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Jason Ouellette is the Chief Architect for Appirio and author of Development with the Force.com Platform on which this article is based. Courtesy Addison-Wesley Professional. Copyright 2010 Pearson Education, Inc.
Phrases like "cloud computing" and "Platform as a Service" have many meanings put forth by many vendors. Cloud computing as a general concept spans every conceivable configuration of infrastructure. The potential benefits are reduced complexity and cost versus a traditional approach.The traditional approach is to invest in infrastructure by acquiring new infrastructure assets and staff or redeploying or optimizing existing investments. Cloud computing provides an alternative.
PaaS is a category within the umbrella of cloud computing. Cloud computing is a phrase to describe the movement of computing resources away from physical data centers or servers in a closet in your company and into the network, where they can be provisioned, accessed, and deprovisioned instantly.
Force.com is different from other PaaS solutions in its focus on business applications. Force.com is a part of Salesforce.com, which started as a SaaS Customer Relationship Management (CRM) vendor. But Force.com is unrelated to CRM. It provides the infrastructure commonly needed for any business application, customizable for the unique requirements of each business through a combination of code and configuration. This infrastructure is delivered to you as a service on the Internet.
Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google provide PaaS products. In this article I introduce the mainstream PaaS products and include brief descriptions of their functionality. Consult the Web sites of each company for further information.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services refers to a family of cloud computing products.The most relevant to PaaS is Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). EC2 is a general-purpose computing platform. You can provision virtual instances of Windows or Linux machines at will, loading them with your own custom operating-system image or one prebuilt by Amazon or the community. These instances run until you shut them down, and you are billed for usage of resources such as CPU, disk, and network.
A raw machine with an OS on it is a great start, but to build a business application requires you to install, manage access to, maintain, monitor, patch and upgrade, back up, plan to scale, and generally care and feed in perpetuity an application platform on the EC2 instance. If your organization has the skills to build on .NET, J2EE, LAMP, or other application stacks, plus the OS, database administration, and IT operations experience, EC2's virtual servers in the cloud could be a strong alternative to running your own servers in-house.
Amazon provides various other products that compliment EC2.These include Simple Queue Service (SQS) for publish-and-subscribe-style integration between applications, Simple DB for managing schemaless data, and Simple Storage Service (S3), a content repository.
Microsoft Azure Services Platform
At this writing, Microsoft's Windows Azure is not yet commercially available. Microsoft's entrance into the PaaS world will likely offer some unique value, particularly for companies seeking to leverage the cost savings of cloud computing but preserve their existing investments in .NET, SQL Server, SharePoint, and other Microsoft products. Azure is marketed as a blend of on-premise software and services in the cloud. It consists of two parts. The first part is Windows Azure, a new operating system that can utilize Microsoft's data centers for general computation and storage.The second part encompasses three categories of cloud services: .NET Services, SQL Services, and SharePoint Services. These services map to existing Microsoft products for computing, database, and collaboration.The intent is presumably to enable Microsoft's existing development community to pick and choose how their applications are partitioned between local and hosted resources without costly rewrites or redeployment. Pricing is not yet available, but Microsoft says it will charge for resource consumption, defined as some combination of CPU, network bandwidth, storage, and number of transactions.
Google App Engine
Google's App Engine is a platform designed for hosting Web applications. App Engine is like having an unlimited number of EC2 instances working for you, preconfigured with a distributed data store and Python or Java-based application server, but without the IT operations effort required by EC2. App Engine includes tools for managing the data store, monitoring your site and its resource consumption, and debugging and logging.
App Engine is free for up to 500MB of storage and 5 million page views per month.Applications requiring more storage or bandwidth can purchase it by setting a maximum daily dollar amount they're willing to spend, divided into five buckets: CPU time, bandwidth in, bandwidth out, storage, and email.
Force.com is targeted toward corporate application developers and independent software vendors. Unlike the other PaaS offerings, it does not expose developers directly to its own infrastructure. Developers do not provision CPU time, disk, or instances of running operating systems. Instead, Force.com provides a custom application platform centered around the relational database, one resembling an application server stack you might be familiar with from working with .NET, J2EE, or LAMP.
Although it integrates with other technologies using open standards such as SOAP and REST, the programming languages and metadata representations used to build applications are proprietary to Force.com. This is unique among the PaaS products but not unreasonable when examined in depth. Force.com operates at a significantly higher level of abstraction than the other PaaS products, promising dramatically higher productivity to developers in return for their investment and trust in a single-vendor solution.
Force.com is free for developers. Production applications are priced primarily by storage used and number of unique users.
Facebook is a Web site for connecting with your friends, but it also provides developers with ways to build their own socially aware applications.These applications leverage the Facebook service to create new ways for users to interact while online.The Facebook platform is also accessible to applications not built inside Facebook, exposing the "social graph" (the network of relationships between users) where permitted.
Much of the value of Facebook as a platform stems from its large user base and consistent -- yet extensible -- user experience. It is a set of services for adding social context to applications. Unlike Force.com and App Engine, for example, Facebook has no facility to host custom applications.
Force.com as a Platform
Force.com is different from other PaaS solutions in its focus on business applications. Force.com is a part of Salesforce.com, which started as a SaaS Customer Relationship Management (CRM) vendor. But Force.com is unrelated to CRM. It provides the infrastructure commonly needed for any business application, customizable for the unique requirements of each business through a combination of code and configuration.This infrastructure is delivered to you as a service on the Internet.
Since you are reading this article, you have probably developed a few business applications in your time. Consider the features you implemented and reimplemented in multiple applications, the unglamorous plumbing, wiring, and foundation work. Some examples are security, user identity, logging, profiling, integration, data storage, transactions, workflow, and reporting.This infrastructure is essential to your applications but expensive to develop and maintain. Business application developers do not code their own relational database kernels, windowing systems, or operating systems.This is basic infrastructure, acquired from software vendors or the open-source community and then configured to meet user requirements.What if you could do the same for your application infrastructure? This is the premise of the Force.com.
The following subsections list differentiating architectural features of Force.com with brief descriptions.
Multitenancy is an abstract concept, an implementation detail of Force.com, but one with tangible benefits for developers. Figure 1 shows a conceptual view of multitenancy. Customers access shared infrastructure, with metadata and data stored in the same logical database.
The multitenant architecture of Force.com consists of the following features:
- Shared infrastructure. Every customer (or tenant) of Force.com shares the same infrastructure.You are assigned a logical environment within the Force.com infrastructure.
At first some might be uncomfortable with the thought of handing their data to a third-party where it is co-mingled with that of competitors. Salesforce's whitepaper on its multitenant technology includes the technical details of how it works and why your data is safe from loss or spontaneous appearance to unauthorized parties.
- Single version There is only one version of the Force.com platform in production. The same platform is used to deliver applications of all sizes and shapes, used by 1 to 100,000 users, running everything from dog-grooming businesses to the Japanese national post office.
- Continuous, zero-cost improvements. When Force.com is upgraded to include new features or bug fixes, the upgrade is enabled in every customer's logical environment with zero to minimal effort required.
Salesforce can roll out new releases with confidence because it maintains a single version of its infrastructure and can achieve broad test coverage by leveraging tests, code, and configurations from their production environment.You, the customer, are helping maintain and improve Force.com in a systematic, measurable way as a side effect of simply using it. This deep feedback loop between the Force.com and its users is something impractical to achieve with on-premise software.
Relational Database. The heart of Force.com is the relational database provided as a service.The relational database is the most well-understood and widely used way to store and manage business data. Business applications typically require reporting, transactional integrity, summarization, and structured search, and implementing those on nonrelational data stores requires significant effort. Force.com provides a relational database to each tenant, one that is tightly integrated with every other feature of the platform. There are no Oracle licenses to purchase, no tablespaces to configure, no JDBC drivers to install, no ORM to wrangle, no DDL to write, no queries to optimize, and no replication and backup strategies to implement. Force.com takes care of all of this for you.
Application Services. Force.com provides many of the common services needed for modern business application development.These are the services you might have built or integrated repeatedly in your past development projects.They include logging, transaction processing, validation, workflow, email, integration, testing, reporting, and user interface.
These services are highly customizable with and without writing code.Although each service can be valued as an individual unit of functionality, there is tremendous value from their unification. All the features of Force.com are designed, built, and maintained by a single responsible party, Salesforce. Salesforce provides documentation for these features as well as support staff on-call, training and certification classes, and accountability to its customers for keeping things running smoothly.This is in contrast to many software projects that end up as a patchwork of open-source, best-of-breed tools and libraries glued together by you, the developer, asked to do more with fewer people, shorter timelines, and cheaper, often unsupported tools.
Declarative Metadata. Almost every customization configured or coded within Force.com is readily available as simple XML with a documented schema.At any point in time, you can ask Force.com for this metadata via a set of Web services.The metadata can be used to configure an identical environment or integrate with a source control system. It is also helpful for troubleshooting, allowing you to visually compare the state of two environments. Although there are a few features of Force.com not available in this declarative metadata form, Salesforce's stated product direction is to provide full coverage.
Programming Language. Force.com has its own programming language, called Apex. It allows developers to script interactions with other platform features, including the user interface. Its syntax is a blend of Java and database stored procedure languages like T/SQL and can be written using a Web browser or a plug-in to the Eclipse IDE.
Other platforms take a different approach. Google's App Engine simultaneously restricts and extends existing languages such as Python so that they play nicely in a PaaS sandbox. There are obvious benefits, such as leveraging the development community, ease of migration, and skills preservation. One way to understand Apex is as a domain-specific language. Force.com is not a general-purpose computing platform to run any Java or C# program you want to run. Apex is kept intentionally minimalistic, designed with only the needs of Force.com developers in mind, built within the controlled environment of Salesforce R&D. Although it won't solve every programming problem, Apex's specialized nature leads to some advantages in learning curve, code conciseness, ease of refactoring, and ongoing maintenance costs.


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Suppose $X$ is endowed with the trivial topology, e.g. $X$ and $\emptyset$ are the only open sets. For the sake of simplicity, I'll assume that $X$ is finite, $|X| = m$.
Now, the $n$-th module of the singular chain complex of $X$ should be a free $\mathbb{Z}$-module generated by the basis of every map from the n-simplex to $X$, since all those maps are continuous.
Looking back at the example of a single point space, the boundary operators could be described explicitly in terms of $n$ odd or even since the cardinality of the basis was always one. In this case, however, I fail to see what those maps are supposed to look like. I'd appreciate some hints on how to tackle this problem.


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I love the beautifully graphic Polar Bear Swim layout by Sarah (sterkeurs) which Lynn chose for this weeks Saturday Scraplift inspiration. My page started out very graphic . . . but, somehow morphed into what it is . . . the inspiration is still there . . . but not the graphic style anymore! The photo is of our eldest granddaughter dancing in her backyard with her baby sister.
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The Director
My name is Sean Christopher Lewis my story "ISN'T IT SLO-MANTIC" was part of last week's This American Life. You can listen to it here.
I would like to pitch a story to you. When I was in college I got offered the opportunity to audition for a famous avant garde director in Manhattan. I took off from school and headed down to an apartment in SOHO. There were no markings on the door. I rang but no one answered. i was a little early so I circled the block and came back. When I returned I rang again. An ominous voice said "hello?" And then buzzed me up. When I got off the elevator there was no one there to meet me. Just a long stretch of hallway leading to an open door. In the room it led to, there were nothing but stacks of books, a maze of shelves, and there around a corner... The Director.
He was looking at a book of nude photography- Helmet Lang- and told me to sit without ever looking at me. He then put down his book and said that he didn't know what he was doing there because he couldn't audition me. After all "what was an audition?" I was dumbfounded. This man was famous and according to my teachers this whole encounter would change my life. Quickly it seemed like a nightmare. So he told me to stare at him and make him feel like shit. wHICH i attempted- mumbling things the whole time- till he told me to shut up. He didn't "ask me to talk." Just stare. So i did. For a real long time. Until he got bored and said "all right boy I'm tired of that game. Now I want you to find a book on my shelves and i want you to read me a quote from one of them about how great I am."
And I started wondering how I got here. I had dreamed of meeting this person. Truly, a hero of mine. And here i was being barked at like a dog, demeaned- and willingly going along with it.
I found a book on the shelf with a Tristan Tzara quote and I read it. it talked about how the "Great one was a fool and a charlatan." He smiled and said "the great one! That is me. Now put my book back boy. i don't like people touching my things."
I wanted to hit him. For crushing my dream in front of me. I threw the book at his feet. And challenged him.
And he looked up, smiled and said: "Congratulations. You're cast."
This is obviously the synopsis of it all. But gives a sense of the over all story. As well, if you have a contributor's list like TAL for shows in progress that need stories I'd love to be added if you like.
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Update: The NHL-leading Ducks (14-3-1, 29 points) have won four consecutive games and are 7-0-0 at home. It's their best start to a season since they went 13-1-4, 30 points, to open 2006-07, when they went on to win the Stanley Cup championship. The Ducks' top line of left wing Dustin Penner, center Ryan Getzlaf and right wing Corey Perry is sizzling. Penner has eight points (one goal, seven assists) in his last five games, and the Ducks are 10-0-1 with him in their lineup. Penner's plus-minus defensive rating of plus-18 is the best in the league. Getzlaf has a team-leading 22 points (10 goals, 12 assists), and was second in the league in scoring after a four-point game in the Ducks' 6-2 win Friday over the Buffalo Sabres (three goals, one assist). Perry has 10 points (five goals, five assists) in his last eight games. The Canucks were 11-5-2, 24 points, going into Saturday's game against the Kings.
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Final Fantasy 10/10-2 HD Remaster Trailer: Release Date Magic
The second coming of Final Fantasy 10/10-2 HD Remaster has finally received a release date for the PlayStation 3. Sadly, no news of the PlayStation Vita version has been announced
A post on the PlayStation Blog revealed the final release date for the updated versions of Final Fantasy 10/10-2, now set for March 18, 2014. As further incentive for purchasing the Remaster, the Limited Edition has gotten an upgrade and will come with a gorgeous render of Tidus and Yuna on the packaging. In a similar fashion, the accompanying art book will have a new cover featuring Yoshitaka Amano's art.
The Limited Edition can be yours simply by pre-ordering the game. No news has been revealed about the PlayStation Vita version, but we'll update you as soon as more information and a release date for it have been announced.


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Yanking our chain (reaction): Though we'd rather see Novak Djokovic participate in another sort of chain, this one — involving a HEAD racquet, two geeks, and a whole lot of tennis balls — will suffice for now.
The racquet company's newest campaign had the current ATP World No. 2 drumming up an idea for a chain reaction set-up triggered by swinging at a tennis ball (and eventually hitting a target).
To make it interesting, he and his friends upped the ante: if the experiment succeeded, Nole's friends would have to wear pink bunny suits to one of his matches. If it failed, he'd have to wear the bunny costume to practice. (As long as tennis forever associates pink bunnies with Djokovic, we don't really care how this turns out!)
Video: So how'd Nole fare? Check out the video above (it's kinda sweet, so we'd rather not spoil it). And when you're done, you can look at background info here.
Rewind: As you may remember, Djokovic was also the star of the "Speed Lessons" campaign, which came out a year ago.
Fast-forward: Brit Andy Murray's next up to bat. His video will be shot in the coming weeks and will debut later this year.
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Juniors Kerrianne Dugan and Leanne Crockett both recorded double-doubles to lead Central Connecticut State University (2-3) to a 61-43 road victory over Colgate (5-1) on Saturday afternoon. Dugan led the Blue Devils' with game highs of 14 points and 12 rebounds, while Crockett tallied 12 points and 10 boards for her fourth double-double in five games this season.
CCSU scored the first nine points to open the second half to take a 36-25 lead with 13:38 remaining in the game. It was a cushion the Blue Devils wouldn't let go of the rest of the game as they never led by less than nine the rest of the game. The stretch was highlighted by a traditional three point play from freshman Brooke Bailey off a no-look pass from sophomore Shontice Simmons.
A 10-2 run in a three minute span of three layups by Crockett and two by Dugan gave Central a 49-31 lead with 7:47 left to play. Colgate came back with a 10-2 run of its own, but it was not enough as the Blue Devils left with the 61-43 victory.
After Crockett scored the first two points of the game on a jumper from the righ baseline, CCSU went scoreless for the next eight miuntes, giving Colgate a 7-2 lead 8:20 into the opening period. Two free throws and a fast break layup by Simmons with a forced turnover by the Blue Devil press in between, got Central right back into the game at 7-6.
CCSU took the lead for the first time since 2-0 when Simmons hit a three-pointer to make it 16-15. The next trip down court freshman Kirsten Daamen missed a jumper, but Bailey saved it from falling out of bounds by throwing it over her shoulder to a wide open Daamen who connected on her second opportunity. Bailey then stole the ball at half court and fed Simmons for another fastbreak layup to take a 20-15 lead with 00:00 remaining in the half.
The Blue Devils went into halftime with a 27-25 lead after a three-pointer by Colgate's junior Sami Kozlowski. CCSU recorded only eight turnovers and held a 23-16 rebounding advantage at the break.
Dugan and Crockett led the Blue Devils with 14 and 12 points, respectively, and were the first pair of CCSU teammates to record double-doubles in the same game since Dugan and junior Justina Udenze achieved the feat against St. Francis (NY) on February 21 of last season. Crockett added a game high five steals in the victory.
Simmons finished the game with nine points, eight rebounds and three assists, while sophomore Gabrielle Oglesby chipped in with 10 points in the victory. The freshman duo of Bailey and Daamen recorded five and seven points, respectively. The former finished with six rebounds, while the latter tallied four boards and a block for the Blue Devils.
Kozlowski led the Raiders with 14 points in the defeat, while sophomore Candace Green chipped in with nine points on three three-pointers for Colgate.
Central picked up its first road vicory of the season and is now 2-3. The Blue Devils will next host Rhode Island on Wednesday, December 2 and 7:00 p.m.
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Lorde Performs 'Royals' at the 2014 Grammy Awards, Wins Pop Solo Performance [VIDEO]
The second performance of the 2014 Grammys was by none other than newcomer Lorde, who performed her smash hit 'Royals.'
The 17-year-old New Zealand native showed off her vocal chops -- along with her dark fashion sense -- during the performance, wearing a sleeveless white button-down shirt with black pants, her trademark dark lipstick and black lacquered nails.
The singer, who is up for four awards tonight, accompanied the song with a few jerky dance moves as she was backed by a keyboardist and drummer. The controversial pop star kept her eyes closed as she belted out the song that has taken over the airwaves.
Later in the night, her song won her a Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance. She seemed humbled and honored to be on stage. Check out her speech below!


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The University of Indianapolis is featuring a solo exhibition of work by Katherine Sullivan of the HopeCollege art faculty.
The exhibition is on display in the university's Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery, and opened with a reception on Friday, Sept. 5, and is continuing through Friday, Sept. 26. In conjunction with the exhibition, Sullivan has been invited to the university as a visiting artist, to present a public lecture on Monday, Sept. 29, concerning her work and to engage in conversation with several classes of art majors on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 29 and 30. Local interest in the exhibition has included interviews with area media.
The exhibition of 19 pieces - seven paintings and 12 works on paper--is titled "Katherine Sullivan: Body Electric." As described by the university, "the exhibition features a series of figurative images that engages the language of contemporary painting, simultaneously representing the formal tensions inherent in the medium as the figures appear to be both still and moving, recognizable and abstract, spatial and flat, graphic and painterly."
Sullivan is an assistant professor of art at Hope, where she has taught since 2003. Her work has been featured in a variety of solo exhibitions, including at the SaugatuckCenter for the Arts, where she is also serving as an invited lecturer; the Handwerker Gallery of Ithaca College in New York; and the Gebben Gray Gallery in Fennville.
She has held three residencies in painting since 2006, most recently a one-month artist's residency at the VirginiaCenter for the Creative Arts (VCCA) in December 2007. In 2006 she was awarded artist's residencies by both the Vermont Studio Center in Johnstown and Cooper Union in New York City.
The gallery of the college's De Pree Art Center featured her work in an exhibition in 2004, and she has also collaborated with the college's department of dance on a variety of projects during her time at Hope.
Sullivan received her BFA from the University of Michigan, and in 2001 received her MFA in painting and drawing from BostonUniversity, where she was a recipient of the Richard Ryan Memorial Award. She has done additional study at the Chautauqua Institute, the New York Studio School and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
The Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery of the University of Indianapolis is located at 1400 E. Hanna Ave. in Indianapolis, and is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays. Sullivan's lecture on Monday, Sept. 29, will be at the center at 6:30 p.m. Admission to the gallery and the Sept. 29 address is free.


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Allegri to leave Milan in summer
Massimiliano Allegri will leave his role as AC Milan coach in the summer after a troubled season at the San Siro.
The Rossoneri are 13th in the Serie A table, 17 points outside the Champions League places and 27 behind league leaders Juventus.
The pressure has been building on the former Cagliari boss, who guided Milan to the Serie A title in 2011, and he now admits his time at the helm is coming to an end.
"Of course this is my last Christmas at AC Milan," he told Gazzetta dello Sport.
"I do not know who will be the new coach, that is a problem that does not concern me."
Dutchman Clarence Seedorf, a former Milan midfielder, has been heavily tipped to take the reins in the Italian media but Allegri is not looking that far ahead and is hoping to win the Coppa Italia to secure European soccer in his final season at the San Siro.
Allegri's men face Spezia in the last 16 on January 15 and that looks to be their best chance to make the Europa League as they currently sit 12 points behind fifth-placed Inter Milan.
"We did what we needed, in three seasons, the team and I, we got the results we were asked to," he added.
"Unfortunately now the third place is far away, but there is the Coppa Italia, which becomes a good option to leave AC Milan to remain in Europe."
Milan are still in this season's Champions League and will take on Atletico Madrid in the last 16.
While the club have yet to confirm Allegri's impending departure, they announced on Tuesday that long-serving general manager Ariedo Braida was leaving his post.
Braida took up his role in 1986 and during his tenure the cub won eight Scudettos and five European Cups.
"AC Milan thanks Ariedo Braida, who now leaves the company," read a statement on www.acmilan.com.
"He has been an invaluable collaborator for a long time, characterised by prestigious results thanks to his important work.
"After 28 years at Milan, he has the colours in his soul.
"The streets of Ariedo Braida and Milan are separated today, after so many triumphs and many players acquired in recent years thanks to his insights and observations.
"He was the first to see Marco van Basten and Andriy Shevchenko live, who shortly afterwards, thanks to his advice, joined the Rossoneri.
"Braida was also important in other delicate negotiations such as those relating to the acquisition of Kaka and Thiago Silva, with an increasingly prominent position.
"Much more than a general manager, but a strong and safe man for the team.
"Thanks again Ariedo, for these 28 years of success."


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'Tollbooth' Author Norton Juster Plays Not My Job
Fifty years ago, a young architect named Norton Juster decided to procrastinate by writing a children's book; his roommate, a young cartoonist named Jules Feiffer, did all the illustrations. The result was The Phantom Tollbooth, which has since become a beloved children's classic.
Since Juster knows enough about The Phantom Tollbooth already, we've invited him to answer three questions about The Phantom Menace.
And now, a game where we reward someone for being special by asking them about something ordinary. Fifty years ago, a young architect decided to procrastinate by writing a children's book. He had his roommate, a young cartoonist named Jules Feiffer, do the pictures.
"The Phantom Tollbooth" has been hailed as a classic of children's literature. It has just been released in a commemorative 50th Anniversary Edition and an annotated edition. And I am pleased to have its author join us now. Norton Juster, welcome to WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!
NORTON JUSTER: Thank you, thank you.
SAGAL: Now, as anybody who knows anything about me knows, this is my favorite book ever, and I could probably recite it from memory. But for those who are fortunate in that they haven't encountered it yet, so therefore can for the first time, could you describe the book?
JUSTER: Well, it's a book about a little boy, about 10 years old, who hates school, doesn't really understand why he has to learn anything and doesn't believe anything adults tell him and doesn't understand anything about them and they don't understand anything about him.
SAGAL: This is true...
JUSTER: In short, it was me.
SAGAL: It's also me, but it's me now. That's the scary part.
SAGAL: But go on.
JUSTER: He comes home from school one day, finds someone has left a big package, which is a toll booth, assembles it, goes through the toll booth and ends up in a kind of crazy land where all rhyme and reason has been banished. And he has a series of adventures with a lot of word play, a lot of crazy things happening and a lot of fun.
SAGAL: It just occurred to me, you were living in New York. You wrote a book about traveling through a toll booth that leads you to a wild, strange place filled with crazy people, where there's no rhyme or reason. It's a book about going to Jersey, isn't it?
JUSTER: It's a book about passing through Jersey.
SAGAL: I guess so.
SAGAL: And you had your friend, your actual roommate in Brooklyn was Jules Feiffer?
JUSTER: Yes, we met when I was in the Navy. I had a stationing at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and they said I could live off-base. And I moved into a disreputable basement room and he was living on the second floor. And he would look over stuff I was writing, and I'd get discouraged, and he would be a great help to me by always telling me that writing a book was a terrific way to meet girls.
SAGAL: How'd that work out?
JUSTER: Well, it didn't work out so well, because I never met anybody over 11.
SAGAL: Yeah.
SAGAL: What was the reaction to the book when it came out?
JUSTER: It was kind of unanimous, it was not a children's book. The vocabulary was too difficult for kids. The situations and the things I talked about were way out of their understanding. The word play and the punning, they would never get. And to top it off, they told me that fantasy was bad for children because it disoriented them.
SAGAL: Speaking as a child who liked fantasy that was the point.
JUSTER: Right.
SAGAL: And so they told you it wasn't going to work. And then the book came out and what happened?
JUSTER: Well, it began to get some very nice reviews. You know, for me, I think the only reason the book came out is because I did absolutely everything wrong.
SAGAL: How so?
JUSTER: A friend took it to an editor at Random House, who it turned out was not a children's book editor, which I think is probably the only reason it got published. And I had never written any kind of book, no less a children's book, and Jules had never illustrated a children's book. And everything we did step by step was exactly wrong and it all seemed to work out perfectly.
JUSTER: I think there's a lesson there but I don't want to know what it is.
SAGAL: Exactly.
SAGAL: I should say, when you talk about word play, the book is filled with these elaborate sort of tricks and games and jokes. For example...
JUSTER: Oh yeah.
SAGAL: ...there's the cart that moves when nobody says anything because it goes without saying.
JUSTER: Right, exactly.
SAGAL: It goes to the banquet where everybody has to eat their words.
JUSTER: Yeah.
SAGAL: There's the Island of Conclusions which you can only get to by jumping to.
JUSTER: Jump to, of course.
SAGAL: Jump to Conclusions.
SAGAL: It's actually interesting because he comes back from this amazing adventure, at the end of the book, and then he wants to go back and the phantom tollbooth is gone.
JUSTER: Right.
SAGAL: And he starts to say to myself, oh my gosh, I want to go back and I won't be able to go back. But then he says, but you know what, this world, the real world is so much more interesting, I don't think I'd have time to go back to the magical wonderful place where I had these adventures because it's so much more interesting here. And I...
JUSTER: That was my way of getting out of it, of course.
SAGAL: Yeah.
SAGAL: I swear to you, if you can think of a 10-year-old little Jewish boy in New Jersey holding up his book and going "you're crazy." Find the toll booth.
SAGAL: So now that I've got you, I'm like "what was he thinking, Mr. Juster? It's so much better there."
JUSTER: Right. Well the one thing you have to understand, which I think we don't, even to this day, is that we constantly underestimate what kids will understand or what they can deal with. And I think that's what I was trying to get at in the book.
That they understand a lot more and the really fortunate ones carry that special understanding into their adulthood. And if you lose that, I think you lose something very important.
SAGAL: I guess that's true, and I guess I lost it.
SAGAL: Now, "The Phantom Tollbooth" was made into a move back in 1970. I mean, did you see it? What'd you think of it?
JUSTER: Well, I avoided it for several years because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I live in Amherst, Massachusetts where the University of Massachusetts is, and one day there was a little notice in the paper that the film club was putting on a double feature. And the first was a horror film called "Buckets of Blood."
JUSTER: And the second was "The Phantom Tollbooth."
SAGAL: Sure, why not?
JUSTER: Well, I got all the way through "Buckets of Blood," but I only lasted about 20 minutes...
SAGAL: Really?
JUSTER: ...in "The Phantom Tollbooth." Right.
SAGAL: Why? What was wrong?
JUSTER: Well, it was just very different than the way I had visualized it. And I think every author probably hates the films that are made of his work.
SAGAL: So it's crazy, it's the 50th anniversary of the publication of "The Phantom Tollbooth." It doesn't seem possible.
BRIAN BABYLON: Fifty years?
SAGAL: Fifty years. Well it came out...
JUSTER: I wrote it when I was four.
SAGAL: And what a precocious young man you were.
SAGAL: All right, Norton Juster, what a pleasure to have you here. We have invited you here to play a game we're calling?
CARL KASELL: Let's call it The Phantom Something. Kids love that.
JUSTER: I'll take that, yes.
SAGAL: So you wrote "The Phantom Tollbooth," which is universally loved. George Lucas made "The Phantom Menace," which is universally hated but made a boatload of money. Go figure.
SAGAL: We're going to ask you three questions about "The Phantom Menace." Get two questions right, you'll win our prize.
SAGAL: You'll win our prize for one of our listeners, Carl's voice on their home answering machine. Carl, who is author Norton Juster playing for?
KASELL: He is playing for Eileen Fordonski of White Salmon, Washington
JUSTER: Boy, I hope I don't fail her.
SAGAL: It's all right. It's an adventure. Have you ever seen "The Phantom Menace," by the way?
JUSTER: No.
SAGAL: Oh great.
SAGAL: Now, George Lucas, the director of course, was known for his high tech approach to filmmaking. For example, the communicating device that Liam Neeson's character uses in the film is actually what? Is it A: An Apple iPhone, almost a decade before it was officially invented? B: A painted over empty soda can? Or C: A modified Sensor Excel Razor for Women?
JUSTER: Let's see which one it will be. I think it was the iPhone.
SAGAL: The iPhone? An Apple iPhone ten years before it was invented?
JUSTER: Sure.
SAGAL: Why not?
SAGAL: Actually, no it was the razor; it was the Sensor Excel Razor for women.
JUSTER: I knew that all along.
SAGAL: You can tell it - the give, the tell is when Liam Neeson uses it at one key point to shave his legs.
SAGAL: All right, next question: the lead of the film was played by a young boy named Jake Lloyd. He was 10 when the movie was released. The movie changed his life, of course. What was the next stage of his career?
A: He recreated the role in a musical version of "The Phantom Menace" that played for eight years in Branson, Missouri.
SAGAL: B: He quit acting entirely because he got teased so much by kids who made light saber noises when he walked by? Or C: He changed his name to Zac Ephron, and has done pretty well for himself?
JUSTER: I think I'm going to lose again here, I think it was probably the first one.
SAGAL: That he went to Branson, Missouri.
SAGAL: To perform in a musical version of "The Phantom Menace."
JUSTER: It sounds like something I would do.
SAGAL: So you're sure about that one, are you?
JUSTER: I'm not sure about anything.
JUSTER: I'll change it then.
SAGAL: All right.
SAGAL: I just want you to remember how much I love that book. That's basically what I'm saying.
PAULA POUNDSTONE: You've rallied the support of the crowd, Norton.
JUSTER: Well I'll take the second one then.
SAGAL: You're going to take that he got teased?
JUSTER: Yeah.
SAGAL: You're right.
SAGAL: Lloyd told a British tabloid that he got so tired of the teasing that he quit acting and threw out all his Star Wars toys. The last question; the movie was notorious for the character of Jar Jar Binks, a computer generated alien that everyone hated.
Critic Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal called the character what? A: "A "Rastafarian Stepin Fetchit on platform hoofs, crossed annoyingly with Butterfly McQueen?" B: "The cinematic equivalent of having dull nails pounded into your forehead?" Or C: "The most tragic thing to happen in a movie theater since Shoah?"
JUSTER: I'll take number three.
SAGAL: I should have known you'd go right for the holocaust humor. I should have, knowing your work as you do, I should have anticipated that would be your. Are you sure you don't want to pick again maybe?
JUSTER: OK, I pick number one.
POUNDSTONE: There you go.
SAGAL: Very good. You're right, yes.
JUSTER: Wait a minute, have you got a number four?
SAGAL: No, no, no, it's too late. You've already...
SAGAL: You can't give a man a gift some days. Carl, how did Norton Juster do on our quiz?
KASELL: Norton had two correct answers, so he wins...
POUNDSTONE: All right.
KASELL: He wins for Eileen Fordonski.
SAGAL: It never occurred to me, for all those years I was reading and enjoying your book that some day I would end up desperately helping you cheat.
SAGAL: Norton Juster is the author of "The Phantom Tollbooth," the classic of children's literature, now out in a 50th Anniversary edition. Norton Juster, thank you so much for joining us.
JUSTER: Oh, thank you, I appreciate it.
SAGAL: Bye-bye.
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The park is located between Harbor Springs and Petoskey, both known for their shopping districts, local arts and crafts shops, shows and restaurants. There are no boat launch facilities in the park, but Harbor Springs and Petoskey each have several launches that provide access to Little Traverse Bay. Many nearby inland lakes also have boat launches. Fishing, jet-skiing and water-skiing are popular activities in the area.
The Oden Fish Hatchery is a short drive from the park and one of the most advanced facitilies of its kind. For anyone interested in how brook and brown trout are raised, this is the premier destination.
- Petoskey State Park is known for its stone collecting opportunities. Petoskey Stones, which are found in abundance and can be polished and made into various items or used for display. The stone is actually a fossilized coral from the Devonian Period (350 million years ago). These ancient corals are found only in the rock strata called Gravel Point Formation, which is a combination of limestone and shale. This particular formation is restricted to the Little Traverse Bay area.
The park has two separate campgrounds. Tannery Creek offers 98 campsites and Dunes offers 70 campsites. All of the sites have electric hookups and modern bathroom and shower facilities. Camping facilities are open April 1 to December 1. The modern toilets are not available the first and last months. There are two mini-cabins available for rent in the park. The cabins have been named the Trillium and the Orchid. Both have electricity, two sets of bunk beds, a table and four chairs. A picnic table, fire ring, and a grill are available outside the cabin.The day use area of Petoskey State Park includes a picnic ground with tables and grills, a children's playground, a beach house and a mile-long beach for swimming and sunbathing.
There are no boat launch facilities in the park, but Harbor Springs and Petoskey each have several launches that provide access to Little Traverse Bay. Many nearby inland lakes also have boat launches. Fishing and water sports are popular activities in the area.
Two trails run through Petoskey State Park. Old Baldy Trail includes a stairway that leads up Old Baldy, a stable dune that is one of the attractions in the park. After climbing the dune, the view that is available of the bay is breathtaking. The Portage Trail winds through very diverse terrain where a nature lover may find different species of plants and wildlife.
Cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, winter hiking, and nature study are all popular winter activities. Snowmobiling is prohibited in the park.
The park is located quite close to the towns of Harbor Springs and Petoskey. They both are known for their shopping districts, local arts and crafts shops, shows and restaurants.
Recreation - Rock collecting is one of the main attraction s of Petoskey State Park. Visitors combine rock collecting with camping, boating, fishing, hiking, and an array of winter activities.
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Climate - The Straits normally experiences mild summers with average temperatures around 70 degrees F (21 degrees C). Winter temperatures average 14 - 18 degrees F (-10 to -8 degrees C). Yearly rain and snowmelt in the region averages 28 - 36 inches but can be dramatically altered by the "lake effect," thus depositing significant amounts of snow within a short period of time causing hazardous road conditions.
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Petoskey State Park is located on Lake Michigan's Little Traverse Bay about midway between Harbor Springs and Petoskey. To reach the park take US-31 north of Petoskey to M-119 and go west 1.5 miles.
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- "At once, Katie rose into the air... gracefully, her arms outstretched, as though she was about to fly. Yet there was something wrong, something eerie... Her hair whipped her by the fierce wind, but her eyes were closed and her face was quite empty of expression... Then, six feet above the ground, Katie let out a terrible scream. Her eyes flew open but whatever she could see, or whatever she was feeling, was clearly causing her terrible anguish."
- —Effects of the opal necklace on Katie Bell[src]
The Opal Necklace[1] is a cursed Dark object, made of opals, that was, for a period of time, on sale at Borgin and Burkes. It was claimed to have taken the lives of nineteen different Muggles. It was also used by Draco Malfoy in a failed attempt to assassinate Albus Dumbledore, that ended up cursing Katie Bell instead.
In 1992 when Harry Potter mistakenly went to Borgin and Burkes instead of Diagon Alley, he saw the necklace and read the label, "Do not Touch! Cursed. Has claimed the lives of nineteen Muggle owners to date."
In 1996, four years later, the necklace was purchased at Borgin and Burkes by Draco Malfoy, under the orders of Lord Voldemort.[2] During the first Hogsmeade trip of the 1996–1997 school year, Draco Malfoy, having detention with McGonagall, had cast an Imperius Curse on Madam Rosmerta.[3] She in turn, cast another Imperius Curse on student Katie Bell. Bell was ordered to take a package containing the opal necklace to Filch, saying it was from Rosmerta[3], who would take it into the castle past the Secrecy Sensor to Albus Dumbledore when he returned. Dumbledore would later comment to Malfoy that he believed this to be a crude and desperate method of assassination.[3]
Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger witnessed Bell arguing with her friend, Leanne, as they were heading back to Hogwarts. They noted that Katie did not seem 'herself,' acting dazed and detached. During the course of the argument, the package ripped, and the necklace touched Katie's skin through a minuscule hole in her glove. Katie rose gracefully into the air, screaming in terror, with Leanne screaming in terror as well and attempting to pull her down. Ron and Hermione attempted to help while Harry ran off to find someone, bumping into Hagrid and leading him back to the group.
After learning the nature of the event, Hagrid carried Katie to the castle, accompanied by Harry and his two friends, who handed over the necklace to Professor Severus Snape, through the Caretaker Argus Filch. Snape was able to stop the curse from spreading any further, but Katie was taken to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, where she spent much of that year recovering from the effects of the curse.[2]
The necklace has a very deadly curse placed on it. When it makes physical contact on the victim, the curse would spread rapidly on the recipient, the level of the effect dependent on the amount of contact made. If simply brushed against a small amount of skin, then the victim would enter a trance of emptiness, levitate gracefully but eerily six feet above, then suffer such anguish that they will scream and thrash so wildly that they cannot recognise anything around them and fall back down, and if left untreated by a powerful enough counter-curse, it would lead to the curse spreading further and eventually death.
Even after such treatment has been administered, it would take the victim around six months to fully recover at an institute such as St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
Should a person be unfortunate enough to hold the necklace barehanded or wear it, it would cause death, perhaps instantly. Preventing the curse from affecting the holder would require avoiding any direct contact with the necklace, such as gloves or packaging paper.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter: The Character Vault
Notes and references
- ↑ Pottermore - From the Story: Opal Necklace
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 27 (The Lightning-Struck Tower)


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San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed really hit the nail on the head Saturday night at our groundbreaking announcement when he said: "San Jose has long been the home of professional soccer, but professional soccer has never had a home to call its own here, and this is going to make it happen." Now, we have an opportunity to begin a new era of Earthquakes soccer.
Our organization was proud to announce the official groundbreaking date for our new stadium over the weekend and we were even happier to celebrate that announcement with our fans in the Epicenter. While it has been a long and strange journey for many Quakes fans and the community to achieve this special milestone, the important thing is that we made it and have a truly world class facility on tap for the community to enjoy at the beginning of the 2014 season.
It was great to have the mayor at the event because without his leadership, especially in the face of many obstacles on the entitlement and development process, the stadium would never have happened. As important, our dedicated ownership group of Lew Wolff and John Fisher had the vision back in 2006 when the club was sent off to Houston to re-invest and bring the Quakes back to life. We owe them a debt of gratitude for that courageous gesture. Finally, despite all the twists and turns, the local soccer community, especially Soccer Silicon Valley, has always been there for us. Their unwavering support helped move the process forward and get us to this historic day.
The impact of having our own stadium cannot be exaggerated. It will transform the club into one of the premier sports properties not only in the Bay Area but also in North America. It will allow us to compete with the other MLS teams that have long had more resources for players. It will inspire future generations of soccer players to develop in the shadow of the 18,000-seat facility on city funded community fields. These kids will have the opportunity to work toward donning our colors at the academy level and, hopefully, the first team and national level. This has always been the dream. Now, that vision is becoming a reality on Oct. 21 at high noon when we break ground on our privately financed stadium.
I was thrilled with the turnout at the announcement before the Rapids match. The event was as much an old fashioned rally as a press conference. That speaks to the passion of the fan base and the excitement and anticipation over the stadium and its progress. The Ultras stole the show with their chants and energy – well done!
Such a momentous occasion deserves a memorable event and that is exactly what we have planned in attempting to break the Guinness World record for the largest participatory groundbreaking ever. I really need everyone's help in getting the word out on Guinness World Record attempt. Please register as soon as possible to ensure that you will get one of the 6,000 shovels. I want to shatter the 4,532-person record from Jaipur, India. I know our dedicated and passionate fan base can make that happen.
A couple of other key updates on the stadium:
- Club Seats: Our club seats are completely sold out. This is a strong indication of the market for soccer here in the Bay Area and the interest in the stadium. We were happy to see both existing diehard fans as well as new season ticket holders sign up for these truly unique seats at the pitch level.
- Supporters Section: After close coordination with the Ultras and Casbah, we have expanded this section for supporters in the closed end zone. We recognize the importance of our supporters groups and want to make sure they have an area that is their own and large enough to accommodate their growing numbers.
- Party Decks: We have added two party decks in the upper corners of the enclosed end of the stadium. These will be great areas for group outings and will provide an awesome viewpoint of the action.
As always, I am happy to answer any questions on twitter @QuakesPrez or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Alternatively, I have my weekly office hours on Tuesdays between 3-5 p.m. I hope to see everyone out for the match this Sunday when we take on Chivas USA.


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Just a few quick notes today on the Panther men's hoop game yesterday. Senior captain Tim Edwards was kind enough to talk to me for almost five minutes afterward and reflect back on his four years with the Middlebury College program as well as the Panthers' exciting rally against Trinity.
Not everything fit in the article that will come out tomorrow, which will focus on how the Panthers came back from five points down with six minutes to go, and how Trinity used a smart game plan to put Middlebury in the hole.
The Panthers, by the way, have done enough to reach the NCAA Division III tournament. No one will come out and say it, of course, but they made it two years ago when they were 19-7 and won a first-round NESCAC playoff game. Now they are 23-2 and again have won a first-round NESCAC playoff game. The only question is how much they have to do this coming weekend to host at least one tourney game, if the Panthers haven't done enough already.
But on to Edwards. He laughed about the parents-and-girlfriends crowds the Panthers used to draw. On Saturday more than 1,100 people paid their way to attend, even though the games are usually free.
"We've had games where there were like 80 people in the gym," Edwards said about his first couple years.
On Saturday, the football team helped set the tone. Mostly fun, but I still wish they would lose the vestiges of the "you suck" chant that cropped up a couple times. But the signs with blown-up photos of their football teammate Bill Greven and Andrew "Locke Ness Monster" Locke, the Panthers 6-10 shot blocker, were priceless, as was their game-long energy.
Or as Edwards put it: "It's definitely a much different crowd. You get some students who are a little more rowdy than the parents. It's great to get the support, and it's definitely a huge 180 from my freshman year."
Edwards also talked about why he picked Middlebury, which was not exactly a basketball factory. He talked about the facilities, the academics, the players who were there (he named Andrew Harris, Ben Rudin, Mike Walsh and Evan Thompson), and, of course, Coach Jeff Brown. "Obviously, the school speaks for itself. I liked the young players they had here," Edwards said. "Coach Brown is a great coach."
With what's happened since, Edwards said he "couldn't be happier" with his decision.
Hard to argue.
On the Ball will be back late Monday afternoon once the Division II high school boys' basketball seeds are out and I have a chance to analyze the draw.
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RALEIGH � At one point during North Carolina State�s game with Boston College, Wolfpack coach Mark Gottfried crouched down into a defensive stance and implored his team to stop the Eagles.
At times N.C. State�s defense was smothering and at other times, like in the first half, it was lax, but in the end it came through, fueling an 82-64 victory Wednesday night at PNC Arena.
�I thought defense was the biggest key for most of the game, especially in the second half and early in the game,� Gottfried said. �We got down in our defensive stances, moved our feet and communicated better than we have in other games. We had a lot of deflections and we turned those deflections into fast breaks.�
N.C. State forward Scott Wood knows his team, despite being a high-scoring outfit, must be tough on the defensive end of the court in order to be successful.
�We know when we guard like that, we are a good team,� said Wood, who scored 17 points on five 3-pointers and a couple of free throws.
Gottfried put his team through a couple of grueling practices emphasizing defense leading up to the game. Those practices got the desired results as Wolfpack scored 13 points off turnovers, 25 on fast breaks and held the Eagles to 38.9 percent shooting for the game.
�On Monday and Tuesday, the whole practices were mainly focused on defense,� Wolfpack guard Lorenzo Brown said. �We all did a great job executing the defense (tonight).�
Freshman Rodney Purvis scored a season-high 21 points for N.C. State (20-8 overall, 9-6 Atlantic Coast Conference). Brown (11 points, six assists) flashed a couple of highlight-worthy passes in transition and C.J. Leslie rebounded, literally and figuratively, from his no-show performance against North Carolina on Saturday.
�Rodney has been working his tail off,� Brown said of backcourt mate.
Leslie accounted for 10 points and nine rebounds and was a defensive force in the middle with three blocked shots. He was called out by Gottfried after the loss to North Carolina, though he said he didn�t know what his coach said.
�I came out and tried to be aggressive, play smooth and calm and not rush things,� Leslie said. �I wanted to get back out here.�
The Wolfpack is at its best when the defense creates turnovers. It allows the Wolfpack to score in transition and that�s what happened at the start of the game.
N.C. State bolted to a 22-6 lead at the 8:58 mark of the opening half behind a switching, swarming defense. At that point, the Wolfpack seemed in control and the Wolfpack faithful was rocking.
Boston College (12-16, 4-11) found its shooting touch beginning with a dunk by Dennis Clifford followed by consecutive 3-pointers from Lonnie Jackson (2) and Joe Rahon to pull within 22-17 with 6:15 remaining before intermission.
Wood explained how Boston College got back in the game as �a little bit of us letting up and partly them hitting shots and getting shots off the pick and roll.�
The teams traded baskets for the remainder of the first half before Jackson and Wood hit shots in the waning seconds. Jackson nailed a 3. Wood had his 3-point attempt blocked, but he retrieved the ball, dodged a defender and sank an off-balance 3 as the buzzer sounded.
�That�s always a big thing when you can score on the last possession before the half,� Gottfried said. �Those are things you have to take advantage of.�
The Wolfpack rode that hot streak into the second half, roaring to a 49-34 cushion with a 10-0 run.


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May 17, 2018
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Julius Curry, owner of Julius Curry Racing, acquired ownership of the No. 33 truck in the NASCR Camping World Truck series. The No. 33 truck is driven by Josh Reaume. The pair raced their first race as an owner-driver tandem at the Kansas Speedway at the KC Masterpiece 400 on May 11.
"I'm very excited to retain ownership of the No. 33 truck," said Curry. "I'm very passionate about bringing NASCAR and the motorsports to new audiences. I believe that motorsports are ripe for growth and by diversifying the face of ownership, we'll be able to begin to cultivate a new generation of owners and drivers. My goal is to make motorsports accessible and a viable option to everyone across generations, creeds, gender and ethnicities."
Curry, who gained full ownership of the truck on prior to the Masterpiece 400, was previously in a long-term partnership with Reaume and his ownership team of Reaume Bros Racing. The partners have raced in four races this season and will run the entire Camping World Truck Series schedule this season.
"This is a very exciting time of growth for our team," said Reaume. "I'm thrilled to have Julius come on board as the owner of the No. 33 truck and I'm looking forward to working alongside one another this season. With a background in sports marketing and decades working in various forms of professional sports, Julius will be a valuable asset to the team. The partnership between Reaume Brothers Racing and JC Racing will act as a catalyst for our organization and will enhance our platform in many ways. Both Julius and I are extremely thankful to all our existing marketing partners and we can't wait to see what the future holds."
A former NFL and collegiate football player at the University of Michigan, Curry, is no stranger to NASCAR. In 2006, he formed Curry Racing Inc., to compete in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and became the first African-American team in the Craftsman Truck series to have sole minority ownership.
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Zig Ziglar�s 86 years of life came filled with accomplishment. He authored 20 books and spoke to audiences around the world. He touched the lives of millions of people directly and indirectly as an evangelist of encouragement. And he touched mine in a powerful way in several specific personal incidents. He was famous for memorable quotes that stick with the listener for a lifetime. � Ziggisms � like these continually flood my mind:
�You can get everything in life you want and long as you help other people get what they want.�
�Persistence is the key. A big shot is just a little shot that kept on shooting.�
�Failure is an event. Not a person.�
�I am so optimistic that I would go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.�
Zig may now be living on the other side of eternity, but what a life he lived while on this one! And I was blessed enough to spend some one-on-one personal time with him as an ambitious young professional. In 1993, Zig came to Charlotte to speak at a motivational seminar. In the boldness of youth I wrote him a letter and asked him to have lunch with me. His assistant, Laurie Magers , contacted me in response to say that he could not do lunch, but he could do breakfast. So, on an inspirational morning after a night of little sleep, I went for a morning run, then donned my best suit and got ready to meet the master of goals and attitude.
I met Zig at his instruction in the lobby of the Marriott downtown hotel in Charlotte. He stepped off the elevator; said, �Hello Ray Hardee!� and sat down with me for a breakfast buffet. We concluded the early morning meeting by sitting down for a shoeshine. I gave him a piece of art that I had purchased for him as he left. Thanking me, he shook my hand firmly and personally encouraging me that he would �See Me At The Top!�
Over the years, I corresponded with him occasionally to get advice about the big and little issues of life. When you have a hero, you go to them regularly for advice. I went back more frequently in an indirect way by listening to his recordings and putting them into practice.
Not long ago, I pulled out a list of very specific goals I had written down almost 20 years ago. I had achieved every single one by following the principles I learned from a man who cared enough for an ambitious young man to spend an hour over breakfast and a shoe shine. And until, I meet Zig �at the top� in eternity, I will do my best to seek the �top� on this side of life.
You and I can be someone�s hero if we just take the time. Zig was one of mine. Let us all decide to be a hero to someone else.
Ray Hardee is a columnist for The Gazette.


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With this feel-good stretch, you'll relieve tension in your chest, back and leg muscles. Just make sure you keep your hips level as you move from side to side.
1. Step your feet about 3 to 4 feet apart with your toes pointing straight ahead. Place a block on the floor in front of you. Inhale, lift your chest, exhale, fold forward from your hips, lengthening your spine. Place both hands on the block. Lift your kneecaps up toward your thighs to activate your legs.
2. Stabilize your hips by reaching your sternum and the crown of your head forward as you point your sitting bones straight back. On the next inhalation, rotate your rib cage, chest, shoulders and head to the right. Reach up to the ceiling with your right arm. Keep your hips level as your try to line up your top hand over your bottom hand. Pause and breathe in this pose for three breaths. Return to the start position and repeat on the other side.
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Since this spring, when I started to distinguish it from other attacks, this hidden iframe injection attack has always been among "leaders".
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Last week I visited research farms in Woodland, California, as part of Seminis (Monsanto) Vegetable Seeds Field Days. It was fascinating to learn how seeds are bred, grown, processed, and marketed. I'll share my photos with some veggie and fruit tips.
We tasted dozens of tomatoes in a quest for the perfect variety, which turns out is a matter of taste. Some are sweeter, some firmer, and some have more acidity.
In general, cherry tomatoes have the most flavor punch.
These tangerine-colored tomatoes were my favorites in the field.
We tasted several types of watermelon picked fresh from the field. The melon on the right is an Extended Quality Watermelon, grown for the "cut market" and food service industry. It has less leakage than the traditional seedless variety on the left.
In the U.S., 80% of the watermelons sold are seedless varieties (being cut in the photo). However, Central and South America still prefers seeded (left). Some people swear that the old-fashioned seeded watermelons have more flavor. To see if a melon is ripe, look at the bare spot on the rind where there are no stripes. That spot should be yellow, not white. However, it could be overripe if it's yellow.
Melon breeder Jeff Mills is holding an Orange Beauty personal-sized melon, traditionally grown for the French market. It's being introduced to the U.S. in Sam's Club as melorange. Delicious.
Cucumber breeder Nischit Shetty is holding the ideal size pickling cucumber, a 3A, grown mainly in the Midwest U.S. It can be machine sliced and diced, or pickled whole. They are harvested by machine. Smaller "gherkin" cucumbers have to be harvested by hand every day, and are too labor intensive for U.S. growers. They are mainly grown in South America and Asia.
These are sweet banana peppers in a research field. They are great for frying, pickling and cutting into pepper rings for salads and sandwiches.
If you wonder why red tomatoes in the store taste bland, it's because they are picked at this ripeness for shipping.
This was a small part of the fabulous vegetable aisle at the Nugget grocery store we toured in Davis, CA.
Squash breeder Bill Johnson confirmed what I feared: "Zucchini are not vitamin packed. They are really just bags of water." Pick them every day and don't let any get too large or the plant will stop producing new squash.
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Elfstone, also known as the Elessar or the Stone of Eärendil, is a famous green jewel that Galadriel gives as a gift to Aragorn just before the Fellowship of the Ring leaves the wood of Lothlórien. This stone, worn by Aragorn, later causes him to also be given the name of Elessar by the people of Minas Tirith.
There are a variety of stories about the jewel's origin in the Unfinished Tales:
- There was in Gondolin a jewel-smith named Enerdhil, and he was the greatest of that craft among the Ñoldor after the death of Fëanor...it came into his heart to make a jewel which the clear light of the sun should be imprisoned, but the jewel should be green as leaves. And he made this thing, and even the Ñoldor marvelled at it. For it is said that those who looked through this stone saw things that were withered or burned healed again or as they were in the grace of their youth, and that the hands of one who held it brought to all that they touched healing from hurt. (UT; The Elessar)
The gem was then given to Idril the fairest in Gondolin and she in turn gave it to her son Eärendil and he takes it to Valinor and never returns.
Here the story diverges into two versions:
- Gandalf brings back the jewel from Valinor and gives it to Galadriel, as a token from Yavanna that the Valar have not forsaken Middle-earth. In this version Gandalf also remarks prophetically to Galadriel that she will only hold it for a little while, before she passes it to another, who will also be called Elessar.
- Galadriel is pained at the state of Middle-earth and wants something to help heal its wounds. Celebrimbor, who is in love with Galadriel, remakes the jewel as her behest. It is interesting to note that Celebrimbor was also in Gondolin in the time of Enerdhil and learned much from him. Although we are more familiar with Celebrimbor (and his Rings of Power), he was actually overshadowed by the superior skill of Enerdhil, who was second only to Fëanor.
There is also a third version that differs greatly from the first two. In that there is no mention of Enerdhil and instead it was Celebrimbor himself who in Gondolin made the original jewel. Eärendil takes this jewel to Valinor forever and in the Second Age Galadriel asks Celebrimbor to remake the jewel again.
All versions end with the jewel in Galadriel's possession. She then gives it to her daughter Celebrían, who in turn gives it to Arwen. It nonetheless is in Galadriel's keeping in Lothlórien before she passes it on to Aragorn. According to J. R. R. Tolkien, this also held the function of a wedding gift from the family of the bride to the groom.
Another point of note, is that Aragorn urged Bilbo Baggins to include a green jewel in his poem about Eärendil, possibly anticipating the symbolic importance that the gem would have in his life. Bilbo Baggins, obeying Aragorn but seemingly unaware of the Elfstone's story, included an inaccurate reference to an emerald.