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Commentary: Angels flexing muscle? Better knock…
Commentary: Angels flexing muscle? Better knock on Wood
By Redlands Daily Facts | redlands@dfmdev.com |
TEMPE, Ariz. – My first morning on my first day at spring training 2010, my first interview with Mike Scioscia.
My first question.
"That's absolutely wrong," the Angels manager answered earlier this week.
Funny. Usually I have to actually write something before someone tells me I'm wrong, absolutely or otherwise.
Guess it's spring training for the writers, too. Either that or Scioscia is in midseason form, meaning his team is only three months away from losing in the playoffs again to someone from the AL East.
Hey, if I can be wrong this early, I also can be vicious from the get-go.
The subject the other day was Brandon Wood, specifically this notion that Wood will be given a legitimate opportunity to play this season.
Finally, after being the Angels' top-rated prospect multiple times. After being named player of the year for all the minor leagues by The Sporting News. After hitting 43 JV homers one season, a total a varsity Angel has reached only once (Troy Glaus, with 47, in 2000).
Finally, Wood is going to be in The Show, not just The Opening Credits. At age 25. Tampa Bay Devil Rays standout Evan Longoria (Long Beach State), for the record, is 24.
I'm not saying Wood is Longoria. The two players can't be compared, not at this point.
But I am saying the Angels tried the patience of everyone at a time when production from the next big thing is expected to arrive in the time it takes to Twitter.
Wood pretty much has to be with the Angels this time since he is out of options, baseball talk meaning they likely would lose him through waivers to another team if they attempt to demote him again.
At issue is the fact Wood tends to strike out more than Scioscia would like. Also, to be frank, Wood seems to hit homers more than Scioscia prefers, at least given his recent Angels teams.
"We're not prejudiced against guys who hit home runs here, if that's what you're saying," the manager corrected again. "We're not going to give them back. It's not like we were saying, `This guy hits home runs. We don't want him.' "
For years, I've written that the Angels aren't powerful enough to win another World Series, that they aren't the '27 Yankees or even 27 Yankees. Murderers' Row? The Angels have been more Jaywalkers' Row.
Even last season, while finishing second in the American League in runs, the Angels were eighth in homers. In the AL Championship Series, they hit three home runs. So did Alex Rodriguez, whose Yankees advanced.
My argument was simple: In the postseason, when the pitching generally is better, it is too difficult to string together four or five hits in order to score the runs that a single swing also can generate.
Purportedly built to Scioscia's specifications, the recent Angels have been a relay team in funny pants. The image was of a bunch of munchkins maniacally circling the bases – going first to third, stealing second, dashing home.
That Angels' offense didn't have a face; it had a pair of feet, and they belonged to Chone Figgins, who scored a team-high 114 runs last season and yet was allowed to depart via free agency. To Seattle, no less. A division rival.
Well, Scioscia explained this week, that the previous approach wasn't by design but by necessity.
"We had to adopt an ultra-aggressive base-running style," he said, "because of really a lack of power, which we had for a long time."
But this season, with Wood having a chance to take Figgins' spot and a sturdier Hideki Matsui replacing a teetering Vladimir Guerrero, the Angels – Scioscia pretty much promised – will flex more than their hamstrings.
"I think this year you're going to see that," he said. "Our team is much more suited to driving the ball … than it is to creating on the base paths. That's where the talent level is now, where we feel we can win with this team."
Bobby Abreu, who hit 15 homers last season, figures to bat second. The heart of the lineup will feature Matsui, Torii Hunter, Kendry Morales and Juan Rivera, each of them with ample biceps.
Mike Napoli and his consecutive 20-homer seasons will split time at catcher. Howard Kendrick will be in there somewhere, chasing double figures in home runs.
Then – yeah, finally again – there's Wood, a bottom-of-the-order hitter with middle-of-the-order DNA, depending on how much Scioscia uses him along with Maicer Izturis.
These are the Angels, believe it, a team that not long ago was Guerrero and a bunch of guys as intimidating power-wise as garden gnomes.
"With this lineup, I realize I don't have to hit every 3-1 pitch for a 500-foot home run," Wood said. "I never felt like I didn't belong here. My game can play in this organization and hopefully for a long time."
For an entire season would be a good start.
So the Angels have power, maybe enough power, finally.
But that lack of an ace pitcher? That, ultimately, will be the killer. Of course, I've been wrong before.


What Were The Odds of Germany Beating Brazil 7-1?
Today's semi-final contest at the 2014 World Cup between Brazil and Germany produced one of the most unbelievable results in the history of the tournament.
Germany, taking advantage of a disorganized Brazilian defense, ended up winning the contest 7-1. The Germans had a five goal explosion in the first half that was started by Thomas Muller and finished off by Sami Khedira. At the end of this outburst, the Brazilian team was left looking shocked while tens of thousands of fans broke down into tears. There was absolutely no hope of a comeback as well, as Brazil's top striker, Neymar, was on the sidelines with a back injury.
Heading into this match, Brazil and Germany had identical odds of advancing to the next round. NOBODY was expecting a seven goal outburst for Germany - when two top clubs are facing off in high level international competition, a 7-1 score line is nearly unfathomable to even consider. However, it ended up happening today in Brazil.
So - what were the odds of a 7-1 score line taking place?
This depends entirely on the sports book, but most of the major sports books had a 7-1 Germany result at 501.00. Betfair, on the other hand, had the outcome at 999.00. So, a successful $10 bet on this outcome would have produced a profit of $9,999. Not bad at all for a day at the office.
According to Betfair's Twitter account, somebody bet 61 pounds on Germany winning 7-0. Unfortunately for that person, Oscar scored a goal in the 90th minute.
It will be interesting to hear if anybody was clairvoyent enough to accurately predict a 7-1 score.


In the 14th century, the cats' nocturnal habits condemned it as evil in the eyes of the church.
The first members of the modern cat family appeared 20 million years ago. They were light, agile, and varied in sizes between the modern puma at 220 lb and the lynx at 64 lb.
A cat's tooth from 9000 BC has been found in a settlement site in Jericho, Israel.
Without socialization in kittenhood, even the most selectively bred pedigreed cat given the chance and a little practice, will hunt and defend its territory just like a wildcat.
A kitten's brain is almost fully developed at birth. By seven weeks of age, most areas have matured. Skills are acquired fastest during this development stage.


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Q: All packets have router IP when they arrive at kerio control I have four sites on my network, each site has a microtik router that connect them together. I only have one internet connection at my central office. My internet is connected to Kerio Control firewall along with my central office router. I configured the Kerio to give internet only to specific users. But as all client traffics go through router, they all have router IP. If I login on a client, all clients use that account. Because from firewall sight of view, they all have same IP.

A: You only have two options:

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*Adjust your site-to-site connection settings to not NAT each site to a single IP. This can require some subnetting and routing knowledge, and really depends on how the sites are configured

*Use a different form of user authentication in Kerio Control (docs) like radius or via proxy settings instead of by device IP

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Q: JBoss startup options questions I'm starting JBoss as7 via standalone.bat, which sources it's JAVA_OPTS startup options via standalone.conf.bat.  I set most of my JAVA_OPTS in standalone.conf.bat, I have some questions about some JAVA_OPTS
-mp "/opt/jboss-as-7.0.0.Final/modules"
-logmodule org.jboss.logmanager
-jaxpmodule javax.xml.jaxp-provider

I tried setting these like
set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -mp /opt/jboss-as-7.0.0.Final/modules"
set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -logmodule org.jboss.logmanager"
set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -jaxpmodule javax.xml.jaxp-provider"

in standalone.conf.bat.  This doesn't seem to work, when I startup JBoss via standalone.bat, I get errors like 'unrecognized option -mp' or 'unrecognized option -logmodule'.  If I remove these lines from my standalone.conf.bat, my JBoss is able to start successfully.
My questions are - do I even need to set these JBoss startup options?  I wasn't able to find much documentation about what they were, especially '-mp'.  And if so, what is the best way to set these startup options?  JBoss is not liking the syntax above.  Any advice appreciated.

A: Why java exits with an 'unrecognized option' error
The order in which options are passed to java is relevant.
As Perception writes in his answer, -mp, -logmodule, and -jaxpmodule are JBoss options. The Oracle Help Center explains that these and other non-JVM options must be specified after class (the name of the class to be called) or after the -jar file.jar option:
java [JVM options] class [non-JVM options]
java [JVM options] -jar file.jar [non-JVM options]

(Non-JVM options are then passed to the main function of class or, when using -jar file.jar, to the main function in the startup class indicated by the Main-Class manifest header in the JAR file.)
That's why setting JBoss options in JAVA_OPTS won't work: they precede the -jar %JBOSS_HOME%\jboss-modules.jar option, as you can see in standalone.bat:
"%JAVA%" %JAVA_OPTS% ^
 "-Dorg.jboss.boot.log.file=%JBOSS_HOME%\standalone\log\boot.log" ^
 "-Dlogging.configuration=file:%JBOSS_HOME%/standalone/configuration/logging.properties" ^
-jar "%JBOSS_HOME%\jboss-modules.jar" ^
-mp "%MODULEPATH%" ^
-logmodule "org.jboss.logmanager" ^
-jaxpmodule "javax.xml.jaxp-provider" ^
 org.jboss.as.standalone ^
-Djboss.home.dir="%JBOSS_HOME%" ^
 %*

java complains because it expects a legal JVM option.
To your questions
Do I even need to set these JBoss startup options?
Those are default values, so no, you don't.
What is the best way to set these startup options?
You can add the JBoss options to the SERVER_OPTS variable, as it is appended to the end of the command.
For the curious: other JBoss options
You can list other JBoss options with java -jar %JBOSS_HOME%\jboss-modules.jar:
Usage: java [-jvmoptions...] -jar jboss-modules.jar [-options...] <module-spec> [args...]
   java [-jvmoptions...] -jar jboss-modules.jar [-options...] -jar <jar-name> [args...]
   java [-jvmoptions...] -jar jboss-modules.jar [-options...] -cp <class-path> <class-name> [args...]
   java [-jvmoptions...] -jar jboss-modules.jar [-options...] -class <class-name> [args...]
   java [-jvmoptions...] -jar jboss-modules.jar -addindex [-modify] <jar-name>

where <module-spec> is a valid module specification string
and options include:

    -help         Display this message
    -modulepath <search path of directories>
    -mp <search path of directories>
                  A list of directories, separated by ':', where modules may be located
                  If not specified, the value of the "module.path" system property is used
    -class        Specify that the final argument is a
                  class to load from the class path; not compatible with -jar
    -cp,-classpath <search path of archives or directories>
                  A search path for class files; implies -class
    -dep,-dependencies <module-spec>[,<module-spec>,...]
                  A list of module dependencies to add to the class path;
                  requires -class or -cp
    -deptree      Print the dependency tree of the given module instead of running it
    -jar          Specify that the final argument is the name of a
                  JAR file to run as a module; not compatible with -class
    -jaxpmodule <module-spec>
                  The default JAXP implementation to use of the JDK
    -secmgr       Run with a security manager installed; not compatible with -secmgrmodule
    -secmgrmodule <module-spec>
                  Run with a security manager module; not compatible with -secmgr
    -addindex     Specify that the final argument is a
                  jar to create an index for
    -modify       Modify the indexes jar in-place
    -version      Print version and exit

A: The -mp, -logmodule, and -jaxpmodule options belong to JBoss, not the Java interpreter. Your startup is failing because you included them in the list of Java options and the interpreter is choking (it doesn't recognize those options).
If you are not trying to circumvent standalone.bat then I see no reason to move those options to the standalone.conf.bat file.
EDIT
The default standalone.bat for JBoss 7.0.1 has the following entry:
:RESTART
"%JAVA%" %JAVA_OPTS% ^
 "-Dorg.jboss.boot.log.file=%JBOSS_HOME%\standalone\log\boot.log" ^
 "-Dlogging.configuration=file:%JBOSS_HOME%/standalone/configuration/logging.properties" ^
    -jar "%JBOSS_HOME%\jboss-modules.jar" ^
    -mp "%MODULEPATH%" ^
    -logmodule "org.jboss.logmanager" ^
    -jaxpmodule "javax.xml.jaxp-provider" ^
     org.jboss.as.standalone ^
    -Djboss.home.dir="%JBOSS_HOME%" ^
     %*

If you want to modify the -mp, -logmodule or -jaxpmodule values then simply do it in place, in the standalone.bat file. As an aside, looks like you are using default values, so no changes are even necessary.


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Debut album by this Russian experimental rock group based in Rostov-on-Don.
Sound is influenced by sludge and doom metal, with stoner rock background to dark ambient and industrial music.
A sort of post-rock, post-metal.
"Caustic Smoke" is one expanded track, 45 minutes long, slow, repetitive and crushing, with heavy sections of distorted guitars often interspersed with dark ambient and industrial interludes.


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Q: Python/ElementTree: Write to file without namespaces I'm trying to write an ElementTree object to disk. Everything works, except that the output file looks like this:
<html:html lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<html:head>
<html:title>vocab</html:title>
<html:style type="text/css"> ...

Since it's got the html: namespace info, the browser can't render it.
How can I make etree save some html to disk without the html: namespace info?
Here's the code I'm using to write:
with open('/path/to/file.html', mode='w', encoding='utf-8') as outfile:
mypage.write(outfile)

Thanks!

A: I've been using this workaround:
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
ET.register_namespace('', 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml')

Then the html: prefix will be replaced with whitespace when outputting.

A: Well, I've got it working, but with a kind of roundabout method.
I'm getting a string for the tree (with etree.tostrng()), and then using re.sub('html:', '', thetext) to remove the namespace info. Then, I just write the string to disk normally.


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Campaigners for a proposed law to ban tobacco sales to anyone born after 2000 said Thursday they were hopeful the bill will be adopted by an Australian state's parliament next week. Under the bill, the island of Tasmania would lift the age at which people can legally buy cigarettes -- currently 18 -- a year at a time to achieve a "tobacco-free generation". "Tuesday is the vote in the legislative council (upper house) of the Tasmanian parliament... I'm certainly hopeful," Jon Berrick, a professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore who launched the initiative a decade ago said at an anti-tobacco conference in Abu Dhabi. The lower house will then have to adopt the bill, which would be implemented in 2018 if passed. In 2012, a recommendation that the government consider such a proposal was unanimously approved by Tasmania's upper house. The proposal does not aim to penalise smokers but rather targets suppliers, Berrick told AFP. "It will stop the commercial supply of tobacco to people born this century." Tobacco industries are already "fighting this measure hard," he said, accusing them of lobbying retailers against the measure. "It's going to bite. Thats why the tobacco industry is keen to oppose it," he added. He says more than 60 people a month die from tobacco in Tasmania, compared with two deaths from illicit drugs, five from traffic accidents and nine from alcohol. Dr Adrian Reynolds, the president-elect of the chapter of addiction medicine at the Royal Australian College of Physicians said he is "optimistic that the bill will be passed in the legislative council." "We are unsure right now whether there is sufficient support for it to be passed in the lower house and then ultimately as legislation," he told AFP. But he vowed to press on, describing the proposal as "the next breakthrough in addressing the uptake of smoking among young people." The bill will not just cut supplies for younger generations, "more importantly, it will change social norms" and dramatically reduce access to tobacco over the years, said Reynolds. Reynolds insists that adoption of this proposal in Tasmania will prompt similar moves worldwide through the domino effect. Australia's federal government has introduced plain packaging to help curb smoking rates.

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Three Gays of the Condo
← 307 "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"
"Three Gays of the Condo"
"Dude, Where's My Ranch?" 309 →
"You guys don't have a gay time machine, do you?"
―Homer Simpson
Promo image for the episode
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The family (depicted as frozen food) is put in a deep-fryer, taken out, dumped in a basket, and salted
Scott Thompson as Grady Little
"Weird Al" Yankovic as himself
Ben Schatz as Streetcar man 2
Matt Warburton
Mark Kirkland
DVD features
"Three Gays of the Condo" is the seventeenth episode of season 14 of The Simpsons and the three-hundred and eighth episode overall. It originally aired on April 13, 2003. The episode was written by Matt Warburton and directed by Mark Kirkland. It guest stars Scott Thompson as Grady Little, "Weird Al" Yankovic as himself and Ben Schatz as streetcar man 2.
The Simpsons start a puzzle and finish it but are missing a piece. Homer then believes it is in Marge's memory chest and is sidetracked by a letter Marge wrote the day Moe's Tavern opened. Marge was originally going to break up with Homer as he got drunk which makes Homer go through marital problems and makes him sleep in Bart's room. Homer then moves into Kirk Van Houten's apartment but leaves after realizing how depressing it is.
While walking home Homer sees a newspaper bender and takes one which features a classified advertisement for an open apartment in the Gay District of Springfield. In the new apartment Homer moves in with two gay men named Grady and Julio and Homer starts the learn about gay culture and even takes the kids to his new home. The next day Marge uses "Weird Al" Yankovic to get Homer back and asks Homer to go on a date. Homer then forgets while having Margaritas with the "Velvet Mafia" and asks Grady and Julio if they own a gay time machine (Grady's shoe closet) and tell Homer no but he is missing his date with Marge. Homer then feels nervous and Grady and Julio's Margaritas have made Homer feel better but he arrives drunk for his and Marge's date at the Medieval Times restaurant.
Homer then goes to Moe's where he begins to realize that al the problems in his life may be caused by alcohol. However just as he makes this revelation Moe forces a Bottle of Duff Beer down his throat to make him forget this insight. Moe gives Homer alcohol poisoning and then Homer ends up in the hospital to find out Dr. Hibbert has a video from the past (because he thought his nurse was stealing sponges) that explains later that after Homer got drunk Marge could not break up as she did not want to raise baby Bart alone and that Homer was a good man and she could see it. Many years later, an older Dr. Hibbert only has a bunch of video tapes left and finds out that the nurse did steal the sponges. Over the end credits, "Weird Al" Yankovic reprises the song "Homer & Marge".
Grady is voiced by the openly gay comedian/actor Scott Thompson, most famous for being a member of the Canadian sketch comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall. "Weird Al" Yankovic has said that he was called in a week before the episode aired to re-record a line sung in the ending credits. The original line was "Oh yeah, we've got time to fill; why don't you go pee before King Of The Hill?" However, prior to the airing, it was learned that King Of The Hill was moved to an earlier time slot and the slot after The Simpsons was taken by the new show Oliver Beene. The new line was sung as "Oh yeah, 'Weird Al' had fun on this show; even if it was just a brief cameo".
"Three Gays of the Condo" won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in the 55th Primetime Emmy Awards.[1]
As of January 2018, the episode has a 7.8 rating on IMDb[2] and a 8.1 rating on TV.com.[3]
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Q: Three.js - How to scale a circle without scaling it's stroke? I'm using a THREE.Path to create a Circular path and then using a TubeGeometry to use that Path to basically create a circle with transparent fill and a stroke whose thickness I can control. My question is, how can I scale up the Circular path at runtime?
Accessing the vertices through mesh.vertices results in a very weird result, because I'm accessing the Tube's Geometry, not the Path. If I change the path, then I have to create a brand new TubeGeometry and update the Tube with the new geometry by doing mesh.geometry = newTubeGeometry, and that just doesn't work at all. Scaling the Tube itself increases it's radius as well, so that's not the right solution either.
Any ideas?
Thanks

A: Just changing the geometry property does not work, you have to create a new instance of THREE.Mesh. You should also call geometry.dispose() on your old geometry because the renderer internally caches the corresponding WebGLBuffer objects. More information here:
https://discourse.threejs.org/t/changing-the-geometry-of-a-mesh/306

A: Just an example of how you can do that trick with THREE.TorusGeometry():

var scene = new THREE.Scene();
var camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(60, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 1, 1000);
camera.position.set(0, 5, 10);
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer({
  antialias: true
});
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);

var controls = new THREE.OrbitControls(camera, renderer.domElement);

var geometry = new THREE.TorusGeometry(5, 0.5, 8, 32);
geometry.rotateX(Math.PI * -0.5);
geometry.vertices.forEach(v => {
  v.initPosition = new THREE.Vector3().copy(v);
});
var mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
  color: "red",
  wireframe: true
}));

scene.add(mesh);

var clock = new THREE.Clock();
var time = 0;

render();

function render() {
  requestAnimationFrame(render);

  time += clock.getDelta();

  geometry.vertices.forEach(v => {
    v // take a vertex
      .setY(0) // make it scalable in two dimensions (x, z)
      .normalize() // make a normal from it
      .multiplyScalar(Math.sin(time) * 2) // set the distance
      .add(v.initPosition); // add the initial position of the vertex
  });
  geometry.verticesNeedUpdate = true;

  renderer.render(scene, camera);
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The global collaborative robots market accounted for US$ 420.4 Mn in 2017 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 46.8% during the forecast period 2018 – 2025, to account for US$ 8979.3 Mn by 2025. As per the application segment, the assembly is expected to dominate the market, for the forecasted period. Currently, majority of the collaborative robots deployments are taking place in automotive industry, where their major function is to assist human workers with assembly of automotive parts. Collaborative robots are most preferred by smaller and medium organizations as they are cost efficient and efficiently streamline the hibernating processes. However, larger organizations occupy the majority share in the market as they were the early adopters and invest significantly into the market.
Key trend which will predominantly effect the market in coming year is advancement in robotics industry.In the coming years as machine learning algorithms and other technologies such as neuromorphic chips improvise their capabilities to enable smarter robots, the collaborative robots in the near future would be able to perform the tasks that only humans can do at the moment, in fact in a better way.
These robots will then be able to access a plethora of database and recognize machines, people and parts, further enabling them to derive critical insights and act upon them.This in coming future is anticipated to be a key trend for the collaborative robots.
In addition, the players in this industry are significantly investing in the development of collaborative robots integrated with artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Collaborative robots market by end-user industry is segmented into automotive, metal & machinery, electronics, pharmaceuticals, plastic & polymers, food & beverages and others.Others segment includes industries such as aerospace, healthcare, and construction among others.
Automotive industry is the most important customer of collaborative robots in the year 2017.Automotive OEM manufacturers heavily relies upon automation in their assembly line as well as automotive component manufacturers also relies upon robotics in their manufacturing process.
These reasons have led to the lion's share the automotive industry in adoption of collaborative robots.
The overall market size has been derived using both primary and secondary source.The research process begins with an exhaustive secondary research using internal and external sources to obtain qualitative and quantitative information related to the market.
Also, primary interview were conducted with industry participants and commentators in order to validate data and analysis. The participants who typically take part in such a process include industry expert such as VPs, business development managers, market intelligence managers and national sales managers, and external consultant such as valuation experts, research analysts and key opinion leaders specializing in the collaborative robots industry.


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Geoff Zahn has been involved in Baseball for the better part of his life.
Geoff Zahn has been involved in Baseball for the better part of his life. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1968 after being the MVP of the 1967 Michigan Baseball team. Geoff signed with the LA Dodgers in the spring of 1968 and after 6 years in the Dodger Farm System went on to have a twelve year Major League career playing for the Dodgers, Cubs, Twins, and Angels. At an early age Geoff was told that he would never pitch in the Big Leagues. After signing with the Dodgers he was told he didn't throw hard enough to pitch in the Big Leagues. The Cubs released Geoff in the winter of 1976 telling him, one year after arm surgery, he would never pitch higher than Double A. Geoff pitched 9 more years in the Big Leagues winning over 100 games.
Geoff attributes his Faith in Christ for being able to persevere through adversity knowing that God is both loving and sovereign and wanted the best for him whether or not he was in baseball.
During his time in the Big Leagues Geoff received many accolades. In 1974 he was Dodger Rookie of the Year selected by the Los Angeles Baseball Writers as part of the National League Champions. In 1982 while with the Angels he went 18-8, was the American League Pitcher of the Month in April and ended up 5th in the Cy Young voting while helping the Angels to the Western Division Championship. That year he was also given the Danny Thompson Award given annually to one player by the Commissioner of Baseball for exemplary Christian spirit in baseball. In 1983 he was Angel pitcher of the year and in 1984 he was voted the Angels Most Inspirational Player.
During his 6 years as Head Baseball Coach at University of Michigan his teams won the Big Ten Championship in 1997 and the Big Ten Tournament in 1999. Geoff was awarded Big Ten Coach of the Year in 1997.
Geoff was inducted into the State of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011 and the Albuquerque Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013.
Geoff has always been a student of the game. He has instructed pitchers both privately or as a coach or clinician since 1986. He has spoken at the American Baseball Coaches Association National Convention, written for MLB.com and the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
He counts it a privilege and blessing to work with today's youth.
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From where I stand: Cristina Francisco Reyes
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Photo: Geovanny Almonte Escobal
One of the main obstacles I've faced is that women with disabilities are stigmatized and labelled as 'ill', as being incapable of developing leadership, incapable of having an impact and influence on social changes, equity, our equality and our political participation. Today, so many obstacles still persist: the absence of information, the lack of support from family members and friends to enable them to participate in political processes—even to study and take different forms of transport.
One of my greatest achievements has been the creation of the Circle of Women with Disabilities (CIMUDIS) in the Dominican Republic. It started as the dream of three women who participated in an event as a recommendation from [the Fourth World Conference on Women in] Beijing and today it is a forum with more than 900 women, including young women and adults.
Goals can always be achieved and physical and attitudinal barriers will not succeed in stopping us. The key to success in anything we do is persistence and knowing with certainty that we possess full rights and that if we are denied these rights, we must not only claim them, but also fight for them and for our convictions, until we succeed in making our dreams a reality. We must never stop dreaming!"
Cristina Francisco Reyes, paraplegic since the age of 9, founded the Circle of Women with Disabilities (CIMUDIS), an NGO that advocates for the social inclusion, rights and equal access of women living with disabilities in the Dominican Republic, in all areas of life. UN Women does joint advocacy with CIMUDIS and its Fund for Gender Equality also funds ICT-related projects in the Dominican Republic. This work is related directly to Sustainable Development Goal 10, which aims to reduce inequalities by promoting the social, economic and political inclusion of all; while SDG 11 seeks to ensure sustainable cities and communities, including by providing access to green public spaces and accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, with special attention to the needs of women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons.
Read more stories in the "From where I stand..." editorial series.
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The official history of the Association of School Business Officials of Oklahoma is a work in progress. These notes are meant for information purposes until more information is found. (If you have information helpful to completing the history, please email or share it with us.) The OKASBO was formed in 1957 by a few interested school officials whose names are we are trying to determine.
The organization was officially incorporated with the State of Oklahoma on June 30, 1971. The Articles of Incorporation were initiated by Hugh B. Ginn, J. Harry Johnson and Ina Y. Ince, all from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The first Board of Directors were Ted Coover, Tulsa, OK; Clarence Oliver, Broken Arrow, OK; and W. H. Rainwater, Durant , OK. The first Executive Director was Ernest E. Ayres.
In January 22, 1972, the IRS issued a determination letter that recognized our organization as exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code and that letter is still in effect.
On June 11, 2001, The IRS named us a 501(c)(3) organization under the umbrella exemption for ASBO International (GEN 3239), which continues to exempt us from income tax. The added benefit to our contributors is that any amount donated to OKASBO is determined to be a tax-deductible donation.
OKASBO has thrived and grown under the leadership of many fine individuals. Please take time to look through our list of Past Presidents. If you have any OKASBO history to share with us, or details on any of the leaders listed on these pages, please contact us directly via email or utilize our contact form.


Ghana striker Abdul Majeed Waris is on the radar of Portuguese side FC Porto.
According to the French press, negotiations between the two clubs are far advanced despite huge interest from French Ligue 1 side Caen.
The 26-year-old Ghanaian international had already been associated with the Dragons when he represented BK Hacken's colors in 2012.
Waris was one of the Swedish league figures at that time, having even been the top scorer of that year, scoring 23 goals in 29 matches.
Caen and Saint-Étienne are also in contention for the forward, but FC Porto appear to be closer to securing the forward.
Waris has been in Lorient since 2015 and this season he has scored just one goal in seven matches as he has not been the primary choice of coach Mickaël Landreau.


Then there's the choice of where and what to watch. In Key West there are four different and fantastical places. All within walking distance of one another, islanders go above and beyond the dropping of a lighted ball at midnight!
A CNN favorite - Local drag queen "Sushi" is one of the most celebrated events of the evening in a big red, high-heeled shoe, being dropped from the 801 Bourbon Bar!!
Whichever you fancy, an escape to Key West can get your New Year started off right and may it be filled with fun, laughter, good health and a fantastic TAN!!


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Value-based care, an elusive concept, enters the curriculum
Timothy M. Smith
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As the U.S. health care system shifts from payment based on volume to payment based on value, physicians need to learn value-based care at every level of their training, but gaps in the knowledge base exist across the continuum of medical education. A new textbook is the first to provide the instructional basis for incorporating value-based care and other health systems science topics into the curricula for those training to become physicians and other health care professionals. It starts by defining that most elusive term: value.
Medical students at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn., are among the first in the country to be studying high-value care, one of several elements of a new four-year longitudinal course aimed at complementing basic and clinical scientific knowledge with an understanding of how patients access and receive health care.
"We recognized that there was a huge gap in the curriculum," said Neera Agrwal, MD, consultant, Hospital Internal Medicine, and assistant professor of internal medicine at Mayo's new Scottsdale, Ariz., campus. "None of us ever got that kind of education. Those of us who were interested in it cobbled it together on our own personal time, from talking to people who are interested in it. But what we wanted to do was to provide our trainees, our students, our residents with a formal curriculum so they wouldn't have to go out there and look for it in a piecemeal fashion."
The course is the product of a partnership with Arizona State University's new School for the Science of Health Care Delivery. Students graduate with a joint certificate from Mayo and Arizona State in the Science of Health Care Delivery. With additional credits, they can earn a master's degree.
This addition to the curriculum grew out of the recognition among Mayo's administrators that medical education needed to keep pace with changes in the practice environment.
"We've been teaching the same health care for decades, and clearly we have gaps in what we're teaching," Dr. Agrwal said. "Our health care environment is very different from what it was in 1950. Patients and physicians have different pressures than they did in 1950, 1960, 1970 and 1980, yet we have never changed medical education."
High-value care is one of six domains in the curriculum—along with patient-centered care, population-centered care, health policy, economics and technology, leadership and team-based care—and it was among the most difficult to define.
"There has been some confusion about what value means in general and in health care in particular," said Natalie Landman, PhD, executive director of the Healthcare Delivery and Policy Program at Arizona State. "We really needed to put a stake in the ground on what we think value is, how it is viewed by different stakeholders in the system, and then to give a perspective on where we are now and how we can move forward."
Need for an authoritative reference
Drs. Agrwal and Landman are co-authors—along with Donna Williams, MD, and Timothy Dempsey, MD, MPH, from the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine—of "Value in Health Care," a chapter in the forthcoming Health Systems Science, the first textbook to explore the "third pillar" of medical education.
Theirs is one of 15 chapters that together provide an integrated vision of health systems science, which includes safety, quality, teamwork, leadership, policy and informatics.
"One of the things we really struggled with when putting the curriculum together was finding a textbook that had all the content faculty felt was necessary to give not only a good understanding of the health care system overall, but also an overview of the science of health care delivery," Dr. Landman said. "We even had a committee set up specifically to figure out if there was a text out there that could serve as a thread across the curriculum. We kept coming up short. So this textbook is going to be very useful. A lot of the information that we've been looking for is now in one place."
Value equals quality divided by total cost
In defining value in health care, the authors of that chapter draw on the Institute of Medicine's six goals for the health system—that health care should be safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centered—and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's "triple aim," which seeks better care, improved patient satisfaction and lower costs.
"In the simplest terms," they write, "value can be defined as quality relative to costs."
Quality, they note, has at least three key elements: outcomes, safety and service.
"Each of these elements is a multidimensional term that can include a variety of specific metrics that reflect stakeholder perspectives and the population of patients being addressed," they add.
Outcomes may include patient mortality, complications, functional status and workplace productivity or consistent school attendance
Safety may include metrics such as infection rates, accidental falls and medication errors
Service can include patient satisfaction, wait times to be seen by a health professional, access to a given treatment or procedure and access to affordable insurance
The chapter also reviews essential elements of a high-value health care system, summarizes the current state of value in U.S. health care, discusses barriers to high-value care and presents strategies physicians can use to promote high-value care. The chapter will supplement activities already taking place at Mayo to teach high-value care.
One such activity, the "checkbook exercise," asks students to scrutinize tests and treatments ordered for real-life patients.
"We ask them to evaluate how well that money was spent," Dr. Agrwal said. "Did that patient get the best care they could have gotten for the money? It's somewhat artificial, but it helps them understand that money is a very real part of providing care to a patient."
Building the medical school of the future
Health Systems Science, parts of which are already in use in medical schools across the country, was coauthored by experts from the AMA and faculty from 11 of the 32 member schools in the AMA's Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium. Its content is intended to be relevant to all learners within the health professions.
The book retails for $59.99 and can be preordered from the AMA Store and the publisher, Elsevier, as well as from Amazon and other online booksellers. AMA members may order it from the AMA Store for $54.99. Individual chapters will also be available from Elsevier for $5.99 each.
It will begin shipping Dec. 16 and will be incorporated immediately into learning at Mayo, UC Davis and Arizona State. Mayo will also use the book at its Scottsdale campus when that site opens, in 2017.
"I often remind folks that we're building this health care system for ourselves, because we're all going to be patients sooner or later," Dr. Landman said. "If you were building it for yourself or your family, what would you want? I would imagine you would want high-value care, care that produces good outcomes, care that is safe and that doesn't bankrupt you in the process."
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Nepali Tea Traders Continues to Give Back – Gifts of Tea Give Back to NYF
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This December, Nepali Tea Traders (NTT) has committed to donating funds to Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF) to provide children with better access to shelter, healthcare, and education; the company has been a supporter of NYF for years and has renewed their commitment, knowing that their support can be particularly meaningful given the challenges of COVID-19. Along with offering a $1 donation for each purchase of tea, NTT is offering a gift of tea that also includes a $25 donation to NYF( A Gift of Tea Plus Donation to Nepal Youth Foundation) – what a great way to give a generous gift to Nepal while providing a unique and healthy present to a family member, friend, or work colleague.
NTT was Founded on a Principle of Trade, Not Aid
Companies and nonprofits work hard—and with great intentions—to alleviate the challenges Nepal faces and NYF supports their efforts. For the longer term, NTT is focused on addressing the root cause of the need for aid – Nepal needs sustainable sources of income, and the teas from Nepal are natural, given their award-winning quality. By focusing on building a sustainable tea economy, lives will be improved in Nepal.
Sunita and Rabin Joshi knew that they wanted to help with long-term solutions for their homeland after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal when thousands of Nepalis lost their homes. Both originally from Nepal, the two wanted to do something for their beloved Nepal as it reeled from the devastation. But they knew that Nepal, already such a poor country, needed more than charity to rebuild and make long-lasting change to systemic problems.
"It became clear," said Sunita and Rabin, "that we needed to use our business experience to give back to our homeland."
The Joshis found a perfect way to do just that with Nepali Tea Traders.
About Nepali Tea Traders (NTT)
NTT's goal is to build a sustainable tea industry in Nepal. They source premium teas directly from small farms in the mountains of Nepal, which is an environment ideal for growing world-class tea. All farmers are paid a fair price for their teas and get their fair share of the profits, which they can reinvest back into their farms.
NTT also helps educate farmers about sustainable farming practices, ensuring that their farms and crops continue to thrive and provide a livable income for years to come (fun fact: tea bushes can live up to 2,000 years, making it a perfect sustainable crop).
Sunita and Rabin felt that NTT was the perfect place to blend their entrepreneurial spirit and their vision of giving back to Nepal—so, in 2017, they became the first Nepali co-owners of Nepali Tea Traders.
Steeped in a Shared Mission
NTT's focus on "trade, not aid" and the associated benefits complements Nepal Youth Foundation's mission of providing healthcare, education, and shelter to the country's youth.
Like NYF, NTT believes in family compensation that enables children to attend school rather than work in the fields. This is especially relevant to women since only 15% of Nepali girls complete secondary education.
It's no wonder that these organizations have partnered, working to empower girls and provide opportunities for lifelong betterment. In fact, NTT just recently invested a portion of its profits to send Nepali girls to school.
Support both NYF and NTT – 2 Gifts in One
For the month of December, Nepali Tea Traders is donating $1 from each purchase to NYF. And, if you'd like to provide a gift of tea, while directly supporting NYF, you can click here A Gift of Tea Plus Donation to Nepal Youth Foundation


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Giving back: How one stray dog inspired a fundraiser to reduce suffering
Local animal welfare groups say the Covid pandemic has seen an uptick in the number of homeless animals
by Gemma Handy
gemma.handy@antiguaobserver.com
A love for dogs – and the kindness of a stranger – has inspired one frequent vacationer to Antigua to launch a fundraiser aimed at giving back to the island she first visited three decades ago.
During one trip three years ago, Terri Amato fell in love with a stray pup she was feeding at Fort James.
Sadly, it was too sick from a tick-borne disease to take home to North Carolina as she had hoped, and she was forced to put it to sleep. But she never forgot the dog, or the compassionate stranger who held her hand while it was euthanised.
Amato is now on a mission to raise US$10,000 for the Antigua Spay and Neuter Clinic to help reduce the number of roaming animals on the nation's streets.
A GoFundMe page she's launched has already raised almost a third of her target.
"I always feed the strays while I'm in Antigua, but I thought there's got to be something more effective I can do as a tourist," she told Observer.
"I'm working on a little poster and a brochure that I want to get distributed around so that other tourists who see animals in distress can help. But the main thing is to try and help prevent animals being in distress in the first place.
"That's why the Spay and Neuter Clinic was my focus – to help reduce the overpopulation and also help people who have multiple pets that just need a hand getting them spayed or neutered," Amato explained.
Local animal welfare groups – such as the PAAWS rescue shelter in Parham – say the Covid pandemic has seen an uptick in the number of homeless dogs as more families are forced to make the agonising decision to give up their pet.
Amato hopes her campaign will enable more people to keep them.
"I hope to exceed the target but whatever we get will really help and make an impact for the people and their animals," she continued.
"The impact of Covid has caused such hardship for so many people; tourism was down, the island was in lockdown and people have been struggling, so spay and neutering pets becomes on the back burner.
"But if we can make it affordable – or at no cost for people who are in need – it will make a big difference.
"Last year when we were in Antigua, a dog was killed by a car and it was obviously a stray and it was heartbreaking to see. It's so important to get dogs off the streets and not roaming – and the way to do that is spaying and neutering," she added.
Since the Antigua Spay and Neuter Clinic was founded in 2017 it has operated on thousands of dogs and cats, while helping prevent the birth of many more.
A spokeswoman for the clinic told Observer the charity was delighted to be the beneficiary of Amato's campaign – and urged more residents to make use of its service.
Low cost spay and neuter procedures take place at The Ark in Sir Vivian Richards Street, St John's, each Wednesday. Call 788-3647 to make an appointment.
Details of both the fundraiser and the clinic can be found on the Antigua Spay and Neuter Clinic's Facebook page.
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Q: In what sense does $F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}$ represent the kinetic energy of the photon? In some books on QFT and particle physics, the $-\frac{1}{4}F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}$ term (which arises in field theories with a coupling to electromagnetism) referred to as "the kinetic energy of the photon".
I know that this tensor invariant is related to the classical EM fields via $F_{\mu\nu} F^{\mu\nu} = 2 \left( B^2 - \frac{E^2}{c^2} \right)$, but in what sense can $F_{\mu\nu} F^{\mu\nu}$ be regarded as a kinetic energy?

A: *

*The Lagrangian and Hamiltonian density in scalar field theory are of the form
$${\cal L}~=~\frac{1}{2}\dot{\phi}^2-{\cal V}\tag{1L}$$
and
$${\cal H}~=~\frac{1}{2}\pi^2+{\cal V}\tag{1H},$$
respectively.

*Similarly, the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian density in pure EM without matter  are
$${\cal L}~=~\frac{\epsilon_0}{2}E^2-\frac{1}{2\mu_0}B^2\tag{2L}$$
and
$${\cal H}~=~\frac{\epsilon_0}{2}E^2+\frac{1}{2\mu_0}B^2\tag{2H},$$
respectively.

*The kinetic energy density is the first term on the RHS of each of the above 4 equations.

*Concerning the $-1/4$ normalization, see also this related Phys.SE post.

A: Because usually "kinetic terms" only involve derivatives of the field in question, like a $(1/2) mv^2$ where $v = \partial r/\partial t$. Here $F_{\mu\nu} \propto \partial_\mu A_\nu - \partial_\nu A_\mu$, where $A_\mu$ is the gauge field.
What's called "Potential terms" are those with powers of the field itself, like a harmonic oscillator $(1/2)kr^2$. In this case, you may have $m^2 A^2 + g A^4$ or something. They would be called potential terms.
You don't have potential terms for EM because of the $U(1)$ symmetry, but you can have them for non-abelian interactions like the strong force.

A: Let us try to draw some intuition to back up the construction. For that let us start with classical mechanics, consider a one dimensional problem where we know kinetic terms have the form
$$L_{kin} = \frac{1}{2}mv^2 = \frac{1}{2}m \dot{x}^2$$
with the dot representing a derivative with respect to time. This is can be extended to all space coordinates for 3-dimensional problems directly to
$$L_{kin} = \frac{1}{2}mv^2 = \frac{1}{2}m\left( \dot{x}^2 + \dot{y}^2 + \dot{z}^2\right)$$
Now let us move on to space-time, where the way we "measure" vectors has to be changed to accommodate for the relation with time. Consider instead of a particles' trajectory in space, its trajectory in space-time. So let us use a four-vector $u(\tau) =\frac{d}{d\tau}(t,x,y,z)$ where $t,x,y,z$ are functions parameterized by $\tau$ (it may be or not be its proper time) of some world-line $\vec{r}=(t(\tau),x(\tau),y(\tau),z(\tau))$. This $u$ is the relativistic analogue of $v$ and to compute its norm one does:
$$u^2 = \left(\frac{dt}{d\tau}\right)^2 - \left(\frac{dx}{d\tau}\right)^2 - \left(\frac{dy}{d\tau}\right)^2 - \left(\frac{dz}{d\tau}\right)^2.$$

Once you agree that this is the correct way to compute norms of vectors in space-time (see any introduction to special relativity) we could add the condition that we want to describe photons, which are massless, this implies that they have no rest mass (again special relativity coming in) so $u^2 = 0$ for them. So we have the relation
$$0 = \left(\frac{dt}{d\tau}\right)^2 - \left(\frac{dx}{d\tau}\right)^2 - \left(\frac{dy}{d\tau}\right)^2 - \left(\frac{dz}{d\tau}\right)^2$$
which holds for any massless particle independently of the parameter used. And we would then need to rethink how to define kinetic energy for particle trajectories with no mass since something proportional to $u^2$ would not work immediately. However bear with me, I am just trying to motivate an interpretation for the form of the term $F_{\mu\nu} F^{\mu\nu}$.

The next conceptual jump is to forget about this image of point-particles and trajectories and replace them with fields. Its simplest version would be a scalar field, so let us replace trajectories $r(\tau) \rightarrow \phi(t,\vec{x})$, now the field has a "generalized velocity", $V^\mu$, along each of its arguments $t,x,y,z$, which we can assemble in a four-vector (can be shown):
$$[V_\mu] = \left( \frac{d\phi}{dt} , \frac{d\phi}{dx}, \frac{d\phi}{dy}, \frac{d\phi}{dz}\right)$$
and if we take the norm of this
$$V^2 = V^\mu V_\mu = \left(\frac{d\phi}{dt}\right)^2 - \left(\frac{d\phi}{dx}\right)^2 - \left(\frac{d\phi}{dy}\right)^2 - \left(\frac{d\phi}{dz}\right)^2$$
or written shortly using the summation convention
$$V^2 = \partial_\mu \phi \partial^\mu \phi$$
So far it is already looking promising, however a real-scalar field with no mass has just 1 degree of freedom (per space-time point) while light we now has at least two polarizations while still being a boson ( interesting ha? ) so the way we physicist have put pieces together is to make use of an object that respects special-relativity (Lorentz symmetries) and carries with it at least as many degree's of freedom as we need to describe light and we will worry later about cancelling extra degree's of freedom. We now do a final replacement $\phi(t,\vec{x}) \rightarrow A_\mu(t,\vec{x})$, so we now have a vector-field,
$$[A_\mu(t,\vec{x})] = (A_0(t,\vec{x}) , A_1(t,\vec{x}), A_2(t,\vec{x}), A_3(t,\vec{x}))$$
where each component itself is a function of space-time. We now have a tensor of velocities since each component has four arguments along which they can be displaced. This would correspond to some object
$$ V_{\mu\nu} = \partial_\mu A_\nu$$
and we could define our kinetic energy by contracting the indices and trying to respect the symmetries, but there is more than one way to do it and we don't even know whether $V_{\mu\nu}$ transforms like a tensor (respects Lorentz symmetries). This generally is the story of writing a field theory for electromagnetism which you are probably learning, but to got to the point, to ensure we have a Lorentz tensor that represents these generalized displacements and that it has the same degrees of freedom (d.o.f) as light (or at least from which you can recover Maxwell's equations) one has to patch up this $V_{\mu\nu}$ with the expression you know for $F_{\mu\nu}$
$$F_{\mu\nu} = V_{\mu\nu}-V_{\nu\mu}= \partial_\mu A_\nu - \partial_\nu A_\mu$$
Now we see there is just one way to contract the indices and build a Lorentz covariant quantity:
$$\begin{align}
F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu} &=(\partial_\mu A_\nu - \partial_\nu A_\mu)(\partial_\nu A_\mu - \partial_\mu A_\nu)\\
&= -2(\partial_\mu A_\nu \partial_\mu A_\nu - \partial_\mu A_\nu \partial_\nu A_\mu )
\end{align}$$
So you can see that the first term already looks a lot like the kinetic terms we came from, however alone it would describe four decoupled scalar fields, (4 d.o.f's) the extra term makes sure they are coupled as to eliminate one d.o.f and makes $A_\mu$ a proper vector-field with 3 d.o.f (which can be the case for a massive vector-field, see Proca action). So to really describe light an additional requirement has to be imposed but that is off-topic for the original question. I hope this road from classical mechanics to QED provides some of the intuition you are looking for.


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Ottawa brewery eyes opening
By JENNIFER MCDANIELSpecial to The Herald
When Melody Gentry and her husband, Dusty, used to go out for drinks, she often ordered a cocktail because she didn't like the taste of beer.
But instead of savoring the intoxicating flavors swirling around in her glass, she usually found herself disappointed after the first sip.
It was something that occurred again and again.
"I always wanted something that tasted the same wherever I could get it," she said. "But it never did."
The flavors just always seemed off.
The two have a passion for travel, and so, on their journeys, began attending various craft beer festivals and visiting breweries, sampling different brews, and in turn, broadening Melody's tastes beyond commercial domestic beer varieties. Back at home, they tried hitting up as many festivals and breweries they could find.
"I told him, 'Why don't we learn how to do this?'" she said.
And soon, Not Lost Brewing Co. was born.
Starting out, Dusty extensively researched brewing methods by reading books and eventually developing recipes.
"We just started seeing what worked, and what didn't," she said. "It was trial and error."
That was more than four years ago. Since then, the couple has brewed at least 30-40 varieties out of their Ottawa home. They also compete in area craft beer competitions and serve their product at regional beer festivals to collect valuable input from anyone sampling their beer. Most recently, they participated in the Bo's Hog Wild Brewfest and BBQ event in Baldwin City, serving up their Chai Cider and The Small Town IPA varieties.
"It just helps us get ideas on what people like and don't like," Melody said.
The couple's tastes are wide-ranging from a Blackberry Milkshake IPA to Blueberry Wheat to an English IPA. It's the reason behind their name, Not Lost Brewing Co.
"We like to travel, and there's a saying about how that not all who wander are lost," Melody said. "That ties into our beers. Our styles are all over the place, but we're not lost."
The brewing process varies depending on the style produced. An ISA, also known as an India Session Ale, is a bitter beer with lower alcohol content. Once it's produced, the beer can be kegged and bottled in about two weeks, and ready to drink in four weeks. But Not Lost's Triple IPA, an Indian Pale Ale, sits in a barrel for six months before it's ready to go.
"Typically, the fermentation process takes two to three weeks, and that's pretty quick," Melody said. "Some beers need to rest. Lagers take longer than ales. It just really depends on what we're trying to make."
Although the couple infuse fruit flavors and other ingredients into their specialty beers, they also know they also must adhere to specific style guidelines for their craft brews to be called a porter or a lager. In fact, Melody has also earned her Cicerone Beer Server certification. To be certified, candidates are tested on their knowledge of beer styles, beer flavor and evaluation, the brewing process and food pairings.
Each ingredient is vital to the brewing process. One of those key components is hops. Melody said they use a local hop company, Kansas Hop Co., as a supplier. The company produces hops to craft brewers throughout the Midwest,
"We use local ingredients, which supports a local business," she said. "When we can, we want to use local people."
As the couple began hitting their stride, they wanted to find local business space where they could sell their beer. They began actively searching for space in January 2017, and a few weeks ago, closed on a building in downtown Ottawa.
"Finding a location was always the goal," Melody said.
With a lease signed and keys in hand, the couple have been spending their time deciding how to turn the space into a brew pub. The building, located at 229 S. Main, was the former home of Primitive Treasures, so it will take some time to adjust the layout for a brewery.
Initially, Melody said, they thought the changes would be cosmetic. However, since the building must meet codes requirements, more construction is involved.
"Since we're having to make changes we weren't expecting, we're going to take time to get the layout the way we want it," she said.
The couple are hoping to open the brew pub in March 2019, but are uncertain how long construction could take. Federal and state licensing and other permits will also affect when the business can begin serving customers.
Although the space is stark and open now, Melody is already envisioning what the brew pub will eventually look like. The interior will feature an overall industrial or warehouse design, combining metal and wood fixtures with neutral tones. Edison pendant lights are just one of the features Melody is planning on featuring in the space.
"The industrial look is what we're leaning toward," she said. "We like the look, and it has a brewery feel."
Seating is expected to be around 50, Melody said, admitting they want to start out on a smaller scale until they get a feel for customer response.
"There's not something like this in the area," she said. "But we've had very positive feedback."
While the menu hasn't been finalized, it's expected to feature a limited number of options ranging from hummus and charcuterie plates to sandwiches and chips – all items to complement the craft brews on tap.
On the beer side, they're hoping to feature three to four core flavors along with seasonal varieties like Oktoberfest or Pumpkin Porter. They also intend on having eight varieties of beer on tap.
Melody said she'd like to fill the space by showcasing pieces from local artists. She's also hoping to work with Mike Riggs with Riggs Fabrication in Lawrence to display many of his metal furniture pieces, combining form and function. The brewery will also feature its own line of merchandise, including apparel, stickers, magnets and maybe even glassware.
"We're still working on the big picture, and then once we get that down, eventually we'll get down to the details."
To keep up on the brewery's progress, go to Not Lost Brewing Co.'s Facebook page.
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Disabled workers finding it increasing difficult to be given a chance by employers
Blind mum-of-two explains why people with disabilities are struggling to find work
Diversity is still an issue in the job application process
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Speaking to The Mirror, blind mum-of-two Zoe Bates explained why people with disabilities are struggling to get the help back into work they need.
Zoe Bates, 44, is an employment coordinator at Birmingham Vision, a charity supporting people into employment. Partially sighted herself, she explained that people with disabilities still find it hard to get work or even benefits support.
In her statement she said:
"My eye-sight was quite steady for sometime, but went downhill in my late 30s. I now have a prosthetic left eye and very little vision in my right eye, so I have a guide dog. After leaving school I worked as a nursery nurse then in Marks & Spencer's for 25 years – in various roles including recruitment. Towards the end of my time there, I started to lose more of my vision. I couldn't keep up with some of the requirements, so I felt it was the right time to leave in 2017.
I started doing part-time volunteering for the Black Country Sight Loss Council to improve the lives of people who are blind or partially sighted in the area. I think many employers assume there is a big financial cost of employing someone with a disability – because they might have to purchase equipment. But through schemes like Access to Work, employers can get help towards any costs.
Employers also assume people with disabilities will have time off work sick, but what they don't realise is people are so grateful to have a job and are loyal to their job."
Bates said that even getting to job interview stage is a struggle for many with sight problems. Most of the pre-interview tests are now online or time-limited, so there is still a lack of diverse people in jobs. She has managed to get 50 per cent of her group at Birmingham Vision into work, giving these people a reason to get out of bed and a life to build.
Many people in her group receive PIP, ESA and Universal Credit. Universal Credit has proven to be a challenge because you need to apply online and of course, this is a challenge in itself.
The job centre asks for 35 hours of evidence to show you are searching for a job, and for people who are partially sighted or blind, this just won't work.
Blind Worker Disabled Worker Disadvantaged Job Equality UK workers 2019-06-18
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Q: jquery - check if there are disabled elements, before or after I have a select field with some disabled option elements in.
With jQuery I want find any disabled element before or after selected option.
But when i choose option from the beginning or end of the list, which they don't have any disabled elements after or before, in result i still have message from condition where script should find both possibilities.
HTML
<select>
  <option selected>-- select hour --</option>
  <option data-hour="1630" value="16:30">16:30</option>
  <option data-hour="1700" value="17:00">17:00</option>
  <option data-hour="1730" value="17:30" disabled>17:30</option>
  <option data-hour="1800" value="18:00" disabled>18:00</option>
  <option data-hour="1830" value="18:30" disabled>18:30</option>
  <option data-hour="1900" value="19:00">19:00</option>
  <option data-hour="1930" value="19:30" disabled>19:30</option>
  <option data-hour="2000" value="20:00" disabled>20:00</option>
  <option data-hour="2030" value="20:30">20:30</option>
  <option data-hour="2100" value="21:00">21:00</option>
</select>

jQUery
$('select').on('change', function() {

  var t = $(":selected", this);
  var thisSelected = $(":selected", this).data("hour");
  var result = $("#result");

  if ( t.prevUntil('option[disabled]') && !t.nextUntil('option[disabled]') ) {

    result.html(thisSelected + " HAVE PREV - NO NEXT " + t.prevUntil("option[disabled]").data("hour"));

  } else if ( !t.prevUntil('option[disabled]') && t.nextUntil('option[disabled]') ) {

    result.html(thisSelected + " HAVE NEXT - NO PREV " + t.nextUntil("option[disabled]").data("hour"));

  } else if ( t.nextUntil('option[disabled]') && t.prevUntil('option[disabled]') ) {

    result.html(thisSelected + " HAVE BOTH : " + t.prevUntil('option[disabled]').data('hour') + " || " + t.nextUntil('option[disabled]').data('hour') );

  }

});

JsFiddle
https://jsfiddle.net/zbfu1wkh/

A: *

*No need to use nextUntil() or prevUntil() it'll be enough to use prev() and next() and check the length then get the data-hour of it

*Also to get the last [disabled] prev you can use .prevAll()

$('select').on('change', function() {

  var t = $(":selected", this);
  var thisSelected = $(":selected", this).data("hour");
  var result = $("#result");
  var If_prev = t.prev('option[disabled]'); // previous disabled option
  var If_next = t.next('option[disabled]'); // next disabled option
  if(If_prev.length){ // if there is one disabled prev
    console.log('Prev data-hour '+If_prev.data("hour")); // get data-hour of prev
  }else{ // if there is no direct prev
    if(t.prevAll('option[disabled]').length){ // check for any prev
      console.log('No direct prev but Last disabled prev is '+t.prevAll('option[disabled]').data('hour')); // get the last disabled prev
    }
  }
  if(If_next.length){ // if there is one disabled after
    console.log('Next data-hour '+If_next.data("hour")); // get data-hour of next
  }
});

<select>
  <option selected>-- select hour --</option>
  <option data-hour="1630" value="16:30">16:30</option>
  <option data-hour="1700" value="17:00">17:00</option>
  <option data-hour="1730" value="17:30" disabled>17:30</option>
  <option data-hour="1800" value="18:00" disabled>18:00</option>
  <option data-hour="1830" value="18:30" disabled>18:30</option>
  <option data-hour="1900" value="19:00">19:00</option>
  <option data-hour="1930" value="19:30" disabled>19:30</option>
  <option data-hour="2000" value="20:00" disabled>20:00</option>
  <option data-hour="2030" value="20:30">20:30</option>
  <option data-hour="2100" value="21:00">21:00</option>

</select>


The APG Design Cast on Anchor. Used the app in 2016 but it can now produce a full podcast right from your iPhone.
Recently I have gotten back into podcasting on Anchor. It's a really nifty app that allows media creation right from your iPhone.
Podcasting is a rather good in-between making a full Youtube video and just writing text on a blog. Its nice to hear a person talk and the media production is way easier than making a full Youtube video.
There was a feature to make a transcribe video of your speech which has been taken down. It was a good way to create media concurrently for audio and video.
P.S. The anchor podcast now has more distribution channels besides Apple Podcast it's on Google, Spotify, Overcast and many others.


In thinking about this, I'm not sure that that walkability score generator is reasonable for transit stops. Sure, there's little commercial around the Manor stop, but it's relatively high density housing out there, and that's what the bus is *for*. You can evaluate that neighborhood on its own, but as a part of the larger transit system somehow that score feels unreasonably low.
That would be and interesting comparison! Any ideas where to find by-stop ridership numbers?
I think the Manor stop would be extremely well-served by a corner store, somewhere around the size of Sun Valley Market in San Rafael. If it located at Glen & Drake, it would draw White Hill students that miss their bus to take the crosswalk rather than cutting through the field (when I was in middle school that was the preferred route to the Manor stop), and would serve as a community gathering place. Coincidentally, it would dramatically improve the walkability of the area.
By the way, once GGT/MT get the bus system into Google Maps, Walkscore will give "transit scores" to each of these locations, which would probably improve Manor's score. Further improvements would be weekend 29 service and regular 68 service.
I've always had tremendous problems tracking down numbers with public transit. Things you'd think they'd need to crow about to justify spending are tightly held secrets. So, alas, no luck there. On top of that, we're talking GGT, the folks who haven't published open transit feed schedules for how many years now?
I also realized. re the Manor bus stop walkability: It's about half a mile from the Olema Rd/SFD intersection to the shopping center with the 7/11, Red Boy Pizza, and that whole strip mall. Too much more retail space in that area and… well… I think how long the Lucky/Albertson's sat empty suggests that there's probably excess retail square footage in Fairfax already, and as the world moves to more online shopping, that's only going to get worse.