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Paws leaves a legacy. Our sympathy to Jackie and those who knew and loved Paws.
Helen and Don Graves
Paws leaves a legacy. Our sympathy to Jackie and those who knew and loved Paws.
Helen and Don Graves
Our sincere condolences on the loss of Paws. 15 years is still not nearly long enough. RIP Paws. So sorry to hear this Jackie.
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What a grand sweet life Paws lived, and what splendid memories Jackie will have forever. RIP Paws.
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What a GREAT dog - so sorry!
Condolences to Jackie and everyone who loved Paws.
I co-own a little girl out of Paws and she is one of the finest/coolest animals I have ever stood beside. Thank you Paws and God Bless.
Richard Davis & Topbrass Southern Star "Belle"
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Very hard to lose any dog, especially one who has worked their way into our hearts and families. And, to lose the special ones of this caliber, has to be incredibly devasting. No matter how long the run. We were fortunate enough to have seen this amazing animal in action. And to say she was a great dog, typical of what Jackie has become so well-known for, would be such a huge understatement, it wouldn't even come close to the words needed to describe Paws and her relationship with Jackie. I feel almost like she belonged to all of us.
Our most sincere condolences go out to Jackie, and all who know her and Paws. And, we know there is another angel waiting at the bridge, along with the many Topbrass greats that have blessed and been blessed.
John & Kathy Baitinger
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Jackie, words are hardly comforting when you loose a companion as special as Paws was to you, but Frank and I want you to know you're in our hearts and minds . . . we are so sorry to hear about her loss.
I got a chance to meet Paws last winter while we were training with you at jackie`s. She was such a sweetheart.

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"UNDINE," said the Piece-of-perfection the next day, as he stood in the doorway putting on his greatcoat, preparatory to taking his departure; "did that little old cousin of yours never try to make love to you?"
"No," said Undine.
She hated him so, it would have given her such infinite satisfaction to have injured him; yet at the same time it seemed the height of meanness to speak against him—the man who had befriended her. The untruth seemed, in the darkness and confusion of the moment, higher than the truth, and it passed from her lips to bring forth the poisoned fruit which the lie bears, be it spoken for God's glory or the salvation of a soul.
She would have retracted it almost in the same breath, but he answered quickly, "I am glad to hear it; I have a greater respect for my old pedagogue than for almost any man I know, but I had an idea from the way he sometimes spoke of you that he cared rather more for you than a second cousin's husband generally does. I am glad it was fancy. page: 145 I will come again this evening and take you for a walk." And he was gone.
He was gone, and the untrue word was gone also. She stood in the hall and buried her face in both hands, utterly humiliated. She had told a lie, and told it to him. In other days her sorrow would have been that anything could have tempted her so to demean herself. Now it was all swallowed up in this—it was to him.
She ran out through the little garden with nothing on her head and the sleet and snow falling thick upon her. He was just entering the wood. She paused when she had almost reached him at the thought of the cold light that would fall on her when she presented herself before him in such plight—paused, then turned slowly back to the house.
Evil times had fallen on her, and she asked no more, "Is it right?" but only, "Will he think it right?"
"This afternoon I will tell him," she said, as she walked, damp and chilly, up the garden path. "I wish he had never asked me."
It seemed so evil to speak against the man she hated, worse to leave things as they were; yet neither on that afternoon nor on any of the days that followed could she look up into the cold half-closed eyes and say, "I told you a lie."
The words were always on her tongue, always in page: 146 her heart; but the white face with its wonderful crushing influence over her kept them unspoken.
"I will tell him tomorrow, some day when he loves me better, when he understands me, when I am his little wife," she would say to herself, whenever he had just left her. But a silent though not less abiding conviction was with her that the day never would come when he would know her better. Her one hour of light had passed that night in the little fire-lit parlour; henceforth, strive as she might to annihilate herself and be only what the man might choose, he would never come near her, they would never meet.
"I am afraid I made a great fool of myself," soliloquised the Piece-of-perfection, as he walked alone one sharp frosty evening. "No other woman ever made me lose my head, but I do believe the little creature bewitched me that night with her sentimental talk. She loves me, I can do anything with her, I shall make something of her in time; but I was a great fool."
"What are you doing here?" he asked, coming suddenly upon the subject of his thoughts as she stood below her old tree, wrapped in her little red cloak, with Prince at her side.
The dog rubbed his head against his master's foot; the human dog crept nearer him.
"You know I do not like your wandering about alone," he said, in the cold, unlover-like tone in page: 147 which he had always spoken to her except on that first evening.
"I would not have come if I had thought you would not like me to," she said, glancing up into his face.
"I want you to go to church tomorrow," was his next and rather abrupt remark. "Your cousin is better; you will be able to go, will you not? You will have to go some day; I would rather you began now.
"Yes, I can go," she answered after a moment's pause.
"'Tis a matter of supreme indifference to me," continued the Piece-of-perfection, "what you choose to believe; but you must do nothing to make yourself peculiar. There is nothing so hateful in a woman as eccentricity of any description."
Undine had now heard this remark so often that she had no new reply to make to it, and walked on in silence.
"Were you very busy this morning, Undine?"
"No, not at all," she said. "Why do you ask me?"
"Because your glove is torn, and I was thinking you might have had some very important matters to attend to which prevented your mending it; but you have a weakness for torn gloves, I fancy."
"You will never see me with one again," she said, pulling it off quickly.page: 148
"I hope not," he answered, quietly. "There are few things which I admire less than a slovenly woman. If a woman cares to retain the affection of those about her, she will always be particular as to her dress."
"So that others might love her dress, not herself," said Undine.
"I will care for my wife just as long as she gives me reason to be proud of her," he replied, coolly.
"Just as you do for your horses and your dog?"
"Yes; I believe I care for that dog as well as for most things; but if he became disobedient or vicious, I should care nothing more about him."
He spoke gravely; Undine knew he meant what he said; and the life that lay before her seemed to look almost as cheerless and icy as the white frosty world that lay stretched out before her eyes. But, she resolved, I will be all he wishes me; he shall be proud of me, prouder than of all his dogs and horses, she thought, as she clenched and loosened the fingers of her little gloveless hand.
"What causes you always to move your hand in that extraordinary manner whenever you are angry? It is not very pretty, I can assure you."
"I am not angry; I was only thinking."
"That I will try and be everything you wish. Do you believe me?"
"If I did not believe that you would try and page: 149 that you would also succeed, I would not care to make you my wife," he replied. "You are a clever little woman and can do anything you wish."
And Undine felt more exultant at these equivocal words of praise than Lady Edith at his most honeyed compliments.
For some time after that they walked on in silence, only the sound of their footsteps on the hard frozen ground breaking the stillness.
At last she said, very suddenly and very hurriedly: "You know that if ever, at any moment, at any time, you change and would rather not marry me, if it were the very day before our wedding—you must feel quite free—you must tell me so—it will be all right."
"Are you changing your mind already?" he asked, glancing down at her.
"No, I shall never change," she answered.
"Nor am I in the habit of retracing my steps, either; but it is certainly better, if one does repent, to do so before it is too late."
They said no more till they got to the gate of the garden.
"Are you not going to come in and see my cousin today? She is up," said Undine, and while he sat in Mrs. Barnacles' little sitting-room she ran upstairs.
There was an ominous pulling about the corners of her mouth but she knew if she gave way to it her page: 150 eyes would be red and swollen in two minutes; so she tore off her hat and cloak and, changing her dress, spent at least five minutes in arranging a black-and-red bow in her hair and a few more on her dress. It took her a long time before she was satisfied with her appearance; then she went downstairs.
He was satisfied with it, too, though she could not tell it from his face. Poor little fool! How she did love him! And he felt a kind of pity for her.
It was growing dark and the red lamp in the hall was already lighted when he rose to go. He had wished her good-night, and she was turning to go upstairs when he called her back softly. He uttered her name twice and drew her tenderly to him when she came to his side.
"Be sure you practise this evening; you are my own little darling," he said, and pressed a long kiss on her lips. "Don't sit up too late, and look as pretty and as sweet when I come tomorrow as you do now. Good-night, my little girl." And again the firm stern lips with their soft golden moustaches were pressed against hers as he folded her close to him.
It was late the next morning when Undine rose; for it is very pleasant, when one has delicious visions, to be dreaming and dozing in bed on a winter's morning. And her visions were sweet, sweet—though, God knows, they were childish and small enough. She would do her hair so; she would dress page: 151 herself so; she would go to church; she would do this; she would do that. He would kiss her, he would kiss her, as he kissed her last night.
She was sitting on her bed side, as she had been sitting for the last five minutes, with one stocking half on and the other in her hand, when the maid knocked at the door and passed her in a letter.
MY DEAR LITTLE GIRL! I have just heard that my immediate presence in London is indispensable. 'Tis a matter of business and I can't delay. I have a note from Mr. Barnacles in which he tells me that he has been ill, but returns to Greenwood on Monday. As you intend leaving for your grandmother's as soon as he does so, I suppose I shall not find you here when I return. I shall try to run down and see my little girl as soon as I am able.Yours most affectionately, A. BLAIR.
She threw herself down among the pillows, and after half an hour rose slowly to begin her packing. When it was done she went to Mrs. Barnacles' room, to tell her that she was leaving that evening.
"It's just another of her freaks," said that lady to Miss Mell, who came to spend the afternoon with her. "No one could have been more kindly treated than she had been here; quite spoiled in fact. There is no telling what she will take into her head next. I wish her grandmother joy of her, I'm sure."page: 152
"Don't you think Harry Blair's going away so suddenly, without making her an offer, may have something to do with it?" said Miss Mell, looking enormously sharp and green about the eyes.
"I am sure from what I have seen that she could have had him at any time she chose, but—you will not mention it to anyone, I know—his father has quarrelled with him and will have nothing more to do with him."
"Ah, I understand now," said Miss Mell; "that will have put my lady out just a little in her pretty little game. A poor penniless boy is not much of a catch. It serves her right. I always thought it shameful, the way she used to walk about everywhere with him quite alone. I wonder she had not more regard for her character than to act as she did. I would die sooner than be on such intimate terms with a man to whom I was not engaged; and even then I think a modest reticence so becoming in a woman." And Miss Mell drew herself up stiffly in her chair and drew down the corners of her mouth.
"Well, anyhow," said Mrs. Barnacles, sipping her tea, "I do wish her grandmother joy of her. There is something one can't help liking about the girl, but she is so peculiar and eccentric I shall be glad to have her off my hands."
"Don't you think she is trying it on in another direction?" inquired Miss Mell, with that wrinkling page: 153 about the mouth which was all she had to show for a smile.
"I don't think she tries it on in any direction; that is just what I complain of," replied Mrs. Barnacles. "From what I know, I am sure she could have had old Blair if she had chosen. He is much older than she is, but a penniless girl can't be too fastidious, and he is terribly rich."
"As to her not trying it on, I don't know about that," said Miss Mell; "I don't think she would have said no, if he had given her a chance of saying yes, but perhaps she has higher game in her eye. What do you think some one comes here once and sometimes twice a day for?"
"Oh, he is polite to all women; his attentions mean nothing. He will look higher when he chooses a wife," said Mrs. Barnacles. Miss Mell smiled a far-seeing smile and broke her cake.
While they sat talking of her in the little parlour, Undine was standing for the last time under her old tree in the wood. It was leafless and bare now, and great white icicles hung from its branches. The little stream was silent and noiseless.
Next summer the green leaves would break forth on it and the little brook would run laughing past, whispering to the long grasses and white forest flowers, and among its knotted swollen roots the bright-backed beetles and busy ants would run; but she would rest no more among them. "Good-bye page: 154 old tree," she said, breaking off a bit of its dry frosty bark. "Good-bye, my friend, my dear old friend. I have had such beautiful dreams beneath you; I have had such happy thoughts. They will never come to me any more; my higher life is dead, quite dead; I love only him and I must serve him now. Good-bye."


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|Warmwater flyfishing Bass, pike and even muskies in your backyard
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Don't feel like a leper Jeff, your taking advantage of a fishery being ignored by many. Most LM Bass and sunfish in the northeast rarely if ever see a fly, making them fairly easy to catch. They typically are what I target when the jones is getting bad.
I've had the experience of sunfish and micro bass trying to attack a fly thats 2/3'rds of their size. One of my favorite flies for this type of fishing is a floating dragon fly imitation that is ~ 2" long that probably only hooks a fish out of every fifteen that hit it. Sure is fun though.
|Flyfishing in ponds is great stuff. Especially working the shoreline - willows hanging over, outcroppings, structure. As much as I love the big stuff in the ocean one of the things I miss is casting toward the shoreline with a popper.
Big Fly Doesn't Always Equal Big Fish
So I'm some sort of leper for enjoying fly fishing in a pond when we have some monster stripers roaming our shores. I accept that - it brings me back to my roots, where I started fly rodding. Call me a freak. Go ahead - do it.
Anyway.... My wife was so successful the other night, the quarry pretty much ruined my last popper that was guarnteed to produce. Therefore being the hung over, tight-fisted yankee that I've become, I decide to crank out a few from my tying table this AM.
Bear with me here.
In the salt, you catch big fish with a big fly right? So why should I have kept with the #8 popper? Tied up a #4, #1 & a 1/0 this AM.
Tried them out this afternoon, proud to say they all produced. I would really like to tell you about the monster largemouth I landed with the 1/0 popper. But, of course, I can't.
It was really quite amusing A) getting it where I wanted it to go in high winds with my old glass/ graphite #6 rod. B) Watching the popper get pulled under by the small (micro) bass & panfish who couldn't quite get there mouths around it. I think it's like me trying to run down a whole pig instead of just waiting for the pork chop. MMMMMMMMM pork........
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I'm brilliant. Simply brilliant. Proof? I forgot to bring a phone cord with me when I took this business trip, and so I didn't, um, waste time with email while I was gone. :-)
Came back to find that several of the books I ordered from fatbrain showed up. Unfortunately, their packaging methods leave a lot to be desired; they damage the spine by shoving the packing bill all folded up way into the book, and their single-book packaging with the flexible sticky corrogated cardboard can easily damage paperbacks.
Also came back to discover a loud server machine installed in my cube. Clearly, msw is trying to get rid of me... (In all fairness, he has to put up with the noise, too...)
I should plug Mutopia because it is so cool. An on-line free music (real music, none of this wussy rock-n-roll stuff!) archive I've been frequenting lately. My keyboard is finally getting some use again as I've been rediscovering my lost piano skills. Some of the pieces I've been enjoying include Bach's Wohltemperierte Clavier I, Prelude I (BWV 846), Carcassi's Etude 15 for Guitar (still playable as a keyboard piece), and Clementi's Sonatinas Op. 36, Nos. 1 and 3. A few of the pieces I printed out have turned out to be well beyond my current abilities, including Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag and a Bach Fugue or two. I miss having a real piano, but maybe if I stick with this for a while I'll save up for a piano.
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"The Great Gatsby" is a spectacle of a movie.
Director Baz Luhrmann draws a direct line from alcohol-fused excesses of the early 20th century to modern-day indulgence.
Parties thrown by the mysterious Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) are monumental and debauched affairs, all set to music by Jay-Z, will.i.am, Lana Del Rey and other 21st century performers.
But the music, the scantily clad women and the fireworks are a false front meant to further Gatsby's true ends. He's after an unattainable ideal, otherwise known as Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan).
She and Gatsby loved each other once, but he was too penniless to give her the life she deserved, which left an opening for Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton) and his $300,000 string of pearls.
It's five years later, and a now wealthy Gatsby aims to win her back with help from Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire). He's Daisy's cousin and becomes Gatsby's confidant. He's also our narrator, so it's Carraway's job to make the audience see the hope in Gatsby that he sees.
I glimpsed that hope here and there, but I also was tempted to glimpse at my watch, as the action on the screen dragged at times.
These are often annoying, self-obsessed characters determined to attain their own goals. Carraway is the most "normal" of them, and even he trades away portions of himself for the privilege of seeing what happens next.
If there's genius in this film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel, it's not found in the parties or in the 21st century soundtrack. "The Great Gatsby" continually throws these flawed characters together, which creates an uncomfortable yet undeniable desire to follow the story to its conclusion.
By the end of the movie, everyone is covered in slime, much like the gunk dredged from Gatsby's pool after his grand parties.
There's also a remnant of the hope Carraway sees, a sliver of redemption in this hard story wrapped in frills and finery.
I give the film version of "The Great Gatsby" a B.
It's showing at Malcos in Tupelo, Oxford, Corinth and Columbus, as well as Hollywood Premier Cinemas in Starkville and Movie Reel 4 in New Albany.
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Jim Rogers, Duke Energy's Chairman, President, and CEO, is the first to remind people that if his company were a country, it would rank forty-first in the world in carbon emissions—just a notch above North Korea.
As it is, Duke Energy is the third-largest carbon emitter in the U.S.—a dubious distinction if you believe, as Rogers does, that society needs and will soon require big carbon reductions.
Duke Energy's carbon footprint is driven by its heavy dependence on coal. But while burning coal is one of the biggest contributors to climate change, it has also allowed Duke Energy to provide low-cost, reliable electricity to 11 million people in the five states it serves.
To address this monumental task and strengthen the company's strategy for meeting customer needs in a carbon-constrained world, Rogers challenged his team to try to reduce the company's carbon emissions 50 percent by 2030. And Duke Energy's leaders responded. They wanted the best and brightest minds thinking about the problem, so in addition to their own team, they went looking for thought leadership outside the company.
Through conversations between Rogers and Amory Lovins, RMI's Chairman and Chief Scientist, it became clear that Duke's interests and RMI's research and consulting work were not only complementary, but synergistic.
According to Roberta Bowman, Duke's Senior Vice President of Sustainability, Rogers "does an enormous amount of listening to thought leaders and was aware of RMI. After having breakfast in Colorado with Lovins and RMI CEO Michael Potts, Jim came back excited about the possibility of his team working with RMI."
The new collaboration took some getting used to. Duke executives wondered if RMI really understood the challenges utilities face and could offer realistic, pragmatic ideas. Similarly, RMI's team wondered whether Duke Energy was really open to new ideas and change. These doubts and preconceptions aside, it quickly became apparent the two organizations were united by the same goal: a major reduction in carbon emissions.
"Duke was interested in our perspective on the status of low-carbon technologies, on their economics, and on how we think about planning for the future—given the huge number of uncertainties out there," said Lena Hansen, RMI Principal. "But they've thought about these things a lot, too, so our collaboration turned out to be exactly that—bringing the best thinking from both of our very different organizations to bear on the problem."
Recognizing that the electric utility industry is in a period of unprecedented change, one of the key topics that the group tackled was how to effectively plan for the future. For decades, the U.S. electric system has been based on large, central-station power plants serving customers who had little awareness or interest in how electricity was generated and delivered. Now, though, all those things appear to be changing. The costs of renewable technologies have come down; customers are becoming more engaged in how they use electricity and where it comes from; and carbon legislation is on the horizon.
All this means that, for utilities, the future will look very different than the past. By taking a scenario planning approach, the team painted several pictures of how the future might unfold—and how Duke might best respond to each. Each scenario reflected a combination of possible trends:
The team looked at the potential and costs of a number of low-carbon resources, including energy efficiency, wind, solar, biomass, nuclear, and carbon capture and sequestration. While each of those resources offers considerable opportunities, each has its own risks and costs. Understanding the various scenarios will help Duke adjust its strategy based on changing conditions.
"[Our work with RMI] has helped us identify key sign posts associated with various scenarios," said Doug Esamann, Duke's Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy. "That gives us options. We are still laying these options out in an appropriate plan. We have bits and pieces already embedded. Continuing to make it a connected, cohesive plan is the challenge in the face of an uncertain future."
In addition to making the right investment decisions, Duke must maintain reliable service no matter how the future unfolds—and that means matching electricity generation to demand, exactly, at every second. That becomes increasingly difficult as variable resources like wind and solar power are added to the grid.
RMI used its on-going research on the Next-Generation Utility Initiative and utility dispatch simulation model to help Duke think through how such a low-carbon system could work and what problems need to be solved.
Duke Energy's low-carbon efforts are on-going, and Stephen Doig, RMI Vice President and electricity program leader is optimistic. "[Duke's team] is as good as any I've ever worked with," he said. "My hope is that our collaboration with Duke will help them have the confidence to push further and faster on their low-carbon strategy."
"The challenge of producing energy for a low-carbon future is attracting some of the best and brightest talent around, and I think both RMI and Duke Energy learned a lot from this collaboration," said Bowman. "When you think about the magnitude of the challenge of climate change, it's an intellectual challenge, a technical challenge, a business challenge, and a human challenge. Being part of the solution appeals to our sense of mission and challenge at Duke Energy, and it's at the heart of what RMI is about as well."
Llewellyn Wells is a former VP of Outreach at RMI.
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As seen on Slashdot, the Australian Attorney-General's department is conducting a public review into Fair-Use laws. You can bet that the recording and movie industry lobbies will be well represented, but there is no reason why free software developers shouldn't be.
If you are interested in or involved with free software development, please take some time to read and respond to their issues paper. I suggest that you ask for fair use rights for research (reverse engineering for compatibility) and reasonable personal use (time and format shifting) be enshrined in legislation and not left to the courts to decide.


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Kevmaster wrote:Actually though I seem to have the opposite problem of yours. I always have clear pictures of something in my mind when listening to music. But what's the hardest part then is actually thinking of footage that resembles what I have pictured.
I have so many ideas in my head that it's impossible to do all of them and most of the time I don't even know with which to start.
SO MUCH THIS. I usually get ideas while riding some long distance in a bus/car/train listening to music. And it is actually never the music I want to edit to. And that's the problem because then I need to find both the footage and the music.
Last time, trying to start one of these, I ended up editing one scene in a week - total color changes, background changes and... sparkles.
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Thanks for the compliments everyone! Hats off to everyone in the club for a great day!
HRC- Our season never ends
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Great photos and looks like fun was had by all....except maybe the pheasants. What a great way to spend a day. Did you all have pheasant for dinner?
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Wonderful pictures. Go Cooper. Pretty spiffy for an almost 10 Year old. Pheasants are the best for these crazy dogs.
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Looks like fun to me?
Nice Pics Erik. So sorry I missed it.
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Good stuff Erik! Enjoyed the pics and posts. Opener for us this Saturday in Cali. Hoping to get a few wild sneaky birds!
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Of course the credits do not apply so I again asked for the rate and again got zero answer.
After I told her to stop lying as credits do not apply and got more bs I finally hung up saying I hoped someone would shoot the bastard that is destroying my family budget.
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This rare disorder generally affects people ages 30 to 50 and is seen in men more often than in women. A form of the disorder is present at birth (congenital).
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Three concerts presented by the Department of Music and Princeton University Concerts will take place Sunday through Tuesday, April 7-9. The Brentano String Quartet, the Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence, will appear at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 7, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. The Choir of King's College, the University of Cambridge, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 8, in the Princeton University Chapel. Pianist Inon Barnatan will appear at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in Richardson Auditorium. Barnatan's concert will mark 100 years since former Princeton president Woodrow Wilson entered the White House as president and recreates a concert that pianist/composer Ignacy Paderewski — a longtime friend of Wilson — gave at Princeton in honor of Wilson after his death. For tickets to all concerts (the Brentano concert is free but requires a ticket), call University Ticketing at 609-258-9220.


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Not so hot about Mark Clark, his indecision cost the allies dearly at Anzio
Bob Gutermuth
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mark Clark like Bradley and Allan Brooke got the job done without the pearl handle colt 45s and the shiney helmut
Clark was the honcho, any foul up can rightly be laid at his doorstep. He could have made a breakout but passed up the window of opportunity.
Monty darned near lost the war with Market Garden and the foul ups there. I did have a little respect for him until I read A Bridge Too Far.
Bob Gutermuth
Canvasback Chesapeakes
Field Marshall Sir Bernard Law Montgomery offers a fascinating insight into command and leadership at the highest levels, . Before August 1942 Montgomery was a virtual unknown outside the British Army. However Montgomery motivated a defeated Eighth Army to rise and regain the initiative, and inspired the British peoples resilience through to wars end. Indeed, after the war Churchill observed before Alamein we never had a victory; after Alamein we never had a defeat. Bradley dubbed Montgomery the Dean of the Allied field commanders, while Eisenhower called him able, but very conceited. Accused of failing to adequately employ the tenets of mobile warfare, yet credited as the only allied General never to have lost a campaign. In the chronicles of twentieth century military history, the single universal agreement on Montgomery is that his superiors tolerated him, his contemporaries held him in disdain, and his subordinates revered him. With the fame and controversy surrounding his career, particularly following the defeat of Rommels Afrika Korps in the North African desert in 1942 and the failure of Operation Market-Garden in 1944, For the rest of his life, Montgomery avowed that Operation Market-Garden was 90% effective, and would have succeeded but for unfavourable weather delaying the build-up of forces. What led Montgomery to mount such a monumentally unsuccessful operation? Riding a bow-wave of success from the North-African desert and the Normandy landings, why did the ultra-conservative, methodical field marshal embark on such a dubious and impractical plan?
It beats me how Monty could defend market garden maybe his colossal ego wouldnt let him admit his mistake , Not withstanding he is still the most successful allied commander of WW2 along with Zukhov
Monty won one battle and lost one, El alamein and Market Garden. He also almost screwed up the invasion of Sicily, where Patton and his boys had to save the day. Any half competent General could have done what Zhukov did allowing for the size of his command. Give me George S Patton, who with his 3rd Army pulled out of one engagement moved 100 plus miles and settled the Battle of the Bulge and Anthony McCauliff and the Battered Ba--ards of Bastonge as candidates for top commanders. Of course Field Marshall Erwin Rommell must be added to the list of top field commanders.
Bob Gutermuth
Canvasback Chesapeakes
Not a bubble at all....Without the USA Europe would be speaking German today. To suggest that it was "group" effort that the USA just kinda of helped out a little is absurd. I have nothing but admiration for the great men of history and if disrespecting great historical figures (disguised as critiquing) is your deal more power to you…if it fills some hole good one on ya.
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where did i say the US just helped out a little?????????? and yes Patrick whether u like it or not it was a group effort and the major player in the group was the Russians.Thats right Patrick not the US of A but the Russians who suffered 25 million war casualties and did the majority of the fighting. Over 120 countries combined to take on Germany and Japan.The US involvement was significent but the war began in sept 1939 and the first US major battle in the west was at the Kasserine Pass in febuary 1943 and we all know what happened there. As for all this B/S about disrespecting great historical figures, you need to look a little further than the hype and try and educate yourself. I would be happy to supply you with a reading list if your interested or ask Ted, he seems to have a very good general knowledge of WW2
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Considering all the grief that the USSR caused Europe and the rest of the world after the war they didn't lose enough people, especially in the military.
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Anyone who has ever been in a long-term relationship will tell you it requires more work to keep it together than it did to obtain it. LaLa and Carmelo Anthony's marriage is no different from yours or your neighbor's. Rumors that the couple were facing divorce weren't necessarily true but, as the saying goes, where there's smoke, there's a fire. "If anyone says in 10 years you don't go through ups and downs, they're lying to you. We're in a real relationship. We have our ups and we have our downs, but we definitely work through them, and we're great right now," LaLa told "Access Hollywood."
"The highs are, he's my best friend. I've been with him for 10 years. He's my best friend and we get through the hard times because we know that we want this marriage to work and we want to be together."
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When we weren't busy gawking with mouths agape at LG's new 55-inch OLED TV, we actually managed to take a few photos and some video of the stunning new TV. Check out the photo gallery for some revealing images that show just how svelte this display really is.
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What's that noise?? Do I hear a pout coming on or a threat or maybe a good old fashion scolding?
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Date Posted: February 1, 2010 - 1:30 am by: Paris
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Charlize Theron dumped Stuart Townsend, her boyfriend of 9 years, and stopped wearing the commitment ring he gave her. The actress allegedly broke up with Stuart because their relationship turned platonic from romantic. A friend of the ex-couple revealed, "They had become more like brother and sister than lovers. It was she who ended it. She truly loved Stuart but the relationship ran its course. He is heartbroken but she is insisting it is all over."
I guess Charlize isn't a fan of incest. It must really be horrifying to kiss (someone you treat like) your brother. Well, except for Angelina Jolie.
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Mississippi State and Ole Miss have been cast among the nation's baseball elite.
Baseball America released its preseason rankings on Thursday, and MSU comes in at No. 5 – its highest preseason rank since being No. 1 in 1989.
Ole Miss checks in at No. 13, the 10th time it's been ranked in the preseason under coach Mike Bianco.
The Bulldogs went 40-24 last season, won the SEC Tournament and reached an NCAA regional. They return 23 lettermen and lose only one starter in the field, and most of the pitching staff is back, too.
Ole Miss was 37-26 last year and also reached a regional.
The Rebels lost key players but do have a strong pitching staff anchored by Bobby Wahl.
The SEC had eight teams in Baseball America's rankings, including five in the top 10. North Carolina is No. 1. Southern Miss is No. 23.
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There is something so charming about Country Music award shows. For instance, the artists still actually perform live music and are able to sing without autotune.
But also, you've got to give it to country music for its its ongoing dedication to big hair. Not only are these women going to show up to their awards shows with their hair sprayed up within an edge of its life, but they're not gonna let a little thing like HD television get in the way of their hair spraying ways.
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DNA Tests, and Sometimes Surprising Results
April 23, 2017,
Urinalysis is the physical, chemical, and microscopic examination of urine. It involves a number of tests to detect and measure various compounds that pass through the urine.
Urine appearance and color; Routine urine test
A urine sample is needed. Your health care provider will tell you what type of urine sample is needed. Two common methods of collecting urine are 24-hour urine collection and clean catch urine specimen.
The sample is sent to a lab, where it is examined for the following:
Physical color and appearance:
The urine specific gravity test reveals how concentrated or dilute the urine is.
Microscopic appearance:
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Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your health care provider about the meaning of your specific test results.
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If a home test is used, the person reading the results must be able to tell the difference between different colors, since the results are interpreted using a color chart.
McPherson RA, Ben-Ezra J. Basic examination of urine. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods . 22nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 28.


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Brazil has slow growth and high inflation. Can anyone say stagflation? The Bovespa stock index rose 1% today.
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Over the next decade, approximately five billion people will become connected to the Internet. The biggest increases will be in societies that, according to the human rights group Freedom House, are severely censored: places where clicking on an objectionable article can get your entire extended family thrown in prison, or worse.
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Ron Cook: Penguins get it; bad habits must goJanuary 13, 2014 11:55 PM
Conventional wisdom says the first step to correcting a problem is to admit having one. The Penguins, despite their astonishing 33-12-2 record and runaway lead in the NHL's Metropolitan Division, tend to play unfocused, undisciplined hockey at times. They know it and freely acknowledge it. Hey, it's a start.
A lot of teams would have been thrilled to take five out of six points last week on a western Canada swing. Not the Penguins, who are fortunate to have strong leadership in their room. After a 4-3 overtime loss Friday night in Edmonton, defenseman Rob Scuderi publicly chastised his teammates for looking to make highlight-reel plays instead of playing sound defensive hockey with a lead. Since then, defenseman Brooks Orpik, captain Sidney Crosby and coach Dan Bylsma have made similar observations.
"All the guys in the locker room see it, know it, say it," Scuderi said Monday after practice. "You've got to play fundamental. Just because we have high-end skill doesn't mean we have to play a high-risk game. Your skill is there to take advantage of situations when they are there to take. I think we just have to do a better job of realizing when they're there and when they're not. There's definitely a time when you have to make a percentage play."
It's called sound situational hockey.
The Penguins blew a 2-0 lead in Vancouver a week ago and were fortunate to win, 5-4, in a shootout after getting late goals in regulation from Kris Letang and Crosby. They blew 2-0 and 3-2 leads in Edmonton, losing, 4-3, in overtime.
It's OK to win a game 2-0 or 3-1. Orpik has been saying that for years. When the Penguins have a 2-0 lead, they don't have to take foolish risks to try to make it 3-0.
"It's just a matter of bearing down and realizing the type of game we have to play if we want to be successful, not just in the regular season, but in the postseason," Scuderi said.
The Penguins do just fine in the regular season. They lead their division by 17 points. They are on top of the Eastern Conference by eight points. Only Anaheim and Chicago have more than their 68 points.
But bad habits can carry over.
"When you're thinking about the end game, you want to build toward something bigger," Scuderi said. "You don't want to lose games, but I'd rather lose a game playing the right way than take a chance playing the wrong way and having it go 50-50. You know, in the end, if you keep playing that [right] way, you're going to get the overwhelming majority of victories."
It's easy to think Scuderi's comments Friday night were directed at Letang and Evgeni Malkin. Scuderi denied that Monday. "I wasn't trying to burn any one of my teammates individually." I believe him.
But Malkin and Letang need to follow Scuderi's advice. Both have tremendous skill. Both tend to take chances and play a high-reward, high-risk game. Both have to be smarter situationally. Instead of always trying to make a spectacular cross-ice pass or skate through everyone on the ice, there are times when it's OK to make a safe chip up the boards. That's not handcuffing Malkin or Letang. They're so talented their scoring chances still will come. It's just a matter of playing smart.
The message appeared to get through to all of the Penguins Saturday night in Calgary. They played a much tighter game and won, 2-1.
"I thought our forwards did a fantastic job of keeping the play moving north," Scuderi said. "If you don't have a play sometimes, you just got to move the zone and move it ahead."
Bylsma said he had no problem with Scuderi being so outspoken.
"He was accurate. He was definitely accurate with his reference to how we played with the puck and how we executed decision-making with the puck."
Bylsma is lucky to have Scuderi. He's lucky to have Orpik. He's lucky to have Crosby, one of the great captains in the game. They are strong leaders. They won't let their teammates slide despite the team's terrific record.
"I think we've always kind of evaluated ourselves on how we play, and not necessarily just results," Crosby told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Shelly Anderson over the weekend. "I think we feel like we've still got more to give and can get better."
That's a wonderful attitude. No, it doesn't guarantee a Stanley Cup. But the Penguins won't win without it.
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This panorama shows the ruins and town of Dürnstein with its famous blue church. Also have a look at gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=24760 which is taken from the other side of the river Danube. You should definitely try to view this in Google Earth! If you are looking for private accomodation in the are...
Wachau valley and river Danube seen from "Ferdinandswarte" near Krems, Austria. Also check out gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=26515 taken from the ruins of Dürnstein. If you are looking for private accomodation in the area check out our website at vermietung.laistler.net


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Family: Scorpaenidae, Scorpionfishes view all from this family
Description The Yellow tail rockfish is a type of rockfish (Sebastidae) that lives mainly off the coast of western North America from California to Alaska. This fish is also commonly called red snapper and yellow tail.
The body of the yellowtail rockfish is elongate and compressed. The head is rather long and the upper profile is steep and slightly curved. The lower jaw projects, but not beyond the upper profile of the head. The color is grayish brown above which shades to white below. The sides are finely spotted with yellow. The tail is yellow, while the other fins are dusky yellow. When the fish is fresh, reddish brown speckling is visible on some of the scales. As with many of the rockfish, identification can be somewhat difficult. Some of the distinguishing characteristics of the yellow tail rockfish include a convex (surface curves outward) space between the eyes, the absence of spines on top of the head, a projecting lower jaw, an anal fin with eight (rarely seven) soft rays and the lining of the belly is white.
Dimensions Up to 26" (66 cm).
Warning The dorsal and anal fins contain mildly venomous spines.
Habitat Estuaries, tidal flats & salt marshes, Ocean or bay shallows, Open ocean.
Range California, Northwest, Western Canada, Alaska.


text: Migration Info The extensive winter range of this species -- from central Mexico to the southern tip of South America -- is somewhat misleading; the bulk of the North American population is believed to winter in the lowlands of eastern South America. Determining the actual whereabouts of any population of Barn Swallows in winter is complicated by several factors: These birds are extremely nomadic, they join huge roosting aggregations, and at any time in nearly any season of the year, one population or another is migrating. During spring migration thousands of these birds may aggregate near bodies of water, particularly during periods of inclement weather.


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State Champs!
Warner Creekmore would tell you she is living vicariously through her kids.
For the second time in three years, New Albany captured the 4A state championship in tennis, and for the coach, this is also the second time in three years she has won with one of her children.
In 2010, the team won its first title in the sport, led in part by Creekmore's oldest child, Callie. Now, two years later, her son Josh and his mixed doubles partner, Maegan Trexler, won the title for the Bulldogs, going to a tiebreaker after splitting the first two sets.
"I'm just tickled for them. I'm living vicariously through them," an emotional Creekmore said. "I'm beyond excited for them to have accomplished this and even more for them wanting me to be a part of it. That's the biggest thing; they wanted me to be a part of it."
New Albany went ahead three sets to zero over Newton County, well on its way to winning the title. Before they knew it, the Cougars picked up wins in girls' singles and boys' doubles one, and the final two courts remaining went to a deciding tiebreak after splitting the first two sets.
Creekmore and Trexler won the title, defeating Brandon St. Clair and Mackenzie Smith (6-2, 6-7 (10-5)), but for Trexler, she did not know that won the title for her team at that point.
"Even after we won, I didn't realize that we had just won state until after we were off of the court," she said. "It's just great to have been a part of this again."
Trexler was a member of the 2010 championship team, but for her partner, Creekmore choose to join this year, ending his athletic career at New Albany by playing for his mother.
"It really just came down to my senior year, wanting to play for my mom and wanted to help my teammates win a state championship," he said. "We accomplished that today, and I give all of the credit to my teammates. They've pushed me so hard and have gotten me to this point, and I couldn't have done this without them."
In the final court, Christian and Christopher Scott fell to David Brand and Russ Thompson (6-1, 6-7 (9-11)), but at that point, the title was already won.
New Albany finishes the season at 16-1, undefeated in 4A play and north half champions. Creekmore credits the play of her seniors in helping bring another title to the school.
"They've been huge," she said. "Cam's been playing for five years, and so has Maegan. Savannah played and left, came back and chose to play again this year, Thomas moved in from Greenville, and that's been a huge blessing for us, as he's been a huge asset to our team, and Josh chose to play this year, and we couldn't have done it without him."
As the team celebrated, Creekmore looked on, tears streaming down her face, and described the scene around her in just four words.
"Amazing, just absolutely incredible."
Also, on Tuesday, the girls' doubles team of Molly Morris and Elleigh Hall finished second in the state in the 4A doubles tournament, falling to Lafayette in the championship.
2012 state tennis championship results
Boys singles: Mark Robbins (NA) over Will Thompson (NC) 6-1, 6-0
Girls singles: Shannon St. Clair (NC) over Savannah Horrgan (NA) 7-5, 6-0
Boys doubles one: Bryden Reed and Patrick Ross (NC) over Cam Clark and Thomas Mills (NA) 6-2, 7-6
Boys doubles two: David Brand and Russ Thompson (NC) over Christian Scott and Christopher Scott 1-6, 7-6 (11-9)
Girls doubles one: Molly Morris and Elleigh Hall (NA) over Haley Chapman and Mackenzie Rowzee (NC) 6-3, 6-2
Girls doubles two: Olivia Dunnam and Hannah Anderson (NA) over Kalye Bufkin and Summer Stockstill (NC) 6-2, 6-1
Mixed doubles: Josh Creekmore and Maegan Trexler (NA) over Brandon St. Clair and Mackenzie Smith (NC) 6-2, 6-7 (10-5)
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Payday! Woop. My first act was to go to Chapters and buy 20 books, of which more in the next paragraph. Then went to the Vancouver 2600 meet. It was good to see a lot of new faces there among the old; most of the new ones seemed to be in high school. It was almost like 2 meets in one; the newbies sat by themselves while the oldsters who knew each other sat by themselves too. Adjourned to the Jolly Taxpayer for beer as usual afterward. Got home and talked with Gina some more about wedding plans; looks like it will be in November. She said we're going to need a nino and nanang, which translates to something like "sponsors" but isn't exactly. I'm sure I'll figure it out sometime long after the wedding is done.
One of the books I bought was the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Perhaps one of the most famous early diaries to still be in print, Pepys was a civil servant living in the 1600's. A quick perusal showed that he used his political position to amass wealth, and was a sexual predator to boot. The preface had a big warning label: feminists will not like this guy. That doesn't affect its literary quality; I think its one of the few real diaries that can be read like a novel; Samuel had a style that any modern day diarist could learn from. Since he didn't plan for anyone else to ever read his diary, he held nothing back, which makes for very interesting reading. Maybe I had Advogato in mind when I bought it; the book had certainly never attracted my attention or interest before in any way. It covered the Great Fire of London and many other events of the time between 1660-1669 when the authors eyesight finally gave out. Its a great stroke of luck the diary was preserved; he wrote in shorthand, and noone translated it for the general public until 1825. If you want the sordid details, go buy your own copy, I'm nowhere near done with mine yet :p
A few days ago a friend sent me a book called how to succeed with women for review. Being a shy and somewhat inexperienced guy, he wanted my opinion on the material in it. Flipping through it, the chapter When Babes Attack: Handling Problems Women Cause caught my eye. Expecting it to be amusing, I started reading. Right away I was caught up in the little scenarios it related. I read a bit more... then a bit more... I found myself taking the authors seriously. Then I started to skip around in the book to see if the rest of it had similar quality of content. In the chapter on Where the Girls Are, it suggested the following gimmick: "carry around a cute stuffed animal" then explained what would result. WOW! They stole a leaf out of my book. Thats exactly the technique I used very successfully for a while, as you can see here and then here in these pictures taken at the first LinuxWorld Expo. The motto of the book could be summed up as "good intentions and being a good guy are not enough" in regard to the dating game. It bills itself as "the manual for geeks". rtfm on women? sure, here it is.... it lives up to the billing too. Now, I know, most of you are in horrified shock. "Oh my god, a fucking MANUAL on how to be a sexual predator? how CRASS!". But its not. I'll let the book explain for itself:
It's as if dating is a dance. In the past, everybody knew their steps, and could dance together. A man knew that, if he was interested in a woman, he could do certain things to show that interest, and a woman knew the proper responses to show interest or lack of it. In the modern world, those dance-steps have been largely lost, and we have been left on our own to figure them out. Oftentimes, rather than dancing together it feels more like we are crashing into each other, and stepping constantly onto each other's toes.I daresay even Skud would benefit from reading it. Any guys here feel their love life isn't up to par, this book IS the f***ing manual, all 440 pages of it. What, you thought women weren't more complex than us? The womens equivalent of this book, The Rules (New York Times bestseller), only runs 190 pages.
This book is about changing all of that.
In my next entry, I'll be reviewing the 1623 edition of Shakespeares First Folio, of which I have a direct photographic copy. Peace out


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Yet another fairly successful camping trip out in the great outdoors. I say fairly as my -15C sleeping bag didn't perform as well as I had expected. But maybe it was just my ground sheet. Need an upgrade maybe.
On the successful side we built a very cool igloo. It had 2 rooms and could sleep 5. So 4 of us piled in to experience how the eskimo way of life. It took 5 of us 3 hours to build. The surrounding snow was just of a foot deep and was just about perfect in stickiness. We cut out blocks and slowly built it up.
Picture: Igloo outside
Picture: Igloo inside


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LOS ANGELES, CA – MAY 12: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West watch the video board from their courtside seats as the Los Angeles Lakers take on the Denver Nuggets in Game Seven of the Western Conference Quarterfinals in the 2012 NBA Playoffs on May 12, 2012 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
Denver Nuggets v Los Angeles Lakers – Game Seven 1 March,2013