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Three Wabash men elected to navigate Indiana's length of the Wabash River to study its history, biology, and beauty.
Since the middle of the 17th Century, the Wabash River has been home to a handful of different peoples. The French voyageurs, in search of pelts, made the first connections with the Native American peoples living in what would later become the States of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Kentucky. These states make up what was once called the Northwest Territory. The French fur traders were in search of pelts from the animals, most importantly beaver pelts, because they made the best felt hats that were extremely popular fashion in 17th and 18th century Europe.
The first interactions between the Native Americans and the French established a political and economic relationship that would eventually lead to the birth of the United States and Indiana.
As we canoed the length of the River we had the opportunity to retrace the footsteps of the men and women, European and Native American, who laid the foundations for our country and our state.
We visited the four major forts that sit, or once sat, along the banks of the Wabash River. They are Forts Recovery in Ohio, Ouiatenon in Lafayette, Harrison in Terre Haute, and Sackville in Vincennes. The story of Indiana's beginnings can be told in the stories of these four forts. The forts along the Wabash are vital parts of both the River's and Indiana's history.
Webb '08 is a Wabash College history major from from Anderson, Ind.


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MarketWatch grabbed a few words Thursday with the finance professor known as \"the father of the VIX.\"
Some market watchers are worried about the the CBOE Volatility Index hitting multi-year lows. Does he think they should be concerned?
\"I wouldn\'t be worried about it,\" said Robert E. Whaley, a professor at Vanderbilt University\'s Owen Graduate School of Management known for developing the VIX for the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 1993.
He said the VIX\'s low levels show people are comfortable that nothing serious will happen in the next 30 days.
But what about fears that there\'s too much complacency?
\"There are too many people out there that want to make money,\" Whaley said, speaking on the sidelines of ETF.com\'s Global Macro ETF Strategist Conference in New York. \"I assure you that there\'s no complacency.\"
If you\'re thinking of VIX-related investments, note that Whaley offered a warning about exchange-traded products linked to the VIX — often called the market\'s fear gauge — in a column earlier this month for CNBC.
And how low is the VIX? The Wall Street Journal\'s Chris Dieterich has reported that the VIX, an options-based reading of expected swings in the S&P 500, has hit a more than seven-year low, but it could be even lower.
— Victor Reklaitis
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2012-13 Season Preview: Development Academy Teams Back in Full Swing
Academy Sides Quickly Preparing for 10-Month Season, New Adjustments
It was only six weeks ago when the New York Red Bulls U-15/16 team captured its first U.S. Soccer Development Academy crown at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston to cap off the 2011-12 season at Academy Finals Week.
The merry-go-round of soccer player development continues to spin as many teams return to the field this weekend, Sept. 8-9, to open the 2012-13 Development Academy season – the sixth campaign since the Academy first kicked off in 2007-08.
"We had a pretty heavy schedule this summer," said U-15/16 Red Bulls head coach Rob Elliott, whose team also played in an MLS tournament through Aug. 10. "Obviously, the kids felt really good about the championship. From our academy standpoint, winning something like that is hopefully a byproduct of doing things the right way on a daily basis. As a coach, you get excited, as well, but the big picture is trying to develop the guys."
FC Dallas won the U-17/18 crown for its first title, and the lead-up to that accomplishment was remarkable considering the emotional period the FC Dallas community felt entering the season. The players and staff dealt with the loss of former Academy player and San Jacinto College player Jose Perez, who was killed in a car accident in the days before the start of the Academy season.
"The players have been with us for three or four years, train daily and are part of an extended family," FC Dallas Director of Coaching Chris Hayden said. "When Jose passed away it was very difficult for the boys to deal with, and it brought everyone close together. It really gave purpose to the season. Our players have an internal competitiveness and we dealt with a lot at the beginning of the year. But their faith, belief in one another and closeness helped us get through it all."
Academy teams begin another chapter for 2012-13 this weekend, while FC Dallas and the Red Bulls kick off their new season later in September. The way the schedule has been devised under the 10-month season, Academy teams are focused on four days of training per week and one match over the weekend.
"The big difference is that we'll be able to train for only single-game weekends and train an extra day," Elliott said. "In the second game of a two-game weekend, sometimes the quality goes down because it's difficult to play two games in two days."
For FC Dallas, the schedule does not change much from last season.
"Internally, there is no schedule change because last year our division played in a 10-month season," Hayden said. "The only change we will have is our conference realignment adding the Colorado teams."
The 10-month season setup provides a useful platform for Academy coaching staffs to evaluate their players to the fullest in training and see them in a meaningful match each week. At the same time, Elliott also pointed out that he will likely approach his roster differently than in the past.
"We're going to have a fairly deep team again, so we're trying to keep a smaller roster so that there are more game opportunities," Elliott said. "I think the goal would be around 20 [players]. It's difficult to plan around the Residency guys or injuries, so it's sort of a fluid thing for us."
FC Dallas, like many teams, will face another season of heavy turnover following the U-17/18 team's championship season. But the program has established itself as a postseason force with the U-17/18 age group also capturing a runner-up finish during the 2010-11 season.
"We're losing a lot of talented players, but the year before we went to the Finals and had to replace a lot from the previous year," Hayden said. "We obviously had a good performance from the players all year long, and I'm assuming the same thing will happen again this year."
For teams like FC Dallas and the Red Bulls with a deep base of youth players, the recent announcement about the Academy launching a U-13/14 age group starting in the Fall of 2013 is also welcome news for the long-term structure.
"We already have a U-14 and a U-13 team, so it should be seamless for us," Elliott said. "We're looking forward to it to get some more competitive games, because sometimes those are hard to find locally. It's definitely a step in the right direction to influence the players' progress and focus on their habits."
"It's a great move from the Federation, and it's more important than the U-17/18s, to be honest," Hayden said. "We have a hotbed of soccer and a competitive format with a lot of players within every age group. We have had a pre-academy for the last two years and we've got teams down to 7 years old. So we identify players very early, and putting them into a national league format will continue to help with our vision for players moving into the first team. The sky's the limit."


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Raiders cornerback DJ Hayden was moving laterally and doing some cutting with the athletic training staff Monday, the most he s done physically while in the presence of the media since training camp began.
Hayden has been on the physically unable to perform list after having surgery related to a stress fracture and has yet to practice. Whether the Raiders hope to get him back for the season opener or will take it slow and have him open the season on the regular season PUP remains to be seen.
If Hayden goes on regular season PUP, he doesn t count toward the 53-man roster and can be brought back six weeks into the season at the earliest.
As practice got underway Monday, those who weren t participating during the media window included fullback Marcel Reece (foot), defensive tackle Justin Ellis (concussion), tackle Matt McCants (concussion), cornerback Taiwan Jones (unspecified injury), cornerback Chimdi Chekwa (knee), tight end David Ausberry (knee) and wide receiver Juron Criner (hip).
Allen indicated Sunday that Chekwa and Jones are being rehabbed with the target of being ready for the season opener, so neither is likely to play in the final two preseason games. Allen said that Jones was banged up.
Quarterback Derek Carr, who left the Detroit game with a concussion, was back on the practice field in a helmet and participating in warmups and drills.


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Nemours' cystic fbrosis (CF) teams teach children and their families about CF and how to manage the condition on a daily basis. Our CF programs are nationally accredited as CF Care Centers by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Membership in this network helps us to ensure that children living with cystic fibrosis get the expert treatment they need to live longer, healthier lives.
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease that affects the lungs and digestive system. It makes kids who have it more vulnerable to repeated lung infections. This is because it causes the lungs to produce thick, sticky mucus that clogs the airways. The intestines are also affected in a way that interferes with the body's ability to digest and absorb food.
Our team of health care providers works together to support your child and family, educating you about cystic fibrosis treatment and how to manage the condition on a daily basis. We focus on meeting the needs of our patients from birth to age 18.
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Please allow us 5-7 business days to complete. We will be happy to mail the completed forms to you or you may pick them up at the clinic.
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If your child is sick with cold symptoms or increased cough, nasal congestion or drainage, call the CF/Pulmonary Center.
You should also call the CF/Pulmonary Center if your child is having stomach aches or cramps, constipation or trouble passing stools.
Before each clinic visit, please check to see which medications you might need refilled and ask for refills at your visit. Please note that we do not fax in prescriptions to mail-order pharmacies but will be happy to give you prescriptions for a 90 day supply of medications. We can also send your prescriptions via the computer to your preferred pharmacy.
We don't want you to run out of medications, so if you forgot to get a new prescription at your appointment and need a medication refill, call the office early. Routine prescriptions are called in to the pharmacy within 48 hrs.
Our Cystic Fibrosis program at Nemours Children's Specialty Care, Jacksonville, is nationally accredited as Cystic Fibrosis Care Center by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Membership in this network helps us to ensure that children living with CF get the expert care they need to live longer, healthier lives.
It also means our caregivers participate in the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Registry, which contains a wealth of information on topics like diet and nutrition, which are essential in managing CF. The CF Registry also serves as a database for researchers studying new drugs and therapies for children with cystic fibrosis.
Our CF team cares for children from birth to age 18 throughout northeast Florida and southeast Georgia. We offer newborn screening; diagnostic testing (the gold standard of which is a sweat test performed onsite in one of our state-of-the-art laboratories.)
Our team of health care providers works together to support your child and your family, teaching you about CF and how to manage the condition on a daily basis. We focus on meeting your child's individual needs, offering; treatment for newly diagnosed infants and children; long-term care plans; and assistance with transitioning our teenage patients to adult CF programs.
We offer comprehensive care in a family-oriented and convenient environment, with all care provided at one location. An integrated electronic medical record allows all of your child's doctors and caregivers to communicate in "real time" and keeps all team members up to date on your child's care and progress.
Our CF team includes lung and respiratory care doctors (Pulmonologists), a pediatric nurse practitioner and cystic fibrosis clinical nurse specialists, as well as other Nemours sub-specialists who have expertise in CF care.
Registered dietitian: Nutrition is so important in keeping your child's lungs strong. Our dietitian watches your child's growth and weight gain over time. It is her job to work with you to make sure that your child eats the right amount of calories each day. She can give you helpful tips to encourage your child to develop healthy eating habits, as well as provide you with great recipes and tips to use at the grocery store.
Respiratory therapist: This is the person who will do your child's pulmonary function testing and serves as a great resource to help you learn about airway clearance, how to give your child respiratory therapy treatments child at home and to answer your questions.
Social worker: Our social worker is available to provide you with a wide range of important services:
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has established guidelines for managing the medical care for Cystic Fibrosis (CF). This includes quarterly visits, a comprehensive annual visit and visits if your child is having any illness due to CF.
Routine follow-up visits are scheduled about every 3 months. This visit is designed to see how your child is doing and to catch any potential problems early. At your child's first visit, we will check his/her weight, height, determine their nutritional status, examine your child, collect a throat or sputum culture. When they are old enough (about 5-6 yrs old), we'll perform a breathing test (PFT's). Besides seeing the practitioner, you might also see our dietitian, respiratory therapist, and/or a social worker. We ask that you bring a list of your child's medications with you to the appointment so we can match what your child is taking with our record. We might also ask you to bring in the device you are using for chest physical therapy (CPT).
Once a year, your child will have an annual visit which tends to be a bit longer. During the annual visit, we monitor every aspect of your child's CF. During this visit, it is likely that blood work will be ordered so if your child is fearful of shots, ask for "EMLA cream." (EMLA cream numbs the skin so the shots don't hurt.)
Chest X-Ray: A chest x-ray is done every 2 years or when needed if your child is sick with increased cough or reduced lung function.
Education is a key component in our goal to help children and families manage CF. We teach families what to do in emergencies, provide education and the latest information about the disease, and host support groups with speakers and topics ranging from insurance issues to community and school resources. Social workers are available to help individual families with issues like funding care, insurance coverage, and transitioning teenagers into adult CF programs.
We also take into account the emotional toll of living with CF. Children with CF often have periods where they cannot interact with other children because of the risk of developing infections ,so we've developed resources to help children and families cope with these feelings. We offer newsletters (link to newsletters) and our "Let's Talk" parent support group. In addition, Nemours is developing an online chat service for CF patients.
Nemours Children's Specialty Care, Jacksonville is a nationally certified CF research center. Nemours CF teams are also active participants in quality improvement projects and research. We're involved in a number of studies looking at new drugs, and we also have a grant to examine how using our electronic medical record, NemoursOne, helps us to determine best practices and improve care.
We do all of this because we are committed to improving the quality of life for children with CF, so they can remain active and physically able to participate in the activities they enjoy, and achieve their best possible health.


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Sweet Hawaiian Lava
Kalapana Ocean Entry 5am December 8th.
Remnants of another time in Palominas
Order not up here, in this diner in the Old Southwest of Arizona
Joshua Trees at dusk
What is so intriguing about this section of desert between Phoenix and Las Vegas is the confluence of the Mojave and Sonoran. The most distinctive forms of vegetation, the Joshua tree and the saguaro cactus, respectively. The boundary between the two deserts blurs here along the Joshua Forest Parkway, creating a singular experience as the signature species mingle.
I saved you a spot in Belize.
Hammock time in paradise
The trippy slot canyon
Upper Antelope Canyon, do yourself a favour and take a trip to Northern Arizona
Highland Cow popping over for a visit, Scotland
Lynx Lake, Arizona
Storm moving in over the lake. Right before the rains come is usually the moment I like to strike with my camera. That moody and gloomy look, I love it!
The totally awesome ceiling of St Giles Cathedral, Scotland
The erosion in Bryce Canyon
Utah sure shows off it's colours. Bryce Canyon National Park is known for its crimson-colored hoodoos, or spire-shaped rock formations. Lots of great trees around and it's never been super busy when I visited (so yay to that!)
Stairs to 1000 steps
Just some of the many stairs of Bisbee
Blue hour at the Dells
It's always a bonus to stick around for sunset and then those moments right after. A gentle blue hue washes over Watson Lake
Bokeh love
Purple power. Even just a few minutes wandering among the garden slows things down and is a great relaxer
Walkway of light
This fantastic art piece is a 745ft-long kinetic light sculpture composed of 466 neon tubes. The sculpture includes 23,600 square feet of mirror reflecting over one mile of neon. The sculpture is located in the tunnel connecting Concourses B & C of Terminal 1, after the security checkpoints.
Hawaii doing what it does best, show off!
I didn't think I was really the fancy resort kind of person (oh, paleeze, who wouldn't like this view?) This was about 30 minutes outside of Kona and pretty centrally located for excursion, if you felt like it (I always feel like it)
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"Honk, Bang, Whistle and Crash" is a Sesame Street song sung by Oscar the Grouch about his favorite sounds heard in his neighborhood.
The original recording was used in a 1993 episode, in which Oscar, along with Grundgetta, the Grouchketeers, a Grouch construction worker, and a dog provided the noises. It was included in the Sesame Street Live show Elmo's Coloring Book.
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105 Supersmart Strategies
Here's our comprehensive look at the best ways to travel: how to find a deal, avoid lines, pack, fly, tip, and more.
It's good karma
In a perfect world, you wouldn't need to tip if you were already paying a service charge (as is the case with coat-check clerks and room-service waiters). Too bad the world ain't perfect. When in doubt, you should err on the side of generosity. It's more common to regret undertipping than overtipping.
Customs vary from country to country
If you read only one part of a guidebook before arriving someplace, make it the part on tipping. Then flag it: You'll be revisiting it.
Tipping the boat
On most cruise ships, tips are automatically added to your bill. There's leeway to tip more or less--but if you'd like to reduce the service fee, you'll probably have to explain your reasons to the purser. Don't be afraid to have that conversation: The cruise line should want to know when its passengers are disappointed.
General rules for tipping in the U.S.
Bellmen: Figure $1 or $2 per bag. It's fair to show yourself to the room if you'd rather not deal.
Housekeepers: Some folks think you don't have to tip; some believe you should tip daily to make sure the money goes to the person who cleaned your room; some wait until the end of the stay. A couple of bucks per day won't mean as much to you as it will to the housekeeper. (But don't tip at B&Bs if the maid is also the owner.)
Concierges: Giving you directions is part of the job. Snagging a theater ticket or restaurant reservation merits at least $20.
Waiters: Under 15 percent means you didn't like the service. Don't worry about the sommelier; let the restaurant determine how to divide up all the tips.
Taxi drivers: Tips should be 15 to 20 percent, or around one dollar for every five dollars of fare. Round up to the nearest buck. No one likes to deal with change.
Be nice
The previous 104 rules are all well and good, but ultimately, the quality of your travel experience depends a lot on who you deal with. Treating everyone--even the crabbiest crabs--with kindness and respect can be more powerful than any strategem. You never know: In your next life, you may come back as a TSA agent.


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The Nintendo 3DS is a glasses-free 3D gaming portable due next February for ¥25,000 (US$299). That's a long ways away! Let's make a low budget version right now.
First you'll need a Nintendo DS, DS Lite, DSi or DSi XL. Take your pick! Next?
Next you'll a lenticular lens sheet. Then? Then, you'll need tape.
Cut a portion of the lenticular lens sheet to cover the screen of the DS. Affix it to the portable with tape. Enjoy glasses-free "3D"! If you cannot procure a lenitcular lens sheet, then you can always make this:
The lenitcular lens DS was spotted by Tokyo Tek at the MAKE: Tokyo Meeting.
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Hi all,
I created a small plugin to run code in an external console like other editors do. It'll also show "Press any key to exit" when the process terminates.The main motivation was Pyglet windows weren't being shown when running Python with Sublime Text. And, well, I do prefer having an output window to ALT+TAB to.
It's registered on Sublime Package Control already, so you can just look for ConsoleExec on there.
The source is available on Github.
Run "Browse Packages..." and edit the ".sublime-build" file in one of the language directories, then add the following line:
"target": "console_exec"
That language will now run in its own console window when built.
Also, if anyone knows how to make this work system-wide, please let me know!
It's Windows-only at the moment. If this solves a huge pain for others, I'll look into making it more portable =)
It's my first plugin, motivated by probably my biggest complaint about ST. Although I have to admit, that list is quite small.
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A mostly flat, certified 4.5-mile loop on groomed dirt or asphalt path around scenic Lake Merced inSan Francisco, California. The races start in the parking lot at the north end of the lake at the foot of Sunset Boulevard. Runners will enjoy two aid stations per lap stocked with water, electrolytes, and a selection of foods.
Format: Runners will be allowed to choose their distance during the race, but a runner can only be a finisher in one race. Once reaching 50K or 50M, a runner can stop or continue. If the runner stops, he/she is a finisher in that race and his/her tag will be pulled. Choosing to go beyond the 50K / 50M distance makes the runner an entrant and competitor in the next longer event.50M runners have one cutoff to meet - they should finish their 10th lap (44.2 miles) by 12.5 hours, i.e. by 7 p.m., into the race.In order to continue to the 100K distance a runner will have to meet two cutoffs: i) 10 hours 50 minutes (5:20 p.m.) at 48.7 miles (11 laps) and i) 12 hours and 30 minutes (7 p.m.) at 57.5 miles (13 laps) to be allowed to start the final, or 14th, lap.
Dear Runner, You will, on race day, be free to run whatever distance you choose to at the Start or during the race itself. If you choose to go beyond a race distance, you will automatically be entered in the next higher race distance. If you stop in between race distances, you will not be given credit for the shorter distance i.e. you will DNF the entire race.Rajeev Patel & Anil Rao


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Eastern Slope Technologies, LLC. began construction of a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and advanced fiber technology project in the Bennett Exchange last fall. Our contractors have nearly completed laying the fiber north of I-70, and have begun working south of the interstate. Current customers are being cut to the new facilities in the Antelope Hills Subdivision as well as north of I-70. The $12 Million upgrade to our network will include the buried placement of 380 miles of fiber and construction will be completed in 2018. As we finalize the fiber placement in each service area, we will be contacting customers to set up installation appointments.
ESTech, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastern Slope Rural Telephone Association, Inc. This project is made possible through a USDA Rural Utilities Service traditional loan to Eastern Slope Rural Telephone Association. As your local cooperative, we are excited to bring quality, affordable, high speed broadband internet services to ALL of our customers.
Business and home owners are using technologies that require more and more bandwidth. Fiber optics is the only medium that can keep up with the bandwidth demand. A single hair‐thin optical fiber can carry up to 1,000 times as much information as copper (traditional telephone network material) or co‐ax (traditional cable television network material). Fiber networks are extremely reliable and can carry multiple voice, data, or video streams into the same house at the same time! Our new speeds will be offered at our current prices, so check our website for these great values…as well as our upgrade specials for current and new customers!
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Canned Carrott Classic TV Show
A canned product that will never surpass its sell-by-date. Canned Carrott featured two of Jasper's most popular creations "Wiggy" and "The Detectives", the cop parody with actor Robert Powell.
Canned Carrott Fan Tributes13 Jim from East Mids: Jasper Carrott will always be remembered for his ability to turn every day events into works of comic genius! When I first saw Wiggy baking his cake it was so reminiscent of my own early cooking attempts that I was helpless with laughter for days afterwards! A true entertainer and a natural comedian, very sorely missed on TV by all who knew and loved his shows! BRING BACK JASPER CARROTT TV NEEDS HIM!
12 Edward Belton from Crawley west sussex: My fav bit of carrot was the Wiggie bakes a cake. It is by far the funniest thing I have every seen.
11 Leigh Mathers from Sutton Coldfield: I love Jasper to bits and this was a great series. My favourite bits were The Detectives (which of course spawned a series in its own right) and the spoof adverts he used to do.
10 Kay from Nottingham: Grew up watching Canned Carrot and learned you don't need to swear to be funny. Saw Jasper perform live and was blown away. Wiggy and the Detective sketches are my favourites!
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8 Michelle Pilling from Burnley: His tales of going to Hong Kong, I laugh so much my tummy was sore.
One of the best British comics we have.
7 Carolyn Benson from Wales: You CAN'T listen to his jokes & not laugh, it's impossible!!! he is my hero & I love the way the jokes are so accurate to real life, E.G. Why women can't tell jokes properly & why men can't wrap presents, insomniacs (sorry if i spellt that wrong!), &'vegetarian cars. It' all pure class & anyone who doesn't find him funny can't possibly have a sense of humor!
6 Roger Swift from Teflord: Jasper is the funniest man alive, No one has ever made me laugh as much as he had. Ive been a fan ever since I was a kid!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 Shelagh from Perth: What is Jasper's date of birth - the humour is soooo like my husband's that I am assumming between 1945-1949
4 M Darnell from Ely: I want to know his real name
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3 Paul Bennett from Stafford: I like this program because i am a huge fan of Jasper Carrot and think he is one of the best comedians this country has ever produced. He talks about things that happen in a very funny way and think he should return to making more shows like this classic comedy show,
2 Mark Barber from Leigh: Carrot is just one of those comedians whose jokes are old but never stale as they reflect real life so closely
1 Anthony Martin from Stranraer: Jasper the brummie, incredibly funny, exploring the mind, restructures what he finds, A loveable chap, Who's cheeky, sharp witts, is the best tonic ever, To keep me in fits !
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Jasper Carrott was nominated for a BAFTA award for Carrott Confidential.
Robert Powell won four awards for his portrayal of Jesus Christ in Jesus of Nazareth.
1945-03-14: Jasper Carrott was born in Acocks Green Birmingham.
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Everything under one roof. From product development to logistics. A tour through the Adam Hall Group.
Customer relations and customer loyalty are of particularly high importance. The sales staff are therefore the first point of contact for the B2B business partners from around the world. This applies to both internal sales and when on customer premises. Starting with expert advice, making, accepting or following up offers and coordinating deliveries, all the way to processing complaints and providing customer care at the many trade fairs and events – for example in one of our many showrooms – the Adam Hall Group international sales department is a diverse and exciting area to work in and is the motor of the company.
Our expert advisors have business or technical qualifications, good knowledge of English – the export quota is more than 50 percent – are skilled in using the ERP systems and MS Office programs and boast a high level of technical knowledge in general. These prerequisites and the willingness to gain continuous further training distinguish our sales staff. Many are musicians or have worked as DJs or in the field of event technology.
The Adam Hall Group also seeks to maintain direct contact with customers in the future. But digital tools such as the new B2B web shop, customer-specific newsletters, the new, informative group page, software solutions and optimized processes increasingly ensure closer customer relations. Markets and technologies are in a constant state of rapid change. We are happy to accept these challenges, which constantly improve the competence and professionalism of the sales staff.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Posted by Steve Blood at 9:20 AM
Labels: Russell M. Blood's woodworking
2 comments:
- Judy said...
Oh, that is a treasure! It is in perfect condition. These were such a big seller as people drooled over the woodwork and had no money, many would settle for a pin. Good job, Steve!
- July 23, 2010 at 9:25 AM
- Elizabeth said...
The two years that I had the Christmas craft fair at our house in Tumwater, Dad remodeled the pins and sold lots of them as refrigerator magnets. I still have a couple of them. Memories. Remember that school teachers were often the only people who had any cash in the late '30's and the '40's. They loved the pins, and I can remember giving some of the round rosewood initial pins to teachers for Christmas.
- July 23, 2010 at 10:36 AM
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I keep hearing all these names as potential replacements for Omar Minaya – including Kevin Towers, one who got away – and realize all of them might improve the Mets in some capacity. Who to choose?
Then I realize, it doesn't matter, because the Mets' GM position is a figurehead position with little real autonomy because Jeff Wilpon makes the key decisions. Fred Wilpon believes his son is doing a good job, but does he really?
What we need from Jeff Wilpon is the commitment to a plan, a blue print of how things are going to be. There needs to be a defined set of roles and policies to be adhered to. A decision on a budget, including the tough decision on whether to eat non productive salaries.
No top notch general manager such at Pat Gillick will come to work for the Mets because his authority will be undercut by Wilpon. It is jeff's sh0w, as is his right, but the real change has to come from a change with him not the addition of some high marquee name.
Until Jeff Wilpon defines his input and can resist stepping in the Mets will continue to flounder.


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Ok this is a bit of a follow up from my earlier blog about the newly announced MVC view engine Razor from Scot Guthries blog a couple of weeks ago. Below is a quote that Scott has made in the comments to the original post.
"The Razor parser and view engine can be instantiated and used outside of the ASP.NET application domain. This means you can directly instantiate and use it within a unit test project without any dependencies on running ASP.NET.
From a unit testing perspective you can indicate the view template you want to run, supply it with any dependencies, and then pass your own test models/viewmodels to it and have it run and render back a string to you. You could then verify that the correct content came back. This would isolate the views from your controllers and any data access, and allow you to also isolate them from the runtime environment. View engines in ASP.NET MVC VNext (both Razor and the .ASPX one) will also support and integrate with dependency injection as well."
Let's start with talking about the current testing story with the current MVC framework. Now clearly you want to put as much logic into your controller as possible which is currently testable with the current MVC framework. But on the modern MVC websites that I've been working on there ends up being a considerable amount of JQuery in most pages.
This is where I hear you shout "but what about QUnit you can test your JQuery with that" Yes you can but do I do it..No I don't. I never really got QUnit it always seemed great in theory but in reality it seemed like too much work to implement.
So typically I find myself writing JQuery that does fairly trivial stuff. Hiding and showing stuff and manipulating items in the Dom. Now when I say trivial it is still important. If you hide your submit button when it should be displayed you have broken your page.
Now it is possible to test this logic with QUnit, but for each test or group of tests you had recreate the HTML for your page or part of your page to test your JavaScript against. It is this that always seemed a bit lame to me. You were never really testing against your view proper but a mock up of your view. Not only is it a lot more work to write your tests initially but there is a lot more maintenance work to do going forward. Any change to your HTML mark up in your view needs to be replicated across your test HTML. Now I know you have to do maintenance with your .NET tests but most of the time we have compile-time checking. If you change the name a property on a class and you don't update your unit test it won't compile. Change the name of a div in your mark up and forget to implement that in your test HTML and there is nothing to tell you that there is a mismatch.
To counter this John Teague over at Los Techies outlines a technique that you can use to generate your markup automatically. To be honest I haven't used this approach as it still seems like a lot of extra hard work, but it's worth considering.
Therefore going back to Scott Guthrie's comment that we will now be able to isolate the view from the controller pass in some data and render back a screen as HTML. This is just fantastic, and for me the last piece in the puzzle with regards to testing. With this functionality it will should be relatively trivial to produce the markup that we can run our QUnit tests against and it means that we are actually testing our view rather than a mock up of it.
Well done Microsoft I think this is a positive step, and I can't wait to get my hands on the framework. Keep up the good work.


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Pianist Harold Mabern celebrates his 79th birthday today. I had a chance to hear him last night playing bassist Gregory Ryan's weekly gig at at a midtown steakhouse (Joe Farnsworth on drums). The piano, which is decent but was shaky in the upper register, is placed between the stairway down from street level and the bar, and to call the room noisy would be an understatement. Still, Mabern played with customary focus, power, melodic invention and soulfulness — treated the gig with complete respect and commitment, revealing his encyclopedic knowledge of the American Songbook. A son of Memphis, Tennessee, who spent the second half of the '50s in Chicago, Mabern has been a beacon and mentor for several generations of pianists, among them James Williams, Donald Brown, Mulgrew Miller and Geoff Keezer, with whom he played in a five-piano band twenty years ago. I had several opportunities to talk with HM during my WKCR years, and had an opportunity to do the DownBeat Blindfold Test with him in 2004. Here's the uncut version.
Harold Mabern Blindfold Test (10-1-04) – Raw Copy:
1. Earl Hines, "Don't You Know I Care" (from EARL HINES PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON, New World, 1970/1997) (Hines, piano; Duke Ellington, composer) – (5 stars)
Duke Ellington's "Don't You Know I Care." I can't say that I right away recognize the pianist. I like what I'm hearing. It's hard to tell if it's a recent recording or something that was done a few years ago. Right now, Ted, I must say you've got me on this one so far, even though the sound… Right away, I know it's not, but right now I can't say who it is. Phineas recorded this, but I know it's not Phineas, and Mulgrew Miller recorded this recently—I know it's not him. It's not Ray Bryant, and it's definitely not Hank Jones or Tommy Flanagan or any of those people. And it's not Art Tatum. It's not Teddy Wilson. So if I had to take a wild guess (I don't know if guessing is permitted), I would have to say someone like Jay McShann, or probably someone like Earl Hines. That's just an educated guess. Of the two, I would say Earl Hines. I like the overlapping phrases with left hand and right hand. And the touch of the right hand. His touch seems to be a little heavier than Teddy Wilson's, whose touch was a little more velvety, like Art Tatum's was. 5 stars. [AFTER] What I'm accustomed to do, as I tell the students: Process of elimination. Eliminate who you know it's not, and then you feel it can only be one or two people. I possibly could have said James P. Johnson, but I didn't, or Fats Waller. When I first came to New York City, I worked at Smalls Paradise with the MJT+3, and a couple of the old-timers were there, and they looked at me and said, "Young man, you remind me a lot of Earl Hines." To me, that was a compliment, because I didn't know much about Earl Hines at that point. However, we all know that was Nat Cole's hero in Chicago. He was doing everything he could to be around Earl Hines whenever he could be. I was told that he even dressed like Earl Hines—very impeccable. As they say, Earl Hines was like the Bud Powell of his time; he just opened up everything. I had a chance to work opposite him on a Newport Jazz Festival in San Remo, Italy. George Wein produced it. I was with Wes Montgomery. We had a chance to talk. We had some pictures taken together, if I can ever find them—little small snapshots.
Reflecting back, I don't know if you watch the Westerns channels, but they've been showing a lot of the black cowboys, and they mainly talk about Herb Jeffries, who was the first one to really get some prominence. He was singing with Earl Hines' band in Chicago. Every time I hear his name, I think about Herbie Hancock. People don't know this, but Herbie was named after Herb Jeffries—Herbert Jeffrey Hancock. A little bit of trivia.
2. Uri Caine, "Stiletto" (from LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD, Winter & Winter, 2004) (Caine, piano, comp.; Drew Gress, bass; Ben Perowsky, drums) (3 stars)
Right now you really got me, because he could be anybody, blanket statement. I don't hear enough of the concept to really say. We know it's avant-garde, or controlled or uncontrolled freedom, whatever way you want to look at it, and I'm not really into it that much, even though I can appreciate some of the things I've listened to by Cecil Taylor over the years. Well, I can see at least it has some kind of form to it, even though I still don't recognize the pianist. I don't think it's Cecil Taylor, because the form is a bit on the traditional side…whatever that means. It's more of what I would call, as I said before, "controlled freedom," because it has some kind of theme to it. But as to who it is, at this point it's hard to say. Conceptually speaking, I think it's probably somebody on the younger side, one of the younger generation guys. To take a guess (because I don't think I've ever heard anything by this pianist), Matthew Shipp. That's just a guess. Or another pianist who I also don't really know a lot about—Jason Moran. Again, that's just a guess. It's definitely somebody who's been influenced by McCoy Tyner and Herbie, even though, as I said before, it's a little bit on the free side. But it swings. I like the sound of the drums. See, with this kind of music, at least if it swings, you can get some kind of musical enjoyment out of it. As I said, not to be redundant, I hear traces of McCoy and Herbie and them. Is it possible it could be a female? I don't think Geri Allen, but perhaps someone like Rachel Z—even though I'm not that familiar with her playing. It's definitely somebody younger than I am. One person comes to mind, but again I haven't heard a lot of him—Eric Lewis. But I don't think he's recorded yet. Or possibly Marcus Roberts. That's just a guess. 3 stars, because it swings. [AFTER] I know who he is, but I'm not familiar with his playing at all. Once they got into the form, I enjoyed it. It was swinging. It took on a theme of its own, so it was something I could grab onto.
3. Danilo Perez, "Overjoyed" (from …TILL THEN, Verve, 2003) (Perez, piano; Ben Street, bass; Adam Cruz, drums) (5 stars)
I like the song, Stevie Wonder, "Overjoyed." But I have to figure out who the pianist is. So far, I like what I'm hearing. It reminds me a little bit of one of my favorite pianists, but I don't think it's him. I hear it in the left hand-right hand. Geoff Keezer comes to mind, but I don't think it's Geoff. I like the sound of the recording, too. The bass is in tune, good sound on the drums. Very interesting. Here we go again; educated guess again. It's not Geoff Keezer. It's not Mulgrew Miller. Possibly somebody like Brad Mehldau. That's just an educated guess. I enjoyed it, so I'd say 4 stars for the performance, and another star for the genius of Stevie Wonder. So 5 stars. [AFTER] Isn't that something. I should have known it, because I think I heard it recently on the radio. I've heard Danilo do some wonderful things with Roy Haynes.
4. Alice Coltrane, "Walk With Me" (from TRANSLINEAR LIGHT, Verve, 2004) (Coltrane, piano; James Genus, b; Jeff Watts, d) – (4 stars)
It's a good sound coming out of the instrument. So far I haven't heard enough to put my finger on anybody that I recognize. It has what you call a gospel type theme to it. Whoever the pianist is, they have a good sound out of the instrument, good technique, good chord voicings in the lower register. But right now, I don't know who it is or who it could be. Something about the theme reminds me a little bit of Keith Jarrett, but I don't think it's Keith. Some parts of it remind me a little of Stanley Cowell, one of my dearest and closest friends and a true musical giant, but I don't think it's Stanley. 4 stars. [AFTER] I noticed the harp-like qualities in the right hand. Alice Coltrane, nice. Very, very well played.
5. Eric Reed, "La Berthe" (from E-BOP, Savant, 2003) (Reed, piano; Rodney Whitaker, bass; Rodney Green, drums; Elmo Hope, composer) (4 stars)
Nice little theme. It reminds me of something that maybe Thelonious would have written, theme-wise and the way it's syncopated. I like the performance. I like the pianist. Nice touch. The concept reminds me of the kind of stuff that Woody Shaw used to play. But I don't have an idea who it could be. I like the piece. I like the concept. It's a good touch from the pianist. It's the kind of song I would enjoy playing. But I can only take a guess on who it might be. Like I said, I hear a lot of Monk influence in the performance and in the theme itself. Possibly someone like Jessica Williams, but that's just a guess. I think it's an original composition. That's the feeling I get. What period? It sounds like something that could have been written within the last year or so, conceptually speaking. Both the piece and the performance sound very up-to-date. 4 stars. [AFTER] Sorry, Eric. But he's one of my favorites. That just shows music is never dated. Because conceptually speaking, it sounds like it could have been written last week. Eric Reed is a tremendous young musician. I have a lot of respect for him. He understands all phases of the music. I told him he's one of the few young pianists who understands the difference between blocked chords and locked hands, and he looked at me and said, "Oh, do I really?" and we laughed. But he's a tremendous young man. Stride, boogie-woogie, everything. I have a lot of respect for him.
6. Don Pullen, "Warriors" (from NEW BEGINNINGS, Blue Note, 1988) (Pullen, piano; Gary Peacock, bass; Tony Williams, drums) (5 stars)
Right away, it sounds like a pianist I always enjoyed, because he proved he could play on the edge of being out, but he could play inside, he could play tradition. He was also a very good organ specialist. Just listening to the theme and the pianistic things he's doing, it reminds me a lot of Don Pullen. Bingo! At last! He was a tremendous musician. [Who do you think the drummer is?] I get a feeling it's someone like Ed Blackwell. I don't know if it's him, but… The thing I like about Don Pullen… One night at the Vanguard years ago, before they got the new piano, and the upper register was a little bit out, I asked him, "Don, how did you hear up there without… You make it sound so…" He said, "I just play it." The upper register can be a little tricky. He did wonderful things, and it didn't seem to detract from his performance. I had a lot of respect for Don Pullen. Great musician. You can hear his classical training in his piano playing. I guess the obvious thing to say about the drummer, since they worked together, would be Dannie Richmond, but it doesn't necessarily have to be him. Something about him reminds me a bit of Roy Haynes. I don't hear enough of the snare sound and the cymbal, but rhythmically it reminds me a little taste of Roy Haynes. Or possibly Tony Williams. Ah, see, that's that Massachusetts connection with Alan Dawson, Roy, Tony. Boy, could Tony play. I'll give it 5 stars for the overall performance. To me, that's what you call controlled freedom. The things he was doing on the piano made sense because you can hear the skills he had developed through his classical training coming through.
7. Geoff Keezer, "Gollum's Song" (from WALK ON, Telarc, (Keezer, piano; Scott Colley, bass; Karriem Riggins, drums) (5 stars)
I like that. Geoff Keezer comes to mind. The concept of the song, the touch in the right hand, the ideas in the right hand. At first, a little bit, it reminded me of Mulgrew; they have a similar kind of thing at times. But listening, it reminds me a lot of Geoff. But I need to listen a little bit more to the right hand. If I had to guess, I'd say Geoff Keezer. Give him 10 stars, if there's such a thing. I mean, he's that good. He's a tremendous musician. The one thing I love about him is that he's really captured the essence of Phineas Newborn, Jr., more than any pianist that I can think of. Naturally, Mulgrew and Donald Brown. But Geoff has captured the little nuances. Not just the obvious stuff, which is hard enough, but Geoff has captured those little nuances that Phineas used to do. And consider the fact that Geoff never met Phineas, and all he had to go by was what he heard on records and the one video. But I have tremendous respect for this young man. He never ceases to amaze me. I like the interplay with the bass and drums. I heard Scott Colley once with Herbie Hancock at the Blue Note; he's a very good bassist. Geoffrey Keezer. Eau Claire. Wisconsin. 5 stars. He's even found a way to get into his playing a lot of those Latin montuno rhythmic things. He's been getting into that a lot.
8. Herbie Hancock, "Blue Otani" (from THE PIANO, Columbia/Legacy, 1978/2004) (Hancock, piano, composer) (4½ stars)
I like it. Naturally, it's the blues. You can't go wrong with the blues. Now I'll try to figure out who it is! Oh, I like it. It's a lot going on. When it first started out, the chord things reminded me a little bit of Herbie Hancock. Then it reminded me a little bit of Ray Bryant. But I'm sure it's neither one. I enjoyed the performance, but I must say I'm stumped on that one. I have no idea. But 4½ stars. To play like that is very hard to do. That's the thing that separated Art Tatum from all of us. To play fast or slow, and play it where the consistency of the time is still going on. He had some nice ideas, too. Good technique, good ideas—I liked the overall performance. But I have no idea. [AFTER] You're kidding! See, I got half of it right! Years ago, we used to talk about solo piano and stride and stuff, and years ago he wasn't really interested so much in the stride aspect.
9. Brad Mehldau, "Anything Goes" (from ANYTHING GOES, Warner, 2004) (Mehldau, piano; Larry Grenadier, bass; Jorge Rossy, drums) (5 stars)
Hmm, "Anything Goes," huh? Nicely done. Cole Porter. Yeah, I like that. I like the concept. I like the fact it's odd-metered; it sounds like it's in 5/4. It's nice to take a song like that, which is unique in its own way. At this point, I don't know who the pianist is, but I like what I'm hearing. Good right hand, good left hand. I'd guess Brad Mehldau because of the ideas in the right hand, and the way he uses his left hand. You can tell he has a good left hand also. And the overall concept of the piece. Good harmonic concept also. I'll tell you, with the quality of the crop of pianists coming out within the last 5 to 10 years, if I had to start now, I wouldn't choose the piano. There are some rough guys out there, man. And ladies, too. 5 stars.
10. Denny Zeitlin, "E.S.P." (from SLICK ROCK, MaxJazz, 2004) (Zeitlin, p.; Buster Williams, b; Matt Wilson, d) – (5 stars)
Right away, I know I like the composition. I don't want to give the wrong composer credit, but I know it's either Herbie's tune or Wayne Shorter's. Sometimes I get them a little mixed up. But that much I know. The tune is either Herbie's or Wayne's when they played with Miles. There's some stuff there chordally that reminds me of Ahmad. Another one of these two-handed pianists. It reminds me a little bit of a gentleman that I used to hang out with in Chicago, when he was studying at Johns Hopkins. Denny Zeitlin comes to mind because of the harmonic concept and the ability to use both hands equally well. But that's just a guess. Again, process of elimination, I know who it's not, but he comes to mind. The cymbal beat from the drummer reminds me a little bit of Tony Williams. I just heard something from the bassist that reminded me a little of Ron Carter, but it's not Ron Carter. Oh, that's Buster Williams. Tremendous musician. Unsung hero. Would that possibly be Matt Wilson? So it's Denny Zeitlin. A couple of years ago, I saw that trio working at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase in Chicago 5 stars, mainly because of our Chicago connection and the love we both have for Chris Anderson, Ahmad Jamal and Billy Wallace. He had a lot of respect and still has a lot of respect for Billy Wallace, Dr. Denny Zeitlin.
11. Anthony Wonsey, "Darn That Reality" (from BLUES FOR HIROSHI, Sharp-9, 2004) (Wonsey, p; Richie Goods, b; Tony Reedus, d) – (5 stars)
Sounds like "Darn That Dream" but rearranged. I like it. The pianist sounds very familiar, but I can't quite call him. David Hazeltine comes to mind because of the arrangement of the song, for some reason, but I'm not sure. The drums sound like it could be Joe Farnsworth, but again I'm not totally sure. It sounds like David Hazeltine to me, even though a lot of the stuff he's doing in the right hand is a little out of character. By that I mean it's not normally the way he would play. But because of the arrangement, I would have to say David Hazeltine, possibly Farnsworth, maybe Peter Washington. 5 stars. It's not? Well, I still give it 5 stars. I hear a lot of Phineas Newborn type of influence in the right hand with the triplets and things. Swinging. [AFTER] Oh, Mulgrew Miller's ex-student. That's why I could hear a little of the Phineas Newborn influence. Wonsey. I'll still give him 5.
12. Bud Powell, "Tea For Two" (from BIRDLAND '53, Vol.1, FRESH SOUND, 1953/1991) (Powell, piano; Oscar Pettiford, bass; Roy Haynes, drums) (5 stars)
I know it's an older recording. Just listening to the concept, I'd have to say Bud Powell, off the top. I'll stand by Bud Powell, and give him all the stars you can muster up. "Tea For Two." As an educated guess, I'd say the drummer is Max, and the bassist is either Mingus or George Duvivier. Possibly Arthur Taylor? Just an educated guess. Bud definitely opened stuff up. He and Nat Cole. Two different schools, but very influential. 5 stars.


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