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Grandpa's Bar Mitzvah
Many years ago, my grandfather turned 83 and decided to have a second Bar Mitzvah. This was held in conjunction with our oldest son's Bar Mitzvah. My grandfather said that when you turn 83, it is like 13, since Torah gives a man's life span as 70 years.
My question is, was my gramps putting one over on us, or was he correct?
The Aish Rabbi Replies:
Firstly, your grandfather's interest in reaffirming his commitment to Judaism at the age of 83 is quite commendable.
Although we commonly use the phrase "I am going to have my Bar Mitzvah," or "I had my Bar Mitzvah when I was 13," this is really incorrect. Because Bar Mitzvah is really a state of being. I'll explain:
At the age of 13 (or 12 for girls) one becomes Bar Mitzvah and remains Bar Mitzvah, no matter the actual level of observance. That is because the real meaning of the words "Bar Mitzvah" is "one who is obligated to do mitzvahs," since at 13 one is mature enough to follow the Torah.
So although technically it is impossible to have a "second Bar Mitzvah" (since when one becomes Bar Mitzvah they remain that way forever), this term really refers simply to an aliyah to the Torah, and a celebration.
Of course, there is no limit to the number of aliyahs a person can have to the Torah. And as for celebrations – it's always good to celebrate one's Judaism and belief in God.
Having said all that... The concept of having a second Bar Mitzvah at age 83 is not a bad idea. King David lived to age 70, and in the ancient book of Jewish wisdom, "Ethics of Our Fathers" (5:25), Rabbi Yehuda Ben Tema states that the age of 70 is considered a "ripe old age."
Similarly, the composer of Psalms 90, Moses, poetically spoke of a person's life as being on average 70 years.
I suppose your grandfather was onto something. In fact, when the actor Kirk Douglas turned 83, he celebrated with – you guess it – a second Bar Mitzvah.
May we all merit to live that long!


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Nigeria: In Search of Sustainable Peace in the Niger Delta through the Amnesty Programme
Environmental pollution by way of oil spillage and gas flaring are the lots and bane of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, where the country's oil exploration activities are carried on by the oil multinational companies (MNCs). The cries of the people as well as several non-governmental organizations for attention to the area were not only spurned, but were at intervals rebuffed with crackdown and repression from successive administrations in the country, with the strong connivance of the oil MNCs. The situation reached a crescendo, when the people of this region took to self-help by bombing, kidnapping and abducting the expatriates and other categories of personnel of the oil MNCs in exchange for monetary ransom. The government not able to bear the embarrassment and the drop in daily oil production, coupled with the substantial loss of revenues devised the amnesty programme in 2009 as solution to the quagmire. The paper is aimed at examining the circumstances causing the crisis situation in the area, and the attendant consequences to the people of the areas and to the global community. It will attempt a critical analysis of the amnesty programme of the Federal government as a last resort and its impact at ensuring durable peace and sustainable development in the region. It discusses some of the challenges to amnesty programme and concludes with potential policy recommendations.
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First year back from TJ and put into the #1 spot against opposing aces with a weaker offence supporting him.
I'm thinking 10 wins, 4.50 era and about a 1.35 whip. Can I expect anything better?
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NEW YORK (AP) - At least they avoided a no-hitter - barely. That was about all the New York Mets could say for themselves.
Gio Gonzalez wound up inches away in a one-hitter and the Washington Nationals hit five home runs, including long balls by their first two batters in a 9-0 rout Monday night.
Gonzalez held the overmatched Mets hitless into the seventh before pinch-hitter Zach Lutz broke up the bid with a soft single. Lutz swung at the first pitch of the inning and sliced a looper that landed on the first base line, taking out a chunk of chalk well behind the bag.
``Off the end of the bat,' Lutz said. ``It was good luck.'
First baseman Adam LaRoche made a diving attempt as the ball hit the dirt, but it squirted by and into foul territory along the right field line. First base umpire John Hirschbeck correctly called it fair, and Gonzalez (10-6) paused behind the mound to stare in that direction.
``LaRoche came over to me and said, `I'm sick to my stomach.' All the guys came over and said the same thing,' said Gonzalez, who won 21 games last season and finished third in NL Cy Young Award voting.
Undeterred, the left-hander kept sailing along in a dominant performance. He struck out eight and walked two for his second career shutout and fourth complete game, improving to 5-0 in six starts against the Mets since last year's All-Star break.
The only ball New York hit hard all night was a line drive to shortstop by Juan Lagares in the fifth. Gonzalez walked his second batter and the penultimate one. Other than Lutz's lucky stroke, that was about it.
``Fortunately, we put a ball in play where no one was at so we go home at least knowing we didn't get no-hit,' manager Terry Collins said. ``Obviously, we feel very fortunate.'
Denard Span and Ryan Zimmerman hit back-to-back homers to start the game. Jayson Werth and Tyler Moore also connected off Carlos Torres (3-4), roughed up by Washington for the second time in six weeks.
Wilson Ramos added a three-run shot off reliever Greg Burke.
The five home runs were the most a team has hit in one game at Citi Field, which opened in 2009.
``We didn't pitch. You don't give up all those home runs,' Collins said.
Washington gave Gonzalez a two-run lead before he took the mound, hitting two homers on Torres' first eight pitches.
Span's shot to right was his sixth career leadoff homer and first for the Nationals this season. It also extended his hitting streak to 20 games, the longest active run in the majors.
Zimmerman followed with a drive to left-center for his fourth home run in three days and sixth in the last seven games.
The previous time the Mets served up homers to the first two batters in a game was June 28, 2003, when Alfonso Soriano and Derek Jeter went deep for the Yankees, according to STATS.
``That was the first time I had ever seen it,' Mets catcher Travis d'Arnaud said.
Span singled in the third, Zimmerman walked and Werth hit a three-run shot to left-center.
Moore opened the fourth with a long drive to straightaway center, making it 6-0. Ramos connected in the fifth, and the only drama left was Gonzalez's pursuit of a no-hitter.
``His command was there the whole game, with all his pitches,' d'Arnaud said.
Torres gave up six runs and five hits in four innings. He's made four solid starts for the Mets and turned in two duds against the Nationals, including their 14-1 rout on July 28.
``Left pitches up and they just didn't miss them,' d'Arnaud said.
NOTES: Collins confirmed that injured closer Bobby Parnell will have season-ending surgery to repair a herniated disk in his neck. The team hopes Parnell will be ready for spring training. ... At the end of spring training next year, the Mets plan to play two exhibition games against the Toronto Blue Jays at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. ... New York called up OF Mike Baxter, C Juan Centeno and RHP Aaron Harang from Triple-A Las Vegas. Harang, who was 5-11 with a 5.76 ERA for Seattle this year, was slotted to start Thursday in the series finale. That would bump back LHP Jonathon Niese at least a day. The Mets need an extra starter this week because of an upcoming doubleheader Saturday against Miami. ... 1B Ike Davis (oblique) and LHP Scott Rice (sports hernia), both out for the season, were placed on the 60-day disabled list. ... The last time the Mets managed only one hit was June 27, 2009, at home against the Yankees. The last time the Mets served up five long balls in a home game was Aug. 2, 2005, against Milwaukee at Shea Stadium. ... Washington OF Bryce Harper will miss at least the first two games of the series with inflammation in his left hip. ... Nationals manager Davey Johnson, 70, has said this will be his final season as a major league manager, so this series marks his last scheduled visit to Queens, where he piloted the Mets to the 1986 World Series title.


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...everything you said... Me and you are on this year baby!When I say 'not like' I don't mean you think they are terrible, but rather just possibly overrated or overrated as far as a jets prospect. Same with 'liking' it doesn't mean you are fighting for the jets to have a player you like.
Some for me:
I like both Floyd and Lotulelei, it seems so many teams are looking for that 3-4 NT or DE but I think both of these guys are going to be really good, especially Floyd.
I do not like Dion Jordan. I simply don't like high end prospects where people are projecting and making excuses for a lack of production. "Oh he will be the best pass rusher in the draft! Oregon just never let him rush the passer! He can be a good cover OLB!"
I like both Warmack and Cooper, both look to be very solid if not more players for a long time. I agree with people that say they are a very low bust potential for these two.
I don't like Ansah, coming out of nowhere, kills the combine, not playing against great competition.
I don't like Tavon Austin, at least not where people are projecting him.
I don't like Cordarelle Patterson, his interview on path to the draft sounded like the typical one you get from diva headcases if you read between the lines.
I like Jarvis Jones, crap workouts but I can't ignore two full years of massive production in the SEC, not only sacks but tackles for loss.
I like DeAndre Hopkins, this guy has the things I want in a WR. Excellent college production, good hands catching away from the body, seems to be smooth and run good patterns.
I dislike all QB's. Even if some of these guys fall to the 2nd round I view them as Gabbert, ponder types and getting one in the 2nd round is no better than getting them early because they will still be mediocre, cause you to pass up on a better position player and you will be QB hunting in 2 or 3 years time again.
I'll put my own list down shortly.


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The Mediterranean Sea may be a beautiful tourist destination today, but in the 16th Century it was the central arena for a mighty power struggle between Christian Europe and the formidable Muslim Ottoman Empire. It was a conflict not just for power and wealth but for cultural and religious supremacy that lasted nearly three centuries, and its outcome resonates to this day. In Ottomans Versus Christians: Battle for the Mediterranean, host Julian Davis leads us on a swashbuckling adventure to some of the most extraordinary destinations in the Mediterranean. Tune in to KLRU-Q at 8pm Thursdays throughout the month of January.
1/17 – Empire Builders
In part one, Julian Davison begins his journey in Istanbul, the gateway between East and West and former epicenter of the Eastern Christian Empire of Byzantium. He charts the rise of the Ottomans and their momentous conquest of Constantinople, which they transform into the capitol of their empire, Istanbul. Exploring the city, Julian reveals the inner workings of the Ottoman system, the secrets of its invincible army, and the intrigues and power games of its Sultans' private world – inside the harem of the imperial Topkopi palace. Here we examine the ascendancy of perhaps the most celebrated Ottoman Sultan of them all, Sulieman the Magnificent. Tracing Sulieman's campaign of expansion, Julian sets sail for the legendary island of Rhodes, a former stronghold of the infamous Christian Crusader Knights of St. John – the scourge of the Ottoman Empire. While on Rhodes, Julian explores the beautifully preserved old city and learns what it meant to be a Knight's Hospitaller. He delves into the military tactics of the day and discovers how they shaped the outcome of a gruesome siege that pitted the Knights against the full might of the Ottoman military machine. To conclude the episode Davison returns to Istanbul to follow the rise of the Ottoman Navy and explore the formidable relationship forged between Sulieman and one of the most notorious Pirates that ever roamed the seas, Barbarossa. Together they would terrorize the coastlines of Southern Europe and strike fear in the hearts of Christians.
1/24 – Masters of the Mediterranean
In part two, Julian Davison travels to the site of one of the most extraordinary sieges in European history, the island of Malta. The pride of the Christian Crusader Order of the Knights of St. John, Malta stands today like a baroque jewel, but in the 16th century it was the object of desire for Ottoman Sultan Sulieman the Magnificent and he was prepared to risk all to possess it. Here, Julian enlists in a local re-enactment group and tries his hand at the weapons of the day before dissecting a siege that would become one of the Ottomans' most shocking defeats. Davison then brings us northward to the commercial superpower of the time, the resplendent kingdom on water, Venice. Here he participates in the time honored pageant, La Sensa, a symbolic marriage between Venice and the Sea before revealing how this tiny island Republic grew into one of the richest and most formidable sea powers in the world. Discover how Venice managed a complex love/hate relationship with the Ottoman Empire that exploded into an all-out war for control of the Mediterranean involving the Pope and much of Christian Europe. Davison then heads to the former Venetian stronghold, Cyprus. Part Turkish, part Greek, Cyprus continues to be one of the most contested islands in the whole Mediterranean and the roots of its struggle can be traced to the bloody battles waged here in the 16th century. Julian begins his exploration in the Turkish occupied North where he follows the trail of the Ottoman Army's relentless campaign for control of the island in 1571. The bloodiest and most decisive battle for Cyprus was yet to come.
1/31 – Clash of Civilizations
Part three begins in the legendary city of Famagusta on the island of Cyprus. Once the wealthiest city on earth, Famagusta was the jewel in the Venetian crown when Ottoman armies surrounded it in 1571. Julian Davison takes us on a tour of the city's magnificent gothic cathedrals and intimidating fortress, detailing the gory battles and fabled acts of heroism that took place here during the Ottoman conquest of the city. The battle for Famagusta became famous for an act of such extraordinary cruelty, the torture and death of Venetian Commander Marc Antonio Bragadin, that it propelled Christian Europe into unified action against the Ottomans. Julian returns to Venice and its ancient ship building complex, the Arsenal, to reveal the city's secret plan for revenge; a plan that would be put to the test in one of the bloodiest maritime conflicts in history, the legendary Battle of Lepanto. Travelling across the Adriatic Sea to the town of Lepanto, today Nafpaktos in Greece, Julian and historian Roger Crowley visit the very waters where this pivotal battle is believed to have taken place and marvel at the apocalyptic scale of a clash that would become one of the most iconic Christian victories of the era. On the final leg of his journey, Julian makes his way back to Istanbul via Crete to chronicle the slow and decadent decline of the Ottoman Empire and contemplate the legacy of a struggle so deeply embedded in our culture and history that it continues to inform the world we live in today.


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Pollock-Krasner House Opening
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center will open next Thursday for the season with the exhibit "Conrad Marca-Relli: The Springs Years, 1953-1956."
The show features 11 paintings and collages created during Marca-Relli's four-year residence in Springs, including the collage "Death of Jackson Pollock," which addresses Pollock's fatal automobile accident on Aug. 11, 1956.
In an autobiographical essay, "I Remember When. . . ," Conrad Marca-Relli, who died in 2000, said he moved to Springs to work without too many interruptions, much as Pollock had. The new surroundings appear to have affected both artists' work and Marca-Relli and his wife were frequent dinner guests of Pollock and his wife, Lee Krasner.
There will be a reception and gallery talk by Magdalena Dabrowski, special consultant in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern and Contemporary Art, on June 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibit will be on view through July 31.
Juried Show for The Retreat
The Kathryn Markel Fine Arts Gallery in Bridgehampton will exhibit the top 25 entries of artists in a benefit exhibit and reception for The Retreat on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Arlene Bujese, an art dealer and independent curator and Bruce Helander, an artist, art critic, and author, chose the top 25 entries out of 311 submissions for the third of The Retreat's juried exhibits.
The $15,000 in collected entry fees will benefit the nonprofit organization, which helps victims of domestic violence. The work selected as best in show will receive a solo exhibit at the gallery at a future date in the next year.
Of the entries, which came from as far away as Sweden, those who were selected include Shari Abramson, Betsy Bart, Deb Bronston-Culp, Mary Daunt, Anthony D'Avino, Thomas Denaro, Catherine Eldridge, Glenn Fischer, Ginny Fox, Kristina Gale, Don Haggerty, Maria Havranek, Paula Kelly, Francene Levinson, Donna Levinstone, Jeanette Martone, Robert Mojeski, Patty Niebling, Danielle O'Brien, Elisabet Persson, Stephanie Reit, Nancy Tart, Kenneth Templeton, Anders Villomann, and Lewis Zacks.
There will also be 10 runners-up, whose work will be on display on The Retreat's Web site www.theretreatinc. org. They are Ann Brandeis, Marjorie Eagen, Barbara Hadden, Maria Havranek, Barbara Hyman, Terry Lewis, William Pagano, Gail Postal, Doug Reina, and William Wray.
Culbertson's Vital Signs
Janet Culbertson of Shelter Island will exhibit her "Industrial Park" and "Billboard" series of work at the South Street Gallery in Greenport beginning on Saturday with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.
The artist was a recent recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant. The exhibit addresses how industry, explosive growth, and climate aberrations affect the environment. Her iridescent pigments and silver paint are pretty but also conjure up a sensation of toxicity.
The artist has said, "In true George Orwellian Doublespeak, industry calls its sites 'parks,' its clear cutting 'making open space,' its killing 'harvesting,' and its lying 'misinformation.'. . . As an artist, I cannot escape the mostly disastrous news events, so I try to deal with them in paint."
Firestone Opens ABC123
The Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton is now showing "ABC123," a group exhibit of artists exploring the use of text and numbers in their work.
Artists in the show include Joshua Abelow, Jon Bocksel, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Chris Caccamise, Nancy Dwyer, Alfred Jensen, Deborah Kass, Ron Morosan, Loren Munk, Joe Nanashe, Dennis Oppenheim, Kay Rosen, Ed Ruscha, Lance Rutledge, and Karen Shaw.
Some works use narrative and content, where in other works the usage is fragmentary. Still others use the physical properties of the letters and numerals as compositional objects.
A reception will be held on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The show is on view through May 22.
Benefit Auction at Phao
Phao restaurant in Sag Harbor will host a benefit art auction to raise money for victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami tomorrow from 4 to 7 p.m. The event, called "The Year of the Rabbit, The Year of Hope," will be a silent art auction of emerging artists from the Sag Harbor area and New York City. All of the proceeds will benefit the Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund (www.japansociety.org/earthquake).
Artists will be present at a reception from 4 to 5 p.m. to discuss their work. All works are originals and feature an array of mediums including photography, mixed media, oils, and watercolor. The artists include Hailey Kohlus, Ellen Paul, Babette Paul, Kate Petrone, Damien A. Roman, Erin Rosko, and Joe Williams of Sag Harbor; Brooke Bofill of Hampton Bays; Courtney Lynn and Matisse Patterson of New York City, and Cat Brigham of Shelter Island.
The restaurant is sponsoring the event to help support several employees with close, personal ties to friends and family in Japan and the victims. Complimentary wine and appetizers will be served.
Indian Architecture Lecture
The A.I.A. Peconic Chapter of the American Institute of Architects will present Charles Benninger speaking on "Forty Years in India: An Architect's Journey" on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church on Main Street in Bridgehampton.
Mr. Benninger is one of India's most recognized architects and will present some of his award-winning designs such as the Mahindra United World College of India, the Samundra Institute of Maritime Studies, the Suzlon One Earth world headquarters of Asia's largest wind energy provider, the National Ceremonial Plaza at Thimphu, Bhutan, and his own studio and residence, India House, in Pune.
Last year, Mr. Benninger won seven prestigious architectural awards in India, including the Architect of the Decade Award. He studied urban planning at M.I.T. and architecture at Harvard, where he later taught. He settled in India in 1971 as the founder of the School of Planning at Ahmedabad and a Ford Foundation adviser. He continues at the school as a distinguished professor.


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Observing the contributions of WR
Bailey and Stacy opened the year with just a single offensive touch through the season's first four weeks, a 4-yard carry by Stacy in the Rams' season-opening win over Arizona.
Since Week 5, Stacy has been in hot pursuit of just the third 1,000-yard rushing season by a rookie in Rams history, and Bailey has emerged as a favorite target of QB
Over the past four weeks, Bailey has paced the Rams with 11 receptions for 162 yards. He also scored his first NFL touchdown on a 27-yard run against the Buccaneers.
For the second consecutive year, the Rams entered the season as the youngest team in the NFL, though the performances by rookies in the second half of the season has shown that youth carries with it a considerable amount of talent.
For Clemens, who is in his eighth NFL season, has difficulty finding a parallel to the Rams' current rookie class.
"I think a lot of credit certainly goes to our scouting department for finding those guys," Clemens said. "And a lot of it just goes to their work ethic. We're fortunate in some regards because some of these rookies still don't know what they don't know. I said it a couple weeks ago, we're a football team that unfortunately is not going to the playoffs, but you would not know it by the way that we continue to come in, continue to work and continue to show up on Sundays. And a big part of that has been the contributions that we've gotten from some of these young players."
While contributions from Rams rookies has been a common theme throughout the 2013 season, the impact of this year's class was never more evident than in last week's win over Tampa Bay, and was not limited to the offensive side of the ball. The rookie duo of LB
Of the quartet of Ogletree, McDonald, Stacy and Bailey, only Ogletree has started each of the team's 15 games, though each has already positioned himself well to retain their role at the top of the depth chart into the future.
That goes without the mention of first-round draft pick
For a group that entered the year as something of an unknown quantity, the learning curve to established starters has been remarkably quick.
For Clemens, who is in his eighth NFL season, has difficulty finding a parallel to the Rams' current rookie class.
"As rookies, we've all been working extremely hard all year, just trying to find our role as a professional football player," Bailey said after Sunday's win. "As you can see, it's been paying off for a lot of us guys. We just continue to work hard, and just keep doing what we're asked to do and everything's paying off."


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Source : Anderson Daily Bulletin, Friday, March 5, 1926, page 7.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dorothy P. Wright, age 78, widow of the late Josehp [sic] Wright, well known resident of this community, who died of infirmities of old age at the family home, two and one-half miles southwest of the city, at 1:50 p.m. Thursday, will be held at 2 p.m. at the home, in the charge of the Rev. George W. Winfrey. Burial will follow in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. During the winter Mrs. Wright had been ill most of the time. For the last three weeks she was bedfast. She was the daughter of George and Mary Palmer, natives of West Virginia. She was born in Parkersburg, W. Va., June 27, 1847. When a small girl she moved to Ohio. On April 9, 1891, she was married to Joseph Wright in Anderson. Shortly after her marriage she moved to the old home place near here where she lived for 35 years. Mr. Wright died six years ago. The surviving relatives are one step-daughter, Mrs. Thomas Fox, of near Pendleton; four step-sons, John, Charles and James, of near Alexandria, and Edward, of Columbia City, Ind. Two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Wardlow, of Mount Orab, Ohio, Mrs. Sarah Peddicord of Georgetown, Ohio and eighteen grandchildren survive also.
Source : Anderson Daily Bulletin, Saturday, March 6, 1926, page 10.
Near Alexandria
Alexandria, Ind. March 6 - The funeral of Mrs. Dorothy P. Wright was held at 2 p.m. today at the family home, two and one half miles southwest of the city, in charge of the Rev. G.W. Winfrey, and internment followed at the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Mrs. Wright had been a resident of the country southwest of the city for 35 years and was well known.
Source : Anderson Herald, Friday, March 5, 1926, page 9.
Mrs. Wright Dead.
Mrs.Dorothy P. Wright, age 78, died at 1:30 p.m. today at her home two and one half miles southwest of the city. She had been in ill health for several months and bedfast for the past three weeks. She was the widow of Joseph Wright, who died six years ago, to whom she was married 36 years ago in Anderson. She was a native of Ohio. Surviving are one stepdaughter, Mrs. Thomas Fox of Pendleton, four stepsons, John, Charles and James Wright of near Alexandria, and Edward Wright of Columbia City. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the home in charge of the Rev. George W. Winfrey, with burial in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here.
Source : Alexandria Times-Tribune, Friday, March 5, 1926, page 1.
Mrs. Dorothy P. Wright, aged 78 years, 9 months and 5 - days, for many years a resident of this community, passed away at her home two and one half miles southwest of the city at 1:50 p.m. Thursday, of infirmities of old age. She is the widow of the late Joseph Wright, and had a wide circle of acquaintances.
Mrs. Wright was a daughter of George and Mary Palmer, and was born in Parkersburg, W.Va., June 27, 1847, coming with her parents to Ohio when a small girl. She was united in marriage to Joseph Wright April 9, 1891, in Anderson, moving to the old homeplace where she has resided for the last 35 years. Her husband passed away six years ago last September.
Surviving are one step-daughter, Mrs. Thomas Fox, of near Pendleton; four step-sons, John, Charles and James near this city, and Edward, of Columbia City, Indiana; two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Wardlow of Mt. Orab, Ohio and Mrs. Sarah Peddicord of Georgetown, Ohio, and eighteen grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the family home with Rev. G.W. Winfrey in charge. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Source : Alexandria Times Tribune, Monday, March 8, 1926, page 1.
The funeral services of Mrs. Dorothy Wright were held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the home two and one half miles southwest of the city. The home was filled to overflowing with friends and relatives to pay their last respects to this well known woman. Rev. G.W. Winfrey, having charge of the services, selected for his text, 1st Sam.1-3, "There is but a step between me and death." The flower carriers were Olive Wright, Louise Wright, Mabel Wright and Zelma Ruth Wright. Pallbearers were Virgil Wright, Charles Sexton, George Hardcastle, Fred Wright, Jack McDermitt and Carl Brown. The singers, Mrs. Girtha Auler and Mrs. Audrey Cripe, sang "Shall We Meet", "Take the name of Jesus with you," and "When they ring the Golden Bells for you and me." Burial was in the Odd Fellows cemetery.


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Emma Fulton, 9, of Millbury, left, and Kaylee Miraglia, 8, of Worcester, chat after finishing a string at Colonial Bowling on Mill Street today. Bowling is one of many activities available for kids during school vacation this week, including ice skating, snowshoeing, story hours, magic shows, history and museum programs and crafts workshops.
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First Quarto Edition (1684)
Eighteen of Shakespeare's plays were published in quarto editions – individual plays printed in small format – prior to the 1623 first collected edition (first folio) of Shakespeare's works. Julius Caesar was not published in quarto until much later: the first edition, of which ZSR's Special Collections holds a copy, did not appear until 1684.
The quarto format, so named because sheets from the printing press were folded into quarters to assemble the book, was the Renaissance equivalent of a modern trade paperback. Small, portable, and fairly cheap to produce, quartos were the standard format for plays, poems, and other non-scholarly works in 15th -and 16th -century Europe.
Julius Caesar was reprinted in quarto many times throughout the 1680s and 90s, a testament to the play's great appeal for Restoration audiences. The first quarto edition includes, on the title page verso, a cast listing of the actors who appeared in a production at the Theatre Royal.
Wake Forest's copy is from the library of Charles Henry Babcock. Babcock apparently purchased the book from the estate of Washington, D. C. lawyer Frank J. Hogan, who had the volume bound in red morocco leather by Rivière.


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But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. —Matthew 6:6
It is highly worthy of observation that whoever engages in prayer should apply all his faculties and attention to it, and not be distracted, as is commonly the case, with wandering thoughts; nothing being more contrary to a reverence for God than such levity, which indicates a licentious spirit, wholly unrestrained by fear.
In this case our exertions must be great in proportion to the difficulty we experience. For no man can be intent on praying, but he may perceive many irregular thoughts intruding on him, and either interrupting, or by some oblique digression retarding him in the course of his devotions.
But here let us consider what an indignity it is when God admits us to familiar intercourse with him, to abuse such great condescension by a mixture of things sacred and profane, while our thoughts are not confined to him by reverential awe; but as if we are conversing with a mean mortal, we leave him in the midst of our prayer, and make excursions on every side.
We may be assured, therefore, that none are rightly prepared for the exercise of prayer, but those who are so affected by the Divine Majesty as to come to it divested of all earthly cares and affections. —Institutes, III, xx, iv
John Calvin was the premier theologian of the Reformation, but also a pious and godly Christian pastor who endeavored throughout his life to point men and women to Christ. We are grateful to Reformation Heritage Books for permission to use John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart as our daily devotional for 2013 on the OPC Web site. You can currently obtain a printed copy of that book from Reformation Heritage Books.
Dr. Joel Beeke, who is editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, has this to say:
"Calvin shows us the piety of a Reformed theologian who speaks from the heart. Having tasted the goodness and grace of God in Jesus Christ, he pursued piety by seeking to know and do God's will every day. He communed with Christ, practicing repentance, self-denial, and cross-bearing. Moreover, his theology worked itself out in heart-felt, Christ-honoring piety. The selections of this devotional bear this out, and hopefully will be used by God to direct pious hearts in our own day."
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The dead will rise again to bring history to life during the eighth annual Crocker House Cemetery Walk, on Oct. 6.
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�It�s almost like theater,� said Kim Parr, director of the Crocker House Museum and the Macomb County Historical Society. �It�s the best way to learn about local history.�
One of the most dramatic stories can be found in the life of Dr. Ervin Wolf, who lived 1922-1997.
Originally from Gyor, Hungary, near the Austrian border, Wolf, a Roseville obstetrician, lived through one of the darkest periods in the 20th century.
Because the Hungarian government was an ally of Germany, Wolf was forced into a labor camp for Jewish men in 1943 at the age of 21. After Germany fully occupied Hungary, his parents were deported to Auschwitz from which they never returned.
When World War II ended, Wolf received his medical education in Budapest and married his wife, Judit, in 1953. The couple were first wed in a civil ceremony and later in a Jewish ceremony, which had to be performed in secret, due to the Communist government.
Wolf and his bride left Hungary during the revolution in 1956 and immigrated to America. After obtaining his medical license, Wolf settled in Roseville. For 25 years, Dr. Wolf was responsible for the birth of many babies while working out of St. Joseph Hospital.
The names of his parents, Dr. Joseph Wolf and Kamilla Schattelesz Wolf, are inscribed on his grave marker above the words, �perished in the holocaust.�
The walk begins at the Crocker House Museum where you will learn about general Victorian mourning and funeral customs. Cemetery Walk tickets are sold for specific times and visitors will board a bus headed for the Beth Tephilaph Moses Cemetery.
In addition to the Cemetery Walk, there will be a Shiva Funeral Tea at noon that offers Jewish food traditionally served at a wake.
The Crocker House Museum is at 15 Union Street, Mount Clemens, Mi 48043.
Cemetery Walk tickets cost $15 for members of the Macomb Historical Society and $20 for nonmembers.
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Tickets may be reserved 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday by calling the Crocker House Museum at 586-465-2488, or going online.


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Thread: I bought a Lemon!
10-03-2005, 09:48 PM #1stickydickGuestI bought a Lemon!
So I think that I bought a lemon of a mac. (iBook, G4.)
Ever since I bought it, I have had the 'black screen of death' at least once a week and having owned PCs before so didnt think it was a big deal - but expected a bit more from macs, so tried to take it back. I was told that I should update all the software, and was sent on my way. I dealt with this for a 8 more months or so and the day after my warranty expired, my hard drive died which I replaced myself as apple wanted $400 to do so. Things got better - for a couple of months, and now I can not start it without the black screen (please restart your computer) appearing. The hardware diagnostics CD says that there is a problem with the Memory (RAM, I figure) and I received a message like MEM2:104.1 DIMM and either J1 or BUILT IN. Forgive the lack of specificity, as now I can not even get the Hardware CD to run a diagnostic. I have tried booting with different ram, with no ram (i.e. only the built in ram of 128MB) and have no luck. Anyone know what to do? How much it would cost? Anyone heard of a mac being so crappy in such a short time? (I am in FL, and Applecare is not offered down here...jeez, maybe the heat and the humidity scares apple although I am very kind to my beloved puter.)
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well it is not the heat and humidity. it sounds like your onbard memory is bad. i hate to say it, but you bought a lemon. if you know someone with some micro miniature repair skills, have them fix it. if not, i dont know what to tell you. PM me with your location and if you are near where i live in florida, i can see if one of the micro mini guys in my shop can do it.
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If the problem pre-existed before your warranty expired, and they failed to help you solve the problem (by suggesting the wrong solution), then it should still be up to Apple to fix this, outside warranty or not.
Yea, thats what I think. If you can prove that you took the computer in to be fixed before the warranty expired and they didnt help. They should definitely fix it.
10-08-2005, 09:44 PM #5stickydickGuest
Thanks for the advice folks. Guess it is good to hear at least that Apples rarely do this - I would love to get another in the future but am a bit gun shy right now; not to mention that I don't have two pennies to scratch my **** with at the moment. I called Mac, and they just keep telling me that the warranty has expired and require $50 to even continue the conversation. So, I have just written a bunch of letters to corporate, public relations, etc. and will keep writing - hopefully something will come of it, as this is my only option right now - being a poor sorry med student!
Thanks again,
01-13-2006, 07:19 AM #6stickydickGuestAnyone wanna buy a nice tasty lemon?
OK. I give up. After pleading with apple and the store manager, they were somewhat sympathetic, offering me a $200 discount on a refurbished mac, or $300 to repair my existing one (which does indeed have a fried logic board.)
Thing is, I am kinda put - off macs right now; and would like to sell all my mac accessories and even the fried laptop. Does anyone have any ideas of whether or not these things are worth selling for parts? And for how much? (Ballpark.)
01-13-2006, 08:23 AM #7jn4jennyGuest
Well, ironically enough, you could sell the entire machine for parts for around the $300 mark. Or if you have a lot of patience, you could probably get more by parsing it out part-by-part.
But do consider this: The two things that can go most wrong in a Mac and that cost the most money to fix have ALREADY happened to you. If you replaced the HD already and the logic board will be replaced by Apple, there's a good chance that your machine will be okay for a long time to come. It's very unusual to hear about people with TWO logic board failures or TWO hard drive failures.
If you're truly disgusted with the thing, you might also consider getting it fixed THEN selling it as a working machine with the 90 day parts and labor warranty that will come out of the Apple Flat-Rate Repair. If the prices look good on Ebay (meaning that you'd recover the cost of repair and then some) then maybe that's the best option financially.
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No expert on this topic Craig. But they are great pics.
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Tip Craig, keep that water line level, otherwise great pics.
These were taken with my Sony Ericsson mobile phone..
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Will get a good photo of one of these little sods some day.
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In response to the original question, I have Nikon D90 and D60 DSLRs, and I have a Canon 960is point and shoot that I carry around everywhere. I also shoot with an old Canon AE1 35mm SLR on occasion.
Andy, not Nathan. NOT Nathan. My left hand is reserved for lighting cigarettes.
I really need a tri-pod myself. With a 300mm lense on it, it can make it hard to hold the camera still to take a photo right. That said, I never had the space to carry such an item anyway.
Yeah, a decent tripod comes in handy.
They don't have to be all that big, though. You can get a compact Manfrotto tripod for around $150, which is made of carbon fibre (ie. next to no weight to carry around) and folds down to about a foot or so long. Another option is a Gorillapod. The flexible legs wrap around any convenient tree or post or whatever, and they are easily slipped into a camera bag.
For twilights and other low-light stuff, they are invaluable. Image stabilisation only goes so far.
BTW I really like the first (my favourite) and and the last photo's of the four that you put up. The other two are pretty good as well.
EDIT: A few people have told me I should photography for a living, or has that as a goal to be able to make money from it. Obviously it is a lot of work and time, it is always good to have something to aim for. I already have a few contacts)
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I'm looking to get a macro lens (followed by a telephoto) and was wondering if anyone had any advice...
Looking at the Canon 100mm and the Sigma 150mm at the moment. Have heard good things about both, but with me travelling a bit am leaning towards the Canon at the moment.
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It's a photography forum where you can post up any questions you have and get an idea of how good some of these guys are as well as ideas for your own photography. I think it's a good idea to see what some other people do sometimes and go out and do the same thing yourself to add techniques etc to your photography.
I've been slack since getting the 40D, I've taken lots of photos but I haven't really tried to push myself to get better. I've spent a lot of hours today on this website though looking at shots and lenses (which is dangerous as I'm now considering getting a couple in the next 2-3 months which will cost me about $2000 all up. Will cover my needs for a little while though I think). Talking about spending this much on lenses makes me feel a bit like the golfers I used to see and mock at the club who had expensive clubs and no talent
I would like to know how some people get the rich colours etc in some of their shots. Is it through filters or mucking about post-production to get things right.
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For example, I find that the auto White Balance gets it right most of the time, but I adjust the warmth of the light according to what look I'm going for. If I'm shooting sunsets, I'll warm the shot to A1 or A2 (amber), which deepens and brightens the reds and oranges of the sunset. I generally like the cooler, blueish hue when I'm shooting under moonlight, so I'll adjust it to B1 or B2 (blue).
I have no idea how the Canon options work, but on my Nikons you go into the white balance menu, select "auto", and there is a sub-menu to fine-tune the auto setting. On the D90, I can do it using the WB button on the back of the camera, and adjust it using the thumbwheels. I'm sure there would be a similar control on the Canon.
You can achieve the same thing in PP using photoshop or GIMP or whatever, but I generally find it easier and quicker to do it before I take the shot.
Give that a try, and see if the results are what you're looking for. You could also try changing the saturation control to "vivid" or "more vivid" if you're looking for deep, heavily saturated colours. Just be careful you don't go too far, or the colours will look a bit cartoony and unrealistic.
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10 December 2012
Global environmental degradation is with us. The science is in. Measurements of ecological, carbon and water footprints, and biodiversity loss, imply stark consequences. Carrying on as usual will only make a dire world-prognosis worse. Children born now into this world will have us to thank for their diminished prospects.
So we have to do something immediately if they are to inherit a future with quality natural ecosystems, diversity and opportunity. We can't rely on political change because that would be too slow. We can't rely on the next generation because that would be too late. Substantial change requires us all to pitch in now from wherever we stand. It needs leadership - we are all leaders, we all have a sphere of influence and we can all use it for good.
We have the capacity to make decisions to improve our world. In fact, sustainability will only be realised decision by decision because it's a process to be undertaken minute by minute, not a destination to be reached some 50 years hence. So what to do? Begin with the possible at home, in the community or at work. Begin small or big - it doesn't matter - begin where you're at and believe that one thing will lead to another.
This belief is why our sustainability education book Enough for All Forever turned out to be such an eclectic collection of chapters. They come from 50 contributors with diverse backgrounds, including biologists, environmental scientists, educators, health scientists, artists, art historians, economists, geoscientists, indigenous cultural educators and lawyers. They are linked by a common commitment to do something about sustainability. The book opens with an invitation to sit with some of the elders - David Suzuki from Canada and Laklak Burarrwanga, Merrki Ganambarr and Banbapuy Ganambarr, from East Arnhem Land. Together with Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd and Sarah Wright they tell about the vast and magnificent interconnectedness of the world. They end with an impassioned plea to hurry and take action to prevent its destruction.
The rest of the book is in support of their plea, providing big questions to mull over and suggestions for action. It's intended that any teacher, from kindergarten to tertiary level, can dip into it and find ideas for classes at all stages. In fact, teachers were crucial to the book's evolution. Contributors were asked to submit draft chapters to a teacher for feedback. Then in the final draft process all chapters were read by other teachers, who made comments about how they could be translated for lesson plans and activities.
All chapters shed some light on the same daunting challenge but they arise out of different life experiences and different spheres of influence: social, cultural, political, academic and business. We have deliberately sought out experts committed to doing something about sustainability from wherever they stand; but where they stand differs widely. Some discuss the challenges to businesses and how they must accept a fair share of responsibility for the social, economic and environmental effects of what they do. Yet other chapters suggest that in the face of our massive impact on the earth and all that lives on it there'll be no business if we can't get the environment right.
Our purpose is to present at least some ideas that will immediately resonate with the reader's situation and be useful in their professional or personal life. From there we hope that each idea leads to another and that people will find ways to make a difference from wherever they stand.
It could be something like making food your hobby - growing it, cooking it and eating it too, donating time to a charity or community group, shopping at Vinnies, going to festivals, theatre and cinema, participating in exercise or sport. Or it could be something like making it your mission to use less energy and water; or walking, cycling, taking the bus or train.
Maybe you are able to tackle a broader agenda, such as introducing a labelling system that helps us to become discerning shoppers; or developing a policy for using less energy at work; or building housing that will conserve materials, energy and water and respect the natural environment. If you have the power to do big things you are in a position to be remembered as someone who acted out of a concern for fairness and the greater good. If you have investments you can support positive changes in production systems and resource allocation. As a shareholder, you can influence how your funds are used. Maybe you can change corporate behaviour, make long term business development the focus rather than short term returns. Perhaps your organisation's innovations can help prompt legislative and policy changes that further societal changes and challenge fundamental values. Change is inevitable, but it need not be about giving something up. It can be about ensuring we create a future that we want.
From home, to community to the wider world, our actions make a tangled web of feedback loops that start to make living within our planetary means the norm. Meanwhile we will all find ways to deal with the likely tensions created by the ethical dilemmas and competing demands of a world striving towards sustainability - and a different kind of prosperity.
The book Enough for All Forever was launched at a special Sydney Ideas session on Thursday 6 December. Edited by Dr Joy Murray, Glenn Cawthorne, Dr Christopher Dey and Chris Andrew, it can be ordered from Common Ground Publishing.
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Stephen Curry, after being serenaded by about 6,000 fans at Oracle Arena for Wednesday's rally, talked to the crowd about the future of the Warriors.
"We just need to get some people back," Curry said, then he paused and turned to stare at forward Carl Landry.
Landry has one year left on his contract, paying him $4 million. But he has an option to skip the last year and become a free agent. Time is ticking on him to decide and he said he is feeling the pressure.
He called it the hardest decision of his career.
CARL LANDRY: "I mean, this is the best team I've ever played for on this level, especially as far as chemistry. And the scary thing is we've been together one year."


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Lujo wrote:How about having platemail and Getinadare on a Rogue? I gotta try this ^^
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Hmm... that could be misleading. Not every monster with death gaze has first strike. Death Gaze always activates with the same speed as the monster's regular attack. Gorgons just happen to have both first strike and death gaze.
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ALGONQUIN – Village officials have planned numerous road closures for the Founders' Days events scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.
On Saturday, the annual parade is scheduled for 11 a.m. Police plan to start diverting traffic and close Routes 31 and 62 at 10 a.m., according to a news release.
The parade begins at Eastgate Drive and Route 62. It goes west on Route 62 over the Fox River and then goes south on Route 31. The parade will end at Madison Street, but Route 31 will be closed at Edgewood Drive.
No traffic will be allowed onto the northbound Route 31 side streets of LaFox River Drive, Division Street or Jayne Street other than residents who live in the subdivision, the news release said.
On Sunday, Harrison Street from Route 62 to Edward Street will be closed from 5 to 11 p.m. to allow for the preparation of the annual fireworks display. No parking will be allowed on the section of Harrison Street on Sunday.
No one will be allowed to remain on the bridge on Route 62 over the Fox River from 7 to 11 p.m. Sunday.
The bridge will be kept open for the flow of pedestrian traffic to Riverfront Park before the fireworks, but there will be no pedestrian traffic crossing of Route 62 at River Road before, during or after the fireworks, the news release said. All pedestrian traffic must cross Route 62 at either Harrison Street or Eastgate Drive.


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Too much talk here that reminds me of /sp/.
Its unfortunate that most threads derail into hateful bashing of a player or each other. I understand frustration but I doubt some of the more ignorant people on here hold themselves to the standard they hold these 20-30 year olds.
Maybe that is just what happens to you after so many years watching this team.
Too much talk here that reminds me of /sp/.
You know what teams are hated? Patriots, Steelers, Cowboys, Giants.
What's the common theme there? They win Superbowls.
I wish we were hated for that reason. But we're not. We're irrelevant to most NFL fans. The last thing we should be doing is caring how our team is perceived by the rest of the country based on our own misguided perceptions of the rest of the country.
Here's what you should've written about.Why Jets fans need to stop being happy with mediocrity.
The Jets have no control of the obsession that the local and national coverage have of the team, as well as the daily agenda they spew.
The Jets have the WORST, and I mean WORST local media coverage, most of them are *******s, they are entitled elitist a-holes, bread most probably due to the competition of working in the industry in the New York market.
2. It may not bring about immediate changes but it gets the ball rolling.
3. There are no guarantees that the next staff will be better. However, I don't see Rex the HC as having done much. The team needs a coach not a mouth piece. I don't see Rex the HC as a person the team can not afford to lose or could not be replaced. You do not make staff changes based on fear. If you stay with Rex you do so because you have faith in him as the HC. But, to accept mediocrity because you're scared of failure is bush league. He does not seem to have grown as a HC during his time here now year 4.
4. Every win hurts the draft pick when a lot of teams are bunched together towards .500.
5. Common sense and New York Jets.... Kyle Brady, Anthony Becht, and Gholston say hello. Never use the words common sense and New York Jets together if implying that the jets possess some. It just shows your lack of experience with the team.
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1. Hard knocks
2. Coach making SB predictions- No other coach does this, I can not remember a NFL coach ever saying such a thing.
3. A Press conference to announce the signing of a B/U QB flying in on the owners private jet.
4. Inviting ESPN to camp out and then complain that they make a big deal out of scuffles
5. The coach encouraging the players to be as brash as he is.
When you wallow with pigs you get dirty. The jets sought media attention, they can not choose what they now want to report.
I know you hat patriot references, but at least mangini knew that the media is the enemy of a team, and not somebody to partner with.
I think the performances of the guys we already have on the roster are more important than worrying about the draft pick when we're obviously nowhere near the Chiefs, Eagles, etc. Last two "great draft picks" we got, we spent on Gholston and Sanchez.
9-7, no playoffs, Wilkinson, Kerley and Coples continue to look like quality NFL players? I'll take that.
If nothing else, I want Tim Tebow gone- I never wanted him in the first place and it will be such a relief when his legions are out of our fanbase.
A pretty crappy stain on the franchise. Woody to blame.
Rex coaches with emotion, that's his style, to be fair, he'll need to learn to balance it out, and he's doing that.
Hard Knocks? Complete BS.
A coach encouraging his players to play with emotion, that is what the game is about.
The Jets didn't invite ESPN, they requested it, the Jets didn't care. The ONLY reason ESPN did it, was to kick off the Tebow nonsense, the Jets probably didn't see it coming. And spare me the media rhetoric and Woody's PSL's, and Woody wanted backpages, it's pure media CRAP!
Tebow did not fly in on Woody's private plane, and the media requested the press conference, not the other way around.
If you're going to spew garbage, get your facts right.
Before last weeks game the odds were 1 in 20 that the jets make the playoffs. That is make the playoffs and play a road game most likely in Denver. If you think that carrot is good enough not to develop players at the expense of giveing playing time to guys who are not going to be here when the team reloads, fine. But don't put down fans who rather go with a long term look than the short range one.


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Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment was a shop in North Side, Diagon Alley that sold a wide variety of magical instruments like telescopes and hourglasses.
Products sold
- Brass Scales (3 Galleons)
- Brass Telescope (5 Galleons)
- Crystal Phials (7 Galleons)
- Moon Chart (5 Galleons)
- Silver Scales (7 Galleons)
- Glass Phials (5 Galleons)
- Star Chart (6 Galleons)
- Globe of the Moon (13 Galleons)
Behind the scenes
- The Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment shop's name is not revealed in the books. The shop was first referred to as such in the "Tour Diagon Alley" feature included on Disc 2 of the DVD release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and was then confirmed in Pottermore.
- The shop is showcased in Traveller's Tales LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 game. Players are able to purchase 'fun spells' with LEGO Harry Potter studs at the Diagon Alley shop; spells from the Harry Potter universe for causing mischief as you explore Hogwarts, like changing other character's appearances, causing them to dance or even belch slugs. Special spells can be found on the upper level of the shop by entering game codes.
- Before the Diagon Alley expansion at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, one could find a Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment (actually just a fake storefront) in Hogsmeade. Following the expansion, it was replaced by Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop.[1]
A "wiseacre", which is derived from the word "wise", refers to a person who claims to be knowledgeable about everything (but is not).
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Pottermore[2]
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According To Multiple Reports Pens Are On Verge Of Signing Him. Take It As A Grain Of Salt.....But Heres Info
Chesnokov is highly plugged in and a reliable source, and if he is willing to name the Pens name, that's good enough for us to go on as a pretty solid rumor.
This could be a mystery. Could he be the next Janne Pesonen or Vladimir Vujtek - an accomplished European player that comes to North America not to make an impact in the NHL? Or just a late-bloomer that could be a valauble add?
What we do know from a quick search is Belov is 26 years old, undrafted to the NHL, and has played for Avangard Omsk for the past five seasons in the KHL, where he was the team's leading defensive scorer (9 goals, 17 assists) this season. He's also listed at 6'3, 185, which may or may not be entirely accurate, but seems like he has some size.
He also played for Team Russia in the World Championships earlier this month (see above for a picture with ex-Penguin Tomas Surovy making an appearance) so it seems like Belov is regarded enough to be on the map at least somewhat in the hockey world.
Assuming the Penguins sign him, time will tell what kind of impact he may have. I won't pretend to analyze his game but a team doesn't usually sign a 26 year old player from Russia unless they intend to give him a really good chance of making the NHL roster. And the player probably i


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Hi All.
When I try to boot a previously working Fedora 16 system named "Silver", it fails with the following error message.
"[drm:radeon_vga_detect] *ERROR* VGA1: probed a monitor but no/invalid EDID
An option is provided to hit "Control-d" to continue.
this gives:
[root@Silver ~]# exit
[systemd-fsck[1077]: /dev/mapper/vg-silver-lv_home contains file system with errors.
I can get to a command prompt if this is any use.
An alternative boot option to run "Windows 7" works normally using the same Monitor.
Any suggestions as to how to fix this would be welcome.


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TORONTO -- Brandon Morrow struck out a season-high 11, Omar Vizquel wrapped up his 24-year career and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Minnesota Twins 2-1 on Wednesday night to complete a three-game sweep.
Morrow (10-7) allowed one run and three hits in eight innings, his longest outing since a complete game victory at Chicago on June 6. Toronto's staff leader in wins, the right-hander reached double digits in victories for the third straight season.
Brandon Lyon finished the ninth for his first save as the Blue Jays avoided 90 losses, finishing at 73-89. They finished at .500 last season.
Mike McCoy replaced Vizquel with two outs in the ninth and the veteran infielder left to a standing ovation, hugging his teammates, doffing his cap and tapping his heart to show his appreciation.
Fans stood and cheered, many waving Venezuelan flags, when Vizquel came to the plate for the first time in the third. He later drew cheers for a running, no-look basket catch on Drew Butera in the top of the seventh, and got another ovation after lining a base hit to center in the bottom half, his final at-bat. The hit was the 2,877th of his career.
Starting in Toronto for the first time, Canadian-born rookie left-hander Scott Diamond (12-9) allowed two runs and five hits in five innings. He walked one and struck out three.
Twins infielder Trevor Plouffe had to leave after appearing to land awkwardly on first base on his fielder's choice groundout in the sixth. He was replaced by Alexi Casilla.
Minnesota's Joe Mauer went 0 for 2 with two walks in his career-high 147th game, dropping his average to .319.
The Twins finished 66-96, three wins better than last season, but they finished with the AL's worst record for the second straight year and were last in the division in consecutive years for the first time since 1999-00.
Anthony Gose started a two-out rally with a triple to right-center in the third. Rajai Davis drove in Gose with a single, then stole second and scored on a base hit by Adeiny Hechavarria.
The Twins cut the deficit in half in the fourth, loading the bases with a single and two walks and scoring when Toronto couldn't turn a double play on Matt Carson's fielder's choice.
NOTES: Blue Jays OF Jose Bautista, who had season-ending surgery on his left wrist last month, said the injury is healing well and that he will be ready for spring training 2013. Bautista was the ML leader in home runs in 2010 and 2011. ... Toronto INF Edwin Encarnacion (sore left shoulder and neck) missed his third straight start. ... Former teammate Carlos Baerga and fellow Venezuelan baseball greats Luis Aparicio and Andres Galarraga were on hand for Vizquel's final game. ... Toronto's final attendance was 2,099,663, a 15.5 percent increase from 2011. It's Toronto's biggest year-on-year increase since 1989.


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The festival has grown every year and this season the four-day event for children aged between six and eleven will see over 150 schools across Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan, RCT, Merthyr and South Powys taking part.
Speaking at the event Lou Reed said,
"We've been around the region in Penygraig and Brecon training in front of the youngsters so it's great to be able to come down and see them play.
"All the kids seem to be having fun which is the main thing.
"It's a great day out for all the schools."
Cardiff Blues Development Officer Nadine Griffiths added:
"It's absolutely great to see this amount of kids enjoying playing in the Arms Park again this year.
"The support from the schools has been brilliant.
"It gives them a chance to put into practice a lot of the skills that they've learnt throughout the year.
"It's all about fun. We don't record any scores, winners or losers, every school that enters gets a trophy for participation boys and girls having a go and having fun."
"The festival is open to all school across the region.
"We have two days for the south so that's Cardiff and Vale.
"Then on Thursday and Friday the north of the region will come down so those are teams from Powys, Merthyr, Cynon Valley, Pontypridd and Rhodda so it's a great occasion and gives school the chance to play against new and different schools.
Jan Payne PE Coordinator at Pentrebane Primary said
"The kids really enjoy playing rugby and the day has been brilliant for them
"The school comes down every year and it's a highlight for many.
"We don't get enough team games so having a day like this is very helpful and really inspires the kids to play.
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New York, N.Y. - Freshman Michael Redlicki and doubles partner Dennis Novikov of UCLA advanced to the second round of the US Open doubles main draw Wednesday afternoon at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The duo defeated fellow Americans Bobby Reynolds and Michael Russell in their first round match, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7).
Redlicki, who hails from Chicago, Ill., earned a bid to the US Open doubles main draw as a wild card, after he and Novikov captured the USTA Boys 18 National Championship earlier this month in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Redlicki is rated No. 5 overall in the Tennis RPI rankings and No. 8 nationally by TennisRecruiting.net. Earlier this summer, he teamed with Duke rising sophomore Jason Tahir to take the doubles crown at the USA F18 Futures tournament in Pittsburgh. Redlicki has also previously captured titles at the USTA National Clay Court Championship and the USTA National Open Hard Court Championships during the summer of 2011, as well as at the Midwest Junior Indoor Championships in February 2011.


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Yeah. 80 different distributions at once.
80 different distributions at once.
Sure would be nice to have a play with it once they have worked out how to program it...
It's very likely you can get one at Best Buy before they have worked out how to program with it. The fact is, current programming paradigms simply aren't suited to fine-grained parallelism - and in saying that, I don't mean to imply that such a paradigm can definitely exist. Sure there are many parallel research languages, but whether those could be adopted by mainstream programmers and used to achieve anywhere near
my pedantry is limitted.
The average user won't notice. There's a threshold for everything, beyond which limits are meaningless.
"Intel CEO promises to deliver magical new uber processor within five years".
Great now, I have to wait five years before I buy my next computer because nothing else will compare unless it's got 80 cores. My duel core looks soooo small now. =(
80 cores means there are probably quite a lot of on-chip interconnects between the cores.
There has to be a typo hiding in there, but the whole thing is an empty set. It's hard to believe they can make 80 cores with 100E6 transistors when it take 261E6 transistors to make two. Each core would have less than a million transistors in the 80 core model. You have to go all the way back to the 486 [answers.com] to see that kind of count from Intel. It's possible because the cores are not x86, there's no "ability to use
That might not be a terrible idea. Since the utility of this chip assumes fine-grained parallelism anyways, the new metric would have to be flops per transistor. Implement the 486 design with modern process technology, thus allowing you to put 250 of them on a single chip runing at 100x the original clock speed of 33mhz, and you might get something very nice. Or is that even possible?You have to go all the way back to the 486 to see that kind of count from Intel.
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades
By James M. Kilts
CEO and President,
The Gillette Company
Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Mach3Turbo. That's three blades and an aloe strip. For moisture. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened--the bastards went to four blades. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three blades and a strip. Moisture or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to five blades.
Sure, we could go to four blades next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe. Let's make a thicker aloe strip and call it the Mach3SuperTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who have the edge in the multi-blade game. Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Gillette is the best a man can get.
What part of this don't you understand? If two blades is good, and three blades is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking razor that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the razor game by clinging to the two-blade industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five blades is the biggest chance of all.
Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to invent--I tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more blades in there. I don't care how. Make the blades so thin they're invisible. Put some on the handle. I don't care if they have to cram the fifth blade in perpendicular to the other four, just do it!
You're taking the "safety" part of "safety razor" too literally, grandma. Cut the strings and soar. Let's hit it. Let's roll. This is our chance to make razor history. Let's dream big. All you have to do is say that five blades can happen, and it will happen. If you aren't on board, then fuck you. And if you're on the board, then fuck you and your father. Hey, if I'm the only one who'll take risks, I'm sure as hell happy to hog all the glory when the five-blade razor becomes the shaving tool for the U.S. of "this is how we shave now" A.
People said we couldn't go to three. It'll cost a fortune to manufacture, they said. Well, we did it. Now some egghead in a lab is screaming "Five's crazy?" Well, perhaps he'd be more comfortable in the labs at Norelco, working on fucking electrics. Rotary blades, my white ass!
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we should just ride in Bic's wake and make pens. Ha! Not on your fucking life! The day I shadow a penny-ante outfit like Bic is the day I leave the razor game for good, and that won't happen until the day I die!
The market? Listen, we make the market. All we have to do is put her out there with a little jingle. It's as easy as, "Hey, shaving with anything less than five blades is like scraping your beard off with a dull hatchet." Or "You'll be so smooth, I could snort lines off of your chin." Try "Your neck is going to be so friggin' soft, someone's gonna walk up and tie a goddamn Cub Scout kerchief under it."
I know what you're thinking now: What'll people say? Mew mew mew. Oh, no, what will people say?! Grow the fuck up. When you're on top, people talk. That's the price you pay for being on top. Which Gillette is, always has been, and forever shall be, Amen, five blades, sweet Jesus in heaven.
Blade Inflation
By Dave Barry
What's next from the razor-sharp minds of the shaving industry?
Attention, consumers with bodily hair: The razor industry has news for you! You will never in a million years guess what this news is, unless your IQ is higher than zero, in which case you're already thinking: "Not another blade! Don't tell me they're adding ANOTHER BLADE!!"
Shut up! Don't spoil the surprise for everybody else!
Before I tell you the news, let's put it in historical context by reviewing:
Human beings are one of only two species of animals that shave themselves (the other one is salamanders). The Internet tells us that humans have been shaving since the Stone Age. Of course, the Internet also tells us that hot naked women want to befriend us, so we can't be 100 percent sure about everything we read there.
But assuming that www.quikshave.com/ timeline.htm is telling the truth, Neanderthal Man used to pluck his facial hairs "using two seashells as tweezers." No doubt Neanderthal Woman found this very attractive. "You smell like a clam," were probably her exact words. It was during this era that the headache was invented.
By 30,000 B.C., primitive man was shaving with blades made from flint, which is a rock, so you had a lot of guys whose faces were basically big oozing scabs. The next shaving breakthrough came when the ancient Egyptians figured out how to make razors from sharp metal, which meant that, for the first time, the man who wanted to be well-groomed could, without any assistance or special training, cut an ear completely off.
This was pretty much the situation until the late 19th century, at about 2:30 p.m., when the safety razor was invented. This introduced a wonderful era known to historians as "The Golden Age of Not Having Razor Companies Introduce Some Ludicrously Unnecessary New Shaving Technology Every 10 Damn Minutes."
I, personally, grew up during this era. I got my first razor when I was 15, and I used it to shave my "beard," which consisted of a lone chin hair approximately one electron in diameter. (I was a "late bloomer" who did not fully experience
puberty until many of my classmates, including females, were bald.) My beard would poke its wispy head out of its follicle every week or so, and I, feeling manly, would smother it under 14 cubic feet of shaving cream and lop it off with my razor. Then I would stand in front of the bathroom mirror, waiting for it to grow again. Mine was a lonely adolescence.
The razors of that era had one blade, and they worked fine; ask any older person who is not actively drooling. But then, in 1971, a very bad thing happened: Gillette, looking for a way to enhance the shaving experience (by which I mean "charge more") came out with a razor that had TWO blades. This touched off a nuclear arms race among razor companies, vying to outdo one another by adding "high-tech" features that made the product more expensive, but not necessarily better. This tactic is called "sneakerization," in honor of the sneaker industry, which now has people paying upwards of $200 a pair for increasingly weird-looking footwear boasting the durability of thinly sliced Velveeta.
Soon everybody was selling two-blade razors. So the marketing people put on their thinking caps, and, in an astounding burst of creativity, came up with the breakthrough concept of: THREE BLADES. Gillette, which is on the cutting edge (har!) of razor sneakerization, currently has a top-of-the-line three-blade razor -- excuse me, I mean "shaving system" -- called the "Mach3Turbo," which, according to the Gillette Web site (www.gillette.com) has more technology than a nuclear submarine, including "open cartridge architecture" and an "ergonomic handle" featuring "knurled elastomeric crescents." That's right: It has elastomeric crescents, and they have been knurled! By knurlers! No, I don't know what this means. But it sure sounds technological.
Which brings us to today's exciting news, which was brought to my attention by alert reader Jake Hamer. Gillette's arch-rival, Schick (maker of the Xtreme 3 shaving system) has announced that it's coming out with a new razor that has -- prepare to be floored by innovativeness -- FOUR BLADES. Yes! It will be called the "Quattro," which is Italian for "more expensive."
Of course it will not end there. I bet an urgent memo has already gone out in Gillette's marketing department. "Hold some focus groups immediately!" it says. "Find out what number comes after four!"
Yes, the razor-technology race shows no signs of slowing. And who knows what lies ahead? Razors with 10 blades? Twenty blades? A thousand blades? Razors that go backward in time and shave your ancestors? Exciting times lie ahead, shaving consumers!
Published: February 11, 2007
Besides, with most software being single-threaded I don't know if a consumer will immediately need more than 4 cores for a while. I can still see software companies trying to come up with ways to keep all 80 cores busy..."Well, they need at least 20 anti-virus processes, 10 genuine advantage monitors, and we'll install 100 shareware application with cute little icons in the task bar by default. There, that should keep all the cores nice and warm and busy -- our job is done!".
But in all seriousness, I would expect some extremely realistic environmental physical simulations (realtime large n-body interactions and perhaps realtime computational fluid dynamics)...now that's something to look forward to!
I think one of the possible uses for an 80-core CPU that nobody's really talked about is multiple redundancy. If one core should somehow get fried, you have 79 left.
Or... you could just have two and order a CPU to be delivered when one burns up. In fact that's what happens on some mainframes. If a part fries, the machine calls "home" and the company will send a replacement immediately. Sometimes the administrator will find out something went bad only when the rep
The problem with Fusion is if they kill the add-on graphics and you just buy one Fusion processor that costs say $400 to plug into the CPU slot. In the meantime, NVIDIA releases their new generation board and Intel releases a new generation CPU. The consumer can choose to upgrade one or the other or both, but an AMD customer is stuck just one expensive part and would have to upgrade it as one piece.
Perhaps in the future th
Eight of these processors ought to be enough for anyone.80 cores is an absurd number
perl -e 'fork while 1;'
There ya go. Think of it as a benchmark. How long can the 80-core processor run that without dying?
[a teraflop is] a level of performance that required 2,500 square feet of large computers a decade ago.
Over a decade and a half ago, in 1990, I programmed parallel AT&T DSP32C boards (multiple DSPs per ISA board in an 80386 host). Up to 5 25GFLOPS chips on a 125GFLOPS board, up to 8 boards in a 1TFLOPS host PC. That PC, nearly double the "decade ago", had over 1TFLOPS (including its FPGA glue) in about 3 square feet.
And it actually ran applications (commercial image processing) in the field. This Intel
And I'm not impressed by the Flop rate. Not with the Cell Processor already out for a year.
At 3.16GHz and with 0.95 volts applied to the processor, it can hit 1 teraflop of performance while consuming 62 watts of power.
Yikes, that's over 65 amps! Well, OK, it's less than 1 amp per core.
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