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A look back at the New Mastersounds Florida gig before boarding the boat
The worlds of jam and funk continued to merge as Jam Cruise 9 reached Costa Maya, Mexico on Friday morning. As dawn neared, Perpetual Groove guitarist Brock Butler performed his second surprise early morning set in two days on the ship's pool deck. Not to be outdone, buskers Nathan Moore and Greensky Bluegrass set up their own freeform musical party outside of the Jam Room. The stealth jam session drew in several additional musicians, including Steve Kimock (who sat in with the members of Greensky Bluegrass in a more formal setting on Thursday night). Meanwhile, in the Jam Room, George Porter Jr. hosted Thursday night's bass-centric jam session. Most notably, Porter's 7 Walkers bandmate—Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann—made his first Jam Cruise stage appearance on a cover of "Sugaree." Kreutzmann has been onboard the ship since Tuesday and has been a visible presence in the crowd.
Most of the ship's passengers spent the day in Mexico. Activities ranged from a trip to the Mayan ruins to a zip line adventure led by Lotus. As passengers returned to the ship, soul group Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears kicked off the day's musical offerings on the Pool Deck. The later part of the afternoon and early evening were filled with interactive onboard performances: members of Cornmeal and Greensky Bluegrass led a rock covers pickin' party in the Zebra Bar while ALO and special guests David Gans, Matt Butler (Everyone Orchestra) and Simon Allen (New Mastersounds) hosted Rockstar Karaoke in the Teatro Carlo Felice. Soon after, Widespread Panic keyboardist JoJo Hermann performed a set of solo piano songs in the ship's atrium that included JJ Cale's "Ride Me High" and the music of Prof. Longhair. Meanwhile, Taylor Hicks hosted a Jam Cruise version of the "Gong Show" with a celebrity panel consisting of Ron Johnson (Brett Dennen/Tiny Universe), Jennifer Hartswick (Trey Anastasio Band), Skerik and Simon Allen.
The evening's musical offerings kicked off after dinner with guest-heavy performances by God Street Wine and Karl Denson's Tiny Universe. God Street Wine—who reunited for the first time in a decade in March 2009—opened its Pool Deck performance with a cover of Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic." A few songs into GSW's set, Meters guitarist Leo Nocentelli emerged during a jam out of "The Other Shore" that led into "Fourth of July." New Orleans guitarist Anders Osborne appeared next on "Goodnight Gretchen," followed by Greensky Bluegrass' Anders Beck on "Epilogue." Both Osborne and Beck then performed with God Street Wine on "Get on the Train." The show came to an appropriate close with a take on "Into the Sea."
Likewise, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe turned its set into a true super jam that hosted many of the ship's marquee names. During a version of "Maggot Brain," Big Sam Williams, Taylor Hicks and Leo Nocentelli also stepped to the front of the stage to solo while Fred Wesley and Jen Hartswick emerged in tandem for another improvisational segment. In addition, percussionist Mike Dillon, keyboardist Ivan Neville, guitarist Anders Osborne, bassist Tony Hall, Rebirth Brass Band member Corey Henry and former Tiny Universe bassist Ron Johnson all sat in at various points throughout the set. At one point, Denson also moved over to keyboards while his guests soloed.
Later in the night, the New Mastersounds played for a sprawling crowd on the ship's Pool Deck stage. The group was one of the few bands to draw the ship's jam, funk and hipster crowds. A slew of guests sat in throughout the high-energy set as well, including Fred Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis, Jen Hartswick, Skerik, Zach Deputy, Robert Walter, Roosevelt Collier (Lee Boys) and Mike Dillon. Meanwhile, the Easy Star Allstars performed in the Zebra Bar and welcomed Big Sam on trombone.
The collaborations did not stop as Friday turned into Saturday. The Rhythm Devils performed for a packed house on the ship's Pool Deck stage with special guest Steve Kimock sitting in throughout the set. Kimock—who played in an earlier incarnation of the Mickey Hart/Bill Kreutzmann project—also performed with Bob Weir during his two Jam Cruise shows earlier in the week. A few levels down in the Zebra Bar, electronic duo Big Gigantic played for a slightly younger and more electronic-leaning crowd. The rising jamband stars also welcomed a slew of guests, including Umphrey's McGee keyboardist Joel Cummins, Soulive guitarist Eric Krasno, Lettuce/Pretty Lights drummer Adam Deitch and Perpetual Groove guitarist Brock Butler. Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk also welcomed some friends in the Teatro Carlo Felice, most notably Fred Wesley.
Bringing the day's activities full circle, Nathan Moore and the members of Greensky Bluegrass set up their own hootenanny against the Cuban sunrise while Big Sam hosted the likes of Zach Deputy, Nigel Hall, Will Bernard and Eric Krasno in the Jam Room. Nodding to his role in the Nigel Hall band, Krasno played bass for a portion of the jam session. And for the third night in a row, Brock Butler welcomed sunrise with a surprise poolside set.


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A list of book releases compiled by Dr. Dobb's to keep you up-to-date on software development tools and techniques.
Understanding SCA (Service Component Architecture)
By Jim Marino and Michael Rowley
Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a new programming model that enables developers to build distributed applications more efficiently and effectively than previous technologies. In this book, two leading experts offer the first complete and independent guide to SCA. Drawing on extensive experience both developing the SCA standards and implementing large-scale SCA applications, Jim Marino and Michael Rowley provide an insider's perspective for developers and technical managers tasked with architecting and implementing enterprise systems. Understanding SCA (Service Component Architecture) provides the background necessary to make informed decisions about when and how to best use SCA to build enterprise applications.
Murach's ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ,
and the Entity Framework with C# 2008
by Anne Boehm
This book shows you how to use Visual Studio 2008 and ADO.NET 3.5 to develop database applications. That includes the full gamut of skills you need, from using prototyping features that generate ADO.NET code...to writing your own ADO.NET code from scratch so you can closely control how the database processing works...to using .NET 3.5 features like LINQ and the ADO.NET Entity Framework that actually change the way you think about handling data.
Modular Java
By Craig Walls
This pragmatic guide introduces you to OSGi and Spring Dynamic Modules, two of the most compelling frameworks for Java modularization. Driven by real-world examples, this book will equip you with the know-how you need to develop Java applications that are composed of smaller, loosely coupled, highly cohesive modules.

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Sonic Drive-In has apologized for a racist sign promoting Sunday's Chiefs-Skins game outside one of its restaurants in Belton, Mo.
The sign in question said, "'KC CHIEFS' WILL SCALP THE REDSKINS FEED THEM WHISKEY SEND - 2 - RESERVATION."
VP of Public Relations Patrick Lenow told NBC News that the unnamed employee is known for creative signs, but that this one was "in poor taste." The sign was taken down hours later and the employee was "very apologetic," according to Lenow.
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Derek Khanna's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
from the the-civil-liberties-edition deptIt's a pleasure to write about my favorite Techdirt posts of the week. I have been a longtime fan of Techdirt and can attest that the small tech literate crowd (yes it exists) on Capitol Hill are also avid readers. I was the Capitol Hill staffer who worked for House Republicans and authored the report on copyright reform (Techdirt article). As of January 6, 2013, I no longer work on Capitol Hill but am still involved in many technology issues, currently spearheading some of the advocacy on unlocking cellphones.
Techdirt was quite a resource when we were fighting SOPA -- at the time I worked for Senator Scott Brown who came out against SOPA and Techdirt provided timely and accessible commentary on SOPA and other technology issues. Near the beginning of that fight, when it was called COICA, the content industry came to visit us with Senator Scott Brown and it was presented to us for the first time. They presented it as a relatively simple bill that that would, ". . .end online piracy by blocking the URL." My response at the time was, "Wait at the DNS level? But can't you just type in the IP address?" Immediately, it was clear that this legislation was highly problematic as it would amount to censorship and that it would be extremely ineffective. At the time, I wrote a 20 page internal memo for our office on how terrible COICA was. In my research at the very beginning, there were few articles on this topic, but Techdirt had a number of valuable resources even when it was COICA before it became SOPA/PIPA. This timeliness was critical, and I'm not the only one who has used Techdirt as such as resource.
It's a common -- and unfortunately effective -- tactic in Washington, DC to make an issue seem more complicated than it is to intimidate dissenting voices. This is particularly true on intellectual property laws. While there is surely complexity in IP issues, complexity for complexity's sake is not productive, and I appreciate that Techdirt can take complicated and even academic arguments and distill them to an audience who may not have time to read the literature in depth -- but may be presented with some of these arguments for the first time.
So with that, I will turn to the stories of the week. This week Techdirt continues to detail how some of our laws affecting technology have run amok impairing both the market and our civil liberties.
First, Masnick's piece on unlocking cellphones, now being presumably illegal, was spot on, and his further coverage of the ongoing advocacy movement to reverse this situation was a great read. This is an issue that I'm personally involved with as I wrote the major article on this issue over at the Atlantic and the petition creator and I wrote a follow-up article detailing how his company was shut down as a result of unlocking cellphones becoming illegal.
Masnick rightfully explains that, "While the reasoning for not renewing the exemption was that many carriers now allow unlocking anyway, that's not true across the board, and there are plenty of limitations. Just the fact that you need to ask permission to do what you want with a device you legally purchased and own should be troubling enough." Many people appear to agree.
The petition we have been spearheading now has over 69,000 signatures but will need Techdirt readers help to get over 100,000. This is a clearly an issue that has engaged a lot of people who believe in basic property rights and that they should be able to unlock their own cellphones. The first piece in the Atlantic got over a million hits and was number 1 on Reddit.
Techdirt also detailed Public Knowledge's submitted question on this issue for President Obama's Hangout yesterday. Despite being the 8th most popular question it was not asked (however, bloggers found time to ask President Obama to help name their child).
Like other articles by Techdirt this week -- such as the piece on the DMCA being used to impair mechanics repairing your car -- the unlocking issue highlights how while the DMCA was created and passed to safeguard copyright it has been used for radically divergent purposes. It should not be entirely surprising that the DMCA may need revisions and oversight. The DMCA was passed three years before the iPod, six years before Google Books and nine years before the Kindle. But now that it's clear that the DMCA is being interpreted in a way clearly contrary for which it was passed, its incumbent upon Congress to act. My article explains: "Congress's inaction in the face of the decision by the Librarian of Congress represents a dereliction of duty. It should pass a new law codifying that adaptive technology for the blind, backing up DVD's to your computer, and unlocking and jail breaking your phone are lawful activities regardless of the decisions of the Librarian of Congress."
If you agree, I hope you will also sign the petition and get us over 100,000.
Second, I'm going to have to slightly break the rules of posts of the week and suggest that everyone watch the Copyright Explained PandoHouse Rock video -- which is pretty terrific but technically was from last Friday.
Third, the piece on the impact of the three strikes law in France: Three Strikes May Decrease File Sharing, But if Sales Keep Dropping, Who Cares. It details how, "The latest data out of France shows that, despite Hadopi (the administrators of the 3 strikes program) claiming some sort of victory because stats on file sharing are down, the bigger issue is that the sale of recorded music keeps declining."
This piece is particularly fascinating, because inside the Beltway the threat of piracy is often used as the problem requiring invasive solutions. The argument goes, rampant piracy causes content industries to lose lots of money, therefore we have to restrict individual freedom with x or extend copyright even further, etc. I personally have problems with this argument, but the data from France demonstrates how even with file sharing declining, it isn't solving the content industry's problem. It will be fascinating to see if this data is consistent with data in other countries as well.
Fourth, Masnick's newest piece on border searches is a bit scary: Homeland Security: Not Searching Your Laptop Doesn't Benefit Your Civil Liberties, So We Can Do It. Because of how crazy many laws are in application to modern technology, many of us are accidentally committing relatively trivial violations of the law on a regular basis. In a world where all of our technology can be searched at the border this should be disturbing. For example, some courts have held that simply violating the terms of service on a website is a violation of the law, and of course we have all likely done that (until recently ToS at Google prohibited minors from using Google). Today unlocking your phone and jailbreaking an iPad are illegal. In a world where most average Americans have violated these and other laws, and our laptops, phones and tablets have "evidence of these violations" and are searchable without reasonable suspicion because we are crossing the border, that's a precarious place to be. And it doesn't seem to advance any form of national security benefit either as the searches are not limited in scope. The statement that Masnick highlighted by the DHS is particularly troubling:
"We also conclude that imposing a requirement that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant civil rights/civil liberties benefits."Believing that there is no benefit for our civil liberties by requiring reasonable suspicion is truly dangerous thinking. In a world where transfer speeds continue to increase, with no reasonable suspicion requirement, what would stop the government from a dragnet that backs-up and searches the files of every device that crosses the border? It'd be interesting to see, if your device is searched in this manner and it's encrypted, if you could be required to provide the encryption key -- which is a major ongoing legal issue but in a different context in border searches.
Overall a terrific week of timely and insightful coverage. And I didn't get to mention coverage on CISPA's expected reintroduction and the Cyber Executive Order. As for me, I'm going to be continuing to advocate for sensible changes in technology policy. Feel free to follow me @Dkhanna11.


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Mists of Pandaria Season 12 Malevolent Gladiator's PvP gear can now be purchased with Honor Points instead of Conquest Points, including weapons.
All newly purchased Season 12 Malevolent Gladiator's armor, off-hands and shields will have an item level of 476 (was 483). Existing Malevolent items are unaffected.
Balance, Feral, Windwalker, Retribution, Shadow, Enhancement and Elemental now gain 25% of the bonus healing provided by PvP Power, up from 0. Dedicated healers will continue to gain 50% of the bonus healing, and no bonus damage, from PvP Power.
PvP trinkets that clear loss-of-control effects will now also clear these effects from the player's pet as well.
For casters and healers, PvP Power is now split evenly between main-hand and off-hand in a manner similar to a dual-wield melee class. This change is retroactive, affecting Season 12 Malevolent and Malevolent Elite items. There should be no net change for any character already using a main-hand/off-hand combination.
PvP caster weapons in Season 13 cost 2250 Conquest Points (down from 2500) and shields/off-hands cost 1250 (up from 1000), to reflect the increased value of the off-hand slot for classes that use it in this manner. This change is not retroactive and applies only to Season 13 items.
Players in low-level Battlegrounds will have their effective level raised to the maximum level allowed in that Battleground bracket. Players' base stats and spells are scaled accordingly, and are treated as the same level when determining hits, misses, and critical effect chance.
Rated Battlegrounds now award Conquest to the losing team based on their final score. The losing team can earn up to 200 Conquest Points from a very close match.
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BMA Team needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 57 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
We're a small team in need of big talent to help us spread the word of how people can free themselves of things like fear, worry, stress, and poor health by utilizing a proven system that uses the body to reach the mind.
We see this as an initial step in a series of project work. We are ready to launch some new products to take this training method to a new and more professional level. We are looking to brand ourselves and create a unique identity in an overly crowded self improvement industry. We want something that looks professional yet is able to strike an emotional chord on a spiritual level.
Male/Females ages 25-55. May be suffering emotionally in some way & are seeking change in a healthy, natural way and/or interested in self-development and personal growth & fitness. Possibly someone who sees future self as someone stronger physically and emotionally.
Front & back cover (back cover can be simple with Lorum Ipsum text & just a key in background).
The full title must be used.
Most likely use a gender neutral figure for audience to identify with as themselves.
Keys should be old fashioned kind.
Should convey the idea using these 7 keys as a path to their 'awakening' thereby reaching their full potential as human beings.
Can have a spiritual element but not flaky - the average person should identify with it. Can be Web 2.0 look
Scalable to Different Formats (e.g. DVD, web banner, print book, ebook)
Possible Concepts we've Considered:
Idea that this person is being offered the keys or dropping into their hand or they are holding the keys where they can unlock the "secret" within.
- Using the O in World to depict a globe - maybe with keyhole.
- Figure could be in half darkness stepping into the light - "negative" words (e.g. stress, worry, fear, confusion etc.) might be seen in the dark with the opposite more positive words (relaxation, peace, courage, clarity).
Light should softly emanate from somewhere such as a keyhole or the "new world".
- Keyhole with light emanating could be contained at person's center.
- Possible to have as spiral staircase with 7 keyholes on risers and person is taking that first step leading up to a doorway depicting this new world.
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robb1121 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 96 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Aggressive Masonry
The logo is for a small masonry company that pours concretes, layts block, etc. The logo will be used on the vehicles, construction site signs, as well as on apparel that will be embroidered.
Prospective customers and existing customers
The logo should be simple, yet eye catching and easy to read. Since the logo will also be embroidered, try to stay away from any small details in the design. In the past the company has used blue in the logo, but the design is not limited to that but including it may be a plus. Ideally the logo would have an "A" and an "M", with the entire Company name also listed. Will need the logo in .eps format.
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Mischa Sorry and not friends with Nicole?
Mischa Barton called in to Seacrest this morning in an attempt to explain herself. Mischa owned up to the fact that she attempted to murder someone with her car when she drove drunk over the holidays and was pulled over.
"I was pulled over…just that. Obviously I'm 100% responsible for my actions in this case and I'm really disappointed in myself, I… I don't know what to say about it except that I'm not perfect and I just don't ever intend to do something this stupid again."
Interesting enough, when asked about now being further associated with the likes of Lilo and Ebola and Nicole Richie, Mischa said she regretted being associated with:
"those types of girls" since "I feel I got my head on my shoulders pretty good"…clearly showing her disdain for Paris Hilton but isn't she friends with Nicole??? You decide… click here for the clip.


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Ireland has been stunned by a rare child -murder, the death of 12-year-old schoolgirl Michaela Davis who was raped and strangled last weekend.
A baby-faced 18-year-old neighbor, Jonathan Byrne, has already been charged with her murder and has been remanded in custody in prison.
Michaela will be buried Thursday this week by the priest who officiated at her Confirmation three months ago, her parish priest Father John Daly.
The youngster, who lived in Porterstown, Dublin, moved from national school during the summer to start her first secondary school term last Thursday at Luttrellstown Community College close to her home in West Dublin.
She left the family home shortly after midnight on Friday after telling her parents she was stepping out for a couple of minutes. When she didn't return by 2 a.m. the alarm was raised and a search started.
Just over 13 hours later her body was discovered on a grassy slope on the banks of the Royal Canal by a man walking his dog. Immediately a Garda (police) hunt with 80 officers was established to find her killer.
While the murder hunt continued cops warned that Michaela, as a 12-year-old who had recently been hanging around with older children and young adults, was vulnerable and may have been exploited.
Young neighbors said she was "a sweet young girl" who had begun drinking and smoking in recent months and was capable of passing herself of as a 16 or 17-year-old when she wore heavy make-up.
She had been going out with a boy who thought she was 17, and when he discovered her true age he broke the affair off three weeks before Michaela died.
Her bicycle was discovered in a separate area to where her body was discovered with signs of strangling.
The heartbroken mother and father of Michaela Davis, Deirdre and Brendan, rejected much of the accusations of her young neighbors and spoke of how they are living through every parent's worst nightmare.
They described her death as "the needless loss of a girl barely beginning life," and said that their little girl was a child who was full of life and brought them much joy.
They spoke poignantly of how Michaela had been due to hand in her first secondary school homework on Monday.
In a statement released on behalf of the family they added, "She was very close to her mam, dad and brother Brendan. They were always there for one another. Michaela had started her first day of secondary school on Thursday last. She was given her first homework . . . never to be answered.
"All Michaela's friends are heartbroken at the moment and cannot get their heads around this tragedy, no more than the rest of the extended family and friends. This situation is not and never will be about the crime or the perpetrator. It's about Michaela and the realization of a parent's worst fear -- to lose a child so full of life."
Byrne, of Clonsilla, Dublin, not far from Michaela's home, walked into a police station with his father within hours of the discovery of her body, and detectives soon said they weren't seeking anybody else for the murder.
Byrne was later brought before Dublin District Court, charged with the murder.
The court heard that he made no reply when charged. He was given free legal aid, and Judge Patrick Clyne also agreed that he be given medical attention. He is due back in court on Friday.
Counselors were in attendance to deal with students' grief at both the national school attended by Michaela before the summer recess and the secondary school after the break.


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Icahn: Netflix Sale Has 'Crossed Our Minds'
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He also thinks "nobody has a better platform than Netflix" to take advantage of a trend that is seeing consumers view more and more video via Internet-connected TVs, tablets and smartphones. Icahn believes Netflix should place less emphasis on older library content and spend a lot more developing original programming to help it compete with premium subscription services such as HBO. For more, check out the interview below:
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Florida's third-day draftees sign deals
Florida's third-day selections in the 2014 NFL Draft have all signed deals with their new teams. Cornerback Jaylen Watkins (Philadelphia Eagles) and offensive lineman Jon Halapio (New England Patriots) put pen to paper Monday. Linebacker Ronald Powell inked his contract Friday with the New Orleans Saints. Watkins on his versatility: "I'm more comfortable at corner, but over the years, I've gotten very comfortable at safety and it's kind of come second-hand. I played it for two years at Florida so it kind of… Read More »


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BIRMINGHAM, Mich. - The history of The Townsend Hotel in Birmingham began 25 years ago, with a famous guest who stayed in the hotel before it was officially open to the public.
"Morgan Fairchild was our very first guest. We opened on June 1st, but we actually put her in the house the night before, so she was the only person in the hotel the night before," said Kitty Adler, senior sales manager for the Townsend Hotel.
Adler is one of three employees who has worked at the hotel since it first opened it's doors in 1988.
"We started with Rod Stewart, then Elton John came in, and Michael Jackson and boom, boom, boom. One would check out, the other one would check in, one would check out, the other one would check in for 14 days running. We were crazy and we had no restaurant," said Adler.
The Townsend, located in downtown Birmingham, gained fame by partnering with The Palace of Auburn Hills and providing the accommodations for the entertainers that performed there.
The hotel's director of catering, Joanie Sams, fondly remembers Bill Cosby.
"I got him all interested in his room, made him a cup of cappuccino and he said 'Where are you going?' And I said 'Excuse me?' and he said 'Sit down. I don't like to be alone so I'll do my skit for you tonight," said Joanie Sams, director of catering. So I sat there and watched him do his show and then I was front row at The Palace. He asked me to attend that night., so that was a highlight," said Sams.
Sams has also worked at the hotel since it opened.
Adler remembers Wayne Newton and Billy Joel.
"Wayne Newton was pretty cool, I know that sounds really weird, but he was, he, the man is so tall and when he came through the doors it was like holy smokes," said Adler. "Billy Joel was pretty cool too. He is an amazing, funny, funny guy and he would play the piano in the lobby and just didn't care, just had a blast."
The hotel employees also recalled big events in their history, including begin the host hotel for the Ryder Cup in 2004, the first one in the United States after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
We went through training as far as if there was going to be a threat and how to handle it and bomb scares and that's all before the teams arrived," said Sams.
Adler said they work hard to know all their guests and understand what they would like during their stay.
Steven Kalczynski, The Townsend's managing director, said the hotel's standard of service is the same for all guests.
"A Silver Anniversary is certainly noteworthy for a business of any kind, and we are grateful to our loyal local customers, and those guests from around the globe, who have allowed us to host them for the past 25 years," said Steven Kalczynski, managing director of The Townsend Hotel. "As we approach this milestone, we look to honor the traditions that got us to this point, while we proudly integrate additions and improvements that will get us to the next one."
The hotel said it recently renovated its Rugby Grille complete with a new interior, new wine selection of more than 10,000 bottles and a new menu with local ingredients. The Townsend also remodeled its Townsend Bakery, several Presidential Suites, and will do more room upgrades later this year.
"Now we feature our wine offerings on a tablet. So we have over 10,000 bottles, over $140,000 worth of wine that will now offer in the Rugby Grille," said Kalczynski. "It's a very exciting time to be here."
People don't have to be guests of the hotel to enjoy some of the amenities including the Rugby Grille, The Corner Bar, Afternoon Tea at The Townsend and a variety of bakery, banquet and catering services.
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Wabash College is pleased to welcome Norman Schumaker on Friday, April 2 at 12 noon. Schumaker will speak on the topic "Science, Technology and Business: The Evolving Challenge for the Future." The lecture will take place in room 319 in the Science Building.
Schumaker holds a degree in chemistry from Wabash College and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from MIT. He has had a diverse career that includes a long tenure with Bell Laboratories, multiple successful start-up companies, and his current venture, Molecular Imprints in Austin, Texas.
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U.S. stock market futures turned narrowly mixed Monday despite fresh worries over Italy and ongoing negotiations over the looming "fiscal cliff."
Over the weekend, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti announced he will resign after Italy's 2013 budget is approved. Monti's announcement came shortly after the party of former Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, withdrew its support for Monti's technocratic government.
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U.S. Senate Approves Budget
By JANET HOOK And KRISTINA PETERSON
Updated March 23, 2013, 6:33 a.m. ETWASHINGTON—The Senate early Saturday passed its first formal budget in four years, defining Democrats' fiscal principles for the next, uncertain stage of Washington's battle over debt, spending and taxes.
The setting sun is reflected in the windows of the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill, Friday.The Democratic-drafted budget, approved narrowly a couple hours before dawn, calls for almost $1 trillion in new taxes over the next decade to help reduce the deficit. Although the budget is nonbinding and isn't likely to become law, it fleshes out Democrats' vision of a plan to reduce the deficit while protecting safety-net programs. The Senate passed the budget 50-49, largely along party lines.
"The solution to our fiscal challenges will not be found in deep cuts to programs that vulnerable families depend on," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D., Wash.) as she closed debate on the blueprint.
Republicans said the plan did too little to reduce the deficit, especially compared with House Republicans' plan to balance the budget in 10 years. "Honest people can disagree on policy, but there can be no disagreement on the need to change our debt course," said Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Budget Committee. "The House budget changes our debt course, while the Senate budget does not."
The Senate approved the budget after voting on a slew of amendments stretched through the night. Among them, the Senate Friday adopted an amendment aimed at giving states more authority to collect sales taxes from out-of-state Internet retailers.
The budget plan was opposed by four Democrats who are up for re-election in 2014: Sen. Max Baucus (D., Mont.), Kay Hagan (D., N.C.), Mark Pryor (D., Ark.) and Mark Begich (D., Alaska). All of the Senate's Republicans voted against the plan and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.) didn't vote.
Congress will be out of town for a two-week spring recess after three months of budget wrangling in which Congress passed a major tax increase, raised the federal debt limit, allowed $85 billion in spending cuts to take effect and enacted a bill to keep the government operating through Sept. 30.
But the end of that flurry of activity is just the beginning of the next, more amorphous phase of budgeting. It isn't clear whether or how Democrats can bridge the vast differences between their Senate budget and the version passed by the Republican-controlled House Thursday. The GOP budget enshrines conservative fiscal principles that are anathema to Democrats, raising no taxes and making substantial cuts in Medicare and other safety-net programs.
It is unlikely that the differences will be resolved in textbook legislative fashion—through a House-Senate conference committee to negotiate a compromise. Instead, lawmakers predict any big budget deal would emerge from high-level negotiations with the White House. President Barack Obama has tried to reach out to Republicans who might be willing to work with him on a deficit-reduction deal that includes both tax increases and spending cuts. So far, nothing concrete has come of those efforts.
But members of both parties said that passage of the two budgets was a precondition to further progress, allowing both parties to speak to their political base before talking further with each other.
"No budget is going to be perfect for everyone, but this is a credible, important first step in the process," said Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.), a Senate Budget Committee member who has supported deeper spending cuts in bipartisan deals. "I look forward to moving to the next stage."
The next pressure point comes this spring and summer, when Congress will have to raise the federal debt limit or else let the U.S. Treasury run out of cash to pay its bills. House Republicans say they won't approve any debt increase unless it is paired with matching budget cuts. House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) has said his party's lawmakers will meet immediately after Congress returns in April to begin discussing what their price will be for raising the debt limit.
However, Mr. Obama has said he won't negotiate over that must-pass measure, and Republicans have been gun-shy about reviving their past strategy of threatening to delay a debt-limit increase to get their way.
Whenever or however a deal takes shape, the big questions are whether Mr. Obama is able to offer cuts in Medicare and other entitlement programs that are drastic enough to open the way for Republicans to compromise on taxes. And if so, whether there are enough Republicans open to including tax increases to build a majority without GOP leaders who are adamantly opposed.
The budget debate in the Senate laid bare the deep partisan divisions over numerous issues. Many amendments were rejected along strict party lines and were of little consequence because the entire budget is a nonbinding measure and destined not to become law.
Buried in the partisan onslaught, however, are two important tax proposals that came to test votes in the Senate for the first time. The first, passed Thursday, called for repealing a tax on medical devices that is part of Mr. Obama's health-care law; it passed by a wide bipartisan margin with support from many Democrats whose states are home to big device manufacturers.
The Senate approved an amendment that called for making it easier for states to collect sales tax from online retail sales. The measure opened divisions within both parties: Senators representing states that have sales taxes supported the amendment, while those from states that don't allied with online retailers in opposition to it.


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Weekend Linkdump
- We here at Mumpsimus Central do not indulge in wanton eating of dead turkeys, but many of our acquaintances (who do not indulge in first-person-plural reference to themselves) eat entire birds on Thanksgiving, and some of them even wonder at the pleasant sleepiness that follows their indulging. We've all heard of tryptophan, but what about two other words: intestinal melatonin?
- Spurious on writing and failure:
When your life fails, you can write, my life has failed; failure becomes success -- something has been achieved and this something bears what you have written. But if you were really a failure, would you have been able to write? Bad faith of writing: to have marshalled the strength to write, I am a failure is already to have left failure behind; you are a liar.
- The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck
- Classic Film Preview
- ON SPEC: The Blog
- Bud Parr quotes William Gass's essay "The Sentence Seeks Its Form" from the new issue of BookForum. The essay is not online, alas, though plenty of other things are (including a somewhat odd review by Bruce Sterling). The essay provides marvelous readings of the language in everybody from Shakespeare to Djuna Barnes, though the discussions are extended enough that they defy being soundbitten. So, in the interest of bringing more Gass to the internet, here's the most potentially controversial passage from the essay:
Breath that has sustained a life has been shaped into words useful to communicate a life. This breath is otherwise waste, which may be another reason why the text wanted to intestinalize itself. These words hope to find companions called a sentence, and the sentence, too, is seeking a paragraph it may enhance. The writer must be a musician -- accordingly. Look at what you've written, but later ... at your leisure. First -- listen. Listen to Joyce, to Woolf, to Faulkner, to Melville. And to the poets, above all.(For lots more Gass, see his recent Believer interview.)
Ah, but I have a story to tell, characters to create, a plot to contrive, you may, with incautious confidence, insist. No. That's what moviemakers do. They make hokum. You do not tell a story; your fiction will do that when your fiction is finished. What you make is music, and because your sounds are carriers of concepts, you make conceptual music, too.
- Abigail Nussbaum's blog, Asking the Wrong Questions has been full of meaty content recently. See, for instance, Gloriana by Michael Moorcock: Being A Positive Bad Review or A Negative Good Review.
- People buy fantasies
- Ahua, the Water Language (via LanguageHat)
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Unable to send email notification
Posted 09 December 2010 - 02:11 PM
any idea? does TNM support Exchange Server 2003? the program is installed in Domain network environment.
Posted 14 December 2010 - 06:01 AM
Posted 14 December 2010 - 06:14 AM
You should specify the server hostname or IP address explicitly in "File - Options - Email". The authorization can be disabled, if the Exchange Server recognizes your current user.
Posted 14 December 2010 - 06:22 AM
Posted 14 December 2010 - 07:08 AM
1. How do I set multiple recipients in Action send mail? by using ; or , to separate recipients?
2. I can select the same alert action on multiple items, but I have to manually to remove action for each item one at a time? any possible to have that handy feature?
3. Where to set monitor servers/devices by specifying TCP/UDP port only?
Thanks for your help...
I forgot to mention: in the Send email action properties window you should select "SMTP: Use from Options" (default is "Detect automatically", which uses the MX server querying by the email domain part).
Posted 14 December 2010 - 07:26 AM
2. There is no support for user actions on multiple items at the moment, but it may be added in the future.
3. "TCP/IP" probe. UDP is not supported at the moment.
Posted 14 December 2010 - 10:55 AM
1. Unfortunately multiple email recipients are not supported. You can create several email actions for that or use email groups (if supported by server).
2. There is no support for user actions on multiple items at the moment, but it may be added in the future.
3. "TCP/IP" probe. UDP is not supported at the moment.
Posted 20 December 2010 - 10:37 PM
Posted 21 December 2010 - 07:39 AM
Yes, we do, but unfortunately there is a bug with monitoring binary protocol ports. We will release an update in a few days which will have this issue fixed.
Posted 05 March 2011 - 11:23 AM
I just installed Total Network Monitor and having a very hard time getting the application to send me an email. I'm using a MS Exchange server and tried just about everything. My email server is working as I can send and receive emails. Even my NAS device can send out email notifications..
Can someone please help me?
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What address I have to put in the field "sender" of Action-send mail Windows?
thank you
Posted 23 December 2011 - 12:55 AM
The address that this email would be sent "from". It can be the same as the recipient address. If you use SMTP authentication, it should correspond to the user account you specify.
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Wee Read, a program offered by Rodman Library's Children's Department, is designed to introduce children to books, fingerplays and music incorporating the six early learning skills. Patrons, ages birth through two years, and their parents or caregivers are invited to Wee Read, Monday evenings, from 6:30-7:00 p.m. and Wednesday mornings, from 10:30-11:00 a.m.
Wee Read will be held in the Children's Program Room at Rodman Main Library. Sessions last 20-30 minutes. No registration is required. Come as often as you like. For more information, call the Children's Department at 330-821-2665, ext. 223.


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The Semester in St. Petersburg or Moscow
Bucknell offers students of Russian an opportunity to practice what they learn in class through either a semester's or summer's study in Moscow or St. Petersburg. Currently Bucknell accepts credit from four programs, all of them excellent, but each with its individual strengths. Before selecting one of these programs, students consult with the Russian Program faculty on which one is best suited for his or her needs. Normally, students spend a semester of their junior year in Russia.
The School of International Training offers a program in St. Petersburg which provides homestays in apartments with Russian families. Often the student is 'adopted' as the brother or sister of Russian children of similar ages. Not only does the homestay provide constant contact with the language and insights into the culture of Russia, but security for the participant as well. In addition to the normal course of studies, this programs also provides a work internship in some US, Russian, or joint venture company.
The University of Boston program in Moscow is similar to the SIT program in that it offers both homestays and internships in addition to a regular course of study. Often these internships result in permanent job offers. The courses offered in all these programs generally include one or two grammar courses at the student's current level plus courses in Russian culture and civilization, history and politics, geography and economics. Field trips to historical and cultural monuments also play an important role in these programs.
The Institute of International Education provides excellent courses at the University of St. Petersburg with housing in the university dormitories where US students live with Russian roommates. The Russian roommates not only help with the adjustment to life in Russia, but provide a 'ready-made' clique friends for the Bucknellian. Special security is provided by the University and IIE.
The University of Illinois program at the Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language in Moscow is the fourth program currently approved by Bucknell. It offers the regular course of study with living arrangements under special security in the International Hotel not far from Moscow University. The courses are similar to those offered by other programs, however, in the most prestigious Russian language institute in Russia.
Students who cannot study abroad for a semester may study for 6-8 weeks in Russia in the summer under programs similar to the semester programs. These shorter programs are not as effective a means of learning the language and culture as the semester programs; however, those accepted for Bucknell credit are adequate in both respects.


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She is approximately 1-year old with a soft, medium-to-long fur coat that is very dark brown (with light brown stomach and neck and some tiger-striping). She has striking yellow eyes and tufts of extra-long fur in her ears and her on paws. Cookie is extremely timid and has both front and rear sets of claws. Her tail is bushy. If you think you've seen our cat, please contact us at any time.
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UPDATE: The Mega Millions jackpot climbs to $1.6 billion.
UPDATE: No one won the latest Mega Millions drawing, meaning the jackpot climbs to a staggering $1.6 billion.
Mega Millions officials say no tickets matched all six numbers to claim the estimated $1 billion grand prize in Friday night's drawing.
The next drawing will be Tuesday, October 23rd. The $1.6 billion estimated jackpot would be the largest prize in U.S. history. The second-largest jackpot was a $1.586 billion Powerball drawing on January 13, 2016.
The Mega Millions jackpot has been growing since July, when a group of California office workers won $543 million.
It costs $2 to play the game. The odds of winning the jackpot aren't good. The chance of matching all six numbers and taking home the grand prize is one in 302.5 million.
Mega Millions is played in 44 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
UPDATE: The numbers for the Mega Millions, $1 billion prize have been drawn.
The winning numbers for the $1 billion Mega Millions drawing Friday are 15 23 53 65 70 and Mega Ball 7.
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MEGA Millions Winning Numbers— California Lottery (@calottery) October 20, 2018
Friday, October 19, 2018 7:45 PM
The Mega Millions jackpot has soared to $1 billion, as the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. lottery history gets even bigger.
Lottery officials increased the grand prize just hours ahead of the Friday night drawing. The prize climbed from $970 million.
Although the jackpot keeps increasing , the odds of winning remain stuck at a miserable one in 302.5 million.
The prize has grown so large because no one has hit the jackpot since July 24, when a group in California won $543 million.
The $1 billion prize refers to the annuity option. Most winners opt for cash, which for Friday night's drawing would be $565 million.
Officials say that if there isn't a winner, the prize for Tuesday night's drawing would be $1.6 billion, tying the largest U.S. lottery prize.
Tonight's #MegaMillions jackpot has just increased to $1 BILLION!!!!!!!!!!— California Lottery (@calottery) October 19, 2018
The #MegaMillions Jackpot for Friday, October 19, 2018 will be $970 MILLION!!! #WOW #calottery #jackpot #almostabillion— California Lottery (@calottery) October 18, 2018
Friday's #MegaMillions jackpot has just been increased to $900 MILLION!!! #calottery #wow— California Lottery (@calottery) October 17, 2018
Mega Millions is played in 44 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
You can buy tickets at Gold Ranch, and Hallelujah Junction, located just across the California border. Also, if you live toward the south, the Mad Dog Cafe at Woodfords Station sells both Mega Millions and Powerball tickets. It's just four miles from the state line south of Gardnerville.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck on Saturday off the Pacific coast of the central American nation of Nicaragua, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
"Thank God, so far we haven't heard of any damage," government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo told local television and radio stations.
The quake, which was initially reported by the USGS as being magnitude 6.6, was felt as far away as El Salvador, according to a Reuters witness.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a tsunami warning but said there was no need for action.
"Based on all available data a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected and there is no tsunami threat to Hawaii," it said.
The USGS reported the quake's location at about 31 miles west of the Nicaraguan beach town of Masachapa.
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The All-Blacks from host New Zealand triumphed before their adoring public last week in the Rugby World Cup, defeating France in the final. Perhaps you watched the match on national TV.
Rugby is a sport of great international scope, the national game in Wales, South Africa, and New Zealand and popular in many other countries of the world. Rugby's following in the U.S. is growing.
I had a chance to travel to rugby-crazed New Zealand some years ago. I came home with a suitcase full of cool All-Blacks gear as gifts for kids and friends.


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The irrational imitation of the online news industry
All across Europe, journalistic online startups are launching, aiming to produce and disseminate news in new ways. In our brave new world, the nimble startups of tomorrow were supposed to be overtaking the lumbering dinosaurs of yesterday online. But nearly all of these startups, even the most impressive and innovative sites, are struggling to survive because they face structural and strategic challenges that are not always recognized upfront. To succeed, European journalistic startups need to recognize these challenges, move beyond simply imitating others and find their own paths ahead.
The structural challenges for European journalistic startups have to do with the competition they face in content and advertising.
Startups are trying to establish themselves in a market for online news that is dominated by legacy media like newspapers and broadcasters. New journalistic ventures, such as Netzeitung, Rue89 and Il Post, are competing not only with other startups but also with the popular online offerings of news organizations like Spiegel, Le Monde and La Reppublica. These incumbents, and others like them, have built their digital strategy around their well-known brands and content from their existing newsrooms. They fund them with profits from their (generally declining) offline operations. Together with a handful of aggregators and portals, such legacy players dominate online news provision in most European countries.
As European news startups compete with established news media on the content side, they are also trying to carve out a position in a market for online advertising. That market is already dominated by U.S.-based giants like Google (and increasingly Facebook). A few large players attract most of the advertising, while innumerable smaller websites with display advertising keep down rates (so-called CPMs, cost per thousand impressions), eroding the value of the audience that each journalistic venture manages to attract.
Those are the structural challenges. The strategic challenges, meanwhile, concern the tendency toward irrational imitation. Startups across Europe need to break with two kinds of imitation in particular to develop sustainable funding models for the future.
On the one hand, many startups imitate what has been the dominant model for online news for the last 20 years. They produce content, make it available to users for free and try to cover costs by placing advertisements on their site. This doesn't work. News that is free at the point of consumption has worked for broadcast television, radio and for-free newspapers for decades. But because of the structural challenges of online advertising outlined above, the model is not working on the Internet. Most sites operating on this basis are operating at a loss, and have done so for years. It is not clear that the dynamics of online news and online advertising are likely to change anytime soon, so to launch a site based on this model expecting to break even is a clear case of irrational imitation – doing the same thing, hoping for a different outcome.
On the other hand, many startups imitate what they perceive to be successful online news ventures operating elsewhere. A colleague and I have conducted research on this across Europe, and the most often evoked sites are U.S.-based, like the Huffington Post, Politico and Gawker. At first glance, this seems sensible. Surely ambitious startups should model themselves on established market leaders?
There are, however, two problems here. First, the context European startups operate in is different from the one some of their American counterparts have succeeded in. Even the largest European countries have no more than a quarter of the population of the United States (and, to boot, advertising spend per capita is often only about half of America's). A venture that can find a profitable niche for itself in a country with more than 310 million inhabitants will have a harder time breaking even in a country like Germany with 82 million people (let alone my native Denmark with 5.5 million). Second, the market leaders themselves are expanding across the world. Launching a site that would be, in effect, "the Huffington Post of country X" may have seemed like a promising idea in the spring of 2011. But by the spring of 2012, a certain Arianna Huffington had had the same idea and had announced the launch of HuffPo-branded sites in Canada, the UK, France, Italy and Germany. What is the distinct value of the local imitator then?
From the point of view of an individual journalistic online startup, the structural challenges outlined above are, for the time being, simply facts of life. Newspapers and broadcasters, together with existing aggregators and portals, dominate online news provision. Google and other U.S.-based giants dominate online advertising, while millions of smaller sites keep the value of each unique visitor and pageview low. That's the way it is, and though it may change, startups themselves can't do much about it.
What they can do, however, is put an end to the irrational imitation and develop strategies designed to build more diverse business models, ones focused on producing relevant and distinct editorial products that set them apart from their existing competitors. Advertising-supported online news production did not work for Netzeitung in Germany (which in 2009 shut down its newsroom after nine years of consecutive losses), did not work for Rue89 in France (impressive and innovative as it was, the site never broke even and was bought by the weekly newsmagazine Le Nouvel Observateur in 2011), and is not working for Il Post (widely considered one of the most promising startups in Italy, the site generated revenues of just 35,000 euros in its first year of operation, resulting in an operating loss of more than 150,000 euros out of a total budget of little more than 200,000 euros). Why should we expect it to work for other startups when all these widely praised ventures, and many more besides, failed to pull it off?
Startups hoping to break even need to stop imitating the (non-existing) online advertising model and build a much wider set of revenue streams, potentially including – to take examples from the current European startup scene – digital subscriptions, donations, consultancy services, live events, event planning and e-commerce. (In the case of the German site the European and some of the European editions of the Huffington Post, advertorials are also part of the mix.) They also need to stop imitating the dominant kinds of content, format and forms of dissemination favored by incumbents and the models of the (few) American success stories. Startups can't beat the top newspapers and broadcasters, let alone Google and Facebook, at their own online game. To succeed, they need to find their own way.
PHOTO: Anne Sinclair (R), editorial director of the French version of the Huffington Post, the U.S. news and opinion website, and Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, attend a news conference for the launching of "Le Huffington Post" in Paris, January 23, 2012. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
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european online news providers need a european-focused search engine
the bias towards anglo-american news model reflects the scale of predatory economics and their vassals in the form of search engines
(quote, Wkipedia) Search Engine Bias: Although search engines are programmed to rank websites based on their popularity and relevancy, empirical studies indicate various political, economic, and social biases in the information they provide.[15][16] These biases could be a direct result of economic and commercial processes (e.g., companies that advertise with a search engine can become also more popular in its organic search results), and political processes (e.g., the removal of search results in order to comply with local laws).[17] Google Bombing is one example of an attempt to manipulate search results for political, social or commercial reasons.


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Apple ... blah blah blah ... Google ... blah blah blah ... Patent ... blah blah blah ... Search ... blah blah blah ... Banned ... Blah blah blah.
Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a shit. Lawyers are doing what lawyers are wont to do. This is only growing more ridiculous with each passing day.
In fact, here's how much I don't care. We're going to give away another Galaxy Nexus right here, right now. Because despite this ruling, they're still shipping. It's just lawyers being lawyers.
Here's how to win: Leave a comment in this post about how messed up all this patent nonsense is. We'll pick a winner by noon EST Saturday, June 30. Everyone's invited. Not just in the U.S.
Here are a few links about today's news, if you still wanna read more: Reuters; FOSS Patents


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As the White Sox come out of the All-Star break, two things seem certain:
One, Ozzie Guillen's teams will play under .500, and two, Kenny Williams will play toy soldiers.
In Guillen's seven previous seasons, the Sox are a combined 13 games under .500 after the break. Guillen's teams have finished with losing records in four of the seven second halves, and a fifth looks like a gimme when it starts with 12 straight games against the AL Central, a bad division that nonetheless still pantses the Sox.
Which brings us to Williams, who created this underachieving roster, so, now what? People ask whether Williams will be a buyer or a seller, and of course, the answer is yes. Anyone who has been paying attention realizes that Williams has a standing appointment in every trade rumor. He plays toy soldiers and will continue to do so until his cell phone batteries and Chairman Reinsdorf's patience and finances hold out.
Problem is, teams are not going to buy what the Sox seemingly would like to sell (looking at you, Alex Rios and Adam Dunn). And teams won't sell anything good to the Sox in exchange for what they're most likely to buy.
Which brings us to Edwin Jackson, the Sox starter who is rumored to be all over the place. Jackson's name came first in Gonzo's list of likely trade possibilities in today's Trib, and I can see why teams would call about Jackson. He often gives a team a chance to win, but mostly, he gives a team innings and can save the bullpen. That's not what you see on a Hall of Fame plaque, but that matters in the second half of the year.
And it ought to matter to the Sox, who find themselves in an odd situation that might make Jackson one of their more untouchable players. Sounds kind of silly, I know, and that's certainly not a new position for me. I mean, Edwin Jackson, untouchable? A guy with a 4.30 ERA untouchable? On a third-place team that could be in fourth place by next week?
Well, yes, and here's why: If the Sox believe they're in a postseason race --- stop laughing and let me finish --- then they seemingly can't afford to trade any starting pitcher as long as the expensive, untradeable and increasingly achy Jake Peavy can't pitch as often or as big as he talks.
The man who called out his teammates for lacking intensity from the first pitch on won't be able to make his first pitch of the second half as scheduled. Originally slated to pitch Sunday in Detroit, Peavy will pitch Tuesday, which is about as far back as you can get in a six-man rotation that was created primarily to accommodate Peavy, as well as to ride the surprise that has been Philip Humber.
Peavy's body apparently feels as badly as his ERA looks since his relief appearance against Washington almost three weeks ago. John Danks went down, Peavy came on to relieve and then had to pitch every fifth day. Forget it. Can't do it. Peavy has lost velocity, sharpness and games, going 0-2 with a 7.72 ERA in his last three batting practice sessions that some charitably called starts.
Danks is coming back to give the Sox six starters, and people figure that's the move --- the Sox have an excess of starters and starting pitching brings the most in a deal.
But no. The Sox don't have an excess of starting pitching. With Danks healthy, they have five starters and Peavy. Any young arm you might want in place of a traded Jackson seemingly has already been traded or isn't ready. Besides, a team that considers itself to be a contender, like the Sox do (stop laughing, please), will try to fortify its staff by bringing in a veteran such as Jackson.
Next question would be: What would Jackson bring you? A run-producer? That's what the Sox need, right? Well, I'm not sure who that run-producer might be, but it's insane to make a deal that costs you a starting pitcher before you see if Dayan Viciedo is that guy. I know the pipeline from the Sox farm system to The Cell usually achieves drought levels, and we're all sick of the overhyped, overhaired, underwhelming Gordon Beckham, but Vicedo needs at-bats up here.
And again, how is Viciedo not here already? Guillen's Juan Pierre bromance? Williams' trying to slow Viciedo's arbitration clock?
Whatever, it's one of the most inexplicable situations in an inexplicably bad Sox season. The Sox refuse to embrace a prospect with a big bat while attaching themselves to Peavy's surgically reattached right latissimus dorsi that accomplished the impossible: making Jackson pretty much untouchable.
Just in case you weren't sure how screwed up this season continues to be.


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America's Anti-Catholic Turnaround
- "How Anti-Catholicism Helped Fuel the American Revolution"
- "Why George Washington Should Be the Pope's Hero"
During the lead up to revolution, rebels seeking to stoke hatred of Great Britain routinely equated the practices of the Church of England with that of the Catholic Church. In the late 1760s and early 1770s, colonists celebrated anti-Pope Days, an anti-Catholic festival derived from the English Guy Fawkes day (named for a Catholic who attempted to assassinated King James I). . . .At top is Paul Revere's cartoon "The Mitred Minuet," engraved for Isaiah Thomas's Royal American Magazine. It's another example of American anti-Catholic (and anti-Québec and anti-Scottish) propaganda.
Roger Sherman and other members of Continental Congress wanted to prohibit Catholics from serving in the Continental Army.
In 1774, Parliament passed the Quebec Act, taking the enlightened position that the Catholic Church could remain the official church of Quebec. This appalled and terrified many colonists, who assumed this to be a British attempt to subjugate them religiously by allowing the loathsome Catholics to expand into the colonies. Colonial newspapers railed against the Popish threat. . . . In Rhode Island, every single issue of the Newport Mercury from October 2, 1774 to March 20, 1775 contained "at least one invidious reference to the Catholic religion of the Canadians," according to historian Charles Metzger.
However, Anti-Catholicism is also a clear example of how American Patriots changed their tenets, or at least their policies. At the start of the war they were trying to be more British than the British, and thus more anti-Catholic. But they soon realized they wanted to win over the French Catholic inhabitants of Canada, which meant toning down the "evil Papists" talk.
Gen. George Washington, not from New England and skeptical of people's abilities to discern the ways of providence, was a leading voice for religious acceptance. Waldman wrote, "On September 14, 1775, he banned the practice of burning effigies of the Pope once a year." I think that's a reference to Washington's letter on how to treat the Canadians and accompanying orders to Col. Benedict Arnold. But those documents applied only to Arnold's small contingent in Canada.
On 5 November, Washington took the bigger step by ordering his own larger body of troops around Boston, most of them New Englanders, not to celebrate Pope Night:
As the Commander in Chief has been apprized of a design form'd for the observance of that ridiculous and childish custom of burning the Effigy of the pope—He cannot help expressing his surprise that there should be Officers and Soldiers in this army so void of common sense, as not to see the impropriety of such a step at this Juncture; at a Time when we are solliciting, and have really obtain'd, the friendship and alliance of the people of Canada, whom we ought to consider as Brethren embarked in the same Cause. The defence of the general Liberty of America: At such a juncture, and in such Circumstances, to be insulting their Religion, is so monstrous, as not to be suffered or excused; indeed instead of offering the most remote insult, it is our duty to address public thanks to these our Brethren, as to them we are so much indebted for every late happy Success over the common Enemy in Canada.At the time, one of the general's senior aides at headquarters was Stephen Moylan, an Irish immigrant to Pennsylvania whose brother Francis had just become the Roman Catholic bishop of Kerry. Moylan might even have drafted that paragraph for the commander-in-chief's approval. I don't think a lot of the New England troops or officers knew about his background, however.
Later the Congress made alliances with France and Spain, only a few years after some of those same American politicians had accused those Catholic powers of conspiring against their British liberties. Soon after the war, even Boston had a Catholic church, and the federal government required itself to be neutral on all religious questions. (Tax support for Congregationalist churches continued in most of New England for decades.) This was one of the biggest turnarounds of the Revolutionary movement, so complete that most of us don't recognize the religious prejudices it started out with.


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President Calls Wabash to Excellence
by Jim Amidon
October 21, 2010
President Pat White gave the quintessential pep talk to the men of Wabash at Thursday's Chapel, which ended with a particularly inspired rendition of
Old Wabash
The President introduced the question he has posed throughout the strategic planning process and in the upcoming major gifts initiative, the Challenge of Excellence.
"Why a challenge of excellence," he asked the students, faculty, and staff in attendance. "Is this a mere slogan to hang a fund-raising effort on? A tag line, a catch phrase?"
Alumni donors, faculty, staff, and students will gather October 29 to formally kick off the five-year, $60 million fund raising initiative.
"The challenge Wabash now faces and has always faced is the challenge to be excellent," President White said. "That is the challenge for the College, because it is the challenge you here today and all the men and women of Wabash commit to face every day and fulfill every day."
The president walked the crowd through the four goals of the Challenge of Excellence, which mirror the top priorities of the strategic plan: scholarships and financial aid for worthy students; funds for faculty recruitment and development; increased opportunities for immersion learning courses and study abroad; and an enhanced career development program.
He asked students and faculty to raise their hands if they wanted opportunities for collaborative research and immersion learning courses. With scores of hands raised, the president said, "That's what we're going to make happen through this campaign."
"All over the country young men are going to college — going to colleges that don't take them seriously as students or citizens. Wabash challenges you young men to take your lives seriously. That is our great gift. And your honor is that you accepted that challenge."
Students who accept the challenge in turn challenge the College to be great, he said. "You say, 'Push me to an excellence and push the College to an excellence we do not even understand yet.'"
President White then talked about the three questions that too often lead to lives of mediocrity: Why bother? Who cares? What difference will it make? When students realize that excellence matters to each and every one of them,
— the Greek word for excellence — happens.
Excellence happens "when we say, 'I will take my life seriously. I will be a hero in my own story.'
"The choice between excellence and mediocrity makes a difference to me, to you, to Wabash; it makes all the difference in the world… To all of us, excellence is a team sport."
The President also said perfection is not required. "Excellence and the pursuit of excellence is what matters."
He also told stories of individual alumni, students, and faculty in their various pursuits of excellence, from cross country runners Justin Allen and Brian David to young alumnus Ted Zimmer '09 to the entire cast of the theater department's production of
The Incident at Vichy
"When we say that Wabash will be better for our time here, that is meeting the Challenge of Excellence," rallied President White. "When we commit ourselves to our work of teaching and learning, there is the Challenge of Excellence. When we work to recruit young men to make a difference at Wabash, that is the challenge of excellence. And when we make it easy to tell our story to a larger world, we live out the challenge of excellence for Wabash."
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30 August 2010
Answer question without testing?
"Am I supposed to be able to answer these questions without actually running the code and testing it? :)"
Excellent question! When I take my own quizzes to establish "minimum reasonable time to answer" (which I then use to make adjustments for very fast answers), I rarely actually write code to verify the choices I make.
But I cannot imagine how, for many of these quizzes, you could not take the time to do this, if you wanted to really be certain that your choices were correct.
Here's another way of putting it: unless you have the same depth of familiarity with PL/SQL that I do, you would at best recognize the overall appropriateness of a given choice. You would be hard-pressed, however, to feel very certain that a choice is correct without writing some code to test out your hypothesis.
That is why so many players express deep skepticism when they see other players answer questions correctly in 20 seconds that they take over 100 seconds to sort through.
So, yes, by all means, write some code, test out the choices, and learn about the features of PL/SQL in a way that will stick in your brain (the reinforcement of typing out the code will help lots).
Cheers, Steven
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Thanks for you reply Steven :)ReplyDelete
I see what you mean about the PL/SQL Challenge questions being quite different than the ones you asked in the Live Quiz at your presentation in Perth.
I noticed that a lot of the questions involve transcribing PL/SQL from your image (making sure not to make a typo, which I might add is a very important skill when it comes to preventing bugs), compile it, run it, and (hopefully) understand it.
I hope to see more challenges which involve more than testing our transcribing skills, not just 'does it compile', 'does it run' or 'does it output'.
Looking forward to the challenges :)
I am not sure why you feel you need to transcribe all the code word for word. Certainly, if you are not familiar with a given area of functionality, you will want at a minimum to write some code to verify how something works. I suppose if you want to be 100% sure I don't have some typo or trick in my code (which I work hard to avoid and for which you will not be penalized anyway), you would transcribe it all, but I don't see that as necessary.


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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Bye Bye Wheelock Place
Bye bye Wheelock Place:
We'll be taking a while to move out so there'll be a moving sale and lots of packing to do over the next few weeks. And just in case you're wondering, classes will still be on in March but come April, us teachers will be moving too ....to PaperMarket that is :) Promise you'll come by and visit me in my 'new home' K?
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- Sharon said...
awww ... i will really miss you laines in wheelock .. I remember that small corner shop where i first ventured into ... the one with the table in the middle where everybody sees what you teaching ... the FOAM STAMPS which we all thought was pretty cool that time .. and my "degree" from SDU .. my first teaching class ... the squeeze !!!! .. ahhhhh LAINES DUN MOVE CAN ???
- March 8, 2012 at 10:55 AM
- Sharon said...
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- March 8, 2012 at 10:55 AM
- Julie Tucker-Wolek said...
I loveeeeeeee the photos!!
- March 8, 2012 at 12:12 PM
- Blossom inch said...
if I am in SGP of course I will visit you Sharon!!
- March 8, 2012 at 5:06 PM
- Sue Lui said...
I will miss Laines at Wheelock. I remember your first shop, the little one that took over from the Lingerie shop. I remember the scent of the place. And the table in the middle of the shop where you demonstrated the first die cut machine. And where Sharon showed me how to use a circle cutter. Aahhh... memories. :D
- March 8, 2012 at 8:54 PM
- Grace said...
Yes me too! Wheelock is not going to be the same anymore. The scrapbooking smell will be greatly missed. And I love the sky too! But all good things will come to an end in preparation for better things in life! I'm sure the new home will be brilliant with the same if not better smell!
- March 8, 2012 at 9:08 PM
totally know what you meant when you spoke about the sky and the smell. I love PM and all too... but it just isn't the same as Laines. Was just telling Jaz how I love the sunlight coming into the classroom too! :(
Can I come and take photos?!!?
- March 9, 2012 at 9:54 AM
- Lydia said...
I'll miss Laines at Wheelock of cos! I'll be there with my little girl 1 day before it officially close. My fav scrapbook store...awww man~
- March 9, 2012 at 6:04 PM
- Heather Jacob said...
gorgeous post Sharon .. and love the photos ... always sad when something ends but there is always something better around the corner .. love and hugz Heather x
- March 10, 2012 at 8:51 AM
- ExamSheets said...
You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.
- March 14, 2012 at 6:39 PM
- ALICE WAHYUNI said...
Yeaahh...the smell....can you move the smell to new place too Sharon?! ...please?!?
- March 21, 2012 at 11:41 PM


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Hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!
We had a great weekend full of relaxing and fun. I am reminded on holidays such as this though of the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform make each and every day for us. Kevin spent four years serving as a Marine and two of them while married. In fact, our first six months of marriage were spent apart because of a sudden deployment to Japan. I'm grateful that he was never in harms way and I am especially grateful for the servicemen that are. I commiserate with spouses and families that have to be away from a loved one for an extended period of time…
Back to what's been going on over here decorating-wise: here's a neat little project that I've been working on to create nursery art out of favorite gifts and keepsake clothing.
I have a few adorable outfits that are almost too cute to wear (almost) and when placed inside of a frame, make the perfect wall art.
To add a twist, the back of the frame is lined in a modern print – gives it a little something extra.
Clothing Art
Materials: shadow box or deep frame (mine is from Aaron Brothers – 40% off coupon!), fabric remnant, art to feature (clothing, handmade baby blanket, etc), map pins or sewing pins, glue
{1.} I found a square frame at Aaron Brothers that fit my little swim suit perfectly. It was built like a shadow box and deep enough to allow the suit to be pinned inside without coming too far out of the frame when mounted.
{2.} Fabric remnants or samples are great for a project just like this (I chose Gabriel in putty by Thibaut Designs). Measure your frame and cut out a square two inches wider on each side to allow for an extra large hem.
{3.} Flip frame over and remove backing, cardboard, mat and glass. Line up cardboard insert directly over fabric cutout (make sure back of fabric is facing up). Save mat and glass for another project, set backing aside.
Using standard glue, line the edge of the cardboard with a thick line.
{4.} Fold over each edge of fabric, gluing corners as you go. The geometric print on my fabric helped to make sure that my design was straight on the reverse side, you may want to flip over to confirm before gluing into place. Don't worry if your adhesive doesn't hold 100%, the next step will ensure the fabric doesn't move.
{4.} Press cardboard and fabric firmly into the back of your frame, the fit should be snug.
{5.} Press frame backing into place.
{6.} Using sewing or map pins (which can be found at office supply stores such as Staples), attach garment to fabric/cardboard combination. I cut my pins to about half their length to really conceal them within the bathing suit.
Pin various edges of the clothing so that the final piece is securely against the frame when hung up.
{7.} And that's it – now you can hang or display!
This would look very neat as a collage of antique outfits (baptismal gowns, handmade baby caps, etc) over a dresser, or as cute, modern accessories (booties, hats, etc) lined up in a row of three down the wall.
It's an easy, inexpensive way to display favorite baby items and gifts, and it's a great way to personalize a nursery. I love this little bathing suit (a gift from my Aunt) and I love how it looks perched atop Liv's bookcase!
Woah this is getting long. It's about time I get some final room pics posted. More Project Nursery posts: handmade butterfly mobile, diy crib skirt, basket liners part 2, basket liners part 1, the great glider makeover, sewing the curtains part 1, part 2, part 3, nursery fabric board, curtain fabric selection, rocking horse find, new pendant light, new sconce lighting, vintage wall art addition, changing table makeover, nursery wall striping tutorial, painted animal project, the initial inspiration board and the before picture posts.


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President Obama said Friday he has halted a health care insurance program that was portion of the massive health care law which was passed in 2010 due to cost concerns.
This program is called the CLASS Act (Community Living Assistance Services and Supports) and it was cancelled to find a way to make it more financially viable.
The secretary said that "Despite our best analytical efforts, I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time." in a letter to Congress
The CLASS health insurance program was similar to some long-term care plans available in the private sector in which workers can sign up if needed and pay a monthly premium. It was totally voluntary and was to be paid for entirely by the premiums from those who signed up. In return, the health insurance subscribers would get a daily benefit.
But a senior administration official told a news journalist that there were big issues if the CLASS health insurance program could be self sustaining even when the national health care reform law was being considered by the Congress. And due to this, the lawmakers specified that the secretary had to decide that the health care insurance program would be sustainable for at least 50 years before certifying it.
"This could have led to a vicious cycle where premiums would have to be set higher and higher to cover the likely costs of benefits, leading fewer and fewer healthier people to sign up for the health care program," the secretary mentioned. She said she wasn't giving up yet.
"So even as we suspend work on implementing the health care insurance program, we are recommitting ourselves to the ultimate goal of making sure all Americans can get the long-term health care they need, whether it's a working-age mom with disabilities who needs daily support right now or a young man at his first job who wants to protect himself and his family against the possibility of huge long-term health care costs in the future," She mentioned.
Responding to the secretary's decision, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement, "The Obama administration today acknowledged what they refused to admit when they passed their partisan health bill: the health care CLASS Act was a budget gimmick that might enhance the numbers on a Washington bureaucrat's spreadsheet but was expected to fail in the real world."
McConnell said the health care CLASS Act "is only one of the unwise, unsustainable parts of an unwise, unsustainable law."
"We should repeal the health care CLASS Act and the rest of the health spending law and replace it with the type of common-sense reforms that lower costs and Americans support," McConnell said. As of now, there is no solution out there and the universal health care seems impossible to happen in the United States since we can find a self-sustaining program which could dig a bigger financial hole for the Obama administration.


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For Women & Co. by Helen Jane Hearn, HelenJane.com
Have you exchanged flirtatious looks in the elevator? Left happy hour drinks with that one special person three cubicles over? You're not alone. With the U.S. ranking thirdExternal Site in terms of the number of yearly hours spent on the job, it's no wonder that we would seek romantic relationships at work. In the latest office romance poll from Vault.comExternal Site, 59% of employees surveyed say they've been involved in a romantic relationship with a colleague.
Younger workers seem to have embraced the office romance as the norm. According to a February 2012 poll by Workplace OptionsExternal Site, a human resource consultancy specializing in work-life balance, 84% of millennial employees (ages 17-34) say they would engage in romance with a co-worker, compared to 36% of Generation X workers (ages 30-45) and 29% of Baby Boomer employees (ages 46-65).
"The nature of human beings is to pair up, and the office is no exception," says Jennifer GolickExternal Site, a marriage and family counselor in Saint Helena, California. "Since the majority of adults spend 80% of their waking lives in their jobs, it's understandable that couples will form within that environment." Here are a few suggestions on the right and wrong ways to handle a workplace affair:
DO: Remain professional.
When in doubt, keep it a secret. Stephan Labossiere, an Atlanta-based certified relationship expert, coach, and publisher of StephanSpeaks.comExternal Site, encourages daters to err on the side of privacy. "Nobody needs to know your business!" he says. Golick agrees: "The biggest mistake that office couples make is bringing their relationship to work. Fighting at work or making relationship conflict known to other employees isn't appropriate."
DON'T: Ignore the handbook.
Office intimacies can lead to harassment accusations and lost productivityExternal Site, so checking your company policy is a great first step. If there's not a clearly defined dating policy, check the anti-harassment policy. "As a proactive approach, organizations should have clearly outlined policies about the expectations of those who are engaged in intimate relationships," says Golick.
The biggest mistake that office couples make is bringing their relationship to work.
DO: Date on your level.
Definitely avoid dating up or down the chain. Having a romance with your boss or your employee can be grounds for harassment charges, as the perception that the relationship isn't equal puts the company at a greater risk. In the Vault.com survey, 26% of participants say they have dated a subordinate, while 18% have dated a supervisor.
DON'T: Get carried away with social sharing.
With social media crossing the boundaries of private life and work life, you may want to reconsider sharing late-night photos taken with Joe from the accounting department. If it seems that Joe is giving you an unfair advantage due to your relationship, for example, letting you turn your expense reports in late, there could be grounds for dismissal.
DO: Have an exit strategy.
As in most business partnerships, an exit strategy should be one of the first things both parties agree to. While talking about a breakup early in a relationship can be sobering, it's worth the effort if too many issues are at stake. If the relationship becomes serious enough, it may be necessary to have one of the romantically involved seek employment elsewhere.
Workplace couples may have a commitment edge on couples that meet in other, more traditional ways. According to Vault.com's 2010 surveyExternal Site, 20% of office couples say their relationship led to marriage. Among the most famous married couples that met at work: President and First Lady Barack and Michelle ObamaExternal Site.
Romance in the workplace can be successful; it just takes a little extra handbook consulting. If the employee handbook isn't clear, a good practice is to be as discreet as possible. When it comes to office romance, you can't be too professional.


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This is a lesson/briefing about the Dawn mission and the significance of its ion propulsion system. Learners will consider cases of science fact versus science fictions, study the challenges of the Dawn mission, and apply the "History Frame"... (View More) strategy to investigate the who, what, when and how in the history and development of ion propulsion. This is activity 1 of 5 in Structure and Properties of Matter: Ion Propulsion. (View Less)
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We started out by stretching our content creation muscles with the Superhero Design Challenge. Participants were asked to look back at the "I think X makes the web special" and the "I think that X makes the web difficult to use" brainstorms that we did in session 1. They chose
"Captain Super wall- he has the power to throw fire balls at villains how try to cross the wall. A long time ago in a far school named cyber squad. were super wall a student was elected to go visit one of the most advanced technology in the hold city, but something when wrong in it's visit. he touched one of the controllers and he when into cyber world. it took him to firewall city. where his mission is to let good information go in and burn bad things.Then, they paired up and created an arch nemesis for their partner's superhero. Here is Captain Super Wall's arch nemesis, Title Wave:
"Title Wave sends title waves of info that is not needed does that because he thinks all info is good and also thinks that all info should have equal rights " - by YoussefNow that they had bios, they were ready for some publicity! They went into online news organization sites and remixed the pages to include stories of their characters saving the day, or ruining the day as it were. The youth had a great time taking photos with Photobooth on their computers and doing post production and image manipulation in Aviary:
They remixed the html and style with the X- Ray Goggles and presented their projects and talked a bit about how they trouble shooted problems with the coding.
We then discussed the various components that make up a
Participants used a prototype that Atul Varma and I worked on as a spin off of the Hackbook that Anna Debenham created to help users craft webpages from templates.
In the end, everyone made the "how to" pages and we all critiqued the structure, style and design of each presenters work.
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Overall the workshop was a success - we user tested old and new tools as well as curriculum and workshop participants came a way with 2 webpages that they made in a stretch of 4 hours!
Next Up: How to Run a Hack Jam on Friday.


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Tony Allen earned a Flagrant 2 foul and an ejection tonight after taking the maxim "play defense with your feet" a little too literally.
Allen's boot caught Clippers guard Chris Paul in the face as Paul attempted to penetrate in the first quarter of tonight's Memphis-L.A. bout at Staples Center, and after reviewing the play officials were left with no choice but to eject the two-time NBA All-Defensive teamer. Paul seemed to be fine; he made both free throws after the foul and scored a bucket on the Clips' retained possession. [FSW]


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