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Joshua DuBois has been running the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships for President Obama for the past four years, but he leaves the White House today. That Joshua’s farewell party had to be moved to a larger location is just one sign of the respect and affection he earned during Obama’s first term. The President especially appreciated his young spiritual adviser, and read devotional biblical reflections from DuBois every day. At yesterday’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama lifted up Joshua’s importance to him and his administration, and said how much the young African-American Pentecostal pastor would be missed; the applause from the audience demonstrated the president wasn’t alone.
I have worked closely with Joshua, and want to wish him my own grateful farewell. I’ve watched this young man grow into this important job. He has been a good listener, facilitator, encourager, and convener; and has worked hard to put faith-based offices in executive departments throughout the administration — a first for any White House. Over the course of the last four years, Joshua has been successful because people both trust and like him, and the farewell comments at his going away party will show that. Joshua has especially worked hard to connect outside faith leaders and the faith-based community to key places and players in the White House to move agendas that we care about forward. [7]. Follow Jim on Twitter @JimWallis [8].
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When mentoring young professionals and students on planning their careers, I tell them what I wish someone would have told me early in my career. That is that two of the most important things you can learn that will enable your success in any field is communicating (especially public speaking) and developing strong business relationships. We’ll save communicating for another post but the topic of this post will be how to develop strong business relationships.
Most people take the standard “networking” approach to developing business relationships. They go to conferences, seminars, local chapter meetings, and networking functions regularly and hand out as many business cards as they can. The focus is solely on contact acquisition. If you’re primary activity in networking is handing your business card to every person you meet, you’re a networking jerk. Stop doing that!
Instead, you should focus on developing the relationships you already have.
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Some of the Best Learning Experiences Occur Outside the Classroom
Today's companies are hiring ambitious MBA grads, and that number is increasing year by year. Though unemployment rates for the general population may be high, unemployment rates for graduate degree holders were 3.9% as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2010 and are expected to have dropped since then. Employers are seeking employees that can innovate, think critically, and communicate effectively. New hires need hands-on knowledge, not just any MBA degree.
Businesses and organizations demand real-world experience. That means the ability to make decisions and handle situations that comes from experience, not just the classroom.
In a recent survey of corporate recruiters from MBA.com, results confirm the needs modern companies have to hire MBA grads that are vetted with experiential education and past work performance:
The Mason MBA gives you the opportunity to connect your studies with the contemporary business environment. Classroom experiences are made far more valuable by high-impact out of classroom experiences that allow you to integrate theory with practice and advance your leadership and management abilities. A true education must go beyond classroom learning, making interaction with industry experts a part of the curriculum.
At George Mason University, we constantly find new ways to connect students with business leaders and influencers. Recently, students had the opportunity to spend the day with Warren Buffett at the corporate offices of his company, Berkshire Hathaway, in Omaha, Nebraska.
While it’s challenging to assign a value to something like the opportunity to meet an international business leader, student reactions make it clear:
“Mr. Buffett instructed us not to throw him any softball questions. Listening to him speak about investing made a difficult topic sound easy. The trip was an amazing experience that I will never forget,” said Andrew Desing '12 George Mason University MBA.
The Mason MBA also offers other experiential learning opportunities including a semester long consulting project that gives you the opportunity to work directly with a partner organization on a business plan, product launch, or market research. This hands-on course allows you to take business theory from the classroom and apply it in a corporate setting.
Make sure you build the skills you need before you graduate.
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National Oak Distributors
617-628-69100.
- Hours: Mon - Fri, 8am - 5pm; Sun - Sun, closed
- Handicap Accessible: No restroom
- Payments accepted: American Express, Cash, Debit Card, Discover, Personal Check, Visa
- Products: Bulk autoparts.
- Parking: On-street: free
- Brands (automotive parts & accessories): More than 200
- Vehicle types: Cars, Trucks
- Parts: Battery, Brakes & traction control, Cooling & heating, Drivetrain, Electrical & lighting, Emission control, Engine, Fuel delivery, Ignition, Interior, Performance, Powertrain, Routine maintenance, Suspension & steering, Tools
- Corporate accounts: Yes
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Account Balances
A Club Account Trial Balance is the document you receive when requesting your club's balance. The Trial Balance provides the clubs deposits and payments (checks written) for the year.
To request your balance, fill out a Request for Trial Balance form found on Orgsync called “Balance Inquiry.” Submit the form to the ASI Business Office. A printout of your account balance with transaction history will be available within 48 hours in your club mailbox. Please provide your correct club name and account number.
For additional information on clubs and organizations, you can email [email protected], or see the C.S.L.I.S office, located on the first floor of the Student Union.
Center for Student Leadership, Involvement, and Service (CSLIS)
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Location: 1st Floor, Sonoma Student Union
(707) 664-4323
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Goals and Initiatives
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- Strengthen the institutional commitment to international activities at SOU through administrative and faculty leadership, procurement and priority allocation of resources, and increased communication of SOU's mission of "international engagement."
- Increase opportunities for SOU students to develop cross-cultural understanding and multicultural awareness through advising that encourages "international engagement" through foreign language study, international experience and other vital focused academic programs.
- Increase opportunities for SOU students to develop cross-cultural understanding and multicultural awareness by expanding study abroad possibilities and encouraging development of a diverse community that includes international students.
- Encourage SOU faculty, administrators, and staff to engage in international teaching, scholarship, and professional development; increase the number of international scholars who contribute to the SOU community.
- Increase collaboration with regional partners to enhance international and multi-cultural activities and interests.
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cpws (Carmen Pascal Web Server Project)
This project try to run the HTTP protocol to students via several mode verbose on executions of web server. Sincerity I want to build a new elementary web server on Pascal. ¿Is possible? Yes, at moment the server run with some primitives.0 weekly downloads
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LockIt
This will be a project that allows the secure storage of authorization, such as passwords as user names for any computer program that requiers the task of memorizing the authorzation infomation
Malware Manager
Malware Manager is useful to manage your suspicious or malware file. This program is actually build for antivirus developer. This software is a part of Open Source Project to help antivirus developer to store their suspicious or malware file safely and e0 weekly downloads
Malware Shield
open source antimalware tools. still in a VERY early stage of development malware shield is still being designed by me and matt it's main aims are to introduce a free and open, multiplatform security solution0 weekly downloads
MathCommand
MathCommand is a command shell for windows that have built-in support for many math operations. Matrix operations, symbolic algebra, and calculus. The shell behaves like the BASH shell.0 weekly downloads
MultiComm
MultiComm is a communication software which connects two computers, using a phoneline and a modem, and allows you to use any software, between the two computers.(This does not require you to connect to the internet).0 weekly downloads
NestorBackup
Have you ever been looking for a backup program that is simple and intuitive to use, but offers all the functionality you need? NestorBackup is a simple open-source backup solution based on incremental file copying.0
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Software update delivery service. Versions for standard HTTP and for a specialized server protocol.0 weekly downloads
Open Connect
Network Management tool similar to the RM Connect system but tailored to industry, not education. Visual Basic, C++ and ASP (using the ADSI).0 weekly downloads
Open Information Security Management Gui
ISO 17799 - Code of practice for information security management. Creation of methodology and documentation for audit adapted to ISO. One is made up of an introduction on general aspects of the security of the information
OpenWALE
OpenWale is lightweight system which can be used to convert a 32-bit Windows executable file which is in PE format to the 32-bit Linux executable file which is in ELF format.0 weekly downloads
PMVAdmin
PMVAdmin is network managment software designed for use with Linux servers. Features include user/group managment, login scripts, authentication, printer managment and a directory service.0 weekly downloads
Passwort Saver
many persons cant remember their passwords, for them problem i code a programm. the Passwort Saver , you only must remember 1 master password0 weekly downloads
Photo Protect
Add Signature to your Photos and Protect them from being Copied or Stolen0 weekly downloads
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PingIT is a tool to scan IP addresses or network ranges to get information about the currently running computers.0 weekly downloads
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In Photos: Facilities updates 7-9
Countdown to football season is on and there are two major projects set to be complete prior to the East Carolina game, the home opener, on September 8. Both the Farmer's Market area and the video board are moving right along. With just over two months left until kickoff, take a look at how the projects are taking shape..
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Fatal Attraction 2 starring Andrew Shirvell
Chris, look out! He may try to kill your bunny rabbit<<
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He's a very bad man.
Is he gay? My gaydar goes off with him, but I know my gaydar isn't very well calibrated. What do you think?
I think he is. He's acting like an ex or a lovesick fool
everyone's gaydar is on point. I know a sistah when I see one.
I'm thinking they slept together and dude never called him back.
This really seems like lovesick revenge.
Yeah Cubby, even with your gaydar needing a tune-up. Virulently anti-gay usually adds up to virulent internalized homophobe.
I just hate that despite Chris' efforts to not give this guy any attention. He's managed to wrestle it up anyway. Both him and his boss have been on Anderson Cooper. Anderson was particularly peeved with him! It was great to watch.
I hope he's not gay, I don't want him to be family. He and Eddie Long need to go somewhere very far away and have their prayer circle and leave the rest of us out of it.
The homophobia trap. I say he is a sadist that loves to inflict pain on others without consent.
He does act like a scorned ex-lover, which he probably is.....in his head.
Sad, sick and twisted.
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Ingredients:
- 6 boneless chicken breast halves, uncooked, without skin, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 can Cream of Chicken soup
- 1 cup mayonnaise (I use light)
- 1/4 cup lemon juice (I use more than this gives it great flavor)
- 1 tbsp curry powder (I use a lot more than this)
- enough cooked white rice for the people you're feeding
Preparation:
If you're going to cook this on the stove, use a large pot and cook the chicken just until white, then add rest of ingredients. Simmer for 15 minutes or so. Serve over rice. Same as above, you can put cheddar cheese on top and/or add broccoli.
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Review: A gorgeous but distant ‘Anna Karenina’
By Christy Lemire December 5, 2012 2:46PM
‘ANNA KARENINA’
DIRECTOR: Joe Wright
STARS: Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson
GENRE: Drama
RATED: R for some sexuality and violence
RUNNING TIME: 2 hours and 10 minutes
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Updated: January 8, 2013 6:12AM
★★1/2
All the world’s a stage, very literally, in Joe Wright’s wildly theatrical adaptation of “Anna Karenina.”
If you thought the director’s 5 1/2 the story Karenina (Keira Knightley), we’re more likely to notice how beautiful the suffering looks — the flattering lighting, her wild mane of dark curls spread meticulously across her pillowcase. during the past century but never like this.
Here Anna blond.
The film.
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In Brief...
Dr. Eugene Spafford is a professor with an appointment in Computer Science at Purdue University, where he has served on the faculty since 1987. He is also a professor of Philosophy (courtesy), a professor of Communication (courtesy), a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy) and a Professor of Political Science .
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Facing Potential Recession, Retail Brands Turn to Specific Media to Target Consumers Online and Grow Revenues
Top four comScore-ranked advertising network helps retail brands reach target audiences with more relevant ads
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The topic du jour among the conservative chattering classes is the question of who will emerge as best choice to be John McCain’s running mate. The question is best approached first by forgetting about all the names and instead focusing on the qualities for which McCain ought to be looking. As is often the case, some of the conventional wisdom about who he should pick seems terribly misguided.
First, consider what McCain should not look for. Among those irrelevant considerations is a high profile. Nobody, absolutely nobody, is less in need of a running mate with a huge name or a big personality than John McCain is. McCain is so well known, and his “brand” so familiar, and his personality so seared into the public consciousness already that if he chooses a political rock star he will just overload the public’s senses.
McCain should not move left with his choice. Some in the media see certain secretaries of state or Democratic senators or “moderate” GOP governors as ideal choices — but they are wrong. What McCain needs, in order to free himself up to thrust and parry with the Democratic nominee, is somebody who can spend all his (or her) campaign time tending to restless conservatives..
The senator should not show weakness with his choice. Choosing a running mate from an overwhelmingly “red” state — unless that running mate brings something else incredibly special to the ticket — would be interpreted as a sign that McCain isn’t even confident of his geographic base. The Deep South, then, is not the best place to find a Veep. Neither is Oklahoma or Wyoming or Idaho, unless the choice brings something else so impressive to the table as to amount to a strategic coup of the first order.
Finally, McCain should not choose anybody who weakens his party’s tenuous hold on what power it still enjoys. He should not choose a senator whose home-state governor is a Democrat, nor should he choose a governor whose lieutenant governor is a Democrat, as both would likely result in a loss for the Republican Party.
SO WHAT QUALITIES are important? The most essential quality is a patently obvious ability to handle the job of president. Not to be morbid, but McCain is a 71-year-old man who has survived torture and several bouts of cancer. Voters will want assurance that the Veep could step in at a moment’s notice.
Related to this is the running mate’s relative youth. McCain shouldn’t choose anybody much over 60. Voters don’t like instability. The thought of one candidate over 70 might be acceptable, but the thought of two candidates past retirement age might just seem too risky.
The candidate ought also to be well rounded. McCain, by his own admission, has always focused on defense and foreign policy. A veep ought to also be well versed in those areas, but he needs to show some real expertise on domestic issues as well, in order to shore up McCain’s weaknesses there. Moreover, the running mate ought to have a resume that doesn’t say he’s a fulltime conventional politician. At least one item on the resume should say that this somebody who isn’t just a political climber but a doer.
It is preferable, but not entirely necessary, for the running mate to have some executive experience, whether inside government or out. This will be the first election ever that has featured one senator against another. Why? Because voters usually like executive leadership. McCain, despite his heroism, doesn’t have that. Being a squadron leader 40-some years ago doesn’t count. Plus, as McCain’s persona is that of maverick, he more than anybody needs to be balanced with somebody accustomed to hierarchy and management.
The VP nominee needs to be more “cool” than “hot.” McCain seems to want to reach through the TV screen and shake sense into the viewer. He needs to be balanced by a calm voice of reason.
McCain also needs somebody solid on all three legs of the conservative stool, somebody who the conservative media and intelligentsia will universally recognize as a legitimate conservative of solid principles and temperament — so those opinion leaders can reassure the voters that the choice is a wise one.
(With few exceptions, the choices will be unfamiliar to most of the public, so the idea isn’t to get somebody whose name along brings votes but rather somebody who can quickly be made acceptable to the “base” — much as John Roberts and Sam Alito were quickly accepted even though probably 95 percent of the nation had never heard of them before their high court nominations.)
The running mate also needs to be somebody who the establishment (liberal) media respect, that they won’t immediately write off as a bomb-thrower. And superb brains would be nice, since McCain’s image is all brawn. Being articulate and telegenic will be important, too, especially if Obama is the opponent.
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Pete| 11.5.10 @ 7:35AM
If the blacks ever wake up to the damage the teachers unions are doing to their children, the Democratic Party will be sunk for then it will have to chose between millions of votes (blacks) or millions of dollars from the teachers unions.
Alert1201| 11.5.10 @ 7:52AM
I agree. More harm is done to the black population by the school system then can be imagined, yet they continually support the whose who have made the school system the mess that it is.
The same is true for abortion.
joli| 11.5.10 @ 8:43PM
My friend told me that her freshman daughter had to sit and listen to her science teacher expound the glories of abortion for the good of the environment. As I think about what to do with my own kids when they begin to enter high school, I'm trying to decide whether the trade-off of having social and performing opportunities outweighs the necessity of having to re-teach science, history (Howard Zinn), and social studies every single day to deprogram them from the lies that are endemic in our schools.
Jocon307| 11.6.10 @ 6:29AM
Joli, I will give you the advice I give all parents, that was passed on to me by my own mom, which she learned by being "schooled" by her own father.
It is the "pound on the table" method.
When your child comes home from school and starts to tell you what teacher said today, and it is nonsense, you pound on the table, and expound the truth, and you keep at it, until the child understands that teacher is spouting nonsense.
It worked for my mom, it worked for me and it worked for my own child.
Although I have to say the schools she attended were pretty good, including the Bayonne, NJ (a very patriotic, Reagen democrat type town) public schools.
But the point remains, I always spent a lot of time with her on her school work, esp. in high school, and I tried very hard to get the larger points across.
Had her schools been dreadful, we would have had to make a change.
As a parent you must pay attention to what other people are attempting to put in your child's "head full of mush" as Rush Limbaugh says.
Hey, I should also give a big shout out to the Salvation Army of Jersey City, where my kid went to day care. Fantastic people, filled with the Love of God. They did a great job and for that they'll never be forgotten by us.
Big D| 11.8.10 @ 3:59PM
Joli - you have two choices: Homeschool or Private School. Neither are easy, and the latter is expensive, considering that you're paying for education twice (my property taxes support public indoctrination / "education", which I refuse to subject my kids to, and then tuition for a good Christian school). It sucks, but it's my kids and well worth it.
SonOfSam| 11.5.10 @ 9:19AM
Forty five years ago, white "progressives" launched the war on poverty. After four decades and trillions of dollars spent, poverty is just as widespread, and the inner cities are far more dangerous. They don't have a "gang problem", since these are far more than gangs: they are PRIVATE ARMIES ON AMERICAN SOIL. Vast swaths of American cities are effectively no longer part of the United States of America.
The only people who have benefited from all this are the upper class bureaucrats who run the programs and dole out the welfare checks, after they have kept most of the money to pay for their own bloated salaries, pensions and lifetime medical -- no ObamaCare for them, they're above all that.
the rich get bailouts
the poor get handouts
the middle class pays for it all
gearjammer| 11.5.10 @ 12:11PM
Now, now do not pick on the rich. Our fearless leader Rush insists we kiss their asses each and every day. So be careful, very careful or they will call you a ,gulp, Rino. Pick on the poor-bash the minimum like Rush's pal did in West Va.-like Rush says " it works every time you try it".
jstwndring| 11.5.10 @ 2:06PM
What the hell are you talking about? I want a specific instance where Rush was picking on the poor. I want a specific instance where Rush's friend (who?) in West Virginia was picking on the poor. I guess most of what Rush says goes right over your head. Defending the private property rights of Americans is the only thing i've heard Rush do regarding the topic of wealth. It sounds to me like you are the one who has the problem. Get past your jealousy. Get past your petty envy. Realise that this is AMERICA and you should be able to keep most of what you make, regardless of economic level. It's called liberty. Without private property rights any talk of freedom is academic. Of course, freedom for the masses always has been hard for the haters of liberty to understand.
geaqrjammer| 11.5.10 @ 5:23PM
His pal Racie lost to Manchon.He came out against the minimum wage and this cost him votes. Rush always says the most conservative candidate wins but Manchon who supports the minimum wage won, thus the less conservative candidate won proving Rush is wrong when he says the most conservative guy or gal always wins. Whether you like it or not the economic fairness issue is a big problem for you natives who dwell in the Rushbo tribe. We can at least be sympathetic to some silly increase in the min wage, which evidence proves is not the end of the world.
gearjammer| 11.5.10 @ 5:44PM
I heard one hardworking guy call Rush a few years back. He'd been working hard 40 years but lost his job and looked for work but came up with nothing. He had sadness in his voice that he,d have to take unemployment and in a defeated voice asked Rush if doing this for a bit was ok. The pompous rich a-hole Limbaugh in a less than approving voice said do what ya gotta do but actuallt told the guy that accepting the money might ruin his charactor as a man.Rush is an extremist. Smart and talented full of drive , but smarter people have walked the planet. Look into Aristotle and his golden mean.
Donna| 11.6.10 @ 9:26AM
I noticed many mistakes in your reply including your opinion. You must be product of government schools.
hj hudson| 11.6.10 @ 11:00AM
Man, there are some hateful people on this blog.
Gearjammer made a salient point about Rush, and he is attacked in the rudest fashion.
It makes me sick to read mostof the posts on AmSpec. Rush is a muli-millionaire bigot and braggart with no compassion, except for his buddies--the right-wing super rich.
He has the soul of a hyena.
Louise in MO| 11.6.10 @ 11:28PM
This post made absolutely no sense. What RX are you on? It would be helpful to use sentences and genuine English words.
It has always amazed me how a person will waste time listening and/or watching those they totally disagree with or downright hate. I suggest you get a life and listen to those of your own kind.
Soccerjock| 11.5.10 @ 8:10PM
It may not be the end of the world, but there is a lot of evidence that an increase in the minimum wage costs jobs at the margin. It certainly protects the wages of those under union contract whose wages are connected to the minimum wage. But the evidence I've seen shows that minority group unemployment goes up with every increase in the minimum wage. I think the best way to lower minority group unemployment rates is to lower the minimum wage, or eliminate it altogether. Union contract rates could be tied to some other economic indicator. All the minimum wage does is result in higher rates of unemployment for those people who are unskilled or just entering the labor force.
SeattleBruce| 11.5.10 @ 8:56PM
'thus the less conservative candidate won proving Rush is wrong '
WV has been Democrat since forever, and you're going to point to this one race with a popular Democrat Gov. running for Senate as your example. Bad choice.
Donna| 11.6.10 @ 9:28AM
Wasn't this the Govn'r who told BO to shove it?
Rich D| 11.6.10 @ 7:06PM
The minimum wage was instituted to reduce black employment at the expense of white employment It worked then and still does.
Hoppy| 11.7.10 @ 12:12PM
Well, we could always follow the Democratic party model, sort of a twist on Robin Hood. "Rob the rich, and bullshit the poor." And if you are going to spout off about individual candidates, the least you could do is learn to spell their names.
NegroX| 11.7.10 @ 3:21PM
Nice try troll boy. You are an idiot and your grammar proves it.
Tex Expatriate| 11.5.10 @ 3:51PM
You must be a socialist, Gearjammer. You demonstrate the inability of socialists to be rational or to understand economics. Rush only points out that it is the rich who invest the money that is used to grow business in the world. The rich and the small businessman who stakes everything on his personal business gamble.
gearjammer| 11.5.10 @ 5:36PM
Actually, I fought commies in Viet Nam and enjoyed it. And, actually alot of middle class people own stocks etc too. Not just the rich. Whether you like it or not politics is more than an economics lesson. Emotion plays a role. I am not jealous of Rush-I consider him a troubled and terribly flawed man. The meglomania he demonstates each day is alarming. He is a detached out of touch conservative elite just like Obama and his crowd of swank set elites are. When, do you think is the last time rush spent time with regular people who have a tough life ? I am ok money wise but I stuck with my old friends over the richer and more sophisticaed I know. Not all-alot of my wealthy friends are ok and do not go nuts if somebody gets a minimum wage bump or unemployment insurance. They do get angry when it all goes overboard. But, let a guy get an extra buck a week and Rush goes nuts. the top one per cent making aall that money in income is another matter-we needs answers to thes ecopncern is all I am saying-sorry if I am looking ahead but clas warfare is not dead and the dems will ride it to a comeback, if alls we do is be rude and crude like
ruush is against the poor.
SeattleBruce| 11.5.10 @ 8:59PM
'When, do you think is the last time rush spent time with regular people who have a tough life ?'
When did this become about Rush? He's not the one spending us into oblivion, or didn't ya notice? We need to oppose those people. To that degree, who cares about Rush's weaknesses??!
DBinNJ| 11.5.10 @ 10:24PM
You sound like a logical guy so I let you determine the what is the correct answer.
You like the minimum wage so much why isn't the minimum wage $20.00 per hour or maybe $35.00 per hour? After all shouldn't the minimum wage be living wage?
Interested Conservative| 11.5.10 @ 11:01PM
Here's an even better one, DB - How about letting a company building a factory in a city set the workers' annual salary at twice the cost of an average home in that city?
In San Francisco, that would somewhere around $1million, but in Detroit it would be somewhere between $10,000 and $20,000?
What's a living wage if not the means to buy a home?
Think GM or Ford would take that deal? The UAW? Think it would repopulate Detroit?
Pragmatist| 11.6.10 @ 2:25AM
Why stop there. Why not set the minimum wage at $250,001 a year. Then everyone who has a job would be "rich." Then again, people without a job would be much poorer. People with a job, would be happy and gladly re-elect their representatives for the great favor of their guaranteed minimum wage.
Of course, everyone who could not generate goods and services for their employer in excess of $250.001 plus another 20% or so in mandated benefits would loose their jobs. [But, hey, you've got to break some eggs...] Either they would be laid off, or their employers would go bankrupt operating at such a loss. Industry would have to automate much more and lean how to operate without depending on all those low skilled less than $250K employees. But at some point an equilibrium would be reached with a small population of very higher earners, paying very high taxes in order to support a larger population of people unable to obtain legal employment reduced to living off of government assistance. Many jobs would disappear entirely. There would be fewer taxicabs in New York, but those cabbies would all earn over $250K a year, charging higher fares to a smaller population of passengers. Everyone would be much poorer with the employed taking home after taxes a very small portion of their 250K wages and the remainder living of subsistence of perhaps a fraction of that. Government would sponsor massive training programs so that the motivated could lift themselves from poverty by learning the skills needed to produce 250K (+20%) of value for their employers. Some would succeed, but there would be no way to enter at some lower salary, say 40K, and work your way up to 250K. That would be illegal. Even so, there would be an illegal shadow economy of people paying undocumented sweatshop workers to program computers under the table for sub-minimum wages. Many would languish in the ranks of the permanently unemployed.
Even those making $250K a year would be living at very low standard. Organizing society in such wasteful way would mean many fewer goods and services would get produced and the GDP pie would be much smaller for everyone, regardless matter how it was sliced.
Of course this thought experiment is extreme to illustrate a point. But the principle is the same. It differs only in degree.
The minimum wage creates no new value in the world. It produces nothing. If someone can produce value in excess of the minimum wage, the minimum wage is a wage they could have negotiated with their employer, anyway. If someone cannot produce value in excess of the minimum wage, they loose their job and it becomes illegal to employ them. Any perceived benefit is an illusion.
thinkerfan| 11.7.10 @ 12:51AM
Rush is not against anybody making money. Rush is against the government setting the wages. Rush wants the market to set the price. If the market thinks $20 is a fair wage for burgerflippers then it is fine with him.
JJ| 11.7.10 @ 12:00PM
From a fellow Vietnam Vet: Dear gear, uh, you might want to check back with your shrink for further treatment of an obvious PTSD. Here in America we only expect that the average person will "desire" to work for a living and do the best that they can on a daily basis. For the truly needy there is no more generous nation on earth than the one you and I served for. "Rush hates the poor?" This is Rushspeak filtered through a liberally sick mind.
NegroX| 11.7.10 @ 3:23PM
Geartroll, take your class warfare scam somewhere else.
Nolann Ryann| 11.6.10 @ 8:59PM
You're proof that veterans shouldn't be universally revered. And before you wave your combat experience in front of my face; one tour in Iraq and two in Afghan. Quite frankly you are mentally challenged. A combat veteran does not give you the instant credibility that you seek when you wave a flag and right sleeve patch.
JJ| 11.7.10 @ 12:02PM
From a fellow vet. Double ditto's. :)
Bob K.| 11.5.10 @ 7:44AM
One can only hope that you are correct. But these changes are also going to have to take place at the state level where the local teacher's unions contribute very heavily to legislators who play ball with them.
The continual rise in school taxes hasn't seemed to made them any weaker at the state level.
Money trumps votes in many cases.
Donna| 11.6.10 @ 9:40AM
Where I live (ultra conservative) N. Georgia our state won money for the “Rush” to the Top or whatever BO’s program was. Guess where 75% of the money is going? TEACHER’S SALARIES. The remaining; computers and technology. UGH!!!!
My child spent two years in a public school and it was all we could take. Like the one writer in these comments, I kept having to de-program him on ecology, environment and teach him to write papers and read something other than poetry.
Public schools are a mess and I pray every day for the children of America in these schools. They are hostile breeding grounds for the “No Child Left Behind”.
JJ| 11.7.10 @ 12:08PM
Here in NC they finally threw the progressive school board bums out. We are now attempting to move back to neighborhood schools and away from busing for diversity. The NAACP is shouting racists. So be it.
Alert1201| 11.5.10 @ 8:01AM
The answer is at the state. In Texas there are no teachers unions, whe have federations that provide health insurance and legal protection without the heavy handedness of union.
gypsy| 11.5.10 @ 9:24AM
sounds good to me. As a teacher in a frost-bitten bluestate gulag, all I want is my for union to protect me from kids who want to take a swing at me when they fail because they refuse to do any assignments, and administrators who tell me that somehow its all my g-d fault because somehow I'm not "understanding" enough. I don't need them -- or anyone-- telling me how to vote. I also sure as hell don't want them hi-jacking a big chunk of my union dues to give to politicians I would never vote for, and who wouldn't cross the street to shake hands with me unless there's an election going on
Sheila| 11.5.10 @ 1:25PM
Not completely true, and not that big a deal anyhow. There are no branches of the national teachers' unions, but there are in-state unions here in Texas. Regardless of union affiliation, the teachers are all trained and certified by union-run ed schools. Even in Christian schools, in order to gain state accreditation (useful if you want your child's achievements to transfer to public high school, for example), all the teachers are "certified" - i.e. graduates of the same lousy ed programs. Because of the salary differential, many of them shift between public and private teaching. It's easy to differentiate those who've taught Christian school their whole career from those "perky" and "casual" younger teachers who began in public schools - avoid them like the plague they are. Most teachers are perfectly nice individuals - and thick as two short planks.
School of Hard Knocks| 11.5.10 @ 2:27PM
Ooops. Yes Texas has teachers unions, with names like The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, just like the article states. Unless of course Texas has once again seceded from the Union? (pun intended).
dal| 11.7.10 @ 6:43AM
Alert I have seen no evidence of unions not being in texas. There is so much documentation to get rid of a teacher in texas. I also see plenty of incompetent educators in my childrens classroom, plus there global warming crap agenda.
ND teaparty lover| 11.5.10 @ 8:12AM
As a resident of north dakota, supporter of hoeven, husband of a teacher, the teachers of north dakota were split of supporting hoeven when he ran for governor. My wifes school were about 75% for him and the union was told to stay nuetral in the race. But the teachers union in the last weeks of the election spent its money to defeat him. he promised the teachers everything they wanted(nd teachers basically have a 401k so they dont need state or fed bailout) but they hate republicans here also. If you want to see how education pensions and results of childrens test scores nan improve(teachers get no health care at retirement) look at nd.
Bruce| 11.5.10 @ 10:46PM
What the hey, what happened to my post ? As a winner of 4 man to man gun fights, it's not good for someone's health to do that !
Clinton nee Publius | 11.5.10 @ 9:14AM
The reality is that public-run anything gives you an exclusive monopoly wherein the provider avoids accountability. Without accountability, failure is the only outcome. If we are to ever solve the issues of worker security, pay, performance and quality we will have no choice but to admit that public education has been a complete failure. On the bright side of things, we now spend enough on public school pupil tuition to be able to afford to send every primary and secondary school child to private school and pay to send them to a 4-year college and still save some money to boot. That's how big of a debacle public education has become.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 11.5.10 @ 9:23AM
Well said!
Pedagogue| 11.5.10 @ 9:59AM
Since 1958 education has been the most expensive component of municipal abudgets. This is actually before the NEA became a union. Schools don't work (especially in inner cities) because the single parent doesn't care. The gangs inthe street are gangs in the school. One almosts suspects they have crew served weapons. Meanwhile teachers of varying ability work long hours doing paperwork. Most of the paperwork is
ridiculous but it has to be done. None of this has
anything to do with civilizing the next generation
who's only use will be as organ doners.
mames| 11.5.10 @ 10:48AM
So much to kill so little time to do it! The GOP must muster up the kind of courage they have not displayed in over 40 years (Reagan does not couNt - he was undermined by the Rinos all the way). No more half assed Rinos like the Bushes, Mc Cain and the rest of spinal deprived. The NEA and all public unions must be outlawed. They have no business using our funding to lobby for more bennies from us. No more state, NEA, Fed unions, period. And while they are at it no more government schools either - aren't we forced to buy education whether we want it or not????
SeniorD| 11.5.10 @ 10:55AM
In the minds of Teacher's Unions, the music composer turned High School Music Teacher from Mr. Holland's Opus should be viewed as the archetype teacher. This icon of dedication saw one student become Governor, another a successful businessman and a third a star athlete. Would the reality even faintly echo the movie.
How many unionized teachers send their children to private schools? How many unionized teachers work to the rule and not to the interest of their students? How many unionized teachers see their union dues go to supporting Socialist dogma spawned from the Communist-follower John Dewey?
MikeD| 11.5.10 @ 1:59PM
SeniorD... WELL SAID! How many of you remember that the very first thing J.F.K. did the day he was inaugurated (After the ceremonies) was to sign an EXECUTIVE ORDER giving the public employees the right to collective bargaining and to strike. That absolutely needs to end! Public employees make more than those of us who actually work for a living. And that's just the first step. We need to cut the Federal budget 10% all across the board each year for the next five years. No exceptions. All federal employees, including elected officials, must be put on Medicare immediately, and get no other pensions than Social Security.
Who the hell do they think they are setting themselves above all of us WHO PAY FOR THEM! They all need to know that "We're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it any more!"
TomB| 11.5.10 @ 11:47AM
"The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense."
- Karl Marx
Albert| 11.5.10 @ 12:17PM
You should add the after-the-fact "co-authors" names as well: President Bozo, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Jerry Brown, Barbara Boxer, etc... There names are legion.
Sheila| 11.5.10 @ 1:32PM
Interesting, isn't it, how none of our Founding Fathers (dead White men, every last one of them) went to public schools? Sending one's children to public schools is defacto child abuse.
MikeD| 11.5.10 @ 2:02PM
There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution about public education. The federal government has no business having anything to do with schools. That is a local responsibility, with selected state involvement in certain cases. I do not think the state should be in it either.
Stephanie| 11.5.10 @ 12:12PM
I live in rural eastern Virginia and I just read in our local paper that our schoolboard has just voted on getting rid of the validictorian award. They said it causes too much anxt for those who don't stive to do well. I am stunned.
Sheila| 11.5.10 @ 1:38PM
In my district they carry out the GPAs to as many as six decimal places to determine the valedictorian - always an Asian. Because of all the Chinese and Indian kids with their obsessive grade-chasing and cram school attendance, White kids with GPAs between 3.5 and 4.0 can't even make it into the top 10%, which has become a problem for many trying to gain admission to the best in-state colleges (I have no personal dog in this hunt; kept my kids in private school). The district is considering dropping class ranking because of this issue; the immigrant parents are up in arms - they want that number to brag to their friends about and to bludgeon the Whites with.
Texas Mom 2012| 11.5.10 @ 1:55PM
I don't care what the race of a valedictorian is, if you EARN it you deserve it. We have Valedictorians at our school but they also honor magna cum lause and summa cum laude graduates. My son, who is autistic but always mainstreamed and took some honors classes as well, ended up with a 3.12 and in the forth quintile or bottom 40% of his class. The upside is that his SAT scores would get him in any school in the country so his public school seems to have done its job. We moved to Sugar Land because of the excellent public school system willing to pay the higher real estate taxes for the privilege of better schools.
fetoau| 11.6.10 @ 10:04PM
AMEN!!!!
Hoppy| 11.7.10 @ 12:24PM
I suspect that his Mom and Pop had more to do with his SAT scores than his public education did.
Al Adab| 11.5.10 @ 12:14PM
What the Left is about to learn is that they have exhausted their ability to buy votes both with taxpayer dollars and with promises. The well frankly is dry, yet the Left constituancy demands ever more. That will prove their undoing. Let us all hope that it does not mean riots in the streets when the "drugs" of other people's money is cut off.
Albert| 11.5.10 @ 12:19PM
"Let us all hope that it does not mean riots in the streets..." Unfortunately, hope is all we have on this point. Experience and history tell us otherwise. Be armed. Be prepared.
Al Adab| 11.5.10 @ 2:30PM
Indeed. See Greece, see France.
CalMark| 11.5.10 @ 12:35PM
Flawed basic premise: the Feds have a place in the education arena.
No! The education system is in such awful shape because of Washington meddling with what should be local decisions. That's the kind of meddling that leads to big-bucks polarization of a basic function whose only political struggles should be at local school-board level.
Seek| 11.5.10 @ 12:35PM
Test.
Jim | 11.5.10 @ 1:00PM
Grow up, Gearjammer. The rich no more caused your or anyone else's misery than the man in the moon did. Of the people I personally know who have come to ruin, the reasons were credit card debt twice their annual income, all kinds of toys (snowmobiles, $50,00o "trucks" that will never see as much as a gravel driveway, vacations, eating out daily, etc.) and other such poor decision-making. It's really time for the "middle-class" to start taking responsibility for their own success or lack thereof, if only because the "screw the rich" nonsense it buys into each election cycle hasn't helped one bit. Wise up.
shelflife| 11.6.10 @ 6:14AM
so true. judging their lives by what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they do have. you can't spend your way to happiness.
Christopher Manion| 11.5.10 @ 2:36PM
"About 75 percent of the country's 17- to 24-year-olds are ineligible for military service, largely because they are poorly educated...." (link below);.
Meanwhile, the retiring head of the NEA schoolworkers union (I can hardly call them "teachers") admits that they're not there for the kids, but for the teachers. (Link #2).
As Bob Dole, would say, "where's the outrage?"
Link 1: (1 of 2) [11/6/2009 5:24:50 PM]
FOXNews
link 2:
shelflife| 11.6.10 @ 6:24AM
"About 75 percent of the country's 17- to 24-year-possibly they would be rejected" - a bite of reality to those who rag on the military. most of them would be rejected and not because they're elite.
Tex Expatriate| 11.5.10 @ 3:47PM
I've never had much respect for teachers, even though the public schools I attended 61 years ago were truly public schools. However, most of the teachers I talk to today don't vote the way their unions donate their dues.
ton| 11.5.10 @ 3:53PM
The education establishment, like any other vast, bloated, and insulated government apparatus, exists ultimately for the perpetuation and aggrandizement of the institution. In other words, it exists for the personal benefit of adminstrators and teachers, not for the education of students. That is why tax monies inevitably are directed to salaries, benefits, extravagant retirement packages, lifetime health care, excessive vacation, non-work days, perks, travel (ie. "conferences), programs, initiatives, coordinators, directors, assistant directors, superintendents, ad infinitum. And since the union leadership as well as the academic establishment are fundamentally leftist, students are subjected to ever more strident proselytizing in the popular delusions of the left, from "queer studies" to "global warming," while basic literacy and mathematical competencies are neglected.
The answer to the crisis is simple, though not palatable to those who prefer to abdicate their parental responsibility and hand over their children to highly-compensated baby sitters: PRIVATIZE THE SCHOOLS. There are many options: home schooling, parochial schools, church schools, private neighborhood schools and academies. Support private voucher and home schooling tax credit initiatives; reduce property taxes and other levies that currently fund the behemoth. Rescue your children. They are your children; and it is your money.
keyboard jockey | 11.5.10 @ 4:20PM
Classical Fail, A Look At The Fall Out From The Midterm Elections. Falling From Great Heights – A Cautionary Tale Of Son Worshiping.
Icarus Syndrome.
Pat| 11.5.10 @ 7:57PM
During FDR’s New Deal and WWII over 60 years ago, American farmers were fed up with the way Democrats clamped ceilings on prices for their crops but adamantly refused to do the same for wages. The Democrats and the unions, a reasonably happy, long lasting marriage which didn’t start with and won’t end with the teachers. And Walter Reuther, iconic labor leader of the UAW, unashamedly explained exactly how the game should be played, you collect dues from members, you give some of their money to the Democrats while keeping some for yourself, they pass those laws which help your union.
But let a teacher pat your kid on the head and tell the other Moms how bright she is and it’s “Walter Reuther who?”. It’s just not the same you say, young Miss Sweetsmile or old Mrs. Sternly, they’re not “real” union members, they don’t support crass union political practices, they think only of the children, teaching your kid is their life. When school children start paying union dues, your kid’s best interests will become important to the Teacher’s Union and the Democrats. Trouble in their marriage, the Teacher’s Union divorcing the Democrats – dream on, this isn’t the first grade and we’re too old for Story Time.
jawin| 11.5.10 @ 8:58PM
Public employees should not be allowed to unionize. Teachers are public employees. Teacher unions should be abolished. Education costs will decrease. Education will increase.
Jade| 11.5.10 @ 10:05PM
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”—Josef Stalin
dadfly| 11.5.10 @ 11:40PM
item 5 from the contract from america:%)
if this is done then the federal involvement in education will be found to be both duplicative and unconstitutional. there will be no alternative but to defund it.
GavInTucson| 11.7.10 @ 3:26AM
We can go back and forth about the Constitution, the Left, the Right, Democrats, and Republicans.
It doesn't matter.
The people that are really in control of this country (it ain't us), have decided that we're ripe for the picking. And pick us, they will.
Put down your ideology for a moment... there's a certain bearded man by the name of Bernake that, in collusion with others of his ilk, are about to run this country into the ground.
Sell your stocks. Get out of the U.S.Dollar. Be prepared for the whirlwind that's about to come. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Rmm| 11.8.10 @ 8:02PM
Where does G. Soros come in ? He supposedly turned a cool billion $ by shorting the British pound. Could it be that he is at it again and Bernake just played into Soros's bet.
uchu | 11.7.10 @ 7:07AM
I agree. More harm is done to the black population by the school system then can be imagined
NHThinker| 11.7.10 @ 10:05AM
Read John Taylor Gatto's "The Underground History of American Education" and John Holt's "How Children Fail". The public school system was never intended to deliver education in the classic sense of the word but rather was engineered as a method of creating an artificial national concensus. You can remove your children from this institution of social engineering by sending them to private schools (as do the nation's eliete) or better yet by home schooling them yourself, as we did.
ton| 11.7.10 @ 7:17PM
You are correct; except that the "national consensus" to be created has always been a secularist, statist perspective (see the earlier quotes from Lenin).
Government schools were created in this country to advance a Dewyite agenda AND as an antidote (originally WASPish but now totally secular) to the growing influence of parochial schools among a burgeoning Catholic immigrant population in the early 20th century. For Christian parents, the choice is simple: who will direct the formation of your children, the secular state or the Church? The position of the state is equally simple: give us your children and your money.
Perusha| 11.7.10 @ 3:05PM
After fifty years of dutifully trying to stay an informed citizen by paying regular attention to the American experiment in education, particularly K-12, by reading the Wall Street Journal et al, I long ago got the message.
It’s a waste of my time!
When the USA was started, the haves understood that the country couldn’t work if the have-nots could access their wealth. So, a voter was required to have a minimum amount of property.
Say you’re going to play a game of poker. In order to be able to join in the action, you have to have something to LOSE.
No chips = no game!
So, as soon as the “poor” got into the pockets of the “rich”, it was inevitable that “public” this or that would grow, like topsy!
A truly egalitarian schooling system would be based on the initial voting one---
The mother and father, would be SOLELY responsible to pay for their progeny, because, hey---they PRODUCED him or her! THEY did, not other people!
Now, if they had relatives and/or friends who they could convince to help, fine.
The public education racket is simply one of the expressions of that hoary ruse advertised back in the day, when “investing” in real estate was the hot subject---
Always use OPM---OTHER people’s money.
Nomdepoof!| 11.7.10 @ 4:11PM
Blinded by self interest.
Teachers unions and the NEA (all other unions screaming for special deals) need to get edjumacated on the ramifications of Obamacare.
States most very likely will go bankrupt under the unfunded mandates, lack of tax revenue from business closures and slashed federal medicare funding. What happens to teachers and other public employee pensions should/when bankruptcy occurs? Poof! Pensions all gone.
Marc Jeric| 11.8.10 @ 1:22AM
All strong unions destroy the industries in which they "work" - steel, automobile, textile, electronics, apparel, etc. The advent of teachers unions in the 1960's predicted with certainty the fall of our education to the level of Zimbabwe. We have now a nation of zombies full of self-esteem, illiterate, and voting for more of the same, i.e. Democrats.
Rmm| 11.8.10 @ 9:40AM
The wife and I were discussing this issue the other day and I had the question about this tenure thing trickling down to the grade school level. When did this happen and was the NEA behind it? I think there might be a causal relationship between poor education and tenured teachers who cannot be fired.
REB| 11.8.10 @ 9:32PM
Education has become the last bastion of fools and freeloaders for the most part...I pay crazy taxes and almost all of it goes to schools,I sent my own kids to private school for a couple years and then we homeschooled them they graduated 3.8 and a 4.0 I paid for it on less than 5000$ a year and still had to pay for the commie schools.How is the present system good or fair?...if I dont pay the extortion monies they steal my property...the mob has nothing on govt and union thugs,time to make an education count for something...to make it worth something and we all know that which you get for free you dont value very highly...make people pay for their own education!
business | 11.11.10 @ 8:34PM
Teachers unions and the NEA (all other unions screaming for special deals) need to get edjumacated on the ramifications of Obamacare.
wholesale beads | 4.1.11 @ 3:46AM
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RISC Maker
As a computer architect, he rewrote the rulebook, and now, as president of a major U.S. university, he's ready to shake things up once again
Photo: Robert Houser
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For someone about to enter the job market, this was not a bad position to be in. Hennessy's job search focused on academia. "I loved working on research and with students and never thought about doing anything else," he says.
He started as an assistant professor at Stanford, teaching a microprocessor laboratory course to graduate students and a systems programming course to undergraduates. His research focused on compiler optimization.
In 1980, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) began funding researchers as it developed what would become its very large-scale integration (VLSI) research program. Stanford's project for DARPA, led by Forest Baskett and Jim Clark, was to design an IC chip to do three-dimensional graphics transformations. This design evolved into the geometry engine, the chip that was to be the foundation for launching Silicon Graphics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.), one of the first successful manufacturers of high-performance graphics workstations.
To implement the complex 3-D transformations, which required using floating-point arithmetic, the design resorted to microcode, a series of stored instructions that are not program addressable. The microcode translated the high-level geometric operations into simple instructions that could be implemented with a small number of transistors. As part of the Stanford team, Hennessy developed the high-level programming language and the compiler used to generate that microcode.
Hennessy was perfectly happy in academia. "I never envisioned trying to take my ideas out to industry," he said. But in 1981, Carver Mead, a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) known to Hennessy through Mead's landmark work on VLSI, started a company to commercialize some Caltech research that demonstrated how to design VLSI chips from high-level descriptions. The company was called Silicon Compilers Inc. (now part of Mentor Graphics Inc.). Aware of the work Hennessy had done on the microcode generation language for the geometry engine, the charismatic Mead easily convinced him to spend one day a week working for his nascent company.
Hennessy ended up helping to define the microarchitecture, which included a pipeline and the engine for implementing the instruction set, for what was to become the MicroVAX 1, a computer released by DEC in 1984. This was the first single-chip implementation of the VAX minicomputer architecture. It was also the first large-scale use of high-level synthesis tools, often called silicon compilers.
This stint at Silicon Compilers was the beginning of what was to become a parallel life for Hennessy in industry. When Silicon Graphics was formed, Hennessy left his day-a-week job at Silicon Compilers for a day-a-week job there, where he worked on the system architecture for what was to become the company's first workstation.
Back at The Farm
Meanwhile, back at Stanford, often called The Farm, Hennessy had begun looking for a new area of computing to explore. To generate ideas, he organized a series of brainstorming sessions as a graduate seminar, asking this question of the group: given that VLSI will soon become the technology of choice, how should we change the way we design computers?
The group read papers, brought in guest speakers, and candidly exchanged ideas. The concepts that came out of the seminar helped to form the basis of what came to be called RISC. At the core was the idea of eliminating microcode. Instead of needing microcode to translate the instruction set, the processor would encounter instructions so simple that it could execute them directly. It was Hennessy's experience with microcode in the MicroVAX 1 project that helped him see that it could be eliminated.
Hennessy's group was not alone in coming to this conclusion. Researchers at IBM Corp. had for several years been working on the 801 project, an attempt to implement similar ideas. (The project was never brought to market, although the ideas influenced later IBM products, including the PowerPC architecture.)
Somebody else who also concluded that microcode was unnecessary was David Patterson, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. Some six months earlier, he had discovered that computers could run more efficiently without it. Patterson's research team coined the acronym RISC.
But most of the rest of the computer world was skeptical that RISC would work. The fact that the original performance results were obtained from simulations only added to their doubts.
So Hennessy, with a handful of graduate students and the occasional collaboration of other professors, spent about 18 months designing, building, and testing a VLSI chip, along with compilers and a simple test computer, to prove the technology. Looking back, he admits they made a fair number of design errors and the chip wasn't as efficient as it could have been.
But, he said, "the opportunity for improvement was so big that the fact we made mistakes didn't matter. We built this little 25 000-transistor microprocessor, and it was twice as fast as a big minicomputer that cost US $250 000."
risc02.jpg Hennessy wrote papers and began giving talks about this new computer architecture, thinking that existing computer companies would be quick to embrace such an obvious technical improvement. "To say I was naïve," Hennessy told Spectrum, "is an understatement. People just didn't believe it."
Patterson, who was also promoting the new concept, did not see Hennessy as a rival. "We were a persecuted minority," Patterson told Spectrum. "It was better for us to be on the same team."
To get around town, John Hennessy drives a GEM, an electric vehicle made by DaimlerChrysler.
There were two issues to deal with, Patterson recalls, a technical one and a business one. "Technically, what we were doing was designing computers based on careful measurements at a time when computer designs were being driven by aesthetics. Computer architectures were supposed to be beautiful, not driven by efficiency," he said.
On the business side, people questioned whether RISC made sense economically. Using the analogy of train tracks, Patterson added, "While perhaps changing the width of train tracks might make technical sense, given the investment of infrastructure, it will never happen." Software would have to be recompiled for these new machines.
C. Gordon Bell, DEC's former vice president of R&D, thought otherwise, even though DEC's own RISC project had never come to fruition. He had just started Encore Computer Corp. (now Encore Real Time Computing Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) to create massively scalable computer systems, and he was aware of Hennessy's work on RISC. He told Hennessy that to get RISC ideas out into the world, he would have to start his own company, and that, if he did, Encore Computer would be his first customer and an investor.
"It was clear to me that a chip with RISC architecture needed to be built," says Bell, currently a senior researcher at Microsoft Corp. "I thought it would give us at least a one-time performance gain of a factor of two or three."
So Hennessy, along with John Moussouris, who had worked on the IBM RISC project, and Edward ("Skip") Stritter, who had worked on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, decided that starting a company was just what they would do.
Backing into business
"We went to the venture capitalists with the most ridiculous business plan you'd ever want to see," Hennessy says. "We had a bunch of slides about why this was a great technology and a spreadsheet showing how we'd spend the money. We didn't have a realistic technical schedule; we didn't have any marketing plan."
But they got funded in the summer of 1984 for $1 million from the Mayfield Fund, a venture capital company based in Menlo Park, Calif. That summer, MIPS Computer Systems Inc. set up its first office in subleased space in Mountain View.
Unwilling to completely give up his academic career, Hennessy took an 80 percent leave from Stanford, working there one day a week. He planned to return full-time once the company was solidly established. Since the initial technical research at MIPS was done, Hennessy, as cofounder and chief scientist, ended up becoming chief evangelist, doing cold calls on computer companies in an effort to convince potential customers that this first RISC microprocessor was going to change the world of computing.
About six months later, MIPS signed a letter of intent with its first customer, Prime Computer Ltd. (now defunct), committing to deliver chips by the end of 1985. In the final deadline crunch, Hennessy jumped in as needed, from working on the compiler team, to writing test code, to debugging the processor, and the MIPS R2000 came out on schedule. Then Hennessy turned his focus back to Stanford, though he still spends an occasional day at MIPS.
MIPS chips are now used primarily in embedded applications, including products such as the Sony PlayStation, Hewlett-Packard color laser writers, Cisco Systems network switches, and digital set-top boxes. The company had its initial public offering in 1989, was acquired by Silicon Graphics in 1992, and later spun out as MIPS Technologies. Countless other RISC chips have been designed since, and RISC is now the dominant architecture for embedded applications.
Hennessy's time in the corporate world fed positively into his university career. "In academia," he says, "we have a tendency not to make decisions until we get all the data in, know every single fact, and it's crystal clear what the right decision is. In industry, it doesn't work that way; time is considered a valuable commodity." Hennessy found that learning how to be decisive helped him in academia, particularly as he climbed up the administrative hierarchy.
With MIPS demonstrating that RISC was an important breakthrough in computer architecture, Hennessy decided to try to teach this new design method to students. Patterson, still at Berkeley, was doing the same thing. Of course, there were no textbooks. So the two decided to write one.
Taking sabbatical time, they moved into an office donated to them by DEC's Western Research Laboratory in Palo Alto. The fall of 1987 was spent figuring out the framework for the text: what it needed to teach and what its structure would be. They divided the chapters between them and edited each other's work. They then asked their colleagues in the industry to critique the book and, after reviewing suggestions, revised it. Finally, in the spring of 1990, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach was published by Morgan Kaufmann (San Mateo, Calif.). The publisher expected lifetime sales of the book to be about 15 000; it hit that number the first year. Hennessy and Patterson's book is still being widely used and has sold over 100 000 copies.
Back at The Farm—again
In 1988 Hennessy was running the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford, teaching introductory computer architecture to graduate students, and putting together a group of researchers to explore how the RISC approach might be employed in parallel computing.
"The key questions we asked," he says, "were: what was the right balance of hardware and software mechanisms, and how should the mechanisms change with larger numbers of processors?"
In small-scale multiprocessors, a technique called a snooping cache is used to maintain consistency among the individual cache memories associated with each processor. A snooping cache requires that each processor send notifications to all the other processors when it changes any shared data. So, if more than 20 or 30 processors are used, they end up spending most of their time on notification.
One solution would be to use a single shared memory and not cache data that could be shared. But with large numbers of processors, that approach falls apart: the memory becomes a bottleneck and is much slower than the individual caches. "The conventional wisdom," Hennessy says, "became that because of the cache coherency problem, you could not build a large-scale multiprocessor with a shared memory."
So in the 1980s, several groups around the country, including researchers at Caltech and Intel, were trying to optimize an approach called message passing, which avoids shared memory. Rather, it requires that data be explicitly communicated by messages between processors. Unfortunately, that setup uses a different programming model from that used for multiprocessors with a few tens of processors.
Hennessy and his students at Stanford instead decided to reconsider cache coherency. Rather than physically building a central shared memory, they created one logically. That is, each of the multiple, physically distributed memories has a dedicated cache, and the computer maintains a directory with each memory, keeping track of which processor has which memories in its cache. When information is changed or needed, each processor simply refers to the directory and then just sends out a single message.
The first paper describing this directory concept was published by Hennessy and his colleagues in 1988; the group built a working design in 1992. The machine was called DASH, for Directory Architecture for SHared memory. Silicon Graphics used the directory approach embodied in DASH in 1996 in its Origin workstation, a scalable high-performance computer, and several other companies have employed the technology since.
Steps to the presidency While Hennessy went on being involved in research for some years, his administrative functions at Stanford were increasing, as he stepped up to department chairman, then dean of engineering, then provost, and, now, president.
"John shot through the academic hierarchy faster than anyone I've seen," Patterson says.
Even as president, Hennessy does some work outside the university, al-though it now takes less than 10 percent of his time. This past year, much of that has been spent with Patterson preparing the third edition of their textbook. He also supervises one or two Ph.D. students and advises 15 undergraduates.
As president, Patterson observes, Hennessy runs the university with an engineering perspective, assuming he can analyze every problem and find the best solution. He has earned broad loyalty on campus because, Patterson believes, he is honest, doesn't play games, and speaks the truth, even if his positions aren't popular.
Hennessy sees a university presidency as being something one does for about a decade. These years will be busy ones, for Hennessy has made himself a long to-do list. After his term is over, he says, he might take a real sabbatical, instead of starting a company or writing a book. Or not.
"The great thing about being a university president is you can keep that most wonderful of titles—professor. So you are able to go back to teaching and working with students," he says. And, undoubtedly, doing a little something on the side.
Vital Statistics
Name: John Hennessy
Current job: president, Stanford University (California), since 2000
Date of birth: 22 September 1952
Birthplace: New York City
Family: wife, Andrea; sons, Thomas (19) & Christopher (17)
Education: BSEE, Villanova University, 1973; M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1975 and 1977
First job: grocery store stocker and bagger
Patents: one, for a method of extending computer word lengths from 32 bits to 64 bits, first used in the MIPS R4000
Most recent book read: Truman by David McCullough
Favorite books: Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, and Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Favorite periodical: New York Review of Books
Favorite music: Michael Kamen's "Symphony for a New Millennium," any Puccini opera
Computer: Macintosh G4 Cube with 21-inch Cinema display
Favorite Web sites: Google and MyYahoo
Favorite expression: "Charge!"
Leisure activity: hiking, golf, bicycling
Pet peeve: fuzzy thinking
Management creed: "Everybody's opinion has value."
Memberships: IEEE, Association for Computing Machinery, American Society for Engineering Education
Favorite awards: IEEE John von Neumann Medal (jointly with David A. Patterson), IEEE Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, election to National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
To Probe Further
John Hennessy is the coauthor with David Patterson of two seminal texts on computer architecture, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (third edition due in 2003) and Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (second edition, 1998). Both are published by Morgan Kaufmann (San Francisco); see.
The text of Hennessy's inaugural address as president of Stanford University is available online at. A link to a video of that speech appears on that Web page. Hennessy's personal Web site is at.
For more on MIPS Computer Systems, particularly its initial public offering, see Michael S. Malone's Going Public: MIPS Computer and the Entrepreneurial Dream (Edward Burlingame/HarperCollins, 1991).
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Every now and then, there’s a hit movie that so captures the collective imagination that I avoid it like the plague. My college film professor’s effort to quash enthusiasm for even the remotely popular (he repeatedly dumped on Run Lola Run or anything involving Tarantino) left its mark on me to the point that I, too, became a cinematic curmudgeon incapable of suspending disbelief long enough to enjoy a cultural event.
But that’s not why I avoided Jerry Maguire. I never got around to seeing that particular Tom Cruise picture simply because, by the time I reached the legal age to rent a copy, I felt as though I’d already seen it. At that point, catchphrases like “Show me the money,” “You complete me” and “You had me at ‘hello’” were ingrained within our cultural lexicon to the point that I got the gist of the flick: a smarmy pro-football agent works his butt off to placate Cuba Gooding Jr. and woo Renée Zellweger. Big whoop. In fact, I’d so dismissed ever giving a damn that I came full circle on this movie; as the popularity of its memes waned, I wondered if maybe I’d missed something by never giving Jerry Maguire a shot. Perhaps, without knowing it, I was incomplete.
So I entered my long overdue viewing of this Cameron Crowe-directed feature with relatively high hopes. After all, Tom Cruise used to be able to act (sort of), and the film revolves around pro football, one of my most longstanding pleasures. But as the movie opened with a shot of Earth and Cruise providing the obvious narration “So this is the world,” I gained my first inkling that I was in for two hours of Crowe painting with broad strokes. As the titular pro-sports agent (Cruise) collects high-fives and absorbs enough backslaps to herniate a disc, he’s supposed to be unlikable. But as Jerry incurs both a standing ovation and a pink slip for penning a self-righteous novella-length memo during a dark night of the soul, I remembered that plausibility is not Crowe’s strong suit.
As the plot unwinds, pouty accountant Dorothy (Zellweger) impulsively follows the recently-axed Jerry out of the office, and the bombastic Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Gooding Jr.) sticks with him for some equally obscure reason. And away we go. I spent the majority of the film’s 139 minutes trying to puzzle out how anything in Jerry’s philosophical approach changes after he delivers that career-threatening memo. Despite brief moments atop a soapbox, Jerry rarely practices what he preaches and — instead of embracing integrity — continues to sniff around for money while feeling sorry for himself. He uses Dorothy’s loyalty to quell his own fear of loneliness, hastily marrying her rather than allowing her to move away. When Tidwell calls him out on assuming a father figure role to Dorothy’s young and unnecessarily cute son (Jonathan Lipnicki) as a means to get into her pants, Jerry admits that he “shoplifted the pootie.”
That’s not to say that Jerry Maguire is all bad. There’s much to admire in the scope of the film (Crowe is nothing if not ambitious). The realistic on-field NFL scenes dazzle until Tidwell awakens from a head injury to indulge in a protracted and outrageous touchdown breakdance. Zellweger rose to prominence following her empathetic performance as Dorothy, and Gooding Jr. deserved his Best Supporting Actor nod for the engrossing portrayal of a flamboyant wide receiver. Furthermore, the film presciently highlights the destructive nature of concussions 15 years before that specific injury gained its current preventative focus within the NFL. And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t relish the cameos by the likes of Drew Bledsoe, Troy Aikman, and Warren Moon. Even the old-school “Monday Night Football” trio of Frank, Al and Dan make an appearance. But while the film succeeds in the believability of its setting, Jerry’s transformation never fully manifests. The “you complete me” payoff (a ham-fisted line to begin with) doesn’t resonate with me because I don’t believe for a second that Jerry changes.
The fact that this movie received Best Picture and Best Actor nominations (Cruise essentially does little more than tap into his own mania) may speak more to the period of its release than the quality of its content. There’s a dated feel to every frame, and era-specific cultural references lose their zing after a decade and a half. What may have been a heartwarming cinematic experience in the mid-‘90s now comes off as cheesy and stale. At least “shoplifted the pootie” never caught on.
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FashionTuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Around this time during the past several years, I find myself thinking that my work is out of fashion, out moded. Usually, I don’t know what causes it – a slowing down of activity, seasonal depression (this is Seattle after all). What triggered it this time, however, was an invitation from Zoë Scofield and Juniper Shuey to attend their APAP showing at The American Realness Festival. The details are unimportant in many ways but what struck me about the invitation and set me off was how aware I was of a shift in aesthetic tastes as evidenced by the artists that are the “real Americans”, those included in the Festival, Miguel Gutierrez, Ann Liv Young, Luciana Achugar, Layard Thompson, Jack Ferver and Jeremy Wade. Some of it is generational of course and of course I am not only another generation but also fall into another set of aesthetic values category as well… Wow, I think to myself — this is what old feels like!
The problem is that there is a tendency to think of these aesthetic shifts as absolutes; that generational shifts in perspectives are truths and not just a truth but permanent and absolute truths. Yes, these shifts are indeed real but just like dance they are ephemeral, transitory, and temporary. And like fashion or trends, well, even life itself, they will again shift, change and be different…
Last week in the New York Times Roslyn Sulcas and to some degree an unaccredited author in the Financial Times while writing on the Judith Jamison 20th anniversary celebration as artistic director of the Ailey Company, repeatedly vomiting out and regurgitated the same half digested stale old rhetoric about the mediocrity of the works commissioned and revived by the company under Ms Jamison tenure. What they both failed to recognize is that those works in many ways represent the dance fashion of the time that they were created, pieces from the “ready to wear collections” of the choreographers, if you will. And like padded shoulders and thick eyebrows they were meant to be no more than what they were, popular and the look of the time. They help to sell the company; they brought audiences in to the theaters and put butts in the seats. And like the perennial Nutcrackers that populate our stages at this time of year, they delighted some and perhaps help to whet the appetites of a few for something more substantial. If these choreographies did not meet the “classic” test, well most things don’t, but they served their purpose – they made the Ailey Company the most well-known and successful modern dance company in the world!
Ms Sulcas concludes,” But the depressing conclusion to be drawn here is that, in the main, the choreography challenges neither the dancers nor the audiences. It’s even more depressing that everyone seems to like it that way.” I say – Who said that fashion or entertainment was about challenges? What Ms Sulcas and other like-minded critics might value might be of no value to Ms Jamison and the supporters of the Ailey Company and the opinions of such critics might be like people deliberately and continuously farting and fouling the air during a birthday celebration of a beloved relative.
Now back to my original thought. If my work or aesthetic values are outdated, do my past work and my current work have value? Do I need to dress-up what I do differently in order for its worth or content to be gotten or appreciated? Another set of questions might be: Is much of the American dance works currently in fashion today devoid of “content”? But rather the aesthetic packaging is the content? Its stylishness, its construction, its cleverness, how it’s accessorized (video, text, celebrity artists collaborator), its intellectual conceits, and its total visual appeal might be “the point”?
Perhaps what is most valuable for me in all of this thinking and wondering is – none of this has anything to do with why I do the work I do or whether I will continue to do it. I get value from what I do and the dances I create and there appears to be others that get value as well. During my 33 years of making dances I have found myself many times, to paraphrase Heidi Klum the host of Project Runway, being out one minute and in the next minute. But it has never been auf Wiedersehen.
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I just started using my new I2C LCD Interface v3 and, since I am using it with an old LCD module with no backlight, I have had no problems. There will be a serious problem if and when I attempt to use it with my newer backlit LCD module since you have made no provisions for a current limiting resistor. I realize that many of the newer LCD modules have a built in current limiting resistor but you should realize that many do not. I didn't notice this omission until I had already mounted the transistor. I suppose I can remove the transistor and put the current limiting resistor between it's C and E pads thus giving up software control of the backlight. Do you have a better suggestion since PWM is not an option when using an I2C extender.
It wouldn't be hard to incorporate such a resistor in your current board design but it would obliterate the silk-screen lettering for the push buttons unless you make the board longer. While you are at it you really should reconsider how you are implementing your backlight control. Specifically, since you are using high side switching you should be using a PNP transistor. This should be almost trivial to fix using your current board design.
Another improvement, which would probably require some extra real estate, would be some jumpers to enable/disable the I2C pull-up resistors. I have connected mine via some machined pins so I can remove them but jumpers would be nicer.
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Posts Tagged ‘…!
Fiddy.May 24, 2011.
Donhou Hotness.March 18, 2011..
Flickr Grips. Old boys and TTs.December 1, 2010
Legends of TT in Photographs.November 25, 2010
So, I have not long gotten my grubby mitts on the TT frame I have been seeking for a good few months, and while hunting around this massive web of goodness, for inspiration on a somewhat ‘period correct’ build, I came across this super and smashing forum thread of pure appreciation for the golden era of British Time Trialling.
As many black and white and colour photograph scans that one could ever wish for. Seriously, page after page of sloping top tubes, drilled out brake levers, skin suits, 24″ front wheels, the lot.
A big thanks to all the contributors of said thread, your photographs are nothing short of amazing!…)
Tommy Simpson.October 12, 2010
Pete Boydell. Smashing it.September 20, 2010
Milk Race Scan.August 20, 2010
Great snap! Seen here.
Mo Rapha. Rouleur No. 19August 5, 2010.
Another great issue it seems.
Grab. »
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To start you're going to need a Wayfinder Helmet(dropped by the Main boss in the Warehouse) and 5,366 gold.
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Thank you!! My Myth alt (a boy) went from around 42K gold to over 125K in a couple of hours last night.
For me the robes turned out to be a little faster than the hats, buying one defaulted to the cheapest brown/brown combo so I didn't need the extra step of changing to those colors first.
This guide is great because I am sitting on three robes that I can't sell without losing money! Yay me! >:(
It works for everyone :). Only problem - If a Wayfinder hat/robe is already in the catalog in the Bazaar your hat/robe sells for a lot less so you have to wait till they are all sold. Thanks for the mention and discovery!
Thank you for telling me this. I really need to know how to make gold. I only have about four hundred twenty two. So like I said before keep posting your awesome posts and you and your house are AWESOME!
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Ditch The Dumbbells And Get A Chin Up Bar
The chin up bar has become the most intimidating piece of workout equipment out there. The reason is because it is the one thing that will tell you exactly how strong you are. Forget doing a ton of curls or bench presses. If getting your head over the bar is impossible to do then you are not pound for pound strong. Focusing on getting better at chin ups is a must for anybody looking to get into shape.
Have you ever noticed what kind of people use a pull up bar? You will probably notice that they have a lean muscular figure. There is no room to build up a lot of bulk because you need the lean muscle to power through more reps. With not being able to add weight you have to do more reps. This is how you build lean muscle and endurance.
If you are looking for a back, bicep, shoulder, and core workout then this is what you need. Depending on what type of pull up you are doing, the bicep is going to take the brunt of the exercise. Reverse grip chin ups focus on back, shoulders, and abs. Wide front grip pull ups use shoulders, back, and your core. Close grip use shoulders, back, and core. Most people do not realize it but your core get a workout as it needs to keep the rest of the body in one place.
It is not uncommon to see people put on ten pounds of lean muscle within a month just from working on chin ups. Your body is the best resistance you can get. The chance of injury is very lower when doing them because gravity is doing all of the work and there are no free
Many people who get use to doing them take a break from doing curls as they are getting better results from pull ups. It is more fun telling people that you can do 20 chin ups at one time then saying you curl 45 pounds. If you want to sculpt your upper body and arms then you need to go and get a P90X pull up bar as soon as possible and start trying to do them. Many people who do the P90X workout live by this exercise when they are done.
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There is no doubt South Africa deserved to win, as they produced 20 minutes of the most amazing rugby we have seen since the 2007 World Cup.
However, the 36-27 win over England in Johannesburg on Saturday produced everything that is good, bad and even ugly about Springbok rugby.
Four tries to three, 22-3 after 20 minutes and the Boks looked like world champions. Move the clock on 40 minutes and the scoreline reads 31-27. Also, after leading 28 - 10 just after half-time, the home side managed to lose their structure and had to scramble for the win.
Injuries may also have been a factor, as the high number of replacements impacted on the Boks' momentum.
Jan de Koning rates the South Africa players!
15 Pat Lambie:
His positional play was from the top drawer and not even a heavily strapped ankle (when he came down heavily from a high ball in the first half) seemed to bother him.
6/10
14 JP Pietersen:
He found his verve and swerve, while his workrate was even more impressive. There was one great run in the second half - when the Boks were under pressure and he finished off a move he started way back in his own half - that said all about his game. His defence was also exemplary - such as the occasion when he shoved a charging Thomas Waldrom into touch.
8/10
13 Jean de Villiers (captain):
Great chasing to set up scrum five metres from England line and his defence was dominant - resulted in a few turnovers. However, it was his sublime off-loading that really impressed.
7/10
12 Frans Steyn:
Took the ball up strongly and then produced a sublime grubber that almost resulted in a try. However, his power with all in hand is what made him so valuable to this team.
7/10
11 Bryan Habana:
He continues to regain his best form, even though it was by no means flawless. Made plenty of ground with ball in hand early in the match, and even starting to win turnovers at the breakdown.
6/10
10 Morné Steyn:
He appears to be so intent on silencing those critics, who suggest he is one-dimensional and doesn't have a running game, that he is neglecting what makes him so great - his kicking. While his out of hand kicking mostly kept the English on the back foot, he did put one directly into touch that ultimately resulted in an England try. His goal-kicking remains an issue and some of his options can be questioned.
5/10
9 François Hougaard:
His options were much better and only when he sniped it counted. He handled the ball 79 times, passing it 72 times. And he scored a great try.
6/10
8 Pierre Spies:
The most impressive aspect of his game - apart from his powerful carries and weaving runs - was his work off the ball and a number of line-out steals.
7/10
7 Willem Alberts:
He set the tone with that early pick-up from a scrum for the opening try and then continued with those bullocking runs to which England had no answer. He could do a bit more work on defence.
8/10
6 Marcell Coetzee:
He ran into space and took the ball up at pace to ensure the Boks got on the front foot from the outset. He also produced the highest tackle count of the Boks and did not slip a single one.
7/10
5 Juandré Kruger:
One of the unsung heroes of the pack - doing the hard yards in the close exchanges. He was missed when he left the field.
6/10
4 Eben Etzebeth:
He is growing in stature with every match and at this rate will be a fixture in the Boks' second row for years to come. Another monster on defence.
7/10
3 Jannie du Plessis:
His scrumming has improved incredibly and his cleaning out at the ruck was also impressive. Did not slip a single tackle.
6/10
2 Bismarck du Plessis:
His workrate was immense in the early stages - cleaning out countless rucks and then charged at the English as much as any of the other Bok forwards. He produced his usual turnovers.
7/10
1 Tendai Mtawarira:
Beeeaaaast! That cry went up numerous times and grew louder with every metre he gained in the first half. But he was the epitome of the Bok team after the break - some strong moments and then got dominated in the scrums.
6/10
Replacements:
16 Adriaan Strauss (on for B du Plessis, 60 min):
Simply did not have the same impact as last week.
5/10
17 Werner Kruger (on for J du Plessis, 59th min):
One very strong run, but then penalised at another scrum. Boks appeared to lose momentum with the changes.
5/10
18 Flip van der Merwe (on for J Kruger, 62nd min):
He had his moments, but also disappeared at times. Struggled to get into the game.
5/10
19 Keegan Daniel (on for Alberts, 52nd min):
He did nothing wrong, but was pretty much anonymous and the absence of Alberts was certainly felt by the Boks.
5/10
20 Ruan Pienaar (on for Habana, 57th min):
Made one tackle, but was mostly a link. Another questionable replacements.
5/10
21 Wynand Olivier (on for Lambie, 44th min):
Made his tackles, as he always does, but otherwise had no impact on the game. His move to centre also eliminated the effectiveness of Frans Steyn, who moved to fullback.
5/10
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Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan has called for Mohammad Amir to be recalled to the national team once he has served his ban for spot-fixing.
Amir was last year jailed along with Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif after taking part in spot-fixing during Pakistan's tour of England in a scandal that rocked cricket.
Amir was also given a five-year ban from cricket but has appealed against the length of the sentence and indicated a desire to resume his cricket as soon as possible.
"I would have him back," Khan said during an interview on the BBC's TMS show. "He didn't lie. He was straightforward. He said, 'Look, I did this, it was a mistake, and I ask for forgiveness'.
"And for a 19-year-old, yes, I would forgive him.
"My heart has always gone out to Amir because he was one of the best young talents I've seen. But at least he pleaded guilty straight away and said 'I've made a mistake'.
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Ger Lyons is in no rush to formulate future plans for Lightening Pearl following her defeat in the QIPCO 1000 Guineas on Sunday.
Last year's Cheveley Park heroine was making her seasonal reappearance but having got worked up before the race, was ultimately well beaten into 13th place.
There was drama before the off as Gray Pearl got trapped under her stall and had to be put down, causing a lengthy delay before the start of the race and Lyons feels a number of factors contributed to his filly's below-par effort.
"She's fine this morning and the plan is for her to travel home this afternoon," said Lyons on Monday.
"It was just one of those days, unfortunately. It was a bit of a funny race as the first and last furlongs were slow and they were sprinting in the middle part of the race.
"The Godolphin fillies were last and second last, we had to stand behind the stalls for 25 minutes and it was just one of those races you have to put behind you and move on I think.
"She travelled away well behind the winner but then when she quickened, our filly quickened slightly but not enough.
"I don't think we learnt a whole pile about the trip. The ground wasn't so bad that we would take her out, but it probably wasn't ideal and it was more than likely a combination of the ground and the trip.
"I also wasn't happy with her in the pre-parade ring as she was getting agitated, which isn't like her as last year she was so professional.
"She's in the Irish Guineas and the July Cup. There is a good sprint at York in the summer as well, so we have options.
"We'll just see how the filly is over the next couple of weeks. Sunday was disappointing, but that's racing.
"We still have our filly this morning and the connections of Gray Pearl unfortunately don't, so you have to put things in perspective."
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Cavs' Irving has broken bone in jaw
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SAN FRANCISCO -- If we're lucky, the Dominican Republic made history Tuesday night. No, it wasn't just that they won the World Baseball Classic with a 3-0 victory over Puerto Rico in a game they controlled from the first inning. It wasn't that they became the first team to go undefeated in the tournament, running the table from San Juan to Miami to here with eight wins in which they allowed just 14 runs. No, maybe they gave us something more lasting than titles and trivia.
It's what the Dominicans did after a brief celebration that followed the last out: they walked across the infield and met the Puerto Ricans by the first-base line -- near the Puerto Rico dugout -- and gave them handshakes and hugs.
What an even more beautiful baseball world it would be if every Major League Baseball postseason series, if not regular-season series, ended with such a show of respect and sportsmanship. What a legacy for the Dominicans and the Puerto Ricans if the postgame handshake becomes a baseball tradition, and generations could forever mark the 2013 WBC final as the moment when class took root in the game.
"Yes, I would like to see that in the major leagues," said Dominican reliever Octavio Dotel. "It shows that we can play hard and compete against each other but in the end we are all family."
The moment was a touching one for Caribbean baseball. The rivalry between the Dominicans and Puerto Ricans has spanned many years and intense winter baseball seasons, but always with respect and a sense of commonality. But Dotel agreed the postgame handshake could well hold bigger meaning than it does in the islands.
"Hopefully this is a message for the rest of baseball," he said.
Only two nights earlier, Japan provided its own version of civility and sportsmanship. Upon a disappointing semifinal defeat to Puerto Rico, the Japanese players lined up on the third-base line and bowed to the victors, and then bowed to the fans.
It's a gaping hole in the American game when you think about it. Teams shake hands on every amateur level in baseball. Teams in virtually all other sports do it, even when the underlying purpose of the sport is to beat the other guy's brains out. Individual sports such as tennis and golf do it.
But when you become a professional baseball player you literally turn your back on the team you just competed against and leave the field without so much as a "good game."
Even fifth and sixth-graders know it should change. In 2005, students at the Merriam School in Acton, Mass., petitioned the Yankees and Red Sox to begin their season-opening game with a handshake, a nod to the school's peace-making effort on the school playgrounds. Red Sox manager Terry Francona said it was up to the players. "I'm not going to make them do it," he said.
Come game time, the 40 or so students gathered in a classroom to watch the introduction of the players. The kids chanted, "Shake, shake, shake." But the players turned their backs on the other team and returned to their dugout. Nothing changed.
Managers do shake hands when lineup cards are announced and batters often greet the catcher upon their first at-bat of a game. Great. A postgame or post-series handshake would work even better.
The Dominicans were a treat to watch to the very end. They played with smiles and fervor. They showed that you can play hard and still have fun -- imagine that.
One of the biggest lies of the tournament was that "some people," especially the Americans, were upset with the way the Dominican players celebrated strikeouts, hits and runs. It was a media-driven non-story, a grab at a quick headline. As USA manager Joe Torre said, they played with passion and never directed their exuberance into the face of their opponents. Torre had no problem with how they played. Every player on the record had no problem with it. It was one of the joys of the tournament.
The Dominicans had every right to enjoy the Classic. They dominated while singing songs in the dugout and waving a rally plantain -- just the kind of silly stuff you might see on a youth baseball field, before everybody gets so caught up in "acting the right way" and tamping down enthusiasm becomes an American coaching requirement.
The Dominican bullpen closed out the tournament with 25 2/3 scoreless innings. Jose Reyes played every inning as if his pants were on fire. Fernando Rodney, keeper of the plantain, was a treat to watch in the dugout and on the mound. The Dominicans played with an intense sense of purpose and pride, born partly from their embarrassing first-round knockout in 2009 with two losses to the Netherlands. Their players trained all winter to be game ready for early March.
Meanwhile, back in the U.S. in January, Torre fought tooth and nail to get one more workout day for Team USA out of the 30 general managers. Torre was trying to forge a spirit of teamwork among his guys and get them ready for tournament baseball. The general managers would have none of it. They said no to even one measly additional workout day.
If the USA is going to do anything in this tournament, it should have the American players report to a team training camp, not to their MLB camps. The USA team would be the 31st team in spring training and train and play games together against other MLB teams before the tournament.
Not only does Japan do it this way, they also have tryouts for the team. Yes, they cut players in order to arrive at their WBC roster.
In the Dominican, nobody complained about training harder or earlier to be ready for the WBC, as Americans have done. Nobody wrote it off as an exhibition, the way Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels did. The Dominican Republic was fully vested in the event. They are worthy champions who taught the rest of the baseball world lessons about pride and enthusiasm, but also, in the end, sportsmanship. Let this be just the beginning of something wonderful.
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"Every kid you see on the street here with a football wants to play in an FA Cup final at Wembley," says Kasey Keller, the American goalkeeper for the south London club Millwall. "That is the pinnacle. The FA Cup final is the World Series, the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals combined. That's it. There is nothing more."
Ten-year-olds playing two-a-sides in West London—their "goal" a closed gate at the Queens Park Rangers' ground—all claim to be Ranger striker Les Ferdinand, with a spot in the final on the line. "Goal!" shrieks a lad in the blue-and-white hoop stripes of QPR. "Ferdinand! Two-nil! Rangers are in the Cup final against...against...Man United!"
"No," says the goalkeeper. "They're bad luck. Villa."
"Against Aston Villa!"
In real life, mighty Manchester United eliminated QPR on its way to this year's Cup final. When the Reds kicked off against Everton three weeks ago, they were watched in 70 countries, by 500 million people, many of whom had been backing Man United since the '58 Cup final. That year United reached Wembley only three months after the team's plane crashed on takeoff in Munich, killing eight players and 15 other passengers. United lost the Cup to Bolton but won the world's everlasting allegiance.
"I've had conversations about Man United in the Bolivian Andes," says novelist and soccer writer Pete Davies, whose acclaimed account of the English team in the '90 World Cup, All Played Out, has been published in...Japanese. "There is a team in Namibia called Liverpool. There is a team in Lesotho called Arsenal. When Man United won their first league title in 26 years [in 1993], BBC Radio reported the celebration live from a supporters' club in Bondi Beach, Australia."
In soccer England still has an empire free of sunsets. John Harkes, a U.S. midfielder and five-year English League veteran who played for Sheffield Wednesday in the '93 FA Cup final, reads the postmarks on four months of fan mail backlogged in his Derbyshire home. "Germany, Hungary, Thailand, Hong Kong..." he begins. "I try to respond immediately, but...."
But it's impossible to keep up, even for one used to the VCR-on-scan pace of soccer as played in the British Isles. "All-out attacking...up-tempo...fast-break" is how Man United fan Hakeem Olajuwon has described the English League game. But this only begins to account for its planetary appeal, only begins to explain why....
Why, when Fidel Castro was touring French vineyards in March, he asked to attend Arsenal's match at nearby Auxerre in the quarterfinals of the European Cup-Winners Cup, a tournament among domestic cup champions from the previous season. (El comandante let slip that he has long been a Gooner, as Gunner fans are globally known.)
Why, when Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia under tight security in 1994, after 20 years in political and football exile, his Alaska Air ticket bore the pseudonym MR. R. GIGGS.
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What a great story these two have crafted! I can't wait for the next book in the series! A story of God's love and mercy, I was impressed by how this collaboration turned out!
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"...heartwarming collaborative debut." - Publishers Weekly
"This Southern mother-daughter story is refreshingly well written and will easily engross readers of women's fiction." - Library Journal
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Why aren't people converting to Drip irrigation?
by Scott76 (May 2nd 2013, 1:59pm)
We are not seeing the change over to drip/micro irrigation that we were expecting after the drought last year.
Considering the water restrictions in place last year and the money savings of drip I'm surprised.
Reasons for the reluctance to change?
TRC Commander Remote Repair
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Need help deciding if a remote control for your sprinkler system is worth the investment? Start pumps, valves and sprinklers without going back to the controller. Weather sensors (rain shutoff, freeze shutoff, and wind-Rain-Freeze sensors). Lets talk!
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Control valves divide your system into sections or zones and are controlled by the controller. Look here for help determining which ones you need? What size should you use? Which ones are recommended for dirty water? Do you need flow control or not?
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Fertigation is the process of delivering small amounts of fertilizer through the sprinkler system each time the system is operated. Installing and operating these kits are very easy. Look here to discuss ease of use and benefits.
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5 Types of Pumps: Displacement Pumps, Centrifugal Pumps, Submersible Pumps, Floating Pumps, and Turbines & Jet Pumps This forum covers: Types of Pumps, Pressure vs. Flow, Selecting a Pump, Pump Hydraulics, Booster Pumps, Buying a Pump, Pump Curves, and Pump Controls
Keeping track of your jobs & customers
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We answer questions and have discussions here about all the other stuff such as fittings, the best way to connect a sprinkler tothe pipe, wire selection, the best tools for the job, and anything else that falls into the misc category.
Please, need help with an Imperial Sprinkler System.
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I came across a couple of useful things today relating to Google Apps.
The first is a student perspective on the ease of use of Google Apps for her course. She is very articulate and succinct in her responses, and shows a mastery of her digital environment.
If school children are demonstrating this level of knowledge, understanding and proficiency in using Google Apps then it seems out of step to be providing anything proprietory at university, particularly if it offers less functionality and required students then learning an unfamiliar environment that they won’t use again after graduation.
A teacher also talks about her use of Google Apps for her classes.
As a supplement to the above, there are some resources available at Google Tools for Educators including links to some useful videos.
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First issue of the new Boo!M™ zine line, edited by Stephen R. Bissette and Denis St. John, featuring 20 pages of horrific & humorous art, illustrations, and strips celebrating & satirizing the Pre-Code horror comics boom of 1950-1954. Signed by Bissette & St. John!
Tune Into Wampum Physics First CD from my son Daniel Bissette & his pal Alex Hiam Now On Sale! Alex Hiam, at left; Daniel Bissette, at right; Wampum Physics cover photograph ©2011 Ezra Distler. Wampum Physics (2012) is Daniel Bissette and Alex Hiam, “born and raised gents from the land of Brattleboro, VT” and this … Continue reading →
SRBissette: Sabbatical dreaming: Awoke from a dream about struggling with a revolt in the classroom, & one caring student's concerns. Now awake. Bummer.
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Anyway, last night I cleaned out the fridge of some chicken, onions and carrots and made my chicken and dumplings, but instead of making dumplings, I added some rice. It was tasty, but after awhile, the rice virtually dissolved into the yummy creamy broth. Oh well. I still had two bowls.
I've also been meaning to point this out. A few weeks ago in the Washington Post, they had a little product highlight that included: Pinch Plus!
So we've all encountered the situation where you don't have a jar of a certain spice and you only need a small bit. Pinch Plus is almost a solution for that dilema. Pinch Plus packages spices in little, sealed packets that contain One Tablespoon of the herb or spice. I like the idea in general. It's a great way to affordably try new spices and herbs or not have to throw away the outdated, stale products in your cupboards. The downside comes to the variety of spices. Most people would be comfortable buying a jar of basil or cinnamon. So my only suggestion is the broaden the product base and include different varieties of curry or branch into some of the more exotic herbs and spices.
Maybe their could be a partnership with Nirmala's or Penzey's? Anywho...I do like their packaging of certain spice combinations into little booklets with coordinated recipes!
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I've done that too with chicken and dumplings, replacing the rice. It's jsut as good.
Hmmmm.... I'm afraid I may have a whole cabinet drawer full of stale old spices. How long do they normally last?
Stef: I've heard that spices last from 6 months to 2 years...I know I have spices have been around much longer than that!!! Spices I'm comfortable keeping a touch longer than I will herbs.
While spices do lose their flavor, I find that just heating them in a dry pan perks them right up.
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The St. Anne's School Experience
"When I was looking for a preschool for my daughter, I sought out all the schools in the area. I stopped by St. Anne’s School for an application and a young girl lead me to the office and said that she loved it at the school. I saw that she was happy, confident and at ease with adults. That’s what I wanted my little girl to be, and now she is also.
I believe that St. Anne’s School of Annapolis provides my children with an exceptional learning experience in a safe and secure environment. They are learning beyond the basics of education, as well as how to be good citizens and productive members of society with an understanding of compassion and empathy. I couldn’t ask for much more than that.
I like the sense of security and trust that the schools gives to me when my children are there; the knowledge that my children are getting an incredible education; and knowing that they are building wonderful memories on which they will reflect for the rest of their lives."
--Elaine Pavlick
"St. Anne's School has created a nurturing environment in which students and teachers have what they need to grow: respect, encouragement and high expectations."
---Sigrid Murphy
"When I think of the type of persons I want my children to be as adults: honest, caring and generous individuals who strive to learn, I am so grateful to be at St. Anne's School where these same values are lived out in the classroom. And while the academic instruction is evident I hear it in my sons' dialogue at home our children are not so much being taught, as they are learning to learn. The teachers at St. Anne's School are professionals; professional instructors, professional nurturers, and professional learners. They set the example of community that is so essential to our children's well-being and growth. The foundation of this community comes from the leadership, the Head of School and parent leaders, who set the exceptionally high standard for the school. As parents, it is our responsibility to support and strengthen this foundation and the St. Anne's School community as well."
---Haley and Jamie DeMaria
"My three daughters attended St. Anne's School preschool and I started teaching there as a long term sub and then stayed on the following year. I searched many preschools for my girls and I fell in love with St. Anne's School. What keeps me here: The talented, diverse staff is very exciting to me, not only are they my colleagues, but my close friends. I have been here for 15 years and I love the families. I have had the privilege of teaching many sibs and I have also been able to watch many of my students move on through high school and now beyond!"
---Anne Egan
"We were initially attracted to St. Anne's School as a result of a clear connection we felt to its Mission Statement. Our initial meetings with some of the leadership team at the school reinforced our belief that they actually "lived the mission." We continue to be thankful that we made the choice to enroll our child at St. Anne¹s School as they have delivered on everything they promised: a focus on the "whole child" where they integrate academic, social, leadership, and community service skills into their learning methodology; a curriculum and stimulating learning environment that fosters critical thinking; a focus on professional development; teachers who apply the latest proven research on child development and learning; and a school community that is committed to excellence. We believe St. Anne's School is preparing our child to "live a life of consequence." We couldn't ask for more than that."
---Kurt Kroemer
"I'd love to thank every single teacher for preparing me so well for high school! You have no idea how helpful the Capstone Project was for writing my papers. I have about one a week and I don't know how I would handle them if I didn't have that guidance through my first research paper."
--- Class of '11 Alum
"St. Anne's is committed to transforming lives and building community. In the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, St. Anne's School strives to BE the change we want to see in our world. St. Anne's sees itself as a laboratory for the development of an equitable and just community, where learning to live compassionately and respectfully with others is as important as academic achievement."
---The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, Bishop of Maryland
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shoruken wrote:extomomi wrote:Just realized that i forgot to change my avatar even though I switched my oshi (kasai-->acchan) 2 years ago.
Ha~ Finally i could say i'm an Acchan Oshi/Wota
You really do live up to the name, extomomi... welcome (officially) to the club
We have the same top 2 members if you like Kojiharu too
extomomi~ sigh~Didn't expect that at the beginning. "ex" was simply my initial.
Anyways, thanks for the warm welcome.
And i guess we do have the same top 2 members
P.S Somehow i followed your twitter ...uhmm...
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Brilliant little card Tiffany........who could resist that toothy grin?
Sue W said...
November 25, 2010 at 5:26 PM
what a cute card!
Jolanda said...
November 25, 2010 at 9:25 PM
He makes me smile! Very cute Tiffany!
Have a great weekend :)
Andrea
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Andrea said...
November 26, 2010 at 7:44 PM
Hi Tiffany,
Your Lil' Monster card is sooooooooooooooo CUTE, LOVE it!
Take Care,
Hugs,
Kylie X
Kylie said...
November 30, 2010 at 10:03 PM
I am so in love with this card. The little monster is soooo cute ad the colours you have chosen to accent the stamp - perfect!
Jerusha said...
December 1, 2010 at 1:49 AM
This is just adorable. I love how you used the different patterned papers and the embossed dot background, so fun.
Ida said...
December 2, 2010 at 6:24 PM
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1. NPR stands for National Percentile Rank.
2. The National Percentile Rank is based on the mean NCE score for each group.
3. Mean scaled scores for groups in counties, districts, or schools whose student scores are based on mixed numbers of days of instruction should not be used to compare the performance of one school, district, or county with another.
Reports copyright © 2000 by the California Department of Education. Scores based on normative data copyright © 1996 by Harcourt. All rights reserved.
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20km Bike Ride in Beijing
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The weather last Saturday was so nice that we decided to cycle down to Panjiayuan to check out the antiques market. Peter mapped out our route and announced, “It’s 9.9km one way!”. Cripes, I told him, I’m not sure I can do it. But then, it was such a beautiful day to be out cycling [...]
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Star Wars: Republic 3: Prelude to Rebellion, Part 3Talk0
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Prelude to Rebellion, Part 3 is the third issue in the Star Wars: Republic series of comics. It was published on February 17, 1999 by Dark Horse Comics.
Publisher's summaryEdit
As Ki-Adi-Mundi gets closer to the truth of who is seeking to destabilize his homeworld, and why, he comes closer and closer to his own doom, and only the dimly remembered teachings of his diminutive Jedi Master can save him!
Plot summaryEdit
Shortly after the death of the Swoop-gang leader, Skeel, Ephant Mon decides it is time to move their hiding place. It turns out to be none-too-soon, as Ki-Adi-Mundi is hot on his trail. Just as he is attacked by Mon's merc droid, a messenger from the Elders arrives with his lightsaber. While barely escaping with his life, the Jedi Council authorizes to pursue his charges off-world.
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Source: Politico
President Barack Obama blew through Denver during a snowstorm Thursday afternoon to boost Sen. Michael Bennet’s re-election campaign, part of a skip across the West to help vulnerable candidates, The Denver Post reports. The president stumped for the rookie Democratic senator in front of about 2,700 people packed into Fillmore Auditorium, then cruised through town in his motorcade to a cocktail fundraiser at the downtown Sheraton.
In other coverage:
Mike Littwin, The Denver Post: If you want an idea just how toxic things are in Washington these days, all you had to do was take a trip to Denver. As you’ve probably seen, Jane Norton welcomed Barack Obama to town by cutting her first TV ad, calling on Obama — who may not have seen the ad — to balance the budget or not run for re-election in 2012.
The Denver Daily News: President Barack Obama’s fundraising visit to Denver yesterday in support of U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet came with its fair share of controversy and protest. From medical marijuana advocates who want to stop raids on growers, to conservatives who questioned the cost of Obama’s visit to Denver, the picket lines were colorful yesterday afternoon outside the Fillmore Auditorium where Obama spoke.
Bloomberg: President Barack Obama is emphasizing his administration’s actions on the economy during a two-state Western state swing that comes as he’s trying to bolster the chances of Democrats in November’s elections. The president plans to announce today in Las Vegas $1.5 billion in funding for housing finance agencies in states where the average prices for homes have fallen more than 20 percent from their peak, according to an administration fact sheet.
Politico:.
San Francisco Examiner: Complaining that America has grown “numb” from “slash and burn politics,” President Obama urged Democrats here to keep faith with the party and ignore the noise from Washington. Back in full-throated campaign mode, Obama is on a two-day swing through the West trying to shore up a pair of his party’s embattled Senate incumbents.
Los Angeles Times: Looking to galvanize Democrats, President Barack, the president invoked a famous phrase from Truman’s come-from-behind bid to stay in the White House in 1948.
The Denver Post: Text of Obama’s Denver remarks.
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I’ve often pondered what Las Vegas would be like if it were a soundless black-and-white scene. Without the sensory stimulant, I imagine that there would be less inclination to shell out money in the Spartan atmosphere.
The same goes for financial institutions. Imagine a bank unadorned with gilded handrails and polished wood veneer to impress people with the air of professionalism.
They’re really just a Vegas-like facade broadcasting, “Invest your money here; we know what we are doing.” But do they?
Last week, Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to charges against his notorious ponzi scheme, which will likely be chiseled into the history books as a central theme of the current economic crisis. His role as an insider taking advantage of investors’ confidence for his own benefit has been a recurring story that is stirring an angry public sentiment.
In addition, last Thursday’s “Daily Show” on Comedy Central pitted host Jon Stewart against CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer in what was hyped up to be a funny feud between MBAs and the layman. But what aired was what The New York Times later described as a “cathartic ritual of indignation and castigation” of CNBC, and to a greater extent, Wall Street.
Stewart’s bold and relentless attacks peaked when he flatly chastised, “I understand you want to make finance entertaining, but it’s not a f--king game.”
And that is where he touched on my central point: It’s Americans who have been treating finance as a game, which many have now lost and are looking for reasons.
Well, I have one reason: Americans substituted the principles of investing for those of gambling.
Wall Street is not the Vegas Strip, so stop placing bets there. I’ve often heard people say that investing is a gamble — sometimes they win and sometimes they lose. The idea, however, is completely wrong, and I want to make it clear to everyone that the two are not the same.
Here’s the distinction: A sport better assesses a team’s statistical odds, analyzes components and maybe goes with a gut instinct that finally comes together in the form of a bet on the outcome.
An investor, on the other hand, assesses a team, analyzes its components and then makes a decision to sponsor its season, thus providing capital the team can use to perform better.
Pensions, futures, 401k, stocks and bonds are all rooted in sound principles of trade, not gambling. As soon as one thinks they’re gambling their capital, they must in turn forfeit the proper right to complain when the value sinks.
Though it’s sad that many people have been blindsided by dubious practices and have seen their savings and investments deteriorate, the rule remains that everyone must perform their due diligence in managing their investments.
Stewart was right for asking when Americans are “going to realize … that our wealth is work?” Investing is not a crapshoot, a slot machine or a horse race; it’s a real-time market with active trading.
Anyone who treats it like a casino with mindless bets or intuition will have house odds.
And today, seeing the executives of failed banks run away with millions, I can’t help but think that the house won.
Reach Andrew at [email protected].
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No. 17 Gonzaga beats Oklahoma 72-47
By MARK DIDTLER
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) Gonzaga put together a dominating performance in its latest win.."
Oklahoma (3-1) got 13 from Romero Osby. Isaiah Cousins had 10 points.
"Gonzaga did a terrific job in dictating pretty much in every way," Sooners coach Lon.
Harris had 14 of his points during the second half.
"I think it was just the game coming to me at that point," Harris said. "I played more aggressive. That was really the main key.".
"That's one of the strengths of our team this year is depth," Pangos said. "That's a big thing with our team because we just wear down other teams.".
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Alonso, Sounders hand Rapids 6th straight loss
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) Eddie Johnson and Osvaldo Alonso are displaying the talent that made them MLS All-Stars.
Johnson scored in the opening minute on Saturday night and assisted on Alonso's goal in the 66th minute to lift the Seattle Sounders to a 2-1 victory over Colorado and send the Rapids to their sixth straight loss.
"Eddie had a big header for a goal and made a key pass on out other goal," Seattle coach Sigi Schmid said. "Alonso's goal showed why he deserved to be an All-Star."
Seattle (9-5-7) is 2-0-3 in its past five games.
"That win meant more than winning the All-Star game, a game that's more for the fans," Johnson said. "This was all about winning for Seattle Sounders."
Drew Moor scored his third goal of the season in the 3rd minute for Colorado (7-14-1). The Rapids have been outscored 11-3 during their skid.
The Rapids held a lengthy closed-door meeting after the loss.
"We are embarrassed," Colorado coach Oscar Pareja said. "Our fans deserve more than this."
On the tiebreaking goal, Alonso got free of midfielder Wells Thompson, took Johnson's cross, and buried a shot past goalkeeper Matt Pickens for his first goal.
"It all began with great patience by Alex Caskey and then good movement by Eddie," Schmid said. "We finished it off by getting the big goal by Alonso, a player who has done well with previous clubs."
The Sounders have won the teams' first three meetings this year, while allowing just two goals, and have beaten the Rapids six straight times.
"The key was we wanted ball possession and not having to chase them," Schmid said. "We got off to the good start thanks to Eddie's goal, but gave them one right back."
Pickens was denied his 40th career win with the Rapids. He shares the franchise record of 39 wins.
Moor came right back for the Rapids Brian Mullan worked himself free to the left of Seattle goalkeeper Michael Gspurning. Mullan sent a cross to the opposite wing, and Moor beat Gspurning with a header.
Gspurning stopped a scoring chance by Conor Casey with a sliding two-handed catch in the 15th. Johnson put a low drive on goal and denied a second goal by Pickens in the 24th.
Casey had two chances to tie the game for Colorado. He missed the left post with a header in the 70th. Gspurning made a desperate save to stop an ankle high shot by Casey in the 77th.
"He made a good shot," Gspurning said. "I stayed low to the ground and made a good save."
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Suns-Trail Blazers Preview
By MATT BEARDMORE
(AP) -- The Portland Trail Blazers and Phoenix Suns are both riding season-high four-game winning streaks.
If Portland is going to extend its run - and post its seventh consecutive home win in this matchup - on Saturday night, it might have to do so without LaMarcus Aldridge.
Since falling 98-80 to Sacramento on Dec. 8 to open a season-high six-game homestand, the Trail Blazers (12-12) have regrouped to climb back to the break-even point.
Portland, though, might be without Aldridge, averaging a team-best 21.0 points with 8.0 rebounds, for a second straight game after he rolled his ankle late in Sunday's 95-94 victory over New Orleans. Nicolas Batum scored 22, Wesley Matthews added 20 and J.J. Hickson posted his sixth consecutive double-double with 18 and 18 rebounds in Thursday's 101-93 win over Denver, but the Blazers yielded 74 points in the paint without their big man.
"That was tough, but hopefully I'll play tomorrow," Aldridge said on Friday after going through a light workout.
If he doesn't, Hickson is confident that the Blazers can continue their winning ways.
"We all took it upon ourselves individually to step up and not do anything out of the ordinary, but just do a little bit more and it would make up for him not playing," he said.
With Hickson sidelined (left shoulder sprain), Aldridge did not fare well against center Marcin Gortat and the Suns' frontcourt in a 114-87 loss at Phoenix on Nov. 21. Aldridge finished with a season-low 12 points and seven rebounds in that contest, while Gortat had 22 points and seven boards in three quarters of work.
The Suns, who shot a season-best 59.7 percent in that contest, made 51.2 percent of their shots in a 104-92 preseason victory over the Blazers on Oct. 12.
"I don't know (why we've struggled against them)," said rookie guard Damian Lillard, who led Portland with 24 points in last month's game. "When we play them, they just make shots. We played them at their place both times and they're one of those teams that play really well at home."
Phoenix (11-15), though, has lost its last five away from home and was routed 109-71 - the Suns' most lopsided defeat of 2011-12 - in its last game at Portland on Jan. 27.
However, the Suns are hoping to build off a 4-1 homestand that ended with Wednesday's 121-104 victory over Charlotte. Phoenix set season highs for points, 3-pointers (17) and assists (31).
"The ball was circling around, everybody got their touches and we were making shots," point guard Goran Dragic told the Suns' official website after scoring 21 points with a season-high 11 assists. "SB (Shannon Brown) was huge tonight (with five 3s and a season-best 26 points) and our defense was solid."
The Suns, who last won five straight from Jan. 12-21, 2011, are holding teams to 89.5 points per game during their current surge.
The Blazers are surrendering 87.8 per contest since their last defeat.
The home team has won the last four matchups between these teams. Those games have been decided by 25, 38, 18 and 27 points.
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Use 100 random numbers was produced according to the following specifications: Numbers were randomly selected from within the range of 0 to 99999. Duplicate numbers were allowed. This table was generated on 5/18/2013.?
Although no computer algorithm can produce numbers that are truly
random, Stat Trek's Random Number Generator produces numbers that are nearly
random. Stat Trek's Random Number Generator can be used for most statistical
applications (like randomly assigning subjects to treatments in a statistical
experiment). However, it should not be used to generate numbers for
cryptography. minimum and maximum values set limits on the range of values
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smallest number in the range; and the maximum value identifies the largest
number. For example, if we set the minimum value equal to 12 and the maximum
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Long Title
1 Short title
2 Interpretation
3 Raising and maintenance of Vigilante Corps
4 Composition of Corps
5 Functions of Corps
6 Appointment of Commandant
7 Affiliation to Police Force
8 Corps to consist of units
9 Power to disband Corps
10 Oath or affirmation
11 Certificate
12 Resignation and discharge from Corps
13 Delivery of Government property on leaving Corps
14 Desertion
15 Members to obey lawful orders
16 Punishment of subordinate officers
17 Punishment of officers
18 Decision on appeal
19 Commencement of sentence of detention
20 Sentence of detention
21 Provisions as to persons unlawfully at large
22 Recovery of compensation
23 Approval of proper authority for discharge of member called up for national service
24 Prosecution for disciplinary offences
25 Threatening or insulting any police officer or Vigilante Corps member of senior or equal rank
26 Loss of or damage to arms, equipment, etc., to be made good by order of a court or by composition
27 Power to summon witnesses
28 Authorised deductions only to be made from pay
29 Deductions from ordinary pay of member of Corps
30 Supplemental provisions as to deductions from ordinary pay
31 Regulations
32 Continuance of existing Vigilante Corps and persons deemed to be members of Corps
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Offences
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How different mothers are from other folks! Our mother didn't care anything about going around. She'd rather stay at home and work. She was never so happy as when cleaning up the house and bathing babies and washing dishes and baking cake in the hot old kitchen -- cakes for the rest of us to eat.
When the family went riding, if there wasn't enough room for everybody (and there never was), Mother didn't go. She'd rather stay at home, anyhow. Somebody had to stay there.
Now that she's gone, and we've grown up and know a little more than we used to, the accusing truth bobs up. Most certainly she would have enjoyed the rides with the rest; she found no physical refreshment in bending over the hot oven baking cakes for us to eat if they were good and turn up our noses if they weren't; nor did washing dishes and bathing babies and cleaning up the house rest her tired body. She was human. But she was unselfish. She'd rather see us enjoy a good time than to have a little fun herself; she'd rather do the hard, hot work than watch any of the rest of us do it. Doing for other was HER pleasure. What a wonder Mother was!
We remember, too, how we couldn't understand why mother preferred the neck of the chicken to any other part, because we didn't like the neck and none of the rest of the children seemed to care for the neck. But that was what Mother always took for herself. We know now. The only way she could make the chicken go around and not have any one of us feel mean and selfish was for her to take the neck. But we didn't wake up until after she had gone to heaven.
Look here, son, is your mother eating any chicken necks to give you the best things in life? You bet she is. Her whole life has been spent sacrificing for you. She thinks you're perfect, and she won't let anybody say you are not. She loves you; and if you never notice her again as long as she lives, she'll die loving her boy. Now, you go to her today and put your arms around her neck and kiss her lots and lots of times and tell her just how much you owe her for all she's done for you and how much you love her just because she is what she is -- the most wonderful thing in the world --Your Mother.
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let’s redo all the equestrian competitions but this time without the horses
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Police Reports: Son Steals $1,000 Segway from Father
Police reports are provided by St. Charles Police Department. An arrest does not indicate conviction.
Transportation Stolen
- A 56-year-old man reported his son stole a Segway valued at $1,000 from his father. The Segway was at Sun Lake Drive and was taken between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. June 6.
- A 2006 scooter valued at $1,450 was reported stolen between 8 p.m. June 6 and 5 p.m. June 8 from Willow Drive.
- An unsecured men's mountain bike valued at $80 was stolen from the side of a house on Sibley Street between 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. June 7.
- Two unlocked bikes were stolen from Kathryn Linnemann Library bike rack between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. June 9. The bikes were valued at $300.
- A bike was stolen from the front porch of a home in the 2100 block of North 4th Street in St. Charles on June 9.
Cell Phones Taken
- A 26-year-old woman reported a cell phone was stolen while she was working at St. Joseph Health Center between 4:20 and 5:30 a.m. June 6.
- An 18-year-old boy reported his cell phone was stolen June 7 while playing basketball at McNair Park.
Laptops, power tools, plants taken
- An unattended laptop was stolen from the hallway of the Hyland Performance Center at Lindenwood University between 10:20 and 11:20 June 8.
- Power tools were stolen from sheds behind three homes on Pembrooke Drive between 1:30 and 7 a.m. June 9.
- A $1,500 paint sprayer was taken from the rear of an unlocked truck overnight between 8 p.m. June 10 and 8 a.m. June 11.
- Two potted plants were stolen from the front of Lawrence Florist on North Second Street between 2 p.m. June 9 and 1:30 p.m. June 10.
- A 32-year-old man entered an unlocked vehicle and stole a GPS parked in front of a home on Cambrian Way between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. June 12.
- Sunglasses and headphones were stolen out of an unlocked car parked in front of the 3100 block of Mockingbird Drive between midnight and 9 a.m. June 12.
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Students rejoice. After a night of snow and freezing rain, all three St. Clair Shores school districts are closed.
Schools closed due to inclement weather Monday morning include:
- Assumption Nursery School
- Lake Shore Public Schools
- Lakeshore YMCA Child Care Center
- Lakeview Public Schools
- South Lake Schools
- St. Germaine School
- St. Isaac Jogues Catholic
- St. Joan of Arc
- St. Margaret Faith Formation
A Winter Weather Advisory expired at 6 a.m. Monday after several inches of snow fell overnight, turning into freezing rain in areas. The transition to regular rain is expected to happen around sunrise, the National Weather Service says.
According to the National Weather Service, travel can become difficult during a Winter Weather Advisory, particularly due to slippery roads and limited visibility.
On Monday, there's a 50 percent chance of rain before 8 a.m., followed by periods of drizzing. It could become foggy after 8 a.m. Otherwise, the skies will be cloudy with high of 47 degrees.
Stay safe during your commute Monday morning by checking our live traffic map before you leave for work.
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141 Tasting Notes.
Tastes like dried spinach – too vegetal for me. I added some cream and honey, which helped, but it still wasn’t very good. One of the few Twinings teas I don’t like. On the bright side, better than Lipton or Tetley..
After my experience with Numi’s Emperor Puerh, I was not predisposed to like this tea, but I was pleasantly surprised. I was distracted, and let this oversteep, but it did not ruin the tea. The puerh flavor was present, but the earthiness complemented the cocoa, vanilla, and cinnamon flavors. The dominant flavor was chocolate, but it was not just like having a hot cocoa. The earthiness of the puerh made it a different drink, and it also didn’t taste like watered down hot chocolate that some chocolate teas taste like.
This.
This tea has a pleasant earthy taste that is also somewhat malty. The earthiness reminds me of the puerh I tried, except that this is much more pleasant. Not my favorite, and I probably wouldn’t buy it again, but pleasant enough.
Not bad, but not great. I don’ care for the combination: smoky Keemun together with the sweeter Ceylon. The two flavors compete rather than blend.
This.
As soon as I removed the plastic wrapper from the box, the orange scent wafted out of it, even though the bags were individually wrapped. The flavor tastes like mandarin oranges, sweet but with a slight bitter aftertaste, rather than regular oranges. I added a teaspoon of orange blossom honey to sweeten it. The longer I drink it, however, the less I care for it. It is too one-dimensional in its orange flavor. I would rather have the orange flavor paired with a rich black tea that would give it some depth.
About half way through the cup I tired of the flavor, so I added some more hot water and a ceylon teabag and let it steep awhile longer. The orange flavor was muted but at the same time brought out the citrus in the ceylon. I will have to try this again using the two different bags from the beginning.
Wonderful.
I made a second steeping of the leaves, and the tea was weaker, though with the same ceylon flavor. I was a little disappointed at the weaker flavor and at not being able to get multiple steepings out of these leaves, but it is still a good cup.
I!
Strong..
This.
I definitely do not care for this tea. Tastes like dirt to me. I suppose the term should be “earthy,” but dirt works for me. It tastes somewhat like a watered down version of Numi’s Emperor Puerh I tried the other day, though it doesn’t have the fishy flavor.
The.
The flavor was weak, even after six minutes of steeping. Adding honey helped bring out the peach flavor, though the ginger was still faint. After that the flavor was acceptable, but I wouldn’t rush out to buy this tea.
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My!
Another sample from “Numi’s Collection.” The moment you open the bag, the vanilla aroma comes out strong. I steeped the bag for the full five minutes, and added half and half and sweetener, which brought out the flavor and enhanced the creamy texture. The vanilla tastes natural, as it should, since they used vanilla beans, not artificial flavoring. With the half and half, it tastes like melted haagen-dasz vanilla ice cream. From all the bad reviews and from trying other Numi teas this morning, I was thinking I would dislike this tea, but I am pleasantly surprised.
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ehhhh, not as good as Teaopia. (minus serious points!)
There’s something missing, that certain malty depth that makes tea so satisfying for me. It’s smoky, but still weak. I almost wonder how this one would taste with milk(minus points). The teaopia one was just fine on its own but I had to add some agave here(minus points!!)…
Not much else to say about this one, not when I’ve had so much better. If it wasn’t for that I think this would get maybe five extra points from me.
EDIT: ok so I may have been quick to judge… I tried this with milk and it’s a bit better. Bumping it a few notches. The Teaopia version would be terrible with milk so I assumed the same for this one!
ehhhh, not as good as Teaopia. (minus serious points!)
I use this in everything I cook. My wife calls it our “Frank’s Red Hot”. Anyhoo, I recently made a potato soup with this and it is amazing. Completely out of this world. It tastes like a loaded baked potato soup with bacon, but there’s no actual bacon in it! I don’t drink this tea, but if you’re looking for a way to add a lot of flavor to cooking without adding sodium or calories, this is definitely one to keep around!
…I sound like an ad >.>
i agree with you, IB, there is definitely something missing with this version of the tea. the malty depth is a good way to describe what’s missing. thanks!
heh, glad I could help Amanda! :)
I find it a bit scratchy to. Like I need to clear my throat constantly.
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Apple has released a new version of their streaming software: Darwin Streaming Server, DSS.
Many production systems use Solaris 10 for DSS without a problem. DSS works nicely on Solaris 8,9 and 10 and some examples are already presented:
- DSS 5.5.x on Solaris 10 with ZFS and zones
- Prune's patch
Now we have a new version out: 6.0.3 with new features and better Solaris 10 support, here
For all of you interested in streaming you might want to check it out.
Wish list:
- OpenSolaris integration: IPS package, testing
- DTrace probes for DSS
- DSS 64bit support for Solaris
- Better documentation for OpenSolaris, Solaris
Enjoy and happy streaming on Solaris
Saturday, May 24, 2008
3 comments:
Hello, I am in desperate need of hiring someone to get DSS binaries to compile on Solaris. Can I contact you regarding this?
Thanks!
Mike Dunlop
hi,
currently super busy with my current jobs. drop me an email.
Hi Mike,
when I try to install darwin on solaris 8 ( following your instructions) it gives an error
Building RefMovieModule for SunOS.sun4u with g++
make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `Install'
Building DemoAuthorizationModule for SunOS.sun4u with g++
make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `Install'
Building RawFileModule for SunOS.sun4u with g++
for all modules.
what is the reason for this and please advice on how to solve this,
when you are not busy :)
kind regards
NIlanka.
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![ One of my photos included in LPV’s Photographs on the Brain #45… Thanks for the cool pairing Bryan!
(left: Evelyn Hofer, right: Stephanie Gonot)]()
One of my photos included in LPV’s Photographs on the Brain #45… Thanks for the cool pairing Bryan!
(left: Evelyn Hofer, right: Stephanie Gonot)
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This story appeared in Indian Country Today in March 2012.
Past and future national elections cast shadows over a Native-American voting-rights lawsuit argued in Rapid City, South Dakota, on March 8. At the end of the all-day hearing, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Karen Schreier noted that the state and county officials who were defendants in the suit had already voluntarily promised to do everything the Oglala Lakota plaintiffs had requested for this year’s national election.
For the first time, the plaintiffs will be able to early-vote in their own county during a 46-day period leading up to the June primary and November general election, just like other South Dakotans. The plaintiffs originally had just 6 days, which their suit called “a denial of the right to vote” and “discriminatory.” But with their early voting access now assured for 2012, the request for a preliminary injunction ordering exactly that was moot, Judge Scheier declared.
However, the judge noted, the defendants had merely made “representations and promises” to provide equal voting rights in 2012. If they do not carry out these plans, she announced to the court, “bring that to my attention, and I would grant the preliminary injunction.”
The judge also found that the plaintiffs’ other request—for a permanent injunction against future inequalities—remains a “live claim.” In her March 14 opinion, she wrote that because of as-yet-unsolved financial issues, “There is a reasonable expectation that plaintiffs will be subject to the same conduct in the next election cycle, or that the conduct will recur.”
Judge Schreier ended the hearing by saying that registering to vote and casting ballots—both during the early-voting period and on election day—were fundamental rights: “All of our citizens in South Dakota should have equal access.” She commended the counties for “taking steps” to ensure this for 2012, adding, “I wish they had be taken in earlier elections, but at least you’re taking those steps now.”
Clarice Mesteth was one of several Oglala Lakota plaintiffs who attended the hearing. She was pleased at its outcome, she said: “The defendants are not off the hook. They’re accountable for their actions not just this year, but forever.”
Nevertheless, Mesteth was disturbed at Oglalas’ continual, election-after-election struggle for equal enfranchisement, saying, “It seems like everyone wants to make us squirm before they let us vote.”
“The judge has given all parties time to find a lasting, sustainable fix for the funding problems in Shannon County,” said Greg Lembrich, legal director of Four Directions, a voting-rights nonprofit, and senior associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. “There has to be some way the state can ensure that all South Dakota’s citizens are guaranteed their constitutional right to vote.”
Shannon and Fall River counties’ attorney, Sara Frankenstein, said she is doing just that—working with her clients to find long-term funding for Shannon County elections. “The next thing I need is information from South Dakota’s secretary of state about the state’s Help America Vote Act funds—how much there are, how they’re transferred, how we satisfy the federal accounting rules governing them.” She added that Shannon County officials are also trying to discover whether it might be eligible for PILT funds (Payment in Lieu of Taxes, which the Department of the Interior disburses to local entities to make up for financial losses due to non-taxable federally-owned land, such as national parks, within their borders).
Genesis of a lawsuit
The Oglala Lakota lawsuit arose after Shannon County decided in January 2012 that leading up to this year’s primary and general elections, it could afford to give its residents only six days of in-county early voting for each—as opposed to requiring them to drive as many as 200 miles round trip to another county. (Shannon County is roughly contiguous with the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and responsible for national elections there; it is not a tribal entity, but rather a subdivision of the state of South Dakota.) According to Shannon County commissioner Lyla Hutchison, the county was “simply out of money.”
South Dakota’s head election official, Secretary of State Jason Gant, refused to advance cash-poor Shannon County Help America Vote Act funds, saying reimbursement after the elections, backed up by receipts, was state policy. The reimbursement requirement is not federal policy, according to Bryan Whitener of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which administers the federal law, but rather something states may decide to do. A stalemate ensued: Shannon County couldn’t front the money for full elections, so its voters had to make do with less ballot-box access.
Early voting has not been consistently available in Native American areas since South Dakota first began offering this convenient way to cast ballots in 2004. Typically, Shannon County residents have had a fraction of the days offered other South Dakotans, or none at all. When early voting has been provided within Native communities, as many as 46% of voters have used it, driving up election participation, according to O.J. Semans, Sicangu Lakota director of Four Directions. Just 15 days of early voting in 2004 doubled the election turnout over 2000, when it was not available, Semans said.
When it became clear in early 2012 that Shannon County/Pine Ridge would yet again have less early voting than other parts of the state, 25 tribal members called on attorney Steven D. Sandven, of Sioux Falls, to sue Gant, along with officials of both Shannon County and adjacent Fall River County, which handles elections on a freelance basis for Shannon County’s barebones government.
The lawsuit cited the protections of the U.S. and South Dakota constitutions, the Voting Rights Act and other measures. As a voting-rights case, the issue was stark, Sandven said: “Six days versus 46.”
The suit joined the 20-plus that Native Americans and their advocates have brought in South Dakota since the 1980s, winning cases that charged gerrymandering, demands for forms of ID that are not required, failure to provide sufficient polling places, purging of qualified voters from the rolls and intimidation, according to American Civil Liberties Union reports. On the morning of the 2004 general election, for example, a judge stopped poll watchers from following American Indian voters out of voting precincts and taking down their license-plate numbers.
For decades, South Dakota has flamboyantly asserted its position on enfranchisement. Native people didn’t vote there until the 1940s, even though the Indian Citizenship Act gave them that right in 1924. During the 1970s, a state attorney general called the Voting Rights Act an “absurdity” and advised the secretary of state at the time to ignore it. Prior to the 2002 election, the state sent agents to Indian reservations to question newly registered voters and root out alleged voter fraud; no one was ever charged.
This history of discrimination makes two South Dakota counties—Shannon and nearby Todd, which is contiguous with the Rosebud Indian Reservation—subject to special Department of Justice oversight, including “preclearance” of any voting laws it passes. In 2005, a federal court found that the state had managed to avoid preclearance of more than 700 laws.
Money, money, money!
In an 11th-hour reversal just ahead of the March 8, 2012 hearing, state and county officials announced they’d found money to pay for early voting in Shannon County.
Both Shannon and Fall River counties, as well as the state of South Dakota, have long stressed that early-voting inequities were all about money, not an attempt to constrain Native American voters, who are typically heavily Democratic in a Republican-controlled state. However, during the March 8 hearing, startling testimony from Semans revealed that during a Shannon County commissioners’ meeting prior to the 2010 election, his organization offered to donate $11,000 to pay for the upcoming early-voting period in Shannon County.
Consideration of the offer was interrupted by a dramatic announcement by Fall River officials, as they returned to the meeting from a break and tendered 30-day notices of resignation from their Shannon County freelance gigs (though not their Fall River jobs). In the succeeding brouhaha, no one ever contacted Four Directions for the $11,000, Semans testified.
The looming exit of the Fall River officials jeopardized Shannon County’s 2010 election, including registration and early voting, and other essential government services—possibilities the Rapid City Journal covered repeatedly and colorfully in succeeding weeks. Headlines included “Shannon County officials resigning in 30 days,” “Shannon County residents have a lot to lose,” “Limbo continues for Shannon County” and “Shannon County running amok.”
On the stand before Judge Schreier in 2012, Fall River State’s Attorney Jim Sword testified that the 2010 resignations—including his and the election official’s notices—had nothing to do with early voting but were in fact the fault of the “malicious” Department of Justice, which had been scrutinizing Fall River’s conduct of Shannon County elections.
Months before, Sword had written to the Justice Department threatening to resign if another voting-rights suit were filed, he testified. “[Giving notice] had nothing to do with early voting. Had everything to do with their malicious actions,” Sword responded to a question from Frankenstein. “It’s always been a response to threats to sue us.”
What about 2012?, Frankenstein asked. “There’s nothing to indicate that this won’t be anything but a great election,” Sword replied.
Secretary of State Gant offered some surprises—for example, testifying that for several months he’d sat on information about Shannon County’s struggle to put together a 2012 election. The next was when he confirmed under questioning from the judge that the state has millions in its HAVA-fund coffers. Meanwhile, an election in Shannon County appears to cost somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000.
Yet another was when Gant testified that South Dakota law allows the state to step in and run elections when necessary. Back in 2010, Fall River officials created such turmoil when they headed for the door because then-Secretary of State Chris Nelson refused to involve the state, telling the Rapid City Journal, “the state will not step in and run the election” and “no one but a county auditor can manage an election.” At press time, neither Secretary Gant nor his lawyer had responded to requests for comments.
Looking forward
Tribal members in Shannon County deserve a permanent solution to the early-voting problem, said Laughlin McDonald, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project and author of an amicus brief supporting the Oglala plaintiffs: “They should be treated like voters in other counties in South Dakota. The long and continuing history of disparate treatment of American Indian voters in South Dakota should come to an end.”
McDonald described the hoped-for result of all this—increased American Indian political participation in the state—as “helping break down the barriers that continue to separate Indians and non-Indians” and conferring “undeniable benefits.”
Lembrich has provided practical examples of the benefits of Native enfranchisement in South Dakota, despite its limitations so far: “Water projects have been expanded to bring running water to many rural Indian communities, and attempts to cut funding for tribal colleges were defeated.” He also noted that the simple fact of bringing the suit means “everyone now knows the threat of a federal lawsuit is real and not just a bluff.”
What made Semans especially happy, he said, was the judge noting Native Americans’ long-term fight for equal voting rights in South Dakota. “That effort gave us a foothold that led to this success today,” Semans said. “We got kicked to the curb a few times along the way, and it took eight years, and it was worth it.”
c. Stephanie Woodard; two photos courtesy Four Directions; satellite voting photo by Joseph Zummo.
c. Stephanie Woodard; two photos courtesy Four Directions; satellite voting photo by Joseph Zummo.
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I’d argue that Brooklyn’s Woods have quietly assembled a near-flawless discography over the past five years, and based on what little we’ve heard of the forthcoming Bend Beyond, their streak is set to continue. The first single from the album, “Cali In A Cup,” debuted last month, and now we get “Size Meets The Sound,” a blissful rush of sun-baked psychedelia. (Off-topic: lots of alliteration in these titles, right? Is that a thing?) Anyway, tune in, turn on, drop out:
%s1 / %s2
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I’m a hijacker.
I was listening to a podcast by Tullian Tchividjian called “Jesus + Nothing = Everything.” In it, he described how even our spiritual growth efforts can become self-centered by taking the focus off who God IS and making it about what we do.
The intent of spiritual growth is to build our relationship with God, but I’ll confess that sometimes I find myself hijacking it for my own glory. I’m not nearly as interested in spiritual “growth” as I am in gaining spiritual “knowledge” to add to my “spiritual” arsenal or to expand the “spiritual” facade I hold up for others to see. Wow! Did that make any sense? What I meant is this: Instead of being motivated to “grow” toward God, I am motivated by selfishness to make myself look like I’ve “grown” toward God. Sinful. That’s what it is. I’m sinful. I need Jesus to rescue my attempts at spiritual growth. I’m so sick that I need Jesus to keep me from tainting the very practices that guide me toward Him. True spiritual growth efforts are motivated by the greatness of God which moves us to seek Him. Often, my efforts are motivated out of a desire to know more than my friend’s know – out of a selfish “I’m more spiritual” attitude.
I will also confess that I love the way I feel when I go to another “level” or “spiritual” high. Even a new tidbit of information or insight about the Bible is enough to make me feel like I have “grown.” My insatiable desire for more doesn’t allow me to fully rest in Jesus’ effort on the cross. This is sinful. I wrongfully believe my efforts and knowledge about Scripture is what matters. It’s NOT! What matters is God’s character. NOT the things I do, but the things He IS. What matters is the cross! Because of who He IS, He chose to go to the cross. And because of that, I am already close to Him. Even when I seek spiritual “growth” with selfish motivations, even in the midst of my sin, He died for me. He loves me fully! Right where I am He loves me. He . . . . . loves . . . . . me.
God should be glorified. Completely glorified. ‘Cause He’s great and we are not. He is faithful. He is love. He is amazing! Loving each of us no matter how sick we are. He is so out of our league. We can never understand how great He is – how great His love is. His ways are so much higher than ours. (Is 55:8-9)
I guess what I’m saying is that this hijacker wants to return this glory back to it’s rightful owner.
To God be the Glory forever, and ever, AMEN!.
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Pattern #9 from Barbara Underwood.
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Bobbin lace made by Lorelei
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It is very beautiful!!..
Beautiful. I am sure I would have a tangled mess . thanks for sharing. Hugs Elaine
Thank you. Bobbin lace is addictive.
Stunning. I admire anyone that can do this.
Very beautiful!
Wow! Your nimble fingers have worked magic!
wonderful lace
I think it took about a week or 2. I did about half a side per evening. It is about 7 inches across, which is much enlarged from the original pattern.
Thank you all for taking the time to look and comment.
This is really elegant !!!
Beautiful lace
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What a start by the Redbirds! 9-3…and it doesn’t even feel like we broke a sweat getting there. This team may be looking for several pieces of their identity to emerge, but it’s already clear that “relentless” and “determined” are words that will consistently be applied to the 2012 Cardinals.
But we have a lot to talk about, so let’s get into it (if you haven’t listened to the UCB Radio Hour from last night yet, CLICK_HERE).
About that start by Adam Wainwright on Opening Day… I really feel for the fans who worked themselves into a frenzy in anticipation of this Opening Day – with Waino starting and all – but we really should have seen this coming. His start against the Brewers was less than inspiring. He held his own, but he didn’t exactly have shutdown stuff. Most are attributing his lack of success so far to reduced velocity – a malady the experts claim will heal with time – but it’s also clear he just needs more starts to get comfortable again. And let’s not forget, Mr. Tommy John himself – Chris Carpenter – warned fans and media to temper expectations during Winter Warm-Up. “Cy Young Adam Wainwright,” as Carp called him, may take some time to establish himself. Again, according to Carp, he’s 100% healthy and ready to go – or else he wouldn’t be throwing – but it just takes time and multiple starts to get right. He’ll get there.
What the heck was up with no Clydesdales?! I know, I know…the warning track was wet and stuff. So what. The next day, the Cardinals had the ring ceremony and then delayed the start of the game by nearly a couple hours. Why not do that on Opening Day to fix the track? Is it impossible to fix the track after horses walk on it before the game? I may sound unreasonable, but not having the Clydesdales on Opening Day in St. Louis is just…well…wrong! I feel like the Cardinals and AB need to make this right…maybe with a Clydesdales Day in Busch this season. They could partner with Build-A-Bear to give away mini plush horses…or something. And it really galls me that Luhnow had the Clydesdales at Opening Day in Houston this year…and we didn’t. Back off our traditions, Draft Boy!!!
I absolutely loved the gold jerseys worn by the Cardinals. If you didn’t see it, the players wore special uniforms with gold lettering during the first two home games of the weekend against the Cubs. I wouldn’t want to see them the entire year, but it was fun to see for a few days. In fact…hehehe…I bought a David Freese gold-letter shirsey last week
Boo-yah!
And while we’re on the subject of Championship swag…how ‘bout them rings, eh?! Like the hosts last night, I am thoroughly impressed with the design of the World Series Championship rings given to the players this year. Including details such as a “Happy Flight” inscription and the rally squirrel will make them conversation and story pieces for decades.
Tara came up with an excellent plan for delivering Albert Pujols and Colby Rasmus their rings last night! I believe she said, “Let’s ship ‘em to a random address in Iceland and then send Albert and Colby notes that say ‘Here’s where it is…go get it.’” Outstanding idea, Tara! And I understand your father deserves creative credit as well…so be it. So let it be written…so let it be done!
Was Game 162 on September 28th a sign of things to come for the Cardinals? After doing everything but dominating their division and season for the 161 games prior, the Cardinals handily won their final game against the Astros 8-0. None of the other teams participating in that historic night of games can say anything even close to that. The Red Sox and Braves blew it…the Rays squeeked in…and it took the Phillies multiple tries to pull off an extra inning win. But Carp and the Cardinals cruised to a calm victory in Texas. Maybe we should have seen what happened in October as inevitable.
Speaking of Game 162 and Paul Kocak’s book, A+E Home Entertainment and MLB Productions should produce and distribute a DVD collection of those games. I would love to see a five or six disc set that included each of the four games involved in that night in their entirety as well as one or two extra bonus discs for extras. One of the bonus discs could even contain a dramatic, specially produced showing of the games mixed together as they happened with or without commentary. The other disc could be devoted to turning Kocak’s book into a film documentary to show the fan’s perspective. Let’s call it, “3 Minutes in September”
Paul brought up an excellent point about technology and Social Media serving to distract from the game. I love to get on Twitter during games, but even I find myself shutting it down for special moments like Opening Day or World Series games. I just don’t want to be distracted from appreciating what’s unfolding in front of me. Even instant replay and DVR technology as spoiled me a bit. Have you ever found yourself missing something in your life – maybe a funny moment between friends, or a cute smile by your children – and instinctively reaching for the DVR/Replay button? I know it sounds silly…but I have. Especially if I miss something on the radio! I’ve grown so accustomed to “never really missing anything” that I worry I take special moments for granted.
A final note about the drama of that night…Game 162 on September 28th: The drama and Hollywood format that it set up for October was, in a word, unbelievable. For example, I have no doubt in my mind that the Phillies would have beaten any other NL foe except for the Cardinals – especially the Braves. It took a special kind of mojo for that STL team to prevail. And yet Game 162 found the Phillies fighting tooth and nail to set in motion their own demise! By beating the Braves and gifting the Cardinals a playoff spot, the Phillies signed their own death warrant. They made “11 in 11” possible. Unreal.
Paul Kocak mentioned Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians on last night’s show. His question was a simple one. Since Doby integrated the American League shortly after Jackie Robinson did the National League, should the AL have a Larry Doby day while the NL has a Jackie Robinson day? My initial reaction was, “Eh…I don’t know.” I thought that one of the reasons Robinson was so special was not simply because he played, but because he played extremely well. Knowing nothing about Doby’s career, I instantly assumed it was less than stellar. I was wrong. Looking up Doby’s stats on Baseball-Reference.com, it became clear Doby is deserving of celebration. In a 13 year career (really, just over 12…he didn’t exactly play much in his first season), Doby hit .283/.386/.490 with 253 home runs and nearly 1,000 RBIs. He averaged 27 home runs and 103 RBIs a season and hit 32 homers twice – 1952 and 1954. Fifty-four, in fact, was possibly his best year with 32 homers, 126 RBIs, and a slash line of .272/.364/.484. Years later, the slugger was voted to the Hall of Fame by the Veteran’s Committee. Well-deserved, Larry. But to get back to Paul’s point, Jackie debuted for the Dodgers on April 15th, 1947. Doby debuted months later on July 5th, 1947…the same year. Should Doby be given his own day like Jackie? I would love to see it happen in the AL…but Jackie has become such a symbol throughout baseball, I don’t think it would be possible – nor should it – to replace Jackie’s day in the AL with Larry’s day. Baseball may need to get creative and offer something in addition to Jackie Robinson Day to honor Larry – and others – during an MLB season.
Wrap-Up!
That’ll do it for today! Thanks for reading, and don’t forget…today’s an early day game, and Waino faces the Reds.
GO CARDS!!!
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• Jim Hickey and his teammates from St. Anthony's Hospital -- Joe Ciaccio, Jeff Weitholter, Eric Garateix and Bill Ulbricht -- shot 55 to win first place in Monday's Rays Charity Golf Tournament, held at the Ritz-Carlton Members Golf Club in Sarasota. Jake McGee won bragging rights in the Rays' clubhouse by winning the longest drive contest.
• The Rays put in some work on situational hitting at Tuesday's workout. Maddon noted that any time he wants to emphasize something, he'll put it in early in camp "to get the thoughts rolling."
• Maddon spoke highly of Jake Odorizzi's "ability to throw the ball where he wants to," noting that the right-hander acquired from the Royals in the Shields trade had a simple delivery and a good makeup.
"He's very interesting," said Maddon.
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Roy Halladay threw a bullpen session on Wednesday at Bright House Field, which seemed to go OK.
"Roy threw very well," pitching coach.
Halladay is scheduled to pitch in a Minor League Spring Training game Saturday at Carpenter Complex. He would get one more start before he is scheduled to pitch April 3 against the Braves in Atlanta.
The veteran right-hander has had a rough month. Halladay looked fine in his first two Grapefruit League starts, throwing his fastball in the 89-91 mph range. But his velocity has dropped since then. In Halladay's third Grapefruit League start, his velocity fell into the 86-88 mph range, and he talked afterward about experiencing "dead arm." He got roughed up for seven runs over 2 2/3 innings in his fourth start March 12, saying he felt lethargic. Then Halladay lasted just one inning in his fifth start Sunday because of the stomach virus.
The Phillies have said repeatedly that Halladay has no physical issues. They said some of his struggles stem from mechanical issues, which they have been working on.
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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TORONTO — Ever since Lillian Gish and D.W. Griffith joined forces on dozens of silent classics, film history has been filled with notable actress-director teams who conjured magic multiple times.
A real-life romance can kindle such cinematic couplings: Woody Allen with Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow. Ingmar Bergman with Liv Ullmann. Tim Burton with Helena Bonham Carter.
Then there are platonic partnerships between artists who are sublimely simpatico: Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich. George Cukor and Katharine Hepburn. Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman.
But few current duos have proven as durable as Joe Wright, a brash purveyor of visual panache, and Keira Knightley, the stunner who ranks among Hollywood's most bankable female talents.
Opening Friday is their third and most daring collaboration, a sumptuously audacious adaptation of Anna Karenina that sets most of Tolstoy's chronicle of love and betrayal among Russia's 19th-century aristocracy inside a decaying theater. Considering that scenes include a heart-stopping horse race at full speed across a stage, it is little wonder that the adjective "bold" figures heavily in early reviews.
The British twosome — a self-proclaimed show-off who got his start at a puppet theater owned by his parents and a child performer who came of age as a soccer player in 2002's Bend It Like Beckham — for some reason gravitate toward literary-based period pieces. Not that Wright would describe them that way. "I like to think of them as being fantasies," he says. "I'm not interested in historical re-enactment. They allow us to dream and think in more expressive ways."
Wright declares his most frequent leading lady to be "my sister in celluloid," and the sibling-like connection that was forged in 2004 during the making of an emotionally unbound interpretation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice appears to have inspired some of their best work.
"It feels like we've grown up together," says the filmmaker, 40, whose London home is just a few doors down from where 27-year-old Knightley resides. "We've seen each other through some good times and some bad times, and that's a lovely process. I like the idea of working with someone who has seen me at my weakest and also with success."
Not that they always agree. Both have been upfront about their heated debates. That includes much discussion over which role Knightley would take in their second effort, the 2007 World War II drama Atonement, which earned seven Oscar nominations, including best picture.
Wright's preference for glamorous Cecilia, whose posh mannerisms are in stark contrast to Knightley's girlish portrayal of free-spirited Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice, won out and allowed the stylish actress to make a lasting impression in a showstopper of an emerald-green gown.
"He understands what I'm talking about," the actress says. "We do argue occasionally, and like siblings, you kind of know that you have to get over the argument because you're not going to stop being siblings. And so it's never the end of the world when you argue. There is a trust in the fact that underneath anything that is going on, you're still going to love each other."
She stands by her Mr. Wright even if her characters are sometimes subjected to abuse and worse. "We have worked three times, and he has killed me twice," she observes. "We've done three commercials, and he had me beaten up in one of them."
Adds Wright, "But you've made a lot of love, though."
She nods. "A lot of love."
But don't get Knightley started on the countless hours of rehearsal time she invested in learning Anna Karenina's intricate dance numbers, in which arms intertwine and flutter provocatively.
"Keira still hates me for that," says Wright with a wicked laugh.
"It was worth it," she concedes, "even though he cut another dance sequence that took ages."
Parallels in their private lives abound. Both have struggled with dyslexia. Both became involved in long-term relationships and subsequently broke up with cast members from Pride & Prejudice: Knightley with Rupert Friend (TV's Homeland) and Wright with Rosamund Pike (Jack Reacher with Tom Cruise, out Dec. 21).
And they each have entered a settling-down phase. In 2010, Wright married Anoushka Shankar, a Grammy-nominated musician and daughter of celebrated sitarist and Beatles associate Ravi Shankar. Their son, Zubin, turns 2 in February. Knightley became engaged to her own musician, James Righton of the Klaxons, in May.
Their influence on each other even extends into their off-hours, such as in wardrobe choices. Today, they are a vision in black (her Celine shift) and blue (his natty dark denim suit).
"I'm wearing John Pearse," says Wright, dropping the name of the tailor who once co-owned the notorious '60s boutique Granny Takes a Trip. "Jacqueline Durran (the costumer for Pride & Prejudice and Atonement) made an exquisite denim dress for Keira and I was quite jealous of it. I felt I wanted a denim suit. I didn't think a dress would suit me."
Says Knightley, with a saucy smile, "Oh, I don't know ..."
They have come a long way since everyone from Austen cultists to Colin Firth fans (who consider the actor to be the definitive Mr. Darcy) questioned the wisdom of attempting to top the six-part 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice a decade later. Back then, Knightley was known for supporting roles in the first Pirates of the Caribbean adventure and the ensemble comedy Love Actually.
However, Pride & Prejudice proved to be her entree into the big leagues after it earned her her first Oscar nomination. Wright's reward? A brand-new career path. His feature-directing debut allowed him to move on from the TV projects he had been doing in England to being sought after for theatrical movies.
No small feat, Wright notes. "My producer, Paul Webster, on Pride & Prejudice did keep saying to me, 'One in 10 first-time directors get to make another film.' "
Knightley laughs. "Nothing like working under pressure."
He glances fondly at her. "I think I owe my career to Keira, really."
Knightley gently scoffs: "Bull---- you do."
Tim Bevan, whose production company, Working Title, has produced all of Wright's vehicles with Knightley, thinks it is a match made in costume-drama heaven for both parties.
"Joe brings out the best in Keira," he says, while noting that the actress often gets bashed by hometown critics for being a little too one-note. "He can extract an emotional performance out of her that others are unable to do. He treats her with intellectual respect. Every actor has their tricks and looks, and he knocks that out of her. He insists on proper honesty on-set."
Meanwhile, Wright benefits from Knightley's charismatic wattage. "The reason I got him to see her on Pride is that I pointed out that she is a movie star, an English movie star," Bevan says. "What that does for him is to get these movies made."
While Wright likes to say that Knightley was the one who brought up the possibility of doing Anna Karenina together while making Atonement, she claims it wasn't so simple.
"We were having a discussion of great female characters," she says. "This was one. He remembers me reading it during Atonement. I thought I had read it earlier. But Anna Karenina was at the forefront of my mind. We also discussed Hedda Gablerand Antigone."
She says Wright called her two years later and asked, "Do you remember that talk? Do you fancy doing it?"
Both feel she is the perfect age now to pull off a role as mature as an aristocratic woman who tosses away her marriage and her standing in society after falling for a dashing philanderer.
"Keira was 18 when we made Pride, and when we made Atonement, she was 21," he says. "A lot has happened to her since, and that informs your understanding of the world, eventually. Keira is a proper grown-up now, and it really is a proper grown-up performance. She was incredibly powerful when she was 18 and 21, but it wasn't as focused or as direct. And that's changed. And I've changed, too."
Suddenly, there is a knock on the door, and a tray is brought in stacked with plates of sushi and bowls of miso soup.
Continuing his thought about change, Wright jokes, "I now eat sushi."
Says Knightley, "You now get sushi brought to you."
Wright does want to clarify a wrong impression that arose during the film's premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. "Everyone keeps asking me, 'Is she your muse?' She is not my muse. My wife is my muse."
"That is a very good muse to have," Knightley concurs.
Still, he can't help but act somewhat peeved when the actress discusses an upcoming project, a reboot of the Jack Ryan franchise (including The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games) in which Chris Pine takes over the role of author Tom Clancy's CIA agent, previously played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck. Knightley is cast as Ryan's wife.
Wright can hardly wait to inquire, "Who is directing?"
"Kenneth Branagh," she answers, "who is also playing the baddie."
Wright, who next tackles a stage revival of Trelawny of the "Wells" at London's Donmar Warehouse, can't help but be amused by his own overreaction to the news. "I get a little bit jealous when I hear that. You are supposed to wait for me in a field of lavender."
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The St. Louis Billikens (23-6, 11-4 A 10) finish up their A-10 regular season with game against the Duquesne Dukes (16-13, 7-8 A 10) on Saturday.
The St. Louis Billikens take on the Duquesne Dukes in the regular-season finale of A-10 conference play. St. Louis has played extremely well in the past few weeks, ripping off seven wins in their last eight games, while the Dukes have dropped three of their last four and fell to the BIllikens by a 27 point margin in the first matchup on Jan. 21.
In that first head-to-head win, Saint Louis got double-digit scoring from Dwayne Evans, Brian Conklin, Kwamain Mitchell, and Kyle Cassity, and used a 31-15 second half run to put the game away at home. On defense, they held the Dukes to just 30.9 percent shooting from the field and only Eric Evans reached double-digit scoring for Duquesne.
Here is a look at Saturday's matchup:
Game Time: 11:00 AM CT, Saturday, March 3, 2012
Location: A.J. Palumbo Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Television: None
For more on this matchup and the impending March Madness season, check out SB Nation's college hoops news hub. Stay tuned to SB Nation St. Louis for more Billikens' recaps, preview and news updates.
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Byerly, who was one of three finalists for the position, has taught at LSU for the past 34 years. During that time, he has served as graduate adviser and department chair in the Department of Geology & Geophysics and as a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, where he is also a consulting professor. He holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University.
As dean of the LSU Graduate School, Byerly has said that he plans to enhance the school’s diversity, affordability and recruiting efforts. He shared his vision for the school when he addressed the campus on Dec. 7, during his public forum that was part of the hiring process.
“We have full confidence in his [Byerly’s] ability to lead the Graduate School into the future,” said Thomas Klei, LSU interim vice chancellor for research and economic development. “I would like to thank all of the candidates for the position, especially the finalists, who each addressed the campus during the past month. Their dedication to LSU and their efforts in sharing their views about the Graduate School are very much appreciated. I am also grateful to the members of the search committee for the time and attention they devoted to this process.”
Officially formed in 1931, the LSU Graduate School centrally administers approximately 120 programs across the campus. LSU offers doctoral programs in 45 major fields of study. These programs offer opportunities for advanced training and research in all areas of the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Master’s degree programs are offered in 70 major fields. To learn more about the LSU Graduate School, visit.
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NEW ORLEANS – Services for nurse and former Earl K. Long Hospital COO Peggy Pippenger will be Wednesday. She died Jan. 5 in Sevierville, Tenn.
She was also former director of nurses at St. James Parish Hospital, director of quality care and assudrance at River Parishes Hospital and assistant administrator at Chabert Hospital.
Survivors include her husband Phillip, two sons and three step-children.
Arrangements are by Roselynn.
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NEW ORLEANS – Services for decorated veteran and aviation director Paul Stoulig, Sr. will be Saturday. He died Dec. 29 at age 89.
He was a US Army veteran of the European Theater of World War II and held the Bronze Star. A degreed accountant, he retired after a career as director of the New Orleans Aviation Board, during which he oversaw expansion of Moisant Field into New Orleans International Airport.
Survivors include his wife Adele, a son and two daughters.
Arrangements are by L.A. Muhleisen and Son.
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Folks. Don't believe the hype and do not let this influence you to stop supporting Kinneas' Trekradio.com
Why?
When Trademark lawyers are brought into the picture, what will need to be determined is who has been operating in the field longer.
Kinneas, has been providing Star Trek podcasting and broadcasting for almost ten years now and was the first Star Trek Online broadcaster.
Through affiliations with folks like Zach Nicodemous and the Gaming Radio Network, Kinneas helped create Hailing Frequency, the world first podcast dedicated to Star Trek Gaming, Subspace-radio the first star Trek online radio station, STO-Radio, Star Trek Radio and Trek Radio.net itself.
Kinneas helped deliver the worlds very first interviews with Star Trek Online, Executive Producers and developers and with regards to Internet broadcasting, Kinneas was one of the first to start drawing in the Star Trek celebrity interviews.
Due to failed partnership agreements, multiple copyright infringements, and recently being forced out of Trekradio.net by secondary parties, Kinneas was given no choice but to sever association with all previous podcasts and Internet radio stations and and start all over with Kinneas' Trekradio.com.
Folks. Don't believe the fake legal hype. Don't be intimidated by the people now in control of Trekradio.net or any other station if you have wanted to leave and DJ for TR.COM or have your content broadcast..
If discovery is called for, it will be clear who has been operating in this field a very long time.
Thank you for your support all these years and thank you for continuing to support Kinneas' Trekradio.com
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05-03-2012, 06:48 PM
Very Dramatic... I was wondering why there were two trek radio stations.
Anyhow, I'd rather see a focused group effort. This would better utilize the fan base and keep us from jumping around stations. If we're not all in one place listening to one station, there won't be enough fans for any one station to actually make money. The talent is also spread too thin right now by having so many of these stations. This is exemplefied by the fact that every station is looking for DJ's. All adding another station does is further saturate the market.
To be honest, I kinda got a bad taste in my mouth about online radio after risa radio went down. I know you didnt claim a connection to them, so I'm not accusing you or anything.
They ran a contest for a trip to Vegas. To enter, you gave PayPal donations to the station. MANY people donated money to the station to enter the contest. Right before the winner was to be announced, the station stopped broadcasting and the URL began pointing to the Disney vacations site.
So the guy running that station skipped out on the project. He didn't award a winner or return the entry money. That's fraud..
With fraud like that going on, it's hard to get behind a new station that has been in so many failed partnerships. Further, I'm put off by the fact that people are calling each other out in public forums over their business disagreements. If there is going to be a legal battle, everyone involved is gonna be wishing they'd have kept their mouths shut when they actually get to litigation.
What we need is for all of you guys at all of your stations to get together and do the project right. Star Trek is about cooperation after all.
/rant
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Thanks for the Memories.. For Roxy and Bear and all the others that left and tried to continue the fun.
For Bara and Pets Starship Convoys in Sectore s after sectore. .and the things sto-radio did .
No one wins for fewer options.. many podcast wil lgo unlistened too by people w/o IE
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Grapevine mom leaves kids outside school in freezing weather
By BILL MILLER
[email protected]
GRAPEVINE — Police are considering whether to pursue charges against a mother who left two children, ages 5 and 7, outside a closed Grapevine elementary school Thursday morning in freezing weather, a police spokesman said Friday.
It was 24 degrees with a wind chill in the single digits when a nurse on her way to her job at a nearby hospital spotted the children alone in the parking lot of Cannon Elementary School, 1300 W. College St.
The mother did not realize that Grapevine-Colleyville administrators had delayed the opening of school because of icy roads, said Lt. Todd Dearing, a police spokesman.
The nurse called 911 at 7:14 a.m., and officers went to get the children, Dearing said. Meanwhile, the mother heard on her car radio that the school was closed and returned to get her children, he said.
By the time she arrived, police were there, Dearing said.
“She made a mistake, she knows she made a mistake, and now we’re investigating to see if we’ll be filing criminal charges,” Dearing said.
The possible charge is abandoning or endangering a child, a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine.
Child Protective Services was notified, Dearing said. CPS spokeswoman Marissa Gonzales said the children were not in the agency’s custody and thus she could not say whether CPS was involved.
This was an honest mistake, what is the phase that CPS uses to encourage people to adopt a child from foster care, “You don’t have to be perfect, to be a perfect parent.” “After all, kids don’t need perfection; they need you!”
This mom made a mistake and as soon as she realized it, she immediately turned around and went to get her children. They obviously were not outside that long before she did, since she was still in the car when she heard about the delay on the radio!!!!
Leave this mom alone and go focus on the Texas CPS workers who are failing to do their jobs. So many children have died in Texas after CPS involvement and now the police and CPS want to waste time investigating this mom.
What is amazing to me is that the police are even considering charges against this mom for her one mistake, yet absolutely no charges have been pressed against the Texas CPS workers who “Investigation shows family history of abuse missed in half of cases”
“Caseworkers for Texas Child Protective Services have regularly missed warning signs that Houston-area children were in danger, including failing to thoroughly investigate a family’s previous history of abuse or neglect, according to a report released on Monday.”
Why don’t you go press charges against these people instead, they are the ones who acutally deserve to be prosecuted!
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I didn't think it was that difficult to remove, but found myself just folding back the cover and talking with it still in the case. So far it has worn very well (used daily for a few months) except for the wristlet (handle) losing a rivet and couldn't fix. One thing I haven't seen noted is that you cannot take a photo while it is in the case. You have to remove it as the lens is covered while in the case. …More
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Brenthaven Broadmore Large Briefcase for MacBook Pro
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Puzzle Master Puzzle
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DescriptionA fun and addictive jigsaw puzzle game. Easy to play, and a lot of fun! Play with your own pictures as jigsaw puzzles. Adjust the difficulty of the puzzle. Assemble the selected picture by dragging the matching pieces to each other. Rotate pieces with multitouch. Matching pieces snap together when they are close enough. NOTE: Multitouch is not available on the Nokia N8 and other incapable devices. NOTE: The developer doesn't take responsibility for user-added content.
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I took a class on how to turn an old book into a card saver. You know how we receive cards from our lover, our children, our grandchildren, or that special friend, well we can now save those cards using the ring binder in a neat way and can pull from the shelf to look at them whenever we want to.
It was so much fun to make I decided to make some to sell at a craft show and to give as gifts!!.
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McIvor, A.J. (1987) Manual work, technology, and industrial health, 1918-39. Medical History, 31 (2). pp. 160-189. ISSN 0025-7273
Workers' health in the inter-war years has been the subject ofrecent enquiry and was a topic that generated much contentious contemporary debate.' The focus of discussion has been the impact ofmass unemployment and consequent deprivation on standards of health, physique, and general well-being. The object here is to open up a further, so far very neglected dimension, by switching attention to the workplace, and investigating the theme of health at work in the 1920s and 1930s.2 The present generation has grown up with the knowledge that work, working conditions, and technology may seriously affect the mental and physical health and well-being of individual workers, and that health, fitness, and fatigue can considerably influence productivity levels and efflciency. Evidence of these correlations accumulated with the practical work of the Factory Inspectorate from the 1830s, the weight of experience of a relatively thin strand of welfarist, humanitarian employers (of the G. Cadbury and S. Rowntree genre), and the experimentation of "scientific management" theorizers, including the Americans, F. W. Taylor (time study) and F. and L. Gilbreth (motion study).
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More high quality, affordable wines from our favorite wine wizards! Each of our four locations has its very own wine pick of the month.
More high quality, affordable wines from our favorite wine wizards! Each of our four locations has its very own wine pick of the month. Here are the picks for this month:
Ventana Pinot Noir 2010, 750 mL. bottles, on sale this month for $16.99 each
“This wine exudes black cherry, cranberry and smokiness. It’s easy to recognize this wine has seen some oak because of the beautiful accent of the vanilla and smokiness in harmony with the bright red fruits. This is brand new and I know you will love it.”
– Peter Glarner, C.S.W. (Webster Groves)
Juan Gil Monastrell 2009, 750 mL. bottles, $16.49 each
“Spain at its richest and most interesting! Hearty wine with ripe tannins. Good with meat and cheeses.”
– Mark Lauenstein (Central West End)
Volver Tempranillo 2010, 750 mL. bottles, $15.99 each
“One of the best Tempranillos I’ve found under $20. Alluring bouquet of ripe fruits, herbs and spices. Substantial flavors of cherry, raspberry and vanilla. Very versatile, pairing well with grilled meats and veggies. My pick for a Thanksgiving Wine.”
– Chris Young (Clayton)
Lincourt Pinot Noir 2009, 750 mL. bottles, $17.99 each*
“I find this wine special for 2 reasons: it has a spicy cinnamon finish that is perfect with your Thanksgiving feast, and the owner named this wine after his daughters Lindsay and Court. A family man, the owner names all of his vineyards after special women. Perfect reasons to try this wine in November.”
– Ken Etzkorn (Town & Country)
*As featured in Feast® Magazine! Rated 92 Points by James Suckling.
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Formula DRIFT Announces the Inaugural Formula DRIFT UAE Invitational Competition
Written by Johnathan Bodily.
“The partnership with Abu Dhabi Motorsports Management is a perfect fit to introduce the Formula DRIFT UAE Invitational Competition,” said Jim Liaw, president and co-founder of Formula DRIFT. “Even though drifting has been to the UAE before, we are excited to bring a world class combination of the world’s most advanced circuit along with the world’s leading drifting series.”
drivers include 2-time Formula DRIFT champion and 3-time X-Games Gold Medalist Tanner Foust, 2010 Formula DRIFT rookie of the year and past Scandinavian champion, Fredric Aasbo, 2009 Formula DRIFT champion, Chris Forsberg, Darren McNamara, Ryan Tuerck, and Daijiro Yoshihara. The final two drivers will be announced at a later date.
As the premier professional drifting championship in North America, Formula DRIFT has helped bring drifting around world including South America, South East Asia, and now the Middle East. For more information visit:
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Sometimes we focus so much on locking all the other doors that we forget to lock the front door. Or, we think that nobody would ever be bold enough to break in through the front door, and having any lock on the door is therefore sufficient. But today's persistent threats hide behind the veil of anonymity, and are bold enough to try the front door. They may already be trying yours – will they be successful?
All it takes is one user with a weak password to allow an attacker access to your network.
Passwords are your first line of defense against unauthorized access to your organization. Knowledge of a user's password provides a direct entry point for an attacker to enter your organization, allowing them the opportunity to begin stealing secrets and perform reconnaissance on your internal network.
You may think your front door is locked. But the truth is, most corporate password policies encourage users to select weak, predictable passwords. Even if you lock out accounts after a certain number of invalid attempts, you are not protected against a persistent attacker who attempts to login to many accounts with only three or four top passwords.
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She is of medium height, and has thick, wavy black hair. She has been called pretty in the past, although not by many. Her face is marred by a permanent cynical expression and a scar running from her left temple to her jawline, which she refuses to discuss.
Background:
Gypsy (not her real name) is the youngest daughter of a minor lord. Her parents were petty, greedy people, far too concerned with social position. All but one of her siblings, the second-to-youngest sister, were exactly the same as her parents. They were constantly in competiton with each other, often to the point of violence. Her brothers fought with one another about who would inherit what. The sisters (all except the youngest two) were continually fighting about who would get to marry who. Gypsy was the strange one. She refused to dress as her mother thought she should, she would help the servants with the domestic chores (gasp!), and she was in general “a disgrace to her family name.” Gypsy’s father saw his children merely as tools to improve his own position. He made political marriages for his children; in all but two cases they never even knew they were going to get married until about a week before. Gypsy, who was utterly sick of it all, talked her youngest sister into running away with the man she loved, a soldier whom their parents considered way beneath her. Her father was furious. Her mother wasn’t angry, she actually approved; she thought Gypsy had merely been getting rid of a rival (the second-to youngest sister was the prettiest). When her father calmed down, he told Gypsy that she would have to marry the man he had chosen for her sister (a lord that Gypsy absolutely detested.) She refused. Her father, who could never be called a kind man, flew into a violent rage, which left a permanent scar on Gypsy’s face. Gypsy walked out, and has never set foot in her parents’ house since. She went to the city of _________, changed her name, and has actually been quite happy. She’s a jack-of-all-trades; she’s worked in a tavern, as a messenger, on ships (passenger, cargo, merchant, and pirate), as a con-artist, as a thief, and even did a stint in a circus. She doesn’t stay put for very long (hence the name she chose), either because of wanderlust or outstanding warrants.
Roleplaying Notes:
Due to various circumstances, Gypsy’s become quite good at knife fighting; there are few who can beat her, and she will fight dirty if her opponent does. Her childhood has left her quite cynical, and she can be quite hard to get along with. She especially views the nobility with disgust and suspicion. She doesn’t handle compliments well, as in her family they were merely opening gambits to get at something else, and she distrusts them all on general principles now.
Hooks:
Perhaps she steals something of value from the PCs, or cons them in some way; her background is irrelevant here (for now).
Maybe they’ve run into members of her family before, and when they meet her, they notice the family resemblance.
Some idiot could have discovered parts of her past, and has kidnapped her for ransom; if someone’s hired the PCs, it will be a friend or her youngest sister, as her father doesn’t acknowledge Gypsy’s existance. And quite likely, the PCs may have to save the kidnappers; Gypsy can get quite violent.
The youngest sister could hire the PCs to track Gypsy down and bring her “home.”
The father could actually feel bad about what he did, and want to make amends, and hire the PCs to find Gypsy. Not only do they have to figure out who she is, they have to find her, AND convince her they’re on the level.
The lord might die, and for some reason (probably because his other children have all killed each other) he’s named Gypsy in his will, and the PCs get the fun of letting her know this. Once they actually find her, they have to make her believe them, and get her to claim her inheritance, which she’s not at all interested in.
Gypsy could come to the PCs, because something’s happened to her youngest sister, who is the only member of her family that Gypsy would actually do something for. If her sister is in danger, then Gypsy will probaby insist on joining the PCs. This would not be a bad thing.
Gypsy’s father was murdered. Someone wants Gypsy found because either she’s a suspect, he wants protect her from the killer, or he is the killer and plans to murder all of the lord’s children. Or all three.
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- Mistaken Blackmail Plots By: Ria Hawk
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She generates literally dozens of plot hooks, possibly hundreds she might even be a whole campaign arc in her own right
Credit where it's due 5/5
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Female Moses?
April 10, 2009, 13:10
I think this character could really get interesting if you expanded on her life after leaving home. Instead you just list thing, pirate, tavern servant, circus performer. It was that period, and how she viewed her family through the lense of those experinces, that should really define her at the point in her life when you would have her introduced to the PCs.
Some questions are
The forces that drove her away are clear, but did she ever find what she was looking for?
I take it she find did not find sincerity in the commoners world, and that is why she remains so cynical.
Though what did that do to her moral code and sense of the world. She hated the rich but did she have belief that people could be better or that some people were better? What does she think now and how will that effect her decision making process?
I am not sure what lines she is unwilling to cross though, and those are the big questions for any character.
Is she happy away from her family?
Is she still principled?
Does she believe in romantic love?
Does she have political views? (i.e. An idea for how things should be)
Does she have lusts or desires like a normal person or is she some consumed by anger and distrust that she cant express them?
If she has no political views, why give her this noble backstory unless you wanted to use it to critique the exsisting political structure? Is it because money really does make the RPG world go round and to be interesting she has to be tied to it?
Would she be less interesting if she was a low born woman who didnt want to marry or live with her abusive family?
Does she really believe she will die as a tavern wench or sailor or does she still somewhere in her mind believe that she will one day return to her old life, but in different and more powerful position?
What does she enjoy?
This character is so shallow it is almost offensive. If the piece had taken a different tone, or she had been seen through eyes of some observer that wouldn't have had a reason to have this limited knowledge of her, then perhaps we would have reason to expect the gaps. She is little more than a neo-sterotype.
All that being said maybe a cliche neo-sterotype is exactly what one may want in his or her game. I don't want to bring you score down or upset the balance of things by voting low on old post which you have a high score for. So I will give you a 4.5 so I don't bring your score down.
April 10, 2009, 13:22
April 10, 2009, 16:39
Okay.
I want the answers for axlerowes questions, who has all my questions, and a few I had not thought of.
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Here's to the conformists. The complicit. The compromisers. The round pegs in the round holes. The ones who see things similarly...
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Michelle Obama wore a custom Thom Browne ensemble for Inauguration Day on Jan. 21, 2013. Browne received the Hewitt-Cooper National Design Award for Fashion in 2012 and attended a White House luncheon hosted by the First Lady for the occasion in July.
Michelle Obama kicked off a day of Inauguration activities this morning in an ensemble reminiscent of the outfit she wore for her husband’s swearing-in nearly four years ago: a dress that hit just below the knee with a matching coat and pumps.
This time, the First Lady chose a navy outfit designed by Thom Browne, an American menswear designer recently honored with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for fashion. Michelle Obama hosted a White House luncheon in July to toast Browne and the other winners. She also wore a lace design of his to the third and final presidential debate between her husband and Republican candidate Mitt Romney last October.
(MORE: See Michelle Obama’s Inauguration Day 2009 Outfit)
The blue coat’s pattern was inspired by a men’s silk tie, according to the AP, and was custom made for Obama. She accessorized the outfit with J. Crew pumps—which she also wore for Inauguration Day in 2009—and a necklace designed by Cathy Waterman. Obama also wore a navy number to her husband’s private swearing-in on Sunday. That dress was made by Reed Krakoff, the fashion designer behind the controversial $990 bird shirt that Ann Romney wore for a CBS This Morning appearance during the campaign.
The First Lady’s inaugural outfit wasn’t the only familiar ensemble of the morning: first daughters Malia and Sasha Obama wore jewel-tone colored coats similar to the Crew Cut ensembles they chose in 2009. Malia opted for a violet coat from J. Crew, while younger sister Sasha wore a periwinkle Kate Spade number.
See their looks below:
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Over the last couple of weeks, the Christmas window displays have been unveiled for what is undoubtedly my favourite thing about the commercial side of this season. I think Liberty and Fortnum & Mason have the best windows this year, although the Selfridges white themed ones are pretty spectacular, too. Here’s a sneak peak of Liberty’s ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ themed windows:
It must be so much fun to be a window dresser, or to be part of the (as Liberty call it) Visual Merchandising Team. Fortnum & Mason’s ‘Showtime‘ theme is satisfyingly glitzy and extravagant, just the thing to lift every Christmas shopper’s spirits:
These windows are a work of art in themselves. I’m not ashamed to say I’ll be doing plenty of window shopping over the next month.
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Making a holiday wreath has become my own personal tradition (does two years in a row count as a tradition?). Wreaths are about as complicated as I like to get with my DIY, but this wreath was definitely worth it. The example:
And here’s mine:
I did a few things differently. I used a hardback instead of a paperback which gives it more of a sculptural quality due to the heavier paper. I also added a little bit of gold glitter to the antiquing process because glitter makes everything better.
However, anyone who attempts this project be warned: use a book that’s 200 pages or more! She mentions that you’ll need a long(ish) book in the instructions, but I foolishly did not read that part and ended up substituting pages from a paperback (which are much lighter) in order to finish the center. Oh well! Perfection be damned, I think it turned out well. If you’re looking for something a little bit easier or you have a fear of hot glue, I’d definitely take a swing at the paper leaf wreath I made last year. Here’s the example:
And here’s mine:
Here’s a few more I’m thinking about attempting next year.
Felt:
And pom poms!
Via Paper Crave and Design*Sponge
Paper book wreath tutorial by Living with Lindsay
Paper leaf wreath tutorial by The Red Thread
Felt wreath tutorial by Domestifluff
Pom pom wreath tutorial by Bluebird Vintage
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- Are you a retired athlete…or considering retiring?
- Do you want to get the same rewards you got from sport and more?
Learn how to apply your Champion Mind to succeed beyond sport
It’s not easy for professional athletes that are retiring from their sport to leave a successful sporting career behind and move on to a new life. It can create confusion, a lack of direction, and a lack of purpose.
If you are going through this, you are not alone.
Statistics show that the majority of athletes (up to 80%) suffer some form of post-sporting blues and even depression. And the problem is, most athletes suffer in silence, thinking they should be able to cope, they are better than this. This approach tends to prolong and intensify the inner pain and conflict.
Even highly successful athletes can struggle in the transition. No matter whether you achieved all your sporting goals or not, you may struggle.
Common Questions that arise are:
……..”Who am I now?” .
…….”What do I do now?”
After having a career that brought so much reward the retired athlete can feel a loss of identity and may now feel unfulfilled—emotionally, and often financially.
What now?
As athletes, you do know how to set and achieve goals, you do know how to focus and you do know how to perform. What if you could apply these same resources to a new career? What if you lived your life with the same drive and passion you did as an athlete?
Success beyond Sport offers a solution for effective athlete transition.
In Success beyond Sport, 2000 Olympian, Annette Lynch (formerly Huygens-Tholen) shares how she overcame the struggles of transition and how 8 Winning Steps can help you succeed in a new role.
Successful transition is more than choosing a new career and Success beyond Sport will help you transition successfully. Whether you chose to retire or the decision was forced upon you due to age, injury, or performance, the lessons in this book will teach and inspire you to new successes.
GO FOR GOLD IN THE GAME OF LIFE
The methods and exercises described in the book are the same exercises Annette uses with her clients. The thing they have in common is a desire to move forward, to change direction, GET RESULTS and create a successful life.
If you want to make changes because you are not happy with your current results, if “fine” is not good enough, or you want to continue to grow, then “Success beyond Sport” can help you with that. Why settle for less, when you can be as great as you want to be.
The 8 Winning Points and Success Training exercises can be done by anybody.
Success beyond Sport will help you to:
- Overcome the loss and confusion of life after sport
- Motivate you to strive for and achieve new successes
- Expand your identity – you are so much more than just a sportsperson
- Build a supportive network and team
- Regain the feeling of significance
- Get direction and purpose
- Overcome low self-esteem……..and more.
PLUS the book includes a Gift download recording – helps you to create and access an empowering emotional state (Value = $19)
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I was pretty ecstatic to be chosen by Old Navy and CrowdTap to be part of the Old Navy Style Council Summer Style is short and sweet promotion where I was able to visit Old Navy and get a free pair of shorts. I have never been a big fan or shorts shopping, regardless of what size I have been. Old Navy offered a nice variety of styles, sizes and patterns to choose from! I grabbed my armful of different styles and headed for the dressing room!
I loved the cute tie belt on these shorts, but they were a tad short for my taste!
These shorts were super short and comfy but I wasn't quite feeling the print. Looking back at the pics
was more my speed :)
These were easily my absolute favorite. The fit was comfortable, with out being too baggy
or too tight. And the colors were so much fun! Perfection, in the form of shorts!
Comfy and cute without being clingy. The perfect summer outfit!
I was pretty happy we both have super white legs :)
And her super cute son Michael Goofing off!
I was very pleased with the selection the was offered at the store near me! I was hoping to try on some of the bermudas, which there weren't too many off, but that helped get me out of my long shorts funk. The sizes were good as well. I picked the same size of all the shorts that I tried on and they all fit well. It was nice not to have to run back and forth picking up other sizes to try.
Want to learn how to be a crowdtapper and have the chance for excellent opps like this? Check out this link and sign up! They offer some awesome rewards. I am very proud to be a Crowdtapper!
* I was given 2 coupons to get free shorts from Old Navy. However all opinions expressed in this post are my own, honest opinions. I was not given any additional compensation for my opinions.
Great post! I love those shorts you picked out, super cute! I need to get over to Old navy to get some shorts for this summer, I think you have inspired me :)
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Daily Archives: April 10, 2011
Place of Silence…
“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.” ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Posted in Sue Henry Photography Tagged Columbia TN, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, porch, Sue Henry Photography, veranda 5 Comments
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Just finished work for the day… at 2:05 am…
I haven’t been posting much here or anywhere and that’s because I’ve been working like a mule. I’ve been putting in 50 to 60 hours a week for a few months now but this last week has spiked up to 80 hours…
reblogging the hustle
Thanks! Although it feels more like struggle than hustle.
Just finished work for the day… at 2:05 am….
“going Bulworth”
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DO IT.
DO IT.
DO IT.
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Hmm, using Warren Beatty movies from the 90’s as inspiration seems like a bit of a shaky premise to me. Never mind that Bulworth was having an affair, right? Yeesh, doesn’t exactly conjure up images of Roosevelt’s fireside chats, but maybe if he just starts lighting up in public & makes a rap video, this whole “going Bulworth” strategy will have some legs. Then again, IT WAS A BEATTY MOVIE FROM THE 90’s!!! (via winstonwolfe)
I can only imagine what Obama’s REALLY thinking…
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I’ve only seen the trailer but judging by that, the history that I already know and the movie poster, this is probably the most Anarcho-Capitalistic space documentary of all time.
say what you want about anarchists at least we don’t make bad rap songs
That depends what counts as “Anarchist” and what counts as a “bad rap song”, though
That awkward moment when a mutualist acknowledges that value is subjective…
Boom.
Minimum Wage Business Realities
Why do some employers favor a raise in the minimum wage? Profit per employee plays a major role.
See Also
Costco is doing what Amazon just did, trying to play an ignorant public to help make the market more hostile for their own competitors.
Costco would love for the minimum wage to go up to a point that’s higher than the average starting pay of their competitors but below the starting pay at Costco. It has zero impact on Costco’s business model but will severely hurt the bottom line of others, like Walmart or Target.
Costco plays this off as if they are trying to help the people, in reality, they are aiming to hurt or even shutdown their competition, and they want to do this not through better business models but through legislation that comes from misguided economical theory based solely on emotions.
Amazon did the same thing when it lobbied for an internet sales tax. Many people thought that, “Oh, it must be a legitimate tax if the biggest online retailer is lobbying for it!”. What these people didn’t realize is that Amazon is building local warehouses and would now have to pay local and state sales tax and they wanted the government to levy an Internet Sales Tax so that they could ensure that their competition, who don’t have local warehouses, would have to pay taxes just like Amazon.
No one is better at playing politics than the CEOs of giant corporations. Always remember that and take what they say with a cargo container of salt.
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The latest exhibition at the Montréal Musée des Beaux-Arts is not only about the masculine pursuit of power and immortal legacy, but also about the way in which we construct meaning about this world and the afterlife. About our struggle against time and memory, and about the types of narratives we construct out of our lives for the future generations to uncover.
The First Emperor of China of the Qin dynasty (221-206 BC) dreamed of a dynasty lasting 10,000 generations. In 246 BC, Ying Zheng, then only thirteen years old, acceded to the throne of the state of Qin. After having conquered the last independent state and put an end to 500 years of war and intergovernmental strife, Ying Zheng became king of the whole of China in 221 BC. Within 4 years of his death, rebellions destroyed the dynasty, burned his capital, looted his tomb, and were followed by civil war. Dreaming of an army to protect him through his afterlife, the First Emperor had a larger-than-life-size terracotta army built, which has survived the Emperor by thousands of years.
The Emperor’s terracotta army consists of 8000 soldier figures (excavated between 1977-99 in Lintong, Shaanxi Province), thousands stone-plaqued suits of armour and helmets (excavated in 1998), 8 musician figures, a water garden (excavated in 2001-03), as well as animal and bird figures.
The army faces eastward, possibly because the First Emperor anticipated revenge attacks from the deceased rulers of the states he had conquered in the east and southeast of Qin. But nobody really knows why. He not only built an army that was to protect him in his afterlife, he build a three-dimensional narrative of what he believed his after life to be.
Over the years, the site has expanded, and new soldiers have been dug out of the thick layer of loess. A first campaign, from 1978 to 1984, unveiled 1087 terracotta figures. A second in 1985 lasted only a year, and in June 2009, a five‐year campaign for pit number one was authorized. So far, approximately two thousand soldiers have been reclaimed, while another six thousand still lie dormant. Almost six hundred archaeologists of the largest in‐situ museum in China are hard at work unearthing, cleaning, recomposing and preserving these marvellous witnesses to Qin Shihuangdi’s grandeur and megalomania.
All warriors originally carried real weapons, bronze spears and swords, and although ten thousand have been found, this represents a fraction of the original number. Most were looted soon after the demise of Qin by the Han rebels, who set fire to the pits in 206 BC.
One of the exhibition rooms features a projection of several scenes from the film Hero (2002). Set in ancient China, before the reign of the First Emperor, the film tells the story of warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms, who plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin’s three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.
In one scene, thousands of arrows are shot at one warrior across the palace court yard; most arrows hit the wall, only one spot remains uncovered by the arrows – where the warrior stood (warrior as the ultimate shield). This imagery is recreated in the exhibition design in the arrow room.
The exhibition can be seen at the Montréal Musée des Beaux-Arts from February 11 to June 26, 2011.
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With DeMarcus Cousins suspended indefinitely for unprofessional behavior and conduct detrimental to the team, there has already been speculation about whether the Kings should trade the talented but problematic third-year center. Kings basketball president Geoff Petrie said the Kings still plan to work with Cousins, not deal him. . The latest incident happened Friday night when he exchanged words with coach Keith Smart and his response to Smart became so personal of an attack that Smart left him in the locker room at halftime
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Item No. Item Wording 1. This software responds too slowly to inputs. 3. The instructions and prompts are helpful. 13. The way that system information is presented is clear and understandable. 22. I would not like to use this software every day.You may also take a look at a sample questionnaire (UK wording) in pdf format,
It takes a user about 3 minutes to fill out the questionnaire, perhaps a few minutes longer on the internet version.
One way of administering it is on paper: print out the SUMI form and get your user to make marks on the page. It takes an analyst about one minute to type each user's responses into a file for scoring by SUMISCO or to send to HFRG for scoring.
On the other hand you may decide to go for the internet, online option.
You can also do a hybrid: concoct your own HTML pages to be served on your intranet and either send the results to HFRG for analysis.
Online SUMI might require sample sizes with a minimum of about 20 unless your respondents are well selected.
However, we know that paper SUMI will give you reliable results with as few as 12 users. This is because you are able to control the quality of your user sample directly when administering SUMI on paper.
You can use fewer users if you wish, but beware that your results may not be as representative of the true user population. In fact, SUMI has yielded useful information with user sample sizes of four or five.
However, this question is always like 'how long is a piece of string.' You should try to get as many users as you can within your timeframe.
It all depends on the kind of service you want. See the Pricing and Ordering Information page.
We don't do educational discounts on SUMI.
However, if you are a student pursuing a full-time course of study and wish to use SUMI for your project or term assessment, eMail Dr Jurek Kirakowski and discuss the use you would like to make of SUMI. This year's students are, after all, next year's professionals...
Because of some bad experiences with students from a University which shall not be named, for a student licence we will need information from the permanent staff member supervising the project involving SUMI. Please see the academic licence page.
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