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The "app store" concept might help a lot in this regard.
I don't think you could do that sort of lock-in in Linux even if you wanted to. Apple can only do it because the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad are themselves locked down. Even that doesn't really stop people.
Anyway, if there were to be a Linux "App store", I would think it would just be a different front-end for the same package managers we already have. I'm on Ubuntu right now, and when I go to "Synaptic Package Manager" (which itself might not be completely obvious to novices as "the way to install software"
It surprises me a little in a way.
i find installing things using a package manager in linux far simpler than installing something in windows but they need to capitalise on that more.
if we are unwilling to answer such basic question, people will just get scared (and subconsciously assume that "Linux is not ready for the desktop").
That's not an assumption, that's a conclusion.
Not necessarily "we", though, slightly more knowledgeable newbies work just as well. In fact that's how large communities tend to operate in the long run, CmdrTaco doesn't go on spreading Slashdot's standards of netiquette to the ~1.5m UID newbies, it's the ~1m UIDs who do so who were in turn trained by us 900k'ers, which we learnt from the 700k'ers and so on.
You could make documentation....
One of the reasons I avoid all this open source stuff is that most of it is badly documented, and quite often there is an almost hostile tone towards people "Just learn unix you scrubs" - no thank you.
If you want your stuff to be used by a lot make simple instructions and a userfriendly interface - if you just make it for your self feel free to ignore this.
One of the reasons I avoid all this open source stuff is that most of it is badly documented
IRC channels, wikis, blogs, mailing lists (and their archives), a set of web pages... none of these is a valid substitute for actual documentation that a user can actually find an answer in. Fine, if you feel the need to be high-tech, edgy, l33t, or whatever, make it a pdf or downloadable html pages. Do not force users to have to jump through any 'extra' hoops to try and get help with a problem they may be having. I'd also add:
Don't forget the obligatory #projectname-help channel where any questions are answered with some variation on "RTFM" even though the project documentation is a standard README file, a CHANGELOG file, some GPL info and an uncommented listing of the various classes and functions that's seemingly intended for those actually developing the software (and which is practically useless to the end user even when the end user is another developer since knowing there a Foo class, a Bar class and Frongle class doesn't
That's weird. Each time I joined a dev/support channel to ask a question I got a reasonable answer. I guess it depends on the project.
Don't bother with IRC. Insist on email instead.
Then train a bayesian classifier (bogofilter) to answer the questions for you.
You just have to remember Bayesian classifiers are good at yes/no classifications (e.g. spam/notspam), so I have several corpuses and test incoming emails serially against them, tagging with the ones which match. Then process the email according to the tag. FAQ should be fairly easy. Use a procmail rule to answer, "thanks for your question, please have a look here".
You might not know it, but there are things that can't be searched with a web search. For example if you don't know the words other people use to describe it in the first place. If it can't be put in words that simply. There are things only a human can recognize as something. Things that defy being put in query form.
So while you might be able to find them, that doesn't mean someone else can.
It's like answering the questions of Family Feud. Harder than it looks.
I only go to IRC
people asking questions already answered via a web search.
Oh, it's much worse than that -- this one's actually dim enough to be using Palin-speak!
free software-y and open source-y things
As long as I don't have to make freindly with the natives, the headhunters, and the unwashed masses, I'm happy.
There's the Commentator [cenqua.com] for that.
Anybody have an implementation of that for *nix?
Please, for the love of God, somebody come along and write a test suite for my project. I'm sick of breaking code by accident!
Could you please tell me your projects, so I can avoid them and hence breaking my system? ^^
Plug alert.
You should have a closer look at Phoronix Test Suite. The infrastructure is the half of the hard part in testing, so then it comes down to just writing the tests.
You could say "I choose to respect the GPL in situations where I am not prepared or legally able to do the work necessary for compliance."
Going off on not wanting to be called a troll without explaining why GPL is so troublesome to you doesn't help the discussion that you're supposedly trying to have here.
unless you want your project to become GPL. that's the rule. how hard is it to follow?
I'm struck by two small things that make me wonder. First, you seem to be using HTTPS for pages that don't need it; not an optimal config. Second, the first project you discuss is a text mode email client!
Nothing wrong with using HTTPS for normal sites too. It's actually quite stupid that web traffic by default is all in plain-text, even login boxes on most sites.
Nothing wrong with using HTTPS for normal sites too.
Until your certificate expires.
It's actually quite stupid that web traffic by default is all in plain-text, even login boxes on most sites.
A public HTTPS site requires a hosting plan with a dedicated IPv4 address and a certificate issued by a major CA. You usually don't get those with a typical $35 per year entry-level shared hosting plan from a host like Go Daddy.
HTTPS is a nicety for our users. End-to-end cryptography is a great thing; let's have more of it!
I happen to like alpine and text-mode email reading in general.
When you say this makes you wonder, do you just mean I'm clearly some sort of bizarro nutjob? (Nothing to wonder -- that one's probably true.) Or is there something specific you wonder? If so, say what it is, and I can possibly answer. (-:
Ahhh, can't resist...
Real hackers don't dread unpleasant tasks. They write code that (perhaps write code that) does the unpleasant task for them.
Beautiful Code - Chapter 28 "Automated Debugging"
Why aren't we all using that eh? Incredible stuff, data-mining CVS commits and nailing the exact line that causes the bugs.
Beautiful Code indeed.
Someone avoided performance optimizations on openhatch.org
If you have tough time deciding if you should do those, ask slashdot - that will clear up things!
I think the answer is obvious - what most developers avoid like the plague is documentation.
Too true.
Hey! Unemployed tech writer here! Anybody got something juicy for me to work on? I particularly enjoy API references and programming guides.
I run a couple of small FLOSS projects and I have to confess that producing documentation is by far the most painful task that I need to accomplish. It basically demands that you put down in writing something which, as you've just spent a considerable slice of time which may amount to years writing it, to your own eyes is so blindingly obvious to use that you shouldn't be wasting your time writing about it. Adding to that, it's frustrating to document code because as the source code is easily accessible a
This is a real problem with Open Source Software... There is some parts about creating a program that just isn't fun. When you are in a corporate environment you kinda have to go threw the drudge work to get your job done. Now for large open source projects with a good corporate backing this isn't much of an issue as say the IBM Drone will be forced to get the job done in time. However most open source projects don't have the corporate backing and is based only on the joy of the project. When fun stuff
I have seen many proprietary software packages that are barely usable, but they are niche products with little competition and thus there is no incentive for anyone to do a good job.
I want to say something snarky about barely usable proprietary operating systems and word processors...I just can't think of anything that's actually funny (as usual).
What makes you think that corporate programmers are necessarily going to do drudge work better than volunteers?
Because programmers aren't the only people that contribute work to a product. Name three well-known video games made entirely of free software [gnu.org] and free cultural works [freedomdefined.org].
What makes you think that corporate programmers are necessarily going to do drudge work better than volunteers?
Judging from the quality of 99% of the FLOSS software out there, I would say that primary difference is that corporate programmers actually do the drudge work whereas the volunteers don't. Or, more specifically, no one volunteers for the drudge work so it doesn't get done.
However most open source projects don't have the corporate backing and is based only on the joy of the project
Non-toy open source projects have significant corporate backing.
%s/open source/volunteer-developed/ig
Also, paid developers do the tasks they are assigned, but that doesn't mean the tasks get done well. And if they are not assigned a task, paid developers will often not do it (if they did, they would be wasting money, after all).
So what you see in practice is that, for commercial development, when things get tight, everything besides coding gets dropped, and the code gets sloppy.
But you are right. Volunteer efforts usually end when the volunteers lose interest. That's us
Working on fixing the site...
The blog post can also be read at http://www.asheesh.org.nyud.net/note/debian/avoiding-working-on.html [nyud.net]
When you make your stew without beef, do not complain that it is not filling.
Thanks for visiting my blog as I requested when I submitted my Ask Slashdot question
There, fixed that for you.
I'm not saying I *mind* the attention. I agree that I was unprepared. (-:
You can all read the links now, thanks to Coral cache for the blog post, and memcached on our server.
What are the parts that, in your projects, you would be relieved if someone else looked at for you?
How about unreproducible bugs?
I hate the whole situation.
The bug reports; "Uh, I got an error or something when I tried to run it" "OK, what was the error" "I don't know" "So how do you know theres a problem?"
Failing to reproduce the error. This ties in with the "prove a negative" problem. When to give up? Just document what I'm doing and hope for the best, I guess.
Problems that are probably specification failures but you can't prove it. Closely tied to mystery black boxes that do something, but no one is entirely certain what. Even funnier when there isn't really a spec, just kind of a goal. Best of all, when two groups make opposing policy decisions and want you to consider each other's design to be a bug.
When to close out the hopeless bug. Well, it doesn't hurt anything to keep it open. But bean counters like easily counted beans, like how many open bugs. Will I insult the submitter by closing it? Some 3rd party weirdos like to get involved at that stage, "I'm morally superior to you because I never give up on a bug like you did, ha ha ha" while the reality of the situation is they merely have more spare time, a poor self image, and a desire to very publicly display it. aka the "ticket ss" "I am morally superior and I say we will have order here! Order! Achtung!"
Finally, last but not least, circumstantially, crazy/insane people seem to encounter more unreproducible bugs than typical people. Don't know if they're more ornery so the tend to report more, or more creative so they tend to find more, but I do know they're a pain to deal with.
Other than that, its not so bad.
Here's some advice that I find useful when reporting bugs:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html [greenend.org.uk]
There are some non-obvious things in there, such as trying things that clearly won't work, if asked to by the programmer:
Somebody reported a bug to me once, and I asked him to try a command that I knew wouldn't work. The reason I asked him to try it was that I wanted to know which of two different error messages it would give. Knowing which error message came back would give a vital clue. But he didn't actually try it - he just mailed me back and said "No, that won't work". It took me some time to persuade him to try it for real.
I just want to comment on that even if the bug isn't reproducible, it can be very real and very annoying. For example, an application I worked with had random cases of "things stop working". Restart services and the problem is gone - for a while. Increase memory and it's gone for a while longer. Turns out that finally, when they dug it out it was a issue with the caching system that'd not evict and insert properly under some race condition.
Another was a strange case of things going read only, but whenever a
But I avoid that for everything.
Like preaching close-minded people, who think that they are much more open-minded than you just because they oppose what they perceive as the majority opinion. When they are really religiously locked on the exact opposite view, even sometimes imitating the opposite.
Or in short: People that don't think for themselves and people that try to force their reality upon me.
Two examples would be
1) Those that completely and totally avoid putting anything closed-source on their s
I wish I had a dollar for every time an OSS project spat out something like "ERROR: 0947445" with no mention anywhere of what aforementioned error code meant or how to fix it, then upon further dredging through a hundred uncommented lines of code to find out what was going on it turns out that the root cause was that I hadn't installed some-package-to-do-something-2.4-beta (which should have been a prerequisite, but isn't).
Interestingly, some projects could _really_ use a manager, but open-source projects are often begun by programmers who want to get away from having a manager.
There are a few floating managers disguised as QA people and community liaisons that manage to do a pretty good job at this without being recognized. Some of them read here. You're appreciated.
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein


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Lincoln County Relay for Life will be offering gift wrapping services on Dec. 14 at Fayetteville's Dollar General Market, located at 1416 Huntsville Highway.
The announcement was made by Emily Hunter, chairman for the 2013-2014 Lincoln County Relay for Life.
Committee members will begin wrapping gifts at 9 a.m. and will continue while supplies last. This service will be provided in exchange for a donation to Lincoln County's Relay for Life.
"We are looking to make this year's Relay bigger and better than it's ever been," said Hunter. "This year's committees and teams are dedicated and focused on taking every opportunity that is available to help raise funds. We want to thank Chris Rudd and the staff of the Dollar General Market for allowing us to set up."
For more information on this year's Relay, or to find out how you can help, please contact Emily Hunter at 931-993-9331.

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A former Bowling Green man who threatened to kidnap a Louisiana store clerk in January and then left without doing so has been given five years probation in Pike County Circuit Court.
Scott Joseph Adams, 29, pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful use of a weapon on Thursday, March 20, according to court records. Charges of attempted kidnapping, armed criminal action and another count of unlawful use of a weapon were dismissed.
Adams told the clerk she was going with him after placing two guns on the counter, according to court records. A customer walked in the door and he left about 10 minutes later.
For the full story, see the March 26 edition of the Louisiana Press-Journal.


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Trying to stay active and healthy as a retired distance runner and a current cancer patient
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
A short run and then DSO (mostly Deadhead rambling)
It's amazing how drunk and out of control everyone else seems when I'm completely sober. Of course, that leads me to wonder how I might appear to others who are sober when I'm not...
Anyway, the show by DSO, as usual, was fantastic. I mentioned yesterday that I try to guess when the show that's being re-created was originally played. The first set seemed to put the show in 1973 or 1974, although it turned out that some songs in that set weren't played until 1976 - something that I didn't realize.
The second set opened with Samson and Delilah. I knew that song, from the Terrapin Station album, hadn't been played live before 1976. Thanks to DeadBase, an online searchable database for Deadheads, I found out that 6/3/1976 was the first time Samson and Delilah was played live. That show featured 5 new songs that the Dead had never played live before, including two others that were in last night's first set - Supplication and Lazy Lightning. If I really knew my Dead history, those songs would have put the show in 1976 or later early on.
My favorite Grateful Dead set lists are from their tours in 1976 and 1977, although the quality of the music didn't always match the quality of the set lists. I've read that part of the reason for the shows being less than spectacular in that era had to do with the use of alcohol by one of the band members and that Jerry wasn't happy about it. There is a certain irony in that, given how poorly Jerry played under the influence of heroin and other drugs at times.
By the end of the show, I was guessing that the show had been in late 1976, but it turned out to be from 6/4/1977 in California (setlist from Deadbase):
06-04-77 The Forum, Inglewood, Ca. (Sat)
1: Promised, Tennessee Jed, El Paso, Peggy-O, Jack Straw, FOTD, Lazy Lightning> Supplication, Candyman, Minglewood, B. E. Women, Music
2: Samson, Ship Of Fools, Estimated> Eyes> Drums> Good Lovin, Terrapin> Playin> Franklin's> China Doll> NFA> Playin E: Saturday Night
Deadbase's mnemonics for certain songs are easily deciphered by Deadheads, but not by everyone else. For example, Promised is "Promised Land". Pretty straightforward. FOTD is "Friend of the Devil". B.E. Women is "Brown Eyed Women". Etc.
After they announced the date of the show, I was going to head home for some sleep, and skip the last song or two that they usually play. But, before I could head for the door, the band introduced Mike Gordon, the bass player from Phish, who would sit in for the next song. They played U.S. Blues and Mike really seemed to have fun with it. I had seem him play with Phil Lesh and Friends a couple years ago, where he and Phil did a free jam, while Mike was standing on a Seqway. Seeing him up close last night made me think he may have used that Segway because he's so short.
I got home just before 2:30 a.m. and got about 5.5 hours of sleep last night. If I was younger, I'd go see DSO again tonight, but I'm old and I've got more important things to do with my spare time these days.
Tonight, I'll run about 8 miles after work, including 6 x 2 minute repeats at about 6:30 pace. Then, I'll have dinner and get to bed early.
2 comments:
- Jamie said...
Sounds like a good time. Wish I would have seen the Dead play (or Phish) when I was younger, but my musical tastes were much different back then.
Thanks also for the kind words about my friend Chris. That meant a lot, and I have a feeling what you said will apply to me as well.
- June 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM
- Damon said...
I only saw the Dead once before Jerry died and I saw Phish once. I've seen the post-Jerry versions of the Dead and their various splinter bands at least 15 times, maybe more. Not the same, but still a great show.
One of the readers of my blog was almost late for his wedding in Chicago because of traffic problems caused by what turned out to be the very last Grateful Dead show.
- June 3, 2008 at 2:58 PM


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What 'reely' [pardon the poor pun] counts
This Side Up
My brother-in-law, Edward, was on the phone Sunday taking a break from Super Bowl action and the entertaining ads – thank heaven for them.
Earlier in the week, in an email, he inquired whether I knew of any fishing lodges in Montana. He was following up for a friend who wanted to surprise her husband and figured I'd have a suggestion. Over the years, either visiting my daughter Diana when she lived in Bozeman or with Carol's friends in Billings, I got to fish a number of streams in the state.
Fly-fishing in Montana is special just about everywhere you go. There's rarely pressure on the streams, even one as popular as the Madison. And, when you do encounter other fishermen, or fisherwomen [and there are more of them out West], it's usually a 15-minute exchange that can range from what the fish are going for, to where they are from, and how did they get to this part of the country? People are not in a rush, and quite honestly, just not anxious about catching fish.
The only suggestion I had was to Google Ennis, Montana, a small town that I remember as being all about fishing. Carol and I stopped there many years ago on our way to visit our daughter.
I had heard so much about the Madison that the river had earned near mythical status. Its cool, clear water flowing out of Yellowstone Park cuts through ravines and then dances over rocky beds and on through valleys with sweeping russet fields dotted with shimmering aspen and stately cottonwoods. I could imagine the rush of water against my legs, my feet chilled in the waders and slipping against the smooth stones for a hold. I could see the sun bouncing off the rippling river and the near imperceptible blemish of the surface caused by a rising cutthroat trout. This was all in my mind before even arriving in Ennis.
Our first stop was a diner.
Carol tolerates my love for fishing, but we we're not going to miss breakfast. It was a stop worth every moment of fried eggs, toast and coffee. Everybody in the place was talking fishing and they were especially willing to share their knowledge, as well as to point out not to miss the pair of bald eagles if I planned to fish a certain stretch.
So, with that in mind, Ennis seemed like the logical place to recommend. Edward's search was fruitful. He said he had learned of at least several places.
Talk of fishing brought to mind the spring day I spent with Edward on the Deerfield River about 20 miles from their home in Shelburne, Mass.
It was a weekday and the stretch of river we fished was "catch and release." We arrived early and, for a while, it looked like we would have the place to ourselves. The sky was bright, although the sun had not yet sent shafts between hemlock and hardwoods to find the river and pushed aside its veil of mist. Then a van arrived with a guide's boat in tow. The guide was knowledgeable and quickly launched the craft. Soon thereafter, a pair of fishermen arrived. They were well equipped. They oozed money. Their vests were festooned with flies. They each carried a couple of rods and they had a cooler, which, we later learned, was filled with sandwiches and beer. They cast off and immediately headed for the fast water on the opposite bank, where the guide lowered an anchor and held the boat parallel to the rush of water. The fisherman at either end began casting. It wasn't long before one of them had a fish that he played to the edge of the boat, where the guide deftly reached down and released it. The fish never left the water.
Edward and I took this as a good omen. The guide pulled up anchor and the boat continued downstream. We waded out as best we could and cast in the direction of where the fish was caught. We worked our way downstream and finally, after an hour of not so much as a bump, we headed back to the car and for another spot along the Deerfield.
We were barely 10 minutes into the water when along came the boat and its paying customers. Again, we watched as the guide released their catch and they resumed their casting, like some mechanical machine.
Again, we felt that surge of optimism fishermen feel when others catch fish. Edward did catch a rainbow and it seemed our luck had changed, but it didn't. By now it was afternoon and we drove to a railroad trestle. On the pebbly beach, beside a deep blue pool, was the boat. For once, they weren't holding rods. They were sitting on boulders, munching sandwiches between sips of beer. They both looked like they had stepped out of an Orvis catalog.
I couldn't restrain myself.
"How many have you caught?"
They looked in my direction.
"It's been pretty good. Quite a few," one of the men responded. I took this to mean a dozen, although there was no way of knowing.
"How about you?" he added.
Now I regretted asking the question to start with.
"Nothing like you," I answered. He knew the real answer because he flashed a triumphant smile. Was this a contest?
There was yet another encounter toward the end of the day.
Again, the guide dutifully released the fish without lifting them from the water. I abandoned all etiquette and shouted above the rush of the water.
"What are you using?"
I got a cold stare. Then, I guess they figured it was the end of the day and what harm would there be.
"Just a wooly bugger," with yet another knowing grin.
Edward and I reeled in for a rapid change in flies. It made no difference.
As it turns out, our lack of a catch isn't what made the day memorable. It was walking the river together; those moments spent discussing what fly to use; telling stories; soaking in the smells, sounds and colors of clear waters; walking through the woods to reach the river; watching Monarch butterflies cluster around a roadside puddle and not knowing we were having a better time than those guys in a boat that didn't even get their fingers wet.
Edward's call brought it all back.
It's just what was needed when spring seems to be getting further and further away.


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Submission + - Goldeneye Source released (tekgoblin.com) 2
tekgoblin writes: Were you a fan of the original Goldeneye on N64? Well this 5 year Half-Life 2 mod called GoldenEye Source has just come out of beta and fully released free. The game is a fan-made creation with the objective to bring the original experiences from GoldenEye on N64 back to life. I remember spending hours upon hours playing Goldeneye on the N64 and was sad seeing it go.


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Countdown to the Playoffs, 21 games to go: The Phils begin their next to last road trip with their last three-game visit to New York to meet the Mets.
With twenty-one games left in the season, and with a one game lead over the Braves in the East, and at the moment owning the best record in the National League. the Phils start their next to last road trip of the season with a three-game visit with the Mets at Citi Field, with the first game of the series starting tonight at 7:10 pm Eastern time. The Phils are at the moment 6-6 with the Mets in their eighteen game season series, but they have won four of their last six games against their Eastern Division rival.
In the series opener, the Phils (81-60, 1st) will send to the mound their ace and NL Cy Young Award candidate Roy Halladay (17-10, 2.36), who is coming off a win against the Brewers on September 5, as he pitched seven innings, giving up four runs on seven hits and two walks, while striking out six, in the Phils' 5-4 win. In his last three starts, his record is 1-2, as he has pitched twenty-one innings, giving up ten runs on twenty-three hits and three walks, while he has struck out sixteen. Against the Mets this year, his record is 3-0, as he has pitched twenty-four innings, including a complete game, giving up only five runs on sixteen hits and just two walks, while striking out twenty-three. He will be going for his fourth win against the Mets and his eighteen win overall, while hoping that the bats will continue to give him some runs support. The Mets (69-71, 4th) will counter with Jenrry Mejia (0-3, 3.86), who is coming off a lost against the Cubs on September 4, as he pitched just five innings, giving up four runs on eight hits and two walks, while striking out only two, in the Mets' 5-3 lost. In his last three appearances on the mound, his record is 0-1, as he pitched six innings plus two batters, as he gave up five runs on eight hits and four walks, while striking out three. He will be trying to pitch a good game against Doc, while hoping that the Mets will finally be able to defeat him in 2010. The Phils will be trying to start off the road trip on a good note, while hoping to increase their lead over the Braves, as they continue their four-games series with the Cardinals.


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Helene M. Baumer
Helene M. Baumer, 96, of 147 Queens Rd., St. Marys, died on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 at Elk Haven Nursing Home.She was born June 21, 1916 in St. Marys, a daughter of the late Michael and Esther Haberberger Baumer.She was a graduate of Central Catholic High School, Class of 1934. She was a member of Queen of the World Church. She lived in New York City for 52 years and worked as a registered nurse. She moved back to St. Marys in 1992.She is survived by a sister, Alice Fleming of St. Marys; and by several nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by six brothers, Henry, Lawrence, George, James and Andrew Baumer and Frederick Baumer in infancy; and four sisters, Margaret Detsch and Caroline, Alice and Marian Baumer in infancy. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Memorial Mass of Christian Burial for Helene M. Baumer which will be celebrated at the Queen Of The World Church, 134 Queens Rd., on Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Michael Ferrick, pastor, as celebrant. Burial will follow the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.There will be no visitation.Memorial contributions may be made to Queen of the World Church, 134 Queens Rd., St. Marys, PA 15857.Lynch-Green Funeral Home, 151 N. Michael St., St. Marys, is handling the arrangements and online condolences may be placed at www.LynchGreen.com.


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2013-14 Men's Track and Field Headlines
Seven Tornado athletes named USTFCCCA All-RegionMay 13, 2014BRISTOL, Tenn. – With the outdoor track and field season nearly complete, seven King University athletes have earned USTFCCCA All-Southeast Region honors. Three Tornado women's athletes garnered recognition while four men earned the distinction that was headlined by Justin Newring, Brent Swiney and Maegan Henry.
Stamper and Newring lead King to fourth at conference championshipApril 26, 2014BANNER ELK, N.C. – Highlighted by Jeremy Stamper's school-record performance in the shot put and a pair of victories by sprinter Justin Newring, the King University men's track and field team placed fourth at the Conference Carolinas Outdoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Lees-McRae College.
King sets seven personal records at Catamount ClassicApril 12, 2014CULLOWHEE, N.C. – The King University men's track and field team had a solid day of competition at the Benyon Catamount Classic on the campus of Western Carolina University in its final tune-up before the Conference Carolinas Outdoor Championship on April 26.
King places 16 on academic all-conference track & field teamsApril 10, 2014BRISTOL, Tenn. – As we near the Conference Carolinas Track and Field Championships, the league has awarded their academic all-conference lists. The Tornado had 10 women that made the team and six men for a total of 16 honorees.
Swiney sets another school record at Liberty InviteApril 05, 2014LYNCHBURG, Va. – Brent Swiney continues to set school records for the King University men's track and field team during the outdoor season. The sophomore broke his own mark in the 800 meters this weekend at the Liberty Collegiate Invite. Six other personal records fell at the meet for the Tornado, including three for Andy Lai.
Swiney sets 1500 meter school record for second straight weekMarch 28, 2014RALEIGH, N.C. – King University men's track and field runner Brent Swiney traveled to Raleigh to run in the highly competitive 1500 meter race at the Raleigh Relays. The sophomore nearly set an NCAA provision time, finishing in 3:54.45.
Swiney's school record highlights 49er Classic for KingMarch 22, 2014CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The King University men's track and field team opened the outdoor portion of the season Friday and Saturday on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a number of outstanding performances from its key contributors.
Tornado place 16 on academic all-conference teamMarch 19, 2014BRISTOL, Tenn. – With the conclusion of the indoor track and field season, Conference Carolinas has announced their academic all-conference teams. A total of 16 Tornado student-athletes were honored as 10 women's and six men's track and field athletes earned recognition.
Tornado finish fourth at Conference Carolinas Indoor ChampionshipsFebruary 23, 2014WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The King University men's track and field team used outstanding performances by its usual cast of heroes to turn in a fourth place at the Conference Carolinas Indoor Championships on Sunday afternoon.
Newring, Parker and Conference Carolinas weekly awardsFebruary 12, 2014BRISTOL, Tenn. – In their final tune up for the Conference Carolinas Indoor Championships, both Eliza Parker and Justin Newring turned in stellar performances last week at the Mountaineer Open. Parker was named Conference Carolinas Women's Indoor Track Player of the week, and Newring earned the same honor on the men's side.
Tornado set slew of personal records at Mountaineer OpenFebruary 08, 2014BOONE, N.C. – The King University men's track and field team had a stellar performance at the 2014 Mountaineer Open at Appalachian State University on Friday and Saturday, with a number of personal records falling and wins in the 400 and 3,000 meter events by Justin Newring and Brent Swiney.
Three Tornado set personal records at Hilton Garden InvitationalFebruary 01, 2014WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Justin Newring finished fourth in the 400 meter dash to improve his NCAA provisional qualifying time to headline the King University men's track and field team in the Hilton Garden Invitational on Friday and Saturday in a meet that featured a number of NCAA Division I teams.
Newring wins 400 meter dash at Niswonger InvitationalJanuary 18, 2014JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – A strong performance from junior sprinter Justin Newring headlined the King University men's track and field team at the Niswonger Invitational hosted by East Tennessee State University over the weekend.
Three PRs fall at Wake Forest InviteJanuary 11, 2014WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The King University men's track and field team opened 2014 at the Wake Forest Invitational at the JDL FastTrack. The Tornado set three personal records at the season opening event.
Tornado expectations set high for 2014January 09, 2014BRISTOL, Tenn. – Coming off one of the most successful season's in program history, the King University men's track & field team is hungry to exceed this year's expectations. The Tornado took the Conference Carolinas Indoor championship in 2013, but came up just short in the outdoor meet leaving room for improvement in 2014.
Newring posts NCAA provisional time in season openerDecember 06, 2013BOONE, N.C. – The King University men's track & field team started the season on a high note at the Appalachian Invitational hosted by Appalachian State University. The Tornado finished first among six non NCAA Division II teams, and Justin Newring highlighted the day as he posted a provisional qualifying time for the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships in the 200 meter dash.


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Madrid beats Barca for 2nd time in a week
Madrid beats Barca for 2nd time in a week
Mar. 02, 2013
MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid beat Barcelona for the second time in five days, a 2-1 win on Saturday which will do little to prevent its fierce rival from reclaiming the Spanish league title but should boost Jose Mourinho's team for its Champions League trip to Manchester United.
Sergio Ramos netted the winner in the 82nd minute when he rose up to head in Luka Modric's corner to give Madrid its first home league victory over Barcelona since 2008, in a game that grew testy toward the end and saw Barca goalkeeper Victor Valdes sent off for protesting.
Lionel Messi extended his Spanish league scoring record to 16 straight games when he equalized in the 18th minute to cancel out Karim Benzema's sixth-minute opener. That was Messi's 18th career goal in clasicos to tie Madrid great Alfredo Di Stefano's mark set in the 1950s and '60s, but Barcelona was otherwise a shadow of the thrilling team that until last season had dominated the rivalry in recent years.
"We deserved to win. The team has been strengthened by these clasico matches," Ramos said. "We are going to Manchester convinced (we will move on) but with respect for our opponent."
Madrid even managed without Cristiano Ronaldo for much of the match, as Mourinho rested the Portuguese winger until the final half hour with the game against United on Tuesday in mind.
Ronaldo scored twice on Tuesday in a 3-1 win over Barcelona at Camp Nou that put Madrid into the Copa del Rey final.
While Madrid remains 13 points behind Barcelona in the league, this result could allow second-place Atletico Madrid to cut the deficit to nine points on Sunday at Malaga.
Elsewhere, Jose Barkero leveled one minute from time to give Levante a 2-2 draw at Valencia in a city derby. Athletic Bilbao won 1-0 at Osasuna, and last-place Deportivo La Coruna drew 0-0 at home with Rayo Vallecano.
Barcelona has flopped in its last three games against major opponents after also losing 2-0 at AC Milan in the Champions League. It faces an uphill battle against the Italian side in the return leg on March 12.
"It's impossible to keep up the same level of play for 12 months," Gerard Pique said. "But it is true that we have played three or four bad games and that is serious because Barcelona always has to win. But this team will turn things around. I believe that because this is the best team I have ever played on. I'm surprised so many people have already jumped off the bandwagon."
Madrid, meanwhile, played with more confidence even with a number of backups in its starting lineup as it earned back-to-back wins over Barcelona for the first time since the 2007-08 season.
Midfielders Xabi Alonso and Mesut Oezil were also given a rest, along with forward Angel Di Maria. Madrid visits United on Tuesday with their last-16 tie poised at 1-1.
Barcelona assistant coach Jordi Roura, on the touchline for Tito Vilanova as he continues treatment for a throat tumor in New York, selected striker David Villa to accompany Messi and Thiago Alcantara to replace the injured Xavi Hernandez.
Even with several new faces, Madrid picked up where it left off at Camp Nou when a ball intercepted in midfield led to a swift goal in two passes, as Barcelona's defense conceded a goal for the 13th game in a row.
Ramos picked off Thiago's pass and fed Alvaro Morata on the left wing. The young forward sent a routine cross into the area to meet Benzema's run behind the distracted Javier Mascherano to volley home, leaving Messi shaking his head in disbelief at the ease his defense had allowed Madrid to go in front.
Messi, however, made sure Barcelona hit back when he beat Madrid's offside trap to reach Dani Alves' well-placed pass, cut back and fired under the backtracking Ramos with a sharp left-footed effort.
Messi reached the 50-goal mark for the third straight season with the goal, his league-leading 39th through 26 rounds.
Mourinho sent on Ronaldo in the 57th and he immediately earned a booking for fouling Gerard Pique. He hit the woodwork with a free kick.
Otherwise, the second half saw more physical play, petty fouls, and yellow cards than flowing play or clear scoring opportunities until the final minutes.
Ramos beat Pique to score the header that proved the difference. Pique, who gave away a penalty with a foul on Ronaldo on Tuesday at Camp Nou, completed his dismal week by giving away a corner kick and then letting Ramos outjump him to turn it into the net.
The game ended with the referee ignoring Ramos' trip of Adriano in the area that would have meant a stoppage-time penalty, leading to Victor Valdes being sent off for receiving two yellow cards for protesting vehemently.


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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the conviction of an El Paso man sent to death row for fatally shooting his estranged wife and a friend six years ago.
Attorneys for 37-year-old Fabian Hernandez argued jury selection at his 2009 trial and a psychiatric interview by a mental health expert selected by prosecutors was improper. They also contended the trial judge was wrong for excluding evidence about the behavior of Hernandez's wife, Renee.
The state's highest criminal court Wednesday rejected the arguments.
The 28-year-old woman and 24-year-old Arturo Fonseca worked together at a McDonald's. Both were shot to death outside Renee Hernandez's home in November 2006.
Fabian Hernandez still can appeal to the federal courts. He had a long criminal record, including a manslaughter conviction in New Mexico.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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After more than three weeks of canvassing Charleston with notebooks, video cameras and thesauruses in hand, the 15 students from Syracuse University's Goldring Arts Journalism Program combined to write some 50,000 words and shoot miles of rehearsal footage over the course of the Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto festivals. And they still found time to visit Fort Sumter, gawk at the sand castle competition, play some basketball and embark on a citywide shrimp-and-grits showdown. (Go to postandcourier.com/spoleto for complete festival coverage.) Now that they have had a chance to catch their breaths, here are a few of their most memorable (for better and worse) events.
Sure, when the performers of Compagnie XY's "Le Grand C" effortlessly stacked themselves three people high, I was on the edge of my seat, teetering between uncomfortable fascination and morbid anticipation. But when the troupe piled four stiff bodies atop one another, shaking and slightly swaggering one way or another, there was a shared adrenaline between the audience and performers — spectators clutching onto their partners, eyes and mouths agape expecting the worst. Of all the theater offerings Spoleto presented this year (many of which were sadly lackluster, i.e. a disjointed "Oedipus" and the bland geek-out fest "The Intergalactic Nemesis"), "Le Grand C" was the theatrical jewel. Watching the petite ladies (or even hardy, hunky, muscular men) flip through the air was worth it alone, and no one fell (at least willingly).
Josh Austin
While the Punch Brothers provided some memorable moments in their amazing set, J.D. McPherson brought the house down at TD Arena with his throwback rock 'n' roll charisma. Forcing people of all ages out of their seats, McPherson and company provided one of the best performances I've ever seen in person. While not necessarily a style of music that fits everyone's taste, he made the audience take notice with his guitar licks and wailing voice. Runners-Up: The surprisingly comedic Punch Brothers brought their newgrass style to the TD Arena and rocked with the city of Charleston, and Compagnie Kafig wowed the crowd with its acrobatics, Brazilian fight dancing and pure athleticism.
Nicholas Bell
J.D. McPherson was the best surprise of Spoleto Festival USA. He inspired an impromptu '50s prom at his rock concert Friday night in TD Arena, where audiences normally keep their seats. I worried that McPherson might lose some energy when Tropical Storm Andrea forced him inside from the Cistern. But he brought out the swinging rebels in the audience, who couldn't resist twisting to McPherson's riffs. He got at the very teeth of rock 'n' roll. "A Midsummer Night's Dream," however, disappointed me. Tom Morris, a brilliant director, killed the show with brilliance. He employed puppet facsimiles of the romantic leads like someone with a sprained ankle demanding crutches. Titania and Oberon in the fairy world benefited from the whimsy of their larger-than-life puppet counter parts, but otherwise, the actors looked like they were merely playing with dolls.
Paige Cooperstein
The most pleasant surprise of Spoleto was, for me (a noted misanthrope and perpetual sourpuss), the impromptu engendering of dance along the sides of TD Arena during J.D. MCPherson's rock-a-sexy performance — a bit of rebellion a la James Dean against the concert's placement shuffle from the Cistern to the arena, which, in light of Tropical Storm Andrea's wimping out, felt even more egregious. Though, to be completely honest, I probably would have complained about humidity and bugs had we been at the Cistern, but whatever. I danced like a fool.
Greg Cwik
"Bullet Catch," featuring the affable Rob Drummond masterfully shifting the climate of the room from jovial laughter to teeth-gritting tension, had me smiling wide and thoroughly engaged from start to finish. Nothing about the show seemed forced or awkwardly placed, with themes of fate versus free will organically coming to light through a series of captivating sleight-of-hand tricks, as well as the bombastic titular illusion. Piccolo's "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," on the other hand, awkwardly constructed weak political metaphors out of simplistic pro wrestlers, taking one of the most garishly over-the-top types of American entertainment and rendering it boring and toothless.
Nick DeSantis
Top props at this year's festivals go to Compagnie XY's "Le Grand C." They pushed the boundaries of human performance and agility, leaving me in awe. "Bullet Catch" surprised me most; I was expecting a whole lot of history and maybe a little magic, but left with a racing heart and a new appreciation for interpersonal dynamics. "The Intergalactic Nemesis" and Pamela Z both proved underwhelming, though they were odd enough to make me appreciate having seen them. And the opera doubleheader proved to be the biggest disappointment: Despite the sweet smoothness of the leading voices in both shows, "Mese Mariano" had too weak a plot to keep my attention, and "Le Villi" straddled the line between insensitive and ridiculous.
Melanie Deziel
Admittedly I didn't catch a whole lot of shows at this year's Spoleto USA and Piccolo Spoleto festivals. I was looking forward to Gregory Porter, but his show suffered from some awful sound board operation. The next week I got the biggest surprise when I saw the sea of empty seats at Angelique Kidjo's dance-a-thon powerhouse of a show. I had a great time taking in "Bullet Catch" (the tension! the postmodernism!) and Pure Theatre's "Clybourne Park" (the difficult questions! the awkward humor!) at Piccolo, which were certainly the two highlights of the festivals and the best experiences I'll be taking back home with me.
Joseph DiDomizio
If you think "encores" only happen at pop concerts, you should have seen — and heard — Westminster Choir's two bonus songs. They sang sacred songs and decent modern pieces beautifully and smoothly, while their Haitian song showed off their wilder characteristics. It quickly became clear why Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul was so overloaded that the air conditioner couldn't cool the hall below 80 degrees.
Xiaoran Ding
J.D. McPherson. To me it was like prom, but with actual good music, best dates ever — nine of my fellow students — and my funky jeans. (Just to be clear, everything I know about prom is from American teen movies.)
Vinny Huang
The highlight of my Spoleto experience was watching the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra perform Peteris Vasks' "Credo" and John Adams' "Harmonielehre." The orchestra successfully conveyed a sense of transcendence, which the program notes said Vasks intended to evoke in his work. "Harmonielehre" was more beautiful than inspiring, but an equal testament to conductor John Kennedy's abilities.
Zach Marschall
Angelique Kidjo successfully brought a little bit of Africa to Charleston with her mesmerizing concert turned dance party. Her ability to get the audience involved in her performance made all concertgoers feel like rock stars, even if only for a few hours. "Bullet Catch," on the other hand, failed to be magical. The entire show led up to a "bullet catch" that could be missed if you blinked.
Alyssa Nappa
But three performances stick out the most: Angelique Kidjo somehow managing to get a half-empty TD Arena on its feet; the deceptively matronly Patrica Galvan in Ballet Flamenco teasing a few more audience members with her enthusiastic skirt swirling and flashes of lightning-quick stout legs; lastly — the one I haven't been able to stop talking about — Shantala Shivalingappa. Her coordination of constant foot-stamping moves, complicated hand gestures and those manic-depressive changes in expressions was perfect. Being agile with the lower half of your body and carefully precise with your torso is an insanely impossible task. I walked away with goosebumps.
Eesha Patkar
An explosion of athleticism and control, Compagnie XY's "Le Grand C" had audiences in Memminger Auditorium on the edge of their seats. Always in awe when they pulled off their acrobatic leaps, and in utter disappointment the few times they fell short of achieving their lofty feats, the audience genuinely reveled in the excitement and playful cheek that was "Le Grand C."
Briana Prevost
Dance parties at TD Arena were the highlight of my Spoleto experiences. J.D. McPherson brought honkytonk to the Lowcountry, while Angelique Kidjo brought a message of hope, inspiration and a Beninese soul dance party to the festival. People were up out of their seats for both performances grooving to the beat. Though very different styles of music, the concerts united the festivalgoers in a way that is emblematic of today's social environment. Jazz Artists of Charleston's 6th Annual Jazz Series, though not a Spoleto or Piccolo Spoleto event, showcased the talent of Charleston's jazz artists. For 14 nights, jazz musicians from across the area played various subgenres of jazz, from Latin to Dixieland to a Judy Garland tribute. It was a splendid addition to the other festival events.
Christina Riley
My great Spoleto Festival USA surprises were all related somehow to music. Compagnie Käfig and Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía were marvelous, while Punch Brothers and J.D. McPherson made me want to dance. Regarding theater, the promising "Midsummer Night's Dream" wasn't what I was expecting. Even though the puppets were beautiful, their role in the play wasn't clear. However, Piccolo Spoleto's theater selection was especially interesting. I found plays that made me think ("Hearts Full of Blood"), cry ("Women of Lockerbie") and laugh ("Teacher in the House: A True Tale of Human Survival"). In addition, the Piccolo art exhibition "Tales Transposed" introduced me to a promising artist that I will follow closely: Nathan Durfee.
Lucia Carmago Rojas


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"Ain't Misbehavin": 2 p.m. in Bean-Brown Theatre on Shelton State Community College's Martin Campus, 9500 Old Greensboro Road. Tickets, $22 for adults, $18 for people older than 60 and $14 for students and children. Special rates available in advance for groups of 10 or more. Tickets and additional information at www.theatretusc.com or 205-391-2277.
Chamber Breakfast: 7:30 a.m. at the Hotel Capstone, 320 Paul W. Bryant Drive. Guest, U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., will discuss legislative agenda, issues facing the nation and Alabama and will open floor to questions and comments. Tickets for those wanting breakfast $25.
Bibb County Commission: 6 p.m. in the commission chambers at the Rock Building (behind the courthouse), 157 S.W. Davidson Drive, Centreville. Call 205-926-3114.
Sutton Place Skyland Park Community meeting: 6 p.m. at TDOT Building, 1000 28th Ave. Safety concerns and the Neighborhood Spring celebration will be discussed. Residents of neighborhoods surrounding Sutton Place and Skyland Park asked to attend. Call 205-345-3761.
Valentine Dance to the Music of the Black Warrior River Band: 7 p.m. at Focus on Senior Citizens ballroom, 1920 Sixth Ave., adjacent to the new Federal Building. Bring finger foods. There will be prizes. Special guest Nancy Alexander. Admission, $4.
Terrific Tuesday Concert: 1:15 p.m. in the atrium at Shelton State Community College, 9500 Old Greensboro Road. Mardi Gras concert by the SSCC Jazz Ensemble with Daniel Western, director. Free. Call 205-391-2270.
Tuscaloosa City Council: 6 p.m. in council chambers at City Hall, 2201 University Blvd. Call 311 or 205-349-2010.
Student Hearings: 6 p.m. in Regions Room at Tuscaloosa City Board of Education Central Office.
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You can search patents at http://www.google.com/patents and when you search for Sarah Levitas, there are two results.
The first result is for Patent No. 842,893, patented Feb. 5, 1907 to S. Levitas for "Suspensory Device for Garters, &c.," Application filed Apr. 4, 1905.
The initial result page is an OCR'ed version of the patent (Optical Character Recognition), so it's not a 100% accurate transcription of the patent, but you can click on a button for the PDF of the patent, and here it is, with Sarah Levitas' signature on the first page:
So, although only Emanuel is listed as Garter Manufacturer in census records, it looks like his wife had something to do with his success in his business.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Officials at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure say they're cracking down on Anaheim businesses that buy multi-day park passes and then sell them to visitors for individual days.
Spokeswoman Suzi Brown tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/13eFmxO) workers on Tuesday began photographing visitors who use multi-day passes to enter the park.
Several Anaheim businesses have been accused of buying multi-day passes and leasing them at a discounted rate that still netted them a profit.
Now, Disneyland workers at park turnstiles will see a photo of a guest pop up on a screen when a person tries to enter the park using a pass. Entrance will be denied if the visitor doesn't match the photo.
One park visitor says the photos caused significant delays, but Disneyland officials denied it.
Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com
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Using bookmarklets, I can select text in different frames and act on each set separately. I also have one that uses the xmlHTTPRequest (i think thats what it is) to get the current domain's robots.txt, parse it and turn everything listed into actual links and display that in a new tab/window. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't do that with a macro. Do macros/menu options allow me to parse the input with regular expressions? Bookmarklets do...


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Featured News
igNIGHT ceremony signals new year, new era at Evangel University
August 28, 2013 | Ian Richardson
With hundreds of glow sticks shining, a sea of maroon-clad students gathered on the Evangel campus lawn Tuesday night to celebrate a new beginning with a new tradition.
Featuring the EU drum line, the Evangel fight song and a ceremonial flame lit by President-elect Carol Taylor and student leaders, the event, known as igNIGHT, brought students, faculty and staff together to kick off the fresh school year as a united community.
"We wanted to establish igNIGHT as an academic ceremony to bring the whole campus together," says Christy Rowden, student activities director. "With the first year of the consolidated Evangel, we wanted to set the tone for all new, current and transfer students."
Javier Rodriguez, student body president, and Anna Schimenti, student body vice president, spoke at the ceremony, introducing Evangel's administrators and praying over the campus. Dr. Taylor also spoke, sharing her vision for the future of the consolidated university.
The igNIGHT planning committee hopes this event will be a beginning-of-the-year tradition for many years to come.
"We have never had a campus-wide ceremony designed specifically to kick off the first day of classes," says Becky Spain, director of retention and one of the organizers of the event. "We hope that the ceremony will soon become something that students do not want to miss as they begin each new academic year, and that even alumni will attend when they are in the area."


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FamilySearch is in the process of making major renovations to the FamilySearch.org Website. Indications of the process are being displayed online at the FamilySearch Alpha project. Beyond cosmetic changes to the design of the Website, the new Alpha version contains several new items not directly available from the present FamilySearch Website.
The first of these is a blog. However, despite more recent changes to the Alpha site, the latest blog post dates back to March, 2009.
The Search Tab on the menu bar takes the user directly to FamilySearch Record Search Pilot rather than to the older list of FamilySearch regulars, such as Ancestral File and IGI. By the way, the FamilySearch Record Search Pilot Website has been down the last couple of days for maintenance.
The feature with the most extensive promise in the Alpha version is the Learning Tab, which shows some innovative ideas for presenting research information. Unfortunately, few of the features are yet active.
The information on the Library Tab is current but most of the features are not yet connected to active Web pages. One editorial comment, the picture they used of the Reference Consultants showed a definite bias towards very young consultants, that is certainly not my experience at any genealogical library, including the one in Salt Lake.
All in all, the Alpha Website is promising, but very incomplete. It is something you may wish to check now and again for progress.


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Past MA Exams
Spring 2003
M.A. Examination in English (Part I)
Write on one, and only one, question from each group. Devote one hour to each answer. Follow the instructions carefully, but feel free to introduce additional knowledge and examples relevant to the question.
Section A
1. Compare the ideals of kingship (or leadership) expressed in one classical (ancient Greek or Roman), one medieval, and one Renaissance work.
2. "The 'random' folk peopling the scenes around Shakespeare's tragic protagonists are not random at all. They present, like the backgrounds of Titian's paintings or the visitors to Volpone, statements that enrich and explain the significance of that which is done by the principal characters, the protagonists themselves." --J. Leeds Barroll
Focusing on at least one minor character in each of three of Shakespeare's plays, discuss what those characters contribute to the overall themes of the plays.
3. Discuss John Gardner's assertion that "great writers deal with problems which confront a healthy, intelligent man, however grotesque the fictional representative," using Beowulf, either The Faerie Queene or Paradise Lost, and one other pre-nineteenth-century narrative work.
Section B
1. According to Samuel Johnson, Paradise Lost "comprises neither human actions nor human manners." Comparing Paradise Lost with two major works of Dr. Johnson's day, works which you feel do "comprise human actions and human manners," discuss why you either agree or disagree with Johnson's assessment of Milton's epic.
2. Roberta Assagioli writes: "One of the principal causes of social disorders is the lack of love on the part of those who have will or the lack of will in those who are good and loving." How is this truism reflected in three major literary works of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
3. "It could perhaps be asserted," wrote Wyndham Lewis, "that the greatest satire cannot be moralistic at all: if for no other reason because no mind of the first order, expressing itself in art, has ever itself been taken in, nor consented to take in others, by the crude injunctions of any purely moral code. This does not mean that the mind in question was wanting in that consciousness of itself as a rational subject, which is never absent in an intellect of such order: but that its abstract theory as well as concrete practice, of moral judgments, which differ from the common run, and that their introduction would confuse the issue." Select three works of satire from the seventeenth and eighteenth century to support or refute Lewis' assertion.
Section C
The following excerpt is taken from Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768). Write an essay analyzing the ways in which Sterne uses rhetorical devices--sentence structure, word choice, figures of speech, imagery, rhythm, other sound effects (and the entire paraphernalia of style and voice)--to convey the overall theme of the passage.
-----Dear SENSIBILITY! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw-and 'tis thou who lifts him up to HEAVEN--eternal fountain of our feelings!--'tis here I trace thee--and this is thy "divinity that stirs within me"--not that, in some sad and sickening moments, " my soulshrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction"-mere pomp of words!--but that I feel some generous joys and generous cares beyond myself--all comes from thee, great-great *SENSORIUM of the world! Which vibrates, if a hair of our heads but falls upon the ground, in the remotest desert of they creation.--Touch'd with thee, Eugenius draws my curtain when I languish--hears my tale of symptoms, and blames the weather for the disorder of his nerves. Thou giv'st a portion of it sometimes to the roughest peasant who traverses the bleakest mountains-he finds the lacerated lamb of another's flock-This moment I beheld him leaning with his head against his crook, with piteous inclination looking down up on it!-Oh! had I come one moment sooner!--it bleeds to death--his gentle heart bleeds with it-
Peace to thee, generous swain!--I see thou walkest off with anguish-but thy joys shall balance it-for happy is thy cottage-and happy is the sharer of it-and happy are the lambs which sport about thee!
*"the seat of sensation in the brain of man and other animals" (OED)
Fall 2002
M.A. Examination in English (Part 1)
Write on one, and only one, question from each group. Devote one hour to each answer. Follow the instructions carefully, but feel free to introduce additional knowledge and examples relevant to the question.
Section A
1. Dante places deepest in Hell those who betray the people to whom they are bound by laws of hospitality and love. He also sees deceit as the worst of sins because it involves not a weakness of flesh but a willful perversion of the highest human faculty, reason. Betrayal and sin are fundamental to the tragic vision of the Inferno. Do these ideas help shape later tragedies or are Dante's ideas restricted to their time and place? Using evidence from three works of Medieval and Renaissance tragedy, argue for or against the survival of Dante's ideas into the Renaissance.
2. Some critics have attributed the rise and popularity of romance from the 12th to the 15th century to an increasingly well-educated female population in Europe. Likewise, some critics have attributed the rise of drama in the Renaissance and the novel in the 18th century to an increasingly well-educated middle class. Underlying these theories is the notion that literacy precedes or even creates new genres. Is this in fact the case? Use one work from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and 18th century to support your argument.
3. " King Lear," as Arthur Sewell has argued, "is the play in which Shakespeare returns once again to see man as a human soul, not in opposition to society, not rejecting society, but finding in society the sphere of fulfillment. Order is now seen, for the first time, and perhaps imperfectly, 'not merely negative, but creative and liberating.' It is a vision of society very different from that discovered in Othello. In Othello, we cannot suppose that society is ever moral or good." Argue for or against Sewell's interpretation of the two plays.
Section B
1. In the opinion of T. S. Eliot, to Donne and other poets of the earlier 17th century, a thought was an experience, one that modified their sensibility. For Donne and Jonson and Chapman, "their mode of feeling was directly altered by their reading and thought." In other words, these poets apprehended thoughts directly and sensuously, recreating these thought into feeling. Later in the 17th century, however, "a disassociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered." Afterwards, there were thoughtful and reflective poets, but never poets who so thoroughly integrated thought and feeling. Using poets of your choice, illustrate the quality that Eliot found in 17th-century poets prior to the alleged "disassociation of sensibility."
2. "The special genius of the novel as a genre," observes one critic, "is its ability to depict not only the exterior world of action, but the interior world of character-and one crucial thing more, the relation between them." Using at least two novels from the 18th century, support or refute this assertion.
3. In every era writers have weighed in on the issue of matrimony, expressing their notion of what constitutes a good marriage. Discuss the views of marriage expressed in three works drawn from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Section C
The following excerpt is taken from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88). Write an essay analyzing the ways in which Gibbon uses rhetorical devices--sentence structure, word choice, figures of speech, imagery, rhythm, and other sound effects--to convey the overall theme of the passage, which concerns the effect of a long peace on the Roman Empire.
It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated. The natives of Europe were brave and robust; Spain, Gaul, Britain, and Illyricum supplied the legions with excellent soldiers and constituted the real strength of the monarchy. Their personal valor remained, but they no longer possessed that public courage which is nourished by the love of independence, the sense of national honor, the presence of danger, and the habit of command. They received laws and governors from the will of their sovereign and trusted for their defense to a mercenary army. The posterity of their boldest leaders was contented with the rank of citizens and subjects. The most aspiring spirits resorted to the court or the standard of the emperors; and the deserted provinces, deprived of political strength or union, insensibly sank into the languid indifference of private life."
Fall 2006
M.A. English Exam Part 2
Directions: The exam has three parts. In Sections A and B, please write one essay on one topic from each group. In Section C, please write on the assigned topic. The time limit is three hours. Divide your time accordingly. Please follow the instructions of the proctor to ensure the proper processing of your exam. Return the exam sheets to the proctor along with your bluebook.
Section A
1. Evaluate the validity of the following quotation written by P.F. Flier, basing your response on examples of two Romantic and two later nineteenth-century poems (one English, one American in each category).
Both English romanticism and its poor stepchild, American transcendentalism, met a rapid demise because their foundational premises about the natural world and the individual genius/soul/imagination were simply wrong. Though they were wise to reject the simplistic rationalism and empiricism of the 18th century (and the accompanying rage for order in art), romantics fabricated a set of precepts even less nuanced and less in accord with human experience. However skilled their actual poems, they are castles built on sand, on a fraudulent mythology of the artist, his imagination, and the physical world. Whatever their limitations, Victorian literature and American realism sought at least an authentic relationship to the real world.
2. In John Stuart Mill's Three Essays on Religion published in 1874, he says plainly that the idea of "following Nature" is "monstrous." Mill assumes a position quite different from Wordsworth, who maintained that Nature was "exquisitely fitted . . . to the mind of Man." Compose an essay that analyzes the apparent shift in the nineteenth century from Nature's fitness to its monstrosity, using at least two significant poems as evidence. Next, with a focus on two important twentieth-century poems, discuss what reaction modern poets have had to this shift.
3. It has been argued that the poem that most captures the Victorian spirit is Tennyson's In Memoriam. It has been likewise argued that the same can be said for the modern age and Eliot's The Waste Land. There are many contenders for the most characteristic poem of the Romantic period. Choose one Romantic poem that you think best exemplifies Romanticism, and discuss the ways in which the poem presents the salient features of that period of literary history. Next, discuss the ways in which Tennyson's and Eliot's poems react to the Romanticism as embodied in the poem you have chosen.
Section B
1. Assess the validity of these claims by Robert Fulford, using as evidence four novels (one nineteenth- and one twentieth-century English, and one nineteenth- and one twentieth-century American):
Beginning around 1900, modernism celebrated or mourned the end of all that was certain, orderly, and purposeful. In literature, modernism turned against the naturalism and realism that dominated the fiction of the 19th century. It taught us to look with suspicion on the idea that a straightforward narrative can tell the truth about human life; it began to favor complexity, parody, ambiguity, and ironic self-awareness. In this new atmosphere, the unreliable narrator emerged, the storyteller for the age of relativism, the age of doubt and incredulity. The modern temperament quickens to stories that are splintered in this way: when we read the words of unreliable narrators, we stare into the cracked mirror of modernity.
2. The credibility of female characters created by male novelists and of male characters created by female novelists has long been a topic of discussion. This is especially true in works where gender serves both characterization and theme. Discuss how successful such opposite-sex creations are in four novels (one nineteenth- and one twentieth-century English, and one nineteenth- and one twentieth-century American). In your discussion you should consider theoretical issues such as essentialism, universalism, and the social construction of identity.
3. While W.H. Auden famously argued that poetry does not make anything happen, it has also been argued that literary works have significant and interesting relationships to politics, whether in terms of their origins, their polemics, or their effects. In a discussion of four novels (one nineteenth- and one twentieth-century English, and one nineteenth- and one twentieth-century American) analyze the intersection between literature and politics you find therein. Your essay must be specific with reference to both the literary texts and politics.
Section C
Compose an essay that discusses the two selections below, including in your essay an analysis of each selection's narrative characteristics. Assign the passages to what you believe to be their proper historical period(s), justifying your assignment with specific evidence drawn from the passages' content and formal characteristics.
A huge woman, gray-haired, frowsy, with a broad flat nose and small eyes behind black rimmed glasses-"Sit down," she said, pointing to an informal and humiliating hassock, while she perched with ponderous spryness on the arm of an oak chair. For a moment or two, she peered at me with smiling curiosity. She had done it at our first meeting, I recalled, but I could afford then to scowl back. Her eye left me. She lapsed into thought-probably assumed. Making up her mind she rubbed, fold on fold, her dark gray flannel skirt at the knee, dispelling a trace of chalk or something. Then she said, still rubbing, not looking up:
"Let me ask a blunt question, Mr. _____. You are an old fashioned Continental father, aren't you?"
"Why, no," I said, "conservative perhaps, but not what you would call old-fashioned."
She sighed, frowned, then clapped her big plump hands together in a let's-get-down-to-business manner, and again fixed her beady eyes on me.
"[Your daughter]," she said, "is a lovely child, but the onset of sexual maturing seems to give her trouble."
I bowed slightly. What else could I do?
"She is still shuttling," Miss Pratt said, showing how with her liver-spotted hands, "between the anal and genital zones of development. Basically she is a lovely----"
"I beg your pardon," I said, "what zones?"
"That's the old-fashioned European in you!" cried Pratt delivering a slight tap on my wrist watch and suddenly disclosing her dentures. "All I mean is that biologic and psychologic drives-do you smoke?-are not fused in her, do not fall so to speak into a-into a round pattern." Her hands held for a moment an invisible melon.
"Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone
are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only
form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service
to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the
principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!"
The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a schoolroom, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve. The emphasis was helped by the square wall of the speaker's forehead, which had his eyebrows for a base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's mouth, which was wide, thin, and hard set. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's voice, which was inflexible, dry, and dictatorial. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders-nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was-all helped the emphasis.
"In this life, we want nothing but Facts, Sir; nothing but Facts!"
The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.


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Before District Court Judge Marsha A. Bergan in Toledo:
James Alan Jackson, 48, Traer, pled guilty to possession of marijuana. He received a deferred judgement, was assessed a $315 civil penalty and was placed on self-supervised probation for one year. A $125 Law Enforcement initiative was also assessed. He may perform community service at the rate of $7.25 hourly in lieu of paying the civil penalty.
Jackson was charged on July 20 after a search warrant was served at his residence in he 100 block of Main Street, Traer. The charge was filed by Tama County Deputy Sheriff Joe Quandt.
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Brenda Lee Shipman, 46, Ft. Dodge, admitted being in contempt of court and violating of terms of probation. She was sentenced to two 30-day jail sentences to be served concurrently. Shipman was also ordered to reside at community corrections facility for up to one year.
She was on probation for convictions of 2nd offense drunken driving, driving while license suspended, 3rd degree theft and receipt, transportation or possession of a firearm as a felon.
Teresa Dawn Richardson, 52, Newton pled guilty to charges of failure to appear in court and 4th degree theft. She was sentenced to suspended, 90-day jail sentences on each charge. For failure to appear she was fined $500 and assessed a $175 court surcharge. On the theft charge, she was fined $500 and assessed a $175 court surcharge.
Richardson was also placed on probation for two years to the 6th Judicial District Department of Correctional Services.
She was originally charged with theft on Sept. 15, 2011, for allegedly shoplifting two purses, two items of clothing and jewelry from the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel Gift Shop valued at a total of $299. The charge was filed by Meskwaki Nation Tribal Police officer Kenneth Raymond Brady.
Derek James Slocum, 25, Tama, pled guilty to two counts of failure to comply with the Sex Offender Registry requirements. He was assessed fines of $625 and surcharges of $219 on each charge. Both fines were suspended. He was placed on self-supervised probation for two years.
Slocum was charged on Sept. 27 for allegedly not notifying the Tama County Sheriff's Office a child resided at the residence to which he was moving and on Sept. 29 for allegedly not notifying the sheriff's office of a change in address. The charges were filed by Tama County Deputy Sheriff Michael Wright.


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Submission + - Amazon plans iPad competitor (and two new Kindles) (wsj.com)
destinyland writes: Some time in the next 10 weeks, Amazon will release a new Android tablet device, which will compete directly with Apple's iPad, according to the Wall Street Journal. Amazon hopes to leverage the digital content they've already made available online — digital video, music, and ebooks, as well as their new app store for Android devices. The device will ship without a built-in camera, prompting one tablet watcher to report that "it feels like Amazon is trying to strip it down and bring it in at the lowest cost possible." Amazon will also release two new versions of the Kindle — one with a touch screen, and one at a lower price.


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January 16, 2008 > Update on Ohlone College
The past twelve months have been filled with significant developments at Ohlone College. A new campus is about to open in Newark and a new president will be selected in the near future. Frontage property of the Fremont campus has been proposed at various times as land for sale or lease for commercial and residential purposes. Recently, Ohlone's Board of Trustees declined an offer for a long term lease and revisited the concept at its meeting on January 9. Changes also have altered the composition of the board. TCV spoke with Board President Garrett Yee about the current state of the college.TCV: What is the current status of the frontage property?Yee: At the board meeting on January 9, we used some of our time as a workshop to discuss what has transpired, our present position and future options. Frontage development is still under study at this time. We have been working on this since I came on the board and Floyd Hogue was president. Now, [President] Doug Treadway will soon be leaving and we are still trying to decide on the best course of action.TCV: Any other pressing developments?Yee: It will be an exciting year since the new Newark campus will be opening and the Student Center is under construction. This is at the same time that we expect state level funding will drop. We anticipate that the next year will be a tough financial year. This is typical every four or five years and means that we will have to tighten up and make sure we don't sacrifice our core mission of education.TCV: Will the new Newark campus help enrollment and Ohlone College in general?Yee: From a practical standpoint, there will be less competition for parking on the Fremont campus. Also, since the Newark campus will have some services previously only available at our Fremont campus, some of the pressure for library and student services will ease. The location of the Newark campus will attract students who otherwise, due to ease of access, might look elsewhere or are studying in a health curriculum offered at the new campus.TCV: Has Ohlone College moved forward with an agreement with a minor league baseball club?Yee: There is nothing new on this yet. The six month letter of intent is about a month old but we have just gone through the holiday season so not much has been done. The pace will pick up. There is interest on both sides and we are currently doing our due diligence. Each member of the board will have to decide if this agreement is feasible. Any upgrade of the baseball field in Fremont is contingent upon our decision about a stadium in Newark. We have put some money into upgrading the existing field on the Fremont campus in the meantime, but it still needs additional work which is contingent on our decision regarding the Newark facility.We are also currently exploring a structure parking option on the Fremont campus. Parking is the number one concern of students year after year. If we were a four year school there would probably be more energy from students about a remedy. When you have a situation where people come and go, many who are most interested leave for other schools after a few years and the process slows.TCV: With a continuing structural deficit, does the board have any plans to maintain the Fremont campus now and future requirements of the Newark campus?Yee: There are no easy answers to this but that is the job of the board and administration. Schools are funded for a certain amount of educational structure but not so much for maintenance. This is a problem throughout the whole community college system which is why it makes sense to build sustainable facilities such as we are doing in Newark. This may cost a bit more up front but will be more durable without as much replacement cost.TCV: Since Dr. Treadway has announced his retirement this year, when will a decision be made on his replacement?Yee: In December, we began our search and that process is moving forward. We should have a short list of candidates by March and are hoping that by May there will be an announcement of the new president of the college.


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We've got a feud on our hands here folks, and for once it doesn't involve Jelena Dokic or any of the people in her camp. Sounds as though Pete Sampras is pretty upset with Andre Agassi over the way Sampras was portrayed in Agassi's book, "Open".
Read this Yahoo! Sports blog entry for more juicy details.
Meanwhile, Roger Federer cleaned up his look on the practice court today, sporting shorter shorts and a bright-colored tee (we're loving the tees, Rog!). We also love how Arnaud Clement (who is in the Auckland final against American John Isner) is starting off 2010 with a bangdana. Oops, we mean a bang. Never do you disappoint, Arnie.
More: Check out John McEnroe's frightening top (hopefully the flashes whited it out) and see a chainless (but taped up) Serena shot from her ugly loss in Sydney.
(Federer and McEnroe pictures via AustralianOpen.com; Clement picture via Getty Images; Serena picture via Yahoo! Sports)


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Friday, January 3, 2014
CLE on Family Caregiver Agreements
The American Bar Association is sponsoring a live webinar entitled, Fundamentals of Family Caregiver Agreements: Taking Care of Those Who Care for Others, on Wednesday, January 29, 2014. Provided below is a description of the event:
It is increasingly common for individuals to be paid to provide in-home care for persons needing assistance to live independently. The agreement to pay needs to be in writing and effective caregiver agreements are more than fill in the blank forms. Caregiver agreements need to clearly reflect expectations, and conditions of payment need to comply with Medicaid, tax and employment laws. Well written agreements can be invaluable in avoiding conflicts between family members over payment of care and services.
Learning objectives:
- Participants will learn what agreements need to be in writing and why.
- Participants will explore the essential elements that need to be considered in drafting caregiver agreements.
- Participants will understand the importance of written caregiver agreements in complying with employment, tax and Medicaid laws.
- Participants will learn the role of written agreements in conflicts between family members regarding payment for care and services.


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For the last three years, the Lauderdale County Jail has been home for Bobby Serton.
"The system has not been fair to me. I have not gotten justice," said Serton by phone from jail.
His trouble began when he failed to make child support payments.
Chancery Judge Sarah Springer sent him to jail, because Serton has refused to comply. However, now the Mississippi Court of Appeals and Mississippi Supreme Court have reversed the original contempt charge.
"We have a right to know why he's been behind bars for three years and why he isn't being released now," said Obie Clark, president of the Lauderdale County chapter of the NAACP.
But the issue is not that simple. Serton has other contempt charges to deal with, and most importantly, he needs to file a financial statement required by Chancery Court.
"He's been given the opportunity time and time again," said Bill Jacob, the attorney who represented Serton's ex-wife in their divorce. "If someone got the papers together, all he has to do is sign them."
However, Serton says he can't do that while on 23-hour lock down at the jail. So, for now, he'll stay behind bars.


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INDIANAPOLIS, July 29, 2014 -- The eyes of the motorcycle racing world will be on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway next week as the Red Bull Indianapolis GP returns for a seventh year. The Red Bull Indianapolis GP is the 10th round of the 2014 MotoGP World Championship, the most prestigious motorcycle road racing series in the world. On the 16-turn, 2.591-mile IMS road course that incorporates a portion of the famous 2.5-mile oval, Marc Marquez will be looking to continue a run to history. The reigning world champion from Spain, 21 years old, is halfway to the first perfect season in the modern era of MotoGP. He has won the first nine events and a win at Indianapolis would continue his run of perfection as well as tie Australian legend Mick Doohan for the most consecutive wins (10) in a season in the modern era.
Marquez won at Indianapolis in 2011 and 2012 in the Moto2 class, and once again, Moto2 and Moto3 races will be contested over the weekend. Also racing is the AMA Pro Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson Series, featuring highly skilled riders on specially modified Harley-Davidson XR1200 motorcycles.
Fans will find plenty of action off the track as well, with concerts, XDL Street Jam, Red Bull Trials stunt performances by 10-time champion Geoff Aaron, shopping and interactive fun the entire weekend on the popular Moto Midway and the Vendor Marketplace sponsored by Westfield Powersports. On Friday night, the Riders For Health Charity Auction gives fans a chance to bid on prized memorabilia. Saturday evening's Pit Walk allows fans to get an up-close look at the finely tuned million-dollar machinery of MotoGP. And after the gates close at IMS on Friday and Saturday, motorcycle enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Motorcycles on Meridian in downtown Indianapolis. ***To buy reserved and general admission tickets for the Red Bull Indianapolis GP, visit www.ims.com/tickets, call the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ticket office at 317-492-6700 or 800-822-INDY, or visit the ticket office on the first floor of the IMS Administration Building at 4790 W. 16th St. in Indianapolis. Ticket office hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. ET Monday-Friday.
Tickets for groups of 20 or more also are available. Contact the IMS Group Sales Department at 866-221-8775 for more information.


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Humor, says Michael Naydan, is the hardest thing to translate.
Sometimes it's in the phrasing, a joke or pun that's funny only to insiders. "Sometimes the humor is in political or cultural situations that people have to deal with in their everyday lives," says Naydan, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Penn State. The Russian notion of comedy, for example, often seems perverse to Americans. "But comedy and tragedy are intertwined in the Russian psyche—they call it laughter through tears."