all for shark and fish feeding if done in a responsible way, i have done it very badly and very well in the past, to start with we made lots of errors in divesite choice etc, but we learned from it quickly and in the end had a pretty well run operation for shark feeding in a remote area. I have been bitten, and i accepted that that was going to happen from day 1, luckily for me though it was only a little shark and barely got though my wetsuit. The most important thing is that the animals are respected and not overfed, and that the divers who experience it also see the sharks when not in feeding mode, so they understand the myths, and see that even when a shark is harassing the feeder, you can be 6 feet away and fine, they are not killing machines.
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Posted 11 March 2007 - 09:27 AM
I still think letting 'wild' animals take food from body parts is wrong and done to 'Impress'. What next strapping chum to your privates and having a tigger shark nibble at it.
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Posted 11 March 2007 - 09:28 AM
While this diver is in young, robust health and quite happy to content himself with the functionality of being able to grab a beer or play video games, he may have severely limited his abilities to gain useful employment in the future. As time goes by, and this diver grows older, that functionality he is marveling at will start to decline. His mobility as well as dexterity will diminish significantly in comparison to his contemporaries. He will find life very difficult if he ever needs those physical skill sets that make use of either his hands and/or his feet for employment purposes.
It is hard to watch a fellow diver get injured in such a frivolous way. I would suggest pity and a fair number of prayers for his future, instead of self-righteous condemnation. This diver will not have an easy life from here on in. Even something as minor as losing a thumb will have a dramatic impact on one's quality of life.
One area where the video does rise above itself is in showing the long and suffering path of rehabilitation a person would have to endure to try and replace what was taken from them. All to often people do not realize the possible consequences of their actions. If anything, this segment of the video should have been longer and more involved.
The only saving grace to this video that I can find is, it may make some people think twice about their interactions with wildlife both above and below the water.
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Anesthesia linked to effects on children's memory
Being put under anesthesia as an infant may make it harder for a person to recall details or events when they grow older.
Previous studies on animals had shown that anesthesia impairs parts of the brain that help with recollection. But it was not clear how this type of temporary loss of consciousness affected humans. Comparing the memory of 28 children ages 6 to 11 who had undergone anesthesia as infants to 28 children similar in age who had not been put under suggests that the early treatment impairs recollection later in life, researchers report June 9 in Neuropsychopharmacology.
The team reported similar results for a small study on rats and notes that early anesthesia did not appear to affect the children's familiarity with objects and events or their IQ.


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ADDISON COUNTY — The latest book by Bristol resident and Addison Independent outdoor columnist Matthew Dickerson hit the shelves last week.
Dickerson describes "Downstream: Reflections on Brook Trout, Fly Fishing, and the Waters of Appalachia," co-authored by David L. O'Hara, as a mosaic combining nature writing, fly-fishing narrative, memoir and philosophical and spiritual inquiry.
It was the spring of my seventh-grade year. It was my first year in the public school system, and as baseball season came around, it was the first time I wouldn't be coached by my father.
I had heard about the middle school baseball coach, but never laid eyes on him. All I knew was that he ran camps for kids and I knew players that attended them, he had coached for a while, and his name was Mike Ringey. I couldn't for the life of me tell him apart from a teacher at Middlebury Union Middle School.
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I was pondering recently the strange phenomenon of what creatures find attractive, and why.
Take trout and salmon. I have an upcoming opportunity for some Pacific steelhead fishing over a three-day weekend after a work-related trip to Oregon. My brother is coming from San Francisco to meet me, and we are splurging to hire a guide for the first day. The guide will provide flies while we are with him.
I will readily admit to being grumpy when Jose Lobaton's home run sailed over the fence in Tampa Bay's miserable excuse for a baseball park on Monday night.
It would have been great to see the Boston Red Sox sweep the Rays and get plenty of rest before the American League Championship Series, or ALCS (an abbreviation that sounds uncomfortably like a disease).
But it wasn't meant to be, and I just clicked off the TV before Lobaton lumbered all the way around the bases, and I went to bed.
So, what is the most important part of the body for an athlete?
The torso, for core strength?
The hands, so vital in virtually every sport except soccer?
The legs, critical for mobility, balance and speed?
Well, no, the answer is pretty obvious: the brain.
Sure, without generous helpings of strength, hand-to-eye coordination, quickness, agility, balance or some combination of a majority of those traits, an athlete will not excel.
Typically, it's reassuring when people who know more than you agree with your point of view.
On June 8 I was covering the Vergennes-U-32 quarterfinal softball game when someone with a more than casual interest showed up, Otter Valley coach Pattie Candon. Candon's Otters had a potential semifinal matchup with the winner of that Saturday game, and was scouting.
I knew I had a problem when my friend Ben, from California, e-mailed me after watching "42," the Jackie Robinson story, and being profoundly moved. He said, "Tell me again why you're not looking forward to seeing this movie."
True, I have expressed ambivalence. I sometimes tire of the exclusivity of the focus on Jackie Robinson. The more I have learned about the African-American experience in baseball, the more rich stories and worthy figures I have become aware of.
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VIDEO: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope drops 30 points on Day 2 in Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. — Nobody had to tell Kentavious Caldwell-Pope that it was time for him to step up his game this season.
The Pistons delivered that message when they brought in free agent shooting guard Jodie Meeks on a three-year, $19 million deal to play his position.
Two days into the Orlando Pro Summer League, Caldwell-Pope's response has bounced loudly off the walls of the Amway Center. He followed up a 26-point, six-assist effort in his first game with 30 points and 12 rebounds Sunday as the Pistons beat the Grizzlies 85-82.
"Just creating my own shot, getting to the basket and finishing strong," said Caldwell-Pope. "I been working on that a lot during the summer and it's coming on."
It didn't hurt that he banged home back-to-back 3-pointers on the Pistons first two possessions of the game. But much more impressive has been the way the 6-foot-6 guard has played at both ends of the court with a competitive zeal and self-confidence that had drooped considerably during a rookie season where he yo-yoed in and out of the starting lineup. He shot just 39.6 percent from the field and 31.9 percent from behind the 3-point line.
Caldwell-Pope showed flashes of his potential, but only just enough to make everyone to want more from the player that Detroit made the eighth pick in the 2013 draft. He became quiet, even sullen and it showed.
Here in the first two games, he's been vocal, always aggressive and constantly on attack.
"It's just coming more natural," Caldwell-Pope said. "We have a lot of different players on our team right now. We have to learn how to communicate, how to talk to each other."
In addition to hitting 18 of 39 shots in the first two games, he's been trying to affect play any way that he can.
New Pistons head coach and team president Stan Van Gundy has said the big scoring from Caldwell-Pope is secondary to being aggressive and sinking his teeth into games defensively. The team also wants him to improve his ball handling.
"Our expectations are for him to play well every night and he did again tonight," said Pistons assistant Bob Beyer, who is running the summer league team. "Not only statistically. But he was matched up in the beginning of the game against (Jordan) Adams who had a great game yesterday shooting the ball. He took the challenge defensively as well. One thing I really like about KCP is just his overall spirit and competitiveness."
A year ago, Reggie Jackson of the Thunder came to the summer league and dominated in every game he played, then used that as a springboard to having his best NBA season.
"I don't want to say no. I hope yes," said Beyer. "There's a lot of guys that go through the summer league and some guys use this experience to do exactly that. Some other guys struggle through it and they come around eventually. I just think it's a great, great stage for KCP to kind of demonstrate all the things that he can do as an NBA player.
"I think the one thing, and we're gonna continue to put him in pick and rolls, we want his ball handling to get a little bit better. But the way he attacks the glass defensively, the way he's aggressive in catch-and-shoots, that's been very impressive and he'll get those opportunities during the regular season as well."
One opportunity Caldwell-Pope is looking forward to is giving his own response to the Pistons' signing of Meeks.
"Something like that," he said. "I am looking forward to it. I just want to continue get my game better so I can get ready for the season coming up and for training camp."


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Researchers from MIT and Harvard University have teamed up to design a 3D printed robot that can crawl like an inchworm and can assemble itself when given a jolt of electricity.
The research is part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation to develop desktop technology that would allow an average person to design, customize, and print a specialized robot in hours, according to MIT. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania also are working on the five-year, $10 million project, "An Expedition in Computing for Compiling Printable Programmable Machines."
Daniela Rus, an MIT professor and project leader, told us in an email that the robots being designed for this project could have applications in numerous fields, because they can be assembled relatively quickly and inexpensively.
Rus and a team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory collaborated with Professor Robert Wood and researchers from the Harvard Microbiotics Laboratory on the robotic inchworm, which was demonstrated last week at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Germany. "Applications of this technology range from education, manufacturing, healthcare, and
entertainment," Rus said. "Rapidly fabricating and deploying new devices brings the design of robots to a new level of customization as a step towards democratizing access to robots."
For instance, the inchworm could be used to explore areas where humans can't go because they can't flatten themselves. Also, someone with a task at home that would benefit from robotic assistance could go to the local printing store, choose a blueprint from a catalogue of designs, and then customize and print a robot to solve the problem within 24 hours.
MIT said in a press release that scientists involved in the project are working on several areas of research: "developing an application programming interface for simple function specification and design; writing algorithms that would allow for control of the assembly of a device and its operations; creating an easy-to-use programming language environment; and designing new, programmable materials that would allow for automatic fabrication of robots."
So far, researchers have created two prototypes for the project that can be 3D printed -- the inchworm self-assembly robot and "a gripper that could be used by people with limited mobility."
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One of the most common functions of business intelligence is reporting — so much so that the terms are often used interchangeably. Reporting is really the presentation layer of BI, or the interface between the data repositories and the decision-makers. As more employees in a company become responsible for decision-making, easy access to reporting and analysis has become paramount. Companies are moving beyond the notion of static reports for a small subset of users, and opening reporting up to knowledge workers (the casual BI user).
Reporting for some organizations is akin to manually manipulating data in Excel spreadsheets. But organizations that want to take their reporting to the next level should consider the following 10 pieces of advice from global BI leader arcplan.
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The brand new issue of Australian beefcake magazine DNA features the boys of Randy Blue, the uber-successful internet porn production outfit. Or rather should we say the "men." One of our favorites is insanely gorgeous Eddie Diaz (nsfw) who will become one of our official crush objects for 2009.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An international research team says it has found a way to identify hotspots of malaria parasite evolution and track the rise of resistance to malaria drugs faster and more efficiently than before.
The success of the technique, which involves analyzing the genetic maps of malaria parasites straight from patients' blood samples, suggests scientists should be able to track changes in the parasite population and follow the disease's evolution.
Malaria infects more than 200 million people worldwide every year and kills around 600,000 of them - primarily children under age five in sub-Saharan Africa.
Most severe forms of malaria are caused by the parasite plasmodium falciparum, which is spread by mosquitoes.
Experts say one of the most challenging features of this parasite is its ability to evolve and overcome anti-malarial drugs - a factor which is undermining global work towards eradicating the killer disease.
"If we want to control resistance, we first need to be able to monitor the genetic diversity of P. falciparum and identify hotspots of potential resistance as they occur," said Dominic Kwiatkowski, of Britain's Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Oxford University, who led the research team.
"Rapid sequencing of parasite genomes from the blood of infected people is a powerful way of detecting changes in the parasite population and potentially an important new surveillance tool ... for controlling malaria."
Kwiatkowski's team developed a new technique to extract the parasite's DNA directly from blood removing as much human DNA from the sample as possible.
The new method means there is no need to grow the parasite in a blood culture in a laboratory dish before deciphering its genetic code, speeding up the process and minimizing the potential for mistakes, the researchers explained in a report of the study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.
The team used the technique to analyze samples from Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Kenya, Mali, Papua New Guinea and Thailand.
They found that one infected person could harbor several genetically different malaria parasites, which allowed the parasite populations to swap DNA and create new forms.
This showed how the pace of parasite evolution is drastically affected by human factors as well as geography, the researchers said.
"The emergence and spread of anti-malarial drug resistance is a major threat to current global initiatives to control and eliminate malaria," said Nick White of Oxford University and Mahidol University in Thailand, who also worked on the study.
He said new insights like those revealed by this study are essential if scientists are to be able to identify, map, and then contain spreading resistance.
"We can now build on this technique to identify hotspots of anti-malarial drug resistance around the world and contain them effectively," he said.
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text: MANHATTAN, NY—Kidville, an urban campus for children, opened a new location on Manhattan's West Side in May. Andy Stenzler and his wife, Shari Misher Stenzler, created their first one-stop-shop children's facility on the Upper East Side, an area of Manhattan with 15,000 kids under the age of five years old. Their newest location, like their first facility, features an indoor play area, outdoor playground, birthday party room, a camp program and classes in art, music, gym and cooking. Kidville is also working with Extell, a development company, to set up children's playrooms and offer on-site programming in the company's newest buildings and offer the residents free memberships to the two locations.


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Sioux Falls Airport Officials Considering Hotel
SIOUX FALLS - Officials with the Sioux Falls Regional Airport are weighing plans to build a hotel to accommodate more travelers.
The hotel likely would be on the north end of the airport.
The move is supported by Mayor Mike Huether, who spoke Thursday to the Airport Authority during its monthly meeting. Huether applauded the airport's record bookings, new restaurants and ongoing efforts to reduce fares.
But he also encouraged officials to "reach even higher."
Traveler Mindy Butman tells KELO-TV that she thinks a hotel near the airport would be a good idea, especially for people who drive long distances to get to the airport in South Dakota's largest city.
Rick Barge of Sioux Falls tells KDLT-TV that the airport has to keep growing to keep up with customers' changing needs.
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Hope College Sacred Dance will be leading an Advent service at Pillar Church on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 6 p.m.
This service is student-led and organized and the participants are members of Hope College's Sacred Dance group.
Members of Sacred Dance have prepared the movement that will be incorporated into the hymns and readings in the evening service, which will include a special focus on the expectant joy that Mary spoke about in her Magnificat. Dancers will highlight the joy of Advent in a piece titled "Trees of the Field" as well as celebrate traditional Advent songs such as "Savior of the Nations, Come."
Pastor Chris DeVos will give a meditation with the service. There will also be a children's sermon given by the sacred dancers.
Pillar Church is located facing Ninth Street at College Avenue.