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By Jeff
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[November 19, 2012]
Then, of course, there is tonight. Thanks to those who hit the
floor for the first time during the 1913-1914 season under coach
William Handlin, the tradition continues this evening for the 100th
season, as Lincoln Railer basketball is back.
When fans gathered during that first 1-5 season, the world was a
much different place. Milk was 32 cents a gallon, while gas was just
12 cents. A new car would set you back around $500, and the house
you parked in front of was just shy of $3,400. Woodrow Wilson was
our president, and the United States would see its highest recorded
temperature of 134 degrees in Death Valley, Calif. (Of course, we
know Roy S. Anderson Gymnasium can be a little toasty during the
season, but not quite that warm.) Fittingly, the nation's first
coast-to-coast road, the Lincoln Highway, was dedicated on Halloween
night of that year. Yes, a much different world, although I should
dispel the rumor that Steve Sloan was the booster club president
during that first year.
Hundreds of Lincoln High School students have donned the
Railsplitter colors throughout the years, and tonight 12 young men
will begin representing their school and their community as the
Eaton Electrical Round Robin Tournament gets under way with Lincoln
taking on Cahokia.
There is an old saying in the sports that "you won't know the
players without a program." That adage may never be truer regarding
the Railers than this season. From the roster of 16 who lined up for
the regional final last year, a 45-35 loss to Decatur MacArthur to
end the season, only seven return for the 2012-2013 campaign.
Whether it was graduation or a decision not to return, this year's
Railers will look to replace 61 percent of their scoring, 52 percent
of the rebounding and almost 70 percent of made 3s.
Who will take the place of graduated seniors Christian Van Hook,
Jordan Gesner, Austin Kirby, Jake Olson and Matt Hays? A young
squad, featuring only one senior, will try to rebound from the .500
season of last year. Junior Max Cook (6.5 ppg), sophomore Gavin
Block (5.5) and senior Will Podbelsek (5.1) are the Railers' leading
returning scorers and will be counted on to carry more of the
offensive load this season. The only other player on the roster who
has seen meaningful varsity action is junior Edward Bowlby (1.1).
The remainder of the roster has played in a total of four varsity
games, scoring just one point, and the leading scorer in 75 percent
of last season's games has advanced to the collegiate level.
The 2012 graduating class of players certainly left their stamp
on the Railer program, leaving with the 10th-most wins (98) for a
graduating class. Gesner left with the 18th-most made 3s in a
career, while Kirby sits in the top 12 of games played all-time. Who
can forget some of the highlight dunks and blocks courtesy of Van
Hook, last season's leading scorer?
However, that was then and this is now, and now starts tonight.
Yes, this is a young and inexperienced team, but head coach Neil
Alexander and his coaching staff always find a way, and this year
should be no different. As Alexander, just two wins away from
reaching 500 wins at Lincoln, begins his second 1,000 games
(657-343), his squad will try to break a streak of not advancing in
the IHSA tournament. By not winning a regional last season, it was
the first time in Alexander's Lincoln career that his teams had gone
back-to-back seasons without at least a regional plaque to put in
the trophy case.
Speaking of the coaching staff, a familiar face to Lincoln fans
will be on the bench as Brandon Farmer joins the staff. Farmer, a
2007 graduate of LCHS, whose numbers wearing the Red and Green place
him among the school's best, was always a lead-by-example kind of
player. If he can do the same thing in bringing up the next
generation of Railers, things should be rather fun and exciting for
the Railer Nation.
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The experience will have to come quickly as the squad will have
five games under their belt by Saturday night. With six juniors and
five sophomores, someone will have to step up. Could it be junior
Austin Krusz? Fresh off quarterbacking the Railer football team, his
unquestioned toughness will fit in well with Lincoln's defensive
reputation. Or maybe Tyler Horchem? Could he be the surprise
long-range shooter? We all remember his performance of eight 3s at
Moline last season, including the game-winner from the left wing as
the horn sounded at Wharton Fieldhouse. Why not Joey Olden? His
ability to handle the ball could free up others to fill more of a
scoring role.
All these questions and more will be answered during the season,
and rest assured, more than one player who took the court during
Thursday's Meet the Railers night will be a household name by
season's end. But, let's not talk about the end; the season is just
getting started.
As for the conference, Lincoln is hoping to climb closer to the
top. Finishing 7-9 in the CS8 left them in the middle, a position
the Railers and their fans are not used to seeing. Based on last
year, it would seem a safe bet that Chatham Glenwood will be the
conference favorite, but last year's undefeated CS8 champs, Lanphier,
can't be counted out. Where will the stars come from? Other than
Lanphier's Larry Austin and Glenwood's Peyton Allen, all of last
year's all-conference players have graduated.
After tonight's game with Cahokia
(7:30 scheduled tip), the rest of the week's schedule for the
Railers looks this way:
Wednesday, 8 p.m.
-- Morton
Friday, 8 p.m. --
Seton Academy
Saturday, 10 a.m.
-- Danville
Saturday, 8 p.m. -- Champaign
The Railers started last season by going 2-3 in the tournament,
including an opening-night loss to the Comanches by eight. A good
start to the season would prove invaluable for Alexander's young
The Railer roster, which can be found (along with all information
Railer-related) at www.railerbasketball.com, shapes up this way:
Senior -- Will Podbelsek
Juniors -- Edward Bowlby, Max Cook, Bobby Dunovsky, Tyler Horchem,
Austin Krusz and Joey Olden
Sophomores -- Gavin Block, Adam Conrady, Will Cook, Payton
Ebelherr and Jordan Perry
Once again, I am pleased to bring you my thoughts on Railer
basketball here on Lincoln Daily News as well as, for the 12th
season, doing play-by-play for every Lincoln game on WLCN radio with
Josh Komnick. I'm also excited about the additional coverage the
Railers will get on LDN thanks to Justin Tierney. Justin is a
fantastic writer and will bring you his thoughts and insight into
the Railer program.
Who knows? Maybe we'll be doing some reporting from Peoria in
March. Impossible, you say? Well, can you think of a better way to
celebrate the centennial of Lincoln Railer basketball?
See you throughout the season, starting tonight against Cahokia.
[By JEFF BENJAMIN]
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Sean Kelly grew up in North Bay Ontario, studying the classical guitar but also digging the sounds emanating from his 12-watt stereo system; Kiss, Van Halen, and Guns N' Roses.
Warrior Records announced today that Crash Kelly, created from influences of mega-groups Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, KISS and Queen will be releasing their third album, "One More Heart Attack," on July 29th, but it is a debut CD on Warrior.
The new Crash Kelly band consists of Sean Kelly, on guitar and vocals, Gene Scarpelli (son of Gino Scarpelli, guitarist for Canadian hard rock legends GODDO), Tim Timleck on drums, and long time Crash Kelly co-hort Allister Thompson, who has switched from guitar to bass.
"This is a really great group of classy rock pros, and they are all well-represented on the new album, 'One More Heart Attack' coming to stores in America on July 29th," said vocalist and leader of Crash Kelly.
"What makes us different this time around is the fact that I brought in some different players and also did some outside writing with Moe Berg on a few key tracks," explained Kelly. "This album is much more focused and I think it's sonically the best thing Crash Kelly has ever done. It also rocks a little harder."
Kelly noted the new album has some classic rock input, too. Gilby Clarke (Guns N' Roses, Rock Star: Supernova) helped produce the new album for the second time. "Gilby has a great ear for arrangement, getting great guitar tones, and solid performances. I think we're cut from the same cloth, musically speaking," commented Kelly.
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Mobile devices are showing up in ever-increasing numbers in enterprises these days, from smartphones and ultralight notebooks to iPads and Android tablets. The bring your own device (BYOD) phenomenon is also at work here, with employees bringing their own personal devices into the workplace.
This BYOD trend raises some troubling security, auditing, and compliance concerns, three issues that a recent study by Juniper Networks touches on. Dubbed the Trusted Mobility Index, Juniper says that this report includes feedback from more than 4,000 "mobile device users and IT decision-makers" from China, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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"Some of the biggest news [to come from the study] was that despite the number of people using mobile devices, their level of those trust in the security of those devices is really low," explained Dan Hoffman, chief mobile security evangelist at Juniper Networks. "Only 15% of the respondents indicated they had a 'great deal of confidence' in the security of those devices.
Ed Amoroso, the Chief Security Officer for AT&T, also commented on the Juniper report via a blog post entitled "4 Key IT Concerns about BYOD." In his post, Amoroso points to fragmented BYOD security approaches as a chief mobility security concern.
"The greatest challenge we see with BYOD in the enterprise is the massive distribution of security responsibility," Amoroso writes. "We know it's an unreasonable expectation to ask every employee to be a security administrator, configure proper personal settings for protection, and remain vigilant on updating the latest malware software. It's an assumption we, as an industry, made with PCs – and we're still paying for it."
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It started out with just 100 European starlings released in Central Park, but now the avian creature bird some call the most hated bird in North America is officially a scourge.
Shakespeare mentioned the starling in the third scene of "Henry IV," and in the early 1890s a group dedicated to bringing to America every bird ever mentioned by the bard let loose the flock in New York. Now, come 200 million shiny black European starlings crowd North America, from Alaska to Mexico. The enormous flocks endanger air travel, mob cattle operations, chase off native songbirds, roost on city blocks, and cause hundreds of millions of dollars of damage each year.
They're also responsible for the most deadly bird strikes in aviation: a 1960 civilian crash in Boston that killed 62 and a 1996 military cargo plane crash that killed 34 in the Netherlands. Since then, there have been close calls, including a Boeing 747 that ran into a flock in Rome last fall. No one was killed but the badly damaged plane had a rough landing.
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He said that during interrogation the accused confessed to committing several robberies. The looted goods were also recovered from their possession, he added.
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TUX Magazine: Entering International Characters
Being a guy with an accent on one of the letters of his name, you can imagine that I probably spend a lot of time entering so-called "special characters" in my documents and e-mails. Short of keeping a document with these letters already written, then copying, and pasting them, entering an é can be amazingly time consuming. Worst of all, while OpenOffice.org lets me click Insert, Special Character to select from a list, not all applications have a handy list of characters to choose from. For everyone out there who routinely has to enter special characters or letters with accents, I'm going to give you a great KDE trick to use that will ease the pain.
Useful trick
I might just purchase TUX :)
By Tom at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Funny reading this for those of us foreign people who always used dead keys :)
- Press Special Key.
I've heard we can do this with X, not sure how though. Native KDE suport (eventually using X already built in capability) would be cool though, for easier set up, cursor effects, etc.
By John Dead Keys Freak at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: :)
You could use gucharmap, search for lambda and copy the symbol to where you want it.
Re: :)
John wants an easy way to enter special keys. In this particular case adding a Greek keyboard layout, switching to it with Ctrl+Alt+K, pressing l and switching back to his normal keyboard layout would be much easier than starting an extra application, search the symbol and then copy and paste the symbol.
By Ingo Klöcker at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: :)
That is only true if you don't have to search where the lambda resides on a greek keyboard. If you use gucharmap (which you could invoke with a shortcut), all you have to do is hit Ctrl + F, type lambda, hit Alt+C to close search dialog, hit Enter to add the lamda sign to "text to copy", hit Alt+C to copy and Strg+Q to close gucharmap and finally press Ctrl+V to enter the sign in the application.
Still don't know how to enter е́
Wow, I thought this is the right article at the right time for me. But it deals only with entering western letters, mostly precomposed diacritical marks.
Re: Still don't know how to enter е́
By capit. Igloo at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Still don't know how to enter еÌ
Well, using a special editor and using copy&paste is not very convenient and time consuming. What I was looking for is a way to enter combining characters in a kde application (in my case kwordquiz). Entering the cyrillic letter and pasting the combining accute does not work.
Re: Still don't know how to enter еÌ
don't use copy&paste, save your text in a file (in utf-8) and then re-edit it with a kde app.
By capit. Igloo at Wed, 2005/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: Still don't know how to enter еÌ
Hold down "alt gr" and start hitting random keys. Lots quicker if you routinely use particular special characters but don't want to keep messing around with keyboard layouts.
By Jim at Tue, 2006/06/20 - 5:00am
Re: Still don't know how to enter е
Thanks to the polish article I added dead_acute, dead_grave and combining_acute, combining_grave to the russian keymap. Seems to work fine in KDE.
By testerus at Wed, 2005/01/19 - 6:00am
Support for manual xmodmap modification?
This is really cool, but it overwrites my xmodmap for adding support for the "History back/forward" keys and making Caps Lock a second Escape key. Is there anyway to incorporate that?
Right now, I call xmodmap with a file of this content:
By Dominic at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Support for manual xmodmap modification?
Did you get any reply? How did you solve the problem?
By Anonymous bin Ich at Sun, 2007/07/15 - 5:00am
...not really news for us international users I guess.
By Martin at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Compose key
For international characters you can use the compose key (often Windows one).
Compose + O + E =
Here I am at work on a Windows so I can't use Compose key and I miss it :)
By Shift at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Compose key
Yes, this is the only key I really miss from Unix/Sun keyboards. I don't understand why all these new "multimedia" keyboards with extra keys have not added a compose button for some international correspondence.
By carewolf at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Compose key
You can add it yourself with xmodmap ;)
By ac at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Compose key
There's no need to use xmodmap -- you can select a key to be used as Compose through kcontrol:
Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard Layout -> Xkb Options -> Compose Key.
Works pérfèctly ... and there's no need to keep on changing between different keyboard layouts. Also, if you want to create your own layout, there's a nice introductory article about Xkb here:
By jon at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Compose key
you can set change this to your liking in the xkb options. I use the right-alt as compose key: right-alt - " - e makes ë... normally, " - e is just "e :D
just found out, really nice.
By superstoned at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: Compose key
It is there, it just has a silly flag on it.
By Ian Monroe at Wed, 2005/01/19 - 6:00am
and the question mark?
I have already setup en_US with deadkeys. I has *almost* all the additional caracters I need except the opening question mark... Anyone knows how to solve it?
By ochnap2 at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: and the question mark?
By Michal Kosmulski at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: and the question mark?
a) you could use Compose + ? + ?
On The dk-latin1 keymap there are two buttons for modyfying what kind of accents a given vaul will have. You either press, shift-press or altgr-press the button before you hit the next letter.
Theese are modyfier then letter combinations: ó é á ú and ö ë ä ü
Cant this behavior be ported to other keymaps?
PS: to make a single tilde i have to press altgr-modyfier then space
By Macavity at Tue, 2005/01/18 - 6:00am
Slightly off-topic
IS there a way to map a Gamecontroller on a keyboard or a analog gamecontroller mouse?
I usually get my é with ` + e
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All Lanes Of I-94 Reopen After Truck Spilled Load
Liquid Oxygen Leaked From Tanks
After almost four hours, all lanes of Interstate 94 near 27th Street have reopened.
At about 11:15 a.m. Monday, a truck rolled onto the driver's side and spilled its load of 100 canisters, which scattered on the freeway, according to the Milwaukee Fire Department.
Some of the tanks flew into the center of the median, and some landed in the westbound lanes.
The various canisters contained nitrogen, argon, helium and oxygen.
Some of the tanks that contained the liquid oxygen were leaking but were not considered a danger to the public, a spokeswoman for the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department said.
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"It's amazing that no other cars were involved," Milwaukee Fire Department Battalion Chief Dan Holton said.
Hazmat was called to the scene to help in the cleanup, which took several hours.
Robert Mathews, a tow truck driver himself, got caught up in the lingering delays.
"About 45 minutes. It's pretty bad. I was supposed to go to West Bend. Doesn't look like it's happening," Mathews said.
No one was injured, not even the 46-year-old truck driver who was making a delivery in Milwaukee.
"I talked with him a little bit just to make sure he didn't need medical attention from our paramedics, which he refused, and he seems to be doing OK," Holton said. "He's still shaken up, but I would be too. But he's fortunate and that's how he feels right now."
The driver was ticketed for failure to control his vehicle. He told authorities he was trying to avoid hitting a vehicle in front of him that had slowed down, which caused his load to shift. He lost control of the truck, struck the median wall, causing the truck to flip onto its side and slide about 20 yards.
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Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows Merge
After years of conflicting "will they? Won't they?" rumors, Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows, two of California's biggest resorts, announced this morning that they are merging.
It's always been a dream; it's age-old," says Squaw's Amelia Richmond. "But it's only really been in the works since last winter."
KSL Capital Partners, which owns Squaw, will operate the two resorts under the name of Squaw Valley Ski Holdings LLC. According to a Squaw Valley press release, "As part of the transaction, an investment affiliate of JMA Ventures (JMA), will convert its ownership of Alpine Meadows into partial ownership of the combined company. KSL Capital Partners, LLC (KSL), the owner of Squaw Valley, will be the majority owner of the combined company." JMA, which also owns Homewood, will still be affiliated. This comes less than a year after KSL bought Squaw in November of 2010.
Richmond says the deal won't close until November, and that operationally nothing will change until then, but that everything should be in place before the resorts open and that Squaw and Alpine skiers will definitely have access to both resorts. "The pass is a done deal," she says.
All tickets and passes will work at both Squaw and Alpine. Anyone who has already bought passes to either resort will have access to both mountains. New pass products, including the $439 Tahoe Super Pass, will also be available.
When asked if the merger was a play to compete with Vail Resorts, which now owns two Tahoe area resorts, Andy Wirth, president and CEO of Squaw Valley told the local newspaper it wasn't and that it was "simply about the implementation of a vision, a vision of something greater, and pursuing a tremendous opportunity on behalf of our guests."
Skiers will still access the two areas separately although the resort will run shuttle services between them. The terrain between the two areas is held by a third party, and Richmond says they're not ready to discuss the logistics of interconnecting the resorts and what that would entail, just yet. "At this time we're trying to make sure things are streamlined," she says. "Those talks are just a little bit down the road."
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Unity has been both praised and hated by different people for various reasons. Mark Shuttleworth for example says that it's designed for widescreens as an example. I do fully agree with that statement, however due to the fact that I do not have a widescreen (1280x1024) Unity simply doesn't function smoothly for me.
That's what it's important for me to have a good alternative. Since I really loved Gnome 2, I'd like to ask if it's possible to keep using that in Ubuntu 11.10 or would you guys suggest another alternative and if so why?


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Friday Night Togetherness
This is what former Israeli basketball champion Tal Brody asked at a news conference launching a campaign to bring Israelis back to traditional family values.
He was referring to an incident involving a friend of his who drove Brody's son from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Not a single word passed between the two, an indication that a generation gap has resulted from an absence of family togetherness.
Working with seed money of five million shekalim from an anonymous group of American Jews, a "Family Friday" advertising campaign has been initiated to create awareness of the importance of Friday gatherings, which presumably will center around a Shabbat eve meal.
Among the different people in the group of both religious and secular Jews is former Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman and former Israel Airports Authority head Gabi Ophir. The latter told the press that although it was not possible for him to be at home on Friday nights during his 33-year stint as an army officer, once he became a civilian he made sure that he was home for candle-lighting and kiddush with his grandchildren.


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Reds Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2014
Ken Griffey, Jr., Dave Parker, Ron Oester and the late Jake Beckley to be inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame
CINCINNATI (Dec. 3, 2013) - Outfielders Ken Griffey, Jr. and Dave Parker, second baseman Ron Oester and 19th century first baseman Jake Beckley will be the next four players inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.
Griffey, Jr. was the top vote-getter selected by fans, alumni and media through the Modern Player Ballot, presented by Clark Schaefer Hackett.
Parker, Oester and Beckley were selected by the Veterans Committee, comprised of Reds Hall of Fame members and executives, baseball historians and members of the media.
The four will be honored during 2014 Reds Hall of Fame Induction Weekend, which will be announced at a later date.
- Ken Griffey, Jr. was one of the most iconic players ever to wear a Reds uniform and was a three-time National League All-Star during his eight-and-a-half seasons in Cincinnati.
- Dave Parker played four seasons for the Reds from 1984 to 1987 and was a two-time National League All-Star.
- Ron Oester played his entire 13-year Major League career with the Reds and appeared in more games at second base than all but two players in franchise history.
- Jake Beckley played seven seasons for the Reds from 1897 to 1903 and his .325 average ranks third on the Reds all-time list.
"The Class of 2014 showcases the great baseball heritage we have in Cincinnati with three of the four inductees being products of youth and high school baseball in the Queen City," said Rick Walls, executive director of the Reds Hall of Fame & Museum. "And the addition of 19th century star and National Baseball Hall of Famer Jake Beckley makes for arguably our strongest induction class ever."
The induction of Griffey, Jr., Parker, Oester and Beckley will bring the Hall's membership ranks to 79 players, three managers and three executives.
Ken Griffey, Jr. (Outfield, 2000-2008)
One of the most gifted athletes to ever wear a Reds uniform, Ken Griffey, Jr., joined the Reds on Feb.10, 2000 following a trade with the Seattle Mariners, returning to Cincinnati where he starred at Moeller High School. During his inaugural season with the Reds, Griffey slugged 40 home runs, knocked in 118 runs, and was selected to represent Cincinnati at the 2000 All-Star game in Atlanta. During his career with the Reds, Griffey, Jr. would be selected to represent the club in two more All-Star games in 2004 and 2007. In 2005, Griffey, Jr. received the National League Comeback Player of the Year award and was selected as the Reds team MVP. He ranks 7th on the Reds all-time home run list with 210, 6th on the club's all-time list with a career on-base plus slugging percentage of .876, is tied for 4th on the Reds all-time list in career slugging percentage (.514), and is the only player in Reds history to hit his 500th and 600th career home runs as a Red. With his induction into the Reds Hall of Fame in the summer of 2014, he will join his father, Ken Griffey, Sr., as the only father-son combination in the Hall.
Dave Parker (Outfield, 1984-1987)
One of the most intimidating hitters of his era, outfielder Dave "The Cobra" Parker became the first major free agent acquisition in Reds history when he was signed by the club in December of 1983. Over the next four seasons, Parker was a fixture in the middle of the Reds lineup and was crucial to the club's resurgence to postseason contention. The Reds team Most Valuable Player each season from 1984 to 1986, Parker was also a two-time National League All-Star, a two-time Sporting News All-Star and was the winner of two Silver Slugger Awards during his Reds career. In 1985, Parker authored one of the most impressive offensive seasons in club history, batting .312 with a league-best 125 RBI and ranked second in the league in home runs (34), hits (198) and slugging percentage (.551). For his Reds career, Parker averaged nearly 27 home runs and 108 RBI per season. Raised in Cincinnati, Parker graduated from Courter Tech High School in 1970 and remains a resident of the Queen City.
Ron Oester (Second Base, 1978-1990)
A Cincinnati native and 1974 graduate of Withrow High School, second baseman Ron Oester played his 17-year professional baseball career in the Cincinnati Reds organization, including 13 years at the Major League level. Selected by the Reds in the ninth round of the 1974 amateur draft, Oester made his Major League debut in 1978 and began making regular appearances in the Reds lineup in 1980 when he appeared in 100 games and finished fourth in voting for the National League Rookie of the Year Award. In 1981, Oester enjoyed the first of six consecutive seasons as the Reds starting second baseman, a streak that was interrupted by a major knee injury he suffered in July of 1987. He won Major League Baseball's Hutch Award in 1988 after his successful return to the Reds everyday lineup. In his final season in 1990, Oester was a key player off the bench during the Reds World Championship season and scored the winning run in the Reds pennant-clinching game over the Pirates in Game 6 of the 1990 NLCS. After his playing career, Oester spent six seasons with the Reds as a Major League coach. He remains a Cincinnati resident.
Jake Beckley (First Base, 1897-1903)
Born in Hannibal, MO in 1867, first baseman Jake "Eagle Eye" Beckley was the Reds starting first baseman from the time of his acquisition in May of 1897 through the 1903 season. One of the top batters of his era, Beckley batted over .300 in six of his seven seasons with the Reds and his .325 career average as a Red ranks third on the club's all-time list. A complete offensive player, Beckley in various seasons ranked among the league's leaders in batting average, slugging percentage, hits, doubles, triples, home runs and RBI. His 77 triples as a Red ranks third on the franchise's all-time list, and at the time of his retirement from baseball in 1907, his 244 overall career triples ranked first in the history of the game. One of the period's true characters, Beckley was an aficionado of the hidden ball trick, successfully executing the play multiple times throughout his career. He was also known for his unorthodox bunting style that found him flipping the bat in his hands while the pitch was in flight and using the handle to hit the ball. Beckley was only 50 years old when he died of heart failure in 1918. He was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.


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When most people think of holidays, they think of annual celebrations, but in Judaism there is one holiday that occurs every week - the Sabbath. Known in Hebrew as Shabbat and in Yiddish as Shabbos, this holiday is central to Jewish Life. As the great Jewish writer, Ahad Ha-Am has observed: "More than the Jewish people has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept the Jewish people." The Sabbath truly has been a unifying force for Jews the world over.


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Friday night at Tokyo Rose, despite the absence of the headlining act (the Carlsonics), the rare sound of strings in the basement encouraged more than a few folks to flit downstairs.
Somer Waters sat alone on the stage, stooped over the neck of his cello; his long fingers trembled on the neck as he bowed out the tones. With his makeshift ascot (a knotted bandana) and parlor-room enunciation, he seemed more like someone from an Edward Gorey novella than from Boston. The crowd buzzed over a rumor (yet to be proved or disproved) that he is in fact the nephew of John Waters, cinematic provocateur of bad taste.
The younger Waters didn't sport a pencil line moustache, but the effect of his music was just as Divine (heh heh). In addition to a palm-sized drum machine, two vocal mics, and, of course, the cello, he constantly tweaked a self-referencing loop setup.
For example, after quickly splattering out some bizarre beats, he captured a few refrains from his cello– sometimes fuzzed through a distortion pedal– and built vertically from there; the result was a musical Jenga, compounding sharply over 8-10 second samples until complete collapse into noise.
After a piece entitled "Efficiency with Empathy," which moved like an overly wound watch, the vocals were handed over to a surprised audience. During the remainder of his set, Waters looped speech from the crowd, using his cello to mirror or harmonize with the intonations. Sound bytes ranged from odes to Buster Keaton and 7-up; as the momentum picked up, so did the volume... to undecipherable yelling and shout-outs to more timid individuals in the back.
The Others, next on the bill, seemed standard after such a meltdown. Their most memorable feature is the lead singer, who crossed her eyes during lyrical moments that hinted at personal confusion, or maybe interpersonal conflict. Unfortunately, this occurred quite often.
Last up, the Civil War Re-enactors reprised the energy from earlier in the night. Vocalist/guitarist Jeff Melkerson and drummer Mike Johnson instantly inspired a dance floor of misfit motion, led by their friend and creative compadre, Mr. Corndog. Melkerson, a kindly librarian by day, issued interesting diatribes and sing-song affirmations into a headset mic (the type once modeled by Paula Abdul). An excellent drummer for several Tokyo Rose favorites, Mike Johnson played the new wave percussion to perfection.
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When Knesset Member Rabbi Avraham Ravitz (United Torah Jewry) was on his way home one evening last month after a long, hard day in Israels parliament, he was accosted by Rabbi Moshe Frank, chairman of the Jerusalem branch of Degel Hatorah, which is a major component of the religious party Ravitz represents. Both of these respected political figures served in the past as heads of the Israeli Department of Yeshivat Ohr Somayach and have a special place in their hearts for this institution. So when Rabbi Frank told Rabbi Ravitz that a big philanthropist was now visiting Ohr Somayach and Rabbi Ravitzs services were urgently required to help influence him into financing a major project he agreed to make the effort.
When they arrived at the Yeshivas dining hall Rabbi Ravitz was greeted by a singing crowd of former students and ex-colleagues, and only then realized that a surprise seventieth birthday party had been arranged for him and that he was the philanthropist being honored for having done so much for so many people returning to their Jewish roots. One look at the large crowd of alumni gathered in the campus where their return from assimilation began was enough to perceive that the best birthday present Rabbi Ravitz could ever receive was the knowledge that so many of his students of the past have become distinguished scholars and teachers of Torah and that the Israeli branch of Ohr Somayach continues to produce such wonderful products.


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Alan Ambrisco teaches English Literature 1, Chaucer, and courses in medieval English literature and culture. His research interests include Chaucer and medieval romance. He has published in The Chaucer Review, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and he is currently working with medieval crusade literature.
- Honorable Mention, New Words 2008 Poetry Contest (entry entitled "Jim Morrison's Cub Scout Uniform")
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- " 'The Coin of Our Realm': Blood and Images in Dracula 2000" (with Lance Svehla). Journal of Dracula Studies 8 (2006): 20-29.
- "'It lyth nat in my tongue'": Occupatio and Otherness in Chaucer's Squire's Tale." The Chaucer Review 38.3 (2004): 205-228.
- "Teaching the Squire's Tale as an Exercise in Literary History." Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 10.1 (2003): 5-18.
- "Cannibalism and Cultural Encounters in Richard Coeur De Lion." The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29.3 (1999): 499-528.
- "Succession and Sovereignty in Lydgate's Prologue to The Troy Book," with Paul Strohm. The Chaucer Review 30 (1995): 40-57.
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- "The Elusive Ball." Elysian Fields Quarterly 21 (2004): 96.
- "Teaching Beowulf: A Poem of Lament." Ohio Teachers Write 8 (2003): 58-59
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Restrictions on early voting, new photo ID requirements and efforts to purge voter lists of non-citizens have been met with opposition from the U.S. Justice Department, civil rights groups and judges who blocked the provisions.
"There has been a real push-back by the courts to these widespread efforts to restrict the vote," Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, told The Washington Post. "If those seeking to suppress the vote won round 1, round 2 seems to be going to the voters."
Welcome to "the voting war," University of California-Irvine election law professor Rick Hasen told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
"Since the 2000 election, people [have] realized that the rules of the game mattered a great deal and there's been a lot of jockeying to change those rules," Hasen said.
In the battleground state of Florida, a federal judge nixed a new state law that requires groups registering voters submit registration cards within 48 hours or face fines, saying the mandate was onerous.
The Justice Department has challenged an effort by Florida's Republican secretary of state to remove non-citizens from voter registration lists, arguing it is illegal to do so this close to an election.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, has defended the list purge, telling WNDB, Daytona Beach, state election officials are "making sure only those individuals who have the right to vote … are voting."
In a letter to the Justice Department, Secretary of State Ken Detzner said Florida hasn't violated any federal voting laws and didn't indicate state officials would cease their list purging -- setting up another possible showdown with the feds.
In Minnesota, state Supreme Court justices promised swift justice on a challenge to a constitutional amendment on voter ID voters will consider in November.
The court set oral arguments for mid-July, allowing it time to order changes to the ballot question before the election if necessary, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
Opponents have asked the court to strike the question, which would require voters to get a government-approved photo ID before voting, saying the measure's current wording doesn't give full weight to the broader changes the amendment would make, such as affecting same-day registration or mail-in absentee voting, let alone the cost of issuing free state IDs to eligible voters.
Caught in a squeeze is Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a Democrat, who has made no bones about his opposition to the amendment yet is being sued by amendment opponents because he is responsible for administering the election ballot. He's also taken heat from amendment supporters who say Ritchie is obligated to stay neutral.
Nationally, the League of Women Voters is opposed to changing voter laws, with national President Elisabeth MacNamara calling the spate of restrictions placed on voters an assault "that is one of the greatest self-inflicted threats to our democracy in our lifetimes."
"The right to vote is under attack in too many states across the country," MacNamara said on the league's Web site. "We believe every eligible citizen should be able to register to vote. Every voter should be able to cast a ballot.
The league favors the Voter Empowerment Act, saying the measure would take key steps to protect voters to ensure "all eligible citizens have their votes counted."
The act, sponsored by civil rights lion Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and at least 130 co-sponsors, was designed to modernize the electoral system by providing improved access to the ballot, among other things, a fact sheet on the bill said.
The legislation also will "address the unprecedented efforts to turn back the clock and erect barriers to voting for military, disabled, minority, young, elderly and low-income Americans," the information guide said.
The bill was introduced May 17 and referred to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Laws restricting a person's ability to vote "threaten to silence the voices least heard and rarely listened to in this country -- the poor, the elderly, racial and ethnic minorities, the young and persons with disabilities," MacNamara said. "It is important for members of Congress to stand up against assaults on our voting rights."
Last year, of the 34 states that introduced new voter ID measures, Kansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island and Wisconsin passed them, National Council of State Legislatures data indicate. Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas passed legislation that strengthened existing voter ID laws to require a photo ID. Governors in five states vetoed such legislation.
Since the 2011 legislative session, two state judges in Wisconsin ruled that state's voter ID law unconstitutional and a Missouri court tossed a ballot initiative that would have allowed voters to decide whether photo IDs should be required.
The Justice Department has challenged voter ID laws in South Carolina and Texas under a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires specific states or counties with a history of discrimination to receive federal approval before changing their voting laws.
Opponents say the Texas law is unfair because, among other things, it allows gun permits as identification but not student IDs.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott called Justice's stance wrong-headed and "obviously political," the Post said.
"In Texas we have been involved in cases where votes have been cast for dead people, alive people have voted twice and foreign nationals have been allowed to vote illegally," said Abbott, whose office has racked up convictions in 50 voter fraud cases in the past eight years. "It is the state's right to protect the integrity of the ballot box."
The Texas trial and a trial challenging Pennsylvania's voter ID law begin in July.


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Facebook Extends Its Reach With New Embedded Posts
Aug 1, 2013 3:28 PM PT
Hard on the heels of its recent venture into mobile gaming, Facebook on Wednesday debuted its latest social networking innovation: embedded posts, a feature that allows users to add public posts from Facebook to their blog or website.
Embedded posts can be most any type of content seen on Facebook, including pictures, videos, hashtags and news articles. Such posts can be liked and shared directly from the embed.
To access the feature, users click on a new icon being made available in the top right corner of public posts. After clicking on the icon, users then copy and paste the code to their own webpage.
Facebook is initially working with CNN, Huffington Post, Bleacher Report, People and Mashable to make embedded posts available, but the feature will soon be enabled for other users as well, it said.
Facebook did not respond to our request for further details.
'Facebook Just Increased Its Value'
On one hand, Facebook's new embedded feature doesn't exactly break new ground in the social media sphere -- YouTube and Twitter offer similar functionality already. However, given Facebook's wide reach and daily user base, embedded posts will surely facilitate the spread of content from the site in exponential fashion.
The feature will certainly be a win for journalists, Matt Rednor, chief innovation officer at MRY, told the E-Commerce Times.
"Embedded posts will have great appeal and value to news organizations, as it makes their job easier," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Journalists can just freely grab quotes from Facebook rather than actually having to create their own content. Content is currency, and Facebook just increased its value by becoming even more of a go-to destination for it."
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As the new functionality becomes available to a wider group, however, it will almost certainly be picked up on a broader scale.
"Much like how blogs and sites embed YouTube, Twitter, Vine or Instagram, embedded posts offer sites an easy and quick way to enhance the content on their site," Ben Foster, senior vice president and digital strategist for Ketchum and an adjunct professor at DePaul University, told the E-Commerce Times.
Users might also feel the site -- the blog or website -- is more engaging, as the embedded post offers the same like/comment/share features found on Facebook, he noted.
More Value
Indeed, "the more we can integrate the social Web with our own websites, and vice versa, the more value we can get out of them," Miriam Schwab, head of illuminea, told the E-Commerce Times.
There are a number of ways businesses and organizations could get value from embedded Facebook posts, Schwab noted, including featuring testimonials from customers on their sites.
Also, "many companies post valuable updates on their company Facebook page, but they are often short and personal, and don't quite work in the website format," she pointed out. "With embedded posts, these updates can be available to website visitors too."
A company could have a page that highlights its best posts, for example, Schwab said.
'A Win for Everyone'
Perhaps more importantly, embedded posts represent a future revenue source for Facebook as well.
In fact, users' ability to embed Facebook posts will allow Facebook to extend its reach and potentially attract new Facebook users, said William Ward, social media professor at Syracuse University.
"Although Facebook ads will not show up with embedded posts initially, in the future Facebook could have ads show up with embedded posts and then charge more for the additional exposure to generate new ad revenue beyond the platform," he told the E-Commerce Times.
Facebook could even mandate that an ad be included with the embed on other sites in the future, Rednor speculated.
"Facebook could make money on each embed while still making it 'free' to other sites," he explained. "So, as long as you don't mind having an ad appear in the middle of your story, then it's a win for everyone."


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I think I just want to see variety in pitches. If every pitch bounced and moved deluxe it would get boring too. Same when the majority are roads or if they all broke up and spun.
As SS said, it's test cricket, different conditions is what It should be about imo.
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#408. Sixty three not out forever.
What really happened to old Perth pitch? I remember it being called during it's and West Indies' glory days. But of late it's just another flat track with reasonable bounce. Was it deliberately made mellow or weather factors made it so?
I want Old Perth Wicket back, I want 3 people hit per Innings, I want blood, I don't want centuries, I want bloody test cricket.
The NZ series was friggin' awesome.
It is pretty different in T20s though where the nature of the game dictates that you need to attack the ball, no matter where it is pitched... I am in fact pretty amazed that the same tactic is not tried against other teams. If you got guys who can bowl short and quick, then have them do it in T20s, AFAIC... It is difficult to get the pull and hook right every time, esp. with 5 men on the onside and 2 deep behind square and the risk of playing these shots for a single means it is always a worthwhile tactic.
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In fairness to the Indians (and everyone else, really), OZ are the only team with two all-out speed merchants. Their play against the short stuff might not have been awesome but literally everyone has struggled against Nannes/Tait. As long as they're on top of their games, it'll be tough. OZ's worries will start if both of them have an off-day on the same day, though, and the problem is that they might both do so in, say, the final. Without a good first 6 from them, the rest of the Aussie attack looks a whole lot worse.
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well, at least my predictions are coming true for Australia and India.
Yeah some good posts here.
Will state though that the pitch is obviously relevant. There are times during the IPL when Nannes was unplayable. Other times he struggled when either he was having an off day, or the pitch was too damn flat or slow.
Barbados has been perfect, and Nannes and Tait have bowled well in conditions that suited. That = trouble, particularly when teams are batting 2nd and have the pressure to chase down a total.
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Thanks Burgey, Top Cat and Debris.
I remember reading somewhere it being referred to as an Away pitch for Australia, (or was it home pitch for Windies?) during the 80s and early 90s.
Yeh and that's even with a side stacked with Perth natives generally. Gah, does my head in thinking about some of the panic selections of the time.
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DeveloperWiki talk:UID / GID Database
Why should user and group be created at build time? This sounds really weird to me. Arch packages aren't supposed to be shared? You can very well build a package and not install it immediately.
In any cases, I think this task definitively needs to be made at install time. That is why it is always done in scriptlets. Now what you might want to do is somehow unifying this task inside the scriptlets. If that's the case, please add your proposal with the two functions there : FS#10375 and maybe edit the wiki accordingly. --shining 04:42, 19 May 2008 (EDT)
input group
Would you mind adding the following group to the list?:
- input:103
I am using this group to allow access to input events for gizmod in AUR.
Add svn user and group
Just a suggestion: create/reserve UID 44 and GID 44 for snv user (subversion server)
Can we have UID and GID 97 set aside for mailman? http://www.list.org
EDIT: 91 is used for video apparently, changed to 97
gdm group?
It seems gdm creates a group when installing as well. There's a bug against its current behaviour (bug 13690), I really think it should have a group with the same gid as its uid (120).
policykit is incomplete
The UID entry for policykit is missing. It creates both a user (102) and a group (102), only the latter is mentioned on the page.
Pulseaudio creates one user (pulse : 130) and three groups (pulse : 130, pulse-access : 131, pulse-rt : 132).


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It has taken almost 14 years for my team to see the hard work we've put into building a financial education business finally reach national scale. There was no financial education industry when we launched the first independent, unbiased financial education firm in 1999—there wasn't even a term "financial wellness" in the workplace. Today however, the industry has exploded. The term "financial wellness" seems to be in nearly every retirement and benefits manager's vocabulary. More inquiries about our services are pouring in than ever before.
While many who hear of us might think we're an overnight success, we're not (if you ever want a lesson in humility, take a time machine back to 1999 and call major corporations saying you sell financial education services). The reality is that we started this business years too early. What got us to where we are today had less to do with our vision and more to do with out passion.
This deep-seeded passion is something I also see in many of the successful advisors out there. These are the advisors who, as a result of their passion, achieve true success across every area of their business. They are able to hire and retain a highly capable and enthusiastic team of professionals who are deeply committed to their company's success; develop strong client relationships that lead to word-of-mouth referrals for more business;paid speaking engagements and other public opportunities that seem to fall into their lap; and build a reputation of true commitment to excellence with every individual client they service.
We've all seen instances where someone takes their passion too far, leading them to make abrupt, reactive decisions that ignore obvious signs of disaster. This is probably why the idea of being passionate can be dismissed as just an emotion when it comes to our work—it appears to conflict with reason in some people's minds. But when passion is triggererd there is an actual, measurable neurological effect in our brains. The caudate nucleus, which is part of the human being's primitive reptilian brain, and the areas associated with dopamine and norepinephrine production are set off when we express passion.
Many studies have found that when these chemicals (which are associated with pleasurable activities) are present when we work, it improves our ability to communicate, overcome challenges, identify opportunities, receive and effectively implement negative feedback, and persevere in the face of setbacks.
That's why it should never be overlooked or dismissed. Simply put, passion can be the key differentiator between having a thriving, "ahead of the curve" business and a mediocre one.
Kathleen Kelly, co-founder of Compass Financial Partners (a member of Retirement Partners Group which is a network associated with LPL Financial) is one entrepreneur who has achieved this type of success. She has an unfaltering commitment to her passion and as a result, is not only a recognized expert in retirement plan success (many of you may even know her personally or know of her), but she's also helped to position Compass Financial Partners as a PLANADVISER 2013 Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisers recipient, among other industry recognitions and accolades. Today Compass advises over $2.5 billion in assets for both its direct- to-client services and plans as of April 2013.
From the beginning, Kathleen and her partner George Hoyle have brought their personal philanthropic mindset to its mission. They have made it a point to keep the individual plan participant—even when dealing with large plan sponsors—at the core of why they are in business. At the end of the day, they believed that's what it was all about. Not surprisingly, many of their clients shared the same mindset.
Kathleen has been named one of 401kwire.com's 300 Most Influential Advisors in Defined Contribution and has established a name for herself in the industry, being a recognized key member of several national councils/boards including the Retirement Advisor Council, the Principal Financial Professional Advisor Council, the Transamerica Retirement Solutions RIA Advisory Board and others. Needless to say, her passion for helping people achieve true retirement success began years before she'd even known she would be managing a firm.
Kathleen Kelly's Principles for Success
There are some key principles Kathleen has shared with me that she feels have been drivers for the firm's success. Yes, they require some passion, but they are true drivers of success anyone can implement:
Principle 1: Hire people who are passionate, treat them like family and don't ever hire just to fill a position
One of Compass' key differentiators is that its entire staff, from its plan advisors to employees in office positions, is highly credentialed. Not only does hiring only highly credentialed employees help differentiate Compass from other firms, it helps them find the truly passion-driven go getters who will carry out the firm's mission with conviction—if you're highly credentialed in something, you're likely very passionate about it as well. Though it sometimes takes the firm a year or more to hire for a position, simply because management won't settle on anyone who isn't the perfect solution for the firm's needs and culture, it leaves them with a tight-knit group of employees, each of whom are experts in their fields. Moreover, hiring people who know the ins and outs of what they do is crucial for staying ahead in a competitive industry.
I can personally attest to why Kathleen's hiring strategy works. We put CFPs who want to become educators with our firm through a rigorous seven-step hiring process. We test their knowledge, personal values, qualities and ability to be flexible in our untraditional work environment. As a result, we end up with highly passionate employees who truly believe in what we do (who else would be willing to go through four different role-plays and three interviews to get a job?) plus very low employee turnover.
Principle 2: Share Your Passion With Your Co-Workers
Hiring passionate people is not the end of the story. Truly successful leaders foster passion by conveying their own passion to employees. Studies show this has a direct impact on employees' perception and behaviors when they feel their leader's passion aligns with their own. Melissa Cardon, a professor at Pace University in New York and her colleagues have found there are three entrepreneurial identities which are triggered by different passions in business: 1) the inventor identity, who is driven by activities that involve identifying, inventing and exploring new opportunities; 2) the founder identity, who is fueled by activities that involve establishing a venture for commercializing and exploiting new opportunities; 3) the developer identity, who is driven by activities that nurture, grow and expand a venture once it's been created.
Not every employee has entrepreneurial qualities, but identifying where each individual's passions lie and placing them in roles that allow them to work to them, will drive success.
Principle 3: Extend Your Influence Through Networks
If you approach your business this way and maximize your networking opportunities with both your existing relationships and those you're building with prospects and partners, you can do far more than you'd be able to accomplish on your own. With a circle of influencers, you're able to motivate large groups of people into buying your vision: starting a movement with critical mass that snowballs and ultimately cements your firm as an industry leader.
Kathleen Kelly has spent years doing exactly that. She's built relationships with industry experts in both her immediate field and those outside of it that add value and insight to her business. As a result, she's been able to identify trends early on in what her clients are seeking—hearing them from other vendors they work with and gaining insight and information she would otherwise never have. Not only has she used this knowledge and insight to develop services that better suit her clients' needs, but she's been able to make a name for herself as an expert in her niche and across multiple areas of concern for her target market.
In the end, there's only a certain amount of passion we can cultivate within ourselves; some simply have more of it than others when it comes to their line of work. Regardless, following best practices like the ones Kathleen and her firm follow can drive true success across all areas of our businesses.
Those who put real fervor into their work simply enjoy the journey more.
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- The article points out that at no time was the lacquer-coated steel cases observed to cause excessive jams. Conclusion is that the rumors about steel cases = more jams is not true.
Good stuff!
The latest thinking on this is the case coating is not an issue, the issue is firing brass ammo after shooting steel ammo. The steel apparently does not expand exactly the same as brass, and allows gas to "leak" back around the case and onto the chamber walls, leaving carbon deposits behind. Tests I have seen they fired a hundred brass then went to steel, no jams. Fired a hundred steel and went to brass, failures to extract. Same gun and ammo. YMMV.
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12 Awesome and Wacky Cocktail Garnish Ideas
There's nothing wrong with a brandied cherry, but it's fun to see bartenders and home drinks-makers doing something a little more creative on the garnish front. Here are a dozen cool and unusual ideas for decorating cocktails, from cucumber lizards hiding in the bottom of your drink to edible flowers floating on top. If you're looking for garnish inspiration, head over to the slideshow.