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Hosting seven other 18-and-under fast-pitch softball teams for a PONY Palomino qualifying tournament, the Roxborough Fillies came up just one game short of earning a bid to the East Zone national tournament, finishing in the semifinal round on Sunday afternoon.
For two of the seven Fillies players from Penn Charter and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, this will be the last summer of organized team softball competition. Having just completed their freshman year of college, 2011 Penn Charter grads Katie Brock (Duke University) and McKenzie Kramer (Muhlenberg College) will be too old to play for the Roxborough club team after this year. Neither Brock, a centerfielder, nor Kramer, a third baseman, is playing the sport at the collegiate level.
Another pair of Fillies, both 2012 Springside Chestnut Hill graduates, will be pursuing the sport in college, shortstop Alexis Giovinazzo at Muhlenberg, and catcher Aly Markey at Albright College.
The other three team members from area schools each have a year to go in high school. Penn Charter is getting back pitcher Jess Drossner, as well as Molly Mornhinweg, who succeeded Kramer as PC's third baseman. Michelle Cybularz, the starting second baseman both for the Fillies and SCH (where she also pitched on occasion), is another rising senior.
In last weekend's qualifying tourney, played at the Fillies' Hagy's Mill Road Complex, the host team went 2-1 in round-robin pool play on Saturday, then won a Sunday morning contest to advance to the semifinals at noon. In that game they were edged out, 3-2, by the Northwest Explosion. Based in Bethlehem, Pa., the Explosion had beaten the Fillies in pool play a day earlier.
In the finals on Sunday afternoon, the Explosion demolished the Hillsborough (NJ) Hustle, 11-2. Both finalists earned an invitation to the East Zone Nationals, which get underway at the end of the month in Cary, NC, just down the road from Katie Brock's digs at Duke.
There was a rain shower at the time that last weekend's tourney was to get underway on Saturday morning, but after about an hour's delay, the Fillies took the field against the Philadelphia Spirit. After three innings the Spirit held a 3-2 edge, but a bases-loaded double by Lauren Mobly highlighted a five-run fourth for the Fillies, who went on to win, 7-3. SCH's Markey was the catcher for winning pitcher Gwen Botley, a 2012 Norristown High School graduate who's headed for Marist College.
PC's Drossner pitched the next game, striking out four without giving up any walks in a 5-4 victory over Bucks County's Pennsbury Gems. In the first and third innings runs came home on ground-outs by clean-up batter Mobly, a graduate of Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy. Ahead of her, both lead-off hitter Cybularz and number three Giovinazzo had drawn walks in each of their first two turns at the plate.
Two additional runs came home in the third frame, as well, one on a passed ball and the other on Brock's sacrifice fly deep to centerfield. The Gems got two back at the top of the fourth, and in the home half the Fillies scored on a bases-loaded ground-out by Liz Citrone to make it 5-2. A two-run homer over the fence in left brought Pennsbury back within one run of the lead (5-4) at the top of the sixth, but the game concluded at the end of that inning due to the tournament time limit.
Next up was the Northwest Explosion, who went down in order in the first and third innings, but scored in the fourth for a 1-0 run lead that stayed on the board through the top of the sixth frame. The Fillies' pitcher was 2011 Plymouth Whitemarsh High School grad Gabby Stamler, who is coming off of a successful season in the circle for Rosemont College.
The Fillies hit against the Explosion, but not when they really needed to, leaving eight runners on base. Their Lehigh Valley opponents piled up four insurance runs in the sixth inning, the first two largely the result of Fillies errors, and the last two coming on a wallop that drove the ball into the scoreboard back up beyond the fence in right centerfield.
Placing second to the Explosion within their pool, the Fillies did not have to play in the early morning round of games on Sunday, and they took the field at 10:00 AM against Pennsbury. The tourney hosts started out the way they'd ended the previous day's action, victims of a two-run homer. However, the Fillies quickly responded to this opening blow by the Gems with a pair of runs of their own in the bottom of the first.
They shattered the 2-2 tie with a five-run outburst in the home half of the second. The first run in this batch scored when the Gems couldn't make a tag at the plate off of a ball put in play by Cybularz, and later two Fillies came home on a hit to shallow center by Giovinazzo.
The Fillies scored again on an error in the third, but the Gems recouped the run in the top of the fourth for an 8-3 tally. On the flip side of that inning, Giovinazzo walked and moved to third on a wild pitch and a ground-out, and then Kramer reached first safely as Pennsbury was preoccupied with holding Giovinazzo at the far corner. Both runners came home on a double by Brock, who drove the ball hard over third base. The Gems scored two late runs for a 10-5 final.
It was on to the semifinal round, where the Fillies encountered the Explosion once more, with Stamler on the mound. Cast as the away team, the Roxborough bunch began by sandwiching a Cybularz single and a walk to Giovinazzo around a strike-out. Mobly singled over the head of the first baseman to drive in the first run of the contest, then Kramer lofted a sacrifice fly out into right field to make it 2-0.
The Explosion tied the game in the bottom of the first, when a high fly looked like it might be catchable by right fielder Olivia Powers (Shipley '11/Union College), but ended up clearing the fence for a two-run homer. The teams then settled in for a defensive stalemate that lasted into the sixth inning. In the second, Brock charged in to catch a fly ball in shallow center and doubled up a runner who'd been on first base.
The Fillies threatened to break the 2-2 deadlock with a two-out rally in the top of the sixth. Kramer walked on, reached second on a wild pitch, then made third on a successful bunt by Brock. However, a fly to center stranded the two baserunners.
With one out in the bottom of that inning, the Explosion strung together three hits, stroking a pair of singles and an RBI double deep down the line in left field. To avoid further damage, the Fillies intentionally walked Explosion slugger Jenn Dalickas, who led Moravian College in home runs this spring as a freshman. The next batter lined the ball to the right side, where second baseman Cybularz caught it and flipped the ball to Mobly at first for an inning-ending double play.
Nevertheless, the upstate ensemble had registered the go-ahead run, and they got the Fillies out in order at the top of the seventh.


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Nothing says "I love you" like a restraining order, according to the song by post-hardcore band Our Last Night. All kidding aside, a restraining order – a/k/a Protection From Abuse Act Order ("PFA") – is serious business. No level of abuse should be tolerated. Any amount of abuse is too much. For this reason, the Pennsylvania legislature created the concept of a PFA, which creates an immediate right to have a person tossed in jail, if he violates either the temporary or "permanent" PFA.
A PFA can save a person's life.
Unfortunately, abuse can go both ways. It is not uncommon for the PFA procedures in PA to be abused by those looking to go on the offense against a current (or former lover) or family member when no "abuse" or fear of abuse ever existed. So long as a person is willing to testify that another person (related by blood, prior sexual relations, or affinity) was physically abused or made serious threats, the entry of a PFA order is a near certainty unless the party defending the action has some pretty reliable evidence to the contrary. This is the case mostly because the courts err on the side of separating the parties and entering a PFA.
Meeting the threshold amount of evidence to obtain a PFA is easy for those willing to distort the truth. The term "abuse" is defined pretty liberally in the PFA statute:
23 Pa.C.S. § 6102 (2012)
§ 6102. Definitions.
(a) General rule. –The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Abuse." –The occurrence of one or more of the following acts between family or household members, sexual or intimate partners or persons who share biological parenthood:
(1) Attempting to cause or intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury, serious bodily injury, rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault or incest with or without a deadly weapon.
(2) Placing another in reasonable fear of imminent serious bodily injury.
(3) The infliction of false imprisonment pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S. § 2903 (relating to false imprisonment).
(4) Physically or sexually abusing minor children, including such terms as defined in Chapter 63 (relating to child protective services).
(5) Knowingly engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly committing acts toward another person, including following the person, without proper authority, under circumstances which place the person in reasonable fear of bodily injury. The definition of this paragraph applies only to proceedings commenced under this title and is inapplicable to any criminal prosecutions commenced under Title 18 (relating to crimes and offenses). (Emphasis added).
As you can see, a PFA can be warranted where no physical harm results. Rather, an "attempt" to cause "fear" is enough. The definition is broad enough to include stalking or repeated interaction, which could mean having coffee at the same Starbucks as the Plaintiff, by chance or routine, every day, or driving past the plaintiff's home if it's on the defendant's way to work every day, so long as that puts the plaintiff in "fear." (Do you see how this well-meaning statute can be abused?)
The blind entry of a PFA can cause enormous prejudice to the defendant, who may have been innocent of any wrongdoing. A PFA can be used to wreak the following on an innocent person, who may face one or all of the following through an improper PFA:
Immediate eviction from his residence with the Plaintiff
Loss of freedom to travel down a street where the Plaintiff lives, even if it's on the defendant's way to work
Loss of the right to possess firearms even if the Defendant is and avid gun collector or merchant of weapons for a living
An order for child support even though no formal claim for support had been filed through the family courts
The court costs of the PFA (over $200),
The PFA can be served on the Defendant by sheriff or constable when the defendant is at work, ruining his reputation;
The PFA can be used for leverage in any custody, divorce, or support proceedings, and
The court may impose other relief that the court deems fair and just.
A PFA also creates a mark on a person's permanent and public record. Although a PFA does not create a criminal record per se (unless one violates the PFA and is found guilty of indirect criminal contempt), a PFA does appear on the civil docket as a finding of abuse, which the world can see, because the civil docket is public record.
Most employers only search one's criminal records via the state police website, but some also check the civil dockets for blemishes. We know for sure that those applying for section 8 housing will be subject to a search of PFA instances.
It is possible to have a temporary PFA expunged from the civil docket (which based on only one party's side of the story, also called ex parte), but not a permanent PFA. This is because, expungement applies to the removal of charges and accusations, not actual findings of fact related to a full hearing where all parties may attend. Thus, if you are found to be an abuser following a hearing where you had a chance to testify, that record cannot be removed. Thus, to be clear, if you go to court on the PFA and lose such that it becomes permanent, then the permanent PFA cannot be expunged. An excellent analysis of this concept appears in a blog by Linda A. Kerns, who practices in Eastern PA.
For these reason, if you have had a PFA served on you, you should immediately seek experienced counsel to defend the action or get the opposing party to accept some deal short of permanent PFA. We get at least one call a month from some poor, unfortunate individual who decided to attend the hearing on the PFA alone (or with a family "friend" attorney who doesn't handle these cases regularly) and came away from the process with a 3 year PFA against him.
Also keep in mind that, if you go to a hearing and lose, the PFA order is not the only public record, but rather, the testimony against you is also recorded and a transcript of the same can be ordered by anyone with a beef against you, so he or she can read about all the different forms of abuse according to at least one witness under oath.
We strongly recommend that you seek experienced counsel in defending against any PFA action. Out East, consider Linda A. Kerns, Esquire, who wrote about whether a PFA can be expunged. In Harrisburg and Millersburg, consider Shaffer & Engle, which did a nice analysis of "bad faith PFA"s on their blog. For all matters in Western PA including Pittsburgh (and all of Allegheny County and the surrounding Counties – Beaver, Butler, Washington, consider our Pittsburgh PFA lawyers.
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Dayton Names New Minn. Racing Commission Chairman
ST. PAUL, (AP) - Gov. Mark Dayton is keeping Jesse Overton as a member of the Minnesota Racing Commission but has designated a new appointee to succeed him as chairman.
The governor named Ralph Strangis to head the commission Monday. He also named Thomas DiPasquale as a member and appointed Kristin Batson from the Minnesota Department of Management and Budget as interim executive director until a new director takes office.
The department confirmed last week that Overton was under investigation, but didn't identify the nature of the probe or say when it would finish.
Overton has been on the commission's board for four years, the last couple as its chairman.
The racing commission oversees Minnesota's two horse racing tracks, which are also home to poker and card game clubs.


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About 90 days after the first autumn rains, mustard begins to push through the vineyard soils to beautifully embellish the resting Winter vines. This dormant stage in the grapevines is very important to the vineyard health and performance in the upcoming season.
Throughout January and February, severe winter pruning takes place on all the vines. The Mustard Season is one of the most beautiful times of the year in the Wine Country. Its golden blooms blanket the floor of the soundly sleeping vines, and as the sun shines, the landscape glows in a daydreaming brilliance. The rainy season will provide nourishment to the terroir promising a Spring of bud break and phenomenal wines to come.
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ATHENS, Ga. -- Georgia receiver Malcolm Mitchell is expected to recover for the start of the 2014 season after having surgery to repair the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.
Mitchell, a junior who was No. 9 Georgia's top returning receiver, had surgery Tuesday after tearing the ligament in the Bulldogs' loss at Clemson on Aug. 31. He will miss the remainder of the season.
Georgia associate athletic director for sports medicine Ron Courson says a full recovery is expected for Mitchell, who is expected to apply for a medical redshirt and have two years of eligibility remaining.
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9to5Mac has heard that Apple is allowing select, high level gaming companies to get a head start developing for the next-generation iPhone 5 via a special A5-chipset powered iPhone 4.
The person who chose to share this information with us calls it the 'iPhone 4S', though the device itself only has typical Apple prototype nomenclature. He also shared that the device spends its evenings in a safe in the company's offices.
Apparently it's otherwise identical to current iPhone 4, albeit with a special version of iOS 4 to support the dual core Apple A5 chipset and it's 2x processor and 9x graphics performance boost.
Whether or not iPhone 5, expected to launch this fall, keeps the iPhone 4 form factor (like the iPhone 3GS kept the iPhone 3G form factor) remains unknown. An A5 version of the iPod touch should theoretically launch at the same time.
Given how Infinity Blade, Dead Space, and Real Racing 2 HD look on the A5-equipped iPad, Nintendo and Sony should be very, very afraid.


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You have that lovely brown tabby fur and those pale green eyes with a look of so much sweetness and love in them, that I wish I could reach all the way to, well, all the way to the Rainbow Bridge to pet you! (Since I can't, I know some of our dear Angels will pet you for me .)
We're so sorry you had to leave for the Bridge well before your loving and beloved family expected. They love you dearly and miss and grieve you greatly. They've written a fine description of your wonderful life together. You all shared so very much with them in the way of delightful and loving acts, greeting them at the door, helping them with household tasks, watching your favorite DVDs, strolling with them in the yard in your harness, headbutting them, and sounding your wonderful deep, rumbling purr for them.
It is so sad that you had to leave them just before Thanksgiving. I imagine your family members are full of thanks for the beautiful life you shared with them and all the precious memories they have. Tycho and Grimaldi must miss and grieve their brother very much, too. Your family has my prayers for comfort and peace. What a wonderful love-filled home you all shared, and you still share with them from the Bridge, I am sure.
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Campaigners have been praised for saving a 200-year-old pub from closure and turning it into a thriving community hub with social lunches for vulnerable people, book swaps and an internet cafe.
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Over a pint of Moor's Hoppiness, Roger Protz talks through Britain's craft ale revolution and reveals he spent the 1970s being a disillusioned drinker
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Local brewery wins highest accolade at the Great British Beer Festival Winter
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Local brewery wins highest accolade at the Great British Beer Festival Winter
Ripper from Green Jack brewery has won CAMRA's prestigious Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2018 award on the opening day of the Great British Beer Festival Winter in Norwich.
Green Jack Brewery, which is local to the festival and based in Lowestoft, Suffolk, is now one of the largest breweries in East Anglia and winner of multiple real ale awards. It's Ripper brew is a well-known winter favourite, having taken home the Champion Winter Beer of Britain award in 2007 and securing silver last year.
Following over a year of local tasting panels and regional heats leading up to the finals, Ripper was described as a "sweet and warming beer with soft and fruity complex flavours" and "dangerously drinkable" by the judges.
Tim Dunford from Green Jack Brewery says: "It's absolutely brilliant that we have won this award for the second time, I'm overwhelmed! We really love our strong beers and used to travel to Belgium all the time when we first got into the industry - I fell in love with the style and we have gone on from there."
Nick Boley, CAMRA's National Director responsible for the competition, says: "The standard of the competition was higher than previous years, and the judges were impressed with the quality of all the beers that made it to the final but Ripper from Green Jack Brewery was a clear winner."
The Champion Winter Beer of Britain competition provides an opportunity to showcase the best traditional winter brews in the country, ranging from barley wines, strong old ales, porters and stouts.
This year's Silver went to Broken Dream Breakfast Stout from Siren Craft Brewery, while Cairngorm Brewery took home the Bronze award with Black Gold.
All three of the beers will be available to sample at the Great British Beer Festival Winter, along with a huge range of light, ruby and dark ales, as well as a variety of foreign beers, ciders and perries.
The Great British Beer Festival Winter runs from 20-24 February at the Halls in Norwich, and is complimented by a number of local events taking place throughout the month as part of the "Fringe". More than 20 local pubs have planned events including food and drink pairings, tap takeovers, quizzes, and a Treasure Trail, providing the perfect opportunity to explore the city and celebrate Norwich's beer and pub culture.
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text: Warning: Swallowing the President's Bitter Pills May Cause Harsh Austerity We are being told that the mess this President caused when he helped pass the Bush tax cuts in exchange for 1 year of unemployment insurance - which was unnecessary because Republicans caved on UE extension before - WITHOUT even securing a rise in the debt ceiling by putting his full trust in John Boehner with the full faith and credit of the US was "worth it." This of course gave Boehner immense political power and the right hostage needed to cause the debt ceiling debacle just like I predicted. Well here are are again dealing with the fallout. Already? Obama Tells Supporters to Expect 'Bitter Pills' As the Huffington Post, who listened in on the call, reports: The president, speaking from a White House phone, cautioned listeners to expect disappointments during his second term. As he has in the past, Obama warned that he was prepared to swallow some bitter pills during the negotiations, including some that would agitate the base. "As we move forward there are going to be new wrinkles and new frustrations, we can't predict them yet," he said. "We are going to have some triumphs and some successes, but there are going to be some tough days, starting with some of these negotiations around the fiscal cliff that you probably read about." Though his encouragement to his activist base may be encouraging to some, the President's preemptive admission that he's willing to give away bargaining chips so early in the game will surely irk those who criticized Obama for his negotiating style throughout his first term. That will be doubly true for progressives who have publicly called for a more hardline stance when it comes to defending key social programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. We know from the president's interview with the Des Moines register that much of what was in the memo revealed by Bob Woodward as part and parcel of all of this nonsense we shouldn't even have to be dealing with in the first place is a starting point. Oh yes, many will screech about how Simpson Bowles is dead because the commission was a failure, but the horrible ideas live on through our elected leaders that keeps bringing them back to life. Obama vows debt-cutting 'grand bargain,' immigration reform in Des Moines Register interview "I am absolutely confident that we can get what is the equivalent of the grand bargain that essentially I've been offering to the Republicans for a very long time, which is $2.50 worth of cuts for every dollar in spending, and work to reduce the costs of our health care programs," Obama said. (The White House quickly clarified that he meant $2.50 of spending cuts for every dollar in new tax revenue.) "We can easily meet—'easily' is the wrong word—we can credibly meet the target that the Bowles-Simpson Commission established of $4 trillion in deficit reduction, and even more in the out-years ... This is not going to help the unemployed and it's economic illiteracy. When you hear things like, "We all agree we must pay down the deficit," it might as well be, "We all agree on economic illiteracy. Come on. Everybody's doing it." Anyone who is still making excuses for this doesn't even understand why this fake fiscal cliff, really an austerity bomb as Brian Beutler of TPM puts it, is coming back up in the first place. "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." – William Faulkner This is quite literally true so for all those "that was then this is now" excuse makers, you have a lot of studying and reading to do. Topic: Economy 3 Read more about Warning: Swallowing the President's Bitter Pills May Cause Harsh Austerity16 commentsLog in to post comments


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Firefox went ton up in bugs in 2008
Secunia stats inflame browser beef
Firefox had more vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer last year, but zero-day threats to the Mozilla browser were fixed more quickly than those affecting IE.
An annual scorecard report from security notification firm Secunia found that Firefox was hit by 115 security flaws in 2008, more than the combined number of its three main competitors: Internet Explorer (31), Opera (30), and Safari (32).
But Mozilla was far more adept at dealing with the appearance of zero-day vulnerabilities than Microsoft, according to Secunia. It reports that Mozilla took an average of 43 days to deal with three such incidents last year, not all of which covered critical flaws.
Meanwhile, Microsoft took an average of 100 days to deal with three zero-day flaws, the worst of which Secunia describes as "high risk." Three other less serious IE flaws that emerged last year remain unpatched.
In 2008, the security notification firm handed out its highest "extremely critical" with 11 advisories - a sharp increase from just two in 2007. On a more positive note, the number of zero-day vulnerabilities across all software packages decreased from 20 in 2007 to 12 in 2008.
Secunia's report includes stats from its patching assessment tool, Secunia PSI, which is free for consumers. These show Firefox 2.0 is unpatched one in three time (34 per cent). That's poor, but figures for Macromedia Flash Player 6.x (unpatched 83 per cent of the time) and Sun Java JRE 1.5.x/5.x (96 per cent) are far worse.
"Too many users give up patching software when it is not straightforward," Secunia reports. "Many choose to handle the applications that are easy-to-patch, whereas the applications that take longer or are difficult to patch are simply ignored."
Secunia also looked at the number of security bugs last year affecting browser plugs. Duff ActiveX controls accounted for 366 flaws last year, far dwarfing bugs particular to Java (54), Flash (19), and QuickTime plugins (30).
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DS18 although a relative new comer to the US car audio market is already starting to make a name for itself by producing affordably priced car audio products that deliver well above average performance. With products such as full range and component speakers, high SPL subwoofers and amplifiers, there is a product to suit your requirements and more importantly, your budget. Great value is certainly something that we associate with DS18 products.
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Universalis has a special mode with a simplified display that is visible to screen reader software for blind and partially-sighted users.
Universalis normally starts in this special mode automatically when it detects that a screen reader is present and active. If this automatic detection fails, you can still put it into screen reader mode manually. To do this, open the Options menu by pressing the F2 key and then select the last item in the menu, which is called "Format display for screen readers" and has the shortcut key S.
We have tested Universalis with JAWS and with Window-Eyes.
The Universalis display consists of a single window that contains the text of your chosen Hour. This window is a Microsoft Rich Edit control and is readable by screen readers.
A menu bar is attached to this window. It contains four menus: Date, Hour, View and Options, and also a menu item called Exit. You can close Universalis by selecting the Exit item, or by pressing Alt+F4, or simply by hitting the Escape key.
The Date menu (Alt+D) lets you choose which date you want to view. Each item also has a keyboard shortcut.
Yesterday (F6) goes back one day.
Today (F7) goes to today's date.
Tomorrow (F8) goes forward one day.
Go To Date (F5) opens a window that lets you choose any date in the 20th and 21st centuries, using drop-down lists for day, month and year.
On some days, optional memorials are celebrated. The bottom of the Date menu allows you to choose which optional memorial (if any) you want to celebrate on a particular day.
The Hour menu (Alt+H) lets you choose which hour you want to view. In addition, there are two keyboard shortcuts not listed in the menu:
F12 goes to the next hour in the list.
F11 goes to the previous hour in the list.
The View menu (Alt+V) contains settings that are relevant to the particular page you are viewing.
To open the Options menu, press the F2 key or press Alt-O.
Full details of the Options menu, and the commands it contains, are given under the heading "The Menu" on the main Instructions page.
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The first offices of OvaScience, in East Cambridge, didn't have the company's name on the door. Somehow, says chief executive Michelle Dipp, women still managed to find the small biotech company and show up to ask questions. Their motivation: having a baby.
OvaScience is developing a treatment to improve the odds for women to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization, or IVF. Each day, says Dipp, she receives at least 10 e-mails from women who want to participate in the company's first clinical trials.
"We are dealing with a fundamental evolutionary desire," Dipp says. "A lot of women really want to have kids."
This potent combination of biology and biotechnology has helped make OvaScience one of the hottest young companies on the Cambridge biotech scene. OvaScience has raised $40 million this year alone, and hopes to land on the Nasdaq stock exchange by early next year. If it does, Dipp, 36, would be among the youngest CEOs of a public company in Massachusetts.
"She's extremely driven and wants to be successful," says Stephen Kraus, an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners in Cambridge, which has put money into OvaScience. "We thought the science they are working on was very intriguing, but our investment was also a bet on Michelle, for sure."
Dipp grew up in El Paso. Her mother was an emergency-room nurse and her father ran family real estate businesses and a pecan farm. "I was a classic science geek," she says.
Rejected by Harvard, she went to Oxford University instead, earning a medical degree and a doctorate, with a dissertation on pulmonary hypertension. She came back to the United States to work at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge company that sought to commercialize Harvard research into chemical compounds that seemed to slow the aging process. Dipp helped the company forge partnerships with larger pharmaceutical companies, and also handled investor and media relations. Sirtris went public in 2007, and a year later was acquired by GlaxoSmithKline for $720 million.
Dipp stayed at Glaxo for a few years, leaving in 2011 to run a venture capital fund with Sirtris founders Christoph Westphal and Rich Aldrich. Longwood Fund raised $85 million to invest in new companies that the trio would launch themselves, often based on academic breakthroughs. OvaScience is the third company that Longwood has spawned. The first was acquired by pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co., and the second, Cambridge-based Verastem, went public in January, though it is still developing its first cancer drug.
Dipp has the ability to communicate complex scientific ideas in a way that's clear even to listeners who may not have earned A's in biology. She also has a poise that seems ready-made for CNBC.
"Every entrepreneur has to be a promoter, a cheerleader, and an optimist," says Kraus at Bessemer. "Michelle is, but she is also really deep in substance."
Dipp, who is single, observes that there are about 1.2 million women in the United States who seek treatment for infertility each year. They go through about 150,000 cycles of in vitro fertilization, in which they take hormones to "hyper-stimulate" egg production. Eggs are extracted from their ovaries and injected with a single sperm. The resulting embryos are then transferred to the woman's uterus, where one — or more — may develop into a fetus.
OvaScience wants to address two of the big issues with IVF. The first is that about 30 percent of women in the United States end up with twins or triplets. The second, Dipp said, is that "once you hit 36, the decline of IVF's success rate is rapid," because eggs become less viable as women age.
OvaScience is developing a process to improve the odds. It involves first taking a small biopsy of ovarian tissue, about the size of a fingernail clipping, and then isolating what the company terms "egg precursor cells," which can eventually mature into eggs. OvaScience plans to extract the mitochondria, the cell's key energy source, from those cells and inject it into the eggs that are being used in the traditional IVF procedure.
Dipp calls it "an energy boost," and the company hopes it could improve the success rate for older women while reducing the number of embryos that need to be transferred to the uterus — meaning fewer multiple births.
OvaScience is getting ready to begin a first study of 80 women between the ages of 38 and 42 at two IVF clinics, one in Boston. (Dipp declined to name the clinics.) Forty patients will go through the standard IVF process, and 40 will have additional mitochondria injected into their eggs. Data on the outcome of the trial won't be available until 2014.
OvaScience is seeking to go public this fall in an unusual way, through a process called Form 10.
Even seasoned investors like Aldrich, the Longwood Fund cofounder, say they haven't had much experience with it.
The goal is to avoid some of the expense and uncertainty of a traditional initial public offering, while giving investors a tradable currency. The company sells shares to investors at a set price — in OvaScience's case, $5.50 — and then registers those shares to be traded on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board market. As soon as the company meets the requirements of the Nasdaq market, it can graduate to the higher-profile exchange — perhaps as soon as next year.
OvaScience's approach to assisting with IVF "has the potential to revolutionize a multibillion-dollar market," says John Simon at General Catalyst, a Cambridge venture capital firm and OvaScience investor.
"The market itself has a chance to grow, because some people stop today because of IVF's low success rate,'' Simon said. "If this company does as well as it is anticipating in clinical trials, it'd be a terrific story."
And it would make Dipp the first of a new generation of biotech CEOs in Cambridge.Scott Kirsner can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ScottKirsner.


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Here's a photo of the happy couple. Read ESPN Dallas's report:
Romo married former sports reporter Candice Crawford in front of about 600 guests at Arlington Hall at Lee Park. The guest list included: Jason Witten, Jason Garrett, Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, Andre Gurode, Roy Williams, Bradie James, Leonard Davis, Miles Austin and Marc Colombo, among others. There was also a Wade Phillips sighting. (I had a source tell me who was there.)
You know how "Access Hollywood," or whatever its called, has these sources that say what was going on in the wedding without actually being there? Well, we were told Dez Bryant got lost going to the event. He got there on time, he just got turned around.
Anyway, former Cowboys linebacker Bobby Carpenter was a groomsman, pony tail and all. Good for him.
We'd say "mazel tov" to Romo and Crawford, but we have a hunch they wouldn't know what it meant. Crazy kids in America.
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Verizon has tossed up the official ATIV Odyssey page for those who would like to purchase online (and presumably in stores too). In addition, the large CDMA carrier has a neat Flash intro to the device, highlighting three main features including the 4" Super AMOLED display/Gorilla Glass 2, its long-lasting battery (2100mAh) and NFC tap-to-share.
The device sells for $49 after a two-year commitment to Verizon or $450 without a contract. Aimed at entry level users who just want a fun, no frills smartphone featuring Windows Phone 8, the ATIV Odyssey is actually quite a nice little device.
Windows Phone Central had some hands on time with the Odyssey and felt it was combo of the Focus 2 design with some ATIV S flare added, making it quite nimble in the hand. While the device won't appeal to those looking for a highend 'flagship' phone, we like the ATIV Odyssey for what it is and think those of a more conservative stripe (not in the political sense, folks, calms down) will appreciate it's more traditional look.
We'll have a few review of the ATIV Odyssey coming within the next week. Stay tuned.
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Last month I got my husband to take me on a research trip to Switzerland County, Indiana. All I had to do was take him to his ham radio convention. So you can tell already how much I wanted to go to Switzerland County.
As we crossed the border into Switzerland County, I told my husband (who was driving) to turn around so that I could get a picture of the sign. But he just gave me a look and kept driving. Then I informed him that I finally felt at home being close to where my ancestors lived. His response was "I hope not." Lucky for him I need high speed internet access to actually feel at home.
Our first stop was the Switzerland County Public Library. I used my camera to make copies of the relevant family files that they had.
Then we went to 3 area cemeteries to find my ancestors. Our first stop was the New Liberty Cemetery to find the Dunning family. We found most of them and some you could even read.
Then we went to two family cemeteries that were across the street from each other. Littlefield Cemetery had about 25 stones and Bovard Cemetery contained about 70. I'll write another post about our adventures here.
On the way out of the county, my husband was nice enough to let me get a photo of the Switzerland County welcome sign.
We spent the night in Cincinnati at my parents' house and then went to the radio convention the next day. It was a good trip and my husband even said that Switzerland County wasn't too far from my parents' house. Maybe I'll get another trip out of him someday. I mean I didn't even have time to explore the court house or research in Ohio County, Indiana.


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Universal Banker Associate CP- Staten Island-Hylan BLVD
The Universal Branch Associate is responsible for providing all Teller based transactions and/or lobby management to support digital solutions, as well as direct selling of our consumer and small business products/services to existing and new customers using a conversation model. Universal Branch Associates support and process deposits, transfers, withdrawals, and other digital transactions in accordance with established policies and procedures: must be continuously aware of fraud loss and check cashing guidelines as well as all security and transaction documentation requirements. Also responsible for the security of assigned cash which must be maintained and balanced within established guidelines. Develops and deepens relationships by servicing and selling consumer and small business products to new and existing customers. Additionally responsible for referring customers to other lines of business such as Capital One Financial Advisors, Private Banking, Small Business and Commercial banking as appropriate. Must maintain and acquire knowledge of complete line of products and services offered at the bank. Perform related duties as required to achieve branch goals.
This is an interim position as the associate works towards moving into a Universal Branch Associate role.
-Performs servicing duties: greets customers/prospects in the lobby, on the teller line, or on the phone. Researches customer inquiries, orders checks and/or debit cards, returns phone calls, accepts and forwards wires, and other customer originated service needs with the intent of enhancing customer retention and exploring additional sale opportunities.
-Uses needs-based assessment tools to analyze and determine customer needs. Recommends and sells appropriate solutions (consumer and business) both in person and on the telephone.
-Assist and educate customers on the use of self service and remote channels.
-Uses a conversation model to uncover customer needs using open-ended questions.
-Maintains a working knowledge of the complete line of products and services offered; taking responsibility to keep up to date and request assistance for further development needs.
-Researches and answers customer inquiries and requests regarding accounts, products, rates and services.
-Service Small Business customers as needed and sell to branch-managed businesses when no Branch Business Manager is available.
-Refer larger Small Business and Commercial opportunities as identified during profiling to Branch Business Manager or Branch Manager.
-Champion a customer centric culture.
-Maintain job proficiency and certification.
-Maintain supply and sale of consignment items.
-Deliver on in branch customer experience for all segments to ensure a quality customer experience – every customer every time.
-Process transactions within established policies and procedures to ensure operational excellence.
-Ensure all audit and security policies and procedures are followed in accordance with Bank policy and Federal regulations.
Basic Qualifications:
-High School Diploma, GED, Equivalent Certificate or Military Experience
-At least 1 year customer service experience
-At least 1 year sales experience
-At least 1 year teller or cash handling experience
Preferred Qualifications:
-1+ year sales experience
Professional Credentials, Licenses and Certifications:
-NMLS Licensing
-Working towards internal UBA Certification
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Requires successful registration with, and issuance of a unique identification number from, the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) in compliance with the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (S.A.F.E. Act).


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What does the group of Wall Street traders focused on banks of computer screens have in common with the watershed communities of South America's Gran Chaco, the second largest ecosystem on the continent; the priests of Bali, where some of the earliest evidence of irrigation used in rice cultivation is found; the Arctic Circle's indigenous communities of herders and hunters; and National Heritage Areas? A great deal.
They all (1) evaluate information in much the same ways (scale, timeliness, credibility, action, risk, and uncertainty); (2) act both tactically and within a large-scale vision; and (3) serve others outside their own group.
However, the Bali, Arctic, and Gran Chaco groups go further in considering the outcomes of their management practices because any mistake they make will have direct consequences for their individual lives and for the lives of their communities.


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"Cloud Computing via the Fujitsu Business Solutions Store is a sustainable model for us, both ecologically and economically."
Peter Texter Managing Director, Vogelsänger Event
A project management solution can only be fully effective when all employees can access it comfortably from wherever they happen to be. For Vogelsänger, a communications agency with 150 full-time employees in addition to many freelancers and external service providers, this requirement is entirely self-evident. Until now, the agency group maintained its own server and storage resources for this purpose, and used a fixed licence model for software. Vogelsänger's impulse to change to a more flexible Cloud solution was driven by considerations of sustainability.
Vogelsänger Event is thus one of the first German agencies to receive the 'Sustainable Company' certificate as a sustainably operating company from the inter-trade organization FAMAB. "In this context, we put all of our production processes to the test," says Peter Texter, Managing Director at Vogelsänger Event. "To move our existing solution, PROJEKTA von BBL Software, to the Cloud was a perfect fit for this concept." The booking was arranged via Fujitsu's Cloud Store. In a way, this can be described as an online marketplace for the delivery of Software-as-a- Service. Users can obtain information about solutions from different divisions and order these flexibly, tailor-made for their employee and usage requirements. "It can be that, when we are organizing largescale events, we are co-ordinating more than one thousand staff who have to precisely managed over a timeframe of six to twelve months," Peter Texter explains. "Beyond this, we have enormous expenditure for decorations and technology. At the event location, everything has to be there on time, meaning the right amounts of data and a large number of freelance staff who need to access PROJEKTA." In the past, it wasn't just the hardware that continually had to adapt to peak demands like this – the software had to as well. "We had to buy a new PROJEKTA licence for every freelancer, even if they were only working for Vogelsänger once a year for six weeks," says Texter. "We are now able using the Fujitsu Cloud Store to book one or twenty extra users for time period X. So the solution always adapts flexibly to our actual requirements, and then when the project is finished we can reduce the number of users again with the click of a mouse."
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Footwear inspired by the islands and designed with the intention of creating products that are better for the water and environments we live in. OluKai is committed to being environmentally responsible. Luxury footwear is handcrafted with the utmost attention to detail and authentic artwork.
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Sandals handcrafted with various densities of sponge rubber with memory for maximum comfort in footwear. Sandals come in leather, hemp, burlap and rubber for men and women. Take advantage of the Rainbow Guarantee that offers warranty for the lifetime of the sandal's sole.
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Rooted in deep American tradition, Over Under fine apparel and accessories is made with only American grown and manufactured products. Traditional clothing design based on the desire to "Preserve the Sporting Lifestyle." Quality t-shirts and accessories.
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In Los Angeles, as elsewhere in this country, fear of enemies in our midst — be they Communists, trade unionists or foreign terrorists — too often has led to violations of the privacy of law-abiding Americans. Given that history, civil libertarians and members of the Muslim community were right to press the Los Angeles Police Department to ensure that a program designed to detect possible terrorist activity doesn't cast suspicion on individuals whose only "offense" is to exercise their right to free speech or belong to a particular ethnic or religious group.
The result is an amended set of guidelines approved by the city Police Commission for the handling of "Suspicious Activity Reports." Though the new guidelines don't go as far as the American Civil Liberties Union would like, they make it less likely that police will record the identities of persons whose conduct is neither criminal nor reasonably suggestive of possible terrorist connections. That's an important step forward.
So-called SARs are controversial because they are not limited to criminal activity; they can also be filed if a person behaves in a manner that, while legal, may be suspicious — such as abandoning luggage in a railway station or taking photographs of a power plant. Especially since 9/11, citizens often alert police to such activities. (They also may pass on "information" rooted in paranoia or prejudice, such as the fact that a new neighbor wears a turban or speaks Arabic. Police insist they will promptly discard such reports as "unfounded.")


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The irresistible combination of peanut butter and chocolate - married in the classic buckeye candy - never gets old. Still, when buckeyes are dressed for success, the flavor is kicked up a notch.
The irresistible combination of peanut butter and chocolate � married in the classic buckeye candy � never gets old.
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Our enhanced treats might be well-suited to the coming weekend � or any other when your favorite team plays.How to create tantalizing treats 1. Gather ingredients for the basic buckeye.
1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
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1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups confectioners� sugar
2 tablespoons shortening
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
3. Make the peanut-butter filling.
In a medium bowl, mix peanut butter, butter, vanilla and confectioners� sugar with hands to form a smooth, stiff dough.
Shape into balls, using 2 teaspoons of dough for each ball.
Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or aluminum foil. Refrigerate.4. Melt the chocolate.
Melt shortening and chocolate chips in a glass bowl over a pan of simmering water.
Stir occasionally until smooth, and remove from heat.5. Dip and chill.
Remove balls from refrigerator.
Insert a wooden toothpick into a ball and dip into melted chocolate.
Roll the ball in the embellishment of your choosing while the chocolate is still wet.
Return to wax paper, chocolate side down, and remove toothpick.
Repeat with remaining balls.
Refrigerate for 30 minutes to set.
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Thanks for clarifying the version difference between the Play Store and Humble Bundle.stevetranby wrote:I'll change the wording of the beta page so it doesn't seem like ios/wm only. That said if you read a bit further you'd see that it's also out for Android/Win32/OSX. Humble will get the official update once we're ready to release it, likely before Google Play. The humble version is the same, the extra 1.1.6-8 was to fix Play Store specific issues.
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Bona Malwal, once a long-time antagonist of the late Dr John Garang De Mabior and the anti- separatist of South Sudan, emerged from his hiding place in Sudan only to come to the USA purportedly having been sent by President Salva Kiir with messages of hate against the Nuer people and South Sudanese in general.
During his visit to Kansas City, Kansas, USA, on Saturday March 21, 2015, Mr. Malwal, who's a member of the secretive Jieng Council of Elders which in effect acts as a tribal advisory council to President Kiir, said the government of South Sudan dispatched him with solid missions: to meet and brief the Dinka community in the USA about the success of the Kiir government in holding the Nuer at bay and about the imminent defeat of the so-called Nuer Rebellion, invoke the diaspora Dinka support and rally the American law makers and her people to support the Kiir's government and stand against the UN proposed sanctions.
Accompanied by some dignitaries from the South Sudanese embassy in Washington, DC, upon taking the stage but before commencing his speech, Mr. Bona Malwal, whose briefing carried hate messages against the Nuer people and the other 62 tribes of south Sudan, asked the attendees whether there were people in the audience who did not speak Dinka.
However, since no one raised up their hands, and therefore assuming that all in the conference room were Dinkas, he, Bona Malwal proceeded with the briefing in Dinka language not knowing there were some non-Dinkas in the audience who spoke the language fluently.
Mr. Bona Malwal said South Sudan existed thanks to the Dinka and therefore belongs to the Dinka people, and the Dinka have earned it and are where they are now above all others in South Sudan.
Bona Malwal stated they, the Dinka, are justified and deserved to be honored and respected for the hard-earned independence of south Sudan, but the Nuer are destroying this hard earned right, which was achieved by the blood of Dinka.
He said the Nuer had come to USA in the early 1990s but they had neither political weight nor influence in the USA Congress and they therefore contributed nothing to liberate the people of south Sudan.
In comparison, he said, the Dinka in USA at large arrived in the 2000's and it was their influence that lead to the American support for the Independence of South Sudan.
Stating the Dinka at home bled while those in America used their intelligence to rally the American congress for which we now have an independent South Sudan.
This was earned by Dinka thus the republic of South Sudan belongs to the Dinka and they must not allow the Nuer to ruin and steal the hearts of the American Congress and the American people so that the hard earned country achieved by the blood of Dinka isn't robbed from the them, Dinka, by the proposed sanctions drafted by the USA, which in his view will weaken the Kiir government for the benefit of the Nuer.
Concluding, Bona Malwal says he sees a real and tangible danger in these sanctions if it were to go through, thus this is the significance of his trip to America.
Bona Malwal said Dinka in America must do all within their power to lobby the American congress and to influence the White House so as to withhold the awaited UN Security Council sanctions on the warring parties in South Sudan.
He feared this will largely affect what he called their government. Bona Malwal acknowledged to the audience that he was dispatched by the government of South Sudan with enough resources to lobby the congress and dispatch members of the Dinka community to begin distributing the copies of the letter he himself brought from Juba, drafted by him, approved by President Kiir and the Council of Jieng Elders.
He stated this letter must be in the hands of the American law makers by March 28, 2015.
He added that the main objective of his visit in addition is to enlighten and educate the intelligentsia, specially from his Dinka community and to solidify what he referred to as "our government" position.
He urged the young people from his Dinka ethnic group not to give any inch to the Nuer both in the war frontline and in the political front, especially in the USA.
He claimed the latter should be easy as the Nuer are not as sophisticated and educated as his Dinka tribesmen.
Mr. Malwal swore the Nuer shall never ascend to nor assume power in South Sudan because when it comes to population the ratio is 1 Nuer to 5 Dinka. Thus he urges the Audience not to allow their country be taken away by Nuer who are the spoilers in South Sudan.
That the real danger to their ownership of South Sudan is the Nuer, adding the other tribes are no match for the Dinkas and remain no factor in the current conflict.
This vitriolic rhetoric is not surprising given that Mr. Bona Malwal is the architect of the Dinka superiority policy and the ideology of the born to rule.
Bona Malwal, who is fighting for his own political survival, attempting to gain favors from Kiir and Jieng council of elders, should not be allowed to intimidate the nation of south Sudan and drive wedges among tribal lines thus hindering peace.
The Nation should not stand in silence.
First of all who is Bona, all South Sudanese know his wretched ambition led him to attempt make a political coup against the founding leader of SPLA, Dr. John Garang.
Therefore becoming irrelevant since the CPA and going into hiding and silence as if he was dead only to resurrect this time to come to USA with dirty ambition to influence Dinka people who have peacefully coexisted with the Neur in the USA.
Mr. Bona Malwal encouraged his fellow Dinka in USA to rise against the Nuer community in America, mobilize human resources more so than money and to deny the Nuer the right to exist in South Sudan, because the Nuer did not deserve to enjoy the privileges of the new nation.
Bona Malwal urged all the able-bodies Dinka youth in America to go home so as to defend the territories of what belongs to them and never allow the Dinka-led government to be driven away by the Nuer and the other minority tribes of Equatoria.
He Bona said the Dinka in America are like the Jewish people scattered all over the world, and he encouraged them to fight the Nuer, that anyone who returns will be rewarded with job offers especially as the President Kiir has planned a full reshuffle of his government to remove some non-Dinka in directorship, and ministerial positions to make room for the Dinka in diaspora who hold valuable Diplomas from American Universities but more so those who distinguish themselves in advocacy for the current government.
It is very clear that this speech in Kansas City, Kansas, USA by Bona Malwal is in direct opposition to the American values and positions and her proposed sanctions that is purported to target those who stifle and promote antagonism and are pro conflict.
The question is: Given Bona's history of being the father of Dinka Superiority thus in essence the father of this civil war, how did the American embassy not know and why give a Visa to such known war monger and divisive figure to reach the American soil?
If this highly educated person is talking this way, is it any wonder then that peace could not find its way in South Sudan?
Indeed, the American government and her congress must not allow itself be duped by such a pro-war politician, the likes of Bona Malwal and must be denounced and banned from America.
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We consider a variant of the generalized assignment problem (GAP) where the amount of space used in each bin is restricted to be either zero (if the bin is not opened) or above a given lower bound (a minimum quantity). We provide several complexity results for different versions of the problem and give polynomial time exact algorithms and approximation algorithms for restricted cases. For the most general version of the problem, we show that it does not admit a polynomial time approximation algorithm (unless P=NP), even for the case of a single bin. This motivates to study dual approximation algorithms that compute solutions violating the bin capacities and minimum quantities by a constant factor. When the number of bins is fixed and the minimum quantity of each bin is at least a factor \(\delta>1\) larger than the largest size of an item in the bin, we show how to obtain a polynomial time dual approximation algorithm that computes a solution violating the minimum quantities and bin capacities by at most a factor \(1-\frac{1}{\delta}\) and \(1+\frac{1}{\delta}\), respectively, and whose profit is at least as large as the profit of the best solution that satisfies the minimum quantities and bin capacities strictly. In particular, for \(\delta=2\), we obtain a polynomial time (1,2)-approximation algorithm.
We consider the maximum flow problem with minimum quantities (MFPMQ), which is a variant of the maximum flow problem where the flow on each arc in the network is restricted to be either zero or above a given lower bound (a minimum quantity), which may depend on the arc. This problem has recently been shown to be weakly NP-complete even on series-parallel graphs. In this paper, we provide further complexity and approximability results for MFPMQ and several special cases. We first show that it is strongly NP-hard to approximate MFPMQ on general graphs (and even bipartite graphs) within any positive factor. On series-parallel graphs, however, we present a pseudo-polynomial time dynamic programming algorithm for the problem. We then study the case that the minimum quantity is the same for each arc in the network and show that, under this restriction, the problem is still weakly NP-complete on general graphs, but can be solved in strongly polynomial time on series-parallel graphs. On general graphs, we present a \((2 - 1/\lambda) \)-approximation algorithm for this case, where \(\lambda\) denotes the common minimum quantity of all arcs.


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Bowles played eight seasons in the NFL as a safety, most of which with the Washington Redskins. Bowles played seven seasons for the Redskins (1986-90, 1992-93) and one season for the San Francisco 49ers (1991). Bowles started in the Redskins' Super Bowl XXII triumph over the Denver Broncos. Bowles was undrafted coming out of Temple University.
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