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Fantasy Starting Pitcher Planner
Week 11
Welcome to the Weekly Pitching Planner. Each week I will cover the pitchers are who slated to make two starts and help you decide who you should start and who you should sit. Sometimes guys will be in the "consider" where they might have one good start, but a second tough one and then your league settings might determine whether or not you should go forward with him. The pitchers will be split by league then by categories:
Auto-Starts – These are your surefire fantasy aces. You paid a handsome sum for them either with an early draft pick or high dollar auction bid so you're starting them anywhere, anytime. Guys can emerge onto or fall off of this list as the season evolves. There won't be many – if any – notes associated with these groupings each week. We are starting them automatically so why do I need to expound on how awesome they are and will be in the coming week?
Starts – These are the guys I'm recommending you put into your lineup this week. Some will be obvious, but not quite auto-start excellent while others will be waiver wire fodder who find themselves with a pair of favorable outings that you can take advantage of in your league. There will be accompanying notes supporting the decisions.
Considers – As mentioned earlier, these guys will be on the fence and your league settings and position in the standings will really be a decider here. If the Minnesota Twins fifth starter is slated to face the Astros at home followed by an interleague trip to San Diego, he will appear on this list because the matchups are great though he isn't and if you are in a 10-team mixed league you probably don't need to take the risk, but a 10-team AL-only leaguer might see it as a nice opportunity to log some quality innings from a freely available resource.
Sits – These are the guys I'm getting away from this week. They will range in talent from solid to poor. Rarely will you see a really good pitcher here unless he gets an "at COL, at TOR" slate. Speaking of the fateful "at COL", any mediocre talent with a trip to Coors Field will be a sit until further notice. If they turn the humidor back on, I'll reconsider, but after last year there is just no reason to throw any non-stud in that park.
And with that, here is our week 11 slate…
AUTO-START: Hisashi Iwakuma, CC Sabathia, Jered Weaver, Alex Cobb, Jon Lester, and Doug Fister
Cobb and Fister join the auto-start ranks.
On August 18 of last season, he was pounded by the Angels for eight runs on 12 hits in just 2 2/3 innings. He followed it up with a four-hit shutout of Oakland. From the shutout through his outing against Detroit this week, he has the seventh-best ERA in baseball (2.43), the 12th-best WHIP (1.05), and the 15th-best innings-per-game average (6.59, where .33 equals one-third of an inning). And though he isn't known as a strikeout guy, his 22.6 percent rate in that span is 0.1 percent behind Matt Moore, who is very much known for strikeouts. His rate also tops those of CC Sabathia, Adam Wainwright, and Madison Bumgarner.
Coincidentally, Fister had a terrible outing the day after Cobb did, as he yielded seven runs in 3 2/3 innings to the Orioles. He didn't bounce back with a shutout—in fact he needed 11 days before making another start thanks to an oblique that bothered him all year—but we will use the same timeframe for him. Since Cobb's shutout, Fister is 18th in ERA (3.12), 27th in WHIP (1.15), and 11th in walk percentage (4.5 percent) while lasting 6.37 innings per outing. He has done all that while being tied for the highest BABIP (.306) among those in the top 20 for ERA. Teammate Anibal Sanchez joins him, and that is no coincidence. That is the Detroit infield defense in full effect.
AUTO-START: Clayton Kershaw and Cole Hamels
Still trust Hamels. For now.
Paul Sporer is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @sporer
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Paul, could you rank these guys ROS in a standard 5x5, or at least put them in tiers? AJ Griffin, Lincecum, Lackey, Marcum, Hellickson, Hughes, Skaggs, Phelps, Ubaldo.
Jun 07, 2013 07:06 AM
Looks like there's small mixup in Wacha's description. You have him listed as pitching against Cincinnati twice. I think it should be Colorado?
Jun 07, 2013 07:31 AM
Breaking: Gerrit Cole may start Tuesday for Bucs against Giants. Would he be in consider status? Potentially if he starts at Sunday again, that would be Dodgers.
Jun 07, 2013 09:53 AM
Just wanted to thank you for this. I went into my draft with Bailey and Cliff Lee. Pitching prices were insane at the auction, so I zigged and built a great offense. As a result, I had to scrounge for pitching and walked away with Turner (minors), Danks (DL), Tillman (DL, but good since), Lewis (DL), Corbin (score!), Smyly (middle relief in a 16-team K/QS league), and Lilly (DL).
Jun 07, 2013 10:51 AM
apparently tony cingrani could become a two-start pitcher this week, at the cubs on tuesday and home against the brewers on sunday. thoughts about start/sit?
Jun 08, 2013 05:46 AM
apparently it is going to be a week of freshman risks for me. in my NL only league i've got wacha, cole and now cingrani going twice each. time to break out the rosary.
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I'm feeling much better since doing the detox. Of course, I can't know for certain what made me feel better, I'm just glad that I do. I'm keeping up with green smoothies and more raw vegetables. I also think that getting back into the habit of spending time working in my studio has helped my mental health. I find it tricky balancing my family and my work, but I seem to be happiest when I manage to make time for both. I'm finding a rhythm in my days that involves family first but still allows me to work a bit (as long as I'm willing to have a messy house sometimes). The result of this will be new things being added to my shop over the coming month. I've been dyeing mini skeins, and I just cut a big stack of organic cotton gauze scarves. I had quite a few requests for deep indigo scarves, so I will aim to dye those soon. I will also be adding a limited run of my wildflower stickers to my shop later this week. I've sold these with and without storage tins in the past, and for this run, I only have a few tins. The other sets will ship in paperboard envelopes. Just let me know if I should order more of the tins. They do make for a more attractive presentation but also require me to sit and punch the corners of every sheet of stickers so they will fit inside, making those sets more labor intensive and more expensive. I used a combination of my favorite images from my last sticker sets along with some new photos for these and I'm really happy with them! Stickers never stop being fun no matter how old you are.
p.s. Here are links to some of the things in this post you might wonder about: Mabel's red sweater (the first I ever knit) and her pink hat. The interlocking blocks, a longtime favorite, are from Nova Natural. The girls' collection of saint figures you probably recognize from Sue's shop. The rainbow yarn was a gift and Larkspur is knitting with it. Both girls have been knitting simple pouches lately. That last dark photo is of the bunny I am knitting. I'll probably talk more about that in my February Yarn Along post this week! Speaking of rabbits, in case you wondered, that's a bunny hutch for Gus between the girls' desks.


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Ypacarai is a small town around 40km from Asunción, the capital of Paraguay. Buses pass through it on the way to San Bernardino and other destinations to the east. It is very small, but quite pleasant. A nice place to stop for an hour if you have the time.
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This can be seen on their first DVD, filmed in the Dutch city of Rijssen at the end of their European tour in February. Drummer Davy Mickers begins the set with the mystical drum charge of the opening track "Spellbound", he is joined by Marcela Bovio's beguiling vocals, Alejandro Millan's fluid piano lines, Johan van Stratums' thundering bass and the wall of guitar provided by Lori Linstruth and Arjen Lucassen. The band's sound is filled out on stage with Marcela Bovio's younger sister Diana guesting on backing vocals. The two sister's beautiful harmonies prove that nothing is lost from what made the band's debut album so special.
The mixture of gothic, dark wave and progressive rock obviously tapped into the pulse of the audiences. The crowd received the seven songs from "Embrace The Storm" with great enthusiasm, ranging from the violent rock of "Passion" to the fragile ballad "Nostalgia" with its Spanish lyrics, to the hard rock groove of "Out In The Real World".
It's also a special treat to hear Stream Of Passion interpret compositions Lucassen's compositions for Ayreon and Star One live on stage. Those tracks are seamlessly interwoven with the band's own numbers making them sound very much at home in the set. Stream Of Passion's "Deceiver" blends with ease into an audience favourite from the Star One album, "Songs of the Ocean". "Valley of the Queens" from "Into the Electric Castle", features Marcela Bovio's striking vocals to great effect. It is the song that originally convinced Lucassen to record a complete album with her after first hearing her sing it for him. Prior to this, she had appeared on the Ayreon rock opera "The Human Equation". "Day Eleven: Love" from that album is performed as a duet between Bovio and Lucassen. The show is topped off by a cover of the mighty Led Zeppelin song "When the Levee Breaks", which features guest vocalist Damian Wilson – a familiar guest from the Ayreon albums.
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Foreign rail firms shunted as "Made in China" mantra gathers pace
[SHANGHAI] Foreign firms say they are struggling to gain access to China's vast railway market as the country, seeking to transform its domestic industry into an export powerhouse, tightens the bidding criteria on rail tenders.
The complaints echo similar concerns raised in other industries including technology and renewable energy, and highlight what some foreign companies see as an uneven playing field when operating in China.
Four rail suppliers with offshore funding said they were finding it harder to win contracts thanks to the proliferation of government-supported rivals, with at least one saying it was already experiencing discrimination.
"In the last one-two years there have been tendencies to disregard foreign-invested companies as Chinese companies, and to prefer Chinese-invested companies versus foreign-invested companies," Ansgar Brockmeyer, board chairman of German brake maker Knorr-Bremse's Asia Pacific arm, told Reuters.
Foreign participation in China's rail market has for the last decade been limited to minority stakes in joint ventures or as sub-suppliers of domestic players, often with the condition that they transfer technology to local partners.
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Many, like Germany's Siemens AG and Canada's Bombardier did and consequently helped build the world's biggest railway network by both length and revenue.
Beijing now wants to help many of these local partners such as CRRC Corp become globally competitive behemoths which will export home-grown technology. Its "Made in China 2025" plan released last year described railways as a priority sector.
Some industry insiders say this is causing concern that wholly-local firms are being increasingly favoured at the expense of foreign invested companies.
Knorr-Bremse, which has been supplying braking systems to metro operators for 25 years, said it had received tender documents from 11 Chinese cities in 2015 that stipulated new bidding rules which scored down foreign-invested firms versus purely local names. It lost out on three as a result, it said.
"We are concerned that ... this might become a trend but on the other hand we can't really imagine because this would clearly infringe any World Trade Organisation agreement," Mr Brockmeyer said.
"We are in discussions with the local governments and the NDRC on this."
The 11 Chinese cities including Kunming, Urumqi and Guangzhou have begun to score companies on whether they are foreign-invested or 100 per cent local firms. In the past firms simply had to prove that at least 70 per cent of their supply chain was in China. Metro operators award bidders on different categories such as price, which they later add up to determine a winner.
The metro operators of Kunming, Urumqi and Guangzhou as well as the National Development and Reform Commission did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
The European Chamber of Commerce in China has also raised concerns over tougher conditions for companies with foreign investment, saying recent statements from Beijing about opening the rail market up to private capital "indicates that the government treats domestic capital preferentially."
"For the market for urban rail, the regulatory system also restricts foreign companies from bidding directly for rolling stock and signalling business. In some instances it even prevents Sino-foreign JVs from obtaining a license or qualification to bid," the Chamber said.
The Chamber in June warned of an "increasingly hostile"overall business environment that was tilted in favour of domestic firms.
Such concerns have been particularly prevalent in the technology sector, which lobbied US President Barack Obama last year.
In February last year, China dropped some of the world's leading technology brands from its approved state purchase lists, while approving thousands more locally made products.
Other rail suppliers spoke of growing pressure coming from a proliferation of new local rivals, many of whom are government-supported.
"The new competitors we're facing here in China are purely local companies," said Lv Yachen, who chairs a joint venture between French electronics firm Thales SA and state firm Shanghai Electric Group, which supplies signalling systems to Chinese subway project.
"As the NDRC is attaching great importance to independent property rights, we used to have four-five signalling suppliers in the industry but now it has become nine and another three are to be approved very soon," he said.
Two industry executives who declined to be named for fear that it would affect their business relationships said some firms were considering shifting their focus to other overseas markets, or choosing to downplay the foreign participation in their partnerships to cope with the "buy local" push.
"Now it's all about buying from Chinese companies," said a source from a large European railway supplier. "It's harder to do business here."
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It would be nice if the people doing the job actually used the tools. Would you hire a photographer that didn't know how to use a camera? Or more to the point, one that didn't have images to show you of previous work? Just appointing someone in the organization to "do social media" because they "want to" may not be the best way to gain credibility for your brand. Still... people gotta learn somewhere. Perhaps the question we should be asking isn't whether the person has experience but whether they are capable.
How Important Is It For Social Media Leads To Eat Their Own Dogfood?(poll) In the past few months I've noticed a trend. Organizations of all shapes and sizes are appointing people into "social media" positions. From VP's of Social Media, to Social Media editors, etc. It's indicative of the ...
I decided to try an experiment about two months ago. I followed the 250 top tweeter list. I now have 1100-some followers. I followed anyone who followed me. And, like getting into an elevator with folks, some were interesting... some were not. I think that there are many like myself who are finding the vast unwashed masses out there really have nothing to say. They ride the twitter elevator with me facing forward never saying a word. It's that base of lurkers that gives twitter its millions of users... but are they really DOING anything with the service? After signing up and following Ashton Kutcher or Wil Wheaton... are they hanging around? I'll be weeding through those folks soon. Keeping Guy Kawasaki and unfollowing some others. I'm not interested in marketing spam and how I can make $200 every time I click on that tiny.url. I am interested in how lifechurch.tv is using the internet in new ways, or how Gogoinflight.com is providing internet service to aircraft around the US. I've started checking out new followers and only following back those with interesting streams. I also followed my congress critters and that's been interesting. I'm trying out the new "discerning" style and we'll see where that leads me. I do know I can't read through 1100 people in a stream... I can't imagine how anyone can read more without filtering out large amounts of content. In that case, haven't followers just become a badge of sorts? So I can say I have more than you do? The power to talk to more of them than you can? And if that's the case... do we really want to put a lot of stock in a service where Ashton Kutcher is the most powerful person?
Colleague Peter Kim and I got into an interesting discussion on Twitter today. Turns out that he uses autofollow, while I don't. Now before you take sides on this—I'd like for you to consider the bigger picture. After our conversation, I went and checked many of the active people on Tw...


text: Politics 28 October 2010 No robot could replace my PA In the sixth part of her series on social care, Victoria Brignell describes some of her worst experi Sign-up In the sixth part of her series on social care, Victoria Brignell describes some of her worst experiences with carers PAs play a crucial role in my life. A high proportion of my time is spent in their company and they carry out the most intimate tasks such as dressing me, washing me and feeding me. I'm not exaggerating when I say that the quality of my life is largely determined by the quality of my PAs. When I have good PAs my life is fantastic. When PAs cause problems, life can become very bleak. I'm probably tempting fate by saying this, but at the moment I am going through a 'golden period' of care. All my current PAs are wonderful. They all have strong skills and warm personalities. However, I've not always been so fortunate. There have been times when I've had some very difficult experiences with PAs. I once had a live-in PA who never talked to me. She carried out the practical tasks she was meant to do, but her interpersonal skills were non-existent. She didn't seem able or willing to get to know me as a person. We would travel together to my workplace each morning and we would pass the entire journey in complete silence. Whenever I attempted to make conversation I would be met with monosyllabic responses. It was very unnerving. Thankfully she handed in her notice after four months. Another former live-in PA turned out to be incapable of keeping my home clean. One day my dad happened to call into my flat. He discovered that bags of rubbish had been left hidden in cupboards and behind the settee. How long they had been there I didn't like to guess. I remember an occasion many years ago when one of my PAs pulled out of a nightshift just a couple of hours before she was due to come on duty. I rang another one of my PAs who agreed to cover for her. She was a kind person and she probably thought she was doing me a favour. The significant fact she failed to mention was that she had spent the evening in the pub. When she arrived it was very obvious that she was drunk and not in a fit state to provide personal care, but by that time it was so late at night there was no way an agency would have found someone to cover. I kept my fingers crossed that I wouldn't need much help before the morning and in particular that I wouldn't need the loo. Sadly, on that occasion, the fates were not on my side. Shortly after midnight I ended up having to cope with an inebriated PA helping me to go to the toilet. I can see the funny side of it now but at the time I didn't feel like laughing. I have to say, it's not an experience I want to repeat. Recently an American study showed that misery is contagious. If you spend a lot of time with a gloomy person then you are more likely to be fed up yourself. I can back this up. There was a time when I had a live-in PA who was constantly depressed. Most of her conversation was a long list of disasters, problems and illnesses affecting her, her relatives or her friends. I am very sensitive to the moods of the people around me and, although I tried hard to maintain my normal cheerful outlook, eventually I found her negative attitude was affecting me. I would dread the moment when she came on duty at 6pm, knowing that I was likely to have to listen to another long tale of woe. She stayed in the job for only six months but it felt much longer. Several years ago I had a live-in PA who resigned after only 12 hours in the job and refused to work out her notice. At the end of the first day she claimed that the Underground set off her asthma and that she couldn't live in London any longer. I was prepared to accept her explanation but what upset me greatly was that she wanted to go home straightaway and leave me on my own in my flat. She wasn't even willing to wait for another carer to arrive. With difficulty I managed to persuade her to accompany me back to my parents' house in Essex. (My parents lived in the same town as her). I couldn't believe that any carer would be prepared to abandon me in that way. It took me a while to recover mentally from that experience. The most upsetting predicament I've encountered concerned a live-in PA who often used to criticise me when I asked for help at night-time. This was despite the fact that providing personal care during the night was a fundamental part of her job description. I found her hostility very hard to handle. I hate asking people to help me when they make it blatantly clear they don't want to do so. I tried talking to her about it and this softened her behaviour for a while but eventually she returned to her former attitude. I considered dismissing her but I knew how much she needed the money and I was scared as to how she would react if I asked her to leave. If she had walked out straight away I would have had to cope with inexperienced agency staff while I tried to find a new PA. And if she had agreed to work her notice period there would have been an unbearably tense atmosphere in my flat for several weeks. I decided to put up with what was happening but, with hindsight, I realise this came at an emotional cost. Every time she complained about my requests for help, it lowered my self-esteem, knocked my confidence and put me on edge. I was so relieved when she finally left. The next day I felt a tremendous sense of liberation. It was as if a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Despite these experiences, I count myself as relatively lucky. I know disabled people who have suffered more than I've done. One PA employer I've spoken to was woken up early one morning by police raiding her home. They were looking for her PA in connection with an investigation they were conducting. Another disabled person had his bank cards stolen by his PA. The PA then went travelling around Europe using the disabled person's money. Eventually the police caught the PA and the story made it into the tabloids. Nevertheless, I would like to emphasise that these PAs are the exceptions. The majority of my PAs have been very caring, conscientious and sensitive. They see me as a person with feelings, rather than simply as the source of their next pay cheque. A number of my PAs have gone on to become friends and we've stayed in touch long after they have finished being one of my PAs. Now and again occupational therapists tell me there are gadgets which I can use to switch on my TV, draw the curtains or turn the pages of a book. These devices are useful for some disabled people but as I need to have a PA with me anyway I've never seen the point of spending mine or taxpayers' money on them. Frankly, no piece of technology is as quick, accurate, flexible and reliable as a human being. I've seen robots on television that scientists have programmed to carry out household chores. Personally I doubt whether scientists will ever be able to devise a robot that can replace a PA and frankly I don't want them to. Never underestimate the importance of the human touch. You can't have a laugh and a joke with a robot. In this series on social care, Victoria gives her personal views on how the system works for her. These are not the views of the BBC. 'BBC Radio 4's multi award-winning 'Care in the UK' season returns on Monday November 8th 2010 until Friday December 3rd 2010. Hear from key players in the social care industry, discuss current topics including the future of social care funding and Personalisation, plus the chance to hear from Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and Care Services Minister Paul Burstow. Victoria Brignell works as a radio producer with the BBC. After reading classics at Downing College, Cambridge, she undertook journalism training at Cardiff University. 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This Copain Wines vineyard wedding includes so much of our favorites- a stunning Carolina Herrera gown, beautiful natural scenery and amazing views looking over the vineyards in Sonoma. And lastly, but certainly not least a loving couple celebrating their special day with amazing food and close family and friends. It was out first time photographing at Copain, but we fell in love with so much about the location. We are looking forward to coming back in the future. In the meantime, we have Stephanie & Charlie's beautiful wedding to look back on.
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Mary Poppins is on her way
STREET theatre, brass bands, magicians and puppets are set to make the annual Mary Poppins Festival one of the liveliest yet.
The week-long explosion of colour, art, culture and fun will run from Sunday, June 26, with Sunday in the Park and finish on July 3 with the Mary Poppins in the Park extravaganza.
Principal office events manager Kim Griffith could not agree more and is hoping to better last year's festival numbers.
"Between 10,000 and 15,000 attended the festival in the park last year," she said.
"It was a fantastic event and we are showing the best that Maryborough has to offer."
Maryborough celebrates a unique link to the iconic nanny as the author of Mary Poppins, Pamela Travers, was born in the Heritage City.
"It is an extremely popular festival because it's the only one of its kind in the world," Ms Griffith said.
"An event truly unique to Maryborough's special heritage."
The festival is also set to include Mary Poppins characters, madcap nanny races, workshops, rides, and an appearance from Carmel Murdoch who plays Mary Poppins in the Sydney Musical.
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Yes, audiobooks are real books
Do audiobooks leave the brain distracted and disjointed or are they just another way to enjoy and absorb a story? Are audiobooks real reading, or cheating? With the rise of podcasting and storytelling events, both highly respected mediums, why do audiobooks continue to suffer this stigma?
The science of listening: decoding and translating
Daniel Willingham is one of the most respected authorities on learning styles and has written a lot about audiobooks. He explains that there are two basic processes happening when you're reading. There is decoding, or translating the strings of letters into words that mean something. And then there is language processing, or comprehension — that is, figuring out the syntax, the story, et cetera. Researchers have studied the question of comprehension for decades, and what you find is very high correlations of reading comprehension and listening comprehension. As science writer Olga Khazan noted in 2011, a "1985 study found listening comprehension correlated strongly with reading comprehension — suggesting that those who read books well would listen to them well. In a 1977 study, college students who listened to a short story were able to summarize it with equal accuracy as those who read it." Listeners and readers retain about the equal understanding of the passages they've consumed, in other words.
Not only are audiobooks a valid form of reading, but there might be some benefits that readers of the written word miss. According to Two Guys on Your Head podcast, "because you can't go back and re-read when you listen you are more likely to extract the deeper meaning from things quicker." Could it be that audiobooks boost reading comprehension and analytical skills?
This kind of data might explain the discovery that podcasts help children learn to read. Audiobooks can help the struggling reader, too, who might get frustrated with where they "should" be and give up too soon. Experiencing some success and enjoyment can fuel the hunger to practice and engender an appreciation for reading. "Listening while reading helps people have several successful reading events in a row, where they are reading "with accuracy and enjoyment." And, listening has been shown to help with decoding, a fundamental part of reading."
Kilgore Memorial Library has audiobooks available in a variety of formats. Readers will find traditional cases with physical CDs along with another popular format, the Playaway. For those readers who prefer downloadable audiobooks, we offer collections from OverDrive and OneClick Digital. Let us know if we can help you find your next audiobook!
Yes, audiobooks are real books, was first posted to OverDrive Blogs by Patti Carlyle on October 13, 2016, under General, Schools. Edited for this post by Deb Robertson on November 28, 2016.


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The BPM Round Table France brings together people from different French universities and laboratories, which are developing research activities related to BPM research and applications: Université de Lorraine and LORIA laboratory and INRIA Grand Est, PSL* Research University,
Prof. Salima Benbernou (http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~sbenbern/) is professor at Université Paris Renée Descartes (Paris 5), and is a member of Managing and Mining Data (MMD) group and heading database and service team. Her research work interest is the data management from various sources (services, users …). It is dealing of managing data in the new applications including services, business process, cloud computing, social networks and semantic Web handling security and privacy. Her work experience includes visiting scientist many times at University New South Wales (Australia), Tilburg University and Purdue University (USA). She wrote more than 50 papers (ICDE, ICSOC, TSE, Caise..), book chapters, and is a program committee member and Advisory member of many conferences and journals (ICSOC, TSP, COOPIS, ACM TWEB , TKDE …).
Dr. Walid Gaaloul (http://www-inf.it-sudparis.eu/~gaaloulw) /is an associate professor in TELECOM SudParis. He is member of the SIMBAD group of the research laboratory SAMOVAR (http://samovar.telecom-sudparis.eu/). Before joining TMSP, he was a researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) and an adjunct lecturer in the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). He holds a Ph.D. (2006) in computer science from the University of Nancy-France. His research interests are on Business Process Management, Process intelligence, Process reliability, Service Oriented Computing and semantics for B2B Integration. He has published over 60 research papers and served as program committee member and reviewer at many international journals and conferences and has been participating in several national and European research projects.
Prof. Claude Godart (http://www.loria.fr/~godart) is a Professor at Université de Lorraine (http://www.univ-lorraine.fr/). His center of interest concentrates on the consistency maintenance of the data mediating the cooperation between several partners. This encompasses advanced transaction models, user centric workflow and web services composition models. He has published more than 200 papers and was organizer of several conferences, including BPM 2005 and WISE 2007 in Nancy. He was scientific director of the ECOO (Environment for cooperation) INRIA project from 20008 to 2009, he is currently member of the SCORE (Service and cooperation) team of LORIA. He has been implicated in several transfer projects with industries (France, Europe, Japan), including the Bonita business process management system (http://fr.bonitasoft.com/).
Prof. Daniela Grigori is a Professor in computer science at the University Paris-Dauphine (part of PSL* Research University) since September 2011. Previously she was an associate professor at the University of Versailles. She received her degree in Computer Engineering from Technical University of Iasy (Romania) and PhD degree in computer science from University Nancy I (in 2001). Previously she worked several years at Romanian Research Institute for Informatics on developing information retrieval methods and tools. She has a number of papers in international conferences and journals and has served as organizer and program committee member in many conferences. She is co-author of a book on process management systems.
Prof. Mohand Said Hacid (http://liris.cnrs.fr/mohand-said.hacid) Professor in Computer Sciences at the University Lyon 1. His research areas include query languages for information systems, Web services, semantic Web, Web services. He investigates issues related to security and optimization in these systems.
Prof. Olivier Perrin (http://www.loria.fr/~operrin) is Professor at Université de Lorraine and works at LORIA in the SCORE project. He received his Ph.D. from University Henri Poincaré Nancy 1 in 1994. His research interests include various topics in BP Modeling for virtual organizations, Service Oriented Architectures, Web services compositions with non-functional requirements (temporal, security), BPM covering the process life cycle from modeling to execution including compliance purposes, and enterprise application & data integration. He has published several articles in international journals (Data & Knowledge Engineering, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Journal of Data Management …), and conferences (WWW, WISE, CAiSE, BPM, ICWS …) and workshops. He is in various program committees and he is involved in several international and European projects.
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Prof. Farouk Toumani (http://www.isima.fr/~ftoumani/): Full Professor, University Blaise Pascal of Clermont Ferrand. He received his PhD degree in computer science from INSA of Lyon, France, in 1997. He is leading the Data Service and Interoperability (DSI) group of the LIMOS since September 2007. His research interests lie in the areas of Business Process Management, Web services, semantics Web, and knowledge representation for databases. He served as a general co-chair of BPM 2011, and as a PC co-chair of ICSOC 2012, BPM 2011, COSI'2009, and Workshop co-chair at ICSOC'2009. He has been a Program Committee member of several conferences and has/had a number of funded projects (IST European projects, ANR projects, Industrial). He has published widely in highly reputable international journals and conferences.
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The Higgs Boson Field
So the last couple of weeks I have been thinking more about "high strangeness" and what that all means. How does it tie together? At this moment, I think it all has to do with consciousness, maybe that is the baseline that physicists skirt around when they seek the ultimate—the undefined something that explains it all. The unity.
What is High Strangeness?
The term was coined by Dr. J. Allen Hynek in an address to the United Nations on November 27, 1978. He was speaking about the world-wide phenomenon of Flying Saucers—UFOs.
Included in High Strangeness are such events as alien abductions, cryptogeographic beings such as Bigfoot, Nessie, and all the other "monsters" throughout history. Also included is the Men in Black phenomenon and UFOs. Lately, it has grown to include the more extreme ends of the paranormal spectrum in general.
Tied in with all these are "synchronicities," those meaningful coincidences (Carl Jung's definition) that give us pause and jerk us from our "mindless" routines into a more mindful state. This change of consciousness is, I think, the key to understanding the phenomenon.
Is it real?
Basically, yes, the experience is real. People are experiencing communications with "otherworldly beings," aliens, and crypto-creatures. (Yes, there are hoaxers, but not everyone is a hoaxer.)
Are the aliens and crypto-creatures flesh and blood? I am not so sure. I think that they are of our own creation—that we have the ability to create these experiences for ourselves. But I don't buy that they are hallucinations—I think they have more substance than that.
I think there is a field out of which we create these experiences. Call the field astral, etheric, or whatever term you like better, I think that the basis of that field is the one thing that, in my opinion, existed before the big bang—consciousness.
The Higgs Boson or God-particle
Dr. Peter Higgs, after whom the particle was named, describes it like this, "…these particles are just packages of energy of some kind of field. And the feature [that] distinguishes this kind of theory…is the existence of what we, theoretical physicists, call the vacuum, which means nowadays something different than what it used to mean. It's just the lowest energy state that you could possibly have in which there are no particles around but there maybe something around. And that something around can be a background field of some sort, which pervades the universe." (Italics mine)
So here is my thought: the field that pervades the universe is consciousness, pure and simple. (Well, maybe pure, but not so simple.)
What do all humans (and other living things) have in common? Consciousness. So what if our personal consciousness interacts with this background field and out pops these "god-particles" called Higgs Boson that create our individual reality? Then we interact with whatever high strangeness our consciousness initiates.
Indeed, this High Strangness pops in and out of the Higgs field of consciousness when the individual becomes aware of it.
Is this how it works?
So, what if one individual has a strange experience, as people have had for millennia. Let's say the experience is akin to the Fairy Folk lore—being lured or abducted into some other-worldly place. But Fairy lore is not part of this person's experience, so s/he comes to a different belief about it—alien contact. (Like fairy lore, alien contact can be enlightening or scary.) This person, from his/her conscious perception creates a new "reality." This person talks about it, maybe even writes a book. Other people pick it up, now focusing their personal consciousness on it. They start having the same experience and it spreads even more. (Think how the internet is speeding this process.)
What has happened is the field of of general consciousness (Is this the Higgs field?) shaped by all those who have gone before has created (an attribute of the Higgs field) an experience with matter. But because we are not all participating in the awareness it is only semi-formed. Not quite solid yet. Our perceiver, unaware of the fairy folk belief, shapes it into flying saucers and aliens. That is what s/he sees. The belief spreads, reinforcing the field and creating more experiences. As the same belief or perception is propagated, the semi-formed matter becomes more and more formed, more and more solid, more and more able to remain in the "real" world. So more and more people experience this phenomenon, as has happened with Bigfoot, flying saucers, and all the other "paranormal" phenomena.
Until one day comes when enough people see and experience it and it stays in our reality, no longer able to shrink back to the "other dimension" of the consciousness (Higgs) field.
This would explain why High Strangeness is only witnessed by some—those able to focus their consciousness, and not by others who do not share the same belief. It would also explain why some people see these things blink in and out of "reality," and why the observer affects the physicist's experiments.
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Liverpool have reportedly been dealt a crushing blow in their pursuit of Bayer Leverkusen's Julian Brandt, who had emerged as a main summer transfer target for Jurgen Klopp.
Bayern Munich are now believed to be keen on the player and are rumoured to have discussed a possible deal with talks being "far advanced," according to German news outlet SportsBild.
There was always the chance that Bayern would swoop in for a young German talent such as Brandt given their history in the transfer market.
A deal that saw Brandt move to the Allianz Arena would pose as another example of our need for Champions League football in order to attract the best players around. Having said that, few clubs are capable of competing with what the Bundesliga giants have to offer.
This promises to test the club's scouting operations and the ability to reassess this summer's window. If it isn't Brandt, it will be someone else that arrives on Merseyside. New signings are seemingly a necessity at the end of the season, regardless of where we finish in the Premier League table.
Brandt is valued at £20million and will undoubtedly be the subject of a bid from Liverpool when the window re-opens. For now, though, it's about continuing to fight for a top four spot.
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What do you grow? We're strictly vegetables. We grow 18 items for Organically Grown Company's wholesale distribution network, with kale, cucumbers, chicories, and red bell peppers being the bulk of it. We also grow over 60 items for sale at farmers' markets and to First Alternative. Tomatoes, peppers and greens are a big chunk of that. We sell you guys lots of greens—kales, chards, and chicory varieties—various sweet and hot peppers, basil, cucumbers, potatoes, fennel, and eggplant.
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I am Distinguished Professor of Environmental History at Michigan Technological University. My most recent book, Sustaining Lake Superior (Yale University Press, Fall 2017), examines climate change and toxics in the Lake Superior basin. I have been on sabbatical this strange year to write a book tentatively a titled Climate Ghosts: Northern Migrations in the Anthropocene.
This fall, I was Mellon Visiting Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the Center for Environmental Futures, University of Oregon. In the spring, I was the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Sustainability Solutions at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada.
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This fall, I was Mellon Visiting Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the Center for Environmental Futures, University of Oregon. In the spring, I was the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Sustainability Solutions at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada.
My previous books include:
- Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World (Yale University Press, 2017)
- An environmental history of Malheur Wildlife Refuge titled Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed (University of Washington Press, 2003). Where Land and Water Meet focuses on dilemmas over riparian management in the West and offers pragmatic solutions to the conflicts that have paralyzed land management.
- A history of the old growth crisis in the west titled Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (UWP 1995). Forest Dreams examines the causes of the forest health crisis on western national forests. It won the 1997 Forest History Society book prize for best book in forest and conservation history published in the preceding two years.
- A history of endocrine disruptors titled Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES, (Yale University Press 2010). Toxic Bodies examines the history of synthetic chemicals that disrupt hormones and the struggle for a precautionary principle to protect human and environmental health.
I am now working on two projects. One explores climate change and animal migrations, focused on the upper Great Lakes. How has climate change affected the movements of three iconic species of the northern forest: woodland caribou, Great Lakes sturgeon, and loons? These species were once abundant in the Great Lakes region, but habitat change, toxics, and over-hunting decimated their populations by the early 20th century. Conservation efforts recovered breeding populations of loons and sturgeon, but woodland caribou are now ghost species throughout much of their former range. On a few islands along the north coast of Lake Superior, populations persist, but predators threaten them--and predator populations are driven by complex relationships between forest industrialization, energy development, moose populations, and climate change. How have the relationships between humans and these other species been influenced by climate change? How do animal migrations influence the mobilizations of toxics into distant spaces, and how does climate change in turn affect toxic mobility? Can restoring these species help in the fight against climate change? I recently gave a series of lectures on these topics for the 2019 Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University, which I am revising into a book under contract with Brandeis University Press/U of Chicago. This project is funded in part by a National Science Foundation standard research grant.
My second project focuses on reindeer and caribou cultures across the circumpolar north, exploring the ways the people and reindeer have shaped each other, and been shaped by each other, in times of rapid environmental and political change. One part of this research includes work with Tsaatan reindeer herders in Mongolia. Another part includes work with Saami herders in Sapmi.
I am also committed to increasing diversity in the field of environmental history, particularly in syllabi.
Since July 2013, I have been a professor at Michigan Technological University, part of the Great Lakes Research Center and the Department of Social Sciences. During 2012-2013, I was the King Carl XVI Gustaf Professor of Environmental Science at Umeå University in Sweden. Before that, I was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 17 years, with appointments in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.


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Crab imperial is a classic Maryland dish made with blue crab bound in a mayonnaise-based sauce. In place of the mayo, Michael Mina makes a hollandaise sauce, which makes the spread even silkier. Slideshow: More Spring Hors d'Oeuvres Recipes
How to Make It
In a saucepan, melt 2 tablespoons of the butter over moderate heat. Stir in the flour to make a paste. Gradually whisk in the milk until smooth and simmer, whisking, until the sauce thickens. Reduce the heat to low and cook, whisking, until no floury taste remains, about 7 minutes. Season the béchamel with salt and pepper. Cover and remove from the heat.
In a skillet, heat the oil. Add the onion and cook over moderate heat until translucent. Add the bell pepper and cook until softened, 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
In a stainless steel bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the lemon juice. Set the bowl over (not in) a saucepan of simmering water and whisk constantly until thickened, 2 minutes; remove from the heat and slowly whisk in the 6 tablespoons of melted butter until a smooth sauce forms. Fold in the béchamel and lemon zest. Season with salt, pepper and hot sauce.
Preheat the broiler. Set one rack 6 inches from the heat and another rack 10 inches from the heat. Butter a 9-by-9-inch ceramic baking dish. In a bowl, combine the crabmeat, onion and bell pepper. Gently fold in the sauce. Scrape into the prepared baking dish. Broil on the upper rack for 3 minutes, until browned. Transfer the baking dish to the lower rack and broil for 4 minutes longer, until hot throughout. Serve with baguette toasts.