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News on Nomar
Nomar went for an MRI this morning and unfortunately, he does have a tear in his quad. Grady has said that he'll be extremely limited, mostly pinch-hitting, for the rest of the series. James Loney will start tomorrow, but the rest of the lineup is not yet set.
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I'm sad to hear about Nomar, but since we already knew he couldn't move, I'm glad they're doing the smart thing and playing Loney at first tomorrow (keeping Kent at 2nd). Nomar, we'll take a Gibson-like pinch hitting appearance. 😉
Season's over. See you next spring.
thats a big blow, but loney has been playing better anyways.. i'll say it one more time, do not resign nomar!.. he cant stay healthy.. lets just give my kids a shot..
gnorm, obviously not a fan. It is never over until its over
Maddux – Penny – Lowe. 3 in a row could happen.
Thanks Nomar for gutting it out all year long. Gagne, Mueller, Brazoban,etc. have an extra pair of pom pons waiting for you.
Whatever happens, I'm not disappointed in this team. This was a good comeback from the disappointment of last year, and the future looks bright.
Maddux vs. Trachsel
Penny vs. Oliver Perez
Lowe vs. Maine
We can still win this…
I hope Nomar's not back next year, or if he is, it is only a short contract.
This year he's proven that, while a great player, he has a fragile body. Nothing that wasn't known before!
That said, thanks Nomar for playing this game, and for providing us fans with a lot of great moments. You rock!
Penny vs. Oliver Perez
Alex-We need to hope that Little gets Penny out of the game before he gives up 5 runs. Here's to hoping Little realizes before it's too late.
Thank GOD! Grady fianlly pulled his head out of his ***…Loney should be starting none of this Julio Lugo ****!
Hi Josh,
Some bulletin board material for the Dodger training room before tomorrow's game: (quote from LA Times story)
"They're about to go to sleep, I think," Mets reliever Pedro Feliciano said.
What a year he's given the Blue Crew, I just hope he's back next year !! Maybe at 3B, he played it in Chicago!!! Then we could have Nomar and Loney !! I like the sound of that !!
This team has been most noted for our streaks, losing and winning and we can do it again !!
Go Dodgers !!!
I don't care what any of you say, for what Nomar did for us this year, he deserves a contract with the Dodgers. No, not as a starting infielder, but as someone coming off the bench or spelling any position in the infield. You don't just throw away a talent like Nomar. What you do is manage him like what Little did for Drew. You all who say "Don't sign him" are crazy. If we can get him for what we got him for this year, it would be a steal. And Ray, I don't believe in the Poncho, I believe in the Dodgers, our Dodgers, not "your kids", they're OUR kids and our veterans. They can still win this thing. Easily. Its still up for grabs. You know it, I know it, and best of all, they know it.
ST vs us 4-10, 4.02 ERA, 1.24 Whip, .255 opp. avg
Last Game vs us lost 2.2 5 4 4 0 2 1 13.50 2.63 .385
Away (this year) 14 14 8 3 0 1 0 76.2 83 39 37 11 39 32 4.34 1.59 .277
OP vs us 3-4 4.38 ERA, 1.44 Whip, .247 opp avg
Last Game vs us lost 4.2 9 6 6 1 5 4 11.57 3.00 .409
Away (this year) 11 11 0 7 0 0 0 46.2 66 54 49 12 35 45 9.45 2.16 .353
Shouldn't be so hard to figure what those number mean if you used the yahoo players profile..
We need Furcal and Lofton to do something now.
I forgot to change that not opp against us.
hey infantino, nomar has been great for us all year long.. he proved hes still a great player, and he proved hes still injury prone.. dont re-sign him..i dont know about you guys but i dont want to be like the reds with their griffey problem.. plus do you really think nomar wants to be a bench player? i get it, u love nomar, but this is not '99 nomar, this is a always injured nomar.. and dude you seriously need to relax..
I love Nomar as well and i will always be a fan of his and i wish him the best where ever he plays but the Dodgers shouldn't re-sign him. Loney is ready to take off in his career. Also Ned, Please re-sign Greg Maddux.
Ray, burn the darned poncho already. The poncho has forsaken us in the post-season thus far. It was cute that you kept posting it all this time. It's not cute any more, and now it's bad luck. I will no longer believe in it because frankly, IT'S NO LONGER CINCO DE MAYO!! I will however believe in a less corny and more realistic thing: I will believe in the Dodgers because the poncho has died.
what is up with everyone today?.. it seems like the presure of game 3 has gotten to everyone.. so sorry for having a sense of humor during these trying times!.. maybe i should just give up.. and if you think that the poncho, or jeff hamilton is the cause of our defeats, then my friend u have problems..
Ray, I need to relax? What, I'm not relaxed because my opinion doesn't mesh with yours? C'mon Kid, that doesn't play. I must have struck a nerve. But really, the only point I agree with is that Nomar won't want to be a bench player. I see that point, and had already thought of that. But I say if he is willing, and we don't know that he's not, we should sign him to be a role player, someone who can give us proven offense plus back up any position in the infield. Again if we got him for what he signed for this year, it would be a steal. I'm not saying it will happen, just saying Colleti should make the effort. The guy's been money all year long. Sometimes its a good thing to reward heroes.
Hey guys. Relax. The off season is yet to come but let's not rush it. It will be interesting and Ned will have some tough decisions. Nomar will be one of them. In some ways it is a good problem to have – too many options. We know they are not Ray's kids anymore than ours. However, in fairness, I believe Ray embraced them as early or earlier than most of us coming out of spring training. He certainly has been a big proponent of the rookies all season long and his knowledge of the farm system is perhaps the most extensive on this blog. In the final analysis I expect decisions re:Nomar and others will be made in the context of team needs, his health issues and dollars. It is a business at the GM level, a game at our level. The PONCHO thing provided a bit of levity, not a superstition or luck. It certainly had some coincidental moments and that was fun.The PONCHO was born with Nomar. GO DODGERS!!!
I agree that Nomar had a great first half. But, he showed his limitations during the second half. Signing him to the same contract as this year would be acceptable to the Dodgers. However I believe that Nomar is looking for a contract like the one he turned down from the Redsox years ago. He wants financial security in this next contract that will last his life. Not sure if any club will be willing to gamble that much.
he would be good insurance for the Dodgers, in case Lokey fails.
****** keyboard!
Ray, Dude, never give up. I love your passion,and your sense of humor-Jeff Hamilton?-now that's funny! I guess I'm "old school" enough or sentimental enough to want to see someone rewarded for having such a stellar year, despite the injuries. And if he's willing, he can have another good year with the Dodgers. Why not?
Euhlman, you'd probably be good as a mediator, always the voice of reason. Probably why I like reading your views in this blog.
Bigblue, that's what I'm saying. He could back up any infield position. And yes he fell off in the second half, but he also came up big in crucial situations. And maybe he's smart enough to know that "probably" no other team will take a chance on him as a starter unless its with the AL as a DH.
Oh man. Going to bed. have been watching the Yankee game. Joe Morgan is trying to will them to win. Trying to rationalize that Johnson, down 5-0, has pitched better than Rogers. Nite guys. Rest well tonight in preparation for the game tomorrow – believe in the comeback. Thanks s.infantino.
What we do have going for us is our passion for the Dodgers. that just never fades. GO DODGERS!!!
"u have problems"
Me? You've been reading my posts all season, right? Of course I have problems! Heck, anybody can see that just by reading a few paragraphs of my posts. But don't worry… I can blame it all on my brother. He used to torment me to no end when I was three or four years of age… and it didn't stop until I was around seven when he went off to college and got married. So really, those who know me, know that sarcastic pessimism rules in my family, especially when faced with adversity pertaining to those non-essential things like trying to "will" a baseball team to a post-season win. It's the only way to stay sane!
Now lighten up and burn the darned poncho already!! 😮 )
Sarcasm is often expressed in ironical statements. It can sometimes be the sincerest form of discourse for the emotionally fragile. This is often done by simply over-emphasizing the actual statement, or particular words of it.
Philosophical pessimism describes a tendency to believe that the life has a negative value, or that this world is as bad as it could possibly be.
What can I say, I'm a Dodger fan. I could be even worse though… I could be a Cubs fan. Talk about scarred for life! 😮 )
Oh my Nomar! I am so split on him, I have loved him and rooted for him for years. It has been a dream come true to see him play for the Blue this season, but his fragile body is not ever able to stay healthy for one whole season. I am not looking forward to this winter when Ned has some decisions to make. My heart is wanting both Nomar and Gagne to be healthy and stay on this team, but my head tells me that may not happen. I just want my boys to win this whole run of playoffs and World Series so I can go to the parade in Downtown. Please give me something wonderful before we all have to face a long winter.Get well boys.
Hey Kevin, you OK ?? Do we need to send the guys with white coats ?? For the love of the game buddy !! It's still just a game !! It could be worst, you could be a page in DC !!! LOL
Go Dodgers !!!
Loney is the kid we have been waiting for and Has had his Knocks during the season. He went down to AAA and Brought back a Batting Title. He Played a couple games since and has only Set an LA record for RBI's and 3 HR in his limited play oh and not to metion that Gold Glove work of his at first.Not Even Martin comes close to where this Kid is…He is Ready Willing and ABLE! Martin Has Done as Great as any Callup Rookie and His Posistion is Set in stone for him!
NOMAR Great Job you well deserved your pay this year and if ya want to Hangout in LA and play for the Dodgers I'll root for you But,Loney Has the Job at first and can only Lose it by hitting less then .250 without power and making errors to start the season. Maybe a Nomar Kent platoon at 2nd so they both Rest alot can keep them Healthy and take turns in the Pinch hitting roles.I'm all Good with Nomar staying with the Team but not in a way to Block Loney He's Homegrown and Ready to Rock Go Show the Met's What a Homegrown 1st baseman is all about Loney You Rock!!
Nomar should go have a beer.. Oh, wait, He's probably a little more responsible than a left-handed specialist that is in the play-offs and would be facing a team that is heavy on lefties in the line-up. Dude, it's the freaking play-offs, can't you be a little more responsible and have a little self control for one night? Do you REALLY need to be out at 2 AM a day before the play-offs start? Shouldn't you be focusing on the series instead of seeing what the night life has to offer? There is a time for everything, Beimel. You should have thought about that.
Hey Benny Lay off that hottie was one of David wrights *****…
Don't worry about Nomar.
i hope the Dodgers play well at home
I'm so confident that the Dodgers are going to win tonight that I decided to invite 10 Met fans to watch the game at my place tonight (i'm in NY).. Go Dodgers!!!!
It's funny how these sports commentators keep blabbing away on some tangent when the the facts are somewhere else.
In the second Ali-Spinks fight , I had to wonder which fight Cossell was watching.
The El Segundo Raiders played the Redskins in the super bowl and all they could talk about was John Riggins and the Hogs, when it was obvious the Raiders had so many more weapons.
Now we get this east coast bias toward the NY teams.
I'm pretty disappointed in Joe Morgan. He's my favorite ( I like his suits ) but sometimes he's not very objective. The other guy works for the giants so you can't expect anything from him.
Don't give up Ray.
How did it turn out for asq?
Well, while most of you guys are still snoozing or just waking, I have my potatoes dug. What a life. While doing so, I thought of Joe Beimel. Now I am the last one who should judge anyone so will try to make an observation which is bad enough on its own. Amid my disappointment that Joe would break curfew on the night before a playoff game and get cut,is a concern for Joe, not just the team. My concern is that he didn't need to relax, have fun, get away from the game, etc., It is that he had to be there. That is, his body had a need and he got cut while fulfilling that need. I really hope that my suspicion is wrong. For Joe's sake I really hope he just did something rather dumb and irresponsible.
Today's the day guys. Believe in the comeback. Our Met bloggist last night dissed Maddux. He might be right, but Maddux has a way about him in these situations, just as Glavine does ,although Glavine has a losing record in post season play. Let's go forit. No point to talk anymore about Beimel or Nomar and his injury. He gave it everything he could. Most of us have no idea the pain he endured. I don't but know I'm a whimp when I stub my toe. GO DODGERS!!!
underdog8 was right. The Mets say the Dodgers are about to go to sleep. Someone has to show the team that quote and if they have any pride they'll respond and kick Met butt all over the stadium. Loney should have been starting, because Nomar is and was hurt. I love what Nomar has done this year, but a healthy ,hungry rookie is better than an injured Nomar. Lets go DODGERS!!!!!
Nah Gary! No white coats here, but my wife thinks you're on to something! lol…
Just trying to have fun is all. Down 0-2 there's not much other choice.
I Believe in Loney! I believe in the Dodgers!
Want lockerroom material? Look no further than this quote from ESPN.com:
"The outhit, outpitched and outmanaged Dodgers…"
Especially that last one. Outmanaged. The players cannot do anything behind a manager that turns stupid in the postseason. Our pitching staff is not that great, and needs finesse and intelligent managing to stand a chance. None of that can Little provide.
I don't even want to watch today's game. I don't want to carry three defeats into the winter, one caused by dumbness, one caused by tepidness, and the third one will be caused by who-knows-what.
This team deserves the fork quivering in them.
Here's to hoping some of the mistakes of this year can be corrected in the postseason.
In the Nomar regard, as to whether or not he should be back next year, 1st & 2nd half stats, etc…. Something you can't measure, that for some reason I've not heard many of you speak of….HEART!!!!!!! GUTS!!!!!!! Never say die!!!!!!! Those are the qualities Nomar has given this team …..Why wouldn't you want a Dodger like that? Kent's another one, who's shown his mettle. We've got a great chance today, once again, to watch these Dodgers continue the magic ways of the past few weeks…Let's hope the best is yet to come. Lofton & Drew come through!!!!!!! Go Dodgers!!!
Kevin, Harold, asq, Ray etc.. I'm thinking it's our time today so pump up the volume and lets kick some NY butt !!
Go Dodgers !!
Here is a crazy idea. What if Nomar got healthy in the offseason (went to a spa or something) comes back at third base and we bring Loney up?
Nomar is one of my favorite Dodgers, but im afraid the wont be a place for him next year- some teams are going to throw alot of money his way- and we won't (and probably shouldn't try to compete). He is, after all, a very very large injury risk and Loney looks like the real deal at 1st. Nomar at 3rd is somewhat interesting, but we have Betemit for a very low cost- im actually very interested to see how he will do in a full season- I think he may be a very good hitter- remember he is still young also and was at one time the best prospect in the Atl organization. He maybe our 2nd baseman when Kent is done. Then theres LaRouche- who maybe the big power bat we have been missing for so long. He should be ready for the bigs by mid year next year if not before. I think we should run something like:
1 Furcall (ss)
2 Drew (cf/rf)
3 Ethier (lf)
4 Kent (2b)
5 Betemit (3b)
6 Martin (c)
7 Loney (1b)
8 Kemp (cf/rf)
and sign a good # 2/3 starter and some another left handed bullpen arm in the offseason. BUT, thie year isn't over yet!!!!! lets go BLUE!!!!! This team has what it takes to win 3 from the Mets.
Euhlman ,Gary, and all the rest of you were kind enough to offer your prayers and THANK YOU so very much!! I am a little sleepy (having been info center for family & friends) but owe it to you to update you.
Both have survived! The mother is resting comfortably. While the baby (a girl) was with out oxygen for about ten minutes. During the delivery the baby"s shoulder was turned in some matter to complicate the delivery. Of course I do not have to tell you the real danger of brain damage but I do not know how soon they can tell or how bad. As of a few minutes ago, the baby was sleeping restfully. They live in Idaho: My daughter-in-law & another granddaughter flew up to be with them.
Falling off a ladder is how I broke my hip. The first surgery they attempted to repair it using screws. When that failed they did a second surgery to replace my hip. What type of surgery did they do on your mother-in-law & is she still doing okay?
All right all of you positive & TRUE FANS, remember they came back from 0-2 before.I am with you Gary, it is time for some serious offence & butt kicking. But all KNOWLEDGEABLE baseball fans realize that the best of teams can have a bad "five game series". Ask the NYY & the Twins. I think you (euhlman -is it Harold?-and Gary) have covered that subject very well. Only eight teams got this far. I think our DODGERS are still in it, but if they do not survive the series–I will have happy memories all winter about how well they "did do" and look forward to what I know will be an even better team next spring. WOW! I can not wait–for either todays game Or next season.


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Charlotteans, including septuagenarian Patricia Moore, a family BofA shareholder, demand end to BofA's financing of coal in daring protest; BofA is country's largest financier of the coal industry
CHARLOTTE, NC - In a sophisticated, peaceful action to pressure the bank to stop funding coal, nine people are risking arrest today at sit-ins at four different Bank of America locations across Charlotte. The activists are a part of Rainforest Action Network's campaign to confront the bank's leading role in coal financing, which impacts the quality of air in North Carolina and contributes to global climate change pollution.
Among those risking arrest is Patricia Moore, 75, of Charlotte, a Bank of America family shareholder and grandmother concerned about the impact coal pollution is having on her granddaughter who lives downwind of one of Charlotte's five coal fired power plants and suffers from chronic asthma. Seated with her arm locked into a 55 gallon barrel with two other people at one of today's four protest sites, Moore has effectively interrupted the branches' operations while wearing a "Bank of America: Stop Funding Coal," t-shirt.
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The inAir4 is a 433Mhz wireless module using the Semtech SX1278(or SX1276) chip, with a standard SMA connector (for antenna). The frequency is configured in software, and will typically be used for the 430 to 435MHz ISM band(contry dependant). It is part of our iMod product range. The SX1278 is a revolutionary new chip enabling wireless communications at distances up to 15km, using Semtech's LoRa(Long Range) technology. This chip also supports high performance (G)FSK modes for systems including WMBus, IEEE802.15.4g.
This module can be assembled with the SX1276 or SX1278 chip. Both chips are identical when used for 433MHz operation. This module is based on the Semtech SX1276RF1JAS reference designs.
The board is a high quality, RF optimized, 4 layer PCB. It has been designed with assistance from Semtech engineers, ensuring optimum layout and performance! Only brand name, high quality components are used! All capacitors and inductors are high precision parts, resulting in optimized performance. The crystal a very critical component for the SX1278, and is required to be very accurate to achieve high sensitivity. This board uses a high accuracy crystal as recommended by Semtech.
This module will outperform competitor products that use 2 layer PCBs, cheap capacitors and inductors and low accuracy crystals! When choosing a SX1278 module, it is very important to realize that they will NOT all perform the same just because they use the same chip! Designing RF boards is very tricky, and lots of power and sensitivity is lost due to bad PCB design and poor components!
This module enables 3.3V devices (like a Microcontroller for example) to communicate with remote nodes via a wireless protocol. For details on the SX1278 chip, download it's datasheet from www.semtech.com.
A SMA Edge connector (CON-SMA-FE16-RG) is mounted on this board. It can however also be assembled with a U.FL connector. Two standard 1x7, 2.54mm (0.1") pin header (or press-fit headers) can be soldered onto this board (position X1 and X2 on board). If required, wires can of course be soldered onto the PCB in stead of pin headers. If required, this module can also be used as a SX1276 breakout board, and wires can be soldered onto the PCB in stead of pin headers.
Bottom View
Top view (without SMA connector)
Schematics (pdf format)
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Note that solder jumper J1 at the back of the board has to be made to apply power to the RF Switch. Making jumper J1 applies permanent 3.3V power to the RF Switch (U5 in schematic = PE4259).
If solder jumper J1 is not made, power for the RF switch is supplied via iMod port pin 10, marked VS on PCB. This is useful for very low power applications that want to save the 9 to 20uA supply current required by the RF switch. For these applications, power can be supplied(to iMod port pin 10) via a port pin on CPU only when transmitting or receiving.
|inAir4 Datasheet and Schematics
|sx1276/sx1278 Datasheet
The inAir4 module can be used with virtually any Microcontroller that has a SPI port, some free I/Os, and operates at 1.8-3.3V.
For links to example code for Arduino, mbed and Raspberry Pi, click here.
Our NZ32 STM32 Microcontroller boards can be used together with the inAir9 module. The NZ32-SC151 boards is assembled with the STM32L151RC microcontroller (compatible with other STM32L151 and STM32L152 chips). It has a Lithium Polymer battery charger, 3.3V DC/DC regulator, high speed and RTC crystal, LEDs, buttons and circuitry for doing various analog measurements. This board will be followed by alternative versions assembled with the STM32F030R8T6 (low cost), STM32F205RCT6 and STM32F411RCT6 microcontrollers.
A SX1274 API, and various example projects are available on the mbed.org developer site (search site for SX1276 or SX1278). We will also soon be providing an example project for our STM32 board mentioned above.
This board can be used together with the STM32 board mentioned above to implement the LoRa WAN protocol. The code is available for free from IBM, just do an internet search for "LoRa WAN in C". At the time of writing this, it was available here.
There is also additional code available on GitHub, to see it click here.
Semtech recently announced that Microchip Technology Inc. adopted Semtech's long-range LoRa™ RF technology. We still have to perform tests, but it is possible that these modules will be compatible with Microchip's example code. Special versions of this board using Microchip LoRa chips can also be assembled on request (once these chips become available).
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If Activision stripped all of the cutscenes from StarCraft II, pasted them together into one big movie and charged between 20 to 30 dollars for you to buy it, would you pay? Activision's Bobby Kotick thinks you would.
It's an absolutely crazy idea. Take the cutscenes normally spread out over the course of an entire game like StarCraft II, yank them from the game, and package them as premium movie content for around half the price of the game itself. It one of the silliest ideas I've heard in quite a while, yet Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick delivered it with a straight face yesterday during the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference in California.
"If we were to take that hour, or hour and a half, and take it out of the game and we were to go to our audiences, who we have their credit card information a direct relationship, and say to them 'Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?'
I'd like to believe Blizzard's audience would collectively fall over laughing. That's not what Kotick believes. He believes that a publisher-distributed StarCraft II movie of this sort would crush opening weekend box office records.
"My guess is unlike film studios that are really stuck with a model that goes through theatrical distribution and takes a signification amount of the profit away, if we were to go to an audience and say 'We have this great hour and a half of linear video that we'd like to make available to you at a $20 or $30 price point,' you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever."
Kotick went on to say that it's likely the company would be offering this sort of cutscene movie sometime in the next five years.
In the course of writing up this story I'm pretty sure I've developed an uncontrollable facial tick. Is he serious, or perhaps a better question, is he right? Would you pay for a video game story without a video game?
Activision 'Likely' To Sell Game Cutscene Movies [IGN UK - Thanks nonentity!]


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Illinois draws Colorado in opener at Austin
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Sitting in a room by themselves Sunday night waiting to hear where they were headed to start the NCAA Tournament, Illinois' players could be forgiven if they were worried they might not hear their name called at all.
The Illini (22-12, 8-10 Big Ten) were considered a shoe-in, but they were just a year removed from a season when they missed the postseason and watched their coach lose his job. They had to wait Sunday until the final region, the East, was filled out to learn that they're a No. 7 seed and will take on Colorado (21-11, 10-8 Pac 12), a 10 seed, Friday in Austin, Texas.
"I was sitting next to Tracy (Abrams) during the selection show and he was just shaking the whole time - 'When are they gonna' call us? When are they gonna' call us?"' said center Sam McLaurin, a graduate student who transferred in this season from Coastal Carolina. He's one of the few members of the team who didn't live through the collapse last season that cost then-coach Bruce Weber his job.
Illinois' return to the tournament comes after an absence of just a year.
But it will be just the second trip for the seniors who dominate the Illini roster - starting guards Brandon Paul and D.J. Richardson, reserve forward Tyler Griffey and redshirt junior Joseph Bertrand.
The team started this season strong at 12-0 and has wins over No. 1 Gonzaga, Indiana when the Hoosiers were No. 1 and No. 10 Ohio State. But after last year's implosion and a 2-7 slump that pushed them to the bottom of the Big Ten dog pile. It looked like they might never make it to the tournament again.
Instead they won five straight, starting with that win over Indiana.
"Our coaches wouldn't let us doubt ourselves," Paul said.
First-year head coach John Groce came to Illinois with an impressive NCAA resume - two tournament trips in four seasons at Ohio State, including a run to the Sweet 16.
The most important thing Illinois can do now, he said, might be the thing he's always said was a key to his Ohio teams: Play tough.
"There comes a point in time in every game, tournament games, that toughness is required at a high level," he said.
Just how that might come into play against Colorado, neither Groce nor his players know yet. They admitted Sunday that they know little about the Buffaloes, who finished fifth in the Pac 12.
"They've got a very well-balanced scoring team," Groce said. "They come from a great league."
The Buffaloes were led by Spencer Dinwiddie's 15.6 points a game, but have three other players - Askia Booker, Andre Roberson and Josh Scott - who average at least 10 points a game.
Booker said Sunday at a selection-Sunday party at Colorado coach Tad Boyle's home that Colorado should be prepared for a game away from home against what he expects will be a physical Illinois team.
"I think we had the least home games in the Pac-12, we played on the road," he said. "We played Kansas - that was a very physical game, taught us a big lesson. It's going to prepare us for this."
Kansas was No. 9 in the country when it beat Colorado 90-54 back in December.
Boyle said he didn't know much about Illinois beyond Paul and the big wins.
"Brandon Paul is a heck of a player, they come from a great league," Boyle said. "They beat Gonzaga early in the year."
Illinois enters the game having lost three of its last four, a stretch in which they've shot just 32.5 percent.
Groce said that if his team can get hot, it could be dangerous.
"I do think that we have a team that has the capability of being explosive offensively with shot making because we've got several guys that can do that," he said. "That's always dangerous this time of year."
But more importantly, he said, will be trying to play a complete game, the kind that beat the Hoosiers back in February but has been missing the past couple of weeks.
"The biggest thing we've got to do at this point is put two halves together on both ends of the floor," he said. "That's going to be the goal this week."


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South Carolina Coastal Archery Hunt Opportunities Available
Numerous opportunities exist on about 387,000 acres of wildlife management areas all along the coast for the archer looking to harvest a deer this fall.
Along the upper half of the coast in Horry County, Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve Wildlife Management Area (HP/WMA), Waccamaw River HP/WMA, and Little Pee Dee HP River Complex have a combined total of 24,966 acres that include an archery only season in September and/or October. The Santee Coastal Reserve WMA located near McClellanville offers archery only deer hunting on the mainland during the month of November.
Hunters who hunt the Francis Marion National Forest can exclusively archery hunt the entire area from Sept. 1–30 (except for scheduled deer hunts with dogs). On the Sewee Special Use Area located in the Wambaw WMA, only archers may hunt deer throughout the entire specified season, which lasts four months. Bowhunting may also be conducted any time deer hunting is allowed (except on days scheduled for deer hunting with dogs) on any of the wildlife management areas within the Francis Marion National Forest.
Bonneau Ferry WMA, located off of SC Highway 402 in Berkeley County, is open for archery hunting (Side B of the property) during specified dates in September with another archery only season scheduled in November. Be sure to read all pertinent regulations which are located at the entrances to the property.
Botany Bay Plantation WMA/HP, located off of SC Highway 174 on Edisto Island, will offer exclusive archery hunting opportunities at various times during the months of September through December.
The Edisto River WMA in Dorchester County is available for archery hunting during selected days in September. In Colleton County, archery hunts are scheduled on Bear Island in October, and are scattered throughout the months of October, November, and December on Donnelley WMA.
Bowhunting opportunities also exist in Hampton and Jasper counties on Palachucola WMA and Tillman Sand Ridge HP/WMA. Hamilton Ridge WMA in Hampton County offers archery several archery hunts at various times during the months of September through December.
Exclusive archery only areas exist on numerous areas throughout the entire Region. Cartwheel Bay HP/WMA in Horry County allows archery hunting only as does Sandy Island WMA located in Georgetown County. Other opportunities in Georgetown County for archers to harvest deer exist on Samworth WMA (impoundments only) and Santee Delta WMA. The Hall WMA, Hatchery WMA (islands in the Hatchery itself), and Porcher WMA, are archery only for the entire deer season. These areas are located along the Lake Moultrie shoreline, the Diversion Canal and include some of the nearby islands located in Lake Marion. Another archery only area is Dungannon HP/WMA located in Charleston County off of SC Highway 162. Exclusive archery hunting is also provided in Colleton and Beaufort counties with hunts on Otter, Ashe, Beet, Warren, Big, and South Williman islands on the St. Helena Sound HP/WMA, Old Island HP/WMA, along with hunts on Victoria Bluff HP/WMA.
Many of these areas offer a good opportunity to harvest a hog as well as a deer. Hunters should note that all Wildlife Management Area regulations apply, including hunter orange requirements if archery hunting during specified gun hunts.


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In Utah, small towns dot the map across its vast and diverse landscape with many of these towns boasting histories rich in agricultural tradition. However, many of these same towns are struggling to preserve their agricultural heritage while also maintaining economic stability. With university support, Kim Harris, a Utah State University junior in the Department of Landscape, Architecture and Environmental Planning, aims to help combat this ever-widening dilemma.
Harris recently received an Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunities Grant for her proposal, "'New West' Development for Remote Western Towns: A Case Study of Utah's Scenic Byway 12 Corridor." Harris' research will examine the struggle between the idea of "old west" and "new west" in towns along the byway.
Harris became aware of the issue while in her Advanced Computer Applications in Landscape Architecture class taught by assistant professor Shujuan Li. Harris' personal connection to the topic helped solidify her desire to study the topic further; Harris' husband is from a small Idaho town facing similar struggles.
"Because the towns along the Byway 12 are traditionally agricultural and mining communities, the GSRNM [Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument] designation limits the access to many natural resources such as rangeland and mining sites," Harris wrote in her proposal. "The traditional 'old west,' resource-based economy in these towns has been greatly challenged. On one hand, local residents are struggling with the recessional economy. On the other hand, the growing visitor population disturbs their rural life. The recreational activities remain weak in bringing in profits to these towns."
Utah's Scenic Byway 12 Corridor is located in the southeast corner of the state traveling across the Colorado Plateau and connecting Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef National Park. The byway also crosses Dixie National Forest and part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Harris will be researching what services are available within each town along the byway by visiting and speaking with residents to determine the current state of affairs.
Harris hopes to fill the gap between the current services in place and the development opportunity of environmentally-friendly recreational services that have the potential of bringing needed revenue to each town.
Li, Harris's faculty mentor, is excited for what this project will bring to LAEP.
"Traditionally, LAEP focuses on landscape design, but environmental planning is important," said Li. "In the future, we hope to have lots of different research dealing with environmental planning on a large scale."
For more information about the LAEP program, visit the website (laep.usu.edu).
Writer: McCarty Hatfield, firstname.lastname@example.com


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When one bank purchases another bank, the name recognition and reputation of the bank being purchased may be very well known and established in its market area. Rather than change the name of this bank, the bank making the purchase will continue to use the acquired bank's original name as a trade name, to benefit from its good name and reputation.
In addition to having physical branches to accept deposits, many banks have established online deposit accepting websites (also known as "URLs" or "Uniform Resource Locators"). Some of these websites will be named similarly to the name of the bank, such as, the website for a bank named "ABC Bank" being named "www.abcbank.com." However, some banks will also have websites that have names that are not connected to the actual name of the bank.
Please note that this information is provided electronically by the bank to the FDIC on the required FFIEC CALL reports. The information is not edited by the FDIC.
For more information regarding a trade name and/or URL for a particular bank, call the FDIC at 1-877-275-3342 and ask to speak with a deposit insurance specialist.If you do not see the Trade Name and/or URL that you are looking for, please call the FDIC.
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Editors' note: Portions of this review were taken from our evaluation of the Droid X since both smartphones share a number of features.
It's hard to believe that it hasn't even been a year since the original Motorola Droid came out, but as we all know, Android has exploded over the past few months and there are simply bigger and better smartphones out there. Enter the Motorola Droid 2. As the successor to the Droid, the handset offers a number of improvements, including a sleeker design, better keyboard, faster processor, and the latest version of Android OS. It lacks some of the higher-end features of the Droid X, but it's still an outstanding device on its own. There are enough improvements to make it worth the upgrade, and it will certainly satiate the need of those who want a physical keyboard. The Motorola Droid 2 is available now for $199.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. Verizon will also release a limited edition R2-D2 version of the Droid 2 in September. It will include exclusive "Star Wars" content and hardware designed to look like R2-D2.
Clunky and boxy, the original Droid wasn't much of a stunner in the looks department, but the Motorola Droid 2 reveals a more refined design. Sporting rounder, more-tapered edges, the Droid 2 doesn't have such an abrupt look, and the silver-and-blue color combo is not only attractive but also makes the smartphone stand out in a crowd. It's still a handful; the handset measures 4.58 inches tall by 2.38 inches wide by 0.54 inch thick, but compared with the Droid X and HTC Evo 4G, the Droid 2 actually feels small. It's slightly heavy at 5.96 ounces, but it's a solid handset and has a high-quality construction.
On front, you've got the same 3.7-inch, WVGA (480x854 pixels) capacitive touch screen. Though it might not be as large as the displays on some of the latest smartphones, it's still a good size, as well as sharp and vibrant, so reading text and viewing Web pages, pictures, and video is quite nice. If you do need to get a closer look at something or want more screen real estate, the display offers pinch-to-zoom support and a built-in accelerometer. Both functions work smoothly and quickly.
The screen will also automatically go into landscape mode when you slide the phone open. This is, of course, because the Droid 2 has a full QWERTY keyboard. As a number of Droid owners will tell you, using the keyboard on the Droid isn't exactly a pleasant experience. The buttons are flat, and there's the D-pad on the right side that makes it incredibly awkward to use the keyboard.
Fortunately, Moto fixed a lot of the errors this time around. First, it did away with the D-pad, so now you can hold the phone as you normally would and type more comfortably. Second, the buttons have a slight bump to them, so they're easier to press. Still, they're a bit stiff, so that slowed us down a bit. By comparison, we'd say the Samsung Epic 4G's keyboard is better because of the extra spacing between the keys, but this is definitely an improvement over the Droid. Plus, you've also got the option of using of Motorola's onscreen keyboard and Swype, which is perfect for firing off quick text messages.
The Droid 2 keeps the touch-sensitive Android shortcuts below the display: menu, home, back, and search. Though we prefer the physical buttons on the Droid X, they were still responsive and provide haptic feedback. On the right side, there's a volume rocker and a camera activation/capture button. The top of the device features a power/lock button and a 3.5mm headphone jack, and on the left, there's a Micro-USB port. The camera and dual-LED flash are located on the back.
Verizon packages the Droid 2 with an AC adapter, a USB cable, an 8GB microSD card, and reference material. For more add-ons, please check our cell phone accessories, ringtones, and help page.
User interface
Like the Droid X, the Motorola Droid 2 is running a toned-down version of Motoblur software. The latter looks nothing like what we've seen on the Motorola Cliq and Backflip. You still get widgets for your social-networking updates, weather, photo gallery, and favorite contacts, but they no longer take up huge chunks of space on your home screen, and you can even resize the widgets. It makes for a much cleaner experience, and you don't feel overwhelmed by all the information.
Aside from the Motorola widgets, you can also add Android widgets as well as shortcuts and folders to any one of the seven home screens. As you swipe through them, a small toolbar appears on the bottom to show you which panel you're on, and you can quickly jump to a page by pressing on the corresponding button. (After a couple seconds, the toolbar changes to a quick-launch bar for the phone, full menu, and contacts.) It certainly makes it easier than swiping through all the panels, but we definitely preferred the HTC Sense Leap screen feature, which gives you a quick thumbnail view of each screen.
Overall, the Motoblur experience is much improved; it's a more refined, sophisticated Motoblur, if you will. However, users coming from the Droid, which ran the stock Android UI, might need some time to acclimate, and even then it still might be too much for some. Just remember that, like all Android phones, it's completely customizable, so just keep tweaking the UI until you find a system that works for you.
The Motorola Droid 2 is the first smartphone to ship running Android 2.2 out of the box. This means in addition to the Android staples we've come to expect, you're now getting Flash Player 10.1, voice dialing over Bluetooth, camera improvements, and more. We won't detail every new thing in this review, but you can read more about Android 2.2 in this article, and check out this post on some of the hidden features of Froyo.
Like other Android phones, the Droid 2 allows you to sync multiple e-mail accounts to the phone, including Gmail, POP3, IMAP, and Exchange, as well as social-networking sites. When you first boot up the phone, you'll have the option to add all your various accounts (you can also add them later if you wish), which is usually a matter of entering your log-in ID and password. If you're syncing up your corporate e-mail, you'll need additional information like your server address. We had no problems hooking up our Gmail, Facebook, Outlook Web Access, and Twitter accounts to our review unit.
The Droid 2 offers both unified and separate in-boxes. There are also security protocols for remote password control and wipe, so corporate users can protect their phone's contents from snooping eyes. The smartphone also features a unified calendar, so you can see all your various appointments at once. This includes Facebook events and birthdays. All appointments are color coded by accounts, so you can easily tell them apart.


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Primary extinction
From Online Dictionary of Crystallography
Extinction primaire (Fr). Primärextinktion (Ge). Estinzione primaria (It). 1次消衰効果 (Ja). Extinción primaria (Sp).
The primary extinction is responsible for the loss of intensity due to dynamic effect inside every block of a mosaic crystal. At the Bragg angle, each incident wave can undergo multiple reflections from different atomic planes; each scattering introduced causes a phase difference of λ/4 = π/2 so that along each direction waves differing by an even number of scattering, i.e. by nπ in phase, interfere, whose intensity decreases rapidly with the number of scatterings. Because of the decrease in intensity of waves multiply scattered, the effect of waves differing by more than two scatterings can normally be neglected: in each direction one observes then the destructive interference between waves having a significant difference in intensity and an overall reduction of the intensity with respect to the intensity given by the kinematical theory.
The effect is described by the dynamical theory, which shows that the diffracted intensity by a crystal p planes thick is proportional to (tanh pq)/pq, where q is the amplitude diffracted by a single plane.


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Most of the patients I see in my clinic suffer from a variety of digestive disorders. They do not effectively process their food. They have diarrhea, heartburn, and acid reflux disease. They're nauseated.
And who would expect any different? In this fast-paced, high-technology culture, we're overrun with time constraints and stressors of all kinds. People unaware of what a good diet consists of rely on processed fast foods and meats packed with hormones and antibiotics. In the West, we're overprescribed antibiotics and other medications; women are reeling from the side-effects of birth control pills; and we regularly take any of a myriad of anti-inflammatories for the slightest ache. It's no wonder so many people are experiencing internal disharmony. And if all of that wasn't enough, most people either don't know how to, or are afraid to, release their emotions. Opting for a sense of control, they "hold." And they get constipated.
The digestive system is a mirror to how we process our external world on every level. Are we assimilating good nutritional, emotional and spiritual nourishment, and effectively eliminating what is toxic to us? Are we letting go of negative situations and allowing ourselves to be nurtured by positive ones? Without the foundation of a healthy, properly nourished body, we can't find the strength to feed into our emotions. If there's a backlog of undigested emotions, any digestive symptom can manifest. Once balance in the body is established by poor nutrition and digestive functions, we gain the platform to integrate our internal and external worlds.
Traditional Chinese medicine teaches us to properly diagnose and treat our patients using staid, ancient teachings recorded thousands of years ago. People don't change from century to century, but their circumstances do. The environment, food, medications, and stressors affecting our patients are very different today, and since the disharmonies that cause them are rampant, digestive disorders are also rampant. Diagnosis and treatment according to the TCM model, written in (and for) a different time, can therefore be complicated and confusing.
Now, imagine a group of acupuncture points that could be used to balance every kind of digestive disorder, including irritable bowel syndrome, bloating, ulcerative colitis, indigestion, and more. Imagine that the points are simple, easy to follow, and quite effective. There is no need to take the pulse, no need to consult a textbook, and no need to fumble through myriad causes. Wouldn't that be magic? It is, thanks to Dr. Teh Fu "Richard" Tan.
Dr. Tan has dedicated his life to experimenting with combinations of points, which are used with excellent clinical results, often instantaneously. Isn't that what we, as practitioners, want - to insert our needles, see an immediate change, and know our treatment is working? With the eight magic points, Dr. Tan offers the ability to elicit consistent, positive results.
One could consult any number of the core books written on TCM theory, but isn't the practice of acupuncture - of healing - about how much better the patient feels after being treated? Better to learn the laws of acupuncture, become skilled at them through knowledge and discipline, and then break out into your own successful expression of them.
Dr. Tan's Eight Magic Points
Points on one side: LI 4, SJ 5, Liv 8 (Dr. Tan's liver point), Sp 9
Points on other side: Lu 7, P 6, St 36, GB 34p (Dr. Tan's gallbladder point)
Liver 8 (Dr. Tan's liver point) and GB 34p (Dr. Tan's gallbladder point) are found in locations not traditionally known. According to Dr. Tan, needling these points is more effective. Dr. Tan's liver point is located anterior to Sp 9 on the medial condyle of the tibia, a rich region oddly ignored throughout history. The area can sometimes be very painful to the touch, but it can be more useful than Liver 3 in treating any stagnation in the Liver channel, especially when it is attached to the emotional disorders of resentment and anger.
GB 34p is located posterior to GB 34, just under the head of the fibula, where the tendon attaches. When penetrated, the point radiates electrically down to the foot, just as P 6 goes to the finger. It works better than GB 34, and is more sensitive. If both Liver 8 and GB 34p are tender, it can indicate an emotional component to the disorder. I regularly use this treatment for digestive ailments, with excellent results.
Case Studies
A 28-year old female came to me with anxiety and constant, burning pain in her epigastric area, something she'd experienced for much of her adult life. She was highly sensitive to many foods and didn't eat much. Most of the medical specialists she consulted gave her the same patent answer: "There's nothing wrong with you; it's all in your head." She was very nervous and skeptical about acupuncture, but she was also desperate.
After the third treatment with the eight magic points, her gastric burning and discomfort began to diminish. I continued seeing her twice a week. A month later, she was eating comfortably, and was fairly calm. She's received so much relief from the eight magic points that even a job transfer hasn't kept her from traveling to continue occasional treatments with me.
I have found the eight magic points useful for patients undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiation, as it is a wonderful balancing treatment. A 40-year old female with breast cancer was just finishing her course of radiation when she came to me for acupuncture. She looked literally lifeless. Mostly bedridden, she had become frail, pale and weak. Given her delicate digestion and poor appetite, she wasn't getting the nutrients she needed to recover her strength. I kept the treatment simple, using light needling with the eight magic points. When she returned to me for our second session, a light had already turned on in her eyes. Even her family noticed the dramatic difference in her qi. Continuing treatments, she began her recovery from the adverse effects of radiation.
A pregnant woman, 28, experiencing severe vomiting and persistent nausea, came to my clinic for help. I chose to use the eight magic points, but substituted LI 3 for LI 4, which is forbidden during pregnancy. Her symptoms abated immediately. She continued with me throughout her pregnancy, and ultimately had an unusually easy delivery. She is now the mother of a healthy, contented newborn.
The eight magic points performs wonders on people experiencing emotional upset, especially women with hormonal imbalances. A 42-year old female experiencing perimenopausal symptoms came to see me for her emotional distress. Hypersensitive to everything and everyone, she felt deeply depressed and completely controlled by her emotions. She was so anxious that she couldn't eat; she couldn't even lie still on my table for more than 20 minutes without getting antsy. I explored my toolbox of protocols and decided intuitively to try the eight magic points. At her next treatment session, she raved about how much better she felt. I continued using the eight magic points, which became the antidote for her intense emotional imbalance.
Learning From Dr. Tan
The first six months of my apprenticeship with Dr. Tan consisted of simply observing him in his bustling clinic. I was to ask no questions. He told me, "Once you learn it in your heart, your mind will understand." The Chinese teach by familiarity, which leads to an instinctual knowing (the tiger). Once the ground of knowing is established, the "why" is understood (the wings). The student becomes familiar by watching; masterful and responsive through doing and observing results; and, once they've grown their wings, creative, by developing a style uniquely theirs.
I'm just getting my wings under Dr. Tan, but my clinical practice has long taken flight with the success of these treatments and the tremendous results my patients experience. The beauty of a protocol like this is that, as with magic, we don't have to understand why it works, because we see for ourselves that it works. Consider the eight magic points. See for yourself that it is magic.


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Better late than never, here's Drowned In Sound's best bits from Sunday's (at long last) final day sunfest at Latitude festival courtesy of Dom Gourlay.
Catherine A.D.
Playing at the ungodly hour of 11am on a Sunday morning while entering to a soundtrack of Radiohead and Oasis would have proved a soul destroying exercise for many. Not Catherine A.D. however. Complete with her perma-smiling backing band, not even the late intervention of the I Arena's stage manager halfway through demanding she cut her already short set even shorter dampened their spirits. 'Over And Over', influenced by Rufus Wainwright touched the sympathetic heartstrings while a rousing cover of Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' followed by a dramatic run through 'Long Year' emphasised her exquisite talents, while posing the age-old question "Why isn't she higher up the bill?" Maybe next year...
Dom Gourlay
Gross Magic
Following on from what seems like a never ending production line of bands indebted to Dinosaur Jr and Nirvana meet the latest incumbents, Gross Magic. Hailing from Brighton and technically the solo project of one Sam McGarrigle. Here, playing as a four-piece on the sidelined Lake Stage their mid-afternoon set is pleasant enough if slightly underwhelming. Having wowed us at The Great Escape two months ago playing in a tiny hotel basement, their slacker-goes-glam schtick seems lost in the ether here, although grungey highlight 'Sweetest Touch' evidently proves McGarrigle and Gross Magic could be ones to watch out for in the not too distant future.
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Simple Minds
Although often languishing in the shadow of U2 first time around, Simple Minds actually recorded a batch of amazing records. Many of them before enjoying commercial success. It's to their credit then that rather than take the easy option and just play "the hits", they instead deliver a set weighted towards the early part of their career. While opening with 'Waterfront' and ending on 'Alive & Kicking', a rousing 'Don't You Forget About Me' squeezed delicately in the middle, it was the inclusion of lesser known material like 'Love Song', 'Someone Somewhere In Summertime', 'The American' and 'I Travel' that raised the most cheers. Vocalist Jim Kerr still the supreme showman after thirty-five years in the game, and even though big sellers from their back catalogue such as 'Promised You A Miracle', 'Glittering Prize' and 'Belfast Child' didn't make an appearance, both band and audience seemed to be enjoying themselves immensely. While Kerr looks as if he hasn't aged a day since the hedonistic era of the 1980s, guitarist Charlie Burchill is a doppelganger for Charlie Sheen, albeit a slightly more rotund version. Timeless.
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Entering the stage wearing a green face mask while dressed in a long black cloak, any accusation that Anthony Gonzalez and M83 are just another faceless techno act really must be reconsidered. And some. Arriving nearly ten minutes later than scheduled due to the ongoing technical difficulties that curtailed Battles set beforehand, Gonzalez and his band are simply a revelation. Despite the uncharacteristic stage time of 7pm on a Sunday evening, the next forty minutes act as nothing short of a euphoric reminder just what a life-affirming experience an M83 concert can be. 'Teen Angst' and 'Reunion' rolled out early, both incendiary highlights paving the way for what follows, it's a celebratory 'We Own The Sky' and ecstatic climax of 'Coleurs' that take our brains and dance manoeuvres to another dimension. Who needs drugs when the music's this good?
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Perfume Genius
Having delighted those present in the DiS portacabin some three hours earlier with an impromptu Madonna cover, Mike Hadreas' aka Perfume Genius troubled laments offer a soothing if sorrow filled wake up call as this long weekend draws to a close. Complete with full band, his set draws from both Put Your Back N 2 It and its predecessor Learning, newer material such as 'AWOL Marine' and 'Hood' blending effortlessly with old favourites 'When' and 'Mr Peterson', while the haunting 'Sister Song' melts several hundred tear ducts, so frank yet ebullient is its delivery. Random chatterboxes are shushed in an instant until only the sound of a pin dropping to the ground can be heard. But then that's the way it should be for such moments of elegant beauty as this.
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Wild Beasts
Yes, you all know the drill by now and probably the set from back to front too, but boy, what a set. For a band who've seemingly spent the best part of four years on the road - indeed this is their fifth appearance at Latitude, something of a record for any one particular band we suspect? As with their recent set at Primavera, it's a case of business as usual but when that business is as exemplary as this, why change things around for the sake of it? 'Bed Of Nails', 'We Still Got The Taste Dancin' On Our Tongues', 'The Devil's Crayon', 'Reach A Bit Further', 'All The Kings Men', we could go on and list the entire set. Each and every one of the eleven songs they play being simply flawless, culminating in the now familiar epic strains of 'End Come Too Soon', which in this case it does as Wild Beasts really are one of those bands DiS could listen to repeatedly for hours on end and never get bored.
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John Cooper Clarke
Latitude 2012 drawing to a close, what better way to finish off than an hour long verbal assault courtesy of Manchester's finest "punk poet" John Cooper Clarke. For those unaware of his existence and borderline legendary status, cast your mind back to the second episode of The Sopranos sixth season or the film Control and you'll perhaps remember 'Evidently Chickentown', his expletive ridden diatribe which ends tonight's hilariously un-PC performance. In between favourites like 'Beasley Street' he delivers a rhyme about sexually transmitted diseases ('Lydia'), has a rant about prisons and Terry Pratchett while telling gags like this one ("What's the difference between a Lada and a Jehovah's Witness? You can close the door on a Jehovah's Witness") that probably first saw the light of day at the beginning of the 1980s. And yet, in a similar way to Mark E Smith, he goes down a storm, bringing the curtain down on this year's festival in the most spectacularly profane way possible.
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Nagendra Modadugu, a member of Google's anti-malware team explained that in a survey of around 70,000 domains known to be distributing malware; 49% were hosted by IIS servers compared to 23% being hosted by Apache. This is despite Apache having a 20% market lead over Microsoft with 53% of market share compared to 31% held by Microsoft (it's interesting to note that between March-Sept 2006 Apache lost a large amount of this market share to Microsoft).
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The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ
BY Rev. Andrew Murray
Chapter 12 The Forgiveness of Sins
"Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered" kjv@Psalms:32:1.
"Bless the Lord, O my soul....who forgiveth all thine iniquities" kjv@Psalms:103:2-3.
In connection with surrender to the Lord, it was said that the first great blessing of the grace of God was this--the free, complete, everlasting forgiveness of all your sins. For the young Christian, it is of great importance that he should stand firm in this forgiveness of his sins. He should always carry the certainty of it about with him. For this reason, he must especially consider the following truths.
The forgiveness of our sin is a complete forgiveness ( kjv@Psalms:103:12 kjv@Isaiah:38:17 kjv@Isaiah:55:7 kjv@Micah:7:18-19 kjv@Hebrews:10:16-18). God does not partially forgive. Even with man, we believe that half forgiveness is not true forgiveness. The love of God is so great, and the atonement in the blood of Jesus so complete and powerful, that God always forgives completely. Take time with God's Word so that you may fully understand that your guilt has been blotted out completely. God absolutely thinks no more about your sins. "I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." ( kjv@Jeremiah:31:34 kjv@Hebrews:8:12 kjv@Hebrews:10:17).
The forgiveness of our sin restores us entirely again to the love of God ( kjv@Hosea:14:5 kjv@Luke:15:22 kjv@Acts:26:18 kjv@Romans:5:1 kjv@Romans:5:5). Not only does God no longer attribute us with sin, but He also restores us to the righteousness of Jesus--for His sake we are as dear to God as He is. Not only is wrath turned away from us, but the fullness of love now rests upon us. "I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him" ( kjv@Hosea:14:4). Forgiveness is the access to all of God's love. On this account, forgiveness is also an introduction to all the other blessings of redemption.
Live in the full assurance of forgiveness, and let the Spirit fill your heart with the certainty and the blessedness of it. Then you will have great confidence in expecting all from God. Learn from the Word of God--through the Spirit-to know God correctly, and to trust Him as the ever-forgiving God. That is His name and His glory. To one to whom much, yes, all is forgiven, He will also give much. He will give a11 ( kjv@Psalms:103:3 kjv@Isaiah:12:1-3 kjv@Romans:5:10 kjv@Romans:8:32 kjv@Ephesians:1:7 kjv@Ephesians:3:5). Therefore, let it be your joyful thanksgiving every day. "Bless the Lord, O my soul, who forgiveth all thine iniquities." Then forgiveness becomes the power of a new life. "Her sins which are many, are forgiven: for she loved much" ( kjv@Luke:7:47). The forgiveness of sins, received in living faith every day, is a bond which binds you to Jesus and His service ( kjv@John:13:14-15 kjv@Romans:12:1 kjv@1Corinthians:6:20 kjv@Ephesians:5:25-26 kjv@Titus:2:14 kjv@1Peter:1:17-18).
Then, the forgiveness of former sins supplies the courage to immediately confess every new sin and to trustfully receive forgiveness ( kjv@Exodus:34:6-7 kjv@Matthew:18:21 kjv@Luke:1:77-78). Look, however, to one thing-the certainty of forgiveness must not be a matter of memory or understanding, but must be the fruit of life. It must be our living relationship with the forgiving Father and with Jesus in whom we have forgiveness ( kjv@Ephesians:2:13 kjv@Ephesians:2:18 kjv@Philippians:3:9 kjv@Colossians:1:21-22). It is not enough to know that I once received forgiveness. My life in the love of God, my living communion with Jesus by faith--this makes the forgiveness of sin again always new and powerful. It is the joy and the life of my soul.
Lord God, this is the wonder of Your grace--that You are a forgiving God. Teach me every day to know in this the glory of Your love. Let the Holy Spirit seal forgiveness to me as a blessing, everlasting, ever fresh, living, and powerful. And let my life be like a song of thanksgiving. "Bless the Lord, O my soul, who forgiveth all thine iniquities." Amen.
1. Forgiveness is one with justification. Forgiveness is the word that looks more to the relation of God as Father. Justification looks more to His acquittal as Judge. Forgiveness is a word that is more easily understood by the young Christian. But he must also endeavour to understand the word justification and to become familiar with all that the Scriptures teach about it.
2. About justification we must understand:
-That man in himself is totally unrighteous;
-That he cannot be justified by works, that is, pronounced righteous before the judgement seat of the Father;
-That Christ Jesus has brought righteousness for our sake. His obedience is our righteousness;
-That we, through faith, receive Him, are united with Him, and then are pronounced righteous before God;
-That we, through faith, have the certainty of this, and, as justified, draw near to God;
-That union with Jesus is a life by which we are not only pronounced righteous, but are truly righteous and act righteously.
3. Let the certainty of your part in justification, in the full forgiveness of your sins, and full restoration to the love of God, be your confidence in drawing near to God every day.
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Oncolytic Virus Specialist Virttu Biologics Initiates Phase I/II SEPREHVIR™ Study in Mesothelioma
SEPREHVIR (HSV1716), is a variant of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 that has been engineered to kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. CEO Dr Steven Powell commented: "Virttu is pursuing a virocentric development strategy because SEPREHVIR is highly lytic and the mechanism by which the virus gains specificity for tumour cells over normal cells is highly effective. This has been demonstrated in over 75 patients in Phase I/II studies in a number of solid tumour indications including high grade glioma, melanoma and head and neck cancer. Our on-going research programme has demonstrated clinical synergy when SEPREHVIR has been combined with a broadrange of chemotherapeutic agents and we will seek to exploit these synergies in this MPM study and future, planned clinical trials."
This latest study will be a single centre, open label study in two parts. Initially, the first cohort of patients with inoperable malignant pleural mesothelioma will receive a single dose of SEPREHVIR by intrapleural administration via an indwelling catheter into the pleural cavity. Safety data will be reviewed at least 2 weeks post dosing before patients can progress to the second part of the study in which two cohorts of patients will receive either 2 or 4 doses of the virus via the indwelling catheter. The Company expects to report on the study in the second half of 2013.
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) has a long latency (30-60years from occupational exposure) and Virttu estimates that around 9,500 new cases of MPM occur each year in the US and the larger EU member states. Furthermore, the incidence is predicted to continue to rise in more recently industrialized nations, including China and India. MPM survival is influenced by disease stage, patient age and overall health and management is largely palliative and multimodal, combining surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
In addition to MPM, Virttu is pursuing Phase I and Phase II studies in high grade glioma and hepatocellular carcinoma.
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California varietal wine grape growing has become all about clones.
And for good reason. However, according to Mathew Fidelibus, assistant Cooperative Extension viticulture specialist at the University of California Kearney Agricultural Center in Parlier, growers may not be digging deep enough to discover differences.
Fidelibus' research into various clones of traditional cultivated wine grape varieties has yielded some surprising nuances in terms of yield, disease tolerance, fruit composition, and other production and quality characteristics.
"Most of California's wine industry is based on a single species of grape – Vitis vinifera," he says. "Over the years, old cultivars have accumulated many clones due to mistaken identity or mutation or both."
Variation is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact variation within cultivars can help a grower select a clone to better fit a specific growing situation.
"Clone selection is almost untapped in California," Fidelibus surprisingly says. "There are huge differences that occur even within clones that can work to a grower's advantage."
Technically, a clone is defined as a population of vines that are propagated asexually from a single mother vine.
"Nurseries offer many different clones of a given cultivar," Fidelibus says. "They may differ dramatically with respect to yield, yield components, fruit composition, and susceptibility to pests and diseases. Additionally, the performance of a given clone can depend on the climatic region where it is grown."
Clone differentiation
Fidelibus conducted several trials looking at clone differentiation in the San Joaquin Valley. Cultivars included Chardonnay, Merlot and Zinfandel/Primitivo.
In the Chardonnay clone trial Fidelibus evaluated six clones including Clone 4 which is the industry standard. "Chardonnay is the most widely cultivated wine grape in California," he says. "There are more than 70 different registered Chardonnay clones in California. Clone 4 is characterized by high yields and good fruit composition. It has large heavy fruit clusters, but it has a drawback. It is very susceptible to sour rot."
"Clone 4 had good yields and good fruit composition as expected, but it was more susceptible to sour rot at 16 percent than any of the other clones in the trial," he says. "Clone 15 had 10 percent lower yields than Clone 4, but it only had 4 percent incidence of sour rot. That's a big difference if you're growing Chardonnay in an area where sour rot is a problem."
In the second cultivar trial, Fidelibus looked at six Merlot clones. "Merlot is among the most important red wine grapes in California," he says. "Forty-five percent of the state's Merlot yield is grown in the Central Valley. Clone 3 is the standard with consistent set, yield and good fruit composition. However, its performance as compared to other clones had not been tested."
The results of the trial showed that growers might not be optimizing their yields or quality if they go with the industry standard instead of considering their options. "Clone 10 performed best with consistently higher yields of fruit with low pH and high tritratable acids," Fidelibus says. "Clone 11 was undesirable. It had the largest berries, was the most susceptible to rot, and had high pH. Clone 3 performed similar to Clones 1 and 9 but was not superior to Clone 10."
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In the Zinfandel trial, Fidelibus again looked at six different clones including three Primitivo clones. Primitivo is clone of Zinfandel origin and is so closely related Primitivo berries can legally be marketed as Zinfandel.
Zinfandel is characterized, in general, by big berries, large clusters, high fruitfulness and high yields. It is also very susceptible to "sour rot" in warm climates. It often ripens unevenly, and yields typically decline as the season progresses. Additionally, color can be poor, especially in warm climates.
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When World War I began, Hitler was 25 and living in Munich, Germany. The news brought him to his knees with joy,[1] and he enlisted in the German army. He served in the 16th Bavarian Reserve and went through the war with only a few minor injuries, though thousands in his company were killed. Reaching the rank of Corporal, he served as a runner between the command staff and the battlefront, one of the most dangerous jobs in the military. On October 7, 1916, a shell fragment injured Hitler's leg during the Battle of the Somme. Due to his injury, the army transferred him to Munich for light duty. This time away from the front became pivotal in Hitler's future. He disliked the apathetic and anti-war Germans, and he blamed the Jewish community for the people's attitude. He felt the Jews were trying to undermine Germany's success in the war by nurturing pacifist feelings. Hitler disliked Munich so much he requested, and was granted, a position back on the front in March 1917.
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Although Hitler never gained a higher rank than Corporal, as his superiors did not think he would perform well in leadership positions, he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class and four other medals. He served admirably and with un-wavering faith to Germany, but he did not stand out. Hitler's service in World War I did more to shape his future ideas than it did to gain him status or political importance. In his autobiography Mein Kampf, Hitler describes his feelings when Germany surrendered: "There followed terrible days and even worse nights—I knew that all was lost…in these nights hatred grew in me, hatred for those responsible for this deed." The Hitler that emerged from World War I saw many who stood in the way of German victory, which created his hatred and drive to begin his quest. He joined the National Socialist Party after the war, and through it achieved greatness. Through his greatness, he achieved what he thought was revenge on the Jews and other undesirables who held Germany back from ruling the world.
[1] H. Stuart Hughes and James Wilkinson, Contemporary Europe A History (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2004) 220.
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Excellent posting, trs80, and certainly (after one has gotten used to using it) not only a convenience if the project may be spread across multiple developers at some point, but a life-saver when those inadvertant accidents occur. (Or am I the only one who has been bone-headed/fumble-fingered/otherwise unlucky enough to lose entire programs before?)
My only addition would be to mention the book Open Source Development with CVS, by Karl Fogel and Moshe Bar, which seems to be a very excellent resource to add to your list. Portions of it are available online under the GPL at http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/. (I'm only a few chapters into the tree-ware version myself, although I have noticed that that version seems a little more difficult to find recently.)
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