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Cascade County, Montana Genealogy
Template:Montana-stubUnited States > Montana > Cascade County
- 1 County Courthouse
- 2 History
- 3 Places/Localities
- 4 Resources
- 5 Societies and Libraries
- 6 Websites
- 7 References
County CourthouseEdit
On September 12, 1887, "An Act Creating Cascade County, its Boundaries, provisions for its organization and the officers to fill the various positions until the first election," was passed by the Territorial Legislative Assembly. Cascade County had been formed from parts of Meagher, Choteau and Lewis and Clarke* Counties. Great Falls was designated as the County Seat until otherwise determined by law. Included in the Act were portions of debts incurred by the original counties that would be paid by Cascade County,money transfers from county treasurers to be paid to the Cascade County Treasurer for the support of schools in the new county, provisions for the election of county officials, and the powers and duties of the officials. [1]
*As was spelled in the 1887 Montana Code Book.
Parent CountyEdit
1887--Cascade County was created 12 September 1887 from Chouteau, Meagher, and Lewis and Clark Counties.
County seat: Great Falls [2]
Boundary ChangesEdit
Record LossEdit
Populated PlacesEdit
Great Fallsis the largest city in Cascade County and the County Seat. There are a number of small towns left in Cascade County: Armington, Belt, Black Eagle, Cascade, Centerville, Fort Shaw, Hardy, Monarch, Neihart, Portage, Sand Coulee, Simms, Stockett, Sun River, Tracy, Ulm, Vaughn.
Some small towns have vanished, Montana is a newer State, so land offices have a record of the populated or once populated towns. Many people homesteaded farms and did not live in towns records. Homesteads records are part of the BLM or Bureau of Land Management and may not listed by county but by plot numbers. The County courthouse land records have the several types of records one type is plot.
Neighboring CountiesEdit
The Cascade Counties all known cemeteries have been as completely organized and placed online and indexed.
The web site link is located through the USGenWeb Montana, Cascade County site. This is a great tool to located family members.
The names and dates are recorded according to the transcribed cemetery records, from the records or headstone. The sources were hard to read so the best guess is what had to be recorded online for the web site.
Remember that headstone information was inscribed by a third person with information given a time of great stress. (Some headstones were homemade and placed at a grave site years after the death of a family member. My father Ernest Somppi made a headstone for his sister who died before he was born. These headstones are symbols of love and service, that are some times records of memory of someone life. My aunts name and dates were a bit different than her death certificate so it took my family 100 years to obtain the death certificate.)
This web site is a great service to people who have relatives placed in the Cascade County graves.
There is additional information such as actual grave location, family members, birth and death dates, birth and death locations. This complete index is available thru the Great Falls Genealogy Society: www.gfgenealogy.org
Cascade County Courthouse is located at 425 Second Ave North, old stone structure. The Clerk and Recorder office is located on the main floor in the East end of building. Local US Census film readers are avalible. The deeds and land records office is also on the main floor.
Naturalization records are located at The History Museum and the complete index to the records is located at the Great Falls Genealogy Society Library.
Cascade County Montana GIS Department
Local HistoriesEdit
Many communities have published histories of the area.Example: Great Falls Memories, A Photo album - 1884 to 1939. A compilation of photo histories of the city, transportation, people, commerce, industry, education, community, disasters, recreation & celebrations, business profiles. This a typical type of project that cities and communities undertake to commemorate the subject.
Most Cascade County local histories have been indexed by the Great Falls Genealogy Society and are available to the the public on their web site: www.gfgenealogy.org
In each area photos from private and public collections have identified families members and people. Some books contain photos of people who were notable or have relatives still in the Great Falls or a similar area. Few family history might be related to the articles but historic color is very well illustrated in similar books. Archival photos do show decade styles of fashion, architecture, and social moments like baseball in 1914.
Smaller communities produce history books that seem to have more family histories of the the people who lived in the areas. These books are compiled by local groups and people usually by asking known relatives to write a family history for their family and include photos if they can. These books may also contain researched lists of teachers and ministers of churches that passed through the communities. Small histories may cover time periods from the end of the 19th Century: For example the history Valley Ventures for the Simms & Fort Shaw, Montana communities starts with the building of Fort Shaw established by the 13th US Infantry in 1868 - 1869 at the Sun River in the Missouri River Basin. (The Buffalo Soldiers were stationed at the Fort Shaw later. Also my Grandfather Arthur Foxall was one of the men hired to dismantle the Fort in the mid 1920's.) This book has biographical family histories and copies of old letters. This book was a book produced by regualar people before computers and personal printers there are not dates when the book was printed. Dating the book is not important for this book because all histories have been authored.
Small community histories have recorded thousands family histories for people who were just a line on the US Census pages this maybe the only record of these people.
While trying to locate some community histories do not mention the community in the title of the book so search for the books by subject or surname. Historical centers in local, county, states most likely have some reference to all communities planned or published histories. Families will only be mentioned in community histories if they were known by or had contact with a person related to the project editors.
The Salt Lake Family History Library has copies of many of the community history books. Most if not all of these types of books were on limited printings and were only published once. The undertaking to publish a community history is such a big project that a history of many communities are only published once. Many of the books might be available through inter-library loan service. Inter-library loan service can be checked out in any USA main county library.
A few communities histories do surface in used book sales online and in book stores. Most of the time these used books will cost far beyond the original price that they were sold for originally. So do not purchase the book unless you have checked the contents to see if the cost of the book warrants the possible family information that could be of use found in this type of history.
- Malmstrom Air Force Base
- Montana Air National Guard
- Honor rolls Containing a Pictorial Record of the Gallant and Courageous Men from Cascade County, Mont., U.S.A. Who Served in the Great War, 1917-1918-1919 (digitized book)
- Great Falls Tribune - Based out of Great Falls, MT
Vital RecordsEdit
For marriages from 1887-1890 see Western States Marriage Index.
For marriages from 1887-1950 and indexes from 1887-1953 see Montana, Cascade - Marriage records, 1887-1950 ; Index 1887-1953
Societies and LibrariesEdit
The Great Falls Genealogy Society Library is located at 301 Second Avenue North, on the third floor of the Public Library. The library is open to the public, Monday thru Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Over 10,000 resources are available covering local, national and international locations and volunteers are on hand to assist patrons with their family research. The Society holds monthly meetings featuring programs related to family research and conducts workshops and classes on a regular basis, also open to the public. Website can be found at: www.gfgenealogy.org The Great Falls Public Library is located at 301 Second Ave North on a oneway street going west. This the main Cascade County Library. Historical books and records are located in the Montana room. City directories, county historie, school annuals and historic book collections are of local interest. The Montana Room is only open to the public Monday thru Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
LDS Family History Center is located 1401 Ninth Ave Northwest. The FHC is in the LDS Stake Center in an area on the West of the Missouri River and North of Central Ave West. The church building is blocks away from the CMR High School but may not be on any public transportation route. Call to make sure they are open, the phone number can be found on www.familysearch.org All FHC records vary from Library to Library and each Library has a different selection of books. No fee to use FHC for research.
Cascade County Historical Society Museum - Archives is located at 422 Second Street South, Great Falls, Montana
Tel: (406) 452-3462 Relocated in the early 2000's to a larger restored warehouse. They have a large archives to research and a holdings of past artifacts and there is a fee. No web site as of 2009. They stock community history books and local biographies to view and avalible for purchase.
- Cascade County Montana Web Site
- USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
- Family History Library Catalog
- ↑ Information from http://www.co.cascade.mt.us/?p=aboutus
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).


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The Twitter world is rolling right now! At once, all time linesl asked the same question….where are my followers???? Heartwrenched twitter maniacs, some already in tears, are scurying trying to see if they will have to start all over again.
CNN, FOX NEWS, ASHTON KUTCHER, and many many others have all been dropped down to ZERO! 0 followers = o following
Over the last few months the twitter world has become use to 3rd party applications not being able to update, over-capacity, and the constant hacking of their profiles (including vicious imposters). Recently Twitter has been toying with the idea of verifying accounts, and other meausres to ensure user protectivity. BUT will the twitter world recover from today's actions???
There has been no update from twitter as of yet to keep calm or not to worry, other than we now know that it has to do with hackers, but I have no clue if this is a sign of things to come. Do you remember the constant updates from TOM at myspace that simply stated: MYSPACE IS NOT GOING TO CHARGE OR SHUT DOWN? How re-assuring! Well Twitter…we could sure use a statement to calm the fears of your many faithful users who are all headed staring at their computers in amazement!
Perhaps Twitter is adopting the mantra of Thomas Edison:
Hell, there are no rules here – we're trying to accomplish something.

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This appendix contains screenshots and descriptions for all of the Oracle WebCenter installation screens:
Installation screens and instructions for WebCenter back-end components can be found in Chapter 4, "Preparing Back-End Components for WebCenter Services".
This screen appears for UNIX systems only; if this is your first Oracle installation on this host, you must specify the location of the inventory directory. This inventory directory is used by the installer to keep track of all Oracle products installed on the computer.
The default inventory location is
In the Operating System Group name field, select the group whose members you want to grant access to the inventory directory; all members of this group will be able to install products on this machine.
This screen appears for UNIX systems only; you are asked to run the
/createCentralInventory.sh script as
If you do not have
root access on this machine but wish to continue with the installation, select Continue installation with local inventory.
The Welcome screen is displayed each time you start the installer.
If there is a problem, a short error message appears in the bottom portion of the screen. Fix the error and click Retry to try again.
If you want to ignore the error or warning messages and continue with the installation, click Continue.
Click Abort to stop prerequisite checking for all components.
In the Oracle Middleware Home field, specify the absolute path to your existing Oracle Middleware Home directory. If you do not know the full path to your Middleware Home, you can click Browse to select an existing directory in your system.
In the Oracle Home Directory field, specify the directory inside the Oracle Middleware Home where you want to install your products:
If you specify a directory that already exists, it must be either:
An empty directory inside the Oracle Middleware Home (for example, you have created an empty directory inside the Middleware Home in advance of this installation and should specify this directory here).
An existing Oracle Home directory (for example, you are adding Oracle Universal Content Management to an existing WebCenter Oracle Home directory).
If you specify a new directory, it will be created inside the Oracle Middleware Home.
If you are performing an installation on a Windows operating system, be sure that your directory paths are valid and do not contain double backslashes (\\).
The Oracle Home directory is where your products will be installed. All software binaries will reside in this directory, and no runtime process can write to this directory.
Note:For the remainder of this document, this directory will be referred to as your WebCenter Oracle Home to avoid any confusion with the Oracle Home directories of other Oracle Fusion Middleware products. For more information about Oracle Home directories, refer to "Oracle Home Directory" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Planning Guide.
Select Install and Configure Oracle Universal Content Management if you want to install Oracle UCM.
Note:If you are using a Microsoft SQL Server database, do not select Install and Configure Oracle Universal Content Management on this screen. Oracle UCM can be configured to run on SQL Server, but should be installed separately.
Note:By default, version 10g (10.1.3.5.1) is installed on your system. If you already have a previous version of Oracle UCM installed on your system, you must apply the patch tp upgrade to version 10.1.3.5.1 in order to get Oracle UCM working with Oracle WebCenter.
Specify the following information:
The Content Server comes as part of Oracle UCM and performs content management tasks. Enter the port number that will be used to connect to the Content Server. The default is 4444.
Oracle UCM also comes with an Administration Server that handles administrative tasks. Enter the port number that will be used to connect to the Administration Server. The default is 4440.
Oracle UCM must also be installed on a machine with an existing HTTP server. The web server address is the URL used to access Content Server, including the relative root specific to Content Server. For example, if you install Content Server on a web server with the HTTP address of
http://www.yourcompany.com and you want to use
ucm as the relative root, you would specify
http://www.yourcompany.com/ucm/ as the HTTP address in this field. The address must be in the format:
For secure connections:
Specify the connection details to your Oracle database containing the
OCSERVER schema:
Database Connect String
Enter the hostname, port number, and service name of your Oracle database. Use the following format:
Note:Support for Oracle RAC databases is not available out-of-the-box. You must configure your Oracle RAC database after Oracle UCM is installed.
Refer to "Reconfiguring the Content Server to Support RAC" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle WebCenter for more information.
The default port number for Oracle Databases is 1521.
The service name is typically the same as the global database name. If you are unsure what the service name for your database is, you can obtain it from the
SERVICE_NAMES parameter in the database's initialization parameter file. If the initialization parameter file does not contain the
SERVICE_NAMES parameter, then the service name is the same as the global database name, which is specified in the
DB_NAME and
DB_DOMAIN parameters.
Schema Username
Enter the name of your Content Server schema in the following format:
You would have provided this information on the Select Components Screen when creating your schemas using Repository Creation Utility (RCU). For more information, refer to Section 2.1.3, "Create Schemas for Oracle WebCenter".
Schema Password
Enter the password for your schema. You would have provided this information on the Schema Passwords Screen when creating your schemas using Repository Creation Utility (RCU). For more information, refer to Section 2.1.3, "Create Schemas for Oracle WebCenter".
Review the information on this screen, and click Install to begin the installation. The operations summarized on this page will be performed when you click Install.
If you want to make any changes to the configuration before starting the installation, use the navigation pane and select the topic you want to edit.
If you want to save this configuration to a text file, click Save. This file can be used later if you choose to perform the same installation from the command line. See Appendix D, "Silent Installation" for more information.
This screen shows you the progress of the installation.
If you want to quit before the installation is completed, click Cancel. Doing so will result in a partial installation; the portion of the software that was installed on your system before you click Cancel will remain on your system, and you will have to remove it manually.
Provide the location of the Oracle UCM installer. This is the directory under which the
platform (on UNIX systems) or
platform (on Windows systems) exists.
On UNIX systems, this directory is typically
products/ContentServer on the installation DVD. If you extracted the contents of the installation DVD to your local disk, then you should point to
products/ContentServer in the directory on your disk where you extracted the software. For example:
On Windows systems, this directory is typically
products\ContentServer on the installation DVD. If you extracted the contents of the installation DVD to your local disk, then you should point to
products\ContentServer in the directory on your disk where you extracted the software. For example:
Note:For this location, you cannot specify a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path, such as
Instead, you must map this network path to a drive, and then provide the mapped drive as the installation location. For example, using either the
NET SHARE command or Tools > Map Network Drive from Windows Explorer, you could map the
M:\ drive to the
\\server\content directory, then provide the installation location as
This screen shows you the progress of the Oracle UCM installation.
If you want to quit before the installation is completed, click Cancel. Doing so will result in a partial installation; the portion of the software that was installed on your system before you click Cancel will remain on your system, and you will have to remove it manually.
This screen summarizes the installation that was just completed.
If you want to save this summary information to a text file for future reference, click Save.


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Hi everybody,I started this Thread for all support questions related to Purepool, it will be linked in the pool.Feel free to ask any question you have.Greetings,Lichtsucher
I started this Thread for all support questions related to Purepool
Thanks Lictsucher!I would like to know the best way to configure multiple linux & windows miners for the pool. Should each one use their own receiving address, or is there a way to have all BBP sent to one main address?
Hi Lichtsucher, me and another miner having a problem with Purepool. Basically, everything works, but the pool wouldn't show any miner statistics. Please visit this thread:http://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=155.0Hopefully, we'll find the solution
Hi zthomasz,you can use one receiving address for all miners. Important: If you want to use the same CPID, copy the wallet.dat to all maschines. But remember that this means that the wallet is available on all systems, so better have a cold-wallet with your not-stacked coins somewhere else You can also have different wallets for every pc, but then you need a working PoDC work for every one of them, with different CPIDs.
Also, I registered this miner a few days ago but still no statistics ..workerid=BQB34r5kvkfCpcEm7bEf4W9E2rfGewa7Jy/TASAcerHere's the biblepay.conf file ...addnode=node.biblepay-explorer.orgaddnode=node.biblepay.orgaddnode=biblepay.inspect.networkgen=1genproclimit=1pool=https://pool.purepool.orgworkerid=BQB34r5kvkfCpcEm7bEf4W9E2rfGewa7Jy/TASAcerI don't know if it makes a difference, but BOINC is running on the same machine.Thanks in advance!
Thanks Light ... here's the info:exec getboincinfo{ "Command": "getboincinfo", "CPID": "", "Address": "", "CPIDS": "", "CPID-Age (hours)": 423400, "NextSuperblockHeight": 41820, "NextSuperblockBudget": 1179301, "Total Payments (One Day)": 0, "Total Payments (One Week)": 0, "Total Budget (One Day)": 1179301, "Total Budget (One Week)": 8255107, "Superblock Count (One Week)": 8, "Superblock Hit Count (One Week)": 8, "Superblock List": "41615,41410,41205,41000,40795,40590,40385,40180", "Last Superblock Height": 41615, "Last Superblock Budget": 1179301, "Last Superblock Payment": -2, "Magnitude (One-Day)": 0, "Magnitude (One-Week)": 0}
Yes, I assigned the wallet to Rosetta on March 12 2018 and it's been successfully mining BOINC since then. When I try to reassign it in "Add Me As A Distributed Computer Researcher" I get "ALREADY_IN_CHAIN." My controller wallet shows a CPID, is staked, etc. This wallet doesn't show a CPID, plus it only has 10 BBP.Edit: Just checked miner stats at: https://pool.purepool.org/main/miner/BQB34r5kvkfCpcEm7bEf4W9E2rfGewa7Jy/this is new .. ErrorsList of errors related to your miner in the last 24hErrormessage Worker CountInvalid_CPID Default 1Invalid_CPID TASAcer 1


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The Remarketing Trap
Aug 13, 2012 5:00 AM PT
There's a great chase scene in Minority Report when Tom Cruise, having been identified as a future murderer, is making his escape through a futuristic mall. He's doing so with some urgency while trying to keep a low profile. Unfortunately, the advertising billboards, which are smarter than a NASA rocket scientist, start crying out to him, vying for his attention and blowing his cover.
There's a thin line between utopian ideals and dystopian realities, and it makes me chuckle to think that in the case of Minority Report, all that was needed to cross it was the involvement of a marketing department.
Marketing is a numbers game. It costs money to be personal, but the more personal you can be, the greater impact you can have. That's why getting machines to be personal for you has become something of a Holy Grail.
A Matter of Trust
That isn't necessarily good news for consumers, many of whom aren't aware that personalization is going on around them. Every day, billions of us go online and communicate. Some of what we say is private, but much more sits in the public domain, making the Web a force like no other, providing the fabric in which communities can develop, business can be transacted, and, as events in the Middle East have demonstrated, even revolutions can be organized.
Within this, search engines play a central role, enabling us to find what we are looking for at the touch of a button. Even as I write this article, I am realizing how much I take it for granted. During my university days, I spent plenty of time scouring the library and bookshop for relevant textbooks and papers. All I have to do now is fire up my browser and head for Google.
There is an important assumption we make every time we use a search engine, however: specifically, that it is presenting to us the most relevant and reliable information available. We don't expect results to be perfect, but we do expect them to have integrity and be free of manipulation. We expect the inquiries we make to be treated with discretion. This is the capital Google requires to win and maintain our trust and loyalty.
Relevance Is Personal
Search engines mess with this trust capital at their peril, which is why they take great care to separate advertising content and organic results. Advertising is designed to be attractive and alluring; it's there to state the positives rather than bring balance to a purchasing decision.
Google's masterstroke when combining the two has been to reward relevance. Advertisers do much better when their products and services are closely associated with the user's search terms, making life hard for spammers.
Fighting to retain relevance in its results is a hard-fought battle that can never really be won. That's because relevance is a highly personal concept. When consumers search online you can only guess at what their intentions are based on what they have typed. However, if you can glean a little bit more about them from other interactions you've had, then you stand a good chance of improving your prediction.
From the user's perspective, this might seem all to the good, and it's a marketer's dream. But making search results personal also has the potential to skew the results and undermine trust. Using the workplace as a metaphor, whose insight would you value the most -- a co-worker who tells it as he sees it? Or a co-worker who bases reports on her understanding of your preferences?
This applies to online advertising as well. Have you ever noticed that the same online seller pops up all over the place, after you have clicked on one of its ads? That's its advertising team paying the search engine to remarket its business to you.
Personalization and Privacy
Working hard to keep the attention of prospective customers is a perfectly acceptable and efficient marketing activity, but those of us on the receiving end need to know that our world view is being distorted. On an e-commerce website, that is to be expected; on a search engine, it undermines trust and removes objectivity.
Personalization also raises questions about confidentiality. Last Christmas, I went online and ordered all of my presents on the family computer -- job done! I was somewhat dismayed to find a day later that Amazon was remarketing the presents I'd purchased to my family, ruining the surprise. What's the point of trying to sell me something I've just bought?
Looking for a job on your office PC? Don't click on a paid ad, or you run the risk of the same business being promoted to you on every site that generates income from advertising. It doesn't really matter what the context is -- up the adverts pop, capturing not only your attention, but everyone else's as well.
Of course, every technology that's ever been invented has had its detractors, and I don't count myself among those opposed to personalization and remarketing. At the same time, I don't want to share the same experience as Tom Cruise's character in Minority Report and have every device I touch try to tell me -- and those around me -- who I am and what my motives are.


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New program at Veterans Administration helps hospice patients in final hours
'No Veteran Dies Alone' volunteers need only have a simple qualification: caring
Many of the veterans in hospice at the VA hospitals in Pittsburgh are elderly.
In many cases, they have outlived their brothers, sisters and wives. Their children have jobs and children of their own, and cannot afford to keep an extended vigil as their loved one dies.
VIDEO: Watch Sally Wiggin's report
To make sure no veteran has to die alone, the VA has developed a program staffed by volunteers, the VA chaplains and the chief of Hospice and Palliative care at the Heinz VA and the VA hospital in Oakland.
"Because you don't know when a patient is going to die, the volunteers spend the time with the patient to make sure, when they die, they are not alone," Dr. Sandra Blakowski said.
Chaplain Alan Morris, who is a veteran himself, said the qualifications for volunteers are simple, "The qualification is caring. A deep sense of what it would be like for to be in the same place."
Volunteer George Coppola has that kind of caring in abundance. Also a veteran, Coppola has been volunteering in the program for eight months. He said when he asked to join the program, the director asked him why.
"I said I had some friends I was in Vietnam with who have passed and I found out that the one I was closest with died alone. There was no one with him," Coppola said.
Ted Engler is a veteran from Cambria County. His younger brother, David, died in hospice at the Heinz VA on Dec. 10. Neither he not his brother's wife could be at the bedside of the Vietnam veteran every day as he lay dying from a rare cancer.
"It was the volunteers being called out at midnight, whenever they showed up and did what they had to do. Comforting my brother, even though he was not responsive, letting him know there was somebody there," Engler said.
He also said, when his time comes, he wants to be at the same VA hospice, because of what the volunteers did for his family.
For more information about becoming a volunteer, contact Debbie Goral at 412-360-1984.


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Marlon was a college teammate of Steve Nash at Santa Clara, but arrived after Nash's freshman year where they upset Arizona as the #15 seed in the NCAA tournament.
Marlon received his call-up to the Celtics on February 12, 1999. That was the lockout shortened season. I actually attended 2 Celtics games that season and although I got to see Eric Riley play twice, Marlon didn't appear in either contest.
He'd appear in 24 games that season, averaging 2.1 points in a bit more than 8 minutes a night. After that, Garnett claims "injuries cut his NBA career short." He went on to play in Turkey, Spain, Italy, and Crotia.
Today Garnett is still in the public eye. I'd consider him in the mold of Andrew DeClercq, Bart Kofoed and Jimmy Oliver in that Marlon is still involved in basketball but also very much connected to his faith. He heads up the Team Garnett Basketball which is probably a tough-sell in my opinion if it doesn't involve Kevin Garnett. [It's too bad Marlon's last name isn't "Garrett", like Dean Garrett. He's pretty forgettable and "Team Garrett" could probably be branded much better.] You can see from his site he talks strongly about his faith too.
Marlon is married to his wife Anais and has two girls, Amaia and Sarai. They reside in Charlotte, NC.
But alas, Marlon's not done balling himself! He plays for the Mahram Basketball Club in the Iranian Basketball League. Unfortunately if you click on the above link to Marlon's page, his name is spelled wrong and it links to Loren Woods, he of former Toronto Raptor fame. However if you scroll around the rest of the site (try doing it in English unless your fluent in reading Persian right-to-left) you'll see pictures of Marlon on the site, including this one, where it looks like he ate something bitter.
And for the record Marlon and Kevin aren't related (although you may know KG is related to this guy).


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Hakka (kèjiāhuà) is spoken in south eastern China, parts of Taiwan and in the New Territories of Hong Kong. There are also significant communities of Hakka speakers in such countries as the USA, French Guiana, Mauritius and the UK. The total number of Hakka speakers is roughly 40 million. Kèjiā means 'guest' in Mandarin - Hakka means the same thing in Hakka.
The Kèjiā or Hakka people have a long history of migration. Kèjiā history states that their ancestors originated from Shāndōng or Shānxī province in northern China. They began their first wave of migration between the 4th and 9th centuries, traveling from Hénán and the adjoining northern provinces into Ānhuī and its vicinity.
A second wave of migration took place between the 9th and 12th centuries, when the Kèjiā migrated along the mountains and foothills of eastern Jiāngxī into south Jiāngxī and inland Fùjiàn.
A final wave of migration took place between the 12th and 17th centuries, as Kèjiā moved into northeast Guăngdōng province.
The Cantonese of Guăngdōng saw the Kèjiā as poor, uneducated and uncultured. The Kèjiā, considered the Cantonese greedy, unrefined Southerners. There is no love lost between the two groups.
Hakka pronunciation
Hakka pronunciation
Useful phrases in Hakka
Hakka hak ga va (Hakka)
Topics related to learning Hakka Chinese.
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I've been to a couple of bookstores, hoping to find this book. I've found them, but when I skim through them, they don't seem to be what I'm looking for. I'm looking for the most accurate translation of this book in it's closest form to the original. However, a lot of them are translated for modern usage. One of the editions just broke Sun Tzu's treatise into little paragraphs set on top of the pages and then the rest of the pages were devoted to the translator's explanation of them.
One of the sales personnel told me that a lot of chinese people who look for these books say that some of the translations are just horrible.
There is one translation by James Clavell. I've read one of his books (Shogun- based off of feudal Japan), and he is a fabulous writer. I'm thinking that maybe he did a decent job. I'll just have to wait until the store has them in stock to decide... (sigh).
Anyway, for anyone who has read this book, can you please give me the editions and translators, and tell me what you thought of it? I'm trying to research this in order to buy the right book. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.


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So I finally got my new shoes yesterday, and I took them out for a spin last night.
It was a run where I felt like I was actually going fast. I felt good. Nothing hurt and I felt like I could just keep running, and running, and running. It was a great feeling. I haven't had that feeling in a while.
I was struggling a lot with running, feeling motivated to run because I knew when I would run, I would feel sore, and hurt and defeated. Not last night. My new shoes gave me springs!
It has been unusually chilly here, and I bundled up after work, excited to try out my new shoes. I am saving the gold ones for March, where they will be going 26.2… twice. I will break them in right before we travel out to Arkansas.
But last night, it was one of those times when things clicked and my feet just kept going. When I got home I didn't feel sore or hurt. I knew the new shoes would do the trick and now my motivation is back! I'm excited to start training again and actually after this LAST event weekend, I'm excited to get back on track and start getting down to business with the long runs.
Work has been crazy busy lately, working the last three weekends has me very tired, but new shoes and some new songs to motivate me have helped getting me out there and getting my run done each day.
I have a giveaway and review that I will post this week and a post of a ton of delicious recipes that I need to post too!
Also, thanks to all those who have been so generous with donations and now that I've announced I'm cutting my hair I cannot WAIT! :)


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Now that I'm about to begin China Tour 2008 (my upcoming move to Shanghai), it's long overdue to summarize my favorite parts of
that Deb conceived and managed.
The truth about touring to launch a book is this: it can be long and grueling with multiple events and interviews every day. It takes a ton of people to spearhead—awesome publishers and publicists (go, Rachel Wasdyke--no other publisher better steal her away from Little, Brown--and Media Masters).
For Girl Overboard, we wanted to do something different, something innovative. Something that would make a difference to teens.
So instead of a joe-standard, trot-the-author-around-bookstores book tour, my publisher worked with Burton Snowboards and YouthVenture on a new concept. Put an Olympic Gold Medalist on the road with me as the ultimate Girl Overboard prop. Add a heavy dose of community service that's so important to me and underscores my book. And voila! An all-new kind of tour with the objective of getting teens psyched to change the world.
Top Moments of Book Touring 2008!
1. Becoming friends with so many exceptional people, especially my book tour partner and Olympic Gold medalist, Hannah Teter, her amazing mom, Pat Teter, and Deb (the marketing wonderwoman who architected the entire tour and challenge grant!).
2. Being in Hannah's presence and watching her compete at the X-Games in Aspen, CO. More than eating healthily (we found every single organic health food store in all the cities we toured), Hannah lives healthily: donating her time and earnings to causes she believes in. Being with her for weeks was good for my soul.
3. Working with Burton Snowboards and YouthVenture on the Go Overboard Challenge Grant—and inspiring teens to take action. We gave away 12 grants, each $1000 to teens who had amazing ideas to rock the world.
4. Visiting countless high schools and libraries around the country and meeting thousands of students, especially the ones in inner city schools in Chicago, Denver, and the Bay Area. I was so stoked to meet this generation's changemakers. Look at them! These are the girls who are already leading the change our world needs.
5. Seeing the Go Overboard Challenge Grant included on both the Burton Snowboards & YouthVenture websites! Not bad that the Challenge Grant generated more site traffic for YouthVenture than any other grant before! And then having my publisher (Little, Brown Books) support our grant with a gorgeous "chap book" that was distributed to thousands of people. (Thank you, Lisa nee Laginestra --again, hands off her, you other publishers, you!)
6. Garnering well over 2 million media impressions—meaning that word about the Girl Overboard grant was spread far and wide through all of our TV, radio, web, blog, and print interviews.
7. Meeting amazing librarians and booksellers who are passionate about books, including the extraordinary Sharon Levin and Walter Mayes and Robin Willard who know everything there is to know about YA lit. (Sharon even cooked me a yummy dinner! And her daughter makes a mean guacamole!)
8. Watching my kids recruit 10 other children to host the Peace, Love & Pancakes fundraising dinner. They raised over $10,000 to fund Hannah's charity work in Kenya. Now, THAT was the ultimate way to end a fantastic tour.
9 and 10. And most of all, connecting to readers and learning that my books made a difference to them.
Thank you to everyone for making the Go Overboard Challenge Grant and the Girl Overboard Book Tour happen. Now, go change the world. Start by reading a good book.


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Assistant Professor of Design
Jessica Corr is a product designer/consultant with expertise in high-end hospitality design. Clients include: Park Hyatt Shanghai, Park Hyatt Washington DC, Wolfgang Puck, Prada flagship Store, MGM Grand Hotels. Jessica's work has been featured in exhibitions: Barcelona Forum 2004/Design 21 Social Design Network, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial 2003, Surface: Ten Avant Guarde Industrial Designers, 2003 and in design publications: Dish, International Design, 2005, Graphis: Product 3, 2004, Inside Design Now, 2003. Jessica is a founding member of REAL (Research Education Art+Design Lab), a research Lab in the School of Design Strategies dedicated to bringing design-based education to NYC public schools.
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I mentioned the other day that Gnomeaggedon's Reindeer had been leaving it's mark around the WoW Blogsphere… so here's an update…
Frost is the New Black
What Frost Means To Me… [by Gnomer!]
Pink Pigtail Inn
A Guest Post: Gnomeaggedon's "I Smell Xmas Panties"
For the Horde
That's it for now.
Until I get moved into the new place I will be AFB (Away from Blog), but all being well I will be back Monday my time…
Ohh final note, thanks to those that have let me share my thoughts on their blog.
Thanks also to Krizzlybear and Sylus for doing guest posts here at the home of the Gnome.
If I don't get to you before, Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year (with no offense intended to others of other faiths, but this is the season to be Santa),
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!


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Thousands of people flocked to welcome teen sailor Jessica Watson back to Queensland, with a celebration in Brisbane's Queens Street Mall on Wednesday 26 May, 2010. Photos by Nick Lawrence.
BUDERIM teenager Jessica Watson is on course to become Young Australian of the Year after last night being named Queensland's winner.
JESSICA Watson thrilled thousands of fans in Brisbane in her first public appearance on home soil since her momentous round-the-world sailing journey.
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Creative Wooden Creatures by Hakan Gürsu
Hakan Gürsu Shares The Creative Wooden Creatures Wooden Toy
Hakan Gürsu, the lead designer of the displayed design Wooden Toy by Hakan Gürsu explicates, Creative Wooden Creatures kit allows children to create a wide range of animals by combining various body parts. Designed for children above the age of 5, it is a universal toy that children from different cultural backgrounds learn and discover animals of land and sea while also designing their own creatures. Challenge was to design a toy kit that offers unlimited possibilities for building creatures with simple, organic forms that foster creativity and perception of aesthetics..
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by Jim Harris
A lot of music critics have been asking lately, "Is rock dead?" Well, it's always been sick, what with all the drinking, drugging, blood spitting and such, but I think it's definitely still alive and kicking. Just look at all the classic rock stars who are still in great demand: Meatloaf is a contestant on "The Apprentice;" Steven Tyler from Aerosmith is a judge on "American Idol," and how about Mick Jagger's recent performance at the Grammys?
True, Mick's vocal range is reduced to just three notes, and he can no longer sing the vowels "E," "A," or "I," but he's still relatively feisty, and … oh all right, dammit, rock IS dead. Defunct, extinct, kaput! It's about as relevant as Icelandic clog-dancing.
I think this bothers a lot of middle-aged and older folks because they don't like what's taking rock's place in the hearts and minds of young people — namely rap. For you folks unfamiliar with the genre, let me explain. Just as square dancing is synchronized walking, rap is synchronized talking. To put it another way, rap is a protest march without the marching, or music with all the harmony and melody removed.
It may sound stark and harsh, but it's been around for almost 40 years now, and even scholars are starting to take it seriously. In his new book, "The Poetics of Hip Hop," English professor Adam Bradley calls rap "the most widely disseminated poetry in the history of the world," and he rhapsodizes over its use of "assonance, alliteration and apocopated rhyme." Another new book, the 900-page "Anthology of Rap," is published by Yale University Press, no less. I'll be checking it out as soon as I finish re-reading Bill Clinton's autobiography.
Structurally, the rap form has evolved to usually include two or more male individuals careening around onstage flailing their arms and either bragging or complaining, while an electronically generated note sequence (scientifically designed to be as irritating as possible) repeats over and over in the background. Recently, voluptuous females have been added to howl and/or lurch seductively at appointed intervals.
A typical performance:
•Rapper 1: [several expletives]
•Rapper 2: (grabbing crotch) Amonna haboba!
•Music: deedle-doo, deedle-dee, THUMP, deedle-doo.
•Voluptuous female: Yaaaeeeyaaaaa!
•The whole pattern then repeats until either shooting breaks out or someone shuts off the electricity.
Rappers don't play instruments, so they don't need to waste time studying actual music. They can start rapping the moment they're born. Some of the superstars of the milieu are: Sean Combs (who also goes by the names Puff, Puffy, Puff Daddy, Diddy, P.Diddy, and Daddy Diddy), Ice Cube, Ice Tea, Vanilla Ice, Ice Pack and Slipped on the Ice and Broke My Pelvis. Off-stage, these once-deprived young gentlemen treat everyone but their "homeboys" like chewing gum stuck to the bottom of their shoes.
Of course, there are still some young non-rapping superstars, most notably, Lady Gaga, who sings and dances to a disco-ish kind of pop. She usually wears 10-inch heels, large, ornate headdresses and "dresses" from the planet Uranus. You would not want to sit behind her at the movies. She also uses elaborate props in her act. She emerged from a large egg in her latest Grammy performance, and she has been known to wear entire outfits made of fresh meat. I'm told that young girls find her message empowering. Excuse me for a moment, please.
Thanks. I'm back. I just needed to pound my head against a brick wall 500 times. I'm fine now. So, what do these new trends in popular entertainment bode for our society? Well, call me a dreamer, but if I could hazard a guess, I'd say that the current crop of young Americans will most likely oversee a wretched deterioration of the U.S. into a fifth-rate nation of burger-flippers and telemarketers. Of course that's the best-case scenario, but we can only hope. I would now like to thank God that, banning some unforeseen medical breakthrough, I will not live to see it happen.
I, of course, being a post-World War II "baby boomer," realize that all of this is exactly what my father's generation said about the music that I listened to as a young person — Elvis, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Louis, Chuck Berry, etc. — so I say it with considerable chagrin. The only difference being, of course, that I'm right, and he was wrong.


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1958: A new artist was introduced that would continue to hit the charts for the next 30 years. Neil Sedaka debuted with his first career single "The Diary".
1958: "A Lover's Question" by Clyde McPhatter was the #1 song on the R&B chart.
1960: Fabian visited Elvis Presley at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.
1962: A new talent appeared on the scene on this date as Dionne Warwick debuted on the chart with her first single--"Don't Make Me Over".
1962: "All Alone Am I' by Brenda Lee spent a fifth week at #1 on the Easy Listening chart.
Elvis continued to be #2...
1962: The 4 Seasons owned the #1 song for the fourth week with "Big Girls Don't Cry". Elvis Presley's "Return To Sender" had been runner-up every one of those weeks while Marcie Blane was stuck at 3 with "Bobby's Girl". The Orlons moved up to #4 with "Don't Hang Up" and Dee Dee Sharp coasted up with "Ride!". The rest of the Top 10: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass with their classic "The Lonely Bull", an even bigger instrumental from the Tornadoes--"Telstar", came blasting into the Top 10 (13-7), Chubby Checker told of "Limbo Rock", Brenda Lee was on her way down with "All Alone Am I" and Little Esther Phillips cracked the list with "Release Me".
1963: Frank Sinatra's son, Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped.
1965: The Mamas and the Papas released their first career single, and it was a big one--"California Dreamin'".
1965: The Rolling Stones finally finished recording "19th Nervous Breakdown" after six days at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California.
1965: The Spencer Davis Group appeared at the Top Rank in Southampton, England.
1965: "Day Tripper" by the Beatles pulled off a rare feat by debuting at #1 in the U.K.
1966: Paul McCartney overdubbed his lead vocal for "When I'm Sixty-Four" at Abbey Road Studios in London. The Beatles then worked on a new John Lennon song--"Strawberry Fields Forever".
1967: The Beatles released the album Magical Mystery Tour in the United States.
1967: The Rolling Stones released the album Their Satanic Majesties Request. (Note: some websites list the date of release as December 20, but it was the 8th, according to the newspaper 'The Examiner' and other credible sources.)
1967: Traffic released the album Mr. Fantasy.
1969: Joe South released this single--"Walk A Mile In My Shoes".
1968: Graham Nash announced the formation of supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nash.
1969: Jimi Hendrix testified that he had "outgrown drugs" at his trial for possession of hashish and heroin in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada Supreme Court. He was found not guilty.
1970: Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, recorded an album of spoken words from his poetry. Following Morrison's death the following July, the surviving members of the group composed music to the poetry and released it as the album An American Prayer.
Chicago was #1 in many markets...
1973: The Carpenters remained perched at the pinnacle with "Top Of The World", although Elton John was #1 in several markets with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". Charlie Rich's search for "The Most Beautiful Girl" took him from 10 to 3, Chicago's great "Just You 'N' Me" was up to 4 and Ringo Starr's former #1 "Photograph" was now at 5. The rest of the Top 10: "Space Race" from Billy Preston, Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes inched up with "The Love I Lost", Todd Rundgren found the Top 10 with "Hello It's Me", Eddie Kendricks was at 9 with "Keep On Truckin'" and Helen Reddy joined the group with "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)".
1973: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John topped the Album chart for a fifth week.
1975: Neil Sedaka released the single "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do", a slower version of his 1962 hit of the same name.
1975: Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue played a benefit at Madison Square Garden in New York City for Hurricane Carter, the boxer unjustly jailed for murder who is featured in Dylan's song "Hurricane". Carter phoned in and his voice was patched into the Garden.
1975: Gary Thain, bassist of Uriah Heap, died of drugs at the age of 28 in London.
1976: John Denver was a guest on the Carpenters' television special on ABC.
1977: The Paul Simon Special aired on NBC-TV with former partner Art Garfunkel joining Paul.
1979: Rod Stewart had his seventh #1 album in the U.K. with his Greatest Hits.
1979: J.D. Souther prevailed at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for a fourth week with the great song "You're Only Lonely".
1979: It was a long climb up for Styx, and although they had recorded several better songs in the past, it was "Babe" that officially gave them their first #1.
"Sisters of the Moon" helped make 'Tusk' one of Fleetwood Mac's best albums.
1979: Nothing could beat The Long Run, the great last album by the Eagles before they split the next year. It held on to #1 for a sixth week. On the Radio -Greatest Hits - Volumes I & II by Donna Summer was second while Cornerstone from Styx came in #3. Stevie Wonder had the #4 album with Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants. The rest of the Top 10: The phenomenal In Through the Out Door by Led Zeppelin, Bee Gees Greatest was up to #6, Barbra Streisand slid up one with Wet, Tusk, the incredibly underrated album from Fleetwood Mac, was #8, Rise from Herb Alpert was #9 and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers finally had their breakthrough album with Damn the Torpedoes.
1980: John Lennon autographed an album for a man in the morning. At 10:50 that night, as John and wife Yoko returned to their apartment in The Dakota, New York City, the man came back and shot Lennon four times in the back. Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:07 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York.
1982: Marty Robbins ("El Paso") died at the age of 57 from heart failure after cardiac surgery in Nashville, Tennessee.
1983: Abbacadabra, the first musical based on ABBA's hits, opened at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London.
1984: Patrick Cavanaugh, one-time manager of the Coasters, was convicted of first degree murder of group member Buster Wilson.
1984: Ashford & Simpson ruled the R&B chart for the second week with "Solid".
1984: Hall & Oates were as hot as anyone at the time, collecting their 25th hit, with an amazing 14 of those reaching the Top 10, and sixth #1--"Out of Touch". It was the duo's 11th Top 10 out of their last 12 releases.
1984: Lionel Richie remained at the top of the AC chart for a fourth week with "Penny Lover".
Madonna's "Love Don't Live Here Anymore", a top track on Like a Virgin...
1984: Purple Rain logged a 21st week at #1 on the Album chart for Prince, making it the fourth-longest running #1 in the Rock Era. It was a tremendous Top 10--Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen was still at #2 after 25 weeks, while a determined Tina Turner was third with Private Dancer. Volume One from the Honeydrippers remained in the #4 position while Big Bam Boom by Hall & Oates was #5. The rest of the Top 10: "The Woman in Red" Soundtrack, Lionel Richie was at #7 after 57 weeks with Can't Slow Down, Sports, the monumental album from Huey Lewis & the News, was #8 after 62 weeks, Arena by Duran Duran was a new entry while Madonna catapulted from 70 to 10 with Like a Virgin.
1990: A newcomer first appeared on the chart on this date with the song "Where Does My Heart Beat Now". She would become one of the biggest stars the world has ever known. Celine Dion debuted with her first career single.
1990: Bette Midler had the biggest hit of her career as "From A Distance" held on to #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for the sixth straight week.
1990: Stevie B turned in a vocal performance for the ages with "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)", which moved into the #1 spot on this date. Whitney Houston took a back seat with "I'm Your Baby Tonight" and Bette Midler was third with "From A Distance". Poison had #4 with "Something To Believe In" while Mariah Carey's great #1 "Love Takes Time" fell to #5. The rest of the Top 10: "Groove Is In The Heart" by Deee-Lite, Wilson Phillips and "Impulsive" at #7, UB40 with "The Way You Do The Things You Do", D.N.A. with Suzanne Vega moved into the Top 10 with "Tom's Diner" and Madonna scored her 24th career hit with "Justify My Love", amazingly her 21st to reach the Top 10.
1994: Antonio Carlos Jobim, who wrote "Desafinado" and many other songs, died in Manhattan of heart failure at age 67.
1995: Courtney Love was interviewed by Barbra Walters on ABC-TV. Love said she wished she had done "eight thousand million things" differently to prevent husband Kurt Cobain's death.
1995: Four months after founder Jerry Garcia's death, the surviving members of the Grateful Dead announced they were quitting.
1998: The FBI opened its file of 1,300 pages on Frank Sinatra to the public.
1998: Bruce Springsteen announced that he would tour again with the E Street Band for the first time in a decade.
1999: Prince was on Today on NBC-TV.
2000: A plaque was placed outside John Lennon's childhood home in Liverpool, England to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his death.
2000: Sting was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard.
2002: Baz Luhrmann's musical La Boheme opened on Broadway in New York City.
2003: In today's Rappers Have No Clue segment, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of activist Rosa Parks, saying she could sue OutKast for using her name as the title of a song without her permission.
2003: Ozzy Osbourne fractured a collarbone, six ribs and one of the vertebrae in his neck in an all-terrain vehicle accident on his estate in Buckinghamshire, England.
2003: The album Back In Black by AC/DC was certified by the Record Industry Association of America as the second-best-selling album in the world (42 million units) behind Thriller by Michael Jackson, which to that point had sold 56 million. (Note: several websites claim this happened on December 11, but the first reports of the event occurring are on December 8, 2003.)
2004: Usher won 11 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, including Artist of the Year and Hot 100 Single of the Year for "Yeah!". Alicia Keys captured seven awards while Stevie Wonder received the Century Award.
2004: In today's Dangerous Inmates Run Rap Music, DMX pleaded guilty to DUI and reckless endangerment in criminal court in Queens, New York, after being arrested at Kennedy International Airport for trying to break into a car.
2004: Elite guitarist Dimebag Darrell of Pantera, who was playing with Damageplan in Columbus Ohio, was shot to death as a gunman jumped on stage and shot him as well as two others.
Born This Day:
1925: Sammy Davis, Jr.was born in Harlem, New York; died of cancer from smoking on May 16, 1990 in Beverly Hills, California.
1939: Jerry Butler, lead singer of the Impressions and a solo star, was born in Sunflower, Mississippi.
1942: Bobby Elliott, drummer of the Hollies, was born in Burnley, England. (Note: some websites claim his birth year was 1941, but according to the band's official website, Bobby was born in 1942.)
1943: Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, was born in Melbourne, Florida; died July 3, 1971 from drugs.
1944: Mike Botts, drummer of Bread, who also recorded and toured with Linda Ronstadt, Karla Bonoff, Andrew Gold, Dan Fogelberg and Richard Carpenter, was born in Oakland, California; died December 9, 2005, one day after his 61st birthday, in Burbank, California of colon cancer.
1944: Bertie Higgins ("Key Largo from 1982) was born in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
1944: George Baker (real name Johannes Bouwens) of the George Baker Selection was born in Hoorn, North Holland, the Netherlands.
1946: Graham Knight, bass guitarist with Marmalade ("Reflections Of My Life") from 1969, was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
1947: Gregg Allman, vocalist, organist, and a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, was born in Nashville, Tennessee.
1947: Geoff Daking, drummer of Blues Magoos ("We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet"), was born in Wilmington, Delaware.
1950: Dan Hartman of the Edgar Winter Group and later a solo star ("I Can Dream About You" and "Instant Replay") was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; died March 22, 1994 of an AIDS-related brain tumor in Westport, Connecticut.
1956: Warren Cuccurullo, a guitarist for Frank Zappa, Missing Persons ("Destination Unknown") and longtime member of Duran Duran, was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1957: Phil Collen, the great co-lead guitarist of Def Leppard, was born in Hackney, London.
1959: Paul Rutherford of Frankie Goes to Hollywood was born in Liverpool, England.
1962: Marty Friedman, elite lead and rhythm guitarist with Megadeth, was born in Laurel, Maryland. (Note: 'Allmusic.com' and some other websites claim that Marty was born in Washington D.C.; this is at odds with the Laurel Historical Society's web page, which reports that Friedman was born in Laurel.)
1966: Sinead O'Connor ("Nothing Compares To You") was born in Glenageary, County Dublin, Ireland.
1972: Ryan Newell, lead guitarist of Sister Hazel ("All For You")
1973: Corey Taylor, guitarist and lead singer of Slipknot, was born in Des Moines, Iowa.


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Tally Hall is nominated for the NAPA Save of the Week! Check out the nominees and vote for Tally!
Kevin McCauley looks at the defensive midfield position and how having a strong defensive midfielder shapes a team's success.
After a tough loss at Seattle over the weekend, MLSsoccer.com moved the Dynamo to the 12th spot in its latest power rankings.
Pat Onstad is recovering ahead of schedule after undergoing double hernia surgery last Wednesday.
Tonight marks the first home MLS match that Thierry Henry will be playing for the Red Bulls. And even though New York has several Designated Players, there's still some doubt as to whether they can be title contenders.
New Portland Timbers head coach John Spencer made a promise to the Timbers fans.
The US suffered a 2-0 loss to Brazil last night in their first match since the closing of the World Cup tournament. Brazil used their youth and skill to pick apart the American squad. Leander Schaerlaeckens of ESPN.com wonders if last night's game was Bob Bradley's last as the U.S. national team coach.
Chris Fusciardi of Morning Star Publishing believes that soccer is in line for a major boom. His reason is that almost as many fans showed up for a friendly in Detroit between AC Milan and Panathinaikos as normally show up for a Detroit Lions football game.
Omar Salgado, the latest Generation adidas signing by Major League Soccer, is on trial with the Vancouver Whitecaps.


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how do i installed the latest os 6 for my pearl 3G 9105, via Mac, thanks...
how do i installed the latest os 6 for my pearl 3G 9105, via Mac, thanks...
Welcome to freezeKey
You need to install BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac
Download: BlackBerry - Desktop for Mac
The latest Official OS6 for your BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9105:
Download: SKTelecom_9100_126.96.36.1993
I'm not exactly sure, but you may be only able to perform OTA upgrades from your carrier via DM for Mac. So that would mean that you can only install the latest OS your carrier has approved. Please report back and let me know if I'm wrong.
You can directly install the latest os 6 for your pearl 3g 9105 via mac from here:
BlackBerry - Desktop & Device Software Download Sites for BlackBerry users - US
You can also follow the step by step procedure on how to install os 6 here:
How To Reload Your Operating System - BlackBerry Support Community Forums


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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Android Pie 9.0 Stock Firmware Download
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Android Oreo 8.1 Stock Firmware Download
Thank you for visiting SkyFileOS.com. The firmware that SkyFileOS are going to provide is Android Kitkat based firmware (Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Stock Android Pie 9.0 Stock Firmware Download). Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Stock Android Pie 9.0 comes with Android KitKat 4.3.
About Samsung
Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol. Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-Chul in 1938 as a trading company.
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Stock Android Pie 9.0 was launched in 2013, September, The phone CPU powered by Quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400 – N9005, N9002 , and it comes with 3 GB RAM and 16/32/64GB ROM, microSD, Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Stock Android Pie 9.0 comes with the Primary Singel 13MP+ 2 mb selfie camera and powered by removable Li-Lon 3200mAh battery.
How To Install The Flash File Full Guide:-
Step 1. First, make sure that you have downloaded the correct firmware file on your PC.
Step 2. Then install the Samsung USB driver.
Step 3. After that Download Odin PC software (Odin 3.13.1)or any other latest version.
Samsung USB Drivers(Official Download link)
Step 4. Extract the firmware file. You can use a free software like 7-zip for this. Install 7-zip/Winrar, then right-click on firmware file and under 7-zip, select 'Extract here'. You should get a file in .tar.md5 format now. (You may get 4 or more files, with AP, BL, CP or CSC etc. written at the beginning of those files.) We will be loading this file into Odin, to be installed on the device (in step 10 below).
Step 5. Extract the Odin file. You should get the Odin .exe file (other files could be hidden, may not visible).
Step 6. Disconnect your Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Android Oreo 8.1 from PC if it is connected.
Step 7. Boot into download mode.
How To Get Your Device Into Download Mode:-
- First power off your device. Wait for 6-7 seconds after screen goes off.
- In the second step hold down Volume Down + Volume Up + Power key for a couple of seconds.
- Press Volume Up to continue to download mode.
Step 8. Double click on Odin .exe file (from step 5) to open the Odin window as shown below. Be careful with Odin, and do just as said to prevent problems.
Step 9. Then Connect your device now using a USB Data cable. Odin should recognize your device. When it recognizes, you will see Added!! message appearing in the Log box in the bottom left, and the first box under ID: COM will also show a no. and turn its background blue.
If you don't get Added!! the message, you need to install/re-install drivers again and use the original cable that came with the device. Often drivers are the problem.
Case 1: If you got a single .tar/.tar.md5 file, then load this into the AP tab of your Odin software. After that go to the next step.
To load the file, click on AP tab, select the single firmware file starting with AP text, wait for it to load, and then skip to step 11, ignoring the rest of the part of this step.
Case 2: If you got more than one .tar/.tar.md5 file, then you must be having files starting with AP, CSC, Home_CSC, BL, CP, etc. stuff. In this case, choose the files as follows. Select the firmware files as follows.
- Click on the BL tab, and select the file beginning with BL text.
- Click on the AP tab, and select the file beginning with AP text.
- Click on the CP tab, and select the file beginning with CP text.
[Different] Click on the CSC tab, and select the file beginning with HOME_CSC text. If HOME_CSC file isn't available, then select the file beginning with CSC text.
Load the firmware files(s) on your device. This depends on how many files you got in step 4 above upon extracting the firmware .zip file.
Step 10. Then Click on Options tab, and make sure Re-partition checkbox is NOT selected. Don't use the PIT tab, ever.
Then Go back to Log tab now, as it will show the progress of the firmware installation when you hit the start button in next step.
Step 11. Verify that everything is okay as mentioned above. When satisfied, click the Start button on Odin now to start flashing the firmware on your device.
Wait till installation is finished, after which your device will reboot automatically. You'll get PASS(Green Colour) message as shown below upon successful installation from Odin.
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This needs no introduction.
Well, maybe a bit.
My dear friend Ryan was perusing JohnMcCain.com, for some odd reason, and came across the most delicious grammar error I've ever seen.
Oh, my God…
This is fantastic on SO many levels.
What's most hilarious is that this is on McCain's official Web site. This isn't a souvenir put together by an enthusiastic member of the GOP to make some extra cash. This is official stuff.
I must ask…is our children learning yet?
Since Ryan sent this to me on Friday, McCain's site has changed the pen to the proper grammar. But if you don't believe me, you can still see documentation of this hilarity here and here.


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'Top Chef Masters' Improv Episode: Just The Tasty Bits
Another week, another episode of Top Chef Masters! In this week's semi-final round, Susur Lee, Marcus Samuelsson, Rick Moonen, and Jonathan Waxman cooked their hearts out in hopes of earning a spot in next week's finale episode. Who rose to the top, and who just flopped? Find out, as we delve into the most interesting moments from the show!
The Great Cookbook Swap
For this week's quickfire challenge, the chefs were asked to prepare a recipe from one of their competitor's cookbooks. Poor Susur was sweating like Whitney Houston after running a mile in a velour sweatsuit because he "cooks with his eyes," and Rick's book didn't have a photo of the recipe. All I can say is, "Wow." If Susur gets that stressed out about following step by step recipe directions, I certainly don't want to be around the day he caves and brings home his first piece of Ikea furniture.
Susur's Cookbook Cover Is Hilarious
Look at that windswept hair! If I didn't know better, I'd think I was looking at the cover of a cheesy old romance novel.
Congratulations to Marcus, who scored his first quickfire win and finally earned some money for his charity. He prepared a chicken soup with crispy tortilla chips and avocado goat cheese guacamole, a dish inspired by one of Jonathan Waxman's recipes.
It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's The Groundlings
After the quickfire, Kelly Choi sent the chefs to see an improv show starring The Groundlings. Kelly, the jokester that she is, told the guys they'd have the night off... but she lied. The chefs soon learned that they'd be cooking an elimination dinner for the cast of The Groundlings, based on three improvised words the audience came up with during the show.
Rick's theme was "red anger bacon," Susur's theme was "chocolate peanut butter lust," Marcus' theme was "salmon violet pleasure," and Jonathan's theme was "burnt sienna avocado depression." Yikes! Jonathan really got the short end of the stick on that one. "What am I gonna do, make food that's depressing and disgusting?" he lamented. "That won't work."
For me, though, the best part of the improv show wasn't the witty commentary from the Groundlings or the crazy food pairings from the audience; it was seeing Jonathan Waxman chillin' in the audience wearing a lavender Lacoste polo:
Susur's Dirty Mind
Susur's buzz words were "chocolate, peanut butter, and lust." While cooking, he said he wanted his dish to be "sexy"—and THAT'S precisely when things started getting weird. Your honor, I call into evidence exhibit A, the actual closed captions from the episode:
Um... I don't know why Susur associates "chocolate crumbles" with "underwear"—and honestly, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW.
A Few More Sexual Innuendos For Good Measure
Maybe it was Susur's sensual chocolate dish, or maybe the Top Chef producers spiked the punch bowl with aphrodisiacs. Whatever the reason, the cast and crew of the show spent the rest of the episode spewing off more sexual innuendos than Ron Jeremy in his last film. "Oh, I'm hitting the moist section of my breast now," Kelly Choi playfully exclaimed as she tasted Jonathan's dish. Gosh, she's just sooooo funny. I bet The Groundlings are beating down her door, just begging her to join their troupe.
When he introduced his dish, Susur told the diners that his plate was supposed to resemble a "vagina" and a "pair of tongues." Honestly, I didn't see vaginas or tongues in Susur's dish half as much as I saw "waffle cones and dog poo." But maybe that's just me.
And The Winner Is...
Marcus Samuelsson! The judges loved his confit of salmon with caviar, shrimp, and sake that was inspired by the phrase "violet pleasure salmon." And in a related story, Susur's crazy vagina dessert took second place.
And The Loser Is...
Rick Moonen and Jonathan Waxman were the bottom two chefs tonight, but ultimately, Jonathan was sent home for his boring chicken dish. The judges loved the way it tasted, but didn't feel a simple roast chicken was enough to earn him a spot in the Top Chef finale.
And that brought this week's episode to an end! Stay tuned for the finale next week, when Susur casually announces that his wife's plane got SHOT DOWN IN RUSSIAN AIRSPACE. Say what?!
What did you think of the episode, Serious Eaters? Who are you rooting for in the finale?
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I know this is a few days late, but I think it's nice to have a place where all the posts are in the same place. I also really wanted to have a place to put this beautiful word cloud I made on wordle. It has all the words from all my blogathon posts, scaled to reflect the frequency of their use. I love that I seem to talk about people a lot. The other top words are pretty broad: think, just, know, like, good. They're my go-to verbs, adjectives and adverbs. But there's also: math, religious, questions, atheists and argue, and that all seems to describe me pretty well.
For those looking for what I wrote, here are the posts:
My Blogathon Announcement: Where I said I was doing it and explained why I thought it was important.
Beginning Blogathon: Where I talked about why the Secular Student Alliance is so important and wonderful (and also how I got lost getting to where I was going)
What I've Learned as President of the Secular Alliance at the University of Chicago: Just a bunch of thoughts on what makes groups succeed and thrive.
On Challenging Religious Beliefs: On why I'm working on not seeing challenging religious beliefs in social settings or online as so cringe-inducing, and why I'm glad people actually do it. (Big honking caveat: All normal social conventions like appropriateness and respect obviously need to apply)
Maaaaaaaath: How and why math is so freaking great. Includes crocheted hyperbolic spaces and some light cursing.
Emotion-based Arguments and the Atheist Community: On my suspicion that arguments about infighting and about accomodationism vs confrontationism might be based more on emotional bias than on good arguments.
Safe Spaces for Racists: On what a space where people could ask "politically incorrect" questions without hurting people might look like. Note: title is meant to be catchy/provocative, not an accurate description of what I'm hoping for. By the way, if you like that post, you might like this one, called, "You Want a Space for Political Incorrectness? You Got It", in which I announce I'm actually trying to create this space.
Brain Crack: A bunch of silly random ideas I've had floating around, like getting kids to teach their own classes and having churches serve as homeless shelters.
That's all! Thanks so much for reading.


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Wonder Material Sparks Rush to Invent New Gadgets
Graphene, a fine sheet of pure carbon, is the thinnest material known, but is 100 times stronger than steel and conducts electricity.
Bendable mobile phones, quick-charge batteries and unbreakable touch screens -- technology firms are racing to harness the potential of graphene, a wonder material that scientists say could transform consumer electronics.
A fine sheet of pure carbon, graphene is as thin as an atom, making it the skinniest material known.
Top 10 Uses for the World's Strongest Material
At the same time though, it is 100 times stronger than steel, hugely pliable and can conduct electricity and heat better than anything else.
"There are other materials which do have one of those properties each," physicist Kostya Novoselov -- who first isolated graphene in 2004 -- said at the Mobile World Congress, the sector's biggest trade fair, in Barcelona.
"What is amazing here is that all those qualities are combined in one simple crystal.
Superhero Vision Coming In Graphene Contact Lenses?
"Of course that immediately leaves us with a number of possible applications."
Novoselov, a Russian-born British citizen, and his colleague at Manchester University Andre Geim won the Nobel Prize for their work with graphene, sparking a flurry of interest in the new material.
The number of patents involving graphene soared from under 50 in 2004 to around 9,000 in 2014, according to Andrew Garland of research firm Future Markets, who puts out a twice-yearly report on the material.
E-Fabric Lights Up When It Detects Deadly Gas
"Most are in electronics," he said.
Samsung, the world's number one smartphone maker, has taken out the most graphene patents -- over 490 -- followed by China's Ocean's King Lighting and IBM.
While its real-world uses so far remain modest, research into possible applications for the material picked up steam in Europe after the European Union set aside one billion euros ($1.1 billion) in 2013 to be spent over ten years to investigate.
"We believe we require another ten years to get to the point where a lot of devices will start being on the market," said Andrea Ferrari, director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre at the University of Cambridge.
The trade fair in Barcelona for the first time had a pavilion dedicated to graphene research centers and start-ups, a sign of the growing importance of the material to the mobile industry.
Top 10 Uses for the World's Strongest Material
Graphene is so pliable scientists predict it will one day make flexible phones possible.
British firm FlexEnable showcased a smartwatch prototype made using graphene that wraps around a user's wrist and features a full color LCD display that is capable of running video content.
"This sort of display technology is basically ushering in a completely new generation of mobile devices because we can start folding electronics," said the company's technical director, Mike Banach.
Superhero Vision Coming In Graphene Contact Lenses?
British tech firm Zap&Go, meanwhile, displayed a graphene charger for mobile phones and tablets that takes just five minutes to fully load with power.
The company is making 2,000 versions to give to journalists and to people who pre-order them, said the company's marketing director, Simon Harris.
"What we have here ultimately could replace the lithium-ion battery in billions of devices. It needs to come down in size and up in power," he added.
E-Fabric Lights Up When It Detects Deadly Gas
Graphene is so strong and thin that researchers believe they will one day be able to use it to make unbreakable screens for mobile devices.
"With just a few kilos you can replace all the touchscreens in the word. With just a few layers on top of each other you can support an elephant," said Vittorio Pellegrini, director of the Italian Institute of Technology's Graphene Labs.
"Graphene is really a material that allows our imagination to fly. There is no limit to what you can do," he added.
A sheet of graphene is thin, just a single atom thick.


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The latest bug is fixed. The file is attached in my original post - I discovered that if you edit posts under IE, of all things, you get the advanced editor and can change the attached files. All others reading this thread should get the fix from the original post.
Edit: My bad (at least partly). It turns out that if you click "edit post", then Go Advanced, you don't get the advanced editor. But if you double-click on edit post, it goes straight to advanced editor on all platforms.


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We all remember that MAX train that went down the Banfield with a door open, right? Which is not how the train is supposed to work – if your doors are open and you try to take power to move the train forward, the doors will close. The interlock should prevent the train from moving if any doors remain open.
For some reason, this door stayed open between the Hollywood and Lloyd Center platforms, but no cause had been identified until last Friday afternoon, when TriMet issued a press release that the cause of the door's malfunction had been determined:
That would be great except for one thing – that door doesn't have a bridgeplate. The incident happened in a Type 2, and like all other low-floor cars in the fleet, bridgeplates are located at doors 3, 4, 5, and 6 near the middle of the train on both sides. The doors closest to the ends of the train (1, 2, 7, and 8) do not have bridgeplates. They aren't missing or corroded, they are just not there by design. It's impossible that there was excessive corrosion on a bridgeplate mechanism in that door because there is no mechanism there to corrode in the first place.
Type 2 with bridgeplates out. Notice the middle doors have them but the doors near the ends of the car do not
What does our executive director of safety have to say about this?
Yeah, the corrosion on that switch was apparently so severe that the switch and bridgeplate are just GONE. Let me give you an analogy for how mind-blowingly confusing TriMet's official statement is:
TriMet would tell you that this cat's bicycle is showing the same advanced corrosion as the bridgeplate switch
Now while the major media sources I've seen so far are just parroting back that the issue was due to corrosion on that door's bridgeplate switch, many people are realizing this doesn't add up. You don't need to be an expert in the trains to notice that the doors near the upper deck seating of the train don't have bridgeplates. One of my astute blog readers picked right up on it, other bloggers and Twitter users caught it too. That explanation seems to just be made up.
DID NO ONE THINK TO CHECK THE BRIDGEPLATE?? Actually that's going to be my new excuse for everything. Signal went dark? Probably a corroded bridgeplate switch. TVM not working? Most likely due to bridgeplate corrosion. Fight on the train? Yeah, that pesky bridgeplate corrosion again.
But hey! Let's not miss an opportunity to blame the union! In other words, let's look at this part at the end of the press release that has NOTHING to do with the door issue:
Do you like how those goalposts have been moved? TriMet used to call the union benefits "some of the most generous in the transit industry" – now that's been bumped up to THE most generous benefits in the entire COUNTRY. Hoo-wee!
Once again, TriMet non-union benefits aren't too shabby either. Will we mention those as a cost-cutting measure? Course not.
Must be hard being an executive at TriMet, not getting a raise on some of the most generous salaries in the transit industry after three years? I'd say "no disrespect to office workers" here, but you know what? If you're offended by my belief that people who work all hours of the day all days of the year in all weather conditions in hot/noisy/dirty/hostile environments should get health care that compensates for that, and that the people making 6-figure salaries working in climate controlled environments with weekends, evenings, and holidays off paying less than $100/month to insure their entire family don't exactly have room to complain that the union health benefits (for which union employees pay higher premiums per month than the non-union employees) are "too generous", you and I just aren't going to see eye-to-eye.
And hey, ATU would be happy to negotiate when TriMet agrees to full transparency by letting the sessions be open to the public. Because funny enough, there's been a lot of instances such as this explanation of a bridgeplate problem in a door that has no bridgeplate, last-minute fixes of long-standing alignment problems right before an inspection, and stealth raises to executives while crying poverty and blaming the union that have us all kind of thinking that TriMet can't exactly be trusted to be transparent.
Anyway, back to the door issue. I'm really stumped here. If whoever looked at the door was not able to replicate the problem, the correct response would be to just say so, and maybe dedicate more resources to monitoring the condition of the doors. I find it next to impossible to believe that a mechanic said the problem was because of a bridgeplate-related issue in that door (and even if a mechanic DID say that, that no one else involved in the process said "Hey guys? This door doesn't have a bridgeplate.")
Who knows what actually caused it? Maybe whoever grabbed the door bumped it in such a way that the interlock registered it as closed. Maybe some connection in there was loose anyway and the person trying to get in just broke it all the way. Even if the cause were a problem with a bridgeplate in another door of that car that might have affected the interlock system for the whole car (I don't even know if that's possible), then the press release should have stated THAT. Because if what the press release said is the complete and final answer, and TriMet is going to say it was a bridgeplate problem in that specific door, then we still don't know what actually did it and we're not going to be able to prevent it from happening again as long as the explanation is to technobabble an answer that has no basis in the mechanical reality of that door.
I can't tell if this is intentional deception and assuming the public is too dumb to question why the explanation involves a component that isn't part of that door, or just plain old-fashioned incompetence. Either way, it's incredibly disappointing of TriMet, and it's also disappointing that they take a safety issue as an opportunity to throw slurs at the union.


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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
CONTACT: Laura Mansfield, 425-352-5406 or 425-420-6520 (weekend), email@example.com
Alumni, students, faculty and staff at the University of Washington Bothell will help renovate American Legion Post 127 as part of the second annual Lend-a-Paw community service day. The event is sponsored by the UW Bothell Alumni Council.
Saturday, Oct. 6 from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Woodinville American Legion Post 127
21920 State Route 9 SE
Woodinville, WA 98072
Approximately 50 students, alumni and staff are expected. Members of the UW Bothell Student Veterans Association will also attend.
WHY: UW Bothell is a veterans-friendly campus with more than 200 student veterans enrolled. For its annual community service project, the UW Bothell alumni association chose a project to honor veterans both on and off campus.
The Student Veterans Association will brief American Legion members on the status of the Student Archway project, a proposed monument to honor the service of student veterans and to celebrate their transition to academic and civilian life. Students are seeking to raise $60,000 to fund the project. For more information on the archway project, visit www.uwb.edu/about/construction/veterans-archway.
About UW Bothell: The University of Washington Bothell combines the benefits of a small campus with the resources and prestige of a world-renowned university. Offering over 30 degrees, options, certificates and concentrations, its curriculum emphasizes close student-faculty interaction, collaboration among students, and hands-on learning. For more information, visit www.uwb.edu.


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Seems like it's out there! This link contains some notes. If you have not seen the film, here's your chance. Yes, it contains an audio CD of the background score! One of my first comments to Aamir Khan after having seen Taare Zameen Par requested a score release, and he hasn't disappointed :)
Have a good start to the week, everyone!
Addendum 7/22:
Until we hear more from Aamir, here is some information on the release in North America from this Times of India piece:
In a first of its kind deal, Walt Disney has bought home video rights of Taare Zameen Par for the North American market. This is the first time an international studio has bought the video rights of an Indian film.
Wish there was more discussion around the background score. Its music has retained its freshness through the months, and given that the only musical instrument I play is the harmonica, I cannot wait to get my hands on this set :) Here are a few links related to the music:
- Listen to the songs at this link.
- This post has a couple music reviews.
- Lots more, including lyrics and translation, at TaareZameenPar.com.
And I'll end with one of my favorite pieces of music from the film, Ishaan's Theme. Quite a wonder, ain't it?
Addendum 7/24:
The official launch is on 7/25. Here's more. This is a video of the review noted above.
Addendum 7/25:
Here is a piece (and picture source) on the DVD release. Per Aamir's latest blog post, the DVD release in the U.S. will take at least another three months (expected, see my comments below).
And a big thank you to fellow Aamirian Skorpionchik for sharing this!


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The vocabulary quiz application is available in each video lesson, in courses, and as a master vocabulary quiz application, In each video lesson you will focus on the words in that lesson. In a course you will focus on the words in a course. The EnglishCentral vocabulary progress system tracks all the words you have ever started to learn and you will use the master vocabulary quiz application to master these words.
EnglishCentral uses a time interval learning model to help you really learn and master words. EnglishCentral remembers each words you were exposed to and when you were exposed to it and then re-introduces that word to you at the appropriate time. Think of it as a very smart flash card application that shows you the right word at the right time. The illustration below shows the optimal time intervals for studying words and how the system will work if you are studying all the ready to study words.
The My Words vocabulary application is where you will make progress on these words. Selecting the "Ready to Study" link in the progress bar will take you to the My Words application with the word list set to the words that are most helpful to you in making vocabulary progress. This is your "Ready to Study" list. You can also see other collections of words in here like:
1) All - all the words you have ever see in a video or course lesson
2) Removed - words you have indicated you already know
3) Mastered - words which you have fully mastered on EnglishCentral by successful quizzing it 5 times
4) Favorites - words which you have indicated you really want to focus on. These will be highlighted in any video that contains the words.
When you run the video flashcard quiz application you will be asked to match words to their definitions or to your native language.. To learn a word in the quiz, you must get two quiz cards correct for that word. Three consecutive mistakes on the same word removes it from the quiz for that session, so you can come back to study it again.


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The very astute John Myers, Sacramento bureau chief for KQED's California Report, dug up this unpleasant nugget about the budget now being put together in Sacramento: The state is looking to save a tiny amount of money ($362,000) it spends to reimburse local governments for the costs of providing the public with documents.
The reimbursement has been required because the public records law, as applied to local governments, is a state mandate. With the state looking to save every dollar possible, the Schwarzenegger administration wants to suspend that mandate.
Does that mean that the public won't be entitled to public writings and documents? No, because there's a constitutional right to those documents. But without the state mandate, local governments will be essentially working on the honor system.