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|July 2, 2018
|LHP Craig Breslow assigned to Buffalo Bisons from New Hampshire Fisher Cats.
|June 23, 2018
|New Hampshire Fisher Cats activated LHP Craig Breslow from the 7-day disabled list.
|June 21, 2018
|sent LHP Craig Breslow on a rehab assignment to GCL Blue Jays.
|May 3, 2018
|New Hampshire Fisher Cats placed LHP Craig Breslow on the 7-day disabled list retroactive to May 2, 2018.
|April 3, 2018
|Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent LHP Craig Breslow to a minor league contract.
|April 3, 2018
|LHP Craig Breslow assigned to New Hampshire Fisher Cats.
|March 24, 2018
|Toronto Blue Jays released LHP Craig Breslow.
|February 12, 2018
|Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent LHP Craig Breslow to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
|February 12, 2018
|LHP Craig Breslow assigned to Buffalo Bisons.
|November 2, 2017
|LHP Craig Breslow elected free agency.
|October 12, 2017
|Cleveland Indians activated LHP Craig Breslow.
|October 5, 2017
|Cleveland Indians reassigned LHP Craig Breslow to the minor leagues.
|August 26, 2017
|Cleveland Indians selected the contract of LHP Craig Breslow from Columbus Clippers.
|August 9, 2017
|LHP Craig Breslow assigned to Columbus Clippers.
|August 4, 2017
|Cleveland Indians signed free agent LHP Craig Breslow to a minor league contract.
|July 29, 2017
|Minnesota Twins released LHP Craig Breslow.
|July 24, 2017
|Minnesota Twins designated LHP Craig Breslow for assignment.
|July 18, 2017
|Minnesota Twins activated LHP Craig Breslow from the 10-day disabled list.
|July 9, 2017
|Minnesota Twins sent LHP Craig Breslow on a rehab assignment to Rochester Red Wings.
|June 29, 2017
|Minnesota Twins placed LHP Craig Breslow on the 10-day disabled list retroactive to June 28, 2017. Left thoracic rib cage soreness
|March 22, 2017
|Minnesota Twins selected the contract of LHP Craig Breslow from Rochester Red Wings.
|February 13, 2017
|LHP Craig Breslow assigned to Rochester Red Wings.
|February 9, 2017
|Minnesota Twins signed free agent LHP Craig Breslow to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
|August 9, 2016
|Round Rock Express released LHP Craig Breslow.
|August 4, 2016
|Round Rock Express placed LHP Craig Breslow on the temporarily inactive list.
|July 28, 2016
|LHP Craig Breslow assigned to Round Rock Express.
|July 27, 2016
|Texas Rangers signed free agent LHP Craig Breslow to a minor league contract.
|July 18, 2016
|New Orleans Zephyrs released LHP Craig Breslow.
|May 17, 2016
|LHP Craig Breslow assigned to New Orleans Zephyrs from Batavia Muckdogs.
|May 16, 2016
|LHP Craig Breslow assigned to Batavia Muckdogs from New Orleans Zephyrs.
|May 13, 2016
|Miami Marlins sent LHP Craig Breslow outright to New Orleans Zephyrs.
|May 11, 2016
|Miami Marlins designated LHP Craig Breslow for assignment.
|April 3, 2016
|Miami Marlins selected the contract of LHP Craig Breslow from New Orleans Zephyrs.
|March 4, 2016
|Miami Marlins invited non-roster LHP Craig Breslow to spring training.
|February 21, 2016
|LHP Craig Breslow assigned to New Orleans Zephyrs.
|February 12, 2016
|Miami Marlins signed free agent LHP Craig Breslow to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
|November 2, 2015
|LHP Craig Breslow elected free agency.
|June 15, 2015
|Boston Red Sox activated LHP Craig Breslow from the paternity list.
|June 12, 2015
|Boston Red Sox placed LHP Craig Breslow on the paternity list.
|January 6, 2015
|Boston Red Sox signed free agent LHP Craig Breslow.
|October 30, 2014
|LHP Craig Breslow elected free agency.
|April 9, 2014
|Boston Red Sox activated LHP Craig Breslow from the 15-day disabled list.
|April 3, 2014
|Boston Red Sox sent LHP Craig Breslow on a rehab assignment to Pawtucket Red Sox.
|March 27, 2014
|Boston Red Sox placed LHP Craig Breslow on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 21, 2014. Mild left shoulder strain
|May 6, 2013
|Boston Red Sox activated LHP Craig Breslow from the 15-day disabled list.
|April 27, 2013
|Portland Sea Dogs sent LHP Craig Breslow on a rehab assignment to Pawtucket Red Sox.
|April 23, 2013
|Craig Breslow roster status changed by Portland Sea Dogs.
|March 31, 2013
|Boston Red Sox placed LHP Craig Breslow on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 22, 2013. Left shoulder tendinitis.
|August 1, 2012
|Boston Red Sox activated LHP Craig Breslow.
|July 31, 2012
|Arizona Diamondbacks traded LHP Craig Breslow to Boston Red Sox for RHP Matt Albers and CF Scott Podsednik.
|December 9, 2011
|Oakland Athletics traded cash, LHP Craig Breslow and RHP Trevor Cahill to Arizona Diamondbacks for RF Collin Cowgill, RHP Jarrod Parker and RHP Ryan Cook.
|May 21, 2009
|Craig Breslow roster status changed by Oakland Athletics.
|May 20, 2009
|Oakland Athletics claimed LHP Craig Breslow off waivers from Minnesota Twins.
|June 6, 2002
|Milwaukee Brewers signed LHP Craig Breslow.
Last name is pronounced: BREHZ-loh. Married to Kelly. Is a 1998 graduate of Trumbull (CT) High School. Graduated from Yale University in 2002 with degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry...Earned All-Ivy honors as a junior. Named the "Smartest Man in Baseball" by the Wall Street Journal in 2009, and ranked 1st on The Sporting News list of Top 20 Smartest Athletes in 2010. Garnered 2010 Most Valuable Jewish Pitcher of the Year honors by Jewish Major Leaguers, Inc. Was the 2013 recipient of the Unsung Hero Award from the Boston chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.2014
Made 60 appearances for BOS, 5th most on the staff despite missing the 1st week of the season while on the DL...Began the season on the disabled list with a mild left shoulder strain...Made 3 scoreless appearances (1 start) during a rehab assignment at Triple-A Pawtucket before being activated on 4/9...Threw 1.0 scoreless inning in his season debut on 4/10 at NYY...Had a 3.91 ERA (11 ER/25.1 IP) in 28 games on the road compared to a 7.71 ERA (25 ER/29.0 IP) in 32 at Fenway...Pitched more than 1.0 inning 10 times and posted a 2.25 ERA (4 ER/16.0 IP) in those games...Stranded 14 of 16 inherited runners...Made 10 straight scoreless appearances, 5/2-24 (9.2 IP) and held opponents to a .188 AVG (6-for-32) in that span...Had 4 separate appearances in which he allowed at least 4 ER...All together, those 4 games amounted to 18 of his total 36 ER allowed on the season...Earned the win in consecutive team games, both against CIN at Fenway Park, 5/6-7...Threw a scoreless 10th inning to record the save on 8/25 at TOR...Was his 1st save since 10/3/10 for OAK at SEA2013
Began the season on the 15-day disabled list with left shoulder tendinitis...Made 5 rehab appearances between both Double-A Portland and Triple-A Pawtucket. Reinstated from the DL on 5/6 and made his season debut that night vs. MIN (1.0 IP, SO). Made 61 appearances after his activation on 5/6 which were 6th most among AL pitchers (T-8th in MLB) beginning on that date. No runs allowed in 52 of his 61 appearances...Had 23 perfect appearances, 2nd most on the staff. His 5 wins tied for the lead among Sox relievers and were his most since a single-season career-high 8 in 2009 with OAK and MIN. Was 3-1 with a 0.56 ERA (2 ER/32.1 IP) in 29 appearances on the road and 28 of those appearances were scoreless... Was 2-1 with a 3.29 ERA (10 ER/27.1 IP) in 32 games at Fenway Park. Threw more than 1.0 inning 14 times (4-1, 1.14 ERA, 3 ER/23.2 IP)...Pitched 2.0 or more innings 5 times. Earned his 1st win of the season in the Sox' 6-5 walk-off victory over CLE on 5/26...BOS trailed 5-2 entering the bottom of the 9th inning. Posted a career-best 16-game scoreless streak (13.2 IP), 7/22-8/31...Held opponents to a .140 AVG (6-for-43) over that span...All 12 of his appearances in the month of August were scoreless (8.2 IP). Went 2-0 with a 0.35 ERA (1 ER/25.2 IP), 12 H, 9 BB, 14 SO, .146 opp. AVG (12-for-82), and a 0.82 WHIP over his final 28 appearances of the season beginning 7/22. Each of his final 11 appearances of the season were scoreless (11.0 IP) and held opponents to a .143 AVG (5-for- 35)...Lowered his ERA from 2.22 on 9/1 to 1.81 at the season's end.2012 Split the season between ARI and BOS...Acquired by the Red Sox at the 7/31 trade deadline for RHP Matt Albers and OF Scott Podsednik. Held left-handed batters to a .222 AVG (24-for-108) overall...Posted a .074 opponent clip (2-for-27) vs. the AL East while tossing 9.2 scoreless frames over 10 outings against the division. Began the year with the D-backs and went 2-0 with a 2.70 ERA (13 ER/43.1 IP) in 40 relief outings...Fanned 42 batters with ARI, 8th-most among left-handed NL relievers at the time of the trade...16 of his 1st 18 appearances were scoreless, including 8 straight from 5/2-18 (9.1 IP). Made 300th career appearance on 4/17 vs. PIT. Tossed a season-high 2.1 innings on 4/20 vs. ATL (0 R), his 6th career outing of more than 2.0 innings. Did not walk a batter in a career-high 11 consecutive games from 5/29-7/ 2 (11.2 IP). 27 of his last 31 games were scoreless beginning at the start of July (2.22 ERA, 7 ER/28.1 IP)...Recorded 36 K's over 33.0 IP over his last 34 tilts beginning 6/23. Tallied at least 1 strikeout in a career-high 7 straight outings from 7/15-8/1 (10 K's), with the last of those appearances coming with BOS. Added to Red Sox active roster on 8/1 and appeared in 23 games with BOS, posting a 2.70 ERA (6 ER/20.0 IP) and holding opponents to a .206 AVG (14-for-68) with 19 K's...Allowed runs in just 3 outings with the Sox. Recorded 5 holds with the Sox, tied for the club lead beginning 7/31 (also Tazawa). Tossed 9.0 scoreless frames over 10 games to end the season beginning 9/2, holding opponents to .143 clip (4-for-28) with 9 K's during that span...15 of his final 16 outings of 2012 were scoreless beginning on 8/15 and had 15 strikeouts in that time (2.45 ERA, 4 ER/14.2 IP). 2011 Was 0-2 with a 3.79 ERA (25 ER in 59.1 IP) in 67 appearances in his second full season with the A's...his .296 (69-for-233) opponents average and 3.79 ERA marked career highs...Led all relief pitchers with a career-high 5 pickoffs and topped American League relievers in caught stealing (7)...also ranked 11th in the AL in inherited runners scored percent (21.1, 8-of-38)...Right-handers hit .261 (37-for-142) compared to .352 (32-for-91) vs. left-handers...Had a 3.06 ERA (11 ER in 32.1 IP) prior to the All-Star Break and a 4.67 ERA (14 E R in 27.0 IP) after...Compiled a pair of 11-game scoreless streaks (April 13- May 3 and June 11-July 15), tying his career high. 2010 Made a team-leading 75 appearances for the A's, registering a 4-4 mark with five saves and 3.01 ERA... the games pitched tied for the fifth highest single season total in Oakland history...also set an Oakland record for strikeouts by a left-handed reliever with 71...broke the previous mark of 69 set by Bob Lacey in 1977...ranked second among American League relievers in appearances, tied for fourth in innings pitched (74.2), tied for sixth in strikeouts and 10th in opponents batting average (.194)...the opponents batting average was a career low and marked his second consecutive season under .200...now has a .204 opponents average in his career...also had a career low .272 on-base percentage while posting career-highs in saves, innings pitched, hits (53), strikeouts and home runs (9)...matched his high in walks (29)...the nine home runs tied for eighth most among AL relievers...first batters faced were 9 for 69 (.130) with six walks (.200 on-base percentage)...the batting average was sixth lowest in the AL and the on-base percentage tied for sixth...tied for second in first batter strikeouts (23)...allowed 7 of 33 (21.2%) inherited runners to score, which was the seventh lowest percentage in the AL...his opponents batting average broke down to .181 (17 for 94) against left-handed hitters and .201 (36 for 179) against right-handers...allowed a .236 average with runners in scoring position but opponents were 0 for 11 with no RBI with the bases loaded...the 11 at-bats were the most among major league pitchers that did not allow a RBI with the bases loaded and were the most by an AL pitcher with no RBI since the stat was tracked beginning in 1974...opponents are 2 for 30 (.067) with six RBI with the bases loaded in his career...compiled a 5.17 ERA in 18 appearances on no days rest, a 2.44 ERA in his other 57 games... now has a 3.91 career ERA on no days rest and 2.56 ERA with one day of rest or more...had a 2.48 ERA on the road compared to 3.63 in Oakland, where he allowed six of his nine home runs...did not yield a run in his only appearance against Detroit and has not allowed a run in 11 career outings against the Tigers (11.0 ip)...tossed at least one inning in 56 of his 75 outings, including a season-high 2.0 three times.
Began the season with Minnesota and had a 6.28 ERA in 17 appearances when he was claimed off waivers
by the A's May 20...went 7-5 with a 2.60 ERA in 60 games with Oakland and combined for an 8-7
record and a 3.36 ERA in 77 appearances overall...the games pitched were a career high and second
most in the American League...his losses tied for the lead among AL relievers but he ranked second in
wins...his .197 opponents batting average tied for 10th lowest...now has a .209 (109 for 521) opponents
batting average in his career...allowed 12 of 50 (24.0%) inherited runners to score, which was 10th
lowest in the AL...has allowed 26 of 118 (22.0%) to score in his career...was 1-4 with a 4.46 ERA in 44
appearances before the All-Star Break but then went 7-3 with a 2.29 ERA in 33 games after the break...
the seven post-break wins led the A's pitching staff and tied for eighth among all AL pitchers...the ERA
tied for fourth lowest in the AL among pitchers with at least 35.0 post-break innings...his opponents
batting average included a .191 (26 for 136) mark against right-handed hitters and .204 (22 for 108)
against left-handers...allowed a .143 average with runners in scoring position and opponents are batting
.154 (24 for 156) against him with RISP for his career...first batters faced hit .302 (19 for 63) with 11
walks (.405 on-base percentage)...the walks tied for second most in the AL...tied for the AL lead in first
batter grounded into double plays (4) and tied for third in home runs (4)...compiled a 1.35 ERA in 28
games in the Coliseum, fanning 26 in 26.2 innings...had a 4.60 ERA with 29 strikeouts in 43.0 innings
in 49 games in all other ballparks...now has a 1.41 ERA (5 er in 32.0 ip) in 32 career appearances in
Oakland...had a 4.29 ERA in 25 outings on no days rest and a 2.96 ERA in 52 appearances with at least
one day of rest...allowed a .478 batting average against the opponents number one hitter in the order
and .167 against everyone else...tossed less than one inning in 31 of his 77 outings while throwing a
season high 2.0 innings four times.
Claimed off waivers by Cleveland from Boston March 23...made Cleveland debut at Oakland on April 4 working 1.1 scoreless innings...tossed 8.1 innings allowing three runs on 10 hits with five walks and seven strikeouts in seven appearances with the Indians...five of those seven appearances with the Indians were scoreless...tossed 2.0 innings, allowing three hits with three strikeouts, May 10 vs. Toronto...designated for assignment by Cleveland on May 23...claimed off waivers by the Twins from Cleveland on May 29...made Twins debut, tossing 1.2 innings with three strikeouts, May 31 vs. New York (AL)...did not allow a run in 11 appearances (10.2 ip), May 31-June 30...tossed a season-high 3.0 scoreless innings and recorded his first career save, August 29 at Oakland...posted a 0.55 ERA (16.1 ip, 1 er) in 18 appearances from August 16-September 25...opponents hit just .148 during the span...tied career-high three strikeouts, September 13 at Baltimore...pitched a scoreless inning in back-to-back games vs. the White Sox, September 24 and 25 (he retired all six batters he faced in the series)...did not allow a run in 13 appearances in September (9.0 innings)...allowed just eight of his 42 inherited runners to score.
Pitched exclusively for Triple-A Pawtucket, earning mid-season International League All-Star
honors for the second straight season...ranked third on the club with 49 appearances (all but one as a
reliever), going 2-3 with a 4.06 ERA...struck out 73 in 68.2 innings, an average of 9.6 strikeouts per
nine innings...was a Sept. 1 call-up to Boston, but did not pitch before being optioned back to Pawtucket
the following day...posted a 1.85 ERA in 29 games before the All-Star break and a 7.92 ERA in 20 appearances
after the break...had ERAs of 2.13 in April, 0.61 in May and 2.03 in June...was scored upon
in 10 of his final 16 outings of the season...had a streak of 12.1 consecutive innings without allowing
an earned run from June 14-July 3...worked more than 1.0 inning in 24 of his 48 relief appearances,
including a season-high 3.0 innings, three times...recorded a season-high five strikeouts in 2.0 innings
June 26 vs. Norwich...earned a save and a win in his third and fourth appearances of the season, respectively
(April 11 and 19), and then did not record another victory until Aug. 21...allowed one hit in 0.2
scoreless innings in the Triple-A All-Star Game July 11 in Albuquerque...his start Aug. 9 (3.0 ip, 1 er)
was the first of his professional career.
Had three separate stints with Boston, going a combined 0-2 with three holds and a 3.75 ERA
in 13 relief appearances...had 12 strikeouts in 12.0 innings...was originally selected from Pawtucket
July 13 and made his Red Sox debut the following night vs. Oakland, allowing just one hit with two
strikeouts in 1.2 innings...was optioned back to Pawtucket the next day before being recalled Aug. 14...
pitched that night vs. Detroit, but was again optioned to Pawtucket Aug. 18...earned a Sept. 1 call-up to
Boston, where he stayed for the remainder of the season...appeared in 11 games with the Sox to close
the year, going 0-2 with a 5.19 ERA...allowed one run in 1.0 inning for his first big league loss Sept. 9
vs. Kansas City...went 7-1 with seven saves and a 2.69 ERA in 39 relief appearances with Pawtucket
and was selected as the team's Most Valuable Pitcher in a teammate vote...was on the International
League team for the 2006 Triple-A All-Star Game but did not pitch...led the PawSox in appearances and
ranked second in saves while holding opponents to a .200 average...had 77 strikeouts in 67.0 innings,
an average of 10.3 strikeouts per nine innings...did not allow an earned run in his final 11 appearances
covering 17.1 innings, going 2-0 with two saves in that span.
Made his Major League debut with three separate stints with the Padres, posting no record and
a 2.20 ERA in 14 games out of the bullpen...with San Diego, limited left-handed hitters to a .063 average...
began the season with Mobile, going 2-1 with a 2.79 ERA in 39 relief appearances to earn a July
23 promotion to San Diego...made his Major League debut that night in Philadelphia, striking out three
in 1.2 innings of scoreless relief...was optioned back to Mobile the following day before being recalled
by the Padres five days later...was optioned to Triple-A Portland Aug. 11 and made seven appearances
before his third recall to San Diego, Sept. 1...pitched for Peoria in the Arizona Fall League and had a
loss and a 7.24 ERA in 15 relief appearances.
Began his 3rd season in the Brewers organization with Single-A High Desert, going
1-3 with a 7.19 ERA in 23 games before being released July 6...signed with the New
Jersey Jackals of the Independent Northeast League in late July, and went on to post a 3-1 record with a save and a 4.10 ERA in 19 games...held Northeast League foes to a .204 average and recorded 37 strikeouts in 26.1 innings, an average of 12.6 K's per 9 innings...did not allow a run in his first 6 games (9.1 IP) with the Jackals.
Averaged 11.1 strikeouts per nine innings for Single-A Beloit, fanning 80 batters in 65.0 innings...
issued only 27 walks for a 3-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio...held opponents to a .254 average and
gave up four home runs in 65.0 innings, an average of one homer per 16.3 innings.
Ranked fifth in the Pioneer League with six wins in his first professional campaign, going 6-2
with a 1.82 ERA in 23 appearances out of the pen for Rookie-level Ogden...struck out 56 in 54.1 innings
and limited the opposition to a .218 average.
OAKLAND: Compiled a 5.06 ERA and .360 opponents batting average over his first eight games through April 24...then held the opposition to a .096 batting average while posting a 2.17 ERA over a 29-game span from April 27 to June 27...had a 0.71 ERA and .100 opponents batting average in 12 outings in May and stranded all five of his inherited runners...that included a 10-game, 10.0-inning scoreless streak from May 7 to 29...stranded 19 of 20 inherited runners over a 51-game stretch from June 2 to Oct. 2...struck out a career-high four batters in 1.2 innings June 4 against Minnesota...retired 19 consecutive batters from June 13 to 27...pitched in five consecutive games from June 23 to 29, although the stretch included a pair of off-days...appeared in a total of 16 games in June, which are the most in one month by an A's pitcher since Billy Koch pitched in 16 games in Sept., 2002...tossed a scoreless eighth inning July 20 against Boston in the 200th appearance of his career...struck out the final two batters in the A's 3-1 win at Texas July 28 for his first save of the season...had just one career save entering the season and would go on to save four more games...yielded a career-high tying three runs Aug. 21 against Tampa Bay (fourth time, first since Aug. 28, 2009 at Los Angeles), but posted a 1.40 ERA over his final 17 appearances...had a season-best 11.1-inning scoreless streak over a 10-game stretch from Sept. 8 to 29 (3 h, 7 bb, 8 so) and finished September with a 1.29 ERA and .125 opponents batting average...now has a 1.63 ERA (9 er in 49.2 ip) in 52 career appearances in September, his lowest ERA for any month of the season...picked up his third save of the season Sept. 20 against Chicago... had each of the A's final three saves as he also recorded the save in the final two games of the season, Oct. 2 and 3 at Seattle...walked a career-high tying three batters Sept. 29 at Los Angeles (also May 2, 2009 vs. Kansas City).


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Large painting systems like dip or robotic painting systems are generally characterized by their long process time and complex motions. Transient simulation of such systems using CFD resulted in unfeasible computation times and utilized significant computing resources. With the advent of overlapping meshes and motion superposition models, STAR-CCM+ attempted to address the challenges of simulating complex motions. In order to reduce the long computation time associated with such large models and to enhance the effectiveness of overlapping meshes, a new concept was introduced based on the refinement of motion space for robust overset calculations.
Using this concept, the dipping-in process of a complete Body-in-White (BIW) was simulated which identified the air pockets inside the BIW at the end of the dipping process. This involved modeling the motion of a rotating conveyor system and a multiphase calculation for sixty seconds transient time.
A similar overset calculation of the dipping process was used to study the smearing of uncured adhesive joining the components inside an engine hood assembly. In this study, the relative pressure forces acting on every component of the engine hood assembly was computed and mapped to Finite-Element shell model of engine hood which was subsequently used to calculate the relative displacements between its components in Abaqus. Consequently, the design of inner panel of engine hood was optimized to minimize the relative motion, thereby preventing the smearing of adhesive.
Based on the same concept, a flow based robotic top coat painting system was simulated for thirty second transient time. The calculation involved modeling the TCP motion of three painting robots which followed a preprogrammed path and a predefined time plan. To deposit paint on BIW, the atomizer carried by the robots was simultaneously simulated which sprayed lagrangian particles on BIW during the motion. The atomizer's inlet properties were dynamically controlled using STAR-CCM+ automation capabilities.

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*** (out of four)
Many thrillers contain eerie, mysterious figures and a villain waiting for just the right time to strike. Not many thrillers grant attention to the unnerving crackle of an eggshell or, gulp, a young girl's orgasmic fantasy about doing a piano duet with her uncle.
The screenwriting debut for "Prison Break" star Wentworth Miller, "Stoker" isn't a Dracula story, contrary to what its name implies. Rather, the film consistently finds new pockets for discomfort as the death of Richard Stoker (Dermot Mulroney) precedes the arrival of his brother Charlie (Matthew Goode), whom Richard's daughter India (Mia Wasikowska) and Richard's wife (Nicole Kidman) didn't know existed. Attractive and charming, Charlie moves in with his niece and sister-in-law, and a tangible chill hovers even during placid conversations. People start disappearing. Relationships temporarily stabilize only to fracture in grand fashion.
This is the English-language debut for South Korean director and vengeance veteran Park Chan-wook (the unpleasant cult favorite "Oldboy," whose Spike Lee-helmed remake is expected this year). He paints style into nearly every shot. Indicating in voiceover, "To become adult is to become free," India sits in a pose identical to a concrete statue; later, she lies in the center of a ring of shoes she's outgrown. We learn she hates to be touched, and a school bully (Lucas Till of "X-Men: First Class") discovers what happens when you mess with her.
Frequently the deliberate rigidity in "Stoker" distances the story from the style. Miller sometimes favors implications over clarity. The effectively cold performances also can't hide the loose ends of a disturbing saga of inherited menace and the somewhat questionable presence of logic within madness.
Usually, though, "Stoker" and its upsetting notion of doing something bad to avoid doing something worse gets under your skin. It is art. It is horror. It is family.
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"There's no such thing as the suburbs anymore," says Minnesota State Representative Myron Orfield as he drives me past run-down apartment complexes and near-empty strip malls in the blue-collar communities north of Minneapolis. "They're all so different now." Except for the squat 1950s and 1960s architecture, this area looks like the inner city: check-cashing outlets, day-labor agencies, wig shops, pool halls, a social-service agency housed in an old 7-11 convenience store. In the suburb of Hilltop, the city hall sits in the middle of a trailer park. Orfield notes that schools in Brooklyn Center are 50 percent minority (in a region that is only 9 percent) and that 55 percent of students are eligible for free-lunch programs–suggesting a concentration of poverty approaching that of hard-hit neighborhoods in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
A few months later Orfield takes me on another tour, this time through the southwestern Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie, where we travel down newly reconstructed highways surrounded on all sides by mounds of black dirt. As rolling farmland is dug up for a new Blockbuster video store, a new Outback Steakhouse, new glitzy office parks for firms with quintessentially Year 2000 names like Veratech and PageNet, and new subdivisions of half-million-dollar homes, the air is full of the smell of fresh asphalt and the sound of pile drivers. "I get sad out here," he says. "The landscape is being destroyed and money is being sucked out of the city."
Orfield, 39, who grew up in Minneapolis and now represents it in the state legislature, has launched an ambitious political initiative to slow suburban sprawl and the accompanying flow of wealth from older neighborhoods into booming new communities on the fringes of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. He sees central cities and blue-collar suburbs as allies in an emerging political coalition to revitalize low- and middle-income communities–not just in Minneapolis-St. Paul but across the country. Working with a growing national movement of social-justice activists, environmentalists and municipal officials–both urban and suburban–Orfield promotes the idea that problems like poverty, affordable housing and inner-city decline are best solved on a regional basis. Struggling Brooklyn Center and ritzy Eden Prairie, along with the public housing projects and gentrified neighborhoods of Orfield's Minneapolis legislative district, are all part of the same metropolitan community. And their fates are inextricably linked.
All metropolitan regions function as unified economic units, Orfield explains, and many of the advantages enjoyed by new, upscale suburbs come at the expense of inner-city neighborhoods and older suburbs. Communities on the outer rings of a metropolitan area that are flourishing–with new houses, new businesses and new jobs–can offer lower taxes, better public services and shelter from crime and other social problems while providing no affordable housing for the low-wage workers who make this economic growth possible. This draws businesses and middle-class families away from cities and inner-ring suburbs, setting off a spiral of disinvestment and decline. The tax base shrinks in these older communities at the same time that an increasingly poor population needs more public services. This is the familiar story of urban decline that has ravaged cities across America since World War II. But Orfield has identified two new dimensions of the problem.


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Ukigumo wrote: Ultimately ethnicity is a separate variable from cultural paradigm. It is important to recognize this, both in the context of this particular discussion and how the development of Western Buddhism is understood.
One thing that comes to mind is how readily we can export one or the other (or both). For instance, in Japan a lot of the western intellectual paradigm is unquestionably present (secular thought, rationalism, a disenchanted world, a modern education system, etc...), yet a lot of the ethnic culture is still very much Japanese albeit with suit and tie.
This is a good observation.The real dividing line in Western Buddhism, I would argue, is not between Asians and non-Asians. It's between those for whom Buddhism represents a rejection, or at the very least, a critique of, the Western cultural paradigm and those for whom Buddhism must be modified to fit their Western cultural paradigm.* In other words, the dividing line here is not a question of race or ethnicity, but of basic, background worldview and how Buddhism relates to that worldview.
Perhaps it might be a distinction between the "orthodox" and the new adapted models.
I still think though the former can exist within a western cultural sphere without having to become watered down or blatantly sanitized of disagreeable religious elements.
I often think how a lot of ancient Indic ideas, such as karma and rebirth, would not have been so alien to many ancient Greek and Roman thinkers. The European cultural sphere once was not so different from the Indic cultural sphere, and so it is from the roots of western civilization rather than the tips of its leaves that we find a lot of common ground with Indic Buddhism. Modern secularism, materialism and Christianity in general are so incompatible with Buddhism so as make meaningful bridges all but impossible to build. However, I do think if we go back into ancient western civilization from whence our western thought and civilization are based in, there is a lot of common ground and it is from there that bridges can be built.
Basically, a kind of western Buddhism based on Indic thought yet compatible with classical Hellenic/Roman thought might be what is best rather than inorganically adopting largely alien cultural paradigms.


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Salesforce.com today launched a Social Ads Platform for Twitter using the new Twitter ads application programming interface. With it, marketers can now manage Twitter advertising at scale alongside all of their existing social marketing programs with the Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
With the new Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Ads Platform for Twitter, brands and agencies will be able to do the following:
Salesforce.com's new Twitter ads API product joins existing Salesforce Marketing Cloud Certified Twitter Products for Analytics and Engagement.
"Successful Twitter marketing has evolved and must be more holistic than just publishing content," said Michael Lazerow, chief marketing officer of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, in a statement "From the CMO to the community manager, our customers will see increased efficiency and return on investment from our new Social Ads Platform for Twitter, combined with our industry leading Twitter Certified Products for engagement and analytics."
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Resolution Media is one of several firms taking part in the closed beta testing of the Twitter API through the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Lisa Cucinotta, associate director of social media at the company, expects the product "will result in improved management efficiencies, targeting, and optimization capabilities, and stronger insights, which in turn will help us drive better results for clients through Twitter advertising programs."


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Patriots' Dennard in trouble againThe Sports Xchange
July 11. 2013 10:21PM
Alfonzo Dennard of the New England Patriots was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving early Thursday morning, the Omaha World-Herald first reported.
Dennard, 24, was allegedly straddling the center line at 2 a.m. when he was pulled over in Lincoln, Neb., where he attended school and played cornerback for the Cornhuskers.
The legal woes aren't new to the Patriots — or Dennard.
He was convicted of one count of assaulting a uniformed police officer in April of 2012, for which the penalty was 30 days in jail, two years probation and 100 hours of law enforcement-related community service.
His arrest could lead the county court judge who allowed a delayed jail sentence to begin next March, to reconsider. Judge Stephanie Stacy permitted the delay to avoid costing Dennard, a cornerback, any practice or game time with the Patriots.
A projected first- or second-round pick coming out of Nebraska, Dennard's arrest contributed to him sliding almost all the way out of the draft. The Patriots picked him 224th overall, in the seventh round.
While he played for the Patriots, Aaron Hernandez was arrested on June 26 and charged with murder in the killing of Odin Lloyd. Since then, the team has released him.


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Surface temperature of the oceans and seas
Information about HadSST3: the ocean and sea component of the global surface temperature dataset HadCRUT4.
HadSST3 is a dataset of maps of anomalies - the temperature relative to the average during a reference period - in the temperature of the water near the surface of the oceans and seas for each month since January 1850. It is updated monthly with new data. This page covers the following topics:
How is HadSST3 produced?
Sea surface temperature (SST) observations - a term used for measurements of the temperature of the water near the surface of both the oceans and seas - come from about 1,200 drifting buoys deployed across the world's oceans and around 4,000 ships in the Voluntary Observing Ship programme. There are also numerous moored buoys in the tropics and in coastal regions, principally around the USA. Together they take around 1.5 million observations each month. These are checked by computer and any obviously inaccurate readings are excluded.
The monthly updates are combined with archives of historical observations that have been gathered over the past 160 years. The historical data are adjusted to minimise the effects of changes in the way measurements were made.
The observations are compared to the long-term average for the locations where they were recorded. The differences from the long-term average, known as anomalies, are averaged onto a grid that divides the earth's surface into 'squares' that are equally spaced in latitude and longitude at 5º intervals. The period used to calculate the long-term average is 1961 to 1990. There are often large areas from which we receive few, or no, observations.
Are the data perfect?
The short answer is no. Before drifting and moored buoys were introduced, the vast majority of sea-surface temperature observations were made by voluntary observing ships. The observations were made for a variety of different purposes - for example to map ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream, for early weather forecasts - but they were not made to satisfy the later needs of global climate records. Consequently, the observations were made using a variety of methods, often dictated by expedience rather than accuracy.
An example of this is measurements made using a bucket to haul a sample of water to the ship's deck early in the data record. Many of these buckets were essentially canvas sacks and as they were hauled to deck evaporation from the sides of the buckets tended to cool the water sample, particularly on cold and windy days. Computer models of these buckets have been made and tested in wind tunnel experiments. These allow us to estimate the errors caused by using buckets to make SST measurements and to adjust the data accordingly.
As well as adjusting the data to reduce systematic measurement problems, the uncertainty in each temperature anomaly value is calculated. This includes an estimate of the uncertainty that arises from having to use observations made at discrete locations to estimate the average temperature anomaly over an area.
What does HadSST3 tell us?
The image at the top right shows a map of anomalies in SST in the most recent month of the HadSST3 dataset. The anomalies shown are the differences between the actual temperatures and the averages in the same month during a reference period of 1961 to 1990, so the map is showing where the oceans and seas are currently cooler or warmer near the surface of the water than they were during this reference period. See our Climate bulletins for information about what has happened in the climate this month.
The data for each month of the HadSST3 dataset can be averaged together to give an estimate of the global average SST anomaly for each year. The results are shown in the time series plot on the right. The plot shows our best estimates of the annual average temperature anomaly for each year (black line) and the 95% confidence range for each (grey area). This confidence range represents how much certainty we have in the values. In 19 out of 20 cases we expect the true value of the annual average temperature anomaly to be within this range.
Our page about Global surface temperature has discussion about features that can be seen in time series of SST and also shows how changes in the temperature of the sea surface compares to the land.
Further information
The dataset is available for download from the Met Office Hadley Centre observations web pages.
A more detailed description of the methods used to generate the dataset can be found in:
Kennedy J.J., Rayner, N.A., Smith, R.O., Saunby, M. and Parker, D.E. (2011a). Reassessing biases and other uncertainties in sea-surface temperature observations since 1850 part 1: measurement and sampling errors. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D14103, doi:10.1029/2010JD015218
Kennedy J.J., Rayner, N.A., Smith, R.O., Saunby, M. and Parker, D.E. (2011b). Reassessing biases and other uncertainties in sea-surface temperature observations since 1850 part 2: biases and homogenisation. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D14104, doi:10.1029/2010JD015220
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U.S. milk production is headed for the biggest contraction in 12 years as a drought-fueled surge in feed costs drives more cows to slaughter.
Output will drop 0.5 percent to 198.9 billion pounds (90.2 million metric tons) in 2013 as the herd shrinks to an eight-year low, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates. Milk futures rose 45 percent since mid-April and may advance at least an additional 19 percent to a record $25 per 100 pounds by June, said Shawn Hackett, the president of Boynton Beach, Florida- based Hackett Financial Advisers Inc. He correctly predicted the rally in March.
Dairies in California, the top milk-producing state, are filing for bankruptcy, and U.S. cows are being slaughtered at the fastest rate in more than a quarter century. Corn surged to a record in August as the USDA forecast the smallest crop in six years because of drought across the U.S. Global dairy prices tracked by the United Nations rose 6.9 percent last month, the most among the five food groups monitored, and that will probably mean record costs next year, Rabobank estimates.
"Farmers can't afford to buy as much grain and protein, and that affects milk production," said Bob Cropp, an economist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who has been following the industry since 1966. "In California, there've been some foreclosures and some sell-off of cows quite heavily. You're going to see that in other parts of the country."
Mercantile Exchange
Class III milk, used to make cheese, jumped 22 percent to $21.09 on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange this year. That's more than 21 of the 24 commodities in the Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index, which rose 2.6 percent. The MSCI All-Country World Index of equities climbed 11 percent, and Treasuries returned 1.8 percent, a Bank of America Corp. index shows.
The global dairy market is facing a scarcity of supply in the next 12 months as output slows in the U.S. and Europe and demand keeps expanding, Rabobank said in a Sept. 27 report. Surplus milk available for shipment from the seven biggest exporting regions will decline for the first time in four years, and there is little excess inventory, the bank's team of 11 dairy analysts estimate.
U.S. cows produced 1,776 pounds of milk each on average in August, 0.5 percent less than a year earlier, government data show. That's the first decline in 13 months and the biggest year-on-year drop since February 2004, according to Bill Brooks, an economist at INTL FCStone Inc. in Kansas City. Productivity probably slipped because of the heat waves and changes in feed rations, said Brooks, who grew up on a Missouri dairy farm and has covered the industry for two decades.


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by Raymond Ibrahim
Around 1985, current al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri fled his homeland of Egypt, presumably never to return. From his early beginnings as a teenage leader of a small jihadi cell devoted to overthrowing Egyptian regimes (first Nasser's then Sadat's) until he merged forces with Osama bin Laden, expanding his objectives to include targeting the United States of America, Zawahiri never forgot his original objective: transforming Egypt into an Islamist state that upholds and enforces the totality of Sharia law, and that works towards the resurrection of a global caliphate.
This vision is on its way to being fulfilled. With Islamist political victories, culminating with a Muslim Brotherhood president, Muhammad Morsi, Egypt is taking the first major steps to becoming the sort of state Zawahiri wished to see. Zawahiri regularly congratulates Egypt's Islamists—most recently the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo—urging them to continue Islamizing the Middle East's most strategic nation.
He sent a lengthy communiqué during the Egyptian revolution in February 2011, for example, titled "Messages of Hope and Glad Tidings to our People in Egypt." In it, he reiterated themes widely popularized by al-Qaeda, including: secular regimes are the enemies of Islam; democracy is a sham; Sharia must be instituted; the U.S. and the "Zionist enemy" are the true source behind all of the Islamic world's ills.
Zawahiri continues to push these themes. Late last month, he sent messages criticizing Morsi, especially for not helping "the jihad to liberate Palestine;" called for the kidnapping of Westerners, especially Americans—which the U.S. embassy in Cairo took seriously enough to issue a warning to Americans; and further incited Egypt's Muslims to wage jihad against America because of the YouTube Muhammad movie.
In short, a symbiotic relationship exists between the country of Egypt and the Egyptian Zawahiri: the country helped shape the man, and the man is fixated on influencing the country, his homeland. Accordingly, an examination of Zawahiri's early years and experiences in Egypt—a case study of sorts—provides context for understanding Zawahiri, the undisputed leader of the world's most notorious Islamic terrorist organization and helps explain how Egypt got where it is today. The two phenomena go hand-in-hand.
In this report, we will explore several questions, including: What happened in Egypt to turn this once "shy" and "studious" schoolboy who abhorred physical sports as "inhumane" towards jihad? What happened to turn many Egyptians to jihad, or at least radical Islam? What is Zawahiri's relationship to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis—Egypt's two dominant Islamist political players? Did the 9/11 strikes on America, orchestrated by Zawahiri and al-Qaeda, help or hinder the Islamists of Egypt?
Read more at IPT
Raymond Ibrahim, an expert on al-Qaeda and author of The Al Qaeda Reader, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
See also: Discover the Networks profile of Ayman al-Zawahiri


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We all want perfect radiant skin and as with anything we want in life we often have to put a little effort in to get something out of it.
There are so many factors that can have a negative impact on your skin including your lifestyle, genetics and how you take care of your skin on a daily basis.
If you don't have the lifestyle and skincare routine down, then you really could find yourself running into facial skin problems regardless of how great your genetics are!
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Answer me this; are you cleansing your face each day correctly and are you using the right skin creams? It can have such a dramatic effect on your skin if you are using a product that isn't suitable for your skin type, not only how it looks but how it feels too.
Sometimes it isn't as easy as following the right skin care regime; it can go a lot deeper for people who suffer from facial skin problems including acne, eczema, rosacea and psoriasis.
If you suffer from any of these skin problems then you will know how difficult they can be to treat but with the correct natural products and changing certain unhealthy elements in your lifestyle, you too can enjoy beautiful facial skin.
Before you decide that you have problem skin, take a look at the various types of conditions and the symptoms.
Rosacea – You may be experiencing redness on your forehead, chin, cheeks and nose. You may also have pimples on your face and small visible blood vessels.
Acne – This can be found not only on your face but also your shoulders, arms, legs and buttock. You may notice small red bumps, whiteheads, and redness around your skin eruptions and eventually scarring of your skin.
Eczema – Your skin may be red, itchy, dry and cracked. This may only affect small areas of your body with slight dryness and redness of your skin but you may have more severe symptoms, including sore, cracked or bleeding skin.
Psoriasis – This can be seen as red, flaky, crusty skin that may be covered with slight scales. Although most people only suffer with this condition on small areas of their body, it can affect people differently with some experiencing psoriasis over a large amount of their body.
Once you know what type of skin you have and the type of skin issues you're dealing with you can get right on to treating them.
If you have any of these skin conditions then there is definitely help out there for you. With many skin problems there really isn't a complete cure but there are ways that you can minimize the problem and keep it under control.
Take a moment and consider your lifestyle, are you under a lot of stress? Stress can put a huge amount of strain on your body; overtime stress can decrease your immunity and cause inflammation within your body which can make skin conditions such as psoriasis, acne, eczema and rosacea a whole lot worse. If stress affects you then you need to make sure that you take time out each day to relax and escape your stressful life.
Exposing yourself each day to harmful toxins including pollution, manufactured chemicals that are found in your household cleansers, skin creams and soaps can cause problems within your body, which will then make itself known through your skin. Now is the time to not only choose natural products for your home but more importantly for you, for the sake of your health.
Taking time to change how you care for your skin and your skin conditions will have a long lasting effect on your general wellbeing for many years to come.


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Allen Lessels on Motor Sports: He's still a Force in drag racingALLEN LESSELS
June 22. 2013 8:17PM
EPPING -- Courtney Force had her Father's Day present all picked out.
Her dad, John - a bundle of energy and enthusiasm and the patriarch of drag racing's First Family and the National Hot Rod Racing Association - had other ideas.
"I was really hoping to give him a present of the day off for Father's Day," Courtney said with a big smile at New England Dragway on Friday afternoon. "But it didn't go the way I hoped."
Courtney, who celebrated her 25th birthday on Thursday in Manchester by getting a rare chance to relax around the hotel pool and then dinner with the family at Hooked Seafood Restaurant, lined up against her father in the first round of the Funny Car finals last Sunday morning in Bristol, Tenn.
John barely beat Courtney to the finish line and advanced through the elimination rounds to win his first Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event of the season later in the day. It was also his first win since the first race of the 2012 season.
"That win last week was big," Force said.
Force is on a bit of a roll now.
His Friday night qualifying run of 4.051 seconds - he was clocked at 313.44 miles an hour - stood up through two more rounds of qualifying on Saturday and he's the top seed going into elimination rounds today.
He's matched up against No. 16 seed Dave Richards, who is competing in his first NHRA Funny Car event, in the first round.
Force declined to agree that with his confidence and the way crew chief Mike Neff is setting up his cars that he's maybe the most dangerous driver here.
"As soon as you make a statement like that, you get beat up," Force said. "I'm going to stay John Force and be respectful and humble. There are a bunch of tough kids out there. We've just got a handle on it right now."
Even his wife, Laurie, was pulling for him last week, he said.
"Mom was rooting for me," Force said. "My Father's Day card said, 'Don't tell Courtney, but I'm rooting for you today.'?"
Force turned 64 last month and has no intention of slowing down just yet.
How long will he go?
"As long as I can," Force said. "I love it. I'm good for five more years. I want to drive with my kids."
He and Courtney both race Funny Cars along with Robert Hight, who is married to his oldest daughter, Adria. Brittany, 27 next month, competes in Top Fuel.Another daughter, Ashley Force Hood, gave birth to her second child last month and is taking time off from racing. Her husband, Dan Hood, is one of the crew chiefs for Courtney."Ashley will come back driving," John said.
"We're a really close-knit family," Courtney said. "We've always been that way. Racing is really what brought us together because growing up we didn't see my Dad that much. Now we get together all the time."
John Force, who competed in match races here a couple of decades ago, raved about the massive crowds in the pits and lined up alongside the drag racing lanes at the dragway and marveled at the support he received everywhere he went. He saw faces he recognized from years ago.
He signed autograph after autograph for the fans jammed outside his pit area. He waved from his motor scooter as he drove Brittany out along the dragstrip and they scouted things out.
Force won 10 straight series championships from 1993-2002 and grabbed his 15th title in 2010. But in 2009 he finished ninth in the points, the same place he ended up in 2011 and 2012.
This year he brought Neff, who has bounced between driving and working as a crew chief, back as his crew chief to try and turn his fortunes around.
The win last week at Tennessee moved him up a spot and back to ninth in the points. He came into this weekend two points behind Del Worsham in eighth and five behind Courtney in seventh.
"I promised Mike he could drive and I put him back in the car and with the new team I struggled," Force said. "You go through that. Struggle is part of it. That's where I came from."
They all run into it.
"Brittany's trying to get in the top 10 (she's 12th in Top Fuel going into this weekend) and she says, 'Dad, I'm really nervous.' Don't. Enjoy it. It's what you do. It's a job and it's a great job. We're P.T. Barnum. We roll in and set up the circus."
The circus, led by ringmaster John Force, made it to New England.
"This market is huge," Force said. "They come out of Canada and upper New York and all that. Loudon is huge up here for NASCAR and NHRA's wanted back in this market and it's taken years."
Now it's here and played to packed crowds.
On Thursday, a fan wearing a John Force t-shirt and getting an autograph from Morgan Lucas, a Top Fuel driver, tried to apologize.
Lucas was having none of it.
"John Force is still my favorite," the fan said sheepishly.
Not to worry, Lucas said: "He's mine, too."
A few minutes later, Lucas elaborated: "I am a big fan. He's the Dale Earnhardt of drag racing and he built the sport into what it is. He's got a great personality and he appeals to the young and old and now he's got his daughters in it. He's got great marketing ideas. It's a multitude of things."
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Courtney Force qualified third and faces Alexis DeJoria in her first-round match today. ... Doug Kalitta qualified first in Top Fuel in a time of 3.795 and posted a top speed of 323.97. ... A pre-race ceremony kicks things off at 10 a.m. today and final eliminations begin at 11 a.m.
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Clarkson University Senior Niall Mangan of McAllen, Texas, Receives Levinus Clarkson Award
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Potsdam, N.Y. -- Graduating senior Niall M. Mangan of McAllen, Texas, was awarded the Levinus Clarkson Award during Clarkson University's 115th commencement ceremony today. She was selected for the $1,000 award by a vote of the full University faculty based on her scholarship and promise of outstanding achievement.
Mangan, who received dual degrees in physics and mathematics, with a minor in chemistry, was a member of the University's Honors Program. For her honors thesis, she modeled diffusion using random walks. Using probability theory and a number of techniques for solving differential equations she modeled the diffusion of dye particles in nanochannels.
In the summer of 2006, Mangan was part of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network's Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Michigan. There she used nano-fabrication techniques to construct experimental devices in a clean room and then preformed measurements of the electrical properties of the device using high magnetic fields and low temperatures.
During the summer of 2007, Mangan worked at Los Alamos National Laboratories in the Center for Nonlinear Studies, a part of the Theoretical Division. She presented her computational work on transitions between reversible and irreversible behavior in driven superconducting vortices at a conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Mangan's work is being published in peer review journals including the Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Chemical Physics, and Physical Review Letters.
Mangan received a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship during her sophomore year for her work on diffusion. She is also a recipient of the Bridge-O'Beirne Endowed Scholarship, Clarkson Merit Scholarship, and Honors Scholarship. She is a member of Pi Mu Epsilon, the math honors society, and a presidential scholar for all of her semesters at Clarkson. She received the Department of Physics Most Promising Senior Award and the Commendable Leadership Award.
On campus, Mangan was the Honors Program service committee chair and steering committee co-chair; a member of the Association for Women in Mathematics; vice president of service and vice president of membership of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) national co-ed service fraternity; and a red belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Clarkson University crosses the boundaries of disciplines, nations and cultures in order for discovery, engineering innovation and enterprise to come together. As a result, faculty and graduates grasp the full impact of their calling, direct their research to the world's pressing issues and lead with confidence and distinction. One in seven alumni is already a CEO or other senior executive. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., just outside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Clarkson is home to 3,000 students preparing for rewarding careers through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, science, and health sciences, as well as unparalleled outdoor recreation and life experiences beyond the classroom.
Photo caption: Graduating senior Niall M. Mangan of McAllen, Texas, was awarded the Levinus Clarkson Award during Clarkson University's 115th commencement ceremony. President Tony Collins presents the award to Mangan.


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I want to ask the president, why did he kill my sonGrieving anti-war mother dogs George Bush Aug 08, 2005
I think the mood of the country and the mood of our movement is getting a little bit more desperate, and (that) this will be the time to be able to translate our tireless activism and work for peaceScores arrested in protest at White House Oct 05, 2009
Resources of communities are being sucked dry by the industrial military complexes. They are locked up in wars of aggression as our infrastructure in the United State is literally crumblingSheehan speaks at Nashville Peace Fest Jun 27, 2010
Cindy Lee Miller Sheehan (born July 10, 1957) is an American anti-war activist whose son, Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed during his service in the Iraq War by the Mehdi Army on April 4, 2004. She attracted national and international media attention in August 2005 for her extended anti-war protest at a makeshift camp outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch—a stand which drew both passionate support and angry criticism. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008. She is a vocal critic of President Barack Obama's foreign policy, saying: "I don't think much has changed since the Bush administration."
Cindy Sheehan was born in Inglewood, California in 1957. Her father worked at Lockheed while her mother raised her family. She graduated with honors from Cerritos College and studied history at UCLA. She worked as a youth minister at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Vacaville, California for eight years, and also coordinated an after-school program for at-risk middle school children for the City of Vacaville. In 1977 she married Patrick Sheehan, in Norwalk, California; they had four children, including Casey Sheehan (born in 1979), who was later killed in action in Iraq on April 4, 2004. Patrick Sheehan filed for divorce August 12, 2005, citing irreconcilable differences.
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Off the Wall spins a compelling web
Valentin is a Marxist revolutionary who doesn't fully grasp that the personal is also political - and that true liberation must extend past the boardroom and into the bedroom.
Molina is an aging queen who doesn't fully grasp that the political is also personal - and that preserving sexual and artistic freedom requires active struggle against authoritarian regimes.
It takes such a regime to bring this odd couple together, as the cellmates at the heart of "Kiss of the Spider Woman," the musical by John Kander (music) and Fred Ebb (lyrics) being staged by Dale Gutzman at Off the Wall Theatre.
In "Kiss," Molina retreats into the world of romantic movies. They all star Aurora, the diva who is Molina's alter ego - and, when she becomes the Spider Woman, an embodiment of the tragic ending he longs for and also fears. It's a part made for Karl Miller, who conveys the lonely desperation of an outcast who needs such fantasies to still his own self-loathing voice.
Although he could dial down a notch, Jeremy C. Welter's Valentin - linear, angry and emphatic - feels legit in a way this character often does not.
Valentin gets a rousing anthem that could convince a slug to man the barricades; it's beautifully staged, as Valentin is joined by a cast that raises its flickering candles - and voices - against the gathering darkness.
But until that late moment in "Kiss," Valentin can come across as a self-righteous prig. Not so here, where his story draws support from a chorus of six prisoners who look and sound great as they clamor for freedom - often from a penned-in area beneath this zigzagging, multitiered set, a labyrinthine inferno dominated by a huge, off-kilter cross and spattered in deep reds.
Those prisoners crawl down the aisle past the audience, underscoring that we too are imprisoned in this dimly lit world of shadows.
As has been true of many recent Gutzman shows, "Kiss" suggests that it's the imagination that sets us free, which means we need to believe in the power of Molina's movies - and how they, in turn, can inspire Valentin to begin making inspiring movies of his own.
In a bigger space, Molina's fantasies are a hard sell; they tilt toward brassy extravagance and feel disconnected from the cellmates' developing relationship.
In Off the Wall's small space, Molina's dreamscapes - a bit more campy than they need to be, here - are more naturally integrated into the underlying narrative, particularly when a talent like Liz Norton is the star casting a web. Norton has a rich, deep voice and the avid, sinuous look to bring both Aurora and the Spider Woman to life.
The other principals don't have Norton's pipes. But under the musical direction of Annie Van Deusen and accompanied by four solid musicians (including Van Deusen), they're good enough to deliver some fine harmonies, particularly in a ravishing quartet in which the cellmates are joined by Molina's mother (Marilyn White) and Valentin's lover (Alexandra Bonesho).
"Kiss of the Spider Woman" continues through May 26 at Off the Wall Theatre, 127 E. Wells St. For tickets, call (414) 327-3552 or go online at www.offthewalltheatre.com.
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Dryer quit, won't start again
Model Number: PYE2300AYW Brand: Maytag Age: More than 10 years
I've got to go to my mom's tomorrow to check out her dryer. It was running when all of a sudden it quit. At this point all I know is that it still will not start back up and is getting power on both legs of 220 volt outlet.
Just wondering what I should look for and if there is a troubleshooting routine (diagram) available that would help me pinpoint the problem really fast?
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Did you check that Neutral to L1 has 120 volts?
This is what runs the motor.
At the top on my list would be the thermal fuse (item 5 in the 05-Heater Parts section)
If you click on a parts picture a new page will open with more info on that part. This may be helpful to you.
Note: If you put the unit mid cycle timed dry and the timer advances then the thermal fuse is OK so then check the door switch and the timer contacts and finally the motor windings.
If the thermal fuse is blown you have to find out why it blew.
Check the heating coil.
Unplug the unit and both wires to the coil.
Check it with a meter, should be around 10 to 12 ohms.
Then check from each side of the coil to the case/frame, both should be infinite ohms (open). If not the coil may have sagged or broken and is touching the case. This can cause it to run on high and the thermostats cannot regulate it so the thermal cut-off blows.
The hi-limit should have regulated the temperature so the fuse did not blow, that is why there is a new one with the thermal cut-off..
Note: That unless there is another problem in the unit the hi-limit should never have to open. It is just a safety device with the fuse being a backup safety device.
Just in case it is not a grounded element.
With all the below the high limit will also have to be replaced.
Check that the belt is OK.
Check the seals (drum etc) in the unit. The air is pulled over the heating coils, through the drum and pushed out the exhaust. So any large seal leak will pull in room air and the cycling thermostat on the blower will run the unit hot.
Check that the lint filter is not coated with fabric softener residue which greatly reduces air flow.
Check/clean your vent system.
Check/clean the blower wheel.
If all OK you may want to replace the cycling thermostat as it's contacts may not be opening (welded shut)
All fuses & thermostats appear to be good when checked with ohm meter. Looking at the wiring diagram I tried to jump the timer to get the motor to run but nothng happened. I jumped the purple to black on the timer... nothing happened. Is there a simple way to check the motor without having to remove it? I can deduct the wires to make the motor run, but would you confirm this by telling me which two wires to wire directly for a quick, simple test?,,, or just some way to check the motor without having to completely remove it? How about the timer?... any quick/easy way to check a timer? I have unnecessarily thrown away $100 replacing a timer before because somebody told me it was bad without testing. I'm not one to throw parts at something to try to fix it.
Try the following, print out the wiring diagram as it will help.
Short the meter leads together before you start so you can see if there is any zero offset.
Attach one meter lead to the Neutral on the power cord and leave it there.
Set the timer to mid scale timed dry, door switch closed.
Set your meter to the most sensitive scale.
Check to both sides of the thermal fuse both should be 0 ohms.
Check to "1" on the motor, should be 0 ohms.
Check to "S" purple on the timer, should be a couple ohms (the motor windings)
Check to "M" orange on the timer, also a couple ohms.
Check to "L" (probably black) on the timer, also a couple ohms
Check to L1 on the line cord plug end, also a couple ohms.
The above checks the motor circuit.
Thanks denman. I checked as described except that I'm not able to get to the motor to check neutral to "1". The readings I got are
s- 2.0 ohms
m- 2.33 kohms
L-2.55 kohms
L1- 2.33 k ohms
not quite sure which is the cycling thermostat as I didn't see it labeled in any drawings. As I recall I already had checked the thermal fuse and got a "0.0000" reading.
So far, my best guess is a bad motor. Worst part is that I brought in an old Hotpoint which I discovered has a bad heating element and I have not been able to even rig the element to make it work temporarily by twisting the burned ends back together. THANKS!
Your readings up to "S" look OK.
But at this point I screwed up and should have told you that the Push to Start switch must be pushed for the other readings.
Note that the cycling thermostat does not matter as it is not part of the motor starting or run circuit
If the resistance readings are OK double check that you have 120 volts between L1 (black) and Neutral (white)
Last edited by denman : 11-16-2012 at 03:09 PM.
black/L1 already checked. That's where I pulled power from to try to jump the timer attempting to get the motor to run by itself.(connected purple to black, L1). It was getting late so we had to leave. It's an hours drive for me so unless I can confirm it's a motor we'll have to wait another day. I do know the push to start part of the timer is functioning (confirmed with continuity test w/ ohm meter). I sure don't want to buy a motor if this thing doesn't actually need one. The symptom is simply that when you push the start button NOTHING happens. The timer motor doesn't appear to run though I have jumped power to it and I could hear it running with power applied directly.
I also checked by jumping directly from L1-black to orange with no reaction from motor.(extra spade to spade connector)
... as I recall, white, orange, & purple are the run circuits, green/ground, the other wires are for centrifugal switching of heating elements & timer.
Last edited by RandyJ : 11-16-2012 at 03:59 PM.
The timer motor doesn't appear to run though I have jumped power to it and I could hear it running with power applied directly.
I am not sure what you did here.
I also checked by jumping directly from L1-black to orange with no reaction from motor.(extra spade to spade connector)
This will not start the motor.
The orange is not connected to the motor windings when the motor is at rest.
When at rest purple (connector 2 to B and A) connects in the run and aux (start) windings.
When the motor gets close to operating speed the centrifugal switch activates (connector 3 to 2/B) the aux winding is disconnected and the run winding remains connected.
This is done because if the aux winding is left in circuit the motor will overheat.
... as I recall, white, orange, & purple are the run circuits, green/ground, the other wires are for centrifugal switching of heating elements & timer.
White is Neutral. On a 3 wire hook up this is also green/earth ground.
Orange is the run winding. It has 2 purposes . First it disconnects the aux (start) winding. Second it provides a parallel circuit path around the push to start switch. This lets you release the push to start and the unit motor keeps running.
The timer is not really switched in by the centrifugal switches.
The centrifugal switch in the lower right of the wiring diagram does switch in the heating element. This ensures that the element does not come on until there is air flow.
In auto modes the timer motor does get power through the heating coil when the coil is shut off so in a way the switch does effect the timer motor.
In timed dry mode the timer motor gets power direct from Neutral through timer contacts (B/TM) to L1.
so, what I did by connecting L1 (black on timer) to S (purple) should power the motor and make it run?
Yes it should have run.
As long as you are sure there is L1 to Neutral power then I would replace the motor.
Just strange that there is not hum/buzz when at least one winding measures OK.
Looks like the motor is around $175.00 so unless the unit is in very good shape I would scrap it.
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