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Film: A Place at the Table
7:00p.m.-9:00p.m.
Hugel 103
50 million people in the U.S.-one in four children-don't know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine this issue through the lens of three people who are struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a single Philadelphia mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a better life for her two kids; Rosie, a Colorado fifth-grader who often has to depend on friends and neighbors to feed her and has trouble concentrating in school; and Tremonica, a Mississippi second-grader whose asthma and health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford.
Ultimately, A Place at the Table shows us how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides-as they have in the past-that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of us all.
Sponsored by: Government and Law, Engineering Studies, The Programs in Environmental Science and Environmental Studies, and LEAP


The market seems to be saturated with post-apocalyptic shooters these days, and only the prominent name of iD software was able to garner much hype surrounding the release of RAGE. Amazingly, the legendary developers have managed to carve out their own unique nook in the world of post apocalyptic shooters, and this can only be attributed to the fractured nature of the game. RAGE almost feels like two games glued together; a fast-paced and linear corridor shooter with great atmosphere, gunplay and enemy AI, and a bloated, tedious open world racing game that plays like a pointless MMO. These two separate entities have been patched together in RAGE, and the result is an experience that has as much inconsistency as it has character.
The backdrop for the brown-grey wasteland the game takes place in is that a large meteor fell to earth and destroyed everything. A select group of people were buried in underground 'arcs' in order to survive the disaster. You play as one of these survivors, and awake long after the meteor has made impact finding that the remnants of civilization have formed into a series of segregated groups, with the mysterious Encla... pardon 'Authority' holding the most power. A vague story about joining the resistance and fighting the Authority in order to free remaining arc survivors falls flat, and it is the prospect of the next firefight rather than the progression of the story that will have you wanting to continue.
The first few hours of RAGE are structured similarly to Borderlands. You go to a town hub, talk to sign posts disguised as characters, receive quests, complete the quests, then return for a cash reward. The early missions are short and simple, and paint an ugly picture of the game since these tasks usually involve more driving than shooting. Driving makes up a significant portion of the open-world parts of RAGE, and you will also have the opportunity to compete in races. The car handling is extremely basic, but the addition of vehicle combat makes things slightly more interesting. Still, the driving in RAGE is more prominent than it should be, since the Races are pitifully easy and the novelty of vehicular combat wears thin quickly. After the first couple hours of the game I found myself simply ignoring the races and driving past most enemies.
Once the majority of the mechanics in RAGE have been introduced, you will start on some longer, more interesting quests. Once you drive to a quest and load into a new area, RAGE becomes an entirely different game. The tone of the music changes, the lighting becomes much more dramatic, and you get to spend some time with the game's awesome combat model. You are given a good variety of weapons to kill with, ranging from the standard shotguns and assault rifles to more interesting weapons like the cross bow. The weapons themselves aren't terribly exciting, but you are given several ammo types for most guns that are useful in different situations. The cross-bow, for instance, has electrified bolts which electrocute enemies, and dynamite bolts that explode after being stuck into foes. All of the weapons feel powerful and have a good kick to them, but it is the enemy AI that really makes the combat enjoyable.
The same thing occured to me, if they had taken the resources that went into developiong town hubs and vehicle combat into fleshing out the linear levels and improving the story, RAGE could have been a lot better.
I didn't like it much, disappointing even after I got it running well.If they just made a linear fps with the combat Rage had, I probably would have liked it more.
Rage is ranked #1033 out of 1434 total reviewed games. It is ranked #104 out of 112 games reviewed in 2011.


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Amareleja é uma freguesia portuguesa do município de Moura, na região do Alentejo, com 108,34 km² de área<ref>{{citar web|url= http://www.dgterritorio.pt/ficheiros/cadastro/caop/caop_download/caop_2013_0/areasfregmundistcaop2013_2|título= Carta Administrativa Oficial de Portugal CAOP 2013|publicado= IGP Instituto Geográfico Português|acessodata= 10 de dezembro de 2013|notas= descarrega ficheiro zip/Excel|arquivourl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131209063645/http://www.dgterritorio.pt/static/repository/2013-11/2013-11-07143457_b511271f-54fe-4d21-9657-24580e9b7023$$DB4AC44F-9104-4FB9-B0B8-BD39C56FD1F3$$43EEE1F5-5E5A-4946-B458-BADF684B3C55$$file$$pt$$1.zip|arquivodata= 2013-12-09|urlmorta= yes}}</ref> e 2030 habitantes (censo de 2021). A sua densidade populacional é . A sede é a vila homónima de Amareleja.

É famosa pelos constantes recordes de temperatura máxima (47.4 °C). Durante muitos anos, até ao século XX, por causa da sua área, foi considerada a maior aldeia de Portugal. O vinho, o queijo branco de ovelha e o porto preto local são parte da culinária de Amareleja. A freguesia possuía em tempos a maior central mundial de energia solar. Está próxima da albufeira do Alqueva, do rio Ardila e do Castelo de Noudar.

 Etimologia
Em 10 de abril de 1677, o então padre da freguesia escreveu no termo de abertura de um livro de registo de visitas: "Freguesia de nossa Sª. de Concepsao de Marileiga …". Data de 1 de Abril de 1695, um documento que se refere ao "lugar de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Mareleja".

Outra opinião diz que o nome surgiu devido à abundância de flores amarelas nos campos circundantes, pelo que os primeiros povoadores (possivelmente pastores da Beira Baixa) lhe chamavam "Campo das Amarelas" .

Ainda hoje existem duas propriedades entre a povoação e a fronteira de Espanha, cujos nomes são Amarelas e Amarela.

 História
Embora os documentos paroquiais referentes ao lugar datem de 1534, Amareleja  já consta nos censos de D. João III (realizados em 1527).Segundo o que se lê em "Portugal Restaurado - Luís de Meneses - Conde de Ericeira, Lisboa 1751", já pelas Guerras da Restauração, Amareleja foi vítima de pilhagens de inimigos castelhanos.

Os documentos paroquiais existentes na Torre do Tombo são referentes a 1793. No livro de visitas pastorais, foi lançada uma ordem do Bispo de Beja, em 23 de dezembro de 1773, para lhe serem enviados os livros de baptismos e matrimónios, livros estes que desapareceram, não permitindo apurar a sua idade.

Várias descobertas arqueológicas como, antas, sepulturas tipo Cromeleque, pinturas rupestres, machados de sílex, vestígios de fundição de metais, sepulturas da Idade do Bronze, sepulturas escavadas na rocha, quase sempre descobertas ao acaso, aquando de trabalhos agrícolas ou de construção de estradas, são sinais evidentes da permanência ou passagem de gerações de tempos muito mais recuados.

Também apareceram vestígios da civilização romana, tais como o pavimento de uma habitação, sepulturas com tampa circular que continham tigelas e fragmentos de lacrimal, moedas de Cláudio, fragmentos de tégulas, pedras de atafona, pedras de moinhos manuais. No Barranco de Valtamujo existem restos de uma ponte romana, que possivelmente daria ligação com outra existente no rio Ardila e perto do porto do Castelo. Esta ponte daria passagem aos moradores das margens de Vale de Navarro onde se encontram muitos vestígios de vida antiga.

No reinado de D. Sancho II, Moura (atual sede de município que integra a freguesia de Amareleja) foi conquistada aos Mouros e estabelecida em senhorio, segundo o regime feudal.

D. Sancho II entregou a Vila de Moura aos cavaleiros da Ordem do Hospital. Estes cavaleiros deixaram assinaladas em Amareleja a sua passagem e presença, podendo ainda as marcas da ordem ser vistas em marcos que possuem a sua cruz.

É de admitir, assim, que a formação das primeiras habitações tivessem a influência da Ordem do Hospital e de outros grandes senhores, visto que estes favoreciam a aglomeração de pastores e rebanhos vindos de várias partes do reino. Esta aglomeração não era mais que o juntar das suas malhadas e seu aperfeiçoamento, até virem a formar como que um "monte alentejano", cujo local teria sido o sítio ainda hoje chamado "Montinho" ou a parte da Vila denominada "aldeia velha".

Pensa-se que na reunião das Cortes da Cidade de Évora em novembro de 1481, o povo,  por meio dos seus procuradores, determinou a criação de capelas e hospitais que se repartiam pelas diversas comarcas do reino. Teria sido nesta altura que o lugar "Mareleja" veio a ser provido de assistência religiosa.

Mas, dados ou referências não vão além de 1527. Verifica-se em documentos desta altura, relativos ao censo realizado a mandado de D. João III, que o lugar já tinha 55 fogos. Podemos dar um período de cerca de duzentos anos para a criação destes 55 fogos, visto que as condições de vida não eram favoráveis para um desenvolvimento rápido.

Podemos afirmar que pelos fins do século XV as necessidades religiosas destas pessoas levou à construção da Igrejinha de Santo António que é considerado o Padroeiro dos Gados. Esta pequena igreja foi construída num pequeno outeiro a relativa distância dos lugares chamados "Montinho" e "aldeia velha".

Em 4 de abril de 1990 surgiu o Projeto de Lei nº 513/V que visava a elevação de Amareleja a vila. Mas, havia uma contrariedade, o número de eleitores - 2758 - era inferior aos 3000 exigidos por lei. Em 8 de setembro, do mesmo ano, foi discutido na Assembleia da República que a insuficiência de eleitores devia-se ao descuido dos eleitores que não se recenseavam. Finalmente, em 20 de junho de 1991, a Assembleia da República aprovou o Projeto de Lei, publicado a 16 de agosto. No ano seguinte, comemorou-se o aniversário da elevação de Amareleja a vila com um festival aéreo.

 Demografia
A população registada nos censos foi:

Nota: Por decreto de 24/05/1888 foi desanexada desta freguesia a de Estrela e incluida na freguesia de Póvoa de S. Miguel''

Indústria
No final de 2008 entrou em funcionamento a Central Solar Fotovoltaica de Amareleja, a maior do mundo com 46 MW de potência e que produz 93 milhões de kWh por ano.

Personalidades
 Eunice Muñoz (1928-2022), atriz
 Francisco Martins Ramos (1943-2017), professor e antropólogo
 Ana Arrebentinha - Humorista, atriz e apresentadora de televisão

Ligações externas

 Percurso Pedestre "PR1 MRA Rota do Sol"

Freguesias de Moura

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Armod was born in the back streets to an unwed and unsupported mother. Raised in the cheap taverns of Gorna with the occasional guidance of his mother's current paramour, Armod showed his wilful streak early. Lacking the parental attention he craved, found identity and gain self-esteem among the violent life of the thieves, urchins, and street rats of Gorna instead.
This was nearly his downfall. In the summer of his 17th year, Armod was arrested and incarcerated for his suspected murder of another Gorna youth during a gang turf scuffle. The authorities were unable to prove it, but slapped him with a hefty fine. Lacking funds, Armod was ordered to serve a period of indentured servitude.
Ironically, he was indentured to the Royal Forge's swordsmith, which served the Gorna militia as well as a great portion of the Geoff military. Armod applied himself completely to his charge, learning much of the craft of swordsmithing and eventually attaining journeyman status. Two years later he joined the Army of Geoff. To him, Gregor's 1st Pikemen was much like the gang in which he grew up: there were leaders and underlings, a struggle for territory, and a feeling of pride. Most of all, there was discipline to go with that sense of adventure. Armod had the best of both worlds. Within three years he achieved the rank of Lieutenant, second in command to Captain Ambrose Gregor. As Gregor's accolades piled up so too did Edric's, and eventually he became a Captain himself.
The tale of Commander Gregor's valiant aid during the fall of Fort Resolve is well known, but Armod's role was no less instrumental. He was called upon to take charge of the Pikemen, serving as a rear guard for Tynnhyr's main column and a shield against humanoid raiders. His exemplary service in this role earned him the Harrowfyst family's Gauntlets of Ogre Power, as well as command of the reorganized pikemen when Gregor was given leadership of The halberdiers. Out of honour for his mentor, Armod chose to maintain the attachment of Gregor's name to the unit.
Armod looks older than his real age. His balanced outlook is a product of his experiences. It has served him well, allowing him to remain calm in the face of adversity, stalwart in the pursuit of his goals, joyful when the situation warrants and stoic when it does not. Candid and open, he is well-liked -- one always knows where they stand with Edric. He is a man who learned much from the significant mistakes of his youth, and the lessons of his life have prepared him well for the challenges ahead.
Armod possesses little magic aside from his unit's armor of rank, the Harrowfyst family's Gauntlets of Ogre Power, and a Pike +1.
A survivor of the "March of the Thousand," Edric Armod is now a Commander in Duke Owen's Free Geoffite Army.


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Q: What is the overall idea of Galois theory? I am a third year undergraduate, doing a course on Field and Galois theory. Now, while I seem to understand most of the concepts locally, I do not seem to get the 'Whole picture' of what is happening in Galois theory, and things seem to be a bit disconnected. I would be grateful if some could help me get an overall picture of the subject. The whole, I believe, is greater than the sum of its parts.
I am familiar with the concepts of field theory, such as extensions, separability, splitting fields, finite fields and all the other basic concepts you would expect to know to study Galois theory, and also have a fair understanding of the main concepts of Galois theory. I just dont get the whole picture. Thanks.

A: Galois theory is a branch of abstract algebra that gives a connection between field theory and group theory, by reducing field theoretic problems to group theoretic problems.
It started out by using permutation groups to give a description of how various roots of a polynomial equation are related, but nowadays, Galois theory has expanded to involve automorphisms of field extensions.
It was motivated by looking for the roots of fifth degree polynomials in terms of the coefficients of the polynomial using algebraic operations and the application of radicals. Galois answered this question and gave us a method for examining/checking that an equation higher degree can be solved in this way.
The epitome of Galois theory is the fundamental theorem of Galois theory. It describes the structure of field extensions. It says that for a finite and Galois field extension $E/F,$ there is a one-to-one correspondence between its intermediate fields and subgroups of its Galois group.
Does that help?

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Although the 1947 Allegro, Rodgers & Hammerstein's third musical following their megahits Oklahoma! and Carousel, has gone down in the history books as a flop, it actually ran 315 performances on Broadway, a respectable run even today. In fact, it has great historical significance: it is usually credited as the first concept musical with its Greek chorus and no sets and was a tremendous influence on the young Stephen Sondheim who was a gofer on the production. It is also the first musical to use one person as both director and choreographer, in this case Agnes de Mille who had created only the ballets for the team's two earlier collaborations.
The book for the second act has always been considered the problem with the show implying that country life was less phony or bourgeois than city life: at the time of his death, Hammerstein was working on a revised version which remains unfinished. Aside from the 1994 City Center Encores! concert staging as part of its first season, Allegro has not had a major New York revival until now as the second installment of the Classic Stage Company's Musical Theater Initiative. John Doyle, the Tony Award winning director who has staged revivals of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Company, Passion and the New York premiere of Road Show, has edited the two act musical down to a brisk 90 minutes without intermission and reduced the cast size (rumored to have been anywhere between 65 and 150) down to ten actors who also play their own musical instruments, a technique which has become something of a Doyle trademark.
Allegro was inspired by Thornton Wilder's Our Town which also uses no scenery and uses the actors as a chorus commenting on the action. Aside from the actors all playing stringed instruments when the show begins (as well as other instruments in the course of the show such as piano, clarinets, oboe, etc.) in Mary-Mitchell Campbell's folksy new orchestrations, they remain on stage throughout as they both narrate and give advice to its hero Joseph Taylor, Jr. The plot delineates the life of Joe, Jr. from 1905 until his mid-life crisis at age 42. We follow Joe from birth to Dr. Joseph Taylor, Sr. and his wife Marjorie, through childhood, falling in love with neighbor Jenny, his early interest in medicine and following in his father's footsteps, and state college. He begins his career as a small town doctor working for his father, but under his wife prodding, he relocates to a practice among the rich and well-heeled in Chicago. There he has his crisis of integrity and wishes to go back to real medicine and helping people, rather than fund raising and attending cocktail parties.
The theme (which was close to Hammerstein's heart) was "what does it profit a man if he gains the world and loses his soul," a message that is perennially worth stating, though the musical at the CSC seems a bit naive. Doyle has given Allegro a lovely spare production. However, in his edited version which eliminates some dialogue and minor characters as well as all of De Mille's elaborate ballets, he has also pared the story to the bone so that at times both motivation and characterization suffer. The use of the chorus (both spoken and singing) to comment on the action works well, although at times the doubling is a little confusing. The impassioned "The Gentleman Is a Dope" remains the score's most famous song but there are many other unfamiliar gems that ought to be better known: the lilting "A Fellow Needs A Girl," the melodic "So Far," the witty "Money Isn't Everything," and the catchy title song.
The stripped-down production includes 1920's and 30's costumes by Ann Hould-Ward, atmospheric lighting by Jane Cox, lucid sound design by Dan Moses Schreier, lovely music direction by Campbell as well as the unobtrusive overall design by Doyle. While the CSC production does not restore Allegro to the top-drawer of the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon, it does make a case for it as a very lovely show that deserves a hearing. The rarely heard score is a real treat as there are rumored to be almost no R & H trunk songs so that new songs are not likely to be discovered.


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Middle East & Africa | Divided Jerusalem
An Arab haven dissected
An Arab village is asked to bow to the wishes of Jewish settlers
Feb 16th 2013 | EAST JERUSALEM
BEIT SAFAFA, Arabic for "summertime home", was the only one of some 40 Arab villages in the district of West Jerusalem to survive the war of 1948 that created Israel; the others were more or less emptied of their inhabitants, who mostly fled the killing and found their return barred by the victorious Israelis. As a result, the people of Beit Safafa have generally been loyal to the state of Israel. Many of its townsfolk welcomed the 1967 war, when Israel captured what was left of Palestine, because it reunited the town which for 20 years had been divided by the armistice line running down the middle of it. When other Palestinians rose up in protest against Israel's occupation of the entire city, Beit Safafa remained a picture of harmony.
No longer. To speed up their travel from dwellings in the West Bank south of Jerusalem, Israel's settlers have persuaded the government to plough a six-lane motorway (in some places it has ten lanes) through the Arab-populated town. Once the road is complete, the settlers will be able to drive from the West Bank to central Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial capital on the coast, without having to go through a traffic light. To make way for the motorway, which will slice through a community 9,000-strong, bulldozers demolish olive groves, terraces and caves hugging Bethlehem's foothills.
For the Palestinian townsfolk who once championed integration with their Jewish fellow citizens, the motorway is a bitter blow. Israel has already built one highway through the town, naming it after Dov Yosef, the first Israeli military governor of Jerusalem, and has also built a large Jewish settlement called Gilo and an industrial zone on the slopes above. As part of his recent election campaign, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, promised to build thousands more housing units and a string of hotels on what Arabs call Tabaliya and Jews Givat Matos, the last unsettled hilltop overlooking Beit Safafa.
"They just want us out," says an architect, who has spent his career working with Jerusalem's municipal authorities. The town's muezzin calls for strikes and protests as well as prayers. Worshippers leaving the main mosque tell glum tales of confiscated land.
Before the municipality approves such big building projects in the Jewish-inhabited districts of Jerusalem, it has to submit a detailed plan, routinely holding public consultations to hear objections. But the residents of Beit Safafa awoke in November to find bulldozers digging outside their homes. Belatedly they headed to court, but the judge allowed work to continue while she pondered her ruling and then rejected the petition. Police have broken up demonstrations and handcuffed protesters for what the municipality calls vandalism.
Walls as high as first-floor windows are to be built to shield residents. The municipality says it will cover 180 metres of the road, but has rejected pleas for a tunnel. "They could never dissect a Jewish neighbourhood the same way," says Meir Margalit, one of the few Jewish councillors to have rallied to the residents' cause.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline "An Arab haven dissected"
Middle East & Africa February 16th 2013
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Canon LVII. (Greek lxi.)
That persons baptized when children by the Donatists may be ordained clergymen in the Catholic Church.
Since in the former council it was decreed, as your unanimity remembers as well as I do, that those who as children were baptized by the Donatists, and not yet being able to know the pernicious character of their error, and afterward when they had come to the use of reason, had received the knowledge of the truth, abhorred their former error, and were received, (in accordance with the ancient order) by the imposition of the hand, into the Catholic Church of God spread throughout the world, that to such the remembrance of the error ought to be no impediment to the reception of the clerical office. For in coming to faith they thought the true Church to be their own and there they believed in Christ, and received the sacraments of the Trinity. And that all these sacraments are altogether true and holy and divine is most certain, and in them the whole hope of the soul is placed, although the presumptuous audacity of heretics, taking to itself the name of the truth, dares to administer them. They are but one after all, as the blessed Apostle tells us, saying: "One God, one faith, one baptism," and it is not lawful to reiterate what once only ought to be administered. [Those therefore who have been so baptized] having anathematized their error may be received by the imposition of the hand into the one Church, the pillar as it is called, and the one mother of all Christians, where all these Sacraments are received unto salvation and everlasting life; even the same sacraments which obtain for those persevering in heresy the heavy penalty of damnation. So that which to those who are in the truth lighteneth to the obtaining of eternal life, the same to them who are in error tends but to darkness and damnation. With regard then to those who, having fled from error, acknowledge the breasts of their mother the Catholic Church, who believe and receive all these holy mysteries with the love of the truth, and besides the Sacraments have the testimony of a good life, there is no one who would not grant that without doubt such persons may be raised to the clerical office, especially in such necessity as the present. But there are others of this sect, who being already clergymen, desire to pass to us with their peoples and also with their honours, such as for the sake of office are converts to life, and that they may retain them seek for salvation [i.e., enter the Church]. I think that the question concerning such may be left to the graver consideration of our afore472said brothers, and that when they have considered by their more prudent counsel the matter referred to them, they may vouchsafe to advise us what approves itself to them with regard to this question. Only concerning those who as children were baptized by heretics we decree that they consent, if it seems good, to our decision concerning the ordination of the same. All things, therefore, which we have set forth above with the holy bishops, let your honourable fraternity with me adjudge to be done.
Ancient Epitome of Canon LVII.
Such as have been while children baptized by the Donatists may be ordained should they repent, anathematize their heresy, and be otherwise worthy.
Of the three Introductions to Carthaginian Councils which precede this canon, the first refers to the synod held June 26, a.d. 397; the second to that held April 27, a.d. 399; and the third to that of June 15 (or 16), a.d. 401.
The canon is Canon j. of the Synod of Carthage of June 15 (or 16), a.d. 401. The eight other canons of this synod follow in the African Code in their own order.
See Can. 47, which was made in a former synod.


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est un sanctuaire shintô (神社, jinja) situé dans la ville de Misato, dans la préfecture de Miyazaki, au Japon.

Ce sanctuaire est dédié, entre autres, au kami Ohoyamatumi.

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Apple Accuses HTC Of Stealing Their iPhone Interface, Sues
Brian Crecente
Mar 3, 2010, 1:38am
The iPhone is such a great interface for phone calls, mobile office work and gaming that Apple claims that competitor HTC stole it when they made their own smart phone.
Apple today filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone's user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the US International Trade Commission and in US District Court in Delaware.
"We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."
Apple released the iPhone in 2007 and the App Store in 2008. The store now offers more than 150,000 mobile applications in over 90 countries. Over 40 million iPhones have been sold worldwide.
Peter Richards Guest
I had been surprised that so many phones were out that look and run so much like the iphone that as a user you can jump on the other and use the same gestures and effectively the same interface, and that apple had been quiet.
I remember the iphone launch and Jobs pointing out that we 'patented the hell out of this thing' or something along those lines.
WIll be interesting to see which of the patents can actually hold up. There is no doubt that a lot of current phones and other touch devices 'borrow' very heavily from the iphone design, interface and navigation, but as to whether apple can lay claim to those things, I guess we are about to find out. The other phone companies will be looking on nervously.
Mar 3, 2010, 11:29am
This is more of a stab at android than at HTC from the looks of all the patents.
However most of the patents are extremely broad and i can't see them winning. Some of the patents are also very recent such as one on February 2 so they are claiming that a phone that was made before they got a patent was infringing their patent.
I don't have a problem with companies patenting their inventions but when they patent something like "Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image" which isn't innovative or original on their part. I had a Ericsson phone years ago which did that, long before the iphone. No it wasn't touch screen but it had a touch area on the screen for unlocking.
Apple really needs to stop getting patents for things that are not innovative or original.
Richard Jones Guest
Mar 3, 2010, 1:36pm
The issues you raise in your comments don't really matter. Apple has been granted the patents. The onus is on HTC to prove they do not infringe on those patents, otherwise they lose.
Patents are for new inventions, granted if HTC did infringe on patents they should pay. However the patents are too broad to be applied to anything. Also how can you breach a patent when it didn't exist when you were producing your product?
This is just apple trying to strong arm the competition. They are attacking android however going after the weakest link which is HTC in the hopes of scaring off other companies from using androids platform.
Adrian Verna Guest
Has anyone noticed how similar the iPhone's desktop is to the Wii's desktop?
Jay Guest
Some people seriously need to releax. Although I find Apple's suit to be a load of garbage and will be settled out of court or even thrown in the bin cause it won't hold up in court...
DOES IT REALLY MATTER.
WILL IT REALLY AFFECT YOUR REVENUE AND SALES.
Some people should just live life. Everything is copyright this and patent that. Classify this and Ban that.
GET OVER IT. The world is f'd cause of people like this. You can't even wear something these days without someone putting their name on it and suing you.
Seems you can sue someone for breathing in the Carbon Dioxide you just exhaled. Work that out!


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Materialistic Moral Compasses
Jan 6, 2006 by American Vision Leave a Comment
Liberal politics is at a crossroads. Humanism is being attacked by way of the Intelligent Design movement. If biological Darwinism can be shown to be nothing more than a philosophy that gives meaning to the facts, then, by implication, humanists are left in the lake without a paddle. The Darwinists hold fast to their "first principles" as tenaciously as most Christians, and yet we are the ones who get ridiculed for having a "silly, wishful-thinking faith." Two recent articles by British authors exemplify this point forcefully.
Olivia Judson, writing an editorial for the New York Times entitled "Why I'm Happy I Evolved,"[1] shows the sheer ignorance that passes as "science" on both sides of the Atlantic. After spending several paragraphs fawning over little-known "facts" about creatures and organisms in our ecosystem, she lets a huge admission fly. "It's not that I have a fetish for obscure facts. It's that small facts add up to big pictures. For although Mother Nature's infinite variety seems incomprehensible at first, it is not. The forces of nature are not random; often, they are strongly predictable." She then goes on to tell of some of her "predictions," which are not predictions but generalizations based on previous observed events. Her evolutionary paradigm is so strong that she actually believes that the following situation is a prediction. "If you were to discover a new species and you told me that the male is much bigger than the female, I would tell you what the mating system is likely to be: males fight each other for access to females." If this is a prediction, then I can equally claim that if you bring me a child that I have never met, I would be able to predict that this child has two parents, one male and one female. If hers is a "prediction," then so is mine.
Not only has Judson made the idea of prediction fit her pre-conceived notion, she makes the claim that "small facts add up to big pictures." OK, so then she has formed her evolutionary worldview from the small "facts" of scientific discovery. Over time these small facts have added up into the full picture of biological evolution, right? Not quite. She goes on her article to state:
When I was in school, I learned none of this. Biology was a subject that seemed as exciting as a clump of cotton wool. It was a dreary exercise in the memorization and regurgitation of apparently unconnected facts. Only later did I learn about evolution and how it transforms biology from that mass of cotton wool into a magnificent tapestry, a tapestry we can contemplate and begin to understand.
So then, the "facts" didn't really add up to make the story, the story had to be imposed on the facts. In other words, Judson is a presuppositionalist in regards to her humanist, scientific "faith." She believed the story of evolution and suddenly the "facts" took on a new meaning, no longer unconnected, but interconnected in the "tapestry" of the big picture. As Rushdoony was fond of saying, she "believed in order to understand." And where does her belief in the story leave her? "For me, the knowledge that we evolved is a source of solace and hope. I find it a relief that plagues and cancers and wasp larvae that eat caterpillars alive are the result of the impartial—and comprehensible—forces of evolution rather than the caprices of a deity." And yet she still feels empowered in this impartial, albeit predictable, universe to make ethical judgments. "No other animal that I have heard of can live so peaceably in such close quarters with so many individuals that are unrelated. No other animal routinely bothers to help the sick and the dying, or tries to save those hurt in an earthquake or flood." Why is this attitude, which is found exclusively among the human "animal," noble? Why should we help the sick and the dying, instead of cannibalizing them as the weaker portion of the species? Judson never bothers to answer this question, because she can't. Her evolutionary predictability isn't able to account for things like altruism, heroism, generosity, selflessness or any other number of traits that are specific to the human "animal" alone. The "story" runs a little dry on explanations in this department.
Another writer, this time a reviewer of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (LWW) film, tries her hand at waving the magic wand of ethical judgment in a humanistic world. In what amounts to two pages of vitriol toward C.S. Lewis and Christianity, Polly Toynbee turns her movie review[2] into a cannon aimed directly at Christians who have the temerity to try to influence the public by way of the media.
Disney is deliberately promoting this film to the religious—it has appointed Outreach, an evangelical publisher, to promote the Christian message behind the movie in British churches…US born-agains are [also] using the movie. Walden Media, co-producer of the movie, offers a "17-week Narnia Bible study for children."
Apparently it's wrong for Christians with the means to use their money to influence people with their beliefs, but it is perfectly fine when the humanists want to air their views for public consumption and persuasion. Not to fear though, because most of the religious significance of LWW will be lost on the children of "this most secular nation." She writes, "Most British children will be utterly clueless about any message beyond the age-old mythic battle between good and evil…. After all, 43% of people in Britain in a recent poll couldn't say what Easter celebrated. Among the young—apart from those in faith schools—that number must be considerably higher." Even though, by her own admission, her humanist agenda has nothing to fear from the likes of a resurrected lion and four would-be kings and queens, she never looks back in her spiteful assault of LWW.
Professing a bold ignorance of the teachings of Christianity, Toynbee blindly stabs in the dark, trying to hit a nerve:
After a long, dark night of the soul and women's weeping, the lion is suddenly alive again. Why? How?…Well, it is hard to say why. It does not make any more sense in CS Lewis's tale than in the gospels…Of all the elements of Christianity, the most repugnant is the notion of the Christ who took our sins upon himself and sacrificed his body in agony to save our souls. Did we ask him to?
Here then is the real issue. The cross, just as Paul said it would be (1 Cor. 1:18–31), is an offense to Polly Toynbee. She completely misses the point of LWW, because she is completely ignorant of the Scriptures. Because she can't comprehend the need for a "suffering Servant," she is content to blame C.S. Lewis and the Bible for her own lack of understanding. "Narnia is a strange blend of magic, myth and Christianity, some of it brilliantly fantastical and richly imaginative, some (the clunking allegory) toe-curlingly, cringingly awful…Adults who wince at the worst elements of Christian belief may need a sickbag handy for the most religiose scenes." I wonder how, when she openly admits that she doesn't understand the most basic tenet of the Gospel, she can make a most bold moral judgment of judging what the "worst elements of Christian belief" are. What exactly has informed her worldview? Where does she derive her own authority to put the Bible and Christianity on the witness stand? She tells us in the very last paragraph of her breathless attack:
Lewis weaves his dreams to invade children's minds with Christian iconography that is part fairytale wonder and joy—but heavily laden with guilt, blame, sacrifice and a suffering that is dark with emotional sadism. Children are supposed to fall in love with the hypnotic Aslan, though he is not a character: he is pure, raw, awesome power. He is an emblem for everything an atheist objects to in religion. His divine presence is a way to avoid humans taking responsibility for everything here and now on earth, where no one is watching, no one is guiding, no one is judging and there is no other place yet to come. Without an Aslan, there is no one here but ourselves to suffer for our sins, no one to redeem us but ourselves: we are obliged to settle our own disputes and do what we can. We need no holy guide books, only a very human moral compass. Everyone needs ghosts, spirits, marvels and poetic imaginings, but we cab do well without an Aslan.
This is where Toynbee meets her fellow Brit author, Olivia Judson. Both want to live their lives in accord with a "human moral compass" that humanism and materialism can't provide. They showed "Aslan" the door long ago, and now they are stuck with a "most secular nation" with moral compasses that are pointing fifty different directions. (Click here to read Joan Collins assessment of modern Britain.) Judson and Toynbee presume their morals are common to all humans, but can give precisely zero reasons why they should be. They are standing on the borrowed capital of the Christian worldview, all the while refusing to admit it. In their materialist universe, they can't push phrases like: "we are obliged to settle our own disputes," and "the knowledge that we evolved is a source of solace and hope." There is no such thing as obligation, hope or solace in a strictly material world. Pointing out magnetic moral north in a world filled with amoral moral compasses is a tough thing to do, you often have to resort to publishing articles that are "heavily laden with guilt, blame, sacrifice and a suffering that is dark with emotional sadism," and pray to Mother Nature that nobody finds "Aslan" hidden behind the curtain of the control room.
[1] Olivia Judson, "Why I'm Happy I Evolved," New York Times, January 1, 2006.
[2] Polly Toynbee, "Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion," The Guardian, December 5, 2005.
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100 Years Ago: Occupational Training to Help Soldiers, D. Herbert Gunter Killed in Action, Malcolm Stimers Killed in Action, Charles Henry Ranson Gassed
August 31, 2018 ~ Laurel Bishop
The Intelligencer August 31, 1918 (page 1)
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It has been found that by engaging the attention of bed patients in this work the process of healing and recovery from disease is greatly accelerated. The young ladies are under medical direction. …
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[Note: Private Daniel Herbert Gunter died on August 8, 1918. He is commemorated on Page 420 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.]
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Home / Review / Breath Like the Wind at Dawn: A Review
By Elisa Faison
by MATTHEW POTTS
credit: Sagging Meniscus Press
Devin Jacobsen, Breath Like the Wind at Dawn (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2020), pp. 208.
Scary stories are probably about as ancient to human culture as campfires, but there's a special sort of monster that lurks in the literature of the modern American West. In Enlightenment Europe, with the rise of Reformation and republican ideals, monsters took literary form in the fading figures of an ancien régime. The early works of European Gothicism presented vampiric counts who crept through castles and demonic monks skulking through cemeteries. The religious and political critiques here swam quite close to the textual surface. Gothic monsters were the chief antagonists not only of novels but also of the religious and political revolutions that were sweeping across Europe in early modernity.
As Leslie Fiedler notes in Love and Death in the American Novel, this European imagination weirdly inverted itself in colonial America. The enemies of Enlightened republicanism in the Americas were no longer the old world's priests and nobles, but instead those indigenous people who found themselves inclined to resist the destiny so manifest to the continent's colonists. The first monster tales of colonial America, by Charles Brockden Brown, were therefore racist and white supremacist tales, too. In a land without familiar European religio-political institutions to stand in the way of revolution, Indians were rendered as anti-Enlightenment monsters. The irony here is thick and repugnant: for the sake of Enlightenment humanism, indigenous Americans were robbed of their humanity. Thus, Brockden Brown set the racist stage for one of the most uniquely American literary and cinematic traditions: the Western.
It is into this tradition that Devin Jacobsen's novel Breath Like the Wind at Dawn enters, telling the story of a family ravaged by domestic violence, both personal and political. Before the arrival of the American Civil War, the Tamplins were a clan already broken by years of inhuman family abuse. The onset of war fully fractures the family. The sociopathic patriarch Les enlists and develops a taste for killing in wartime that he cultivates through a post-combat career as a small-town sheriff serially obsessed with strangulation. His wife Annora is haunted by hungry family ghosts, and loses the farm and her mind while he is away. Edward, the oldest child, also enlists, has an arm amputated, and recovers from his war trauma while teaching Latin out east. The younger twins Quinn and Irving are raised as lunatic murderers in the ruins of the Tamplin home. When Edward returns to the Midwest he is persuaded by Quinn and Irving to join a bank heist in the town where their father is, unbeknown to them, the sheriff. All of this culminates in a fully self-destructive implosion of the family and a climax of theatrically gruesome violence.
Breath Like the Wind at Dawn is, then, not just a Western but a Western in the peculiarly postmodern form perfected by Cormac McCarthy. Two of McCarthy's most influential novels – Blood Meridian: Or, The Evening Redness in the West and No Country for Old Men – are essentially gothic monster tales set in the wild west, each showing how easily and entirely human beings can be conscripted, cornered, or cajoled into astonishing acts of violence. Jacobsen's novel does this too, but with an especially disarming twist. Because McCarthy's Westerns generally avoid psychology, the most terrifying monsters in McCarthy's books – Judge Holden and Anton Chigurh – remain obscure and mysterious, seemingly above usual human concern. They are nearly supernatural figures, specters of death and cruelty who haunt the landscape and stand inscrutable both to the reader and to other characters in those books. But in Jacobsen's novel, the most murderous character – Les Tamplin – is the most fully developed character too, with multiple chapters in his first-person perspective devoted to exploring the violent compulsions of his psyche. The reckless twins Quinn and Irving are hardly relatable; Annora's mental illness leaves her characterization appropriately incoherent; Edward is in some ways the most sympathetic character but the narrative voice never approaches him with much closeness. Rather, Les the serial murderer is the one toward whom Jacobsen beckons intimacy, and it is unsettling to sit within this character's mind as he revels in his cruelty. McCarthy and Jacobsen both document the horrors of human behavior; but in a way McCarthy's novels rarely do, Breath Like the Wind at Dawn invites its reader to reckon with the horrors of the human mind. This makes Jacobsen's novel uniquely frightening, though Les Tamplin's acts are no more or less gruesome than Anton Chigurh's or Judge Holden's. Because where Chigurh and the Judge wax esoteric, explaining their cruelty to victims in existential terms, Tamplin's internal voice is frank, intimate, vulnerable, and unrelentingly obsessed.
But what Jacobsen's novel gains psychologically it perhaps loses politically. McCarthy's novels are not politically progressive, but it is clear that in them monstrosity is a primary characteristic of both colonial white supremacy and American westward expansion. Despite the setting of Breath after the Civil War and during the years of Reconstruction, race is mostly invisible to this book. The war functions mainly as sort of a traumatic stress that contributes to the main characters' post traumatic condition. But it's clear Les is already a sociopath before the war begins, and indeed, I think there may be a way to read Les with some political implication. Slavery was institutionalized serial murder, of course, and Les is a serial murderer. Les was always a sociopath and the American political economy was basically founded on the cultural sociopathy of white supremacy. But if this is indeed how we are meant to read Les, then the novel has missed some opportunities to address the violence of racism more directly and the allegory remains underdeveloped.
I've referenced McCarthy a great deal in this review not only because I think Jacobsen's novel is set in a direct critical conversation with those important American works, but also because Jacobsen's voice and style are very like McCarthy's. This is true sometimes even to the point of distraction. One of the reasons why McCarthy's highly stylized and arguably overwritten prose works well is that he manages his narrative pace so deftly, even down to the level of the sentence. Despite the weight of image and diction McCarthy piles on to each line, he keeps those lines readable and his reader moving through them. In fact, it may be that those easily parodied run-on sentences of McCarthy's work precisely because they do keep things moving, because their cavalcade of conjunctions forces the reader never to tarry much and instead to attend to action. The pace prevents the audience from becoming overburdened by the sometimes weighty prose. Jacobsen's pacing is more ponderous in Breath, however. Although structurally the novel moves quickly from scene to scene, at the sentence level Jacobsen's prose sometimes flags under its own weight, especially in the early chapters. What's clear is that Jacobsen has an ear and obsession with language. The author is presently pursuing a PhD at St. Andrew's on the legacy of old and middle English in contemporary fiction, and his sentences are never uninteresting. They are dense, if sometimes difficult, and carefully crafted, if sometimes overworked. The choice of word and image is nearly always startling in this book, and often that's to the book's benefit. What's also true is that this is Jacobsen's first published novel, and a young writer who shows such care and attention to the construction of every clause will surely learn to more effectively manage the excesses of his ear as his writing develops. Indeed, the same might be said of Cormac McCarthy, whose own first novel The Orchard Keeper shows flaws of style that are similar to Breath Like the Wind at Dawn's.
In any case, Jacobsen's first novel is unconventional, unsettling, and unrelenting. The density of the prose and the violence of the plot will require focus from all its readers and patience from some. But for those interested in exploring the blurry boundary between humanity and monstrosity, especially as it has been drawn across the genre of the American Western and as it arises in the mind, Breath Like the Wind at Dawn will prove an interesting, perhaps even an important, book.
Matthew Potts is the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University, where he writes and teaches at the intersection of literary, ethical, and theological studies.


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import requests.exceptions

import botologist.plugin

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United Producers Association prays that ALLAH almighty may rest the departed soul in peace and grant courage to members of the bereaved family to bear this loss of a loved one with fortitude. Aameen.
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Nocaracris tardus — вид саранчовых насекомых рода Nocaracris из семейства Памфагиды (отряд Прямокрылые).

Распространение
Турция.

Описание
Тело сжато сбоков, коренастое (длина самцов около 2 см; самки крупные, до 4,7 см; длина пронотума самок до 9 мм, длина их заднего бедра от 12 до 15 мм), лоб морщинистый. Основная окраска буровато-землистая с примесью серого, черного и зеленого цветов. Крылья и орган Краусса отсутствуют, пронотум не разделён поперечным швом, есть шипики или зубчики вдоль внутреннего вентрального края задних бёдер. Вид был впервые описан в 2016 году турецким энтомологом Мустафой Уналом (Mustafa Ünal, Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Болу, Турция) совместно с Александром Бугровым (A. G. Bugrov, Новосибирск) и Ильясом Джетыбаевым (I. E. Jetybayev).

Примечания

Ссылки
 David C. Eades, Daniel Otte, María Marta Cigliano, & Holger Braun. genus Nocaracris Uvarov, 1928. Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)

Саранчовые
Животные, описанные в 2016 году
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Q: How can I set a batch file to pic up a txt file and put some data in mySQL database How can I set a batch file to pic up a txt file and put some data in mySQL database.
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Some gunmen on Sunday invaded the palace of the Oba of Gbokoto land, Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba G.O Olukunle, shooting repeatedly.
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DAILY POST learnt that the monarch had made a distress call to the police at Oja-Odan division around 4:25 pm, saying "some cultists were about to kill him in his palace."
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Oyeyemi said the "policemen engaged them in a shootout and eventually subdued the cultists and got six amongst them arrested."
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"They also informed the police that, it was the son of the Oba who is now at large that invited them to come and eliminate his father because of an unresolved issue the Oba has been having with his mother," Oyeyemi said.
He reported that one locally-made double-barrelled pistol, two live cartridges and one expended cartridge were recovered from the suspects.
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Message boards : Number crunching : GPU Work 2-day queue has been exhausted for a day. No new work?
I have some GPU-only rigs that only run Enigma@Home GPU tasks and maintain a 2-day backlog as they lose internet connectivity at times. There rigs seem to have received no new work for the last few days, and the sum of GPU work for the rest of my machines has also shrunk rapidly.
Is everyone else still getting GPU tasks fed to them?
I seem to have no problem with CPU work.
I have no problem getting gpu-tasks for my 1080.
Message 13470 - Posted: 23 Oct 2017, 7:15:14 UTC - in response to Message 13468.
Thanks for that - means it's probably my end.
Will try change the resource share back to 10000 to see if it has any effect.
Message 13472 - Posted: 23 Oct 2017, 14:04:31 UTC - in response to Message 13470.
I tried setting the resource share to 10k again, and that did not fix the problem. I have also reset the project to no avail.
The machines that I have set to run only Enigma still have empty queues... any ideas?
Message 13474 - Posted: 24 Oct 2017, 8:01:26 UTC - in response to Message 13472.
I cannot for the life of me get the project to send me work, so I guess that's the end of the road for now.
If anyone has any other ideas, I'd love to hear from you.
Message 13475 - Posted: 24 Oct 2017, 8:13:42 UTC - in response to Message 13474.
Could it be because all my clients are running 7.6.33? I have not updated to the latest version of BOINC because it takes a lot of time to do.
I don't know. I'm all Linux, so I've been doing other projects since the summer retooling.
Message 13491 - Posted: 25 Oct 2017, 18:13:55 UTC - in response to Message 13475.
I am using the same version.
Message 13492 - Posted: 26 Oct 2017, 8:09:18 UTC - in response to Message 13491.
It just kept repeating that task requests resulted in zero tasks being downloaded.
However, I have stumbled across the solution! The Enigma@Home preferences have continued to reset my preferences to NOT run test work. As it turns out (at least for me), turning off test work eliminates all GPU work from the potential job pool and I was only fed CPU work.
Could an admin please have a look at this, and also is it possible to prevent this setting reverting back to 'no' repeatedly?
Thank you guys for all your input! Time to get my RAC back out of the dumps.


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Rizzo, Montero out again, making progress
Maddon doesn't expect either player to be sidelined long
Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo missed a second consecutive game Friday with back tightness. (Getty Images)
By Carrie Muskat
MIAMI -- Anthony Rizzo was sidelined for a second straight day Friday because of tightness in his lower back, and Miguel Montero did not start because of some soreness in his right knee, but both were making progress, Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.Rizzo, who was the top National League vote-getter
MIAMI -- Anthony Rizzo was sidelined for a second straight day Friday because of tightness in his lower back, and Miguel Montero did not start because of some soreness in his right knee, but both were making progress, Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.
Rizzo, who was the top National League vote-getter in the latest 2016 Esurance MLB All-Star Game Ballot update, could return Saturday, but the Cubs were being cautious.
"It's never any fun when a back starts bothering you," Maddon said. "I'm just listening to what they're telling me. [Athletic trainer PJ Mainville] had a little concern, but it's loosened up and relaxed, and [Rizzo] is feeling better as of last night and this morning. That's a good thing. No tests have been run other than going through the normal procedure."
On June 10, Rizzo was scratched from the Cubs' lineup in Atlanta because of his back and missed one day.
Montero had to leave Wednesday's game after tweaking his knee during an awkward turn in a play at the plate and has not caught since. Montero is expected to start Saturday.
"It's nothing awful, it was just sore a little bit," Maddon said of Montero. "You watch him move around, and he's feeling pretty good."
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• With leadoff man Dexter Fowler on the disabled list, Maddon has had to mix and match at the top of the lineup, and on Friday, Jason Heyward batted first for the first time this season. Kris Bryant followed, and Maddon said the main reason for the reconfiguration was to get Bryant some protection.
"The way they walked Bryant so easy with [Willson] Contreras hitting behind him, why wouldn't they do it again today?" Maddon said of an intentional pass by the Marlins in the eighth inning Thursday. "I thought in order to prevent that, present differently behind him. Obviously, our lineup is different with all the injuries. I thought by getting [Ben] Zobrist and Contreras behind [Bryant], that gives them some pause."
Zobrist batted .406 in May but was hitting .191 in June. Maddon said it was part of the cyclical nature of the game.
"It's impossible to remain incendiary for the entire season," Maddon said. "You can't do that. It's just the natural order of things, progression of things. You make the adjustments, you move on. That's where I'm at. ... We just have to get a couple knocks when it matters."
The Cubs entered Friday's game 2-for-22 with runners in scoring position during their last four games, all losses.
"The biggest difference is we haven't been able to get a hit," Maddon said. "When you're not able to get a hit, then any kind of mistake you make is really magnified. We were able to cover mistakes early with just bludgeoning offensively and now we're not at that point."
Extra bases
• There's a lot at stake Friday in the College World Series game between Coastal Carolina and TCU. Tommy La Stella appeared in 125 games for the Chanticleers in 2010-11, and batted .388 with 28 home runs and 136 RBIs. Arrieta was an ace for TCU, winning 14 games and posting a 2.35 ERA in his sophomore year. Whoever loses has to get a tattoo of the winning team's mascot.
• Adam Warren was expected to start Saturday for Triple-A Iowa. The right-hander was optioned to the Minor League team to get stretched out so he could start before the All-Star break, which would give the other five Cubs starters a breather.
• The Cubs game against the Mets at Wrigley Field on July 18 will start at 6:05 p.m. CT to accommodate a national broadcast by ESPN. The game was originally slated to start at 7:05 p.m. CT.
Carrie Muskat has covered the Cubs since 1987, and for MLB.com since 2001. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings. You can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat and listen to her podcast.


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Associations between Dating Violence and High-Risk Sexual Behaviors among Male and Female Older Adolescents
Diann M. Ackard, Marla E. Eisenberg, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Epidemiology & Community Health
Healthy Weight Research Center
This study sought to evaluate associations between adolescent dating violence victimization (DV) and high-risk sexual behaviors. Males (n = 71) and females (n = 189) reporting DV were compared to 671 males and 720 females (overall mean age 20.4 years) reporting no DV on high-risk sexual behaviors (casual sexual partner, multiple sexual partners, no contraceptive use, unprotected intercourse). DV was reported by 9.6% males and 20.8% females. All males reporting both physical and sexual DV acknowledged high-risk sexual behavior. Furthermore, most female peers (75.2%) reporting physical and sexual DV acknowledged high-risk sexual behavior. Health programs and care professionals should target violence prevention and contraception education, and promote early intervention to reduce high-risk sexual behaviors, particularly among those reporting dating violence.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma
This study was supported by Grant R40 MC 00319-02 (Neumark-Sztainer, principal investigator) from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act), Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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Ackard, D. M., Eisenberg, M. E., & Neumark-Sztainer, D. (2012). Associations between Dating Violence and High-Risk Sexual Behaviors among Male and Female Older Adolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, 5(4), 344-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361521.2012.724044
Associations between Dating Violence and High-Risk Sexual Behaviors among Male and Female Older Adolescents. / Ackard, Diann M.; Eisenberg, Marla E.; Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne.
In: Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, Vol. 5, No. 4, 10.2012, p. 344-352.
Ackard, DM, Eisenberg, ME & Neumark-Sztainer, D 2012, 'Associations between Dating Violence and High-Risk Sexual Behaviors among Male and Female Older Adolescents', Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 344-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361521.2012.724044
Ackard DM, Eisenberg ME, Neumark-Sztainer D. Associations between Dating Violence and High-Risk Sexual Behaviors among Male and Female Older Adolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma. 2012 Oct;5(4):344-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361521.2012.724044
Ackard, Diann M. ; Eisenberg, Marla E. ; Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne. / Associations between Dating Violence and High-Risk Sexual Behaviors among Male and Female Older Adolescents. In: Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma. 2012 ; Vol. 5, No. 4. pp. 344-352.
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