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The shutdown is over! Hurrah!
That means (hopefully) we can move on to some other big news on our Facebook page – like some heroic window washers and high school football, though the government remains a hot topic.
- The hottest topic this week? The possibility of upping the speed limit on some Pennsylvania highways to 70 mph. Here's just a sampling of the comments from that, which totaled 79: Kathleen M Matukaitis-Kelley, "Why would changing make any difference, they drive that already. if not faster." But Others disagreed: Misty Clark, "No. ….I think 65 is fast enough! People drive 75 already with the speed 65 if it's raised to 75 people will go 85 or faster and theres no need to go that fast!!"
- The shutdown ended late Wednesday, but frustration remains for many people: Alicia M. Beachy, "Both sides deserve to not be paid, or get any of their inflated pensions!! This isn't over, they just delayed the inevitable!! They aren't doing their jobs, and have disgraced the American people who voted them into office!!! This time in our history will be known as a failure from both congressional and executive leadership!!!"
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Here's a number I'm pondering as we near Saturday's 138th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum Brands: 30.
The gray longshot won the Kentucky Derby 30 years ago in 1982, a renewal of the Run for the Roses that is important to me because it is the first that I personally witnessed. That came in my first months of working for Louisville radio stations KJ-100 FM (now WDJX) and WCII-AM, which at the time was the home of the legendary Bill Bailey. The Duke of Louisville loved a lot of things, with a good drink with friends and horse racing near the top of the list. I loved talking horses with the Duke, who left us in January at the age of 81.
That Derby 30 years ago was the year I met Julian "Buck†Wheat on the backside at Churchill Downs. As he was to everyone, Buck was kind to a greenhorn radio reporter
working his first Derby and offered a kind smile and a handshake, but never criticism.
Buck, who spent most of 60 years around Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby, died last December at the age of 78. If anything or anyone was close to being dubbed a Third Spire at the home of the venerable Twin Spires, it was Buck. His friends and racing miss him terribly, and many Mint Juleps and other libations will be raised this Derby Day in his honor.
The 1982 Derby was also my first opportunity to meet the great Jim Bolus. America's greatest race has never had a greater, more accurate and more dedicated historian. A longtime reporter for the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, Jim was also the curator of the Kentucky Derby Museum. Bolus passed one week after the 1997 Derby won by Silver Charm, just days after the 54-year-old had proclaimed that race to be one of his favorite Derbys.
Gato Del Sol's surprise win in 1982 was the first of 30 renewals of the Run for the Roses that I have personally witnessed, either as a reporter or a member of the Churchill Downs team, and it will always be special to me.
As I look ahead to – the good Lord willing – witnessing my 31st running of the great race, I do so with a hint of sadness. But my overwhelming feelings are excitement and anticipation. I'm looking forward to this race as much as any Derby I've been blessed to be a part of, and that anticipation has brought to mind over the past few days those friends and many more.
The Duke, Buck and Jim would love this Derby and its field of accomplished horses with records of sustained accomplishment that is rivaled by few Derby fields in recent years. Many of the horses that were stars of the crop in their first racing season at two have gone on to validate the potential and promise displayed in the early months of their careers.
Of the 13 horses that assembled at Churchill Downs for last year's Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile, nine are members of this Kentucky Derby field. Eight of those have won major stakes races since Breeders' Cup Day.
That rarely happens, as many things can happen to knock horses off the road to the Kentucky Derby after promising 2-year-old seasons. But these horses – including the 1-2-3-4-5 finishers in 2-year-old champion Hansen, Union Rags, Creative Cause, Dullahan and Take Charge Indy – have moved forward, matured and competed admirably in the prep races leading up to their return to Churchill Downs. Nine of the 10 have won major stakes races and the tenth finished a flying second in a graded stakes prep race.
You might get three or four Breeders' Cup Juvenile veterans to run back in the Derby in most years, but the total rarely, if ever, approaches double figures.
That group is joined by talented and accomplished newcomers that include Arkansas Derby winner Bodemeister, Santa Anita Derby winner I'll Have Another and Went the Day Well, winner of Turfway Park's Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes.
This field reminds me a bit of that 1997 group that Jim Bolus loved so much. That year's top quartet of Derby finishers – Silver Charm, Captain Bodgit, Free House and Pulpit – was a terrific group of young stars that appeared very evenly matched. Out of that group, Silver Charm came close to winning a Triple Crown with heart-stopping victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness and a disappointing loss to Touch Gold in the final yards of the Belmont Stakes.
This year's field appears as evenly matched, but deeper in consistency and, perhaps, quality. Will one of these horses come up with a significant step forward that separates him from the other members of the class? It's possible, but first we must get through the first, and most difficult, leg of the Triple Crown: Saturday's Kentucky Derby.
Here's one man's look at what could happen, from last-to-first, in Kentucky Derby 138:
20. El Padrino
His final prep in the Florida Derby, which came on the heels of an impressive allowance run, was listless. He'll need much better to crack the top half of the field.
19. Liason
Trainer Bob Baffert said he disliked the Santa Anita track over the winter, but likes Churchill Downs much better. He might like this course, but the guess here is he won't care much for his rivals.
18. Trinniberg
This talented sprinter should be on the lead and carry this field a long way, but it's tough to imagine him having much left in the final quarter.
17. Daddy Long Legs
Led throughout in winning Dubai's UAE Derby on a synthetic surface, but didn't like dirt in his face in a next-to-last finish in the Breeders' Cup last fall.
16. Gemologist
He's unbeaten, a perfect two-for-two on this course and coming off a good win in the Wood Memorial. But the Derby is a different game.
15. Alpha
His troubled runner-up finish in the Wood was good, but several days of missed training after that race could take a toll.
14. I'll Have Another
He was terrific over the winter in California and is a very good horse, but a lot of good horses will find life to be very tough in the long Churchill Downs homestretch.
13. Bodemeister
He's got great speed figures, a three-time Derby-winning trainer and has worked beautifully over this track. But he figures to be part of a strong pace and could be forced to move earlier than hoped to deal with the fast sprinter Trinniberg, leaving little gas in the tank for the run through the final quarter-mile.
12. Done Talking
He won't get much respect off a slow win in the Illinois Derby, but he's a solid closer that will be passing tired horses in the stretch.
11. Sabercat
He's been training very well for trainer Steve Asmussen, but appeared to get little out of the first of two races this year. A mid-pack finish in this Derby might look pretty good in a few months.
10. Optimizer
D. Wayne Lukas' latest Derby hope got into the field very late and figures to have a similar finish. He has a solid late run and will benefit from a strong pace.
9. Hansen
Another quality horse with a front-running style that figures to be a disadvantage. The seemingly inevitable speed showdown between Hansen, Bodemeister and Trinniberg does not figure to benefit any member of the trio.
8. Dullahan
Half-brother to Mine That Bird, longshot winner of the 2009 Derby, should be doing his best running late for Louisville-born trainer Dale Romans.
7. Rousing Sermon
Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer has never won the Derby, but any horse he brings East from California should not be underestimated. The price will be right on this guy on Derby Day.
6. Went the Day Well
He might not be his stablemate Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Derby winner, but we won't know for sure until Derby Day. He will add blinkers for the Derby and it's never comforting to see an equipment change in a race of this magnitude, but his only work over this track for trainer Graham Motion was very good.
5. Daddy Nose Best
Likely to be an attractive longshot in the Derby as his training has touted him as a horse that is ready to run a big one. Trainer Asmussen is about due for a Derby win after a runner-up finish with Nehro last year.
4. Take Charge Indy
Trained by British-born Churchill veteran Patrick and ridden by Calvin Borel, who will seek a stalking trip behind the leaders and the jump on the closers. For reference, look to his winning ride on Super Saver in 2010.
3. Prospective
He is unproven against this level of competition, but he was one of the first Derby arrivals at Churchill Downs and has trained beautifully for trainer Mark Casse. Look for a big run at enormous odds.
2. Creative Cause
Veteran trainer Mike Harrington's Giant's Causeway colt has been a little erratic while running through the stretch this year, but never runs a bad one. If he finally puts it together today, look out.
1. Union Rags
The guess here is that trainer Michael Matz's star will be a narrow favorite at post time, despite a disappointing loss in the Florida Derby. He has displayed tremendous physical development since his runner-up finish in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and, with just a little bit of luck could be unbeaten coming into this race. Jockey Julien Leparoux bids farewell as full-timer in the Churchill Downs jockey's colony in this one to pursue casino-fed purses in New York, and his fans would welcome the French-born rider's first Derby win. It's time for a member of this impressive and accomplished group of 3-year-olds to step forward and grab the top spot among those horses. Union Rags has the talent and the versatility to do it – and he could go on to do much more in the weeks to come.
John Asher's Prediction:
Union Rags will wear the roses in Derby 138.
Photos by AMBER CHALFIN | Contributing Photographer

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Steve teaches in the B.F.A. Theatrical Production Arts program and serves as the Associate Chair for the Department of Theatre at Ithaca College. Courses include Theatrical Design Foundations, Theatrical Design I: Lighting, Theatrical Design II: Lighting, Computer-Aided Design, Vectorworks, Script Analysis, and Capstone Projects in Lighting Design. Beyond teaching, Steve maintains an active freelance design career. His work includes designs for The Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, TX), The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO), The Gulfshore Playhouse (Naples, FL), Orlando Shakespeare Theatre (Orlando, FL), Syracuse Stage (Syracuse, NY), Tri-Cities Opera (Binghamton, NY), Syracuse Opera (Syracuse, NY),Tacoma Opera (Tacoma, WA), Minnesota Opera (Minneapolis MN), Florida Grand Opera (Miami, FL), Mill City Summer Opera (Minneapolis MN), Anchorage Opera (Anchorage, AK), Madison Opera (Madison, WI), Merry Go Round Playhouse (Auburn, NY), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (Center Valley, PA), Kitchen Theatre (Ithaca, NY), The Hangar Theatre (Ithaca, NY), Pacific Performance Project (Seattle, WA), Big Art Group (New York City), The Actors Company Theatre (New York City), Santa Barbara Dance Theatre (Santa Barbara, CA), and Ensemble Theatre Company (Santa Barbara, CA). Project in live events for The Herson Group LTD. (Penn Yan, NY) include clients such as Princeton University, Northwestern University, Cornell University, Texas A&M, University of Tennessee, The Lawrenceville School, Binghamton University, and The College at Brockport. Project in architectural lighting for Gallegos Architectural Lighting Design Design (San Francisco Bay Area & Los Angeles, CA) include Lego Retail Stores in Anaheim and Chicago, San Diego Zoo Stores, Mississippi River Discovery Center, Warner Brother Movie World in Spain and several high end residential projects. Steve received his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his M.F.A. from the University of Washington School of Drama and is a member of United Scenic Artists local 829.


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10.6.2.3 Weather typing
This synoptic downscaling approach relates "weather classes" to local and regional climate variations. The weather classes may be defined synoptically or fitted specifically for downscaling purposes by constructing indices of airflow (Conway et al., 1996). The frequency distributions of local or regional climate are then derived by weighting the local climate states with the relative frequencies of the weather classes. Climate change is then estimated by determining the change of the frequency of weather classes. However, typing procedures contain a potentially critical weakness in assuming that the characteristics of the weather classes do not change.
In many cases, the local and regional climate states are derived by sampling the observational record. For example, Wanner et al. (1997) and Widmann and Schär (1997) used changing global to continental scale synoptic structures to understand and reconstruct Alpine climate variations. The technique was applied similarly for New Zealand (Kidson and Watterson, 1995) and to a study of changing air pollution mechanisms (Jones and Davies, 2000).
An extreme form of weather typing is the analogue method (Zorita et al., 1995). A similar concept, although mathematically more demanding, is Classification And Tree Analysis (CART) which uses a randomised design for picking regional distributions (Hughes et al., 1993; Lettenmaier, 1995). Both analogue and CART approaches returnapproximately the right level of variance and correct spatial correlation structures.
Weather typing is also used in statistical-dynamical downscaling (SDD), a hybrid approach with dynamical elements (Frey-Buness et al., 1995 and see references in Appendix 10.4). GCM results of a multi-year climate period are disaggregated into non-overlapping multi-day episodes of quasi-stationary large-scale flow patterns. Similar episodes are then grouped in classes of different weather types, and, members of these classes are simulated with an RCM. The RCM results are statistically evaluated, and the frequency of occurrence of the respective classes determines their statistical weight. An advantage of the SDD technique over other empirical downscaling techniques is that it specifies a complete three-dimensional climate state. The advantage over continuous RCM simulations is the reduction in computing time, as demonstrated in Figure 10.17.10.6.3 Issues in Statistical Downscaling
10.6.3.1 Temporal variance
Transfer function approaches and some weather typing methods suffer from an under prediction of temporal variability, as this is related only in part to the large-scale climate variations (see Katz and Parlange, 1996). Two approaches have been used to restore the level of variability: inflation and randomisation. In the inflation approach the variation is increased by the multiplication of a suitable factor (Karl et al., 1990). A more sophisticated version is "expanded downscaling", a variant of Canonical Correlation Analysis that ensures the right level of variability (Bürger, 1996; Huth, 1999; Dehn et al., 2000). In the randomisation approachs, the unrepresented variability is added as noise, possibly conditioned on synoptic state (Buma and Dehn, 1998; Dehn and Buma 1999; Hewitson, 1999; von Storch, 1999b).
Often weather generators have difficulty in representing low frequency variance, and conditioning the generator parameters on the large-scale state may alleviate this problem (see Katz and Parlange, 1996; Wilby, 1998; Charles et al., 1999a). For example, Katz and Parlange (1993, 1996) modelled daily time-series of precipitation as a chain-dependent process, conditioned on a discrete circulation index. The results demonstrated that the mean and standard deviation of intensity and the probability of precipitation varied significantly with the circulation, and reproduced the precipitation variance statistics of the observations better than the unconditioned model. The method describes the mean precipitation as a linear function of the circulation state, and the standard deviation as a non-linear function (Figure 10.18).
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Stephen Pelc is managing director of MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd. He can be contacted at www.mpeforth.com
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. --Jerry Avins
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming (or buying software) on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess. --Ted Nelson
We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer -- and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply. --Tom Van Vleck
There is increasing realisation that there are no magic bullets for software development. Interactive languages returned to fashion in the web developer world, which also saw a return to multi-language programming -- use each language for what it's good at. I'm going to look at one of these interactive languages, Forth, and show what people are doing with it, and why it's a powerful tool.
Modern Forth systems are not like their ancestors. The introduction of the ANS/ISO Forth standard in 1994 separated implementation from the language. One result was a proliferation of native-code compiling systems that preserved the traditional Forth interactivity while providing the performance of batch-compiled languages. It is the combination of performance and interactivity that makes modern Forth systems so attractive.
What is Forth?
Forth is a member of the class of interactive extensible languages. Interactive means that you can type a command at any time and it will be executed. Extensible means that there's no difference between functions, procedures and subroutines (called "words" in Forth parlance) that you defined and the ones that the system provides. Forth is an untyped language whose primary data item is a cell. A cell is the size of an item on the stacks, normally 16, 32, or 64 bits.
Underlying all languages, there's an execution model or virtual machine (VM). C and the other languages have one and so does Forth. Forth is rare among languages in exposing the VM to the programmer. The VM consists of a CPU, two stacks, and main memory; see Figure 1. The stacks are conceptually not part of main memory. When I refer to "the stack" I mean the data stack.
The two stacks are called the data stack and the return stack. The data stack holds arguments to words, return values, and transient data. The return stack holds return addresses and can also be used for temporary storage. There are several consequences of having two stacks, the most important of which are:
- return addresses do not get in the way of the data stack, so words can return any number of results.
- Items on the stack do not have names -- they are anonymous.
Because items on the stack are anonymous, you sometimes have indulge in stack juggling using words like DUP and SWAP to manipulate the stack. In the spirit of the marketing principle "advertise your worst feature", the anonymous stack leads, in part, to Forth's well-deserved reputation for small applications. Because stack juggling requires thought, you improve productivity by reducing thought. Many small words reduce the thought required by splitting the job into manageable chunks. A side effect of this is that you reuse code at a much finer grain in Forth culture than in most others. The ease of code reuse at this level leads to small applications. Factoring at this level means that access to many performance-critcal routines is through small well-defined interfaces. A consequence is that you can make major changes easily. For example, an embedded system can move from EEPROM data storage to a file system very quickly. Forth is a very agile language.
For those who are unfamiliar with Forth, the Forth text interpreter is a little odd. It deals with whitespace delimited tokens. These tokens are looked up in a dictionary. If found they are either executed or compiled. If a token is not found, its is considered to be a number. If number conversion fails, an error occurs. That's all! A consequence of this is that a valid Forth word name can contain any non-whitespace characters. Because there's a lot of interactive testing, many commonly used words are short. The common strange-looking ones are @ (fetch), ! (store) and . (integer print). The collection of word names is called the "dictionary," which can be split into vocabularies (namespaces). For more about the Forth interpreter, see JForth: Implementing Forth in Java by Craig A. Lindley.
Some modern Forth implementations include:
I don't have the space to teach you Forth, and I've referenced a few tutorials at the end of this article. I have also referenced a few modern Forths that can be freely downloaded.


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You're damn right I'm still ticked at an 18-year-old kid for ditching us for CBS. To that end, here's an amusing Facebook discussion on Bo and Sara's relationship status, featuring a cameo from Sara herself.
And while I'm taking needless shots at a teenager, you're from a suburb of goddamned Fort Worth. You should be a Rangers fan. Why do you have Astros gear?


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Celebrities Tweet L.A. Earthquake Reactions
Talk about getting rattled all over again!
Just weeks after a 4.4 magnitude hit the Southern California area earlier this month, a stronger 5.1 magnitude earthquake ratted Los Angeles last night and some celebrities -- including Lucy Hale and Ariana Grande -- took to Twitter to express their shock.
'Pretty Little Liars' star Lucy Hale took the time to express a little humor about the situation.
Ariana Grande seemed to want to recreate the experience as best as possible for her Twitter followers.
'GLEE' star Chord Overstreet also felt the need to tell everyone what was going on...
...as did Mandy Moore.
Overstreet's 'GLEE' co-star Amber Riley was perfectly content with not experiencing the quake.
Actress Camilla Belle (and former girlfriend to Joe Jonas) seemed slightly rattled by what took place.
And finally, 'Little Miss Sunshine' actress Abigail Breslin refused to contribute to the Twitter conversation. Well, sort of.
After the earthquake, almost two dozen light aftershocks were recorded in the area as well. While some damage was reported, so far authorities have not received any major injury reports related to the quake.
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The Los Angeles Kings went through their first 44 years in the NHL without a Stanley Cup championship, but with a title in 2012 in hand, they will be looking to add another ring to their collection as they take on the New York Rangers in the Stanley Cup Final.
The series, which begins on Wednesday afternoon at Staples Center, will feature two teams that have taken interesting routes to this round of the postseason. The Kings have won three Game 7s on the road during these playoffs, and ended up dethroning the defending champion Chicago Blackhawks in the Western Conference Final. They also came back from a 3-0 series deficit against the San Jose Sharks in the first round, and they added some flair to their run by knocking off the Anaheim Ducks in the first ever Freeway Face-Off in postseason play.
As for the Rangers, they too have taken a unique route to their first Cup Final appearance in 20 years. They knocked off the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round of the postseason, winning a Game 7 on home ice to do it, and they stunned the Pittsburgh Penguins in a seven-game upset in the second round. They got some luck against the Montreal Canadiens when the Habs lost goaltender Carey Price for the series, but they still looked really solid as their offense churned into high gear in a 4-2 series victory.
If fans were to read just about any preview of this series, they would see that the Kings are largely favored by experts to win the championship. The Western Conference is the superior conference in the NHL at the moment, and watching the difference between Kings/Blackhawks and Canadiens/Rangers was a night and day experience. Add to that the gobs of experience that this team has in tough situations during this postseason, and it's easy to see why the Kings are so heavily favored to win the title.
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Despite that kind of optimism, there are still plenty of reasons for Kings fans to fear the Rangers. First and foremost on that list are the star players that New York brings to the table. Whether it's established veterans like Brad Richards and Martin St. Louis or youngsters like Ryan McDonagh and Chris Kreider, the Rangers have gotten contributions from just about everywhere in their lineup so far during the postseason, and they showed little sign of slowing down in the Cup Final.
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The Rangers are also blessed with tremendous goaltending, as Henrik Lundqvist has been at the top of his game during the postseason. The Swedish-born netminder has a GAA of 2.03 in the postseason thus far, and he also has a .928 save percentage. With those numbers in mind, and knowing that Jonathan Quick looked pedestrian at times against the Blackhaws, it's not a stretch to think that if the series comes down to a battle of goaltenders, the Rangers may have an edge.
All of that being said, this series will still be the Kings' to lose. For the first time in the playoffs they will have the benefit of home ice advantage, and they will get plenty of time to rest before they get the series going on Wednesday. With those two things in mind, and with all of the other weapons and strategies they have at their disposal, the team is poised to make some history and to stake their claim as the best squad in the city.


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Friday, September 10, 2010, 22:34 - Jokes and anecdotesIn his Essay on Duties, Marcus Tullius Cicero tells a story about Cato the Elder.
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One day Cato was asked, what is the most profitable aspect of property ownership? Cato answered, "Raising livestock with great success." He was then asked about the second most profitable aspect of ownership. "Raising livestock with some success," he answered. And what about the third most profitable aspect? "Raising livestock with little success." And the fourth? "Raising crops." Then his questioner asked, "What about money-lending?" Cato replied, "What about murder?"
Via McKeown's "A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire". Certainly heard this anecdote several times before, but like it nonetheless.


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by Tom Utescher
For area crews, last Sunday's Philadelphia City Championships was the first of the season's major medal races, and medals there were, for rowers from Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, Penn Charter, and Germantown Friends School.
Two quads won gold medals in the novice category, the boys of SCH and the girls of Germantown Friends. Silver medals went to the SCH boys' JV double and to a pair of Penn Charter boys' boats, the varsity double and the novice gig/single.
Taking home bronze medallions were Charter's girls' varsity double, a girls' lightweight double and novice quad from Springside Chestnut Hill, and the boys' varsity single for GFS. In addition, four other boats from SCH and one from PC raced in the finals.
Many of the local boats entered had to race in qualifying head races during the morning, needing to finish among the top six – purely on time – in order to advance to the finals in the afternoon. However, a number of vessels from area schools found themselves in categories with relatively few entries, they went straight into the final round without a morning workout.
The first girls quad ever to compete for Germantown Friends wrote a happy ending to its Cinderella story. There was no preliminary round for these novice scullers; they went straight to the finals and straight to the finish line ten seconds ahead of their closest rivals. Checking in at six minutes, 6.61 seconds, they arrived ahead of Sacred Heart (6:16.36) and the bronze medalists from Springside Chestnut Hill (6:21.64).
The SCH boys novice quad did have to race in the morning, coming in second out of eight entries about three-and-a-half seconds behind the fastest qualifier, Roman Catholic. The Blue Devils would battle this same boat side-by-side in the finals, and this time they won, hitting the line in 5:08.59 while Roman was runner-up in 5:09.12. There was a healthy gap between these two and bronze medalist Haverford School (5:24.30).
The JV double for SCH, a success all season long, was second in the qualifying in a large field of 19 entries. Here, they were seven seconds off the pace of St. Joseph's Prep, and in the finals the Devils closed the gap a bit, with Prep winning in 5:12.60 and the Devils digging up silver in 5:17.72, with the third finisher another five seconds back.
In the qualifying for this event, PC's JV double missed the cut for the finals by two-tenths of a second, and one spot (and fourth-tenths) behind in eighth place was a twosome from Germantown Friends.
The occupants of last season's excellent boys' JV double for Penn Charter are now racing in the varsity class this spring. At Cities, they were second to New Jersey's Ridgewood High School in both the qualifying and the finals. Ridgewood won in 5:00.38, the Quakers claimed the silver medal in 5:04.81, and four seconds behind them was another Jersey boat, from Don Bosco Prep.
PC's girls varsity double (also descended from a championship JV double in 2012) improved its standing from fifth of 15 entries in the qualifying to bronze medalists in the finals. Gold went to Germantown Academy's Kate Horvat and Alex Takei in 5:40.66, while Ridgewood again interfered with PC's plans, coming in second (5:41.67) while the Quakers captured the last medal in 5:50.85.
That was a battle in itself, as the Charter duo fought down to the wire to beat out fourth-place Conestoga High School, which was timed just one-tenth of a second slower.
Ridgewood also proved a spoiler in the boys varsity single, winning the gold medal in 5:25.38, while Germantown Academy's Eric Blood (5:28.45) struck sliver and Germantown Friends' Andrew Bair got the bronze (5:40.84), nine seconds ahead of the fourth finisher. Both Blood and Bair are seniors, and Bair was the only GFS rower on the river when he started out in 2010.
In another singles event, Penn Charter sophomore Jeremy McDavid qualified second of 11 entries in the novice class, then followed through with a silver medal performance (6:28.79) behind the champion from Upper Dublin High School. In the final, McDavid fought off a Wissahickon High rival who was a close third in 6:29.04.
Going straight to the final race in the girls lightweight double without a qualifier, Springside Chestnut Hill encountered a familiar nemesis for local boats, Ridgewood. The Garden State girls won in 5:45.43, Haddon Township was second in 5:57.12, while the Blue Devils still took home some hardware, winning bronze in 6:00.67. In an exciting finish, the SCH girls didn't actually thrust themselves ahead of number four Conestoga (6:01.41) until there were only about 25 meters to go. Behind 'Stoga were Sacred Heart and an entry from Penn Charter, which came in sixth.
Another straight-to-finals category was the girls novice four, and SCH went along on this trip. The Blue Devils placed fourth, posting a time of 6:16.83 to top rivals from Shipley School and GA. Bonner/Prendergast won convincingly in 6:00.41.
SCH boats which had to qualify in the morning, and did, included the girls' varsity quad (fourth of eight), the girls' freshman quad (third of 10), and the girls' freshman/novice double.
In the varsity quad, gold and silver went to Conestoga (5:17.48) and Sacred Heart, while SCH placed fourth (5:44.48) between two fellow Inter-Ac League schools, Episcopal and Notre Dame. The Blue Devils were also fourth in the double, netting a time of 6:13.89 while Inter-Ac member Baldwin School snapped up the gold medal in 6:01.30.
Conestoga won the freshman quad final in 5:40.93, and Springside Chestnut Hill was fifth in 6:08.32.
The boys' JV single fell short of qualifying by one place and seven seconds, and other Blue Devil boats that missed the cut-off were the boys' JV quad and JV four, and the girls' varsity double. The same held true for five entries from Penn Charter, the boys' JV and varsity quads, and the girls' varsity four and girls' JV and freshman quads.
Crew Line-ups
Girls Novice Quad – Tessa Curry, Sophie Bartholomew, Addie McKenzie, Becca Genyk
Boys Ltwt. Double – Ethan Genyk, Greg Goldstein
Boys Varsity Single – Andrew Bair
SCH Boys (stroke to bow)
Novice Quad – Riley Bakes, Zach Cohen, Ryan Torie, Callum Brazier
JV Single – Thomas Andrews
JV Double – Matt Miller, James Meadows
JV Four – Andrea Dragani, Will Elliott, Joseph Mulhern, Larry Wargo, Mark Mulhern (cox)
JV Quad – Oh Cheung, John Funchion, Kit Cheung, Mark Huffman
Ltwt. Quad – Jimmy Klauder, Rayan Bousso, Will Tasman, Jordan Wang
Varsity Quad – Jaime MacEachern, Graham Ervin, Alec Horter, Seth Bakes
SCH Girls (stroke to bow)
Freshman/Novice Double – Lisa Burckhardt, Karley Kochenour
Novice Four – Lauren McCormack, Lexi Smilow, Allison Day, Ellery Crandall, Jill Silverman (cox)
Novice Quad – Alexa Schwartz, Jenna Yorko, Samira Baird, Melanie Bender
Freshman Quad – Aakanksha Sharma, Maddi Bell, Carly Plotkin, Cara Stapleton
Ltwt. Double – Maddie Canning, Alana Noble
Varsity Double – Devon McAllister, Marguerite Zabriskie
Varsity Quad – Anna Rose Bedrosian, Liz McClafferty, Chelsea Richardson, Mia Gold
Penn Charter Boys (stroke to bow)
Gig/Novice 1 – Jeremy McDavid
JV Double – Peter Ciaocchi, Chad Coursen
JV Quad – Ethan Ashley, Ethan Grugan, Jimmy Paolini, Conor Foley
Varsity Double – Kevin Kelly, Spencer Grant
Varsity Quad – Sam Jolinger, Ed Point, Erich Riedlmeier, Stanton Young
Penn Charter Girls (stroke to bow)
Freshman Quad – Gina Kim, Jay Dunmore, Rachel Gordon, Jean Gleason
JV Quad – Celina McCall, Hannah Kramer, Rachel Gordon, Isa Djerassi
Ltwt. Double – Liza Gendler, Sabrina Pogrebivsky
Varsity Double – Heidi Zisselman, Maria Georgiou
Varsity Four – Katie O'Malley, Maddie Perlmutter, Claudia Stedman, Tara Malone, Jack Delaney (cox)


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The Computational Intelligence Group of the Faculty of Informatics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in northern Spain have carried out research work in a number of different fields. Ivan Villaverde, a PhD candidate and member of this group, has taken advantage of this multimodality. He used algorithms usually used for for research on the analysis of hyperspectral images and applied them to mobile robots. With this application, the aim is for the robots to enhance their capacity for spatial orientation and their resources for detecting their surroundings -- visual navigation.
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Villaverde worked with two types of basic sensors incorporated into mobile robots in order to improve their system of navigation: optic cameras and 3D cameras for range detection. These are the "eyes" of the robot. Villaverde focused on three questions for these "eyes" to see correctly: the location of the robot itself, the capacity of the robot to detect its own movements (being able to fix where it is without access to external information), and the capacity to build a map (distances, obstacles, and so on) of surroundings previously unknown to it.
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Those involved in "Patriot" groups often tout their main goal as protecting Americans and their freedoms, but a new terrorist plot by three Georgia "patriots" has brought the danger of militia groups back into the national spotlight. The three men, who were arrested on Feb. 15, planned on purchasing explosive devices to attack government infrastructure. Fortunately, those plotting the terrorist attack proved to be less than intelligent, and this ultimately led to their capture.
"Patriot" Terrorist Plots Not New to Georgia
The three men, residing in north Georgia at the time, saw their malicious plans fall apart when they set up a meeting to purchase pipe bombs and thermite grenades… from a confidential source in the law enforcement community. The men thought it would be prudent to speak of attacking government buildings in an online chat room, and when law enforcement realized they were serious and were ready to purchase dangerous weapons, they made the arrest. It seems, though, that the Peach State isn't running low on right-wing extremist "patriots" engaged in terrorist plots
In another recent case, a woman, also out of north Georgia, plead guilty to criminal explosives charges after police found pipe bombs and firearms in her possession. The prosecutor in the case wanted her to face three years in prison since she had previous experiences with law enforcement and made online anti-government postings. For some reason, however, the ingenious judge only gave her probation.
Of course, who can forget the oh-so-exciting Georgia militia terrorist plot of 2011? Four men were arrested for planning to attack government officials with explosives and ricin. They even had plans of blanketing Washington, D.C. with ricin from a plane overhead. Can you guess where these four gentlemen were from? You got it: north Georgia.
Not all plots are caught in time.
The aforementioned cases may make it seem as if all militia group terrorist plots are quickly caught, and due to their propensity to make these plans with confidential law enforcement informants, it would be a valid assumption. Sadly, it wouldn't be an accurate one. One tragic example, again out of Georgia, occurred when three members of the Georgia militia Forever Enduring Always Ready (FEAR) murdered a 19-year-old former soldier and his 17-year-old girlfriend in an effort to conceal their terrorist plans. These plans included a variety of attacks ranging from destroying dams to assassinating President Obama.
Georgia, of course, isn't the only place self-proclaimed "patriots" exist and plan right-wing terrorist plots. Timothy McVeigh, the executed terrorist who bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building, was a militia group sympathizer. Eric Rudolph, the man who bombed the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta, is said to have been harbored by militia groups while on the run. Jim Adkisson, the man who murdered two congregants in the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church in 2008, left a manifesto saying he wanted to kill liberals and Democrats. The perpetrator of the 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting, which resulted in the death of a TSA agent, had a note on him which proclaimed that he was a "patriot."
To tell you the truth, as a liberal, I'm now much more fearful of "patriot" terrorist attacks than I am of those stemming from extremist Islam.
The dangerous rise of militia groups in America.
Unfortunately, there's really no sign that attacks and terrorist plots from these dangerous extremist right-wing militia groups will soon subside. In fact, there were 1,360 anti-government and radical militia groups identified in the United States in 2012. In 2008, there were only 149 of these groups identified. That's an increase of eightfold. I do wonder what could have happened in 2009 that led to so many more anti-government groups. A black president was elected, but that couldn't have anything to do with it. Right?
It's a dangerous world that we live in, and it gets even more dangerous when we look at extremism and don't call it out for what it is. Every time we ignore an individual saying that our president should be killed or claiming that they're part of a "patriot" group, we run the risk of innocent lives being lost. "Patriot" militia groups, terrorism, and terrorism plots in America aren't anything new, but with the consistent increase in these groups' numbers, it's likely only a matter of time before everyone knows someone touched by one of these anti-government plots.


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CVS tagged KDE_2_0_RELEASE
Matthias Elter, the KDE 2.0 release coordinator, has officially announced that KDE has been tagged for the 2.0 release in CVS! Things are moving on schedule for an Oct. 16 release date. Matthias noted that the KDE 2.0 release will be based on the forthcoming QtTM-2.2.1. Got my compiler all ready and rearin' to go!
Please O please O please don't
rush on anyone's account. Stick to your guns and do it right! You all remember what happened to Gnome 1.0 dispite its higher political and "mindshare" standing. They still have not completely lived it down. If KDE does the same thing, then trust me, the critics will make even more noise.
I am sure the developers know all of this already but I don't want to see KDE lose any more mindshare. If it takes another month or more to really justify the 2.0 version number, then take it. A few extra weeks won't hurt anyone.
Of course, if things are really as they should be then that's absolutely wonderful! I look forward to the release.
By Samawi at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: Please O please O please don't
They could wait forever, and things would get better, but nobody wants to do that. The fact is KDE 2 is way overdue, and it's now decently stable to ship.
Don't get me wrong, KDE 2, has it's share of problems and missing features, that could be fixed in a few months. But why delay the whole release over some silly problems? In general KDE 2 is quite good right now, and I believe it comes a time, that they have to say, time to ship it.
Yes, nobody is saying KDE 2 is perfect. I could name several area of KDE 2 that could use work. First, Konqueror is far from perfect, I wouldn't use it for day to day browsing, but for basic stuff it's okay. Konqueror not being perfect isn't a showstopper really, as people can always use other browser (like Netscape which I am currently using). Second, KDE 2 lacks a theme manager kcm ala KDE 1.1.2, that makes installing themes easy. And lets' not forget that there is no kcm for changing the window manager border yet.
Most of those minor problems, will probably be fixed in KDE 2.1. That's fine with me, I think the most important thing is to get a solid release out the door, and just work around the minor kinks, and get them patched up in future versions.
By AArthur at Wed, 2000/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: Please O please O please don't
hey! konqueror is vary good for browsing the web. It has java support added to it so the web experiance is vastly better than kfm and in my oppinion it looks far better than netscape. the only thing they do need to do to it is to embed the kmail client and the news group reader into it so then we can have a full and robust one-stop interface for all our computing needs. and if they do that netscape will surely die.
By JDP at Fri, 2000/10/06 - 5:00am
Mandrake RPMs
I see cooker (Mandrake-devel distro) has new KDE2 RPMs as of today. They've called them "1.99" (Mandrake 7.2 is right around the corner, and will ship with a pre-final KDE2, sadly). If you run Mandrake, now is the time to test KDE2 and report any serious bugs.
By Haakon Nilsen at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
I've downloaded and installed those "1.99" RPMs, and I'm experiencing many of the same problems and bugs as I was before. (Java doesn't work well, cursors disappear mysteriously, etc.) None of them are really showstoppers (except for the fact that KPackage utterly fails to work), but taken together, they really detract from KDE2 (which is otherwise great!). If it were my decision, I'd certainly wait a couple more weeks. Are other people having problems with bugs like me? Or did I install KDE wrong or something (I hope)? Please post your experiences if you've upgraded to the newest version of KDE2.
By james at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Re: uh-oh
I built the latest (1.94) version from sources on FreeBSD 3.4 and I had a lot of problem with it.
PS. Sorry for my terrible english :)
By Lev V. CHIRIN at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Re: uh-oh
There is something wrong with your installation.
By jannek at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Re: uh-oh
Did you follow instalation instructions for FreeBSD?
I run following command to configure (on /bin/sh) :
CXXFLAGS='-O3 -fno-exceptions' \ LDFLAGS='-Wl,-export-dynamic' ./configure ... (other options)
Konqy never crashes for me ;-)
By fura at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Re: uh-oh
Of course I've missed those instructions! :)
Thank you!
By Lev V. CHIRIN at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Re: uh-oh
I've had similar experiences with the beta5
Java doesn't work too well and javascript still
Kppp, kghostview, kpackage and knotes I find are
Overall however, I feel it's time KDE2 gets
By Bernard Parent at Tue, 2000/10/03 - 5:00am
Looks like they may not be rushing things too much
"We might delay the release for a RC2 in case any serious problems to be found that can't be fixed until Monday 09/10. In this case the schedule will be delayed for another week."
It looks like they've got somewhat of a safety net with the RC2. Good.
Wonder what they consider a showstopper, though? Does it have to be a bug that makes things crash, or does a really dumb misfeature like the "Type:" field in kmenuedit count?
By J. J. Ramsey at Mon, 2000/10/02 - 5:00am
Re: CVS tagged KDE_2_0_RELEASE
Anyone know of tarball releases? I've looked and been unable to find. Maybe I'm just lazy.
By Wreck at Wed, 2000/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: CVS tagged KDE_2_0_RELEASE
wow, sorry for the doublepost/wasted posts. I'm not european.. "RC1 tarballs on 9/10" to me, meant "September 9th." I'm such a silly american.
By Wreck at Wed, 2000/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: CVS tagged KDE_2_0_RELEASE
You certainly are a silly American if you can somehow get September 9th out of 9/10 ;)
By matt at Tue, 2000/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: CVS tagged KDE_2_0_RELEASE
er, Sept 10th. or something. i need sleep. fasljkdaskldjflaksdjfasdfjks.
By Wreck at Tue, 2000/10/10 - 5:00am
Re: CVS tagged KDE_2_0_RELEASE
Over on the KDE User mailing list, at http://lists.kde.org/?t=97047438100002&w=2&r=1
By Paul C. Leopardi at Thu, 2000/10/05 - 5:00am
Re: CVS tagged KDE_2_0_RELEASE
1) If can coexist with the older versions of kdelibs and qt, although ideally it's meant to replace it.
2) It could be up to the distros own preferences, but I think most will allow qt 1.x and kdelibs 1.x to be installed on a system also with qt 2.x, kdelibs 2.x and the rest of KDE 2.
3) No. In most cases it will require updated versions of these apps, as many of the library calls have changed. That said, most KDE 1.x apps will run perfectly under KDE 2 (looking and acting like KDE 1.x apps).
4) Assuming you leave KDE 1.1.2 libs and Qt 1.4.5 installed, when installing KDE 2.0, your KDE 1.1.2 apps will continue to run fine. As said above, they won't get any of the benfits of KDE 2 (such as widget themeing), but most should run with no problems.
By AArthur at Thu, 2000/10/05 - 5:00am
Re: CVS tagged KDE_2_0_RELEASE
There seem to be a number of differences of opinion on how to install KDE 2.0 on different distributions. I would dare to go as far as to call this "confusion."
I would dearly like each packager for each distribution to spell out clearly and simply:
An example of the variation in installations follows. I doubt that the following is what the SuSE packager intends all SuSE users to do, since it would mean that the on the next upgrade of SuSE the installation of KDE RPMs would probably break. Yet at this point I just don't know, because the documentation I want, need and am asking for is still missing:
Eugene Tyurin
To: Paul C. [email protected] Consulting, [email protected]
I am not a SuSE employee, but I've installed KDE 2.0FinalBeta on my 6.4
1) Your old KDE 1.x is in /opt/kde - move the directory to /opt/kde1.
2) Edit /opt/kde2/bin/startkde to adjust KDE1 directory structure to
3) Now you can edit /opt/kde2/share/config/kdmrc to your heart's
4) Welcome to the working KDE2 setup where all of your KDE1 applications
By Paul C. Leopardi at Fri, 2000/10/06 - 5:00am
Re: CVS tagged KDE_2_0_RELEASE
Knapster 0.9 for 1.1.2 runs well with my KDE 2.0 RC1,
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Over the weekend I found myself with more strawberries than I knew what to do with. They were at the point of ripeness where my choices were either use them in the next day or two, or toss 'em. I made smoothies, daiquiris, and even strawberry risotto, but I still had a few stray berries left.
Instead of going the shortcake route I decided to incorporate them into this Strawberry Salad from Recipes from an Italian Summer. It's an easy to prepare summer salad that combines ripe strawberries with bitter greens and sweet-tart balsamic vinegar. My tastes run on the more bitter side of things so I opted for puntarelle (a type of bitter Roman chicory) in addition to the arugula, resulting in an incre. I loved the bracingly bitter puntarelle mixed with the sweetness of the berries and the slight acidity of the vinegar. As the summer progresses various types of berries or even stone fruit can be subbed in to this sweet-sour-bitter summer salad.
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A new book co-written by two veteran development experts Andrew Mushita and Carol Thompson titled: 'Biopiracy of Biodiversity –Global Exchange As Enclosure' is a path breaking work on one of the most important issues in the near future.
The work by Mushita, a director of the Community Technology Development Trust and Thompson, a professor at Northern Arizona University in the US is a timely and critically important contribution that examines biopiracy in Africa, indigenous knowledge systems, biodiversity and international instruments on trade and intellectual property rights.
This book which will be launched this month also discusses sustainable farming, the limitations, successes and dangers of industrial agriculture, US trade relations in Africa, the land issue, food security and international instruments on seed and the need to preserve biodiversity as a policy for food security.
In many ways, the book, persistently works to advance public understanding of complex issues related to biopiracy, biotechnology, indigenous knowledge systems, World Trade Organization instruments on patenting and strategies to deal with food insecurity and the rampant and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources.
Mushita and Thompson argue that the essence of seed exchange is sharing and not to profit as is happening in the world today. They say the current tendency to sell seed, pollute and put the dollar first can be damaging to the traditional important ways of life that seek to share seed to grow plants across the world and protect the environment.
"Yet the terrible other side of the story is that all this richness, beauty and wealth –germinating from sharing is now threatened," the authors say in the opening chapter titled: 'The Ancient Future.'
"It is being destroyed by refusal to share, by hoarding for a false, ephemeral prosperity. It is being destroyed in the name of science, of law and 'just reward' in the name of innovation, power and of profit." The authors also contribute to a vital dialogue about the effects of globalization on traditional farming systems in Africa, the use of food aid as weapon of domination by powerful countries and the dwindling use of African grains.
They say the US government sent genetically modified (GM) maize kernels to southern Africa in 2002 as food aid, without bothering to care about the high risk or uncertainty that the shipments would pollute the local genetic maize pool.
Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi rejected the GMO maize.
"The view from the inside of the continent looking out is that aliens have responded to drought and famine with inappropriate technology, expensive (highly profitable to some) unsustainable inputs, trade barriers against African goods and more loans than grants for so-called food 'aid," Mushita and Thompson pointed out.
The authors also argue vehemently for the protection of Africa's biodiversity, which is now increasingly being poached by western countries. They say indigenous knowledge is a key weapon for the survival of the people on the continent. Mushita and Thompson say the demise of traditional medical knowledge was due slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism and globalization.
For long, they say, indigenous communities used their own traditional knowledge to treat successfully ulcers, asthma, diabetes and sickle cell anemia among a string of other ailments. Bioresources have been shared freely for centuries as people exchanged seed, plants and animals for breeding and the writers say, what is new and disturbing is the patenting of the seed 'whether an offered gift or stolen cultural secret' into private property.
Mushita and Thompson give an in-depth historical overview on biopiracy relating this colonial legacy to piracy in the 21st century. They also discuss the debate about intellectual property rights and analyze new and different laws under the WTO before moving on to propose that the extension of intellectual property rights over seeds and plants challenges scientific logic and threatens biodiversity.
The books speaks out in a simple and captivating way explaining how plants, roots and seeds define the community through healing. "Most often, women are the keepers of the seeds, tucked away among the beams in the thatched roof, protected from pests by smoke from cooking fire. Others are stored in tins in another location. Villagers volunteer labor to build storage buildings for seed banks, protecting the treasure within the public trust," the authors wrote.
The same happens when African farmers choose seed from the best plants in the field using traditional farming 'genetics' that takes into account seed yielding the most grain, preferred color, pest resistance and drought resistance.
But when international aid agencies come in, the writers quote one Zimbabwean plant scientist, they come with advice and an agenda that focuses more on "yield, yield, yield" ignoring taste because the American industry manufactures taste with additives of sugar and citric acid.
"On the farms in Africa, the choices are complex and subtle and learned from the older generation. Farmers with the reputation for having good seed will be sought out and will harvest more seed, ready to exchange it," Mushita and Thompson say. They say at one time, over 3, 000 species were used as human food but now, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization estimates that only 150 plant species are cultivated, 12 of which provide approximately 75 percent of food needed and four of which produce over half of the food people eat across the world.
The writers respond proactively to this challenge and say: "The future of the planet depends not so much on military power nor capital speculation but on each one becoming informed, debating and making choices about global exchange or enclosure of seed and plants – our collective nourishment, our wealth."
This book refers both to the African continent and to the region of southern Africa and captures the experiences of the people as it pertains to biodiversity, biopiracy and traditional knowledge systems.
The emotive land issue in southern Africa is also discussed in detail showing its importance when it comes to food security and food self-sufficiency.
There is a section, which compares and contrasts international protocols for seed exchange from agencies trying to reconcile the demand for patenting, the respect for indigenous knowledge and the need to preserve biodiversity as a policy for food security.
The final chapter summarizes policy recommendations relevant both to other developing countries and the US. In contrast to current international policies which have reduced the role of the state, the recommendations include the public sector as a vital player in preserving biodiversity and delimiting piracy.
Mushita and Thompson call for the fostering of new patterns of relationships through seed exchange and sharing of information.
The western world continues to infringe on human rights and the ecological balance of nature in Africa through the export of seed GM seed hybrids, biopiracy and promotion of unsustainable technologies in agriculture.
In addition, this book co-written by Mushita and Thompson which argues against the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature is a clarion call that should be widely read and discussed by everyone concerned with biodiversity.
It advances public understanding on issues related to the environment and development which are happening in the world but are not getting reported in the mainstream media.
Tsiko is The Black Star News' Southern Africa correspondent based in Harare.
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Results tagged ' Tony Gwynn Jr. '
Is This Cheating, or being Informed?
Baseball has endured all kinds of horrors and indiscretions over its duration. There has been the Spitball or doctoring the ball Era, the Dead Ball Era, Live Ball Era, and of course, the recent Steroid Era. But for some reason, I am beginning to think Major League Baseball might be entering into another new and systematically devastating era that has just starting to peak its way over the horizon…. I am beginning to think we are just on the threshold of the Electronic Era.
With the advancements in electronics, video equipment and also audio response devices, the whole scenario has endless possibilities. There are now people assigned to the job of breaking down a opposing pitcher's mechanics to show indications of what pitch might be coming out of their hand at any particular moment. Teams have endless research and statistics at their fingertips from web sources and in-house agencies like Bloomberg Sports. And then there are the players who seek every advantage to get the upper hand on their competition, not just to gain a "W", but to get added motivation and confidence. This Era could be the most devastating to the sport.
You might wonder why I am beginning to bring such matters up, why I am focusing on this one item that could explode and show that technology has made it was onto the field, and that one recent discovery, maybe by accident, could show that violations could already be effecting the game I love. It is not like Major League Baseball players will take an edge or any advantage they can get and throw it out the window if it is in a gray area. But when they step into that black and white area where few dare to tread for repercussions and penalties, that is when I am concerned.
Tuesday night during the Tampa Bay Rays game against the San Diego Padres, I first heard a few mumbles from a few faithful Rays fans of a certain player maybe having a "cheat sheet" in his back pocket on the field. Now I know players are allowed to have a small laminated sheet to illustrate maybe fielding positional changes, and maybe even give a heads up to hitting tendencies to a certain spot, or gap. But as I watched this player kind of without immediate attention that night something began to stir.
There I was again remembering how I used to use tactics of my own to get an edge in sports. I was not a dirty player, but if you let me have an advantage, I did take it and run every time. And the fielding "cheat sheets" by Padres Tony Gwynn Junior and Will Venable did not bother me until I personally saw something else pop out of Venable's pocket on Wednesday night. From that moment on, for the rest of the night, I saw him take out both a laminated card and read it before certain Rays hitters, and then something else seemed to have come out of his pocket, and it shocked me.
In this blog I decided to include both the partially blown up photos to show the item in Venable's hand, plus the original photo so you can download and blow it up in any shape or form for yourself to show that this item was bigger and more pronounced than the smaller white edged laminated sheet. It seemed that Venable might have been using a P D A or I-phone, or some other form of electronic items while he was camped in Rightfield at Tropicana Field. It shocked me at first, but then I realized that maybe it might be permissible during this type of series since the Rays and Padres would play only this small 3-game series, then maybe not see each other for another 6-8 years, unless it is in the World Series.
Fran Fusco, who has a long history of baseball in their family blood (she is the sister of ex-Red Sox catcher Rich Gedman) first alerted me to the situation on Wednesday night before the game. A few other Rays fans in the stands also gave their vocal interpretations to the events of the previous night, so I decided to try and find out for myself, see if this is really happening, or was just a mirage caused by the reflective lights of the Trop. hitting the paper at a weird angle. Wish I could say it was all a figment of our collective imaginations, but it was as real as Carlos Pena hitting an opposite field Home Run, or Matt Garza's goatee.
So after the game I showed the pictures to a member of the Rays Radio Network, and he asked me to forward the photos to him for further examination. He also asked me not to bring attention the knowledge of these photos for a day, which I was more than happy to oblige since I had not been able to blow them up properly while sitting in the seating bowl. But when I did blow up two of the photos later that night at home, there was a distinctive difference in the shapes and sizes of the two items in question…The plot thickened immediately.
I especially paid close attention to Venable's left back pants pocket that was showed a huge change in the shape of his right pocket, which had a pair of batting gloves sticking out of them. The rectangular shape could have been a tri-folded laminated card, but there was also a dim light source that could not be formed by the lighting pattern within Tropicana Field, so the mystery got thicker and thicker for me. I kind of half paid attention, but still got some good shots of the pocket, and Venable taking either item out to glance at it between innings, or during pitching changes that night.
Venable was definitely using the chart or device to gain an advantage or educate himself on the Rays tendencies during that contest. I first noticed him looking at the chart/device during Rays D H Hank Blalock's plate appearance, then during pitching changes of two Padres relievers, Rick Webb and Mike Adams. Venable was so nonchalant about the items in his left rear pocket that it really did not alarm me that night. But after the game the Rays front office member I sent the photos to, plus the urgency of that transfer told me I might have stumbled on something here.
I got a rumor floated to me that Venable had told a few members of the Rays that it " was a laminated card", which in a few of the photos it definitely looked like just that, but a few of the other photos, there was a darker item that was thicker and more like a portable device than a simple one-ply piece of paper with lamination on it. I had heard through the Rays grapevine before Thursday afternoon's game that three other Rays fans had reported the event, plus one writing a letter to the National League President Frank Robinson about the episode. So with so many people now showing extreme attention to this set of events, I carefully studied and watched Venable with extreme precision on Thursday.
Sixteen times in Thursdays match-up Venable went to his back pocket in plain sight of everyone in the stands, to check his card. This time he made it clear and evident to everyone that it was indeed a card and not anything else. He even did it at multiple angles to give any camera now trained on him an exclusive look and possible angle to show he was in compliance during that game. It was also during Thursdays contest that I also saw Gywnn bring out his card during a break in the action. The Padres had definitely heard someone was watching them, and they played the game to the fullest.
And it is alarming to me that this kind of event could be going on at other games and venues right now. I can understand using these kind of devices in the clubhouse, or even the dugout to inform and help players adjust accordingly for games. But if this technology creeps into the fabric of the game during play in the field, that is where I personally draw a line in the clay. There are Coaches on either bench who can adjust or even sway a defensive alignment with a hand gesture, and there are charts that can be reviewed between innings to help guide a impromptu adjustment. But electronic devices need to stay outside the lines.
There are already too many calls for reviews, electronic strike zones to complicate the game instead of simplify it. If there is an Electronic Era evolving around the game as I predict, hopefully we can keep it off the field and in the dark where it belongs. Not darkness to not acknowledge its existence, but darkness to keep prying eyes way from vital information that each team collects and administers at the right moment. One of the reason kids take up the game of baseball is not for the team building skills but for the simplicity of the game. Throw the ball, hit the ball, run to the base.
If this violation is found to warrant further review it will not change the outcome of the Rays two losses during this series, but it could be an indication that some people are seeing loopholes in the system. Rays Pitching Coach Jim Hickey came over before Thursdays contest and asked me what I had seen the night before. I immediately let him know I transferred photos to a Rays team official, and that the photos were now also in the Rays hands to do what they will with them.
I am not out to get someone in trouble, suspended or even fined for something that happened during that Rays versus Padres series. But I want fairness to be achieved. I want the Rays to know that nothing is going on that gives another team an advantage. I learned as a young kid that "cheaters never prosper." Hopefully that old quote also applies to the MLB too.


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Egungun Festival of Nigeria's Yoruba Ancestors
The Egungun is a secret society among the Yoruba people of Ibadan, Oyo, and Modakeke, Gbongan Osun State, Nigeria. The major Egungun festival takes place in June, when members of the society come to the market place and perform masked dances. The masks represent ancestral spirits. It is considered dangerous to see any part of the man who is wearing the mask. The dancing masqueraders have their own drummers and entourage of chanting women and girls. The festival climaxes with the appearance of Andu, the most powerful mask. It is believed that the spirits of the deceased possess the masqueraders while they are dancing, and although it promotes a feeling of oneness between the living and the dead, the festival also inspires a certain amount of fear.Part I By Kayode Gbadebo
This column is an attempt to inform and educate on Ifa/Orisa spirituality with an understanding that belief and faith is a personal journey. We would probably cross the spiritual aisle in our discourse on faith or belief across the world. The Egungun (Ancestor) festival is usually organized collectively when the spirits of the ancestors share physical fellowship with relatives on earth. In many communities across Yoruba land, Egungun festivals last variously between seven to 21 days. Egungun spirits may be called upon from the Ojubo (hallowed ground) whenever needed for divine intervention. Every community is involved in Egungun worship since everybody has ancestors in the great beyond. Men are generally more exposed to Egungun mystery than women, and secrets are usually restricted to members. Egungun rites may be celebrated either formally or informally, but usually formally in matters dealing with the whole communities. Women may be initiates of Egungun mystery and are not to divulge the secrets of the cult. Women earn titles like Iyamode, Yeyesorun and Ato. Ato is an initiated member of the cult. Every female child born with her cord placed on her chest like Atori (whip) is called Ato. Ato could also be a child born with the membrane covering her head like mask. If a male, he will be called Amusan. The third child of a triplet is naturally called Ato. Odu Oturupon Meji claims when a man dies the corpse is buried, but the spirit joins the ancestors to become Egungun. Egungun is clothed from head to toe revealing no part of the body just like a corpse. Next: Yoruba belief in life after death.


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Berkeley High Senior Premieres New Composition
Berkeley High senior Dylan Mattingly will be featured both as composer and as cello soloist, when the Young People's Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of music director David Ramadanoff, presents the world premiere of Mattingly's Rain, Steam and Speed, for orchestra and solo piano (featuring Mattingly's friend and fellow composer, Preben Antonsen), this weekend at the Moraga Valley Presbyterian Church.
The program also includes three YPSO Concerto Competition Winners playing Bela Bartok's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (featuring Mattingly), the first movement of Eduard Lalo's Symphonie Espanole (featuring YPSO concertmistress Annie Sandholtz) and the Rondo from Carl Mario Von Weber's Concerto No. 1 for Clarinet (featuring Madison Greenstone). George Gershwin's Cuban Overture and Paul Hindemuth's Metamorphoses on Themes of Carl Maria Von Weber, will also be played.
Mattingly, 17, is a student in the John Adams Young Composers Program at Berkeley's Crowden Music Center. "I know all his music backwards and forwards," he said of Adams, and cited "Hail Bop," the last movement of Adams' piano concerto Century Rolls as an influence on "how to fabricate a piano concerto from something which naturally required a strong pulse at all times."
He said, "A couple things inspired my piece: the trains going by outside my dark window at night, and what it felt like in the fog in San Francisco, on a rainy night, coming out of BART in 2007 to hear Kevin Volans' Piano Concerto—not so much the music as the memory of that night, what my piece is emotionally based on."
The piece is named after the famed 1844 J. M. W. Turner painting of a steam locomotive.
He described some of the sounds: "The strings playing pizzicato fairly constantly, white noise like a chugging train or rain [elsewhere he mentioned that night at Davies, "with the chugging of Marc-Andre Hamelin's hands flying through notes like rain, and the sense of some sort of intoning maximalism in the dark"], a huge brass marathon, holding one note for 50 seconds; instruments dropping out, jumping back in; very high, very low."
Mattingly said he's "done a lot of different stuff since, with folk music in different forms recently." Originally billed as playing with the orchestra on his piece, he said he's decided "to listen" instead. "It's interesting to hear what I was thinking about a year ago, which is not what I'm thinking about now. I want to be doing something new in every piece—otherwise, it should've been in the last piece. And I'm glad I've had the restraint not to try to change it!"
Mattingly has played cello and composed music for 10 years, playing cello with Superdelegates, an improvisational quartet, guitar with Funky Bus and the U-Turns and is co-director of Formerly Known as Classical, a new music ensemble whose young players perform music written in their lifetimes. His solo piano piece Night #3 was premiered by Sarah Cahill at the Other Minds New Music Seance in December in San Francisco. He currently studies with Yiorgos Vassilandonakis of UC Berkeley, and has studied with Katrina Wreede of Crowden.
The Young People's Symphony Orchestra was founded in Berkeley in 1935, the oldest youth orchestra in California and second-oldest in the nation.
Saturday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 8, 2 p.m., at Moraga Valley Presbyterian Church, 10 Moraga Valley Lane, Moraga. $15 general, $12 seniors and students. 849-9776. ypsomusic.net.


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After two weeks out with a hamstring injury, Starlin Castro was happy to be back on the field.
Even if it was only for three innings.
Sidelined since Feb. 27, the All-Star got a single and walked Wednesday in the Chicago Cubs' 2-0 loss to the Colorado Rockies.
Castro, who hurt his left leg in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, walked against Jorge De La Rosa leading off the first, singled in the third and came out after the inning.
Playing his usual shortstop position, Castro just missed throwing out leadoff batter Eric Young on a grounder leading off the game. Josh Rutledge followed with a grounder to second baseman Darwin Barney, who threw to second, and Castro's throw to first just missed getting a double play. Troy Tulowitzki followed with an RBI double.
Castro had three assists in the second, when Jordan Pacheco, Nolan Arenado and Ramon Hernandez all grounded to shortstop.
"I want to keep playing because I'm feeling good," Castro said. "I can move pretty good. When I took ground balls earlier in BP, the coaches kept a close eye on my backhand and I felt pretty good when I moved quick."
Cubs starter Edwin Jackson gave up one run and three hits in five innings, retiring eight in a row.
"I had a rhythm from the first inning," Jackson said. "Defense played well behind me and that was the objective, trying to pitch to contact and let the defense work."
De La Rosa escaped bases-loaded jams in the first and third innings, and allowed four hits in four innings with six strikeouts.
"The ability to minimize damage or control damage is really important. De La did that," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "I think he was able to do it because his changeup and curveball were real good."
Rutledge helped bail out De La Rosa with a diving stop that held Scott Hairston to an infield single in the first inning and prevented a run from scoring from second base.
"The thing I like is defensively, we've played lights out this spring," Weiss said.
Tulowitzki had a sixth-inning sacrifice fly against Kyuji Fujikawa.


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Today was a day of shopping and shopping and lots of spending of money which was fun, but not really.
We were getting all the little things that we need for our trip to USA! (yipee, leaving next week)
I got some material which I'm excited about because it cost me $4 a meter and is so cute! I am planning to make some t-shirts and a maxi-skirt... possibly not before we leave though :( but I will try and at least get the skirt done. The coral will be the skirt and the other two t-shirts... or possibly skirts too. I love stripes at the moment!
I also got some cute shorts from Jeans West that I have been looking at for a while and seeing as it will hopefully be short weather in USA these should be perfect :) The green things are undies hehe. Got them from Best & Less which I usually don't go into but they were cheap and look like good quality and comfy material. I'm pretty particular about my undies.. Always go for comfort over lace and usually buy Bonds, but lately I find Bonds are really thin and don't wear great, plus they are ridiculously priced ($15 + a pair). So we'll see how I got with these! At $5, they were a bargain anyway...
The other Hippy thing you see there is the bag I bought! I don't have me a suitcase and didn't want a boring, grey number so I went completely opposite and got this super bright Roxy bag. It's really light and pretty much like a duffle bag on wheels, so here's hoping it wears well.
And now, today's creation -
I was pintersting on pinterest. Which is a bad bad daily habit and I didn't take my own advice and I signed up for a pinterest account. You should go follow me on there too if you want! Aaanyway, moral of the story - I found a cuuute little pompom owl and decided to make one too. The original tutorial is from here.
1. Wrap yarn around two pompom maker thingy bobs - I just cut these out of cardboard myself.
2. Cut yarn - slide scissors between circles and cut (I'd just like to point out that I took this photo with my knee... yup, amazing!)
3. Take length of yarn and tie tightly around the cut yarn - in between circles
4. Taadaa - Pompom! You may need to fluff it up a little by rolling it around between your palms
5. (I forgot to number it - it's the last one for those that didn't get that...) Glue on some felt beaks (well, one), eyes and footsies. And then go awww coz it's too darn cute!