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Two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning knows how important it is to stay active on and off the field. Now, the New York Giants quarterback has teamed up with Kinect Xbox 360 on a mission to get kids off their couches.
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The NFL star talked to Parade.com about his Super Bowl predictions, how he handles a loss on the field, fatherhood, and more.
What are your thoughts on Sunday's big game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens?
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How do you get over a big loss during the season?
"I think you've got to learn from each game. Win or lose, you really deal with it the same way. The Monday afterwards, you go in and watch the film and decide what you're doing well and what you need to improve on, so by Tuesday, you're preparing for that next game. You have to put it behind you and learn from the things you want to improve on that next week. That Sunday night after a loss, you're not going to be as happy as a win, but you've got to deal with each game the same way."
New York is such a big sports town. Is there a sense of community among all the teams?
"Yes, I think it's like a little fraternity between the sports in New York. You get to know some of the guys on each team and try to support each other, whether it's going to a Knicks game or a Yankees game. There are so many different teams, so it's hard to go to each one, but you watch and read the papers and keep up with what's going on and maybe send a text to a guy after he had a big game or a tough loss. I think it is a special fraternity, and you have to stick together and make sure the guys are keeping their heads up."
Your daughter Ava will turn two this year. What's the best part about fatherhood?
"Just seeing her grow every day. Each day she has something new that she's learning; either a new word or she's walking or running or throwing a ball. She surprises me each day."
Would you want her to play football one day?
"I'm going to promote sports because I think it's great for learning about teamwork and leadership and dealing with wins and losses, and obviously great for her health, so I'd love for her to be involved in sports. If she wants to play football, I'll promote that. I don't know if I'll put her in pads and have her go out for the team, but I'd promote flag football or a pickup game around the neighborhood if there were kids playing. I'd want her to go join them and just have fun."
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Roger Ebert, one of the country's most well-known and influential fim critics, died today after battling cancer, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. He was 70 years old. Ebert battled cancer of the thyroid and pituitary gland, and lost part of his lower jaw in 2006. Even while fighting cancer, Ebert reviewed up to 285 movies a year and scheduled surgeries around movie screenings. His website, rogerebert.com, had millions of fans, and he had 827,000 followers on Twitter. He is survived by his wife, step-daughter and two step-grandchildren.
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"Democrats and Republicans were able to come to an agreement on a strong, comprehensive bill. That is a message that should resound in 49 other states, and in Washington, D.C., and the message is we can get it done here and they should get it done in their respective states and nationally in Congress." - Conn. Senate President Don Williams, on Connecticut's gun legislation, signed into effect by the governor today. The legislation adds over 100 types of guns to the states banned assault weapons list and requires background checks for all gun purchases, according to CNN. It also limits the capacity of ammunition magazines and bans armor-piercing bullets.
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US investigators ask Boeing to provide history of batteries in wake of overheating problems
TOKYO – U.S. investigators said Wednesday they asked Boeing Co. to provide a full operating history of lithium-ion batteries used in its grounded 787 Dreamliners after Japan's All Nippon Airways revealed it had repeatedly replaced the batteries even before overheating problems surfaced.
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson said the agency made the request after recently becoming aware of battery problems at ANA that occurred before a Jan. 7 battery fire in a 787 parked at Boston's Logan International Airport. Boeing has already collected some of the information, he said.
ANA said it had replaced batteries on its 787 aircraft some 10 times because they didn't charge properly or connections with electrical systems failed, and informed Boeing about the swaps. Japan Airlines also said it had replaced 787 batteries. It described the number involved as a few but couldn't immediately give further details.
All 50 of the Boeing 787s in use around the world remain grounded after an ANA flight on Jan. 16 made an emergency landing in Japan when its main battery overheated.
The 787 is the first airliner to make wide use of lithium-ion batteries. They are prone to overheating and require additional safeguards to prevent fires. However, ANA spokeswoman Megumi Tezuka said the airline was not required to report the battery replacements to Japan's Transport Ministry because they did not interfere with flights and did not raise safety concerns.
Having to replace batteries on aircraft is not uncommon and was not considered out of the ordinary, she said.
Laura Brown, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, said in Washington that the agency was checking whether the previous battery incidents had been reported by Boeing.
Boeing in Japan said it couldn't comment while the NSTB investigation is underway. GS Yuasa, the Kyoto, Japan-based manufacturer of the batteries, said it could not comment.
With 17 of the jets, ANA was Boeing's launch customer for the technologically advanced airliner. The airline has had to cancel hundreds of flights, affecting tens of thousands of people, but has sought to minimize disruptions by switching to other aircraft as much as possible. ANA and Japan Airlines are among the biggest customers for the 787 and Japanese manufacturers make about 35 percent of the aircraft.
The battery problems experienced by ANA before the emergency landing were first reported by The New York Times.
Japanese and U.S. investigators looking into the Boeing 787's battery problems shifted their attention this week from GS Yuasa to the manufacturer of a monitoring system. That company, Kanto Aircraft Instrument Co., makes a system that monitors voltage, charging and temperature of the lithium-ion batteries.
On Tuesday, the NTSB said it was conducting a chemical analysis of internal short circuiting and thermal damage of the battery that caught fire in Boston.
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
75 North Eagleville Road
Storrs, CT 06269
Office: TLS 473
Phone: 518-573-3091
E-mail: Brigette Zacharczenko
About Me
Science interests
I have always loved insects. When I was 7 years old I decided I wanted to be an entomologist... and look at me now!
- Systematics, evolution, and behavior of insects
- Blacklighting to capture moths, rearing caterpillars in the lab
- Scientific illustration
- Entomology collection curation
Non-science interests
- I am an avid crossfitter at Crossfit Storrs
- I have several pets including two rabbits, three snakes, one gecko, one salamander, and a bunch of guppies
- If I'm not at school or caring for my pets, I am probably sewing. Since 2007 I have run my sewing business, Weird Bug Lady, on Etsy.com. I make plush toys of insects and other animals.
Places to find me on the internet
Weird Bug Lady
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Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
2010 - present
University of Connecticut, Storrs
B.Sc. Applied Zoology
McGill University
Macdonald Campus
Invertebrate systematics, speciation, and developmental biology. Evolutionary biology of the noctuid moth genus Acronicta with a focus on larval mimicry complexes, and changes in morphology and behavior between instars.
Fall 2010: BIOL1102 Foundations of Biology (TA)
Spring 2011: BIOL1102 Foundations of Biology (TA)
Fall 2011: BIOL1102 Foundations of Biology (TA)
Spring 2012: BIOL1102 Foundations of Biology (TA)
Summer 2012: EEB4252 Field Entomology (Instructor)
Fall 2012: EEB4250 General Entomology (TA)
Spring 2013: EEB2245 Evolutionary Biology (TA)
Popular writing
Kaatskill Life magazine (2003 – present)
Popular nature articles and photography published in a quarterly magazine.
The "Learning about Kaatskill Kritters" section is written alternately by Brigette and Nicholas Zacharczenko.
Peer reviewed publications
CARCNET 2010 20th Annual Meeting at Acadia University
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, September 17-20
Canadian Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Network
Presented: Geographic variation in dorsal colour patterns in Fowler's toads (with David M. Green)
2011-present EEB Graduate Student Association Treasurer
- Connecticut Entomological Society
- Entomological Society of America
- The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections


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Android may be open source, but that doesn't make the popular smartphone operating system invincible to security problems. Hot on the heels of a recently discovered iOS 4.1 vulnerability that could give malicious users access to a locked iPhone's phone app, messaging app, and more, a plethora of Android vulnerabilities have been identified.
The new Android vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers at security firm Coverity. In their Coverity Scan Open Source Integrity Report the researchers scoured 61 million lines of open source code, including the Android OS source used in the popular HTC Droid Incredible. Code from Apache, other Linux kernels, PHP, and Samba were among the 291 open source projects examined and compared to the Android kernel.
The team identified 359 bugs in the code. Of these, 88 of them (roughly 25 percent) were categorized as "high risk" — bugs that could endanger users' privacy.
Coverity gave Android mixed praise for the quality of its code. It said that Android had a lower density of bugs per thousand lines of code than average open source software. But it said it had a higher bug density than the highly scrutinized Linux kernel and that some of the critical bugs should have been caught before release.
While every Android distribution is slightly different, even for the same operating system number, it is thought that these vulnerabilities likely appear in most Froyo-equipped Android phones.
Google has responded quickly to Coverity, reportedly preparing over-the-air fixes that will be delivered by January at the latest. Coverity is holding off on releasing details of the vulnerabilities until those fixes are delivered. Over-the-air fixes are one reason some security experts say Android's security is superior to that of the Apple iPhone (iOS does not have over-the-air OS updates).
Google now has something in common with Microsoft — as the market leader in a major OS segment, it is the highest profile target for exploitation. Google owns nearly half of the U.S. smartphone market, while RIM and Apple each have roughly a quarter of the market.
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Cyprus Capital Controls First in EU Could Last Years
Yalman Onaran
March 27 (Bloomberg) — Cyprus is on the verge of an unprecedented financial experiment: imposing controls on money transfers in an economy that doesn't have its own currency.
Countries from Argentina to Iceland have used similar measures in the past to defend against devaluation. Being part of the euro zone may make it harder for the Mediterranean island to enforce restrictions, as any money that leaves the banking system can be taken out of Cyprus without losing value.
That also may make it more difficult to meet the goal set yesterday by Finance Minister Michael Sarris to lift any controls in "a matter of weeks." When economies in Asia and Latin America tried to stem the outflow of money in the 1980s and 1990s, they ended up keeping the measures in effect for six months to two years. Iceland, another island nation with an outsize banking system, still has capital controls five years after its banks collapsed in 2008.
"Thanks to political mismanagement, we now have a first: capital controls in the euro zone," said Nicolas Veron, a senior fellow at Bruegel in Brussels and a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. "How long is temporary? It could turn out like Iceland, extending to many years."
Russian Deposits
Cyprus today announced controls it will begin implementing when banks reopen tomorrow. The country's leaders are seeking to prevent the flight of money from island lenders, which have been closed for almost two weeks. Russian holdings in Cypriot banks are estimated by Moody's Investors Service at $31 billion, or about a quarter of total deposits.
The government limited daily withdrawals to 300 euros ($383) and restricted transfers overseas, according to a decree the central bank said will remain valid for four days. It also banned check cashing and terminating time deposits. Banks will open at noon tomorrow, the central bank said.
Yiangos Dimitriou, a central bank spokesman, told state-run CyBC television that the effectiveness of the measures will be evaluated daily.
Parliament last week gave wide-ranging powers to the central bank governor, Panicos Demetriades, and Finance Minister Sarris.
"They're going to need some serious controls to make sure the money doesn't leave the country," said Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, a London-based strategist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. "Otherwise, I can't see how any of this money with a high propensity to leave will stay voluntarily."
ECB Financing
A rush of money out of Cyprus would shift more financing responsibility to the European Central Bank, which provides about 10 billion euros of emergency loans to the country's lenders. After 30 billion euros, the ECB would have to lower its standards for the collateral it demands from Cypriot banks, Panigirtzoglou said. With deposit flight and rising loan losses in Cyprus and Greece, the ECB could lose money on the funds it lends. Even capital controls won't stop the drain, some say.
"Banks will become even more dependent on ECB liquidity because deposits will be largely drained," UBS AG Chairman Axel Weber, a former ECB board member, said on Bloomberg TV today.
Cyprus Popular
The island's lenders have been closed since a plan by the European Union to force losses on depositors in exchange for a 10 billion-euro bailout touched off a political upheaval. Parliament rejected the deal, which would have taxed all bank accounts, including those under the 100,000-euro deposit-insurance limit. A new agreement shuts Cyprus Popular Bank Pcl, the nation's second-largest lender. Uninsured depositors of that institution and the Bank of Cyprus Plc, the biggest, will share losses, while insured deposits in all the banks are spared.
When Iceland imposed capital controls after a property bubble burst and its banks collapsed, political leaders said they would be temporary, too.
Financial firms, with assets 11 times the national economy at the peak, were too big to save. So Iceland let them fail, splitting them into good and bad banks. Bondholders bore most of the losses. Iceland's krona dropped by more than half.
Restrictions on the movement of capital out of the country were intended to stabilize the currency. They mostly related to the conversion of the krona to other currencies and targeted legacy foreign investments in the nation's securities.
Bond Sales
Even with such a limited reach, the Icelandic capital controls have had a negative impact on the economy, according to Pall Hardarson, president of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.'s Iceland unit. They've discouraged outsiders from investing and made it harder for Icelandic companies to sell bonds overseas, he said. After doubling every year for five years, foreign direct investment in the island collapsed in 2008 and has remained about 25 percent below the pre-crisis level.
"Ultimately we need to create confidence in the economy, and with these controls it's hard to do so," said Hardarson. "Officially they only apply to legacy investments, but nevertheless they send a signal that things aren't the way they're supposed to be."
Krona-denominated bonds left from the boom era cannot be converted to foreign currency when they mature. The proceeds need to be reinvested in krona assets. That has created two foreign-exchange rates for the island's currency — an official one traded domestically and one offshore.
Offshore Kronur
The offshore krona trades lower than the official one because it reflects the difficulty exchanging them for dollars or euros, according to Hardarson. One euro was worth 159.54 kronur on official markets yesterday and 220 kronur offshore, according to Keldan.com, an Icelandic data provider.
The same is going to be true for the euro now that a member country is walled off from the rest, said Raoul Ruparel, chief economist at Open Europe, a London-based research group.
"Now there are two euros, one in Cyprus, one elsewhere," said Ruparel. "The whole point about a single currency is that money is fungible, it can cross borders without any restrictions. The capital controls in one member basically ends that arrangement."
To be effective, controls in Cyprus will have to be stricter than those in Iceland, Ruparel said. Iceland's importers and exporters have been exempted from currency-conversion restrictions as long as they can show the exchange is for trade purposes. If a similar exemption were to be made in Cyprus, Russian companies on the island could use the loophole to take their money out swiftly, Ruparel estimated.
Russian Investment
Cyprus-based Russian companies, taking advantage of the island's lower tax rates, are the largest source of foreign direct investment in Russia, according to central bank data.
Most efforts to restrict capital flows out of a banking system or a country have failed to protect the currency they were intended to prop up, according to separate papers by Sebastian Edwards, an economics professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, and Graciela Kaminsky, an economics professor at George Washington University.
Argentina restricted bank withdrawals in 2001, when it was faced with a banking crisis following the government's debt default. Three months later the country had to abandon its currency peg to the dollar, which it had maintained for a decade. The government imposed losses on deposits through forced conversion of dollar savings to pesos at unfavorable rates.
Currency Peg
Being a member of the euro zone is similar to maintaining a peg to another currency at a fixed-exchange rate. When the local currency is overvalued as a result of inflation, countries with pegs eventually end the fixed regime and devalue, as Argentina did. Cyprus might do the same, faced with dire economic prospects, Open Europe's Ruparel said.
"Stuck with an overvalued euro, Cyprus loses out on tourism, one of its two main economic activities," he said. "The other one, banking, is dead with capital controls. So what advantage does Cyprus get from being in the euro now?"
Cyprus's 18 billion-euro economy is the third smallest in the 17-nation euro area. Before the bailout, which was coupled with an austerity package, the European Commission predicted a contraction of 3.5 percent in 2013. Economists said afterward that the damage will be greater.
The decision to burn depositors with more than 100,000 euros and restrict money movements will hurt confidence in other weak economies and banking systems of the euro zone, according to a report yesterday by DBRS Inc., a Toronto-based rating firm.
Cypriot Deposits
"During the current period of low to no growth in Europe, it is certainly possible that a run on Cypriot deposits could spread, in spite of existing or future controls on capital," wrote Fergus McCormick, head of sovereign ratings at DBRS.
A total of 378 billion euros was pulled from banks in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy in the 13 months through August, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The flight was reversed only after the ECB pledged to buy government bonds of those countries, calming investors.
Cyprus's three biggest publicly traded banks had a total of 6.5 billion euros of losses in 2011 after writing down the value of their Greek bond holdings. They have also been bleeding on their loans to companies and individuals in Greece, which is in its fifth year of a contracting economy.
At least 1,600 Greek shipping, trade and tourism companies headquartered in Cyprus are threatened with closure, according to National Confederation of Hellenic Commerce. Greek firms that held deposits in Cyprus were unable to meet a deadline this week for paying taxes in Greece, the Athens-based organization said.
Divided Island
The divided island's internationally recognized southern part is ethnically Greek and has close ties to the financially troubled country. The northern part is controlled by a breakaway government backed by Turkey.
Russian companies with banking ties to Cyprus will face the same hurdles as their Greek counterparts, though the impact on the Russian economy will be less significant. Russian economic output, which expanded by about 4 percent last year, is almost 10 times as much as Greece's.
The biggest losers may be Cypriots themselves. Unemployment could double to 30 percent as a result of the planned bank restructurings, estimates Hari Tsoukas, a professor at Warwick Business School in Coventry, England.
"Life will be difficult for people living in Cyprus," Tsoukas said. "The country will be another version of Ireland and Greece, with a tough austerity program. In another decade, we can look forward to another recovery."


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Shareholders of Advanced Micro Devices have approved the financial transactions necessary for the formation of "The Foundry Company" at a second special vote in Austin, Texas. This allows AMD to spin off its fabs into a joint venture with the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), wholly owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
At the first special meeting on February 10, only 42% of AMD's shares were presented. This shook investor confidence in AMD's ability to close the deal, leading to a sharp drop in AMD's stock price. AMD has been criticized for not allowing enough time for shareholders to prepare and submit their votes.
There were a total of 608,725,020 outstanding shares of AMD stock on January 15, the date of record to denote those shareholders who were eligible to vote. Of that total, only 305,951,749 shares were actually registered to vote by proxy or present at this second special meeting. This means that only 50.26% of outstanding stock was actually presented, barely passing the required majority to form a quorum.
The final results were 289,045,519 shares in favor, 7,269,962 shares against, and 9,636,268 shares abstaining. 94.47% of shares presented voted in favor, but the low turnout means that only 47.48% of all outstanding shares were actually voted in favor of the deal, which is expected to close by March 2, 2009.
The approved transactions include the issue and sale of 58 million shares of AMD's common stock to West Coast Hitech (WCH), a Cayman Island based holding company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development, a sovereign wealth fund owned by the government of Abu Dhabi. WCH currently owns 8.05% of AMD due to an earlier investment. Due to rules set out by the Securities and Exchange Commission, this meant that the acquisition of the additional shares required a special vote by shareholders, which have now allowed WCH to own 16.05% of AMD when the deal closes.
A separate but related agreement sells WCH warrants to purchase an additional 35 million shares. If exercised, WCH will own 142 million shares, accounting for 19.9% of AMD on a fully diluted basis, including outstanding stock options and restricted stock units.
A point of contention was raised by an angry shareholder at the meeting, who pointed out that AMD's board of directors approved a $3,000,000 transaction bonus to Hector Ruiz, AMD's Executive Chairman.
Ruiz, who has been heavily criticized for his poor management of AMD after the departure of the legendary Jerry Sanders, will become the Chairman of The Foundry Company. His base salary will be $1,150,000 per year, but he will also be eligible for a targeted annual bonus opportunity of 200% of his base salary, with a maximum annual bonus opportunity at 400% of his base salary.
The Foundry Company will assume ownership of all AMD's fabs, in an effort to lower AMD's debt burden. The new firm will seek to compete against other foundries such as UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation), Chartered Semiconductor, and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), which currently produces AMD's graphics chips.
AMD will contribute its fabs, manufacturing employees, intellectual property rights, and other related assets to the new joint venture, which will then assume $1.2 billion in debt from AMD. ATIC will invest $2.1 billion to purchase its ownership stake in The Foundry Company, of which $700 million will go directly to AMD. The other $1.4 billion will provide capital funding.
AMD and ATIC will each own 50% of the voting shares, entitling each to elect four directors of The Foundry Company. AMD will own 34.2%, with the remaining 65.8% owned by ATIC, which may see its ownership increase over time based on future capital infusions of up to $6 billion.
The details of the entire deal can be found in AMD's 433 page proxy statement here.
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Major League Baseball: Play ball! Season in full swing today
Once Sergio Romo struck out Miguel Cabrera to end the World Series, the chase was on.
The Upton brothers were reunited in Atlanta. Zack Greinke signed a big free-agent deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Arizona remade its club with fiery manager Kirk Gibson in mind. Washington and Cincinnati each traded for a leadoff hitter, and Philadelphia added Michael Young to its already potent lineup.
Romo and the San Francisco Giants begin the year on top, but there is no shortage of potential challengers in the leaner National League.
"History is not in our favor. It doesn't happen very often," ace Matt Cain said, gearing up to defend the title. "But if we do all we can, it certainly is possible."
San Francisco decided to make another run with the same core group of players who went the distance in the first two rounds of the playoffs last season, then swept Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers to win their second championship in three years. Another title for NL MVP Buster Posey and company would put them among the best teams in the history of the sport.
Backed by a huge new TV deal, Los Angeles continued its spending spree that began when the new ownership group took over last summer. Greinke received a $147 million, six-year contract, then was slowed by a tender right elbow this spring. Hyun-Jin Ryu signed a $36 million, six-year deal, making the South Korean left-hander a part of one of the deepest rotations in the majors.
Hanley Ramirez will miss the start of the season due to a right thumb injury, but the lineup still has plenty of power with Matt Kemp, Adrian Gonzalez and Andre Ethier.
"The Giants have proven themselves, especially with their pitching staff," Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw said. "A lot of people are talking about us. But talk is all it is. I'm not trying to downplay the expectations. Of course, we hear them. But we have to do it on the field. That's all that really matters."
Don't forget about the Diamondbacks, either. General manager Kevin Towers traded away talented center fielder Justin Upton and right-hander Trevor Bauer over the winter, but received an interesting haul in return. Ian Kennedy, Wade Miley and Trevor Cahill form the heart of a strong rotation, and Randall Delgado, Tyler Skaggs and Patrick Corbin provide good young pitching depth.
The moves made by Arizona and Los Angeles should make the NL West more competitive than a year ago, when the Giants won by eight games.
"It's a lot of competition here, and it gets better every single year," Rockies slugger Carlos Gonzalez said. "You can see in the past three years, San Francisco has won twice. They're going to have to pay more attention to this division."
Washington won the NL East last season by four games over Atlanta, finishing with the best record in baseball. But it was eliminated in the division series when it blew a 7-5 lead in the ninth inning of Game 5 against St. Louis.
The Nationals then signed closer Rafael Soriano in free agency and traded for Denard Span to add more speed to their dynamic lineup. With Stephen Strasburg all clear for a full year atop the rotation, this could be another memorable summer in the nation's capital.
"We've got to go out and compete, and we've got to go out and express our talent," manager Davey Johnson said. "I'm hopeful with a year of progress that a lot of guys made, we'll be playing closer to our potential. A lot of guys haven't played to their potential."
That's a scary thought for the rest of the National League, but the same premise could be applied to the Braves.
Atlanta will field one of the best young outfields in baseball after signing B.J. Upton in free agency and trading for Justin Upton to play alongside Jason Heyward. The potential extends to the rest of the lineup, which includes first baseman Freddy Freeman and shortstop Andrelton Simmons, both just 23 years old.
The bullpen is loaded with power arms and the rotation is solid. Even without retired third baseman Chipper Jones, the Braves are stocked once again.
"When you don't have probably the best third baseman ever, there is a big hole to fill," pitcher Tim Hudson said. "But there is a lot of young talent on this team. We'll be good again this year and should be good for a lot more years. Everyone's excited about the moves that were made. This is a different team, but a team that should win a lot of games."
Like Washington and Atlanta, Cincinnati is hoping for a long postseason run after a disappointing finish a year ago. The Reds had the Giants on the ropes in the division series, then dropped three straight games.
Shin-Soo Choo came over in a trade with Cleveland and addresses Cincinnati's gaping hole at the leadoff spot. But he is making the transition to center field and was hampered by back spasms in spring training. If he can't play center, then Jay Bruce could move over from right.
Johnny Cueto and Mat Latos front a deep rotation, and Joey Votto anchors one of the deepest lineups in the league. Coupled with a solid bullpen, Cincinnati could finish one of the best records in baseball once again even with the lowly Houston Astros moving from the NL Central to the AL West.
"We've come a long way in a short period of time over three years," manager Dusty Baker said. "It's about being able to sustaining high excellence. We want to be good for a long period of time. That is the goal to increase your odds of winning a championship."
Josh Hamilton joined forces with Albert Pujols and Mike Trout in Los Angeles, primed to pry the American League pennant from Miguel Cabrera, Prince Fielder and Victor Martinez in Detroit.
"They always say, 'There's always next year,' and next year is here," Angels ace Jered Weaver said.
Not so fast, big boys.
The Toronto Blue Jays want in, too, and they brought a bevy of All-Stars, led by knuckleballer R.A. Dickey and shortstop Jose Reyes, north of the border for their shot.
Tampa Bay locked up Evan Longoria for six more years. The White Sox signed young ace Chris Sale for five. The AL West champion Oakland Athletics are hoping Yoenis Cespedes can keep them on top in a loaded division.
Heck, the Texas Rangers lost Hamilton and clubhouse leader Michael Young and they still think they're armed to be the best in the West with Yu Darvish and Matt Harrison leading a deep rotation.
And never count out the New York Yankees. They may appear more brittle than bombers in the Bronx. But Mariano Rivera is back for one last season of sawing off bats and closing out wins.
One thing is certain: A bunch of swaggering bats are ready to give the Houston Astros a rude welcome to the American League.


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A newspaperman's newspaperman
Roger Ebert had been the editor of the Daily Illini and had graduated a few years before I got to campus. But he still got the DI, as we called it, by mail every day in Chicago.
Even though I didn't really know him, Ebert began clipping out my columns from the paper and putting them on the desk of his editor, Jim Hoge. When I was a senior, I got a call from Hoge asking me to come to Chicago, where he offered me a job. I politely turned him down, saying I wanted to work for magazines.
That night, when I was back in Champaign-Urbana, I got this roaring call from Ebert, telling me that nobody in his right mind would turn down the offer of a job from a newspaper! Newspapers were where the most important writing in America was done!
Ebert ordered me to get on a train and come back to Chicago, where he picked me up in his souped-up muscle car - - I think it was green and yellow Dodge or something like that, the kind of car central Illinois kids drove around on Friday and Saturday nights because there was nothing else to do in town - - and took me to O'Rourke's Pub in Chicago's Old Town, where we spent hours with what would become the usual suspects - - John McHugh and Jay Robert Nash - - and I was instantly and totally captivated by the world of Chicago newspaper people. I decided then and there that there was nothing I would rather be than a Chicago newspaperman.
I missed the last train back to campus and so Ebert and McHugh drove me back - - 150 miles! - - singing Irish Republican Army songs at the top of their lungs.
I called Hoge back in the morning and begged for the job. And, all these years later, it still seems to me Ebert was right: Nobody in his right mind should turn down the chance to work at a newspaper.
Some years later, when we were both working at the Sun-Times and both found ourselves in London on vacation, Ebert took me on a walking tour of Hampstead Heath. It started at Keats' House and ended…somewhere. I can't remember, because the tour was really a pub crawl. I told Roger I couldn't drink because I was meeting my wife's London relatives that night and had to stay sober.
Ebert sagely advised me to stick to cider. After several hours of walking, accompanied by Roger's very knowledgeable commentary on all the sights we were passing and their history, and after several stops in pubs, where I had several pints of cider, I noticed the scenery was taking on a certain bleary aspect.
With a grin, Ebert informed me that English cider was very alcoholic. He then pointed me to the nearest tube stop so I could go and meet my relatives. I walked into a wall.
Ebert would give up drinking, but his humor and charm and friendship, remained utterly unchanged. It didn't come from a bottle. It came from deep inside him.
I became a newspaperman because of Roger. It's a debt I can never repay. It's a cliché I am sure he would never use, but now he has passed on to his everlasting seat in the balcony.
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You may have seen headlines earlier this week about a planet found wandering alone, without a star to orbit. Although that aspect of the new planetary find seems to have grabbed the headlines, it's actually one of the least interesting features of the new find. The body in question awkwardly straddles the border between near-stars called brown dwarfs and giant super-Jupiter class planets, and its features suggest it may have formed through a process identical to one that creates stars. The alternative—that it was ejected from a system of planets that formed orbiting a star—would suggest interstellar space is teeming with rogue planets.
Rogue planets, those that aren't gravitationally bound to a star, have been identified previously through surveys looking for a phenomenon called "microlensing." This occurs when the planet acts as a gravitational lens, briefly brightening a star in the background as the planet passes between the star and Earth. A survey of microlensing objects identified a number of possible planets that mapped to points in space where there were no stars in the neighborhood.
But in this case, the authors managed to directly image one relatively nearby (less than 140 light years away). It happened while they were looking for something else: brown dwarfs. These bodies are large enough to have ignited deuterium fusion (over 13 times the mass of Jupiter), but not large enough to have kicked off sustained fusion of hydrogen. Anything below the brown dwarf cutoff is considered a planet (with the largest of these gas giants typically termed "super Jupiters").
Although that makes for a nice, exact definition of what constitutes a planet, it actually may obscure a more relevant distinction. Normally, we think of stars as forming through the collapse of a gas cloud; planets form through an aggregation of material within the disks that typically surround a star. But as the authors note, that distinction is being challenged by a number of rogue, sub-stellar objects likely to have formed through a process similar to how stars are produced.
When the authors came across CFBDSIRJ214947.2-040308.9 (CFBDSIR2149 to its friends), it first looked like a brown dwarf gradually losing its heat after having ended fusion a while back. But a careful analysis of the light emitted by the object suggested a possible alternative: it was small, too small to have ever undergone fusion. Instead, the heat given off by the object was residual energy from the gravitational collapse of its formation. Further supporting a young age, the researchers found the object appeared to be associated with a small cluster of stars that were all relatively young, between 50 and 120 million years of age.
Based on the composition of the stars and the object's atmospheric properties, the authors conclude it's probably only four to seven times the mass of Jupiter. That's far too small to have ever initiated fusion.
Because it's not associated with any stars, the authors were able to get some detailed information about its atmosphere, spotting indications of methane and potassium in its gaseous envelope. They suggest further observations could use CFBDSIR2149 as an example exoplanet to prepare for the direct imaging of objects orbiting nearby stars. The details we get from those studies could also help us refine the models we have of exoplanet atmospheres.
Given its young age and lack of clear association with any other stars, the authors conclude it probably formed through the collapse of a star-forming gas cloud, rather than within a planetary disk. And if that's the case, they suggest we might want to revisit a lot of the other objects that were initially described as brown dwarfs. It may turn out that some of these actually fall into the planetary mass range. There have been a couple other reports of planet sized objects that formed this way, but we haven't really incorporated this into our models for star formation (the paper suggests that the same sort of fragmentation of gas clouds that leads to binary systems can take place on a smaller scale).
The alternative explanation for this class of object (which the authors call an isolated planetary mass object, or IPMO) is ejection from a system of planets formed from a planetary disk. Models of orbital dynamics suggest this is possible, either due to interactions among planets or the influence of a nearby star. But it should be much harder to eject a super Jupiter-sized planet. So if these large IPMOs are common, smaller ones should be much, much more common (a trend enhanced by the fact smaller planets form in larger numbers). "This would mean," the authors conclude, "free-floating, frozen-down versions of Jupiters, Neptunes, and perhaps Earths are common throughout the Milky Way interstellar ranges."
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219984 (About DOIs).


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100-year-old recalls attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on this date in 1941 launched World War II, a global conflict of massive proportions that changed the world, with enduring ramifications for millions of people.
For Dr. William T. Carleton, it was a stark beginning to his career in medicine and his life with his new bride, Isabel.
Carleton celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this week and recalled the day of the surprise attack and the resulting four years he spent in Navy, including the South Pacific.
Carleton returned to his home in Worcester, Mass., after the war and practiced family medicine for 40 years. After the death of his wife in 2008, he moved to New Bern and now lives at McCarthy Court. His son Bill, a retired Foreign Service officer, lives in River Bend.
Carleton and other Americans thought they had survived the worst — the Great Depression — when he graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1939, completed two years of internship, met Isabel and prepared hopefully for the future.
"I joined the Navy in order to get married," he recalled. "I had no income."
It was August of 1941 when they wed and 11 days later he was called to duty at Charleston Navy Yard.
Soon, he was deployed on a Navy hospital ship, the USS Solace, a converted passenger ship, which arrived at Pearl in November.
He was a 28-year-old lieutenant junior grade and he brought Isabel to the islands, 10 days before the attack.
There were no rumblings of war.
"Everything was peaceful, absolutely no sign that there was a war coming," he recalled. "That Saturday night, everybody was having parties."
But, on Sunday morning, shortly before 8 a.m., everything changed.
"The island was under attack and the enemy was presumed to be the Japanese," he said. Officers and construction engineers were ordered to their stations.
He was at a hotel eight miles away and hitched a ride. He would not see Isabel again for a week.
"There was this terrible cloud of smoke and the burning battleships," he said. He rode a launch to his ship, which had been docked next to the USS Arizona and then moved when the attack began.
"I spent the rest of the day inside the ship taking care of the injured, mostly burns and shell-shock," he said.
There was the immediacy of the chaotic situation and little time to think.
"The only thing I could think was this is the end of the United States as a major power — all these battleships burning and sinking," he said.
He didn't get a break and come topside until 8 p.m. that night.
About that time four planes approached and as he learned later, recognition signals had not been re-established and one was shot down. It was an American aircraft. Carleton attended to the pilot.
"I said, 'what a terrible experience,' and he said 'oh no doctor, this is a very good experience. We have to know how to save ourselves.'"
Three days after the attack, he attended to another memorable victim, a sailor dripping in oil who had been rescued from the keel of the capsized USS Oklahoma. He had been in chest-deep fuel until he was found.
"He represented resurrection from the dead if I ever saw it," he recalled.
Shortly thereafter, Isabel returned to the states and the two did not communicate again for many months. His ship departed Pearl for other points in the South Pacific.
Before his discharged in 1945, he was in charge of the officers' ward at the 103rd Fleet Hospital in Guam.
He treated American POWs and observed first-hand what they had encountered at the hands of the Japanese.
"They all had at least two to four intestinal worms and all were (down) 20 to 40 pounds," he said. "There was a lot of tuberculosis."
From talking with the men, he found they had been fed once a day, what he called "a bowl of slop that couldn't have had more than 400 calories."
The survivors, he said, were an inspiration.
"I have never seen such determination to live as these guys," he added.
Carleton returned home in 1945 to practice medicine in his Massachusetts home town, where he and Isabel spent their 66-year marriage and bore four sons. Three of them — Bill, John and Randy — are still living. A fourth son, Teddy, died when he was 18.
Carleton practiced medicine until he was 77, then did utilization and review work for the local hospital until he was 80.
"I wanted desperately to be a doctor and follow in my grandfather's footstep," he said. "I had a very, very happy and successful career in medicine."
These days, he uses a cane and has hearing loss. Otherwise, he looks 30 years his junior.
He may also be the only 100-year-old around who uses email.


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"The cumulative product of historical and geographical incidence appears to characterize the [Southeast US] region somewhat as follows: as to resources — superabundance; as to science, skills, technology, organization — deficiency; as to general economy — waste; as to culture — richness, with immaturity and multiple handicaps; as to trends — hesitancy and relative retrogression in many aspects of culture." (Howard Odum, University of […]
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Today in History - The city of St. Louis was established
Today is Friday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2013. There are 319 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Feb. 15, 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed more than four weeks later.
On this date:
In 1764, the city of St. Louis was established by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau.
In 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain.
In 1942, the British colony Singapore surrendered to Japanese forces during World War II.
In 1952, a funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain's King George VI, who had died nine days earlier.
In 1953, Tenley Albright became the first American woman to win the world figure skating championship, held in Davos, Switzerland.
In 1961, 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.
In 1965, Canada's new maple-leaf flag was unfurled in ceremonies in Ottawa.
In 1971, Britain and Ireland "decimalised" their currencies, making one pound equal to 100 new pence instead of 240 pence.
In 1982, 84 men were killed when a huge oil-drilling rig, the Ocean Ranger, sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a fierce storm.
In 1989, the Soviet Union announced that the last of its troops had left Afghanistan, after more than nine years of military intervention.
In 1992, a Milwaukee jury found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boys. Benjamin L. Hooks announced plans to retire as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
In 2002, a private funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain's Princess Margaret, who had died six days earlier at age 71.
Ten years ago: Millions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the prospect of a U.S. attack on Iraq.
Five years ago: Business tycoon Steve Fossett, 63, was declared dead by a judge in Cook County, Ill., five months after his small plane vanished after taking off from an airstrip near Yerington, Nev. (Fossett's remains were discovered in late October 2008 in California's Sierra Nevada.)
One year ago: Congressional negotiators sealed an agreement on legislation to renew a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more. In defiant swipes at its foes, Iran said it was dramatically closer to mastering the production of nuclear fuel even as the U.S. weighed tougher pressure on the Tehran government.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Allan Arbus is 95. Former Illinois Congressman John Anderson is 91. Former Defense and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger is 84. Actress Claire Bloom is 82. Author Susan Brownmiller is 78. Songwriter Brian Holland is 72. Rock musician Mick Avory (The Kinks) is 69. Jazz musician Henry Threadgill is 69. Actress Jane Seymour is 62. Singer Melissa Manchester is 62. Actress Lynn Whitfield is 60. "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening (GREE'-ning) is 59. Model Janice Dickinson is 58. Actor Christopher McDonald is 58. Reggae singer Ali Campbell is 54. Actor Joseph R. Gannascoli is 54. Musician Mikey Craig (Culture Club) is 53. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Darrell Green is 53. Country singer Michael Reynolds (Pinmonkey) is 49. Actor Michael Easton is 46. Rock musician Stevie Benton (Drowning Pool) is 42. Actress Renee O'Connor is 42. Actress Sarah Wynter is 40. Actor-director Miranda July is 39. Rock singer Brandon Boyd (Incubus) is 37. Rock musician Ronnie Vannucci (The Killers) is 37. Actress Ashley Lyn Cafagna is 30. Blues-rock musician Gary Clark Jr. is 29. Actress Amber Riley (TV: "Glee") is 27.
Thought for Today: "Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine." — Katherine Anne Porter, American author (1894-1980).


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Celebration, remembrance on Opening Day
Teams honor Sandy Hook, Hurricane Sandy victims, responders amid festivities
Moments of silence hit leadoff on Opening Day throughout Major League Baseball on Monday.
The celebration of a season couldn't begin across the country without remembering one our nation's saddest tragedies: December's Sandy Hook school shooting, which shook victims, their families, friends, the community of Newtown, Conn., and the entire country.
In the Bronx, the Yankees and Red Sox dedicated their Opening Day contest to the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting, and all of MLB's players, managers, coaches, umpires and on-field personnel wore a ribbon patch on their uniforms to honor those who lost their lives or their loved ones on Dec. 14, 2012.
"I think it's important to say thank you," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Monday. "The town of Newtown went through so much during the last four or five months, and you think about being a responder. Sometimes we don't think about what they go through and how important they are during a situation like that."
"Just honoring them, being there for them, is outstanding," added Yankees closer Mariano Rivera. "We cannot change what happened. I wish we could. But at the same time, we're trying to bring them a lot of good moments and just trying to take the tragedy away from their minds for a little bit."
In Pittsburgh, managers Clint Hurdle of the Pirates and Dale Sveum of the Cubs, players of both teams, umpires and all on-field personnel wore a symbolic ribbon patch on their sleeves in honor of the Newtown, Conn., victims. So, too, did the Reds and Angels in Cincinnati.
Twins Hall of Famer Rod Carew, who joined the Marine Corps in 1965 and served active duty as a combat engineer before serving as a reservist from 1966-71, raised the U.S. flag on Target Plaza in right field after a video and moment of silence for the Newtown victims in Minnesota. Nathan Perttula, 11, and Cole Harms, 12, of Crystal Little League raised the Hennepin County flag, while the Twins Territory flag was raised by Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak.
The Mets recognized those affected by another difficult moment for the tri-state area, bringing more than 500 first responders of Hurricane Sandy on the field for the national anthem. The Mets also handed out more than 1,000 tickets to citizens involved in the storm response, and honored first responders from all branches.
"It means the world to us," said Lt. Peter O'Neill of the NYPD. "How many times do you get to stand on the baseball field for a National League team? We stand in front of everyone and everyone says 'Thank You' to us. It doesn't happen very often. We appreciate it. I brought my son, and he's having a good time."
The games, and the usual -- and, at times, unusual -- mix of Opening Day pomp and pageantry also were on display throughout MLB on Monday.
In the nation's capital, fans celebrated the Nationals' breakthrough 2012 season, as the club unveiled its NL East championship banner atop the right-field scoreboard, and passed out awards before a standing-room-only crowd at Nationals Park. General manager Mike Rizzo accepted his MLB Executive of the Year Award, Davey Johnson received his NL Manager of the Year Award and first baseman Adam LaRoche was presented with NL Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards.
In Pittsburgh, the Pirates recognized United States Marine Corp Cpl. Brandon Rumbaugh, a double amputee who lost both legs during his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, during violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley's rendition of the national anthem. Pirates chairman Bob Nutting hopes to host and recognize more members of the Wounded Warriors as the season goes on.
In keeping with a year that's seen them add a ton of big-name talent, the Dodgers put plenty of star power on the field before their season opener. Magic Johnson looked ready to throw out the first pitch before manager Don Mattingly walked out to the mound and signaled for Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, who then tossed the ball to 1988 NL Cy Young Award winner and World Series MVP Orel Hershiser.
Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, the day was all about time-honored traditions. The city's 137th Opening Day game began with the 94th edition of the Findlay Market Parade through downtown. Reds great George Foster served as grand marshal, while Bronson Arroyo and Mat Latos rode in a convertible through the crowds. Inside Great American Ball Park, hosting its 11th Opening Day, Joe Torre threw the first pitch to Brandon Phillips, Torre's second baseman on the U.S. World Baseball Classic team.
"It's a holiday here," Reds right fielder Jay Bruce said. "It's something that is very, very special to the fans and to myself. It's something I look forward to every year.
"Regardless of who you're playing, it's still baseball and it's still Opening Day in Cincinnati."


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Some Economists Think Price Gouging Is Good
Some Economists Think Price Gouging Is Good
Many states have laws against price gouging. People hate it when businesses jack up prices during an emergency or a time of severe shortages. But economists say that preventing price gouging often makes matters worse.
OK. So, it was really hard to get gas in the New York area yesterday. One very simple thing could be done that might change everything: drastically raise the price of gas. Now, if that happened, we would surely consider it price-gouging. But some economists think it would be a really good idea. Here's Zoe Chace of our Planet Money team.
MICHELLE MEDINA: So, everybody here's OK? You guys OK? All right. Yeah, we're still on line with him.
ZOE CHACE, BYLINE: The gas station on Union and 4th Avenue in Brooklyn was crazy, too: cars down the block, people with red gas containers crowded around the pumps. Michelle Medina was trying to organize the mayhem.
MEDINA: These are going to be for credit, this side for cash. Just remember, call me. I'll give you the gas, bring you back your change. OK?
CHACE: One thing nobody was asking: How much are you paying for your gas?
JOHN HANNA: I didn't even check the price. I don't care about the price right now. I care about - I need the gas for my kids.
CHACE: John Hanna drove three hours from Jersey looking for gas to power his generator. It's funny. You hear about the lines, the hours of waiting, the lack of power. But at a time like this, you don't hear about the price. Usually, when there's an incredible demand for something, the price of that thing goes up. That's not really happening here in New York. At this station, regular goes for about $3.80 a gallon. If gas station owners suddenly jacked up the price by a couple of bucks or more, they could get in trouble with the state. Looking at the lines of cars at this gas station, it seems like the gas should be worth more - at least to an economist it does.
MICHAEL MUNGER: I don't think $25 a gallon is unreasonable.
CHACE: I called Michael Munger. He's a professor at Duke, and he says the fastest way to fix the gas scarcity is to raise the price. Let the market work it out.
MUNGER: When prices go up, people buy less. Everyone who was waiting in line wanted to fill their tank. That means that there's not going to be enough gas for everybody.
CHACE: I saw one guy running down the block. He had six gas containers dangling from what looked like a swiffer. Not for sale, he yelled to me when I ran after him. If he had to shell out hundreds of dollars to fill up one container, he might not have taken so much gas with him. Of course, there's another way to get people to buy less gas at a time, even if they'd been waiting for hours.
RON FREEMAN: Cash only.
CHACE: Ron Freeman stalled out on Fourth Avenue.
How much you got?
FREEMAN: I got cash. I want $20 to get home, and I'm parking it and I'm not driving for the rest of the week.
CHACE: If you have to pay cash, the gas you get is limited to the money in your pocket. Four bucks a gallon seems a lot more expensive if you've only got $20 to spend. Zoe Chace, NPR News, New York.
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Developer Reddit Q&A
Several WoW developers answered questions on Reddit tonight. A short summary can be found below, but it is well worth it to read the entire thing!
- Player model updates are a high priority and will come with new animations.
- Once you complete the legendary gem quest line, you will be able to purchase more gems as needed.
- Activision has no effect on the game's direction.
- Observer modes are still on the todo list, but require development time and technical improvements before they can be done.
- Proving Grounds are still on the todo list and will hopefully make it into one of the Mists of Pandaria patches.
- "More developers" is often proposed as a solution to various problems and Blizzard is actively hiring. It is hard to find people that fit within the Blizzard culture and it would be a mistake to hire too many people too quickly.
- Combat racials will be improved for classes that lack them.
- The plan is still for more content to be released faster than before to keep players engaged with relevant content and not bored. They are also committed to reducing the time between the last major content patch and the next expansion.
- Blizzard is not satisfied with the current status of 25-player raids and are still actively seeking a solution.
- Raid Finder and scenarios will hopefully one day make it down to lower level content.
- Upon being asked about another raid like Ulduar: "In fact, our next raid zone after these may be right up your alley...."
- Ulduar like hardmode toggles will be added as appropriate.
- Blizzard would like to make queuing for random bgs better by ensuring some semblance of healer balance between Alliance/Horde.
- There are a variety of improvements planed for both rated and unrated BGs.
- There are some bugs with cross-realm zones, as well as some tweaks that need to be made.
- There wasn't time to fix the damage from Deathwing in Stormwind for Mists of Pandaria.
- Pandaria has the best in-game storytelling there has ever been in an expansion and there will be more Wrathgate level cinematics, some larger events, and a more interactive and involved story without as much phasing.
Paragon Switching to 10 Man Raiding for Mists of Pandaria
Today Paragon announced that they will be moving to 10 man raids for Mists of Pandaria. For the new full roster, see their site.
After Dragon Soul progression many of our players decided to quit the game, some of them were already showing lack of interest during the DS progress raids. In total 34 players took part in DS progress, 14 of which are no longer playing WoW at all. Most of them were longtime core players. On top of that some of our current players can't put in the time anymore as they used to do.
We were able to get some quality recruits to replace the ones whom had quit, but not enough. So far we had recruited 12 players. It has always been hard for us to recruit new players and we pretty much had the same core of 20+ from late Ulduar to Dragon Soul which played a big part in our success.
During the beta it became obvious that the current roster will not cut it in MoP unless we get couple of more quality recruits. So far we haven't been able to get the roster we needed and have decided it's better to continue as a 10man guild from now on than to hope for something miraculous to happen in the upcoming weeks. This also leaves time for our players to find a new guild before MoP if they so desire..
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Patch 1.4 is live on the PTS and the patch notes are here! Darth Hater has some previews of the Dread Guard Armor, Moods System, Elite War Hero Weapons, Terror From Beyond, and New Daily Relics.
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- Terror from Beyond, a new Operation, is now available! Travel to the remote planet of Asation, where the Dread Masters have commandeered an ancient Gree Hypergate in order to unleash untold horrors upon the galaxy. Terror from Beyond features 5 powerful new boss encounters that can be challenged in 8- and 16- player Story or Hard Mode, offering some of the most challenging group content yet!
- A new set of PvE gear is available! Dread Guard gear is now the most powerful PvE equipment in the galaxy. It can be acquired from deep within Terror from Beyond (Hard Mode).
- Significant changes have been made to crowd control to address the amount of control a player can be subject to at once. See the Classes and Combat section for details.
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I have a "buddy" from Malacca who now live in SJ. He has acute diabetes..
Someone told me drinking lady's fingers juice can lower the blood sugar and I recommended him to try. It works quite ok for him..
He is a retiree. Diabetic medicine is not cheap (even before GST) and his children kind of don't take care of him much. You know vegetable is also not cheap in SJ. I am thinking if the lady's fingers can grow well in my house's backyard, I may occasional bring this vege to him when I travel to Malacca..


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Norwegian browser developer Opera saw 90 employees, about half of whom were developers, leave the company during the fourth quarter of 2012. This was first reported by Digi.no.
The loss of the development staff was attributed to Opera's decision to start using the WebKit rendering engine instead of its own Presto engine. The remainder of the staff worked in other parts of the company, including marketing and sales. The company says the job losses were voluntary redundancies rather than (involuntary) lay-offs, with support and severance packages offered to all those leaving.
Speaking to Ars, Opera Vice President of Communications Nils Broström said that the use of WebKit meant that Opera could "put our clever people on developing end user benefits and innovations rather than developing and maintaining our own core."
While the company sought to fill new "product related positions" through internal recruitment from the core Presto team, there was (unsurprisingly) some attrition in this process.
In an interview with Digi.no, Opera's CEO Lars Boilesen notes that as a result of the WebKit transition, the company now has twice the resources working on the desktop as it previously did. Freed from having to expend effort on its engine, the company can focus on the interface and other software features. He also said that the company planned to increase its overall headcount over the next year.


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But before we jump to quickly to fall, let's finish up some summer socks!
Aren't these just about the sweetest things?! Little girl Cotty socks in STR Peek-a-boo Peony! I used the sport size with mediumweight yarn and they seem to fit Little Snowboarder (Snowboarder's cutie patootie 6-year old) just right!
Despite the 80 degree weather today, she wanted to wear one of her socks. Just one. Too cute!
Of course, Snowboarder's response, "That's right! They are so cute. Now ask her where daddy's hat is?" (sheesh, I promise him a hat and he wants it right away...or six months away....seriously! note to self: cast on soon. You promised him he'd have it after sock camp. That was in April.)
Now let's get back to talking about fall. Remember I mentioned we'd have a contest when the blog had 100,000 hits! Its time for that contest! This blog has brought me so much joy! I can't quite explain it, but I hope you all know that I appreciate you so very much! Thank you!
First, the big prize!
One lucky winner will receive all these goodies! 3 skeins of sock yarn and 3 of my sock patterns and a few other goodies!
All you need to do is leave a comment telling me about something you are looking forward to. If you want, you could also mention anything you'd look foward to reading about here on the blog (I'm always looking for blogging suggestions!).
I'll get us started.
I'm looking forward to a 3-day weekend!!
I'm looking forward to Notre Dame's opening football game on Saturday!! I'll be honest, I'm so looking forward to college football season that I may even watch ESPN's Thursday night Oregon vs. Boise St. game!
I'm looking forward to showing you my NEW sock pattern (notice the prize above includes 3 sock patterns!). I'll be sharing it soon!
I'm looking forward to this new cookbook coming out this fall. I found out about the Pioneer Woman from you guys! Thanks for that blog recommendation!
Contest will be open for a week....until Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 9pm PST.
Happy Almost Fall!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits