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Chris and video games
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|And Christian's father says it only takes a few hours for him to master an electronic game, and then...move onto another! I can't master any of them.
|A TV anchorwoman on a younger Chris winning the Sonic the Hedgehog Watch & Win Sweepstakes.
In case a cursory glance at this wiki didn't tell you, Chris likes video games. A lot. In fact, Chris almost definitely centers his life around and spends more time on video games than any other activity or pursuit, including his ongoing quest for a woman who will emerge from the Internet and give him her china. He has said he spends between two and four hours a day playing games, and that's just what he'll admit to.
Without diving too deep into the amateur psychiatry pool, it's not hard to see why video games hold so much appeal for Chris. His brain is wired to operate according to absolute values and rigidly-defined processes. That's one reason why he has so much trouble dealing with real life — the rules keep changing on him, when he can figure the rules out at all. In the artificial worlds of Chris's favorite games, the challenges he faces are the kind that his inflexible mind is able to conquer. There, the rules never change, and all he has to do is follow them. Reality isn't quite as simple, which is why he spends as little time out there as possible.
- 1 The early years
- 2 Chris's game collection
- 3 Types of games Chris plays
- 4 Chris the console peasant
- 5 Chris and online gaming
- 6 Chris and PC games
- 7 Chris the industry insider
- 8 Chris the game designer
- 9 Chris's perception on video game technology
- 10 Gallery
- 11 See also
- 12 References
- 13 External links
The early years
Chris has been an avid gamer since a very young age. He first played video games on a Commodore 64 home computer system. Before he was eight years old, he had a Game Boy and a Nintendo Entertainment System, and he acquired more consoles and games throughout the 1990s. According to The Sonichu Chronicles, he's been a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog since the character's 1991 debut for the Sega Genesis. His game collection really took off in 1993, when he won his famous shopping spree in the Sonic the Hedgehog Watch & Win Sweepstakes and added $1,000 (even though the total spent was $980.82) worth of Sega games and hardware to his hoard.
Chris's game collection
- Main article: List of Chris's games
Although the last completely reliable account of his collection dates back all the way to January 2009, Chris owns, as a conservative estimate, nearly 850 different game titles across 20 different platforms. He sold off roughly 100 games in various trips to GameStop and local pawn shops during the late summer and early fall of 2010, but that still leaves a hell of a lot to go. He also maintained an account with the mail-order rental service GameFly until August 2010.
Sony consoles dominate Chris's collection. Counting the games he's downloaded by way of the PlayStation Network, nearly half of his games belong to the PlayStation family. Nintendo comes next, including more than 100 games for Nintendo's different portable platforms, and Sega brings up the rear. While he owns every Sega console short of an 8-bit Master System, and Sonic the Hedgehog is one of his favorite individual franchises, games for Sega consoles make up less than 10-15% of Chris's collection.
Chris's violent hatred of the Xbox is well-known, but he likely also owns, or at one point owned, an original Xbox console. However, it is not known how much he has actually played Xbox games. His eBay account shows that he tried to sell off a handful of Xbox games in the summer of 2008. The record of his eBay sales also indicates that, in addition to owning at least one of every machine he owns games for, he's gone through at least three or four of Sony's original PlayStation consoles over the years. It's possible that he's had to replace a few of the infamously fragile machines, but this could also be an indication that he has bought the systems and games in bundles.
It's impossible to gauge exactly how much money has been shoveled into the furnace of Chris's game collection over the past few decades. Knowledgeable trolls, however, reckon that his physical collection of games and hardware represents around $20,000. His PSN downloads, meanwhile, can be accurately accounted for--there, the bill is close to $3,500 and surely climbing all the while. One of the more grievous examples of Chris's video-game-related overspending is his apparent ownership of at least two copies of the eighty-dollar Street Fighter IV Collector's Edition, as evidenced by the two identical exclusive Ryu figurines he later sold on eBay. While it's possible that Chris received the second figure from an outside source or packaging error, his attempt to bribe BlueSpike with a copy of the game and his habit of wasting money for no particular reason lend credence to the theory.
In January 2015, it was leaked that Chris had spent an absurd amount of money on Nintendo consoles and games, racking up 585 transactions in the last 4.5 years,[1] or 150 payments a year. This list includes useless shovelware, Virtual Console games, and both versions of a game he doesn't even like. Of these, 276 purchases are known to be handheld games, 8 are known to be video game consoles (buying 4 DS and DSi consoles), and 75 which are known to be console games. The grand total cost of all Chris's listed purchases is $7460.43 or $1657.87/year. Keep in mind 39% of purchases Chris has on his account (such as Skylanders figures, amiibos, and his Wii U Virtual Console purchases) are not yet specified, meaning that their cost is not included in this already insanely high number. Apparently, his main attention and fanboyism has shifted from PlayStation back to Nintendo, for unknown reasons.
This leak also revealed that Chris plays almost every game demo available on the eShop, Nintendo's online downloadable video game store, even if he has no interest in said game. This leak also confirmed he had bought every single Sonic game and primary Pokémon RPG, proving that he is still a major fanboy of both franchises, and also confirmed that he still makes many purchases multiple times over for no apparent reason, such as of Wario's Woods.
Types of games Chris plays
Going on what evidence is available – what he's talked about on his websites and YouTube, what his PSN profile shows the most effort put into, what he decides to construct elaborate fan-works around – Chris has fairly childish, "casual" tastes in video games. Though he puts an enthusiastic level of effort and time into gaming, he does it playing stuff like Sonic, Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Guitar Hero, and other games geared toward more mainstream and less "hardcore" audiences. His favorite racing game, Burnout Paradise, is a straightforward title set in an open world with action and arcade elements. LittleBigPlanet earned a hardcore following with its level editor, but otherwise it's just another side-scrolling platform game (and Chris hardly strains the level editor to the limits of its potential). Much of his PSN trophy case is filled out with achievements racked up playing simple downloadable demoscene and indie productions.
Chris has purchased a fair share of M-rated games, such as Family Guy: The Video Game, Grand Theft Auto, and Call of Duty[2], which shows that his interest of games isn't necessarily limited to just kid-friendly ones. These games, however, tend to be fairly shallow in terms of gameplay. Brütal Legend isn't remarkably deep as far as gameplay is concerned; while the game is an M-rated title with swearing, decapitations, heavy metal music and tricky real-time strategy elements, for most part the atmosphere is still jolly and humorous enough, and the majority of gameplay consists of exploring the world and having straightforward beat-'em-up fights. Some have questioned whether or not Chris's interest in Brütal Legend was because of an affinity for director Tim Schafer's other quirky, offbeat games such as Psychonauts and Grim Fandango. While Chris might be drawn to the perceived random-access humor of those games, it's more likely that they were too intelligent for him, and thus not appealing to his childish mind. Chris's interest in Brütal Legend was most likely due to Jack Black providing the main character's voice, and possibly his failed attempts to (appear to) be a connoisseur of music.
The games that Chris owns are not necessarily the games that Chris plays. His PSN downloads strongly suggest that he spends money on his gaming hobby more or less for the sake of spending it. Witness the $65 he spent on downloadable content for Disgaea 3, a game he had only played to 7% completion several months after originally buying all those downloads. It's reasonable to assume that Chris has similar spending habits in real life, a theory bolstered somewhat by his retro game collections and house full of junk. Chris's collections of games for the Sega CD, Sega Saturn, and a couple of other now-dead consoles are dominated by bargain-bin trash, extremely-common or extremely-shitty games that are easily picked up for very low remaindered prices. No knowledgeable gamer would ever pay money for Power Factory Featuring C+C Music Factory, except maybe as a gag gift, but Chris apparently thought it was worth owning. This habit seems to be picked up from Barbara, and continues to this day in the form of eShop shovelware and Virtual Console downloads.
His collection does a good job of telling us what sort of games Chris doesn't play, though. Outside of the Pokémon series, for instance, he has almost no evident interest in role-playing games. Most of the non-Pokémon RPGs in his collection, like Suikoden and Final Fantasy VII, are PlayStation retro releases he impulse-bought through the PSN. Chris buys those up like penny candy – he's even downloaded several digital duplicates of PlayStation games that he already owns physical copies of. Even during his short Hyperdimension Neptunia phase in late 2017, he only showed an interest in the anime adaptation of the games, and has never shown any indication he has either been interested in or played the games.
Despite being obsessed with Pokémon, he's not a hardcore Nintendo fan as some might suspect. He never seems to show interest in the latest content from Nintendo, and the hardcore Nintendo games he does own (such as games from the Metroid, The Legend of Zelda and Mario franchises) are most likely just collecting dust on his game collection racks. However, a January 2014 leak by a Nintendo Employee revealed that Chris had, in fact, returned to his Nintendo roots, buying nearly every single game on the eShop.
He owns almost no sports games. In the Mailbag, he once noted that "Sports titles do not really thrill me," although he didn't explain exactly why.
With a few exceptions, Chris has no apparent interest in video games aimed at his own age group, which is unsurprising. "Hardcore" games aimed at "adults" are games that simply would not interest Chris because of his juvenile mindset. Video games (and anything else, for that matter) with mature themes that aren't two-dimensionally crass and full of random-access humor would probably confuse and bore Chris and make him feel awkward and uncomfortable, adding to the fact he probably wouldn't be able to get very far in the game. This is supported by the fact that he did try out Bioshock, a first-person shooter with RPG elements, but only for a short time and never touched it again. Most likely the whole game itself flew right over Chris's head and he decided to play some Wheel of Fortune instead. However, ever since his sixth declaration that he has left the internet in late 2010, some more high-profile games aimed at adults have appeared on his PSN Trophy list (such as Grand Theft Auto IV and Fallout: New Vegas). Apparently the Hannah Montana PS3 game is no longer enough to fill his abundance of free time, and he's taken to playing games he wouldn't normally were he doing anything else with his life.
While he sometimes gets tagged with the "weeaboo" label, Chris doesn't appear to prefer games made in Japan over any other part of the world. In fact, his favorite games of 2008-2009, the period where he's told us the most about what he plays, are pretty evenly divided between Japan (Sonic, Pokémon), the United States (Guitar Hero, Brütal Legend) and Europe (Burnout, LittleBigPlanet). He counts a few Japanese Game Boy and Nintendo DS imports in his larger collection, but they're obviously titles he picked up to try and impress/bribe Megan Schroeder — almost all of them are spin-offs from popular anime, especially magical girl series like Sailor Moon and Pretty Cure.
When Chris and Megan still got along well together, they were serious players of the arcade version of Soul Calibur III. There's also an arcade in Chris's plans for the CWCville Shopping Center. However, given Chris's inclinations to retreat into the comfortable confines of his bedroom, chances are he's not much of an arcade-goer anymore.
Chris the console peasant
Chris thinks the perennial "Console Wars" between rival manufacturers of game machines are extremely serious business, and engages them in all of the bile and fervor of a 10-year-old child soldier in the PlayStation Army. On rare occasions he has almost seemed rational in this respect, saying he "just doesn't like" or "doesn't care much for" the Xbox, but most of the time he doesn't spare strong words when describing the vile, loathsome, and blatantly stupid HEXBox. By comparison, he has waxed poetic when describing the awesomeness of the PS3, most prominently in his PS3 History Level for LittleBigPlanet. According to Lucas, Chris would even express his fury over the Xbox in public while hanging out at The GAMe PLACe.
It's hard to tell where Chris's religious devotion to the PlayStation comes from, but a religion is what it is. Like his faith in GodJesus, his support for Sony is blind and unthinking. Though he can come up with a simple justification for his opinions in a pinch — typically he brings up the annual fee for online gaming on Xbox Live — Chris shows no sign of having put any serious thought or study into his choice of consoles. His descriptions of the PS3's advantages in places like his Columbus Day 2008 video tend to sound like boilerplate marketing copy (as filtered through the mind of a cave-dwelling autistic, anyway).
Interestingly, Chris was not always a blindly devoted fan of Sony. In the Animal Crossing Documentary, we see that back in 2003, Chris pledged his allegiance to Nintendo and the GameCube, stating that both forerunners to the PS3 stank as much as the original Xbox. His feelings changed when he bought a PS1 at a "rummage sale" for cheap, intending to resell it elsewhere for profit, but instead played it and found it wasn't bad.[3] One would expect this to be a lesson against nonsensical brand loyalty, but instead Chris just focused his hatred on Microsoft. Likely, prior to this Chris was a Sega fanatic at Nintendo's expense; if true, then it demonstrates how fickle Chris is regarding devotion.
When asked what his thoughts were on the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo's up and coming console for 2017, Chris responded in Chris fashion, and simply stated that he has no thoughts on it, due to being preoccupied.
In typical fashion, Chris is ignorant of things he has chosen not to like. The only 360 game he seems to shown interest in, "Don't Be Nervous Talking to Girls", seen in Sonichu #10 being modified for the PS3, was suggested to him by the fans. Though the game is just a crappy dating sim, and though there are other 360-exclusive games which would appeal to him, Chris claims that it's the only game worth playing on the 360.
Even slinging mud at the names of the consoles is very serious business to Chris. In Lars Call, Chris says he doesn't like it when people call PS3 the "PS Triple", because that's what trolls call it. Of course, this comes from a man who kept ranting about the "Hex Box".
Chris and online gaming
Perhaps unsurprisingly, given his antisocial nature, Chris isn't much for online multiplayer games in any genre, be they sports sims, shooters, racing games, or whatever else. Though he owns several games for the PS3 and other consoles that would allow him to play online and interact with other people, his PSN profile shows that he's put hardly any time into multiplayer games.
In 2010 and afterward, two exceptions to this rule emerged. He did a good deal of online racing in ModNation Racers during the summer of 2010, while early in 2011, Chris began to show an interest in an online role-playing game for the first time, DC Universe Online. His fondness for ModNation competition eventually passed, but it remains to be seen whether or not he'll develop a lasting interest in MMO gaming.
Dedicated observers of Chris's gaming habits may notice a bit of a paradox developing here. Chris claims to hate the Xbox 360 because Microsoft requires a $50 annual subscription fee for online multiplayer gaming. Why this would wind him up so badly, when he hardly plays any multiplayer games, is a total mystery, but that's Chris for you. Mailbag correspondents have tried to point out the seeming contradiction here, not to mention the weird contrast between Chris's thriftiness as far as Xbox Live is concerned and the massive amounts of money he's wasted on worthless digital trinkets through Nintendo and the PSN. For all the good it's done, though, they may as well have tried to change his opinion of Asperger syndrome.
Chris the trophy whore
While Chris has little evident interest in directly interacting with other humans in online games, he does seem to enjoy building up a massive trophy case to passively show off in his PlayStation Network profile. He's doggedly played through a number of games in order to earn every available achievement, and on occasion he appeals to his fanbase for help in earning trophies. For instance, he begged readers of his Twitter feed to download his ModNation Racers levels so he could pick up one more trophy.
Slacker that he is, Chris prefers to put forth as little effort as possible to earn his trophies. Presented with a trophy in LittleBigPlanet 2 that asked him to contribute a custom level to the game's online community, he fulfilled the requirement by uploading an empty level with no work put into it. (When this level was deleted by the community's administrators, he took the next-easiest route and uploaded his old levels made with the first LittleBigPlanet.) In an e-mail to Jackie, he expressed great pleasure when the ModNation experience system was patched to make certain trophies easier to acquire.
Chris and PC games
Games for personal computers are conspicuously absent from Chris's collection and his evident game-playing habits. The only sign that he's ever even owned any PC games comes from his eBay account, which shows that he tried to auction off a collection of vintage Dungeons & Dragons role-playing games for the PC in the summer of 2008. He might also own a copy of the first Lego Island game for PC (as seen by his possession of the Infomaniac minifigure - which was only obtainable from early copies of the said game). In the Fanmail Reading video, after a fan sent him a copy of Half-Life 2, Chris explained, "I don't play PC games. I used to, but I don't anymore." He didn't say why he gave them up, though. In his first Mumble chat, he claimed to "remember Touhou", but later backpedaled and said "I never really heard of that."
Chris the industry insider
Chris gets most of his information about the gaming industry from comparatively mainstream sources. He was and still is an avowed reader of Game Informer magazine. As for publications and/or other media sources that have since gone defunct, he was also an avid reader of Sony's online magazine Qore, and regularly followed the G4 cable network; he apparently even still took the Spike TV Video Game Awards seriously, which puts him about five years behind anybody with even a cursory interest in the games business.
Chris the game designer
- Main articles: Sonichu (game) and Christian Weston Chandler's Adult Chronicles
At various times, especially during the Miyamoto saga, but going as far back as the late 1990s (when he had a prophetic dream of a Sonic game for the Game Boy), Chris has imagined that he could launch himself into a career as a game designer. It's telling, however, that nearly all of his "ideas" for potential video game projects simply involve swapping Sonichu or other Chris-spawned characters into an existing game concept. Pokémon: Lightning Version is a Pokémon RPG with Sonichu in it. Sonichu Adventure is Sonic Adventure with Sonichu in it. John's Custom Gundam: Sisterly Rescue is Gundam: Journey to Jaburo with Megan's quasi-retarded brother in it, and so on.
The closest he's gotten to coming up with something like an original idea is Christian Weston Chandler's Adult Chronicles, and we don't actually know what that game is supposed to amount to beyond what Chris drew on the cover, and occasional haphazard mentions. It's entirely possible that Chris doesn't know the answer to that one either.
Chris nevertheless sincerely believes that his characters and game ideas are ready for commercial prime time. He once rejected an e-mail from the Mailbag that brought up the notion of a not-for-profit fan-made Sonichu game, and brushed off similar suggestions in his first IRC fan chat. In the video about dispelling rumors of an official Sonichu game, he scoffed at the idea of his game ideas being made with 2D graphics.
Modding and customization
One of the great ironies of Chris's existence is that he loves to create and share his creations, even though he possesses almost no genuine innate creativity. He tends to gravitate strongly towards video games that allow him to create his own content and share it online.
Since console games are often not modifiable, while PC game modding tends to demand more technical skill than he possesses, Chris has only been able to show off his creativity in this field so much. That said, the PS3 games LittleBigPlanet and ModNation Racers exerted a powerful grip on him with their customization capabilities. Chris made a ton of levels in LittleBigPlanet, dropping out of sight for the better part of a month when he first acquired the retail version of the game. Likewise, he has made levels, characters and custom cars for ModNation Racers, and it resulted in a similar disappearance during the summer of 2010. His output hasn't shown too much actual competence, but it's not for lack of time and effort spent.
Even in games that offer only light customization features, Chris makes a point of personalizing his experience as much as possible. He spent considerable time on a Guitar Hero band, up to drawing disturbing pictures of his virtual bandmates. The amount of time he spent on tweaking his Animal Crossing villages is simply colossal. According to the Regina e-mails, Chris made a similarly big deal about F-Zero GX and Jet Set Radio, even though both games limit their customization options to things like swapping around car parts or personalizing small decals.
Likewise, as the gallery below displays, Chris enjoys customizing his game hardware. He's splattered Sonichu artwork all over his Gamecube, a Nintendo DS, a couple of Game Boy Advances, a PSP, his now-deceased original PS3, and possibly other consoles or handhelds. One of his Pokéwalkers also appears to have received the Sonichu treatment, being repainted in blue and yellow.
Chris's perception on video game technology
Chris obviously has no idea about how video games or video game consoles work. For example, as seen in a panel of Sonichu #10, he seems to think that games are interchangeable and can work on any console ("DO NOT BUY OR DOWNLOAD ILLEGAL COPIES OF L.B.P. ON Wii OR XBox360; IT IS PUNISHABLE BY LAW!"), even though he could easily check and see that he can't play his copy of LittleBigPlanet in his Wii, although he is either too lazy, or is afraid of having his house raided by jerkops.
Neither is he aware of what the technology is currently capable of. As stated in the survey of Chris and reality, he once suggested that Nintendo should create a PokéBall peripheral which could display holographs, of which we can only see in science fiction currently.
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The Violation of Human Rights in Venezuela and Cuba
A report (PDF) released today by the Inter‐American Commission on Human Rights condemns in well documented form the growing violation of human rights under the regime of Hugo Chavez. The 302‐page study is yet another confirmation of the multitude of ways in which individuals, NGOs, union leaders, politicians, activists, businessmen, students, judges, the media and others who disagree with Venezuelan government policies are targeted by the government and its supporters through intimidation, arbitrary use of administrative and criminal law, and sometimes violence and homicide.
Among the many cases it documents, the report describes how the government last year shut down a publicity campaign in defense of private property run by our colleagues at the free‐market think tank CEDICE. The government claimed that it did so to safeguard public order and the mental health of the population.
Particularly interesting is that the commission issuing this report (produced in December but for some reason only made public today) is part of the Organization of American States, which has proven itself useless at best and counterproductive at worst, in the face of blatant rights violations by the Venezuelan and other populist Latin American governments in the last decade. Will the same OAS that invited Cuba to rejoin the organization last year now debate the new report or will it and its head, Mr. Insulza, remain silent as they have for so many years?
Meanwhile in Cuba, the country Chavez holds as a model, political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo died yesterday after going on a hunger strike, suffering beatings and having been denied water by prison authorities for 18 days. The mistreatment led to kidney failure. According to Cuba Archive, an NGO that documents deaths attributable to the Cuban regime, Zapata "was then held naked over a powerful air conditioner and developed pneumonia." What will the Permanent Council of the OAS have to say about that?


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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee comes to UH Hilo
UH Hilo Home > News and Events > UH Hilo Press Releases
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011
Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 974-7642
For Immediate Release
The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Center, in cooperation with the UH Hilo Performing Arts Department, presents The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on Friday and Saturday, April 8, 9, 15 and 16 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, April, 10 and 17 at 2 pm.
The musical comedy is directed by UH Hilo's Jackie Pualani Johnson and "features six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, and learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make one a loser," said PAC Manager Lee Dombroski.
"This hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicles the experiences of these adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championships of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award-winning creative team has crafted the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes—a quirky, yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time," she added.
The ensemble of actors include Performing Arts majors and UH Hilo students Kimo Apaka, Chloe Cornelius, Robbie Craddock, Kenny Davis, Cristina Hussey, BriAnna Johnson, Dailee Morrone, Baba Tavares and Scott Wuscher. Music and Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin, Conceived by Rebecca Feldman, and Music Direction by Pedro Ka`awaloa.
"This fantastic production also includes audience participation where four audience volunteers will be recruited before every performance to participate on-stage as guest spellers," Dombroski said. "Each new foursome will guarantee a new set of hilarious and unexpected experiences."
Tickets are reserved seating and priced at $15 General, $10 Discount and $7 UH Students/Children. Box Office hours are Tuesday – Friday 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
For more information and to purchase tickets, call 974-7310 or order online at:
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Peter Bock Borst (23 June 1826–25 April 1882), member of the Convention of 1861, was born in Schoharie County, New York, the son of Peter I. Borst, a one-term congressman, and Catherine Becker Borst. Little is known of Borst's youth or education. He had studied law and moved to Luray sometime before 27 September 1847, when he qualified to practice law and began a long and successful career at the bar and in business.
In April 1851 Borst married Isabella C. Almond. They had two daughters and two sons. In 1852 he was elected commonwealth's attorney for Page County, a position he held without interruption from 1852 until 1869. By 1860 Borst was one of Luray's most successful businessmen, with $40,000 worth of real estate and a personal estate estimated at more than $10,000. He owned at least four slaves in that year.
On 4 February 1861 Borst was elected to represent Page County in a state convention called to consider the secession question. Unlike many other residents of the lower Shenandoah Valley, he was not a strong Unionist, and early in the convention's proceedings he expressed alarm at shipments of men and arms to United States government military installations in Virginia. Borst voted for secession on 4 April 1861, when the question came up for the first time and failed to pass, and he supported secession again when it passed on 17 April. Borst attended the brief second and third sessions of the Convention of 1861 but took no other official part in the Civil War. He remained in Luray, where he operated a tanyard and sold harnesses to the Confederate army. Because of his wealth, not because he had fought for or held office under the Confederacy, he applied for a presidential pardon on 24 June 1865 and was granted it on 6 July.
The United States Army dismissed Borst from his position as commonwealth's attorney early in 1869, but after a new state constitution went into effect in 1870 he won election to another term. Borst retained an interest in politics and served on the Conservative Party's state committee in 1873. By then his real estate holdings, including a large property in Culpeper County, exceeded $220,000 in assessed value. Borst served as the first president of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company, which was incorporated in 1867 and which connected the Pennsylvania Railroad at Hagerstown, Maryland, to the emerging rail hub at Big Lick (later the city of Roanoke). The road was established by Pennsylvania promoters eager to tap the natural resources and markets of the Shenandoah Valley. Borst served as its president for four years, during which construction was begun but not completed. He also promoted and raised money for the Washington, Cincinnati, and Saint Louis Railroad, chartered in March 1871.
In 1852, the year after his marriage, Borst employed his knowledge of Greek Revival architecture, then much in vogue, to design a large new house in Luray. One of his daughters named it Aventine, for one of the Seven Hills of Rome. The mansion is composed of an interesting combination of designs that distinguish it from the Georgian and Federal structures more commonly found in Virginia. Aventine was the main building of the short-lived Luray College and still stands, although it was moved in 1937 from its original site.
Peter Bock Borst continued to practice law in Page County and had just concluded an argument before the bench when he collapsed and died in the courthouse at Luray on 25 April 1882. He was buried in Green Hill Cemetery in that town.
Contributed by Donald W. Gunter
This biography, with a bibliographical note, appears in John T. Kneebone et al., eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 1998– ), 2:100–101.
Copyright 2001 by the Library of Virginia. All rights reserved.


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FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A German appointee to the European Central Bank's policy-making board may fundamentally alter rescue efforts for the euro, a market analyst said.
The appointee, Jorg Asmussen, picked by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in January to represent Germany on the European Central Bank's executive board, has put his support behind the strategy of the central bank buying government bonds to lower borrowing costs for struggling eurozone members, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.
"Asmussen was hand-picked for the role by Merkel. It means that [ECB President Mario] Draghi has managed to crack what seemed like a solid German Wall," said Raoul Ruparel of the think tank Open Europe.
The policy of buying bonds has been opposed by Bundesbank, Germany's central bank. Germany has also stuck guardedly to its stance that fiscal discipline was required for any country receiving aid from the international European Stability Mechanism.
Asmussen said in an interview that the high borrowing cost for Spain and Italy "reflects fears about the reversibility of the euro, and thus a currency exchange risk."
This would shift the focus and some of the blame for the debt crisis away from irresponsible governments and allow the ECB to buy bonds, which would not add to sovereign debts, as would aid given directly to a government.
It also means the governments would have less urgency in making spending cuts. Spain, which has resisted calls for further austerity measures, has already cut spending by $127 billion.
Asmussen said the bond buying should be "unlimited."
The euro gained against the dollar Tuesday and yields on 10-year, benchmark bonds in Italy lost 0.1 percentage points, falling from 5.79 percent to 5.69 percent. In Spain, 10-year bond yields fell from 6.33 percent to 6.231 percent. In Portugal, they fell from 9.692 percent to 9.467 percent, The Guardian reported.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, meanwhile, is attempting to rally support for an two-year extension for some of the terms of Greece's international bailout. He is expected to meet with Eurogroup leader Jean-Claude Juncker Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday and French President Francois Hollande on Saturday, ekathimerini.com reported.
The Sun reported Tuesday that German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble had already snarled at extensions. "We cannot throw money into a bottomless pit," he said during the weekend.
Italian news agency ANSA reported that credit rating agency Fitch weighed in on Tuesday regarding Italy's debt crisis.
"Italy doesn't need more austerity measures. Those that have been launched are enough," Fitch said.
"Now reforms are necessary," said David Riley, Fitch's sovereign ratings chief.


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In 1941, the Almanac Singers made famous the 1930s protest song, "Which Side Are You On." -more-
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One universal human truth has been made manifest—once more—by the MacArthur shootings. While we can accept and even embrace flaws in our heroes, we are only comfortable when we can place those we wish to consider villains beyond all possibility of redemption and understanding. We wish no complications to dampen the fires of our rage. We want our bad men unsympathetic and monstrous, abandoned even by God and all the angels, like Grendel, the creature in Beowulf: -more-
I miss shrikes. The loggerhead shrike, the local representative of this anomalous family of killer songbirds, used to be easier to see in the East Bay. This winter it was noteworthy when a single bird showed up at the Berkeley Meadow. We can still reliably find them in rural areas like the Altamont Hills, but they've become less common along the coast. -more-
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This post really should have been added in to Part 4 of our New Zealand trip. I was going to omit it entirely but looked back at my photos and decided they were too interesting to just leave out.
Mirror Lakes are on the road from Te Anau to Milford Sound. They are only a few steps off the road and there is a well-made board walk along the water's edge. On a clear and still day the reflections in these little lakes are said to be very beautiful. However, the day we were there it was raining most of the time and grey. Only the parts sheltered from the breeze reflected back the close vegetation but the colors of the water and the vegetation were very beautiful.
There were numbers of ducks on the water. (If I am wrong with these ID's will some New Zealander correct me please!) This is commonly known as a Grey Duck and is a sub-species of the Pacific Black Duck which we have in Australia. It's Maori name is Parera. Unfortunately it is listed as threatened because of loss of habitat and competition from introduced Mallards. Mallards also interbreed with these ducks and the Mallards are dominant.
This is a diving duck - the New Zealand Scaup. It's Maori name is Papango and it is sometimes called a Black Teal. I had a hard time getting a good photo and pose - every time I thought I had one nicely arranged in my view finder it dived out of sight!


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Ultimate Racing - Those Were The Days
Inside a 1954 Ford Stock Car
There was a time when the term 'Stock Car' really meant 'Stock.' That was the way the sport started, and there are many that wish it was still the case. It was time when production cars right out of the showroom were modified to race on tracks around the country. In many cases, a significant portion of the production car was converted in the quest for speed.
In later decades racers trended toward custom-built tubular frame cars and as such the small businesses focusing on purpose-built race car chassis began springing up. But even today, there is nothing like the look of a converted street car/ race car.
Such an example is this '54 Ford-based machine which was built by Dan Wright in 1966. During those 13 years before Wright got his hands on the car, it undoubtedly was on the road carrying its owner to work and the grocery store just like all its brethren.
After its transformation from grocery getting to trophy getting, Wright acted as car owner, racing the Ford from 1966 to 1967. Wright sold the car and a succession of owners would campaign it around the southern and middle portions of the country. Reportedly, this all-pavement car raced at Capital Speedway in Kentucky and the SportsDrome in Indiana. But it was at Fairgrounds Speedway in Kentucky where the car competed against the likes of legendary NASCAR builder Harry Hyde.
Longtime vintage race car fan Mike Swain from western Ohio was attracted to this car and accomplished the restoration. But it doesn't just sit, it's regularly exercised with vintage race groups.
An inspection of this car reveals some of the period building techniques and modifications that were used in car building more than four decades ago. For example, while the car sports its stock frame and stock floor, the front coil springs were heated and compacted for a lower stance. In the rear, the parallel leaf springs were heated close to their ends and were shoved up where they rested on the frame. It made the suspension much stiffer. Let's take a closer look at this former NASCAR stocker.


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A Man's Thoughts While Smoking in His Truck
Back in the truck he lights up in perfect privacy the precious red Marlboro he's been concealing in glove compartment for weeks now. Ah, the bold flavor, the relaxation. . .beats that damn ecigarette any day.
He begins thinking about his life. Sometimes he wants girlfriend to shut the hell up when she brings up "bonding." He's had the insane urge on countless occasions to blurt out: "I don't want to bond! I want to eat sleep watch my science fiction shows and f- -k!" He lets out a big hearty laugh, imagining her appalled reaction if such words were ever to be uttered. Maybe she'd get mad, and give him the silent treatment. Now that would work. But nah. That ain't ever gonna happen. Mideveal wrath is more her style. "I'd better make sure the nail gun is locked away in the storage room if I ever plan on saying something like that," he utters to himself, causing him to laugh so hard he almost chokes on his cigarette.
Two little girls head toward the Volvo parked right next to his Ford 150. He hears: "Dada, Dada, look at that man talking to himself and laughing so hard! Does he have one of those Blue Tooth phones, or is he just crazy?"
He rolls down the window and spouts: "No, girls, no blue tooth, just me, having the time of my life, laughing my head off. Did you know laughing and smoking relieve stress? Oh wait! Jeez, whatever got into me to say such a thing. Don't ever smoke. Bad joke. Well, better be off. . ." The little girl's father comes raging up to the truck, a furious look on his face. Afraid he might get punched, Bud frantically rolls the windows up. but even then, he hears the man say: Girls! Get in the car NOW. What I'd tell you about talking to strangers? Especially CRAZY ones!"
Whaddya whaddya do? Wow. He's wondering what got into him. Whatever in the world possessed him to initiate such a conversation with two little tots that were barely five? Six? Who knows? He's worried that maybe girlfriends craziness is rubbing off on him.
When he gets home, girlfriend hugs him and tells him how glad she is to see him. He asks why, but she say's "no reason, I'm just happy you're home."
He plops onto his lazy boy, then proceeds to recount the hideous mall experience to girlfriend. She softly rubs his skull, cooing in his ear, talking her "baby talk" that while irritating at times, feels appropriately soothing to him now.
"It's okay, baby boy, everyting is gonna be okay, now. Now let me see that cute little half-grin, little boy.
He can't help himself, he lets out a happy laugh--the traumatic mall experience now just a distant memory. He sighs contentedly--feeling good, good to be once again, the king of his castle, with his girl at his side.
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Ashton Kutcher is ready to work hard on his new job on CBS' "Two and a Half Men."
The actor appeared at the CBS Upfronts in New York City on Wednesday with co-stars Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones, where Ashton compared his new job to winning the lottery.
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"In my 13 years of showbusiness, I have never received more calls and E-mails for getting this job," Ashton told the crowd, saying he had nabbed the best job in the business.
"I always thought you surround yourself with the best and work your [expletive] off," the former "Punk'd" star continued. "And I am surrounded by the best and I will work my [expletive] off!"
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Jon, who stars as Alan Harper on the show, told the crowed he was happy to have Ashton join the cast, but admitted he's worried about the former "That 70's Show" star's impressive height.
Jon, who is 5' 9" to Ashton's 6' 2.5", joked that they should consider renaming the hit CBS series "One and Two Half Men."
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, CBS and Warner Bros. announced the actor would be joining the series last week, with production beginning this summer.
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"I can't wait to get to work with this ridiculously talented 2.5 team and I believe we can fill the stage with laughter that will echo in viewers' homes," Ashton said in a statement released to Access Hollywood at the time by CBS. "I can't replace Charlie Sheen but I'm going to work my ass off to entertain the hell out of people!"
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Dinner Tonight: Pasta Carbonara with Leeks Recipe
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Somehow I just can't get over pasta carbonara. Though I've made it many different ways, I always look for new ways to exploit the combination of eggs and bacon. It's just such a perfect foundation for flavor and seems to make everything it comes into contact with taste better. This recipe from Bon Appetit is no different.
Leeks are the key ingredient here. They are sliced thinly and sautéed in the bacon fat until they turn gloriously sweet. Even though there are eggs and bacon in the dish, the recipe comes out tasting rather light.
I know it's only the first part of March, but all I could think about while eating this was how spring feels just right around the corner. This was the first recipe that made me think it might be near (even it's not, really). It's a hopeful recipe, and very delicious one, too.
- Yield:2
- 2 slices bacon, chopped finely
- 1 medium leek, white and pale green parts only, halved lengthwise, and then sliced crosswise into 1/3-inch pieces
- 5 ounces small shaped pasta like chiocciole or orecchiette
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup Parmesan, grated
- 1/2 tablespoon Italian parsley, chopped
- Salt and pepper
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Meanwhile, add the bacon to a large skillet set over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the fat has rendered and the bacon is browned and crispy. Remove the pieces with a slotted spoon.
Remove all but 1 tablespoon of the bacon fat. With the heat on medium, add the sliced leeks. Cook until they are very tender, about 6 minutes.
While the leeks are cooking, add a couple tablespoons of salt to the boiling water. Then dump in the pasta. Cook according to the directions on the box. Drain the pasta when done, reserving about 1/4 cup of the pasta water to use later.
Toss the pasta into the skillet. Cook over medium-high heat for a minute, tossing constantly. Turn off the heat.
In a large bowl, whisk together the egg and the Parmesan cheese. Slowly whisk in half of the pasta water. Add the contents from the skillet along with the bacon and chopped parsley. Toss well. If too dry, add the rest of the pasta water and toss. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
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At today's press conference in Paris, Huawei unveiled its highly anticipated Huawei Ascend P7 Android smartphone. Building on the success of Huawei Ascend P6, the new 4G LTE-enabled smartphone redefines smartphone excellence with top-notch features, ultra-fast connectivity and easier navigation in a beautifully-crafted design that places it in a class of its own. With a 5" Full HD display, industry-leading 8 megapixel front-facing and 13 megapixel rear-facing cameras, and the latest intuitive Emotion UI 2.3, the Huawei Ascend P7 will "Make it Possible" for people to express excellence with edge, anytime, anywhere. Huawei redesigned Ascend P7 from the inside out, significantly improving the performance of the smartphone's hardware and software to redefine user experience.
6.5 mm slim, Ascend P7 sets a new record as one of the slimmest 4G LTE smartphones in the market. To relentlessly pursue excellence with edge for discerning global users, Huawei incorporated a perfect harmony of design influences from the West with attention to details from the East.
The Huawei Ascend P7 provides an edge with enhanced strength and durability against everyday use with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 front and rear covers. It stands out from the crowd with a sleek, sophisticated metallic appearance created by a seven-layered rear surface treatment with a refined "spin effect" micro–pattern design.
For intense visual clarity when viewing multimedia, Ascend P7 has a 5" FHD touchscreen display with 1920 x 1080 resolution and 445ppi. The P7 gives users an edge in low-light settings with Sony's 4th generation BSI sensor, Image Signal Processer (ISP), IMAGESmart 2.0 software and f/2.0 aperture on its 13 megapixel 5P non-spherical lens rear-facing camera to create unparalleled clear, rich pictures at night or indoors.
To capture spontaneous moments before they are gone, HUAWEI Ascend P7's unique Ultra Snapshot function enables the user to be camera-ready 1.2 seconds after double-clicking the down volume button intuitively from a locked mode, instead of spending time trying to unlock the screen.
The P/ allows to take better selfies, or the ultimate group selfie - a "groufie" - with the leading 8 megapixel 5P non-spherical lens front-facing camera that comes with a panorama function for panoramic selfie shooting, and 10 level auto-facial enhancement in beauty mode. Users can also take a selfie video with the 1080p HD video playback. Huawei Ascend P7 ensures picture-perfect moments every time with innovative built-in mirror function and selfie preview window.
In addition to camera improvements, Huawei's proprietary Image Signal Processor (ISP) allows the smartphone to control a whole range of functions that mimic those found in professional digital SLRs, including autofocus, white balance, and noise reduction for beautifully-optimized photos under any conditions. Users can also select the focus and exposure metering function with just one touch so the preferred focus and exposure position can be set to maximize image precision.
For people seeking even faster and seamless connectivity, the Huawei Ascend P7 enables unlimited media viewing with ultra-fast 4G LTE speed and Huawei's unique dual antenna design to improve signal reception. Ascend P7 also uses smart network switching technology that stabilizes the connection even during weak signal reception to minimize battery drainage.
The super power-saving mode enables Ascend P7 to adopt the most suitable use of power when it is running on less than 10 percent of the total battery. When it is enabled, the screen will dim and only the basic functions of the phone will remain activated, including voice calls, contact page. It will also stretch the remaining 10 percent of battery power to last 24 hours on standby.
Huawei Ascend P7 gives smartphone newbies the edge of an expert with the latest version of the intuitive, easy-to-use interface, Emotion UI 2.3, providing customizable lock and home screens, with two enhanced UIs for effortless navigation. Easily personalize the smartphone management software, including a harassment filter, permission manager, network and notification management, and power saving modes.
To suit any style, Ascend P7 is will be available in a range of fashionable colors including black, white, and pink. The recommended retail price of Huawei Ascend P7 is 449 Euro and it will be available in China, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Serbia, Greece, Norway, Hungary, Denmark, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates from May, with other markets to follow.
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Pasefika Proud Fono, Otago Museum, Dunedin 2014
Hon Tariana Turia
Associate Minister of Social
Pasefika Proud Fono, Otago Museum, Dunedin 2014
Talofa lava, Kia ora, Fakalofa lahi atu, Aloha, Ni sa bula, Malo e lelei, Kia orana, Taloha ni, Halo olaketa.
I am so pleased to be here tonight to celebrate with you the diversity, the resilience and the splendour of tagata o te moana nui, the peoples of the Pacific.
Thank you Reverend Tokerau Joseph for opening this fono with your blessing for our day.
As we gathered together in silence, I thought of a Native American verse, which in less than twenty words challenges us to focus on what we know to be right:
Listen to the wind, it talks.
Listen to the silence, it speaks.
Listen to your heart, it knows.
Tonight then, is a celebration of many people and many things – but most of all it is a recognition of the importance you have placed on listening – listening to Pasifika voices; listening to the heart, the soul and the silence in their stories.
I want to
· Fa'amatuainu Tino Pereira, Chair of the Pacific Advisory Group; and other members of the PAG here tonight – Peseta Betty Sio and Everdina Fuli
· Friends, family, ministers of the faith, community leaders and the champions of change that all of you here represent.
It is so good to see all of you here; and to feel the warmth; the strength and passion of the people gathered in the spirit of Pasefika Pride.
I want to explore a bit further this concept of listening to the wind. There is a Samoan phrase – 'sa'ili matagi' – which literally means to go in search of the wind.
It comes from the calling to search out the wind currents that will take you directly to where food and material resources are found – to feed and care for your family.
Sa'ili matagi' also takes up a meaning of travelling far on a pathway to search out a better life.
The migrations of the 1950s and 1960s were in a sense, a demonstration of 'sa'ili matagi'. I believe New Zealand needs to understand the difficulty of leaving the safety of our homelands and having to survive and walk in two worlds. You came here for a better life for your children and have made huge sacrifice to do so.
But while for many migrations, the destination was the shores of Aotearoa, for peoples of Pasifika home is never far away.
For the values, the truth and principles that your people brought with you, remain central to the way you see the world. They are values that have been crafted and constructed over centuries; created generation by generation to establish a pathway into our future.
That is what I love about the promise of Nga vaka o kaiga tapu:
It reminds us that the winds of change you have followed lead to outcomes written already by the legacy you inherit from your ancestors.
Nga vaka o kaiga tapu – literally the sailing vessels of sacred families – is the story of multiple journeys of discovery. It contains the rich narrative of concepts and values that define strong families across the Pacific.
What the framework tells us is that Pasefika pride is intimately wrapped in a celebration of Pasefika knowledge; it is driven by a focus on wellbeing as defined and understood by Pasefika peoples.
At its essence, the framework encourages us to fall in love with ourselves – to value the collective leadership, knowledge and strategies of Pasefika peoples as they travel into their future.
It is very appropriate that this fono is being held here in the Otago Museum. The Museum's Pacific collections are renowned for their national and international significance.
The items contained there - cultural treasures and everyday items- speak with a vivid sense of life and power.
If time allows, I hope to cast my eyes on the beautiful red and yellow feathered cape of Queen Liliuokalani, Hawaii's First and Last Queen. Deposed by American interests in the 1890s, Queen Liliuokalani campaigned using non-violence and with the love of her people to regain her rights. She listened, she learnt and she acted in a way that she knew to be right.
She provides us with an example of Pasefika people's strength and wisdom, even when faced with violence and injustice.
Values such as this are the foundation of Pasefika Pride – the pride that is the focus for this fono.
In this treasure house of knowledge it is also appropriate to reflect a little on the momentum that has been generated over the last few years about how to best address family violence in Pacific communities.
In 2010 the Pacific Advisory Group sought the views of the people in four regions across the land; culminating in a Champions of Change fono held in Auckland that year.
As a result of those fono, we initiated a family violence training programme to build the capacity and capability of Pacific family violence practitioners and providers.
That then evolved into the development of the Pacific Family Violence Conceptual Frameworks released under the banner of Nga Vaka o Kaiga Tapu.
A literature review was produced as a guide for writers; and the Pasefika Proud Family Violence Research Plan 2013-2018 was developed.
And in two week's time I am attending a fono in Christchurch fono to launch the next Programme of Action - Addressing violence in Pasefika families and communities 2014-2017.
Together, these resources offer specifically Pacific solutions to address the crisis of violence that impacts on far too many families in Aotearoa.
I am so proud of the vaka that has sailed through the winds and storm, and landed in such a stable place.
Through the course of your journey I have met so many amazing people of the Pacific. I have heard at first hand your aspirations. I have seen the tears shed of fathers reflecting on the way they treated their wife and children.
I have watched passionate debates unfold as traditional values are tested against the challenges of today.
And in all these settings I have loved the way in which your songs, your traditions, your stories, your prayers have helped you to build the strongest waka in which to travel forward.
Finally, a footnote.
I spent last night marvelling at the incredible talents of people like David Dallas, Bella Kalolo, Sol3 Mio, Che Fu, King Kapisi, the Musical Island Boys and all the other nominees and stars that took their place at the 10th Pacific Music Awards.
It was the most wonderful evening which gave me a sense that all is right in our world, when people are free to express their beliefs and unique Pasifika pride through a rich variety of melodies, of genre, of styles. That too, is what I wish for this fono and ultimately for all our families – a future in which every day is a day to be Pasefika Proud.
I mihi to you all for your bravery and courage for seeking a better future for all your peoples. May all the blessings of your god be with you all.


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Hospital Homebound
Hospital Homebound services (HHB) are provided for children who meet the eligibility requirements outlined in Bulloch County Schools' procedures. Children with a medical issue, who are anticipated to be absent 10 consecutive days in elementary or middle school or three (3) consecutive days in a high school with block scheduling, may be eligible for HHB services. It is the goal of our HBB staff to work closely with the family, the physician and the student's assigned school in order to facilitate a smooth, successful transition for the student upon returning to the regular school program.
The HBB referral form is located below, or you may contact the school nurse at your child's campus to obtain a form. The form must be completed by an attending physician, signed by the parent/guardian, signed by the principal of the school where the child attends. The parent/guardian must then submit the completed form either directly to the director of Early Care and Student Services or via the school nurse. For questions, contact Leslie Schlierf, executive director of Student Support Services.
Once your child is approved for HBB services, our HBB teachers will provide academic instruction that enables your child to keep up with academic responsibilities while at home for medical needs. It is the goal of Hospital/Homebound staff to work closely with the family and your child's assigned school to facilitate a smooth and successful transition for the child upon returning to a regular school program.
Hospital Homebound Referral Form (PDF)
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% operator.
path/filepath package provides path manipulation functions—for example, the
filepath.Base() function returns the basename (that is, the filename) of the given
PATH. After outputting the message the program terminates using the
os.Exit() function and returns
1 to the operating system. On Unix-like systems a return value of
0 is used to indicate success, with nonzero values indicating a usage error or a failure.
The use of the
filepath.Base() function illustrates a nice feature of Go: When a package is imported, no matter whether it is top-level or logically inside another package (e.g.,
path/filepath), we always refer to it using only the last component of its name (that is,
filepath). It is also possible to give packages local names to avoid name collisions.
If at least one command-line argument was given, the first one is copied into the
stringOfDigits variable (of type
string). To convert the number that the user entered into big digits we must iterate over each row in the
bigDigits slice to produce each line of output, that is, the first (top) string for each digit, then the second, and so on. We assume that all the
bigDigits' slices have the same number of rows and so take the row count from the first one. Go's
for loop has various syntaxes for different purposes; in this example,
for ... range loops return the index positions of each item in the slices they are given.
The row and column loops part of the code could have been written like this:
for row := 0; row < len(bigDigits[0]); row++ { line := "" for column := 0; column < len(stringOfDigits); column++ { ...
This is a form familiar to C, C++, and Java programmers and is perfectly valid in Go. (Unlike C, C++, and Java, in Go the
++ and
-- operators may be used only as statements, not expressions. Furthermore, they may only be used as postfix operators, not prefix operators. This means that certain order of evaluation problems cannot occur in Go—so thankfully, expressions like
f(i++) and
a[i] = b[++i] cannot be written in Go.) However, the
for ... range syntax is shorter and more convenient.
At each row iteration, the code sets that row's
line to be an empty string. Then, we iterate over the columns (i.e., the characters) in the
stringOfDigits string we received from the user. Go
strings hold UTF-8 bytes, so potentially a character might be represented by two or more bytes. This isn't an issue here because we are only concerned with the digits
0, 1, ..., 9 each of which is represented by a single byte in UTF-8 and with the same byte value as in 7-bit ASCII.
When we index a particular position in a string we get the byte value at that position. (In Go the
byte type is a synonym for the
uint8 type.) So we retrieve the byte value of the command-line string at the given column and subtract the byte value of digit 0 from it to get the number it represents. In UTF-8 (and 7-bit ASCII) the character
'0' is code point (character) 48 decimal, the character
'1' is code point 49, and so on. So if, for example, we have the character
'3' (code point 51), we can get its integer value by doing the subtraction
'3' -'0' (i.e., 51 – 48) which results in an integer (of type byte) of value 3.
Go uses single quotes for character literals, and a character literal is an integer that's compatible with any of Go's integer types. Go's strong typing means we cannot add, say, an
int32 to an
int16 without explicit conversion, but Go's numeric constants and literals adapt to their context, so in this context
'0' is considered to be a
If the
digit (of type
byte) is in range, we can add the appropriate string to the line. (In the
if statement the constants
0 and
9 are considered to be
bytes because that's
digit's type, but if
digit were of a different type, say,
int, they would be treated as that type instead.) Although Go strings are immutable, the
+= append operator is supported to provide an easy-to-use syntax. (It works by replacing the original string under the hood.) There is also support for the
+ concatenate operator which returns a new string that is the concatenation of its left and right string operands.
To retrieve the appropriate string, we access the
bigDigits's slice that corresponds to the digit, and then within that to the row (string) we need.
If the
digit is out of range (due to the
stringOfDigits containing a nondigit, for example), we call the
log.Fatal() function with an error message. This function logs the date, time, and error message—to
os.Stderr if no other log destination is explicitly specified—and calls
os.Exit(1) to terminate the program. There is also a
log.Fatalf() function that does the same thing and which accepts
% placeholders. We didn't use
log.Fatal() in the first
if statement because we want to print the program's usage message without the date and time that the
log.Fatal() function normally outputs.
Once all the number's strings for the given row have been accumulated the complete line is printed. In this example, seven lines are printed, because each digit in the
bigDigits slice of strings is represented by seven strings.
One final point is that the order of declarations and definitions doesn't generally matter. So in the
bigdigits/bigdigits.go file we could declare the
bigDigits variable before or after the
main() function. In this case we have put
main() first since for this article's examples we usually prefer to order things top-down.
These two examples have covered a fair amount of ground, but both of them show material that is familiar from other mainstream languages even though the syntax is slightly different. Next week's article will examine additional features of Go, including some advanced aspects.
This article is adapted from the author's recent book, Programming in Go.
Mark Summerfield is an independent trainer, consultant, and writer specializing in Go, Python, C++, and Qt.
Related Reading
Go Tutorial: Object Orientation and Go's Special Data Types
RESTful Web Service in Go Powered by the Google App Engine
A Brief Tour of the Go Standard Library


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text: Maybe it's the thing about necessity making strange bedfellows. Or-in this case, perhaps-being the mother of reinvention. Whatever the motives behind it, the Aston Martin Cygnet, a two-door supermini, represents a collaboration between car companies at opposing ends of the excitement spectrum. The Cygnet is based on Toyota's upcoming iQ city car, but given the upscale treatment by AM. "Our customers need a small car for urban and city use," says Aston, "without compromising intelligence, artistry, and personality." And that's the thing: the Cygnet will only be available to existing customers when it goes into production in 2011. At least initially. And it isn't even certain whether it will go on sale in the United States. Ah well, we could always drive around in what will be the 1.3-liter Scion iQ. Doesn't that sound like fun?


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Four men and more than $215.9M in leases for 2009 — an amazing feat in the Valley of the Sun, during one of the most difficult times the commercial real estate industry has encountered. Executive Vice Presidents Jim Fijan, Tom Adelson and Jerry Roberts, along with Senior Vice President Kevin Calihan, conducted 97 transactions totaling more than 1.3 MSF.
Their largest single transaction that closed in 2009 was a long-term lease with a law firm for 54,000 SF at CityScape, a 27-story office tower located at One E. Washington St. in Phoenix. CBRE's sales team represented the landlord, and the value of the transaction exceeded $28 million in consideration.
Fijan, Adelson, Roberts and Calihan are recognized as industry leaders and encompass an unmatched level of professionalism, comprehensive market knowledge and strict adherence to high ethical standards. While they are often acknowledged as the top brokers in their field, these four individuals are involved in numerous community and charity organizations, including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Center, Sun Angel Foundation, Downtown Phoenix Community Development Corporation and the Southwest Autism Research Center.


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Dr. Lester Breslow, a public health leader whose research gave mathematical proof to the notion that people can live longer and healthier by changing habits like smoking, diet and sleep, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 97.
The University of California, Los Angeles, where Dr. Breslow was a former dean of the Fielding School of Public Health, announced the death.
Dr. Breslow's most lauded accomplishment was a study of 6,928 people in Alameda County, Calif., that examined their behavior over intervals of up to 20 years. It used quantitative analysis to prove that a 45-year-old with at least six of the seven healthy habits Dr. Breslow chose as important had a life expectancy 11 years longer than someone with three or fewer.
Over a 70-year career, Dr. Breslow helped expand the very definition of public health, from the historical concentration on communicable disease to a new concern with individual behavior and the effects of community and environment. As people lived longer and had more cancer and heart attacks, he was a leader in emphasizing the mounting importance of chronic disease.
"He changed the way we thought of public health," said Dr. Linda Rosenstock, the current dean of the Fielding School. His message, she said, was that "the root causes of our health problems are broader than our own biology."
In 1952, President Harry S. Truman appointed Dr. Breslow director of a commission to assess the nation's health care. The panel's report emphasized that people make their own health choices but "exercise them mainly under social influences."
In 1969, as president of the American Public Health Association, he said the public health profession must go beyond issuing scientific reports and suggest social actions to improve people's lives. "In the long run, housing may be more important than hospitals to health," he said.
He advised a half-dozen presidential administrations and was director of the California Public Health Department in the mid-1960s. Gov. Ronald Reagan fired him in 1967, citing "philosophical differences" over state cuts in medical care for the poor.
As an official of the California department in the 1940s and '50s, he did some of the early definitive studies on the harmful effects of smoking. Three of these studies were cited in the United States surgeon general's landmark report in 1964 linking cigarettes to lung diseases, particularly cancer.
But it was the Alameda County study that rocked the public health world, because it proved with numbers that behavior indisputably affected longevity. Its recommendations: do not smoke; drink in moderation; sleep seven to eight hours; exercise at least moderately; eat regular meals; maintain a moderate weight; eat breakfast.
A follow-up study showed that those who followed better habits were less likely to become disabled. Of those with four or more good health habits, 12.2 percent were likely to be disabled 10 years after the study began; those with two or three, 14.1 percent; and those with only one or no positive health habits at all, 18.7 percent.
Dr. Breslow found that a 60-year-old who followed the seven recommended behaviors would be as healthy as a 30-year-old who followed fewer than three.
Lester Breslow was born March 17, 1915, in Bismarck, N.D., where his parents had moved to escape the teeming poverty of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His father, a pharmacist, opened a drugstore in Bismarck. Lester devoured socialist books and newspapers as a teenager, he wrote in his autobiography, "A Life in Public Health: An Insider's Retrospective" (2004). He overcame a stutter to speak at his high school graduation.
He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1938 with the intention of being a psychiatrist, but he soured on the field while working at a psychiatric hospital in the summer because he doubted much could be done to help the patients.
He shifted to public health, he said, because he thought it suited his ideology as "a political activist for disadvantaged people." After a public health internship at a hospital in Staten Island, he applied to the United States Public Health Service Corps but was rejected — "I assume because of my political orientation," he wrote.
Dr. Breslow returned to the University of Minnesota and earned a master's in public health in 1941. He joined the Minnesota Department of Public Health as an epidemiologist, handling six rural counties.
In 1943 he joined the Army, even though his job and having a young child both exempted him from the World War II draft. He wrote that he felt guilty because he had not earlier joined the "antifascist struggle" by volunteering to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He served in the Pacific as a captain.
After his discharge, he approached the California health department about a job, making the case that it needed a chronic-disease specialist. The director told him to go back to Minnesota, but a subordinate quietly brought him on board.
After 21 years at the agency, Dr. Breslow was hired by U.C.L.A. as dean of the public health school, a post he held for eight years. He wrote more than 200 scientific publications, and was founding editor of The Annual Review of Public Health and The Encyclopedia of Public Health. In addition to serving as president of the public health association, he was president of the International Epidemiological Association and the Association of Schools of Public Health.
Dr. Breslow's first marriage ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, the former Devra J. R. Miller; three sons from his first marriage, Norman, Jack and Stephen; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
In 2010, Dr. Breslow, then 95, joined with Prof. James E. Enstrom of U.C.L.A. to publish a paper about a group of California Mormons whom they had studied over 25 years. The life expectancy of the Mormon males was 9.8 years greater than that of the general population of white American males; female Mormons lived 5.6 years longer than their general-population counterparts. The authors credited the Mormons' healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Breslow himself did not smoke or drink. He walked regularly, practiced moderation in all things and enjoyed tending his vegetable garden.


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April 4th, 2012
Christopher Mintz-Plasse signs on to CBS pilot
Looks like McLovin needs some new pals.
Actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse - who played the fake-ID-sporting geek in the 2007 laughfest "Superbad" - has signed on to do a CBS pilot called "Friend Me," according to Deadline.
If the comedy is picked up it would be Mintz-Plasse's first big TV role: his only other small-screen appearance was a cameo on Starz's "Party Down."
Mintz and Braun have been cast as 20-something best buds who ditch their hometown of Bloomington, Indiana, for the big lights of Los Angeles after being hired by Groupon.
(No word yet on whether TV fans will get a discount on their cable subscription when the series starts.)
Until then Mintz and Braun are keeping it in the same broadcast family: they're both currently shooting the comedy "Get A Job" for CBS Films.
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Competitive Agricultural Systems in a Global Economy
Weed Management Techniques for Vegetable Crops
Vegetable crops and newly introduced crops in Arizona have very limited means of reducing weed infestations from the time of planting until harvest. Spinach is grown on about 2,000 acres in Arizona and during the fall through spring seasons. Typical winter annual weeds such as London rocket, cheeseweed, shepherdspurse, goosefoot, and grasses generally infest spinach fields from the time the crop begins to emerge. The weeds compete with the crop for sunlight, water, and nutrients. Mechanical cultivation with tractors may remove weeds in the furrow between the rows of spinach but expensive hand-hoeing is still required to remove the weeds growing in the rows with the spinach. Without any available herbicide, growers have spent more than $1,500 per acre to have crews hand-hoe the weeds.
Garbanzo beans have been increasing in acreage in Central Arizona in the past few years as a rotational crop that is beneficially grown as an alternative to small grains and offers new marketing opportunities for Arizona growers. During the long winter through spring growing season, weeds become a problem especially as the beans mature. No available herbicides provide season-long weed control for garbanzo bean production.
What has been done?
The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Maricopa County commercial vegetable crops program has an on-going project to evaluate new techniques and herbicides for weed control in vegetable crops. Initiated in 1994, the project continually evaluates the efficacy and crop safety of newly introduced herbicides for potential use in lettuce, cole crops, melons, onions, and other crops that may be grown in rotation with vegetables in the desert. Results from the Cooperative Extension program's field experiments identified effective and safe herbicides for use in spinach and garbanzo beans that are grown in Arizona. Spinach growers through the efforts of Western Growers Association successfully secured an emergency exemption for the use of metolachlor (Dual and Dual Magnum herbicides) in 1998 and 1999. At the end of 1999, garbanzo bean growers successfully petitioned the manufacturer to request and obtain a special local need registration for oxyfluorfen (Goal herbicide).
Spinach growers now have a more economical tool to assure crop stand establishment with fewer weeds. The exemption for the use of Dual herbicide does not offer complete weed control but hand-hoeing costs were reduced from $1,500 to $500 for one grower. Goal herbicide compliments other herbicides that are used and provides expanded control of a wider range of weed species that typically infest garbanzo beans. Data from the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Maricopa County commercial vegetable crops program supported the growers in obtaining the use of the new tools for weed management.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
CCS Stumbles in the UK
Thursday, October 27, 2011
An End to Forest Offsets?
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Public Opinion Supports SRM Research
- 8% of respondents correctly defined "geoengineering."
- 45% of respondents correctly defined "climate engineering."
- 72% of respondents approved of SRM research.
These results shed some light on the familiar debate over using "geoengineering" versus "climate engineering" to describe large-scale climate interventions, by demonstrating that the latter term has more traction among the general public. However, the term "geoengineering" cannot simply be dismissed as a confusing, less appealing label, since it is now uniquitous in climate policy discussions. The debate will go on (and I will continue to use the terms interchangeably on this blog).
More significantly, responses indicate strong support for SRM research and development, while predictably less support for actual deployment. This is encouraging news, and flies in the face of claims of widespread public opposition made by ETC Group, EcoNexus, and others. Indeed, when such assertions are confronted with the sort of empirical evidence produced by this survey, opposition to SRM and climate engineering more broadly begins to look less like the voice of the people, and more like an atavistic, Luddite agenda pursued by a handful of media-savvy fringe groups.


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The first season of Kitchen Hero, Donal Skehan's excellent TV show, returns to our TV screens tonight at 8.30 on RTE 1 after it's mid season break. I really enjoyed the first 6 episodes so I'm counting the minutes already.
For those of you who aren't familiar with Donal Skehan, he has a great biography over on his food blog. He first came to my attention with his original and excellently titled food blog thegoodmoodfoodblog.com alas it is no longer with us but the ethos behind that original blog is still very much alive on donalskehan.com
His first cook book, "Good Mood Food", is a great read that reminds me of the early Jamie Oliver cookbooks with it's direct and easy to follow style. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to give his second book, Kitchen Hero, a review as yet but based on what I've seen in the TV show, I'm sure it will be every bit the match for the recipes and tips of the first.
As cooking shows go, Donal's personality and enthusiasm shines through, there is no doubting that he loves food, loves to cook and most important loves to share that knowledge with others. His recipes are very accessible and any I've made, I've enjoyed both the results and the preparation.
The thing that really makes this show for me though is the attention to detail, I can't remember the last time I saw a cookery show where we actually saw the cook washing their hands, not to mention washing them after handling raw meat. I know it's basic hygiene and I know most people do it automatically, but I really hate the way so many shows seem to take hygiene for granted! Good on you Donal for keeping it real!


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Despite her breakup from her partner of 11 years, Kelli Carpenter, Rosie O'Donnell is determined to keep her family together.
Now, in a brand new interview, Rosie, who beamed with pride with son Parker beside her, revealed to Access Hollywood's Maria Menounos, why her split is not tearing her family apart.
"Listen, we're a family," Rosie told Maria.
"It's different with gay women," Rosie continued. "I'd like to tell you it's as dramatic as a hetero-sexual break-up, not that it's not as painful or that it doesn't require as much emotional work, but you know, the gay women that I know have the women they used to be [with] still in their lives in some capacity. Kelli and I will always be a family and we love each other very much and we want the best for each other and it's all OK. I know that's hard for a lot of people to believe, but there it is."
"Well, I believe it," Maria said.
"That's the way gay women do it," Rosie said.
And when Rosie's new documentary "A Family Is A Family Is A Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration," premieres on HBO on January 31, viewers will get an intimate look inside her family that will always include her now ex, Kelli, in the documentary. In the film, Rosie beautifully showcases the diversities of today's modern family.
With her adorable 14-year-old son Parker by her side, Rosie moved Maria to her tears, describing how she once explained adoption to her then young boy.
"He used to say 'Did I grew in your tummy?' and I said 'No, you grew in my heart,'" Rosie recounted. "He said, 'Well, it feels like I grew in your tummy,' and I said, 'You're right, it does feel like you grew in my tummy.'
"I said, 'You know, you grew in someone else's tummy and God looked inside and he knew that you were going to be raised by a different mommy. God picked me, and your birth mommy listened.' And he said 'Yeah, 'cause me and you, we're a good match.'" Rosie said, turning to Parker during the interview with Maria. "Do you remember that?"
"No," Parker, now 14, replied.
"But we are a good match and he knows this and I've told him already [that] he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to me in my entire life and I'm forever grateful he is the boy who changed it all," she said.
And having Rosie as a mom has changed Parker's life too – especially now that he's a little older.
"I heard you said in [your HBO] press conference that it was cool to have a celebrity mom cause it helps you pick up chicks. Is that true?" Maria asked.
"I don't think I meant it that way, but that helps also. I meant like having two moms," he laughed.
"He said having two moms and two nannies really helps in the dating area because he's got a lot of women around and it doesn't throw him," Rosie clarified.
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