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This Washington Post article describes and contains a link to the Smithsonian show EveryBody, an online collection of artifacts describing the history of disability in the United States.
Recent CUPA article on KU's very own Mentoring Circles program!
Consider participating in the Staff Fellows focus groups to give your thoughts on challenges and opportunities regarding employee mental health. For questions and to sign up, pleace contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
KUTransition to Post-Secondary Education and Kansas ABLE are hosting a free webinar about how Kansas Able Accounts can help students with disabilities and their families! Learn how Kansas ABLE accounts can be used. Register for the webinar here.
Check out the Access + Ability exhibit at the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City. There are several related lectures and events as well that are open to the public. Tickets are needed for some but the exhibit is free.
Time to redesign the accessibility logo. Essay by Melissa Blake.
Read this article about the findings of the Disability Rights Center of Kansas around violations of the ADA here in Kansas.
The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped offers free braille and talking book services for people with disabilities that prevent them from reading or holding books. Read more about the NLS.
Yes, you can call me disabled. Enjoy this essay on people-first vs. identity-first language.
Come to the Ambler Student Recreation Center for the Inclusive Recreation Extravaganza, April 2 5:30 pm. Accessible equipment and information about various topics will be available. Come dressed to play!
Read about a recent ADA RCEA lunchtime conversation with Dawn Kuhlman on practicing trauma informed communication.
CUPA features our very own HawkRoute in their blog. Read Creative Parterships: The Path to an Inclusive Campus.
Kansas Deaf and Hard of Hearing Day is coming up on March 6, 10 am to 1:30 pm at the Kansas State Capitol, second floor. Come show your support and learn from speakers and exhibits on various issues.
Come to an Employment Services Panel to learn more about employment services for people with disabilities. February 13, 1-4 pm.
Upcoming Disbility Studies Seminar: John Watson will present "My Country, 'Tis of Me: The self-presentation of Invictus Games and Paralympic Games athletes on Facebook" on January 31st from 3:00 - 4:30 in the Hall Center for Humanities seminar room 1.
The KU Speech, Language and Hearing Department presents an oportunity to hear guest lecturer, Dr Julie Washington of Georgia State University, present on "Language Differences : A Help or Hindrance for Teaching Poor Children to Read." This lecture takes place Monday, Feb 11, 2019 in the Price Computing Center auditorium from 5:00 to 6:00PM.
Interested in wheel chair basketball? Check out this offering from the City of Lawrence.
Starting November 20, 2018 the Natural History Museum passenger elevator will receive necessary repairs. Safely repairing the elevator requires removing the elevator from service from 11/20/18 to 2/22/19. The third floor galleries, including the fossils, flourescent minerals, and Bugtown exhibits are located on the ground level and are fully accessible. Please address accessibility concerns to Catherine Johnson, ADA Director at email@example.com or 785-864-3650.
Empowerment Yoga provides an opportunity for survivors of trauma to reconnect with their bodies. Explore this with a free course provided through the Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center.
Download the Spencer Museum of Art mobile app before your next visit to the museum. The app is available on iTunes and Google Play. It currently features audio description of "Untitled (Flag 2)" by Josephine Meckseper which is part of a nationwide public art project, "Pledges of Allegiance."
Need tips for making a private residence accessible for people with mobility issues? Check out this handy guide!
Good things on the way from Google! They are starting to include wheelchair accessible routes in their google maps. This blog post describes their initial offering.
2018 Gerber Baby makes history as first with Down syndrome.
Did you know the American Council of the Blind Audio Description project keeps a master list of audio described DVD's, TV shows, and streaming videos? List of alphabatized videos here. And check the audio reader Audio Description site for a listing of local events with audio description at the Lied Center and Theater Lawrence.
Interested in participating in a study on the usage of mobile devices to support learning strategies for students with and without disabilities in STEM classes? Contact KU graduate student Jingrong (Pearl) Xie for more information at email@example.com.
Applications are now being accepted for the Faces of Change program developed by the Kansas Youth Empowerment Academy. Check out the KYEA website for more information about the program and to apply online.
Audio description available at The Theater Lawrence and The Lied Center. See Audio Description services provided by Audio Reader for more details.
Former KU student Elizabeth Boresow featured in NPR story "Navigating Life on Campus When You're on the Autism Spectrum."
Texting to 911 now available in Kansas!! Read about their "Call if you can, text if you cant" specifics.
Interested in becoming an audio describer for events at local theaters? Register now for the November training on Sunday the 12th.
Come learn about Project Search and enjoy free coffee and donuts! October 26, 9:30 - 11:00 at Watson Library room 455. You'll learn about this unique program that gives young adults with intellectual disabilities experience with hands on employment training. This is a project that benefits the participants and the departments they work for. Learn more on the 26th!
Keep checking Audio Description services provided by Audio Reader for details about Lied Center, Theater Lawrence, and Starlight events that will be described. Grease and Catch Me If You Can are just two of the events coming up that will have audio description available!
he next Alliance for Economic Inclusion meeting will be August 19, 2017 at the Kauffman Foundation from 8am-noon. The meeting will concentrate on resources for the aging population and people with disabilities in Metropolitan Kansas City. Register using the AEI online registration.
Interested in inclusive music and dance? Spaces are still available for performers of all abilities to participate in a free week-long event (August 7 - 12) with Jesse Stewart, internationally acclaimed musician, scholar, educator, and founder of We Are All Musicians. Register online by July 28th. Email questions to email@example.com
KU professor developing a video game to prepare students with disabilitie for STEM careers
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These have been unhappy decades for Browns owners, but Sunday may have been Jimmy Haslam's happiest game day since he bought the team.
The Browns scored what is arguably their biggest win since 2007, beating defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore 24-16.
Haslam stayed out of the way until head coach Rob Chudzinski gave the private — and jubilant — team speech. Haslam entered at about the time the media was allowed in.
Haslam had a ready handshake but not much to say to a reporter.
"Outstanding. Great game," Haslam said. "Let's let the players talk."
Haslam didn't walk away. He stood there and listened to what the players had to say. He was standing near the most interesting listening point in the room, Davone Bess' locker.
One Sunday earlier, Bess fumbled a punt and dropped three passes, huge factors in a loss at Kansas City.
"High school, college, NFL ... it was probably my worst game ever," he said.
He came back with one of the greatest three-catch, 24-yard Sundays in league history.
His first catch came on a fourth-and-goal from the 1, on the Browns' second series of the game. It was a statement play in a situation where coaches would take the field goal and the early lead 90 percent of the time.
What Rob Chudzinski thinking?
"I felt good about what we had, game-plan wise," he said. "It was important in this game for our guys to have the mentality to play to win. That drive, I think, exemplified that."
Bess fought to get open just past the goal line and caught Jason Campbell's touchdown pass in traffic.
Early in the second quarter, Bess made his second reception, a 20-yard catch and run for another touchdown. The earlier TD had been to the Dawg Pound side. This one finished in the opposite corner.
A huge chunk of game passed before Bess made his third and final catch, on a fourth-and-1 from the Baltimore 43 with just over three minutes left. Cleveland led 21-18.
"It was maybe a little more than a yard that time," Chudzinski said. "We had the opportunity to take the game at that point.
"It was a potential punt situation, but Baltimore was able to drive so well. I felt good about our guys being able to convert.
"Jason made a whale of a play. He scrambled, bought time. Davone kept working to get open."
It was a monumental 3-yard gain. Bess didn't want to toot his horn about making what looked like a tough catch.
"Did it look like a tough catch?" he said.
It looked way tougher than some of the would-be catches that have turned into drops. His head could have been lost in space by now.
Plenty of people said plenty of things about Bess and to Bess after Kansas City.
"It came down to me," he said. "I had to work it out myself.
"I had to look in the mirror, look myself in the eye and tell myself, stay the course. Keep swinging."
That was it for Bess' day as a pass catcher. As a punt returner, he had two chances to field the ball, making clean fair catches.
The second fourth-and-1 play might turn out to be the biggest play of the season, one everyone will look back on if the Browns make a run.
"It was a huge play, probably the biggest play of the game," Campbell said. "Davone made a great play. I was so happy for him."
It led to a field goal and a 23-17 lead with 14 seconds left.
Bess was asked if he felt redeemed. He laughed, as if to say, you can only imagine.
Bess has his redemption with key plays vs. Ravens
These have been unhappy decades for Browns owners, but Sunday may have been Jimmy Haslam's happiest game day since he bought the team.

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(Reuters) – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans this summer to recommend ways that the alcoholic beverage industry can better protect underage viewers from seeing its advertisements online.
Distillers, brewers and wineries pour millions of dollars into brand promotion on Twitter, Facebook and other social media, and industry critics contend they are not doing enough to prevent young consumers from receiving these messages.
"We're doing a deep dive on how they're using the Internet and social media," said Janet Evans, a lawyer with the FTC, which is conducting a year-long study due to be released by early summer. "We're focusing on underage exposure."
She would not elaborate on any potential recommendations that might come out of the study, which began in April 2012.
The FTC is reviewing data from 14 big producers, Evans said, including Beam Inc, the maker of Jim Beam, Diageo Plc, home to Johnnie Walker, and Constellation Brands Inc, which makes Robert Mondavi and Ravenswood wines.
The FTC report "is something we take seriously and place at high priority," said Karena Breslin, director for digital marketing at Constellation.
The FTC has made two requests for information since the study began, she said.
The regulatory agency has not said it intends to impose restrictions on liquor company social media advertising but it can make recommendations to the industry.
The FTC is empowered to file suit to ensure consumers are protected from deceptive marketing practices, Evans said, but she stressed that studies of this nature are meant to promote better self-regulation, not provide a basis for a case.
Executives say alcohol makers and distributors voluntarily adhere to the same industry-set standard for marketing to underage viewers on social media sites that the industry set for its ads on TV and other medium. That requires that at least 71.6 percent of an audience consists of adults 21 and older.
"No one in their right mind would want to advertise to people who can't legally buy their product," said Frank Coleman, senior vice president for Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), the trade group that sets the industry's advertising codes.
In June 2011, DISCUS revised its code upwards to 71.6 percent from 70 percent, after the FTC recommended it review the standard to better reflect U.S. Census population data.
Industry critics, including David Jernigen, director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Johns Hopkins University, and Sarah Mart, research director of the advocacy group Alcohol Justice, contend the industry didn't go far enough and should raise the standard further.
Jernigen says it needs to be at least 85 percent to effectively protect youth, so there would be no more than 15 percent exposure to the underage drinking population.
"The industry says its self-regulating but it's ineffective and social media opens up a whole new set of problems because their ads are everywhere," said Sarah Mart, research director for the San Rafael, Calif.-based group Alcohol Justice.
The industry group's Coleman said the group now requires members to install age-checking toolsvia instant-messaging as a gateway to Twitter feeds and other branded Web platforms that ask the user for a birth date before admitting them.
In the first nine months of 2012, beer, wine and spirits manufacturers' spent an estimated $35 million for paid Web display advertising, but industry executives estimate many millions more were spent on Web site creation, video production for platforms like Google's YouTube and social media marketing efforts.
"We've significantly adjusted more money to digital for online video, Web sites, Facebook and Twitter content," said Kevin George, global chief marketing officer for Jim Beam, which he says spends 30 percent of its media spend for online outlets, up from 10 percent in 2008.
Many companies are expanding their digital staff. Wine maker Constellation hired Breslin three years ago to initiate digital marketing and now has a team of five reporting to her.
Many alcoholic beverage companies flocked to Facebook because it requires users to post their birth dates when signing up. Last year Twitter partnered with Buddy Media to offer a more effective screening tool that sends a direct message to fans who click on a brand. The message sends the fan a link to a site that asks for date of birth, which has allowed Twitter to grab some more of the sector marketing. Salesforce.com bought Buddy Media last June, which is now folding the platform into its marketing cloud portfolio.
Health advocates and industry critics are crying foul. "Facebook and other interactive platforms are poorly monitored and not well age protected," said Jernigen of Johns Hopkins University. "Anyone can say they're 21 and click yes."
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/22/net-us-ftc-alcohol-idUSBRE90L12A20130122


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hey guys, so im new to Java and yesterday was given an exercise. it said write a program that asks the user to enter sales of five stores and then display a bar chart (which contains rows of asterisks) comparing those sales. i used Scanner class to read input from the keyboard.
technically speaking, i know how to use a loop to ask for 5 sales, and how to display a pure asterisk bar chart. the problem is that i dont know how to read all the inputs and move on with the chart only after that.
if i write a loop to read the inputs first then the final number my variable is assigned to is the sales of the fifth store. all sales of four other stores will be replaced and thus lost. if i print out a row of asterisks right after each time i ask for a store's sales then it wont be called a chart. i thought of using five different variables for five stores but it sounds inefficient and probably not the best solution. moreover, this exercise is in the "Loops and Files" chapter so im pretty sure it has something to do with all those loops.
can anyone please tell me what i should do? i appreciate any help.
p.s: its exercise 12 on page 269, "Starting out with Java: from Control Structures through Objects" 5th edition by Tony Gaddis.


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This is crazy. During John Stewart and Steven Colbert's 'Rally to Restore Sanity' event in Washington DC, an escalator in a Metro station went completely buckwild. Like to the shits. I'm not kidding, the escalator started speeding up and tossing people on top of each other. Just watch. The ridiculousness starts around 30 seconds in.
Apparently, this happened because the escalator's brakes failed. I'm taking the stairs from now on. [BuzzFeed]


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A new draft, Resource-safe Systems Programming with Embedded Domain Specific Languages, by Edwin Brady and Kevin Hammond, submitted September 2011.
We introduce a new overloading notation that facilitates programming, modularity and reuse in Embedded Domain Specific Languages (EDSLs), and use it to reason about safe resource usage and state management. We separate the structural language constructs from our primitive operations, and show how precisely-typed functions can be lifted into the EDSL. In this way, we implement a generic framework for constructing state-aware EDSLs for systems programming.
As usual, comments and questions are most welcome!


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Rosie O'Donnell is coming back to daytime television, with a show on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Oprah herself made the announcement at the Summer TV Press Tour, according to The Washington Post. The OWN network says viewers can expect "a fun, uplifting show with Ms. O'Donnell's playful and energetic style."
O'Donnell told The Associated Press in March that she was planning an uplifting talk show that would make a difference in people's lives and build on what Winfrey has done with her show.
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Daytime TV is familiar ground for O'Donnel, who hosted the syndicated daytime talk show "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" from 1996-2002, winning six consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards.
She later resurfaced as Meredith Vieira's replacement on ABC's "The View" in 2006, where her frank style and advocacy of gay causes helped boost ratings even as she feuded with executive producer Barbara Walters. She left "The View after a year and tried unsuccessfully to win the job of hosting "The Price is Right," a gig that went instead to Drew Carey.
Rosie's as yet unnamed daily, daytime, one hour talk show will be based in New York where she lives with her children.


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Our day in the snow :-) Below - our snow covered street (I haven't heard any snow plows since yesterday - I think they are only working on the main roads now). (Brenna is hiding behind one of the snow piles next to Dustin)
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sunday, January 31
Our day in the snow :-) Below - our snow covered street (I haven't heard any snow plows since yesterday - I think they are only working on the main roads now). (Brenna is hiding behind one of the snow piles next to Dustin)
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Labels: Brenna Pic, family pic, Justice
Friday, January 29, 2010
Friday, January 29
So with all the snow outside, I decided to make some summery shirt inside. I think the shirt turned out pretty well (and should be very nice this summer if the days are hot :-) Brenna loved directing me for the pictures - she had me go in the kitchen for one picture and also had me put my purse on for a picture, lol. I had to include the picture below - when she saw it, she said "Mommy, I cut off your head" (she has been doing pretty well with the pictures, so I can understand why she was surprised, lol).
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Labels: Brenna's Pictures, Crafts
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wednesday, January 27
One of Brenna's pictures of me from this morning - I thought it was only fair to share one :-) She took some pretty good ones, but the apartment was showing up pretty dark in the first few. Anyway - the brown pants are the "4 year" pants that are finally done - I even wore them to walk to and from Kindergarten today :-) (Do you ever have those projects that once they are finished you say - hmm, that isn't the most flattering item in my wardrobe - this is one of those - sorry!).Brenna before school today (and before all of her layers for outdoors). It was in the 20s today (which is colder than the 30s we had been having). Hopefully, it will warm back up soon!
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Labels: Brenna Pic, Crafts, Germany
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Tuesday, January 26
Hello All!!
Hope all is well out there! Things are good here - Dustin is busy at work and we are working on fully adjusting to Brenna's no napping schedule in the afternoon (how I miss naps already - not that my daughter isn't always fun to have around - but an hour of really my own time in the afternoon was really nice to have - I haven't done any indoor biking at all since coming back to Germany - going to have to figure out how to get the rest of my exercise in every day). So, on our walk home today, we tried out my new shopping bag at the grocery store (I love it - I will defintely need to make more - maybe as gifts this year? they are awesome!) (it was funny at school when I picked Brenna up with the bag in my hand - she had to show the bag off to her teachers - they were a little like "whatever" (but they were good sports for the sake of my excited child) - and they are getting to know that I make stuff - the one teacher even asked if it was something I made :-). After lunch, we used our store purchases to make chocolate peppermint cookies (Brenna isn't impressed with them, but Dustin and I sure love them). Brenna had fun during our baking lining up the spices and playing with them (not sure if they were her kids/friends/puppets - she kind of lost me with her story line - but loved that she made a stage out of my one container and put all of her "stones" on top). (The dough I made was not kid friendly at all - the only thing she really could help me with was breaking open the eggs - what a bummer!). (Guess I missed my picture taking opportunity there - it would have been fun to see all the stuff she had on the counter all lined up - and her outfit was cute too - a pink heart shirt and pink tights (no skirt, just the tights for here at home)).
Well, I better get my German homework done! The upcoming school activites sound fun at school - they are planning a disco for the kids, a face painting day (that should be neat to see what Brenna comes home looking like) and a costume party (all for the week before Carnival). I really need to take my camera up to school and take some pictures of the cool decorations in the building - it is so festive inside with streamers, balloons, and ribbons :-) (I think there are more decorations for Carnival then there were for Christmas!)
Oh, I almost forgot - if you want a great laugh (and insight into my clearance shopping tendancies) - check out the posting by the Meanest Mom today (one of the links in my favorite sites). If you need some inspiration today, check out the NieNie blog - she really inspires me to try to be a better mom, a better person, and a better Christian (she is recovering from a plane crash that left her burned over 80% of her body and trying to care for her 4 young children - her belief in God and her love of family inspires people from all over the world including me).
Take Care!
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Monday, January 25
Hello All!!!
Hope all is well out there! Things are good here - we had a slushy/snowy day (although I think most on the ground was mostly slush - the hills looked pretty with a layer of white). Brenna and I got a late start for school today as I forgot about the permission slip I needed to decide on and then sign (oh, yeah - and translate too - I'm not 100% sure what I agreed for Brenna to do yet, but I'm sure it will be fun, lol - I will have to find out from my German teacher this week on what exactly Dirty Thursday means for the kids before Carnival).
While Brenna was in school today - I worked on finishing a pair of pants that have been in process for about 4 years now (I lost track of when they were started, but I think it was after one of my operations) (I joked with my mom that instead of being an hour pattern or a 2 hour pattern, I had the 4 year pattern - it isn't the first project that has sat unfinished for a long while, but hopefully it will the first of many to get finished this month). I still need to hand sew the hook and eye on the top and then they should be all done :-)
Brenna and I did some painting today and watched some Sponge Bob too (followed by the dog going outside and a bath). Brenna voted for scrambled pancakes for supper (although what she really means is that she wants the sugar and sprinkles on top, lol). Dustin is sure to have a busy week this week with a customer coming to Germany - but hopefully, Brenna will get to see him some this week before she goes to bed. I am going to have to come up with some more fun indoor afternoon activities here soon - although tomorrow we are talking about baking something :-)
Well, that is it for today!
Take Care!
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Sunday, January 24
My new shopping bag :-) Sorry you can't see the lining fabric very well in the pictures - it is the great fabric that my friend Joy gave me for Christmas - thanks so much again!! (Brenna below with her (my) curlers in her hair).
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Labels: Brenna Pic, Crafts
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Wednesday, January 20
Brenna's new princess dress :-) The fabric has glittery sparkles over the whole fabric - hard to photograph well here, but you can see it in a few of the pictures. (This was pretty much all my own design too - I think it looks pretty good on her (although she could wear a sack and look adorable, lol)). Below - I bribed my child with eye shadow and lip gloss for a smile (this is good for me too as it uses up my blue eyeshadow that I am not ever going to wear and she loves it, lol).
Yummy Linzer torte - the packaging almost looks to good to open (amazing the German teacher told me that shelf life on this stuff is really good to - it can last a couple months she said just on the counter :-)
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Labels: Brenna Pic, Justice
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Tuesday, January 19
I thought the picture below was pretty precious (although I had to keep telling Brenna to take it easy on Justice - she was trying to squish him).Brenna loving her Justice :-)
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Labels: Brenna Pic, Justice, Pet pics


text: Commitment to Diversity Dear Member of the Drexel Community: Education should be available to everyone regardless of gender, ethnicity, race or socioeconomic background. This is one of the core principles upon which Anthony J. Drexel founded our University, and we remain committed to providing a welcoming, inclusive and respectful environment for students, faculty, professional staff and alumni, so that together we can strengthen our own competencies to live and work in a diverse and global environment. Drexel is proud to have a reputation as one of the most innovative, exciting and entrepreneurial research universities in America. One of the reasons for our success has been the diversity of our dedicated and talented students, faculty and professional staff, people who embody creativity and outside-the-box thinking. Our future success depends on continuing and enhancing our commitment to diversity in all of its forms, and cultivating respect for each member of our community. This will enable us to harness and sustain our creative and innovative spirit. Drexel launched our Intercultural Engagement & Diversity Initiative in 2008, and opened the James E. Marks Intercultural Center in 2010. Our goal is to foster a community grounded in ideological tension, dialogue and a respect for diversity—a community that can engage with curiosity and humility, honoring and celebrating our fundamental differences and similarities. I encourage you to personally contribute to Drexel's welcoming and inclusive environment, and to challenge yourself to create opportunities that will raise awareness of and respect for diversity and build upon Drexel's founding principle of inclusion. In doing so, we will ensure that Drexel is a community that attracts and retains the best and the brightest. John A. Fry President


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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
2011: The Year in Whiskey
Buffalo Trace. Buffalo Trace was on fire this year. Their Single Oak Project is perhaps the most ambitious project ever undertaken by a distillery. On top of that, they released a new label, E.H. Taylor, with two expressions. As if that wasn't enough, they reinvigorated the A. Smith Bowman distillery with a new line of bourbons and ryes. Pretty amazing output from one distillery, though, with the exception of the Bowmans, much of BT's new whiskey this year was more innovative than tasty. Still, the level of output from Buffalo Trace this year was beyond impressive.
Rye Revolution. The rye expansion continues. There were new ryes everywhere in 2011. Bulleit and Willett brought out LDI ryes, Woodford introduced not one but two as part of their Master's Collection, and Beam announced it would come out with a Knob Creek Rye as well, though it may not be here until 2012. Add to that the Canadian straight ryes listed below, and it goes to show that the rye renaissance is far from over.
Finished American Whiskey. Long a staple of Scotch, wine finishing received some attention from American whiskey this year. The year started with the popular, port finished Angel's Envy and ended with a Cognac finished bourbon from the Parker's Heritage Collection. Given these high profile releases, I'd say we will see more finishing experiments in the future.
Pure Pot Still Power. When there is news from the sleepy world of Irish Whiskey, it usually comes from Cooley, but this year the Midleton Distillery woke us all up with three new pure pot still whiskeys: Midleton, Powers and a cask strength version of Redbreast. It's great to see Midleton playing to the whisky lovers and not just finding new ways to market Jameson.
New Canadians. Canada was also hopping with a 30 year old Alberta Premium, and while we won't get it here, there were a number of American bottlings of Canadian straight rye. Following the lead of last year's WhistlePig, we saw similar ten year old ryes coming from McLain & Kyne (Jefferson's) and the Sebastiani wine group (Masterson's- review coming in the new year). It seems that we're finally getting some good Canadians in the US, though more in the American, straight rye style.
Scotch. The world of blended/vatted Scotch got lots of coverage this year with the highly publicized release of Shackleton's whisky. Meanwhile on Islay, Bruichladdich gave us their first 10 year old from the new ownership, and Kilchoman released an all-Islay whisky which was probably their best to date.
Many of us in California (or within shipping distance) spent our spare time counting our money to figure out how many bottles of K&L's amazing new line of exclusive barrel Scotch we could afford. In one year, K&L gave us a whopping 17 privately bottled single barrels, including two single grains and four offerings from closed distilleries.
More Japanese. Lovers of Japanese single malts have literally been waiting years to get more Japanese Whisky in the US. This year we got the good news that whiskies from Nikka and Suntory's Hakushu distilleries are finally heading for our shores.
I could go on and on. Heck, even those stodgy stalwarts Johnnie Walker and Jack Daniel's came out with new expressions. Let's hope these trends continue and look forward to an exciting 2012!
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- SteveBM said...
Didnt like the Col EH Taylor, eh? I'm really enjoying the Single Barrel offering.
- December 21, 2011 at 8:51 AM
Glad to see you've gotten some press on John's blog, but I'm surprised that all the comments are there, rather than here.
I hope to begin a reversal of that trend! Thanks for a very well considered wrap-up of an eventful (in a positive way for a change!) year in whiskey
- December 22, 2011 at 7:06 PM
- sku said...
Thanks Sam. I don't mind people commenting on John's blog entry at all; I'm honestly just really flattered that he liked the post enough to direct people here.
SteveBM, I was really referring to the Single Oaks with that comment.
- December 22, 2011 at 7:54 PM
I am a big fan of Heaven Hill and was highly impressed by the 20 Year Elijah Craig that came out. I really enjoyed the Parker's Heritage 5th Edition but I hope the 2012 release will be much better.
- December 23, 2011 at 8:02 AM


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The Time of The Doctor 語錄
蒐集一些 Doctor who 2013 聖誕特輯的對白
Everybody's naked underneath.
Works two out of three times, guaranteed
Number ten once regenerated and kept the same face - I had vanity issues at the time.講實話的時候,總是比較好笑一點。
Boss of the psycho space nuns. So you!不曉得,總是覺得上面這句好像該收進來。
Oh, Doctor, fixing toys and fighting monsters.如果不常常修理玩具,那怎麼打怪呢? 因為根本分不清誰才是怪物啊。
We all change... when you think about it. We're all different people all through our lives.沙烏地阿拉伯諺語說, 「若是在沙漠中迷路 就只能尋原路折返」。我們會不斷改變。像是學了很多魔術之後,往往會忘了當初還不了解魔術時的那種感覺,甚至會感覺過去的自己很陌生。當然不只魔術,學其他很多東西到了一個程度之後,都會有種重生(regenerated )成不一樣的人的感覺。但不要忘了最初的感動。
And that's OK, that's good, you've got to keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.
I saw him on a pier on a rainy day.每個人都有希望時間靜止的時候(......不是那一種),有那種希望感動的剎那能夠變成永恆的經驗(或者將會有這種經驗),有時在那個當下,有失去時間感的錯覺。這也就是很多人不知怎麼,就是喜歡拍照的原因。
I'd seen him before, lots of times. But he just looked so beautiful standing there.
I wanted everything to stop. I wanted nothing to change ever again.
If he could just keep standing there, so beautiful...
I will not forget one line of this. Not one day. I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.Better than "I don't want to go".
對於 11th 的結局,不管是遺憾、不捨還是滿足,套句沙烏地阿拉伯的諺語總結:「無論如何旅行仍有得不到的財富」


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"I think we need to be tolerant of people who think different than us, but this is Oklahoma and that's not going to fly here." – Oklahoma State Rep. Don Armes
KRISTI KIRK (PATRIOTS AND PAULIES POLITICS & NEWS) – New York's Satanic Temple released a sneak peek last week at a Satanic monument they hope will sit next to a replica of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Oklahoma State capitol building. The Satanists say that the First Amendment doesn't allow Oklahoma to implicitly endorse Christianity and Judaism without letting the worshippers of the dark lord put up their own statue, too.
While there isn't a chance in hell that Oklahoma's Capitol Preservation Commission will approve a monument to Satan, enough people think it is a good idea that the group raised $30,000 in a crowd-funding campaign to build the statue — a 7-foot-tall goat figure with children at its feet ("We want kids to see that Satanism is where the fun is," a spokesperson for the Satanic Temple told CNN.)
"I think they're trying to get our goat," says Oklahoma Rep. Paul Wesselhoft.
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Intel will leave its OEMs facing a summer drought of new mobile chips after admitting its Centrino update, Montevina, would not appear till August at the earliest.
The update to the vendor's mobile laptop chip range, also know as Centrino 2, was originally due this month, but was pushed back to late June a week or two ago. This would still have brought it in the H2 time frame it had originally been scheduled for.
However, it has emerged that a brace of problems means that the complete Centrino 2 package will now not appear till August. The vendor is having problems both with the chipset for the platform, and with the wireless platform's antennae. The platform is supposed to support both Wi-Fi and Wimax.
The core chips, which will include Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme Mobile are apparently doing just fine, and will be out the door by the end of July. However, as Intel always reminds, Centrino is a platform, not just a CPU.
Intel might be expected to distract its customers by pointing at its Atom line of processors which are supposed to be powering all sorts of new and interesting PC formats. The problem is that while plenty of machines powered by the diminutive chip have been spotted, the part itself is not around in the numbers OEMs would like. ®


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If there's any politician you can trust to play with matches around the social powderkeg that is l'affaire Sterling, it's a steady, low-key, diplomatic presence like Harry Reid.
It seems like only yesterday that Mark Cuban was warning about a slippery-slope problem in which owners would be increasingly policed for committing thoughtcrimes. It wasn't yesterday, though. It was Monday.
"It is untoward of Daniel Snyder to try to hide behind tradition. Tradition? That's what he says in refusing to change the name of the team," Reid said. "Tradition? What tradition? A tradition of racism is all that name leaves in its wake. Mr. Snyder knows that in sports the only tradition that matters is winning, so I urge Daniel Snyder to do what's morally right and remove this degrading term from the league by changing his team's name."
Reid said it's also the responsibility of the NFL to remove the name from the league.
"Since Snyder fails to show any leadership, the National Football League should take an assist from the NBA and pick up the slack. It would be a slam dunk," he added. "For far too long, the NFL has been sitting on its hands doing nothing while an entire population of Americans has been denigrated."
Sterling clearly does disdain blacks. Snyder, by contrast, claims that "Redskins" is an honorific. Does Snyder's intent matter to Reid and the Lords of Progress? Read Ace's post from earlier this month for the answer.
I go back and forth in trying to decide whether Reid's involvement in something like the "Redskins" fracas is helpful or not to the team's defenders. On the one hand, he's a repulsive human in every way; can't hurt to have him as the face of the opposition. On the other hand, as of a year ago, the public was overwhelmingly in Snyder's corner, with 79 percent saying that the team should keep the name. The whole point of the left's anti-Redskins push over the last two years or so is to change that, and one easy way to do it is to polarize it along partisan lines. That'll get you to 45-50 percent, at least, and that's why Reid's availing himself of the Senate floor to push the idea. If I'm Dan Snyder, I'm cutting a million-dollar check to Americans for Prosperity today just as a middle finger to Dingy Harry here, but maybe he figures it's best not to feed a troll this voracious.


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Nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande and numerous other celebrities were posted online Sunday following a massive hack into Apple's iCloud storage system.
Lawrence's publicist verified that the photos are her, telling Buzzfeed: "This is a flagrant violation of privacy. The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence."
Everybody's posing nude! See which celebs have stripped down
The leak has been traced back to a user on a 4chan message board, who also claims to have video of Lawrence engaged in sexual acts, according to Buzzfeed.
Other celebrities involved in the hack include Grande, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton and Aubrey Plaza, according to a "master list" that has been circulating online. Some stars, including Victoria Justice, are claiming that the pictures are fake, however.
"These so called nudes of me are FAKE people. Let me nip this in the bud right now. *pun intended*," Justice tweeted Sunday.
But others are admitting they're real. Actress Mary Winstead tweeted: "To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in the privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves."


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How the Obama administration has helped debase our country
I've said it before: Clinton was sleazy, but that was behind closed doors. When he had his presidential hat on, he acted like a president. In this way, he was precisely like LBJ, who was famously vulgar when the public wasn't watching, but who understood the symbolism of his office.
The Obama White House, however, is a publicly sleazy White House. Obama talks about ass kicking and bulls******s. Biden is worse. He calls signature legislation a "big f*****g deal," talks about putting black people in chains, behaves like a drunk and a bully during a vice presidential debate, and deeply offends a grieving father by making crass comments about his dead son's testicles.
Those of us in the Bookworm Room are not the only ones who have noticed how vulgar political discourse has become in the Obama years, something never before seen in American politics:
Biden seems to set the tone for the Obama White House. Presidents have used swear words before, but Barack Obama now has the distinction of using them, not in private, but in an on-the-record interview. And not in the abstract, as in, the "s*** hit the fan" but as an epithet about his opponent.
It was Barack Obama's campaign, not a super PAC, not an independent supporter, that ran a crass ad aimed at women comparing voting for Obama with losing one's virginity. (An idea lifted from, of all people, Vladimir Putin!)
This time, the elegance is gone, the fangs are bared, and standards of honesty are long gone. His policies failed, so no accusation against Mitt Romney is held back: He's an enemy of women who will outlaw all abortions (no exceptions), he will raise taxes on the middle class just to cut them for the rich, he ships jobs overseas and pockets the profits, he won the first debate through lies (sheesh), he gives cancer to the wives of unemployed workers, he delights in bankrupting companies, he wants to prevent women from getting "access" to birth control, and so on.
George Washington, who was famously obsessed with public dignity, is rolling in his grave. And those of us standing on the sidelines watching are wondering how long a nation can survey when this kind of toxic behavior fertilizes the country's roots.


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Some debut images from a couple of upcoming releases have hit the web. First up, the first two images from director Allen Hughes' (The Book of Eli) political thriller Broken City highlight stars Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Mark Wahlberg. The story centers on a private detective (Wahlberg) who is hired to identify the lover of a powerful politician's (Crowe) wife. Zeta-Jones is onboard as said unfaithful wife, and Wahlberg—who also serves as a producer on the film—compares the pic's elements of "really strong characters [and] plot points you didn't see coming" to Roman Polanski's classic Chinatown. The pic opens on January 18th, 2013.
We've also got the first images from the horror film Mama, which was directed by Andres Muschietti based on his own short film. Jessica Chastain and Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau topline the thriller as a couple who take in their neice and nephew after the children mysteriously surface five years after disappearing on the day of their mother's murder. The supernatural pic comes from producer Guillermo del Toro and also opens on January 18th, 2013. Hit the jump to take a look at the images.
All images come via EW, to which Wahlberg talked about the increasing scarcity of films made for adults:
"It's a rare thing in this day. [Studios] don't mind spending [$250] million to make The Lone Ranger, but they're hard-pressed to spend $60 or $70 million to make an adult movie. But I think there's definitely still an audience for a smart adult movie."
Here's the synopsis for Mama:
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their mother was murdered. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
The day their father killed their mother, sisters Victoria and Lilly vanished near their suburban neighborhood. For five long years, their Uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend, Annabel (Jessica Chastain), have been madly searching for them. But when, incredibly, the kids are found alive in a decrepit cabin, the couple wonders if the girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.
As Annabel tries to introduce the children to a normal life, she grows convinced of an evil presence in their house. Are the sisters experiencing traumatic stress, or is a ghost coming to visit them? How did the broken girls survive those years all by themselves? As she answers these disturbing questions, the new mother will find that the whispers she hears at bedtime are coming from the lips of a deadly presence.


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While checking out some blogs that I haven't looked at in a while I found this photo on my niece McKinsey's. Even though I was all alone at the time...I busted out in laughter. I don't know why but this just doesn't seem like my Caleb. I guess EFY does some things to your child and you don't realize. Everytime I look at it I laugh. The caption said "Caleb being Mighty". I can't wait to hear the story behind this one.
It's so unlike him...but I guess what happens at EFY stays at EFY!
HA! HA! HA! (Me still laughing!!!)
I love my MIGHTY CALEB!


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I generally tend to think I'm pretty badass. I mean…I birthed a child, what can't I do?!
But when it comes to exercise and fitness I tend to count myself out before I even start…terrible, I know. I haven't prioritized my health and wellness and as a result I can't fit 90% of the clothes I own. I feel heavy, and have become quite insecure. I'll workout for a day and look down at my stomach expecting to see some chiseled abs after 35 minutes of exercise. I haven't got time to wait….ain't nobody got time for that!
I recently had to ask myself, how badly I wanted to change my life. How badly I wanted to prioritize my health and wellness and how hard I was willing to fight for it. First, I signed up to run in the Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women in October, it'll be my first race and I'm really nervous but I paid for it so I'm running it! And next I needed to commit to a workout routine that would motivate me and help me change my body. I'd been doing TurboJam on and off for a few months, was considering purchasing TurboFire, but then an all women's Crossfit opened near me.
My inner badass immediately thought, Crossfit? No problem, sign me up! I stopped by Monday morning and met with the awesome owner Liz Mellen who psyched me up and got me all excited, and by Monday afternoon I'd signed up for a month of unlimited workouts. I'll go every day this month!! I thought! Man oh man I didn't know what I'd gotten myself into.
Tuesday afternoon I was ready – Day One of Crossfit – I got this! I was the only student in the class at the time so I had the owner Liz and another trainer all to myself. Halfway through the warmup I was panting. I thought, oh shit WTF did I get myself into. The WOD (workout of the day) was 3 rounds of: 200m run, air squats, and lunges. I tried not to let my inner badass run away, so I smiled and said sure no problem, when inside I was freaked. I was crazy slow, cursing while on the run, wondering who puts themselves through such torture. By the time I came in for the last set of air squats and lunges both coaches were cheering me on as I slowly finished up. I walked in a daze home, drenched in sweat, happy I burned 800+ calories, but worried about future classes.
Day One Highlight: Crossfit T-Shirt for showing up & not giving up.
Wednesday I woke up stiff as a board. My whole body hurt. It hurt to walk and bend my knees. My cousin, another Crossfitter, told me to fight through the pain and go to class even though I was hurting. So I went to class, unprepared for the ass whooping about to happen. There were two other girls there and Liz and Alexis Picheny, another trainer, were teaching the class. Once again I was sweating by the end of the warmup – and out of breath. The WOD included 18 minutes of rounds of jumping jacks, burpees, and ab situps. BURPEES? They are about the worst exercise ever. I had to modify them because of my knee. The other two girls were on fire, whipping through it, and then there was me. I felt like a slug, everything hurt, and I was out of breath, and the burpees killed me. But lovely Alexis stayed close by and encouraged me to push through it. I was dripped in sweat at the end…and had to go back to work. I was so pissed that it was so hard for me to get through the workout that I cried. Yup, I cried when we were done and sat talking with Alexis who was amazing and so supportive.
Day Two Highlight: I cried.
Yesterday and today I have been in such pain from back to back workouts – I was clearly too ambitious. I'm also doubting if Crossfit was the right workout for me to get into since I haven't been working out recently. I've paid for my month and will stick it out at least that long. The cost after that more than doubles which plays a huge role. I thought I was so ready to see my body change that I would do anything. But shit Crossfit is crazy intense, and my inner badass needed to sit down!! One thing is for sure – Crossfit yields results. In two workouts I burned over 1600 calories – that's CRAZY! And based on how my body's feeling and how on fire my abs are I know that if I were to continue there is no way my body would stay the same.
Week One of Crossfit done. Recovering this weekend so I can mentally prepare for Week Two. GULP!


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We are delighted to welcome the Chairman of the Modern Mystic League and the newly appointed President of the Northern Magic Circle, Roger Woods, who will be lecturing on 'Some Favourite Close-up'.
Dr Roger Woods is a lawyer, magician, author, lecturer and publisher. He first got into magic at the age of 10 when he was given a David Nixon magic set and has continued the art for over 5 decades.
The reason I still love magic after all these years is the challenge of learning new things, the subtleties that not everyone sees. I'm a big fan of being able to fool people - in the nicest way possible!
He is also a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, the Northern Magic Circle and the Cavendish Knights of Close-Up Magic. He is an Associate Member of The Inner Magic Circle (AIMC with Silver Star) and a member of The Magic Circle Ethics Committee. He enjoys performing close-up magic and also conducting extensive research on magical history which has lead to number of books being published (co-authored with Brian Lead MIMC).


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Jan. 3, 2018: Meltdown and Spectre
A set of three vulnerabilities disclosed by Intel on Jan. 3, 2018, called Meltdown and Spectre, impact McAfee appliance products.
- Spectre: CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753
- Meltdown: CVE-2017-5754
Knowledge Center Articles:
- SB 10226 – Meltdown/Spectre Security Bulletin
- KB 90167 – Meltdown and Spectre – McAfee Product Compatibility Update (Corporate Products)
- TS 102769 – Microsoft Security Update January 2018 (Meltdown and Spectre) and McAfee consumer products
McAfee Blog Posts:
Dec. 7, 2017: Process Doppelgänging Attack
On Dec. 7, 2017, the vulnerability Process Doppelgänger was described at Black Hat Europe 2017. It is said to bypass anti-malware products protections, including McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.8, Patch 6 running on Windows Vista. The technique provides a TOCTOU (time of check to time of use) avenue to hide executing code. McAfee knows of no malicious use of Process Doppelgänger technique in the wild at this time.
McAfee is investigating the Process Doppelgänger technique in relation to McAfee endpoint products. McAfee takes any report of new attack techniques seriously. Such reports must be analyzed carefully in light of the many defensive techniques that McAfee products provide.
Nov. 20, 2017: Intel Firmware Vulnerability
On Nov. 20, 2017, a collection of Intel firmware vulnerabilities was reported (INTEL-SA-00086), potentially affecting some McAfee appliances using Intel motherboards. One high severity vulnerability allows a non-administrative user to escalate privileges, while the other allows a privileged user to perform buffer overflows. We understand your concern and are reaching out as your #1 trusted security advisor.
McAfee is researching which of our appliances are impacted and which are not. Our initial analysis is that some McAfee appliances will be affected. However, the mitigation is that most, if not all, appliance products do not allow execution of arbitrary code, which is required to exploit these vulnerabilities.
Nov. 10, 2017: AVGater Vulnerability
On Nov. 10, 2017, a vulnerability called AVGater was reported, affecting some antivirus products. The vulnerability allows a non-administrative user to perform a restore of a quarantined file in a user's defined location.
At this time, thanks to internal reviews and confirmation from the author of the blog, we know of no McAfee products that are affected with a privilege escalation vulnerability described in the AVGater blog entry that would allow a non-administrative user to perform a restore of a quarantined file in a user's defined location.
The mechanism that allows users to restore files from quarantine in McAfee products is either locked down by default or is only available to users with administrative privileges, providing an additional layer of protection to our customers.
More analysis is forthcoming.
March 22, 2017: DoubleAgent Attack
Intel Security / McAfee is investigating the impact of the DoubleAgent zero-day attack announced on March 22, 2017.
This injection technique uses a Microsoft Windows feature that requires administrative privileges and impacts all executables on a Microsoft Windows computer.
This attack does not exploit any product vulnerabilities in McAfee products.
Our focus is on the resilience of our products against this attack vector and the self-protection mechanisms inside these products running on Microsoft Windows.
McAfee products running on Microsoft Windows contain a number of detective and protective mechanisms against registry manipulations and memory injection techniques, including injections into McAfee binaries.
For example, our enterprise antivirus product, McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) 10.5, provides multiple mechanisms designed to detect and prevent a DoubleAgent attack on McAfee processes, including a module sanitization feature that only allows trusted, signed code to be loaded.
We will be updating this article with links to one or more Security Bulletins (SB) as our investigation progresses.


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"Somehow we have developed this large contingent of know-it-all baseball fans who bay like wounded coyotes at any mention of wins, losses, RBI or batting average. I never know whether I should blame myself for this or not.." (Bill James)
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Can't Close An Inning...
Jeff Karstens got the first two outs handily, then walked Ryan Braun, who stole second. With the open base, he intentionally unintentionally walked Prince Fielder. Then he fell behind Casey McGehee 3-1, hung a changeup, and he spanked it into left to score Braun.
You can't win; if you're aggressive, the opponents knock it over the fence; if you walk them, they score. This year's pitching has not been Joe Kerrigan's shining moment; the question is whether that's the fault of Joe's coaching or a staff that just doesn't have it. You can't always make chicken salad out of chicken feathers.
That risk/reward conundrum came into play in the third. With two outs and the bases empty, Karstens went after Braun and Fielder. They both homered.
In the fifth, Braun doubled, Fielder was intentionally walked, and McGehee singled off Pedro's glove - that seems to happen a lot - to load the bases with one away.
Craig Counsell hit a sac fly to the track to add another run to the Brew Crew tally. Bobby Crosby made a heads-up play to get the force at third on a ball hit in the hole to end the frame.
The Bucs got off the scheid in the sixth, when Jones led off with his eleventh homer into right. Pedro followed with a single, but Dewey put a damper on the inning by hitting into a 4-6-3 DP, his eleventh twin killing of the year.
Sean Gallagher made his Pirate debut in the sixth. Karstens went five innings, giving up four runs on five hits, six walks (one intentional) and striking out five on 93 pitches.
Pitching behind in the count to everyone, Gallagher loaded the bases on two singles and a bopped batter. With one out, Braun and Fielder were due up. He fell behind Braun 2-0, but came back to get him swinging at a curve in the dirt. Then JR called on Javier Lopez to match up against Fielder, and he caught him looking at a slider.
After Crosby led off with an infield single and Andy LaRoche tapped out, moving him to second, and Dave Bush got the hook with the top of the order due up. He went 6-1/3 innings, giving up two runs on six hits, walking two and K'ing five.
Kameron Loe came on in relief, and wild-pitched Crosby to third. He fed McCutch nothing but changeups, and the result was an eight-pitch at-bat and sac fly to make it 4-2.
DJ Carrasco held the game tight, pitching two scoreless innings. The Pirates cut the lead to one in the ninth, when Dewey led off with his eighth homer, drilling a 96 MPH heater into the right field stands. But John Axford got Ryan Church and Delwyn Young swinging, with a Crosby pop up in between, and the Bucs fell 4-3.
No problem figuring this one out. If the Pirate pitching could close out an inning - and Karstens isn't alone; the staff hasn't been worth a lick at doing it all year - they win. Milwaukee scored three of their four runs after there were two outs and no one on base.
Brad Lincoln will square off against Randy Wolf tomorrow afternoon in the get-away game before the All-Star break.
-- Hey, about time. The Pirates and Brewers will honor their Hispanic roots tonight. Pittsburgh will sport the Piratas logo; Milwaukee the Cerveceros.
-- Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports in his "Full Count" vid Rosenthal notes that the Mets has had interest in Octavio Dotel as a free agent in the past and are looking for a bullpen arm.
-- RH reliever Ron Belisario, once a hot Bucco prospect, has been placed on the restricted list and removed from the Dodgers' 40-man roster. Dylan Hernandez and Bill Shaikin of the LA Times reports that he left the team earlier this week to receive treatment in a substance abuse program. So maybe a little more than talent was involved when the Pirates decided to cut him loose from their system.
-- The first big deal of the trading season was made yesterday. Cliff Lee went to the AL West-leading Texas Rangers, bankruptcy be danged.
The Seattle Mariners sent the ace left-hander and reliever Mark Lowe to the Rangers on Friday for rookie first baseman Justin Smoak and three minor leaguers. Texas also receives cash as part of the deal. High price, we think, for a rental player, but we'll see how it plays out.
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- Joey Porter's Pit Bulls said...
Sean Gallagher looks like he'll fit right in: "Pitching behind in the count to everyone, Gallagher loaded the bases on two singles and a bopped batter." Well, give him credit for striking out Braun.
Huh. Never would have guessed.
If the Pirates' franchise has any "Hispanic roots" to speak of, I'd kind of like to see them wearing the Santurces Sand Crabs uniforms of the Puerto Rican team that Roberto Celemente played for.
I don't know what the hell the Brewers would wear ... there must be a team sponsored by a rum company somewhere in the Caribbean ... no, wait, that's distilling, not brewing. Ah, forget it.
I like what the Rangers are doing, and I especially liked that they one-upped the Yankees on the Cliff Lee deal. They're going for it. Gotta respect that.
The Pirates get Sean Gallagher. The Rangers get Cliff Lee. I know, two completely different situations. Two completely different universes.
- July 11, 2010 at 4:01 PM
- Ron Ieraci said...
That's right on, JP. Pittsburgh does live in a universe far, far removed from the rest of the MLB.
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Rene Bourque and Max Pacioretty also scored for the Canadiens (16-9-3). Carey Price made 27 saves.
Steve Bernier and Michael Ryder scored for the Devils (11-12-5), and Martin Brodeur stopped 13 shots.
It was New Jersey's first regulation loss at the Bell Centre since 2008.
Ryder tied it at 2-2 with a slap shot that got past Price at 4:42 in the third. But Galchenyuk responded five minutes later, picking up his seventh goal after Alexei Emelin's shot landed on his stick.
Sustained pressure by the Devils in the Canadiens' zone led to Bernier's second goal in as many games, putting New Jersey in front at 11:13 of the first period. The Quebec City native was left all alone in front of the net and beat Price on his blocker side by deflecting an Anton Volchenkov shot from the point.
The Canadiens tied it at 8:49 of the second when David Desharnais made a no-look, behind-the-back pass to Bourque, who scored his sixth goal.
With Dainius Zubrus in the box for interference, Pacioretty made it 2-1 with a power-play score at 16:49 off a cross-ice pass from Andrei Markov.
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LAS VEGAS — A 24-year-old San Leandro man died Saturday morning after an ambulance was called for a medical emergency at a weekend electronic music festival.
Montgomery Tsang collapsed in the parking lot at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and was pronounced dead at 6:12 a.m. after he was taken to University Medical Center, according to a report in the Las Vegas Sun.
Las Vegas police Lt. Ken Romane said officers were not called to the scene, so he did not have additional details about what led to Tsang's death.
"It was a medical episode, so the police are not investigating it," Romane said. "He was taken to a local area hospital, where he passed."
A coroner's office spokesman could not be reached late Saturday, but a spokeswoman from the Insomniac group, which organized the event, issued a statement expressing condolences to the family and urging festivalgoers to look after each other's safety.
"We are deeply saddened by this news, and hope that everyone will join us in keeping his family and friends in their thoughts during this very difficult time," Jennifer Forkish, an Insomniac spokeswoman, said in a statement. "Dance music fans pride themselves in being part of a loving community and, as we get ready to start the second night of the show, we ask that everyone help keep this event safe. … One death is too many, and we all must do our part to keep each other safe, healthy and happy, tonight and every night."
The first day of the festival Friday attracted 134,000 people, with authorities responding to 249 mostly minor medical calls, resulting in five people being taken to the hospital, according to the Sun. The festival moved out of Los Angeles in 2010 after a 15-year-old girl died of a drug overdose, the Sun reported.
In 2012, two deaths occurred in connection to the festival, although neither happened at the site. One involved a man being hit by a truck while leaving the festival, and the other involved a woman falling out of a hotel window after family members said she took Ecstasy at the event, according to the Sun.
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He had a security company that paid mainly poor African American men t babysit but he apparently may have broke his wallet although word on the street is he is really cheap -- not like Michael Bloomberg with tax payer money to his pals or his private fortune.
ps.s Word is that Bill Rudin is not cheap when it comes to his long island mansion -- thanks to his grandparents who would never EVER building luxury condos in place of a Trauma level 1 hospital.
Bill and Eric are bad xeroxes of their grandparents and true or false Bill
paid for under water speakers for his swimming pool in the Hamptons!!!!
How much is he paying the retired-NYPD.
If we look at the billionaires of NYC and the their coppers salaries -- Bill Rudin comes in at the bottom.
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JAR-less plugins for RHQ
Mazz has written a few times about the Custom-JMX plugin (funnily enough I did not find a newer post to link to), which is basically a plugin descriptor, that re-uses the classes from the base JMX plugin.
While this is very powerful, it has the small usability drawback of requiring to wrap the descriptor into a jar file to be recognized by the server (and the agents).
I have now implemented BZ 741682 which allows to deploy plugin descriptors only. For this to work
- the file needs to be called *-rhq-plugin.xml (e.g. foo-rhq-plugin.xml)
- the classes of the plugin need to already be present on the agent
The latter can be achieved by putting a depends directive into the descriptor:
<depends plugin="JMX" useClassed="true"/>
In the following example you see the
bar-rhq-plugin.xml file picked up from the
$SERVER/plugins directory
(the "drop-box") and placed into the plugins directory inside the app:
09:18:55,160 INFO [PluginDeploymentScanner] Found plugin descriptor at
[/im/dev-container/plugins/bar-rhq-plugin.xml] and placed it at
Next is the transformation of this plugin descriptor into a jar file - if this is successful, the now obsolete plugin descriptor is removed.
09:18:55,403 INFO [AgentPluginScanner] Found a plugin-descriptor at
creating a jar from it to be deployed at the next scan
09:18:55,411 INFO [AgentPluginScanner] Deleted the now obsolete plugin descriptor: true
At the next scan of the deployment scanner, the scanner will pick up this generated jar and deploy it like any other plugin:
09:19:26,470 INFO [ProductPluginDeployer] Discovered agent plugin [bar-test]
09:19:26,474 INFO [ProductPluginDeployer] Deploying [1] new or updated agent plugins: [bar-test]
09:19:26,656 INFO [ResourceMetadataManagerBean] Persisting new ResourceType [bar-test:test(id=0)]...
09:19:29,344 INFO [ProductPluginDeployer] Plugin metadata updates are complete for [1] plugins: [bar-test]
The last step would then be to run
plugins update on the agent to get this new plugin from the server and to deploy it into the agent.


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MMO fans can also expect a fascinating gameplay experience. Based on the globally successful novels, the Otherland gameplay is distinguished by a unique narrative structure. Rather than retelling the story, players will experience their own individual stories within the Otherland universe and will encounter many of the familiar characters from the books. The game world will change dynamically around them during the course of the game.
Starting from the player lobby Lambda Mall, an Entertainment, Meeting and Communication centre, players will teleport into a wide variety of game worlds. As in the books, virtual reality is a central topic of the game. Nothing is what it appears to be at first glance in this futuristic vision from the pen of Tad Williams, who played an important role in the development of the game.
'Tad Williams visited us during the conception phase and was very actively involved in the realisation of this project from the beginning,' comments Andrew Carter. 'Because this is a MMOG, a linear storyline would not be feasible. Therefore, we had to find an alternative way of telling a story. I think we have found a terrific combination of innovative narration and faithfulness to the books,' Carter continues.
Andrew Carter is the leader of a development team, now consisting of 80 people, based in Singapore. The international team is composed of game experts with years of experience in the gaming industry. The core team had previously worked at Melbourne House, EA, THQ and other major international studios. RealU is a 100 % subsidiary of dtp entertainment AG.
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November 23, 2010 (REVISED November 30, 2010) American Folklife Center Symposium Highlights American Workers
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The United States is experiencing critical changes in work and workplace culture, as far-ranging as those of the Industrial Revolution. Throughout America, people are being challenged to reshape their relationship to work, their workplace skills and identity, and their place in occupational communities and civil society.
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is sponsoring "Work and Transformation: Documenting Working Americans," a free two-day public symposium on the documentation of work, workers, and the culture of work in contemporary America. The symposium will take place on Monday, Dec. 6 and Tuesday, Dec, 7, in Room 119 on the first floor of the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 1st Street S.E., Washington, D.C. The symposium is being cosponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Attendance at "Work and Transformation" is free of charge, but registration is recommended. For the complete schedule and to register online, visit www.loc.gov/folklife/symposia/work/.
The symposium will foster dialogue about America's workforce in transition and explore ways in which the value of work and of workers in contemporary America can be documented to enhance understanding. Programming will also examine the important contributions made by local libraries, museums and historical societies to the changing American workscape. These local centers are evolving into dynamic community resource centers for adult education, assisting the public with the acquisition and application of "21st-Century skills."
Speakers include Steven Greenhouse, labor and workplace reporter for the New York Times, who will deliver the keynote address; Marsha Semmel, acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Mary Boone, state librarian of North Carolina; D'Vera Cohn, Pew Research Center; and Richard D'Abate, executive director of the Maine Historical Society. They will be joined by experts from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Labor College.
"Work and Transformation" highlights the ongoing ethnographic research undertaken by the American Folklife Center's 2010 Archie Green Fellows. Folklorist Steve Zeitlin, director of New York City's City Lore, unveils his documentary research on the changes in work culture on the Erie Canal, accompanied by community scholar Capt. Steve Wunder of the tugboat Seneca.
Folklorists and radio producers Nick Spitzer and Maureen Loughran, from the award-winning radio series "American Routes," will examine the role played by working musicians in Louisiana's post-Katrina recovery. They are joined by community scholar Derrick Tabb from the famed Rebirth Brass Band of New Orleans.
In addition, folklorist Robert McCarl from Boise State University details his ongoing research with miners, environmentalists and community members in Idaho's Silver Valley.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. Its mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas. The institute works at the national level and in coordination with state and local organizations to sustain heritage, culture and knowledge; to enhance learning and innovation; and to support professional development. To learn more, visit www.imls.gov External.
The American Folklife Center was created by Congress in 1976 and placed at the Library of Congress to "preserve and present American folklife" through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference, service, live performance, exhibition, public programs and training. For more information on the center, visit www.loc.gov/folklife/.
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Acting United States Attorney Laurie Magid today announced the government has reached a settlement with Steven Davis, of Philadelphia, and Fuschia Davis, of Salt Lake City, Utah, to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act regarding federal student loans. Fuschia Davis and her father Steven will pay the United States $54,000 to resolve allegations that Fuschia Davis falsified federal student financial aid applications in order to obtain college financial aid from the Department of Education ("DOE" ) for her own benefit, and that Steven Davis, aware of his daughter's actions, encouraged her.
The Higher Education Act authorizes the United Sates to offer student financial assistance, including Pell Grants and subsidized or federally insured student loans. These programs are administered by DOE and provide federal monies to eligible post-secondary students in financial need. Eligibility is based on an evaluation of income and assets of the student's family. If a student has been supported by his or her parents in the previous year, then the student is considered a dependent student and both parents' income for the previous year is used to determine financial need.According to the allegations laid out in the complaint, Fuschia Davis created a false identity and submitted a false application minimizing her family income available for college, thus qualifying Fuschia Davis for federal student financial aid to which she was not entitled. Steven Davis was aware and encouraged the plan.
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Newcastle boss Alan Pardew is backing Cheick Tiote to help fill the void left by Yohan Cabaye after seeing him grow in stature in the wake of the Frenchman's departure.
The Magpies lost their influential playmaker in January when France international Cabaye headed for Paris St Germain in exchange for a cheque for more than £19million.
His exit coincided with a dreadful run of results for Pardew's men which saw their hopes of securing a top-six Barclays Premier League finish dwindle.
However, they bounced back with a vital 1-0 victory over Aston Villa last Saturday, and while Tiote may have played the role of artisan alongside Cabaye's artistry, his manager believes his leadership qualities are coming to the fore.
Pardew said: "He is an important player to us, and the captaincy when Colo (Fabricio Coloccini) was out changed him a little bit.
"He knows now that in my mind, he is our vice-captain and he has to play the role that that involves.
"It's a big club, so he has a lot of responsibility and he's dealing with it very well. In fact, it's spurred him on."
Tiote returned from injury for the Villa game along with Coloccini, who had not played since New Year's day because of a knee problem, and while both were understandably ring-rusty, their presence was a welcome boost.
However, the Argentinian will miss Saturday's trip to Hull after being allowed to return to South America because of a family bereavement.
A club statement said: "Newcastle United captain Fabricio Coloccini will not be involved in Saturday's Barclays Premier League fixture at Hull following a family bereavement.
"The centre-back has been allowed to return home to Argentina to spend time with family rather than make the trip to the KC Stadium."
Coloccini provided a calming influence as a misfiring Newcastle ground their way to a last-gasp victory over Paul Lambert's side to send the club into the final 11 games over the season looking forwards instead of back at the difficult spell through which they have just come.
The 32-year-old Argentina international before his withdrawal from the squad: "We have spoken about our current run of form, but it is not something we should focus on too much. In every season there are good times and bad times.
"But we are a good team full of good players and we have to keep working hard and remain positive.
"It doesn't help to spend too much thinking about matches that have now gone. Instead we have to look at the ones in front of us and try to start picking up points again."
That will be the challenge at the KC Stadium this weekend as the Magpies attempt to gain revenge for the 3-2 home defeat they suffered at the hands of the Tigers in September.
However, Pardew is well aware of how difficult a task that could be with Steve Bruce's promoted side sitting in 11th place on 30 points and with their destiny in their own hands.
The 52-year-old said: "With my League Managers' Association hat on, I have to say that Steve Bruce, up until this point, is probably manager of the year, although he's got another 11 games to see that over the line.
"But what he did last year with 10 games to go to get them promoted, and to get them into the position they have been in is a fantastic achievement, and he and his staff can be very proud of what they have done."
Pardew will once again be without injured duo Davide Santon and Hatem Ben Arfa, but is hopeful that he will have enough at his disposal to trouble a side which has proved to be formidable at home.
He said: "I think they (Hull) have only been beaten four times there and only conceded 10 goals.
"It's a great home record they have, so it's a tough ask for us this weekend."
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