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Today's year is 2012! But this is no ordinary year for the NBA, nor to the teams who's now qualified in the Western and Eastern Final Conference. There's no doubt that these teams in the NBA were put to such drastic and pressured games with the shortened season, plus a more difficult and somewhat preessured ball game in which they were given less time to relax and that more time and fast phase game schedule. To tell you the truth, they just don't have any choice and that they will just have to fit themselves and make sure they win their upcoming games. And that they did, especially the team's who's now on the Eastern and Western Final Conference game.
What I said above is one of the most obvious things that's making the team including the player pretty much off and having difficulties with. And right now, the team who's like won NBA championship is not going to be participating in the NBA finals for they were beaten badly by the mighty Oklahoma team putting an end on what might actually be a possible Game 6 if the Lakers have won the Game 5 which they didn't.
To give you a preview of what had happened, let me just tell you that it was the Big Three of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Russell Westbrook, James Harden and Kevin Durant were the one's who's ended the game with a 16 points advantage 106-90. The game that the Thunder played is not just about defense, but also offense! They played well on both and that the front man of the Los Angeles Lakers were not able to do anything about it. Kobe of the Lakers team is sure frustrated, but He just can't do anything about it now.

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A boy becomes a man these days by turning 18. Seventy years ago, a boy crossed that barrier by going to work. Before the federal government got into the business of regulating child labor, kids well under the age of 17 toiled in mines and factories. They also saddled up as buckaroos, like the hero of William Kittredge's first novel, The Willow Field. Fifteen-year-old Rossie Benasco signs up to help drive 200 head of horses through the Rockies into Calgary. At the end of the trip, coworkers with names like Bill Sweet and Jap Hardy slap him on the back and think of him as a man.
Where to go after that? Here is the sticky dilemma of this novel, which is beautifully written and as attentive to landscape as anything published this year, yet oddly static. It's like a picaresque odyssey that makes the mistake of delivering its Odysseus to Penelope a third of the way into the book. After that, Kittredge struggles to find some drama and activities for his hero, but his hero won't have it. Rossie continuously does the right thing, even when it means forsaking personal glory.
This is a shame, because the book opens strongly, suggesting that Rossie will remain in the metaphorical willow field of the book's title, where circumstances might bend his nature this way or that. In his teenage years Rossie skips out from home, landing on a ranch in Reno, where he falls into a fast affair with a sun-blasted, wind-chapped woman who is softer on the inside than she might look.
Mattie is the first of several women Rossie beds in this book, simply, it seems, because Kittredge wants him to. There is little courtship save for a few sly bits of smart-ass dialogue and before long they're wrestling in the hay. As his first lover, Mattie means something special to Rossie, makes him darn near sentimental. (He makes gloves for her.) But when her father decides it's time for Rossie to commit or move on, he opts for a job driving horses, stumbling to his first day of work hungover.
This is the last time Rossie does something stupid; out on the range he learns something about responsibility and honor. Kittredge handles this section beautifully. He understands he needn't explain how a journey like this could transform a person: he just needs to describe the journey itself. This is quintessential Kittredge territory: the topography of the Pacific Northwest and the Upper Plains, horses, the company of men and the almost transcendental beauty of the West before it was ruined by development and climate change and incessant tourism.
These are the elements that made his Hole in the Sky such a jaw-dropping work of prose, and one sees flashes where Kittredge takes the rhythms of the natural world and lays his prose right on top of it, as if it were a secondary melody: "Over the next week they swung a long arc along the unfenced edges of the Idaho plains where the irrigated farmlands dried into pasturelands. To the north lay an impassible eighty-mile moonscape of lava flats and volcanic craters, beyond which they could see faint snowy mountains in long north-south reefs. After they crossed a low grassland pass, Jap Hardy told them they were in Montana. 'Pretty country from here on,' he said. 'She's grass all the way to Calgary.'"
It's great fun to follow these guys as they rescue a rich man's horses from barbed wire, drink themselves sideways and wake up each morning to the clarifying agent of black coffee and eggs and yet more work. Kittredge has the mind of a philosopher but the prose style of a sensualist, and stripped of the need to make any point here, he unfurls one sense-arousing scene after the next. There is the bite of the clean morning air and the crackle of low burning campfires. When Rossie meets a game woman named Eliza with a pregnant belly, it's not a surprise when 20 pages later they wind up sharing a sleeping bag.
Eliza could be this book's savior, but instead she sounds far too much like every other woman in The Willow Field: tolerant but firm, independent but loyal, sensual but by no means a slattern, and with a mouth on her to boot. Her attraction to Rossie is never explained, so she feels not unlike some sort of bounty Rossie lucks into, especially since her father deeds his ranch over to Rossie as a way to convince the itchy-footed young man to marry his daughter. Rossie agrees and his ceremony is improbably attended by the father of his former girlfriend, who wishes him the best.
As in all of Kittredge's work, landscape is the best developed character in the book—through Rossie we watch it change, get chewed up, bought up and expanded. Echoing some of the themes of Kittredge's The Nature of Generosity, Rossie decides to give back to the land rather than take from it. By the end of the book, he has gone from a know-nothing wannabe cowboy to a "first rate county commissioner" and preservationist who stands up against the Vietnam War and lauds the Preservation Act of 1964.
Rossie has traveled a long way, and between the twists and turns of his journey one can peer at the timeline of the American West. It's all here, from the dispersal of the Indians to the late-life discovery of conservationism in Montana. This book has an epic architecture and a knowing engineer. Indeed, there are few writers who know so much about these topics as Kittredge. But as The Willow Field reveals, grand plans alone cannot make a grand novel.
William Kittredge reads from and signs copies of The Willow Field twice this week: Friday, Oct. 13, at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction and Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 7 PM at Shakespeare & Co.


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2012 USC Women's Sand Volleyball Outlook
March 6, 2012
Women's sand volleyball makes its debut in 2012 as an NCAA-sponsored "emerging" sport.
It is fitting that USC is fielding a team this inaugural season. After all, the sport was born on Southern California's beaches. Furthermore, it is perfect fit for a school like USC with such a successful volleyball tradition, both on the sand and indoor.
In its storied indoor history, USC has won six national championships and produced more than three dozen All-American first teamers along with numerous Olympians and beach stars (including April Ross and Jennifer Kessy, who currently rank among the world's top teams).
USC's women have fared well in recent years in collegiate sand play, winning USA Volleyball's 2009 Beach Collegiate Challenge, then tying for first in 2010 and placing second in 2011.
"Any opportunity for women to play collegiate athletics is a win-win situation," said USC head coach Anna Collier, a former USC student-athlete and pro beach player who has coached teams in a pair of Olympics and at numerous world championships. "Sand volleyball is about to explode in this country and at USC we want to be out ahead of it.
"Our goal is to build one of the signature women's sand volleyball programs in the nation. USC is a pre-eminent university and we have an outstanding volleyball tradition here. Sand volleyball had its genesis on the beaches of Southern California and the sport remains so strong in this area, especially at the juniors level, which should help in our recruiting."
Most of USC's 2012 sand roster comes from the Women of Troy indoor team, which has advanced to the NCAA Final Four the past two seasons.
Geena Urango, competing as a graduate student, received USC's first scholarship in women's sand volleyball and will captain the 2012 team. As a 5-10 defensive specialist and outside hitter, she appeared in 126 indoor matches for the Women of Troy in her four-year (2007-10) career. She competed at the 2011 World University Games U23 beach tourney.
A pair of 2011 All-American first team indoor players at USC--senior Kendall Bateman and sophomore Natalie Hagglund--are playing on the sand this spring. The 5-11 Bateman started the past 3 seasons at setter and established USC's career assists record. The 5-9 Hagglund has been the Women of Troy's starting libero the past two years and was a member of the 2011 U.S. Junior National Team. She is also an experienced sand player, playing for the USA U19 program and earlier winning Junior Olympics national and state titles. In 2009, she was part of the youngest team to qualify for the main draw of the AVP Manhattan Beach Open.
Two starting outside hitters on USC's indoor team have joined the sand squad: 6-2 junior Katie Fuller (a 2-year starter) and 6-2 sophomore Sara Shaw (a 2011 starter).
Also coming over from the indoor Women of Troy are sophs Kirby Burnham (a 6-2 backup outside hitter the last two seasons) and Sam Hirschmann (a 5-10 reserve outside hitter the past two years who redshirted in 2011) and freshmen Emily Young (a 6-2 backup opposite hitter in 2011) and Eve Ettinger (she redshirted in 2011 as a 6-2 middle blocker). Ettinger has participated on USA Volleyball beach teams the past three years.
Kelly Irvin, a 5-9 grad student, was Virginia's starting setter in 2007 and 2008 and then transferred to USC and was a backup to Bateman. She is an accomplished sand player, as she was the 2005 and 2006 AAU Beach Player of the Year. She won a gold medal at the 2006 Beach Junior Olympics, placed ninth at the 2006 FIVB U19 Beach World Championship and won a gold at the 2005 AAU Beach National Championship.
Like Irvin, 5-11 Megan Thornberry began her career elsewhere before coming to USC. She was Wake Forest's starting libero for four seasons (2007-10) and is now a grad student at Troy.
The only players on USC's roster without collegiate indoor experience are 5-10 sophomore Erin Kaupp and 5-6 freshman Kati Duddridge.
"We will be extremely competitive," said Collier. "As long as we execute the skills required in sand volleyball, we can compete with--and beat--any school in the nation. We just need to stay in sand volleyball system, which can be challenging for non-sand players."
USC's tallest players--Fuller, Shaw, Burnham, Young and Ettinger--along with Hagglund didn't begin training with the sand squad until early March because of their indoor commitments.
"We have had a longer time to train our defensive, quick-type players who play behind the taller blockers and that has been good for us," said Collier. "It is an easier transition for the taller blockers to go from indoor to the sand than it is for the quick defensive players, and the play of those defensive players can be the key to victory."
Helping Collier train the 2012 Women of Troy are assistant coach Cookie Stevens, who is also an assistant with the indoor team, and volunteer assistant Julie Sprague Deckert, an 11-year beach pro. Katie Olsovsky, who helped lead USC to the 2002 and 2003 NCAA titles and then played professionally overseas and on the AVP, is the program's director of operations.
USC is hosting three events in 2012 at its temporary home, the picturesque Annenberg Community Beach House courts in Santa Monica, while on-campus courts are being constructed. The Women of Troy welcome Loyola Marymount in the season opener on March 10 and the teams will meet again in Santa Monica on March 31, with both matches featuring both a team competition and a pairs championship. USC is also hosting a 3-day, 4-team tourney March 16-18 that includes Pepperdine, Long Beach State and Florida State.
USC will go to a 4-team tournament in Tallahassee, Fla., on March 24 and 25 to face Florida State, Stetson and Florida Gulf Coast, then meets Long Beach State (March 28) and Pepperdine (April 7) on their home sand. The Women of Troy will participate in the annual USA Volleyball Beach Collegiate Challenge April 14-15 in nearby Hermosa Beach and then, if they qualify among the top four teams in the nation or the top 16 pairs, in the AVCA Collegiate Sand Volleyball Championship April 27-29 in Gulf Shores, Ala.
If all goes as planned, there is a strong chance that USC's inaugural season on the sand will be a winning addition to the Women of Troy volleyball tradition.


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The Penguins traded defenseman Ben Lovejoy to Anaheim on Wednesday night, so Reese will join the team as a depth player. He played in 28 games for the New York Islanders last season and will no doubt be eagerly waiting to make his debut for his hometown team in Pittsburgh.
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tina, a 18 year old female from the Internet asks on February 21, 2004,Will pea seeds germinate slower in a liquid substace other than water? why? I am conducting an experiment related to this and I can't seem to find much information on what factors influence pea germination, your feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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I don't know what liquids you are thinking of, but water is the best. Peas, and most living things, need water to survive. Seeds need water to germinate. Other liquids would probably not work since peas are used to having water, and all their life systems are based on water. Many liquids like alcohol, gasoline or oil might even kill the pea seeds. To find out what influences germination you might use google. Go there and type in: factors that influence germination.
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It's a girl! Joe Nichols and wife Heather are proud to announce the arrival of Dylan River Nichols, born Tuesday (April 17). The gorgeous newborn weighs in at 7 lbs, 5 oz, and measures 21 ¼ inches long. Mom and baby are both said to be happy and healthy.
"Our prayers have been answered," says Heather, who suffered a miscarriage in 2008, followed by painful fertility issues. "We went through years of loss and heartbreak to get to this point and now our little baby girl is here. I want to thank everyone for their well wishes, thoughts and prayers and our doctors and nurses who have walked along side us in this process. I know that we are going to love this little girl, and I am so thankful that she is ours."
"We have been trying to have a baby together for many years, and this gift is not something we take for granted," adds proud Papa Joe. "We are going to try to be the best parents possible."
Dylan is Heather's first child and her country singer husband's second daughter, joining 13-year-old big sis Ashelyn, his child from a previous relationship.
Joe and Heather were married in 2007, after knowing each other for more than 12 years. "She grew up a lot faster than I did," Joe joked with The Boot when we asked what took him so long to pop the question. "She's a very smart person with a lot of ambition, goals and a lot of intelligence. For me to catch up with all that, it took a while. But I eventually did, and she's been a great friend to me for a long time. And it is great to be able to say I am married to my best friend."
The couple recently moved from Nashville to Texas, to be closer to Heather's side of the family. (Free babysitting!) Needless to say, they are thrilled to be adding to the Nichols clan.
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Broadway yields many surprises, and one of the biggest in recent years was Next to Normal, a musical about a bipolar woman and the havoc she wreaks on her family. The difficult subject matter might not sound like fodder for a musical, but the tough yet accessible treatment of the topic combined with an industrial, three-tiered set and a contemporary score that rocks the material, à la Spring Awakening, netted Next to Normal a rare Pulitzer Prize for a musical. Still, the biggest reason to see the show, which opens tonight at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, is the amazing performance by Alice Ripley, who is reprising the role she claimed on Broadway from the start: Diana, the afflicted mother and wife around whom the story revolves. Alice Ripley goes out and tears her heart out on stage every night, Genevieve Miller of Denver Center Attractions says of the star, who won a Tony in 2009 for her efforts.
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Lamb Chops with Tomato-and-Potato Gratin
Tomatoes, rather than cream or stock, provide the moisture in this gratin. Dried rosemary and thyme not only perfume the potatoes, but taste delicious with the lamb. If you like, use rib instead of loin chops.
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- Servings: 4
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 onions, cut into thin slices
- 1 cup drained diced canned tomatoes
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary, crumbled
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh-ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan
- 1 1/2 pounds baking potatoes (about 2), peeled and cut into approximately 1/8-inch slices
- 4 lamb loin chops, 1 1/2 inches thick (about 1 1/2 pounds in all), fat trimmed
How to make this recipe
Heat the oven to 450°. Oil an 8-by-11 1/2-inch baking pan or similarly sized gratin dish. In a large nonstick frying pan, heat 2 tablespoons of the oil over moderately low heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent, about 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the tomatoes and 1/4 teaspoon of the salt.
In a small bowl, combine the rosemary, thyme, 1/4 teaspoon of the salt, 1/8 teaspoon of the pepper, and the Parmesan. Spread half the tomato-and-onion mixture in the bottom of the baking dish; layer half the potatoes on top. Sprinkle half the Parmesan mixture over the potatoes. Repeat with the remaining tomatoes and onions, potatoes, and Parmesan. Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, wipe out the frying pan and then heat the remaining 1 tablespoon oil in it over moderate heat. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper over the lamb chops. Cook until browned, about 3 minutes per side. Remove the chops from the pan.
Remove the baking dish from the oven and remove the aluminum foil. Put the lamb chops on top of the potatoes and return the dish to the oven. Cook until the meat and potatoes are just done, 10 to 12 minutes longer.
Suggested Pairing
Bordeaux is the classic choice with lamb chops. Though our perceptions of Bordeaux are often distorted by the wildly expensive cru classé wines, many wines from the region are both affordable and delicious. Look for the appellations Bordeaux Supérieur, Bourg, Blaye, and Fronsac.


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British industrial output fell more than expected in September, data showed on Tuesday, reinforcing fears that Britain's recovery will struggle to gather pace towards the end of the year.
Manufacturing output rose by 0.1pc in September on the month after a downwardly revised drop of 1.2pc in August, the Office for National Statistics said. Economists had predicted a monthly 0.3pc rise.
The wider reading of industrial output, which includes energy production and mining, fell by 1.7pc in September after a 0.5pc drop in August.
Excluding a decline in June that was affected by an extra public holiday, the monthly reading was the lowest since August 2009 and below forecasts for a 0.6pc drop on the month.
The Bank of England will decide on Thursday whether to inject further cash into the economy to prop up the recovery after Britain emerged from recession in the third quarter .
The central bank has already bought government bonds worth £375bn in its quantitative easing programme.
Despite Britain's return to growth, manufacturers face tough times ahead as economic headwinds hold back demand at home and abroad.
Government spending cuts, tax rises and low wage growth have sapped consumer confidence, while the eurozone debt crisis has cast a dark cloud over the business outlook.
Worries about the recovery had already grown on Monday after a survey showed business in Britain's dominant services sector expanded at the slowest pace in almost two years in October and optimism about the outlook dimmed.
Industrial (Mexico: ST2000.MX - news) production was 0.9pc higher in the three months that ended in September when compared to the previous three-month period. It was unchanged in the three months to August.
Mining (Euronext: SMI.NX - news) and quarrying recorded its biggest monthly drop since February 1974, while oil and gas extraction posted the largest fall since records began in 1997.
Business surveys have indicated a weak start to the final quarter of the year and economists have pointed out that one-off factors contributed to Britain's return to growth in the third quarter.
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One thing you almost never hear potters say is that they like trimming plates. I can't think of anyone I know whose reason for getting up and going to the studio every day is the prospect of removing half of the clay they just threw (if this is not how you trim plates, then you may actually be making shallow bowls). But I just trimmed about 20 plates, and I have to say that it became quite enjoyable by the end. My guess is that this is because I got pretty good at it about a third of the way in. (One of the reasons I made so many to begin with was to account for this, in case I could not revisit that first third to tighten them up.) Another reason I really enjoyed it is that I have discovered the extra insurance of a double foot ring. I established the outer foot ring, then divided the radius in two and cut another foot ring at that smaller radius. This supports the center of the plate and prevents the flat bottom (because a plate should have a flat bottom—otherwise it's a bowl) from dishing down during firing and sticking the glaze (and the now-bowl) to the shelf. Can you tell I learned this lesson the hard way on the last batch of plates I made?
Okay, I'm not really that particular about the difference between plates and bowls, but I am still a bit chafed about that last batch of plates sagging and warping. And really, at some point, after a few decades in any given field, these kinds of little subtleties, like defining the point at which a plate becomes a bowl, can become the most important things in one's aesthetic—everything else having been well established long ago. But it's nice to be reminded that even these subtleties have their roots in the basic foundations of material, form, and technique. In fact, revisiting a technique on a basic level, no matter how well we feel we have it mastered, can actually teach us something about preferences we didn't know we had, aesthetic options that we hadn't realized were available, and mistakes we didn't know how to stop making. If only it were always as simple as a double foot ring.
Many artists find themselves overcoming issues far more complex than sagging plates, and the creative process that is wrapped up in material, form, and technique is at the center of this kind of problem solving. Eliza Au (page 36), for example, challenged herself to find a way to construct and fire complex sculptural forms, parts of which float horizontally in space, by building them in a box and making specialized clay support structures for building, drying, and firing them. Steven Hill (page 42), after many years of success with high-fired reduction ware, began pursuing mid-range electric firing, and found ways to achieve very similar results in an electric kiln. And though their results are worthy of admiration, perhaps even envy, they most certainly were not easy for either of these artists to achieve. So whether it's flat plates, defying gravity, or switching firing styles, revisiting the basics is often the place to start—and maybe even the place to finish.
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If you happen not to remember us talking about a film called Splice, let me refresh your memories.
Sarah Polley, Adrien Brody and Delphine Chanéac will be under the direction of Cube helmer Vincenzo Natali as he takes us into a world of beautiful and terrifying world of genetic engineering…
"Clive and Elsa are superstars of the genetic engineering world. They specialize in splicing together DNA from different animals to create fantastical new hybrids. The charismatic couple wants to use human DNA in a new hybrid – something that could yield astronomical medical benefits. The pharmaceutical company that funds their research, however, is more interested in exploiting their earlier triumphs for easier, short-term profit. Clive and Elsa secretly conduct their own experiment. The result is Dren: an amazing creature who exhibits an array of unexpected developments, both physical and intellectual. Dren exceeds their wildest dreams…and, ultimately, their most terrifying nightmare."
The synopsis hasn't changed at all since the last time we saw it, and that's good news. To top that off Bloody Disgusting got word that Splice has started shooting as of today! Filming will last just to near the end of February.
The designs we've seen so far for Splice make it out to be far from your average creature feature("Amazing Images from Splice!" – October 2007), but we won't find out for sure until sometime in 2009!
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The England international Manu Tuilagi will be spoken to about his conduct by his club side Leicester after his World Cup campaign ended in disgrace.
The 20-year-old centre spent an hour at Auckland central police station on Sunday where he was given a formal pre-charge warning for disorderly behaviour after jumping from a ferry into the harbour.
Tuilagi, who was fined £3,000 by the Rugby Football Union, landed back in England on Tuesday with the rest of the squad following their quarter-final exit to France at the weekend. The Samoa-born player will face more questions when he returns to Leicester.
"As a club we are very mindful of the image of the game and the effect that our players' actions have on our fans and sponsors," the Tigers' chief operating officer, Simon Cohen, told the Leicester Mercury. "We will have a chat with Manu when he gets back to the club. It would be wrong to prejudge any of the issues until we have spoken to him.
"But we will sit down with him and take into account the need to protect the image of the game, while also recognising any investigation and punishment that has been meted out in New Zealand. It would be a shame if anyone remembers Manu Tuilagi's time in New Zealand for anything other than what happened on the pitch."
Meanwhile the England captain, Lewis Moody, will be fined £4,800 if he is found to have worn a branded mouthguard against France, the International Rugby Board has said. Tournament officials are very strict on any breaches of the commercial regulations and they have already fined Tuilagi and his brother Alesana Tuilagi, who plays for Samoa.
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Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (2007)
by Elizabeth D. Samet
No current Talk conversations about this book.
I think I would have been able to appreciate this book more if I had read War & Peace...I've never said that about any other book.
Really though, this was an interesting read, if not completely spellbinding. At the very least it shows that soldiers are human like the rest of us, and have to deal with issues of conscience that few other Americans ever really consider.
Very deep and insightful but difficult to stay with, for me. I had to stop fairly often and let my mind catch up to be able to again payattention.
a book about a literature professor at west point military academy. she weaves stories about her teaching experience and her students with examples from literature and her musings about the purpose of literature and reading, especially in the context of training young men and women for war. a really interesting study about how west point operates and an inside look into some of the people serving our country. i really enjoyed this book.
This IS NOT a book about soldiers. It does, however, reflect on the writings of some more famous soldiers and men of war. Being well written, IT IS a memoir of a female teacher to an elite group of young Americans who themselves are introduced to media/literature while training for the impending Iraq invasion. Samet does offer some mild critiques about what she finds disconcerting and disheartening in the military culture for her students.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Elizabeth Samet, as a Literature professor at West Point, offers a great civilian view point into the world of military academies. Her use of literature to bridge the gap between herself, her students, and what they have and will experience is definitely worth a read. Not necessarily the most page-turning book ever, there are some point that drag a bit, but all-in-all a good read.
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Elizabeth D. Samet and her students learned to romanticize the army "from the stories of their fathers and from the movies." For Samet, it was the old World War II movies she used to watch on TV, while her students grew up on Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan. Unlike their teacher, however, these students, cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, have decided to turn make-believe into real life.
West Point is a world away from Yale, where Samet attended graduate school and where nothing sufficiently prepared her for teaching literature to young men and women who were training to fight a war. Intimate and poignant, Soldier's Heart chronicles the various tensions inherent in that life as well as the ways in which war has transformed Samet's relationship to literature. Fighting in Iraq, Samet's former students share what books and movies mean to them--the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the fiction of Virginia Woolf and J. M. Coetzee, the epics of Homer, or the films of James Cagney. Their letters in turn prompt Samet to wonder exactly what she owes to cadets in the classroom.
Samet arrived at West Point before September 11, 2001, and has seen the academy change dramatically. In Soldier's Heart, she reads this transformation through her own experiences and those of her students. Forcefully examining what it means to be a civilian teaching literature at a military academy, Samet also considers the role of women in the army, the dangerous tides of religious and political zeal roiling the country, the uses of the call to patriotism, and the cult of sacrifice she believes is currently paralyzing national debate. Ultimately, Samet offers an honest and original reflection on the relationship between art and life.
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HS SOFTBALL: Colts fall short in own tourney
April 28, 2013 3:20 AM
NORTHERN CAMBRIA — Northern Cambria scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, but the Colts' rally was stopped short in a 5-3 loss to Conemaugh Township in the championship game of the Colt Classic softball tournament on Saturday.
The Colts had two runners on base with two outs in the seventh when the final out was recorded. Zoey Gailey led Northern Cambria with two hits.
Earlier Saturday, the Colts scored a run in the bottom of the seventh to edge Bishop Carroll, 8-7, in first-round game.
Jenna Lecorchik finished with four hits, Kelly Lieb added three and each hit home run.
Lieb also picked up the win with two strikeouts and four walks.
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Description: Ever hear of a thing called RGB? Red, Green, Blue? How about an RGB LED? These 5mm units have four pins: one for each color and a common anode. Use this one LED for three status indicators or pulse width modulate all three and get mixed colors!
These LEDs are diffused; so they'll appear dimmer, but have a wider viewing angle.
Note: The datasheet below is for the common cathode version of these LEDs, all of the values are the same except that instead of sharing a cathode, these share an anode. An updated datasheet will be added as soon as possible.
I was wondering, where does Sparkfun get these from? I can't seem to find anything about the manufacturer in the datasheet, and I'm designing a kit that uses these. Any help?
The manufacturer information is right at the top of the datasheet; China Young Sun Technology Co., Ltd. www.100LED.com . Their site is currently not responding, though. Might be a good idea to look for alternatives :)
The SparkFun Library has now been updated as of 2/2/2013 for this through hole tricolor LED. You can find it under "LED-RGB-THRU" or "LED-RGB-CA-THRU" depending on the package under SparkFun-LED.lbr. If you are using the common anode you can find it under "LED-RGB-CC-THRU."
To download the latest libraries just go to Github => https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun-Eagle-Libraries
Is this library correct? The Pads are touching each other and it fails DRC due to overlap.
Sorry for the delay in response but the alert was sent to my other e-mail address.
I talked to the engineer a while back that created the package and he recommended that you change the DRC rules for the pads on the board. We thought it was strange that we needed to change DRC Rules but the board worked after we changed it. Under the Restring tab, you would need to change the minimum pad for the top, inner, and bottom to 0mil. You should also change the to 15% or lower. After changing those settings, it passed the rules.
The engineer I talked to also recommended having the percentage as 10% or lower but my eagle board worked fine with 15%. I am unsure the of how this affects the fabrication of your board.
The part appears to be 'correct'. If the pads overlap it's because your minimum 'restring' setting in the DRC is too large. However, setting it low enough may cause other errors to be thrown up at the fab house.
A common way to deal with these types of PTH parts with relatively fine pitch is by offsetting the pads alternatingly. There was a led-tricolor-pth_special in the old library that shows that sort of construction, but you might as well just modify this one.
Note that if this is for some manner of automated fabrication, you might want to explore a different LED (either with pins bent outward by default, or piranhas, or SMD part, etc.)
This is odd, I must be running into some kind of Eagle bug or do not have something configured correctly… When I open the library, the footprint for the part looks good, no overlap of the solder pads and there is visible space between them. When in the schematic editor, I select the part using the "Add" function, the footprint has large pads that touch each other and causes the DRC errors. Weird…
OK, figured it out… In the DRC rules, I changed the restring setting MIN to 4mm and 10% and it looks like it should. I guess it is another one of those stupid Eagle "features", where the Design rule checker actually CHANGES the design.
correct - though in Eagle's defense, it's not just a DRC - it's the design rules. It would be nice if it would at least warn you about changes when adding a package, regardless, but alas.
The wiring diagram is also for a common cathode configuration. So change GND to +5V and invert the PWM signal to drive this common anode LED.
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Can I paint trim and crown molding before putting it up?
I'm a newbie and I need some help. I recently painted inside out my house and decided to go from natural wood finish to a painted one.
So I ripped mine up, and bought new pre primed trim.enough also for my ceilings, and possibly a chair rail for dining room.
I'm actually going to take two trim boards and combine then to make a wide crown molding for the ceiling. This probably isn't called crown molding by most, but its what I call it.
Now here is my?? Can't I just paint all the boards and the then install them. That's how we always did the trim boards (bottom) by carpet before .Then there is no mess on carpet or ceiling. just paint everything first. Can this be done. Thanks!
Ps. I'm going to reprime boards as I got boards at auction and don't no what primer was used. Any suggestions in primer and paint are welcomed. I think I'll go with high gloss. My color if walks are a very light butter color. So with a white trim it went be to drastic.
After installation you will still need to fill holes and caulk- so you could do a coat and then one after.
I think it is easier/better to finish in place. Less to rack, and you can finish all the way.
Hi gloss is ONLY if you know how to make it PERFECT.
Satin is for everybody who is still sane..
I always sand, prime and paint one coat before installing all my trim. Far faster then trying to cut it all in.
Brushjockey is right. Unless you don't intend to caulk, hole fill or sand any offset joints your better off finishing it up. Doing it the right way isn't usually the easiest way.
[quote=ronnoez;791820]Brushjockey is right. Unless you don't intend to caulk, hole fill or sand any offset joints your better off finishing it up. Doing it the right way isn't usually the easiest way.[/quote]
I have done carpentry for over 20 yeras. Every painter I have worked with painted it before installation. Then fill nail holes and touch up.
They can just touch up enamel after filling, after caulking all components?
That would not be acceptable in my world.
I prefer painting it after its up, as you still have to caulk and fill nail holes. You can't just touch up trim, as it usually will flash. Meaning you will have to paint from one joint to the next, so your better off painting it after its up. Even in new construction I wait to paint trim until after its been installed. If there was an easier, faster way that would still produce a quality finish I would be utilizing it, but havnt found an easier faster way, other than paint after installation
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People trying to reinvent the process. :no:
Most of the time I do use enamel for the trim and use painters puddy or Fast and Final to fill the nail holes and have never seen it flash.
A DIY trying to cut in the back side of trim at the wall line will have blue tape every where which will peel off the paint on the wall and paint will get in under it in some places. If it's preprimed and prepainted there's 0 cut in time.
Other reasons to prefinish.
There's a lot less chance of dripping paint on the floors.
We have tryed it both ways and found we lost at least a whole day by painting it after it was hung when doing a whole house.
Also it came out with cleaner paint lines because your not trying to cut in where the casing meets the window stools, no paint on the window sashes that needs to be wiped off, not having to try and paint the base board where it meets the flooring.
If it's new constrution we can set the trim up outside and spray it for an even smoother finish.
And if you are doing an entire room redo- there is an order that makes it work-
Prime all ( appropriately)
finish ceiling
Install ww if needed ( pre priming it and a coat is ok- I think it is more of a hassle to set up to do that than to just wait until its up)
fill, caulk sand ww
2 coats finish ww
Tape only where spatters will fall ( mostly base)
Paint walls- hand cutting sides of things- much easier than cutting ww to walls
There are variations to this , but this is a VERY common order of procedure which makes it work more efficiently
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LONDON (Reuters) - Traditional English fabrics like felts, velvets, tweed and tartan hit the catwalks as Burberry and McQ by Alexander McQueen revealed their autumn/winter 2012 collections in extravagant shows at London Fashion Week.
McQ creative director Sarah Burton, who designed the wedding dress Kate Middleton wore for her marriage to Britain's Prince William last April, dressed her models for Monday's show in belted khaki military outfits featuring large pockets teamed with shiny leather lace-up stiletto boots and big hair.
Oxblood-colored dresses, black tulle dresses with colorful floral embellishments and tartan dresses with sheer sleeves also featured on a runway covered in autumnal leaves at a former postal sorting office in central London.
"Even for her it was extraordinary," actress Salma Hayek said of Burton's collection after the show, adding that she was hankering after one of the floral dresses which Burton sent down the runway.
In a statement McQ said the collection was about "a love story, a love of McQueen and a love of great British style."
McQueen, one of the bright lights of the British fashion scene, died in 2010.
Earlier in the day, Burberry's creative director Christopher Bailey evoked the British countryside by sending models in T-shirts with bird motifs down the runway at a celebrity-packed show.
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OSAKA – The Kansai region should become an important hub for the nation's political, administrative and economic activities along with Tokyo, Shosuke Mori, chairman of the Kansai Economic Federation (Kankeiren), has said.
In the runup to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, a number of infrastructure development projects are expected to be completed in the capital.
"In order to prevent Tokyo from being the center for everything, Kansai needs to become another engine of Japan," Mori, chairman of Kansai Electric Power Co., said in a recent interview.
In its future vision for 2020, the federation said it will strive to make Kansai a part of Japan's "dual engine" and a major hub in Asia.
Mori stressed the need to make Japan stronger to prepare for more natural disasters that may strike the metropolitan area.
"It is essential to build a nation with multistructures," he said.
Innovation based on Kansai's strengths is key to achieving such a goal, Mori said. He also expressed hope that the region will become a government-designated "tokku" special economic zone with fewer regulations, and that Kankeiren will strengthen its ties with local companies and research institutions in drug development and other medical areas.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ The state says it will save Rhode Island businesses a total of $400,000 a year starting next year by rolling back fees for registering hazardous substances.
The state Department of Labor and Training said Tuesday that, as of Jan. 1, businesses will no longer be assessed a $42 fee for registering their hazardous substances. They will still have to register the substances.
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Second layer of paint blistering
I have been repainting my home built in 1948. The walls are dry wall with several layers of latex paint. We primed with Glidden latex primer and followed with a layer of Glidden eggshell paint. Both of these layers (primer and 1st layer of paint) applied flawless. The second layer of paint is bubbling and blistering in no apparent pattern. We have two blister spots the size of a fist...one near the crown molding in the hall and one in the kitchen and it is bubbling in several patches (2-4 mm bubbles in 8-10 in clusters). We have bought new painting supplies, new paint, sanded re-primed and now the primer alone is blistering when starting over. Why would the first layers applied be fine? Why would the primer bubble after sanding? We also prepped/cleaned etc. before project. Thanks, Dalana
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A pic would help but you need to determine how many layers are bubbling. If it is just the primer and new coats then I would blame the Glidden primer. If it is all the way down to the drywall then you have adhesion problems with the first coat of paint ever put on the walls and adding three layers of a water based product is causing it to lift off because of too much moisture.
How long did you allow one coat to dry before adding another?
If you washed the walls, what did you use?
Tack any patches?
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By acquiring All-Star catcher Victor Martinez, the Boston Red Sox are getting the big bat they've been seeking by adding one of the AL's top offensive catchers.
A three-time All-Star, Martinez is hitting .284 with 15 homers and 67 RBI, but he's done that in a home park that ranks 28th in scoring (and last in the AL) in scoring, according to ESPN's Park Factor calculations. Boston's Fenway Park, on the other hand, ranks ninth overall (and fourth in the AL).
That bodes well for V-Mart's fantasy owners, who can expect an uptick in production just by moving to a better offensive lineup. However, he also creates a logjam at first base since the Red Sox also acquired Casey Kotchman from the Braves for Adam LaRoche.
Martinez will also cut into playing time for starting catcher Jason Varitek, who's probably the biggest loser from a fantasy standpoint. David Ortiz, hitting just .228 this season, figures to lose at-bats as well - especially against left-handed pitching.
Perhaps the biggest news is that neither of the top young arms on Boston's major league roster, Clay Buchholz and Daniel Bard, is part of the deal.
The Indians, who've already traded ace Cliff Lee and first baseman Ryan Garko in the past week, will receive 24-year-old right-hander Justin Masterson as the centerpiece of the three-player package. If that's the case, it's a huge boost to Masterson's fantasy value since he'd probably go straight into the Indians' starting rotation.
Also in the package are minor league pitchers Nick Hagadone and Bryan Price. Hagadone, 23, was a college teammate of NL Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum. He missed most of last season after having Tommy John surgery and has only pitched 25 innings at Class A this year.
Price was drafted 45th overall by the Red Sox in the 2008 draft, but only has a 5-11 record in the minors with a 4.42 ERA.
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Matt Wallace and his team saved and strengthened Shakespeare this year. In so doing, they gave a birthday present to the Bard, who turned 450 years old this April, and a gift of great value to Louisville and all Kentucky.
Kentucky Shakespeare is the oldest free Shakespeare festival in the United States. Founded by C. Douglas Ramey and performed in an amphitheater named for him in Old Louisville's beautiful Central Park, the festival has been a true community treasure for 54 years.
Last year at this time, however, it was in real danger. Its then-CEO and producing artistic director resigned after his wife obtained an emergency protective order against him. Because she was starring in Twelfth Night, that summer's only production, the show suddenly shut down.
(Adding insult to this gross injury, the former director who did such damage now apparently disputes his resignation, claims he was actually terminated, and seeks a bonus of $100,000, plus interest. "Lord, what fools these mortals be!")
Kentucky Shakespeare's Board of Directors then made the extremely wise decision to hire Wallace as producing artistic director. What a difference good leadership can make!
With help from some generous benefactors and corporate sponsors, Wallace has wrought nothing short of a revolution at Kentucky Shakespeare. Central Park has been the arts place to be this summer.
Among many other accomplishments on his impressive resumé, Wallace has acted with the company (and met his wife during a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and proposed on the Ramey Amphitheater stage) and served as artistic director for the acclaimed program Shakespeare Behind Bars.
A wide-ranging interview with Wallace in the program (from which this column draws liberally and without repeated attribution) reveals the scope of his accomplishments. But the best proof of his success has been on the stage and in the rapt, responsive, and record-breaking attendance of over 21,000 thus far.
Wallace's passion for producing high-quality, yet accessible Shakespeare is palpable. The Bowling Green native's addresses to the audience at intermissions are in their own way almost as entertaining as the plays themselves.
He restored the traditions of putting on three shows - a comedy, a history, and a tragedy - and staging them all on one night at season's end (although storms befitting Hamlet intruded on Saturday's "Bard-A-Thon" finale).
Kentucky Shakespeare is working with other local theater groups - Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble, Savage Rose Theatre Company, Walden Theatre and ShoeString Productions - to stage an almost unbelievable eight plays this season. And it continues its mission as the largest touring arts education program in Kentucky, serving about 50,000 students in all 120 counties, Wallace notes.
The splendid pre-show entertainment has included groups like the Governor's School for the Arts, Down's Syndrome of Louisville, and the festival's own Camp Shakespeare for aspiring young actors.
But with Shakespeare, of course, "the play's the thing." The 2014 trio was simply fantastic.
As director Wallace observed, the Central Park setting is perfect for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Next came Henry V, directed by Amy Attaway. Attaway notes that this history contains "some of the most beautiful and evocative lines in the whole canon, maybe in all of English literature." There were some fine battle scenes of the sort that captivate the kids, too.
Hamlet, Shakespeare's most famous play, was a crowning conclusion to the triumvirate. Jon Patrick O'Brien was magnificent in the lead, but the entire cast was again outstanding.
The incomparable Shakespeare is absolutely central, if not essential, to Western civilization and culture. This column sometimes despairs of contemporary society, but seeing so many people flock to such fine productions has somewhat restored faith, hope, and soul.
So to the actors, the audiences, the Board of Directors, the contributors, Wallace, the designers of the sets, costumes, lighting, and sound, and all others who helped do these heroic deeds, "I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks."
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Kristen Schaal, a correspondent on The Daily Show, is to lend her vocal talents to Sony Pictures Animation's Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers. Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn are directing the movie, a sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, based on the classic children's book.
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Awards season is almost upon us. Fans hellbent on promoting the rights of quadrupeds this year have been clamouring for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to expand its eligibility criteria beyond humans so that a certain Jack Russell terrier known as Uggie, from The Artist, can have a shot at the gold statuette.
Demi Moore is to play feminist Gloria Steinem in a biopic of the porn star Linda Lovelace.
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Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre return to the screen in September. Today's film-makers are too obsessed with the Brontë sisters, argues Geoffrey Macnab
Sheridan Smith triumphed in Legally Blonde. Now she's starring in a Rattigan revival, likely to play Bridget Jones on stage – and favourite for an Olivier Award this weekend
Reese Witherspoon would like more kids.
Even solid relationships do not seem to survive the apparent triumph of the Best Actress Academy Award. The winner gets a gong but loses her husband
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Jeff Bridges may have lost out to Colin Firth at the Baftas, yet his turn as a down-on-his-luck country singer in Crazy Heart is still odds-on for Oscar glory. Why? Because Hollywood likes nothing more than actors who play their own musical parts.
Gentlemen, get ready. We have news of a surprising addition to the London Fashion Week schedule: Ben Westwood, son of doyenne designer Dame Vivienne, hopes to debut his menswear collection in the forthcoming February shows.
Barnstorming title, shame about the slick but empty cartoon that goes with it. Its heroine is a 50ft woman (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) who is recruited by the US government to repel an alien invasion, alongside a few other classic movie monsters.
World's best-known doll is coming to the big screen. But who can fill her shoes?
Avon is 50 this year but the company isn't in a mid-life crisis – recession has boosted its sales force. Just don't call them 'Ladies'. Emily Dugan reports
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Will Palladium Prices Get Squeezed By ETFs?
The word "squeeze" isn't used, but that's the impression one gets in a research note on palladium by Wells Fargo analyst Sam Dubinsky.
A pair of new exchange-traded funds from Absa Capital and Standard Bank in South Africa could "significantly tighten the market," Dubinsky writes:
Absa announced it will be launching its South African based palladium ETF on next Thursday (March 27); the ETF had previously been delayed for undisclosed reasons, though we heard some of the challenges may have been related to finding enough domestic metal to meet demand (sourcing domestically is a regulatory requirement). This news follows the stealth launch of Standard Bank's ETF which is set to list on Monday and in our view was not anticipated by the Street.
Why this matters. We believe the palladium ETF launches could conservatively result in >5% demand growth for the metal in 2014, which would significantly tighten the market as it has also been plagued by supply challenges (strikes in South Africa, erosion of Russian stockpiles). Assuming ETF demand holds steady through 2015, we believe the market will be in a significant deficit, resulting in palladium trading closer to platinum (currently 53% of palladium prices, vs. 49% in 2013, and 42% in 2012).
Will the market get squeezed? I thought the possibility was real enough in platinum to field similar predictions in Barron's last year. But it proved a rotten year for precious metals, one in which platinum and palladium were spared the fate of iShares Silver Trust (SLV) and SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), which tumbled 35% and 28%, respectively:
In the past two months, a new ETF in South Africa has vacuumed up 7% of the entire platinum production expected around the world this year. Absa Capital's NewPlat ETF (ticker: NGPLT.South Africa) stacks up as a suddenly formidable force in this small market: Its 420,000 ounces of metal are nearly equal to what the global chemical industry is expected to need this year ... "The rapidity is what surprised us," says Vladimir Nedeljkovic, head of investments at Absa Capital. "At the very least, it will provide a support for the price of platinum."
The South African ETF's success was enough to cause HSBC strategists James Steel and Howard Wen to increase their ETF platinum demand forecast by 140%, vaulting ETFs into fourth place of sources of expected global demand.
Here in the U.S., ETF Physical Platinum Shares (PPLT) fell more than 11% last year, but ETFS Physical Palladium Shares (PALL) gained 1%. This year the platinum ETF is ahead by nearly 7% and palladium by nearly 8%.
Dubinsky, for his part, is looking at a stock instead of an ETF when it comes to palladium -- Stillwater Mining (SWC) -- and he gushes over the company's new CEO:
SWC is the best play on palladium, in our view; new CEO also helps. We continue to like Stillwater as a longterm play on palladium pricing (every $50/oz. increase represents >$20M in EBITDA). We are also impressed by the new CEO that joined the company; he is laser focused on improving costs and unlocking shareholder value.


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After some quick testing, DF looks at least as playable as it was under 0.63. My only real problem under that version was that mage guilds and palaces usually run around 1 FPS, with the CPU hovering around 15%. Bumping the clock count only makes you move around at warp speed.
I tried v0.70 with the CPU set to auto/auto, and wowsers, DF was running high frame rate and I was able to move around at normal speed. Looked great. The wierd thing was all of the NPCs in town were playing a walking animation at normal speed, but they were only moving at a snail's pace.
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