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Posted: Sun 14 Mar 2010, 07:48
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I have gotten now my SoftmakerSmall sfs to 33 Mb. So it is quite small for *. doc, *.rtf and *.docx compatible text editor and reader. And the app opening speed is spectacular.
Well I use it also because of finnish hyphenation. I dont have a clue howto install finnish hyphenation and spell checker to finnish linux openoffice. There even isnt any guide to do that. Only mention that it comes with distro from distro repo.
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Posted: Wed 17 Mar 2010, 11:50
Post subject: Softmaker Office for Windows runs under Wine
Subject description: Recommend signing up for beta in order to get announcements
Hi again,
I was lucky enough to obtain a free copy of Softmaker Office 2008 for XP when it was being given away. I also obtained 2008 for Linux but can't recall where I downloaded it to. Since I dual-boot XP & Puppy, I decided to explore the XP version. One of the neat things about it is that once you've installed it to your computer you can run its built in app to install it to a USB Key where it will reside in a folder. The USB Key version is fully portable: its folder can be copied back to the hard drive or anywhere else and will run from there.
The portablized version will run under Wine in Puppy, and appears to be fully functional (except, perhaps, as noted below). By the way, although Softmaker does not include a database program, there is a module under its Textmaker program to create (and use) databases. I haven't done more than start it, so I don't know its capabilities.
Also included in the suite is a programming language module advertised as being VB-like. Since I don't know Virtual Basic, I am not able to test it under Wine.
Despite that its 2010 beta freebee will probably become inoperable on March 31st, I strongly recommend obtaining it. Doing so puts you on Softmaker's mailing list to receive notice of specials, future offerings and freebees.
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Since in Puppy 4.31, I run both Softmaker 2008 Linux and XP/Wine, I find that I can only print wirelessly in SM Linux.
I don't know why (had the same problem with 2006), because I can print wirelessly in MS Word 97/Wine.
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Posted: Thu 18 Mar 2010, 11:25
Post subject: SM Office printing problem under Wine & Similar problems
Subject description: Linux proper vs. Windows Apps under Wine
Thanks jakfish for pointing that out. I didn't check out printing. As my printer died, and I rarely used it anyway, on those rare occasions when printing is needed I transfer the files to my wife's setup > and she's stuck in the '90s using that other system.('
So I don't know if the problem you experienced is related, but for the sake of completeness my understanding is that
JAVA currently either doesn't work, or is almost impossible to set up. Ergo, JAVA functions --including, for example, Database under OpenOffice Portable-- are unavailable. If you run a portable under windows, it will access the
Windows JAVA console. And, similarly, when running a Linux App it will access the Linux JAVA console. But a portable written for Windows running under Wine apparently can't use the Linux JAVA installation. If printing from a portable Windows app is dependent on JAVA, it apparently, currently can't be done.
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That makes a great deal of sense, and would explain why I can print from antiquated MS Word 97, but not from more sophisticated Softmaker.
And since I run java 1.6 in Puppy, that may account for printing successfully in SM 2006/2008 Linux.
But I'm in no way certain. I know I printed wirelessly in Word 97 before ever installing java on Puppy.
Wine, however, allows for endless tinkering in menu font, etc, making SM much more attractive in a netbook screen. Weirdly, SM, for all its customizations, won't let you change anything in its actual GUI. (edit: in SM Linux)
That's the only reason why I even play with SM/Wine, and why I keep coming back to MS Word 97, which runs beautifully in Puppy and with great speed.
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I downloaded the trial version and WOW! Fast, nice, much better than any other Office programme I have tried so far (including MS 2003 and 2007, OO 3.x and of course KOffice and the mediocre Abiword)
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Post subject: 2008 is Available Free again!
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Posted: Mon 26 Nov 2012, 14:42
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SoftMaker Office 2010 for Linux Public Beta Free
Actually, I am only interested in the
I have 'SoftMaker Office 2010 for Windows', its great.
Its great for copy/paste from html in browser, then save as html,
and rtf and pdf.
None of the links here (that I checked out) work.
Anyone remember the link to "SoftMaker Office 2010 for Linux Public Beta Free"
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When I downloaded it I thought it is was available
for only for a couple of weeks.
..But apparently you can still download it....
see 'Testversion herunterladen' which means 'Download test version'
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SoftMaker Office 2010 for Linux Public Beta Free is the better office suite in my opinion. I run that suite in Windows 7, when gnumeric or Abiword are not enough.
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It's ok. Reminds me of MS Word 1995 or somewhere around that time period. Libre feels more complete but the Softmaker is decent.
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Post subject: Softmaker is not so bad quality.
Subject description: Libre Office will remain on the shelf
Libre Office seems the preferred Office kit in Puppy Linux forum. personally i use Windows 7 for big applications as Office suite, because... I never use them ( i am retired from Office, now at home for amusement with Puppy, only)
However, i have fatslacko 5.3.3 running now. With Libre office included. There are so many bugs, only in data entering (garbled dates).
Softmaker is not so bad quality.
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All of group's members lived in or around Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital city, prior to their individual departures in the late 1990's. Throughout most of 1990s, Freetown had remained relatively safe from the rebel war that had turned much of their country into a bloody battlefield. But near the turn of the 21st century, rebels attacked the city and forced a panicked mass exodus to neighboring countries. Although group leader Reuben M. Koroma and future bandmates Franco (Francis Langba) and Arahim (Abdul Rahim Kamara) knew each other as professional musicians from different bands in Freetown and even occasionally played together in common musical circles, it wasn't until they reconnected in Kalia Refugee Camp in Guinea that the roots of the group took shape.—Courtesy Calabash Music
When Reuben and his wife Grace located Franco and began making music for their fellow refugees, their efforts were short lived. Safety in the Kalia camp disintegrated when it came under attack from the Guinean army and citizenry who believed the camps were being used as staging grounds for rebel attacks against Guinea. With refugee camps now war zones, the initial band members - alongside thousands of fellow refugees—were evacuated from the area and moved to Sembakounya Refugee Camp. Set deep in the remote Guinean countryside, it was here that Reuben and Franco—thanks to a Canadian refugee aid organization—were able to acquire the rusted-out sound system and beat up electric guitars that helped officially launch the group.
At Sembakounya Camp, American documentary filmmakers Banker White and Zach Niles encountered The Refugee All Stars (which by now also included Black Nature, Arahim and Mohammed Bangura) and their music. The first time filmmakers followed the band for three years as they moved from camp to camp and eventually returned home to face their war torn country and reunite with family, friends and former band-mates many of whom they had believed did not survive the violence. It was during this trip that the current line-up of the band was cemented and their life long dream of recording in a studio was realized.
Backed by the likes of Keith Richards, Sir Paul McCartney, Ice Cube, Angelina Jolie and Steve Bing, the resulting documentary film, The Refugee All Stars, won a series of major awards on the festival circuit. The band followed up this success with their first international tour in 2006, which took them to the U.S. and Japan. On the heels of this tour, the group released their first album, Living Like A Refugee, featuring original compositions written during their years in exile, field recordings from the refugee camps in Guinea as well as studio efforts at Sam Jones' Island Studios in Freetown.
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The NIO library, a feature added to Java as part of JDK 1.4, offers an alternative, high-performance technique for handling input/output (I/O) operations. This library supports working directly with native channels, sockets, and direct memory buffers to increase the performance and throughput of I/O. In addition, it offers the ability to do true nonblocking I/O operations. However, if used incorrectly, NIO can yield little performance increase and can cause an increase in the load and reduce stability of an application. In this article, I discuss how Orbitz (the company I work for) used NIO to increase performance and stability by replacing an older standard I/O implementation. Orbitz communicates with various third-party backend systems to retrieve data for its customers. During the course of handling a single customer request, the Orbitz.com application performs time-sensitive I/O to fetch the customer's response. With a large number of concurrent users, the application can be performing hundreds of I/O operations at the same time.
The Orbitz.com application handles concurrent user requests by allowing each request to be performed in a separate thread. These threads, called "execute threads," can be configured such that each request is handled by a new thread or by a thread from a thread pool. In either case, it is vital to ensure that no thread is running for an extended period of time. When threads take too long processing a single user request and a new thread is used for each request, the Java VM has the possibility of crashing when excessive threads are created. Likewise, if a pool is being used and threads from that pool take too long while executing, other users are forced to wait until a thread has finished and can be reused.
Standard I/O
The Orbitz.com application was initially implemented with a standard I/O design using Java 1.3. To guarantee timeouts for I/O operations, it employed a separate thread to perform the I/O operations. The execute threads are then joined on this new thread using a timeout. With this approach, it prevented the execute thread from hanging when I/O operations encountered problems. Listing One shows the original thread that performed the I/O operations. It has been simplified from its original version.
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public class IOThread extends Thread { private String result; public synchronized String getResult() { return result; } public void run() { try { // Connect to the remote host and read in the data URL url = new URL("http://example.orbitz.com"); URLConnection connection = url.openConnection(); String localResult = doRead(connection); synchronized (this) { result = localResult; } } catch (IOException ioe) { System.err.println(ioe.toString()); } } private String doRead(URLConnection connection) throws IOException { StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer(); InputStream is = connection.getInputStream(); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is)); char[] cbuf = new char[4096]; int n; do { n = br.read(cbuf); if (n > 0) { buf.append(cbuf, 0, n); } } while (n >= 0); return buf.toString(); } }
By calling the
join method on the
IOThread, one of the execute threads waits until the
IOThread has finished running. A timeout is specified when the join method is called to ensure that the execute threads do not wait forever for an
IOThread to complete. Listing Two shows an example of how an execute thread used an
Listing Two
public class OldIO { public String execute() { IOThread thread = new IOThread(); thread.start(); try { thread.join(15000); // Wait for 15 seconds } catch (InterruptedException ie) {} return thread.getResult(); } }
The first version of the execute threads created new instances of the
IOThread class for each I/O operation. Using the initial implementation it was observed that the servers were periodically experiencing high thread counts. It had initially been assumed that the maximum number of threads that could be created in a Java VM running this code would be 2
N, where
N was the number of execute threads. After some investigation, I found that an instance of the
IOThread would remain in memory if it experienced network problems and was hung while performing an I/O operation. In addition, the execute thread correctly timed-out and the next execute thread attempted the same operation, with the same results. The net result was that the Java VM created an enormous number of threads and eventually ran out of memory.
To reduce the thread count, I added a thread pool that stored instances of the
IOThread class. I also changed the execute thread code so that it checked out an
IOThread instance from the pool, used it, and then checked it back in. This not only reduced the high thread count, but also reduced the overhead of thread creation. Listing Three shows the second version of the execute thread that used the pool of
IOThreads (the implementation of a thread pool is out of scope of this article).
Listing Three
public class PoolOldIO { private static ThreadPool pool = new ThreadPool(); public String execute() { IOThread thread = pool.checkOut(); String result; try { thread.execute(15000); // Wait for 15 seconds } catch (InterruptedException ie) { // Smother, okay to be interrupted } finally { result = thread.getResult(); pool.checkIn(thread); // Must always check-in the thread } return result; } }
This improvement still has an underlying problem. If the network experiences major failures, all instances of
IOThread in the pool quickly become stalled and execute threads begin to fail during check-out because there are no more
IOThreads in the pool. Additionally, when I began testing this new design under heavy load, I found that it still had problems that reduced overall performance. The issue was excessive context switching.
All the implementations thus far force the Java VM to perform increased context switching because either the execute threads or the
IOThreads are all performing I/O operations concurrently. The largest problem with this concurrency is that the Java VM doesn't know which threads are ready to perform I/O operations and which are not. Therefore, the Java VM might put a thread onto the processor that isn't ready to perform I/O operations. Meanwhile another thread that is waiting to run is ready to perform I/O operations. Because Java does not provide the ability to "stack the deck" by moving threads that are ready to perform I/O to the top of the list, it is possible that a thread, which is ready to perform I/O, might wait long enough that it times out.
The NIO package added to Java 1.4 offers Java developers the ability to perform true nonblocking I/O and guarantee timeouts for I/O operations. It also works with low-level operating-system constructs to increase performance and reduce latency. In addition, it provides the ability to monitor multiple I/O operations concurrently, also known as "multiplexing."
Multiplexed NIO is a technique that moves all the I/O work into a single thread that watches over many I/O operations executing concurrently. A multiplexed NIO design uses the
java.nio.channels.Selector class in conjunction with subclasses of the
java.nio.channels.SelectableChannel class. The
Selector class lets the application watch many I/O connections (subclasses of the
SelectableChannel class and also known as "Channels") and organize these Channels into those that are ready to perform I/O and those that are not.
I decided to redesign to use NIO and a single thread to perform all the I/O operations. Listing Four shows the skeleton body of the NIO thread.
Listing Four
public class NIOWorker extends Thread { private Selector selector; public NIOWorker () throws IOException { selector = Selector.open(); } ... }
As with the threaded standard I/O design, the execute threads need a way to supply work to the
NIOWorker in the form of a URL they want to contact. The
NIOWorker then connects to the URL, sends an HTTP message to the server, and then reads the HTTP-response. After it completes that work, it passes back the result to the execute thread. One unit of work is designated using an inner class within the
NIOWorker thread that lets a URL be passed in and the contents to be passed back. Listing Five shows the inner class of the
NIOWorker that represents one unit of work.
Listing Five
public static class Work { public URL in; public String out; public ByteBuffer httpRequest; }
Supplying work to the
NIOWorker is not a simple process and requires two methods. Because the
NIOWorker thread is a separate thread that handles all the I/O operations, execute threads must add their work and then wait for the
NIOWorker thread to process it. Therefore, the
NIOWorker class has one method that forces the execute threads to wait, and a second method that actually adds the work. This design waits and notifies using the
Work object as the monitor. Listing Six shows the two
add methods that force the execute threads to wait and add the work to the
Listing Six
public String doWork(URL url, long timeout) { Work work = new Work(); work.in = url; String result = null; synchronized (work) { work.httpRequest = buildHTTPRequest(work); // If the work was added successfully, call wait on the work object // which forces the calling thread to wait (i.e. the execute thread) if (add(work, timeout)) { try { work.wait(timeout); } catch (InterruptedException e) { System.err.println("NIO operation interrupted"); } result = work.out; } } return result; } protected boolean add(Work work, long timeout) { SocketChannel channel = null; try { URL url = work.in; InetSocketAddress addr = new InetSocketAddress(url.getHost(), 80); channel = SocketChannel.open(); channel.configureBlocking(false); channel.connect(addr); WorkState state=new WorkState(System.currentTimeMillis(),timeout,work); channel.register(selector, SelectionKey.OP_CONNECT, state); } catch (IOException ioe) { if (channel != null) { try { channel.close(); } catch (IOException ioe2) { System.err.println("Unable to close channel: " + ioe2); } } System.err.println("Channel creation or registration failed: " + ioe); return false; } return true; }
This code creates a
SocketChannel, which is a
Channel that extends
SelectableChannel, and registers the
Selector with it. This
Channel is set to nonblocking so that operations performed on
Channel do not block until complete but rather return as quickly as possible. Registering a
Selector with a
Channel informs the
Channel to begin a specific I/O operation and also tells the
Channel to signal the
Selector once the operation is complete. Here the code is setting the
Channel to begin an OP_CONNECT operation, which forces the
Channel to connect to a remote socket.
During the registration, this code also constructs a small class that holds some state information for the I/O operation. This is called an "attachment" and can be any object. The attachment is associated with a specific
Selector/Channel relationship. This
Selector/Channel relationship is called a "SelectionKey" (also known as "key"). It stores the type of operation the
Channel is performing as well as the attachment. The
WorkState object is what the
NIOWorker uses as an attachment.
WorkState lets the results that are read from the
Channel be stored in a
StringBuffer. It also provides a mechanism to monitor timeouts so that the
NIOWorker thread does not continue working on something that has timed out. Listing Seven shows the
WorkState class.
Listing Seven
public static class WorkState { public final StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer(); public final Work work; public final long start; public final long timeout; public boolean success = false; public WorkState(long start, long timeout, Work work) { this.start = start; this.timeout = timeout; this.work = work; } public boolean isTimedOut() { return (System.currentTimeMillis() - start >= timeout); } }


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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that the 95th PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club had a $102.1 million economic impact on the Rochester region, surpassing initial projections of $78 million. More than 1,800 temporary, full- and part-time jobs were created to support the influx of golf enthusiasts, exceeding preliminary predictions of 1,127 jobs.
"This summer New York played host to a series of international tourism events that generated economic activity and excitement across upstate. Rochester was put on an international stage with the 95th PGA Championship which attracted golf fans from around the world and resulted in a tremendous economic boost for the region from tourism spending to jobs," Governor Cuomo said. "With our recently announced agreement to host tthe 101st PGA Championship and the 45th Ryder Cup at New York's own Bethpage Black the good news is going to keep on coming."
"Oak Hill and Rochester did an incredible job welcoming the PGA Championship this summer and showing all that the Finger Lakes and New York State have to offer," Lieutenant Governor Robert J. Duffy said. "I thank Governor Cuomo for his initiative to support a Taste-NY tent, which further showcased the products our state offers and was one of the highlights at Oak Hill. The $102.1 million economic impact generated by the championship in the region is great news, and I look forward to additional opportunities for Rochester to shine for professional sporting events."
Greater Rochester Enterprise (GRE), an economic development organization focused on promoting the Greater Rochester region as a competitive place for business location and growth, conducted the economic impact study.
"This positive economic impact is a tribute to the numerous state and local organizations that collaborated to host a premier golf event of this magnitude," said GRE President & CEO Mark S. Peterson. "The region showed beautifully, and we could not be more thrilled with the tremendous benefits this event generated for our community."
Approximately 225,000 spectators attended the 95th PGA Championship. Of those spectators, roughly 70,000 individuals were visiting from at least 100 miles away from Rochester (non-local) – contributing to nearly 5,000 hotel room reservations at an average rate of $600 per stay. In terms of a larger economic impact that originated from outside the Rochester area, non-local ticket-holders spent an estimated $58,218,750 over the course of the Championship, assuming an average daily spending of $345 per spectator (this includes ticket sales, hotel expenses, restaurant spending, transportation costs and merchandise/concessions spending).
To see a complete version of the PGA Championship economic impact study, click here.
Ryan Cannon, championship director for the 95th PGA Championship, said, "The 2013 PGA Championship proved to be another wonderful chapter in major championship golf for the entire region. The overwhelmingly positive human, charitable and economic impact of the championship are a result the efforts of Oak Hill Country Club, championship volunteers, Monroe County, the City of Rochester, the Town of Pittsford and, ultimately the entire state of New York working to maximize the potential of the season's final major. We are thrilled with the economic impact results and the 2013 PGA Championship in its entirety."
State Senator Mike Nozzolio said, "In addition to the tremendous golf, New York State sponsored a 'Taste NY' tent that showcased New York's finest wine, food and agriculture products. More than 100 vendors participated and helped to bring a greater awareness of New York State's growing wine-and-food industry."
State Assemblyman Joseph D. Morelle said, "The 95th PGA championship was a chance to showcase our community as a world-class destination for events of this kind, and now we can see the tangible benefits of aggressively marketing the region. To exceed expectations by such a margin is great news, and it's proof that we can compete and succeed on a national and global scale. I know we are all grateful to the PGA and gratified by this extraordinary outcome."
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks said, "As a home of world-class golf experiences, an incredible service industry, and enthusiastic fans, the 2013 PGA Championship showed the world what we here in Monroe County have to offer. The economic impact generated by the over 225,000 spectators who visited Oak Hill for the 2013 PGA Championship is truly a testament to our community's successful record of working together to host some of golf's most time-honored traditions."
City of Rochester Mayor Thomas Richards said, "These final numbers indicate that the economic impact of the PGA Championship was nothing less than incredible. It's clear that Rochester is a top destination for sports fans and that bringing the PGA Championship to Rochester was a regional effort that we can all be proud to have participated in."
Marty Glavin, General Chairman for the 95th PGA Championship, said, "Oak Hill was thrilled with the overall success of the Championship and how positive the support from the entire region was. The cooperation of the entire region provided the golf world with another incredible week in Major Championship golf. Our hope is to continue to attract future international golf Championships to Oak Hill for many years to come."
Visit Rochester President & CEO Don Jeffries said, "The Rochester area still is seeing the benefit of the worldwide exposure it received from the PGA. We are seeing many people revisit Rochester that came here to see the golf and then discovered what a great destination Rochester and the Finger Lakes are."
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This year, like no other before it, I feel a deep desire to get back to basics. It�s been an especially difficult few weeks of tumult over race, same-sex marriage rights, immigration and other issues that highlight our differences rather than our similarities.
I�m craving a unifying gesture: a return to plain, traditional (some might misguidedly say �boring�) renditions of �The Star-Spangled Banner� on the Fourth of July.
It might seem like a small thing to some, but it rankles me every time I hear a souped-up version of the national anthem. I�m not some stick-in-the-mud when it comes to different musical styles and genres, but I�m old enough that when I was a child there were, at most, three popular versions played at traditional occasions: a full orchestral instrumentation, a band version and the solo variety.
Every once in a while you�d hear a sung choir version, but what all these interpretations had in common was that they followed the basic musical structure of John Stafford Smith�s �The Anacreontic Song,� the theme song of a London gentlemen�s club that was popular in the 1800s and served as the musical accompaniment to Francis Scott Key�s poem �Defence of Fort McHenry.�
Essentially, I�m pining for a return to a standard, bare-bones, 3/4-time, one-and-a-half octave rendition devoid of odd syncopations, extra grace notes, dizzying arpeggios or nearly endless fermata holds. Oh, and no ear-splitting, headache-inducing high notes.
That�s grumpy-sounding, I know. Perhaps that�s the burden of a classically trained musician who spent decades learning to read music as it was written by the composer and then performing it as closely to the notation as possible each and every time. I�m probably a relic in that sense.
That was my thought at the beginning of my oldest son�s eighth-grade graduation ceremony in May. In their infinite wisdom, someone at his school decided that it would be nice to have a staff member -- who�s also a local amateur vocalist -- sing the national anthem.
It was uncomfortable. Aside from being extremely long, cascading wildly up and down what seemed like at least three octaves and, at times, provocatively breathy, it mostly disappointed on the basis of being barely recognizable.
What, I thought, must all the mostly recent immigrants in this crowd think they�re listening to? Would they realize that this was supposedly the same tune that plays during formal national ceremonies and international events such as the Olympics to represent America?
My dad will want to kill me for saying so, but as a kid schooled by a staff of strict flag-wavers, I was alarmed by Jimi Hendrix�s psychedelic version of �The Star-Spangled Banner.� And Hendrix wasn�t the first to take artistic liberties with it -- Jose Feliciano is widely credited to have been the first popular performer to stir controversy with a non-traditional approach to the national anthem during the 1968 World Series.
Feliciano�s version doesn�t stir me either, but at least it�s not as self-indulgent as other performances that have come after it. In the years since those two artists broke with tradition there has been an endless stream of interpretations of our national anthem -- country, R&B, heavy metal, reggae, salsa/tropical, rap, hip/hop -- some of which we�re subjected to during nationally televised sporting events. I pretty much hate them all.
�The Star-Spangled Banner� is not about genres, self-aggrandizement or artistic self-expression, it is a tribute to our nation�s roots. That�s a hard notion for some to swallow in an age where nods to diversity and multiculturalism, not to mention worship of individualism above all else, often trump the antiquated belief in patriotism and national unity.
Ironically, a few weeks ago 11-year-old Sebastien De La Cruz, a Mexican-American San Antonio, Texas, native known as �The Boy With the Golden Voice,� was harassed and denounced on social media for singing the national anthem at the beginning of an NBA finals game clothed in mariachi attire.
Note that unlike other jokers who�ve sung it in worn T-shirts and raggedy jeans, De La Cruz was dressed formally.
More importantly, he belted out the anthem totally straight, and from the heart. America needs more �Star-Spangled Banners� like that -- with respect for the tradition of reverence the anthem symbolizes. And with deference to its national, not individual, nature.
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DENVER Free festivals, movies, music, hiking and biking abound in Denver in the summer, but those passing through the Mile High City during the winter months also can find plenty of free things to do. Here's a sampling:
Denver Skatepark
Denvers skate park is one of the premiere parks of its kind in the country, featuring 60,000 square feet of skateable concrete terrain. Use of the park is free, but you have to bring your own gear or rent it from nearby shops.
Adults who want to try boarding, blading or biking on extreme terrain as well as children who are just learning can enjoy various bowls that accommodate all skill levels. There are rails, gently shallow basins and nearly vertical walls inspired by early skaters affinity for abandoned backyard swimming pools.
Best times for beginners are Saturday and Sunday mornings. Regulars start showing up around 1 p.m.
Buffalo, both living and dead
Oddly enough, the city of Denver owns its own buffalo herd direct descendants of the last wild buffalo herd in America. They're kept behind fences about 20 miles west of town on Interstate 70, where an overlook near Exit 254 offers great opportunities to photograph the creatures with the Rocky Mountains on the horizon. Legend has it that the beasts come closer to the road and are best seen in cold weather, but year-round shots are possible.
On your way there, stop by the grave site of famed Western entertainer Buffalo Bill Cody. The showman's grave overlooks Denver and is an easy and picturesque stop off Exit 256.
A nearby museum charges $5 for displays about Buffalo Bill's career, but your Buffalo Bill nostalgia money is better spent on a drink back in Denver. Linger, at 2030 W. 30th Ave., is a bar and restaurant with a fabulous rooftop patio at the former site of the mortuary where Buffalo Bill's body reportedly spent six months after his death in 1917 while heirs argued over where to bury the famed bison hunter.
16th Street Mall shuttle, State Capitol, Denver Mint
A ride through downtown's 16th Street Mall on the free bus shuttle is a ride through Denver's past and current scene.
At the northwest end of the shuttle, there's a panoramic view of the Denver skyline and Rocky Mountains, with old Union Station in the foreground the Queen City's main travel hub when railroad was king.
At the southeast end of the shuttle ride there's a short walk to the State Capitol building with its gold leaf-encrusted dome and a mile-high marker on the west steps from which the city gets its nickname.
In between, there are changing exhibits of public art, including cutouts of buffaloes and upright sidewalk pianos for anyone to take a turn improvising a tune.
Free tours of the Capitol include a walk up a staircase where cannonballs used by the Colorado militia during the Civil War cap the ends of bannisters.
Another short walk from the southeast terminus of the shuttle and you're at the Denver Mint, one of two located in the West. The federal government found it necessary to establish mints in Denver and San Francisco after the gold rushes and population booms that gripped both cities in the mid-1800s.
Tours of the mint are free, though reservations are strongly recommended, and include a short exhibit about the history of currency.
Also a short walk from the 16th Street Mall: a sample of makers of beloved, homegrown Colorado craft beer. Wynkoop Brewing Co. (co-founded by Gov. John Hickenlooper) and Great Divide Brewing Co. (near Coors Field) offer free tours of their downtown operations.
Sloan's Lake
Get a panoramic view of the mountains and a good hike without leaving the Denver sunbelt at this 177-acre lake on the far western edge of Denver. The city lies in the rain shadow of the Front Range of the Rockies, which means that even if it's snowing at higher elevations, it's often sunny and dry down below.
The path around Sloan's runs 2.5 miles. For about half of that distance you are treated to a front-row view of the Rockies. To the north sits 14,259-foot-high Long's Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. Below that are a chain of serrated 12,000- and 13,000-foot summits known as the Indian Peaks. The panorama ends with the broad, hulking mass of 14,265-foot Mount Evans.
Sloan's also is an urban oasis, full of Rollerbladers, bikers, joggers and families picnicking and fishing on the lawns that flank the lake. For even more strolling opportunities, the residential Highlands neighborhood to the north is lined with graceful Victorians and full of cafes, bars and restaurants. Or walk other iconic Denver lakes in Washington Park or City Park.
Tattered Cover Book Store
You wouldn't know it from the marketing materials festooned with skiers and beer, but Denver is one of the most highly educated and literate cities in the country. That much is obvious inside Tattered Cover, a celebrated independent bookstore with two Denver locations (and one in the suburbs) that dwarf most superstores.
The downtown branch is housed in a bulky brick warehouse, while the one on Colfax Avenue occupies an airy, converted theater. Both are chock-a-block with fully stocked shelves, knowledgeable staff and plenty of plush oversized chairs for a relaxing free read.
They also boast bustling coffee bars and plenty of additional browsing and people-watching opportunities nearby either in Lower Downtown's shopping and entertainment district or, on Colfax, in the adjoining independent record store Twist & Shout, another local landmark.
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Revered singer Kate Bush is premiering a new video from her acclaimed new album 50 Words For Snow at href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/01/24/145698181/first-watch-kate-bushs-shadow-play">NPR's All Songs Considered today. The beautifully evocative cinematic clip is for her song "Lake Tahoe" and features stark shadow puppetry - featuring a dog moving through a stark landscape searching for its owner - perfectly compliments the music's haunting sense of dramatic longing.
Bush told NPR that despite the video's abbreviated running time, she intended the clip to be viewed as a complete work: "The video exists as a self-contained piece, it is called 'Eider Falls at Lake Tahoe'. It has all been created in camera with shadow puppets, one of my favorite art forms because of its simplicity. It is something that I've wanted to do for years and it was great fun to make."
To watch Kate Bush's new video go to href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/01/24/145698181/first-watch-kate-bushs-shadow-play">All Songs Considered.
50 Words For Snow features 7 new tracks set against a background of falling snow, with a total running time of 65 minutes; through a highly evocative musical and lyrical landscape. The record features a number of special guest musicians including Elton John.
Critical Acclaim For 50 Words For Snow:
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After seeing a sharp rise in women purchasing firearms and applying for concealed carry permits, employees at Johnson's Sporting Goods contacted the Lenawee County Conservation League to see if anything could be done to further educate women on handguns.
The result was "Ladies Night," a class tailored for women to learn more about guns that filled up quickly and retains a waiting list.
"There's been a stampede to buy firearms since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and it seems that even over the last four or five years there's been a steady increase in women buying defensive firearms," said Mark Smith, a salesperson at Johnson's, 3654 N. Adrian Highway, Adrian. "More women all the time are getting their concealed carry license and so they come into a shop like this looking for advice."
The class, held at the Conservation League, 1404 Sutton Road, Adrian, on most Wednesday nights, offers one-on-one instruction to each participant and focuses on individual needs and goals. The class is limited to 12 women, and the instructors volunteer their expertise.
"A lot of women decide they want a gun, take a concealed carry class, and that's all the shooting they've done," said class coordinator and conservation league board member Dave Starks. "They need practice shooting and becoming familiar with their firearm."
Starks said the class is not about self-defense or concealed carry, but focuses on anything from the basics to shooting skills.
"We talk to them and get to know them. They tell us what they want to learn and we teach each one based on that," Starks said. "It's not a structured thing, and each person might be doing something different. I've got ladies that want to practice shooting to ladies who have never shot a gun and want to learn how to load and shoot. If someone just wants to learn how to take it out of the box, we will go that basic."
"I love it. It's a great class," said Mary Davis, a class participant who works at ProMedica Bixby Hospital and recently purchased a 9mm Ruger pistol. She said she bought her gun for personal protection and enrolled in the class so she could learn how to shoot.
"The instructor you're assigned for each class teaches you everything you want to know about your gun," she said. "I want to know how to be safe, what to do if my gun jams, how to take my gun apart and clean it, and how to line up my sights."
Davis said learning so much about her weapon has not only helped her feel safer, it has interested her in competitive shooting as well.
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Gierke, a teacher at Symons Elementary School in Milan, said she has had instruction in the past and had just a few practices after she bought her first revolver.
"I wanted to feel comfortable and I was still nervous; I needed more confidence. I know that I needed someone standing with me and pointing out issues right away," Gierke said. "I found that I enjoy it and I'm actually pretty good at it. Because of this class, I have learned how to shoot a semi-automatic and I'm not afraid of it anymore. A gun is a powerful tool and you have to learn how to manipulate it."
"When I ask them why they take the class, most of the women say it's for protection," said Michelle Stuck, a retired Michigan State Police trooper and class instructor. "They want to feel safe and secure in their house and they want to know how to handle a gun."
Stuck, who taught firearms to academy cadets for two years, said she is happy to see more women taking an interest in firearms. Stuck herself competes on a pistol league.
Stuck's husband, Ed Stuck, also volunteers as an instructor. He is retired from the Ann Arbor Police Department and taught firearms to law enforcement for 25 years.
"I'm really pleased with this class. I've taught firearms for a long time, and I've found women are actually easier to teach," he said. "Women tend to be more apprehensive at first, but once they understand what to do and how things are supposed to be done, they retain the info very well and they are very fun to work with."
Ed Stuck said learning about guns in a nonjudging environment is important for women to become comfortable and empowered.
"Somewhere they decided that they need to protect themselves, and they had come to that decision on their own for whatever reason," he said. "Johnson's is selling a lot of guns and it's nice that they took the step to try to find some sort of instruction for women to become proficient and safe with them. I can't stress safety enough — it's a huge responsibility, and when you own a gun, it's your responsibility to become proficient and safe."
According to the Lenawee County Sheriff's Department, records show applications for concealed carry are on the rise, but records are not
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After seeing a sharp rise in women purchasing firearms and applying for concealed carry permits, employees at Johnson's Sporting Goods contacted the Lenawee County Conservation League to see if anything could be done to further educate women on handguns.