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The January transfer window has closed for another year. Behind every deal sealed over the past month was the simple act of a player signing his name on the bottom of a contract. But completing a transfer is not always as straightforward as that. Occasionally, the journey from initial approach to final signature can take some unexpected twists. Join FIFA.comas we look back at some of football's more unusual transfer stories.
Sometimes a sparkling career can grow from a few words on a scrap of paper. For Lionel Messi at Barcelona, it all started with a makeshift first contract scribbled on a serviette. In late 2000, after emerging as a youngster at Newell's Old Boys, the left-footed 13-year-old caught the eye of Carles Rexach, Barça's technical secretary. But as Rexach struggled to convince his club of the merits of signing a small, scrawny kid with growth problems, so Messi's father, Jorge, and agent, Josep Maria Minguella, grew impatient and started considering other clubs for their teenage prodigy.
It was then that Horacio Gaggioli, a former Newell's player acting as an intermediary, arranged a meeting at the bar of Pompeya Tennis Club in Barcelona to help push the deal forward. An agreement in principle was reached, but there was a small problem: they had no paper on which to record it. No matter – they just used a paper napkin instead.
"In Barcelona, on 14 December 2000 and in the presence of Josep Minguella and Horacio [Gaggioli], I, Carles Rexach, technical secretary of FC Barcelona, use my position, despite there being some whose opinion is against it, to commit to signing the player Lionel Messi, so long as we can come to a financial agreement." Those were the words that appeared on the serviette, before an official contract was signed a few weeks later.
Fast forward twelve years and Messi now has four FIFA Ballon d'Or awards in his trophy cabinet. And this unusual document, which has been carefully preserved by Gaggioli, is soon to go on display at the *Barça *museum. "This serviette is as valuable to the museum as the club's charter of foundation, signed by Joan Gamper," said Gaggioli.
It is unclear what became of another napkin that changed the course of history for Barça's arch-rivals, Real Madrid. At an awards gala in Monaco in 2000, Zinedine Zidane, then of Juventus, was sitting at the same table as Real president Florentino Perez. With no beating about the bush, Perez wrote "Do you want to play for Real Madrid?" on a paper serviette and passed it to the 1998 FIFA World Cup winner™. Zizou replied with a furtive "yes," despite having just extended his contract with Juve until 2005. That set the wheels in motion, and the following summer he joined Real for a then-record €73m.
This serviette is as valuable to the museum as the club's charter of foundation, signed by Joan Gamper.
Signing a young Samuel Eto'o proved far less expensive for Real. In 1996, the then 15-year-old forward left his native Cameroon alone and set off for Madrid airport. The only hitch: Eto'o missed his connection in Paris, and the guide sent to meet him on arrival in Spain had not waited around for the next flight. "It was the middle of winter and I didn't know a single word of Spanish. I was lost and didn't really know what to do," recalled the striker, who now plays for Anzhi Makhachkala in Russia. Undeterred, the Cameroon international approached the first friendly-looking face he could find and asked them to accompany him on the bus to the club's headquarters.
Eto'o's adventure recalls that of Mali legend Salif Keita,after he was offered a contract by the French side Saint-Etienne in 1967. After being smuggled out of Mali, Keita, who would later become known in France as *la panthère noire *(The Black Panther), arrived at a Paris airport without having warned his new club. Knowing little of French geography, the striker hailed a taxi and asked the driver to take him to Saint-Etienne's Geoffroy-Guichard stadium – a full 500 kilometres away. The driver was eventually persuaded when Keita assured him the club would cover the fare. Keita would go on to repay *Les Verts *handsomely, helping them to three league titles and two Coupes de France before later joining Marseille.
Marseille themselves thought they had everything covered ahead of Gunnar Andersson's arrival from Danish side Kjobenhavns Boldklub in 1950. What they had not planned for, however, was the Swede's kidnapping en route to the city. Raymond Gimel, a local journalist, had been determined to secure an exclusive first interview and exact revenge on OM president Louis-Bernard Dancausse, who had been unhappy with his articles and revoked his access to the players.
Gimel, then, sent a telegram to Andersson advising him to get off the train a stop early, in Avignon, to ensure a low-key arrival. Andersson duly obliged and, at 5am, was led to a hotel by the journalist. There, the Swede gave Gimel his first interview, before going to sleep for several hours. Marseille's welcoming committee, meanwhile, were left to wait impatiently on the station platform, no doubt concerned and more than a little annoyed.
Andersson's arrival may have taken longer than expected, but at least he knew where he was supposed to be heading. The same cannot be said for Brazil's Robinhowhen he moved from Real Madrid to Manchester City in 2008. "On the last day of the transfer window, Chelsea made me a great offer and I accepted it," the forward said after completing his move, to which an alert reporter replied: "You mean Manchester City, right?"
Two other Brazilians to make a less-than-ideal first impression on their new fans were Marcio Amoroso, in 2006, and Gustavo Nery the year before. Both knew they were joining Sport Club Corinthians, but were clearly thrown by the fact that eight different clubs in Sao Paulo use the name Corinthians. Indeed, Nery expressed his delight at joining "Futebol Clube" Corinthians, while Amoroso declared his desire to win titles with "Sociedade Esportiva" – the name associated with *O Timão's *fierce rivals, Palmeiras.
On the last day of the transfer window, Chelsea made me a great offer and I accepted it.
Germany's Bernd Schustermade a similarly awkward faux pas in 1978. After finishing his youth development at Augsburg, the then 18-year-old Schuster was a little too generous with his signature, signing for not one but three different clubs at once. Realising he had spread himself a touch too thin, the young midfielder decided to turn down the offers from Borussia Monchengladbach and Augsburg in favour of joining FC Koln, where he excelled before later signing for Barcelona.
The Catalan club no doubt took pains to ensure that Schuster had not made the same mistake before signing for them, particularly after their own painful experience with Alfredo Di Stefano. In 1953, *Barça *agreed a deal with River Plate for Di Stefano, unaware that he had joined the Colombian side Millonarios de Bogota without permission during a suspension of the Argentinian league. In the meantime Real Madrid had also reached an agreement for the player with Millonarios, which left Di Stefano belonging to the two Spanish rivals at the same time.
It took intervention from FIFA and Armando Munoz Calero, former president of the Spanish Football Federation, to untangle the situation and resolve the conflict. Calero, acting as a mediator, decided that Di Stefano would play for Real in the 1953/54 and 1955/56 seasons, and for *Barça *in 1954/55 and 1956/57. But his decision did not suit the Catalans, and they would eventually sell their rights to the player to their Madrid rivals.
Di Stefano went on to be voted Real's best player of all time. Years earlier his former club, River Plate, were themselves involved in one of the most remarkable transfers ever seen. In 1932, Tigre winger Bernabe Ferreyrawas one of the hottest properties in Argentinian football. His club, however, had no intention of selling their star man. That was, at least, until they received an offer they could not refuse, with River agreeing to pay the transfer fee not in cash... but in gold. The incident gave the Buenos Aires side their nickname, Los Millionarios.
Seven decades later, in Romania, another transfer was made in exchange for goods rather than money. In 2006, Regal Horia, from the fourth tier of Romanian football, bought defender Marius Cioarafrom second-division side UT Arad. The transfer fee? Fifteen kilograms of pork sausage.


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Mary Rosalina Santos
Nov. 29, 1932 - Mar. 22, 2013
Mary Rosalina Santos, 80, passed away on March 22, 2013 and will be deeply missed by the Santos
family. Mary was born November 29, 1932, in
Stockton to Emilio and Luzia Santos. To her family she was known as
"Little" Mary. She loved spending time with her extended family The Moreno's, her walking partners from Sherwood Mall, and her good friend Pat Freitas. Mary lived in Stockton all her life and retired from California Cedar where she worked for more than 20 years. She was a member of Saint Luke's Catholic Church, the Young Ladies Institute, and the Sociedade Portuguesa Rainha Santa Isabel.
Mary is preceded in death by her father, Emilio V. Santos; mother, Luzia S. Santos and brother,
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Killer Elite
Let's get this out of the way now: Killer Elite is not high art. Though veiled under the pretense of a globe-trotting spy thriller, the movie is basically an excuse to watch attractive men beat the heck out of each other.
And that's fine. In fact, it's pretty fun.
The movie follows mercenary Danny (Jason Statham: Gnomeo & Juliet) as he leaves the gun-for-hire business and tries to start over after nearly killing a child on his last job.
Just when he thought he was out, Danny is forced to pick up his gun one last time. His mentor, Hunter (Robert De Niro: Limitless), is captured by an angry sheik on a vendetta against the British SAS, which killed three of his sons.
Danny picks up his guns, puts his mercenary team back together and starts hunting.
But the SAS isn't your typical mark. The former soldiers are guarded by a group with the somewhat laughable name of the Feather Men. Lead Feather Man Spike (Clive Owen: Trust) is a dogged former SAS officer determined to kill Danny and abort his mission.
Killer Elite could have been an epic match between Statham and Owen, but the plot falters under delusions of grandeur. One of the missteps the movie makes is over-estimating the range of its leading man.
Statham is a fantastic action star, with a permanent glower and physicality that makes his stunt work believable. He is not, however, much for emotions. Supposedly wracked with guilt over nearly killing that kid, Statham looks like he's got digestive issues through most of the film.
Thankfully, only Statham seems to take this movie too seriously.
De Niro as a washed up mercenary looks livelier than he has in years, fighting with knives and quipping with aplomb. It's a treat to see one of America's great talents enjoying himself on screen. See what happens when you get him away from Ben Stiller?
Owen has the thankless role of vague and undefined baddie. You don't know why Spike is so hateful, but he means business. Still, like De Niro, Owen seems so excited during his fight scenes that his energy becomes infectious.
A supporting turn by Dominic Purcell (Straw Dogs) as a lascivious operative in Danny's crew keeps the film from turning too serious.
These bright spots of levity keep the film humming even while Statham pouts.
Killer Elite excels during giant explosions, bloody fights and darkly humorous murders. First-time feature director Gary McKendry knows how to capture the grit and grime of a brawl. At its best, the film is what every action thriller should be: brutal and visceral. At worst, it's a lesson in why filmmakers should never give Jason Statham a dramatic monologue.
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South Lenoir hopes to officially announce its newest head baseball coach soon.
DEEP RUN � South Lenoir hopes to officially announce its newest head baseball coach soon.
School officials told The Free Press on Tuesday that a name has been submitted to the Lenoir County Public Schools central office for approval, and that the school hopes to learn of its decision by the end of the school week.
The school would not disclose the name of its potential candidate, deciding to wait on approval from the school board instead.
The Free Press received a tip late Monday evening that David Combs, a former pitcher at Mount Olive College and Lenoir Community College currently on staff at South Lenoir, will take over a program that seeks its second varsity head coach in as many seasons.
The school would not confirm or deny Combs has been given the job.
The coaching spot was left vacant earlier this month when Tim Jenkins, who led the program for one season following longtime coach Troy Eason�s retirement, suddenly resigned to take a teaching and coaching job at East Duplin.
The Blue Devils won 14 of their first 15 games and went 18-7 under Jenkins, while finishing the regular season tied with Topsail atop the East Central 2A Conference.
They lost to eventual state 2A champion Whiteville in the second round of the state playoffs.
Athletic Director Lisa Smith told The Free Press during an interview concerning Jenkins� departure that Combs had been conducting offseason workouts in the wake of not having a head coach.
If Combs does get the job � or anyone else already on staff at South Lenoir � that still leaves a need for a head football coach, which Jenkins also formerly held.
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Unstable cable: Bankruptcy leads to jacked rates
When Ben Hicks, a manager at Orbit Billiards on the Corner, opened the restaurant's most recent Adelphia cable bill, his stomach fell faster than a scratched cue ball. Instead of the usual $48 in the "amount due" box, the figure was a heart-stopping $720.
Making the situation even worse, Hicks says, was Adelphia's response to his anguished call.
"They acted like it was no big deal," says an outraged Hicks. "We had no warning. I would have been freaking out weeks ago if we had."
After examining the bill closely, Hicks realized the bill was for two months of service. (He'd already paid his former lower rate for the first month.) After some calculating, Hicks figured his actual monthly bill had jumped by $331–a nearly 700% increase. Not exactly good news.
"I understand rate increases," Hicks says, "but this is ridiculous."
Adelphia's Lon Carruth, however, tells a different story.
"We called and contacted each commercial customer," Carruth insists. And Adelphia, which declared bankruptcy in June 2002, was between a rock and a hard place, Carruth says. As part of its bankruptcy proceeding, Adelphia underwent an audit and discovered it had been incorrectly charging some commercial accounts the residential rates.
"We didn't have a choice," says Carruth. He explains that powerful cable channels such as ESPN, the popular sports channel, demanded that Adelphia start collecting the higher commercial fees– or Adelphia would lose its license to broadcast ESPN.
"Adelphia is taking the heat," says Carruth, "but none of the money is going to Adelphia."
But that's not much consolation to restaurants still waiting to see how steep the fee hike will be.
Managers at Sloan's, South Street Brewery, and Chap's restaurant say they received mailed notice of the increase, though they haven't seen it reflected in their bills yet. And Starr Hill's Nikki Vinci says that though she heard about the increase at Orbit, Adelphia has not contacted her or anyone at Starr Hill directly. "We're just waiting for the next bill to come," Vinci says.
However, Jackie Heatherly, manager at Blue Bird Café on West Main Street, says she received two notices by mail and a follow-up phone call from Adelphia letting her know about the upcoming rate hike. "I feel I was treated fairly," she says.
But her rate hike was not nearly as extreme as Orbit's. Since the formula to determine commercial rates is based on seating capacity, Blue Bird's tiny bar area with seating for about 10 warranted only an approximately $100 monthly rate increase, a far cry from Orbit's more than $300 (Orbit can accommodate 355 patrons). Carruth declined to reveal the formula Adelphia uses, calling it proprietary information.
Why must commercial accounts cost so much? Carruth says restaurants routinely use television programs to lure customers in. Adelphia merely collects the fees and passes them along to the powerful channels.
Many institutions will not see their rates increase. For example, the downtown Charlottesville Post Office, although its lobby television is on constantly, wouldn't qualify, Carruth says, because it doesn't "use our services as a way of attracting or maintaining customers."
Over at DirecTV, a satellite television service that competes with Adelphia, programming costs have also risen "enormously" over the years, says spokesperson Robert Mercer. "We've only had three modest rate hikes– $2 per package– in the eight or nine years DirecTV has been in business."
As for Adelphia, Mercer says he had heard that the beleaguered cable company was previously charging its commercial customers a residential rate. "It certainly gives them a competitive edge," he says.
So what happens if other channels start making steep fee demands? Could commercial cable customers see their rates continue to rise? Carruth will only say, "We have taken care of the known deficiencies."
And as for the area customers who say they weren't notified of anything, Carruth has a quick response.
"You get mail everyday that you throw away without reading– my own measure is if it has a bulk postage rate."
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In addition to the academic experiences and perspectives in the classroom, the abundance of social events, journals, and student organizations provide Coastal Law students with a wealth of opportunities for personal and professional development, including the chance to network with attorneys and experts, plan and attend seminars and workshops, and volunteer through pro bono legal and non-legal work throughout the community.
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UofL football player leaves hospital after moped accident
Louisville defensive end Lorenzo Mauldin has been released from the hospital and the school said in a release that "evaluations continue to be positive" after he was hit by a vehicle while riding his moped on campus.
The release Wednesday stated that Mauldin's availability for the Cardinals' season opener against Ohio on Sunday will be determined over the next few days. The junior is listed as the starter on the depth chart.
Mauldin left Jewish Hospital after being held overnight for observation following the accident. He wasn't wearing a helmet, but coach Charlie Strong said the 6-foot-4, 243-pound Atlanta native only complained of "pain and soreness" when he visited him.
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Each year, thousands of investors file complaints against their stockbrokers, and almost every broker-dealer presently includes in its customer agreements a provision that forces those investors to submit all disputes to mandatory arbitration. This is increasingly becoming the case with investment advisor customer contracts as well.
NASAA does not oppose arbitration agreements if they are entered into voluntarily and after a dispute is known. NASAA does adamantly oppose pre-dispute prohibitions on investors' rights to choose an appropriate forum to hear their claims.
NASAA is equally alarmed at the expansion of pre-dispute arbitration provisions to include class-action waivers. The combination of mandatory pre-dispute arbitration provisions and class-action waivers virtually eliminates any reasonable recovery forum for small to medium sized claims.
Congress shares NASAA's concerns over the increased use of mandatory pre-dispute arbitration provisions in contracts between investors and broker-dealers and investment advisors. Section 921 of the Dodd-Frank Act, for example, gave the Securities and Exchange Commission explicit authority to restrict or prohibit broker-dealers and investment advisors from including mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreements in their customer contracts.
In the more than three years since the enactment of Dodd-Frank, the SEC has failed to act under Section 921.
Meanwhile, reasonable recovery forums for investors have all but disappeared when mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreements are combined with class-action waivers.
Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court held that a group of merchants were bound by individual arbitration agreements with American Express even if a class action was the only way to make their claim economically viable. The decision was the latest in a series of recent rulings that have fundamentally transformed the very nature of arbitration. The arbitration forum, intended as a fair and equitable way to resolve disputes between mutually consenting parties, has devolved into a blunt contractual device routinely deployed by the strong to prospectively deny rights and recourse to those who are much weaker.
Even more pressing is a decision by the Charles Schwab & Co. brokerage firm to expand its mandatory pre-dispute arbitration contracts to require that customers waive their right to participate in class actions.
In late 2011, Schwab seized an opportunity to capitalize on recent court decisions favoring the expanded application of "forced" arbitration contracts and sent more than 6.8 million existing customers account statements with immediately effective amendments to the account agreements. These amendments included a class-action waiver (a denial of the right to participate in class action litigation or on a representative basis). The waiver was also included in new account agreements.
FINRA, the securities industry's self-regulator, promptly and correctly initiated a disciplinary action against Schwab for violating FINRA rules which preserve judicial class actions as an alternative to arbitration.
Unfortunately for investors, a FINRA Hearing Panel in February 2013 determined that those rules and, by extension, the agreement between Schwab and FINRA to abide by those rules, could not be enforced under the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Federal Arbitration Act.
FINRA's appeal of the Hearing Panel ruling is pending. If Schwab is successful in the appeal, it is likely that every broker-dealer will follow suit and include class action waiver language in their customer agreements.
Schwab's action makes legislation recently introduced by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) all the more essential in upholding the rights of Main Street investors.
The Investor Choice Act of 2013 (H.R. 2998) would level the playing field for ordinary investors by statutorily prohibiting mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreements in broker-dealer and investment adviser customer contracts. State securities regulators appreciate that Rep. Ellison recognizes the inclusion of mandatory pre-dispute arbitration provisions in broker-dealer and investment advisor customer contracts diminishes investor protection. We agree with Rep. Ellison's belief that "Investors shouldn't have to sign away their rights in order to work with a financial advisor or broker dealer to build a secure retirement."
Investors deserve better than the current "take-it-or-leave-it" approach to securities dispute resolution. H.R. 2998 will ensure that investors have the unencumbered right to seek redress in the appropriate and desired forum.
Congress has passed laws to ban forced arbitration for disputes involving auto dealers in their transactions with manufacturers, poultry and livestock producers, and certain employees of federal contractors. It is time for Congress to do the same for ordinary investors.


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Rr32651 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 58 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
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Retailer of high end denim/contemporary clothing. Logo will be used for reatil store and as label inside private label of clothing.
Our retail store is a high end men's denim/contemporary clothing store serving an affluent audience aged between 25-55. The name Rye 51 is a take off american whiskey rye which must have 51% rye mash and thus the name Rye 51. We feel this american whiskey connotation relates well to the audience we serve. The store will have a very masculine appeal with reclaimed whiskey barrel planks as the flooring, taxidermy & bull skulls on the walls and cast iron fixtures and displays. The pictoral part of the logo should include 2 key elements: 1) clothing (sewing machine, needle & thread etc) & 2) Whiskey (whiskey barrell, whiskey bottle, or anything else that relates to whiskey). The key would be to combine these elements into a very classy, refined, elegant logo that speaks to our affluent demographic. The name itself, Rye 51 needs to be presented in a font that matches everything describes above. It might be cool to have the name appear in a whiskey label format.
Our slogan will be "textile distillery".
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Scotch and Soda - Nice simple old school sewing machine
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DETROIT – Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock knows the importance of his team's pending four-game trip to Western Canada.
"Have you ever heard that joke, if you can't win at home you've got to go on the road and if can't win on the road you've got to find somewhere else to play," Babcock said after practice.
The Wings' road trip begins Wednesday night in Vancouver and concludes Monday in Winnipeg. They're winless in their last four games, going 0-2-2, scoring just five goals over that stretch.
"It's a huge trip for us," Daniel Cleary said. "We've got to get back to playing the way we're supposed to play and capable of playing."
Detroit began the season 6-2-0.
"I think sometimes you simplify your game on the road," Cleary said. "You play a strong game, good defensively, just play a smart game. That's what we need to do. We need to get a lot better defensively. Once we do that, grind out some low scoring games then the offense will come."
The Wings have been outshot in eight of their first 12 games this season and have given up an average of 32.4 shot per game.
"Adversity is nothing new to NHL players and teams," Cleary said. "Listen, we're 6-4-2 and we haven't played well. We have to get better in every area of the game and that's just it."
The road trip, which also stops in Calgary Friday and Edmonton Saturday, is something players feel will pull the team together.
"Right now home hasn't been treating us that well," Jimmy Howard said. "Hopefully, getting out of here, getting on the road, doing some dinners together with the guys will help put these past few games behind us."
The Wings are 3-2-0 on the road this season.
"We're going to enjoy it, play some good hockey and get some wins," Henrik Zetterberg said. "Everything that happens just happens and you have to deal with it. There's no big panic button that is pushed, but we know we got to play better. The only thing we can do is to go out and play good hockey.
"It doesn't matter what we say, it doesn't matter how many meetings we have, it doesn't matter what we're telling the other guys to do, everyone has to look at themselves and go in and do a better job," Zetterberg continued. "If we do that we'll come together and play better hockey as a team."
Detroit heads into play Tuesday night fifth in the Atlantic Division.
"Frustration is something that you're just wasting your energy being," Niklas Kronwall said. "At the same time everyone in here thinks we're a hell of a lot better team than what we're showing right now. We want to get back on track and get back to playing some good hockey. We know it's in here, now we have to show it."
The Wings have also had issues with turnovers registering 116 giveaways through 12 games.
"A good road trip is never bad," Kronwall said. "We're looking at this as getting back to playing the way that we can and play like we know how to play. We know how to play out there we're just not showing it out there.
"I don't think there's any point in time where it's like, 'Get those guys off ice,'' Kronwall added. "No question about it. That's not how we work. You win as a team, you lose a team. We've dug ourselves a little bit of a hole and the only way to get out of it is to have all the guys pull together and get going in the right direction. That's how we're going to solve this one."


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- Lack of involvement in "genealogy" by younger age groups
- Failure of "genealogy" to produce or collect stories and photos of ancestors
- Genealogists make genealogy appear difficult and unfriendly
- Genealogy is out-of-date, stodgy and unattractive
- Genealogy is too populist and hobby-like
- The entire community needs more academic rigor and attention to sources
- All aspects of genealogy need definable standards
- The genealogical community is drowning in a sea of mediocre family trees
It is interesting to me that in both cases, the attitude is that there is something wrong with genealogy that needs to be changed so that it will appeal to the youth and at the same time be accepted as a valid academic discipline. Aren't we talking about two different things here? Aren't the goals of the two extremes going in opposite directions? I have been trying to think of an analogous example that might work to explain the issues, but nothing seems to fit. My perception is that the genealogical community is relatively, very small. There have been several attempts by bloggers to "define" the community and most of them acknowledge that there are layers of interest starting on the edge with interest in family and family history to a central core of professionals who are totally immersed in genealogical activities and research.
Are the extremes reconcilable? Why is there a strong undercurrent of angst over the "problem that youth become involved in genealogy?" Are we really concerned about preserving our family heritage or is genealogy about numbers? Going back to the product analogy, is genealogy something that can be easily defined and packaged? Have we gotten to the point where "genealogy" is like a modern electronic device that economically cannot be fixed and must simply be thrown away and replaced with a newer, more functional model?
For what it is worth, my perception is that genealogy is alive and well, thank you, and there is nothing about the pursuit that particularly needs fixing. Genealogists pretty much know what they are trying to accomplish and the central core of genealogists all have a pretty good understanding of how to go about doing genealogy. Promoting genealogy as easy and fun, to make it more attractive, is self-defeating. Preserving our cultural, religious and social heritage is important, but blame for our collective failure to be involved with that heritage cannot be laid at the feet of the genealogists. In fact, the main reason we have so many stories and photos to preserve is due mainly to those same people who are attracted to and involved in the core pursuit of genealogy. Adding more people as collectors of the heritage is definitely helpful but does not equate to producing more genealogists.
What we do need is a realization by those who would fix the genealogical community that they cannot throw away the old product. Doing historical research is a mostly a very solitary, demanding, intellectually stimulating, intensive, engrossing, overwhelmingly difficult and very academic discipline. It cannot be sugar-coated for broad public consumption. If you want to view genealogy as a manufacturing process, then you need to recognize that increasing production involves helping the serious, central core of genealogists to do their job more efficiently. Rather than being denigrated, they should be allowed to do what they do as efficiently as possible even if some of us are old, cranky and difficult to deal with. Oh, by the way, some recognition of the amount of work done by the genealogists might help also. Why would the youth want to become like the old genealogists who nobody talks to and all avoid? Think about it.


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Sound So Wrong But Taste So Right: Hardee's Introduces New Biscuit Holes
Jun 29, 2009
Not digging the name? Hardee's multi-platform campaign asks customers to name its Biscuit Holes
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – June 29, 2009 – Hole-y moley! Hardee's® is adding a sweet and petite new item to its delicious line of Made From Scratch™ biscuits – Biscuit Holes. Rolled in cinnamon and sugar and served with icing for dipping, Biscuit Holes are now available at all participating restaurants. And, after struggling for months to come up with an appropriate name, Hardee's is asking customers to names its holes with a multi-platform, customer-interactive promotional campaign. Both are sure to leave customers satisfied.
While developing Biscuit Holes, the menu development team at Hardee's knew they had a winner when they deep-fried balls of biscuit dough, rolled in cinnamon-sugar and dipped them in icing, but they were stumped when it came to what to call them. The internal marketing debate over the name led to many colorful suggestions, which sparked the idea for the product's advertising campaign.
"We knew there would be a big market for Biscuit Holes when we learned that some of our biscuit bakers have been making a similar product for the rest of their restaurants' staff and they loved them," said Brad Haley, Hardee's executive vice president of marketing. "They really are irresistible and it's almost impossible to eat just one. But what to call them was a big challenge. One of my favorite options was 'Biznuts,' a cross between 'biscuits' and 'donuts,' since the closest thing to them are donut holes. But there were many other suggestions that were very funny. Unfortunately, I can't repeat them here."
Name Our Holes
At Hardee's, it isn't just the menu items that are innovative. The introduction of Biscuit Holes will be supported by a multimedia, integrated platform including advertising, online, mobile and social media. Key among them is a new microsite called www.NameOurHoles.com.
The new commercials were produced by Los Angeles-based advertising agency Mendelsohn|Zien Advertising and can be viewed at the new Hardee's YouTube brand channel and Facebook page. Some feature a man-on-the-street survey format in which people were asked what they would call the new Biscuit Holes. After hearing such suggestions as "B-Holes" and "Heavenly Balls" and seeing how much fun people were having with the task, the microsite was developed to let everyone try to "name our holes."
"We love to entertain our customers, but we also like to create ways for our customers to interact with the brand to entertain themselves," said Brad Rosenberg, Hardee's manager of digital strategy and marketing. "The NameOurHoles.com microsite does just that. Think you can come up with a funnier or more creative name than Biscuit Holes? We want to hear it. If it makes the cut, we'll share it with all of our online fans."
The microsite will add to Hardee's already strong focus on the social media realm. After submitting a creative hole name to the microsite, visitors can then automatically Tweet their hole name to their followers or post it on their Facebook wall for their friends to see. Visitors can also make video submissions, some of which will be pushed to the Hardee's YouTube channel where there are additional options to share with friends.
Beyond social media, Hardee's will also launch a comprehensive synergistic mobile campaign complete with a mobile site developed by iLoop Mobile, ads running across the unparallel Jumptap premium mobile ad network and performance marketplace, and ad effectiveness study by InsightExpress. Customers with Internet access on their cell phones will be able to submit their Biscuit Holes name through a mobile optimized site of NameOurHoles.com. Mobile fans can also see product information and photos, watch the Biscuit Holes commercials through streaming video, share the site and even send personalized Hardee's mobile greeting cards to friends.
More About Hardee's Delicious Holes
Biscuit Holes consist of Hardee's fresh, Made from Scratch biscuit dough, cut into round shapes like donut holes, deep fried, and tossed in a cinnamon and sugar mixture. They are offered in 6- and 12- piece orders and served with an icing cup for dipping.
Biscuit Holes will be sold at participating Hardee's restaurants for $1.29 for six and $1.99 for twelve. Prices may vary by location.
About Hardee's
Celebrating more than 45 years in the quick-service industry, Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the end of its fiscal 2010 first quarter, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,133 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 14 countries, including 1,205 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,915 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.


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8:00pm - Farmingdale State - 6, Findlandia University - 3
11:00pm - Heidelberg - 4, Farmingdale State - 3
Clermont, Fla. - The Farmingdale State softball team split again in Florida on day two, Tuesday, March 12th. The Rams now stand at 2-2 overall.
With games pushed back due to a rain delay, the Rams got a late start...but a four-run third inning would prove to be enough to take a 6-3 win over Finlandia University (Mich.). Farmingdale State combined for nine hits, while sophomore Taylor Tedeschi (Levittown, N.Y.) improved to 2-0 on the mound, allowing just six hits and two walks.
Freshman catcher Meagan Anderson (Patchogue, N.Y.), junior shortstop Hillary Genova (Brentwood, N.Y.) and senior first baseman Jennifer Jarczynski (West Babylon, N.Y.) each finished 2-for-4. Sophomore centerfielder Michelle Mongiello (Elmont, N.Y.) was 1-for-3 with two RBI's.
Capping off the night with an 11pm start against Heidelberg, the Rams fell 4-3. Trailing 3-1 in the fifth inning, Farmingdale State's Meagan Anderson hit a two-run homer to tie the game at 3-3.
In the bottom of the seventh, Heidelberg scored on a one-out triple to take the win. Anderson went 2-for-3 in the game, with two runs and two RBI's.


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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's Department of Health unveiled a new five-year scheme on Wednesday to curb prescription drug prices and ensure the state healthcare system gets good value for money.
The cost of branded medicines to the National Health Service will be held flat for two years under the latest version of the pharmaceutical price regulation scheme, or PPRS.
Drugmakers will be required to rebate the difference between the allowed growth in the drugs bill and the estimated actual increase in the cost of treatments, expected to be 3.74 percent in 2014.
Costs will be allowed to rise by 1.8 percent in 2016 and 2017, and by 1.9 percent in 2018.
Governments across Europe have been taking a tough line on drug costs as stagnant economic growth hits their healthcare budgets.
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats agreed on Monday to maintain a similar tight rein on prescription drug costs via legally mandated price discounts.
The new deal struck between the British government and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) follows several months of negotiations during which the ABPI argued that medicine prices in Britain are already among the lowest in Europe.
It also includes a statutory price cut of 15 percent for any companies that do not sign up to the voluntary PPRS scheme, the ABPI said.
Drugmakers have long complained about low prices and slow uptake of new medicines in Britain, which they argue undermines the case for investment in the country. Pharmaceuticals are an important industrial sector in Britain, although recently there have been significant site closures by a number of companies.
The trade body represents British companies such as GlaxoSmithKline Plc and AstraZeneca Plc, as well as the UK units of multinationals like Pfizer Inc and Novartis AG.
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All-Star power forward Kevin Love has not been offered a contract extension by the Minnesota Timberwolves, and if one isn't submitted by Jan. 15, ten days before the deadline for fourth-year players to sign new deals with their current clubs, then he'll refuse to re-sign with the team this summer, The New York Post's Peter Vecsey reports.
The Timberwolves are willing to offer Love a four-year deal in the neighborhood of $60 million, according to Vecsey. They're hesitant to offer a fifth year because, under the new collective-bargaining agreement, they'd lose flexibility after the fourth year with rookies Ricky Rubio and Derrick Williams, or a top free agent, by doing so.
The Timberwolves could have the makings of a competitive team. Sure, they had an NBA-worst record of 17-65 last season, but with Rubio and Williams added to a cast that includes Love, Michael Beasley, Darko Milicic, Anthony Tolliver, Anthony Randolph, Wesley Johnson and Luke Ridnour—plus new coach Rick Adelman—there's some hope in Minnesota. Timberwolves brass, Vecsey surmises, are hoping that Love will be willing to sacrifice some money—like LeBron James and Dwyane Wade did for the Heat to sign Chris Bosh—to keep the team together well into the future.


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I haven't been able to spend much time in New York City in the last several years, and never experienced the powerful scene of the post 911 tragedy in person. Print media and images broadcast on television portrayed the horrific impact of the event, but I would have liked to have seen the rebuilding progress in person to offer my respect to the lives lost and to the thousands of people who worked so hard to give aid and rescue.
My arrival fourteen years later to the World Trade Center depicted a completely different scene. As I write this today I am still humbled by the beauty of the site, and moved beyond words by the memorials to the victims. A peacefulness cloaks the sounds of construction and traffic, yet it still pulsates with a quiet energy.
In the space where the Twin Towers once stood, waterfalls cascade into two enormous square memorial pools. The pools are surrounded with bronze panels inscribed with the names of all the 9/11 victims, as well as those who were killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Beneath the tree-shaded memorial plaza is an underground museum with multimedia exhibits that tell the story of 9/11 and its aftermath.
An impressive observatory on the 100th floor of the newly completed Freedom Tower provides 360 degree views of the city and beyond.
Views of the three bridges that connect Manhattan to Brooklyn, the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges.
The new World Trade Center area is lovely. An area designed for reflection and grieving also provides hope for a better world. There is an energy and excitement pulsating throughout the 16 acres of the former Twin Towers. It bounces off the sparkling panes of glass of Freedom Tower, the memorial waterfalls and the dramatic new architecture ringing the area. I love this city, New York, and I'm deeply proud of my country.
Please do visit One World Trade Center, the Memorial, the Museum and the rest of gorgeous Lower Manhattan. Official website links are found below, for information and tickets. I recommend buying your tickets to the Memorial and Observatory in advance, as the lines do grow very long.


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If writer's block has hit, or creative juices just fail to flow, there's a good chance a craft course in Ireland could be the solution
Thomas Diem would know. From his studio in Athlone, County Westmeath, Thomas gives classes at Diem Pottery from the basics to the finer points of the craft.
According to the man himself, the courses are as much about meeting people as they are about creating: "During courses, we would always talk freely while working – be it about the work in hand or just general chat. I try to keep things quite informal, which helps everyone feel less self-conscious and allows them to express themselves more and in turn to produce better results."
Craft courses, though, are not confined to bustling towns like the riverside Athlone. Dip into the deepest, most rural part of Ireland, and you'll find them there, too.
It doesn't get more rural than the townland of Drummin. Sweeping mountains, dry stone walls and cosy farms make this part of Mayo the perfect image of pastoral Ireland. And the swathe of green surrounding the stone cottage of Derryaun Craft is a good place to start looking for creative inspiration.
Proprietor and artist Suzie Sullivan is a bit of a renaissance woman. Her list of skills ranges from felt making to dyeing, jewellery making to weaving and spinning to wire work. Through Derryaun Crafts, she shares those talents with the world.
Impressive locations seem to be a theme of craft courses in Ireland. With rare exception, crafty folk have set up in some of the island's loveliest spots. Take Pretty Crafty for one. The cute-as-a-button studio and shop doesn't just enjoy the leafy surrounds of Downhill Forest, County Derry-Londonderry, it's also a stone's throw from the picture-perfect Mussenden Temple. Oh, and possibly the northern coast's finest beach at Downhill.
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At times, craft courses in Ireland get cosy, too. Under the thatched roofs of Ballydougan Pottery on the planes of Armagh creative spirit has flowed for decades. A sojourn there is spent throwing pots, lounging over long lunches in the restaurant and late-night card games in one of the cottages.
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MIAMI -- Spring Training statistics don't say much in and of themselves. But it's possible they speak volumes about Rockies center fielder Drew Stubbs.
The toolsy Stubbs, acquired from the Indians last winter, has hit for power (22 homers in 2010) and provided speed (70 steals in 2009 and 2010), but has struggled to get on base (.310) and has high strikeouts (729 in 632 games).
"When you come back after spending three or four months off, it takes a little time to get your timing back, but as spring progressed, I was able to do that and come out of there feeling good," said Stubbs, who made his first Rockies start Tuesday night against the Marlins.
The at-bats are available in the leadoff spot, although Stubbs has not been the on-base type that functions well in that top spot during his career. But after spending the last couple of years experimenting with a leg kick and a toe tap, Stubbs has forgotten the mechanics and just hit with his athletic ability. By the end of spring, Stubbs was lining pitches because he was loading his legs into the swing properly.
The strikeouts are a concern he is trying to correct, since it means he would need good contact and good luck whenever he makes contact to have a decent OBP. But because he has power potential, he believes it would be counterproductive to be a slap hitter.
"At the end of the day, getting on base is all that matters," Stubbs said. "You try to limit strikeouts as much as you can, but you don't want to place so much emphasis on it that it takes away from the rest of your game. As long as you are getting on base and you are getting a productive at-bat, things take care of themselves."
Stubbs has well-celebrated issues with right-handed pitching in recent years. For example, he hit .216 with a .275 OBP against righties in 2013. But this spring, he hit .276 with a .344 OBP against righties, and manager Walt Weiss started him against Marlins hard-throwing righty Nathan Eovaldi on Tuesday.
In the opener, Weiss started left-handed-hitting Charlie Blackmon (0-for-4). There will be starts for left-handed-hitting Corey Dickerson and right-swinging Brandon Barnes. In the case of Tuedsay, Weiss said righties do decently against Eovaldi.
"That played into it, but it's gong to be a fluid situation early on, and we'll see who takes it [center field] and runs with it," Weiss said. "But [Stubbs] has that elite skill on the defensive side of the ball, and that certainly helped.
"I saw better at-bats [as the spring progressed]. He had some things he was working on specifically this spring -- the small game and doing those things. He was in a good place by the time we broke camp."


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$ java -cp ~/git/clojure/clojure.jar:. clojure.main -e "(compile 'MsClojure)"
Note that you specified your own clojure.jar. Nou you have
classes/MsClojure.class... not
Try combining them with JRuby!
and run by:
$ jruby -J-cp ~/git/clojure/clojure.jar:classes:.
then you will get the following message.
Good afternoon Ujihisa, how are you?
Hey Ujihisa!
- It doesn't change
$: << '~/git/clojure/clojure.jar'in JRuby file. You have to give classpath by command line option.


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wizeguy1964 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
Savings Society
Our company is designed by network marketers to eliminate everything that we don't like about network marketing and retain everything that we do like about network marketing.
Instead of a product that you have to get your friends and family pumped about but that they (and probably you) wouldn't use if it weren't for the income opportunity, we offer a variety of savings programs on the things people buy everyday like gas, groceries, medical, entertainment and dining, vacations and travel, communication, pet care and much more to come.
This is not about stockpiling lotions, potions, pills and products that end up in the garage, unused and unsold.
The compensation plan is straightforward and has immense potential for anyone who wants to make money for telling people how to save money.
From network marketers who have become discouraged with their current company, to wage earners who want to take control of their own earning potential, to senior citizens who want to make the most of their golden years on a fixed income and reduced savings.
Young people just getting started who need to save money on the essentials, people who have been struggling to find adequate employment and people who are financially secure but want to do something to help others.
Everyone wants to find ways to cut costs in this economy and many more are looking for a way to bring a little extra money into the household every week. We offer both.
Our current site was a template and the logo was built in a hurry. We are now about to move into our launch phase after a 3 month pre-launch that proved our model. We need a logo that represents our powerful and authentic approach in this industry.
Please don't use the current look of the logo or the site as any kind of a guide for what we want for the new logo or the color scheme. http://www.savingssociety.com/move
The appeal must be broad and work well for both men and women.
The website color pallete we will most likely use is the following:
Color Scheme with #990033 #669900 #0099FF #0033CC
The logo should compliment and/or make use of these colors as the designer sees fit.
Color is important but consider how this will look in grey-scale and as a white vinyl die cut applied to the back window of an automobile. We're thinking a horizontal aspect would work best, but we are open to suggestions and ultimately will want to have the various elements kept seperate so we have the option of repurposing those elements for various applications.
Ultimately we need the final product in a scalable format for use in multiple environments. SVG would be ideal, both high-res and low-res.
We look forward to seeing your designs!
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Consider a better diet
To the Editor:
The year 2012 was the hottest year on record in the continental United States.
Warming trends are causing sea levels to rise on the Gulf Coast of my home state Alabama, according to a new government report that also says climate change will cause coastal and river flooding in the Northeast United States.
Animal agriculture is a major culprit.
Production of meat and dairy products produces climate-changing greenhouse gases.
But there is good news.
As a dietitian, I know that switching to a vegetarian diet can reduce your carbon footprint and help cool the planet.
If everyone in the United States ate no meat or cheese just one day a week, it would be like taking 7.6 million cars off the road, according to the Environmental Working Group.
The simplest step you can take to help stop flooding our coastlines with water -- and your arteries with saturated fat and cholesterol -- is switching to a plant-based diet of fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains.
Your body will thank you and so will the planet.
Susan Levin, M.S., R.D.,
Director of Nutrition Education,
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine,
Washington, D.C.


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The old man has died. That's what Paul meant when he said "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me". Brother Dwight Coffman ends our weekend revival with this short message on making sure we understand that our hands are to be hands for God's work. This sermon shows us how we are to focus on the Kingdom of God first of all while we live the life of Christ. We must make sure the old man's goals and ambitions died along with him. We pray this message encourages us all to refocus on the things of God.


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Nothing can keep Bret Michaels down, and nothing can keep the oft-stricken Poison frontman off TV, either.
The rocker, who won "Celebrity Apprentice" despite suffering a life-threatening brain hemorrhage and a stroke earlier this year and is due for heart surgery in January, will be back on reality TV on Oct. 18 with a new VH1 show.
"The show balances both of my passions," Michaels, 47, told People magazine before serenading tailgaters at the NFL's Miami Dolphins vs. New England Patriots game in south Florida this week. "Viewers will see me interacting with my family and making music on the road."
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The new show, called "Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It," will show his family life with daughters Raine, 10, and Jorja, 5, and their mother, Kristi Gibson, who has been Michaels's on again-off again girlfriend for the past 16 years.
"[This] show is different because it is unprotected reality, proving how hard it is for me to balance my love for the girls and my work on the road," he says. "In the show, I learn both patience and negotiating skills from my daughters, and at the same time I talk to them about serious issues like life, death and protecting themselves from harm. It is totally fun!"
One reality show Michaels has no desire to compete on is ABC's "Dancing with the Stars."
"That is one reality show I don't think the audience would like to watch [me on]," he says, laughing. "I am totally uncoordinated. I would love to make music but should leave the dancing to others."
Selected Reading: People, VH1, BretMichaels.com.


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Elsbeth necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 105 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
Custom Strength
I am a strength and conditioning specialist who works in a sports therapy clinic to help people get strong after they have recovered from an injury, or athletes wanting to prevent injury, and extend their career (even for recreational athletes).
Most trainers don't have a real plan for their clients and don't address their weakness - which leaves them at risk for injury. I fix their weakness, build balance, and progress them safely.
I watch their movement and create a custom strength and conditioning program for them, based on their muscle imbalances, schedule and available equipment. I then coach them through the exercise to make sure they are doing it right and feeling it in the right places.
I send them home with a detailed handout with pictures and descriptions, and they come back every few weeks to few months.
I am now extending this service internationally through my website. Instead of physically coming to my clinic, they will upload a video of them performing my assessment movements as well as information about their schedule, history etc. I will then do the same thing as in the clinic - send them a program (with video), and then either have a video call with them to go over it, or have them upload another video of them doing the movements - telling me where they feel it. I'll critique their video and maintain correspondence via email and the website.
- athletes who are starting to realize that once they hit 30, the weekend warrior approach doesn't work as well anymore. they want to play without being sore and without injury
- People who continue to have recurring injuries that want to stop the injury cycle
- People who are motivated to work out on their own, but want to be doing the right program for them - not some generic program from a magazine
- People who want to improve their health and performance
I need a logo. That's about it.
I will also consider logos that are for customstrength.com instead of Custom Strength.
you can see the look that I'm currently using on my website (http://www.elsbethvaino.com), but I'm not married to anything there.
I do like the tagline that I have with my website (Move better Play better Live better), so that could be included in the logo - but is not essential. It should not be included if it will look too cluttered.
Simple but awesome is what I'm looking for. (sorry - very poor description!).
I have no attachment to any colours or fonts. Just want something that looks great.
I will be using it for the website (http://www.customstrength.com), but also for other communications (will likely post for templates for letterhead and business cards and ebook formatting).
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You Say Potato
Now that presidential election season is upon us, we are in the throes of the NCAA tournament, and it's just about a year since we declared not-war on Iraq, I thought it was high time someone discussed why the set of Little House on the Prairie had so many potatoes.
If it has been a while since you've seen Little House on the Prairie, you are obviously not one of the three people who have purchased the DVD boxed set. That's right – for just four easy payments of more money than it's worth, you can purchase the very same episodes you grew up ignoring as a child.
Most people who read my column are too young to have had the chance to ignore Little House on The Prairie, but I'm reasonably certain they would have, given the proper chance. The show was cancelled in 1982, making anyone under 22 unable to have seen a new episode. I'm only 24, and I remember the show fairly well. I must have seen it in syndication because I have mean parents.
I kid, I kid. I'm sure it was a great show that was heartwarming and taught you lessons about life and little houses and prairies. They resurrected it for one final episode in 1984. Which I'm sure was also heartwarming and taught us lessons and. Oh, sorry. I fell asleep before I could finish that sentence.
I was reminded of the show recently because a friend of mine actually purchased the boxed set. She's a big fan, which is crazy because she's not nuts or 85. But she was watching it and I walked in during a heartwarming episode about little houses and prairies.
The episode also dealt with the possibility of Mrs. Ingalls having an affair, even though what really happened is that some dude who was finishing her kitchen kind of liked her. Oooh, scandalous. The oldest daughter got all upset and the worker guy ran off, but the real story is that there were potatoes everywhere.
There was one scene in particular when the family was in, I don't know, a barn, and the conversation got tense between Mrs. Ingalls and the hotter daughter. And as the hotter daughter stormed off, I noticed that there were several huge baskets of potatoes. There were probably 500 potatoes in the scene. That's a lot of potatoes for a show not involving some guy in the army being punished by having to peel potatoes.
If this were actual footage of the prairie, which I am guessing it is not because the prairie had better lighting, the potatoes would be a bit odd, but I would say, "okay, they just happen to be in front of potatoes." My problem is that these potatoes had to have been imported. I am wondering what went on while the set was being decorated.
"Folks, we're going to need to make this look authentic. You know what that means. Potatoes."
"Sure thing boss. I've got a bag of them right here."
"Just a bag? You're fired! We need more than a bag! We need a truck full of potatoes!"
"Don't you mean a wagon?"
I shouldn't keep joking about how boring the show is, because it did produce one very exciting childhood memory. There was an episode where the kids thought the barn was haunted, possibly by the ghost of Mr. Potato Head. My mother actually asked me if I was frightened.
I was already sarcastic as a four-year-old, so I pretended to be scared and ran to the bathroom and locked myself in, laughing. It stopped being funny when the lock jammed and I was stuck in the bathroom for over an hour. By the time I got out, I was crying hysterically (come on, I was four!) and my family thought I really had been frightened by Nellie Oleson's bucket of parts.
I should mention that the role of Laura Ingalls Wilder was played by Melissa Gilbert, who has since become the hotter sister. She was also cast in almost every made for TV movie produced since 1987, since Meredith Baxter Birney wasn't always unavailable.
Cartoon fans might also know Gilbert as the voice of Barbara "Batgirl" "Yoko" Gordon in the animated Batman series. For those of you who are not Batman fans, you may not know that the introduction of Batgirl to the series is analogous to the introduction of Cousin Oliver to the Brady Bunch. A show on which the former hotter Ingalls sister once guest starred. Ow, my head. Perhaps I should have some aspirin.
Maybe there's some behind these potatoes.


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Troubled reality TV caricature Tila Tequila revealed the reason for her next role, saying she's going on "Celebrity Rehab" to kick an addiction to prescription pills.
"I finally admitted to myself that I cannot rely on taking prescription pills everyday for the rest of my life!" the kooky sexpot wrote on her blog. "I must not be another Lindsay Lohan, where I just flush everything I worked so hard for down the toilet for nothing."
Tequila, whose real name is Tila Nguyen, has made headlines in the last year for a row with then-boyfriend Shawwn Merriman, a linebacker for the San Diego Chargers, and then later when pharmaceutical heiress Casey Johnson died in January and Tequila said the two were lovers. Tequila, 28, had an MTV reality show called "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" and was later host of the Fuse TV show "Pants-Off Dance-Off." She has posed nude in several magazines and is currently trying to launch a singing career.
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On her blog, Tequila says she wants to go on the show, on which Dr. Drew Pinsky helps celebrities battle their drug and alcohol demons, to get clean and hang onto her "empire."
The blog then degenerates into a screed against "cyber bullies" and "haters" who Tequila believes wish her ill.
Past seasons of "Celebrity Rehab" have featured Daniel Baldwin, Brigitte Nielsen, Rodney King, ex-Gund N' Roses drummer Steven Adler, Gary Busey, Dennis Rodman, Heidi Fleiss and MacKenzie Phillips.
However, the VH1 show is having trouble finding new C- and D-List addicts to come one and bare their problems and drug-addled behavior, aacrding to realitytvworld.com.
Tequila had a casting suggestion on her blog: "Lindsay Lohan needs to be here in Celebrity Rehab," she wrote.


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My favorite part about this site is that it also gives you the HTML code that they used to create the tests. This allows you to add this code to your website to display the results.
When we get to the site this is what we will see:
The Java test website goes on to explain that Java and Javascript are two very different programming languages and pretty much only share the first four letters of their name. To learn the difference between the two languages you can check out these two Wikipedia pages here and here to read about Javascript and Java respectively.
But they have another easy to use JavaScript test :
If you are looking for the easiest and quickest test possible the one above is it. But if you also need some more information regarding your browser's capabilities you can check out this browser capability test website. This is a web application called Browser Hawk.
You can see the output from my FireFox 3.6.3 below:
If you are a programmer you can easily integrate the code from these pages to create your own test sites on your local intranet or website. If you do code up your own snazzy pages we would love to see them so hit us with the links in the comments.
If you are looking for a Java test website you can check this one out. It will work with all operating systems and Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape.
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Before Thursday's decision, Democrats were screaming that the Supreme Court was illegitimate, a hopelessly partisan farce, a collection of blind politicians in robes issuing political decisions contrary to established law to benefit one side of the aisle.
Amidst the champagne corks popping and the blaring vuvuzelas in liberal strongholds across the country, you don't hear that argument anymore.
It seems the Supreme Court is a legitimate, stately collection of wise men and women above politics when it issues decisions that you agree with, but it's an illegitimate threat to our democracy when it even hints that it may issue a decision you do not agree with. A lesson, I think, in ignoring partisan tomfoolery.
The irony, of course, is that the left is now celebrating the government's ability to compel each one of us, simply as a matter of existing, to purchase a product from huge corporations.
The very same people who were living in tents, "occupying" Augusta (and other cities across the country) because they opposed corporatism and collusion between big business and big government, are now cheering this Supreme Court decision.
Try to wrap your brain around that, I dare you.
Obviously, I disagree with the majority opinion of the court. It is a contradictory mess of incoherent logic, which – in striking down the commerce clause rationale for the individual mandate, while upholding it as a tax – basically argues that the government cannot force you to purchase something, but it can penalize you with a tax if you don't purchase that something. Really?
I suppose the upside, from my perspective, is that the court exposed a pretense under which this law was sold to the American people as a lie: namely that the law wouldn't raise our taxes. Now, the entire concept that the individual mandate is constitutional hinges on the single fact that it is a tax — because any justification that emanates from the Commerce Clause is unconstitutional.
This means, despite what the president told you when he was pushing Congress to pass his legislation over the objections of a vast majority of the citizens of this country, that President Barack Obama raised your taxes. The IRS can now audit you, inquire as to your insurance status and legally compel you, under threat of "taxing" a penalty upon you, to purchase that insurance if you do not already have it.
In January of this year, I changed jobs and began working for a new and very small company that had only a handful of employees. I originally thought that I would purchase health insurance through my new employer, and when I was hired we were still setting up our provider.
As quotes came back, it became clear that it would have been prohibitively expensive – by a long shot – for both the employer and myself to buy insurance. By the time we figured that out, I had already been roughly two months without insurance. I then decided to go through my wife's job – and her inferior plans – just to ensure that my family was covered.
In the three months I didn't have insurance, in the eyes of the government of the United States, I was a criminal and deserved to be fined for my negligence.
This is a punitive, oppressive law that compels people to do things under threat of draconian punishment. Ultimately that is my biggest problem with the so called Affordable Care Act. Obama chose a top-down, heavy handed, big government solution to an issue that requires a decentralized, bottom up, flexible approach that frees its people to more easily purchase cheaper health insurance on their own schedule.
We had a problem with the number of uninsured people in this country, particularly among the poor, and the president's solution was to compel them to purchase something from big insurance companies and punish them if they don't. Something that they couldn't afford anyway. No amount of incentives, subsidies or sweeteners could make that fair.
In the end, no Supreme Court decision can change these facts. This is still a bad law and one which deserves to be repealed. A fact you can expect to hear from Mitt Romney more than once in the coming months.


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Lake Washington, the largest lake in the Seattle area, has long been home to a soft-skinned fish called the threespine stickleback. But over the past fifty years, the lake's population of sticklebacks has changed dramatically: today, most of the fish sport partial or full body armor, a throwback to their origins as saltwater fish covered in bony plates. (In the picture here, you can see an armored stickleback on top, with plates in red; a non-armored one is on the bottom.) What caused the rapid shift in the fish's morphology? It sounds bizarre, but the mutation is the result of pollution being cleaned up in Lake Washington. A program started in the late 1960s to clear the lake of toxic sludge made the sticklebacks de-evolve.
A study in 2005 at Stanford showed that there is only one gene that controls whether a sticklefish will develop bony plates on its body. So clearly this gene got switched on after the lake was cleaned up. But why? According to PhysOrg:
Back when the lake was polluted, the transparency of its water was low, affording a range of vision only about 30 inches deep. The tainted, mucky water provided the sticklebacks with an opaque blanket of security against predators such as cutthroat trout, and so the fish needed little bony armor to keep them from being eaten by the trout.
In 1968, after the cleanup was complete, the lake's transparency reached a depth of 10 feet. Today, the water's clarity approaches 25 feet. Lacking the cover of darkness they once enjoyed, over the past 40 years about half of Lake Washington sticklebacks have evolved to become fully armored, with bony plates protecting their bodies from head to tail. For example, in the late '60s, only 6 percent of sticklebacks in Lake Washington were completely plated. Today, 49 percent are fully plated and 35 percent are partially plated, with about half of their bodies shielded in bony armor. This rapid, dramatic adaptation is actually an example of evolution in reverse, because the normal evolutionary tendency for freshwater sticklebacks runs toward less armor plating, not more.
"We propose that the most likely cause of this reverse evolution in the sticklebacks is from the higher levels of trout predation after the sudden increase in water transparency," said Peichel, whose Hutchinson Center lab has established the stickleback as a new model for studying complex genetic traits. By examining multifaceted traits in the fish, such as body type and behavior, Peichel and colleagues shed light on the genetic networks at play in other complex traits, such as cancer and other common human diseases.
The ability of the fish to quickly adapt to environmental changes such as increased predation by the cutthroat trout is due, Peichel believes, to their rich genetic variation. The sticklebacks in Lake Washington contain DNA from both marine (saltwater) fish, which tend to be fully plated, and freshwater sticklebacks, which tend to be low-plated. When environmental pressures called for increased plating, some of the fish had copies of genes that controlled for both low and full plating, and so natural selection favored the latter.
"Having a lot of genetic variation in the population means that if the environment changes, there may be some gene variant that does better in that new environment than in the previous one, and so nature selects for it. Genetic variation increases the chance of overall survival of the species," she said.
So wait, does that mean I just have to go someplace ultra-clean in order to activate my X gene and get wings and magic powers?
Researchers document rapid reverse-evolution [PhysOrg]