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Michael Ryder will miss 2-3 weeks with sinus/orbital fractures
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The Bruins got some good news on the Michael Ryder injury front this morning. The right wing will be out just 2-3 weeks as he recovers from surgery on Monday to repair damage to area around the sinus and orbital bones between his eyes. According to Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli, Ryder will be back up working out on the bike in the next two or three days and ready to play right around/before the March 4 trade deadline.
'He had three small fractures in the bridge of the nose, around the orbital (bone),' Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli said at morning skate Tuesday morning. 'He had surgery (Monday) evening. Surgery was successful. He had three small plates put in. He's home now. He'll be back in two-to-three weeks and back riding a bike in two-to-three days.'
Chiarelli said that the circumstances surrounding the Ryder injury haven't really affected trade talks one way or the other, and that the B's GM isn't very deep in discussions on any potential deals around the NHL.
"It's not as bad as first expected," said Chiarelli. "If (other teams) detect a weakness then the price will go up. In most cases when we've had discussions it's not really possible to backtrack once you get that deep into discussions."
With less than a month to go to the March 4 NHL trade deadline, however, Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli indicated that he isn't close to finalizing any deals despite the trade rumors heating up in recent weeks. The B's have been linked most prominently to potential trades for Edmonton Oilers winger Erik Cole and St. Louis Blues forward Keith Tkachuk, but the team continues to wait before pulling the trigger on deal that will bring the team additional size, strength and grit up front.
Both are left-handed shots, potential power play performers and fit many of the profiles that the B's have been searching for to compliment a team that has shown all kinds of Stanley Cup potential over their first 50 plus games.
"I'm not that deep into discussions…I'm just speaking generally here," added Chiarelli. "If we can get bigger, that is something that we'd like to do."
Tim Thomas is expected to get the start in net when the NHL-leading Bruins host Joe Thornton and the Western Conference leaders San Jose tonight at the Garden at 7 p.m. Colleague Mike Petrags has some great sound up from the media meeting with Jumbo Joe this morning in the Sharks dressing room, and Thornton — as expected — said he was happy to be back in the familiar city of Boston where he can raid his favorite restaurants and check in with his brother that still lives in the Hub.
–Lasting image from this morning's skate aside from the expected Jumbo Joe madness: WBZ-TV's Steve Burton gallivanting through the Bruins locker room and accidentally stomping on a group of Milan Lucic's expensive hockey sticks as he was swooping in on a group interview. Looch stopped without missing a beat, said to Burton "Yeah, you might want to try not doing that" and then went right back to awaiting group of questioners.
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By Michaela Gibson Morris/NEMS Daily Journal
The City of Tupelo unveiled signs this morning celebrating its Healthiest Home Town award and honoring fitness and community advocate
Hank Boerner, who died last month.
Twenty Healthiest Hometown signs will be placed around town, including one at Ballard Park, where the unveiling took place with members of the Healthy Tupelo Task Force, the Boerner family and city officials on Thursday morning.
Mayor Jack Reed Jr. praised the work of the work of the task force, particularly the unquenchable enthusiasm of Boerner, who served as task force co-chairman.
The city received the Healthiest Hometown Award from BlueCrossBlue Shield of Mississippi Foundation for its efforts to create a more active, healthy culture in Tupelo. Winning the annual competition also came with a $50,000 grant to allow the city to keep moving its efforts forward.
Boerner, the director of the NMMC Wellness Center, died unexpectedly Dec. 6.
Read more in Wednesday's NEMS Daily Journal.

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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:46 PM GMT en Abril 12, 2012
Large portions of the Midwest U.S. shivered through a hard freeze (temperatures below 28°F ) this morning, and freezing temperatures extended as far south as Tennessee and North Carolina. Though the cold temperatures were not unusual for this time of year, they likely caused widespread damage to flowering plants fooled into blooming by last month's unprecedented "Summer in March" heat wave. Growers of apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, and cherries worked during the night and early morning to minimize the damage by running large fans and propane heaters in their orchards, and some even rented helicopters in an attempts to keep temperatures a few degrees warmer. While freezing temperatures for an extended period will not kill the trees, they will destroy the flowers and fragile buds that are needed to produce fruit later in the year. Temperatures of approximately 28°F will kill about 10% of fruit tree buds and flowers, while temperatures of 25°F will produce a 90% kill rate. Temperatures of 25° were common over Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota this morning, and I expect that this morning's freeze was severe and widespread enough to cause tens of millions of dollars in damage to the fruit industry. There have been numerous freezes and frosts over the Midwest's fruit growing regions since late March, and orchards are definitely taking a major beating from the weather. It will be several weeks before the extent of the damage is known, but I think that so far it is unlikely that the industry has suffered a billion-dollar disaster, such as occurred in 2007. A warm spell in March that year was followed by cold temperatures in early April that were 10 - 20 degrees below average, bringing killing frosts and freezes to the Midwest and South that caused $2.2 billion in agricultural damage, wiping out apple, peach, winter wheat and alfalfa crops.
Figure 1. Temperatures this morning dipped below freezing across most the northeast quarter of the country, extending into Tennessee and North Carolina. Image taken from our wundermap with the new "go back in time" feature turned on.
History of billion-dollar U.S. freezes
Freezes can cause big damage to agriculture. According to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, there have been six billion-dollar U.S. freezes since 1980, accounting for 5% of all billion-dollar weather-related disasters. Five of these freezes affected California or Florida; one hit the Midwest. Ranked by damages (in 2011 dollars), here are the six billion-dollar U.S. freeze events since 1980:
1) California Freeze of December 1990. Severe freeze in the Central and Southern San Joaquin Valley caused the loss of citrus, avocado trees, and other crops in many areas. Several days of subfreezing temperatures occurred, with some valley locations in the teens. $5.9 billion in direct and indirect economic losses, including damage to public buildings, utilities, crops, and residences.
2) Florida Freeze of December 1983. Severe freeze central/northern Florida; about $4.5 billion damage to citrus industry.
3) California Freeze of December 1998. A severe freeze damaged fruit and vegetable crops in the Central and Southern San Joaquin Valley. Extended intervals of sub 27° F temperatures occurred over an 8-day period; $3.5 billion estimated damages/costs.
4) Florida Freeze of January 1985. Severe freeze in central/northern Florida; about $2.5 billion damage to citrus industry.
5) East/Midwest freeze of April 2007. Widespread severe freeze over much of the East and Midwest (AL, AR, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, MS, MO, NE, NC, OH, OK, SC, TN, VA, WV), causing significant losses in fruit crops, field crops (especially wheat), and the ornamental industry. Temperatures in the teens/20's accompanied by rather high winds nullified typical crop-protection systems. Over $2.2 billion in damage/costs.
6) California Freeze of January 2007. For nearly two weeks in January, overnight temperatures over a good portion of California dipped into the 20's, destroying numerous agricultural crops, with citrus, berry, and vegetable crops most affected. $1.5 billion estimated in damage/costs; 1 fatality reported.
Record warmth in the Western U.S.
As is often the case when one part of the country is experiencing much cooler than average temperatures, the other half is seeing record warmth, due to a large bend in the jet stream that allows warm air to flow northwards. Much of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Colorado experienced record warm temperatures yesterday. Most notably, Jackson, Wyoming hit 72°F, the earliest 70° reading in their history, and 27° above their normal high of 45°.
Figure 2. Severe weather risk for Saturday, April 14, 2012, from NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.
Tornado outbreak possible Saturday in Kansas and Oklahoma
A significant tornado outbreak is possible on Saturday, says NOAA's Storm Prediction Center. A warm, unstable airmass will collide with cold air funneling down from Canada, and strong jet stream winds will create plenty of wind shear. There is the potential for long-track strong tornadoes over Oklahoma and Kansas on Saturday, and SPC has has issued their second highest level of alert, a "Moderate Risk," for the region.
First named storm in the Atlantic possible next week
Both the GFS and ECMWF models are predicting that an extratropical "cut-off" low will separate from the jet stream early next week several hundred miles east of Bermuda, and linger for several days over subtropical waters with temperatures in the 22 - 24°C range. These ocean temperatures may be warm enough to allow the storm to organize into a named subtropical storm. However, climatology argues against such an occurrence; there has been only one named April storm in the Atlantic since 1851. If a subtropical storm does form next week, it would probably not affect any land areas.
Jeff Masters
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The Princeton Juggling Club will perform its fourth annual show at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 19-21, in the Frist Campus Center theater. A matinee performance will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21.
Admission is $2 or free with Passport to the Performing Arts. Tickets are available at the Frist ticket office, (609) 258-1742. Proceeds from the Thursday and Saturday shows will be donated to the Doctors Without Borders charity.
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STARKVILLE — For the second time ever, Starkville collected more than $500,000 in sales taxes — $500,300 in August.
But the Starkville Daily News reports that hotel tax revenues were almost 39 percent lower than a year earlier.
The city's latest sales tax report says the only other month with more than a half-million dollars in sales taxes was December 2011, at about $508,200.
Total sales taxes through August are nearly $3.7 million, up from $3.5 million this time last year.
That's despite a sharp drop in hotel tax revenues and a smaller one in restaurant tax revenues.
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Posted March 21, 2003; 01:27 p.m.
Towey, deputy assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, will speak on "Compassion, the U.S. Constitution and President Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives" on Wednesday, March 26. His lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in 104 Computer Science Building.
Towey is expected to discuss the moral, legal and political bases for President Bush's commitment to allow governmental funds to be used to assist faith-based and other community initiatives in their efforts to provide essential social services. He will talk about the effectiveness of faith-based initiatives as providers of social services, as well as First Amendment issues surrounding the provision of governmental funds to them.
This event is part of the America's Founding and Future lecture series sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions . For more information, call Seana Sugrue at (609) 258-6333.
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Susan Louise Jordan, 64, of Merrifield, died Thursday, March 28, 2013, at her home. Services will be private.
Susan was born March 29, 1948, in St. Paul, the daughter of Roger and Charlotte (Krueger) Jordan. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in finance and continued her education at the University of St. Thomas where she earned a Master's Degree in computer science. She worked at 3M her entire career, before retiring and moving to Lake Edward several years ago.
She enjoyed gardening and woodworking. She was a member of the Nisswa Garden Club.
Susan is survived by her brothers, Doug (Judy) Jordan and Mark Jordan; niece and nephews, Sara, Andy and Troy; and sister-in-law, Marlys (Stan) Anderson.
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Underneath your skin, a delicate network of blood
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strong. The smallest of these blood vessels are the capillaries, which usually
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The blood under your skin appears dark purple or red initially and slowly fades to a
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Certain people bruise more easily than others or
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Fair-skinned people do not necessarily bruise more easily, but often suffer
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Anyone taking medications that thin the blood as a
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condition, like warfarin, is more at risk for bruising. This is because thinner
blood requires a smaller opening to leak out into the surrounding tissue than
blood that is at its normal consistency.
Some dietary supplements, like fish oil and ginkgo,
can also thin the blood and make bruising more likely to occur.
The use of topical corticosteroid creams results in
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Surgical procedures, particularly cosmetic surgery,
often result in bruising.
Nothing is more unsightly than a large bruise on a
noticeable part of your body. The dark black marks that occur with skin
bruising are easy to spot and, if severe, can take weeks to completely fade.
Although there is not much you can do to prevent a bruise from forming after a
bump, fall or other accident, you can take steps to hide and heal your bruises
Home Care
Caring for your bruise at home is vital to helping
it quickly heal. Keep the bruised area elevated whenever possible and apply ice
to the injury several times per day for the first 48 hours after the trauma.
Elevation helps reduce the amount of blood flow that reaches the injured area,
minimizing bruises, while ice causes your capillaries to constrict, reducing
how much blood is able to leak out into the surrounding tissue. If the area is
swollen, you can use ibuprofen to reduce the inflammation. Avoid taking aspirin
when you are treating a bruise.
Parsley has long been used as a home treatment to reduce the appearance of
bruises and is believed to help encourage the re-absorption of blood into the
body. Treatment with parsley should not begin until 48 hours after the injury
once you have stopped icing the affected area. To use parsley to treat your
bruise, chop up a half-cup of parsley greens and blend it with 1/3 of a cup of
olive oil to create a paste. Use a clean makeup brush or cotton swab to paint
the paste onto the bruise and cover with gauze or a loose bandage for
approximately one hour before rinsing. Continue the treatment daily until the
bruise fades.
Clinical Treatments
Typically, clinical intervention from your
physician is not necessary to treat bruises; however, if you frequently notice
large, very painful and swollen bruises on your body that do not seem to relate
to an injury, see your doctor. In some cases, easy, frequent bruising can be
the sign of a serious medical condition.
If you suffered a major fall or accident, it may be
wise to seek emergency medical care to ensure that you did not damage any
tissue or bones. For widespread bruising, you may be given a prescription pain
reliever or anti-inflammatory drug to ease your symptoms.
In most cases, a combination of home care and
over-the-counter products are adequate to treat bruises. You can also find
effective over-the-counter products to disguise the marks while they heal as
well as to strengthen the under eye area if you frequently develop bruises
Some skin care brands offer products that are specifically designed to speed up the healing process of
bruises to make them fade more quickly. These skin care treatment products
often contain arnica, an herb that encourages circulation. By giving your
circulation a boost, arnica helps to transport the blood pooled under your skin
away from the bruise more quickly. Formulations that contain zinc and copper
can also shorten the time required for bruises to heal by speeding up the
cellular regeneration process.
A variety of eye products are available to help strengthen the capillaries in the under eye area to prevent
bruising. These products are often rich in vitamins, such as vitamin K, which
provide the nutrients necessary to strengthen the capillary walls. Glycosides,
a combination of a sugar and various other compounds, also provide strength to
the capillaries. Horse chestnut extract is a common source of glycosides in
under eye creams meant to prevent bruising.
While you're dealing with a healing bruise,
particularly on your face, you can rely on cosmetics to help mask the
appearance of the injury. If the area around the bruise is still swollen, apply
a light colored blush in a shade that is lighter than your normal skin
undertones to the border of the bruise. This helps minimize the dramatic
contrast between the swollen area and the rest of your face.
You can then apply a concealer over the bruise. If the skin is very red, you may want
to opt for a concealer with a green tint to minimize the red or purple color present in
the bruised area. Another option is to select a concealer that has a blend of pigments to
minimize all types of discoloration. After applying your concealer, finish off with a full coverage
foundation applied to your entire complexion and set the whole look with
finishing powder. The various layers of cosmetics give the ultimate camouflage
to unsightly bruises.


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Scott wants to double Florida job training program
Published: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 11:08 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 11:08 a.m.
JACKSONVILLE — Gov. Rick Scott wants to double funding for Florida's "quick response" job training program.
Scott urged lawmakers to increase the program's annual budget to $12 million on Tuesday in Jacksonville, where he visited the headquarters of a recently merged grocery company.
Jacksonville-based Winn-Dixie last year combined with Bi-Lo, another chain headquartered in Greenville, S.C.
Scott said the program that tailors training to the needs of employers helped Florida land the merged company's headquarters.
The new Bi Low & Winn-Dixie is worth $500 million with 690 grocery stores and 63,000 employees. It's the nation's ninth largest supermarket chain.
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• Health information technology can drive improvements in quality and efficiency in health care
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• Reports on cost-savings tend to be anecdotal in nature
• Health care organisations can reap non-financial gains from ICTs
• Administrative processes such as billing represent in most countries a prime opportunity for savings
• Achieving "transformation" through ICTs
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• Purchase and implementation costs for EMRs can be significant
• Physician incentives differ under different payment systems
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• Lack of commonly defined and consistently implemented standards plagues interoperability
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Chapter 3. Aligning Incentives with Health System Priorities
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Chapter 4. Enabling a Secure Exchange of Information
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Chapter 5. Using Benchmarking to Support Continuous Improvement
• Building a common understanding of what needs to be measured
• Countries have adopted a range of different approaches to monitor ICT adoption
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• Improving comparability of data on ICT in health: What options?
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and FTR Clint/Judge beat Corky head to head at the RMRC for his first OPEN win on the weekend Judge turned two tears of age,couple with the Amateur win at Lone Star two months earlier, he was the youngest dog at the National Amateur that year at 25 months of age...
the first person to congratulate Clint after he completed the 4th series was none other than D.L.Walters when he came up to Clint and said " son, I didnt think it was possible for a dog so young, but I think you just won yourself an Open"
Clint always tells me that was one of his fondest memories of his FT career
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Heres a few things I`ve noticed about what has been going on in the last 30 yrs.
An influx of cruciate ligament tears. Somewhat bigger dogs, longer tests, more training - I have always been partial to smaller dogs - Code Blue, Watergator Sam, Paha Sapa Chief size - they hold up well over their lifetimes.
Cancer is more prevalent - When it strikes a high profile dog we notice it more - I would say because of a lot of use of a limited gene pool we are seeing more conditions - food allergy, skeletal, CNM - in the old days the best local stud was bred to the best local bitch, pups went to the good trainers, sometimes that worked, but we actually saw the dogs so knew their issues.
Markin ability is better - I started in '63, the guy that taught me a lot of what I know was a guy named Bob Sparks who owned at the time a pup named Moon - In my days of watching dogs I have never seen a dog that could consistently mark better - on occasion dogs like Ray's Rascal & Corky could come close or equal, but none better. 9 Derbies, 30 points, 5 wins, 1 second, 1 third, 2 greenies against some very high powered Derby dogs - I've ran against Lean Mac, trained with & ran against Charmain -
Trainability is better - training tools & techniques are better - help is more available - people who know are willing to share what they know - people have more leisure time to devote to this pursuit
Ability to get in water has greatly diminished! (this has me concerned) - Don't agree, water for training is at a premium - unless you have the knack of reading dogs it is an easy part of the process to screw up - I have seen some great water dogs all through my trialing experience.
now realize this is a generalized statement and I don`t get a ton of super well bred FT bred dogs through here to work with also.
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I just bought "Common Lisp: The Language" and "Lisp in Small Pieces" from Chapters at a huge discount. The prices, in CAD$, were lower than the prices in USD$, before figuring the huge exchange rate advantage.
I just bought "Common Lisp: The Language" and "Lisp in Small Pieces" from Chapters at a huge discount. The prices, in CAD$, were lower than the prices in USD$, before figuring the huge exchange rate advantage.
Got Metroid Prime, but my Cube is on the fritz. After about 15 minutes it gets "Disc cannot be read" errors repeatedly, for any disc I try. Argh! Despite that, Metroid Prime is a lot of fun so far.
Haven't Lisped much in the past week or so. Been too busy to mess with it.
Going to see George Carlin tonight. Woo!
Just got Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. Rock! I also got a lot done on my Lily bot. I've been hanging around on irc.freenode.net #lisp a bit, and it's pretty interesting, though nobody bit on my question about how to collect and keep track of the various utility functions I'm starting to come up with. And it's also more like #sbcl-hacking sometimes.
Spent a good amount of time messing around with CMUCL trying to make a bot for a MOO we use at work called Lily. I'm not quite sure how to do I/O multiplexing on a network socket and standard input, but I think I'm making progress. It's fun to actually make a useful program in common Lisp instead of just reading about it. I tried to use dan's DB-SOCKETS package, but I couldn't get it to compile in my CMUCL.
My interest was renewed after reading Erann Gat's old PARCIL code, which implements a simple C evaluator. It didn't look too awful painful, so I figured parsing the Lily protocol wouldn't be impossible.
Also recently learned that Paul Graham's Viaweb setup gave every customer their own Lisp image! That's one way to avoid problems with multiprocessing.
Never have I seen a book published by a novice for novices, nor heard of such a thing, but that does not mean it does not exist -- the likelihood that I would purchase it or read it is zero, as it would undoubtedly have an off-putting title and cover, probably including the target audience "dummies" or "the complete idiot". I recently reviewed a book in which the author could only be understood to apologize for his lack of mastery of the subject when he chatted endlessly about how hard it was to linearize the material and where he used more promises of what was to come and repetitions of what he had discussed than actual new information in each paragraph, how this and that feature in the topic he discussed "is not easy" to use and understand. It was torture to read and try to lift it to some readable level.
I took a couple pictures to Portland Color to get 8x10s made. The output was a little disappointing; it looks pretty much like a high-quality inkjet print. Which isn't bad, but it's not as nice as the slide. I shouldn't be surprised; I already know that nothing looks as nice as a slide on a light table. I'll have to take some pictures with more vivid colors and interesting subjects, I guess.
I've been working on an interface to Verizon's wholesale order system. Verizon has a website where you can place orders and check their status. Their interface is cumbersome, so a coworker and I wrote a frontend that's much saner and less error-prone. It works acceptably well.
However, Verizon is about to update their web interface, breaking all our software, so I've been looking into alternatives to LWP blasting and HTML scraping. Verizon has an application-to-application interface that uses EDI that looks like it might do the trick. The only downside is wading through literally thousands of pages of "business rules" to find out the small subset we need to work with. It's a scary glimpse into the world of Big Software Projects for Big Companies. It looks like the safe business strategy is to frame programming problems as tedious exercises that can be solved by armies of mediocre drones.
I found the problem with my prototypes. Turns out order is important and the compiler doesn't see the definition in time to do the right thing. That plus a failure to "use strict" when testing my idea out. Duh.
In other boring news, I got a new computer (a dual athlon like raph's), a new girlfriend, and I'm looking to buy a house. Oh, and I'm going to Hawaii and Super Monkey Ball 2 is a lot of fun.
That is all.
I've been trying to use prototypes to make new utility functions in perl. The "perlsub" documentation says this:
Perl supports a very limited kind of compile-time argument checking using function prototyping. If you declare
sub mypush (\@@)
then "mypush()" takes arguments exactly like "push()" does.
But that doesn't seem to be my experience. I wrote a function called linsert. The definition is:
sub linsert (\@$@) { my ($aref, $index, @elts) = @_; splice(@{$aref}, $index, 0, @elts); }
Then I tried to write mypush using linsert:
sub mypush (\@@) { my ($aref, @elts) = @_; linsert(@{$aref}, $#{$aref}, @elts); }
It doesn't work; the original array is not altered. But if I use the built-in push instead of linsert, it magically works. It seems that this makes it impossible to build a pyramid of utility functions, as the base functions don't seem work as expected unless they're built in.
I also found out that $a and $b are special when "strict" is concerned. I had good luck making a "foreachpair" utility function, but I got tripped up when making "foreachtriplet". Ugh.
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Topic: Happy BDAY Charming Prince a Day Early
Last night I had a crazy dream
A wish was granted just for me.
It could be for anything.
I didn't ask for money
Or a mansion in Malibu.
I simply wished, for one more day with you,
One more day,
One more time,
One more sunset, maybe I'd be satisfied.
But then again
I know what it would do,
Leave me wishing still, for one more day with you.
First thing I'd do, is pray for time to crawl.
Then I'd unplug the telephone
And keep the TV off.
I'd hold you every second,
Say a million I love you's.
That's what I'd do. For one more day with you.
Leave me wishing still for one more day.
My Love Grows Even Deeper In Every Way. By Rio Diamond (One More Day)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Teddy 81 Years Young
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A precocious artistic talent, Carlo Dolci started his apprenticeship in the studio of the painter Jacopo Vignali in about 1625–26, and was recognised as an excellent portraitist at the age of only sixteen. He lived and worked throughout his life in Florence, which he left only in 1672 to go to Innsbruck to work on a commission for a portrait of Claudia Felicita, the future wife of the Emperor Leopold I. Cosimo III's Medici court accorded him unreserved esteem and admiration, as did the English aristocracy on the Grand Tour, taking his reputation to England too. He also made some exquisite still lives, but his fame is mainly linked to his vast production of sacred paintings.
He concentrated particularly on painting from life, and gave a personal interpretation based on precise "optical realism", which he achieved by creating formally impeccable figures, with a crystal-clear rendering. Dolci always strove for formal perfection and elegance, and this was part of a true religious spirit which led him to consider art as a divine gift for the glorification of God on earth. His aim was to inspire a feeling of Christian piety in the observer. This explains his preference for the depiction of gentle Madonnas and ecstatic saints who, in the years of his maturity, increasingly conveyed a sense of piety. Some of these paintings were later to become popular cult images.
This St Sebastian is a typical example of Dolci's christianus pictor easel painting, a very successful invention which was much replicated and imitated.
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Even after more than a month, the Ubuntu Linux CDs that I requested did not arrive. But that did not deter me from trying it. After dropping plans to download Ubuntu, I found a person in the local LUG who could lend me his copy (thanks Praveen!).
So I finally installed it last week. The quick installation without any package selection did not surprise me. I was prepared for it. But what really took me by surprise was the very limited packages that came on the CD. Well, one CD can hold only that much and selected packages where quite right for a novice desktop system.
Ubuntu has alien installed by default and it save my day. I was able to install mplayer, xmms and TeX from the Redhat 9.0 CD.
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ECRU – Tupelo's boys won on Saturday night despite officials taking some points away.
The Golden Wave beat North Pontotoc 69-59 in the final game of the Kings of the Court Tournament.
Tied at 51 in the fourth quarter, Tupelo's Tim Lewis went to the line for two shots. He missed the front end and Sean Watkins grabbed the miss and scored uncontested.
Jordan Garmon then stole the ball and scored on a fastbreak for what appeared to be a 55-51 Tupelo lead. North cut it two on Javonnis Garmon's free throws before North Pontotoc coaches could get the officials' attention to question Lewis' untaken free throw.
Officials gathered and took four points from Tupelo (11-9) and two from North Pontotoc (12-5), reverting the game to tie at 51. A minute was also added on the clock.
"I was against it," Tupelo coach Jeff Norwood said. "It worked out. We had the momentum going. We kind of kept it going, but I thought it was just a play on situation."
After the interruption, Lewis went back to the line for his second free throw and made it for a 52-51 lead with 6:31 left. Watkins went inside for a three-point lead and Antonio Green's 3-pointer put the Golden Wave ahead 59-54. Tupelo was down by 14 in the third but scored 18 of the game's final 26.
Tupelo had no answer for Marcus Green in the first half. Green scored a game-high 30 points for the Vikings but none in the fourth quarter.
Green had 20, Watkins 13 and Alex Foster 10 for the Wave.
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JUNE 24--A man who was caught last year having sex with a couch discarded on a Wisconsin street pleaded guilty this afternoon to a public lewdness charge.
According to a criminal complaint sworn by a Waukesha City Police Department officer, Streator's 11 PM furniture tryst was interrupted by an off-duty cop out jogging. Officer Ryan Edwards reported spotting "a subject leaning over the couch facing down and it looked like he was having sexual relations with someone on the couch." Edwards added that he "could see the male's hips thrusting up and down on the couch."
quote:cruel and unusual punishment
barred from possessing "pornography of any kind."
Probation for masturbation....One might say he got off easy
As long as a small plllow was not present, I see no harm.
In March 2008, the Daily Telegraph here in the UK reported that an American married man (40-year old Art Price, father of three children) had been observed on four separate occasions in Bellevue (Ohio, US) of having sex with a picnic table (the most recent being March 14, 2008 when a neighbour filmed the incident to show the police). The neighbour had observed Mr. Price "in his garden turning over a round metal table before performing a sex act upon it". A spokesman for the local police, Police Captain Matt Johnson said: "He was completely nude. He would use the hole from the umbrella and have sex with the table. Once you think you've seen it all, something else comes around". Mr. Price was charged with four counts of public indecency because his sexual frolics with the picnic table occurred near an elementary school. For others, sex with furniture doesn't seem to be a problematic issue. Consider this little snippet I came across online"
And if prostitution was legal atleat 25% of these fellows would not be screwing furniture.
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I'd like to see it, but it's PG-13, so I don't Chux Jr seeing it until I get a chance to. And she wants to go to the Batman TV 45th Anniversary panel the same evening, so she'll still be around at that time.
2 Year One Screenings???
As if not having any passes didn't hurt enough already!
I would have had so many panels for Friday as well...Lego Star Wars, Hasbro Star Wars, Green Lantern animated series...oh well...
Me! Me!
I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
Saturday is up, and it's VERY light, a pathetically weak schedule actually, like why the hell is Friday so over-scheduled when there's so little draw on Saturday? Anyway, my Saturday schedule involves standing in line for BR20 and then sitting in BR20 for hours, but after 1:15pm, I can flexible my schedule up nicely if that's what you guys want. That said, the Kevin Smith panel is Saturday evening, at 5:45pm, so Steve, Tycho, I, and probably several of you guys as well, will be lining up for that at some point as we do every year.
I am proposing Saturday afternoon would make a fine time to get together, after 1:20pm.
This reminds me, SDCC'11 seems to be the comic-con that my mom would most want to go to. It's the first one I'm not telling her about the events because I know it'll break her heart to hear what she's missing (her mother's dementia has gotten really bad and my mom has to take daily care of her now).
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Rogue Squadron-19 Golds, Battle For Naboo-18 Platinums, Rogue Leader-15 Golds/15 Aces, Rebel Strike-19 Single Golds/19 Single Aces
James Boba Fettfield & Lord Malakite's Video Game Collection
1:20 Saturday would probably work for me. I might try to go to Futurama, and it gets out at 1. If I can't, well, it'll be on TV soon. (I've found that the patience to wait until something actually airs a few months later works to one's benefit with panel scheduling. )
Kinda skimming the list, I've come up with a tentative list for the first three days worth of panels. Not sure what I'll actually go to, and my daughter likely being with me the whole time is a big factor. And, yeah, I know there's some conflicts, but I'm not done:
10-11: IDW & Hasbro (room 9)
2:30-3:30: Hasbro Transformers (room 24ABC)
3:30-4:30: The Making of Transformers Prime (room 24ABC)
*--I've discovered that Chux Jr loves this show, primarily because Arcee is a main character. Given the disturbing dearth of strong female characters in kids' entertainment, I can't discourage this simply because it's crappily-written, uses the stupid Bayformers designs, and has a color palette that renders it almost unwatchable for me.
5-6: Beavis & Butt-Head (room 6A)
6-7: Voltron (Indigo Ballroom, Hilton Bayfront)
10-11: Lego Star Wars (room 7AB)
11-12: Hasbro Star Wars (room 7AB)
11-12: Tintin (hall H)
2-3: Green Lantern: The Animated Series (room 6BCF)
3:30-4:30: Thundercats Premiere (room 6A)
6-7: Batman 45th Anniversary (room 9)
8-9: Reign of the Dinosaurs (room 6DE)
*--This sounds like a more up-to-date version of Walking With Dinosaurs. Who doesn't love Walking With Dinosaurs? The ghost of Hitler, that's who.
12:15-1:00: Futurama (ballroom 20)
7-8: Fables (room 6DE)
*--This is the only panel that's definitely not for kids, but might be okay for her to sleep in. But it's one of the best series I've ever read, and I understand that attendees get inside information on the characters that doesn't actually appear in the comic.
8:30-11:30: Masquerade (various locations)
Am I blind, or is there absolutely no GIJoe-related panel at all? I might have to ask at the booth, "Is GIJoe the red-headed stepchild of Hasbro, since most of the stuff--the POC line, both IDW continuities, and Renegades--are the best the line has ever been, but they're not marketed and all the eggs seem to be in the Rise of Cobra 2 basket, despite everyone and their brother agreeing that the movie was crap?"


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Speaking Event: Ban California Fracking and Reduce Climate Change
Two Extraordinary Films and a Strategy Session
You are invited to a film and discussion evening for two VERY POWERFUL FILMS, THE SKY IS PINK and DO THE MATH.
The purpose of this Sunrise Center house party is dedicated to educate, inspire, raise funds, and recruit volunteers to stop fracking and prevent catastrophic climate change.
We are co-presenting with Food and Water Watch and 350 Marin.
Our well-informed presenters :
Max Perrey, Assistant, Food and Water Watch - September 4th
Lori Grace, Climate Project presenter, trained with Al Gore
Gary Krane, Activist and fundraiser concerning fracking.
Schedule for the evening: 7pm networking and socializing, 7:30 movies 8:45 discussion 9:00 -9:30 pm at the end of each evening.
Education and Inspiration: Enjoy Two Fabulous films on Fracking and Catastrophic Climate change & What You Can Do to Stop the Madness: The Sky is Pink and Do the Math (see below for details.)
Discussion with knowledgeable presenters: Discuss and ask questions of knowledgeable presenters about what you can do to stop California fracking and reduce climate change. Many different options will be presented from letter writing to volunteering for Food and Water Watch or 350.org. whatever is comfortable to you.
Meet and Collaborate with other people who also care like you.
Decide if you would like to become more involved in these issues, including running a fun house party yourself
The Sky is Pink (18min): deals with how the media and gas companies have distorted the issues around fracking. The Sky is Pink shows how the media together with gas companies made the dangers of fracking appear controversial as opposed to definite. Seeing this film will give you perspective on the methods of manipulating media that all large corporations from the tobacco companies onwards have used to influence legislators and voters.
Do you know that fracking is now going on in Northern California as close as Antioch and Pittsburgh? Contaminated water may be flowing into the San Francisco Bay as you read this announcement.
Do the Math [45min] is a fast-paced and inspiring film about the rising movement to solve the climate crisis. Do the Math brings up the ethical issue of what to do in the light of this reality. 350.org is offering key training in how to encourage individuals and institutions to divest stock from gas and oil corporations and how to participate in demonstrations and rallies.
All money goes to help ban fracking in California and reduce climate change (No one turned away for lack of funds.)


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Description The Dorcas Coppper or Cinquefoil Copper (Lycaena dorcas) is a species of Lycaeninae that occurs in North America. The species L. dospassosi was once considered the same as L. dorcas.
The top side is brown, males have a blueish-purple iridescence while females tend to just have a few lighter areas. Because of the males coloration they can often be mistaken for L. helloides. Their hindwings have red-orange spots on the border. The underside is brown with a slight orange tint. The wingspan for this particular species is 2.5–3.2 cm (0.98–1.3 in).
L. dorcas is seen as far north as boreal Alaska and south to Washington in the west and the Great Lakes region in the east, there is an isolated population in Maine. Within this range they are found within bogs and old overgrown fields.
Dimensions 2.5–3.2 cm (0.98–1.3 in).
Life Cycle AdultBetween June and September there is one flight, during that flight males stay near the host plants scouting out females. The females will then lay eggs singly on the underside of the plant. The eggs will drop with the autumn leaflets and then overwinter. During the spring the caterpillars hatch and must refind their ways back to the host plant to feed.
ImmatureThe caterpillar tends to be pale green with a single dark green drosal line in addition to faint white oblique bands, while the egg itself is white.
Habitat Freshwater swamps, marshes & bogs, Shorelines & salt marshes, Meadows & fields, Scrub, shrub & brushlands.
Range New England, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Plains, Great Lakes, Alaska.


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Celebrate the life and music of artist Nina Simone with the Jazz Artists of Charleston. Simone's repertoire covered a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. Her debut album, Little Girl Blue, will be played in two sets. Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St. Saturday, 5pm & 8pm. $40-$30. (843)853-2252, www.charlestonmusichall.com


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From humble beginnings as a metal fabrication shop founded by Larry Lippert after World War II, Lippert Components has grown into the leading supplier of components to the recreational vehicle and residential housing industries, as well as adjacent industries including bus, cargo and equestrian trailer, marine and heavy truck. From 48 facilities throughout the United States and in Canada and Italy, our more than 8,000 employees work together to bring innovative product and service solutions to customers every day. Guided by three generations of family leadership, we've grown tremendously, making more than 40 acquisitions in the past 15 years, and have become a $1.7 billion revenue company. As one of the few companies in our industry offering a leadership development program, we attract the best talent in the country and focus on developing employees into strong company and community leaders. More than anything else, we are defined by our core values.
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The Bizarre Adventures of Gilbert & Sullivan
By Ms. Laura Howell
You know, sometimes I really wonder how people come up with their ideas. I mean, turning Gilbert and Sullivan into super deformed caricatures of themselves who keep getting into fights with robots and monsters is one thing, but turning Gilbert's wife Kitty into a cat girl? Bizarre.
I have to admit that I know almost nothing of Gilbert and Sullivan's work (other than what has been parodied in Animaniacs and other cartoons), but that doesn't stop me from enjoying this comic's blend of late 19th century values, Japanese style/artistic sensibilities, and British weekly humour comics. In the various comics contained within Gilbert and Sullivan face ninjas and a giant robot (made up of Japanese girls) out for revenge because of The Mikado, that jerk Thomas Edison, magic curses, and women's education, amongst others.
It's strange yes, but the absurdity combining the various elements works surprisingly well. I even learnt some things about Gilbert and Sullivan that I hadn't known before (though that wouldn't have been that difficult). Apparently there're loads more of these, I'll have to check them out.


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Our daughter is moving to Darlington Co. This gets my turkey hunting brain running! I see there is a WMA in the county. Any other public land in the area that holds birds?
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Is China censoring phone conversations?
Are Chinese mainland citizens, as has been reported, finding their telephone conversations cut off whenever they mention the word "protest?" While large-scale, real-time voice recognition is a technological possibility, it is at the edge of what is believed likely. It would certainly be revealing about the capabilities of the Chinese government if these anecdotes proved to be widespread.


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|Doc... I tie them this way. Set up the clouser hook. With the hook pointing down .I will add the flash first..usually just pearl flashabou to represent the silver strip down the midddle of the sand eel. I will then place the white (Unique or super hair over the flash. the hair and flash is secured like the usual clouser over the middle bar of the barbells , secured both in front and in back of the eyes. Be sure to take the white hair before it is placed on the hook, hold on to the end and slowly "pull" several strands out a little ways... The purpose is to have a natural point at the back or end of the fly... you can always cut with sissors but this is better. You would do this with the other material. Now... reverse the hook and plce your lighter colors first with the darker ones at the top. Be sure to only tie it in in FRONT of the eye (closest to the eye of the hook) and hold it so it will not roll .Juro will put some angel hair in between.. I don't. For example, I will mix my colors.. for the usual fly I will put 5 or 6 (or 10)strands of yellow, then chartruese, then forest geen, then olive.... That would be it. Sometimes I will put a topping of black. The shades of the fly will look light to dark from bottom to top. The flash should be prominent as it is on the actual eel and will appear in the middle of the fly... Remember.. thin profile .if you add too large a bunch of hair as you build you will get a short fat eel. Do them in defferent length.. For "baby" eels ,only 3 to 4 inches, make them even sparser,even 3 or 4 strands will do it. Finally ,I now put in only 2 or 3 strands of purple or violet as the firsr layer on the inverted hook..before the yellow. Hope this helps.
Clouser's famous fly is called the deep minnow, although people just call it a 'clouser'. If I were him, I would hate that because it kind of nullifies all the other patterns I developed.
Anyway, this fly is called the "deep eel" in respect to Mr.Clouser because it uses the barbell eyes like the deep minnow. I had the same reaction when I got two from an acquaintance. But over time I see a huge difference, personally.
The way I tie them is quite different. If you omit the eyes from each they would have little or nothing in common. One is 2-3 times the length of the other, one uses bucktail the other none, one's thread wraps over the body the other doesn't. There is a synthetic tapering technique I developed that is used for one but is irrelevant for the other. It's kinda hard to describe so I won't bother.
They must be different. If I went to a fly shop and saw both patterns for sale, I would buy what I could afford of one pattern but zero of the other, but thats just me.
I would recommend just tying them anyway you feel comfortable, it's really where you put the fly that makes all the difference anyway.
The fish can't tell the difference!
|Doc Duprey
Deep Sand Eel
Well, I looked the pattern up in the archives, but I'm still a little unclear about the tying. How does it differ from a deep clouser minnow? Sorry for my density...
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|Fred, I have not fished the uniques hair yet.. but I suspect that it will act the same as Superhair.. I like the thinner profiles and There is really nothing you can do about the fouling but as you said it is easy to comb out. In order to avoid fouling I have one or two in the box with have a corsair cover to the hook bend as you might notice... The fly is so effective that it's worth the fouling problem and it only starts to foul after alot of use.
Have you fished any with the unique hair yet? Jury's still out from what I see. Tend to snarl but I'm not sure they are any worse than super hair. And easy to unsnarl.
John. these are great ties, as are all the other ones you have displayed. I was waiting for you to slow down but I can't see that happening soon...
Keep it going and keep a few for my next visit......
Juro or Deep sand eel- Full Box
My number one fly box is already to go for the season or until I run out.. I have them in various sizes and weights ... there are also some without clouser eyes... all tyed With unique hair
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Date Posted: February 23, 2010 - 3:00 am by: Paris
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Jennifer Love Hewitt celebrated her 31st birthday last February 21 by having a costume party in her LA home with her friends dressed up as whoever they want to be dressed as. She, on the other hand, dressed like a stupid '80s Madonna with a Lady Gaga hair bow. I have to admit it got our attention, especially that she faked posed outside her house for all the paparazzi to see and take shot of. Well, she needs all the attention she needs now that she can't take off from what was left of her career.
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We work hard so you can experience the finest accommodations in Savannah's historic district. This really made our day when we read this comment from one of our happy guests:
Dear Kathleen,
Maker of joy! Deliverer of hospitality! Transformer of the lost, in the beautiful and magnificent! creator of food that nourishes the soul. The best cuisine and most imaginative we've had in Savannah! You not only have our deepest gratitude, but our friendship. This inscription was written in our (Founding Brother's Book by Joseph J. Ellis) in The Olde Savannah library on departure day.
The men whose lives are described in this book, like you, undertook the impossible. They took enormous risks, they worked toward a vision of a better world. Some lost their lives, others lost their fortunes, but none lost their honor.They gave us our country....the finest, most prosperous and powerful nation on earth. Take courage and heart from them. In a sense, each time you welcome a guest, you also welcome these noble patriots to come in and rest, eat, and sleep comfortably.They all deserved a stay at The Olde Savannah Inn.


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American Chike Lindsay defeats Somluck Kamsing at Push Kick Promotions "World Stand Off"
- Written by Dave Walsh
Last night Push Kick Promotions played host to one of the most revered names to fight on American soil, boxing gold medalist Somluck Kamsing. In the main event of the evening Somluck took on rising Atlanta based star Chike "Vicious Croc" Lindsay in a three round muay thai match-up between the old generation and the new. Also on the card, Canadian Matt Embree (One of Liverkick's top 8 North American fighters to watch out for) took on Ben Yelle in a late replacement fight, and former WBC champion Malaipet Sasiprapa fought Sean Kearney.
In the night's feature attraction, Chike Lindsay started slow against Somluck, before picking up the pace in the second and third rounds. Somluck's defensive skills prevented Lindsay from landing anything major, but the American still came off with a unanimous decision victory. This is easily Chike's biggest win to date, and hopefully marks his official transition into the true global stage of high level muay thai.
Matt Embree wasn't playing games with Ben Yelle. Over the course of three rounds, the training partner of Simon Marcus completely dominated the fight wherever it went. After scoring big in the clinch with solid knees, Embree cut Yelle with an elbow en route to a unanimous decision win. I would like to see Embree match up with Kevin Ross soon, as that's one of the most anticipated match-ups between the best of North America.
Malaipet Sasiprapa won a unanimous decision victory over Sean Kearney, in a fight that was a lot closer than it's 30-27 scorecard reflected. While Sasiprapa landed several sweeps throughout the course of the match and toyed with Kearney in round 1, Sean rallied back in the second and third to put on a good showing in the face of the experienced Thai. I expect we'll be seeing a good deal more of Kearney, considering he only recently began his professional fighting career.
Full Results
Chike Lindsay def. Somluck Kamsing via Unanimous Decision
Moses Sangtiennoi def. Ray Cole via (T)KO at 2:31 of Rd. 1
Matt Embree def. Ben Yelle via Unanimous Decision
Malaipet Sasiprapa def. Sean Kearney via Unanimous Decision
Neungsiam Samphusri def. Michael Perez via KO at 1:47 of Rd. 1
Josh Aragon def. Shawn Yacoubian via Unanimous Decision
Glen Spencer def. Brett Martin via (T)KO at 1:48 of Rd. 2
Chase Green and Daniel Kim fight to a Majority Draw
Sheldon Gaines def. Sam Poulton via KO (Head Kick) at 0:30 of Rd. 1


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Replaced with a Senator who Voted by Phone
Today, the committee of conference on the gay marriage amendment, HB73, met to "negotiate".
Senator Roberge offered 2 reasonable amendments:
- allowing for "freedom of religious conscience" for private individuals and businesses
- allowing a non-binding referendum on this issue for the citizens to vote on.
No one on the committee would even second the Senator's motions!
Instead, the conference committee offered MINOR changes to the amendment that failed in the House and voted 6-1 to accept the changes (Senator Roberge was the one dissenting vote).
Because a committee of conference vote needs to be UNANIMOUS in order for it to be brought before the House and Senate again, the Senate President Slyvia Larson then REMOVED Senator Roberge from the committee and REPLACED her with Senator Houde, who "dialed in" his vote FOR the report.
Senator Houde was not even present!
No matter where you live, call Senator Larson at 603- 225-6130 and respectfully tell her that NH citizens do not want gay marriage being rammed through by a circumvention of the process. Enough is enough!
Now HB73 goes back to the full house and senate for a vote stay tuned.
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Baking | Coffee Chocolate Mascarpone Layered Cake … deliciousness in every bite
"Coffee and chocolate—the inventor of mocha should be sainted."
Cherise Sinclair
Coffee Chocolate Mascarpone Layered Cake … a promise of deliciousness in every bite. As the name suggests, the cake had everything we love about desserts – Coffee + Chocolate + Mascarpone! These days I crave coffee more than ever, so the cake was meant to have some! There was none other I would have made that day!
'twas a cake for my SILs birthday. It came together without a plan. That's just how life is these days. With the daughter in her final year in school, board exams round the corner, driving, driving and more driving is all I seem to do. The days are a whir of exam pick ups and drops. Loads of fast track shopping as school farewells, graduation ceremonies etc are part of the muddled weave.
… and then there is junior. Recently back from a trip to HKG with his dad where all they did was eat, he is always hungry. Makes for an ideal guinea pig. He's currently immersed into Krav Maga, a form of Israeli self defense. In addition is a new found love for boxing. More adds to the list – the dog, the neighbours little kitten {who Coco incidentally hates}, the soup trials, the dessert trials, olive oil cookies … and definitely not salad!
In the midst of this mayhem, there are recipes being developed for a client. That might explain the 'trials'. Between racing around madly, I try and sneak in the odd recipe testing as the deadline approaches fast. Of course there is normal everyday life too … laundry, groceries, da dog, da blog … birthdays too!
The Coffee Chocolate Mascarpone Layered Cake happened as the day progressed. The sponge is my basic 'in the head' recipe. It's one that never fails me, and one I keep experimenting with it. This time I added a dash of baking powder, beat it in actually, to save time sifting it with the flour. Worked out fine.
While the two sponges were baking, I figured I could make some mascarpone alongside. As the cream reached a cautious bubble, chocolate pastry creme seemed doable for a filling. It was a cake on the trot. I had the sponges baked and the rest of the components done the night before too! Happiness is …
For the 'day', all I had was the cake to put together or assemble. I did that at the crack of dawn! That's the fun part, and in many ways a relief. It does amount to a LOT of washing up though, so be prepared.
The cake was special. Beautiful flavours. Light. Moist. Full of flavour! 6 layers of deliciousness. It's a bit of work I have to admit, but planning ahead is the key. If you get most of the work done a day or two before, you won't feel the pinch.
Recipe: Coffee Chocolate Mascarpone Layered Cake
Summary: Beautiful flavours. Light. Moist … absolutely delicious! With 6 layers of deliciousness, the Coffee Chocolate Mascarpone Layered Cake promises to be special. Make the components a day or two ahead to make the task feel less daunting!
Prep Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 2 hours {plus resting/cooling/chilling
- Coffee sponge cakes {make 2 X 4 egg sponges, the quantities below are for 1 sponge only. Double them}
- 4 eggs
- 100g granulated sugar
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp coffee extract
- 1 tbsp instant coffee powder
- 100g plain flour
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- pinch salt
- Coffee syrup
- 100g sugar
- 100ml water
- 20g instant coffee
- Mocha Pastry Creme
- 100g dark chocolate
- 1 tsp coffee
- 100g sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 tsp vanilla bean powder
- 300ml low fat milk {divided 200+100ml}
- 15g cornflour
- Filling
- 1 portion mocha pastry cream {as above}
- 100g low fat cream, chilled
- 15g gelatin
- Coffee mascarpone frosting
- 250g Mascarpone {made from 400g low fat cream; recipe here}
- 100ml low fat cream, chilled
- 25g icing sugar
- 20g instant coffee
- Dark chocolate glaze
- 100g dark couverture chocolate
- 50g unsalted butter
- 15g honey
- To garnish
- Dark chocolate flakes, cocoa nibs, cocoa
- Coffee Sponge Cake {Make 2 X 4 egg sponges}
- Preheat oven to 190C. Line 2 X 8″ loose bottomed round baking tins with parchment paper.
- Make 1 sponge at a time {or an 8 egg one if you have large bowls}
- Place the eggs and sugar in a large bowl. Hold the bowl over simmering water. Beat the eggs until they have tripled in volume, and become mousse like, 5-7 minutes.
- Take off water, add vanilla and beat for another 1-2 minutes.
- Beat in the coffee extract, coffee powder, baking powder and salt.
- Sift 1/3 of the flour into the bowl and gently fold in with a metal spoon/spatula. Repeat with the remaining flour.
- Turn batter into tins and bake for 30 minutes, until lightly coloured and a tester comes out clean.
- Cool cakes in tin for 5 minutes, the then remove from tin and cool completely on rack. Slice each cake into 3 horizontally, total 6 layers.
- Coffee Syrup
- Place all ingredients in a small saucepan. Simmer until the sugar has dissolved. Cool completely.
- Mocha Pastry Creme
- Bring 200ml milk, vanilla sugar and a pinch of salt to a gentle boil in a pot.
- In the meantime, whisk the egg yolks and sugar with a wooden spoon in a big bowl until the mixture becomes pale and light. Stir in the flour slowly until it is thoroughly mixed with the egg mixture.
- Pour the boiling milk into the mixture a little by little while whisking continuously to avoid curdling. And then stir in the rest of the milk until the mixture is well combined.
- Transfer the whole mixture into a pot, with the chocolate and seeds scraped from the vanilla bean, and heat it under low setting. Stir it constantly with the wooden spoon or spatula scraping the sides and bottom until it has thickened.
- Once the custard has thickened, take it off the heat, and strain / pour it into a clean bowl. Cool, cover with cling wrap touching the surface, then chill for a few hours.
- Filling
- Sprinkle the gelatin over 30ml warm water to dissolve.
- Whip the cream to stiff peaks. Gently stir the mocha pastry cream through it, mixing uniformly. Stir in the cooled gelatin.
- Note: If you use heavy whipping cream, you will not need he gelatin
- Coffee mascarpone frosting
- Whip the cream wit the sugar and coffee to medium stiff peaks. Fold the mascarpone gently though it, making sure you don't lose any volume.
- Assemble
- Lay the first layer on a serving platter and place a snug dessert ring around it. Paint the layer with the coffee syrup and top with 1/5th of the filling. Repeat with remaining layers.
- Frost with the coffee mascarpone cream. Chill or at least an hour in the fridge.
- Dark chocolate glaze
- Place all ingredients in a heat proof bowl. Microwave for 1 minute. Mix and repeat if required. Cool a little, and when still pour-able, pour gently and evenly over the cake allowing it to drip over the sides.
- Garnish as desired.
- Note: Slice with a serrated knife dipped in hot water and wiped dry.
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Staying motivated focus of women business owners roundtable
"How to Stay Motivated Even on Bad Days," will be the topic of the Small Business Development Center's Women Business Owners Roundtable discussion from 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Friday, January 24, at the Binghamton Regency on Water Street in downtown Binghamton.
Mary Ann Thompson, owner of Achieve, a life and career consultancy, will offer tips and techniques on self-motivation. Thompson will discuss how to reach a state of equilibrium with the 'Spokes of Life' visual tool.
Thompson holds an associates degree in electronics and is a retired IBM staff engineer. In addition to owning and operating Achieve, Thompson is an accomplished runner and a two-time breast cancer survivor.
The roundtable costs $7 a person and includes a continental breakfast. Attendees are encouraged to bring business cards, brochures and product samples to share.
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text: In preparation for my new lab puppy, I have spent hours and hours over the last few weeks reading this and other forums on dog food trying to decide which feed to use for my new dog. I have read every post on this site about it, I have been to more websites of dog food manufacturers than I can count reading up about their products and have visited most feed stores in the area looking at what they have on hand and calculating cost per pound. Then, last night as I was doing more research, it struck me! When my kids were born, I gave no thought at all about what to feed them. Whatever formula was cheapest, or whatever someone gave us was what they got. When baby food was on sale, we stocked up on it. No research, no reading ingredient labels, nothing! Does that make me a bad dad because I am obsessing over the food for my dogs, but gave no consideration to the food for my kids? Now before you start piling on, I will bet many of you are the same way! You spend hours thinking about your dogs and what they eat, and virtually no time thinking about what you or your kids eat! :D Maybe that's because we know our dogs will never talk back to us or burn up all the gas in our truck and bring it home on empty!:p


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Eug, if I was in your shoes needing a trained dog and 3 up and comers, I'd buy a good trained dog as soon as one was available, buy an up and comer started dog, and buy an 8 week old puppy from the best breeding I could find. After 6 months of training, I'd buy another puppy from the best breeding I could find.
It's been fun spending your money.
Also, I'd train the dogs the way I knew how to train as that is what I know is successful with me at the controls.


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Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families
Dr. Allison Blake was appointed Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families by Governor Chris Christie and was confirmed with a unanimous vote by the Senate on June 21, 2010.
As Commissioner, she has emphasized an integrated and strategic approach to serving children and families in the State. To that end, Dr. Blake has focused on a community-based, family-centered approach to service delivery throughout the work of the entire Department, ensured the inclusion of the parent and youth voice in the Department's planning and quality improvement work, and fostered a significant expansion of partnerships with the community to help enhance child abuse prevention and family strengthening efforts across the state.
With a vision to promote sustainable growth and identify areas of improvement, as one of her first initiatives, Dr. Blake elevated the status of the child protection division's office on adolescents to a Department-level office with an emphasis on more strategic approach to serving youth transitioning to adulthood. By partnering with youth, parents, stakeholders, and service providers, and other state agencies to determine the current strengths of the system and the opportunities for improvement, a formal strategic plan was launched in 2011. Early achievements include the expansion of transitional housing, internships, and financial literacy programs, as well as practice improvements across the system.
This work prepared New Jersey well for the response needed to the growing human trafficking challenge faced by many states. Dr. Blake's commitment to these youth has allowed the department to take a comprehensive approach that includes prevention, intervention and treatment strategies to help victims become survivors.
Dr. Blake has placed a strong emphasis on continuous quality improvement, first by creating a department level office focused on performance management and accountability to help the department become a self-correcting, transparent organization; and later supporting a statewide leadership development plan to teach mid level staff how to manage by data in order to address problems and trends as they are identified. This work has included studying and understanding practice with children and families, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data, and including input from external stakeholders as well as internal staff.
Since Superstorm Sandy touched down in New Jersey in October 2012 causing unprecedented damage, Dr. Blake has provided leadership to the state's recovery efforts for women, children, and families. She has also spearheaded efforts to better prepare child serving organizations for natural disasters and improve sheltering strategies for children and their families. Dr. Blake has been committed to building partnerships and enhancing collaborative efforts through a public health approach with an emphasis on trauma-informed care in the aftermath of the storm. In recognition of these contributions, Commissioner Blake was appointed to the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell in 2014.
For nearly 30 years, Dr. Allison Blake has been working on behalf of children and families, and the social workers who serve them. Prior to rejoining state service, she served as the Director of the Institute for Families at the Rutgers School of Social Work, where she oversaw a portfolio of grants and contracts aimed at strengthening families by building the capacity of the individuals and organizations that serve them. She also served as Vice President of Accreditation Operations at the Council on Accreditation (COA), an international organization that develops best practice standards for public and private organizations that provide services across the continuum of care. Her focus while at COA was on helping agencies build their capacity to improve service delivery. Previously, she spent 18 years at the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services, where she worked in various direct service and administrative positions. This commitment coupled with her extensive experience and leadership dovetails with the mission, vision and focus of the Child Welfare League of America to which she has become a board member.
Dr. Blake earned her BS in Social Work from University of Dayton, an MS in Social Work from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in Social Work from Fordham University.
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Pepperdine University president Andrew K. Benton took a road trip this summer on historic U.S. Route 66 to explore what people are saying along "America's Main Street" about their nation, institutions, communities, and families.
The trip took place from July 14 to July 22, 2008 with stops in Joliet, Funks Grove, and Springfield, Illinois; Rolla and Joplin, Missouri; Riverton, Kansas; Miami, Weatherford, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Shamrock and Amarillo, Texas; Santa Fe and Grants, New Mexico; and Flagstaff and Williams, Arizona before returning to California.
Benton, the 2008 chair of the American Council on Education, says the 2,400 mile Route 66 journey is a way to connect with people along the "Mother Road" as John Steinbeck called it, "and invite them to speak about their values, hopes, and dreams."
Benton met with educators, parents, business people, and church and civic leaders along a road that is more of an outdoor museum than the vital transportation artery it once was. Nevertheless Route 66 occupies a special place in America's history and for many people driving the road from its beginning in Chicago to its end-point in Santa Monica, California is a quest, one that Benton fulfilled in 2007.
"I have been given a wonderful opportunity to serve at Pepperdine for nearly 25 years and am mid-way through my one-year term as chair of the American Council on Education," Benton says. "If I can use that vantage point to comment on what such a significant portion of America would like to say to those of us privileged to help shape the education of the world's future leaders, I will feel the journey has been productive."