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December 1, 2006 • Narrative Writing Toolbox
Government outsourcing leads to cloaked figures
By Joel Campbell
Mitch Pearlman, the longtime head of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission, once likened government privatization to the Klingon Empire's "cloaking device," which hides spacecraft in the sci-fi TV series "Star Trek."
To be sure, the Klingon fleet is growing, journalists and the public should be careful as government cloaks services and budgets in privatized deal-making.
The list of services government privatizes is long. Outsourced deals include toll roads, golf courses, swimming pools, water and sewer projects, commuter rails, school choice programs, prisons, foster care services, pension funds, insurance funds, police and fire services, parking meters, food service, airports, school buses and printing services.
A few examples of privatization trends:
* In what is being called the largest highway privatization deal in U.S. history, and in a transaction that's already raising the ire of many Americans, the Indiana government approved a controversial deal April 13, agreeing to lease the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road for 75 years to Spanish-Australian consortium Cintra-Macquarie for $3.8 million. It remains to be seen how the public will have scrutiny over the project.
* Several other states also are getting into the road privatization game. For example, Utah legislators passed a bill to help fund $16.5 billion in needed road projects. It allows the Utah Department of Transportation to partner with private firms to build and operate toll roads in return for cash to fix roads.
* On a local government level, The Dallas Morning News used school district records to show that Dallas schools spent more by outsourcing copying and printing services to Kinko's. Instead of slashing printing expenses by the promised 21 percent, Dallas schools quadrupled copying expenses. The contract also requires schools to use Kinko's equipment, thus hundreds of printers the district already owns sit in warehouses. Without access to district records about this outsourced service, the public may still be in the dark about cost overruns.
If a government outsources services, journalists should check out what's promised against what's delivered. But that's becoming harder as expenditures and reporting slip from public view. When government outsources services, private providers don't have to comply with open records and open meetings rules. At the same time, quasi-public groups that receive government funding, raise funds or develop policy may also claim exemption from access laws.
At the very least, open government advocates should demand that private companies performing government-like service be subject to access laws through contracts. But even then, contractual obligations are easily broken. More effective are statutes requiring outsourced services to be subject to open records and open meetings laws.
In 2001, the Connecticut General Assembly enacted a law that allows public view of records of private companies providing a government function in contracts of excess of $2.5 million. Contracts must stipulate that companies hand over records about the government function to the public agency making the contract, and then those records are subject to the state's FOIA.
In some states, access advocates are waging battle over private contracts in the courts. In 2005, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the financial records of the quasi-private University of Iowa Foundation are subject to state records laws because the government may not outsource its functions to "secret its doings from the public." The University of Iowa contracted with the foundation to manage fundraising operations. Although titled an "independent contractor," the foundation manages $234 million in university money.
In October, Maryland's highest court heard whether Baltimore's city economic development agency's closed-door shenanigans can continue. Baltimore Development Corp. managers said the "quasi-public" organization is exempt from access laws and that working outside public view is important to its success.
Property owners say the organization should comply with sunshine laws because the mayor chooses the board and its coffers are filled from city budgets, according to the Boston Globe.
Comments from Court of Appeals judges bode well for the case's outcome. The Globe reported Judge Dale R. Cathell saying: "I've always heard that if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. This has a lot of quack to it."
Advocates need to educate more officials to understand the issue like Cathell. And at the same time, advocates should continue pounding on the statehouse door seeking laws that keep the Klingons from turning on their cloaking devices.
A former newspaper reporter and editor, Joel Campbell is an assistant professor in the Department of Communications at Brigham Young University. He serves as SPJ's FOI committee chairman. E-mail him at joelcampbell@byu.edu.
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The Windows 10 preview build 10041 arrived for download almost a week ago now, so it won't be that long before we see version 10042 release to users testing Microsoft's latest operating system. Today, we want to quickly show you how to enable Jump Lists in the Start Menu like you might have used in previous Windows versions.
This new Windows 10 technical preview is released as an update, which makes it much easier for those testing the OS to download and gain any improvements quickly. The latest updates will focus more on new functionality, rather than bug fixes and stability, but of course there will be fixes to most reported problems as well.
Jump Lists return to the Start Menu in Windows 10 – those of you wanting to know how to enable Jump Lists in the Start Menu only need to follow a couple of simple steps. This process starts by opening regedit.exe, so as most Product Reviews readers know, this is done quickly by pressing Win+R.
You then just head to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced", name a new Dword (32-bit) value as "EnableXamlJumpView" with a value of "1". Everything will start working after you restart your computer.
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Oregon County Missouri COVID-19 Corona Virus Updates
Oregon County, Mo. – COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) [1], "Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in people and many different species of animals, including camels, cattle, cats, and bats." The current worldwide outbreak (pandemic) began in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China causing many to give it the moniker of "Wuhan Virus" or "China Virus".
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Why Now? What is Happening?
Pandemics occur because people have no immunity to the virus. It never existed before (or in this generation's lifetime) so there is no resistance to it among the human population of the world. The CDC has stated that, "This is the first pandemic known to be caused by a new coronavirus." and further affirmed, "In the past century, there have been four pandemics caused by the emergence of new influenza viruses."
As a result, according to the CDC, "most research and guidance around pandemics is specific to influenza, but the same premises can be applied to the current COVID-19 pandemic."
CDC Recommended Steps To Avoid COVID-19 [4]
On March 16, the White House announced a program called "15 Days to Slow the Spread,"pdf iconexternal icon which is a nationwide effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 through the implementation of social distancing at all levels of society.
Older people and people with severe chronic conditions should take special precautions because they are at higher risk of developing serious COVID-19 illness.
If you are a healthcare provider, use your judgment to determine if a patient has signs and symptoms compatible with COVID-19 and whether the patient should be tested. Factors to consider in addition to clinical symptoms may include:
Does the patient have recent travel from an affected area?
Has the patient been in close contact with someone with COVID-19 or with patients with pneumonia of unknown cause?
Does the patient reside in an area where there has been community spread of COVID-19?
If you are a healthcare provider or a public health responder caring for a COVID-19 patient, please take care of yourself and follow recommended infection control procedures.
People who get a fever or cough should consider whether they might have COVID-19, depending on where they live, their travel history or other exposures. More than half of the U.S. is seeing some level of community spread of COVID-19. Testing for COVID-19 may be accessed through medical providers or public health departments, but there is no treatment for this virus. Most people have mild illness and are able to recover at home without medical care.
For people who are ill with COVID-19, but are not sick enough to be hospitalized, please follow CDC guidance on how to reduce the risk of spreading your illness to others. People who are mildly ill with COVID-19 are able to isolate at home during their illness.
If you have been in China or another affected area or have been exposed to someone sick with COVID-19 in the last 14 days, you will face some limitations on your movement and activity. Please follow instructions during this time. Your cooperation is integral to the ongoing public health response to try to slow spread of this virus.
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First Americans: Pre-Clovis Projectiles Hint At Multiple Migrations
By Gemma TarlachOct 24, 2018 6:00 PM
A 15,000-year-old projectile may provide indirect evidence for how and when people first arrived in the Americas. (Credit: Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University)
Thousands of artifacts from a site in Central Texas, including a dozen projectile points, have provided researchers with new clues about the arrival and spread of First Americans on the continent. The items, which are up to 15,500 years old, hint that the Americas may have been populated in multiple waves of migration via different routes.
In the long-simmering debate over when and how humans arrived in the Americas, there are few things researchers can agree on. Paleogenetic studies have confirmed the First Americans arrived from Asia, but the timing, the route and how they spread across the continents remain contested.
Archaeologists have looked for answers in the stone tools these early explorers left behind, but even there, definitive evidence is scant.
For years, based on artifacts found mostly in North America, the conventional thinking was that humans crossed Beringia — the now-submerged land bridge that once linked Siberia and Alaska — as glaciers receded, and developed a distinct tool-making style, called Clovis, that spread across the continent around 13,000 years ago.
That old school view of the First Americans has taken a beating in recent decades, however, as new sites emerge and paleogenetic data improves.
It now appears that people were in the Americas at least 16,000 years ago and possibly much earlier, well before an overland route opened between the glaciers. Enter the Kelp Highway, a more recent model suggesting that humans arrived in the Americas from Asia via resource-rich coastlines. The Kelp Highway hypothesis is emerging as the most likely earliest migration route for the First Americans — but not the only one.
In lieu of human remains, the best way to glean how people first moved across the Americas is through the tools they left behind, particularly projectile points such as spear tips and arrowheads, which bear stylistic signatures of their makers.
The Clovis culture, for example, is known for projectiles that had a distinctive fluted depression, among other traits. Western Stemmed points, however, are narrower, lack the Clovis fluting and were made using a different shaping technique. This style of projectile point is found throughout the western U.S. and, once thought to be younger than Clovis, now appears to be about the same age or even older.
Researchers have long sought to understand how these techniques evolved, and whether they reflect regional traditions or multiple waves of migration and dispersal.
The Texas Two-Step
Reporting today in Science Advances, researchers analyzed a portion of the 100,000 artifacts recovered north of Austin at a location known as the Debra L. Friedkin site. The site is part of an archaeologically rich area, along Buttermilk Creek, that has been excavated for decades. In July, for example, a separate team announced that projectile points at the nearby Gault site, less than a thousand feet upstream from Friedkin, were at least 16,000 years old and possibly 20,000 years old.
The team behind today's paper focused on dating and analyzing the style of various tools from the Friedkin site, including 12 whole or partial projectile points. Using optically-stimulated luminescence, a dating methodthat reveals when certain types of rock were last exposed to sunlight, the team determined that the sediments in which the artifacts were deposited were 13,500-15,500 years old.
That's younger than the Gault site finds, but definitely pre-Clovis.
But it's the styles of the projectiles that's arguably the most interesting aspect of the study. And yes, "styles" plural. Projectile points made in a variation on the stemmed technique were found throughout sediment layers of different ages. Dating to about 14,000 years ago, however, a new style of point shows up: the triangular lanceolate.
Complete and partial projectile points from the Friedkin site include a triangular lanceolate shape (A) dated to 14,000 years ago. (Credit: Waters et al 2018)
Based on often subtle variations between the artifacts found at the Friedkin site — which, in addition to projectile points included hand axes and other stone tools — the researchers suggest two different hypotheses.
It's possible, for example, that the tool technology present was in the process of evolving into Clovis — the triangular lanceolate form could be evidence that toolmakers were innovating and refining new methods and shapes.
It's also possible, however, that the different styles present point to multiple waves of migration into and across the Americas. Stemmed projectiles and their variations may have been the work of one or more early waves of humans traveling along the Pacific coast before moving inland. Clovis, on the other hand, could represent a later population migrating overland from Beringia after the glaciers had receded.
One thing is certain: Archaeologists need to unearth more points from more sites before we can read the first chapter of human history in the Americas.
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If a renowned chef decided to build a kitchen in the middle of paradise, and then opened it up to others to experience, would people come? If the sold out results of Sugar Beach Event's first event of their new Cooking on Maui with Chef Lee series is any indication, the answer would be a delectable yes.
20 eager participants showed up at the ballroom of Sugar Beach Events ready to whip up knives and cutting boards and attack the ingredients on the menu. After a quick sit down session with Chef Lee explaining the menu and what was to entail the rest of the evening, everyone headed for the decked out professional kitchen.
Inside, participants manned various work stations. Some focused on salads and potatoes. Others on meat items. And still others on dessert. In three and a half hours they were to create a seven-course menu that included bourbon braised short ribs, bourbon strip steak, grilled pork chop with a bourbon mustard glaze, bread pudding with a bourbon coffee caramel sauce, and more. After a few quick instructions, the kitchen morphed into a frenzied beehive.
Chef Lee and her assistants, Natalie and Courtney, roamed throughout the various work areas giving pointers and answering questions. Every once in a while, Chef Lee would stop the proceedings to give a demonstration. At one point she deftly carved through a side of beef turning it into various mouth-watering cuts of steaks.
Reasons for coming out to the event were as varied as the menu for the evening. Two of the participants, cooking enthusiasts, Christian and Chelsea, saw this as an opportunity to meet others and learn a few cooking tips at the same time. Husband and wife, Glenn and Barbara, on the other hand, admitted they weren't "big cooks" at all. Neither of them considered themselves really into cooking. They just saw it as a new experience, something fun and different to do. Paula had a whole other take. She commented that it was one of the few events on Maui that someone could go as a single person without a date.
As the participants finished up in the kitchen and gathered back out to the ballroom, Carl gave a talk on bourbon. He went over the myriad of most popular brands, what makes each unique and various other interesting parlor talk details (for example, did you know you really can't truly call bourbon a bourbon unless it's made in Kentucky?). Though many bourbons are aged, some up to nine years, his favorite all-time bourbon happens to be aged less than a year and isn't even made in Kentucky (which then makes you wonder if you can really call it a bourbon).
At the end of the talk, the participants were asked to go into the kitchen to make their plates. The long table everyone sat at looked like a double-sided seating of DaVinci's The Last Supper. But from the comments coming from several we talked to, dishes learned from the evening were surely NOT going to be the last time prepared and eaten.
One of Chef Lee's loves is to share cooking tips, secrets and recipes. The Best of Beef and Bourbon is the first of many cooking events to come. Be on the lookout for future events or sign up here to get on the Sugar Beach Events mailing list to be notified of the next cooking class.
Chef Lee has an inspired, innovative event called "Cooking on Maui with Chef Lee" and I attended her first ever class – 'Beef and Bourbon'. What a night! Twenty people had the opportunity to prepare at least 7 dishes in a professional kitchen under the leadership of Chef Lee with coaching and assistance by her crew. It was happily busy and boisterous but also organized and efficient and best of all – we got to eat everything at the end! We also got to sample (and learn about) bourbon – a perfect complement to the meal. If you have the opportunity to attend one of these events, seize it! And if you are in need of a caterer or an event venue, I highly recommend Chef Lee and Sugar Beach Events.
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Q: Select the first cell of each row placed after a merged cell using JavaScript/jQuery I have a table with class evo-table, which has two cells of row span of 4, followed by four rows with two cells each (Image). I want to select the first cell of each of these rows using JavaScript. I know I could simply add classes to cells and style it using CSS but I'm restricted to the Table structure below. I am able to select and add CSS to the first cell of the first row using $(".highlight").next().css("background","lightgreen"); but I'm not able to select the first cell of the rest of the rows. Here's the code:
HTML: (This is a DEMO only)

        Merged Cell 1
        Merged Cell 2
        Unmerged Cell 1
        Unmerged Cell 2

        Unmerged Cell 3
        Unmerged Cell 4

        Unmerged Cell 5
        Unmerged Cell 6

        Unmerged Cell 7
        Unmerged Cell 8

jQuery/JavaScript:
var tableObj = $(".evo-table");
var mergeLength = $(".evo-table .highlight").attr("rowspan");
var firstRowAfterHighlight = $(".evolution-table .highlight").parent().next().index + 1;
$(".highlight").next().css("background","lightgreen");
for (count = 0;  count < mergeLength; count = count + 1) {
    $(".evolution-table tr:nth-child(" + (firstRowAfterHighlight + count) + ") td:first-child:not(.highlight)").css("background-color", "green")
}

I am using the rowspan value of .highlight cell to find the number of rows (I could use $(".evo-table tr").length; to get it but the previous one is more useful in my case as I want to select rows which are immediately to the right of the cell) and I'm finding the index of the row after first row and using count variable of the for statement to move on to the next row, and using the :first-child selector on td to select the first cell of every row. The code doesn't seem to work.
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Please reply if you spot any errors in my code, need more details or have a solution. Thank you.

A: I used the .each function to iterate over every row.  And then I used teh :not selector to ignore elements with the attribute [rowspan].

$(".evo-table tr").each(function () {
  $(this).find("td:not([rowspan]):first").css("background-color", "red")
});
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        Merged Cell 2
        Unmerged Cell 1
        Unmerged Cell 2

        Unmerged Cell 3
        Unmerged Cell 4

        Unmerged Cell 5
        Unmerged Cell 6

        Unmerged Cell 7
        Unmerged Cell 8

Yellow = .highlight class; Green = Selected using jQuery;

A: If you just want to do this for styling, you don't need javascript, you can do it with plain CSS3:
td[rowspan] + td:not([rowspan]), tr > td:not([rowspan]):first-child {
    background: red;
}

It selects a td without a rowspan that directly follows after a td with the rowspan attribute (the first tr) and all first td in a tr that do not have a rowspan attribute (all other tr).
If you want it in JavaScript, you can use the same CSS selector with jQuery. No need to loop over the table rows:
$('td[rowspan] + td:not([rowspan]), tr > td:not([rowspan]):first-child')

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Name: Morgan Doherty
Morgan Doherty is the marketing coordinator at Interstate Electrical Services. Doherty has been with the company for almost two years, having started out as an administrative assistant and quickly working her way up from within. Doherty appreciates the passion and drive of her co-workers, and that the leadership team at Interstate "harbors an environment that drives you to learn more."
As part of the marketing team, Doherty loves that the job "urges me to dive into the deep end of my creative side to connect with people. There are few things I have found to be more fulfilling than fostering relations built on understanding and service."
Doherty is optimistic that "the construction industry is changing," and that we'll continue to see more women and minorities entering the trades. "A smart company knows that when it harnesses inclusivity, it is not only building itself into a better resource to reach its customers but widening its talent pool." You owe it to yourself to try new things, you must be brave. It might feel daunting, and you might feel uncertain, but do not doubt that you belong everywhere you go."
Allisyn Mowrey, Apprentice Electrician
Name: Allisyn Mowrey
Allisyn Mowrey is an electrical apprentice at Interstate Electrical Services, having been in the apprenticeship program for almost a year. Mowrey originally intended to go into the dental field, but at the suggestion of a friend, took an exploratory course in electrical that changed her mind. She was fascinated by "the whole concept of understanding how electricity worked," and the thought that she'd be able to wire her own house one day.
Mowrey finds fulfillment in the feeling of an honest day's work – that she can begin her day with a project in mind and then "at the end of the day I've finished my task and then some." Her approach? Don't sweat the small stuff and focus on the big picture. "You can't let the small stuff get to you – you have to be able to let things go."
Are women put off by the gender imbalance in the construction trades? Mowrey thinks so, but encourages anyone interested to pursue the electrical trade.
"Definitely do it! It's a great opportunity to learn so much."
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Name: Tiffany Stanewicz
Tiffany Stanewicz is an assistant electrical designer at Interstate Electrical Services and has been with the company for three and a half years. Previously in the medical field, she was introduced to the electrical trade by her then-boyfriend (now husband), an electrician who is passionate about the field. She was immediately intrigued by the industry. "The electrical trade provided me an opportunity to create and to build not only on projects but also on myself. Every project seems to bring new interesting challenges. I get to collaborate with an amazing team to overcome obstacles and bumps in the road as they arise all while building a lifelong meaningful career."
Stanewicz values the collaboration necessitated by the electrical trade and especially Interstate's team-centric approach, where she gets to interact with a number of different departments noting, "I assist with layouts of electrical devices, communications and fire alarm. I also get to generate project light fixture schedules, generate photometric analysis models and calculations with various of software." The most rewarding part? Seeing her completed projects "come alive."
As for encouraging other women to enter the trades, Tiffany says there's "never been a better time for women to defy gender norms and embrace their value as a skilled trade worker." It's an exciting field that women have historically overlooked, but if more women "had the opportunity to explore it they may fall in love with it."
Kelly Gallagher, Apprentice Electrician
Name: Kelly Gallagher
Kelly Gallagher is a first-year apprentice at Interstate Electrical Services, who couldn't find the right field of study that was a fit for her. Five majors and two colleges later, she decided to take a break from studies and worked in retail for a few years. Looking for something more fulfilling, she embarked on a one-year electrical trade training program and knew she had found her calling. "For the first time in my life, I did really well in school and knew I'd found my place."
Gallagher is now five months into the electrical apprenticeship program at Interstate and is enjoying every minute of it. "It's a lot of fun. Everything is so new to me and there's a lot to learn and I love soaking it all in. I never know exactly what the day has in store, so every day is an adventure." She is working towards getting a journeyman license and potentially her master license after that.
Gallagher points out that it might never occur to women like her to enter the electrical trade. "In high school, some of my best friends were guys who were doing the electrical program at their vocational school. It never occurred to me that that could be a potential career for me. I don't think electrician is presented as an option to many women. But they should absolutely go for it."
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Hinch, Luhnow fired for Astros' sign stealing
By RONALD BLUM and KRISTIE RIEKENAP Sports Writers
HOUSTON (AP) — Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were fired Monday after the pair were suspended by Major League Baseball for the team's use of electronics for sign stealing during Houston's run to the 2017 World Series title and during the 2018 season.
In U.S. sports' largest scandal since the New England Patriots' "Spygate," Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the discipline Monday and strongly hinted that current Boston manager Alex Cora — the Astros bench coach in 2017 — will face equal or more severe punishment. Manfred said Cora developed the sign-stealing system used by the Astros. The Red Sox are under investigation for sign-stealing in Cora's first season as manager in 2018, when Boston won the World Series.
Houston was fined $5 million for sign stealing, the maximum allowed under the Major League Constitution. The Astros will forfeit their next two first- and second-round draft picks.
Houston was found guilty of using a television camera in center field to relay catcher's signals of pitches to its video replay room, and players banged on a trash can to signal to batters what was coming. Astros players disputed whether knowing the pitches seconds in advance helped batters. Houston had fewer wins at home than on the road, winning 94 home games and 110 on the road during the two seasons. There was no sign-stealing system on the road.
"While it is impossible to determine whether the conduct actually impacted the results on the field, the perception of some that it did causes significant harm to the game," Manfred said.
Manfred, in his most significant action since becoming commissioner five years ago, said Hinch failed to stop the sign stealing and that Luhnow was responsible for the players' conduct even though he made the dubious claim he was not aware. Manfred said owner Jim Crane was not informed.
"We need to move forward with a clean slate," he said.
Houston was a big league-best 204-120 during the two years in question, winning its first title. Hinch, a 45-year-old former catcher with a degree from Stanford, was the most successful manager in the history of the Astros, who have won two of the last three AL pennants and came within one victory of another World Series title. Luhnow, 53, earned an MBA at Northwestern and fostered an analytic-based culture during eight seasons as Astros GM, but also a toxic one with high turnover.
"It is very clear to me that the culture of the baseball operations department, manifesting itself in the way its employees are treated, its relations with other clubs, and its relations with the media and external stakeholders, has been very problematic," Manfred wrote in a nine-page statement. "At least in my view, the baseball operations department's insular culture -- one that valued and rewarded results over other considerations, combined with a staff of individuals who often lacked direction or sufficient oversight, led ... finally, to an environment that allowed the conduct described in this report to have occurred."
Baseball's response was far greater than that of the NFL to a similar infraction. New England coach Bill Belichick was fined $500,000 in 2007 and the Patriots were fined $250,000 for using video to capture an opponent's signals. In the scandal known as Spygate, the Patriots also were stripped of a first-round draft choice. They were penalized again for $1 million eight years later for deflating footballs used in the AFC championship game. The NFL took away a first-round draft pick and suspended quarterback Tom Brady for four games.
Manfred said Hinch was aware of the system but did not tell Luhnow.
"As the person with responsibility for managing his players and coaches, there simply is no justification for Hinch's failure to act," Manfred said.
The GM told Major League Baseball he was unaware of the system, but Manfred held him accountable for the team's actions.
"Although Luhnow denies having any awareness that his replay review room staff was decoding and transmitting signs, there is both documentary and testimonial evidence that indicates Luhnow had some knowledge of those efforts."
"Virtually all of the Astros' players had some involvement or knowledge of the scheme, and I am not in a position based on the investigative record to determine with any degree of certainty every player who should be held accountable."
Baseball's investigation began when former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers, now with Oakland, made the allegations in a report by The Athletic on Nov. 12.
MLB's Department of Investigations interviewed 27 witnesses, including 23 current and former Houston players, and reviews tens of thousands of emails, Slack communications, text messages, video clips and photographs.
Astros employees in the team's video replay room started to decode signs using the center field camera at the start of the 2017 season. A player would act as a runner to bring the information to the dugout, where a runner on second would be signaled. The runner would decode the catcher's sign and signal the batter. At times, an employee in the replay room would convey the information by text message to the watch or phone of a staff member in the dugout.
Cora began calling the replay room for the information early in the season. After a group of players that included Beltrán discussed how to improve the system about two months into the season, Cora arranged for a video monitor of the center field camera to be installed next to the dugout and players would communicate pitches by banging a bat or massage gun on a trash can. Two bangs usually were used for off-speed pitches and no sound for fastballs.
The Mets and Beltrán declined to comment, spokesman Harold Kaufman said.
Taubman can apply to Manfred for reinstatement after the World Series, and any future violations of Major League Rules would lead to a lifetime ban.
Blum reported from New York.
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Use your HVAC system to heat your water for free! In the summer, residual heat pulled out of your home is used to warmth water by a geothermal system. This may cool your home whereas allowing you to avoid wasting a ton on sizzling water prices, plus it is environmentally pleasant to boot! Typically, it can be arduous to figure out if your HVAC system needs to be fastened or needs to be changed. In case your system frequently breaks down, is always turning on or off by itself, or if your payments are too high, it might pay to have it replaced. Otherwise, little issues can just be fixed.
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The Ad Hoc Commission was a human rights commission in El Salvador, established as part of the peace accords which ended the Salvadoran Civil War. The purpose of the commission was to examine the conduct of officers of the Armed Forces of El Salvador during the war and determine their fitness for continuing as military officers in the new regime.

The Commission was established as part of the New York agreements. It consisted of three Salvadoran civilians appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations after consultation of the government and the FMLN.

The Commission evaluated 232 of the most senior officers and issued its report on September 22, 1992. The Commission recommended that the entire senior military establishment be discharged and replaced. Though it took time, this recommendation was eventually implemented.

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Hey, all my pals in the Portland media. Yeah, I'm talking to you Paul Buker. And you Scott Sepich and Jason Vondersmith. Yes, and you Kerry Eggers, even though we've never met.
Don't you folks be getting your hopes up. Heck, don't be putting fresh batteries in the digital recorder. Forget about booking the photographers. You won't be needing a new notebook.
Because I'm told your long-awaited date with the WHL commish is going to have to wait.
A source familiar with all the goings-on has told me that "for the first time in WHL history," at least to his knowledge, the news conference that has in past seasons preceded the WHL's championship final "has been cancelled."
Just when you thought we were out of the dinosaur age, along comes Canada's daft grandpa with an attempt at taking us back to days of Tyrannosaurus Rex. Of course, I am referring to Don Cherry and his Neanderthal-like performance last night on the people's corpse (aka CBC). . . . Now, to be clear, I didn't see it – I haven't watched the man in a long, long time – but I knew something had happened just because Twitter about blew up. . . . At the end of the day, I would suggest that Jeff Blair of The Globe and Mail addressed things as well as anybody, and his column is right here.
And then there was veteran sports reporter Karin Larsen (@CBCLarsen), who tweeted: "I'm embarrassed by and for Don Cherry and for CBC. Sorry."
Larsen is right. It is sorry. Unfortunately, it isn't unexpected.
Dr. Charles Tator is a pre-eminent expert on the brain, brain injuries and the prevention of same. He also has been a lover of the Toronto Maple Leafs for a long, long time. These days, the Leafs are the NHL's leading practitioners of the pugilistic side of hockey. So what does he think when he's at a game and there is a fight? "You know what? My heart races," Dr. Tator told Sean Fitz-Gerald of the National Post. "I worry about that brain that is being pummelled. It really is a sad event, to me, when it happens. Because virtually every day in my practice, I see people who have had brain injuries of one sort or another, and these folks suffer terribly." . . . Fitz-Gerald's column is right here, and be sure to read the comments. Oh, by they way, this piece also includes statistical evidence that fighting has very little to do with the outcome of games.
Columnist Kevin Cullen of the Boston Globe has an intriguing piece right here that takes a moment-by-moment look at the conclusion of the manhunt in Boston. "What you're about to read," he writes, "is how it all ended. The denouement. It is a story of remarkable drama, bravery, and terror, and it is based on interviews with Watertown police and fire officials, State Police and Boston police, including Dan Linskey, the superintendent in chief of the Boston Police Department."
The QMJHL has a donnybrook one night, and the fines and suspensions are announced the following morning.
The QMJHL has a game decided by an overtime goal that was preceded by an uncalled offside and there is a news release in less than 24 hours.
If you missed it, the host Baie-Comeau Drakkar scored a 2-1 victory over the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada on Friday night, with the winning goal coming off a play that was offside, but not called, at the blueline.
Here is the statement from Gilles Courteau, the QMJHL commissioner:
"It is unfortunate that the result of a game was determined by an offside goal without the possibility of a video review. It is for that reason that as a league, we are taking the initiative to bring this addition to the Canadian Hockey League. We will therefore formulate a directive, beginning next season, allowing video review for all offside goals. The QMJHL has a very competent and passionate group of officials; because of the fast-paced nature of hockey sometimes things go unnoticed on the ice. It is for this reason that a technological aid will allow officials, during this type of situation, to make adjustments, if necessary, in order to make the right decision."
THE COACHING GAME:
Former WHL sniper and coach Troy Mick is about to add to his job description with the BCHL's Salmon Arm SilverBacks. Randy and Terry Williams are in the process of selling the franchise to a group headed up by Mick, who started this season as general manager and head coach before bringing in Scott Robinson to handle the coaching. . . . Under new ownership, Mick will be president, general manager and head coach. The new group won't renew Robinson's contract.
Rick Swan is the new general manager and head coach of the AJHL's Bonnyville Pontiacs. Swan, who signed a three-year extension, actually was promoted, after serving as the club's assistant GM and assistant head coach under Chad Mercier. . . . Swan had been the head coach of the midget AAA Edmonton Knights of Columbus team before joining the Pontiacs. . . . Mercier resigned from both positions earlier this month.
Edmonton (1) vs. Calgary (3)
(Edmonton leads series, 3-2; Game 6 in Calgary today, 4 p.m. MT; all games on Shaw TV, with Dan Russell calling the play.)
Portland (1) vs. Kamloops (3)
(Portland wins series, 4-1)
CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL
Portland vs. Edmonton/Calgary winner
(Series opens May 3 and 4 in Portland)
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We're on the cusp of a revolution in life-science research. This revolution promises to bring with it better ways to detect cancer and other diseases, as well as a more efficient drug-discovery process. And it promises these benefits on the cheap—thanks in large part to what's known as microfluidics.
Let's back up for a moment… back to December 29, 1959. It was then that physicist Richard Feynman gave his now-famous lecture titled There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, during which he essentially anticipated what we now call nanotechnology. Feynman actually never mentioned the word "nanotechnology" in his talk—and it wasn't until the 1980s that nanotech researchers began regularly citing his lecture—but what he did do at that time was posit the amazing possibilities afforded by miniaturization, including "miniaturizing the computer." He foresaw that the clunky "computing machines" of his day would be infinitely more useful if they could be shrunk.
By 2011, Intel was mass producing processors with 32-nanometer technology that contained 2.6 billion transistors. Intel's Xeon server chip that's due to be released this year has 4.31 billion transistors. And consider that one of today's smartphones has significantly more computing power than all of NASA circa 1969, when it sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon.
While it's true that we don't yet have the capabilities Feynman envisioned—of building "a billion tiny factories, models of each other, which are manufacturing simultaneously" from the bottom up, atom by atom—his miniaturization-of-computers idea was clearly spot on. So what if we applied his approach to a different area of scientific study… say biology? After all, much of biology today is similar to where electronics was yesterday—except instead of vacuum tubes and cable wires, you have arrays of test tubes and hoses. What if all that "plumbing" used to study biological systems could be shrunk—would we reap the same benefits as we did in electronics?
Turns out the answer is yes. And that's where microfluidics comes in.
Microfluidics is the science of fluid dynamics on the micro scale (i.e., millionths of a meter). We'll spare you the details of the fluid mechanics at this scale—where things like laminar flow, diffusion, capillary effects, and surface tension dominate—and boil things down to one simple idea: Microfluidics and its application is all about conducting biological experiments and tests with really small plumbing.
How small is the plumbing we're talking about? The channels through which the fluids travel in the devices today are roughly the width of a human hair, and sometimes smaller.
If you think you're not already acquainted with the world of microfluidics, think again. Two very recognizable examples of microfluidic technologies are the glucometer to measure blood sugar levels and pregnancy tests.
Basically, we're talking about precisely manipulating fluids—to do things like blood screening for diseases and single-cell genomic analysis—using a microscale device built with technologies that were first developed by the semiconductor industry, and were later expanded into fluidics due to the benefits that accrue from shrinking things.
For starters, miniaturization means lower costs, since researchers require much smaller volumes of samples and reagents to conduct experiments and run tests. There's also the potential for running multiple experiments in parallel and cutting down on the number of steps required to run them. But microfluidics technologies also make novel tasks possible, like giving us the ability to interact with individual cells. Let's look at another example to explain further.
That's the latest iteration of the CTC-iChip , created by a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School led by Mehmet Toner. The "chip" is about two inches long, one inch wide, and paper thin. It's designed to capture what are known as circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to give doctors a way to diagnose and track cancer that is less invasive, cheaper, and more informative than a biopsy. CTCs are shed into the bloodstream by tumors, and their isolation and analysis could lead to early detection of invasive cancers—which is important, because the earlier a patient is diagnosed, the better his or her chances of survival—and help doctors develop better and more personalized treatment regimens. The problem is that these things are rare, typically just 1 to 10 CTCs per billion blood cells. Isolating them has proven difficult over the years.
The new CTC-iChip combines multiple technologies like size separation (which takes advantage of the fact that CTCs are larger and stiffer than blood cells) and magnetic-tag separation (which involves tagging white blood cells with magnetic beads so they can be discarded using a magnetic field after the sample is run) to isolate the individual CTCs.
Isolating the individual CTCs this way allows scientists to perform single-cell genomic analysis. And that's important.
Consider a cancer biopsy. You can look at the sample and see that the cells are different from one another, yet the way researchers further analyze the sample is by grinding up the tissue and examining the smearing of all the genetic signatures of the different individual cells. This provides you with a rough average of the genetics of all the cells in the sample, but it masks critical differences. For example, the genetics of the metastatic cells are quite different from the cells that won't spread the disease; with conventional methods of analysis you can't see that. So you won't be able to understand what makes the cancer go from a dangerous to a deadly state. By employing single-cell analysis that's facilitated by this microfluidic chip, physicians can develop a better understanding of the disease, which could lead to more effective personalized treatments.
Pretty cool. But it doesn't stop there.
Another new and particularly interesting effort in the area of microfluidics is a play on the well-known system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology from the world of computers. It can be described as human-organs-on-a-chip and could eventually become an invaluable tool that leads to a more efficient drug-discovery process. The idea is not to make replacement organs for transplant, but to replicate enough of an organ's functions to make the chips useful in testing substances for toxic and therapeutic effects.
That has immediate applicability, because a major part of the preclinical phase of drug development involves assessing safety and biological activity in the laboratory—especially in animal studies. (It's difficult to access reliable figures, but it's safe to say that billions of dollars a year is spent on animal tests.) The problem with these animal models—without even touching on the various potential ethical issues involved—is that, although they have historically been one of the most trusted tools in drug development, they are not actually all that predictive of the human situation. Not only do animal models fail to identify numerous drugs that are toxic to humans, they also derail drugs that would have been efficacious.
Of course this makes sense. Different animals evolved differently and have different biologies. Nevertheless, we continue to rely on expensive, time-consuming, and unreliable animal models in the drug-development process because they're the best we have. But thanks to advancements in microfluidic technologies, human organs on chips could be a better way.
The breakthrough in this area came in mid-2010, when researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard announced they had successfully developed a lung-on-a-chip. The device, which is about the size of a rubber eraser and is made using human lung and blood-vessel cells, actually mimics a living, breathing human lung.
It's essentially a porous membrane with human cells from the lung's air sac on one side and human capillary blood vessel cells on the other side. There's air flowing through the channel on the lung side and a medium (like blood) with human blood cells in it flowing through the channel on the capillary side. The whole thing stretches and relaxes like our lungs do when we breathe. And it does a good job replicating the natural responses of living lungs to various stimuli. Just as the living lung-blood interface recognizes invaders such as inhaled bacteria or toxins and activates an immune response, so too does lung-on-a-chip.
The researchers tested this by introducing E. coli bacteria into the air channel on the lung side of the device while concurrently adding white blood cells to the channel on the blood vessel side. The lung cells detected the bacteria and, through the porous membrane, activated the blood vessel cells, which in turn triggered an immune response that ultimately caused the white blood cells to move to the air chamber and destroy the bacteria.
Lung-on-a-chip was just the beginning. The Wyss Institute also has kidney-on-a-chip, bone-marrow-on-a-chip, and gut-on-a-chip—a silicon polymer device about the size of a flash memory stick that mimics complex 3D features of the human intestine. All could prove to be valuable diagnostic tools in the development of safe and effective new therapeutics.
The Wyss team's ultimate goal is to build 10 different human-organs-on-chips and link them together on an automated instrument to mimic whole-body physiology. This could eventually lead to personalized chips that could predict a specific individual's drug response.
The bottom line: In theory, since these microfluidic human-organs-on-chips use human cells and mimic both the mechanics and biology of the organs they represent, they would be more predictive than animal models, so drug failure rates would be lower. Modeling with these chips would cut costs and reduce the time involved in the drug-discovery process. It's still too early to tell how successful this field of research will be… but the prospects are exciting.
Microfluidic technologies for many applications like this are still relatively early stage, but the above examples demonstrate how microfluidics should play an increasingly important role in disease detection and could ultimately disrupt the drug-discovery process for the better. This kind of game-changing technology is what we at Casey Extraordinary Technology specialize in finding and investing in. From cutting-edge biotech drug companies and molecular-diagnostic innovators to the firms that created the 3D printing industry and those that are building the smart grid, the track record of our investment recommendations stands out among all our competitors and truly speaks for itself, with an average gain per closed position during 2013 and 2014 of 66%.


Ah yes, how the loss of a treasured book rankles! Years ago when my father-in-law was in hospital, I lent him my hardback copy of John Steinbeck's Once There was a War, which has some of the finest writing of WW2 I've ever read. My FIL was not a great reader but he had been in the navy and I thought he would like it and it would take his mind off things.
But I never got it back. When a man's not well it doesn't seem right to hassle about a mere book so I said nothing about it at the time assuming that it would make its way back to me eventually. But it didn't, and now, life moving on the way it does, I now know it never will.
It wasn't a first edition, but it was dated from the year of first publication, and I loved it. I'd found it in an op shop and I liked the idea that it was first read by the generation that had lived through that time. I've since bought a paperback edition, but it's not the same.


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Van Etten-Dumond "Spy" House // c.1726
September 20, 2022 September 20, 2022 Buildings of New England2 Comments
One of my favorite houses in Hurley is the Dumond House (also known as the "Spy House"), a pre-Revolutionary stone cottage built in Dutch traditions. The house is one and one-half stories high, and is built of limestone. The limestone walls are of various thickness, from a nearby quarry, with the square ends laid up in mortar made of clay, and pointed with lime mortar outside. The house was built by Jacobus Van Etten (1696-1779) and used as a Guard House during the American Revolution. In 1777, it was famous for housing the convicted British spy, Lt. Daniel Taylor after he was caught carrying a message between British Generals Henry Clinton and John Burgoyne. Lt. Taylor was arrested as a British spy, convicted in court of spying and held in the basement of the Du Mond House as a prisoner. He was hung on October 18, 1777 from a nearby tree. American soldiers encamped in the area were paraded by the body as a warning to any potential British sympathizers. The home was later owned by the Dumond Family. It has been owned by the Kent family since 1933.
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Half Moon Tavern – Elmendorf House // c.1710
September 14, 2022 September 7, 2022 Buildings of New EnglandLeave a comment
When Pieter Ostrander settled in Hurley, NY with his family in the late 1600s. Being of Dutch descent, he (and other settlers) built their homes and barns in Dutch traditions. This lot along the village's main street was acquired by Pieter and inherited by his son, Arent in about 1710, about the time the home is estimated to have been built. It was acquired by the Elmendorf Family by the early 19th century. At that time, the property operated as the Half Moon Tavern, after Petrus Elmendorf purchased it in 1804. The addition to the east (right) was built as a weaving room. The property remained in the Elmendorf family until 2008 (that's almost 300 years in two families!) It was acquired by the new owner who has been restoring and researching the home ever since. He runs a blog documenting the property's rich history.
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Yates House // 1730
May 21, 2021 May 16, 2021 Buildings of New EnglandLeave a comment
Thought to be the oldest extant home in Schenectady, New York, the Yates House serves as an excellent example of Dutch-inspired architecture found in the days before the founding of the United States of America. The house, believed to have been constructed around 1730, is an example of Dutch Colonial architecture. Dutch Colonial architecture was clearly common in New Netherland, present-day New York. As a contrast with New England, which featured British-inspired Georgian architecture, the homes and buildings found in the New Netherland colony was unapologetically Dutch. The Yates House in Schenectady's Stockade neighborhood features a Dutch gable end wall facing the street with interesting brickwork.
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Dutch House // 1893
April 22, 2021 April 20, 2021 Buildings of New EnglandLeave a comment
Located on the appropriately named Netherlands Road in Brookline, MA, this house was actually designed as a temporary structure as part of the 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition or the White City, depicted in the great book, Devil in the White City. The Dutch House was constructed in 1893 by the Van Houten Cocoa Company of the Netherlands, as a display pavilion and cocoa house. It was located at one end of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building (the largest building ever constructed at the time). The Dutch House as we know of it today, was greatly inspired in design by the Franeker City Hall (c. 1591) in the Netherlands. While attending the World's Fair, Captain Charles Brooks Appleton of Brookline be.came so captivated with the structure that after the Fair, he purchased the building and had it dismantled and transported to Brookline. By the early 2000s, much of the amazing carvings on the building had fallen off, until a new homeowner had them all restored from drawings and images of the building, to the iconic landmark we see today.
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Brookline Fire Station #7 // 1898
May 1, 2020 April 19, 2020 Buildings of New EnglandLeave a comment
If you've been to Brookline, you've probably heard of or seen the Dutch House, but have you seen the Dutch (Fire) House? This amazing fire station on Washington Street in Brookline was built in 1898 for the growing town's suburban population. Local architect G. Fred Crosby designed the building in a Dutch Renaissance Revival style, likely influenced by the Dutch House which was moved to Brookline just years before. The brick building has a Dutch stepped gable roof, stone detailing around the openings, and a tall Italian Renaissance style hose tower to the rear. The station was minimally altered at the exterior, most notably in 1951 for the enlarging of a bay to allow for larger fire apparatus to get in and out of the building. The building was featured in BrickBuilder, an architectural journal which focused on buildings and designs for brick.
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Q: Move from Activty 1 to Activity 2 keeping Activity 1 running How to move from Activity A to Activity B without disturbing Activity A. On button click, I want to move to Activity B from Activity A, but i still want Activity A to run.
I dont want to use Service as i m not understanding it. Please tell me of any other way to do this..

A: When move from Activity A to Activity B. Activity A call onStop() method. So you can do what you want in the onStop().
    @Override
protected void onStop() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onStop();
//Do something here
}

All about Activity, refer to : http://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities.html

A: From this answer:
Intent myIntent = new Intent(CurrentActivity.this, NextActivity.class);
CurrentActivity.this.startActivity(myIntent);

The first activity will still exist when you start the second one. It won't be "running" but it'll call the onPause() method if Activity A is still visible underneath Activity B. If Activity A is no longer visible at all, it'll call the onStop() method.
You said you don't want to use a Service, but if you want to still have some part of Activity A running while a new activity is shown, I would consider using a Service or some kind of Threading that gets started in either the onPause() or the onStop() method of the activity.

A: You want to run a Service when ActivityA calls onPause() or onStop() then you can stop the Service in onResume() and resume your Activity from where the Service left off. See the Docs. You may not understand them but you need to take the time to read through about Services if you want it to function correctly. I believe there is even an example of this same thing in there. In onPause() you can call
This part of the docs will be extremely helpful in understanding also