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Joining sMash in the Web 2.0 offering mix is a new product called IBM Mashup Center, designed for non-technical line of business users. It combines Lotus Mashups technology on the front end with the InfoSphere MashupHub on the back end. Larry Bowden, vice president of portals and Web interaction hubs at Lotus, said the product is designed to put mashup technology in the hands of knowledge workers, enabling them to pull information out of enterprise applications (like ERP and CRM) and combine that with market data and other 3rd party applications. "The differentiator is we know where all that information is at," Bowden said, noting that mashup development has become a hotbed for venture capital investment. A visual wizard tool will allow users to create RESTful services and widgets without having to know specific programming languages.It's always good to see excellent grammer from IBM - it makes one happy to know where one's educational funds are going to. Another interesting feature is that the Project Zero application builder is itself a Zero application. For once, it requires FireFox 2 instead of some whack-job version of IE. (That said, it also failed to run with JRockit; the Sun JVM worked fine.) It uses Ivy to pull down dependencies, which can be very useful for team development; the demo application is an employee management application that's loaded from the zero repository, which itself has some very cool implications. Project Zero is installed by downloading a small zip file, and then executing a shell script; it downloads the rest on demand. It looks like very cool stuff, and the deployment is very light (although "light" here is anecdotal; your mileage may vary!); it's an interesting switch on a RESTful development environment, able to mix and match scripting languages at will.
IBM releases Project Zero, AKA WebSphere sMash: where Hulk? (5 messages)
From SearchSOA: IBM has released the REST-based development and deployment environment called Project Zero, also known as "WebSphere sMash." Project Zero creates a runtime environment for REST services, exposing services via Dojo. As the name implies, it's designed to help create mashups and deploy them quickly. It has an emphasis on scripting languages, so you can use it with Java, PHP, Groovy, et al; implementation is done through "handlers," similar to servlets, where handlers implement methods corresponding to HTTP commands (PUT, GET, DELETE, POST, etc.) The download is for a community version, however; according to SearchSOA, the full version will be available on a license model. Interesting tidbits from the originating article:
- Posted by: Joseph Ottinger
- Posted on: April 08 2008 13:36 EDT
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- Exposing services via Dojo? by Rogerio Araujo on April 08 2008 16:08 EDT
- License by Arash Bijanzadeh on April 17 2008 10:39 EDT
- More points by Diego Visentin on April 08 2008 16:29 EDT
- Re: IBM releases Project Zero, AKA WebSphere sMash: where Hulk? by Robert Dean on April 09 2008 17:14 EDT
- Re: IBM releases Project Zero, AKA WebSphere sMash: where Hulk? by Joseph Ottinger on April 10 2008 08:05 EDT
Exposing services via Dojo?[ Go to top ]
This isn't slowdown the entire solution?
- Posted by: Rogerio Araujo
- Posted on: April 08 2008 16:08 EDT
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
License[ Go to top ]
Considering simplicity, Project Zero in really impressive. Does anybody have any comment on its license?
- Posted by: Arash Bijanzadeh
- Posted on: April 17 2008 10:39 EDT
- in response to Rogerio Araujo
More points[ Go to top ]
WebSphere sMash is about situational application, where your customer needs a quick solution that mashups backend services inside and/or outside the company. On the technical point of view: - application is the server (opposite of J2EE) - event-based programming (all state is handled by the GlobalContext that could be distribuited) - an optimized runtime with the goal of running hundreds of jvm Ciao, Diego
- Posted by: Diego Visentin
- Posted on: April 08 2008 16:29 EDT
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Re: IBM releases Project Zero, AKA WebSphere sMash: where Hulk?[ Go to top ]
I've been following Project Zero since the website went live. I've been impressed with the simplicity of developing and assembling services. --Robert p.s.--Would a comment about "grammer" be considered ironic?
- Posted by: Robert Dean
- Posted on: April 09 2008 17:14 EDT
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Re: IBM releases Project Zero, AKA WebSphere sMash: where Hulk?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Joseph Ottinger
- Posted on: April 10 2008 08:05 EDT
- in response to Robert Dean
p.s.--Would a comment about "grammer" be considered ironic?One can only hope so. (Look, folks, removing the fourth wall: I'm not perfect, and I know it; if I'm going to poke fun at someone for using poor grammar, I'm going to do so with the awareness that I certainly can make the same mistakes - and there's no way I'm arrogant enough to point out someone else's mistake without acknowledging my own flaws. I purposefully used "grammer" and poor grammar in the same sentence. Intentionally, this time. I'm sure you can find other such mistakes on TSS from me that were unintentional.)


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Host, Friendship Families Sought for International Students
When Augustana alumni Bryan and Becca Conner, class of 2005, heard about the opportunity to host an international student last summer, they jumped at the chance.
"As alumni, we were interested in getting involved with Augustana. We have always enjoyed learning about different cultures. When the opportunity to help out presented itself on Facebook, we considered the benefits of reaching out to an international student. Being able to provide a 'home' off campus was appealing to us," said Becca Conner.
The Conners served as a host family for Jhon Ramirez Arias, a junior Communications major from Costa Rica.
Later this summer, Sioux Falls-area families will again have the opportunity to learn about other cultures, languages and traditions as Augustana prepares to welcome international students from around the globe for the fall semester. The College is seeking area families to support its Host Family and/or Friendship Family Programs, welcome initiatives designed to provide a support network for these students.
Being a host family, Becca Conner said, was a rewarding experience.
Learn More
Host families are needed beginning Saturday, Aug. 11. Learn more about being a Host Family and/or a Friendship Family. Contact the International Programs Office (IPO) or call 605.274.5050.
"He wanted to experience life in the U.S. and learn about our culture. We cooked him 'American' food and he cooked us Costa Rican cuisine. We did some activities that were common for us including birthday parties, holiday celebrations, navigating the corn maze, the symphony, and movies. He was able to get a glimpse of how we spend our time. We learned we are very similar people despite our difference in cultures."
It was also a chance to provide support for a young person.
"Initially, before [he] made friends on campus and before he learned about campus activities, he was feeling a little homesick. We were able to show him around and give him some sense of what Sioux Falls was like. He started partcipating in campus activities and became aquainted with many students that way. We attended some campus activities together. He had our cell phone and e-mail address and knew we were there for him if he needed some company," Becca said.
Host Family Program
On Saturday, Aug. 11, eight new students from Pakistan, Belarus,Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan will be arriving in Sioux Falls, several weeks prior to the start of the school year. These students are participants of the highly selective U.S. State Department Global UGRAD Program, a full-time, non-degree program that combines study with community service, internship and cultural enrichment elements. Augustana would like to pair each UGRAD student with a host family willing to provide room and board; transportation to the college Monday-Friday (The IPO will provide orientation and cultural programming each day, Monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.); and family and cultural activities during the evening and weekends from Aug. 11-24. The UGRAD students will move into their on-campus residence halls Friday, Aug. 24. Host Families and students can choose to continue their relationship through the Friendship Family Program (description below).
Friendship Family Program
The Friendship Family Program is designed to give a new student a family contact in Sioux Falls. The family does not provide lodging. Instead, the family makes a commitment to befriend a new student and to provide opportunities to have a home-cooked meal once or twice a month or to participate in various cultural or community activities throughout the year. The IPO is seeking 50 area families to participate in the Friendship Family Program, providing support to students from various countries around the world during the 2012-13 academic year.
To learn more about these programs and to request application forms, email the International Programs Office or call 605.274.5050.

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It was a two-fer week for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
It was a two-fer week for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
It endorsed Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias for U.S. Senate. That brought heat on Giannoulias from both Democrats and Republicans because SEIU gave big bucks to Rod Blagojevich. The suggestion was that Giannoulias is somehow tainted because he's accepting the endorsement of a union that (gasp) gave money to Blagojevich.
The endorsement also allowed the Illinois Republican Party to rehash the right-wing's allegations that SEIU and ACORN are practically the same outfit. It then follows that support from SEIU means you pretty much endorse ACORN and its policies.
If that's the way someone wants to view things, that's ok. Let's take a look at the state Board of Elections Web site and see who's gotten financial support from SEIU. Hmmm, the Republican State Senate Campaign Committee got several thousand dollars in 2006 and 2008. Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno, R-Lemont, got $5,000 in 2008 and her predecessor, Frank Watson of Greenville, got contributions in 2006 and 2008.
The contributions weren't limited to people in leadership. Sen. Larry Bomke, R-Springfield, and Rep. Raymond Poe, R-Springfield, both have gotten donations from SEIU, as recently as this year for Poe. And everyone in the Springfield area knows what kind of radical, left-wing politicians Poe and Bomke are.
That doesn't begin to touch on all of the people who've gotten money from SEIU. SEIU made lots of contributions to lots of candidates, mostly to Democrats, but also Republicans. If SEIU support makes you damaged goods, so be it. But that's going to be a pretty long list of damaged goods.
For those of you scoring at home, there are at least 15 people who have indicated they plan to run for lieutenant governor and the number may grow. Hard to imagine 15 people thinking they want a job that was once deemed so boring and meaningless that the holder of it quit.
People have floated a lot of theories about this spate of interest in the job. Not the least supposedly is people seeing Quinn ascend from lieutenant governor to governor and thinking it could happen again. Hopefully, his particular path to the top job won't be duplicated anytime soon.
Still, it points out that as largely useless as the job of lieutenant governor can be, the person holding it can suddenly be given responsibility for running state government. All of which makes you wonder about the political newcomers lining up to run for lieutenant governor. How can you never have held elected office and think the place to start is lieutenant governor? How do you imagine someone like that would fare with the legislative leaders if he had to assume the governorship?
Oh, not to worry. The leaders would surely help out the newcomer.
Sen. Dan Rutherford, R-Chenoa, a candidate for state treasurer, has posed one of the critical questions of this still-young campaign season.
"Do I need a haircut?" he asks in a video on his Web site danrutherford.org.
Rutherford explains that a Chicago newspaper columnist referred to him as "an affable downstater with a steel-tinted crew cut." That's a pretty accurate description of both Rutherford and his hair.
However, calling his hairstyle a crew cut seems to have disturbed Rutherford. In his video, Rutherford said he skipped his usual Saturday haircut, letting it grow out a bit. Now he is asking his supporters if he needs a cut.
Two questions. One, why is a fiscal conservative like Rutherford getting a weekly haircut? Isn't some spending restraint in order?
Two, isn't getting or not getting a haircut something a politician should decide based on what he or she thinks is best? Is Rutherford one of those politicians whose positions are based on polling?
Still, his question probably is as meaningful as most of the campaign bilge out there so far.
Rutherford's site features something you don't normally see on campaign Web sites – recipes.
Under a category called "soups and casseroles" are a number of recipes for soups and casseroles. From a quick scan: The recipes don't look very complicated, many appear like they could be tasty and few if any of them would be selected for a book on cooking light.
Makes the site worth a visit even if you're not voting for Rutherford.
Doug Finke can be reached at (217) 788-1527 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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3:00 AM LIVE UPDATE, Saturday, 13 December 2008
COP 14 and COP/MOP 4 have drawn to a close shortly before 3:00 am on Saturday morning.
The conference has concluded with adoption of the COP and COP/MOP reports. In his closing speech, COP and COP/MOP President Nowicki stated that, despite disappointment over the lack of a positive outcome on the share of proceeds issue in the group considering the second review of the Protocol under Article 9, Poznań had still been productive and provided momentum towards Copenhagen. Noting the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable, he highlighted the resolution of the issue of the legal capacity of the Adaptation Fund Board as an important achievement, which he said will help move forward on adaptation action. He also highlighted agreement on the Poznań Strategic Programme on Technology Transfer, and progress in discussions on REDD and the LDC Fund.
Wishing delegates well for the next year's negotiations, he declared the meeting closed at 2:59 am.
Highlights from Friday, 12 December
A view of the dais at the closure of COP 14. (Photo by Jan Golinski/UNFCCC)
Web archives: 1 December - 2 December - 3 December - 4 December - 5 December
6 December - 9 December - 10 December -11 December
12:15 am Live Update
Progress has been reported as only the issue of "share of proceeds" apparently remains outstanding. The COP has completed most of its work as the COP/MOP begins its plenary session.
9:30 pm Live Update
A late night of negotiations are looking likely as negotiators remain locked in talks. According to sources, outstanding issues include share of proceeds, carbon capture and storage, and the Adaptation Fund.
7:00 pm Live Update
The COP and COP/MOP are still meeting at 7:00 pm Friday evening, with the high-level segment drawing to a close. Observer organizations are currently making presentations in plenary, while negotiators are seeking to finish their work on final outstanding issues behind closed doors. The issue of "share of proceeds" from certified project activities reportedly remains as the main outstanding issue
Ministerial breakfast
This ministerial breakfast was co-hosted by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the UNFCCC. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attended the breakfast as well.
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News Release
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Weekend DUI Checkpoints Planned in Los Angeles NA12244rhWhat:
Sobriety & Driver's License Checkpoint
Friday, November 16, 2012
8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Vermont Avenue at Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles
Friday, November 16, 2012
8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Vermont Avenue at Pico Boulevard
Saturday, November 17, 2012
8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Roscoe Boulevard at Sheldon Street
Sun Valley
Saturday, November 17, 2012
8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Roscoe Boulevard at Noble Avenue
North Hills
Saturday, November 17, 2012
6 p.m. to 12 a.m.
Figueroa Street at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Los Angeles
The checkpoint is one of several that will be conducted throughout Los Angeles as part of the LAPD's commitment to community safety. DUI Checkpoints along with regularly scheduled high visibility DUI enforcement serves as a proven deterrent with the goal of removing impaired drivers and heightened awareness of the dangers of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Checkpoints are placed in locations that have the greatest opportunity for achieving drunk and drugged driving deterrence and provide the greatest safety for officers and the public.
The crime of impaired driving is a serious one. In 2009 alone, 950 people died in California DUI crashes in which a driver or motorcycle rider was at or above the legal limit. The age group with the highest percentage of alcoholimpaireddriving fatalities in motor vehicle traffic crashes was the 21 to 24 age group. Over the past three years, the LAPD has investigated over 3,500 fatal and injury DUI collision.
The LAPD recommends these simple tips if you plan on drinking:
• Designate your sober driver before the outing begins
• Avoid drinking too much alcohol too fast. Pace yourself – eat enough food, take breaks, and alternate with nonalcoholic drinks.
• If you don't have a designated driver, ask a sober friend for a ride home; call a cab, a friend, or a family member to come and get you.
• Never let a friend get behind the wheel of their vehicle if you think they are about to drive while impaired.
• Always buckle up – it's still your best defense against impaired drivers.
The objective is to send a clear message to those who are considering driving a motor vehicle after consuming alcohol and/or drugs: if you drive buzzed, drunk, or impaired by drugs you will go to jail. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), checkpoints have provided the most effective documented results of any of the DUI enforcement strategies, while also yielding considerable cost savings of $6 for every $1 spent.
Those arrested for DUI will face jail time, loss of their driver licenses, or being sentenced to use ignition interlocks. Their insurance rates go up. Other financial hits include attorney fees, court costs, lost time at work, and the potential loss of job or job prospects. When family, friends and coworkers find out, violators can also face tremendous personal embarrassment and humiliation.
The checkpoint was funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Please help the LAPD every day of the week: Report Drunk Drivers – Call 911!
If you have any questions regarding this checkpoint, please contact Officer Don Inman at 213-486-0703.
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Conservation and Environment in South Africa: Monthly Updates
Legodimo Nature Reserve - July 2009
July means cold. It gets more and more difficult to get up in the mornings, but we soldiered on.
The colours of the bush start changing and available surface water gets less and less which means sightings at our waterholes get more interesting and eventful.
This causes pressure on the vegetation around the few waterholes to increase and tension between animals to intensify.
The digging of a next waterhole was one of our more challenging tasks this month. We are all positive that this will be one of the most popular observation spots on the reserve. The soil is hard though which means we've had to spread the digging out over time. A nearby Leadwood tree (Combretum imberbe) has been chosen for our next observation deck after we'd considered general wind direction and vantage point. We hope to finish it soon...blisters in hands considered.
Our Mapungubwe National Park visit involved the volunteers in repairing the greenhouse they use for conditioning saplings for re-introduction. These trees are to be the pioneers in areas where humans have removed them in the past and where pressure from Elephants has made them locally extinct.
Work on our new greenhouse back at camp is still continuing and we hope to have it finished before the raining season comes. It should provide us with enough space to start re-introducing species of plants that have disappeared.
We've still not observed any Leopard, but new techniques should hopefully bring this long wait, to an end. We have now started call-ups at night to try and lure these secretive animals. A cd with animals' calls of distress Dave got us, is played, which will then hopefully bring them into sight.
Next month should have us all moving mountains seeing as we will have a lot more hands to help. We all look forward to some good rewarding work that we have planned.
Kind regards and friendly African greetings,
Gerrit Prinsloo
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In Eastern Cuba, April 2nd 2012 began with various non-violent protests carried out by the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) in the municipality of El Caney, in Santiago de Cuba, according to the former political prisoner of conscience Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia who published the news through his Twitter account (@jdanielferrer). According to the activist, the members of UNPACU were demanding the liberation of Rogelio Tabio, who has been on hunger strike for more than a month now and who is currently in very weak physical condition. Activists also demanded the liberation of Andres Carrion, the Cuban who screamed 'down with communism' during the Pope's Mass in Santiago de Cuba. The dissidents also demanded freedom for Bismark Galan who was detained on April 1st for filming a documentary about a young girl who is sick and who has not received adequate medicine. In addition, the dissidents were demonstrating against the violence which Ladies in White are constantly victim of.
Ferrer continued to inform through Twitter throughout the day, explaining that in El Caney 10 human rights activists from UNPACU "took to the streets screaming slogans against the dictatorship and in favor of human rights". When the demonstration came to an end, the dissidents headed to the home of Guillermo Cobas, a well known activist in that area. The home was rapidly surrounded by political police agents who then started a mob repudiation attack. During this time, in another center of Santiago de Cuba, in the Vista Hermosa neighborhood, another 14 activists from UNPACU were carrying out a similar protest, according to Ferrer.
Meanwhile, another Tweet narrated that 22 members of UNPACU were detained with violence in the home of Raumel Vinajera in La Concepcion, Palma Soriano. These dissidents were planning to go to the street to carry out another similar protest. Ferrer Garcia told 'Hablalo sin Miedo' that, around 11 AM, the home of Vinajera was "raided", as was that of his mother. Ferrer explained that "the latter [Vinajera's mother's] was destroyed".
Just hours later, at around 5 PM, Jose Daniel Ferrer made an urgent phone call to 'Hablalo sin Miedo', denouncing that his home in Palmarito de Cauto was about to get raided by a number of political police agents. Ferrer said that the "agents want to tear down the door". Minutes later, former political prisoner Pedro Arguelles Moran confirmed that the police ended up breaking into Ferrer's home, arresting him and his wife, the Lady in White Belkis Cantillo, as well as other dissidents who were inside the house.
Angel Antonio Blanco, an activist from UNPACU, also told 'Hablalo sin Miedo' that police officers were "robbing" things inside the home of Ferrer Garcia, as they also did with the home of Raumel Vinajera.
As of this moment, the whereabouts of Ferrer Garcia and the rest of the detainees are unknown. Ferrer, as well as other activists, had assured that the repressive wave which occurred in Cuba during the papal visit was only a preparation for a larger scale violent crackdown which would be set in motion to squash any social rebellion. We are alerting the international community that right now, in Cuba, there are many peaceful dissidents behind bars, just because they defended human rights. Among the detainees are independent journalists, Ladies in White and former political prisoners, as well as a hunger striker- Rogelio Tabio- who is fighting for his life.


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The Boston Patriots were in a battle for first place in the AFL Eastern Division as they hosted the Houston Oilers on November 6, 1964. Head Coach Mike Holovak's team won its first four games and was 5-2-1 and competing with the Bills – the club they had defeated in a playoff for the division title in '63. Key players on offense were 34-year-old QB Babe Parilli and Gino Cappelletti, a slow but dependable end who also was a dependable placekicker. The defense was outstanding, particularly the line and MLB Nick Buoniconti.
The Oilers, coached by Sammy Baugh, were a disappointing 2-6, having won two of their first three contests before dropping five straight. The team that had dominated the division for the first three years of the AFL's existence slumped badly in 1963 and was clearly in trouble. There were promising younger players on the squad, but the nucleus on offense was still 37-year-old QB George Blanda, 29-year-old flanker Charley Hennigan, and fading fifth-year FB Charley Tolar.
The Friday night game at
was billed as "do-or-die" for both teams. Fenway Park Houston
got a break on the opening kickoff when HB J.D. Garrett fumbled at his 29. The
ensuing series ended with Tolar powering two yards for a touchdown.
The Patriots came back with a 75-yard drive. FB Larry Garron ran effectively and Babe Parilli finished the series off with a one-yard run around end for a TD. Early in the second quarter, Gino Cappelletti put the Patriots ahead by 10-7 with a 25-yard field goal. Cappelletti added another field goal from 33 yards with six seconds remaining in the half and it was 13-7 at the intermission.
Late in the period
regained the lead when a five-play, 75-yard drive that was highlighted by a
Parilli pass to split end Art Graham for 64 yards and ended with Cappelletti
kicking his third field goal from 22 yards out for a 16-14 score.
At 6:46 into the fourth quarter the Oilers went ahead once again when Blanda threw to split end Charley Frazier for a 38-yard TD. A few minutes later it was Parilli once more rolling out and running for a touchdown, this time from five yards out. However, the try for a two-point conversion failed as Parilli's pass intended for Graham fell incomplete.
With a minute to go in the game, the Patriots were up by a point and the Oilers had the ball at midfield. Blanda threw to Willie Frazier twice to get the ball down to the
four. Tolar wasn't able to penetrate the end zone from there and Blanda kicked
a 10-yard field goal. With 32 seconds remaining, it appeared that Boston's fate was sealed.
There was still time, however, and Parilli completed two passes to TE Tony Romeo and Cappelletti to advance the Patriots into
Houston territory. With
the clock running down, Parilli rolled out, couldn't find a receiver, and,
keeping the ball, took off down the sideline. Knowing he couldn't reach the end
zone, he stepped out of bounds at the Houston
34 with one second remaining to play. Cappelletti was successful on his field
goal attempt from 42 yards and the Patriots came away with a stunning 25-24 win.
Babe Parilli completed 14 of 29 passes for 256 yards with no touchdowns and one intercepted, but also ran the ball 8 times for 96 yards and two TDs. Art Graham (pictured at left) had a big day with 8 catches for 167 yards. Larry Garron rushed for 91 yards on 23 carries.
For the Oilers, George Blanda went to the air 44 times and had 20 completions for 328 yards and two TDs with one intercepted. Charley Frazier had 9 pass receptions for 143 yards and a touchdown and Willie Frazier, thanks to the long scoring play, gained 102 yards on his two catches. Charley Tolar was the team's top rusher as he gained 57 yards on 14 attempts and scored a TD.
"We've had many a tight ball game, but this was the best," said Mike Holovak in reviewing his team's performance. "(Art) Graham was a big factor in grabbing those passes and setting up scores, but a thing that hurt us was the way they were returning those kickoffs. That's one thing we'll be working on next week."
The win over
was the first of five straight for the Patriots, who stayed in contention for
the Eastern Division title until the final week of the season. As it was, they
put together a 10-3-1 record in placing second to the Bills. Houston continued to fade and, with wins in
the last two contests, ended up at 4-10 and at the bottom of the division.
Babe Parilli (pictured above) led the AFL in passing yards (3465) and TD passes (31) – and, more unfortunately, in interceptions (27, tied with George Blanda) – while ranking second in pass attempts (473) and completions (228). He was a consensus first-team All-AFL selection and was named to the league All-Star Game.
Gino Cappelletti led the league in scoring (155 points) and field goals (25, in an AFL-leading 39 attempts), each for the third time. He caught a career-high 49 passes for 865 yards and seven touchdowns and was named AFL Player of the Year by the Associated Press and United Press International. Cappelletti, too, was selected for the AFL All-Star Game.


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Six George Strait Cowboy Rides Away Tour Dates Sell Out Within Hours
George Strait's Cowboy Rides Away Tour was bound to be a hot ticket, since the country legend announced that he will be retiring from active touring after this trek.
It's the fans last chance to see Strait perform live with a full production, since he is closing the book on touring, but not retiring overall. It was a foregone conclusion that tickets would be gobbled up quickly. But they really went faster than expected, as six of the tour markets sold out within hours of going on sale.
Even more impressive was the Lubbock, Texas show, which took only 15 minutes for all 15,431 tickets to be sold. Other sell outs include Oklahoma City, St. Paul, Albuquerque, Las Vegas and Las Cruces.
Strait was moved by the show of support from his loyal legion of fans, saying, "I never expected the fans would react like this. It's just incredible."
He continued, "I really do have the best fans in the world, and I'm looking forward to seeing you all on the road very soon."
Go here for a complete list of dates for the Cowboy Rides Away Tour, which will feature special guest Martina McBride.


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For her video project In Ictu Oculi, artist Greta Alfaro set a table with a lovely dinner in the middle of nowhere and waited. What was she waiting for? Why, for a ravenous flock of several dozen carrion birds to drop by for a snack, of course. This meal goes from amusing to terrifying in under two minutes.
Here's Alfaro's artistic mission statement:
I work about the hidden and the unexpected. We live our lives governed by rules created in order to control chaos and vulnerability, but I am interested in the facts we try to hide or repress, in the differences between the private and the public, in the visibility of our everyday life hypocrisy.
And you know what's the most chaotic facet of this whole tableau? Those birds totally dined and dashed.
[Greta Alfaro via Metafilter]


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I'm new to Java, and reading Intro to Java Programming for Dummies, and I was just wanting to clarify something about creating and referring to objects. This is my first post, so please forgive any formatting blunders..
Here is the code (from pg. 333):
import java.util.Scanner; class ProcessPurchasesss { public static void main(String args[]) { Scanner myScanner = new Scanner(System.in); Purchase aPurchase; for (int count = 0; count < 3; count++) { aPurchase = new Purchase(); System.out.print("Amount: "); aPurchase.amount = myScanner.nextDouble(); System.out.print("Taxable? (true/false) "); aPurchase.taxable = myScanner.nextBoolean(); if (aPurchase.taxable) { aPurchase.total = aPurchase.amount * 1.05; } else { aPurchase.total = aPurchase.amount; } System.out.print("Total: "); System.out.println(aPurchase.total); System.out.println(); } } }
My question is -> if one creates multiple objects all assigned to the same variable (in this case 'aPurchase') how does one refer to each individual object variable? so if I referred to aPurchase.total, I'd only get the last assigned value right?
many thanks!


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|Southeast Spotlight
5th Annual Juneau Robot Jamboree is this weekend
Published: 12/08/2011 13:40:00
This coming Saturday will see a very interesting event at Centennial Hall; it's a Robot Jamboree in where teams of kids design, build and program a robot to perform problem solving tasks in real world scenarios. 19 teams from 6 different Southeast communities will compete in the all day event. We spoke with Rebecca Parks, the Event Coordinator, to learn more;
VIDEO: This coming Saturday will see a very interesting event at Centennial Hall; it's a Robot Jamboree in where teams of kids design, build and program a robot to perform problem solving tasks in real world scenarios. (Image: Mikko Wilson / KATH-TV)
"It's our 5th Annual Juneau Robot Jamboree so it's the Southeast qualifier for the First Lego League; it's one of eight qualifier tournaments in the State this year where kids can compete in this First Lego League event to make it to the State championships which is in Anchorage in January. So every year the First Lego League which is the sports like competition comes up with a different real world theme, and they work with professionals around the country and around the world to figure out one of the major problems facing research and development in which they will throw it out to kids, see what they can come up with. So this year they decided on food safety and kids all around the world are working on identifying a problem related to food safety in their community, figuring out some kind of solution for it, and then sharing it with people to see whether or not it was something that would work and what would go into making it happen. You can see our AmeriCorps volunteers working on our field setup, the Lego models, which are the missions that the robot has to do, the robot goes through sort of an obstacle course, they're all tied into food safety, so there's a sink where you want to deposit bacteria and viruses, there's a table where you need to deliver groceries safely, and the main thing there is that Lego's, the robot are the hook they're teaching really valuable problem solving and technology skills that kids are going to be able to use in whatever career they go into, whatever future they have. "
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South Milwaukee quintuplets turn 16
The Arnold quintuplets of South Milwaukee turned 16 years old Wednesday.
After undergoing fertility treatments, Connie Arnold gave birth to the quints in 1997. They captured headlines and hearts, being just the second set of quints in the state to survive -- and at the time -- the longest quint pregnancy in the nation at 34 weeks.
So what are they up to these days? WISN 12 News' Joyce Garbaciak has an exclusive special report.
At South Milwaukee High School, Principal Beth Kaminski saw something unusual on a class list.
"I noticed five of the same last names. I looked at the person I was talking to and I said, 'Are these all?' 'Yes, they're quints.' And I said, 'OK,'" Kaminiski said.
At South Milwaukee High School, you don't have to go too far to run into an Arnold quint.
"They're all different and unique. They each have different personalities. I think they add a lot to our building," Kaminiski said.
The quints that captured Milwaukee's heart 16 years ago are growing up.
Alyssa, Daniel, Natalie, Emily and Devin are high school sophomores who still like to hang out together and who can now appreciate their parents.
"I give them props for handling things the way they did," Emily said.
"People are always complaining about having kids and getting sleep-deprived with one kid, and then there's five of us," Devin said.
"I like baby-sit for people and even just watching one kid is like, hard. I couldn't imagine having five one age," Natalie said.
Mom Connie and dad Jeff had a system. Everything was color-coded and a fleet of volunteers helped the family through those first years.
"It's a wonderful group of people that we have. (I) couldn't ask for better," Connie said.
The generosity continued as contractors added on to the Arnold home for free, enlarging the house that held six kids because they already had 3-year-old Nathan when the quints were born.
But that togetherness can have its downside.
"People are always in your business," Alyssa said.
"It gets annoying at times," Daniel said.
"Why?" Garbaciak asked.
"Not enough bathrooms, especially with three girls," he said.
The years have brought challenges. Connie's medical condition of fibromyalgia means she can no longer work.
"So that was tough. (It's) still tough adjusting to not working," Connie said.
Jeff was just laid off from his job as a welder. They try not to worry, especially when it comes to the quints' desire to go to college.
"We're hoping they do real well and get some scholarships," Jeff said.
As they raise teenagers, they offer this advice: "Try to know who their friends are and who they're hanging around with," Jeff said, because they believe the people who surround you can define you.
"Look to see who your friends are and that will tell you who you are," Connie said.
They look back on 16 years with pride and joy and hope for more of the same.
While Wednesday is the quints' actual birthday, the family will host a party for family, friends and those all-important volunteers this weekend.


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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Featuring the complete original poem that has delighted children for nearly two centuries and illustrations by Michael Hague, one of the true master illustrators of the last 30 years.
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Google is feeling more than just lucky. Shares of the Mountain View, Calif.,-based tech behemoth peaked at $776.70 Friday afternoon to eclipse the stock's previous record of $774.38 reached in early October.
It closed Friday at $775.60, up $19.91, or 2.6 percent for the session. The search engine's surge came the same day the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 14,000 Friday for first time since October 2007.
The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index, which includes Google Inc., was up about 1 percent and also flirting with a record.
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The stock market's rising tide isn't lifting all companies. Google rival Apple Inc.'s stock is 36 percent below the peak price it reached in September.
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Newcastle have announced midfielder Cheick Tiote will be out for up to three matches with a hamstring injury.
Tiote suffered the injury during training this week and a scan has confirmed the extent of the damage.
He will now definitely miss the upcoming Barclays Premier League matches against Chelsea and Tottenham.
The loss of the influential and tough-tackling Tiote could hardly come at a worse time for the Magpies.
The club are struggling to cope without Yohan Cabaye, whose departure to Paris St Germain left them without their greatest attacking asset, and are coming to terms with a 3-0 home defeat by local rivals Sunderland.
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What is a Wiki?
- a technology for collaborative creation of internet and intranet pages
Wiki-Wiki is hawaiian and means fast
Fast - fast editing, communicating and easy to learn
Open - everybody may read and edit everything
Uncomplicated - everything works in a standard browser
Easy - no HTML knowledge necessary, simply formatted text
Simple - Content over Form (content counts, not the super-pretty appearance)
Secure - every change is archived, nothing gets lost
Interlinked - Links between pages are easy to make
- Personal Information Management, Knowledgebases, Brainstorming
- Collaboration, Coordination and Communication platform
- Creating documentation and slide shows ;)
- etc...
For details see HelpForBeginners.
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The First Steps
Help with problems or questions: HelpContents ()
- Structure of pages
Navigation: Quicklinks, Icons link to system actions (HelpOnNavigation)
- Content
Quick search and additional actions (HelpOnActions)
Details see HelpForBeginners.
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Using the Editor
To edit a page, just click on or on the link "EditText" at the end of the page. A form will appear enabling you to change text and save it again. A backup copy of the previous page's content is made each time.
You can check the appearance of the page without saving it by using the preview function - without creating an entry on RecentChanges; additionally there will be an intermediate save of the page content, if you have created a homepage ( is visible).
After editing pages, please leave the edit form by "Save Changes" since otherwise your edits will be lost!
For details see HelpOnEditing.
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Tips on the Editor
Within the editor, the usual hotkeys work:
Undo: CTRL+Z
Redo: CTRL+Y
Copy: CTRL+C
Paste: CTRL+V
Home: CTRL+Home
End: CTRL+End
If you discover an interesting format somewhere, just use the "raw" icon to find out how it was done.
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Text Markup and Links
To add special formatting to text, just enclose it within markup. There are special notations which are automatically recognized as internal or external links or as embedded pictures.
''italic'' and '''bold''' and __underlined__
italic and bold and underlined
^super^script and ,,sub,,script
superscript and subscript
PageReference WikiSandBox
?PageReference WikiSandBox
HelpContents (InterWiki-Link)
/!\ <!> (!) (./) {OK} {X} {i}
{1} {2} {3}
For details see HelpOnFormatting, HelpOnLinking and HelpOnIcons.
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Headlines and Paragraphs
Headlines are placed on a line of their own and surrounded by one to five equal signs denoting the level of the headline. The headline is in between the equal signs, separated by a space. Example:
== Second Level ==
A common error is to insert an additional blank after the ending equal signs!
Paragraphs are lines separated by empty lines or other block structures. This means those lines which directly follow each other belong to one paragraph.
Preformatted text (e.g. a copy of an email) should be placed inside three curly braces {{{ ... }}}:
First Line ... Last Line
For better visual separation, horizontal lines can be generated by using four dashes.
For details see HelpOnHeadlines and HelpOnRules.
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item list
- first level
- second Level
- second item
indented text without bullet
- first level again
enumerated list
- first item
- second item (automatically enumerated)
- Term
- Explanation
For details see HelpOnLists.
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Tables appear if you separate the content of the columns by ||. All fields of the same row must be also on the same line in the editor.
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- Macros allow dynamic (computed) content to be inserted into pages.
A macro is called by "[[MacroName(parameters)]]".
- The parameters are optional, depending on the macro.
- The most important macros:
TableOfContents - show a local table of contents
Anchor - defines a link target line
FootNote - generates a footnote1
PageList - generates lists of pages with titles matching a pattern
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Actions operate either on a single page or on the whole Wiki.
AttachFile: Attach files to a page (HelpOnActions/AttachFile)
DeletePage: Delete a page (after a security question)
LikePages: Lists pages with similar title
LocalSiteMap: List of all pages that are referred to, up to a maximum of 4 levels
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Wikiquette - how do I behave correctly?
Cooperative Editing
Basic principle: Anybody logged in can edit anything.
If you want to edit a page without being disturbed, just write a note to that effect at the top of the page and save that change first.
- If two people edit a page simultaneously, the first can save normally, but the second will get a warning and should follow the directions to merge their changes with the already saved data.
- Personal Homepages: normally only changed by their owner, but you may append messages at the end of the page
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Organisation and Structure
- Naming
don't create arbitrary wikinames (OracleDatabase, not OraCle)
- common prefixes (topical correlation)
common postfixes (same page type, e.g. ...Index)
- Index pages
Categories (see CategoryCategory)
- Templates
?/SubPages (allow shorter links, automatic correlation: HelpOnEditing/SubPages)
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If this should change, this message will be altered and there will also be further information on the Centre pages (see Meetings above).
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|We cover the ancient County of Surrey, both Rural Surrey and the Metropolitan Surrey area, i.e. those parts of the old county of Surrey which are now in Greater London. Our meetings are held in the western part of the County. See the Parish Map, which has a link to pictures of some of the Surrey Churches.
We transcribe records for Surrey and publish them for sale.
See the Publications page for what we have.
You can buy them by post or online through Genfair.
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|Our bookstall attends many events throughout the year. See the Events page to see where we will be.
On the Saturday of the first weekend in November
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The Society's Bookstall is always in attendance.
Unfortunately the 2020 Fair has had to be cancelled, but we hope to be back in 2021.
|We have meetings at four centres in West Surrey, where we have talks by experts and Members' knowledge sharing meetings. While most are in the evenings, we also have some afternoon meetings, especially during the winter months. See Meetings for the list of Centres and the talks we are giving.
|We also have a number of Education events, including visits to The National Archives at Kew and walks in London. See Educational Events for the visits and walks.
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Eli's Cheesecake served at Bulls community event on December 14th. Chicago Bulls players shared dinner with families from the local community, including slices of Eli's for dessert! The goal of the event was to "encourage families to feel uplifted during the strenuous holiday season," and Eli's was proud to help out!
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NLU lends a hand for USO care package drive
by Mark Donahue
Yesterday, NLU faculty, staff, leadership and students teamed up with USO of Illinois as part of the University's May Month of Service to assemble care packages for military members serving in Afghanistan.
Donations came from all seven NLU campuses and included everything from chewing gum, granola bars and toiletries to books, DVDs, clothing items and more. The original goal of 50 boxes was nearly tripled to 138 in just an hour of work.
Additionally, students from St. Giles School in Oak Park and Carl Von Linne Elementary School in Chicago provided hand-made thank you cards to include in the packages, with members of the NLU community adding their own.
"The most exciting thing for me is we have literally had massive participation from all seven of our locations," said McCeil Johnson, Executive Director of Legal Affairs.
Johnson spearheaded the drive with help from associate professor Janice Guerriero, who had contacts with the USO. What went from a volunteering opportunity just for leadership grew to encompass the whole University, with groups at each campus forming "platoons" to donate or volunteer. Members of NLU leadership also donated money to help buy items and pay for shipping.
All packages will be going to 65 members of an Air National Guard unit from Peoria, which deployed to Afghanistan in January. With nearly half a year on duty, said Jill Gayton, Project Manager for USO of Illinois, those service members will be starting to get homesick, and the care packages mean a lot.
"They appreciate getting something from home — that someone's thinking about them," she said.
Beyond the care package drive, Johnson said NLU is going to help the USO with career development — resume reviews, etc. — for service members in the future and hopes the two organizations can do even more.
Because of the higher-than-expected number of packages, the USO is still accepting money donations to cover shipping. You can donate online here. Indicate that this event is for National Louis University.
|Donations came from all seven NLU campuses
and covered a wide range of items.
|Children from two Chicagoland schools made cards
to be included in the packages.
|NLU's community pitched in to assemble packages.
|Things moved quickly on the assembly line.
|Packages are being sent to an Illinois Air National
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Nonfree DRM'd Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad? - http://bit.ly/MVWtvrguess what #RMS thinks....
Gifting - & the gift economy - http://bit.ly/QI3jUU "one of the most immediate blossomings of #abundance is available right here, right now"
#OLPC confirms tablet on the way - http://bit.ly/QI3S11 that's good, but is it all too late?
Tell Lottemart and Teh Botol Sosro to STOP supporting travelling #dolphincircuses! - http://chn.ge/Oe31VM awful: let's stop it #epetition
"Fair Dealing" or "Fear Dealing" in Canada? - "The Only Thing We have to Fear is Fear Itself" - http://bit.ly/Q3yHjP Access Copyright's fail
Trust buys extras-laden system for 20% of BT's price - http://bit.ly/PafGYChow we have been ripped off.... #uk
Chinese enterprises move abroad to cut costs - http://bit.ly/N6qyHl here's a pretty important straw in the wind #china
FSFE wants to better protect Free Software licenses from bankruptcy -http://bit.ly/QYmQoO another issue to think about
Ebb and flood - http://bit.ly/Pf0h97 clever use of photos at low & high tide to show contrasts of British coasts
Oddbins website sees 22% increase following its anti-Olympics campaign -http://bit.ly/MW6JUy wouldn't it be great if everyone did this?
NSA asks hackers to help secure the internet - http://bit.ly/N6v4p8 maybe it should first tell US gov to stop breaking it with #sopa et al.
Proud - http://bit.ly/OsC0BA wonderful piece about what it was like to prepare & be part of #london2012 opening ceremony (v @RobertAndrews)
Hatwalk - http://bit.ly/T0D4fw "custom-made hats for 20 statues"; brilliant idea - more, please (v @londonist)#london
Wi-Fi don't you try again? - http://bit.ly/MVsdTh nice submission from @Coadec to #ofcom consultation
Britain: this is for everyone - http://bit.ly/NDjmHF fine analysis of #london2012opening, which is growing in significance (v @Glinner)
US & EU blocking treaty to give blind people access to books -http://bit.ly/N6yDLX "rights of copyright owners" come 1st (v @ThiruGeneva)
Natural Gas #Fracking Industry May Be Paying Off Scientists -http://bit.ly/MO9Xgl not influenced by that, surely...?
Ubisoft 'Uplay' DRM Exposed as Rootkit, Poses Security Risk -http://bit.ly/N6z35c if confirmed, outrageous - & why should never trust #DRM
witty tweet about Indian blackout - http://bit.ly/OeAuzi (v @guardian)#energy#spiderman
#Microsoft's radical new business plan is hidden in plain sight -http://zd.net/Mfkb9K MS copying #opensource cos. for its business plan...
Coe dismissed pictures of the #emptyseats as 'holiday snaps' -http://bit.ly/Qr9YbR adds insult to injury #london2012
gallery of pix of Olympic #emptyseats - http://bit.ly/QraNRG more "holiday snaps" for lord coe... (v @jane__bradley @asteris)
Most Important Trade Agreement We Know Nothing About -http://slate.me/Q4we8e "lawmakers should embrace the informed question & the nerd" #TPP
MT @Asher_Wolf This French company is trying to trademark Anonymous' image and logo. Grabs popcorn - http://t.co/itVUwJqF wow, how foolish
#PornTrial: This Time it's Extreme - http://bit.ly/Q52J68 what would Robert Mapplethorpe say...? (v @bengoldacre)
Consumer Focus and the Digital Economy Act - http://bit.ly/MfxB5z great report on online traceability, and why #DEAct will be a disaster
UK Open Source Hardware Camp 2012 - http://bit.ly/T0RvAq 15th September 2012, West Yorkshire
#Opensource won - http://oreil.ly/MVGVtx well, course: what did you expect?
David #Maslanka: Reverse Chronological Collection - http://bit.ly/N6W7AMintriguing stuff #spotify
From IPA 2012 Congress to Finch Report – publishers and #openaccess -http://bit.ly/NDSE1i lots of interesting thoughts (v @CameronNeylon)
An appeal for fairness in society - http://bit.ly/Q5F3yP it's only fair, after all#sharing
Kansas' evolution debate just keeps evolving - http://lat.ms/Q5uyMr my, these creationists do love looking like buffoons (v @phylogenomics)
Archeologists unearth colossal human sculpture - http://bit.ly/QM8jb7 those wacky Hittites at it again... #archaeology #tr
It's High Time There Was A Tech IPO Market In #London – Let's Do This -http://tcrn.ch/MWRbzN the logical next step
Mozilla looks for startup 'cross-pollination' with new Berlin office -http://bit.ly/MVLyUg confirms berlin's ascent #eu
Berkeley Earth project is back to re-re-confirm Earth is warming -http://bit.ly/MulqgD nice graph - oh, wait... #climatechange
Dear Permission Culture: This Is Why No One Wants To Ask For Your OK -http://bit.ly/Q6Irtb read & weep
UK Politicians Don't Seem To Mind That Every Web Page You Load Is#Copyright Infringement Under Current Law - http://bit.ly/R062Od oh, OK
#India's Fourth Largest State Gives #Transparency Priority with New Website Launch - http://bit.ly/Og3Kpq impressive (v @Mlsif)
WIPO Concludes the 24th Meeting of the Standing Committee on #Copyrightand Related Rights - http://bit.ly/MXgnX3 disgraceful footdragging
Journalist Twitter account suspended after complaining about #NBCFail -http://ind.pn/OxQQ6C (v @jamesrbuk @jeffjarvis)
Electromagnetic Field - 3-day camping festival - http://bit.ly/MVXe9I "hackers, geeks, scientists, engineers, artists, & craftspeople" #uk
Filmmaker shoots kung-fu vid on Samsung Galaxy S3 - http://cnet.co/N7lz9eso, about that $100 million budget you were talking about...
Modern culture began in South Africa 44,000 years ago - http://bit.ly/R0uFKCseems like only yesterday...
Nuevo paso en la tramitación opaca de la Ley de Transparencia -http://bit.ly/R0uYFf emergency: irony fail.... #es
Netflix experiments with crowd-sourced captioning - http://bit.ly/OuXrCa great, but don't people usually get sued for doing this?
Rumsfeld's Intel Chief: Iraq War 'Greatest Decision of Century' -http://bit.ly/NEDMjf 'cos things have worked out so well as chaos spreads
The Genie Has Escaped the #Drug Prohibition Bottle - http://huff.to/Oyc6ZU a few wishes: decriminalisation & regulation ( v @TransformDrugs)


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When I was little, I had a "Strawberry Shortcake" doll; she wore a red dress with strawberries and a pink hat, and she had red hair and freckles. And she was wonderfully scented (in my young opinion) of strawberries and cream and cake. I don't think I ever gave her any other name, she was just Strawberry Shortcake to me; she is probably still in a box somewhere in my parents' basement, but I'd be surprised if I still thought she smelled good. :)
Shortcakes are a wonderful summer dessert, since they take full advantage of all the fresh fruit that's in season. Typically they're made with a biscuit, split and filled with fruit compote and whipped cream. Strawberry shortcake, maybe because of one of my favorite toys, is still one of my favorite combinations but peach shortcake is fantastic, too. At Jamie's parents' house, I made dessert one evening and made peach shortcake. Instead of baking the biscuits separately, I decided to bake them on top of the peaches, but I wasn't entirely happy with how it turned out. They didn't fully bake where the dough touched the fruit, and didn't get quite as light and puffy as they usually do. So I don't think I would make it that way again; baking the biscuits separately seems to be the best way to go.
Last week, I posted a recipe for Cherry Rhubarb Bread; the cherry rhubarb compote I made for the bread was so fragrant and sweet that I thought it would be wonderful in a shortcake. Which it was!
For the biscuit recipe, try my Baking Powder Biscuits. I've tried other sweeter versions made with butter and sugar, but, and I'm not at all biased, I still like mine best. :)
For the cherry rhubarb compote, click here, or just cook a few cups of your favorite fresh fruit with a little sugar and spices to create your own. And to assemble the shortcakes, well, that's not rocket science; split the biscuits, fill with fruit and freshly whipped cream, top with the other biscuit half and dig in!
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ROUND 3 – What has started as a fireside discussion has quickly spread to be a wild fire embroiling the NFL, the NBA, and the friendship of two comedians. Below, the closing arguments from both James and Darryl on who is the biggest asshole: Football players of Basketball players.
James: Darryl, you ignorant slut.
I am surprised that you actually spent the time to write your rebuttal in complete sentences. I expected you to just take one key word or phrase and repeat it over and over again.
"Roethlisberger raped a girl in a bathroom. In a bathroom. A BATHROOM. A BATHROOM!!!!!"
You want to talk about hack? Why don't you give the audience another twelve minutes of your new material on how women like talking and dudes like sex?
And can you wrap up the joke already? If the audience wanted to see a nine minute bit that ended without a punchline they would have just gone to one of your improv shows. This is stand up. Have some respect.
I'm going to be honest with you, Darryl. There are days where I wonder why I ever thought you were funny. Doing Cheap Laughs at the Raven Lounge, doing CheaPodcast and the Famous International Variety Show, were all just a giant waste of my time. And remember, I'm unemployed right now so my time is very difficult to waste. It's practically worthless.
Darryl, I don't know how to say this, but I think that we should stop working together. And I don't mean that I should stop doing any of the things I'm doing, I mean that you should go ahead and quit comedy all together and go back to your day job. Then you it won't matter that you're just like the vodka you drink.
Darryl: There really isn't much to be summarized. Football players are larger and assholier than basketball players. I tried my best to state my side of the argument while making it fun, which is hard to do when you have dead weight like James Hesky pulling you down constantly.
We're talking about a guy who ran a blog, two open mic locations and a Saturday night showcase into the ground, all with the same tired jokes about him being fat. It damn near took a congressional hearing to get him to leave poop jokes alone, and all he did was put it later in his set. People are making that face because you suck, not for your eloquent description of a wet shit in a space station.
Poop, being fat, masturbation and religion. The tried and true repertoire of a guy who will never make it out of Philadelphia. Maybe I'm being too harsh. You'll leave Philly, but only to go back to Pittsburgh after you stop lazing it up on my tax money and crawl back to your mamas basement. There you'll relive the joke you had that came the closest to making me laugh. That is until your mother cuts off your internet access, then you'll be sad without having to wack it first.
Having you as my sidekick was my version of watching over an autistic kid; except I did your former job better than you ever did and I'm gonna quit this crap before I get fired. Grow up, get funny and leave me alone. If you can just do one of those I'd be proud of you, and there's a first time for everything.
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I get the feeling round 4 will feature a one-word reply from James.


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Penobscot Theatre Company is pleased to announce auditions for the 2013-2014 Season. Actors of all ages will be seen for roles in the following productions: The Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig; The Woman in Black adapted by Stephen Mallatratt; Cinderella: A New Telling of an Old Tale by Kate Hawley, music by Gregg Coffin; One Blue Tarp by Travis Baker; Our Town by Thornton Wilder. Roles are not available for PTC's production of God of Carnage.
Open auditions for adults 18 years and over will be conducted on: Saturday, June 1, 2013 from 10AM – 5:00 PM. No children will be seen at this time.
Actors are asked to prepare two monologues not more than 2 minutes each. Singers should additionally prepare 16 bars from any song. All actors should bring a head shot and resume. An accompanist will be provided.
Auditions for children (ages 8 – 17) for roles in Cinderella, One Blue Tarp and Our Town, will be conducted on, Saturday June 8, 2013 from 10AM -5PM.
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Additional 2013-2014 show information can be found at www.penobscottheatre.org
Union and non-union actors interested in auditioning, should send email with name, phone number and preferred audition date and time to firstname.lastname@example.com. You will receive a confirmation email upon receipt. Please no phone calls.
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Grimm Tidings
J.C. Daniels, Shiloh Walker
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In his mortal life, the only thing Jacob liked better than money was a good brawl—until he stuck his fist into the wrong fight, and a demon sent him spinning into a new life as a Grimm.
Now, a hundred years later, he's been called to protect someone too much like himself. A woman who could let the chains of her past drag her down unless she learns to let go. A woman who fights like there's no tomorrow, because she clearly doesn't want a tomorrow.
Celeste thought her second chance at life would be an opportunity to fix some of her worst mistakes, to set things straight. She couldn't have been more wrong. She's trapped by the past and her regrets, and nothing—not even her darkly sexy new trainer, Jacob—has a blade sharp enough to cut her loose.
Chains are Jacob's specialty, but his help comes with a price. To her, the cost is her heart. To Jacob…something much more.
Warning: Contains a heroine with enough fight in her to put the 300 to shame. And a hero who knows how to take a punch.