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First Posted: 8/26/2013
Think for a minute about books by North Carolina's best writers.
Then tell me the one word that goes with the following words in the three recent book titles: Train, Woods, and Film.
Okay, here are the answers: Clyde Edgerton's "Night Train," Charles Frazier's "Night Woods," and the just released "Night Film" by Marisha Pessl, who grew up in Asheville and gained national attention in 2006 with her debut novel "Special Topics in Calamity Physics."
As Edgerton and Fraser could have explained to Pessl, writing the second novel after a wildly successful debut is a formidable challenge.
But, like Edgerton and Fraser, Pessl has proved she has the commitment and talent to give us a lifetime of rich storytelling.
"Night Film" burst onto the literary scene last week with reviews, mostly favorable, in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today.
"I don't read the reviews," Pessl said when I told her that the Boston Globe's review raved about the unusual, innovating organization of "Night Film."
The Globe's reviewer opined that the book's first chapter "should go down in literary history as among the most notable formal innovations of this century. It consists of a series of Web pages…pertaining to the untimely death of a young woman, the strange career of her filmmaker father, and an ensuing journalistic investigation. …Remarkably, Pessl's inclusion of the Internet feels not at all gimmicky or forced….They deepen the mystery Pessl sets out in traditional text. The cumulative effect is entrancing and delightful, infusing the narrative…with urgency and spookiness. It feels, above all things, new."
Pessl was more interested in the reviewer's praise for the book's storytelling and rich writing.
So, what is the story of "Night Film"?
Ashley Cordova, daughter of Stanislas Cordova, the infamous, reclusive director of cult films, falls to her death in the elevator shaft of a deserted building in Manhattan's Chinatown.
Although the death is ruled a suicide, Scott McGrath, a down-and-out investigative journalist, suspects otherwise.
His investigation takes him and the book's readers to the mental hospital from which Ashley escaped shortly before her death.
McGrath and two interesting young assistants, whom he picks up along the way, visit the places in New York where Ashley spent her last 10 days: the Waldorf Astoria, a walk-up apartment where Ashley took residence, a tattoo parlor, the Cordova family mansion, an exclusive bondage club, and other places to try to find out how and why Ashley died and who might be responsible.
McGrath also contacts her father's actors, former spouses, staff members, and others who knew Stanislas Cordova. He visits the isolated estate where Stanislas made his films and Ashley grew up. He breaks into the secret webpage of a cult of Cordova movie fans. He does everything to find, as he suspects, some direct connection between the film director and his daughter's death.
Then, when black magic and pacts with the devil pop up as clues, McGrath has to explore the possible connections. He starts out as a skeptic, "In the forty-three years I've been alive, I've never seen a ghost. Never had a cold chill pass through me. Never seen a miracle. Every time my mind wanted to jump to some mystical conclusion, I've always found that inclination was simply born of fear and there was a rational explanation behind it."
His investigation forces him to reassess his views of the supernatural and much more, 600 pages worth.
"Night Film" is a long trip, but also a quick read, thanks to Pessl's fast-paced story telling gifts.
And when she is ready to take her readers on another similar trip, I will be waiting at the station, ready to go.
— D.G. Martin hosts "North Carolina Bookwatch," which airs Sundays at noon and Thursdays at 5 p.m. on UNC-TV. For more information or to view prior programs visit the webpage at www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Stephanie Rex reached the 1,000th career dig milestone as the Lipscomb volleyball team swept Atlantic Sun Conference opponent Northern Kentucky 3-0 in Allen Arena on Tuesday.
The junior libero led the team with 14 digs to get exactly 1,000. She is the fifth player in school history to hit the milestone.
"That's awesome," Lipscomb head coach Brandon Rosenthal said. "It will be fun to celebrate that and recognize that. She's been a tremendous player, and really in the second half of the season, has played some great volleyball."
In the first set, the Lady Bisons were up by one, 4-3, but LU outscored NKU 11-6. The Lady Bisons never looked back on the way to win the set 25-18.
The Lady Bisons got off to a hot start scoring the first three points in the second set. LU won the set 25-18.
NKU had its first lead of the match in the third set. The Norse were up 10-7, but the Lady Bisons outscored NKU 7-1 to take the lead. LU went on to win the set 25-22.
"I was really impressed with our girls with the execution of our game plan," Rosenthal said. "We wanted them to be aggressive with them and I thought we did a nice job setting the tone and really carrying that through all three sets."
Middle blocker Molly Spitznagle's 15 kills were a career-high and a match-high. Her previous high was 10 against Austin Peay on Sept. 4. The freshman has 24 kills in her last two matches.
"Molly is one of those players that we knew was going to be a special player," Rosenthal said. "This is a little slice of what's to come."
Outside hitter Kaycee Green added 13 kills, while middle blocker Jewell Dobson had nine kills.
Setter Caitlin Dotson recorded her 10th double-double of the season and the 23rd of her career. She had 40 assists, 11 digs and 5 kills, one shy of her career-high.
"We wanted her to be aggressive," Rosenthal said. "We thought if we could add her as an attacker we could keep them off our middles."
This was the first time NKU had been swept this season.
"Northern Kentucky is a great team," Rosenthal said. "One of the biggest things they have going with for them is their will to win and the fight in them. That's hard to go against."
Haley Lippert with 12 kills and Kelly Morrissey with 11 kills and 10 digs led Northern Kentucky. Jenna Schreiver had 24 assists.
The Lady Bisons are 15-10, 12-2 in the A-Sun, while NKU drops to 21-7, 8-6.
The Lady Bisons finish the homestand this weekend against Kennesaw State Friday night at 6:30 and Mercer Saturday at 2 p.m.
KSU's match will be senior day for Green. Green has earned A-Sun Player of the Week twice this season and had her 1,000th career kill earlier in the season against Appalachian State Aug. 31.
The Lady Bisons have a perfect record against KSU, 10-0. LU defeated the Owls in a 3-0 (25-16, 25-22, 25-23) sweep in Kennesaw Ga., Sept. 18.
LU has a 13-5 record against Mercer and has won eight consecutive matches. The Lady Bisons also defeated the Bears 3-1 (25-19, 25-17, 18-25, 25-23) in Macon, Ga., Sept. 19.

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DeKALB -- Huntley girls soccer coach Kris Grabner had a simple explanation for the Red Raiders' 2-1 loss Thursday to Plainfield North in the quarterfinals of the Pepsi Showdown.
"Execution was lacking to an extreme," Grabner said. "When we get set pieces and we can't serve a ball. I don't get that. We can't serve a ball on a dead ball, let alone passing a ball in the run of play. There's nobody to bother you. The ball is sitting there still and we can't hit a long ball. I'm blown away."
In the final 7 minutes of the match with Huntley trailing 2-1, the Red Raiders had a corner kick that landed on top of the net and a free kick 15 yards inside the Tigers' half of the field that never came close to a Huntley player and easily cleared.
Huntley (7-2-1) struggled to maintain possession throughout the match -- making passes too quickly, making passes too late or making passes to no one wearing white.
The Tigers (10-0) took the early lead less than 8 minutes in on free kick just outside the Red Raiders' penalty box. Brooke Polonus' low shot skidded under Huntley goalkeeper Jessica Galason, who was trying to control the ball between her body and the turf at the Northern Illinois University soccer complex. The ball sneaked through Galason's arms and legs and crossed the goal line.
Deanna Hecht tied the match at 1-1 with 30:06 remaining in the second half. The Red Raiders had a little better possession to open the second half and took advantage. Samantha Morin played a high ball over the Tigers' defense. Hecht controlled the ball at the top of the box and beat goalkeeper Erin Wren, who finished with 2 saves.
"I got a great ball played to me and just timed my run," Hecht said. "I realized no one was on me. I saw the goalie was giving me the left side."
The Tigers responded less than 7 minutes later. Heather Handwork touched a Nikki Auble pass into open space. Ashley Handwork used her speed to get past a couple Huntley defenders and then toe-poked the ball past Galason for a 2-1 lead.
"We haven't been scored on much this year and I think we handled it well," Tigers coach Jane Crowe said. "We came back and got another one pretty quickly."
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Environmental and Earth Sciences: Earth Sciences
ERTH 351W Archaeological Geology (1)
Archaeological geology applies methods and theories from the geologic sciences to archaeological problems. This course will cover the processes associated with sedimentation and stratigraphy at archaeological sites and the geological approaches used to uncover cultural traits associated with the deposits. Geomorphic processes that impact site selection, formation, preservation, and identification will be addressed, as will macroscopic, petrographic, geochemical and isotopic techniques for characterizing and provenancing archaeological material. Geophysical survey methods and theories will also be reviewed. Throughout the course, the theoretical foundation that underlies the union between geology and archaeology will be stressed. Writing Centered.
- General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing-centered
- Prerequisite: ERTH 121/ERTH 110
- Co-Requisite: Simultaneous enrollment in a lab section of ERTH 351W
- Offering: Even numbered springs
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By Michael Aneiro
Bloomberg's Susanne Walker is out with a story today painting a macroeconomic backdrop that's sure to be an ongoing boon for bonds, namely that the global supply of bonds will fall short of global demand by $460 billion this year, continuing to boost bond prices worldwide. From her story:
Debt issued by sovereign, corporate and other borrowers will decline by $600 billion to a net $1.8 trillion in 2014, as demand reaches $2.26 trillion, according to New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co., the world's biggest corporate bond underwriter. Demand has pushed down average bond yields to levels unseen since May 2013 as economies slow, borrowing is reduced and central banks signal no rush to start raising interest rates anytime soon.
The imbalance helps explain why most forecasters have gotten it wrong this year when predicting bond prices and yields. The market received a boost on June 5 when the European Central Bank became the first major central bank to charge fees on deposits and unveiled other plans to support an economy threatened by deflation.
The lack of available supply is one of several forces that's kept U.S. bond yields – which move inversely to prices – from rising this year, along with abysmal first-quarter U.S. economic growth and even-more-paltry yields on European and Japanese bonds.


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Almost everyone thinks we should broaden the tax base; that is, reduce the number and size of tax deductions, exclusions and credits.
The Bowles-Simpson fiscal-reform plan went after tax breaks so aggressively it was able to slash the deficit and still cut tax rates. Most conservative reformers follow that model. Even economists who aren�t conservatives generally say the government should raise revenue by getting rid of tax breaks before it raises rates. That is the position Republican leaders in the House and Senate have taken, too.
As pleasing as it is to find a consensus in this polarized era, this one is mistaken. It would be either undesirable or politically impossible to reduce the largest loopholes in the code.
At the top of the Congressional Budget Office�s list of the biggest tax breaks is the exclusion of employer-provided health insurance from the income and payroll taxes. You pay taxes on your wages, but not on your benefits, encouraging employers to provide more of your compensation in the latter form. The policy is something of a historical accident: It arose after employers used benefits to evade World War II-era wage controls. If we were designing a code from scratch, we would certainly tax these benefits.
We have had this break for an awfully long time, though. It would be disruptive, as well as unpopular, to get rid of it. The exclusion should be modified so that it doesn�t reward people for choosing more expensive policies, and so that people who have no access to employer plans can buy insurance for themselves. What we won�t do is get big savings from shrinking this tax break, and we shouldn�t try.
Several other large breaks benefit savings and investment, the most famous being the low tax rate on capital gains and dividend income, compared with labor income. In a way, though, these aren�t tax breaks at all: They are a partial corrective to the code�s bias against saving and investment. A better code would just tax consumption, which would mean a smaller tax base.
Economists generally dislike the mortgage-interest deduction, another big one. They argue that it has reduced national wealth without doing much to increase homeownership. With housing finally showing signs of a recovery, though, it seems like an inopportune time to fight against this deduction. Anyway, Realtors in every congressional district in the country, all of whom know a lot of people in their communities, would surely jam the phone lines on Capitol Hill if anyone tried it. It�s not happening.
Like the tax breaks for saving, the tax credit for children can be justified as a partial corrective to other federal policies. By raising kids, most parents make a contribution to the future of Social Security and Medicare beyond what they pay in payroll taxes. Fully recognizing that double contribution would require expanding the credit, not shrinking it.
The deduction for charitable contributions is another sacrosanct tax break � and that�s fine. How many people really think the tax code has wreaked damage on American society by encouraging more charitable giving than would otherwise take place?
Rounding out the list of the top breaks is the deductibility of state and local taxes. It�s hard to see the justification for making people in low-tax areas pay more to subsidize states that choose to have larger governments � especially when many of the high-tax states have higher incomes than the low-tax ones, and when the biggest beneficiaries of the break are high earners.
Even this break won�t be curtailed easily, though. Politicians in high-tax jurisdictions tend to be strong supporters of this deduction, and you can�t blame them: Their voters would get hit hard if this deduction were scaled back, and it might force changes to their budgets as those voters grew more sensitive to state and local taxes. The Reagan administration tried to eliminate this deduction in the 1986 tax reform but failed because of opposition from high-tax areas.
The more closely you look at the tax code, the less promising the idea of broadening the base becomes. That may be why Mitt Romney�s campaign proposed imposing a cap on the total value of all deductions anyone can take (and why so many congressmen are now talking about the idea). It is more or less an admission that paring back the number and size of specific tax breaks is more political trouble than it is worth in revenue.
The Bowles-Simpson model of tax reform � broadening the base and lowering rates � is the wrong one. Some tax breaks should be scaled back, to be sure. But the idea that the federal government can painlessly raise a lot of money from a base- broadening tax reform is a myth.
Ramesh Ponnuru is a Bloomberg View columnist, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor at National Review.


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Yuki Maomi to get married in June
On December 31st, it was reported that popular talento Yuki Maomi (32) will be getting married to a hairdresser (35) this year.
The couple met about 2 years ago through work when he was in charge of Yuki hair and make-up. Since then, she started visiting his salon and eventually started dating in May the following year.
They plan to register their marriage in June which marks their proposal anniversary. People close to the two say, "They were friends for a long time and they're both earnest, so they were seriously dating from the beginning with marriage in mind."
During summer, the couple visited both of their families in Saga and in Kumamoto together, and told them that they were planning to get married. The couple has also traveled together to Okinawa.
Yuki and her partner are currently in the middle of planning their ceremony and reception. According to their friends, they are looking to hold it "at a chapel overseas".
Source & Image: Sponichi Annex via Yahoo! Japan
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Toledo police hope someone can help them find a man who used a sawed-off shotgun to rob a West Toledo convenience store last month.
An employee at Gateway Express, 3819 Haverhill Dr., told police a man entered the store at 11:41 p.m. March 25 and, with a soda in hand, asked for cigarettes and cigarillos. After the clerk put both on the counter, the robber said, "Give me all the money in the drawer" before showing the shotgun inside his jacket sleeve, according to a police report.
The robber fled with the tobacco and cash, the report states. He was described as black, 25 to 30 years old, 5 feet, 9 inches tall, 170 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He wore a black coat with a white cartoon robot on the back, dark pants, and a blue-plaid fur hat. Anyone with information is asked to call the Crime Stopper program. Callers may remain anonymous and could be eligible for a cash reward.


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...my first attempt at decoding any JAPH...
Well, you're in good company then, because this was the first JAPH I ever made myself. Honest!
Yep, that's just eye candy. There have been some JAPH's recently that used magical increment for an X number of times, and I was going for similarly looking numbers. The:
and at the end: x: are also just eye candy. I tried several Larry Wall quotes while building this japh, and the line with '=====' made it possible for me to easily switch between keys and value in the hash (change the space between the "==="'s to "=" and all keys are values and vice versa in the hash).
was actually a kludge. Originally I had the "to do" exchanged in the quote. But I found the error in the quote too obvious.
This actually works because whatever order hash keys have in a hash, the order returned by the "keys()" and "values()" functions is the same. And for some reason, I _had_ to put parentheses with keys() and values() because otherwise I was getting the warning that the call was ambiguous. That's still on my list to check out later.
is what you call an interpolated anonymous hash slice ;-) Working from the outside in: the qq{...} creates an interpolated string, which will put spaces between the elements because $" was not changed. The @{...} dereferences an array reference. The [...] create a reference to an array. The @:{...} creates a hash slice on %:. And finally the qw{...} creates the array of keys for the hash slice.
...cause the print, exit, code will take over from there...
I don't know if that is what you meant to say, but after the "exit" there is no code to execute anymore. So the "x:" is never reached, it's just eye candy.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/wd_enterprise_drives/
WD to sink teeth into enterprise drive market
Velociraptor-based unit likely
Posted in The Channel, 16th October 2009 10:32 GMT
Comment Western Digital's coming enterprise hard drive is likely to be built on a Velociraptor base.
WD has said it is going to enter the enterprise hard drive market, building on its existing enterprise-class SATA 3.5-inch drives, as it terms them. These are bulk storage drives and not fast response ones. Seagate currently dominates the enterprise HDD market with its line of 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch (SFF or small form factor) drives. WD indicated in July that an enterprise-class, 2.5-inch, SAS drive was coming.
Financial analyst conversations with WD indicate that this is still the case. The only drive in WD's SFF product line with enterprise speed is Velociraptor, which spins at 10K and has a 16MB cache. Its capacity is limited to 300GB. The slower, 7,200rpm Scorpio Black holds up to 320GB while the even slower, at 5,400rpm, Scorpio Blue stores 640GB in standard SFF drive bay, 2-platter form, and 1TB in 3-platter form.
Seagate has two enterprise SFF product lines. Constellation is a nearline or tier 2 product, spinning at 7,200rpm, and having a 283Gbit/sq in area density and capacity up to 500GB. It offers an SAS 2 (6Gbit/s) interface. The faster Savvio drives come in 10,000 or 15,000rpm form. The 10K.3 version comes with 252Gbit/sq in areal density and 146 to 300GB capacity with a SAS 2 interface. The faster 15K.2 offers 73 to 146GB capacity from its 237.1Gbit/sq in areal density, and also uses SAS 2.
Hitachi GST has just announced a 15,000rpm Ultrastar C15K147 2.5-inch drive. It holds 73 or 147GB on its two platters and has a large cache at 64MB. This drive matches the capacity of Seagate's Savvio 15K.2.
This is WD's competitive landscape in this space.
A back-of-an-envelope WD design for an enterprise SAS drive could be to take its 300GB Velociraptor, add a SAS 2 interface, and so produce a Savvio 10K.2-class product. Spinning it up to 15K would entail a capacity reduction. With Seagate's Savvio 15k.2 and the Ultrastar CK15K147 offering 146/147GB then WD would have to offer at least that to be competitive, plus an equivalent 64MB cache for performance reasons.
A different tack would be to go after the enterprise bulk 2.5-inch storage market and build on the Scorpio Blue base. There WD has a 640GB, 2-platter product, using the SATA 2Gbit/s interface and spinning at 5400rpm. Speed that up to 7200rpm and adding a SAS 2 interface would get WD into the Seagate Constellation area. If it could keep the 640GB capacity that would give it a nice edge.
Our betting is on Enterprise-raptor, 10,000rpm being very likely and a 15,000rpm model being less likely, although a 15K spin-speed would fit Velociraptor's performance image. We think it will show itself before mid-2010.
WD also told the analyst, Stifel Nocolaus' Aaron Rakers, that "it is currently working on the development of enterprise-class SSDs, which are expected to launch in (fiscal) 2011." This would confirm the suspected development direction of its currently limited application SiliconDrive III solid state drives, described as "embedded system and data streaming applications, such as multimedia content delivery systems and data centre media appliances."
WD doesn't comment on unannounced products so we haven't asked the company for a comment on either the enterprise HDD or the enterprise SSD. ®


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Find a distro from the same era. Redhat 2.1 (and I'm not talking redhat enterprise 2.1) circa 1995 will install and give you an X environment. Maybe even good old 3.03 would fit the bill.
Older than it needs to be. I ran Slackware 4 (just about contemporary with Redhat 6.0) on a laptop with lower specs than that, no problem.
I also went with slackware. It worked great on a Celeron 500 (admittedly significantly faster than a 486 though) with fvwm or tab wm. I think it's best to go with a real distro with up-to-date libraries. He will have to not install a large portion of the packages but that may a little hairy getting in under 720MB though.
Slackware's minimal requirements: http://www.slackware.org/install/sysreq.php [slackware.org]
DSM Damn Small Linux fits in 16meg
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ [damnsmalllinux.org]
Damn Small Linux is very convenient. I have an old ThinkPad from '97 with DSL. This allows me to connect it to the wireless network and run all my apps remotely from my main box.
Applications run faster that way than they do from the harddrive.
Slackware was one of the great floppy-loadable distros. I don't think they break it up into floppy-sized chunks any more, but I remember all the fun of trying to install Slackware 3-point-something from floppies. The biggest problem was that HD floppies were sufficiently unreliable that I was constantly re-writing floppy disks on another machine.
Also, Slackware was good for making minimal installs. In particular, Red Hat tried to install and enable EVERYTHING. There were so many buffer-overrun bugs (at lea
Actually it's not hard to set up slackware or even debian to do a netboot install.
If it has a network card you can configure them to do a netboot.
If this is the best solution, it's too bad, isn't it? Surely there has been all kinds of developments and innovation and enablement and whatnot over the years that doesn't require more computing power - ideas that are new and better, not just more of the same?
You can't install Gentoo unassisted on that machine: you can't fit both the Portage tree and the compile environment into 720MB, and 28MB of RAM requires the use of a great deal of swap. I'd do the following:
1) Partition the hard drive into a 250MB swap partition, a 20MB bootstrap partition, and a 450MB system partition
2) Install a floppy-era Linux on the bootstrap partition.
3) Using the bootstrap Linux to give you network access, mount network drives for
4) Install Gentoo
Debian used to work well on older systems, but I wouldn't say that these days. Two years ago, Debian on a Pentium 75 was usable with a minimal install, and would fit on a 400MB hard drive. Those days are long gone. I'm about to replace my two Pentium systems with Pentium III, which rankles my sensibilities since I see that as major overkill for a simple firewall and a DNS/DHCP/IRC server.
OpenBSD might be a better choice, actually. It runs on minimal systems and uses very little disk space, so he would b
You'll be looking at older distros. I certainly had X running on that kind of hardware back in the day through Slackware, and all its versions can still. We're talking a machine from the mid-1990s, so you'd be looking at Slackware 3 or 4 or something like that. You could try the older versions of Debian if they're still around, too.
Or a current BSD distribution. On old hardware I typically install netbsd. I have tried Minix but the hardware compatibility is not good.
"Or a current BSD distribution. On old hardware I typically install netbsd. I have tried Minix but the hardware compatibility is not good."
I agree with this. I'm not sure what the philosophy is, but Linux distros seem to throw away knowledge like it was candy. I recently attempted to install Ubuntu on a nice 2000-era laptop. Ubunto apparently doesn't know how to talk to the controller and/or write to the hard drive. I installed FreeBSD 7.2 instead.
Its far from limited in my experience.
I have used it when traveling visiting etc and don't want to drag a laptop. Boot from a thumb drive in any library.
It has everything you need for every day use.
A Trove of these things:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/ [linuxlinks.com]
http://atomic.eyedropvideo.com/remote1.shtml [eyedropvideo.com]
Non-X woth graphical browsing:
http://blueflops.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
If you're lucky and can actually find it , QNX had a whole distro on a floppy.
It was intended as a demo , but had full features like file browsing and some net.
That might be able to boot the machine. But frankly , i know of no other distro
still able to boot and install via a floppy.This will prove interresting to follow.
Im just as eager to find out as you
Happy hacking
why use a floppy? take out the hard drive and install the base OS to the drive from a host PC. I do that all the time with tablets as they dont have CD or floppy.
Older versions of Debian supported floppy installs. The last time I tried it (with etch I think) I had some issues that annoyed me and the response I got is that nobody on the dev. team wanted to suffer with a kernel image that doesn't have the kitchen sink loaded so they crippled/dropped floppy install support. Still once you have an older system running it is trivial to upgrade if you have some connectivity.
I can attest to the Debian install. I did this in 2006 with an old 486 laptop with 24MB. Though the above link brought me to the wrong place when I followed it.
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/20070308/images/floppy/ [debian.org]
Its got a lot of floppy images that will take you back to the old days. I had some sort of trouble with the laptop install. The kernel ran fine, but I think the installer had trouble for some reason. I might have ended up apt-get --ing a lot of things. But in the end the system ran. It runs a nameserver and has been up for over a year. Nice thing about laptops is that they have built in UPSs.
Have you tried Damn Small Linux [damnsmalllinux.org] It sounds like exactly what you want. It will run on a 486 with 16MB of RAM, and 50MB harddrive. It runs X, Dillo is included, and has several install methods available, not just live disks.
Use Voyage Linux!
It's a stripped down Debian that's designed to run on embedded devices, and run entirely in RAM. It keeps Debian's APT package manager for super easy installation. Only 128MB or disk space (tiny base install) required for the base install. I use this distro on my PC Engines Alix board for a audiophile USB music server.
In regards yo getting it installed, you can either take out the HD and do the install on another machine or beg-borrow/steal a PCMCIA USB adapter.
If you use X, I would recomme
Ooops. Sorry, I got really excited replying to your post. I love it when people try to recycle old hardware with Linux..
Voyage Linux: http://linux.voyage.hk/ [voyage.hk]
dvtm: http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/ [brain-dump.org]
a 486? Why on earth would you bother? Even a p3 laptop is pretty obsolete these days, but still can be had for under 30 or 40 dollars on craigslist. That would be a quantum leap above the 486 you are planning on using.
Because he can?
Apparently not
Damn Small Linux and Tiny Core Linux being some of the obvious choices. Your real problem is getting things booted in the first place. I wonder whether gPXE is able to see your PCMCIA network card. If it did, you could just boot that off of a floppy and from there it would be a pretty simple task to netinstatll something; if not, well I'm pretty sure DSL has a set of floppies still. You could also try installing Slackware 9, which I think was the last version to ship a floppy set -- just install the very ba
I have a similar laptop, although mine only has 16 MB or RAM. I've got a better processor, though. Anyway, I see several people have suggested run a distro from that era. Indeed that works--sort of. My old laptop runs fine with a Redhat from that era, or a Slackware (or whatever Windows it came with, for that matter).
The reason I say it works "sort of" is that if you just run a distro from that era, you have a browser of that era. I had hoped to use my old laptop as basically a terminal for configuring routers and other things like that which have web interfaces.
The problem is, all my routers have web interfaces that assume browser features that are too new for that era. I was not able to find a browser that was new enough to actually work with my typical consumer home router and still run acceptably on the old system. I think I got Konqueror to work once--but it took something like an hour for it to start.
I think the browser is going to be the determining factor as to whether or not this is feasible for you.
...and install Debian. Install only the base system: select no "tasks". Then put the drive back in the old machine, configure the network, and install what you need.
Ok Slackware. I can netboot install it. I can embed it on tiny stuff. Whole OS on a single floppy with busybox.
Also I can make it work on a 386. you know you are allowed to recompile the kernel to take out all that you dont want. In fact anyone that wants to run a fast machine typically does that.
Win95. I believe that the original install CD had a utility to create floppies for a full install. Do that on your main machine, install Win95 on the laptop, then download what you need. I know it sounds stupid, but I'm guessing that Win95 will recognize all of your hardware and actually get you on line faster than trying to sort out the linux drivers for the hardware. Then do a dual boot install and keep Win95 until you get the linux install hashed out - it will beat downloading stuff on your main machine and then copying it to floppies.
I don't think it's fair to say that because linux has kept up with current technologies (CD-ROMs and USB drives) that it has become bloated.
It certainly became bloated when KDE 4.3.2 comes with Akonadi that requires 100MB of disk space to hold an empty adressbook and a to-do list. [kde.org] You can turn it off, but it comes back when some app asks for it. In 90% of cases the functionality can be replaced with:
new entry: echo "John Smith, Main St. 25, Los Angeles, 0904-666555" >> ~/.contacts
search: grep -i "s
Seriously, why? If your goal is to run dillo and a couple of xterms, pick up an old p3 laptop. People are throwing them away. If you want to do it as a "fun" project, why Ask Slashdot? Is not half the fun in figuring it out?
As someone who used to run linux on a 486 (and a 386), I can tell you that you aren't going to do any usable web browsing in X in 28megs of ram. Those are lynx specs.
You can actually do some interesting/useful things in linux with that hardware, but graphical web browsing isn't going to
Throw MS-DOS and LoopyNES on it. Get some decent NES gaming running on that thing.
No$GMB also works at that kind of slow speed.
I know most of the
But seriously.. You can use emerge, with portage et all, to build a small and optimized/dedicated Gentoo based distribution for that laptop. You don't even need to put portage on the laptop, just use emerge on somewhere else to build packages for it. Emerge will take care of cross-compiling, etc..
As simple as I can put it, think on it as a Box with a repository-toolchain capable of building packages for *other* Box, while still keeping track of package updates and dependencies.
NOTE: A "full install" of Gentoo is not required for building gentoo based distros, you can setup a Gentoo chroot (you only want portage and emerge afterall, don't you?) on your debian/fedora/whetever box, or even setup a Gentoo prefix on MacOSX.
Some people may still have misconceptions about Gentoo. The negative stereotype has long passed, though. Gentoo is, really, a meta-distribution: a dist that lets you make your distribution based on what you want and need.
You could do what some folks have suggested and get a really ancient dist, and that may be fine
This way you get all the stuff you want anyway, and all the work to do so is streamlined. Building a boot disk should be easy (as long as you can find a disk drive for your current box!). Check the wiki [gentoo-wiki.com] for details on how to do a lot of specialized things.
(It's actually not trivial to truly cross-compile a dist between architectures last I checked,
While most packages build fine as-is, a lot just fail to cross-compile due common stupid things totally unrelated to the source code (libtool and pkg-config I'm looking at you). Problems also show up due to badly written/generated configure and Makefile scripts (I don't blame package authors though because autotools are complex).
My point is that it is currently very important to Gentoo to be able to cross-compile easily. For instance, we can see the in-portage cross-compiling working when:
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I'm not sure anymore, but I know older versions of Mandriva (Well, Mandrake - try to find 9.2 or earlier) could boot from a floppy and install over the network. I installed directly from a mirror a couple times back in the day. Worth looking into. I believe carroll.cac.psu.edu still has the files for older Mandrake distros.
I've used Knoppix in the past (the CD image) and it had an hd-install option that would put itself on the harddrive. You would be able to tell if X works using just the live CD then decide if you want to install.
While probably not a solution to the original problem, an answer to the specific question about native ext2 images instead of LiveCD iso images is this-
The Fedora and CentOS LiveCDs do contain a native ext3/4 filesystem image embedded within a squashfs image. The normal Fedora anaconda/liveinst installer works by copying this image directly to the target destination then using resize2fs to expand it to the destination's size.
My ZyX-LiveInstaller at http://filteredperception.org/ [filteredperception.org] goes one further and does t
However, it's still pointless to do what the submitter is attempting. 486 machines weren't even interesting targets 9 years ago. Any recent version of Fedora won't boot on a 486, since Fedora is now compiled for i686 and up. Even if you got it to boot, it would be too slow for a modern X, and nearly too
I have a useless think pad that for a time was my picture server. I used redhat and booted a floppy and then used a driver floppy for my NIC. This let me install just what I needed from a server over the internet. I killed the RPM database for some reason I don't recall and could NOT find anyone who catered to boot floppy installs. Granted I could have fought and beaten on it and a local PC to do it but I gave up and used another junk one with a CD in it to install Damn Small Linux. It's clean and it's cool
Go for NetBSD instead.
Using anything other than the most very basic console will be painful on a machine that old. Someone suggested using older software, but that won't be very fun, since the web will be practically useless on an old browser.
i have a Toshiba from that era that I have used as a dumb terminal on and off over the years. At one point I had gui-less version of linux, with a frame buffer version of vnc and used it to connect to my main machine. It was fast and served well as a bed side web browser for years. At a
Way back in the day I used to browse the web on an IBM 8086 with 640k of ram, using something similar to Lynx. I know there are versions out there for DOS so a 486 should be plenty. Not sure though how well they handle the web code on more "modern" sites crapped up with php, flash and css.
It's a Pentium-90 with 64MB of EDO DRAM. Thing runs Damn Small Linux really well, but it's got rather more RAM than you do. Might be worth a shot if your BIOS supports booting from a CD -- the very last BIOS update for my box enabled that. You'll also need a junker 40x (ish) CD-ROM drive: the 6x drive this thing had originally wouldn't support booting either. I can even run Firefox 2.0 on this; takes 20-30 seconds to start up, and the redraws are slow, but it works a lot better than you'd think. Dillo'
I'm in general agreement with the "that's WAY to old to be worthwhile" crowd here but I will give you the benefit of the doubt and ask "resurrect for what purpose?" There are very few thing that can truly be done with a 486 in 2009:
So really, yeah, I can see there are things you can do, and I can appreciate not wanting to waste something, but I just can't see anything really worthwhile that could be done with this hardware outside of single-purpose stuff like a dumb terminal, recipe database, weather station, etc. Only worth pursuing if you have lots of spare time or just really love to tinker of the sake of tinkering.
Also: even though it's a laptop, I can't imagine the battery is any good, and replacements are probably hard to find by now, so it'll either be stationary, or portable to the extent that you can go anywhere as long as you're within 10 feet of a power outlet. So I can't see you taking this thing to coffeeshops or conferences or anything. If you have a particular goal you want to reach--say you love taking notes in vi and want something you can take to conferences--then you'd be better off getting a newer unit with wireless and a decent battery.
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Professor, Department of Medicine (Endocrinology)
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Director, Diabetes Research Center, Department of Medicine
The Pessin laboratory is analyzing insulin signaling at the molecular level, the regulation of glucose uptake and metabolism at the cellular, molecular level and the integrative systems of metabolism in normal and pathophysiologic states in genetic rodent models. Our efforts have been focused on three major aspects of insulin signaling and insulin sensitivity. These areas include the molecular mechanisms of adipose tissue inflammation leading to fibrosis, the regulation of insulin signaling and skeletal muscle atrophy, and the signaling pathways mediating insulin stimulated lipogenesis and its dysregulation in states of insulin resistance.
One major laboratory project is the investigation of adipocyte progenitor cells, adipocyte programmed cell death and adipose tissue fibrosis that is induced by high fat feeding. In these studies, we have utilized a variety of experimental approaches including genetically engineered mice, Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) analyses and sorting along with quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). In these analyses we isolated a variety of inflammatory specific cell types within adipose tissue and have taken extensive use of RNAseq technology to characterize the expression profiles of these various cell subsets. This approach has allowed us to develop a functional understanding of the signaling interplay between the adipose tissue immune cell types to determine the specific role each cell is playing in the inflammatory response.
A second major laboratory project is based upon our recent findings that in the fed state CDK8/CycC complex directly phosphorylates the nuclear form of SREBP-1c that induces an E3 ligase mediated ubiquitination and proteasome-mediated degradation of SREBP-1c. This process is one of several that is required to maintain nuclear SREBP1-c at very low levels thereby suppresses lipogenic gene expression and lipogenesis. However, n the fed state, CDK8/CycC proteins are rapidly down regulated through a mTORC1 dependent pathway leading to increased SREBP-1c stability and increased lipogenic gene expression and lipogenesis. During the past two years, we have developed a robust research team, several key mouse genetic models and cell based approaches (primary rat hepatocytes and FAO cells) to investigate the regulation of liver lipogenesis in normal and pathophysiologic states of insulin resistance, obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NFALD).
The final major emphasis of the laboratory is based upon the novel-signaling pathway between the non-receptor tyrosine kinase Fyn and the LKB1 tumor suppressor gene in regulating AMPK and mTORC1 signaling. This has opened a new area of investigation that directly related to the control of energy metabolisms and the balance between catabolic and anabolic control. We are now devoting a considerable effort to unravel these critical mechanisms that appears responsible for the control of skeletal muscle metabolism and muscle maintenance. During the course of these investigations we compared the phenotype of between the glycolytic muscle wasting of Fyn transgenic mice with that of Pompe disease mice and uncovered a critical aspect of Pompe disease resulting from the inability to activate mTORC1. We have examined the affect of a dietary intervention to reactivate mTORC1 that remarkable was able to almost completely prevent the muscle wasting and muscle dysfunction in Pompe mice. As such, we now propose to delineate the molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways mediating mTORC1 activation and the role of mTORC1 in autophagic vacuole and lysosome function that is dysfunctional in skeletal muscle of the Pompe mouse model.
Zong, H., Wang, C.-C., Vaitheesvaran, B., Kurland, I.J., Hong, W. and Pessin, J.E. Enhanced energy expenditure, glucose utilization and insulin sensitivity in VAMP8 null mice. Diabetes. 60:30-8, 2011.
Huang, P., Yeku, O., Zong, H., Tsang, P., Su, W., Yu, X., Teng, S., Osisami, M., Kanaho, Y., Pessin, J.E. and Frohman, M.A. Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinase (alpha) deficiency alters dynamics of glucose-stimulated insulin release to improve glucohomeostasis and decrease obesity in mice. Diabetes. 60:454-63, 2011.
Feng, D., Tang, Y., Kwon, H.J, Zong, H., Hawkins, M., Kitsis, R.N. and Pessin, J.E. High Fat Diet Induced Adipocyte Cell Death Occurs Through a Cyclophilin D Intrinsic Signaling Pathway Independent of Adipose Tissue Inflammation. Diabetes, 60:2134-2143, 2011.
Zong, H., Armoni, M., Harel, C., Karnieli,E. and Pessin, J.E. Cytochrome P450 CYP2E1 knockout mice are protected against high fat diet induced obesity and insulin resistance. Am J Physiol., 302:E532-539, 2012.
Kaushik, S., Arias, E., Kwon, H., Martinez-Lopez, H., Sahu, S., Schwartz, G.J., Pessin, J.E. and Singh, R. Loss of autophagy in hypothalamic POMC neurons impairs lipolysis. EMBO Reports, 13:258-265, 2012.
Yamada, E., Bastie, C.C., Koga, H., Wang, Y., Cuervo, A.M and Pessin,J.E. Mouse skeletal muscle fiber-type specific macroautophagy and muscle wasting is regulated by a Fyn/STAT3/Vps34 signaling pathway. Cell Reports, 1:557-569, 2012.
Zhao, X., Feng, D., Wang, Q., Abdulla, A., Xie, X-J., Zhou, J., Sun, Y., Yang, E.S., Liu, L-P., Vaitheesvaran, B., Bridges, L., Kurland, I.J., Strich, R., Ni, J-Q., Wang, C., Ericsson, J., Pessin, J.E., Ji, J-Y., and Yang, F. Conserved regulation of lipid homeostasis by CDK8-mediated control of nuclear SREBP-1 stability. J. Clin. Invest., 122:2417-2427, 2012.
McKimpson, W.M., Weinberger, J., Czerski, L., Zheng, M., Crow, M.T., Pessin, J.E., Chua, S.C. Jr., and Kitsis, R.N. ARC is a novel apoptosis repressor in islets that inhibits the ER stress response to promote β-cell survival. Diabetes, In press, 2012.
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HELPER, Utah (AP) — The new mayor of the Utah city of Helper got a little help from Lady Luck for his job.
Ed Chavez Jr. and Councilman Kirk Mascaro each received two votes from the council to fill the vacant position Thursday night. KSL reports that when it became clear the tie would not be broken, slips of paper bearing council members' votes were placed in a wicker basket.
City Attorney Gene Strate then drew Chavez's name from the basket, making him Helper's mayor.
Chavez is filling the rest of Dean Armstrong's term, which expires in January 2014. Armstrong resigned Feb. 23, one day after he was arrested for investigation of his third DUI.
Chavez retired from the Carbon County Sheriff's Office two weeks ago after 25 years on the job.
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Microsoft lets users subscribe or re-up to Xbox Live through the online marketplace, but most of them still come through the retail chain. In fact, the company has revealed that more than two-thirds of the European subscription rates come from retail partners. As a result, Microsoft isn't planning to rock the boat against retailers with digital sales.
"There are no plans in terms of that kind of day and date parity," Xbox Live EMEA marketing manager Robin Burrowes told MCV. "We are very respectful to the retail environment, in that we have a window between the release of a retail game and the digital one. There's no immediate plans to change that."
This comes amid a general tenor from analysts that we're only a generation or two away from digital distribution making up the bulk of sales, so Microsoft is exploring those options. "We are looking to introduce new digital innovations to drive more business," said Burrowes. "We've been testing electronic software distribution in a couple of places. We will be testing point-of-sale activation, which is similar to buying cards in store and being able to redeem that code at the point of purchase. We are introducing new digital tokens and are working very closely with retailers. 68 per cent of Europe's Xbox Live subscription acquisitions come from retail."
Burrowes also noted that some Kinect games this holiday season will feature codes included, and subscription cards may pack in some free Microsoft points.


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European ministers swing and miss against tax havens
"Today's so-called 'hammer blow' against tax cheats misses. If the proposed registry of beneficial owners of companies and trusts is hidden from the public, how can we know who is hiding their profits and fortunes and trying to avoid paying their fair share?" said Susana Ruiz, Oxfam's tax policy expert.
Tough tax talk from Kim and Lagarde, but concrete proposals still missing
"It's great to hear tough talk from both Jim Kim and Christine Lagarde on ending tax havens. We've seen this happen time and time again: when the richest fail to pay their fair share, the budgets for education, health, and other social services that the poorest depend on, are the first to get slashed," said Chris Stalker, acting head of Oxfam International's Washington office.
Slight increase in development aid not sufficient to lift people out of poverty
Development aid has reached an all-time high, but with 900 million people still living in extreme poverty much more needs to be done, says Oxfam.
World Bank still failing take basic steps to protect displaced communities
"In the Inspection Panel's findings, the Bank is still repeatedly failing to take the most basic steps needed to avoid harm. Steps like counting how many people are affected, or making information available in local languages are still neglected," said Kate Geary, Oxfam's land rights expert.
Commission's selective tax transparency proposal leaves most of the world in the dark
The European Commission has missed yet another chance to effectively end tax havens. Today's tax transparency proposal is not sufficiently ambitious and too limited in its scope for that task.
New set of EU migration policy proposals first step toward more safe and legal routes
New proposals from the European Commission on migration are a first step toward creating safe and legal routes for people on the move, says Oxfam.
Inequality on the agenda for Lagarde and Kim ahead of World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings
Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund's managing director, and Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, spoke Tuesday about their institutions' priorities ahead of next week's spring meetings in Washington.
Forced Greece-Turkey returns: Step closer to policy of indifference
The return of people from Greece to Turkey takes Europe yet another step closer to a policy of deterrence and indifference, Oxfam says in reaction to deportations starting today.
Panama Papers reveal how billions of dollars are funneled to tax havens
"The Panama Papers give us a disturbing look into the murky world of tax dodging, a problem that governments and international institutions refuse to tackle head-on. The true scandal is that many of the cases uncovered are not always illegal, but instead, fully legal practices that ruthless abuse a weak and inadequate tax system."
Agencies criticize rich countries' failure to resettle more Syrians
Oxfam, Save the Children and the Norwegian Refugee Council criticized the deeply disappointing outcome of today's international pledging conference for resettlement of refugees fleeing the ongoing crisis in Syria. The meeting in Geneva offered to resettle only a tiny fraction of the most vulnerable people with a less ambitious timeline. Governments have shown a shocking lack of political and moral leadership, said the agencies.


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Recycling - especially of "one-use" products - would also be a way of reducing waste. The used products are returned to the status of raw material and reused. Incidentally, this concept should be applied in industry. Often one industry's waste product is another's raw material. Rather than keep pulling such materials out of the earth, each company could exhange or sell (at minimum price, since they produce the stuff anyway) their waste to the others. This would solve the problem of disposing of the waste and also ensure a supply of cheap raw material for each company.
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PS Not letting water run unnecessarily, tearing off a leaf, and dismantling a styrofoam cup are all small fry. The real problem facing non-human life on earth is rapidly exploding populations crowding out habitats/ecosystems. There is no such thing as sustainable development. What is needed is sustainable retreat. Whoever has grandchildren, or who plans to have them--------ask yourself if they have the right to live on a living planet that Hashem created, or if they will prefer to live in a world that consists only of people, cities, farms, domesticated animals, urban wildlife (sparrows, pigeons, rats, mice, roaches, lice, fleas.....).. And why should a person be using a styrofoam cup anyway?
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Nice start to the need for much more attention to conservation. Jewish environmentalism is falling very short of recognizing that we have actually reached the tipping point for our planet-----we are standing on the precipice of a human-caused mass extinction of most species of wildlife------and no one cares.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's lacrosse team announced its annual awards at the team's season-ending luncheon Wednesday in the Kiphuth Trophy Room at Payne Whitney Gym. Senior attacker Devon Rhodes (E. Northport, N.Y.) received the Bowditch Award as the team's most valuable player and junior defender Kallie Parchman (Baltimore, Md.) received the Holgate Award for dedication. Additionally, freshman midfielder Tori Virtue (Rye, N.Y.) won the Most Improved Player Award.
Rhodes, Yale's captain, enjoyed the best season of her career as she shot .457 and finished with the team lead in points (37-16-53). She tied for the team lead in assists and was second on the team in goals. She set career highs in all three scoring categories.
A second team All-Ivy League selection this year and as a freshman, Rhodes finished 12th on Yale's career leader list with 135 points, 13th on Yale's career leader list with 101 goals and 15th on Yale's career leader list with 34 assists. She led Yale in points three times and goals twice in her career and was among Yale's top two in goals and points every year.
Rhodes is in the Ivy League's top five in all three scoring categories this season (tied for third in assists, tied for fourth in points and tied for fifth in goals). She ended the season with a seven-game point scoring streak, and had seven hat tricks.
Rhodes is an American studies major in Berkeley College. Prior to Yale she attended Northport and played for the Long Island Yellow Jackets Blue team.
The Bowditch Award is named after Barbara Bowditch, the coach of Yale's first varsity team (1976). It is determined by a team vote.
The Holgate Award that Parchman received is given to the player whose dedication to the ideals of Yale and to the success of women's lacrosse measure up to the standards set by James G. "Gib" Holgate, a member of the Yale athletic administration from 1954 to 1985. It is determined by a team vote.
Parchman has not missed a game in her career, having emerged as a key part of Yale's defense in her freshman year. She has started 40 of 45 games, including 29 in the past two seasons. A reliable crease defender, she tied her career high with seven caused turnovers this past season. For her career she has 25 ground balls, 17 caused turnovers and seven draw controls.
Parchman is a psychology/economics major in Morse College. Prior to Yale she attended Roland Park and played for Sky Walkers.
Virtue earned the Most Improved Player Award, which is determined by the coaches, after developing into a key sub over the course of the year. After playing in just two of the first six games, she played in six of the final nine. She picked up her first stats in the second-to-last game of the year, when she had two ground balls against BU. She capped her season by scoring her first career goal in the finale, a 10-8 win at Brown.
Virtue is in Ezra Stiles College. Prior to Yale she attended Rye and played for Connecticut Lacrosse Futures.
At the luncheon Yale also announced that junior defender Adrienne Tarver (Pikesville, Md.) has been elected captain for 2013-14.
Yale finished the 2013 season with its best win total in five years and improved its win total over the previous season for the second straight year. The Bulldogs scored 32 more goals than they scored in 2012, a remarkable 23 percent increase.
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We Race a Corvette ZR1 Against a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet Because...We'd Already Made all the Ferraris Turn Red
For once, even 638 horsepower might not be enough. As I slot the ZR1's six-speed shifter into first and tilt my gaze toward the flag girl, for reassurance I give the throttle a quick stab with my heel. The supercharged V-8 responds with a shock wave that momentarily warps my vision and clouts my stomach like a 7.2 on the Richter scale. Maybe I have a chance.
The finish line lies one mile in the distance, somewhere beyond the heat waves; after reaching it, I'll be at very high speed and won't have a lot of tarmac left to stop. Concentrate, Arthur.
Above the background throb of the engine I can hear myself breathing into my helmet, the sound muffled by my Nomex balaclava. A bead of sweat slaloms down my neck. What's taking so long? I turn my head further to my right.
Maybe I shouldn't have looked. I can see four wheels and a driver, true, but there all familiarity ends. Because aligned with my Corvette on a parallel runway stands Blue Angel 7, an immaculate, blue-and-gold U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet strike fighter jet; a $25 million ice pick with razor-blade airfoils and 32,000 pounds of afterburner-fed thrust just waiting to flash-fry me and my ZR1 like a hapless bluefish.
A flurry of motion outside my windshield; the nearby navy personnel are signaling that all is ready. My muscles tense as my heart rate goes triple-digit and once again I turn my attentions to the flag girl between us. She nods at our respective thumbs-up, then raises the flag above her head. My right foot inches down on the gas; the revs climb to 3000 rpm. This race has been months in the making, countless emails and phone calls and planning sessions and signed official forms, but right now all I'm thinking is, "Arthur, don't you dare stall this f-"
The start flag drops.
"Blue Devil." That's the code name former GM CEO Rick Wagoner, a long-time fan of the Duke Blue Devils basketball team, bestowed upon the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, the supercar he instigated in 2004, the fastest, most powerful, and, at nearly $105,000 base, most expensive production automobile the General has ever built. It's also the first showroom Vette capable of exceeding 200 mph. The ZR1's mission: Stomp on blueblooded sports cars like so many internal-combustion roaches. And when we conducted our first ZR1 comparison test (February 2009), stomp it did, obliterating a Nissan GT-R, a 530-horsepower Porsche GT2, and a $350,000 Ferrari 599 GTB. During an impromptu four-way drag race, the ZR1 roared off to such a devastating win, it actually made the white Ferrari turn "beat" red.
What, we asked ourselves, could possibly take on Chevy's almighty Blue Devil? It was then the clouds parted, the sun shone down, and on the wings of divine inspiration our answer arrived from above (well, from a strong cup of coffee anyway). Of course! A Blue Angel. It was just too poetically perfect to pass up.
The Navy was all over the idea. "Sir, you should take a look at this," read one remark as my e-mail query was forwarded to a superior officer. "Sounds pretty cool." Thus began a months-long exchange between my desk and Blue Angels HQ. We discussed running a simulated course, or perhaps a two-way blitz, before reasons of practicality dictated a straight one-mile drag race. Also on the table were potential locales, among them Edwards Air Force Base and the shuttle landing runway at Kennedy Space Center. Ultimately, though, with no small amount of coaxing (and the promise of a ride in the ZR1) the Blue Angels convinced the commander of their home base, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, to shut down all air ops just for our race-an unprecedented move, especially considering that Pensacola is also the Navy's primary flight-training center. We'd have one hour. Time enough for two runs. And a bonus: After our race, the pilot and I would switch rides. He'd try my Blue Devil, and I'd sample his Blue Angel. I'm sure my friend was only being supportive when he told me, "Dude! That's gonna be sick!"
Moments after my colleagues and I arrive at Pensacola, the Blue Angels team takes to the air for a morning practice session. Though no air-show crowd is present, every move — even just boarding the six demonstration aircraft — is executed to spit-polish perfection. Such 24/7 precision is essential, because, quite simply, Blue Angels flying is dangerous as hell. The show's high-g aerobatic maneuvers — loops, barrel rolls, minimum-radius turns, inverted flight — place intense demands on pilots and aircraft alike. In the six-plane Delta formation, for instance, the F/A-18s fly barely two feet apart. The routines are relentless and absolutely unforgiving: In the Blue Angels' 63-year history, 26 of its pilots have died in training or show accidents, nearly a 10-percent fatality rate. It's literally one of the most breathtaking shows on earth.
Shortly after the team lands, I meet my race opponent, Lieutenant Ben Walborn, call sign "Baxter" — from the name of the dog in the movie "Anchorman" (noting my raised eyebrows, a nearby Blue Angels spokesman laughs: "The Air Force has all the cool call signs like 'Maverick.' Navy pilots get the goofy ones"). Walborn doesn't yet fly in the six-pilot show (he'll join them next year); instead, he narrates the routines from the ground and pilots Blue Angel 7, the team's two-seat F/A-18, used for VIP flights. Like all the Blue Angels, though, Walborn is a kick-ass pilot: more than 1400 flight hours, 346 carrier-arrested landings (he served on the USS Kitty Hawk), numerous decorations and medals, and the kind of aw-shucks, square-jawed confidence that immediately makes you feel embarrassed by your own pathetic, second-rate existence. "It's got 638 horses? Man!" Walborn says as he eyes the ZR1.
"Think you'll be able to beat it?" I ask.
Walborn flashes a grin. "I think we'll do all right."
It's time. Obviously, I'm at a huge power disadvantage against the Hornet. But the ZR1 accelerates fiercely (the quarter mile in just 11.2 seconds at over 130 mph), whereas it may take Walborn's twin General Electric turbofans a few seconds to spool up. Looking to minimize that disadvantage, for the first race Walborn will bring the engines up to 87 percent power and hold the aircraft with the brakes until go time.
The start flag is billowing in a good breeze coming straight at us. I've got the 6.2-liter V-8 holding at about 3000 rpm, right hand on the shifter, and…the flag drops. I dump the clutch, feather the throttle just a bit to keep the tires from spinning into oblivion, and I'm gone. Second gear, third gear. The speedometer is well past 100 mph and climbing wildly and…there he is!
Out of the corner of my eye already I can see the Hornet, ahead of me and pulling away fast. In another blink, Walborn takes off, raises the landing gear, and flashes past the finish line. As I continue to accelerate, Walborn — big showoff — stands the Hornet on its tail and climbs straight up into the clouds. A beat later I cross the finish line at 172 mph and jump on the ZR1's carbon-ceramic binders. The Vette easily stops with runway to spare.
Blue Angel: 1. Blue Devil: 0.
For race two, Walborn agrees not to apply any power until the start. This time I'm going to grab a bigger lead for sure. Incredibly, though, when the flag drops and Walborn shoves the throttles to full afterburner, the Hornet is even quicker. I'm barely into second gear when the F/A-18 appears in my peripheral view. It's all I can do not to lift off the gas in frustration; the Blue Angel is just pummeling my Blue Devil. Again I blaze through the finish at 170-plus mph, but by then Walborn is long gone, another vertical climb hiding him up in the clouds. He'd flown across the finish line far ahead — doing around 345 mph. Moments later, as I'm cooling the brakes on the return, I hear a distant low rumble and — whaaapp! — the F/A-18 rips by low and fast. Walborn doesn't rub it in — no victory roll — but the results are clear. It's taken a supersonic fighter jet to do it, but the Blue Devil is finally beaten.
The ZR1 isn't done eliciting "wows," though. After Walborn lands and I congratulate him on his win, we climb aboard the Blue Devil, this time with me in the passenger seat. Walborn gives the gas a tentative poke, then plants the pedal. "This thing really goes!" he says, grin as wide as the runway. Another minute or two, his confidence climbing fast, he's gunning past 130 mph and loving it. In fact, the ZR1 has the entire Blue Angels team doing oooohs and aahhhhs. Clearly, testing hot cars for a living is one of the few jobs in the world (maybe Playboy photographer, too) that can make a fighter jock envious.
Time to trade Blues. As crew chief Austin Armstrong straps me into the rear ejection seat of Blue Angel 7, he shares a few tips. "Don't touch anything." Then he adds: "Unless you need a barf bag — those are right here."
The F/A-18 cockpit fits like a wetsuit, with the stick between my legs, throttles to the left, and a few multifunction displays ahead of me. Soon Walborn is climbing the stairs and belting into the forward seat. The Blue Angels don't wear g suits, because the inflating and deflating air bladders would impair their ultra-precise movements of the control stick. Instead, during high-g aerobatics they squeeze their legs and grunt like crazy to keep the blood in their brains and not pass out — the so-called "hick maneuver."
I'll get plenty of chances to hick myself. "We'll do a vertical takeoff," says Walborn over the intercom as we line up on the runway. "Pull about 5.5 g." He shoves the throttles to military power, 10,700 pounds of thrust per engine, then goes to full afterburner — all 32,000 pounds. The acceleration is wicked; my helmet is pinned to the seat. In no time we're airborne, just feet off the runway, then I hear Walborn again. "Three, two, one!" Instantly I weigh 1000 pounds as the Hornet goes vertical and the g forces crush down hard. In five seconds we're at 7000 feet.
And we're only getting warmed up. Soon we're well out over the Gulf of Mexico, and Walborn uncorks some Blue Angels magic. We fly an inverted pushover (negative 2.2 g — which make your eyeballs feel like they're about to pop out of your skull); we do Immelman turns, loops, steeply banked minimum-radius turns (at well over six g — I'm hicking for all I'm worth), and low-speed, "high alpha" flight (with the Hornet almost sitting on its tail). Then Walborn dives for the water and shoves the throttles to the stops. The speed comes on hard, the water is whooshing past, and…we break Mach 1, the speed of sound. I can't detect a thing, but I feel absolutely wonderful. "Hey! Check our speed: 666 knots," Walborn says. "I guess the Blue Devil is still riding with us!"
All too soon, we're headed back to Pensacola. But Walborn has one more trick in store. As we circle in to land, he performs a brutal 180-degree change of direction at speed. The g meter goes through the roof: 7.2 g. Somehow, with all the grunting and leg-squeezing and hick-maneuvering, I manage to stay awake. My lunch even stays put.
After driving the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, it's not easy to be impressed by a vehicle, but the Boeing F/A-18 has done it — and then some. And what has our "race" proved? Simply, that Blue Angel and Blue Devil represent two of America's most monumental speed machines. You can even have one of them free of charge. Your local Navy recruiting officer will be delighted to tell you all about it.
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The aviators who fly in the Blue Angels team occupy the top of the pyramid. Of the roughly 2300 active pilots in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, roughly 50 feel cocky enough to apply to the Blue Angels each year. Two, maybe three, make it. Because Blue Angels flight demonstrations are so demanding and hazardous, new pilots are selected by the current team members and no one else. Trust means everything when you'll be flying with wingtips just two feet apart.
The minimum requirements for application: 1250 hours of tactical-jet flight time plus carrier qualification. Each pilot flies for two years — except the narrator (like Lt. Ben Walborn), who serves one year in Blue Angel 7 and then joins the six-pilot demo team for two years. The squadron isn't looking simply for flying experience. Key qualities for admission include sound judgment, public-speaking skills, fitness (daily weight-lifting workouts are mandatory to maintain g tolerance), and poise under stress. And if you look like a movie star, that sure won't hurt.
Formed in 1946 to showcase naval aviation and attract new recruits, the Blue Angels team is now the world's oldest active flight-demonstration squadron. Each year, the Blues fly more than 70 air shows at some 34 venues — witnessed by a combined audience of roughly 15 million spectators. Rest assured that some of them are looking up and saying, "One day, that's going to be me."


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- 2 cups chopped fresh or frozen cranberries
- 5 cups fresh or frozen unsweetened raspberries, thawed
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 to 1-1/4 cups sugar
- 1/4 cup quick-cooking tapioca
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Pastry for double-crust pie (9 inches)
- In a large bowl, combine the cranberries, raspberries and extract. Combine the sugar, tapioca and salt. Add to fruit mixture; toss gently to coat. Let stand for 15-20 minutes.
- Line pie plate with bottom pastry; trim to 1 in. beyond edge of plate. Add filling. Roll out remaining pastry; make a lattice crust. Trim, seal and flute edges. Cover edges loosely with foil.
- Bake at 375° for 40-45 minutes or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool on a wire rack. Yield: 6-8 servings.
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"I love this pie! I made it for Thanksgiving a couple of years back, and actually made a cheddar cheese crust instead, and it really complimented the tartness of the fruit! I am definitely going to make it again, it is one of my favorites."
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"My family loves odd meals and this one is definitely odd....good though."
"If you like a tart fruit pie, you probably will enjoy this one, too. I made it into a "crisp" instead, to save time. The cranberries of course make it tart, but did not overpower the raspberries' flavor. I love raspberries, so I thought it was a delicious combination. Looks pretty, too. I recommend 1-1/2 c. sugar (for pleasantly tart), and I also added 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon. Hubby thought it was good, a little tart, but said the sweet and crunchy crumb topping of the crisp was a nice combination with the tartness of the fruit filling. I thought it was quite good and next time I will make as a pie."


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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and empowered, in his discretion in so far as the authorization made herein will permit, to discover, develop, protect, and render more accessible for the benefit of the general public, springs, streams, and water holes on arid public lands of the United States; and in connection therewith to erect and maintain suitable and durable monuments and signboards at proper places and intervals along and near the accustomed lines of travel and over the general area of said desert lands, containing information and directions as to the location and nature of said springs, streams, and water holes, to the end that the same may be more readily traced and found by persons in search or need thereof; also to provide convenient and ready means, apparatus, and appliances by which water may be brought to the earth's surface at said water holes for the use of such persons; also to prepare and distribute suitable maps, reports, and general information relating to said springs, streams, and water holes, and their specific location with reference to lines of travel.
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For the YMCA, expansion into Fletcher is simply about expanding wellness and reaching more people.
For the YMCA, expansion into Fletcher is simply about expanding wellness and reaching more people.
The opportunity to partner with Mission Health and Pardee Hospital on a new facility was a no-brainer, said John Mikos, COO of the YMCA of Western North Carolina. Discussions are under way about the design of the 40,000-square-foot building, half of which will be used by the YMCA. The facility will sit adjacent to the 80,000-square-foot Pardee-Mission Health Campus on Hendersonville Road.
The project doesn't have a start date yet, Mikos said, but the estimated completion date is next summer. When the facility is complete, it'll be another step toward the YMCA's goal of expanding wellness across Western North Carolina.
"The partnership begins to expand our services to people that need it," Mikos added.
The expansion in Fletcher will not replace the Hendersonville Family YMCA on Sixth Avenue. It's just another piece to a wellness puzzle. Three years ago, the YMCA of Western North Carolina finalized what it calls the "2020 Plan."
That plan is to spread as much wellness across Western North Carolina as it can during the decade. That includes expansion of facilities and services.
It all begins with the YMCA's mission, "to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body all." Its cause is to "build healthier communities in Western North Carolina."
Fast forward seven years, and Mikos said the YMCA's vision is simple.
"We want it to be better than it is today," he said.
The nonprofit's goals are to fight childhood obesity, curb preventable diseases, increase access to program and services, increase healthy activities for senior citizens and to increase care for an underserved community.
Fletcher lends itself to that vision simply due to the density in population. There is a need there, Mikos said.
The facility, which will take up the first level of the building beneath Mission and Pardee offices, will not have a pool or gymnasium, but will offer healthy living courses, diabetes prevention, healthy cooking classes, activities for the older population, yoga, Pilates and other group exercises.
At the end of the day, all roads end at wellness, Mikos said.
"That is ultimately where all of us are trying to head to," he said.
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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
Learn more about AILA's official statements on immigration issues.Read Now
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
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NASHVILLE, TN - The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) will award José Díaz-Balart, a journalist and anchor for Telemundo, with the 2012 Media Leadership Award in recognition of the individual whose efforts in the media most accurately depict immigration and immigrants. Mr. Díaz-Balart will receive the award today during AILA's Annual Conference in Nashville, TN.
An award-winning journalist, Mr. Díaz-Balart anchors "Noticiero Telemundo." The first journalist to anchor both a daily Spanish and English-language newscast in the United States, Mr. Díaz-Balart also serves as the network's national director of Public Affairs as well as host and managing editor of "Enfoque," the network's public affairs program. Enfoque examines critical issues of the day including the economy, healthcare, education and the pending immigration reform.
Mr. Díaz-Balart is a veteran of international news broadcasts, having served as Washington bureau chief for Telemundo Network, and prior to that as its European bureau chief in Madrid, Spain. Previously, he was the Central American bureau chief and war correspondent for Spanish International Network - now Univision - based in San Salvador, El Salvador. Before joining Telemundo, Mr. Díaz-Balart was co-anchor for "CBS This Morning" and Anchor for "Against the Law," a daily prime time series on the CBS "Eye On People" cable channel. He was also part of the small group of visionaries who helped found Telemundo Network in 1987.
Named by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the most influential Hispanics in the United States, the veteran journalist has earned two Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award and an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award among other honors. He graduated from New College in Sarasota, Florida and studied at the University of Cambridge, in England.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association is the national association of immigration lawyers established to promote justice, advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice, and enhance the professional development of its members.
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LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron and his Liberal Democrat deputy, Nick Clegg, clashed Thursday on whether the possibility of Britain leaving the European Union within five years risks putting off investors and damaging the economy.
Clegg, who leads the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, distanced himself from his Conservative coalition partner's plans to repatriate powers from the EU. Cameron promised voters a referendum Wednesday by late 2017 on whether to remain in the EU on new terms or leave the 27-nation bloc, saying he will make the case for staying.
"Where, of course, David Cameron and I part company is I simply don't understand the point of spending years and years and years tying yourself up in knots first, so-called renegotiating the terms of Britain's membership in ways that at the moment at least are completely vague," Clegg told London's LBC radio station Thursday during his weekly phone-in show. "And I think that discourages investment and inhibits growth and jobs, which has to remain our absolute priority."
Cameron defended his position in a question-and-answer session after his speech Thursday to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
"We're going to resolve this issue in a way that is actually going to benefit business because we'll end up with a more competitive, more open European Union," Cameron said.
"I would argue the riskiest thing of all would be to do nothing, would be to sit back, see all the changes taking place in Europe with the euro zone, and just say 'this is nothing to do with us,' '' he said. ''And see all the debate in Britain and say, 'I'm going to stay back from it.' "
A letter to the Times newspaper signed by 55 leaders of industry and London's financial district welcomed the referendum proposals as ''good for business and good for jobs.''
The opposition Labor Party argued that Cameron's position on the EU will make Britain less attractive to foreign investors.
''We have traditionally said, 'come to Britain because it is a favorable climate,' '' former Europe minister Peter Hain told the BBC. "We are on a road which could lead us out of Europe and out of that market and that is a decision which is going to affect investment.''
Clegg indicated that Cameron's referendum pledge wouldn't prevent a renewed coalition after the 2015 general election.
He said he is not afraid of holding a referendum, pointing to the fact that the Liberal Democrats had already provided for a vote in the case of more powers being transferred to the EU.
''There should be a referendum when the United Kingdom is asked to give new powers to the European Union, when there's a new treaty in the European Union,'' Clegg said.


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PDL Screenshots
3D Graphics Examples
Here are some pretty pictures generated using the PDL::Graphics::TriD module, follow the links to get full-size pictures and the PDL code which produced them.
Note when displayed with PDL viewing from different angles is as simple as rotating the figure with the mouse!
2D Graphics ExamplesFor some screenshots of PGPLOT in action check the PGPLOT demo.
2D & 3D Graphics Examples
PLplot is a scientific plotting library for 2D and 3D graphics. PLplot has a rich API allowing fine control of every aspects of the plots. The PDL binding for PLplot (in PDL::Graphics::PLplot) comes in two flavors: a high-level, object-oriented interface and a low-level interface which is very close to the C API of the library. The demos distributed with PLplot have been ported to the low-level interface and are available at the PLplot examples area (two examples are shown below).
Image Distortion Example
Image resampling and co-alignment is handled by the PDL::Transform package. Here is an example of a nonlinear coordinate transformation applied to an image of the space shuttle. The image is being rotated in logarithmic azimuthal space. The transformation is continuous everywhere except on a singular ray extending upward from the origin. The PDL::Transform code includes optimized resampling to prevent introducing artifacts into your data. You can tell that it's at work by comparing the sampled and anti-aliased movies. Here is the brief script that generated the frames.


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Local Hispanics have formed the Panhandle Tejano Democrat Club, which held its first meeting Tuesday.
"They're one of the most effective groups," said Sandra Tenorio, president of the Texas Tejano Democrats. "They worked hard to get things just right."
The group seeks full representation for Hispanics in all levels of the Democratic Party, from candidate selection and endorsement to participation in discussions on local issues and taking positions on legislation, according to a news release.
Officers for the Panhandle chapter are: President Sergio Velasquez; First Vice President Ester Garcia; Second Vice President Vicente Soto; Secretary James Campos and Treasurer Lydia Munoz.
The Advisory Committee includes Potter County Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Nancy Bosquez, Amarillo College Regent Mary Jane Nelson and Potter County Precinct 2 Commissioner Mercy Murguia.
The state group, which has existed since 1993, is composed of almost 1,000 members, Tenorio said. It has chapters in several cities, including Lubbock, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Houston and McAllen.
"We have a very diverse group with members from all walks of life," Tenorio said.


text: This round of the Twin Cedars, Melcher-Dallas rivalry goes to the Sabers. Twin Cedars and Melcher-Dallas played a scoreless softball game for six-and-a-half innings, until the Sabers walked off in the seventh with a 1 – 0 win. Payton Fee scored from first on a sacrifice bunt by Bailey Dunkin and a subsequent throwing error by the Saints. Mackenzie Sedlock earned a complete game shutout, allowing only five hits, walking one, and striking out two. Coach Zack Dunkin tells KNIA/KRLS Sports that it was the best defensive game they've played all year. On the baseball diamond, Twin Cedars won in five innings, 11 – 1. The Sabers scored six runs in the fourth inning with two outs. The Saints amassed a total of four hits, but also committed four errors in the game. Twin Cedars' softball improves to 9 – 6 with the win, while the loss drops the Saints' record to 9 – 6. Sabers' baseball is 14 – 1 and the Saints are now 1 – 7. Melcher-Dallas' softball is off today, while the baseball team hosts Lamoni. Twin Cedars' ball clubs will welcome Murray for a pair of games this evening.


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Hey - I hope you don't mind me noting my thoughts on your page. Kudos on bringing this all up, we definitely have way too many red links. Some of these things are basic explanations of how the game works (from Pickups to Bike School) whilst others are guides (100% to Hidden Packages) and some are obsessive detail for hardcore fans (Restaurants to Gambling). Let Special:Wantedpages, Special:Wantedcategories and Grand Theft Wiki:Consistency be your guides. There are probably pages that already exist for some of the stuff you've listed, but with awkward names or already part of another article (eg Paramedic missions in the Ambulance article). Good luck with this little project and myself and a lot of members (including User:gtabot) are behind you with this - Gboyers (?) 03:53, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the kudos! I'm hoping to get this all straightened out sometime soon, but a little too tired right now to go into it. BTW, does this wiki have an IRC channel? --GuildKnightTalk2me 06:21, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
my dog ate my...FOUR LEAF clover!
Almost! I found this pretty four leaf clover at the bottom of our steps, and was showing it to Penny, who, being a beagle, was like "CHOMP"..but it, and my luck, survived :) Some of you will remember that I have a hobby of finding four leaf clovers, and although I stopped counting a couple years ago when I had found 500 in my lifetime, I still find quite a few...this is the second or third of the year so far...
In other news, you see below a mug shape from 12 years ago and on the right, a mug from yesterday. It is VERY hard to do what I want here, the little foot like that? The one on the left is an old favorite mug of mine, also the first time I put a pig on a handle like that--and it was made in 2 parts. But the cup on the right....I finally thought "if I make it backwards, I bet I can do get the shape I want this time" and it is made in one piece, and what I did this time, in working backwards, is form the TOP first, then work on the bottom. AH HA! That did it! So I made more, including a matching teapot, to finish today...
You might need an elaborate elephant teapot for your kitchen! For sale now at my etsy gallery!
11 comments:
- Joe Troncale said...
Nice forms as always! Nice use of the new handles...
I didn't understand about making the cup from top to bottom, however. Maybe you could "SPLAIN" it to me.
- May 2, 2012 at 7:08 AM
- Gary's third pottery blog said...
I formed the V, which is the upper 2/3 of the cup, then the base after that, by choking it in etc. I have always formed the base first then tried to form the V, which for some reason I have found difficult :)
- May 2, 2012 at 7:30 AM
- Barbara Rogers said...
Nice form, and good idea to do top down...can't wait to see the fired version! Glad to know a four-leaf clover finder. You are certainly a lucky guy!
- May 2, 2012 at 8:34 AM
- Michèle Hastings said...
nice shape, great idea to work backwards.
we had a four leaf clover patch in our backyard a couple of weeks ago. Jeff kept bringing them in and we had them in little vases all over the kitchen. he also tucked one inside our receipt book for good luck ;-)
- May 2, 2012 at 8:59 AM
- Busy Bee Suz said...
Well, I'd say you are the luckiest guy I know! Penny just wanted a little lucky nibble. :)
I do love the shape of those mugs.
- May 2, 2012 at 9:05 AM
- Claudia from Idiot's Kitchen said...
If Penny had eaten that clover, she would have been a lucky dog!
- May 2, 2012 at 9:06 AM
- smartcat said...
I think Penny was contemplating her luck.
Nice mug....smart way to make it.
I'll try to stay away from making remarks about rolling in clover....maybe!
- May 2, 2012 at 10:18 AM
- Lori Buff said...
My goblets are similar to those mugs, they ARE difficult and have tendency towards warping and cracking. The mugs look really great and should be worth the effort.
- May 2, 2012 at 10:23 AM
- Joe Troncale said...
Thanks for the feedback. I have to try doing it now, just to take the "Gary Rith Throwing Challenge!"
I like the idea of "American Pottery Idol." Or instead of "The Voice" it could be "The Pot."
- May 2, 2012 at 11:59 AM
- Joyful Things said...
I love the lounging pig on the 12 year old mug - too cute.
- May 2, 2012 at 12:59 PM
- Summer said...
A four leaf clover friend! I'm a fellow hobbyist. And when I don't have a way to press a clover, I pull a Penny and eat it myself! I'll do a special clover post for you soon.
Luck be with you! (you don't need it though)
- May 2, 2012 at 6:53 PM
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PARKER,Fla- The sport of Mixed Martial Arts is set to make it's Bay County debut. "The Panhandle MMA Showdown" shows just how big the sport has become, locally and beyond.
MMA has become one of the fastest growing sports in the world. Organizations like the Ultimate Fighting Championship, World Extreme Cagefighting, and Strikeforce are introducing millions of fans to MMA.
"There's kids growing up that don't want to be a boxer, but they want to be a UFC fighter now." Amateur Fighter Lionel James said, "It's a good thing for the experience, it's a good thing to watch."
Tito Jones is a Rutherford graduate who fought professionally for Strikeforce. He's now the head trainer for Panhandle Combat Sports in Callaway, and he says he came back to his hometown to help other fighters learn the sport.
"It's a great outlet. You see alot of people in here that are just here to test themselves, push themselves to the limit. I think that's what life's all about in every aspect."
Until this July Jone's fighters couldn't put their training to use in the cage, because the state of Florida didn't allow amateur MMA events. That changed when the Florida State Boxing commission voted to sanction the sport for amateurs.
"They've been waiting for this." Local promoter Jeff Pabalan said. "I've had some of these fighters tell me I've been waiting for ten years for places to fight, and now I'm glad that you guys are promoting one."
Pabalan and his partners Mack Kilpatrick, and Mike Hawkins are promoting the "The Panhandle MMA Showdown" which has been sanctioned under the International Sport Karate/Kickboxing Association. It will be the first amateur MMA event in Bay County. Derek Levesque is proud to be a part of that history. "It's an honor, our younger generation we're all about this sport," Levesque said.
The 10 bout card will set the stage for future events in Bay County, so the promoters, and the fighters not only want to put on a good show for the fans, they want to leave a good impression of the sport with everyone in this area.
Doors for the Panhandle MMA Showdown at the Bay Banquet Hall in Parker will open at 5 p.m. Saturday August 21st. The first bout will start at 7.
Tickets can be purchased at the door for 20 dollars.