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Bon Voyage, Benjamin
Posted by Jonnie on April 7, 2011
Last week, the Community Cycling Center staff held a very bittersweet pizza party. We were gathered to say farewell to our Production Manager, Benjamin Jaspers. Over the past 6 years, Benjamin has filled a variety of roles at the Community Cycling Center, and he's always done a stellar job. We're sad to see him go, but very excited for his upcoming adventure-solo hiking the entirety of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), from Southern California to Canada.
Benjamin first joined the Community Cycling Center in 2005 as a mechanic. After a few years of being a mechanical whiz, he became the new parts buyer. Then, in 2009, Benjamin moved up to Production Manager. As Production Manager, he oversaw the building of all of the bikes for our Holiday Bike Drive, Create a Commuter Program, Bike Clubs, and refurbished bikes to sell in the shop.
Benjamin leaves behind coworkers with the utmost respect for him. Gram Shipley, a staff mechanic and Holiday Bike Drive coordinator, says, "Benjamin is extremely organized, and he was instrumental in getting the mechanic's workbenches up to a higher standard." He made sure all of the benches were clean and organized, and had all the same tools available on each bench. Mychal Tetteh, Shop Director, notes that Benjamin did an incredible job of smoothing out the pinch points in our annual production schedule. He also says that Benjamin "has the quickest wit of anyone I've worked with. And he's good at everything." Our Executive Director Alison Graves adds "we are so excited for Benjamin and his big adventure, even though we will miss his presence. He's been such a driving force behind all of the bikes we have built for such a long time."
Benjamin's travels along the PCT will take him over 2,600 miles and through 25 national forests over the span of 5 months. We'll be following his progress with a map of the PCT that we've taped up in the office. Benjamin, you've been an extraordinary member of the Community Cycling Center's dedicated staff. We hope you have a truly incredible journey this year!
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Daniel Allen, MTA, BMT, MMT
Owner, Allen Music Therapy
Daniel Allen (MTA, BMT, MMT) is a certified music therapist and the owner of Allen Music Therapy, a music therapy practice based in Durham Region. He received his Bachelor in Music Therapy from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2014. He completed his CAMT internship at Zareinu Education Centre of Metropolitan Toronto and became certified to practice music therapy in Canada in 2015.
Daniel began Allen Music Therapy shortly after becoming certified, providing music therapy sessions and adapted music lessons in and around Waterloo Region for three years until relocating to Durham Region in 2018.
In addition to running his private practice, Daniel previously served as a music instructor at Queen Street Music School in Cambridge, ON. He primarily instructed beginner and intermediate level guitar lessons and also facilitated the school's adapted lesson program. Working with such a high number of beginner students with different learning styles helped Daniel to analyze and dissect the mechanics behind successful guitar playing. Many of the ideas discussed in this workshop stemmed from discoveries that were generated through these lessons.
In September 2017, Daniel returned to WLU to complete the one year Master of Music Therapy program. He completed a major research project (MRP) that identified and outlined ways to expand functional guitar techniques for music therapists based on his own experiences as a clinician. Upon completion of his MRP, Daniel completed a four month internship at Grand Valley Correctional Institution for Women in Kitchener, ON. A significant portion of his clinical work involved instructing participants on basic guitar techniques within a primarily single-session model, which were then used and applied within a psychotherapeutic manner to creatively express, regulate, and build self-esteem.
Daniel has been involved in numerous guitar ensembles both in Waterloo Region, and in his childhood hometown of Lindsay, ON. He can be found performing at weddings and events during the summer months, occasionally alongside his mentor and former guitar instructor Marc Novoselec as part of the acoustic guitar duo "String Fever". In 2017 he performed in Tim Brady's "100 Very Good Reasons Why" composition for 100 electric guitars in Stratford, ON. Daniel other primary instrument is the trombone, and he has performed with the WLU Symphony Orchestra, WLU Wind Orchestra, Guelph Symphony Orchestra, and in multiple chamber brass ensembles.
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Study of gene linked to blindness helps Border collie breeders
A study that identified a gene linked to blindness in Border collies has led to a new genetic test for the condition.
Scientists have discovered a change in the genetic code of Border collies that is linked to sudden blindness.
The findings have led to a new genetic test for a severe version of the condition – called goniodysgenesis or gonio – to help breeders avoid producing affected pups.
Severe gonio is an inherited condition in which the dogs' eyes don't develop properly. In some dogs, it can lead to a disease called glaucoma, which causes sudden blindness.
Genetic mutation linked to blindness
Researchers from the Roslin Institute collected DNA from dog saliva samples and compared those that had healthy eyes to those with symptoms of severe gonio.
They identified a mutation in the gene called OLFML3, which is involved in the early stages of development of the eyeball. All of the dogs that went blind had two copies of the mutated gene.
New genetic test
Several companies have now developed genetic tests that spot the mutation in a dog's DNA to help breeders avoid producing puppies at risk of going blind.
We are delighted that our findings have directly led to a genetic test for this condition. We hope our research will help to reduce the number of dogs that go blind from this disease.
Dr Carys Pugh, University of Edinburgh
Sudden blindness was first seen in Border collies in Australia in the late 1990s. When it appeared in the UK – in dogs related to the Australian dogs – breeders suspected it may have a genetic cause.
The study, published in the journal G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, was funded by the Dogs Trust Canine Welfare Grant programme and the Pastoral Breeds Health Foundation.
Jen Middleton, Press & PR Office, 0131 650 6514, 07795 640662, Jen.Middleton@ed.ac.uk
New blood test for liver disease in dogs
Study reveals genetic changes linked to flat-faced dogs
Labrador study offers vets clues on why dogs' tails lose their wag


Lee Mowle and Phil Keen have teamed up in 2017 to take on the challenge of the Michelin Le Mans Cup with their focus firmly set on the title and the 24 Hours of Le Mans invitation in 2018.
Phil Keen from Reading in the UK is well known as one of the fastest GT drivers in Europe. The 33-year-old is a former British GT Champion and a race winner at every level including the European Le Mans Series and in the FIA Masters Historic Sports Car Championship.
Race driver and team owner Lee Mowle from Wimbledon in Southwest London is teamed up with Phil Keen for the first season together and the bronze rated driver has three wins to his credit, including a class win at the Dubai 24 Hours. The 52-year-old is currently competing in both the Michelin Le Mans Cup and the British GT Championship with the team's very distinctive AmDtuning backed Mercedes AMG GT3.
The British duo got their campaign off to a great start in Italy when the no7 Lee Mowle Mercedes took the chequered flag after an action packed 120-minute sprint race. Phil Keen had been trailing the no75 Optimum Motorsport Audi of Joe Osborne but the lead car had to serve a late drive through penalty for a pitstop infringement, which allowed Keen to take the lead and the win.
The British team were leading the series going into the showcase Road to Le Mans event with La Sarthe debutant Lee Mowle extolling the virtues of a racing on the full 13.6km La Sarthe track for the LMC TV coverage.
The weekend started well, with the no7 Mercedes finishing second in the GT3 category, but the jubilation was short lived after the team were handed a time penalty for a pitstop infringement which dropped them back to 13th place finish in race 1.
This was followed up by a fighting 6th place finish in race 2 on Saturday morning, which wasn't the result the team had been hoping for at the start of the week at Le Mans. There was a silver lining to this particular grey cloud in the fact their championship rivals also didn't score well either.
This means the Lee Mowle crew head to Austria with 29.5 points, just 1.5 points behind the double race winning TF Sport Aston Martin of Ahmad Al Harthy and Tom Jackson but this car was only entered for the Road to Le Mans event, so Lee Mowle Motorsport head to the Red Bull Ring as effective championship leaders.
The Red Bull Ring provided the setting for Round 3 of the 2017 Michelin Le Mans Cup with a 2-hour race on the 4.3km track in the foothills of the Styrian Alps on Saturday 22 July.


The electoral mood in Banke is heating up despite the uncertainty on whether the Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJP-N), an alliance of six Madhes-centric parties, will participate in the second phase of the local election.
While the RJP-N has remained dormant, choosing not to campaign for the election scheduled for June 14, other political parties in the district, including the Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum Nepal and the Nepal Loktantrik Forum, have ramped up electioneering. The people are also positive about the election taking place successfully, with the participation of the RJP-N.
Durga Teli, a resident of Daduwa, said most parties have started door-to-door campaign and election pamphleteering in her area.
"It is only the RJP-N activists who have remained noticeably absent. The public mood for election is definitely favourable and positive," said Teli.
Dipak Yadav, a resident of Khadaicha, said the campaign fervour has picked up in case of major political parties like Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Centre).
"The people in my area are also eager to participate in the election. We hope that the RJPN will come around," said Yadav.
The local RJP-N leaders, meanwhile, seem conflicted by the lack of clear position of their central leaders on the election. With the central leadership still undecided, Pashupatidayal Mishra, a local RJP-N leader, said the party members at the local level were growing anxious seeing the preparations made by other parties.
regarding the upcoming local election.
KAPILVASTU: The Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum Nepal has started its campaign for the local election in Kapilvastu district. The district committee of the party has also formed a talks team to form an electoral alliance with other parties. Shailendra Yadav, district chairman of the party, said they were ready to forge an electoral alliance with other parties, besides Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, CPN (Maoist Centre) and Rastriya Prajatantra Party. He added that the central leadership of the party has already directed the local leaderships to create an election environment in all local units.
MORANG: Supporters of the NC have started to pressurise their party leaders to nominate youth candidates for the local polls from Biratnagar metropolis. More than five hundred youths, led by NC's Hari Bhattarai, have started a campaign in Biratnagar to press the party leadership into picking young candidates.
common candidates at Nisdi Village Council in Palpa district. Organising a joint press conference in Tansen on Thursday, the two parties made public their candidates Shalikram Pandey of the NC as the for chairperson and Balu Gaire of the Maoist Centre for vice-chairperson. Nisdi is a UML stronghold.


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Q: Roots of $1+x+x^{2}/2!+...+x^{n}/n!$ are larger than $\frac{n}{2e}$ I wish to prove that the absolute values of the roots of the polynomial $p(x)=1+x+x^{2}/2!+...+x^{n}/n!$ are between $n/2e$ and $2n$. I was able to prove the upper bound using the following:
Claim: If $a_{n}x^{n}+\dots+a_{1}x+a_0$ is a polynomial, then its roots are bounded from above by $2\max\left\{\left(\frac{|a_i|}{|a_n|}\right)^{1/(n-i)}:\;0\leq i<n\right\}$.
It works perfectly, because $\frac{n!}{i!}<n^{n-i}$, as one can see immediately by expanding the left hand side.
To achieve the lower bound, I tried the following idea - if $x$ is a root of $p(x)$, then $1/x$ is a root of $x^{n}p(1/x)$. Thus I need to bound the roots of $q(x)=x^{n}+x^{n-1}+\dots+x/(n-1)!+1/n!$ from above by $2e/n$. I tried to use the same claim, but now things are different, because now $\left(\frac{|a_i|}{|a_n|}\right)^{1/(n-i)}=\left(\frac{1}{(n-i)!}\right)^{\frac{1}{n-i}}$, which equals $1$ when $i=n-1$, which is certainly not smaller than $e/n$.
Am I missing something? I really can't think of any other idea, or in other words, I'm not sure how I would use Rouche's theorem here, so any hints or references towards this lower bound would be very useful, thank you very much!

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Any person involved in extreme sports, you must understand what it is fraught with. There are two types of opportunities for those who want to get a little bit of experience. And the one is a fraught with extremely unpleasant consequences. This is especially characteristic of climbing and mountaineering. AND Colby combs it is a healthy skin.
Colby coombs always lured mountains. This is an opportunity to overcome the cost of your feet. He received the invitation to become an instructor at the National Outdoor Leadership School. And at first everything went quite well. Up to the fateful ascent of Foraker peak in Alaska in 1992.
It's necessary to build a new tourist route. It is a mountain of five thousand meters. So that Colby combs With comrades Ritt Kellogg and Tom Walter quietly began the ascent. It was taller and harder than the Foraker Peak. As it turned out – in vain.
This is where the camp has been. Snow, poor visibility, other delights of the harsh Alaskan climate. But this didn't stop the comrades. The camp was continued. It was already easier to go, since it was heavily left below. But the weather was not going to improve. There is a significant increase in the number of snowfalls. What happened.
Colby combs recovered from the pain. I mean, I'm trying to make it out. A quick inspection revealed a few things. The neckline gives a terrible pain. Secondly, it hangs over a thick branch. Without a backpack. Third – it is balanced by Tom Walter, who shows no signs of life. So-so disposition.
What should be done in such situations? Call for help. But you still had to get. And this is a descent along the icy slope. It is not healthy, but with broken legs? But I want to live … So Colby combs started acting.
It wasn't been difficult to go down. I took off my backpack, a comrade, a bag of clothes, a set of clothes, a bag of clothes, a bag of clothes, a kit. Colby I had a quick snack, melted some water, I slept for a few hours. To say nothing. Something like the pain turned out to be ignored. And if you've walked carefully, leaning with a stick, then you'll appear.
Colby Coombs had a sleeping bag, food, fire, relatively warm clothes. Make it out. When he became completely unbearable. Fortunately, the cold helped in some way. But the task was difficult.
Distance climbers 300 meters down Then there was a gentle horizontal descent, interrupted by difficult sections. If it was carefully calibrated. After a while of such a hellish descent, Colby combs discovered the corpse of his second comrade. But the sad find only strengthened his determination. The descent to the base camp took 5 days. Communication, fortunately, worked.
Three months in a wheelchair, then three months in crutches. Complicated fracture of both ankles, a broken scapula, a fractured cervical vertebrae, a shock condition, a slight frostbite … And a long rehabilitation afterwards. But luck accompanies decisive. Colby Coombes was able to return to mountain climbing. Yes. Exactly. As he said himself – "in memory of the fallen comrades." This is a study of the instructors in mountaineering, In this case, it would be possible to have survived.
Well, what can I add. Yes, it really is a feat. Iron will, excellent self-control and everything. And no, no matter how cool you are now. But it is not necessary to … MIRACLE survived. And teaches others that it is OK. What is important is power and determination. I understand, mildly, poorly combined, but damn it. There are no corpses (which is, by the way, were not found).
In short, as usual. He had a perfect self-control. What does this teach us? A little more help and a little more help. So, dear survivors, beware. Do not overestimate your own strength – not everyone is lucky as Colby coombs.


Have you heard the term "The Internet of Things"? It refers to the growing demand for products that hook up to the Internet in order to make our lives easier.
But consider what these devices know of our personal life. Echo, Alexis and Siri — owned by Google, Amazon and Apple respectively — have our credit card numbers, buying history, and personal preferences from all our Internet activity. Does this threaten your privacy? Many are claiming that it does, and if we don't do something about it, we're in for a future of doom. Parli debaters get to hammer this out.


We talk a lot about Brett Sutter, the leader, but this write up isn't all about that. Besides, Lisa Dillman already portrayed that perfectly earlier this week.
Tonight, we talk about Brett Sutter, the top-six forward. The player who collected three goals in tonight's 5-4 Ontario Reign shootout defeat in San Diego, his first hat trick since October 28, 2012, which came with the Charlotte Checkers, against the Peoria Rivermen, who haven't played a game in the AHL since that season.
Sutter opened the scoring inside two minutes into the game, converting after a hot start from the Reign. He added his second late in the second period, a power-play goal, to bring the team back to within one late in the middle stanza. He scored for the third time very late in regulation, forcing overtime as the Reign completed the comeback to earn a point.
Sutter's third goal was his 19th tally of the season, tying a professional career high, set with Charlotte during the 2012-13 season. Sutter also broke the 40-point barrier on the evening, the third time he's reached that mark in the AHL.
The 31-year-old forward recently played in his 800th career AHL game earlier this month. With more outputs like tonight, he might just make good on his claim of playing in 800 more.
As far as the game itself, as behind as the Reign were in the opening 20 minutes, is as good as they were in the final 40 of regulation. After falling behind 4-1 during the first period, Ontario showed their character once again, with a fine effort in the second and third frames. The Reign struck twice in the second, with Sutter's tally equalizing things in the third. Peter Budaj made several big stops in net throughout the game and overtime to help earn the Reign another point, giving them three of four on the weekend.
With the Reign's falling in the shootout, and Colorado and San Jose both falling in overtime, the Reign remain mathematically alive in the postseason race, if only by a hair. Any Reign point dropped, or a San Jose point gained, would eliminate Ontario from playoff contention.
The Reign are back in action on Wednesday, with a trip to Bakersfield, followed by a game in San Jose on Friday against the Barracuda.
Tonight just exemplifies that he's the perfect captain. He does everything for us. He's a big-time player, he's a leader. Tonight especially, we were down 4-1 after one period, he gets us going, gets us a point, a very valuable point on the road. Whether it's faceoffs or big goals or playing aggressive and finishing checks, or just being a good teammate. He's the guy that the guys lean on and look to, and he's got the utmost respect of his teammates and from the coaching staff.
It was crucial that we got it done. We were trailing by one, we had to kill five minutes, which puts a lot of stress and strain on your killers, obviously, and a lot on Buuds. I thought we held together pretty good with our structure, and we did a good job. It was interesting, because after we killed the penalty, there was an immediate shift after that I thought we looked disorganized and we looked almost like we got a little bit rattled. Throughout the penalty kill, we looked composed, so it's strange how that went, but, again, we stuck with the game plan. We knew, even after the first period, we were down 4-1, and we just talked about it between the first and the second, and said let's just keep chipping away and that's what we did.
I've been fortunate enough to see Peter play some darn good games for us here with Ontario. He probably had a career year the one year with us and that's not that long ago, so it's not like he's lost it. Things haven't gone all that well for us as a team, when you look at statistics, so you don't base it on statistics. You look on a guy that's been down this path before and again, you're trailing, it doesn't look promising and we also talked about that between the first and second. We made a promise to ourselves that Buuds was going to keep battling and that we needed to keep battling in front of him. Buuds did his part, and so did the rest of the players.
Well, you'd like to think so. I mean, it's been a long year and we've had some ups and downs. I think, number one, we've managed them well. We haven't gotten too despondent when things haven't gone great, we haven't gotten too elated when things have been going well. Over the course of a season, you try to pick some positives from it, and if you were to evaluate our guys and our present situation with the lineup that we have, I think you should be pretty satisfied. There's some definite growth on our team and the thing I like about our team probably the most is we never quit. These guys battle hard. If you look back at the response we had after a 7-0 loss in Bakersfield, and tonight, to be trailing 4-1, I can't say enough about these guys and how committed they are and how hard they work for us.


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• In the August 20th game against the Yankees at the Kingdome in Seattle, M's second baseman Julio Cruz stole his 91st base of the season, a sixth-inning theft of second off NY pitcher Bob Kammeyer, leaving him just five short of tying Ty Cobb's AL record of 96.
• Steve Garvey and Reggie Smith of the Dodgers connected for two home runs apiece in LA's 11-2 win over the Mets at Los Angeles. The four round-trippers came at the expense of four different New York pitchers: Nino Espinosa, Paul Siebert, Dwight Bernard, and Dale Murray. It was the first time this season two NL players on the same team had connected for two HR's in the same game; Ben Oglivie and Gorman Thomas of the Brewers accomplished the feat in the AL on July 1st at Seattle.
• The Blue Jays have lost six games in a row, while the Mariners and Red Sox have lost five.
• A new location was added to the long list of SP78 games-hosted sites, as two games were played in November at the newly-christened NM5, my friend Steve P's apartment in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In the first game, the visiting Reds defeated the Steve-led Cubs 6-4, while Steve took Game 2 the next day with a 13-2 Cardinals win over the Braves.
• With first place in the NL East now in their sights, the Pirates called up starter Odell Jones and reliever Clay Carroll from their AAA affiliate in Columbus, hoping to bolster their pitching staff for the stretch run. To make room for the pair, the Bucs sent utility infielder Mario Mendoza and pitcher Dave Hamilton to the Columbus.
• Detroit second baseman Lou Whitaker, who's been practicing with members of the University of Michigan baseball team in Ann Arbor, is set to return to the major leagues from his two-month suspension on August 23rd, when the Tigers travel home after a five-game road trip to meet the Blue Jays in a twi-night doubleheader at Tiger Stadium. Whitaker, who last played on June 10th, is slated to make his comeback in the second game of the Wednesday night twinbill.
• A's outfielder Glenn Burke was injured when he crashed into the center field wall at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on Sunday, while chasing a long drive off the bat of Red Sox designated hitter Jack Brohamer, which dropped for a triple. Burke left the game with a serious shoulder injury, and will likely be placed on the disabled list on August 21st.
• In New York's 9-7 win over Seattle on August 20th, the teams combined for six home runs, with Yankees outfielder Gary Thomasson connecting for his second career grand slam, off M's starter Paul Mitchell in the fourth.
• In need of left-handed relief pitching, the Blue Jays recalled Mike Willis from Syracuse of the International League yesterday; also recalled was outfielder Willie Upshaw, currently batting .328 for the Chiefs. On the same day, Jays pitcher Dave Wallace and outfielder Sam Ewing were both sent down to Syracuse.
• Against the Blue Jays on August 20th, Twins reliever Mike Marshall earned his 20th save of the season in a 5-3 Minnesota win; it was the first time he'd collected twenty saves since 1974, when he played for the Dodgers and won the NL Cy Young Award.
Fans! Be there for the SP78 40th Anniversary celebration on August 22nd,
when the Cardinals take on the Reds at Riverfront Stadium!
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• LA starter Doug Rau was forced to leave the August 19th game against the Mets in the second inning with what Dodgers pitching coach Red Adams called 'stiffness in his left shoulder'. Rau has been listed as day-to-day, but will likely miss his next start.
• With the Blue Jays extra-inning loss to the Twins on Saturday, which saw them without a left-handed reliever when the Twins sent four left-handed batters to the plate in the extra frame to win it, Toronto manager Roy Hartsfield will be looking to Syracuse for a southpaw to add to his all-righty bullpen. The likely candidate is Mike Willis, who in 17 games with the Jays earlier this season was 0-0 with one save and an unfortunate 7.64 ERA.
• The resurgent Pirates have suddenly found themselves in second place in the NL East, having won 10 of their last 13, which included three wins in a four-game series against the division-leading Phillies. For the moment, however, the Phils can rest easy; the Bucs are still 14½ games back.
• With voting on Tigers second baseman Lou Whitaker's return to major league action stalling at 13 votes (11 for his return, and two for keeping him suspended), the commissioner's office will now make a decision regarding Whitaker's status, taking into account the preferences of SP78 voters as well as the input of other AL team administrators. No date has been set for this announcement.
• The first game of the just-completed August 19th slate, a Padres-Expos match-up at Olympic Stadium, was the 100th game to be played at site AZ18 in Peoria, Arizona. The site is the fourth to reach the coveted century mark, and with 112 games now hosted, AZ18 is just 33 games behind ESC7 for third place on the all-time list.
• Dusty Baker of the Dodgers returned from the 15-day disabled list on the 19th; to make room for him on the roster, the club sent outfielder Joe Simpson—who had one hit in two at-bats during his three-week ML stint—to the Albuquerque Dukes of the Pacific Coast League.
• Boston's Luis Tiant tied an SP78 record for runners picked off in a game by a pitcher when he nailed Oakland's Miguel Dilone and Mitchell Page on August 19th at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Tiant now shares the record with Geoff Zahn of the Twins and Dave Freisleben of the Indians.
• White Sox second baseman Jorge Orta slugged his first career grand slam on Saturday, in the sixth inning off Tribe starter Mike Paxton, in a 7-3 Sox win at Municipal Stadium. The blast erased a 3-1 Cleveland lead, and was Orta's only hit of the night after collecting three walks in his other plate appearances.
• My week-long 'check the SP78 schedule and make sure each team is on track for 162 games played' project has been completed, and I was surprised to find I'd only made only a handful of errors overall. Twice I'd flat-out failed to schedule games, and three times I wasn't aware that single games were actually doubleheaders (thanks to the confusing term 'twilight night' I'd found on some schedules). I'd also had a postponed game that I didn't realize was the last meeting of the season between the two teams, and since I want every team to play their full 162 games, I had to wedge that contest in where both teams happened to have an off day. Now, with so many games to add into the August-September schedule, I'm thinking I might have them all played on the October 2nd 'free day' between the end of the regular season and the start of the post-season…and maybe even turn October 3rd into a make-up day as well.
• My next project will be scanning the remainder of classic scoresheets from my list and adding them to the site, as well as figuring out how to get them lined up properly into rows of four. I think I've found the solution, so we'll see if it works.
August 21st is McDonald's Junior Jays Day at Toronto!
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• The August 18th game between the Astros and Pirates, which was called due to thunderstorms at Three Rivers Stadium with the Bucs leading 15-1, was just the third time in SP78 history that a game had been first delayed by rain, then later called. The last time this occurred was in 1988, during a May 7th match-up between the White Sox and Red Sox at Fenway Park.
• Two new sites were added to the SP78 host locations list, when I ventured to New Mexico with my friend Steve P in February and played a trio of games there, all in Las Cruces. The first was played solo at the Thomas Branigan Memorial Library, which was labeled NM3, between the Red Sox and A's; that night Steve joined me as we played the second game of the trip at site NM4, the Comfort Suites on Telshor Boulevard, between the Steve-led Royals and the Rangers. One more game was played the next morning, at the already-established site NM2, his former home in Las Cruces that was now empty and waiting to be sold.
• The two games played at NM3 and NM4 that Friday equaled the SP78 mark for number of sites hosting games in one day, a feat which had also been accomplished in 1983, 1985, and twice in 1994.
• In the Minnesota-Toronto contest at Metropolitan Stadium on August 18th, first baseman Rod Carew went 5-for-5 with four singles and a double, boosting his season average to .313, as the Twins topped the Jays 8-4. It was Carew's first 5-hit game of the season, and lifted his current hits total to 161.
• The August 16th game between the Yankees and A's played at site AZ18—my current apartment in Peoria, Arizona—was the 78th game hosted by the site, bumping it into 4th place on the all-time games-hosted list, past site SNB in San Bernardino and behind AZ8 (218), ESC11 (183), and ESC7 (145). The site is currently four games shy of the coveted 100 games-hosted mark. Continue reading →
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• Braves third baseman Bob Horner returned from the 30-day disabled list after spending nine years out of action, from July 17th to August 16th, after he was hit by a line drive and suffered two fractured fingers on his glove hand. In his first game back, Horner went 1-for-4 with a double, and handled two chances cleanly at third.
• Orioles skipper Earl Weaver became the third SP78 manager this season to be suspended, after he bumped third base umpire Don Denkinger during an argument August 13th at Memorial Stadium, and was ejected for 'conduct detrimental to the game of baseball'. He will serve the suspension August 18th, when the Orioles play the Angels at Anaheim Stadium.
• After having just one player attempt to steal a base over the first two months of the season (Rick Bosetti, who was caught stealing by Bosox catcher Carlton Fisk on May 22nd), the run-happy Blue Jays have now had 13 players—all 'D' or 'E' runners—make steal attempts through August. Only four have been successful, and their current SB/CS ratio stands at 6/34.
• In comparison, Bake McBride of the Phillies is 33-1 in stolen base attempts through August 17th.
• After batting .370 in July, Giants catcher Mike Sadek—subbing for an injured Marc Hill—is mired in a 1-for-20 August slump.
• The Tigers defeated the Indians 10-1 in the fifth and final Mango Memorial Game, played on September 5, 2018 at site AZ18 in Peoria, Arizona. The date will now be retired from further SP78 play.
• Recent Brewers AAA call-up Mark Bomback made his first appearance with the squad on August 17th, starting on the mound against the Blue Jays and earning his first major league victory in an 8-1 Milwaukee win. The Brewers winning streak now stands at three games, after they'd lost six straight, and moved them back to four games behind the first place Yankees in the AL East. Continue reading →
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Q: How to delete items with same prefix key in memcached using PHP memcache extension? Very similar questions have been posted and answered. However every solution I found so far is using php Memcached extension rather than Memcache. I am trying to delete/expire all memcache items that begin with a predefined key. For example, so_something, so_something_else .... Any help is much appreciated.

A: After some research I figured how to do it using standard Memcache commands. But, unfortunately this will man trips to the memcache server so it is to be used with care; in my case it is used only after deployment:
/**
 * Helper function to expire memcache entries with a specific key prefix.
 *
 * @param string $key_prefix
 *  The memcache key prefix.
 * @param array $servers
 *  Array of used memcache servers.
 * @return array
 *
 */
function memcache_delete_by_key($key_prefix = '', $servers = array()) {
  $mc = new Memcache();
  $delete_keys = array();
  foreach ($servers as $server => $default) {
    list($host, $port) = explode(':', $server);
    $mc->addServer($host, $port);
    // Extract all the keys from Memcache.
    $stats = memcache_command($server, $port, "stats items");
    $stat_lines = explode("\r\n", $stats);
    $slabs = array();
    $keys = array();
    foreach ($stat_lines as $line) {
      if (preg_match("/STAT items:([\d]+):number ([\d]+)/", $line, $matches)) {
        if (isset($matches[1]) && !in_array($matches[1], $slabs)) {
          $slabs[] = $matches[1];
          $string = memcache_command($server, $port, "stats cachedump " . $matches[1] . " " . $matches[2]);
          preg_match_all("/ITEM (.*?) /", $string, $matches);
          $keys[] = $matches[1];
        }
      }
    }
    $delete_keys = call_user_func_array('array_merge', $keys);
    // Locate all keys that begin with our prefix.
    foreach ($delete_keys as $index => $key) {
      // If strpos returns 0 (not false) then we have a match.
      if (strpos($key, $key_prefix) === 0) {
        $mc->delete($key);
      }
    }
  }

  return $delete_keys;
}

/*
 * Helper function to send memcache commands to a given Memcache Server
 */
function memcache_command($server, $port, $command) {
  $s = @fsockopen($server, $port);
  if (!$s) {
    return die("Cant connect to:" . $server . ":" . $port);
  }
  fwrite($s, $command . "\r\n");
  $buf = "";
  while ((!feof($s))) {
    $buf .= fgets($s, 256);
    // Stat says 'END'.
    if (strpos($buf, "END\r\n") !== FALSE) {
      break;
    }
    // Delete says DELETED or NOT_FOUND.
    if (strpos($buf, "DELETED\r\n") !== FALSE || strpos($buf, "NOT_FOUND\r\n") !== FALSE) {
      break;
    }
    // Flush_all says ok.
    if (strpos($buf, "OK\r\n") !== FALSE) {
      break;
    }
  }
  fclose($s);
  return ($buf);
}


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This adorable restaurant has only recently gained massive popularity after being officially "discovered" by many Ottawa vegans and loved for its authentic and delicious all you can eat vegetarian buffet. The price is more than fair and is less than the non-vegan buffet. The all-vegan buffet is available every day of the week. Try the traditional ethiopian coffee complete with the ceremony at least once. The owners spend part of their year as vegans for religious purposes and are knowledgeable about healthy and delicious vegan dishes. The injera is also gluten-free. They deliver as well.
A standard Ethiopian choice. This restaurant is a perfect way to show your friends vegan eating can be exciting, entertaining and delicious. Order a vegetarian combo plate that you can share with up to 5 or 6 people (all stew selections added per person). Can be ordered individually as well. The stews or wot are savoury and spicy pea and lentil based dishes. Luckily they're as healthy as they are delicious. Support this family owned gem.
Habesha is an Ethiopian restaurant with years of service to downtown Ottawa. The injera is always fresh and the veggie option is a hearty portion. They feature a traditional Kale stir fry and have a garlic flavour to most of their stews. The location is quite humble so go on a night where you don't expect to be fancy. Down the street on Rideau from Horn of Africa- give them both your love!
Beloved by many and is the original Ethiopian restaurant in Ottawa. The injera is slightly more appealing to first timers as it is more wheat based than the traditional dark coloured teff flour injera. The veggie platter features a delicious array of vegetable and bean stews and a salad in the centre. A table for two might find you at the traditional straw tables or you can sit on the balcony and people watch on Rideau Street.


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Student Found Dead in University Frat House in St. Paul
ST. PAUL (AP) — Police do not suspect foul play in the death of a student whose body was found in a University of Minnesota fraternity house near the St. Paul campus.
St. Paul police spokesman Steve Linders says authorities also do not believe the student was hazed. But he says alcohol could be a factor.
The name of the 20-year-old man was not released.
University of Minnesota Vice Provost for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Maggie Towle confirmed that the man was a student, but shared no other details.
Police were called about 5 a.m. Wednesday to the Alpha Gamma Rho frathouse and found the man dead in the home.
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Sydney Writers' Festival @ Hawkesbury Library
The Sydney Writers' Festival is an annual literary festival which presents over 300 events, attracting audiences of over 100,000 throughout Sydney and participating suburbs. It brings together writers from various forms and backgrounds, including the best contemporary novelists, writers of cutting-edge nonfiction, plus a range of popular personalities and international guests.
For the first time, Hawkesbury Library Service will be participating in the Sydney Writers' Festival, which will be held from Monday, 22 to Sunday, 28 May 2017. The Library is pleased to announce that Sandra Leigh Price will give an author talk at the Library on Wednesday, 24 May from 6pm to 7:30pm.
Sandra Leigh Price's glittering and gritty The River Sings is set in 1825 in London and the Colony of New South Wales. It follows the life of Eglantine, daughter of the mysteriously prosperous Mr Amberline Stark.
Join Sandra in a conversation about love knots and cut ties, old worlds and new beginnings, and the importance of a taking a chance.
Visit www.hawkesburylibrary.eventbrite.com to book or call 4560 4460. Copies of Sandra's book will be available to purchase and to be signed. Entry is $5 and includes refreshments and will be held at Hawkesbury Central Library, 300 George Street, Windsor.


Big, Fast and Smart Data is in!
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Big data has made its way to the IT world. However, with the recent improvements and technological advances, having big data is not enough; it has to be fast and smart as well. Big data in its simplest form means large number of information that overwhelms day-to-day business transactions.
Big data enables businesses to identify risks and possible problems through customer profile created and placed in categories.
It allows enterprises to gather data collected publicly and combine it with privately collected information to create new opportunities and market strategies.
It also allows monitoring of your company's standing, thus helping the organization see where it stands and as well as your competitors.
Smart data is big data transformed into useful and actionable items. This means gathered and collected information makes sense and is useful. It is the interpretation and analysis of files, so we can create decisions and action plans by placing the information into purpose. Yes, there can be millions of data transmitted in a millisecond but not all collated facts are useful to you and your business. There are so many benefits smart data can provide. One of which is that it allows useful data to be converted into actionable items, providing solution to company challenges. This is best illustrated by the difference of seeing a long pile of figures relating to sales versus the rise and fall of sales curve over a period of time. Large amounts of statistics are of no value when no additional layer of intelligent analysis is added. This means, smart data allows you to be able to respond to the data that you have and change it into something that would help you and your industry succeed.
In the fast-paced world we live in, making real-time decisions and actions are necessary. The value of fast data is only realized once you respond to data instantly as the files arrive. The ability to generate insights from data accurately and in real time is the very foundation of fast data. Businesses need this type of information to react and respond to customer needs as early as the concern arises. This gives organizations an advantage over their competitors in speeding up revenue-generating strategies implementation.
Businesses survive through consistently adapting to the fast-changing technology. Right now, the trend is not just big data but fast and smart data. IT Solutions Australia is eyeing on more updates to help you succeed in this information-driven economy. Many managed IT services in Melbourne are now switching to this trend which highly benefits them. Big, fast and smart data is what you need in your company. Now, go and take advantage of this incredible opportunity!


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We work to educate parents on ways to raise happy, healthy children and educate children to make healthy decisions for life.
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BigHand are in the process of appointing a new Financial Director.
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Qiwa Phone Number
Technical support forces platform number, technical support is the most important in determining the facilities that are placed on the electronic platform, such as the various institutions that are subject to the power of management as, and the support forces have developed a unified number to communicate with technical support, which is the number that we will learn about below.
Qiwa Unified Platform Number
When opening a new facility from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, the first thing that is registered in the file is the strong support platform number, and the number is used in many services related to the facility, and the strong support platform number is the account manager of the unified number, which is number: 19911.
Technical Support Strength Platform Number
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development launched an electronic platform for technical support forces, and then developed a unified number to communicate through it, and this number is: 19911.
Complaints and inquiries are received on this number, and the strong support platform can be contacted seven days a week 24 hours a day, and there is more than one number to communicate through it, which is:
Register on the official website of the Qawi technical support platform at the following link: https://www.qiwa.sa.
The Support Forces platform receives some messages through a mailbox on the number: 12484.
Register on the account of the Support Forces platform on the Twitter account from here
How to register the facility in Qiwa platform
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Resources has identified some steps to register in the facility, and below we will mention these steps:
You must log in to the unified number platform and register with it.
If the owner of the establishment does not have an account, you can click on Create a new account, by registering on the official website of the Quawi platform via the following link: From here.
There is an annual financial fee to subscribe to the strongly supported platform.
Access the services of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.
Registration is done on the Qaws platform to view all the services provided by the origin registered in the Ministry of Human Resources.
How to register and create an account in Qiwa platform
The Ministry of Human Resources is working to create a customer account on the Qawi platform, in order to facilitate workers in various establishments within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to provide inquiries and important information to employees, and registration is done through some steps, namely:
Register on the QAWI electronic platform by registering on the following link: from here.
Log in on the home page.
Create a new account.
Register the required data on the site.
Type the ID number.
Record the date of birth.
Register the Iqama number.
Click on Record Data.
Register the employee's email.
Register the password.
Register the mobile number you wish to call.
Register the activation code that was sent.
Click on the Record tab.
Services provided by Qiwa Electronic Platform
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development provides many important services to employees within various institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and for this the Ministry has developed a strong electronic platform to communicate through it, which operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and below we will mention the services provided by the platform, which are:
It helps in developing the work environment and trying to manage facilities, and these services include:
E-Advisor Service.
Service, specialization and approval of labor regulations.
Service of various work indicators.
Plan development and activation service.
Facility dashboard creation service.
Facility Poetic Report Service.
Opening a file for origin when created
Obtaining a professional visa issuance service, which offers many different services such as:
Issuing a temporary professional institution work visa for newly established institutions.
Obtaining a business visit visa.
Obtaining a dedicated professions visa without endorsement.
Obtaining a women's visa.
Improving contractual relations with employees, as some services are provided, the most important of which are:
Employee transfer service from one job to another.
Used to provide some employees for temporary secondment.
Issuing a detailed invoice for work.
Business contract management service.
Reasons why my facility does not appear on Qiwa platform
The user's account in the Qawi platform can not appear suddenly, due to the presence of some problems on the electronic platform, and below we will mention the most important reasons for the emergence of problems faced by the user:
The official authorization is not obtained from the number account manager.
There is no unified number account manager in the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.
The unified number manager is not registered within the e-services within the Ministry of Human Resources and Development.
Not activating the account on the Unified Strong platform.
When the facility is not yet complete.
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Update – July 18th, 2013: Okay we've officially had enough now. Rappers beef and they're spitting hateful bars at each other on mixtapes. Producers beef and we get poor progressive dutch house tracks with spiteful undertones. Maybe Deadmau5 has ended it all with this last release, but who really knows.
Update – July 17th, 2013: The motherf*ckin' saga continues as Afrojack posted GotDrop? (Hypebeat) on his Soundcloud page. It's pretty awful and I'm not sure where this thing is going, but we're all paying attention.
For some reason Afrojack disabled embedding. Listen here.
Update – July 16th, 2013: Recently deadmau5 released "Drop Da Bomb outerspace mix" on his Soundcloud page. It pokes fun at the simple, commercial dance style that has been topping charts and taking over festivals. This might be Joel's way of getting back at Afrojack for trolling him with a poorly engineer piece of sound titled "something_". Listen to both below.
July 10th, 2013 – If you can recall, a while back Deadmau5 and Afrojack exchanged words after the pull-no-punches Canadian producer made his now-infamous assertion: "we all press play". The beef subsided, but now months later it appears annoyances have been rekindled. The impetus this time? An article on Beatport regarding the EDMBiz conference which took place in Las Vegas last month. Included in the event write-up was a statement made by Afrojack that pushed Mau5's buttons, and it wasn't long before he took to social networking to express his frustrations.
By now it's almost expected to hear these types of rants from Zimmerman – a highly opinionated person who has no issues vocalizing his displeasures – but there's often a thinly veiled, valid point hidden behind the guise of mere trolling. In this case, it's dance music's increasing homogenization, and it's hard to argue there: much of the EDM sphere – at least the genres and artists closer to the center of the "mainstream" spectrum – is starting to sound a lot alike. To new listeners, simple big room four on the floor records make sense: it's different enough to be new and exciting, but it's safely within the steady-beat realm of non-EDM pop/Top-40. It's the best of both worlds for many: You can experiment in electronica without getting covered in all the grime and filth that dubstep apparently exudes.
But after someone has spent a good portion of time exploring different subgenres and artists, they most likely will start itching for something different and more interesting. And that's where Zimmerman may be making a misstep in criticizing Afrojack's comments. By automatically assuming when Afrojack says "good music" he means music similar to every other successful record out right now, the Mau5 is making a sweeping generalization.
The issue here is that "good music" is based on opinion. For example, people who love an act like Bassnectar may hate an act like Afrojack, or even deadmau5. It comes down to differing tastes, and at the end of the day I think that there is no point in even arguing Afrojack's statement; it's just too open-ended.
Below you can read their entire Twitter bickering (which gets very childish at times).
Another fans comments ignite the conversation.
The author could be a little less biased…would make for a nicer read.


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import hsh.swa.ocl.oCL.OCLPackage;
import hsh.swa.ocl.oCL.OperationSignature;

import java.util.Collection;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.Notification;
import org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.NotificationChain;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.EList;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClass;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.InternalEObject;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.impl.ENotificationImpl;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.impl.MinimalEObjectImpl;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.util.EObjectContainmentEList;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.util.InternalEList;

import org.eclipse.xtext.common.types.JvmFormalParameter;
import org.eclipse.xtext.common.types.JvmTypeReference;

/**
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 * The following features are implemented:
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{@link hsh.swa.ocl.oCL.impl.OperationSignatureImpl#getName Name}

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{
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  {
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Permission is granted to freely use the following photograph for promotional or press purposes.
Note: In print, any of these variants on my name are fine: Mary Robinette, Kowal, or Mrs. Kowal. It should never appear as Robinette-Kowal or Mrs. Robinette Kowal. Robinette is my middle name, not my maiden name.
Bios of varying length
Hugo Award-winner Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of: The Glamourist Histories series, Ghost Talkers and the Lady Astronaut duology. Her stories appear in Uncanny, Cosmos, and Asimov's.
Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of Ghost Talkers, The Glamourist Histories series, and the Lady Astronaut duology. She is a cast member of the award-wining podcast Writing Excuses and also a four-time Hugo Award winner. Her short fiction appears in Uncanny, Tor.com, and Asimov's. Mary Robinette, a professional puppeteer, lives in Nashville. Visit her online at maryrobinettekowal.com.
Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of The Glamourist Histories series, Ghost Talkers, and the Lady Astronaut duology. She's a member of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the Nebula and Locus awards. Her stories appear in Asimov's, Uncanny, and several Year's Best anthologies. Mary Robinette, a professional puppeteer, also performs as a voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), recording fiction for authors including Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi. She lives in Nashville with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. Visit maryrobinettekowal.com
Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Lady Astronaut duology and historical fantasy novels: The Glamourist Histories series and Ghost Talkers. She's a member of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the RT Reviews award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Nebula, and Locus awards. Stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov's, several Year's Best anthologies and her collections Word Puppets and Scenting the Dark and Other Stories.
Her novel Calculating Stars is one of only eighteen novels to win the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in a single year.
As a professional puppeteer and voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), Mary Robinette has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures, and founded Other Hand Productions. Her designs have garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve. She records fiction for authors such as Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi.
Mary Robinette lives in Nashville with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. Visit maryrobinettekowal.com.
Long form bio
Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author, Mary Robinette Kowal is a novelist and professional puppeteer. In 2008 she won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer and her debut novel Shades of Milk and Honey (Tor 2010) was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel. In 2019, the first book in the Lady Astronaut series The Calculating Stars (Tor 2018), won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards, becoming one of only eighteen novels to do so. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov's, and several Year's Best anthologies, as well as in her collection Scenting the Dark and Other Stories from Subterranean Press. Her short story collection Word Puppets was published in 2015, and includes both of her Hugo Award-winning stories in addition to fifteen others, running the full range of speculative fiction. In 2016, her World War I fantasy novel Ghost Talkers was published by Tor books, followed in 2018 by her alternate history Lady Astronaut duology.
In 2011, after several appearances as a guest star on the podcast Writing Excuses, Kowal became a permanent member of the cast. In 2013, the seventh season of the podcast won the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. Her involvement in the podcast also contributed to the creation of the Shadows Beneath anthology, in which Kowal and her three co-hosts contributed short stories alongside materials charting the unique creative process of each author.
Kowal is also an award-winning puppeteer. In high school, she took up puppetry as a hobby, but as Kowal says, she "never thought of it as something you could get paid for." Instead, she went to East Carolina University to pursue an art degree, minoring in theater and speech. While performing as Audrey II in a performance of Little Shop of Horrors, she learned that a professional puppeteer had come to the show. It was a turning point. Kowal went on to intern at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, GA. With over twenty years of experience, she has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures, Sesame Street, and founded Other Hand Productions. Her designs have garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve.
Her career in puppetry consumed much of Kowal's creative energy for over ten years. Although she wrote in high school and college, it wasn't until her brother moved his family to China that she began writing again. Like Lewis Carroll and J.M. Barrie, she started creating children's fantasy as a way to stay connected to her young niece and nephew. Reminded of how much she enjoyed writing, she began submitting short stories and made her first sale in 2005, and her first professional sale to Strange Horizons in 2006.
When she isn't writing or puppeteering, Kowal brings her speech and theater background to her work as a voice actor. She is a member of SAG/AFTRA. She has recorded audio books and short stories for authors such as Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi. She likes to describe voice acting as "puppetry, without the pain."
Mary Robinette lives in Nashville with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. She has been known to travel with and even write on them. Visit www.maryrobinettekowal.com.
(Tor Books — August 21, 2018) Continuing the grand sweep of alternate history laid out in The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky looks forward to 1961, when mankind is well-established on the moon and looking forward to its next step: journeying to, and eventually colonizing, Mars. Of course, the noted Lady Astronaut Elma York would like to go, […]
Mary Robinette teaches classes, once a month, for […]
Join me for monthly online writing dates (usually […]
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Q: Setting Label in iPhone's Lock screen Playback Controls When using AVAudioSession, how can I set the label in the lock screen playback controls to the title of the audio clip I am currently playing? Basically, I want the label to look the same as the iPod app's locks creen playback controls where it shows the song name. Currently, my app shows the app name in the label I want changed.

A: In iOS 5 you can use following code:
Class playingInfoCenter = NSClassFromString(@"MPNowPlayingInfoCenter");

if (playingInfoCenter) {
    MPNowPlayingInfoCenter *center = [MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter];
    NSDictionary *songInfo = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                              @"Some artist", MPMediaItemPropertyArtist,
                              @"Some title", MPMediaItemPropertyTitle,
                              @"Some Album", MPMediaItemPropertyAlbumTitle,
                              nil];
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}


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Board index Career Boards Air Traffic Control
[Jamaica] Charles, Davies clash over ATC issues
From Training to Tower to ARTCC - and everything in-between.
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[Jamaica] Charles, Davies clash over air traffic control issues
Balford Henry
Minister of Transport, Works and Housing, Dr Omar Davies, yesterday warned air traffic controllers that the government will not continue to tolerate abuse of the Essential Services Act, by taking illegal industrial action in furtherance of their demand for improved benefits
"This administration is not going to tolerate the abuse of the Essential Services Act," Davies said, adding that the government was open to negotiations, but not to blackmail.
He noted that the air traffic controllers have twice breached the provisions of the Act already, in reference to the sick-outs which have occurred as part of their protest demonstration.
But, he was confronted by Opposition MP, Pearnel Charles (North Central Clarendon), who cautioned him against threatening the air traffic controllers.
"Threatening the workers is not the right way to approach the issue. Work with them and make sure they get what is needed to do the job," Charles said.
"I don't need a lecture from you," Dr Davies reacted.
"So, don't come in here to threaten the workers. Seek their cooperation in resolving the issues," Charles responded.
Dr Davies said that he had personally checked with the board of directors, and was satisfied with the steps being taken to meet international standards. However, he said that there were many irresponsible statements being made, most of which he chose to ignore.
The minister was piloting a bill through the House of Representatives titled an Act to Amend the Civil Aviation Act, to empower him to appoint not less than six, nor more than eleven, members to the Authority, increasing the full complement of the authority from nine to twelve.
The Bill says this has become necessary, as the Authority has been experiencing a gradual increase in its workload, "due to the demands of the global civil aviation community and the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization".
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If your are considering a live tree for Christmas, proper preparation and care of the tree are essential. Transplanting success can be increased by following the steps outlined below.
Choose a suitable planting site for the tree in the fall. The site should provide adequate space for the tree to grow and develop.
Prepare the planting site in the fall before the ground freezes. Remove the soil and place in a warm location. Fill the hole with straw.
Select a healthy tree from a local nursery or garden center. When purchasing a balled and burlapped tree, choose a tree with a solid soil ball. A small tree is less expensive and easier to handle. (The size and weight of a large tree can make lugging the tree into the house and through doorways a real challenge.) A small tree also has a much better chance of survival.
Store the tree in a cool garage, shed, or porch if it is purchased two or three weeks before Christmas. Make sure the soil ball is kept moist, but does not freeze. If the temperature in the storage area may drop below freezing, place straw or other insulating materials around the soil ball to prevent it from freezing.
Before bringing a balled and burlapped tree indoors, wrap the soil ball in plastic or place it in a tub. Place the tree in a cool location within the home. Avoid sites near heat sources, such as a fireplace, registers, etc.
The tree should be kept indoors for only a short period. The shorter the tree's stay indoors, the better its chances of survival when planted outdoors. The maximum stay indoors should be 7 to 10 days. If the tree is kept indoors for a longer period, the buds may break dormancy. When planted outdoors, the succulent new growth will be killed by cold temperatures.
Carefully decorate the tree. Ornaments, tinsel, and lights (preferably the miniature types) can be used. Don't apply flocking or artificial snow to the tree.
Keep the soil ball moist throughout the tree's stay indoors. Check the soil daily and water as needed.
Shortly after Christmas, remove the tree from the house and place it in a cool location. (Don't place the tree directly outdoors. The sharply colder temperatures outdoors may injure the tree.) A brief stay in a cool garage, shed, etc., allows the tree to become gradually acclimated to cooler temperatures. The soil ball should not be allowed to freeze during this period.
On a relatively mild winter day, remove the straw from the planting area and plant the tree outdoors. Water well and mulch the area heavily to prevent the soil from freezing immediately.
Home gardeners should carefully consider the requirements and risks associated with a live Christmas tree. An evergreen can be successfully planted outdoors after the holidays. However, proper site preparation and good tree care are essential.
This article originally appeared in the November 8, 1996 issue, p. 169.
Links to this article are strongly encouraged, and this article may be republished without further permission if published as written and if credit is given to the author, Horticulture and Home Pest News, and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. If this article is to be used in any other manner, permission from the author is required. This article was originally published on November 8, 1996. The information contained within may not be the most current and accurate depending on when it is accessed.


The lead essay of this issue of JNCHC examines the origins of the National Collegiate Honors Council and its publications. In "The Wisdom of Our Elders: Honors Discussions in The Superior Student, 1958–65," Larry Andrews of Kent State University describes the first eight years of the honors movement in a way that is informative, surprising, thorough, useful, and humbling. The pioneers among the Inter-University Committee on the Superior Student (ICSS) anticipated virtually every major focus and issue of its descendant organization, the NCHC, in initiating and promoting honors programs throughout the United States. Andrews has produced a concise and insightful analysis of that early organization through a detailed study of its newsletter, called The Superior Student.
Included in Andrews's study is the changing focus and structure of the newsletter, prompting the editors of Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council and Honors in Practice to take a brief look back at the history of the two current NCHC publications in hopes that these journals will have the good fortune to find a Larry Andrews fifty years from now. JNCHC is a semi-annual publication that in the year 2000 replaced the Forum for Honors (1970–96) after a four-year hiatus during which the NCHC had no scholarly publication. Unlike the Forum for Honors, each issue of JNCHC initially focused on a single theme, inviting essays only on that theme. Topics addressed in the first twelve issues were: Liberal Learning in the New Century; Science in Honors; Educational Transitions; On Honors Education; Honors and the Creative Arts; Liberal Learning; Technology in Honors; Students and Teachers in Honors; Multiperspectivism in Honors Education; Research in Honors; and The Psychology and Sociology of Honors.


The Board of Directors of the Liberia Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) has appointed a new national secretary general and chief executive officer.
A press release from the YMCA in Monrovia said E. Timotheus Kamaboakai will take over as of May 1.
The appointment of Mr. Kamaboakai comes after the voluntary disengagement of Edward E. Gboe, who is expected to end his tenure as national secretary general on April 30.
Mr. Gboe headed the YMCA for eight years.
Mr. Kamaboakai holds a Master's degree in Public Administration (MPA) with emphasis on non-profit management and strategic planning from the University of Minnesota, USA. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Sociology and social work from the United Methodist University in Monrovia.
He has served the institution as a staff in several capacities for the past 13 years and most recently, as development secretary, a position he held since 2012.