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Opinion: Lightning at the Halfway MarkSubmitted by pete on January 5, 2018 - 23:04
Forty games into a historic 2017-2018 season, let's take a moment to pause, step out of the moment, and take stock of where the club is. Sitting halfway through the campaign expectations for the team, which missed the postseason just a year ago, are sky high for good reason. Not only is the Lightning atop the NHL standings a full 13 points ahead of the pace they need to be in order to make the postseason, but the team leads a bevy of organizational and individual statistical categories.
Let's pump the breaks on prematurely planning a Stanley Cup championship parade, though. There's still half of the regular season and the postseason left to play, and as good as the team is, it's not without blemishes. How General Manager Steve Yzerman addresses those blemishes (or doesn't) and how any potential changes alters team chemistry (or doesn't) will have a lot to say about whether the team lives up to its perceived potential. So, with all of that in mind, let's look at how the team got here, what its weaknesses are, and what might happen next.
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10 Things to Watch for this Prospect SeasonSubmitted by pete on September 29, 2013 - 19:00
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- Syracuse Crunch
- Tampa Bay Lightning
- Barberio, Mark
- Blujus, Dylan
- Drouin, Jonathan
- Erne, Adam
- Gudas, Radko
- Hart, Brian
- Johnson, Tyler
- Koekkoek, Slater
- Korobov, Dmitry
- Kucherov, Nikita
- Namestnikov, Vladislav
- Nesterov, Nikita
- Palat, Ondrej
- Panik, Richard
- Sergeev, Artem
- Sustr, Andrej
- Vasilevski, Andrei
- Killorn, Alexander
Ten questions for this year's Lightning prospect season...
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2013 NHL Entry Draft Preview: Rounds One and TwoSubmitted by pete on June 29, 2013 - 13:39
Here we are about 24 hours away from a pivotal draft in Lightning history, and I just wanted to post a few of my thoughts heading into the event. It's been a strange, strange week with the release of captain Vincent Lecavalier and the gesticulations of Joe Sakic and Patrick Roy for top pick holder Colorado. So, it's forced people looking at what the Lightning will do with their 3rd overall pick to re-evaluate what impact current events will have on the selection. In the end, I'm guessing very little.
Taking Colorado at their word, the top pick in tomorrow's draft will be Halifax centerman Nathan MacKinnon, who probably has the best straight line speed and shot of any player in this draft. He's very similar to the Lightning's Steven Stamkos or current Avs forward Matt Duchene with the added element that he likes to engage physically, sometimes to his detriment because he does have a propensity to get his clock cleaned every once in a while. Still, he's a player with the potential to become one of the top-10 goal scorers in the NHL. If the Lightning were to get MacKinnon, which looks like a very low likelihood now, it would give them the option to put a Grade A sniper on each of their top-2 lines, making it virtually impossible for opposing coaches to effectively line match against them. The same would be true with how the Lightning would be able to approach assembling their power play units. The Lightning would become the ultimate conundrum to defend.
But, that's probably not happening. MacKinnon likely goes off the board at the top pick leaving the Florida Panthers to choose between, probably, the next 3 top prospects in this draft: defenseman Seth Jones of Portland, left win Jonathan Drouin of Halifax, and center Aleksander Barkov of Tappara in the Finnish SM-liiga. My guess is Florida, already having center Jonathan Huberdeau in the fold, may not be considering Barkov quite as closely. You might argue a similar, roster-based approach when considering they have Erik Gudbranson and Dimitri Kulikov in the fold. That might make them willing to pass on Seth Jones, who was the consensus top pick up until the Memorial Cup Finals, in favor of Jonathan Drouin. But, I still think Florida is probably 70/30 likely to take Jones for the simple fact that, if you look at how current Panthers GM Dale Tallon constructed the Chicago Blackhawks, he's a man who understands the need for depth on defense. When you consider the Hawks have won 2 Cups in 4 years with goaltenders who aren't the ilk of the Patrick Roys or Martin Brodeurs of the world, a lot of credit has to go to guys like Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, Niklas Hjalmarsson, Nick Leddy, and the veterans that have been put around them. But it's not a certainty, so lets consider the Lightning's options:
D Seth Jones, 6'4" 208 lbs, Portland (WHL)
Jones is the son of former NBA player Popeye Jones, and has a level of athleticism that makes it easy to project him as a 15-20 year NHL stalwart. He's got decent size, strength, and supreme mobility. He's also the coveted righty shot, which is something the Lightning organization needs. He does almost all the intangible things you want from a defenseman in terms of puck protection, decision making, and his first pass out of the zone ability. He's probably in the same class as current Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman in terms of how you should slot him as a potential, long-term #1/#2 defenseman in the league with the knock being, like Hedman, that Jones doesn't always engage in the physical game. He was the top prospect for this draft almost wire to wire until the Memorial Cup Finals when Halifax strafed the Winterhawks, and I think were he to drop to the Lightning they'd be hard pressed to pass on him. Championships are won from the blueline out, and the opportunity to add Jones to what little the team does have between Hedman and Radko Gudas is probably too good to pass up. Steve Yzerman would solidify the future of at least half of his blueline corps for the future and could shift his strategy on the blueline to finding players to bridge the next 1-3 years, possibly with a handful of grizzled veterans available at a cheaper price in the post-compliance buy-out era. With all that said, and as much sense as that all makes, Jones may not be the best player available when the Lightning pick at 3.
LW Jonathan Drouin, 5'11" 185 lbs, Halifax (QMJHL)
The best player in this draft may be Jonathan Drouin, who may not have all the measurables of a MacKinnon or Jones, but pop in a tape of his play and you'll begin to drool uncontrollably. There's a game we play every summer where scouts give their stock comparisons of player X to a current or former NHLer. So, if it's a really tall defenseman, here come the Chara or Myers comparisons. For a long time it was fashionable to compare power forwards to Cam Neely. Etc, etc. These are safe, accepted comparisons for scouts to make, and a few of those have been made in comparing Drouin to the likes of Patrick Kane or Claude Giroux. But, your ears should perk up when he is also compared to NHL legends like Gilbert Perrault and Denis Savard. Scouts don't like to walk the plank like that and utter the names of legendary, revered players unless a prospect truly has a special "it". Drouin may have that. He's a good, but not great straight line player, but what begins to set him apart is his lateral mobility. There hasn't been a player with nearly the amount of wiggle in Drouin's game to come out in a long, long time. He can stop on a dime and move 2-3 strides to the left or right in a blink and his puckhandling ability is world-class, often looking like he has the puck tied to his blade with a string. That's one way Jonathan Drouin can kill you. He's also got Brad Richards-like vision, hockey sense, and passing ability making him one of the best playmakers to come out in quite some time too. And, oh by the way, he's a heckuva goal scorer to boot. More than that, Drouin's known to be one of the fiercest competitors in the junior hockey world today. He hates to lose and although he's not the type to physically bludgeon you, he will risk life and limb in high traffic areas to make a play to win games (and much like Marty St. Louis, is smart and quick enough to get in and out with out having to actually sacrifice life and limb). With the exit of Lecavalier and the age of St. Louis, the added intangible of Drouin's compete-level may be a critical consideration in setting the culture for the next generation of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
C Aleksander Barkov, 6'3" 209 lbs, Tappara (FIN)
Here's the safest pick in the draft. Barkov's father was a Russian hockey player who settled in Finland where Barkov grew up and plays in the country's top league and is one of its leading scorers despite his young age. He's just a good, all around hockey player with good size, skill, hockey sense, and above average defensive abilities for a young forward. He's been compared, a lot, to Anaheim' Ryan Getzlaf and Minnesota's Mikko Koivu and he seems to be moving up late in the draft process, probably due to positive news teams are getting regarding the shoulder injury Barkov suffered late this season. For a team with a gaping hole at center with Lecavalier's departure, this might seem a little too good to be true. But, fans should recognize that it's unfair to expect a player like Barkov to fill someone like Lecavalier's shoes at 18 years old, and the Lightning should look at whether their needs at center will be this pronounced 3 years down the line once Barkov begins to truly come into his own. I would argue they won't be because I expect Vladislav Namestnikov to continue to develop along the same rapid decent we saw in the AHL playoffs. Along with Stamkos, Namestnikov could fill the Lightning's top two center spots in 3 years, making a center like Barkov less valuable to the team. All that may be a moot point anyway if rumors are true that the Nashville Predators are so enamored with Barkov they may swap picks with Florida to move up to the 2nd pick to get him. I'd be ok with that, because the choice between Jones and Drouin would be a #goodproblemtohave.
RW Valeri Nichushkin, 6'4" 196 lbs, Chelyabinsk (RUS)
Here's the wildest of wild cards: Traktor Chelyabinsk power forward Valeri Nichushkin. On his best days he looks every bit like Alexander Ovechkin or Evgeni Malkin, and he string together two weeks of his best days in an early 2013 tournament that darned near shot him up to #1 on many scouts' lists. Since then, though, he's failed to sustain quite that level of dominance. He had a good but not sparking KHL regular season and playoffs as Chelyabinsk eventually fell in the Gagarin Cup Finals, and he had a good but not sparkling U18 World Junior Championships where he showed flashes but eventually wound up third on Team Russia in scoring for the tournament. He's big, strong as an ox, handles and protects the puck well, and has a sharp, quick release. Hockey sense may be a question as he likes to often go it alone and carry the puck rather than give and receive a pass from his linemates. But, the allure is there and reportedly the Lightning do have a bit of an affinity for Nichushkin. He might be the perfect linemate to Namestnikov and Nikita Kucherov 3 years down the line, and I suspect he'd have been the pick if the Lightning were sitting at 4th or 5th. At 3rd, though, I'm not sure he is in any way, shape, or fashion the best player available and those peddling Malkin comparisons would be wise to look back and see what Malkin was doing at the same age: dominating U20 World Junior Championships, not finishing 3rd on Team Russia at the U18's. Compounding matters for Nichushkin is the Russian Factor, which may be a legitimate concern this time around given pre-draft contractual maneuvering between notorious agent Mark Gandler (see, Alexei Yashin, Evgeny Artyukhin, and just about every other Russian player who has enraged an NHL team with contract messes) and Moscow Dynamo, who acquired Nichushkin's rights for a boatload of rubles. Dynamo supposedly will allow Nichushkin to go to the NHL with no entanglements, but they won't allow him to go to the AHL, which is a league Nichushkin has said he has no interest in playing in. I smell a bit of a prima donna in that whole arrangement, which might be ok from a more finished product, but there are aspects to Valeri's game that need more development. That development would ideally take place in Syracuse alongside Namestnikov and Kucherov, giving the Lightning the opportunity to groom them together as a unit for 1 season before bringing them up to Tampa Bay. If that's not an option though, I'm less sold on the whole Nichushkin experiment.
Beyond the first round, the Lightning also hold the 3rd pick in the 2nd round, 33rd overall, which in a deep draft like this should yield an NHL player. A wide range of possibilities exist for the pick, but lets narrow them down with some assumptions. Lets play the odds and say Colorado takes MacKinnon and Florida takes Jones, leaving the Lightning to select either Drouin or Barkov (presuming Steve Yzerman elects not to give me nightmares by selecting Nichushkin). In the event the Lightning don't get Jones, they're almost compelled to take a defenseman at 33rd overall. Preferably, they'd get a righty shot, 2-way guy with some edge to play more of the physical style Jon Cooper is trying to install in his quest to make the Lightning harder to play against. So, let's consider what the options might be:
D Steve Santini, 6'2" 205 lbs, USNTDP (USHL)
If he somehow lasts to 33, I view Santini as the ideal fit for the Lightning's needs. He's got decent size, excellent poise and positioning, and he's nasty around his crease. He's a good passer and decent puck carrier, too, and protects the puck like the Secret Service protects the president. I'd be shocked if he slipped to 33, but a lot of mock drafts I see have Santini going in the 2nd round. If he's there, the Lightning may need to pounce.
D Tom Vannelli, 6'2" 170 lbs, Minnetonka (USHS)
U.S. high school star Tom Vannelli is extremelyy raw but has a ton of upside for a team looking for a righty shot, tempo-pushing defenseman. He's got excellent skating ability, loves to carry the puck, and is a solid passer and puck distributor. He's a bit of a greyhound though and needs to bulk up to compete as he begins to move up against higher levels of competition. He probably doesn't have the nasty streak Santini has, but he does look like a guy who can develop into a minutes-chomping two-way defender in the NHL.
D Shea Theodore, 6'2" 182 lbs, Seattle (WHL)
He's not a righty, but Shea Theodore is an offensive defenseman who may still catch the Lightning's eye. His game is very comparable to Vanneli's with the exception that Theodore's defensive positioning is probably more advanced at this stage. He does need to bulk up and he's not a bone cruncher, but he's one of the best power play quarterbacks in this draft and those are never bad to have around.
D Madison Bowey, 6'1" 201 lbs, Kelowna (WHL)
There's a wide disparity of opinion about where righty defenseman Madison Bowey will go in Sunday's draft, but there's not a wide disparity of opinion about his game. This is one of the best skating defensemen in this draft, but unlike Vannelli or Theodore he uses that ability more in the defensive third as more of a shutdown defender. That's been to the chagrin of many scouts who see Bowey has a cannon shot and good skill but possibly lacks the confidence and offensive hockey sense to use them at this stage in his career. There's also probably some concern about Bowey's mediocre-sized frame. No, he's not a dwarf, but he's a shade smaller than the NHL ideal. So, it's a glass half empty/half full proposition. Do you view Bowey as a guy who already does well at elements of his game that are typically harder for an 18 year old to excel at and assume the offense will come around? Or, do you worry the things he's good at now might not translate well to the league against bigger, stronger men and that his offense will never come around? If you're in the former camp, Bowey's a first rounder. If you're in the latter, Bowey may be around to take at 33.
D Robert Hagg, 6'2" 204 lbs, MODO (SWE)
Here's a riddle wrapped in an enigma. Athletically, many argue Hagg should be a first rounder and THN has him as high as the 12th best prospect in the draft. But, he's wildly inconsistent to the point that many teams may stay off of him until the second round. He's got most everything you want from a defenseman. He's got good size and strength and will engage in the physical game. He's got one of the hardest shots in this draft and distributes the puck well. And, he's got excellent straight line speed. Where he lacks is in his focus, which leads to poor decision-making on when to jump into plays and he may have some tightness in his lateral skating and pivots which lead to poor gap control and getting beat wide too much. He's a lefty, which is another minor scratch against him, but he does come out of the same program as Victor Hedman so, do the Lightning roll the dice if Hagg falls that far?
D Ian McCoshen, 6'2" 207 lbs, Waterloo (USHL)
A lot of mocks have McCoshen going in the late 1st round, and he's a lefty, but a lot of his game would appear to be a good fit for the Lightning. Like Santini, he's going to Boston College next year, and he's doing so with the reputation of being a solid stay-at-home defenseman who plays with some edge. He does possess a big shot and some puck distributing savvy on the PP, but that may not be his game in the NHL. But, with that aside, to me there's nothing wrong with a minute-eating 20 point a year type guy if he can help shut down the opposition's scoring lines and shows some edge to protect around his crease.
Other options certainly exist for that pick, but there's six names to look for in the second half of the first round tomorrow as, hopefully, a couple of them survive to the Lightning's pick at 33rd overall. With any luck, I suspect the Lightning may have a franchise forward and future top-4 defenseman when the dust clears.
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Looking Back on 8 Seasons That Built GreatnessSubmitted by pete on June 10, 2012 - 16:51
It's been a day since the Norfolk Admirals hoisted the Calder Cup for the first time. The amazing thing about championships is that they're a shared milestone in the lives of, really, thousands, between the players, coaches, staff, and fans. Those journeys often contain compelling stories that make the triumph worth that journey. For Jon Cooper, it was about closing down his law practice to coach his way from Michigan high school hockey, to the USHL to working with Hockey USA, to a 2 season sprint to glory in the AHL. For Cory Conacher, it was about not being drafted and playing hockey at off-the-beaten path Canisius, dealing with diabetes, and earning an NHL contract in March of an MVP season before posting 4 assists in the championship clinching Calder Cup Finals game.
The stories of the players and the coaches are the ones we'll read about in the coming months and years, and they should be. When the Lightning made their Stanley Cup run in 2003-2004 and were playing the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference Finals, John Tortorella refused to fire back at Ken Hithcock's remarks about "Italians from Boston," because Torts rightfully understood, "It's about the athletes." Ultimately, they're the ones who score the goals and make the saves. They sacrifice their bodies and take the stitches and they take the slings and arrows if they lose. Ultimately, it's their moment, and to a lesser extent the moments of their families who supported them in the journey up to those moments. The hockey moms and dads who woke up at 6:00 am to drive their kids to games. Scratching together money for skates and ridiculously expensive composite sticks. The wives and significant others who live with the players and coaches through the disappointments and the frustrations, and live in fear of moments when things can go wrong, like when slap shots can hit a man in the ear at 90 miles an hour, similar to what happened to Scott Jackson.
Less compelling, perhaps, is the story of an organization, but, these are stories can be worth telling, too... especially in this case. We started beta testing Bolt Prospects in 2004-2005, one year after the Lightning's Cup win, in the heart of the NHL lockout. That year was also the first year since the Detroit Vipers of the IHL folded after the 2000-2001 season that the Lightning had a full-time minor league affiliate: the Springfield Falcons. Absent a full-time affiliate, it became clear the Lightning would struggle to maintain their spot on top of the hockey mountain, because split affiliates would not give prime ice time and coaching help to another organization's players. That problem prompted the start of an 8 year process for the Lightning that ended in building what must be considered the sport's preeminent developmental apparatus with the Norfolk Admirals' Calder Cup championship and the Florida Everblades' Kelly Cup Championship.
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Why do we talk about intelligence, intellect, smarts, and cognitive function so much and why does it seem like having them in oodles is an unequivocally good and positive thing? Something to be respected and revered?
Something to strive for if you're deemed to have "learning and memory deficits".
Or to put it more bluntly and in a polarizing manner: Why are evil geniuses something that only seem to exist in fiction?
Where is the love for the unique, middling, average, common, regular individual when it comes to intelligence? Why is often the most disparaging thing we say about an intelligent individual's intelligence that they are "wasting" it?
Why does the frightening part about Down syndrome seem to boil down to what not so long ago was known as "mental retardation?"
There are many people in my life and its periphery (lucky for them way out there, lest I'd have dispatched the flying monkeys already) who have sent me articles, videos, stories, and more about what individuals with Down syndrome are capable of, what people with Down syndrome have achieved, what all will be possible regardless, in spite of, in the face of, as well as, and I want to specifically add this as a negative also, because of Down syndrome.
As if I didn't see every single day what my kid was, is and will be capable of. As if I weren't watching. As if my child existed in a vacuum as the syndrome and not as my specific, hard-to-handle kid, who will be and already is very much her own person with her own strengths and weaknesses and passions and dislikes.
As if I didn't know. As if I weren't irrevocably and embarrassingly in love with her and think her the best bees knees that ever was. As if I weren't the one person in the world with nothing but unconditional love and bottle-bottom-like mom-goggles of pure wonder for forever, for my daughter.
As if I were worried that she wasn't "smart enough" to survive our society.
I am worried. Of course. But my being so has nothing to do with my kid and her particular Down syndrome and everything to do with you, the society, and the completely random ways that lead to survival and success today. These completely arbitrary ways in which we place value on other humans.
We often say we respect someone whose views are completely opposite to ours when they can argument for those views in intelligent and educated ways. We say we enjoy educated debate. How did that happen? Why should I respect a tea partier for being able to argument for something base and vile in ways that draw on theory and critical analysis?
Just today I stumbled on a discussion on Twitter attempting to trace the unjust end of the Dunn trial to a juror's potential "cognitive deficits" rather than a system of racial oppression in the US.
Excuse me?
There are constant comments coming from within the Down syndrome community. "Reading above grade level" said Cathy McMorris Rodgers of her son in the rebuttal to President Obama's State of the Union Address. I'm sure she meant well (And yey for her kid, I guess? Not sure.) but where does that leave someone who will not live up to that, now tacitly set, standard?
I have written about achievement before, when Babe was only 8 months old. I can't believe I'm still feeling the need to hammer on and on about it. Others have written about it too. And written about it some more. People are taking on language, really slurs, that are used to attempt to inflict embarrassment and hurt (or what, I don't know?) by equating the recipient with someone not traditionally considered intelligent or with someone having a lower, as measured by the standards today, intelligence quotient (IQ). Slurs that when used by certain people - those wanting to place themselves on the right side of history - not only dehumanize, but minimize ableism, especially and most alarmingly in the context of social justice struggles.
Often equating, implicitly as well as explicitly, the recipient of the insult with someone like my kid.
Many people have repeatedly taken on the slurs retard and retarded. Others have challenged special and even created glossaries (check this out, please), others remind us of what all the slur 'stupid' really carries in its connotations. There exist great analyses on why ableist language is never "just words". I've talked about the rhetoric of ableism many times and will do so again. I'm sure.
But I also feel the need to reel it all back in a little bit and really address the foundation of it, something that continues to catch me off guard in the realm of social justice:
"They treated me as if I weren't intelligent."
"My different way of communication doesn't mean I'm stupid."
"Just because I have a learning disability doesn't mean I'm not smart."
And many other statements that always come with a caveat that can be broken down to an assertion of intelligence regardless of some physical or developmental disability.
As if intellectual disability is the worst, lowest, least desirable, and in most need of fixing kind of a disability. As well as a disability that doesn't in fact stem from a society that ignores the needs of those with lower IQs, but that is an impairment, a deficit that should not exist and that society doesn't have to accommodate for.
Too different. Unquestioningly bad.
These statements are like a sharp punch, right in my gut. Every. Single. Time.
They exclude my kid. They designate her as less worthy. They function to place her on the lowest rung on the ladder of humanity. They reinforce that ladder that shouldn't exist in the first place!
When people have privilege, the empathetic thing to do is to check it, not go "People think I'm of this oppressed group, but I'm actually not and it really pisses me off when people assume I'm not privileged." No one says that. Except for when they do about intelligence.
Intelligence privilege. It's a thing.
I won't waste your time telling you just how smart my kid is. Because she may not be smart, I don't know. She may not grow up to be intelligent. Statistics and research put estimates of her future IQ likely somewhere between 25 and 70. She might grow up to have an IQ of 75, who knows? But she might also have an IQ of 35. But that shouldn't make a difference in her worth, her value as a person, as a member of society, as a human being.
It's not about all of these things people with Down syndrome can do. Or about some undiscovered third eye/ spiritual connection/ alien coding abilities for when the overlords land they might have. It's not about them, it's about us.
And how fucking fucked up we are for looking for reasons for existence for them.
Justification, qualifications, reason, purpose.
I don't have any of that. Why should my kid? I mean, really, think about it. I'm the result of some beautifully complex biology, some hard work, choices, situations, networks, love and some will, mine and others.
I have no purpose. There is nothing that justifies my being here, doing what I do. Why should the standard be different for my child?
So when you call someone stupid, or think it a total win to attack by trying to denigrate someone's intelligence I want you to stop, look in, listen, and reflect. I don't want you to just stop using slurs (Although could you please? Thanks so much. Now, see how easy that was to stop contributing to hurt and oppression? Don't be an asshole when you can avoid it, unless you have a really good reason and here you really don't, k.), but I'd like for you to give this concept of intelligence at least as much critical thought as you give beauty, body type, race, height, gender, in regards to what all these "say" about the person, their worth, their character, their self, or ( Zeus forbid, I really don't want to even mention this because why would you attack someone's person instead of what they just said) their argument, and what you, by bringing this attribute into the discussion, nay into your value hierarchy, are putting out out there into the world.
Intelligence can be a valuable tool. It gives you privilege. But so do good looks, white skin, and wealth, but we don't agree that those should be respected without question and challenge, or deemed as the norm that all others must conform and aspire to. We fight those arbitrary standards. Let's fight this too.


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dWhen studying a mathematical space X (e.g. a vector space, a topological space, a manifold, a group, an algebraic variety etc.), there are two fundamentally basic ways to try to understand the space:
- By looking at subobjects in X, or more generally maps from some other space Y into X. For iTnstance, a point in a space X can be viewed as a map from to X; a curve in a space X could be thought of as a map from to X; a group G can be studied via its subgroups K, and so forth.
- By looking at objects on X, or more precisely maps from X into some other space Y. For instance, one can study a topological space X via the real- or complex-valued continuous functions on X; one can study a group G via its quotient groups ; one can study an algebraic variety V by studying the polynomials on V (and in particular, the ideal of polynomials that vanish identically on V); and so forth.
(There are also more sophisticated ways to study an object via its maps, e.g. by studying extensions, joinings, splittings, universal lifts, etc. The general study of objects via the maps between them is formalised abstractly in modern mathematics as category theory, and is also closely related to homological algebra.)
A remarkable phenomenon in many areas of mathematics is that of (contravariant) duality: that the maps into and out of one type of mathematical object X can be naturally associated to the maps out of and into a dual object (note the reversal of arrows here!). In some cases, the dual object looks quite different from the original object X. (For instance, in Stone duality, discussed in Notes 4, X would be a Boolean algebra (or some other partially ordered set) and would be a compact totally disconnected Hausdorff space (or some other topological space).) In other cases, most notably with Hilbert spaces as discussed in Notes 5, the dual object is essentially identical to X itself.
In these notes we discuss a third important case of duality, namely duality of normed vector spaces, which is of an intermediate nature to the previous two examples: the dual of a normed vector space turns out to be another normed vector space, but generally one which is not equivalent to X itself (except in the important special case when X is a Hilbert space, as mentioned above). On the other hand, the double dual turns out to be closely related to X, and in several (but not all) important cases, is essentially identical to X. One of the most important uses of dual spaces in functional analysis is that it allows one to define the transpose of a continuous linear operator .
A fundamental tool in understanding duality of normed vector spaces will be the Hahn-Banach theorem, which is an indispensable tool for exploring the dual of a vector space. (Indeed, without this theorem, it is not clear at all that the dual of a non-trivial normed vector space is non-trivial!) Thus, we shall study this theorem in detail in these notes concurrently with our discussion of duality.


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Managing the New Alpha-Bents
A group of new creeping bentgrass varieties released several years ago have earned the collective nickname "A and G series." These grasses were selected by turfgrass breeder Dr. Joe Duich, Pennsylvania State University, from old Penncross putting greens in Georgia. They include A-1, A-2, A-4, G-1, G-2 and G-6. Their shoot density is 25 percent greater than Penncross, which may better allow them to resist invasion by annual bluegrass (Poa annua). As a group, they typically rank at or near the top of the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program (NTEP) trials due to their fine leaf texture, uniform surfaces and high quality. Some users boast of their disease-resistance, which could reduce fungicide applications.
Duich recommends a low mowing height, about 0.125 to 0.156 inch, and has said they require more frequent topdressing and cultivation than cultivars like Penncross in order to avoid problems with excessive thatch development. Consequently, many turf managers have been afraid to adopt the A and G cultivars because they want to avoid additional management costs. Another concern turf managers have is that the sheer density of the grasses might prevent topdressing from working its way down through the canopy, causing an excessive amount of the coarse sand particles to be picked up. The result would be a layer of fine-textured sand that might interfere with water infiltration.
We set out to determine the extent of additional topdressing and cultivation requirements for managing A-4 and G-2 compared to Penncross. Plots of A-4, G-2 and Penncross were seeded at the O.J. Noer Turfgrass Research and Educational Facility in Wisconsin during autumn 1998. We mowed the turf six days each week at a height of 0.125 inch and removed the clippings. Turf was fertilized four times yearly with about 1 pound nitrogen (N) per thousand square feet with each application. In spring 1999, we began topdressing the turf on either a monthly or biweekly interval, with and without verticutting before topdressing. We used an 80:20 sand:peat topdressing mix and applied a total of 0.031 inch depth each month, equal to about 110 pounds per thousand square feet. The topdressing mix met USGA requirements, so the majority of the sand particles were of medium size, with much smaller fractions of coarse and fine materials. We brushed the topdressing into the turf then irrigated to replace the estimated daily water loss (ET). Coring (core aeration) was stripped across all plots to compare the effects of monthly versus a single annual core aeration in the fall. We used 0.25-inch-diameter tines for the monthly coring and 0.5-inch-diameter tines for all the plots for the final or single fall aeration. We removed the cores, and the monthly topdressing treatment always followed coring. Most golf courses are reluctant to use core aeration more than once in the fall or spring because of the time required for the turf to recover from the damage. Core aeration is a proven method to reduce thatch production, and we needed to find out if aggressive coring made a difference in thatch production and loss of topdressing through mowing.
The day following topdressing, we separated the topdressing collected in the mower buckets from the leaf clippings. The topdressing was sieved to determine the sizes of particles picked up by the mower. Each month we rated the turf for color, quality and disease. When disease occurred we allowed it to progress to a point where we could "rescue" the turf with a fungicide before rating disease severity. Once each fall in 2000 and 2001, we collected cores from each plot to measure thatch depth and weight.
As expected, both A-4 and G-2 had significantly better turf quality than Penncross throughout the year. On a one to nine scale, with nine equal to perfect turf and six considered acceptable for a putting green, both A-4 and G-2 rated a seven to eight throughout the growing season. Their turf quality was acceptable by May, while Penncross didn't have acceptable turf quality until June in 2000 and July in 2001. The color of G-2 was a noticeably lighter green than either A-4 or Penncross, but was not unacceptable. Both A-4 and G-2 had noticeably better turf density, which helped to prevent weeds such as Poa annua. The overall uniformity of A-4 and G-2 was significantly better than Penncross, which tends to form patches of different colors and textures over time. Penncross had significantly less dollar spot than either A-4 or G-2, with an average of 19 spots per 1,000 square feet versus 40 spots in G-2 and 150 spots per 1,000 square feet in A-4 turf. The difference in dollar spot occurrence could be due to the lower turf density of Penncross, which makes it more difficult for the dollar spot fungus to spread leaf to leaf. The large difference between dollar spot disease in G-2 and A-4, however, indicates G-2 simply may have better disease resistance, as turf density was about the same.
Surprisingly little topdressing sand was removed by mowing. A-4 had the most topdressing removed at 2.8 percent, while G-2 and Penncross both had only about 1.8 percent of the topdressing removed. The size of sand removed was fairly equally spaced among the coarse, medium and fine particle sizes. Given the relative uniformity of loss between particle sizes and the small amount of total topdressing lost, there is no reason to believe that A-4 or G-2 will cause a layer of finely-sized sand particles to develop and inhibit drainage in a putting green.
Topdressing frequency and the use of verticutting affected topdressing losses only by a small amount. Topdressing monthly resulted in the loss of 2.3 percent of the topdressing applied, compared to losses of 2.0 percent for biweekly topdressing and 1.7 percent for biweekly topdressing following verticutting. Although the combination of verticutting and applying topdressing at two-week intervals caused the least amount of topdressing to be lost, the temporary disruption to the putting green surface caused by verticutting may not be worth the price of retaining an extra 0.6 percent of topdressing.
Coring monthly had the opposite effect than was intended. Monthly coring resulted in 2.1 percent of the topdressing being picked up by mowing, while only 1.8 percent of the topdressing was removed in plots cored once a year. As it turns out, monthly coring brought more sand to the surface for mowers to pick up than it allowed to fall into the putting green profile.
Both A-4 and G-2 produced significantly more thatch than Penncross (see Table 1, above). By 2000, A-4 and G-2 both had about 0.6 inch of organic matter at the surface compared to 0.5 inch for Penncross. In 2001, both A-4 and G-2 had about 1 inch of organic matter compared to 0.6 inch for Penncross. However, the turf surfaces did not feel any more "puffy" than the Penncross surfaces due to the dilution of the thatch with the topdressing. In other words, all of the topdressing and cultivation combinations effectively diluted the thatch to produce a "mat" layer. Although high in organic material, with individual roots and stolons still often visible, a mat layer is acceptable as its firmness allows mowing without scalping and provides a firm playing surface compared to undiluted thatch.
None of the cultivation methods significantly affected the thatch layer. Although topdressing biweekly may have allowed a slightly greater amount of topdressing to enter into the turf to dilute the thatch layer, the extra labor and equipment wear and tear is probably not worth the cost. Thus, monthly topdressing with one annual core aeration will generally be acceptable for managing A and G series bentgrasses. Avoid going too long between topdressing because a sandwich-like layer of thatch and mat layer can develop, which will prevent good drainage.
A-4 and G-2 require about the same amount of topdressing and coring efforts that are required for management of Penncross greens. Biweekly topdressing and verticutting, combined with monthly coring, can slightly decrease the amount of topdressing lost by mowing, but because no more than 3 percent of topdressing is removed even from the dense turf of A-4, the overall effect is minor. Both A-4 and G-2 have far better turf quality than Penncross. A-4 is more susceptible to dollar spot disease than either G-2 or Penncross. Of the three cultivars, G-2 should provide the best combination of turf quality, dollar spot resistance and management requirements.
Dr. John Stier is associate professor of environmental turfgrass science at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wis.).
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Rob Stone
Rob Stone is an actor who played the character Kevin Owens on the sitcom Mr. Belvedere ,which was originally aired on ABC from 1985-1990. Kevin was the oldest child in the Owens family.
Stone was born on September 22, 1962 in Dallas, Texas. He started acting in Dallas doing a lot of theatre at the age 13, primarily at the Dallas Theatre Center. He later attended the University of Southern California's BFA Drama conservatory. Stone acted in several plays at USC and met his agent, who happened to be in the audience of one of them. Stone's first television roles were guest spots on The Facts of Life and V.
Stone later got his big breakthrough when he auditioned for the role of Kevin Owens on Mr. Belvedere. Mr. Belvedere was a very successful sitcom and Kevin Owens was an important character on the show. Several of the episode plotlines revolved around Kevin's attempts to meet girls.
Kevin Owens was one of the creepiest characters ever to appear on a family sitcom. There were definitely some homoerotic overtones in episodes in which the Kevin character played a large role and it seemed like it was only a matter of time until Kevin molested a kid in one of those "serious" episodes that were occasionally shown in 1980s sitcoms. Kevin seemed to be a little bit "too close" to his brother, Wesley T. Owens (played by fellow washed-up actor Brice Beckham), although nothing inappropriate was ever shown happening between them.
After Mr. Belvedere went off the air in 1990, Stone's career derailed. His only roles since the show's cancellation were in an unaired TV pilot of Revenge of the Nerds and two guest appearances on Matlock.
I'm not sure what Stone is currently doing. I know that actors often use their own experiences when playing characters, so I can only hope that the real-life Stone isn't as creepy as Stone's Kevin Owens character. There were obviously incorrect rumors that Stone was Marilyn Manson. However, regardless of what he's doing now, there can be no doubt that Rob Stone is one washed-up celebrity!
*** Update - July 5, 2009 ***
I recently discovered this strange video clip from a 1980s After School Special entitled Ace Hits the Big Time, in which Rob Stone makes an appearance. In this video, Stone appears to be attacked by a gay gang whose members beat him up in a "dance fight."


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Rep. Chu Urges Do-Nothing GOP Congress to Get Back Work
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-32) returned to Washington to object to inaction by Congressional Republicans, who have taken a 7 week vacation while neglecting the people's work. Rep. Chu stood on the House floor to demand that Republicans return to Washington and come back into session. Despite the Republican Leadership turning off the microphones to block her from speaking, Congresswoman Chu spoke on the House floor in protest. She then joined a forum with Democratic colleagues on how to save Medicare for seniors, now and into the future. Afterwards, she released the following statement to the press:
"For almost two years, Congressional Republicans have pandered to millionaires instead of helping the Middle Class. They refused to pass President Obama's Jobs Act to address our economic crisis, they voted to end Medicare as we know it and saddle our seniors with the bill, and they fought for tax breaks for millionaires and companies that ship jobs overseas."
"They laid out their priorities for all to see in their Ryan Budget. This radical blueprint would change Medicare into a voucher program and increases costs on seniors by $6,400. It would reopen the donut hole and force seniors to pay more for their prescription drugs and eliminate new preventive care provided under health care reform. It goes without saying, but our seniors deserve better than over-glorified coupons that don't even cover their bills."
"I came to the House floor today to say it's time to start working on all the things that Republicans have neglected for almost 2 years. But instead of rising to the occasion, the GOP turned off the microphones. All across this country, people work hard for their livings and they expect the same from their leaders. It's time for Republicans to get back to Washington; it's time that they do the people's work; it's high time that this Do-Nothing Congress got something done!"
In one of the earliest adjournments in over 50 years, the Republican-led House left for a seven week vacation on September 21. In their rush to leave Washington, several pieces of legislation were left unfinished, including legislation to create jobs, an extension of middle class tax cuts, the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, a responsible deficit reduction alternative to sequestration, a Farm Bill for American Agriculture programs and legislation to save the Postal Service.
Congress passed a total of 61 bills in 2012 – less than one tenth as many as the infamous "Do-Nothing" Congress President Truman faced in 1948.
One of the most contentious bills passed this year was Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal. The non-partisan Congressional Budget office estimates that premiums and out-of-pocket expenditures would both be higher under the Ryan Budget, leaving most elderly people with higher expenses than under the current Medicare system. By 2030, a typical 65-year-old beneficiary will have to pay a 68 percent share of the cost, compared to 25 percent under the current Medicare system.
The Ryan proposal would repeal most of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act, including assistance to seniors in the prescription drug gap in Medicare Part D often referred as the donut hole. That would also include eliminating new preventive health care benefits provided by the Affordable Care Act.


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Some Tybee Islanders got an early start bettering the beach on Earth Day, plucking trash out of the sand in the wake of Orange Crush.
A YouTube video posted by Tony Abruzzio, who lives on Tybee part-time, went viral Sunday, prompting online debate about the unofficial yearly gathering of college students and young adults.
(Click the play icon on the left to watch the video.)
In the video, Abruzzio shows a section of the island's south beach pocked with cups, bottles, other trash and clothing as volunteers clean. "This is why Orange Crush has got such a bad reputation on Tybee," he says in the video.
Reached for comment Sunday evening, Abruzzio said he was appalled when he and his fiancée saw the state of the beach bright and early Sunday morning.
"We usually take a long walk on the beach," he said. "This morning, when we got out by the pier, we were confronted by a huge, huge mess."
He's seen the beach messy before. After St. Patrick's Day, he said, he posted a photo of a littered patch of Tybee's beach to Facebook. But Sunday morning, he said, was a whole new level of mess.
"On a scale of 1-10, today was a 10," Abruzzio said.
"The bottom line is it's really about accountability and respect for our natural surroundings," he said. "I clean up after myself everywhere I go."
Volunteers from Savannah State University, the Tybee community and even some tourists helped clean the beach, which Abruzzio said took a little less than two hours.
"It wasn't a planned beach sweep," said Mayor Jason Buelterman. "People were just down there volunteering."
From a law enforcement standpoint, Tybee Island Police Chief Bob Bryson said, it's tough to prevent littering when there are throngs of people on the beach. It's one thing for officers to hand out tickets when they see people littering or drinking out of glass bottles, he said, but quite another to send an officer into a press of partiers.
"It's a mass of people - it's an officer safety issue, too," he said.
Tybee police made 18 arrests Saturday, six of them for felony drug offenses, Bryson said.
The city of Tybee Island had little time to prepare for the swarm of visitors on Saturday.
The city doesn't issue a permit for the event since it's unofficial - just a lot of people coordinating to go to the beach at the same time. Because of that, Bryson said, police keep a keen eye on social media so they know when it's coming.
He likened it to a flash mob: "People just show up," he said.
Of course, an influx of beach visitors on a Saturday isn't really anything new for Tybee.
"We deal with large numbers every weekend," Bryson said. "This is no different than anything we have to deal with on a regular basis."
Early morning beach cleanups, too, are business as usual on the island, though they're not normally as intense as Sunday's.
"This particular instance, it was really, really bad, but we'll do what we have to do to make sure the beach is clean like always," Mayor Buelterman said.


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- Title: A Notorious Countess Confesses
- Author: Julie Anne Long
- Series: Pennyroyal Green, Book 7
- Genre(s): Historical
- Publisher: Avon, October 2012
- Source: Edelweiss ($5.99 ebook)
- Length: 384 pages
- Trope(s): Hot Vicar, Soiled Dove, Widow, Small Town, Beta Hero, Smartass Heroine
- Quick blurb: A newly widowed former courtesan asks a handsome village vicar to help her make friends.
- Quick review: A worthy addition to the series, but not one of Long's best.
- Grade: B
Yes…yes! He felt a twinge of something! It was coming now!
He scrawled:
I kissed her I kissed her I kissed her
As a sermon, it was a failure, but his parishioners would doubtless find it edifying.
Notorious Countess worked much better for me than the previous book in the series. (Where in the hell did those people come from and why should I care? And I didn't care, because I don't remember anything about it beyond the cheesy title). This one is a bit more fairy tale-ish than her other books, but Long still manages to pull off the tricky balance of broad humor and intimate yearning.
Another romance novel art that Long consistently does really, really well is showing, not telling, how her hero and heroine fall in love. It might be insta-lust or even insta-love, but by the time the first kiss happens, we know why her characters are drawn to each other.
I also appreciated that both the vicar and the courtesan did a lot of self-reflection and said some very hurtful but honest things to each other. HOWEVER…I was disappointed in how their interactions with the rest of the village were perfectly scripted to make them always come out on top of the uncomfortable situations.
And despite my recently admitted weakness for Grand Gestures, this ending was WAY too Love, Actually, with shamefaced parisioners standing up and spouting Magical Bible Verses like the LA wedding guests with hidden trumpets and trombones.
The Summoning of the Siblings bit was good, though — enough to make up for the goats and bring this up from a B- to a solid B.
[NOTE: I read an ARC, so I forced myself to ignore the dreadful editing fails. If that kind of WTFery had shown up in a published version I paid for, the grade would have been much, MUCH lower. Even so, my respect for Avon Books is diminished once again.]


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Trade News
Hamburg, November 21st 2013 - The plans for building and operating the two terminals in Hamburg and Bremerhaven, the future hubs of the German coastal LNG supply, have come to maturity. Currently, Bomin Linde LNG is finalising preparations to enable manufacturing of the key parts and prompt construction of the LNG facilities. The terminals will be installed on a modular basis and will have sufficient flexibility to quickly meet a rise in demand.
Starting from the strategic hubs Hamburg and Bremerhaven, neighbouring ports such as Kiel, Lübeck, Rostock or Wilhelmshaven can be reliably supplied with LNG. "We are fully on track with the projects and will be able to provide ships in all German ports along the North and Baltic Sea with LNG as a clean fuel," said Bomin Linde LNG Managing Director Ruben Benders. "This is an important step to establishing LNG as a marine fuel," added Mahinde Abeynaike, also Managing Director of Bomin Linde LNG. "The shipping industry needs secured supply of LNG at ports. This is crucial for the success of this economically attractive and green fuel."
"An LNG terminal in Hamburg is key for the long term sustainability of the port – both from an economic and ecological point of view. As a part of our strategic reorientation 'smartPORT Energy', it will support the reduction of air pollutants and carbon dioxide emissions," said Jens Meier, CEO of the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA).
"The LNG bunkering terminal in Bremerhaven consequently creates the necessary infrastructure for the protection of the maritime environment in line with the 'greenports' strategy and the fulfilment of the SECA (sulphur emission control areas) requirements," said bremenports' Managing Director Robert Howe.
Bomin Linde LNG is also able to provide liquefied natural gas for the marine industry beyond Germany's borders. For example, at the terminal in Nynäshamn next to Stockholm, Sweden, built by the Linde Group. Additionally, Bomin Linde LNG envisages supplying LNG at a new bunkering terminal in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where the approval request has already been submitted to the authorities. Moreover, Bomin Linde LNG is considering several bunkering facilities at additional international ports to further expand the development of the LNG infrastructure.
Starting in 2015, sulphur emission limits for ships operating in North and Baltic Sea will be reduced drastically. LNG as a transport fuel will significantly reduce emissions of sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, particular matter and CO2. In view of declining natural gas prices compared to oil over the last few years, LNG has become an economically viable fuel alternative. Based on a recent survey of HSH Nordbank, approximately one in five ship owners is planning to either retrofit his fleet with LNG propulsion or order new vessels that run on LNG.
About Bomin Linde LNG GmbH & Co. KG
Located in Hamburg, Germany, Bomin Linde LNG GmbH & Co. KG is a provider of liquefied natural gas as a fuel for the marine market. As a joint venture of Linde AG and Bomin Deutschland GmbH & Co., which is a subsidiary of Marquard & Bahls AG, Bomin Linde LNG has a broad range of expertise in refrigeration engineering, logistics and refuelling technology. The strategy of Bomin Linde LNG is to cover the complete LNG value chain – from sourcing and transport through storage and distribution to refuelling ships with LNG at strategically important ports.
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Chicago Public Schools missed out on as much as $2 million in pre-K payments over the past four school years due to a combination of errors, uncollected tuition and employee fraud, according to the district's internal watchdog.
Airline pilots on at least two U.S. flights have reported that an automated system seemed to cause their Boeing 737 Max planes to tilt down suddenly.
Lift a glass and make a toast to the musical and verbal talents of some Emerald Islanders who have arrived on the shores of Lake Michigan for brief stays.
With the help of volunteers who classify sounds from recordings of seismic events, scientists could learn more about the conditions under which earthquakes occur.
As Chicago voters prepare to head back to the polls, our series of forums continues with 5th Ward candidates Ald. Leslie Hairston and William Calloway.
Memories of jumping rope as a child lures a Chicago woman back to the sport as an adult – and inspires her to start teaching double Dutch to a new generation through her organization Black Girls Jump.
A green river, St. Patrick's Day parades, nature photos and Indian dances usher in the weekend. Here are 10 things to do in and around Chicago.
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Man's body found along Route 1 in Cecil County
Man identified as 51-year-old Mark T. Grubbs
The Maryland State Police said they are investigating the death of a 51-year-old man found along Route 1 in Cecil County.
Maryland State Police said they found the man around 2:40 a.m. just south of Route 222 in Conowingo.
The investigation left Route 1 shut down for hours as police tried to figure out how the man ended up on the side of the road.
Police said Mark T. Grubbs, of Pylesville, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities said troopers initially believed that Grubbs was involved in a motor vehicle collision, but after further investigation, investigators believe his death may not have resulted from a crash.
On Saturday, state police said several leads indicate Grubbs was at Sweeny's Bar in the 100 block of Conowingo Road before his death. Investigators are interviewing anyone who may have been at the bar on Friday.
The body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Police urge anyone with information to contact state police at 410-996-7800. Caller may remain confidential.


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Bean is a talented young developer from the North East of England. Working through the day at online marketing and digital marketing agency Digital Pop, Martin spends the rest of his time freelancing for yourfightsite.com. An avid fan of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and with a great understanding of back end development, Martin will achieve a lot.
Full Name and Age please
Martin Bean (Martin Christopher Bean if we're being pedantic) and 20 years.
Favourite Biscuit and Drink?
Fox's Crunch Creams and a cup of coffee. Together.
Last Book you read and the last movie you saw?
The last "book" I read was actually a graphic novel: "Batman: The Long Halloween" by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. Someone referred it to me as it was apparently one of the graphic novels The Dark Knight team took influences from for the movie's story (and it was interesting to see those similarities, albeit subtle). The last movie I saw was "Angels and Demons" on DVD. I thought it was a bit pants to be honest. My girlfriend assures me the book is far better, so I may have to pick up a copy to see if she's right.
Where and when did it all start?
I'm not sure how or exactly when it started. I remember being in maybe the second year or secondary school (so about 12) and picking up a book on HTML in my school's library. I gave up after the first chapter. I would later re-visit the idea of learning HTML and building websites and was a fair bit more successful than my first attempt.
I also had a copy of FrontPage on my home PC, but worked religiously in the code view. Crafting HTML pages and getting irked with FrontPage's habit of inserting Microsoft specific tags and removing them way before I heard of standards compliant mark-up or what it meant. CSS then came soon after.
I began subscribing to Practical Web Design magazine (a now-defunct offshoot of .net magazine) and that helped my HTML/CSS skills considerably in a quick amount of time.
At college, I didn't really progress my skills that much. I had a good knowledge of HTML and CSS and was the go-to guy with my peers for help, but other than that I wasn't going anyway technically, but picked a hell of a lot up in terms of the theory of web design and design in general. In my second year of college, I got a placement with a leading new media design agency in Newcastle. They threw me in the deep end, telling me I had two months to learn PHP (which saw me end up swimming rather than sinking) and got my foot in the door to employment in Newcastle. I would move to Newcastle from my home town of Darlington little over a year later after a couple of stints at other agencies in the region.
Is there anyone in the industry you're enjoying the work of at the moment?
Andy Clarke. But that vested interest is biased as he's redesigning the home page for CannyBill, a product by dpivision.com Ltd, whom I used to work for.
What does a general day consist of for you?
A week day usually consists of getting up at around 7:00am. I hop on a Quaylink to Newcastle City Centre, then get on another bus to work. At the moment my days are spent working on a super-secret project, but other than that I'm a web developer for a digital online marketing agency, so there's never a shortage of projects. But currently I working away developing a social networking site in PHP/MySQL.
What's your cup of tea, front end dev or back end dev?
Definitely back-end development. I thought I would be a web designing, but turns out my calling was in development.
You're a huge fan of MMA and set up yourfightsite.com, who do you think will be able to take the title from Brock Lesner? (I'm a fan also).
Good question. Brock Lesnar has this stigma that due to being a former professional wrestler and a multiple-time WWE Champion that he shouldn't do well in a "real" fight sport, but the fact of the matter is, is the guy is a monster. His only downfall is his lack of experience in MMA fights which was glaringly visible in his UFC bout with Frank Mir back in February 2008 I think it was. That will be Brock's downfall – a lack of experience. However, with each and every fight he closes that gap, and no one can go toe-to-toe with him in terms of size or strength.
Are you a PC or a Mac and do you have a reason for choosing one over the other?
PC, simply for the fact that I've never had enough money for a Mac when I had to buy a new machine at home. And at work we all use PCs. However, if I had the option I would definitely grab a Mac.
Where do you see yourself in the future?
I think it's dead set that PHP is my core skill set, but in the future I hope to expand my knowledge of web technologies. I want to be a versatile programmer and have a great knowledge of various languages. Java interests me, .NET not so much though. I don't want PHP to limit my capabilities in the realm of server-side development or programming. I definitely want to become my au fait with AJAX as well.
Will you be heading to any conferences over the next year?
I've been wanting to attend a conference for the past year or so, but haven't been able to whether it was because of money or lack of time off etc. I'm really pining to go to one, so think I may try and attend one in the North East first, just to see what's involved, and then go for a larger one down south. Richard Quick's Bamboo Juice conference piqued my interest somewhat and was about to go until something came up at the last minute, despite the nice chap offering me a discounted ticket!


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For a mid-size European Union insurance provider, the transformation journey toward Solvency II is requiring a massive change of internal governance and process as well as an optimization of business decisions. So far, the business review has delivered approximately €150 million in capital savings and €30 million in additional profits.
Like all EU insurers, this Italian provider was faced with dramatically altering its business model to comply with the Solvency II Directive, which requires insurers to strengthen their governance policies and key business processes. It also mandates new methodologies to assess risk and calculate solvency capital, and advanced IT and data infrastructure to support new risk management requirements. Firms are required to explain and justify each choice made to the regulatory board that governs the standard.
The company turned to BCG to help it navigate the required changes. Together, the team:
Capital optimization implied a detailed assessment of company-specific risks and delivered nearly €150 million in capital savings, leveraging on both business and methodological levers.
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- 2 cans (14-ounce) reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 12 ounces frozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 6 ounces uncooked short pasta (rotini or penne)
- 1/2 pound asparagus, trimmed and cut into bite-size pieces
- 1/4 cup prepared pesto
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- In a deep skillet or Dutch oven, bring broth to a boil over high heat. Add frozen chicken. Return to a boil, reduce the heat, cover and simmer 22 minutes. Remove chicken from broth, cool and shred.
- Increase heat to high and bring broth to a boil. Stir in pasta and continue to cook, uncovered, 6 minutes. Add asparagus and cook 2 minutes or until asparagus is tender.
- Drain pasta mixture and return to skillet. Add shredded chicken, pesto, lemon juice and pepper; toss gently.
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Sound Board as Road Bed
Well, I have some sound board installed. I glued it to 3/4 plywood and given it three coats of latex paint. It is a brown color naturally. When you cut it you get a 'fuzz' that simply blew away. I cut it outside using my skil saw. Not bad actually, plywood makes more mess. It also cuts almost as easy as foam board with a utility knife.
Used a 16 oz bottle of titebond ($6) to secure it to the plywood. It took 4 oz per 2 * 8 sheet. THe first coat of paint simply disappeared before my eyes! The third coat dried and it looks like all the pictures of Homasote I ever saw. I've NEVER actually seen Homasote, not sure it really exists, cause I've never been able to find it, I think it might be an urban legend.
Ok, it looks good, it is solid, it feels good when I touch it. Now comes the acid test. Layout a piece of flex track on it and grab some track nails and a pair of needle nose pliers. You always hear guys say that Homasote is worth it. When that nail slid into the Sound board, I knew I'd done good. I'll give you that Homasote might hold the nails even better, but oh, was I pleased with how it went together. I'm confident that wnen I glue and balast the track, it will be just what I always wanted in a road bed.
I'll post again as I get more experience with it. So far, I' really pleased.
Thanks to those who encouraged me to try it.
PS, $9 a sheet at Home Depot AND Lowes in the N. Denver area.


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For some reason yesterday I thought about your cat and your cat pictures and here they are again.ReplyDelete
I think I am getting hooked up x
Absolutely gorgeous. Sunday mornings are the best.ReplyDelete
Oh this picture is so so so cutey pie....love it ...sure suits the caption.......ReplyDelete
A lazy and relaxing Sunday morning should be just like that!ReplyDelete
Wow ma belle Rosa!!le jeu des lumières est tout a fait magique!!ReplyDelete
Bonne soirée xx
Today I am lazy too! I had a sip of the wrong Tsipouro yesterday in a Taverna. Terrible hangover for such a little quantity of drink. :(ReplyDelete
I love lazy Sunday mornings. Every day is Sunday morning to cats.ReplyDelete
I love how relaxed he is! Gorgeous picture, Rosa!ReplyDelete
That is exactly what I want to do, being lazy on Sunday morning, especially when it is pouring and stormy outside.ReplyDelete
sooo beautifullll!!!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful capture. Have a wonderful week.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:20 AM, April 12, 2010
ein Auge immer leicht geöffnet. Richtung Küche ?ReplyDelete
Liebe Grüsse
Thats a lovely pic rosa,..ReplyDelete
I love this lazy cat!! xxx gloriaReplyDelete
hmm...i often feel just like that. fortunately, no one's around to snap my picture. :)ReplyDelete
Wow, what a great way to enjoy Sunday :-)ReplyDelete
Hehe that's how I feel on a Sunday morning! :PReplyDelete
Adorable, Rosa! How DO you get such marvelous photos??ReplyDelete
Oh, how I love the light on that darling nose and curled paw! Precious and lovely -- all at once!ReplyDelete
I just love it when they laze about like this! Marushka is so beautiful.ReplyDelete
What a nice relaxed nap...ReplyDelete
He looks so cute in this position...
What a tease.ReplyDelete
Leave it to a kitty to get a tummy rub without ever begging.


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Central Connecticut's Dylan DelaCruz and J.P. Sportman have been selected for the roster in the upcoming New England Collegiate Baseball League's 19th annual All-Star Game on Sunday, July 22, at Recreation Field in Montpelier, VT. Both Blue Devils have enjoyed steller summer seasons with the Keene Swamp Bats.
Sportman currently leads the Swamp Bats in RBI with 34, is second in batting average at .380 and third in home runs with six. He has played in 28 games and racked up 41 hits and 20 runs scored in 108 at bats. Sportman entered the summer coming off of an impressive sophomore season with the Blue Devils in which he earned the highest batting average on the team, .353, posted 67 hits, 14 doubles, seven home runs and 33 RBI in 190 at bats.
DelaCruz goes into the All-Star game listed third on the team in RBI with 24. He has played in 29 games and posted a .300 batting average and four home runs in 120 at bats. He comes off of his sophomore Blue Devil season in which he played in 50 games and finished first on the team in runs with 39 and in doubles with 19. He also earned a .326 batting average and racked up 62 hits and 25 RBI in 190 at bats.
Another Blue Devil standout this summer has been pitcher Nick Boyd who leads the New York Collegiate Baseball League in wins (6-1) and was appointed to the Western Division All-Stars roster. He played in the NYCBL All-Star Game on July 11 and currently leads the Hornell Dodgers in games started (seven) and in strikeouts (32) in a team-high 46.1 innings pitched. Boyd comes off of his sophomore season at Central playing in 13 games, pitching 20.1 innings and posting a 0.89 earned run average.
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You cannot use any modules that have to be imported into your code.
Upload a single file named exam_yourname.py containing your functions. Any content outside of the function must be commented (#).
1. [20 pts] Write a function,
gc_content(sequence), that calculates the proportion of nucleotides in a sequence that are either G or C. For example, the sequence ATGC would return 0.5.
2. [20 pts] Write a function,
word_count(input_file), that returns the number of lines and characters (all characters including white space, except new lines) in a file. The return value should be a tuple. The function should work with any size file (i.e. don't read the entire file into memory). The function should exit gracefully if the file can't be opened and should not leave the file open.
For example:
>seq1 ATG >seq2 CTA
would return (4, 16) (i.e. 4 lines, 16 characters)
3. [20] Write a function,
matrix_mean(matrix), that returns the mean value for each row in a matrix as a list. For example, the matrix [[1,2,3], [5,6,7]] would return [2, 6].
4. [20] Write a function,
element_counter(some_list) that returns a dictionary of each unique element and the corresponding number of occurrences of the element in the list. For example, the list ['ATG', 'TAG', 'TTT', 'TAG', 'TTT'] would return {'ATG': 1, 'TAG': 2, 'TTT': 2}
5. [20] Write a function,
motif_coordinates(sequence, motif), that returns the start and end position of the first occurrence of a motif within a sequence as a tuple. Report the position relative to a starting position of 1 not the first python index of 0. For example, given the sequence ATGCTGTTAGCAG and the motif CAG, the function would return (11, 13).


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I could not count the number of times I have met Giuliani or Mike Bloomberg. But I remember meeting Koch for the first time at Gracie Mansion. There are many aspects of being a mayor that go unnoticed. The deals with unions, developers, city pensions, and the problem above all problems - government debt – are where individual mayors can really make a mark. Koch came up through the Democratic machine system, and he got the city through one of its toughest times in recent memory. If Koch was the governmental savior, Felix Rohatyn was the financial brains that rescued New York. But Koch was good at building the relationships that made the city run, and a lot of chief executives – from mayors to presidents – cannot make that claim today. Can a person be a successful mayor of a large city without being able to build relationships? It may not be necessary, but it sure does help. You know Koch was good at this because the relationships he formed lasted his entire life.
I briefly worked as a volunteer with retired Parks Commissioner Henry Stern. Stern is a brilliant man, and like Koch, he is a piece of New York City political history. Stern and Koch were great friends. They were part of a cadre of friends that attended movies and regularly ate together at restaurants. Their's was a relationship that lived through government and into civilian life. The reason why this is an important story is that very few people at this level of government can make this claim. Koch was close with his friends when he was mayor, and he remained close even when the issues of the day were not about City Hall.
Koch was a quintessential New Yorker from a time when being so meant more than coming here after college to build a career. Koch cared about this city and the evidence is in one of his last efforts. Koch, Stern and a team of others set out to reform the way districts are drawn in New York. There is no more important issue when it comes to reforming government than how we draw districts.
If districts are drawn in this state with the oversight of an independent body, we will have more competitive elections. Politicians designing districts means that incumbency is protected. Koch did this city and state a great service right up to the very end. The relationships that he built and the friendships that he forged helped the reform effort. That worn out phrase from Leo Durocher that "nice guys finish last" is nonsense. Nice guys very often are the most effective, and Koch was proof of that. Years ago, I wrote a letter to Koch just to get his thoughts on another writer. He wrote me right back. In many ways, he was more than a part of the political upper echelon; he was a part of the citizenry. He wrote back.
He was never cocooned in a staffing fortress like some leaders. Just look at how he was laid to rest, in a nondenominational cemetery so he could remain in New York. Even in death, he was not a cliquey politician.
Some critics who complained that he was not open enough about his personal life were off base. Koch should be remembered as a relationship builder, and in this city, that is a very big deal. To be a leader when relationships mattered beyond politics, that must have been a blast.


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Prepare yourself for the energy and awe of the haka.
The haka is a type of ancient Māori war dance traditionally used on the battlefield, as well as when groups came together in peace. Haka are a fierce display of a tribe's pride, strength and unity. Actions include violent foot-stamping, tongue protrusions and rhythmic body slapping to accompany a loud chant. The words of a haka often poetically describe ancestors and events in the tribe's history.
Today, haka are still used during Māori ceremonies and celebrations to honour guests and show the importance of the occasion. This includes family events, like birthdays and weddings.
Haka are also used to challenge opponents on the sports field. You may have seen a haka performed by New Zealand's All Blacks before a rugby match? You'll probably agree that it's a terrifying sight to behold!
Apart from going to watch the All Blacks play rugby, there are plenty of places where you can witness a live haka.


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Class of 80 | It was embarrassment that drove Edward Lawler Jr. C80 to investigate the strange situation of the Presidents House in Philadelphia. He was giving a tour of the Independence Hall area to a relative about five years ago, and after explaining that Philadelphia had been the nations capital in the 1790s, he pointed out Congress Hall (where the House of Representatives and Senate met) and Old City Hall (where the U.S. Supreme Court met). The young man listened, then asked where the equivalent of the White House had been.
I turned around and pointed to the ladies restroom next to the Liberty Bell Pavilion, and told him I thought it had stood there, says Lawler, who prided himself on his knowledge of local history. But it seemed odd that I didnt know this for sure, that so important a building and site had been forgotten.
The details of its commemoration are still being hashed out, but the fact that it is being commemorated at all is due largely to Lawler, the Independence Hall Associations historian, who has invested countless hours into making the memory historically accurate.
Few buildings in America had the historical pedigree of the Presidents House, which stood on the south side of Market (then known as High) Street, a block north of Independence Hall. Built in 1767 (and rebuilt in 1781 by Revolutionary financier Robert Morris), the handsome, four-story brick edifice was both the residence and executive mansion of the nations first two Presidents. George Washington lived there from November 1790 until March 1797, and presided over State dinners on Thursdays and public levees (audiences) on Tuesday afternoons. Living with him was his wife Martha and their white servantsand eight of their slaves, who were periodically rotated out of the state to avoid Pennsylvanias anti-slavery law. Two escaped during their time in Philadelphia, and Washington signed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 into law while living in the house. That law, notes Lawler, gave teeth to the provisions of the Constitution which protected slavery, and had a chilling effect on the lives of the one-fifth of the American population which was of African descent.
Native Americans enjoyed a slightly warmer welcome there, at least on one occasion. In a 1794 diary entry, John Quincy Adams described a reception given to a group of Chickasaw Indians by Washington, who joined them in smoking from a large East Indian pipe.
Three years later, Adams father, John, was elected the nations second president, and he and (sometimes) his wife Abigail lived there from late March of that year until May 1800. It was in the Presidents House in December 1799 that they received the Senate in a Body with a sympathetic address mourning the death of Washington.
There were other famous residents of the housewhich, before the Revolution, was owned by Richard Penn, grandson of William Penn and the brother of Thomas Penn, who helped fund the College of Philadelphia. One was British General William Howe, who lived there during the occupation of Philadelphia. Another was Major General Benedict Arnold, who made the house his residence and headquarters after the British evacuated the city in June 1778; it was there that he began his treasonous correspondence with the British.
The house was converted into a hotel in 1800, and on November 10 of that year, Abigail Adams stayed there en route to the new capital in the District of Columbia. She wrote to her sister: Though the furniture and arrangment (sic) of the House is changed I feel more at home here than I should any where else in the city, and I can scarcly (sic) persuade myself that tomorrow I must quit it, for an unknown & unseen abode. That would be the White House.
The house was gutted in 1832, and the memory of it faded. Though its side walls stood until the 1950s, the size, shape, and exact location had long been blurred by the conjectures of amateur historians.
In the 1930s, a WPA [Works Progress Administration] project assigned more than 40 peoplehistorians, researchers, architects, woodworkersto create a model of the Presidents House. The idea was to generate enough interest to rebuild it, full-sized, in the proposed Independence National Historical Park.
Unfortunately, says Lawler, the WPA researchers really blew it. Though they created a gorgeous, carefully detailed model, it was of a fictional five-bay house that had been conjured up by a 19th-century amateur historian. To add insult to injury, the WPA somehow missed the fact that the four-story side walls of the house were still standing, right there in front of everyone.
A rebuilt Presidents House could have become as familiar a sight (and a site) as the Governors Palace in Williamsburg, Lawler adds wistfully. Instead, a public toilet was built atop the footprint of the house.
Fast-forward again to the late 1990s. A month after Lawler gave that eye-opening tour to his relative, Independence National Historical Park began a series of public meetings about the proposed changes to Independence Mall, which included a new Visitors Center, a new home for the Liberty Bell, and the National Constitution Center [The House That Joe Built, November/December]. Lawler was one of three citizens who urged that the Presidents House be commemorated in some fashion.
The Parks response was unenthusiastic (to say the least), so I decided to begin researching it on my own, he recalls. It started as a puzzle, to figure out just exactly what the Presidents House had looked like when Washington and Adams occupied it, hoping that the work would help Independence Park to commemorate the house. I have a big collection of Philadelphia books from my father and grandfather, both Penn grads, and the more research I did on the house the more confusing things became.
The efforts to establish the truth and commemorate the Presidents House and its early inhabitants can be found on the Independence Hall Associations Web site (www.ushistory.org/ presidentshouse). But at least there is a consensus that the footprint of the house should be outlined in the paving of the entrance plaza to the Liberty Bell Center, and that the eight slaves will be commemoratedthough exactly how remains under discussion.
If its been an often-frustrating project for Lawler, its also been enormously rewarding.
The most satisfying aspect of the project has been reconstructing the lives of the eight enslaved African Americans who Washington brought to Philadelphia to work in the presidential household: Giles, Paris, and Austin, who worked in the stables; Hercules, who was the primary cook, and his son, Richmond, who helped in the kitchen; Moll, who cared for Martha Washingtons two grandchildren; Christopher Sheels, who was Washingtons body servant; and Oney Judge, who was Marthas body servant, says Lawler. In the past, theyve been largely a list of names; Ive tried to gather personal anecdotes and biographical information to help turn them back into real people.
The moving story of Oney Judges escape to New Hampshireand Washingtons requests to have her seized and returned can be found on the Web site, as can thumbnail sketches of the other slaves. The site also features a number of letters and memoirs written by visitors to the house.
From the first, I realized that the story of the house had to be told through first-person accounts at the site, says Lawler. Thousands of people visited the house in the 1790s, and I was certain that many would have written home about what it was like to attend a State dinner, or a presidential audience, which were called levees. There is also the correspondence of the people who lived in the house, especially Washington and his chief secretary, Tobias Lear, and John and Abigail Adams, who were extensive writers.
Asked if hed ever wanted to go back and tweak history a little, Lawler responds: Oh, yeah. Id like to go back to the 1930s, correct the WPAs colossal mistakes, and shout the opposite of what Reagan said to Gorbachev: Dont tear down these walls! S.H.
2004 The Pennsylvania Gazette
: Profiles
: Events
: Notes
: Obituaries
KIPP crusader Jason Botel
Life-celebrating artist Stuart Yankell
Gallery guru Robert Aibel
Ted Chung
Top, left:
"Washington's Residence, High Street," a lithograph by William
L. Breton (from John Fanning Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, 1830).
Above: The 500 block of Market Street in 1949 (Urban Archives, Temple
University). Far left: A plan of the property sometime after the fire
in 1780 (Land Office Map Collection, Pennsylvania State Archives).


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Our group of 8 recently returned from 10 wonderful days at Villa Rosada. All in all we had a great time and the house is absolutly beautiful. We did have a few issues however that we were not told about before renting. First off, Jose picked us up at the airport and took us in 2 cabs. When we arrived he informed us we had to pay the second cab. He then said he would check in on us every few days. I called him 2 days later to ask about renting a car and he said he would take us where we needed to go. I asked him to stop by so we can set up our travel needs and he never showed or called. We did see him again a few days later when we the electrical service caught fire bit then not again until we left. I arranged for a second cab to take us to the airport seeing as Jose never came around, and that cab along with Jose took us back to the airport. Upon arrival Jose told us we had to pay him as well and that the rental included one free ride from the airport and that was it. We have been renting homes like this for years and never heard anything like this. After we got home I emailed Jocko to tell him about this and I haven't heard back, it has been 2 weeks now. While I would not discourage anyone from this home, I am disappointed at the lack of service we received. It seems once the money is paid the service stopped.


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