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Turkish Press Review, 97-10-14
Turkish Press Review Directory - Previous Article - Next Article
From: Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs <http://www.mfa.gov.tr>
[01] SHAHAK'S CONTACTS IN ANKARA
[02] HOLBROOKE IN ANKARA
[03] TURKEY BEGINS WITHDRAWING FROM NORTHERN IRAQ
[04] GREECE: PKK TRYING TO CREATE A VIETNAM
[05] RACE BEGINS TODAY IN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER ELECTION
[06] ANKARA MARKS 74TH ANNIVERSARY AS TURKEY'S CAPITAL
[07] TURKISH JETS IN SHOW OF FORCE OVER CYPRUS
[08] INTERNATIONAL COAL TRADE CONFERENCE BEGINS
[09] ANDICAN PROMOTES ECONOMIC TIES WITH TURKISH-SPEAKING STATES
[10] IMF CONTINUES ITS CONTACTS IN ANKARA
[11] ECEVIT: "EUROPEANS DO NOT HAVE A VISION"
[12] GERMAN NOBEL AWARD FOR YASAR KEMAL
[13] TOROS 97-2 MILITARY EXERCISES
[14] FORESTRY SUMMIT
[15] AGREEMENT FOR IZMIT GULF BRIDGE
[16] BIDDING FOR ATATURK AIRPORT
[17] 13 PEOPLE KILLED IN A PKK ATTACK
[18] PKK ON TOP OF BLACK LIST
TURKISH PRESS REVIEW
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF PRESS AND INFORMATION,OFFICE OF PRIME MINISTER
Summary of the political and economic news in the Turkish press this morning
Israeli Defense Forces Chief of General Staff Lt.Gen.Amnon Lipkin Shahak was received at the highest level in Ankara, with President Suleyman Demirel and Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz among the country's top officials who met him yesterday. Chief of General Staff Gen.Ismail Hakki Karadayi and Defense Minister Ismet Sezgin also met Israel's top commander Lt.Gen.Shahak yesterday afternoon.
Taken up at the talks with priority were the projects and tenders aiming to carry the Turkish Armed Forces into the 21st century. Decision was reached at the talks to purchase from Israel 20 of the devices to be mounted on the 20 Eurocopter type helicopters of the Turkish Armed Forces. The device kown as PLS helps in the search_rescue operations to be conducted when the pilot of a helicopter or a plane jumps to safety in the event of a crash or a hitch.
Also taken up during the talks were the joint exercises planned to be conducted between Turkey, Israel and the US. Foreign Ministry officials stated that the date of the exercises had also been set and that this would be disclosed in the forthcoming days. /All papers/
The US envoy for Cyprus, Richard Holbrooke, stressed yesterday that his first visit to the Turkish capital was "not a negotiation trip", but a mission to learn the Turkish position on the long-lasting Cyprus conflict. Holbrooke started his official talk in Ankara with a breakfast yeterday morning with Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Onur Oymen, followed by meetings with President Suleyman Demirel, Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz, Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen.Cevik Bir and Foreign Minister Ismail Cem.
The most significant meeting Holbrooke had, perhaps, was the one with Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit. Ecevit said later to reporters he attracted attention of the envoy to Turkey's fears over the tension of excessive armament in the divided island and explained that Turkey has no intention of annexing the island. Ecevit also said he criticized the EU's double standard with regard to Turkey and Greek Cyprus while talking to Holbrooke.
Holbrooke's statement noting that Washington favoured the simultaneous initiation of negotiations for full EU membership of both Turkey and Southern Cyprus has also disturbed Ankara. Demirel stated that it would be wrong to consider Cyprus as an issue between Turkey and the US, adding: "Cyprus cannot apply to an international organization for membership without the consent of both Turkey and Greece".
Turkish troops, who have completed their planned missions in the operation code-named "Dawn 97", began withdrawing from northern Iraq yesterday. The operation had accomplished all of its aims and the region was "cleared of the majority of terrorist, with only some "unimportant elements" still there, the commanders leading the operation were quoted as saying.
The number of separatists killed during the operation, which started at the end of September with the aim of fighting PKK terrorists, who use the region as a base from which to strike Turkey, was put at 816. Also, 18 separatists were captured and 17 surrendered. A considerable amount of ammunition was also seized, military sources said. The number of Turkish soldiers killed in the clashes was put at 15, with 58 soldiers injured.
Greece's chief of staff, in a top secret report, said that the PKK terrorist organization is trying to create a "new Vietnam" for Turkey, a report by an international relations agency based in Nicosia said. It was reported that the PKK's leader asked for Greece's help to carry out this plan during a Greek military delegation's visit. It was also reported that PKK separatists, based in Europe, have been sending communists from the former eastern bloc to northern Iraq with a salary of $300 monthly. /Milliyet/
The first two rounds of voting to elect a new speaker will be held in Parliament today. Seven candidates will compete in the race. Four Motherland Party (ANAP) deputies are running, namely, Kamran Inan, Ekrem Pakdemirli, Hayrettin Uzun and Mustafa Kalemli. Other candidates are Welfare Party (RP) Deputy Chairman Aydin Menderes, former State Minister Ayvaz Gokdemir of the True Path Party (DYP) and Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Hikmet Cetin. According to the Constitution, a given candidate must get a minimum of 367 votes, that is, the majority of the Parliament, to be elected in the first or second rounds.
Ankara yesterday marked the 74th anniversary of becoming Turkey's capital with various celebrations and ceremonies commemorating the Turkish Liberation War, which culminated with the establishment of the modern Turkish Republic and Ankara being declared as its capital. In a message released on the occasion, President Demirel stated that Ankara was the symbol of the Turkish people's independence struggle and its resurrection after years of war. In a separate statement, Prime Minister Yilmaz said that the citizens of Ankara would sustain their efforts to maintain the capital as a modern and contemporary city, following Ataturk's example.
Tensions over alleged airspace violations, by both Greece and Turkey, are escalating as the Turkish fighters reportedly carried out at least 50 sorties, taking off from the Mediterranean air bases of Dalaman and Antalya, as a show of force over Turkish Cyprus airspace following Greece's breaking of a previously declared moratorium. Turkish Air Force officials said that this was not a violation of international rules and they are just planning to show that Turkey will guard the island's rights forever.
Tensions were raised after Greek war planes violated Turkish Cypriot airspace over the weekend by taking part in the Nikiforios '97 exercises in southern Cyprus. Greek government spokesman Dimitris Reppas told reporters that the exercises would continue. Meanwhile, Greek Cypriot leader Glafkos Klerides said that they were that crazy to attack Turkey. /All papers/
Some 1,500 delegates from 57 countries are attending the Coal Trans 1997 Conference, which President Demirel opened officially yesterday afternoon. A wide range of issues will be debated at the Monday-through-Wednesday conference including the shipment of coal worldwide and energy policies of several countries, including Turkey related to coal use.
State Minister Ahad Andican yesterday said that, from now on, Turkey's economic ties with the Turkish-speaking republics could be put on a wiser and more logical framework, the Anatolia news agency reported. Andican is having talks in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, on the occasion of the first Joint Economic Commission meeting. Speaking about the difficulties which former Soviet Union countries- especially Kyrgyzstan- are experiencing in making the transition to a market economy, Andaican told reporters that Turkey is trying to create the best possible conditions for the Turkish-speaking states by offering them Eximbank credit. Andican will attend the closing session of the Turkish-Kyrgyz Joint Economic Cooperation on Tuesday.
A delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has continued its contacts in Ankara. Head of the delegation Hardy met, yesterday, with the members of the Executive Board of the Ankara Industrialists' Chamber (ASO). The Chairman of ASO said that they discussed tax reforms with the IMF delegation. /Sabah/
Before leaving Ankara for the first leg of his Scandinavian tour, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that the U.S. was more receptive towards Turkey than European countries. He added that Europeans did not have a vision about international issues. Ecevit pointed out that Europe prefered to interest in their internal issues. /Sabah/
German Republic Publishers Association's 1997 German Publication Sector Peace Award was given to world-famous author Yasar Kemal. Kemal will go to Germany on 15 October and will be given his award on 19 October during a ceremony. /Sabah/
The Turkish Armed Forces will conduct Toros 97-2 military exercise on 1-8 November on Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) territories and international water of the Mediterranean. Turkish navy and air forces, units of the Turkish Cyprus Peace Forces and units of the TRNC Security Commandership will attend the exercise. /Sabah/
Nearly four thousand delegates from 113 countries, including 55 ministers attend the 11th Forestry Congress held in Antalya. Forest fires are high on the agenda of discussions. During the congress a project for dealing with the issue will be taken in hand. /All papers/
The government has given start to a project for the construction of bridge over the Izmit Gulf. The negotiations between the General Directorate for Roads and the Anglo-Japanese-Turkish consortium have ended. A related agreement is expected to be signed this week at a ceremony with the participation of Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz. /Hurriyet/
The Tep-Akfen-Vie consortium that won the bidding for the construction of new facilities at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul will sign today a related agreement with the State Aiports Administration. The agreement will be signed by Transport Minister Necdet Menzir with a ceremony to be held at Hotel Sheraton. The consortium will carry out the project according to the build-operate-transfer model. /Hurriyet/
Three soldiers and 10 village guards were killed yesterday in a PKK attack staged in Semdinli, Hakkari. Eleven other members of the security forces were wounded in the attack. At the same time, two soldiers died hitting a mine laid down by PKK terrorists in Yuksekova, Hakkari. Security forces have initiated operations backed by Super Kobra helicopters against the terrorists in the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir and Bingol. /Milliyet/
In a report released by Belgian Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck, the PKK terrorist organization has been described as the most dangerous criminal organization in Belgium. The report provides details about 162 investigations carried out in relation with various illegal organizations active in the country. /Milliyet/
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9/11 Commissions: Recommendations
James Joyner · Saturday, June 19, 2004 · No comments
From tomorrow's NYT — And Now for the Hard Part [RSS]
The Sept. 11 commission can now say with real authority that it knows what went wrong. After an 18-month inquiry that has taken its investigators from the mine-strewn wastelands of Afghanistan to the Oval Office, the commission has rewritten the history of the attacks, with riveting public hearings and finely detailed, chilling interim reports that demonstrated how the nation left itself unprepared on that sunny September morning, and why the government is almost certainly unprepared if the terrorists strike again now.
With the fact-finding over, the hard part may be just ahead. The commission's five Democrats and five Republicans, who have mostly subjugated their otherwise stark partisan differences until now, must retreat behind closed doors beginning this week and decide how the government, and especially the intelligence community, should be changed if there is any hope of defending the nation from an enemy that is morphing into something that may be even more deadly and hard to find.
With their final report due late next month, the members of the commission say they are trying to come up with a package of recommendations that will be revolutionary – especially when it comes to the way the government gathers intelligence and shares it, the focus of the panel's harshest criticism in the past – but will also be realistic enough to be accepted quickly in Congress and in the White House.
The commission's leaders have vowed to continue to lobby for the recommendations long after the commission itself has shut down; they know that the likely institutional targets for overhaul, especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon, have powerful constituencies on Capitol Hill that they have developed over generations, and will resist any change that limits their authority or shifts it elsewhere.
Dropping its longstanding insistence that change was not needed, the Bush administration has said that it is open to a reorganization of counterterrorism agencies, if only to switch the subject from its bleak intelligence failures in the months leading up to Sept. 11.
Members of the independent commission led by Mr. Kean say that if they decide not to recommend the establishment of an MI-5-like agency, they will likely call for a reorganization of the F.B.I., possibly to create an agency-within-an-agency that can oversee domestic intelligence and perhaps someday be split off from the bureau.
But as they set to work in earnest on agreeing on solutions, the independent commission is finding itself where it has said repeatedly that it does not want to be, pulled into an election-year debate over the Bush administration's counterterrorism policy and its justifications for the war with Iraq.
There are counterterrorism specialists who hope, however, that the commission decides against the broad intelligence overhaul that it has long seemed likely to recommend. Warren B. Rudman, the former Republican senator from New Hampshire who was co-chairman of a commission on homeland security that foresaw an attack like Sept. 11 only months before it occurred, said he believed the F.B.I. and C.I.A. had largely recreated themselves since Sept. 11 for the better, and that their dismantling could endanger the nation while the new structure is put in place.
"It would take forever to build a new intelligence community, and I don't think we've got that kind of time," he said. "I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with the structure."
Far better, he explained, would be to beef up the technological abilities of the government to monitor terrorist threats and to commit to providing police departments, fire departments and other so-called first responders with the equipment they need to react to new attacks, which he said were bound to occur on American soil.
"It's very, very much worth repeating,"' he said. "The American people ought to really understand that while their government is doing everything it possibly can, nothing will be enough."'
An interesting point. Clearly, a lot has indeed happened to reorganize and refocus the counter-terrorism portion of the IC, especially CIA-FBI interaction. It's impossible to tell from my current vantagepoint whether it's enough. Certainly, though, a major overhaul in the midst of a war would be unprecedented.
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Coming to Grips with Reality
Not as Bad as We Feared

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CONSTRUCTION: Cape Concentrate Squeezes Into Coega
Business Confidence Deteriorates Further
Nederburg's Warmer Face
Developers Size Up Africa
Retail giants roll out in-store digital media
SA's Own 'Arab Spring'
DEVELOPMENT is continuing apace at the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) outside Port Elizabeth, with Grinaker-LTA having been awarded a R57 million contract for the construction of a new facility there for Cape Concentrate. This contract is being undertaken in a joint venture with BEE firm Lezmin, a 100% black female-owned enterprise.
"We are very pleased to be working with Lezmin, which has proved itself and worked its way up through the ranks by originally working as an SMME contractor on various projects for the Coega Development Corporation. It's an outstanding achievement for the firm to have progressed to being a fully fledged joint venture partner with Grinaker-LTA on a major construction project, and we look forward to working together to deliver a quality end product here," says Gary Berkland, commercial manager at Grinaker-LTA Building Cape.
Grinaker-LTA has been working in the Coega Industrial Development Zone since 2006, when it built the first multi-storey office block in the IDZ, for the Coega Development Corporation. Several other projects have followed, including new facilities for Transnet at Coega's Port of Ngqura. This latest undertaking at the zone entails the construction of a new specialised warehouse with offices, ablutions and a boiler house for Cape Concentrate. It includes all electrical and mechanical services and external works, Berkland says.
An extremely fast-track contract will see the completion of Cape Concentrate's new facility in April this year. The tight programme is among the challenges for the joint venture partners, he says, together with the stringent environmental, health and safety specifications set out by the Coega Development Corporation. "All works undertaken within the zone are governed by an Environmental Management Plan which is specific to the zone, and by health and safety procedures which are strictly monitored and enforced at all times. Detailed method statements outlining the construction methodology and associated risks on every construction activity are required to be approved by Coega Development Corporation before works are allowed to commence."
This contract, like all construction at the Coega IDZ, also has a strong focus on employment equity and job creation. "We are required to ensure the participation in this undertaking of various target groups, such as SMMEs, black-owned businesses, firms owned by women, local enterprises and previously disadvantaged individuals."
"In addition, there is a requirement to implement training programmes, such as learnership training. It's something to which Grinaker-LTA, Lezmin and all our sub-contractors are fully committed," Berkland says.


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Minnesota Hockey
HECC Certified Masks Permitted
By Minnesota Hockey, 01/04/21, 2:00PM CST
Minnesota Hockey has worked with the Minnesota Department of Health to validate the use of certain face masks or splash guards. These types of masks have also been approved by the Hockey Equipment Certification Council (HECC) during practice and game play.
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and State of Minnesota announced Monday, December 28 that a face covering must be worn by all persons at all times during organized sport activities including practices and games. Types of face coverings include a cloth mask, disposable mask, neck gaiter, scarf or bandanna. These face coverings should be used whenever feasible, but the HECC certified masks below are now approved as well.
HECC stands for Hockey Equipment Certification Council, which is the non-profit independent organization that certifies hockey equipment. Ensuring the integrity of a hockey helmet is at the core of HECC's mission, and it is fully committed to evaluating products as manufacturers submit them, including splash guards. HECC-certified helmets are required for all USA Hockey sanctioned activities.
It's important that parents, players, coaches and officials know that attaching anything to a HECC-certified helmet voids the certification, unless it is approved by the helmet manufacturer and verified by HECC's validator. Wearing a cloth mask that is completely separate from your helmet has no impact on whether or not a helmet is certified by HECC.
As of January, 2021, Minnesota Hockey and HECC have approved the CCM Game on Mask and the Bauer Concept 3 Face Shield and Splash Guard combination, pictured below with links to the manufacturer's websites.
To view the full HECC statement on spit guards, visit http://hecc.org/spitguards.html. To find the most up-to-date list of HECC approved products, please visit HECC.org.
Return to Play Updates - December 28
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Minnesota Hockey Announces Season Extension, COVID-19 Rules
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Parent and Family Rights
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State Advisory Panel for Exceptional Children (SAPEC)
Special Education Resources for Using Infinite Campus (IC)
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What are the laws for Special Education?
The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) is the federal law for students with disabilities. The IDEA ensures children with disabilities have access to a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). IDEA applies to babies and toddlers to age 3 (Part C of IDEA) and school-aged children, ages 3-21 (Part B of IDEA). In addition to the IDEA, Special Education in Kentucky is also governed by the Kentucky Administrative Regulations (KAR) for Special Education Programs (2008).
Additional Resources:
IDEA resources from KY-SPIN including webinars, PowerPoints and related documents including the FAQ: Kentucky Specific Regulations as related to IDEA 2004 Part B (ages 3-21)
IDEA resource for Parents and Families
What are my rights as a parent?
At Admissions and Release Committee (ARC) meetings, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires school districts to offer parents a written copy of their Procedural Safeguards. Procedural Safeguards describe the rights and protections that parents and their child(ren) have under the IDEA. The district will offer a written copy of the Procedural Safeguards before every ARC meeting. A copy of Kentucky's Procedural Safeguards can be found on the right side of the Special Education Forms - Due Process webpage.
Kentucky Administrative Regulations for Special Education Programs (KARs)
Procedural Safeguards from the Center for Parent Information and Resources (CPIR): IDEA's exact language and a user-friendly summary (English) and Derechos de los Padres bajo IDEA (Spanish) from CPIR
Parent and Family Toolbox (KDE)
What if I disagree with an ARC decision?
Typically, parents and school staff work together to make decisions about a child's education. However, there may be times when parents and school staff do not agree. Often, these disagreements can be resolved through a meeting in which the parents and a school representative talk over issues and concerns. By working together informally, parents and school personnel can maintain a positive relationship. They may also resolve their disagreement more quickly than addressing the matter through a more formal process such as a due process hearing or an Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) written complaint.
Every school district in Kentucky has a Director of Special Education (DoSE). A list of district contact information is available in Open House to help parents get in touch with their local DoSE. When a parent has a disagreement or concern, parents may first contact the school district's DoSE to make them aware. Families usually find it is most effective if they first review their child's IEP before contacting the DoSE to clearly explain their specific questions and concerns. Parents often find it helpful to make a list in writing of their concerns and share that list with the DoSE.
If meeting informally with the school representative or talking to the DoSE does not resolve the disagreement, three other resolution options are available to parents. Disagreements may be resolved through (1) mediation, (2) a formal written complaint or (3) a due process hearing. The Kentucky Department of Education's (KDE) Dispute Resolution webpage provides the details for each process along with the forms used to request each process.
KY-SPIN's MythBusters: If a family does not agree with the school's evaluation results
KY-SPIN's MythBusters: KY-SPIN & Filing Complaints
CADRE for Families: many resources available in English, Spanish, Arabic, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Vietnamese.
What are my rights during the ARC meeting?
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) encourages parents and families to work in partnership with schools concerning their child's education and schooling. First and foremost, parents should play an active role along with school staff in developing their child's Individual Education Program (IEP). Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), parents and legal guardians have certain rights and protections to ensure they can fully participate. The IDEA also provides rights to parents and guardians concerning their child's identification, evaluation, educational placement and the provision of a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) to their child. Families also have the right and responsibility to ask questions and express concerns. For further information, see "What is the Admissions and Release Committee (ARC)?"
Advocating for your child from KY-SPIN
Parental Rights to Participate in IEP Meetings (English) and Derecho de los Padres de Participar en Reuniones (Spanish)- This resource from the Center for Parent Information and Resources (CPIR) offers general guidance about parent participation in IEP meetings (referred to as ARC meetings in KY) based upon federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations.
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Division of IDEA Implementation and Preschool
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Michail (Mihalis) Maniatakos is the Director of the Modern Microprocessors Architectures (MoMA) Laboratory. His research interests include privacy-preserving computation, industrial control systems security, and 3D printing security. His research has been sponsored by Consolidated Edison, ONR, DARPA, and GlobalFoundries. He has authored several publications in IEEE/ACM transactions and conferences, holds patents on privacy-preserving data processing, and has served in the technical program committee for various conferences, including DAC, ICCAD, ICCD, and AsiaCCS. He was the Program co-Chair for VLSI-SoC 2017, and he has served as a guest editor for IEEE Design and Test and IEEE Embedded Systems Letters journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.


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The MVP Machine - Book Review
Tuesday, July 28 2020 @ 10:05 AM EDT
Contributed by: Gerry
Baseball has changed significantly over the last 20 years. There was the Moneyball revolution that is almost 20 years old. The newer advances we have seen on the field in the last couple of years, shifts, openers, pitcher usage, less bunting, catcher framing and on and on. Most of these changes are readily observable and often lead to analysis on Fangraphs or similar sites. We may not appreciate their impact on the enjoyment of the game but we understand why teams use those options.
But the latest advances are generally hidden from sight. We hear about mysterious analysts in front offices making decisions about players and tactics. Players switch teams and suddenly get better. We hear about Rapsodo, Edgertronic, Trackman and other technologies that teams and players are using. We also see that a lot of baseball old timers, who were major league coaches and managers, are getting squeezed out and new young coaches are getting hired, often from college programs or from third party player development shops like Driveline.
I knew a little about the changes in player development but the book, the MVP Machine, opened my eyes to what is going on behind the scenes. It explains all of the changes I listed in the previous paragraph. I am recommending this book.
The central character in the book is Trevor Bauer who has consistently worked hard every off-season to become a better pitcher. Bauer says he is not a great athlete and has to use every edge he can. He has been at the forefront of technology adoption to make him as good as he can be.
You have probably heard a lot about launch angle. Hitters have adjusted to connect in front of the plate and swing up more. The old advice to let the ball travel, to hit the ball to right centre, to hit down on the ball is gone. The book covers these changes and the cat and mouse game between hitter changes and pitcher changes. As the hitters swing up more, that has a negative impact on sinker ball pitchers. Some of the more savvy teams will acquire a pitcher and tell him to drop the sinker, to throw more breaking balls and four seamers. In many examples in the book the impact on the players career has been significant.
In the book I learned about:
The hitting gurus who help hitters like Justin Turner, JD Martinez and Mookie Betts.
How pitchers work to improve their pitches using high speed cameras to optimize finger location and spin.
How some teams are using the new technologies to develop their players.
How some teams were not impressed by players using technology and in some cases thought players were over thinking.
How the new technologies allow teams to understand which minor leaguers have the most potential and thereby reduce their number of minor leaguers.
How the technology is impacting player ageing curves and the salary structure.
The Astros are leaders in analytics but the book was written before the cheating scandal. However, the Astros culture does not come off well in the book.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about the changes in player development. I found it educational and enjoyable.
https://www.battersbox.ca/article.php?story=20200728095106793


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Home Up County Damascus
News Around MoCo… 5/8/17 Edition
News Around MoCo, 5/8/17 Edition
Staples on Georgia Avenue has closed permanently (Silver Spring).
After 41 years, Seneca Valley held the last sporting event at the stadium last Thursday (Germantown).
The five most challenging schools in Maryland are located in Montgomery County, according to the Washington Post's list of most challenging schools in the nation. Full list available here:(www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/local/high-school-challenge-2017/
Brio Tuscan Grille, located on the corner of Rockville Pike and Executive Blvd. (North Bethesda) has closed permanently.
The brand new Spring/Summer 2017 menu has rolled out at Cava Mezze locations (Olney/Rockville).
Peruvian Chicken and Grill will be opening soon in Damascus.
The creators of Serial (including host Sarah Koenig) will be at Strathmore on May 11th (North Bethesda).
Le Madeleine in Silver Spring has closed permanently.
The principal of Kensington Parkwood Elementary School that set up a "smash space" for teacher will step down following this school year (Kensington).
Class 520 (Thai ice cream) has opened a second MoCo location in Bethesda.
Takoma Beverage Co. (coffee, beer, cocktails, and wine) will open in Takoma Park this month or next.
MoCo liquor stores used to card people that "looked under 35." Starting July 1st, everyone will be carded.
Pie 360, Coal Fire's quick pizza experiment, has closed after just 5 months off of Twinbrook Parkway (Rockville).
The MoCo Council voted unanimously to pass a bill that would fine owners of abandoned homes to avoid eyesores that attract crime and reduce property value (per WTOP).
MoCo Police will be visiting MCPS schools to enforce cell phone and seat belt laws in and around the schools (parking lots, drop-off/pick-up loops, etc.).
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A sneak peek at the Natural History Museum's improved Becoming Los Angeles
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What a raw interaction we have this week between Puer in the third (Gemini) and Puella in the eighth (Scorpio)! It's very clear that there is a head-heart split in your efforts this week.
Puer is all about wanting to make physical changes in your local environment. You will find at the start of the week that you are still putting in a ton of effort to move things forward. It's also likely that, given the aspect between the geomes is a Quincunx (150°), that you will find there is a lot of energy and effort but not much movement.
In fact, the lack of 'movement' could be significant in more ways than one. You may find travel plans disrupted this week with minor irritations and stoppages. You will need to keep your cool and not waste time with ineffective actions or on processes that aren't yielding results.
Puer is associated with the planet Mars and hence you'll find a lot of energy and vigour is in the air. Whilst this passion for change might be good in its way it needs to be applied in the right way.
Later in the week we see the shift to Puella and an increase in the drive to plan more strategically. You are likely to find that your thoughts shift from 'how you do it' to 'why you do it'. In other words, focus more on results than on effort. And the start of this will be to focus on your interactions with others rather than simply on what you want to do.
There's nothing wrong with what you want to do, it's just that by putting others first your actions will set off in the right direction from the start. Just believing something is a good idea and fitting it to others later is not the way to go.
Puer in the third is very much concerned with immediate effort and results. But it's easy to get caught up with the close-up situation in front of you and to lose sight of the overall reasons for doing it. Puella gives a timely reminder this week that you need to make a change. Change your mind and the directions of your thoughts and you'll find your actions are more likely to bear fruit.
Given that this is in the first house it is clear that we have something to learn. The new double taps at Levels 1 and 4 show that we are right to consider new ways to apply ourselves to the external world. The parent geomes had indicated we need to be less concerned with our individual, personal plans and efforts and the Active Transform confirms that it's our outlook on the world and how we connect with it which should be our focus.
The single new tap at Level 2 shows us that if we are wise we will spend time thinking about how we think. The single old tap at Level 3 shows that we do not need to put in as much physical effort as we have been doing, but rather to make sure that our efforts were in the right direction to start with.
If you're in the business of selling lemonade it's not enough to have a good product. You also need to get it in front of your market. Opening a shop in the depths of the forest might not be the best place to get a lot of passing traffic! When you know better, you'll do better.


For the month of June, I've partnered with theSkimm, for their No Excuses Healthcare Campaign. Ok, two things; first if you aren't familiar with theSkimm, it is a media company that is changing the way female millennials receive news and information, that was just so happened to be started by two females! You are 100% missing out if you are catching up on the latest news every single morning with them. It has a no BS, super funny, but factual way of delivering the news to you; all before you even wake up. It's just waiting in your inbox ready for you to open the moment you roll over in your bed and grab your phone in the morning.
Second, you are probably wondering, what their No Excuses Healthcare campaign is all about. A quick summary: They are engaging their audience on key issues driving the national conversation and challenging US to make 'No Excuses' when it comes to being informed. During their last No Excuses campaign, they activated over 1.5 million of their followers across social media to take action. For their campaign around the 2016 Election, they registered over 110,000 people to vote. And for their recent No Excuses immigration campaign, they rallied over 500,000 people to take the citizenship test. They've been making huge differences to say the least in getting people involved, spreading the news, having people become more aware, more informed, no matter what political or social stance they take! It doesn't matter! The goal is just to become informed and to simply care about what is happening in the world. You can read about their No Excuses Health campaign, by clicking here.
"Why is this a big deal?
So why is this important to me? For starters, you all know that health is a big deal to me, a really big deal. Mental health and digestive health is my life and I openly discuss it with you all whether it be on my blog, Instagram, or throughout my stories from time to time. If you've been on this health rollercoaster ride with me, you remember that in February of this year (2017) I decided to leave my full time job and unbegntost to me, my health insurance was terminated before the end of the month from my previous place of employment. I had talked about this happening to me and the situation on my stories the moment that it happened, sharing my feelings, thoughts, frustrations, and was taken back at the amount of responses that I had received from you all that had experienced similar situations or had/have issues when it comes to health care coverage. I was under the assumption and was told that I had health care coverage until the end of the month, yet when I had gone to the pharmacy to retrieve my medication, I was unable to due to the lack of insurance and the prices it was going to cost me. I suddenly had no health insurance and the medication was now costing OVER 1,000 dollars for only a 30 day supply. Unfortunately, this medication is something that I need to take currently every single day as it is preventative care for my migraines. I've tried to not take it before, but have continuously ended up in the emergency room with severe migraines that are so debilitating that it takes almost 2 weeks to recover. Secondly, money does not grow on trees and I had NO way of paying for this.
Naturally, I cried and was at a loss as to what to do. Working for yourself and figuring out health plan is the best one is confusing. (Side note, there are a variety of plans out there: HMOs, PPOs, EPOs, POS, HSHPs and so forth…any sound familiar or just confusing you even more?!). Honestly, would you know what to do? Which plan to pick, truly know which one would be the best for you now, fit your needs, your budget, in the future, for emergencies, medications, doctors and anything that might come your way?
Having no health insurance flooded my mind with thoughts: What if I had a family? What if this was an emergency situation, how would I pay for it? What if I had a child and the child needed this medication ASAP? I couldn't imagine how stressful this would be. Luckily, I can get by without taking the medication for a few days as I know what I need to do to take care of myself, but after a few days, I need to take the medication, as my system will begin to develop migraines, anxiety and it will soon spiral out of control.
It ended up taking over 3 months to figure out a health insurance plan that would work best for my situation. The first two weeks of figuring out a plan were extremely stressful. It felt as if I was being passed along from one person to the next and because I take medication and see my doctors a good amount, I needed coverage fast. Therefore, for the first month, I had to go on a plan in which I had to pay a ridiculous amount for the first month. I would say that it was as high as most people's monthly rent. However, there was no time to figure things out, wait a few weeks, plan ahead, or give it much thought because I needed medication and I needed coverage fast and this was the only thing that I could do. After that month had past, I was able to switch plans, a plan that is much better, the price is much lower and it works for me now and for the future. Even just typing this is giving me flashbacks and headaches!
I often wonder I had just been more informed from the start, could this situation have been avoided. Would there been a way to have worked with my previous place of employment, my doctors, or anyone else to have figured out what I would have needed to have done in order to make this transition much smoother. If not, then it is up to me to be completely informed about what is available to me. I share this with you, not to cause stress, anxiety, or to freak you out, but because there are real issues that we must face every single day that we often forget about. There are things such as health care, that you need to be informed about; it affects me on a daily basis and my future greatly and while it may not affect you now, it will in the future; if there is an emergency, if you have a child, visit the hospital, anything! Being prepared now, being informed, and educated, only allows you to take care of yourself better today, tomorrow and the future to come. It is especially important, for us, women because we need to be in control of what happens to our bodies and should be the ones making the decisions when it comes to matters such as our reproductive system. We should have a say in how we want to run our bodies, the medications that we want to take, and the plans that fit our needs the best. This link, is a great read by theSkimm, that talks about statistics, facts, and other information regarding women, healthcare, and our systems today. Its quick and to the point, mainly focusing on reproductive care, trust me!
I wanted to bring awareness to this idea, the importance of healthcare, the importance of being informed, educated and aware of your options, in hopes that you to do the same to others. Even if you are perfectly healthy now, it doesn't mean that it will not affect you later in life.Little did I know that leaving my full time job with benefits and working for myself, would I end up in the predicament that I was in for a few months. It was stressful, expensive, and left me feeling extremely frustrated and only wanted to learn more information about how our system works as well as make sure people are aware as to how important this is. Living in our world today, we should make it a goal to stay current with the issues that we are challenged with daily so we can either, make positive changes, be informed for the sake of it, and most importantly spread awareness.
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Far from My Father
Véronique Tadjo. Translated by Amy Baram Reid. Afterword by Amy Baram Reid
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
Caribbean & African Literature
"To attain some sort of universal value," Véronique Tadjo has said, "a piece of work has to go deep into the particular in order to reveal our shared humanity." In Far from My Father, the latest novel from this internationally acclaimed author, a woman returns to the Côte d'Ivoire after her father's death. She confronts not only unresolved family issues that she had left behind but also questions about her own identity that arise amidst the tensions between traditional and modern worlds. The drama that unfolds tells us much about the evolving role of women, the legacy of polygamy, and the economic challenges of daily life in Abidjan. On a more autobiographical level, the author depicts a daughter's efforts to come to terms with what she knew and did not know about her father.
Set against the backdrop of civil strife that has wracked the Côte d'Ivoire since the turn of the century, this story shows Tadjo's remarkable ability to inhabit a character's inner world and emotional landscape while creating a narrative of great historic and cultural dimensions.
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from the French
Véronique Tadjo is certainly one of the most highly acclaimed African francophone writers of our time. Far from My Father is not only about a tragic political situation; it also speaks to just about anyone who has lost a parent, and of how one deals with such a loss. Amy Reid's translation is quite simply excellent.
- Cheryl Toman, Case Western Reserve University, author of Contemporary Matriarchies in Cameroonian Francophone Literature
Véronique Tadjo is a poet and novelist, a public intellectual and critic, and a writer of creative nonfiction and children's literature. Her novel Queen Pokou: Concerto for a Sacrifice, also translated by Amy Reid, was named an NPR Favorite Book of 2010. The original edition in French won the Le Grand Prix Littéraire d´Afrique Noire. Amy Baram Reid is Professor of French Language and Literature at the New College of Florida.


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Q: Load namespaces with composer as psr-0 libraries I am using Silex (and so, composer) for any web application project.
I would like to autoload 4 entities and forms:

*

*FSB\MyProject\Entity\Booking --> /src/FSB/MyProject/Entity/Booking.php

*FSB\MyProject\Form\BookingType --> /src/FSB/MyProject/Form/BookingType.php

*FSB\MyProject\Entity\Contact --> /src/FSB/MyProject/Entity/Contact.php

*FSB\MyProject\Form\ContactType --> /src/FSB/MyProject/Form/ContactType.php

The composer.json is defined with a psr-0 array:
{
    "require": {
        "silex/silex": "~1.0",
        [...]
    },
    "autoload": {
        "psr-0": {
            "FSB": "src/"
        }
    }
}

Then in my index.php file I just call :
use FSB\MyProject\Entity\Contact;
use FSB\MyProject\Form\ContactType;
use FSB\MyProject\Entity\Booking;
use FSB\MyProject\Form\BookingType;

$contact = new Contact();

Everything works fine in my dev-environment, MAMP, php 5.4
But it breaks on my production server, Apache2 on Ubuntu with PHP 5.4 too

"PHP Fatal error:  Class 'FSB\MyProject\Entity\Contact' not found
  in /[...]/index.php"

I've tried many ways to load my entities like :
{
    "require": {
        "silex/silex": "~1.0",
        [...]
    },
    "autoload": {
        "psr-0": {
            "FSB/Palmeraie": "src/",
        }
    }
}

Or even:
{
    "require": {
        "silex/silex": "~1.0",
        [...]
    },
    "autoload": {
        "psr-0": {
            "FSB\\Palmeraie\\Entity": "src/",
            "FSB\\Palmeraie\\Form": "src/"
        }
    }
}

--> Several ways are working in my dev-environment ; none on my production environment...
Did I miss something ?

A: Check your file/directory names for correct capitalization, file names on OS X are case insensitive opposed to those on Linux/Unix file systems.

A: Execute "composer update" and it will work again.

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The 'Like' Button That Came Before Facebook
This one was actually a real button, too.
Matt Novak
Illustration from the July 1934 issue of Radio-Craft magazine. (Photo: Novak Archive)
Talking back to our broadcast media seems to be an integral part of the early 21st century experience. Hulu is constantly asking me if a particular ad is relevant to my interests. Major news networks like CNN want me to give my opinion on breaking news stories to them via Twitter. Even here at Pacific Standard we encourage you to leave comments on stories.
In the parlance of advertisers, this two-way street of media communication is called "engagement." It might seem like something that's just started popping into conversations recently, but the idea is as old as broadcasting itself.
In 1934, a New York research engineer named Dr. Nevil Monroe Hopkins thought that adding in a bit of interaction was the future of radio. Hopkins proposed a three-button box that would be installed with each home radio set. Press one button for "no," another for "yes," and a third for "present."
Back then, the Detroit Free Press seemed to be in favor of this proposed device:
Millions of people have been longing for years for a chance to let certain perpetrators of jazz and alleged humor, and likewise a crooner or two know how 'rotten' their stuff is. And multitudes of fingers long have been itching to get at certain raucous-voiced ballyhooists, if not in one way then in another.
The paper explained that this new tool opened up new ways for the listening public to express their discontent with everything from advertisers to politicians:
Handy buttons as a part of the standard equipment of receiving sets should put many a counterfeit statesmen and professional hot air artist in his place; and, of course, they should be equally valuable as registers of sober, thoughtful public opinion.
Will the public care for that sort of thing? Will they bother to use Dr. Hopkins' device if they get a chance, do you ask? Don't you like to tell 'em where to head in and get off?
Hopkins was granted two patents in 1937 (one filed in 1933, the other in 1936) for his radio voting devices. By 1937, Hopkins had formed a company (National Electric Ballots); had come up with a snappy name for his device (the Radiovoter); and, perhaps most importantly, had a more serious-minded vision for its use: direct democracy.
From June 10, 1937, in Iowa's Laurens Sun:
A tiny electrical gadget, called the Radiovoter, may speed the time when a president of the United States may step before a microphone, ask a question of his radio listeners concerning some question of public policy and receive an immediate reply from millions.
The question may be: "Do you want war?" or: "Shall we build more battleships?" Or: "Do you favor a larger appropriation for relief?" Whatever the question, every listener by means of the Radiovoter on the receiving set could flash an answer back.
Hopkins' device was never widely implemented, but judging from the tenor of the more raucous discussions online (*cough* YouTube *cough*) you can be sure that the Detroit Free Press was at least correct in assuming that people would be pleased to tell content creators "where to head in" and "where to get off."
FacebookEngagementRadioUNCATEGORIZEDTwitterUser Feedback
Push-Button Promises
Big thinkers have been selling the push-button as the key to the future since way before the Jetsons. Try the 19th century.
Nerd Rage: Gendered Tech During the Rise of Radio
'Speeches Must Be Short': Radio and the Birth of the Modern Presidential Campaign
The origin of the soundbite can be traced to the 1924 U.S. presidential election, the first one ever covered heavily by a broadcast medium, radio.
The World's First Earbud Headphones
Apple may have popularized the earbud, but these ear-mounted speakers have roots to the Roaring '20s.
What Happens if the Law Starts Treating Facebook and Twitter Like Traditional Publishers?
The little-known provision that empowers tech companies to experiment with new ways of imposing and enforcing norms on new sites of discourse could be changed.
Distracted Drivers Are Nothing New
Forget cellphones. The real danger from distracted driving is the car radio—according to observers in the days before Sirius, in-car DVD players, and even web browsers.


The rlm_passwd module provides authorization via files similar in format to /etc/passwd.
The lm_passwd module allows you to retrieve any account information from any files with passwd-like format (/etc/passwd, /etc/group, smbpasswd, .htpasswd, etc). Every field of the file may be mapped to a RADIUS attribute, with one of the fields used as a key.
The module reads the file when it initializes, and caches the data in memory. As a result, it does not support dynamic updates of the files (the server has to be HUP'd), but it is very fast, even for files with thousands of lines.
The character to use as a delimiter between fields. The default is ":"
The size of the hashtable. If 0, then the passwords are not cached and the passwd file is parsed for every request. We do not recommend such a configuration. A larger hashsize means less probability of collision and faster search in hashtable. Having a hashsize in the range of 30-100% of the number of passwd file records is reasonable.
If set to 'yes', and more than one record in file matches the request, then the attributes from all records will be used. If set to 'no' (the default) the module will warn about duplicated records.
If set to 'yes', then all records from the file beginning with the '+' sign will be ignored. The default is 'no'.
The format of the fields in the file, given as an example line from the file, with the content of the fields as the RADIUS attributes which the fields map to. The fields are seperated by the ':' character.
The key field is signified by being preceded with a '*' character, which indicates that the field has only one key, like the /etc/passwd file. The key field may instead be preceded with '*,', which indicates that the field has multiple possible keys, like the /etc/group file.
The other fields signify RADIUS attributes which, by default, are added to the configuration items for a request.
To add an attribute to the request (as though it was sent by the NAS), prefix the attribute name in the "format" string with the '~' character.
To add an attribute to the reply (to be sent back to the NAS) prefix the attribute name in the "format" string with the '=' character.
This configuration item defaults to "yes". If there is no value for the attribute, then the attribute is not added. By setting this value to "no", you can force the attribute to be added, even if there is no value.
Parse a file similar to the /etc/group file. An entry matches a request when the name in a User-Name attribute exists in the comma-seperated list of a line in the file. When an entry matches, a "My-Group" attribute will be created and added to the configuration items for the request. The value of that attribute will be taken from the first field of the matching line in the file.
The ":::" in the format string means that there are extra two fields in the line, in between the group name and list of user names. Those fields do not map to any RADIUS attribute, and are therefore ignored.
For this example to work in practice, you will have to add the My-Group attribute to the dictionary file. See the dictionary manual page for details on how this may be done.
Similar to the previous entry, except the My-Group attribute is added to the request, as though it was sent by the NAS.


As some of you might know, I've been very happy with how my first ever saltwater tank, and octopus, have come out. I have also, I know, been very lucky...careful research is no substitute for experience. As I now have brutally learned.
In an effort to increase my own safety, I installed both a grounding probe and a GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interruption) outlet for my tank. With some trepidation, I took a vacation this week to visit my parents in Florida (I've been gone for nearly this amount of time before, and the tank requires barely any maintenance.) GFCIs, I have now learned, are susceptible to tripping during power outages, and while I was away, we experienced one. I don't know how long the tank's systems were shut down (lights, canister filter, skimmer...the works) but long enough. Everything is gone. Gollum, my corals, my urchins, my brittle stars...all of it.
One or two of the corals don't look completely dead...I have some vague hope they will recover. I also desperately want to preserve my live rock, which at least looks mostly the same.
I am removing dead animals and doing a near-total water change. The skimmer is working overtime...I am inserting a carbon pad in my canister filter and adding more than one PolyDisc. What else can or should I do? I have to think that I must now, effectively, re-cycle my tank, and depending on the degree of the carnage, may effectively have to re-cure my live rock. This has me near tears, frankly, especially when I see the incredible animals which lived in my live rock, until this week, which I never knew were there...until they crawled out in their death throes.
It's my intention to, at least for now, no longer use a GFCI. I know there's a safety issue, but I need a short-term solution. Long-term, I'm curious if anyone knows of a good "safety net." I have heard of some backup systems meant for this kind of incident, but know little about them.
As you may have guessed, I'm utterly furious at myself for this. But, I guess every serious aquarist must destroy at least one tank...I just was so happy with this one.
Very sorry to hear about what happened to your tank. From the way you described it to us, it was obvious that you cared a lot about it and all the creatures that lived there. Hope you will be able to salvage some corals and live rock.
Glad you're going to hang in there and not give up on your salt-water tank.
I have also had my tank crash, it is not fun. Once you have remoed all decaying matter and have completed your water changes watch your LR for any film that may form, this would be dying or dead critters on the LR. Just take the LR out and use a tooth brush to remove the white film and place back in the tank. You are going to hae to go thru the cyclng process again. hope your corals make it. I on the other hand had 100% loss due to the exact same thing. Now when i go out of town I take the tank off the GFCI, at least when the power comes back on so will the tank. Good luck and dont give up, it is worth all the head ache and heart ache.
You sure were lucky to have him as long as you did!
Glad to hear you will continue!
Actually, that makes me think about the next time I go on vacation. I too have my tank on a strip that wouldnot turn on without my resetting.
On a slightly bright note, it appears my two nicest corals are trying really hard to survive. So I might have at least managed to save them. I wonder how long this was out...long enough to kill all my echinoderms and many of the polychates, yet some of the bristleworms survived and a couple corals.
Sorry to hear about the crash. Unfortunately, I know how it feels. However, there is certainly hope for your system. You may not need to re-cycle the tank. The benificial bacteria may still be present (and thriving on all the waste caused by the crash).
I would do the partial water change and make sure you keep the skimmer and carbon filtration going full time. Make sure you remove any organic matter from the tank. As long as you clean any dead items off of the LR it should be fine.
After a week or so you can introduce some shrimp or crabs while frequently testing the water parameters. Pay particular attention to the nitrate level as it may spike in the next several weeks. The system should be fine from that point.
I think that George gave soem good advice and I'd be tempted to do a 50% water change and give your filter media a good rinse in tank water to stir it up a bit as there will certainly have been anaerobic spots. As george says, keep the skimmer on full time.
Some worms lived...also interesting, since many did not. Especially interesting is snail survival...most of the snails made it, too. They're molluscs, like Gollum...but his oxygen needs are VERY high, I understand, whereas the snails probably have very low needs.
The tank was exceptionally "funky," but I presume that was due to decay from die-off, so perhaps the "funk" did not cause much of the death. I'm thinking that oxygen deprivation was the core cause here, and not waste buildup? If so, besides switching away from a GFCI when out, I might also be able to use a simple aeration backup system...have a couple ideas there.
An unusual observation...the conditions caused at least one of the urchins to spawn. Not sure why, but it's not unreasonable that they'd have a mechanism which would cause spawning when near death, I know other animals have that.
Anyway...all things considered, this could've been worse...I've saved my two most precious inhabitants (excluding Gollum) and the live rock, while "degraded" will still be fully functional in time. I know the tank won't need recycling...bad choice of words there, I guess...it's more like re-curing, I suppose. Hopefully there won't even need to be TOO much of that, but give what died off, I'll be giving it a LOT of time. After a good amount of time, I'll be ready for another octo, but for now, that's the last thing on my mind.
Ug, what a mess. Weird stuff like this happens to all of us sooner or later, usually more than once unfortunately. I've had some bad experiences with siphons which I swear are evil beings capable of malevolent destruction. In the early reef tank days power outages caused siphons to break motors were burnt out and floors flooded when power was restored. I did that one too, more than once. You are not alone if that helps.
I've never heard of this particular problem but I suppose if you wanted to keep the safety, would a backup power supply, like what this computer is plugged into, keep it from tripping?
I'm not sure if a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply, the battery-backup computer system you describe) would prevent a GFCI from tripping or not. I suppose they're designed to insulate PCs from any sort of power disturbance... A GFCI is apparently very touchy.
Indeed, a UPS is one idea I've been considering as a backup for extended power outages. I'd hook up one or two critical components to one of these--with a very low wattage, the backup should operate much longer than the typical rated time. Even if I don't plug the GFCI directly into it, a UPS still might be a good item for me to add.
I also understand that there ARE some sophisticated, self-powered backup systems out there, but of course money's an object. Even a robust UPS costs roughly $100.
I'll keep you posted on what I ultimately work out, though for now, monitoring my tank is my main task. Will run some chemistry tonight to see what's going on now that the tank's settled down.


Upscale dining at the Market Pavilion with specialties like a 40 oz. Prime Porter House for two, family style vegetables, plus seafood, chops, salads, and oysters on the half shell.
Is that a chill in the air?


Michelle Zauner goes solo with Japanese Breakfast.
Few local musical artists have worn as many masks or shed as many skins over the last decade as Michelle Zauner. The singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist - a Eugene, Ore.-to-Philadelphia transplant, who turns 27 today - has fronted the now-defunct indie-synth-pop Post Post, the lyrically challenging emo-core Little Big League, and now her softly buzzing synth-and-sequencer-driven Japanese Breakfast, a solo project releasing its first official album, Psychopomp, Friday with a showcase at Ortlieb's.
Though no act sounds like the other, what unifies each is Zauner's adventurous musicality and her constant reach for smart, subtly funny texts involving God, gender, hard sexuality, psychology, family, and death - occasionally all at once. Thoughtful rumination combined with risk is her stock in trade.
"I like to write a lot and am good at being a nonperfectionist," she says. "That's one of my strengths. I can forgive myself."
"She was not a career woman or artist," Zauner said of her mother. "But [she] had a real passion for her family and living well - an immigrant parent, extremely progressive for her time and upbringing." She was from Korea.
Zauner speaks of the joys of being raised by a mom for whom English was a second language ("I have no knowledge of American idioms") and of writing stories for her solo project as opposed to angsty riffs on youth for Little Big League. The narratives for Psychopomp revolve tenderly around Zauner's return to Oregon before and after her mother's 2014 death from cancer.
"I was in this house in the Eugene woods with my dad, supporting him after losing his wife of 32 years," she says. "There were things he couldn't do, like put her clothes and makeup away."
This difficult experience left Zauner feeling very much alone, and it is communicated through songs such as "In Heaven," where forlorn messages about moving one's possessions into a basement are balanced upon an angelic bed of soft synthesizers. "There is nothing more satisfying than conversing with yourself in song," Zauner says.
While Psychopomp's "Heft" (revised from Little Big League's EP Where Is My Great Big Feeling) peeks behind death's door, "Triple 7" has a potent carnality, and "Rugged Country" looks at bereavement without belief in God - "how to negotiate all that while trying to figure out what sort of spirituality you want to have in order to manage your grief."
Other Psychopomp moments, such as "Everybody Wants to Love You" look at past abusive relationships through the lens of country music heroines like Tammy Wynette rhapsodizing about standing by their men.
"I came to Pennsylvania when I was 18 to attend Bryn Mawr College," says Zauner. "I knew I wanted to attend one of the Seven Sisters colleges, to surround myself with other strong women."
She thought everyone there would be in "rrriot girl bands creating cool zines," which was not the case. But she stuck it out and made a scene for herself, starting with Post Post and Little Big League - the latter a band with a future and a label until Zauner's mother's illness. "It uprooted my life," she says, "and I left my band, my partner, my home, and my job."
Little Big League is not officially done, but each member is doing other projects. Given Zauner's need to constantly work, the solo Japanese Breakfast was inevitable.
"In Little Big League, I blended in, became androgynous, part of a democracy, though I wrote the lyrics and most of the song structures. I think I wrote from a male perspective there. Japanese Breakfast is all me, rooted in a female voice," she says. "I just got braver, allowed myself to tell more of my own stories. It's like having my mother on the cover. . . . That's my identity. You don't see that face very much. It's just so sweet."
Japanese Breakfast, with Littler and Myrrias, 9 p.m. Friday, $8-$10 at Ortlieb's, 847 N. Third St., 267-324-3348, ortliebslounge.ticketfly.com.


Not sure what to do with all that zucchini? These creative food bloggers have you covered with some mouth-watering and healthy zucchini recipes!
Whether you want to make a nourishing soup or some indulgent brownies, try these inventive uses for that ubiquitous summer squash. Read on to find your new favorite healthy zucchini recipes!
If you're reading this in summer, zucchini's booming in the garden now — even if you don't have a garden, you probably know someone who's begging you to take some off their hands. Or leaving it on your doorstep in the dead of night. It's also cheap and abundant at your local farmers' market or CSA. Even at other times of year, zucchini's usually a pretty affordable veggie.
Though not exactly the most glamorous garden gem, zucchini is a versatile ingredient that can be used in a huge array of dishes — everything from soup to brownies! Yes, I said brownies!
While you might not eagerly await zucchinis the way you do, say, ripe summer tomatoes, this humble squash works really well in a surprising number of dishes. Somewhat bland zucchinis lend themselves brilliantly to dozens of delicious recipes.
Zucchini is a low-calorie, high fiber veggie with a decent amount of potassium. When possible, choose the freshest, firmest zucchini you can get but don't sweat it if you've got some of the bigger types that escape our attention in the garden till they look like giant green torpedoes. Oversize zucchini can still be shredded up for baking, or tossed in dishes that will cook awhile, like this super-easy ratatouille.
What to do with that bumper crop of zucchini?
I asked some seasoned food bloggers for their favorite healthy zucchini recipes, and boy, do these gals know their way around zucchini! Check out some of their creative recipes for scrumptious zucchini dishes.
Working our way from simplest to most complicated recipes (more or less), here are more than 50 heakthy zucchini recipes to put all that surplus zucchini to delicious use!
Have you tried zucchini fries or crisps yet? They're incredibly easy and really tasty — you'll be scouting out more zucchinis to make these! There's something about baking zucchini with a topping of cheese that concentrates the flavor and gives zucchini a terrific texture. You can bake them a shorter time for a succulent chip, or crisp up thin slices — it's all good!
Raising Generation Nourished has a simple recipe for kid-approved parmesan baked zucchini spears.
Recipes to Nourish makes garlic zucchini fries.
I make these easy and yummy baked parmesan zucchini rounds from Five Heart Home often these days.
Dehydrated zucchini chips make a crunchy and tasty snack, for minimal calories. Go ahead and eat 'em all! Here's a recipe for garlic and herb zucchini chips from This Is So Good. And It Takes Time has a recipe for turning zucchini into sour cream and onion veggie chips.
Or try these lacto-fermented zucchini sticks from Learning and Yearning. Great for gut health!
Food Hunters Guide has an apple-zucchini slaw that would be perfect for late-summer picnics.
The Pistachio Project has an easy zucchini fritter recipe, and the Organic Kitchen makes zucchini fritters with lemon ricotta (with a gluten free option).
Baked cheesy zucchini bites from Mel's Kitchen and zucchini tots ("zots") from Creative Green Living also feature the glorious combo of cheese and zucchini.
Delicious Balance makes these yummy zucchini pancakes with lemon tahini sauce.
Just Take a Bite makes adorable zucchini pizza bites and creamy zucchini egg muffins. Yum! Cooking Classy turns her zucchini into zucchini pizza boats.
Sliced zucchini can also replace the noodles in lasagna! Check out this zucchini lasagna from Grow a Good Life, or this allergy-friendly zucchini lasagna recipe from Whole New Mom.
You can even use zucchini in a grain-free pizza crust! Check out Mommypotamus's recipe for zucchini pizza crust. Or try these homemade tortillas with zucchini from Sweet as Honey.
Add some zucchini to your next pesto — here's a recipe for raw vegan pesto from Small Footprint Family.
The Rising Spoon makes her white chicken chili with zucchini.
Or try this paleo tabbouleh made with zucchini "rice" from Forest and Fauna or Greek zucchini pie from Nutritioulicious. Just Take a Bite has a recipe for rustic chicken zucchini pie.
And of course, don't forget ratatouille, that quintessential summer dish combining eggplant, tomato, and zucchini. Over pasta with cheese (or even without!) ratatouille makes a delicious meal. Ratatouille freezes well, so if you make big batches, you can enjoy these delicious summer flavors in winter.
Related: Health Benefits of Sweet Potatoes and Delicious Ways to Enjoy Them!
So many tempting ways to use zucchini — I'll bet you have trouble deciding where to start! What are your favorite healthy zucchini recipes?
If you love the idea of making healthied-up desserts with veggies like zucchini, check out this homemade fruit leather made from rhubarb or easy rhubarb crisp.
Putting inexpensive veggies to delicious use is just one strategy for eating healthy on a budget. Find lots more in my FREE guide, Affordable Healthy Food.
Pin to save these healthy zucchini recipes for later!
So many great ideas! We picked up 25 cent zucchinis this week! I can't wait to use them up!
Renee, your family's repertoire of zucchini recipes is awe-inspiring — I know they'll get put to good use!
This is great! I need to try some of these recipes. My zucchini plants have all basically given up, so last week I bought zucchini at the farmers market, because there just hasn't been enough zucchini this summer!
Great round-up! I pinned it 🙂 Thank you for sharing with us on the Art of Home-Making Mondays at Strangers & Pilgrims on Earth!


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The Lincoln Square BID's 19th Annual Meeting will take place on Thursday, May 12
Magical Designs for Mozart's Magic Flute opens at the NYPL for the Performing Arts
New York City Ballet Season
Prepare for Passover with some help from Lincoln Square businesses
Change up your routine with CrossFit Spot's Beginner's Program
Fellowship at The Design Trust for Public Space
Lincoln Square Links
The Lincoln Square BID will hold its 19th Annual Meeting on Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 8:15am at Fordham University School of Law in the Costantino Room located at 150 W. 62nd Street. Join us as we discuss important business and hear from three outstanding guest speakers: Gregg Bishop (pictured left), Commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services; Captain Levon Holley (pictured center), Commanding Officer of the 20th Precinct, NYPD; and Stephan Russo (pictured right), Executive Director of Goddard Riverside Community Center. We will also review accomplishments, adopt the FY 2017 budget, and elect Directors to our Board.
Space is limited and reservations are required. In order to vote on corporate matters at this meeting, you must be registered. Those eligible to vote include property owners, commercial tenants, and residents in our district. You can register to vote by clicking here. If you are unable to attend but would still like to vote, registered members can designate a proxy for the meeting by contacting our office. You can also RSVP to the meeting by visiting the Keep Informed section on our website or calling our office at 212.581.3774.
Richard Rychtarik | Design for the finale, The Magic Flute
Metropolitan Opera 1941 production
Magical Designs for Mozart's Magic Flute is a new unique comparative exhibition of outstanding performance designs for Mozart's sublime opera on loan from leading European and American opera collections. These beautiful and historic designs are accompanied by costumes, set pieces, models, and colorful animals as well as printed music illustrations from the late 17th and 18th Centuries. Curated by acclaimed theater designer Judy Levin, the exhibit will be on display in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center through August 27, 2016. Click here to learn more about the exhibit.
You can see everything going on at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at nypl.org/locations/lpa. The Library is located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza.
Also, as a preview of an upcoming presentation of Mozart's 'Die Zauberfl�te' (The Magic Flute), the Juilliard School's Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts is presenting a free concert of highlight arias and scenes at the Library's Bruno Walter Auditorium on Saturday, April 2 starting at 2:30pm. Click here for details.
American Music | Paul Kolnik | nycballet.com
There are so many great performances to experience this spring at the New York City Ballet (NYCB). Starting on Tuesday, April 19 NYCB will be performing what it calls "one of the most brilliant works in the Balanchine repertoire", Jewels. Then, beginning on Wednesday, April 20 three of today's most in-demand choreographers join forces on a program accented by impressive and atmospheric scenery for 21st Century Choreographers. And, Thursday, April 21 is the first of three performances of American Music, a set of classical, fantastical, and modern dances that include a ballet in sneakers, a reflection of youth in the 1950 post-war era, and a performance that unites NYCB's dancers with students from the School of American Ballet.
NYCB also just announced its 2016 - 17 Season which is packed with premieres, classics and a four-week festival next spring. Subscriptions for the season go on sale on Monday, April 25 at noon.
To see everything planned for New York City Ballet visit nycballet.com. Plus, when you catch a NYCB performance at the David H. Koch Theater, be sure to pick up a copy of our restaurant and bar guide Where to Eat in Lincoln Square.
It's not too early to begin preparations for your Passover Seder. This year, Passover begins on the evening of Friday, April 22 and ends on Saturday, April 30, and several businesses and organizations in Lincoln Square are ready to help you ensure a great and traditional celebration.
If you'd like to offer your guests a gourmet meal with modern flavors, Epicerie Boulud at 1900 Broadway can help you with its Passover Seder catering package and platters. The catered meal serves six guests and comes with herb potato latkes, handmade matzo, and your choice of salmon or brisket for the main course among other sides and dessert. Or, if you'd like just one or two special treats to add to your own catering menu, you can order individual side platters from the store such as mini quiche, matzo ball soup, a plate of vegetables, eggs and aioli, and many more delicious choices. You can visit Epicerie's website or call 212.595.9606 for more information.
In the Shops at Columbus Circle, Whole Foods Market has a great selection of kosher foods and ingredients for cooking the perfect Seder meal. The store carries items like gefilte fish, kosher salt, organic matzo meal and matzo, and all of the fresh produce you need to create your Seder plate.
At Lincoln Square Synagogue, 180 Amsterdam Avenue, you can purchase wine in preparation for Pesach at a special Pre-Pesach Wine Sale and Tasting event on Monday, April 4. The event will showcase and sell a selection of Israeli wines with 10% of all proceeds benefiting the Synagogue. For a full look at the Passover schedule between Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 30, click here.
At 30 West 68th Street, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue is hosting several community Passover Seders, each with different themes, to celebrate Passover between Sunday, April 10 and Friday, April 22. For instance, on Sunday, April 10, the Synagogue will host a Young Family Chocolate Seder, a sweet filled meal aimed at introducing children to Pesach traditions and customs. Then, on Wednesday, April 13, there is a Women's Passover Seder co-sponsored by the Women's Organization to bring women of all ages together to celebrate the role of women in this tradition. These are just two examples of the unique Passover Seders that Stephen Wise Free Synagogue is hosting. Click here to see a list of all celebrations with details of time and cost.
If you'd rather eat out to celebrate Passover, Telepan at 72 West 69th Street can accommodate. On Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23, the restaurant will be offering a $98 four-course menu featuring unique twists on traditional Passover Seder dishes. You can choose savory dishes like arctic char and roasted and braised chicken, and you can also get Telepan's take on matzo ball soup. In order to get this deal, all members of the table must opt in. Children 12 and under can also participate for $65. You can book a reservation today by calling 212.580.4300.
Also, Rosa Mexicano at 61 Columbus Avenue will be offering a special menu on Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23 to commemorate Passover with Mexican flare. Details for Rosa Mexicano's Mexican Passover are not yet available, but be sure to check their website for coming information. You can also contact the restaurant at 212.977.7700.
With three weeks to go until Passover, there is plenty of time to prep for a gathering with a few trips to shops around Lincoln Square. And, of course, if you're looking for seasonal essentials, check out neighborhood stores like Gracious Home, West Elm, Williams-Sonoma, and Bed Bath & Beyond.
Spring is the perfect time of year to switch up your fitness routine. Fortunately, CrossFit Spot is offering an exciting Beginner's CrossFit Program for those who aren't quite sure where to start, but want to transition to a fun and different training regimen. These energizing workouts are offered in a supportive group setting all geared toward first timers.
The Beginner's CrossFit Program kicks off on Monday, April 11 and costs $229 for the four week program. To accommodate a busy lifestyle, classes for beginners are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8:00pm. The program also includes a customized nutrition program, full access to RX endurance workouts and Bodyweight Mastery classes, and discounts on in-house supplements, apparel, and more.
To learn more about the Beginner's CrossFit Program, click here. CrossFit Spot is located at 55 Amsterdam Avenue at the corner of 62nd Street. Visit them online at cfspotnyc.com and check out all their programs including youth fitness, 1 on 1 coaching, and more.
The Design Trust for Public Space, a nonprofit dedicated to the future of public spaces in New York City, recently announced its Equitable Public Space Fellowship: a new one-year position for a recent graduate at the Design Trust.
The Design Trust is attempting to reach as many promising candidates from various backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and other under-represented groups as possible. The new fellow will gain broad experience in the field and contribute to projects while receiving mentorship and hands-on professional development.
This new program also seeks to advance the conversation around diversity in the field and create a model for bringing more voices, skill sets, and life experiences into the practice of design for public space. For more information about the position visit designtrust.org.
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Pain is something that many people deal with throughout their life at varying rates and varying degrees. While it may not be something we talk about often in an official capacity, understanding what kind of pain you have, where it comes from, and what can be done about it, will help a person to be able to live a profitable life where their quality of life is optimized. So, if you're looking for information on Sciatica, here is everything you need to know.
In terms of simplicity, Sciatica is pain of the main nerve of your body. The sciatic nerve is the main central nerve that spreads for your lower back to just around your knees. It is the nerve responsible for feeling sensation in the legs, both upper and lower. As you can imagine, Sciatica is the word for when there is a problem with the sciatic nerve. This condition creates shoots of pain throughout the nerve in varying degrees.
The main cause of Sciatica is patients is due to a slipped disc, which is when a disc in the back moves out of place and interferes with the sciatic nerve. An injury to the spinal column can also cause Sciatica.
Another common causes of Sciatica are a tumour in the back, which can pinch the nerve, and an infection that works its way into your back causing problems with the nerve.
Typically, Sciatica is diagnosed with a thorough doctor's physical examination which will focus on lower back and leg exercises to test how your muscles and nerves react. If there is sharp pain during these exercises, a MRI or similar scan will be ordered to see how the nerve itself is doing. This will diagnose you with either acute or long term Sciatica.
Massage is proven to be effective together in a treatment plan. A type of remedial massage is used in helping to alleviate a sciatic pain. You can see more info on this healing massage technique. Physiotherapy and pain medication are the typical treatments for Sciatica. If it is chronic and long term, often times cold or hot packs can be used to put on the area. This will help the nerve calm down and keep the pain manageable so that you can live your life normally.
Yes, Sciatica can be prevented in many cases by sitting and standing with proper posture and practicing good exercise techniques that will strengthen your legs and lower back. While there are some people who can prevent it with these sorts of lifestyle changes, there are others that will simply have the condition due to genetics or other medical conditions. Living a good lifestyle can always help, though.
Sciatica is can be a debilitating condition, or it can be simply an acute condition that lasts only a few months. The severity of it depends on how seriously the nerve is affected, and the condition that caused Sciatica in the first place. Proper diagnosis and treatment is critical for the patient to live a healthy lifestyle in all cases, so always see a doctor if you feel this describes your symptoms.


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