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Today, the presidential oil spill commission issued its final report concluding that the blowout of BP's Macondo well was certainly preventable, was caused by identifiable mistakes made by BP and its contractors, and resulted from complacency and poor risk management--placing doubt on the safety culture of the oil and gas industry as a whole. The commission also pointed out that the regulatory agencies charged with oversight were outclassed by the industry and failed to keep up with rapidly developing technologies of deepwater exploration. The combination of these failures resulted in the BP disaster.
The commission's conclusions are surprisingly astute for a panel that had no member from the oil and gas industry. Though I don't agree with all of the panel's conclusions as to who is to blame for the catastrophe, their recognition of systemic failures and inadequacies of both safety policy and systems were spot on. However thorough the conclusions and recommendations are, though, they are of little consequence outside the world of media and Washington politics. Because the White House ignored calls for a more inclusive commission--including not just environmentalists, academics, and politicians, but representatives from the technical disciplines and the industry itself--the conclusions and recommendations of the commission have already been dismissed by those most in need of them, members of the industry itself.
No industry likes to be preached to and scolded as the oil spill commission has done in this report, no matter how well deserved. There was an alternative, though. The objective of the commission was to determine the causes of the blowout and subsequent spill, then make recommendations to prevent this kind of disaster from occurring again. The problem is that in order to initiate necessary changes, something actually has to be done. That means getting the industry itself to admit mistakes and accept changes to their way of operating. We all knew that the industry as a whole would resist changes to offshore operational and safety procedures for two reasons. The first is simple: money. The second is that the industry believes it knows better than everyone else how to drill big, deep oil wells in deepwater because it's complicated and they've been doing it for years. To them, no environmentalist, bureaucrat, or politician is ever going to tell them what to do. In our deregulated nation, oil companies remain free to keep profit as their top priority, and set their own safety standards.
That could have been different. The Obama administration missed a golden opportunity for a teachable moment in this tragedy due to its own proclivity to push the oil and gas industry away. That distance from the industry is the key reason the White House was so far behind in its response to the blowout to begin with: there was no one close at hand who knew what they were looking at or who recognized the potential scope of this disaster. You could tell in the early White House statements that the president wasn't being well advised. In establishing the commission, the administration continued on this path, excluding any industry representation on the commission itself and hiring engineers and scientists only in staff or lower-level advisory roles. The panel itself was appointed to meet political objectives, relegating its primary objective--improving safety--to secondary importance.
Because the administration made little more than a token effort to include influential industry representatives on the commission, the results are predictable. The industry will reject the report's important conclusions and recommendations wholesale, and the new Republican controlled House will support that rejection. Since much of the significant change must be legislated, if the industry doesn't support that change, the House leadership will simply do the same; therefore, nothing will improve. . Had there been an industry member on the commission, that member could have sold the industry, and the Congress, on making critical changes to make drilling in the deepwater safer.
Clearly, it's a missed opportunity.
Bob Cavnar, a 30-year veteran of the oil and gas industry, is the author of Disaster on the Horizon: High Stakes, High Risks, and the Story Behind the Deepwater Well Blowout. He is CEO of Luca Technologies.


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The U.S. women's national team's run came to an end today in Frankfurt. Here's Abby Wambach's go-ahead goal in extra time, Homare Sawa's nifty conversion off of a corner kick soon after to tie it up, and — for the U.S. and for me, at least — the heartbreaking end in penalty kicks. I still advocate for Wambach's potential ambassadorship, but I'm guessing Letterman is the likely next stop.
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The executive secretary works to ensure the smooth operation of the Columbia Union Conference and its entities. He assists the president in his leadership role with the union, Columbia Union College, and the healthcare systems and serves as vice chair for several boards and committees.
He sees that the Columbia Union and its local conferences abide by their respective constitutions and bylaws. He also directs the keeping and distribution of minutes, policies, and resolutions of the Union Executive Committee and its sub-committees. Human resources is another area of responsibility.
About Rob Vandeman
Rob Vandeman was born in Hinsdale, Ill. He grew up in the Chicago area before moving to Denver as a teenager. His parents worked at Seventh-day Adventist hospitals in both Hinsdale and Denver. He met his wife, Judy, at Union College in Nebraska in the early 1970s. He holds degrees in theology from both Union College and Andrews University (Mich.).
He began his pastoral ministry in Denver in 1971 and served pastorates in Colorado and Minnesota before coming to Chesapeake in 1984 as senior pastor of the Spencerville church in Silver Spring, Md. He became president of the Chesapeake Conference in December of 2005 after 10 years serving as conference secretary, Ministerial secretary and communication director. He transitioned to the Columbia Union Conference as executive secretary in September 2011.
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Snap Inc., the parent of the popular photo-messaging mobile application Snapchat, made it official on Feb. 2: The company has filed the requisite Securities and Exchange Commission S-1 affidavit and will go public next month as reported by eWEEK and other publications back in November.
The initial public offering, to be listed as SNAP on the New York Stock Exchange, could raise as much as $3 billion, potentially making it the largest U.S. technology IPO since Facebook Inc. raised $16 billion and debuted in May 2012 at a paper value of $81.2 billion.
Snapchat, which said in the IPO that is now has about 158 million users worldwide, could be valued at $20 billion to $25 billion or more, making it the largest overall initial public offering since Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's (BABA.N) went public in 2014 valued at $170.9 billion.
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The Venice, Calif.-based cloud-based application, whose parent company was born in a Stanford University dorm room in 2010, already has a substantial banking foundation, having raised $2.63 billion in eight funding rounds from 24 investors since 2011.
Snapchat is a mobile app that works on any mobile operating system and enables users, mostly teenagers—and then, mostly girls (70 percent of Snapchat's users are female)—add captions and colorful artwork to photos or videos and share them with friends. The pictures then disappear in seconds; the only way to retain the image is if the user quickly takes a screen shot.
Photos can only be sent in the moment—no uploading later. Young girls most often take pictures of themselves making silly faces, Carlos Danger-types may send more lascivious content, and then poof—the content is gone--again, unless the recipient saves a screenshot.
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In its S-1 filing, the company reported that it facilitates about 2.5 billion photos daily created and shared among its subscribers.
Co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy each own 21.8 percent of the shares; they were paid $2.4 million and $503,000, respectively, in 2016, according to the S-1 report.
As do most developing IT software companies--and despite now-documented fast growth--Snap is in the red and has been since it debuted on May 1, 2011. In the S-1, Snap reported total losses in 2016 of more than a half-billion dollars ($514.6 million). The company also said it lost $373 million in 2016.
Snapchat's audience is young and loyal. The company said that users 25 and older visit Snapchat about a dozen times a day for a total of about 20 minutes. Younger users age 11 to 24 visit about 20 times daily for about 30 minutes, Snapchat said.
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About 60 percent of Snapchat users are age 13 to 24, the company claims, making it an attractive way for advertisers to reach that age group.
Spiegel famously turned down an offer four years ago from Facebook to be acquired for $3 billion. The company's growth has been fast and steady; about 15,000 people now work for Snap in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Toronto, Seattle, Ukraine and Sydney.
In 2016 and to date, 123 U.S. technology companies have gone public, raising $7.1 billion, a 58 percent decline in proceeds and 20 percent drop in the number of offerings from this time last year, Reuters reported.
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Intel CEO Paul Otellini received a seven per cent pay bump last year, as Intel more than doubled its profits and for the first time topped $40 billion in revenue. His total compensation climbed to $15.7 million in 2010 from $14.6 million in 2009, according to documents filed yesterday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Otellini's pay package included his $1 million salary, which is unchanged from the salary he received in 2009, and a $30,400 cash bonus. The bonus, which Intel says is equivalent to three days of compensation, "was a special bonus paid to all eligible employees, including the listed officers, for their contribution in achieving an Intel milestone: Intel's first year when revenue exceeded $40 billion," the company explained in its proxy statement.
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The biggest boost to Otellini's pay came in the form of a performance-based bonus worth $6.8 million -- which is up 29 per cent from the $5.3 million bonus he received in 2009.
The combined value of Otellini's equity awards declined compared to a year ago. He received stock awards valued at $6.2 million at the time they were granted (down seven per cent from $6.7 million in 2009) and option awards valued at $1.1 million (down eight per cent from $1.2 million in 2009).
The value of Otellini's other compensation and perquisites increased 32 per cent to $382,100 which includes: $14,700 for retirement plan contributions, $364,900 for deferred compensation plan contributions, and $2,500 for matching charitable contributions. (See also: Perks shrink, but tech CEOs aren't ready to fly coach)
Otellini also received $131,000 attributed to changes in the value of his pension plan.
The company, meanwhile, logged a record year, growing revenue and profits by 24 per cent and 167 per cent, respectively, in the fiscal year ended Dec. 25. Intel's revenue came in at $43.6 billion, up from $35.1 billion in 2009. Net income hit $11.7 billion, up from $4.4 billion in the prior year.
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The Main Campus Executive Faculty voted today in favor of adding a diversity requirement to the core curriculum.
"The requirement passed with overwhelming support," MCEF Chair Ian Gale, a professor of economics, wrote in an email to The Hoya.
Beginning with the Class of 2020, students from all four schools will be required to take two courses cross-listed under the category "Engaging Differences." An estimated 240 courses will fulfill the requirement, with more accurate numbers to follow once departments finalize their syllabi. Students will not have to take additional courses to fulfill the requirement, which is satisfied through overlay courses.
According to Gale, the members of the MCEF discussed how the requirement would help students develop an understanding of different perspectives.
"The meaning of 'non-Western perspectives' was debated at length. Several faculty members and students offered their understanding of the term while others offered alternatives to the wording," Gale wrote. "The debate was Georgetown at its best."
The MCEF consists of 57 faculty members and two students, and the proposal needed at least 29 votes to pass. Gale was not able to provide the exact tally of votes at press time.
The requirement will need to be approved by the board of directors before it is instated.
LCAR member Khadija Khan (COL '17) said that the vote is a victory for many students who have worked towards the approval of the requirement.
"Generations of students have been fighting for this movement. We are a part of history today," Khan said. "This requirement means so much to so many students' lives. We've been envisioning a better Georgetown for years, and this is a real step towards that vision."
LCAR member Esther Owolabi (COL '15) said that the requirement should serve to continue efforts in making Georgetown students more aware about issues related to diversity.
"After years of tireless student activism, I am proud of Georgetown for taking this monumental step to creating a more inclusive and aware community. This is big, but it is only the beginning," Owolabi said.
Hoya Staff Writer Toby Hung contributed reporting.
Correction: An earlier version of this post stated the requirement would go into effect for the Class of 2019. It will begin with the Class of 2020. Additionally, more than 200 courses meet the overlay requirement, as opposed to the 80 initially cited, and the course category has been renamed "Engaging Differences" earlier in the academic year, as opposed to the name used earlier in the article, "Diversity, Power and Privilege."


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Lots to think about with training squirrels and thoughts. Both so easily derailed.
What to ask the squirrels in the woods if you could? Maybe, "What's it like living in the grocery store?"
They scramble all over the place stashing stuff here and there for later. Maybe a bit fuzzy, but trained. No Aesop's grasshoppers, they.
Squirrels, of course.
What else?
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it…
Thinking round and about, the ancients do rock.
Quetzalcoatlus was a mega-sized flying reptile (Pterosaur, not a dinosaur) that soared around Alpine,Texas (short video of area now) with a wing spread between 36 – 50 feet. This pterodactyloid pterosaur from the late Cretaceous period (about 65 million years ago – just before mammals became dominant) was not only one of the largest, but also one of the last Pterosaurs. Cooling climate, mountain building, seas draining, with a little additional habitat disruption by meteor and Yucatan volcanic explosion – all probably put the Texas giant pterosaurs on track for extinction.
All this relevant when coupled with the middle pen below: See the small dinosaur among the Herefords? A little footnote to all the fossils found in the Big Bend area duplicated in this section of the model railroad display.
Going 'round the bend is always risky.
In a car, of course, What did you think?
Nothing is a magical as traveling on a rural road on a cold winter night when you make a big curve in the intense late night darkness then, suddenly, there's a small country town brightly dressed in holiday lights. It's like a time warp or a movie set. Then you know Christmas.
But eventually there's arrival at some station: the mental fog gives way to dawning.
Although the city noises and constant motion barely distracts tree sitters and thought chasers.
Hope you are on track for a smooth New Year.
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Shawmont basketball league kicks off 35th year on the court
It was loud. The sound in the basement gym of Shawmont Elementary was the kind of cacophony that could wake the dead and scare away evil spirits. Each sneaker squeak and every cheer reverberated powerfully off the tan bricks of the old school walls as kids kicked off the 35th year of a neighborhood tradition.
It was opening night for the Shawmont Orioles basketball league.
"It's all positive noise," said Bud Ryan, who has run the program since its inception. "It never bothers me."
He is especially happy for the racket because up until October, it was unclear whether or not the winter basketball league would exist.
Last June, Ryan learned that school budget cuts would prevent him from getting playing time in the public school gym. So, he contacted local politicians and ward leaders for help. Then, just before practice was set to begin, he got the 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. time slot plus Saturdays. That forced him to reduce his usual schedule from three to two games a night, but it was enough for him and his volunteers to field 20 teams with 200 players.
The first game was held on Monday night with Team McManus in green versus Team Fitzpatrick in blue. The second was Team Alosi in orange against Team Fleming in maroon.
The evolution of the league
The Orioles are part of the 21st Ward Athletic Association and they took their name from the Ward's baseball team.
When Ryan's son was 10, he searched for a basketball program in the neighborhood. At the time, there was a CYO Friday night league for older kids, but nothing for the younger ones, so he decided to start one.
At first, the program served fifth to eighth grade students and they played at W.B. Saul High School. Thirty years ago, it moved to Shawmont and expanded its age range. This year, 10 of the 20 teams consist of students from kindergarten through first grade, reflecting the preponderance of young kids now living in the area.
The program has become a multigenerational affair as well. Not only do parents coach kids but many of the parents were once players in the program themselves. Kristen Hindley learned the game on the Shawmont court and went on to play NCAA ball at Gwynedd-Mercy College. Now, she is back training the next generation and watching her son Ethan learn how to dribble, pass and shoot. On Monday night, she was joined by her sister Katie Rizzo with her son Rocco and her brother George Kletzel, who had his boys George and Luke on the court.
"Get open Gavin," yelled Joe Ross to his son in orange, who got the ball and passed it. Ross played with the Orioles when he was a kid. He brought Gavin to Shawmont because it is a friendly environment where kids learn teamwork and the rules of the game while getting plenty of playing time. Before the game finished, Gavin scored a basket.
League loyalty and team equality
Family loyalty to the program contribute to the health of the Orioles.
These deep rooted neighborhood folks have invested themselves in the Orioles. Joe Baillie has coached for over 20 years. Lisa Rizzo has been keeping score for 15 years. Mike Flood has organized the referees for 30 years blowing the whistle himself much of the time. One rule has stood above all others: equal playing time for every child.
This is not simply the spirit of their philosophy. Ryan has his coaches stick to a complicated and precise rubric that divides playing time into four and two minute increments scattered across four quarters, each also divided by half, with actual court appearances affected by whether a team has six, seven, eight, nine or ten players. Ryan gives his coaches a form—he used to design them for GlaxoSimthKline—to help them keep to the complex, but exact system.
"It's a good bit of work," said Ryan, "but I just love working with the kids."
Tip off was at 6 p.m. on Monday, just as it is for the first game of every night and has been for three and a half decades. The clock in the gym is broken. It perpetually reads 6:39, but somehow seems fitting. It is as if, after all these years, it is always time for basketball in the Shawmont gym.


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Most visitors to Japan often catch a glimpse of Nagoya between bullet train stops, but those who take the time to discover the city will find a very lively nightlife, great restaurants, and a number of interesting attractions. The city has a wonderful zoo and botanic gardens in Higashiyama, as well as an excellent orchid garden that will delight anyone who loves the delicate flora species.


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Winsted banks on audit for answers to budget deficit
WINSTED >> While the town's financial difficulties have left Winsted unable to pay its bills, town manager Dale Martin and other officials are hoping that the resolution of the 2011-12 audit can shed some light on where the money went.
Martin confirmed that no town employees are currently being investigated for embezzlement, but that town officials are scheduled to meet with representatives from King, King and Associates on Thursday to discuss the lingering issues around the most recent audit. Winchester has not completed the 2011-12 audit due to "accounting irregularities," and Martin said he hoped the Jan. 10 meeting would be the last meeting that would be needed.
The "accounting irregularities," as town officials have described them, have landed Henry Centrella, who is Winsted's former business director, on administrative leave, and could cost Centrella his job entirely. Martin has already interviewed the finalists for the permanent job, having hired Jane Wall as an interim finance director. Wall is not a candidate for the permanent job.
However, Martin said that he would wait until Centrella's employment status was resolved before hiring a permanent replacement. Civil Service Commission chairman Fran Delaney said that until Centrella is terminated, Winsted cannot hire a permanent finance manager, having discussed the matter at their Dec. 27 meeting.
"We understood he was supposed to be retiring too," said Delaney after the meeting, "but as of this moment, he hasn't."
The 2011-12 audit is over six months past due, and although Martin hoped the audit would resolve the question of where the missing funds have gone, he is waiting until the audit is completed before stating how much money is missing or otherwise unaccounted. Martin confirmed at the Jan. 7 Board of Selectmen meeting that the cash crunch was not caused by overspending, though.
"We're reviewing the financial situation with our auditors and the finance manager," said Martin at the Jan. 7 Board of Selectmen meeting.
Winsted's audit delays had gotten the attention of state officials back in September, leading Martin and several other town officials to meet with the state about the delays. At the time, Martin said the audit should have been completed by the end of September, but that deadline passed without a completed audit -- and without implementing the recommendations of then-town auditor Vanessa Rossitto.
"Despite several recurring audit comments," Martin said after the Sept. 13 meeting, "the concerns of the finance manager were not addressed."
Rossitto is an auditor with BlumShapiro, but Winsted switched firms to King, King and Associates at their Sept. 3 meeting. The move to a more local firm was made in part to save money -- the contract with King, King and Associates will save $18,000 in the first year, compared to the 2010-11 audit -- but King, King and Associates also told the Selectmen that they were familiar with Winsted's history of late audits.
One of those late audits came after the 2009-10 fiscal year, when turnover in the Winchester Public Schools front office -- which churned through three finance managers in a 12-month span -- led to incomplete financial documentation. Specifically, the district's business office had used journal entries to document some spending, but did not provide supporting documentation.
In the wake of this audit, Rossitto recommended an overhaul of the district's accounting procedures. The district followed these recommendations, then hired certified public accountant Nadine Savage as its business manager, and has not had any problems with the 2011-12 audit documentation.
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While everyone and their grandmother (and probably their dog at some point in the future) can set up a blog and start writing about video games, it takes a particularly thick skin to tackle some of the comments you might get. When I reviewed the first Mount & Blade, I decided to warn the readers in advance that the more hardcore of the players would probably not agree with me. After all, Mount & Blade was - and is - a pretty niche product. And niche products tend to draw out the more furious fanboys from the pack.
While the initial comments were pretty nice, as I started to get ready for this particular review I went back to my original article (only available in Swedish, sorry) and noticed that a whole bunch of angrier readers had turned up since I last looked. My comments about the game's lacking graphics were not appreciated, and someone accused me of reviewing a beta-build of the game (which I didn't, considering I had the boxed copy...). It's how it goes with games like Mount & Blade - they are not easily accessible and might turn away a lot of people, while the players that stay usually do it because they fall completely in love.
In many ways, I'm glad that I get to follow that review - which still scored a healthy 7/10 - with this review of Mount & Blade: Warband, because this time around I'm enjoying myself a lot more. I am not sure it's because it's a good upgrade to the original game, or because I've grown older and more mature (I am betting it is the former - I don't feel one bit more mature) and have an easier time to look past the sometimes rather lacking gameplay of Mount & Blade.
Let's get the bad part out of the way first, since it will be pretty obvious from the minute you start the game. Mount & Blade: Warband, just like the original, is not a very pretty game if you judge it from a modern standard. The character models are pretty wonky, the animations can hardly be called fluid and the environments are far from the high-resolution wonders of texture work that we might expect from a game released in 2010. The world map still looks like crap. While the controls are pretty standard in the way they are set up - left mouse button for swing, right to defend yourself, etc - the way they work together can be a struggle to learn. It won't take long before all of this becomes clear, and it's somewhere around this point that you either put the game away or you press on.
The thing is, that if you press on - and I think you should - Mount & Blade: Warband offers a lot more than what meets the eye. It's a deep beast of a game, and for anyone that has lamented the lack of an open-ended roleplaying game since the days of The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind it will come like a gift from above. The world of Calradia is big, it's constantly evolving whether you like it or not, kingdoms rise and fall, villages are looted, bandits roam the plains (they pretty much roam everywhere). There are damsels to be romanced, quests to undertake, castles to be besieged and at no point will the game tell you when you should do all these things. Want to be a valiant knight and fight for your kingdom, make your living as a robber baron or a peaceful trader? Your pick.
While you will spend a lot of time on the world map, riding (if you have a horse) back and forth between towns and villages, a large part of the game is about the battles. A good way to describe them, I guess, would be imagining a battle from the Total War-series and then putting yourself down in third person in the middle of the whole thing. You have to command your troops (that can range from a few ragtag beggars to armies of up to 200 well-armed soldiers), while making sure you stay alive yourself. It's truly immersing, it often gets quite chaotic, and the sense of accomplishment is great when your soldiers start to cheer after a well-earned victory. Just like the sense of shame can be crippling when you end up on the ground with a crossbow bolt through your skull.
The battles are also, not very surprisingly, the focus of the game's multiplayer. Built around the same concept as older first person shooters, with dedicated servers, multiplayer is a dirty affair. No instant respawns, no fancy powerups to be found. You, your friends, the enemy and a lot of bloodshed. The horses in Mount & Blade: Warband truly have a devastating weight to them and you better step out of the way when someone comes charging at you - or try to take out the horse, which will send the rider crashing to the ground. Again, the word immersive comes to mind and it's truly a medieval ballet of swords and clubs and arrows in your back when you have your shield turned the other way...yes, I die a lot. Shut up.
There has been changes to Mount & Blade: Warband, even though for me - who didn't really enjoy the game the first time - they are not that as apparent as they might be to an old fan. If you can spot them, you haven't come to hear me list them up for you, considering you already love the game anyway. I've been nodding along to a friend on Twitter who has been babbling about Warband for days now, even mentioning some feature that is usually modded away and something about eating his own testicles rather than have to live through that mess again. Seriously, by the time you're contemplating chewing on your own genitals, you're already so far out on the deep end of Mount & Blade that there's no turning back for you now.
And that's the kind of game Mount & Blade is. Together with a vibrant mod-scene, due to the game's high modability and the way Tale Worlds take care of their modding community, Mount & Blade: Warband is just a second attempt for the devs to try to sweep you off your feet. It wouldn't stand much of a chance if one of the great AAA-studios decided to create a game like it, but the thing is that the big AAA-studios don't do games like this anymore. To that I take my hat off to both Tale Worlds and Paradox Interactive, because Mount & Blade - both this new one and the original - show that ambitious game projects created by smaller developers and publishers can be incredible; that they are needed in this era of HD-graphics and multi-million monster games.
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Umpires blow it again as Astros pull fast one
- The Angels-Astros game was played under protest after a pitching change that ran afoul of the rulebook
- The Angels came back to win the game%2C so the protest is nullified
- But the incident was the latest in which umpires struggled with an on-field ruling
Another day brought another embarrassing moment for major league umpires.
At least this time, they were joined by a manager who could be equally red-faced.
One day after Angel Hernandez cost the Oakland Athletics a game-tying home run by muffing a video review, Fieldin Culbreth's crew in Houston failed to catch a rookie mistake by Astros manager Bo Porter that caused Thursday night's game to be played under protest.
Unlike the A's, the Los Angeles Angels managed to come back and defeat the Astros, so manager Mike Scioscia's protest is rendered moot.
But that doesn't erase the debacle that unfolded in the top of the seventh inning Thursday at Minute Maid Park.
With the Astros leading 5-3, Porter inserted lefty reliever Wesley Wright into the game, and Scioscia countered by sending up pinch-hitter Luis Jimenez, a right-handed batter.
It's the sort of move-counter move that's unfolded in the game for decades, one governed by rule 3.05(b), which states that a pitcher placed into the game must face one batter, unless injury or illness prevents him from doing so.
Porter, believing the rule had been amended, lifted Wright for right-hander Hector Ambriz.
Scioscia burst from the dugout with about the same speed as George Brett when his pine-tar home run was nullified and immedately protested. Three umpire huddles then ensued.
And Ambriz was allowed to pitch to Jimenez.
Porter's take: "Technically, Wesley came in to pitch the batter that was scheduled to hit, but he pinch-hit for the batter that was scheduled to hit -- which, from my understanding of the rule, you can bring in another pitcher to face the pinch-hitter."
That would be news to hundreds of managers who have operated under a different assumption for decades. And there's nothing in rule 3.05(b) to suggest such an interpretation is possible. And no indication that the rule, as Porter suggested, has been recently amended.
"I think the rule's pretty clear," Scioscia said afterward, his team' comeback victory negating his need to posture.
Meanwhile, crew chief Culbreth ducked any notion of ump fallibility, noting that "All matters concerning protest go through the league office."
Friday, Major League Baseball issued a statement confirming that the rule regarding pitching changes "was not applied correctly" and, regarding possible discipline for the umpiring crew, the situation was "being reviewed."
That marks the second day MLB had to weigh in on an umpiring gaffe; Thursday, MLB vice president Joe Torre released a statement confirming the umps blew the video review in Cleveland.
The always delicate relationship among umps and the game's central office only figures to get more tenuous with every misstep, along with the looming specter of expanded replay in the 2014 season.
But expanded replay won't eliminate acts of incompetence, nor will it force those who commit them to display a level of accountability beyond the bobs and weaves of Hernandez and Culbreth on consecutive nights.


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Several cancers underrepresented in clinical trials
(PhysOrg.com) -- Several cancers with a high burden of disease are not receiving the clinical trial investment they require, according to a University of Sydney study.
Several cancers with a high burden of disease are not receiving the clinical trial investment they require, according to a University of Sydney study published this week in the Medical Journal of Australia.
"Four of the five cancers that result in the greatest burden of disease had relatively few clinical trials: lung, colorectal, prostate and pancreatic cancers," said Dr Rachel Dear, a medical oncologist and PhD candidate at the University of Sydney.
Dr Dear and her coauthors explored the association between cancer clinical trial activity, burden of disease and sponsorship sources.
"We found that the number of trials for each cancer type did not always match the burden of disease caused by that cancer, thereby identifying gaps in cancer trials research," Dr Dear said.
Of 386 interventional cancer trials open to recruitment in Australia, breast cancer accounted for 62 trials. Yet only 24 trials were being conducted on lung cancer, despite it being responsible for the greatest burden of disease.
Dr Dear found that industry sponsorship is more likely for randomised controlled trials that investigate systemic therapies (drugs or biological agents) for patients with advanced cancers.
"Clinical trial registries are a largely untapped resource to describe the clinical research landscape and guide future trial activity," she said.
In an accompanying editorial, Professor Ian Olver of the Cancer Council Australia, said the study reflected the international situation, where investment in trials for specific cancer types does not correlate with the disease burden caused by those cancers.
Data from clinical trial registries have many applications. Clinicians and patients can search for trial options for specific conditions when standard treatments have been exhausted, or where no effective treatment exists, Professor Olver said.
"Data from clinical trial registries should be used to monitor the progress of such efforts to ensure Australia has a robust clinical trial capability."
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In pursuit of this initiative, the city implemented a comprehensive Emergency Operations Plan. This plan outlines how the city will respond during a variety of possible disaster scenarios. Depending upon the nature of the disaster, each city department may undertake very specific roles as outlined in the plan. Also outlined are the various mutual aid agreements the city has with various state and local agencies. Through a collaboration with city departments and local resources, the plan will facilitate the city's response during an emergency situation, thereby making the Elgin community safer during a time of need.
Aside from governmental resources, a coordinated effort with volunteer organizations and private businesses within our community is also critical. If you are interested in serving as a volunteer, you are encouraged to become a part of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). If CERT is not an option for you but you are interested in helping the city during a time of need, please register as a volunteer.
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I remember, if not clear as a crystal, Jurassic Park to be my 'first' Hollywood movie. The movie we saw on a black and white TV in our school set the benchmark for monsters in my life. Two hours of awestruck moments that I lived watching these beasts traverse a little screen literally defined my love for dinosaurs. Then there were school visits to dino-themed parks that left an everlasting impression. If it were not for that disciplined lad in me who would follow the swarm, I could have lived more, stood there staring at our crazy ancestors roar, growl and move. But we were short on time, and our teachers squeezed us from every tunnel to take us to the roar of the jaded bus instead.
Sometimes I wish to go back in time, and spend a whole day there, in that dino landscape, with my my mouth wide open in awe. That inquisitive head of mine was ready for it all. That sense of amazement that saw every minute detail, from teeth to horns to eyes to structures to scars. That fleeting moment of less than an hour, I wish, I wish to relive every day.
Four years later crawled "The Lost World". Its imprints still fresh, probably from watching the movie too many times to forget. As we left the theatre, we were impregnated with images in our heads. We kept swiveling around, little kids as we were, to watch our 6 for a T-Rex to pop up or a raptor tail to dance in the grass. The Jurassic Park 3 ushered in the Pteranodon fear for the first time. All these movies defined my childhood – the stories we shared as kids with each other, the "did-you-see-thats" and "do-you-remembers" that played a second fiddle to jackhammer that fear into us; a profound and eternal love to see them breathe through a screen literally pulled them closer.
After 14 years of punishing patience, the project Jurassic breathed again. And I am glad it did. I don't wish to forget them. Them beasts that traversed ground that we tread over now. We walk over their graves unwavered and unbothered like they never happened. That they are mere bones for archaeologists to explore. We trample over them, their sad fate like a boss, as if we made our own existence happen, and brought us to life.
Jurassic recreates them. A theory that we might not possibly achieve, but can only imagine on a big screen. If we can bring them to life, it is through a media that is capable of resuscitating the dead. We should all be thankful to people who work so hard to bring us close to our true relatives, the beasts that knew nothing about life, just like we don't.


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A day off. I'm heading down to the south coast of England for a wedding.
On the move: for us it's a task, mandated by the need to get away, to see friends, or to work. For the people I'm taking a break from studying, it was a way of life.
I'm working on a project looking at human society, landscape and environment during the last Ice Age in Worcestershire, a part of the West Midlands long thought to have little to offer on the subject. But that's changing: we're starting to realise that the areas around the Severn and Avon valleys contain a rich record of the ebbs and flows of Ice Age life over the past half a million years.
At times, the area was under hundreds of metres of ice that probably topped even the mighty Malvern Hills. At others, temperate grasslands were grazed by hippos, their watering holes stalked by lion and hyaena. And for much of the period, a chilly, treeless, but fertile steppe supported huge herds of migrating mammals. The iconic Woolly Mammoth, Woolly Rhinoceros, and reindeer were accompanied by wild horses, giant deer, and my personal favourite: the mighty Steppe Bison (Bison priscus), an extinct giant whose bones abound in the gravel terraces of Midlands rivers.
The people who followed these herds ranged far and wide across a Britain still connected to the continent by the vast expanse of Doggerland. Now buried deep below the North Sea and the English Channel, inundated by post-Ice Age sea-level rise, the fate of Doggerland is a reminder of how precarious our treasured landscapes can be.
We arrive in Hampshire in the damp afternoon, to stay with family. I take the dog into the woods, a landscape of conifers similar to the young forests home to small groups of hunter-gatherers as Northern Europe emerged from the dusty chill of the Younger Dryas about 11,700 years ago, marking the transition from the Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic.
These Mesolithic travellers faced very different challenges to their Ice Age predecessors, but in the forests of Northern Europe there were, at least, plenty of options for shelter. We often find Mesolithic flintknapping waste within the shallow irregular pits left by toppling trees. Why? Well, the tangled mess of root and earth swung skywards when a tree falls provides the perfect windbreak and the beginnings of a very cosy shelter.
As I walk up through stands of larch and pine, I come across a small clearing created by a domino toppling of a small group of trees. They came down a few winters back, and I've watched their progress ever since, imagining how they might have been used 10,000 years ago. For a while after they fall, 'tree-throw' pits are often filled with dirt and stagnant water – hardly an attractive prospect. But this cluster, undisturbed by foresters, has grassed over nicely. The sticky clay and tangled root have weathered to a perfect facsimile of a wattle-and-daub wall, and the light pours into the clearing from the hole in the canopy. It has all the appearance of a village of comfortable dwellings, and that – I imagine – is just how similar scenes would have appeared to my predecessors, travelling through on their own journeys all those thousands of years ago.
As I call the dog and turn to trudge up the slope, one final detail catches my eye, and breaks the spell. Poking out of one wall of clay and root is a car tyre, entwined decades ago into the root system of the growing tree, and now exposed once more. Tomorrow I continue my journey on tyres of rubber, and leave my stone age dreams behind.
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Leaked Federal Memo Orders Biologists to Abandon Wolverine Protection
North American wolverines rely on persistent deep snow for the dens in which they bear young. USFWS had been preparing to list the predators as Threatened due to the likely impact of climate change on the 300 or so remaining animals in the contiguous United States, mainly in the Cascades and North Rocky Mountains.
"I do not believe that climate change poses a threat to wolverine or its habitat in the foreseeable future such that the wolverine warrants listing under the ESA," wrote Walsh in the May 30 memo.
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Walsh is the Director of USFWS Region 6, which covers eight western states from Montana and North Dakota south to Utah, Colorado, and Kansas. As the wolverine ranges into other USFWS regions, she writes, she consulted with those regional directors before penning the memo, including Alexandra Pitts, whose Region 8 includes California. "[T]hese Regional Directors do not support ... adding the wolverine to the list of threatened species for reasons similar to my own, including a concern about the degree to which we can reliably predict impacts to wolverine populations from climate change," Walsh writes.
Wolverines are the largest members of the weasel family and are renowned for their ferocious nature, as well as the rapacious manner in which they feed. The North American wolverine, Gulo gulo luscus, is considered a distinct subspecies, distinct from the wolverines that inhabit boreal parts of Asia and Europe. USFWS proposed listing the North American wolverine as a Threatened species in February 2013, but delayed its final decision, originally due in February 2014, in order to obtain more public comment on the issue. That move was widely seen as bowing to pressure from the state governments of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, which charged that the climate models USFWS used to predict less snowpack weren't detailed enough to ensure that every single spot ever used by a wolverine for denning would suffer diminished snowpack.
Walsh seemingly acknowledges charges that USFWS bent under pressure from the states in her memo:
The alleged uncertainty about the precise effects of climate change on wolverine habitat is the primary reason Walsh gives for her directive to withdraw the wolverine as a candidate for Threatened species status. Nonetheless, her memo admits a strong consensus among biologists consulted by USFWS that lack of deep snowbanks is a deal-breaker for wolverines considering breeding. Wolverines generally require snowbanks five feet or more in depth that last until mid-May in order to build their breeding dens.
Walsh cites less certainty about whether wolverines are absolutely tied to deep snow for other life habits, such as hunting. The animals' broad, fur-covered feet act like snowshoes, allowing wolverines to move quickly in deep snow. That's a serious advantage over some of the wolverines' larger prey such as deer and elk, which can become mired -- and tired -- in deep snow.
That said, wolverines can still hunt without snow, and in any event, carrion tends to make up a major portion of the wolverines diet, with small animals making up much of the remainder. But even if wolverines can feed themselves in the absence of snow, you'd think the catastrophic effect of losing breeding habitat would be enough to fear for the wolverines' survival. But as Walsh writes in her memo, mere potential inability to breed isn't enough to persuade her that the wolverine merits listing:
Walsh also contends that three wolverine sightings in recent years, including a well-publicized camera trap capture in California's Tahoe National Forest in March 2008, indicate that the North American subspecies may well be expanding its range. The other sightings include one in Colorado in 2012 and a sighting this April in Wyoming's portion of the Uinta Mountains. Though all three sightings were in places where no wolverines had been documented for decades -- the most recent previous California sighting took place in 1922 -- that's still three single animals in three far-flung states cited as evidence of an expanding range for the wolverine.
That's not implausible on the face of it, as wolverines are notoriously reclusive, and maintain extremely low population densities over broad ranges. But it's still much more tenuous evidence than Walsh seems willing to accept when it comes to modeling the effect of climate change on snowpack. And her citation of the California sighting, at least, goes against her own agency's formal statements. In its February 2013 proposal to list the wolverine, USFWS wrote:
Environmentalists are charging that Walsh's secret memo is more evidence of political interference in the science of wildlife conservation. "The decision to overrule agency scientists and deny protection to the wolverine is deeply disappointing and shows that political interference in what should be a scientific decision continues to be a problem under the Obama administration, just as it was under George W. Bush," said Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity. "Wolverines and the winter habitats they depend on are severely threatened by our warming world. Only serious action to reduce fossil fuels can save the wolverine, tens of thousands of other species, and our very way of life."
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