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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Inspiration Challenge card and sorta tutorial...
Tracy Porter Site
And here is my card:
The image was colored right onto the Soft Sand cardstock from Gina K Designs with copic markers and a white gel pen. The copics DO seep through on this cardstock so I added a layer of green. Now, the open circle where the image is...that came about by seeing someone ask on StampTV how to do this. To leave a blank area when using your cuttlebug, so I began playing around. I am sure I am not the first to come up with this at all, but this is how I did mine and it worked!
First, I took my Cuttlebug folder and drew around it on a piece of chipboard. This chipboard I purchased at Hobby Lobby and it says 'Grafix Chipboard' , came in big 12x12 squares, its pretty thick chipboard. I say this because for the CB sandwich, it is going to vary from machine to machine. I then cut that rectangle shape, same size as my CB folder, with a very sharp craft knife and scor-pal cutting mat. Be patient when cutting out thick chipboard, just keep going over and over it, it will eventually cut through it!
Next, I wanted a circle that wasnt embossed with my CB folder, so I took a circle nestability in the size I wanted, placed it in the middle of this cutout rectangle shape, drew around it and then cut it out the same way.
I knew also I would be stamping in the middle of this circle so I created a mask for my 4x5 piece of cardstock I would be using. Here is a picture of the piece of chipboard after it is cut and the mask I used:
Now, the important part is the sandwich. Like I said, it took me some playing around with it. I also kept thinking wrong, lol! Basically, one way to think of it is...where ever you use the chipboard at it is going to EMBOSS with this sandwich that I used for mine. Here is a picture of my sandwich I used:
This picture is exactly how it goes into the CB too.
1. Plate A
2. CB folder with cardstock in it to be embossed
3. Chipboard
4. Plate C
And after running it through, I used the mask I created to do a bit of sponging in white around the circle to kinda pop it more. And thats it! I hope this helps someone, and like I said, I am sure I'm not the first to come up with this, lol! But it was new to me and I am tickled how it turned out!
Thanks for stopping by today, and hope you all had a wonderfully relaxing and crafty weekend!
Card Details:
Stamps: A Year of Flowers by Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K Designs
Papers: Gina K Soft Sand and Pure Luxury 120lb weight, green is SU!
Accessories: copic markers, white gel pen, CB and CB swiss dots folder, chipboard, white craft ink, sponge, brad, fancy corner punch, twill ribbon, stayzon ink, buttong, twine.
13 comments:
- "Tillymint" said...
Thanks for this Cathy, Selma did one too but she was using the big foot for a square! This is going to be so useful will have a play later today!
- July 19, 2009 at 6:31 PM
- Crystal said...
Thanks for the awesome idea!! Your card is BEAUTIFUL love the colors and texture and design...Gorgeous!!!
- July 19, 2009 at 7:15 PM
- redwasher1 said...
Your card is OMG beautiful!! I so loved it as soon as you posted I started trying it. Your instructions are perfect and I had no problem doing one. I made a oval shaped one.
Thanks Cat!!
- July 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM
- mudmaven said...
Cat you are an answer to my prayers - I really need to make some cards (have to be single layer) and I wanted to use this technique and did not have a single clue how to do it. You're an angel! Thanks so much! I love your card - the soft colors are wonderful! ~chris
- July 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- Janine said...
Hi Cat!! We did have a great time and this is such a nice card!!!
- July 20, 2009 at 10:58 AM
- Elizabeth said...
Wow this is a great idea. Thanks for sharing it!! I am going to have a try later :)
Will blog if I have success ;)
- July 20, 2009 at 11:26 AM
- Lori said...
Cool technique, thanks. Your card is magnificent!! Much prettier than the inspiration which seems plain and pretty.
- July 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM
- Tinker and JingeBear's Mom said...
Cool!! I don't care how many ways there are to do it, so long as I can find one that works! I really enjoy your creations - and your sense of humor. Have a great day!!
~ky {scrapacat}
- July 21, 2009 at 11:00 PM
- Kelli said...
I love it!
- July 22, 2009 at 6:15 AM
- Mary Duffek said...
How cool is that! I will have to try this...thanks for sharing and your card is amazing!
- July 22, 2009 at 10:24 AM
- Kay S said...
Thanks for sharing this Cat. I'm sure I never would have figured this out on my own! I had to go over your instructions several times to wrap my brain around it! LOL! Now I can't wait to try it!
- July 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM
- Scrubbysue said...
This is beautiful! and thankyou for sharing the recipe. :)
- July 26, 2009 at 8:10 PM
- Tiya-B said...
I wanted to do this but wasn't sure how, thanks for experimenting for me!
- July 27, 2009 at 3:14 PM
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One of today's most powerful approaches for retrieving information about the internal structure of classes and interfaces in PHP 5 is via the language's native reflection API. What's more, not only does this API comes packaged with a huge variety of methods that let developers perform all sorts of reverse-engineering tasks using an object-oriented approach, but it offers a flat learning curve.
In reality, knowing whether a method within a specified class is public, protected or private, or determining whether or not a declared property is static, only involves invoking the proper method provided by the API. The entire introspection process is that easy.
Naturally, if you've already read the two previous parts of this series, you're now pretty familiar with using the PHP reflection API to get basic data on a simple interface and its implementing class. In those two articles I demonstrated how to retrieve, for instance, the name, the default properties and constants of a sample reflected class. I also showed how to discover a few other minor details, such as its physical location within the file system.
As I said a moment ago, however, the API provides many other helpful methods for obtaining relevant information about a specific class. These include methods that allow you to know what methods are defined by the class, and their level of visibility.
Assuming that you're interested in learning more about this topic, in the lines to come I'm going to show you how to manipulate reflected methods in a painless way. This process will range from finding out if they're public, protected or private, to invoking them (when possible) directly from client code.
Now it's time to learn a few more useful things about the PHP reflection API. Let's go!
{mospagebreak title=Review: using the PHP reflection API to retrieve information on a class}
Just in case you haven't had the chance to look at the preceding article of the series, where I discussed using the reflection API to get miscellaneous information about an example class, I'm going to include a brief view. Below I reintroduced the definition of this class and its associated interface, along with a script that pulls out mixed data from these two structures.
Here's the source code of the interface and its implementing class:
interface Identifier
public function setId($id);
public function getId();
* A sample user class
* @param id fname lname email
class User implements Identifier
private $id = NULL;
private $fname = 'Alejandro';
private $lname = 'Gervasio';
private $email = 'firstname.lastname@example.com';
const HEADING = 'Using the Reflection API in PHP 5';
// constructor (not implemented)
public function __construct(){}
//setter for id property
public function setId($id)
if (!is_numeric($id))
throw new Exception('ID must be a numeric value');
$this->id = $id;
// getter for id property
public function getId()
return $this->id;
// setter for fname property
public function setFirstName($fname)
if (empty($fname) OR !is_string($fname))
throw new Exception('First name must be a non-empty string.');
$this->fname = $fname;
// getter for fname property
public function getFirstName()
return $this->fname;
// setter for lname property
public function setLastName($lname)
if (empty($fname) OR !is_string($fname))
throw new Exception('Last name must be a non-empty string.');
$this->lname = $lname;
// getter for lname property
public function getLastName()
return $this->lname;
// setter for email property
public function setEmail($email)
if (empty($email) OR !is_string($email) OR strpos($email, '@') === FALSE)
throw new Exception('Email must be a well-formatted email address.');
$this->email = $email;
// getter for email property
public function getEmail()
return $this->email;
As you can see, the previous "User" class and the pertinent "Identifier" interface are nothing but simple examples for putting the reflection API to work. The following code fragment shows how to use the API to get general information about that class by using a few straightforward methods. Check it out:
// create instance of 'User' class
$user = new User();
// create instance of Reflection class and pass in 'User' class as argument
$reflector = new ReflectionClass('User');
// get default properties in reflected class
print_r($reflector->getDefaultProperties()); // displays Array ( [id] => [fname] => Alejandro [lname] => Gervasio [email] => firstname.lastname@example.com )
// get doc comments in reflected class
print_r($reflector->getDocComment()); // displays /** * A sample user class * * @param id fname lname email */
// get starting line number of reflected class
echo $reflector->getStartLine(); // displays '15'
// get ending line number of reflected class
echo $reflector->getEndLine(); // displays '87'
// get filename of reflected class
echo $reflector->getFileName(); // displays 'C:pathtoreflection_apireflection_api.php'
// get name of implemented interfaces
print_r($reflector->getInterfaceNames()); // displays Array ( [0] => Identifier )
// get associative array of implemented interfaces
print_r($reflector->getInterfaces()); // displays Array ( [0] => Identifier ) Array ( [Identifier] => ReflectionClass Object ( [name] => Identifier ) )
Retrieving miscellaneous data about the earlier "User" class is a simple process, thanks to the use of some intuitive reflection methods. In the above example, those methods are utilized to determine the starting and ending lines of the class, and the name of its containing file.
As a bonus, the API is finally employed to get the names of the interfaces implemented by "User," which in this case is "Identifier," whose corresponding definition was shown before.
Okay, now that you know how to use the power of reflection to analyze certain internal aspects of a class, I'm going to teach you how to get relevant information about the methods defined by the "User" class. This includes the ability to check whether these methods are public, protected or private.
To learn the full details of this reflection process, click on the link below and read the section to come.
{mospagebreak title=Retrieving methods of a reflected class}
One of the most useful features of the reflection API is its ability to retrieve information about the methods defined by a selected class, to say nothing of its manipulation ability. And by manipulation, I mean the capability to invoke a reflected method with its incoming arguments.
To elaborate on this concept, say that a script needs to check whether the "getFirstName()" method of the previous "User" class is public (which is true), and then call it from client code. Performing these tasks would be as easy coding the following snippet:
// create instance of 'User' class
$user = new User();
// create instance of Reflection class and pass in 'User' class as argument
$reflector = new ReflectionClass('User');
// get a ReflectionMethod object
$method = $reflector->getMethod('getFirstName');
// check to see if the reflected method is public, protected or private
if ($method->isPublic())
echo 'The method is public'; // displays 'The method is public'
// invoke the reflected method
echo $method->invoke($user); // displays 'Alejandro'
elseif ($method->isProtected())
echo 'The method is protected';
elseif ($method->isPrivate())
echo 'The method is private';
elseif ($method->isStatic())
echo 'The method is static';
Undoubtedly, a few interesting things are happening here. The above script uses a brand new reflection method called "getMethod()" to retrieve the "getFirstName()" method from the "User" class. This process returns an object of type ReflectionMethod, which can be used afterward for checking the visibility of "getFirstName()" and for calling it directly from client code.
This one example should give you an excellent idea of the advantages in using reflection in PHP, and its possible applications in real-world environments.
Having explained how to inspect and invoke a determined method within a reflected class, the last thing that I'm going to cover in this tutorial, will consist of showing how to use reflection to retrieve all of the public methods defined by that class.
Now, to learn the full details of this process, click on the link below and read the section to come.
{mospagebreak title=Getting all the public methods of a reflected class}
As I said in the section that you just read, the reflection API makes it really easy to get all of the public, protected and private methods of a class. For the sake of brevity, in this case I'm going to show how to retrieve only the public ones, but obviously a similar approach can be used to get those with a stronger visibility.
Now that I've clarified that, please check the following code sample. It uses another reflection method, called "getMethods()," which returns an array containing the public methods of the previous "User" class:
// create instance of 'User' class
$user = new User();
// create instance of Reflection class and pass in 'User' class as argument
$reflector = new ReflectionClass('User');
// get all public methods of reflected class
print_r($reflector->getMethods(ReflectionMethod::IS_PUBLIC)); // displays Array ( [0] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => __construct [class] => User ) [1] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => setId [class] => User ) [2] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => getId [class] => User ) [3] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => setFirstName [class] => User ) [4] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => getFirstName [class] => User ) [5] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => setLastName [class] => User ) [6] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => getLastName [class] => User ) [7] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => setEmail [class] => User ) [8] => ReflectionMethod Object ( [name] => getEmail [class] => User ) )
As you can see, the "IS_PUBLIC" constant of the ReflectionMethod class is inputted into "getMethods()" to get all of the public methods of "User." This outputs an array that naturally can be traversed by using a regular "foreach" construct.
In a similar way, I could have passed to "getMethods()" the "IS_PROTECTED" and "IS_PRIVATE" constants to retrieve the protected and private methods respectively, but since this process is fairly straightforward, it will be left as homework for you.
And with this last example, we've come to the end of this third part of the series. As usual, feel free to tweak all of the code samples included in this tutorial. Doing this will hopefully will arm yourself with a more solid background in using the PHP reflection API.
Final thoughts
That's all for now. In this third installment of the series you learned how to take advantage of the functionality provided by the PHP reflection API to retrieve useful information about the methods defined by a reflected class.
In the examples shown, the power of reflection was used not only to get the names of those methods, but for determining their level of visibility. Of course, it's feasible to manipulate reflected methods in many more useful ways, but this will be left as a practical exercise for you.
In the forthcoming part, I'm going to teach you how to use reflection to work with properties of a class, which will be a very juicy topic, trust me. Don't miss the upcoming article!


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WOODSTOCK – Closing arguments are expected Thursday in the arson trial of an Elmhurst man accused of burning a home, albeit the wrong home, as revenge over stolen drugs.
On Wednesday, prosecutors called two more neighbors to testify about what they saw the morning of Aug. 9, 2012, when a Pistakee Highlands home and two vehicles in the driveway were burned. One neighbor said she saw defendant Joseph Ziegler jumping her fence sometime in the morning after firefighters arrived. Another neighbor said a propane tank was stolen from his porch that morning.
The prosecution rested its case Wednesday morning, and at that time defense attorney Edward Edens asked McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather to throw it out because he said the prosecution hadn't proved its case.
Prather denied the request, and the defense called its first witness, a neighbor who lives across the street from where the fire occurred. He testified that early in the morning of Aug. 9 he heard kids skateboarding and talking by his house, and later heard a loud horn sound and a woman screaming.
The defense also called two forensic scientists to testify Wednesday. One, a fingerprint expert, testified that she did not find any prints on a Heineken beer bottle, which was the lone object from the scene sent for fingerprint testing. The second forensic scientist, an expert on accelerants, testified that he did not find any trace of accelerants on Ziegler's clothes.
Two fire experts earlier in the trial testified that accelerants were likely used in the blaze. A burned and ruptured propane tank also was found roughly 125 feet from the fire. No fire experts have been able to definitively determine the cause of the fire, other than it was started intentionally.
The prosecution has argued that on Aug. 8, 2012, Ziegler was driven from Elmhurst to McHenry County with the intent to sell drugs, which witnesses described as synthetic Ecstasy. After meeting with some acquaintances in Johnsburg, Ziegler discovered that the drugs he brought were missing.
An argument ensued between Ziegler and Nick Pennington, who lives at 5107 Westwood Drive. Ziegler believed Pennington stole his drugs, and vowing revenge, Ziegler tried to burn Pennington's home. But Ziegler missed his target, the prosecution claimed, and instead he torched Roseanne Aitken's home at 5113 Westwood Drive.
A GPS navigation device also was found in Ziegler's pocket at the time of his arrest, which Aitken testified was in her GMC Envoy before it was set on fire.
The defense is trying to show that there were no witnesses to the actual crime and that there is a lack of evidence to convict Ziegler of arson.
On Thursday, the defense plans to call Dakota Wilkinson, who previously took the stand and stated that Ziegler talked about causing damage to Pennington's home the night before the incident. He also said he saw Ziegler in the early morning hours of Aug. 9 with a propane tank in his hand.
Ziegler, who is not expected to testify in the trial, could be sentenced to between six and 30 years in prison for aggravated arson, his most serious charge.


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Sometimes holiday presents come from the most unexpected places.
That's how it was for Robert Wilson, who woke up Christmas morning, padded into the kitchen of his Glen Ellyn home for a cup of coffee, and happened to glance out the window toward a bank of trees standing, oh, maybe 40 feet from the back of his house.
About our contestEach week our Neighbor section includes at least one entry in our Photo Finish photography contest. If you'd like to submit a photo, email it in .jpg format with at least 300 dpi resolution to firstname.lastname@example.com.
And there, nestled in the bare branches against a drab winter background, was an incredibly vibrant red cardinal that seemed to be gazing right back at him.
"It looked," Wilson says now, "like he was staring at the Christmas tree in our family room."
So, like any good photographer, the retired Villa Park firefighter scurried off to get his camera in hopes the bird would still be there when he got back. The cardinal didn't flinch and neither did Wilson as he returned to the window and snapped off several shots with his Nikon D40.
"I thought, seeing it just with my eyes, that he really stood out," Wilson says. After seeing the image on his camera, "I thought it turned out pretty decent."
His wife, Shirley, was even more enthusiastic. When she urged him to enter the picture in our Photo Finish contest, he smiled and told her that if she felt so strongly about it she should do it on his behalf.
"I never assumed it would win," he says.
He was wrong. The DuPage County photo staff picked Wilson's image from among all our January contest entries as the best picture of the month.
"I like it because the contrast is striking between the bright red color of the cardinal and the complete lack of color everywhere else in the photo," DuPage Photo Director Scott Sanders says.
For his efforts, Wilson wins a $50 gift certificate from PJ's Camera, 662 Roosevelt Road, Glen Ellyn.
Wilson says he started taking pictures in the late 1970s when he was an investigator with the Villa Park Fire Department. Back then he was using a 35 mm Minolta and shooting black and white images of fire scenes, often using a flash in very low light.
His interest in photography gradually expanded and he started taking pictures during vacations and family events. Shirley, a retired teacher, also got interested in the hobby and is a regular contributor to our contest.
"She's got an eye," Wilson says. "She takes good pictures."
As it turns out, so does he.


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Anyone interested in filling either of these two positions is asked to submit their qualifications, experience and a statement on why they wish to serve to the Washington County Board of Supervisors by the end of the day today.
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by Andy Oram
The computer technologies that have incurred the most condemnation recently -- Napster, Gnutella, and Freenet -- are also the most interesting from a technological standpoint. I'm not saying this to be perverse. I have examined these systems' architecture and protocols, and I find them to be fascinating. Freenet emerged from a bona fide, academically solid research project, and all three sites are worth serious attention from anyone interested in the future of the Internet.
In writing this essay, I want to take the hype and hysteria out of current reports about Gnutella and Freenet so the Internet community can evaluate them on their merits. This is a largely technical article; I address the policy debates directly in a companion article, The Value of Gnutella and Freenet. I will not cover Napster here because its operation has received more press. It's covered in "Napster: Popular Program Raises Devilish Issues" by Erik Nilsson, and frankly, it is less interesting and far-reaching technically than the other two systems.
In essence, Gnutella and Freenet represent a new step in distributed information systems. Each is a system for searching for information; each returns information without telling you where it came from. They are innovative in the areas of distributed information storage, information retrieval, and network architecture. But they differ significantly in both goals and implementation, so I'll examine them separately from this point on.
Gnutella basics
Each piece of Gnutella software is both a server and a client in one, because it supports bidirectional information transfer. The Gnutella developers call the software a "servent," but since that term looks odd I'll stick to "client." You can be a fully functional Gnutella site by installing any of several available clients; lots of different operating systems are supported. Next you have to find a few sites that are willing to communicate with you: some may be friends, while others may be advertised Gnutella sites. People with large computers and high bandwidth will encourage many others to connect to them.
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You will communicate directly only with the handful of sites you've agreed to contact. Any material of interest to other sites will pass along from one site to another in store-and-forward fashion. Does this sound familiar, all you grizzled, old UUCP and Fidonet users out there? The architecture is essentially the same as those unruly, interconnected systems that succeeded in passing Net News and e-mail around the world for decades before the Internet became popular.
But there are some important differences. Because Gnutella runs over the Internet, you can connect directly with someone who's geographically far away just as easily as with your neighbor. This introduces robustness and makes the system virtually failsafe, as we'll see in a minute.
Second, the protocol for obtaining information over Gnutella is a kind of call-and-response that's more complex than simply pushing news or e-mail. Figure 1 shows the operation of the protocol. Suppose site A asks site B for data matching "MP3." After passing back anything that might be of interest, site B passes the request on to its colleague at site C -- but unlike mail or news, site B keeps a record that site A has made the request. If site C has something matching the request, it gives the information to site B, which remembers that it is meant for site A and passes it through to that site.
Figure 1. How Gnutella retrieves information
I am tempted to rush on and describe the great significance of this simple system, but I'll pause to answer a few questions for those who are curious.
How are requests kept separate?
Each request has a unique number, generated from random numbers or semi-randomly from something unique to the originating site like an Ethernet MAC address. If a request goes through site C on to site D and then to site B, site B can recognize from the identifier that it's been seen already and quietly drop the repeat request. On the other hand, different sites can request the same material and have their requests satisfied because each has a unique identifier. Each site lets requests time out, simply by placing them on a queue of a predetermined size and letting old requests drop off the bottom as new ones are added.
What form does the returned data take?
It could be an entire file of music or other requested material, but Gnutella is not limited to shipping around files. The return could just as well be a URL, or anything else that could be of value. Thus, people are likely to use Gnutella for sophisticated searches, ending up with a URL just as they would with a traditional search engine. (More on this exciting possibility later.)
What protocol is used?
Gnutella runs over HTTP (a sign of Gnutella's simplicity). A major advantage of using HTTP is that two sites can communicate even if one is behind a typical organization's firewall, assuming that this firewall allows traffic out to standard Web servers on port 80. There is a slight difficulty if a client behind a firewall is asked to serve up a file, but it can get by the firewall by issuing an output command called GIV to port 80 on its correspondent. The only show-stopper comes when a firewall screens out all Web traffic, or when both correspondents are behind typical firewalls.
How does the system stop searching?
Like IP packets, each Gnutella request has a time-to-live, which is normally decremented by each site until it reaches zero. A site can also drastically reduce a time-to-live that it decides is ridiculously high. As we will see in a moment, the time-to-live limits the reach of each site, but that can be a benefit as well as a limitation.
How is a search string like "MP3" interpreted?
That is the $64,000 question, and leads us to Gnutella's greatest contribution.


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'Compassion' is a Rose variety in the Rosa genus with a scientific name of Rosa. It grows mainly as a Perennial, which means it typically grows best over a long period (from 3 years+). Compassion is known for its Shrub habit and growing to a height of approximately 2.00 metres (6.50 feet).
Compassion Rose needs a moderate amount of maintenance, so some level of previous experience comes in handy when growing this plant. Ensure that you are aware of the soil, sun, ph and water requirements for this plant and keep an eye out for pests.
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Submission + - Apple To Run 'Samsung Did Not Copy iPad' Ad In UK: Loses Case Against Samsung (muktware.com) 1
sfcrazy writes: Apple has lost is appeal in a UK court against Samsung's Galaxy Tab. The court of appeals has upheld its previous judgment that Samsung did not infringe on any Apple design. According to the order Apple will have to run an ads in leading UK newspapers as well its own website stating that Samsung did not infringes its products. To ensure that the ad is visible the court also ordered that the text of the ad must not be in a font size smaller than Ariel 14. Apple will have to run the ad on its site for a period of one month.


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Saturday, September 02, 2006
All those dreams of a National Championship and undefeated season, Big 10 titles and BCS games. All seem within reach. All so tantilizingly attainable.
It truly is Christmas Eve for college football fans.
So what am I expecting tomorrow? What am I hoping for as the Maize and Blue begin their quest that is the 2006 season?
For me, it's a defense that plays hard and aggressive for all four quarters. It's a running game that takes pressure off our passing game. It's imaginative play calling. It's stepping on the jugular when a team is there for the taking. It's a Michigan team hungry, hungry to prove that last season was a mistake. A blip. An abberation. It's a Michigan team looking to prove something, not to us, the fans or static noise of the blogosphere, but to themselves. That they're better than last season.
It's a team looking to show the college football world that Michigan, the winningest program in the history of college football, is back. And anybody who doubts it, doubts at their own peril.
Thanks for reading the entire off season. We sincerely appreciate it.
Now let's play some football.
Go Blue!
14 comments:
- Boomer Bear said...
15 Days till' ND-Michigan! GO IRISH!
"The Bear"
- September 01, 2006 9:25 AM
I look for Michigan to have a rejuvenated year, along the lines of PSU last year, except Michigan never got as far down as PSU. New defensive blood should help. Last year Mich had minor breakdowns at opportune times. Look for them not to happen this year. Expect Crable, Henne and Hart to have huge years.
- September 01, 2006 10:13 AM
- Turfman said...
It's all fun and games till the Wolverines play the Irish!
- September 01, 2006 10:14 AM
- Scott Boswell said...
We will stagger tOSU down in Austin, but y'all have to deliver the knockout punch this time Yost...
- September 01, 2006 10:21 AM
- WhiteDawg said...
Good luck to all you Michigan faithful. Wouldn't mind Michigan to go undefeated, that is until the OSU game..Again good luck and lets hope the game lives up to expectations like it did last year, regardless the outcome.
- September 01, 2006 11:12 AM
Cannot wait for this season to start! I believe the last time Michigan had an abysmal season the next year they came out and won the National Championship. End of season prediction...Michigan #1...Notre Dame #24.
- September 01, 2006 11:29 AM
- Boomer Bear said...
Behing Enemy Lines,
You are a nut! :) 24-1 will be the ratio that Notre Dame outscores the wolves... Notre Dame 72-3 over Mich (we'll give you a field goal to keep Vegas happy!)
"The Bear"
- September 01, 2006 11:51 AM
Your prediction is as weak as Notre Dame's defense. I predict a much closer game. I see ND coming out right away and scoring a TD. I see them being up a half time 10-7. But then I see Michigan really start attacking on defense and creating some turnovers. Mike Hart pounds in 2 TD's late and Michigan takes the contest 21-17. GO BLUE!
- September 01, 2006 12:07 PM
At this time of year where hope springs eternal, I hope the fates do what the ADs will not: schedule UM-Texas, this time for the MNC. At the least, let's each whip tOSU.
Good luck, Michigan.
- September 01, 2006 12:21 PM
- Boomer Bear said...
Behind Enemy Lines,
Serious Predictions huh? Ok.. I will stick with this:
Notre Dame 34
Michigan 14
"The Bear"
- September 01, 2006 12:35 PM
Notre Dame beats Michigan this season, given ND's horrible defense and Michigan's retooled defense, and Wake Forest wins the NC.
- September 01, 2006 1:25 PM
Speaking of ND, did anyone listen to the "Herd". Beano Cook denied being a ND homer. He went as far to say he does not like ND, but he respects them. What a load of horse shit!
- September 01, 2006 2:28 PM
- Beban said...
With all this ND talk, I can't believe you guys are overlooking Vandy.
Yes, I'm kidding.
- September 02, 2006 12:09 PM
- srudoff said...
GREAAAAAAT first half!!!!!
- September 02, 2006 1:41 PM


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Match Summary An earlier-than-expected return from injury by Matt Bowen has sparked the North Queensland Cowboys to put in their most dominant performance of the year so far, dismantling the Warriors 48-20.
The mercurial fullback capped off a fine game with a hat trick of tries in the nine try-to-three rout that raised $12,000 for Rugby League's One Community charity.
Bowen's partner in crime Jonathan Thurston put in an equally dominant performance, teasing and tearing apart the Warriors defence with his full repertoire of skills, and placing Queensland selectors in two minds as to who to pick at halfback, with fellow statesman Scott Prince also in fine form.
The Cowboys were in charge of this one from the get-go, with Bowen crossing in the 8th minute following a big break by Steve Southern. Two minutes later and the Cowboys were in again, with Thurston finding Justin Smith out wide with a huge overlap.
Southern found himself rewarded for all his great work in the game so far with a try at the 23rd, before Bowen grabbed his second right on halftime.
It wasn't all Cowboys, with the Warriors eventually finding their feet in the first half through tries to Simon Mannering in the 17th, Ian Henderson in the 32nd and a penalty goal to Michael Witt, which had the Warriors only two points behind before Bowen scored his second.
The second half, however, was all Cowboys, with a combination of poor handling close to their line, and equally as poor fifth tackle options from halves Witt and Grant Rovelli conspiring against the Warriors and allowing the Cowboys to really let loose.
Ben Harris got a double, and Bowen got his third in what ended up a game where the Warriors would have found themselves on the wrong end of a half-century scoreline for the second time this year had Thurston not been given an early mark with ten minutes to go.
Ivan Cleary and his charges will have much soul searching to do this week as they seek to regroup and take on the table-topping Gold Coast Titans at the 'Temple of Boom' next Sunday. The Cowboys, meanwhile, have set-up a mouth watering match up with reigning premiers Melbourne Storm in exactly one weeks time.
Match Details North Queensland Cowboys 48 def New Zealand Warriors 20 Round 6 - April 19th, 2008 7:30pm Venue: Dairy Farmers Stadium Referee: Jason Robinson Half time: Cowboys 22-14 Crowd: 20,554
North Queensland Cowboys 48 Tries: Matt Bowen (3), Justin Smith, Steve Southern, John Williams, Ben Harris (2), Ashley Graham Goals: Johnathan Thurston (6/8), Ashley Graham (0/1) New Zealand Warriors 20 Tries: Simon Mannering, Ian Henderson, Jerome Ropati Goals: Michael Witt (4/4)
LeagueUnlimited.com Player of the Match 3 Points: Matt Bowen (Cowboys) 2 Points: Johnathan Thurston (Cowboys) 1 Point: Steve Southern (Cowboys)
LeagueUnlimited.com Live Commentary Good evening and welcome to Townsville for tonights Heritage Round match between two of the relatively young teams in the NRL in the North Queensland Cowboys and the Warriors. Both teams joined top level rugby league in 1995, both have experienced Grand Finals but are yet to have a Premiership victory to their name.
Team changes for tonight are as follows: Cowboys: The Cowboys will be boosted by the return of star fullback Matt Bowen, playing in jersey 23. Bowen back in the team pushes Ashley Graham back into the centres, Mark Henry out to the wing with Ty Williams dropping out of the team. The bench reads Faust, Weston, Bartlett and Faiumu. Warriors: In contrast, the Warriors are as per programme.
Both teams are out on the field, sporting their respective heritage jerseys. The Cowboys representing the North Queensland representative team of the 1960's by wearing an almost all blue jersey. The Warriors bearing their red and white alternate jersey from 1999/2000.
0 min: And we're underway, with the Warriors to get first use of the ball.
2 min: Jerome Ropati, playing his first game since round 2, makes an immediate impact by almost breaking clear down the sideline, however he is tackled into touch and the Cowboys will get first field position of the game.
3 min: A loose pass goes to ground and is pounced on by Lance Hohaia to relieve early pressure on the Warriors.
4 min: Brent Tate gives us all a feeling of deja vu, as he makes a half break down the right sideline but is also tackled into touch. Cowboys to get another good attacking opportunity.
6 min: Defence on the fringes has been the star early in the game, with Mark Henry taking a lovely ball from Matt Bowen and racing away for the corner, only to be tackled into touch by Patrick Ah Van.
7 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys The Cowboys go almost the length of the field and Matt Bowen marks his return from injury by grabbing first points tonight following a great bust by Steve Southern. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 6-0
9 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: It's taken almost ten minutes but we have our first penalty of the match, going against the Warriors for contact with the head.
11 min: VIDEO REF - Possible Cowboys Try... Robinson has sent this one upstairs to check on obstruction.
11 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys Chris Ward rules Vatuvei to have just made a poor read in defence and awards the try, this time scored by Justin Smith. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston unsuccessful. North Queensland Cowboys 10-0
13 min: Easy metres being made by the Cowboys following the restart, making it down to the Warriors 30 having to kick on the last.
14 min: Michael Witt loses the ball cold on the last, and the Cowboys will get a full set starting on the halfway line.
15 min: Rare mistake from Jonathan Thurston sees a long cut-out ball fall at the feet of Henry, and the Cowboys attack comes undone early in the set.
16 min: PENALTY - Warriors: The Warriors get their first penalty and will get an easy ride into Cowboys territory.
17 min: VIDEO REF - Possible Warriors Try... Checking a possible try to Simon Mannering, and if there was a knock on from Vatuvei in the lead up.
17 min: TRY New Zealand Warriors Video ref Chris Ward sends it back down to Robinson and Robinson awards the try. A cross-field kick on the last from Rovelli is contested by Vatuvei and Williams in the air, where it is knocked back into the hands of Mannering who crosses for the try. Conversion attempt by Michael Witt successful. North Queensland Cowboys 10-6
19 min: Hohaia cleans up a grubber from Thurston in the in-goal, but in turn is cleaned up in-goal and the Cowboys will get the repeat set from the goal-line dropout.
21 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys Aaron Payne darts out of dummy half on the last and fires a ball out to Bluey Southern who dives over next to the posts. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 16-6
23 min: Cowboys in full control of this game at the moment, enjoying a 60-40 possession spread, with 71% of the game being played in the Warriors half.
25 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: Cowboys get an easy ride off their line courtesy of a stripped ball.
26 min: PENALTY - Warriors: North Queensland looked set to score another try, only to lose the ball and then compound the error by giving away a penalty.
28 min: VIDEO REF - Possible Warriors Try... Chris Ward checking to see if Tate has knocked the ball on in attempting to knock the ball back following the cross field kick on the last.
28 min: NO TRY - 20 Metre Restart Brent Tate has knocked the ball on, and the Cowboys are let off the hook.
28 min: PENALTY - Warriors: Luke O'Donnell gives a penalty away while in possession for a bit of push and shove in the ruck. Witt lines up to take the kick.
28 min: PENALTY GOAL New Zealand Warriors Penalty attempt by Michael Witt successful. North Queensland Cowboys 16-8
31 min: O'Donnell knocks the ball on on his own 40 and continues what has been an average game by his standards so far.
32 min: TRY New Zealand Warriors Soft goal-line defence by the Cowboys sees Ian Henderson bust through three Cowboys defenders and fall over next to the posts. Conversion attempt by Michael Witt successful. North Queensland Cowboys 16-14
35 min: The Cowboys can consider themselves incredibly lucky to have possession of the ball. Rovelli put up a bomb on the last which no-one on either team went for. The ball bounced and was cleaned up by Ah Van, who then put a nothing grubber through to Matt Bowen, who in the process of coming away from his line lost the ball backwards but was able to scramble back and clean up before the defence converged on him.
38 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: Thurston makes a half break and fires the ball out to Henry in space, but he is quickly rounded up by Ah Van and Sonny Fai who then give away the penalty for holding down in the tackle.
39 min: PENALY - Cowboys: The Warriors were too quick up off their line and give away another penalty, this one ten out from their own line.
40 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys The Cowboys take the quick tap following the penalty, and the ball makes its way across field and into the hands of Matt Bowen who runs through a huge hole and ends the half just as he started it. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 22-14
HALF TIME It's half time here at Townsville and the home team find themselves leading the visitors 22-14. It's been an entertaining game so far, with both teams showing that they're willing to throw the ball around to score points. The Cowboys completely dominated the first twenty minutes as the Warriors found themselves incapable of launching any form of sustained attack, either coming undone through handling errors or poor options. The Warriors were able to eventually find their form and scored points as a result, however towards the end of the first half found themselves plagued yet again by poor fifth tackle options. The Cowboys haven't had such problems in attack, although their goal-line defence does look a little flimsy.
Stand out players so far include Jonathan Thurston, Matt Bowen and Steve Southern for the Cowboys, while Brent Tate and Simon Mannering have looked dangerous for the Warriors, and Epalahame Lauaki continues to prove a handful off the bench.
40 min: And Michael Witt gets the second half underway!
42 min: Rovelli puts through a nice kick into the in-goal which has to be taken dead by the Cowboys. Goal-line dropout.
43 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: Lauaki gives away a penalty in possession for playing the ball when referee Robinson was calling play on.
44 min: The Cowboys attack falls to pieces on the last play, and Lauaki breathes a sigh of relief.
46 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys Thurston puts the ball high to Vatuvei's corner on the last, and John Williams leaps up high over Manu to grab the ball and grab the try. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston unsuccessful. North Queensland Cowboys 26-14
50 min: David Faiumu tries to force the impossible pass and the Cowboys find themselves in possession on the halfway line.
51 min: PENALTY - Warriors: The Cowboys compound the error by giving away a penalty and giving the Warriors a full set inside the 20.
51 min: Vatuvei gets his first real run in the game and goes ever so close to scoring a try. On the next play the Warriors spread it out to the opposite wing and Ah Van gets forced over the sideline.
53 min: PENALTY - Warriors: Sam Faust very clearly gets called offside at marker, yet makes a ball and all tackle and gives away another penalty to the Warriors, who have enjoyed a fair bit of field position in this half, yet have nothing to show for it.
55 min: Rovelli kicks to the corner on the last, and the ball is batted back by Vatuvei. Bowen chips ahead before being taken out on suspicion by Hohaia. The Warriors end up with the ball and Witt tries to take advantage of the Cowboys staggered defensive line before losing the ball in trying to pass.
57 min: The Warriors lose the ball close to their line and the Cowboys will have an opportunity to put this game beyond doubt early.
58 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys Thurston takes advantage of a stacked short-side, passing out to Harris who barges over for the try. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 32-14
61 min: Long break made down the left side, started off by Bowen with a half break, before passing inside to Thurston on the charge, then out to Henry on the wing who is rounded up by the defence
63 min: Another handling error close to the line hands another attacking opportunity over to the Cowboys.
65 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys Thurston grubbers through on the third tackle and Graham races through to add his name to the scoresheet. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 38-14
67 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys Matt Bowen finishes off the try of the night, but the points should go to Thurston who did all the work. Thurston was given the ball on his own 40 and took on the line, selling Mannering a massive dummy before slicing straight through and racing down the sideline, before kicking in-field for Bowen to clean up and plant the ball behind the posts. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 44-14
69 min: Following the conversion, Thurston gets a much deserved early mark from the game.
71 min: Bluey Southern finds himself on the end of a backline movement and goes agonisingly close to getting a brace of tries.
74 min: Bowen proves his mortality, knocking on at dummy half a metre out from his line.
75 min: TRY New Zealand Warriors From the scrum, the Warriors go straight to the blind side and grab a consolation try through Ropati. Conversion attempt by Michael Witt successful. North Queensland Cowboys 44-20
77 min: VIDEO REF - Possible Cowboys Try...
77 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys Ruben Wiki loses the ball on the very first tackle following the restart. Ben Harris swoops on the ball and grabs his second of the night. Conversion attempt by Ashley Graham unsuccessful. North Queensland Cowboys 48-20
FULL TIME The Cowboys have flexed their full muscle, dismantling the Warriors 48-20.


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Free Speech on Trial--Author Mark Steyn goes on trial for giving offense
Earlier this month, the columnist Mark Steyn went on trial for being mean. Steyn's offense was to have published, in the fall of 2006, an excerpt from his book, America Alone, in the Canadian newsweekly Maclean's. In it, Steyn advanced the provocative but by no means untenable argument that plunging birthrates in Europe would precipitate a demographic decline, forcing Continental countries to reach an "accommodation with their radicalized Islamic compatriots." Europe's future, Steyn suggested, "belongs to Islam." Islamic radicals, one might think, would be heartened by the backhanded vote of confidence. Instead, led by a group called the Canadian Islamic... snip
If the judges were inept, the prosecution was scarcely more competent. Attempting to prove Steyn's "Islamophobic" views, the prosecution's lawyers summoned Andrew Rippin, an expert on Islam and a professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. At issue was Steyn's use of the word "Mohammedan" to describe Muslims.
The prosecution charged that this was insulting, possibly even hateful. Only, their star witness disagreed. Professor Rippin pointed out that just as Christians adopted the name of Christ, Muslims in various parts of the world referred to themselves as followers of the prophet Mohammed. "The prosecution was so stupid that their own expert witness made the case for Steyn," Levant says.
Similarly wince-inducing moments were a regular feature of the five-day hearing. All the more so if one happened to be a supporter of free speech. One such moment came when Faisal Joseph, the lawyer for the complainants, accused Steyn of failing to provide alternative points of view in his article. In a trial about hate speech, it was the equivalent of saying that all journalism that didn't meet Joseph's specifications was punishable as hate. Equally revealing was a comment from Dean Steacy, an investigator for the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
When asked what value he gives to free speech in his investigations, Steacy breezily dismissed the question. "Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value," he said.
With the tribunal thus revealed as a travesty of justice, Steyn and Maclean's wisely decided to focus their attention on the absurdity of the proceedings. Maclean's lawyers refused to provide any witnesses. Meanwhile, Steyn said that he would be happy to loose, if only to demonstrate how far the Human Rights Commission had gone in trampling on freedom of speech and the liberty of the press in Canada. As he put it to one interviewer: "We want to lose so we can take it to a real court and if necessary up to the Supreme Court of Canada and we can get the ancient liberties of free-born Canadian citizens that have been taken away from them by tribunals like this."
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Posted 24 February 2004 - 12:54 AM
put a cone filter on the end or hack off the bottom of the intake box below the filter.
Posted 24 February 2004 - 07:33 AM
go to auto zone and they have these trick maf adapters for like 10 bucks. they look like a square with a small piece of piping attached to them. i think they are made for a honda/ supra but they bolt right on to the suby maf, then you can mount a cone filter on it. all of that should be hanging on a shelf in the ricer section.
Posted 24 February 2004 - 10:06 AM
auto zone huh ya don't say.....
Posted 24 February 2004 - 10:17 AM
Yup.. the ones from autozone should fit our cars.. was just looking at them recently.. they are 14.99 for the adapter.
Posted 24 February 2004 - 03:39 PM
Get a MAF adaptor from a '91-'99 Nissan Sentra 1.6l (GA16DE is the engine code). Bolts right up. If you can find the one made by Injen, it's a nice aluminum piece - the rest, like my Weapon-R, are plastic:
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LAKE PLACID - A proposal to increase Essex County's occupancy tax to 5 percent is drawing a mixed reaction from local hotel owners.
The county's Board of Supervisors is considering a resolution that would increase the current 3 percent occupancy tax, or bed tax, by up to 2 percent. All but two counties in New York state have a bed tax on hotel and lodging stays.
Ninety-five percent of Essex County's current bed tax funds the Lake Placid-based Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism, which markets the region to potential visitors.
"It doesn't concern me at all; I support it 100 percent," Dan Brownell, whose family owns Gauthier's Saranac Lake Inn, said of the proposed bed tax increase.
"It's more money for the area for marketing," he added. "They (ROOST) have shown that every dollar they spend on marketing, it comes back 50 or 60 times. More dollars that way would be great for the area."
Art Lussi, whose family owns the Crowne Plaza Resort and Golf Club in Lake Placid, said he's "fervently against" increasing the bed tax.
"I think it would be a huge mistake," he said. "To tax people who are supporting our community, our Park, our existence - at a time when we're in a recession - I think is one of the craziest ideas I've ever heard in my life."
The current proposal would bring in between $1 million and $1.2 million in additional revenue, according to county Treasurer Mike Diskin's projections. Wilmington town Supervisor Randy Preston said Monday he'd like to see 25 percent of that go to help run the county's fish hatchery in Crown Point. He said the rest would go to special funds for tourism product development, offseason marketing and visitor transportation.
Supervisors still need to work out details and language of the proposal, and the state Legislature would have to grant the county home-rule authority to increase the tax.
Essex County implemented its bed tax in 1998 to help fund regional marketing efforts. Some hotel owners, like Peter Holderied of the Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort in Lake Placid, were initially concerned that it would drive away potential visitors. At the time, few places outside of New York City charged such a tax.
"Since then, everybody has it," said Holderied, who is also a member of the Lake Placid village Board of Trustees. "It's expected when people travel now."
Holderied said he would support an increased bed tax as long as the current 3 percent continues going to ROOST.
"They're constantly trying to raid that fund," he said. "The rest of the county, they're going to want it for themselves. ... If they use it, somehow make it contractual, only for county marketing, and leave the other 3 percent alone, I wouldn't have a problem with that. I just don't see that happening. I don't think the rest of the legislators will vote for it if it can only be used for marketing, in my opinion."
Jim Murnane, owner of the Best Western Mountain Lake Inn in Saranac Lake, said he's not sure if he's for or against increasing the bed tax. Murnane, like Holderied, said he feels that county lawmakers have been trying to tap into bed tax revenue ever since it was implemented.
"The law was written that the funds were strictly to go to tourism promotion," Murnane said. "People have tried to kind of bend their way around that, notably the other townships in Essex County. I don't want to see that change."
Murnane said additional revenue from an increased bed tax should not go to the general fund, and it shouldn't be used to support things like the fish hatchery.
Lussi said the county should instead consider implementing a bed tax on people who rent second homes and condominiums.
"It's crazy that all of those visitors don't have to pay an occupancy tax like everyone else," he said. "Specifically, Lake Placid has had a huge contingent of second home and condominium rentals in the past 15 years. It's emerged as a requested, desired market. And many of the second home owners have hired local Realtors to rent those properties for them when they're not here to help either offset mortgage costs or annual taxes.
"If they're looking to create any economic boost for the tourism bureau, that's where I would suggest they go, not tax the people that have been supporting us through good times and bad."
Murnane said since the bed tax took effect, he hasn't lost any business because of it.
"You don't get much kickback from it from the guests," he said. "They'll ask what it is occasionally when they're signing their receipt and they'll see two separate lines of tax, one being sales and one being the bed tax. They'll ask what it is occasionally, but it's certainly never cost me any business in any way, shape or form."
ROOST President Jim McKenna said the bed tax has been effective. He said he understands the county's budget woes and the need for additional revenue, but his office's stance has always been that the best use of the bed tax is as an investment.
"We've shown very clearly that it adds more to the bottom line than just wiping out expenses," McKenna said. "I think a lot has to do with whether or not it's the appropriate time to increase taxes - I don't know that. ... It's more important that we evaluate what we have."
Lussi said he wasn't thrilled about enacting the bed tax to begin with, but he's learned to live with it. He said he realizes bed tax revenue funds nearly all of ROOST's revenue, but he questioned how it's the organization uses it.
"With that money, what have you done for meetings, conventions? If you look at the past 10 years, our community has become more event driven than conference driven," Lussi said. "Hockey is here more than 20 weeks a year. ... If you look at the 10 weeks in the summer, you have the Lake Placid Marathon, then you have the two weeks of horse show, then you have the Ironman, rugby, lacrosse, women's hockey festival, figure skating festival - if you look down our calendar on an annual basis, there's not a lot of open weekends that aren't based on an event.
"If we're all events through the whole year, then what are we using this money for? I would hope it's to market the Sunday-through-Wednesday conferences. But I haven't seen that. This is harsh; I'm being tough right now. If that bed tax had been used to draw all of these events, I would be supportive of raising it. But the bed tax is used to put on the event, which I don't think is right. They use staff to put on Ironman with some of this money. I don't think that's the intent of the bed tax. ... I know I'm going to take a lot of heat, but I got to tell it like it is."
McKenna said ROOST's marketing plan, available online at www.roostadk.com, gears itself to the offseason and mid-week periods.
"It gears itself to the non-busy times," he said.
McKenna said many events - like bass fishing tournaments on Lake Champlain and Ironman - have costs attached to them. He said ROOST keeps track of those expenses and justifies them in its paperwork.
Contact Chris Morris at 891-2600 ext. 25 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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LONDON - The BBC's news chief and her deputy have "stepped aside" while the broadcaster deals with the fallout from a child abuse scandal that forced its director-general to resign, the broadcaster said today.
Helen Boaden, the BBC's director of news and current affairs, and her deputy, Stephen Mitchell, have handed over their responsibilities to others for the time being "to address the lack of clarity around the editorial chain of command," the corporation said.
"Consideration is now being given to the extent to which individuals should be asked to account further for their actions and if appropriate, disciplinary action will be taken," the statement said.
The BBC, meanwhile, faced criticism for agreeing to a 450,000 pounds ($715,000) payoff - a year's salary - for George Entwistle, who resigned as director-general on Saturday after a BBC news program bungled reports that powerful Britons sexually abused children.
Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman said today the payoff for Entwistle, who led the BBC for just 54 days, was "hard to justify."
"Clearly, it is hard to justify a sizeable payoff of that sort," Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman Steve Field told reporters, but added it was for the BBC to justify the decision.
However, the prime minister gave his support to Chris Patten, the embattled chairman of the BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body.
"The important thing is for Chris Patten to lead the BBC out of its present difficulties," Field told reporters.
The multi-faceted crisis stems from allegations that the late Jimmy Savile, a BBC entertainment star, was a serial sexual abuser of underage girls. Newsnight, a BBC news program, was working on an investigation which was shelved last year by an editor, and the BBC subsequently went ahead with a year-end tribute program to Savile.
Earlier this month, the same news program wrongly implicated a British politician in sex-abuse claims. The program did not identify the politician but the name quickly became known.
The BBC said it wanted "to make it absolutely clear that neither Helen Boaden nor Stephen Mitchell had anything at all to do with the failed Newsnight investigation" which linked a politician to allegations of sexual abuse.
The statement suggested that both were too busy dealing with various inquiries to give full attention to their jobs.
Following the conclusion of a review of BBC management's role in the failed Newsnight investigation, Boaden and Mitchell "expect to then return to their positions," the BBC said.
AP reporter David Stringer contributed to this report.


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Is there any chance that since the mag has less pages than it used to, we could not waste half a page every month with an update on how LibreOffice is doing?
It's great that they do so much over there, but every month there's half a page by Michael Meeks telling us what the LibreOffice team has done this month. Not necessary. Does anyone actually read it?


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|Retro Bill is also a board member at Second Mile
Oh yes, here. The other night, known slugger and DARE program failure, Josh Hamilton, launched 4 dongs and a double against the O's at Camden Yards. He set the non-Jewish record for total bases in a game (Shawn Green had 19…which is unreal). Hamilton is, without question, one of the five best players in the game today. Hell, he might be #2 (Matt Kemp has a stranglehold on #1). But he is a great baseball player. Not good—GREAT. One story that is about to blow up (and already has to some extent) is that Hamilton is a free agent at season's end. So I want to spend today trying to answer the question of "What is Josh Hamilton's price?"
If you were just looking at the man as an on-field product, he is a lock for an 8 year/160 million contract and that might even be on the cheap. We all know about his demons though and that shit can not be ignored. Plus, he does tend to get hurt a lot. At this point, I would like to reference THIS POST that I wrote years ago where I wrote Hamilton's autobiography for him. Dut believed every word of that post and even quoted it as fact to others. He only learned that it was a lie less than a year ago. Hilarious. What an idiot.
Anyway, no sane management team is going to give Josh Hamilton an 8 year contract and close to 200 million dollars. That would just be foolish. So what is he worth? First things first, he isn't going anywhere. Texas has the money to pay him and he has re-built his life in Arlington with a support staff to keep him clean (sort of…Ian Kinsler really sucks at this). He isn't going to the highest bidder and reshuffling the deck which is his life. That would be a disaster. So there has to be some common ground here for both parties. They both seem aware of the issues at hand and Hamilton seems like a guy that understands the lyrics of the inferior-to-2Pac Biggie Smalls that "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems".
If I'm Hamilton's agent, I ask for 7 years and 140 million knowing that I will never get anything close to that. If I'm the Rangers, I counter with 4 years and 60 million knowing that there is only a slim chance that this lowball effort will even be considered. In the end, I think that a deal can be made for 4 years and 75-80 million (maybe with a couple of years of team options added on at 20-22 mill per year) with some fairly heavy morality clauses thrown in that can void the deal. That seems pretty fair to me and sort of meets in the middle (basically, if all went well, Hamilton could net 125 million over 6 years). The superstar gets paid and the team gets some protection. I just don't see how these two parties can divorce at this stage. Both need each other like I need another bottle of fleshlight lube.
Also something that I want to address today: Cole Hamels is a fucking pussy who is in desperate need of a NATITUDE adjustment. DURR I hit Bryce Harper on purpose to welcome him to the bigs. That is so stupid. Hamels is about the least "old school" guy out there since he married a reality TV star (although Heidi from Survivor is insanely hot) and looks like a total gash. I'm not saying that Harper shouldn't be getting plunked because he looks and seems like a total doucher, but Hamels is not someone that should be playing the role of "baseball history tough guy". His name is COLE! Have you ever met a tough guy named Cole? I'll answer that for you—No, you have not met a Cole that was a tough guy. Although maybe he is attempting to institute some sort of rogue pitching task force known as "Hamels 2 Halladay: Bizarre Mound Justice"?
More baseball today! Yay for Brady! Boo for the old farts! Fuck, I've got that cheesy synth-rock DARE song stuck in my head now. DARE! To keep a kid off drugs!


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"What news from Kent?" :) (Sorry, Jane Austen fan)


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Director of Buildings and Grounds:
Wendy Yankelitis
Phone:(570) 348-6201
Marywood University's Buildings and Grounds Department is dedicated to providing quality services to students, faculty, staff and visitors to the University. The Buildings and Grounds Department is responsible for maintaining the entire campus in a manner that is beneficial to learning and safety. We are committed to continually improving our services, as well as our operational systems to insure the best possible services within our means.
Assistant Director of Buildings and Grounds:
Myron Marcinek
Phone:(570) 961-4786
The Assistant Director of Buildings and Grounds is responsible for the planning, construction, renovation, repair, and maintenance of all University buildings and facilities. The services provided include but are not limited to providing utilities, elevator maintenance, preventative maintenance on heating & air conditioning equipment, keys, roof repairs, event setups, moving services, painting, plumbing, electrical, carpentry, recycling, pest control, scheduling chemical/medical waste disposal and updating the Material Safety Data Sheets on campus. All environmental safety issues are handled through this department.
Superintendent of Building Services:
Joseph McCormack
Phone:(570) 961-4785
Building Services provides housekeeping services to administrative, academic, and residential buildings on a daily basis. Classrooms, offices, hallways, and stairways are cleaned on a scheduled basis. Restrooms are cleaned and serviced daily. Windows, carpets, and floors are maintained periodically depending on academic schedule. The custodial staff controls snow and ice on entrance ways and walks leading into buildings. Building services also includes general maintenance and custodial work in all academic and residence hall buildings and the maintenance of classrooms and public spaces including furnishings.
Superintendent of Grounds:
Mark Burns
Phone:(570) 961-4788
The Grounds Department is responsible for the maintenance & landscaping of the university Arboretum, grounds, the upkeep of sidewalks and roadways as well as maintaining the fleet of University vehicles & equipment. Marywood University takes a great deal of pride in the appearance of its building and grounds. The Buildings and Grounds employs a grounds crew that is responsible for turf maintenance, care of shrubs, plantings, and trees; road and walk cleaning and maintenance; and snow and ice control. It takes conscious efforts on everyone's part to help keep the campus grounds and buildings as free of litter, graffiti, and abuse as possible. Please help keep your campus clean.
Maintenance Planner / Scheduler:
Stanley Grzenda
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The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler oversees the moving of furniture/offices, event setups in all buildings, recycling pickup, ordering paint & supplies for work orders, mail courier, keeping parts inventoried and supplied and also creating and receiving purchase orders. All special event set ups are coordinated through this area and we respectfully request at least 2 weeks prior notice to any event, so we can staff and prepare properly.
Preventative Maintenance Coordinator:
Geoffrey Smeltzer
Phone:(570) 961-4789
The Preventative Maintenance Coordinator is responsible for creating all preventative maintenance work orders for equipment throughout campus. The position also requires maintaining and updating all CAD drawings of campus, as well as looking for ways to save on and control the University's energy costs.
Department Assistant of Buildings and Grounds:
Laurie Munley
Phone:(570) 348-6218 x8 or x2327 on campus
The Department Assistant of Buildings and Grounds provides the initial contact regarding service for problems on campus during normal hours of operation. This includes but is not limited to greeting visitors to Buildings and Grounds, distributing visitor badges, inputting work orders, dispatching service, issuing purchase orders, ensuring invoices are prepared for payment, maintaining the web site, contacting vendors with service or repairs & handling calls from students, parents, employees and Chartwells staff as necessary.


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Hi all,
I have been so busy today that I haven't had a chance to reply to many posts, so I thought I would at least say that I have never had so many birthday wishes from so many countries.
We'll be busy for a few hours yet so I may not do the usual birthday drinks, but then this has hardly been a usual birthday!
Thanks for watching


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Stop enslaved child labor in cocoa industry
In the Ivory Coast, a 10 year-old slave boy carries a fifty pound bag of cocoa beans. He accidentally trips over a rock
In the Ivory Coast, a 10 year-old slave boy carries a fifty pound bag of cocoa beans. He accidentally trips over a rock
This a world issue without tigers the food chain collapses.
A large number of Girls are being trafficked in the name of marriage
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Traffickers target northeast Indian women, sell them like cattle Pranjal Baruah, TNN Dec 23, 2012, 02.55AM
Approximately 20–30 billion people in the world today are being trafficked. This is a grave violation of human rights!
Ridding the world of sex slavery will be one step closer to restoring faith in humanity.
People around the world are dying every day because they are forced against their will and nothing is being done
My Refuge House is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization that provides a safe home to empower and restore survivors of
STITCH YOUR HEARTS TOGETHER THIS VALENTINE'S DAY One of the reasons we see traffickers are able to take advantage of


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High Five
Jake Paul , Brookline: The junior goalie made 43 saves to lift the Warriors to a 2-0 win over Brockton in the Petruzziello Plaza Holiday Tournament.
Mario Pizzeri , St. John's High: The junior made 17 saves to post a 1-0 shutout of Framingham, and help the Pioneers get a much-needed win to end a five-game losing streak.
Jack Quinlivan and Dan Quinlivan , Shrewsbury: Jack scored three goals while twin sibling Dan assisted on three as the Colonials cruised to an 8-4 win over Ludlow.
Adrieana Rossini , Arlington Catholic: The sophomore posted three goals and two assists in a 7-0 win over Wakefield.
Luke Tremblay , Arlington: Officially, the Spy Ponders picked up a pair of ties over winter vacation, but unofficially, they captured the Ed Burns Holiday Classic title thanks to the senior's sturdy work in net, which included four saves in a shootout win over Waltham.
Top 10 boys' teams
(Records through Sunday)
1. Arlington Catholic (1-1-1)
2. Arlington (4-0-2)
3. St. John's High (2-5)
4. Natick (3-5)
5. Framingham (3-3)
6. Franklin (2-1)
7. Acton-Boxborough Regional (1-3)
8. Groton-Dunstable Regional
9. Medfield (6-0)
10. Medway (2-0-2)
Top 10 girls' teams
(Records through Sunday)
1. Arlington Catholic (4-1)
2. Lexington (2-1)
3. Acton-Boxborough Regional (3-2)
4. Arlington (5-0)
5. Wellesley (4-0-1)
6. Medfield (4-2-1)
7. Lincoln-Sudbury Regional
8. Shrewsbury (3-1)
9. Watertown/Melrose (2-3-1)
10. Natick (4-2-1)
BOYS' Game of the week
Acton-Boxborough Regional vs. Central Catholic, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Nashoba Valley:
The Colonials, who have struggled against tough competition, will face a test in Central Catholic, who began the year 4-1.
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100+ Young Professionals attended our annual Holiday soiree. The theme was Naughty and Nice and as you can tell from the pictures both were equally represented! Thanks to Jun for this wonderful photos.
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Holiday Party: Naughty and Nice, Dec 2011
Location: Perle in New Brunswick, NJ
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Our holdings include hundreds of glass and film negatives/transparencies that we've scanned ourselves; in addition, many other photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs) in the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) They are adjusted, restored and reworked by your webmaster in accordance with his aesthetic sensibilities before being downsized and turned into the jpegs you see here. All of these images (including "derivative works") are protected by copyright laws of the United States and other jurisdictions and may not be sold, reproduced or otherwise used for commercial purposes without permission.
Vintage photos of:
"Nancy Hamilton, 9/9/26." View full size. National Photo Co. glass negative.
August 15, 1955. My ninth birthday. In answer to my request, we had turkey with all the trimmings. I'm pretending to carve. The camera this was taken with was probably a birthday present, thereby starting me on my road to photographic immortality. Poetic justice that the shot's out of focus. Gobble gobble.
District of Columbia, 1919. Willard Service Station, Washington Battery Co., 1623 L Street. The sign: "We respectfully request customers to refrain from talking to workmen. Any information desired will be cheerfully given out by floor superintendent." National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
Washington circa 1920. "Penn Oil Co., Massachusetts Avenue & Wisconsin Avenue station." National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Hudson, stolen car." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
1928 or 1929. Production workers at the huge Atwater Kent radio factory in Philadelphia. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
March 20, 1923. "H.A. Bolles, Annapolis. Crew Captain." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
1920. "William Downer Auto Home, Gospel Car No. 1." The Reverend hailed from Glassboro, New Jersey. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.


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SO I have a business trip to San Francisco next week…and it just happens that IndyCar is racing at Sonoma…Hmmmm
If Delta gets me in on time Saturday and I navigate traffic successfully I should hit the track in time for Quali's and then Pix and perhaps an interview or two afterwards. Stay tuned for updates Saturday and Sunday night.
I am interested in seeing the crowd this year. Last year's crowd was reported to be a healthy increase over 2009. I have a suspicion that the crowd could continue to grow. Two reasons:
First the hometown hero, JR Hildebrand, makes his return home with quite a bit more notoriety than his cameo appearance last year. JR has spent the week out and about in the Bay area promoting the race, most recently showing off the whitest legs in the paddock to the crowd at the Giants game.
Second, Ho Ping Tung … Huh? What? Ho Ping Tung? How does he move the needle? Bear with me…
I have been the holder of a mini season ticket package for the Indiana Pacers for several years and no matter how bad the Pacers had been in recent years there were three teams that would guarantee a full house. Lakers, Cavs and then the Rockets. Bryant, LeBron and Yao Ming the stars for the three teams. Yao's army showed up in numbers for every road game the Chinese star played. Does Ho Ping Tung have an army of followers? While Ho Ping Tung is ethnically Chinese he is not from China, does this make a difference? The city with the largest Chinese community in the country might give us some clues…Of course did anyone bother to tell the local Chinese media? I have no clue.
So yeah this is a pretty lame post. Despite the available material, I just haven't really been feeling that worked up or opinionated about anything as of late. There was going to be another tidbit here, but frankly it is worthy of an entire post sometime when I have a little more enthusiasm.
Enjoy the race this weekend and make sure you have plenty of beverages on hand, George Phillips suggests watching Sonoma makes him thirsty.


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Never before has knowledge been so profoundly specialized.
The idea that someone working in one profession very quickly becomes out of their depth when discussing another is generally familiar. Nowadays, even between two people in the same profession, but specializing in different areas, one will probably not understand much of the other's specialty.
Albert Einstein once wrote that someone with specialist knowledge alone "more closely resembles a well-trained dog."
While he qualified that sentiment, it nicely sums up the predicament of the individual living in this era of specialization.
We use the term "doctor," a "person of learning," uniformly to refer to people who hold a doctorate, giving rise to the misconception that a person should be considered a polymath simply by virtue of the fact that they have such a degree. This is misleading in the extreme.
A doctor in the humanities would almost certainly be a complete novice when it comes to the sciences and someone with a doctorate in the sciences cannot be expected to have anything but a passing knowledge of their country's history. Why, then, is the doctor equated with the polymath?
Indeed, a person's qualifications do not always adequately reflect their academic erudition. The blind worship of anyone with a doctorate must end, and the idea that academics are necessarily the best people to govern must go with it.
President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has a doctorate from Harvard University, and yet he could still say with authority in a speech to Lions Club International that deer antlers, a famous New Zealand export, are the part of the deer's fur that grows inside its ear. The president emphasized the point by indicating his own right ear. This was broadcast on TV, so there was little possibility his words were misheard or misrepresented by the media. Better confirmation could not be had for the idea that, while having a doctorate shows you are well-educated, it is certainly no guarantee of common sense.
If you are looking for examples of people with a wealth of knowledge, but precious little common sense among Ma's inner circle, why stop at Ma himself?
Every caterer, buffet owner and roadside food vendor understands that oil, gas and electricity price hikes will mean an increase in the prices of the meals they sell, and yet National Development Council Minister Kuan Chung-ming (管中閔), who has a doctorate in economics, can still say — bless him — that Taiwan is a rare example in Asia of a country with a stable cost of living.
How surprised he must have been to discover that the price of the popular chishang chicken rice lunch boxes has gone up. Perhaps Kuan studied the economics of the ruling classes, not that of commoners. Otherwise, how could the new council head be so indifferent to the cost of living here?
He did, of course, refer to himself in an arrogant way the other day, before correcting himself, suggesting that he thought himself better than ordinary folk.
It was also Kuan who said that consumers were less well off in Japan and South Korea than in Taiwan because, even though those countries have a higher GDP, they also have higher inflation. He then used the prices of 92-octane gasoline as an example, saying that the price in Taiwan was about NT$34 per liter, compared with almost NT$50 per liter in Japan.