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Drew Bonner Steps Up to the Plate
What an INCREDIBLE moment. From start to finish, this tugs at every emotional string I have. I know what you're thinking: Hey, Dan, isn't hate an emotion? You're right it is, but I'm incapable of hate. It's just not a part of my emotional repertoire.
Drew Bonner has been the team manager at Fairfax High in Virginia for the past four years. Despite being in a wheelchair, he gets an at-bat in a game and draws a walk. First of all, how amazing is his walk-up song? It's "Ridin Dirty" by Chamillionare and the first lyric in that song is: "They see me rollin." That's about a 14 out of 10 on the incredible scale. It made me smile and laugh. Then the announcer gave Drew's story and I became heartfelt. When the fourth ball was thrown, I was happy, sad, proud, touched and wanted to cry. The opposing team went to congratulate Drew and I wanted to fistpump and cheer and high-five everybody around me. Just an awesome moment for Drew. There's nothing like a bond between teammates, and I'm glad somebody captured this and shared it with the world.


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SWANSBORO � Croatan�s Ryan Lasater more than made up for a late-game turnover Thursday night.
SWANSBORO � Croatan�s Ryan Lasater more than made up for a late-game turnover Thursday night.
The senior scored on a jump shot with 13 seconds left to lift the Cougars to a 34-33 win at Swansboro in an East Central 2-A Conference girls� basketball game.
Later, Croatan defeated Swansboro 60-34 in the boys� game.
The Croatan girls� were tied 32-32 with the Pirates when Lasater put up a 2-point shot just in front of the Cougars� bench and saw it go through the net.
�I never managed to shoot a 3-pointer because she (defender) was on me,� Lasater said. �I had to take a dribble.�
And fortunately for the Cougars (3-5, 1-0 ECC), the shot was made. However, Croatan coach Andrew Gurley knows to expect big shots from Lasater, who had committed a turnover with 34 seconds left and with the game tied at 32-32.
�She knows her role. She knows she is the shooter,� Gurley said of Lasater, who finished with 8 points. �We know to get her the ball, especially when we need a shot. I put her in the game with like 45 seconds to go.�
Lasater was motivated and happy to have made up for her late turnover, which wasn�t a forced giveaway. She was also pleased she had a game-winning shot after coming up short on a similar chance recently.
�The last game against Pamlico, I had a shot and I missed it,� she said.
But while Lasater�s shot against Swansboro was clutch, it didn�t end the game. The Pirates (2-7, 0-2) still had a chance to win.
Swansboro had three looks to the basket in the final seconds, only to come up empty. Still, the Pirates got a break when Kylie Cleve was fouled with 0.1 seconds left and went to the free throw line with a chance to send the game into overtime.
However, she missed the first free throw before making the second one for the final margin. Croatan then put the ball in play for the final tick of the clock.
�I was kicking myself for not calling a timeout when she (Lasater) made it,� Gurley said. �I got caught up in the excitement, but hats off to our girls for getting back (on defense).�
Sammy Jo Layko led the Cougars with 11 points.
Cleve and Mary Freeman each scored 8 points for the Pirates, who took a 32-28 lead with 5:05 on a jump shot by Morgan Sheehan.
Yet the Pirates were unable to make a field goal the rest of the game.
�The turnovers in the second half really hurt us,� said Swansboro assistant coach Nick Bailey, who has joined forces with Mary Bryan Carlyle to coach the Pirates while head coach Kim Miller is recovering from surgery.
�We started to get a little sloppy with the ball, especially toward the end. It�s one of those things where we have to just keep working on the little things.�
Layko was a big reason Croatan rallied after trailing 15-14 at halftime and 26-24 after three quarters. The sophomore scored 9 points in the second half, including 5 from the free throw line.
�Sammy had a little bit of foul trouble in the first half,� Gurley said. �She gives us such a great inside presence. The middle was open and we executed.�
And the Cougars won.
�This is a big win because they (Pirates) are big rivals to us,� Lasater said.
Croatan 60, Swansboro 34: Croatan took control early, building a 13-point lead after the first quarter en route to a win to open its ECC schedule.
The Cougars (8-0, 1-0) were led by Mitchell Smith, who had 17 points and 8 rebounds.
�He�s a pain in the butt, but he�s a character,� Croatan first-year coach Kirk McDougle said of Smith. �He got in No. 22�s (Shane Hill) head. That�s what he�s good at.�
Jacques Chambers added 11 points and Austin Saunders scored 10 for Croatan.
�They (Cougars) have really good players in Jacques and Austin, but they have others guys around them who are solid,� said Swansboro coach Ed Walsh, whose team fell to 4-5, 0-2. �They share the ball a lot better.�
Anfernee Ashley scored 11 points for the Pirates.
Croatan 9 5 10 10 � 34
Swansboro 4 11 11 7 � 33
Lasater 8, Raynor 4, Perry 2, Taylor 7, Raper 2, Layko 11. Totals� 10-42 12-18 34.
Sheehan 4, Champion 2, Cleve 8, Watkins 5, Oriol 4, Freeman 8, Johnson 2. Totals� 13-47 6-8 33.
3-Point Goals� C 2 (Lasater 2), S 1 (Watkins). Rebounds� C 26 (Perry 7, Layko 7), S 34 (Oriol 9, Cleve 8, Champion 7). RECORDS� C: 3-5, 1-0, hosts Clinton on Jan 2. S: 2-7, 0-2, vs. West Craven on West Craven tourney on Dec. 27.
Croatan 17 14 21 8 � 60
Swansboro 4 12 12 6 � 34
Huffman 6, Chambers 11, Cranmer 7, Gould 4, Smith 17, Denning 2, Saunders 10, Judon 3. Totals� 25-58 8-15 60.
Morton 4, Foy 2, Ashley 11, Oswalt 6, Jude 2, Thorton 9. Totals� 15-56 3-7 34.
3-Point Goals� C 2 (Cranmer, Judon), S 1 (Ashley). Rebounds� C 39 (Smith 8,Saunders 7), S 32 (Oswalt 10). RECORDS� C: 8-0, 1-0, vs. Havelock on Dec. 27 in West Carteret tourney. S: 4-5, 0-2, vs. Dixon on Dec. 27 in Onslow County Classic.


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Haskell For Kids: Week 6
(This is from last week. Yes, I'm really late in posting this… sorry! This week's summary will be up in a couple days.)
Practice Time
Welcome to the week 6 summary of Haskell for Kids, my middle school level (that is, ages 12 – 13 ish) programming class using Haskell and Gloss at the Little School on Vermijo. You can go back and review weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 if you like.
This week was time for practice. Instead of introducing any new ideas, I'll just post the practice activity we did together in class on Tuesday. The way we practiced was very simple: I drew pictures, and we tried to write descriptions of those pictures. Rather than waste time, let's just jump right into it. It might help to download (and maybe print out) the PDF file from the end of week 5 (follow the link earlier) for a reminder of how to write list comprehensions.
I'm not including answers, because it's too easy to just read ahead! If you can't figure one of them out, feel free to ask for help in the comments.
Practice 1
Hints: None! Hopefully this one is easy.
Practice 2
Hints: The parameter to circle is a number. Use the variable from the list comprehension for that.
Practice 3
Hints: This one should also be easy. It's just a stepping stone to the next practice.
Practice 4
Hint: The list comprehension variable tells you how far to translate.
Practice 5
Hint: Don't do this with rotate. You can change just one thing from practice 4 and make this work. Remember that you can use the list comprehension variable more than once.
Practice 6
Hint: Remember that if you translate something first and then rotate it, it will be rotated around the middle of the picture.
Practice 7
Hint: Here you'll want to use two variables in your list comprehension. One of the examples from the reference page shows you how to do this.
Practice 8
Hint: Again you want two variables, but this time one of them will be used in translate and the other one in rotate.
In addition to this, we just worked on our list comprehension projects. If you remember from last week, the project was to pick something repetitive and draw it. I suggested a U.S. flag if you're in the U.S. and don't have another idea. Some of the other projects kids from our class came up with were an iPhone with a grid of icons, a keyboard (the musical type!), and a galaxy with spiral arms and a background of stars. So be creative!
Oh, and I have to show off Sophia's keyboard, because she worked really, really hard on it, and I'm very impressed. It's a great use of list comprehensions, too. Here goes…


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When you think large raptors, visions of prehistoric beasts from the pages of 'Jurassic Park' may come to mind, however raptors also refers to a specialised group of birds, named for their powerful gripping feet. The largest of those found in Australia is the Wedge-tailed eagle, sporting an incredible wingspan of 2.2m tip to tip. If you've not seen one, you are missing out, but luckily to witness these birds in flight you won't need to travel back 65 million years, you can visit us down at the Bird Show and meet our newest addition, a 12-month old male Wedge-tail.
Our newest addition is yet to be named, and arrived recently from Healesville Sanctuary. Initially found in Monbulk, Victoria, this eagle was taken to the sanctuary as he was having difficulties flying. Lacking these skills is essentially a death sentence. He was given care, but when they tried to release him he still appeared to struggle and was deemed unfit for release, so shortly thereafter was transferred to Taronga Zoo Sydney.
Since being with us our focus has been on exposing him to as many different environments as possible, so although he is still a long way from debuting in shows he can still be seen on most days. We have been standing on stage with him so he can meet zoo guests, have been walking him to various points around the zoo, and even started his flight training. Yesterday was incredibly exciting for us as it was the greatest distance he was flown to date, flying from glove to glove. It was only 7-meters, but these are all encouraging signs. When he landed on my glove for the final flight my body was tingling.
It's very amusing walking him around the zoo too. The White-cheeked Gibbons find our new eagle about as exciting as us. When we walked past their rope course yesterday they came straight over, swinging along branch to branch, following us as we went. Our eagle was taking it all in, just watching. I'll be sure to keep you updated as he progresses with his training, but if you visit sometime soon you never know, you might just bump into us.
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It takes a very brave man to risk his managerial credibility being diminished and take on the lead role at Manchester City, and Mark Hughes has proved he has the heart of a lion by agreeing to work with ruthless owner Thaksin Shinawatra.
Just days after Sven Goran Eriksson's controversial sacking, Hughes takes the manager's position with strict orders from Shinawatra to fulfil his ambitions of challenging the top four for the lucrative and glamorous Champions League places. At the very least a top-six finish is expected, and this is a mountainous challenge in itself with the likes of Tottenham, Aston Villa and Everton to fiercely compete against.
Hughes has toweringly high ambitions of his own though, and his move to City will allow his visions to be matched with a high transfer budget being handed to him.
This will be on top of the already imminent arrival of Brazilian striker Jo, who is expected to cost around £18m, and possibly even his compatriot Ronaldinho, who may require slightly more millions.
These signings, as well as plenty more quality new additions, will give Hughes great belief that he can turn this mid-table certainty into a Uefa Cup flyer. And he won't have to wait long to get his first taste of Europe with City, as the club have in fact qualified for next season's competition via the fair play system, which will give him the immediate opportunity to bring a type of success that the club is not used to even dreaming of.
A lot of football experts will still rate Hughes' chances of success as minimal, as only one season of underachievement is likely to spell the end of the former United striker's Manchester mission. His boss is one of the toughest men to please in world football today, but Hughes will not be shy to the violent pressure that comes with such a job.
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by Kevin Kimmes
Editor's note: This is the fourth article in Cream City Cables' 2014 position preview series. Other positions: catcher, center field, and left field.
From the first official game of Spring Training, one thing has been apparent: where Ryan Braun goes, the boo-birds follow. For those of us that have followed the ups and downs of the "Braun Saga" we know why. An MVP season, accusations of cheating, "redemption" when those accusations didn't stick, an MLB "witch hunt", and a crushing finale in which we found out that all of our darkest suspicions where true. These have been the highlights and lowlights of Braun's recent career.
With that said, the 2014 season is a new start for Braun. His suspension now completed, he finds himself in new territory: right field. Filling the gap left by the recently departed Corey Hart, Braun now tends the field out where "the dandelions grow". Sometimes a change of scenery such as this requires a period of adjustment, but this time, that just doesn't appear to be the case.
In 12 Spring Training appearances, Braun has 0 errors as a right fielder. As if this wasn't reassuring enough, the bat appears to be back in a big way too. Sporting a robust .440/.548/.800 in Cactus League play, Braun also has a pair of longballs to his credit. The first of these, recorded in his first at bat of his first Spring Training game, had a cinematic quality to it.
Walking to the plate to a chorus of boos, Braun tomahawked an 0-1 offering from A's starter Tommy Malone over the left field fence stunning the jeering crowd into silence and sending out a resounding roar from the Brewers' faithful. Fans saw this as a return to form for the beleaguered slugger while detractors just drew more suspicion from the performance.
Believe what you may, Braun appears to be putting the whole thing in the rear view mirror and moving on, and that's good news for Milwaukee as they look to take a run at another year of stout competition in the NL Central. Sporting a franchise high payroll (the first ever to exceed $100 million), the Brewers appear to be "all in" this season. Nowhere may this be more apparent than in Braun's move to right field.
The move allows Kris Davis, who filled in out in left during Braun's suspension and collected 11 homers for Milwaukee, to continue on in an everyday role for the Brewers. That kind of power will be needed to help balance out the loss of Corey Hart's bat and to possibly stoke the fires of an explosive offense like the one Milwaukee fielded in 2011 when they led the NL in homeruns.
Look for Braun to have a bounce back season as he looks to move on from his recent turmoils.
2013 Recap
253 PA, 30 R, 9 HR, 38 RBI, 4 SB, 10.7 BB%, 22.1 K%, .298/.372/.498, 135 wRC+
2014 Projections
Steamer: 576 PA, 79 R, 26 HR, 82 RBI, 16 SB, 9.5 BB%, 19.1 K%, .291/.363/.514, 139 wRC+
ZiPs: 664 PA, 99 R, 33 HR, 116 RBI, 22 SB, 8.9 BB%, 17.6 K%, .300/.367/.540, 148 wRC+
Contract Status
Signed thru 2020, 8 yrs/$45M (08-15), 5 yrs/$105M (16-20) & 21 mutual option
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The Ballad of the Buttless
Hello, my name is Steve, and I have no butt.
Sure, I have something that pretends to be a butt. It looks kind of like a butt, feels kind of like a butt, and performs various functions limited to butts, such as sitting and other things that rhyme with sitting. But it is not a butt in the conventional sense of the word - it provides no padding, little sex appeal, and I've seen Rubix Cubes with rounder corners.
I'm not sure how old I was when I realized that I had no butt. Whenever it was, it's been a daily part of my life ever since. I am uncomfortable on wooden benches, it is quite difficult to hula, and I don't even bother trying to dance the hustle. Frankly, I am afflicted.
People notice often; I am constantly hearing comments about my deficiency of posterior. People will say, "dude, you have no butt," and "what happened to your butt?" and "Man, that pizza was good. Dude, you have no butt."
And it's true - the pizza was quite good. Coincidentally, I also have no butt. Sometimes, I don't even like using the word "but" because it reminds me of my pain. Especially when I sit on wooden benches.
I'd imagine a butt would be quite useful, and not in the Ladies Man sort of way. Since it could help keep my pants up, a butt could save me quite a bit of money on belts. Have you ever seen those children's coloring books where the 2-D pants simply look like an upside-down V? That's what mine look like from behind while I'm wearing them.
I have often been persecuted for my lack of butt. It is commonplace to hear names like "Small-butt" and "no-butt" and "the guy who doesn't have a butt." Once, I was even called "sheer rear." Actually, I wasn't, but that's just because all you people with butts are more comfortable on benches and thus have gotten lazy and uncreative.
I'm sure I will get complaints from readers who actually have butts. You will write in and tell me how hard it is to go through life with a considerable caboose, and about being called "big-butt" and "butt" and "the guy who has a butt." And certainly, you've been called "massive assive" because people without butts are very creative. But these names are mere retaliation for years of inadequacy. Face it - this world prefers butts. And not in a Ladies Man sort of way.
Butter. Buttons. Butte, South Dakota. There are butts everywhere we look. And though some of you may like that sort of thing, it is a painful reminder to those of us whose only butt comes in the form of a flying buttress. Which I always thought sounded like a wrestling move.
No one ever made a song about liking small butts - the lyrics just wouldn't work. No one cares about Sir Mix-a-Little's anaconda. And when a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waste and, well, nothing, no one really notices. Except the people calling her "no-butt."
I have often lied about why I have no butt. I've told people that I lost it in a tragic farming accident. I've told people that I actually have a butt, and only smart people can see it, kind of like the Emperor's New Butt. And my favorite explanation is that I laughed it off at everyone being so concerned about whether or not I have a butt.
I still hold out hope that I will grow a butt. But as I get older, that hope dwindles and is replaced with seat cushions and tight belts. If I haven't grown a butt by now, it probably won't happen. Especially since no old people have butts. Well, they might, but I've never been inclined to check. If any of you know whether or not old people have butts, please keep it to yourself cause I don't want to picture that.
Those of you reading this that do have butts, I implore you to help ease the plight of your buttless friends. Compliment us on how our pants just kind of hang there. Tell us that it must be nice to never have to buy a product from Suzanne Sommers. And most of all, don't ever take the last donut - we need it more than you. Please, give your butts to the less fortunate.
But not in a Ladies Man sort of way.


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With the big upheaval to our plans. The ending of a life chapter and the start of another. It is fitting to start a new blog:
the new blog is in operation, this onE will not be updated.
With the big upheaval to our plans. The ending of a life chapter and the start of another. It is fitting to start a new blog:
the new blog is in operation, this onE will not be updated.
I had thought once we set sail, this blog would end. However somethings just seem more fitting here than on the sailing site. I do not know if it matters to my 4 or 5 readers. Never the less this will be my final post for a while as we are heading to the South Pacific and I will be internet-less for some 35 days.
We moved from the marina there in downtown Ensenada to another location just outside of town. Very nice upscale , location attached to a hotel. My practice session are less elaborate here, mostly just working on my Chen Tai Chi and fundamentals of Kyudo and meditation. My new "Dojo" is right on the beach front , very nice.
However there is no shade so once the sun hits , it is on! Seriously! It is nice in that I do not have the lookers like at the other place, for the most part I get to practice in private.
I love being able to do zazen and hear the ocean kiss the rocks on the shore. Also having a platform with a shade cover is nice for my stillness time. I feel the time next to the ocean is good feeling that Chi. I will be able to be up close and personal shortly as we will be leaving with in the next few days. Our time here in Mexico is winding down. It is a mix of joy and sadness.
We will be at sea for some 35 days , it will be interesting to see what I can arrange as far as practice. Stillness will be easy movement will be limited. Still practice is practice , both for and formless. A cup of ocean water is still ocean water.
So that is it for the local news. Next post will be from the other side of the Equator . I will shoot an arrow in respect for King Neptune. It is traditional to make some type of offering to the King Water Spirit. Mine will be the arrow and the shot to honor his royalness…Yosh!
I just finished reading a book by Victor Wooten, call the "Music Lesson, Spiritual search for Growth through music" an amazing book. I have new respect for him, besides his musical talent. It was like Carlos Castenada on music instead of Peyote.
It has been a while since my last post so a little update I think is good. For those who are not following the sea blog and do not know, now you know, currently we are in Ensenada Mexico. Almost 1 month now, less a day or so. It took some adjustment, but things are fairly good, other than the water which is bad. There is a work around that, which cost, but it is not too bad. The price for drinking water is reasonable.
Weather has been improving so that for me is always good, I hate the cold.
We have done a couple of small tourist things, visiting a natural cheese farm. They had cows which are only used to milk for cheese. Happy cows! Then they showed us the process and lastly gave everyone some samples with a glass of wine and bread. OMG good! We took some home. The cheese not the cows.
Another place we went is called the blow hole. ( bofadora) a place were the rock forms a place were the ocean shoot up in a spray. It was ok, but not worth the camera I broke trying to take a picture and tripping over a rock. Sigh. Something else to replace with no spare money.
I have been out-n-about and found more martial arts school than I thought this small place would have. Several Karate schools of course, there is also a Kung Fu school , which I have visited a couple of times. However have yet to speak to the Shifu. He has not been there, and whoever is teaching is busy with the class so will not stop to speak with me, understandable. They teach several arts, Wu Shu, Hung Gar, Tai Chi, and some Chi Gong. They train fairly well from what I see.
With getting settled now, I have started my own practice again, early mornings, but I need to make even earlier as not to have the misc onlookers. I like the solitude and not feeling like the entertainment . I have found a place by the marina on the water front. There are usually a lot of people out and about, starting early since it is a nice location. So I need to get before they start.
Morning solo practice , after morning Zazen. There is Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Hsing Yi. then a bit more Zazen. I wish there was someplace to do Kyudo, but alas I will have to make do with just some misc parts. even a small part is better than none, even if sometime it is just mental. The mind is the controlling factor anyway…ne!


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Amazon has floated a new cloud based on MySQL, giving sky-high developers instant access to a database that's not its very own SimpleDB creation.
Dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), the new offering is essentially MySQL running atop the company's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The company has long offered SimpleDB for use in conjunction with EC2's floating server instances, but if you opt for the proprietary SimpleDB, you subject yourself to the dreaded vendor lock-in.
Of course, Amazon still says there's still a place for its simple database. "We believe that RDS will make a really nice complement to Amazon SimpleDB and that each of the services has a number of unique features and use cases," reads a blog post from Jeff Barr. "A number of our early adopters are planning to use both of the services in their AWS applications.
Sebastian Stadil - founder of the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group and the man behind an open-source meta-cloud service along the lines of RightScale - seconds that Jeff Barr pitch.
"I concur with Amazon's branding of the two. They are fit for different use cases," Stadil tells The Reg. "SimpleDB is good for high availability and simplicity. MySQL is good for familiarity and compatibility...Lock-in is significant, which is why I mention compatibility for MySQL. Compatibility includes portability."
Using Amazon's RDS APIs - or its command-line tools - you can tap a self-contained MySQL 5.1 database instance whenever you feel the need. The service handles common admin tasks such as setup and provisioning, patch management, and backup. And you can add additional compute and storage resources at any time - unless the sky-high service is hit by lightning.
Of course, you always had the option of setting up your own MySQL instances on EC2. But this makes life a tad easier. "[RDS] is merely MySQL on an EC2 instance," says Stadil. "[It's] completely equivalent in functionality as if you did it yourself - only you save yourself the trouble of doing so."
Well, it makes life a tad easier unless you're a third party who's offering EC2-ified MySQL to world+dog. "It's a killer for third party mysql vendors - [at least at] the low end," says Stadil.
Officially, Amazon RDS is a beta. And as usual, the company charges by the hour. In this case, the charge varies depending on the memory requirements of each server instance: it's 11 cents an hour for an instance that taps 1.7GB of RAM, 44 cents for 7.5GB, and so on.
Barr also says that in the coming months, Amazon will offers "reserved" RDS instances, letting you pay a lower one-time fee to reserve an instance ahead of time, and a "high-availability" option, letting you deploy the same RDS instances in two separate "availability zones." Amazon's EC2 serves up on-demand processing power from two separate geographic locations - the US and Europe - and each geographic region is split into multiple zones designed never to vanish at the same time.
Separately, Amazon said it will lower prices on all EC2 instances on November 1st. For instance, Linux-based instances will drop 15 per cent, from 10 cent an hour to 8.5 cents an hour. The company is also offering what it call "high-memory instances," designed for memory-intensive applications. That would includes caching, rendering, and, yes, databases. ®
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(Georg Friedrich Haendel / Isaac Watts)
Ⓟ 2003 Led Records (song under public domain elaborated by L. Stanga - D. Di Marcantonio)
A dream of you and me together
Say you believe it, say you believe it
Free your mind of doubt and danger
Be for real don't be a stranger
We can achieve it, we can achieve it
Come a little bit closer baby,
Get it on, get it on,
'cause tonight is the night when two become one
*I need some love like I never needed love before
(Wanna make love to ya baby)
I had a little love, now I'm back for more
(Wanna make love to ya baby)
Set your spirit free, it's the only way to be
Silly games that you were playing,
Empty words we both were saying,
Let's work it out boy, let's work it out boy,
And eal that we endeavor,
Boys and girls feel good together,
Take it or leave it, take it or leave it
Are you as good as I remember baby,
Get it on, get it on,
'cause tonight is the night when two become one
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heavyfreak , forget what I said in my PM. I do not think I am the one to help.
But I still think you should either remove the post with the rules in it, or at least obscure the IP addresses as in 12.233.x.x
That is a common and accepted way to post such information publicly.
I know, I am paranoid!
But when I see things likeorAllow HTTPS [443] WAN1 Any 192.168.169.249 ~ 192.168.169.249 Alwaysand both the FTP and HTTP boxes are on your LAN, ..... I cringe. They belong in a DMZ.Allow FTP [21] WAN1 12.233.x.x ~ 12.233.x.x 192.168.169.251 ~ 192.168.169.251 Always
( is 12.333.x.x your public IP address? If it is then any rules that follow with less priority to deny access are useless! )
IMHO, I really think you need to sit down with someone proficient in network design and security, tell them what you have, what you need, and let them set things up for you from scratch!
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Age discrimination and transit (fact sheet)
2002 - Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, transit service providers have a legal responsibility to ensure that transit systems are accessible to all Ontarians. Many older persons depend of public transit services to go to work, to get to medical appointments, to go to the grocery store, to participate in recreational activities and to visit family and friends. Transit services that are not accessible can cause isolation and prevent participation of older persons in our communities.


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Teachers at Work
A column about teaching
Circular Definitions: What Makes "O" So Special
As a teacher, writer and editor, I spend a significant portion of my life reminding others (and myself) that certain pairs of words are not interchangeable, although they might seem to be. Now isn't the same as know, and affect can't pinch-hit for effect. Lose vs. loose is a particular frustration as of late. However, in all of my many years of teaching and writing, no one has ever asked me whether they ought to use O or oh, and this makes me sad.
Short as it is, O is one of my favorite words. Seeing that one letter on a page always makes me happy. I like its boldness; there aren't a lot of one-letter words that can stand by themselves and be as commanding. Certainly A doesn't get the job done. I like O's roundness too, the circle of eternity right there on the page, a welcome that I can't hope to achieve. Also, I associate O with the "O Antiphons," an ancient Christian text sung during the Advent season and celebrating the various qualities of the coming Christ child in beautiful language (e.g. "O come O key of David…"). The performance of these always sends chills down my spine. Finally, there's the rhetorical device of apostrophe, when a speaker breaks off from her declamation to address an object, an often imaginary person or an idea, sometimes beginning with one of those wonderful Os. (My favorite example is "Where, my death, is thy sting? Where, O death, thy victory?")
In fact, I love O so much that I went through a brief period in my adolescence in which I replaced all written Oh's with O's. This coincided with a poetry unit in my English class, so I hope I didn't seem entirely pretentious as I sprinkled my terrible sophomore poetry with Os. It wasn't until I rendered the song "Oh, Susanna" as, yes, "O Susannah" in Orchestra, however, that an adult, my teacher, stepped in and explained that O was almost always wrong and Oh almost always correct. "Except in church?" I asked, abashed. "Maybe," he replied, "but you're not trying to evoke Susannah." I had been taught. But, still, O thrilled me, even if I couldn't use it.
A Benefit of Higher Education
One of the happiest moments of my new academic career happened when I realized that I could access the Oxford English Dictionary online through my university's library. "Finally!" I thought. "Instead of trekking to the bowels of the public library to attract untoward attention by paging through the largest book in the reading room, I can answer all of my vocabulary questions from the comfort of my home!" It was a thrilling day at La Casa d'Reed.
So, with this luxury available, which of the many vocabulary bugaboos did I select as my first TBFO? (That's "To Be Figured Out," by the way.) Simple: Oh versus O. I typed in Oh to the OED and sat back to wait for enlightenment.
Oh, I See.
After reading a densely-packed page on oh (as a noun or interjection, setting aside the verb form for the moment), my head was spinning…and then I realized I was reading a summary, not the full article yet. Oh, dear! I clicked and dug in, soon lost in a bevy of definitions and, especially, examples of how oh might be used.
I soon realized that my confusion stemmed from the changing English language – not personal stupidity, which is always a relief – for there was a time when O and Oh were used interchangeably "in all contexts," as the OED put it. This interchangeability is found in some of the texts such as Renaissance plays, which used O or Oh to evoke deities. My work in theatre would have put me, however unwillingly, in contact with these works, composed long before the distinction began to make itself known in our language, predisposing me toward a fondness for O.
Today, oh is now an interjection used to express strong feeling, usually, as the OED notes, "pain, distress, regret, surprise, delight, [or] disapproval." It's also used for "optative phrases." I went scurrying down another rabbit hold to find out that "optative" means a sentence that evokes or contains a wish: Oh, I wish I could figure out which form to use! is a decent example.
Oh also intensifies, of course. Without constructions such as "oh-so-cute" and "oh-so-pretty" the fashion magazines would be out of business. There's no "o-so-" construction, apparently, not even in Chaucer.
And oh is also, finally, an exclamation. The OED tells us that it dates back to 1534, although I most like the entry from 1983, which reminds us that rock singers throw in an "oh, yeah" to pad out lyrics that need a few more syllables.
The Story of O
Turning our attention, then, to O, which has even more definitions than that of Oh. You can read about O' the prefix (to Irish last names), -O the suffix ("weirdo"), and O the verb which means, delightfully, "to spangle with small, circular discs." (Be warned: that meaning is considered "rare," before you start incorporating it in your daily use). I managed to drag myself away from these fascinating sidelights to focus on O as (again) a vocative.
It's quite old, O, dating back to classical Latin, Old French, Old Icelandic, Old Swedish, Early Irish, Old Welsh and Greek usages. The OED's first example is pulled from a saint's book dating to around 1225, but it's older than that. And O is multi-cultural too, "widely attested in non-Indo-European languages." In fact, it seems to be an instinctual use of language, easily said by most, and conveying meaning through nuance and placement.
However – O! Alas! – the use of O is now "chiefly poetical and rhetorical," dating from the 17th and 18th centuries.
O, Lesson Learned!
Thus, it turns out that my high school usage of O, although perhaps charming to some, were out of synch with the rise of Oh over the last three hundred years. O has indeed been slowly but surely pushed to the margins, rarely used as an exclamation now, and really only expected in poetry and declamation (or declaiming of poetry). Perhaps the best plan for me is to write more poetry? Or find more reasons to bespangle my clothing with circular discs? And what would I tell a student who asked which version to use? I suppose I'd have to advise toward Oh almost all of the time, although I might eagerly inquire whether they were writing new O antiphons.
But I enjoyed my wander through two comparatively short entries of the OED, and I suspect it won't be long before I'm poking around there again. What I liked most, in the end, wasn't that I found some sort of strict rule dictating what I could or could not do with language, but that I found the history of the words and could watch how their use changed over the parade of the centuries. Oh thank you, O, Gracious Source for the Logophile!


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Tombstone Tuesday - John W. RECTOR
Last week, we shared the stone of Franklin Pierce RECTOR, who was a brother of John W., sons of Jacob and Frances (LITTLE) RECTOR. Today we will focus on John W. RECTOR, born 13 May 1842, in Indiana, and died 17 Apr 1863, at age 23 years, 11 mon, 5 days. He is said to have died of fever, suffering during his Civil War service. He is buried in the Forest Hill - Hunter Cemetery in Lyon County, Kansas (near Emporia) along with others in his family including his brother, Franklin.
Thanks to the Flint Hills Genealogy Society and Emporia D.A.R. here is the list of those in this small Forest Hill-Hunter Cemetery.
Of the family, by given name, and year of burial:
Carrie C. - 1911 (wife of Franklin)
Carrie Pearl - 1888 (2 year old)
Chesle - 1901 (3 year old)
Frances - 1868 (Jacob's second wife)
Frank P. - 1924 (Son of Jacob and Frances)
George F. - 1894 (infant)
Jacob - 1880 (Father)
Jacob A. - 1925 (Son of Jacob and Frances)
John - 1872 (Brother of Jacob)
John W. - 1863 (Son of Jacob and Frances)
Lafayette - 1892 (Son of Jacob and first wife)
Sydney E. - 1895 (five year old)
Jacob RECTOR was the son of Peter RECTOR, Jr. (1773, VA-1827, NC) and Mary KINNICK (1878, MD- 1873, IN)
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Thursday August 11, 2011
Heirloom Breeds & Seeds:
Who wants sauerkraut?
This year, my garden produced an abundant crop of cabbage, which finally reached such a size that I had to harvest it!
There are many great ways to use cabbage, and I'm going to preserve mine by making some sauerkraut. First, of course, I needed a sauerkraut crock. After scouring the internet, I found a beautiful crock, and I hope to get started on it soon. Stay tuned!


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Oric is not a very high profile system when it's about demos, but there are now quite a lot of them.
Don't hesitate to download, try, and comment about the Oric demos.
The result is that people tend to try things that people comment on, so it increase the chances to get outsiders to be interested in our small machine
All the (known) oric demos are there:
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Applicative do. Philippa Cowderoy's idea, some explanations due Edward Kmett
Pointful version of Language.Haskell.Meta.QQ.Idiom. Note the only expression which has the bound variables in scope is the last one.
This lets you work with applicatives without the order of fields in an data constructor becoming such a burden.
In a similar role as
fail in do notation, if match failures can be
expected, the result is an
Applicative f => f (Maybe a), rather than
Applicative f => f a, where
a may be partially defined.
- ado :: QuasiQuoter
- ado' :: QuasiQuoter
ghci> [$ado| a <- "foo"; b <- "bar"; (a,b) |] [('f','b'),('f','a'),('f','r'),('o','b'),('o','a'),('o','r'),('o','b'),('o','a'),('o','r')]
ghci> [$ado| Just a <- [Just 1,Nothing,Just 2]; b <- "fo"; (a,b) |] [Just (1,'f'),Just (1,'o'),Nothing,Nothing,Just (2,'f'),Just (2,'o')]
Notice that the last statement is not of an applicative type, so when translating
from monadic do, drop the final
(do x <- [1,2,3]; return (x + 1)) == [$ado| x <- [1,2,3]; x + 1 |]
Variant of
ado that does not implicitly add a Maybe when patterns may fail:
ghci> [$ado'| Just a <- [Just 1,Nothing,Just 2]; b <- "fo"; (a,b) |] [(1,'f'),(1,'o'),*** Exception: <interactive>:...
If you use patterns that may fail:
foo :: Applicative f => f (Maybe T) foo = [$ado| x:xs <- foo bar baz Just y <- quux quaffle T x y |]
ado desugars to:
foo = (\x y -> case (x,y) of (x:xs,Just y) -> Just $ T x y _ -> Nothing ) <$> foo bar baz <*> quux quaffle
ado' desugars to the less safe:
foo = (\(x:xs) (Just y) -> T x y) <$> foo bar baz <*> quux quaffle
If the simple patterns cannot fail, there is no
Maybe for the
ado quote,
just like
newtype A = A Int foo :: Applicative f => f T foo = [$ado| ~(x:xs) <- foo bar baz A y <- quux quaffle T x y |]
foo = (\ ~(x:xs) (A y) -> T x y) <$> foo bar baz <*> quux quaffle
Template Haskell is currently unable to reliably look up constructor names
just from a string: if there is a type with the same name, it will
return information for that instead. This means that the safe version of
ado is prone to failure where types and values share names. It tries to
make a "best guess" in the common case that type and constructor have the
same name, but has nontrivial failure modes. In such cases,
ado' should
work fine: at a pinch, you can bind simple variables with it and case-match
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Detroit Medical Center to reduce staff by 300 employees, reduce salaries
Medical Center CEO says cuts necessary after 2 percent sequestration of Medicare funds
DETROIT – In a letter to employees, physicians and board members on Tuesday, Detroit Medical Center CEO Joe Mullany said DMC will be reducing its staff by 300 employees and reducing salaries for corporate executives, vice presidents and above for the 4th Quarter.
That's a 2 percent cut to the DMC's staffing levels, Mullany said.
The CEO's letter says the cuts are due to revenue shortfalls that healthcare providers across the country are facing after the 2 percent sequestration of Medicare funds and further reductions in payments from the state of Michigan Medicaid programs to DMC hospitals.
In addition to those cuts, Mullany says employee vacations are suspended for the 4th Quarter only.
Read: Mullany's full letter to employees, physicians and board members
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Half-eaten stick of butter found at the scene
In 1823, Clement Moore wrote � �Twas The Night Before Christmas.�
In 2013, this happened:
�Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Many creatures were stirring, most of them soused.
The stockings had runs but nobody cared
In hopes that those gams soon would be bare.
The burglars were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of larcenies danced in their heads.
For goods they won�t purchase, a display case they�ll tap
Or sneak through a dog door, and place in a sack.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter
I stopped eating butter, and got no more fatter
My robe it fell down, an unintended flash
My neighbors did see me, and brought up their hash.
The moon on the hood of my rusty old Pinto
Gave the luster of Maalox to objects below.
When then to my bloodshot pink eyes appeared
Eight miniature poodles dressed as reindeer.
With yelps that were healthy, so lively and loud
They galloped and gasped like asthmatic bloodhounds.
As rapid as snails, with slick oily manes
They dug through my trash for old candy canes!
�Now Otis! Now, Earl! Now, LeRoy and Matt!
Get out of my yard, or I�ll load up the gat!�
And then, while tinkling, I heard on the roof
The scatter and clawing of each little foot.
As I scratched my old head, and was turning around
Down the chimney those dogs came with a bound.
They were covered all in fur, from their head to their tail
And their breath, I must say, was a qualified fail.
A can of Vienna�s that sat on my table
Flew down their gullets, along with a sable.
Their stomachs did rumble, all full and severe
They ate all my food, and grandma�s Pabst beer!
Their slim little mouths dripped candy and meat
And several air biscuits escaped from their seats.
The only thing wrong with this Christmas Eve
Was that Animal Control had taken two days of leave.
With a house full of dogs, and cupboards all bare
I�d have to think fast, I�d have to take care!
They were chubby and plump, jolly and drunk
I guffawed when I saw them wear my wife�s pumps.
With the wink of an eye and the tilt of a head
A new doggie drag routine � what more can be said!
Slowly but surely, they took to their slumber
And snored like carpenter�s hammering lumber.
When Santa arrived, with toys on his back
The dogs they did wake, expecting a snack.
They rose to their feet and brandished their teeth
To show they meant business, they chewed up a wreath.
They rushed the old man, who let out a groan
But subdued them all with trusty Milk-Bones.
With toys all laid out and the dogs fast asleep
The jolly fat dude up the chimney did creep.
But I heard him exclaim, as he flew out of sight
�I must switch to boxers, these draws are too tight!�
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As some may already know, a selection of the photographs housed in the Special Collections Department have been digitized and put on Flickr. Other photographs from our collections can also be found on the library's Digital Collections site (images on the Digital Collections site will have more information on the images). The images on Flickr and the Digital Collections site are only a few of the more than one million photographs in our university photograph collection, university archives, and manuscript collections.
This past year, senior Ashley Rosener worked on an honors project here in the Special Collections Department. Her project involved research regarding digitization projects and processes here at Parks Library, and included the digitization and description of photographs of Friley Hall in the university photograph collection. Ashley composed a brief history of Friley Hall for the online collection, and then put together the metadata (descriptions/information) of each photograph. As is the case for all of our photographs on Flickr, the metadata includes a title, date and brief description of each photograph. To find the Friley Hall images from our Flickr homepage, go to collections (near the top), and then click on university archives and then buildings.
As a part of her honors project, Ashley put together a poster which she presented last week. The poster, pictured below, summarizes what Ashley did, lessons learned, and recommendations for the library.
When asked about what she learned during her project, Ashley noted that Friley Hall, its first unit built as Hughes Hall in 1927, has a rich and interesting history. "I was also quite shocked by how bare the dorm rooms were 40-50 years ago. Students have so much more stuff now!" A brief history of Friley Hall, published in 1980, can be found in the online version of H. Summerfield Day's The Iowa State University Campus and Its Buildings. The book can also be found by searching the library's catalog.
As is the case with most of our online photograph collections, the images of Friley Hall on Flickr are only a small portion of the photographs we have of Friley Hall here at the University Archives. In addition, as noted above, we have numerous photographs throughout our collections. As Ashley commented, "The Special Collections Department has A LOT of pictures, many of which are in excellent condition. I think it's unfortunate that not many people know about them or look at them." Come visit us if you would like to see more!
Ashley will be graduating at the end of the semester, and attending graduate school for library and information studies in the fall. We have enjoyed working with Ashley, and wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors!


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Lockdown defense leads Lynx to revenge, blowout victory over
Southeastern Illinois
By Justin Tierney
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[November 19, 2012]
JoVaughn Gaines and his Lincoln
College men's basketball teammates apparently didn't enjoy their
four-hour trip back after falling to Southeastern Illinois Community
College earlier this season.
Gaines said the memory of the long bus ride after a loss stuck
with the Lynx and served as motivation on Saturday.
"We were kind of mad coming home, after driving for four hours
from their place," said Gaines. "Before the game, we were like,
'Let's get some revenge.' At the beginning, we brought a lot of
intensity. After that first 13 minutes, we knew they weren't ready
to play, so we just kept it on them."
LC coach Pat Lepper has made defense a priority in his first
season at the helm of the program. If Saturday's defensive
performance was any indication, the amount of time in practice
dedicated to defense is starting to pay dividends for the Lynx.
By holding Southeastern Illinois without points in the first 13
minutes, LC was able to open the game with a 23-0 advantage.
"I would say it was probably the best defensive game we've played
all season," said Lepper. "We held them to a low field goal
percentage. I think it was a combination of guys knowing their
defensive assignments and being able to effectively switch it up
from a full-court press to man-to-man to a zone. I think that
bothered them at times. But I think our guys really bought into
their defensive assignments."
Lepper has made a point to demand intensity on defense in
practice, imploring his team to guard their own teammates as they
would guard their opponents on game day.
"We do it every day in practice," said Gaines when asked about
LC's intensity on defense. "People have to run if they don't even
finish a drill out. He tells us to punish them every day. So if we
do that to our teammates, we're going to do it to the other teams."
"It starts with practice and getting our guys to buy in," said
Lepper. "If we can get stops, we can score in transition. Our
defense can spark our offense. Everybody wants to score. But if you
buy in defensively, you can get easy buckets when we get stops. I
think our guys are buying in, getting motivated and really trying to
challenge each other to get stops and get scores in transitions."
Aside from their intensity on defense, the Lynx are also
displaying an unselfish brand of basketball. LC finished with 20
assists in Saturday's win, including nine from Aaron Simpson.
Simpson's assists are especially notable, given his reputation as
a scorer.
Late in Saturday's first half, the Falcons had gone on a small
10-4 run to shift the game's momentum away from the Lynx. But
Simpson quelled any thoughts of a run when, on back-to-back
possessions, he found Henry Hicks and Kendall Wesley in the corner
for open 3-pointers after drawing their defenders with a drive to
the basket. Simpson also added 19 points.
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"I have to praise Aaron Simpson," said Lepper. "I don't like to
get too high on our guys. But he's a guy that gets quantity numbers
of shots up. And he's really bought into figuring out how to be an
offensive player on all aspects of the game, whether it's passing,
whether it's following your shot, whether it's making reads on
screens. His nine assists and 19 points, that's a solid job of
picking his moments offensively."
Gaines is also emerging as a star for the Lynx. He finished with
20 points and eight rebounds, including 16 points in the first half.
A long, lanky athlete with an array of skills, Gaines has made a
habit of staffing stat sheets, including Wednesday's game, when he
had seven assists, three blocked shots and four steals to go with
his 14 points.
"I see myself as a guy who tries to do a little bit of
everything," said Gaines. "I try to rebound, get assists, score
points, get steals. I'm a guy who is fine being under the limelight,
away from the stardom and is just there to keep things balanced and
help the team get a win."
"He's a multi-tool guy," said Lepper of Gaines. "He can shoot it,
put it on the floor, get on the offensive glass and uses his length
on the defensive end to get deflections.
"He's the type of guy that can be a great energy player for us.
He did that today. We talked about that today, that he needed to
spearhead us defensively. And he did a great job of that."
The Lynx now enter one of the more challenging portions of their
schedule, with two games at the Southeastern Iowa Community College
Classic on Thursday and Friday, followed by another road contest at
Lewis and Clark Community College the following Monday.
Despite three straight victories of over 30 points, Lepper says
his team will remain humble as they prepare for some stiff
competition over the next week.
"We're going to continue to stay hungry, humble. Part of that is
preparation," said Lepper. "We haven't had many practices in the
month of November, because we've been playing so many games. We're
going to get in here and really get after it in practice. We're
going to talk about the importance of this weekend at Southeastern
Iowa and getting ready for those games."
[By JUSTIN TIERNEY]
Lincoln College men's basketball
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Call for papers: Higher Education Research & Development31.03.18
Higher Education Research & Development
Call for papers for the 2019 Special Issue:
"New perspectives on reading and writing across the disciplines"
Guest editors: Judith Seaboyer (University of Queensland) and Tully Barnett (Flinders University)
This special issue connects a growing body of work on and interest in reading and writing across the disciplines, including cognitive science, the text-based foundations of much of new media and digitisation, and the widening international participation agenda in the tertiary sector.
Deep reading and its concomitant good writing are essential both to the mastery of content across disciplines and across cultures, and to the transformative potential of higher education. This special issue seeks inventive papers that consider reading and writing from practical, theoretical, and political perspectives. What are the challenges, difficulties, and pleasures of reading for students and teachers? What strategies best help students learn to de-code complex texts and enter into meaning-making dialogue?
We are interested, too, in papers that consider how twenty-first-century technologies and modes of knowledge production and dissemination influence how as well as what students do and don't read. What reading platforms are students using? What are the intersections and tensions between digital and traditional ways of reading and writing? What are their implications?
Does constant hyperlinking, as Naomi Baron, Nicholas Carr and others have suggested, undermine the brain's capacity to process long-form text? How might we foster what Maryanne Wolf has termed bi-literacy, the capacity to shift between two activities: the efficient rapid reading-for-information that involves scanning, clicking, linking and the "slower, more time-consuming cognitive processes ... vital for contemplative life."
Submissions might address the following:
• What is the case for the core importance of reading and writing across the disciplines, or within specific disciplines, in an increasingly marketised university?
• Might a tertiary education that fosters imaginative, thoughtful, hospitable, adaptable reading be reflected in a democratized citizenry? Or is this a consolatory narrative?
• What role might deep reading play in developing the creative thinking necessary for success in an AI world?
• To what extent are programs that create a space for reading and writing shaped by outside forces? What pressures are shrinking budgets, the massification of tertiary education, job markets in crisis, and political influences placing on different programs across different geopolitical locations?
• What are the affordances of technologies? How are they changing the way students read and write? How might students benefit from a range of platforms for both activities?
HERD seeks articles of between 5000 and 7000 words (all inclusive) that engage with these issues in some way. Full articles are due by 31 March 2018. The special issue is slated for publication in early 2019. For more information or to seek feedback on an idea, please contact the special issue editors Judith Seaboyer firstname.lastname@example.com and Tully Barnett email@example.com
A guide for authors, along with other relevant information, can be found on the journal's homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/herd Submissions should be made online at HERD's Scholar One site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cher


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With so many TV reality competitions on the hunt for the next superstar singer, shouldn't someone also be looking for people to pen their songs?
That's where Bravo's "Platinum Hit" comes in. Debuting May 30 on Bravo, singer/songwriter Jewel and songwriter/former "American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi host a slightly different type of talent search, hoping to cultivate a new generation of behind-the-scenes hitmaker. Twelve aspiring song scribes will sharpen their skills to vie for $100,000 and publishing and recording deals.
"I think it's rare to find somebody that is a great singer and a great songwriter," says Jewel. "In this show we're not looking for people to be great singers, with their own record deals. What we were really passionate about was trying to find people, and more important, reveal a very insular world that not a lot of people get to see, ever. There's a world of just hitmakers out there. All they do is write hit songs for other people. We're looking for someone that can write a hit for Carrie Underwood or write a hit for any artist out there. And we ran them through the paces. They had to be able to write rap, R&B, country, pop."
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"Songs are the backbone of the music industry, and this show is about finding hit songs," agrees DioGuardi. "And there isn't an artist out there that can survive in the music industry without hit songs. And it's true to life, it really is. That's how Jewel and I met. I was a hitmaker, for any other word, and they said 'Do you want to go write with Jewel?' And you have a few minutes to impress that artist. You don't have a lot of time. And really it's one of the hardest jobs in the world. Hit songs are few and far between."
The setup shows the unique ways songscribes crack those potential chart-topping tunes. "These contestants get together in groups of however many – two to four people – and then they co-write," explains Jewel. "And you really see this very honest process, because you can't fake your way through writing a song. It's a really revealing, really dramatic process to see people bring their guts out and try and write a hit song for people. Every single challenge that was designed for these people was designed what it's really like in the industry."
The results will be evaluated by a collection of guest judges and mentors, including Leona Lewis, "Unwritten" singer Natasha Bedingfield, Donna Summer, Jermaine Dupri, British singer/produce Taio Cruz and singer/songwriter/producer Ryan Tedder.
"I would have killed for this opportunity when I was coming up," admits Jewel. "You get to write in every style and really stretch your wings and get to be mentored by people in the business who can really help you understand how to work this business and that it takes a lot of people skills. It takes a lot just beyond being willing to get in a room and show off what you think your writing skills are. It's an amazing opportunity that I'm really excited we get to offer people, because I would have loved to participate in it."
"There's a lot at stake, so it's not just the process," adds DioGuardi. "It's also watching these young artists or creative people negotiate with each other. They don't know each other, and it's a very odd thing to watch. But it happens in real life. I could very well get into a room with someone I don't know, and for three hours it's like we're totally vulnerable."
"It's lucrative, by the way," Jewel points out. "To have a number one hit on pop radio is worth anywhere between half a million and $4 million. It's a big-money market – it's like gold mining."
"Yeah, I bought my house from it," laughs DioGuardi. "That's for damn sure."


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Merced, CA
Juanito Ruben Rapisura Sr.
Sept. 3, 1954 - Mar. 11, 2013
Juanito Ruben Rapisura Sr. passed away on March 11, 2013. He was born September 3, 1954 in
Stockton, CA where he lived
before moving to Merced, CA.
Juan is a veteran of the U.S. Army of which he proudly served. He will be remembered for his generous heart, his love of laughter, his free spirit, and his odd ball ways.
Juan or John, as known to some, is survived by his long time/life partner Reina Robles, his children Junior, Leon, and Julie Rapisura. Siblings Leroy, Tom, Francis and Yolanda. By Kathy Rapisura, many nieces, nephews, and 11 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. We will forever miss him and he will forever live in our hearts.
Viewing service will be held 6 pm, Monday, March 25 at Casa Bonita, 2500 Cemetery Ln. Burial service will be held 10 am, Tuesday, March 26 at Shepherd's Heart Church, 5223 N El Dorado St.
He will be laid to rest at Stockton Rural Stockton at 2350 Cemetery Lane.


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With App Acquisition, Facebook Enters Fitness Tracking Market
Facebook is leaping into the fitness tracking market by buying a Helsinki-based maker of a mobile app that can track users and automatically determine whether they're walking, running, biking or riding public transportation.
Facebook is announcing plans Thursday to acquire ProtoGeo Oy, maker of a mobile app called Moves. The app works in the background, quietly gathering loads of data from the phone's accelerometer, then displaying the results in a minimalistic fashion, with each activity represented by a colored circle.


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There will come a time when Ben Roethlisberger has to reinvent his game.
Even a man of his size will not be able to shake off defensive tackles in perpetuity. Even a man with his escapability will eventually find that his legs won't do what his brain is telling them to.
But until that time — and it may not come for a while still — the Steelers may as well ride Big Ben as far as his pump-faking, risk-taking, play re-starting style will take them.
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Roethlisberger started the 2009 season the way he ended 2008 — with the game on the line and the Steelers offense strapped to his back. And the two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback delivered another win, this one a 13-10 overtime decision over the Tennessee Titans on Thursday night.
For the night, Pittsburgh managed just 36 rushing yards on 23 carries. Roethlisberger, meanwhile, went 33 for 43 for 363 yards and a touchdown with two interceptions.
But the stats don't adequately tell the story of the game's final quarter and the overtime session.
With Pittsburgh trailing 10-7 and 11 minutes, 10 seconds remaining in the game, Roethlisberger went 7 for 7 for 57 yards in setting up the tying field goal with three minutes left.
After the Steelers forced a punt and their offense took over with 1:50 left, Roethlisberger went 4 for 4 for another 54 yards. That should have been enough for the winning field goal but Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward tried to get too slick inside the Titans' 5-yard line and fumbled the ball away.
No matter. The Steelers won the overtime coin flip and Roethlisberger just did it all again, going 5 for 7 for 60 yards to set up the winning field goal.
It's what he did in the Super Bowl. It's what he did in the AFC championship game against the Baltimore Ravens. It's what he did in that critical December game, also against the Ravens that helped sew up the AFC North crown for the Steelers.
It was just a little over a month ago that Steelers offensive coordinator Bruce Arians was walking away from a Sunday morning breakfast at St. Vincent's College in Latrobe, Pa., raving about what Roethlisberger does.
"I laugh when I hear about who people consider the top five quarterbacks in the league and he's not mentioned," Arians said. "I don't know what else he has to do. The guy loves to put the team on his back and say, 'Let's go.'"
It is the essence of what this Steelers team is about. As much as the Indianapolis Colts are defined by Peyton Manning's mad-scientist dissections of opposing defenses. As much as the New England Patriots are about Tom Brady's preternatural calm and self-assuredness in carving up whatever is put in front of him. So, too, are the Steelers about Roethlisberger running around and creating until secondaries lose containment and pass rushers lose their minds chasing him.
It's not as pretty as the way the other two guys do it, but the ultimate results are quite comparable. And that is what it's about — results.
For those results, Roethlisberger doesn't get proper credit. The frantic ball fakes and half-scrambles and the traffic-cop act he goes into when telling receivers where to go gives off the vibe that he's just winging it.
And for good reason.
He is.
And that is just fine with the Steelers.
They seem to realize they have a young quarterback — he's still just 27 — who is at the height of his rare powers. He doesn't scramble for positive yardage the way Michael Vick did when he ran for over 1,000 with the Atlanta Falcons in 2006. He scrambles merely to unhinge the defense so he can beat them with his arm. Big difference. And a more effective one.
The time will come when Ben Roethlisberger's game will have to become more tame, more geared to staying in the pocket, reading defenses and taking what the defense gives him. Even though he's 6 feet 5, 250 pounds, he can't continue to absorb the same punishment he has taken the past three seasons (more than 45 sacks each campaign). The risk of a helmet-to-helmet whack while he's pirouetting away from some defensive end, the chance that some corner wraps himself around Roethlisberger's kneecap grows with every scramble.
But until that day comes, the Steelers are going to keep doing like they do. Play mad defense and then turn it over to Roethlisberger, who, invariably these days, knows exactly what to do when the game comes down to him.


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/ Sunday, January 17, 2010 / 10 Comments / Appetizers and Snacks , Dessert , Malaysian
Ondeh Ondeh With Sweet Potatoes
This is Ondeh Ondeh with Sweet Potatoes, a popular tea-time snack in Malaysia. There are two varieties of this snack. One made completely with glutinous rice, which I had posted earlier and you can find the recipe here. Whilst the other recipe is made with a mixture of sweet potatoes and glutinous rice flour, which is what I am posting here today. In any case, if you plan to make this delicious snack, do adjust the flour according to the sweet potatoes' texture. Some tubers' might have very soft or fibrous flesh. Add more flour if it's too soft, of course. Just remember that the dough is supposed to be very soft and slightly sticky. So, have fun making them.
Ondeh Ondeh With Sweet Potatoes
500 g White Color Sweet Potato Flesh (3 Medium, about 720g)
150 g Glutinous Rice Flour
20 g All-Purpose Flour
2 Tbsp Pandan Extract (8 Pandan Leaves, pounded)
150 g Gula Melaka (Palm Sugar), finely chopped
150 g Grated Coconut
A Pinch Of Sea Salt
Boil the sweet potatoes in a medium pot until tender, 20 to 30 minutes, depending on size of potatoes. When cool enough to handle, mash the potatoes in a potato riser or masher. (If you are using a masher, you will have to peel the potatoes first)
In a large bowl, combine the sweet potato with glutinous rice flour, all-purpose flour, and Pandan extract and knead well to form a soft dough.
Mix the grated coconut with a pinch of salt and steam for about 2 - 3 minutes and let it cool completely.
Bring a pot of water to boil. Pinch a small piece of dough (about 15 g each) and flatten lightly. Fill the center of the dough with palm sugar. Roll them in your palm to form a smooth ball and cook the ondeh ondeh in the boiling water. When the ondeh ondeh float to the surface, remove them with a slotted spoon and shake off the excess water. Coat the ondeh ondeh with grated coconut and serve immediately.
Makes about 40 balls
10 comments:
Mmmm....Yum! Chewy little morsels. Just so Malaysian! An if you use yellow or purple sweet potato, the balls would have been coloured brightfully naturally! Pumpkin works great too!ReplyDelete
Wow they look very tasty! Yum!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2010 at 12:09 AM
yum. i like those with the gula melaka not melted. the crunch is absolutely delightful b:ReplyDelete
wow this is the 2nd onde onde post i saw today! I wonder if it's a sign lol.. Never knew onde onde was made with sweet potato till today..ReplyDelete
I really want to make these - just need to figure out where to get freshly grated coconut here! Am going to go on a hunt this weekend as I'm not really craving for it! :PReplyDelete
Yummy tea-time snack morsels. I love onde-onde but have yet to make the sweet potato version. I've have to try this soon as I still have about 5 blocks of gula melaka left in my fridge. Great pictures by the way.ReplyDelete
Looks good!!! WHen I saw the pictures (without reading) I thought they were made with green tea powder! :PReplyDelete
I am fascinated by this dessert, never heard of it before. Putting this on my to-try list. Beautiful photos!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2010 at 11:08 PM
hmmm... this is javanese keleponReplyDelete
we here in Indonesia named the food with "klepon" though. while onde-onde is completely different food, it's fried, and made out of rice flour filled with sweet mashed mung beans and sesame coated :DReplyDelete


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The literary agent Roslyn Targ was at a party many years ago, standing in a circle with a handful of publishers, when she spilled red wine all over her gown. It was a white gown and thus made quite a mess, but Ms. Targ, wearing one of her elaborate hats and a wide, colorful scarf that looked like a Klimt painting draped across her shoulders, did not miss a beat. "She said, 'Excuse me!' and went to the ladies room," her friend Joyce Engelson remembers. "And when she came out, she had taken off the white dress and taken this very wide sash and pulled it around herself like a sarong. It went from the top of her bosom down to her thighs."
According to Ms. Engelson, this happened at the Frankfurt Book Fair. For Ms. Targ, who made her name during the 1950's and 60's selling translation rights for American books to foreign publishers, Frankfurt was the most important event of the year: The annual international book party was where the queen of foreign rights did most of her business, dining at the best restaurants in town and staying up late with the world's most respected publishers. She also enjoyed martinis, "very, very dry with Beefeater gin with a smidgen of Boissiere vermouth and a lemon peel."
It was because of Ms. Targ and the agency where she worked that Europe read F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. D. Salinger, Harper Lee, John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson and countless others.
These days, at age 82, Ms. Targ no longer jets to Germany, or any of the other far-flung places of her earlier days (she has been to Paris 25 times and has favorite hotels and restaurants in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany and England). Her once-bustling firm—named after its founder, Franz J. Horch, when Ms. Targ started working there upon graduating from Hunter College, but known as the Roslyn Targ Literary Agency once she bought it out and took over in the 70's—oversees only a fraction of the foreign contracts it used to (Ms. Targ has limited herself to selling Spanish and Portuguese rights for Simon & Schuster and little else), and over the course of the past few months she has been steadily shrinking her stable of American authors.
"I don't want to take any new American authors because I wasn't selling the ones I took, because times have changed," Ms. Targ said last week, her voice rising and falling dramatically while the sophisticated accent she cultivated early in life faded in and out. "I cared about them and I kept sending them around, and then I just said, 'Enough is enough!' I realized, I go to the bookstore and read 10 pages, and I say, 'I would've rejected that! I would've rejected that!' And so I said, 'What am I doing? I've paid my dues!"
Indeed she has. And though most of the publishers and agents she knew in her glory days have either died or retired (this is old age!), to many in the business she remains a grand dame of the book industry. Her stories recall a time when publishing was a classy affair, uncluttered by bottom lines, BookScan and kabillion-dollar gambles on advances.
"When Roz went to Frankfurt, it was just extraordinary," said her friend Robert Weil, the executive editor of W. W. Norton. "The foreign agents would be waiting, and these Brazilian publishers would book their dinners with her a year in advance. I always heard wild stories of her trips to Paris and her Frankfurt trips, and there would always be stories of, you know, Michelin five-star restaurants that I'd never heard of and still haven't gone to. And she would describe these dinners with the great publishers of the 20th century, and she knew them all. And many of them were extremely devoted to her."
Ms. Targ herself is sure that the incident with the white gown actually happened at a dinner party in Atlanta that she attended with her late husband, Bill Targ, the legendary publisher who discovered Mario Puzo for G. P. Putnam's Sons. "There was a guy there," Ms. Targ said in an interview, "and he says, 'What can you say to this Targ woman! She even changes for different courses!'"
She has always had a reputation for glamour, and she was beloved by luminaries like Italo Calvino, Henry Roth, Samuel Beckett, Erich Maria Remarque, Henry Miller and Saul Bellow. Men adored her—even James Baldwin, who playfully made gestures toward seducing her one night at the Four Seasons even though he was gay. ("I was wearing a Jean Harlow dress and he was kissing my arms; we were the scandal of the party!")


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Objective Reporter Crusades to Get Nativity Scene Removed
WJHG reports:
The nativity scene that sits outside the City Hall has prompted, Randal Seyler, a reporter for the Washington County News to make some calls.
Seyler contacted the FFRF to challenge the legality of the Christmas display.
He says he just wanted to scratch an itch out of curiosity.
Meantime, in a written statement Chipley Mayor Linda Cain said, "Seyler made a comment that the nativity scene was unconstitutional and should be removed and I asked him to leave it alone."
Shortly after Mayor Cain got an email from the FFRF.
The FFRF says this nativity scene is unconstitutional because it's on government property and owned by the City.
However, the City of Chipley says its not coming down.
The FFRF wrote, "The Supreme Court has ruled it impermissible to place a nativity scene as the sole focus of a display on government property."
Needless to say many Chipley residents don't agree with Seyler's actions and don't think an organization outside their community should interfere.
"I would much rather you all decide what's good for Chipley than a group that doesn't really believe in anything" said Richard Burke, Chipley resident.
The City of Chipley added more decorations to the nativity scene so that it would no longer be the "sole focus."
Council members say they aren't taking it down.