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Hello everyone! You may remember me from such PlayStation.Blog articles as "Chrono Trigger Hits PSN This Tuesday." I haven't finished playing through it yet, but I'm back! Why, you ask, would I stop playing this classic game to write another blog post?
The answer: I'm here to announce Square Enix's "Winter of RPGs" campaign. In some parts of North America, winter seems to have gotten an early head start. And while that brings a lot of headaches for those who have to contend with ice and snow, it's also a perfect time for us to announce our latest group of titles coming to PSN. So, while you're staying inside and out of the cold, icky weather, why not fire up your PS3 and play some classic RPGs? We've got some great games lined up to get you through the cold days ahead.
So what's up first? Some of you may have noticed my responses to reader comments in my last column. And even last week, readers of "The Drop" were asking when we'd see this particular title arrive. Well, get ready to travel not through time, but through alternate realities when Chrono Cross releases. Join Serge as he finds himself in a world where he died as a young child, meets the enigmatic thief Kid, and goes on a quest for the artifact known as the Frozen Flame!
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Experiment of The Month
A Cylindrical Physical Pendulum
Our labs do not have written instructions. In keeping with this spirit, the description given here will be brief and general. The intent is that each performance of the lab will be unique; in each nature will reveal a slightly different face to the observer.
This experiment is a favorite of Dr. Price. It uses a nice bit of mathematics called the "parallel axis theorem" in the analysis of the mechanics of the experiment.
The set-up is shown in the figure at the right. A circular ring of iron is suspended from a pivot (made from a piece of angle iron, clamped to a lab bench). The radii of the inner and outer surfaces of the ring are shown.
The center of the two circles that mark the inner and outer edges of the ring is also the center of mass of the ring. This is a nice example of a system in which there is no actual mass at the center of mass.
In the experiment, the ring is pulled to one side and released. It swings back and forth like a pendulum and students can measure the period of oscillation. The measured period is compared to the period predicted by analysis. As with the simple pendulum, the result is independent of the mass of the pendulum. However, the period now depends on two distances rather than the simple length in the simple pendulum.
The parameters in the analysis are the mass,M, of the ring, the radii shown in the figure above, and the angle shown in the figure at the right
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The angle q is formed by two lines, both terminating at the pivot point. The vertical line goes through the center of mass when the pendulum is at equilibrium. The other line goes through the center of mass when the pendulum is displaced from equilbrium.
As usual, the gravitational torque about the pivot point is -MgR1sinq , with the - sign indicating torque pulling the sytem back to equilibrium. In the rotational version of Newton's second law, we make the usual small angle approximation and find
-MgR1q = I a
which leads to an angular frequency, w, given by
w2 = (MgR1 )/I
where I is the moment of inertial of the ring, when the pivot point is as shown in the first figure.
The moment of inertia of the ring about the center of mass is shown to be
and the parallel axis theorem gives us
I = MR12 + (M/2)(R12 +R22) so that
w2 = (2gR1 )/(3R12 +R22)
We note that for a hoop, with the two radii essentially equal, this reduces to
w2 = g/(2R1)
which is the same as a simple pendulum with all its mass at the bottom of the ring.
This exercise can be done with high precision. On occasion we have tried to understand disagreements between measurement and prediction in terms of the pivot being, not a point, but a cylinder of small radius.

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History – Founded in 1851, the original campus overlooked the Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River (yes, the Mississippi divides the Twin Cities), but it was later moved about a mile to its current location. During the Civil War, the school shut down following a financial crisis and didn't reopen until 1867. It was upgraded from a preparatory school to a college in 1869. There was no graduating class until 1873 when two students received their diplomas (and you just know the valedictorian never let his classmate forget who was the "dumb one" in the class of '73).
Location – The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Yes, there is a campus in each city, kind of like North Campus and Central Campus in Ann Arbor (they even have their version of the Bursley Bus connecting the two). That's two straight weeks that Michigan is playing a dual-city school. Though the winters in Minnesota last about 11 ½ months, the Twin Cities are actually a fun place. There's a legacy of great music – Prince, The Replacements, Husker Du, Tapes N Tapes - and I once heard from a girl I once talked to that it's a great place to shop. Mary Tyler Moore lived there, too. And of course, since this is Know Your Foe, we have to mention lakes. Notre Dame has two on campus, so does Wisconsin. But Minnesota kicks both of their asses – they have 10,000 lakes
Nickname – Golden Gophers. This is the second time in three weeks that Michigan will be taking on an opponent with a versatile mascot. Goldy the Gopher is also quite athletic as evidenced by the photo below. Although, with such a fine dental school on campus, don't you think he'd get those teeth fixed by now?
Colors/Logo/Cheers –Maroon and Gold. But take a look at those uniforms – is that really gold? I'd call it yellow. They used to be gold but, since their uniforms look so much like USC, perhaps they should consider going back to the more metallic color. For a while they were changing their helmets every few years, but they've stuck with their current version since '99, though new coach Tim Brewster had the tiny M enlarged this year. Obviously, opposing offenses haven't been mesmerized by the larger letter, as the Gophers have the worst defense in the country.
They use Goldy the Gopher a lot as a logo but - on their helmets - they have that funky M with those weird serifs on them. They've used some version of it on their headgear since at least 1968. They haven't given in to the temptation to modernize it and have it move forward like Wisconsin and Purdue. Of course those teams have been to a few Rose Bowls since 1962.
Fight Song - The Minnesota Rouser is a very underrated fight song, though the title sounds like a porno movie – from 1955. Along the lines of the porn theme, it was originally known as Minnesota, Hats Off To Thee, and was written by a church choir director. Know Your Foe practically guarantees you've heard it and you might have even hummed it to yourself without even knowing whose fight song it was.
Academics – The University of Minnesota has the second largest student body in the US, with 51,175 students, behind only Arizona State. What is it with these huge maroon and gold schools? U.S. News and World Report ranks Minnesota 71st. That is tied with Virginia Tech, the University of Delaware, and Sparty. Minnesota is tied for 9th in the Big Ten, ahead of only Indiana. The pride of the University is the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute which ranks among the top 15 professional schools of public affairs at public universities in the country. You see his name a lot in this Know Your Foe. That's because you see his name a lot in Minnesota. He's bigger than Paul Bunyan there.
Stadium/Fans - One of the worst stadiums in college football (with only the Orange Bowl being worse because you're likely to get stabbed getting to your car after the game there) is The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Metrodome is off campus, it's sterile and it used to have that horrible turf. Despite it being a dome, the stadium doesn't help generate much noise and enthusiasm for Gophers games. Sure, it's loud when the Vikings are winning, or when the Twins are in the playoffs, but not for Gopher football. It's the only venue that's hosted a Super Bowl, a Final Four (with Michigan losing in the finals, 1992), and a World Series. But as far as college football goes, it's mostly known for hosting some horrifying collapses by the home team– to Michigan in 2003, and to Wisconsin in 2005. As a matter of fact, the most memorable clip from the Gophers playing in the Metrodome is probably from 2002 when Iowa fans tore down the goalposts after clinching a co-Big Ten title. That has to be the most embarrassing moment for the University, other than when Brenda Walsh left after only a couple weeks of being there in season four of Beverly Hills 90210.
Athletics – If it weren't for hockey - and their football team from over 50 years ago - the sports tradition at Minnesota would be pretty lame. The basketball team has been to only one Final Four (and they had to cheat to get there). But Williams Arena is one of the more unique places to play with those sunken benches. How no one gets hurt diving for a ball, I don't know. Plus it forced former head coach Clem Haskins to sit on a bar stool, which was kind of cool.
UPDATE: Due to Benny's shoddy reportage, I'm morally compelled to issue this addition to Minnesota's athletic greatness courtesy of MLS, former Michigan wrestling captain:
The Gopher wrestling team has won 3 national titles in the past 7 years, and finished 2nd another four times over the past 10 years. They have won six Big 10 Tournament Championships in the past 9 years, including the Big 10 Championship in 1999, when they snapped Iowa's 25 year reign over the conference.
Two years ago, they were ranked No. 1 and fell to No. 3 Michigan 19-15 before a standing room only crowd at Cliff Keen Arena - the best match in the 18-year history of the arena. The Michigan victory allowed the Wolverines to claim their third consecutive regular season Big 10 Championship.
Famous alums – I have to say I was more impressed with this list than I thought I'd be. From B-list TV actors (Loni Anderson, John Astin, Peter Graves, and Kate Mulgrew) to Robert Gore, the inventor of Gore-Tex (of course) to two vice presidents (and presidential election losers) Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale. But doesn't that sum up the Gophers? Good but not great. They get to a certain level but not to the top. Just like their football team.
The Game – The big question is who will play for Michigan. Injuries to Hart and Henne put the lineup in question, and maybe the margin of victory. But not the winner. Michigan will win and if Hart and Henne play it'll be over before halftime. MICHIGAN 41, Minnesota 13.


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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that break the fact that in Lisp everything is supposed to be a list? In (+ a b) it's clear to both user and interpreter what the first member of the list is, but with {a + b} the interpreter may know what is what, but the user no longer sees firsthand that the s-expression is a list like any other. The key to groking Lisp is to learn to think recursively like the interpreter, and I would think that this change in notation unhealthily forces thinking patterns derived fr
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that break the fact that in Lisp everything is supposed to be a list?
Plenty of LISPs break that "rule", and usually for the better. Clojure wouldn't be the tremendously practical and useful language it is if it didn't have vectors, maps, queues, and the like.
What's important is that the language retains isomorphism (and thus, LISP's full measure of metaprogramming power) -- as long as your parse tree and your code map 1:1, adding some additional types does no harm and a world of good.
From that page I see that they make the same error as Python, to allow both spaces and tabs for indentation (however I don't see any specification how tabs are treated). That's a great recipe for hard to find bugs (because you literally don't see the difference between spaces and tabs). Especially given the fact that different people tend to use different tab sizes (while traditionally a tab goes to the next multiple of 8 characters, nowadays it is usually configurable, and people do configure it).
There's no problem. You can use spaces or tabs, but you HAVE to be consistent when you use one or the other. So if you indent a line with a tab, all sibling and child lines MUST start with a tab... multiple spaces don't count. You can even mix, but you still have to be consistent, so if you use tab space space, all later siblings and child lines must start with tab space space.
So what happens if I start the next line with spaces?
This fails in practice. I don't do Python so I don't know how they solve it, but when I used Occam it was a major hassle. Problem one was that youc ould not visually see the difference between spaces and tabs and very few editors enable this (no fair using language specific editors. Additionally once you have multiple programmers touching the same file it all goes to hell, because everyone has a different notion about spaces vs tabs and tab width. Similarly, it's a pain in the ass in Makefiles, it's a
Actually, it turns out there's no problem.
The tools require consistency, and report an error where it's not. Then if you are a tab-only person, you can use tabs. If you are a spaces-only person, you can use spaces. If you try to use them inconsistently (tab on one line, where space was used on the previous line), then it reports an error.
Notice that this is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from Makefiles. The problem with Makefiles is that there are cases where you can't tell where an error is, and so it quiet
Actually, it turns out there's no problem.
Actually, it turns out that there is a big problem.
The tools require consistency, and report an error where it's not. Then if you are a tab-only person, you can use tabs. If you are a spaces-only person, you can use spaces.
That's nice, but not everyone is a lone coder working on toy projects of no relevance which never get maintained by other devs. Here in the real world it's rare to find a single source file for even tiny (but real, not toy) projects that hasn't been touched upon by at least three different people over the course of three years.
Hell, in one system I worked on, the original comments in the source code dated from 1992 when the code was written for some 8-bit
You can even mix, but you still have to be consistent, so if you use tab space space, all later siblings and child lines must start with tab space space.
Speaking from experience on development teams, this still leads to problems when you have to look at the code and your editor treats the tabs differently. Allowing mixing of tabs and spaces is a really horrible idea.
As long as the braces are implemented with a macro, that's not a problem.
Actually, the braces are implemented in the reader. In Common Lisp terminology, they can be implemented as a "reader macro", but this is a completely different step than the Lisp "macros" usually refer to. This means that you can use {...} with data or code, and you can even use them as inputs to macros (in the usual sense). Thus, you can combine Scheme's "define-syntax" with {...} without problems. The SRFI-105 spec has some examples you might want to look at.
Lists are general but poorly performing data structures. Modern Lisps aren't all about lists at all. They have multiple data types.
RPN has always scared people. It's why HP calculators don't dominate the market.
RPN has always scared people. It's why HP calculators don't dominate the market.
Scheme (and Lisp) uses prefix notation, i.e. the operation symbol + comes first, (+2 2). Reverse polish notation, also known as postfix notation, the operation symbol comes last, (2 2 +).
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For Common Lisp there is the "infix" package, which you can just load as part of your program. You can write infix using a #i() reader macro. Thus, #i(1+1) is equivalent to (+ 1 1), etc.
Programmers that use Lisp or Scheme for a while end up using plain prefix. The percieved inconvenience of prefix notation is due to not being used to it. After a while you realize that prefix notation is a lot more readable and less error-prone than infix.
"Programmers that use Lisp or Scheme for a while end up using plain prefix."
Sure, for those few programmers who keep using (Common) Lisp or Scheme. But almost all developers say, "what, no infix?", and ignore or stop using Lisps. And those who stick around find that it's hard to use infix in most Lisps today because there's no standard mechanism for using it. We're working to fix that, while keeping Lisp homoiconic and general.
The percieved inconvenience of prefix notation is due to not being used to i
I use Haskell which has infix and prefix and does a pretty good job of letting your pass between the two
i.e. you can take infix star and write ((*) 2 3) for (2*3)
and you can take prefix f (a `f` b) for (f a b)
That being said what makes LISP, LISP is the complete lack of syntactic structures that parsing is trivial. The fact that you can write in a LISP evaluator in a few hundred lines and thus whip up a DSL inside of anything is what makes LISP. I don't mind curly braces. I don't mind Clojures additions
A real lisper would find (+ a b) to be easier to read and less ambiguous. This is similar to someone going to the HP calculator fans and telling them that you have a patch to allow it to work like a TI calculator, they're just not going to be impressed. The real reason perhaps is that people want to get rid of what they mistakenly think are redundant parentheses, however in order to do that you dont need infix what you really need is operator precedence, and that's an ugly bag of worms with no business ap
It's close to being reality [hcoop.net]. Guile has an Emacs-Lisp compiler to its VM that can run actual elisp programs, but lacks... the emacs part. And last summer's GSoC (perhaps this summer, finishing it?) saw emacs's lisp interpreter ported to guile... as in, the C representations of Emacs's internal data types and control structures are done using libguile. The code is currently being rebased on the latest emacs trunk; hopefully it'll see public release sooner than later.
Now the two pieces just have to meet in the middle.
So that's the first 95%. Now just for the other 95%!
I dunno, I still prefer Lisps with good old fashioned dynamic scoping (aka, special variables). Scheme is statically scoped and thus can be a very different style of programiming. Not that there's a whole lot of stuff in Emacs still that uses dynamic scoping, it would just feel wrong to kill off the last bastion of that style. I haven't used Guile much but I always got the impression that it was bulkier than Emacs Lisp (but then most FSF projects seem to bulk up fast, ala GNU Hello World).
Guile has fluids, which give you similar behavior as dynamic scoping without forcing the costs of dynamic scoping on all code. Emacs Lisp actually has optional lexical scope now, and a lot of stuff is converting to use it because it's proven to reduce code errors and runtime overhead. That, and you can't use dynamically scoped bindings to pass information between threads (a serious limitation in Emacs's implementation).
Obviously, fluids have their place in something like Emacs where the cost of breaking abs
So Guile isn't as tiny a scheme as the stereotype. There used to be two ends of the spectrum; pure simple scheme that's trimmed down versus all-the-features Common Lisp (which has special variables).
One goal does not need to interfere with the other. Emacs Lisp and Scheme are trivial to learn. Scheme is a more of a general purpose programming language. It's trivial to learn (see HERE [neu.edu])It's also worth learning simply because one of the best CS books, the SICP [mit.edu], is using Scheme. As for Emacs Lisp, I don't see a need to get very deeply into. Scheme is nicer and more simple. Emacs Lisp is the language much of emacs is written in as well as its modules. Unless you have in mind writing Emacs modules, picking
If by mainstream you mean professional. Common Lisp stagnated and until Clojure there really wasn't a LISP with professional libraries. The LISP community all during the 1980s and 1990s simply didn't want to make the compromises needed to have a mainstream language. I think that in many ways Haskell has taken the role that LISP used to play in terms of language of the future.
If by mainstream you mean educational. It is a pity. Racket is fantastic for educational scheme. The AP exam is based on Java, b
Common Lisp only had a few years of stagnation... It more suffered from being a decade ahead of its time so folks took "you can still run code from 1995 in the aughts" as a sign of decay instead of stability. Of course, it never really did regain the GUI capabilities (except for Clozure on OS X) the proprietary stuff had since the whole compiler/tools industry just collapsed suddenly.
I've used CL professionally, and I'd put it on par with C++ for that... powerful, well supported, without the annoyances of J
I don't know about that. QuickLisp may have solved so of this but the situation was bad for many years. Have you gone through something like Perl or Java library collections to see what a full set of libraries looks like? It isn't just GUI is it everything.
A far as IDEs, yeah it is a problem for most non static languages. The static Algol based languages have the best IDEs. Clojure has fairly good support because of its ties to the Java community, you might want to check that out. I keep my eye on htt [leksah.org]
> I wish that the project, talked about for years, to rewrite Emacs and base it on Guile would take off. It would save Guile
Exactly, and this is exactly its problem. It is not the Emacs people who are pushing this rewrite, but the guile people. in order to get a "killer app" as a vehicle to advertize Guile, because nobody else wants to write a killer app in guile from scratch.
Of course, Emacs would benefit from an vastly improved Elisp engine too, but my feeling is that the usual Emacs users actually do
I love Scheme. I even wrote my own scheme interpreter way back and used it as the embedded control language in QuickLogic's P&R tools. However, only software geeks like Scheme, making it a terrible language for tool control for anything but software dev tools. TCL beat the heck out of Scheme in terms of popularity for this purpose. Python beat the heck out of Scheme as well. Perl got adopted by the text mashing crowd. Also, Guile, at least in the 1.0 version had issues. For example, it really wanted to have main in it's code, while your entire application was something it called. TCL has a better architecture for embedding. Anyway, this is nice, but I don't personally see a significant future for Scheme.
I've seen a lot of higher-order and first-class written in Python, but I've always been able to model semantic flows in LISP and Scheme faster. Half of what people need in that kind of model could be done in Prolog, and the rest could be done in OCaml or Haskell; however, how many commercial shops have more than a token programmer who might have a dusty tome of such arcane knowledge?
Different OSes, programming languages, methodologies, techniques for different problem domains.
Diversity is good. Monocultur
Monoculture is pervasive. Sometimes it shows up just with all the currently popular language following the same old style with just minor variants in syntax. You get a batch of developers all used to Java or C++ or Python and so every new language they create just can't help but resemble that style. There just aren't that many programmers any more who have used languages that are radically different from that style, much less many programmers who are experts in those languages. We need more devs who are
I'm just guessing that you and I are of a similar age (I'm 49). Ken McElvain said that Lisp ruined me. Even when coding in C, I program in Lisp. I love Prolog, and wrote a tiny version of it at one point. I never learned Smalltalk, and suspect I missed out on something huge, but I love Forth and of course had to write my own version. As for Fortran, my first programming job was in Fortran IV. Some of the most brilliant people I've ever known are physicists who continue to program in Fortran to this da
I think TCL really broke things. I was used to ARexx when it came out and it was vastly simpler to embed than TCL, and TCL felt always like it wanted to be in control (the thing you accuse Guile of doing).
Anyway, this is nice, but I don't personally see a significant future for Scheme.
Never say never.. Back in 2000 I thought JavaScript was just an insignificant programming language for adding simple dynamics to a web page, like drop down menus, validating input, etc, a web designer's tool, not a serious coders tool, and see how things have turned out. JS is probably now one of the hottest programming languages, despite all the drawbacks. Next, who could have imagined a Lisp dialect (Scala) running on top of
Scala is on the bubble for being a mainstream language. I'm personally very excited about it. I wouldn't call it a Lisp dialect... just highly lisp influenced. However, I'm totally ignorant of Scala's history. Lisp lives on in many languages.
Duh, I just accidentally wrote Clojure instead of Scala. Those two somehow crossed in my mind, both being JVM languages, as I was writing this.
I guess Guile Scheme...
(puts on sunglasses)
does go with everything.
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text: Use of seasonal climate information to predict coconut production in Sri Lanka Accurate forecasting of annual national coconut production (ANCP) is important for national agricultural planning and negotiating forward contracts. Climate and the long-term trends (attributed to 'technology') are major factors that determine ANCP. The effect of climate on ANCP of the following year was studied for the seven agro-ecological regions (AER's) in the principal coconut growing areas for the period 1950-2002. Climate was studied based on seasons aggregated by the monsoon calendar and by quarters that are consistent with the agricultural calendar. The use of quarterly seasons explained more of the variability of ANCP than the use of monsoon based seasons. January-March rainfall in all AER's and July-September rainfall in the wetter regions are positively correlated with the ANCP (p < 0.005). The technology effect was estimated using a log-linear trend model. The regression model integrates both climate and technology effects developed to predict ANCP with high fidelity (R2 = 0.94). The climate effect was estimated by regressing production data that had been de-trended to remove the technology effects with quarterly rainfall in the year prior to harvest. The most significant predictors were found to be the quarterly rainfall from the AER's in the coconut growing regions that are designated as wet and intermediate. Representative rainfall from each quarter was used in a regression model with corrections for the technology effect. The correlation between observed and predicted values of the ANCP was 0.83 (p < 0.001). The prediction of ANCP for 2003 and 2004 gave errors of only 6.5 and 7.0%. The estimated value of ANCP for 2005 is 2715 million nuts, which is 12% higher than the mean. The lead time of the prediction extends to 15 months but it may be extended with the use of seasonal climate forecasts to 24 months. AC:P:9021 Academic Commons International Journal of Climatology 10.1002/joc.1517 28 1 91 101 Columbia University. International Research Institute for Climate and Society Originator Peiris, T. S. G. Author Hansen, James W. Author Zubair, Lareef M. Author Articles English Science--Social aspects Ecology Meteorology Agriculture Sri Lanka text 2008 eng 2010-06-16T14:34:45Z 2018-02-16T22:52:54Z 10.7916/D80R9VNW


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Movies: 'Noah,' 'Grand Budapest Hotel' & 'Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club'
Published 5:34 pm, Friday, April 4, 2014
Following are Susan Granger's reviews of the latest movies in area theaters:
The biblical flood is the original apocalypse story, which filmmaker Darren Aronofsky ("Black Swan," "The Wrestler," "Pi") creatively reinterprets with a timely, resonant, ecological doomsday message.
Beginning with a revisionist line from Genesis: "In the beginning, there was nothing," it positions Noah (Russell Crowe) as a righteous vegetarian, the recipient of "visions" from the Creator. After conferring with his hermit-like grandfather Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins), he works with his wife, Naameh (Jennifer Connelly), and sons Shem (Douglas Booth), Ham (Logan Lerman) and Japheth (Leo McHugh Carroll), along with orphaned Ila (Emma Watson), to build an ark. They're assisted by the Watchers, or Fallen Angels (voiced by Nick Nolte, Frank Langella and Mark Margolis).
Evil is personified by Tubal-Cain (Ray Winstone), pagan descendant of the Bible's first fratricidal sinner, who killed Noah's father and continues to cause problems throughout the epic tale, as rains pour down for 40 days and 40 nights, drowning the rest of humanity -- while deeply conflicted Noah wrestles with inner demons in his desire to respect and obey what the Creator commands. (The word "God" is never mentioned.)
Crowe and Connelly worked together before in "A Beautiful Mind," and their emotional rapport is palpable, helping idiosyncratic writer/director Darren Aronofsky, co-scripting with Ari Handel, to boldly break away from old-fashioned, cliched perceptions from previous biblical epics and traditional religious art. Rich in characters and subplots, it is overwrought at times, as the uneven melodramatic floodwaters get choppy.
The highlight of production designer Mark Friedberg's fantastical concept is the rectangular-shaped ark, accurate down to the last cubit. This 75-foot-high, 45-foot-wide, 450-foot-long boxy barge was constructed on a 5-acre grassy field in a state park in Oyster Bay on Long Island. Amplified by time-lapse photography and montage editing, Matthew Libatique's cinematography adroitly blends live action with awesome computer-generated imagery, particularly when Earth's "innocent" birds and beasts, arrive two-by-two. But it's unfortunate that the giant CGI Watches resemble prehistoric, rock-encrusted Transformers.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Noah" sails in with an unconventional, yet totally accessible 8, an incredible spectacle.
Set in 1932 in an opulent Alpine spa in the fictional Republic of Zubrowka, Wes Anderson's comedic caper revolves around the eloquent, esteemed concierge, M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), and his protege, earnest lobby boy, Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori). Apparently, elderly Countess Celine Villeneuve Desgoffe und Taxis -- aka Madame D. (Tilda Swinton) -- left an invaluable treasure to M. Gustave instead of her own villainous offspring, and the tale-within-a-tale is told through flashbacks.
So it begins with a contemporary prologue as an aging author (Tom Wilkinson) recalls an evening in 1968, when he (Jude Law, as his younger self) dined with elderly Mr. Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham) in the once-majestic hotel, learning how an incident 50 years earlier changed his life.
When Madame D. dies at her nearby estate, M. Gustave, a legendary lothario, acquires a priceless Renaissance painting, "Boy with Apple," becoming the prime suspect in her murder, according to Madame's devious son Dimitri (Adrien Brody), his henchman Jopling (Willem Dafoe) and policeman Henkels (Edward Norton). That launches a noir quest to discover whodunit, which intensifies when madame's executor (Jeff Goldblum) is found dead, and M. Gustave escapes from prison using tiny sledgehammers and pickaxes smuggled past the guards inside delicate frosted pastries, baked by Zero's beloved Agatha (Saoirse Ronan). That ignites an antic, Marx Brothers-like chase sequence in which M. Gustave and Zero sled downhill in pursuit of a villain on skis.
Inspired by the works of Viennese novelist/playwright Stefan Zweig and a nostalgic story conceived with Hugh Guinness, writer/director Wes Anderson ("Moonrise Kingdom," "The Royal Tennenbaums," "Rushmore") concocts a delightfully original, bittersweet, slyly campy saga of murder, theft and conspiracy.
Adam Stockhausen's production design is magnificent and cinematographer Robert Yeoman photographs each time frame is in a different aspect-radio, enhanced by Alexandre Desplat's score. Plus, there are farcical cameos from Wes Anderson's regulars: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Bob Balaban.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is an imaginative, impressionistic 8. Check out this whimsical, madcap romp.
Before taking a hiatus from movie making to focus on television, prolific, Atlanta-based filmmaker Tyler Perry turns his attention to a group of single mothers who, despite their socio-economic differences, turn to one another for support, reflecting the idea that it takes a village to raise a child.
After their troubled preteens have misbehaved at an elite Atlanta prep school and are facing expulsion, the moms are summoned to a parent-principal conference where they're punished for their children's transgressions by being forced to organize a dance and fundraiser. And anyone who's ever served time in the PTA knows how tedious that can be. So the five disparate women band together to pay their penitence, forming a baby-sitting service for one another, taking turns so the other four can enjoy a night out and, perhaps, romance.
There's May (Nia Long), a struggling journalist/aspiring novelist whose husband has disappeared; Hillary (Amy Smart), a pampered, newly divorced socialite who is forced to fire her nanny; Esperanza (Zulay Henao), who is afraid she'll lose financial support from her sleazy ex-husband (Eddie Cibran) if she gets serious about her boyfriend (William Levy); Lytia (Cocoa Brown), a sassy, struggling Waffle House waitress whose two older children are in prison, while her youngest son is on scholarship at the exclusive school; and Jan (Wendi McLendon-Covey), an uptight publishing company executive who, coincidentally, recently turned down May's manuscript for being "too black."
While writer/director/producer Perry dutifully integrates their individual stories, the syrupy characters are, nevertheless, one-dimensional and cliched. As a result, the pace is inconsistent and plodding, leading to a far-too-tidy conclusion. According to Perry, his aunt served as inspiration, having raised four boys by herself and never taking welfare. "This is my homage to her and every single mother out there," Perry says.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club" is a formulaic 4, a contrived, heavy-handed melodrama about camaraderie and the value of female solidarity.


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HIV Watch
Systems are flawed
Hard questions on names reporting
February 1998
When will the HIV community apply some intellectual integrity to the question of HIV surveillance?
Most AIDS-service organizations and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in agreement that better surveillance of HIV, not AIDS, is necessary to track the epidemic and facilitate more targeted prevention funding.
Activists in the 31 states not requiring name-based HIV surveillance ("mandatory names reporting") argue that only unique identifiers -not names- should be used to tract HIV infection. "Unique identifiers" (UI) are digital codes constructed from Social Security numbers and other personal information and are used in place of names to track each infected individual.
This debate has simmered for years. It's near boiling now as the CDC prepares to issue "best practice" guidelines related to the security and quality of HIV/AIDS surveillance. The guidelines are expected to be supportive of name-based HIV surveillance.
Time for 'out of the box' thinking
My beef with our community is how unwilling some folks have been to think out of the box and examine if our traditional opposition to name-based surveillance makes sense in 1998.
For individual states to arrive at a workable HIV surveillance systems, it's necessary to examine all of the relevant data. Much of these data have been released in the last few months, and some members of our community either ignore or misstate them. As we wrestle with the future, I hope our community negotiates a fair, rational approach to HIV surveillance by rigorously engaging these findings:
Of the 31 states currently conducting HIV name-based surveillance, 21 states provide HIV anonymous testing. Anonymous testing is available in all other states. The CDC strongly supports the option of anonymous testing. In fact, unless state laws prohibit it, the CDC requires states receiving prevention funding to offer anonymous testing.
The CDC sponsored research in states doing anonymous, name-based or unique-identifier-based testing. Over 55 percent of people surveyed in each state did not know if infected people were reported to the health department.
In the same states, among men who have sex with men, injection drug users and heterosexuals with high-risk behaviors, 18 percent overall cited having their names reported as a reason for not seeking HIV testing. Only 2 percent cited it as the main reason.
When people test positive for HIV, does the fact they must surrender their anonymity to access care deter them from doing so? There was no indication this was the case among a sample of 399 people studied.
A study of Maryland and Texas, states with unique-identifier based surveillance, indicated that 22 percent and 34 percent of the respective data were missing the Social Security number indicator which contributed to a high rate of incomplete case reporting. This compares with 74-97 percent completeness of reporting in name-based surveillance data.
Systems are flawed
Regarding unique identifier systems, several questions must be addressed.
The Maryland and Texas systems are examples of unique identifier systems. They are not necessarily optimum models. Their completeness is lacking. Also, they depend upon using multiple lists of infected people to generate the unique identifiers. An optimum model would minimize the number of lists and maximize incentives that guard their safety.
Is a safeguard system that applies to private labs, physicians, public clinics and health departments possible? Has the community evaluated what the necessary confidentiality safeguards are? Developing, implementing and evaluating another unique identifier system requires time. What is an acceptable amount of time to develop such a process?
The main reason cited by surveyed people for not wanting to test is that they are afraid to find out if they are infected. In opposing name-based surveillance, is the HIV community creating a discourse stressing what could happen (but which hasn't happened with the current AIDS name-based surveillance) which acts as a tremendous additional disincentive for people too frightened to test?
Our community brings great passion to this issue. The best policy is always a combination of the heart and head. Let's think about it.
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Oct. 24, 2006
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -
The Schedule
Match No. 18
Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos vs. St. Mary's College Gaels
at UCSB's Harder Stadium
Match No. 19
Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at Cal Poly Mustangs
at Cal Poly's Soccer Complex
The Gaucho Record
UC Santa Barbara enters its matches this weekend with an overall record of 6-6-5 and a Big West record of 4-1-1. The Gauchos have 13 points in the Big West standing, tying them with Long Beach State for first place. The 49ers, however, have played one fewer match than UCSB. At 6-6-5, the Gauchos have climbed back to the .500 mark on the season for the first time since they were 2-2-2.
Seniors Say Goodbye
Thursday night's match against St. Mary's will be the final home appearance for four UCSB seniors. Forwards Chandi Bickford and Allie Kueny and mifielders Kristyn Bright and Darci Gwartz will all be making their final Harder Stadium appearances. Bright, who is suffering with a foot injury, is not likely to play.
Big West Tournament Field Is Set, Gauchos Are In
The four-team Big West Tournament field is set and it includes UCSB. The Gauchos will be joined by Long Beach State, Cal Poly and Cal State Fullerton in the event that will be held on Nov. 3 and Nov. 5. The only thing left to decide are the seedings for the tourney. As the week begins, UCSB is tied for first-place with Long Beach State with 13 points apiece. The Gauchos have played one more game than the 49ers. UCSB is one point ahead of Cal Poly and the only game remaining for the Mustangs is next Sunday's against the Gauchos. UCSB is three-points ahead of Cal State Fullerton, but the Gauchos have played one more contest than the Titans. Fullerton and Long Beach will meet on Wednesday night. If the 49ers defeat the Titans then they would clinch first-place and UCSB would be guaranteed of at least a third-seed in the tournament.
Unbeaten String Is Longest In A While
UCSB's five-match unbeaten string (4-0-1) is the team's longest since the 2004 Gauchos went seven straight (5-0-2) without a loss. Last season, UCSB won four straight early in the year, its longest stretch.
Scoreless In Santa Barbara
The Gauchos defense has continued to get more and more stifling as the year evolves. UCSB enters its final two matches having allowed just 14 goals in 17 contests and none in its last three games. The Gauchos, in fact, not only allowed no goals in 200 minutes last weekend, they allowed just four shots on goal. Goalkeeper Katie Wright needed just four saves in the two outings. UCSB's defensive effort has been led by sophomores Rachael Ritchey, Katie Smith and Linda Allen and juniors Kandice Mclaughlin and Katrina Wright. The Gauchos have not allowed more than two goals in any match this seasoon and they have allowed one or fewer in 14 of 17, including six shutouts.
The Bickford Files
Senior forward Chandi Bickford continues to lead the UCSB attack. Limited to seven matches and one assist in 2005, Bickford has made up for lost time in 2006. The Maui native leads the team in goals with seven, assists with six and points with 20. During the current five-match unbeaten string, Bickford has scored three goals and assisted on four others for a total of 10 points. Entering the year, Bickford had scored a total of three career goals, all during the 2004 season when she had three goals and a team-leading 10 assists. In her four seasons, she has now tallied 10 goals and 19 assists for 39 points, 14th on UCSB's all-time list.
Kueny Provides The Spark
Senior forward Allie Kueny missed the first six matches of the 2006 season with a knee injury. When she returned, she did so as a reserve. She has started the last nine matches, but has really only rounded into her regular form in the last five. It is no accident that UCSB's five-match unbeaten streak coincides with Kueny's return to form. When she scored a pair of goals in UCSB's 2-0 win over Cal State Northridge, Kueny had scored five in a four-match span and she had scored at least one in four straight. The five goals ties her career-high set in 2004 and she now has 17 goals and 17 assists in her career. She has become the 11th Gaucho ever to hit the 50-point mark. She has 51 points.


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Issue Type: Bug Created: 2010-01-28T04:35:44.000+0000 Last Updated: 2011-10-19T15:03:22.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): - 1.11.1 (30/Nov/10)
Reporter: Stefan Straakenbroek (souldude) Assignee: Marc Hodgins (mjh_ca) Tags: - Zend_Mail
Related issues: - ZF-7008
Attachments: - ZF-8988.patch
File: /Zend/Mail/Transport/Smtp.php Line: 207
In the smtp transport the from address is set with the following function:
// Set sender email address $this->_connection->mail($this->_mail->getFrom());
When sending a mail to an unknown user with a valid host. In most cased the headers will be read and the Return-Path header will be used to return the mail.
When sending a mail to a non-existing host. The smtp server will return the mail to the from address given in the smpt transport. The header has not been read.
In my opinion the sender email address must be set with the following function, so the bounce addresses goes to the return path.
// Set sender email address $this->_connection->mail($this->_mail->getReturnPath());
Which automatically fallback in the from address if return path is not set.
Posted by Ilan Rivers (ilanr) on 2010-01-29T01:40:54.000+0000
Funny that this was created yesterday. I recently had the same problem on a project I am working on. This should really be as simple as changing the function that is called. Hope that this fix can be included in the next mini release.
Posted by Stefan Straakenbroek (souldude) on 2010-02-01T01:03:11.000+0000
I saw the issue ZF-7008 but that one is using the php mail function:
"Sending mail with an additional command line parameter."
In my case i use the SMTP transport.
$transport = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp('mail.example.com');
Because of that, i cannot use the function described in zend manual:
$transport = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Sendmail('-firstname.lastname@example.com');
Posted by Andy Thompson (at465) on 2010-03-27T06:26:19.000+0000
I also agree that the MAIL FROM should be able to be overridable (either as a transport option or by interpretting the $mail->getReturnPath).
This is commonly used to forward bounces to another email address for processing, whilst allowing manually replied messages go back to the From address.
The Reply-To header isn't an option in these cases, as the bounce address might have additional information such as user id to be used to identify the non-existant email address for automatic unsubscription, and unnessary for the receiver to see the information (which clients seeing Reply-To, will also display the From).
Since sendmail supports setting this return path, please can the smtp class?
Posted by Andy Thompson (at465) on 2010-03-28T13:11:54.000+0000
Please read http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt regarding Return-Path
The Return-Path is what is set in transit by the MAIL FROM, and any Return-Path header sent to Smtp is stripped. The From mail header gives the user the friendly reply address even when MAIL FROM is different.
Posted by Andy Thompson (at465) on 2010-04-28T13:40:01.000+0000
To clarify, I believe this is a regression bug caused by ZF-8273 breaking Smtp Return-Path support, affecting ZF 1.9.6 onwards. (edited to correct version number)
Here is a patch to fix it.
Posted by Andy Thompson (at465) on 2010-04-28T15:17:13.000+0000
I was asked on irc to include a unit test for this, so I've added a test to the SmtpTest, and included a mock SMTP protocol class needed for it, which fails before the patch and succeeds after.
Posted by Satoru Yoshida (satoruyoshida) on 2010-06-09T00:24:16.000+0000
Sorry, I have been inactive since last April.
Posted by Marc Hodgins (mjh_ca) on 2010-11-06T02:39:47.000+0000
Agreed, the behavior introduced by ZF-8273 is incorrect. The RFC 2821 states that both the MAIL FROM and the Return-Path header should be the same value:

The first step in the procedure is the MAIL command.
... and ...

The time stamp line and the return path line are formally defined as
Return-path-line = "Return-Path:" FWS Reverse-path
Andy, there are a couple of problems with your proposed patch. It doesn't run unless the TESTS_ZEND_MAIL_SMTP_ENABLED constant is set to true, which isn't necessary because this can be tested offline. Also the calls to addBcc(), addCc(), etc, aren't necessary to test this.
So, I'm attaching a simplified patch which includes a test that runs by default.
Posted by Marc Hodgins (mjh_ca) on 2010-11-22T14:52:22.000+0000
Applied to trunk in r23423, merged to 1.11 release branch in r23424
Posted by Steffen Weber (steffen) on 2011-10-19T15:03:22.000+0000
The same bug exists in Zend Framework 2.0 Beta 1. Could you please fix it there, too?
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Music on the GreenThursday evenings throughout the summer in front of New Frontiers. Featuring an all-natural beef, chicken and vegetarian barbecue, including side salads, melon, drinks and old-fashioned Ice Cream Social, with free ice cream for all. This year's lineup is: Aug. 2 - Cuesta Ridge, Aug. 9 - The Honeycombs, Aug. 16 - Doug Groshart, Aug. 23 - The Grasshoppers.
Aug. 4 and 5Valleystock, a Santa Ynez Valley celebration, music festival and fundraiser, will be held out at Live Oak Camp. Currently there are 10 bands scheduled to perform, with more being added weekly. Any local musicians or groups interested in donating their talent and time to this charity event use the contact information below. The Santa Ynez Elks will be providing BBQ dinners Sat-Sun with a Sunday morning breakfast. Price per adult is $60, which includes admission to Live Oak (camping optional), all meals, live music. Optional pricing available. Money raised at Valleystock will go to benefit various SYVUHS Music and Arts Programs. Registration forms can be obtained at local businesses with the Valleystock poster, or online at: www.syvelks.com/valleystock2012.html. For more info, call 245-8994 or email email@example.com.
Thursday, Aug. 9Valley-wide Parent Teacher Association, Parent Teacher Organization conference at Santa Ynez High School from 10 a.m-noon. This is the first time this type of meeting will be held and if the response is positive there could be more. It will be a great opportunity to meet parents from other local schools, as well as share ideas and resources. The meeting is open to the public and all Valley schools' parents, teachers and administrators (elementary through high school) are encouraged to attend. Guest speakers from the 15th District PTA, Sheriff's Department, high school, People Helping People, Valley Foundation and more will address topics such as school safety, grant opportunities for local schools, healthy foods for growing minds, valley-wide calendaring opportunities and much more. For additional information, contact Jacque Wagstaffe at 895-8556, Kristen Thomsen at 688-2881 or Anita Brau at 689-3788.
Saturday, Aug. 1826th Annual Los Olivos Quick Draw and Art Auction from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. featuring artwork by 25 nationally recognized artists. A preview wine and dessert reception to be held on Friday, Aug. 17 from 7-8:30 p.m. at St. Mark's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church; music provided by Jerry Coelho. On Saturday, artists and crowds will gather in the Lavinia Campbell Park at 10 a.m. at the corner of Grand and Alamo Pintado avenues at the flag pole. The Quick Draw competition will begin at 11 a.m. The live auction will begin at 12:15 p.m. The silent auction will be at the Grange Hall from 9 a.m -2:30 p.m. Other works by the artists will be on display and available for sale at St. Mark's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church parish hall from 1-5 p.m., with a reception for the artists from 2-4 p.m. Stop by the Rotary food booth and purchase a lunch item from their barbecue selection. For more info, www.losolivosca.com.
Saturday, Aug. 25Boot Scootin' Boogie is again being presented by the Auxiliary of Atterdag Village of Solvang. Great barbecue by the Vikings; line and square dancin' with lots of help with those dance steps! Silent and live auctions; Western costumes encouraged. Vets Hall, 5:30 p.m., $50/pp includes dinner and one drink. If you have questions, contact Linda Johansen at 686-1644.
Sept. 21-23Karen Browdy, "Invent & Redo: Extreme Makeover in Collage" weekend retreat. $425 includes 10+ hours instruction, all meals except Saturday evening, two nights lodging, 2/room. The C Gallery. Call 344-3807 or email email@example.com.
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Friday, Sept. 2810th Annual Santa Maria A's All Ford Car Show and Swap Meet in Old Town Orcutt around the Orcutt Union Plaza at 201 South Broadway. Swap Meet opens at 7 a .m., show opens 8 a.m., free admission, benefiting the Allan Hancock Automotive Program Scholarships. $20 advance registration, $25 at the door. Live music, raffle with many prizes, 50/50 raffle, grand raffle prize. Breakfast available by the American Legion. Curt Warner 478-1231 firstname.lastname@example.com or Jay McCord 598-8133 email@example.com.
Saturday, Sept. 8Sunset International Wine Competition from 5:30-10 p.m at Dinosaur Caves Park, overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Pismo Beach. Exclusive reception hosted by Sunset Wine editor Sara Schneider and editor-in-chief Kitty Morgan. Guests can indulge in an exquisite wine and food pairing dinner and dance. Fresh regional cuisine will be prepared by top local chefs led by marquis chef Gregg Wangard of Marisol at the Cliffs Resort; Vons executive chef Jeff Anderson; executive chef Robert Trester of Gardens of Avila at Sycamore Mineral Springs Resort and their colleagues from Splash Cafe, Cracked Crab, Steamers and Ventana Grill. Later, guests will dance under the stars at the internationally inspired after-party with popular LA DJ, D-Fuse. Relax in the warm Indian Summer weather while staying at their choice of one of Pismo Beach's oceanfront lodgings, just steps away from an array of restaurants and downtown tasting rooms, including the artisan wines of Sans Liege. Additionally, guests can venture out to tour and taste in the Edna Valley at wineries like Claiborne & Churchill, Tolosa and Bailyeana just minutes away. http://www.classiccalifornia.com/wine-waves.htm. Tickets start at $50 for the grand tasting and $125 for an all-inclusive evening of tasting, dining and dancing. http://www.savorcentralcoast.com/schedule-overview/special-events/. To find an array of lodging specials in Pismo Beach, visit http://www.classiccalifornia.com/lodging.htm.
Step Aerobics Classes have stood the test of time. While other exercises classes have come and gone. Step provides people with the results they are looking for. Join Lena, Fridays at 9:35 am. Beginners welcome. Advanced Step Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. and Mondays 5:30 p.m. with Lisa. Performance Fitness, 320 Alisal Rd. Ste. 406. Solvang. 686-2900. www.performancefitness.biz.
Cachuma Lake Wildlife Cruise – Fridays 3-5 p.m. Saturdays 10 a.m. - noon and 3-5 p.m. and Sundays 10 a.m. - noon. 2-hour cruises that focus on nesting birds, other local wildlife, flora, cultural history, and geology. $15/adults $7/kids (4-12 years old, please, no children under 4). Reservations: 686-5050 weekdays, 686-5055 weekends. $8 Park Admission per vehicle. 688-4515 or visit www.cachuma.com and click on "Calendar of Events."
The Vineyard House Restaurant for Jazz Under the Stars Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Music on the front deck, dinner is served, $3 per person entertainment charge added to the guest check. All money goes directly to musicians. On Friday and Saturday nights, from 6-8 p.m., Rex Harte entertains on the piano, playing his style of jazz renditions. On Sunday, brunch from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Bob "Mr. 2000 tunes" Riley plays big band and showtunes on the piano. There is no cover for either of these events. 350-0284.
MondaysNar-Anon support group for families and friends of addicts meets every Monday at 7:00 p.m. at the Solvang Alano Club, 320 Alisal Road, Solvang. For more information call 698-0495.
United Voluntary Services rolls bandages for Direct Relief International the first Monday of the month from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the Rancho Santa Ynez mobile home park and the fourth Monday of the month from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the First Baptist Church on Janin Way. For information, call Mary at 686-1965.
Al-Anon step study meeting at noon at the Solvang Alano Club, 320 Alisal Road, Solvang.
Global Gardens Organic Food Tasting, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Los Olivos. $3 pp, Mon-Sun, 693-1600.
TuesdaysPreschool Storytime: 11 a.m. Stories, songs, & fun for little ones. Stay for a craft afterward and make a new friend! Solvang Library 688-4214.
Santa Ynez Christian Women's Connection meets on the 3rd Tuesday of every month at the Little Red House, 555 Atterdag, Solvang from 9:30-11 a.m. $5.00 Donation. Child care is provided; please contact Mary at 693-0244.
Solvang Rotary Club, Alisal River Grill Restaurant, 7:15 a.m., solvangrotary.com.
Los Olivos Wine Merchant Cafe, Wine and Art, 5-7 p.m. Meets the first Tuesday of every month.
WednesdaysCoastal Chapter of the Blue Star Mothers. Meetings are the 2nd Wednesday of every month at Ellen's Pancake House in Buellton, in the back room, 6:30 p.m. A support group for parents who have sons and/or daughters currently serving, or who have been medically or honorably discharged from the five service branches of the United States, as well as the National Guard, Reserve and the Merchant Marines. Contact, Janet Harrison, firstname.lastname@example.com or 736-6910.
Al-Anon support group for families and friends of alcoholics meets every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Solvang Alano Club, 320 Alisal Road, Solvang. For information call 350-2029.
Al-Anon support group for families and friends of alcoholics meets every Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. at St. Marks in the Valley, 2901 Nojoqui Way, Los Olivos. For more information call 757-7783
Open Mic Night/Songwriter Showcase/Blues Jam. Dave Smith host. Singers and musicians welcome. Solvang Brewing Company, 7:30-10:30. 1547 Mission Dr., Solvang.
Jodi House, a support program for people recovering from brain injury and stroke, meets on Wednesdays from 1-3 p.m. at the SYV NonProfit Support Center, 595 Alamo Pintado Road, Solvang. Family members welcome. Call (805)563-2882 for details.
The Soul Food Book Club chooses books with a spiritual focus or a valuable life lesson. We meet once a month, the third Wednesday of each month at 4 p.m. at St. Mark's in Los Olivos. For more information, call Paulette Miller at 688-0936.
Solvang Third Wednesday returns June 16th just in time to celebrate summer with a variety of opportunities to shop, wine and dine. Tickets are $20. For more information, contact Susan Williams at email@example.com or Linda Jackson at firstname.lastname@example.com.
On-going Drawing classes with Connie Rohde. Beginners 9 a.m.-noon; intermediate 6-9 p.m. Continental breakfast at morning break. Evening tea/coffee and cakes at break. The C Gallery, Los Alamos. 344-3807, www.thecgallery.com.
Support the Troops Packing Day - 4th Wednesday of each month, 1 p.m. SYV Womens' Club, 533 Atterdag, Solvang. 686-7976.
Farmers Market Certified Organic. Solvang, 2:30-6 p.m. Fresh fruits, vegetables, flowers, etc, 688-0701.
Los Olivos Wine Merchant and Cafe's Tailor to your Taste, 5-7 p.m., Choose from five wines and hors d'oeuvres, $15 pp.
SYV Rotary Club meets at the Buellton Marriott, 12:15 p.m., santaynezvalleyrotary.org.
ThursdaysWandering Dog Wine Bar's Blind Tasting 4-8 p.m. Cost is $15 pp. Check our website for each week's theme wanderingdogwinebar.com.
Co-Dependents Anonymous meets every Thurdsay at 5:30 p.m. at the Solvang Alano Club, 320 Alisal Road, Solvang. For information call 688-2233.
Support the Troops Game Day - 2nd Thursday of each month, noon to 3 p.m. $5 donation - snacks, drinks, fun and friendship - Nextrain, Bridge, etc. SYV Rancho Mobile Estates Clubhouse. Sonnie Lindquist, 686-7976.
SYV Women's Club Duplicate Bridge - 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month, noon to 3 p.m. For beginners, SYV Womens' Club, 533 Atterdag, Solvang. Sonnie Lindquist, 686-7976.
Los Olivos Rotary Club meets, Los Olivos Grange, 5:30 p.m. 688-0658.
Valley Wind Ensemble rehearsal, 7 p.m., SYV High School Music Room, 688-8728.
Buellton Rotary Club meets, Marriott Hotel, Buellton, noon. 688-1000.
Fridaysweekly at 3-5 p.m. for men & women who have recently lost a loved one. SYV Presbyterian Church, 1825 Alamo Pintado Road, Solvang. Call Mary 693-0244.
Al-Anon support group for families and friends of alcoholics meets every Friday at 10:00 a.m. at the Solvang Alano Club, 320 Alisal Road, Solvang. For more information call 688-3917.
SaturdaysThe Saturday Los Olivos Farmers Market has returned from 9 a.m.-noon. Corner of San Marcos Avenue and Alamo Pintado Road.
Cachuma Lake Nature Walk and Junior Ranger Program: one-mile walk, 10-11:30 a.m. Junior Park Rangers Program (ages 3-12) 12:30-1:30 p.m. Kids under 10 must be with an adult. Learn about wildlife, caring for the environment, and earn a badge. For more information please call,688-4515, or you can visit our website at cachuma.com.
Woodworking Class — Decorative box making, veneering, inlay, parquetry, traditional wood finishing, 9 a.m. Edward Jorgensen, Master Cabinetmaker. 325-3645 days.
Investor's Roundtable: Markets and the Value of the Dollar. 3 - 4:30 p.m. The Investors' Roundtable welcomes both novice and veteran investors to informal presentations and discussions. Meets on the second Saturdays of each month at the Solvang Library - check with Solvang library for dates.
SundaysKids, come check out the Awana Clubs at Trinity Baptist Church for games, Bible lessons 6:46-8:15 p.m., K-2 and 3-6 grades, 1693 Laurel Ave., Solvang, 688-8750, trinitysyv.net.
First Sunday monthly at 1 p.m. at The Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez. Live-Music, arts and raffles. Enjoy your lunch at The Hayloft Grill. Fundraiser for disabled children in SB County. For information, call 245-8494.
Gambler's Anonymous meets at Lompoc Valley Alano Club at 2 p.m. every Sunday, at 119 North D Street. For info, call 737-3969.
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Somewhere around December of last year, the Phillies changed the name of the franchise for the first time in nearly 130 years of existence. Since the New Year, they've been officially known in the future tense as "The Phillies, Once Utley and Howard are Healthy."
Literature is littered with stories whose action is driven by a character who either never shows up or is only introduced at the very end. Beckett's Waiting for Godot, for instance, or Gogol's The Inspector General. I was beginning to have that feeling about the 2012 Phillies, that their story would be written in large part about the absence of Chase Utley. In the shroud of secrecy that characterizes the Phillies' media department, it was beginning to look like Utley was not the character we'd wait all year to have introduced, but rather the one who, while absent from the storytelling itself, would drive many of the events of the story, like Emmanuel Goldstein in 1984. Every action, it seemed, was driven to compensate for Utley's absence.
We've lived in a virtual purgatory all season, watching a revolving door of second basemen. Mike Fontenot, who can hit but can't field. Freddy Galvis, who could field but couldn't hit. Pete Orr, who couldn't do either. And most recently, Michael Martinez, who not only can neither hit nor field, but fails to do so with a lack of self-awareness matched only by the douchebag who brings his acoustic guitar to a party, then plays Oasis's "Wonderwall" until the only people left in the room are waiting for him to stop bogarting the guitar so they can play something not included in the "Teenager's first open mic night" book of sheet music.
Billy Graham once said: "Have you ever seen God? I've never seen God… I've never seen the wind. I've seen the effects of the wind… but I've never seen the wind." We could say the same about Utley. He wasn't up to his usual standards last season, but he was still worth 3.9 fWAR in only 2/3 of a season. And with Utley back in the lineup, Hunter Pence moves back down to fourth or fifth, and maybe there'll finally be someone on base for Carlos Ruiz to drive in. Suddenly, the pieces start to fit back together as bench players are taken out of the starting lineup and returned to their original and appropriate uses.
A friend of mine once explained how he eats at Five Guys every six months or so. Every time he eats there, he marvels at how tasty their burgers and fries are, and then spends the rest of the evening on the toilet as a pound and change of greasy, beefy glory result in crippling gastrointestinal distress. But a few months later, you forget about the aftereffects and begin to crave Five Guys again. Six months is just enough time to forget about the full Five Guys experience and go back again, more out of curiosity than anything else.
So too with Utley. It's been so long since we've seen a truly great position player in a Phillies uniform that I'm starting to forget what one looks like. Utley says he's in better physical condition now than he's been in a while, but even so, we shouldn't expect too much from him too quickly. If Utley comes back and is even a shadow of his 2007 self, I'll be thrilled. If he's anything more, I'll be so happy you won't hear from me again until the state troopers are chasing a man playing an accordion and riding a unicycle the wrong way down I-295. Because that'll be me.
But with Utley back in the lineup, it feels like we're at least a little closer to being whole, that things are at least a little closer to being okay again. And, most importantly, it means that Charlie Manuel can nail Michael Martinez's ass to the bench and never think about him again.
We've missed you, Chase. It's good to have you back.


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Road Atlanta Gets Intercontinental Cup
By Jonathan Ingram | Senior Writer
The Automobile Club de L'Ouest, which organizes the Le Mans 24-hour race, has announced a three-race Le Mans Intercontinental Cup championship for LMP1 cars beginning in September of 2010. It includes the 1,000-kilometer race at Silverstone and the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta with a third Asian round to be confirmed later.
The announcement coincided with a statement from Audi that the German company will participate in the newly formed Le Mans Intercontinental Cup with what is now designated as the Audi "R15 plus," which has revised aerodynamics.
The three-race series for LMP1, the premier prototype category created from rules for the Le Mans 24-hour, is a pre-cursor to a championship planned to include a minimum of six races in Europe, the U.S. and Asia in 2011.
Contingent upon a favorable response of participating teams, the new championship looks to raise the profile of Le Mans prototype racing with the trophy's worldwide status. The category of sports prototype endurance racing has not had a worldwide series since the last FIA World Sportscar Championship race for Group C cars in 1992. Officially, only the FIA can sanction a world championship, the reason Le Mans is calling its championship an Intercontinental Cup.
The raised profile for the LMP1 prototypes is further focused on encouraging manufacturer participation under the new set of rules at Le Mans for 2011 which emphasize green racing and equivalence between different types of fuel and engines and possibly hybrid power. It remains to be seen if the Le Mans 24-hour will become the centerpiece of the Intercontinental schedule in 2011 or if the Cup will be used to raise interest and entries elsewhere.
The key to success for the Intercontinental Cup will be participation by manufacturers as well as privateers in 2011. In addition to Audi, others anticipating the final 2011 rules with an eye on participation at Le Mans are Peugeot, Aston Martin and Honda. But recently Peugeot has been at odds with the rule makers at the ACO due to the aerodynamics of the Audi R15 and Honda has turned its LMP effort in the American Le Mans Series into an engine development program for its 3.4-liter V8.
Porsche and Toyota remain other possible participants in the LMP1 class in 2011, although they have no cars competing currently.
The inaugural Intercontinental Cup will be part of already scheduled events: the Le Mans Series event at Silverstone on Sept. 13, the Petit Le Mans on Oct. 2 and a round of the Asian Le Mans Series, which was launched this year at an inaugural round in Okayama in late October.
Audi made no commitment to next year's Sebring 12-hour, which is part of the American Le Mans Series. Racing boss Wolfgang Ulrich stated that the team will run three Audis in the 1,000-kilometer race at Spa as part of the Le Mans Series as a tune-up for the French 24-hour, leaving open the question of Sebring.
The announcement of Road Atlanta's inclusion in the new championship came shortly after the death of Dave Sloyer, the founder and designer of the internationally respected Georgia circuit, which opened in 1970.
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Sandy Rios is a hoot. She's a radio commentator for American Family Association Radio. She recently took to the airwaves and claimed the following, according to Right Wing Watch:
…the increased amount of women serving in key roles makes the U.S. Navy incapable of carrying out a strike against Syria. "When I looked at those battleships getting ready for battle in Syria, I couldn't help think about all the stories I've read about how women now are in the ranks of the Navy, getting pregnant at exponential numbers," she said on air this week. "When I think about the folding in and the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell and the homosexual takeover of so much of our military I'm not sure how effective those naval ships will be.
Let me break it all down for you. Sandy's packed a lot in a small space.
"…the homosexual takeover of so much of our military." Hmm. That will come as a great surprise to anyone with an real knowledge of the military. The armed forces are hardly the place that LGBT people seek out to join in larger than average numbers.
According to a Williams Institute review conducted in April 2011:
…approximately 3.8% of American adults identify themselves either as lesbian or gay (1.70%), bisexual (1.80%), or transgender (0.30%).
Let's be generous and double the numbers – 7.6%, and then let's round up to 8%. That's hardly "taking over so much of our military."
Sweet, innocent Sandy then goes on, "increased amount of women serving in key roles makes the U.S. Navy incapable of carrying out a strike against Syria."
Why? Too busy scrubbing the ship, vacuuming and making dinner? Oh, and let's not forget doing the laundry and watching the kids. Kids? Sure, we all know that gay sailors are pedophiles and they steal little children in every port and hide them in their duffle bags.
"I've read about how women now are in the ranks of the Navy, getting pregnant at exponential numbers." Is there some top-secret experiment going on where all those male, testosterone-crazy, gay sailors are schtuping the women sailors? That's reason enough to enlist. Anchors away!
By now you must know that Sandy Rios is certifiably crazy, but she has listeners. So, if you want to hear this whack-job's words directly from her mouth, here you go: (it's under a minute long but you'll be laughing for hours)


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Randi - I believe that it's a good choice you made to have Fister cremated. I have done this with most of my RB cats and dogs, as I too plan to be cremated and take them all with me when I am scattered. They all had "private" cremations, as I wanted only their remains and not that of other pets. If you don't care for the vessel that they put him in, there are many places on line that you can purchase pet cremation urns - just Google it.
My heart still breaks knowing what you are going thru right now. You will find the strength to get thru it and move on (tho differently), in time. Fister will always be in your heart, and that can never be taken away from you.


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Many thanks to Dick Eastman for another fascinating article! This would make a wonderful, intensive study, and one we can learn much from!
August 09, 2008
Free People of Color of Texas Project
Mic Barnette is conducting a project for possible future publication. The project attempts to identify all Free People of Color who lived in Texas prior to the Civil War and any Free Person of Color born in Texas who lived outside Texas prior to the Civil War. To date there are approximately 250 families in and outside Texas with about 150 different surnames identified.The project is not a study of slaves emancipated as a result of the Civil War in 1865.
In many cases those identified as Free People of Color were born free and their families may have been free stretching back into the Colonial United States. In other cases they may have been slaves recently (prior to the Civil War) manumitted by their owners for faithful service or because they were the offspring or family member of the owner. Also of interest is the number of Free People of Color who owned slaves, themselves. In some cases those slaves were family members, while in other cases they were slaves inherited or purchased.
While the project is not intended to be an intensive genealogical study of each Free Person of Color or family of Free People of Color it does collect as much genealogical and biographical information as may conveniently be found without extensive research. The keyword being "identify" and the intent is to identify more than just the names of the people.
Genealogists and historians descended from or who know about a Texas Free Person of Color identified or not identified in the project, thus far, are invited to contact Barnette at firstname.lastname@example.com. The Free People of Color of Texas project has a website containing a list of the surnames and residences of most of those Fee People of Color identified to date. The website may be accessed at http://micbarnette.bravepages.com/fpc_texas.html.
Happy Sunday to all!
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Texas - Free Persons of Color Research
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The road began routinely enough with the running of the Count Fleet Stakes at Aqueduct January 7. While the event itself was nothing to jump over the moon about, it was significant in that the well regarded Alpha did it the right way.
Two months fresh since a failed try in the Juvenile, the Bernardini-Munnaya colt rated kindly enough before finishing strongly. Alpha was breaking watches in the mornings and did not break the hearts of favorite players in the afternoon, winning as the 4-5 choice.
Eclipse Award winning Ramon Dominguez was suitably impressed by the colt's development and is anxious to ride him back, most likely in the Whirlaway Stakes, next stop on the New York trail to the Triple Crown.
Alpha won ridden out under brisk handling and galloped out strongly, reaching the finish post as if he were just getting started. It took him a crisp 1:42.83 to travel the mile and 70 yards.
On the West Coast, Out Of Bounds took advantage of Garrett Gomez's patience and strength to run down Secret Circle in the shadow of the wire in the Sham Stakes. A long striding individual, the Darley runner looks like one to watch.
Meanwhile, Monday's Smarty Jones on Oaklawn Park's holiday program was infinitely more interesting as all three top finishers ran competitively and well, especially On Fire Baby, a girl against the boys.
It's no longer that unusual for a filly to tackle males, especially given a run of three consecutive female Horses of the Year who earned the honor by competing in open competition. But a three year old filly at this early stage of the season?
The filly was a game third after chasing the pace for the entire two-turn mile and was the only runner of 12 to try making an impact on the turn with a brush-by attempt that got her to within a head of the leader before tiring, understandably.
But her trainer, Gary Hartlage, must be a very strict marker. "She ran, OK…" he said, "the effort was really good, but she didn't run as well as I thought she would."
On Fire Baby is a multiple graded stakes winner, taking Churchill's G2 Pocahontas and Golden Rod in 2011 and her effort was very commendable for a season's debut.
"She definitely competed…they knew she was in there," said jockey Joe Johnson, before adding "a mile is just too short; watch her when she stretches out." Hartlage later underscored that opinion: "I don't think you've seen her best race yet."
Apparently neither does Steve Hobby, trainer of the winner, Junebugred. "He's shown us a lot from when we first got him. I had to call Alex [owner Alex Lieblong] all the time and tell him this little red horse just outworked them all again. He outworks everybody."
And he outran 11 rivals despite a lack of experience, a ground-saving but hemmed-in trip, finding himself in close quarters as he attempted to tip out at the three-sixteenths pole before Joe Bravo deftly angled the colt back inside for needed running room.
Young, inexperienced, light-framed late foals don't routinely do that unless they own courage and class. "He's a horse that seems to be progressing in the right direction," said Bravo. "I definitely hope they bring me back to ride him in his next race."
A rematch with runnerup Restless Jerry is worth anticipating. Breaking sharply from a wide post with a short run to the first turn, jockey Shane Laviolette was committed to race 5-wide every step of the mile. He described it more succinctly: "When you're in the 12 hole like that, it's easy to get stuck."
"We got outrun by a great horse," said trainer Kenny Smith. "It was good seeing him keep on running and [added distance] isn't going to hurt him." Laviolette must agree: "I look forward to the next ride."
The trail moves south and east Saturday as the Fair Grounds gets its Louisiana Derby series started with the Grade 3 mile and 70-yard LeComte Stakes, a chance for one of the 13 who were entered overnight, including two entries, to get first dibs on required graded earnings.
To describe the LeComte as inscrutable would be to seriously understate the case. Consider that one of the entrants has run 10 times; five have had three starts or fewer; and five broke maiden last time out. Diversity has its cost.
Not surprisingly, Todd Pletcher has a barn full of promising sophomore runners including Dan And Sheila, a winner of his only start going a flat mile at Gulfstream. He was well meant that afternoon, the interesting notion being that he is sprint meant by pedigree but entered going long by the prolific Pletcher.
Johnny Velazquez ships in, too, also taking a call from Pletcher on Alma D'oro in the Louisiana Handicap later on the stakes-laden card. Velazquez will partner Inspired in the Pan Zareta for Allen Iwinski as well. The two turn LeComte figures to be a good test and learning experience for Pletcher's inexperienced Derby hopeful.