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The GQ&A: Jason Bateman
In the wilderness years before _Arrested Development, _the former child star nearly disappeared from Hollywood altogether. Now, on the eve of the show's loooong-awaited return, Jason Bateman's career is beginning to look positively Ron Howard-esque. We sat down with the actor-producer-director to talk about the good old days with Ricky Schroder, the bad old days (his entire twenties), the blessed reunion of the Bluths, and his master plan for the next four decades or so
"You want a roadie?" Jason Bateman asks. We're in the kitchen of his production company, Aggregate Films—first feature: _Identity Thief, _$125 million and counting—loading up on caffeine before climbing into his golf cart for a late-morning tour of the Universal Studios lot. I say yes; Bateman fills a travel mug. When I mention that my creamer of choice is hazelnut Coffee-Mate and not to knock it till he's tried it, he regards me like I'm Tobias Fünke and says, "I think your vagina's bleeding."
There he is! There's the guy—pretty much the exact same guy, even though he's not acting at the moment—whose withering but somehow affectionate deadpan has cracked us up for thirty-two of his forty-four years now. In his teens: _Silver Spoons, It's Your Move, Valerie, The Hogan Family. _Bateman's twenties were pretty much lost in a haze of partying and sitcom pilots that went nowhere, but he roared back in 2003 with _Arrested Development, a "career-defining" role that led to supporting parts in films (Juno, State of Play), which led in turn to lead roles (The Switch, Horrible Bosses), _which eventually added up to enough Hollywood juice to score his two-year production deal with Universal. He's presently editing his directorial debut, a comedy called Bad Words that he also produced and starred in. And now, to the delight of millions of Arrested Development fans, he's just a couple of short months away from reappearing as Michael Bluth in the long-gestating resurrection of the show, which was canceled in 2006 after only three seasons. Apparently, though, the fourteen new episodes of AD that will stream on Netflix in May are...not the fourth season?
"It is not season four," Bateman says emphatically. "It got misbranded or mislabeled way, way, way back when and was never corrected for one reason or another. There are different agendas at work there, but it is not season four." Hmmm, mysterious. Much more on Arrested Development in a minute.
First, though, that golf-cart tour. As we step out of his bungalow, Bateman pauses. "See this office right here?" he says, gesturing at a window to the right of the entrance. "This is where I did my schoolwork when I was doing Silver Spoons on Stage 42. Having an office here, in this same bungalow, is just like this incredibly humbling full-circle kind of great thing." He turns and points to a little slope of exposed reddish dirt that's been carved from the hillside. It's maybe a dozen feet high, but steep. "I remember Ricky Schroder was coming back from rehearsal one day, and he slid down this hill by accident—he was trying to show off—and he slid right over a hole, a yellow-jacket hole. I'll never forget that image, looking out that window and watching this cloud of yellow jackets around him and him running around here yelling, 'JASON! GODDAMNIT!' "
More Jason Bateman:
He smiles his sideways smile and leads me to the golf cart, parked right next to a BMW 7 Series in a space reserved for JASON BATEMAN.
**GQ: Are you still in touch with Ricky? **
Jason Bateman: No.
GQ: Were you friendly during that period?
Jason Bateman: Very friendly. We hung out a lot. We'd ride our bikes around the lot for ercise, or fucking around, and we'd hold on to the back of one of those trams [gestures at a tram full of tourists on the tour], and we'd let the tram pull us along this route right here with the people in the back of the tram going, "Oooh, it's those two kids from Silver Spoons!" We'd have the tram pull us all the way up to Jaws Lake, where we'd roll up our pants and wade in and net a bunch of goldfish and put 'em in a plastic bag to take back to Ricky's fish tank in the schoolroom. He had a bunch of fish-eating fish, you know, like big fish that all they ate was fish? Eventually the tram people sent a letter to our parents saying, "Can you please have your kids stop wading in Jaws Lake? They're ruining the effect. You know, 'cause people are supposed to be afraid of this great white shark—"
He pauses as the tram approaches Jaws Lake and the fake shark swims toward the tourists. There's some kind of faux fire erupting on the surface of the "lake."
I don't remember there being fire in Jaws. Look, there's the shark!... So cheesy.... You'd think they would update this thing, right?... Oh, my God, that guy's about to be eaten. Trouble! Look at the blood.
**GQ: Jesus, if you're 6, that would be legitimately terrifying. To see that massive thing coming up at you? **
Jason Bateman: Special effects! That was pretty good.
**GQ: Okay, ****_Arrested Development. _****What was that like to get everyone back together after all those years of talking about it and fans clamoring for it? **
Jason Bateman: It was something that, every month or two since the end of the show, there would be an update about the progress [about some kind of reunion]. So it wasn't that big of a shock when it happened, because it always seemed like it was a half a year from happening anyway. But when we did finally all come together on the set, it was pretty neat. I just don't know how many examples there are of that—where people get to come back and do a reunion-type situation and have it not be a bit of a Hail Mary, careerwise. That show launched a lot of our careers and everyone is doing great, so to come back together while things are going well is really a fortunate situation. Everybody had to be big boys about not making it financially impossible.
GQ: What else can you tell me about the show? The entire Internet wants to know.
Jason Bateman: The last line of the last episode of Arrested Development was Ron Howard saying to Maeby—she's pitching him a show about her family at Imagine—and he says to her, "No, I don't see it as a series. Maybe a movie!" And then the screen goes black. That's it. So Mitch [Hurwitz, the show's creator] was always planning on writing a movie. Every time he went to start a movie script, there was so much work to be done just to fill the audience in on where the family had been since the end of the show, and to also initiate the uninitiated about who these characters are. So he thought: The only way to tell a story of this size is to do the first act in episodes. So it's really a hybrid distribution of one big story. The episodes are simply act 1, and the movie will have act 2 and act 3 in it. So one does not work without the other.
**GQ: So there are stories in the episodes that won't resolve until the movie? **
Jason Bateman: There are many, many questions that these episodes ask that only the movie will answer. And there are many stories where the loop is closed inside the episodes. But the overall story, the bigger story, once you see the movie you will see that "oh, this story started with those fourteen episodes," because the action in these fourteen episodes happens simultaneously. Each character has their own episode. There's a Michael episode, a Gob episode, a Lindsay episode, a Maeby episode. And the action across the episodes is happening simultaneously. If I'm driving down the street in my episode and Gob's going down the sidewalk on his Segway, you could stop my episode, go into his episode, and follow him and see where he's going.
It's not exactly like a Choose Your Own Adventure type of thing, but Mitch has written these episodes exclusively for the distribution platform and format of Netflix, knowing that they were all going to be released, like an album, on the same day. So certain clues are revealed to you based on the order in which you watch them. There will be an order that is suggested, but because part of the fun of what he does is so dense and multilayered—I mean, if you could see the writers' room before we started shooting—the cards and literally the strings of yarn, different colored characters where plotlines and index cards are matched to this one, and then there's an entire other room that is the movie. It looks like _A Beautiful Mind. _
GQ: Another Ron Howard project. The career you're trying to build—from child star to adult actor to producer-director—seems modeled on Howard's, who of course is the narrator of Arrested Development and one of its ecutive producers. Had you met him before**_ Arrested Development_?**
Jason Bateman: I had not, no.
GQ: Have you talked to him about this, your career goals? What's your relationship?
Jason Bateman: Yeah, it's great. I'm not picking his brain on a monthly basis about the model of his company and how I want to emulate that, but he's aware of my goals. He's very supportive and answers any questions that I have. He'll be one of the first people I show the film that I'm cutting_ [Bad Words], _to get his take on whether I know what the hell I'm doing with directing or not.
I remember when things were really dry for me in my twenties, when things really slowed down. It was a confusing time for me. I was really having a hard time with, literally, how to behave at an audition. Your natural instinct is to go in there and let them know how much you want it and be affable and be ambitious. Yet in this business, much like high school, a sexy indifference will go a long way, sort of that playing-hard-to-get thing. I never wanted it more, but I never felt more conflicted about looking like I wanted it. So I'd go in there and I'd be acting twice. But my point is, I remember somewhere in there seeing some interview with Ron Howard, and I remember watching him be that famous, kind, affable, engaging, almost eager persona, and I remember thinking, "Boy," you know, "there's no way anybody would ever misinterpret that kindness for weakness." And I thought to myself, "If I'm ever lucky enough to find some relevance again and some access and some success, that's going to be the best part of it, is that I'm going to be able to be as nice as I want to be and not be nervous that that's going to be misinterpreted for desperate. So the fact that I've been able to say that to Ron—I've literally walked him through this long-winded story—it was just really, really nice to be able to do that and to have him be a mentor and a friend and then obviously such a huge part of what was a career-defining job for me on Arrested Development.
**GQ: Can you remember any specific parts that you really wanted but you fucked it up because you were afraid to show how much you wanted it? **
Jason Bateman: Well, tons of them. You never find out exactly why you don't get the job, but I can tell you that I wasn't accurately representing myself. I wasn't being me.
This business, to a young kid, is kind of a mind-fuck. This is one of the reasons I don't really recommend parents putting their kids in the business as an actor. I grew up training myself to pretend to be other people. If you do that at an age where you're trying to figure out who you are, which is when you're a kid, you don't develop schizophrenia, but you can really slow down an organic process, which is trying to find your identity. I didn't really have a great engine to navigate this confusing period of my life.
**GQ: This is right after ****_The Hogan Family _****ended. You're trying to figure out how to make that transition into an adult career. But there's no financial pressure. **
Jason Bateman: No! I had all the money a 21-year-old could ever want, and I'd moved out when I was 18. It was as if my parents went out of town and they left me the keys to the car and the bank-account numbers and I didn't know when they were coming home. I spent ten or fifteen years having so much fun with all of my buddies and obviously losing my place in the business. By the time I regained an appreciation for a career and a work ethic and all those types of things, I had to do a lot of catching up. It wasn't necessarily there for me when I wanted it, and that was difficult and frustrating and extremely humbling. I just kind of had to start over—rebuild an ego and self-esteem and an identity.
Bateman brakes the golf cart alongside a fence that marks the perimeter of the Universal lot. On the other side, across the Los Angeles River, is a golf course.
During my twenties, I spent every day playing golf here. This is the fifth hole. Every time I'd be on this fifth fairway, I would look across and I would remember Silver Spoons and It's Your Move just on the other side of the castle walls, and I'd think, "I'd love to be able to have another crack at it." I kind of clocked these bungalows. So these sort of moments, they're not lost on me, because I'm so appreciative of the chances that I've gotten. It's so easy to be irrelevant in this business, and it's so easy to be relevant, too. Everybody is just a job away. For me, it was Arrested Development. I didn't take any talent pill the morning before that audition. If I didn't get that job, I'd probably still have all the time in the world to be over there playing golf all day and not doing anything.
**GQ: Last question on that period. On one hand you say it was fun—you were hanging out with your buddies, making up for lost time. You also say it was difficult and frustrating. Would you say you were depressed at this time? **
Jason Bateman: Oh yeah! Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
GQ: So what was the interplay between that depression and the fun you were having?
Jason Bateman: I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing it. I sort of relegated my depression to my frustrations in work, but my fun was in just being me and living my life. I really tried to keep those things separate. I wasn't partying to mask pain. I was partying in a celebratory way as opposed to "Oh God, I'm so depressed, so now I want to drink and party." I don't know how valid that sounds or how valid that is, but it is the way it felt at the time, at least, and still does in retrospect.
Eventually, though, and not too surprisingly, you keep putting in the hard work, you rebuild and develop that for yourself. It's just like anytime anybody's ever been single and you're like "God, if I could just get another girlfriend, I'd feel a lot better." Well, you're not going to get a girlfriend until you don't need one. Right? So as soon as you stop looking, things come. So that time was healthy. It was painful, but it was healthy. So along comes Arrested Development, along comes Amanda, my wife still to this day, and sobriety, too. So all of these things kind of coalesced around my early thirties, and it has fueled and continued to fuel the respect that I have for people, for work, for this business. I really feel lucky that ambition is matched with access right now.
GQ: What kinds of films do you want to make as a director? The kind of films you've acted in, or something different?
Jason Bateman: Bad Words is a comedy, but there's no pie in the face. It's a comedy only because of the raw humanity that somebody is showing. The character would be mortified if he heard anybody laughing at him. It is a comedy because of the character losing dignity. So sort of character stuff, human stuff, as opposed to concept stuff or jokey things. The Coen brothers' stuff, Paul Thomas Anderson's stuff, Alexander Payne's stuff—that's what really gets me going. Not loud stuff. Things that bounce very seamlessly back and forth from comedic moments to dramatic moments. You know, unfortunately those aren't the ones that make a shit-ton of money, 'cause they don't hit you in the face, but you do them at a price, so you're not obligated to make a hundred million dollars.
**GQ: Say ****_Identity Thief _**had happened a few years from now. Would you have wanted to direct that?
Jason Bateman: Yeah, 100 percent.
GQ: It's a pretty singular career you've had. I can't think of another one quite like it—being away for that long and making this kind of comeback not just as an actor but producing, directing.
Jason Bateman: And I hope to have the opportunity to act—no pun intended—on all of the things that I want to do from this point forward. I don't want to look back at this point as "He was up, then he was down, then he got up again, and it was the end of the fight." I want to look back on this as truly the midpoint of a sixty-year career, and the next thirty years are like what Clint Eastwood did with his career. You hardly even think of him as an actor anymore. The career he's had as a director is just insane! Look at what Ben Affleck is on the doorstep of. Great fucking story. That's maybe a reach of a parallel—he's definitely doing something different—but...
GQ: Well, his purgatory was just seeming like kind of a douche for a while.
Jason Bateman: Right. His _Gigli _was my Teen Wolf Too, right?
GQ: So what do you see for yourself as far as acting versus directing versus producing? What do you want that pie to look like in terms of your time?
Jason Bateman: As opposed to Ron Howard's career, which is exclusively directing and producing, no acting, and like Favreau's career and Pete Berg's career, where it's mostly directing—I think, more realistically, I'd like it to be more like George Clooney's career or Ben Stiller's career or Ben Affleck's career as far as splitting the time between acting and directing. I'm so... I just vibrate at how excited I am about the complexity of the process, of making a fake world for an audience. It's not a God complex, but that's what directors are doing: They're creating a fake world, and it is four-walled. It's 360 degrees. When a movie is great, you don't notice the effort. It is a real world that you've just watched. There's no better job in the world than directing a film. I'm convinced of it.
_At this point Bateman puts the golf cart in drive—we've been idling across from the golf course—and heads back toward his offices. "Should we go urinate?" he asks. "That's something I like to do in every interview. I like to have a little bit of a urine sword fight. I will fucking kick your ass, too." _
GQ: Jeffrey Tambor [who plays George Bluth in Arrested Development] once compared you to Johnny Carson in the way that you play the straight man but with this dark center. When I read that, it occurred to me that you might be a good talk-show host. Have you ever thought about that?
Jason Bateman: That's interesting, I was just talking about that. Without getting too specific about it, because I can't, I've thought seriously about it as recently as last year. Having just come back from doing a week of talk shows last week [to promote Identity Thief], I was talking to Amanda about, in twenty years—when the girls go to college and we can finally move to New York, which is what I've been wanting to do forever—if television will have me, I would love to do that. Regis retired at what, 80? So in twenty years I'll be 64. To host a talk show then, that would be a fun way to do the last bit.
GQ: I'd love to talk to Amanda about you. Do you mind?
Jason Bateman: No! That'd be fucking great, actually. She'll probably say some fucking shit that she's going to realize she shouldn't have said. She's fucking great. You will not get her to fucking shut up. Jesus Christ, does she like to talk. It's really nice, 'cause I don't have to say shit. I'm not that chatty. You might be surprised to hear, but I actually don't like to talk, even though I haven't stopped talking, but when I'm at social dinners or whatever, I'm usually the guy just sitting there just listening, 'cause she does all the talking. In fact, I situate myself at the dinner table, not next to her but across from her, so I can watch her fucking shoot that thing off. Just take 'em all down. Bring some gauze for your ears. She's the best.
A few days later I call Amanda Anka—yes, Paul's daughter—who does in fact use many words in conversation. But she's also a delight to talk to. As far as I can tell, she doesn't seem to say any fucking shit that she's going to realize she shouldn't have said. But she does tell me the following things about her husband: "He's not selling a six-pack. He's not selling an image. He's the Everyman's guy." He became emotional when he learned he was going to get to direct a feature film. He only wears Falke socks. He has thick skin: "He's the most sensitive, generous man without being fragile, which is interesting to me." They met at an L.A. Kings game but didn't start dating for ten years, because "I just wasn't into where he was at." These days, however, "I can't get him off the couch to go to a party. This is a guy who wants to go get frozen yogurt and come home." He likes _her opinionated personality: "We disagree all the time! I think he secretly likes it. I think he likes that it doesn't bore him, that we're not just agreeing on everything." And finally, his motto is _"It's not going to work out the way you think, but it'll work out the way it should." _Which brings me back to my interview with Jason.... _
**GQ: I listened to you last week on Howard Stern, who really pushed you on your parents—how they managed your career when you were younger, the money, et cetera. How is your relationship with them now? How have you guys weathered that? **
Jason Bateman: Great. The relationship is fantastic with both parents [who are now divorced]. It's as normal as the relationship could be, since it started so abnormally. There was this accelerated peer dynamic. Usually you have that dynamic of deference to your parents that is forever. They'll always be your mom and dad, a pair of people who nurtured you and you're trying to impress and you look for their approval, blah blah blah. But at a very, very early age, we were in a business partnership, and in fact there were financial responsibilities shared. So that typical dynamic was abbreviated or altered or destroyed, whatever you want to call it. I took the positive of it, which is that I learned at a very early age how to handle responsibility—huge adult responsibility at like 11—which was difficult at times. If you don't keep a C average on your report cards, you lose your work permit, and if you lose your work permit, you're kicked off the show, and if you're kicked off the show, we can't make the mortgage. That was tough.
GQ: And Justine [his sister, who played Mallory on Family Ties] is dealing with this same thing?
Jason Bateman: Yeah, exactly. It was a challenge, but with all challenge comes some nice scar tissue, which is muscle—not to get too fucking poetic. You can take the positive or the negative out of it. You can be angry about it, or you can be flattered that there was that much responsibility offered to a child from the parent because they thought we could handle it, and we did, and we could. As a result, I've been working as an adult for thirty-four years, and I'm only 44. I can now take this opportunity that I'm afforded right now and hit the ground running, as opposed to spending ten or fifteen years getting my feet under me, by which time I'm 60 and out of the business. I wouldn't change a thing.
GQ: So your career continued as an actor, while Justine stopped acting. How do you feel about that?
Jason Bateman: She on purpose slowed things down to have a couple of kids. And by the time she wanted to make a more concerted effort to get back into the workplace, I think her passion for it had waned a bit. And so the fact that her activity is not as frequent or as high-profile as it was back then, I don't think bothers her as some might think. In fact, her interests have gone into other areas. She's now studying, I think, computer science. She's far too smart to sort of be at the mercy of somebody else's agenda or rhythm or schedule—at an industry's rhythm or schedule. So I'm positive that she's happy. To have an expectation that two careers could accelerate or decelerate at the same time would be naive. I'm not surprised that one of us is in a different place than the other—no better, no worse, just in a different place. It's just too volatile a business. There's nothing predictable about it. It was surprising when [our careers] were at the same place or similar: both on television series, both on the same network. Hers was wildly successful, my stuff was sort of middling all the time, but it was pretty neat to be in the same house and both be on television. It was pretty interesting.
GQ: Last question. There's this thing that you do sometimes in scenes, when you look at the other actor right here**_ [I point to the top of my forehead, kind of off to the right], _**often when you're disgusted with them or, in the context of Arrested Development, baffled that you're related to them—
Jason Bateman: Really!?
**GQ: Yeah. I think of it as one of your go-to moves. Is that something you think about? **
Jason Bateman: I'm sort of picturing it now, rehearsing it in my head. I'm certainly not aware that I'm doing it, but that's a pretty hilarious.... I could see that look. A look above the eyes to the forehead and just around the body, like, "This person, this whole—it's just a miracle, how do you do it? How does this happen every day? I don't know how you get up. I don't know how you're okay with what you see. What I'm looking at, when you hit a mirror, how do you not cry?" But you know, this is something that Mitch and I talked a lot about, because that character [Michael Bluth] is written as very disgusted with his family. And my instinct is to be a little nastier, a little darker with anything. But Mitch will always remind me, "Don't forget, he loves these people." So it's less of a "This fucking guy is my brother-in-law" and more of just like a naive fascination with "Man, I wish I had this blissful ignorance. How did I get fucked with all of this introspection?"


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The other day I heard an interesting piece on NPR about the 50th birthday of the ZIP code. It's kinda strange to think about something as every-day as a ZIP code not having been around when my mom was born.
During the radio segment, they said that ZIP codes came out as a way to help sort mail more quickly by machine during an era when the US Post Office was booming. ZIP codes were introduced only a short time after Area Codes were, and it took folks a while to adjust to all these numbers. I can't even imagine being bothered by three or five new numbers when I have 20 million different online passwords that I have to remember.
I recommend that you listen to the story here, which includes the nifty jingle they came up with to help promote the new code. Also, check out these neat trivia tidbits and maps about ZIP codes.
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Logitech Unifying Receiver
zh-TW:Logitech Unifying Receiver The Logitech Unifying Receiver is a wireless receiver that can connect up to six compatible wireless mice and keyboards to your computer. The input device that comes with the receiver is already paired with it and should work out of the box through plug and play. Logitech officially supports pairing of additional devices just through their Windows and Mac OS X software. Pairing on Linux is supported by a small program from Benjamin Tissoires. That tool does not provide any feedback though. Other developers have built more complete pairing tools that give feedback and allow unpairing as well.
ltunify is a command-line C program that can perform pairing, unpairing and listing of devices. Solaar is a graphical Python program that integrates in your system tray and allows you to configure additional features of your input device such as swapping the functionality of Fn keys.
Benjamin's program can directly be installed from AUR: pairingtoolAUR.
Solaar is also available from the AUR: solaarAUR. At installation the Solaar package is creating the group plugdev. After installation add you user to the plugdev group (
# gpasswd -a $USER plugdev) to use Solaar as non-root user.
ltunify is now also available from the AUR: ltunify-gitAUR. Create the plugdev group before installation and add yourself to it (to avoid the need of running ltunify as root). After installation, you can edit the file
/etc/udev/rules.d/42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules to change the device group (the default group is plugdev).
pairingtool can only be used for pairing and does not provide feedback, it also needs to know the device name for pairing. ltunify and Solaar can detect the receiver automatically.
Examples on unpairing a device, pairing a new device and showing a list of all devices:
$ ltunify unpair mouse Device 0x01 Mouse successfully unpaired $ ltunify pair Please turn your wireless device off and on to start pairing. Found new device, id=0x01 Mouse $ ltunify list Devices count: 1 Connected devices: idx=1 Mouse M525
Solaar has a GUI and CLI. Example CLI pairing session:
$ solaar-cli unpair mouse Unpaired 1: Wireless Mouse M525 [M525:DAFA335E] $ solaar-cli pair Pairing: turn your new device on (timing out in 20 seconds). Paired device 1: Wireless Mouse M525 [M525:DAFA335E] $ solaar-cli show -: Unifying Receiver [/dev/hidraw0:08D89AA6] with 1 devices 1: Wireless Mouse M525 [M525:DAFA335E]
To find the device that the receiver has, therefore take a look at the outputs of
$ ls -l /sys/class/hidraw/hidraw*/device/driver | awk -F/ '/receiver/{print $5}'
This will show the names of your receiver, for example
Now switch off the device that you want to pair (if it was on) and execute your compiled program with the appropriate device as argument:
# ./pairing_tool /dev/hidraw0 The receiver is ready to pair a new device. Switch your device on to pair it (you have thirty seconds to do so).
Now switch on the device you want to pair. After a few seconds your new device should work properly.
Known Problems
Wrong device (pairing tool only)
On some systems there is more than one device that has the same name. In that case you will receive the following error message when the wrong device is choosen:
# pairing_tool /dev/hidraw1 Error: 32 write: Broken pipe
Keyboard layout via xorg.conf
With kernel 3.2 the Unifying Receiver got its own kernel module hid_logitech_dj which does not work flawlessly together with keyboard layout setting set via xorg.conf. A temporary workaround is to use xorg-setxkbmap and set the layout manually. For example for a German layout with no deadkeys one has to execute:
$ setxkbmap -layout de -variant nodeadkeys
To automate this process one could add this line to xinitrc.


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Lady Bisons gear up for competition with North Florida
Jacksonville, Fla. – The Lipscomb women's tennis team is all set to face the University of North Florida at 10 a.m. on Saturday in Jacksonville.
"Florida is sunny and warm, but we came to take care of business," said Lorena Djuknic.
"Tomorrow we have a battle against UNF as our last conference match."
"Our confidence level is pretty high after the win over NKU and we are ready to dig
deeper and to give our all."
The Lady Bisons stand at 4-5 in the conference and hold a 10-9 win-loss record overall in the season.
Lipscomb's match with North Florida will be their last conference match before the Atlantic Sun Championships.


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One common problem that keeps catching people off guard using Errai UI and its hip companion framework, Errai UI Navigation, has been that @Templated and @Page beans have required explicit-scoping in order to work correctly.
It turns out that you almost always want such beans to be of the @Dependent scope. But if you know a little bit about CDI, you might be saying to yourself: well, all non-explicitly scoped beans are of the @Dependent scope!
Well, yes. This is true. But Errai throws a bit of a curve-ball here. Because while Errai respects this semantic when it comes to static injection, it does not respect it when it comes to dynamic injection / dynamic lookup.
The reason for this is straight-forward. When Errai compiles your CDI code magically down to JavaScript (via the GWT compiler), it prunes all the bean wiring code from non-explicitly scoped beans. It does this as a way of minimizing the amount of dead code that ends up being compiled.
So, for example, if we respected the CDI specification strictly, we'd end up having to create bean wiring code for things like ArrayList, HashMap, LinkedList, StringBuilder, etc. Instead, we allow you to @Inject those dependent beans directly as you might in a fully compliant CDI container. But we don't produce the code to allow them to be dynamically produced at runtime.
So, for Errai, implicit dependent beans are a compile-time feature. Not a runtime feature.
But wait! It turns out there's a common need to dynamically lookup @Dependent beans in Errai applications. Widgets, for instance, are more often than not, of the @Dependent scope. And many widgets you want to instantiate many times, dynamically. Which is a perfect fit for the @Dependent scope.
So to allow you to overcome the limitation we impose, you can annotate your bean with a @Dependent annotation. This explicit scoping is treated as signal that you want to interact with the bean via the bean manager. And that's why you've had to explicitly scope all your @Templated and @Page beans up until now.
But as it turns out, we've changed the rules. In the absence of an explicit scope, Errai will now consider the use of either of these two annotations to mean the same thing as an explicitly-scoped @Dependent bean.
The good news is that this improvement will be directly available in the next 2.2 release. And in final.
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Green Lite Motors just unveiled a three-wheeled, two-passenger hybrid vehicle that looks like it could be the child of a motorcycle and a Prius. The prototype balances efficiency, comfort, and safety with a unique chassis propelled by a hybrid gas/electric motor which can propel the vehicle up to 85 mph. While not exactly a rocket, the vehicle is highly adept at handling different driving conditions and it has the potential to squeeze 100 miles out of a gallon of gas. The two front wheels are offset from the chassis to provide natural roll when cornering.
The design is still at the prototype stage, but after only a couple of years in development it's getting close to production. At Autodesk University 2011, CEO Tim Miller described how his dream of developing an efficient mode of transportation lead him to explore how a three wheel vehicle could have the cornering characteristics of a motorcycle with the stability of a car. Using AutoCAD and Inventor software Miller created a simulated model where moving parts like the complex front suspension could be developed and prototyped by manufacturers.
The two front wheels utilize Green Lite's "smart stand up" technology – a hydrolic suspension that keeps the car standing up when parked (check out this video to see it in action). As the vehicle approaches a turn, the wheels tilt the chassis into the turn like a motorcycle. This allows for great stability and handling and allows the driver and the passenger to sit upright.
A gas-electric motor is strapped onto a chassis and cage. The motor has three drive modes — all-electric, hybrid, or gas only to maximize performance on the highway or efficiency in town. Wrapped in a full shell, the vehicle will provide riders with the comfort of climate control and the convenience of not having to suit up in motorcycle gear. In the city the vehicle will be able to squeeze into the smallest of parking spaces. Out on the open road, the unique handling should be a blast, hugging corners and keeping pace on the freeway.
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Trust Unlimited
Affero Helps Open Source Developers Take Online Reputations With Them
Henri Poole has been studying the dynamics of online communities for about a decade now. In the early 90s, his first company, Vivid, prototyped a user interface for the Well. Later, as CEO of Linux distributor MandrakeSoft, he says, he became intrigued by the idea of open source communities, and what made them tick. That interest, he says, led to his most recent venture Affero. Launched with two other MandrakeSoft refugees in the summer of 2001, Affero is trying to build a standard system of reputation measurement for the Internet. LinuxPlanet recently caught up with Henri to ask him about Affero and his new position on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation.
LinuxPlanet: Where did the idea for Affero come from?
Poole: When I was at MandrakeSoft, I started trying to figure out where the real value was being exchanged and where we could add value and make profits. We started looking at the motivations for the communities that were developing the Mandrake platform--what motivated people to check in their patches and participate in the community. We looked at what these individuals needed. A lot of them needed money-- many people that are doing this work, they're doing it as a hobby but they'd like to do it full time.
So we started looking at that. Reputations were a big aspect of why people were doing things. It was fun, and people who contributed would get Whuffie from their friends. So we just started to look at the value that was being exchanged there--either monetary or non-monetary--and we started working on e-services not only enhancing the exchange of value, but also creating mechanisms for monetizing that.
Our whole strategy toward e-learning at MandrakeSoft was centered around GNU/Linux. It wasn't a departure at all, it was centered around GNU/Linux, and it was centered around the Free Software applications that were bundled with the distribution. Our interest was to offer learning communities and support communities to the people that were using the products, basically reducing the amount of friction for new users to get up to speed. And reducing the friction and making it easier for those people to find the support that they needed--the people that could support them--and also access to the tools to learn on their own.
And that had some influence on what we're doing now in that we learned a lot about what the interactions were and what people wanted. So after the departure of my team from Mandrake, some of us got together the following summer and decided that we wanted to start a business to facilitate a dialogue amongst various communities that were giving our work away.
We've basically been prototyping and developing a reputation service and a commerce service. In 2000, MandrakeSoft looked at a company called Question Exchange, that was eventually bought by VA Linux. They basically had a portal where you could go and ask questions and get answers. People like to do that, but they don't want to go somewhere else to do it. There are so many places where people are answering questions and giving support, and those communities are growing everywhere. So we looked at building a service that would enable a reputation to be developed, but where the individual had more control of the reputation, and if the community itself were bought or shut down, people's reputations could go with it somewhere else.
We also looked at building a system for moving money around, which reduces the amount of gaming in these trust systems, because if money is associated with ratings, and with the individuals, then it's harder to game--it costs a lot of money to game.
LP: What do you mean by 'game?'
Poole: You could go into a community and create 10 identities and rate yourself really high with these bogus identities. People do things like that to gain credibility. If you had to spend money on all of those, it would reduce people's ability to do that.
LP: Are Affero's reputations entirely dependent upon money?
Poole: A person can choose to look at reputation from a different light. Ultimately, we'll have a trust system that enables each person's input to calculate a trust rating. Every single person in a network would have a particular trust score with every other person, and you could use money as a component of that if you want to.
LP: So how is Affero working out?
Poole: We originally looked at rolling it out on mailing lists, and we found that people on mailing lists, they have a way of doing things, and they don't really have that much about their identity. So it's not really that natural for them to have an interest in developing more texture to their reputation.
What we found a few months ago was that in the online Web-based forums, people have a lot of information about their profiles, and that other people look at those profiles. And that creates more of a community. Those communities just love what we're doing. So we've started working with some key forums to work out the kinks of integrating and adding value to those communities. And people in the community are working on modifications to make it possible to use Affero's trust system and donation system within those forums.
LP: Which forums are you working with?
Poole: We spent a bit of time with Linux Questions. It is a really well-managed forum for getting GNU/Linux related questions answered. There are about 25,000 people in that community. Almost all of the top moderators and experts in that community have been using Affero. There are transactions that happen there every few days. People are making donations and comments and rating each other relatively frequently there. We've just recently started working with Overnet, which is an eDonkey 2000 community. We're looking at rolling a system out there, and we're pretty close to getting our software ready to roll out in other communities.
In order to use our service, code has to be written for the community to enable the Affero links and the Affero feedback--the reputations--to be useable inside those forums. So we have some work to do before we integrate with a particular form; we have to make sure that our system works within the platform that they're using.
LP: Some communities already have their own reputation systems. Is Affero compatible with, for example, the Slashdot Karma system or would it have to replace it?
Poole: I don't know. It depends on whether we could add any value to Slashdot. Slashdot's got a pretty strong reputation system. Most of these communities don't. The main difference between what we're doing and what others are doing is that we're not building and maintaining a community. We're basically maintaining the reputations for members. We've been approached recently by communities that say, "I would like to have people be able to post in my community, but I would like to check their credibility to see whether they're trustworthy or not before they post."
For example, on a blog, if people are posting or linking to you and you want to check the validity of the backlink, there's no way to do that right now. So we're actually working on enabling that.
LP: How would you enable that?
Poole: We have a Web services interface, so you can check the reputation of someone by interacting with our Web services system. Or a person could use their own network to determine a reputation.
LP: So you could care about what certain people think rather than what everybody thinks?
Poole: Yes.
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- 1. Affero Helps Open Source Developers Take Online Reputations With Them
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Gennady Golovkin begins another busy year vs Adama
Gennady Golovkin begins another busy year vs AdamaFILE - In this March 30, 2013, file photo, Gennady Golovkin, of Kazakhstan, reacts after defeating Nobuhiro Ishida, of Japan, in their WBA middleweight title fight in Monaco. Golovkin is taking his fifth fight in 13 months against Osumanu Adama in Monte Carlo this weekend instead of waiting around for the big-name bouts he's hoping to land this year. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Gennady Golovkin isn't the type of champion to sit on his belt.
That's why the unbeaten middleweight king is taking his fifth fight in 13 months against Osumanu Adama in Monte Carlo this weekend instead of waiting around for the big-name bouts he's hoping to land this year.
Golovkin (28-0, 25 KOs) simply can't sit still for very long, certainly not when he's on a 15-fight stoppage streak. After beating Curtis Stevens in early November, Golovkin got back into training in Big Bear, Calif., before Christmas, leaving his young family behind in Stuttgart, Germany.
''I want to fight every month,'' Golovkin said. ''Doesn't matter to me where it is. I'm happy when I have my next fight.''
That next fight is in the Salle des Etoiles in front of a small audience of Monte Carlo elites, and television coverage just about everywhere except the U.S. market. Although Golovkin has become one of HBO's most popular fighters with three dramatic wins on the pay-cable network last year, it couldn't reach a deal to broadcast this fight to his American fans.
Yet Golovkin isn't worried about his exposure from this bout, and promoter Tom Loeffler is sticking with his plan to keep Golovkin quite busy while his reputation grows. Loeffler wants his 160-pound star to fight four times again in 2014, ideally getting back in the ring stateside in April.
''I'm ready for a new year, same like last year,'' Golovkin said. ''I want great fights, and I hope I have a lot.''
Loeffler and Golovkin's trainer, Abel Sanchez, don't see any relaxation in their fighter's focus despite his heavy schedule. Golovkin trained in Big Bear alongside heavyweight Mike Perez and UFC star Ronda Rousey, who is picking up pointers on striking in Sanchez's camp.
''He's the type of guy that's up for challenges, and as long as it makes sense for his career, we're going to keep pushing,'' Loeffler said.
Golovkin's strategy of volume fighting has paid off in some ways, but he's still waiting for a full return on this extraordinary investment of time and risk.
He has significant fame and a reputation as a favorite among serious boxing fans, but he'll need matchups with the rest of the world's best at 160 and 168 pounds to cement a worldwide reputation - and so far, those fighters still don't want much to do with Golovkin.
Adama (22-3, 16 KOs) is a respectable contender fighting out of Chicago, but he's not Sergio Martinez, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Andre Ward or another big name. Golovkin has volunteered to fight Martinez or Miguel Cotto if either star can't make their expected June bout, while the likes of Martin Murray, Daniel Geale and Felix Sturm all seem uninterested in risking their careers against Golovkin.
Although Golovkin is now a star in his own right, he's still a high-risk proposition. Loeffler realizes the only way to get fighters to accept that challenge is with money from HBO.
''We have to overpay guys to get in the ring with him,'' Loeffler said. ''His opponents are the best-paid opponents in the middleweight division. It's becoming a financially rewarding fight for the opponents, and we're hoping that keeps moving up.''


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This is the first module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Activities are self-directed by students or student teams using online videos and data from the SDO satellite to explore, research and build knowledge about... (View More) features of the Sun. Students build vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections, and creating resources to use in their investigations. Each activity comes with both a teacher and student guide with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos and internet resources. Activity 1A: Structure of the Earth's Star takes students through the features and function of the Sun's structures using online videos, completing a "Sun Primer" data sheet using information from the videos, and creating a 3D origami model of the Sun. Students use a KWL chart to track what they have learned. Activity 1B: Observing the Sun has students capture real solar images from SDO data to find and record sunspots and track their movement across the surface of the Sun. Activity 1C has students create a pin-hole camera to use in calculating the actual diameter of the Sun, and then calculate scales to create a Earth-Sun scale model. Students reflect on their learning and results at the end of the module. An internet connection and access to computers are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This is a book about the importance of the Sun's energy as it relates to its impact on the Earth's environment. Learners will read or listen to a story about a young boy, Joshua, who finds out that the Sun provides the Earth with energy in the... (View More) form of light and heat, which is necessary for all forms of life, for maintaining Earth's environment, and for allowing humans to produce their own forms of energy. Additionally, an extension activity is included, Searching for the Sun, where learners can conduct a hands-on experiment observing how plants grow towards sunlight in order to make conclusions about why the Sun's energy is a necessary component for life. Reading and vocabulary activities are also included. (View Less)
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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Northern Crusades Against the Last Pagans of Europe
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By the beginning of the XIII-th century the pagan past of Europe belonged already to legends. Everywhere Christianity had triumphed and become not only the prevailing religion, but also a mainstay of feudalism . Everywhere, except along the eastern coast of the Baltic sea. There the Baltic peoples continued to adhere to the ancient way of life. Christian Europe had been busy with the Crusades to the Holly Land, but there the tide had turned. The remnants of the crusading armies were besieged in a few coastal enclaves and it was evident that their time was running out. Supply and reinforcement across a distant sea harassed by Muslim fleets had proven untenable. By this time Christian Europe was hardened by religion driven wars which had lasted a century. Society had changed in response to the demands of war, and the hierarchy of the Church had not escaped its corroding influence . Thus now there were even monastic orders whose purpose of existence was not to pray or perform good deeds, but to wield the sword in the name of Christ. No matter that the Prince of Peace had said that those who - "Raise the sword shall perish by it!". Mans capacity for self justification and sophistry is boundless. The sword was unsheathed, justifications were added as an afterthought, and the newly unemployed knights looked for other heathen lands to conquer. It was then that the stubborn Baltic tribes were remembered and the Northern Crusades began.
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I am looking for information on a city-state that was attacked by the Northern Crusades. It could have been the capital of Saaremaa but I'm not sure.
The city was described as the Venice of the North because of its size, wealth and canals. The city allowed all religions to practice and this along with the obvious wealth was more than their "Christian" neighbors could stand.
I have Googled myself crazy over this and have come up with very little. Any suggestions on where to search would be great. Thanks
This city or city-state is mentioned in "Chronica Slavorum" by Helmold of Bosau.


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Buzzword bingoBuzzword bingo is a game sometimes played in relaxed team meetings. The rules resemble those of bingo, but instead of a matrix of numbers, each player's card is a list of buzzwords. When a player hears one of his buzzwords spoken in the meeting, he crosses it off his list. The winner is the player whose list is completed first.
The first known buzzword bingo occurred when the then US Vice President Al Gore, (in)famous for his liberal use of buzzwords hyping technology, spoke at MIT's 1996 graduation. The graduation class had distributed bingo cards containing buzzwords to the audience.


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True Wild Life | Lobster | The lobster is a large crustacean and like the crab is similar to shrimp and prawns. The lobster is one of the largest types of crustacean with some lobster species known to get to weigh over 20 kg. Lobsters live on rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms close to the shoreline to beyond the edge of the continental shelf as the lobster prefers the shallower ocean water. The lobster is generally found to live by itself, where the lobster hides in crevices and in burrows under rocks.
Lobsters have been known to get to 100 years old, sometimes older and the lobster continues to grow in size throughout the lobsters life. It is this that allows some adult lobsters to grow to enormous sizes. Lobsters tend to move slowly by walking along the bottom of the sea floor. However, when the lobster is in danger and the lobster needs to get away, the lobster is able to swim backwards quickly by curling and uncurling its abdomen.
Lobsters come in a variety of colors including red, blue, green, purple, and yellow. Lobster has become one of the most luxurious types of seafood for humans throughout the world and the lobster population has therefore severely declined.


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May 14, 2006
CAMPDEN, N.J. - The Yale women's crew team qualified for four different grand finals during today's Eastern Sprints championship, but could not come away with a gold medal. The Bulldogs finished second in the junior varsity, and third in the varsity eight, the third varsity four "A", and the third varsity four "B".
Yale boats were edged out of the top spots on numerous occasions by Brown, who won the team title at the EAWRC Sprints for the third consecutive year. Similar to the rest of the 2006 season, the Bulldogs proved strong contenders on the east coast, but could not get past Ivy rivals Brown and Princeton.
In the varsity eight, the Yale boat, stroked by freshman standout Cara Dermody, won their heat in the morning, beating Dartmouth by three seconds, but fell to Brown and winners Princeton in the grand final. The boat also comprised Jane Moore (seven), Maria Stevens (six), Rachel Jeffers (five), Jamie Redman (four), Jennie Hansen (three), Joanna Hess (two), and Suzanne Salgado (bow), and was coxed by Emily Cleveland. Yale's varsity eight, which upset the Tigers in 2005 to take gold at the Eastern Sprints, finished three seconds behind second-placed Brown.
The junior varsity went one better, securing a silver medal by finishing 11 seconds behind winners Brown. The boat included Alexandra Moser (stroke), Emily Matykiewicz (seven), Katie Curran (six), Alexis Fleckenstein (five), Christine Geiser (four), Amanda Rich (three), Caroline Berson (two), Christine Glandorf (bow), and Erin Haber (cox). The Bulldogs won their heat comfortably, but could not keep up with the blistering pace set by the Brown boat in the grand final.
Yale's varsity fours were also dominant in the morning heats, coasting into the grand finals. The "A" four boat was made up of Julie Andress, Catherine Reibel, Milica Vujovic, and Margaret Sullivan, and was coxed by Berkley Adrio. The "A" four cut 13 seconds off their heat time in the grand final to finish third, under four seconds behind winners Brown.
The varsity four "B" boat, with Kristen Schwarz, Laura Sullivan, Laura Harringa, Moira Banks-Dobson, and coxswain Rachel Flynn, also picked up a bronze medal. The "B" four rowed a hard race and was narrowly beaten out of the silver medal position by just one tenth of a second. The two Brown boats finished first and second.
Finally, the novice eight, stroked by Shaughnessy Costigan, battled hard in the fastest heat, but finished a close third Northeastern and Dartmouth. The boat comprised Karin Weisenthal (seven), Lilah Hume (six), Katherine Kazimer (five), Christina Person (four), Alana Riksheim (three), Rebecca Nadal (two), Lee Glandorf (bow), and Kristin Collins (cox). The Bulldogs set the record straight though, cruising to a huge win in the petite final Sunday afternoon. The Bulldogs won nearly 21seconds in a time of 7:12.6, which would have been good enough for a bronze medal in the grand final.
The Bulldogs will bring four medals back from Cooper River, showing an improved depth after winning three last year. The Yale team, coached by Will Porter, will now await an invitation to the 2006 NCAA Championships, held in two weeks' time at Mercer Lake, N.J. For complete results from today's heats and finals, visit the EAWRC Sprints results page.
Varsity 8 Grand Final
2nd Varsity 8 Grand Final
Novice 8 Petite Final
Third Varsity Four "A" Grand Final
Third Varsity Four "B" Grand Final
1-Brown "B"-8:14.9620
2-Brown "C"-8:29.5730
3-Yale "B"-8:29.6830
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Canyon Mist Vineyards
We are a small family run vineyard in the heart of the Yakima Canyon above the Yakima river in Eastern Washington.
Think Tuscan countryside on a sunny day. The fresh breeze is
scented with smells from the grapes, apricot, pear, peach,and apple
trees. The vines fill nearly 20 of the 30 acre estate up above the Yakima river canyon. A gaggle of geese meanders down the dusty paths, deer roam the hill sides, wildflowers are aplenty, and horses are seen in the distance on neighboring farms. A impressive timber frame home sits as a centerpiece on the Estate.
Here is a link to a picture of the property with a misty canyon in background for you to use:
Here are two zips of other pictures that can also be used
The purpose of the site is first and foremost, to sell grapes! We want people to come and visit us and buy our u-pick grapes. We are targeting small winemakers, home wine makers, and hobbyist wine makers. Please keep this in mind when designing the site.
The vineyard is a beautiful place to pick grapes, relax the afternoon away while enjoying the beautiful scenery, picnicking, and drinking wine (with
the backdrop of the Yakima Canyon hills).
1. We need a home page designed with a logo in the header, nav bar (we are open to horizontal top or vertical left), small short footer, and color scheme. Just image files of the layout, no html code. The site will have the following in the nav: Home, About, Varietals, Pricing, Blog, and Directions. The home page should have a spot for a brief description of the property, and also a spot for recent news articles or blog postings. A spot dedicated for rotating pictures is also desired.
2. The site should mirror some of the colors of the natural landscape, like greens, bright orange to reddish colors and umbers. Earthy and rustic, calm, tranquil come to mind.
3. The brand name is Canyon Mist Vineyards, and we would like the logo to emphasize the letters CMV somehow. Eventually CMV by itself will serve as an abbreviated logo we can use on stationary and possibly wine bottles in the future.
4. No flash please.
5. We will handle the back end code, but need access to the source
graphics, preferably vector. The site may be WordPress based, but we are still looking into other CMS packages.
6. For overall style, rustic is the goal. Modern is ok too. Whimsical, goofy, funky, formal and stuffy are not desired.
We found these two sites that we like:
http://www.2lwinery.com/ (an example of OK modern style)
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The village of Belgodère is located in the heart of the Balagne, between l'Ile Rousse and Saint Florent. Belgodère is especially the beautiful beach of Lozari, but also the Tour Carree, the castle and the discovery of an unforgettable environment. Your accommodation is 15 minutes drive from the village of Belgodère and only 600 meters from the beach (there is a road to cross). All apartments have air conditioning. The hotel offers the possibility for many and various sporting and leisure activities such as: Hiking in the mountains, horseback riding, golf, squash, diving, canyoning at about 30 km, tree climbing, via ferrata or explore the region during a car ride. There is a parking space at your disposal.
Your property is an excellent starting point to discover the surroundings Places worth visiting: L'Ile Rousse, Calvi, the old villages of the Balagne, Cap Corse, Bastia, Saint Florent, Ajaccio, the calanques of Piana, Corte, the valley of Niolo, the gorges of la Restonica, Bonifacio, Porto Vecchio, the vineyards of Patrimonio. You can practice tree climbing and via ferrata in the valley of Asco.
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This 3-room apartment has an area of approximately 57 to 75 m2 and is suitable for 6 to 8 people. It features a living room with a sofa bed (2 x 80 cm) and 2 armchair beds (80 cm each, they can not be put together), a bedroom with a double bed (140 cm), a second bedroom with 2 single beds (2 x 90 cm), as well as an equipped kitchenette (electric hotplates, microwave / grill, dishwasher, coffee maker).
There is a bathroom with a generally separate toilet. The property has a terrace and a small garden.
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Lamarr Woodley misses his 2ns day of training camp on Thursday. Originally it was passed off as a veterans day off from camp.
Now though Tomlin was asked about it:
@ChrisG_FC: LaMarr Woodley didn't practice for 2nd consecutive day, had noticeable limp walking on campus. Tomlin refuses to say he's injured #Steelers
Smokescreen or more? Something to keep an eye on...
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About 120 shooters compete in the First Annual Roger Hill Memorial Shoot, held Sunday at the Ancient Oak Gun Club
The shooting sports have been very good to Kyle Kauffmann.
His prowess with shotgun has earned him a bevy of corporate sponsors - shotgun and ammunition sponsors, a barrel sponsor and one that provides cleaning supplies - and a full scholarship to Bethel University.
Not bad for a lanky 17-year-old from Ft. Pierce.
"I would love to see more kids get into shooting," he said. "It's a fun sport."
It is rare to see Kauffmann miss a clay pigeon. His focus is laser-like. His ability to instantly compute distance, height and speed of the illusive 5-inch target, and then shatter it with an ounce of shot, is nearly unsurpassed.
Kauffmann was one of about 120 shooters who competed in three separate events at the First Annual Roger Hill Memorial Shoot, held Sunday at the Ancient Oak Gun Club. It was the inaugural shoot for the sporting clay club, which was developed by Schroeder-Manatee Ranch.
The event was named in honor of "Mr. Hill" - a longtime SMR employee and a legend at the ranch - who died before the gun club could be completed.
"This is his place," said SMR President and CEO Rex Jensen. "I miss him."
Jensen first met Hill after he arrived in the area. Hill took him and his two children on a tour of the ranch.
Hill caught a wild baby pig and presented it to Jensen's young kids.
"It was more of a flying tackle," Jensen said. "Then he took this squealing, tick-ridden thing and gave it to my kids. They had a ball with it and then let it go. He helped us fit in. He was very kind to us."
The idea for a gun club first came up after a board meeting three years ago, Jensen said. Hill played a role in the development of the course.
"We hit upon the idea of using sports for economic development," Jensen said. "This is one permutation of that idea."
Ancient Oak's sporting clay course drew very positive reviews from the novice shooters, masters level competitors and a state champion.
"Syracuse Steve" Kawryga, the current Florida State Champion at Olympic trap shooting, was impressed by the difficulty and the overall design.
Kawryga uses a $10,000 Perazzi "Mirage" shotgun with a modified choke, which creates a somewhat tighter shot pattern than those used by other competitors, to compensate for a lighter load.
While he rarely misses at trap, Kawryga considers hitting 80 of 100 sporting clays a good run.
"Sporting clays are like golf with a shotgun, in the woods," he explained. "The level of difficulty is much greater. Targets vary in speed, height and distance."
When tomato broker Ed Angrisani started shooting sporting clays 20 years ago, one of the first matches was held in an old phosphate mine.
"Now it's like going to a country club," he said, while cradling his one-of-a-kind custom Krieghoff. "It's the fastest growing shooting sport. There are no gimmes - you have to earn every shot. It requires practice, patience, money and experience, and that doesn't happen overnight."
Help is available for novice shooters.
Eric Stafford, a Sarasota Police detective sergeant, offers individual sporting clay instruction for $75 per hour. He liked the location of the course - close to Interstate 75 - and the design.
"It's fair and it's shootable," Stafford said.
Sarasota attorney George Mazzarantani said Ancient Oak Gun Club will complement other sporting clay courses in the area, and provide a significant economic boost.
"People drove from all across the state to shoot this course today," he said. "When they host a state shoot, that could bring 500 shooters, and their families."
Said Mazzarantani: "It's a great, wide-open course, with more challenging targets. Most shooters will agree with me, the challenge is what brings you back."


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The search for the oldest shipwreck in the Great Lakes has resumed. The team that believes it has found the wreck is moving ahead after closing a legal dispute with the State of Michigan. They're trying to prove that what they've found in Lake Michigan could be a French ship that disappeared in 1679. It's been thirty years since Great Lakes Exploration began searching for the Griffon. In fact, the original team has been at it so long, they're running out of time to see it through themselves. Jim Cucharski is one of the original divers on the team. But he's not in the water today because he recently had a heart attack. In fact, just one of the original divers, Cucharski's brother Tom, is in good shape for diving this week. "You know, time takes its toll. We're all getting older. I was like thirty years old when I started this and I'm 63 now, so, yeah, it doesn't get any better, you know?"
Hum, in 1679 aye! Wouldn't that mean that the French ship would have to have been built on US ground West of Niagara Falls? I can't think of another passage through the St. Lawrence waterway to get there.


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This is a lesson about planet formation. Learners will observe and describe differentiated samples in the Meteorite Sample Disk (or photographs), conduct experiments to model the separation of light and heavy materials within a planetary body,... (View More) relate meteorites to the core, mantle and crust of asteroids, and model the break-up of differentiated planetary bodies to expose the interior layers. Materials lists, and advanced preparation and procedural tips are included. This is lesson 11 of 19 in Exploring Meteorite Mysteries. (View Less)
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TRON: Legacy The Official Movie Magazine was published by Titan Magazines. It was available for sale at news stands on December 21, 2010. The magazine featured interviews with the cast of TRON: Legacy. It also included four pull-out posters and profiles of the vehicles and weapons from the new film. It also included an exclusive comic adventure entitled "Solar Sailer Prisoners."


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November 30, 2010
The Wabash basketball team leapt into the national poll after Saturday's 60-45 win over Randolph-Macon. The Little Giants, undefeated at 6-0 and ranked 13th in the week one D3hoops.com poll, will face an unbeaten DePauw University team Wednesday night in Greencastle.
Wabash is 6-0 to start the season for the first time since the 1922-23 accomplished the same feat. The Little Giants have played five of those games at home, with their only road trip ending in a 68-55 Wabash victory. Last weekend the Little Giants opened the Pete Thorn Tournament with a 71-54 win over Otterbein University before upsetting the number-two ranked Randolph-Macon team in the championship game.
Wes Smith (left) has dominated the scoring for the Wabash team through the first six games. Smith has earned the North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week Award each of the first two weeks of the season and is averaging 25.8 points and 5.8 rebounds a game. He has connected on 62-of-104 shots for a .596 shooting percentage while averaging 31.7 minutes of court time a game. Smith scored a season-high 34 points against Otterbein and followed with 27 versus the Yellow Jackets on Saturday. He has led Wabash in scoring in each of the first six games.
"Wes' play has been outstanding," Head Coach Mac Petty said. "I've always believed a player gets those opportunities to score because of the players around him. I think the players we have this season really compliment the skills and abilities Wes has. The other players know what Wes can do, and he knows if the defense has taken something away from him that someone else will step up to make a play."
Smith has hardly been a one-man show. Wabash has one of its deepest teams in recent history, with ten players seeing significant court time to this point in the season. Junior Aaron Zinnerman is averaging 7.7 points a game, including two 13-point efforts this year against Earlham and Randolph-Macon. Junior transfer AJ Sutherlin is scoring 6.5 points a game coming off the bench, providing additional outside offensive firepower to compliment Smith and Zinnerman's attack.
Freshman Pete Nicksic has made the transition from high school play at Andrean to the college game very quickly. The rookie forward is averaging 6.3 points and 18 minutes a game.
Starting guard Brian Shelbourne (right) has run the offense throughout most of his career at Wabash, and continues to do so this season. The junior is averaging four assists a contest, but has added 5.7 points a game, as well. Senior Ben Burkett is scoring at a 5.5 points-per-game clip and averages 5.2 rebounds a contest. Junior starter Nick Curosh is second on the team in rebounding at 5.7 boards a game and is scoring 3.3 points a contest.
Derek Bailey, Dominique Thomas, and Wes Zimmerman have provided valuable minutes coming off the bench. Bailey is averaging five points a game, while Thomas has hit 7-of-14 shots from the field with 5-of-7 coming from beyond the three-point arc. Zimmerman has scored a total 12 points and dished out four assists while averaging eight minutes a contest.
The Little Giants will face undefeated DePauw, 4-0 on the season after winning the Mike Rokicki Community Versus Cancer Challenge last weekend. The Tigers defeated Rockford College 97-79 in the first game Saturday, then handed Ohio Wesleyan University a 62-49 defeat in the title game.
Wabash and DePauw have two early season common opponents. Both schools played in the Little Giant Tipoff Tournament November 19-20. The Tigers beat Franklin 64-58, followed by a 67-51 victory over Earlham. Wabash opened with a 73-58 win against Earlham before scoring a decisive 96-55 win against Franklin.
Sharpshooting junior guard Sean Haseley leads DePauw in scoring, averaging 17.8 points a game. Haseley has hit 20-of-37 shot attempts and is 14-of-30 from three-point range. Senior center Joe Bergfeld is scoring 17 points and averaging seven rebounds through the first four games of the season. Ryan Sever, a senior swingman, is also averaging double figures in scoring at 11.3 points per game. Senior Drew Wills is chipping in 9.3 points a contest.
"Being nationally ranked is an outstanding compliment given to this team," Petty said. "It shows that people outside the program understand how well they are playing and recognizes what we've accomplished as a team to this point in the season.
"I like having a bulls-eye on my back. I've always loved the saying 'To whom much is given much is expected.' We've been given this national ranking. Now we are expected to live up to that ranking. That starts tonight against DePauw."
Tipoff at the Neal Fieldhouse is set for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday evening. The Little Giants will begin NCAC action this weekend with a 1 p.m. game Saturday at Hiram College in Ohio.


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April 13, 2011
John Holm muscled a home run over the left field fence as part of a three RBI performance in Wednesday night's 12-5 win by Wabash over DePauw. The Little Giants swept the two-game series against the Tiger baseball team after posting a 7-5 victory in Greencastle earlier this year.
Holm's home run was his seventh of the season and 24th of his career, placing him one home run shy of tying Matt Dodaro's all-time record of 25 long balls. Holm (left) passed Dodaro as the all-time leader in RBI, picking up his 117th career RBI. The junior first baseman nearly hit for the cycle against DePauw, adding a single and double to his totals for the day.
The victory completed the first series sweep for the Little Giants since winning two games from DePauw in 1998 by scores of 6-2 and 6-5.
Wabash jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning off a two-run double by Montana Timmons to score Chris Deig and Holm. After DePauw rallied for a run in the third, the Little Giants answered with four runs in the bottom half of the inning. John Pennington led off with a single, then advanced to second on a wild pitch before scoring on Holm's double. After a Timmons single, Tanner Coggins brought two runs home with a double off the top of the left field fence. Coggins scored two batters later when Joe Johnson ripped a triple to right center.
The Little Giants' 6-1 lead was short lived as DePauw (12-18) put four runs on the scoreboard at Wabash Ballpark in the top half of the fourth. Holm's solo homer increased the margin to two runs before he added an RBI single in the sixth. PJ Tyson scored Holm from second on an RBI single to put Wabash in front 9-5. Deig added an RBI double in the seventh, while Trey Fankhauser's two-run single in the eighth completed the scoring.
Holm and Deig each finished with three hits, while Coggins added two to help Wabash outhit DePauw 18 to 8. Timmons, Coggins, and Fankhauser each finished with two RBI.
Brian Van Duyn was credited with the win in a game that Wabash planned to use all four regular starters throughout the nine-inning contest. The senior worked three innings, allowing four runs on three hits with a walk and a strikeout. Andrew Swart game up one run in four innings with five hits and two strikeouts. Jeff Soller pitch one inning of scoreless baseball, allowing only one base runner on a walk. Luke Zinsmaster finished the ninth inning by striking out all three DePauw batters.
Wabash posted wins in football, basketball, and both baseball games this academic calendar year, marking the first time since the 1934-35 season that Little Giant teams could make that claim. Wabash won the Monon Bell for the first time in 1934 with a 7-6 win over DePauw, then followed with 35-30 and 36-25 victories in basketball to claim the title of Indiana State Champions. The Wabash baseball team won all three meetings with DePauw in 1935 by scores of 9-2, 5-3, and 5-4.
This year Wabash posted a 47-0 victory over DePauw in the annual Monon Bell Classic football game and won 57-40 in basketball at Greencastle.
The Little Giants (14-18) complete the home portion of their season this weekend with three games, beginning with a single nine-inning game on Saturday at 1 p.m. against the University of Chicago. An alumni outing and the official dedication of Wabash Ballpark will take place prior to the game against the Maroons. The Little Giants will play Wittenberg University in two seven-inning games on Sunday afternoon beginning at 1 p.m.
Photos - (top left) John Holm powers his seventh home run of the season over the left field fence. Holm tied Matt Dodaro for the all-time home run lead in school history with his 25th long ball and became the school's all-time RBI leader with 117.
(Bottom right) Senior Joe Johnson slides into third with an RBI triple to help Wabash sweep DePauw in baseball. Photos by Tom Runge.


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Fresh Pumpkin Pie
Pie shell
2 cups freshly prepared pumpkin (see below)
1½ cups evaporated milk
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ cup white sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon ginger
¼ teaspoon nutmeg or allspice
Pinch cloves
2 eggs, beaten slightly
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Using small to medium pumpkins, clean and slice meat from the rind. Cut pumpkin into squares and bake in a covered 4.5 liter (or larger) dish. Bake for 30 minutes or until pumpkin is very tender. Remove and put immediately into a blender and puree.
2. Raise the oven temperature to 425 degrees. Mix 2 cups fresh pumpkin puree with remaining ingredients. Pour into pie shell. Bake 15 minutes at 425 degrees, then reduce heat to 350 degrees. Bake 45 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean.
— Adapted from Cooks.com by Helen and Paul Gendler, San Jose
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Last spring, when we were notified — after waiting two years — that a plot was available in an organic San Jose Community Garden near our house, I immediately ordered seeds for the gigantic pumpkin I hoped to raise. The garden had rich, well-worked fertile soil and lots of full sun. Lo and behold, I got not one, but four humongous beauties. Then reality set in. What would I do with all that raw pumpkin? I had not grown them to be carved into Jack o'lanterns and then left to molder on the doorstep.
Previously, I always had made my pumpkin pie from a can, using the recipe on the label. I had never made one from scratch. My husband chose a recipe from the Web, and we got out the old Waring. I wondered if the pumpkin would be cooked first or just cut up and thrown into the blender. We had many discussions about this. The recipe he found calls for baking and then pureeing.
The first step was fun. Saw open the pumpkin and remove the seeds. In some places the flesh was more than four inches thick! The seeds were at least an inch long. We put these out to dry; they will be saved for next year's planting and given to friends who garden.
I bought graham cracker pie shells at the supermarket, and the rest was just as simple. Add spices, evaporated milk, eggs and voila! The two pies we made were taken to our San Jose Branch of the American Association of University Women's gourmet couples dinner, where they were a huge (no pun intended) success. Now this recipe will become a staple at our Thanksgiving gatherings.


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