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I thought I would write to all of you future MAcc students who are contemplating a Ph.D. I know there are at least a few of you guys. If you're looking at a MAcc from the Fisher College of Business, then you're a bright kid… and everyone asks themselves how far they want to take their academic career. There are several benefits to obtaining a MAcc from the FCOB if you're wondering whether world of academia is for you. Specifically, you can look forward to the flexibility of the program, the world-renown faculty, and Professor Zach's accounting policy and research class (AMIS 844).
Part of the reason I decided to attend Fisher was because of the flexibility their MAcc provides. Outside of the three required core classes, the program really is open for you to study whatever fits your future. With the wonderful approval process here, classes that may help you prepare for a PhD program are available to you. For instance, a few of my good friends took an intermediate economics class during the winter quarter. One particular friend is studying throughout the summer and she's taking an econometrics class to help her prepare for a potential career in academia. Having these courses available and counting towards your MAcc degree provide a strong foundation for future researchers.
As with any top-ranked accounting program, the faculty are known for their gifted research, published works, and wonderful teaching. There are obvious benefits that the faculty will provide you such as increased human capital; however, there are also some less apparent benefits that may be available to you. Some of the best accounting researchers in the profession will get to know you and your capacity to learn and expound upon ideas. These relationships can come in handy if you ever need letters of recommendation as you apply to competitive Ph.D. programs.
This spring quarter, I had the opportunity to take Professor Zach's AMIS 844: Accounting Policy & Research class. The class is designed to help students obtain a general understanding of academic research. Structurally, the class assigns several research papers that help students familiarize themselves with several accounting ideas being studied today. Students are then asked to write reviews and critiques. This iterative process really helped me figure out (in at least one sense) what research is about. Professor Zach is as fun as they come to boot! If you want to learn about research or see if its for you, I highly recommend this course.
One of my strategies in facing the unknown is to keep my options open. In this regard, coming to Fisher has been a brilliant move. Accounting students rarely know that their passion is audit, tax, industry, or research before they actually do the work. If you're in this boat, you're not alone!


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For over 45 years, Autopower Industries has made keeping racers safe their top priority. As a Technical Partner of Track Night in America Driven by Tire Rack for the past three seasons, Autopower has been helping participants by providing safety gear that meets, and often exceeds, SCCA safety requirements. Their extensive line of roll bars and cages range from street-able bars that allow your vehicle's stock interior to stay in place with very little modification, to full on competition compliant cages for road racing, rally, and more. With an ever-expanding product line that already boasts the largest variety of makes and models, Autopower is sure to have the right products to fit you and your car's needs.
Autopower continues to research and develop safety products, putting their design and fabrication skills to test in all forms of Motorsport. From Drag Racing and Drifting, to land speed trials and Road racing, their desire to push the envelope has led them to several championships, world records, and event wins across the spectrum of Motorsports. Check out www.autopowerindustries.com for footage of their adventures at the Salt Flats, in race trucks, road racing, and more!
When you renew your SCCA membership, you'll get a coupon for 10% off your Autopower purchase. But that isn't all- if you refer a friend, and they become an SCCA member, you could win an Autopower roll bar for your car!

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Monitoring the Citadel system
If you are installing Citadel in an environment that uses a monitoring system to keep watch over all systems and services around the clock, here are some things to configure when monitoring Citadel.
- Monitor SMTP on port 25
- Monitor POP3 on port 110
- Monitor IMAP on port 143
- Monitor a generic TCP service on port 504
- If you have host agent software, configure it to monitor the "citserver" process on your Citadel host. Also configure it to monitor the "webcit" process on your WebCit host (which may or may not be the same host).
- Monitor this URL: http://webcit.example.com/monitor for the string "SUCCESS". This string will appear when WebCit is running and able to successfully connect to its Citadel server. A failure anywhere in the system will cause the "SUCCESS" string to not be displayed, and this can trigger an alert in your monitoring system.


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Cochrane Open Houses Cancellations with many implementing New consumer safety policies, regulations, procedures to prepare for open houses. Selling or buying a home in Alberta has gotten a lot more difficult as the Alberta Real Estate Association (AREA) announced earlier this week that Cochrane open houses are now banned for now.
It is important to make your Cochrane Open houses as accessible as possible, removing unnecessary furniture and retaining a small amount of personal items such as family photographs. The house should speak to potential buyers by presenting itself as a place others could easily call home. In other words, you want people to be able to envision themselves living there, which is more easily done without your family photos or kids drawings stuck on the fridge.
Cochrane Broker open houses are promoted exclusively to the brokerage community, very effective in educating agents on Cochrane open houses.
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The 2012 farm bill is full of bad ideas. Some key framing of the bad ideas centers around the following:
1. Eliminate Direct Payment subsidies and,
2. Switch subsidies toward Crop Insurance, including Revenue Insurance subsidies.
3. Do nothing about the underlying cause, the strange reason for why farmers came to need to be subsidized in the first place.
The Senate Agriculture Committee has now sent out a draft farm bill proposal along these lines. The House is working away at it's own proposal, which is expected to be even worse.
Meanwhile progressive food advocates and mainstream media are again misunderstanding the big farm bill issues. In different ways, so are most "farm commodity groups," and organizations like Farm Bureau.
Here are key, targeted, Talking Points to bring food advocates, farmers, legislators and others up to speed on the debate. They are supported by numerous econometric studies, large volumes of historic farm program data and the decades of experience of the farm justice movement, which is now led by the National Family Farm Coalition. These are followed by a few key references, which link to the leading supportive analysis, including data charts, videos and econometric studies, most of which are available online.
Key Talking Points
1. Revenue Insurance1: The New Direct Payments. Direct payments were based upon absurd, unrealistic, ideological, free-market ideas (ie. "de-coupling," see below2). They are given whether you need them or not, which, for strange reasons, sort of made sense in the past, (they would have been "needed" by farmers every year 1981-2006, except 1996!). The same holds for Revenue Insurance. Under some conditions, (such as when market prices are high and stay high, then slowly come down,) you get them even though you don't need them.
2. Farmers Often Do NOT Get Revenue Insurance Subsidies When the Need them! Revenue Insurance subsidies are even more absurd. They're based upon a 5 year "Olympic average," (5 years of previous farm prices, minus the highest and lowest average price years,) not any fixed standard, such as the cost of production. If prices go low, and stay low, (like they did 1981-95 and 1997-2005,) then the formula's don't result in any Revenue Insurance subsidies
3. Most Farmers Rejected the Revenue Insurance Programs of the 2008 Farm Bill! "Only 8% of farms with about 13% of eligible acres were enrolled" in the ACRE program, and for good reasons! Though ACRE was specifically eliminated in the Senate Farm Bill proposal this summer, the basic idea is maintained.
4. Farm Program Subsidies Compensate Farmers for Bad Farm Programs! Here's how it works:
a. First, economically, farm commodity supplies and prices don't self-correct under most market conditions we've had for more than 100 years, (not very well at all for the groups of commodities that farmers choose from in the real world). Farm Commodity supply and demand just don't balance out. It's a lack of "price responsiveness on BOTH the supply and demand sides. Economically, therefore, farm commodity prices have usually been very low.
b. Second, this was fixed politically in the New Deal, as farm programs were run like a business, balancing supply and demand and putting a floor under market prices (for farmers) and a ceiling over prices, (for consumers and other buyers,) leaving room for market adjustments in between the floor and ceiling.
c. Third, Congress (& Presidents), under corporate pressure, reduced (1953-1995) and eliminated (1996-) price and supply management programs, to usually provide farm commodities to US and foreign corporations at prices below fair market value, and often below the cost of production.
d. Fourth, government (taxpayer) farm commodity subsidies were added later to partially compensate farmers for these bad programs. There's never been any need for subsidies other than to compensate farmers for massive reductions in income (caused economically, as above, and) caused politically by bad farm bills.
5. Subsidy Caps & Subsidy Elimination Do NOT at All Fix the Farm Bill.3 There are huge farm and food injustices caused by cheap market prices for corn and other farm commodities. These, include cheap grain from crop farms to covertly subsidizes animal factories, and processors of junk foods and junk food ingredients. Numerous studies have shown that capping or eliminating subsidies does not fix any of this. It was a problem for many years prior to farm subsidy programs.
6. Most Subsidy Recipients are Not Full-Time Farmers. Full-Time "family farmers," (and those similar in size and structure to family farms,) who primarily raise commodity crops, make up less than 10% of farm subsidy recipients, and they're almost all in the top 10% of subsidy recipients (or 20% for less specialized farmers of these crops,). The majority of subsidy recipients who are small and medium-sized full-time farmers are in the top 10% of the "Farm Subsidy Database." The bottom 80% of subsidy recipients average only about 7% of the size of sub-minimum-sized full-time corn/soybean farm of 200 acres. The bottom half is tiny, only about 3.3% of full-time, at most.4
7. Farm Costs are Skyrocketing, like they did after the 1970s price spike, but the 1980 Farm Bill was Much More Sustainable than 2008 and 2012 Proposals. Small and Medium sized family farmers could quickly be devastated by a massive crisis if the farm bill isn't fixed in 2012. Cheap feed crop prices push livestock off farms and into animal factories. This eliminates the economic need for legume forages like clover and alfalfa (which "fix" free nitrogen from the air). This takes away the flexibility of Resource Conserving Crop Rotations, turning farmers into victims of the fertilizer and farm pesticide agribusiness power complex.
8. The Dairy Crisis Shows the Acute Failure of Farm Programs (and Proposals). What can (and did) happen with these bad farm programs in the past (especially from 1981-2006,) can now be seen in the Dairy Crisis, where family farming is being rapidly devastated. We've had a few years of higher prices for crop farmers, but they too could end up in a crisis like dairy.
9. All of This Can be Easily Fixed with 3 Great Farm Bill Proposals5. These proposals eliminate, or greatly reduce farm commodity subsidies, by eliminating the need for subsidies. They run farm programs like a business, not a welfare program, balancing supply and demand and setting a floor under and a ceiling over, market prices. In this way they achieve both farm and food justice, serviing both farmers and consumers. The 3 proposals are:
a. NFFC's "Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act of 2011" (SB 1640), to fix the dairy crisis without subsidies. This is the essential and effective farm justice solution to the most acute farm/food crisis of today.
b. NFFC's "Food from Family Farms Act: Commodity Title," (FFFA,) to fix the biggest, (historically multitrillion dollar,) issues in the farm bill for sustainabilty, public health, farm justice, food justice and other important purposes, all without subsidies.
c. Farmer Owned reserves: NFU's "Market Driven Inventory System," (MDIS,) is a great, well researched alternative proposal to item b, directly above. In a modest way, it would result in huge improvements in farm market supplies and prices, and save huge farm bill costs, by eliminating the need for most subsidies. This should also be supported, because it asks Congress a different question, to help force them to consider elliminating the need for farm subsidies.
10. These Three Proposals Free Up More Money for Other Farm Bill Titles than Any Other Options. These proposals fix the fundamental economic problems that Revenue Insurance, subsidy caps and all other fake "reform" proposals ignore. But that's not event he half of it. These kinds of proposals serve as a private sector economic stimulus,6 creating wealth and jobs, without the government writing any subsidy checks. As USDA-ERS data on "Commodity Costs and Returns" show, major farm prices (for a sum of corn, wheat, rice, cotton, soybeans, sorghum grain, barley, oats,) were below full costs every year from 1981-2006 (except 1996). Congress chose to have the US lose money on farm exports, instead of a private sector stimulus.
1. For more information in general and on key proposals, see Brad Wilson (compiler): Primer: Revenue Insurance in the 2012 Farm Bill, ZSpace, 5/11/12, http://www.zcomm.org/primer-revenue-insurance-in-the-2012-farm-bill-by-brad-wilson.
2. De-Coupling: The best thing to read for an in-depth understanding of the strange philosophy behind Direct Payments and WTO subsidy ideas is: IATP, "The 'De-Coupling' Approach to Agriculture: History and Analysis of 'Decoupling' Policy Proposals," September, 1988, http://www.iatp.org/documents/the-de-coupled-approach-to-agriculture, http://www.iatp.org/files/decoupling88MR.pdf.
3. Brad Wilson, "Cap Farm Subsidies at $250,000, or $25,000, or $0?," La Vida Locavore, 3/11/12, La Vida Locavore, http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/5126/cap-farm-subsidies-at-250000-or-25000-or-0.
4. Brad Wilson, "Subsidy Narratives: How Foodies Unknowingly Bash Family Farmers," http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/5099/subsidy-narratives-how-foodies-unknowingly-bash-family-farmers.
5. Brad Wilson, ZSpace, "Fact Sheet: Farm Justice Proposals for the 2012 Farm Bill," ZSpace http://www.zcomm.org/fact-sheet-farm-justice-proposals-for-the-2012-farm-bill-by-brad-wilson, ZSpace, 5/11/12.
6. Brad Wilson, "Balance Budget, Win Across the Board with NFFC Farm Bill," http://www.zcomm.org/balance-budget-win-across-the-board-with-nffc-farm-bill-by-brad-wilson; "Farm Bill was Steagall, New Deal Stimulus," http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/02/06/693903/-Farm-Bill-was-Steagall-New-Deal-Stimulus.
For more depth see: Brad Wilson, "Primer: Farm Justice Proposals for the 2012 Farm Bill," ZSpace, 5/11/12. This resource also includes the best online PowerPoint presentations and video resources related to the farm bill proposals described in item 9., above http://www.zcomm.org/primer-farm-justice-proposals-for-the-2012-farm-bill-by-brad-wilson.


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Around these parts, we're big fans of Toyota's rear-drive hatchback hero, the AE86. We're equally partial to the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ, the hachiroku's modern day comeback. But how would they stack up when pitted against one another today?
Recently, our friends across the pond at Auto Express sought to find out by comparing the original AE86 to their market's version of the Toyobaru: the Toyota GT 86. The result is this video, where the two cars are raced back to back to see just how much they have in common.
What they discovered is that the similarities are more than just marketing hype. "The GT 86 really does have the genes of the AE86, and that's what makes it so great," reviewer Owen Mildenhall tells us. In addition, the Reagan-era hatchback still has decent chops on the track, owing more to its balance and 2,100-pound curb weight than its 123-horsepower engine.
Tell us — if you could only have one, which would you choose?


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From the Department of Undermining Massive Bruce (DUMB) located in Birmingham, MI, here's a handsome Porsche Carrera 2 wearing a not so handsome roof rack. For all of you potential Porsche owners out there, here's a tip: Even though an accessory exists, you do not have buy it and use it.
Your Moment of May Day Zen


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If online, you could
If online, you could reference like a webpage, with the title of the fact sheet as the title of the webpage and the publisher of the factsheet as the publisher of the webpage. The author would be the person or organisation, maybe a government department, that compiled the fact sheet. If it's a hard copy, I'd suggest you follow the example of a book, or possibly a report. In either case, you'd have the reference to the whole fact sheet in your reference list, and in the text you could refer to particular parts of the fact sheet if you wanted to.
Here's an example (online) from the Australian Department of Immigration. In your reference list:
Department of Immigration & Citizenship 2011, Fact Sheet 1 - Immigration: The Background Part One, Canberra, viewed 5 March 2012, <http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sheets/01backgd.htm>
In the text of your document this would be (Department of Immigration & Citizenship 2011).


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COC Summer VacationBy COC StaffPosted in Summer Vacation
Ever wonder what the COC gets up to over the summer? Here's a glimpse at what's keeping General Director Alexander Neef, Music Director Johannes Debus, and Ensemble Studio members past and present busy during these sunnier months.
Meet a Donor: Gillian CummingsBy COC StaffPosted in Membership
Gillian is the Performance Manager at The Glenn Gould School in Toronto. With degrees in both Music and Journalism, she's worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, freelance writer, and a TV producer for a number of home and design shows before ending up in her current role. This past spring, she supported our Season Matching Campaign, which focused on our COC Orchestra. [READ MORE]
Lucia and Jeffrey Remedios Named 2019 Centre Stage Gala Co-ChairsBy COC StaffPosted in Centre Stage
The countdown to the Canadian Opera Company's Centre Stage Gala has kicked off with the naming of committee co-chairs Lucia and Jeffrey Remedios. The pair has long been involved in shaping and supporting the Canadian music industry, with Jeffrey Remedios also serving on the COC Board of Directors, and is now looking forward to lending their creative talents to the COC's largest annual fundraiser in support of the COC Ensemble Studio.


text: I am having some problem with a variation of the activity selection problem. This is homework so I'm just looking for some help with the recursion. It is a weighted activity selection where each interval has a start and finish and profit. I need to find the max profit that can be achieved however the variation is that there has to be more "short" length intervals than "long". Where a short interval is considered to be less than 5 (from start to finish). I can solve the maximum profit problem but not sure how to handle the variation.


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How do I check the real-time status
Real-Time Boost - Real-time Status
To access:
Clickon the navigation bar.
What it does:
Real-Time Boost is a collection of automatic real-time tuning features:
CPU Optimizer and Power Optimizer optimize your processor settings for the task at hand
RAM Releaser frees trapped memory from apps that no longer need it
Fast Write speeds disk I/O by writing data to the HDD in contiguous batches, in effect preventing fragmentation before it occurs
Why use it:
Collectively, these features balance demands, conserve power, and improve the responsiveness of your CPU, RAM, and storage drives (HDDs and SSDs).
Real-Time Boost works silently in the background, occupies minimal system resources, and only processes actions when they're needed.
Real-Time Status
The Real-Time Boost Status screen displays the current real-time boosting level and system responsiveness in separate tabs for Processor, Memory and Drives.
Configuration tab
The fourth tab in the Real-Time Status section is where you enable or disable the four tools within Real-Time Boost. It is strongly recommended that you keep all of these tools enabled for maximum system speed and performance.
Switch processor settings for peak performance
Checking this box enables Power Optimizer, which fine-tunes processor and other settings through selectable Modes based on what task you wish to optimize for: Gaming, Music/Video Production, Graphics/3D/CAD Design, Programming, Maximize Battery, Office Productivity, and Web Browsing.
Select the mode that best suits your needs from the drop-down menu.
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There's snow in them thar hills!
Pikes Peak came out from behind the clouds long enough for me to take my Saturday Sky picture:
Friday's sunrise was pretty spectacular, too:
At First Blush is coming along:
I started a scarf, dubbed the Rainbow Camouflage Scarf (thank you to Felicia and MJ for the name):
Tonight I visited with an old friend:
The Green Eggs and Ham Socks!
Parker helped me with the photo shoot and he kept trying to bat the camera:


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Verizon Communications on Friday (Sept. 30) filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit of the Federal Communications Commission's December 2010 Report and Order (FCC 10-201) adopting so-called "net neutrality" rules. The following statement should be attributed to Michael E. Glover, Verizon senior vice president and deputy general counsel:
"Verizon is fully committed to an open Internet. We are deeply concerned by the FCC's assertion of broad authority to impose potentially sweeping and unneeded regulations on broadband networks and services and on the Internet itself. We believe this assertion of authority is inconsistent with the statute and will create uncertainty for the communications industry, innovators, investors and consumers."
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ:VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America's most reliable wireless network, with more than 106 million total connections nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries, including all of the Fortune 500. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of nearly 196,000 and last year generated consolidated revenues of $106.6 billion. For more information, visit www.verizon.com.


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I run about 5 blogs (depending how you count), and by far the most read or visited one never had any comments - although its engine supports them. Blog comments are for the weak.
Name: Pete Zaitcev
Member since: 2000-02-23 20:59:15
Last Login: 2015-04-30 17:55:13
Homepage: http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/index.html
This account is frozen.
Current log is at LJ: [link]
Do not click on the following links: [acct/], [diary/]
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Ratings report for: raph.
I run about 5 blogs (depending how you count), and by far the most read or visited one never had any comments - although its engine supports them. Blog comments are for the weak.
So the "Chinese Wedge" was used for a spammer to gain a foothold. To sum, a wedge (hjclub) gained a certification from a Master (atai), who is Taiwanese, by presumably [mis]using some Chinese codeword. Then it certified normal spammer(s). The response (by chalst) was to call for ostracism, or a purge, which is the normal social response. However, suppose that there is no way to make atai to drop the cert of the wedge. What then? I think we ought to get used to the idea of imperfect protection. Raph actually said that in the book example some books will be given away improperly and that is all right. Still, there is probably some fertile field for research here...
Notes from listening to Red Hat Cloud Computing Forum
- Brian Stevens, RHT CTO -
Reduce the cost of EXIT from the cloud. Sounds like "well, duh", but yeah, something to be kept in mind.
- Matt Aslett, the 451 group -
http://nebula.nasa.gov/services -- example of cloud
Japan is behind in Cloud
- Jeff Garzik talks about CLD. It's improved from the
time I heard it last. More concise and makes sense.
AMQP - does it help?
Jeff is talking about distributed storage stuff to be built over Hail. I wonder. If there's no consistency/coherency underneath, it's hard to build it on top.
HyperTable, port over CLD?
- Michael DeHaan, RHT - Cobbler (mdehaan@)
Cobbler works before the system exists, Puppet works after the system exists.
- Matthew Farrellee - Condor (job scheduler)
[maybe I should use it to build Map/Reduce, unless Hadoop of course]
- Rich Wolski, Eucalyptus Systems Inc. - "Yuakaliptus",
in Santa Barbara
Emulates AWS but not designed to replace AWS... Too modest.
Has S3 ("Walrus") and EBS (root filesystems etc.), APIs to attach/detach to VMs.
So, are Ubuntoids going to ship this Eucalyptus or other Eucalyptus? Yes.
* Google App Engine: emulated in UCSB by AppScale
rich@ eucalyptus
RabbitMQ - commercial (proprietary too?) SQS implementation.
- Mike Olson, CEO of Cloudera
V.interesting history bg
"Hadoop provides people with a v.powerful NEW tool to do data analysis."
Hadoop sits on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed FS). Ah-ha!
- KVM skipping
- libVirt skipping
- Skipping Sunny Gosain and ERP talk
- Brian Kearney RHT "Sr. Consulting Engineer" - project
Thincrust (how is it different from Cobbler?)
Thincrust.org creates a text that can be fed to Cobbler (or elsewhere).
- Chander Kent, CEO of Zmanda - backup to a cloud. A
commercial Duplicity?
APIs: Amazon S3, CloudFiles, SunCloud, Microsoft Azure.
libzcloud - open library
zmanda.com/blogs wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Libzcloud
On the topic of Tbird mangling patches (in twisti's entry), Bryan Clark made an extension to expose the knobs in the UI, Asalted:
Also, contrary to twisti's assertion, the mangling was very much intentional. The flamewar between programmers and those in Mozilla who think that programmers are not a relevant userbase for MUAs was... educational.
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New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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The Arbor Day Foundation approached me about designing several plant combinations that their members and fans could use for plantings of aesthetic interest and which provide function in the landscape. During the next few months, I will be sharing information behind these plant combinations and how they can be used as "do it yourself landscape designs." All of the plant combinations are available online now.
Hedgerow Bird Shelter aka the Bird Magnet
When designing the Hedgerow Bird Shelter plant combination two basic goals were desired. 1) To design a planting which would be attractive to birds by way of food and shelter, and 2) provide visual interest for all seasons.
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text: I am working on an assignment where I write one class that extends a pre-made class. I only have control of the one class file I create and I was wondering if there is any way to share data between all the different objects created from my class? Can I create a file have them all read and edit it? Or possibly have some kind of global array?


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Certificate - Principles of Biobanking
Biospecimens have become a strategic tool for healthcare and medical research, research and conservation in biodiversity, animal, plant and microbial biology as well as in translational research and systems biology through all types of -omics applications.
Optimal management of biospecimens and bioresources through biobanking for future research and conservation has now become a new discipline.
Learning Outcomes
Persons who have completed this course will:
Get our participants' point of view on the lifelong learning course.
Course coordinator
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Programme at a glance
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Gun Reviews
My Son Was Not A Victim Of Gun Violence
Hunter the No Hands Shooter
How To Pick Up Girls At The Gun Range
June Defensive Gun Use Report
Because I Carry A Gun
Nick Meli - Concealed Carry Hero
Ted Nugent throttles back the hate
Michael - June 16 2017
meta meta meta meta
After the shooting at a GOP congressional baseball practice on Wednesday, Nugent has said he is going to avoid violent talk in the future.He is quoted as saying - The whole world is watching America, where you have the God-given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and we have
I thought it was empty - man shoots 9 year old daughter
Michael - June 13 2017
meta meta meta meta
It sucks to see something like this in the news. It's so heartbreaking. Apparently Eric Hummel, of Hobart Indiana was teaching his kids gun safety when he accidentally shot his daughter in the head at close range. He told police "She's dead, She's dead - I thought it was empty". Acc
Is Florida Stand Your Ground law change a win for the bad guys?
Michael - June 11 2017
meta meta meta meta
Maybe I am seeing this wrong. I am certainly open to opinions but it seems to me like the changes to the Florida Stand Your Ground signed into law by Rick Scott last Friday is a win for the criminals. If you don't know what the change is about - here it is. The original stand your grou
Can't Dry Fire at Rural King
Michael - March 16 2016
meta meta meta meta
So I stop by Crystal River Rural King in Citrus County with my thoughts on buying a gun. That EAA pink tangfolio 9mm had been calling to me and I saw that they had it back in stock. The price is right and it's mostly just for fun but I need to dry fire it before I can buy it obvious
Pro-Gun Activism - Is this a bad time?
Michael - October 3 2015
meta meta meta meta
An anti-gun friend of mine posted an interesting status update on facebook about the recent tragic shooting in Oregon. His position is that it is poor timing and thus in poor taste for gun rights activists to defend their rights in the wake of such a tragedy. Now he is obviously anti-gun and I am ob
The Honest Talk About Guns
Michael - September 21 2015
meta meta meta meta
Here is a really good article about the ins and outs of the gun debate. It doesn't break any new ground, but the writer, Bart Hinkle, clearly and concisely hits on the primary gun rights vs gun control issues. I strongly recommend reading the whole thing here: but here are som
Pistol with built in silencer
Michael - September 20 2015
meta meta meta meta
SilencerCo Maxim 9mm with built in silencer... Yes please! The Maxim 9 could have market potential. Silencer sales are booming, despite tight restrictions, and prices ranging from $325 to $2,500. According to the most recent figures from the ATF, the number of registered silencers jumped 38%
Stop Sign Vigilante?
Michael - September 20 2015
meta meta meta meta
According to this story - Kurt Smith of Douglas County Colorado in an effort to make his street safer from consistent speeding traffic illegally put up stop signs on his street. Less than a day later, the Douglas County Sheriff department removed the signs. Smith implies he has the inten
Presidential Hopeful Martin O'Malley's Gun Control Plan
Michael - September 15 2015
meta meta meta meta
Former mayor of Baltimore, Former governor of Maryland Martin O'Malley is very straightforward about the gun control plan he means to implement if he is elected president. He outlined his plan in an opinion piece on CNN. We broke down the prose for easy digestion here. I didn't bother to inclu
Coalition To Stop Gun Violence 'Swatting' Gun owners
Michael - September 2 2015
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Louisa Ferguson: Free-born daughter of George Washington's carpenter, a slave.
William and Louisa Ferguson, Fairfax County, Virginia.Case #19994, filed 22 February 1873, $150 for a horse. Claim rejected.
Louise Ferguson was born free in about 1804. She was the wife of William Ferguson, a slave of a farmer named Dennis Johnson in Fairfax County, Virginia. She had 16 children and supported the Union cause.
In her deposition, Louisa says "My father belonged to Gen'l Washington, he was Gen'l Washington's carpenter. Gen'l Washington set him free. and my father afterwards bought my mother and set her free. I was born after my mother was set free."
Louisa claimed $150 for a sorrel mare she owned. It disappeared on a cold night during the winter of 1862-3, a night when "there was a small skim of snow or sleet on the ground." Because of the frost, she tracked the horse "smack to the camp" at Spring Bank, four miles away. But she was not allowed to look in the stables until the head man arrived. Her deposition, and those of her husband and witnesses, claim that, by the time the head man arrived at camp the following day, the horse was gone.
Louisa valued the horse at more than $150 before she lost her, stating that "when the soldiers took her, I would not have taken two hundred dollars for her, in 'gold and silver.'" In another instance, Louisa showed her loyalty to the Union cause by turning a rebel scout over to a Corporal Lee. The scout threatened her, telling her, "it might be seven years but he would remember me."
Louisa Ferguson was not granted the $150 she requested. Although her husband and neighbors supported her story in their depositions, it was decided that "Her loyalty was decided & active. Her story of how she was instrumental in getting a boastful rebel soldier captured is quite to the life. We regret that we can not allow the claim. But the horse was stolen at night by some soldier probably. The stable was broken open. The tracks of the horse were traced in the snow to Camp Lyons. But they were not allowed to look for her in camp the first day; and when they did the next day the horse could not be found."
"Claim rejected."
Anatomy of a Claim
Review the file, page by page. It starts here: http://www.footnote.com/viewer.php?image=611503
There are 34 pages in this case file. While true to spelling and punctuation in most instances, this is not a precise transcription, but rather a content guide to one Southern Claims Commission case file to highlight examples of the types of documents and statements that can be found within.
File folder, labeled: Rept. #7, Office 795, Ferguson, W. & L.
The jacket covering the petition, identifying the petitioners, address, amount of claim, and the firm representing the petitioners, Whittlesey & Willoughby, of Alexandria, Va. and Washington, D.C.
Petition. Standard petition form for William Ferguson and Louisa Ferguson identifying them, their residence, and circumstances of their loss: Taken in winter 1862-3, one sorrel horse, a four-year-old mare, valued at $150. (It looks as if the original petition covered a mare "with foal," but no mention was made of a foal later in this record.) The horse was taken by a soldier from Fort Lyon. The marks of the petitioners and signatures of witnesses complete the petition.
Oath. Claimants made their mark. Also signed by witnesses and district commissioner. Includes "5 cent Stamp." Dated 17 February 1873.Lists witnesses to come: George C. Hewes, James Helmsley, Samuel Lamb, and Mrs. James Helmsley.
Back of petition jacket, blank except for No. 19994.
Note from attorney in Manassas, Virginia, submitting the Ferguson claim case to Congress, dated 28 February 1877.
Archive Record, War Department, dated 31 May1878, representing a bill and voucher for 266 2/3 bushels of corn and 13000 lbs of hay sold by William Ferguson to the Confederate States for $265.00. Paid at Camp Ferguson, September 1862.
Archive Record, War Department, dated 31 May1878, for 34 bags of corn sold by William and Louisa Ferguson to the Confederate States amounting to $208. Paid at Charlottesville, 1 June 1863.
Testimony file cover mis-scanned ... skip.
[Rescanned Page 10] Jacket for files of testimony, dated 28 February 1877. Samuel Ferguson, William Ferguson, James Helmsley, Samuel Garwood. Stamped by Commissioners of Claims.
Front page for deposition of "Louisa Ferguson Colored," with William Ferguson Claimant and Eliza Hemersley, James F. Hemersley, and Samuel A, Garwood Claimant's Witnesses.Includes her name, residence, age (69), and occupation (farming). Dated 16 December 1873.
[Many of the case files contain the typed list of questions being answered. This case does not. The appropriate questions to the answers below can be found here.]
Answers to Questions (loosely transcribed). You can see what questions were asked here.
In answer to the 2nd: I rented a farm of 100 acres of a Mrs. Moore, situated on the Mount Vernon Road in Fairfax County Virginia about five miles from Alexandria. I lived there when the war broke out, and continued to live there until two years after Richmond fell. I was living there and rejoiced when Richmond fell. I gave $40 a year until the last year I was there and then I gave $50 dollars.
In answer to the 3rd through 25th, "the deponent says No.
"In answer to the 26th All the secesh* around there threatened me, and if our Union People had not come, I am certain they would have taken me and my children to Richmond. I went and told the Union People about them. A man by the name of Church said he would report me to the rebel Army and they would take me to Richmond.
*[The term "secesh" was commonly used during the period to refer to secessionists, or anything related to secessionist activities.]
In answer to the 27th, "No."
In answer to the 28th I always cooked victuals and gave it to the Union Soldiers when they called upon me. I have given them money and peaches at different times. I have given the soldiers a levy at different times, when they would come to me in Alexandria Market during the war.
In answer to the 29th I worked at the Union Hospital at Col. Kemper's place at one time about three weeks washing for the wounded and sick. I recalled once while the [?] were outside of our place, a rebel scout got inside and tried to get out. He came and asked a Mr. Rodgers who was at our place how he could get out. I heard him say, if he could get out he would bring a party there who would make the Union Troops see Hell and damnation, them were his words. I ran
down across the field and called to the Union Soldiers. And Corporal Lee came with about a dozen soldiers, the rebel scout ran down to Mr. Youngs place. Corporal Lee followed him and captured him down there and brought him back passed my place. He looked and me and said it might be seven years but he would remember me. Corporal Lee told him not to make any threats, and told me that he never would do me any harm, that they would take care of him.
In answer to the 30th through 39th, "the deponent says No.
"In answer to the 40th I sympathized with the Union Cause altogether. I wanted the Union People to gain the day and prayed to God that they might. I always adhered to the Union side.
In answer to the 41stI do, I was al-
ways for my Union People
In answer to the 42nd I am married and I am the mother of 16 children. I was married a longtime before the war. My husband Wm. Ferguson was for the United States as well as myself. None of my children was in the service of the rebels. My husband was a slave before the war and was not allowed to own any separate property. I worked hard and bought my mare from Bill Searce about one year before the war commenced. I rented a farm and me and my children worked it. My children were all free.
In answer to the 43rd My father belonged to Gen'l Washington, he was Gen'l Washington's carpenter. Gen'l Washington set him free, and my father afterwards bought my mother and set her free. I was born after my mother was set free.
Item 1 Horse
The Union soldiers took my mare from me, she was taken from the stable at night, this was late in the fall in cold weather, there was a small skim of snow or sleet on the ground, it was in the second year of the war, the mare was in the stable that night. In the morning I found the stable broken open, and the mare gone. I saw her tracks, and I tracked her smack to the camp. The camp was at Spring Bank, which was about four miles from my place. The guards would not let me pass; the head man was not there, I asked for him, and the soldiers told me he was not there. I then went home and got Mrs. Eliza Hemersley to go the next day with me to the camp. The head man was there, he told us to go to the stable and look for her. We went to the stable and the horseler told us that they
had taken my mare away that night. I looked in the stable and my mare was not there. The hosler knew my mare and all the soldiers knew her because I had passed by there so often. They often told me they intended to take her away from her, but I did not think they would. She was a blooded mare, and the soldiers thought a good deal of her. The hosler said the soldiers took her away and I don't recollect he said where. Mrs. Hemersley talked with the hosler a good deal but I felt so bad when I found they had taken her away I did not say much. We went back to the head man and told him what the hosler had said. I don't remember exactly what the head man said except that he could not help it. She was a sorrel mare five or six years old, when I bought her she had not been broke. My son broke her after I bought her. I never
got her back after the soldiers took her. I never got any pay for her. I was born in Fairfax County Virginia. I have not passed through Bankruptcy and neither has my husband. I gave 75 Dollars for this mare when she was a colt. When the soldiers took her, I would not have taken two hundred dollars for her, in "gold and silver."
And further this deponent saith not.with her mark and witnessed by A.W. Chilton, Spec. Comm.
[lower on same page] Deposition of Wm. Ferguson "colored" who being duly sworn deposes and says My name is William Ferguson, my age about 60 years. I don't know my age exactly. I am the husband of Louisa Ferguson, and as such have an interest in this claim. I was a slave man before the war
and was made free by the war. I belonged to Dennis Johnson.
[In the 1850 census of Fairfax County, there are two men named Dennis Johnson, both listed as farmers on the same page (p. 115) as Louisa Ferguson with three other Fergusons, possibly her children, but not William, as he would be nameless, on the slave schedule, for that year.]
In answer to the second I lived with my master Dennis Johnson until the second year of the war. I then went to my wife's place and lived with her up to the present time.
In answer to the 3rd through 27th The deponent says No.
In answer to the 28th and 29th Whenever the Union soldiers came to our house we fed them and gave them as good as we had.
In answer to the 30th through 39th The deponent says No.
In answer to the 40th I was with the Union side. I felt glad when the Union side got the upper hand of the Rebels.
I had no vote I always adhered to the Union side.
In answer to the 41st I do.
In answer to the 43rd: The horse charged in my petition belonged to my wife. I was a slave and was not allowed to own any property.
Item 1 Horse I know my wife owned a deep sorrel mare, she was about six years old when she was taken away. She was taken from the stable one Saturday night. This was in the fall the second year of the war, there was a sleet or frozen crust on the ground. I tracked her the next morning up to near Fort Lyons near Spring Bank. I tracked her alone that Sunday morning. They had three stables near the fort. They allowed me to look in two of the stables and the other one they would not let me look in, they told me
no one was allowed to look in that stable. I tracked the mare clear up to the camp. I told the soldiers that the mare was there and no where else, the guard said they did not know anything about her. I had to go home without her. My wife tracked the mare as well as I did. I went to the camp the next day and the officer gave me permission to look all through the camp, I did so but could not find her. I know the mare had been there for I tracked her right up to the camp. Mrs. Hamersley went with my wife afterwards to look for her. I never got her back and never got any pay for her.
And further this deponent saith not.with his mark and witnessed by A.W. Chilton on 30th day of September 1873
Claim jacket for No. 19,994 for application to have testimony taken by special commissioner ("Heard in Aug.")
Report on Claim cover page, submitted to Congress Dec 5, 1877
Deposition of James F. Hemersley who being duly sworn deposes and says. My name is James F. Hemersley. My age 51 years. My residence Alexandria Virginia. My occupation working at a coal yard. I have no interest in this claim. Wm. Ferguson was a slave from before the war, and was made free by the war. Louisa Ferguson his wife was born free. I suppose I have known both of them all my life. I knew them intimately throughout the war. They lived about 2 miles from me during that time. Wm. Ferguson was the slave of Dennis Johnson. There was a Union Hospital at Kempers[?] place and I used to see Louisa Ferguson carrying things to the Hospital nearly every day. I used to see both of them pretty often; and I have talked with them about the war. I was a Union man and they knew it. They were both for the Union. I have heard Louisa express herself very strongly in that way.
I have no doubt that they were both on the side of the Union. They were so regarded by every one that knew them, so far as I know. In speaking of the Union Soldiers they always called them our soldiers. I don't know and never heard of their giving anything to in doing anything for the rebels. I don't believe they ever did.Item 1 HorseI know Louisa Ferguson had a little sorrel mare before the war. I used to see her, have this mare hitched to a wagon going to the Union Hospital and to Alexandria. I know this horse belonged to Louisa Ferguson for I recalled when she bought her from Wm. Searce. I recollect this mare was missing about the middle of the war. I don't know what became of her. I don't know the age of the mare but I reckon she was 8 or 9 years. She was a good
sprightly mare perfectly sound and had good eyes. I should think she ought to be worth a hundred dollars.And further this deponent saith not.James F. Hemersley's marksworn on 30th Sept 1873 to A. W. Chilton Spec. Comm.Deposition of Eliza Hemersley who being duly sworn deposes and says My name Eliza Hemersley. My age 39 years. My residence Alexandria Virginia. I am the wife of James F. Hemersley. I have no beneficial interest in the claim. Item 1 HorseI recalled in the winter season I think in 1863 Louisa Ferguson came and got me to go with her and look for her mare. I took our horse and wagon and went to Spring Bank with Louisa Ferguson
where there was a camp of Union soldiers. Spring Bank was about a mile and a half from our place. We went to the officer in command and he told told us to go to the Stable Boss and look through the stables and see if we could find the mare. I knew the officer at that time but I have forgotten his name. He went through the stables but could not find the mare. We gave the stable boss a description of the mare. He told us that a mare of that description had been brought there by a soldier the night before and had been taken away by the solder that morning. He said if he brought the mare back again he would lock her up and let us know. I never heard anything more about the mare. She was a sorrel mare. I don't know her age. I knew this mare belonged to Louisa Ferguson, who was a free
woman before the war. Wm. Ferguson her husband was a slave. And further this deponent saith not.
Her mark, witnessed by A. W. Chilton, dated 30th day of Sept 1873
Deposition of Samuel A. Garwood
My name is Samuel A. Garwood who being duly sworn deposes and says My age 53 years My residence Alexandria Virginia. I am deputy marshall of Eastern District of Virginia. I have no beneficial interest in this claim. I first became with William Ferguson and Louisa his with the early part of the war. I know them pretty well, and saw them frequently. They always expressed themselves favorably to the United States Government, and opposed to the rebels. From my acquaintance
with them they sympathized I am satisfied with the United States Government. They had the reputation of being loyal to the Union cause. I don't know better they were slave people before the war or not. I was sheriff of Alexandria County under the restored Government of Virginia, from January 1, 1863 until December 31st, 1866. I never heard William Ferguson or his wife ever did anything for the rebels, I don't believe they did. And further this deponent saith not.
Signed by Garwood and witnessed by Chilton on 16 December 1873.
Form: Before the Commissioners of Claims,Quantities and articles and value, listing one horse, valued at $150.00
2nd page of the same form. Most blanks are not filled in. Only thing completed is those who testified:
- Geo. C. Hewes
- James Helmsley
- Samuel Lamb
- Mrs. James Helmsley
3rd and final page of form, undated but listing attorney Whittlesey & Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia.
Final page is a claim form listing the horse
- Amount claimed as $150
- Amount allowed as --------
- Amount disallowed $150
Summarized as follows: The claimant Louisa Ferguson is a worthy colored woman, about 70 years old. She is the mother of 16 children; rented a farm & she & her children worked on it. She earned the money & bought the horse of Bill Searce a year before the war. She says, "My father belonged to General Washington. He was General Washington's Carpenter. General Washington set him fre [blank] father afterwards bought my mother & he [blank] free. I was born after my mother was [blank] free." Her loyalty was decided & active. Her story of how she was instrumental in getting a boastful rebel soldier captured is quite to the life. We regret that we can not allow the claim. But the horse was stolen at night by some soldier probably. The stable was broken open. The tracks of the horse were traced in the snow to Camp Lyons. But they were not allowed to look for her in camp the first day; and when they did the next day the horse could not be found. - Claim rejected. - The document is signed by Comms of Claims, A.O. Aldis, J.B. Howell, O. Ferris End of claim.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Building on Penn State's "One Team" inaugural year momentum, highlighting the highly successful first season under football coach Bill O'Brien and looking ahead to 2013, the Penn State Coaches Caravan tour begins another road trip April 30 with visits to 12 locations during two weeks this spring.
O'Brien will headline the bus tour of many Penn State alumni strongholds across Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic. The 2012 Bear Bryant and Maxwell Football Club national Coach of the Year will participate in all 12 Coaches Caravan stops. The April 30 opening stop at the Penn State Berks campus in Reading is sold out.
Three more dynamic Penn State mentors are set to join O'Brien on the Coaches Caravan during the first week (April 30 to May 2). The coaches participating during the second week (May 7 to 9) of the tour are to be announced.
Fresh off Penn State's third consecutive NCAA Wrestling Championship, coach Cael Sanderson is scheduled to participate in all six Coaches Caravan events from April 30 to May 2. In his four seasons as head coach at Penn State, Sanderson has guided the Nittany Lions to their first three Big Ten titles and the program's first NCAA Championships (2011-13) since 1953. The 2013 NWCA National Coach of the Year, he has coached six national champions, 13 Big Ten champions and 19 All-Americans the past four years. Sanderson has a superb 100-19-2 dual meet record in seven years as a head coach.
Nittany Lion basketball coach Patrick Chambers will participate in the April 30 Coaches Caravan events in Reading (lunch) and Philadelphia (evening) and the May 1 events in Baltimore (lunch) and Washington, D.C. (evening). Entering his third year at Penn State, Chambers has turned his passion and energy into a compelling rise in the coaching ranks. In his first two seasons leading the Nittany Lions, he has guided guard Tim Frazier to first-team All-Big Ten honors and instilled a passionate, relentless attitude and positive culture that has Penn State pointed toward a breakout campaign in 2013-14 with more than 80 percent of its scoring, rebounding and assists returning to the team.
Women's volleyball coach Russ Rose will attend Coaches Caravan events May 2 in Lancaster (lunch) and Camp Hill (evening). Rose has led Penn State to five NCAA Championships, including an unprecedented four consecutive titles from 2007 to 2010. Entering his 35th year as the Nittany Lions' head coach, Rose has guided Penn State to 15 Big Ten Championships and owns a superlative career record of 1,091-175 (86.2). A member of the AVCA Hall of Fame, Rose has directed Penn State to 32 consecutive NCAA Tournament berths, one of only two programs to do so. He has coached 34 Nittany Lions to a total of 75 All-America honors.
At each Coaches Caravan stop, Penn State alumni and fans will have the opportunity to hear from O'Brien and at least one other head coach and ask questions about the Nittany Lions' nationally recognized 31-sport athletic program at a lunch or evening event.
Jointly sponsored by the Penn State Alumni Association and the Nittany Lion Club, Coaches Caravan registration is under way at www.alumni.psu.edu/coachescaravan and www.GoPSUsports.com. More than 2,000 Penn State alumni and fans signed up for caravan stops during the first two weeks of registration, with the Reading event reaching capacity in four days. Advance registration is required for all Coaches Caravan events.
The Penn State Coaches Caravan kicks off Tuesday, April 30, with a luncheon in Reading and an evening reception in Philadelphia at the Hyatt at The Bellevue. On May 1, the Coaches Caravan will stop in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and on May 2, caravan events will be held in Lancaster and Camp Hill. During the caravan's first week, the luncheons will begin at 11:30 a.m and the evening receptions will start at 7 p.m.
The second week of the Coaches Caravan begins May 7 with a luncheon at Penn College of Technology in Williamsport and an evening reception at the Lehigh Valley Holiday Inn Conference Center in Breinigsville. On May 8, the caravan will visit New York City and Scranton and on May 9, caravan events will be held at Penn State DuBois and Pittsburgh. During the second week, the New York City lunch will begin at noon and the receptions in Lehigh Valley and Pittsburgh will begin at 6 p.m.
For the second consecutive year, the Coaches Caravan will be a part of the Penn State Alumni Association's Greater Scranton Chapter annual scholarship dinner at Genetti Manor. The reception begins at 6:30 p.m. May 8 and dinner is at 7:30 p.m. Last year's Scranton event drew a crowd of 900-plus.
O'Brien and his fellow head coaches have championed Penn State's "One Team" philosophy this year, with the varsity teams, athletics, campuses, communities and constituencies all playing a role in the Nittany Lions' academic and athletic success. Penn State has captured a school record seven Big Ten Championships thus far in 2012-13, while earning an NCAA Graduation Rate of 88 percent and a school record 100 Academic All-Big Ten honorees among the fall sport student-athletes.
The 2013 Penn State Coaches Caravan stops are:
-- April 30: Penn State Berks; Reading (lunch) – SOLD OUT
Philadelphia (evening reception)
-- May 1: Baltimore (lunch)
Washington, D.C. (evening reception)
-- May 2: Lancaster, Pa. (lunch)
Harrisburg/Camp Hill, Pa. (evening reception)
-- May 7: Penn College of Technology; Williamsport (lunch)
Allentown/Breinigsville, Pa. (evening reception)
-- May 8: New York City (lunch)
Scranton, Pa. (evening event)
-- May 9: Penn State DuBois (lunch)
Pittsburgh (evening reception)
For the second consecutive year, Fullington Tours will provide a customized coach to transport all the Coaches Caravan participants throughout the 12-stop tour.


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Officials: Mother still in hospital after shooting baby, self
Woman critical after murder-suicide attempt, police say
A woman is in critical condition and her son is dead after she fired shots in their home, according to officials.
Investigators said 20-year-old Melanie Reyes is still in the hospital Monday after she attempted a murder-suicide in her Ocala home.
Reyes is accused of killing her 6-month-old son after making threats on Facebook.
Officials found Reyes and the baby boy, Jonah Mendoza, in a back bedroom of the home they shared with the woman's parents Friday.
Investigators said they were at the home when they heard the shots being fired. Reyes shot the boy and then turned the gun on herself, according to investigators.
The boy was dead when officials found him inside the home.
Jonah's father, Jordan Mendoza, said he saw the Facebook post and called officials.
The battle for the child had played out in court for months prior to the incident. Mendoza filed a motion to get shared responsibility and time sharing, but Reyes said she didn't trust him.
In a court document filed Jan. 1, Mendoza begged the court to speed things up because he felt Jonah was not safe.
"Things have already happened," said Mendoza in a news conference. "There is nothing I can say or do to make things better."
A candlelight vigil is planned for Jonah on Thursday at 7 p.m.
Authorities said Reyes is not expected to survive.


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What causes osteoarthritis?
Primary osteoarthritis is mostly related to aging. With aging, the water content of the cartilage increases and the protein makeup of cartilage degenerates. Repetitive use of the joints over the years causes damage to the cartilage that leads to joint pain and swelling. Eventually, cartilage begins to degenerate by flaking or forming tiny crevasses. In advanced cases, there is a total loss of the cartilage cushion between the bones of the joints. Loss of cartilage cushion causes friction between the bones, leading to pain and limitation of joint mobility. Damage to the cartilage can also stimulate new bone outgrowths (spurs) to form around the joints. Osteoarthritis occasionally can be found in multiple members of the same family, implying an heredity (genetic) basis for this condition. Rarely, some of these hereditary cases of osteoarthritis are caused by defects in collagen, which is an important component of cartilage.
Secondary osteoarthritis is caused by another disease or condition. Conditions that can lead to secondary osteoarthritis include obesity, repeated trauma or surgery to the joint structures, abnormal joints at birth (congenital abnormalities), gout, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and other hormone disorders.
Obesity causes osteoarthritis by increasing the mechanical stress on the cartilage. In fact, next to aging, obesity is the most powerful risk factor for osteoarthritis of the knees. The early development of osteoarthritis of the knees among weight lifters is believed to be in part due to their high body weight. Repeated trauma to joint tissues (ligaments, bones, and cartilage) is believed to lead to early osteoarthritis of the knees in soccer players. Interestingly, recent studies have not found an increased risk of osteoarthritis in long-distance runners.
Crystal deposits in the cartilage can cause cartilage degeneration, and osteoarthritis. Uric acid crystals cause arthritis in gout, while calcium pyrophosphate crystals cause arthritis in pseudogout.
Rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory conditions of the joints lead to joint damage and eventual degeneration of the cartilage and osteoarthritis.
Some people are born with abnormally formed joints (congenital abnormalities) that are vulnerable to mechanical wear, causing early degeneration and loss of joint cartilage. Osteoarthritis of the hip joints is commonly related to design abnormalities of these joints that had been present since birth.
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Hello there, and welcome to another pledge in MNN's Nest, an interactive program that helps you create and accomplish easy and Earth-friendly personal goals. With each goal that you tackle, you earn points that are then turned into donations to your favorite nonprofit eco-charity.
Now that winter is (finally!) behind us and it's safe for you and your kids to venture outside without donning a multitude of layers, consider tackling this challenge, an easy and fun task — if you can even call it that — that involves spending a bit more QT with Mother Nature. There are numerous ways to get your kids (and yourself) outside more this year and, naturally, we've got a few pointers to get you started.
A lil' thing they call fresh air: Your brood might protest if attempts to pry them away from the Wii are quick and aggressive, so ease into this challenge with simple activity replacements. Once a month, instead of a two-hour weekend excursion to the multiplex, swap in a steam-burning nature walk in a local park or recreation area (this MNN writer's parents will be forever indebted to the hyperactivity-draining nature trails at Snake Lake); instead of dining in, have an al fresco picnic in the backyard and let the kids set the scene and perhaps even let them camp out once dinner is done; instead of driving to the supermarket, try hoofing it and invite the kids along (more hands to help carry back all those reusable shopping bags!); plan a family bike ride instead of planning a family trip to the mall; instead of begging your kids to clean their rooms, sign up as family for a community clean-up or beautification project; or, if your kids drone on and on about being bored, tell 'em to take a hike ... and then join them. The possibilities of incorporating a little fresh air into mundane daily routines are endless so feel free to get creative. Once outdoors, the sky's the limit.
Healthy hearts and active minds: Not only will spending more time outdoors this year get you and your progeny reacquainted with the many splendors of Mother Nature after a long winter break ... there are the mental and physical health perks that come with anti-couch potato activities, too. Physical fitness often plays an integral part in outdoor activities so you'll be encouraging heart-healthy habits for life and help combat childhood obesity rates that have, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tripled since 1980 (more than 16 percent of American children are obese). Plus, by spending more time outdoors you can throw in impromptu eco-educational lessons on why it's important to give Mother Nature the TLC she deserves.
A helping hand: For more ideas on how to spend more kid-friendly time communing with Mother Nature without going on the full-on Thoreau route, check out the MNN Family channel where Jenn Savedge frequently blogs about new and exciting ways to incorporate environmentalism into family time. Plus, if your home is full of burgeoning foodies of the non-junk variety, Home blogger Matt and Food blogger Robin frequently discuss a hot new eco-trend that's perfect to get the rugrats involved in: backyard farming.
Okay, it's high time to tear yourself away from the computer (but thanks for visiting!) and head outdoors to put this very special WorldShares challenge into action. But before you do repeat after me: I will get my kids (and myself!) outside more this year.
More personal pledges to consider:
- Once a week, I will walk one place instead of driving.
- I will make my home more energy-efficient.
- I will actually use my reusable bags.
- I will do a toxin audit of my home.
- I will support my town's local and green businesses this year.
- I will eat more meals at home.
- I will read three environmentally themed books this year.
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Cards getting to second on a routine missed pop up was big.
Cards score on a passed ball that barely gets away.
Cards score by busting down line to beat out a DP
Cards played like crap but kept playing with maximum effort and the M's sucking in the end.
Huge game
What looked like the Reds rightful window in the NL Central from 2012-2015 seems to be closing a few years too early before our eyes. I'm simply amazed the Cardinals have once again found the fountain of youth (without a lot of previously hyped minor leaguers) and now seem to have impressive young talent littering the roster. While the Reds look to be aging, slowing and getting more expensive before our eyes this season.
Cards and Pirates are going to be giving us some constant divisional headaches the next few seasons. Man I hope Hamilton can pan out in CF for the long run. That would be a game changer.
Strange season. Just when you feel they are done they surprise you. Just when you think they are great, they surprise you. Pretty crazy season.
So you know they'll probably just barely squeak into the playoffs. Win a 16-inning white knuckler in Pittsburgh or St. Louis and then back their way into WS and win the whole damn thing. Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised.
Crazy thing though, I got my fill in the STL and LAD series. I really felt good. Felt satisfied. I've kind of taken a break from this team this week and you now what? I still feel good.
I think the closer you get to this team the crazier you will be.
Just my two cents.
Also I think the value of a retratable stadium is a lot higher now than even 10 years ago in the hot weather and cold weather cities. With the advent of cheap, large screen HD LED TVs, all the home games being televised and ever higher ticket prices across the board (and more importantly the absurb rise in cost of concessions over inflation especially if you have a family). Just not as much reason for many to take a chance on attending a live MLB game if the weather conditions are going to be at all a factor in detracting from the experience. Not most fans, but enough at the margin to matter.
My understanding is the Brewers have a lot of amenities in the immediate area and a great game day atmosphere. However, I still think the Brewers attendance is going to nosedive as the quality of the product on the field continues to occupy last place in the NL Central for the next few seasons (Seattle is a good comp).
The attendance concerns that most surprise me though, are AL. The Rays and Indians are both really struggling as they seriously compete for postseason spots. I just don't know how else to explain fans not coming out for a competitive team as with TB thought I guess with Cleveland might be a function of the local economy.
Reds & Nats, 2013 LCS. Take2 (9/13) Reds but no Nats
I personally think baseball in Cleveland is doomed long term due to population shifts and a small relative market being boxed in by the Reds, Tigers and Pirates.
Demographically, I think MLB won't be in Cleveland by mid-century. Actually I think it is a race between the Pirates and Indians since two teams can't be in that population losing area long term. Two teams in Chicago also makes no sense going forward.
Seattle's attendance simply falling apart is really a shocker. Especially with no NBA team the last few years. Demographically, Seattle will be fine long term for baseball.
Tampa is a unique case. Partly the location of the dump of a stadium which makes zero sense and partly the apathy of summer time interest in pro sports in transient Florida.
Fading, fading, fading away...
The Reds get a layup today. Homer Bailey in September versus Johnny Hellweg. In 16.2 innings of work, Hellweg has walked 16 and struck out 4. His WHIP is 2.340. Small sample size yes. But in 457 minor league innings, Hellweg is walking 6.2 batters in every nine innings of work.
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Kim Cattrall may have inadvertently given away some minor secrets of the "Sex and The City's" big screen sequel.
According to Britain's Mirror newspaper, which zoomed in on a page of script she was carrying in New York City last week, one important character in Samantha Jones' life may be back.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Scenes From 'Sex And The City 2'
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Samantha's longest ever beau in the series, the one she broke up with in the first big screen installment – Smith Jerrod (Jason Lewis' character) – may be back, at least through the telephone.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Guest Stars Of 'Sex And The City'
According to the Mirror, on the page of the script they enlarged, Samantha is seated at her desk when a character called Meghan — reportedly an assistant — tells her, "Smith Jerrod's on the phone."
Additionally, the paper reported that Samantha, who turned 50 in the closing scene from the first movie, had a bottle of hormone pills on her desk during the scene.
The pill bottle, which breaks according to the page that was visible, offered a possible hint that after surviving cancer, a move to Los Angeles, gaining weight to keep herself from cheating with her sexy Malibu neighbor Dante (played by Gilles Marini) and a break-up with Smith, Samantha might have menopause as her next big life challenge.
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"I'm going to need you to go on a testosterone run," Samantha tells Meghan, according to the Mirror.
"I'll do it first thing tomorrow," Meghan reportedly replies.
"Said the 24-year-old. I'll call the pharmacy and tell them you are on your way," Samantha steps in.
Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw), Chris Noth (Mr. Big, AKA John James Prescott), Cynthia Nixon (Miranda Hobbes), David Eingenberg (Steve Brady), Lynn Cohen (Magda) and Joseph Pupo (Brady Hobbes) were all spotted filming "SATC2" on the streets of NYC last week.
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Blitzaholic wrote:("Blitz Betamania Franchise Series IX")
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Welcome to the Short Franchise BETA Series Quads tournament hosted by the one and only Blitzaholic!
The maps will be WWII Ottoman, England, 1st Nations N.A., Germany 2, Pelo War, Pearl Harbor 2, 3rd Crusade 2, Vancouver 2, WWII Poland, Feudal Epic, Jamaica, Rail Africa, Classic.
ALL PREMIUM PLAYERS ARE WELCOME as 7 games per round!
The tournament will feature 16 players who will face off in a single elimination bracket, best of 7 every round. All games in the tournament will be on the Vancouver map, with the following settings: Sequential, Escalating, Chained, Sunny
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Signing up is very simple, all you have to do is post with your name and the name of your partners. I don't need any other information from you. Playing order is by how you sign up, team 1 plays 4, team 2 plays 3, etc.
When we have all the teams needed I will set up the games and then send them to both teams who have 96 hours to join or you may be forfeited, these are fast hitting.
I will keep track of the winners for the "Blitz Betamania" Short Franchise Series
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America might be the easiest place to own a car. Gas is cheap (you should see what they pay in Europe if you think $4/gal is bad) and there are junky old beaters rusting in every field in the country.
Right now, we'd pony up for this $400 '74 Oldsmobile we saw on the Hooniverse. Sure it's monkey rap brown and it doesn't have a title, but it does have a 500ci Caddy motor. We've been meaning to start a LeMons team for years. We could do worse than run with this barge.
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