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The United States Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit filed yesterday against Apple and five major book publishers for allegedly colluding and price-fixing e-books is still reverbing throughout the tech industry — after all, pretty much anything having to do with Apple these days is going to attract attention, and a major antitrust lawsuit is never something to be taken lightly. However, since the majority of participants named in the suit are in book publishing, this is obviously not a tech-only story. And beyond the well-reported details around what brought the lawsuit on and what the allegations exactly are, it's still a bit unclear what this all means for the technology industry at large.
So it was great to have Gary Reback join us on TechCrunch TV to provide some larger perspective on the situation. An alum of Yale (where he worked as a computer programmer to help pay his undergraduate tuition bills) and Stanford Law, Reback has spent the past three decades working as an attorney specializing in all things antitrust — perhaps most famously by helping to lead the United States' case against Microsoft in the 1990s. These days, Reback is still in the litigation game as a lawyer of counsel at Silicon Valley law firm Carr & Farrell, spearheads the Open Book Alliance aimed at keeping book digitization open to companies other than Google, and authors books such as 2009's Free The Market!. In short, when it comes to technology, antitrust law, and publishing — basically everything having to do with the DOJ/Apple case du jour — Reback really knows his stuff.
You can watch our interview in full in the video embedded above. Here are some of Reback's points:
This Won't Take The Shine Off Of Apple
Even though this is likely just the start of a long and drawn-out legal battle, Reback said that Apple itself will likely make it through the case just fine. "I don't think that what happens here will have a material affect on Apple or its business," Reback said. "Apple, after all, is doing quite well and it can afford to deal with this lawsuit." The book publishers, on the other hand, have been in a precarious financial situation for years already, he said. They will probably be the ones most heavily impacted by this case when it's all said and done.
A Wake-Up Call For Google's Old-School Ad Rivals
According to Reback, the biggest takeaway from the Apple e-book lawsuit is that companies in older industries need to be very careful in how they choose to fight back against their new tech-powered competitors. "This lawsuit does show how computer technology and digitization is moving through the rest of the economy. And specifically, it raises the question of how the players in the older sectors of the economy are going to respond to the changes with technology," he said.
In particular, this case should make New York advertising houses think twice about how they deal with Google's current domination in online ads. "The big New York publishers can now see what happens if they don't act the right way," Reback said. "The big book publishers were afraid of Amazon, and according to our government they did exactly the wrong thing. They not only got their business trashed, but they ended up being the subject of a government lawsuit against conspiracy. My prediction from this particular lawsuit is that it will serve as a wakeup call to the New York advertisers and ad agencies, and they'll get more involved and more public with respect to the FTC investigation with Google."
That means that instead or taking the situation completely in their own hands like the book publishers did here, smart advertisers may decide to work with the government. "The advertisers fear Google much as the book publishers fear Amazon," Reback said. "Right now the advertisers have the opportunity to be on the government's side as they move against Google."
The Government Is Flexing Its Muscles In Silicon Valley
Although it's often popular opinion in Silicon Valley that the government lags behind the fast-moving tech industry, the authorities are very focused at the moment at proving that stereotype wrong. "The Department of Justice has taken it upon itself to get more on top of things" in the technology industry, Reback said, noting that the the DOJ's leaders have made it very clear recently that they are "not afraid to litigate against big companies, and will be litigating more in the future."


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Indianapolis, IN (Sports Network) - Butler has replaced Brad Stevens with assistant Brandon Miller.
Stevens was introduced as the Boston Celtics' coach on Friday. On Saturday, Butler promoted Miller, a 2003 graduate and former Bulldogs point guard, to head coach.
Miller spent last season as a special assistant under Illinois head coach John Groce. He rejoined the Butler staff in April as an assistant coach under Stevens.
Prior to his one season at Illinois, Miller spent six years on the staff of head coach Thad Matta at Ohio State. He served three years as an assistant coach, two seasons as director of basketball operations and one year as video coordinator. He last worked at Butler during the 2007-08 season.
Miller played three seasons with Butler and led the team in scoring in 2002-03, when the Bulldogs reached the Sweet 16. He went 77-20 during his playing career, winning three Horizon League titles and becoming one of eight players in program history to score 1,000 points in three seasons.
"I am confident that Brandon will carry on the Butler University basketball tradition of excellence, especially as we make the transition to the Big East Athletic Conference," Butler vice president and director of athletics Barry Collier said. "As a player, assistant coach, and person, Brandon has exemplified the Butler Way and brings a blend of energy, talent and integrity to this role. With Brandon's leadership, Butler is well positioned to expand upon the success of the last few years."


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Quinnipiac settles women's sports funding dispute
Quinnipiac University in proposed pact to boost support for programs for females
Women's volleyball will live on at Quinnipiac University.
As will women's track and field, cross-country and rugby. The decision come as part of a proposed settlement that will designate nearly $6 million to improving female sports, their facilities and their staffing at the NCAA Division I school in Hamden.
Quinnipiac will also pay $15,000 in damages to the five remaining volleyball plaintiffs who challenged the school's elimination of the sport to save $70,384.
"We got a major victory for Title IX," said Robin Sparks, Quinnipiac's former women's volleyball coach, who brought the fight with six of her team members in 2009 and watched it become a class action suit involving all of Quinnipiac's female athletes. "This isn't just a win for the female athletes at Quinnipiac, but for all female student-athletes across the country."
Sparks, who previously settled her part of the case, now works as the senior director of policy and research for the Bridgeport Child Advocacy Center while coaching club volleyball in the Waterbury area.
"For me, it's very exciting to have been part of this," Sparks said, "particularly in seeing 18- and 19-year-old women stand up for their rights, be heard and, in the end, make a difference for all."
Under the terms of a settlement that U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill is expected to approve, Quinnipiac agrees not to eliminate the volleyball program and will add two more scholarships over the next two years, maintain a women's rugby team with nine full scholarships that will play a full Division I schedule by 2014-15, add four scholarships to its women's cross-country team and six scholarships for athletes who participate in non-distance events on its women's track and field teams as well as provide better facilities and more full-time coaches.
Underhill set June 20 for a fairness hearing, at which time anyone who wishes to comment either pro or con will be allowed to address him. Those wishing to do so must send notification to the judge by June 4.
The lawyers for the plaintiffs, Jonathan Orleans and Alex Hernandez of Pullman & Comley; Sandra Staub, the American Civil Liberties Union's legal director in Connecticut; and Kristen Galles, a Virginia lawyer who specializes in Title IX cases, prevailed in nearly every proceeding from obtaining a court order that saved women's volleyball to the U.S. Appeals Court decision that upheld Underhill's finding that the school provided failed to provide "substantially proportionate athletic participation opportunities" to females as it did males.
"The plaintiffs won going away clearly on every single issue," said Donna Lopiano, the former Raybestos Brakettes star, University of Texas women's athletic director, Title IX expert and now head of Sports Management Resources, a Shelton-based university athletics consulting firm. "Now the school has to ante up some really significant money."
Lopiano said Underhill's previous rulings "broke new ground" in determining that schools can't load up their track teams with female athletes and then not allow them to compete in events.
"The judge put schools on notice that if you get sued and the Office of Civil Rights comes, everyone is going to look at the intent and effect of what you do," Lopiano said. "I suspect Quinnipiac got tired of losing and paying huge legal bills not only to their lawyers, but to opposing counsel."
Orleans agreed that this case sent a message to universities that the courts are going to "enforce Title IX strictly" and schools "need to be serious about complying with the regulations."
"Not only did we keep the volleyball program intact, but we got additional scholarships, additional facilities, improved playing and practice fields for volleyball and other women's sports," he said. "Quinnipiac deserves to be applauded for coming to the table and helping craft this settlement."
Lynn Bushnell, Quinnipiac's vice president for public affairs, said the settlement allows the school "to better use its resources to invest in our student-athletes and our sports and recreation programs."
She added that the status and continuation of the Acrobatics and Tumbling program which Quinnipiac sought to replace volleyball with until Underhill determined that was not a true sport, will be reviewed.
Under the proposed agreement, Quinnipiac, whose men's hockey team was the runner-up in the NCAA tournament earlier this month, will spend $5 million to improve its women's athletic facilities; $450,000 to improve its women's athletic programs by providing additional coaches, access to training facilities and conditioning services; another $175,000 over each of the next three years on recruiting, equipping, feeding and transporting its female athletes and hire a referee to monitor its progress in complying with Title IX.
It also must develop a Title IX nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedure, which it will disseminate on its website and in its student handbook, athlete handbook, and faculty/staff handbook no later than the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year.
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Born in Paris, William Tai spent his first year in Indochina, and then emigrated to Belgium. He attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, and made his comics debut in Tintin with the story 'Minuset' from a script by Jean-Marie Brouyère. His association with Spirou began in 1970, and his first contributions were some 'Belles Histoires de l'Oncle Paul'. A year later, and again with Brouyère, he created 'Archie Cash', a hard-boiled action character with the looks of Charles Bronson.
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While working on 'Archie Cash', Malik additionally drew such stories as 'Blue Bird' (1977, scripts by Terence and Brouyère), 'Chiwana' (1979, with his own script) and the humorous 'Big Joe' (1978, text by Bom). The latter also appeared in Super-As. For the publishing house Archers, he created 'Johnny Paraguay' with Terence from 1983 to 1985. In 1989, he made a comic adaptation of Bernard Clavel's 'Les Colonnes du Ciel' for Éditions Lefrancq.
Since the late 1980s, Malik has shifted his focus on humorous comics. After the gag series 'Plombier' and 'La Vie Secrète des Poubelles' with writer Dugomier, he launched his best known series, 'Cupidon', with Raoul Cauvin in 1988. The series was published in book format by Dupuis until 2009, and returned two years later in new books published by Joker Éditions. Since then, the gags are written by Malik himself. In addition, Malik has worked as an illustrator for Schtroumpf and Le Soir. For the publishing house Topgame, he cooperated on 'Chansons Cochonnes' with Daniel Kox, Louis-Michel Carpentier and Jidéhem. He also uses the pseudonym Phénix for his erotic work, including 'Passion à Notre-Dame' for IPM in 2003 and his contributions to BédéAdult.
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The Sky Citadel (スカイ・シタデル Sukai Shitaderu?) is the eighth area of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. It is a marvelous city from the Ancients located in the clouds above Bygone Island, where it is held up by mysterious technology. Virtually untouched by time, it is an archaeological marvel.
In their quest for the final Chaos Crystal, Team Sonic journeyed to the Sky Citadel to find the Sky Crystal. However, they were forced by Lyric to surrender their Crystals in exchange for Sonic's life (right before he quashes the deal by having his robots shoot Sonic on the spot). Not quite beaten yet, Team Sonic pursued Lyric through the floating city as it collapse to stop him from destroying the world.
The Sky Citadel is, in its simplicity, an enormous city from the Ancients located in the upper cloud layers. It is surrounded by clouds which have a slightly violet tint and block any view of the earth's surface below them. However, the sky can still be seen above.
The Sky Citadel is comprised solely of buildings suspended in the air by unspecified blue orbs on the bottom of them. As such, the area is devoid of any solid ground. The whole city is made of pale rock, and its architecture heavily features pillars, overarching openings, curves and dome-shaped rooftops. Structures here include temple-like buildings, enormously tall walls, floating platforms, ring-shaped roofs and interwoven roads, most of which are held up by pillars suspended in the air. Adorning the surfaces are golden rims and the Ancients' markings. Additionally, floating around the city are cylinder-shaped towers and long arch bridges of immense size. The city also has some flora in form of planted trees and bushes.
Though ancient, the Sky Citadel is in fairly good condition, its only wear being a few cracks, some rubble and a couple of collapsed roads. Some towers show more extensive damage though, having large vines growing out of crumbling walls.
A thousand years ago, the Ancients hid the Sky Crystal in the Sky Citadel so that Lyric could not find it.
When Team Sonic tried to reach the Sky Citadel through the Seaside Harbor Light to get the Sky Crystal, only Knuckles and Amy got through. As the pair journeying through the city, Sonic and Tails reached them in the Tornado. Soon after, they found the Sky Crystal, only for Destruction Troops to surround them. Lyric then appeared and explained that he let them find the Crystals so he could steal them. Sonic refused to hand them over, but Lyric threatened to Tails, Knuckles, and Amy that he would kill Sonic if they did not. Reluctantly, the heroes surrendered their Crystals. Instead of keeping his promise however, Lyric had his robots shoot Sonic down and burry him in rubble.
As Lyric left with the Crystals, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy dug Sonic out and discovered to their relief that he was still alive. The group then took off to stop Lyric. With the Sky Citadel collapsing around them due to Lyric's army, Team Sonic headed for the Tornado. Though a chuck of rock broke the road as they got ready to take off, Tails got the plane flying and team headed for Lyric's Lair to stop the villain once and for all.
In the Sky Citadel, the player travels through the floating city. Like the other areas in the game, the Sky Citadel includes a speed level section near the end, where the player runs down a long path with speed-enhancing gimmicks while avoiding hazardous obstacles, and as well slower-paced areas for exploration and combat. It also features the normal puzzles that the player must solve with the Enerbeam mechanic and Buttons. Unique to the Sky Citadel, there are laser beam puzzles, where lasers must be redirected into nearby receptors, most of the time through several cannon-like links which can either be set to receive the laser or moved to alter the laser's direction. Both these actions can be done by attacking these links. The lasers can also be blocked by obstacles which must be destroyed.
The Sky Citadel contains several gimmicks for all four playable characters' specific actions. This include Spin Ramps and Air Targets for Sonic, Tails Vents and Buddy Bot sockets for Tails, Climbable Walls and Ceilings for Knuckles and Balance Beams and Beam Swings for Amy.
Gimmicks aside, the Sky Citadel has several environmental hazards. Amidst suspended roads made of rectangular platforms, there are those marked with horizontal lines that will instantly crumble over bottomless pits when stepped on. On both floors, walls, roofs and even gimmicks there are as well poles with spikes that rotate over a large area which cause damage upon touch. Similarly, there are spiked balls on both walls and roofs (some of which are moving), and swinging pendulums with spikes blocking the paths. Additionally, Knuckles' climbable surface can have sharp spikes that sprout out in intervals, and Amy's Balance Beams can fall apart or be crushed by pendulums. Also, along the level's extensive Ener-Rail sections there will be spiked pendulums and collapsing towers.
In the beginning of the level, the player's objective is to find the Sky Crystal. First the player must go through a door on the opening path by unblocking a laser. This leads to a bigger area where the player has to solve three laser beam puzzles that are found along the sides of the area and in the middle. Solving these puzzles opens a door to a dangerous passage above a bottomless pit. Continuing down this path will take the player to a plaza-like area where the paths splits in two. The player must go down each path (the order does not matter) and solve two laser beam puzzles along each way. This will reveal Bounce Pads in the middle of the area leading to the Crystal chamber. In the chamber, another laser beam puzzle must be solved on the platforms above to unlock the Crystal. This will trigger the cutscene where Lyric takes the Crystals.
At this point, the player's new objective is to escape the Sky Citadel. Ride the Ener-Rails in front of the current arena to a platform where the exit is blocked by a sealed door. The player must use Amy to get on the other side of the door using the Balance Beams on the left, and break the pink locks on the door to let the others through. Now clear out the enemies and one of Lyric's airships will fly in. Switch to Tails, board the airship and send Buddy Bot into each of the sockets on the ship's three glass domes which will cause the ship to crash. It is important to time this correctly, or Buddy Bot will be smashed by the spiked poles inside the domes. The player must also clear out nearby enemies, or Buddy Bot will go after them.
After the ship has fallen, ride an Ener-Rail to another blocked door. Switch to Knuckles and climb up to the two platform surrounding the area, where the Enerbeam must be used to open the door's locks. Ride the Ener-Rail on the other side of the door to some platforms and use Sonic to go down a path to the left which lead to a Button. Pressing this Button will open a path to a speed level section. Once the player arrives at the Tornado, the level is completed and the player is taken to Lyric's Lair.
This level has the following total of collectable items:
- Crowns: 12
- Shinies: 5
- Robot Scrap Chests: 9
- This level bears many similarities with Sky Sanctuary Zone from Sonic & Knuckles.
- When Team Sonic hand over all their Chaos Crystals to Lyric who then flies away with them, the Shock Crystal and the red Crystal are not shown among them. Also, in the first scene where Lyric leaves with the Crystals, he is shown having two Verdant Crystals.
- The Sky Citadel is the counterpart to Cloud Sanctuary from Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal.
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Looks like Harry Potter is still playing in the supernatural world! Check out the brand new trailer for Daniel Radcliffe's new ghost story The Woman In Black, and tell us this... Did she scare you?
Here's a quickie synopsis about the film, Directed by James Watkins (Eden Lake): "A young lawyer travels to a remote village to organize a recently deceased client's papers, where he discovers the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance." Hey, we're down for a good old fashioned ghost story, and anything that gives us more Radcliffe is always welcomed.
The Woman In Black will hit theaters on February 3rd, 2012.


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The physical or mental disability must be of a permanent rather than of a temporary nature (or a disability expected to last more than two years or beyond the 18th birthday). The application must include a written statement from a qualified health-care professional related to the nature of the disability. This person may be a physician, neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist, etc., or an educational administrator as appropriate.
Before applying, he must earn as many of the Eagle-required merit badges as possible. Any alternatives must present the same challenge and learning level as those they replace. Unless the Scout has been approved for registration beyond the age of eligibility, all merit badges must be completed by the 18th birthday (reference Guide to Advancement, topic 10.1.0.1–10.1.0.2).
- Obtain a clear and concise statement related to the nature of the disability from a qualified health-care professional.
- The unit leader meets with the candidate and his parent or guardian to determine the alternative merit badges to replace those impeding his progression.
- The unit leader, parent or guardian, and the Scout (if possible) prepare supporting letters to accompany the application.
- The district and council advancement committees, in turn, review the proposed alternative merit badges. They may choose to speak with the Scout, his parent or guardian, or unit leader. If the council advancement committee approves, then the candidate may start work on the merit badges.
Note: In approving the application, the district and council advancement committees must utilize the expertise of a health-care professional involved with youth who have disabilities.
- Upon completion of the Eagle Scout rank requirements, using the alternative merit badges, the candidate appears before a board of review. This approved application must be attached to the Eagle Scout Rank Application.
- Following a successful board of review, the council processes both applications and forwards them to the national Advancement Team. Local council action on alternative merit badges does not require national approval.
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PRIME MINISTER VLADIMIR Putin's party saw its majority in Russia's parliament weaken sharply, according to preliminary election results released today – a humiliating setback for the man who has steadily tightened his grip on the nation for nearly 12 years.
Some opposition politicians and election monitors said even a result of around 50 per cent for Putin's United Russia party was inflated because of vote fraud. Their claims were backed by international observers, who pointed to procedural violations and serious indications of ballot stuffing after a campaign slanted in favor of United Russia.
"To me, this election was like a game in which only some players are allowed to compete," Heidi Tagliavini, the head of the international observer mission, said at a news conference.
United Russia is still expected to retain its majority in the lower house and Putin is all but certain to win next March's presidential election, but Sunday's vote badly dented his carefully groomed image. It reflected a strong public frustration with the lack of political competition, ubiquitous official corruption and the gap between rich and poor.
United Russia was leading with 49.5 per cent
With about 96 per cent of precincts counted, United Russia was leading with 49.5 per cent of the vote, Central Election Commission chief Vladimir Churov said. He predicted that it will get 238 of the Duma's 450 seats, a sharp drop compared to the previous vote that landed the party a two-thirds majority in the State Duma, allowing it to change the constitution.
Final preliminary results were to be announced on Monday morning, but the count dragged on for longer than expected. Some opposition politicians alleged that election officials may manipulate the vote count to make sure that United Russia gets over 50 per cent mark. Mikhail Kasyanov, a former prime minister who is now in opposition, said that Putin badly needs the figure to avoid looking weak.
The monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly wouldn't say if the irregularities could be at the scale to question if United Russia has an unearned majority. But Tagliavini said that of the 150 polling stations where the counting was observed, "34 were assessed to be very bad."
Putin tried to put a positive spin on the returns, saying late Sunday that "we can ensure the stable development of the country with this result." But he appeared glum when speaking to supporters at United Russia headquarters and limited his remarks to a terse statement.
"Party of crooks and thieves"
United Russia has been seen increasingly as the party of corrupt officials, and its description as a "party of crooks and thieves" has stuck, flashing up as the first suggestion on Russia's top web search engine.
Seeing the declining fortunes of his party, Putin named his handpicked successor as president, Dmitry Medvedev, to lead United Russia's list. The vote will further weaken the position of Medvedev, whom Putin promised to name prime minister after the presidential vote, a move that has fueled public irritation.
In the runup to the vote, Putin also sought to stem a quick decline in United Russia's popularity by trying to expand its support base with a so-called Popular Front, an umbrella group for unions, professional associations, veteran groups and others. But the effort has brought no visible result, and Putin last month received a stinging blow to his own ego when he was met with catcalls after a mixed martial arts fight at a Moscow arena.
The end of Putin's "honeymoon"
Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov said the vote spelled the end of Putin's "honeymoon" with the nation and predicted that his rule will soon "collapse like a house of cards." "He needs to hold an honest presidential election and allow opposition candidates to register for the race, if he doesn't want to be booed from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad," Nemtsov said on Ekho Moskvy radio.
Security was tight in central Moscow with police trucks parked in some areas. Police said they arrested more than 100 protesters who tried to stage an unsanctioned rally in Moscow and about 70 others in St. Petersburg.
The Communist Party appeared to benefit most from the protest vote, with exit polls and the early returns predicting it would get nearly 20 per cent, up from less than 12 percent four years ago. The socialist Just Russia and the Liberal Democratic Party led by mercurial nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky are also expected to increase their representation in the Duma.
Despite that, Putin should still have no problem getting his laws rubber-stamped. Even the Communists have posed only token opposition in the outgoing Duma, and the two other parties have consistently voted with United Russia.
Coalitions in the new Duma
Medvedev said Monday that United Russia would be ready to build coalitions in the new Duma, even though it will have a majority. He said he may fire governors of the provinces where the party fared particularly badly.
About 60 percent of Russia's 110 million registered voters cast ballots, down from 64 percent four years ago.
Only seven parties were allowed to field candidates for parliament this year, while the most vocal opposition groups were barred from the race.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the US has "serious concerns" about the elections.
"Russian voters deserve a full investigation of all credible reports of electoral fraud and manipulation and we hope in particular that then Russian authorities will take action" on reports that come forward, Clinton said.
The international monitors said the election administration lacked independence, most media were partial and state authorities interfered unduly at different levels.
This "did not provide the conditions for fair electoral competiton," said Petros Efthymiou, coordinator of the short-term observation mission. "Changes are needed for the will of the people to be respected."
Social media were flooded with messages reporting violations. Many people reported seeing buses deliver groups of people to polling stations, with some of the buses carrying young men who looked like football fans.
"The elections were unprecedented in terms of dirt, pressure and the use of a well-oiled falsification machine," Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said Monday, alleging that the vote is still being rigged as the count is going on. His party said it recorded violations at some 1,600 polling stations and said they would appeal election results at each of them.
Russia's only independent election monitoring group, Golos, which is funded by US and European grants, has come under heavy official pressure in the past week. Golos' website was incapacitated by hackers on Sunday, and its director Lilya Shibanova and her deputy had their cell phone numbers, email and social media accounts hacked.
Andrey Buzin, chief of Golos election monitoring, said it had received more than 1,500 complaints about violations.
But despite the heavy-handed state interference in the campaign and numerous violations, voters still took advantage of their right to express their choice, observers said.
"Yesterday, it was proven by these voters that not everything was fixed, that the result really matters," said Tiny Kox of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly.


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Pure gold: Best outfielders need more than speed
Getting good reads, taking direct routes and knowing opponents key to success
On a muggy June night in Atlanta, with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, a runner on first and the score knotted at 4-4, Braves slugger Freddie Freeman launched a fly ball to the depths of Turner Field. The Braves faithful jumped to their feet, confident that their most clutch hitter had just delivered a walk-off win.
But Pirates center fielder Andrew McCutchen's wheels were churning even before Freeman turned on the 94-mph, 3-2 fastball that closer had Jason Grilli delivered over the middle of the plate. McCutchen knew the big lefty likes to hit the ball to the alley in right-center, so he had been playing deep, and a little to the pull side of second base. And although McCutchen had a lot of ground to cover, he arrived in plenty of time to make a jumping -- yet casual-looking -- grab against the outfield wall.
The Pirates got out of the inning, but went on to lose, 5-4, in the 10th. The next day, McCutchen's catch didn't even make the highlight reels.
McCutchen, with his combination of smarts and ground-eating speed, has a habit of making tough plays look routine, of getting to balls other outfielders could never reach, and of staying on his feet. He said he only dives three or four times per year.
"The best outfielders are the ones who don't have to dive," said Pirates first-base coach Rick Sofield. "They're unbelievably talented, but they've also taken positioning on with some maturity and responsibility. They make it look easy, and easy doesn't make the highlight reel."
Rather, it is the sensational that wins airtime, adulation and awards. It is more exciting to watch an average outfielder make a diving catch than it is to watch a great outfielder like McCutchen turn the same ball into a routine play. And as conventional stats go, there's no difference anyway; both catches have the same effect on an outfielder's fielding percentage. But only one of those catches will be remembered for its brilliance the next day. And it will be the wrong one.
What if we backed up those highlight-reel clips of outfielders sprawled into the gaps or somersaulting toward the infield? How often are those dramatic, diving grabs the result of a mistake -- poor positioning, a late jump or an indirect route to the ball -- that a gifted athlete makes up for with fleet-footedness and a fancy flash of leather?
"A lot more than you think," said Red Sox right fielder Shane Victorino, "probably 60 or 70 percent of the time. It happens to everyone."
But it happens to the best a lot less frequently. Watch McCutchen closely and you'll see the magic happens in the first few steps, not the final flourish.
Because today's fielding metrics can't precisely measure a player's positioning and movement -- not to mention the trajectory, location and movement of batted balls -- it is difficult to use even advanced statistics to determine which outfielders are the best.
"Different metrics use different source data and, as a result, can reach vastly different conclusions on the defensive value of any particular player," said Cory Schwartz, VP of statistics for MLB Advanced Media. "When several metrics are used in concert, they can paint a broad picture of which fielders are better than others. But all of these metrics may differ by wide degrees on exactly how effective any particular fielder is and what his defensive skills are worth."
When judging outfielders' technique, our eyes must account for what the statistics cannot. We can also look to the upper echelon of big league outfielders themselves, who zealously study -- and admire -- each other. McCutchen is a fan of the Tigers' Torrii Hunter, and Hunter loves him back. The Dodgers' Matt Kemp likes to watch the D-backs' Gerardo Parra. The Orioles' Adam Jones thinks the Braves' B.J. Upton is the perfect player. Victorino is impressed with the Angels' Mike Trout. They can't say enough good things about each other, but to a man, they all laud the play of Ken Griffey Jr. and Andruw Jones, who each won 10 consecutive Gold Glove Awards.
Andruw Jones is known as one of the most intuitive outfielders of all time.
"Andruw was always moving before the ball was even hit," said Kemp. "He would read the pitch, anticipate where the ball was going to be hit and already be moving to that spot."
Andruw Jones did have the distinct advantage of playing behind one of the most reliable pitching staffs in history. John Smoltz, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Co. usually hit their spots, making it much easier to predict where and how hard a ball was going to be hit.
However, Andruw still covered an incredible amount of ground. By all accounts, he played a very shallow center field, yet because he played with such intelligence and ran such direct routes, he was still able to rob home runs at the wall.
Trout makes the same kind of spectacular plays today. However, existing in a power division like he does, Trout starts out considerably deeper than Jones did, making it easier to cover the ground between himself and the center-field wall.
Because most pitchers aren't nearly as reliable as the Braves' hurlers were in the 1990s, and because hitters can be just as unpredictable, outfielders must do their homework. They have to study opposing hitters and the spray charts coaches work up on them. They must know the dimensions and quirks of each ballpark they play in. And they must learn the velocity, pitches and approach of each of their pitchers, assess the pitcher's ability on a given day and decide how it will affect where the ball is hit.
"If you have a softer-throwing lefty, righties will usually be out in front of the ball, so you play them to pull," said Kemp. "But with a harder thrower like Clayton Kershaw, you'll play hitters in the opposite gap."
Pitchers also simply can change their approach to a hitter, which will change how the outfielders set up.
"If I'm throwing sinkers away to a lefty, he's probably going to hit most of the balls in the air to left and roll over the ones on the ground, so I want the infield to play to pull and the outfield to play opposite," said Braves pitcher Tim Hudson. "But if I change my mind, pound that lefty in and mix in some cutters, the center fielder has to cheat a little toward right field."
A hitter also can change his approach and decide, say, to turn on the sinker and pull it instead of driving it to the opposite field. Or he could be having a bad day, be just a touch tardy with his swing or a touch ahead of the breaking ball, and hit the ball somewhere completely unplanned. Then, it's up to the center fielder to make adjustments.
"We go into the game with a plan for positioning. But as the game progresses, it's up to Andrew when it comes to reading bats," said Sofield of McCutchen. "He's like a quarterback calling an audible, telling our guys if they should move three steps one way or the other."
With regard to depth, every outfielder has a theory on what works. Some, like Braves left fielder Justin Upton, like to play deep, both to protect against the long ball and because, for most, it's easier to run in to make a catch than it is to turn and run for a ball hit over your head.
Some, like Adam Jones, like to play shallow, keeping bloopers from falling in for base hits and singles from turning into doubles, and tipping their caps in deference to those who can hit the ball 400 feet. Others go with the percentages, playing deeper for hitter No. 3 through No. 6 and more shallow for the rest of the order.
"I always want to take away a guy's 80 percent," said Hunter. "Guys who hit for power will hit the ball deep 80 percent of the time, so I'll take that away and give them the 20 percent bloop hits and jam shots they might put in front of me. The little guys, their 80 percent is in front of me, so I play shallower and make them beat me over my head."
That wouldn't be Hunter's fault anyway.
"As pitchers, if we don't make a pitch and a hitter nukes it over the outfielder's head, that's our fault," said Hudson. "But when we make good pitches and jam the hitter and they bloop just in front of the outfielder because he's playing way back, that's when pitchers get ticked off. You feel like you made a pitch and didn't get rewarded for it."
At 6-foot-1 and a burly 230 pounds, Red Sox outfielder Jonny Gomes is not blessed with blinding speed. Every day, he watches Victorino and Jacoby Ellsbury motor around the outfield, and thinks about what might have been. But Gomes has never let his inability to beat his teammates in a foot race interfere with his ability to keep baseballs from hitting the grass.
"I firmly believe however much you miss the ball by is how big a mistake you made on your first step," Gomes said. "You can gain three to five feet in one step. You can dive and miss a ball by two inches. Do the math."
To get a good jump, an outfielder has to be prepared, mentally and physically, on every pitch, even though the ball may not be hit to him in a particular inning or even in an entire game. Essentially, he has to play like an infielder.
"I like to watch Dustin Pedroia play second base," said McCutchen. "Every time the pitcher is in his windup, he practically jumps in the air to get himself into position, and he does that 150 times a game. I try to get myself prepared for every pitch like that."
Braves right fielder Jason Heyward calls it "the creep." It's not an actual step forward, but rather a subtle movement onto the balls of the feet that puts the outfielder into an athletic position from which he's able to react in whatever direction is necessary.
That first reaction is key, and it's something Braves bench coach Carlos Tosca pounds home during Spring Training. He has his outfielders begin by straddling the foul line. With their first step, they have to explosively turn one way or the other, and their feet must then be on the line.
"Outfielders have to know what their feet are doing," Tosca said. "If you get caught at an angle to the line, you're going to run an L-route to the baseball, and that is not a direct route."
Indirect routes lead to hits that never should have been.
"A guy can hit a gapper and everyone watching the game just thinks, oh, that's a double," said two-time National League MVP Award winner and five-time Gold Glove Award-winning center fielder Dale Murphy. "People don't realize there was a mistake, that the outfielder played a single into a double, or a double into a triple, by running a bad route to the ball."
Obviously, the shortest distance between point A and point B is a straight line. But figuring out where point B will be -- that is, where the baseball will land -- is an art that takes years of seeing baseballs coming off of bats to perfect. Hunter has come close.
|"If two outfielders make all the right plays and have the same team record, the same fielding percentage and the same offensive numbers, who gets the Gold Glove? The guy who makes plays look routine, doesn't dive a lot and gets the outs without flashing a lot of leather, or the guy who dives all the time, even if they're all bad routes?"
|-- Andrew McCutchen
Before each game, as the Tigers get in their daily rounds of batting practice, Hunter sets himself up in the outfield. His teammates jog to and fro, sometimes sprinting, shagging fly balls. But Hunter barely moves. He's 37 now, and he's learned the benefit of saving his legs. So he watches, listens to the crack of the bat and feels how the wind is blowing. Once the ball is hit, Hunter will avert his eyes from its path and focus instead on the five-foot circle of grass where he thinks the ball will land. More often than not, the ball drops in the circle. Six-time Gold Glove Award winner Kirby Puckett taught Hunter this mental exercise when he first came up with the Twins, to teach him to take the most direct route to the baseball.
"I'm shagging with my mind," said Hunter, who won nine consecutive Gold Gloves from 2001-09. "And I'm not wrong much."
Center fielders Austin Jackson of the Tigers and the Phillies' Ben Revere are extraordinary talents who can flat-out run. They know how much leeway their speed provides, and can take a few steps in on a ball and still recover if it sails overhead. They can run a bit of an indirect route and still end up where they need to be. Or they can pause for an extra fraction of a second to get a better read on a ball before setting off after it.
"It is good to be fast," Revere said. "Sometimes people say to me, 'Man, you didn't even get a really good jump on that ball and you still caught it.' But you still have to go 110 percent, because if you jog and the ball falls right next to you, you're going to look really bad."
The list of things that can make outfielders look bad is already long enough: twilight, sunshine, lights, white T-shirts, rally rags and dingy concrete facades (so often the same color as a rubbed-up ball) can all make a baseball seem to disappear. Also on that list is the baseball itself. When the wind hits its seams, the ball can rise, drop, tail, cut, slice, spin or knuckle at any moment.
"Crazy things happen once the ball is hit," said Adam Jones. "It's a phenomenon."
But nothing can humble an outfielder like a head-high line drive. The harder and squarer it's hit, the tougher it is to judge. Hunter has had a career-long frustration with Mark Kotsay, whose every hit appears straight before dropping like a stone. Adam Jones recalls three liners -- hit by Evan Longoria, Adrian Gonzalez and Luke Scott -- that knuckled away and left him scrambling. Jackson misjudged a George Kottaras drive that sailed over his head for a two-run triple in late September 2012.
"There's nothing worse than misjudging a ball and having to run after it in front of 40,000 people," Jackson said. "I remember hearing one guy the whole time, saying over and over, 'There goes our season.'"
The best outfielders make adjustments in those tricky moments and still manage to come up with the ball. And the more often they come up with it, the more likely they are to win a Gold Glove Award. Kemp already has two, but he's friendly with Hunter, whose nine glitter in his house like gaudy track lighting.
"I see them all lined up and think, 'Man, I have to catch up,'" Kemp said.
But there are fewer repeat winners these days, possibly because the overall level of athlete playing the outfield has increased so dramatically. The 18 Gold Gloves awarded to outfielders since 2010 have been won by 16 players. In the decade prior to that, Hunter, Andruw Jones, Ichiro Suzuki and Jim Edmonds won the lion's share.
McCutchen also won his first Gold Glove Award in 2012, but he knows his style of play may not make him a repeat winner.
"Look at it like this," he said. "If two outfielders make all the right plays and have the same team record, the same fielding percentage and the same offensive numbers, who gets the Gold Glove? The guy who makes plays look routine, doesn't dive a lot and gets the outs without flashing a lot of leather, or the guy who dives all the time, even if they're all bad routes?"
"They pick the guy who makes the diving catches. That's the society we live in, but I'm not going to sacrifice my body or risk not catching the ball just to make it look tougher. I'm not going to change my style of play."
And the Pirates have to be thrilled about that.


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To prepare for this Tutorial, you need to obtain and install the current release of Oracle JDeveloper 11g Release 1 (188.8.131.52) software on your system. You also need to verify if you have the correct Oracle WebCenter extension installed. Beyond that, you will need to copy and extract a folder with sample Tutorial files on your hard drive. This chapter explains what you need to install in order to successfully complete the lessons in the Tutorial.
In addition, you will need to create a connection to a content repository. This is a necessary and preferred way of working with a content-based portal, such as the one you will create by following the lessons in this Tutorial.
Chapter 6, "Connecting to and Managing Content Repositories" describes how you create a connection to the Oracle WebCenter Content repository. Note that you can also have portal applications that do not use content stored in a repository.
You will set up the environment for the Tutorial by following these steps:
Step 4: Verify the Correctly Installed JDeveloper Release and WebCenter Extension
Oracle JDeveloper provides an integrated development environment for developing WebCenter Portal applications. For information on obtaining and installing Oracle JDeveloper, see the Oracle JDeveloper page on OTN at:
Before you can begin to develop WebCenter applications, you need to install the WebCenter extension bundle in Oracle JDeveloper. The WebCenter extension bundle is a JDeveloper add-in that provides the complete set of WebCenter capabilities and features to the JDeveloper Studio Edition.
To install the WebCenter extension bundle:
Start Oracle JDeveloper.
If the Select Default Roles dialog displays, select Default Role to enable all technologies, and click OK.
If a dialog opens asking if you want to migrate settings from an earlier version, click No.
From the Help menu, select Check for Updates.
Click Next in the Welcome page of the Check for Updates wizard.
On the Source page, under Search Update Centers, search for the WebCenter extension, select it, then click Finish.
When prompted, restart JDeveloper
JDeveloper is now configured to create the WebCenter portal application for this Tutorial.For more information on obtaining and installing Oracle WebCenter Framework, see the Oracle WebCenter page on OTN at:
Oracle strongly recommends that you set an environment variable for the user home directory that is referenced by JDeveloper. By setting this variable, you can avoid receiving long pathname errors that are known to occur in some circumstances.
For detailed instructions on setting this variable on Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X operating systems, see "Setting the User Home Directory" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle JDeveloper.
Once you have obtained the software, ensure that you have installed Oracle JDeveloper 11g Release 1 (188.8.131.52), shown in Figure 2-1, and the Oracle WebCenter Portal extension (11.1.1).
Figure 2-1 Oracle JDeveloper 11g Release 1 About Box
If you are not sure whether you have the WebCenter Portal extension, you can verify this by opening Oracle JDeveloper, then About from the Help menu, then click the Extensions tab. At the top of the About dialog, you should see Oracle JDeveloper 11g Release 1 126.96.36.199.0. On the Extensions list, sort by Identifier to locate the
oracle.webcenter.* components.
Figure 2-2 shows the Oracle WebCenter Portal components listed in JDeveloper.
Figure 2-2 Oracle WebCenter Portal Framework Extensions in Oracle JDeveloper
If you do not see these components (shown in Figure 2-2), you must install the WebCenter Portal extension, as described in the following steps.
To install the WebCenter Portal extension to Oracle JDeveloper using the Update Center:
Launch Oracle JDeveloper.
If the Select Default Roles dialog displays, select Default Role to enable all technologies, and click OK.
If a dialog displays asking if you want to migrate settings from an earlier version, click No.
In Oracle JDeveloper, choose Check for Updates from the Help menu.
On the Welcome page, click Next.
Select Search Update Centers, and choose Oracle Fusion Middleware Products, then click Next.
On the Updates page, search for the WebCenter Portal extension, select it, then click Finish.
When prompted, restart JDeveloper.
For more information on obtaining and installing Oracle WebCenter Portal Framework, see the Oracle WebCenter Portal page on OTN (
Installation of Oracle WebCenter Portal Framework reconfigures the Integrated WebLogic Server (WLS) domain in JDeveloper to include additional libraries and several prebuilt portlets. For this Tutorial, you may not need to work with the additional libraries or prebuilt built portlets. However, you do need to know how to start and stop Integrated WLS.
There are several options for starting Integrated WLS available in the Run menu in Oracle JDeveloper.
To start Integrated WLS in debug mode, select Debug Server Instance from the Run menu.
Running the service in debug mode helps in debugging the service.
To start Integrated WLS in the regular mode, select Start Server Instance from the Run menu.
There are several ways to determine if the integrated WLS is running and to stop it.
The Terminate menu shows you a list of running server(s) and the deployed application(s), if any. (Figure 2-3). To stop a server (or to undeploy an application), select it from this menu.
Figure 2-3 The Terminate Menu Shows What Is Running
Select Terminate from the Run menu, and select the server to stop it.
Access the Integrated WLS console from your browser:
Note:Sometimes WebLogic Server is not accessible (for example, if a user tries to restart WebLogic Server too quickly, before it has successfully shut down). In this case, you may have to manually shut down or stop the Java process.
In working with Integrated WLS, it is important to understand the following concepts.
Integrated WebLogic Server (Integrated WLS) is a preconfigured WebLogic Server that provides a complete Java 2 Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 1.4-compliant environment. It is written entirely in Java and executes on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) of the standard Java Development Kit (JDK). You can run WebLogic Server on the standard JDK provided with your operating system or the one provided with Oracle JDeveloper.
You can use Integrated WLS as a platform for pretesting WebCenter Portal application deployments on your local computer by establishing an application server connection to it from Oracle JDeveloper. When you run the application in Integrated WLS, it is actually deployed as if you were deploying it to a WebLogic Server instance in an application server. For more information about Integrated WLS, see Section 64.3, "Deploying a WebCenter Portal Application to a WebLogic Managed Server," in Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal.
Note:You can specify the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) settings for a WebCenter Portal application running on the Integrated WLS in the
setDomainEnv.sh script located here:
The default memory values are:
-Xmx512m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
When creating or referring to the
JDEV_SYSTEM_DIRECTORY, keep in mind that, on a Windows platform, a WebCenter domain name cannot contain spaces, and the domain cannot be created in a folder that has a space in its path. Also, pages in WebCenter Portal application are not rendered if there is a space in the path to the system directory in Oracle JDeveloper. Therefore, ensure that
DOMAIN_HOME and
JDEV_SYSTEM_DIRECTORY paths do not contain spaces.
As you work through the lessons in this Tutorial, you'll need to include certain content -- images, skins and templates -- in your portal application. This material is contained in a ZIP file, which you can download by following these instructions.
To download the sample Tutorial files:
Open a browser, and enter the following in the Address field:
Open the ZIP file (
owcs-r11ps3-devtutsetup-254761.zip), as shown in Figure 2-4.
Figure 2-4 The Downloaded Tutorial SetUp Zip File
Unzip the file to a local drive, such as
In Chapter 4, "Creating a New Page Template with a New Portal Skin," you will extract the contents of these files and copy them step-by-step to their appropriate folders for use in building your portal application.
Once you've downloaded the zip file and unzipped it, extracting its contents, you will need to upload the Oracle WebCenter Content folder to the Contributions folder in the Oracle WebCenter Content repository. For information on how to upload content to Oracle WebCenter Content, see Chapter 6, "Checking In Files," in the Oracle Middleware User's Guide for Content Server.
The UCM Content folder contains HTML content (Figure 2-5) you will need in creating your WebCenter Portal application, as you work through the lessons in this Tutorial.
Figure 2-5 The UCM Content Folder with Sub Folders of HTML Content for Upload
To complete the lessons in this Tutorial, you will need access to a content repository, specifically one that is owned and deployed by your WebCenter Portal application. In this case, for purposes of this Tutorial, you will need to create a connection to the Oracle WebCenter Content repository, which provides access to the Content Server.
Connecting to the Oracle WebCenter Content repository is a preferred use case and best practice for creating WebCenter Portal applications, if you need to work with content-based portal, as is the case with the lessons described in this Tutorial.
Chapter 6, "Connecting to and Managing Content Repositories" discusses in detail the steps you need to follow to create a connection to Oracle WebCenter Content. It is not necessary to create this connection before starting to create and build your portal application.
For more information about creating a content repository connection, see "Configuring Content Repository Connections" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal. The chapter discusses how to configure connections to content repositories to provide access to the content.
For information about how to configure Content Server for Oracle WebCenter, see "Oracle Content Server Prerequisites" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal.


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I know there are similar questions to this one, and I've read most of them. Most of the answers to these questions are talking about "cost-effectiveness" and "time-saving" aspects of the frameworks, which are huge reasons in favor of using frameworks.
I'm a pretty new .NET developer and I'm trying to learn stuff like WPF, MVVM, layered architecture design, dependency injection, logging, database access, test-driven development, and many more different technologies/techniques.
Most of the resources that I find regarding such topics start with an extremely simple example to "show" why you should use given technology/technique, which honestly looks quite ok with that simple example, but doesn't really make sense for someone who didn't deal with real-world problems these technologies/techniques help with.
After the simple example that makes me wonder what that specific technology/technique really solves, they usually go on and say "Hey, you know what, there's a framework for that called ..., let's just use it for the rest of the examples." Dependency injection? Just use Ninject. You want to fake stuff? C'mon just use Moq. MVVM? You're kidding me? just use MVVM Light Toolkit!
Which is great, really. All these tools, I'm sure, make the life easier for all the developers out there. But my problem is,
- I'm trying to use TDD, but I have never experienced the problems people experienced while they were developing stuff without TDD, which in the end made them come up with such a technique. I understand the concept behind, theoretically I can see why it was created, but in practice I am not experienced enough to see a code that would benefit from TDD. Because I haven't seen much.
- I have never had problems developing a huge application that I needed to de-couple stuff and went "Oh my god! That is ridiculous! I need to find a technique so that I won't have this much trouble next time." and found out about "Dependency Injection". All the small things that I have developed so far worked fine without the need of dependency injection.
- I have never written a WPF application that made me feel like things should be easier, presentation layer should be separate, there should be data binding. Hell, I haven't even written one WPF application!
So all these things make me think like I am going to use all these tools, without experiencing first-hand any real world situation that cultivated the creation of them.
But at the same time, I can't try to write a huge business application in WPF without using MVVM or a good layered-design and experience all the problems people experienced in the past to appreciate all these new technologies/techniques. Because there are people out there developing stuff, getting further ahead, releasing things that work. I'll be left behind because of my obsession with trying to learn everything out there to learn. And besides, these things are not easy to learn without first experiencing the problems yourself.
But then, at the same time I have those nightmares that I start working in a new company and people tell me "You can't code your own MVVM framework? You always need to use Prism? Hahahahaha!" and they go around pointing and laughing at me in circles.
I feel like I'm a lesser programmer. I feel like I don't have what it takes to create a framework on my own. I feel like I am only able to put things together, which are created by other "better" people.
I would like to ask all the experienced people out there, what strategies have you used throughout your career? Do you always use existing frameworks? Do you create pet projects to learn about why those frameworks exist?
To make a long story short, what constitutes the thin line between using a framework and creating your own? And more importantly, how do you close the knowledge gap that automatically comes up if you use a technology/technique without seeing the real-world problems they help with?


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I believe large is more a measurable word, and great is more an emotional word.
A good house = A great house
A perfect idea = A great idea
A big car = A large car (5 meters long)
An unhandy cellphone can be large as well (because of its size.)
Large belongs to the same category as wide, height, tall, and so one.
If it's something about size, you should go for large (as the cellphone example).
P.S: Neither a teacher nor a native speaker.


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Well, October is over. :( But that means its...
(cue booming voice...)
I like November, can you tell??? I really like Thanksgiving. As a kid, my sister and cousins always looked forward to Christmas and the gifts. But not me. No. I looked forward to Thanksgiving. I have always liked to eat! HAHA!
Ava's first Halloween was so fun! We skipped out on Trick-or-Treating...no point with only one tooth.... ;) So we just hung out at home and handed candy out. It was fun! My parents came over, my mom cooked pork chops. Yummy. And we lowered Ava's crib to the lowest setting. Hard to believe that she is to that point already. But she will have her 9 month checkup next week! Where, oh where, does the time go???
Here are a few pictures from our Halloween...
Mommy and Ava. She had just slapped me across the face in this one- thus the funny look on my face! HAHA!
Always chewing on that hand. Now that there is a sharp little tooth in there, her poor hand is all cut up! :( Any suggestions? She won't leave a mitten on...
Love this one!
In her Leopard costume. So adorable!!!
In her Leopard costume. So adorable!!!
We love graphic tees in the Brewer Family!!!
I adore this picture of her!!! I have NO idea what she is looking at or thinking, but her face is just priceless!!!!
So now that Halloween is over, it's time to pull out the Thanksgiving canvases! I have had these finished for a while...
This is for my mom, for her hostess gift for Thanksgiving. But I am going to give it to her now so that she can hang it on her door for the season!
This was the first Turkey I have ever attempted, and I think he turned out pretty cute! This is a flat board canvas. My first time to work with one of these, too. Not sure how I feel about it. At any rate, this is now greeting guests at the Brewer's house!!! ;)
Hope you have a wonderful week!!!!


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'Jellyfish suit' made all the difference in Diana Nyad's historic swim from Cuba to Florida
KEY WEST, Fla. >> Defeated before in bids to swim from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad would cry and rage through swollen lips and welts at the jellyfish tentacles that had repeatedly lashed her and derailed her plans to become the first swimmer to make the 110-mile crossing without a shark cage.
Her lips were swollen Monday, as in the past, when she emerged from the waters off Key West, but the 64-year-old American endurance swimmer managed a tight smile for supporters and said one word: "Seawater." And this time, she was victorious.
"She freaking made it," her website trumped, along with the words "Party time."
The stinging sea life that had plagued her four previous attempts to swim the Florida Straits— and the attempts of other swimmers trying to complete the same stretch — failed to appear until the final hours of her journey. That left Nyad free to concentrate on defeating the elements and persevere through about 53 hours in the water until she could step on dry land.
Dazed and sunburned, the athlete waded ashore finally free of the protective silicone mask that had bruised her mouth and a fully-body "jellyfish suit" that she conceded were necessary for the swim she began Saturday — even if they weighed down her crawl strokes.
She was free, too, of the nagging demons that drove her to attempt the treacherous crossing five times. She tried three times in 2011 and 2012. Her first attempt was in 1978.
President Barack Obama was among a flurry of public officials and celebrities who tweeted congratulations. The president's tweet echoed the sentiment Nyad has repeated many times when faced with defeat: "Never give up on your dreams."
Nyad's speech Monday was slurred as she neared her destination and after she made it to the beach, but she planned to address reporters Tuesday in Key West after rest and recovery.
Speaking Tuesday morning to NBC's "Today" show, Nyad said she and her team were better-prepared for jellyfish this time around. She also used the mask that made it harder to breathe but helped protect her from jellyfish stings.
Nyad told ABC's "Good Morning America" she used a mantra to help keep her going throughout the swim.
"The phrase I decided to use was 'find a way,"' she said.
Her doctor, Derek Covington of the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital, said the swimmer was healthy and would not need a long time to recover from dehydration, sunburn and the swelling in and around her mouth.
"She was incredible to watch the whole way through," he said.
Nyad leaped from the seawall of the Hemingway Marina into the warm waters off Havana on Saturday morning to begin swimming. She paused occasionally for nourishment, but never left the water until she reached the white sand beaches of the Keys and waded ashore.
The support team accompanying her had equipment that generated a faint electrical field around her, designed to keep sharks at bay. A boat also dragged a line in the water to help keep her on course as she kept up the strokes, hour after hour after hour. Along the way, her team said it spotted thunderstorms on the horizon and even reported on her blog that cruise ships made way for Nyad as she crossed busy ship lanes.
"I always thought she could do it given her internal energy, her mental and physical strength, her will of iron," Jose Miguel Diaz Escrich, the Hemingway Marina commodore who helped organize the Cuba side of Nyad's multiple attempts, said Monday after Nyad landed in Florida.
"More than the athletic feat, she wants to send a message of peace, love, friendship and happiness ... between the people of the United States and Cuba," he added.
Australian Susie Maroney successfully swam the Strait in 1997 with a shark cage, which besides protection from the predators, has a drafting effect that pulls a swimmer along.
In 2012, Australian Penny Palfrey swam 79 miles toward Florida without a cage before strong currents forced her to stop. This June, her countrywoman Chloe McCardel made it 11 hours and 14 miles before jellyfish stings ended her bid.
In 1978, Walter Poenisch, an Ohio baker, claimed to have made the swim using flippers and a snorkel. Critics say there was insufficient independent documentation to verify his claim.
Nyad first garnered national attention in 1975 when she swam the 28 miles around the island of Manhattan in just under eight hours. In 1979 she swam the 102 miles from North Bimini, Bahamas, to Juno Beach, Fla., in 27.5 hours.
Nyad is also an author of three books, a motivational speaker and has been a reporter and commentator for NPR.


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LT's story told in new way in documentary
In the climactic scene of the documentary, "LaDainian Tomlinson: A Football Life," Tomlinson is talking with the great grandson of the man who owned Tomlinson's great grandfather.
You will be wiping your eyes well before that.
NFL Films senior producer James Weiner uses Tomlinson's ongoing exploration of his family's past to weave together Tomlinson's journey to NFL stardom and his triumphs and tragedies along the way, allowing the story to tell itself with transitions you don't even notice.
"I believe it's the perfect story," Tomlinson said by phone the other day. "… You talk about a football life. A football for LaDainian Tomlinson is this. This is who he is."
Chargers v. 49ers
- Quiz: How well do you know the Chargers?
- Meet the 2013 Chargers rookies
- Chargers schedule, game-by-game snapshots
- 49ers beat up Chargers backups
- Offensive line struggles in Chargers loss
- Report card: Failing the finale
This season premiere of NFL Network's "A Football Life" series is Tuesday night (6 p.m. PT), and the subject is familiar to San Diego.
But even those who followed Tomlinson closely during his nine seasons as the Chargers' best and most-chronicled player will learn at least a couple things about LT. You may even come to see differently his departure for the New York Jets and his transformation into a vocal leader and Rex Ryan devotee.
"There aren't a lot of superstars," Weiner said. "There are even fewer superstars that manage to stay out of the spotlight, that manage to stay out of the media glare and have a certain mystery about them."
Weiner did not know going in that the story would be moved along via scenes from Tomlinson's visit to the place he spent many days during his childhood, a plot of land called Tomlinson Hill, which also happens to be where his ancestors picked cotton right through their emancipation.
But the timing was such that Tomlinson's mom had been encouraging him to do some digging into his past.
"I ran from it for a long time," said Tomlinson, now an analyst with NFL Network. "I didn't want to look back."
You can sense during the documentary that it is all still a little surreal to Tomlinson.
"I was thinking, like it was flashing through my mind really quickly, my whole ancestry," he said. "Where we were standing, that very ground is where I grew up. I remember it … but I never knew (the history). It was spiritual."
The viewer will feel the emotion, as the scene borders on intrusion without crossing the line.
And don't worry. There is a lot of football.
Honestly, I lived through the 2006 season and would never say I didn't fully appreciate it. I remember that stadium rocking in November and December of that year as if it were last week, though it also seems to have long been so long ago. However, the recounting by Weiner of Tomlinson's record-breaking '06, using the recollections of those involved and NFL Films' extensive treasure of footage, is exhilarating. And by the time the documentary gets through Tomlinson's departure from San Diego, it is nothing short of emotionally exhausting.
As the documentary moves to the denouement of Tomlinson's career, it is possible even the most bitter among Chargers fans will come to appreciate what that time meant to LT and what he meant to the Jets.
"There are a certain people, if they were never fond of LaDainian for one reason or another," Weiner said. "I had a number of people say, 'That film changed how I think about LaDainian.' "
And even if you sit down already loving him, especially if you already love him, this is worth an hour of your night to get to know him better.


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Forget all that pandering you've heard about Republican gains during this mid-term election cycle. It's clearly just more propaganda from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy… sound and fury without substance. The real news is apparently that the Democrats are ready to take back control of the House of Representatives. That could be difficult, what with all of that heavy duty conservative money – which they hate to see in politics – lined up against them But they're hard at work countering it… with big money of their own.
Enter the House Majority PAC. They're busy raising money and stepping into congressional races. This should spell big trouble for the Republicans I bet. Let's check in and see how they've been doing so far.
Back in December, they jumped in to help out the campaign of Nick Rahall. This resulted in the campaign issuing false claims of an endorsement by the WV Chamber of Commerce so outlandish that the CoC had to issue a call themselves for a retraction. (You can read about the current, rather sorry state of the Rahall campaign here.)
In January, HMP decided to ride to the rescue of Ann Kirkpatrick in Arizona, developing an independent ad which took the curious tack of praising her for throwing Barack Obama under the bus. That one was far fetched enough that even CNN wasn't buying it, and led to accusations that they had been coordinating with the Kirkpatrick campaign in violation of election laws.
In March, apparently feeling that they hadn't "helped" quite enough, they jumped back into the Rahall campaign, this time pushing a heartwarming tale of a retired coal miner who admired Rahall's record on energy. Unfortunately, only a few moments of checking showed that their chosen spokesperson was an elected Democrat official and paid union officer. From the other side of the fight, they next claimed that the Republican in the race opposed black lung benefits. Once again, a few moments of background investigation left FactCheck.org unimpressed.
This past month, undeterred by their previous "success" stories, they decided to accuse Evan Jenkins, (the aforementioned Republican) of having taken contributions from Massey Energy, the company responsible for a previous coal mine collapse. Unfortunately those pesky things known as "facts" got in the way again, revealing that the contribution came from long before the incident in question, and (as a bonus) that Rahall was a shareholder in the company at the time of the disaster. Here's a local video story of that particular debacle.
What's next for the House Majority PAC? Only time will tell. But if you know of any GOP candidates out there locked in a tight House race, you might want to suggest that HMP check in and "help" out their opponents. They've clearly got the magic touch.


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In the last few weeks the Pirates have traded Bryan Morris to the Marlins and announced the player to be named in the Ike Davis deal. Let's look at how the new information alters the trade trees for those players.
Morris was known as the last player left from the Jason Bay trade. That honor now falls to recent draft pick Connor Joe.
The speculation at the time of the Ike Davis trade was that the PTBNL was a 2013 draft pick, and by rule could not be traded until one year after the draft. This turned out to be true when last year's second round pick Blake Taylor was sent to the Mets on June 15.
Filed under: baseball, Pirates, Trade Tree | Tagged: baseball, Blake Taylor, Bryan Morris, Connor Joe, Ike Davis, Marlins, Mets, Pirates |


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Part of a teacher's hand was blown off when a 40 mm round of ammunition the instructor used as a paperweight on his desk exploded in his classroom.
Robert Colla struck the round with an object Monday afternoon while teaching 20 to 25 students at the Ventura Adult Education Center.
Part of Colla's right hand was severed and he suffered severe burns and minor shrapnel wounds to his forearms and torso, fire Capt. Tom Weinell said. No one else was injured.
Colla was taken to a hospital, where he was in stable condition.
"It was just a horrible accident," said Dennis Huston, who teaches computer design alongside Colla. Huston said he had his back turned to Colla and was only about three feet away when he heard a loud bang.
Colla found the 40 mm round while hunting years ago, Huston said. He used it as a paperweight and "obviously he didn't think the round was live," Huston said.


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Another day, another athlete charged after an alleged drunk driving incident. This time it's the NFL's Eric Wright, who signed a big deal—$15.5 million guaranteed—with Tampa Bay this offseason after four years in Cleveland and one in Detroit.
Here's the Los Angeles Times:
Police responded to a report of an injury accident about 12:20 a.m. involving a Chevy Silverado pickup and a Mercedes SLS luxury sports coup at James M. Wood Boulevard and Georgia Street, said Norma Eisenman, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
Wright, who was not hurt, allegedly told officers he had been drinking earlier at a friend's home in the Hollywood area and refused to submit to a Breathalyzer or field sobriety test, Eisenman said. The driver of the truck complained of pain but refused medical treatment.
Officers booked Wright on a felony because the accident involved injury. He was booked into the LAPD's downtown Metropolitan Detention Center in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Wright's arrest comes just a few weeks after Tampa's other big corner, Aqib Talib, was cleared of all charges in a Texas shooting incident.
NFL's Eric Wright arrested in L.A. on felony DUI charge [LAT]