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Sam Houston Schoolhouse Candlelight Tour, Maryville ,TN
Candlelight Tours at the Sam Houston Schoolhouse in Maryville. For more information on the property check out both of these websites.
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Thirty Historical Stops in Blount County Tennessee
In 2008, shortly after the economy tanked, again, I was trying to think of an activity I could do with my nephew, age five, that was on the cheap. Decided to take him to Sam Houston Schoolhouse and Museum. While there, I found an out of print copy of the Blount County Historic Tour Guide that became our map on a three-year long odyssey. It shows 30+ stops depicting the history of Blount County. I have lived here for 25 years and had only been to four places on the list. Kane had been to the Little River Railroad Museum in Townsend with me two years earlier.
Sometimes it was more the journey than the destination. I used the word "map" loosely. The brochure designer had his heart in the right spot, but the dots showing the buildings could be off by a block or two or …. One day, with no address other than Big Springs Road, we tried to find the "Old Stone House", the oldest house in the county, built in the late 1700's. Never did locate it that day. Called the Visitor Center. They gave me some tips. Didn't work out on the second try. Called the Historical Society. He made a call, and gave me some pointers. Nope. When we spent a morning at the Thompson Brown House getting a behind-the-scenes tour by a wonderfully accommodating woman, she gave me directions. She did a lot of hand waving to no effect. I am actually rather good at following a map, so after stopping at a gas station for further advice, and still coming up short, I did a U turn in the middle of the road and hopped out to talk to a Department of Transportation worker cutting grass on the right of way. He was clueless until I said this home had been in three states and a territory, North Carolina, the Lost State of Franklin, territory South of the River Ohio and our own lovely State of Tennessee. Bingo! "EVERYONE knows where THAT place is!" My suggestion is, when we pull out of the recession, maybe by 2020, the county pops for a marker.
I took Kane's picture at each place but one. The Mead Haven/Cox House in Friendsville, had three very big dogs in the yard which was posted with some kind of electric doggie fence sign. I would open the car door, the dogs would stand up. I'd shut the car door, they sat down. Open the car door; put foot on ground, they advanced 50 feet. "Kane buddy," I said, "time for your photo." He shook his head. His momma didn't raise no dummy. I bought a big piece of black foam core board and glued on the brochure and all our photos. Twenty-nine photos of Kane, and one of three very big dogs. We took the last tour today, Alcoa Aluminum Plant and the fountain they built for their workers in Springbrook Park. Actually talked about and saw the whole concept of a planned unit development. Many of the four-room houses are still standing with the original slate roofs from 80 years ago.
I am a list person, and while it was wonderful to finish our journey before Kane enters college and I start collecting Medicare, it's kind of sad. Where do we go from here? History tour of Knoxville? Washington D.C.? The pyramids? Scratch the pyramids. We came back to our Smoky Mountain Bed and Breakfast and practiced making potato pancakes with stir fried apples. We listened to the news about Egypt and Libya while he grated potatoes and stirred the apples in the pan. For eight years old, he has an amazing grasp of world events and a memory like a steel trap. Wonder who learned more? Maybe the question should be, who will remember more! mizkathleen@ GracehillRead More
Country Fair, Sam Houston Historic Schoolhouse, Maryville, TN
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It's good to be Peter Dinklage these days, it really is – beautiful new baby, happy marriage, house up in the mountains, sweet Game of Thrones gig, the whole triumph-against-the-odds thing that his acting career has become. (Though he's hesitant to fully acknowledge the last bit: "I triumphed because I'm odd?") There isn't much left to complain about, not that he ever did much of that – his parents never moved anything from the high shelves in their house, just expected him to get on with it, to climb up for what he wanted, and that's what he's always done.
There's just one lingering annoyance: Out in public, Dinklage can't hide. "I can't be anonymous," he says, "because of my size" (which, to be precise, is four feet five). Hats and sunglasses don't help; neither did the wild-woodsman's beard he had going until last week. "Even if they don't recognize him," says his wife, theater director Erica Schmidt, "they think he's Wee Man from Jackass or they think he's the guy from In Bruges. So there's a constant assault." Before Dinklage and his family moved from Manhattan to rural upstate New York earlier this year, the unending attention – mostly pleasant, sometimes frighteningly aggressive – was wearing him down.
Up here, life is easier. His five-month-old baby can have her own room – which, he says, is bigger than their entire old West Village apartment. ("She's beautiful," he jokes of his daughter. "I wonder who the father is.") Dinklage's big mutt of a dog, Kevin, can run with him each morning through the woods behind the house, where they dodge Lyme-disease-ridden ticks instead of cameraphone-toting tourists. His wife's career means they'll likely have to move back to the city eventually ("The list of people happy here is probably my dog, me, the baby, then my wife – from happiest to least happiest"), but right now, Dinklage is savoring the quiet.
At the moment, he's able to see much of the Hudson River Valley, stretching in every direction against azure skies – we've stopped at the midway point of a mile-long walkway that extends high above the river. Despite the unseasonably scorching April sunshine, Dinklage has a brown-and-blue-striped knit cap pulled over his shaggy, currently surferish half-blond hair, and aviator shades hide his blue-green eyes. Solo joggers, packs of college girls, moms with their kids and one lady pushing a cat stroller pass by without looking his way, and for a moment all is peaceful – we can hear birds chirping from somewhere in the near-cloudless blue.
A middle-aged woman in calf-length workout pants speed-walks by, then doubles back, yelping, "I saw you on Game of Thrones'." She has a purple fanny pack at her waist that matches her nail polish, and she's clutching a bottle of water. "You're really a good actor. Wait till I tell my son I met you. He's not going to believe it. Because I saw you and I said, 'Oh, God, that's him, that's him, you know?' So do you guys film out here, or where?"
"Ireland," Dinklage says in his stage-trained baritone, leaning against a wood-and-stone bench, looking way too hip for the outdoorsy setting: He's wearing one of his James Perse hoodies ("I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts") over a pair of Varvatos blue-striped pants whose frayed bottoms suggest some aggressive amateur tailoring, possibly with a scissor, and his usual scuffed, Springsteen-esque leather boots. "And Croatia and Iceland."
"You're so bad in that show," she gushes. "With the women! You're naughty! Every Sunday I watch it and I love it. You were also in, what was the other one I saw you in . . . ? What was it? It wasn't Sex and the City, was it?"
"That was Sarah Jessica Parker," Dinklage says. "We get mistaken all the time."
"No," she says. "You were in Elf! That is my favorite movie! When you went on the table? I watch it all the time!"
"A holiday classic," Dinklage says.
"So you live right in this area? Or what?"
"Right under the bridge here," Dinklage replies without a pause, remaining deadpan. "In a cave. Actually, you can't pass. You've got to solve a riddle. I have to give you a riddle and then you can walk past."
"Well, yeah," she says, blinking behind her shades. "Anyways, nice to meet you!"
At 42, Dinklage comes off as more comfortable with himself than most humans of any size or shape: He doesn't walk so much as he struts. "He truly is just who he is," says Lena Headey, who plays his sister, the evil queen Cersei Lannister, on Game of Thrones, and who has known him since they bonded on a failed 2006 pilot called Ultra (she played a superhero, he was her Professor X-style coach). "There's nothing about him that isn't anything but confident." But over a pint of Guinness at a New Paltz steakhouse (a destination he selected despite being a vegetarian since high school), Dinklage claims it's all a pose.
"Any swagger is just defense," he says. "When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up – you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance."
It's almost certainly unintentional, but Dinklage is practically quoting from the gospel of Tyrion Lannister, his Emmy-and Golden Globe-winning character on Game of Thrones, a debauched, Machiavellian, secretly righteous underdog: "Never forget what you are," he said last season, "the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, then it can never be used to hurt you."
For a pay-cable show that takes place in an imaginary swords-and-sorcery world and requires you to distinguish between the banners and bloodlines of what feels like dozens of entirely fictional royal houses, Game of Thrones has achieved an improbable level of mainstream success, with more than 4 million viewers weekly. Dinklage himself has no particular idea as to why Thrones has become such a phenomenon: "I can't explain why the show is so popular," he says. "Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil. Our show is so much more unclear. It's sort of the antithesis of those things – things that aren't black and white." As much as any character, it's Tyrion who embodies that moral ambiguity, as the semi-outcast scion of a rich, scheming family who has developed a weakness for "bastards, cripples and broken things."
He gets all the best dialogue, too. "Tyrion is the class clown," says George R.R. Martin, creator of the ongoing series of books that inspired the show. "His wit buys him an acceptance from the bullies and the jocks and the otherwise dominant characters around him."
From the very beginning, Dinklage approached Tyrion as a "much more arrogant version of myself – but now the character seems to be getting into his head. "I've done it for two years now," he says softly. "Maybe it's had an effect on me. It's kind of sad when you play a character that's much better than you are, though. I guess people who played super-heroes have suffered from that all the time – if you can't fly, what good are you? Poor George Reeves!"
It all started in a suburban New Jersey basement with some puppets, a tricycle and a double album by the Who. When Dinklage was six or seven, he and his older brother (now a successful violinist) would put on shows in their parents' basement for "neighborhood elderly people. We'd do a puppet Quadrophenia," Dinklage recalls, "set up little drum kits with tuna-fish cans and do a whole show and sell tickets for a bottle cap or whatever. We'd put the stereo speakers facedown on the floor upstairs, so it would come through the ceiling. We were basically the Little Rascals of New Jersey."
Dinklage would also do a routine to "Send in the Clowns": "I was in some sort of wig, but not dressed as a clown – I knew from an early age not to humiliate myself," he says. "I was on a tricycle, and we played the entire song, and my whole part of the revue was to ride the tricycle and fall over, ride the tricycle and fall over, while these old people were sitting there. It's really a sad visual now that I think about it, a six-year-old little guy who keeps falling over on a tricycle. But if you ask any actor, they have those stories, they turn to that stuff. I don't know if Robert De Niro was doing puppet shows in his basement, but he was doing something."
As a young child, Dinklage underwent painful bone-shaving operations, "a common procedure" to prevent complications from achondroplasia, the genetic condition that causes his dwarfism. "Not everyone who's a dwarf has this operation, but it can come back and fuck you up if you don't. It can lead to scoliosis and really bowed legs and difficulty walking." His father, a salesman, and his mother, a music teacher, never talked much about his height: "If it was a movie of our lives, there would be a conversation every scene. But no, never. That's not the way life is. No one talks about anything! I think it would have stood out and I would have remembered it, or I would have gone, 'Eww, you're being weird, go away from me.'"
Did they explain his condition early on? He shakes his head. "What do you need to explain? There's nothing you need to explain. It's like explaining your hands. You grew up with it, it's part of who you are, it's not like overnight something happens, like an illness. An illness, you need to explain, a disease, a sudden injury or anything like that, but when it's part of your physiognomy?" He pauses. "But I do remember seeing myself in a school play on tape," he continues, "at the dawn of VHS, and thinking, 'Wow, I am much shorter than the rest of the kids.' That was a little heartbreaking."
At his all-boys Catholic high school, he continued doing plays – they were a refuge at a school where he didn't fit in: "I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods." He doesn't have to say much about his teenage years to make it clear that they were not, for the most part, fun: He mentions being terrified of certain jocks, and that being "not very popular" left some slow-healing psychic wounds. "Now I'm so depressed," he half-jokes after discussing it for all of two minutes. "Can't we talk about Singin' in the Rain or something?"
In his junior year, a teacher who recognized his talent decided to showcase it in an Irish play called Sharon's Grave. "It was the first time I played a part written for somebody my size," he recalls. "He was just this wretched guy who was carried around on the back of his older, dim-witted brother, sort of an Of Mice and Men relationship. It was like, 'Oh, wow, there are these things out there, it's not just Gilbert and Sullivan, there are these parts out there.' It was only later that I ran away from roles that were specific to people my size."
Dinklage went off to Bennington College, where he majored in drama. He was happier there, but started experiencing panic attacks. He had too much pride to seek any help for them, and they eventually went away. "I should have seen a shrink," he says. He filled his college years well, however: "I smoked too much pot, stayed up too late, did a lot of plays, listened to a lot of Pixies and Dinosaur Jr."
This year, he'll deliver the commencement address at his old school: "Bennington produces some of the great contemporary novelists," he says, grinning. "But I'm on a TV show! So they asked me instead."
Dinklage is behind the wheel of his Volvo, cruising through tree-lined roads just outside New Paltz. His impressively stocked iPod – hooked up to the stereo, on permanent shuffle – lands on one of the lush synth-pop tunes from the soundtrack of last year's excellent noir film Drive, in which Ryan Gosling wore cool driving gloves, steered getaway cars and murdered people. Dinklage smiles. "Sometimes I play this soundtrack and I pretend I'm Ryan Gosling in that movie," he says. "But instead of L.A., it's upstate, so it doesn't work as well."
He glances at his car's interior – the baby seat in the back, the bulky New York atlas jammed in between the front seats (he doesn't believe in GPS: "I don't want the Man to know where I'm going"). "This is just like Drive," he says. "Except not at all." It's early afternoon, and a yellow bus in front of us pauses to drop off some kids. "Fucking school bus slowing me down when I'm listening to my Drive soundtrack!" Dinklage says in a mock roar.
He's on his way to a Lowe's, where he's planning to buy a chain saw to cut down some unruly branches on his property. "Is it creepy if I buy a chain saw? Would you be scared? You know what, Ryan Gosling's character in Drive wouldn't have asked that. We would just go and buy a chain saw like it was nothing, like it was a daily thing I do."
With his heavy-browed good looks, Dinklage has his own reputation as a heartthrob, a subject he first had to address years ago – when he was promoting his breakthrough film, 2003's quirky indie The Station Agent, this theme came up a lot. "I was behaving as my friends behaved: You go out, you have some beers, you talk to girls, you have a nice night. I have friends who were doing that and getting laid all the time. I wasn't one of them, but for some reason in the public eye, I was 'Mister guy about town,' and I think it was just because of my size and stuff. It was a funny reverse spin on it. I was like, 'What am I, an orgy guy?'"
In fact, he confesses, "I was socially a little bit of a mess, in terms of confidence with the other half." When did that change? "You get a little older, you get comfortable. Women respond to comfort, and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot. Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff."
On the other hand, he may be double-reverse-spinning the whole thing himself: "Pete is superflirtatious, the most successful flirt I've ever met," says Headey. "We literally walk down the street and people are like, 'Oh, hi, Pete!' And I'm like, 'When did you meet them? What have you been doing?'" And Game of Thrones co-creator David Benioff recalls meeting Dinklage at a dinner party years back: "I looked around the table and realized that every woman there, including my wife, was hanging on his every word, enthralled."
Dinklage's own wife, needless to say, is well aware of his appeal. "Lately, girls have been, like, licking his face," says Schmidt. "But what's frustrating about it is that Pete is an incredibly handsome, charming, funny guy, but when he does a magazine or something it's like, 'Isn't it amazing he's four foot five inches tall and he's sexy?' You know, that's just who Pete is. And the rest of the world has to catch up."
Peter Dinklage wasn't just the first option to play Tyrion Lannister – he was the only option. "If he hadn't accepted the part, oh, boy," says series author Martin. "I don't know what we would have done." Adds Benioff, "When I read George's books, I decided Tyrion Lannister was one of the great characters in literature. Not just fantasy literature – literature! A brilliant, caustic, horny, drunken, self-flagellating mess of a man. And there was only one choice to play him."
When Dinklage first started his career – moving to a squalid post-college apartment in pre-gentrified Williamsburg, Brooklyn, back in 1992 – neither he nor anyone else could have imagined that he'd be so heavily courted for a leading role in a big-budget show. "I wanted to be doing Beckett plays in barns or something," he says over an egg-salad sandwich one morning. "I certainly didn't want to be on television. I didn't have a TV. TV? Kill me. What's on TV? I was a fuckin' snob. HBO just showed repeats of The Beastmaster back then – there wasn't really an HBO."
In 1995, he had a small but hilariously unforgettable role in the indie film Living in Oblivion, ranting about the idiocy of dwarfs popping up for no particular reason in movies' trippy dream sequences. Even after that, he couldn't get agents to meet with him, let alone represent him. He still doesn't have one, relying on a manager and a lawyer.
"I just wasn't a type that agents were looking for," he says. "I was too specific. They didn't have the imagination to send me on auditions for things that weren't written for a dwarf. They would only see ads at Christmastime, and if I didn't want to do those, what business would I bring them?" Faced with that rejection, he ignored Hollywood for years, temping, acting onstage, scoring indie-film roles and enjoying himself, maybe a little too much, with his friends.
Dinklage had an almost physical allergy to pointy shoes, to fake beards, to playing any sort of magical or unearthly figure. "I always wonder: Why are all these fantasy books, especially for children, fascinated with people my size being fantastical creatures? Growing up, I was always like, 'Really?' That was my big thing. Maybe Tolkien or whoever never met someone my size. And if they did, maybe if they had been friends with somebody who was a dwarf, they wouldn't have written it that way." He sighs, and looks around the dreary diner where we're eating breakfast. "Yes, we can cast magical spells, don't tell anyone. We don't need the waitress, I can refill your Diet Coke glass right now."
In addition to stage and TV work, Dinklage has been in more than 30 movies, working steadily for well over a decade. He's happy to take parts – like the children's-books author in Elf – that refer to his stature without exploiting it. But he seems to be especially proud of roles like the one he played in both the American and British versions of the farce Death at a Funeral – which weren't written for someone his size.
He wishes other actors his height would reconsider certain roles – particularly ones that involve answering to the names Dopey or Sneezy or Sleepy. "I just feel like it's the responsibility of people my size to persevere a bit more about what they do. Because it will just perpetuate itself if you agree to do these things. Mirror Mirror – I have a friend who was in that movie, and he was like, 'Why did I do this?' You look on the top of the cabs in New York, and the ad was seven dwarfs. Really, Snow White? Come on. I don't know. I just can't do it. I have to play a person. I can't play an adjective. Or adverb? Are they adverbs or adjectives?"
He relented, once, in 2008's Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, playing a magical little guy with, yes, pointy shoes and a fake beard. He knows that his twentysomething self would have been disgusted. "He would have given me shit, totally. But fuck him." He begins to address his younger self directly: "'Go enjoy your mac-and-cheese again for dinner. Look under your oven – oh, yeah, that is a rat. I'm jet-setting first class, man. I'll see you later.' That's what I'd say to that snob."
Taking on the role of Tyrion Lannister required less compromise – the character is all too human. "That's what I like about that show, he does have a sexual appetite. You never see one of those Narnian creatures with that. Those scenes are fun! We get so much flak for it, but what's wrong? I just find it to be so sad, people get in such an uproar about breasts, but not chopping people's heads off."
He likes the (relative) realism of Game of Thrones' world – Tyrion, at least, hasn't had any scenes with the computer-generated baby dragons who popped up at the end of Season One. "They're cool, those dragons," he says. "I met 'em. They're nice guys. They like to party – one of them does. I always mistake one for the other. It's a whole thing. One's actually kind of a dick and the other one likes to party."
Some fans of the books had one concern about the idea of Dinklage as Tyrion: He was far too good-looking to play a character whom Martin clearly described as unattractive. (He's also too tall, as Martin himself points out.)
"That just shows how much we've come along," Dinklage says. "That people can actually say that is very kind of them. If I was born 400 years ago, instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows and there was horrible discrimination. We were the first to be killed by the Nazis – the physically deformed and what have you. So I think it's just a good sign of the times that people can say that."
He doesn't let his size define or limit him – but, perhaps because of that very fact, there's no denying that Dinklage is now one of the most famous and successful smaller people in the world. When he won his Golden Globe in January, he stepped to the stage and used the spotlight in a way he hadn't before, and may never again: He told the audience that he'd been thinking about "a gentleman . . . his name is Martin Henderson," and suggested they Google his name. Henderson is a British dwarf who had just been badly injured by a thug in what can only be termed a hate crime. Dinklage had been deeply troubled by the reports of the incident, and his wife urged him to say something. "I feel like Pete is in a position to possibly affect change for the way people look at people his size," Schmidt says. Afterward, Dinklage declined offers to appear on various talk shows to discuss Henderson (who told the British press he was grateful for the support, but still has yet to meet or speak to Dinklage).
"Maybe 20 years ago I would have done all of these shows and ranted and raved," Dinklage says, "but I'm a little bit more at peace with things now and I did what I wanted to do and said what I wanted to say. I have a friend who says the world doesn't need another angry dwarf."
That one out-of-character moment aside, Dinklage doesn't necessarily feel a sense of responsibility to other people his size. "I just want to work," he says. But he nods when I mention that Eddie Murphy made racial progress in Hollywood simply by playing parts originally intended for white actors. Dinklage wouldn't mind a similar feat, pushing things forward with his work alone: "The idea is to get to that level where you don't have to preach about it anymore."
Earlier, as we had walked along the Hudson, I had mentioned that Tyrion had become a heroic character on Game of Thrones and Dinklage winced – the idea seemed to tarnish the moral ambiguity that keeps the show from becoming The Lord of the Rings.
But now, sitting in the sunshine at a picnic table attached to a superb burrito stand near Bard College, Dinklage reconsiders the idea. "I think he's a quiet hero," he says between bites, allowing himself a smile at the thought. "And that, I like."
This story is from the May 24th, 2012 issue of Rolling Stone.

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Several readers sent word that Android Police has leaked details about YouTube's upcoming subscription service, Music Key. The benefits for users will include ad-free music, offline playback, and audio-only streams. It's expected to cost $10 per month. "Of course, one of Music Key's major value propositions is that users will have access not just to official discographies, but to concert footage, covers, and remixes. Play Music already houses some remixes and covers, but YouTube as a platform is significantly more open and workable for derivative content — the platform is much easier to add content to, and user discoverability is substantially different from Play Music." Others note Google still has to negotiate terms with many independent musicians, who could subsequently see their work blocked if they aren't willing to play by Google's rules.


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I agree that "come on over" is for horizontal movement while "come on down/up" is for more vertical movements.
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I've used all three all of my life but I am wondering how they differ.
It seems to me that "come (on) over" only is used when the distance is not great and the movement will be easy and the visit will be casual. Although I am not so sure. I can almost hear myself saying to someone from Europe "come on over here (to the US) next summer and I will show you around."
I am more sure that "come (on) over" only works for horizontal movement. If you live above me or below me in an apartment building I would not say "come (on) over to my apartment", I'd say "come up/down to my apartment."
What do you think?
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I agree that "come on over" is for horizontal movement while "come on down/up" is for more vertical movements.
A couple of other connotations that I suspect may exist:
1. The bare come is used when the date has been agreed but the details are uncertain. We know you are coming for the weekend so we say "Come Friday evening" or "Come Saturday morning."
2. "Come on over" may be a regionalism, although I cannot specify the region in which it is used. Where I live we always say "come over".


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There are still many who don't know his twitter or don't even have an account to tweet at him, I encourage you to do so since he actually replies to most tweets and unlike GC he actually says things that make sense.
I found more information regarding Holinka! You can find out more about him on his LinkedIn profile here:
Prior to working for Blizzard he seems to have been working on a game called Transformer: Fall of Cybertron. I've never heard about that game personally. The company only had 200 employees it seems.
And before that he was a Senior Game Designer at THQ. Pretty interesting!
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Quick question: Are vegetables less nutritious than they used to be?
You're free to argue about this, because scientists haven't managed to come up with a clear answer.
There's some new data out this week in the journal Crop Science, and at least for broccoli, the answer seems to be no. But keep reading, because the story gets a little more complicated.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture took 13 different genetic lines of broccoli that were released by seed companies over the past 46 years, grew them side-by-side, and measured levels of many micronutrients, including calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc. They also grew an older variety of the vegetable, called Waltham 29, that was created by plant breeders in Massachusetts in 1950.
They found no clear trend or rising or falling nutrients among the commercial broccoli lines. Older hybrids did not, on average, have higher or lower concentrations than more recent ones. But the researchers did find bigger is worse; the genetic lines that produced larger heads of broccoli also had lower concentrations of nutrients — that is, there was less nutrition per ounce of vegetable.
And then there was the geezer broccoli: Waltham 29. It did have significantly higher levels of many nutrients. The problem? It looks so different, most consumers nowadays probably wouldn't buy it. "You probably wouldn't even call it broccoli," says Michael Grusak, one of the study's authors. Grusak is a plant physiologist at the Children's Nutrition Research Center in Houston.
In fact, back in the day when plant breeders created Waltham 29, Americans barely ate any broccoli: Less than one pound per person per year, on average. Consumption grew when breeders came up with new varieties that seemed more palatable.
Could plant breeders have kept those high nutrition levels, while still making broccoli popular? No one knows, at least not yet.
This study certainly won't end the debate over nutrients in modern vegetables. It started in earnest in 2004, when researcher Donald Davis at the University of Texas took a look at data published by the USDA, over many years, on the nutritional content of 43 common vegetables. Davis discovered that in 1950, the USDA reported higher levels of most nutrients than in 1999.
There are many possible reasons for this apparent decline. The USDA may simply have changed its survey methods. But Davis said at the time that he suspected it resulted from the introduction of new varieties.
Wheat and rice breeders have created varieties that yield more grain per acre. That's more calories and protein, but a few studies, especially of wheat, do suggest that there's a tradeoff between quantity and quality: The more grain, the less the concentration of important stuff like iron.
But genetics — what plant breeders control — probably isn't the major factor determining nutrient levels. Those levels can vary widely depending on what the soil a plant grew in, what time a vegetable was harvested, and how long it sat in storage. And how you cook broccoli can also have some effect on how much good they do you.
The bottom line? No matter what, all of those vegetables are good for you. So just listen to that echo of your mother's voice in your head, and eat them.


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A swan had to be put to sleep after a gang of youths deliberately set a pack of dogs on it at Cusworth Hall.
The RSPCA is appealing for information after the incident.
RSPCA inspector Sandra Dransfield said: "There was nothing we could do to save him, his injuries were just too severe.
"He had a large wound on his back, another on his chest and his neck had been torn open.
"We've been told he was attacked by several dogs the previous night, and that the dogs were deliberately set on him by a number of youths.
"We want to hear from anyone who saw anything or has any specific information about what happened on 0300 1234 999. They should ask to leave a message for me."
The swan leaves behind a female swan and two cygnets.
The incident happened on July 23.
It is illegal to kill, injure or take a wild bird. The maximum sentence is six months in prison and/or £5,000 fine.


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We have this discussion thanks to Nissanmama!
1. What do you think Aro meant when he said to Caius, "Take a moment to ponder, for the justice we intended to deliver no longer applies"?
2. Were you expecting a more violent confrontation when you began the chapter?
3. Do you think Caius enjoys killing or is genuinely interested in justice?
4. Were you surprised by the expansion of Bella's talent or did you think she would have some other talent when the confrontation with the Volturi actually arrived?
5. How many different ways do you see the chapter's title, "Bloodlust" applying to the characters and events that take place?


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Hope springs eternal, especially when it comes to the quest for glowing skin. The new hybrid skin-care trend might help.
Why apply foundation, concealer, moisturizer, serums, primer, and more—if you can get a product that does it all?
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Garnier BB Cream Miracle Skin Perfector ($12.99) Non-greasy and easily absorbed, this sheer formula hydrates, brightens, protects, and boosts radiance with antioxidant-rich Vitamin C.
Boscia B.B. Cream SPF 27 PA++ ($38) Fragrance, color, alcohol, and preservative-free, this is great if you have sensitive skin. Willowherb helps tone down redness and irritation while licorice root helps reduce the appearance of dark spots.
Origins A Perfect World™ BB SPF 15 Age-defense tinted moisturizer with White Tea ($35) White tea helps boosts skin's defenses against pollution and other environmental aggressors.
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A pumped-up version of BB, the goal of CC creams ("color correcting") is to cover up blemishes and spots while simultaneously treating and nourishing your skin. CC creams are supposed to offer more coverage than a BB cream while while containing heavy-hitting anti-aging ingredients.
Olay Total Effects CC Tone Correcting Moisturizer ($21.50). The tinted formula contains concentrations of N-acetyl glucosamine and niacinimide—the combination is reported to be "highly effective at reducing the appearance of pigmentation in six and eight weeks."
Juice Beauty Stem Cellular Repair CC Cream ($39) Using Vitamin C, this formulation aims to repair damaged skin and boost cellular regeneration.
In addition to these picks, Chanel and Clinique will be releasing new CC cream formulations in the U.S. soon. Your skin can't wait.


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When at least one man stepped into a New Orleans parade crowd on Mother's Day and opened fire, 19 people were shot and injured — and a city's conscience was also wounded.
Officials have not named or arrested any of the three suspects sought in the Sunday shooting, which left three people hospitalized in critical condition Monday.
A still-frame video of the shooting released by police showed one young man in a white T-shirt stepping into the crowd and opening fire, but it's not known at whom or why.
Local officials, journalists and community organizers moved swiftly to condemn the violence and to separate the shooters from the city's culture of "second-line" marches, a New Orleans tradition where residents walk the streets behind a band or other honorees.
"It's the brazenness of [a shooting at] a second-line parade," New Orleans Police Supt. Ronal W. Serpas told reporters at a Monday news conference, adding, "Second lines are an amazing part of our culture, and we support them."
Addressing the unnamed suspect in the video, Serpas said, "We know a lot more about you than you think we do," and urged him to turn himself in to police.
Other second-line marches have been marred by shootings, giving pause to many local voices who talked about how two disparate New Orleans cultures have collided: the joy of second lines and the sorrow of the city's pervasive gun violence, among the worst in the nation.
"Today's shooting was in no way a product of second-line culture or somehow set in motion by the parade or its route, as some critics may suggest," the Mother's Day second-line organizers, the Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club, said in a statement. "Our parade brings together different folks from across the city — black, white, Latino, the young and the old, and lots of families — to celebrate the best of New Orleans.
"We feel embarrassed that the world is now viewing our city and our community through a lens of violence."
One of the seven women shot in the march was Deborah "Big Red" Cotton, a journalist who has covered second lines and has written about violence at second lines before, which she thought brought unfair criticism on the city's marches.
"What kind of monster opens fire on a Mother's Day parade crowd? What kind of animal?" writer Brentin Mock blogged after visiting Cotton in the hospital; Cotton had been shot in the back and was sedated. "I hate myself for thinking to ask this in these exact terms, but it's these exact terms in which I'm thinking."
Many commentators took note of FBI spokeswoman Mary Beth Romig's comment to the Associated Press on Sunday that the shooting did not appear to be terrorism, but "strictly an act of street violence in New Orleans."
In a Sunday email with the Los Angeles Times, Romig didn't mention terrorism: "It is a matter for the local police department. We were aware of the incident but quickly assessed it was not a federal matter."
Ariella Cohen, a friend of Cotton's, was troubled by the terrorism/street crime distinction.
"Die from street violence and you may be remembered by a wooden cross and a few teddy bears set to rest on the sidewalk by your neighbors. You may get a T-shirt printed with your name," Cohen wrote in NextCity. "Die in a terror attack and there will be stone, marble and speeches to remember you with. ... We tell the stories of terror differently than those of urban violence."
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Greece's public TV and radio channels were off the air yesterday after a shock decision by the government to shut down the state broadcaster's operations with immediate effect, a move affecting nearly 2,700 jobs.
Thousands rushed to the broadcaster's main headquarters in a northern Athens suburb shortly after the announcement on Tuesday to show their support.
"ERT [the state broadcaster] is a case of an exceptional lack of transparency and incredible extravagance. This ends now," government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said at a press conference.
His announcement comes after months of work stoppages by ERT employees in opposition to plans to restructure the broadcaster as demanded by debt-laden Greece's troika of international creditors.
Nearly 500 people also gathered outside the organization's Thessaloniki branch in northern Greece as the news editors' union called on private broadcasters to hold an immediate work stoppage in solidarity.
Kedikoglou said the organization would reopen at a later stage under a new format and with considerably fewer employees.
As screens around the country went black, the corridors of the broadcaster's headquarters were filled with stunned employees, who seemed at a loss, a journalist reported.
"This is a total shock," ERT journalist Pantelis Gonos said. "We are in contact with a legal adviser and international media organizations."
ERT kept broadcasting as more supporters gathered outside its headquarters, but shortly afterwards transmissions were suspended, reportedly in the presence of police.
"Police went onto the mountain and neutralized our people" who managed the transmitter, said Nikos Roukounakis, who said he has been an engineer at ERT for 30 years.
"This is a coup d'etat," Alexis Tsipras, leader of main opposition party Syriza, who rushed to the ERT premises, told reporters.
As transmissions were cut, the finance ministry released a statement saying the broadcaster as an entity had been abolished.
"ERT belongs to the Greek people... It is the only independent, public voice and it has to remain public... We condemn the government's sudden decision," public sector union GSEE said in a statement.
The government said all 2,655 employees would be compensated and allowed to reapply for a job at a revamped organization.
The junior partners of Greece's three-party, conservative-led coalition government also expressed opposition to the shock closure.
"We absolutely disagree with the government's particular decisions and management," the Pasok party said.
"We will not vote in favor of the law validating this legislative act," the party added, noting nonetheless that governmental cohesion was not at stake.
Dimitris Papadimitriou, general director of the radio department and a well-known Greek composer, said that even the 1967-1974 military junta had not taken such action.
"Such a thing never happened before, not even during the dictatorship," he said.
On Monday, representatives of Greece's EU, IMF and European Central Bank creditors began a regular audit of the country's progress in implementing its austerity program and structural reforms.
The reforms demanded of Greece include a drastic reduction of the public sector and the merging or closing of public organizations.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) urged the cash-strapped country to backtrack on the closure, saying it was a major blow to media independence.


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Retailers predict price-led Xbox 360 sales surge
Cuts fuel demand boom
Posted in Personal Tech, 19th September 2008 11:41 GMT
Microsoft's recent decision to cut the price of the Xbox 360 range will fuel UK sales, according to execs at some of Blighty's biggest electronics retailers.
Tricia Brennan, MD of Game UK, said in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz that the console's new price points mean that all three models now appeal to a wider variety of consumers, from once-a-week gamers and to the hardcore set.
Steve O'Brien, from gaming stores Action Replay and Gameshop, told the site that the Xbox 360's new lower pricing puts it at a distinct advantage over the PlayStation 3.
"I think there is sufficient light between the two price points now for 360 to steal a significant percentage of the 'undecided' market, and that will undoubtedly impact on Sony's sales," he forecast.
Jonathan Hayes, Commercial Manager at HMV Games, hinted that the price cuts could spur a surge in demand akin to that seen for Halo 3 last year. At the time, Microsoft claimed that the title was the world's fastest selling videogame, notching up sales in excess of $300m (£150m/€190m) during its first week.
However, Hayes warned that the PS3 and Xbox 360 are still different products and so will appeal to different audiences irrespective of cost. For example, film fans will opt for the PS3 because of its Blu-ray reader, while hardcore gamers will choose whichever console has their favourite title exclusively.
The Xbox 360 cut – which takes effect from today – means that the Arcade model now costs £130/€180 and that the Premium model has an RRP of £170/€240. The flagship Elite has been reduced to £230/€300.


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Head coach Zach Johnson entered two boats with even lineups in the Men's Open Eight Final and the Triton crews finished in 12th and 15th place, respectively. UCSD's top boat finished with a time of 16:06, while the second boat clocked in at 16:17.
Despite heavy rainfall during the race, the Tritons held their own competing against the likes of Cal, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Orange Coast College and the University of San Diego, among others.
"It was a really good opening day for us," Johnson said. "The guys felt good, the rowing was good and I thought we really executed well today. We were about 15 seconds behind our top competion and for this point in the season, that's about where we need to be."
The top boat from Cal won the event at 14:31, while a national boat finished second at 14:53 and Stanford's lead boat placed third at 14:54. Both Triton boats finished in front of crews from USD, UC Davis, UC Irvine, OCC and UC Santa Barbara.
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Residuals are compensation paid to performers for use of a theatrical motion picture or television program beyond the use covered by initial compensation. For TV work, residuals begin once a show starts re-airing or is released to video/DVD, pay television, broadcast TV, basic cable, or new media. For film work, residuals begin once the movie appears on video/DVD, basic cable and free or pay television, or new media.
Residuals are based on formulas that take into account such things as the contract in place during the specific year, time spent on the production, the production type and the market where the product appears (TV, video/DVD, pay television, basic cable, new media).
All performers hired under or upgraded to a principal performer agreement whose performance remains in the final product. This includes performers, professional singers, stunt performers, stunt coordinators, pilots, dancers employed under Schedule J and puppeteers.
No. Initial compensation covers a project's preliminary release for the market in which it was produced. Residuals are due only for use of a production in media markets beyond the exhibition covered by initial compensation.
Here's a quick guide: Made-for-Television then released to:
- Network Prime Time - 30 days after air date
- Non-Prime Time Network - 30 days after air date
- Syndication - 4 months after air date
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- Basic Cable – Quarterly when the producer receives revenue
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There is no set answer. Payment depends on license agreements, the project's commercial viability and when and how often the product airs. However, as long as the product is generating revenue for the producer, the performer is entitled to residuals (based on contract year and under which type the project was produced).
Between 1.5 million and 1.6 million paper checks are processed each year by the Union's Residuals Department.
First, make sure the Union has your correct contact information. If so, please fill out 'Residuals Inquiry Form' or phone us at (800) 205-7716. Please provide your name, member number, project title and a brief description of the problem. You will be contacted promptly as to the actions being taken on your behalf and periodically updated as to the status, if necessary.
You can mail the SAG-AFTRA Residuals Trust Department at 5757 Wilshire Boulevard, 7th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Performers may also submit their update request in writing by fax at (323) 549-6550. A signature is required in each case. If you are a member, you can also check out our handy online address change form in the members-only section of www.sagaftra.org. Please note – you must specifically request changes to loan-out company information. Loan-out company records ARE NOT AUTOMATICALLY UPDATED when a performer record is updated.
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The 24 year old drove for the team at both pre-season tests in Spain and performed consistently throughout. He will drive the number 14 Caterham Racing car in 2013 and partners GP2 rookie and Caterham F1 Team Reserve Driver Ma Qing Hua in the number 15 car.
2013 sees Sergio enter his first full season in GP2, having competed in ten races last year with the Venezuela Lazarus team. Sergio is familiar with the GP2 car and race setup, therefore the team has high expectations for him.
Sergio's resume boasts seasons in World Series by Renault, European F3 and Spanish F3 and in 2013 he hopes to consolidate his experience and be a front runner in GP2.
Caterham Racing Team Manager Phil Spencer: "We are very pleased to have Sergio driving for Caterham Racing and he brings some GP2 experience from the ten races he completed last year. We look forward to supporting him and see no reason why he cannot consistently score points following his performance on the final day of testing in Barcelona."
Caterham Racing Chief Engineer Humphrey Corbett: "I am happy that Sergio has signed to drive for the team and I feel that we did not see his full potential during the pre season tests. To some extent this was due to his uncertainty surrounding the season ahead, but once his decision was made, we saw a glimpse of the real Sergio as he consistently ran in the top five during the morning of the final day in Barcelona.
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Ever try and pay off a referee at a sporting event or maybe pay a friend to write a term paper for you? I hope not. By the same logic, should corporations be able to use investor money to try and sway politics? Rightfully, most involved in the sustainable investing world don't think it proper. (Related: The List of Best Places to Work Is A Solid Watch-List for Shareholders) One aspect of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing has to do with strong corporate governance. Issues under this Governance section include corporate transparency, executive compensation, general corporate decision making, and political spending. Corporate political spending entails donations to political parties, candidates and Political Action Committees (PACs) and is often frowned upon as investors have no idea where this money is being directed. So how much money is being spent to sway our public officials? In the midst of the 2012 election, almost $5 billion was spent by groups hoping to influence our congressional and presidential races. Most of this spending goes towards those non-stop commercials attacking the opposite party. Many of the companies we invest in today are quietly taking money out of the petty cash drawer to change politics. These are the 5 largest corporate contributors or "fatcats" for 2012: 5. Dreamworks Animation SKG Inc. (DWA) - $2,370,150 4. AT&T (T) - $2,504,219 3. Comcast Corporation (CMCSA) - $4,769,994 2. Goldman Sachs (GS) - $4,769,994 1. Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS) - $11.738,600
Due to the funnelling of these dollars into these super PACs, trying to find where this money is being directed is the difficult part. For example, the main Obama super PAC, Priorities USA Action was given $1 million from Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of Dreamworks. On the flip side, Las Vegas Sands Corp poured money into supporting the Republican Party and Mitt Romney's run for president.
For an investor, is this good or bad?According to a Rice University/Long Island University study, companies that spend heavily on campaigns, lobbying and other political contributions aren't necessarily helping their own bottom line. This team looked at stock value of 943 companies in the S&P 1500 over 11 years and tracked approximately $5 billion in political spending from 1998 to 2008. Their findings showed that on average, a company that spent more on political interests, performed worse financially. Below is the 1 year return of the top 5 political-contributing companies along with their CEO compensation. List Average 1-Year Return: 16%. Written by Kapitall's ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Expert, Dale Wannen


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It's time to get back to William Ballinger's Cash Entry (preemption) land file. We have a couple more documents to look at. If you would like to catch up on the first 7 posts, you can scroll to the bottom of this post for a list of the prior articles.
This document is a statement by a Calvin W. Ward stating he knows William and that he built a home on the property and has been residing on it. The transcription is immediately below my comments in italics and an image of the document is at the bottom.
What did I learn from this document?
- William settled this property 5 December 1864.
- The house he built (15 X 20 feet) is approximately the size of two horse stalls.
- Who is Calvin Ward and what sort of relationship does he have to William Ballinger? Calvin is now on my Persons of Interest List relative to William Ballinger.
Arapahoe Co
Col. Ter ss
I Calvin W. Warddo solemnly swear
that I am well ac
=quainted with William H. Ballinger
who is the head of a Family &
a Citizen of the United States. and
an inhabitant of the SW1/4,, SW1/4
sec. 17. & SE 1/4,, SE 1/4 sec. 18. & NE 1/4
of NE 1/4 sec. 19 & NW 1/4 of NW 1/4 sec. 20
Township 1. North of Range 70
West. that the said Ballinger
entered upon and made a settle
ement in person on said land in
the 5th day of Dec. 1864, he has
on said land a log house
15 X 20 feet with roof door
and windows and floor. and
is a comfortable house to live
in. Also some lumber polls &
// posts on said land.
And has continued to reside
on said since his first settle
ment therein and is now living
in said house on said land
where he makes his exclusive
home and he did not re
=move from his own land
in the Territory of Colorado
to make [can't read - s__n] settlement
Sworn and Calvin Ward [his signature]
subscribed before me this
3 11/11 day of April 1865
CMM[?] Clnlcott[?]
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Bill in the works would allow fees to fund fire department
March 6, 2013
Attorney Richard Pringle, who represents the Lehigh Acres Fire and Rescue Board, told commissioners that a bill is being prepared by State Representatives Matthew Caldwell and State Rep....
I wonder if Ole "Fat Cat" Matt understands that the legitimate wealth of a community funds its spending? Fat Cat wants another 'special taxing' gimmick to be implemented because the legitimate wealth I refer to is nonexistent.
Lee County already has over 100 of these gimmicks now. Fat Cat's method will be the same as the one used by our overly-productive and successful teachers when it comes to funding their efforts: the taxes will be levied and you will be stuck with paying them, regardless.
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WEST CHESTER – Everybody wondering how the West Chester men were going to react to one of the program's most devastating basketball losses just six days earlier found out right from the start of Tuesday's PSAC quarterfinal clash against Millersville.
With lingering memories of the regular season ending debacle to archrival Cheyney that cost WCU a share of the PSAC East crown, the Golden Rams responded forcefully and with controlled fury, and are now just two wins away from a conference title. Relentless on defense and aggressive to the hoop, West Chester wore down and eventually overwhelmed the Marauders, 73-62, at Hollinger Field House.
"Our guys compete," said WCU head coach Damien Blair. "They are not hanging their heads. They are looking at the bigger goal."
Now 20-7 overall, the Rams advance to the PSAC Final Four and will meet Indiana (Pa.) in the semifinals on Friday for the second straight year. The Crimson Hawks lost to WCU a year ago at this stage but will be playing on their home court. The winner moves on to the championship game on Saturday, with an automatic berth to the NCAA Division II Tournament on the line.
"(IUP) beat us up pretty bad (71-52) on our home court earlier this season," Blair recalled. "Now we have to go and play like we are capable of playing. I know we can do it."
En route to winning its 10th game in the last 12 outings, the second-seeded Rams shot an anemic 32.8 percent from the floor on Tuesday. But they more than made up for it on defense (plus-11 in turnovers), and at the free throw line, where they were plus-15.
"The turnovers along with the missed free throws, that's a bad recipe for any team," acknowledged Millersville head coach Fred Thompson. "The bottom line is they have good guards, and when they started pressuring us, that's what started causing us problems.
"They beat us two out of three (this season) so they are the better team."
Active, quick hands forced the Marauders into 21 turnovers, and West Chester converted those into 27 points at the other end. Once the Rams got the ball in the open court, they drove to the hoop like a heat seeking missile. All evening, WCU's guards were like a blur, and nobody more so than junior Troy Hockaday, who poured in a career-high 24 points.
"I didn't want to settle for any jump shots. I wanted to attack, get their big men into foul trouble and try to finish around the rim," Hockaday said.
"Troy is just so athletic, when he finishes, it looks spectacular," Blair added. "He had some great moves and did a god job of finishing against the best defender in the league (Elijah Obade)."
Thanks largely to an active defense, West Chester forced five quick turnovers and reeled off 12 straight points to open a 22-13 lead midway through the first half. The Rams then proceeded to miss their next 14 shots from the floor but somehow managed to hold on, 34-31, at the break.
Millersville (19-11 overall) never took the lead in the second half, but WCU wasn't able to close it out until another defensive fueled run – this time an 11-5 surge – put the Rams ahead 62-47 with under seven minutes on the clock. The rally included four transition layups and some free throws – all by guards Hockaday, Shannon Givens and Corey Blake (14 points, nine boards). Point guard Jon Breeden chipped in with 14 points and six steals.
The cumulative effect of West Chester's pressure defense paid dividends throughout, but it was particularly effective in the latter half of the second period when the deeper Rams had the big edge in energy.
"Our speed and depth with our guards are our strengths," Blair said.
"To win a game against an opponent that's won 19 games, and only shoot 32 percent, is actually quite impressive."
The setback at Cheyney was clearly a motivating factor on Tuesday. Now, WCU turns its attention to top-seeded IUP, who needed overtime on Tuesday to survive at home against Edinboro, 89-87.
"We really wanted to redeem ourselves, so we came out, played hard and got a good win," said senior guard Carl Johnson, another defensive standout.
"We were upset with what happened at Cheyney but it gave us more motivation," Hockaday echoed. "It brought us together and gave us more focus. We think we can win the whole thing."
West Chester 73, Millersville 62
MILLERSVILLE – Miller 4-5 0-2 8; Obade 4-8 5-10 13; Bollinger 0-1 0-1 0; Coleman 7-14 2-2 17; Grant 3-12 2-4 9; Richardson 1-4 0-0 2; Brown 4-10 0-2 10; Mumford 1-1 1-5 3; Quartmon 0-0 0-1 0. Totals 24-55 10-27 62.
WEST CHESTER – Blake 3-15 8-8 14; Frans 0-2 1-2 1; Breeden 4-11 5-6 14; Johnson 2-8 1-3 6; Hockaday 8-17 6-8 24; Flecken 0-1 1-2 1; Givens 2-6 0-0 4; McKeaney 0-0 2-2 2; Sharkey 0-1 0-0 0; Williamson 1-3 1-2 3; Wisely 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 22-67 25-33 73.
Halftime: WCU 34-31.
3-point goals: Coleman, Grant, Brown 2, Mumford, Breeden, Johnson, Hockaday 2.


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If you mean the city in Belgium, it is "Brussels."
I don't know what you mean by "running for 20 km of Brussels."
English Teacher
I hear people say : the Brusselsairport.
And ... do we say :
he's running for 20 km of Brussel or he's running for 20 km of Brussels ?
And ... why is it so ?
Thanks in advanced for the answer.
If you mean the city in Belgium, it is "Brussels."
I don't know what you mean by "running for 20 km of Brussels."
I notice that your current location is Belgium, Nathalia. In that country you will hear 'Brussel' a lot.
Dutch (Flemish) speakers in Belgium call the capital 'Brussel', French speakers call it 'Bruxelles' and German speakers call it 'Brüssel'.
The pronunciations are virtually identical (the final s in Bruxelles is not pronounced).
'Brussels' (with a sounded final s) is the anglicised name of the city. That's what English speakers call it.
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Thank you so much, Rover_Ke.
Your answer has been very helpful.
Good day and till later.
Thank you for your reaction.
Yes, it is the city in Belgium.
And "running for 20 km of Brussels" is a name of an activity organized in Brussel (or 'Brussels'/Eng) once a year.
This sentence - running for 20 km of Brussels - is mentioned in the exercise in our English class. That's it.
Have a good day and till the next opportunity, SoothingDave.
Ahh! Got it! You're talking about the Brussel's half-marathon or the 20km of Brussels (click on the underlined link).
So we'd say 'He's running in the 20km of Brussels' or more likely 'He's running (in) the Brussels 20K'.
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'Marseilles'/Marseille. No doubt, in a fit of pique, the burgers of Lutetium renamed their city in a way that we couldn't mess up - although in speech we do when we say 'Paris'
PS My last two sentences are a joke; I'm sure nothing like this really happened.
Though in spoken BrE we don't pronounce the "s" at the end of either "Lyons" or "Marseilles", whereas we do with "Brussels".
Edit: Come to think of it, I've never seen "Lyons", only "Lyon".
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
You young things. I'm sure older maps/atlases all used the s.


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Aiken Center Wins National 'Beyond Green High-Performance Building Award'
- 01-17-2013
- By University Communications
UVM's Aiken Center was a recipient of the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council's 2012 Beyond Green High-Performance Building Award. The council, part of the National Institute of Building Sciences, delivered the award at the institute's annual conference Jan. 10.
The Beyond Green Awards recognize those initiatives that shape, inform and catalyze the high-performance building market, as well as the real-world application of high-performance design and construction practices. The George D. Aiken Center won the Award of Merit for Distinction in High-Performance Buildings.
The Aiken Center demonstrates the possibilities to transform an existing building to meet current needs. Submitted by Maclay Architects, who led the project team, this project, a $13 million renovation, serves as the home for the Rubenstein School for the Environment and Natural Resources. This net-zero-energy-ready building embraces both its past character and its role as an educational demonstration. More than 200 sensors and meters provide data and the EcoMachine cleans 100 percent of the building's wastewater in full view of occupants.
"With the demand for high-performance buildings ever increasing, the renovation of existing buildings is becoming more important," said jury member, architect and past chair of the National Institute of Building Sciences Jim Sealy. "The Aiken Center team took a dark and unfriendly campus icon and converted it to be an energy-efficient building, as well as a healthier and friendlier feature of the University of Vermont and a model for a national sustainable future."
Awards were also presented to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Seattle District Headquarters, which won the Honor Award – First Place for High-Performance Buildings; the Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, which won the Award of Merit for Distinction in High-Performance Buildings; and the Fort Drum Mountain Community Homes Synergy Rewards Program, which won the Award of Merit for Distinction in High-Performance Initiatives.
Each SBIC awards jury comprises leading professionals from across the building community.
In addition to their prizes and recognition, Beyond Green High-Performance Building Award winners have the opportunity to showcase their projects as case studies on the Whole Building Design Guide. View the 2011 award winners' case studies.


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In 2010, after finishing as the top goalscorer in the Polish Skstraklasa, Lech Poznan striker Robert Lewandowski held talks with several interested clubs. He flew to Genoa to watch the derby with Sampdoria. But Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted and its ash canceled flights across Europe, including Lewandowski's proposed trip to see Sam Allardyce's Blackburn.
Instead, he joined Borussia Dortmund.
It hasn't turned out too poorly. On Wednesday, Lewandowski scored four goals against Real Madrid in the Champions League semifinal first leg, a 4-1 triumph for the Bundesliga side.
The only other player to score four times in a European semi or final is Ferenc Puskas, in 1960. Only three other players have scored four goals against Real Madrid, and none in European competition: Josep Samitier (1926), Eulogio Martínez (1957) and Diego Milito (2006). The only other team to score four or more goals against Real Madrid under Jose Mourinho is Barcelona (5-0 in 2010).
Borussia Dortmund is the only unbeaten team in the Champions League this year.
"This is an unbelievable team. I can't explain it in English," Jürgen Klopp told Sky Sports. "We are like Robin Hood."
Klopp went on to mention that Mario Götze closed down Xabi Alonso well. Götze threatened to overshadow the tie with the announcement that he would join rival Bayern Munich coming only two days before the match.
However, as Mats Hummels said after the match, two days proved sufficient to process the 37 million euro transfer.
"He is 20 years old. He made a decision," Klopp told Sky. "The consequences of a decision will always show afterward. Everything is fine."
Instead, Lewandowski wrote all the headlines. (Modest suggestion: The Big Lewandowski.)
The 24-year-old opened the scoring in the eighth minute. A slickly curled cross from Götze caught Pepe too busy trying to wrestle Lewandowski to actually defend it, and Lewandowski slid to direct the ball in at the far post.
Just before half, Dortmund nearly unraveled. Marco Reus went down in the box. Replays showed that contact with Raphaël Varane, if there was any, came outside the box. As BVB players protested, Madrid shot up the other way. Luka Modric looped a ball backward over his head that Hummels prodded tamely toward his own goal, laying it into the path of Gonzalo Higuain.
Higuain centered and Cristiano Ronaldo ushered the ball home for his 50th career Champions League goal, tying him with Thierry Henry for fourth in the all-time Champions League scoring charts. It was his 21st goal in 18 Champions League games. He joined Burak Yilmaz and Marouane Chamakh, of all people, as the only to score in six straight CL matches.
"That was surely a penalty for Dortmund when Reus was fouled, and then Real scores with their only chance," German national team coach Jogi Löw told Sky at halftime. "That is severe."
Löw may recant his verdict after a few replays, but he sums up the emotional state of the young Dortmund team that had conceded two minutes before half. Instead of capitulating, however, the team showed increased hunger after the break.
"How the boys handled my mistake was great," Hummels told Sky. "The mistake really bothered me. You can't be satisfied with me today, but everyone else on the field and the stands did great."
As Dortmund gathered strength from its famed Yellow Wall of fans, Madrid players looked hungover on Yellow Tail.
Lewandowski scored three more, two of the jaw-dropping variety. Five minutes into the second half he somehow controlled a stray Reus shot with one touch and flicked the ball inside the near post with a second. Another five minutes later a Marcel Schmelzer shot deflected off Modric. Lewandowski dragged the ball back under his cleat to round Pepe and slammed a shot into the top of the goal.
Xabi Alonso slapped his thighs in frustration. Klopp did a Hulk-flex to celebrate.
Modric was the only change to Mourinho's previously announced lineup. He replaced Angel Di Maria, who flew into Germany the day of the match after the birth of his baby on Monday. It wouldn't have made a difference.
In the 67th minute, Alonso pushed over Reus in the box and Lewandowski smashed his penalty straight down the middle for his 21st goal in 19 games.
"We know everything about Lewandowski, absolutely everything," Mourinho said. "We studied him from every detail possible and we still lost him in three goals."
Bild, the same outlet that broke the Götze story, reported during the match that Mourinho will join Chelsea next season, along with Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao, who shares Mourinho's agent.
Besides Falcao, Lewandowski is the other elite striker who may move this summer. Jupp Heynckes' agent claims that a deal to bring him to Bayern Munich is done.
"The fact is that Robert has contract till 2014. Unlike Mario [Götze], he has no release clause. We want Robert to play next year in Dortmund," BVB general manager Hans-Joachim Watzke told ZDF. "The transfer fee does not matter. I want him to stay, and in my life a lot of my wishes came true."
Lewandowski ducked questions about his future after the match.
A potential double-transfer would add further zest should Bayern (4-0 winner over Barcelona in the other semi first leg) meet Dortmund at Wembley, which would be a first all-German Champions League final.
Lewandowski's last hat trick came against Bayern, in a 5-2 German Cup win in May 2012. Lewandowski also scored the opener in October when Borussia Dortmund beat Real Madrid in the CL group stages.
Superstitious Jose Mourinho altered much of Los Blancos' pregame ritual from that trip to Westphalia. They stayed at a different hotel. They trained in Westfalenstadion the day before. They canceled a morning walk around the hotel.
Real Madrid can keep its superstitions and karma. Dortmund just wants to keep Lewandowski.
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A recent national news story that detailed some of New York City's most heroic acts in 2013 spotlighted Dennis Codrington '12, a young SUNY Cortland graduate who played a key role in a daring subway rescue in February.
The personal trainer, who lives in New York City, jumped into action along with two others when a stranger fell several feet off a subway platform and was knocked unconscious, according to a recent Associated Press story celebrating a year that saw several Good Samaritans save the lives of strangers while risking their own.
"I was just sitting there talking with my friends and everything seemed normal," said Codrington, a former kinesiology: fitness development major who was on his way home from a birthday party and changing trains at the Columbus Circle station in the early morning Feb. 17. "There was this one guy, it didn't seem like he was with anybody. He was just there by himself and it looked like something was wrong.
"From what we could tell, he got a little too close to the tracks and just tumbled in."
Many onlookers panicked and a few screamed, Codrington said.
He saw another young man, Garrett O'Hanlon, jump down and make his way to the unconscious man on the tracks, located roughly six feet below the subway platform.
"He couldn't pick (the victim) up by himself," Codrington, 24, said. "I glanced at the clock and it said something like two minutes (until the subway train would arrive)."
That's when Codrington's impulses took over. He made the jump down to the track bed while O'Hanlon's sister pleaded for them to hurry. Codrington's friend, Matt Foley, joined them and together they lifted the unconscious man close enough to the subway platform so that others could pull him to safety.
"It was pretty nerve-wracking," Codrington said. "We saw (subway train) lights and everything like that, but it all happened really quickly."
|Dennis Codrington '12 has been in the spotlight this year for his courageous, split-second action to save a stranger.
Each of the three rescuers reached up to the subway platform and they were pulled up with relative ease.
"I'm a personal trainer, so I stay fairly fit," said Codrington who works for the Equinox chain of fitness facilities in New York City.
He joined a small group that stayed with the man until first responders arrived and answered questions from authorities and a reporter on scene. But even 10 months later, he still has not learned the man's identity or any other details about him.
"We still don't know what happened to him," Codrington said.
In the days that followed, he repeated his account to several media outlets. As it turns out, it was one of at least a dozen heroic New York City rescues in 2013, according to the recent Associated Press story. Friends, family members and even complete strangers called Codrington soon after to offer words of praise.
For Codrington, however, the experience was a blur.
On the train to his Washington Heights home following the rescue, he noticed a large cut on his hand that still was bleeding.
"Shortly afterwards, I asked myself: 'What just happened?'" Codrington said. "I didn't even realize I had injured my hand.
"I guess there just was a lot of adrenaline pumping through me at the time."


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i found this pocket Druekes cribbage master behind some kitchen units, no idea how old it is but its in excellent condition. the case is black leather and the cribbage board looks like some kind of hardwood. in the back of the board is a small metal sliding lid which covers the compartment which holds the pegs. there are 4 pegs, 2 white and 2 red. any info on this would be greatly appreciated


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CHICAGO (STMW) –A fifth man charged in connection with a shooting last week in the Back of the Yards neighborhood that left 13 people wounded, including a three-year-old boy, was ordered held without bail Saturday.
David Logan, 22, of the 3100 block of South Green Street, was arrested Wednesday and charged with unlawful use of a weapon without a FOID card and obstructing justice, police said. He was ordered held without bail in court Saturday.
The mass shooting at Cornell Square Park near 51st and Wood occurred about 45 minutes before the park's 11 p.m. curfew on Sept. 19.
He is one of five men arrested in connection with the mass shooting.
Tabari Young and Brad Jett, both 22, Bryon "Lord" Champ, 21, and Kewane Gatewood, 20, each face three counts of attempted murder and three counts of aggravated battery with a firearm.
They were each ordered held without bail Tuesday.
Prosecutors said Champ and Young used an AK-47 and a .22-caliber revolver to fire into the Cornell Square Park crowd.
The shooting allegedly was revenge for a minor graze wound Champ suffered several hours earlier in the 5200 block of South Paulina after a quarrel with gang rivals, prosecutors said.
Police have said some of the victims in the park were members of the Gangster Disciples street gang and the shooters were suspected of being affiliated with the Black P Stones.
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Quoted from maukikThanks, y'all. I won't be eating there again. I am thinking the paragraph under the #2 photo here:
Quoted from amyfloodi just ate at ruby tuesday's this past weekend and also had a bad reaction. i had an avocado and bacon burger and removed the bun. it tasted okay, but later that day, my sinus's filled up and i was sneezing my head off. and the inside of my nose was terribly itchy. i also had some severe edema (7 lbs overnight!) and i had a pain in the middle of my abdomen (like gallbladder pain, but i have no gallbladder). It was awful to say the least. I've eaten at other restaurants like that and never had this reaction. I will be avoiding it too!


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But from his original statement:
The cost of computing should come down, he reasoned, thanks to improving processing speeds and storage capacities. New, more powerful development tools and frameworks should also ease the cost of deployment. Yet IT expenditures continue to go up by about 3 percent to 5 percent a year.
That's because as it because possible to do more in X hours
As more space becomes available, more data is stored. Older data is not discarded.
This seems like a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of enterprise licensing costs. Costs are calculated per cpu or per seat because that's a convenient proxy for the size of the system, not because of any actual deployment expenses associated with the number of cpus or seats. If you think your licensing price is going to magically head downward because of cloud computing, you are in for a nasty shock. Instead prices will head up because the cloud providers now have more lock-in. In any case, the lice
Just like war, commuting and other essentially completely worthless phenomena, waste of programmer time makes money exchange hands, and therefore increases GNP.
In this case: who would want to be the first to go out on a limb publically and say "I want to decrease the IT sector by 50%"?
Don't blame me, I didn't design that stupid measure.
So we had a major upgrade project. Our old authentication software on old hardware was going to be replaced with new software, new hardware, and a new architecture made possible by the features in the new software.
Months of planning, rearchitecting, tripping over bugs ("oh, it's fixed in the next major version"), and testing, and it turns out that the software from vendor A does not work acceptably on the hardware from...vendor A.
Throw the plan out, and start from scratch on new hardware. Halfway through, v
it's nice to list what you want, but others want something else too. That's just the way the world works. It's just QQ to me
Ok, you're correct by tautology. I want something as do other people. Bravo! But you're not really commenting in the context of the article. You call it "QQ", but the Red Hat CEO calls it wasting hundreds of billions of dollars shotgunning bad features at users that don't want them.
It's an insane idea, but even the auto manufacturing industry modulizes features better than the tech industry.
Base Car = 15,000
Automatic Transmission = 1200
Built-in GPS = 500 + any subscription fee
Bigger engine = 1000
Alloy Wheel
That is how the auto companies list the prices on the sticker, but try to actually buy a car that has just the features you want (for example, bigger engine but no alloy wheels). Most of the time you will find the options are only sold in packages, pretty much like different 'editions' of software.
See but I want GPS. And if it costs the manufacturer $1.50 for the GPS chip then why do you care if I get GPS?
If all Software and IT needs were being funneled into new projects and new features and new ideas then the Red Hat guy might be write. This is not the case however. Most Software development done in the world is based on specific needs generated by specific customers on existing IT systems. It is a painfully slow, deliberate process that sometimes produces astonishingly public failures. Most of the time what is produced is quite successes that for the most part do what the customer wanted done.
A couple
[evil]As a guy who puts together some of the software packages you buy I can tell you that bundling of commonly and rarely used functionality often happens by design. And it doesn't just happen in the software industry: car manufacturers do it when they bundle their options too. The advantages of bundling for the buyer are: fewer choices (shorter lead time if you know what you want) and better budgeting (fewer trips "back to the well" for more money); the advantages for the seller are: cost containment (
...remember that another widely-used on-demand service called "cable TV" has already figured out the bundling concept and applied it viciously. (Ever wish you could just buy ESPN and SciFi?)
This is a subject I know something about. Cable TV pricing for ESPN is complex, because ESPN has multiple revenue streams. ESPN advertising revenues depend not only on the number of actual viewers, but on the number of potential viewers as well. The price sheets are tightly-held secrets, but a cable company with 16
Companies developing software are still raking in billions of dollars. Maybe stop giving the shit away for free...
worst of all, it leaves chief information officers holding all the risk of implementing new systems.
*begin ill-tempered, sleep-deprived rant*
I can certainly understand why some suited weasels would want to buy their way out of any personal responsibility, but seriously, ISN'T THIS EXACTLY WHERE THE RISK BELONGS?! I thought that's why we paid them all that money, because they had the 'l33t business and organizational skills to handle the risk, like professional ball players. They're "superstar talent," remember?
God forbid a CIO actually have the get off their fat ass and, you know, TEST an implementation b
were still used by somebody, and typically that's the biggest customer of that software. For instance, in the world of enterprise software, when you're a small upstart company, you first innovate to create the first release. They you add the project managers and the MBAs, and you need justification to add new features, and that's usually coming from demands from the biggest customers who threaten to kick you out and cancel the maintenance money.
So why are there features in the product that 50% of the custom
It costs nearly $0 to deliver a unit of software, no matter the feature set included.
So when someone buys a package to get one feature and is the only user of that feature, then he pays the full price of the software to get that feature.
And everyone else pays the full price to get the features they want and can safely ignore that feature, or try it out and start using it if they wish.
None of them, not one, came close to paying the full development cost for any feature they're using, but all, in aggregate, w
In the early 80s 2 groups existed. One was to only use prepackaged software and the other is to use your programmers to create your own solution. His rant backs the former group but unfortunately it is viewed as an expense commodity that does not add value to a ROI. The battle to use prepackaged software has won. Until investment is viewed as a profit center and not a cost center no business will bother to hire programmers to create software to do what it is they need to do rather than buy a prepackaged blo
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.


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(1) Mati, September 3, 2013 6:45 AM
Was there a lecture by both parents to the children afterwards?
Kid's pit parent against parent. After this event, did the parents lecture to the childrend and punish them for what they did to the father? It should be understood in the household that when one is there with the children, he/she speaks for the two and therefore they are not permiited to ask the other when one says yes or no.