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Obituary: Stephen Thomas Bush

Stephen Thomas Bush, age 35, passed away July 15, at Langdale Hospice House in Valdosta. Funeral Services will be held at Beggs Funeral Home Chapel in Madison, Florida, on Monday, July, 20 at 2 p.m. Interment will follow at Concord Baptist Church Cemetery. He was employed by Food Giant Grocery in Madison as a meat cutter. He is survived by his mother, Carol Bush, Valdosta, Georgia, one son, Gaven Bush, Lee, Florida, his daughter, Ava Bush, Lee, Florida, and his brother, Christopher David Bush, Quitman, Georgia. He leaves a long time friend, Tedd Banach, and a friend, Laura Bishop, Greenville, Florida. Beggs Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, (850) 973-2258. You may send your condolences to the family by visiting the website

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Effect of pesticides on cell survival in liver and brain rat tissues.

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Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2009 Oct ;72(7):2025-32. Epub 2009 Jun 2. PMID: 19493570

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Mariana Astiz, María J T de Alaniz, Carlos Alberto Marra

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INIBIOLP (Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de La Plata), CCT La Plata, CONICET-UNLP, Cátedra de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 60 y 120 (1900) La Plata, Argentina. camarra@atlas.med.unlp.edu.ar

Pesticides are the main environmental factor associated with the etiology of human neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease. Our laboratory has previously demonstrated that the treatment of rats with low doses of dimethoate, zineb or glyphosate alone or in combination induces oxidative stress (OS) in liver and brain. The aim of the present work was to investigate if the pesticide-induced OS was able to affect brain and liver cell survival. The treatment of Wistar rats with the pesticides (i.p. 1/250 LD50, three times a week for 5 weeks) caused loss of mitochondrial transmembrane potential and cardiolipin content, especially in substantia nigra (SN), with a concomitant increase of fatty acid peroxidation. The activation of calpain apoptotic cascade (instead of the caspase-dependent pathway) would be responsible for the DNA fragmentation pattern observed. Thus, these results may contribute to understand the effect(s) of chronic and simultaneous exposure to pesticides on cell survival.

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Philippine National police Davao unload the boxes of bottled water from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Greenpeace ship M/Y Esperanza transported relief goods from the DSWD, Save the Children, and ABS-CBN Foundation to the communities devastated by typhoon Pablo (Bopha).

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Gary Spirnak is used to playing with big ideas and machines. While at Boeing Satellite Systems, he was responsible for finding new markets for satellite technology. At Hughes & Space Communications, before Boeing bought it, he was part of a management team for projects on spacecraft and their ground stations.

Now Spirnak is leading a small team at a company he co-founded to tackle an unprecedented mission: building a space solar power plant that will convert electricity into radio waves that can be beamed down to Earth, where the radiation will be converted back to electricity for feeding the grid.

The Manhattan, Calif.-based company, Solaren Corp., expects to close funding in less than two months to start developing the project in earnest, Spirnak told Greentech Media. He hopes to raise more than $100 million, the amount Solaren will need to validate its designs in the lab.

"Space solar power was in the realm of the government and academic world before," said Spirnak, Solaren's CEO who also and a former spacecraft project engineer for the U.S. Air Force. "This is a business for us. It's about making a good return for our investors."

The space solar company seemed to have popped out of nowhere when it announced a deal to sell electricity from the space solar farm to Pacific Gas and Electric in April this year. It also made PG&E the only utility in the United States, if not the world, to agree to a space solar power contract.

But Spirnak started the company in 2001 to work on the power plant designs and file for patents, though he and others didn't start quitting their day jobs until Solaren won its U.S. patent and pooled together "$3 to $5 million" from founders and investors in 2005.

The company has about half a dozen full-time employees and nearly 10 other part-timers. Solaren is looking for engineers and scientists to start the research and development work next year, Spirnak said.

Winning that power contract with PG&E was a crucial step for Solaren, which would have had a more difficult time raising money without it. The 15-year agreement calls for Solaren to start delivering 1,700 gigawatt hours of electricity in mid-June 2016.

The California Public Utilities Commission approved the power purchase deal unanimously Thursday. The terms of the sale are confidential. Reading a prepared remark, CPUC president Michael Peevey quoted poet Robert Browning ("A man's reach should always exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?") and added, "While reality may not live quite to our idealized aspiration, it's our pursuit of a perfect world that gives rise to a better one."

The approval didn't come without conditions. The commission said PG&E cannot count this contract for complying with a state mandate to offer an increasing amount of electricity to its customers until Solaren meets certain milestones.

The idea of launching a solar farm in space sounds farfetched, though it has attracted research dollars in countries such as the U.S. and Japan in recent decades. NASA used to receive funding in the past to identify and explore technologies that might make such a power plant feasible. But the agency has no such funding now, said Katherine Martin, a spokeswoman for NASA.

Japan's own space agency began its own space solar research in 1998, and recently announced its goal to build a 10-megawatt pilot project by 2020 and a full-scale power plant by 2030.

Solar power from space is an appealing concept. Depending on where it's located in orbit, it could avoid the Earth's shadow and essentially collect sunlight and generate electricity around the clock. In comparison, a terrestrial solar plant can only churn out energy when the sun is out, and clouds and bad weather could significantly curb its power production.

But turning this concept into reality will require complex engineering and operations. Solaren also will have to work on minimizing losses during the conversion and transmission of the energy, as well as securing permits and convincing public of the project's safety.

"They will have to do a lot of work that is groundbreaking," said Les Johnson, a NASA physicist who talks about space solar power in his upcoming book, "Paradise Regained: The Regreening of Earth." The book looks at potential solutions for combating global warming.

Johnson, who is not speaking on behalf of NASA for this story, said one of the biggest hurdles is to make the solar power plant lightweight to minimize the number of rockets that would be needed to launch it.

Solaren has come up with ideas to tackle this challenge, Spirnak said. In fact, the core of the company's patent deals with the design of a lightweight system. Part of that involves the use of high-efficient solar cells and might even use mirrors to concentrate the sunlight onto solar cells to boost power generation, he said.

With concentration, the most efficient solar cells can convert nearly 40 percent of the sunlight that fall on them into electricity these days. Spectrolab, owned by Boeing, recently touted its ability to fabricate cells to reach 41.6 percent efficiency, though it hadn't been mass-producing this type of cells at the time of its announcement.

Solaren is hoping that solar cell developers could bump the efficiencies close to 50 percent by 2014, when it would place its order.

The company envisions using four or five rockets, at the cost of $150 million each, to send equipment into space, Spirnak said. The solar power system wouldn't be one giant piece of equipment. That would require complex assembly by robots or even humans and add hefty costs to the project.

Instead, the system is likely to be divided into two or four parts, and they would fly in formation, he said. Each piece could be folded like an umbrella or an accordion, and unfurl when it gets into space. Solaren hasn't settled on a particular design yet, and would work with its contractors to figure out the best way, Spirnak said.

The rockets would launch the system into geostationary orbit, which is about 22,300 miles above Earth and high enough to avoid the Earth's shadow for over 99 percent of the time. The system would move at the speed of the Earth's own rotation, so that it would appear to be stationary from observers on Earth.

Aside from the solar farm in space, Solaren plans to build a station near Fresno, Calif., to receive the radio waves and convert them into electricity. It also would operate a satellite control center in Los Angeles to monitor the solar farm.

The entire project is likely to cost a few billion dollars, Spirnak said.

Solaren expects its power plant to convert about 50 percent of the sunlight into electricity, and about 80 percent of that into radio waves. Its receiver station should be able to convert 85 percent to 90 percent of the radio waves back to electricity.

But radio waves can scatter, and the water and aerosol in the atmosphere would absorb some of the radio waves before they hit the ground. So the efficiency from sunlight to electricity on the ground would likely to be 25 percent, Spirnak said.

That means Solaren would need to build a power plant with 800 megawatts in generation capacity in order to deliver the promised amount of electricity to PG&E.

Johnson said the amount of energy losses would vary depending on what kind of radio wave Solaren ends up using. Microwave, for example, is a well-understood and practiced technology because that's how radar, cell phone towers and microwave oven work. But converting microwave back to electricity could prove trickier.

"There hasn't been a need to convert microwave into electricity, so there hasn't been a lot of research into that," Johnson said.

Engineers at Solaren will be busy with working on various energy conversion and transmission technologies in a lab. It plans to demonstrate its designs outside of the lab and then in space in 2011 and 2012, before construction begins.

"It'll involve detailed, meticulous approach," Spirnak said. "We have a lot of experience with satellites, and we are confident that we will meet our dates."

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Behind the lens | behind the scenes

It’s been almost a year since I have been working Green Tree full time! I can’t believe where the time goes.  Looking on this past year I am filled with gratitude and count my blessings for the step I made to start Green Tree.  The wonderful people I’ve met, traveling to new places, and stepping outside my comfort zone has all been absolutely wonderful. I have enjoyed the adventures with two of my best friends, Chase and Stacy!  You two have inspired me to be a better person, and love myself the way God made me. There’s only one you, and no one can replace that! For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10

I can’t be more grateful for you two, and love you very much! Thank you for your loving support!  Below is the two of them hard at work from Meg and Brad’s engagement shoot.

Sometimes it takes some crazy finagling to get the *right* shot!  It’s not always quite as glamorous on our end 😉  We’ve had to toss a few outfits from tears and whatnots.I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone work so hard to get the perfect shot… and she always does!

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NEW CANAAN -- Late in the fourth quarter, the Greenwich boys basketball team heard the news that Staples lost at the buzzer to Danbury and that its thin playoff hopes were still alive if they defeated New Canaan.

At that point the Cardinals and Rams were tied with less than two minutes to play and Head Coach Bill Brehm used the Staples' result as motivation for his team during a timeout.

The Cardinals responded, beating the Rams 47-43 in overtime and in the process keeping their foot wedged in the door leading to the FCIAC tournament.

New Canaan, which needed to win twice this week to make states, had chances, taking the lead in overtime before back-to-back steals and layups by Greenwich gave the Cardinals the lead for good.

It is never pretty when these teams lock up but Brehm was happy to get out of New Canaan with a win, even if it was ugly, at times.

"It is always tough to play on the road and when you need a win," Brehm said. "Coach Evans does a great job at New Canaan and they have some big boys and their big guy (Zach Allen) kept them in the game."

Allen finished with 13 -- 8 in the second half -- to lead the Rams as he battled Greenwich big man Alex Wolf all night.

Wolf led all scorers with 17 with Jimmy Djema adding 11 for the Cardinals, including a big 3-pointer late in the fourth quarter.

Trailing 37-36 with 1:24 left in regulation, Djema received a pass in the corner and drained the 3 to put Greenwich up 39-37.

The Rams tied it with 34 seconds left on a hook by Allen and the Cardinals missed a runner as time expired, sending the game to overtime.

New Canaan coach Mike Evans was pleased with the effort of his team but felt they gave the game away in overtime.

"I was very proud of them," Evans said. "We faced a lot of adversity but we executed when we needed to and got buckets when we needed them. We just had two bad plays in a row."

The "two bad plays" came with New Canaan leading 43-41 in overtime when first Jon Palmer and then Alex McMurray stole the ball near midcourt and raced in for layups to put the Cardinals up 45-43, seemingly breaking the spirit of the Rams in the process.

McMurray hit two free throws to put the game on ice, leaving the Cardinals to watch the scoreboard, needing Trinity to beat Bassick to keep them in the hunt for a playoff spot.

Greenwich will then need to beat Danbury and have Bassick to beat Staples Wednesday to get in.

Notes: Late in the fourth quarter a New Canaan parent ran out of the bleachers to argue with an official and was ejected from the gym, being led out by police.

Greenwich 47

New Canaan 43 (OT)

CJ Byrd 2 5-6 9; Jon Palmer 1 0-0 2; Alex McMurray 1 2-2 4; Jimmy Djema 5 0-1 11; Alex Wolf 8 1-2 17; Dan Guise 0 2-3 2; Jake Tennenbaum 0 0-2 0; Sam Latto 0 0-0 0; Leonel Hyatt 1 0-0 2; Thomas Baietto 0 0-0 0. Totals: 18 10-16 47

NEW CANAAN (6-13, 6-11)

Paul Hagopian 0 0-0 0; Erik Jager 3 0-0 8; Zach Allen 6 1-3 13; Beau Santero 4 0-0 8; Andrew Read 3 3-4 10; Henry Lavieri 1 1-2 4; Chris Dewaele 0 0-0 0. Totals: 17 5-9 43

GREENWICH 11 12 9 7 8 -- 47

NEW CANAAN 11 7 10 11 4 -- 43

3-pointers: G -- Djema; NC Jager 2, Read, Lavieri


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Academic Health Centers

Georgia Regents Health System is an academic health center that delivers outstanding patient care while providing invaluable training opportunities for health sciences students at Georgia Regents University.

We have three primary missions – patient care, education and research. Our physicians have the most up-to-date knowledge and training and excel in standard care as well as tertiary and quaternary care.

Many of our health care professionals train the next generation of caregivers, while others conduct pioneering research that improves medical diagnosis, treatments and technology, bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today.


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Environment and Security

Environmental degradation and resource scarcity do not directly lead to conflict. They can, however, contribute to accelerating already existing political, social crises and instability. In order to address the socio-economic aspects of environmental problems, and particularly those of resource scarcity or resource pressure, migration and social tensions, integrated approaches that take political, economic, social and environmental dimensions into consideration are needed. Basic policies and measures to address these links already exist, at global, regional and domestic levels, but implementation and subnational governance are lacking.
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Reports on environment and urban development for Alaverdy, Gumri and Hrazdan in Armenia
The integrated urban environmental assessment reports based on GEO-Cities methodology covering three Armenian cities: Alaverdy, Gumri and Hrazdan have been made in the framework of the Environment and Security Initiative in collaboration betwee ...
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Environment and Security issues in the Southern Mediterranean Region
If not addressed and resolved, environmental problems – water shortages, land degradation, pollution – can become security threats. In this respect the Mediterranean is one of the world’s most vulnerable areas. Its basic climatic and environmen ...
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Pretty good times at the 2010 Orlando Under Armour Combine despite the fact that the event was conducted in wet conditions.  Mike Bellamy,  running back from Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda, FL was a name that many were mentioning.  He’s one to look out for this upcoming 2010 season.

Top Ten 40 yard dash times at Orlando Under Armour Combine

Player High School State Time
Rashad Green St. Thomas Aquinas FL 4.46
JJ Keels Florida Air Academy FL 4.49
Courtney Byrnes Boyd Anderson FL 4.5
Mike Bellamy FL 4.5
Justus Pickett NC 4.51
Brian Poole Bradenton FL 4.51
Jeff Driskell Hagerty FL 4.54
Blake Countess Good Counsel MD 4.54
Tyjuan Fray Ocala FL 4.54
Ryan Watson Deatur AL 4.55


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Please note these are what Lifesavers calls "New & Improved" flavor.  They are a much stronger flavor than the old ones.  A roll of spearmint Life Savers. These will leave your breath minty and fresh. One box contains 20 rolls.

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Golden Nectar Plum Tree, Japanese Type (Semi-dwarf) - FT326

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European PlumsUse fresh, canned or dried into prunes. European varieties are self pollinated, a good choice for higher elevations and cold micro–climates and are well suited to processing. These plums have a long history of cultivation and are one of the main species grown worldwide. Fruit is generally oval, smaller, and more variable in color than Japanese plums. Their flavor is usually sweet and aromatic. Prunes, damsons, and gages fall into this category.

Japanese Plums These varieties bloom and ripen earlier, tend and to have larger crops. They are not generally self-pollinated and can be tricky to grow in areas with late frosts but are superb for fresh eating. They are the favored fresh eating varieties in the United states being larger, firmer fleshed, and rounder than European plums. Japanese plum trees have rougher bark, more persistent spurs, and more numerous flowers than European plums. They are also more precocious, disease resistant, and vigorous than European plums. Japanese plum flavor ranges from sweet to tart.

Both are on Citation Rootstock which is tolerant of wet soil, induces early dormancy in dry soil, is very winter hardy, resists root knot nematodes, and produces a 12'-18' tree. By pruning you can keep your tree at any height. Trees are 2 years old, and should begin to fruit in their 4th year.

Please Note: Although most of our bare-root trees arrive to our warehouse in mid-December, there are a few varieties -- Mulberry, Pecan, Persimmon, Quince, and Walnut -- that will not arrive until mid-January. If you order any of those varieties along with varieties that arrive in mid-December, your order will be delayed for shipment until mid-January unless you ask us to split your shipments and agree to pay any additional shipping charges resulting from two separate shipments.

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Day of the Dead

Save the dates for Día de los Muertos!

Download an application to create an altar. The deadline is Wednesday, October 14. Apply today to honor a loved one and share in this beautiful tradition with us.

Wednesday, October 28 – Friday, October 30

School groups can reserve a tour time to look at the altars and learn more about Día de los Muertos. There are a limited number of time slots available for these three days, so if you are a teacher interested in scheduling a tour, please visit Download our teacher resource guide and use the included lesson plans, activities and resources to help your students understand what Día de los Muertos is all about. If you schedule a class tour, the resource guide may also be used before, during and after your visit.

Friday, October 30 – Sunday, November 1

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Come celebrate Día de los Muertos with the Grand Rapids Public Library. Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday that honors family and friends who have passed on. Loved ones come together to build altars that celebrate the life and memory of the dead. This is a time of celebration and joy, filled with talk and memories of those who have died. Altars from members of the community honoring family and friends will be on display. Every altar is unique and taken together they create a fascinating portrait of what the citizens of Grand Rapids hold close to them.

Día de los Muertos: Family Day

Sunday, November 1, 2015

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Main Library

Families are invited to learn more about the Day of the Dead holiday, explore the altars, decorate sugar skulls, have your face painted and do a craft. The day will include bilingual story times, live music, food from El Granjero and Pan de Muerto provided by Panaderia Margo.

Día de Los Muertos is funded by the Grand Rapids Library Foundation. Consider a donation today.


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Which Wine Bar Will Protesters Rage Against Now?

Outside of John Varvatos. Photo: Daniel Maurer

The motley crew that has been protesting the Bowery Wine Company is going to need a new bogeyman. First the Observer reveals that big bad Republican Bruce Willis isn’t even a partner in the supposed “yuppie wine bar,” and now owner Chris Sileo tells us he has made peace with protest leader John Penley. “There will not be any more protests regarding Bowery Wine Company,” Sileo says. “It was mutually agreed upon that we aren’t the enemy.” Penley confirms this, saying that his next protest, outside of the Ninth Precinct station house on September 6, will be against police abuses. Comrade, no! Don’t abandon the good fight against yuppie wine bars! We were counting on you to end the tyranny of fancy cheese once and for all, brother man! Down with the Manchego! In fact, we’ve even made you a route of other chic East Village newcomers to pass by instead of bothering with that silly station-house business. Click on each map point to see what Penley should chant.

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Depending on your screen resolution, you may not be able to see all columns in the display.  Use the Horizontal Scroll Bar to scroll the grid to the right or left.  Alternatively, if you are dissatisfied with the default layout, or if there are columns that you rarely use, you can reorder the columns by dragging the column heading to the new location. You can also add and remove display columns via Tools=>Options=>Display

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Alumni Anthony Wayne is getting rave reviews for his original production: ‘Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical’

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Sing Your Soul Song - Because You Don't Want To Die With Your Song UnSung! Buff Up Your Spiritual Immune System Discover Your Innermost Truth for Healing Your Mind, Body & Spirit... Even if you can't sing a note! *No Singing Required* Your voice at play keeps dis~ease away! Group Energy Sessions offer practice to support your deepest healing Express your true self: Integral to health, well-being & good balance Tune into your innermost guidance, deeply & clearly, allowing you to spring into action in the most joyful ways to create what you really want in life ~"You're so gifted & loving, Michele. I now know that I can speak my truth & have a strong voice." ~"Michele, you've enriched my life fully on the spiritual & emotional level. You taught me how to open up spiritually in ways I never knew how to do." ~"I never felt that I could sing & have a voice. Being in this group, I've realized I can sing, create tones & have a voice that's freeing." ~"This is life-changing! After years of therapy, you finally gave me the tools & insights to push me through. I've never let go of any of this in my own body before. Thank You!"

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The Meaning of ‘LIFE’

With a new documentary film about his work, and huge exhibits on both coasts, acclaimed Santa Cruz nature photographer Frans Lanting is having a landmark year. But his crusade for conservation doesn’t leave much time for looking back

Seasons of Opportunity

Everything in our world has a specific time (a season) in which to accomplish a specific work—a “season” that begins (opportunity) and ends (time’s up). I can feel the season is changing. The leaves turning colors, the air cooler, sunbeams casting shadows in different places. It feels like a seasonal change has begun in the northern hemisphere. Christmas is in four months, and 2015 is swiftly speeding by. Soon it will be autumn and time for the many Festivals of Light. Each season offers new opportunities. Then the season ends and new seasons take its place. Humanity, too, is given “seasons” of opportunity. We are in one of those opportunities now, to bring something new (Uranus) into our world, especially in the United States. Times of opportunity can be seen in the astrology chart. In the U.S. chart, Uranus (change) joins Chiron (wound/healing). This symbolizes a need to heal the wounds of humanity. Uranus offers new archetypes, new ways of doing things. The Uranus/Chiron (Aries/Pisces) message is, “The people of the U.S. are suffering. New actions are needed to bring healing and well-being to humanity. So the U.S. can fulfill its spiritual task of standing within the light and leading humanity within and toward the light.” Thursday, Aquarius Moon, Mercury enters Libra. The message, “To bring forth the new order in the world, begin with acts of Goodwill.” Goodwill produces right relations with everyone and everything. The result is a world of progressive well-being and peacefulness (which is neither passive nor the opposite of war). Saturday is the full moon, the solar light of Virgo streaming into the Earth. Our waiting now begins, for the birth of new light at winter solstice. The mother (hiding the light of the soul, the holy child), identifying the feminine principle, says, “I am the mother and the child. I, God (Father), I Matter (Mother), We are One.”

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Aranguez Sports Club will be aiming to defend its crown when the Savannah Cafe League Annual Windball Competition bowls off on June 9 at the Aranguez Savannah.

Twenty-four teams will vie in this 15-over tournament for a chance to win the $8,000 first prize. The runners-up will walk away with $3,500.

By the end of the tournament, $35,000 in cash and trophies will be given away, including individual prizes for most wickets and most runs in the competition.

National cricketers Sunil Narine and Rayad Emrit have participated in this tournament over the years. Registration ends on Sunday, and each team can register 20 players at a cost of $600 per team. On June 5, two representatives from each team must attend the club meeting at the Aranguez Sports Club.

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Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary with 4 shows in New Jersey and London.

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LONDON - You can’t always get what you want — but if your desire is to attend a Rolling Stones concert this might be your lucky day.

The legendary band said Monday it would return to the stage this year with four concerts in Britain and the U.S. The shows will take place on Nov. 25 and 29 at London’s O2 Arena, followed by gigs on Dec. 13 and 15 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, just outside of New York.

The shows mark the first time in five years that the Stones have performed live, with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood all coming together once more. The band said it was the “crowning glory” of celebrations marking its 50th anniversary of its first gig.

“Everybody loves a celebration, and London and New York are two good places to do it in!” Jagger said in a statement.

The Stones have sold more than 200 million records, with hits including (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Street Fighting Man and You Can’t Always Get What You Want.

But in recent years much of their income has come from touring. Their last global tour, A Bigger Bang, earned more than $500 million between 2005 and 2007.

Their legions of fans will hear era-defining tracks such as Gimme Shelter, Jumping Jack Flash, Tumbling Dice, It’s Only Rock and Roll, plus a few surprises and other classics from GRRR!, the multiformat album coming out in November.

GRRR! is a greatest hits collection that includes two new songs Doom and Gloom and One More Shot, recorded recently in Paris — the first new recordings since the 2005 album A Bigger Bang.

The band promises an all-new, custom-built set design, featuring the tongue and floppy lip logo, that will “reach out into the crowd.”

The tour comes despite some famously testy times.

Richards and Jagger have been creative catalysts and sparring partners — sentiments aggravated two years ago when Richards published his autobiography Life.

They’ve nonetheless appeared amicably together during events that marked their 50th anniversary. A documentary about the band, Crossfire Hurricane, premieres at the London Film Festival on Thursday.

In another milestone marking their five decades of music, the Museum of Modern Art in New York will host The Rolling Stones: 50 Years on Film, a retrospective chronicling the band from the mid-1960s until today. This exhibition will be open Nov. 15.

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WASHINGTON – Georgetown men’s tennis finished off their fall schedule at the ITA Regionals in Blacksburg, Va. as hosted by Virginia Tech this past weekend. Sophomore Daniel Khanin, junior Alex Tropiano and senior captain Casey Distaso all won their opening round singles main draw matches in straight sets, but did not move beyond the round of 64. Junior Shane Korber and freshman Yannik Mahlangu defeated a pair from St. Joseph in their doubles main draw first round match, 8-6. Distaso and Tropiano also won their first round doubles match, 8-5, against a pair from Richmond. The men look to build on their fall matches going into their 2014 schedule, which beings on Jan. 17.

R128; Round of 128
Daniel Khanin (Georgetown) def. Rafael Ribas (Virginia Tech); 6-1, 6-2
Joe Mills (Radford) def. Yannik Mahlangu (Georgetown); 6-0, 6-4
Alex Tropiano (Georgetown) def. Biyik Akinshemoyin (UMBC); 6-3, 7-6(6)
Marc Collado Castells (Penn State) def. Shane Korber (Georgetown); 3-6, 7-6(6), 7-5
Casey Distaso (Georgetown) def. Jose Sierra (St. Joesph); 6-2, 6-0

R64; Round of 64
Shea Thomas (Liberty) def. Daniel Khanin (Georgetown); 3-6, 6-4, 6-1
Adam Lawton (Delaware, DEL) def. Alex Tropiano (Georgetown); 6-3, 6-1
Michal Voscek (VCU) def. Casey Distaso (Georgetown); 6-2, 6-3

Yannik Mahlangu (Georgetown) def. Egon Samaai (Liberty); 6-3, 6-1
Brett Moorhead (James Madison) def. Shane Korber (Georgetown); 6-3, 6-4

R64; Round of 64
Shane Korber / Yannik Mahlangu (Georgetown) def. Pierre Brondeau/Paranjay Malholtra (St. Joseph); 8-6
Alex Tropiano / Casey Distaso (Georgetown) def. Alex Hahn/Canyon Teague (Richmond); 8-5

R32; Round of 32
Alex Fennell/Russell Bader (PSU) def. Shane Korber / Yannik Mahlangu (Georgetown); 8-5
Roman Truklja/Mike Reilly (PSU) def. Alex Tropiano / Casey Distaso (Georgetown); 8-4

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    Default 7.65x53 mauser AK

    I have a bbl in 7.65x53-Argentine,Belgien etc. Large ring mauser. Anyone forsee any problems w/ using it on an Ak in the original caliber?
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    Anyone forsee any problems w/ using it on an Ak in the original caliber?
    Do you mean the 7.65 caliber? I'd build it on an PSL/Romak3 kit, because I don't know how well (or long) a standard AK will hold up to a full sized rifle caliber.
    But I have'nt done a conversion like this so someone with more experience should give their opinion.
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    like i said in the other thread. pricy ammo longer than a 308 will make mage selection harder, good round just no following. I have a couple 1919 argentines and I bought froming dies to convert 30-06 brass. if you got to reload just do a 308 and load light or better yet a 300 savage.

    it would be a cool build from the hey look what I have.

    i havent looked for ammo in that for a few years is there any that is afforadable??

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    [reposted from the General Discussion thread]

    The Voices tried to tell me to do that a year or two ago. I'm glad they've moved off to annoy you now.

    I load and shoot 7.65 for my '91 Argie. I use .311 ".303 Enfield" bullets, same as 7.62x54R, 7.62x39, and 7.7 Japanese.

    Just for reference, the 7.65 ammunition will just barely fit in an M-14 or G3 magazine when loaded at maximum OAL.

    I see no reason why you couldn't use the methods described in one of the .308 builds and make an AK in 7.65x53.

    All of my 7.65 brass is cut down from .30-06. It's no big deal. I have an expensive RCBS die that is hard so you can form, hacksaw, and file without harming the die, but you can just a regular sizing die and a case trimmer.

    With the increased popularity of the 54R .311 bullets are easier to get than they used to be, but since so many of my rifles are .311 now I'm looking at a C4HD "bump die" that expands a cheap .308 bullet up to .311. Half a dozen boxes of bullets and I'd be money ahead.

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Chemical companies have become an integral part of modern life. They produce sensitive elements to enable individuals complete the simplest to the most complex tasks. For example, Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) is involved in providing clean and safe water. At the same time, there is Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) concerned with developing specialty polymers for the paint industry. In other words, the reach of chemical companies is unimagined and across industries, while offering solutions to technical obstacles for the development of crucial products.

Cigarette Driven Growth

Eastman Chemical has spread its facilities over seven countries while focusing on chemicals, plastics, and fiber. Part of the recent business strategy has been to diversify end-markets, putting a greater focus in the Asian markets and reducing the importance of the US market. An important characteristic is the firm’s low production cost, achieved by the use of coal for methanol production. Although that is an important characteristic looking forward, it is worth noting that is only tangible when producing at full capacity.

To ease production costs increments, Eastman Chemical have successfully passed some of the costs to its customer without experiencing a drawback on demand. Looking forward, the firm continues to diversify its portfolio and the 2012 acquisition of Solutia confirms so. Now, product offering has added safety glass, solar modules, window tinting, and tires, among other products to a strong specialty chemicals portfolio. Acetate tow, used in the manufacturing of cigarette filters, remains the star product in that portfolio, and is expected to continue driving growth as the number of smokers in China and Russia rise exponentially.

Amid a strong performance during the last quarter, where the Additives & Functional Products and Advanced Materials doubled profits, earnings guidance for the full year was reduced. So far, business restructuring, cost-cutting measures, and increased capacity additions have not offset higher raw material and energy costs. Nonetheless, the initiatives that have reduced cyclicality by 40% and further improvements are expected. Specifically, the firm developed a partnership with Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical for the construction of a 30,000 ton acetate tow manufacturing facility, and the startup of the recently acquired non-phthalate plasticizer manufacturing facility in Texas City.

The balance sheet for Eastman Chemical is strong amid a high debt related to recent acquisitions. Currently trading at 15.5 times its trailing earnings, the stock trades at a 16% discount to the industry average. Andreas Halvorsen is the largest guru holding a stake in the company, and shows no changes since June when stock price began to rise. At the same time Leon Cooperman and Steven Cohen made important acquisitions. I share their optimism, and stock performance has backed their decisions. However, the entry point for a long term investment has passed.

Domination Is Not Enough

There is nothing new that can be said about Dow Chemical, just remind the readers about the market dominant position achieved by the business thanks to its massive size. Hence, the company´s products are present in almost every industry known to men and sold in over 160 countries worldwide. The recent business strategy is focusing on a wider specialty chemicals offer, and securing a tangible cost advantage for feedstock. In line, management has preferred to somewhat overlook the benefits offered by current low US gas prices due to their volatility.

Thanks to structural integration, production technology, and lower-than-average energy and feedstock costs, Dow Chemicals has few rivals in the low-barrier basic chemicals segment. Growth of the segment will be pushed by the a $20 billion joint venture with Saudi Aramco, that will see some of the lowest feedstock costs and serve the rising eastern markets. However great hopes may be for the basic chemicals segment, the reader should not forget that specialty chemicals will grow disproportionately.

Evidence of a greater focus on the specialty chemicals can be found on Dow Chemicals’ new joint ventures and acquisitions. Rohm & Haas widened product offerings and turned the firm into the world’s leading specialty chemicals and advanced materials. On another note, Dow AgroSciences has partnered with Monsanto for the development of next generation of advanced weed and insect control technology in corn. This holds a great potential for growth given that Monsanto has already successfully introduced an insect resistant soybean trait. This grand strategy is being supported by an aggressive group of cost-saving initiatives, in addition to policies aimed at reducing earnings cyclicality.

The balance sheet for Dow Chemicals is strong amid thin operating margins. Currently trading at 16.3 times its trailing earnings, the stock carries a 12% discount to the industry average. Jean-Marie Eveillard has turned into the largest guru holding a stake in the firm after a strong buy, taking Steven Cohen´s place who sold out. I am contrary to Mr. Cohen´s decision this time, and feel the company holds interesting future prospects.

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For an investor who prioritizes a long-term investment, timing is the key to winnings, and discounts dictate the right moment to buy. I share that reasoning and consequently prefer Dow Chemicals over Eastman Chemicals. Most importantly, Dow Chemicals’ management has been working around its weak spots in order to improve performance while rewarding shareholders.

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It's prettier.

ive got about twenty different quads it is alot like a rev just alittle bit twitchy but its more like a new tech spirit and a dancer mix i like it alot and i have 57 revs its close one of the better quads

I am also interested in it.  I don't have any other flyers around here so no peer pressure.   Also havent flown a quad before so i would hate to jump into $400 right away.  I dont see much of any info online though. No reviews either.

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NEW YORK—I have been receiving an increasing number of letters from groups who want to have peace demonstrations of one kind or another.

The latest one came from a young girl in San Francisco who attended a meeting at Hyde Park last summer. At that time she asked me about peace and how young people could keep from "being afraid." I gave her a general answer, saying that we must first develop the capacity to live peacefully with ourselves, and then to feel at peace with our surroundings, our family and our friends. Once this is achieved, we may then be able to be of use in trying to bring about a peaceful atmosphere between the countries of the world. She now writes me that students in the San Francisco and Bay area held a demonstration on October 14 to promote peace, but she would like to feel that they could make some constructive suggestions of how active citizens could work for peace and the avenues through which they could do so.

The answer, I think, is that our obligation as citizens is to find out from our own government what are the helpful things we can do to assist in making the peoples of the world realize that we as a nation want peace, that we believe in a peaceful world and are willing to make sacrifices to obtain it. Our great difficulty is that the maintenance of peace seems to lie in the hands of two nations, the Soviet Union and ourselves. The Russian leader, Premier Khrushchev, by his many provocative speeches has made it appear that it is our attitude which is the aggressive one. But when you study his own proposals you find that while he says he wants peace, he wants it only on his own terms. Unless we agree to what he wants—to the kind of treaty or the kind of action on any subject which he wishes to interpret in his own way—then there can be no agreement between us and he threatens us with annihilation.

Thus, we have had months and months of negotiations on the question of stopping nuclear tests. In the end, Khrushchev has started nuclear tests in the atmosphere without regard to what anyone in the world might feel or think about it. He believes that we were as unreasonable in our demands as we think he was; and neither of us feels that they can endanger the safety of their people by giving up in any way. As a result, we in the U.S. find ourselves engaged in rearmament—after having disarmed at the end of World War II. We look upon every move in space made by the Soviet Union as a danger, and not as something that might be used by cooperative effort in the U.N. for the benefit of all nations.

Now we find ourselves faced with the dilemma of making Khrushchev understand that beyond a certain point we cannot yield in any area of the world. We are not interested in appeasing or giving in to him. But we are very much interested in negotiating with him, for there are broad areas in which, if he is willing to give a little, we could also give. Instead of this, we find ourselves obliged to prepare for defense because we believe he might use an atomic weapon against us. We think he is bluffing and that he will give in, but we cannot be sure.

The President naturally feels he cannot risk the lives of the people without taking every known precaution to save as many as possible in case of attack. This is what leads to a civilian defense program and the request for building shelters. One's private opinion may be opposed to such measures, but it is understandable that the President should feel he must prepare for all eventualities. As I have previously said, I think it should be a thoroughgoing plan made and supervised by the Pentagon. I think we have the right to ask for this type of shelter program if the President feels the need of proving that we are willing to do whatever our government asks.

Any demonstration for peace should clearly be an effort to show the world our desire to support peace, but should not indicate any weakening in the support of our President in whatever he may think necessary to ask us to do under the present circumstances. If he does not receive this support, and if Premier Khrushchev is not aware of such support, it might weaken the President's hand for negotiation. We are, one might say, in something of a gigantic poker game for the highest stakes that nations have ever played.

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According to a report of http://news.xinhuanet.com China’s cyber security has come under increasingly severe threats amid a variety of safety risks, according to a report released Tuesday by a national computer monitoring center.
Hackers tampered with 16,388 web pages in China — including 1,802 government websites — in the past year, up 6.1 percent and 21.4 percent year on year respectively, a National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Center (CNCERT) report said.

In 2012, around 73,000 overseas Internet Protocol (IP) addresses were involved in hijacking nearly 14.2 million mainframes in China via Trojan or Botnet, with the United States being the largest source of such hacking activities.

The CNCERT said it monitored 22,308 phishing websites targeting China’s growing online population last year, which has grown to 564 million.

Up to 96.2 percent of the phishing websites are running on foreign severs, with U.S.-based sites accounting for 83.2 percent of them, according to the report.

Zhou Yonglin, a CNCERT official, noted that new security risks will gradually emerge with the application of new technologies such as cloud computing, complicating the center’s efforts to trace cyber attacks.

He urged the country’s related institutions to pool research efforts to enhance cyber security protection.

While China itself is a victim of cyber crimes, the country has recently come under frequent criticisms from other countries, including the United States, which claimed the Chinese government was behind some hacking activities targeting their countries.

Reiterating China’s stance of opposing any forms of hacking, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said last week the country hopes to discuss the issue with the Unites States and called for the international community to join efforts to fight hacking.

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Cristina's Pink Champagne Cookies
  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup shortening
  • Liquid red food color
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 cups sifted powder sugar
  • Pinch of table salt
  • Pink Champagne

Preheat oven to 375.
2. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.

3. Reduce champagne in a medium saucepan over high heat until it measures 3/4 cup, about 20 minutes.

4. Chill 1/2 cup reduced champagne; set 1/4 cup aside for the icing.

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1. Whisk together flour and baking powder in a bowl, set aside.

Cream 1/2 cup sugar, shortening and liquid red food color (if desired) in a bowl with a mixer on medium speed.
3. Gradually mix in 1/2 cup reduced champagne.

4. The shortening will look curled. Add flour mixture and mix until incorporated into a soft dough.

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Has any other outfit become quite as popular as the dark knight joker costume at Halloween? Along with the Jack Sparrow pirate costumes and the major Marvel avengers costumes the joker costume has cemented its place as a top 3 pick for Halloween.

Heath Ledgers performance as the Joker was one of the best in any super hero movie ever made. His performance easily contributed towards the flick becoming one of the highest grossing movies of all time. Sadly he passed away before he was able to collect his well earned Oscar but the joker costume that he wore during the movie has enabled fans to allow the character to live on.

Let us not forget though that the Dark Knight Joker costume was not the first one to be seen on screen. The joker costume has been around for decades starting back in the television series and the first Batman movie in 1966.

Here are a number of the joker costumes to pick from when selecting your Halloween fancy dress.

The Dark Knight Joker Costume

No matter how many times we watch the Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, we can never get over just how good Heath Ledgers performance was as Batmans arch enemy. Equally, we loved the joker costume, which has become a Halloween mainstay. The brilliant joker costume (pictured) consists of a long purple trench coat, a blue hexagon design shirt, a green waist coat and dark trousers. Pair the outfit with a good make up or face paint job and you have a great Halloween fancy dress costume.

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The Batman Joker Costume

Jack Nicholson kicked us off with the original Tim Burton movie joker costume way back in 1989 and, although the newer Dark Knight version worn by Heath Ledger has taken over in the main, the older version still does the rounds.

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What can we say about this outfit that hasn’t been said already? Personally, we love it here and still watch the original batman movie on a regular basis. The original Batman costume should be considered for anyone wanting to be slightly more unique as the newer versions are selected more often. This is also the case with the first joker costume to hit the big screen.

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Sometimes you have to let go to grow. Toni Ko has established NYX Professional Makeup from a startup in 1999 to a favorite brand among A-list makeup artists and a fast-growing army of Facebook fans, all without a marketing budget.
Now, Ko is transitioning to the role of chief creative director, and to do so has hired Scott Friedman to serve as CEO of this Los Angeles-based operation, which is named for the Greek goddess of the night.

Under Ko’s direction, Nyx’s growth has been exponential. Although company officials are keeping actual sales figures close to the vest, they say the firm posted a 30% gain in 2009, a 50% increase last year and is on track to deliver another 50% gain in 2011.

Friedman has a history of growing small and medium-sized businesses into larger companies, all while preserving their culture, core values and entrepreneurial spirit, according to Ko and company. He most recently held the lead post at Allegro Mfg., a maker of cosmetics, organizers and electronics, which was sold to Conair in 2007.

NYX has teamed up with the Style Network on a co-branded makeup palette inspired by the network’s No. 1 series “Jerseylicious.”
Friedman’s past success includes bringing brands to big box stores such as Target and Walmart and, as such, his new employer has charged him with the goal of expanding Nyx’s distribution.

Currently, the brand is offered at major retailers, including Ulta, in 40 countries, more than 10,000 beauty supply stores in the US as well as at freestanding stores in Japan, Brazil and Switzerland.

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You know the age-old question: “Who would you take if you were starting a team from scratch?”

No good debate about young players can go on without some version of that question being brought into the mix. In the spirit of that, Craig and Aaron will each be choosing an entire team made up of 24-and-under players. The goal here is to draft the best team for the long haul, starting in 2005 and ending whenever the last guy decides to join Jesse Orosco in retirement (2095, or thereabouts).

The rules are simple and just slightly longer than those for Fight Club:
– Craig and Aaron alternate picking first at each position.
– Each player they pick must be 24 years old or younger in “baseball years” this season.
– Each player must play the/a position they actually play currently or in the very near future (in other words, no Albert Pujols at third base).
– Money and contracts are not an issue.
– They start picking at 9 (right field) and move down to 1 (pitcher).
– They’ll each pick a starter and a reliever, for ten positions total.

It’s that simple. And away we go …

TEAM      #     PLAYER                   REAL TEAM                AGE
Aaron     1     B.J. Upton               Tampa Bay Devil Rays     19
Craig     2     Juan Uribe               Chicago White Sox        24

AARON: When we first started this draft of ours, I thought shortstop would be one of the spots where I picked up a big advantage. I figured you had quite a few positions of strength over me (two of which we’ve already covered — left field and right field), but that by taking B.J. Upton, my #2 prospect in all of baseball, I would even things out a bit here. When the time came to actually pick our shortstops, however, I wasn’t so sure.

My second choice at shortstop, the guy I thought you’d be ending up with, is Bobby Crosby. I thought very highly of Crosby prior to the season, ranking him just behind Upton at #6 overall (in fact, a lot of people thought that ranking was too high). After watching Crosby’s first half-season in the big leagues and after seeing the sort of numbers he’s put up offensively after a rough first month, his stock has gone up quite a bit in my mind.

At the same time, Upton is playing extremely well in the minors this year, which is why I’m sticking with him despite being convinced that Crosby is a future star (and perhaps already one). If they were the same age, I would take Crosby. However, Upton is just one step behind him and he’s nearly five years younger than Crosby, which is just huge on a development and projection level. What do you think? I had to take Upton, right?

CRAIG: First of all, let me say that I agree that Upton would also have been my #1 choice. Usually I’ll take the “bird in the hand” of an established major leaguer over the prospect still in the bushes, but Upton’s case is too strong to ignore. I would say that he, along with David Wright (very difficult to separate the two), is one of the two best prospects in baseball right now.

My choice, with the second pick, is a difficult one, but not at all an unpleasant one. There aren’t (outside of Upton) any shortstops out there who look likely to supplant the American League’s Big Four (temporarily a Big Three, with Alex Rodriguez playing the ancient role of The King Over The Water). But there are a large number of excellent young shortstops and shortstop prospects to consider.

To name just the few I considered, there is San Diego’s Khalil Greene, Oakland’s Bobby Crosby, LA’s Cesar Izturis, Milwaukee prospect J.J. Hardy, and Juan Uribe of the White Sox. Of these five, Hardy is 21 and the other four are all 24.

To sum each player up in a couple of sentences …

Greene — Greene’s senior year at Clemson in 2002 was one of the great college seasons of all-time, as he massacred NCAA pitching. Greene was already in San Diego in his second pro season last year and flashed a little power. He has shown doubles power this year and has a good on-base percentage, and is starting to show up regularly on the highlight reels, making a few spectacular-looking plays at short.

Izturis — Known to fans everywhere from his weekly appearances on ESPN highlight reels, Izturis is (on defense) as impressive on a day-to-day basis as he is at his very best. I know this well, having seen him in Toronto before his trade to the Dodgers. With the stick, Izturis has potential, and no more than that. He hit brutally in his first two full seasons, but has broken out somewhat this season.

Crosby — A superb hitter. Crosby’s Major League Equivalency (MLE) from 2003 would have made him one of the best shortstop hitters in baseball — at the age of 23. He hasn’t disappointed this season, hitting .273/.331/.476 taking over for Miguel Tejada, and has 31 extra-base hits in half a season. In the field, he’s been serviceable.

Hardy — The young pup here at the age of 21, he is unfortunately lost for the season from surgery on what turned out to be a torn labrum. Originally, Hardy’s injury was thought to be a separated shoulder — it was a lot more serious. He was hitting very well at Triple-A Indianapolis (.277/.336/.495) before the injury, and had also hit well at 20 in the Double-A Southern League. But what he’s earned the most plaudits for is his defensive ability, with great instincts and a cannon arm.

Uribe — Easy to forget after toiling for three years in the media desert of Colorado, Uribe is a defensive standout who has held his own (more or less) with the bat — playing in Coors Field makes it hard to tell. He’s hitting much better this season (now with the White Sox), though playing mostly as a second baseman. Make no mistake, this guy’s a shortstop and one of the game’s very best. His .282/.338/.491 figures make anyone sit up and take notice.

I would think that if a poll were taken about these players’ futures, the verdict would likely be 1) Crosby 2) Hardy 3) Greene 4) Izturis 5) Uribe. So it should be no surprise that I’m taking the contrarian position — my selection is Juan Uribe.

AARON: Okay, so it turns out neither of us is getting Crosby. This is definitely the first major curveball of this draft. Oh, and by the way, you’re insane for taking Uribe over Crosby. That’s not hyperbole, either. I actually think you are insane.

CRAIG: Why Uribe? The answer is simple … defense defense defense. I have always viewed shortstop as a defensive position first and foremost, and Uribe is one of the very best defenders in baseball. His defensive numbers at shortstop are consistently among the very best.

He has averaged 14 runs above average per 162 games for the past four seasons according to Ultimate Zone Rating (UZR) — a simply superb record. For all his flash, Izturis rates at five runs above average over the same period. Crosby and Greene just don’t have a particularly strong record of defensive numbers in the minors (or so far this season) to indicate that they will be more than major-league average shortstops. No matter what method of analysis you adopt, Uribe looks about a dozen runs, maybe more, above what the other 24-year-old guys can do on a yearly basis.

How about Hardy? Hardy’s defense is his #1 asset, and his upside is probably higher than Uribe’s. Two signs worry me though. One is his foot speed, which is consistently rated below average. Foot speed doesn’t count for a lot at shortstop, but it counts for something, and if Hardy’s below average now he might grade out very badly at 25 or 26. The second worry is his labrum surgery; if he doesn’t come back as good as he was, and that cannon arm loses some of its zip, he may be a much less effective defender.

AARON: From what I’ve seen of Uribe, both at second base and at shortstop, he looks very good defensively. And, like you, I am a big fan of UZR for judging defensive contributions. With that said, a shortstop, no matter how much you think of it as a defensive position, still has to hit.

Once upon a time, after Uribe hit .300/.325/.524 as a 21-year-old with the Rockies in 2001, I drafted him very high (or, more accurately, bid a high amount on him) in one of my Diamond-Mind leagues (one you also happen to be in). He looked to me like a future stud who would not only put up big numbers thanks to Coors Field, but who would legitimately be an impact hitter at shortstop.

Now it’s a few years later and, just to show you how far Uribe’s stock has fallen in my mind, I wasn’t convinced enough by his strong first-half to even vote him onto my hypothetical American League All-Star team.

That’s not to say Uribe hasn’t turned the corner, just that it’s hard for me to ignore a guy who, over the course of two seasons, hit .245/.290/.372 while playing half his games in Coors Field. In fact, during his time with Colorado (2001-2003), Uribe hit .288/.324/.468 at Coors Field and .227/.271/.345 on the road. That looks a little too close to what Neifi Perez did as Colorado’s shortstop and what he’s done since for my taste.

Look how eerily similar their career numbers are …

                         AVG      OBP      SLG      OPS      GPA
Uribe at Coors          .288     .324     .468     .792     .263
Perez at Coors          .320     .344     .480     .824     .275
Uribe not at Coors      .245     .290     .394     .684     .229
Perez not at Coors      .238     .275     .320     .595     .204

Now, I’m not saying Uribe’s in the same class as Neifi when it comes to stinking as a hitter, because frankly no one is. That said, the fact that he has a .684 OPS and a .229 GPA in his career outside of Coors Field is very discouraging to me. Uribe’s still young enough to make major improvements as a player, and I certainly think he’s better than a .229 GPA guy, but those are just awful, awful numbers. And really, his .792 OPS and .263 GPA at Coors Field stinks too.

Of course, Uribe hasn’t played any games on Planet Coors this year and he’s hitting .282/.338/.491, so what do I know?

CRAIG: I need to defend my guy here, because while I’ve talked defense (and my team needs a defensive anchor in the worst way; my outfield of Adam Dunn and Miguel Cabrera on the corners with Laynce Nix in center isn’t going to help the pitcher a lot), I haven’t addressed the obvious question, which is why I’m going with a guy with career numbers as bad as what you just showed.

First of all, let’s use a 2004 baseline to get a handle on the four 24-year-olds. As of right now, Uribe has a .278 Equivalent Average (EqA) in 311 plate appearances, Crosby has a .278 EqA in 291 PAs, Greene a .273 EqA in 300 PAs, and Izturis a .257 EqA in 337 PAs. Their current offensive production is very, very close.

The problem is that Uribe has a familiar backstory, hitting poorly for two years in Colorado (after a good rookie year). Meanwhile, Crosby was enjoying a relatively anonymous first full year as a pro, before exploding on the scene in 2003 with a great year in Sacramento at Triple-A. Greene, meanwhile, was using a metal bat in 2002, before playing an abbreviated season in the California League, then zooming through three levels in 2003.

Uribe’s 2002 and 2003 performances weren’t hugely worse than Crosby’s or Greene’s; they were just different, because they were happening at the big-league level. It looks better to hit .295, as Crosby did in 2002, than to hit .240, as Uribe did. But Coors Field or no, Uribe faced the greater challenge.

Going forward, I think Crosby will be the better hitter. But I think it’s close; close enough to justify picking Uribe on the strength of his defense.

AARON: I’ll grant that credit should be given to a young player for simply playing in the majors and not making a complete fool of himself. That said, the argument you’re using with Uribe sounds an awful lot like the one I’ve been trying to fight against with Luis Rivas. Being young and struggling in the majors is one thing, but doing it for multiple years is another issue (and doing it for multiple years while playing games in Coors Field is yet another).

But enough about Uribe and Crosby. I just realized I’ve barely said anything about the guy we both agree is the elite young shortstop in baseball right now. The interesting thing is that I suspect Upton will make his major-league debut this season, at the age of 19, so we’ll get to put that whole “young player simply being in the majors is a good thing” theory to the test with him, too.

Upton has the total package. He is extraordinarily young, he hits for high batting averages, takes tons of walks, shows good power, has great speed, and plays what most people think is good defense (despite very high error totals).

Upton started this year at Double-A, played 29 games there, and was promoted to Triple-A. Combining his numbers at both stops, you get the following …

 G      AVG      OBP      SLG     2B     HR     BB     SO     SB     CS
77     .320     .419     .516     15     13     48     84     16      2

Those are just incredible numbers for a guy who turns 20 in August and is playing in the high minors. The strikeouts are higher than I’d like to see, but it’s hard to argue with anything else. Projected out to a full season, you get around 30 doubles, 25 homers, 100 walks and 30 stolen bases. And he hit .297 with 44 extra-base hits and 40 stolen bases in 130 games at Single-A last year.

He still needs to cut down on his errors, but as I showed in my write-up of Upton prior to this season, it’s not unusual for a young shortstop to make a ton of errors at such a young age. Upton has 28 errors in 68 games at shortstop so far this year, which works out to 62 errors per 150 games played. When Derek Jeter was 19, he made 66 errors per 150 games, while Miguel Tejada made 53 per 150.

Even if Uribe proves me wrong and you right, and puts it together at the plate in addition to his fielding, I still think having Upton gives me a huge edge. He’s the best prospect in baseball, and he’s all mine!

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POSITION            CRAIG                    AARON
Right Field         Miguel Cabrera (1)       Austin Kearns (2)
Center Field        Laynce Nix (2)           Rocco Baldelli (1)
Left Field          Adam Dunn (1)            Jeremy Reed (2)
Shortstop           Juan Uribe (2)           B.J. Upton (1)
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Toshiba Launches the Satellite P50t with 4K Touch Display

Toshiba Launches the Satellite P50t with 4K Touch Display

 Toshiba unveiled the Satellite P50t in January at CES. It is one of the first 4K notebooks in the world.

Toshiba has announced the availability and price of the new Satellite P50t, one of the two 4K notebooks unveiled at CES earlier this year. The P50t features a 15.6-inch 10-finger touch display at Ultra HD resolution (3840 x 2160), translating to a whopping 282 ppi. It is also the first notebook display to be Technicolor certified for true-to-life color reproduction, an important consideration for users who work with lots of graphic and video processing. For average consumers, Toshiba is targeting frequent online shoppers to better predict the color of the item they buy.

Powering the display is an AMD Radeon R9 M265X graphics chip with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM. The notebook is also able to drive a 4K external monitor or TV via HDMI. Toshiba has bundled ChromaTune software with preset configurations for easy switching between warm and cool tones depending on day or night viewing.

The Toshiba P50t displays content on a 4K TV via HDMI with no noticeable lag whatsoever - works like a charm as if you were mirroring standard full HD content.

The audio set up is nothing to sniff at either. Similar to the previous generation P50, it houses Harmon Kardon stereo speakers for enjoying high quality sound. Toshiba's in-built Sleep & Music feature also allows users to take advantage of the speakers and play music from their mp3 player or smartphone, even when the laptop is switched off.

Built for multimedia consumption, the P50t runs on a 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor with up to 16GB DDR3L RAM. A Hybrid 1TB HDD and 8GB SSD will give you both storage and speed, and an optical drive for DVD reading/writing (no Blu-ray though).

The Toshiba Satellite P50t will retail from S$2,799. Toshiba also refreshed the non-touch P50 model which is available from S$1,999 (up from S$1,699 in last year's model). Although it only features a full HD screen, key updates to the P50 include an AMD Radeon R9 M265X graphics chip, four USB 3.0 ports and removal of the VGA port. Both models are available today.

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