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GIRLS: Prairie View 60, Riverdale 23
Playing in the final home game of their careers, Kristen Oliphant and Tori Simmons combined for 30 points in Prairie View's 60-23 Senior Night victory over Riverdale on Tuesday night.
Simmons scored 10 points and Oliphant seven in the first quarter as the Lady Spartans (24-7, 8-0) opened up a 23-5 first quarter lead. Dani Anderson accounted for seven points and Kaylah Hobbs five in the second quarter as Prairie View widened the spread to 44-10 at intermission.
Oliphant's totals included 16 points, five assists and four steals, while Simmons put up 14 points and seven rebounds. Dani Anderson collected nine points and six boards, Kaylah Hobbs had nine points, followed by Jay Hicks with four, Amery Clark with three, Bekah Lenard and Sarah Cammarasana with two and Erika Guerrero with one.
Holly Rayley was top scorer for the Lady Rebels with eight points. Also contributing to the Riverdale scoring were Kelsey Murray with four, Molly Wilson and Libby Warren with three, Emily King and Kambrie Bethard with two and Kylee Love with one.
Prairie View travels to River Oaks on Friday night for the regular season finale. Game time is 6 p.m. for the girls, with the boys taking the court at approximately 7:15.


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I have to admit that some of the Karate instructors I have met over the years were heavy drinkers. Drinking seems to have been an accepted thing in Japan, particularly for businessmen.
However, abusing alcohol can lead to illness and even death. As Karate students, we should be careful to avoid behaviors and things that are bad for our health or can lead to unsafe situations. Here are some things that might be avoided by not drinking alcohol:
- You will not get drunk. You will not wake up the next morning having forgotten what you said and did the night before. Even if you forget, others will remember. Some people might forgive your drunken behavior. Others will remember it and hold it against you.
- You will not get ticketed for drunk driving and lose your license. You will not drive drunk and endanger others and yourself. Even if you only injure yourself, your injuries could make you lose your job or have to drop out of school.
- You might avoid dangerous locations. Places where people drink can easily become violent. One of my son's has two friends. Not long ago, they were attacked by twelve mem outside a nightclub. One of the old time Karate students here in Hawaii told me that his Sensei always warned him against drinking for this reason.
- You will not get into a situation where drunkenness diminishes your discretion. It is not possible to estimate how many young women become pregnant due to drunken behavior. Teen pregnancy does not only affect the young woman. It also affects the father, the couple's families, and the child. Unprotected sex as a result of drunkenness can also lead to sexually transmitted diseases, some of which could even be fatal.
- Here is a story. A high school girl got drunk and as a result got pregnant. She was extremely smart. However, due to the pregnancy she dropped out of high school. Her boyfriend dropped out of school too and took a low paying job. Neither got to go to college and had a hard time making ends meet. They could not provide for their child in the way they would have liked to -- in the way they might have if they had been able to stay in school and get better jobs. Don't let this be your story.
- You will save a lot of money. Alcohol is expensive. It is better to save money for your education.
- You will not progress from one form of alcohol to another, and to drugs. Beer can lead to hard liquor. Alcohol can lead to marijuana and hard drugs. Drug use is illegal and can lead to a criminal convictions. The best way to avoid alcohol and drug abuse is not to start.
- You will not neglect or abuse your family.
- You will not have to make excuses and miss work.
- You will not have to spend time with a bunch of friends who drink all the time. If you drink because your friends do, perhaps you should think about the company you keep. You should not have to become a drunk just to be with other drunks.
- A limited amount of alcohol consumption, by adults, at the right time, under controlled situations, may be acceptable. But how much, when, under what situations? Karate students are not "normal" people. Experts in self defense and "fighting" have unique, dangerous skills and must avoid losing control. It is not possible to maintain such control when drunk.
- You will not set a bad example for your own children. We had a guest speaker come to our dojo in November 2007. He was from the Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii. One of the things he said stuck in my mind. He said, "what is your child supposed to think when the beer is in the refrigerator next to the beer?" That's right. What is your child supposed to think? If you were that child, what would you think?
- You will not spend time drinking and can use that time for healthy and productive activities.
Please visit our Karate-No! Program (Karate students say No! to drug and alcohol abuse) website.
Charles C. Goodin

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MN Capitol Security Panel Revisits Gun Issue
ST. PAUL (AP) - An advisory committee on Minnesota Capitol security is preparing recommendations that could include a new notification process for handgun permit holders who want to bring firearms into the building.
Lieutenant Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon, the panel's chairwoman, said Tuesday that she will propose a standardized form that gun owners would have to fill out prior to carrying a gun in the Capitol. It would be more precise than a current system of notification.
The Department of Public Safety has received verbal or written notice from more than 800 people about carrying a gun. But the agency doesn't always verify if a person has a valid gun permit.
The recommendations, which will be refined at a November 25 hearing, could seek to place an expiration date on the notifications.


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It's a lovely place name starting with the fashionable V and carrying a rich history, so why has Virginia faded from view while other classic names have held their own? Last year, for example, there were close to 13,000 new little Elizabeths and only 564 Virginias. So what's the problem with Virginia? Is it the fear of playground taunts via virgin and also a certain female body part? The dated sounding nickname Ginny? The harsh reverberations of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Whatever the issues, I think they're outweighed by other, more positive, factors. First, there's the history. Virginia is a venerable name that dates back to ancient times, coming from Verginus, the name of a Roman clan, its derivation related to the Latin root for springlike, flourising. which is from the Latin word virgo, meaning maiden or virgin.
The first known bearer of the name was the beautiful daughter of a Roman centurion whose death led to a revolt that resulted in the protection of the rights of the common people–a righteous legacy. In this country, the first English child born in America parents was christened Virginia Dare, Sir Walter Raleigh had called his newly founded colony Virginia, in honor of Elizabeth the Virgin Queen, and little Miss Dare was given the name for the same reason–an early example of a name originating in America and spreading to other parts of the world.
Though the whole Roanoke colony, including Virginia, disappeared, her name has lived on in books, songs and films, as well as a number of commercial products. The name got a recommendation from none other than Benjamin Franklin who, when asked by the Marquis de Lafayette if he could presume to give his daughter the name of one of the United States, replied, "Miss Virginia, Miss Carolina and Miss Georgia will sound prettily enough for girls."
Later, Virginia became part of a catch phrase when a little girl name Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the New York Sun questioning the existence of Santa, which inspired an editorial containing the deathless words, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." Strangely enough, O'Hanlon's birthname was Laura, but she chose to go by her middle name of Virginia.
Virginia enjoyed a sudden burst of popularity around 1870, which lasted through the 1950s; it was in the Top 10 for 25 years, from 1912 to 1937, hitting a high of #6 in 1921, when there were 19,000 baby VIrginias in their cradles. Virginia has such distinguished namesakes as British writer Virginia Woolf, has been the subjects of songs by groups ranging frm The Rolling Stones to The Foo Fighters, and has appeared as a character in any number of movies and TV shows.
And its nicknames aren't limited to Ginny. Also possible are Genia, Gigi, Gina, Ginger, Vee, Virge, and Virgie. International variations include the Spanish Ginia and Ginata, the French Virginie, and the Hawaiian Wilikinia.


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I turned 21 last week, so some photos are in order! First off, I love our apartment's kitchen; checkered floors and wainscoting are the perfect backdrop for this. And of course the ice cream parlor chairs, which I don't think I've ever posted about - they're from that phase of crazy furniture refinishing circa Summer '08, that also included the dresser and the farmhouse kitchen table. They were originally chipped, lime green, Craigslist finds, but my roommate and I each refinished one in pale yellow - it was quite laborious, scraping paint off all that twisty metal, but definitely worth it. Anyway on to more birthday-ish things...The table setting was really just a gathering of odds and ends, loosely themed: decks of cards (for playing 21!), vintage buttons, dice and dominoes (as stand-ins for poker chips), an apothecary jar filled with other notions from thread to pearls, champagne flutes, striped cocktail napkins, mini strawberry shortcakes (made from upside down cupcakes + berries and cream), sparkling pink lemonade (Trader Joe's), cupcakes with pennant flag toppers (diy), bakery boxes for cupcakes to-go (Martha Stewart Crafts), ribbon "streamers" (just spools of quarter inch ribbon from Michaels), and finally my favorite part - handmade mini triangle bunting (I cut a bunch of triangles from double sided cardstock and sewed them together on the machine, it was a surprisingly quick and easy project).Have a lovely week!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Dice and Dessert
Labels: Entertaining, Holidays
66 comments:
- J for Jendetta said...
wow, simply beautiful! happy birthday!! I can't believe how much you do at your age, wonderful!
- February 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM
- Stacy's Designs 88 said...
Happy 21st B-Day! Love it all...as always. Such a delight for the eyes. Thanks for sharing. :)
- February 22, 2009 at 9:24 PM
- Pfeiffer Photos said...
Happy Belated Birthday--have a great year!
- February 22, 2009 at 9:44 PM
- Pen and Ink Calligraphy said...
Such a pretty party! I especially love the bunting and those mini strawberry shortcakes! Happy Birthday!
- February 22, 2009 at 10:07 PM
- cookiefleur said...
happy birthday! your do looked fab. =)
- February 22, 2009 at 10:19 PM
- Laura said...
Happy Birthday Livy, your party looks delicious!
- February 22, 2009 at 11:03 PM
- Christy said...
Hope you had the loveliest birthday! These photos are sumptuous!
- February 23, 2009 at 12:12 AM
- Sally said...
Happy Birthday!
I am from germany and I follow your blog. Very nice pictures!!!
Greetings from Sally
- February 23, 2009 at 3:06 AM
- Emily@oncewed said...
Happy Birthday, Livy!!
- February 23, 2009 at 4:49 AM
- Casey said...
What a gorgeous setting! :) Happy Birthday too!
- February 23, 2009 at 5:52 AM
- Storybook Woods said...
Happy birtday, what a beautiful one you had. Clarice
- February 23, 2009 at 6:26 AM
- LBB said...
Happy Birthday, Livy! Beautiful-looking party!
- February 23, 2009 at 7:37 AM
- Ashley L. said...
This is just so cute! I love all of the soft colors :)
- February 23, 2009 at 8:40 AM
- karen m. said...
Happy, happy birthday! Such loveliness and creativity! Warmest wishes for a marvelous 21st year and thank you for sharing the beauty.
- February 23, 2009 at 8:54 AM
- Macy Dawn said...
I want to step right in to your birthday party from these photos! I have been planning a similar birthday party for myself in my head. There is an adorable little pastry shop here in New Orleans that I spotted weeks ago that has a parlor theme that reminds me of the party you had and the party I am planning. I will have to send you photos- you'll love!
- February 23, 2009 at 9:19 AM
- email@example.com said...
Happy belated birthday! Here's to many, many more!
- February 23, 2009 at 11:31 AM
- Rachel said...
Why is your kitchen so beautiful? I'm jealous.
Oh, and happy, happy late birthday!
- February 23, 2009 at 1:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
What a lovely kitchen! The party photos look like a magazine spread. Looks like you had a marvelous time! Happy birthday!
- February 23, 2009 at 4:23 PM
- boldaslove said...
Happy Birthday! These are such wonderful photos!
- February 23, 2009 at 4:34 PM
- Hazel Designs said...
Lovely photos! Happy 21st birthday.
- February 23, 2009 at 7:30 PM
- chelsea said...
This is SO darling!!
- February 24, 2009 at 1:59 AM
- Helen said...
I almost didn't want to comment on here because it had 21 comments and now I'm spoiling it! But this looks so lovely. I love everything about it, the bunting, the strawberries, the pink lemonade!
And happy belated birthday too!
- February 24, 2009 at 2:08 AM
- Anonymous said...
Oh my gosh, your blog...this picture...I don't even know where to start! I am so in LOVE!
- February 24, 2009 at 6:28 AM
- made sweet said...
I love love love it! what great pictures.
- February 24, 2009 at 8:18 AM
- Anonymous said...
Found your site through Oh Happy Day! Your photos are gorgeous. To quote Liz Lemon: "I want to go there". Happy (belated) Birthday!
- February 24, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- Capable Girl said...
Lovely with a capital L! Happy birthday!
- February 24, 2009 at 1:14 PM
- Signorina Sparafucile said...
This is sheer loveliness!
- February 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- Grace@PoeticHome said...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Livy!! Your birthday celebration was lovely and perfect for turning 21 (and playing the witty game). You have such a beautiful eye for making every day special, whimsical, and nostalgic.
- February 24, 2009 at 8:51 PM
- Concrete Honey said...
Happy Birthday!!
What a divine blog you have - amazing pics and coloues, I found you via Oh Happy Day! - http://jordanferney.blogspot.com/! and will be adding you to my blog list quick smart! Hope you had a beautiful dday
- February 25, 2009 at 3:09 AM
- EverythingElseMe said...
You have such a wonderful blog I'm amazed how you even did it! Could I ask you how you took those pictures and posted them? I'm really intrigued and honestly I really want to learn!! Is it a camera or a program that assisted you in your creations?
I do understand if its too personal to share. But i still have to say... AMAZING!! =)
- February 25, 2009 at 6:36 AM
- carboniferous said...
I second EverythingElseMe's comment. Do you just use photoshop for the pictures? They're amazing!!!
- February 25, 2009 at 6:49 AM
- Emily said...
I'm going to third that request for a photo-how to. I love the scalloped edges...I find those on my ancestors photos (pre 1950s) but not so much anymore. If you're using a physical printer I'd love to know where you find the paper.
and I'm going to say that your party was lovely. Happy Birthday!
- February 25, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- Livy said...
thanks for all the lovely comments everyone!In response to your questions... the photos are all digital. I use a pretty modest little point and shoot digital camera - it's a Nikon Coolpix LX - and only photograph in natural light or with the help of daylight bulbs (with some thin white fabric to diffuse the light) in places that are too dark (like my kitchen). After I upload the pictures I do some basic editing to correct color and brightness. The borders, text, and page layout arrangements all happen in Photoshop elements. Sometimes I add scans from my own collection, found-free-to-use layers, or scans of my artwork. To give photos the "old" look, like in the "Pete Post," I experiment a lot with using different layers and altering colors.
- February 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM
- Livy said...
* Opps, that's a Nikon Coolpix L1
- February 25, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- Jen said...
Wow! Everything looks deliciously festive. A-mazing. I am so inspired to do something special for my May birthday. Love the yellow chairs — worth the hard work.
- February 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- Lynne said...
Happy birthday! You are just so talented. It just looks like the prettiest little party. You have a great future ahead! I'd love to figure out how to do scalloped edges in Photoshop - I really have no clue. This makes me ashamed to post any of my photos on my blog!
- February 25, 2009 at 12:22 PM
- wide open spaces said...
couldn't be cuter. really, really adorable.
- February 25, 2009 at 12:25 PM
- Kami said...
Adorable! HBD too! :)
- February 25, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- belinda said...
So stunning! And so is your blog, I had to come back after a long perusal and re-read your age - so many skills and achievements at 21! I'm in awe. And a tiny bit jealous!!
- February 26, 2009 at 1:53 AM
- Concrete Honey said...
Me again - just wanted to let you know I tagged you on my blog - http://concretehoney.blogspot.com/2009/02/tag.html
- February 26, 2009 at 6:41 AM
- tj said...
I can hardly believe you're the same age as me. Wow, I really admire you. Happy Birthday hun!
- February 26, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- Helen said...
Holy heck-a-molie! This is *too* cute. I just found your blog and am thrilled to bits.
Happy Birthday!
- February 27, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- tristan said...
Happy 21! What a lovely little set-up so bright and happy. Did you use flash? Or do you have that gorgeous light in your kitchen?
- February 27, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- lialeebarcelona said...
I like so much! feliz cumpleaños! from barcelona,spain
- March 2, 2009 at 12:47 PM
- Anonymous said...
Wow wow wow! What an incredible birthday spread. I am so impressed not only by the set up but also by your amazing photos. What a talent you are!
And those floors make me miss my old apartment--the new one has carpets, which makes me long for my checkered floor even more!
- March 3, 2009 at 2:25 PM
- Rachel said...
I wish my 21st had been so lovely! Well done you!
- March 5, 2009 at 11:05 AM
- Rachel said...
Wow... I am in awe!
- March 5, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- robyn@marryme! said...
amazing! i wish i had a party like this when i turned 21.
- March 5, 2009 at 12:26 PM
- Kara Phillips said...
BEAUTIFUL!!! I would love to have a party like this! So happy and lighthearted and I am SO envious of those chairs! Sounds like you worked hard to get them to be as lovely as they are, so you deserve some serious kudos!
- March 5, 2009 at 12:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
That is simply the cutest thing, could you come set up something for my bday, the big 26 in June :>)
- March 5, 2009 at 12:52 PM
- Melissa de la Fuente said...
Absolutely gorgeous Livy! Only 21 and so incredibly talented! Happy Birthday my dear!
- March 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM
- Elsa said...
Looove that !!!
And I really really LOVE your blog ! Such beautiful pastel colors, decoration, cakes, design... <3
I'll watch you now ;)
- March 6, 2009 at 4:17 AM
- natasha said...
so sweetttt
- March 6, 2009 at 6:30 AM
- courtney brooke photography said...
I am going to be turning 21 in a little over a month. I might just have to steal some of your lovely ideas!!
- March 8, 2009 at 7:57 PM
- London Belle said...
yummy!! these are amazing pics!!
- March 12, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- Vina Puspita said...
cute design & great balance! :D
- March 13, 2009 at 8:00 AM
- Molly said...
cool pics & blog! happy birthday too and congrats on blog of note!
check out my blog anytime: www.xoxoimawriter.blogspot.com
molly!!! :) have a goooood day!
- March 13, 2009 at 6:16 PM
- Elion T. said...
You have a beautiful blog! It lifts my heart to look at it! :) Happy really late bday!
- March 15, 2009 at 8:16 PM
- Jessica Claire said...
totally precious! gorgeous colours and tons of whimsical touches
love the kitchen floors too!
- March 15, 2009 at 9:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
You should work for Martha Stewart. You are far more creative than her current creative director.
- March 17, 2009 at 9:26 AM
- Sara Ellen said...
This is adorable!! Great job. : )
- March 17, 2009 at 5:20 PM
- 18november said...
you're awesome, really, what can't you do? :D
- March 21, 2009 at 7:07 PM
- Cherry Runway said...
So So pretty!! And so so late to comment. :)
- March 24, 2009 at 9:59 PM
- Anonymous said...
i love this!
- April 2, 2009 at 3:27 AM
- Jasmin Wilson@Cute Love Quotes said...
I appreciate that you shared these tips. It just looks like the prettiest little party. You have a great future ahead! I'd love to figure out how to do Jasmin Wilson@Cute Love Quotes scalloped edges in Photoshop - I really have no clue.
- April 27, 2009 at 3:39 AM
- kanishk said...
Happy 21st B-Day! Love it all...as always. Such a delight for the eyes. Thanks for sharing
Work from home India
- December 17, 2009 at 6:14 AM


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Bill Bryson is one of my favorite authors. In fact, you could even say we are friends. It wouldn't be true, of course, but I feel that if we ran into each other in an airport, we would stop in the middle of the walkway (annoying everyone) and finish each other's sentences as we catch up on the uninteresting details of my life and the insanely funny and riveting details of his life. How fun would that be?
The point is that Bryson writes in such an endearing and transparent fashion that it is easy to assume that you really know him.
My all-time favorite book is "A Walk in the Woods" (HarperCollins, 1998), but he has also penned some insightful and entertaining travelogue-type books like "Notes from a Small Island" (William Morrow, 1996), in which he recounts his impressions while moving his family to England (with his English wife) to give them a kinder, gentler start in life. Then, point to counterpoint, they eventually move back to the States and he writes "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" (Broadway, 2000). And then – he moves back to England again. (I've kind of lost track of where he is now. He really should write me more often.)
Bryson's charming wit is further demonstrated in other travel books about Australia and Europe – but his interests and curiosity don't stop with globetrotting. He writes about science and history in "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (Broadway, 2003); he writes about the English language in "The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way" (William Morrow, 1991); and more recently he presents "At Home: A Short History of Private Life" (Doubleday, 2010) (see review below).
Bryson has accumulated numerous awards and accolades. Durham University in England, where he served as chancellor, renamed its library after him. His probing curiosity and charming pen seem to know no bounds.
I'm just saying … it's only a matter of time before he tackles the New Age genre, and when he regresses to a past life, there I'll be.
Sharon Lennox-Infante, a Los Altos resident, is contributing editor for Book Buzz.


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Back in October 2007, I traveled to Lithuania to spend a week with my relatives. My cousins Liliana, Aidas, and Vitas showed me a side of Lithuania I never would have seen on my own.
One day, while walking through the capital city of Vilnius, Liliana brought me to Vilnius University, the oldest university in the Baltic States and Liliana's alma mater. Within the walls of the university stood St. John's Church (Šv. Jonų Bažnyčia).
St. John's Church in Vilnius
SOURCE: St. John's Church in Vilnius (Vilnius, Lithuania); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 21 October 2007.
Saint John's Church in Vilnius is the place where Saint Rafał Kalinowski was baptized. Born on 01 September 1835, he was baptized on 09 September 1835 with the name Józef, the second child of the Polish nobles Andrzej (Jędrzej) Kalinowski and Józefa Połońska (m. 1832). Józef's brother Wiktor (b. 1833) had been born in Vilnius two years earlier.
Birth and Baptismal Record of Józef Kalinowski – 1835
SOURCE: Šv. Jonų Bažnyčia (Vilnius, Wilno Gubernia, Russian Empire), "Vilniaus Šv. Jonų RKB gimimo metrikų knyga [Church Registry Books of St. John's Church, Vilnius]," page 104, entry 226, Józef Kalinowski, 09 September 1835; digital images, ePaveldas (http://www.epaveldas.lt/vbspi/biRecord.do?biExemplarId=30557&psl=209 : accessed 19 November 2011).
Young Józef's mother died within a few days of his birth. Józef's father married Wiktoria Połońska (m. 1838), the sister of his deceased wife Józefa. Wiktoria gave birth to three children: Emilia (b. 1840), Karol (b. 1841), and Gabriel (b. 1845). When Józef was nine years old, his stepmother Wiktoria died. Józef's father married again, this time to Zofia Puttkamer (m. 1848). (Zofia was the daughter of Maria Wereszczak, the first great love of famed Polish/Lithuanian poet Adam Mickiewicz). Andrzej and Zofia had four children: Maria (b. 1848), Aleksander (b. 1851), Monika (b. 1851), and Jerzy (b. 1859).
At the time Józef was born, Vilnius was part of the Wilno Gubernia of the Russian Empire. He attended university in St. Petersburg and, after graduation, Józef was appointed a lieutenant in the corps of engineers in Russia. His resigned his commission with the Russian military in 1863 and joined the insurgents against the Russian government in the January Uprising. After the failed uprising, Józef was condemned to death, a sentence that was commuted to ten years of hard labor in Siberia.
After his release from Siberia, Józef joined the Carmelite Order in Graz, Austria where he took the religious name Rafał (Raphael). Brother Rafał traveled to Györ, Hungary to complete his studies and was ordained to the priesthood in Czerna, Poland where he was appointed prior. Finally, Rafał was appointed prior and vicar provincial for the Discalced Carmelite nuns in Wadowice, Poland.
Saint Rafał Kalinowski -1897
SOURCE: Saint Rafał Kalinowski (http://tinyurl.com/7bboj5j : accessed 19 November 2011) citing Praskiewicz, Szczepan T. 1998. Saint Raphael Kalinowski: an introduction to his life and spirituality. Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications.
Prayer was the source and guiding principle of Rafał's life and he worked to instill this philosophy in the Carmelite Order. Others were drawn to Rafał because of the authenticity of his prayer.
Rafał died in Wadowice on 15 November 1907 and was buried in the convent cemetery. However, large numbers of pilgrims came to visit his grave, carrying away handfuls of soil. His remains were moved to a tomb but even that solution did not deter the pilgrims who scratched at the tomb, leaving with bits of plaster. Finally, his remains were moved to a chapel in Czerna, Poland where they are today.
Rafał Kalinowski was beatified on 23 June 1983 and canonized on 17 November 1991 by Pope John Paul II. That Pope John Paul II would beatify and canonize Rafał Kalinowski is quite fitting. Eighteen years after Rafał Kalinowski died in Wadowice, Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II, was born in the same village.
Saint Rafał Kalinowski's feast is celbrated on November 19.


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Weymoor Bridge, Latton
In 2018 it is hoped that the construction of the briodge can be completed.
Work to build a new bridge restarted in the spring of 2016 with the construction of the brick arch over the wooden former which is supported by a substantial steel frame. This will be removed once the bridge is compete. Wing walls and parapets also have to be added/completed along with the roadway surface.
The rebuilding of Weymoor Bridge was started in 2014 when the groundworks were completed and the steel centring was installed. Centring is used to provide a temporary structure on which to build the brick arch.
Work on the project was put on hold during 2015 due in part to a change of landowner. The track that used to go over the bridge site has been diverted while the new bridge is constructed. This provides access to one residential property (at Latton Basin) and nearby fields.
The new bridge will be a conventional looking red brick hump-back bridge, but with less of a 'hump' as far as traffic is concerned. The bridge will be similar in style to the original (see last photo), but will be capable of taking 44 tonne vehicles. The original would have had a weight limit of about 3 tonnes. This is the first new brick-built bridge to be undertakien by the Cotswold Canals Trust.
Visiting Site: For those wishing to visit the bridge site and Latton Junction by car, it is best to park on the road in Latton village and cross the A419 dual-carriageway on foot using the nearby bridge. The Weymoor Bridge site is at the far end of the bridge, with Latton Junction close by. For cyclists and walkers, the towpath here leads (west) to Cerney Wick and beyond. See link to map above.


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So, the Christmas Special trailer has come and gone, the Children In Need special in which Matt Smith is stripped of his kit by rampaging viewers has thrilled and titillated Whovians the world over and the BBC One trailer which puts the Doctor and Amy in festive jumpers and has them playing Twister with a Cyberman has arrived and left us all feeling rosy and safe. What next?
Well, the U.S. airdate and time have been confirmed: Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe will premiere Sunday, December 25 at 9 pm ET on BBC America. Here's the trailer again, if you haven't experienced it:
And here's the Christmas cover of the Radio Times, as nabbed by Doctor Who News:
In the issue, out now, Matt Smith also reveals a bit about the upcoming special, The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe: "There's a Narnia-esque shape and feel to the telling of this story. Whereas last year felt more like a Christmas romp, there's a slow-burning, ethereal magic to this."
He also revealed that he very nearly burned his tweedy jacket, during a particularly fiery special effect: "I had just three seconds to jump back from a giant fireball. It was only later that I realized I could have been seriously charred."
• Speaking of the Radio Times, we selected 15 of their all-time best Doctor Who covers in celebration of the show's 48th birthday.
• There have been lots of tributes to Who for its 48th, but one of the best has been a clip-filled journey through Who-story set to OneRepublic's "Marchin' On":
• Oh and speaking of anniversaries, a belated happy birthday to Karen Gillan, who was 24 yesterday. Let's hope her birthday cake looked nothing like this:
(Although, if any cake-decorators are looking for ideas…)
• In this week's Companions feature, we finally look at the one TARDIS traveller we'd been desperate to mention from the start. But wanted to give the others a chance, because in a very real sense, they all exist in her shadow. Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Sarah Jane Smith…
• Steven Moffat has confirmed there will be a slight delay before the next full season of Doctor Who. Speaking to Doctor Who Magazine, he said it's partly because the show works best when the evenings are drawing in: "Doctor Who in the summer? All that running down tunnels, with torches, and the sunlight streaming through your windows and bleaching out the screen? All those barbecues and children playing outside, while on the telly there are green monsters seething in their CGI-enhanced lairs? It's just not right is it? Be honest.
"For me, as a kid, when the afternoon got darker and there was a thrill of cold in the air, I knew that even though summer was over, the TARDIS was coming back! So yes, that's part of the plan, that's part of the reason for this little delay. But it's not the whole story." (via Digital Spy)
• Mind you, to really set your nerves jangling, imagine if, while watching an episode about the daleks invading Earth again (as they often like to do), a foot-high Dalek rolled across the carpet, right before your very eyes, seemingly controlled by Dalek High Command on the screen. Well, that what may well be on the way.
The BBC has been developing some new forms of TV interaction, where web-connected devices – in this case Dalek toys – can react to the action appearing on-screen. It's called Universal Control, and has already been tested on an episode of Doctor Who.
Which can only mean we are one step closer to a time when cookery shows can deliver actual steaming-hot dishes to your lap while you watch. (via Radio Times)
• Forgive us if you've already seen this, but did you know that the Doctor Who production team created wads of fake currency for The Runaway Bride, Catherine Tate's first story with the Tenth Doctor? And did you know they had David Tennant's face on them? Well you do now, look:
Note: They had to make the notes like that because it's illegal to create false currency which could in any way be mistaken for the real thing. And because it's fun. That's why they promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten satsumas. (via Shadowlocked)


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A winner was selected from 86 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
Bluebird Events
After working in Event management for many years, I am launching my own boutique Events Managements business called Bluebird Events. The business will look after all facets of event management from concept design, to production and execution.
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Last summer, I wrote a post titled Miland Brown's Eight Tips for American Separatists. It was a follow up to The Dominion of British West Florida and Tips for Creating an American Separatist Cause. The latter post was extensively commented on and was featured in four separate Web carnivals.
In the last year, I have ascertained three more steps that any American separatist group ought to use to help advance their nonsense. Knowledge is power in fighting bad history so I have decided to update the list to eleven. Knowing how easy it is to make bogus claims of illegal occupation should make it easier for the historian and your average joe in being able to critically think about and refute these claims.
Of course, if separatists are able to use this list to successfully set up an independent republic of Idaho, I will feel bad but I do not think it is likely to happen...
Here is the new list with the new tips in bold:
Miland Brown's Eleven Tips for American Separatists
I guess if we get creative, every part of the USA is under illegal occupation by the USA. Here is a list of tips for creating your own American separatist cause! (These tips would work for non-American parts of the world too.)
1. Start with the premise that your area is illegally occupied. Working backward in time, accept any evidence which supports your view, ignore or misconstrue any evidence that does not fit it, and then reach the conclusion your area is illegally occupied. Be sure to negate strong evidence which refutes your view by denying the validity of the problematic fact.
2. Look over every treaty, agreement, document, or ruling that impacts the current legal status of the area in question. Go back as many centuries as you need to find the right dirt. Can you find even a single instance where someone forgot to dot an "i" or cross a "t"? Is there any technicality (no matter how minor) that could be highlighted? If so, congratulations! You can now claim that American sovereignty is illegal under American and international law and that all subsequent legislation by the USA is not binding.
3. Has even a single American military member been in your area since the time you can "prove" American ownership of you area is bogus? If so, you can now claim an invasion happened and can throw around the word occupation. It does not matter if shots were fired. The mere presence of American soldiers constitutes an act of war.
4. Did the people of your area actually vote to join the USA? If not, claim the annexation as illegal and undemocratic. If so, did it happen after the "occupation" began? Did people (or their descendants) who were not citizens of your area prior to American "occupation" participate in the vote? If so, dismiss the election and declare it invalid as the "occupiers" rigged the election by voting too.
5. Look at international law passed by the League of Nations or the United Nations after your area was "illegally" annexed by the USA. Using an ex post de facto approach, hold America accountable for violating international laws which were passed long after the area in question was acquired by the USA.
6. Put up a web site bolding stating your "facts." Claim to be the legitimate representative of your nation under occupation. Be sure to put up lots of pages detailing the alleged violations of international law and showing American aggression. Be sure to get your site listed in as many places as possible. Be aggressive in search engine optimization. (Create a blog or two too!)
7. Have a forum at your site. Use it to repeat your claims over and over again and link to any website or news article which in any way could be twisted to support your arguments. Ruthlessly use ad hominem attacks on anyone who posts anything you disagree with. Calling them ignorant of international law and history or even racist should do the trick.
8. Head on over to Wikipedia, learn the ropes, and start inserting your version of history in every article you find! If you are subtle, good at edit wars, and have a lot of patience, you can make a real difference.
9. If you are brave, start up your own national bank and start issuing money and loans. You can also sell passports! When you get busted, use this as evidence of continued American aggression and attempts to silence your movement. Be sure to highlight on your site the "political prisoners" the USA puts in jail. (Go ahead and sell stamps too!)
10. Distance yourself from other separatists groups. Some Hawaiians, Texans, Alaskans, etc. may be claiming occupation but in your case it is real. You may all use the same arguments but there are important differences. Also, deny you are a separatist. Since your area was never legally American, you are not separating or seceding. You are asking to be restored. Further, make clear your area never has been and is not currently legally American.
11. Praise anyone who in anyway agrees with any point you are making. Treat criticism of your arguments as proof that your movement is growing and the your opponents are panicking. Treat the issue of people ignoring you as proof that your opponents fear confronting you because they know you are right. No matter what your opponents do, it proves your point.
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.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Illegally Occupy This! Miland Brown's Tips for American Separatists Updated
Posted by M at 8:11 PM
Labels: American Separatists
2 comments:
- super hero said...
great tips. they may be used in many arenas, not necessarily restricted to american seperatists. :)
- sumir said...
I am quite sure that you have good command over communist history! (Blink)
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Three is a magic number.
Welcome to the third annual edition of my "Facts to Know" column, which, considering my proclivity for singing on our Fantasy Focus Baseball podcast, seemed fitting to kick off with a musical reference.
Since I tend to open this column with a personal fact, before we get to all the nitty-gritty, geeky-stat baseball nuggets below, a musical theme first popped to mind. It wasn't baseball, but rather a music chart, a mere listing of my favorite, current-at-the-time songs, which was the subject of the first regular "column" I published on the internet in 1995. And I'll admit it: It was an Alanis Morissette song that grabbed that top spot. (Hey, we were still a good six weeks or so away from the release of Smashing Pumpkins' "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness." And you know you liked that Alanis song, too.)
By the way: Blind Melon's version of that "Schoolhouse Rock" song? Solid. And this comes from a guy who's rarely a fan of covers.
Yes, even then, I was compiling lists, dabbling in numbers, ranking things. They've always been favorite pastimes of mine. It's the numbers that drew me deeply into baseball, and rankings into fantasy baseball.
Each offseason, I dig deep into the statistics to unearth hidden tales and trends about players. I keep these in a notebook for hundreds -- nearly thousands -- of players, helping drive my decisions. Today, I'll share some of the best with you.
As an added bonus, I've solicited the help of the ESPN Fantasy department's master researcher, Kyle Soppe, who chipped in a good number of his favorite player facts for 2017. Kyle's got a personal fact of his own to share: He once bowled a 257 ... at 3 a.m. (Hmmm, I hear that time's also a song title.)
Some of these might provide the answer you were seeking to justify a strong opinion on the player in question. Some might not. After all, we can spin these statistics any way we wish to tell any tale we wish. Some might merely give you some good trivia to share with your buddies; who doesn't love trivia?
Speaking of which, sticking with the music-meets-numbers theme, here's some trivia before we get to the baseball: Can you name the three numerically titled songs off the aforementioned "Mellon Collie" album that cracked the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart? The answer is at the bottom.
This year's Facts to Know total 101, and they're listed in alphabetical order of the players referenced by each.
Here we go!
Only three players in history have managed at least a .290 batting average, 25 home runs and 100 RBIs in each of their first three big-league seasons: Joe DiMaggio, Albert Pujols ... and Jose Abreu.
Only four pitchers managed at least 60 innings pitched and a 30 percent strikeout rate (that being a percentage of total batters faced) in each of the past three seasons: Dellin Betances, Clayton Kershaw, Andrew Miller ... and Cody Allen.
In 2015, Chris Archer managed a 3.23 ERA, 1.14 WHIP and struck out 29 percent of the batters he faced. After struggling during the first half of 2016, he then posted these numbers after the All-Star break: 3.25 ERA, 1.01 WHIP and a 28 percent strikeout rate.
Javier Baez's 24 percent strikeout rate in 2016 was his best at any professional stop in any season in which he appeared in at least 20 games since he had a 23.1 percent mark for Single-A Daytona in 2013, and his 74.3 percent contact rate was his best at any pro stop since he had a 77.5 percent mark for Single-A Peoria in 2012.
Only two players have hit at least 20 home runs while sporting at least a 0.75 walk-to-strikeout rate in each of the past five seasons: David Ortiz ... and Jose Bautista.
In his 43 healthy appearances between his April 29 recall and Aug. 4 disabled-list placement last season, Cam Bedrosian had a 0.94 ERA, second-best among relievers with at least 30 innings pitched, as well as a 1.04 WHIP and 32.2 percent strikeout rate.
In 2016, Brandon Belt became the first player to manage at least 40 doubles and 100 walks in five years. It's much of the reason why he was able to score the 61st-most fantasy points using ESPN standard scoring.
Among relief pitchers in the past three seasons combined, Dellin Betances had the most innings pitched (247), total batters faced (972) and strikeouts (392). His 78 holds ranked second.
The only player to manage at least 65 home runs and 65 stolen bases combined during the past three seasons was Charlie Blackmon. By the way, Blackmon batted .313/.363/.563 and hit 17 home runs in his 75 road games away from Coors Field in 2016.
In 2016, Adrian Beltre became only the ninth player in history to manage at least a .300 batting average and 30 home runs in a season at the age of 37 or older.
Since August 2015, Jackie Bradley Jr.'s monthly weighted on-base averages (wOBA) have gone .480, .321, .340, .485, .346, .358, .284 and .311.
If you think that's streaky, consider the case of Jay Bruce: In his 30 months played in the past five seasons combined (2012-16), he has managed a monthly wOBA of .375 or greater eight times, and a wOBA beneath .300 seven times; that accounts for half of his total months played during that time span.
After Byron Buxton's recall last Sept. 1, here were his rankings among qualified major leaguers: Second in runs (24) and isolated power (.366), sixth in slugging percentage (.653), eighth in home runs (9) as well as home run rate (8.0 percent). Of course, Buxton also had the sixth-worst strikeout rate (33.6 percent of his PAs).
Carter Capps has a 30.4 percent strikeout rate through his age-24 season, the ninth-best rate among relief pitchers with at least 100 innings pitched through that year of their careers.
Only two players have managed at least 30 doubles, 80 walks and a .270 batting average in each of the past three seasons: Mike Trout ... and Matt Carpenter.
On Aug. 10, 2014, Carlos Carrasco joined the Cleveland Indians' rotation for good. Since that date, he's one of only four qualified pitchers with at least a 25 percent strikeout rate and 50 percent ground ball rate, and a walk rate beneath 7.5 percent, joining Jake Arrieta, Clayton Kershaw and Noah Syndergaard.
Tyler Chatwood had a 1.69 ERA in his 13 road starts in 2016. In the past 10 seasons, the only pitcher to have a lower road ERA while pitching at least 80 innings was Arrieta (1.60, in 2015).
Since the 2015 All-Star break, Alex Colome has a 2.01 ERA, which ranks eighth-best among relievers with at least 75 innings pitched during that time span. Colome also stranded 93 percent of his baserunners in 2016; only seven qualified relievers had a higher left-on-base percentage in the past 10 seasons.
Nelson Cruz is the only player to hit at least 40 home runs in each of the past three seasons, and he's one of only three batting title-eligible players who had at least .250 isolated power in each of those years, joining Edwin Encarnacion and David Ortiz.
Among players with at least 200 plate appearances in 2016, only Tyler Naquin (.411) had a higher batting average on balls in play than David Dahl (.404). During the modern era (1901 on), only 21 players -- Naquin included -- had a higher BABIP in at least that many PAs.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Yu Darvish's 812 strikeouts through his first 100 career starts set a major league record.
Wade Davis' 1.18 ERA in the past three seasons combined was best among relievers with at least 150 innings pitched during that span.
Though he was recently demoted to the minors, Jose De Leon is a name to keep tucked away, considering he had a 2.61 ERA in Triple-A last season, second best in the Pacific Coast League. That league is notoriously hitter-friendly, with a league ERA of 4.45.
Among active players, only Carlos Beltran (7) and Hanley Ramirez (5) have more career 20/20 seasons than Ian Desmond (4).
Edwin Diaz's 40.6 percent strikeout rate was 19th best in history among pitchers who worked at least 50 innings.
Only two players have stolen at least 25 bases in each of the past five seasons: Jose Altuve ... and Jarrod Dyson. Dyson, who had the sixth-most total steals (156) during that time span, played in 266 fewer games and had 1,994 fewer plate appearances than Altuve.
After taking over as Texas Rangers closer following Shawn Tolleson's removal from the role last May 18, Sam Dyson saved 36 games, third most in the majors behind Jeurys Familia's 38 and Zach Britton's 37. Dyson's 66.2 percent ground ball rate (for the full season) was also the highest in the majors among pitchers with at least 70 innings pitched.
Of the 32 players to have made at least 150 appearances as a leadoff hitter in the past three seasons combined, Alcides Escobar's .293 on-base percentage batting in that spot is the lowest, by 11 points.
Among ERA-qualified pitchers in 2016, Brandon Finnegan's minus-1.21 differential between his ERA (3.98) and FIP (fielding-independent pitching score, 5.19) was the largest in that direction.
Dexter Fowler had the majors' lowest chase rate in 2016 (17.5 percent); this measures the frequency of a hitter's swings at non-strikes. He also had a 13.1 percent walk rate from 2014 to 2016, 12th best among 235 hitters who had at least 1,000 trips to the plate during that time span.
In his four-year big-league career, Evan Gattis has .234 isolated power and a 75.6 percent contact rate. Among players with at least 500 plate appearances during that time span, only Nolan Arenado, Jose Bautista, Miguel Cabrera, Edwin Encarnacion and David Ortiz have had better numbers than Gattis in both categories.
Among all minor league pitchers with at least 100 innings in 2016, Tyler Glasnow had the highest strikeout rate (31.0 percent) and second-lowest batting average allowed (.174) behind only Chance Adams' .168.
These were Jeanmar Gomez's numbers in his final 19 appearances of 2016: seven saves in 10 opportunities, 13.20 ERA, 2.47 WHIP.
Gio Gonzalez recorded 57 of his 532 outs in 2016 against pitchers, which was the most in the majors. He also tallied 30 of his 171 strikeouts against pitchers, fourth most, and non-pitchers had a .344 wOBA against him.
Curtis Granderson and Jedd Gyorko set an all-time record for fewest RBIs in a season in which they hit at least 30 home runs; both hit exactly 30 homers and drove in 59 in 2016.
Granderson, incidentally, batted .152/.277/.200 with runners in scoring position, all of those by far his worst rates in any of his 10 big league seasons in which he had at least 100 such plate appearances.
Gyorko had the majors' highest home run rate (8.5 percent of his trips to the plate resulted in a homer) and fewest at-bats per home run (10.74) after the All-Star break. Only Brian Dozier (28) hit more than Gyorko's 23 home runs in that span.
All of Zack Greinke's 10 best starts of 2016, going by game score, were either road starts or games with the roof closed at Chase Field. Meanwhile, three of his four worst Chase Field starts, again going by game score, were with the roof open.
No pitcher has a longer active streak of seasons with at least 200 innings pitched and a sub-3.75 ERA than Cole Hamels (7). But, Hamels' 9.1 percent walk rate in 2016 was a career worst.
The only players who had more stolen bases than Billy Hamilton's 184 through their first 398 career games were Vince Coleman (281), Rickey Henderson (231) and Tim Raines (225).
From 2014 to '16, Jason Hammel had a 2.84 ERA and 1.02 WHIP before the All-Star break. After the All-Star break in those seasons combined, Hammel had a 4.74 ERA and 1.34 WHIP.
J.A. Happ has lowered his ERA in each of the past four seasons, culminating in 2016's 3.18, his lowest since he had a 2.93 in 2009. He also set a career-high with 73.5 percent fastball usage.
Only five players in history totaled at least 500 career games played, 100 home runs, 50 stolen bases and a .500 slugging percentage at the time they celebrated their 24th birthdays: Orlando Cepeda, Ken Griffey Jr., Alex Rodriguez, Mike Trout and Bryce Harper. Harper has appeared in only 83 percent of the Washington Nationals' scheduled games since he made his big league debut on April 28, 2012.
When Matt Harvey has thrown his four-seam fastball at a velocity of 95 mph or greater during his career, opposing hitters have batted just .234 with .101 isolated power and a 11.5 percent swinging strike rate (this is the percentage of swings and misses at all pitches he threw). When Harvey has thrown his four-seam fastball slower than 95 mph, opponents have batted .281 with .147 isolated power and an 8.8 percent swinging strike rate against it.
No qualified pitcher held opposing hitters to a lower well-hit average -- this is the percentage of well-hit balls per at-bat per our pitch-tracking tool -- than Kyle Hendricks (.089) in 2016, and his .085 well-hit average allowed to left-handed hitters was 19 points better than any other right-hander's mark.
Following the All-Star break last season, and coinciding with his return from the disabled list because of a strained right calf, Felix Hernandez posted a 4.48 ERA and 1.77 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 15 starts. The ERA was his worst in any half-season in his career since the first half of 2006 (4.95), and the K-to-walk ratio was his worst in any half-season in his career; keep in mind he has made at least 10 starts in every half-season since his Aug. 4, 2005, debut.
Since his return to a major league rotation on Sept. 13, 2015, and among pitchers with at least as many as his 24 starts during that time span, Rich Hill's 2.00 ERA and 0.93 WHIP have been bettered by only Clayton Kershaw's 1.74 and 0.74 marks, and only Jose Fernandez, Kershaw, Stephen Strasburg and Max Scherzer had better than Hill's 30.3 percent strikeout rate.
Jim Johnson took over as the Atlanta Braves' closer after Arodys Vizcaino landed on the disabled list on July 16. From that date forward, Johnson managed 18 saves, a 2.20 ERA, 1.10 WHIP and 30.5 percent strikeout rate.
Only one player has hit at least 25 home runs and driven in at least 80 runs in each of the past six seasons: Adam Jones.
Only four pitchers managed at least 50 innings pitched and a 30 percent strikeout rate in each of the past four seasons: Aroldis Chapman, Kenley Jansen, Craig Kimbrel ... and Shawn Kelley.
Mookie Betts (78) was the only full-time outfielder who had more extra-base hits in 2016 than Matt Kemp (74).
Only four pitchers have made at least 30 starts and struck out at least 160 batters in each of the past seven seasons: Cole Hamels, Jon Lester and Max Scherzer ... and Ian Kennedy.
Of his 21 starts in 2016, Clayton Kershaw managed a quality start and at least 10 strikeouts in eight. Max Scherzer was the only pitcher who had more (12), and he made 13 more starts than Kershaw did.
In 2015, Dallas Keuchel got more called strikes on pitches thrown outside the strike zone (167) than any other pitcher. In 2016, Keuchel got only 92 strikes on those pitches. Aha, but Keuchel threw 822 fewer total pitches in 2016 than 2015. Let's go to the ratios for a better comparison: In 2015, Keuchel got called strikes on 12 percent of pitches thrown outside the zone. In 2016, he got called strikes on only 9 percent, and that 3-percent drop was the third-largest decline by any of the 40 pitchers who qualified for the ERA title in both years.
Since his return from Tommy John surgery in 2013, John Lackey has 48 wins, 87 quality starts, a 3.35 ERA and 1.18 WHIP. During that time span, the only other pitchers with numbers at least as good in all four categories are Madison Bumgarner, Clayton Kershaw, Jon Lester, David Price, Chris Sale and Max Scherzer.
Of the 117 players to meet the plate-appearance qualification minimums both before and after the All-Star break in 2016, Jake Lamb's 129-point wOBA differential was the largest by any player in either direction. Looking at the slash stats, he batted .291/.371/.612 before the break, and .197/.283/.380 after it.
Only Jose Altuve (.326) and Miguel Cabrera (.325) had a higher batting average the past two seasons combined than DJ LeMahieu (.324). LeMahieu also led the majors in 2016 with a .316 batting average in at-bats when he started the count 0-2.
From 2014 to '16, Jon Lester posted a 2.57 ERA, 1.05 WHIP and 25.2 percent strikeout rate in 78 starts with David Ross as his catcher. Lester had a 3.49 ERA, 1.22 WHIP and 23.4 percent strikeout rate in his 18 starts with anyone else behind the plate. Ross is dancing with the stars this spring, and analyzing games for ESPN afterward.
In the past three seasons combined, Evan Longoria has appeared in four more games than anyone (482), and his 3,991 innings played at third base are the ninth most by any individual player at any one position.
After the All-Star break last season, Sean Manaea had the majors' ninth-best ERA (2.67) and seventh-best WHIP (1.02).
Starling Marte finished 2016 ranked 25th on the Player Rater, but these players all scored more fantasy points than him using ESPN's standard scoring system: Brandon Crawford, Nick Markakis, Joe Panik, Denard Span and Jayson Werth. Not one of those five finished within even 150 spots of Marte on the Player Rater. Know your league format!
Russell Martin complained about neck stiffness early last season, making an adjustment to his stance sometime in mid-to-late May to compensate. From May 25 forward, he batted .252/.367/.477 in 98 games.
Carlos Martinez held the platoon advantage in just 46 percent of his total batters faced in 2016, second lowest among ERA-qualified right-handers behind only Kendall Graveman's 45.3 percent. Fortunately, for the first time in his big league career, Martinez held left-handers to a wOBA (.322) beneath the major league average (.327).
No player hit more opposite-field home runs in the past three seasons combined than J.D. Martinez (29).
Lance McCullers recorded 90 of his 106 strikeouts in 2016 with his curveball, fifth most in the majors with that specific pitch, and his curveball was worth 21.4 runs above average, per FanGraphs, which was tops in the game.
Andrew Miller never had a monthly ERA higher than 1.93 in 2016; that was his ERA in June. Besides Miller himself -- he had a 1.45 ERA for the season -- only eight other qualified relievers had lower than a 1.93 ERA for the season.
Combining contributions at all professional levels in 2016 and counting only those who made at least one big league appearance, only five players tallied at least 15 home runs and 40 stolen bases: Keon Broxton, Eduardo Nunez, Jonathan Villar, Trea Turner ... and Yoan Moncada. Moncada, only 21, is nearly two full calendar years younger than any of the other four.
Kendrys Morales hit 50 hard-contact fly balls in 2016, and they traveled an average of 401.9 feet. He also hit 141 total fly balls, and they traveled an average of 318.6 feet. Both of those distances ranked ninth-best among 146 hitters who qualified for the batting title.
Joe Musgrove's 8.70 strikeout-to-walk ratio in the minors in 2016 was fourth best among pitchers with at least 80 innings, and his 12.38 K-to-BB ratio in 2015 led all minor leaguers with at least 100 innings pitched.
In the past 10 seasons, only three players have managed at least .240 in isolated power with a strikeout rate less than 10 percent: Albert Pujols (on four occasions), Edwin Encarnacion ... and Daniel Murphy in 2016.
Hector Neris was one of only 15 pitchers to strike out at least 100 batters, with a greater than 30 percent strikeout rate in 2016.
In 2016, Rougned Odor became only the second player to hit at least 30 home runs while walking fewer than 20 times in a season, joining Andres Galarraga (1994). Odor's 3.0 percent walk rate was also the lowest by any player to hit 30 home runs in a season.
From 2015 to 2016, James Paxton saw his average fastball velocity increase by 2.7 mph, going from 94.1 to 96.8 mph. That was the second-largest increase among the 109 pitchers who threw at least 750 fastballs in each year, behind only David Phelps (3.3 mph increase).
Among batting title-eligible players, nobody swung at pitches thrown outside the strike zone at a greater rate than Salvador Perez in 2016. He chased a whopping 42 percent of non-strikes, which helps explain his career-worst 21.8 percent strikeout rate.
Only Jose Fernandez (2.56) and Noah Syndergaard (2.67) had a lower xFIP than Michael Pineda (2.67), among ERA qualifiers, in 2016. Pineda surrendered .348/.416/.621 slash rates, and 17 of his 27 total home runs allowed came off of fastballs.
Buster Posey has managed at least 80 RBIs and 70 runs scored in four of the past five seasons, accounting for four of the five such stat lines by a catcher-eligible player during that time span (Joe Mauer, in 2012, was the other). During that five-year span, Posey has driven in 88 more runs, scored 71 more runs and played 72 more games than any other catcher.
Things Yasiel Puig has never done in a big league season: hit 20 home runs, streal 12 bases, drive in 70 runs, play 150 games.
Jose Quintana is one of only five pitchers with at least 200 innings pitched and a sub-3.75 ERA in each of the past four seasons, joining Madison Bumgarner, Cole Hamels, Jon Lester and Max Scherzer, and he's one of only eight pitchers with at least 20 quality starts in each of the past three seasons, joining those same four plus John Lackey, David Price and Chris Sale.
Hanley Ramirez's home run total increased in every month last season: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10.
Robbie Ray's 1.14 differential between his ERA (4.90) and FIP (3.76) last season was the widest among qualified pitchers. One explanation: He afforded a .355 BABIP, the highest number in the category among qualifiers since Kevin Millwood's .358 in 2008, and the fourth-highest number since 1930.
Among 73 ERA qualifers in 2016, only Max Scherzer (.712 OPS allowed) and Jon Lester (.712) faced "easier" schedules than Tanner Roark (.714), using Baseball Prospectus' pitcher's quality of opponents measure. Roark also faced a combined .699 OPS in 2015 and .666 in 2014, the latter the easiest schedule among 88 ERA qualifiers that season.
David Robertson's 31.8 percent career strikeout rate is second best in baseball history among pitchers with at least 500 innings pitched, trailing only Billy Wagner's 33.2 percent.
Of the 35 pitchers in history with at least 250 career saves, Fernando Rodney's 3.69 ERA is third highest.
Speaking of shaky-ratio closers, Francisco Rodriguez has a 3.79 FIP in the past three seasons combined, third highest among currently projected closers behind only Fernando Rodney's 3.83 and Jeanmar Gomez's 3.83. K-Rod's 22.1 percent strikeout rate last season set a career low.
In his two big league seasons concluding with his age-24 campaign in 2016, Eddie Rosario has a 0.13 walk-to-strikeout ratio. The only players in the modern era (since 1901) to have a worse such ratio through their age-24 seasons, with a minimum of 250 plate appearances, were Hernan Perez (0.11), Edgard Clemente (0.11) and Angel Salazar (0.13).
Among batting title-eligible hitters in 2016, Addison Russell saw an average of 0.771 baserunners on board when he stepped to the plate, second-most behind only Albert Pujols (0.808). Russell accrued 49 percent of his plate appearances hitting in the bottom third of the Chicago Cubs' order.
Gary Sanchez hit 20 home runs in his first 51 big league games spread across two seasons (two in 2015, 49 in 2016), matching Wally Berger's 86-year-old record for fewest games to reach that career threshold. Sanchez did it with a 20.2 percent home run/fly ball ratio, the second highest in baseball among players with at least 200 plate appearances since his Oct. 3, 2015 debut, and well above the majors' 10.3 percent average in the category.
Miguel Sano's 297 strikeouts are the most in history by any player in his first 196 career big-league games.
Using ESPN's standard scoring system, the following players scored fewer fantasy points than Carlos Santana (471) in 2016: Charlie Blackmon, Manny Machado, Jean Segura, Freddie Freeman, Xander Bogaerts, Wil Myers, Nelson Cruz, Francisco Lindor. Every one of these players finished at least 50 spots better than Santana (100th overall) on our traditional rotisserie Player Rater.
Only two players have managed at least 20 home runs and an 80 percent contact rate in each of the past five seasons: David Ortiz and Kyle Seager. Seager was also one of only eight players -- and one of only two third basemen -- with at least 25 doubles and 25 home runs in each of the past three seasons.
Jean Segura hit 10 of his career-high 20 home runs in his final 39 games last season. During that time he had a 15.6 percent home run/fly ball rate, well above the major league's 10.6 percent average.
For you Statcast junkies: Giancarlo Stanton scorched 24 batted balls that were clocked 115 mph or faster in 2016. That represented roughly one-third of all batted balls hit at that speed in the majors. Unfortunately, Stanton has missed a whopping 23 percent of the Miami Marlins' scheduled games since his June 8, 2010 big league debut.
Trevor Story's 27 home runs in 2016 set a new National League rookie record for a shortstop, and his 6.5 percent home run rate was sixth best all time (minimum 400 plate appearances) among rookies at any position.
Only two pitchers have made at least 20 starts with a sub-three FIP in each of the past three seasons: Clayton Kershaw and Stephen Strasburg.
Jameson Taillon walked only 4.1 percent of the batters he faced in 2016, which was the eighth-best walk rate by any rookie with at least 100 innings pitched during the divisional era (since 1969) and the 14th best during the modern era (since 1901). Though ground-ball data is sketchy at best before 2002, there's an outstanding chance that Taillon was the first rookie in history to have had a walk rate lower than five percent, strikeout rate higher than 20 percent and ground ball rate greater than 50 percent while pitching at least 100 innings.
Only three pitchers have made at least 20 starts with a walk rate beneath 5 percent in each of the past three seasons: Bartolo Colon, Clayton Kershaw ... and Masahiro Tanaka.
Mark Trumbo hit 47 home runs in 2016, exactly the same amount that Chris Davis did the year before, but using our Player Rater categorical valuations, Trumbo's homers were worth 14.6 percent less than Davis' were in 2015. Davis finished 28th overall on the 2015 Player Rater, 32 spots higher than Trumbo did in 2016 (60th overall), though Davis did hit six points higher (.262-.256) with nine more RBIs and six more runs scored than Trumbo.
Trea Turner totaled 13 home runs and 33 stolen bases during his outstanding rookie year in 2016, with every one of them coming after the All-Star break, in the Washington Nationals' final 71 games of the season. He was only the 14th rookie in history to manage at least as many of each, and he did it in 160 fewer trips to the plate than any of the 13 previous (Barry Bonds, who did it in the next-fewest number of games, did it in 484 PAs in 1986).
Justin Verlander had a major-league-leading 10 starts in which he went at least seven innings giving up two or fewer runs yet failed to record a win; no other pitcher had more than six such games in 2016. In the past 100 seasons, only Roger Craig (1963), Claude Osteen (1965) and Jose Rijo (1993) had more such starts in a single year; each had 11.
Only Billy Hamilton and Jonathan Villar have stolen at least 40 bases at all professional levels combined in each of the past five seasons. That said, the recent history of players repeating 60-steal seasons isn't encouraging: Only three players have reached that threshold in consecutive years in the past quarter century: Marquis Grissom (1991-92), Kenny Lofton (1992-94) and Jose Reyes (2005-07).
Since the 2015 All-Star break, Christian Yelich, whose career isolated power is .137, has seen his number in the category by half-season go from .131 to .158 to .215.
Ben Zobrist had a career-best 15.2 percent walk rate in 2016, and he chased only 19 percent of pitches thrown outside the strike zone, which was his best rate in any year for which our pitch-tracking tool has data (since 2009).
Though it came in a 55-game big league sample, Mike Zunino's 10.9 percent walk rate in 2016 was his best in any single-year stop at any competitive level since his 13.5 percent for Single-A Everett in 2012, and his .262 isolated power was his third best at any stop, behind his .364 for that same Everett team and his .268 in a 10-game stint with Triple-A Tacoma in 2015.
Finally, your trivia answer: Zero, Thirty-Three and 1979.


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Medicare and Medicaid, two U.S. government programs that guarantee health insurance for the elderly and the poor, respectively. They were formally enacted in 1965 as amendments (Titles XVIII and XIX, respectively) to the Social Security Act (1935) and went into effect in 1966.
In December 2003 Bush won Congressional approval of the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA), a reform of the federally sponsored health insurance program for elderly Americans. Widely recognized as the most far-reaching overhaul of Medicare to date, the MMA enabled Medicare enrollees to obtain prescription…
The Medicare program covers most persons age 65 or older and consists of four related health insurance plans: a hospital insurance plan (called Part A); a supplementary medical insurance plan (Part B); and two privately run plans, Medicare Advantage (Part C) and prescription drug coverage (Part D).
The hospital plan is financed through Social Security payroll taxes. It helps pay the cost of inpatient hospital care, skilled nursing home care, and certain home health services. The plan meets most of the cost of hospital bills for up to 90 days for each episode of illness. An episode of illness is termed a "benefit period" and lasts from admittance to a hospital or nursing facility until the patient has been out of such facilities for 60 consecutive days. The patient must pay a one-time fee called a deductible for hospital care for the first 60 days in a benefit period and an additional daily fee called a co-payment for hospital care for the following 30 days; Medicare covers the rest of the expenses.
The hospital plan also pays for skilled care in a nursing facility for 100 days if such care follows a period of hospitalization within 30 days. This nursing care is free for the first 20 days after hospitalization, with the patient required to make a co-payment for any of the next 80 days. A person is thus eligible for 90 days of hospitalization and 100 days of nursing care in any benefit period. In addition, home health visits by nurses or medical technicians are covered by Medicare, as is hospice care for the terminally ill.
A patient becomes eligible for Medicare benefits again anytime he has gone for 60 consecutive days without receiving skilled care in a hospital or nursing facility; his reentry into such a facility marks the start of a new benefit period. In addition, each person has a "lifetime reserve" of 60 more hospital days that can be used at any time (including times when the 90 days covered in a benefit period have been exhausted), though a sizable co-payment is required.
Medicare's supplementary medical insurance plan (Part B) augments the benefits provided by the hospital plan and is available to most persons 65 years or older. Persons who enroll in the plan pay a small deductible for any medical costs incurred above that amount and then pay a regular monthly premium. If these requirements are met, Medicare pays 80 percent of any bills incurred for physicians' and surgeons' services, diagnostic and laboratory tests, and other services. Almost all people entitled to the hospital plan also enroll in the supplementary medical plan. The latter is financed by general tax revenues and members' payments.
Medicare Advantage plans (Part C) are run by private insurance companies approved and subsidized by Medicare. They must cover all services that the original Medicare covers except hospice care, but they can offer extra coverage, sometimes at additional cost, for vision, hearing, and dental, and they may have different rules as to how enrollees receive services.
Medicare Part D, prescription drug coverage, is also run by Medicare-approved companies, and an individual must have Parts A and/or B to enroll. Coverage and costs vary for each plan, but all must provide at least the standard level of coverage set by Medicare. Most drug plans charge monthly premiums as well as deductibles and co-payments, and they commonly have a coverage gap known as the "doughnut hole." Once a participant and the insurer have paid a certain amount for covered drugs, the individual is responsible for all costs up to a yearly limit, at which point catastrophic coverage applies and out-of-pocket costs drop sharply.
The legislation enacting Medicare was passed in 1965 under the administration of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and represented the culmination of a 20-year legislative debate over a program originally sponsored by Pres. Harry S. Truman. Amendments to the program passed in 1972 extended coverage to long-term disabled persons and those suffering from chronic kidney disease. The program's rapid and unanticipated growth spurred the federal government to legislate various cost-containment measures beginning in the 1970s, notably one in 1983 that set standard payments for the care of patients with a particular diagnosis. Part C was enacted in 1997 and went into effect in 1999. It was later restructured with Part D, and both were enacted in 2003 and went into effect in 2006.
Medicaid is a health insurance program established for low-income persons under age 65 and persons over that age who have exhausted their Medicare benefits. The program is jointly funded by the federal government and the states. To participate in the plan, states are required to offer Medicaid to all persons on public assistance. Aside from this, and within broad federal guidelines, the individual states determine the eligibility guidelines for enrollment in their own programs, with Medicaid generally offered to persons whose incomes and assets fall below a certain level. The federal government pays the states 50 to about 80 percent of state Medicaid costs. Hospital care, physicians' services, skilled nursing care, home health services, family planning, and diagnostic screening are covered by the plan.
Like Medicare, Medicaid quickly grew larger than originally expected, and in 1972 the federal government instituted the first of several sets of cost-containment measures in an effort to reduce the program's expenditures. From the early 1980s, increasing numbers of physicians refused to treat Medicaid patients because of the low reimbursement levels involved.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), enacted in 2010, significantly affected both Medicare and Medicaid. For example, it was designed to gradually shrink Medicare's drug-coverage "doughnut hole" until it is completely eliminated, a goal set for 2020. Federal subsidies to Part C were designated to be cut, and Medicare payroll taxes for high-income earners were set to increase starting in 2013.
Among the other provisions of the PPACA, Medicaid reimbursements were scheduled to be increased to match those of Medicare by 2013. About half of the 32 million people added to health insurance rolls as a result of the PPACA were to be added to Medicaid, since eligibility was expanded to cover (by 2014) anyone with an income below 133 percent of the poverty level. The federal government planned to pay all costs for newly eligible recipients for an initial period, but Washington's portion was designed to decline gradually thereafter. In the Affordable Care Act cases (2012), the Supreme Court upheld (5–4) the constitutionality of the PPACA's expansion of Medicaid but prohibited Congress from withholding federal Medicaid funds for existing beneficiaries to states that refused to expand their Medicaid rolls.David M. Mazie


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Rawaz necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 128 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
Fanoos Telecom
Fanoos Telecom is the largest fixed wireless telephony provider in Iraq. It has operations in most of Iraq's northern provinces and covers over 10 million people.
The company has been very successful from its launch of 2005 and is now planning to launch the largest wireless broadband service in Iraq in 2010.
We are committed to offering Iraqi people a real choice of telecommunication services with high quality services at affordable rates.
18-35 years old, we are selling products to the general public. Primarily the youth and business will be of our audience.
We require to incorporate our logo (attached) and resemble our sketch concept. This includes the curves in our logo and its colors.
The website should have a fresh, vibrant and playful 'look and feel' in line with our cartoons attached.
We love Web 2.0 designs looks. Colours mostly should be orange (#EC832B) while blue (#007AC1) and gray (#E1E1E1) can be also used.
The design should be multi-layer with a top menu. There must not by any drop down menus as we hate it.
There are two pages that we need you to design:
1- Home page: The homepage should contain a large area for promotional purposes and some sub links such as "where to buy" or " coverage area"
2- Content page: Reasonable Banner size required for content pages and should all be addressed with current roots, and sub layers. such as
Home : Products & Services > Home Users
The alignment of all the pages should be in the center taking around 80% of the whole page. We are going to use both right-to-left and left-to-right texts so extra attention will be given to designs that enable this.
Use your own pictures freely when required.
You can find a proposed site map attached .
Our favourite websites are:
Given all this we are open to new ideas. We can't like what we haven't seen, so please show us your creativity.
Thank you all for participating and have fun!


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An attractive alternative to your reception or patient room seating, The Vista II high-back guest chair boasts clean lines the incorporate a wood and metal frame for a distinct contemporary look. Many healthcare facilities today are moving away from traditional wood seating, and toward more sanitary and environmentally responsible materials. The Vista II was developed to meet this growing demand as a practical seating choice for any healthcare environment. Besides offering a generous dose of comfort, the Vista II collection boasts a range of features that facilitate effective cleaning practices in view of a happier, healthier environment.
The Vista II high-back guest chair has a 24"W seat, and is constructed with a heavy duty steel frame with a nylon-webbed seat deck. The seat and back are upholstered in easy-to-clean vinyl. The attractive oval steel legs are capped with wood arms for a warmer feel. One great feature is that so many parts to this chair are field replaceable, including the seat and back foam and upholstery, as well as the end frames. Ample clean-out space between the seat and back prevents dirt or debris from becoming trapped, and wall saver rear legs ensure that this chair won't be rubbing on your walls.
Fully assembled. This product complies with the Healthier Hospitals Initiative.
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Atg223 needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 11 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Fantasy Sports Hour
We are a fantasy sports company that has started one hour games. A typical fantasy sports league lasts the whole season or there are even daily games, our games last one hour. You choose 6 players and the stats they accumulate during that hour determines your points. Highest score wins. Customers pay to play and win cash! Our website is http://www.fantasysportshour.com .
The fantasy sports audience range across all ages over 18. The audience is over 90% males. 67% are married with disposable income. Our game is intended for Fantasy Sports fans who quick action. Our customers can sign in, pay to play and win cash in just over an hour then play again. This ad will be sent to current fantasy sports players of another website who we hope to attract to our site through the ad.
As stated in the target audience we are looking for a one page email to be designed to attract the recipients of the email to our website. The ad should highlight the one hour game, ability to win cash, and easy to play. Our logo is attached along with some graphics we have used. The logo is the only thing that needs to remain consistent. The graphics are just to give you a feel for our site. I have also attached our gametracker which is what customers see while they are playing the game.


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The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) is a project to improve the Linux sound subsystem by rewriting large chunks of it. It has replaced the Open Sound System (OSS) as the default sound subsystem in the 2.6 kernel, but it can be used with either 2.4 or 2.6 kernels.
ALSA provides audio and MIDI functionality for Linux.
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There's lots more to ALSA however, like support for Full Duplex playback and recording, multiple soundcard support, hardware mixing of streams, extensive mixer capabilities (to support advanced features of new soundcards), ...
Your sound card may be supported by modules available in the 2.4 kernel (these
are also provided in the 2.6 kernel under the 'Open Sound System (DEPRECATED)'
option). Additionally, you might be able to use the commercial OSS/4Front sound
driver system. If you wish to use either of these systems, then you should read
through the
The OSS/4Front drivers have some limitations, however. Being commercial is one. ALSA is an attempt to go beyond these limitations with an open source development model. ALSA is a fully GPL and LGPL'ed sound driver system that provides a professional quality system for recording, playback, and MIDI sequencing.
ALSA tries to support as many (new) cards as possible by providing open-source drivers. However, some vendors may provide binary-only packages.
To know if your card is supported, you can find a Soundcard Matrix of supported
and not-supported cards here:
To compile programs with ALSA-support, be sure to add
When using the 2.4 kernels, you'll need to compile the alsa drivers separately
from the rest of the kernel. If you are using a 2.6 kernel, you have the
option of using the ALSA drivers included in the kernel or those provided
by the
First we'll make sure that our kernel configuration is ready for use with ALSA.
All you need in your kernel configuration is having Sound Card Support set to
be built as a module (M). This will build
If you already have a working kernel configuration, make sure you remove all sound drivers (except for Sound Card Support). If you wish to do this without having to reboot, you could do like this:
# cd /usr/src/linux # cp .config ~/ # make mrproper # cp ~/.config . # make menuconfig
Now select
# make dep clean # make modules modules_install
# make # make modules_install
If you compiled 2.6 with the ALSA modules provided by the kernel, please skip to
Before installing your new modules, this last line will delete all your previous modules, even the ones from a previous ALSA installation.
Now it's time to install the ALSA drivers for your soundcard(s). If your
soundcard is PCI, you can find out the name and type of your soundcard by
looking at the output of
# grep audio /proc/pci
We could simply do an
However, to save some time, lookup the
# env ALSA_CARDS='emu10k1' emerge alsa-driver
# env ALSA_CARDS='emu10k1' emerge \>=media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.2c
After this, the ALSA modules should be installed on your system.
Let's start configuring now to get ALSA working properly. We'll need to edit some files, to let our system know about the freshly installed ALSA modules.
First, install
# emerge alsa-utils
Hereafter, we need to edit
## and then run `modules-update' command. ## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. ## ## ALSA portion alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 ## alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0 ## alias snd-card-2 snd-ens1370 ## OSS/Free portion alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 ## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 ## alias sound-slot-2 snd-card-2 ##
Last thing to do in this file, almost at the end, check if these lines are there and uncommented:
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
After double-checking the file
# modules-update
You should also verify that
# ALSA/OSS stuff # Comment/change these if you want to change the permissions on # the audio devices LOOKUP snd MODLOAD ACTION snd LOOKUP dsp MODLOAD LOOKUP mixer MODLOAD LOOKUP midi MODLOAD REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660 REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
An init script is provided for you which will install all necessary sound drivers for your card (including the OSS support drivers if you set USE=oss). The first thing to do now is to make ALSA startup at boot time:
# rc-update add alsasound boot
Since we're Linux users, we don't want to reboot. So we'll start the alsasound script manually.
# /etc/init.d/alsasound start
ALSA is running now. If everything is ok, you should be able to see the ALSA
modules loaded when running
# amixer
If you got this far, now unmute Master and PCM channels. Some hardware even requires you to unmute the center channel or even the surround channel.
# amixer set Master 100 unmute # amixer set PCM 100 unmute
Only if the above doesn't succeed on its own:# amixer set Center 100 unmute # amixer set Surround 100 unmute Test the sound:# aplay $KDEDIR/share/sounds/pop.wav (pop.wav is part of KDE)
We check to see if sound is working by using the aplay (alsa play) command. If
you hear a pop, then sound is indeed working. Then, adjust the volume settings
to your liking; the ncurses-based
When you reboot your system, the
Some sound cards (SBLive, Audigy, and others) come with onboard MIDI synthesizers.
To use them, you must first install the
# emerge awesfx
Now, you should place your sound fonts in
After copying over the sound font you want to use, you need to select it for use
# /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/share/sfbank/8MBGMSFX.SF2
If you can't find soundfonts on your driver CD you can download some online from
If your sound card does not come with a hardware synthesizer (or you don't
want to use it), you can use
# emerge timidity++
A sample configuration file will be installed for you in
# cp /usr/share/timidity/config/timidity.cfg /usr/share/timidity
Now, you need to enable the init script to run when your system boots and enable it now.
# rc-update add timidity default # /etc/init.d/timidity start
Note that there is a configuration file for the init script that you can
modify in
You can use
# emerge pmidi
The '-l' command line option to pmidi will list all detected MIDI output ports, and '-p' can be used to select the one for playback. Check to see what MIDI output ports are available on your system:
# pmidi -l Port Client name Port name 64:0 Rawmidi 0 - EMU10K1 MPU-401 (U EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) 65:0 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 0 65:1 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 1 65:2 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 2 65:3 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 3
# pmidi -l Port Client name Port name 64:0 Rawmidi 0 - ES1371 ES1371 128:0 TiMidity TiMidity port 0 128:1 TiMidity TiMidity port 1 128:2 TiMidity TiMidity port 2 128:3 TiMidity TiMidity port 3
Now, try playing a MIDI file to make sure everything works:
# pmidi -p 65:0 Final\ Fantasy\ 7\ -\ Aerith\'s\ Theme.mid or # pmidi -p 128:0 Final\ Fantasy\ 7\ -\ Aerith\'s\ Theme.mid
When you ever rebuild your kernel, or upgrade to another kernel, you'll have to rebuild the ALSA modules.
Although you might have installed
# emerge alsa-driver
The alsa-tools and alsa-firmware packages contain tools useful to only users of specific sound cards. Most users will not need these. If you do need alsa-tools, you can set the environment variable 'ALSA_TOOLS' to install just the needed tools for your card:
# env ALSA_TOOLS='as10k1 ac3dec' emerge alsa-tools
Often times, different versions of
You won't have to edit this file for use with ALSA. After doing
If your soundcard has a joystick plug, you might be interested in activating
joystick support for your soundcard. If so, start by verifying if your soundcard
driver has a joystick parameter. You can verify this by running
# modinfo snd-via82xx filename: /lib/modules/2.4.22-ck2/snd-via82xx.o description: "VIA VT82xx audio" author: "Jaroslav Kysela <email@example.com>" license: "GPL" parm: index int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Index value for VIA 82xx bridge." parm: id string array (min = 1, max = 8), description "ID string for VIA 82xx bridge." parm: enable int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Enable audio part of VIA 82xx bridge." parm: mpu_port long array (min = 1, max = 8), description "MPU-401 port. (VT82C686x only)" parm: joystick int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Enable joystick. (VT82C686x only)" parm: ac97_clock int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "AC'97 codec clock (default 48000Hz)." parm: dxs_support int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Support for DXS channels (0 = auto, 1 = enable, 2 = disable, 3 = 48k only, 4 = no VRA)"
If it has the
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx joystick=1
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Cibus is coming back to Parma
Rome [ENA] Cibus is coming back: the most noteworthy food Italian fair will be held in the city of Parma from 7th to 10th May, 2018. More than 3,000 exhibiting companies and an increasing number of Italian and international buyers are expected in Parma. The International Food Exhibition in Italy, is the key event of the Italian agri-food sector, the "platform" allowing the companies interested in "Made in Italy" food to meet the major distributors, importers and professional of domestic and foreign markets.
Cibus is reserved just to food professional of retail, import-export and Hotellerie-Restaurant-Café from Italy and abroad. This year there is a dedicated area which will exhibit the most innovative products and the incoming programme for foreign buyers has been increased and a new exhibition pavilion will be opened. The Italian food sector ends 2017 with remarkable results: export increased by +7% versus the previous year with a 32.1 billion euros value. The main food export markets, in addition to Europe and United States, are Canada, Japan, Australia and Russia.
In Asia the main export destinations are: China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. The role of Cibus as a platform for exports (it is be held in the even years, whereas "Cibus Connect" is organised in odd years) will be confirmed by the arrival in Parma of the buyers from the most important retailers, such as: Metro Canada, H-E-B, Sam's Club, Publix Supermarkets, Wakefern, Whole Foods and Kehe Distributors (from North America); Grupo Pao de Açucar and Cencosud (from South America); Mercadona, Coop Suisse, Rewe Group, Auchan Retail, Delhaize, Axfood, Sodexo, Marks&Spencer (from Europe); Womai, Metro Cash&Carry China, BHG Group, Daimaru, Aeon Group, Lotte, Emart, Village Grocer (from Asia); Panda, Carrefour, Lulu Hypermarket
and Spinneys (from the Middle East). Some of the buyers will be able to visit the Parma region food valley. The scouting and recruiting of key foreign buyers were carried out together with the italian ICE Agency (Foreign Trade Institute) and an international roadshow that Cibus has developed in the main target markets: at the Anuga Exhibition in Germany, in Paris and in the coming months in London, Hamburg, Tokyo during Foodex, and at the Summer Fancy Food of New York.
Cibus2018 will also present a new pavilion built to meet the growing request for exhibiting space: an area for the most innovative and original food products placed on the market, selected by a panel of experts. During Cibus 2018, the Pavilion 8 will be opened and reserved to institutional customers, i.e. regional specialities and joint projects. A new design that will have room for the Food Court of the various Italian regions with a space dedicated to recipes, cooking shows and tasting area "all-in-one", all designed as a gallery of flavours and tasting, managed by skilled chefs and cooking schools.


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So this may seem like a weird complaint, but I'm reading the original Steins;Gate for PC (with translation patch) and while I do love it I have a huge complaint that is severely impacting my enjoyment. Why can't I back out of the preview for my response to text messages? Am I doing something wrong, missing something, or is this just really not an option?
I don't do walkthroughs as it severely drains the experience for me, but I don't see how I'm expected to actually complete the various endings without one if I can't preview my response before I send it? If a character sends me a text message and my response choices are the words "spending money" and "food", how am I supposed to know that the response to "food" is going to be "Stop being so fat", I thought maybe it was asking her what she ate or something.
They let me read my response before I send it so I feel like there should be the option to back out of it and choose a different one, but I can't for the life of me figure out how and no google search yields any results. Am I missing something or am I really just going to have to guess randomly at what Okabe is going to say? Any response is greatly appreciated, thanks.
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(I always read all of them before I choose my answer)
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All Evils of the World
Join Date: Feb 2008
Seriously? Then I'm just doing something wrong? Do you remember how you did it? I've tried everything. Right-clicking, hitting the arrow keys, backspacing, hitting escape. Nothing backs me out. The only buttons that seem to do anything are left-clicking the mouse and enter, which send the message.
|2013-05-04, 18:52
|Link #209
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Age: 28
My limited edition arrived today too, here's some snaps.
Need to either borrow my Dad's PS3 or play it around his house, but this is getting played ASAP <3
|2013-05-07, 15:31
|Link #210
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Japan
so my game arrived today and did a little unboxing video, sorry for the pronuntiation.
|2013-05-08, 01:06
|Link #211
All Evils of the World
Join Date: Feb 2008
So nobody has any ideas about why I can't back out of text replies on the PC version? If someone could just tell me how to do it I can at least find out if I'm doing something wrong or there is some kind of glitch that's stopping me. Thanks in advanced.
|2013-05-08, 04:50
|Link #212
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Age: 28
|2013-07-06, 01:45
|Link #213
Join Date: Jul 2012
Jast USA just announced the game for the West.
|2013-07-06, 18:26
|Link #215
Odd Gentlemen
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: in a car's trunk
Age: 27
|2013-07-07, 12:43
|Link #218
Memento Mori
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: UK
Only PC? Well, I guess there's no 'playing it wherever you go on your PSP' for me then, the blunder...
It's to be expected since it's JAST that licensed it, but it's still a little bit awkward considering STEINS;GATE originally came out for the 360 and was only ported to Windows 10 months later...
|2013-09-01, 05:50
|Link #220
Imouto Lover x3
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Germany
Can anybody tell me what the difference is between the old steins;gate game for the PC (the original) and the new one which was released this year for PS3 and Xbox 360 ? Is it a remake or is it a new interpretation of the original VN?
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