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This just in: The Phils have announced a new radio agreement.
Via a press release, the Phils have announced that they have just signed a new multi-year radio contract with CBS RADIO's Talk Radio 1210 WPHT and SportsRadio 94WIP, to cover live play-by-play broadcast of all Phillies pre-season, regular season and post-season games, starting with Spring Training later this month. Financial terms have yet to be announced.
Announcers Scott Franzke and Larry Anderson, who for the last few season have been announcing the game for 1210 WPHT will, starting this year, also be broadcasting on 94WIP.
In general, this means that the Phils will be having their games broadcast on both the AM and the FM dial on the radio.
Sounds to me like the Phils won't be worrying about where the money stream for their players' contracts will be coming from for the next few years. Especially if they can continue to win. That's good news.


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by Jim Haber, Coordinator, Nevada Desert Experience
The United States Air Force test-launched a first-strike, nuclear-capable Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) early in the morning on February 25 despite the largest anti-test demonstrations in almost 30 years. The launch took place in the dark fog of night at 2:46 a.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) on the central California coast to the other end of the Ronald Reagan Missile Range in the Marshall Islands over 4000 miles away.
Testing warhead, bomb and delivery systems all violate the spirit of working towards nuclear disarmament to which the United States has obligated itself. The February 24 protest began at 5 minutes to midnight—the current setting of the "Doomsday Clock" of the Federation of American Scientist's Bulletin of Atomic Scientists—in the hopes that public pressure would force President Obama to turn away from his pro-nuclear budget (with increases for both nuclear weapons and power). The test-launch of ICBMs makes hypocrites of U.S. foreign policy planners who demand a stand down of nuclear ambitions from countries we're hostile to, while furthering the upgrade of our own weapons of mass destruction. The quantity and quality of U.S. nuclear weapons dwarf all others; we must not wait for other nations to pull back but must increase the rate of dismantlement of our own nuclear weapons.
Daniel Ellsberg, who as a military analyst for the RAND Corporation in the 1960s developed strategic plans for the Secretary of Defense MacNamara and who later leaked the lies of Vietnam war planners in what became known as the Pentagon Papers, crossed the line at the base and was taken into custody along with 6 other men and 8 women in an act of civil resistance. "They cannot be allowed to test these lightning rods of doomsday without arresting American citizens. We need to push this. It takes public pressure through education and public protest," Ellsberg said at the rally before entering the base. Twenty-nine years ago, Ellsberg was also arrested at VAFB with hundreds of others who went into the back-country of the huge base to disrupt launch plans for another ICBM, the MX missile which ultimately was not deployed, largely due to public pressure. Ellsberg continued by stating, "No one in this country should have their hands on the destruction of the world. We can't trust these folks with the future of humanity."
(As a student at nearby UC Santa Barbara, the author also went back-country in 1983 at Vandenberg and was arrested along with Ellsberg and 55 others at the U.C.S.B.'s administration building in opposition to the continued management of the U.S. national weapons laboratories by the University of California.)
Ellsberg also pointed out that Cold War deterrence was based on various lies and mistakes like when U.S. plans were based on the thought that the U.S.S.R. had 1000 missiles but actually only had 4 at that time. Current war plans continue to be based on misrepresentations, including those regarding Iraq, Iran, North Korea and the ongoing nuclear programs of Israel, Pakistan and India.
Our peace actions and civil resistance at VAFB, and at the Nevada Test Site, Y-12 Plant in Tennessee and elsewhere in the expanding nuclear "bombplex" all are part of an international effort to wake up the public and our leaders to the immorality, illegality and stupidity of maintaining nuclear capabilities. The U.S. program encourages horizontal proliferation. All nuclear weapons must be eliminated. "Theirs" are bad; ours are at least as horrific. The move to make ICBMs dual use—meaning they carry nuclear or non-nuclear warheads—further increases nuclear danger by potentially confusing adversaries into thinking they're under nuclear attack.
Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr. are sadly and prophetically apropos in many situations. In this moment two stand out: "The choice is not between violence and nonviolence, but between nonviolence and nonexistence." Also, "I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without first having spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government."
With about a hundred demonstrators braving the damp cold of the designated protest area outside of Vandenberg, other important attendees crossed the line in "anti-test": David Krieger, founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and his wife Carolee committed their first-ever acts of civil resistance and were exhilarated by the experience. Cindy Sheehan who's son was killed as a soldier in Iraq and who has become an outspoken peace activist also was cited and released. Judy Talaugon, a grandmother and descendant of the local Chumash people blessed and welcomed the protesters. Importantly, Paul O'Toko, an elder from Micronesia and founder of Indigenous Stewards International, brought a sizable group including several of his children although they did not engage in the trespass itself. Fr. Louis Vitale OFM, a frequent presence at VAFB and other demonstration sites said, "I would gladly give my life even to delay a missile launch."
The last test-launch of a Minuteman III was a rare failure necessitating the destruction of the missile mid-flight. A subsequent test scheduled for September 21, 2011, the U.N.-designated International Day of Peace, was postponed as a growing chorus of international opposition was decrying the contradiction of a peace-loving nation testing such a thing on that special day. The next test-launch is now scheduled for March 1, extremely soon after last Saturday's test. March 1 is the anniversary of the tragic "Bravo" test of a hydrogen bomb in the Bikini atoll for which the swimwear received its name due to the brightness of the 20 megaton blast. That test dropped radioactive fallout on the people of Rongelap, leading to catastrophic health and genetic problems that continue to this day, necessitating the on-going evacuation of their island. It also sparked the Japanese anti-nuclear movement which had been prevented to exist under the U.S. occupation that followed World War II. The Lucky Dragon fishing vessel, a Japanese ship, was also caught in the fallout of the March 1 test, another day that deserves to be retired from nuclear development plans. (And don't they all?)
Jim Haber is the Coordinator of Nevada Desert Experience (NDE) which organizes interfaith resistance to nuclear weapons and war from its home in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Video of line crossers taken by videographer Ben Johnson with Occupy Santa Barbara
Photos of the Vandenberg demonstration taken by Mary Lou Anderson and Jim Haber
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LAURA FLANDERS: Hi, I'm Laura Flanders. A year ago, protestors took over a park in Lower Manhattan and sparked encampments across the States. Out of it came a slogan: "We are the 99 percent," and a new meaning to the verb "occupy." But what else? Some say Occupy Wall Street utterly changed their lives. Others say it changed nothing at all. How to assess Occupy Wall Street?
I'm joined by Marina Sitrin, a lawyer and writer who's been following what she calls "horizontal movements" in Europe and Latin America. In fact, her book Everyday Revolutions about Argentina is just out.
Also with me, Arun Gupta, a long-time journalist who's been covering the Occupy movement nationwide. Arun is cofounder of the Indypendent newspaper and website and the newspaper that emerged from last year's protests, The Occupied Wall Street Journal. Welcome to you both.
ARUN GUPTA: Thank you.
LAURA FLANDERS: It's a year on, without going into tremendous detail, what did you see happening in the streets a year after the protests?
MARINA SITRIN: So just the last few days have been filled with, really it's festivities. I think the spirit of people is celebratory. But at the same time also very focused. There were a number of different events in different parks throughout New York all weekend. And an action targeting Wall Street specifically and keeping our eyes on that issue and that question. And then ending with a beautiful massive assembly. And there were assemblies throughout the weekend.
LAURA FLANDERS: Arun, I was down there just briefly in the morning on the 17th and saw a whole lot of people milling around, but a whole lot more police. What did you see?
ARUN GUPTA: That's essentially what I saw as well. The police force has been absolutely massive. And I think that right there says that Occupy is a threat, that the police will turn out thousands of officers literally. They will barricade all of the financial district. But there were all these crisscrossing marches going through the financial district, going around it, police chasing it.
It was just a really wonderful creative energy. I've been a little cynical, a little skeptical, but there was this feeling that the spirit was back. There was all sorts of art and music. And it really was the closest thing to the original feeling of Occupy.
LAURA FLANDERS: But I mean, Occupy Wall Street got a drubbing in a lot of the press on the anniversary. You had New York Times talking about a "fad" and, you know, "talk is cheap." How do you respond to that, Marina?
MARINA SITRIN: Well, I could say a lot of things about shoddy journalism, because it actually really is. That Occupy Wall Street, you know, by November, was no longer focused just in one park or one plaza, whether that's in New York or cities and towns and villages across the United States. And people are working on campaigns and organizing in their neighborhoods and in their universities and related to work places.
So to find out what Occupy is doing, you'd actually have to dig a little deeper and see that Occupy has kind of re-territorialized itself. And the politics and the ways in which people are organizing is still there, you just have to look for it. But I actually think it's deeper than where we were at this time last year.
LAURA FLANDERS: Well, you went looking, Arun. You've been pretty much all across the United States, I think, since the last time I saw you.
ARUN GUPTA: Yeah.
LAURA FLANDERS: What'd you find?
ARUN GUPTA: I've been to 40 occupations in 27 states. But I think one thing just about the media is we have to remember this is the media of the 1%. This is the media that got weapons of mass destruction in Iraq wrong. This is the media that got the housing bubble wrong. This is the media that did not see this huge economic crisis--
LAURA FLANDERS: So you mean they got--
ARUN GUPTA: --coming.
LAURA FLANDERS: --a war wrong. They might be getting a revolution wrong?
ARUN GUPTA: I wouldn't call it a revolution, but it is very-- it's not an easy thing to grasp in our society. We look for these top-down answers, the great man coming in and solving all our problems for us. This is very much a bottom up and a horizontal solution.
LAURA FLANDERS: So what did you see as you were traveling?
ARUN GUPTA: What I saw was really the spaces where people were able to come together. That's what Occupy really did is it created the public space. It's something that is completely missing in our society. The only public spaces we have are you go to the sports game, you go shopping, you go to theater, you go to a bar or restaurant. It's all about consumption.
Occupy put the public space back in society. And it recreated the public so that people could come into these spaces and say, like, "Hey, I'm unemployed and can't find a job. Person next to me, their home is in foreclosure. This other person, they have this huge student debt. Someone else, they lack health care." And they see their problems as all the same, because the culprit is all the same, Wall Street.
LAURA FLANDERS: But I expected to see some very public discussion a year on about just what Occupy showed, that the police could literally shut down that public space when they felt like it and how little of it we actually have.
MARINA SITRIN: Right, and they can, as far as the central park/plaza, that kind of thing. But then there are so many assemblies that are taking place in neighborhoods, or the power of the 99% as a slogan. But it's not just a slogan. It's really empowering for people. So to talk to people, you know, where in the past, to be unemployed, to be in foreclosure was something you kept secret. It was something to be ashamed of. I mean, people have been committing suicide because of the situation.
And the power of Occupy and the slogan is to say, "Well, wait a minute. I'm the 99%. I'm the majority. I can feel empowered. And not only feel empowered, but then in these spaces of, you know, where democracy's being recreated, where people talk to each other, hear each other, and then say, "Well, neighbor, could you help me?"
And then taking direct actions together with each other, defending each other's homes, not going so similar also to the politics of Occupy. It's not going to institutional power or lobbying and saying, "Please don't evict me." But saying, "We're just gonna prevent the evictions."
LAURA FLANDERS: Part of it was clearly about building relationships. What about some of those institutional relationships we saw early on with labor, for example?
ARUN GUPTA: Well, I mean, that's kind of the big question. And I understand what you're getting at, in terms of strategy. And it is one thing I've been critical of. What is the strategic direction of Occupy? And so there's a lot of people, "Well, Occupy should be a political party. Occupy needs to be pushing for various sorts of legislation, you know? Or is Occupy trying to, you know, recreate a different type of economy."
And there was, in terms of labor, there was a lot of great working relationships, a lot of labor unions came in with material support for Occupy movements across the country. And Occupy has also lifted all organizing boats. So we saw that in New York City, for example, the Occupy movement helped Teamsters win a better contract with Sotheby's. They helped these fast food workers at Hot and Crusty unionize, which is remarkable that you have fast food workers who unionized.
LAURA FLANDERS: And just to elaborate for people a little bit of how that happened. I mean, there were some really extraordinary scenes around Hot and Crusty, the bakery chain that was in the process of trying to unionize, or Sotheby's, the art auction house where occupiers stood up in the middle of the proceedings. Because I think if you didn't see it, you don't know what you mean exactly.
ARUN GUPTA: Part of the problem, labor has been so hemmed in, corporations have it down to a science, how to game organizing movements. And so at this point labor very rarely even undertakes an organizing campaign. Because corporations will just fire organizers. They bring in these union-busting law firms. Even if they do win, they'll tie things up in court forever. Now one of the things that has hemmed labor in is you can't have secondary strikes. But you can bring other people to the picket line. And that's what Occupy has done. It's bolstered the picket line by bringing all sorts of other people there.
LAURA FLANDERS: And not just the picket lines, Sotheby's. There were quite some scenes.
MARINA SITRIN: Well, Sotheby's and Hot and Crusty. And the way in which that was happening. I think it's also really important that a lot of these relationships were workers who went to Occupy when it was still in Zuccotti Park or in other cities, actually went to the plazas, met other people, saw the democratic forum and thought, "Huh, this looks good. And can you help us?" So it wasn't the union going to some kind of institutional Occupy. It was workers going and meeting other people, organizing, and then people from Occupy saying, "Okay, we'll help--"
LAURA FLANDERS: Let's go back to some of the criticism. I mean, there is a reason that people are frustrated and that they say, "We've got 50 or so days before an election. You have a moment of focus on organizing and what's wrong in this country. And yet the occupiers don't seem to be applying themselves to this political process at all."
MARINA SITRIN: But yet, the process is responding to Occupy. So Occupy doesn't look towards building a political party to change institutional politics, at that level. But at the same time, the discussion of inequality, class, 99%, not that the Democrats get it right at all, but that it is actually a part of the conversation. And on the question of success, where I agree with you absolutely as far as movements and how long it takes for movements, but to think in one year how the conversation has changed as far as there's a crisis, who's to blame?
LAURA FLANDERS: But is talk, as somebody said today, "talk is cheap." Is simply talking about it enough? What would be so bad about getting co-opted by some party with some power?
ARUN GUPTA: Well, the problem is what they do with that power. We have to remember that Occupy is very much a creature of the Obama years. It came three years into his administration. And here was a guy who was supposed to clean up the mess on Wall Street, who was supposed to change the tone and nature of Washington. And in many ways, it's basically the third Bush administration, not one Wall Street executive has been prosecuted. Meanwhile, during the Savings and Loan scandal, which is puny compared to what Wall Street did in the last few years, over a thousand executives were convicted of felonies.
LAURA FLANDERS: Well, a lot of people would say that's an indictment in Occupy, in a sense, in that that was some of the status quo that the movement was intending or hoping to change.
MARINA SITRIN: But I think there's also a different measure. And it's not to have a different conversation, but the tens or hundreds of thousands of people who participated in their towns and villages and feel different because of it and feel empowered so that maybe they helped their neighbor stay in their house. But tomorrow what might they do?
That people feel like they actually can be agents and actors and subjects in their life where they couldn't before. And that's not so measurable. So it's hard to have that conversation in the same way you would have a conversation about, you know, how do you measure a political party.
ARUN GUPTA: Well, let me give another example. So okay, President Obama, who came in saying, you know, the oceans were going to stop rising and the planet was gonna start healing. Basically, we are going to address the greatest crisis humanity has known, climate change. If you look at his speech in Charlotte, he was "drill, baby, drill." We're opening millions of new acres to oil and gas extraction.
LAURA FLANDERS: So this is an argument for what? I mean, the Republican Party got driven into some of the positions espoused by the Tea Party. It sounds like Occupy hasn't done anything to--
ARUN GUPTA: Well, what Occupy is doing, though, if you look on the ground, and the media has never really been interested in grassroots organizing. They've never been interested in social change. But if you go out there and see what's happening, there's all this great organizing against natural gas fracking, which is incredibly destructive. Of course, Obama is endorsing it, when he said, "We're gonna create 600,000 new jobs in natural gas." There's all this organizing against tar sands, oil extraction, and the pipelines. There's been this great movement in West Virginia and Appalachia against mountaintop coal removal that has really been strengthened and broadened by the Occupy movement.
LAURA FLANDERS: Is it too soon to assess Occupy Wall Street in the sense that there are some initiatives coming out of what happened a year ago that don't sound all that unlike what you're describing. They're just not here yet. Co-ops, bank initiatives, a strike campaign around student debt.
ARUN GUPTA: These movements take a long time. We have to remember there's nearly ten years between the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington. Labor organizing during the 1930s was going on for about seven or eight years before we saw the wave of sit down strikes really result in mass unionization and the passage of the National Labor Relations Act. So these things do not happen overnight.
LAURA FLANDERS: But the changes that came out of the Civil Rights Movement came from within the system, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. The Occupy movement as you've described it, is opposed to working inside the system.
ARUN GUPTA: Well, yeah, I mean, there is this fundamental contradiction. The idea of reform is based on the notion the system is fundamentally sound. And all we do need to do is change these aspects of it and to create a better democracy, to create a better society, and everything is going to be peachy keen.
And there are people who are saying, like, "No, we need an entirely new system." And that's not to say, for instance, that "Hey, wouldn't universal health care be great? Wouldn't it be great to make labor organizing easier, should we really try to be doing something to mitigate climate change?" But nonetheless, the question is, "Can the system be saved?" And there are a lot of people in Occupy affiliated with it who are saying, "No, we need a fundamentally different type of society." And a lot of them look to capitalism as the problem, that we need more of a cooperative economy.
LAURA FLANDERS: But the question is how do you get from here to there?
ARUN GUPTA: There no roadmap. If there was, you know, we'd be on it. And I think, also let's not forget with the Civil Rights Movement is the Civil Rights leadership realized that they only got the pro-forma changes, the political changes. And that what really needed to be addressed was the economic apartheid that Black Americans had lived under for a century after slavery. And we still don't have that. And we really do live in an apartheid economy in this country. The indices are really devastating for the African American and Latino communities.
LAURA FLANDERS: Well, that goes to the question of is Occupy really only a year old?
MARINA SITRIN: Well, it depends where you want to locate it and how.
Even in the early assemblies we had in August, for example, there were people there from Spain and Greece. And we were learning directly from those experiences, which came before Occupy.
I think in the last few years, you can definitely date it. But then also in Latin America in the last 15 years you could go back to the Zapatistas in 1994 or Argentina in 2001.
In Argentina, you also see something very similar that started in 2001 with an economic crisis and people, you know, with a slogan of "Que Se Vayan Todos!" that they all must go. People formed neighborhood assemblies.
And it's actually where the word horizontalidad, "horizontalism" emerged, is in Argentina, in that time, people just saying, "We want to relate horizontally. We don't want someone telling us what to do. We're gonna talk to each other and figure out how we're gonna do it. Whether it's neighborhood assemblies, unemployed neighborhoods, and in the workplaces." And that's something that continues in Argentina.
LAURA FLANDERS: You've been pretty critical of "horizontalism." Although you may not have used that word, per se. You've asked, "Where are the leaders?"
ARUN GUPTA: Yeah, I think any movement needs leaders. One of the great lessons of the '60s is the "Tyranny of Structurelessness". And I've seen it plenty in the Occupy movement throughout the country. If you don't have a structure, basically, you will still have leaders, but they're unaccountable. And often you'll have leaders who are engaging in bad behaviors and I don't think we can ignore it.
LAURA FLANDERS: So better to have accountable leadership that you know who they are
ARUN GUPTA: Accountable, transparent and from the bottom up, instead of the top down. But I think there does need to be leaders, because there are leaders.
MARINA SITRIN: I think there are leaders. I don't think it's mutually exclusive. Structure, absolutely, to have horizontal social relationships and spaces, you absolutely have to have structure. And I think there are leaders. And I think there needs to be accountability. And how do we have that conversation? I think it's not from the bottom up. The Zapatistas talk about "from below and to the left," where the heart resides. And so kind of it's that horizontal image, but with structure and organization.
There's 350 workplaces, for example, in Argentina that workers run, horizontally. And some of them are massive workplaces. And there's incredible structure. But they're run with assemblies. And they use the language of "horizontal organizing and direct democracy." So they're not mutually exclusive.
LAURA FLANDERS: Concretely, how might it have changed things? I mean, one of the criticisms of Occupy was this huge variety of tactics. And everybody's allowed to do basically whatever they want. I mean, carry whatever slogan they want I mean, in Oakland, one of the criticisms from people within the movement was that this sort of anarchy allowed certain people to really alienate the movement's relationship from its neighbors, from the people in that community.
ARUN GUPTA: I think that's a legitimate criticism. I think it's called "the diversity of tactics." And there are people who advocate for the ability to, as one person called it "smashy-smashy." To break property like windows. And they're very clear, "We're never gonna commit violence against another person." But I think it's juvenile. And it's problematic, because you're saying that this is democracy. But you're going against the will of everybody else.
So it's fundamentally undemocratic, if you're just, like, this small group who is not accountable is going to do whatever it wants to do. And so the movement really needs to grapple with that.
LAURA FLANDERS: Should Occupy have had the oomph to exclude people from Zuccotti Park, to expel people after they've done certain sorts of things?
MARINA SITRIN: Well, I was a part of the legal team from the beginning in Zuccotti. And from the legal team, we broke into a mediation team. And we were creating alternative kinds of adjudicational forms. So what we were hoping to do beyond mediation was actually look to a form of circle justice that would possibly go there, if it needed to. So yeah, absolutely, that if we don't take seriously protecting ourselves and each other and have rules and accountability to each other than we're really not creating that new society that we're talking about. And so those conversations were taking place, the eviction happened within a few months. We didn't actually fully develop that alternative adjudication, but people were seriously working on it. Yeah.
ARUN GUPTA: Yeah, I mean look, I've been an advocate of that. I think there were individuals who were very disruptive and really damaged the movement. And the thing is you can't have a community unless you define who's outside of that community. That's why we have "We are the 99%," that is the legitimate people. The 1% is the illegitimate people.
Now these things can, you know, there's a double-edged sword. Because once you start to exclude people, then, you know, you can lead to purges, right? So it's a difficult question, but it does have to deal with these decisions. We saw this across the country. Some Occupy movements did end up coming to, creating these enforcement mechanisms to ban people. So I think that is a necessary thing.
LAURA FLANDERS: So where do we go from here? I mean, it's a cliché in election years to say, "Are we better off than we were a year ago?" In terms of Occupy, are we better off as people hoping for progress in this country than we were a year and a month ago before, in August of '11, Marina?
MARINA SITRIN: Absolutely. In August, were people talking about the 1% or talking about whether you want to call it class, whatever you want to call it, power? But who made this crisis was not a part of the conversation. That people organized could change things was no longer a part of the conversation. Democracy is now a question. "What does that mean?"
Yes, we can't allow the right to come in. But is it actually democracy if Obama's in power and does whatever he wants anyway and ignores what people say? So that that's a question and that people are organizing around it and continue to organize in their neighborhoods and schools I think is phenomenal. It's a huge difference.
LAURA FLANDERS: Arun, are you expecting something dramatic in the next year, year and a half?
ARUN GUPTA: Occupy, part of the reason it succeeded was there were no expectations whatsoever. And we live in an era where we have these surprising social outbursts. No one expected the Arab Spring. No one expected what happened in Wisconsin in February 2011. No one expected Occupy to succeed the way it did succeed.
So I don't think we can predict what is going to happen. I think there's certain paths it needs to take. And labor is absolutely fundamental, because that's who's been decimated. That's who has real power. It is still the workers who have real power. And Occupy has to figure out how it can create some real cross-organizing and strength in labor movements, especially independent labor movements that aren't part of the sold-out union bureaucracy that's in the pocket of the Democratic Party.
LAURA FLANDERS: Marina Sitrin, Arun Gupta, thanks so much for joining us.
ARUN GUPTA: Thank you.


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So what follows, Snowden? On the evidence so far, not a great deal. The biggest heist in the history of intelligence was supposed to change the world – to expose the calumnies of the secret state and redraw the boundaries in favour of individual liberty. For all the sound and fury, little has changed."
- Philip Stephens, associate editor and chief political commentator of the Financial Times.
Quoted February 13, 2014, in the Financial Times, "How to find the needle in Edward Snowden's haystack." by Philip Stephens.
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I can write textual content in html5 and want the work to appear in the pages I write so that I can comfortably edit as much of the text as possible. I have read over the existing work and appreciate what has been done and have ideas about where to start and experiment with freelancers, which I haven't done since 2001.
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2) The second idea is to change the test names and provide documentation for future. Which portions do what and can be changed independently, for example.
3) The third idea is to connect everything to mysql with emails to the person making selections. The original programmer says point three is completed yet that is not true for anyone who has tested it. (I have read the work several times and definitely need help making everything record and logging in for a user to change their selections).
There will be more after everything started so far is working but for now all I want to do is get it working.
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Too often kindness is relegated to a random act performed only when we're feeling good. But an even greater kindness (to ourselves and others) occurs when we reach out even when we aren't feeling entirely whole. It's not easy, and no one is perfect. But we've decided it's not impossible to brighten the world one smile, one kind word, one blog post at a time. To that end, a few of us writers have established The Kindness Project, starting with a series of inspirational posts.
Be the Someone You Need(ed)
Have you ever gotten to that point where everything starts to feel too big and your ability so small that it's tempting to hole up somewhere, maybe under the covers or behind a closed door and just stay there? Or maybe you go about your regular life there but not entirely present, mumbling an "mmm hmm" every time someone asks a question. Ever get to that point when the weight of every choice you've made and every choice you still have to make becomes so burdensome you think your lungs might just give out from the pressure? That point where the world seems entirely too unkind or too unfair or too apathetic? That point where it doesn't seem to matter what you do because the end result will always be the same anyway?
And all you really, truly want is for someone to tell you, "You don't have to worry. I've got this."
But you know that person, those words, may never come along. And even if they did, would you believe it?
It's a scary place to be. Like Dr. Seuss says, The Waiting Place.*
How many times have you been in that place, hoping and praying that something amazing would happen to show you you're worth more than what fate has dealt you, that you're worth more than the choices you've made? How many times have you wondered if maybe you really deserve to be where you are?
I've been there. I think we all have. Or will be. That's humanity for you, life sucking at least part of the time. If you luck out there will be people in your life who care. Or maybe just one person. That's all you really need anyway. But if you're really, truly lucky and you open your eyes--I'm talking all the way wide--you might realize that one person is you, and you will find a way to make you care enough about you. You might just be the person you need. "I've got this," you will say to yourself enough times that you start to believe it.
I've. got. this.
And then someday, when you're no longer in that waiting place, you might come across another person that reminds you of the old you. And when you look down you will see their feet still mired in the muck and filth of that dark, dark space. And you will remember what it felt like. You will feel it deep inside. How much it hurt. How scary it was. And the words will come tumbling out of you, "You don't have to worry. I've got this."
Perhaps you will be a little shaky and sound uncertain at first, because you're not sure you're really capable after all. But you'll say it anyway: "I'm here for you."
And you'll find you really mean it. Because you've been there.
Posting today for The Kindness Project:
Edit: Adding Christa Desir, Jessica Corra, and Alina Klein. Thanks for joining, Christa, Jessica and Alina!
Be sure to check them out :D We post the second Wednesday of every month. Want to join us? Grab our button and spread a little kindness.
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For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
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UPDATE: The issue appears to be resolved.
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SO necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Logo design for artist's business cards, website, and other artist materials. Logo will also be used as an artist's stamp on the verso of photographs, etchings and other artistic media.
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I am searching for an identity, beginning with a single logothat will capture the essence of what I do as an artist. I'm not looking tobrand my name, but rather a studio concept which acknowledges thefact that art is inherently collaborative.
I'm an emulsion-based artist working in photography, film,and printmaking. I primarily work in 19th century photographictechniques, particularly wet-plate collodion, a Civil War eratechnique. My work is often referential to multiple eras and mediums includingstill life painting, historic photography, early movies, and the history ofmedicine to name a few. From a distance, my work looks historic, but as you getcloser you are confronted with contemporary imagery and ideas. I just recently finished a new set of imagescalled Unnatural Curiosities, a series of still life images composed of anamalgamation of everyday objects arranged into a new context—a context symbolicof our hidden desires, motivations, and anxieties.
The winning design will most likely reference the past(think 19th century business cards), but look toward the future. Itwill work in color and grayscale, look great on a business card and website,and be appropriate as a stand-in for my signature on the work I produce.
- Creative, expressive, professionally executed, but not marketing fodder
- Should work as a stand-alone identity
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Cowboys Extra Points: Free Agency, Draft and Schedules
Sam Hurd is the most recent player to sign his tender. Still nothing from Miles Austin or Gerald Sensabaugh, however both showed up in Valley Ranch for the off-season workout program. ESPN Dallas explains free agency rules and deadlines.
Robert Brewster has been cleared by the medical staff to return to football. The offensive lineman's best position would be right tackle or guard. Brewster was drafted in the 3rd round of the '09 draft but sat out the entire season due to a torn pectoral muscle.
The 2010 NFL Draft begins this Thursday, April 22nd at 6:30 p.m. CST. The first round will be held Thursday, the second and third rounds on Friday starting a 5 p.m. CST and rounds 4-7 on Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. CST. We will have a live thread with continuous updates for the draft. See ya then!
The Dallas Cowboys official website has been redesigned. In my opinion its clean and bright, almost too white, and will take some getting used to as far as the layout. Check out the new design here.
The NFL will announce the complete 2010 schedules tomorrow at 6 p.m. CST on NFL Network and NFL.com.


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SkiLink critics pack pews
March 1, 2013
One of the largest crowds at a public forum in the Park City area in years on Thursday evening condemned with near unanimity the idea to build a gondola connecting Canyons Resort and Solitude Mountain Resort, rattling off numerous points, in what was seen as a critical event in the dispute about SkiLink.
More than 300 people packed the pews of St. Luke's Episcopal Church for a panel discussion involving some of the important figures in SkiLink. The forum was organized by a group called the Project for Deeper Understanding, which is not tied to either side of the SkiLink dispute. Although the event was not a part of the official SkiLink process, it likely offered a preview of the opposition that SkiLink will face should it advance through the governmental approval processes.
The crowd appeared heavily weighted toward the SkiLink opposition movement, and nearly all of the comments made by the crowd were critiques of the idea for the gondola connection itself or the federal SkiLink process that is ongoing. The crowd included a mix of people from the Park City area and those who live in the Salt Lake Valley. It is rare for a local forum to draw that many people from Salt Lake, but SkiLink has mobilized opponents along the Wasatch Front as well as in the Park City area.
Mike Goar, the managing director of Canyons Resort and one of the speakers, tactfully navigated the evening as it became apparent that the crowd was most interested in his comments. Canyons, more so than Solitude, has been seen as the resort that is promoting the idea of SkiLink.
In one of his key statements, Goar said Talisker Corp.-owned Canyons Resort does not see SkiLink as an opportunity for more residential or commercial projects along the route. There has been widespread concern among the critics that the Canyons-to-Solitude connection could spur growth in a pristine area between the Park City mountains and Big Cottonwood Canyon.
"We have absolutely no interest in any development," Goar said.
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He also said SkiLink would not be an "expansion or development of Alpine skiing," a comment meant to assuage concerns about the effects of SkiLink on the backcountry.
SkiLink Public Forum – Mike Goar
Canyons Resort Managing Director, Mike Goar, discusses some of the aspects of SkiLink with the audience.
But Laura Briefer, who is with the Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities and was also a panelist, outlined an argument against SkiLink as she spoke about the impacts on the Salt Lake watershed. She said other places have closed watersheds to public use in an effort to protect drinking water. Briefer said SkiLink is one of many ideas for development at mountain resorts, including connecting resorts. She said she worried about a "piecemeal approach" to the proposals.
Panelist Carl Fisher, the executive director of Save Our Canyons, one of the lead opposition groups, offered wide-ranging criticisms of SkiLink. He said the gondola connection will "jeopardize what the Wasatch means" to the area. He questioned an assertion by Canyons Resort that SkiLink will reduce traffic by ferrying people between the two resorts instead of them driving themselves. He said SkiLink is "myopic and shortsighted."
Dave DeSeelhorst, the Solitude executive who represented the mountain resort on the panel, disputed the claims about the effects on the watershed. He said environmental health is important to the resort. DeSeelhorst also spoke about what he sees as SkiLink's ability to increase competitiveness in the ski industry. He said modernization has occurred over the years at ski resorts and customers are searching for additional terrain. SkiLink, he said, does not represent a desire to expand Solitude itself but an opportunity to connect to another resort.
SkiLink, as it is envisioned, would link Canyons Resort with Solitude via a gondola shuttling between the two on an 11,000-foot line. The idea was unveiled in 2011 and depends on the federal government agreeing to sell approximately 30 acres of land to Talisker Corp. The opposition is incensed that Congress is considering the sale of federal land to the private sector for SkiLink. Canyons Resort argues that congressional SkiLink legislation, if it passes, creates a process for the connection to be considered. It does not approve the gondola outright, Canyons says.
The crowd on Thursday night was energized but mostly polite as the panelists presented their introductory remarks and then answered questions. The people in the audience ranged from high school students to senior citizens. A few of the questioners received cheers as they finished speaking. Some of the questions were salted with opposition messages.
One of the questions directed at Goar dealt with the gondola route that is under consideration. The person wondered why the alignment was crafted as it is. Goar responded that the route has been tinkered with in an attempt to minimize the impact."We're open to looking at other alignments," Goar said, also acknowledging that there are a limited number of potential gondola routes between the two resorts.
Another critic in the audience, Summit Park resident Andrew McLean, inquired about the prospects of connecting Canyons Resort and Park City Mountain Resort, apparently instead of a connection to Solitude. The crowd offered McLean applause. DeSeelhorst, though, countered that business decisions take years and a connection like that is not as simple to create as some would believe.
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Black Diamond CEO, Peter Metcalf, asks the SkiLink panelists a question during the SkiLink Public Forum.
Peter Metcalf, the president and CEO of outdoor equipment manufacturer Black Diamond Equipment, received applause as he told the panel outdoors enthusiasts oppose SkiLink. Goar responded to Metcalf by saying SkiLink does have supporters among outdoors companies and enthusiasts.
Some of the other points brought up during the forum included:
Charles Robinson, the pastor at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, ended the event with six people still in line to offer comments or ask questions with the microphone. Donna McAleer, a Democrat who unsuccessfully challenged for Congress last year on a platform that included SkiLink opposition, appeared to be the next person in line for the microphone when Robinson stopped the speakers and ended the evening.


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What happens when devotional objects—a mask, a reliquary, a prayer wheel—are separated from their original context, purchased by a collector, and land in a modern museum collection? What becomes of their stories? What power do they possess?
These questions and others drove student inquiry in Objects of Devotion, an interdisciplinary seminar taught last spring by Professor of Religious Studies Natalie Gummer. Students were invited to see, think about, and interact with religiously significant objects and reflect on the colonial systems of valuation and collection that drew them into museums. Delving into current debates in museum studies, they also considered ethical and aesthetic questions about the status, treatment, and display of religious objects in art and anthropological collections.
A weekly lab session drew their focus to objects in the college's collections, mainly in the Wright Museum of Art and the Logan Museum of Anthropology.
After each student chose an object to investigate, they collaborated with one another and museum staff to produce a Web-based exhibit, followed by two traditional exhibits—one in each museum—which interpreted and communicated the multiple and fraught ways these objects can be seen, interacted with, and valued.
The result is "The Sacred Lives of Objects: Seeing and Being Seen in the Modern Museum." After an inaugural showing in the Logan last spring, students created a new exhibit for the Wright Museum of Art, which ran from Sept. 5 to Nov. 10.
"Little did we realize that our objects would soon become our obsessions," the class wrote in the exhibition catalog. "Given their current locations in museum collections, it might be tempting to view these objects as only art pieces or artifacts," they wrote. "By moving them from hidden collections to public viewing, we have begun retelling their stories."
—Susan Kasten
Reliquary Bust of a Woman
17th or 18th century
Switzerland or Germany
Wright Museum
Selected by: Claire Aichholzer'16
This reliquary's origins are mysterious but may be a depiction of St. Ursula, a 4th century princess, or one of her 11,000 virgin companions, who were brutally murdered in Cologne, Germany, after a journey that involved a miraculous storm and the appearance of an angel who foretold Ursula's martyrdom. In the 12th century, a burial ground was discovered in Cologne that contained human remains believed to be the bones of Ursula and her companions. St. Ursula's cult grew rapidly as these bones were distributed as relics. This bust contains a fabric-lined drawer in the back designed to hold a relic.
Aichholzer: "A reliquary is the shrine in which the relic is held and is often richly decorated to commemorate the importance and holiness of the saint. Reliquaries, like this bust, sometimes depict the person whose relic they house, providing the worshipper an image of the venerated saint."
Why she chose it: After months of working in the Wright Museum, and before enrolling in the Objects of Devotion class, Aichholzer felt a constant draw to this reliquary. "When we were asked to choose an object, I picked her without hesitation. Perhaps what fascinates me most is the fact that she once held the relic of a saint and was actually venerated by devotees."
Vintage Gorham Altar Cross
Early 20th century
Eaton Chapel
Selected by: Lily Zeich'15
This mass-produced cross once symbolized the presence of God during Christian worship services in Eaton Chapel, when Beloit College was affiliated with the Congregationalist Church.
Zeich: " … in the process of becoming a secular campus, objects of devotion like the vintage Gorham altar cross have been removed from social spaces. Now it resides in the humble storage room behind the chapel's organ, among the sound equipment, left in the dark with fingerprints and cobwebs. Inside the little room, it is sometimes placed respectfully upon a table, yet other times it will be found on the floor, until someone raises it again. There is such agency displayed by this cross, all depending on the religious commitments (or lack thereof) of the different people who enter and exit the room."
Why she chose it: While planning an Easter service in Eaton Chapel with the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship club last year, Zeich discovered the altar cross stashed in a chapel back room. "I felt that this object, from a former building used for worship, would add a new element to the exhibit. I wanted to bring attention to a hidden treasure on this campus, the beautiful, and rich history-embraced Eaton Chapel."
Guanyin Statue
Ming or Qing Dynasty
(1368-1912) China
Wright Museum
Selected by: Sarah Morgan'13
This sculpture is of Guanyin, the Chinese Buddhist goddess of compassion, and is carved with a small notch in the back to hold a relic. Once the relic was placed there, the icon was considered to be a living version of the goddess who could grant wishes, traditionally associated with women and specifically with Miaoshan, a princess who devoted her life to ascetic Buddhist meditation and charity. The child she holds suggests Guanyin's power to grant fertility.
Morgan: "This icon was probably used in a temple before a traveling Christian scholar brought her back to Beloit. … Today, the notch on the figure's back is empty; someone has removed the relic keeping this Guanyin alive. What can we make of this image now? Is she still powerful, a compassionate wish-granter? Has she died?"
Why she chose it: "I was drawn to the ambiguity of the Guanyin reliquary. She used to contain a relic that made her a living Buddhist goddess. Now that someone has removed the relic, what can we make of this image? We are used to defining life in terms of a heartbeat, brain activity, movement, or growth. Guanyin challenges our notions of life and death.
Nepalese Prayer Wheel
Kathmandu, Nepal
Logan Museum
Selected by:
Magdalen Thulson'13
Prayer wheels like this one, when turned in people's hands in the practice of Tibetan Buddhism, release the mantra written on paper inside, a series of sacred syllables that create "merit" when spoken aloud. Merit is the positive result of good deeds, prayer, and many rituals, and allows for happiness, eventually enlightenment. Each time the paper inside the wheel turns, it is equivalent to a mantra recitation.
Thulson: "The treatment of the wheel in the museum is evidence of a very different kind of devotion from its traditional use. In Nepal the wheel was in motion as the means to an end; a way to quicken the coming of enlightenment. At the Logan, there is a reverence in the use of gloves and controlled humidity, but the value of the object has changed. It is an artifact, no longer a tool. Yet the mantras are still inside, and they still rotate around the spindle. It is possible that while traveling to this exhibit, up steps, through multiple hands, in a truck or airplane, the mantras were turning inside of the box."
Why she chose it: "My eyes were initially drawn to the prayer wheel by its worn beauty, but I was further intrigued by the idea of an object able to alter the spiritual nature of the world on its own. The wheel may turn regardless of who or what is moving it, and as it turns, merit is produced for the world."
Tikhvin Mother of God
18th or 19th century, Russia
Wright Museum
Selected by: Mary Cimakasky'15
An icon offers a window into the divine in the Russian Orthodox tradition, providing a way for believers to access a real and living presence, even though the icon itself is not believed to have a life force. This icon is a copy of the famous miracle-working Tikhvin Mother of God, one of hundreds if not thousands of copies believed to have the same power and history as the original, which has been stolen, transported across continents, and thwarted multiple attacks.
Cimakasky: "As a copy of a miracle-working icon, this Tikhvin icon acts as a mirror, reflecting the grace of the original but not diminishing its light in any way. When people pray with this icon, it establishes the same particular connection with the divine as the original had."
Why she chose it: Cimakasky chose the icon for its connection to the Orthodox tradition and a personal interest in Marian objects. "Orthodox Christianity has a very particular way of viewing the connections between icons and the saints they represent. … It is a very different way of seeing things from the way many of the cultures we dealt with, and quite frankly I think it's pretty awesome."
Christ Loaded with Cross (1922-27) and Christ on Cross (1925-45)
By Georges Rouault, France
Wright Museum
Selected by: Hope Doucet'15
Georges Rouault was one of the few religious artists painting in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His art challenges traditional depictions of religious imagery and attest to his belief in Jesus' humility and suffering.
Doucet: "Almost all of Rouault's work depicts harrowing figures—skeletons, contorted nudes, and prostitutes—because Rouault was obsessed with the suffering nature of humanity. As Jesus did, Rouault believed it was his mission to walk in the shoes of the suffering, to feel their pain."
Why she chose them: Doucet spent weeks in an art history course viewing 15th century "kingly" depictions of Jesus Christ, which left her own relationship with Christ unchanged. Rouault's paintings were a different matter. "Rouault depicts Jesus as an abstract, deconstructed man on the cross, rather than lofty and out of reach. Rouault's Christ—both the style and the subject matter—spoke to something inside of me. I think all good art should aim to encourage the viewer, reader, or listener to consider the creator's perspective with the hope of re-evaluating one's place in the world. I chose Rouault's pieces because they reveal the humble spirit of Christ and encourage self-reflection."
Mexican Painted Retablo, 1942
By Gregorio Navarro, Guanajuato, Mexico
Logan Museum
Selected by: Jordan Friedman'13
Friedman: "The retablo [a Mexican votive painting] was painted and dedicated in gratitude by a man who recovered from an unspecified injury, perhaps with the help of others who prayed for him, as suggested by the painting. …The object is designed to encourage hope for the possibility of healing, especially if the retablo is displayed in a hospital chapel. As an item on a home altar or shrine, the painting can be a votive offering by itself, perhaps as an offering of artistic creativity and a visual 'reminder' of a desired future miracle as well as a thanksgiving offering for miracles past. In this way, the tin retablo invites the prayers of people and the response of God."


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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
The KISS Principle
I'd first like to thank Leif for inviting me to participate in this week's theme and for exposing me to the inspiring work of Saul Mandel. For the record, I don't consider myself a "50's storybook illustration" authority. I'm definitely more of a fan than an expert. But, not wanting to be left out...
Saul Mandel: The KISS Principle
Keep It Simple, Stupid...
Design and simplicity are emphasized in these playful illustrations from Saul Mandel. The liveliness in his design is carried out with variety and expressiveness in the shapes and minimal line work, while maintaining consistency of style. No easy task. In the hands of a lesser artist, this approach could come off as cold, dry, and boring. But not here. These exude warmth and humor, and in a deceptively simple way, they convey their message.
In a similar vein to Mandel, some children's book illustrators that I've featured on flickr and at my blog are Aliki, Janet LeSalle, and Abner Graboff.
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Thank you for honoring my father. He passed away in August, but his memory lives on. And remember to KISS!ReplyDelete
If you are interested in finding more information or how to purchase prints designed by Saul Mandel, feel free to contact me through here.ReplyDelete
his most recent children's book illustrations can be found under the title "Parade".
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Here's a question that came in the e-mail today:
In a few places in 'Sit Down and Shut Up' you talk about focusing on a particular issue or aspect of yourself during zazen - e.g. 'I've often focused my attention during zazen practice on understanding the real source of anger'. I was wondering what you meant by that, since I'd had the impression that zazen does not involve concentrated discursive thought. I'm guessing that I have not understood what you mean by 'focus'. Since in your writings you suggest that a great many valuable insights came your way as a result of zazen practice I would really like to know more clearly what you mean here. If there is somewhere on your site that deals with this, please let me know.
And here's my answer:
You are absolutely right that zazen does not involve concentrated discursive thought. You're not really supposed to focus on anything in particular, at least in the Soto tradition.
However, that doesn't mean that no one ever focuses on things anyway. Even the most diligent of shikantaza (just sitting) practitioners will, from time to time, use the practice to focus on and deal with something that happens to be a problem for them.
In the case of anger, what I was trying to get at was that I often sat zazen while angry about something -- since I was pretty much always angry about something. So when I was angry during zazen that's what I had to deal with. When you're horny during zazen you deal with that. Or bored, scared, lonely, etc.
So it wasn't so much that I'd plan it out, "I shall now focus on anger -- go!" It's just that anger came up and I had no choice.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 18, 2011) - After capturing their eighth straight home victory in thrilling fashion, the Lady Bucs now take their winning ways on the road as ETSU heads to the Music City to face Lipscomb on Saturday evening. Tip is set for 5 p.m. (Eastern) inside Allen Arena.
After trailing by 14 at the half last Monday night against Jacksonville, the Lady Bucs outscored the Dolphins 45 to 21 in the final 20 minutes to capture a 75-65 come-from-behind win inside the MSHA Athletic Center. Freshman Shawn Randall (Orlando, Fla.) - who was filling in for the injured Destiny Mitchell (Bluffton, Ga.) - netted a career-high 21 points on 8-of-14 shooting in 35 minutes of work. Meanwhile, red-shirt senior post Latisha Belcher (Martinsville, Va.) recorded her tenth career double-double after registering 12 points, 10 rebounds and a season-high seven steals en route to receiving her second career A-Sun Player of the Week honor on Tuesday afternoon.
While Randall and Belcher played a big role in ETSU's 10-point win over Jacksonville, junior guard Natalie Pickwell (Kingsport, Tenn.) has stepped up her performance over the last six games. Since going 0-for-4 from the field against USC Upstate back on Jan. 26, Pickwell is averaging 14.2 points and shooting 56 percent from beyond the arc since that game. The Kingsport, Tenn. native has also netted 20 threes during this stretch (3.3 per game).
The Lady Bucs enter Saturday's game with a record of 16-10, 13-4, and ETSU's magic number to clinch the number one seed in next month's General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Tournament is two. Either two Lady Buccaneer wins or a win and Stetson loss will lock up the top spot for the Blue and Gold.
Lipscomb has lost 10 of its last 11 games and sits at 8-17, 5-11.
The Lady Bisons are led by senior guard Jenna Bartsokas' 15.0 points per game, which places her fourth among A-Sun scorers. Fellow Lipscomb guard Anna Bowers is posting 13.5 points per outing, placing her tenth in the league. Both Lipscomb and the Lady Bucs are allowing 69.6 points per game (eighth and ninth in the league), but ETSU ranks first in scoring offense (72.3) while the Lady Bisons are seventh (61.9).
ETSU has won nine straight over Lipscomb and lead the all-time series, 12-1. The Blue and Gold have won eight straight games inside Allen Arena - including the 2008 and 2009 Atlantic Sun Tournament Championships. The Lady Bucs handed the Lady Bisons a 95-64 setback on Jan. 22 inside the MSHA Athletic Center.
Fans unable to make the trip to Nashville can listen to all the action on WXSM-AM 640 as "Voice of the Bucs" Jay Sandos will call the play-by-play. Also, live video streaming will be available on A-Sun.TV, while live stats will be offered through LipscombSports.com.
For more information on Lady Buccaneer hoops, visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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If you're a PHP developer who has been building web applications with the object-oriented paradigm for a while, then you'll have a solid background in how to create classes and define their properties and methods, in addition to handling their instantiation in accordance with the business logic implemented by your PHP scripts.
Now that I mentioned the term "class," surely it'll be familiar to you that this programming structure is in fact a blueprint. This blueprint is used for all the eventual objects created from it, which logically will expose a behavior consistent with the methods defined by the class in question.
Expressed in simple terms, when you define a class in the context of a given PHP application, what you're actually doing is creating a prototype model that will be implemented by one or more instances of the originating class. Naturally there will be some variations, particularly if you're working with subclasses that override and overload methods defined by the respective parent.
However, there's one thing in particular that I'd like to analyze in detail concerning the definition expressed in the previous sentences. As you may have noticed, I said that it was possible to work with more than one instance of a class, even though this circumstance may happen rather infrequently.
Logically, if this condition ever occurs, it'll be necessary to build a mechanism that allows one to easily deal with multiple instances of one class, without having to complicate the source code of a certain application with complex, and sometimes inefficient, programming methodologies.
The situation described above is the perfect scenario for implementing the prototype pattern, since it will let you use many instances of a specific class, without copying objects to different variables. At this time you may be wondering how this can be achieved. Well, in plain terms when the prototype pattern is applied, the first instance of a class is used as a prototype model, and all the other instances of the class in question are created by cloning the mentioned prototype object.
Although at first glance the definition of the prototype pattern seems a bit complicated, the truth is that it can be implemented by a few functional PHP code samples very easily. That will be the main goal of this two-part series. More concretely speaking, in this first tutorial of the series I'm going to demonstrate only the basic functionality provided by this pattern, while in the second article I'm going to use the pattern in a more useful situation, that is building an extensible data validation system.
Now that you know the wealth of interesting topics that will be covered in this series, let's start learning the key concepts of the prototype pattern. Let's begin this educational journey now!
{mospagebreak title=Implementing the prototype pattern}
To demonstrate how the prototype pattern works (at least basically for the moment), I'm going to define a bunch of sample classes for establishing the basic structure of different types of data. Then, using these classes, I'll show you how to create multiple instances of a specific class with the prototype pattern.
Okay, now that I have explained my plan, please study the signatures of the classes below, which outline the generic structure of a highly-abstracted data entity.
The definitions corresponding to these brand new classes are as follows:
// define 'DataPrototype' class
abstract class DataPrototype{
private $size;
private $data;
abstract public function __clone();
abstract public function getData();
abstract public function setData($data);
abstract public function getSize();
// define concrete 'ArrayPrototype' class
class ArrayPrototype extends DataPrototype{
public function setData($data){
throw new Exception('Input data must be an array.');
public function getData(){
return $this->data;
public function getSize(){
throw new Exception('Error retrieving size of array');
return $size;
public function __clone(){}
As shown above, the first sample class has been defined as abstract and its signature is merely an interface for defining the generic behavior of a prototype data entity. Concerning the structure of this base class, you can see that it presents some basic modifiers and accessing methods, which shouldn't be hard to grasp at all.
On the other hand, the second class, called "ArrayPrototype," is a subclass of the previous "DataPrototype." It naturally implements concretely most of its methods to work specifically with array structures.
So far, so good. At this point I have defined two basic prototype classes, which doesn't present any major difficulties for the average PHP developer. However, undeniably in this case there's a characteristic associated with the previous classes that deserves special attention. Please notice how both of them declare the magic "__clone()" method, available with PHP5.
What's the point of declaring this method? Well, according to the intrinsic definition of the prototype pattern, multiple instances of the same class can be created by cloning a prototype object. Therefore the existence of the method makes sense here, since it will be responsible for cloning objects that might be needed by a concrete application. Sounds pretty logical, right?
All in all, I built a prototype class that defines some straightforward methods for working with arrays. However, I believe that you'll understand much more easily how the prototype pattern works if I derive another subclass from the base "DataPrototype." In this case, it will be useful for working with files.
Want to learn how this brand new prototype class will be built? Okay, go to the following section and keep reading.
{mospagebreak title=Creating an additional prototype class}
In consonance with the concepts deployed in the previous section, I'd like to complete the demonstration of how the prototype pattern works by defining an additional prototype class. This class will be aimed at working specifically with simple files. Of course, I'm going to create this brand new class by deriving it from the base "DataPrototype" that you learned earlier, meaning that it will also have the magic "__clone()" method, which was included in the other classes as well.
Having explained the basic functionality of this additional prototype class, here is how it looks:
// define concrete 'FilePrototype' class
class FilePrototype extends DataPrototype{
private $file='default_file.txt';
public function setData($data){
throw new Exception('Input data must be a string.');
public function getData(){
return $this->data;
public function getSize(){
throw new Exception('Error retrieving size of destination
return $size;
private function save(){
throw new Exception('Error opening destination
throw new Exception('Error writing data to destination
public function __clone(){}
If you take some time and examine the signature that corresponds to the above "FilePrototype" class, then you'll see that it implements in a concrete way many of the methods defined by the corresponding parent. In this case, the class performs some useful tasks related to saving and loading strings from a specified text file.
You should also notice that the previous class declares the magic "__clone()" method, in this way sticking to the structure of the "ArrayPrototype" class that was created in the previous section.
Well, at this stage I think you already grasped the logic that stands behind the prototype pattern, since there are two classes that define the same "__clone()" method. This method is used for creating multiple instances of a specific class, starting from a unique object considered inside the pattern's context as the prototype.
Logically, as it was discussed in the introduction, the creation of multiple objects is performed by utilizing a cloning procedure. This is a process that certainly deserves a more detailed demonstration. Therefore, in the following section I'm going to set up a short — yet educational — example, which hopefully will show how some objects can be spawned by cloning the aforementioned prototype.
As you may have guessed, this testing example will be developed in the section to come, so jump ahead and read the next few lines. I'll be there, waiting for you.
{mospagebreak title=Testing the prototype pattern}
Certainly, I could spend my time and yours explaining theoretically how the prototype pattern works, but I know that you're expecting to see a concrete example that illustrates how multiple instances of a prototype object can be created during the execution of a specific script.
Therefore, I coded a brief example (shown below), which shows in a friendly fashion how this task is performed via the cloning process that I mentioned previously.
The source code that corresponds to the example in question looks like this:
// create new 'ArrayPrototype' object
$arrayPrototype=new ArrayPrototype();
// clone 'ArrayPrototype' to create another object
$array1=clone $arrayPrototype;
$array1->setData(array('This is element 1','This is element
2′,'This is element 3′));
echo 'Number of array elements is as following :'.$array1-
displays the following
Number of array elements is as following :3
$array2= clone $arrayPrototype;
$array2->setData(array('This is element A','This is element
B','This is element C','This is element D'));
echo 'Number of array elements is as following :'.$array2-
displays the following
Number of array elements is as following :4
// create new 'FilePrototype' object
$filePrototype=new FilePrototype();
// clone 'FilePrototype' to create another object
$file1=clone $filePrototype;
$file1->setData('This string will be saved to file!');
echo 'Size in bytes of destination file is as
following :'.$file1->getSize();
displays the following
Size in bytes of destination file is as following :34
catch(Exception $e){
echo $e->getMessage();
As you can see, the above code snippet shows in a nutshell how the prototype pattern works, since it uses the built-in PHP "clone()" method to create different instances of a prototype object. More specifically speaking, the first case demonstrates how to spawn two different array objects by cloning their respective prototype, while the second one uses the same approach, but this time with a pair of file-related objects.
Do you grasp the logic followed by the prototype pattern? I bet you do!
Finally, my last suggestion concerning the implementation of this unusual pattern doesn't differ too much from using other ones: try testing and tweaking all the classes shown here, to give you a more robust background in how this pattern works. I'm sure you'll have a good time!
Final thoughts
In this first article of the series I walked you though the basics of implementing the prototype pattern with PHP 5. Hopefully, all the hands-on examples coded here will help you expand your existing skills in pattern-based programming.
In the final tutorial of the series, I'm going to demonstrate how to use this handy pattern to develop and expandable data validation application.
You've been warned, so don't miss it!


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Here are some of the links I've found interesting enough to tweet or retweet in that past several weeks.
Planck found in "Euler Identity" Crop Circle?!
Ten of the greatest: Math Puzzles
Russian math genius ignores $1 million Millennium Prize
A mathematician's clock...
werewolves and star wars: two exam questions
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Eyeborg bionic eye camera shows winks and all
Update on the diagnosis of the Voyager 2 data system - If you're in IT, this is the ultimate "Turn it off then back on again."
You don't need anyone's permission to get work experience in software.
Podcast interview with Donald Knuth. - This is a phone interview between Knuth and Larry Felton Johnson. They talk mostly about Literate Programming, but they also touch on TAOCP and a few other topics.
Random Statistics of the week
The LA Times reports that California welfare debit cards are accepted in over half of casinos in the state. Welfare recipients withdrew $1.8 million from casino ATMs between October 2009 and May 2010.
Finally, what I've been working on lately...
StackWrap4J, a Java wrapper for the recently released Stack Exchange API, has finally reached a semi-stable state. I teamed up with another prominent member of the Stack Overflow community, Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson, to work on this over the past couple of months and we've just released version 0.9. You can download it from the StackWrap4J project page on SourceForge. Please give us some feedback.
Now that the API is near stability, I should have more time soon to get back to SICP and my (ir)regular blogging schedule.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Interesting Miscellany
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